uid,text,target,num_keyphrases
0806627859,"Godly Play An original, significant contributionA pleasure and an inspiration to readimportant for all adults, especially those who care about children. -- John H. Westerhoff, author of Bringing Up Children in the Christian Faith, Living the Faith Community, and Will Our Children Have Faith?	Jerome W. Berryman is co-author of Young Children and Worship and a contributor to Harpers Encyclopedia of Religious Education. He is a consultant in the areas of religious education, child development, and the spiritual direction of children.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;education;education & reference;history;instruction methods;religion & spirituality;religious;schools & teaching;world,12
0811839257,"Dog Save the Queen: The Tails of Britain Selis, the dog lover behind two previous Chronicle canine titles (Cat Spelled Backwards Doesnt Spell God; Dog Bless America) turns to the U.K. for his third volume, since, as he puts it, ""Everyone knows that the British are stark raving bonkers for their dogs."" The concept is simple: Selis travels all about, snapping photos of the pink tongues, wet black noses, soft, droopy ears and alert expressions of all sorts of dogs. Next to each picture, he places a brief and often very cutesy thumbnail bio of his subject. Austin, photographed in Cambridge, is a seeing eye dog who apparently sometimes leads his charge into lampposts; Lubo, captured in Glasgow, is a Border collie who ""gets his hackles up at the sight of bald men."" There are dogs who drink red wine, eat honeydew melons, have their own perches at local pubs, get arrested for wandering around without their leashes and chase cats and pigeons. Seliss pictures are pretty standard portraits, varied enough to be interesting while still giving dog lovers what they want: lots of sweet doggy faces.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Jeff Selis lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Alice and their three children -- two of whom are dogs. When Jeff isn't out producing televison commercials for clients such as Nike and ESPN, he can probably be found with a camera in his hands and a dog in his viewfinder.",arts & photography;books;cats;crafts;dogs;dogs & animals;hobbies & home;humor;humor & entertainment;nature & wildlife;pets & animal care;photography,12
0811829634,"Ernie: A Photographer's Memoir Tony Mendoza is the author of five books and has received numerous awards including three National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowships and a Guggenheim Photography Fellowship. His photographs are in major museum collections, including the MOMA and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. He lives in Ohio and teaches photography at Ohio State University.",arts & photography;books;catalogues & exhibitions;cats;collections;crafts;hobbies & home;individual artists;nature & wildlife;pets & animal care;photo essays;photography,12
0884893847,"I Know Things Now: Stories by Teenagers 1 Award: I Know Things Now was a finalist in the category Young Adult Non-Fiction for the Small Press Book Award in 1997.    Each book in the Stories by Teenagers series is a collection of over forty-five stories written by students in the United States and Canada on a topic related to their personal experiences. These stories make inspiring personal reading and serve as excellent discussion starters. They might even stimulate readers to write stories of their own. By sharing these stories, we hope that all who read them will hear more clearly what young women and men have to say about their faith experiences and will recognize God's role in the stories of their own life. Each book is illustrated with eleven original artworks by students.	""My experiences as a child were not always pleasant. I have seen things that no child should ever have to see. I was a little girl who grew up too fast for her own good. But the suffering has made me the person I am today. I value life and people. I am more sensitive to the needs of others, and I think I am more understanding of other people's suffering. My life experiences have proven that through the dark shadows of life we can grow emotionally and learn to love."" (Neha Lall)",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christian living;parenting;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;self help;social sciences;specific demographics;teens,12
1556434596,"LifeFood Recipe Book: Living on Life Force Annie Jubb and Dr. David Jubb have authored nine books together, including LifeFood Recipe Book, along with five training manuals for their Whole Brain Functioning adventure-based learning program taught at retreats and lectures throughout the 1980s and '90s. The Jubbs maintain private practices in New York City and Los Angeles.",books;cookbooks;diets & weight loss;fitness & dieting;food & wine;health;healthy;natural foods;nutrition;special diet;vegetables & vegetarian;vegetarian,12
1885492979,"CityTripping Los Angeles: Your Guide to Restaurants, Nightlife, Shopping, Culture, Fitness, Hotels ... takes you to what counts in food, sex, buying, sleeping... in  every part of the grand imperium that is L.A.   -- Ben Stein",books;california;dining;food;general;hotels & inns;lodging & transportation;los angeles;pacific;travel;united states;west,12
0195130782,"One of the Guys: Girls, Gangs, and Gender ""The topic of young women's participation in street gangs and violence has generated much heat and little light-until now. Dr. Miller's use of multiple theoretical and methodological lenses produces a comparative perspective that is rare in social research. Her sophisticated analyses of the impact of gender on gang girls' lives contributes to our understanding of how gang involvement shapes these girls' experience. One of the Guys is surely one of the best scholarly works about gangs.""--Cheryl L. Maxson, University of Southern California""We have long known that girls are in gangs, but very little first-hand research on their lives, their choices, and their differences has been available. For this reason, Miller's detailed work on girls in gangs not only fills an enormous scholarly void in gang research, it also provides those that are working with this problem with solid, careful information on the painful bargains that girls in economically marginalized and violent neighborhoods are forced to make every day.""--Meda Chesney-Lind, University of Hawaii at Manoa	Jody Miller is at University of Missouri, St.Louis.",books;criminology;marriage & family;new;parenting;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;teens;urban;used & rental textbooks,12
0892551356,"A Medieval Woman's Mirror of Honor: The Treasury of the City of Ladies The extraordinary Book of the City of Ladies (Persea 1982) by the 15th-century French widow and professional writer is a didactic exchange between de Pizan and the virtues Reason, Rectitude and Justice, who urge her to construct a utopia for worthy women. This City of Ladies serves as a literary device for a revisionist history of Western civilization from the female perspective. In this companion classic--a pedagogical treatise that advises women on their role in society--the three allegorical interlocutors reappear, impelling the prefeminist de Pizan to explain to her contemporaries how they might develop those qualities that would qualify them for the visionary locale. As she addresses royalty, nobility, commoners, nuns, servants and prostitutes, de Pizan opens a rare window on medieval women's culture. She has harsh words for lazy, ostentatious clotheshorses but recommends ""justifiable hypocrisy"" to prevail over schemers; she demonstrates that while their position in society was a precarious one due to lack of civil rights for women and political instability, it was not unusual for women to responsibly rule large estates in males' absence or control their own vast inheritances. Cosman directs the Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at City University of New York. Illustrations not seen by PW. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This is a sequel and companion to de Pizan's better-known The Book of the City of Ladies (LJ 5/1/82). These 15th-century classics in women's studies were unavailable in English until recently. Written in response to men's vilification of women, the earlier work, using the device of peopling an imaginary city, told the life stories of women of virtue and achievement. The Mirror of Honor , on the other hand, is a manual of behavior; de Pizan offers moral and practical advice, not only to noble women, but to women of all classes. A rare glimpse of daily life and household management, accompanied in this edition with two illuminating introductions and an extensive glossary, this book will be welcomed by medievalists and historians of women.- Mary Drake McFeely, Univ. of Georgia Libs., AthensCopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This book will be welcomed by medievalists and historians of women. bibliography   -- Library Journal	Text: English (translation) Original Language: French	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;criticism & theory;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;medieval;movements & periods;politics & social sciences;women in history;women's studies;world;world literature,12
013025682X,"The Sacred Paths: Understanding the Religions of the World (3rd Edition) By combining a historical-descriptive presentation of individual religions with a comparative-thematic approach, this text accomplishes two important goals. First, it allows students to examine each of the world's major religions as a unique system of meaning. At the same time, it lets them to explore the inner nature of sacred experience by comparing basic themes and issues common to all religions and pertinent to their own personal lives. An introductory chapter discusses the basic human questions and concerns behind religion, such as origin and identity, ultimate reality, human nature, and the good life. These essential concepts are then used to help describe the beliefs, practices, and historical development of each religion. This new edition has been streamlined in several key areas, while including more material on sacred art and the role of women in religion. As the work of a single scholar--much of it based on original research--this book offers a consistency and depth missing in many of the texts in this field.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	Preface to the Third Edition   For people who are just beginning their study of the world's religions, the sheer immensity of the datanames, vocabulary, historical developments, teachings and practicescan be very daunting. Yet it is important that this encounter result not in perplexity and a sense of being overwhelmed, but in an awakening of interest and a desire to continue to explore and understand.    With such readers in mind, the basic approach in this volume is focused on the goal of understanding. And understanding begins with a sense of what a particular religion means for the people who practice it and live by it. It is important to realize that each religious tradition is a living and growing organism stretched out over time, and thus we pay attention to historical and cultural developments. But we also attempt to go beyond historical information and let readers find themselves in the place of the people who live by each religionviewing the world through their sacred stories, their worldview, their rituals, and their notion of the good life.    The procedure used in this volume, then, combines the necessary discussion of historical matters with a thematic approach based on general issues that arise out of human experiencequestions about personal identity, human existence and wholeness, and the right way to live. Since the reader can identify with such issues from personal experience, windows are opened toward an understanding of the meaning and guidance people find in their particular religious traditions. Further, this combination of historical and thematic approaches facilitates comparison among the religious traditions, highlighting the main motifs and concerns of that general dimension of human life we call religious experience.    Since this is a basic introduction for people who are beginning their exploration of the world's religious paths, the major focus is not on academic questions and theories about religion, nor on technical information about all the movements and historical developments that make up each religious tradition. Such theories and developments are important, of course, and this volume attempts to make readers aware of them in a beginning way. It is important that readers get the sense that each religious tradition is a highly complex living organism, with various movements arising at different points in history. Yet it is helpful for the beginning student of the world's religions to recognize first of all the general mainstream of each religious tradition in constructing an overall picture of the religious world of humankind. The excitement and challenge of this venture will carry over, it is hoped, into a continuing engagement with understanding the complex religious traditions of the world and with the various issues raised in the academic study of these traditions.    This third edition of The Sacred Paths has been revised throughout to bring material up to date and to provide the reader with greater clarity in the discussions of complex historical and theoretical materials. The general structure of the book has been retained, focused on major groupings or families of religions. But the structure now more clearly follows a geographical taxonomy, with the major sections devoted to religions arising in India, religions of China and Japan, and religions arising in the Mediterranean world. Within these geographical groupings, family resemblances between the religious traditions can be elaborated and discussed. This structure makes it possible, for example, to study the families of AbrahamJudaism, Christianity, and Islamin the context of the ancient traditions of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Greece. To fill out this context, a new chapter on the important Zoroastrian tradition has been added.    This edition retains and enhances the characteristic emphases from the previous editions. It is particularly important that readers have some encounter with the sacred texts and scriptures of each particular religious traditionyet the comprehension and appreciation of such sacred texts is notoriously difficult for an outsider. This volume incorporates extensive quotations from the sacred texts of each tradition, providing interpretation so the reader can see the significance of these texts and comprehend what they mean for people of that religious tradition. It will be helpful, of course, if this volume is supplemented with an additional collection of sacred texts, when that is feasible.    The inclusion of material on artistic expression in the different religious traditions helps the reader see that each religion or culture has its own unique aesthetic sense. Thus it is important, for understanding each tradition, to pay attention to the special artistic expressions growing out of that religious experience. Also, this volume gives particular attention to the role of women in each tradition. Greater awareness of women's experiences and leadership roles has made possible many new understandings and insights in all the religious traditions. Further, an important development in the modern western world is the rise of new religious movements, and a special chapter is devoted to understanding some of these alternative movements.    Among the study features in this volume, the discussion questions for each chapter have been revised and expanded. These questions are designed to promote review of the material as well as further reflection on the character of each religious tradition. Other study features include maps, timelines, and a glossary of key terms. The suggestions for further reading for each religious tradition have incorporated many important books that have been published in the last few years.    Many have helped along the way in the development of this book and toward the completion of this third edition. And so I thank all those students and colleagues who have made so many helpful suggestions concerning ways in which this text can become a more helpful means for understanding the religious paths of the world.    Thank you to the reviewers of this edition: K.R. Sundararajan, Saint Bonaventure University; Charles Orzech, University of North Carolina, Greenville; and Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University.	Thoroughly revised, The Sacred Paths, Third Edition, includes the following features:   Up-to-date information and scholarly perspectives, including extensive suggestions for reading from recent publications.  A new chapter on Zoroastrianism, filling out the portrait of religions arising in the Mediterranean world.  Coverage of the world's many diverse religions in clear family groupings based on geographical and historical connections.  A thematic and empathetic approach that encourages exploration of the personal meanings and experiences of people of different faiths.  Extensive quotations from the sacred scriptures of each religion, helping students to get a sense of the power and meaning of these sacred texts.  Significant material on artistic expressions in the different religious traditions.  Incorporation of women's experiences and leadership roles within the various religious traditions.  A chapter devoted to the rise of new religious movements.   Maps, timelines, discussion questions, and suggestions for further readings are some of the study features included in this book to help students understand the highly complex nature of the various religious traditions.	Preface to the Third Edition   For people who are just beginning their study of the world's religions, the sheer immensity of the datanames, vocabulary, historical developments, teachings and practicescan be very daunting. Yet it is important that this encounter result not in perplexity and a sense of being overwhelmed, but in an awakening of interest and a desire to continue to explore and understand.    With such readers in mind, the basic approach in this volume is focused on the goal of understanding. And understanding begins with a sense of what a particular religion means for the people who practice it and live by it. It is important to realize that each religious tradition is a living and growing organism stretched out over time, and thus we pay attention to historical and cultural developments. But we also attempt to go beyond historical information and let readers find themselves in the place of the people who live by each religionviewing the world through their sacred stories, their worldview, their rituals, and their notion of the good life.    The procedure used in this volume, then, combines the necessary discussion of historical matters with a thematic approach based on general issues that arise out of human experiencequestions about personal identity, human existence and wholeness, and the right way to live. Since the reader can identify with such issues from personal experience, windows are opened toward an understanding of the meaning and guidance people find in their particular religious traditions. Further, this combination of historical and thematic approaches facilitates comparison among the religious traditions, highlighting the main motifs and concerns of that general dimension of human life we call religious experience.    Since this is a basic introduction for people who are beginning their exploration of the world's religious paths, the major focus is not on academic questions and theories about religion, nor on technical information about all the movements and historical developments that make up each religious tradition. Such theories and developments are important, of course, and this volume attempts to make readers aware of them in a beginning way. It is important that readers get the sense that each religious tradition is a highly complex living organism, with various movements arising at different points in history. Yet it is helpful for the beginning student of the world's religions to recognize first of all the general mainstream of each religious tradition in constructing an overall picture of the religious world of humankind. The excitement and challenge of this venture will carry over, it is hoped, into a continuing engagement with understanding the complex religious traditions of the world and with the various issues raised in the academic study of these traditions.    This third edition of The Sacred Paths has been revised throughout to bring material up to date and to provide the reader with greater clarity in the discussions of complex historical and theoretical materials. The general structure of the book has been retained, focused on major groupings or families of religions. But the structure now more clearly follows a geographical taxonomy, with the major sections devoted to religions arising in India, religions of China and Japan, and religions arising in the Mediterranean world. Within these geographical groupings, family resemblances between the religious traditions can be elaborated and discussed. This structure makes it possible, for example, to study the families of AbrahamJudaism, Christianity, and Islamin the context of the ancient traditions of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Greece. To fill out this context, a new chapter on the important Zoroastrian tradition has been added.    This edition retains and enhances the characteristic emphases from the previous editions. It is particularly important that readers have some encounter with the sacred texts and scriptures of each particular religious traditionyet the comprehension and appreciation of such sacred texts is notoriously difficult for an outsider. This volume incorporates extensive quotations from the sacred texts of each tradition, providing interpretation so the reader can see the significance of these texts and comprehend what they mean for people of that religious tradition. It will be helpful, of course, if this volume is supplemented with an additional collection of sacred texts, when that is feasible.    The inclusion of material on artistic expression in the different religious traditions helps the reader see that each religion or culture has its own unique aesthetic sense. Thus it is important, for understanding each tradition, to pay attention to the special artistic expressions growing out of that religious experience. Also, this volume gives particular attention to the role of women in each tradition. Greater awareness of women's experiences and leadership roles has made possible many new understandings and insights in all the religious traditions. Further, an important development in the modern western world is the rise of new religious movements, and a special chapter is devoted to understanding some of these alternative movements.    Among the study features in this volume, the discussion questions for each chapter have been revised and expanded. These questions are designed to promote review of the material as well as further reflection on the character of each religious tradition. Other study features include maps, timelines, and a glossary of key terms. The suggestions for further reading for each religious tradition have incorporated many important books that have been published in the last few years.    Many have helped along the way in the development of this book and toward the completion of this third edition. And so I thank all those students and colleagues who have made so many helpful suggestions concerning ways in which this text can become a more helpful means for understanding the religious paths of the world.    Thank you to the reviewers of this edition: K.R. Sundararajan, Saint Bonaventure University; Charles Orzech, University of North Carolina, Greenville; and Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University.",books;comparative religion;general;history;humanities;new;religion & spirituality;religious;religious history;religious studies;used & rental textbooks;world,12
1932265139,"Adventure (v. 1) Editor Chris Roberson lives in Austin, Texas. He is the Sidewise Award-winning, World Fantasy Award-nominated author of Here, There & Everywhere and the forthcoming Paragaea: A Planetary Romance, and co-author of the Shark Boy and Lava Girl Adventures with director Robert Rodriguez.",action & adventure;anthologies;books;comics & graphic novels;genre fiction;graphic novels;literature & fiction;mystery;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;short stories;thriller & suspense,12
0471547867,"Advanced ANSI COBOL with Structured Programming: For VS COBOL II and Microsoft Micro Focus COBOL Explains COBOL as it exists in the new ANSI standard. Designed for advanced programmers, it eases the transition from general programming training to the programming done in business applications using COBOL. Through hundreds of practical examples, it explores the intricacies of COBOL without spending a lot of time on basic computer concepts. With an emphasis on cross-system application and development, it describes both IBM's VS COBOL II for the mainframe environment and Microsoft's COBOL for the personal computer.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;mathematics;new;programming;programming languages;science & math;software;used & rental textbooks,12
3540627723,"Variational Analysis (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften) From its origins in the minimization of integral functionals, the notion of 'variations' has evolved greatly in connection with applications in optimization, equilibrium, and control. It refers not only to constrained movement away from a point, but also to modes of perturbation and approximation that are best describable by 'set convergence', variational convergence of functions and the like. This book develops a unified framework and, in finite dimension, provides a detailed exposition of variational geometry and subdifferential calculus in their current forms beyond classical and convex analysis. Also covered are set-convergence, set-valued mappings, epi-convergence, duality, maximal monotone mappings, second-order subderivatives, measurable selections and normal integrands. The changes in this 3rd printing mainly concern various typographical corrections, and reference omissions that came to light in the previous printings. Many of these reached the authors' notice through their own re-reading, that of their students and a number of colleagues mentioned in the Preface. The authors also included a few telling examples as well as improved a few statements, with slightly weaker assumptions or have strengthened the conclusions in a couple of instances.	Both authors have long worked with applications of convex, and later nonconvex, analysis to problems in optimization. Both are recipients of the Dantzig Prize (awarded by SIAM and the Mathematical Programming Society): Rockafellar in 1982 and Wets in 1994.",books;calculus;education;education & reference;mathematics;new;physics;schools & teaching;science & math;science & mathematics;system theory;used & rental textbooks,12
0130619434,"Immigrants Guide to the American Workplace: Making It In America, The This revolutionary, easy-to-read book is designed to help immigrants transition into the American workplace and American culture. Geared to people new to America, this hook can help you develop independence and confidence with the social and cultural settings in the United States. Topics include:    Hygiene and dress Finding and working with a mentor Dealing with culture shock Understanding and communicating on and off the job Getting around Understanding and handling money Getting and keeping a job Professionalism and values in the workplace    Each chapter includes a rich glossary of key terms all immigrants need to understand. End-of-chapter exercises challenge you to become skilled in the language and the culture of America. This book is helpful to new immigrants no matter what the age or education level high school, college, or continuing education. The Immigrants Guide to the American WorkplaceMaking it in America is an essential book for courses in ESL, Diversity Management, and Career Development.    Whether you are a student, a line-level service person, a beginning professional, or someone who wants to be successful in the United States workplace, this book can help you learn what it takes to make it in America!	Anna Graf Williams, Ph.D., is a second-generation, born-in-America German who went from being a farmer's daughter to earning a Ph.D. in education. As the co-founder and co-owner of Learnovation, LLC, she has designed and taught courses in diversity, mentored immigrant students in the hotel and restaurant business, and worked with people to expand their careers.        Daljinder Kooner brought the initial inspiration and insight into the writing team as a naturalized citizen20 years in the United Statesfrom India. He has helped mentor and introduce many of his family and friends to the United States, and is a successful entrepreneur and restaurateur.        Mary Jo Dolasinski is Croatian, second-generation, born in America. She is a corporate trainer in the lodging and restaurant industryone of the biggest employers of immigrant workers in the United States. Mary Jo has many years of management experience with a mufti-ethnic work force. She also taught ethnic dance for 16 years and is a university instructor.        Karen J. Hall is one of those Americans with a mixed heritage. She has traces of English, Dutch, Scottish, and German ancestry and probably more thrown in for good measuresome who immigrated as early as the late 1600s and some in the 1870s. She has been a corporate trainer in the field of software doing instructional design and editing, a university instructor, and currently works with career development as a co-founder and co-owner of Learnovation, LLC.	If you are reading this book, you are probably one of the following:    new immigrant to the United States someone who is planning on visiting the United States an exchange student from outside the United States a person who has a friend or relative who is coming to work or live in the United States a manager or mentor of a new immigrant.   Getting Ahead   This book was written to give immigrants an easy-to-read, direct look at daily life in the United States and the American workplace. People have always come to the United States to find new opportunities and to make a better life for themselves and their families. America offers many jobs and many choices, both personally and professionally.    Use this book to build your confidence and get ahead faster in the workplace. Learn what to expect at home and on the job. The more you know about America, the easier it will be to understand and work with your coworkers and managers on the job.   Getting Started   America is always changing and growing. People bring the best of their traditions and culture from all over the world, making America a blend of many different countries. Leaving behind friends and family and starting in a new country is not easy. Learning to understand and communicate with new people can be challenging.    This book provides basic information about the language, people, culture, and workplaces of America. We have used easy-to-read sentence structure and grammar to make it easier for people who are just learning English.    The Immigrant's Guide to the American Workplace: Making It in America is designed to cover essential information on many topics. We do not go too deeply into each topic, but give you enough information to understand America and to be successful in the workplace. You will find information on:    learning the language communicating in the workplace hygiene and dress expectations how to use transportation shopping eating and dining  managing money education for adults and children managing your health security and safety getting a job.   Using This Book   You will find several features in the book to help you learn about the United States. Look for feature boxes in each chapter containing important information. Complete the exercises at the end of each chapter to learn even more about the topics discussed. Improve your vocabulary by working through the extra exercises in Appendix A.",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;hospitality;industries & professions;job hunting;job hunting & careers;new;reference;travel & tourism;used & rental textbooks,12
0131122967,"Police Field Operations, Sixth Edition For courses in police operations/management. This source book is replete with real-life scenarios from an officer's daily regimen. The book details how and why certain procedures are used and presents instructional techniques from leading police academies across the country.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	PREFACE   As a peace officer it is your responsibility to preserve the peace and tranquility of your community and to protect the lives and property of the people who live inand visitthat community. There are few individuals in society who have a more sacred trust than yours. There will be times when you will have to decide whether or not to arrest a suspected offender, and that decision will have a profound influence on many lives and reputations. In less than a second, you may have to decide whether or not to use deadly force, to take the life of someone you believe is presenting an immediate threat to your life or that of someone else. You will make wise decisions, and you will make mistakes as well. There will be times when you will have overwhelming support and other times when you will be all alone, with no one willing to give you moral or physical support. Because of these considerations, service as a peace officer is one of the most selfless and courageous career choices you could make.    Police Field Operations, has been developed over a period of several years from literally hundreds of sources. Training bulletins and course outlines from many police academies and college course offerings, thousands of hours in the classroom and in the field as a working police officer and supervisor, student, administrator, and college professor plus the input of colleagues throughout the world in the criminal justice professions have all been utilized to produce this text. It is my fervent hope that it serves you well and aids you in developing your own base of police knowledge that will enable you to become a true police professional. I have learned a great deal from others; so shall you.    All the information and techniques presented in this book are the culmination of the collective wisdom and experience of my colleagues, both past and present, and represent the best that I could compile and put into this one volume. In the interest of space, we had to leave out many things that should have, or could have, been included. Space constrictions, however, demanded that we include what we considered most important for the well-rounded field police officer.    Once you have settled down into your field duties, you are going to develop a better way to handle some of these procedures, more suited to your own personal style. In the meantime, while you are finding those special ways of doing things your way, may I suggest that you try these. Then as you prove these methods are no longer suitable for your style, discard them. As we move into policing for the twenty-first century, we cannot stand still or we will stagnate.    Once in a while you will read or hear offhand remarks such as ""we are going to teach you how police work should be, and not how it has been for many years""obviously not spoken or written by someone who has been ""in the trenches,"" so to speak. Although it is true that many procedures have changed and many new scientific instruments and techniques have been introduced in recent years, many of the old ones still work. Change just for the sake of change is fruitless; changes must be for improvement of the system. One of the temptations for the professor and the author who are no longer in the field is to change procedures in one's own special environment far removed from reality. I, too, have been tempted to present the ideal solution to many of our unsolved problems only to find that the problems continue to be unsolved despite my brilliant attempts to set the world right. What I aspire to do in this book is to present what I believe to be the best techniques in the real world of police work today.    Sources of information and ideas for this book number literally in the hundreds, but none of this material has been taken verbatim from any source. Most of the blame for errors and omissions must rest with me, and, perhaps, some of the credit. After more than 45 years in Criminal Justice, I have accumulated a lot of information, but the writing is original. Although some critics might note that the footnotes do not represent exhaustive years of research, I have been studying the material for dozens of years. This was not intended to be a survey of other writers' literature; rather, it is basically a book on how to best perform fundamental police procedures as perceived by yours truly.    To you, my fellow professionals, I present this material. I challenge you to improve upon it, even render it obsolete, if you must. If you have had access to previous editions of Police Field Operations, you will notice that the format of the Fifth Edition has been changed for the sake of continuity of instruction. We also added considerable material to the chapters on Community Policing and Stress Reduction as well as adding a few significant cases in the legal sections of the book. I sincerely hope that these changes will meet with your approval.    There are a few people to whom I owe a great deal of gratitude in putting these books together. First, I want to acknowledge the comments and suggestions received from my reviewers: James Kobolt, Lake Superior State University; Monte Clampett, A. B. Tech.; and Edward Maguire, University of Nebraska-Omaha. Second, many thanks to Kimberly Davies, Neil Marquardt, Robin Baliszewski, Adele Kupchik, and Rose Mary Florio of Prentice Hall. Thanks also to Lori Dalberg at Carlisle Publishers Service for making my writing look good. And special thanks to Maria Elizete Adams, who put up with me in marital bliss (?) since 1991. I could have never done it alone.Tom Adams, Santa Ana, California	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Police Field Operations has become a standard Criminal Justice text since its first edition, which was published in 1985. Many police departments have also used it as a sourcebook for promotional examinations up to, and including, captain.    The sixth edition has been completely re-written from cover to cover in an effort to assure the student and practitioner alike that the book reflects modern policing in the twenty-first century. It has been considered far better as a text and reference than all of its competitors, many of which have dropped by the wayside.   New to this edition:   Special emphasis has been placed on the community policing aspect of law enforcement. Updated legal references The addition of the latest legal developments Expanded section on evidence and the collection of evidence and the elements of crime Expanded section on the laws of arrest and custody The report writing section has been updated and refined to include all the latest technology    The emphasis of this text is the day-to-day police operations, such as responding to calls for service, handling emergency and ""routine"" activities, and making arrests. Police Field Operations, Sixth Edition is right on the cutting edge of law enforcement today as the first edition was in 1985.	As a peace officer it is your responsibility, in partnership with the people you serve, to maintain the peace and tranquility of your community and to protect the lives and property of the people who live inand visitthat community. There are few individuals in our open society who have a more sacred trust than yours. People from all over the world are encouraged to come and mingle among us with virtual freedom of action and movement. What we have so dramatically been awakened to is that some of those guests, and even some of our own citizens, have evil designs to destroy our prosperity and way of life. There will be times when you will have to decide whether to stop a person for questioning or to arrest someone for a real or suspected violation of the law, and your action will have a profound effect on the lives and reputations of many people. In less than a second, you may have to make the awesome decision whether or not to use deadly force to end the life of someone you believe is presenting an immediate threat to your own life or that of someone else. You will make wise decisions, and you will make mistakes in judgment as well. No other professional in our society has the power, and the accountability that goes with it, to use physical force upon other people in order to do their job. At times you will have the overwhelming support of many people for what you do, and at other times you will be all alone, with no one willing to give you moral or physical support. For these reasons, service as a peace officer is one of the most selfless and courageous career choices you could make.    Police Field Operations, editions one through six, has been specifically developed over the last thirty years from a vast variety of sources, including training bulletins, academy notes, general and special orders, and the personal experiences of the author and a great many colleagues, to provide you, the police professional, with a body of knowledge to better prepare you to perform your duties as a field officer. The outline of Police Field Operations corresponds with that of a second- or third-year college course of the same name developed many years ago and updated every two or three years, including as recently as this edition's publication date. Our sources for the material contained in this book include hundreds of training bulletins and class outlines and a number of volumes of contemporary literature on the subject, as well as many years of teaching in two police academies, fourteen years as a municipal police officer, and numerous years as a college professor, spanning more than forty-eight years of combined experience since I became a police officer in 1954 and started teaching in 1959 (and I'm still teaching, I might add). Colleagues throughout the world have had their brains picked so that we could keep the material relevant and current. It is my fervent hope that it will serve you well and aid you in developing your own base of police knowledge, which will enable you to perform as a true police professional. I have learned a great deal from others. So shall you.    All the information and techniques presented in this text are the culmination of the collective wisdom and experience of my colleagues, past and present. You will notice that there is not an abundance of footnotes. That is because most of the material is sourced from the author, except where duly referenced. Space restrictions have made it necessary to leave out some information, but what is contained herein includes what I consider to be the information most critical to the successful performance of your job.    Once you have settled into your field duties, you are going to develop better ways to handle some of these procedures, ways more suited to your own personal style and your own unique community. In the meantime, however, while you are finding those special ways to do it your way, may I suggest that you try these. Then, when you have found your own ways, discard these. As we move into policing for the twenty-first century, we cannot stand still or we will stagnate and regress.    Once in a while you will read or hear offhand remarks such as ""we are going to teach you how police work should be, and not how it has been for many years,"" which are obviously not written or spoken by someone who has been in the trenches for many years, so to speak. Although it is true that many procedures have changed, especially in the areas of science and communications, many of the old ones still work quite well. Community policing, for example, is a phenomenon that many proponents claim to have created over the past few years, yet many communities have practiced community policing since the day their police and sheriff's departments were created over a hundred years ago. New buzzwords and acronyms have been created, but much of community policing is a step back into the past. Foot patrol, bicycle patrol, and the neighborhood cop on the beat preceded the invention of the automobile. Change just for the sake of change is fruitless; real` changes must be for improvement of the system.    One temptation for the professor and the author who are no longer in the field, or have never been in the field, is to change procedures in their own special environment, removed from reality in the isolated ivory tower or temple of academia. I, too, have been tempted to present the ideal solutions to many of our unsolved problems with the hope that proclaiming them to be workable proves them to be workable in the real world. People are still reinventing the wheel and claiming patent rights by calling it a different name. What I have attempted to do in this book is to present policing as it is, and how it should be, in the real world we live in, not what it might be if we were in our self-created heaven.    Sources of information and ideas for this book number literally in the hundreds, but none has been lifted verbatim from any source without appropriate footnotes. I learned the hard way from an English teacher in high school the evils of plagiarism and vowed to never commit that sin again. Most of the blame for errors and omissions, and perhaps some of the credit, rests with me. After nearly fifty years in criminal justice, I have accumulated a lot of information, but the writing is original. This was not designed to be a survey of the literature, but a compilation of information and principles in criminal justice as perceived by yours truly.    I present this material to you, my fellow professionals, and to your students. I challenge you to improve on it, or even render it obsolete if you must. We have made numerous changes in this edition to keep up with the times, especially in community policing, and hope they meet with your approval.    I wish to thank the reviewers of the fifth edition and this new, sixth edition, including John O. Ballard, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; Alex del Carmen, University of Texas-Arlington, Arlington, TX; and Gregory B. Talley, Broome Community College, Binghampton, NY Thanks for your timely and valuable input. At Prentice-Hall I owe a debt of gratitude to the following: Sarah Holle, Frank Mortimer, Kim Mortimer, Mary Carnis, Miguel Ortiz, and Cathleen Petersen. Keeping many late hours while writing this book, I must also recognize the endless hours of television chatter that kept me awake, but for the life of me, I can hardly remember anything about any of the programs. They did provide background noise, however.    Tom Adams",books;criminal law;education & reference;law;law enforcement;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,12
0847820289,"Evita: An Intimate Portrait of Eva Peron Toms de Elia and Juan Pablo Queiroz, natives of Buenos Aires, were born in 1969. They are the cofounders and directors of Ediciones Brambila, based in that city, and edited Argentina:  The Great Estancias (Rizzoli, 1995).",americas;argentina;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;historical;history;leaders & notable people;photography;political;portraits;south america,12
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1565632869,"Judaism in the First Three Centuries of the Christian Era George Foot Moore (1851-1931), was ordained in the Presbyterian ministry in 1878. He was professor of Hebrew at Andover Theological Seminary from 1883-1902. In 1902 he became Professor of Theology at Harvard, and from 1904-1928 was Professor of Religious History there. An eminent Asian scholar and a noted teacher, he wrote a number of books, including The Literature of the Old Testament (1913), and History of Religions (Vol. I, 1913; Vol. II, 1919).",ancient;bibles;books;christian books & bibles;hasidism;history;history of religion;jewish;judaism;religion & spirituality;religious;world,12
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083352223X,"The Mafia Encyclopedia They're all there, starting with Anthony Joseph Accardo (1906-1992), the Chicago mob leader known as Tony to crime pals, Mr. Accardo to underlings, Joe Batters to his subordinates, and as ""having more brains before breakfast than Al Capone had all day"" to syndicate supporters, and working through the alphabet to Abner ""Longy"" Zwillman (1899-1959), a crime-syndicate founder and New Jersey boss, one of the most feared of the Jewish Mafia, known as the ""Al Capone of new Jersey,"" and much revered for his love affair with Jean Harlow. Between Accardo and Zwillman, Carl Sifakis explores the lives, reputations, exploits, and subcultures of more than 450 Mafia perpetrators and personalities. Sifakis describes the individuals, codes of behavior, misdeeds, legal scrapes, rivalries, and flamboyant lifestyles associated with the world of organized crime--an entity whose existence J.Edgar Hoover denied for 30 years. Sifakis's research is thorough, and his subjects are nefarious and riveting. It's his feel for storytelling, however, that makes his encyclopedia so enjoyable. He writes about infamous characters such as Al Capone (who felt his bootlegging was merely a public service) and John Gotti (a.k.a. the Teflon Don, who's now serving a life sentence) as well as the Mafia Social Clubs, Donnie Brasco (the FBI agent who infiltrated the mob and sent more than 100 mobsters to prison), and the importance of slot machines to the post-Prohibition welfare of organized crime. With nearly 100 pictures and illustrations, Sifakis's mob opus is required reading for Mafia buffs, and a remarkably engaging guide for anyone interested in a factual report on organized crime. --Stephanie Gold	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Since former crime reporter Sifakis's excellent Mafia Encyclopedia was first published in 1987, mob bosses John Gotti and Vinny ""the Chin"" Gigante have gone to jail and informer Sammy ""the Bull"" Gravano has reached the best sellers lists. Such Mafia shakeups have necessitated this extensive revision, which now boasts nearly 450 discerning entries covering the whole mobster universe from ""Making Your Bones"" to money laundering and the ""Buckwheats"" (painful murder methods); loansharking and the ""Concrete scam""; favorite Mafia social clubs, restaurants, and burial grounds; and even an entry on Midnight Rose's, the Brooklyn candy store where so many of Murder, Inc.'s killings were planned. Sifakis's prose is free of the typical platitudes about ""honor"" or ""blood oaths."" He points out that the most important Mafia figure was not Al Capone but  Lucky Luciano, who, along with Meyer Lansky, ""Americanized"" and transformed the Prohibition-era booze rackets into ""a national crime syndicate, a network of multi-ethnic gangs...which has bled Americans of incalculable billions over the years."" Sifakis relishes the Mafia's vivid folklore without subscribing to it. The infamous score-evening slaughter of 1931 called the ""Night of the Sicilian Vespers,"" in which dozens of Luciano's enemies were said to have been simultaneously eliminated nationwide, turns out to be mythology. And while Chicago and Vegas mobster John Roselli was probably not the JFK hitman (as alleged in Bill Bonanno's Bound by Honor, LJ 3/15/99, his accomplishments did include taking $400,000 from Phil Silvers, Zeppo Marx, and others in a famous rigged card game. For all crime collections.ANathan Ward, ""Library Journal""Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Sifakis provides a thought-provoking preface to this edition, which focuses on the continued existence and evolution of the American Mafia, in spite of its reported decline and fall at the end of the twentieth century. New recruits, leaders, and rackets still manage to ""turn fear into money."" The introduction to the second edition is reprinted to provide historical perspective on the Mafia's development prior to 1999, and most of the illustrations come from the earlier editions. Nearly 500 entries, arranged alphabetically, offer biographical sketches of key players on both sides of the legal line; explain Mafia-related terms (such as Bagman, Dentists, and Parsley racket); and summarize important events like the Apalachin Conference of 1957 and Operation Mongoose. Places important to Mafia history are identified: Castellammare del Golfo in Sicily, the Colony Sports Club in London, and the La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution in Texas ("" stool pigeon heaven""), to name a few. An updated ""Mafia Timeline"" demonstrates the durability of the organization.Libraries that own the second edition and have found it useful might consider this for its more current information and perspective. Its reasonable price and readability make it a possible candidate for circulating collections where interest is high. Libraries holding The Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States (Greenwood, 2000), which has suggested readings at the end of each entry, frequent see also references, and an extensive bibliography that includes biographies and memoirs, government reports, and feature-length films, may not need The Mafia Encyclopedia. Sally JaneCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Praise for the previous edition: "". . . the most comprehensive list of organized crime notables and sketches of their lives available."" -- Denver Post""More a storyteller than a historian, the author offers an engaging look at the underworld."" -- Southwest Airline Spirit/DFW Airport, TX, July 2000	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",biographies & memoirs;books;criminology;education & reference;new;organized crime;politics & social sciences;social sciences;teens;true accounts;true crime;used & rental textbooks,12
1594770905,"A Psychonaut's Guide to the Invisible Landscape: The Topography of the Psychedelic Experience Dan Carpenters forays into the fractal hyperspace and hive minds of the DXM realms offer a serious contribution to contemporary psychedelic thought. His work follows in the tradition of inner-space investigators such as Coleridge, Antonin Artaud, Aldous Huxley, and Terence McKenna. This will be a must-read for every serious psychonaut. (Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open the Head)Like that of the intrepid scout who surveys the fantastical geography of new worlds for others too timid to venture first, Carpenters service will be honored and remembered. (Charles Hayes, author of Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures)Whether or not what he describes has an ontologically distinct existence, or if the imagery is merely psychological apparitions, the project remains valuable. Not only does it provide pharmacography with a uniquely imaginal dimension, it relates to the reader a landscape that can be explored by anyone. (Psychedelic Press UK, October 2012)	ENTHEOGENS / PSYCHOLOGY  Dan Carpenters forays into the fractal hyperspace and hive minds of the DXM realms offer a serious contribution to contemporary psychedelic thought. His work follows in the tradition of inner-space investigators such as Coleridge, Antonin Artaud, Aldous Huxley, and Terence McKenna. This will be a must-read for every serious psychonaut. --Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism  Like that of the intrepid scout who surveys the fantastical geography of new worlds for others too timid to venture first, Carpenters service will be honored and remembered. --Charles Hayes, author of Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures  Journeying into the invisible world revealed by his use of the dissociative psychedelic DXM (dextromethorphan), Dan Carpenter found that what he experienced was not simply subjective sensations and psychological states but an objective world of familiar if inordinately odd landmarks and characters. The running diary he kept of these voyages recounts impressions of a landscape charted by other travelers into this inner space and includes descriptions of many of the same phenomena recorded by such mind travelers as Terence and Dennis McKenna, Alexander and Ann Shulgin, and others who have experienced the Hive Mind--the pool of all consciousness. Into this territory where expression is like chaos theory, where oddly symmetrical order manifests out of the seemingly anarchic swirl of images and events, the author ventures with the mind-set of a naturalist, accepting whatever might be rather than what he hopes he might find. What emerges is not a location crafted by subjective experience, but a landscape that embodies the Other and that represents a conscious state in which the barriers between the self and the not-self dissolve.  DAN CARPENTER (1963-2005) took thirteen high-dose, closed-eye trips using DXM between January 2003 and July 2004, which he has documented in this book.	Dan Carpenter (1963-2005) took thirteen high-dose, closed-eye trips using DXM between January 2003 and July 2004, which he has documented in this book.	Trip Two Of Life in the Taffy-Clouds My second trip was a 1200 mg ride into a swirling colored-plastic mindscape during which I found myself privy to the very workings of my brain--an insiders view--which left me sad and horrified and exuberant. I had read about the phenomenon of ego-loss in many trip reports and I thought I knew what people were talking about from my dabblings with LSD over the years. I didnt. What happened to my sense of self while on high doses of DXM forced a fundamental deviation in what I had believed I understood me to be. I glimpsed the underpinnings of who or what is in charge of the brain. I cover the experiences in the order that the trips were taken. With each trip I encountered more and more profound things and I became better and better at navigating the realms I would find myself in. The trips were done lying down with eyes closed for most of their duration. Notes 2/16/03: The DXM trip doesnt feel like astral realms. I tried to project and found myself hopelessly in my head. I am convinced that the machinelike workings I was witnessing were inside my brain. As the doses kick in (about 200 mg every twenty minutes) thick taffylike, vaporous light churns and spills like lava in 0 gravity. . . . At first I wondered if these thick lights or mind taffy (which is often reported) was a sort of thought potential--thoughts in waiting, that I was witnessing from my vantage point, feeling completely disconnected from these things, yet knowing they were me! Later, as the effects wore off, I could still see them faintly, (with eyes closed) and I could see that they were made up of thousands (millions?) of individual strands of light, like a fiber-optic cable. I thought that I must be seeing the retina at work, or I was somewhere in the brain where awareness processes sight. Notes: I make a mental note: Everywhere I look I am seeing with peripheral vision. I can see perfectly, every detail, but I cant stare directly at anything--with what am I seeing? In my dream logs I have recorded my scientific approach in lucid dreams, where, instead of moving into the landscape searching for adventure, I would check to see if surfaces like a tree or wall were hard to the touch (they always were). Or, to see if I am making-up the scene, I would inspect things like paint flecks on a window sill, or tiny pebbles and grains of dirt on a road. (The paint flecks and tiny grains were there, perceived absolutely as if I were using my physical eyes.) In doing this close observation, it never occurred to me to check if I was able to look directly at a pebble say, because I could . . . stare straight at it as if I were looking at it or handling it in the real world. After discovering that everything I was seeing was peripheral in the DXM realm, I paid special attention the next time I had a lucid dream--and yes, I was perfectly able to look directly at any detail. The conclusion: the mechanism with which I was seeing on DXM is not the same one as is utilized during lucid dreaming. Notes: Beyond the taffy-clouds I settled into the trip and I encountered the Golden Wall, something Ive read about more than once in trip reports. It is a huge barrier of shimmering yellow light. I can bring the Wall into range by staring at one spot on its surface. As I come right up against it I can see minute detail--it is not smooth but bumpy and pitted and does not change. When I stop against the side of it my attention gives way and Im back in my bed, where I close my eyes again. . . . I hadnt at this point developed a solid idea as to what this wall might be. I though it might be a visual manifestation of the Memory Barrier that causes the memory of dreams or insight gleaned during the psychedelic experience to be squelched even as one tries to assimilate them into everyday reality. This might be part of the story with the Wall, but later I found a further connection between it and the way memory is stored in the brain. Notes: In the caverns of taffy; I have begun to notice tiny lights and shapes that seem to be knowing, aware molecule-like things. They are perfectly defined, moving in orbits and performing maneuvers and tasks. In and beyond the Taffy-Clouds these molecules abound and I would later see them during every trip. Right away it is apparent that these things are doing . . . performing tasks in tight choreographic maneuvers--going about their duties in a very animated and no-nonsense way. They are brightly colored, sometimes striped blue and black, or yellow and red--every color is represented in some part of their dance. They come circular or barrel shaped, amid tendrils of green plasma, and at times whole clouds of tiny light spots will cluster and move together like a school of fish, glowing like neon orbs. I am reminded of what electrons might look like in a computer program if one could observe them in action. From my first encounter with these things, I knew without any reservations that I was seeing life. Were these things me? A part of my brain, or some Other?",books;fitness & dieting;health;mysticism;new age;occult;politics & social sciences;popular culture;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality;self-help;social sciences,12
0131142291,"Kozier and Erb's Techniques in Clinical Nursing ""Basic to Intermediate Skills"" (5th Edition) Providing current information in a clear, concise format, the Fifth Edition of Kozier  Erb's Techniques in Clinical Nursing continues to be a definitive source for clinical nursing skills. Progressing from the simple to the complex, each chapter places techniques in perspective to client anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology. Applying the nursing process to each technique, it illustrates a detailed step-by-step implementation while providing a thorough overview of the rationale and purpose. Appropriate as a stand alone in a skills-based course or as a companion to any Fundamentals or Medical-Surgical course with skills application, the features include:    Current Standard Infection Control Precautions integrated into each technique. Over 200 ""Forming Clinical Judgment"" questions that apply critical thinking skills to realistic clinical situations. Age Related Considerations highlighting modifications and special deliberations necessary when caring for infants, children, and elders. Ambulatory and Community Settings section lists the modifications necessary when performing techniques in alternative settings. A focus on the appropriateness of delegation explaining which techniques at what times can be delegated to unlicensed assistive personnel. Color photographs of real life situations. For faculty  Instructor's Resource CD ROM with customizable checklist available upon adoption.	The techniques performed by nurses exemplify the integration of knowledge, skill, attitude, and critical thinking necessary for effective clinical practice in the twenty-first century. The fifth edition of Techniques in Clinical Nursing has been completely revised and updated to reflect the significant changes in practice that have occurred since the previous edition. It includes:    * The 166 most important techniques performed by nurses, including all common variations, organized from the simple to the more complex * New techniques such as Standard Precautions, Implementing Seizure Precautions, Applying a Sequential Compression Device, Measuring Peak Expiratory Flow, Administering Basic Life Support to the Hospitalized Client, and Using Alginates on Wounds * A total of 684 color illustrations and 118 new full-color photographs    Techniques in Clinical Nursing is intended as a primary textbook for nursing education programs and as a reference for practicing nurses. Content was selected based on feedback from reviewers of previous editions, a market survey by the publisher, and the extensive teaching and practice experience of the authors.   New Technique Format   Each chapter contains concise introductory material, placing the techniques in perspective to client anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology, and provides an overview of the rationale and purpose of the techniques. The presentation of each technique follows the steps of the nursing process and contains:    * Review of the assessment data required before performing the technique * As a component of the planning phase, when it is and is not appropriate to delegate each technique to unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) * Implementation steps, including client teaching, observation of standard infection control precautions, and client record documentation. Rationales are indicated by italic type * Considerations in evaluation of the technique,, focusing on steps indicated for follow-up and communication with other members of the health care team   Hallmark Features   The fifth edition builds on the successful aspects of previous editions. The strong emphasis on assisting the learner and practitioner has been maintained by including:    * Performance objectives * Detailed step-by-step implementation * Research and supplemental references * Extensive use of tables, boxes, and diagrams   New Features   Age-Related Considerations With each technique for which they are appropriate, modifications and special deliberations indicated when caring for infants, children, and elders are placed in highlighted boxes.    Modifications in Ambulatory and Community Settings Increasingly, nurses are performing techniques in home and clinic environments that require adaptation from the steps used in hospitals. This featured content outlines client teaching regarding self-care and communication with the health care team, involvement of lay caregivers, and suggestions for altering techniques as indicated by the physical environment.    Forming Clinical Judgments The nurse is challenged to consider appropriate responses to situations that can arise in performing the techniques in each chapter. Answers to the ""Consider This"" items are found in the Instructor's Manual.    Terminology A list of key terms is found at the end of each chapter.    	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The techniques performed by nurses exemplify the integration of knowledge, skill, attitude, and critical thinking necessary for effective clinical practice in the twenty-first century. The fifth edition of Techniques in Clinical Nursing has been completely revised and updated to reflect the significant changes in practice that have occurred since the previous edition. It includes:    The 166 most important techniques performed by nurses, including all common variations, organized from the simple to the more complex New techniques such as Standard Precautions, Implementing Seizure Precautions, Applying a Sequential Compression Device, Measuring Peak Expiratory Flow, Administering Basic Life Support to the Hospitalized Client, and Using Alginates on Wounds A total of 684 color illustrations and 118 new full-color photographs    Techniques in Clinical Nursing is intended as a primary textbook for nursing education programs and as a reference for practicing nurses. Content was selected based on feedback from reviewers of previous editions, a market survey by the publisher, and the extensive teaching and practice experience of the authors.   New Technique Format   Each chapter contains concise introductory material, placing the techniques in perspective to client anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology, and provides an overview of the rationale and purpose of the techniques. The presentation of each technique follows the steps of the nursing process and contains:    Review of the assessment data required before performing the technique As a component of the planning phase, when it is and is not appropriate to delegate each technique to unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) Implementation steps, including client teaching, observation of standard infection control precautions, and client record documentation. Rationales are indicated by italic type Considerations in evaluation of the technique, focusing on steps indicated for follow-up and communication with other members of the health care team   Hallmark Features   The fifth edition builds on the successful aspects of previous editions. The strong emphasis on assisting the learner and practitioner has been maintained by including:    Performance objectives Detailed step-by-step implementation Research and supplemental references Extensive use of tables, boxes, and diagrams   New Features   Age-Related Considerations With each technique for which they are appropriate, deliberations indicated when caring for infants, children, and elders are placed in highlighted boxes.    Modifications in Ambulatory and Community Settings Increasingly, nurses are performing techniques in home and clinic environments that require adaptation from the steps used in hospitals. This featured content outlines client teaching regarding self-care and communication with the health care team, involvement of lay caregivers, and suggestions for altering techniques as indicated by the physical environment.    Forming Clinical Judgments The nurse is challenged to consider appropriate responses to situations that can arise in performing the techniques in each chapter. Answers to the ""Consider This"" items are found in the Instructor's Manual.    Terminology A list of key terms is found at the end of each chapter.",books;clinical;education & reference;fundamentals & skills;general;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;nurse & patient;nursing;patient education;used & rental textbooks,12
0789493624,"DK Concise Atlas of the World These well-organized atlases offer clear transitions from more  general global information and maps to sections on continents,  each of which contains continental and regional close-ups with  maps and information. From the most basic Compact, the price  increases according to the quantity of additional maps and other  materials. Each atlas carries an identical core of maps. The  Concise provides the most comprehensive coverage, including over  400 maps, many photos, geographical comparisons, thumbnail  information on each country, and a range of topics from the  solar system to international disputes. The Essential, including  over 60 maps, offers a nifty, easy-to-use ready-reference  resource full of geographical and political information. The  well-priced paperback Compact contains 60 maps and less  additional information.  Despite the brilliant map colors and digitally achieved  definition, none of these atlases contains detailed maps for  each state in the United States, as does the Rand McNally  Premier World Atlas (Rand McNally, 2001). Although the  measurements of each atlas differ (Concise, 131/4"" x 95/8"";  Essential, 81/2"" x 6""; Compact, 10 7/8"" x 81/2""), there is  sometimes no corresponding difference among them in the detail  shown for a particular area. For example, all three show only  seven cities in the state of Connecticut in the U.S. Northeast  regional close-up map. However, the Concise shows the  Chechenskaya Respublika, while the others do not. Though only  the Concise and the Essential contain glossaries, the  index-gazetteer at the end of all three contains wonderful  comparative and statistical information, country-by-country  particulars, and an extensive index. The Compact is a good  purchase for individuals, but both the Concise and the Essential  are highly recommended for academic, public, and school  libraries. Michelle Foyt, Russell Lib., Middletown, CT   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	DK updated three atlases in 2003. Atlas of the World has more than 450 maps, Concise Atlas of the World has around 400 maps, and Compact Atlas of the World has around 60. In the two larger atlases, maps are surrounded by plenty of facts and graphics. Among the revisions is the new name for the former Yugoslavia RBBCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved",atlases;atlases & maps;books;earth sciences;education & reference;geography;new;reference;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks;world,12
0823031772,"New American Interiors James Grayson Trulove is the author, publisher and editor of over 50 books on architecture, landscape architecture, and garden design.  Recent books include:  The New American House 4, The New American Cottage, The New American Garden, Sustainable Homes, The Smart Loft, The Smart House, and Private Towers.  He was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Design.  He resides in Washington, DC and New York.",architecture;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;decorating;history;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;interior design;professional & technical;regional,12
1592287999,"House of Tears: Westerners' Adventures in Islamic Lands (Explorers Club Book) Of interest mostly to students of political science or anyone looking for background on the Middle East, this book features excerpts from historical writings about the region. The material spans a lengthy period, 1740 to 1927: the Middle East, in essence, before it became the Middle East we know today. It's a story of similarities and differences, of massive cultural shifts (on the one hand) and a steadfast resistance to change (on the other). Most of the authors collected here will be unfamiliar to the casual reader: Thomas Pellow, an English slave in a sultan's army; Samuel Baker, an explorer who lacks the name recognition of his contemporary Richard Burton (who also appears here); A. H. W. Haywood, a British army officer who traveled from Sierra Leone to Algeria. But the book also contains excerpts from famous works by Mark Twain, John Reed, and Walter B. Harris. Each in its way provides a valuable historical snippet for those hoping to learn more about the history of Islamic lands. David PittCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Named one of the top 10 adventure books of 2005 by Men's Journal""This supremely timely treasury packs blockbuster firsthand accounts by adventurers, kidnapped slaves, explorers and spies--including marquee names like Sir Richard Burton and Mark Twain--of getting their first dry taste of some of the world's most insular Islamic cultures."" --Men's Journal""In this book you will be introduced to individuals whose courage and curiosity opened new channels of understanding across seemingly insurmountable cultural barriers. . . . This isa fascinating journey."" --Milbry Polk, author of Women of Discovery: A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored the World""Each [excerpt] in its way provides a valuable historical snippet for those hoping to learn more about the history of Islamic Lands."" --Booklist A fascinating and valuable introduction to its subjects--Statesman Journal	An Explorers Club BookClassic tales of Westerners who crossed behind the veilMore than a century before the recent conflicts with Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, and Islamic insurgents, an international crisis ignited between the United States and the Middle East. In May 1904, Moroccan warlord Mulai Ahmed el Raisuni kidnapped Ion Perdicaris, a wealthy Greek-American resident of Tangier, in an attempt to extort money from the Sultan of Morocco. President Theodore Roosevelt responded by dispatching a squadron of seven battleships to the Moroccan coast with the order: Perdicaris alive or Raisuni dead. The nine-week standoff between U.S. troops and Raisuni exposed the impotence of emerging American power and revealed a critical misunderstanding about Moroccan politics. When it was discovered that Perdicaris was not an American citizen after all, the U.S. government kept the embarrassing episode a secret until 1933. Profiting royally from the conflict, Raisuni built his palace, the ""House of Tears,"" soon after.In this page-turning blend of compelling adventure and travel narrative, historian John Hughes reintroduces this and other vintage tales of Westerners who traveled to Islamic lands. Here we witness Englishman Thomas Pellow's rise from slave of a homicidal sultan- a man who kept the ears of his victims astrophies-to commander of the Moroccan army in the 1700s. A century later, London Times correspondent and professional adventurer Walter B. Harris risks his life by entering the holy city of Chefchouaen, Morocco, in disguise. In his account of Constantinople in 1916, John Reed describes an empire teetering on the brink of collapse. And who could forget Lowell Thomas's legendary account of the man who would become known as ""Lawrence of Arabia""? Woven throughout these stories is the collaboration between Muslims and Westerners as together they faced perilous journeys across deserts, mountain passes, and into forbidden cities.House of Tears is a treasury of the most exciting and revealing narratives ever published about the Islamic world from the last several decades. Not only is this Explorers Club Book a fine compendium of true adventure stories, but it is also a collection that celebrates the fine nuances of cultural encounters, in times of peace as well as conflict.	Dr. John Hughes was educated in Canada and the United Kingdom. He has written about British history and has taught European history in the United States and Canada. He is currently on the faculty at St. George's School in Vancouver, Canada.",americas;asia;books;education & reference;europe;history;middle east;research & publishing guides;travel;united states;world;writing,12
0820321990,"One Family Arriving unannounced at the Toole family's home in Bogart, GA,  in 1979, Sills (who teaches photography at Simmons College)  proceeded to spend 20 years photographing four generations of  the family. She intended her series of portraits to provide a  deeper understanding of the human situation. Fortunately, the  members of this large, close-knit, caring family trusted her and  participated willingly in her project. These 143 black-and-white  images, chosen by Sills from the thousands she took, show the  Tooles coping with their impoverished existence in dilapidated  homes, porches, and yards. The photographs, mainly taken with a  Polaroid camera, are accompanied by the subjects' own  tape-recorded comments, including one family member's intimate  thoughts expressed in touchingly simple poetry. In her  introductory essay, Sills acknowledges the impact of James Agee  and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men on her work. Her  book is an honest portrayal of daily life in the present-day  rural South, seen through the life of a single family. A  foreword by Robert Coles is included. Recommended for public  libraries. Joan Levin, MLS, Chicago   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""A very strong and compelling book, one that will make a sound contribution to photography, cultural studies, documentary studies, and regional studies.""--Tom Rankin, Executive Director, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University""These 143 black-and-white images, chosen by Sills from the thousands she took, show the Tooles coping with their impoverished existence in dilapidated homes, porches, and yards. The photographs, mainly taken with a Polaroid camera, are accompanied by the subjects' own tape-recorded comments, including one family member's intimate thoughts expressed in touchingly simple poetry. . . . Her book is an honest portrayal of daily life in the present-day rural South, seen through the life of a single family.""--Library Journal	Vaughn Sills has exhibited her work nationally and has been awarded grants by The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities and Polaroid Foundation through the New England Foundation for the Arts. Having grown up in Quebec, New England, and the South, she now lives in Massachusetts and teaches photography at Simmons College in Boston. The early photographs in One Family were taken with 120 mm film; nearly all of the pictures taken since 1982 were made with Polaroid film.	""[One Family portrays] a biologically connected arc of humanity deeply and knowingly explored-its ups and downs, its breakthrough moments and setbacks, and not the least, its distinct possibilities, its everyday lyrical and melancholy sides.""-from the foreword by Robert Coles",arts & photography;books;individual artists;photo essays;photography;photojournalism;politics & social sciences;portraits;poverty;rural;social sciences;sociology,12
0691116709,"Growing Up Palestinian: Israeli Occupation and the Intifada Generation (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics) French political scientist Bucaille faces a daunting taskhumanizing the Palestinian fighters who are involved in almost-daily violence against Israel and to her credit, she mostly succeeds, tracing the lives of several of the young men known as the shebab, who are on-the ground fighters in the three-and-a-half-year-old second intifada. In interviews and vivid descriptions, Bucaille brings to light their worldviewone in which hopelessness has fueled violence, and the violence fuels hopelessness. The Palestinian fighters she interviews tell her that they do not oppose the state of Israel. But the lives of the fighters are only part of Bucaille's investigation. Along the way, she traces the recent history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the failed Oslo peace process. She sees that process as having been doomed from the beginning. The accords ""gave the Palestinians nothing but the bastard status of autonomy over most of Gaza and a small area of the West Bank."" It did, however, create a new set of dynamics in Palestinian society, as the return of Yasser Arafat and his coterie created a new wealthy class and, after initial euphoria, led to resentment among those Palestinians who had fought in the first uprising, from 1987 to 1993. The author is frank in depicting these fault lines in Palestinian society, although she generally leans somewhat to a pro-Palestinian stance. While those who are strongly pro-Israel will be put off by this, readers wanting a look at the lives of young Palestinians and their society will be hard-pressed to find a better book. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	A must for all those concerned with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the great value of this contemporary history is that it brings you close-up to the Palestinian people and their politics, revealing the differences among them, differences across generations but also of class, religion, politics, and place. This entry in the Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics series, translated from French and covering events up to spring 2003, shows how the civil disobedience of the 1980s has given way to today's repression-revenge cycle. Most powerful is the focus on the day-to-day experience of particular young people who have never left the camps. At 18, Mansur would like to study, ""maybe computers, maybe chemistry""; he'd like to reclaim his family house; and he'd like to travel. He's no supporter of Hammas, but his sense of futility makes him increasingly sympathetic to the suicide-bomber hero-martyr as a model for Palestinian struggle. Neither simplistic nor sentimental, Bucaille shows that the conflict with the Israelis is inseparable from the Palestinians' conflict within their own community. Hazel RochmanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Readers wanting a look at the lives of young Palestinians and their society will be hard-pressed to find a better book.""--Publishers Weekly""A must for all those concerned with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the great value of this contemporary history is that it brings you close-up to the Palestinian people and their politics, revealing the differences among them, differences across generations but also of class, religion, politics, and place. . . . Neither simplistic nor sentimental, Bucaille shows that the conflict with the Israelis is inseparable from the Palestinians' conflict within their own community.""--Booklist""Like a painter of miniatures, Laetitia Bucaille describes a multitude of small scenes from the lives of young Palestinians, ushering us into a world view in which death gradually comes to occupy the central role. . . .  This book offers a richly detailed look at the rise of that political impasse which engenders suicide bombings and the alarming commitment of martyrs.""--Gilles Kepel, Le Monde""Clear, measured and exacting, Growing Up Palestinian is required reading for anyone who professes to have an opinion about the Middle East.""--Mary-Lou Zeitoun, Toronto Globe and Mail""Growing Up Palestinian . . .  concisely opens up whole tableaus of recent Palestinian history and provides a rich basis from which to delve further into that history.""--John Collins, Journal of Palestinian Studies	Laetitia Bucaille is Laetitia Bucaille is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Bordeaux II; Associate Researcher at the Centre d'etudes de relations internationales of the l'Institut d'etudes politiques in Paris; and a member of the Institut universitaire de France. She is the author of ""Gaza: la violence de la paix"".",asia;books;history;international & world politics;israel;middle east;middle eastern;palestine;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics;terrorism,12
1557381461,"Winning In The Future Markets: A Money-Making Guide to Trading Hedging and Speculating, Revised Edition McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide",books;business & finance;business & investing;commodities;economics;finance;futures;introduction;investing;new;popular economics;used & rental textbooks,12
B000GCG9DY,"The Three Incestuous Sisters : An Illustrated Novel Niffenegger, author of the two-plus-million-copy bestseller The Time Traveler's Wife, showcases her artistic talent in an oversized ""novel in pictures"" she calls ""the book of my heart, a fourteen-year labor of love."" It's the strange and haunting story of three sisters who ""lived together in a lonely house by the sea, near the lighthouse, miles away from the city."" Blonde Bettine is the youngest and prettiest, redhead Clothilde is ""the most talented"" and blue-haired Ophile, the eldest, is considered the smartest. When lightning kills the lighthouse keeper, his son, Paris, arrives to take his place; Paris and Bettine quickly fall in love and conceive a child. Jealous Ophile misbehaves badly; psychic Clothilde communes with the unborn baby, whom she names the Saint; and Bettine and Paris run away to the city, where tragedy strikes. Niffenegger's spare, full-page, sepia-toned aquatints (""an idiosyncratic, antique"" medium) are evocative and Gorey-esque; they tell the story more than the minimalist prose does. And Niffenegger's afterword is illuminating, both about the process of making aquatints and about her productive methods of procrastination: The Time Traveler's Wife, she reveals, ""started its life as the project I played with when I should have been finishing Sisters."" (Sept.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	*Starred Review* Niffenegger, author of the best-selling novel The Time Traveler's Wife (2003), is an accomplished artist as well as an imaginative writer, and she now presents a shivery fairy tale in the form of an eerily beautiful novel-in-pictures. The minimal yet spooky text faces dramatically nuanced full-page prints portraying three grown, orphaned sisters. Bettina, the youngest, is a lovely blond; Ophile, the unhappy eldest, has blue hair; Clothilde, in the middle and in a world of her own, is a redhead. The svelte sisters possess extravagantly long hair and tapering, expressive hands; wear clinging, gray, ankle-length dresses; and are as powerfully evocative as dancers in a Martha Graham production. They live harmoniously in ""a lonely house by the sea"" until the late lighthouse keeper's handsome son, Paris, appears and falls in love with Bettina, who soon becomes pregnant. Clothilde, whose esoteric talents include levitation, communes happily with her in utero nephew, while Ophile goes mad with jealousy. Niffenegger's grim yet erotic tale and stunningly moody gothic prints possess the sly subversion of Edward Gorey, the emotional valence of Edvard Munch, and her very own brilliant use of iconographic pattern, surprising perspective, and tensile line in the service of a delectable, otherworldly sensibility. Donna SeamanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Haunting illustrations and sparse yet lyrical prose...a poignant and innovative addition to the picture-book field."" -- Lucy Davies Daily Telegraph 20050924	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Audrey Niffenegger is the author of the New York Times best-selling and critically acclaimed novel The Time Traveler's Wife, which has sold 1 million copies and was a The Today Show book club pick. She has exhibited her artwork nationwide and teaches art and printmaking at Columbia College in Chicago.",arts & photography;books;contemporary;domestic life;literature & fiction;mystery;psychological thrillers;romance;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states;women's fiction,12
0803958226,"Your Statistical Consultant: Answers to Your Data Analysis Questions ""I wish I had owned this book in graduate school. Instead of searching for busy professors to answer my statistical questions, I could have obtained timely and easy-to-understand answers in the page of this well-written and user-friendly text."" (C. Keith Haddock )""It is more than a reference work. It is a very well-written general work on statistics problems."" (W. Paul Vogt )	Rae R. Newton is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at California State University Fullerton. He recently joined the faculty of the School of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University where he serves as a research consultant and statistical advisor to doctoral students and faculty. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and completed postdoctoral training in mental health measurement at Indiana University. His primary interests include longitudinal modeling of outcomes for high risk youth and foster care populations, family violence and graduate educaton. He is author, with Kjell Erik Rudestam, of Surviving Your dissertation: A comprehensive Guide to Content and Process, now in its third edition. In semi-retirement he enjoys traveling with his wife in their RV and surfing throughout Mexico and Central America.",books;mathematics;medical books;methodology;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;research;science & math;sexuality;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0791467163,"Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, And the Fab Four While John, Paul, George and Ringo have been (deservedly) deconstructed more than any other rock band, and an academic look at them is welcome, many of the observations made in this collection will leave fans asking, ""So what?"" In the opening essay, Penn State English professor Ian Marshall carefully explores the band's lyrics. He points out the confessional poetics of Lennon songs like ""Nowhere Man,"" but isn't original when he compares that tune's themes of self-doubt to Thoreau's ""mass of men [who] lead lives of quiet desperation."" A more intriguing assertion is Marshall's point that The White Album is a work of ""post-modernity"" that reflects the fracturing of the band's media image as four lovable mop-tops and a ""rebuttal"" to the earlier Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Far more remarkable is William M. Northcutt's essay, which studies ""death, loss, and the crowd"" on Sgt. Pepper. Northcutt, who teaches cultural studies at Germany's University of Wuppertal, introduces the idea that the album's cover, with its famous portrait of the Beatles surrounded by cultural icons, reveals the band's distance from the crowd and its conflicted feelings toward fame. (Mar.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Despite the enormous amount of writing devoted to the Beatles during the last few decades, the bands abiding intellectual and cultural significance has received scant attention. Using various modes of literary, musicological, and cultural criticism, the essays in Reading the Beatles firmly establish the Beatles as a locus of serious academic and cultural study. Exploring the groups resounding impact on how we think about gender, popular culture, and the formal and poetic qualities of music, the contributors trace not only the literary and musicological qualities of selected Beatles songs but also the development of the Beatles artistry in their films and the ways in which the band has functioned as a cultural, historical, and economic product. In a poignant afterword, Jane Tompkins offers an autobiographical account of the ways in which the Beatles afforded her with the self-actualizing means to become less alienated from popular culture, gender expectations, and even herself during the early 1960s. ""This book addresses many of the most significant aspects of the Beatlestheir music and their social and cultural influence and contexts. It finds a balance between specialist knowledge (i.e., musicology) and more general interest, and it covers the full breadth of the Beatles output. The Beatles effected a significant and irreversible epoch in popular music, and for this reason deserve a sound academic study of the many aspects of their arrival, their dominance, their challenges, and their legacy. Such a study is provided here in a diverse and inventive collection of engaging essays.""  Julian Wolfreys, author of Occasional Deconstructions ""The variety of approaches and issues in this book provides a useful survey of the possibilities of academic approaches to popular music in general, while remaining accessible to music fans. The book is not hagiography; there is an interesting trajectory, from positive appraisals of the Beatles practices in their heyday to more negative assessments of recent efforts to construct their legacy.""  Neil Nehring, author of Popular Music, Gender, and Postmodernism: Anger Is an Energy Contributors include John Covach, Todd F. Davis, James M. Decker, Walter Everett, Paul Gleed, John Kimsey, Ian Marshall, Kevin McCarron, William M. Northcutt, Russell Reising, Jeffrey Roessner, Jane Tompkins, Sheila Whiteley, and Kenneth Womack.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	At The Pennsylvania State University at Altoona, Kenneth Womack is Associate Professor of English and Todd F. Davis is Assistant Professor of English. Together they authored The Critical Response to John Irving and Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory, and edited Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory. Davis is also the author of Kurt Vonneguts Crusade; or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism, also published by SUNY Press.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",arts & literature;beatles;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;criticism & theory;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;pop culture;sociology,12
0804751390,"Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California ""Erie's persuasive argument that the Metropolitan Water District is one of the creative but flawed designers of Southern California is haunted by forgetfulness: We forget where our water comes from....We forget who manages it for us and why water policy is the most important political decision we never get to make....Unfortunately forgetting is what we're best at. It helps explains why we can't move beyond the myths of Chinatown without stories about Los Angeles as reasoned and convincing as Erie's.""L.A. Times Book Review""Beyond Chinatown's merger of history and policy study, set against debunked myth, should serve as a major reorientation for teaching, researching, and planning, not only in Southern California, but in metropolitan regions throughout the world.""Southern California Quarterly""Water history is tough to write, and no one has done it better than Steven P. Erie in this fast-paced narrative based on monumental research.  I marvel at the multi-faceted inclusiveness of this story of water, region, politics, engineering, growth, and the environment.""Kevin Starr, University of Southern California""In this pathbreaking history of the MWD, Steve Erie brilliantly debunks L.A.'s greatest urban legend and opens bold new perspectives on the secret history of Southern California.""Mike Davis, U.C. Irvine""Professor Erie lays out for serious students and readers alike a compelling study of the perception and reality of the MET and the major figures and events that define it. The history of real life intrigue revealed is worthy of the Chinatown title, but there is much more here for today's leaders seeking to find a model of success for regional cooperation and accomplishment.""Ron Gastelum, former CEO, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California""In this sweeping history, Erie gives us not only the people, plans, and decisions of a public agency that has allowed a semi-arid region to take water for granted, but also the consequences of those decisions that have assisted in the creation of one of the world's great economies. And then, like a scout at the horizon, he confronts the global challenges facing the future of water for this regionindeed, the future of California. Beyond Chinatown indeed.  It's a great read and an important book.""James Flanigan, business and economics Columnist, LA Times and New York Times	As urban growth outstrips water supplies, how can the global challenge of providing liquid gold be met?  Mixing history and policy analysis, Steven Erie tells the compelling story of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD)one of the worlds largest and most important public water agenciesand its role in building the worlds 8th largest economy in a semi-desert.  No tawdry tale of secret backroom conspiraciesas depicted in the famed film noir Chinatownthis fresh telling concerns an unheralded regional institution, its entrepreneurial public leadership, and pioneering policymaking. Using untapped primary sources, the author re-examines this great regional experiment from its obscure 1920s-era origins, through the Colorado River Aqueduct and State Water Projects, to todays daunting mission of drought management, water quality, environmental stewardship, and post-9/11 supply security.  A key focus is MWDs navigation of recent epic water battles: San Diegos combative quest for water independence from MWD and L.A.; lingering conflicts over the Colorado River and northern Californias fragile Bay-Delta ecosystem; and the myriad challenges posed by water markets, privatization, and water transfers.Facing unprecedented challenges, MWD is devising innovative formulas to sustain this improbable desert civilization.  Beyond Chinatown concludes by considering MWDs Integrated Resources Plan as a global model for water-resources planning and management, water supply diversification and reliability, affordability, and environmental sustainability.  Chinatowns seductive mythologies have obscured MWDs authentic, instructive history and lessons.Praise for Steve Eries previous book, Globalizing L.A.:This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the politics of Western cities, the politics of urban development, and especially the future politics of cities that are likely to be contenders in the increasingly competitive arena of global trade. . . . Erie's analysis will forever direct us to look first at certain public agencies to begin to understand larger patterns of economic growth in any metropolitan area.Journal of Urban Affairs[A] fascinating history of the Los Angeles regions great assets and the forces that drove their development. . . . One hundred years ago, it was improbable that the Los Angeles region would become the 10th largest economy in the world.  In Globalizing L.A., Erie explains how that happened and then, fingers crossed, offers lessons on how Californias largest and most diverse city and region can keep playing a leading role.Los Angeles TimesReferencing an impressive body of recent academic research, Erie argues that world-class seaport and airport facilities confer substantial economic advantages and more facilitating links between local businesses and the global economy.The Sacramento BeeErie has built a potent political-economy of urban development that recognizes the crucial role of the public sector in mediating globalizing processes . . . and this is a valuable lesson for academics, dockworkers, community developers, and environmental activists alike.Economic Geography	Erie's persuasive argument that the Metropolitan Water District is one of the creative but flawed designers of Southern California is haunted by forgetfulness: We forget where our water comes from....We forget who manages it for us and why water policy is the most important political decision we never get to make....Unfortunately forgetting is what we're best at. It helps explains why we can't move beyond the myths of Chinatown without stories about Los Angeles as reasoned and convincing as Erie's.L.A. Times Book ReviewWater history is tough to write, and no one has done it better than Steven P. Erie in this fast-paced narrative based on monumental research.  I marvel at the multi-faceted inclusiveness of this story of water, region, politics, engineering, growth, and the environment.Kevin Starr, University of Southern California	Steven P. Erie is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Urban Studies and Planning Program at the University of California, San Diego. His previous books include Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development (Stanford University Press, 2004) and Rainbow's End: Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics (1990).",books;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;public policy;regional planning;social sciences;social services & welfare;urban planning & development;used & rental textbooks,12
1841723274,Rural Escapes: A Celebration of North American Homes Clare Double is a contributor for Ryland Peters and Small titles including: 'Rural Escapes',architecture;books;buildings;crafts;decorating;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;interior design;professional & technical;reference;style,12
031207879X,"The Visions of the Children: The Apparitions of the Blessed Mother at Medjugorje In June 1981, six teenagers in the village of Medjugorje, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzogovina), claimed to have had visions of the Virgin Mary, whom they say has continued to appear to them over the ensuing 10 years. This compilation of Connell's interviews with the six shows them standing up admirably to the scrutiny of church officials, as well as to the intense tourism that news of the apparitions generated in the area. Two of the women, now married with children, have less frequent visitations; the others continue to encounter Mary, and her message to them is consistent: God is present in the world and in people's lives, and we must repent to bring about peace. Connell, who gave up a Pennsylvania law practice to become the visionaries' spokesperson, argues that the Medjugorje phenomenon falls within the tradition of 20th-century Mariology--the study of and devotion to the mother of Jesus--although private revelations are not included in official church doctrine. She sounds a poignant note when reflecting that the village survived communism only to be threatened now by the Yugoslavian civil war. Photos not seen by PW . Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""This new edition of The Visions of the Children provides a timely opportunity for all people to realize what is going on in the world.  Those who read it prayerfully will know the Lord's way better.""  --Robert Faricy, Pontifical Gregorian University	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Janice T. Connell is an attorney and the author of Angel Power and Meetings with Mary.  She is a prolific and dynamic lecturer who speaks all over the United States and abroad.  She lives in Arizona.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Chapter 1 In the Beginning It shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out a portion of my spirit upon all mankind: Your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams. Indeed, upon my servants and my handmaids I will pour out a portion of my spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy. And I will work wonders in the heavens above, and signs on the earth below: blood, fire, and a cloud of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of that great and glorious day of the Lord. Then shall everyone be saved who calls on the name of the Lord. Acts 2: 17-21 In the rural hamlet of Medjugorje, nestled in the mountains of southwestern Yugoslavia, where Marxist-Leninism was once the state-imposed Communist regime, the Blessed Mother of Jesus Christ appeared quite suddenly one evening to two teenager girls. Shocked, frightened, and confused, they fled. Later that same evening, June 24, 1981, the two girls and several other teenagers again saw the Blessed Virgin Mary at the same place, Mount Podbrdo, now known as Apparition Hill. This time she was holding the Infant Jesus. Several claim she called to them and they heard her, and that they saw her and the Child quite clearly, though the distance was at least three soccer fields away. Such a humble beginning augured what may be the most profound and important series of apparitions in history, for the Blessed Mother says this is her last apparition on earth in this way. Twenty-five years later she continues to appear daily to three of the original visionaries. She has given ten secrets that allegedly contain the final chapters in the history of the world. She states, according to the visionaries, that after the secrets are fulfilled, she will not need to come to earth again. The place of the apparitions, which have occurred daily since 1981, is fraught with a violent, bloodstained history that goes back at least one thousand years. It contains scars of such violence to this day. The Blessed Mother tells the visionaries: I am the Queen of Peace I am the Mother of God I am the Mother of All People on Earth They say she appears standing on a cloud wearing a gray dress, a white veil, and a crown of twelve stars. The cloud itself is significant in that never have the visionaries seen her feet or shoes. Her contact with the bloodstained earth is six young people who became the visionaries of Medjugorje: Mirjana Dragicevic Soldo, Ivanka Ivankovic Elez, Ivan Dragicevic, Marija Pavlovic Lunetti, Jacov Colo, and Vicka Ivankovic Mijatovic (no relation to Ivanka). Are these the last days? Does mankind stand on the abyss of self-extinction? Is that what the Blessed Mother comes to tell the world? The weapons for such a cataclysm exist. Kindergarten children have seen the means of their own global annihilation on the television screen as death and destruction have exploded for years in the Middle East. Yet the Blessed Mother calls herself the Queen of Peace. The visionaries say she is so beautiful that there are no words to describe her. They say she is ""pure love."" The appearance of ""pure love"" juxtaposed with a region so bloody produces a dramatic contrast. The area itself is harsh. The people, for the most part, give evidence in their demeanor of the lived memories of oppression and deprivation. Medjugorje means ""Between the Mountains,"" and so it is. Thousands of years ago the sea covered the valley that separates the ranges. Here in the poorest, most economically undeveloped region of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the earth itself is often stony and stingy. Though tobacco and grapes have been harvested since the Middle Ages, the crop yield is never abundant. Currency was in such short supply at the time of the first apparition that it was standard for the able-bodied men to labor as migrant workers in West Germany or Italy, while the women and children kept the fields and the animals.1 The hard currency the men were able to earn abroad bought cars and televisions, indoor bathrooms, and even washing machines. The great-grandmothers of the village still dress in the traditional black garb of widows, since most are indeed widows. World War II took its toll on the older men, and those who survived were often debilitated by excessively hard work and malnutrition. Assets that were desirable in Medjugorje, as recently as 1981, were sheep, cows, chickens, donkeys, and goats, which would wander over the dirt roads. The women and children tended the animals in this village of four hundred families, who live in small stucco houses with red roofs. Each has a little garden, but the land is rarely fertile. The great-grandfathers, who are the increasingly few survivors of World War II, find joy for the most part in rest. Many spend their summers sitting in the hot sun silently staring at life around them; in winter they sit by the woodstove or play cards and drink schnapps. And some do work in the fields. With growth and development of the shrine, fewer and fewer local homes lack modern equipment and heating. Farming is giving way to commerce. For seven hundred years, the people have had a Lenten tradition of fasting on only bread and water. This tradition dates back to the days when Saint Francis of Assisi sent his first group of missionaries to Herzegovina and on to Medjugorje. The church has been the center of village life ever since. Saint James Church is large, with twin towers. It holds about sixteen hundred people. Behind the church, across the fields, stands Cross Mountain, thirteen hundred meters high and dotted with fourteen Stations of the Cross erected along a rocky and treacherous path that culminates at the summit where a high, gray concrete cross was erected by the villagers in 1933. The concrete cross was constructed to commemorate the nineteen hundredth anniversary of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. There is a practical purpose to the cross. Since its erection, the devastating hailstorms that had bombarded the village, bringing destruction and death, have stopped. A popular legend in Medjugorje has it that Pope Pius XI had a dream in which an angel commanded him to have a high cross erected on Mount Sipovac. It is then by Pontifical Commission that Mount Sipovac became the recipient of the high cross built by the villagers, who changed not only the name of the mountain to Mount Krizevac (Cross Mountain) but the very course of their lives.2 Opposite Mount Krizevac is another, smaller mountain known as Podbrdo. This is where the Blessed Virgin Mary first appeared to two teenage girls as they walked along a dusty road in the area of Bijakovici. They were friends of long standing. Fifteen-year-old Ivanka Ivankovic lived in Mostar but spent summers with her grandparents in Bijakovici, where her family owned a small vineyard. Mirjana Dragicevic, sixteen, who lived in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, also spent summers with her grandmother in Bijakovici. On the feast day of Saint John the Baptist, June 24, 1981, a mysterious light hovered over the small mountain (Mount Podbrdo) in Medjugorje. In that brilliant light, the two teenagers saw a beautiful woman holding an infant whom she was uncovering to show to them. Incredulous, they heard her call to them. They fled in fear. The young girls talked to their friends, and a group of them returned to the foot of the mountain. There she was! They wondered if she could really be the Blessed Virgin Mary. They all ran away in terror. ""Why would she come here?"" the young people's families asked. ""You are not holy,"" someone thundered at Ivan, sixteen, who was in the group who saw. ""How dare you suggest you have seen the Mother of God! It's blasphemy!"" various members of the families challenged. Sixteen-year-old Vicka, also one of the group, has a mother who was more sympathetic. ""Did you really see the Virgin?"" she asked. Vicka was so certain that she said she was ready to die, if it should come to that, rather than deny the apparition. ""Maybe it's the devil. Sometimes he disguises himself as an angel of light to fool people,"" said Vicka's wise old grandmother. ""How would I know?"" asked Vicka. ""She was so beautiful! I know she was from heaven."" ""If you ever see her again, take holy water and throw it at the apparition. The devil can't stand holy water. Then you'll know for sure,"" Vicka's grandmother asserted. Soon everyone was talking.3 Vicka's neighbor Marinko gave Vicka and her friend Marija a ride to school the next morning. As they drove past the parish church of Saint James, Marija quietly said, ""Marinko, Vicka and some others saw the Blessed Mother last night."" Marinko laughed. ""Teenage girls and all their fantasies,"" he mumbled. ""Too early for jokes."" It was five a.m. Marinko's wife looked hard at Vicka, who was silent. For Vicka that was strange. She was known for her forthright, opinionated chatter. On June 25, 1981, Vicka seemed unaware of everybody in the car. Marinko's wife asked, ""Did you see the Blessed Virgin Mary, Vicka?"" Suddenly Vicka's eyes blazed. ""I did. It was the Blessed Mother. And she held the baby Jesus, too. She was showing Him to us."" Marinko had had enough. ""Who else was with you, Vicka?"" he asked. ""Ivanka and Mirjana and Milka [Marija's sister] and Ivan,"" Vicka said. ""Ivan Dragicevic?"" Marinko interrupted. ""Yes, Ivan Dragicevic,"" said Vicka. ""If Ivan says he saw the Virgin, I might believe you, Vicka,"" said Marinko. ""Ivan! Amazing, he's not the kind who would have fantasies like you foolish girls."" ""How I would love to be where the Blessed Mother is,"" Marija sighed. ""Just to be near her would be enough for me."" Vicka was quiet, pensive, lost in thought the rest of the road trip to C?it...	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christian living;comic strips;comics & graphic novels;devotionals;humor;humor & entertainment;inspirational;religion & spirituality;spirituality,12
0813014344,"Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast (Ripley P. Bullen Series) Kenneth E. Sassaman is archaeologist with the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, and instructor in the Department of History and Anthropology at Augusta College, Augusta, Georgia.  He is the author of Early Pottery in the Southeast: Tradition and Innovation in Cooking Technology.  David G. Anderson is archaeologist with the Southeast Archaeological Center, National Park Service, Tallahassee, Florida. He is the author of The Savannah River Chiefdoms: Political Change in the Late Prehistoric Southeast. They are coeditors of The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast.",americas;archaeology;books;history;native american;native american studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states;world,12
0205287743,"The Adjunct Professor's Guide to Success: Surviving and Thriving in the College Classroom In recent years, colleges and universities have markedly increased their employment of adjunct professors.  Unfortunately, many adjunct professors enter the classroom with little or no training in teaching and classroom management techniques and suffer frustrations which are painful to both themselves and their institutions!  This book provides the guidance and addresses the issues imperative to the adjunct professor.Each chapter addresses classroom survival issues with appropriate context and bulleted lists of ""Do's and Don'ts.""  The perspective of ""Through the Adjunct's Eyes,"" near the end of each chapter, shares common classroom successes and challenges.  ""Tips for Thriving,"" a bulleted review of key points and suggested additional readings, concludes each chapter.  The book concludes with chapters on self-evaluation and techniques for building a part-time career in academe.Anyone who is interested in how to begin their approach to teaching.	Richard E. Lyons, Ed.D., is the Senior Consultant with Faculty Development Associates, consulting with, and providing workshops to, institutions throughout North America.  He served as lead author on The Adjunct Professor's Guide to Success (Allyn and Bacon, 1999) and has written or edited numerous articles for popular journals.  Dr. Lyons also coordinates faculty development at Indian River Community College, where he previously served as Professor of Buisness Management, department chair, and instructional dean.",administration;books;college & university;education;education & reference;education theory;instruction methods;new;pedagogy;professional development;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,12
0521617944,"U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis ""Thanks to the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, the CIA, US Army, and FBI were required to declassify documents in their files dealing with Nazi war crimes and criminals during and after WWII. Richard Breitman, Norman J.W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, and Robert Wolfe have analyzed these files. The result is a fascinating series of essays...This volume will be an important addition to every collection dealing with WWII...Highly recommended."" -CHOICE, K. Eubank, emeritus, CUNY Queens College""One can only commend the authors for their diligence, thoroughness and erudition in undertaking what was obviously a daunting task. In working through this enormous quantity of material, they have rendered an invaluable service to other historians working on topics related to the Holocaust or the use by Allied intelligence services of Nazis as intelligence assets.... this sobering and illuminating volume does much to improve our understanding of both the Holocaust and U.S. intelligence during and after the war.""   - H-German, Devin O. Pendas, Department of History, Boston College""They have shown how historians and citizens can profit from even a long-delayed disclosure of important documents. Breitman, Goda, Naftali, and Wolfe have told an important but depressing story with skill and objectivity.  Scholars concerned with Nazi criminality and its sordid aftermath will long be in their debt."" - Robert E. Herzstein, University of South Carolina""Breitman, Goda, Naftali, and Wolfe have done the scholarly community a service by demonstarting the value of these newly available sources. The book--and the effort that produced it--offers a model for how primary sources records can inform both historical inquity and topics of current interest."" The International History Review Thomas G. Mahnken, Johns Hopkins University""[An] outstanding volume...a great deal to offer the serious Holocaust reader...This is heartily recommended to them. This is a volume which is an eye-opener, to say the least.""   Dr. Diane Cypkin, Martyrdom and Resistance	This book is a direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.  Drawing upon many  documents declassified under this law, the authors demonstrate what US intelligence agencies learned about Nazi crimes during World War II and about the nature of Nazi intelligence agencies' role in the Holocaust. At a time when intelligence successes and failures are at the center of public discussion, U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis also provides an unprecedented inside look at how intelligence agencies function during war and peacetime.	Richard Breitman, professor of history at American University, is the author or co-author of seven books and more than forty articles. One of his books, The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution, won the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History, and another, Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Holocaust Studies. Breitman serves as editor of the scholarly journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies.",20th century;americas;books;history;humanities;intelligence & espionage;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;united states;used & rental textbooks;world war ii,12
1887905049,"Across the Dark River: The Odyssey of the 56th N.C. Infantry in the American Civil War A superior effort by Mr. Ray that takes the reader/Civil War buff to the limits -- the feeling of sadness, frustration and empathy for the members of the 56th infantry during their times of turmoil; and, then the feeling of triumph at their victories--no matter how small or great. The book is replete with data regarding the Civil War era--and just plain ""fine reading.""(From the Quill, April 1998) The novel is ....very good at demonstrating the centrality of the war, even if only hazily remembered and barely understood, to the survivors' lives.  Its effects on their postwar behavior alienated some of them from their families long after they had gone home. So Across the Dark River has important historical lessons to teach. -- Appalachian Journal, Fall 1997	Must reading for Civil War enthusiasts. A quality blend of history and fiction that makes for powerful story telling, Mr. Ray's first novel quietly roars from beginning to end. -- Michael Rigsby Revere The realism, the authenticity captivated me. Across the Dark River is authentic in its details and fascinating in its story, its war psychology, and its characterization. I recommend it highly, and especially to those interested in the details of war, history, and the growth of the United States. -- John Foster West, Emeritus Professor of English, Appalachian State University Combining the research skills of the historian and the imagination of the story teller, Clyde Ray has written an evocative Civil War novel. . . . The reader becomes engrossed in camp life, leisure pursuits, battles, and the hopes and fears of the combatants. Ray succeeds in giving the Civil War a more human face. -- Max Williams, Professor of History, Western Carolina University	Ray, a teacher and author of several articles on Appalachian culture, lives in Sylva, North Carolina. He was born in Waynesville, North Carolina and holds a bachelor's degree from Western Carolina University and a Master's degree from East Tennessee State University.  He taught History, English, and Sociology in the public school system and at Southwestern Community College. He served for a number of years in an auxiliary branch of the National Guard.  Across the Dark River represents Ray's lifelong interest in the American Civil War and it took him well over ten years to research and write the book.  It is Ray's first novel.	The Battlefield: All day, the sun courses throughout heaven, its light sweeping steadily over the parked cars, the drifting lines of tourists, the kites floating high in the mid-summer sky. They do not last, they do not endure, such travelers as these.  They do not really belong there. It is the pines that belong there; the shadows in the forest belong there; the dead belong there; silence belongs there.",19th century;americas;books;civil war;genre fiction;historical;history;literature & fiction;military;regiments;united states;war,12
081301350X,"Lost Cities of the Ancient Southeast In 1492, America was not an empty wilderness, ripe for European annexation but rather a land of thriving cultural, religious, and commercial centers with complex societies and millions of inhabitants. O'Connor (Native American Art Studies Assn.) traces the rise, flowering, and decline of more than 20 of these lost centers of Mississippian culture, including Cahokia (Illinois), Etowah and Ocmulgee (Georgia), Calusa (Florida), and Town Creek (North Carolina), from 500 to 1500 A.D. The author's emphasis is on the art and architecture of Native American peoples, which reveal a highly developed culture destroyed by factors such as European conquest and modern looting. Her spare and lucid text is complemented by excellent photographs by Barbara Gibbs and architectural drawings by William Morgan. Well organized and visually appealing, this work should lead informed lay readers, as well as scholars, to their own discovery of America.Jamie S. Hansen, Univ. of South Carolina, ColumbiaCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.",americas;archaeology;arts & photography;books;ethnic & tribal;history;history & criticism;politics & social sciences;religious;state & local;united states;world,12
0231106505,"History in Three Keys Harvard historian Cohen presents a comprehensive and enlightening look at the Boxer Rebellion of 1898-1900, a bloody uprising in north China against native Christians and foreign missionaries. The rebellion resulted in a rescue by eight nations and then the conclusion of a peace treaty. Cohen offers excellent insight into the idiosyncratics of the Boxer movement, including its ideas, origins, rituals, and development. He successfully examines and discusses the uprising in terms of its historical narrative, the participants' experiences, and the literary myths to which it gave rise. Cohen also distinguishes between historians and mythologizers. A specialized, thorough, and well-researched book with good references, this is an excellent complement to Joseph Eshevick's The Origins of the Boxer Uprising (Univ. of California, 1987). Highly recommended for large public libraries and the East Asia collection of academic libraries.?Steven Lin, Dallas P.L., Tex.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	The most adventurous writing on modern Chinese history currently available. (History)An extraordinary book. It is breathtaking, bold in concept, innovative in methodology, provocative at times, and eminently readable. (Edmund S. K. Fung Asian Studies Review)Cohen offers excellent insight into the idiosyncratics of the Boxer movement, including its ideas, origins, rituals, and development.... Highly recommended. (Library Journal)	Cohen pares the overlays of historical accounts of the Boxers down to their constituent parts as myth and lived experience. The book is eminently readable, ideally suited both to the general reader and to the college teacher seeking to deepen students'understanding of the currents in modern Chinese history. (Jonathan Spence, Yale University)	Paul A. Cohen is Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and History at Wellesley College and an associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University. His publications include the award-winning  Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past (Columbia).",19th century;asia;books;china;europe;historical study & educational resources;historiography;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;used & rental textbooks,12
0910818584,"Spice of Torah-Gematria Text: English, Hebrew",books;christian books & bibles;education & reference;humanities;judaism;new;reference;religion & spirituality;religious studies;sacred writings;torah;used & rental textbooks,12
B000FOT5QQ,"Aircraft Accident Analysis: Final Reports ""I thought it was a terrific treatment of the crash  investigation issue.  It should be required reading for people who fly  planes and cover aviation accidents."" -- Carl Rochelle, CNN CorrespondentSumwalt and Walters do an excellent job of plucking out the important  facts [from the NTSB reports] and presenting them in a much shorter  format. -- Aviation International News, July 2000	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Fascinating and factual accounts of the worlds most recent    and compelling crashes        Industry insiders James Walters and Robert Sumwalt, trained aviation accident investigators and commercial airline pilots, offer expert analyses of notable and recent aircraft accidents in this eye-opening, lesson-filled case file.  Culled from final reports issued by military and foreign government investigations, as well as additional research and resources, Aircraft Accident Analysis tells the final and full tales of doomed flights that stopped the world cold in their wake.        Technical accuracy and details, presented in laymans language, help to clarify:         Major accidents from commercial, military, and general aviation flights     Pilot backgrounds and flight histories     Chronology of events leading to each accident     Description of aviation investigation process     Insight into NTSB, military, and foreign government findings     Resulting recommendations, requirements, and policy changes         Preview summaries of accidents too recent for final reports are also highlighted.        Readable, authoritative, and complete, Aircraft Accident Analysis: Final Reports is at once an important reference tool and a riveting, what-went-wrong look at air safety for everyone who flies.        Featured final and preview reports include:        U.S. Air Force, U.S Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, Dubrovnik, Croatia    Jessica Dubroff, Cheyenne, Wyoming    Valujet Airlines 592, Everglades, Florida    American Airlines 955, Cali, Columbia    John Denver, Pacific Grove, California    Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Carrollton, Georgia    US Air 427, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania    TWA 800, Long Island, New York    Delta Air Lines, LaGuardia Airport, New York    John F. Kennedy, Jr., Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",aerospace;aviation;books;commercial;engineering;fitness & dieting;health;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;professional & technical;safety & first aid;transportation,12
081083636X,"Health Professionals on Screen This book will be helpful to anyone researching the media image of health care professionals. (Communication Booknotes Quarterly )Recommended for large academic library collections. (Medical Reference Services Quarterly )	Ann Paietta is Director of Research and Development at The Dependent Care Connection in Westport, Connecticut. She has held library positions at The New York Academy of Medicine, Yale University and the University of Illinois. Jean Kauppila is an administrative assistant at Yale University and a culinary student. They also collaborated on Animals on Screen and Radio.",books;education & reference;film & television;history & criticism;humanities;humor & entertainment;movies;new;performing arts;reference;television;used & rental textbooks,12
0849944228,"Hearts of Fire: Eight Women in the Underground Church and Their Stories of Costly Faith The Voice of the Martyrs is a nonprofit, interdenominational organization dedicated to assisting the persecuted church worldwide.  VOM was founded in 1967 by Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, who was imprisoned in Communist Romania for fourteen years for his faith in Jesus Christ.  Today, Tom White, the current director of VOM, spreads the message of the persecuted church and sends help to them through a network of international offices.  VOM is located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and can be found at www.persecution.com.",biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;education & reference;evangelism;leaders & notable people;missions & missionary work;religion & spirituality;religious;specific groups;women,12
0761516786,"Hands On Visual InterDev 6 If you're the type that likes to dive right in rather than get  your feet wet, Hands on Visual InterDev 6 uses a series of  three concrete projects to get you up to speed with this important Web  development tool.  In the first two chapters, author Sharon Podlin  presents a quick overview of InterDev's features and the many  important features of the integrated development environment. The  first project--developing a resort travel site--introduces you to the  basics. The author walks you through the process of gathering content,  creating a new Web project, formatting pages, working with themes, and  expanding the site. While this approach accelerates learning, you'll  need to do some experimenting of your own to fully round out your  expertise. After the basics, you'll be shown how to create a  database-driven project. You'll learn how to connect to Microsoft SQL  Server, construct queries, work with data-bound controls, connect to  other Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) sources, and write some  VBScript code. The final project illustrates how to work in a  multideveloper corporate environment. It introduces Visual SourceSafe  version-control software, security levels, multimedia, and other  advanced features. This title offers a fine first taste of this  powerful development tool, but it is strictly focused on the features  of InterDev. Once you've used it to learn the product, you'll be ready  to look elsewhere for references on bigger-picture topics, such as  overall Web design and promotion. --Stephen Plain",books;computers & technology;database design;databases;games & strategy guides;home computing & how-to;microsoft;networking;programming;web design;web development & design;web services,12
0743550757,"Chinese (Mandarin), Basic: Learn to Speak and Understand Mandarin Chinese with Pimsleur Language Programs (Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur) ""Pimsleur programs provide plenty of positive reinforcement that will keep learners on track, and we found that Pimsleur gave us more proficiency and confidence in speaking the new language than any of the other language programs we reviewed.""-- AudioFile Magazine""EXTREMELY ACCESSIBLE...each section within the lessons is short enough to hold our attention, and there is enough repetition to teach even those who consider themselves slow learners...Pimsleur [programs] are extremely thorough and easy to use -- quite lively!""-- Boston Herald""Learn French while commuting, German while jogging, Spanish (or Russian, Italian, and Japanese) while cooking all with NO WRITTEN MATERIALS!""-- New York Daily News""Designed for the ear and not the eye...the lessons provide PERFECT 30-minute bites of work.""-- St Louis Post-Dispatch""Learn to habla espaol or parlez franais before your next trip aboard. The interactive LESSONS CHALLENGE STUDENTS to use new words in conversation instead of memorize them.""-- American Way (American Airlines inflight magazine)""I tried other language programs with little success...This is the best by far!""-- Pamela A. Mitchell, Pilot, International Society of Women Airline Pilots	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Dr. Paul Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and testing and was one of the worlds leading experts in applied linguistics. After years of experience and research, Dr. Pimsleur developed The Pimsleur Method based on two key principles: the Principle of Anticipation and a scientific principle of memory training that he called Graduated Interval Recall. This Method has been applied to the many levels and languages of the Pimsleur Programs.",books;chinese;computers & technology;education & reference;foreign languages;humanities;introductory & beginning;new;politics & social sciences;programming;reference;used & rental textbooks,12
0679427449,"The Face of Mercy: A Photographic History of Medicine at War This volume brings together 230 photographs from archives located in 14 countries and representing photographers both famous (Matthew Brady, W. Eugene Smith) and unknown (the Japanese who documented the innovative medical service of the Russo-Japanese War). Sherwin Nulan (surgery, Yale) outlines the historical development of military medicine from classical times to the contemporary wars in Somalia and Croatia. A powerful prolog contributed by William Styron; excellent essays, including pieces by Ward Just and Martha Gellhorn; and excerpts from the literature, letters, and diaries of soldiers and medical workers enhance the impact of the photographs. The troubling double vision of humanity's urge to destroy through ever crueler wars and its opposing bravery, compassion, and intelligence striving to heal war's victims is passionately presented. Honoring the doctors, medics, and nurses who tend the wounded, this book is also a tribute to the war photographers who bore eloquent witness to suffering and heroism. Highly recommended to historical and photographic collections as well as to medical libraries.- Kathy Arsenault, Univ. of South Florida-St. Petersburg Lib.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	A stunning and unforgettable portrait in words and picture of war's searing aftermath and the struggle to save lives.",arts & photography;books;communicable diseases;history;infectious disease;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;military;photography;photojournalism;pictorials,12
0517882566,"The Pope Encyclopedia: An A to Z of the Holy See The author of The Vampire Encyclopedia (Crown, 1993) covers the papacy in more than 2000 alphabetized entries, from ""Academy of Sciences, Pontifical,"" to ""Zuchetto."" Special topics such as assassinated pontiffs and papal quotations are given full-page treatment, and the text is supplemented by black-and-white photographs and appendixes consisting of a chronological list of popes, the role of the Roman Curia, and descriptions of Vatican museums. Some entries read as if they were lifted from the Oxford Dictionary of Popes (LJ 9/15/86), while others are laced with inane comments, e.g., Gregory XIV brought ""relief to the Romans from the chronic outbreaks of unrest, famine, and plague. He also passed a decree forbidding all betting on papal elections."" There are factual inconsistencies; spelling and grammatical and logical errors; arbitrary entries (""Christmas"" but not ""Simony,"" ""Great Western Schism"" listed as ""Schism, Great Western"" leads to ""Western Schism, Great,"" which merely cites nine other entries). A good Catholic almanac and a papal dictionary are preferred as sources of accurate information. Not recommended.?Nancy M. Laskowski, Free Lib. of PhiladelphiaCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Containing more than 2,000 entries in handy alphabetical format, this provocative, illustrated book explores the whole lively and entertaining history of the Vatican and its rulers.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;education & reference;encyclopedias;europe;history;popes;religion;religion & spirituality;theology;vatican,12
0764318209,"Hull Pottery: Decades of Design (Schiffer Book for Collectors) Jeffrey B. Snyder is an experienced author, editor, and collector who lives in southeastern Pennsylvania.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",20th century;antiques & collectibles;arts & photography;books;ceramics;crafts;crafts & hobbies;history;hobbies & home;modern (16th-21st centuries);other media;pottery & ceramics,12
1841694258,"Creativity and the Brain ""Recommended to all college-level libraries for its long-term reference value in multiple disciplines -- including Psychology and Neurology. Further recommended to Psychology instructors as a primary text for all courses that examine how the mind develops the individual..""-John Aiello, The Electric Review	Kenneth M. Heilman received his M.D. degree from the University of Virginia in 1963. He joined the faculty at the University of Florida in 1970 and was promoted to Professor in 1975.  He received an endowed chair in 1990, making him the first James E. Rooks, Jr. Professor of Neurology.  In 1998, he was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor.  He is also a Professor of Clinical and Health Psychology.  He is the author or co-author nine texts, and has a total of more than 400 chapters and articles in peer reviewed journals. He is a past President of the International Neuropsychology Society and the Society for Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology. This latter organization also gave him the ""Outstanding Achievement Award"" for his research and educational contributions to Neurology.",behavioral sciences;books;chemistry;cognitive psychology;creativity & genius;fitness & dieting;general & reference;health;mental health;neuropsychology;psychology & counseling;science & math,12
1899233083,"The Complete Yurt Handbook Paul King lives and works in the English county of Somerset where he has established a reputation for building fine yurts. Over the years, he has run many courses in yurt building, passing on his skills to many others. To research this book he traveled extensively in Mongolia.",architecture;books;buildings;crafts;drafting & presentation;education & reference;gardening & landscape design;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;outdoor & recreational areas;professional & technical,12
041511909X,"Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks) 'This is a quite outstanding introduction to the Critique ... It will help students not only to study the Critique, but also to see why it is so worth studying ... deserves to find itself, and pretty certainly will find itself, at the very top of the reading list for any course on the Critique.' -  The Philosophical Quarterly'In his clear and well-organized book, Gardner succeeds in providing a charitable and compelling reading of the most important sections of Kant's text, while also offering fresh and lucid interpretations of Kant's most provocative arguments. The result is an invaluable companion to the Critique that helpfully illuminates a notoriously opaque work ... Gardner's book is an invaluable resource for any student of Kant and, thus, for any student or teacher of philosophy.' - MindThe major virtues of Gardner's book are clarity, accuracy, and its focus on the key concepts and arguments of Kant's notoriously complex work. Both serious students and Kant scholars will benefit greatly from Gardner's contribution. - Philosophical Books	Sebastian Gardner is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of London. He is the author of  Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (1993).",books;consciousness & thought;education & reference;epistemology;history & surveys;humanities;modern;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;reference;used & rental textbooks,12
0393318966,"Triathloning for Ordinary Mortals Deciding to enter your first triathlon is a heady moment--you're ready for the challenge of a swim-bike-run race and pumped to get your body training. Chances are, though, that you're experienced in only one, maybe two of the sports. How do you incorporate the others? What kind of equipment do you need? How often should you be practicing each sport? And what if you're a complete novice, a wanna-be athlete who has not done any of the sports, and you want to enter a triathlon to motivate yourself to get into shape and improve your outlook? Steven Jones, M.D., a professor of preventive medicine and a successful triathlete, has all the answers and reassurances you'll need in his down-to-earth book, updated in 1999, Triathloning for Ordinary Mortals.  As he says in his preface, his book is for the person ""who wants to engage in a new and different athletic experience without turning the rest of his or her life upside down in the process and wants to have fun doing so."" Focusing on the ""marathon-equivalent"" triathlon, which is a 1.5-kilometer swim, a 40-kilometer bike, and a 10-kilometer run (although he does have a brief chapter called ""Doing the Duathlon and Going Long""), Jonas helps you decide if a triathlon is right for you, gives his own personal history of how he went from a nonathlete to a racer, and advises on how to pick your first race.  From there, he discusses techniques, the basic principles of training, and how to establish your ""aerobic base,"" the basic level of fitness (especially important for nonexercisers) you need before approaching his ""Triathloning for Ordinary Mortals Training Program,"" a five-hour-a-week, 13-week program to train you for your race. Also covered in the manual is equipment and nutrition. Jonas's style of writing is accessible to the layperson--he doesn't burden you with technical terms or complicated zones or training levels. He even goes through an entire race with you, from the night before to putting air in your bike tires through the actual events right up to the aftermath of the race. The terrific appendix includes diagrams of stretches. While this isn't the book for a seasoned runner looking to improve his overall time, this is the ideal book to provide guidance and encouragement for newbies to the sport. Reading just a few chapters will have you itching to start racing. --Jenny Brown	This is a book of personal opinions and experiences from a self-proclaimed ""back of the middle of the pack"" athlete. While Jonas does present basic triathlon information on swimming, bicycling, and running and very good bibliographies on these topics, most of the book is a personal account of his training and racing. Readers would be better served by Sally Edwards's Triathlon: a triple fitness sport (Contemporary Bks., 1983) or Paul Perry's Complete Book of the Triathlon ( LJ 10/1/83). Both books are much better at describing the event and preparing the competitor. (Illustrations not seen.) Thomas K. Fry, UCLA Libs.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Dr. Steven Jonas is professor of community and preventive medicine in the School of Medicine of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and vice-chairman of the American Medical Triathlon Association.",aerobics;books;education & reference;exercise & fitness;fitness & dieting;health;individual sports;miscellaneous;reference;sports & outdoors;triathlon;triathlons,12
0803945825,"Improving Survey Questions: Design and Evaluation (Applied Social Research Methods) Floyd J. Fowler Jr. is a graduate of Wesleyan University and received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1966. He has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Survey Research at UMASS Boston since 1971. He was Director of the Center for 14 years. Dr. Fowler is the author (or co-author) of four text books on survey methods, as well as numerous research papers and monographs. His recent work has focused on studies of question design and evaluation techniques and applying survey methods to studies of medical care.",books;education & reference;methodology;new;politics & social sciences;reference;research;research & publishing guides;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;writing,12
0520228294,"Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity ""Wegner demonstrates a wide-ranging yet lighthanded philosophical learnedness, an urgent political conscience, and a deeply historical sense that narrative utopias are like specters that haunt particular moments of upheaval, crisis, and contradiction within modernity: whether the threshold between the vestiges of feudal agrarian society and early modern English capitalism, conflicts between the new oligarchy of industrializing late nineteenth-century United States and the increasing militancy of the labor movement, the uneven successes and failures of the Russian Revolution of 1905, or the mid-century Cold War struggles.""-Lisa Lowe, author of immigrant Acts; ""Insightful and provocative.... A valuable contribution to our thinking about the politics of imagination.""-Daniel Cottom, author of Cannibals and Philosophies	""Imaginary Communities is a beautiful treatment of utopian narratives as the quintessential genre for figuring social space in the modern nation-state.  Wegner demonstrates a wide-ranging yet lighthanded philosophical learnedness, an urgent political conscience, and a deeply historical sense that narrative utopias are like specters that haunt particular moments of upheaval, crisis, and contradiction within modernity: whether the threshold between the vestiges of feudal agrarian society and early modern English capitalism, conflicts between the new oligarchy of industrializing late 19th c. United States and the increasing militancy of the labor movement, the uneven successes and failures of the Russian Revolution of 1905, or the mid-century Cold War struggles.""Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics""In this important book, Wegner argues that the historical work done by utopian narratives should be reconsidered, interrogated, challengedand continued.  Insightful and provocative, Imaginary Communities will prove a valuable contribution to our thinking about the politics of imagination.""Daniel Cottom, author of Cannibals and Philosophers: Bodies of Enlightenment""Phillip Wegner's Imaginary Communities represents a major intervention in our understanding not merely of utopian literature, but the very ways in which we view our world.  His concept of utopian narrative as both vision and practice, as participating in ""real"" worlds,  a force for change rooted in the social world ""as it is"" and as it is becoming and is ""imagined,"" succeeds wonderfully well; his notion of the imperative of ""failure"" as a resource of hope is deeply humane.  He provides a body of work worth thinking through and thinking with.  As a historian, I find the historicity of his approach, the literary arch spanning from the origins of the European nation-state to our global present and future, compelling in its ambition and execution.  Wegner moves well beyond the more tired moves of ""new historicist"" literary criticism: this is historicist scholarship in a new key.""James Epstein, author of Radical Expression: Political Language, Ritual, and Symbol in England, 1790-1850	""Wegner demonstrates a wide-ranging yet lighthanded philosophical learnedness, an urgent political conscience, and a deeply historical sense that narrative utopias are like specters that haunt particular moments of upheaval, crisis, and contradiction within modernity: whether the threshold between the vestiges of feudal agrarian society and early modern English capitalism, conflicts between the new oligarchy of industrializing late nineteenth-century United States and the increasing militancy of the labor movement, the uneven successes and failures of the Russian Revolution of 1905, or the mid-century Cold War struggles.""-Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts ""Insightful and provocative . . . . A valuable contribution to our thinking about the politics of imagination.""-Daniel Cottom, author of Cannibals and Philosophies	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Phillip E. Wegner is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida.",books;classics;criticism & theory;history & criticism;humanities;literary theory;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;united states;used & rental textbooks,12
0764508911,"Quicken 2002 For Dummies Maximize investments, minimize taxes, and manage your billsGet up and running with online banking and investingMake the most of Quicken and save time and money Want to pay bills, track investments, and calculate interest with the click of a mouse? With this friendly guide and Quicken 2002, it's all possible. Covering everything from program basics to the latest online enhancements, CPA Stephen Nelson shows you step by step how to get a handle on Quicken - and manage your money like a pro.Discover how to: Balance your checkbook online Track investment performance Calculate interest on mortgages or loans Plan for retirement or a child's education Prepare for tax timeThe Dummies Way(TM) Explanations in plain English ""Get in, get out"" information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A dash of humor and funGet smart! www.dummies.com Sign up for daily eTips at www.dummiesdaily.com Choose from among 33 different subject categories Get news you can use on everything from money to health to computers	Stephen L. Nelson, MBA, CPA, is the bestselling author of more than 70 books on computer and business topics, including all the previous For Dummies books on Quicken.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business;business & finance;computer science;computers & technology;new;personal finance;professional & technical;software;used & rental textbooks,12
041591860X,"Symptoms of Culture Culture is all around us: television, video games, Shakespeare, advertisements, books, musical recordings, news reports, even the packaging of food items. The pervasiveness of culture, however, is matched by the pervasiveness of anxiety about our position in it: Who are we? What are we? According to Marjorie Garber, one of America's most astute and imaginative social commentators, culture and anxiety are so intertwined as to be inseparable.   We are, Garber argues, what we consume culturally--even if it doesn't always agree with us. Garber's approach to culture is eclectic: she veers from Charlotte's Web to Jell-O boxes, from Sir Laurence Olivier's bisexuality to the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings. Yet her aim remains unwavering throughout. Far more interested in what a piece of culture means than in discussing good and bad culture, she sifts and sorts through the artifacts of everyday life attempting to find meaning and sense in the midst of chaos.   Garber's greatest source of strength as a critic, however, is her acknowledgment that culture is so multifaceted and meaningful that her efforts are ultimately, by intention and necessity, tentative and elusive. Full explanations would only serve to destroy culture's fun and energy. With grace and humor, Symptoms of Culture takes an insightful, invigorating look at the amazingly complicated thing we call culture and explains it all--well, not quite all--to us. --Michael Bronski 	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Marjorie Garber seems like the ideal dinner guest.All of these essays,] without exception, [are] exercises in dazzling literary pyrotechnics, full of fascinating facts, trenchant opinions, and unconventional connections. Garber's range is wider and her style discursive. [S]he invests words with almost magical powers, delighting in the odd coincidences between words employed in radically different contexts. The result is a series of witty, intelligent, and always readable essays that enhance Garber's position as a leading cultural critic of the byways of contemporary American popular culture.Australasian Journal of American Studies	Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard. Among her books are Vested Interests, Coming of Age in Shakespeare, and Shakespeare's Ghost Writers, all available from Routledge.",art;books;communication & journalism;communication & media studies;humor & entertainment;media studies;new;politics & social sciences;pop culture;popular culture;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0762738626,"100 Best Cruise Vacations, 4th (100 Best Series) ""From historic tall ships to river cruisers, Ted Scull tells you where to find the unique cruises that make lifelong memories. His research and presentation are first-rate.""--Steve Blount, Caribbean Travel  Life"". . . both the perfect companion for armchair travelers dreaming of a cruise and the ideal guidebook for active cruisers planning their next voyage.""--Charles Doherty, Cruise Travel magazine	With hundreds of cruises available worldwide, choosing the right one for your budget and taste can be a daunting experience. Cruise travel expert Ted Scull leads the way to the best, but not necessarily the most expensive, cruises all over the world. Clipper ships sailing the Mediterranean, expedition-style cruising in the Upper Amazon, megaships traveling among the Caribbean islands, or stately luxury liners traversing the Atlanticthis authoritative guide has it all.Look inside for:Detailed cruise itinerariesFare information and listings of what isand what is notincludedShip amenities, cabins, atmosphere, and activitiesPort information, including what to see and doTypical passenger profiles	Theodore W. Scull is a New York-based travel writer and a regular contributor to Cruise Travel magazine. He also writes for other cruise industry publications, U.S. and British newspaper travel sections, and cruise-related Web sites. He lectures frequently on travel and maritime subjects and is the author of seven books on travel, transportation, and New York. He has spent more than four years at sea.",books;consumer guides;cruises;education & reference;food;lodging & transportation;professional & technical;road travel;ships;specialty travel;transportation;travel,12
0801429730,Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America Text: English (translation)  Original Language: German,americas;arts & photography;books;earth-based religions;history;history & criticism;native american;native american studies;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;social sciences;specific demographics,12
0670035270,"Busy, Busy Mouse PreSchool-Bold, captivating illustrations and a brief text tell two stories simultaneously. While two active youngsters and their parents spend the day eating, playing, and having a good time, a little mouse has a snack, gets ready for bed, and goes to sleep. Just as the children are reading stories and easing into bedtime, the mouse is waking up and making preparations for a busy night. Kroll's staccato rhyming phrases keep the action moving along: ""Baby crying./Eggs frying./Clay smashing./Blocks bashing."" While the family's activities are depicted on full pages, the mouse scenes are cleverly shown as if viewed through a peephole in the wall. Kosaka's lively illustrations are the showpiece of this simple tale. Linnea Riley's Mouse Mess (Scholastic, 1997) has the same theme but more humor, and Denise Fleming's Lunch (Holt, 1995) is always a crowd pleaser. For the more sophisticated mouse lover, try the timeless allure of Eve Titus's Anatole.Be Astengo, Alachua County Library, Gainesville, FLCopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This is Virginia Kroll's first book for Viking.   Fumi Kosaka is also the illustrator of Let's Count the Raindrops.",animals;books;children's books;guinea pigs & squirrels;hamsters;health;mice;nature & how it works;personal hygiene;science;sleep;social situations,12
159658016X,"Brigham Young University: Off the Record (College Prowler) The new kid on the block when it comes to student-to-student assessments of college campuses. -- Benjamin Gilbert, Washington Post, April 27, 2004The prospective college student's antidote to the Princeton Review doldrums. -- Melissa Kaplan, Boston Globe, May 23, 2004The real lowdown on campus life. -- Laura Randall and Kimetris N. Baltrip, New York Times, January 18, 2004",books;college & university;college entrance;college guides;counseling;education;education & reference;new;schools & teaching;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks,12
0873373790,"The Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business: Legal Forms (Vol 2 of Edition 3) Attorney Fred S. Steingold's Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business: Volume 2, Legal Forms, is a comprehensive self-help manual in the useful tradition of its predecessors from Nolo Press. In support of the cardinal rule for all corporate agreements--get it in writing--the book and an accompanying PC disk contain contract blanks for forming and operating a business, borrowing money, leasing space, buying and selling goods, hiring employees, and more. Helpful tips, valuable cautions, worthwhile suggestions, and references for additional information are also sprinkled throughout the book as appropriate.	Nolo is always there in a jam as the nation's premier publisher of do-it-yourself legal books.  -- Newsweek	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Attorney Fred S. Steingold practices law in Ann Arbor, Michigan. An expert on small business law, he represents and advises many small businesses and frequently leads seminars on how to start and run small businesses. He is also the author of Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business and The Employers Legal Handbook. His monthly column, The Legal Advisor, is carried by trade publications around the country.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Nolo publications guide people simply through the how, when, where and why of the law.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business;business & finance;business & investing;business law;civil procedure;franchising;law;new;rules & procedures;small business & entrepreneurship;used & rental textbooks,12
0078824036,"Office 97 Answers! Certified Tech Support Office 97 Answers! Certified Tech Support provides an  alphabetical list of over 400 common questions and problems that  Microsoft Office 97 users may confront. Many of these questions, such  as ""What is the difference between appointments, meetings, and  events?"" in Outlook or ""How do I select certain records from  my database?"" in Access, provide task-oriented mini-tutorials  that will extend your Office 97 skills. Throughout the guide,  questions are well chosen and the technical quality is excellent.  The indexes, which will make or break a volume of this type, are also  very detailed. In addition to a lengthy standard index, there's also  an ""Action Index"" that lets you quickly find how to execute  common Office 97 tasks. Overall, with its appealing format and solid  content, this book meets the authors' goal of providing a help desk in  a book.	office 97 Answers! Certified Tech Support. A Whole Book of Office 97 Answers for Less Than the Price of One Support Call! Question: Why pay 30, 100, 150, or even more for one phone call to tech support when you can have ALL the tech support answers at your fingertips for under 25? Answer: There's no reason to spend wads of money on tech support when this valuable, reader-friendly book gives you over 400 answers to the most commonly asked Office 97 questions, fresh from the databases of Stream International--the world's largest third-party tech support organization. Have a question abot Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, or Outlook 97? Need solutions for dealing with Office 97's new Web features or its product integration capabilities? Inside, you'll find quick, to-the-point answers that help you solve most every Office 97 problem at a glance. Whether your question is simple or complex, you'll have the expertise of Stream's 4,000 technical support professionals on your side as you: Locate the answer you need in mere seconds! Inside are over 400 expert answers--based on actual tech support calls--arranged alphabetically and by key term for fast access. Discover the answers to the ten most frequently asked questions about using Office 97. Sharpen your Office 97 skills more quickly than you can sharpen a pencil--sidebars, tips, warnings, and time-saving tricks show you how. Preview chapters easily using the quick, at-a-glance descriptions. Find help--fast! An exceptionally comprehensive and completely cross-referenced index points your way.",books;business;certification;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;mathematics;microsoft;office;operating systems;science & math;software,12
1860463428,"Burning the Days 'It is years since I read a sharper, more arresting autobiography' Spectator 'A stylish and moving account of his various incarnations as a fighter pilot, rock climber, screenwriter and novelist ... written in the heroic language of an American memoir' New Statesman 'He has written three books that everyone should read before they die: A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years and his recollections, Burning the Days' Independent 'A masterwork of memory, deeply impressive and deeply moving' Time Out	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	James Salter is the author of the novels Solo Faces, Light Years, A Sport and a Pastime, The Arm of Flesh (revised as Cassada), and The Hunters; the memoirs Gods of Tin and Burning the Days; and two collections of short stories, Dusk and Other Stories (which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award), and Last Night. He lives in Colorado and on Long Island.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",american literature;biographies & memoirs;books;european;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;used & rental textbooks;world literature,12
0061013773,"Kobe: The Story of the NBA's Rising Young Star Kobe Bryant ""A star is born; his name is Kobe."" -- -- Los Angeles Times""The kid is real good and I see a lot of myself in him, no doubt about it."" -- -- Michael Jordan""Every day Kobe comes to practice is a highlight film."" -- All-Star Eddie Jones, L.A. Lakers""The kid is real good and I see a lot of myself in him, no doubt about it."" -- Michael Jordan	An award-winning journalist and bestselling author, Joe Layden has written more than thirty books, including The Last Great Fight, which was named one of the best sports books of 2007 by Sports Illustrated and the American Library Association. He is also the co-author of the New York Times bestsellers There and Back Again and The Rock Says. . . . He lives in upstate New York.",( b );a-z;basketball;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;bryant;children's books;ethnic & national;kobe;people;sports & outdoors,12
0895264064,"Unlimited Access : An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House By now the whory notion of doing a tell-all book about your boss, the President, is a hoary one too. (It dates back to Ike, who got the treatment from one of his doctors.)  But with this book, the Clinton administration breaks new ground by being on the receiving end of a kiss-and-sell from a member of the White House security staff.  Aldrich was an FBI agent assigned to the White House under both Bush and Clinton who, as this book makes clear, didn't think the changeover was progress. He mostly fixes on anthropological differences: the Bush staffers were neat and straight, the Clintonites were sloppy and had kinky work- shift sex a stone's throw from the Oval Office. Who knows if it's true? Who knows if Aldrich was debating between this and other more devastating forms of revenge available to a presidential guard?  	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Aldrich, who spent 30 years with the FBI, the last five as an agent responsible for background checks on White House staff, does not earn much sympathy with this ear-to-the-gutter expose of the Clinton administration. Other books, such as Roger Morris's Partners in Power (LJ 8/96) and Meredith Oakley's On the Make (LJ 7/94), detail the rudeness of the Clintons and the people that surround them, but Aldrich lashes back at the lack of cooperation he received with repetitive character assaults, allegations, and blanket condemnations. Former White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum is a ""short, pushy, dissembling New York lawyer."" Vincent Foster, with whom Aldrich had some contact, was not likely depressed because Aldrich didn't notice it. (Neither did Foster's best friends, including the Clintons). Hillary Clinton, ""Mrs. President,"" was in charge of all hiring and preferred ""tough...lesbian women...and gay men."" The book concludes with the background investigation of the Clintons that Aldrich would have submitted had he been given the opportunity. Not surprisingly, it concludes that the Clintons are not fit for the White House. Not recommended.?Karl Helicher, Upper Merion Twp. Lib., King of Prussia, Pa.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Pure political dynamite! --Jack Anderson	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.	GARY ALDRICH worked for the FBI for more than 30 years, 25 as Special Agent. Specializing in white-collar crime, especially fraud and political corruption, he also pursued drug dealers and mobsters, and was at the shoot-out with the Symbionese Liberation Army (kidnappers of Patty Hearst). For the last five years of his distinguished career he was one of two FBI agents assigned to the White House, responsible for performing background checks on White House personnel. He retired in 1995.	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.	This expos of the Clinton White House by an FBI agent assigned to perform background investigations of White House staff makes strong and sometimes shocking allegations about the outlandish behavior of the Clintons and their cohorts.  While incidents presented are sometimes sensational, the reading often is not.  The staccato pace, tone of contempt for the Clintons and lack of vocal characterization, make the book sound as if it's being read by the author, a by-the-book G-man. These criticisms aside, the work is read clearly, and the production quality is good.  M.C. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",20th century;americas;books;communication & media studies;executive branch;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;united states;world,12
B00023AZUK,"Datexx 215WTLG Worldtime Calculator with Leather Mousepad,Gel Wrist-rest It's a mouse pad, calculator, clock, and the perfect gift! This Datexx MouseStation mouse pad is made of rich, genuine leather and delivers a precision mousing surface. Features a large LCD display; an ergonomic silicone gel wrist-rest; full-function, 12-digit business calculator; month/date/year/temperature display; and a time monitor for 16 cities with integrated timer and alarm settings. Imported. 7-1/5Wx11L""",accessories & supplies;basic;calculator accessories;calculators;desk accessories & workspace organizers;electronics;mouse pads;mouse pads & wrist rests;office & school supplies;office electronics;office electronics accessories;office products,12
1932462201,"Don D. Jackson: Selected Essays at the Dawn of an Era Wendel A. Ray, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow and former director of MRI, where he has served as a research associate and director of their Don D. Jackson Archive since the late 1980s. Dr. Ray is professor of family therapy at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He conducts trainings internationally and nationally on a variety topics, including brief therapy of adolescent substance abuse, ADHD, and family violence. Published widely, Dr. Ray also lectures regularly on the contributions of Gregory Bateson as well as Jackson.",books;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;mental health;psychiatry;psychology & counseling;psychotherapy;schizophrenia;ta & nlp,12
0195084373,"The Society of the Muslim Brothers ""Very much enjoyed this book.  It should do my students quite well.""--John P. Dunn, Florida State University""This is an excellent study of Islamic revivalism.  It is timeless, and will benefit both students and scholars.  Many young scholars and libraries have not had access to this book, and this reprinting will allow Mitchell to be of even more direct influence on Egyptian studies and the study of Islamic revivalism.""--Vali Nasr, University of San Diego""Richard Mitchell's book was one of the first serious studies of what it is now customary to call the 'resurgence of Islam' and it still remains one of the best....It helps us to understand why they have survived so many changes of fortune and are still a powerful force in Egypt and other Muslim countries.""--Albert Hourani""The Society of the Muslim Brothers is a major seminal work that remains the standard history of the early Muslim Brotherhood. Essential reading for understanding the growth of contemporary Islamic movements across the Muslim world.""--John Esposito, Georgetown University	Richard P. Mitchell is at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.",20th century;books;history;humanities;islam;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;used & rental textbooks;world,12
0330372815,"Mother Tongues: Travels Through Tribal Europe 'This is a hugely ambitious project, a mix of anthropology, history, politics and travelogue, but Drysdale brings it off brilliantly... If you still have doubts about the relevance of travel writing in the 21st century, this book will satisfy them' SUNDAY TIMES	Helena Drysdale is the author of three other highly acclaimed travel books: Alone Through China and Tibet, Dancing with the Dead and Looking for George, which was shortlisted for the Esquire/Apple/Waterstone's Non-Fiction Award and the J. R. Ackerley Award for Autobiography. She currently lives in London.",anthropology;books;cultural;education & reference;minority studies;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;social sciences;specific demographics;travel;travel writing;writing,12
0942777158,"Angkor Life Stephen O. Murray earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Toronto and undertook post-doctoral training in anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. Based in San Francisco, Dr. Murray has been a public-health consultant since 1982. He has done fieldwork on three continents and the island of Taiwan, and is the author of ten previous books, including Taiwanese Culture, Taiwanese Society (with Keelung Hong). He has been fascinated by Khmer ruins and art since childhood and was finally able to visit Cambodia in 1993.	Stephen O. Murray, Ph.D., is the author or coauthor of more than a dozen books, including Taiwanese Culture, Taiwanese Society and American Sociolinguistics.	DRESS AND RANK:  Zhou and other Chinese regarded the Khmer as repellantly dark, coarse, frizzy-haired, and ugly, except for a few noblewomen who mostly kept out of the sun, and thus were (pleasingly to Chinese tastes) as ""pale as jade."" Both men and women went bare-chested as well as bare-headed and barefoot. Both sexes wore loincloths indoors. When they went out, they wrapped a band of cloth like a sarong around their waists. Khmer sculptures show complex pleating and knotting both for women's skirts and men's sampots. Men's reached mid-thigh, while women's reached to their ankles. Elite men or women might have added a gold or jeweled clasp or belt. These were decorative, not necessary to keep the garment in place.          Elaborate sumptuary laws specified what ranks could wear what materials. Some were woven in Cambodia, but most of the bolts of cotton were imported from the east (Champa) or the west (Siam and India). Only the king could wear sampots with a continuous floral design. High officials and priests could wear cloths with recurring groups of flowers. Lower-rank officials and women were permitted to wear material with two groups of flowers.          Occasionally the king would set aside his bejeweled gold diadem and had servants weave fragrant flowers (reminding Zhou of jasmine) into his hair. He wore two kilograms of large pearls around his neck, golden bracelets and rings set with agates on his wrists, ankles, and fingers. The soles of his feet and palms of his hands were stained red with henna, and, as already mentioned, he never left the palace without the sacred gold sword of his office.          According to Zhou, commoner women wore their hair in a knot (chignon) without any visible hairpins or combs.  Women of all classes wore gold rings and bracelets. Market-women (and men, including soldiers) in the bas-reliefs have pierced ears without earrings. The elaborate earrings of apsara/devata and of kings, gods, and heroes give some idea of what dangled from the ears of elite women and men.          Men as well as women oiled their bodies with a mixture of sandalwood, styrax, musk, dried flowers, yellow cane sugar, and other aromatics. Men, other than the king, were forbidden to dye their palms and soles with henna, although commoner women could.          Zhou wrote that there was a hierarchy of ministers, generals and astronomers, and all sorts of less important employees (differing only in name from those of China, he reported). These included inspectors, provincial governors, district and village chiefs, superintendents of warehouses, supervisors of corve labor, and more.          Usually, the king selected princes for high office. Men not of princely rank offered their daughters as royal concubines.          Strict sumptuary laws regulated officials' public insignia and the number of attendants they could have, as well as allowable dress. The highest officials rode in palanquins with golden shafts and four gold-handled umbrellas. The next highest rank had palanquins with gold shafts and two gold-handled umbrellas. The next highest had a single gold-handled umbrella. Lower ones (ssu-la-ti in contrast to the pating, entitled to one or more gold-handled umbrellas) had palanquins with silver shafts. The umbrellas were made of red Chinese taffeta or oiled (waterproof) green taffeta.          From all over the empire, local officials promptly shipped beautiful young girls to the palace. Zhou was told that there were between three- and five-thousand concubines and palace girls-in addition to the king's five wives. His current favorite dwelled with him as chief wife (agramahishi). The other four were distributed to dwellings at each of the cardinal direction (which kept them as far apart from each other as possible). The palace had five pools (trapeang), one of which was larger than the others, so perhaps there was one for each of the five royal consorts (and/or for the cosmological principles they embodied).          At least two thousand married woman and men also worked in the palace and lived throughout Angkor Thom. They were recognizable because their foreheads were shaved (""in the manner of the northern people"") and they had vermilion marks there and on each temple.",ancient;anthropology;asia;books;cambodia;early civilization;history;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;southeast asia;used & rental textbooks,12
068985708X,"The Dog That Dug for Dinosaurs (Ready-to-Read. Level 3) Grade 1-3Redmond tells the story of how 12-year-old Mary Ann Anning and her dog Tray found numerous dinosaur fossils in England in the early 1800s. Beginning with a clear definition of fossils, the text describes how the companions searched the seaside cliffs, Tray using his sense of smell and Mary Ann employing the tools of a paleontologist (a small hammer and chisel). The fossils they helped to recover are on exhibit in London's Natural History Museum. The illustrations are simple and cartoonlike. This easy-to-read book can be used to introduce more in-depth titles on the subject.Deborah Rothaug, Pasadena Elementary School, Plainview, NY Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",animals;biographies;books;children's books;dinosaurs;dogs;europe;history;literature & fiction;nature & how it works;science;science & technology,12
0691088357,"Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth. Was Egypt's last queen a female Machiavelli, a goddess, femme fatale or worse? Was she beautiful or woefully overrated? Cleopatra, who died in 30 B.C., has long had fantasy and slander directed at her, without anyone from beyond her time and place knowing what she looked like. Timed to coincide with a British Museum exhibit (which then travels to Rome and Chicago) Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth analyzes the ways the queen's image has changed from the Renaissance to the present. Edited by Susan Walker (Roman Art) and Peter Higgs, deputy keeper and curator, respectively, in the department of Greek and Roman antiquities at the British Museum, the book presents 364 color and 261 b illustrations of pieces from the exhibit, including jewelry, sculpture, ceramics, painting and mosaic. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	The British Museum's Walker and Higgs assembled a team of 39  international scholars to join them in the production of this  lavish catalog for an exhibition that travels from the Palazzo  Ruspoli in Rome to the British Museum to Chicago's Field Museum.  The historical and legendary Cleopatra VII is brought to life  through 394 objects from 35 museums and private collections in  Africa, Europe, and North America. In addition to the catalog  entries for each object, the background of Egypt's Ptolemaic  Dynasty (323-30 B.C.E.), Cleopatra's turbulent reign, and her  subsequent passage into myth are explored through 11 essays  divided into four topical sections: ""The Ptolemies and  Alexandria,"" ""Cleopatra, Lady of the Two Lands,"" ""Cleopatra and  the Power of Rome,"" and ""Egypt in Rome/The Myth of Cleopatra.""  One controversial aspect of the exhibition is a corpus of  Egyptian-style statues attributed to Cleopatra solely on the  basis of stylistic elements. Enhanced by 625 illustrations (364  in color), a chronology, a glossary, an excellent bibliography,  and a concordance of objects, this publication is suitable for  public and academic libraries. Edward K. Werner, St. Lucie Cty.  Lib. Syst., Ft. Pierce, FL   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This sumptuously illustrated catalog attempts to demythologize the historical legend of Cleopatra. Designed to complement the current international retrospective of Cleopatra images, put together by the British Museum, the written text, although informative, plays a secondary role to the photographs of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, jewelry, pottery, and coins featured in the exhibition. The essays provided include, among others, a brief introduction to Cleopatra's history and family lineage, a speculative review of her religious strategy, a lively debate concerning her feminine beauty, a discussion of her impact on Rome and the Roman Empire's impact on Egypt, and an overview of Cleopatra's shifting historical and cultural image from the Renaissance through the modern era. This browsable homage to one of the most intriguing figures in all of antiquity will be a welcome addition to most Egyptology collections. Margaret FlanaganCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""A hefty work of lively expertise and sumptuous . . . illustrations.""--Judith Thurman, The New Yorker""She was, of course, the greatest seductress the world has ever seen. . . . It is hard to think of any ingredient that her story does not have. She was an intellectual, wrote books, took her lover to her library and read rare manuscripts to him for the pleasure of it. . . . She spoke nine languages fluently; she was a capable and efficient ruler as well as a flamboyant one. . . . Perhaps the most compelling conundrum about the queen, though, is what did Cleopatra look like? . . . We have images in our minds of a slim, dusky enchantress, Egyptian straight hair, the headdress of cobras above darkly kohled eyes. The truth is hard to establish; but it is certainly different from that.""--Julian Champkin, Sunday Times Magazine (London)""There is enough evidence here of Cleopatra's own image creation to demonstrate that, if we find her hard to know, it is not only because the truth about her has been overlaid by 2000 years worth of erotic and racist fantasy, but because she herself was such a protean and ingenious self publicist.""--Lucy Hughes-Hallet, Time Literary Supplement""[A] lavish catalog. . . . The historical and legendary Cleopatra VII is brought to life through 394 objects from 35 museums and private collections in Africa, Europe, and North America.""--Library Journal""Cleopatra of Egypt will be a welcome addition to the library of any Cleopatra enthusiast. The volume is beautifully produced and the images are gorgeous. . . . [It] succeeds in bringing its audience into the world of Cleopatra with thorough analysis of the ancient evidence and plenty of helpful background information.""--Prudence J. Jones, Bryn Mawr Classical Review""This sumptuously illustrated catalog [is a] . . . browsable homage to one of the most intriguing figures in all of antiquity. . . ""--Booklist""This hefty, intelligent book attempts to pin down the elusive identity and mysterious story of the fascinating woman who ruled Egypt from 51-30 B.C. . . . It is the book's color plates and illustrations, however, that give it life, an energy as forceful, as vivacious, and as fascinating as Cleopatra herself has been for twenty-one centuries.""--Karen McCarthy, ForeWord""This magnificent publication . . . features 11 scholarly but very readable essays and sumptuous photographs of the exhibits. It provides almost everything the reader is likely to want to know about this celebrated figure. . . . This beautiful book and its accessible text will appeal to specialists and nonspecialists alike.""--Choice""Detailed and cutting-edge enough for the specialist and accessible enough for the casual exhibition-goer whose interest has been piqued by these antiquities.""--Sarah Lawson, The Art Book""A lavishly illustrated, informative volume. . . . Cleopatra herself appears in all the guises that enabled her to maintain her dominion over her complicated realm.""--Ingrid D. Rowland, The New Republic""Cleopatra of Egypt is an appropriately spectacular catalogue produced in connection with an exhibition that was held in Rome, London, and the Field Museum in Chicago. . .  The academic community as well as the general public owe a debt of gratitude to Susan Walker and the curators of the British Museum's Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities for their efforts in publishing this remarkable collection from lending museums in Egypt, Europe, Russia, and North America.""--Anatole Mori, The Classical Outlook	Susan Walker is Deputy Keeper in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum. She is the author of Roman Art and Greek and Roman Portraits and the coauthor of Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt. Peter Higgs is Curator in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum.",ancient;architecture;arts & photography;books;catalogs & exhibitions;collections;education & reference;egypt;history;history & criticism;individual architects & firms;professional & technical,12
0446679291,"Mojo: Conjure Stories Many Americans know ""mojo"" is Southern slang for powerful magic. But few Americans know the word originated in West Africa and referred to a small cloth bag containing protective magicks. The origin of mojo is as obscure to Americans as the religious, spiritual, and magical beliefs of Africa, which are far less familiar than the religions and myths of Europe and Asia. Acclaimed author/editor Nalo Hopkinson addresses this imbalance with her anthology Mojo: Conjure Stories, which collects 19 original stories of magic and gods and mortals, set in locales that range from a pre-Civil War plantation to modern Oakland, from Nineteenth-Century England to underground New York City. Contributors range from big names like Steven Barnes, Neil Gaiman, and Barbara Hambly to exciting new authors (however, editor Hopkinson unfortunately does not contribute a story). The anthology avoids such inaccurate, offensive Hollywood stereotypes as the pin-stuck ""voodoo doll,"" and the overall quality is very high, with a few weak tales offset by the far more numerous excellent stories. Among the best works are Sheree Renee Thomas's poetic myth ""How Sukie Cross De Big Wata""; Marcia Douglas's lyrical ""Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells,"" the best story about the writing process since Jaime Hernandez's ""How to Kill A"" (Love & Rockets); and ""The Tawny Bitch,"" Nisi Shawl's classically gothic tale of a wealthy, quadroon British heiress held captive by a greedy, lustful relative. The anthology opens with a brief but informative editor's note from Nalo Hopkinson and an evocative introduction by Luisah Teish, priestess of the Ifa/Orisha tradition and author of several books, including the spiritual classic Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals. --Cynthia Ward	The 19 stories in this all-original anthology, edited by the author of Skin Folk, skillfully blend West African magic, fantasy and horror, along with plain old-fashioned readability. Some deal with familiar aspects of that magic in unfamiliar ways, such as the zombies of Steven Barnes's ""Heartspace"" and Neil Gaiman's ""Bitter Grounds."" Others explore social issues, like Tananarive Due's disturbing ""Trial Day,"" which highlights injustice against African-Americans during the 1920s. ""The Prowl"" (Gregory Frost), ""The Horsemen and the Morning Star"" (Barbara Hambly) and ""How Sukie Cross de Big Wata"" (Sheree Rene Thomas) offer grim views of slavery days. Marcia Douglas's somewhat tongue-in-cheek ""Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells"" amuses more than it unsettles. A.M. Dellamonica applies magic to food in ""Cooking Creole,"" while Barth Anderson's ""Lark till Dawn, Princess"" takes place on the drag queen circuit with an assist from a magical Elvis impersonator. Since some authors develop their themes or handle dialect better than others, the mojo level varies from story to story. Luisah Teish (Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals) provides an introduction. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Mojo, a West African term that originally referred to a cloth bag with magical contents, now refers to magic itself and the magical heritage of African cultures. In these 19 original stories, contributors give voice to the tradition of supernatural powers able to exact revenge, justice, or simple relief in the lives of Africans in the diaspora. The contributors include Tananarive Due, Neil Gaiman, Barbara Hambly, and Steven Barnes, with tales from Africa and the American South. A shape changer onboard a slave ship wreaks havoc with the ship's crew and later the slave masters. A mother who knows her child isn't destined to stay with her long evokes a trickster to try to save his life. A young girl with special powers searches to release her father from her stepmother's spell, freeing him to help her beloved brother, who is headed for a courtroom lynching in a Klan-dominated town. The settings vary from slavery to the present day, rural to urban, but the underlying theme conveys the power and endurance of African folkways and belief in conjure. Vanessa BushCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Nalo Hopkinson lives in Toronto, Canada.",anthologies;books;fairy tales;fantasy;folklore;literature & fiction;magic & wizards;mythology & folk tales;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;short stories;united states,12
B000P28VXQ,"Even You Can Learn Statistics: A Guide for Everyone Who Has Ever Been Afraid of Statistics Even You Can Learn StatisticsA Guide for Everyone Who Has Ever Been Afraid Of Statistics   One easy step at a time, this book will teach you the key statistical techniques you'll need for finance, quality, marketing, the social sciences, or just about any other field. Each technique is introduced with a simple, jargon-free explanation, practical examples, and hands-on guidance for solving real problems with Excel or a TI-83/84 series calculator, including Plus models. Hate math? No sweat. You'll be amazed how little you need! For those who do have an interest in mathematics, optional Equation Blackboard sections review the equations that provide the foundations for important concepts.  David M. Levine is a much-honored innovator in statistics education. He is Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Computer Information Systems at Bernard M. Baruch College (CUNY), and co-author of several best-selling books, including Statistics for Managers using Microsoft Excel, Basic Business Statistics, Quality Management, and Six Sigma for Green Belts and Champions.  Instructional designer David F. Stephan pioneered the classroom use of personal computers, and is a leader in making Excel more accessible to statistics students. He has co-authored several textbooks with David M. Levine.  Here's just some of what you'll learn how to do...      Use statistics in your everyday work or study     Perform common statistical tasks using a Texas Instruments statistical calculator or Microsoft Excel    Build and interpret statistical charts and tables    Test Yourself at the end of each chapter to review the concepts and methods that you learned in the chapter    Work with mean, median, mode, standard deviation, Z scores, skewness, and other descriptive statistics    Use probability and probability distributions    Work with sampling distributions and confidence intervals    Test hypotheses and decision-making risks with Z, t, Chi-Square, ANOVA, and other techniques    Perform regression analysis and modeling  The easy, practical introduction to statisticsfor everyone!  Thought you couldn't learn statistics? Think again. You canand you will!   Complementary Web site  Downloadable practice files at http://www.ftpress.com/youcanlearnstatistics	David M. Levine isone of the worlds leading innovators in statistics education. He isProfessor Emeritus of Statistics and Computer Information Systems at Bernard M.Baruch College (CUNY), and co-author of several best-selling books, including Statisticsfor Managers using Microsoft Excel, Quality Management, and Six Sigma for Green Belts andChampions. Instructional designer DavidF. Stephan pioneered the classroom use of technology, and is aleader in making Excel more accessible to statistics students. He hasco-authored several textbooks with David M. Levine.	IntroductionThe Even You Can Learn Statistics Owners ManualIn today's world, knowing how to apply statistics is more important than ever. Even You Can Learn Statistics: The Easy to Use Guide for Everyone Who Has Ever Been Afraid of Statistics will teach you the basic concepts that provide that understanding. You will also learn the most commonly used statistical methods and be able to practice those methods using a statistical calculator or a spreadsheet program. Please read the rest of this introductionso that you can become familiar with the distinctive features of this book. Be sure to visit the Web site for this book (www.prenticehall.com/youcanlearnstatistics), which contains free downloads and other material to support your learning.Mathematics Is Always Optional!Never mastered higher mathematicsor generally fearful of math? Not to worry, because in Even You Can Learn Statistics, you will find that every concept is explained in plain English, without the use of higher mathematics or mathematical symbols. Interested in the mathematical foundations behind statistics? Even You Can Learn Statistics includes EQUATION BLACKBOARDS, standalone sections that present the equations behind statistical methods and complement the main material. Either way, you can learn statistics.Learning with the Concept-Interpretation ApproachEven You Can Learn Statistics uses a Concept-Interpretation approach to help you learn statistics. For each important statistical concept, you will first find a  CONCEPT, a plain-language definition that uses no complicated mathematical terms, followed by an INTERPRETATION that fully explains the concept and its importance to statistics. When necessary, these sections also review the misconceptions and the errors people make when trying to apply the concept. For simpler concepts, an EXAMPLES section lists real-life examples or applications of the statistical concepts. For more advanced concepts, WORKED-OUT PROBLEMS provide a complete solution to a statistical problemincluding actual spreadsheet and calculator resultsthat illustrate how you can apply the concept to your own problems.Practicing Statistics While You Learn StatisticsTo enhance your learning of statistics, you should always review the WORKED-OUT PROBLEMS. If you want to practice what you have just learned, you can use the optional CALCULATOR KEYS and SPREADSHEET SOLUTION sections, which help you apply a statistical calculator or spreadsheet program to statistical analyses.CALCULATOR KEYS sections give you the keystroke-by-keystroke steps to perform statistical analysis on a Texas Instruments statistical calculator from the TI-83 or TI-84 families, including TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus models. (You can adapt many sections for use with other TI statistical calculatorssuch as any model from the TI-86, TI-89, or Voyage 200 familiesthat have different keypads and arrangements of statistical functions.)SPREADSHEET SOLUTION sections provide instructions for using the statistical capabilities of Microsoft Excel and identify files that you can download from the Even You Can Learn Statistics Web site that contain complete spreadsheets that you can use as models for your own problem solving.If you plan to use either of these sections, review Appendix A for the conventions, software settings, and assumptions used for these sections.In-Chapter AidsAs you read a chapter, look for Important Point icons that highlight key explanations. Download the data files from the Web site for this book (www.prenticehall.com/youcanlearnstatistics) so that you may examine the data under study in the Worked-out Problems. Even if you do not plan to use a calculator or a spreadsheet, look at the actual examples of their outputs to become familiar with how statistical results are reported.Interested in Math? Then look for this icon throughout the book. And if you are not interested in math, remember that all of the passages with this icon can be skipped without losing any comprehension of the statistical methods presented.End-of-Chapter FeaturesAt the end of most chapters of Even You Can Learn Statistics, you will find these features that you can review to reinforce your learning.Important EquationsA list of the important equations discussed in the chapter. Even if you are not interested in the mathematics of the statistical methods and have skipped the EQUATION BLACKBOARDS in the book, you can use these lists for reference and later study.One-Minute SummaryA quick review of the significant topics of a chapter in outline form. When appropriate, the summaries also help guide you to make the right decisions about applying statistics to the data you seek to analyze.Test YourselfExplore how much you have retained with a set of questions that enable you to review and test yourself (with answers provided) on the concepts presented in a chapter.SummaryEven You Can Learn Statistics can help you whether you are studying statistics as part of a formal course or just brushing up on your knowledge of statistics for a specific analysis. Be sure to visit the Web site for this book (www.prenticehall.com/youcanlearnstatistics). You are also invited to contact the authors via e-mail at david_levine@baruch.cuny.edu if you have any questions about this book. Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.",applied;books;business & investing;economics;kindle ebooks;kindle store;mathematics;probability & statistics;professional & technical;professional science;science & math;statistics,12
0521532507,"Much Ado about Nothing (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) Much Ado has always been popular on the stage, where, from the time of Garrick, famous actors have appeared as the sparring lovers Benedick and Beatrice. For this updated edition Angela Stock has added a new section to the Introduction in which she reviews the romantic and the darker, more cynical aspects of the play in the light of late twentieth-century stage, film and critical interpretations. She also tackles the critical fortunes of Hero and Claudio in terms of the play's interest in sexuality and misogyny, eavesdropping and deception.",arts & photography;books;drama;english literature;humanities;humor & entertainment;literary;literature;literature & fiction;new;performing arts;used & rental textbooks,12
B000FO7V6C,"X Window System: Core Library and Standards : X Version 11, Releases 6 and 6.1 (Bk. 1) Written by the experts who originally designed and implemented the X Window System and with new, significant input from X Window Consortium members who have helped evolve X Version 11, Release 6, this fourth edition is a major revision of this definitive reference. Updated to conform with the latest released software: X Version 11, Release 6.1, this edition also has been redesigned for three separate books in an effort to make each more usable for its targeted audience.  Each book is thus more focused and more use manageable: that is, by being separate volumes, a reader can now open several books simultaneously to cross reference related material. In addition, each volume provides its own comprehensive subject-oriented index that further enhances its overall value.                                       The Definitive reference to X Window System, direct from the X Window Consortium at MIT.Updated for X Windows Version 11, Release 6.1.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Written by the experts who originally designed and implemented the X Window System and with new, significant input from X Window Consortium members who have helped evolve X Version 11, Release 6, this fourth edition is a major revision of this definitive reference. Updated to conform with the latest released software: X Version 11, Release 6.1, this edition also has been redesigned for three separate books in an effort to make each more usable for its targeted audience.  Each book is thus more focused and more use manageable: that is, by being separate volumes, a reader can now open several books simultaneously to cross reference related material. In addition, each volume provides its own comprehensive subject-oriented index that further enhances its overall value.                                       The Definitive reference to X Window System, direct from the X Window Consortium at MIT.Updated for X Windows Version 11, Release 6.1.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;languages & tools;library & information science;library management;microsoft;politics & social sciences;programming;social sciences;windows os,12
0323009816,"Mosby's 2001 Nursing Drug Reference (Book with Mini CD-ROM for Windows) Linda Skidmore-Roth, RN, MSN, NO, Littleton, CO",books;clinical;drug guides;education & reference;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;nursing;pharmacology;reference;used & rental textbooks,12
0231101856,"Talking Horse ""I think it hurts a writer,"" said fiction writer Bernard Malamud, ""to have his secrets known--his method of working disclosed while he is still active."" Malamud was, according to his colleagues Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco (the editors of Talking Horse), ""resolutely private about the construction of his finished work."" Maybe so. But over a lifetime, he wrote an impressive amount of material about his own work, and about fiction in general. Talking Horse collects much of that material--speeches, book introductions, interviews, lesson plans, essays, and more. Included here are notes on The Natural, a defense of fantasy, musings on the great task of embarking on a novel, and a discussion about Jewishness in American fiction. Though most fiction writers see the short story as a warm-up for writing longer fiction, Malamud loved the form. ""Within a dozen or few more pages,"" he said, ""whole lives are implied and even understood."" He displays here, by turns, endearing humility (""it took years for my work to impress me""), a piercing intellect, disdain for ""gossips"" who want to know the person behind the fiction, and a strong belief not only that the work must speak for itself, but that there is likely ""more to a book or short story than the writer himself knows."" A very satisfying collection from a man who liked to claim that ""as a writer I learned from Charlie Chaplin."" --Jane Steinberg	Novelists Cheuse (The Light Possessed) and Delbanco (In the Name of Mercy) have assembled an impressive gathering of the late Malamud's essays, interviews, lectures and notes, a good number of which have never before been published. The collection reveals the author of The Natural and many other books as a dedicated craftsman and teacher, firmly connected to a larger Jewish literary tradition and animated by a deep-seated humanism and a sly wit. In addition to admirers of Malamud's fiction, this book should also be of considerable interest to aspiring writers, as Malamud is open and revealing about his own creative process, and consistently engaging in his often politicized and outspoken views on the artist's role in society. The book's biggest weakness lies in the fact that it is clearly a gathering of disparate occasional pieces, with considerable repetition. Malamud often uses the same examples to make the same point, sometimes almost quoting himself word for word. And while his comments on his own work and on the creative process are enduring, some of his comments on the cultural moment already feel dated. While readers may find themselves wishing the author himself had been given the opportunity to form these pieces into a larger whole, the collection is nevertheless filled with Malamud's distinctive and compassionate wisdom. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	This collection of interviews, speeches, lectures, notes, and essays, many of them never before published, will inspire and challenge all readers, especially those interested in the craft of writing. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Awards, novelist Malamud (1914-86) is best known for The Natural (1952), The Assistant (1957), and The Fixer (1966), as well as for a number of short stories. During his lifetime he revealed little of his writing process, making this collection particularly valuable. Editors Cheuse, a commentator for National Public Radio, and Delbanco, a novelist whose works include In the Name of Mercy (LJ 8/95), were colleagues and friends of Malamud at Bennington College. Their introduction and notes at the beginning of each section add biographical facts and personal anecdotes. Of particular note is Malamud's revelation of his source material and ruminations when beginning a work, permitting us to glimpse a novel or short story's birth. In the discussion of ""The Writer and His Craft,"" he offers valuable, detailed advice for the beginning writer, stressing that hard work must accompany natural talent. Recommended especially for students of writing.Nancy R. Ives, SUNY at GeneseoCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Sensible reflections on the writer's life from a modest master of postwar fiction. While widely respected and, thanks to the popular success of The Natural (1952), more widely read than many of his contemporaries, the novelist and short-story writer Bernard Malamud (191486) has remained a somewhat enigmatic figure. As editors Cheuse (The Light Possessed, 1990. etc.) and Delbanco (In the Name of Mercy, 1995, etc.) explain in their loving commentaries, Malamud was a private man, not known for blowing his own horn. He did, however, produce a significant body of reflections on literature, the craft of writing, and his own experiences, now gathered in this agreeable volume. Malamud's best pieces explore the singularities of his formation. In a lecture at Bennington College in 1984, Malamud recollects his long apprenticeship as a high school teacher and as a professor at Oregon State University. In a Paris Review interview he covers this territory in more discursive fashion, interspersing some subtle yet striking remarks about his works. Having called his novel Pictures of Fidelman ``a book about finding a vocation,'' Malamud wryly asks the reader to ``forgive the soft impeachment.'' But essay-length enjoinders to young writers to ``take chances'' become extended clichs. Still, clichs can have their virtues, and Malamud's have the not inconsiderable virtue of integrity. This quality shines through when Malamud considers his own life experience, for instance, from the perspective of his relation to his Jewish identity. It shines as well in a pair of addresses, given when Malamud served as president of the PEN American Center, which forcefully make the case for the importance of writing as a humanistic, civilizing endeavor. In such pieces, the quiet moral courage at the heart of Malamud's work, his stubborn devotion to the integrity of an artist's unique, individual vision, are thrown into bold relief, reminding us of how much we miss that humane, modest, intelligent voice. -- Copyright 1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	An impressive gathering of the late Malamud's essays, interviews, lectures and notes. . . . In addition to admirers of Malamud's fiction, this book should also be of considerable interest to aspiring writers, as Malamud is open and revealing about his own creative process, and consistently engaging in his often politicized and outspoken views on the artist's role in society. -- Publishers WeeklyAn impressive gathering of the late Malamud's essays, interviews, lectures and notes. . . . In addition to admirers of Malamud's fiction, this book should also be of considerable interest to aspiring writers, as Malamud is open and revealing about his own creative process, and consistently engaging in his often politicized and outspoken views on the artist's role in society. -- Review	ALAN CHEUSE is the book commentator for National Public Radio's ""All Things Considered."" NICHOLAS DELBANCO directs the Hopwood Awards program and the MFA in writing program at the University of Michigan.",biographies & memoirs;books;classics;contemporary;criticism & theory;education & reference;ethnic & national;history & criticism;jewish;literature & fiction;movements & periods;united states,12
0890848769,"The Triumph of Truth: A Life of Martin Luther Text: English (translation)  Original Language: French	Jean Henri Merle d'Aubign (1794-1872) was born and lived  in the city of Geneva.  He was a leader in the rveil, a major  religious revival in French-speaking Europe during the first half of  the nineteenth century.  His multi-volume history of the Reformation,  from which this book is drawn, was a remarkable best-seller among the  Christian public of his day.",( l );a-z;biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;church history;leaders & notable people;luther;martin;people;religion & spirituality;religious,12
0781800854,Polish-English/English-Polish Practical Dictionary (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary) Completely Revised Edition!	Iwo C Pogonowski,books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,12
0882822330,"Not Everyone Is Nice: Helping Children Learn Caution with Strangers (Let's Talk) This is a book that I originally wrote for my own children. It introduces stranger danger through a story told through the eyes of a child. The story raises this subject in what I hope is a not particularly frightening way, yet with a clear message and an opportunity for more discussion -not the end of the discussion on this important subject but, I hope, a good beginning.",books;children's books;family life;health;nature & how it works;parenting;parenting & relationships;parents;safety;science;self-esteem & self-respect;social situations,12
0133592901,"Html for Fun and Profit/Book and Cd Rom This practical book teaches the basics of HTML without causing undue strain to your fingers, keyboard, or patience. The included CD-ROM offers examples from most of the chapters for HTML authors working with Unix, Windows, or the Macintosh: Just open your favorite Web browser to study the examples, and your usual editor or word processor to look at the HTML hieroglyphics that make the display possible. The first third of the book deals with basic scripting, the middle third with multimedia, tables, and gateways, and the final third with tools and future prospects. Appendixes touch upon Xmosaic, Winmosaic, MacMosaic, a list of HTML tags and characters, pointers to online and printed information, and a glossary. HTML for Fun and Profit makes the process of learning more about HTML less tedious and more engaging.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Preface   HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the language of the World Wide Web, the fastest growing part of a very quickly evolving phenomenon called the Internet. This new edition of HTML for Fun and Profit covers basic HTML authoring and emphasizes the use of CGI scripts and forms to create customized and interactive web pages. Information is also included on some of the newest features, like cascading style sheets, that have at last brought HTML into the real publishing world.    Third Edition Preface   The third edition now includes a Microsoft Windows 95 web server. In addition, the text contains many updates to reflect the most recent version of the HTML standard, version 3.2, client-side processing, and a wide variety of other new enhancements to web page makeup, such as cascading style sheets. New media types, such as streaming audio, are covered. The bulk of Appendix B is now included on the CD-ROM as a hypertext document for easier reference.   Who Should Use This Book   If you want to make a home page to list your musical preferences, this book is for you. If you want to make a high-tech career out of building storefronts for the newest commercial ventures, this book is for you also. No matter what your ambitions, if you want to be a producer of information instead of just a consumer on the Web, this book will help you learn HTML and related technologies.  Furthermore, if you're already an experienced web designer and HTML author, this book can take you to new levels of professionalism by introducing you to current standards and practices in this fast-changing field.   How This Book Is Organized   Part I: The Static Web   This section gives you a sound basis for developing most of the information you will be placing on your website. Chapter 1, Getting Started, provides an overview of the history of the World-Wide Web and lays out some of the authors' basic assumptions and philosophies. Chapter 2, The Basics, introduces the concept of a tag and demonstrates the use of several simple tags. Chapter 3, Hypertext  Linking Documents, describes hypertext and document interaction in HTML. Here we'll also cover non-text forms of hyperlinking, such as image maps. Chapter 4, Multimedia  Going Beyond Text, explains the full range of data beyond plain text and shows how to incorporate multimedia into your web creations. Chapter 5, Tables, teaches how to create basic tables and identifies table components. Chapter 6, Frames, covers the most effective ways to use this still-novel way of structuring complex documents.   Part II: The Dynamic Web   This section covers approaches to interacting with your website's users and generating web documents on the fly to respond to changes in data or the context in which the user views your site. Chapter 7, Using the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), introduces the Common Gateway Interface which enables developers to tie scripts to web pages. Chapter 8, Server Includes, demonstrates the use of commands that are included or embedded in web pages to customize web pages. Chapter 9, Creating Forms, details the variety of form elements and implements several forms. Chapter 10, Processing Data from Forms, discusses input and output handling from the CGI and implements a feedback form. Chapter 11, Client-Side Processing, offers basic information about handling user interaction without server intervention through scripting tools such as JavaScript and other means. Chapter 12, Cascading Style Sheets, demonstrates the use of style sheets to simplify HTML document maintenance and control and improve your pages' user interface.   Part III: Design, Style, Production, Professionalism   In this section you will move beyond the nitty-gritty details of simply creating web documents into the realm of organizing and presenting your site for maximum impact. Chapter 13, Style Guide, outlines common-sense guidelines to make web pages more intuitive to use and more appealing to all audiences. Chapter 14, Work-Saving Tools, explains the classes of available tools that make HTML authoring less tedious. Chapter 15, Testing/Quality Assurance, describes the steps necessary to ensure that your web site as a whole and its component documents can withstand the rigors of use in the real world. Chapter 16, Publishing to the Web, shows you how to move your existing documents to the Web without re-creating them all from scratch. Chapter 17, Putting Data on the Internet, discusses the issues involved in putting your data out for public consumption. Chapter 18, Future Directions, highlights the trends and directions of the World-Wide Web.    Appendices   Appendix A, References, provides a complete list of the tags, environment variables, and special characters listed throughout the book. Appendix B, More Information, lists pointers to additional resources. (Most of this material is also provided in hypertext form on the accompanying CD-ROM.)   Typographic Conventions   Table PR-1 describes the typographic conventions used in this book. Table PR-1Typographic Conventions  Typeface or Style  Description  Examples AaBbCc123 The names of commands, files, tag attributes, and directories; on-screen computer output Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. system% You have mail. AaBbCc123 What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output system% su password: AaBbCc123 Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value To delete a file, type rm filename. Abc Def Labels which appear in on-screen buttons Click the Submit button to send the form's date to the server. Other notes on this book's formatting conventions:   Screen shots depict Web documents as viewed using the Netscape Communicator browser, Netscape Navigator 4.03. URLs, those strings beginning with http:// which indicate a Web document's location, may occasionally break at the end of a line. In such cases, to avoid confusion, there will be no hyphen at the end of the line which breaks. Names of Internet services (e.g., TELNET, Archie, FTP) will be capitalized and displayed in a normal typeface. Many of these services have command or protocol equivalents (e.g., telnet, archie, ftp); these will be displayed in lowercase boldface font. The terms web (lowercase) and Web (uppercase) will be used to refer to, respectively, a particular site (as in the phrase designing your web) and to the World-Wide Web as a whole (when browsing the Web).   Are You Being Served?   If you have done any work at all with HTML alreadyeven simply experimented with some of your browser's capabilitiesyou know that you can view a local file (that is, a file located on whatever machine you're using) simply by opening it directly. To open a remote file you specify its location using a Universal Resource Locator, or URL, which includes a reference to the identity of the machine on which the remote file resides.  (More information about URLs is provided in Chapter 2, and especially in Chapter 3).   Once you've installed the server software provided on this book's accompanying CD-ROM, you have two options to view the sample files discussed throughout the book:   You can open the sample files as you would any local filesthat is, by entering in the browser's Location field the path and filename to be browsed. (For example, on a Windows 95 PC, file:///D:\Win95\somesample.html.) You can start the server software you've installed and open the file to be viewed through the medium of that server. For example, after starting the WebSite 2.0 server for Windows 95, you can enter http://localserver/somesample.html in the browser's Location field.   In most cases, either of these approaches yields the same result in your browser window. Fonts, paragraphs, headings, images, and other elements will appear identically regardless of whether you've opened the sample directly (as a true local file) or as a pseudoremote file (by passing it through the server software to your browser).   However, particularly in the case of some more advanced features (such as forms which use CGI programs), you must use the pseudoremote option in order to view the page properly. In these cases, the name of the file to be opened will be designated in this book using an http://{server}/ prefix. In all cases where this prefix does not appear, you can safely assume that the sample page can be viewed as either a local file or as a served file.  	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This book is about writing HTML pages for the World Wide Web. Written in a step-by-step, hands-on tutorial style, it presents all the information needed by an aspiring web page author, from setting up a server and creating HTML documents with hypertext links to designing tables and using CGI scripting. A CD-ROM containing shareware and extensive examples of sample HTML pages and sample perl scripts is also provided.  This bestseller now includes Netscape extensions and Windows server. Other topics include: setting up your server; learning HTML formatting basics, including lists and special characters; creating hypertext links between documents; integrating multimedia into web pages and formatting tables in HTML. Also covered are customizing HTML pages with Server includes, designing effective web page layout and publishing web pages on the Internet. Although the book is slanted towards the UNIX system, PC and Macintosh platforms are also discussed. Appendices on installing and using Xmosaic, WinMosaic and MacMosaic browsers are included.  For people who want to develop web pages with HTML.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	MARY E. S. MORRIS is author of CyberCareers (Prentice Hall PTR). Formerly Technical Webmaster at Sun Microsystems, she is founder of Finesse Liveware, which provides technology and feasibility analyses for the commercial Internet community. JOHN E. SIMPSON is the Distributed Systems Specialist at the City of Tallahassee Public Works Department. He wrote Crossed Wires, and has been a frequent contributor to DOS World, Web Now! and Practical Windows.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;networking;new;programming;programming languages;used & rental textbooks;user experience & usability;web development & design,12
0941711161,"Dawn: A Charleston Legend DAWN:  A Charleston Legend      At birth in Sussex, England, Dawn Langley Simmons was identified as a male and was named Gordon Langley Hall. Although she lived as a man for almost 30 years with what she calls her ""deep,dark secret,"" she was, in fact a female with androgynous features.      Following gender modification in 1968, Gordon Langley Hall became Dawn Pepita Langley Hall. She married a black Charlestonian, John-Paul Simmons, had a daughter, and was forced to move from South Carolina to New York to escape hostilities directed at her interracial marriage.      From her childhood vacations at Sissinghurst, where her mentors, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, encouraged her first writings, to her successful career as a writer in New York and Charleston, Dawn Langley Simmons has experienced an extraordinary life of creativity, spent in the company of accomplished writers, actors and artists, including Dame Margaret Rutherford, who adopted her and was regarded by the author as her true ""mother.""      Dawn: A Charleston Legend is a moving, unforgettable true story of love, adversity, tragedy, and, ultimately, the triumph of the human spirit. Back inside flap:      Dawn Langley Simmons (nee Gordon Langley Hall) is the author of some eighteen books, including a biography of her surrogate mother, Margaret Rutherford-- A Blithe Spirit. Her other writings include biographies of Rosalyn Carter and Mary Todd Lincoln; Vinnie Ream-- The Girl Who Sculptured Lincoln; Willian, Father of the Netherlands; Osceola; and The Sawdust Trail: A History of American Evangelism.      She lives in Hudson, New York, near her dauther Natasha Simmns and grandchildren Damian Patrick Hall Simmons and Tamara Miguel Hall Simmons.	As I witnessed the lives in this family, I began to understand the bonds of love and something deeper that allowed the beauty in all of them to flourish-- whether is was in a welfare hotel or a meadow by the river. Gordon had suffered from the isolation of being different and Dawn would not let the world repeat that on her family. Throughout the cruelest twists of fate, Dawn would always say, ""That's alright dearie, it will all come out right in the end."" This book is a testament to that and an insight into what it is to be human. Dena Crane	I remember Virginia Woolf arriving at Sissinghurst Castle swinging a large china basin by a knotted linen cloth.",biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;gay;gay & lesbian;nonfiction;reference & collections;regional u.s.;south;specific groups;transgender;women,12
087436664X,"Legend and Lore of the Americas Before 1492: An Encyclopedia of Visitors, Explorers, and Immigrants The Norse are the only Old World people who have been proven to have visited the Americas before Columbus, but there are many legends about other visitors prior to 1492. For example, Harold Gladwin thought a lost fleet of Alexander the Great traveled to Peru, and Barry Fell has written that Libyans reached North America sometime after 400 B.C. This book deals with these theories about America by such writers as Francis Bacon and the Mormons. Controversial legends about Canaanites, Mandingos, Phoenicians, and Egyptians coming to America are expounded--and generally refuted.The encyclopedia has 216 entries, ranging from a few lines to several pages. Boldface cross-references show the reader related entries. A few black-and-white illustrations, including imaginative maps, complement the text. A brief bibliography follows most entries, and a master bibliography and detailed index conclude the volume. Writing is accessible and interesting.This reference book offers a fascinating look at stories about pre-Columbian America. It might be more useful for browsing than as a serious research tool. Recommended for libraries, high school and up.",americas;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;folklore;history;literature & fiction;mythology & folk tales;mythology & folklore;politics & social sciences;social sciences;world,12
1582974187,"Dictionary of Disagreeable English, Deluxe Edition Robert Hartwell Fiske is the author of The Dictionary of Concise Writing and The Dimwit's Dictionary, as well as the publisher and editor of the Vocubula Review.",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;grammar;language & grammar;literature & fiction;new;reference;used & rental textbooks;words,12
B000FQJ7TO,"Jakarta Pitfalls: Time-Saving Solutions for Struts, Ant, JUnit, and Cactus (Java Open Source Library) Ideal intermediate-level book for programmers to turn to once they have read the introductory books.      Identifies what can go wrong and provides refactored solutions for each pitfall complete with code.      All of the pitfalls are cross-referenced within the text as well as outlined in a summary table in the back of the book.      Includes background information and troubleshooting tips so programmers can avoid other errors that may also occur.      The Web site contains all of the refactored code solutions and links to appropriate tool downloads.      	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ideal intermediate-level book for programmers to turn to once they have read the introductory books.      Identifies what can go wrong and provides refactored solutions for each pitfall complete with code.      All of the pitfalls are cross-referenced within the text as well as outlined in a summary table in the back of the book.      Includes background information and troubleshooting tips so programmers can avoid other errors that may also occur.      The Web site contains all of the refactored code solutions and links to appropriate tool downloads.      	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & investing;computers & technology;education & reference;exports & imports;international;java;languages & tools;programming;software design;software development;testing & engineering,12
0201633795,"Randall's Practical Guide to ISO 9000: Implementation, Registration, and Beyond (Engineering Process Improvement Series) 0201633795B04062001	Richard C. Randall is the Southeast Regional Director for National Quality Assurance, U.S.A. (NQA), one of the largest and most successful ISO 9000 registrars in the world. He also served as the National Quality Manager for GE Electronic Services, and is a Registered Lead Assessor with expertise in electronics, test houses, process industries, and service industries.   0201633795AB04062001",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;engineering;entrepreneurship;management & leadership;new;professional & technical;quality control;small business & entrepreneurship;used & rental textbooks,12
0897934342,"Computer Resources for People with Disabilities: A Guide to Assistive Technologies, Tools and Resources for People of All Ages ""I loved this book for demystifying assistive technology. It makes accessible computers ... accessible!"" -- Inside MS (National MS Society), Vol. 23, Issue 3, June-July 2005)",books;computers & technology;disabled;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;internet & web culture;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;web development & design;web services,12
1569060193,"The Official Cat Codependents Handbook: For People Who Love Their Cats Too Much Do you get introduced as ""The Cat Person""? Do you plan your life around what works best for your cat(s)? Do your veterinary bills exceed your rent? Do you believe it is your duty to feed every cat in the neighborhood? If any of these symptoms apply to you , you are in desperate need of The Official Cat Codependents Handbook! A wonderfully funny, all-to-true, beautifully illustrated compendium of diagnostic and prescriptive advice for the truly feline impaired. A rollicking good read for pet owners of all ages and degrees of codependency! And for the Dog Lovers among us there is Ronnie Sellers' The Official Dog Codependents Handbook (047-9 $11. 95).  -- Midwest Book Review",books;cats;comic strips;comics & graphic novels;crafts;dogs;education & reference;hobbies & home;humor;humor & entertainment;parodies;pets & animal care,12
0804832307,"Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon (Bruce Lee Library) People were drawn to the charismatic Lee (1940-1973) not only by virtue of his physical skills as a martial artist but also by his words as a teacher. Lee spoke in a uniquely concise, passionate and honest style that made people want to listen to him. The intensity of his words and presence is expertly captured in this wonderfully illustrated book. Based on editor Little's short documentary film Bruce Lee in His Own Words, the narrative traces Lee's life from his childhood in Hong Kong up to his death in 1973. It features quotes from Lee on the subjects that were most important to him: humanity, family, acting and, of course, martial arts. Lee speaks with conviction about these matters and makes use of both allegory and humor to get across his points. The book also features stills from Lee's movies and television appearances, as well as personal photos of Lee with his family. In all, this is an enjoyable, nostalgic read that goes behind the camera, allowing the reader to see Lee not as a legend but as a human being. Even 27 years after his death, interest in Lee remains strong, and so this book should prove popular, not only among his fans but students of the martial arts; sport and fitness stores and centers are an obvious ancillary outlet. (Nov.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""Packed with tales about his youth in Hong Kong, his acting career in America, and his philosophies on fighting.""Maxim""[An] expansive collection of photos, from his Hong Kong childhood to fatherhood with son Brandon.""Men's Fitness""Childhood snapshots, behind-the-scenes Hollywood images, and rare candid photos combine to form a scrapbook of Bruce's whole life.""Inside Kung Fu""One look at this book and you won't be able to put it downbrilliantly assembled photographic essay.""Martial Arts & Combat Sports	John Little is the world's preeminent authority on Bruce Lee and his work. The editor of Striking Thoughts, he is also the publisher of Bruce Lee magazine and managing editor of Knowing Is Not Enough, the official newsletter of the Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Nucleus, as well as director of the Bruce Lee Educational Foundation.",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;entertainers;humor & entertainment;individual sports;martial arts;movies;music;sports & outdoors,12
0936085614,"A Story is a Promise: Good Things to Know Before Writing a Novel, Screenplay or Play In A Story Is a Promise, Bill Johnson posits that a  well-designed story ""promises dramatic fulfillment of our needs."" Too  often, says Johnson, writers embark on projects without first identifying  the dramatic issue that is at the heart of their story. These  writers--novelists, playwrights, and, clearly closest to Johnson's heart,  screenwriters--would do much better, and save a lot of time otherwise spent writing in circles, by first identifying their key dramatic issue, Johnson says. Once they have identified a premise, which can be easily summed up (for Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Johnson offers ""overcoming a shared catastrophe leads to renewal""), they can measure every word they write against it. Ask yourself, says Johnson, whether you can determine if ""every character issue, event, line of dialogue, and scene description serves to dramatically advance the story."" If the answer is ""no,"" that event, dialogue, or description doesn't belong. If you find the concept unclear, don't worry--apparently, a lot of Johnson's students do, too. But once you understand what's at stake in your story, you will be better equipped to make all the decisions you need to make along the way concerning characterization, plot development, dialogue, conflict, and the like. With workshoplike questions at the end of each chapter aimed at the writer-in-process. --Jane Steinberg	Bill Johnson, author of A Story is a Promise, has worked as a freelance writer, a script developer for both Tom Shaw Productions and Figawi Films, and as a staff writer for Aurion Productions. A number of his plays have been produced and performed as staged readings, and he has edited scripts that were sold to and optioned by Columbia Pictures. Currently, he works as the office manager for Willamette Writers, the largest writers group in Oregon. He also travels throughout the Northwest to lead workshops on dramatic writing techniques for fiction writers, screenwriters, and playwrights. This past summer, he served as a judge for the play-writing category of Writers Digests annual writing competition. He is a member of the Northwest Playwrights Guild and currently lives in Portland, Oregon.",books;drama;education & reference;fiction;language & grammar;literature & fiction;play & scriptwriting;research & publishing guides;rhetoric;words;writing;writing skills,12
B000F4ASUI,"DJ ToneXpress - The Ringtone Creator Totally upgraded! iPhone compatible along with over 1000 other cell phone models.		Check out the new and improved DJ ToneXpress to make unlimited customizable ringtones from your PC music collection, CDs & YouTube videos, and also make unlimited wallpapers, compress full track songs (from your PC, CD or on YouTube) to play on your cell phone, send free SMS messages, create your own mobile WAP site, have a locker to store mobile content you make, get a Bluetooth uploader to quickly transfer ANY file from your PC (or laptop) to your cell phone, easily post your ringtones on your MySpace (or 9 other Social Networks) homepage. With the ringtone maker, you can choose songs from your PC, CDs and songs from a YouTube video and select any 5-60 second section as your ringtone plus add fade in & out and volume control.		Yes, all that, and unlimited use. Buy now on Amazon and get free upgrades (electronically) of DJ ToneXpress for life without paying anything else to us.	Enjoy making your own WAP (mobile phone internet) site that people can visit on their phone. You can share on your personalized WAP site the ringtones and wallpapers that you make with DJ ToneXpress.	Download content you create to your cell via WAP (over-the-air) or from your PC. No cables are required. Compatible in 50 countries & on 1000s of phones (the iPhone is compatible via a PC connection and iTunes). All this backed up by our dedicated technical & customer support team. Never pay for mobile content again. Test for FREE before you buy on our homepage (the name of the product DJTonexpress dot com. There are NO subscription or hidden fees.	Buy DJ ToneXperss - The Ringtone Creator and see for yourself why it is the leading ringtone maker (PLUS so much more) software. We have worked hard to make this the most complete, technically advanced and feature packed version yet so join our community of satisfied buyers and personalize your phone (plus family and friends) to the max today and forever.",computer recording;home & hobbies;illustration & design;instrument instruction;internet phone;internet utilities;musical instruments;software;sound editing;studio recording equipment;utilities;video & music,12
0596100590,"Halo 2 Hacks: Tips & Tools for Finishing the Fight Stephen Cawood, a former Program Manager at Microsoft who worked for the Office Server Group, had the good fortune to participate as a member of the Halo 2 beta testing team. Stephen has enjoyed FPS games since the release of Doom, and he's created levels for both Doom and Quake. He recently finished work on The Halo 2 Battle Guide, the only advanced strategy guide published for Halo 2.",books;computers & technology;games & strategy guides;gaming;hardware;humor & entertainment;mobile phones;peripherals;puzzles & games;science fiction & fantasy;tablets & e-readers;video & electronic games,12
0151005141,"The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation for the False Millennium With The Headless Bust, Edmund Gravel and the Bahum Bug from Gorey's ""Dispirited and Distasteful"" Christmas tale, The Haunted Tea-Cosy, have returned to usher in the New Year. The story, told in verse, takes up just after Edmund's riotous party. He and the Bug are whisked off to a faraway village for another round of strange and vaguely eerie encounters. Fans of Gorey's distinctive ink drawings, tending toward the well-dressed and slightly mad, will not be disappointed--they make for an engrossing book with or without the accompanying deliciously odd text. (""Reversing at a tango tea/ In Snogg's Casino-not-on-Sea/ L-- tripped and cried, 'I am afraid/ They tampered with the marmalade.'"") There is also plenty to be had for aficionados of the mysterious little rituals, mentioned nonchalantly, that seem so logical to the inhabitants of Gorey's bizarre world--the Bandage Folder's Ball being a head-cocking highlight. The Headless Bust is perfect for a winter's read by the fireplace, just before drifting off into fruitcake-induced dreams. --Ali Davis	Characters from The Haunted Tea Cosy return for more of Gorey's inimitably spooky doings. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Gorey's poems-with-pictures depict a leisurely but anxious upper-class world whose technology and domestic, sartorial, and tonsorial styles are those of the Edwardian era. That time, the years between Oscar Wilde and the Great War, when Victoria's dissolute son occupied Britain's throne, was one of crack-up. The Victorian world was about to shatter, and an aura of impending collapse seems, at least from a later-twentieth-century perspective, to have pervaded the period. Precisely that aura infests Gorey's fey--that is, doomed, daft, and forbidding as well as campy--little books, which are dizzy as well as dire, silly as well as sullen. Here Gorey brings back Edmund Gravel and the Bahhumbug from his ""Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas,"" The Haunted Tea-Cosy , to feature in a ""Melancholy Meditation"" for the forthcoming, momentous (or not), millennial New Year's Day. ""Hours and hours after dawn,"" the last guest has been ejected, but things are only going ""from bad to worse."" One of Gorey's typically oversized insects flits in and wafts Gravel and bug to ""some remote provincial town,"" where they witness several ominous, or at least odd, occurrences--visions of things to come? ""Why should we care?"" says the Bahhumbug. ""It's quelque chose d'un grand mystere."" But the last page leaves the pair quizzically contemplating millennium's end, anyway. Delicious.  Ray Olson	A hilariously suave (previously unpublished) morality tale from the master of understated mayhem and apocalypse (The Unstrung Harp, p. 572, etc.). Its wonderfully dark pictures and text detail a dream journey undertaken, at century's end, by dull-looking Edmund Gravel and an accompanying arachnoid figure, the Bahhumbug, to a ``remote provincial town'' where polite society's veneer is blithely whisked away and assorted beautiful people are revealed in all their mendacity, folly, and awful bad luck. As always, Gorey's trademark rhyming couplets are filled with inexplicably funny, sad, and somehow beautiful occurrences (e.g., ``Sir U___ fell from a speeding train,/Which did some damage to his brain,/And after that he did not know /How to pronounce the letter O''). Calling this delightful tale its author's ``Vision of Judgment'' or Inferno would be like breaking a butterfly on a wheelwith which image, come to think of it, Gorey might do something ineffably sinister and entertaining.  -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Edward Gorey (1925-2000) wrote and illustrated such popular books as The Doubtful Guest, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, and The Headless Bust. He was also a very successful set and costume designer, earning a Tony Award for his Broadway production of Edward Gorey's Dracula. Animated sequences of his work have introduced the PBS series Mystery! since 1980.",american;arts & photography;books;cartooning;comic strips;comics & graphic novels;contemporary;graphic novels;individual artists;literature & fiction;poetry;united states,12
1418437743,"THE LADY AND THE TIGER: A memoir of Taiwan, the Republic of China The Lady and the Tiger is author Patricia Linder's newest book, based on the life of a military wife caught in the middle of an international intrigue in the Far East. During her husband's career as a Naval Officer, she spent many years, traveling through Europe and the Orient. Her memoir, Row, Row, Row Your Boat, chronicles the sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic life as a Navy wife. The author's latest book describes the frightening aspects of being in the right place at the wrong time, but by using her pragmatic Iowa background and having been born in the Year of the Tiger, she never doubted her ability to survive any situation.If you wish to contact the author, please use the residence address: 37865 South Spoon Drive, Tucson, AZ. 85739 or e-mail: rowrowone@aol.com. Tel: 520-825-8335",asia;biographies & memoirs;books;china;education & reference;general;memoirs;research & publishing guides;taiwan;travel;travel writing;writing,12
080398376X,"An Invitation to Social Construction `An Invitation to Social Construction is a rewarding read for newcomers to social constructionist thinking and for those well acquainted with this view' - New Therapist  `Kenneth Gergen's new book, An Invitation to Social Construction, may be the best introduction to the scholarship on social constructionism available today - but that's not all it is. It is also an inspiring and optimistic vision of what we can do to create better lives for ourselves....Gergen's new book is a key book for you to read' - Amazon  `This book lives up to its title; it is indeed ""an invitation"". Where most ""invitations"" are more, ""a beginner guide to..."" Gergen really seems to be saying to his audience, ""have a look at this, what do you think?"" I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this slim volume to any student or experienced practitioner- we all need reminding regularly of our lack of ownership of the truth' - Society for Existential Analysis  `This book, written by one of the disciplines' leading scholars and proponents, provides an interesting and reader-friendly introduction to social Constructionism, which, unlike many other books concerned with social constructionism and related issues (eg Parker 1998), does not seem to address only an academic audience who are arguably already familiar with its underlying theory, general tenets and central debates....This is a facinating and stimulating book, and Gergen's positivity and passion for the perspectives he espouses are apparent in all it's pages' - Journal of Sociolinguistics  `This book lives up to it's title; it is indeed ""an invitation"". Where most ""invitations"" are more, ""a beginner's guide too...."", Gergen really seems to be saying to his audience, ""have a look as this, what do you think?"" i wouldn't hesitate to recommend this slim volume to any student or experienced practitioner - we all need reminding regularly of our lack of ownership of the truth' - The Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis",books;education & reference;medical books;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;social psychology & interactions;social sciences;social theory;social work;sociology;used & rental textbooks,12
0072133708,"How to do Everything with Act! Douglas J. Wolf  (San Diego, CA) has written 4 previous books on ACT! and is the author or co-author of more than  30 books. He is ACT! Certified and writes a monthly article for ACT! in Action, the largest circulation monthly for the ACT! community, as well as product reviews for Easy ACT!, the 2nd largest monthly. His company also produces training products for ACT!.",act (american college tests);books;college & university;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;new;operating systems;software;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks,12
B000KUP7H6,"First to Fight II In 1995 Martin H. Greenberg was honored by the Mystery Writers of America with the Ellery Queen Award for lifetime achievement in mystery editing. He is also the recipient of two Anthony awards. Mystery Scene magazine called him ""the best mystery anthologist since Ellery Queen."" He has compiled more than 1,000 anthologies andis the president of TEKNO books.He lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin.",action & adventure;anthologies;books;contemporary;genre fiction;literature & fiction;mystery;short stories;spy stories & tales of intrigue;thriller & suspense;thrillers;war,12
0860120066,Encyclopedia of Theology: A Concise Sacramentum Mundi Karl Rahner (1904-1984) was on of the most important and influential Roman Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century. A major influence and the Second Vatican Council his extensive writings have inspired generations of modern students.,books;christian books & bibles;christianity;education & reference;encyclopedias;humanities;new;religion;religion & spirituality;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks,12
0970972687,"Becoming the Goddess Janet Decker uses her lovely voice, unobtrusive sound effects, and touches of music to create a comfortable journey of self discovery, affirmation and connection to the Goddess through two carefully crafted guided meditations that gently open awareness to the body and auric energy field and to connection with the Goddess by communion of energy and by a Drawing Down the Moon experience. Ann Moura, author of Green Witchcraft, Origins of Modern Witchcraft, and Green Magic: The Sacred Connection to Nature. --Ann MouraIt is our understanding that this hypnosis audio recording was created in such a way as to effectively induce the hypnotic state into no less than 90% of the listeners. We do realize that 100% would be better however this is not realistic as there is nothing that works for everyone. Disclaimer: This hypnotic audio product is not intended to be used as a substitute for medical or psychiatric care. Do not use or listen to this audio product while driving or operating machinery and do not use or listen to it within earshot of anyone who is driving or operating machinery. --PublisherWhen I first decided to record hypnotherapy audio products I had to consider the fact that these recordings would be bought and used by many, hopefully thousands, of people. I realized, all to well, that it could be difficult to create one hypnotherapy format that would work for, essentially, everyone. I had to take into consideration the following; that each and every person who listens to my recordings will have their own unique, very distinctive, mental, spiritual, emotional and physical characteristics. Also, every individual would be experiencing the problem, for which the CD was created to address, in varying degrees. For example, take 10 people who have difficulty sleeping and it is likely that each one of them will be experiencing something slightly different as relates to the actual sleep difficulty. Furthermore, not all hypnotic techniques work for everyone. For this rather mammoth undertaking I drew upon my many years in private practice as a hypnotherapist and hundreds of case studies, which I conducted. The resulting Hypnotic Empowerment Series of audio products, there are 10 in all, are the composite of a 23 year exploration of what does and does not work for most people where hypnosis and hypnotherapy are concerned. It is my fervent desire to facilitate healing, and engender a sense of empowerment to all who purchase and listen to my audio recordings. I have created the Hypnotic Empowerment Series of audio products with that in mind. --Author	This audio CD is the first hypnotic guided visualization of its kind in the genre of the Wiccan/Pagan religion. This audio CD contains, as perfectly stated by Author Ann Moura, ""unobtrusive sound effects, and touches of music to create a comfortable journey of self discovery, affirmation, and connection to the Goddess"" Ann Moura further states, ""two carefully crafted guided meditations gently open awareness to the body and auric energy fields and to connection with the Goddess by communion of energy and by a Drawing Down the Moon Experience."" We could not have said it better. Program 1 of this CD gently guides the listener/participant into an altered state of consciousness and then leads them through the process of learning to ""feel"" the Goddess energy. The supposition being that one cannot connect with that energy nor can they ever expect to ""merge with the Goddess"" if they do not first know what the Goddess energy feels like. Program 2 again takes the listener/participant into an altered state of consciousness and then leads them on a mental journey backwards, through time and space to another place in time. Music, subtle nature sounds and Ms. Decker's lovely voice combine to bring about a past life or alternate reality experience. Here, in this other place in time, the listener feels what it is like to ""Become the Goddess"" as they learn to bring the Goddess energy into themselves. The listener/participant feels the power of the Goddess enter her/his body and they experience all the beauty and strength this power gives them. The listener/participant learns that she or he is completely powerful and completely beautiful. In the experience the listener/participant comes to realize there is nothing they cannot accomplish if they so desire. It is suggested that you listen to this CD multiple times in order to experience its full effect. Each time you listen to the CD the experience becomes more powerful and profound.	One evening, I felt moved to sit down at my computer and begin typing. If I ever doubted that there was such a thing as channeled writing that doubt has been forever banished from my mind. When I sat down to type, the script for both programs of this particular CD flowed out of my mind and through my fingertips. As I typed I saw everything in my mind. It was as if I was indeed living the events even as I was typing them! This alternate reality I found myself in was not unfamiliar to me at all. I had indeed been in this place before and I loved the sense of coming home that I was feeling. The entire experience was nothing short of amazing as well as incredibly empowering. The same exact thing happened when I went to the recording studio to record the ""Becoming the Goddess"" CD. As I began speaking into the microphone I was again transported to another place in time. I had once again transcended my present reality and found myself in a familiar yet altogether different reality. I was having that ""coming home"" sensation once more and it felt wonderful. After having this experience, twice, I knew without question, that I was supposed to create this CD. I also knew that I was going about it in the right way and that ""Becoming the Goddess"" was coming into being at just the right time. It is my fervent desire that each and every person who purchases and listens to ""Becoming the Goddess"" achieves the same profound sense of oneness with the Goddess that I experienced while creating it.	Janet Decker, C.Ht. is a certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and a certified Hypnoanaesthesia Therapist. She received her training from the Institute for Ethical and Clinical Hypnosis in Washington, DC. Ms. Decker received a specialty certification in hypnotic anaesthesia from the National Board of Hypnotherapy and Hypnotic Anaesthesiology in Arizona. She has lectured extensively on the topic of Hypnosis, Myth or Magic and she has been published in The Journal of Hypnotism. Janet Decker has been teaching meditation and hypnosis techniques for over 29 years and is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists and the American Association of Behavioral Therapists. Janet Decker, C.Ht. is the owner of Hypnotherapy Services. She has created and published 10 different audio products on various self-help and mind, body, spirit subjects.",alternative medicine;books;celtic;earth-based religions;fitness & dieting;goddesses;health;meditation;new age;religion & spirituality;wicca;witchcraft,12
0810959208,"Close Reading: Chuck Close and the Artist Portrait ""Inspiration is for amateurs,"" according to Chuck Close, one of the most influential and pioneering figurative painters of our time, because ""waiting around to be hit on the head by a lightning bolt, you get nothing done.... Ideas flow out of the working process, out of what you have already done."" Friedman, former director of the Walker Art Center and longtime friend of Close, offers revealing details of the artist's life including excerpts from personal conversations between the two (friends for nearly four decades), an examination of how Close perfected the technique for his epic-scale portraits and discussions with 10 distinguished artists (and Close subjects) including Jasper Johns, Franceso Clemente and Kiki Smith. Using accessible prose, Friedman offers personal glimpses into everything from the atmosphere of Close's studio (a simply furnished, relaxed setting punctured by many interruptions from the outside world) to his blunt reaction to critics' attempts to understand the psychology behind his self-portraiture. ""Close grandly finesses the personal issue by maintaining that all of his paintings, irrespective of their subjects, are in essence self-portraits,"" writes Friedman, who clearly has his doubts. This thoughtful and engaging tome on one of America's most influential and most collectable artists is a must-read for the collector, casual devotee and student. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Martin Friedman has served as a guest curator and advisor to a number of art museums since retiring as director of the Walker Art Center in 1990. During his more than 30-year tenure at the Walker, Friedman built a major collection of paintings and sculptures, created the world-famous Minneapolis Sculpture Garden adjacent to the museum, and originated numerous exhibitions of contemporary art. His friendship with Chuck Close goes back to 1969 when he acquired the now-iconic Big Self-Portrait from Close for the Walker's collection. In 1980 the museum organized the first Close retrospective, and in the mid-1990s Friedman began a series of discussions with the artist, out of which this book grew. He lives in New York.",architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;history;history & criticism;individual artists;painting;portraits;themes,12
0918371104,"The Audiopro Home Recording Course: A Comprehensive Multimedia Audio Recording Text (Mix Pro Audio Series) Bill Gibson, President of Northwest Music and Recording, has spent the last 25 years writing, recording, producing and teaching music and has become well-known for his production, performance and teaching skills. As an instructor at Green River College in Auburn, WA, holding various degrees in composition, arranging, education and recording, he developed a practical and accessible teaching style which provided the basis for what was to come--15 books, a DVD, and a VHS video for MixBooks/ArtistPro along with a dozen online courses for members of ArtistPro.com. Bill?s writings are acclaimed for their straightforward and understandable explanations of recording concepts and applications.",arts & photography;books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;humanities;music;new;performing arts;recording & sound;reference;used & rental textbooks,12
0520224159,"Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region ""A strange artifact, invaluable for the relief into which it throws the decisions Los Angeles made, consciously and unconsciously, as it groped its way through the 20th century. Magnificent in its breadth and daring, it is also bizarre and even worrisome in many of its details."" --""LA Weekly	""Eden by Design is a compelling and fascinating description of a possible Los Angeles that never came to be. Greg Hise and William Deverell have resurrected the Olmsted Brothers' 1930 plan for Los Angeles County, and then, in a wonderful introduction, put the plan in context so that to read it now is to see not only what seemed dangerous and possible in 1930 but also how and why one route to the present was chosen over others. In their hands, the plan acts like a ghost of Los Angeles, reminding us about a vanished past, lost possibilities, and the secrets that our present masks.""Richard White, author of The Organic Machine""The Report is not only a vital document in the history of Los Angeles . . . but a lost classic of a neglected golden age of city planning and landscape architecture. . . . It embodies a truly regional perspective; an ecological perspective; a long-range vision; an integration of design with finance and administration; and a truly grand interpretation of public space. It deserves to be known to every serious student of the American planning tradition.""Robert Fishman, author of Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia""An essential document for understanding the history of the West's largest city. Los Angeles had the opportunity to become an extraordinarily beautiful environment, a Paris in the desert. The editors make clear why, sadly, it did not; but also they hold out hope that portions of this brilliant but neglected plan might still be recovered.""Donald Worster, author of Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas""A welcome addition to the literature of American urban planning history.""Roger Montgomery, Professor of Architecture Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley	Greg Hise is Associate Professor of Urban History and Planning at the University of Southern California and author of Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (1997) and co-editor of Rethinking Los Angeles (1996). William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (California, 1994), coeditor of California Progressivism Revisited (California, 1994), and coeditor of Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (California, 2001).",americas;architecture;books;history;landscape;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;sociology;state & local;united states;urban;urban & land use planning,12
1570250499,"Celebrating Diversity: Working With Groups in the Workplace (Working With Groups in the Workplace) Cheryl Hetherington, PhD, psychologist in private practice  in Iowa City, Iowa, is an adjunct faculty member at the University of  Iowa. As an educator, Dr. Hetherington leads regional and national  programs on diversity as well as other topics including humor, health,  and healing; dysfunctional family issues; and personality type. She is  the author of Working with Groups from Dysfunctional Families.",books;business & finance;business & investing;fitness & dieting;health;human resources;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;management & leadership;new;psychology & counseling;used & rental textbooks,12
0874807719,"Even Mountains Vanish Campbell faces the same paradox every nature writer confronts in this age of accelerated extinctions: whenever she contemplates the beauty of the cosmos and the astonishing inventiveness of nature-- from lichen to ponderosa pines, yellow-bellied marmots to white-tailed ptarmigan--she encounters the deleterious environmental impact of humankind. Writing with studied grace and gentle candor in this haunting and consummate apologia, Campbell describes a visit to Pajarito Canyon, a wilderness area just outside Los Alamos, and her sudden need to understand more about Earth's improbable evolution. Campbell researches everything from plate tectonics to sandhill cranes to Pueblo cultures to nuclear waste until a flash flood inundates her university's library. Changing tactics, she brings her inquiry to Rocky Mountain National Park and Canada's Arctic coast, cold and elevated places of clarity and conviction. As Campbell, beset with ecological and spiritual blues, ponders the survival strategies of tundra plants, animals, and people, she struggles to come to terms with human destructiveness and the transitoriness of life, and does so with good sense and thrilling lyricism. Donna SeamanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	SueEllen Campbells Even Mountains Vanish is a lacy fabric of hints, guesses, and magical images. Her descriptions are meticulous and arresting.Linda M. Hasselstrom, editor of Woven on the WindIn this elegant, lyrical book, SueEllen Campbell delves into science, philosophy, poetry, religion, and the quirky miraculous details of everyday lives. Her writing takes us on an accidental journey from despair in the face of environmental catastrophe toward spiritual renewal. Her disciplined curiosity and precise imagination renders prose as clear as a caribou trail across snow-covered tundra. Peggy Shumaker, author of Underground RiversThis fine, spare book has an astonishing thought-provoking reach, bringing into relationship a constellation of large, almost cosmic questions.Melody Graulich, coauthor of Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans	SueEllen Campbell is professor of English at Colorado State University and the author of Bringing the Mountain Home.",americas;biological sciences;books;conservation;ecology;history;mountains;nature & ecology;nature writing;science & math;state & local;united states,12
0877738823,"The Way Edward Goldsmith was a highly influential environmentalist, eco-philosopher and founder of The Ecologist magaizine.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",biological sciences;books;conservation;earth sciences;ecology;environmental science;human geography;nature & ecology;philosophy;politics & social sciences;science & math;social sciences,12
0631210229,"Race, Identity and Citizenship: A Reader Race, Identity, and Citizenship provide a much-needed critical perspective on race and radicalized inequalities in contemporary capitalist society. It is an outstanding collection which will prove enormously useful to both established scholars in the field and young students. Avery Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara""A thoughtful introduction to current intellectual discourse and decisive policy issues regarding race and ethnicity in a global context."" Jose Hernandez, City University of New York!--end--	Provides a compelling series of comparative analyses of race, ethnicity, & culture at a time when boundaries designating racialized groups are being radically redrawn. This volume moves beyond the black/white focus to address the diversity of identities & histories & thus provides a state of the art commentary on the theorization of this field.	This volume offers comparative and relational analyses of race, ethnicity, and culture at a time when boundaries designating radicalized groups are being radically redrawn. Particular attention is paid to how best to theorize race relations in the context of demographic shifts, changing class formations, and new forms of global dislocations.This comprehensive and timely reader covers a range of topics including critical race theory, class and nationality, multiracial feminism, mixed race, the whiteness debates, cultural citizenship, and globalization. The contributors include Angela Davis, Stuart Hall, Richard Delgado, Robert Miles, Michael Eric Dyson, Saskia Sassen, Etienne Balibar, Patricia Hill Collins, Renato Rosaldo, Stanley Arononwitz, Collette Guillaumin, Nira Yuval-Davis, and Maxine Baca Zinn.	Rodolfo D. Torres is Professor of Latino Studies and Public Policy at California State University, Long Beach and Visiting Professor of Political Economy and Social Policy in the Department of Education at the University of California, Irvine. He is co-author of Latino Metropolis: Racialized Relations in Postindustrial Los Angeles (1998), and co-editor of The Latino Studies Reader: Culture, Economy, and Society (Blackwell 1997), as well as co-editor of New American Destinies: A Reader in Contemporary Asian and Latino Immigration and Latinos and Education: A Critical Reader. He is currently on the editorial boards of The Latino Studies Journal, Socialist Review, Social Justice, and New Political Science.Louis F. Mirn is Chair of the Department of Education and Director of the Center for Collaborative Research in Education at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of The Social Construction Urban Schooling (1996) and Resisting Discrimination (1997). He has been a frequent commentator in both the print and broadcast media on educational issues of local and national interest.Jonathan Xavier Inda is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was previously a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests are in race and ethnicity.",anthropology;books;cultural;discrimination & racism;ethnic studies;new;politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,12
0500284733,The Villages of England For all Anglophiles ...delightful. -- Victorian HomesIlluminates village life from the Stone Age to the present day while at the same time examining its myths. -- BooklistMore than your usual illustrated travelogue. -- Midwest Book Review,books;england;europe;general;great britain;history;politics & social sciences;reference;rural;sociology;travel;travel writing,12
0664226191,"A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions ""This is an imaginative approach to the Confessions in which we experience a variety of 'readings' of the Confessions with each writer asking how this particular book might be considered the 'climax' or 'center' or 'key' to the entire work. We are led through careful analyses of Augustine's style, we hear echoes from one book in another, and we gain several suggestions about the structure of the work as a whole.	Kim Paffenroth is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Iona College and the author of In Praise of Wisdom: Literary and Theological Reflections on Faith and Reason (London and New York: Continuum, 2004) and The Heart Set Free: Sin and Redemption in the Gospels, Augustine, Dante, and Flannery O'Connor (London and New York: Continuum, 2005).     Robert P. Kennedy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;history;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;saints;theology;world,12
0321349792,"SQL Server 2005 Distilled Need to get your arms around Microsoft SQL Server 2005 fast, without getting buried in the details? Need to make fundamental decisions about deploying, using, or administering Microsofts latest enterprise database?     Need to understand whats new in SQL Server 2005, and how it fits with your existing IT and business infrastructure? SQL Server 2005 Distilled delivers the answers you needquickly, clearly, and objectively.    Former SQL Server team member Eric L. Brown offers realistic insight into every significant aspect of SQL Server 2005: its new features, architecture, administrative tools, security model, data management capabilities, development environment, and much more. Brown draws on his extensive experience consulting with enterprise users, outlining realistic usage scenarios that leverage SQL Server 2005s strengths and minimize its limitations. Coverage includes    Architectural overview: how SQL Server 2005s features work together and what it means to you  Security management, policies, and permissions: gaining tighter control over your data  SQL Server Management Studio: Microsofts new, unified tool suite for authoring, management, and operations  Availability enhancements: online restoration, improved replication, shorter maintenance/recovery windows, and more  Scalability improvements, including a practical explanation of SQL Server 2005s complex table partitioning feature  Data access enhancements, from ADO.NET 2.0 to XML  SQL Server 2005s built-in .NET CLR: how to use it, when to use it, and when to stay with T-SQL  Business Intelligence Development Studio: leveraging major improvements in reporting and analytics  Visual Studio integration: improving efficiency throughout the coding and debugging process  Simple code examples demonstrating SQL Server 2005s most significant new features	Eric Brownsprofessional computing work began in earnest in 1996 whenhe began work at Multiple Zones International as a product manager. While there,he realized the next big wave was the Internet, andraced to get a job at a dot-com.He worked for three dot-coms before ending up on the SQL Server Product Team at Microsoft.At one point in his early DB years, they cut the edge of SQL Server capabilities by owning a 500GB data warehouse running SQL Server 7 and 2000. In the three yearshe was on the team,he ran Yukon readiness. Brown haswritten a column for SQL Server Magazine, and has written extensively about SQL Server for MSDN Magazine and MSDN online library. Since leaving Microsoft officially, he has worked on this book and started an e-commerce hosting company.He is now working for Quilogy as a senior consultant on the Business Intelligence National Practice.	<!--function popUp(pPage) {figLoc = '' + document.location;if (figLoc.indexOf('/') == -1 &&amp; figLoc.indexOf('\\') >= 0) {slash = '\\';} else {slash = '/';}openLoc = figLoc.substring(0, figLoc.lastIndexOf(slash) + 1);while (pPage.substring(0,3) == '../') {openLoc = openLoc.substring(0, openLoc.lastIndexOf(slash, openLoc.length - 2)+ 1);pPage = pPage.substring(3, pPage.length + 1);}popUpWin =window.open('','popWin','resizable=1,scrollbars=1,location=0,toolbar=0,width=525,height=394');figDoc = popUpWin.document;zhtm= '<html><head><title>' + pPage + '';zhtm += '';zhtm += '';zhtm += '';zhtm += '' + pPage.substring(pPage.lastIndexOf('/') + 1, pPage.length) + ' ';zhtm += '';figDoc.write(zhtm);figDoc.close();}// modified 3.1.99 RWE v4.1 -->SQL Server 2005 DistilledSQL Server 2005 DistilledPrefaceThis book does not cover the entirety of SQL Server 2005. It doesnt include any fancy sample applications or tons of code. This book is about features. It is about understanding what the major features of SQL Server 2005 are designed to do. I strove to include an architectural discussion, usage scenarios, and interesting information about using the technology. I offer some opinions about how Id expect a customer to really use a technology, as opposed to the marketing approach to presenting the technology.In keeping with the Distilled series idea, I present not all the features, but the majority of the features that are new and significantly revised. Furthermore, I do not attempt to drill into every nook and cranny of the newest and greatest; instead, I describe them in a conceptual way. I process the features of SQL Server 2005 via a framework that includes an architectural discussion. By that I mean I focus on how the technology is designed. I also focus on customer scenarios. I tried to think in terms of the use-case scenario for the technology. In many cases, I try to offer a suggested reality usage based on customers feedback about their experience with the product. The goal is to get you, the reader, up to speed on the whats and hows of SQL Server 2005. Chapter 6, The Code Chapter, is the only chapter that includes any amount of code, and that code exercises the features in a simple manner, providing the nuts and bolts of the technique. Ill leave the creative and advanced techniques to the huge doorstop books that cover SQL Server 2005 in every detail.How to Use This BookIf youre an IT professional who has to deal with databases on any level, this book is a great foundation for getting to know SQL Server 2005. Many books today are too intimidating; they start with an application and spend literally hundreds of pages exercising that code. Often they do this without so much as a breath about how the code fits into the bigger picture. This book is different in this way: You get to know many features without getting mucked up in deep details, and you see how the features fit together. I cover each topic individually, meaning that you could read any chapter on its own. You can keep the book as a reference. Or you might use this book as an airplane read that helps refresh your conceptual knowledge of SQL Server 2005. Thats the goal of this book: You can read it as needed, without worrying about too much minutia or too many code samples.Who Should Read This BookThis book is singular in that its meant for technology decision makers, not hard-core developers or database administrators. (However, this would still be a good read for them, because it can be used to guide other learning about SQL Server 2005.) The technology decision maker will find the book invaluable, because you dont want to be caught at a cocktail party with your peers not knowing what the unified dimension model is.How This Book Is OrganizedChapter 1, Introduction to SQL Server 2005, is an overview of the entire productespecially the new features across the OLTP and OLAP sides of SQL Server 2005. I cover all the basics of whats new and, as such, what should work for everybody. Chapter 2, What Everyone Should Know About Security, provides an overview of what has unfortunately become one of the most important issues in database technology. The security professional is the most obvious target for Chapter 2, but given the importance of security these days, everyone can benefit from reading it. The goal of Chapter 2 is to bring you up to speed on the essential security features. Chapters 3 and 4 focus on two particular audiences: the database administrator and the database developer. Chapter 3, Enterprise Data Management, covers all the new aspects of database administration in SQL Server 2005. Chapter 4, Features for Database Development, covers the features of SQL Server 2005 that are relevant to database application development. Chapter 5, Overview of Business Intelligence, is about how Microsoft is both catching up and innovating in the reporting and analytics space. It is not an OLAP concept primer; I assume you know what dimensions and cubes are. If you dont, please see SQL Server Books Online. Chapter 6, The Code Chapter, is all code. I decided to have a dedicated code chapter because I hate having to scan hundreds of pages to find the one line of code Im looking for. This chapter isnt and cant be all-inclusive. I simply cover the basics and assume youll read the other excellent Addison-Wesley books on SQL Server 2005. My goal is to show you how easy (as in the case of new security features) or how hard (as in the table partitioning capabilities) using SQL Server 2005 can be. Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.",books;computers & technology;database management systems;databases;development;education & reference;languages & tools;microsoft;programming;software;sql;sql server,12
0275938573,"Power and Restraint: The Moral Dimension of Police Work ?Power and Restraint is designed to provide police officers and police trainers with the resources needed to develop and implement effective ethics training. The first three chapters present a model for police ethics based on John Locke's Second Treatise of Civil Government. Each of the following four chapters focuses on a dilemma that might be faced by police officers, and is accompanied by discussion of the possible alternate responses to the dilemma. This is a unique text, as available information in the area of police ethics is limited. The authors, recognized experts in the field of police ethics, have been developing training materials for more than 12 years. The book is clearly written, well reasoned, and is adequately referenced and indexed. Recommended for libraries serving law enforcement training programs or academic programs in criminal justice.?-Choice	The authors develop a system of ethical standards by which to measure responsible police behavior and apply these standards to several familiar yet challenging cases encountered daily in municipal patrol work.	HOWARD S. COHEN is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Provost at the University of Massachusetts--Boston. MICHAEL FELDBERG is President of The Boston-Fenway Program, Inc., a community service organization specializing in public and community safety issues.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business ethics;business life;criminology;ethics;law;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0672327538,"Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 in 24 Hours Betsy Bruce is a web applications developer and Macromedia-authorized Dreamweaver and Authorware Trainer for MediaPro, Inc. She specializes in computer and web-based training applications and consults with major corporations on both design and training. As an authorized trainer, she has traveled the country guiding groups from corporations to school districts in effectively creating dynamic web content.	<!--function popUp(pPage) {figLoc = '' + document.location;if (figLoc.indexOf('/') == -1 &&amp; figLoc.indexOf('\\') >= 0) {slash = '\\';} else {slash = '/';}openLoc = figLoc.substring(0, figLoc.lastIndexOf(slash) + 1);while (pPage.substring(0,3) == '../') {openLoc = openLoc.substring(0, openLoc.lastIndexOf(slash, openLoc.length - 2)+ 1);pPage = pPage.substring(3, pPage.length + 1);}popUpWin =window.open('','popWin','resizable=1,scrollbars=1,location=0,toolbar=0,width=525,height=394');figDoc = popUpWin.document;zhtm= '<html> <head> <title>' + pPage + '';zhtm += '';zhtm += '';zhtm += '';zhtm += ' ' + pPage.substring(pPage.lastIndexOf('/') + 1, pPage.length) + ' ';zhtm += ' ';figDoc.write(zhtm);figDoc.close();}// modified 3.1.99 RWE v4.1 -->  Introduction     Introduction Ooooooo, Dreamweaver. I believe you can get me through the night. Remember that song by Gary Wright? Okay, some of you werent born yet. The song brought up memories of seventh-grade dances for me. Im glad that Dreamweaver, the software, came along and replaced that vision in my head. Dreamweaver, the software, has helped me through a number of nights developing websites and web applications! I started using Dreamweaver when it first came out. Web pageediting tools were frustrating in that pre-Dreamweaver age. Many web developers were annoyed that some tools would rewrite or even delete some of the code they had just lovingly crafted. I remember one instance where I jumped up and down, stomping in my office, for almost five minutes after one tool deleted several hundred lines of JavaScript I had just written. So, many developers at that time preferred to use a simple text editor and write HTML and JavaScript by hand. I think Macromedia web developers must have been frustrated at that time, too, because they created a tool, Dreamweaver, that had all the features a web developer could want. And Dreamweaver has continued to be the industry standard for web development tools.   What Is Dreamweaver 8? Dreamweaver 8 is the newest version of Macromedia Dreamweaver, an award-winning HTML editor and web applicationdevelopment tool. Some people do not exploit the more powerful features of Dreamweaver because they dont know about them. You will not be one of those people with this book in your hand! Whether you use Mac OS X or Windows, youll get the same robust set of features from Dreamweaver 8. The interfaces for the two operating systems look slightly different but you can produce the same beautiful, functional websites with either version. Dreamweaver is excellent at quickly creating attractive web pages that include styled text, images, forms, frames, tables, and more. But Dreamweaver really shines when you need to make your web page do something. Dreamweaver excels at Dynamic HTML (DHTML), the web functionality that enables the user to interact with your web page. Dont know how to script? No problem! Dreamweaver includes behaviors, scripted functionality that you simply click to add to a certain object. Dreamweaver 8 also excels at enabling you to create and apply standard Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to format how your web pages display in the browser. Dreamweaver 8 gives you the capability to use CSS to style your web pages. You can also use Dreamweaver tools to design your page layout using CSS.   Who Should Use Dreamweaver 8? Whether you are creating your very first web page or have decided to try web-editing software after coding by hand for years, you are going to love Macromedia Dreamweaver 8. Dreamweaver gives you the freedom to visually design the look of a web page and the power to make it act the way you want. Dreamweaver gives you the flexibility to create your own personal web page or an entire corporate intranet site.   Who Should Use This Book? This book is for anyone now using Dreamweaver, as well as anyone who is planning to. If you are new to web development, this book will get you up to speed creating web pages and websites. If you are already a web developer, youll find tips, tricks, and instructions to get all you can out of Dreamweaver 8. This book covers creating static web pages in Dreamweaver 8, including forms, images, tables, page layout, interacting with users, managing your websites and many other topics. After you have mastered the 24 hours of content covered in this book, you might want to explore the advanced capabilities of Dreamweaver 8 to create web pages that connect to databases. Even if your ultimate goal is to create dynamic web pages based on databases, youll benefit from knowing how Dreamweaver creates and maintains static web page content.   How to Use This Book Each hour of this book represents a lesson that should take you approximately an hour to learn. The book is designed to get you productively working in Dreamweaver 8 as quickly as possible. There are numerous figures to illustrate the lessons in the book.  Code lines, commands, statements, and any other code-related terms appear in a monospace typeface. Placeholders (which stand for what you should actually type) appear in italic monospace.  Each lesson begins with a list of topics and an overview. The lesson ends with a summary, questions and answers, a quiz, and some exercises you can try on your own. Within the lessons youll find the following elements that provide additional information:    By    the  Way notes give extra information on the current topic.    Did    You  Know? tips offer advice or describe an additional way of accomplishing something.    Watch  Out! cautions signal you to be careful of potential problems and give you information on how to avoid or fix them.   As you read this book and work through the examples, remember: Have fun! Betsy Bruce   Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.",books;computer science;computers & technology;desktop publishing;dreamweaver;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;new;programming;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design,12
0596001754,"Java and SOAP Robert Englander is Principal Engineer and President of MindStream Software, Inc. (www.mindstrm.com). He provides consulting services in software architecture, design, and development, as well as developing frameworks for use on client projects. His focus is in the areas of component architectures and distributed systems. Rob has built software in Java and C++ for clients ranging from small shops to large organizations. He has spoken at industry conferences, written articles for magazines and journals, and is the author of the OReilly book Developing Java Beans.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;java;languages & tools;object-oriented design;programming;software design;software development;testing & engineering;web development & design;web services,12
0399528148,"The 7 Greatest Truths About Successful Women In 1984, Brem diagnosed with two types of cancer kept knocking at the doors of car dealerships until someone hired her. Today, as president and CEO of Love Chrysler, she is one of the most successful Latinas in business in the U.S. She explains the principles that sustained her even at her lowest (e.g., know your self-worth; be creative; be passionate about your work), offering numerous anecdotes about women who succeeded against tremendous odds. Readers will empathize with Brem, who speaks frankly and sensitively. This eminently inspiring book, reminiscent of Deborah Rosado Shaw's Dream Big, will find a wide audience. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Brem, president and CEO of two automobile dealerships in Texas,  was named one of Avon's Women of Enterprise in 2001. As a young  mother, she overcame cancer and a divorce to achieve success in  a field dominated by men. Here she argues that women's  attributes as well as their shortcomings all conspire to make  them adept at entrepreneurship. Brem details the seven unique  strengths and weaknesses (or ""truths"") that she feels are key to  women's personal and professional fulfillment, illustrating them  with stories of contemporary women in the business world.  Unfortunately, these truths are little more than clich s, e.g.,  women are nurturing and want to help while men want to fix  problems. It's too bad that Brem didn't focus more on the  details of her own inspirational story and how she made it to  the top. Recommended primarily for those public libraries that  have a ""women in business"" collection. Stacey Marien, American  Univ., Washington, DC   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Brem, once inexperienced in the workplace and a single mother and cancer victim, now shares her story of fighting against all odds to initially find a job and succeed as an entrepreneur. She explains how women's innate strengths aid their difficult climb to business success, financial freedom, and personal joy by presenting an in-depth review of characteristics common to women such as resiliency, nurturing, intuition, creativity, passion, self-value, and sensitivity. She points out the pitfalls that can be common to women as they secure positions of leadership, and she offers advice on what not to do as well as positive suggestions for situations that can occur in any business. Her insights into management issues are meant to help women but could also be useful counsel for men. Although the market is filled with ""women in business"" advice books, which vary in quality, this one is superb; Brem does an excellent job in laying out important issues and tips for women just beginning their careers or for those at more advanced stages. Mary WhaleyCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Although the market is filled with women in business advice books, which vary in quality, this one is superb; Brem does an excellent job in laying out important issues and tips for women.Booklist        This eminently inspiring book, reminiscent of Deborah Rosado Shaws Dream Big, will find a wide audience.Publishers Weekly        A straightforward and thoroughly inspirational exploration.Corpus Christi Caller Times        A triumph!Womans World	Marion Luna Brem, the president and CEO of Love Chrysler, has been named one of Avon's Women of Enterprise (1999), cited in Working Woman magazine's ""Top 500 Women-Owned Businesses"" (1998), and has appeared in Hispanic Business magazine's ""100 Most Influential Hispanics"" (1999). She has been profiled in USA Today, The Washington Post, Reader's Digest, Women First, and countless local, regional, and national business and specialty publications. A long-time cancer survivor, Brem is active in national support groups and civic organizations.",books;business & investing;humor;literature & fiction;management & leadership;motivational;politics & social sciences;self-help;short stories;single author;success;women's studies,12
0521825776,"Language and Society in Japan (Contemporary Japanese Society) 'Nanette Gottlieb's latest book, Language and Society in Japan, continues a high standard of inquiry into Japanese language issues ... there is no better chronicler in English of Japanese language policy ... Gottleib's observations on the teaching of Japanese and of English as a foreign language are especially timely ... makes an important distinction between linguistic stereotyping and discriminatory language ...Gottleib's discussion of this and other issues in this book provides sufficient information for the reader to speculate right along with her about the linguistic future of Japan.' Monumenta Nipponica	Nanette Gottlieb's comprehensive study considers the role of language in Japanese society, particularly in relation to the formation of national and personal identities. It covers important questions such as multilingualism, language and nationalism, language and technology, and literacy and reading habits. Nanette Gottlieb is a leading authority in this field. Her book builds on and develops her previous work, and promises to be essential reading for students and scholars, and all those wishing to know more about the Japanese language and the society in which it is spoken.	Nanette Gottlieb is Reader in Japanese at the University of Queensland. Her previous publications include Word Processing Technology in Japan (2000) and Japanese Cybercultures (2003).",books;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;new;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks;words,12
B000FC1PHK,"100 Simple Secrets of Happy Families (100 Simple Secrets Series) David Niven, Ph.D., bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series, is a psychologist and social scientist who teaches at Ohio State University.   David Niven, Ph.D., es el autor de los bestsellers internacionales Los 100 Secretos de la Gente Exitosa, y Los 100 Secretos de las Buenas Relaciones. Es psiclogo y cientfico social, y ensea en la Florida Atlantic University.",books;education & reference;family relationships;kindle ebooks;kindle store;parenting & relationships;personal growth & inspiration;personal transformation;reference;religion & spirituality;self-help;spirituality,12
0201674823,"Success with Electronic Business: Design, Architecture and Technology of Electronic Business Systems (With CD-ROM) is becoming vital that the industry begins to produce engineering  strategies for Internet-based applications. If you are tasked with  building a corporate Web site or exploiting the Internet for new  business opportunities, this book will help you to make the right  decisions when selecting technology, products, people and strategies.  Success with Electronic Business is a comprehensive guide to the  challengeof business transactions in the age of electronic  business. The book shows howto use established and novel concepts  for software engineering and softwarearchitecture to build  Internet-based applications or electronic business. The authors  draw on their extensive experience to discuss the technical  aspectsof business-to-business information interchange, in a  practical and accessibleway. Object-orientation, component-based  architectures, aspect-oriented programmingand agents, are discussed  and applied specifically in the context of electronicbusiness. The  book explores the actual technology that you will need to  implementInternet-based electronic business methods, providing an  overview of Java andXML and focussing in detail on the 'Bolero'  framework.  Additional features:  CD containing demo  version of Bolero-Software AG's development environmentfor  electronic business  Supporting Web site with updates and  advice on technology and pointersto other important sites. About  the authors: Berthold Daum has worked in the software industry for  twenty years, encompassingprojects on O-O, artificial intelligence  and telecoms. More recently at SoftwareAG he was a co-developer of  the Natural 4GL. Markus Scheller, also at Software AG, is a  specialist in the development andimplementation of enterprise-wide  services and sales strategies for electronicbusiness. He has led  international software development teams and written formany  international IT magazines. About Software AG: Software AG,  based in Darmstadt, Germany, is one of the largest software  companiesworldwide, with its products used in more that ninety  countries. It is a leaderin the are of integration technology and  its products and services support theintegration of  transaction-based mission-critical applications across  heterogeneoussystem platforms, from mainframe to the Web. More  information can be found atsoftwareag.	Berthold Daum has worked in the software industry for twenty years, encompassing projects on O-O, artificial intelligence and telecoms. More recently at Software AG he was a co-developer of the Natural 4GL.  Markus Scheller, also at Software AG, is a specialist in the development and implementation of enterprise-wide services and sales strategies for electronic business. He has led international software development teams and written for many international IT magazines.",books;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;e-commerce;information systems;internet & web culture;manager's guides to computing;networking;networks;protocols & apis;software engineering,12
0814775144,"Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (Cultural Front) Bruce Robbins is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, and Culture and The Servant's Hand. He has also edited several collections, the latest of which is Cosmopolitics, with Pheng Cheah.",books;human rights;international & world politics;international relations;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,12
0801026229,The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition D. G. Hart is academic dean and professor of church history at Westminster Theological Seminary in California. Sean Michael Lucas is archives and special collections librarian at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Stephen J. Nichols is associate professor of church history and philosophy at Lancaster Bible College.,books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;history;presbyterian;protestantism;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;theology;world,12
0195409361,"The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery, Vol. 3: 'The third volume of Montgomery's journals, again superbly edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston, is a beacon of sound scholarship and fine balance.' London Free Press'Montgomery's most exciting book-so far.' Books in Canada'These are journals so enlightening, so full of wisdom, humor, philosophy and tragedy that they are worth a winter's reading and reflection.' Ottawa Citizen'Like the first two, it makes for compulsive reading as a document at once personal and brilliantly illuminative of a decade of our social history.' Literary Review of Canada'The book, however, is irresistible to anyone who has read Montgomery's fiction....In it, Montgomery comes to life in a way that is only possible in the pages of a journal.'   Toronto Star	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston are both members of the Department of English at the University of Guelph.",( m );a-z;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism & theory;history & criticism;l. m.;literature & fiction;montgomery;people;regional canada;world literature,12
0711994366,"Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa '...delivers the dope as far as the music is concerned...Zappa fans will freak out.'   Q  '...a clear and straightforward resume of Zappa's career, skilfully knitted together.'   MOJO	Neil Slaven is a successful record producer and one of Britain's leading authorities on the blues. He is the major contributor to the Encyclopedia of Popular Music and writes for magazines including Mojo and Billboard.",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;education & reference;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;music;musical genres;reference;rock,12
1573920088,"Thomas Jefferson's Freethought Legacy Thomas Jefferson's Freethought Legacy: A Saying Per Day By The Sage Of Monticello is a delightful collection of quotes from Jefferson which establishes beyond dispute his enormous contributions to rationalism, freethought and science. Jefferson was unwavering in his dedication to the separation of church and state. Yet more often than not, historians (and especially politicians) have done is to select those quotes that reflect conventional religiosity and beliefs. Here Roger Greeley mines the rich ideas of Jefferson and extracts some of his most compelling gems. Readers are invited to meander through these pages enjoying the diverse and wide-ranging views of one of America's early intellectuals. Or, savor one quote each day and delight in Jefferson's well-reasoned thoughts for 365 days, and for years to come. In these turbulent days when our society is pushed and pulled by the excesses of the Religious Right, allow Jefferson's sober thoughts to restore your confidence in freethought, rationalism, humanism, and the importance of reason, science, and education. Roger E. Greeley (Kalamazoo, MI) is a consultant to the North American Committee for Humanism, and a retired Unitarian Minister.  -- Midwest Book Review",americas;books;education & reference;free will & determinism;history;philosophy;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;quotations;united states;world,12
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0134979834,Major Modern Essayists (2nd Edition) This essay reader provides in-depth introductions to fifteen of this century's most distinctive writers of nonfiction prose in the English language. The collection is arranged chronologically--from Virginia Woolf to Barry Lopez--and includes authors from the United States and Great Britain. A final section of essays offers a single selection by each of ten outstanding writers from around the world.,books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;essays;essays & correspondence;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,12
0672325977,"Sams Teach Yourself JavaServer Pages 2.0 with Apache Tomcat in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself...in 24 Hours) Mark Wutka has been programming since the Carter administration and considers programming to be a relaxing pastime. He managed to get a computer science degree while designing and developing networking software for Delta Airlines. Although he has been known to delve into areas of system and application architecture, he isnt happy unless hes writing code . . . usually in Java.  As a consultant for Wutka Consulting, Mark enjoys solving interesting technical problems and helping his coworkers explore new technologies. He has taught classes, written articles and books, and given lectures. His first book, Hacking Java, outsold Stephen King at the local technical bookstore. Hes also known for having a warped sense of humor.  He plays a mean game of Scrabble and a lousy game of chess, and he is the bane of every greenskeeper east of Atlanta. He is also a womens gymnastics judge.  He can be reached via e-mail at mark@wutka.com.     You can also visit his company Web site at http://www.wutka.com.  Alan Moffet is a consultant with over 20 years of experience in software development and management. He specializes in software architecture and design, and development practice. His work has focused on applying emerging technologies, updating legacy systems, and improving organizational effectiveness. His programming experience includes a variety of systems and programming languages. He began to work with Java professionally while it was a beta product and continues to follow its development and use it in his projects. He is a member of the JCP.  Kunal Mittal is a consultant for implementation and strategy for WebServices and Services Oriented Architectures. He has co-authored and contributed to several books on Java, WebLogic, and Web Services. Over the past several years, Kunal has worked on numerous projects using different BEA products ranging from WebLogic Server 4.5 to 8.1, BEA Portal, BEA Integration, Liquid Data for WebLogic and WebLogic Workshop. His projects have ranged in verticals such as Finance, Real-Estate, Supply Chain, Broadband, Entertainment, and ISVs in the Web Services space.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;internet & web culture;java;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks,12
1593600232,"The Science of Middle-Earth: Explaining The Science Behind The Greatest Fantasy Epic Ever Told! How did Frodo's mithril coat ward off the fatal blow of an orc? How was Legolas able to count the number of riders crossing the plains of Rohan from five leagues away? Could Balrogs fly? Gee, a senior editor at Nature (who says he read The Lord of the Rings about once a year between the ages of 10 and 25), elucidates and expands on the scientific aspects of J.R.R. Tolkien's world in this fascinating book. Many commentators have noted Tolkien's use of philology and cultural history to create believable languages for his elves and orcs. Now Gee shows how scientific precepts can make the wonders of Middle-earth even richer. In a closing essay, he argues that ""Tolkien's own worldview was closer to the true spirit of science than that held by many who propose to promote the public understanding of science.""   Editors of Scientific American",20th century;books;criticism & theory;essays & commentary;fantasy;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);science & math;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy,12
0825619246,"Absolute Beginners: Bass Guitar (DVD Edition) (Absolute Beginners) Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard Corporation has become the worlds largest print music publisher, representing some of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time. We are proud to publish titles of interest to all musicians as well as music lovers, from songbooks and instructional titles to artist biographies and instrument price guides to books about the music industry and all the performing arts.",arts & photography;books;composition & performance;education & reference;guitar;humor & entertainment;instruction & study;instruments;music;songbooks;techniques;theory,12
B000FQ4M26,"Serve the Community of the Church: Christians as Leaders and Ministers (First-Century Christians in the Graeco-Roman World) This volume explores the nature of leadership in the Christian community, especially as it was variously taught by Paul and practiced in the congregations of the first century.    Exploring valuable ancient source material as well as the New Testament texts, Andrew Clarke describes the theories and practices of organization and leadership in key areas of first-century society-the city, the colony, associations, Jewish synagogues, the family-and discusses the extent to which these models influenced the first-century Christians as they sought to define the parameters and distinctives of their own communities.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	This volume explores the nature of leadership in the Christian community, especially as it was variously taught by Paul and practiced in the congregations of the first century.    Exploring valuable ancient source material as well as the New Testament texts, Andrew Clarke describes the theories and practices of organization and leadership in key areas of first-century society-the city, the colony, associations, Jewish synagogues, the family-and discusses the extent to which these models influenced the first-century Christians as they sought to define the parameters and distinctives of their own communities.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church administration;church history;history;ministry & church leadership;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;theology;world,12
0786425520,"Last Words: A Dictionary of Deathbed Quotations ""Ruffins treatment of this subject is the last word"" -- ARBA""Useful keyword index...an engaging book, useful for research as well as reference"" -- Choice	C. Bernard Ruffin is a high school teacher and Lutheran minister. He lives in Reston, Virginia.",books;death;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;new;politics & social sciences;quotations;reference;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,12
041507892X,"Complete Series Bundle RC: The Logic of Scientific Discovery 'One of the most important documents of the twentieth century.' Peter Medawar, New Scientist",books;education & reference;history & philosophy;humanities;logic;logic & language;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,12
0764507028,"Microsoft Office 2001 for Macs for Dummies Make the most of Word, Excel, PowerPoint(r), and Entourage(TM)Packed with time-saving tips and plain-English explanationsThe fun and easy way to get up to speed on Office 2001 Office 2001 lets you tackle almost any task - once you know your way around those zillions of menus, toolbars, dialog boxes, and icons. Relax! This friendly, funny, easy-to-understand guide walks you step-by-step through Word, Excel, PowerPoint(r), and Entourage(TM) fundamentals - and shows you how to get more done in less time.Discover how to: Create dazzling Word documents Set up spectacular Excel spreadsheets Build powerful PowerPoint presentations Get organized with Entourage Customize Office for the way you workThe Dummies Way(TM) Explanations in plain English ""Get in, get out"" information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A dash of humor and funGet smart! www.dummies.com Register to win cool prizes Browse exclusive articles and excerpts Get a free Dummies Daily(TM) e-mail newsletter Chat with authors and preview other books Talk to us, ask questions, get answers	Tom Negrino is a contributing editor at Macworld(r)magazine, a popular speaker, and the bestselling author of Microsoft(r) Office 98 For Macs For Dummies(r).",apple;books;business;computer science;computers & technology;hardware;home computing & how-to;macs;new;office for mac;software;used & rental textbooks,12
0131112198,"Along These Lines: Writing Paragraphs and Essays, Third Edition What is the most important step of the writing process?    ALL OF THEM.    Which is why Along These Lines integrates extensive, thorough coverage of the writing process in every writing chapter. From generating ideas (thought lines) to planning and focusing (out lines) to drafting and revising (rough lines) to proofreading and editing (final lines), students are guided through the key elements of the writing process as they practice through extensive exercises and as they write.    PHWords. The new online practice and assessment solution for all of the elements of writing, PH WORDS contains over 9,000 exercises covering the entire writing curriculum offering students the ability to diagnose their strengths and weaknesses in writing.    To learn more, visit www.prenhall.com/phwords	We have been very encouraged by the positive feedback generated by previous editions of this text, and we trust that the third edition of Along These Lines: Writing Paragraphs and Essays will offer instructors and students even more opportunities for stimulating interaction. To enable students to write for a specific audience and make connections between process and product, we have increased the amount of collaborative and independent activities. Today's writing classrooms reflect an ever-widening diversity of teaching strategies, learning styles, and student populations; Along These Lines respects and accepts the challenges of this unique tapestry.   THE WRITING CHAPTERS   We have retained what you liked most: the meticulous and intensive coverage of the writing process. This step-by-step coverage continues to trace the stages of writing, from generating ideas, to planning and focusing, to drafting and revising, to the final proofreading. The lines of the title refer to these stages, which are called Thought Lines, Outlines, Rough Lines, and Final Lines, to serve as convenient prompts for each stage. Every writing chapter covering a rhetorical pattern takes the student through all the stages of writing, in detail.    These chapters remain filled with exercises and activities, both individual and collaborative, because we believe that basic writers axe more motivated and learn more easily when they are actively involved with individual or collaborative tasks. In keeping with these beliefs and with the emphasis on process, this edition of Along These Lines offers instructors more choices than ever.   New Features   In response to the suggestions of our colleagues and reviewers, this edition contains these significant changes and refinements:    A new chapter, ""Writing a Paragraph,"" for instructors who want to introduce students to a basic paragraph before beginning specific patterns A new chapter, ""Different Essay Patterns,"" providing examples of each essay pattern, in each step of composition, from generating ideas to proofreading. This chapter is designed for instructors who want to spend more time familiarizing their students with the essay form. Double the number of proofreading exercises in each writing chapter New sentence-combining exercises in each writing chapter Transition exercises in each writing chapter More exercises on writing thesis statements More photographs used as writing prompts for visual learners   Additional Features   Along These Lines continues to include these distinctive features:    A lively, conversational tone, including question-and-answer formats and dialogues Not much ""talk"" about writing; instead, no more than two pages of print are without a chart, a box, a list, an example, or an exercise. Small, simple clusters of information surrounded by white space rather than intimidating expanses of small print Boxed examples of the outline, draft, and final version of the writing assignment in each chapter Exercises throughout each chapter, not merely at the end, so each concept is reinforced as soon as it is introduced Exercises that are not merely fill-in-the-blanks, but collaborative ones that have students writing with peers, interviewing classmates, reacting to others' suggestions, and building on others' ideas Numerous writing topics and activities in each chapter, providing more flexibility for the instructor A Peer Review Form in each chapter so students can benefit from a classmate's reaction to their drafts   THE READING SECTIONS  New Features   We have made these changes and additions to the reading sections:    New readings on invention, technology, writing a personal letter, and adolescents who smoke New topics for writing from reading   Additional Features   Along These Lines continues to offer these features:    A separate and detailed chapter on ""Writing From Reading,"" explaining and illustrating the steps of prereading, reading, annotating, summarizing, and reacting (in writing) to another's ideas Vocabulary definitions for each reading selection Grouping of selections by rhetorical pattern Readings selected to appeal to working students, returning students, and students who axe parents, spouses, and veterans Selections focus on such topics as getting an education, generational divisions and definitions, fitting in, or feeling left out. Readings that are accessible and of particular interest to this student audiencemany of the selections thus come from popular periodicals Topics for writing sparked by the content of the writing, designed to elicit thinking, not rote replication of a model   THE GRAMMAR CHAPTERS  New Features   A new chapter, ""Avoiding Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices"" New, separate chapters on the comma and the apostrophe Paragraph-editing exercises at the end of each grammar chapter to connect the grammar principle to writing assignments   Additional Features   Because reviewers especially praised the focus and the exercises of the grammar chapters, these chapters continue to include these features:    Emphasis on the most important skills for college readiness Grammar concepts taught step-by-step, as in ""two Steps to Check for Fragments"" Numerous exercises, including practice, editing, and collaborative exercises    Instructors will find Along These Lines easy to use for several reasons:    It has so many exercises, activities, assignments, and readings that teachers can select strategies they prefer and adapt them to the needs of different class sections. The tear-out exercises reinforce every instructional concept and eliminate the pressure instructors face in preparing supplemental materials. The exercises serve as an instant lesson plan for any class period or as individualized work for students in a writing lab.    Along These Lines will appeal to instructors, but more importantly, it will work for students. The basic premise of this book is that an effective text should respect students' individuality and their innate desire to learn and succeed. We hope it helps your students flourish by providing them with a foundation of respect, encouragement, and ongoing collaboration as they work through the writing process.",books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;reference;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing;writing skills,12
0205381219,"Human Services: Concepts and Intervention Strategies (9th Edition) Heres what the reviewers are saying...    The writing style is very clearwith good, understandable, engaging examples. A key indicator is student comments and there have been no complaints.    Mikel Hogan, Coastline Community College	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Human Services: Concepts and Intervention Strategies, Ninth Edition Joseph J. Mehr, Illinois Department of Human Services Ronald Kanwischer, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine  The Ninth Edition of this trendsetting text offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of human services, with an emphasis on practical application, and increased coverage of multicultural issues. The text provides a comprehensive grounding in the broad range of careers available in the human services, an introduction to the skills that are required for those careers, and case examples to help students visualize different career choices.  Highlights of the Ninth Edition:  New chapter on Motivational Interviewing introduces human service students to an exciting new approach to increasing the motivation of clients for behavior change. Incorporates extensive coverage of multicultural issues throughout the text.  Includes a chapter on case management, with models of case management for different professions and required skills.   Outstanding pedagogy includes chapter-opening questions, experiential exercises, cross-cultural boxed features, and many graphic illustrations to enhance student understanding.  Recommended Internet sites are listed at the end of each chapter to help point students toward additional learning opportunities.	Joseph Mehr has been involved with the Human Services field virtually since its inception. In the 1960s he developed an NIMH Paraprofessional Manpower and Training grant which funded the development of a Human Service career series for the state of Illinois. In the 1970s he wrote, and obtained a U.S. Foundation for Higher Education grant to integrate Mental Health system training programs with the college and University systems, allowing many human service workers to acquire college credit for their ongoing employment training. He is a Clinical Psychologist with years of college teaching experience in Psychology and in Human Services, and has written well regarded college texts for both fields. In the late 1970s he wrote one of the first college level introductory texts in the field of Human Services. In 2001 he retired from his full time work, and currently is actively engaged in clinical consultation.    Ronald Kanwischer is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at SIU School of Medicine. He serves as the Outpatient Residency Services Coordinator, Director of Continuing Education for the Department of Psychiatry, as well as a psychotherapist and teacher. He has over twenty-seven years of experience in the fields of substance abuse and mental health. Mr. Kanwischer consults to a variety of service systems on clinical and client motivational issues including the Illinois Department of Human Services, community agencies, and the Criminal Justice system. He is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, and teaches Motivational Interviewing in workshops and on an individual basis. 	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;education & reference;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;public policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;social work;used & rental textbooks,12
B000J6I1CY,"Students in Discord: Adolescents with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (The Greenwood Educators' Reference Collection) Bridges the gap in the professional literature on students with emotional and behavioral disorders by providing both theoretical and practical information.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Students in Discord fills a void in the professional literature concerning adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders by providing theoretical information about psychiatric and psychological diagnoses with practical information about actual public school students who show both externalizing and internalizing disorders.  In the process, the book provides understanding about disorders in childhood and adolescence and enhances understanding of federal guidelines on emotional disturbance, specifically those provided in the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. The author provides suggested educational strategies that represent behavioral, psychological, sociological, and environmental models and that aim to both decrease undesirable behaviors and increase desirable ones.Theoretical issues covering disorders related to personality, disruptive behavior, eating, mood, anxiety, and development are illustrated by 57 adolescents whose feelings and behaviors are presented through anecdotal material, direct quotes from them and their teachers, life facts, and student writings.  Additional perspectives are provided by comparing federal and practical definitional characteristics of emotional disturbance and discussing concerns about the inability of students with emotional and behavioral disorders to detach, the inclusion of socially-maladjusted students in the ED (emotionally disturbed) category, and the interrelation of emotional and behavioral disorders.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",adolescent psychology;books;counseling;education & reference;education theory;educational psychology;fitness & dieting;health;psychology & counseling;schools & teaching;social issues;teens,12
0684813777,"How to Design, Build, Remodel & Maintain Your Home Joseph D. Falcone, A.I.A. is an architect, educator, city planner and author. He is head of an architectural firm with a permanent staff of architects and engineers, served as Chairman of City Plan Commission for 18 years and has taught and is currently teaching at Secondary, College and University levels.  He is listed in Who's Who In The East for the past five years for outstanding design in construction and has won a national award in design by the American Association of School Administrators. He has been elected to the International Registry of Who's Who.  Mr. Falcone is considered an expert in all types of building design and construction and has a proven track record of optimum combination of creativity, logic, soundness and economy.	Chapter 1  BASIC TOOLS and USE  USING BASIC TOOLS  HAMMER  A medium weight (12-13 ounce) claw hammer is good for general purposes.  * Hold a hammer near the end of the handle for more hitting power. To start a nail, hold it in place and tap it gently a few times until it is firmly set. Hit straight in. * To avoid hammer marks on the wood, use a nail set or another nail to drive a nail the last one-eighth inch into the wood. * To remove a nail use claw end of hammer. Place a small block of wood under the head of the hammer to avoid marking the wood.  SCREWDRIVER  You need two types of screwdrivers for household repairs:  Straight blade, and Phillips. Both come in various sizes. The blade of the screwdriver should fit the slot in the screw.  * When using the screwdriver, push against the head of the screw as you turn it. * It's easier to put a screw into wood if you make a hole first with a nail or drill. Rub wax or soap on the screw threads to make it go in easier.  PLIERS  A slip joint pliers can be used for many jobs around the house.)  * Use pliers to hold a nut while you turn a bolt with a screwdriver. * Use it to remove nails or brads. Pull the nail out at the same angle it was driven in. Use small blocks under the pliers if you need leverage. * Use it to turn nuts. Wrap tape or cloth around the nut to avoid scratching it.)  An adjustable wrench is adjustable to fit different sizes of nuts. If a nut is hard to loosen, apply a few drops of penetrating oil or kerosene. Let it soak a couple of hours or overnight. If the wrench has a tendency to slip off, try turning it over.  HANDSAW  A handsaw with about 10 teeth to the inch is good for most household work.  Mark where you want to cut. Pull the saw back and forth several times to start a groove. Let the weight of the saw do the cutting at first. If you are sawing a board, it will be easier if you support it and hold it firmly near where you're cutting.  NAILS, SCREWS, AND BOLTS  Nails, screws, and bolts each have special uses. Keep them on hand for household repairs.  NAILS come in two shapes.  Box nails have large heads. Use them for rough work when appearance doesn't matter.  Finishing nails have only very small heads. You can drive them below the surface with a nail set or another nail, and cover them. Use them where looks are important, as in putting up panelling or building shelves.  SCREWS are best where holding strength is important. Use them to install towel bars, curtain rods, to repair drawers, or to mount hinges. Where screws work loose, you can refill the holes with matchsticks or wood putty and replace them.  Use molly screws or toggle bolts on a plastered wall where strength is needed to hold heavy pictures, mirrors, towel bars, etc.  Molly screws have two parts. To install, first make a small hole in the plaster and drive the casing in even with the wall surface. Tighten screw to spread casing in the back. Remove screw and put it through the item you are hanging, into casing, and tighten.  Toggle bolts. Drill a hold in the plaster large enough for the folded toggle to go through. Remove toggle. Put bolt through towel bar or whatever you are hanging. Replace toggle. Push toggle through the wall and tighten with a screwdriver.  Plastic anchor screws should be used where you want to attach something to a concrete wall. To install, first make a small hole in the wall and drive casing in even with the wall surface. Put screw through item and into the casing, and tighten.  Copyright  1978 by Joseph D. Falcone",architecture;books;crafts;design & construction;do-it-yourself;fitness & dieting;health;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;how-to & home improvements;professional & technical,12
0380783991,"The Hidden Face of Shyness Shyness only begins to cover the range of social anxieties and social phobias covered by Schneier, assistant director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and Welkowitz, a research psychologist also at the institute. There are fears of eating in public and of public bathrooms as well as fears of public speaking, dating, talking to the boss. There's probably more here than the average shy person looking for help wants, as about two thirds of the book is about the factors underlying shyness: biology, evolution, socialization, culture, sociology, psychology and so forth. There is also a chapter composed of tests that, while of excellent provenance, strangely make no distinctions between different sorts of social anxiety. The practical chapters that follow are worthwhile, especially when they stick to solid medical advice or therapy; social advice such as encouraging the wallflower to use ""seemingly corny"" openers?for example, ""Have I seen you somewhere before?"" and ""Come here often?""?is less so. In a system that prods readers to set specific, realistic goals each week and plot out how to attain them, the authors encourage exposure to unnerving situations and the developing of positive responses to replace (usually unacknowledged) negative ones. Also helpful is concrete advice to parents of shy children and a rundown of the effects and side effects of beta-blockers, benzodiazepines (e.g., Valium), SSRIs (e.g., Prozac) and MAOIs (e.g., Nardil). Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Deliciously terrifying short short tales and creepy illustrations by an exceptional collection of writers and illustrators.Nadia Aguiar, M.T. Anderson, Katherine Applegate, Margaret Atwood, Avi, Holly Black, Pseudonymous Bosch, Libba Bray, Lisa Brown, Michael Connelly, Mark Crilley, Joseph Delaney, Dan Ehrenhaft, Carson Ellis, Neil Gaiman, Jack Gantos, Tom Genrich, Stacey Godiner, Carol Gorman, Alan Gratz, Josh Greenhut, Adele Griffin, Dan Gutman, Brett Helquist, Erin Hunter, Angela Johnson, Aliza Kellerman, Faye Kellerman, M. E. Kerr, Jon Klassen, Alice Kuipers, Jonathan Lethem, Gail Carson Levine, Lesley Livingston, Dean Lorey, Gregory Maguire, Stephen Marche, Melissa Marr, Alison McGhee, Brad Meltzer, Sienna Mercer, Lauren Myracle, Jenny Nimmo, Joyce Carol Oates, Ken Oppel, James Patterson, Michle Perry, Yvonne Prinz, Francine Prose, Vladimir Radunsky, Chris Raschka, Aaron Renier, Adam Rex, David Rich, Richard Sala, Jon Scieszka, Brian Selznick, Arthur Slade, Abi Slone, Lane Smith, Lemony Snicket, Sonya Sones, Jerry Spinelli, David Stahler Jr., R. L. Stine, Allan Stratton, Tui T. Sutherland, Mariko Tamaki, Sarah L. Thomson, Frank Viva, Ayelet Waldman, Sarah Weeks, Gloria Whelan, Barry Yourgrau",books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;interpersonal relations;personality;psychology & counseling;reference;relationships;research;self-help;sexuality,12
156656333X,"Wild France: A Traveller's Guide (Wild Guides) Sierra Club's new series covers the hidden natural areas of several European countries (Wild Italy, Wild Spain, and Wild Britain are also being published this spring). Wild France is both a companion and an alternative to the typical tour guide of France, which focuses on the country's rich cultural and historic heritage. Editor Botting instead explores the nation's untamed wilderness, gearing his book to those interested in hiking, cycling, horseback riding, fishing, skiing, camping, birdwatching, and enjoying the great outdoors. Botting divides France into nine geographic regions and gives clear and in-depth information about the flora, fauna, geology, and history of each. He also provides excellent resources to help travelers in their explorations. With beautiful color photographs, easy-to-read maps, and a list of useful addresses, this book is necessary for travel collections in public libraries.Melinda Stivers Leach, Precision Editorial Svces., Wondervu, Col.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Well written and a vital addition to the traveller's library."" -- TNT Magazine	Here is a France you may not know. If it's unspoiled countryside you want, Wild France will tell you where to look. Like the other Wild Guides, which cover Britain, Ireland, Spain and Italy, it offers you an alternative world, rural rather than urban, natural rather than built. Here are the long walks, mountain hideaways, woods, plains, sea coasts and remote islands where travellers can still find a refuge from the modern world.	Under the General Editorship of Douglas Botting, biographer of Gerald Durrell and author of many travel books, including Wild Britain, six contributors have pooled their love of the French countryside and their knowledge of particular departements to create a definitive guide. Mick Hamer, Robin Neillands, Andrew Sanger, Keith Spence, David Stubbs and Gillian Thomas, travel writers all, have worked alongside the ecologist David Stubbs, the consultant on the book.	""I have walked from the Pic Carlit in the Cerdagne, along the Spanish frontier and up to the top of Pic du Canigou. It is not a trip to undertake lightly. I went with a companion one wild October, choosing autumn as we thought the weather would be pleasantly cool by then. We calculated the expedition would take about five days of slow, pleasant walking. Unfortunately winter started early that year. When we emerged from our tent on the first morning, we found ourselves ankle-deep in snow. Later in the day this turned to sleet and rain, driving us off the frontier's ridge and down into Spain to the little village and monastery at Nuria, where we stayed the night.  ""The next day we climbed again to the ridge, but were trapped by low cloud, and when my companion walked off a corniche, which was completely invisible in the white-out, we decided we should descend the northern slope of the mountain and seek what shelter we could find below the crest. That descent of a snow-filled couloir remains in my memory as one of my less pleasant experiences in the Pyrenees. Inevitably, when we got to the bottom of the slope, the skies cleared. We camped that night by a small mountain lake in a truly dream-like setting of rocks and mountains and blue lakes, with a great red sunset to round it off.  ""It took three more days to get to the top of Canigou. I remember falling headlong on ice-covered rocks early in the morning and wading for hours waist-deep in a stream, which seemed to be the only way we could make progress along a valley, since all the little bridges had been washed away. When we finally crawled exhausted on to the summit we were greeted by two sprightly gentlemen in their eighties who had climbed the mountain from its northern side and, like a couple of spring lambs, led us down to civilization."" (Page 140.)",adventure;books;europe;france;general;natural history;nature & ecology;reference;science & math;specialty travel;travel;travel with pets,12
1590520327,"Along Came Jones (Palisades Pure Romance) Linda Windsor is an award-winning author of nineteen historical and five contemporary novels who lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. A former professional singer, musician, and ABA writer, Linda gave her music and writing over to God with initial protest but without regret. She believes laughter is God's prescription for the tears of life, and the icing on the cake of faith.",books;christian books & bibles;contemporary;fiction;historical;literature & fiction;mystery;religion & spirituality;romance;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,12
0929591437,"Benchmark California Road & Recreation Atlas The new edition is distinguished by the addition of  all-new maps and other refinements.    The heart of the atlas is Benchmarks exclusive Landscape Maps (tm) - a  unique illustrative cartographic style that, through the use of color  and shaded relief, accurately depicts the physical landscape.  These  maps clearly show recreation information and road classes, from  freeways to jeep trails, for the entire state at a scale of five miles  to an inch.  The atlas now has 14 pages of all-new Metro Maps of Los  Angeles, Bay Area, San Diego and Sacramento, produced in the Landscape  style.  The new enlarged maps show even more recreation detail than  before.  Other new features of the twenty-eight page Recreation Guide  include climate graphs, eight-classes of public lands ownership,  shaded-relief and point-to-point mileages.  Campgrounds and RV Parks  are now grouped by region in an easy-to-use central index.  Make the  Benchmark California Road & Recreation a part of your next adventure  in the Golden State.",atlases;atlases & maps;books;earth sciences;education & reference;geography;pacific;regional;science & math;travel;united states;west,12
0345422813,"Brave Dames and Wimpettes: What Women Are Really Doing on Page and Screen (Library of Contemporary Thought) Susan Isaacs's witty imagination has peopled the world with brave dames in films like Compromising Positions and full-bodied novels such as 1998's Red, White, and Blue. The slender and interestingly ornery essay Brave Dames and Wimpettes is part of the monthly Library of Contemporary Thought series, whose most fun title so far is Carl Hiaasen's Disney-bashing diatribe Team Rodent (now available on audiocassette).  So, what's a ""brave dame""? ""They're passionate about something besides passion,"" Isaacs writes. Take Jo March, Elizabeth Bennet, Katharine Hepburn, and Roz Russell, who prove ""women are as competent and brave as the next guy."" Her fave dame, Jane Eyre, ""had high moral standards, stood up to injustice, and was willing to leave civilization and face the wild, even death, rather than do wrong."" Wimpettes, who outnumber dames in pop culture, believe in masochism, subterfuge, betrayal of women, and deriving identity from their man. ""The world stops at the white picket of their fences.... larger causes--racial equality, justice--are left to the guys.""  The book is a romp through books, movies, and TV, as Isaacs puts dozens of women in their place on the dame/wimpette spectrum. Anita Hill? Feh! ""This ber-wimpette testified before Congress how she endured vile sex talk from a superior rather than (1) report him for harassment ... or (2) tell him to shut the hell up."" Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Frances McDormand in Fargo are dames; Ally McBeal and Anne Archer in Fatal Attraction are wimpettes. (Note, however, that Ethan Coen told Amazon.com McDormand is the bad guy in Fargo and Steve Buscemi the good guy.) Julia Roberts is a wimpette in My Best Friend's Wedding but a dame in Mystic Pizza and The Pelican Brief.  Ideally, Isaacs's book should start a lot of excellent arguments. Don't wimp out! --Tim Appelo	After beginning with the reasonable claim that the media too often present women as one-dimensional victims, Isaacs's foray into cultural criticism quickly turns into an object lesson on oversimplification. Novelist Isaacs (Red, White and Blue, etc.) gives her analysis of female characters in books, movies and TV a facile framework by lumping all women characters into two categories. A wimpette (Madame Bovary is the archetype) is a passive-aggressive masochist whose identity depends on a man. Her opposite, the brave dame, is common in real life but elusive in pop culture. She is ""passionate about something besides passion,"" resilient, competent, moral, a true friend (think Jane Eyre). The book is a series of litmus tests. Kathleen Turner's cheerful soccer mom/psychopath in Serial Mom comes out well (after all, she's a multidimensional character), while the wife played by Anne Archer in Fatal Attraction, who kills Glenn Close for sleeping with her husband and boiling the pet rabbit, is a mere wimpette, because she acts only to protect her home (the basis of her weak identity). Although Isaacs repeatedly describes herself as a feminist, her particular brand of feminism asks women to handle every aspect of their lives?relationships, motherhood, career?without any complaint or sign of weakness. Unsurprisingly, few brave dames are found, and many of them belong to the realm of fantasy (Xena: Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Occasionally thought-provoking, the many character studies here are fatally weakened by the absolute judgment at the end of each one, and, as every analysis can have only one of two endings, the book quickly becomes repetitive. (Jan.) FYI: Brave Dames and Wimpettes is part of Ballantine's Library of Contemporary Thought series.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	A lively look at the role models provided by women in film and fiction, with unexpected exegeses from a bestselling novelist (Red, White, and Blue, 1998, etc.). L. Frank Baum's Dorothy and Jane Austen's Emmain both original and modern interpretationsare ``brave dames''; Sandra Bullock in Speed, although her character was the driver of the rampaging bus, and Anita Hill, testifying about long-past transgressions, are ``wimpettes.'' Even the feminist icons Thelma and Louise and biblical mother Eve get ambivalent reviews here. Think about it, says Isaacs: Thelma and Louise would rather drive off a cliff than take responsibility for their actions; Eve knuckled under to the serpent rather than take a stand in the cosmic battle between good and evil. Brave dames are ``passionate about something besides passion,'' are resilient, competent, moral, and ``a true friend.'' In literature, Jane Eyre is the bravest of dames, along with the spider Charlotte of E.B. White's Charlotte's Web. The author's TV heroines include Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Xena (although production values are seriously deficient, Isaacs admits); films offer Auntie Mame, G.I. Jane, and Clarice Starling of The Silence of the Lambs. Wimpettes, on the other hand, are invested in masochism, subterfuge, low ethical standards, and men who will give them identities. Holly Hunter's character in The Piano is a wimpette par excellenceshe betrays her husband (and daughter) because she ``just needs to get laid.'' Other mothers, sisters, and friends fare slightly better but fail the ``brave dames'' test because their lives are defined by men. Isaacs falters on her own test when she sets males as the standard in comparing buddy films, e.g., Midnight Cowboy vs. Thelma and Louise. A lightweight overview of women in film, fiction, and video, but the author offers a challenge: Look closely. Is driving a bus over the speed limit really an example of the best a woman can be? (Author tour)  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Why are Jane Eyre, Marge Simpson, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer ""brave dames""? What makes Ally McBeal, Madame Bovary, and the good wife Beth from Fatal Attraction ""wimpettes""?In this thoroughly witty, incisive look at the role of women on screen and page, Susan Isaacs argues that assertive, ethical women characters are losing ground to wounded, shallow sisters who are driven by what she calls the articles of wimpette philosophy. (Article Eight: A wimpette looks to a man to give her an identity.) Although female roles today include lawyers like Ally McBeal and CEOs like Ronnie of Veronica's Closet, they are wimpettes nonetheless. A brave dame, on the other hand, is a dignified, three-dimensional hero who may care about men, home, and hearth, but also cares--and acts--passionately about something in the world beyond. Brave dames' stories range from mundane (Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore Show) to romantic (Francesca in The Horse Whisperer) to fantastic (Xena: Warrior Princess), but whatever they do, they care about justice and carry themselves with self-respect and decency. For a Really Brave Dame, think Frances McDormand as the tenacious, pregnant police chief in Fargo. Isaacs's unmistakable love of fiction and film shines through even her most scathing wimpette assessments. In the end, she urges us to become ""more thoughtful critics."" The artist, she says, has the right to create whatever he or she pleases--and we have the right ""to applaud or to yell, 'Hey, this stinks!' "" If we do so, not only will fiction be improved, but so too might real life.	Susan Isaacs is the #1 bestselling author of Compromising Positions, Close Relations, Almost Paradise, Shining Through, Magic Hour, After All These Years, Lily White, and Red, White and Blue. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the International Association of Crime Writers. Isaacs is on the national board of Mystery Writers of America and is chair of its Committee on Free Expression. She lives on Long Island.	OH, SURE, WE TALK A good game: Assertiveness. Power. Take back the night. Just do it. After all, we've been through a revolution in women's rights in the last thirty-odd years. Except even after all the fireworks, speeches, and marches, our female icons seem to me a pretty pathetic lot. Ditto for many of the characters we meet these days in movies, on TV, and in novels. There are not enough of those courageous spirits to reflect the times. I miss the Jane Eyres, my heroes, the brave dames I always admired and sometimes loved. Too many of today's female protagonists are still tremulous, willfully naive, self-absorbed, and self-pitying, queens of passive aggression. They are the Madame Bovarys. Wimpettes. And too many of us accept them as feminist heroes.As no doubt you know, a wimp is someone weak and ineffectual. A wimp is the ninety-eight-pound weakling who gets sand kicked in his face by the pumped-up bully not merely because he is a physical lightweight, but because he is a moral one as well. Instead of trying to reason with the bully, or venturing a sock in the snoot, the wimp says, in essence: Do with me what you will.A wimpette--a word I made up because I needed it--is a woman who is weak or ineffectual because she gives in, without a real fight, to the limits imposed on her by virtue of her gender. A wimpette deserves the diminutive at the end of her name. Her no rarely has an exclamation point. Her voice used to be pitched high--either nauseatingly perky or breathy--as if to underscore her utter lack of testosterone. She sounded like Minnie Mouse or Marilyn Monroe. Now she may simply be mute, like Holly Hunter as Ada in The Piano. Or she may in fact talk the talk, but she lacks the guts to walk the walk: A wimpette may tell us, with words or grimaces, Ooh, ooh, I'm trying so hard! yet she never quite manages to rise above her own fragility, be it psychic or somatic--unless she is helped by a man. At her worst the wimpette puts the blame for her failures on society, on men, on her mother. At her best she is feisty or spunky--never strong.To be fair, a woman often must struggle harder than a man simply because more gender limits are imposed on her than on any man. So? Just because life may be tough, should a woman simply accept what comes her way? Most of the women I know do not, and I bet most of those you know don't, either.Nevertheless, our media--our journalism, our art--abound with wounded women. We seem to have lost our sturdy immigrant past, forgotten that we once had strong and gallant women heroes such as the title character in Willa Cather's My Antonia. We are descendants of brave dames like these, not a nation of weaklings. Yet eighty-one years after Antonia, we are offered tales of women who have been battered. Who have been violated, molested, or date-raped. Who have been sexually harassed by swinish co-workers. Whose husbands have left them (generally for younger, juicier women) high, dry, and impoverished. Who are debilitated by obscure ailments. Who are simply sick to death of life.Are some of these sad narratives stories of authentic victims? Of course. Read or watch The Color Purple or Sophie's Choice. Read our first literature, the Bible. Dinah, the daughter of Leah and Jacob, was no wimpette; she was a genuine victim. She was raped. She was powerless. That is, there was nothing she could do to prevent the violence against her. So some victims are genuine victims. The physical pain of domestic violence is real pain. So is the psychic pain of clinical depression.But are a fair number of these tales actually weepies about women who could have fought for themselves and chose not to? Damn right. A damsel-in-distress, movie-of-the-week mentality has infected our film and fiction. Despite the most recent revolution in women's rights, we are still being portrayed as the gender of the quivering lower lip. Our art, not our lives, too often presents us as the demonstrably weaker sex. Worse, instead of seeing suffering as a condition that morally requires us to respond with pity and aid, too many of us have come to believe that being a victim is somehow noble. That kind of thinking leads to a flowering of wimpettes.Look, who are among this decade's female demigods? Dead Diana. In life, she certainly did speak out for noble causes, but her real vocation was getting friends and journalists to headline her agonies--bulimia, suicide attempts, anguish inflicted by a faithless husband and censorious in-laws--and to report on her attempts at recovery, from standard psychotherapy to all manner of New Age drivel to pumping iron at a gym. Extra! Extra! She got the whole world to read all about it. (That the whole world included her young sons did not slow down the people's princess one whit.)For those cerebral types who found Diana too featherbrained to venerate, there was attorney and Yale Law School alumna Anita Hill to revere. This ber wimpette testified before Congress how she endured vile sex talk from a superior rather than (1) report him for harassment through established procedures or (2) tell him to shut the hell up.This canonization of female degradation and malaise is dangerous. It depreciates the suffering of women who truly are victims. It degrades women's views of themselves. Yet the mantle of victimization seems so chic that I expect to see it on the cover of Vogue. Everyone wants to try it on. There is an often-cited, unattributed statistic wafting in the media ether and on college campuses these days that a fourth of all American women have been abused or sexually assaulted. Does abused mean physically battered? Does it refer to a sex act consummated without a woman's explicit verbal consent but with her implicit agreement? Or is it about something nasty in between? We don't know, yet we renounce skepticism and rush to outrage.I cannot understand why our art does not reflect the strong women I meet every day. Now, I'm not saying the dames I know--my friends, my colleagues, my neighbors--are invincible. But pound for pound, they are heartier, more high-spirited, more valorous, and infinitely less frivolous than so many wimpettes we see today in literature, film, and television. Their paradigmatic experience is neither forcible violation nor abuse. Yes, their lives are sometimes tough, but in the worst of times--in the face of illness, death, economic worries, family traumas--they show amazing resilience. I am not talking about Cabinet-level women: I'm talking about nursery school teachers, poets, secretaries, interior decorators, community volunteers. Ordinary citizens. And while we're on the subject, how come when women on-screen or in books do manage to act assertively, as in Thelma and Louise and What's Love Got to Do with It, they are often pitted against one specific evil--bad men? The cosmos gets reduced to gender warfare.Turn on the TV, read a book, or go to a movie, and you'll find hurt women disturbingly prominent in our art. This worries me. The Big Lie repeated often enough becomes truth. I, for one, don't want to be assumed to be weak or wounded. Further, art not only reflects society, it is society's collective memory: It can become history the way a Supreme Court decision does, by ultimately changing the minds--or at least the behavior--of Americans. Do we want our descendants to look back at the women who bore them as wimpettes? Worse, do we want them to inherit the belief that women are inherently less stalwart than men?The wimpette's pain may be real, but she does little or nothing to avert it. She can act, but chooses not to. Her unspoken credo is this: Women are helpless or close to it. They don't act independently; they react to men and frequently take their identities from the men in their lives. When they do act bravely, it is, even today, often to defend husband, home, hearth, and children, or the community in which said husband, home, and so forth are set. Anne Archer's Beth in Fatal Attraction is a prime example. For many wimpettes, the world stops at the white pickets of their fences; they lack the curiosity to look past the spaces between the pickets at the world beyond because they are so self-involved. Larger causes--racial equality, justice--are left to the guys.Now, while the Bible is still open: The culture that gave rise to the recording of the story of Genesis might have believed as a general proposition that women are weak. But Eve did not have to be. One of the many points of the story of the Temptation is that Eve could have said no. Yes, the serpent was persuasive, and the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge must indeed have seemed exceedingly succulent. However, Eve had neither the stature nor the will to even try to fight a cosmic battle. The mother of us all was, sadly, a wimpette.From Eve on, there have always been women in literature who simply could not cope. Some were real victims, some wimpettes. Of the protagonists who even tried to break the mold, many came to a bad end or died, including Anna Karenina, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Maggie Tulliver in The Mill on the Floss, and Lily Bart in The House of Mirth, to name just a few.Since those times, however, we've had the suffragette movement, the march of women out of the home into the workplace during the wartime forties, and the liberation movement of the sixties and seventies. Yet we still have had a surprising amount of fiction--some of high literary merit, such as Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue, Stephen King's Rose Madder, and Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina--that is premised on women suffering under the tyranny of men. (Some is simplistic, cheap victim fiction, third-rate stuff, like the spate of quasiliterate whodunits about serial killers that feature women being tortured, raped, and/or murdered, all attempting--and failing--to emulate The Silence of the Lambs. But that novel featured the valiant and virtuous Clarice Starling, as well as author Thomas Harris's brilliant, harrowing insights into the psyche of a maniac. What is literature in Silence ...	Described on the cover as a ""witty, incisive look at the role of women on screen and page,"" this is actually a catalog of famous novels, movies and TV shows, with Isaacs's verdicts on whether the female characters are ""Brave Dames"" (like Scarlett O'Hara) or ""Wimpettes"" (like Thelma and Louise). As a list of notable fictional women, it's mildly entertaining, but incomplete. Tracy Brooks Swope does little to enliven the proceedings. She possesses the deep voice Isaacs requires of a ""Brave Dame,"" but her monotonous reading lacks color, variety and vitality. The performance also includes more than its share of mispronunciations and misreadings.  S.P. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education & reference;gerontology;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;modern;movies;philosophy;politics & social sciences;popular culture;social sciences;women's studies,12
188068487X,"Brown Glass Windows This unusual urban tale from poet, essayist and novelist Major (An Open Weave) centers on an African-American family in San Francisco's rapidly changing Fillmore District. Administering a heavy dose of magical realism, the narration alternates between the voice of a 300-year-old ghost of an African slave and a more traditional third-person viewpoint (although the two often seem to merge). The extended Everman family includes Ranger, a Vietnam vet haunted by incidents during the war and plagued by drug addiction; his son, Jamalknown familiarly as  Sketch  for his artistic talents, which run deeper than the graffiti he tags on the streets; and Ranger's pregnant sister, Dawa, who recalls the ever-shifting history of their neighborhood. When a random act of violence strikes, their fractured past must be addressed head-on. Young Jamal, in particular, finds a way to better understand his father's place in the world, and thus gains a better sense of himself. Serving as a help line is eccentric neighbor Victoria, an old woman who paints herself white and communes with the spirit-narrator. Some readers will resist the otherworldly narration and symbolism, which can feel disjointed and heavy-handed; others will be intrigued by the depth and history it lends to modern-day San Francisco, the realities of racial prejudice and, above all, the many-layered truths of families. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	In Major's novel about San Francisco's Fillmore neighborhood and a multigenerational African American family, the Evermans, the city is as much a character as the people. The people are Victoria, an elderly woman who dresses in white and paints herself white, in her attempt usually successful to make herself invisible; Ranger, a Vietnam vet combating his addictions and his posttraumatic stress disorder; Ranger's son, Jamal, a graffiti artist; Ranger's sister, Dawa, who passionately loves the city's fogs and hills as much as she loves her family; and the spirit of an African woman dead 200 years, who watches over all of them. This brilliantly beautiful, lyric novel has more than a touch of magical realism. This is Major's second novel after An Open Weave, which was awarded the Black Caucus of the American Library Association First Novelist Award. Major has also published two books of poetry and has just been named San Francisco's poet laureate. Highly recommended for all libraries. Mary Margaret Benson, Linfield Coll. Lib., McMinnville, OR Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	The walking wounded are at the heart of devorah major's second novel. Although the story encompasses a large and colorful African American family, the focus is on Sketch, a young graffiti artist, and his Vietnam vet father, Ranger, one of ""those who were killed in battle but did not die until years later."" The Everman family struggles to cope with Ranger's drug problem and Sketch's frustrated acting out. Setting her tale in San Francisco's Fillmore district, major employs conventional narrative, poetry, and magical realism--some scenes are narrated by a 300-year-old spirit--to touch on themes of war and violence, racism, and gentrification. Her prose is lyrical and vivid, her point-of-view sometimes flitting from character to character like the camera does in an Altman film. If some dialogue is too expository, it's a minor matter, as the author creates characters we understand and care about. As Sketch struggles toward manhood and reconciliation with his father, major builds the youth's graffiti paintings into a powerful symbol of strength, remembrance, and healing. Keir GraffCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	devorah major is an African-American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher. She is the current Poet Laureate of San Francisco. Among her books Brown Glass Windows, Open Weave, street smarts, and Where River Meets Ocean.",african-american studies;books;contemporary;literature & fiction;mystery;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,12
1576750574,"Choosing the Right Thing to Do, In Life, at Work, in Relationships, and for the Planet ""Anybody who's not ready for some truly powerful old and new thoughts, ideas, and perspectives on how to make better choices in this upside-down world of ours is snoozin' not choosin'.  Buy this book.  Read it, pass it around. It'll be one of the best choices you've ever made.""   -- Larry Wilson, author of The One Minute Salesperson, Changing the Game, and Play to Win! Choosing Growth Over Fear in Work and Life""Choosing the Right Thing to Do makes the study of ethics come alive.... It is required reading for any person or organization that wants to think about ethics as more than a means for looking good without necessarily having to be good.""   -- Jacob Needleman, author of Money and the Meaning of Life, Time and the Soul, and A Little Book on Love	David A. Shapiro is a writer, consultant, and curriculum designer who specializes in progressive business and personal development programs. He is Education Director of the Northwest Center for Philosophy for Children and coauthor of the bestselling Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life.",books;business & investing;ethics & morality;fitness & dieting;guides;health;job hunting & careers;personal transformation;philosophy;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;self-help,12
0060954930,"Secrets of a Fashion Therapist: What You Can Learn Behind the Dressing Room Door ""Behind every successful man is a woman and behind every successful woman is Betty Halbreich."" -- --Isaac Mizrahi""Betty can help a woman see herself differently from what she has always perceived herself to be."" -- --Michael Kors""Betty knows exactly what a client's wardrobe needs before the client even knows she needs it."" -- --Susan Lucci""Walking across the threshold into Betty's office, I get a warm, comfortable feeling--ready to play dress-up!"" -- --Bobbi Brown	Betty Halbreich was born and raised in Chicago, where she started playing dress-up as soon as she was able to rummage through her mother's closet--and she hasn't stopped experimenting with clothes ever since.  In her twenty-plus years as director of Solutions at New York City's Bervgdorf Goodman specialty store, Betty has helped make the world a better-dressed place by working with countless designers and showing generations of women how to create their own style.Sally Wadyka made her first fashion statement at age six, stubbornly refusing ever to wear a red Lacoste dress.  Over the years, her taste has expanded.  She has written about fashion and beauty for such magazines as Mademoiselle, Elle, and Self.",& style;beauty;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;fashion;fitness & dieting;grooming;health;hobbies & home;needlecrafts & textile crafts;style & clothing,12
1412907950,"Statistical Methods for Geography: A Student's Guide "" Peter Rogerson has provided us with an accessible introduction to the main statistical procedures used by geographers, along with valuable illustrations of how these can be applied using SPSS for Windows. As a primer in statistical analysis for geographers it will be widely used and appreciated.""	I am Professor of Geography and Biostatistics at the University at Buffalo.  My research interests are in the area of demography and population change, epidemiology, spatial statistics, and spatial analysis.  My current work is focused upon the development of new methods for the quick detection of newly emergent clusters in geographic data (for example, how does one determine as quickly as possible whether there is a new cluster of crime or disease?).",books;earth sciences;environmental science;environmental studies;geography;mathematics;new;regional;science & math;science & mathematics;statistics;used & rental textbooks,12
0879728094,"Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture Michael T. Carroll is Associate Professor of English at New Mexico Highlands University. He has published a number of articles on popular culture, and he is editor of No Small World: Visions and Revisions of World Literature (NCTE, 1996) and the author of Popular Modernity in America: Experience, Technology, Mythohistory (SUNY, 2000). Eddie Tafoya is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at New Mexico Highlands University. He has published in a number of fiction journals as well as the Journal of Popular Culture, and he is currently at work on a critical anthology entitled The American Fool.",20th century;anthropology;books;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;politics & social sciences;popular culture;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;world,12
0762404043,"Twins In the preface to their collection of photos and personal   essays, authors  Ruth and Rachel Sandweiss express their desire to ""shed light on   human  relationships in a way that brings us all together."" Indeed, the   words  expressed by the twins featured herein offer insight into the   human  dilemmas of communication and forgiveness. Twin Aldo Andretti   celebrates  his brother Mario's car-racing victories, all the while admitting   that he wishes  it could have been himself, because he also raced as a young man.   In another example, twin brothers struggled together to survive   the Holocaust, using  their inherent sense of teamwork to persevere. Conjoined twin   girls develop  amazing coordination and cooperation in moving together, yet   affirm their  individuality in their differing interests and personalities. Some   twins  work and live together; others enthusiastically support each other   in  different careers from different sides of the country.     The subject of  companionship comes up frequently, and how twins relate to a   spouse or  lover coming between them. For some, ""breaking up"" with their twin   is a  continual difficulty, or an experience they have never allowed to   happen.  For others, the closeness and support of their twin relationship   has  allowed them to develop intimacy in other relationships. Whatever   the  specifics, these open and thoughtful essays convey that twin   relationships,  like so many human relationships, may be complicated and fraught   with  tension, but are also filled with love.  --Gilia Angell	These books gather all sorts of twins together to explore the unique relationships they share. The Book of Twins, by two of the owners of the New York restaurant Twins, profiles a variety of twins (and one set of triplets) by juxtaposing photographs with brief and generally cheery text. The enthusiastic Ganz sisters (with Tresniowski, a writer for People) look at celebrity twins, twins who married twins, conjoined twins, belly dancing twins, and more. Profiles like the one of a man who lost his twin or of twin sisters facing one sister's cancer offer insight into the complexity twins face during crises. Intermittent sidebars with more twin information (e.g., trends in multiple births, lists of famous twins) add interest. The Sandweiss sisters delve a little deeper into the complexity of twin relationships. Similar in design to the Ganz book, Twins provides more depth of character to each twin, moving further into questions of identity and solidarity. The authors focus on a good mix of twin sets, including their share of famous twins (e.g., Mario and Aldo Andretti, Muhammad Ali's twin daughters). Though both of these could be considered coffee-table books, they are page-turners for people interested in how twins feel about their lives. The increase in multiple births may spark interest in this topic, but since the books cover a lot of the same territory, libraries can take their pick.?Rebecca Miller, ""Library Journal""Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.",arts & photography;books;family relationships;marriage & family;parenting & relationships;photo essays;photography;politics & social sciences;portraits;siblings;social sciences;sociology,12
0787940437,"Advice for Dancers: Emotional Counsel and Practical Strategies ""Linda Hamilton's book is excellent and needed. She touches on all aspects of being a dancer."" Jacques d'Amboise, Founder, National Dance Institute, New York""A comprehensive and valuable book for dancers, their parents and teachers, as well as other health care professionals who work with them. She addresses those common, silent, questions that dancers have but are not openly discussed. Her expertise in the field of dance and psychology enable her to speak realistically, with honesty and integrity, about the dancer world. Her commitment is clear--it is time for the dance community to take responsibility in promoting and producing health dancers! This book is a ""must read"" for everyone involved with dance."" Marika Molar, PT, director of physical therapy, Westside Dance Physical Therapy and New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet""Students, dancers, and parents will benefit greatly from reading Advice for Dancers. You will learn how better eating habits will help you lose weight, that starving or crash diets are not the answer and can hurt you for the rest of your life. Everyone is not meant to be thin or have the perfect body. Linda Hamilton shows you how to be the best that you can be."" Faith Shaw Petrides, president, Dance Professionals Associates, Ltd., and author of The Dance Directory""A unique and much-needed volume for our times that is sure to be an invaluable help, resource, and reference for anybody in the performing arts."" Richard N. Philp, editor in chief, Dance Magazine	""Linda Hamilton's book is excellent and needed. She touches on all aspects of being a dancer.""   Jacques d' Amboise, founder, National Dance Institute, New York  ""This book is an excellent guide that addresses the social, emotional, and physical needs of the developing dancer. I often recommend it as a resource for our students and their parents.""   Peter J. Libman, Director of Student Life, School of American Ballet  ""Dr. Linda Hamilton has for years brought her expertise and very special knowledge, both as a clinical psychologist and former dancer with the New York City Ballet, to her widely read column in Dance Magazine. Now she extends the range of her work to embrace the dancer and his or her body?the problems that can be encountered, the symptoms that can be noticed, and, most important, the action that can be taken. Dr. Hamilton is one of the liveliest writers on dance today, and she has the ability to bring everyday classes and stage stress and strains to vivid and immediate life.""   Clive Barnes, senior theater critic, the New York Post, and senior consulting editor, Dance Magazine   ""The advice and information in this book should be considered the 'gold standard' for anyone involved in the dance world. Linda Hamilton covers all the necessary elements in a dancer's life, and all dancers can benefit from the practical strategies that she recommends to reduce excessive stress, whether it is mental or physical.""   Marika Molnar, PT, director of physical therapy, Westside Dance Physical Therapy and New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet 	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Dancers experience pain, joy, frustration, rapture, failure, applause, and are above the worldly concerns of food, money, and financial security. They live only to dance.Or do they?The reality is dancers of all ages, types, and skill levels often experience incredible physical and psychological stress and have traditionally bore their pain in stoic silence.In this much needed new book, Dance Magazine's Linda Hamilton offers dancers the same type of advice and understanding they have come to trust from her popular monthly column. Psychologist Hamilton--a former dancer with New York City Ballet under the legAndary George Balanchine--offers a complete resource for coping with the day to day pressures of being a dancer. Page after page is filled with the insight that can only come from a person who has been intimately involved in the world of dance.Hamilton outlines strategies for dancers for dealing with a variety of common physical and psychological issues and shows how to be true to your passion and bring back the joy in dancing. The book is filled with answers to dancer's most often asked questions and offers practical methods for dealing with such difficult problems as eating disorders, substance abuse, ruthless competition, and performance anxiety. Advice for Dancers will teach you how to:* Achieve you physical potential and select the dance technique that's right for you* Find out which teaching practices you can trust and why* Learn how to reach your optimal weight without compromising your energy, health, and career* Develop healthy relationships both inside and outside the dance studio* Use a variety of resources to get work, roles, and promotions* Perform technical feats in front of an audience even when you are frightenedAdvice for Dancers is a result of Hamiltion's extensive research and years clinical work with dancers and includes information for a survey of more that 1,000 dancers from across the country.	Dancers experience pain, joy, frustration, rapture, failure, applause, and are above the worldly concerns of food, money, and financial security. They live only to dance.Or do they?The reality is dancers of all ages, types, and skill levels often experience incredible physical and psychological stress and have traditionally bore their pain in stoic silence.In this much needed new book, Dance Magazine's Linda Hamilton offers dancers the same type of advice and understanding they have come to trust from her popular monthly column. Psychologist Hamiltona former dancer with New York City Ballet under the legendary George Balanchineoffers a complete resource for coping with the day to day pressures of being a dancer. Page after page is filled with the insight that can only come from a person who has been intimately involved in the world of dance.Hamilton outlines strategies for dancers for dealing with a variety of common physical and psychological issues and shows how to be true to your passion and bring back the joy in dancing. The book is filled with answers to dancer's most often asked questions and offers practical methods for dealing with such difficult problems as eating disorders, substance abuse, ruthless competition, and performance anxiety. Advice for Dancers will teach you how to:Achieve you physical potential and select the dance technique that's right for youFind out which teaching practices you can trust and whyLearn how to reach your optimal weight without compromising your energy, health, and careerDevelop healthy relationships both inside and outside the dance studioUse a variety of resources to get work, roles, and promotionsPerform technical feats in front of an audience even when you are frightenedAdvice for Dancers is a result of Hamiltion's extensive research and years clinical work with dancers and includes information for a survey of more that 1,000 dancers from across the country.	LINDA H. HAMILTON Ph.D., is a columnist for Dance Magazine and a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City.",allied health professions;arts & photography;books;dance;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;performing arts;physical therapy;psychology & counseling;reference,12
1414065809,"MOON HOLLER MISFITS Fishing and Hunting Club: DEFEAT AT THE FORK Jimmy D. Moore recently retiredafter a thirty-six year career as a professional with the Boy Scouts ofAmerica; he is a freelance outdoor writer and humorist and an active member ofthe Texas Outdoor Writers Association.His work has appeared in Sporting Tales, North American Fisherman, HoneyHole, the Trophy Bass Magazine of Texas, Texas Fish & Game, WaterfallMagazine, online fishing magazines and Scouting and fishing periodicals. Jim is VP Chapter Affairs of Guadalupe RiverTrout Unlimited and serves on the Fly Fishing Committee of PhilmontScout Ranch. Believing that humor is theuniversal language of mankind; it is always Jim's tool to involve an audiencewhether it be a talk or the written word.",books;essays;fishing;humor;humor & entertainment;hunting;hunting & fishing;literature & fiction;short stories;single author;sports;sports & outdoors,12
0452262542,"Why Weight? A Guide to Ending Compulsive Eating Geneen Roth is a writer and a teacher who has gained international prominence through her work in the field of eating disorders.  She is the founder of the Breaking Free workshops, which she has conducted nationwide since 1979.  She is also the author of Feeding the Hungry Heart, Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, and When Food is Love.  A frequent guest on television and radio programs, she has written for and been featured in Tie, Ms., New Woman, Family Circle, and Cosmopolitan.  Her poetry and short stories have been published in numerous anthologies.  Born in New York City, she now lives in northern California.",addiction & recovery;books;diets & weight loss;drug dependency;eating disorders;fitness & dieting;health;neuropsychology;nutrition;psychology & counseling;self-help;weight loss,12
0911311335,"Nature's Silent Music: A Rucksack Naturalist's Ireland Dr. Philip S. Callahan is a philosopher as well as a top-grade   scientist. An internationally famous entomologist and ornithologist, he has   been responsible for breakthrough discoveries in both areas.  He is also an   explorer who has walked across mainland China and the Syrian Desert,   observing the intricate ways of man and nature wherever he went.     He entered the U.S. Army Air Force in 1942, and served two years in the   European Theater of Operations during World War II. Hiking around the world   after he war, he worked as a freelance photographer and writer. Later, he   attended Fordham University and received his B.A. and M.S. degrees from the   University of Arkansas and his Ph.D. from Kansas State University. He   served as assistant professor of the Entomology Department at Louisiana   State University and later joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture,   Southern Grain Insects Research Laboratory as Project Leader for Insect   Biophysics. He was also Professor of Entomology on the graduate faculty of   the University of Georgia. In 1969 he transferred to USDA Insect Attractant   and Behavior Laboratory at Gainesville, Florida. Callahan served as a full   professor on the graduate faculty of the University of Florida, and on the   staff of The Olive W. Garvey Center for the Improvement of Human   Functioning, Inc. as an infrared systems and low energy consultant.     His research involved the utilization of nonlinear far infrared radiation   by biological systems and its applications to insect control and medicine.   He has developed theories of insect communication based on the waveguide   characteristics of insect spines and has postulated that such spines are   thermoelectret-coated dielectric waveguide aerials with the ability to   receive short wavelength IR and microwave frequencies. His work in   biophysics might best be called studies in insect molecular bioelectronics.     He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers and numerous books,   including: My Search for Traces of God; A Walk in the Sun; Nature's Silent   Music; Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions; Tuning in to Nature; and,   Paramagnetism.",books;energy;engineering;europe;general;ireland;mental & spiritual healing;new age;occult;professional & technical;religion & spirituality;travel,12
0806132256,"From Mounds to Mammoths: A Field Guide to Oklahoma Prehistory, Second Edition Claudette Marie Gilbert prepared the first edition of Oklahoma Prehistory while working for the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey.Robert L. Brooks is Director of Oklahoma Archaeological Survey at the University of Oklahoma.",americas;anthropology;archaeology;books;history;midwest;native american studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states,12
0896584798,"Vintage International Harvester Tractors (Town Square Books) ""In this tribute, abundant illustrations accompany the text in celebration of the Farmall and other International Harvester tractors.""   -- Reference & Research Book News	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Town Square Books from Voyageur Press provide entertaining, in-depth coverage of popular cultural icons, collectibles, nostalgia, and Americana. Town Square Books have an appealing balance of lively text, crisp full-color photography, and careful reproduction of rare archival material.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ralph W. Sanders is the photographer for the long-running  DuPont Classic Farm Tractor calendar, which has a print run of  280,000. He is the author/photographer of Voyageur Press' bestselling  ""Vintage Farm Tractors"" and ""Historic Farm Tractors Calendar"" and has  contributed to or written dozens of books and magazine articles on  vintage tractors. Ralph was born and raised on a central Illinois farm  where he grew up working some of the machines collectors now seek.",agricultural sciences;americana;antiques & collectibles;automotive;books;classic cars;crafts;engineering;hobbies & home;professional & technical;science & math;special topics,12
0809136821,"My Life, My Choices: Key Issues for Young Adults Mary Ann Burkley Wojno has been a high school math teacher for twenty-three years and an instructor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Akron. Now retired, she lives in Stow, Ohio.",adolescent psychology;books;christian books & bibles;education;fitness & dieting;health;inspirational;ministry & church leadership;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality;spirituality;youth ministry,12
1899791485,"Quentin Crisp Tim Fountain is a writer working in film, theatre and television and is the Dramaturgue of London's pioneering Bush Theatre. He is the author of the hit play based on Crisp, Resident Alien which opened in London in 1999 and off Broadway in August 2000.",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;gay;gay & lesbian;mid atlantic;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;regional u.s.;social sciences;specific demographics,12
0805807519,"The Psychology of Touch Because of its wide scope and unique approach, this volume is very useful for the student learning or the researcher investigating somatosensation....well organized....It is this difference in presentation and approach that makes the book valuable.Contemporary Psychology...a fascinating introduction to this area. Libraries will want it as a resource for students and researchers in psychology, special education, and the allied health professions.CHOICE",behavioral sciences;books;cognitive psychology;fitness & dieting;health;mental health;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0786288450,"Twelve Extraordinary Women: How God Shaped Women of the Bible, And What He Wants to Do With You John MacArthur is the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, president of the Masters College and Seminary, and featured teacher with the Grace to You media ministry. In more than four decades of ministry, John has written dozens of best-selling books, including The MacArthur Study Bible, The Gospel According to Jesus, and Slave. He and his wife, Patricia, have four married children and fifteen grandchildren.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Tamara Adams gives a tone of authenticity to the stories of 12 remarkable biblical women. In Adams's voice one can hear Ruth's steadfast commitment to the needs of her mother-in-law after Naomi's husband's untimely death. Adams creates a tone of understanding as Martha and Mary, sisters of Lazarus, learn to practice love of God by choice instead of circumstance. When Jesus reaches out and requests a drink of water from the Samaritan woman despised by the Jews for her mixed race, listeners can her the love and compassion he offers her in Adams's voice. Overall, Adams uses subtle, suggestive accents and a versatile range to deliver polished, believable stories about women with traits of integrity, hospitality, and virtue.  G.D.W.   AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.",biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;inspirational;meditations;reference;religion & spirituality;specific groups;spirituality;women;worship & devotion,12
0486404889,"A General History of the Pyrates (Dover Maritime) Despite varying titles, these are essentially the same book. Published in 1724, Defoe's chronicle of the scourges of the sea was a smashing success, finding a wide audience eager for tales of those cutthroat sailors who flew the skull and crossbones. The Dover edition is more scholarly, including several essays on Defoe, indexes (ships, names, and places), photos, and a postscript. If you don't need any of that, save a couple of bucks and go with the Carroll & Graf edition. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.",18th century;americas;books;criminology;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;professional & technical;ships;social sciences;transportation;united states,12
030733659X,"Toys to Knit: Dozens of Patterns for Heirloom Dolls, Animals, Doll Clothes, and Accessories Tracy Chapman is a knitting designer, design consultant, and workshop instructor who also runs her own children's design business. She lives in Hampshire, England.",antiques & collectibles;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;dolls;hobbies & home;knitting;needlecrafts & textile crafts;toymaking;toys;toys & figurines;toys & models,12
1578067006,"Mort Walker: Conversations (Conversations With Comic Artists Series) Collected interviews with the gifted creator of ""Beetle Bailey,"" ""Hi and Lois,"" and other comics-page standbys Features a new interview conducted by the volume's editor specifically for this book Spans Walker's long career from his start in 1938 to the present Reveals the many firsts Walker achieved --- ""Beetle Bailey"" was the first strip to integrate a black character into a white cast, for example Discusses the politics and mechanics of the business --- his leadership of the National Cartoonists Society and founding of the Museum of Cartoon Art	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	A collection of interviews and articles from 1938-2004 that shows how the cartoonist managed to keep his art and stories fresh for over seventy years of production	Jason Whiton is an award-winning screenwriter, artist, and teacher based in Putney, VT. His work has appeared in ""Rolling Stone,"" ""USA Weekend,"" ""Woman's World,"" ""Japan Times,"" ""Sun,"" the ""Instrumentalist,"" the ""Valley Comic News,"" ""Request,"" and ""Photographer's Forum Annual.""	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",architects & photographers;art;artists;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;cartooning;comics & graphic novels;humor & entertainment;individual artists;pop culture,12
1596581220,"St. Louis University: Off the Record (College Prowler) (College Prowler: Off the Record) The new kid on the block when it comes to student-to-student assessments of college campuses. -- Benjamin Gilbert, Washington Post, April 27, 2004The prospective college student's antidote to the Princeton Review doldrums. -- Melissa Kaplan, Boston Globe, May 23, 2004The real lowdown on campus life. -- Laura Randall and Kimetris N. Baltrip, New York Times, January 18, 2004",books;college & university;college entrance;college guides;counseling;education;education & reference;new;schools & teaching;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks,12
0595095615,"Selling Old Books the New Dot Com Way: Your Guide to Starting and Running an Internet Bookselling Business Suzanne F. Pitner has been selling books online since 1997.  Over those years online, she   has come into contact with many other online book dealers who have asked the questions that are answered   in this book.  Suzanne is also employed at a local community college.",books;business & investing;business & management;computers & technology;e-commerce;education & reference;entrepreneurship;home based;industries & professions;internet & web culture;small business & entrepreneurship;web marketing,12
1897784805,"Scottish Murder Stories (Scottish Literature) Molly Whittington-Egan is a leading true-crime writer whose credits include The Murder Almanac, The Bedside Book of Murder, The Story of Mr George Edalji, Khaki Mischief: The Agra Murder Case; Murder on the Bluff: The Carew Poisoning Case and Murder on File.",anthologies;biographies & memoirs;books;criminology;literature & fiction;murder & mayhem;mystery;politics & social sciences;social sciences;thriller & suspense;true accounts;true crime,12
0929392736,"Windows XP Embedded Step by Step James Beau Cseri has extensive experience in embedded Microsoft operating systems. Over the course of the last several years he has taught dozens of engineers how to develop with Windows CE 3.0, Windows NT Embedded 4.0, and Windows XP Embedded. Currently an independent consultant, Mr. Cseri was an embedded engineer and class instructor for Annasoft Systems and A7 Engineering. Mr. Cseri received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California.",books;computers & technology;embedded systems;hardware;home computing & how-to;microprocessors & system design;microsoft;operating systems;programming;software;windows os;windows xp,12
0007126255,"Collins Gem Spanish Dictionary, 6e (Spanish Edition) FAKE: ont face=arial size=2>  HarperCollins Publishers is one of the world's leading English-language publishers with headquarters in New York. The company is part of News America Publishing Group, a division of News Corporation. The house of Mark Twain, the Bronte Sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Maurice Sendak, HarperCollins was founded in New York City in 1817 by the brothers James and John Harper. The worldwide book group, which was formed following News Corporation's acquisition of the British publisher William Collins in January 1990, has significant publishing interests in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia.",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;reference;spanish;used & rental textbooks,12
0972441395,"The Trad Guide to Joshua Tree: 60 Favorite Climbs from 5.5 to 5.9 An exceptional guidebook for moderate climbers wanting to get the most out of their...trip to this desert rock oasis. -- Camp4.comThe book covers, in extensive detail, some of the best introductory crack climbs in the park. -- The Inyo (CA) RegisterThese climbs will test the abilities of rock climbers able to climb bolted routes with higher ratings -- z	Charlie Winger is a prolific mountaineer who has climbed hundreds of peaks in Colorado, California, the 99 peaks on the Sierra Club's Desert Peaks List, 5 of the 7 continental summits, and much more. Diane takes a more relaxed approach to hiking, with some of her favorites being treks in New Zealand, Peru, and Nepal.",adventure;books;education & reference;mountain climbing;mountaineering;outdoor recreation;pacific;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;united states;west,12
B000FO5B2I,"Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides) ""The discussion on the common beliefs about enterprise architectures and how they relate to Web services is a gem and worth the price of the book. Similarly insightful chapters cover the impact of Web services on the enterprise, adoption steps and change management issues in implementing Web services projects. This a great book that every manager contemplating a Web services project should read."" - Toufic Boubez, Ph.D., Author of ""Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Web services are leading to the use of more packaged software either as an internal service or an external service available over the Internet. These services, which will be connected together to create the information technology systems of the future, will require less custom software in our organizations and more creativity in the connections between the services. This book begins with a high-level example of how an average person in an organization might interact with a service-oriented architecture. As the book progresses, more technical detail is added in a ""peeling of the onion"" approach. The leadership opportunities within these developing service-oriented architectures are also explained. At the end of the book there is a compendium or ""pocket library"" for software technology related to service-oriented architectures.                                         Only web services book to cover both data management and software engineering perspectives, excellent resource for ALL members of IT teams Jargon free, highly illustrated, with introduction that anyone can read that then leads into increasing technical detail Provides a set of leadership principles and suggested application for using this technology.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",architecture;books;business;computers & technology;databases;education & reference;internet & web culture;professional & technical;reference;software;web development & design;web services,12
1879505312,"Zen and the Art of Screenwriting: Insights and Interviews Twilight Zone and Playhouse 90 veteran William Froug gives indispensable advice in that the Zen encourages you to be true to your voice, write what you want, and dispense with all those books that straitjacket you into a formula. Think of the money you'll save! (Unless, of course, you have an urgent need to write a Speed or Die Hard sequel.) Froug also reinforces my Northern California bias (my home turf): two of the interviews that pepper this book are with screenwriters who live there--Bo Goldman and David and Janet Peoples.	William Froug",arts & photography;books;education & reference;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;movies;performing arts;play & scriptwriting;reference;research & publishing guides;screenwriting;writing,12
0395652391,"A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America Richard M. Sherwood, a lifelong sailor, lives in Amherst, New Hampshire.",boating;books;education & reference;instructional;miscellaneous;professional & technical;reference;sailing;ships;sports & outdoors;transportation;water sports,12
1574411624,"Singing Mother Home: A Psychologist's Journey through Anticipatory Grief ""The book touched me. It made me laugh, cry, and feel as if  she accompanied me in my similar experience."" -- Michael Watkins,  Executive Director, Maximum Living Consultants""This is a moving tribute to the power of love. . . It is  open, frank, funny, and upsetting--a touching story."" -- Judy Jordan,  co-director, Jean Baker Miller Institute, Wellesley College""This is a unique book by a professional who understands the  field of loss and grief. . . .poignantly heartbreaking."" -- Melba  Vasquez, Ph.D., past-president American Psychology Association's  division of counseling psychology and division of women	Donna Davenport was a Phi Beta Kappa English major who received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology in 1978. She has authored over a hundred articles and papers, and co-authored a textbook on psychotherapy. She is an associate professor in the Counseling Psychology doctoral program at Texas A University, and has a private practice.    One of her areas of expertise has been grief. In addition to working with a number of patients experiencing various forms of loss, she teaches a doctoral seminar in Dying and Bereavement Issues in Psychotherapy.",biographies & memoirs;books;death & grief;family relationships;fitness & dieting;grief & bereavement;health;memoirs;parent & adult child;parenting & relationships;psychology & counseling;self-help,12
1858985919,"Innovation, Organization and Economic Dynamics: Selected Essays (Elgar Monographs) 'Giovanni Dosi is one of the most iconoclastic, creative, and constructive economists writing today, and this collection of his writings provides a splendid view of what he has been arguing. Standard neoclassical economics is at a dead end, and has lost the way. Evolutionary economics broadly defined is clearly the way to go and, in fact, has advanced rapidly. For economists who tend to believe these things, this book is must reading. It is also must reading for economists who object to these propositions, for they surely will have to meet this challenge sooner or later.' (- Richard R. Nelson, Columbia University, US) 'Giovanni Dosi is one of the most original and stimulating theorists in the field of evolutionary economics. Since his pioneering publication, together with colleagues, on Technical Change and Economic Theory he has published numerous papers in a variety of journals which make an outstanding contribution to the further development of this theory. This book will prove invaluable in bringing together his work in a systematic form.' -- - Christopher Freeman, Emeritus Professor of Science Policy, University of Sussex, UK and Maastricht University, The Netherlands	, Professor of Economics, St Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy",books;business & investing;economics;education & reference;industries & professions;marketing;marketing & sales;popular economics;research;science & math;technology;theory,12
0132590115,"The Essential Guide to Telecommunications The telecommunications industry encompasses hundreds of different technologies, which in turn have spawned many trade names, jargon terms, and legal definitions. Those looking for a comprehensive introduction to the technologies, laws, and marketing programs that govern telecommunications need to read The Essential Guide to Telecommunications. Author Annabel Z. Dodd begins by pointing out that telecommunications technologies have everything to do with signals moving over media. She then goes on to catalog some of the various kinds of signals and media, covering traditional switched telephone service, dedicated lines, public branch exchanges (PBXs), and automatic call distributors (ACDs) along the way. After that foray into technology, she gets into the U.S. telecommunications business environment, focusing heavily on the federal breakup of AT in 1984 and the Telecommunications Act of 1996. She then explains additional technologies; data communications and the Internet-ISDN, Frame Relay, and analog modems all get attention. The author also pays plenty of attention to wireless solutions, including satellite communications. Unlike Newton's Telecom Dictionary (which remains an excellent resource), this book can be successfully read from start to finish by a reader with practically no telecommunications knowledge at the outset. Read and understand--that's what good technical books, like this one, enable you to do. --David Wall	A non-technical guide to the industry The issues and topics covered in ""The Essential Guide to Telecommunications"" are based on the concerns of end-user clients that I work with in my consulting practice. I also rely heavily on feedback from adults, all of whom work in telecommunications, who take my classes at Northeastern University. They include staff that manage their frim's telecommunications systems and people that work with or for telephone companies. My book is based on practical, everyday issues that carriers, customers and people that work with telecommunications firms need to understand. Over 125,000 copies of the first two editions of ""The Essential Guide to Telecommunications"" were sold. Moreover, it has been translated into ten languages worldwide including Chinese, Russian and Portuguese. The Wharton School, MIT and other major universities and schools worldwide use it in courses on telecommunications. In addition, telephone companies, consulting firms, law firms and financial services companies have purchased my book for employees who need to understand telecommunications but want a book with non-technical descriptions of technology. Along with explanations of technology, I have included examples of applications and historical highlights. I explain how the industry evolved and the technology changed. The stories and descriptions that accompany the technical details are key to the book.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	PrefaceIn the twenty-two months between writing the first and second editions of this book, enormous changes occurred in telecommunications. The growing importance of the Internet and the rise of convergence are the most notable of these. Technology in the form of higher capacity fiber optic networks and faster processors hastened these developments and lowered the cost of building new networks.The Internet and the lure of competition for local services have attracted large sums of money from investors. This money has been used to form new companies and promote mergers between network providers. Moreover, the world has become smaller. Network providers are expanding beyond their traditional territories. Local telephone companies are no longer strictly local-cable TV and utility companies are expanding into telecommunications and long distance providers are becoming local providers. In addition, many companies are attempting to establish a worldwide presence. The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, Second Edition presents profiles of industry segments and vendor types to provide readers with an understanding of the industry. The increase in the number of network providers, the growing role of resellers and the fast pace of mergers has created new layers of complexity. The roles of Internet Service Providers, backbone Internet providers, competitive local exchange carriers and cable TV companies are explained. In addition, regulatory rulings and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 are examined in light of their impact on consumers, commercial organizations, and carriers. The language and significance of important telecommunications technologies is explored. The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, Second Edition is not intended to be a deeply technical book. Rather, it is an overview of technologies and an explanation of the structure of the telecommunications industry. Technologies important in competition for local calling, high-capacity communications and Internet access are clarified. Intertwined with high-level technical explanations are examples of how the various vendors interconnect their networks.This book is intended for non-technical people working in the field of telecommunications, laymen interested in learning more about the field, and for people responsible for the administration of telecommunications services for their organizations. They include regulatory staff, salespeople, law firms, research organizations, marketing personnel, human resources professionals, project managers, telecommunications managers, and high-level administrators.The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, Second Edition starts out with interpretations of fundamental concepts so that readers will have a basis for understanding more complex, new telecommunications services. It explores the structure of the industry, local competition, regulatory proceedings, the Internet, convergence, and wireless services.Along with explanations of technology are examples of applications and historical highlights. How the industry evolved and how the technology changed is also explored. The stories and descriptions that accompany the technical  	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Telecommunications for everyone! The essential guide for all telecom users! In today's ""wired"" world, practically everyone needs to understand telecommunications. With The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, you can-even if you have no technical background at all! Leading consultant Annabel Z. Dodd begins with the fundamental concepts you need to know to understand the industry. You'll learn the differences between analog and digital signals; what bandwidth is; why protocols and architectures matter; what multiplexing and compression are; and much more including local and wide area networks. Next, she covers all the basics of business telephone systems, including PBXs, Key systems, computer-telephony integration, voicemail, ACDs, wiring, and Centrex central-office alternatives. Learn what the Telecommunications Act of 1996 will-and won't-do to promote competition among phone companies, cable and wireless firms, and others. Discover today's advanced public network services- and tomorrow's. Understand the technology and business advantages associated with:   *ATM  *DSL  *ISDN  *Frame relay  *SONET  The Essential Guide to Telecommunications includes detailed, common-sense explanations of the Internet and wireless services, including intranets, extranets, PCS services, wireless data, wireless local telephony, Low Earth Orbit Satellites (LEOS), Internet and wireless security, cable modems, and more. No industry will shape the 21st century as profoundly as telecommunications. Whether you're a technical, financial, sales, marketing or PR professional-or simply a citizen who communicates-this book makes sense of it all!	ANNABEL Z. DODD, adjunct professor at Northeastern University's state-of-the-art engineering program, teaches courses in Telecommunications and Data Communications for the Non-Technical. Formerly a marketing manager at NYNEX and Telecommunications Manager at Dennison Manufacturing, a Fortune 500 company, she has consulted with major corporations and institutions in the Greater Boston area for over a decade. She publishes the newsletter Dodd on the Line.	PrefaceEnormous changes in telecommunications occurred in the two years between the second and third editions of The Essential Guide to Telecommunications. The Essential Guide to Telecommunications is intended as a road map clarifying technologies, history and trends in telecommunications. Technological innovations in fiber optics and attendant lower costs has led to the construction of vast networks. The book contrasts the glut of these fiber optic networks in long distance routes and some urban areas with their scarcity in developing countries, rural and most suburban regions. The Essential Guide to Telecommunications explains how technology and regulatory factors impact each other. Deregulation and the presence of competition have resulted in the development of technological innovations. These innovations, particularly those in gigabit Ethernet and optical switching, are examined.Cellular service has grown tremendously in the last decade. It is a key technology for providing basic voice service in large parts of the world. The book examines technologies used to provide greater capacity for basic voice service in fast growing urban areas, rural communities and tall skyscrapers. It also explains the advanced cellular technologies for transmitting higher speed data and accessing the Internet over wireless networks. It also addresses the concerns about safety. It is not known what impact fears about cancer and driving safety will have on the cellular market.The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, third edition reviews telecommunications in Europe, Asia and Latin America, as well as in developing countries, and the wide-reaching impact of wireless technology in these areas. Deregulation of local long distance and international services, as well as industry structure and major carriers, are covered. The structure of the telecommunications industry and steps in deregulation are examined in key areas of the world. The pace of adoption of technologies, such as high-speed Internet access, also is highlighted. The significance of a strong telecommunications infrastructure on the economy and on international trade is widely recognized and has prompted governments' attention worldwide.The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, third edition presents profiles of industry segments and vendor types to provide readers an understanding of the industry. The roles of Internet service providers, backbone Internet providers, competitive local exchange carriers, utilities and cable TV companies are explained. The number of network providers and resellers and the fast pace of mergers has created new layers of complexity. In addition, regulatory rulings and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 are examined in light of their impact on consumers, commercial organizations and carriers. The language and significance of important telecommunications technologies are explored. The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, third edition is not intended to be a deeply technical book. Rather, it is an overview of technologies and an explanation of the structure of the telecommunications industry. Technologies important in competition for local calling, high-capacity communications, third generation wireless services and Internet access are clarified. Intertwined with high-level technical explanations are examples of how the various vendors interconnect their networks. The book explains key technologies and options available for small and large organizations and consumers. It further explores significant trends, applications and the impact of the Internet. This book is intended for non-technical people working in the field of telecommunications, laymen interested in learning more about the field and people responsible for the administration of telecommunications services for their organizations. They include regulatory staff, salespeople, law firms, research organizations, marketing personnel, human resources professionals, project managers, telecommunications managers and high-level administrators.The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, third edition starts out with interpretations of fundamental concepts so that readers will have a basis for understanding more complex, new telecommunications services. It examines the structure of the industry, local competition, regulatory proceedings, the Internet, convergence and wireless services.Along with explanations of technology are examples of applications and historical highlights. How the industry evolved and how the technology changed is explained. The stories and descriptions that accompany the technical details are key to the book. 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Preface    Preface  The world has changed since the previous edition of this book was published in 2001. People are more mobile, and carriers and customers use more of the technologies such as voice over IP and high-speed networks that were discussed as emerging services in earlier editions. The world has become smaller as a result of the increasing availability of high-speed networks, and changes are occurring in developing countries as well as Europe, North America, and technologically savvy countries in Asia and the Middle East. Increasingly, carriers that build and support these networks are large conglomerates with worldwide scope. Many carriers are expanding internationally and merging to achieve growth and economic clout.  However, growth, competition, and expanded Internet access present challenges to customers and carriers. These challenges include security risks and competitors abilities to differentiate their services without entering into pricing wars with attendant low margins. The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, Fourth Edition tracks technological advances and delineates challenges carriers face. It examines these issues in both wireline and wireless services.  The Essential Guide to Telecommunications examines technological and business issues. It provides real-life examples of how consumers, small- and medium-sized organizations, and enterprise customers use technologies. It also discusses critical factors that influence customers and carriers adoption of new technology. Technologies covered include voice over IP, personal area wireless networks (PANs) that cover short distances within buildings, Wi-Fi wireless networks, high-speed wireless broadband, and next generation mobile services. The Fourth Edition examines next generation wireless mobile technologies capable of carrying vast amounts of high-speed data and video traffic. It also discusses basic cellular technologies and technological advances enabling one-third of the worlds population to afford and own mobile phones. Mobile services provide low-cost, basic voice service in large parts of the world where in many instances a mobile phone is the first phone that customers own. In addition to exploring trends, the book provides a high-level overview of the architecture of next generation and current cellular networks, including mobile switches, softswitches, media gateways, and base stations. It also explains new wireless technologies used in sensor networks to control heating, lights, inventory levels, and manufacturing processes. It compares the differences and similarities between wireless technologies such as Zigbee, Bluetooth, and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in terms of the technological differences as well as the way these technologies are used. The significance of a strong telecommunications infrastructure on the economy and on international trade is widely recognized and has prompted governments attention worldwide. The Essential Guide to Telecommunications reviews regulatory issues that are of concern to carriers and governments. It explores the role of regulations in promoting innovation and competition and robust networks critical to national security. In addition, regulatory rulings are examined in light of their impact on customer segments and carriers.  The Essential Guide to Telecommunications presents profiles of industry sectors including cable TV providers, incumbent telephone companies, wireless carriers, Voice over IP carriers, and competitive local exchange carriers. It explores strategies carriers deploy to gain a competitive edge and the network technologies used to further these strategies. In addition to looking at the architecture of wireless networks, the book depicts networks based on Internet protocol (IP) as well as traditional circuit switched and signaling systems that tie networks together and link applications to users. It also explores how IP networks are connected to other carriers IP networks and to public switched telephone networks. In addition to wireless services and the structure of carriers networks, The Essential Guide to Telecommunications analyzes equipment and technologies used in enterprises and in homes. It explains how converged telephone systems are usedtheir architecture and the connection to applications such as speech recognition, instant messaging, and multi-media messaging. Also, the impact of and technological advances in local area networks and fiber optic cabling are explained.  The language and significance of important telecommunications technologies are explored. It is not intended to be a deeply technical book. Rather, it is an overview of technologies and an explanation of the structure of the telecommunications industry. It also includes quotes and interviews with staff at key organizations, who express their views of how technologies, the Internet, and regulations have impacted and will continue to influence the industry. This book is intended for nontechnical people who work in the field of telecommunications, teach at and attend classes at educational institutions, and those responsible for the administration of telecommunications services for their organizations. The intended audience includes regulatory staff, salespeople, attorneys, researchers, marketing personnel, human resources professionals, project managers, instructors, telecommunications managers, and high-level administrators.  The Essential Guide to Telecommunications starts out with interpretations of fundamental concepts so that readers will have a basis for understanding more complex, new telecommunications services. It examines the structure of the industry, local competition, regulatory proceedings, the Internet, convergence, and wireless services.  Along with explanations of technology are examples of applications and historical highlights. How the industry evolved and how the technology changed is explained. The stories and descriptions that accompany the technical details are key to the book.   Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.   	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;computer science;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;engineering;networking;networks;new;professional & technical;protocols & apis;telecommunications;used & rental textbooks,12
0520066839,"The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer ""[Byock is] very successful in his adept renderings of Eddic rhythm...  The translation of prose is equally fine.""  -- Judy Quinn, Parergon 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Text: English (translation)	""This is a book of the highest importance. No one should attempt to teach about Viking society or claim to understand it without being familiar with this chilling and enduring myth.""--Eleanor Searle, author of Predatory Kinship & the Creation of Norman Power""Byock's translation is excellent, but his thorough introduction is of equal scholarly importance. . . . His section on Richard Wagner's use of the Volsung material in writing his Ring will expand the topic toward modern Wagnerians.""--Michael Bell, University of Colorado""The Saga of the Volsungs is one of the most important texts of Old Icelandic literature, with its treatment of Old Scandinavian heroic traditions. . . . The most difficult part of the text to translate is, of course, the poetry, but also here the translator has been successful.""--Vsteinn Olason, University of Oslo	""This is a book of the highest importance. No one should attempt to  teach about Viking society or claim to understand it without being familiar with  this chilling and enduring myth."" --Eleanor Searle,  Past President of the  Medieval Academy of America 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Jesse L. Byock teaches Old Norse and medieval Scandinavian subjects at the University of California, Los Angeles and is the author of Feud in the Icelandic Saga (1982).",books;contemporary;criticism & theory;england;europe;gothic & romantic;history;history & criticism;iceland;literature & fiction;movements & periods;world literature,12
0471962686,"The IC Bus: From Theory to Practice Text: English (translation) Original Language: French	Using the world of micro-controller-managed serial buses, this user-friendly guide offers comprehensive coverage of the theory essential to design the best possible communications bus for any application. Describes typical industrial and consumer applications and provides examples of modular solutions at various levels of complexity as well as complete circuit diagrams. The accompanying disk contains software for the I2C bus.",books;computer science;computers & technology;electrical & electronics;engineering;networking;networks;new;professional & technical;protocols & apis;software engineering;used & rental textbooks,12
0471405442,"American Regional Cuisine ""...diverse collection of recipes..."" (Internet Wire, 2 October 2002)	American Regional CuisineThe culinary heritage of the United States is as rich and multifaceted as the nation itself. American Regional Cuisine celebrates everything that is different, distinctive, and delicious in the diverse traditions of American cooking--from New England Clam Chowder to Carolina Pulled Pork Barbecue, from Floribbean Grouper with Black Bean, Jicama, and Corn Salsa to San Francisco Cioppino.This unique cookbook and guide to the finest in regional American cooking features recipes for 250 of the most popular and memorable dishes from eleven regional culinary traditions, including Cajun and Creole cuisine, Tex-Mex cuisine, and the cuisine of California and Hawaii. Grouped by region, these recipes are drawn from every part of the menu, offering a range of complete meals for each culinary style.The book establishes a cultural and historical context and describes the indigenous ingredients, unusual techniques, and special touches that give each style of cooking its unique signature. Well-known chefs and restaurateurs introduce the cuisine of each region, from Michael Foley (owner of Printer's Row restaurant in Chicago) and Allen Susser (owner and executive chef of Chef Allen's in Miami) to Bert Cutino (owner of the Sardine Factory in Monterey, California).Detailed, easy-to-follow instructions ensure that nothing is left to chance when it comes to preparing mouthwatering soups, tempting appetizers, and elegant entr?es from every American culinary tradition. And more than 70 color and black-and-white photographs demonstrate cooking techniques and reveal the beauty of finished dishes.American Regional Cuisine is a vibrant and inspiring resource for anyone who would like to capture the incredible variety and originality of American cooking in all of its authentic glory-from professional chefs and culinary students to serious home cooks.	Praise for American Regional Cuisine""Travel among these pages-enjoy! What follows is insight into and details of what makes each American culinary region unique. It's a history, anthropology, and cooking class all in one!""-From the Foreword by Martin Yan, author and host of Yan Can Cook""This is one of the most useful cookbooks you will ever own. There have been many regional cooking techniques that have been developed in the course of our culinary history. In each of our unique American regions, inspiring indigenous ingredients have been discovered. This book demonstrates a variety of elegant and delicious waysto implement sound principles of good cooking.""-Allen Susser, chef-owner of Chef Allen's""It is wonderful to see American regional cuisine receiving the recognition it deserves. In the last twenty years, this cuisine has been steadily refined until it is legitimately a separate and exciting element in the culinary world. This collection by The Art Institutes highlights hundreds of specialty recipes that truly define the diversity of the different regions across America.""-Mark Tarbell, chef-owner of Tarbell's	The Art Institutes system of 23 education institutions is located nationwide, providing an important source of design, media arts, fashion, and culinary professionals for over 35 years, with more than 125,000 graduates. Since 1991, The Art Institutes system has offered Culinary Arts programs, with 14 locations currently offering programs in culinary arts and three locations offering culinary arts management. The Culinary Arts program at The Art Institutes features professional kitchen environments and, in some locations, fully operational restaurants. Students work alongside instructors to learn and perform the hands-on skills chefs use each day, beginning with tool usage, kitchen procedures, basic cooking, nutrition, and management courses.",agricultural sciences;books;cookbooks;fitness & dieting;food & wine;food science;health;new;regional & international;science & math;u.s. regional;used & rental textbooks,12
1577311000,"A Writer's Book of Days: A Spirited Companion and Lively Muse for the Writing Life Musicians practice. Athletes practice. And so, too, argues Judy Reeves, should writers practice. Her Writer's Book of Days provides a ""writing prompt"" for each day of the year, and then some: ""Write about a time someone said yes""; ""Write about leaving""; ""Something seemed different."" The more you practice, says Reeves, the more you write. And writing from a prompt, she adds, is like having ""someone provid[e] the music when you want to dance."" The prompts are the backbone of this book, but its pages are fleshed out with advice, inspiration, quotations from writers, encouragement, and a profusion of literary tidbits. Write from the sense, Reeves recommends. Audition words. Take risks. And when all else fails, amuse yourself with these astonishing tidbits from literary lives: T.S. Eliot, we learn, preferred writing with a head cold; Flaubert kept his lover's slippers and mittens in his desk drawer; and Friedrich von Schiller liked to invoke his muse by sniffing rotten apples. --Jane Steinberg	This book dances around the imagination and makes you take out your pens and journal to play.   SARK, artist/author of Succulent Wild Woman Any time someone asks me for writing tips  How can I start? What do you do about writer's block?  I suggest they peruse this wonderful compendium of writing lore, empathy, and daily practice.   Janet Fitch, author of Paint It Black and White Oleander A delightful mix of commonsense and inspirationI suggest this book to every writing seminar graduate  a way to take the experience home and carry on.   Christina Baldwin, author of Storycatcher and Life's Companion	      --This text refers to the 							Kindle Edition	 edition.",authorship;books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,12
0130804290,"Comparative Psychology: Evolution and Development of Behavior This introduction to the evolutionary and developmental principles underlying the study of animal behavior provides a broad view of animal behavior from the comparative psychology perspective. Emphasizing problems and research interests that have traditional relevance for psychologist, the book uses examples drawn from specialized journals to provide a firm grasp of evolutionary science as it is applied to the understanding of behavior.  The author discusses all aspects of the animal behavior including comparative learning and cognition, brain evolution and behavior, behavior genetics, behavioral ecology, social behavior in an ecological context, early experience and development, and the ontogeny of social behavior.  For individuals interested in developing and deepening their understanding of evolutionary principles within psychology.	Any scientific discipline has two major goals: to promote original research leading to new knowledge in its area of interest and to become a source of education for itself and for the larger science within which it is inserted. As a teacher, my graduate and undergraduate courses on comparative psychology and animal behavior have always been organized with both goals in mind. I have tried to convey to the students the excitement I feel about comparative researchthe same excitement that drove me into this profession during my undergraduate years at the University of Buenos Aires. I have also striven to provide psychology students with a firm grasp of evolutionary science as it is applied to the understanding of the behavior and psychological processes of human and nonhuman animals. My problem has always been the lack of textbooks that I considered appropriate for this task. Most current textbooks on animal behavior do not cover evolutionary principles in detail because they are written with the biology student in mind. Unlike psychology majors, biology students have plenty of opportunities to be exposed to evolutionary principles. The main incentive to write this book was, in fact, to try to fill this gap.    For these reasons, this is not a typical book on animal behavior. First, this book was written for undergraduate psychology majors who take a course on comparative psychology or animal behavior. As a result, it includes more general information about evolutionary theory, human evolution, and brain evolution than is typical of most animal behavior textbooks. Second, this book provides extensive coverage of areas that continue to be at the core of comparative psychology, including behavioral development, learning, and cognition. I expect students to develop and deepen their understanding of evolutionary principles in general, and of the application of such principles to the study of behavior in particular. In my opinion, one of the main contributions of comparative psychology to the science of psychology is to provide students with a firm grasp of evolutionary thinking from within psychology.    I also hope that this book will contribute to strengthening the identity of comparative psychology as a research discipline. I have struggled to provide comparative psychologists with a tool to expose students in psychology and the social sciences to the intricacies of evolutionary science. Psychology is increasingly influenced by the development of biological disciplines including neuroscience, molecular biology, and genetics. Many of the newest scientific developments have a tremendous potential to increase our understanding; of behavior and psychological processes. However, this task demands a new, generation of psychologists equipped with the conceptual machinery capable of absorbing biological principles without losing the behavioral perspective. I believe comparative psychologists are in an ideal position to carry out this task for the benefit of their own discipline, as well as of psychology as a whole.    The organization of this book reflects years of teaching experience during which I changed and adjusted the sequence of topics to be covered in class according to the experience I was gaining in the process. Its relatively unorthodox structure made it particularly necessary for me to receive feedback from my colleagues and students. I have made important changes in the content and structure of this book as a result of their reviews and comments, for which I am very grateful. They have undoubtedly improved the final product.    I appreciate and acknowledge the contributions made by those who read one or more chapters of the manuscript, including Marifran Arias, Jeff Bitterman, Aaron Blaisdell, Daniela Brunner, Mike Domjan, Francisco Fernandez Serra, Gary Greenberg, Douglas Grimsley, Jerry Hirsch, Geoffrey Hall, Anita Hartmann, Jennifer Higa, John Horner, Masato Ishida, H. Wayne Ludvigson, Euan M. Macphail, Roger Mellgren, Ruben N. Muzio, Jesse E. Purdy, Duane Rumbaugh, Pablo Tubaro, and Jeannette P. Ward. Francisco Fernandez Serra introduced me to the work of Gomez Pereira, described in Chapter 1, whereas Jim Chambers and several contributors of the Romarch discussion list guided me through the story of human sacrifices in Ancient Carthage included in Chapter 5. Several graduate and undergraduate students also made significant contributions to the manuscript, including especially Ixchel Alvarez, Bambi Bonilla, Dawn Hansen, Dawn McVicar, Des Robinson, Steven Stout, and Cindy Weldon. Many students made indirect contributions by commenting on the organization of my courses; their views are now reflected in this book. I also appreciate the diligence with which many colleagues responded to my request for photographs and drawings of their research, including Michael Domjan, Irit Gazit, Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Karen Hissmann, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Ruben Muzio, Katharine Rankin, Duane Rumbaugh, William Smotherman, Josef Terkel, Keiichiro Tsuji, Pablo Tubaro, Jeannette Ward, Masakata Watanabe, Emily Weiss, and Shuhai Xiao. I am fortunate for the support I received from my colleagues and staff in the Psychology Department and in the Mary Couts Burnett Library at TCU. I am especially thankful to David Cross, Jennifer Higa, Tim Hubbard, Tamy Joyce, and Dawn McVicar for their valuable help. I am also thankful to the staff at Prentice Hall who worked around my schedule and provided support during the three years it took me to complete the manuscript.    My deepest appreciation to Jeff Bitterman and Bruce Overmier, who, over the past twenty years, have provided me with the best advice and greatest challenges a student of animal learning and behavior could hope to receive from a mentor; and to Enrique Gandolfi, who brought to my attention the intricacies and rewards of a scientific view of psychology during my undergraduate years. Whatever value readers may find in this book is surely a reflection of their influence. Writing a book is such a complicated task that it would be impossible to accomplish without affecting the lives of those around us. I will be forever grateful to my sons, Santiago and Angel, to Mirta, and to my parents, Elena and Victorio, for their unqualified support, without which I would have never been able to complete this book.    Mauricio R. Papini Texas Christian University	Any scientific discipline has two major goals: to promote original research leading to new knowledge in its area of interest and to become a source of education for itself and for the larger science within which it is inserted. As a teacher, my graduate and undergraduate courses on comparative psychology and animal behavior have always been organized with both goals in mind. I have tried to convey to the students the excitement I feel about comparative researchthe same excitement that drove me into this profession during my undergraduate years at the University of Buenos Aires. I have also striven to provide psychology students with a firm grasp of evolutionary science as it is applied to the understanding of the behavior and psychological processes of human and nonhuman animals. My problem has always been the lack of textbooks that I considered appropriate for this task. Most current textbooks on animal behavior do not cover evolutionary principles in detail because they are written with the biology student in mind. Unlike psychology majors, biology students have plenty of opportunities to be exposed to evolutionary principles. The main incentive to write this book was, in fact, to try to fill this gap.    For these reasons, this is not a typical book on animal behavior. First, this book was written for undergraduate psychology majors who take a course on comparative psychology or animal behavior. As a result, it includes more general information about evolutionary theory, human evolution, and brain evolution than is typical of most animal behavior textbooks. Second, this book provides extensive coverage of areas that continue to be at the core of comparative psychology, including behavioral development, learning, and cognition. I expect students to develop and deepen their understanding of evolutionary principles in general, and of the application of such principles to the study of behavior in particular. In my opinion, one of the main contributions of comparative psychology to the science of psychology is to provide students with a firm grasp of evolutionary thinking from within psychology.    I also hope that this book will contribute to strengthening the identity of comparative psychology as a research discipline. I have struggled to provide comparative psychologists with a tool to expose students in psychology and the social sciences to the intricacies of evolutionary science. Psychology is increasingly influenced by the development of biological disciplines including neuroscience, molecular biology, and genetics. Many of the newest scientific developments have a tremendous potential to increase our understanding; of behavior and psychological processes. However, this task demands a new, generation of psychologists equipped with the conceptual machinery capable of absorbing biological principles without losing the behavioral perspective. I believe comparative psychologists are in an ideal position to carry out this task for the benefit of their own discipline, as well as of psychology as a whole.    The organization of this book reflects years of teaching experience during which I changed and adjusted the sequence of topics to be covered in class according to the experience I was gaining in the process. Its relatively unorthodox structure made it particularly necessary for me to receive feedback from my colleagues and students. I have made important changes in the content and structure of this book as a result of their reviews and comments, for which I am very grateful. They have undoubtedly improved the final product.    I appreciate and acknowledge the contributions made by those who read one or more chapters of the manuscript, including Marifran Arias, Jeff Bitterman, Aaron Blaisdell, Daniela Brunner, Mike Domjan, Francisco Fernandez Serra, Gary Greenberg, Douglas Grimsley, Jerry Hirsch, Geoffrey Hall, Anita Hartmann, Jennifer Higa, John Horner, Masato Ishida, H. Wayne Ludvigson, Euan M. Macphail, Roger Mellgren, Ruben N. Muzio, Jesse E. Purdy, Duane Rumbaugh, Pablo Tubaro, and Jeannette P. Ward. Francisco Fernandez Serra introduced me to the work of Gomez Pereira, described in Chapter 1, whereas Jim Chambers and several contributors of the Romarch discussion list guided me through the story of human sacrifices in Ancient Carthage included in Chapter 5. Several graduate and undergraduate students also made significant contributions to the manuscript, including especially Ixchel Alvarez, Bambi Bonilla, Dawn Hansen, Dawn McVicar, Des Robinson, Steven Stout, and Cindy Weldon. Many students made indirect contributions by commenting on the organization of my courses; their views are now reflected in this book. I also appreciate the diligence with which many colleagues responded to my request for photographs and drawings of their research, including Michael Domjan, Irit Gazit, Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Karen Hissmann, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Ruben Muzio, Katharine Rankin, Duane Rumbaugh, William Smotherman, Josef Terkel, Keiichiro Tsuji, Pablo Tubaro, Jeannette Ward, Masakata Watanabe, Emily Weiss, and Shuhai Xiao. I am fortunate for the support I received from my colleagues and staff in the Psychology Department and in the Mary Couts Burnett Library at TCU. I am especially thankful to David Cross, Jennifer Higa, Tim Hubbard, Tamy Joyce, and Dawn McVicar for their valuable help. I am also thankful to the staff at Prentice Hall who worked around my schedule and provided support during the three years it took me to complete the manuscript.    My deepest appreciation to Jeff Bitterman and Bruce Overmier, who, over the past twenty years, have provided me with the best advice and greatest challenges a student of animal learning and behavior could hope to receive from a mentor; and to Enrique Gandolfi, who brought to my attention the intricacies and rewards of a scientific view of psychology during my undergraduate years. Whatever value readers may find in this book is surely a reflection of their influence. Writing a book is such a complicated task that it would be impossible to accomplish without affecting the lives of those around us. I will be forever grateful to my sons, Santiago and Angel, to Mirta, and to my parents, Elena and Victorio, for their unqualified support, without which I would have never been able to complete this book.    Mauricio R. Papini Texas Christian University",behavioral sciences;books;fitness & dieting;general;health;medical books;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
1584500921,"Java Graphics Programming Library: Concepts to Source Code (with CD-ROM) (Charles River Media Programming) Oswald Campesato, Palo Alto, CA, is a Senior Development Manager for JustSystems, Inc.  He works on various projects that involve Java, XML, and XSLT, and is studying Japanese so that he can communicate with his counterparts in Japan in their native language.  He has worked in the computer field for 15 years, and has previously worked for various companies, including Oracle and IONA. His diverse background includes work experience includes Unix, shell programming, Perl, and JSP-based web application development with MVC frameworks.  He has BSc/MS degrees in Mathematics, an MBA, an MS in Information Systems, a BS in Computer Science, and is working toward an MS in Computer Science.",arts & photography;books;business & investing;computers & technology;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;guides;java;job hunting & careers;languages & tools;programming;techniques,12
0877939845,"Quantum Grace: Lenten Reflections on Creation and Connectedness Spiritual director Judy Cannato explores the relationships of human beings to creation in Quantum Grace: Lenten Reflections on Creation and Connectedness, a book intended for individual reflection during the Lenten season. Like many other authors, Cannato goes day-by-day through Lent, offering the standard format of Scripture readings, a meditation and questions for reflection. Unlike others, however, she focuses her lens on ""connectedness,"" drawing upon the new physics ""as a framework from which to consider human experience of the divine."" According to Cannato, recent developments in science confirm ancient mystics' hypotheses about the interdependence of all life. Cannato's science-and-religion approach is unique among Lenten devotionals. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Judy Cannato is spiritual director at St. Joseph Wellness Center in Cleveland, Ohio, as well as a retreat director and Certified Mid-Life Directions Consultant. She has master's degrees in education and religious studies from John Carroll University and is the author of numerous articles on spirituality.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christian living;devotionals;easter;holidays;lent;meditations;religion & spirituality;spirituality;worship & devotion,12
0060899190,"PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives Humanity at its finest . . . And because of it I am falling in love with the world again. ( A contributor on Postsecret.com )A fascinating public airing of private thoughts. . . The range of efforts (meticulous, sloppy, artful, ponderous) will astound you. ( TIME.com, ""50 Coolest Websites of 2005"" )3rd Place, Special Trade-Fine Art under $75 Category, New York Book Show (No Source )	Frank Warren is a small business owner who started PostSecret.com as a community art project. Since November 2004 Warren has received more than 150,000 anonymous postcards. The website won two Webby Awards in 2006 and this year was named Weblog of the Year at the Seventh Annual Weblog Awards. The PostSecret project also received a special award from the National Mental Health Association for raising awareness and funds for suicide prevention. Warren lives in Germantown, Maryland, with his wife and daughter.",art;arts & photography;books;catalogs & exhibitions;collections;fitness & dieting;health;humor & entertainment;motivational;personal transformation;pop culture;self-help,12
B000HHSABM,"Pyranha Wipe N Spray 32oz Pyranha(R) Wipe N' Spray is a pyrethrum-based formula that is applied directly on the animal. This ready-to-use product provides fly protection and imparts a high sheen to the hair when brushed out. A favorite of show horse owners, effective protection results from only 1 to 2 ounces per head. Wipe N' Spray is citronella scented and contains lanolin as a coat conditioner. It has been proven effective on biting flies, mosquitoes, gnats, fleas and ticks. Cannot Ship to Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico, or anywhere in Canada. Cannot Ship Air, Must Ship Ground Directions For Use: It is a violation of Federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling. Do not use on horses intended for slaughter. Wipe N' Spray has been especially developed for use on horses. It provides a protective hair coating against flies while imparting a high sheen to the hair when brushed out. 1 to 2 ounces per head per day gives adequate protection. Apply by either soft towel or fine spray mist. Use To Wipe On: First, brush the animal to remove dirt and dust. Moisten (but do not wet to the point of dripping) a soft cloth and rub over the hair. It is best to apply by rubbing against hair growth. Give special attention to legs, shoulders, shanks, neck and facial areas where flies are most often seen. Only a light application is needed. Avoid using an excess amount. Do not wet skin. After application, brush out thoroughly to bring out bright sheen on the coat. Repeat daily or as needed. Use As A Spray : Wipe N' Spray may be applied as a fine spray mist to horses for fast paralysis and kill of flies. Do not wet horse's skin or exceed two ounces per application. Active Ingredients: Pyrethrins - 0.1% *Piperonyl Butoxide, Technical - 1.0% Butoxypolypropylene, Glycol - 15.0% **Inert Ingredients - 83.9% *Equivalent to 0.8% (butylcarbityl)(6-propylpiperonyl) ether and 0.2% related compounds. **Contains Petroleum Distillates. Precautionary Statements: Hazards to Humans and Domestic",camping & hiking;equestrian sports;fly control;horse care equipment;insect repellent;lawn & garden;outdoor recreation;patio;personal care;pest control;repellents;sports & outdoors,12
1584651660,"Massacre at Fort William Henry The Massacre at Fort William Henry, near upstate New York's Lake George, happened in August 1757, when French troops attacked British forces stationed in the area, and Native American fighters sacked the Brits as they attempted to fall back to Fort Edward. The episode formed the basis for James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, to which Plymouth State College archeologist David R. Starbuck (A Shaker Family Album) here devotes an entire chapter before marshaling fascinating and minutely detailed evidence (musket balls: 251; cut shot lead 14; wine bottles: 1,004) against many of Cooper's artistic liberties. The bulk of the book consists of descriptions of site excavations and reconstructions of the lives of the men and women from all sides of the conflict via the artifacts they left behind. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	7 x 10  trim. 83 illus. LC 2001-004770	DAVID STARBUCK, author of The Great Warpath: British Military Sites from Albany to Crown Point (UPNE, 1999) and numerous articles on archaeological sites across New England, and co-author of A Shaker Family Album: Photographs from the Collection of Canterbury Shaker Village (UPNE, 1998), teaches archeology at Plymouth State College.",18th century;americas;archaeology;books;colonial period;history;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);native american;politics & social sciences;state & local;united states,12
1571430881,"Hillsdale: Greek Tragedy in America's Heartland According to Rapoport's new book, Lissa Roche may have been the victim of foul play. -- Oakland Press,  November 19, 2000An intiguing look at an unusual crime case that topped Michigan's headlines late last fall. -- Lansing State Journal, Ray Walsh, November 19, 2000As close as we are likely to get to the whole truth. Even the official ruling of suicide is called into question. -- Thomas Sowell, December 31, 2000	Many friends of Lissa Roche and family members have insisted that Lissa  Roche had never mentioned the idea of suicide until a few hours before her  death. Suicide for a woman is rare, particularly with a gun. Writing in  the September 22, 2000, issue of Human Events, Hillsdale vice-president Ron  Trowbridge, the campus spokesman on the tragedy, raises another  contradiction. Trowbridge says IV told him Lissa traveled around with her  own personal suicide kit including insulin, a hypodermic syringe, and, if  all else failed, a razor blade. The idea, according to IV, was that  overdosing on insulin would be the final insult to her diabetic  father-in-law. Dr. Roches wife Dean Hagan, a nurse who saw a good deal of  Lissa during the last month of her life, has helped George Roche with his  diabetes for more than a year. She flatly rejects the idea that Lissa  carried a suicide kit and adds that shooting up insulin would be a poor way  to attempt suicide. No one else who knew Lissa has ever indicated she  carried a suicide kit. IV never mentioned this allegation to police. In  fact, in the official police report., IV told officer Bradley Martin that he  was surprised on the morning of October 17 when Lissa talked to him of  suicide. We had been together for almost 25 years and she had never said  anything like this before. Why did IV tell Trowbridge something he did not  want to share with the police.	Roger Rapoport grew up in Detroit and has followed education issues around the country since his college days at the University of Michigan where he served as editor of the Michigan Daily.  The co-author of The Michigan Daily, he has written extensively on higher education for many national magazines and newspapers including The Atlantic, Harper's, Esquire, Parade, the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times and San Jose Mercury-News.  His books include Is The Library Burning, The Superdoctors, The Great American Bomb Machine, California Dreaming: The Political Odyssey of Pat and Jerry Brown, Into the Sunlight; Life After The Iron Curtain and After the Death of A Salesman.  He is co-editor of I Should Have Stayed Home.",biographies & memoirs;books;college & university;death & grief;education & reference;midwest;murder & mayhem;regional u.s.;self-help;suicide;true accounts;true crime,12
1582701016,"Summit Strategies: Secrets To Mastering The Everest In Your Life ""We all have an Everest to climb and master in our lives. This book gives the steps to take to help you overcome your doubts and fears and move closer to your dreams."" -- David Breashears, leader and co-director of the Everest IMAX Filming Expedition""No matter what your goals are, Summit Strategies will help and inspire you to climb your personal Everest."" -- Ed Webster, mountaineer and author of Snow in the Kingdom: My Storm Years on Everest""Gary Scott is a rock solid person--as stable as the mountains he has climbed. Listen to the ideas and principles in this book. They are true, forthright, and can apply in your own life."" -- Michael A. Boylan, author of The Power to Get In	Gary Scott is an international mountain guide and the world-record holder for the fastest ascent of Alaska's Mt. McKinley. A pioneer of extreme rock climbing, Gary has spent over twenty years climbing and exploring much of the world. He is also an accomplished motivational speaker and owns an adventure travel business in Colorado.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",applied psychology;books;fitness & dieting;health;motivational;mountain climbing;mountaineering;personal transformation;psychology & counseling;self-help;sports & outdoors;success,12
0924486589,"Surveying Small Craft ...not merely a diagnostic reference for surveyors...should be required reading for designers and builders as well....[It] enables the average owner to become sufficiently well versed in the subject as to efficiently hold his surveyor accountable to a high standard.  -- Professional BoatBuilder, April/May 1995..should be required reading for anyone contemplating the surveyor's profession or anyone who expects to look over a surveyor's shoulder as he examines a boat he hopes to buy or sell.  -- SAIL  Magazine, September 1984",boat building;boating;books;education & reference;professional & technical;sailing;science & math;ships;sports & outdoors;technology;transportation;water sports,12
1561585939,"Tauntons Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making Doug Stowe is a professional furniture designer and box maker. He is the author of 5 books including Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making, Creating Beautiful Boxes with Inlay Techniques, Simply Beautiful Boxes, and Making Elegant Custom Tables. He also writes for Fine Woodworking and Woodwork magazines. In 2001 he started a pre-K through 12th grade woodworking program called ""Wisdom of the Hands"", recognizing the importance of hands-on learning for all children.",books;crafts;engineering;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;how-to & home improvements;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;professional & technical;projects;woodworking,12
1556619464,"I'm Too Young to Be This Old! Who put all those candles on my cake? What woman hasn't looked in the mirror and wondered at her reflection? Or gasped at how grown up her children look? Or puzzled at how her friends are aging prematurely? I'm Too Young to Be This Old shows you how to face your changing life with a spirit of fun and fearlessness.  With plenty of humor, Poppy Smith leads you through both the lighter side of midlife and the deeper issues that concern you, including  changes in health and appearance erratic emotions wondering if the best of life is over relationships with aging parents and more I'm Too Young to Be This Old offers you the inspiration and insight you need to turn these middle years into the best years of your life!	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Leaving the stormy skies of Scotland as a newborn, Poppy Smith headed to India with her British military family. After India came exciting years in Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Kenya where she met her husband, an American doctor looking after Peace Corps volunteers. As a 22 year old bride of six weeks, Poppy arrived in America and found herself plunged into an utterly foreign world. Baffled by football, strange foods, incomprehensible questions such as ""do you want your eggs over-easy or sunny-side up,"" and the gaping chasm between her upbringing and her husband's, Poppy struggled to adapt. Assailed by loneliness as her husband disappeared into the hospital for his five year residency program, and the growing tension between them, Poppy cried out to the Lord for help to survive as a wife, mother, and Christian. In God's timing Poppy began studying with Bible Study Fellowship, and after five years was asked to teach the several hundred women in her class. Seven years later, Poppy left BSF. Volunteering with a domestic violence shelter, serving on the Board of an organization for women in Christian leadership, plus teaching evening classes at Multnomah Bible College, and speaking at retreats in the U.S., Poppy found life busy and satisfying.  During these years, aware of the mid-life transition she was going through, Poppy put together a seminar for women experiencing the same adjustments of releasing children, accepting the physical aspect of aging, rejuvenating the long-term marriage, and helping parents. In addition, Poppy wanted to motivate women to accurately assess themselves, anticipate the future decades with relish, and prepare themselves for their best years yet. This well-received seminar resulted in I'm Too Young To be This Old - Surviving and Thriving in the Muddled, Middle Years, a humorous inspirational, and informational guide for the mid-life woman. With her two children grown and independent, and enjoying the support of her husband, Poppy now has an international Bible teaching ministry. Speaking around the world, she slips comfortably into foreign cultures, adapting herself to being English or American as suits the situation! size : 5.4 x 8.3",aging;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;fitness & dieting;health;inspirational;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;social sciences;specific demographics;spirituality,12
0789724464,"Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows Millennium Ed Bott is an award-winning computer journalist and one of the most widely recognized voices in the computing world, with nearly two decades of experience as a writer and editor at leading magazines like PC World and PC Computing. Currently, he is Senior Contributing Editor for Smart Business (formerly PC Computing), a 1999 National Magazine Award winner with a monthly circulation of more than 1 million. On the Web, Ed is the Guide to Windows on About.com, one of the Internet's leading resources for news, information, and entertainment; he also writes a weekly column for TechRepublic.com. He is the author of a long list of Que books covering Microsoft Windows and Office, including Special Edition Using Microsoft Office 2000, Using Windows NT Workstation 4, Special Edition Using Windows 98 and Platinum Edition Using Windows 98 (co-author with Ron Person), andtwo editions of Using Windows 95; in all, Ed has reached more than 650,000 Windows and Office users through his unique combination of expert knowledge and friendly, down-to-earth style.",books;computer science;computers & technology;home computing & how-to;mathematics;microsoft;new;operating systems;science & math;software;used & rental textbooks;windows os,12
0679400273,"Open Letters: Selected Writings In a prescient 1987 essay, Czech playwright Havel, now his country's president, mocks those who look to ""Glasnost Czar"" Gorbachev as a liberator. Many of the pieces in this stirring collection of political essays, letters, speeches, autobiographical sketches, interviews and musings prefigure the upsurge of suppressed longings for freedom that toppled Czechoslovokia's totalitarian regime. A recurring theme is that fundamental change, whether in the East or the West, must begin with the individual conscience, with people resisting bureaucracy, ideologies and sloganeering. More than a third of the 25 selections appear here in English for the first time. The book closes with Havel's ringing 1990 New Year's address envisioning a democratic, prosperous republic that has overcome an obsolete economy, bankrupt school system and polluted environment. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This selection of Havel's 25 best essays written since 1965 is a fascinating chronicle of the development and ideas of the greatly admired Czechoslovakian dissident turned president. Whether he muses on Gorbachev, his harassment by the police, or the ever-present danger of injustices being committed in service of noble words, Havel writes with clarity, wit, eloquence, a steadfast optimism, and remarkable courage. Although some of the pieces were already published in Vaclav Havel, or Living in Truth ( LJ 8/87), such as the influential essays on the nature of totalitarianism (""Power of the Powerless"") and on the global crises of human responsibility (""Politics and Conscience""), this is an important book that belongs in both academic and public libraries.- Marie Bednar, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs., University ParkCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	An inspiring collection of essays, interviews, and letters, several of which have never been published in English, from the erudite, uncompromising Havel, taking the full measure of his humanism and democratic spirit. Ever the voice of reason and gentle, wry persuasion, Havel appears in these writings in a variety of guises: as a participant in the liberating Prague Spring of 1968, calling for a democratic opposition party in Czechoslovakia; as a thorn in the side of the subsequent repressive government, detailing its perfidious practices as proof of the need for organized dissent; as a silenced prisoner, first under house arrest and in the early 80's incarcerated as a subversive; and finally as the president of Czechoslovakia, still challenging his fellow citizens to throw off their reticence and work together to build a truly democratic state. Matters philosophical and practical, linguistic and sociological combine time and again in these statements over the decades, until a living synthesis emerges--a moral and political philosophy born of principled resistance to oppression and an abiding faith in the oppressed. The many short critiques and longer, more theoretical essays (``The Power of the Powerless,'' ``Anatomy of a Reticence'') can easily be viewed as calls to action on a wide front; and by calmly and objectively taking stock in each instance, undermining the Party line with ready humor and logic, Havel wields the pen mightily to prove how richly his reputation is deserved. A fitting tribute to a cultural and political hero, and a valuable resource for anyone seeking reassurance that the principles of democracy are still cherished in our time. -- Copyright 1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Brilliant and perceptive analyses...of the abuse of power by bureaucracies driven by cynical self-interest. -- Boston GlobeAn inspiring collection...a fitting tribute to a cultural and political hero, and a valuable resource for anyone seeking reassurance that the principles of democracy are still cherished in our time. -- Kirkus ReviewsHavel's essays...show a complex political and moral sensibility. [Writing] with wonderful clarity and directness, he has a rare gift for metaphor and example. He can capture, with a phrase or a word, the dishonesty of an era.-- Times Literary SupplementFrom the Trade Paperback edition.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: Czech	Spanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia's leaders to a newly elected president whose first address to his fellow citizens begins, ""I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you."" Some of the pieces in Open Letters, such as ""Dear Dr. Husak"" and the essay ""The Power of the Powerless,"" are by now almost legendary for their influence on a generation of Eastern European dissidents; others, such as some of Havel's prison correspondence and his private letter to Alexander Dubcek, appear in English for the first time. All of them bear the unmistakable imprint of Havel's intellectual rigor, moral conviction, and unassuming eloquence, while standing as important additions to the world's literature of conscience.From the Trade Paperback edition.	""Brilliant and perceptive analyses...of the abuse of power by bureaucracies driven by cynical self-interest."" -- Boston Globe""An inspiring collection...a fitting tribute to a cultural and political hero, and a valuable resource for anyone seeking reassurance that the principles of democracy are still cherished in our time."" -- Kirkus Reviews""Havel's essays...show a complex political and moral sensibility. [Writing] with wonderful clarity and directness, he has a rare gift for metaphor and example. He can capture, with a phrase or a word, the dishonesty of an era.""-- Times Literary Supplement	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Prefaceby Paul WilsonToronto, March 1991I  am unwilling to believe that this whole civilization is no more than a  blind alley of history and a fatal error of the human spirit. More  probably it represents a necessary phase that man and humanity must go  through, one that manif he surviveswill ultimately, and on some higher  level (unthinkable of course without the present phase) transcend.Vclav Havel, ""Thriller""The  idea of putting together a selection of Vclav Havel's nondramatic  writing seemed at first like a simple enough proposition. The purpose  was, and remains, for this to be a companion volume to Letters to Olga, Disturbing the Peace, and his plays. Open Letters will round out the picture these other works give us of Vclav Havel as dramatist, writer, thinker, and future statesman.The  problem, however, was that many of Havel's major essays and articles  had already been translated and published, and some, like ""The Power of  the Powerless""Havel's most penetrating analysis of the totalitarian  system and how people resist ithad been widely reprinted. It still made  sense to bring these essays together in a single volume, but the risk  was that such a volume might not have given readers who had been  following Havel's work much that was new.Thinking about this  problem, I realized that the new distinction between major and minor  works in what I was trying to do was misleading. Havel's lesser-known  pieceshis speeches, letters, newspaper articles, his samizdat reports meant mainly for friends, the profiles of people he admired, the  conversations and interviewsprovide us with the humus of this thinking  and give us glimpses of the man that are sometimes missing from his  more substantial works. Therefore, they belong in a book that intends to  present the reader with Havel the man, not just Havel the dissident  thinker.The twenty-five items assembled here cover Vclav  Havel's nondramatic writing from 1965when he was a young playwright  with the Theatre on the Balustrade in Pragueto his New Year's address  to Czechoslovakia on January 1, 1990, shortly after he had become the  country's president. The chronological arrangement (with the exception  of the first item, ""Second Wind"") comes naturally out of the book's  purpose. Havel is, in the best sense of the word, an occasional writer;  he responds, in his writing, to events, experiences, insights,  arguments, states of mind. When his pieces are assembled in the order in  which he wrote them, they become a chronicle both of his intellectual  life, and, implicitly, of his times as well.Many of Havel's  essays were, in fact, agents of history. I don't know whether his  private letter to Alexander Dubek in 1969 influenced the agonizing  decision Dubek had to make at the time, but I remember clearly the deep  transformation in the mood in Prague brought about by ""Dear Dr. Husk,""  Havel's widely circulated open letter to the Czechoslovak president in  1975. This essay raised the hope that Husk's regime would one day end,  made that end seem inevitable, and thus brought it closer. But the best  testimony to the power of Havel's prose comes from the Polish politician  and former Solidarity activist Zbygniew Bujak. In the late 1970s when  Bujak was a young activist trying to organize resistance to the  communist bosses in the Ursus factory near Warsaw, he became discouraged  at the lack of response and began to doubt the meaning of what he was  doing. Then he came across a copy of ""The Power of the Powerless,"" by  Havel. ""Its ideas,"" he told me, ""strengthened us and persuaded us that  what we were doing would not evaporate without a trace, that this was  the source of our power, and that one day this power would manifest  itself. . . .When I look at the victories of Solidarity and of Charter  77, I see in them an astonishing fulfillment of the prophecies contained  in Havel's essay.""* * *For readers as yet  unfamiliar with Havel's other work, it may be worth reviewing, briefly,  the phases of life encompassed in this volume. In the earliest stage, up  to the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 and its  immediate aftermath, Havel was known mainly as a playwright, and only  occasionally as an essayist. When he became active in public life, in  the mid-1960's, he spoke chiefly as a member of the editorial board of Tv magazine  and a member of the Union of Czechoslovak Writers. His chief target was  not so much communism as it was the ideology of reform communism, that  ""peculiar dialectical dance of truth and lies"" which suggested that with  certain minor adjustments, the beast that Marx conceived, Lenin  unleashed, and Stalin goaded into a fury could be tamed and  domesticated. In an early speech to the Writer's Union (""On Evasive  Thinking"") Havel talks, with remarkable prescience, about the  destruction and tragedy that result when language and ideology turn away  from the world, when writers avoid problems by putting them in false  contexts. Later, his quarrel with the reformers becomes more specific.  ""On the Theme of Opposition,"" written during the Prague Spring of 1968,  is his most openly political clash with that viewpoint.In the  1970s, along with many of his old reform communist adversaries, Havel  became an outcast and later an active dissenter. As a dramatist without a  stage, he continued to write plays (some of his best, in fact, come  from this period), but his impact as a playwright was now almost  exclusively abroad. Inside Czechoslovakia his influence now came through  his power as an essayist. He dissected aspects of the new repression,  examining its effect on culture and everyday life (""Dear Dr. Husk""), on  the way laws were applied (""The Trial,"" ""Article 202,"" and ""Article  303""), and on the growth of an ""anti-political politics"" in which  dissidents of all hues harnessed the power of truth (""The Power of the  Powerless""). He was a founding member and spokesman of the human rights  ""initiative"" Charter 77 and the Committee to Defend the Unjustly  Prosecuted, and he published his own samizdat series of books called Edice Expedice.  These activities, as well as his essays, landed him in prison in 1979  where, in a remarkable series of letters to his wife Olga, he was  compelled by circumstances and the prison censor to dig deeply into his  own personality and beliefs and explore their broader, more  philosophical implications.The essays Havel wrote on his return  from prison to 1983 reflect this deeper view of things. In ""Politics and  Conscience,"" for instance, he returns to his old themes, but in a  broader context this time, arguing that the problems the world faces are  rooted in ""the irrational momentum of anonymous, impersonal and inhuman  power,"" and that while the crisis is deepest and most acute in  communist countries, it is a worldwide phenomenon. In the meantime,  Havel had become an international cause clbre, which meant that he  spent a good deal of his time talking to journalists, intellectuals, and  activists from the West. This gave him the opportunity to reflect, as  he does in ""Anatomy of a Reticence,"" upon why there were such deep  misunderstandings between people on either side of the Iron Curtain,  when they should find themselves natural allies. Finally, when Mikhail  Gorbachev, about whom Havel was initially skeptical, becomes head of the  Soviet Union, a period begins in which Havel can see the end of  communism, or at least its gradual transformation into something more  tolerable. All his writing from the mid-eighties on is strongly colored  by this conviction. In one of the last pieces in this book, ""A Word  About Words,"" he returns to an early theme: the destructive power of  language, this time to examine the words that have contained the hopes  and the horrors of this century. By now he has the experience of the  dissident movement behind him, and he writes as someone who knows, at  first hand, about ""the mysterious power of words in human history."" * * *I  have excluded far more of Havel's prose than I have included. The most  painful omissions were two of Havel's youthful essays, ""The Anatomy of a  Gag"" and ""On Dialectical Metaphysics,"" because they were too long and  too abstract, and two of his later essays on theatre, because Havel had  said much the same things elsewhere, more forcefully. I have included  none of Haven's introductions to samizdat books or anthologies,  and only one of his many profiles of friends and colleagues (""Thinking  About Frantiek K.,"" which is more than just a reminiscence). Havel  drafted countless declarations, protests, and brief public speeches,  most of which are too occasional and too slight to use. Nor have I  included any of the several statements he made in his own defense in  court, mostly because the texts we have are not necessarily from Havels  own hand, but rather based on clandestinely procured transcriptions. As  he became better known, Havel was asked for, and granted, many  interviews. Some of these provide excellent surveys of his thought, but  precisely for that reason they are repetitive; thus, with two exceptions  they too were excluded. Finally, in the year and a half before the  revolution of 1989, Havel was a regular contributor to the underground  (now legal) newspaper Lidov noviny. As interesting as these articles are historically, I felt they were too closely tied to specific events. If  there is one class of items I regret not being able to include, it is  Havels polemical articles. Havel never shied away from a good debate  not even when he ran the risk of alienating a colleague or disturbing  the solidarity of the Charter 77 community. One important exchange was  with Milan Kundera in late 1968 over the meaning of the popular  resistance to the S...	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;central;communism & socialism;europe;european;history;ideologies & doctrines;international & world politics;literature & fiction;politics & government;politics & social sciences;world literature,12
013091617X,"Enhanced Data Cabling Installers Certification This guide uses hands-on instruction methods presented in a straightforward, easy-to-understand format by expert instructors that have actual field experience. It guides users every step of the way through the Cabling Installer Program, and equips them with the latest and most advanced knowledge and skills needed to tackle almost any cabling challenge. A Certified Cabling Installer can be identified as a technician who has passed exacting international electronics testing requirements, and is considered a highly trained expert in today's fast growing, competitive network cabling industry.  The book overviews network topologies, and then explores the basics of cabling with an emphasis on standards, grounding, preparing cable ends, testing cables, cabling systems for LANs or WANs. It covers all types of cabling and connectors and their advantages and disadvantages; installing wiring, connectors, closets, and terminators, of any cabling type; and preventing, troubleshooting, and fixing cabling problems.  For technicians who want to successfully earn certification in the Marcraft Cabling (CAT5) Installer Certification Program.",books;crafts;electrical;electrical & electronics;engineering;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;how-to & home improvements;new;professional & technical;telecommunications;used & rental textbooks,12
0804705453,"Marie, or Slavery in the United States: A Novel of Jacksonian America Beaumont's  chef-d'oeuvre was, and has remained, illuminating... It follows that to readers of the present work the book of 1835 will seem strangely and wonderfully familiar...  Marie will be a book of echoes. (George Wilson Pierson Tocqueville in America)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: French	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Gustave de Beaumont is primarily remembered as Alexis de Tocqueville's travel companion and literary executor. He was co-author, with Tocqueville, of On the Penitentiary System in the United States.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Marie issued a warning message to both worlds, old and new, on the devastating character of mob law. In his characteristically sympathetic yet somber tones Beaumont deftly prophesied, more than a century ago, both the racial persecution and the potential tyranny of the majority which continue to haunt us.""from  The Gaeries and Their Friends	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",african-american studies;americas;books;genre fiction;historical;history;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;united states,12
0881339245,"The Stars We Know: Crow Indian Astronomy and Lifeways Titles of interest also available from Waveland Press: Fabian, Patterns in the Sky: An Introduction Ethnoastronomy (ISBN 9781577661818) and Hultkrantz, Native Religions of North America: The Power of Visions and Fertility (ISBN 9780881339857).",americas;anthropology;books;cultural;history;native american studies;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states;used & rental textbooks,12
0930390210,Child Maltreatment: Emerging Perspectives (The Reynolds Series in Sociology) Dean D. Knudsen is professor of sociology at Purdue University.,books;child abuse;children's books;children's studies;family relationships;marriage & family;new;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,12
0807079499,"Improper Bostonians: Lesbian and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland If a picture is worth a thousand words, Improper Bostonians . . . is priceless.--The Advocate ""A rare book . . . entertaining and educational."" --Rene Graham, The Boston Globe""[Improper Bostonians] will do a necessary job of reminding or informing young people that homosexual feeling wasn't invented in the last few years, that people who loved their own sex-in Boston and elsewhere-were often responsible for the best that has been thought, said, and done in America.""--Lillian Faderman, Lambda Book Report""The book is a who's who of Boston's best-known gay figures-from poet Amy Lowell to Sen. David Walsh-but its real value lies in the way it manages to integrate gay and lesbian culture into the city's history as a whole.""--Miami Herald""The History Project has done a wonderful job of illuminating a part of the Boston saga that is at times tragic, at times hilarious, but always, well, gay.""--Robert Plunket, Boston magazine	The History Project is a volunteer group of historians, archivists, writers, and designers committed to unearthing and preserving the history of lesbian and gay Boston.",americas;books;gay & lesbian;gender studies;history;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;state & local;united states,12
0762711620,"Mojave Desert Wildflowers: A Field Guide to Wildflowers, Trees, and Shrubs of the Mojave Desert, Including the Mojave National Preserve, Death Valley National Park, and Joshua Tree National Park Mojave Desert Wildflowers is the ultimate field guide to wildflowers, trees, and shrubs of the ecoregion that extends from California to Arizona, Nevada, and Utah and includes Death Valley National Park, Mojave National Preserve, and Joshua Tree National Park. Packed with vivid color photos and informative text, this valuable reference will help you identify and appreciate the unique and varied flora of this desert ecosystem.This easy-to-use-guide features: a tough, water-resistant cover and extra-durable binding, made to withstand vigorous field use; detailed descriptions and color photos of more than 300 plants; an introduction to the habitats and ecology of the Mojave Desert; a glossary of botanical terms; a primer on plant characteristics.Mojave Desert Wildflowers is perfect for the novice and expert botanist alike. Whether you are lucky enough to spot the stately Panamint Daisy or smell the distinctive fragrance of Grape Soda Lupine, this guide will enhance your next journey into the remarkable Mojave Desert.	Pam MacKay is a professor of biology at Victor Valley Community College. She is involved in Mojave Desert conservation efforts, and has been instrumental in founding the new Mojave Desert Chapter of the California Native Plant Society, where she currently serves as Field Trip Chair. She serves as a volunteer naturalist for the Golden Trout Natural History Association.",biological sciences;books;california;death valley;flowers;nature & ecology;pacific;plants;science & math;travel;united states;west,12
1563680580,"The Silent Garden: Raising Your Deaf Child The Silent Garden: Raising Your Deaf Child presents parents of deaf children with crucial information on the greater possibilities afforded deaf children today. The Silent Garden helps parents to overcome their initial, natural sense of shock of learning that their child is deaf. It explains the broad range of hearing loss types, from minor to profound. Parents also are helped in their considerations as to what type of school their child should attend and what kinds of professional help will be best for the entire family. The Silent Garden describes all forms of communication, including choices in signing from American Sign Language to the various manual systems based upon English. Technological alternatives are presented also, including when and when not to consider cochler implants. The Silent Garden brings understanding about deafness to parents and to all the other family members, relations and friends.  -- Midwest Book Review",books;disabled;education & reference;parenting;parenting & relationships;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;special needs;specific demographics,12
0312140185,"The Murder of Adolf Hitler: The Truth About the Bodies in the Berlin Bunker Rejecting historians' consensus that Hitler and his mistress, Eva Braun, committed suicide in the Nazi underground bunker as Allied forces took Berlin, British surgeon and forensic expert Thomas (The Murder of Rudolf Hess) asserts that the two partially charred corpses found by Soviet troops were actually those of Hitler-and a substitute for Braun, wearing one of her dresses. In his scenario, SS guards murdered Hitler, rather than allow a degenerate, raving Fuhrer to fall into Soviet clutches, and let Braun escape. Hitler, he further speculates, suffered from Parkinson's disease, which made him a partially paralyzed, grossly weakened, uncontrollably shaking insomniac. Thomas bases his detailed analysis, which raises far more questions than it answers, on Russian State Archive material comprising alleged skull fragments of Hitler and Braun, as well as on their dental records and on six folios of documents found with the skulls. Using Paraguayan police files released in 1993, Thomas concludes that Martin Bormann, Hitler's personal secretary, survived the bunker, apparently moving to Paraguay in 1956. Photos. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Thomas, a British surgeon and author (The Murder of Rudolph Hess, 1979), uses forensic evidence from newly opened archives in the former Soviet Union and from Paraguay to reach his conclusions about the final days of Hitler and Martin Bormann. Most historians believe that Hitler committed suicide and that Eva Braun died with him. Thomas counters that Hitler was strangled by a member of his inner circle and that Eva Braun escaped. Before reaching this conclusion, Thomas examines Hitler's personality and health. He believes that the dictator had Parkinson's disease and was a borderline schizophrenic. The author spends over 75 pages on the mysterious Bormann, arguing that he escaped to South America and is buried there. Those who enjoy reading about conspiracies, mixed with forensics and the flight of Nazi war criminals, will enjoy Thomas's reasoning processes. Yet Thomas makes a few mistakes. For example, he has Gen. William J. Donovan, head of the OSS, as William O'Donovan. Thomas's book will find a readership in public libraries with large collections on World War II, but interested readers should also check the standard work on Hitler, Allan Bullock's Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1964. rev. ed.).?Dennis L. Noble, Sequim, Wash.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	A renowned surgeon and forensic expert analyzes old evidence and provides new data to support his claim that Adolf Hitler was murdered in his Berlin bunker. Despite the fact that it is commonly believed that Hitler committed suicide as the Russians invaded Berlin, Thomas argues quite convincingly that a physically debilitated and mentally incapacitated fuhrer was strangled by one of his trusted aides. In addition, he also speculates that Eva Braun escaped the bunker after orchestrating an elaborate ruse to guarantee her safety. Utilizing medical and dental records, forensic reports, and previously unavailable documents recently released from Soviet archives, Thomas paints a gripping portrait of the surrealistic nature of Hitler's final days and hours. This intriguing new theory is bolstered by the author's meticulous research and engrossing method of presentation. Another bizarre chapter in the infamous annals of Adolf Hitler.  Margaret Flanagan	A sensational reinterpretation of the evidence surrounding the death of Adolf Hitler. Thomas is a forensic expert who practices and teaches surgery in Great Britain. Here he proposes a radically different scenario concerning Hitler's death. For 50 years, most of the world has accepted the account offered by Hugh Trevor-Roper in The Last Days of Hitler: Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide in the depths of the Berlin bunker, their bodies were taken outside by aides and set ablaze. The Soviets then arrived and took possession of the remains. Thomas challenges many of these points. He first offers a diagnosis of Hitler and concludes that the Fhrer was suffering from the advanced stages of Parkinson's disease and showed signs of a personality disorder--probably schizophrenia. Of course, the diagnosis suffers from the fact that the physician is rendering judgment 50 years later, based on second-hand observations. But this section is the stronger part of the book. Thomas goes on to insist that the female body found in the bunker was not that of Eva Braun but a double. The ``corpse'' of Martin Borman, Hitler's personal secretary, was similarly misidentified, permitting Borman to escape to South America. The most startling and sensational claim is that Hitler did not commit suicide but was strangled by one of his servants. Thomas goes to great lengths to support his theory that an elaborate forensic fraud has been perpetrated, initially by Germans to preserve Hitler's heroic image and supported by British and Soviet intelligence. There are long passages on dental records and on how the body decomposes; yet for all its scientific objectivity, the account can offer no proof that Thomas's alternative scenario is the truth. ``Revisionist'' history without the proof; a story as entertaining, and as solid, as the supermarket tabloids. (16 pages b photos, not seen) -- Copyright 1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",( h );a-z;adolf;biographies & memoirs;books;europe;germany;history;hitler;military;people;world war ii,12
0865971382,"In Defense of the Constitution George W Carey is a Professor of Government at Georgetown University and the editor of several major works on American government. James McClellan is James Bryce Visiting Fellow in American Studies at the Institute of United States Studies, University of London, and the author of Liberty, Order, and Justice.",americas;books;civil procedure;education & reference;history;humanities;law;new;revolution & founding;rules & procedures;united states;used & rental textbooks,12
0321083911,"The Longman Pocket Writer's Companion The Longman Pocket Writers Companion    Chris M. Anson, Robert A. Schwegler, Marcia F. Muth      The Journey to Better Grades Starts Here    Because writing and research are required in many college courses, you need an accessible, easy-to-understand reference that can provide understandable answers to common questions. The Longman Pocket Writers Companion is an inexpensive, pocket-sized guide that provides answers to the questions you may have about grammar, writing, researching, and documentation.  Offering a distinctive focus on writing for different audiencesacademic, public, and workplacethis handbook enables you to communicate more effectively.  Its superior support for writing across the curriculum, along with up-to-date documentation coverage, will help you get better grades in all your courses.      Why You Need This New Edition    A new chapter on Writing in the Disciplines (Chapter 9) will set you up for success as your college career progresses by helping you write the kinds of papers commonly required of majors, such as interpretations, textual and visual analyses, abstracts, lab reports, and researched reports.     New documentation entries illustrate how to cite sources such as blogs and podcasts, genres so new that they arent covered in many texts.      A new section on Ten Serious Errors will help you recognize and correct major errorssuch as fragments, run-ons, and unnecessary commasthat make it hard for readers to understand your writing.           Visit us at www.ablongman.com	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;literature;new;research & publishing guides;rhetoric;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,12
B00015T67M,"Dance 5 - eJay Let your musical creativity flow with Dance eJay 5! Choose from an astonishing 5,000 brand new royalty-free dance samples and a huge range of instruments including a reworked polyphonic Hyper Generator synthesizer, the Groove Generator drum computer, brand new Chord Generator and a Bass Generator!",computer recording;home & hobbies;illustration & design;instrument instruction;mp3 editing & effects;music creation & sequencing;musical instruments;software;sound editing;sound libraries;studio recording equipment;video & music,12
0967118751,"Traumatic Experience and the Brain Dr. Ziegler describes the impact of trauma on the developing brain, and the implications for treatment. -- Debra Eisert, PhD, Psychologist with the University of Oregon Violence InstituteThis book will help therapists and professionals recognize how the traumatized brain produces trauma symptoms and how best to intervene. -- David V. Baldwin, PhD, Author/Editor, Trauma Information Pages	Dr. Dave Ziegler has seen, first-hand, the effects of traumatic experiences during infancy and early childhood on the brain. As a result of his research and extensive experience with traumatized children, he describes in understandable terms the complex neural functioning of a very young brain. His work with trauma victims has exposed the formation of triggers that are so resistant to change. His career is focused on ways to help traumatized individuals, and professionals who help them, learn new methods to heal deeply ingrained trauma. Dr. Ziegler is Executive Director of SCAR/Jasper Mountain, an organization based in Oregon that treats some of society's most damaged children.",books;child psychology;dysfunctional relationships;family relationships;fitness & dieting;health;mental health;neuropsychology;parenting;parenting & relationships;post-traumatic stress disorder;psychology & counseling,12
155670092X,"I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America This companion volume to an exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., documents the aspirations and achievements of 75 black women--from ""unsung heroine"" Priscilla L. Williams (""I had fourteen children. Seven of them was my sister's"" sic) to former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm--in the arts, politics, business, academia, athletics and other fields. Photographs by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lanker are often striking, quietly revealing pride of character, whether borne with predatorial glamour (Leontyne Price) or guileless pleasure (Gwendolyn Brooks). His verbal portraits, spoken in the words of his subjects, are largely a disappointment, however--brief, surprisingly full of platitudes and lacking in personal signature, they tell a dramatic story of struggle and success in a flatly generic voice. But notable exceptions, such as law professor Eleanor Holmes Norton, comment on their lives with uncompromising intelligence (""Black people get their moral authority in this country not simply because they have suffered, but because they understand the suffering of other people""). Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.	A double-paged format of photograph, brief biographical information, and first-person accounts of women from all walks of life. The 75 photographs (and interviews) by Lanker were exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The book can function as art, history, literature, or social commentary. Though Barbara Jordon, Alice Walker, and Priscilla Williams inspired this white man's project, many other women provide the names he needed to produce the final 75. Amazingly beautiful and moving (to laughter or to tears), this book cannot be treated adequately on paper; go quickly and purchase copies for your library and yourself.- Rebecca Sturm Kelm, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland HeightsCopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	I Dream a World is a collection of stunning black and white photos of 70 Black women who followed their dreams.  (Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Brian Lanker arranged these photo shoots over a two year period, collecting stories from the women along the way.)  Alongside each woman's full-page photo are her stories, shared bits and pieces of her life and who she is.  Each, in combination, creates an eloquent reflection of a woman who managed to create a life of meaning and beauty, even in the face of extreme hardship and prejudice. -- From The WomanSource Catalog  Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by Ilene Rosoff	When ""I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America: was first published in 1989, The 'San Francisco Chronicle' proclaimed ""look on their faces and you, too, will be inspired."" This best-seller turned classic pays homage to the achievements of seventy-five African American women who have made a lasting impact on this country and the world. Stewart, Tabori & Chang is honored to present a new ""I Dream a World"" calendar, featuring twelve women from the book, along with a brief biography and a quote from their original interviews.  ""I Dream a World Calendar for 2000"" offers an intimate and inspirational portrait of some of the most significant and admirable women in American history.	      --This text refers to the 							Calendar	 edition.	BRIAN LANKER won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. He is among a group of only five photographers to be selected twice as Newspaper Photographer of the Year at a competition conducted by the National Press Photographers Association and the University of Missouri School of Journalism.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The people in the building where I rented a little basement for La Mama were furious that a colored was living amongst them. Somebody called the Health Department and told them that prostitution was going on in the building and that a Negress had entertained sixteen white men in five hours.  Well, many young men were helping me, building, putting the floor in, trying to make this little place into a room.",african-american & black;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;ethnic & national;photo essays;photography;politics & social sciences;reference & collections;women's studies,12
1884820298,"The A.D.D. and A.D.H.D. Diet! A Comprehensive Look at Contributing Factors and Natural Treatments for Symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder and Hyperactivity The A.D. D.  A.D.H.D. Diet!--""Will provide the type of answers that are needed to make an informed choice for safer, better, easier and less expensive treatments for ADD and ADHD."" (Doris J. Rapp, MD)	Along with The Natural Prostate Cure, this is our most popular health book. The ADD & ADHD Diet has sold over 100,000 copies with many readers sending us thank you notes. It is rewarding to know that we have helped so many determine the cause of an individual's diagnosed condition as ADD. In most cases the illness had been misdiagnosed and was not ADD. We are thankful to authors Rachel Bell and Dr. Howard Peiper for adding this book to our success list.	Howard Peiper, ND, is a doctor of naturopathic medicine. While beginning his career in optometry, he was immediately drawn to the field of alternative health. In 1972, he received his degree in Naturopathy. After a decade in private practice, Dr. Peiper moved on to become a successful consultant, speaker, and writer. Over the years, his cutting-edge articles have appeared in numerous medical journals and magazines. He also serves on the medical advisory board for several nutritional companies. Dr. Peiper has written several bestselling titles including The ADD  ADHD Diet! and New Hope for Serious Diseases. He is a frequent guest speaker on radio and television and has hosted his own shows including the award-winning TV show, Partners in Healing. Currently, Dr. Peiper lives in Southern California and continues to travel and lecture throughout the world.Rachel Bell has worked with children and adolescents in varying capacities for twenty years. She has collaborated with Dr. Howard Peiper and Nina Anderson on the well-known booklet, ADD: The Natural Approach. Rachel is currently a teacher in California, and has been schooled in macrobiotic cooking at the Kushi Institute.",attention deficit & attention deficit hyperactivity disorders;books;diets & weight loss;disabilities;fitness & dieting;health;mental health;other diets;parenting & relationships;pathologies;psychology & counseling;special needs,12
0834803488,"Instruction Paintings Text: English, Japanese",architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;catalogs & exhibitions;collections;education & reference;history;history & criticism;study & teaching,12
1884313167,"Motorcycle Vagabonding in Japan ""...may convince you to give [Japan] a try by motorcycle, even if you don't know sushi from sashimi."" -- Rider""What a winner it is ...tank-bagable pages...very readable and sometimes lyrical prose..."" -- Asphalt Angels	Resident author Guy de La Rupelle has compiled the best motorcycle routes to wander in Japan. Sample all the wonder, beauty, mysticism, and culture that Japan has to offer without the hassle of crowds, traffic, stress, and consumerism. This motorcycle guidebook shows you how to avoid the expensive tourist traps and find the totally untouched areas. Hokkaido, the northern island, is cool in the summer months. Kyushu, in the south, is tropical and warm. And you won't believe the beautifully engineered twisties and smooth pavement high in the mountains everywhere! Other practical advice includes: whether to rent a bike or bring your own, insurance, safety, food descriptions and costs, useful Japanese phrases, and helpful resources. The detailed maps and many photos will guide you and show you the treat you're looking for!	Guy de La Rupelle has his roots in France where his father put the bug of long-distance, two-wheeled touring in him by recounting many tales of going across France on his Peugeot bicycle. Later, when his parents moved to America, his father had the bug again and went from New York to Florida on the very same 1950 Peugeot bicycle he had used in France for touring. Two-wheeled freedom. Early during his junior high school years Guy acquired a strange contraption, which was basically a mechanized bicycle. It was called a Solex, the motor being mounted over the front wheel. Just a steady 20 mph, but Guy had caught the bug. University years in Paris: It didn't take long for Guy to have the bug again and when his parents bought him the smallest motorbike available, a 50cc Mobylette, he zipped off to southern France during his first Christmas break. It was slow going, but what an adventure (sleeping in ditches, repairing five flats in one day, getting aggressed by right-wing thugs, and sleeping in a whorehouse!) Over the years other bikes were acquired: a 175 Jawa, a '62 R50 BMW (used, from the French Gendarmerie), A R90/S, a R80/GS, a R100/RT, all BMWs. Also a '42 BSA in India for puttering around New Delhi, and a Honda 250 upon arriving in Japan to see whether motorcycle riding was enjoyable there or not. It was. Presently he rides the aforementioned R100/RT (the ""T"" stands for touring) which he calls ""Traveller,"" even for commuting daily to the colleges where he works, putting anywhere between 250 and 400 kms a week on it. He proudly wears a ""100,000 BMW Miles"" patch on the right sleeve of his jacket and hopes to get the 200,000-mile one soon; may they be safe miles! He lives in Chiba, a city of under a million inhabitants 40 kms east of Tokyo, and is a lecturer at Reitaku University and Nihonbashi Jogakkan Junior College. And by the way, his father still rides that very same 1950 bicycle!",asia;automotive;books;food;general;japan;lodging & transportation;motorcycles;professional & technical;road travel;transportation;travel,12
0805846840,"Research in Applied Linguistics: Becoming a Discerning Consumer ""...Perrys book is an accessible and useful starting point for aspiring practitioners who want to be discerning rather than casual consumers of applied linguistics research."" -- Anne Burns, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 1, March 2008",books;education;education & reference;education theory;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;new;research;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,12
0691114056,"Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought Winner of the 2005 Best Book Award in Racial and Ethnic Political Identities, Ideologies and Theories Category; Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science AssociationCo-Winner of the 2005 W.E.B. Du Bois Book Award, National Conference of Black Political Scientists""[A]n invaluable addition to the African American politics canon. . . . [This book] is well written and original in its conception, and it represents a remarkable achievement. It will undoubtedly generate more work in the future that probes the sources and character of black political thought, as well as the ability of ordinary black folk to think for themselves.""--Richard Iton, Perspectives on Politics""The book convincingly demonstrates that there are many aspects of black ideology and opinion, a fact that is necessarily overlooked in conventional analyses of voting patterns, partisan affiliation, or interest group involvement.""--Choice""The book impressively weaves multiple research methods to provide a comprehensive understanding of black political ideology. . . . By following Harris-Lacewell's example of paying close attention to the intersection of race and other forms of social stratification, we could better understand how the meaning of blackness and the 'Black agenda' is constructed within the black community.""--Patricia Hill Collins, Ethnic and Racial Studies	Winner of the 2005 Best Book Award, Racial and Ethnic Political Identities, Ideologies and Theories Category of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section, American Political Science Association. Co-Winner of the 2005 W.E.B. Du Bois Book Award, National Conference of Black Political Scientists	""While sociologists have produced wonderful ethnographic works on the black community, few have explained the political relevance of discourse in these communities. Harris-Lacewell links public discourse with ideology formation and political behavior in a way that is compelling, new, and important.""--Andrea Simpson, University of Richmond, author of The Tie that Binds	""While sociologists have produced wonderful ethnographic works on the black community, few have explained the political relevance of discourse in these communities. Harris-Lacewell links public discourse with ideology formation and political behavior in a way that is compelling, new, and important.""--Andrea Simpson, University of Richmond, author of The Tie that Binds	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.",african-american studies;asian;books;conversation;education & reference;etiquette;international & world politics;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,12
0954264843,"Zona: Siberian Prison Camps Carl De Keyzer was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1958. He became a freelance photographer while teaching at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts between 1982 and 1989. He has been a member of Magnum since 1994. He contracted TB during his first visit to Siberia, and returned heavily dosed with antibiotics and uable to drink alcohol. 'Unfortunately you can refuse a girl, but to refuse a vodka is the worst of social evils. I had a hard time of it,' he remembers.",arts & photography;books;equipment;ethnic studies;individual artists;photo essays;photography;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;techniques & reference;travel,12
0471356751,"Scientific American: Science Desk Reference This authoritative and affordable single-volume science desk reference covers a range of topics, including measurement, mathematics, chemistry, physics, astronomy, earth science, environment and ecology, biology, the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom, the human body, health and disease, computer science, technology, and inventions, discoveries, and prizes. Each chapter presents an overview of the subject, facts displayed as tables and diagrams, subject glossaries, a chronology, achievements of notable scientists, related web sites, and bibliographies for further reading. Given its readability, the great illustrations, and Scientific American's reputation, this reference is highly recommended for both academic and public libraries.-Paul G. Haschak, Southeastern Louisiana Univ., Hammond Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Scientific American magazine has long set the standard for popular science writing in the U.S. by publishing articles that explain science to nonspecialists in a thorough yet understandable manner. This new book builds on the expertise of the magazine and provides the reader with a single-volume overview of the entire range of science and technology.The work is divided into 16 sections representing different fields of science, from mathematics and physics to the environment, biology, and the health sciences. Each section contains brief essays covering the key concepts and research in the field, along with various tables and statistical data. Every section also provides the reader with a glossary, very brief biographies of important scientists, a chronology of events (generally current to mid-1998), links to relevant Web sites, and a bibliography of classic books. Black-and-white illustrations enhance the text, and a comprehensive index helps the reader locate a specific topic of interest anywhere in the work.There is a great deal of good information in this single volume, allowing it to serve as a scientific encyclopedia, dictionary, chronology, and biography all in one. With its low price and authoritative provenance, it should become a standard science ready-reference tool for libraries serving high-school students, college students, and adults, especially if it is updated.	Scientific American Science Desk Reference The ultimate in reference from the authority on science and technology For over 150 years, Scientific American has been explaining science to the public, developing a reputation for conveying complex scientific information in a way that inquisitive nonscientists can understand. Now Scientific American presents this one-volume, easy-to-use reference to the exciting and ever-changing world of science and technology. In sixteen sections, Scientific American Science Desk Reference covers everything from the age of the earth to the dimensions of space, from evolutionary theory and the study of fossils to the latest in genetic research. Each scientific field is explored through an overview of key topics, a chronology of discoveries, and a list of further reading. Over 500 biographies of key science figures give an idea of the vast human effort scientific endeavor requires. Thousands of glossary terms and hundreds of useful Web sites are listed. Also included are hundreds of visual elements, including tables, charts, diagrams, and illustrations. And hundreds of sidebars feature fascinating facts, mnemonic aids, and quizzes to help you grasp the concepts discussed. Along with a careful exploration of the basics of science, the book also includes essays from knowledgeable contributors that provide engaging commentary on various fields. For instance, Tony Jones discusses the paradigm-shaking discoveries of planets in our solar system, Edward Young contemplates differing theories on how the dinosaurs became extinct, and Chris Stringer explores competing theories of evolution. Whether youre a student, or simply an enthusiast, Scientific American Science Desk Reference has all the compelling facts you need to explore the world around you.	Who names newly discovered planets? What exactly are black holes? Where are there the most earthquakes? When did the first Homo sapiens walk the earth? Why is the night sky dark? How does the fluoride in toothpaste prevent cavities? Since 1845, Scientific American has answered questions and provided the best information available in all areas of science. Now, Scientific American is proud to present an accessible, one-volume reference covering all the sciences. Whether you want to examine the tiniest microbes, the properties of the earth's core, or the farthest reaches of space, this handy desk reference is the resource to turn to for the answers you need. - Over 500 biographies of key science figures - Thousands of glossary terms - Hundreds of useful Web sites - Tables, charts, diagrams, and illustrations - Sidebars featuring fascinating facts, mnemonic aids, and quizzes - Essays exploring ideas in-depth	Scientific American is one of the world's leading science and technology publications. In English, it reaches more than 3 million people around the world by subscription, newsstands, and online.",americas;books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;history;humanities;new;reference;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,12
0804231044,"Numbers (Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching) Dennis T. Olsen is Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. His published works include Deuteronomy and the Death of Moses, A Theological Reading and Pentateuchal Narratives.",books;christian books & bibles;education & reference;hebrew bible (old testament);judaism;meditations;ministry & church leadership;preaching;reference;religion & spirituality;sacred writings;worship & devotion,12
1574670565,"Score Reading: A Key to the Music Experience The technical is overlaid with informative and easy-to-read history lessons on scores, orchestras, and conductors. -- Library Journal , October 15, 2000	Michael Dickreiter Michael Dickreiter has earned a Tonmeister (sound engineer) diploma from Detmold Music Academy and a Ph.D. from Heidelberg University. He is an instructor at the School for Radio Technique in Nuremberg and the author of several books on sound recording techniques, acoustics, and musical instruments.	It would be difficult to compose polyphonic music (music having two or more parts) without writing it down in a way that shows the relation of the parts to each other. Few musicians are able to put together (com-pose) a polyphonic piece entirely in their heads, without putting the parts on paper to show how they fit togetherin other words, without a score. A few famous musicians such as J. S. Bach are said to have had that ability; they are the exceptions to the rule.  Historically, even the very first attempts at writing down polyphony represent a kind of score. These documents, dating from the ninth century, are notated in such a way that simultaneous sounds are vertically aligned. Some later medieval manuscripts also have such scorelike arrangements of the voices. In some cases the interpretation is unequivocal; other documents present problems in understanding how to sing the music.  Polyphonic music became ever more widespread during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in fact, the sixteenth century has been called ""The Golden Age of Polyphony."" Polyphony by that time had become extremely complex and was governed by strict rules of voice leading; composing such music without writing it down in score form is unthinkable. We would therefore assume that many scores would have been preserved in old libraries, but hardly any scores have come down to us. Instead, the music is saved in choir books and part books.",arts & photography;books;composition;composition & performance;education & reference;instruction & study;music;performing arts;reference;songbooks;theater;theory,12
0375751416,"Estrogen: The Natural Way: Over 250 Easy and Delicious Recipes for Menopause Estrogen: The Natural Way is a cookbook with a difference: every recipe is high in plant estrogens, which can relieve menopausal discomforts such as hot flashes, sweats, and sleep disturbance. Plant estrogens may protect against heart disease and osteoporosis--without the increased risk of breast cancer. In fact, they may protect against cancer, say author Nina Shandler and her endorsing team of physicians. Shandler tells her story of menopausal distress (I felt like a middle-aged bed wetter) and her reactions to hormone replacement therapy (nausea, headache, rage against males). Her quest for other solutions led her to plant estrogens. She offers rich information in a simple, accessible style; she's like an educated friend reporting back after library trips and personal revelations.  The winners among estrogen-rich foods are soy and flaxseed. Shandler uses soy to create creamy foods that taste decadent despite their low calorie count. She adds ground flaxseeds to recipes for a crunchy texture. The 250 recipes in Estrogen: The Natural Way are a tasty array of breakfasts, breads, soups, snack bars, salads, pastas, entrees, and desserts, most of which are quick and easy to prepare. Menopausal women seeking the benefits of estrogen without drugs will find this book a practical and pleasant solution. --Joan Price	Those desiring alternatives to standard hormone replacement therapy (HRT) during menopause will find useful information in each of these books. All focus on menopause as a natural process and on the alleviation of menopausal discomfort through healthy living, especially diet. All explain menopausal symptoms, current HRT treatment and side effects, the importance of particular hormones, and the use of plant hormones instead of synthesized drugs. And all discuss in varying detail hormones and their relationship to breast cancer, heart disease, and osteoporosis. Laux, a naturopathic doctor, and Conrad, his former patient and founder of the Natural Woman Institute, espouse the Natural Woman plan in their book. They include an interesting historical overview of both the medicinal use of plants and the pharmaceutical industry, also detailing what the ""naturals"" are and how to get them. The MEND Clinic Guide usefully covers a variety of alternative therapies for menopause, including herbal therapy, aromatherapy, homeopathy, mind-body therapies, massage, acupressure, and relaxation techniques. Maas is an M.D., Paula Brown an anthropologist, and Susan E. Bruning a health writer (Healing Homeopathic Remedies, Dell, 1996). An A-Z of menopausal symptoms and alternative remedies provides quick reference, and one chapter discusses diseases, including diabetes. Cookbook author Shandler concentrates on obtaining estrogen from plants. Each of her 250 recipes, ranging from yellow cauliflower curry to chocolate snack bars, incorporates either tofu, soy products, or flax seed and estimates the estrogen content per portion. While many of the recipes look tempting, only the determined are likely to follow this diet. While these three books are recommended for alternative-medicine collections, Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book (LJ 3/1/97) is likely to become the menopause book of choice.?Kate Kelly, Treadwell Lib., Massachusetts General Hosp., BostonCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	There's certainly a large market for this new cookbook about plant estrogens: female baby boomers who want not only to avoid hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) but also to eat healthier and more vegetarian. Shandler, a psychologist and cookbook author, wisely asked three nutritionally oriented medical doctors to prepare the book's 23-page introduction, in which readers learn that ""women are looking for ways to replace lost estrogen without endangering themselves--for ways to maintain the health of their hearts and bones while protecting themselves from breast cancer."" The protective effects and health benefits of soy and flaxseed are outlined and documented. Shandler tells of her own discovery of estrogenic foods after proving intolerant of HRT; the more than 250 recipes here resulted from her need to add soy and flaxseed to her diet. Following a comprehensive discussion of soy foods, including the available densities of tofu, come recipes from granolas to soups to main dishes to (of course!) desserts--each with work time and equipment needed, often an electric food processor or coffee grinder.  Penny Spokes	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	""Hooray! Finally a book which makes the dietary approach to menopausal symptoms easy and delicious. It sent me straight to the kitchen.""-- Susan M. Love, author of Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Praise for Estrogen: The Natural Way""Hooray! Finally--a book that makes the dietary approach to menopausal symptoms easy and delicious. It sent me straight to the kitchen.""--Susan M. Love, M.D., author of Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book""A unique and invaluable book. It takes an unflinching look at menopause and shows women how to do a gentle yet potent version of estrogen replacement therapy, using the kitchen instead of the drugstore. It is backed by absolutely solid science, and written with the charm, personality, and engagement that can come only from personal experience."" --Bill Lawren, co-author of The Zone""This book is an excellent resource. It contains information that every woman should be aware of, as well as recipes. The recipes are beneficial to both sexes, because they improve our state of health."" --Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine and Miracles""This cookbook might well be subtitled 'The Joy of Soy.' The 250 recipes offer myriad creative--and even palatable--ways to incorporate soy, flaxseed, and other ingredients high in plant estrogens into your diet. An invaluable resource for postmenopausal women who are not on HRT.""--Harvard Women's Health Watch	Nina Shandler has written about diet and health for more than twenty years and has published several cookbooks. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, Michael. They have two daughters.",books;cookbooks;fitness & dieting;food & wine;general;health;healthy;menopause;nutrition;science fiction & fantasy;special diet;women's health,12
0970815700,"Sulekha Select: The Indian Experience in a Connected World ""Sulekha Select achieves the impossible. It integrates... the  complete Indian experience.""  -- Pritish Nandy, syndicated columnist and TV host. ""This impressive new publication may well serve as a  springboard fora new generation of writers from South Asia""  -- Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace ""What emerges...is that elusive, but all-pervading character  of 'Indian-ness'""  -- Shyam Benegal, director of Zubeidaa...a kaleidoscope of viewpoints meant to refract the prism of Indian experience. Theres something for everyone... -- Asia Times OnlineThis wonderful collection shows the power of the Internet to find fresh voices and fresh ideas. -- Sreenath Sreenivasan, professor of journalism at and co-founder, South Asian Journalists Association	Sulekha.com has long been the destination of choice for South Asian writers on the Net. The edgy atmosphere of passionate discourse on the site allows writers and columnists to interact directly with their audience through online discussions. Distilled from three years of writing on the site, this book represents the first major online-to-offline publishing event among Indian Internet companies.	Sulekha.com is the world's biggest online Indian community.	Foreword by Pritish Nandy    Sulekha Select achieves the impossible. It integrates what I always thought could never be integrated. The complete Indian experience. It is so varied, so magical, so differently hued that I always believed India would forever remain an assemblage of multiple experiences held together by a tenuous thread of nationhood or Hindutva, or however you may choose to describe it. I always believed that the Bengali experience, the Tamil experience, the Maharashtrian experience, the Kashmiri experience, all added up to create the sum total of what we often describe as the Indian experience. An experience that cannot stand on its own otherwise. But Sulekha Select has proved me entirely wrong. I now discover that it is possible in a wired world to actually have a cohesive and complete experience that can be actually described as Indian. Totally Indian. I guess this is what modern technology and global connectivity has brought about: an integration that we never thought was possible throug!  h politics. It has brought about a mindset that is complete and yet extremely dynamic, ready to confront any challenge, any experience.   These 42 pieces create a geography and a landscape that makes me extremely proud to be an Indian. An Indian whose country is spread out across the world, whose sense of nationhood spans so many different cultures, whose pride exults in being part of a world that is constantly changing, constantly evolving, and yet whose tradition, whose roots, remain with him wherever he goes, wherever he decides to settle down. Sulekha Select says one simple thing: India is where you are; India is wherever you go.    Pritish Nandy  Mumbai,   March 15, 2001    --------    Pritish Nandy is a columnist, TV host, Member of Parliament and chairman of a multimedia firm. He was Publishing Director of The Times of India for nearly a decade and was awarded the Padma Shree for poetry in 1977.",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;ethnic studies;general;literature & fiction;new;politics & social sciences;short stories;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,12
0773521739,"Robert Creeley: A Biography Drawing on dozens of anecdotes and memoirs of Robert Creeley's contemporaries, as well as Creeley's own letters and papers, literary editor and scholar Faas (Young Robert Duncan; etc.) presents a largely unflattering portrait of the acclaimed poet's first 50 years. Having lost both his father and his left eye by age four, Creeley (b. 1926), in Faas's portrait, is on a perennial quest to heal his fractured ego. Growing up in a household dominated by women his mother and four sisters Creeley appeared to avenge himself on the women he seduced. Throughout his travels and marriages, he casually ensnared and then disposed of wives of close friends. Treating rivals with unbridled scorn, Creeley intermittently battled with the angels of creativity and the demons of conceit. He reacted to failure with impotence and then rage, resulting in violence imaginary or real and drinking bouts. When critic M.L. Rosenthal wrote not quite flatteringly about Creeley's poems, for example, Creeley concluded that Rosenthal had ""something against him."" Creeley's contemporaries, under Faas's gaze, don't fare much better: Kenneth Rexroth emerges as a jealous, deceitful, unstable cuckold amidst a circle of amoral, self-absorbed writers that included Denise Levertov, Jack Kerouac and Charles Olson. Despite numerous excerpts from his poetry and references to his considerable literary successes, there is little here to enlighten readers about Creeley's contributions to contemporary American poetry or about the regard accorded him by many in the world of poetry. To that end, the memoirs of Creeley's first wife, Ann MacKinnon, which are excerpted at length, are far more useful. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	""Robert Creeley is a major contribution to the understanding of Creeley's writing, and to an understanding of the important scene of the New American Poetry, especially in the years of its founding ... Faas's biography of the man is brutally honest (as is Creeley in his own writing) in its portrait of a driven, often violent and alienated consciousness who just happened to turn his demons into some of the most powerful poetry of our time."" Douglas Barbour, Department of English, University of Alberta	6 x 9  trim. 40 illus LC 2001-091501	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	EKBERT FAAS teaches at Vanier College, York University, Canada. He is author of Towards a New American Poetics (1978), editor of  Kenneth Rexroth's Excerpts from a Life (1981), and coeditor of Irving Layton & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, 1953 - 1978 (1990).	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",20th century;american;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);movements & periods;poetry,12
0804837422,"Tuttle English-Vietnamese Dictionary (Tuttle Reference Dic) Phan Van Giuong  is a distinguished professor in Vietnamese Studies at Victoria University, Melbourne.Nguyen Dinh-Hoa was a distinguished professor in Vietnamese Studies at San Jose University.Patricia Nguyen Thi-Huong has an MA in English from Southern Illinois University.",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,12
0201589583,"C++ Faqs: Frequently Asked Questions FAQ 0.1  What is the purpose of this book?  The purpose of the book is to change the way you think.  Changing the way you think is much more challenging than learning the syntax of a programming language.  For example, learning when and why you should use a particular construct is much harder than learning the syntax for that construct.  Learning when not to use a particular construct is even harder.  This book gives specific advice and directions to help you properly use C++ for object-oriented programming.  If you are new to object-oriented programming, our aim is to convert you to the object-oriented way of thinking.  If you are a seasoned veteran, our aim is to have you question some of your ingrained practices and possibly adopt new approaches to using C++ --approaches that will scale better.  FAQ 0.2  What is unique about the style and format of this book?  To achieve the book's goals, we used a novel style and format.  Here are the key elements of that style and format.  A question and answer format:  This book contains answers to Frequently Asked Questions (or FAQs) about using C++ for object-oriented programming.  These FAQs are the product of several years of teaching others to use C++ effectively, as well as an embarrassingly large number of hours corresponding with the international C++ user community via the Internet news group, comp.lang.c++.  A focus on principles and concepts rather than syntax:  Rather than focusing on the syntax and semantics of various C++ language features, this book shows how to combine features properly and why to combine them.   A consistent programming and design philosophy:  As with any programming language, there are numerous ways to use and combine the various features of C++.  Some of these uses and combinations lead to comprehendable, maintainable, extensive, and reusable software; other uses and combinations only work in small examples and are, in reality, abuses of the language.  These FAQs identify which uses and combinations are preferred and promote a consistent programming and design philosophy that has good scaling properties.  Lots of programming examples:  This book contains almost 200 programming examples, most of which are complete, runnable programs rather than program fragments.  Readers are encouraged to dissect and execute the examples because this will enhance the learning experience.  Extensive cross referencing:  The FAQs in this book are extensively cross referenced to other FAQs, as well as to other C++ books.  Since the topic of using C++ for object-oriented programming is too large to be completely covered by one book, we provide you with pointers into other books where complementary material can be found.  Three books we selected for cross referencing:  Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language, Second Edition, an excellent description of the language; Ellis and Stroustrup's The Annotated C++ Reference Manual, an authoritative and comprehensive definition of the language; and Lippman's C++ Primer, Second Edition, an excellent introductory book.  A lighthearted style:  We want to change the way you think, so we have to debunk many common assumptions.  This leads to the questioning of common practices and --to take the edge off-- humor.  Another reason for the lighthearted style is that this book has roots in comp.lang.c++, where the communication style is direct and unforgiving, and where humor is used to calm people's passions and cajole people into seeing your point of view :-)  FAQ 0.3  Where did these FAQs come from?  We made them up.  Surprisingly, most of the FAQs contained in this book are not questions that anyone ever asked us directly.  Instead they come from our experience training developers in object-oriented technology and from corresponding with readers on comp.lang.c++.  Topics that come up again and again, whether during training sessions or on comp.lang.c++, were coalesced into a series of questions.  FAQ 0.4  Is every topic treated with equal emphasis?  No.  Some topics are covered in greater depth than other topics.  We focus more energy on topics that historically have been most difficult for people to get right, and we almost completely ignore placement of semicolons and other issues that the compiler will tell you about.  The more subtle the problem, the more we focus on it --especially practices that are accepted by the compiler and appear to function correctly, but which increase the overall cost of the software.  FAQ 0.5  How should you use this book in combination with other books?  It depends on what you're trying to achieve.  This book is not intended to be a tutorial introduction to C++.  Each example is meant to illustrate a single idea relevant to that FAQ.  Many introductory aspects of the language, such as the syntax of a for loop, are assumed.  If you want to cover the fundamentals of C++, we recommend using this book in conjunction with either The C++ Programming Language, Second Edition or C++ Primer, Second Edition.  Our FAQs provide extensive cross references into both of these texts.  This book is not intended to be a reference manual for C++.  It does not pretend to cover all aspects of the language in encyclopedic detail.  If you want such a reference manual, we recommend using this book in conjunction with The Annotated C++ Reference Manual.  Our FAQs provide extensive cross references into this text.  FAQ 0.6  How is the book organized?  The FAQs are organized into more than 40 chapters, each of which is organized into ascending complexity.  The FAQs in each chapter all deal with a specific topic.  Usually the questions near the beginning of a chapter deal with basic questions and fundamental concepts; later questions deal with advanced issues and complex topics.  The first third of the book deals with object-oriented aspects of C++ such as inheritance, dynamic binding, and polymorphism.  The middle portion of the book deals with a variety of C++ facilities ranging from templates to exception handling to the proper management of pointers.  The last portion of the book contains chapters that deal with environmental topics such as training, coding standards, and Smalltalk.  FAQ 0.7  Why did we create the electronic FAQ?  To bring order to chaos.  First, the electronic FAQ presents the facts (pun intended) about C++ in a more concise and focused manner than the somewhat chaotic discussions on comp.lang.c++.  Second, the number of developers switching to C++ is amazing, and the electronic FAQ answers many basic questions for these new users.  Third, without a FAQ list, seasoned veterans would become irritated by answering the same questions over and over; the electronic FAQ encourages the veterans to act more like ambassadors.  In the end, the electronic FAQ makes comp.lang.c++ a kinder, gentler news group, where people are less likely to be ""flamed"" (a technical term for posting a particularly scathing, blistering, and sarcastic response to something that is posted to an electronic bulletin board).  FAQ 0.8  Why did we write this book?  To further spread the good news.  We decided to write this book for several reasons.  First, Addison-Wesley expressed interest in such a project.  Second, it would make the FAQs available to a wider audience since not everyone has access to Internet and comp.lang.c++.  Third, a book permits the material to be presented in a more professional manner than can be easily done with the electronic FAQ.  Fourth this project spurred us to expand the material vastly beyond what is provided by the electronic FAQ.  In the end, after adding all the new FAQs, examples, and internal and external cross references, the book contains five times more material than the electronic FAQ.  FAQ 0.9  Are Marshall's and Greg's motivations based on language bigotry?  No.  For the record, we are not now --nor have we ever been-- C++ language bigots.  We love Smalltalk, Eiffel, C, Lisp, CLOS, Prolog, Simula, Ada, Modula, Pascal, perl, awk, sed, csh, ksh, REXX, COBOL, FORTRAN, RPG, etc.  At the same time, we adopted the philosophy that since we're writing a book about C++, we might as well throw ourselves into the project even if it means that we look like C++ fanatics.  It certainly has made for more exciting and provocative writing and, we hope, reading.  Our main goal is to get you to think about what you are doing and how you might improve on it.  If we accomplish this, then we will be satisfied.  FAQ 0.10  How can you communicate with us?  Email and FTP.  We'd love to hear from you.  Our email address is clinefaq@aw.  Send us your questions.  Send us your comments.  You can acquire a free, machine-readable copy of the code sections in this book via FTP (ask your favorite network guru for help on how to access FTP with your software).  The code sections will be available via FTP aw in the directory awputer.science/clinefaq.  Use anonymous as your user ID, and use your email address as your password.  Enjoy!   0201589583P04062001	Second Editionnow available!   This book is inspired by the popularity of the electronic FAQ, originally prepared and disseminated by Marshall Cline and available on the Internet at comp.lang.c++. The direct question and answer format makes it easy for readers to quickly find the information they are looking for. This book contains four to five times the material of the electronic FAQ: new questions and answers have been added, existing questions have been extensively revised, comprehensive examples illustrate key points and provide practical guidelines for programmers, and thorough cross referencing makes this book a professional guidebook. The authors go beyond simply answering questions, they present a clear philosophy that promotes high quality C++ programming. The authors combine a lively, straightforward style with just enough humor to make the book accessible to the beginning C++ programmer, and a valuable reference for the experienced C++ developer.  0201589583B04062001	Marshall Cline is President of MT Systems Company, which develops object-oriented systems for large corporations. He has taught object-oriented programming design and analysis to thousands of professionals in both industrial and academic settings. He is the keeper of the official C++ FAQ for the Internet forum comp.lang.c++. He received the PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University.   Greg Lomow is a senior architect and developer with fifteen years of experience building applications and distributed systems for the banking and financial services industry as well as mentoring development teams on the effective use of object-oriented technology. He received the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Calgary.   0201589583AB04062001",books;c;c & c++ windows programming;computers & technology;development;education & reference;languages & tools;mathematics;microsoft;programming;science & math;software,12
1885478895,"Man Who Could Fly: The Bob Beamon Story (Grammar Dimen Platinum) In this refreshing biography, Olympian Bob Beamon begins by recounting the ""complicated mess"" of his difficult childhood. His mother died shortly after his birth, and he spent his formative years in an abusive household with an uncaring grandmother and an alcoholic father. Amazingly, this scraggly inner-city New Yorker, who teetered on the edge of juvenile delinquency, rose to Olympic stardom. His remarkable long jump of more than 29 feet at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City remains an Olympic record. In addition to his track career, Beamon retraces his bumpy life, including his college days at the University of Texas in El Paso, where he and other black athletes not only faced racism from townspeople and peers but from the school's athletic director who ""fondly"" called the athletes ""niggers."" While Beamon admits to making ""bad choices"" during his lifetime (including four failed marriages), he says he eventually put his life in order because he ""refused to stay down."" An inspirational and sports biography.  Sue-Ellen Beauregard",african-american & black;african-american studies;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;other team sports;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;sports & outdoors;track & field,12
0807821624,"Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium From the yellowed columns of newsprint, Ms. Tucher . . . skillfully draws a contemporary moral.New York Times Book Review[Tucher] presents the colorful story of the early penny press with all the verve, intelligence, and humor it merits.American HeritageA deceptively complex book. . . . A readable, racy, and often funny study of an important aspect of antebellum social history.American Historical ReviewThis well-written book is a valuable contribution to the literature on journalism in the nineteenth century.Journal of the Early RepublicThis is scholarship as solid as oak and history as timely as today's tabloid titillation.Bill Moyers	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",americas;books;communication & media studies;education & reference;history;journalism & nonfiction;philosophy;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;social sciences;united states;writing,12
0415130840,"Modern Written Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar (Comprehensive Grammars) 'A major contribution to the field of Arabic studies. Modern Written Arabic is a fantastic achievement from a team of three highly experienced and specialist authors ... An excellent book with a great deal to offer ... There are huge riches to be found, many of which are not discussed in any other currently available volume.' BAAL News	Text: English, Arabic	El Said Badawi is Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics at the American University in Cairo. M.G. Carter is Professor of Arabic at the University of Oslo. Adrian Gully is Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter.",books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;instruction;language & grammar;linguistics;new;used & rental textbooks;words,12
1878610732,"A Land So Remote : Religious Art of New Mexico 1780-1907 During the 19th century, the fervent gratitude New Mexicans felt  for their deliverance from the difficulties of frontier life  gave birth to a marvelous and exciting period of religious art,  explored in the first two volumes of this three-volume set on  frontier New Mexico. These two volumes (Religious Art of New  Mexico, 1780-1907) cover the art of santos, retablos, and  bultos, personal objects of worship drawn from medieval  traditions that were more accessible than the official saints.  In the home, they became like beloved members of the family, and  they served an important social function as well. As Frank  notes, ""Rightly understood, santos are a kind of 'liberation  theology' written in the language of wood, plaster, and paint,  an understanding of Christianity that empowers the poor to free  themselves from unjust socioeconomic and cultural structures in  the larger world and within themselves."" The third volume  (Wooden Artifacts of Frontier New Mexico) covers wooden  objects e.g., agricultural tools, tanning tools, furniture,  toys, and games created in reaction to frontier needs and the  lack of metal. These objects are often prime examples of  cultural transference between Native Americans and Hispanics.  Many of the images show rare works, not previously photographed,  from nine museums and numerous private collections. With their  extensive essays and careful selection of beautifully reproduced  images, Frank (The New Kingdom of the Saints) and Miller  (curator and director, Taos Historic Museums) make a major  contribution to the field. Available as individual volumes and  in a collectors' limited-edition boxed set, this is recommended  for special and academic collections in art history, history of  the Southwest, and Hispanic culture. Sylvia Andrews, Indiana  State Lib., Indianapolis   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	A land so Remote will undoubtedly become a masterpiece of art history...have a tremendous impact on readers and scholars. -- ABQ Arts, February 2002	Larry Frank is the author of New Kingdom of the Saints (Red Crane Books 1992), Historic Pottery of the Pueblo Indians and Indian Silver Jewelry of the Southwest. Frank has been a collector of Santos for over forty years. He has curated several museum exhibits and lectures on the topic at museums, universities and at historical events.",art history;arts & photography;books;criticism;design;europe;history;history & criticism;humanities;new;religious;used & rental textbooks,12
159947090X,"When Sickness Heals: The Place of Religious Belief in Healthcare In When Sickness Heals, Dr. Siroj Sorajjakool draws on more than ten years of studies on health benefits in relation to spirituality, especially focusing on the function of meaning. He expounds on his theory that healing is primarily the function of meaning, and meaning transcends sickness and even death itself. He concludes that what people ultimately seek in life is the healing of their souls. Sorajjakool brings many Eastern and Western resources to his conversation on health, meaning, and healing. He incorporates the perspectives of theologians and philosophers like Paul Tillich, Carl Jung, Sren Kierkegaard, Raimundo Panikkar, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and John Macquarrie; as well as references to religious texts, including yin and yang, and alchemy. A clear, distinct understanding of spirituality in clinical contexts is presented, with an argument for the role of meaning in the healing process, based on evidence that there may be healing even in the face of death. Sorajjakool identifies the transitional processes people may go through as they seek to make sense of their experiences during a health crisis. He suggests an alternative approach to spiritual assessment and provides methods of spiritual care that speak to the soul. 	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.	Siroj Sorajjakool is professor of religion, psychology, and counseling at Loma Linda University and is also clinical supervisor, pastoral counseling at Loma Linda.  He has a Ph.D. in theology and personality from Claremont School of Theology.  He has published extensively in Thai and English.",alternative medicine;books;doctor-patient relations;fitness & dieting;healing;health;medical books;medicine;religion & spirituality;religious studies;spirituality;theology,12
0201590654,"Programming Languages: Concepts and Constructs (2nd Edition) Programming Languages: Concepts and Constructs, Second Edition retains the ""character"" of the original, emphasizing concepts and how they work together. This classic book has been thoroughly revised to provide readable coverage of the major programming paradigms. Dr. Sethi's treatment of the core concepts of imperative programming in languages like Pascal and C flows smoothly into object-oriented programming in C++ and Smalltalk. The charm of functional languages is illustrated by programs in standard ML and the Scheme dialect of Lisp. Logic programming is introduced using Prolog.  Novices, who have been introduced to programming in some language, will learn from this book how related concepts work together while designers and implementers willp be exposed to the major programming paradigms.  Example programs from the book are available as source code. These are available by anonymous ftp at  ftp://ftp.aw.com/cseng/authors/sethi/pl2e.     0201590654B04062001	About Ravi Sethi   Ravi Sethi, director of Computing Science Research, has been at AT Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey since 1976. He has held teaching positions at Pennsylvania State university and the University of Arizona, and has taught at Princeton University and Rutgers. Dr. Sethi is co-author of the ""dragon book"", Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools and has written numerous articles. His books have been translated in Japanese, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Korean.          0201590654AB04062001	This book is designed for junior/senior level courses on programming languages. A minimal pre-requisite is an introductory programming course. With supplementary readings, the book can also be used for graduate courses.  What's New in this Edition?  Changes on the language scene and feedback from the use of the book have prompted a thorough revision. Instructors liked the emphasis on concepts, but asked that the concepts be illustrated using fewer languages. Meanwhile, Modula-2 has faded, and C++ has taken off as a language for production programming. Candidates for functional languages now include Standard ML, Haskell, and Miranda. The new outline has 15 chapters, three more than the first edition. The role of the three new chapters is as follows:  Data types like arrays, records, and pointers have a new chapter. Functional programming is introduced using ML in a new chapter. Language summaries appear in a final chapter.  Language description and syntax are now treated early, in Chapter 2.  Organization of this Book  The emphasis is on concepts and how they work together, rather than on language features. Related concepts are therefore covered together, to allow meaningful examples and programming exercises along the way. Just enough of a language is introduced, as needed, for the examples and exercises. Language summaries appear in Chapter 15. Part I: Introduction Chapter 1 traces the role and development of programming languages. It introduces the programming paradigms in this book. They include imperative, object-oriented, functional, and logic programming. Syntax description is treated in Chapter 2, so it can be applied in the rest of the book. The examples in the chapter deal with expressions, since methods for describing the syntax of expressions carry over to the rest of a language. Part II: Imperative Programming The imperative family is treated in Chapters 3-5. The term ''imperative'' comes from command or action; the computation model is that of a sequence of actions on an underlying machine. Chapter 3 deals with control flow. Structured constructs like while statements organize the flow of control so that the unit of programming is a structured statement, instead of an individual assignment. Students in a course that emphasizes imperative programming are usually familiar with Pascal, so this chapter goes beyond assignments and structured statements to consider programming with invariants. The examples deal with basic values, like integers, and arrays. Chapter 4 deals with data in imperative languages. Data representation facilities such as arrays, records, and pointers, have been stable since Pascal and C appeared. The treatment of these facilities anticipates their use to represent objects in Chapters 6 and 7. Chapter 5 rounds out the discussion of the core of imperative languages, embodied in a language like Pascal or C. Among the topics are the distinction between the source text of a procedure and its activations, parameter passing, scope rules, and storage allocation. This book illustrates imperative programming using Pascal, where possible. Pascal suffices as a vehicle for Chapters 3-5. C is an alternative. Part III: Object-Oriented Programming As programs get larger, the natural unit of programming is a grouping of data and operations. The progression of concepts for such groupings can be described in terms of modules, user-defined types (for example, stacks), and classes (as in object-oriented programming). Chapter 6 begins with of programming with procedures, modules, and classes. These constructs serve distinct needs and can be used in combination with each other: procedures are needed to implement operations in a module or class; modules can be used to statically partition the source text of a program with classes. Some versions of Pascal support modules; they can be used for the first half of Chapter 6 as well. C++, an extension of C, is introduced in Chapter 6. The model of computation in Chapter 7 is that of independent objects. The objects interact by sending messages to each other. The first third of the chapter introduces object-oriented programming in general, using a running example that has similar implementations in C++ and Smalltalk. The rest of the chapter has independent coverage of C++ and Smalltalk, so either one can be used to explore object-oriented programming. Based on feedback from instructors, this edition covers C++ before Smalltalk, inverting the order in the previous edition. Object-oriented programming is illustrated using both C++ and Smalltalk, since the two represent different approaches. All of the concepts in Chapters 3 - 7 can be illustrated using C++. Students can be introduced directly to C++, without going through C. Part IV: Functional Programming Functional programming is worth studying as a programming style in its own right; as a setting for studying concepts such as types; and as a technique for language description. The emphasis in Chapter 8 is on concepts, in Chapters 9 and 10 on programming style, and in Chapter 13 on language description. The computational model is based on an expression interpreter; an expression consists of a function applied to subexpressions. The emphasis in Chapter 8 is on concepts. The simplicity of functional languages makes them convenient for introducing concepts such as values, types, names, and functions. The simplicity results from the emphasis on expressions and values, independent of the underlying machine. The chapter treads ground common to functional languages, using ML as the working language. The fundamental difference between ML and Lisp is that ML is typed; the influence of types permeates the language. Chapter 9 uses ML to illustrate the use of functions and datatypes. As first-class citizens, functions have the same status as any other values in functional programming. This first-class status permits the creation of powerful operations on collections of data. Functional programming originated with Lisp. Programs and data are both represented by lists in Lisp; the name is a contraction of ''List Processor.'' The uniform use of lists makes Lisp eminently extensible. Chapter 10 explores the use of lists, using the Scheme dialect of Lisp. See also Chapter 13, which contains an interpreter for a small subset of Scheme, and Chapter 14, which covers the lambda calculus. Part V: Other Paradigms Logic programming goes hand in hand with Prolog, in Chapter 11. Logic programming deals with relations rather than functions. Where it fits, programs are concise, consisting of facts and rules. The languages uses the facts and rules to deduce responses to queries. Concurrent programming is illustrated using Ada, in Chapter 12. An alternative approach would have been to cover concurrent programming after object-oriented programming. Processes can be formed by giving each object its own thread of computation. The present organization puts functional programming before concurrent programming. Part VI: Language Description The methods for language description in Chapter 13 are aimed at specialists. The methods range from attributes used for language translation, to logical rules for used type inference, to interpreters used for clarifying subtle language questions. A language can be described by writing a definitional interpreter for it, so called because its purpose is to define the interpreted language; efficiency is not a concern. McCarthy's  original definitional interpreter for Lisp in Lisp remains important for language description, so language description is illustrated using the Scheme dialect of Lisp. Chapter 13 develops an interpreter for a small subset of Scheme. The lambda calculus is the intellectual ancestor of functional languages. The small syntax of the lambda calculus has also led to its use as a vehicle for studying languages. Variants of the lambda calculus are introduced in Chapter 14. The chapter progresses from the pure untyped lambda calculus to typed lambda calculi. Chapter 15 contains brief summaries of the languages in this book.  Acknowledgments From the First Edition  A graduate seminar at Rutgers University gave me both the opportunity and the incentive to collect material on programming languages. I'd like to thank Alex Borgida, Martin Carroll, Fritz Henglein, Naftaly Minsky, Bob Paige, and Barbara Ryder for keeping the seminar lively. An undergraduate course at Harvard University used an early draft of this book. Written comments by the students in the course were very helpful. The organization of this book has benefited greatly from the comments and especially the criticism of the then anonymous reviewers contacted by Addison-Wesley. They are Tom Cheatham, Harvard University, John Crenshaw, Western Kentucky University, Paul Hilfinger, University of California, Berkeley, Barry Kurtz, New Mexico State University, Robert Noonan, College of William and Mary, Ron Olsson, University of California, Davis, William Pervin, University of Texas at Dallas, Paul Reynolds, University of Virginia, David Schmidt, Kansas State University, and Laurie Werth, University of Texas at Austin. For all their technical help, I am grateful to Al Aho, Jon Bentley, Gerard Berry, Eric Cooper, Bruce Duba, Tom Duncan, Rich Drechsler, Peggy Ellis, Charlie Fischer, Dan Friedman, Georges Gonthier, Bob Harper, Mike Harrison, Bruce Hillyer, Brian Kernighan, Kim King, Chandra Kintala, Dave MacQueen, Dianne Maki, Doug McIlroy, John Mitchell, Mike O'Donnell, Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, Chris Van Wyk, and Carl Woolf. This book on programming languages was produced with the help of a number of little languages. The diagrams were drawn using Brian Kernighan's Pic language; the grey-tones in the diagrams rely on the work of Ric...",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;mathematics;new;programming;programming languages;science & math;software;used & rental textbooks,12
0415912121,"Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Thinking Gender) Feminist Genealogies has a transnational orientation, drawing together essays from places as diverse as a the Philippines, Nigeria, and Jamaica. After reading Feminist Genealogies, one is left with a feeling of hope about the possibility of democratic futures....NWSA JournalFeminist Genealogies calls upon us to rethink feminist theories and practices within a complex intersectional and transnational framework. In contesting prevailing notions of global feminism, which tend to depart from resistance practices crafted in the West, Alexander and Mohanty have chosen essays that create new and provocative conversations among activist women involved in important transformative political projects in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. These conversations demand that we think deeply about advanced capitalist relations and how they reproduce and are reproduced through forms of domination that are sexualized, gendered, and racialized. This timely collection of essays should stimulate new discussions about feminist political engagement and about feminist organizing practices as ways of envisioning and struggling for democratic futures.Angela Y. Davis, University of California Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies",books;civil rights;feminist theory;gay & lesbian;humanities;new;nonfiction;philosophy;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,12
B000FO7R5W,"Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail (HP Technologies) I am often asked by my students in those [telecommunications] classes where they can research the details of e-mail protocals and processing and I have found that your text provided excellent coverage of the topic.-Bernard Schmidt  Northern Virginia Community College	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail will help you create and manage network applications using powerful Internet mail, directory, and domain name protocols and standards. It succinctly explains from a programmer's perspective not simply the primary Internet mail protocols but also how to use other important network protocols such as LDAP and DNS vital to the creation of message-enabled applications. Readers will learn how these protocols and standards facilitate message submission, delivery and retrieval, support directory lookup, how they interoperate, and how they together create a framework for sophisticated networked applications.  Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail will help you select the right protocol, or combination of protocols, for a specific programming function. Written by an expert e-mail and messaging consultant from Compaq, this insightful book is loaded with sample code you can use to begin and accelerate application development.                                        Master the primary Internet mail and directory protocolsUnderstand the interaction between Internet messaging clients and serversTroubleshoot e-mail network problems	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;ldap;network administration;networking;networks;programming;protocols & apis;software design;software development;testing & engineering,12
1591791472,"Mantra: Sacred Words of Power Ashley-Farrand is one of the Wests foremost authorities on Vedic and Buddhist Sanskrit mantras.	Thomas Ashley-Farrand has practiced mantra-based spiritual disciplines for 23 years and currently serves as priest and President of the Satya Yuga Bijam - Sanatana Dharma Satsang.  Well known for his ability to translate complex philosophies in fresh language for western ears, he conducts meditations and ceremonies in people's homes, local colleges and for various religious organizations. Over the last fifteen years, Ashley-Farrrand has been producer-director for a Washington, D.C. television station, and is a former full-time faculty member of George Washington University.",alternative medicine;books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;inspirational;meditation;personal transformation;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;self-help;spirituality,12
1567205291,"Wealth by Association: Global Prosperity through Market Unification This book demonstrates how and why wealth and growth materialize when financial markets unify by adopting a common currency.	JOHN C. EDMUNDS is Director of the Stephen D. Cutler Investment Management Center at Babson College. He is also on the faculty of the Arthur D. Little School of Management in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. JOHN E. MARTHINSEN is the Distinguished Chair in Swiss Economics of the Glavin Center for Global Entrepreneurial Leadership at Babson College.",books;business & investing;economic policy;economic policy & development;economics;foreign exchange;international;money & monetary policy;politics & government;politics & social sciences;popular economics;public affairs & policy,12
0761535071,"New Hope for People with Alzheimer's and Their Caregivers: Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementary Solutions This book provides thoughtful, thorough coverage of every aspect of Alzheimer's in language that is always accesible but never oversimplified. Porter Shimer's discussion of the rewards and challenges of caregiving deserves special recognition, as does his exploration of the crucial importance of 'care for the caregiver' strategies. Throughout, Shimer's coverage of divergent approaches to care and treatment remains balanced, responsible, and clearly focused on the personal impact of the disease.Jennie Ward Robinson, Ph.D., director, Medical and Scientific Affairs, Alzheimer's Association, National Headquarters	Discover New Ways to Cope with Alzheimer'sNow all those impacted by Alzheimer's disease can improve their quality of life, starting today. This helpful book dispels the myths and clearly lays out the truth about Alzheimer's and offers practical solutions for not only those who have the disease, but also their families and their caregivers. Inside, you'll uncover a new world of hope and the latest information on: The signs, symptoms, and proper diagnosis of Alzheimer's Living with Alzheimer's and providing the best possible care Cutting-edge research, including advances in biotechnology and genetics The latest conventional drugs and effective natural treatments, such as Ginkgo biloba and huperzine-A And much, much more!	This book provides thoughtful, thorough coverage of every aspect of Alzheimer's in language that is always accesible but never oversimplified. Porter Shimer's discussion of the rewards and challenges of caregiving deserves special recognition, as does his exploration of the crucial importance of 'care for the caregiver' strategies. Throughout, Shimer's coverage of divergent approaches to care and treatment remains balanced, responsible, and clearly focused on the personal impact of the disease.Jennie Ward Robinson, Ph.D., director, Medical and Scientific Affairs, Alzheimer's Association, National Headquarters	Porter Shimer is the author of 11 books, including New Hope for People with Diabetes, and Keeping Fitness Simple. Mr. Shimer was formerly the executive editor of Rodale's Executive Fitness Newsletter. He lives in Emmaus, Pennsylvania.",aging;aging parents;books;dementia;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;health;medical conditions & diseases;mental health;nervous system;parenting & relationships;self-help,12
1555913482,"Passionate Gardening: Good Advice for Challenging Climates This series of short, easy-to-digest essays by noted garden writers Springer (The Undaunted Garden) and Proctor (Herbs in Pots) addresses the horticultural needs of gardeners in difficult climates, discussing design, ""challenges"" (dry shade, deer, underused plants), the seasons, and ""perspectives"" (favorite tools, gardening while pregnant). Most of the essays are personal in approach and specific to either Proctor's urban garden in Denver or Springer's new sprawling rural landscape. Gardeners in Colorado and similar high and dry states will value the wealth of practical advice and commiseration in dealing with this challenging but rewarding environment. But the book's appeal is not limited to the West; the text is bursting with good ideas and the joy of growing and designing with plants. Highly recommended for most public libraries.DBeth Clewis Crim, Prince William P.L., VA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""Full-color book explores every facet of gardening. A book for everyone, it would look almost as lovely on a pristine glass coffee table as it would sprinkled with dirt next to you in your garden."" Garden and Greenhouse magazine""Bursting with good ideas and the joy of growing and designing with plants. Highly recommended."" Library Journal""Whether sharing process, making us think, or simply making us laugh out loud, Lauren and Rob encourage us to share their passionate approach to gardening."" Ann Lovejoy, author""Readers throughout North America will gain from the wit and wisdom of these two passionate gardeners."" Pacific Horticulture magazine""Rob and Lauren are the Sonny and Cher of horticulture. Witty, entertaining, and knowledgeable, they are divas in their own right. These two passionate gardeners live and work theirpassion and this book describes it."" Chris Woods, director Chanticleer, a pleasure gardenForeword Magazine Book of the YearAmerican Horticultural Society Annual Book AwardBenjamin Franklin Award FinalistQuill and Trowel Award	For more than a decade, Lauren Springer and Rob Proctor have been  good friends and garden writing colleagues. In Passionate Gardening, readers will be  entertained, informed, and inspired by the pair's practical wisdom, wit, and tales of  perseverance. Every subject the authors tackle urges readers to make the most of the  gardens they tend. Hailed by critics as among the top American garden writers of today,  both Lauren and Rob have translated their shared passion for gardening into a new book  that will raise the spirits, expectations, and results of all those who read it.	Lauren Springer Ogden and Rob Proctor are authors, photographers, lecturers, garden designers, and above all, passionate gardeners. Their writings have appeared in many national publications. For eight years, they collaborated on an award-winning gardening column for The Denver Post.Rob is the author of ten books, including Naturalizing Bulbs and Herbs in the Garden: The Art of Intermingling. He and his garden frequently appear on the Discovery Channel. An accomplished artist, he taught for eight years at Denver Botanic Gardens' School of Botanical Illustration, and his works hang in the Smithsonian. He is director of horticulture at Denver Botanic Gardens. He tends his own one-acre garden without benefit of staff.Lauren gardened professionally on both sides of the Atlantic before receiving her master's degree in horticulture. She designs gardens for the public; her private gardens have been featured on television and in numerous publications. The American Horticultural Society named her book The Undaunted Garden (Fulcrum Publishing) one of the 75 best American gardening books of the recent century. In the foothills of Colorado, she divides her time between an untold number of plants, four dogs, two horses, ten cats, three children, and one husband.",agricultural sciences;books;by climate;by region;by technique;crafts;education & reference;essays;gardening & landscape design;hobbies & home;reference;science & math,12
0140157972,"Fire and Civilization Arguing that human control of fire has been a neglected topic in 20th-century social sciences, University of Amsterdam sociologist Goudsblom here surveys the role of fire throughout a vast span of history. Though his style is bland, the author draws on disciplines from anthropology to history and ecology to offer intriguing insights. He begins with the domestication of fire, its impact on agrarianization and its place in ancient Israel, Greece and Rome--where the private fire brigade was instituted. Goudsblom also assesses the significance of fire in culture, suggesting that dread of hell-fire developed as people learned to fear fire in war and in cities. Looking at fire in the industrial age, Goudsblom notes that progress brought the safety match and better fuels as well as greater military destruction and planned, contained forest fires. A final chapter ranges from the psychological analysis of arsonists to the symbolic use of fire in public demonstrations and riots. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	An offbeat, interesting view of the rise of civilization in  relation to the control of fire.  From hearths and hellfire to firearms, fission, and fusion,  Dutch sociologist Goudsblom (University of Amsterdam) highlights  the significance of fire in the human agenda. His  research--tapping sources in anthropology, archaeology, and the  history of science, religion, and technology--points up dual  aspects: There is fire as a civilizing element--in cooking and  chemistry, as a source of heat and light, and as a literal spark  to the Industrial Revolution and transportation--and fire as  burning, a source of fear, punishment (and sometimes  purification), and of destruction by nature, arson, or war, as  well as of sickness and death as a result of pollution and  disease. Among the more compelling points is Goudsblom's view of  the monotheistic religions as sources of diversity and separation  in emerging agrarian/urban societies. The Bible, for example,  inveighs against sacrifices to ``strange fire'' and fire cults.  Otherwise, fire was just one of many natural ordeals until  medieval times, when flames were used to punish heretics and  witches and to ensure obedience to the faith. In contrast, the  hearth was sacred in Greece and Rome, where temples housed fires  tended by virgin priestesses (the placement of temples on hills  also allowed fire to act as a beacon to ships at sea). Over the  course of millennia, fire was increasingly tamed while its power  escalated. Early on, ``curfews'' (the curbing of open fires at  night) were imposed to protect towns from conflagrations. Ritual  bonfires were held to get rid of refuse (and to burn cats).  Building codes began to demand stone and brick over wood and  thatch.  Even as society has grown more ``civilized,'' however, it  has become more incendiary. Thus the need for control is as great  as ever--which is Goudsblom's final, well-made point. -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",anthropology;books;criminal law;history;law;law enforcement;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;social services & welfare;specific topics;world,12
0872206351,"Confucius Analects (Hackett Classics Series) An accurate, lucid rendition paired with helpful explanations and reference material, including selections from the most important traditional commentaries. -- David Schaberg, University of California, Los AngelesSlingerlands use of commentary gives readers a fighting chance at understanding and appreciating this foundational Confucian classic. --John Berthrong, Boston University	Edward Slingerland is Assistant Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California.",books;confucianism;eastern;history & surveys;humanities;new;other eastern religions & sacred texts;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious studies;used & rental textbooks,12
0201725843,"Generator and Flash Demystified If youre a professional who uses Macromedia Flash to design or develop Web content, chances are Macromedia Generator should be part of your tool kit, if it isnt already. Generator and Flash Demystified is a must-have reference that gives designers and developers alike everything they need to produce and deliver dynamically generated Flash movies using Generator.  Whether you need to automate daily news updates for a large Flash site, deliver secure, personalized bank account information within a dynamic Flash interface, or send real-time content to Palm devices or Web-based phones, Generator and Flash Demystified takes you on a hands-on tour of the hottest data-driven solution for Flash content. This official guide to Generator shows you how to integrate content using languages such as ASP, Cold Fusion, PHP, JSP, and Java and gives you all the information youll need on the latest maintenance release of Generator. The accompanying CD contains demos, tutorials, and sample templates you can use to produce your own work.	Phillip Torrone is director of New Media for Braincraft, an award winning Web media and design firm in New York City, whose clients include AT, Compaq, UPS, and Lucent Technologies. From creating the first 100% flash-based online bank to creating Flash-enabled cell phones, devices, and automobiles, Phillip is considered an industry leader for Macromedia's Flash product.   Chris Wiggins, Creative Director at Braincraft, has been designing in Flash since Flash 2, and has been designing in multimedia for 6 years.   Mike Chambers in an expert in creating Web applications using Flash and Generator. He has recently been working on expanding Generator's functionality through the Generator SDK, creating and releasing more than ten new objects. He also has extensive experience programming with Java, JSP, ASP, PHP, and Cold Fusion. He created and maintains a Generator resource site at www.markme.com.",books;computers & technology;digital media management;electronic documents;flash;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;programming;video production;web design;web development & design;web services,12
0415116228,"The Gospel of Thomas (New Testament Readings) 'This is a brilliant book. The author's observations as to what the text is saying will sometimes come as an eye-opening surprise especially to those already familiar with - Thomas.''Valantasis has written the best commentary on the - Gospel of Thomas that has ever been written and it is hard to imagine that a better internally referential one could be written.''Can be strongly recommended to any reader interested in the development of early Chrstianity.' - Network'It is pleasant when one picks up a book on an early Christian document and soon afterwards can say: This is the book I have been waiting for to recommend to my students. Such is my reaction to this book ... The syle in which Valantasis writes is clear and concise ... a good and useful work that deserves praise ...' - Thomas O'Loughlin, Heythrop Journal	Richard Valantasis is Associate Professor of Early Christian Literature at St. Louis University. His recent publications include Constructions of Power in Asceticism (Journal of the American Academy of Religion). Ordained as an Episcopal priest, he has served parishes and a woman's monastery. He conducts adult education and other retreats for the laity.",books;christian books & bibles;church history;history;humanities;meditations;new;reference;religion & spirituality;religious studies;used & rental textbooks;worship & devotion,12
0873226437,"Explosive Power & Strength: Complex Training for Maximum Results """"""""Don's complex training allows an athlete to maximize his strength and power without ignoring their sport skills.""""""Todd MartinProfessional Tennis Player """"""This book is an excellent overview of how to use complex training and integrate it into a variety of sports.""""""Al Vermiel, MA, CSCSStrength and Conditioning CoachChicago Bulls ""	""    """"Dons complex training allows an athlete to maximize his strength and power without ignoring their sport skills.""""Todd MartinProfessional Tennis Player""""This book is an excellent overview of how to use complex training and integrate it into a variety of sports.""""Al Vermiel, MA, CSCSStrength and Conditioning CoachChicago Bulls ""	""This book will provide an excellent resource to show you a variety of activities that will develop strength and power Review: Journal of Triathlon Training  ""Don's complex training allows an athlete to maximize his strength and power without ignoring their sport skills."" Todd Martin Professional Tennis Player This book is an excellent overview of how to use complex training and integrate it into a variety of sports. Al Vermiel, MA, CSCS Strength and Conditioning Coach Chicago Bulls Dons organization and presentation of this advanced form of training will enhance both the condition and performance of athletes at all levels of competition. This book is an excellent reference for the coach, athlete, and exercise specialist. Rob Panariello, MS, PT, ATC, CSCS Regional Vice President, Professional Sports Care Former Head Strength and Conditioning Coach St. Johns University	As president-elect of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and a frequent contributor to the National Strength and Conditioning Association Journal, Dr. Donald Chu is a leading authority on power training and conditioning. Chu has been a conditioning consultant for the Golden State Warriors, Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Lions, and Chicago White Sox as well as a consultant for the U.S. Tennis Association and the U.S. National and Olympic Synchronized Swimming Teams. He is owner, director, and consultant to individual athletes at the Ather Sports Injury Clinic in northern California.Dr. Chu, who earned a PhD in physical therapy and kinesiology from Stanford University, is a professor emeritus of kinesiology and physical education at California State University, Hayward. He is a registered physical therapist, a certified athletic trainer through the National Athletic Training Association, and a National Strength and Conditioning Associationcertified strength specialist. He has received many honors, including the NATAs Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award in 1995, and the NSCAs Presidents Award for Service in 1993. In 1978, his only year as a head coach, Dr. Chu was named the Far Western Conference Track and Field Coach of the Year.",allied health professions;books;education & reference;exercise & fitness;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;miscellaneous;reference;sports & outdoors;training;weight training,12
0520047737,"The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850-1890: A Social History ""Los Angeles Chicanos emerge not as the homogeneous, passive victims of stereotypical fame, but as internally diverse, active participants in the simultaneous struggles to maintain their sociocultural fabric and to capture a part of the American Dream.""--""American Historical Review	Richard Griswold del Castillo  is Professor of Chicano/Chicana Studies at San Diego State University.",americas;books;history;humanities;mexico;new;political science;politics & social sciences;social sciences;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,12
1586481851,"The Big Fix: How The Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers (Publicaffairs Reports) ""a highly informative description of how and why drug companies are such powerful, successful businesses."" -- Washington Post Book World, July 13, 2003.	Katharine Greider has worked as a newspaper reporter and freelance magazine writer. Her articles, often focusing on health and medical topics, have appeared in a dozen publications from Self to Mother Jones. She lives in New York City with her family.",books;business & investing;consumer behavior;history;industries & professions;marketing & sales;parenting & relationships;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & administration;public affairs & policy;world,12
0826411525,"Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay on African American Religious and Cultural Criticism In this important contribution to both cultural studies and theology, Anderson articulates six themes: the reification of race in contemporary African American cultural and religious thinkers, designated ""ontological blackness"" ; the historic representational functions of race language; the determinative role of the cult of European genius associated with the Enlightenment; racial discourses that derive their legitimacy from ontological blackness; Nietzsche's ""grotesque aesthetic,"" which undergirds new literary critiques of ontological blackness; and a plea that the legitimacy of African American cultural criticism be grounded on cultural fulfillment rather than resistance. The rhythm of description that permeates the book makes it a good pointer for historical (or, more properly, genealogical) research as well as contemporary cultural and political thought. Most notably, Anderson engages in an extended critique of James Cone's black theology; womanist theologies articulated by Katie Cannon, Jacquelyn Grant, and Delores Williams; Molefi Asante's Afrocentrism; and Shelby Steele's neoconservatism. That should generate controversy from all directions. As a contribution to critical cultural studies, it should also stimulate reflection on the construction of all sorts of categories, including not only race, but also Anderson's genealogical taxonomy of contemporary African American cultural critics, from James Cone and Katie Cannon to Cornell West, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker.  Steve Schroeder	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",african-american studies;books;ethnic studies;new;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious studies;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;theology;used & rental textbooks,12
0786861649,"Lift Every Voice: Expecting the Most and Getting the Best From All of God's Children The Boys Choir of Harlem is known throughout the world, having toured in Europe and Asia as well as in the U.S. The individual almost single-handedly responsible for its success is Turnbull, who rose from poverty in backwoods Mississippi at a time when segregationists were fighting their last-ditch battles. An outstanding vocalist who earned a doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music, he began with a small church choir and built it into the larger boys' choir that went on to have its own academy, which sends 98% of its graduates to college. The obstacles the deeply religious Turnbull faced are the problems that plague all of urban society-broken families, irresponsible or addicted parents, the lure of the streets-but he has defeated almost all of them. Prize-winning Boston Globe reporter Manly joins Turnbull in telling this truly inspiring story, supplemented with contributions from his students. Author tour. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Turnbull, director of the Boys Choir of Harlem, started the group 26 years ago to ""share the joy of music with African American children."" His success with motivating and transforming the lives of the boys eventually helped the choir evolve into the Boys Choir of Harlem Academy. Music and the music instructors in Turnbull's life were instrumental in shaping his beliefs and desire to rise above his situation. His educational achievements, from an elementary one-room schoolhouse to master's and doctorate degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, are noteworthy for a poor child raised in Mississippi before the civil-rights era. The boys' stories of successes and failures shaped Turnbull's vision of providing musical, academic, financial, and emotional support for his choir members. It is evident from his own drive and ambition that he has instilled the same work ethic and courage in his young men of Harlem. Turnbull's musical triumphs have propelled him into international prominence, and his goodwill and philosophy are lessons for us all.  Lillian Lewis",african-american & black;arts & literature;biographies & memoirs;books;classical;composers & musicians;education & reference;educators;ethnic & national;literature & fiction;professionals & academics;teens,12
0060090766,"Baby Signs for Bedtime Drs. Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn discovered Baby Signs in 1982 and conducted the pioneering scientific research for the National Institute of Health that demonstrated the language and cognitive benefits of Baby Signing. Linda is Professor of Psychology at the University of CA, Davis. Susan is Professor of Psychology and Child Development at the California State University. They are the authors of Baby Signs published by Contemporary Books. Both authors live and work in Northern California.",books;children's books;communication;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;language & grammar;parenting;parenting & relationships;sleep;social situations;words,12
1590596145,"CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions Cameron Moll has been designing meaningful web interfaces that harmonize utility and presentation since the late 1990s. His work or advice has been featured by HOW, Print, and Communication Arts magazines, Forrester Research, National Public Radio (NPR), and many others. He speaks on user interface design at conferences nationally and internationally, and he is also the author of Mobile Web Design. Cameron is the founder and president of Authentic Jobs, Inc., a targeted destination for web and creative professionals and the companies seeking to hire them. He is also the proprietor of Cameron Moll, LLC, whose products include letterpress typography posters available for purchase at cameronmoll.bigcartel.com. And amid all this craziness, he still finds time to play ball with each of his four boys. You can also find Cameron online at cameronmoll.com, twitter.com/cameronmoll, flickr.com/photos/authentic, and vimeo.com/cameronmoll.Andy Budd is one of the founding partners at User Experience Design Consultancy, Clearleft. As an interaction design and usability specialist, Andy is a regular speaker at international conferences like Web Directions, An Event Apart, and SXSW. Andy curates dConstruct, one of the U.K.'s most popular design conferences. He's also responsible for UX London, the U.K.'s first dedicated usability, information architecture, and user experience design event. Andy was an early champion of web standards in the U.K. and has developed an intimate understanding of the CSS specifications and cross-browser support. As an active member of the community, Andy has helped judge several international design awards and currently sits on the advisory board for .NET magazine. Andy is also the driving force behind Silverbackapp, a low-cost usability testing tool for the Mac. Andy is an avid Twitter user and occasionally blogs at andybudd.com. Never happier than when he's diving in some remote tropical atoll, Andy is a qualified PADI dive instructor and retired shark wrangler.In October 2006, Simon Collision started Erskine Designbased in Nottingham, U.K.which grew to become an eight-strong team of creative web designers and developers who are afraid of nothing. Some people say they're one of the best agencies out there, and their clients include major magazines, government stuff, software companiesand polar explorers. Moons ago, he was a successful visual artist, and founded an independent arts org and annual arts festival, putting his degree to some use at least. Then he caught the interwebs bug. As lead web developer at Agenzia from 2002 to 2006, he worked on numerous web projects for major record labels (such as Poptones, Universal) and bands (including The Libertines, Dirty Pretty Things, Beta Band), visual artists and illustrators (Jon Burgerman, Paddy Hartley, Lucy Orta, NOW Festival), businesses, community, and voluntary sector orgs, passionately ensuring everything was accessible and complied with current web standards. He does a bit of public speaking here and there, and will generally do anything for a biscuit and cup of tea, but prefers hard cash. He has lived in many cities, including London and Reykjavik, but has now settled back in his beloved Nottingham, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. He also drives a 31-year-old car, and has a stupid cat called Bearface.",books;computers & technology;css;education & reference;graphics & multimedia;languages & tools;programming;software design;software development;testing & engineering;web design;web development & design,12
0803724047,"How Chipmunk Got His Stripes In Bruchac and his son's (When the Chenoo Howls) serviceable retelling of a Native American pourquoi tale, Brown Squirrel challenges prideful Bear to keep the sun from rising. When the sun does rise, and Brown Squirrel teases Bear, Bear threatens to eat Brown Squirrel, and his claw marks transform the fellow into Chipmunk. Though the prose occasionally falters (e.g., ""Everyone was happy except for one animal. That animal was Bear"" or the advice of Brown Squirrel's grandmother, ""It is good to be right about something. But when someone else is wrong, it is not a good idea to tease him""), the dialogue is effective and invites audience participation--especially the repeated phrases with sound effects, as when the quarrelsome pair sit side by side all night chanting: ""The sun will not come up, hummph!"" and ""The sun is going to rise, oooh!"" Aruego and Dewey (Antarctica Antics) create lush landscapes, but Bear and Brown Squirrel are uncharacteristically bland, often featuring the same facial expressions repeatedly. Ages 5-8. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	K-Gr 3-Bear struts through the forest, bragging as he goes: ""I am Bear. I am the biggest of all the animals. Yes, I am!-I can do anything. Yes, I can!"" Little Brown Squirrel elects to challenge him: ""Can you tell the sun not to rise tomorrow morning?"" Bear accepts the challenge. As the sun sets, he issues his command and the two settle down to see what morning will bring. As the night progresses, the braggart continues to boast, and Squirrel cannot resist teasing. When the sun predictably rises in the morning, Bear is disgruntled and angry, and his taunter foolishly continues to tease. When Bear threatens to eat the little creature, Squirrel makes a desperate dash for his burrow. He is able to escape, but not before Bear has raked his back with his sharp claws. Although the scratches heal, they leave Squirrel with long, pale stripes on his back. He is now Chipmunk, the Striped One. In their introductory authors' notes, the Bruchacs indicate that the story is an amalgam of tales they have heard from Cherokee, Abenaki, and Mohawk sources, and has further been fleshed out through their own telling over the years. The result is polished, cohesive, and energetic. While the story begs to be told, Aruego and Dewey's vibrantly hued trademark watercolors add significantly to the humor. A priority purchase for most collections.-Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJCopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Gr. 1-3 (younger for reading aloud). This retelling of a traditional Native American story teaches lessons about anger and pride. Brown Squirrel challenges the bragging Big Bear to stop the sun from rising. When Big Bear is unsuccessful, Brown Squirrel teases him, so he attempts to eat the squirrel, who tricks him out of it. In a fit of anger, Big Bear claws Brown Squirrel, leaving the now familiar chipmunk stripes down his back. The animals' cartoonlike facial expressions seem slightly inappropriate for the story, but the pages' background colors and the illustrations of the forest are vibrant. An author's note explains oral tradition and the story's history. The simplicity of the tale makes this ideal for introducing students to the concept of mythology. Marta SegalCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved",animals;biographies;books;children's books;fairy tales;folk tales & myths;literature & fiction;nature & how it works;people of color;science;social science;united states,12
0892813520,"Sacred Earth: The Spiritual Landscape of Native America Versluis, editor of Avaloka: A Journal of Traditional Religion and Culture , offers a much-needed understanding of Native American religion. Through discussion of how the religions of Native Americans compare with traditional religions, he finds ground for a common spirituality. While contemporary society emphasizes ecology, Versluis points out that Native Americans always had a love and respect for the environment and a recognition of the spiritual qualities of nature. This book may prove a bit difficult for lay readers, yet it is necessary reading for those seeking a greater understanding of Native American spirituality. For Native American and religion collections.- James F. Wood Sr., Hillsborough Community Coll. Lib., Tampa, Fla.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Versluis, editor of Avaloka: A Journal of Traditional Religion and Culture, offers a much-needed understanding of Native American religion. Through discussion of how the religions of Native Americans compare with traditional religions, he finds ground for a common spirituality. While contemporary society emphasizes ecology, Versluis points out that Native Americans always had a love and respect for the environment and a recognition of the spiritual qualities of nature. This book may prove a bit difficult for lay readers, yet it is necessary reading for those seeking a greater understanding of Native American spirituality. For Native American and religion collections. (Library Journal (Tuesday , September 01, 1992) James F. Wood Sr., Hillsborough Community Coll. Lib.,)	Arthur Versluis is Professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University and the author of many books, including Wisdom's Children: A Christian Esoteric Tradition, also published by SUNY Press. He is also the editor of the journal Esoterica.",anthropology;books;cultural;earth-based religions;native american;native american studies;occult;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;social sciences;specific demographics;spirituality,12
0070227780,"First Look at Communication Theory Em Griffin is Professor of Communication at Wheaton College in Illinois, where he has taught for the past twenty-six years and has been chosen Teacher of the Year. He received his bachelors degree in political science from the University of Michigan, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication from Northwestern University. His research interest centers on the development of close friendships. Professor Griffin is the author of three applied communication books: The Mind Changers analyzes practical techniques of persuasion; Getting Together offers research-based suggestions for effective group leadership; and Making Friends describes the way that quality interpersonal communication can build close relationships. He also speaks and leads workshops on these topics in the United States, Singapore, and the Philippines. Professor Griffins wife, Jean, is an artist. They have two  adult children, Jim and Sharon.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;communication;communication & journalism;communications;education & reference;language & grammar;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks;words,12
1567181899,"Enciclopedia de cristales, gemas y metales: mágicos Text: Spanish (translation)  Original Language: English	Scott Cunningham practiced magic actively for over twenty years. He was the author of more than fifty books covering both fiction and non-fiction subject matter; sixteen of his titles are published by Llewellyn Publications. Scott's books reflect a broad range of interests within the New Age sphere, where he was very highly regarded. He passed from this life on March 28, 1993, after a long illness.",books;crystals;divination;earth-based religions;education & reference;foreign language fiction;literature & fiction;new age;occult;reference;religion & spirituality;witchcraft,12
0754604586,"Karl Barth: Theologian of Christian Witness Joseph L. Mangina is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Wycliffe College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has served as a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;humanities;new;philosophers;professionals & academics;religion & spirituality;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks,12
0131123165,"Supervising Police Personnel, Fifth Edition Proven programs and practices for supervising and leading police employees. This, the fifth edition, is...    Specifically designed for the existing or prospective supervisor in a police agency. Ideally suited far college and academy courses devoted to police supervision and human relations.  Emphasizing team fundamentals such as values, ethics and vision.  Taking a fresh look at the interplay of human communications, trust, empowerment and team leadership. Providing an important emphasis on teamwork and team development intending to motivate and empower one's staff. Continuing its commonsense approach to handling problem police employees.    Being a police supervisor is much more than having mare pay, more authority, more influence, and more status. All of the above and much more are compacted into a highly readable and definitely useful set of 15 supervisory responsibilities. Combined, they offer keys for you to become both police supervisor and police leaders.	A couple of years ago, the acclaimed secular ethicist Michael Josephson wrote:    ""I just attended a moving graduation ceremony marking the transition of 40 men and women from police academy cadets to sworn officers in the Long Beach Police Department (California).    ""At the beginning, the officers were fully uniformed, but they had no badges, and without the badges their uniforms were undistinguished. Yet once their shields were affixed, the uniforms and the people in them were transformed.    ""So I began to think about the badge not only as an official symbol of authority and responsibility, but also as a symbol of honor-a symbol we should look up to and they must live up to. Although the badges were highly polished, experience teaches us that it will take vigilance and integrity to keep them untarnished.    ""Looking at the very serious faces of Class #77, one could see both determination and pride as they officially accepted the huge responsibilities of a hugely important job captured in the Code of Ethics printed on their program.    "" 'My fundamental duty', the Code begins, 'is to serve mankind, to safeguard lives and property; to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence and disorder; and to respect the Constitutional Rights of all men to liberty, equality and justice.' It concludes, 'I recognize the badge of my office is a symbol of public faith, and I accept it as a public trust.'    ""Sure, most officers spend most of their time involved in important but unheroic activities like investigations, traffic regulation and crowd control, but they stand at the ready to put themselves in danger at a moment's notice and after the experience of September 11, I fear we don't appreciate them enough.""    This book is committed to helping those individuals who are responsible for making this ""code"" a reality, as opposed to lofty, politically correct but shallow verbiage.    The responsible person I'm referring to is the police supervisor. You will find that to fulfill this vital role, one's character not merely counts, but counts big-time. You'll be asking yourself, ""What do I, or should I, stand for as a supervisor-as a leader?"" You'll also find that you are responsible for assuring that 15 RESPONSIBILIITES are being pursued by you and those who work for you. X1   Being responsible (the ""R"" word) means exercising self-discipline and self-restraint. It means doing your very best and being self-reliant and accountable for the consequences of your decisions.    Team Fundamentals provides the infrastructure for contemporary police work-communityoriented policing. These chapters deal with character and integrity of purposevalues, ethics, and visionand with the allocation of the requisite time to communicate all three. (The chapters on ethics and vision contain a lot of new material.)    Team Development starts with a supervisor's responsibility for serving as a team leader. This naturally encompasses motivating, empowering, and training one's staff, while ensuring that everyone is mentally and physically well.    Teamwork includes organizing for action, measuring performance of that action, resolving conflicts, and making certain that community-oriented policing works. I am convinced that it takes teamwork to make it work. Finally, the supervisor-as-leader is challenged to anticipate incoming demands or needs for change.    Being a police supervisor is much more than having more pay, more authority, more influence, more status, and the like. It is much more. It is a set of core responsibilities that you will soon encounter and consider in the chapters that follow.    My warmest thanks to Kim Davies, Senior Editor, Prentice Hall, who coached and inspired me during the writing of this edition; and especially Pat David and Rosie O'Shea, who expertly manicured and critically edited the manuscript.    Paul Whisenand, Ph.D. San Clemente, California",books;criminal law;education & reference;law;law enforcement;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,12
0801317673,"America's Teachers: An Introduction to Education This book is well-written and is easily accessible to the reader. Each chapter begins with a good overview of the content and the chapters are divided in meaningful ways.   Daniel J. Thompson, Jr., Eastern Connecticut State University   Newman does an excellent job of discussing the growing influence of standardized testing in U.S. public schools.   Winfred Pitts, Southeast Missouri State University    With clear and accessible writing and the strongest research base and documentation available, Americas Teachers: An Introduction to Education, Fifth Edition accurately reflects how teachers themselves feel about their work. With critical and informative material on teaching as an occupation, the foundations of education, and emerging issues affecting todays classrooms, this textbook provides prospective teachers with a realistic look at teaching.  NEW TO THIS EDITION:    NEW! Internet Blocks Located in every chapter.  These blocks are designed to encourage students to explore issues addressed in the text in more depth.  Stronger emphasis on cultural diversity has been integrated into every chapter, especially in Chapters 6  8.   Information on the importance of state curriculum standards and high-stakes testing as the most prominent school reforms of the early 2000s has been added (Chs. 2, 7, 9  11).   More attention to educational choice and private education, especially home schooling, is present in Chapter 10, Private Schools versus Public Schools.  Updated information on students and youth culture can be found in Chapter 8.    Package this text with MyLabSchoola powerful set of online tools that bring the classroom to life!    See inside cover and visit www.mylabschool.com for more information!	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",administration;books;education;education & reference;education theory;history;history & theory;instruction methods;new;pedagogy;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,12
1572434228,"Miracle in the Making: The Adam Taliaferro Story On September 23, 2000, Penn State freshman football player Adam Taliaferro's athletic career came to a screeching halt when he tackled an opponent headfirst. They said he would never walk again, but Adam set out to prove them wrong. This account of a young man's journey from hope to despair to hope again is inspiring on so many counts. There is the devotion of Adam's family, his parents and his awestruck little brother; there is the ongoing commitment of the coaches, primarily the legendary Joe Paterno (who contributes a touching foreword); there is the dedication of the numerous doctors, physical therapists, trainers, and rehabilitative nurses who saw Adam through to his recovery; and, of course, there is Adam himself, whose drive and hard work made the miracle possible. On September 1, 2000, Adam led the Penn State Nittany Lions on the field to start a new season. A genuinely inspirational story. Mary Frances WilkensCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved",biographies;books;football (american);mid atlantic;northeast;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;social services & welfare;sports & outdoors;travel;united states,12
0340868252,"Instant French (Teach Yourself) ... A language lifeline ... fun, fast and easy -- The Independent  ... Elisabeth Smith's Instant Greek was a real help ... the simple scripts and audio make it crystal clear ... I'm delighted with my progress. -- 'Greece' magazine 20030701  Teach Yourself Instant German: The elements are simple and very straightforward ... strong encouragement ... plenty of opportunity for spoken practice. This course worked very well for me.  -- 'Professional Manager' magazine 19990901  I am terrible with languages yet I am picking up Spanish! I found Instant Spanish excellent! -- Helen Goddard, Devon 19990901  We have completed your Instant French. We think it is wonderful.  -- Tom and Maureen Peil, Preston 19990901  It is now a year since I first came across [Instant French] at my local library and I have benefited tremendously from this happy occurrence ... I loved the sense of humour ... Each week I did the final test with bated breath wondering if this time the little bar chart [...] would take a nose dive - but it didn't. -- Lesly Hopkins, Twickenham 19990901	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Elisabeth Smith is German and has taught French, German and Spanish at different levels all over the world for the past 30 years. She was the Chief Executive of a South African publishing house before moving to Spain, where she now lives for most of the year.",books;communication & journalism;education & reference;foreign languages;french;humanities;language & grammar;new;speech;study & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,12
0859653013,Beatle!: The Pete Best Story 'It reads well and... - rare for a rock book these days -   ...care and preparation went into it.'  -- Melody Maker'The Pete Best Story by Pete Best & Patrick Doncaster is a must   for all fans of the Fab Four.'  -- Woman's Own'This is the first book by one of the original Beatles to   describe in candid detail those early years'  -- The News Line	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.,arts & literature;arts & photography;beatles;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;music;musical genres;pop culture;rock,12
1563410656,"Parker & Hulme: A Lesbian View The movie Heavenly  Creatures was based on New Zealand's notorious 1954 murder case in  which two teenage girls, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, killed  Pauline's mother. The polite society of Christchurch was shattered not  only by the murder, but also by suggestions of the girls'  lesbianism. Feminist scholars Julie Glamuzina and Alison J. Laurie  began researching the case in 1986, almost 10 years before the film's  release, to contextualize the anti-lesbian hysteria surrounding the  trial. This fascinating book looks at how and why that society viewed  lesbianism as evil or insane.",australia & oceania;biographies & memoirs;books;criminology;gay & lesbian;history;murder & mayhem;new zealand;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;true accounts,12
0198233922,"Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century ""This comprehensive work provides an opportunity for all to share an understanding of what professional geography in the US has become.  Highly recommended.""--Geoffrey J. Martin, Choice	Gary Gaile is Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Cort Willmott is Professor of Geography at the University of Delaware.",books;earth sciences;education & reference;geography;human geography;new;politics & social sciences;reference;science & math;science & mathematics;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0195106482,"Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays The Holocaust cannot be recounted in terms of heroic dignity, moral courage or triumph of the human spirit; the Nazis' systematic murder of six million Jews, among millions of others, makes concepts such as resistance or moral growth largely inapplicable. This central theme pervades Langer's gripping, often profound essays, all of which have been published in scholarly journals in the last decade; the pieces scrutinize accounts of the Holocaust in survivors' and victims' testimonies, memoirs, fiction, films and plays. Langer, whose Holocaust Testimonies won a National Book Critics Circle award in 1991, praises Cynthia Ozick for her unflinching representation of the Nazi genocide, but he argues that Bernard Malamud's ""conventional moral vision"" insulated him to the enormity of Nazi evil. Langer also rips William Styron's portrayal, in Sophie's Choice, of Auschwitz commandor Rudolf Hoess, who, in Langer's reading, almost seems ""a man otherwise decent and polite"" when he wasn't killing Jews and Poles. He perceives a ""language of consolation"" in Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List, and anlayzes strategies of mitigation or frank confrontation in Primo Levi, D.M. Thomas, Peter Weiss, Aharon Appelfeld, Tadeusz Borowski, Viktor Frankl and others. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In this superb collection of essays, Langer (Holocaust Testimonies, Yale Univ. Pr., 1991) offers a penetrating analysis of how many Western intellectuals and writers have sought to come to terms with the Holocaust. He argues that they have created, in their novels, stories, and films, a morally manageable version of the Holocaust rather than an unadorned yet honest view of mass murder without historical parallel. His pieces cover a wide range of topics such as the relationship of the Holocaust to time and memory, its portrayal in popular culture, its dimensions in literature, and the ways in which the Holocaust has reshaped our sense of history. He is at his best in an essay on Cynthia Ozick, whom he regards as one of the few writers who has honestly sought to imagine in her work the genuine moral depths of the Holocaust. Also first-rate is his essay on the Americanization of the Holocaust on the stage and in films. For all collections.Mark Weber, Kent State Univ. Lib., OhioCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In a statement that boldly indicates his approach to the Holocaust, Langer says, ""Despite its candid representation of the ordeal of Jews during World War II, even a blunt film like Schindler's List decides to leave us with memories of a healing wound rather than a throbbing scar."" According to Langer, too many historical and cultural representations of the Nazis' murders try, by portraying the Jewish victims as dignified martyrs, to introduce the notion of spiritual redemption into accounts of atrocities that need to be confronted without moral oversimplification. In his assessments, Langer analyzes many of the novels about the death camps, tellingly criticizing William Styron and Bernard Malamud and praising Cynthia Ozick as well as Polish author Tadeusz Borowski for their depictions of the era. Describing historical studies of the Holocaust, Langer objects to the use of ""abstract formulas like `the murder of 6 million'"" and says accounts of the destruction of European Jewry should be told in graphic detail to present and future generations. A horribly bleak, undeniably important book.  Aaron Cohen	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	With a highly sensitive but unsparing eye, these essays argue that new moral and linguistic categories are required in order to respond properly and honestly to the reality of the Holocaust. Langer (English/Simmons College), who won a National Book Critics Circle award for Holocaust Testimonies ( 1991), asserts that ``language preserves a semblance of order that disintegrates'' in the reality of the mass slaughter of Jews. Analyzing the ways in which people have tried to understand or represent the Holocaust, he looks at oral testimony, diaries, memoirs, and fiction, including works by writers like William Styron and Bernard Malamud for whom the Holocaust is an important but not necessarily central theme. Langer also examines some portrayals of the Holocaust on American TV, stage, and screen, eloquently resisting attempts to sentimentalize Holocaust victims, resisters, or survivors. Above all, he insists that the Holocaust represents a ``rupture'' in the images and values of modern Western culture, several times approvingly quoting Jean Amry's observation that ``no bridge led from death in Auschwitz to Death in Venice.'' Langer's only questionable contention is that ``Auschwitz introduced the realm of the unthinkable into the human drama.'' What, one wonders, of the mass deaths of millions during WW I's trench warfare or Stalin's murder of as many as 30 million in the USSR during the purges? Generally, however, Langer writes superbly. He has a gift for simple yet resonant phrasing: Of fictional survivors such as Aharon Appelfeld's Great Barfuss and Cynthia Ozick's Rosa, he writes that they are emotionally and spiritually ``dead while alive'' and thus ``amputated from time.'' Langer applies his insightful, razor-sharp pen to others' works about an event that, he convincingly maintains, carries neither lesson nor moral but instead overpowers memory, mocks the pretensions of civilization, and leaves an absurd, irredeemable legacy. -- Copyright 1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Indispensable....Clear, persuasive, and compelling.""--Detroit Free Press""Superb.""--Library Journal	Lawrence L. Langer is Professor of English at Simmons College in Boston. The winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for Holocaust Testimonies, he has also written Versions of Survival, The Age of Atrocity, and The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination.",20th century;books;history;holocaust;humanities;jewish;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;used & rental textbooks;world;world war ii,12
B000P28V8Q,"The Ruby Way, Second Edition: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) Hal Fulton has two degrees in computer science from the University of Mississippi. He taught computer science for four years at the community college level before moving to Austin, Texas, for a series of contracts (mainly at IBM Austin). He has worked for more than 15 years with various forms of UNIX, including AIX, Solaris, and Linux. He was first exposed to Ruby in 1999, and in 2001 he began work on the first edition of this book, which was the second Ruby book in the English language. He has attended six Ruby conferences and has given presentations at four of those, including the first European Ruby Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany. He currently works at Broadwing Communications in Austin, Texas, working on a large data warehouse and related telecom applications. He works daily with C++, Oracle, and of course, Ruby.    Hal is still active daily on the Ruby mailing list and IRC channel, and has several Ruby projects in progress. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. In his personal life, he enjoys music, reading, writing, art, and photography. He is a member of the Mars Society and is a space enthusiast who would love to go into space before he dies. He lives in Austin, Texas.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;kindle ebooks;kindle store;languages & tools;object-oriented design;programming;ruby;software design;testing & engineering,12
0155001205,"Voice: Onstage and Off 'I do not know of a more comprehensive book on the subject' - Beth McGuire, Yale School of Drama '...excellent resource and should ofer superb value to the field for a long time to come.' - Jane Boston, Central School of Speech and Drama, UK '...a book that practically teaches by itself. Comprehensive and easily accessible...' - from Voice and Speech Training in the New Millennium, Conversations with Master Teachers by Nancy Saklad	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	Robert Barton is professor emeritus of acting at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Style for Actors, Acting: Onstage and Off, Acting Reframes, and co-author of Theatre in Your Life and Life Themes (both with Annie McGregor).  He has been honored as Outstanding Acting Coach by the American College Theatre Festival and writes a column ""Many Right Ways"" for The Voice and Speech Review.    Rocco Dal Vera is a professor of drama at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, specialising intheatre voice and speech with particular interest in voice and emotion. He is co author of Acting in Musical Theatre (with Joe Deer, Routledge, 2008), columnist for Dramatics Magazine and Teaching Theatre, and founding editor of the Voice and Speech Review.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",acting & auditioning;arts & photography;books;education & reference;humanities;instruments;music;new;performing arts;theater;used & rental textbooks;voice,12
1552125351,"Flying High Out of A Tibetan Valley Liming Jing grew up in a Tibetan valley during the upheaval of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and received her BA and MA during Deng Xiaopingis economic reform. She was an associate professor of English at Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China. Right now she is working as an ESL instructor at Saint Leo University, Florida, USA and freelance translator and interpreter. Regarding herself as a world citizen, Liming Jing has bounced back and forth between China and America to do her bit to make this world a better place. Through her hard work and persistence, her childhood dreams of becoming a writer and translator have come true. Liming Jing has written and translated ten books. Some of her translations are Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'The First Circle', Milan Kundera's 'Life Is Elsewhere' and 'The Joke' and Ivan Klima's 'My Merry Mornings'. Her books have been published both in Taiwan and Mainland China. She has received awards for her excellence in teaching English as a second language and for her writings and translations as well.",asia;biographies & memoirs;books;communism & socialism;historical;history;ideologies & doctrines;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific groups;tibet;women,12
088192640X,"Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls Green roofs are a hot topic, and one that constitutes a trend extending well beyond the world of gardening. This sourcebook brings together a fascinating amount of data, covering the actual logistics of how to implement plantings on roofs and building facades. Dunnett and Kingsbury look at examples of ornamental projects while stressing the concept's solid link to the environment. Examinations of recent research underline the wide-ranging benefits of greening buildings, from recreational aspects to increased energy efficiency. Among the most positive changes to emerge are improvements in the air we breathe and the support of biodiversity. Given the lively current interest in how to extend living ecosystems that reach beyond the ground plane to the upper stories of our homes and office buildings, this resource offers important technical advice, along with horticultural recommendations pertinent to flat or sloped roofs and the greening of vertical surfaces. Undoubtedly, other manuals will appear as an interest in living roofs increases. At present, the material compiled here will be welcomed by a wide audience. Alice JoyceCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Don't be put off by the textbook style. It reads well and packs in a huge amount of information, making it well worth the price.  Cleve West, Gardens Illustrated, January 2005 (Gardens Illustrated)Nigel Dunnett, senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield, England, and Nol Kingsbury, a well-known British garden writer, have given this growing landscape sector its first reference with broad appeal.  Ed Snodgrass, American Gardener, November/December 2004 (American Gardener)Discusses the very latest in both large scale commercial and small domestic projects.  Reading this book is a wonderful requirement before starting construction. National Gardener, July 2004 (National Gardener)For those who lack a yard and want to green a roof or wall, this resource offers important technical advice, along with horticultural recommendations for flat, sloped, and vertical surfaces. Dunnett and Kingsbury review examples of ornamental projects and stress the wide-ranging benefits of greening buildings, from recreational aspects to increased energy efficiency. (Dwell)Gardening gurus will appreciate the thorough knowledge the writers share regarding various techniques and resources required to plant green roofs and living walls, discussing, for example, how soil depth and environmental stress will affect plant choice and maintenance.   (Chesapeake Home)	Green roofs and walls reduce pollution and run-off, and also help insulate and reduce the maintenance needs of buildings. This book describes the practical techniques required to plant on roofs and walls, discussing how roofs may be modified to bear the weight of vegetation, options for drainage, and suitable plants.	Noel Kingsbury is associated with the Landscape Department at the University of Sheffield.	Green roofs and living walls are beneficial to the environment and enhance our surroundings, so their growing presence in our towns and cities is a reason for celebration. Behind every new implementation is a fast-moving technology that has precipitated the need for this fully updated edition of Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls in which Nigel Dunnett and Noel Kingsbury reveal the very latest techniques, materials, and plants, and showcase some spectacular new case studies.  Planting on roofs and walls began in Europe, but it is now becoming popular all over the world as people become aware of its value in reducing pollution and run-off, insulating buildings and minimizing their maintenance needs, contributing to biodiversity, and providing food and habitats for wildlife. In Green Roofs and Living Walls the authors describe and illustrate the practical techniques required to design, implement and maintain a green roof or wall to the highest professional standards. Every detail is provided including the ways in which roofs may be modified to bear the weight of vegetation, the different options for drainage layers and growing media, and lists of plants suitable for different climates and environments.  This informative, up-to-the-minute reference will captivate professionals with its illuminating new findings, and encourage gardeners everywhere to consider the enormous benefits to be gained from planting on their roofs and walls.	Nigel Dunnett is a Reader in Urban Horticulture in the landscape department at the University of Sheffield, where he has developed innovative research programs on naturalistic and ecologically informed planting for gardens and public landscapes. He is director of The Green Roof Centre, Sheffield, and acts widely as a consultant on green roof design and planting, and sustainable garden and landscape design in general. He writes regularly for landscape and garden publications, including Gardens Illustrated and The Garden. With Nol Kingsbury he wrote Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls; with Andy Clayden, Rain Gardens: Managing Water Sustainably in the Garden and Designed Landscape.Noel Kingsbury is a well-known designer, commentator, and writer on plants, gardens, landscape, and the environment. His doctorate in horticultural ecology from the University of Sheffield focused on the selection and management of ornamental perennials and he is still engaged in active research in this field. Noel is interested in combining natives and non-natives in ecological planting schemes and a passionate advocate for sustainable plant combinations that require minimal intervention from the gardener. He trials plants and gardens at his home on the border between England and Wales and travels widely.	The contemporary use of plants on roofs and walls is distinguished from previous uses by the integration of planting and its supporting structures with the construction of the buildings themselves, as well as the use of modern materials. The result is a dovetailing of living plants, the building, and its human users, a closeness and integration not easy to achieve with older construction technologies. It is important to appreciate the distinction between older technologies of plant use and the new.Old-style roof gardens either restricted the planting to containers and planters or used a layer of soil spread onto a roof surface, which had to be massively stronger than would otherwise need to be the case. New-style roof greening recognizes two distinct approaches, intensive and extensive.Intensive roof greening is similar to the old-style roof gardens, where it is expected that people would use the area much as a conventional garden. Plants are maintained on an individual basis in the same way as they would in a garden at ground level. Soil depth is generally at least 15 cm (6 in) deep, but now may be composed of lightweight growing media, and is thus more correctly known as substrate. Simple intensive green roofs are covered with lawns or ground covering plants that still require regular maintenance, but have thinner substrates and are therefore less costly to install. Access may be possible, but generally these roofs are intended to be overlooked (English Nature 2003).Extensive roof greening is not intended for regular human usage and may not even be intended to be seen on a regular basis. Plants are treated en masse, rather as grass plants are in a lawn. Any maintenance operation is carried out on them all simultaneously, such as mowing. In any case, maintenance is generally designed to be minimal. Substrate depth can be between 2 and 15 cm (0.8 and 6 in), which reduces the amount of extra loading that must be build onto the roof construction.  Ecoroof is a term used in some places as a substitute for green roof. Some people use the name to describe vegetated roofs as a way to distinguish them from other types of roof that may have an ecological function (such as roofs covered with photovoltaic cells) that can also be called green roofs (using the word green in its popular ecological or environmental sense). Ecoroof has also been taken up as a descriptive term for extensive green roofs in climates that experience very dry periods that cause vegetation to brown or ripen. For example, extensive green roofs in the city of Portland, Oregon, are referred to as ecoroofs because they are not green but brown for much of the growing season and therefore the term green is seen as a misnomer.  Brown roof is a term to describe roofs that have been covered with substrate or loose material but have not been purposefully planted. Brown roofs are created primarily for biodiversity purposes and aim to recreate typical brownfield conditions through the use of by-products of the development of urban sites: brick rubble, crushed concrete, and subsoils. Such roofs may colonize spontaneously with vegetation but the unvegetated loose substrates can also provide habitat for a range of invertebrates and birds.",architecture;books;by technique;container gardening;crafts;garden design;gardening & landscape design;hobbies & home;landscape;ornamental plants;professional & technical;sustainability & green design,12
0963044818,"The Road of Dreams: A Two-Year Bicycling and Hiking Adventure Around the World Bruce Junek and Tass Thacker have spent their lives exploring the worlds exotic places and cultures. They support their adventurous lifestyle by speaking and giving slide programs. In addition to their world bicycle trip, they have programs on Rainforests, Volcanoes, Africa, and the Amazon.",adventure;biographies & memoirs;books;cycling;excursion guides;hiking & camping;individual sports;memoirs;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;travel writing,12
0670036609,"Harold's Tail Grade 3-5-Harold, a squirrel, lives in a New York City park, tours the area daily, and samples nuts offered by his human friends. Life is good until a rat suggests that it is only Harold's bushy tail that separates him from the lowly and loathed rat world. To test this hypothesis, Harold agrees to having his tail shaved. The rodents break into a barbershop, the rat glues Harold's tail fur onto his own spindly tail, and the two trade places. Sure enough, Harold is treated cruelly by his former benefactors and chased out of a nearby park by haughty squirrels. He finally finds shelter in a cellar with other outcast but friendly rats. By the story's conclusion, the counterfeit squirrel gets his comeuppance, Harold's fur has grown back, and he's made new friends. Frequent black-and-white line drawings move the tale along. Children may have a difficult time getting by the believability factor and caring about Harold and his predicament. George Selden's Cricket in Times Square (Farrar, 1960) tells a better friendship story and E. B. White's Stuart Little (HarperCollins, 1945) is a more compelling adventure.Susan Hepler, Burgundy Farm Country Day School, Alexandria, VACopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Gr. 3-6. Gone are Harold the Squirrel's cushy, nut-feasting days in Manhattan Island (a real park on Manhattan's west side) after a conniving rat talks him into shaving the fur off his tail. Now, because he looks like a common rat, he's forced to hit the streets, where he hooks up with an unusual trio of rats, learns how to sleep during the day, scavenge for food at night, and escape unleashed dogs. Harold also discovers that the only difference between food and garbage is a matter of opinion. Told in first-person, often in a rather adult-sounding voice, this clever, urban animal survival tale is New York-centric in a fun way: the places are real and the observations (""New Yorkers are always late to parties and never pay attention"") ring true. Black-and-white drawings add zest to the entertaining satire about humans in fur, which has read-aloud potential. Julie CumminsCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved",action & adventure;animals;books;children's books;city life;friendship;guinea pigs & squirrels;hamsters;mice;social situations;travel & cultures;where we live,12
B00020Y4FA,"Weber Style 32903 Professional Grade Grill Pan Just the right tool for cooking pan fries on the grill.  Or try it for delicate fish, vegetables, and even fruit.  Made of 430-grade stainless steel.",all weber;barbecue accessories;barbecue tools;barbecue utensils;drip pans;grill & smoker accessories;grill racks;grills & outdoor cooking;lawn & garden;patio;replacement parts;weber,12
0534223141,"Contemporary Issues in Bioethics Tom Beauchamp is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He was born in Austin, Texas. He received graduate degrees from Yale University and The Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1970. He then joined the faculty of the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University, and in the mid-70s accepted a joint appointment at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. In 1976, he joined the staff of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, where he wrote the bulk of The Belmont Report (1978). Dr. Beauchamp's research interests are in Hume and the history of modern philosophy and practical ethics, especially biomedical ethics and business ethics.LeRoy Walters was born in Illinois and spent his elementary and secondary school years in Pennsylvania. He attended a small Pennsylvania liberal-arts college, Messiah College, receiving his B.A. in 1962. After finishing a B.D. degree at the Associated Mennonite Seminaries in 1965, Dr. Walters studied for two years in Germany, one year at the University of Heidelberg and one year at the Free University of Berlin. In 1967 Walters returned to the United States and began a Ph.D. program in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. He finished his Ph.D. in Christian ethics in the spring of 1971. During the summer of 1971, Walters joined the newly-established Kennedy Institute of Ethics as the first faculty member appointed to a multi-year term. He has remained a member of the Kennedy Institute since 1971. In 1975, Dr. Walters received an appointment as Assistant Professor of Philosophy. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1980 and the rank of Professor in 1993. In the latter year he was also named the Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute. During the summer of 1996 Dr. Walters accepted a three-year term as Director of the Kennedy Institute.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",administration & policy;books;ethics;humanities;medical books;medical ethics;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0965622495,"Poinsettias: Myth & Legend ~ History & Botanical Fact ""A perfect addition to the serious horticulturist's reference shelf, and ideal for armchair gardeners as well!""  -- The Midwest Book Review 11/97""After reading Poinsettias, the reader will have a vast new concept of the plant and what it symbolizes. Poinsettias is a delightful read for the average gardener, a useful resource guide for the dedicated horticulturist and a beautiful gift to give to a friend.""  -- The Chattooga Press 12/9/98""At first glance Poinsettias might appear to be more fluff than inclusive reference. But as I quickly discovered, its elegant presentation only complements the gamut of information that's included. This ""page turner"" was both enjoyable and horticulturally interesting.""   -- The Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum Newsletter Fall 1998""Melding myth, historical lore, botanical details, and illustrations...(this is) a delightfully instructive, visually alluring volume.""  -- Booklist 10/1/97""One of the hot finds of the season, either as a gift or a keeper for yourself.  Richly illustrated with 95 images, ranging from photographs to reproductions of vintage artwork and historic postcards, (the) writing style is entertaining and informative - a ""good read"" in book editor parlance.""  -- San Jose Mercury News 12/19/97""This book is adorable, a greeting card to the most familiar plant in America.  I thought I knew everything, but this book contained facts that were new to me!""  -- Cassandra Danz ""Mrs. Greenthumbs"" 11/97""Visually stunning, it has become a part of my holiday decorations; guests pick it up and become engrossed.""  -- Morgan County Herald 12/16/98",biological sciences;books;crafts;education & reference;encyclopedias;flowers;gardening & landscape design;hobbies & home;mythology & folklore;plants;reference;science & math,12
1563086034,"Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction: Applying Research to Practice in the School Library Media Center Access to and utilization of information has changed dramatically in recent years, directly impacting the role of library media specialists. Teachers are incorporating information skills into lessons and working closely with media specialists to provide activities that educate and challenge students on many levels. In response to this development, this intensive guide provides background in methods of instruction and delves into the research being done in the field of information-skills acquisition. First examining the historical role of library instruction, Thomas then describes a variety of approaches. A whole chapter is devoted to Kuhlthau's Information Search Process. The remaining chapters focus on individual learning styles, the impact of technology, and the role of today's library media centers. Well researched and logically organized, this is nevertheless an intimidating package that takes some effort to digest. School media specialists seeking to improve their academic understanding of the subject or desiring to support the need for increased instructional skills will benefit from this impressive resource and its extensive references.-Susan McCaffrey, Haslett High School, MI Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	""Meticulously researched and logically organized...Any library media specialist serving on a school improvement team, writing a grant, or working on curriculum revision will welcome this volume. Highly recommended.""-Book Report	This second edition of a well-reviewed book will be valuable to school library educators as a supplemental text and to practitioners for the discussion given to application of the research reviewed in the areas of learning styles, information skills, literacy skills, technological literacy, and bibliographic instruction. Book Report said of the first edition, Meticulously researched and logically organized. Highly recommended.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	NANCY PICKERING THOMAS is Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas.",books;education;education & reference;humanities;instruction methods;library & information science;library management;new;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0140178384,"Within Tuscany: Reflections on a Time and Place (Penguin Travel) Living since 1967 with his artist wife and their two Italian-born daughters on a farm near Siena, sculptor Spender centers these diverting vignettes and essays on one of his adopted country's historically and culturally richest provinces. Photos. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.",biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;europe;general;history;italy;memoirs;research & publishing guides;travel;travel writing;writing,12
1567182577,"Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft This A-Z title describes the contemporary Wicca and witchcraft traditions. Many different groups (Black Forest Clan, Blue Star Wicca, Church of the World Tree) have entries ranging from a few paragraphs to a couple of two-columned pages. Prominent figures from the history of witchcraft also have entries, as do contemporary writers and practitioners. A number of the writers who are covered have been published by Llewellyn Publications, which is almost inevitable given Llewellyn's prominence in the publishing of occult and New Age material. Entries describing the origins of various traditions and certain historical controversies within the Wicca and witchcraft community strive to be fair to all sides, even to outside agencies that persecuted practitioners.This is a work by a believer for believers, although it has something to offer those outside the various traditions who seek to understand them. It describes various practices (although it does not offer detailed spells and instructions) and the significance of certain animals, plants, and objects. All of the descriptions are specific to their Wicca and witchcraft significance. Mythological characters, especially from British and Celtic mythology, are described, as are some deities and legendary figures from classical mythology who are significant in Wicca and witchcraft traditions. Appendixes provide ""Classic Wiccan Verses"" and lists of relevant periodicals, organizations, and merchants.This volume would be most useful to a public library that serves an active Wicca and witchcraft community or an academic library with an inclusive special interest. Those libraries that need a more general reference would probably do better with The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft [RBB Mr 1 00] by Rosemary Guiley, which is available in paperback for the same price. RBBCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	When I first saw this manuscript, I couldn't help but think, ""Why hasn't this been done before?"" And then I realized that it seems like there is a time for everything. There have been some books that have tried to present an encyclopedic view of what some have called the fastest growing religion in the world. But the first one to really succeed in capturing the essence of Witchcraft, the truth of Wicca, is Raven Grimassi's Encyclopedia of Wicca  Witchcraft.      I think the reason for this is simple. The others were written by outsiders. Raven has been a practitioner for over a quarter of a century, the period during which the Craft has experienced its largest and fastest growth spurt. As a result, this book is an important resource for a wide variety of people.      Are you new to the Craft? In this book you'll find history and lore, personalities and places so you can become more steeped in the history, theology, philosophy, and magick of your tradition.      Are you a long-time Pagan? Here you will find pictures of famous occultists throughout history and the impact they had on the development and growth of modern Witchcraft. You'll also learn about famous modern Pagans and writers and be able to compare different traditions.      Are you a researcher? If you are looking for factual information about Pagan holidays, ancient sources, individuals, beliefs, and practices, this book can be your primary tool.      In short, if you are involved in Wicca or Witchcraft in any way, this book is a necessity for your bookshelf. This is the book everyone is going to be quoting. This is the book everyone is going to be talking about. When anyone has a question about Wicca or Witchcraft, this is the first place they'll look. Don't be left out! This is a book you will use regularly for years to come.	Raven Grimassi is a Neo-Pagan scholar and award-winning author of over twelve books on Witchcraft, Wicca, and Neo-Paganism. He is a member of the American Folk Lore Society and is co-founder and co-director of the College of the Crossroads.  Raven's background includes training in the Rosicrucian Order as well as the study of the Kabbalah through the First Temple of Tifareth under Lady Sara Cunningham. His early magical career began in the late 1960s and involved the study of works by Franz Bardon, Eliphas Levi, William Barrett, Dion Fortune, William Gray, William Butler, and Israel Regardie.  Today Raven is the directing Elder of the tradition of Aridian Witchcraft, and together with his wife Stephanie Taylor he is developing a complete teaching system known as Ash, Birch and Willow. This system is the culmination of over 35 years of study and practice in the magical and spiritual traditions of the indigenous people of pre-Christian Europe.",books;earth-based religions;education & reference;encyclopedias;mythology & folklore;new age;occult;reference;religion;religion & spirituality;wicca;witchcraft,12
0195060237,"The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture ""Rare...a volume of fresh and original research of momentous significance that is written in such a way that ordinary mortals can immediately join the debate.""--The Economist""It is not often that the coal-face of science can be reached even by educated bystanders.  Discoveries are usually hidden down long tunnels of jargon and complication, and the layman must wait for interpreters to bring garbled news of them to the surface.  This book is a rare exception, a volume of fresh and original research of momentous significance that is written in such a way that ordinary mortals can immediately jopin the debate."" --The Economist""A fascinating book which deserves a wide audience."" --European Medical Journal""There are two kinds of landmark publications in science: those that open a new era, like Darwin's Origin of Species, or those that mark an important waypoint in a scientific revolution that has already begun. The Adapted Mind is an example of the latter, comprising as it does a collection of eighteen papers by twenty-five authors which sum up and illustrate much of the best of our knowledge in the field of evolutionary psychology."" --Christopher Baddock, London School of Economics, ESS Newletter""Jerry Barkow, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby performed outstanding feats as editors, actively shaping the diverse contributions so they display a rare unity of vision and purpose and a high standard of clarity and quality....The volume's fascination can best be illustrated by a quick skim through the subject index, which contains a tantalizing diversity of entries such as adultery, baboons, chastity belts, color vision, ego defenses, environmental signals ...food sharing, gossip, harems, homicide, incest, jealousy (morbid), !Kung San, learnability theory, mate guarding, nepotism, prisoner's dilemma, rough-and-tumble play, sperm competition, tolerated scrounging....Reading [this book] will be a useful prophylactic against repeating the mistakes in our field that have been made in psychology for the last 100 years, and will provide inspiration to forge the unified science of the evolution of adaptive behavior during the coming century."" --Adaptive Behavior	Jerome H. Barkow, Professor of Psychology and Anthropology, Dalhousie University.  John Tooby, both Professors of Psychology and Anthropology, University of California at Santa Barbara.",books;evolution;fitness & dieting;general;health;medical books;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0803299141,"The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews Despite the French Vichy regime's complicity in the roundup and deportation of Jews to Nazi death camps, roughly three-fourths of France's Jews, an estimated 250,000 people, survived. Zuccotti, author of the National Jewish Book Award-winner Italians and the Holocaust , attributes their survival partly to ""benign neglect""--the vast majority of French men and women kept silent, allowing Jews to remain in hiding or to cross borders. Many Jews in France with fake papers and ration cards survived by living quietly and taking odd jobs, abetted, according to Zuccotti, by the passive goodwill of hundreds of thousands of French men and women who simply went about their own business. Using a wealth of archival documents, the author chronicles the clandestine networks of Jewish rescue organizations, the heroic efforts of armed Jewish resistance groups and the assistance provided by non-Jews such as the 3000 residents of Le Chambon who hid some 5000 Jews in their homes. She also charts the treachery of Vichy politicians and of countless French collaborators who joined fascist leagues to hunt down resistants and Jews. European history professor at Barnard and Columbia, Zuccotti forces us to rethink the French response to the Holocaust in this challenging book. Photos. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Zuccotti ( The Italians and the Holocaust , LJ 2/15/87) has written another fine, highly readable Holocaust study. While 250,000 (or 76 percent) of France's Jews survived the war, they survived despite the vicious anti-Semitism of the Vichy government, which often zealously anticipated Nazi requests for rooting out Jews--especially foreign-born Jews--and deporting them on trains to death camps. The Vichy government had little mercy for children or the elderly. Fortunately, many French citizens aided Jews either actively, by warning them of upcoming raids or hiding Jewish children, or passively, by simply not informing on them. Altogether, it is a checkered history. This book should be read in conjunction with an important study by Michael R. Marrus and Robert O. Paxton, Vichy France and the Jews (Basic Bks., 1981). Highly recommmended for most libraries.- Paul Kaplan, Dakota Cty. Lib., Eagan, Minn.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In a vividly narrated reexamination of the historical record, Zuccotti (History/Barnard; Italians and the Holocaust, 1987) tells the horrifying story of the fate of French Jews at the hands of the Nazis and their Vichy collaborators. With its egalitarian legacy from the French Revolution, France was traditionally one of Europe's most enlightened societies in extending civil rights to Jews. But beneath this tradition, Zuccotti says, lay a deeper, more ancient one of anti-Semitism, which surfaced in modern times during the Dreyfus affair (1895) and at other moments of crisis for France. After its fall to Germany in 1940, France was divided into an occupied zone and the nominally independent Vichy Republic. In both regions, Zuccotti says, French bureaucrats and police cooperated with the Nazis in implementing laws to identify and segregate Jews--with French police, for example, interning Jews in camps established by Vichy officials in the unoccupied zone. In policies that affected both French and foreign Jews, the Nazis--with official French assistance--rounded up thousands in the occupied zone: Zuccotti emphasizes the terrifying roundup in Paris on July 16, 1942, which began the systematic deportation and destruction of Jews in France. By autumn 1942, those interned in the Vichy Republic were being delivered on a large scale to the Nazis. The author records disparate French attitudes toward the arrests, ranging from indifference or malicious satisfaction to sympathy and support for the victims. Indeed, French apathy (which contrasted with widespread, active anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe) may have been responsible for the relatively high survival rate (76 percent) of Jews in France. Zuccotti also dwells on the courage of relief organizations and of individual Protestant and Catholic workers (as opposed to many in the Church hierarchy, who supported Vichy) who hid and sheltered thousands throughout the country. A balanced yet heartrending contribution to Holocaust literature. -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Valuable and lucid . . . Susan Zuccottis book is admirable in many important ways.""New York Times Book Review (New York Times Book Review)""A book on the French occupation needs to point out that a lot of Jews were saved and a lot of Frenchmen acted well. Susan Zuccotti . . . accomplishes exactly that.""Forward (Forward)	Susan Zuccotti teaches modern European history at Barnard College and Columbia University. She is the author of The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, and Survival (Nebraska 1996), which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1987.",books;europe;france;history;holocaust;humanities;ireland;jewish;military;new;used & rental textbooks;world,12
0823212238,"We Are All Close: Conversations with Israeli Writers (Fordham University Press) Haim Chertok was born in the Bronx and taught at several American Universities before emigrating to Israel in 1976, where he currently teaches at Ben-Gurion University. In 1986 he was a recipient of Joseph M. Katz Award for Distinguished Jewish Feature Writing; in 1987, of the Smolar Award for Excellence in North American Jewish Journalism for his column, a regular feature of The Jerusalem Post. Chertok's first book, Stealing Home: Israel Bound and Rebound (Fordham University Press) was awarded 1989's National Jewish Book Award.",books;education & reference;history;israel;judaism;literature & fiction;middle east;religion & spirituality;religious;sacred writings;world;world literature,12
0882666088,"Waterscaping: Plants and Ideas for Natural and Created Water Gardens This informative Garden Book Club selection, illustrated with 32 pages of color photos, is a comprehensive guide to a beautiful form of gardening--waterscaping. Glattstein provides useful data on identifying and classifying such wet areas as wet meadows, marshes, and pools; discusses a selection of appropriate plants (some 400 in all, including grasses, sedges, rushes, and ferns); suggests garden combinations and designs; and gives instructions for installing pools and setting up container water gardens. She points out that gardeners no longer need large spaces for water gardening; the small backyard, the town-house patio, and the apartment terrace are all viable sites.  George Cohen	Soothing sounds, magnificent reflections, interesting and unusual plants: water in the garden is captivating. Now, whether you are installing a commercially produced pond, own property with an existing stream or pond, or face the challenge of landscaping a ""too wet"" area of your yard, Judy Glattstein covers everything you need to know about water gardening: * Designing and creating a stunning natural water garden * Transforming a wet meadow area * Installing and planting in manufactured water pools * Setting up container water gardens on patios and terraces	Judy Glattstein is a garden consultant and the author of several gardening booksBulbs for Garden Habitats is her third book on bulbsand numerous magazine and newspaper articles. She is a popular instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the Cook College Office of Continuing Professional Education at Rutgers University and lectures widely both in the United States and abroad. An enthusiastic gardener, she finds less time available for her own garden in western New Jersey than she would like; nonetheless, the tens of thousands of bulbs she's planted return year after year whether or not she finishes all her garden chores.",architecture;books;by technique;crafts;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;flowers;gardening & landscape design;hobbies & home;professional & technical;water gardens & ponds,12
1579905943,"Attracting Birds, Butterflies & Other Winged Wonders to Your Backyard *Starred Review* The Wetherbees' well-illustrated guide will help novices develop wildlife gardens that range from relatively easy start-ups such as container planting all the way to planned wildlife sanctuaries. The basics of creating a welcoming wildlife habitat, after all, are the same, whether large or small in scope: food, fresh water, protective cover, and cozy shelter. All-weather shelter and plentiful year-round food are most likely to entice winged creatures to visit, even to stay and nest. Trees and shrubs are major players, serving as host plants to butterflies and moths as well as shelters, nesting sites, and sources of materials and edibles, and their selection and planting techniques are clearly demonstrated. Vital additions of grasses, ground covers, vines, bug baths, and birdbaths can be used to build miniature backyard wetlands. The authors also present detailed directions for building nest shelves and boxes, and illustrated wildlife profiles, in this essential, attractive, and delightful resource. Whitney ScottCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved",animals;biological sciences;birdwatching;books;butterflies;long island;nature & ecology;new york;science & math;travel;united states;wildlife,12
0805075607,"The Grammar Bible: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Grammar but Didn't Know Whom to Ask Strumpf has been fielding calls on the National Grammar Hot Line for more than 25 years, telling callers how to make their subjects agree with their verbs and tell the difference between ""who"" and ""whom."" Thus many of the examples in this thick but highly readable grammar handbook come from questionssometimes rather charming onesposed by callers. With the help of editor and writer Douglas, Strumpf guides the grammar-challenged reader through the parts of speech, then demonstrates how to dissect sentences, from the simplest to the most complex. His clear-cut guidelines offer some flexibility: he grants permission to end sentences with prepositions and to use the passive voice. On other points, however, like the ban on split infinitives, the rules remain intractable. Fellow grammarians will find much to argue with, from Strumpf's insistence on the interchangeability of ""that"" and ""which"" to the use of abbreviations in print. It's easy to sympathize with the idea that network broadcasters should be required to observe the rules of good grammar, but some of his pet peeves, such as overused adjectives and vulgar interjections, seem just, well, peevish. Though it will almost certainly be overshadowed by the buzz-carrying Eats, Shoots  Leaves, Strumpf's handbook does convey the basics of grammar well enough to be of great use to any casual writer. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Michael Strumpf organized the National Grammar Hot Line while a professor of English at Moorpark College. He has appeared on Oprah and Today and serves as grammatical consultant to major corporations and governmental bodies. Auriel Douglas is an editor and writer whose work has appeared in many national publications. Her books include The History of the Academy Award Winners and The Dictionary of Eponyms.",books;education & reference;grammar;language & grammar;new;reference;research & publishing guides;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words;writing;writing skills,12
0812694015,"Getting Even: Revenge As a Form of Justice A serious intellectual challenge to those of us who reject the  concept of revenge.  It is fresh, breaking out of the standard  approaches of retributivist scholarship in a most innovative way.  Whatever your preferred philosophy of punishment, after reading  Barton's book you are unlikely to think of revenge in quite the same  way.  -- John Braithwaite, Australian National UniversityBarton's highly readable discussion, with its effective dual  philosophical and practical orientation, will prompt searching  reassessments, both from philosophers concerned with the place of  retribution in an adequate moral theory of punishment, and from those  working for improvements in our criminal justice systems.  -- John Bishop, University of AucklandThe best book-length study available on the rationality and  morality of revenge.  It is marvelously lucid and deeply  challenging.  -- Graham Oddie, University of Colorado at BoulderThe vast majority of contemporary moral theorists hold that  revenge and retribution are morally indefensible.  Charles Barton  subjects this view to a very close scrutiny; and develops a very  serious, circumspect, and sustained argument in support of moral  retributivism.  This thought-provoking and very well-written book  deserves to be widely read and discussed.  -- Michael Tooley, author of Abortion and Infanticide	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;education & reference;humanities;law;law practice;legal reference;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0393730158,"Cast-Iron Architecture in America: The Significance of James Bogardus (Norton Books for Architects & Designers) ...likely to remain the definitive work on the enterprising  inventor whose seminal architectural concept helped set the stage for  the astounding advances in construction during the century after his  death in 1874. -- The New York Times Book Review, Martin FillerMargot Gale has long been the leading figure in the world--once very nearly the lost world--of cast-iron architecture. . . . No one is better fitted than she to explore the life and work of James Bogardus.  -- Brendan Gill	Carol Gayle teaches history at Lake Forest College, Illinois.Margot Gayle, a nationally known authority on cast-iron architecture, lives in New York City.",architecture;arts & photography;books;buildings;civil;clip art;engineering;graphic design;history;methods & materials;professional & technical;reference,12
1884820409,"The Year 2000 Hoax Alan Wallach began his computer career at IBM in 1959 as a  programmer of large mainframe computers. He was there when the year  2000 problem was created. Since then he has worked as a computer  analyst and consultant for large and small companies in the USA and  Europe. He is now a PC consultant, freelance writer and columnist.",books;business & investing;computers & technology;consumer behavior;consumer guides;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;marketing & sales;mathematics;programming;science & math,12
0375423796,"Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries Amiry's parents were among the thousands of Palestinians who fled from their homes in 1948; they went to Amman, Jordan, where the author was brought up before attending the American University in Beirut to study architecture. She returned to Ramallah as a tourist in 1981, but then she met Salim Tamari, fell in love, married him and returned to the city, now heavily occupied by Israeli troops. This book is an attempt to illustrate the life of a middle-class, Westernized woman in an occupied territory: the daily anxieties and struggles with curfews, roadblocks, barricades, body searches, gunfire, endless red tape, discourtesy and general harassment;not to mention the less than peaceful presence of a mother-in-law taken in for safety's sake. The account, often surprisingly good-humored (as when Amiry realizes her dog has a Jerusalem passport though she does not), is vivid but somewhat sketchily based on diaries and e-mails; it gains in immediacy and relevance to current newspaper accounts what it may lack in comprehensiveness. The book was awarded Italy's Viareggio Virsilia Prize, and while the writing is unremarkable, the work serves as an important report from the front. (Oct. 18) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	*Starred Review* ""It was a Palestinian version of The Bold and the Beautiful."" Drawing on her personal diary entries and e-mails, Amiry, an architect living in the West Bank town of Ramallah, captures the farce and sorrow of daily life under Israeli occupation over the last 20 years. Some readers may remember her furious appearance on 60 Minutes in 2003 (""No, this stupid wall has nothing to do with Israel's security. . . .This is the biggest land and water grab in the history of Israel""). But her book is no political tirade. She is laugh-out-loud funny about the soap-opera aspects of daily life in Ramallah. Even as she copes with her teen neighbor and collaborator, she has fun with the kitsch electric Mecca gift he gives her: Is it bugged? Is she paranoid? Then there is her mother-in-law, 91, who moves in after losing all electricity and water in her neighborhood (""Shall I pack my purple dress?"" she wonders). The irreverence brings home the bureaucratic absurdity of checkpoints, curfews, barriers, and IDs (""Palestinians from Jerusalem who are Israeli residents but not Israeli citizens with Israeli travel documents""). But the suffering is always there: the reality of displacement, neighborhoods destroyed, interminable lines, shootings, separation, and loss. A prizewinner in Italy, this will reach a wide audience. Hazel RochmanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Full of marvelously detailed, colorful human complication, as funny as it is galling and heartbreaking. Tony Kushner, author of Angels in AmericaSharply, gloriously different . . . The seemingly casual narrative . . . works its way into your heart without asking you to hate anyone: just to hate a situation. The ScotsmanPowerful. . . . Extremely funny. The Sunday Times (London)A literary protest done with great wit, skill, and passion. Not only is it really funny but it shows the kind of courage, vision, and humanity needed to bring peace to the Middle East. Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina MonologuesFrom the Trade Paperback edition.	Suad Amiry is an architect and the founder and director of RIWAQ, Centre for Architectural Conservation, in Ramallah. She grew up in Amman, Damascus, Beirut, and Cairo, and studied architecture at the American University of Beirut and at the universities of Michigan and Edinburgh. Amiry participated in the 19911993 Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations in Washington, D.C., and from 1994 to 1996 was assistant deputy minister and director general of the Ministry of Culture in Palestine. She is the author of several books on architecture and was awarded Italys Viareggio-Versilia Prize in 2004 for this book. She lives in Ramallah.	I Was Not in the Mood    Summer 1995    You kick us out of Jaffa, then wonder how come we're born elsewhere!    These words flew out of my mouth when I opened it to answer the first   in a long list of questions asked by the Israeli security officer at   Lod (Tel Aviv) Airport.    I was certainly not in the mood.    It was 4:30 in the morning on a hot summer day in 1995. The   almost-five-hour flight from London had fatigued me and all I wanted   to do was rush out of the airport to meet Ibrahim, who had sweetly   come all the way from Ramallah to pick me up at this very early hour.    My anxiety and irritation increased as the young woman at passport   control slipped a pink tag into my Palestinian passport. I, of   course, have no problems either with pink or with being Palestinian.   But at that very moment, all I wanted was a white tag. As I had   experienced many times before, pink automatically meant at least an   extra hour with security officers at the airport.    Oh, how I wanted a white tag this time!    How come you were born in Damascus? the officer repeated, obviously   neither pleased nor satisfied with my impulsive reply.    I was not in the mood to tell the security officer that in 1940 my   father, who had come to Beirut from Jaffa, was overwhelmed the minute   he saw my Damascene mother. She was eighteen, he was thirty-three. He   had graduated from the American University of Beirut some twelve   years before, while she was still a student at the British Syrian   Training College.    The minute he stepped inside the grandiose courtyard of her family   mansion in Damascus old town and realized how rich her merchant   father was, his dream of marrying this tall, dashingly beautiful   woman with greenish-grey eyes started to fade. In the end, this   particular dream was fulfilled, but many others were shattered, and   my father and mother lived a tormented life together.    I was not in the mood to tell him that in December 1978 my father had   died of a heart attack in Prague while attending a writers'   conference. The well-known Palestinian writer Emile Habibi was the   last person to see my father alive and spend the evening with him.    I was not in the mood to inform the Israeli security officer that   every time my mother got pregnant, she went back to Damascus to give   birth. In 1943, 1944 and 1949, she traveled between Jerusalem and   Damascus to give birth to my sisters, Arwa (now a psychologist living   in Amman) and 'Anan (a sociologist now living in America), and, much   later, to my brother, Ayman (a diplomat). She also traveled between   Amman and Damascus, where I was born two years after that. I did not   want to admit to this, as it would only complicate matters and would   certainly increase the security officer's fears for Israel's   security, thus prolonging the interrogation.    Have you ever lived in Damascus? he asked.    No, came my brief answer.    I was not in the mood to tell the officer that until the age of   eighteen, when I left Amman to study architecture at the American   University of Beirut, my workaholic mother, who owned a publishing   and printing firm, looked forward to getting rid of her four children   every summer. The very first week of our summer vacation, she sent us   off to her parents' house in Damascus or to her relatives in Beirut.   My brother, Ayman, and I were more than happy to spend part of the   summer vacation with our unmarried aunts, Nahida and Suad (for whom I   was named), who completely spoiled us and my two teenage sisters.   They took us to pick cherries at my aunt Farizeh's summer house in   the Syrian resort town of Zabadani, up in the mountains some   twenty-five miles west of Damascus. On Fridays we helped my aunts   pack food and watermelons, in preparation for a picnic in one of the   many restaurants along the Barada River (which became filled with   watermelons that were being chilled), in the lush Damascus   neighborhood of Dummar. One of the highlights of our summer vacation   was the Damascus International Fair, where Aunt Nahida always bought   us what she thought were the latest Russian products: a set of wooden   dolls (matryoshka) for me, and wooden cars and planes for Ayman. When   she ran out of ideas, Aunt Nahida took us for a stroll in the busy   Suq el-Hamadiyyeh, where we quenched our thirst with sticky pistachio   and gum arabic ice cream from the Bukdash ice-cream parlor. Some   forty years later, I can still remember the taste of gum arabic. In   the afternoons, while my aunts were having their siesta, we played   and ran around the huge water fountain in the middle of the ed-dyar   (courtyard) with our many cousins. But our summer vacation would not   have been complete without a visit to Beirut. After a few days of   continuous nagging, my two aunts always agreed to accompany us, or   sometimes sent us alone, to stay with Uncle Mamduh and Aunt Firdaus   in the neighborhood of Zquaq el-Balat.    To avoid our bad-tempered Uncle Mamduh, we spent most of the day   swimming off the crowded St. George's Hotel beach of humid and hot   Beirut. At the end of our three-month vacation, and just a day or two   before school started, we arrived in Amman and the first thing my   mother did was complain about our dark complexions. The Damascenes   had an obsession with whiteness, and did not appreciate the concept   of a fashionable tan.    Do you have relatives in Syria?    No. End of conversation.    I was not in the mood to tell the security officer at Tel Aviv   airport that my mother was the youngest in a family of eleven, and   that was just her nuclear family. I did not want to scare him by   saying that I had four aunts and four uncles, and more than twenty   cousins. They and their families all lived in Damascus.    I was not in the mood to tell the Israeli officer that from 1950   until today, my mother's groceries had been delivered weekly from   Damascus. It was impossible to convince my mother that Amman had good   meat, vegetables or fruit. This was also the case when she lived in   Salt and Jerusalem. The only time she bought local produce was in   1968, when we lived in Cairo. She often complained that the Egyptian   Airlines pilots were not as cooperative as the taxi drivers between   Damascus and Amman.    I was not in the mood to tell him that Damascus is not, as he seemed   to think, just one huge military base filled with SAM-1 and SAM-2   missiles, but rather a vibrant city, especially our neighborhood in   the old town where my grandfather's house still stands.    It would have been difficult for me to explain to the Israeli   security officer that I have always envied my parents, and even my   grandparents, for living at a time when residing in, or traveling   between, the beautiful cities of the region was not such a big deal   and did not call for security checks. I was always intrigued when my   father described his trips between Jaffa and Beirut, which included   lunch at a seaside restaurant in Sidon. I was even more intrigued   when my mother described to me how in 1926, as a child of four, she   had visited her mother's family, the Abdulhadis, in the village of   'Arrabeh in Palestine. I have always been enchanted by the route they   took between Damascus and 'Arrabeh, which went down through the   Yarmouk valley and the beautiful plains of Marj Ibin 'Amer and Sahel   Jenin. First we went to our relatives in Nablus, and a few days   later we went on horses to the village of 'Arrabeh, my mother would   say. It was the horse ride which fascinated my mother, whereas it was   the very impossibility of taking such a trip between 'Arrabeh and   Damascus now which bothered me more.    The security man handed me and my passport over to a security woman   sitting in a room behind a desk, then disappeared, leaving me alone   with her.    She flipped through my passport, and rather aggressively asked, And   what were you doing in London?    I went dancing, I answered, looking her straight in the eye, with   an expressionless, tired face, and a voice even more aggressive than   hers.    Do you think you're being funny? she said, her voice louder and more serious.    No. And do YOU have any problem with dancing? My voice now much   lower and more sarcastic.    What was the purpose of your visit to London?    Dancing, I insisted.    As we went back and forth, she started to lose her temper and I   started to lose my sleepiness.    A few minutes later, she picked up the phone and started talking in   Hebrew, a language I do not understand.    Dancing . . . Dancing . . . Dancing . . .--the English word jumped   out of her Hebrew sentences.    I was not in the mood to tell the Israeli security woman that I had   been on vacation in Scotland with friends, friends I had not seen   since 1983, when I had been working on my thesis at the University of   Edinburgh.    I did not want to explain to her who these friends were. Going   through their names one by one would only complicate matters and make   the interrogation unbearably long.    I didn't tell her that my friendships with some of these people went   back to the 1970s, and my golden university days in Beirut. Even   though I was totally exhausted, I had enough common sense to realize   that Beirut was a buzzword for the security officers of Israel.   Some of those friendships went back to the fifties and sixties,   during my childhood and adolescence, growing up in Amman.    As a tall and hugely built male officer (obviously her superior)   entered the interrogation room, I was more certain than ever that one   should never take the risk of mixing friendship with security issues,   especially if it concerns the security ...",biographies & memoirs;books;history;islam;israel;leaders & notable people;memoirs;middle east;palestine;political;religion & spirituality;women in islam,12
0300081111,"The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty In response to Ronald Reagan's famous question, ""Are we better off than we were 40 years ago?"" The answer would have to be ""materially yes, morally no,"" writes social psychologist David Myers. ""Therein lies the American paradox,"" he continues. ""We now have, as average Americans, doubled real incomes and double what money buys. We have espresso coffee, the World Wide Web, sport utility vehicles, and caller ID. And we have less happiness, more depression, more fragile relationships, less communal contentment, less vocational security, more crime (even after the recent decline), and more demoralized children."" Myers shuns the label of conservative or liberal, preferring to see himself as a social ecologist who abhors the dominance of material values. In fact, Myers is a visionary who asks important questions, such as why is marriage so difficult to maintain in our culture? Why are so many fathers abandoning families? Are rich people happier than poor people? What is the price we pay for radical individualism? He answers these questions with persuasive statistics and sound advice that cannot be neatly pigeonholed into one political camp or the other. As a result, this is a author with credibility, as he covers crucial chapters such as ""The Past and Future of Marriage,"" ""Money and Misery,"" ""Educating for a Moral Compass,"" and ""America's Children."" --Gail Hudson	Echoing cultural critics of the 1950s, Hope College psychology professor Myers observes that America's economy is booming but our society is crumbling. Despite a high Standard & Poor's 500 rating and a low unemployment rate, America is, he argues, beset by problems, from increasing materialism to a climbing divorce rate. Myers calls for a renewal of society and an abandonment of consumerism and individualism; citing his own Christian faith, he points to religion as one possible antidote to many of society's ills. Myers is particularly passionate about marriage: rehearsing familiar statistics, he reminds us that people marry later and are more likely to divorce than in previous generations. He writes approvingly of innovative legislative attempts to make divorce less appealing, such as Louisiana's institution of covenant marriages, and cites studies that demonstrate that people who live together before getting married are more likely to divorce. Another bee in Myers's bonnet is individualism. He bemoans weakened ""social connections"": because of ATMs and drive-through lines at McDonald's, we have less eye-to-eye contact with other people than ever before. And we have no sense of community responsibility, he says, pointing out that, in 1994, Americans were 42% less likely to work for a political party or serve as an officer in a club than they were in 1973. Few readers will disagree with Myers's call for strong families and his denouncement of materialism, but many may wish for a more stimulating discussion as to how we can get from here to there. (Apr.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	According to social psychologist Myers, the ""American Paradox"" is that while many Americans enjoy unparalleled prosperity and the benefits of incomparable technological advances, the American social fabric appears to be unraveling. As culprits of our social malaise, Myers pinpoints economic individualism, income inequality, a breakdown of the family structure, a decrease in sexual fidelity, and the erosion of religious faith. He documents his arguments by using conclusions he reached in a previous study (The Pursuit of Happiness, Avon, 1993) and by referring to numerous more current studies, surveys, and public opinion polls. Myers also suggests some politically correct remedies (such as tax code reform; media self-regulation; more parental involvement). Despite overgeneralizations, this is a wide-ranging, well-written critique that argues that Americans need to regain a communitarian connection to one another and to rebuild the institutions (government, marriage, religion) that Myers believes are historically responsible for maintaining America's social cohesion and for satisfying the spiritual needs of its citizens. For larger public libraries.DJack Forman, Mesa Coll. Lib., San Diego Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Despite unprecedented national affluence, symptoms of moral confusion abound. Myers catalogs these symptoms--violent crime, political cynicism, unrestrained greed, irresponsible media, broken homes--and he investigates their cultural significance. Our wealth, he convincingly argues, has brought us neither happiness nor a sense of purpose because we have cut our ties to family and community and lost our faith in God. Indeed, Myers advances his diagnosis of spiritual malaise so compellingly and with such sobering evidence that when he proffers his cures, his optimism may strike some readers as chirpy and naive. When, for instance, he hails character education as a way to inspire moral renewal, we may well fear that he has understated the paralyzing intractability of current debates over control and content of such education. And when he endorses religion because of its social benefits, we may wonder if he has pondered sufficiently on the question of metaphysical truth, treated only perfunctorily. Still, Myers has confronted our social dilemma with rare honesty--and that itself is a start.  Bryce Christensen	""A call to action, an exhortation to hope, this book is clearly required reading for the concerned citizens."" -- ChoiceIt's hard to resist the passionate conviction with which Myers proposes a recommitment to faith. -- Peter Clothier, Los Angeles Times[This book] gives us such a new vision of America and we would do well to read it seriously.  -- Theodore M. Hesburgh, c.s.c., President Emeritus, University of Notre Dame	Selected by Christianity Today for an Award of Merit in the  Spirituality Category	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	David G. Myers is John Dirk Werkman Professor of Psychology at Hope College. His scientific research is supported by National Science Foundation grants and fellowships and his psychology textbooks are studied at nearly one thousand colleges and universities.",books;education & reference;ethics & morality;fitness & dieting;health;philosophy;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;social psychology & interactions;social sciences;social theory;sociology,12
1574160265,"Rolling Thunder Speaks: A Message for Turtle Island (Rolling Thunder Speaks) Carmen Sun Rising Pope worked closely with Rolling Thunder as his wife and companion during the last years of his life. She served for ten years as a social worker with the Texas Department of Children's Protective Services. She lives in Carlin, Nevada.",biographies & memoirs;books;earth-based religions;leaders & notable people;native american;native american studies;occult;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;social sciences;specific demographics,12
157075487X,"Another Day in Paradise: International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories ""In this extraordinarily powerful collection, we hear in the humanitarian workers' own words their testimonials of life and earth, of compassion and simple courage, tales which should both haunt and inspire us.""",biographies & memoirs;books;disaster relief;elections & political process;human rights;literary;literature & fiction;political advocacy;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics,12
0787947873,"How Come Every Time I Get Stabbed in the Back My Fingerprints Are on the Knife? : And Other Meditations on Management Harvey, an academic and researcher engaged in exploring ethical, moral, and spiritual issues of organizations, presents his theories on organizational behavior and effective management. Coming from a family of storytellers, he uses stories to cover a wide variety of topics, including a description of anaclitic depression, which is depression experienced by many in organizations that are incompetently led. He also offers thoughts on group behavior and the need to find scapegoats; the dynamics of standing for something rather than not getting involved; the role of prayer in organizational behavior; and the common human need to belong. His unusual approach to organizational issues captures a reader's attention and gives Harvey a platform to express his beliefs, which are worthy of consideration. As he promises, this is a far more effective presentation than offering a list of prescriptions for personal and organizational success.  Mary Whaley	""Jerry Harvey has the uncanny ability of observing the ordinary yet seeing the extraordinary. His insights are both provocative and useful, no common combination. Reading this book, you will learn to see the world through another lens."" (W. Warner Burke)""Here are real organizational worlds both terrifying and hilarious, where people say and do things that they don't do anywhere else, and feel things that they don't feel anywhere else, and fortunately Jerry Harvey is there, too, to record it, reflect on it, and help us learn from it. Bless him!"" (Peter Vaill, professor and holder of the Distinguished Chair in Management Education, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota)""A decade ago, Jerry Harvey's Abilene Paradox indelibly entered the lexicon as a metaphor for unproductive group behavior. Now, he's identified an equally damaging-and paradoxical-pattern of individual self-destruction. And, once again, he offers the same invaluable prescription: Tell the truth to everyone?especially yourself. Ah, if only this time we will listen."" (James O'Toole, author, Leadership A to Z)	The role each of us plays in our own downfall creates the profoundand profoundly entertainingbasis for this series of linked ""meditations"" as the author of The Abilene Paradox takes another irreverent look at the nature of life on the job. With his title essay and the other cutting-edge queries found here, Jerry Harvey takes aim at many of our long-cherished assumptions about management, organizations, and human nature. In this work, Harvey draws on his extensive background in management science and organizational psychology to explore the ethical, moral, and spiritual dilemmas we all face in the modern world of work. But he does it in a most unconventional way. His is an approach that mixes equal parts humor, philosophy, and insight to make us laugh, think, and examine organizational behavior in a brand new light.Readers will come upon such diverse topics as elephants, passing gas in church, heart surgery, the importance of Not*Teaching, and back-stabbing as a social process. They'll also discover why high-performance organizations must always employ plenty of incompetent people, why Judas was not a traitor, and why no-nonsense managers are both tragic and useless figures. The twelve essays themselves carry such spirited titles as ""What If I Really Believe This Stuff,"" ""On Tooting Your Own Horn,"" and ""Ode to Waco.""On every page, Harvey offers hosts of office dwellers a fresh take on the problems they confront every day. And his refusal to prescribe solutions will be a relief to readers who know that the advice contained in most business books doesn't work anyway. Instead, Harvey delivers a collection of wise and witty parables that brilliantly illustrate the redemptive value of the truth, in a voice that is ultimately understanding of human shortcomings.	The role each of us plays in our own downfall creates the profoundand profoundly entertainingbasis for this series of linked ""meditations"" as the author of The Abilene Paradox takes another irreverent look at the nature of life on the job. With his title essay and the other cutting-edge queries found here, Jerry Harvey takes aim at many of our long-cherished assumptions about management, organizations, and human nature.In this work, Harvey draws on his extensive background in management science and organizational psychology to explore the ethical, moral, and spiritual dilemmas we all face in the modern world of work. But he does it in a most unconventional way. His is an approach that mixes equal parts humor, philosophy, and insight to make us laugh, think, and examine organizational behavior in a brand new light.Readers will come upon such diverse topics as elephants, passing gas in church, heart surgery, the importance of Not*Teaching, and back-stabbing as a social process. They'll also discover why high-performance organizations must always employ plenty of incompetent people, why Judas was not a traitor, and why no-nonsense managers are both tragic and useless figures. The twelve essays themselves carry such spirited titles as ""What If I Really Believe This Stuff,"" ""On Tooting Your Own Horn,"" and ""Ode to Waco.""On every page, Harvey offers hosts of office dwellers a fresh take on the problems they confront every day. And his refusal to prescribe solutions will be a relief to readers who know that the advice contained in most business books doesn't work anyway. Instead, Harvey delivers a collection of wise and witty parables that brilliantly illustrate the redemptive value of the truth, in a voice that is ultimately understanding of human shortcomings.	JERRY B. HARVEY,well-known author of The Abilene Paradox and Other Meditations on Management, is a professor of management science at The George Washington University. He has consulted with business, government, various healthcare services, and the nonprofit sector and has published many articles in the fields of organizational behavior and education.",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;entrepreneurship;leadership;management;management & leadership;motivational;new;small business & entrepreneurship;used & rental textbooks,12
1402036183,"The War on Cancer: An Anatomy of Failure, A Blueprint for the Future From the reviews: ""I am quite impressed with the scope of the effort, the excellent writing, and the sharpand accurate critique over a broad area of modern oncology practice and research. Frankly, I am not aware of many scientists who could synthesize both the basic and clinical material, and lucidlydepict the implications in such a compelling manner"". (Neil Caporaso, M.D., Chief, Pharmacogenetics Section, Genetic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, MD.) From the reviews: ""Dr Faguet's approach is not unlike an analysis of the so-called industrial military complex.a complex consisting of the federal government, pharmaceutical drug companies and academiaall have a part of the pie and therefore a reason for maintaining the status quo. Insurance companies, regulatory agencies such as the FDA, and patients themselves add further layers of complexity. Faguet walks through all of these areas in a critical but unemotional manner... His book should be of interest to policy-makers, cancer-care workers, and the public at large"". (Gerald E. Marti, M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Flow and Image Cytometry Section, Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, National Institutes of Health MD.)  From the reviews: ""I think your book will be a valuable corrective to much of the hype that has been splashed around in greater and greater quantities by the cancer establishment as it tries to stifle the message that it has failed to make much of an impact"" (John C. Bailar, M.D., Ph.D., Former Deputy Associate Director for Cancer Control, National Cancer Institute; Former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute; Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, IL.) From the reviews: ""The War on cancer is a trenchant and provocative book that offers a critical view of the last four decades in the field of oncology and a vision for the future. To the mainstream oncology community, I would commend it as a challenging treatise"" (Randall Hughes ,Journal of the American Medical Association, June 2006)	Guy B. Faguet is a retired professor of medicine (hematology/oncology) from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA. He published approximately 150 peer-reviewed research papers and three previous books, including the acclaimed The War on Cancer: An Anatomy of Failure; A Blueprint for the Future.For more details, please visit Dr. Faguet's website: faguet.net --Author	      --This text refers to the 							Kindle Edition	 edition.",biochemistry;biological sciences;biology;books;evolution;genetics;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;molecular biology;oncology;science & math,12
1561381497,"The Kiss: A Romantic Treasury Of Photographs And Quotes (Running Press Miniature Editions) Is a kiss really just a kiss? This collection of quotes and  black-and-white photographs proves once and for all that a kiss is  hardly ever without subtext. From cynics like Jonathan Swift  (""Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing?"") to  the sultry Mae West (""I have found men who didn't know how to  kiss. I've always found time to teach them."") to romantics like e.e. cummings  (""...kisses are a better fate than wisdom."") to realists like  Dr. Henry Gibbons (""A kiss is the anatomical juxtaposition of two  orbicular muscles in a state of contraction.""), these folks have said  a mouthful about kissing.",arts & photography;books;contemporary;education & reference;literature & fiction;love & romance;photography;photojournalism;quotations;relationships;romance;self-help,12
0810933160,"Flowers, Birds, and Unicorns: Medieval Needlepoint ""I chose the medieval world for my inspiration because"" of its ""vivid extremes of terror and joy; the most delicate, detailed, and fanciful craftsmanship alongside crude and grotesque gargoyles, courtly love and peasants 'swynking and swyving' the fields."" Bahouth, a designer and a weaver, offers designs for a monkey cushion deriving from a 15th-century tapestry; for a lion leaping ""across a background of teardrops""; for astrology-inspired embroidery; and even for a pillow inspired by an illuminated manuscript. The dignity and mystery of medieval imagery translate well into modern times and materials. Along with details of how to render the translations come explanations of sources and iconography: the secret garden, for instance, represented to medieval poets and artists erotic and spiritual longings, while bees ""stood for the poorer classes."" This is as much a book for reading as for doing, and evokes the sense of a world where the niceties of craftsmanship mingled with the largeness of mythology. BOMC dividend selection . Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.",arts & photography;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;decorative arts;decorative arts & design;history;history & criticism;hobbies & home;needlecrafts & textile crafts;needlepoint;needlework,12
B00002S6KV,"Audio Anywhere All Audio Anywhere is a suite of professional digital audio tools designed to energize your electronic presentations and Web sites. Using a familiar, flexible Windows environment, just point, click, and drag to add introductory and background music and incorporate professional-quality sound effects.  Audio Anywhere includes ACID Style 2.0 and Sound Forge XP 4.5. ACID Style 2.0 lets you create your own professional music in any style imaginable. Sound Forge XP 4.5, the industry's leading PC audio editing program from Sonic Foundry, adds sounds to presentations and Web sites with a simple cut, copy, and paste. It includes more than 800 professional-quality sound clips---music beds, button clicks, sound effects, transitions, stingers, buzzes, tags, and environments.",business & office;computer recording;illustration & design;music creation & sequencing;musical instruments;presentation;programming & web development;software;sound editing;studio recording equipment;web development;web effects,12
0764503995,"MCSE Networking Essentials for Dummies 100% Technical Accuracy See inside for detailsAll the Rewards in Half the Time! Score big with the exclusive 10-Point Dummies Edge! Complete with a CD-ROM loaded with exam questions written just for this book by Microsoft-certified experts, MCSE Networking Essentials For Dummies, 2nd Edition, brings you everything you need to pass the exam  and make every second count! 100s of Practice Questions on CD-ROM!Dummies Test Engine  Our exclusive test engine generates custom or random exams on demandQuickLearn Game: Outpost  Have fun while you build your test-taking skills with this new sci-fi adventure gameTranscender Corporation  Demo versions of NTCert  NTFlash, exam simulations; and Certification Sampler, with over 100 questions covering many MCSE examsSpecialized Solutions, Inc.  Demo of training aids including practice quiz and simulationsSuper Software  MCSEprep Exam Simulator, demo version of exam simulation and knowledge assessment applicationSystem Requirements PC with 486 processor or faster running Windows 95 or later or Windows NT 4.0 or later; 16MB RAM; CD-ROM drive, double speed (2x) or faster. (Separate system requirements apply to the QuickLearn Game. Please see About the CD Appendix for details) The 10-Point Dummies EdgeStudy with Microsoft-certified experts who know their subject inside and outUse Quick Assessment to find out what you know  or dont knowMaster the real-world skills tested on the exam  The Dummies WayCut through the jargon  and answer questions fasterSpot and avoid test traps  look for Instant Answer iconsTake a study break with our exclusive QuickLearn gamePractice with 100s of unique questions just like the ones on the examCreate multiple test-taking scenarios with our customizable test engineVisit Dummies.com for test questions and resourcesDo a last-minute DummiesCram with the Dummies Cheat Sheet	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Study with the Expert! Robert Aschermann, MCSE, MCP, MCT, and MBA, is one of the first people to obtain the new Microsoft Certified System Engineer + Internet Certification. A certified Sylvan-Prometric Test Administrator, he works as a trainer and consultant for one of the oldest and largest Microsoft ATECs, teaching Networking Essentials, TCP/IP, SNA Server, and several Windows NT courses.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;certification;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;mathematics;microsoft;networking;networks;protocols & apis;science & math;software,12
0071423001,"Dark Noon: The Final Voyage of the Fishing Boat Pelican Saturday, Labor Day weekend, 1951, dawned mild and cloudless over Montauk. Hundreds of passengers tumbled from the Long Island Rail Roads weekend express train, the Fishermans Special, when it pulled in from New York City. The weather only confirmed the postwar optimism of the blue-collar workers who had thronged to this fishing village for a holiday of deep-sea angling. In America, in 1951, it was easy to believe that anyone could make money and enjoy the good life, and no place suited that mood better than a fishing town. The Montauk fishing business was booming. The dock the arriving anglers swarmed over had been named, without a trace of self-consciousness, Fishangri-la, and the waiting fishing boat captains could see no obstacle to a record weekend. Maybe it was naive optimism that propelled Captain Eddie Carroll away from the dock that morning with sixty-two passengers aboard his fishing boat Pelican, some thirty more than safe capacity. He was everyones favorite skipper, a handsome World War II veteran with an easy manner, an endless supply of fish and war stories, a sturdy forty-two-foot boat, newly rebuilt engines, and an uncanny ability to find good fishing. In his pocket that day he carried the ring that he would soon slip on the finger of his Swedish bride-to-be. But Eddies luck was about to run out. Even as the Pelican cut its outgoing swath through the sun-spangled Atlantic, a jet-stream trough of Arctic air high overhead, undetected by forecasters, was pressing down on the pool of warm air beneath it like water building behind a dam. The Pelican and forty-five people aboard, including Captain Carroll himself, would never return to shore. Dark Noon is a suspenseful and ultimately heartbreaking sea story. Its also a journey back to the America of the early 1950s, when a laborer could buy a round-trip train ticket from Queens to Montauk and fish all day with Captain Eddie for $8.00. The Pelican's passengers, like postwar America itself, were blinded by hope. They baited their hooks and waited, wondering what they would find in the deep and shining waters of the Atlantic, unaware of the dark storm gathering overhead. Tom Clavin was editor of the East Hampton Independent and the Southampton Independent, two of the countrys most award-winning weeklies, for ten years. In addition to fifteen years writing for the New York Times, he has authored numerous articles appearing in such periodicals as Reader's Digest, Golf Magazine, Parade, and Family Circle. Mr. Clavin has written and edited hundreds of pieces on fishing and boating.  The Pelican was being pushed once more onto its port side, and Eddie knew with sad certainty that this time it was not stopping . . . When Captain Eddie Carroll put to sea on Labor Day weekend 1951, he didnt know how many passengers were aboard his overloaded boat. He didnt know that an unpredicted storm would descend from a cloudless sky before the morning was over. He didnt know how swiftly, then, his faith in his boat and his own abilities would be overturned. Dark Noon is a taut and suspenseful re-creation of a fateful day at sea. It is also a story of the postwar American dream as experienced in the fishing village of Montauk, Long Island, where fish were money and where optimism and success went hand in hand. And it's a story of the end of an era, when one terrible disaster changed the fishing culture of a prosperous port forever. Every dream has an end. In Dark Noon the end comes in a violent storm. Montauk would never be the same.	Tom Clavin  is editor of the East Hampton Independent  and the South Hampton Independent  and a former chief environmental correspondent for the New York Times.",20th century;americas;boating;books;history;professional & technical;ships;sports & outdoors;state & local;transportation;united states;water sports,12
1900924307,"The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds: The Greatest Album of the Twentieth Century Kingsley Abbott is a freelance music writer who regularly contributes to Record Collector, Mojo and other publications. He is also an acclaimed author of several other music books.",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;country & folk;education & reference;history & criticism;music;musical genres;popular;rock,12
1555835066,"Mr. Right Is out There: The Gay Man's Guide to Finding and Maintaining Love This practical and accessible guide to gay romance aims to help men surrender the ""Prince Charming fantasy"" and learn to find and attract Mr. Right. For men who haven't examined their pasts or the ways in which they typically choose partners, the book may be as good as six months of therapy. The author provides case scenarios and ""assignments"" to help bring new ideas home. At the core of the suggested strategies are self-knowledge and self-esteem. ""We do not consciously pick lovers who are wrong for us,"" writes Kenneth George. ""Invariably, there is a good reason for our selection--an emotional process to be completed, a discovery to be made, a psychological process to be worked through."" Chapters like ""Being Emotionally Intimate"" and ""Negotiating and Resolving Differences"" may even be of interest to established couples, particularly the discussion of when to seek counseling and a list of ways to get through a difficult breakup. Less useful is a perfunctory chapter devoted to rekindling passion in a long-term relationship. Whipped cream is really best left for pie. --Regina Marler	""A helpful guide to finding someone who's right for you, and learning to nurture your relationship once you've found him!"" -- Rik Isensee, LCSW, author of Love Between Men	Kenneth D. George, Ph.D., is the author of Mr. Right Is Out There: The Gay Man's Guide to Finding and Maintaining Love. He is a former professor at the University of Pennsylvania and runs a private practice in psychotherapy, working with gay men and male",books;family relationships;gay & lesbian;interpersonal relations;love & romance;nonfiction;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;relationships;self-help;social sciences;specific demographics,12
1560442115,"Hiking North Carolina From the Great Smokies and the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Piedmont and the Outer Banks, this guide features more than 200 hikes in all regions of the state--including the Appalachian Trail, Grandfather Mountain, Linville Gorge and Shining Rock wilderness areas, Roan Mountain, the greenways of Charlotte, Durham, and Raliegh, and the coastal areas of Nags Head, Cape Lookout, and Cape Hatteras. Whether you're interested in a challenging backpacking adventure deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains or an easy day hike along a greenway or an ocean beach, Hiking North Carolina is an indispensable part of your next outing.",books;excursion guides;general;hiking & camping;individual sports;north carolina;running & jogging;south;south atlantic;sports & outdoors;travel;united states,12
0275917886,"Television Myth and the American Mind Offers an interpretation of the myths that shape television images and that reinforce this culture's dominant ideology.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	HAL HIMMELSTEIN is Professor of Television and Radio at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and Director of Research of the Center for the Study of World Television.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;communication;communication & journalism;communications;education & reference;humor & entertainment;language & grammar;new;shows;television;used & rental textbooks;words,12
B000IM2O8Q,"Dewalt DPG31M Grain Cowhide Driver Work Glove with Keystone Thumb, Medium Premium grain cowhide driver glove for power tools, equipment operation, framing, and carpentry.	DeWALT Work Gloves DPG31, DeWALT Work Gloves DPG31 Sizes DeWALT Work Gloves DPG31 M",gloves;hand & arm protection;industrial & scientific;lawn & garden;mowers & outdoor power tools;occupational health & safety products;patio;personal protective equipment;safety & security;tools & home improvement;work gloves;work safety equipment & gear,12
0720611474,"First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin In this thoroughly researched, sometimes slow-moving biography, British scholar Bradford attempts to redress the unfavorable image of one of Britain's most popular 20th-century poets (19221985), which resulted from the publication of Larkin's collected and previously unpublished poems, letters and a biography by fellow poet, friend and literary executor Andrew Motion, who portrayed Larkin as a misogynist and bigot. Bradford offers, instead, endearing accounts of Larkin's university days at Oxford, where he forged lasting friendships with future novelist Kingsley Amis and other budding cultural figures, join detailed portraits of complicated, ill-fated and emotionally distant affairs with women, as well as labored portrayals of Larkin's slow development from flailing novelist to master poet, creating a more favorable portrait than Motion's. Bradford also brings new attention to several overlooked poems, though his analyses are overwhelmingly biographical, often positing the poems as little more than clues to Larkin's feelings about romantic relationships. Amis, the subject of Bradford's previous biography (Lucky Jim), also overshadows Larkin in too many pages spent on the poet's influence on Amis's novels. Still, in this well-written depiction, fans will find muchfrom gossip to scholarshipto stoke their interest. (Feb.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Richard Bradford is professor of English at the University of Ulster. He previously taughtat the universities of Oxford, Wales, and Trinity College, Dublin. Heis the author of12 books on a variety of subjects, including two critical monographs of Kingsley Amis.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",20th century;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;british;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);movements & periods;poetry,12
0764575163,"Teach Yourself® Visual Basic® 6 WHY YOU NEED THIS BOOK! Easy-to-learn tutorial for the Visual Basic 6 language and development environment Covers all the new features of Visual Basic 6 Teaches how to construct databases from design through application implementation New topics include using Windows API, using OLE Automation to control Office applications, understanding SQL, and how to distribute applications as ActiveX documents Explains how Visual Basic relates to Microsoft Office VBA and Outlook VBScript Exercise and Programming tips show innovative ways that readers can quickly use Visual Basic 6	Teach Yourself Visual Basic(r) 6 When you need on-the-spot answers - Teach Yourself! Learn fast with short, clear steps Find the answers you need easily Explore the Web for related topics* Master the VB Integrated Development Environment* Get up to speed fast on debugging and database access* Design easy-to-use forms, menus, and controls* Incorporate graphics and multimedia elements* Harness OLE, ActiveX components, and other advanced features	About the Author Patricia A. Hartman has written a number of books related to computer databases as well as having worked in a civil service environment where she supervised a computer network support staff and developed applications in Basic and database languages. Dr. Hartman holds graduate degrees from the University of Minnesota and has taught at state universities in Minnesota and California. She is a Certified Netware Engineer and is currently consulting in networking and Web design services, as well as authoring books and other publications. She lives in North San Diego County with her husband, two Rottweilers, a cat, and their computer network.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;introductory & beginning;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks;visual basic,12
0824815025,Ka Lei Ha'Aheo: Beginning Hawaiian (Hawaiian Edition) Text: English	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.,books;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;instruction;language & grammar;linguistics;new;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words,12
019512586X,"The Gendered Society Reader ""Brilliant book - very timely"", Dr Earle, UCE, Birmingham	Michael S. Kimmel is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.",anthropology;books;cultural;developmental psychology;gender studies;medical books;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,12
0721660525,"Medical Spanish: An Instant Translator, 1e Text: English, Spanish",books;conversation;dictionaries & terminology;education & reference;emergency;etiquette;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;reference,12
8498163757,"La Galatea (Narrativa) (Spanish Edition) Text: Spanish	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Alcal de Henares, 1547-Madrid, 1616). Espaa. Hijo de Rodrigo Cervantes, cirujano, y Leonor de Cortina. Se sabe muy poco de su infancia y adolescencia. Era el cuarto hijo entre siete. Las primeras noticias que se tienen de Cervantes son de su etapa de estudiante, en Madrid. A los veintids aos se fue a Italia, para acompaar al cardenal Acquaviva. En 1571 particip en la batalla de Lepanto, donde sufri heridas en el pecho y la mano izquierda. Aunque su brazo qued inutilizado, combati despus en Corf, Ambarino y Tnez. En 1584 se cas con Catalina de Palacios, no fue un matrimonio afortunado. Tres aos ms tarde, en 1587, se traslad a Sevilla y fue comisario de abastos. En esa ciudad sufri crcel varias veces por sus problemas econmicos. Hacia 1603 o 1604 se fue a Valladolid y all tambin fue a prisin, esta vez acusado de un asesinato. Desde 1606, tras la publicacin del Quijote, fue reconocido como un escritor famoso y vivi en Madrid.",books;classics;contemporary;europe;foreign language fiction;history;humanities;literary;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks,12
0199267839,"Trajectories through the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers Andrew Gregory is Research Fellow, Keble College, Oxford, and Research Associate in the Faculty of Theology. Christopher Tuckett is Professor of New Testament Studies and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.",bibles;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;education & reference;humanities;new;reference;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks,12
0312158955,"A Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe This atlas is concerned with the part of Europe extending from the Balkan Peninsula in the south to Poland and Lithuania in the north. The authors try to make this truly ""eastern Europe"" by defining the eastern border of Europe as ""the line formed by the combined western border of Belarus, Ukraine, and the Russian Federated Republic."" Although no division of the Eurasian land mass is defensible on absolute geographic terms, this is certainly a nonstandard definition, though it does allow the authors to avoid such locutions as ""East Central Europe.""The authors, professors at Wilkes University, designed this atlas to supplement material for college classes in east European history. It consists of a series of 50 maps, each with an accompanying page of detailed text. After a series of introductory geographic, cultural, and demographic maps, the history of the region is traced from the division of the Roman Empire in the third century to the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991. The maps were drawn using Adobe Illustrator 6.0 and generated on Macintosh Power PCs. They are fairly simple outline maps in black and white, with shades of green, and are primarily concerned with the political history of the region. The accompanying text is an admirable summary of the history of the area, tracing the complex ethnic and cultural interactions of the peoples of Eastern Europe. It also offers an excellent background for the understanding of the current problems experienced in the region.The detailed index refers to places shown on each map and to most names in the text; some terms (mostly proper names) are highlighted in green in the text, but the significance of this is unclear. The work also includes a bibliography of about 50 books. One small error occurs in a discussion of the fight of King Bela IV of Hungary against ""Holy Roman emperor Frederick II Babenberg;"" this is a confusion of Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen with his contemporary, Duke Frederick II Babenberg of Austria.Two recent books invite comparison. Paul R. Magocsi's Historical Atlas of East Central Europe [RBB D 15 93] is a more substantial (and expensive) work, offering more elaborate maps and many thematic maps that do not appear here. Richard Crampton and Ben Crampton's Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 1996) offers a much more detailed look at a small portion of the history covered by Hupchick and Cox. The advantages of the present work are its affordable price and its clarity and conciseness in offering an overview covering 18 centuries of the history of a very complex part of the world. Recommended for collections of all types, high-school level and above.  	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Dennis P. Hupchick is Associate Professor of History at Wilkes University, Pennsylvania, where he also directs the East European and Russian Studies Program. Harold E. Cox is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Programs at Wilkes University, Pennsylvania.",atlases & maps;books;eastern;education & reference;europe;historical;history;humanities;new;reference;used & rental textbooks;world,12
0155058487,"Critical Thinking and American Government Kent M. Brudney is Professor of Political Science at Cuesta Community College in San Luis Obispo, CA. Professor Brudney previously taught at Converse College, South Carolina, and at California Polytechnic State University. He has held a Fulbright Fellowship and several grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He received the Kathyrne Amelia Brown Faculty Award at Converse College. Brudney's essays on Machiavelli and American political thought have appeared in several collections, and he has been published in several journals, including POLITICAL THEORY.",books;civics & citizenship;education & reference;government;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;united states;used & rental textbooks,12
0938864211,"Benchley at the Theatre: Dramatic Criticism, 1920-1940 A founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, Benchley wrote these essays for Life and The New Yorker Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.",arts & photography;books;history & criticism;humanities;humor & entertainment;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;performing arts;theater;used & rental textbooks,12
0750617101,"The Customer Service Planner: Published in association with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (Marketing Practitioner Series) 'The ideas, paradigms, concepts and frameworks and models are thought provoking.  They will encourage creative thought processed, leading to innovative proposals/actions.  Simple, practical approach will be appreciated because students will be able to relate concepts to real life experiences in business'.Dr Kwaku Appoah-Adu, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Portsmouth University	Dr Martin Christopher is Professor of Marketing and Logistics and Chairman of the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at at Cranfield School of Management, UK.",accounting;accounting & finance;advertising;books;business & finance;business & investing;management & leadership;marketing & sales;new;professional & technical;total quality management;used & rental textbooks,12
0521008700,"An Introduction to Rights (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law) ""[A]n outstanding comprehensive introduction to the subject of rights.  Edmundson is a leading philosopher of law and has much that is both new and important to say about the history and theory of rights.""   Kenneth Einar Himma, Seattle Pacific University, The Law and Politics Book Review""Engaging and easy to follow.  This volume would make a good companion text for undergraduate and graduate courses in political and legal theory.""   Choice	This is the only accessible and readable introduction to the history, logic, moral implications, and political tendencies of the idea of rights.  It is organized chronologically, and discusses important events, such as the French Revolution. As an undergraduate text it is well-suited to introductions to political philosophy, moral philosophy, and ethics. It could also be used in courses on political theory in departments of political science and government, and in courses on legal theory in law schools.",books;civil rights;civil rights & liberties;humanities;new;philosophy;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,12
0807737917,"Learning to Read: Beyond Phonics and Whole Language (Language and Literacy Series (Teachers College Pr)) G. Brian Thompson is at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and Tom Nicholson is at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.",books;education;education & reference;education theory;foreign language study & reference;language & grammar;language experience approach;new;reading skills;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,12
0345397053,"Meetings with Mary: Visions of the Blessed Mother Is this the Age of Mary? While the apparitions of Mary, Mother of Jesus, being reported from around the globe, are not unique to the 20th century, they are increasing in number, according to Connell. ""People of all faiths, all religions and nations,"" she writes, ""are hearing and seeing the Mother of God as never before in recorded history."" She chronicles many of these encounters, beginning with an early Christian tradition about the Prophet Elijah, continuing with well-known stories like Lourdes and Guadalupe, then concentrating on a host of 20th-century visions. People who have experienced the apparitions seem to have received messages ecumenical and apocalyptic in tone. Most of the stories recounted here include both the text of Mary's message and a devotional interpretation as well. Though a rich source of Mary lore, the book will probably find its audience largely among those already comfortable with Roman Catholicism Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Througout the centuries, the Virgin Mary has appeared to ordinary people of every race and culture.  In this inspiring and exquisite book, Jan Connell chronicles authenticated Marian apparitions and messages.There are personal stories in here, as well as tales drawn from scripture and legend and never-before-published accounts.  If you want to become closer to the Virgin Mary and understand her adn her  great message of love even better, then you need to read Jan's book.   --E. Zack, Sr. Editor, The Ballantine Publishing Group	Through the centuries and across the world, the Virgin Mary has appeared to ordinary people of every race and culture, from scholars to illiterates, from the devout to the unbelieving, from young children to the dying. In this exquisite and inspiring volume, Janice T. Connell chronicles authenticated Marian apparitions and messages Mary has brought from God--as mother, comforter, Queen of Angels, and Prophet of the Apocalypse.Drawn from scripture, legend, and never-before-published eyewitness accounts, these are personal stories--the author's own, and her interviews with other visionaries--filled with beauty, wonder, and joy. Meetings with Mary ranges from Elijah's vision of Mary eight hundred years before her birth to the world-famous children of Medjugorje in Bosnia, whose encounters with her began in 1981 and continue daily. Here also are lesser-known, deeply touching encounters with the Mother, from an office worker in Holland to a Japanese nun, from a Jewish banker in Rome to an awestruck crowd of visionaries, few of them Christians or of any other faith, in Egypt.Meetings with Mary asks also: as the millennium draws near, shadowed by disasters, disease, and brutal civil warfare, are Mary's frequent appearances a signal to the faithful? Perhaps she is calling us all to join her now on a voyage toward the eternal shores of peace, joy, and abiding love. . . . ""[Connell is] passionate about prayer and sharing her love of Jesus'mother. . . . She has a way of simplifying complex theology.""--Rocky Mountain News",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;history;religion & spirituality;religious;roman catholicism;saints;theology;world,12
0764562207,"The Unofficial Guide to the World's Best Diving Vacations The Series with More Than 4 Million Copies Sold! From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World A Tourists Best Friend! Chicago Sun-Times Indispensable The New York Times The Top 10 Ways The Unofficial Guide to the Worlds Best Diving Vacations Can Help You Have the Perfect Trip:18 premiere worldwide diving destinations described and evaluated including the Caribbean, Hawaii, Australia and beyondOver 200 fantastic dive sites, from coral reefs to shipwrecksRegional profiles of each destination, including history, statistics, and advice on international travel and local customsDestinations are rated for water and weather conditions, dive site conditions, and abundance of marine lifeDives for every experience level and inclinationExtensive information on protected marine parks, refuges, and reservesDetails on dive services and packages, including resorts that cater to diversDive shops near every dive are rated for service, equipment, and facilitiesLocal medical facilities and how to access them in emergency situationsLodging, dining, and entertainment options for your time back on landGet the unbiased truth on hundreds of hotels, restaurants, attractions, and more in The Unofficial Guide to the Worlds Best Diving Vacationsthe resource that helps you save time and money, and makes your trip the best it can be. An Unofficial Guide Great trips begin at frommers.com	Author Jean Pierce has been diving since 1985. She now works as a divemaster with her husband Kris Newman. Reeldivers, their California dive business, provides dive support to underwater film productions, such as the Warner Brothers movie Sphere. In addition to being a PADI divemaster, Pierce is Nitrox-certified with the International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers and cave-certified with the National Speleological Society/Cave Diving Section. She has written for scuba magazines like Dive Training and Sport Diver, and she authored the dive guide Diving and Snorkeling Cayman Islands. She is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and is a recipient of a Lowell Thomas Award, a Maggie Award, and the Bahamas Discovery Award. Pierce and her husband are also avid underwater photographers, supplying much of the photography for their published work.Contributor Brenda Fine wrote the chapter on Fiji Islands diving. Also a member of the Society of American Travel Writers, she has been diving since 1986. Her byline appears regularly in a variety of national travel publications.",adventure;books;education & reference;general;reference;scuba;scuba diving;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;travel writing;water sports,12
1902984064,"So You Really Want to Learn Latin Book II ""The textbook everyone who ever learnt Latin should have had, and the one that everyone who wants to learn Latin now and in the future should have. It is a model of lucidity that combines rigour with accessibility and wit."" John Clare, The Daily Telegraph ""Have I mentioned how happy I am with Galore Park Latin? Because I am. Very happy. Really, really happy."" A home schooler ""A splendid method for the teaching of Latin."" David Bomgardner, SATIPS""The textbook everyone who ever learnt Latin should have had, and the one that everyone who wants to learn Latin now and in the future should have. It is a model of lucidity that combines rigour with accessibility and wit."" John Clare, The Daily Telegraph ""Have I mentioned how happy I am with Galore Park Latin? Because I am. Very happy. Really, really happy."" A home schooler ""A splendid method for the teaching of Latin."" David Bomgardner, SATIPS	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Nicholas Oulton was educated at Charterhouse and Oriel College, Oxford. He is currently the Managing Director of Galore Park Publishing, who publish this book, and is teaching Latin to his staff using this textbook!",books;children's books;education & reference;foreign language learning;foreign languages;humanities;language & grammar;new;schools & teaching;study & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,12
0781801575,"Casimir Pulaski: A Hero of the American Revolution A veteran of Poland's struggle for independence from Russia, Count Pulaski (1747-1779) fought in the American Revolution out of a love of liberty and a desire for fame. Syzmanski, a California freelance writer, makes much of Pulaski's role as ""father of the American cavalry,"" even though his elaborate and intelligent regulations were never put into effect. Starved for troops, equipment and money, the Continental army's cavalry remained a military stepchild. Szymanski's biography presents a story of countless petty frustrations culminating in Pulaski's death, not in a heroic mounted charge but in attempting to rally a futile infantry attack against the British fortifications of Savannah. The book is poorly edited. Pulaski himself never clearly emerges from the lengthy reproductions of documents on obscure details of his career. Nor are his achievements and failures placed in the war's wider context. Even specialists in military history and the Revolutionary War will find the book disappointing. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Leszek Szymanski",18th century;19th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;europe;historical;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);poland;revolution & founding;united states,12
0827378831,"Design of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems Robert Gagnon is the founder and principal engineer of Gagnon Engineering, a fire protection consulting firm, and a periodic lecturer at the University of Maryland and Montgomery College. An active member and elected Fellow of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, he is also involved with NFPA, where he chairs and serves on numerous committees. Mr. Gagnon is a Professional Engineer registered in states across the Eastern Seaboard, and holds Level IV Senior Engineering Technician certifications in both Automatic Sprinkler Design and Special Hazards Design. He earned his BA in Mathematics from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College), and his BS and MS in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland.",books;civil service;education & reference;engineering;firefighting & prevention;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;new;professional & technical;science & math;technology;used & rental textbooks,12
B0001V2MY0,"SMK-Link RemotePoint Navigator 2.4 Premium Presentation Remote and Laser Pointer (VP4150) Easy and effective way to put Powerpoint control in the palm of your hand.  View larger  RemotePoint Navigator 2.4 puts Powerpoint control in the palm of your hand. It's easy to use and effective. Unique raised icons and sleek metal styling make Navigator the ideal tool for confident and polished presentations. An RF range of 50 feet allows you to interact with your audience. Just plug in the USB receiver and start winning over the world one audience at a time. Plug and Play with 50 Feet of Range The RemotePoint Navigator is the presentation industry's most ergonomically perfect remote control. Its polished metal, icon-studded control keys support PowerPoint functions including Slide Forward, Slide Back and Slide Hide functions. Navigator's 50 foot RF wireless range, with no line of sight needed, means that no matter where you're standing or which way you're facing in the room your slides will advance on cue every time. Which SMK-Link Presenter is Right for You?                               RemotePoint Jade   RemotePoint Global   RemotePoint Navigator 2.4   RemotePoint Emerald Navigator   Stopwatch Presenter       Model Number   VP4910   VP4350   VP4150   VP4450   VP4560       Laser Color   Green   Red   Red   Green   Green       Range   up to 150 feet   up to 100 feet   up to 50 feet   100 ft omni-directional   70 ft line-of-sight       Battery Life   6 Months (Typical)   6 Months (Typical)   6 Months (Typical)   6 Months (Typical)   6 Months (Typical)       USB Interface                      2.4 GHz RF Frequency	RemotePoint Navigator 2.4 puts Powerpoint control in the palm of your hand. It's easy to use and effective. Unique raised icons and sleek metal styling make Navigator the ideal tool for confident and polished presentations. A non-line-of-site RF 50-foot range allows you to interact with your audience. Just plug in the USB Receiver and start winning over the world one audience at a time.On August 15, 2007 SMK Electronics Corporation, USA acquired Interlink Electronics' Branded and OEM Remote Control Divisions. As a result, SMK-Link Electronics Corporation was formed. SMK-Link, based in Camarillo, CA is the exclusive manufacturer and marketer of Interlink Electronics branded presentation products. SMK-Link supplies Interlink-branded presentation products to corporate, government and educational markets. Designed to increase the effectiveness of PowerPoint presentations, Interlink's branded products include presentation remote controls, wireless keyboards and ultra-portable presentation speaker systems.",accessories & supplies;audio & video accessories;computer accessories;computers & accessories;electronics;laptop & netbook computer accessories;office electronics;office products;presentation pointers;presentation products;presentation remotes;remote controls,12
0933087837,"Alive in Hard Country: Poems ""These poems come from the ""Hard Country"" along the Ohio River where ""Rust Belt"" meets Appalachia. Hague grew up there in Steubenville and has taught high school in Cincinnati since 1969. With lines like ""no needs sour into sadmess,"" and ""the patient seasonings of pain"" Hague's poetry draws the reader into an enthralling web of meaning.""  ...APPALACHIAN HERITAGE, Spring 2004""Through the world of Richard Hague blow hard winds of place and change. The result is a sacred and seductive music that helps us understand better the meanings of where, here and now. For years this poet has helped us know Ohio, its people and landscapes, and  ourselves. Alive in Hard Country is a meditation by a master poet on  the way we fit the earth.""  -- David Citino""This is the book we have been waiting for. Richard Hague's poems of hard country--be that country his native Appalachia or the subterranean landscape of a life--at last collected into one volume. Each poem is its own map, precise and necessary; together they form an atlas, directions back to the ""center of a strange universe,"" to the heart of Hague's poetic vision.""   -- Pauletta Hansel""Like those lives alluded to in the title, Alive in Hard Country will survive.""       -- Maggie Anderson	ALIVE IN HARD COUNTRY: POEMS by Richard Hague	""This is the book we have been waiting for. Richard Hague's poems of hard country--be that country his native Appalachia or the subterranean landscape of a life--at last collected into one volume. Each poem is its own map, precise and necessary; together they form an atlas, directions back to the ""center of a strange universe,"" to the heart of Hague's poetic vision.""   -- Pauletta Hansel	Richard Hague was born and raised in Steubenville, Ohio, where he worked summers for the Penn Central Railroad and Wheeling Steel before graduating with from Cincinnati's Xavier University. He maintains an occasional residence in rural Monroe County, Ohio.  Since l969 he has taught literature, humanities, creative writing, and interdisciplinary studies at Purcell Marian High School in Cincinnati. The l982 winner of the Cincinnati Post-Corbett Award in Literary Arts, two Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowships in Poetry and a third in Creative Nonfiction, as well as The Black Swamp and Sow's Ear Poetry Prizes, he is author of eight collections of poetry, including ""Ripening"" (Ohio State University Press, l984), ""Possible Debris"" (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, l988),  ""A Bestiary"" (Pudding House Publications, l996), ""Garden"" (Word Press, 2002). His book of essays and stories from Bottom Dog Press, ""Milltown Natural,"" was nominated for a National Book Award.	ALIVE IN HARD COUNTRY: POEMS by Richard Hague",american;american literature;books;family relationships;fatherhood;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;parenting & relationships;poetry;used & rental textbooks,12
0871964775,"The History of Science and Technology: A Narrative Chronology Text: English, Italian (translation)",biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;history;history & philosophy;humanities;new;professionals & academics;science & math;science & mathematics;scientists;used & rental textbooks,12
B000NVF8N0,"Calibration and Orientation of Cameras in Computer Vision (Springer Series in Information Sciences) From the reviews:    ""All you need to know about camera calibration and orientation for close range work is in this book.  It certainly is a book for post-graduate students and for those academics supervising them.  the editors must be congratulated for bringing together at one point in time most  facets of camera calibration and orientation. The list of references at the end of each chapter will be extremely useful for future researchers and  this book should adorn the shelves of university libraries."" (J. G. Fryer, The Photogrammetric Record, Issue 17, 2002)	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	This book brings together concepts and approaches from the fields of photogrammetry and computer vision. In particular, it examines techniques relating to quantitative image analysis, such as orientation, camera modelling, system calibration, self-calibration and error handling. The chapters have been contributed by experts in the relevant fields, and there are examples from automated inspection systems and other real-world cases. The book provides study material for students, researchers, developers and practitioners.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",algorithms;artificial intelligence;books;computer science;computers & technology;earth sciences;geography;machine vision;medical books;pattern recognition;programming;science & math,12
0689857306,"Worth Grade 5-8As 11-year-old Nathaniel rushes to bring in hay ahead of an approaching thunderstorm, his leg is crushed beneath a wagon when the team of horses, spooked by lightning, lurches out of control. His father brings one more conflict to their late-19th-century Nebraska homestead in the person of John Worth, a boy taken off the orphan train to help take up the slack. The family is already tense about previous financial failures and the loss of a daughter. Now fence cutters exacerbate the land-use conflict between ranchers and farmers by freeing cattle to trample the crops on which the farmers' survival depends. The author convincingly conveys the boys' gradual realization of the value of one another's friendship. Other themes include the importance of reading and education, meeting challenges head on, relying on and playing a responsible role in your community, and recovering from loss. A special strength of the book is the characterization of Nathaniel's mom, whose fierce anger is emotionally balanced by her dedication to her family's well-being. Although she works as a tinker, she lets her husband take credit in deference to the mores of the time. A satisfying piece of historical fiction.Joel Shoemaker, Southeast Junior High School, Iowa City, IA Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	*Starred Review* Gr. 3-7. LaFaye's novel is one of the first to tell the Orphan Train story from the viewpoint of a kid displaced by a newcomer. Even worse than the pain that 11-year-old Nate felt when his leg was crushed in an accident is rejection by his pa, who takes in young John Worth to pick up Nate's work on their small farm. Nate's angry first-person narrative is brutally honest, and, at first, he is bitterly resentful of John, an orphan who lost his family in a New York City tenement fire: ""Just 'cause he lost his father didn't mean he had a right to mine."" Through Nate's narrative comes a sense of the grueling daily work, the family struggle to try to hold on to the land and avoid failure. In addition, there's some late-nineteenth-century history about the local wars between cattle ranchers (who want grazing land) and farmers (who need room for crops), and in an exciting climax, Nate and John ride together to warn the farmers and prevent the fence-cutters from causing a cattle stampede. Only an awkward metaphor about the Greek myths seems patched on. The short, spare novel doesn't need the heavy heroic parallels; it tells its own story of darkness and courage. A great choice for American history classes. Hazel RochmanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""[The] Narrative is brutally honest."" -- Booklist, starred review""Lyrical."" -- Publishers Weekly	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	A. LaFaye's dynamic portrayal of two boys longing for something they no longer have and finding the resources to face the future offers a fresh perspective on the thousands of children who moved west via the Orphan T4rains in the late 19th century.	A. LaFaye (the ""A"" is for Alexandria) is the author of Worth, for which she received the Scott O'Dell Award, as well asThe Year of the Sawdust Man, Nissa's Place, The Strength of Saints, Edith Shay, Strawberry Hill, and Dad, in Spirit. She teaches at California State University at San Bernardino during the school year and at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, in the summer. She lives in Cabot, Arkansas.	What is the source of one's worth? In the hardscrabble life of the Nebraska plain, a fluke accident crushes an only son's leg, bringing even more difficult times to the family. Nathaniel's sense of self is also crushed. Through grappling with his feelings toward his father, the orphan boy who comes to help out, the Greek family attending school, and the power struggles between farmers and ranchers, Nathaniel emerges as a whole individual. Tommy Fleming narrates with an edgy voice that helps the listener understand the raw feelings that permeate the story. Heartfelt emotions are evident, and Fleming's youthful voice and slight Midwestern accent add to the story's authenticity.  A.R.  AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.",adoption;books;children's books;emotions & feelings;family life;farm life;historical fiction;literature & fiction;social situations;travel & cultures;united states;where we live,12
0415046181,"The Greek World After Alexander 323-30 BC (The Routledge History of the Ancient World) the seventh volume to appear in Routledge 'History of the Ancient World' series is clearly and sensibly written, has an excellent and original selection of tables, maps, diagrams, and photographs, and provides and thorough, reliable, and up-to-date introduction to key topics.--Zofia H. Archibald, University of Liverpool....a good survey of political, socioeconomic, intellectual, and cultural developments....Choice	Among Graham Shipley's previous works are War and Society in the Greek World, War and Society in the Roman World (both co-edited with John Rich) and A History of Samos. He is currently Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester.",ancient;books;europe;greece;historical study & educational resources;historiography;history;humanities;macedonia;new;used & rental textbooks;world,12
0071348220,"Learning About the Changing Seasons Hi, my name is Olivia. I'm 6 years old, and sometimes I have questions about the world around us like: How to clouds make rain? Why is the sky blue? Why do the leaves turn different colors in the fall? Why do balls bounce?        When that happens, I always go see my friend, Dr. Heidi. Dr. Heidi is a real scientist and probably the smartest person in the whole world. She always knows the answers to my questions. She also knows how to do all kinds of fun, easy experiments that help me to really understand how things work.        Today, Dr. Heidi and I are exploring four things that happen every year...can you guess what they are? You're right - spring, summer, fall, and winter! Why not join us as we have fun finding out the answers to your questions about the different seasons by doing things like watching seeds grow into grass, collecting heat from the sun, putting together a preserved leaf book, and even making your own snow catcher!        The Little Scientis Hands-On Activities series of books is an outgrowth of the nationally acclaimed Little Scientists educational program. Like the popular scientific enrichment classes for which they are named, these books are designed to expose kids, ages 5 to 8, to the thrill of scientific discovery, while helping them to develop core scientific skills of observing, critical thinking, communication, classifying, comparing, applying and generalizing, measuring, predicting, hypothesizing, and problem solving.	Dr. Heidi Gold-Dworkin, a molecular biologist and biochemist, received her bachelor's degree from Cornell University and her graduate degrees from Yale University. She is the author of numerous scintific and educational articles. A mom of 4 young children, Dr. Heidi is solidly dedicated to the development of innovative, exceptional, hands-on science curriculum for young children.",books;children's books;conservation;earth sciences;environment;environmental science;nature & ecology;nature & how it works;rivers;science;science & math;weather,12
0793115051,"Questions & Answers to Help You Pass the Real Estate Exam ""I've used no less than ten different books ... for exam preparation. I truly believe this book to be the  best."" -- La Vern Kohl, GRI, CRB, Action School of Real Estate, Inc.,  Springfield, Missouri    ""... the best supplemental text we've used. It  closes gaps in mastering the topics a main text might fail to  satisfy."" -- Charles A. Bergeron, Springfield Technical Community College,  Springfield, Massachusetts",books;business & finance;business & investing;education & reference;graduate & professional;new;professional;real estate;sales;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks,12
0062501631,"Leaving the Enchanted Forest: The Path from Relationship Addiction to Intimacy ""We need more books like this that point to the solutions not just the problems.   -- ""-- Melody Beattie, author of Codependent No More	Stephanie Covington, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, an internationally known speaker specializing in dependency, and the author of many articles on women and addiction. She lives in La Jolla, California. Liana Beckett, who has an M.S. in marriage, family, and child counseling, works with individuals, couples, and groups with dysfunctional or addictive family backgrounds. She lives in San Diego, California.",abuse;addiction & recovery;behavioral sciences;books;fitness & dieting;health;occult;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality;science & math;self-help;substance abuse,12
0446606413,Letters to Penthouse X: The Hottest Stories America Loves to Read Penthouse magazine is the leading forum for contemporary sexual issues and the Forum section of the magazine features the letters from readers who've had the memorable experiences depicted in the book.,books;customs & traditions;erotica;fitness & dieting;health;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;self-help;sex;sexuality;social sciences,12
0812967089,"Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania Put sex, drugs, art forgeries, and manic depression into a blender, run it at top speed for 10 minutes, and out pops Electroboy, Andy Behrman's high-octane autobiography. The story begins as an exhilarating view into the manic's world, with spontaneous flights to Tokyo, sketchy East Village bars, and a nonstop inner dialogue that makes your pulse race just to keep up. The remainder of the book slows down considerably, starting with Behrman's New Jersey childhood and winding through a successful education, a rapid accumulation of debts, a forged painting scam that lands him in prison, and finally a series of electroshock treatments that allow him to find some balance in life at last.  Between titillating tales of stripping for extra cash and excessive drug use, Behrman charts his experiences with therapists and a wide variety of prescription medications. No clear picture is presented of his attempts at counseling; there is much skipping around between therapists, from whom he manages to hide the extent of his difficulties. In his first experience with Prozac, he doubles his original dose ""to speed up"" and later fires his psychiatrist for ""medicating him like an absolute lunatic."" This tale alone makes his doctors come across as more sympathetic characters than Behrman might have intended.  Like many confessional memoirs, Electroboy is a blunt tale that relies heavily on the shock value of his ber-yuppie behavior, which ends up detracting from the potentially fascinating story of his illness. --Jill Lightner 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Personal accounts of mental illness can provide insight into the mind's complexities not only for the public but for specialists seeking better treatments for their patients. Freud's theory of paranoia, for example, was richly informed by his reading of Dr. Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. But in Behrman's account, it's unclear whether the author's descriptions of his psychological struggles are intended to clarify his experience of illness or to exploit the sensationalistic aspects of his manic depression (drug binges, sexual escapades and treatment with electroshock therapy) for fun and profit. The crux of Behrman's narrative involves his work as the publicist for pop artist Mark Kostabi. After helping Kostabi achieve fame, Behrman, along with an artist in Kostabi's studio, conspired to make and sell ""fake"" Kostabis an endeavor that culminated in the author's arrest and conviction for conspiracy to defraud. Although Behrman never discusses the relationship between his crime and his mental illness, the reader can deduce that the fraud was tied to his long history of deeds demonstrating tension between a desire to be loved and a desire to be guilty and punished (Behrman also worked as a prostitute and amassed significant debts). His prose suffers from an abundance of clinical editorializations and attention to the superficial, like brands of clothing and beer. This last offense gives the text its exhibitionistic, gossip-column style, which muffles the obviously tortuous aspects of the author's bouts with manic euphoria and paralytic depression. The genuine and compelling aspects of Behrman's disorder become subservient to the unfortunate but undeniable pleasures of schadenfreude. Agent, Suzanne Gluck. (On-sale Feb. 19)Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Behrman here adds to the crowded genre of mental illness  autobiography, which is inhabited by so many fine titles  (including Andrew Solomon's An Atlas of Depression, which just  won a National Book Award) that new entries must provide a  different perspective or superior writing to merit a place on  library shelves. Presumably, what is novel here is Behrman's  focus on the manic aspect of bipolar disorder and on  electroshock therapy. Behrman's tale of an out-of-control life  of art forgery, sexual promiscuity, drug and alcohol abuse, and  eventual incarceration is told in a straightforward and  forthright fashion, if a bit repetitiously. Throughout the saga,  he seems to have unlimited funds, even when living on disability  benefits, so clearly he has more resources than the average  patient. He also doesn't discuss his depressions in much detail,  so the picture seems somewhat one-sided. Kay Redfield Jamison's  An Unquiet Mind (LJ 10/1/95) remains both the best-written and  the most informative autobiography available on manic  depression, while Martha Manning's Undercurrents: A Life Beneath  the Surface (HarperSanFrancisco: HarperCollins, 1996) is an  informative, and even amusing, account of her electroshock  treatments for depression. These titles are a better bet for  small libraries; Behrman's book is recommended as an added title  for larger public libraries.- Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, WA   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Manic depression, or bipolar disorder, is commonly characterized by hyperactive highs and extreme lows, the latter sometimes leading to suicide. Behrman's hyperkinetic activity was clearly self-destructive, but since he lived and worked in New York, he was able to hide his disease within the frantic pace of the upscale yuppie life in the big city. His fast-lane behavior included a brief stint with prostitution and other promiscuous sexual activity--risky in the 1980s--as well as incessant use of cocaine, experience with sleeplessness, and wild overspending on extravagant items. When he became an art dealer for an oddball painter who never really painted but only signed the work of others, Behrman seemed determined to bring about his own destruction. He entered into a forgery deal, but he was caught and convicted. How that brought about both his salvation and an end to his buoyant lifestyle is a raw but excellent testament of a person mentally and totally out of control. Marlene ChamberlainCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Electroboy is as surreal as life can get, proving that truth is stranger than fiction. Andy Behrmans nightmare anecdotes are addicting.-Eric Bogosian, author of MallWhat a wild, mind-ripping, hellacious, and hysterical ride! Like some cranked-up, amoral Horatio Alger trapped in the dark fun house of his own brain, Andy Behrman is the stuff demented legends are made of. Electroboy is a brilliant, riveting instant classic of the American dream run amok.-Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent MidnightPull down the safety bar, because Electroboy, like the manic depression it limns, is a roller-coaster ride of white-knuckled highs and lows. Courageous and dazzling--a heartbreaking journey into the mind untamed.-Deborah Copaken Kogan, author of ShutterbabeWithout ever sounding self-serving or apologetic, Behrman tells the story of a man utterly atthe mercy of his impulses. Its sometimes funny, sometimes horrifying, always fascinating.-John Taylor, author of FallingThis stark and unsettling memoir mimics the patterns of the manic mind. An astonishing story of uncontrolled desire told by one of the most endearing madmen youll ever encounter.-Katie Roiphe, author of Still She Haunts MeFrom the Hardcover edition.	Electroboy is an emotionally frenzied memoir that reveals with kaleidoscopic intensity the terrifying world of manic depression. For years Andy Behrman hid his raging mania behind a larger-than-life personality. He sought a high wherever he could find one and changed jobs the way some people change outfits: filmmaker, PR agent, art dealer, stripper-whatever made him feel like a cartoon character, invincible and bright. Misdiagnosed by psychiatrists and psychotherapists for years, his condition exacted a terrible price: out-of-control euphoric highs and tornadolike rages of depression that put his life in jeopardy.Ignoring his crescendoing illness, Behrman struggled to keep up appearances, clinging to the golden-boy image he had cultivated in his youth. But when he turned to art forgery, he found himself the subject of a scandal lapped up by the New York media, then incarcerated, then under house arrest. And for the first time the golden boy didn?t have a ready escape hatch from his unraveling life. Ingesting handfuls of antidepressants and tranquilizers and feeling his mind lose traction, he opted for the last resort: electroshock therapy.At once hilarious and harrowing, Electroboy paints a mesmerizing portrait of a man held hostage by his in-satiable desire to consume. Along the way, it shows us the New York that never sleeps: a world of strip clubs, after-hours dives, and twenty-four-hour coffee shops, whose cheap seductions offer comfort to the city?s lonely souls. This unforgettable memoir is a unique contribution to the literature of mental illness and introduces a writer whose energy may well keep you up all night.From the Hardcover edition.	Electroboy is as surreal as life can get, proving that truth is stranger than fiction. Andy Behrmans nightmare anecdotes are addicting.-Eric Bogosian, author of MallWhat a wild, mind-ripping, hellacious, and hysterical ride! Like some cranked-up, amoral Horatio Alger trapped in the dark fun house of his own brain, Andy Behrman is the stuff demented legends are made of. Electroboy is a brilliant, riveting instant classic of the American dream run amok.-Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent MidnightPull down the safety bar, because Electroboy, like the manic depression it limns, is a roller-coaster ride of white-knuckled highs and lows. Courageous and dazzling--a heartbreaking journey into the mind untamed.-Deborah Copaken Kogan, author of ShutterbabeWithout ever sounding self-serving or apologetic, Behrman tells the story of a man utterly atthe mercy of his impulses. Its sometimes funny, sometimes horrifying, always fascinating.-John Taylor, author of FallingThis stark and unsettling memoir mimics the patterns of the manic mind. An astonishing story of uncontrolled desire told by one of the most endearing madmen youll ever encounter.-Katie Roiphe, author of Still She Haunts MeFrom the Hardcover edition.	Andy Behrman is a manic depressive who has undergone nineteen electroshock treatments. He has worked as a PR agent and an art dealer. His writing has been featured most recently in The New York Times Magazine. A graduate of Wesleyan University, he knows most of the all-night diners and after-hours bars in the major cities across the country. He currently lives mania-free on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. You can reach him at www.electroboy.com.From the Hardcover edition.	Ive got to be strongAnd try to hang onOr else my mind may well snapAnd my life will be lived for the thrills-Dr. Everett ScottThe Rocky Horror Picture ShowElectroboy is a memoir. However, certain names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals whose paths crossed mine at a time in their lives from which they have since moved on.January 6, 1991.1.Bleach bathtub, toilet, and sink2.Make Holocaust documentary3.Start tofu/tuna diet4.Work out five days/week5.Buy new scale6.Confirm $35,000 wire transfer from Art Collection House7.Open Munich bank account8.Open escrow account for rent9.Mail $20,000 to American Express10.Bring $2,700 to Dr. Kleinman11.Submit claims to Blue Cross/Blue Shield12.Go to Metpath lab for lithium level13.Pick up lithium and Prozac14.Buy more Kiehls Extra Strength Styling Gel15.Get Laras psychiatrists phone #16.Get Pamelas astrologists phone #17.Tanning salon18.Visit Auschwitz19.South Beach or Bahamas?20.Book trip with Dad to Galpagos21.Make reservations at Chanterelle22.Write novel and screenplay23.Read 7 Habits of Highly Effective People24.Pick up Liquid-Plumr25.Buy a dogPrefaceFlying HighIn Manhattan, even at 5:00 a.m., its easy to find someone to talk to if you cant sleep. Theres an entire network of actors, writers, bartenders, prostitutes, and drug dealers hanging out in after-hours bars and clubs across the city, waiting to transition from vodka and cocaine to orange juice, pancakes, and eggs. Somewhere in the East Village, guys with names like Edgardo and Len sell coke to kids who snort it in unisex bathrooms. In a theater in Times Square, hustlers called Cody and Shane rush into cabs and limos and back to bedrooms and hotel rooms for $150 private shows. At a bar on the Upper East Side, two women laugh loudly-or is the one adjusting her skirt a man? An off-duty bartender, a guy in his late twenties with a healthy tan and curly blond hair, vividly describes to the bartender and a few customers his most recent group-sex scene, a private party where he and his buddies all banged one of the other guys girlfriends. We worked her over for more than three hours, he says. He does a shot of tequila and grins. A very thin thirty-five-year-old woman, with long chestnut brown hair, tan skin, and shiny pink lipstick, wearing a tight-fitting dress and strappy high heels, brags about the professional hockey player she fucked the night before. Hes a very well known athlete-he went down on me for more than an hour and then fucked me like Ive never been fucked before, she says. I happen to be an art dealer, which someone once told me at a Soho opening was a notch above drug dealer on the career ladder. But tonight I might as well be a prostitute. After quite a few lines of cocaine and more than ten shots of vodka, I find myself trying to sell a Kostabi painting for $3,000 to a minor-league porn star (he tells me hes only done a handful of films). Chad is in his midthirties, big and muscular, with huge hands that envelop the shot glass. The more coke we do, the closer he seems to meeting my asking price. Hes in New York hustling for the month and wiring money back to his wife and two kids in Las Vegas. Im telling him that he can flip the painting for $5,000 in a day because Im giving him a price thats even lower than wholesale, or he can wait to take it to Christies and maybe get even more money at auction. He actually seems interested and takes my card. I stash my to-do list in my pocket and buy a kamikaze for each of us and a round of drinks for a group of faceless people across the bar speaking what sounds like a Slavic language, although the bartender, Mike, tells me its Turkish. But its nearly dawn and Im drunk and wired, so my linguistic skills arent quite there. Its too late to start talking to them about Turkey. Actually, I dont know much about Turkey except what the capital is. But I really want to talk to them and be a part of their group and its momentum, even if its just to tell them Ive heard about Ankara. Time is kind of frozen, and I feel like Im going to live forever. I fear Im going to be awake all night and cant imagine my head resting on my pillow. Will I ever sleep again? I dont sleep much-maybe two or three hours a night, sometimes not at all for a day or two at a time-so I end up killing a fair amount of my time hanging out downtown, drinking and doing drugs with my insomniac friends. I like the night. Im scared that its going to get light out soon, so I leave these people and journey back to the Upper West Side, which seems as far away as Poughkeepsie. In the cab, I throw my head back. Im going to force myself to get some sleep and hide from the impending brightness-its only minutes away.6:35 a.m.Im lying between my chocolate brown, maroon, and hunter green paisley Ralph Lauren sheets wearing Calvin Klein briefs and feeling very un-Lauren, and frantic and guilty for wearing Calvin Klein briefs. I start worrying about whether or not its acceptable to wear Calvin Klein briefs and sleep with a Ralph Lauren comforter. At last I decide that its perfectly okay to mix and match. The elastic is irritating me, so I push the briefs down and they get lost in the sheets for a few days. Now Im totally naked and relieved. Is it okay to sleep alone naked? I wont tell anyone. These sheets are supposed to be comfortable. Thats what the saleswoman told me-something about the high thread count. Six hundred. She should recommend sleeping naked to her customers. But the dramatic swirling pattern agitates me. $100,000 split between Dave and me isnt fair. Im in the mood for French toast. I cant get comfortable, so I get up and put on Abbas Waterloo, turn on the lights, and start counting $100 bills from a shoe box I keep underneath my bed. Fifteen minutes later Ive got $85,000. I double-check it. This time it comes to $83,000. Shit. Im not going to count it again. I put three 3-inch-thick piles of cash back into the navy blue shoe box with Ralph Lauren embossed in gold on it. Theres also 25,000 deutsche marks in the box-about $10,000. This is my German reserve, my strudel money. I put it back under the bed. I rubber-band $50,000, bring it into the kitchen, and stack it neatly in the freezer next to some Perdue chicken breasts, an old pint of Ben  Jerrys Chunky Monkey, a frosty bottle of Absolut, some half-empty ice-cube trays, and a bottle of amyl nitrate. Itll be safe here. Ill probably go through it quickly anyhow.I get back into bed. Dave is a fucking cheat. He doesnt even deserve a dime on this deal. Id love a bagel. The trucks outside sound like rockets being launched. They carry milk, soda, fruit, and beer. All of this will end up in supermarkets today. I walk back into the kitchen, take an Amstel Light from the refrigerator, and swallow three blue Klonopin and two plain white Ambien to try to knock myself out. I look in the mirror. Five more pounds to go. Legs look good. Big deal. Thats a genetic thing. From my balcony, I see a man walking his cocker spaniel. I open the sliding glass door and drop the beer bottle four floors down onto the street. Just see him as a moving target and feel the urge. It doesnt hit him, or his dog, but he looks up and curses. Asshole. I give him a slight nod. Go through the mail. Pay some bills. After twenty minutes I realize that the pills arent working. I cant get myself to fall asleep. This stuff is crap. Thank God the fucking insurance company foots the bill for this shit and not me. I get into bed and try jerking off to a video, but that doesnt work either. Probably because Im so fucked-up and exhausted. Im not in the mood for phone sex either. I throw on a pair of jeans (no briefs) and a black cashmere turtleneck. Ive got to get out of my apartment and go somewhere. A diner, another after-hours bar, or for a walk up Madison Avenue. Early-morning window shopping. Fuck it. I pack my passport and prescriptions, a suit, and a dozen rolled-up canvases, then reach into the freezer and grab a rubber-banded wad of money. I feel like I should wear a matching black cashmere mask over my face. Im stealing from my own freezer. An inside job. Ive got an appointment with Dr. Kleinman at 8:30 a.m. Fuck him. Hell get his cash either way. Press for the elevator. Beer in hand. Good morning to the doorman. Im not worried what he thinks. I hail a taxi. Where to? Kennedy Airport, I guess. I open the window and let the breeze blow on my face as we cross the park. Were picking up speed. Thank God.9:30 a.m.Theres a flight to Tokyo stopping in Los Angeles, so I buy a ticket with cash. $8,600. Grab a hot dog with ketchup and onions. $3. The plane smells like Dove soap. Everyone in first class was probably showering at the same time this morning. Its a nice smell. Still, something tells me that this is going to be a painfully long flight. Usually its fourteen hours. Time for life-jacket follies. I already feel restless, and we havent been in the air for more than two hours. That must be Ohio down below. The plane is filled with Japanese tourists. On my way to the bathroom I notice a few Madonna look-alikes with bleached blond hair sitting in coach. I squeeze a pimple on the side of my nose, and some pus squirts on the mirror. I leave it. I hate this flight. I really prefer to keep moving, and the layover makes me anxious. I stay on the plane. Its like coming down from a ...",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;memoirs;mental health;mental illness;mood disorders;psychology & counseling,12
0439518997,"When Guinea Pigs Fly Grade 2-5Brooks and his pals, Leone and Allen, are guinea pigs who live in a comfortable pet shop. Only Brooks wants to leave, as he dreams that freedom will be acres of carrots and mountains of cabbage. However, the trio is soon purchased by an absentminded human named Needleman who only buys them because he is googly-eyed for the shop owner. Due to a misunderstanding, he sets them free in a nearby park, where they have a series of humorous run-ins with squirrels, rats, and pigeons. Brooks soon learns that life as a pampered pet isn't so horrible and the guinea pigs try to find their way back to the shop. Fortunately, Needleman figures out his mistake and eventually tracks down the animals, but promptly forgets them again, this time on the subway on the way home, leaving a cliff-hanger ending ready for a sequel. Filled with goofy black-and-white cartoons that teeter on the abstract, this beginning chapter book is just right for children who can't get enough of Captain Underpants, Johnny Mutton, or other comic adventurers.Karen T. Bilton, Somerset County Library, Bridgewater, NJ Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	JAMES PROIMOS is the author and illustrator of Joe's Wish, The Loudness of Sam, and The Many Adventures of Johnny Mutton. He is also the designer and co-creator of Taco Bell's popular animated spokespets Nacho and Dog, and is the co-creator of ""Generation O"", an animated show from Sunbow Entertainment/SONY wonder. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.",action & adventure;animals;books;children's books;city life;guinea pigs & squirrels;hamsters;humor;literature & fiction;mice;travel & cultures;where we live,12
0131018159,"Technical Java: Applications for Science and Engineering TechnicalJavaDeveloping Scientific and Engineering ApplicationsGrant PalmerThe practical, example-rich guide to Java technical programmingIf you want to use Java todevelop scientific or engineering programs, Technical Java is the Java guide youvebeen searching for. Using real-life examples, expert scientific programmerGrant Palmer shows how to build powerful, versatile, and flexible software forvirtually any technical application. Whether youre moving from FORTRAN,C, or C ++, or learning Java as your first language, Palmer covers all you needto know  Java, FORTRAN, C, and C ++, similarities,     differences, and migration issues Java 1.4 syntax, objects, classes, methods,     interfaces, variables, arrays, exceptions, packages, I/O, and more Working with java.math and creating your own math     functionsincluding detailed trigonometric and transcendental     examples Data modeling, in depth: class hierarchies,     generic class libraries, least-squares fit, fitting to non-polynomial     equations, and more Solving differential equations and systems of     equations, including Gauss-Jordan and Gaussian elimination, lower-upper     decomposition, and matrix inversion Solving integral equations with both proper and     improper integrals Working with Fourier transforms (DFT and FFT) Building Web and GUI-based technical applications     with Swing/AWT and servletsPRENTICE HALLProfession TechnicalReferenceUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458www.phptr.comISBN: 0-13-101815-9UPC: 076092022398	About the AuthorGRANT PALMER, a scientific programmer at NASA Ames Research Centerin Moffett Field, CA, specializes in computational fluid dynamics programmingto predict friction-related heat in reentering space vehicles. He has writtenor contributed to five Java books, including Java Event Handling (Prentice HallPTR). Palmer resides in Chandler, Arizona.	PrefaceThis book was inspired by the following premiseJavais a great language for developing scientific and engineering applications.Its more powerful and versatile than Fortan or C. Its easier tolearn, less redundant, and less prone to error than C++. I have been ascientific programmer at a NASA research center for 18 years. You would thinksuch a place would be on the cutting edge of programming technology, but thatis not the case. Most of the technical programmers there still program in Fortranor C. The reason is largely one of inertia. Those languages are what they havealways used and they are comfortable with them. Some people have moved over toC++, and slowly but surely people are moving to Java as their technicalprogramming language of choice.The book is designed to break through the inertia andmisconceptions that may have kept you from using Java for your scientific andengineering programming work. It will give you a good foundation in the basicsof Java and demonstrate how Java can be applied to solve a number ofmathematical analysis problems. The book will discuss migration issues fromother languages to Java and provide an introduction to developing GUI- orweb-based technical applications.Why Is Java a Good Technical Programming Language?There are many features of Java that make it a good choicefor your technical programming work. For one thing, Java is an object-orientedlanguage. Because of this, it provides a structured framework for developingyour programs. When a code is written in an object-oriented manner, it becomeseasier to read and more modular. You can write programs that extend thecapabilities of existing programs. When an analysis procedure is written as anobject it can be easily incorporated into any number of different applications.One of the design goals of the developers of Java was thatthe language be easy to learn and use. It borrows much of its basic syntax fromC and C++, but the developers of Java simplified the language by removingredundancies that exist in C and C++, as well as removing potentially dangerouselementssuch as multiple inheritancethat were of marginal value.It is much easier to learn and apply Java, for example, than it is to learn andapply C or C++.Another powerful feature is Javas portability. Javaprograms are designed so that you can compile once, run anywhere.You can develop a scientific application on a UNIX workstation, transfer it toan Apple or Windows-based laptop, and the application will run without havingto recompile it. Javas portability opens up the power of the Internet toyour technical programming work. You can easily develop your scientific orengineering applications as web-based programs.There is a global support network for Java. You can getonline support and documentation from the Sun Microsystems website and manyother sources as well. There are Java User Groups (JUGs) pretty much anywhereyou live in just about every country. These groups are very useful for solvingproblems and discussing programming techniques and issues.It also is easy to develop code in Java. You can leverageexisting classes and methods to develop new ones. In this book, we willdemonstrate how simple it is to create user-defined mathematical functions. Theobject-oriented structure of aJava makes the code easy to read. A program that is easy to read is easier tomaintain or modify.The Structure of This BookThink of this book in four parts. The first includes ageneral introduction to Java and its development history. Following this arechapters that discuss migration issues from Fortan, C, or C++ to Java. You willfind that much of the basic syntax is the same between C, C++, and Java. Thereare some important differences, though, that these chapters will bring tolight.The second part goes over the basic elements of the Javalanguage with an emphasis on topics pertinent to technical programming.Following a discussion of basic object-oriented programming concepts, there arechapters that discuss classes, methods, and variables. Interfaces, packages,and JAR files are also covered. There are chapters that discuss how Java treatsarrays and strings. Finally, there are chapters on the math capability ofJavaboth the intrinsic functionality that comes with the Java API and a discussionof how to create user-defined math libraries.Once we have a good understanding of the key elements of theJava language, we are ready to do some serious technical programming. The thirdpart of this book discusses how Java can be applied to such tasks as solvingsystems of equations, differential equations, integral functions, and Fouriertransforms. These chapters not only provide Java source code and real-lifemodel problems, but also delve into the theory behind the solution techniques.This section of the book also includes chapters on developing data curve fitsand generic class libraries.The final part consists of three chapters covering importantfeatures you will probably make use of in your technical programming. Chapter25 discusses the input/output capability of Java. The Java API provides apowerful and versatile I/O functionality for reading and writing both byte andcharacter data. Java also gives you the ability to write GUI front ends to yourtechnical programs. An introduction to how this is done is provided in Chapter26. Another great feature of Java is that it gives you access to the power ofthe Internet. The final chapter of this book provides an introduction to howyou can turn a program into a web-based application using Java servlets.What This Book Is NotThis book will teach you the basic tools you will need tostart writing technical programs in Java, but it will not cover every possibleaspect of scientific or engineering programming. The book is not an exhaustivetreatise on solving differential equations, integral functions, or Fouriertransforms. Each of those topics is a book unto itself. This book will presentthe most commonly used techniques to solve those mathematical problems, butwont go into many specialized or super-advanced techniques.The book also does not give a comprehensive description ofall of the classes, methods, interfaces, and fields from the Java API. The Javalibraries are enormous and a detailed look at even the Standard Editionlibraries would take many hundreds of pages. This book does cover some Java APIelements that are particularly relevant to technical programming. For adetailed look at the rest of the Java API, the reader is referred to the SunJava doc pages.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;engineering;java;languages & tools;new;professional & technical;programming;programming languages;used & rental textbooks,12
0194343936,"Student Book 1 (Let's Go: Berlin, Prague & Budapest) Irene Frankel, Cliff Meyers, and Earl Stevick are all well-respected authors.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;children's books;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,12
0812217063,"Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Vol. 5: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Witchcraft and Magic in Europe) This series provides a scholarly survey of European belief in the supernatural. Using broad definitions of witchcraft and the supernatural, it provides a framework for inquiring into the supernatural in Europe from ancient to modern times. Each volume is divided into sections, each of which was written by a prominent scholar in that field. The first volume looks at the practices resulting in a belief in sorcery and witchcraft in Greek and Roman times. Part 1 covers curses, spells, and voodoo dolls in ancient Greek and Rome; Part 2 offers a literary review of witches and sorcerers in classical literature; Part 3 analyzes the role of magic in the classical world; and Part 4 covers belief in demons in the classical world, early Christianity, and Judaism. The second volume covers the witch trials of the 18th and 19th century. Part 1 analyzes the general reasons for their decline; Part 2 discusses beliefs in witchcraft after the trials; and Part 3 discusses the trials' origins in Enlightenment, Romantic, and Liberal thought. The third volume discusses modern witchcraft. Part 1 describes the rise of modern pagan witchcraft; Part 2 looks at modern Satanism (thoroughly dispelling the myth of ritual abuse); and Part 3 analyzes more traditional practices of witchcraft in the 20th century including bewitchments and cursings, and looks into the future of such practices. These volumes provide an exceptional historical and social analysis of subject of enduring interest. All three are highly recommended for academic libraries.AGail Wood, SUNY at Cortland Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Although the three volumes of the series so far published are intended mainly for scholars, there is much in them to interest the common reader.	""Although the volumes are intended mainly for scholars, there is much in them to interest the common reader.""New Yorker""Reminds readers of the extent to which science, reason, and skepticism failed to destroy the realm of arcane arts and nightmares.""History	Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, a new six-volume series on the history of witchcraft and magic in Europe from antiquity to the present day combine traditional approaches of political, legal, and social historians with critical syntheses of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies. The series provides a modern, scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ancient times to the present day. Each volume contains the work of distinguished scholars chosen for their expertise in a particular era or region.	Bengt Ankarloo is Professor of History at Lund University, Sweden. Stuart Clark is Professor of History at the University of Wales, Swansea.",18th century;19th century;books;earth-based religions;europe;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);occult;religion & spirituality;wicca;witchcraft;world,12
1561592331,"International Historical Statistics: 3 Volume Set (International Historical Statistics Africa, Asia and Oceania) ""This excellent reference work will alleviate the difficulty of identifying sources and the often frustrating task of extracting comparable data from disparate origins. Particularly recommended for college and research libraries."" -- Library Journal ""Remain[s] the most important general historical source."" -- Choice ""Monumental in scale yet well set out and easy to use."" -- Social History	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Brian Mitchell is Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education & reference;historical study & educational resources;history;humanities;mathematics;new;reference;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;world,12
1885211465,"Ireland: True Stories of Life on the Emerald Isle (Travelers' Tales) ""Travelers' Tales is a valuable addition to any pre-departure reading list.""	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Excerpted from Travelers' Tales Ireland: True Stories of Life on the Emerald Isle, edited by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, and Sean O'Reilly.  Copyright (c) 2000.  Reprinted by permission.  All rights reserved.     IRELAND: AN INTRODUCTION (James O'Reilly)  When I was a boy, I remember my father sitting, lost in thought and memory, in view of a painting in our American living room. That painting was of Torc Mountain rising above the Lakes of Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland, which was for my father, home. He always seemed unreachable in this state, but whether or not he was, it was clear to me that he was filled with a longing that I at least in part understood. I loved him then as he loved Ireland-hopelessly, with every fiber of my body.  So for me my father was Ireland itself, just as he was the Catholic Church, the essence of which he labored mightily to instill in me and my six brothers and sisters. (And of course in Ireland, the two are, as the saying goes, joined at the hip.) What then did my father, as Ireland, represent in these twin roles?  He embodied a love of learning, a love of scholarship, a love of exact speech, of moral laws, of hard work, of looking for and expecting goodness in others but not being surprised if it wasn't forthcoming, of storytelling and reading and music, of sly and lunatic humor. He had a wild streak of sacrifice and charity, a combination of St. Francislike gentleness and ayatollahlike fierceness. He lanced personal boils with self-denial, revered tradition and rules because they are the stone framework of civilization when the wolves of cruelty and hunger are at the door, as they have been for so much of Irish history, a framework that lasts long after the roof has burned and the residents hanged. My father made me want to be, well, a saint-because it was so transparently the goal and practice in his own life-and it seemed then as it seems now, that nothing else could be as important. What does being a saint mean? Being as close to your Maker as you possibly can, at all times, warts and nose hairs and terrible bleeding mistakes all. That was the gift of my father, and for me was and remains the gift of Ireland.  What does this have to do with modern Ireland? Ireland has changed so dramatically in recent years, you'd hardly recognize the place if you haven't been in a while, or if all you know of Ireland is what Uncle Paddy told you of his childhood. So intellectuals in Dublin may scoff at my characterization of Ireland, cynics in Belfast hoot with derision, geeks in Cork dismiss the bandwidth of my thinking, Eurotrash in Galway snort at my navete. They've seen the real Ireland and it doesn't look at all like the romanticized version sloshing over the gunwales of the vast Irish diaspora. The Catholic faith has eroded, the Church is in decline, the famine ships are ancient history, the rural culture is on its last legs, and everything Irish is nothing but a tourist gimmick. But sometimes those who have left, those who are filled with unspeakable longing, as my father was, have something correct to say.  Ireland has in it, in its soil and air and water and sun, something that for want of a better word is alchemical, that no other place on earth seems to have. This is not to say that other peoples don't love their native land as much or as well, or that ancient portals of feeling and wisdom don't exist the world over, not at all. It is just that whatever there is in Ireland is unique. Perhaps this is a genetic thing-my bias is suspect with a name like O'Reilly-but I don't think so. I think the genetic predisposition may be only to love Ireland a bit more fervently, but it is not responsible for the place Ireland holds open on the spectrum of human possibilities. Ireland, it seems to me, is an earth-bound zone between birth and death that has not been de-coupled from either human event, not by Celts, nor Catholics, nor Computers. In Ireland you can sense more clearly the form of your own life, the shape of the little corporal boat that carries you down the river to home and the Eternal.  In other words, in Ireland, you can get pretty close to Heaven.  When my father died, we took him back to Kerry. He was borne on the shoulders of his grade school classmates to rest above Killarney in Aghadoe, in a sixth century cemetery with a breathtaking view of his beloved Lakes and, of course, Torc Mountain. My brothers and I filled in his grave, taking care with the skulls and bones of other relatives buried there.    When I visit now, especially when I visit my father's grave, and look out over the Kerry Mountains, I am still filled with longing for all the things humans long for. But the heart's home really is elsewhere...only in Ireland, you are closer to it than anywhere else.",books;education & reference;england;europe;general;great britain;history;ireland;research & publishing guides;travel;travel writing;writing,12
0967131774,"The Menopause Diet Foreword Magazine Feature, August 1999  The Menopause Diet is available now.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	LARRIAN GILLESPIE graduated from the UCLA school of Medicine and  practiced urology and urogynecology in Beverly Hills for fifteen years. She is the inventor on three pharmaceutical patents.    Known for her ability to relay complicated medical information in a patient friendly manner, she has appeared on Good Morning America, the Home Show , CNN and served on the medical advisory board of SHAPE magazine. She has published over fifty scientific articles and three chapters in medical textbooks.    She is the author of ""You Don't Have to Live With Cystitis"" (Avon Books ), which is a ""Top Ten Bestseller"" in women's health books category by the New York Review of Books' Reader's Catalog 1999.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;diets & weight loss;fitness & dieting;general;health;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;other diets;used & rental textbooks;women's health,12
157806645X,"Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions Lee is dazzingly well read and articulate, and his perceptive analyses are guaranteed to delight and, on occasion, infuriate his readers. Multicultural American Literature is a wonderfully intelligent contribution to the continuing debate about the nature of the canon of United States Literature. Multicultural American Literature weaves together wide-ranging interpretations of American writing into a study with near encyclopaedic breadth! Lee's ten chapters cover dozens of novels and poems in extensive chains of capsule interpretations and flurries of deft contextual sketches, covering a plurality of experiences and modes of writing. A full, detailed and carefully comparative analysis of recent American 'ethnic' writing from an author with an unparalleled knowledge of his subject. Timely, wide-ranging and informative. LAI-INFORMATION Lee is dazzingly well read and articulate, and his perceptive analyses are guaranteed to delight and, on occasion, infuriate his readers. Multicultural American Literature is a wonderfully intelligent contribution to the continuing debate about the nature of the canon of United States Literature. Multicultural American Literature weaves together wide-ranging interpretations of American writing into a study with near encyclopaedic breadth! Lee's ten chapters cover dozens of novels and poems in extensive chains of capsule interpretations and flurries of deft contextual sketches, covering a plurality of experiences and modes of writing. A full, detailed and carefully comparative analysis of recent American 'ethnic' writing from an author with an unparalleled knowledge of his subject. Timely, wide-ranging and informative.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Winner of a 2004 Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, this is a comparative analysis of the recent ethnic writing that has enlarged the spectrum of American literature.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	A comparative analysis of recent ethnic writing that has enlarged the spectrum of American literature	A. Robert Lee is Professor of American Literature at Nihon University, Tokyo.  Recent books include Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (Pluto Press,1998) and, with Gerald Vizenor, Postindian Conversation (University of Nebraska Press,1999).	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",american literature;asian american;books;classics;criticism & theory;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;united states;used & rental textbooks,12
9625931961,Balinese Temples (Discover Asia) Julian Davison is a freelance writer and illustrator in Singapore.,arts & photography;asia;books;criticism;general;history & criticism;indonesia;reference;southeast;specialty travel;tourist destinations & museums;travel,12
0807079286,"CHILDREN OF HORIZONS The authors, a psychological anthropologist and a developmental psychologist, undertook a study of 202 ethnically diverse lesbian and gay youth aged 14 to 20 during 1987 and 1988 at the Horizons Community Services, Inc., a Chicago gay community center founded in 1973. A brief history of the 20th-century homosexual experience in Chicago contextualizes the study, which serves as a microcosm of American attitudes toward homosexuality. This moving inquiry demonstrates that any confusion youth may experience is not about their sexual identity but about how to express themselves in an intensely homophobic society. Recommended for most collections.- James E. Van Buskirk, San Francisco P.L.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	A sure-to-be controversial volume on inducting self-professed homosexual teenagers into the gay and lesbian culture of the 1990's. Hackles rise merely at the idea that teenagers can know whether they prefer the same sex or the opposite. Adolescence is the age of experimentation, most people contend, one in which no decisions have been made. But Herdt (Human Development/University of Chicago; ed., Gay Culture in America, 1992, etc.) and Boxer (Psychiatry/University of Chicago), both of whom are gay, disagree, their findings based on two years spent interviewing teenagers at the Chicago-based Horizons center, which offers refuge for teens troubled about their sexual identities. The authors' interviews and questionnaires show that, in some cases, children as young as nine years old have the beginnings of a same-sex preference. As puberty arrives, some of these kids accept their homosexuality, while others deny it and struggle against their feelings. Horizons offers the support of peers and of gay and lesbian counselors, as well as an introduction to the gay and lesbian community. Herdt and Boxer describe that community in often tedious detail, including the geography of Chicago's gay neighborhoods; the history of homosexuals in the US; and the rituals and organizations--from political groups to choruses and sports teams--that help define a gay/lesbian culture. Most of the children who come to Horizons have kept their sexual orientation a secret except from a close friend or two, and they use the confidence they develop there to ``come out'' to families and at school. As the authors describe it, though, ``coming out'' is a continuing process, about ``the death and rebirth of a new self.'' Repetitious and sometimes academic-sounding, but still useful information about a new generation of gays who are coming out in the daylight and not in a closet or a dark and dangerous bar. -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Refreshing. . . provides a wealth of inspiration and some practical suggestions for adults who would like to provide services for gay and lesbian youth, but who may not be sure how to begin. Lambda Book Report	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;coming out;fitness & dieting;gay & lesbian;gender studies;health;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics,12
096216397X,"The Contemporary Agnostic Believer This book is very probably the best way to learn if you're agnostic or not.  It's very easy to read and tremendously informative.  It's loaded with historical and theological facts and trivia.	The comment I hear most from readers is ""I didn't know that.""  This is probably due to all the concise information in this book.  Also please note that I rarely meet an agnostic who doesn't believe in God.  I know I certainly do.  Remember when you don't believe in God, you're atheist, not agnostic.	Aaron Caldwell has given lectures and been interviewed nationally concerning Contemporary Agnosticism.  This book has sold worldwide.",americas;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;history;humanities;new;religious;religious studies;used & rental textbooks;world,12
1931841349,"PHP Essentials, 2nd Edition Julie Meloni is the technical director for i2i Interactive, a multimedia company located in Los Altos, CA. Shes been developing Web-based applications since the Web first saw the light of day and remembers the excitement surrounding the first GUI Web browser. She is the author of several books and articles on Web-based programming languages and database topics, and you can find translations of her work in several languages, including Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, and even Serbian.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;new;php;programming;programming languages;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design,12
0323019773,"Handbook of Nitrous Oxide and Oxygen Sedation, 2e The one and only chairside reference for nitrous oxide and oxygen sedation",anesthesiology;books;clinical;dental assisting;dentistry;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;oral surgery;surgery;used & rental textbooks,12
0844294454,French by Association (Link Word) Dr. Michael Gruneberg is an internationally respected authority and author on memory enhancement. He is the president of the American Society for Applied Research in memory an Cognition.,books;education & reference;foreign languages;french;humanities;language & grammar;new;reference;slang & word lists;used & rental textbooks;vocabulary;words,12
8493231177,"Cuba: Un Siglo de Literatura, 1902-2002 (Coleccion Literatura) (Spanish Edition) Anke Birkenmaier  Doctora por la universidad de Yale(2004) y profesora auxiliar en la de Columbia. Su estudio Alejo Carpentier y la cultura del surrealismo en America Latina.    Roberto Gonzlez Echevarra (Sagua la Grande, Cuba)  Ocupa la prestigiosa ctedra Sterling en literaturas hispnicas y comparada de la Universidad de Yale, donde tambin se doctor en 1970. Fue de los primeros editores de Diacritics, revista de teora crtica fundada en la Universidad de Cornell, y tambin en la Yale Journal of Criticism. Ha publicado, entre otros libros: Caldern y la crtica: historia y antologa (1976; con Manuel Durn); Relecturas: Estudios de literatura cubana (1976); Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home (1977), versin espaola Alejo Carpentier: el peregrino en su patria (1993); Isla a su vuelo fugitiva: ensayos crticos sobre literatura hispanoamericana (1983); The Voice of the Masters: Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature (1985); La ruta de Severo Sarduy (1986); Myth and Archive: A Theory of the Latin American Narrative (1990), que recibi premios de la Modern Language Association of America y la Latin American Studies Association; Celestinas Brood. Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literatures (1993). Es co-coordinador de The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature, en tres volmenes. Su The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories acaba de aparecer en en 1997, y su CD-Rom Miguel de Cervantes del mismo ao, ha recibido un premio de crtica de la revista Choice. La Oxford University Press publicar en 1999 su The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball. Ha dado conferencias en numerosas universidades y reuniones internacionales en Europa y Amrica. Colabora con frecuencia en el New York Times Book Review, y ha publicado ms de cien artculos en revistas de los Estados Unidos, Amrica Latina y Europa.",books;criticism & theory;foreign language fiction;history & criticism;humanities;latin american;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;used & rental textbooks;world literature,12
0972591877,"Enzymes for Autism and other Neurological Conditions The great story and practical explanation of how to incorporate this alternative in everyday life makes this work unique. -- editor	Karen DeFelice and her two boys deal with pervasive neurological and sensory integration dysfunctions, and have seen dramatic improvement in their conditions through the use of enzyme therapy. Karen has a Masters in Science, and works in education and the sciences.",alternative medicine;autism & asperger's syndrome;books;children's health;communicative disorders;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;schools & teaching;self-help;special education,12
1568983468,Sensacional!: Mexican Street Graphics Juan Carlos Mena teaches design at the Universidad Iberoamericana at Santa Fe Cuidad de Mexico.,architecture;art;arts & photography;books;criticism;drafting & presentation;graphic design;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;pop culture;professional & technical;techniques,12
0312304439,"One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance ""Cancer patients who talk about their ordeal in therapy groups do not live longer,"" write Sommers (Who Stole Feminism?) and Satel (P.C., M.D.) in this suck-it-up polemic. For them, the pervasiveness of therapeutic thinking and practice in American life provides not healing catharsis but enervating psychic drag and evasion of responsibility. The authors marshal a litany of studies from a variety of perspectives, aiming to convince readers that taking one's lumps with as much equanimity as possible is far preferable to exploring one's feelings via an ""unwholesome therapism""--or, worse, using one's ""therapized"" feelings as an excuse for bad behavior. Placing themselves in the tradition of Christopher Lasch and Allan Bloom, they begin with ""The Myth of the Fragile Child,"" decrying the creeping prohibitions on dodgeball and tag (seen by some as too aggressive and competitive) on the nation's playgrounds as coddling. The next chapter, ""Esteem Thyself,"" takes direct aim at the ideas of Abraham Maslow and self-actualization advocate Carl Rogers, while the following chapters chronicle the descent from ""Sin to Syndrome"" and ""Pathos to Pathology,"" and track the enforcement of ""Emotional Correctness."" While basically a one-note book with little grace in its description of its foes, or in its insistent call for taking responsibility for one's own actions, Sommers and Satel's jeremiad will likely generate debate.  Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Philosopher-turned-controversialist Sommers and psychiatrist Satel argue as forcibly against contemporary psychotherapeutic notions and nostrums as Sommers did against radical feminism in Who Stole Feminism? (1994) and The War against Boys (2000). The American Enterprise Institute colleagues question five pet doctrines of contemporary therapy by presenting the research evidence for and against them. That is, they review the relevant literature, letting its conclusions speak for themselves; though they are critical of the five shibboleths, they don't have to apply spin to be convincing. Properly conducted research doesn't, they show, back up the fashionable dogmas that (1) children are psychologically fragile and mustn't be stressed, (2) self-esteem is the sine qua non of psychological health, (3) what moralists call sins are expressions of mental illness, (4) the emotional effects of trauma must be acted out, and (5) all war and disaster witnesses suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Sure, some kids are hypersensitive, self-esteem isn't unimportant, PTSD is a real condition, and so forth. Folly and worse result, however, when the five dogmas are generalized as they are in current practice, a point Sommers and Satel drive home--anent dogmas 4 and 5, in particular--in the long sixth chapter, ""September 11, 2001: The Mental Health Crisis That Wasn't."" Well-written, well-informed public affairs argumentation. Ray OlsonCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	divdivSommers and Satel's book is a summons to the sensible worry that national enfeeblement must result when therapism replaces the virtues on which the republic was founded---stoicism, self-reliance, and courage.---George Will, The Washington PostSommers and Satel have written an important book that should be widely read. Their analysis of the baneful consequences of narcissism and self-absorption is a powerful critique.---Diane Ravitch, author of The Language PoliceThere are countless reasons to celebrate the new book One Nation Under Therapy. - --Andrew Ferguson, Bloomberg.com/div/div	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Praise for The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year""Provocative and controversial . . . Sommers's voice is impassioned and articulate.""- Marilyn Gardner, The Christian Science Monitor ""Ms. Sommers . . . makes [her] arguments persuasively and unflinchingly, with plenty of data to support them.""- Richard Bernstein, The New York Times ""This book promises to launch and influence an enduring national debate.""- Mary Eberstadt, The Washington Times Praise for PC, M.D. by Sally Satel""An excellent study of medicine and society.""- The Wall Street Journal""A straightforward assault on disturbing and dangerous trends that have entered the arena of medical care."" - The New Republic""An extraordinarily courageous, punctiliously researched, powerful new book.""  - The Baltimore Sun	Christina Hoff Sommers is the author of Who Stole Feminism? and The War Against Boys and is the editor of Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life, one of the most popular ethics textbooks in the country. Dr. Sally Satel is a practicing psychiatrist and a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine. She is the author of PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine.Both authors are resident scholars at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.	One Nation Under Therapy1The Myth of the Fragile ChildIn 2001, the Girl Scouts of America introduced a ""Stress Less Badge"" for girls aged eight to eleven. It featured an embroidered hammock suspended from two green trees. According to the Junior Girl Scout Badge Book, girls earn the award by practicing ""focused breathing,"" creating a personal ""stress less kit,"" or keeping a ""feelings diary."" Burning ocean-scented candles, listening to ""Sounds of the Rain Forest,"" even exchanging foot massages are also ways to garner points.1Explaining the need for the Stress Less Badge to the New York Times, a psychologist from the Girl Scout Research Institute said that studies show ""how stressed girls are today.""2 Earning an antistress badge, however, can itself be stressful. The Times reported that tension increased in Brownie Troop 459 in Sunnyvale, California, when the girls attempted to make ""antianxiety squeeze balls out of balloons and Play-Doh."" According to Lindsay, one of the Brownies, ""The Play-Doh was too oily and disintegrated the balloon. It was very stressful.""3The psychologist who worried about Lindsay and her fellow Girls Scouts is not alone. Anxiety over the mental equanimity of American children is at an all-time high. In May of 2002, the principal of Franklin Elementary School in Santa Monica, California,sent a newsletter to parents informing them that children could no longer play tag during the lunch recess. As she explained, ""The running part of this activity is healthy and encouraged; however, in this game, there is a 'victim' or 'It,' which creates a self-esteem issue.""4School districts in Texas, Maryland, New York, and Virginia ""have banned, limited, or discouraged"" dodgeball.5 ""Anytime you throw an object at somebody,"" said an elementary school coach in Cambridge, Massachusetts, ""it creates an environment of retaliation and resentment.""6 Coaches who permit children to play dodgeball ""should be fired immediately,"" according to the physical education chairman at Central High School in Naperville, Illinois.7In response to this attack on dodgeball, Rick Reilly, the Sports Illustrated columnist, chided parents who want ""their Ambers and their Alexanders to grow up in a cozy womb of noncompetition."" 8 Reilly responds to educators like the Naperville chairman of physical education by saying, ""You mean there's weak in the world? There's strong? Of course there is, and dodgeball is one of the first opportunities in life to figure out which one you are and how you're going to deal with it.""Reilly's words may resonate comfortably with many of his readers, and with most children as well; but progressive educators tend to dismiss his reaction as just another expression of a benighted opposition to the changes needed if education is to become truly caring and sensitive. This movement against stressful games gained momentum after the publication of an article by Neil Williams, professor of physical education at Eastern Connecticut State College, in a journal sponsored by the National Association for Sports and Physical Education, which represents nearly eighteen thousand gym teachers and physical education professors. In the article, Williams consigned games such as Red Rover, relay races, and musical chairs to ""the Hall of Shame.""9 Why? Because the games are based on removing the weakest links. Presumably,this undercuts children's emotional development and erodes their self-esteem.In a follow-up article, Williams also pointed to a sinister aspect of Simon Says. ""The major problem,"" he wrote, ""is that the teacher is doing his or her best to deceive and entrap students."" 10 He added that psychologically this game is the equivalent of teachers demonstrating the perils of electricity to students ""by jolting them with an electric current if they touch the wrong button."" The new therapeutic sensibility rejects almost all forms of competition in favor of a gentle and nurturing climate of cooperation.Which games, then, are safe and affirming? Some professionals in physical education advocate activities in which children compete only with themselves such as juggling, unicycling, pogo sticking, and even ""learning to ... manipulate wheelchairs with ease.""11 In a game like juggling there is no threat of elimination. But experts warn teachers to be judicious in their choice of juggling objects. A former member of The President's Council on Youth Fitness and Sports suggests using silken scarves rather than, say, uncooperative tennis balls that lead to frustration and anxiety. ""Scarves,"" he told the Los Angeles Times, ""are soft, nonthreatening, and float down slowly.""12 As the head of a middle school physical education program in Van Nuys, California, points out, juggling scarves ""lessens performance anxiety and boosts self-esteem.""13Writer John Leo, like Reilly, satirized the gentle-juggling culture by proposing a stress-free version of musical chairs:Why not make sure each child has a guaranteed seat for musical chairs? With proper seating, the source of tension is removed. Children can just relax, enjoy the music and talk about the positive feelings that come from being included.14Leo was kidding. But the authors of a popular 1998 government-financed antibullying curriculum guide called QuitIt! were not.15 One exercise intended for kindergarten through third grade instructs teachers on how to introduce children to a new way to play tag:Before going outside to play, talk about how students feel when playing a game of tag. Do they like to be chased? Do they like to do the chasing? How does it feel to be tagged out? Get their ideas about other ways the game might be played.16After students share their fears and apprehensions about tag, teachers may introduce them to a nonthreatening alternative called ""Circle of Friends"" where ""nobody is ever 'out.'"" If students become overexcited or angry while playing Circle of Friends, the guide recommends using stress-reducing exercises to ""help the transition from active play to focused work.""17 Reading through Quit It!, you have to remind yourself that it is not satire, nor is it intended for emotionally disturbed children. It is intended for normal five- to seven-year-olds in our nation's schools.Our Sensitive and Vulnerable YouthBut is overprotectiveness really such a bad thing? Sooner or later children will face stressful situations, disappointments, and threats to their self-esteem. Why not shield them from the inevitable as long as possible? The answer is that overprotected kids do not flourish. To treat them as combustible bundles of frayed nerves does them no favors. Instead it deprives them of what they need.Children must have independent, competitive rough-and-tumble play. Not only do they enjoy it, it is part of their normal development. Anthony Pellegrini, a professor of early childhood education at the University of Minnesota, defines rough-and-tumble play as behavior that includes ""laughing, running, smiling, jumping ... wrestling, play fighting, chasing, and fleeing."" 18 Such play, he says, brings children together, it makesthem happy and it promotes healthy socialization. Children who are adept at rough play also ""tend to be liked and to be good social problem solvers.""19 Commenting on the recent moves to ban competitive zero-sum playground games like tag, Pelligrini told us, ""It is ridiculous ... even squirrels play chase.""The zealous protectiveness is not confined to the playground. In her eye-opening book The Language Police, Diane Ravitch shows how a once-commendable program aimed at making classroom materials less sexist and racist has morphed into a powerful censorship regime.20 ""Sensitivity and bias"" committees, residing in publishing houses, state governments, test-writing companies, and in groups like the American Psychological Association, now police textbooks and other classroom materials, scouring them for any reference or assertion that could possibly make some young reader feel upset, insecure, or shortchanged in life.In 1997, President Bill Clinton appointed Ravitch to an honorary education committee charged with developing national achievement tests. The Department of Education had awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to Riverside Publishing, a major testing company and a subsidiary of Houghton Mifflin, to compose the exam. Ravitch and her committee were there to provide oversight.As part of the process, the Riverside test developers sent Ravitch and her fellow committee members, mostly veteran teachers, several sample reading selections. The committee reviewed them carefully and selected the ones they considered the most lucid, engaging, and appropriate for fourth-grade test takers.Congress eventually abandoned the idea of national tests. However, Ravitch learned that several of the passages she and her colleagues had selected had not survived the scrutiny of the Riverside censors.For example, two of the selections that got high marks from Ravitch and her colleagues were about peanuts. Readers learnedthat they were a healthy snack and had first been cultivated by South American Indians and then, after the Spanish conquest, were imported into Europe. The passage explained how peanuts became important in the United States, where they were planted and cultivated by African slaves. It told of George Washington Carver, the black inventor and scientist, who found many new uses for peanuts.The Riverside sensitivity monitors had a field day. First of all, they said, peanuts are not a healthy snack for all children. Some are allergic. According to Ravitch, ""The reviewers apparently assumed that a fourth-grade student who was allergic to peanuts might get distracted if he or she encountered a test question that did not acknowledge the dangers of peanuts.""21The panel was also unhappy that the reading spoke of the Spaniards having ""defe...",books;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;mental health;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;social psychology & interactions;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0664501338,"The Piety of John Witherspoon: Pew, Pulpit and Public Forum L. Gordon Tait is Mercer Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. He was the first American to be made an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh.",18th century;biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;church history;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);presbyterian;protestantism;religion & spirituality;religious studies;theology,12
0205458815,"Intercultural Communication Encounters Intercultural Communication Encounters     Donald W. Klopf, University  of Hawaii and West Virginia University     James McCroskey, West Virginia  University        Intercultural Encounters   provides a brief but broad introduction to the fundamentals of intercultural communication.      The text combines theory and knowledge from different disciplines to help prepare students to interact successfully with people who think, feel, and behave differently than they do. Brief commentaries from noted scholars in the field, exercises, activities, and discussion questions provide students with an opportunity to develop communication skills in todays increasingly diverse world.      Features       Written in an approachable style, this brief text covers the fundamentals of intercultural communication while providing students with the assistance theyll need when interacting with communicators from a different culture.         The text presents a broad introduction tointercultural communication, including examples and analysis from different cultures all over the world. In addition, the text draws heavily from the theories and practical knowledge of many disciplines, including psychology, sociology, and anthropology.       Remaining cognizant of the ethnocentric label attached to intercultural communication instruction in the United States, the text includes Asiacentric and Afrocentric comparisons, while refraining from becoming too heavily positioned in those areas.         Throughout the text, commentaries are offered, written by scholars of note and experts in the field, including Ron Gordon on the ethnocentric approach to human communication instruction in the United States and Jeanne Okas experiences growing up in an intercultural world. These brief commentaries will broaden the readers intercultural education.          Praise for Intercultural Communication Encounters             The strengths of this text are many: The authors include important theoretical information, but they present it in a way that non-communication majors can appreciate; they include important interpersonal theory in addition to the intercultural theory; they write in a style that is easily read and understood; and they include concepts and opinions that are not mainstream American Without a doubt, this is a book you should publish.     Susan I. Dummer, Texas  AM University     In many respects, this book is more comprehensive than other introductory intercultural communication texts because it places communication within the context of ideas taught in other related disciplines I found myself thinking about this long after I laid the manuscript down.  Rebecca Dumlao, East  Carolina University",books;communication;communication & journalism;communications;education & reference;language & grammar;linguistics;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words,12
156609027X,"Everyone's Guide to Successful Publications: How to Produce Powerful Brochures, Newsletters, Flyers, and Business Communications, Start to Finish This comprehensive reference book pulls together all the information essential to developing and producing printed materials that will get your message across. Packed with ideas, practical advice, concrete examples, and hundreds of photographs and illustrations, it discusses planning, designing, writing, desktop publishing, printing, and distributing. ""The perfect companion to almost any computer publishing or design tome.""  - PC Magazine",books;computer science;computers & technology;desktop publishing;education & reference;graphic design;information systems;research & publishing guides;software engineering;technical;web development & design;writing,12
0415125561,"Getting to Know Waiwai: An Amazonian Ethnography ""...classic ethnography about a group of people called the Wayapi...Campbell appropriates verses from Thoreau, Blake, Wordsworth, and Shakespeare...one of the last anthropologists to experience such an ""untouched"" culture in the face of the increasing transnationalism and western materialism.  Salient issues of forced development, ""modernization"", and assimilation are presented in a well organized and lucid monograph.  Its descriptive content (even with its ""romance"") is refreshing in a generation where many contemporary studies have become preoccupied with global transculturalisms..""  -- Chicago Anthropology Exchange	Alan Tormaid Campbell is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Edinburgh University.",americas;anthropology;books;brazil;history;humanities;latin america;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;south america;used & rental textbooks,12
0312300336,"Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World Thirteen wry biographical essays about people, once famous, who have disappeared from memory. In 1903, the French physicist Ren Blondlot was so eager to follow up the recent discovery of X-rays that he discovered N-rays, which do not exist. In the eighteen-forties, the American painter John Banvard gained international celebrity for his painting of the Mississippi Rivera panorama which measured over fifteen thousand square feet. And in the seventeen-nineties, when England was suffering a fit of bardolatry, a London lawyer's clerk, William Henry Ireland, began finding Shakespeare documents. After these forgeries became collectors' items as forgeries, Ireland met the demand by making forgeries of his forgeries, and every line from his pen remains extremely valuable.  Copyright  2005 The New Yorker	""No writer better articulates our interest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins. [This book is] sublimely odd, frequently funny, and better yet, thrillingly factual.""--Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius""Though the most profound question is 'What is the meaning of life?' the most human question 'Don't they know how special I am?' Paul Collins knows. Thanks to these fascinating tales, his forgotten attention-seekers must be rolling over in their graves, if only to finally bask in the limelight.""--Sarah Vowell, author of Take the Cannoli""Collins's swift, humorous prose makes for satisfying schadenfreude.""--Time Out New York""[A] lively treatise on eccentricity, flawed genius, and star-crossed obsession.""--The Washington Times""An unqualified success.""--The Seattle Times""A remarkably lucid and entertaining peek into the admittedly strange lives of the characters [Collins] has unearthed . . . A witty meditation on the vagaries of fame and the human drive for validation.""--Tucson Weekly""With crisp prose and engaging storytelling, Collins contemplates the whims of fortune and the foolhardiness of humanity.""--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)""Hearteningly strange . . . Stretching the bounds of nonfiction's propensity for weirdness, Collins exhumes little-known figures [and] recounts their perversely inspiring battles against the more logical ways of the world.""--The Onion""The thirteen lives and times to which Collins devotes his considerable scholarship and manifest narrative gifts in Banvard's Folly are the flash-in-the-pan, briefly notable, and long-ignored ones-of-a-kind, who remind us of the nobility and futility, the grandeur and begrudgery of our endeavors. Of Collins's endeavor, however, we can proclaim our permanent thanks and amazement and heartiest welcome.""--Los Angeles Times Book Review	Paul Collins writes for McSweeneys Quarterly, and his work has also appeared in Lingua Franca and eCompany Now. While writing Banvard's Folly he lived in San Francisco, where he taught Early American literature at Dominican University. He and his family moved briefly to Wales--a journey about which he is writing a book--and now live in Oregon.",19th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;historical;history;humanities;memoirs;new;united states;used & rental textbooks,12
0453009301,"In the Company of My Sisters Black women are exposed to ""distorted messages about our ethnicity and our femaleness,"" notes Boyd, a Seattle psychotherapist. To countermand these messages, she offers this affectionate mix of feminist analysis, pop psychology and sisterly wisdom written in a colloquial style and interspersed with anecdotes and questions drawn from her ""sister circle"" support group of friends. ""Our basic teaching tells us that thinking and doing for ourselves is 'selfish',"" observes Boyd, who recommends ""self-care""--a perspective that balances between selfishness and selflessness. Testing community taboos, she writes positively of masturbation, as well as of interracial relationships. She criticizes what, in her view, is black women's disrespect for one other as ""an act of self-hatred,"" and suggests they extend themselves through volunteer projects and even by simply greeting each other on the street. Black women writers, she observes, can help provide new images of competence and she offers a brief reading list. Healing the black woman's self-image must, Boyd stresses, be both an individual and collective act. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Boyd, a psychotherapist and author of Uncommon Ground (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1990) puts on her ""therapist hat and shoes"" in this new book. She speaks to the heart of the black woman, as she analyzes oppressive stereotypes and destructive myths. This is self-help and more. Issues such as sexuality, religious beliefs, racial discrimination, and domestic violence are addressed candidly, and we get to hear from her ""sisters"": Jo, Nettie, LaTisha, Lestine, Angie, Flo, and Zoey speak of their different experiences. What Boyd offers is a message to all women--regardless of race or color--that ""we are not our wounds of the past, and if we allow our wounds to define our present lives, we forfeit the opportunity to live our lives in the here and now."" This is a very important addition to self-help collections.- Corinne Nelson, ""Library Journal""Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This is the first self-help book by a black psychotherapist to examine the realities of black women's lives and their shared problems. The experiences of a black woman's support group are used to illustrate numerous common bonds and problems peculiar to black females.  -- Midwest Book Review	A psychotherapist with a clinical practice, Julia A. Boyd is the author of In the Company of My Sisters: Black Women and Self-Esteem, Girlfriend to Girlfriend: Everyday Wisdom and Affirmations from the Sister Circle, and Can I Get a Witness: Black Women and Depression.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	From my position as a clinical psychotherapist who works in a medical setting, I would estimate that about six out of every ten Black women in this country suffer from some type of major physical disorder related to their emotional well being.  Pay attention, ladies, there isn't a neat, polite, professional way to say it: we're dying in large numbers from physical ailments that are linked to emotional stresses.  Our silence isn't golden, it's deadly.  When we acknowledge another sister's presence or specialness, we're in fact telling her and ourselves that we feel good about being Black women.  We're also creating a positive role model because what we're expressing is healthy self-acceptance.  Hearing sisters calling each other degrading names is painful, but let's face it, a lot of young sisters and even a few older ones are hurting on a deep emotional level.  They're not happy with themselves, and the problems that cause their pain make them feel vengeful toward the world, so for many of these sisters the only recourse is to lash out at other Black women. These sisters need to know that there is pride and self-worth in being a Black woman.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",african-american studies;books;education & reference;humor;humor & entertainment;politics & social sciences;self-help;self-help & psychology;social sciences;specific demographics;study guides;studying & workbooks,12
1400020530,"2000+ Essential French Verbs: Learn the Forms, Master the Tenses, and Speak Fluently! (Essential Vocabulary) French Verbs JUST GOT AS EASY AS 1-2-3Great news! Whether you're learning French for fun, school, or work, 2,000+ Essential French Verbs makes everything simpleconjugations, tenses, irregulars, and even conversation. 2,000+ French verbs in alphabetical order Translations, prepositions, and regional usage ALL major tenses and regular and irregular verb forms covered Help with forming tenses, explained in clear English Sample sentences that show verbs in action 40 engaging dialogues that bring verbs to life More than 100 practice exercises Special help for tough verb questionsAnd for extra practice, FLASH CARDS help you memorize key verbs!",books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;french;humanities;new;phrasebooks;reference;travel;used & rental textbooks,12
071484540X,"Andy Warhol: ""Giant"" Size, Large Format Starred Review.  With its beautiful layouts, pin-sharp reproductions and sparkling texts, this enormous 15-pound book is worth every penny of its price. The volume kicks off with an illuminating essay by Dave Hickey (Air Guitar) that traces the development of Warhol's genre-mocking style to his childhood in industrial Pittsburgh. Poverty forced Warhol to hone the instincts of a salesman, Hickey suggests, and neighborhood tales about Czech folk hero David Schrapnel taught him his favorite artistic method: get it exactly wrong. ""Exactly wrong demonstrated that you knew what was exactly right and you were doing it wrong for the right reasons,"" Hickey explains. ""Thus, in his impoverished early days as a fashion illustrator, Warhol dressed so wretchedly that... colleagues suspected him of being rich."" The volume covers both Warhol's numerous accomplishments (in commercial illustration, advertising, painting, film) and his transformation of the New York art scene so thoroughly that even fans will gain new appreciation for Warhol's enduring influence. Longer texts by Kenneth Goldsmith, David Dalton, Ivan Karp, Peggy Phelan, Ronnie Cutrone and Bruno Bischofberger reward sustained reading, but for those who prefer browsing, the 16""12"" reproductions and the quotations of Warhol's many witticisms will be enough. (Mar.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	'With its beautiful layouts, pin-sharp reproductions and sparkling texts, this enormous 15-pound book is worth every penny of its price...The volume covers both Warhol's numerous accomplishments (in commercial illustration, advertising, painting, film) and his transformation of the New York art scene so thoroughly that even fans will gain new appreciation for Warhol's enduring influence.' (Publishers Weekly) 'A fresh insight into the private world of the ultimate showman.' (Sunday Times) 'What's almost as good as having an Andy Warhol print on your wall? Having a huge coffee-table book stuffed full of hundreds of his photographs.' (Sunday Telegraph) 'Giant-sized genius ... a must-have for all you size queens.' (Attitude) 'Giant is as close as most of us will get to owning a piece of pop art.' (Dazed & Confused) 'This Texas-sized tome is actually packed with serious research and writing ... the photographs and reproductions are sumptuous for their scale alone. Our favourite element is the accompanying ephemera, from ticket stubs, invoices and party invitations, to personal notes from celebrities such as Diana Vreeland and Halston. Giant is an archive in book form, a now essential addition to the Warhol canon. Just don't try to read it in bed!' (Kultureflash, www.kultureflash.net) 'As big as an old family bible and only marginally less instructive, though you won't find polaroids of drag queens and male nudes in the Good Book.' (Scottish Sunday Herald, (Sunday Herald magazine)) 'Sheer visual pageantry.' (The Spectator) 'The book's full-size reproductions and breadth of references draw the reader into the small-print of Warhol's world.' (The Daily Telegraph) 'Highly desirable ... a work of art in itself. It's a huge, heavy, beautifully designed object, oozing class and cool from every page ... may be the ultimate coffee table book.' (Heat) 'Dazzling' (Elle) 'Will thrill any Pop Art fan.' (RA (Royal Academy of Arts) magazine) 'a visual feast which can be read or just perused for a fuller appreciation of the artist whose favoured style was 'to get it exactly wrong.' (The Good Book Guide) 'truly astonishing ... A work of art in itself, the epic portfolio has the wow factor in spades!' (Film Review)	Dave Hickey is a freelance writer of fiction and cultural criticism, curator, and lecturer who has been affiliated with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas since 1992. He has served as owner-director of A Clean Well-Lighted Place gallery in Austin, Texas, as director of the Reese Palley Gallery in New York City, as Executive Editor of Art in America magazine in New York City, and as Contributing Editor to The Village Voice. He has written for most major American cultural publications including The Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Interview, Harper's Magazine, Vanity Fair, Nest, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. Hickey received a B.A. (1961) from Texas Christian University and an M.A. (1963) from the University of Texas at Austin. He served as curator for SITE Santa Fe's Fourth International Biennial, ""Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism"" (July 2001 - January 2002). Hickey has been a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including Harvard University, Rice University, and the Otis Parsons Institute, Los Angeles. His critical essays on art have been collected in two volumes: The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993) and Air Guitar: Essays in Art and Democracy (1997). Hickey is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant (1969) and the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art or Architectural Criticism (1993). In 2001, he was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship grant.",architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism;historical;history;history & criticism;individual artists;painting,12
B000FP2KPS,"Designing, Building, and Testing Your Own Speaker System with Projects A do-it-yourself guide for creating and testing speaker systems. This edition includes speaker tests; information on crossover networks, techniques for designing double-chamber reflex enclosures and practical dimension charts; and details on using the expanded computer programme.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A do-it-yourself guide for creating and testing speaker systems. This edition includes speaker tests; information on crossover networks, techniques for designing double-chamber reflex enclosures and practical dimension charts; and details on using the expanded computer programme.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",acoustics & sound;books;crafts;electrical & electronics;engineering;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;how-to & home improvements;physics;professional & technical;science & math;telecommunications,12
382286398X,"Natacha Merritt Digital Diaries ""Fresh sin: Her photos reek of sex."" -- Eric Kroll	""My photo needs and my sexual needs are one and the same.""  Natacha Merritt in the nude: Cybersex and the ""Generation @"" ""My work always goes to bed with me.""	The Photographer:Natacha Merritt grew up in San Francisco. She went to Paris to study law but after three months abandoned her studies for a much more exciting part-time job: taking digital photographs of models with her Casio, at a time when digital cameras were rare and expensive in Europe. Merritt quickly discovered the advantages of this technologe. On her return to San Francisco she showed her works on the Internet. In March 1999 she received a call from Eric Kroll, and shortly afterwards met up with Benedikt Taschen in L.A. - the start of ""Digital Diaries"". She is currently working on her own website",arts & photography;books;digital photography;education & reference;equipment;erotic photography;foreign language study & reference;individual artists;photo essays;photography;portraits;techniques & reference,12
0226443418,"The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America This examination of the era after the civil rights movement can best be described by the old saying ""one step forward, two steps back."" Klinkner and Smith attack the widely held view that greater racial equality in the United States is preordained by the characteristics and principles of the founding fathers or the tides of history. The authors look at the circumstances that fostered black civil rights, including wars and political instability; when those factors are reduced, they argue, antiblack backlash sets in, from the Reconstruction era up to post-Reagan Republicanism. The Unsteady March is an alarmist book, but not without hope. The authors offer solutions that include increased commitment to enforcing civil rights legislation, economic parity, and reform of the criminal justice system--as well as bringing back the draft and introducing a universal national service program. --Eugene Holley Jr. 	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Political scientists Klinkner (Hamilton Coll.) and Smith (Yale) argue that American racial progress has occurred only in ten- to 15-year bursts and then only in three specific sets of circumstances: when war required black bodies, when fighting an enemy required egalitarian rhetoric, or when domestic political protest pressured for reforms. Progress, they note, has always been followed by years of stagnation and decline, as the white elite reconsolidates its (entrenched) power, blocking reform and embracing inequalities. In other words, whether we shall overcome depends on the national will to realize classic American ideals. The authors' rigorous, exhortatory exposition promises to unsettle some readers, but, in the end, it stands with important works such as Jennifer L. Hochschild's Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton Univ., 1995). It calls on Americans to confront the persistent black-white divide and the disparity between democratic promise and practice. Recommended for the U.S. politics, history, or race relations sections of public and academic collections.AThomas J. Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Both experts in government and history, Klinkner (Hamilton Coll.; The Losing Parties, not reviewed) and Smith (Yale; Civic Ideals, not reviewed ) mean to ``sound an alarm'' about the still poor state of race relations in the US. To do so, they enter into a long tale of American history, none of its contents new, but all marshaled for the authors' special purpose.That purpose is to demonstrate that racial progress has occurred only with the simultaneous existence of three conditions: 1) a war necessitating the mobilization of African-Americans; 2) a war requiring Americans to justify their involvement in democratic, egalitarian, and inclusive terms; and 3) the existence of protest movements pushing the government to institute reforms in keeping with those ideals. The authors do not adequately consider the possibility that most all-out American wars were as much result, not cause, of democratic, egalitarian, and inclusive ideologies, as well as of their day's versions of ``protest movements.'' And what of religion? They also admit that they cannot demonstrate that racial progress might have come about without wars. Ironically, their very approach could contribute to the current fatalism about progress in racial matters that they decry. After all, if we need wars of total mobilization to give us racial progress (and the authors don't advocate war), then perhaps we must simply wait for one to break out. Sensing their logical predicament, they remark that progress can occur without war. But for that to happen, ``Americans can and should commit themselves anew to overcoming our deepest and most enduring national division.'' To be sure. But historical argument isn't necessary to make that point, especially if, as the authors admit, they've arrived at their arguments ``inductively,'' because, while awaiting deductive research not yet undertaken, they believe it urgent to get their message out. But then their answers can't be taken as history, only as hopealbeit hope in which most people share. A heartfelt plea for further progress, which raises as many questions as it answers.  -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	""[An] unflinching portrait of the leviathan of American race relations.... This important book should be read by all who aspire to create a more perfect union."" - Publishers Weekly, starred review; ""Could it be that our unswerving belief in the power of our core values to produce racial equality is nothing but a comforting myth? That is the main argument put forth by Philip Klinkner and Rogers Smith... The Unsteady March is disturbing because it calls into question our cherished national belief and does so convincingly.... [It] is beautifully written, and the social history it provides is illuminating and penetrating."" - Aldon Morris, American Journal of Sociology	Winner of the Horace Mann Bond Award of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University""This book should be read by all who aspire to create a more perfect union.""-Publishers Weekly, starred reviewHave the history of race relations in America really been the continuous march toward equality we imagine? The Unsteady March argues quite the opposite: that progress toward equality has been sporadic, isolated, and surrounded by long periods of stagnation and retrenchment.	Philip A. Klinkner is an associate professor of government at Hamilton College. Rogers M. Smith is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.	The authors...make a contribution by reminding us in simple and often eloquent prose that, historically, black progress has been painfully slow and always unsteady. Their book is a powerful antidote to the happy talk of conservatives, who have a hard time explaining why David Duke received 59 percent of the white vote in his 1990 bid for the U.S. Senate.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",african-american studies;books;discrimination & racism;minority studies;new;political science;politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,12
0822526441,"Nelson Mandela (Just the Facts Biographies) Grade 5-8?This overview concentrates on Mandela's childhood in the Xhosa nation, his training as a lawyer, and his rise through the ranks of the ANC, and includes ample black-and-white and full-color photographs. His actual imprisonment, release, and election to the presidency of South Africa are confined to the last 15 pages. His divorce from Winnie Mandela and marriage to Graca Machel are not mentioned. Considering that the events following his election would update information found in Dorothy Hoobler's Mandela (Watts, 1992) or Barry Denenberg's Nelson Mandela (Scholastic, 1991), they merit more discussion. Mandela: An Illustrated Autobiography (Little, Brown, 1996) is an excellent, in-depth resource that is adapted from the heroic leader's memoir, Long Walk to Freedom (Little, Brown, 1994), and is enhanced by numerous photographs.?Janet Woodward, Garfield High School, Seattle, WACopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	There are some inaccuracies in this biography of the great South African leader, including misspellings of names and places, and there's too little about the various political activists, white and black, who, as Mandela acknowledges, worked with and influenced him. What's good in this volume in the A & E Biography series is the detailed history of Mandela's childhood, his schooling, and his student days before his departure for Johannesburg. There's no map, but the photos are well chosen, and the source notes and bibliography will help children who want to read more about the man and his times.  Hazel Rochman	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",( m );a-z;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;children's books;literature & fiction;mandela;nelson;people;people of color;science & technology,12
1582701032,"Beyond Stitch And Bitch: Reflections On Knitting And Life Scruggss book on the deeper aspects of knitting and purling will strike a chord with crafters who find their trade to be a meditative process. For master knitter and former Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Scruggs, counting stitches can turn into a chant, while moving her hands as she makes a hat can revive her limbs. And, if she concentrates fully on the work between her needles, she finds that her ""conscious retreats"" enough so that a ""divine presence can advance."" Thus, knitting can be a ""spiritual practice"" that enlarges and calms the mind, or so Scrugg argues in the first of this books 10 mini-essays. The volumes other pieces include an homage to renowned knitter Elizabeth Zimmerman (whose 1999 death garnered a New York Times obituary), a riff on Scruggss own difficulty in parting with old skeins and a piece on the pleasure of giving a hand-knit gift. Scruggss homey prose style should appeal to most knitters, and a few simple patterns to round out this pleasant and uplifting tome.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""Knitting teaches us to be producers, not consumers... A peaceful, useful book."" R. Kimm, Small Press Review (May-June 2005)	Afi-Odelia Scruggs has been knitting for over forty years. Over the years, Scruggs has knitted sweaters, shawls, even skirts. She also quilts and studies tie-dye with a master artist from Nigeria.Scruggs has been a full-time journalist since 1987, when she began working for semi-weekly papers in the Washington D.C. area. She has worked at papers in Jackson, Miss., Cincinnati, Dayton, and Cleveland, Ohio, where she was a metro columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer from 1996 to 2000. Presently, Scruggs is a visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, OH.",books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;crocheting;fitness & dieting;health;hobbies & home;knitting;motivational;needlecrafts & textile crafts;psychology & counseling;self-help,12
0813121876,"Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration Bean is an associate history professor at Southern Illinois University and author of Beyond the Broker State: A History of the Federal Government's Politics towards Small Business, 1936-1961 (1996). He now continues to look at the role government plays in small business with this critical history of the Small Business Administration, which was established in 1953 as a ""tiny lending agency."" Bean's overriding theme is the contradictory nature of the SBA. Supposedly established to advocate for small-business owners and free enterprise, the agency's biggest support comes from Congress and it is frequently the target of critics of big government. Bean highlights the ""corruption, fraud, and incompetence [that has] marred its minority enterprise programs,"" but he focuses on the ""affirmative action"" role of the SBA--first as it favored small companies over large ones and later, beginning with the Nixon administration, as it targeted loans to black-owned businesses. Nearly a third of Bean's book is devoted to notes and an extensive bibliography. David RouseCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Bean is a master of administrative history, not just of the SBA but of the tremendous expansion of American government, especially beginning with and then flowing from the New Deal."" -- American Historical Review""[Bean]has a love/hate relationship with the SBA, and this tension is visible throughout his meticulously researched monograph."" -- Business History""Claims that the SBA did not help truly disadvantaged businesses but its affirmative action programmes benefited politicians in both parties who used it for their own gains."" -- International Review of Administrative Sciences""His careful analysis, his all-encompassing bibliography, and his inclusive endnotes make this the definitive monograph."" -- Journal of American History""The first full-length academic assessment of the agency. At once a powerful argument for killing off the agency and a shrewd analysis for the political impulses that make its termination nearly impossible."" -- Wall Street Journal	Since its emergence, the United States' two-party political system has been criticized for polarizing public opinion. Instead of objective deliberation of major issues such as race relations, partisanship has too often undermined the process and distorted the outcome. One group of thinkers, however, has refused to be defined by either conservative or liberal classifications -- classical liberals have shaped the history of the nation, including the fight for abolition and the allied struggles against Chinese exclusion, abuse of Native Americans, Japanese internment, Jim Crow, and other racial distinctions in the law. Nevertheless, the nation's preoccupation with left-versus-right politics has overshadowed the role of classical liberals in the history of race and liberty in America.Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader, edited by Jonathan Bean, explains the major themes of the antiracist, classical liberal tradition of individual liberty and equality, demonstrating how it has inspired individuals to improve race relations in the United States. Advocating for freedom from governmental interference, abolition of prejudicial law, equality under a uniform rule of law guaranteed by the Constitution, and market-based entrepreneurial opportunity, classical liberals have lent their voices to a wide range of causes.Bean offers numerous documents, from the Declaration of Independence to the 2006 Open Letter on Immigration and beyond, as well as government statutes, party platforms, and speeches that demonstrate how classical liberalism was at the forefront of the fight to change America's racial inequality. Each chapter investigates a specific time period in American history, ranging from the Revolution to the present, and addresses major events and concerns, including the antislavery movement, post--Civil War Reconstruction, Progressive era, Republican era of the 1920s, Great Depression and World War II, and civil rights era. Citing such influential Americans as Thomas Jefferson, Louis Marshall, and Frederick Douglass, as well as individuals missing from previous investigations, Bean demonstrates the major impact of classical liberal thought on race relations and investigates how it has helped shape both law and public opinion.Jonathan Bean, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and professor of history at Southern Illinois University, is the author of Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration and Beyond the Broker State: Federal Policies toward Small Business, 1936--1961.Cover photos, from left to right: Frederick Douglass (Library of Congress); Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson (reprinted by permission of National Baseball Hall of Fame Library); San Francisco schoolchildren, 1942 (Library of Congress); Zora Neale Hurston (Library of Congress).	Jonathan J. Bean, associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University, is the author of Beyond the Broker State: A History of the Federal Governments Politics Toward Small Business, 1936-1961.",books;business & investing;civil rights & liberties;communication policy;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & administration;public affairs & policy;small business & entrepreneurship;specific topics;united states,12
0471446521,"Understanding Electric Power Systems: An Overview of the Technology and the Marketplace (IEEE Press Understanding Science & Technology Series) ""...translates highly complex and intricate material into a straightforward narrative, making it easy for the novice or layman to grasp highly technical electrical concepts."" (Design-Build Dateline, March 2005)""Anyone wanting a broad overview aboutthe electric power grid in the United States will find this book very easy to read and will come away with a good general understanding..."" (IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, January/February 2005)""a good book for nonelectrical engineers and electric power engineers alike as it provides a good summary of where we have been and how we got to where we are today-all in one brief reading."" (IEEE Power  Energy Magazine, July/Aug 2004)""Understanding Electric Power Systems is recommended for engineers, policymakers and students alike and can be a useful addition in the academic libraries for young researchers in electrical engineering. (E-Streams, Vol. 7, No. 5)""In consistently clear and simple language, without strident arguments or unrealistic projections, these authors have put together a thorough explanation (arguably the best one in print) of what the electric power supply industry is...and its relationship to the worlds of law, politics, and finance."" (Electrical Apparatus, December 2003)	An inside look at the electric power industryAs todays electric power systems grow ever more complexand the risk of huge blackouts grows with itit is important that policymakers and professionals in the industry, as well as students, gain a solid understanding of electric power systems and how they work. Written by two veteran power company managers and respected experts, Understanding Electric Power Systems offers a real-world view of these systems, how they operate, how they are structured, and how electricity is regulated and priced.Understanding Electric Power Systems bridges the gaps between technology, government policy, economics and finance, business arrangements, and the Internethelping the reader to understand the interrelationship of the many aspects of the provision of electric power supply. This comprehensive resource describes:The physical nature of the various networks that make up the power system and how they workThe fuel and money networks that operate to finance and pay costsThe business and contracting networks involved in their operationThe legislative and regulatory networks which provide governmental controlThe IT network involved in their physical and commercial operationThe various organizations that represent the many industry segmentsFor engineers, policymakers, and students alike, Understanding Electric Power Systems provides a high-level overview of how electric power is generated, transmitted, and controlled in the United States.	JACK CASAZZA is currently President of the American Education Institute and an Outside Director of the Georgia Systems Operation Corporation. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, a former utility executive and consultant, and has won many awards for his contribution to the development of electric power systems.FRANK DELEA retired in 1997 from Consolidated Edison, Inc. where he had assignments giving him broad insight into planning, operational, financial, rate, organizational, and legal issues. He was involved in many issues including mergers and acquisitions, investments in nonregulated subsidiaries, and corporate restructuring. He was leader of the team charged with the formation of a holding company.",books;business & finance;business & investing;electrical & electronics;energy;engineering;industries & professions;new;oil & energy;professional & technical;telecommunications;used & rental textbooks,12
B000GKY7ZS,"Amazon.com: NFL Jets Football Helmet and Uniform Set (Youth Small): Sports &amp; Outdoors Your aspiring NFL star can gear up to be part of the team with this NFL football garb. Perfect for young sports fanatics, this set includes a team uniform and helmet. Featuring the official team logo, the helmet has foam padding, a face mask and an adjustable chin strap. Team jersey and pants are made of 100% double knit polyester. Pants come with an elastic waistband and cuffs. Includes iron-on numbers 0-9. Size: Youth small.",fan shop;football;football equipment;football helmets;helmets;protective gear;sports;sports & outdoor play;sports & outdoors;sports equipment;team sports;toys & games,12
0812027132,"Italian at a Glance Text: English, Italian",books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;italian;new;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,12
080913926X,"A Catholic's Guide to Rome: Discovering the Soul of the Eternal City The year 2000 promises to be particularly significant in the city of Rome. Following a tradition begun by Boniface VIII in 1300, John Paul II has declared 2000 a year of Christian jubilee, during which pilgrimages and religious celebrations will mark Rome as not only the city of the Caesars but also the city of Christ. Moreover, the completion of 2000 years since the birth of Jesus and the hope that Christians have for the next millennium give cause for special celebration in the city. A Catholic's Guide to Rome (CG) and Holy Rome (HR) are part of the panoply of guidebooks being published in connection with the jubilee. CG, which is organized from the perspective of religious history, provides the religious pilgrim with contemporary details and historical traditions surrounding the important churches and shrines of the city. HR is organized largely from the perspective of city geography. After providing a readable history of Christian Rome and an essay on Rome's jubilees, it provides brief descriptions of the chief religious attractions of the city's 22 regions, supplies a color atlas, and gives basic information on the events planned for the jubilee celebration. While both books are usable, they should be viewed as supplements to, not replacements, for the venerable Blue Guide to Rome and Georgina Masson's classic The Companion Guide to Rome.ADavid I. Fulton, Coll. of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	An essential read for all pilgrims to Christian Rome. -- Catholic Library Associationbr /br /Get the most out of your trip to Rome with A Catholic's Guide to Rome. -- Kairosbr /br /I look forward to sharing this book with friends and visitors from the United States and elsewhere. -- Jim Nicholson, Ambassador, United States of America, to the Holy Seebr /br /It provides the religious pilgrim with contemporary details and historical traditions surrounding the important churches and shrines of the city. -- Library Journalbr /br /Provides the religious pilgrim with contemporary details and historical traditions surrounding the important churches and shrines of the city. -- Library Journalbr /br /This book guides readers through a pilgrimage to three dozen key sites and available lodging. -- Religion News Servicebr /br /This is a book for those who have been there, and those who would like to be! -- The Catholic Advocate (Newark)br /br /Those on their very first visit will be grateful for this splendid guide. --The Rev.) Richard John Neuhaus, Editor-in-Chief, First Things	Frank J. Korn is an assistant professor of classical studies at Seton Hall University. A Fulbright scholar, he is also the author of hundreds of articles and seven books, including From Peter to John Paul II and the recent Wisteria Blooms. He is recognized internationally as an expert on Rome and has lectured at such places as Yale University and the Institute for Vatican Studies. He lives in Kenilworth, New Jersey.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;europe;general;history;religious;roman catholicism;travel;world,12
080584208X,"Social Studies for Secondary Schools: Teaching To Learn, Learning To Teach This text has a smooth, accessible writing style and engaging examples from real practice....Students love it. I surveyed my students and they are unanimous in their praise....Most plan to keep it as a reference in their classrooms.Dennis N. BanksState University of New York, Oneonta",books;education;education & reference;instruction methods;new;pedagogy;politics & social sciences;research;schools & teaching;secondary education;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0198268025,"Ad Autolycum (Oxford Early Christian Texts Series) Text: English, Greek (translation)  Original Language: Greek",asia;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;europe;history;humanities;india;new;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks,12
053313787X,"Black People in the Bible Randolph Jackson is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Born in Brooklyn, he attended the prestigious Stuyvesant High School before going on to New York University and Brooklyn Law School. Having been elected to a fourteen year term, he still finds time to mentor inner-city youth.",african-american studies;books;christian books & bibles;other religions;politics & social sciences;practices & sacred texts;reference;religion & spirituality;religious studies;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics,12
1558215921,"The Plant Hunters: Tales of the Botanist-Explorers Who Enriched Our Gardens (Horticulture Garden Classic) Slime pits, bribery, jaguars, murder...what would drive someone through such risks merely to find new plants? From Queen Hatshepsut's expedition to the land of Punt in 1482 B.C. in search of frankincense, to more recent botanical expeditions, here are the dramatic adventures of The Plant Hunters. We meet Pliny, Linnaeus, Sir Joseph Banks, Nathaniel Ward, and others and find out what they brought back and why. A fascinating collection for gardeners interested in how now-familiar plants arrived in their gardens, and for anyone with a thirst for adventure and scientific discover. (6 X 9, 296 pages)",biological sciences;biology;books;botany;crafts;education & reference;essays;gardening & landscape design;hobbies & home;ornamental plants;reference;science & math,12
B00007FYG8,"JAVA 2 Network Security (2nd Edition) PrefaceJava is fashionable, but is it reliable? Java is entertaining, but is it secure? Java is useful, but is it safe?The purpose of this book is to answer those questions, from the point of view of people who want to use Java, but want to do so reliably, securely and safely. That makes this book different from much recent writing on Java, which focuses, perfectly legitimately, on how a Java system can be broken into and how to avoid those dangers. On the contrary, this book focuses on how Java can be made secure and how to exploit its strengths. The goal is to provide practical help to the various groups involved in making a Java-based application or Web site into an industrial-strength commercial proposition.Various groups have different needs and different skills, which this book meets in its different parts.  The first part is aimed at the intelligent non-specialist who oversees system management or application development, or incorporates Java into the security policy. Only a basic understanding of computers and a limited exposure to Java is assumed, but all the themes of Java security are introduced in a context that stresses over and over again how Java security must be seen as an integral part of system security.The second part goes into more detail on how Java security works, and is aimed more at system and network administrators and programmers, who need to know more of what is going on.The third part looks at the broader context in which Java operates, including some extensions to Java security and some aspects of its future.This book explains the evolution of the Java security model, and then focuses on the Java 2 security architecture and its revolutionary domains of protection. It offers a very large number of examples to give you a better understanding of the technology involved.The Team That Wrote This RedbookThis redbook was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the International Technical Support Organization Raleigh Center.The leader of this project was Marco Pistoia.Marco Pistoia is a Network Security Specialist, working as a project leader at the International Technical Support Organization, Raleigh Center. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide on all areas of the e-business Application Framework, WebSphere, Java and Internet security. Marco holds a degree with honors in Pure Mathematics from the University of Rome and a masters degree in Computer Science. Before joining the ITSO, he was a System Engineer in IBM Italy. He received an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 1996.Duane F. Reller is a Senior Software Engineer in the System/390 Programming Laboratory in Endicott, New York, USA. He has 25 years of experience in System/390 Hardware and Software development. He has served in technical and management positions. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Technology and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton. His areas of expertise include Hardware and Software System's Architecture and Management.Deepak Gupta is a Senior Software Engineer in IBM, India. He has two and a half years of experience in Internet technologies. He holds a degree in Electronics and Communications from the University of Roorkee, India. His areas of expertise include Internet security and Electronic Commerce. Deepak was involved in IBM India's largest e-Commerce project and in India's first secured e-Commerce site allowing Rupee-based transactions, for which he was conferred the Employee of the Month Award. He has also given several talks on Internet security and e-Commerce.Milind Nagnur is a Senior Associate in the Operations and Systems Risk Management (OSRM) group of Price Waterhouse Coopers in Mumbai, India. He has a couple of years of exposure in Internet technologies, with emphasis on security and control issues in real business applications. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, India.Ashok K. Ramani is a Senior Software Engineer in IBM India. He has two and a half years of experience in Internet technologies. He holds a degree in MSc.(Tech.) Information Systems from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. His areas of expertise include Internet security and Electronic Commerce. Ashok was involved in IBM India's largest e-Commerce project and in India's first secure e-Commerce site allowing Rupee-based transactions for which he was conferred the Employee of the Month Award. He has won special recognition awards at IBM India for his contribution to e-Commerce projects. He has also presented several talks on Internet security and e-Commerce.Comments WelcomeYour comments are important to us!We want our redbooks to be as helpful as possible. Please send us your comments about this or other redbooks in one of the following ways:  Fax the evaluation form found in ""ITSO Redbook Evaluation"" on page 713 to the fax number shown on the form.Use the online evaluation form found at redbooks.ibm/Send your comments in an internet note to redbook@us.ibm	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The complete insider's guide to securing Java 2 enterprise applications!   Building secure enterprise applications with Java 2!   Integrating Java 2 into your overall security strategy   Detailed coverage for managers, developers, netadmins, and security specialists   Comprehensive coverage of the new Java 2 security model   Integrate Java 2 into your enterprise security strategies   Master Java's powerful Cryptography APIs   Now that Java is ""leaving the sandbox,"" you need stronger security than ever, and Java 2 Network Security, Second Edition shows you how to get it. Unlike other books, which focus on how Java can be broken, this one delivers practical help with Java 2 security to everyone involved in building and deploying industrial-strength Java-based applications.   Written in cooperation with Sun's own developers, Java 2 Network Security, Second Edition presents systematic coverage of the new Java 2 network security model for managers, network administrators, developers, and security professionals alike. You'll learn the real-world pros and cons of each leading Java security alternative; architectural techniques for maximizing security; and how to integrate Java security into your enterprise-wide security strategies.   You'll discover practical techniques for securing Web and intranet applications, deploying or limiting Java across corporate firewalls; integrating Java and SSL, leveraging Java's powerful Cryptography APIs, and much more. Java 2 Network Security, Second Edition is up-to-date, authoritative, and thorough-and if you're using Java in enterprise development, it's utterly essential.   Sharing Technical Expertise from Around the World This book and other IBM Redbooks are products of IBM's International Technical Support Organization, where worldwide specialists work alongside you to harness IBM technologies. IBM Redbooks make the answers to your most pressing technical questions easily and immediately accessible.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The Team That Wrote This Redbook    This redbook was produced by a team of specialists from around the world  working at the International Technical Support Organization Raleigh Center.    The leader of this project was Marco Pistoia.    Marco Pistoia is a Network Security Specialist, working as a  project leader at the International Technical Support Organization, Raleigh  Center. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide on all  areas of the e-business Application Framework, WebSphere, Java and Internet  security. Marco holds a degree with honors in Pure Mathematics from the  University of Rome and a masters degree in Computer Science. Before joining  the ITSO, he was a System Engineer in IBM Italy. He received an Outstanding  Technical Achievement Award in 1996.    Duane F. Reller is a Senior Software Engineer in the  System/390 Programming Laboratory in Endicott, New York, USA. He has 25  years of experience in System/390 Hardware and Software development. He  holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Technology and a Master of Science  degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at  Binghamton. His areas of expertise include Hardware and Software System's  Architecture and Management.    Deepak Gupta is a Senior Software Engineer in IBM, India. He  has two and a half years of experience in Internet technologies. He holds a  degree in Electronics and Communications from the University of Roorkee,  India. His areas of expertise include Internet security and Electronic  Commerce. Deepak was involved in IBM India's largest e-Commerce project and  in India's first secured e-Commerce site allowing Rupee-based transactions,  for which he was conferred the Employee of the Month Award. He has also  given several talks on Internet security and e-Commerce.    Milind Nagnur is a Senior Associate in the Operations and  Systems Risk Management (OSRM) group of Price Waterhouse Coopers in Mumbia,  India. He has a couple of years exposure in Internet technologies, with  emphasis on security and control issues in real business applications. He  holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute in  Bombay, India, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in  Calcutta, India.    Ashok K. Ramani is a Senior Software Engineer in IBM India.  He has two and a half years experience in Internet technologies. He holds a  degree in MSc.(Tech) Information Systems from the Birla Institute of  Technology and Science, Pilani, India. His areas of expertise include  Internet security and Electronic Commerce. Ashok was involved in IBM  India's largest e-Commerce project and India's first secure e-Commerce site  allowing Rupee-based transactions for which he was conferred the Employee  of the Month Award. He has won special recognition awards at IBM India for  his contribution to e-Commerce projects. He has also presented several  talks on Internet security and e-Commerce.    Thanks to the following people for their invaluable contributions to this  project:    Anthony J. Nadalin, Julianne Yarsa, Shirley Fox, Donna Smith Skibbie,  Bruce Rich  IBM Enterprise Security, Austin Center    Larry Koved  IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research, Hawthorne    Li Gong, Jan Luehe, Roland Schemers  Sun Microsystems, Inc.    Pat Donleycott, Jorge Ferrari, Martin Murhammer, Gail Christensen,  Margaret Ticknor, Shawn Walsh, Linda Robinson, Tate Renner  IBM, International Technical Support Organization, Raleigh Center    Rob Macgregor, Dave Durbin, John Owlett, Andrew Yeomans  Authors of the first edition    Pete Lawther, Simon Phipps  Contributors to the first edition  	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;certification;comptia;computers & technology;education & reference;java;languages & tools;network security;networking;networks;programming;protocols & apis,12
0201433133,"Enterprise Modeling with UML: Designing Successful Software through Business Analysis Recent years have seen the convergence of many disciplines, facilitated by extraordinary social, political, economic, and technological change. Not least has been the convergence of business, information, and natural systems thinking into the new discipline of business engineering. This book describes how complex business systems may be designed and implemented using enterprise components and supporting tools. The CD-ROM at the back of the book contains implementations of the components and tools in Java and XML.   Business Engineering  The purpose of this book is to describe a specific way in which to model enterprises. The focus is on business rather than technological aspects, with examples describing large, complex, and adaptable systems. The book is intended primarily for practitioners of the emergent discipline of business engineering, and is of use both to business people who are sensitive to the strategic potential of technology, and to technologists who understand that business requirements must drive systems design and deployment.    Recent developments in computers and communications enable global business systems that are as much between as within organizations. There are no universal standards for such business systems, and such standards are unlikely to be established in the near future. However, concepts based on the principles of contract and law that have existed for thousands of years, and new insights from the study of complex adaptive systems, may be applied to disparate enterprise applications to enable them to work as though they were part of a single global business network. This book attempts to describe the main features of such systems.    The promise of software components has been recognized for many years, based mainly on the experience of other industries. Automobiles were handmade by craftsmen from raw materials until Henry Ford assembled cars using interchangeable parts, and electronic hardware was assembled by skilled technicians from discrete components until Robert Noyce developed the integrated circuit--but information systems must still be coded line by line by talented programmers. However, several key developments now make reusable software components not only viable, but essential to any enterprise that wants to survive into the twenty-first century.Ubiquitous networks connect almost every computer through standard communications protocols.  The CORBA, COM+ and EJB component object models make interoperable software components feasible.  Component design concepts, methods and notations can be shared using the Unified Modeling Language (UML).  Practical e-commerce standards and vocabularies using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) are under development.  Enterprise modeling concepts are being developed and standardized in the ISO Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP).    Each of these is necessary, but not individually sufficient, to enable widespread adoption of software components for enterprise systems. Together they provide the means to revolutionize the software industry to the same extent that the motor and electronics industries have been transformed.    An enterprise and its systems are too complex to understand from a single perspective, so its model is composed of several components, each representing a different area of concern. A component defines an aspect of the model in a specific frame of reference and at a particular level of abstraction, or from the point of view of an organization role. Each role defines a domain of expertise, terminology, and conventions that influence how a role player perceives the business world. For example, what is needed of a vehicle by a driver, an accountant, a transport manager, and a maintenance engineer, differ according to their respective roles. In the past, this has caused organizations and their systems to be fragmented along functional lines, resulting in divergent purpose, discontinuous processes, and ""stovepipe"" applications. To prevent this from occurring, an architectural framework is required to link the components of the model into a coherent whole.  Structure of the Book  This book describes concepts primarily from the business viewpoint, and assumes that suitable software components can be created if a sufficiently precise business specification exists. The tools and components included in the CD-ROM attempt to illustrate the validity of this assumption. The UML notation and Java and XML languages are used in the design and implementation of these enterprise components.   Chapter 1 is an overview of the management and organization concepts that underpin the models that are described in subsequent chapters. Specific concepts of business purpose, process, entity, and organization are outlined to provide a context for the remainder of the book. The purpose of an organization is described in Chapter 2, with reference to strategy, planning, and contracts. It outlines relationships among data, information, knowledge, understanding, and decision making; which is also needed by an organization to learn and adapt, and to communicate its value to customers and other stakeholders. Chapter 3 describes business processes as the means by which purpose is achieved. Process design, scheduling, enactment, tracking, improvement, and automation are covered. The concepts, tools, and components are suitable for formal process engineering and for the unstructured activities of ad hoc work. The human, mechanical, material, financial, intellectual, and other entities used and produced by processes are described in Chapter 4. Entities are modeled from various points of view to describe the different aspects of behavior required of them by processes.   Organization concepts are described in Chapter 5 with reference to their roles in adaptive systems, distributed networks, contexts for modeling, and so on. Organizations manage their processes and entities to achieve purpose, and work with others to form value networks. Certain ideas are presented to predict trends in e-commerce. The Appendix illustrates with simple examples how such concepts are used in real applications.   Conventions Used in Book  Each chapter introduces its concepts with text and diagrams that are hopefully comprehensible to business people, without the need for detailed knowledge of technology. Object orientation is introduced through business objects--models that are not necessarily implemented in software--described and diagrammed using the UML notation. In most cases, summary diagrams are used in preference to detailed diagrams to illustrate conceptual rather than detailed design. Words that appear in italic type when first used are defined in the Glossary.    The CD-ROM contains Java and XML implementations of the ideas and models described in the Appendix. Java code conventions are used where practical, but code is abbreviated, and many package statements, documentation, and comments are excluded, in order to simplify the listings Sun 1997. No attempt is made to explore the business engineering process, or to describe business and software engineering artifacts and tools. However, the CD-ROM contains copies of a tool that enables round trip engineering of Java business objects using Rational Rose. It also includes detailed HTML documentation, and a tutorial to help readers acquaint themselves with its contents.   0201433133P04062001	The convergence of object technology and business systems methodologies has led to a new discipline: business engineering. The goal of business engineering is to improve the performance of an enterprise through formal modeling, the application of appropriate concepts, best practices, and information technology.     Written for practitioners interested in business systems and software applications, this book fuses object technology, workflow, data warehousing, and distributed system concepts into a coherent model that has been successfully implemented worldwide. Enterprises using these concepts are well-positioned to thrive in the emerging global business arena. Enterprise Modeling with UML describes specific methods for modeling large, complex, and adaptable enterprise systems, using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to illustrate its concepts and components.    Enterprise Modeling with UML addresses in detail the four key elements of an enterprise model: purpose, processes, entities, and organization. Written from a business perspective rather than technical standpoint, the book covers such vital topics as:     Formalizing business concepts, models, and components  Creating and communicating the value of an enterprise  Designing, scheduling, tracking, and automating processes  Describing business entities in organizational contexts  Modeling hierarchical and networked organizations and coordinating such organizations to form value chains  Building adaptable enterprise systems from reusable software components      0201433133B04062001	Chris Marshall has been responsible for initiating and managing the development of large scale, mission critical, enterprise wide systems since 1979. He is a member of a number of professional engineering and management bodies, and has contributed to the business object domain task force of the Object Management Group and to business object design and   implementation workshops at OOPSLA. He has also contributed to the development of many business engineering components and tools, including the Rascal and BOMA product ranges, the RoseBOMA Link, which is a companion product to Rational Rose, and several enterprise application components. He was previously a general manager and director of a number of divisions of Barlows, then the largest manufacturing group in South Africa.            0201433133AB04062001	Recent years have seen the convergence of many disciplines, facilitated by extraordinary social, political, economic, and technological change. Not least has been the convergence of business, information, and natural systems thinking into the new discipline of business engineering. This book describes how complex business systems may be designed and implemented using enterprise components and supporting tools. The CD-ROM at the back of the book contains implementations of the components and tools in Java and XML.  Business Engineering The purpose of this book is to describe a specific way in which to model enterprises. The focus is on business rather than technological aspects, with examples describing large, complex, and adaptable systems. The book is intended primarily for practitioners of the emergent discipline of business engineering, and is of use both to business people who are sensitive to the strategic potential of technology, and to technologists who understand that business requirements must drive systems design and deployment.  Recent developments in computers and communications enable global business systems that are as much between as within organizations. There are no universal standards for such business systems, and such standards are unlikely to be established in the near future. However, concepts based on the principles of contract and law that have existed for thousands of years, and new insights from the study of complex adaptive systems, may be applied to disparate enterprise applications to enable them to work as though they were part of a single global business network. This book attempts to describe the main features of such systems.  The promise of software components has been recognized for many years, based mainly on the experience of other industries. Automobiles were handmade by craftsmen from raw materials until Henry Ford assembled cars using interchangeable parts, and electronic hardware was assembled by skilled technicians from discrete components until Robert Noyce developed the integrated circuit--but information systems must still be coded line by line by talented programmers. However, several key developments now make reusable software components not only viable, but essential to any enterprise that wants to survive into the twenty-first century.  * Ubiquitous networks connect almost every computer through standard communications protocols. * The CORBA, COM+ and EJB component object models make interoperable software components feasible. * Component design concepts, methods and notations can be shared using the Unified Modeling Language (UML). * Practical e-commerce standards and vocabularies using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) are under development. * Enterprise modeling concepts are being developed and standardized in the ISO Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP).  Each of these is necessary, but not individually sufficient, to enable widespread adoption of software components for enterprise systems. Together they provide the means to revolutionize the software industry to the same extent that the motor and electronics industries have been transformed.  An enterprise and its systems are too complex to understand from a single perspective, so its model is composed of several components, each representing a different area of concern. A component defines an aspect of the model in a specific frame of reference and at a particular level of abstraction, or from the point of view of an organization role. Each role defines a domain of expertise, terminology, and conventions that influence how a role player perceives the business world. For example, what is needed of a vehicle by a driver, an accountant, a transport manager, and a maintenance engineer, differ according to their respective roles. In the past, this has caused organizations and their systems to be fragmented along functional lines, resulting in divergent purpose, discontinuous processes, and ""stovepipe"" applications. To prevent this from occurring, an architectural framework is required to link the components of the model into a coherent whole.  Structure of the Book This book describes concepts primarily from the business viewpoint, and assumes that suitable software components can be created if a sufficiently precise business specification exists. The tools and components included in the CD-ROM attempt to illustrate the validity of this assumption. The UML notation and Java and XML languages are used in the design and implementation of these enterprise components.  Chapter 1 is an overview of the management and organization concepts that underpin the models that are described in subsequent chapters. Specific concepts of business purpose, process, entity, and organization are outlined to provide a context for the remainder of the book. The purpose of an organization is described in Chapter 2, with reference to strategy, planning, and contracts. It outlines relationships among data, information, knowledge, understanding, and decision making; which is also needed by an organization to learn and adapt, and to communicate its value to customers and other stakeholders.  Chapter 3 describes business processes as the means by which purpose is achieved. Process design, scheduling, enactment, tracking, improvement, and automation are covered. The concepts, tools, and components are suitable for formal process engineering and for the unstructured activities of ad hoc work. The human, mechanical, material, financial, intellectual, and other entities used and produced by processes are described in Chapter 4. Entities are modeled from various points of view to describe the different aspects of behavior required of them by processes.  Organization concepts are described in Chapter 5 with reference to their roles in adaptive systems, distributed networks, contexts for modeling, and so on. Organizations manage their processes and entities to achieve purpose, and work with others to form value networks. Certain ideas are presented to predict trends in e-commerce. The Appendix illustrates with simple examples how such concepts are used in real applications.  Conventions Used in Book Each chapter introduces its concepts with text and diagrams that are hopefully comprehensible to business people, without the need for detailed knowledge of technology. Object orientation is introduced through business objects--models that are not necessarily implemented in software--described and diagrammed using the UML notation. In most cases, summary diagrams are used in preference to detailed diagrams to illustrate conceptual rather than detailed design. Words that appear in italic type when first used are defined in the Glossary.  The CD-ROM contains Java and XML implementations of the ideas and models described in the Appendix. Java code conventions are used where practical, but code is abbreviated, and many package statements, documentation, and comments are excluded, in order to simplify the listings [Sun 1997]. No attempt is made to explore the business engineering process, or to describe business and software engineering artifacts and tools. However, the CD-ROM contains copies of a tool that enables round trip engineering of Java business objects using Rational Rose. It also includes detailed HTML documentation, and a tutorial to help readers acquaint themselves with its contents.	Recent years have seen the convergence of many disciplines, facilitated by extraordinary social, political, economic, and technological change. Not least has been the convergence of business, information, and natural systems thinking into the new discipline of business engineering. This book describes how complex business systems may be designed and implemented using enterprise components and supporting tools. The CD-ROM at the back of the book contains implementations of the components and tools in Java and XML.   Business Engineering  The purpose of this book is to describe a specific way in which to model enterprises. The focus is on business rather than technological aspects, with examples describing large, complex, and adaptable systems. The book is intended primarily for practitioners of the emergent discipline of business engineering, and is of use both to business people who are sensitive to the strategic potential of technology, and to technologists who understand that business requirements must drive systems design and deployment.    Recent developments in computers and communications enable global business systems that are as much between as within organizations. There are no universal standards for such business systems, and such standards are unlikely to be established in the near future. However, concepts based on the principles of contract and law that have existed for thousands of years, and new insights from the study of complex adaptive systems, may be applied to disparate enterprise applications to enable them to work as though they were part of a single global business network. This book attempts to describe the main features of such systems.    The promise of software components has been recognized for many years, based mainly on the experience of other industries. Automobiles were handmade by craftsmen from raw materials until Henry Ford assembled cars using interchangeable parts, and electronic hardware was assembled by skilled technicians from discrete components until Robert Noyce developed the integrated circuit--but information systems must still be coded line by line by talented programmers. However, several key developments now make reusable software components not only viable, but essential to any enterprise that wants to survive into the twenty-first century.     Ubiquitous networks connect almost every computer through standard communications protocols.  The CORBA, COM+ and EJB component object models make interoperable software components feasible.  Component design concepts, methods and notations can be shared using the Unified Modeling Language (UML).  Practical e-commerce standards and vocabularies using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) are under development.  Enterprise modeling concepts are being developed and standardized in the ISO Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP).    Each of these is necessary, but not individually sufficient, to enable widespread adoption of software components for enterprise systems. Together they provide the means to revolutionize the software industry to the same extent that the motor and electronics industries have been transformed.    An enterprise and its systems are too complex to understand from a single perspective, so its model is composed of several components, each representing a different area of concern. A component defines an aspect of the model in a specific frame of reference and at a particular level of abstraction, or from the point of view of an organization role. Each role defines a domain of expertise, terminology, and conventions that influence how a role player perceives the business world. For example, what is needed of a vehicle by a driver, an accountant, a transport manager, and a maintenance engineer, differ according to their respective roles. In the past, this has caused organizations and their systems to be fragmented along functional lines, resulting in divergent purpose, discontinuous processes, and ""stovepipe"" applications. To prevent this from occurring, an architectural framework is required to link the components of the model into a coherent whole.  Structure of the Book  This book describes concepts primarily from the business viewpoint, and assumes that suitable software components can be created if a sufficiently precise business specification exists. The tools and components included in the CD-ROM attempt to illustrate the validity of this assumption. The UML notation and Java and XML languages are used in the design and implementation of these enterprise components.   Chapter 1 is an overview of the management and organization concepts that underpin the models that are described in subsequent chapters. Specific concepts of business purpose, process, entity, and organization are outlined to provide a context for the remainder of the book. The purpose of an organization is described in Chapter 2, with reference to strategy, planning, and contracts. It outlines relationships among data, information, knowledge, understanding, and decision making; which is also needed by an organization to learn and adapt, and to communicate its value to customers and other stakeholders.     Chapter 3 describes business processes as the means by which purpose is achieved. Process design, scheduling, enactment, tracking, improvement, and automation are covered. The concepts, tools, and components are suitable for formal process engineering and for the unstructured activities of ad hoc work. The human, mechanical, material, financial, intellectual, and other entities used and produced by processes are described in Chapter 4. Entities are modeled from various points of view to describe the different aspects of behavior required of them by processes.   Organization concepts are described in Chapter 5 with reference to their roles in adaptive systems, distributed networks, contexts for modeling, and so on. Organizations manage their processes and entities to achieve purpose, and work with others to form value networks. Certain ideas are presented to predict trends in e-commerce. The Appendix illustrates with simple examples how such concepts are used in real applications.   Conventions Used in Book  Each chapter introduces its concepts with text and diagrams that are hopefully comprehensible to business people, without the need for detailed knowledge of technology. Object orientation is introduced through business objects--models that are not necessarily implemented in software--described and diagrammed using the UML notation. In most cases, summary diagrams are used in preference to detailed diagrams to illustrate conceptual rather than detailed design. Words that appear in italic type when first used are defined in the Glossary.    The CD-ROM contains Java and XML implementations of the ideas and models described in the Appendix. Java code conventions are used where practical, but code is abbreviated, and many package statements, documentation, and comments are excluded, in order to simplify the listings Sun 1997. No attempt is made to explore the business engineering process, or to describe business and software engineering artifacts and tools. However, the CD-ROM contains copies of a tool that enables round trip engineering of Java business objects using Rational Rose. It also includes detailed HTML documentation, and a tutorial to help readers acquaint themselves with its contents.    0201433133P04062001",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;new;object-oriented design;object-oriented software design;programming;software design;testing & engineering;uml;used & rental textbooks,12
156496910X,"How Did They Do That? Motion Graphics David Greene owns and operates a full-service interactive-media production service (www.creative-spark.com). He's produced over 25 Web sites, 15 Flash presentations, and 8 CD-ROMS. Clients have included Symantec, Sun Microsystems, Arista Records, and numerous others in the high-tech and entertainment industries.",arts & photography;books;cinematography;commercial;computers & technology;direction & production;graphic design;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;movies;photography;techniques,12
0761526277,"Walt Disney World 4 Teens by Teens : The Hottest Rides, Coolest Shows, and Best Places to Eat and Shop! A Teen's Guide to the Best Place on Earth	A Teen's Guide to the Best Place on EarthWant to have a great time at Disney World?beyond the typical kid's stuff? Walt Disney World 4 Teens by Teens is the first book to give you insider tips on the hottest parks and rides. Inside, you'll find fun hints, like how to get picked to be a stunt double on the Indiana Jones ride, what the best seats are on Countdown to Extinction, and more! From MGM's Tower of Terror to water rides at Universal's Islands of adventure that will leave you dripping, you'll get a teen's perspective on what's hot (and what's not), including:The coolest?and scariest?rides Fun places to eat, shop, and hang out How not to get trapped in a lame show Music shows and popular hot spots for teens Ratings of the most teen-pleasing rides How to beat the crowds Get the most for your money And much more!""I thought it would be kind of lame to go on vacation with my family but this book made it really cool!"" ?Stefanie Albright, age 16""Even though I've been to Walt Disney World a couple of times, this book showed me lots of secret things to look for? like where to get surfing lessons before the park opens!"" ?John Driggs, age 14Includes Epcot, MGM Studios, Animal Kingdom, Universal Studios, and the new Islands of Adventure.	A Teen's Guide to the Best Place on Earth	Kim Wright Wiley has updated this popular guide for eleven consecutive years. A Walt Disney World lover who has visited the park more than 35 times with her children (and they keep going back for more!), she is the online Disney expert for family.com and a contributing editor at Disney Magazine. Leigh Chandler Wiley is a 15-year-old student in Charlotte, North Carolina. She has visited Disney World with her family over twenty times.",books;disney world;florida;general;orlando;south;south atlantic;specialty travel;theme parks;tourist destinations & museums;travel;united states,12
0676908691,"Fodor's Walt Disney World(r) Resort, Universal Orlando(r) Resort, and Central Florida: The Complete Guide to All the Fun, Plus a Pullout Color Map (Fodor's Gold Guides) No matter what your budget or whether it's your first trip or fifteenth, Fodor's Gold Guides get you where you want to go.  In this guide, updated every year, our experts who live in the Walt Disney World Resort area give you the inside track showing you all the things to see and do -- from must-see sights to off-the-beaten-path adventures, from shopping to outdoor fun. Fodor's Walt Disney World Resort, Universal Orlando Resort and Central Florida 2002 shows you hundreds of hotel and restaurant choices in all price ranges -- from budget-friendly B to luxury hotels, from casual eateries to the hottest new restaurants, complete with thorough reviews showing what makes each place special.  The Smart Travel Tips A to Z section helps you take care of the nitty gritty with essential local contacts and great advice -- from how to take your mountain bike with you to what to do in an emergency. Your personal supply of Post-it? flags makes it easy to mark your favorite listings and the foldout map will keep you on course.  Plus, web links, maps, costs, and mix-and-match itineraries make planning a snap.""The king of guidebooks."" - Newsweek",books;disney world;family travel;florida;general;orlando;south;south atlantic;specialty travel;theme parks;travel;united states,12
0060645784,"Tomorrow's Catholics, Yesterday's Church: The Two Cultures of American Catholicism A lively investigation into the story behind the headlines about   schism in the Catholic church.",20th century;books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);religion & spirituality;religious;roman catholicism;world,12
0736003517,"Attack Proof: the Ultimate Guide to Personal Protection ""I unreservedly endorse John Perkins' methodology"" -- Professor Bradley J. Steiner--President, International Combat Martial Arts Federation, 10th Degree Black Belt""I've used these methods myself in actual life-and-death street encounters, and they really work."" -- Jim Cirillo--Former NYPD and Federal Firearms Combat Instructor, NYPD Stakeout Squad member""John Perkins is one of the few in the U.S. who has mastered the combat aspects of Tai Chi."" -- Dr. Drew Miller--Former director Degerberg Martial Arts Academy""The realistic and-easy-to-learn methods are the best I've ever seen, before or after the military."" -- Lieutenant Dick Shea--Vietnam S.E.A.L. Team""You don't have to be athletic to learn these principles....[with no] hype, [they] result in accelerated learning.""  -- Detective Sergeant James McNeil--NYPD	""    Ive used these methods myself in actual life-and-death street encounters and they really work.Jim CirilloFormer NYPD and Federal Firearms Combat instructorNYPD Stakeout Squad memberYou dont have to be athletic to learn these principles. It is not based on false bravado or hype, but is the result of accelerated learning.Detective Sergeant James McNeilDobbs Ferry, NYI unreservedly endorse John Perkins methodology.Bradley J. SteinerPresident, International Combat Martial Arts Federation10th degree black beltThe realistic and easy-to-learn methods are the best Ive ever seen, before or after the military.Lieutenant Dick SheaRetired U.S. Navy officerVietnam S.E.A.L. Team""""Perkins is one of the few individuals in the United States who has mastered the combat aspects of tai chi chuan.""""Dr. Drew MillerFormer Director, Degerberg Martial Arts AcademyStudent of Chicago tai chi master Waysun Liao""""John Perkins is an expert in the dynamics of violence.""""Dr. Peter PizzolaDetective LieutenantFormer Head, Yonkers Police Department Crime Laboratory ""	""Attackproof is an excellent book and as a former police officer in Cape Town, I know what violence looks like. We have more murders, rapes and domestic violence than anywhere else on earth, and all the other self-defence books were second-class. I now compare every single book to Attackproof and have yet to see one that comes even close.  Mr. Perkins, your work is a masterpiece and it is helping us to tame the streets of this city. Directly due to your work we are able to ensure safety for whole segments of this city and are already working on ensuring safety for visitors in 2010 during the Football World Cup. Congratulations! Charl (Morpheus) Viljoen  International Alliance of Guardian Angels  Regional Director: South Africa	John Perkins has been called Americas foremost self-protection expert by the Trends Research Institute. He has been training and teaching martial arts and self-defense for over 45 years. Perkins has taught hand-to-hand tactics to Marine Combat units, Marine Scout Sniper units, and Military joint task force/counter drug forces. He also has instructed law enforcement personnel from the New York City Police Department, New York State Police, and the New York City Transit Police. A bodyguard to the late Malcolm Forbes, Perkins is a forensic crime scene expert and a master handgun instructor and marksman. He has extensive experience in the martial arts of hapkido, taekwondo, kyukushinkai, kempo karate, judo, jujitsu, goju, and tai chi chuan. He has trained in Native American fighting principles since the age of five. Perkins has battled in unlicensed pit fightsa savage forerunner to todays Ultimate Competitions. He is the founder of ki chuan do (KCD), which translates into The Way of the Spirit Fist or simply Ghostfist, which the Guided Chaos principles detailed in this book are drawn from. KCD is recognized by the International Combat Martial Arts Federation through which he also holds a fifth-degree black belt in combat martial arts. Perkins lives in Nyack, New York.Al Ridenhour, a Major in the United States Marine Corps Reserves, has been training in the martial arts since 1985. He has studied tai chi, isshinryu karate, and ken jitsu. An all-conference wrestler in high school who later learned boxing in the Marine Corps, Ridenhour is now a fifth-degree black belt in ki chuan do. He is a veteran of the Gulf War, where he commanded a 50-man infantry unit and served as an instructor in unarmed combat for his Marine unit and for the battalions Scout Sniper platoon. He has also worked with various law enforcement agenciesU.S. Customs, U.S. Border Patrol, and the Drug Enforcement Agencyduring counter drug missions. Ridenhour has received numerous honors, including the Navy Achievement Medal, a combat action ribbon, the National Defense Medal, and the Kuwait Liberation Medal, which he was awarded by the United States Naval Service after the Gulf War. A member of the International Combat Martial Arts Federation, Ridenhour lives in White Plains, New York. Matt Kovsky is an editor for CBS television. His work has earned him two Emmysone for outstanding editing and another for producer of an outstanding entertainment seriesas well as many other awards. Among his list of honors is a gold medal presented at the New York Film & TV Festival, a gold medal presented by the National Mature Market Media Festival, and a bronze medal presented by the National Educational Film Festival. He is the chronicler whose notebooks laid the foundation for Attack Proof. He is trained in isshinryu karate and jeet kune do, and he has a fourth-degree black belt in ki chuan do. Kovsky resides in Ossining, New York.",books;contemporary;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;individual sports;literature & fiction;martial arts;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sports & outdoors;violence in society,12
0803937466,"Assessing Dangerousness: Violence by Sexual Offenders, Batterers and Child Abusers (Interpersonal Violence: The Practice Series) ""Dr. Jonas has been a voice in the wilderness preaching  sense about both health and health services for years. He clearly  identifies the problems and issues facing the system and its beneficiaries,  based upon the evidence he has carefully marshaled for the reader...and he  challenges the reader to make sense out of the facts, understanding the  evidence within a historical and international context, and come up with  judgments on needed changes and how to go about making them, starting with  the facts which he so generously provides you."" --From the Foreword by Anthony R. Kovner, PhD  Professor of Health Policy and Management  New York University	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	""This updated edition of the classic book on risk assessment presents the latest research regarding the prediction of interpersonal violence. In clear and accessible language, the authors address the specific variables involved in the prediction of child abuse and homicide, as well as intimate partner violence and homicide. This edition also presents an important revision of Campbell's ground-breaking intimate partner homicide lethality risk instrument, theDanger Assessment .All of the contributors to this multidisciplinary volume have faced the difficult task of assessing the risk of family violence in a wide variety of settings--courts, clinics, shelters, emergency rooms, protective service offices, schools, batterer intervention programs, violence prevention programs, and more. Their combined experience in research and practice makes this an indispensable resource for all clinicians required to make predictions about violent behavior.Key features of this new edition include:Coverage of a wide breadth of clinical and court situations requiring threat assessmentsA review of the latest assessment instrumentsNew findings on predicting fatal child abuseLegal and ethical issues in risk assessment""	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN,  is the Anna D. Wolf Chair in Nursing at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and an internationally-known expert in the area of domestic violence. She earned her BSN at Duke University, her MSN at Wright State University, and her PhD from the University of Rochester. She has been recognized as an outstanding alumna at all three universities, has three honorary doctorates, and has received the American Society of Criminology Vollmer Award, the Institute of Medicine Senior Nurse Scholar in residence, and the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research Pathfinder Award. Dr. Campbell's specific areas of research include risk factors and assessment for intimate partner homicide; abuse during pregnancy; marital rape; physical and mental health effects of domestic violence; dating violence; and testing interventions to prevent and address domestic violence. She has authored or co-authored more than 150 articles and chapters, mainly about battered women and family violence. She is author, co-author, or editor of 6 books, including Nursing Care of Survivors of Family Violence (1993); To Have and To Hit: Cultural Perspectives on Wife Beating (1999); Ending Domestic Violence: Changing Public Perceptions/Halting the Epidemic (1997); and Empowering Survivors of Abuse: Health Care for Battered Women and Their Children (1998). With continuous research funding since 1984, she has been principle investigator on nine major grants from the National Institutes of Health and Justice, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Defense. She was Co-Chair of the Steering Committee for the World Health Organization Multi-Country Study of Violence Against Women and Health. A hallmark of Dr. Campbell's career has been her collaborations with domestic violence advocacy organizations including board membership at four domestic violence shelters in Michigan, New York, and Maryland and now at the Family Violence Prevention Fund. Policy work includes the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women, the congressionally appointed Department of Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence, former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's Workshop on Violence and Health (1986), research agendas for CDC, NIH, and ARRQ, and three major Institute of Medicine Committees.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;criminology;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;mental health;mental illness;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0385472706,"Spoonbread & Strawberry Wine: Recipes and Reminiscences of a Family It has been more than 15 years since the Darden sisters began compiling the oral histories of elderly family members, and together with cherished recipes they have put the sum total down on paper. Much more than a cookbook, it is a rich cultural legacy that reflects the authors' African American heritage and records the impressive accomplishments of relatives. Then, too, southern origins are reflected in recipes passed down among generations, including hearty seafood and fish dishes, classic barbecued pork, and delicacies such as fresh strawberry ice cream and fudge. Even Aunt Lil's recipe for violet face cream is included in this delightful m{}elange.  Alice Joyce	Spanning over a century of African-American life  and culture,  this classic oral history celebrates  one remarkable family's heritage  as told through  photos, reminiscences, and recipes--now back in  print  after six years.B & W  photographs throughout	Spanning over a century of African-American lifeand culture, this classic oral history celebratesone remarkable family's heritage as told throughphotos, reminiscences, and recipes--now back inprint after six years.B & Wphotographs throughout	NORMA JEAN and CAROLE DARDEN are graduates of Sarah Lawrence College. Norma Jean owns Spoonbread Catering as well as two New York restaurants, Miss Maudes and Miss Mamies Spoonbread Too. Carole is a real estate agent and mother. Both authors live in New York City. Spoonbread  Strawberry Wine has been featured in Essence, O, The Oprah Magazine, and in Martha Stewart Living, as well as on the television program Martha Stewart Living.",african-american & black;biographies & memoirs;books;cookbooks;drinks & beverages;ethnic & national;food & wine;gastronomy;history;regional & international;spirits;u.s. regional,12
1594270147,"South Beach Recipes, Not Low Fat, Not No Carb: Recipes for a Food Plan You Can Live With--Forever From childhood Nancy knew she had a gift that made her  different from other people. Her intuitive ability to help and heal  people has always come natural to her. After 20 successful years in  Corporate America, she felt that something was missing in her life. To  find what was missing, she began to explore the various healing  modalities that would work alongside her natural gift to heal. This  path has led her to an intense and comprehensive study of the healing  arts and sciences. Nancy began to blend her gifts with her newfound  knowledge, achieving her goal to assist others to attain health,  wellness and a new sense of empowerment over their lives. Nancy has a  love of books, meeting new people and learning about them. She enjoys  golf, tennis, scuba diving, and sharing her life with the love of her  life, John. Having no tolerance for the cold, she has found her  paradise in South Florida. Nancy is a gourmet cook and having friends  in for dinner parties is a passion for her. She takes time every  day to appreciate all the good things in her life and having the  ability to recognize them!",books;cookbooks;culinary arts & techniques;diets & weight loss;fitness & dieting;food & wine;health;low carb;low carbohydrate;low fat;south beach diet;special diet,12
1583940863,"When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak I've never seen a better coached team at any level. I watch his teams play and can't believe it's a high school football game. He is as fine a coach as the game has ever seen.-Former San Francisco 49ers coach Bill WalshIt's the ultimate high school football program in this country, there's no doubt about that. It's unbelievable how they keep winning.-Detroit Lions coach Steve Mariucci	Neil Hayes is a sports columnist for the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek, CA. He has twice won national awards for enterprise reporting. He lives in Pleasant Hill, CA, with his wife Charlee and their two children, Nicholas and Riley.",americas;books;education & reference;education theory;football (american);history;history of sports;miscellaneous;schools & teaching;sports & outdoors;state & local;united states,12
1552976351,"Cougar: A Guide for Older Women Dating Younger Men The book already has Cougars and their prey buzzing. (Deborah Schoeneman New York Post 2002-09-12)	Valerie Gibson is a popular, witty always-irreverent sex relationship columnist who happily advocates dating younger men. A pioneer cougar, who loves passionately and lives life to the fullest, she's had five husbands - the last fourteen years her junior. This book, she says, is the result of many years of dedicated research.	Birth of a Cougar      I didn't hit my stride until I turned forty.    Oh, I'd had four marriages by that time and had led quite the wild life but, somehow, I'd never been able to get it all together. I guess I was the consummate late bloomer. Lucky for me that my ""awakening"" coincided with Nature's Last Stand -- that pivotal moment when a woman's hormones make their final, frantic dash through the body before leaping like lemmings over the menopausal cliff.    So, there I was -- forty years old and hotter than a chili pepper. Many might say that I've always been like that (especially my mother, who blamed her stomach ulcers on my wanton ways). But my various forays into loving and marital relationships with men mu own age or older always seemed to end in tears. Theirs, I must add. I always sailed on unscathed into yet another disastrous liaison.    Forty found me permanently             attached yet again. Four years later I wasn't. During those crucial years, I set out in a new direction. After spending my entire life on men's dreams, I found myself wondering what had happened to my own. Did I mention that I also made an exciting and enjoyable discovery? Younger men.    My then-marriage crumbled beneath a mountain of problems, not the least of which was the close proximity in my daily working life of an extremely handsome and well-built young man. A proximity that became so close we couldn't be pried apart. My marriage split acrimoniously and, at forty-four, I found myself homeless, jobless, and credit card-less, not to mention broke.    Yet along with the new (and at times seemingly insurmountable) challenges of emotional and financial survival, I found that being forty-four, single, and hotter than a chili pepper was by no means the social drawback one might expect -- or be led to believe. In fact, far from finding myself              alone and dateless, I appeared to be just what quite a number of men -- younger men -- were after. They certainly turned out to be what I was after.    Far from panicking and running the other way (as was still expected in those restrictive and societally condemning days), I jumped right into the deep end and became an outspoken and visible ""cougar"" -- a single, older woman who prefers to date younger men, and is proud of that choice.    I wasn't worried about what people would think. I didn't even consider hiding my predatory ways. I simply roared out into the world and began to sample the pleasures of relationships with younger men -- without guilt.    Imagine my surprise when I discovered that, at that time, most other older women didn't share my newfound confidence. While many were busy doing exactly what I was doing, they were just as busy hiding it. Why? Because society has a double standard, they said. It's              okay for older men to date much younger women; in fact, society tends to give its approval to such liaisons. When it comes to older women, however, there are very different rules. Older men who date younger women are looked on with admiration (by other older men) and called virile. Older women who date younger men are scorned (by both sexes) and called foolish. And much worse.    Cougar poop!    Although I may have been a pioneer in the art of the cougar hunt, I'm glad to say that this delightful pastime has since not only become acceptable to most of society (there are still diehard pockets of resistance in the urban jungle), but also taken its proper and necessary place in the world of alternative relationships.",aging;books;fitness & dieting;health;humor;humor & entertainment;interpersonal relations;love;love & romance;relationships;self-help;sex & marriage,12
0892438916,"Sacred Reading: The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina Michael Casey, prior of the Cistercian abbey of Tarrawarra in Victoria, Australia, places the practice of lectio divina near the heart of the Benedictine tradition. Although this is not a ""cookbook,"" it is a practical guide as well as a theological and historical introduction. For Casey, lectio divina is a spiritual discipline with particular relevance to an age marked by individualism and resistance to discipline. Readers will find his application of traditional imagery of a spiral journey into the depths of Scripture particularly illuminating as a guide to reading sacred texts. That a spiral journey is marked by repetition leads Casey to remark that ""there is a kind of monotony that is not boredom but paves the way to a more profound experience."" This is reminiscent of advice from Zen tradition: if you find something boring after a minute, do it for two; if you find it boring after two minutes, do it for four. ""Enlightenment,"" Casey writes, ""comes not by increasing the level of excitement, but by moving more deeply into calm."" Readers will find this book a most helpful companion in making that move.  Steve Schroeder",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christian living;devotionals;education & reference;other religions;practices & sacred texts;reference;religion & spirituality;ritual;spirituality,12
B0002NY6SW,"FAST HARDENER #205, .86 QUART FAST HARDENER produces rapid cure. Mix with #105 resin 5:1 for rigid, high strength, rigid moisture resistant solid. Pot life of 10 to 15 minutes at 70F. Use #301 mini pumps. Size: 0.86 Quart.",adhesives & fasteners;adhesives & glue;boating;boating & water sports;glue sticks & pens;hardware;maintenance supplies;office & school supplies;office products;painting supplies;sports & outdoors;tape,12
0300060297,"Museums of the Mind: Magritte`s Labyrinth and Other Essays in the Arts Belgian surrealist painter Rene Magritte's mother committed suicide by drowning herself when he was 13. Spitz, a psychoanalytic critic, interprets his enigmatic paintings as signs of a lifelong struggle with this loss. In this dense but intriguing scholarly miscellany, Spitz (Art and Psyche) muses on the absurd as manifested in Chekhov's play The Bear and in Freud's dissection of jokes; interprets Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as an avant-garde postmodernist work; and explores themes of nonconformity and rebellion in the film Dead Poets Society and in Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip whose six-year-old protagonist creates a florid fantasy life with his toy tiger. In Sophocles's Antigone, Spitz finds an ethical imperative: conflicts in life must not be avoided. Her poignant concluding essay on Brundibar, a Czech children's opera that was performed many times by child inmates at the Nazis' Terezin concentration camp, illumines the power of art to inspire hope and a will to live. Illustrated. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Spitz is at once a philosophical psychoanalyst and an eloquent poet. Captivated and marvelously inspired by the disjunctive visions of the surreal Magritte, she devotes nearly half these associatively written contemplations to the labyrinth that is his work. In her view, the suicide of Magritte's mother looms as the primary motivation for his ""painted puzzles"" and the source of his personal eccentricity. Spitz follows her meditations on Magritte with literate observations on snippets of drama, Hollywood film, and icons of popular culture. Writing across the disciplines, she discourses on absurdity and the joke and reviews Chekhov, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Dead Poets Society, and the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Recommended for both general readers and scholars.Mary Hamel-Schwulst, Towson State Univ., Md.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.",arts & photography;books;conceptual;criticism;fitness & dieting;health;history & criticism;literature & fiction;movements & periods;other media;psychology & counseling;surrealism,12
1882982584,"The Learning Paradigm College ""This [is an] outstanding piece of thinking. It's really going to generate a lot of discussion!""John N. Gardner, Executive Director, Policy Center on the First Year of College, Brevard College	In The Learning Paradigm College, John Tagg builds on the Change magazine article he coauthored with Robert Barr in 1995, ""From Teaching to Learning: A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education."" This groundbreaking book describes the paradigm shift that is taking hold in American higher education one in which the new mission of the institution is to produce learning, not simply to provide instruction.This book offers a new lens through which readers can see their own institutions and their own work. A radically fresh perspective examines existing functional frameworks and offers a way to reenvision and recast many familiar aspects of college work and college life.Eminently clear, accessible descriptions of the features of the Learning Paradigm are paired with actual and uplifting examples of how institutions of higher education around the country are transforming themselves into Learning Paradigm colleges. The Learning Paradigm College is vital, optimistic, and realistic about what all those involved in higher education can achieve.	JOHN TAGG is Associate Professor of English at Palomar College in San Macros, California. He is coauthor, with Robert B. Barr, of ""From Teaching to Learning: A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education"" (Change, 1995). For the past several years, he has conducted workshops and made presentations at many colleges and universities or organizational transformation and the Learning Paradigm.",administration;books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;education;education & reference;education theory;new;reference;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,12
0761962883,"Statistical Methods for Geography Peter Rogerson has provided us with an accessible introduction to the main statistical procedures used by geographers, along with valuable illustrations of how these can be applied using SPSS dor Windows. As a primer in statistical analysis for geographers it will be widely used and appreciated  Professor Ron JohnstonUniversity of Bristol   It should be stated on the outset: this is an excellent textbook recommended for all geographers, students and teachers alike. The book excels in many aspects: its content is rich and well balanced, its clarity is superb, and it is replete with examples and exercises. The book is user-friendly to students who are interested in understanding the application of statistical tests and in properly interpreting the results, rather than in delving in the mathematics involved. Shaul KrakoverGeography Research Forum	I am Professor of Geography and Biostatistics at the University at Buffalo.  My research interests are in the area of demography and population change, epidemiology, spatial statistics, and spatial analysis.  My current work is focused upon the development of new methods for the quick detection of newly emergent clusters in geographic data (for example, how does one determine as quickly as possible whether there is a new cluster of crime or disease?).",books;earth sciences;ecotourism;environmental science;geography;mathematics;politics & social sciences;regional;science & math;social sciences;specialty travel;travel,12
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1888698098,"Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis Baseball's first commissioner cast such a long and powerful shadow over the game, it's often hard to untangle his contribution from his personality, and his life from his lasting myth. The truth that emerges from this exhaustive and engaging biography of Judge Landis has no problem matching the outsized legend stride for stride. Landis moved into the public spotlight to clean up the national pastime after the disgrace of the 1919 World Series, but there was much more to this complex man and his complex career. Judge and Jury chronicles the entirety. A tough, colorful judge, his rulings could be as unpredictable as he was. Landis could be as severe and stubborn as he could be gentle and understanding, characteristics that both defined his decision-making and confused his critics. Noted as a trustbuster--he went head to head with John D. Rockefeller, fining Standard Oil $29 million--he upheld baseball's exemption from antitrust status from the bench. Known for his harsh sentences, he was almost impeached for his leniency to the destitute. As commissioner, he loved the post, the game, and his perceived responsibility as its primary upholder and restorer of virtue: ""You have told the world that my powers would be absolute,"" he warned the owners who hired him. ""I wouldn't take this job for all the gold in the world unless I knew my hands were free."" In his regime, they pretty much were, and he used them to grab his share of whatever power and glory he could wrap them around. --Jeff Silverman	This exhaustive study of baseball's first commissioner by the author of Minor Miracles includes details about its subject's life before baseball. Named for the Civil War battle in which his father was wounded and nicknamed ""Squire,"" Landis grew up in a large family, two of whose members later served in the House of Representatives, while others became prominent journalists. This scion of a rock-ribbed Midwestern Republican family served in Washington, D.C., in the administration of Democrat Grover Cleveland. But back in his adopted city of Chicago in 1905, Landis was appointed a federal district court judge by Teddy Roosevelt. Deeply involved in the progressive, trust-busting wing of the GOP, he came to national attention when he took on Standard Oil and its powerful head, John D. Rockefeller Sr. Though the multimillionaire tried to avoid a subpoena, Landis made him testify and assessed Standard Oil a $29-million fineAthe largest in U.S. history (though it was later reduced). During WWI he was an unabashed jingoist, convinced that all socialists and labor leaders who opposed the war were traitors; unfortunately for them, many were tried in Landis's court and drew inordinately long sentences. The so-called Black Sox scandal in the World Series of 1919, fixed by gamblers, led the owners to hire Landis as an almost omnipotent commissioner, a job he held until his death 24 years later. He did indeed restore the reputation for honesty of the national pastime, though he opposed night games and the farm system in vain. In this fascinating, diligently researched work, Pietrusza tackles a complex, important man and makes him his own. Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Long-renowned as baseball's first real commissioner, Landis had earlier been the strong-minded judge who fined John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co. $29 million. Pietrusza, past president of the Society for American Baseball Research, portrays a harsh if occasionally lenient baseball czar who banned the 1919 Black Sox, among others, for gambling but spared some players. Unlike Jerome Holtzman, who recently labeled Landis ""a bigoted curmudgeon"" in his The Commissioners (Total Sports, 1998), Pietrusza says that owners, not Landis, blocked the game's integration. This warm but fair biography belongs on most sports shelves.?Morey Berger, St. Joseph's Hosp. Medical Lib., Tucson, AZCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In thisfascinating,diligentlyresearched work,Pietrusza tacklesa complex,important manand makes himhis own. --Publishers WeeklyBelongs on most Sports bookshelves. --Library Journalwell regarded --The Washington PostThe most comprehensive biography yet ofthe man who save baseball from the stain ofthe 1919 Black Sox scandal. --USA Today Baseball WeeklyJUDGE AND JURY is the first full-length treatment of Landis' life, from the unusual first name to his last days. Powerfully and meticulously written, Pietrusza's book brings to life the days gone by to introduce the Squire to future generations of fans and historians.  Forget the myths and misconceptions--JUDGE AND JURY offers the real story behind the legend. -- From the Publisher	In Judge and Jury, author David Pietrusza presents the first  extensive and complete life story of the unforgettable Judge Kenesaw  Mountain Landis.  Pietrusza includes a thorough look at Landis and his  impact on baseball as The Game's first commissioner, but he also goes  well beyond Landis the baseball man to reveal Landis as a hardnosed  juristas well as the many other fascinating facets of the life of this  legendary American figure.  A must-buy in 1997!	Called one of the best historians in the United States, David Pietrusza has produced a number of critically-acclaimed works concerning 20th century American history.His book1960: LBJ vs JFK vs Nixon: The Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencieswas named byForeWord Magazineas among the best political biographies.Pietrusza's1920: The Year of the Six Presidentsreceived a Kirkus starred review, was honored as aKirkusBest Books of 2007title, and was named an alternate selection of the History Book Club. Historian Richard Norton Smith has listed1920: The Year of the Six Presidentsas being among the best studies of presidential campaigns.1920reached #1 best-selling rank in threeamazon.comnon-fiction categories.Pietrusza's biography of Arnold Rothstein entitledRothstein: The Life, Times  Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Serieswas a finalist for the 2003 Edgar Award.Pietrusza'sJudge and Jury, his biography of baseball's first commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, received the 1998 CASEY Award.Pietrusza collaborated with baseball legend Ted Williams on an autobiography calledTed Williams: My Life in Pictures.He has been interviewed on NPR, MSNBC, C-SPAN, The History Channel (The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents), ESPN, the Fox News Channel, EBRU-TV, and the Fox Sports Channel. He has produced and written the PBS-affiliate documentary, Local Heroes. He has served as a regular panelist on FoxNews.com Live.Pietrusza holds a master's degrees in history from the University at Albany and has served on the City Council in Amsterdam, New York.Pietrusza is the Recipient of the 2011 Excellence in Arts  Letters Award of the Alumni Association of the University at Albany.His study of1948's dramaticTruman-Dewey-Wallace-Thurmond presidential campaign is scheduled for publication in October 2011 by Union Square Press.	Chapter 1  "" I Had an Ambition to Become the Head of Something"" Physically Kenesaw Mountain Landis was not a mountain. But he was named for one. In November of 1862, Dr. Abraham Hoch Landis. The father of the future lord of baseball, left his home in Millville, Ohio, twenty-five miles north of Cincinnati, for service as assistant surgeon with the 35th Ohio Infantry Regiment. The Civil War would eventually take forty-one year-old Dr. Landis to northern Georgia and provide his son with his unusual given name.  The war was not at all kind to this country doctor. Landis saw much of death and human suffering. Chickamauga, for example, was a disaster for the Union. Fought in northern Georgia in September 1863, over sixteen thousand Northern troops were either killed, wounded or taken captive. The 35th Ohio lost half its men. Dr. Landis himself was taken prisoner and along with forty-six other surgeons was sent by way of Atlanta to Richmond's infamous Libby prison. The sight of his fellow prisoners shocked the doctor. ""The mere appearance of their faces told us starvation and exposure were closing the work of death . . ."" he noted, ""America will never know how many of her noble sons perished in the dens of Richmond.""1 Released in an exchange of prisoners, he returned to active duty with the 35th Ohio and in was one of one hundred thousand men that moved from Tennessee into Georgia, as William Tecumseh Sherman struck deeper into a dying South. Sherman, however, found himself confronted by General Joseph Johnston's tenacious and skillful retreat. Normally, Sherman would have executed a flanking move. But the region's muddy roads made that impossible. Waiting out the rebels also seemed out of the question, as Union soldiers grew ever more restive at their slow pace. Finally in late June 1864, the increasingly frustrated Sherman flung sixteen thousand troops into a desperate frontal assault on Johnston's well dug-in eighteen-thousand-man force, just twenty miles northwest of Atlanta. The result was the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, one of the worst Union defeats of the entire war. The Confederates lost just 800 men, while federal casualties amounted to 2,500. Most famous among the wounded was Ambrose Bierce, the future acerbic humorist, but the most significant for Abraham Landis was a teen-aged infantryman being treated at his surgical headquarters. ""A 12-pound cannonball, apparently spent, was bounding toward the group,"" Kenesaw Mountain Landis once recounted, ""Nobody paid any attention to it. But it struck my father's left leg, just below the knee, and shattered it horribly.... He had to keep his fellow surgeons off with a gun, in order to keep them from amputating it.""2 In August the 35th Ohio was mustered out of service, and the crippled Landis returned to Millville.* He was unable to immediately resume the practice of medicine. ""When I was six years old,"" recalled Kenesaw, ""eight years after that battle, I remember distinctly how he was still going through special exercises, trying to regain more use of the injured leg.""3  So the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was never far from Dr. Landis's mind-not even on November 20, 1866 when his wife, Mary Kumler Landis, gave birth to their sixth child, and fourth son. Actually Dr. Landis's morbid fascination with the site of his personal disaster might have been a positive development, for the Landises were involved both in a general domestic dispute over what to name the newcomer and a specific debate over Abraham's suggestion to name it after himself. ""For months after I was born,"" Kenesaw later recalled, ""my folks couldn't agree on a name for me. I lay there in a basket and my aunts and uncles would come in every night and argue with my mother and father about what I should be called. It got to be a community problem. The blacksmith thought I ought to be named Abraham, for my father, but my mother vowed she wouldn't have a son of hers shackled with a name like that.""4 Indeed, Mary Landis must have truly hated the name Abraham-not to mention all the other proposals-for when her husband finally suggested, ""Let us call him Kenesaw Mountain,"" she agreed.5 The name must not have always gone over well among young Landis's often-cruel contemporaries. ""They called me every damn thing they could think of,"" contended Kenesaw Landis.""6 As queer as this nomenclature may seem to modern ears, it was not nearly so foreign to nineteenth-century ones. Civil War veterans often named children after engagements in which they had fought. One child found himself christened Malvern Hill Barnum. In Boston, the legend went, two brothers were named ""Sixth Corps"" and ""Army of the Potomac.""7 With that in mind, we-and he-may consider ourselves lucky that baseball's first commissioner was Kenesaw Mountain Landis and not Libby Prison Landis or 35th Ohio Regiment Landis. The spelling of the name provides some interesting history. The child was named ""Kenesaw Mountain,"" but we have recorded the battle as being ""Kennesaw Mountain"" -- and in fact that is the modern spelling of the battle and the location. Most historians have explained the difference as a mere misspelling, but this is an oversimplification. Actually, there were two spellings of the name-Kennesaw and Kenesaw. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Kenesaw was as acceptable as the now standard Kennesaw. Abraham Landis was not guilty of a misspelling, he simply paid his money and took his choice. He chose Kenesaw.8 To understand Kenesaw Mountain Landis one must comprehend his family-and how highly visible, idea-oriented, and flamboyant it was. No one ever accused Kenesaw Landis of being shy. Most saw him as a hopeless ham, whose flair for the dramatic often outshined his legal or judicial acumen. Staring down from his judge's bench or glaring across his commissioner's desk at club owners, Landis possessed a stage presence that many actors would have given their Screen Actors Guild card to possess. He never hesitated to employ it. Ultimately Kenesaw Landis would establish a reputation as a religious skeptic -perhaps even an atheist, but he sprang from highly religious roots. The Landises were originally Swiss Mennonites. A distant ancestor, Hans Landis, was beheaded at Geneva in September 1614 for his faith. Authorities later imprisoned his son Felix and so mistreated him that he died from jail's ill effects. Soon the Landises left Switzerland, relocating most likely in the Germanic Alsatian region near Strasbourg. These Catholic lands were, however, only marginally more hospitable, and shortly before the American Revolution eight Landis brothers sailed for the New World, settling in Pennsylvania. One, Frederick, was Kenesaw Mountain Landis's great-grandfather.9 Frederick's son Phillip and his second wife Elizabeth Hoch were among the earliest settlers of Butler County, Ohio, where Abraham Landis, their youngest son, was born at Hickory Flats, Ohio, on February 14, 1821. Educated in a log cabin schoolhouse, Abraham later studied medicine under a Dr. Rigdon of Hamilton, Ohio, and graduated from Cincinnati's Ohio Medical College in 1849.10 In Millville on September 17, 1850, he took Mary Kumler as his bride. For a while they lived in Butler County but later moved back to Millville. There they lived in a humble three-room brick cottage constructed atop a hillside above Indian Creek.** It would later serve as Kenesaw's birthplace.11 Abraham Landis was not marrying down. The Kumlers were a distinguished clan, particularly in matters of religion. Mary Kumler's grandfather, Henry Kumler Sr., had come from a family of ""some means."" Raised in the German Reformed Church, in 1815 he converted to the United Brethren in Christ and devoted himself to the propagation of its faith. He circuit rode long distances for the ""U B of C"" (as Kenesaw Landis would later flippantly refer to the sect) and became a church bishop in 1825. Sixteen years later, one of his twelve children, Henry Jr., followed in his footsteps as a church bishop. In January 1855 Henry Jr., his brother Dr. D. C. Kumler (Mary Kumler's father), and Daniel Kumler Flickinger (a grandson of Henry Sr. by his daughter Hannah)*** were the first three United Brethren missionaries to visit Africa. Another of Henry Sr.'s grandsons (by his daughter Susannah), Franklin Abia Zeller Kumler, distinguished himself domestically, as president of two colleges and elected member of the Society of Science, Letters and Arts of London, England. The Kumlers were not a family to be trifled with.12   Five children had already been born to Abraham and Mary Kumler Landis prior to Kenesaw's arrival: Catherine Jeannette (born August 15, 1851), Sarah Frances Q. (December 28, 1853), Walter (April 15, 1856), Charles (July 9, 1858), and John (October 10, 1860). Another son, Frederick Daniel (August 18, 1872), would follow Kenesaw. On his mother's side, Landis was descended from Bible-believing clergymen. While he failed to inherit his ancestor's religious zeal, Kenesaw did inherit their I-am-speaking-from-Holy-Writ mien. But evangelism was not the only family strain benefiting Kenesaw. Landis's four brothers all dabbled successfully in a pair of very public avocations: journalism and politics. Two of his brothers ultimately won election to Congress. Both are of interested they inherited from Abraham Landis. Originally a Whig, Dr. Landis became a lifelong and staunch Republican. He also had a flair for writing, sending back numerous dispatches of his wartime experiences to various Northern newspapers and periodicals. The combination of those two pursuits with evangelism eventually would give physically small Kenesaw Mountain Landis the presence to cow criminals, industrial monopolists, or baseball owners-in fact, just about anybody he came in contact with.13  Kenesaw's oldest brother, Walter ""Happy Jack"" Kumler Landis, set the journalistic pattern for his younger siblings, starting in that profession with the Logansport Journal and continuing on with the Marion Chronicle, the Indianapolis Journal & Sentinel, and the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.14 Walter, a lifelong bachelor, was not beyond employing every journalistic trick required to obtain a story. Once at the Commercial Tribune he and Gid Thompson, a reporter at the rival Enquirer, rushed out independently of each other to the rail yards to interview a woman, Della Shellabarger, about a suspected murder. When Thompson arrived, Shellabarger informed him that a police detective named Kratz had warned her against speaking to anyone else about the case. She went on to say that Kratz was in the railroad car's drawing room. Thompson demanded to see him-and discovered that ""Kratz"" was actually Landis. From then Walter Landis's fellow journalists knew him as ""Detective Kratz.""15    Charles Beary Landis was the stockiest of the five brothers. After graduating from Wabash College in 1883 he followed Walter into journalism, also with the Logansport Journal-a paper then owned by Daniel P. Baldwin, who had served as Indiana's attorney general from 1880 through1882. There Charles held the grand title of city editor, although he was the paper's solitary employee and wrote not only city items but also covered sports and local society and indeed performed whatever tasks had to be done. An active Republican in an era when newspapers were openly and proudly partisan, Charles took on his opponents mercilessly. In 1884, for example, a local Democrat by the name of H. J. Roach picked a fight with the young journalist for remarks he had made in the Logansport Journal impugning Roach's moral integrity. Bystanders had to separate the pair. On the urging of Journal editor W. D. Pratt, Charles became his own boss in 1887, purchasing the Delphi (Indiana) Journal. From 1894 through 1896 Charles served as President of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association. Some around Logansport considered John Howard Landis to have possessed an ""intellectual superiority"" over his brothers and to be more ""thorough and painstaking."" He lacked, however, their flair and one observer thought him ""less showy.""16   John also harbored journalistic ambitions, but his enthusiasm may have declined after participating in a December 1878 Logansport High School Literary Society debate. He took the negative in the question, ""Resolved, that the Pen is Mightier than the Sword""-and lost. At one point he wrote a novel. But when he sent the manuscript to a friend for ""candid"" review she found it totally lacking ""the element of love."" Not only did he not publish the work, he never contacted her again.17  Graduating from high school in 1879, John spent the next decade drifting from position to position. In 1885 he entered the railway postal service, passing his entrance exam (which relied on accuracy in sorting 1661 cards) with only twelve mistakes, a grade of 99.5 percent (90 percent was passing). The following February, however, he contracted malaria. When he recovered he moved to Minneapolis where he became an accountant in a plumbing firm operated by an old Logansport school chum. Finally John entered the medical profession, graduating in 1890 from his father's alma mater, the Ohio Medical College. Remaining in Cincinnati, he began his medical career in that city in 1891.18  Frederick ""Buckskin"" Landis was the youngest of the seven Landis children  -and perhaps the most dramatic, outstripping even Kenesaw in that regard. Frederick had held the ""Buckskin"" nickname since age ten when he had delivered papers in Logansport atop his father's aged horse ""Buckskin."" His next career move was even less propitious. Dropping out of high school after his freshman year, he went to work clerking in a local drug store. Frederick quickly tired of ""sweeping out cigar stubs and washing bottles,"" however, and returned to school. In 1893 he obtained a law degree from the University of Michigan and that September began practicing in Logansport. But he focused more on politics than on the law, and when the Logansport Journal's W. D. Pratt convinced him that journalism was a convenient stepping stone to politics he quickly joined the Journal's staff.19 And what of the two Landis sisters, Kate and Sarah? In an era when few women worked outside the home, the teaching profession was a rare avenue open to women-particularly unmarried women. In 1872 Sarah Frances (usually known as Frances, and to family members as ""Frank"" or even ""Q"") moved back to Seven Mile, Ohio, to take up that spinsteresque profession. She remained in the Seven Mile schools for three years. In 1880 she took up teaching in Logansport, eventually accepting a position as first grade teacher at Logansport's Southside School. The other sister, Kate, attended Ohio's Otterbein College and regularly won ribbons at the Cass County Horticultural and Mechanical Association for such entries as sweet preserves, catsup, comb honey and wax flowers. But lest we underestimate her, she is one of the first of the Landises to be recorded in political activity. In October 1884 she served on the Fifth Ward's Floral Committee in welcoming GOP presidential candidate James G. Blaine to Logansport.  In the decade following the Civil War Abraham Landis was on the move. In 1869 he relocated the family to Seven Mile, Ohio, where Frederick Landis was born, and then moved to northern Indiana in 1875, settling in the small town of Logansport1.**** When in the early 1870s Abraham Landis was considering his move to Logansport, he also pondered such alternatives as Omaha and Chicago. He had even picked out a particular block-sized parcel in the Windy City, but finally decided that Logansport had a greater future as a railroad hub and opted to become a Hoosier. Years later, after Kenesaw Mountain had moved to Chicago and established a law practice in the city, Abraham Landis visited him. Kenesaw, a great walker, and his father went hiking about the city one day, when Abraham spied the parcel he had once considered purchasing. It had become the site of the LaSalle Street rail station. Had Abraham Landis acquired the land he would have become a wealthy man.  ""Sir,"" Kenesaw jokingly reproved his father, ""if it hadn't been for your bad judgement, I would now be one of those young blades driving down Michigan Avenue in a carriage, instead of spending my youth cooped up in a law office.""20 In Logansport Dr. Landis served on the Board of the Logansport State Hospital for the Insane.***** He also augmented his medical income with a seventeen-dollar-per-month Civil War pension and practiced farming. In October 1878 the doctor even took second place at the Cass County Fair for his half bushel of sweet potatoes. Life was satisfying but not easy. Each of the Landis children was expected to pitch in and help with the chores. The work was hard, but years later Kenesaw- never really known for his interest in physical labor-professed not to mind. In 1907 he reminisced to a reporter about his Indiana farm days:  Did you ever cradle wheat? If you haven't, you don't know what work is. It is the one thing besides mowing hay at the back side of a big hay mow on a hot day, calculated to make one lose confidence in Providence. Nowadays farmers are regular dudes and sit on a spring seat under an umbrella, while a self-binding machine does the work. Now they read Shakespeare and reap their harvests at the same time. Those were the happiest days of my life. We raised corn mostly, with a little wheat and such, plowing with Bob and Liz. Liz was a lovely character, one of the sweetest mules in the world. Both are dead in their graves -Bob and Liz, too, but it was not until long after did we five boys realize that we had been working just to keep Bob and Liz supplied with enough to eat.21 Eventually Abraham Landis gave up country life, moving to the Logansport outskirts, buying the city block bounded by Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Market, and Broadway and constructing a two-story frame house at 1706 E. Market Street for his large family. It was a huge house which even after a neighborhood built up around it stood out in its grandness. ""We had a big house...,"" Kenesaw's nephew Lincoln Landis recalled, ""a big house with a parlor, high ceilings, large living room, sitting room and probably six or seven or eight bedrooms, coal furnace when I lived in it. We had a coal furnace in the basement and a very large yard.""22  Yet the Landises (or ""the Landii"" as some called them) were by no means settled financially and reacted by taking appropriate measures. ""This splendid American family,"" wrote one contemporary, ""practiced thrift from their very youth and did it in the most charming manner. Nobody ever heard a Landis complain. It was thought wonderful that the Landises...should walk clear down town from Twenty-sixth street when a street car was running right along beside them. But they did.""23  It was, to be sure, a talented and ambitious family, but even then Kenesaw stood out. There was just something about him, a lord of the manor air, a bearing that marked him as, well, different. His siblings respectfully nicknamed him the ""Squire"" for his lordly manner-and in the family, at least, the nickname stuck for the rest of his life. Whoever named him had not mistaken his intentions. ""I do remember,"" he once remarked, ""that when I was a youngster, I had an ambition to become the head of something. I mean the man who was responsible to nothing except his own conscience.""24 It was not surprising that someone with such a keen sense of self also had a keen sense of history. It was Kenesaw's favorite subject in school, with a particular interest in another Hoosier schoolboy, Abraham Lincoln. But Kenesaw's curiosity clearly failed to extend to things mathematical, specifically to matters of algebra. When Kenesaw reached algebra class he also reached the end of his secondary education. Algebra so frustrated him, that in 1882 the fifteen-year old Landis dropped out of high school. His previous work experience had been as a paperboy for one dollar per week. For this worldly sum he arose before each sunrise to load up ""like a pack mule""25 and peddle the Logansport Morning Journal, the city's official Republican paper.******26 But a single dollar per week was nothing to be satisfied with, and Kenesaw secured a full-time three dollars per-week junior clerk's position at Logansport's principal grocery store. The oddest thing about Kenesaw's decision to leave school was his father's ignorance of it for six full months. When Dr. Landis (by now sporting a long white beard and looking strangely like abolitionist John Brown) finally found out, he was aghast. But try as he might he could not persuade his son to return to his studies. Kenesaw, however, needed little persuading to leave the confines of the general store. Even in the early 1880s three dollars per week did not go far, and any young man who strove to be ""responsible to nothing except his own conscience"" could hardly be satisfied sweeping sawdust off the floor or stocking soda crackers and calico. In the next few years Kenesaw would bounce from job to job, slowly increasing his responsibilities and rapidly expanding his ambitions.  Kenesaw left his budding mercantile career for a five-dollar per-week job as errand boy in the dispatcher's office of the Vandalia Railroad. Before long he requested a transfer-to the post of brakeman. ""Well,"" he explained to the Vandalia's local superintendent, ""I am kind of tired of Logansport and I want to see something of the world. If I was a brakeman why I would probably get as far as Delphi, Indiana, and maybe even to Indianapolis."" Taking a withering look at the puny young man (the painfully thin Landis never grew to be taller than 5'6"" with an adult weight at little more than 130 pounds) the superintendent turned to another employee, and snarlingly barked: ""Look at the little squirt who wants to be a brakeman.""27 Then turning back to Landis he pronounced, ""You will be no brakeman on this line or any other, if I can prevent it. If you have got to break your fool neck, you can do it easier in some other way.""28 Landis now saw that the railroader's life was not for him and went to work for his brother Charles at the Logansport Journal. The young Squire's work at the Journal sometimes required him to cover proceedings at Cass County's old Greek Revival courthouse, where the newfangled art of shorthand court reporting caught his eye. Here was a job with a future, or at least a present Landis thought. He cajoled incumbent court reporter John J. O'Connor to instruct a small class of local lads in the subject and before long was good enough to land the position of official circuit court reporter in Indiana's Lake County, serving there from 1883 to 1886. ""I may not have been much of a judge, nor baseball official,"" he once wrote, ""but I do pride myself on having been a real shorthand reporter.""29 But to think the ambitious, hyperkinetic Landis was all work and no play would be a substantial mistake. Despite his small stature, Landis was quite the local athlete, making up for his lack of poundage with an unusual dexterity. Despite his lack of height he played first base for the Goosetown semipro club. ""Our favorite enemy was the New Jerusalem team,"" he once recalled, ""It was an endless feud between us. However, we licked them no oftener than we were licked."" He supposedly declined a chance to turn pro, arguing that he played ""merely for sport and the love of the game."" At age seventeen he even became the team's manager.30  Kenesaw also took to a new sport that was sweeping America, racing on the old high-wheeled or ""ordinary"" (so named because the later lower models were thought to be ""extraordinary"") bicycle. Riding these unstable contraptions high above the treacherous unpaved roads of the time, on unforgiving solid rubber tires (the pneumatic tire had not yet been invented), was not for the faint of heart. ""Only the very athletic and committed set out on long rides,"" noted one historian of the sport, ""and long-distance records were hailed in the newspapers as great achievements.""31 Indiana was a hotbed of bicycling, and Landis competed at numerous county fairs. He sought every advantage. Prior to one key competition in another town, he purchased twenty racing medals from a curio dealer and ostentatiously pinned them on his chest. The display cowed the local competition and helped give him an edge. Knowing how to compete against sparse competition was also helpful. ""There were three contestants in the bicycle race at Delphi last Friday,"" noted the Logansport Sunday Critic in July 1884, ""Sam Patterson, Squire Landis and Emil Keller; therefore, S. P., S. L., and E. K. won the prizes. Lucky boys!""32 But even on Indiana's flat terrain, Landis couldn't race in the winter, so he invested what small savings he had in another nineteenth-century fad: roller skating. It was not the Squire's first brush with the ""entertainment"" industry, earlier he had ushered for free at the local opera house, so he might see such popular acts as minstrel George Primrose. In November 1886 he and an associate, Eugene Mulholland, converted a Logansport meeting hall into the Broadway Rink. The venture, however, proved a financial failure (the fad for roller skating had already largely passed), and Landis found his enterprise padlocked for non-payment of rent. The Squire had other options. That same year he made his first known foray into Republican politics, supporting a friend, Charles F. Griffin, for the post of Indiana Secretary of State. Griffin won, and Landis's reward was a ""prominent position"" in that department. The appointment, noted the Logansport Sunday Critic, was ""highly pleasing to the young Republicans in this city, and secures to Mr. Griffin a worthy and competent assistant."" While in that patronage job he took advantage of then current Indiana law to secure admission to the bar on July 13, 1889. After two years Kenesaw left the Secretary of State's office to read law with the firm of Custer and Stevenson in Marion, Indiana, where brother Walter had already set himself up as editor of the local Chronicle.33 ""Attorney"" certainly sounded better than store clerk, errand boy, bicyclist, roller-rink entrepreneur, or shorthand reporter-but in nineteenth century Indiana it required little more preparation or qualification. Years later the Logansport Leader explained that Landis had ""obtained for himself a certificate of admission to the Indiana bar, under the constitutional provision which did not require an examination.""34 Landis had few pretensions about his admission to the bar. ""All a man needed,"" he would later admit, ""was to prove that he was twenty-one and had a good moral character.""35 His clients-or rather, his prospective clients also had few illusions about Landis's qualifications. They stayed away in droves. After a year of less-than- lucrative practice in Marion, Indiana, Landis realized that being a self-taught lawyer would take him only so far and enrolled in Cincinnati's YMCA Law School. Landis performed well enough in his studies (the practice of law does not require a discipline in mathematics), but he failed to mix into the school's fraternity-dominated social life. The reasons were obvious enough. He was not a college graduate; he was not even a high school graduate. And if that were not bad enough, he worked at playing the rube, the hayseed from rural Indiana. Some might have found his act charming, but his more polished classmates did not and blackballed him from the existing fraternity system. Incensed, Landis organized his fellow outcasts, creating a political machine that captured the school elections.36 That sense of ostracism never quite left him. ""Because I'm a lawyer, persons naturally think I'm a college graduate,"" he once told Cincinnati Post sportswriter Tom Swope, ""But I'm not, and I'm proud of it. I don't go around shouting that I never went to college; I just keep my mouth shut about where I acquired my knowledge of the law.""37 Landis took his senior year not in Cincinnati but at Chicago's Union Law School (now part of Northwestern University). His legal work was not entirely uniform ""I was very weak on 'pleading and real property,'"" he once admitted, ""and when the time for my examination approached I knew that I would have to show my hand. So I went to Judge Booth, in whose department those branches of law were taught and confessed that I was not very strong in them. ""'Young man,' said the Judge grimly, 'am I to understand that you are under the impression that you are imparting to me any exclusive information?'""38  Nonetheless, Landis was one of sixty graduates from Union Law in June 1891 in a ceremony held at the city's Central Music Hall and was admitted to the Illinois bar that same year. Despite his flaws in ""pleading and real property"" his grasp of the law was sound enough that he was soon asked to serve as an assistant on the Union faculty. The Squire also established a reputation as a reformer. In 1893 along with Clarence C. Darrow and William Bross Lloyd, Kenesaw took the lead in forming the liberal and nonpartisan Chicago Civic Centre Club designed to reform local government.39  Chicago needed reforming. The young attorney's Chicago was already a wide-open, often violent city. It's earthier districts featured not only the home of the original Mickey Finn (yes, his invention really did incapacitate his customers) but directories touting the charms of the city's many sporting houses. It was a city of immigration and quick fortunes and violent strikes, with the McCormick Reaper strike and the Pullman strike soon to be etched in citizens' minds. But Landis's career would soon lead him to a faraway-and rather unexpected -detour.    * At Chickamauga in September 1863 Landis had unsuccessfully treated West Point graduate Captain William G. Jones. Before Landis buried him he removed Jones's watch, epaulets, and two one-dollar gold pieces, intending to return them to the dead man's family. During Landis's captivity, he kept with him the personal effects taken from Captain Jones's body. He meant to retain them no matter what so he might return them at war's end to the officer's family. Luckily for Landis he was freed after six weeks and after leaving the service managed to return Captain Jones's possessions to the dead man's brother.    ** The home, built in the 1830s, still stands today. Appropriately, it overlooks a ballfield.    *** For Daniel Flickinger, who in 1885 would also reach the rank of bishop, this was the first of his eleven missionary visits to Africa, including one in which he was shipwrecked.    ****Logansport, the seat of Cass County, then numbered 15,000 souls. Located on the Wabash River at the mouth of the Eel River (the ""City of Bridges""), its white settlers acquired the site from the Miami and Potawatomie Indians in October 1826, but named it after a Shawnee chief, Captain Logan, who was considerably more friendly toward whites.    ***** A century later this hospital tangentially again featured in baseball history when California Angels outfielder Lyman Bostock's murderer, Leonard Smith, was committed there. On June 20, 1980, less than two years after Bostock's June 23, 1978 slaying Smith was released from the Logansport State Hospital, as it was then known. He was pronounced cured.    ****** Taylor Spink says it was atop ""Buckskin"" before Frederick got his hands on him; local sources seriously doubted that. Spink also contended that Landis was hawking the Chicago Tribune. ""We are sure that Judge Landis never passed the Chicago Tribune-,"" jibed a childhood associate of Landis, ""except, perhaps, on the way to his Chicago offices."" 1. Washington Times, October 15, 1994, p. B3; Undated Clipping, KLM Scrapbooks, Chicago Historical Society. 2. The Sporting News, August 12, 1940. 3. The Sporting News, August 12, 1940. 4. Ed Fitzgerald, ""Judge Landis, Baseball's High Commissioner,"" Sport, June 1950, p. 51. 5. J. G. Taylor Spink, Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball, p. 1. 6. Ed Fitzgerald, ""Judge Landis, Baseball's High Commissioner,"" Sport, June 1950, p. 51. 7. Baltimore News, July 9, 1907. 8. Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, passim; James P. Boyd, The Life of General William T. Sherman, passim; Benson J. Lossing, Our Country, passim.  9. Revolutionary Ancestors of Indiana, Vol. I, p. 370; Interview with Lincoln Landis, February 12, 1996. 10. Dr. George D. Miller, A Biographical Sketch of the Deceased Physicians of Cass County, p. 22; Cincinnati Post, August 23, 1918. 11. Joy Kay, ""Kenesaw Mountain Landis: Ohio Town Takes Pride in Being the Birthplace of First Baseball Commissioner,"" Logansport Pharos-Tribune, November 20, 1994, page unknown; KML to Otto J. W. Witte, December 12, 1930, KML papers, Chicago Historical Society. 12. Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. X, pp. 511-512; Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. VI, p. 470; The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, page unknown; Dayton Telescope, January 29, 1908, p. 9; Interview with Keehn Landis, July 27, 1995. 13. Dr. George D. Miller, A Biographical Sketch of the Deceased Physicians of Cass County, p. 22. 14. J. G. Taylor Spink, Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball, p. 2; Interview with Lincoln Landis, February 15, 1996. 15. Undated Clipping, KML Scrapbooks, Microfilm Volume II, Chicago Historical Society.  16. Indianapolis Star, May 21, 1922. 17. Indianapolis Star, May 21, 1922. 18. J. G. Taylor Spink, Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball, p. 3; Dayton Telescope, January 29, 1908, p. 17; Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, August 24, 1918; Cincinnati Post, August 23, 1918. 19. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 8, 1902; Dayton Telescope, January 29, 1908, p. 17; Dr. Jehu Z. Powell, History of Cass County Indiana, p. 123; Indianapolis Star, May 21, 1922. 20. J. G. Taylor Spink, Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball, p. 9. 21. Cincinnati Post, September 18, 1907. 22. Interview with Lincoln Landis, February 12, 1996. 23. Indianapolis Star, May 21, 1922. 24. The Logansport Pharos-Journal, October 17, 1883. 25. Eliot Asinof, Eight Men Out, p. 253. 26. Graham Taber, History of Logansport and Cass County, p. 52. 27. J. G. Taylor Spink, Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball, p. 6. 28. F. C. Lane, ""Baseball's Dictator,"" Baseball Magazine, February 1920, p. 415. 29. Logansport Leader, August 4, 1907, p. 1; Logansport Press, November 26, 1944, p. 6; KML to E. S. Shaffer, December 19, 1924, KML papers, Chicago Historical Society. 30. 1944 Current Biography, p. 373; New York Tribune, November 13, 1920, p. 13; Cincinnati Post, November 21, 1920, p. 1. 31. Andrew Ritchie, Major Taylor: The Extraordinary Career of a Champion Bicycle Racer, p. 13. 32. The [Logansport] Sunday Critic, July 6, 1884. 33. John T. McCutcheon, ""Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Judge"" Appleton's Magazine, October 1907; Chicago Record-Herald, August 4, 1907, p. 2; Richard S. Simons, ""Indiana's Baseball Magnates,"" Indianapolis Star, October 9, 1977, p. 8; The [Logansport] Sunday Critic, November 21, 1886; Dr. Jehu Z. Powell, History of Cass County, pp. 111, 123. 34. Logansport Leader, August 4, 1907. 35. John T. McCutcheon, ""Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Judge,"" Appleton's Magazine, October 1907.  36. Eliot Asinof, Eight Men Out, p. 254. 37. J. G. Taylor Spink, Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball, p. 8. 38. John T. McCutcheon, ""Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Judge"" Appleton's Magazine, October 1907.  39. Ray Ginger, Altgeld's America, p. 248.",baseball;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;law;lawyers & judges;leaders & notable people;legal education;legal profession;political;professionals & academics;sports & outdoors,12
1581152302,"The Writer's Legal Guide: An Authors Guild Desk Reference ""An excellent survey of the business side of authorship today."" -- Booklist""An indispensable handbook for anyone who writes."" -- Publisher's Weekly	Authors Guild, Allworth Press Publish New Edition of Acclaimed Legal Guide; Resource Advises Authors on E-Books and Electronic Rights The Authors Guild, Inc., the nations largest trade association of professional authors, has teamed up with Allworth Press, publisher of business and legal books for artists and writers, to publish THE WRITERS LEGAL GUIDE, AN AUTHORS GUILD DESK REFERENCE. The resulting collaboration is the third edition of the classic reference, originally written by Allworth Press publisher Tad Crawford, and now extensively revised and updated by Kay Murray, General Counsel to the Authors Guild.    The authors, both attorneys, draw on their years of experience on the front lines of advocating creators rights and economic interests to give readers a comprehensive survey of the legal and business questions facing anyone who writes professionally. In clear, friendly language, THE WRITERS LEGAL GUIDE explains recent changes in laws governing electronic rights, E-books, fair use, and publishing contracts, so that authors can best protect their interests. Other chapters cover: - The law of copyright for creators - Step-by-step copyright registration - Accounting methods, record-keeping, taxes, and estate planning - Avoiding legal liability - Complying with fair use guidelines - Using royalty collecting societies - Obtaining permission to use quotes - Negotiating periodical, syndication, film, television, play, and audio agreements - Avoiding and resolving business disputes - Limits of free expression - Choosing self-publication	""Sooner or later, any writer who publishes will encounter a legal question. The answer is probably this book. The Writers Legal Guide is sensible, concise, and clear. It belongs on every writers bookshelf.""Scott Turow, author of The Burden of Proof and Presumed Innocent. ""Indispensable. The complete Shakespeare comes in handy, and a good dictionary is important, but here in the real world, every writer's bookshelf needs the Legal Guide, too.""James Gleick, author of Chaos and What Just Happened. ""This invaluable legal Baedecker belongs on every writers shelf of essential reference works, right up there with the dictionary, Roget, and the thesaurus. Tad Crawford and Kay Murray answer all the common questions authors ask about contracts, copyright, and the possible perils of publishing and hundreds more that most of us never knew enough to worry about but should."" Letty Cottin Pogrebin is the author of nine books, most recently a first novel, Three Daughters. She is immediate past president of the Authors Guild Publishers Weekly.	Tad Crawfordgrew up in the artists' colony of Woodstock, New York. He is the author of many nonfiction books and his writing has appeared in venues such asArt in America, the Caf Irreal, Confrontation, Communication Arts, Family Circle, Glamour, Guernica, the Nation, and Writer's Digest. The founder and publisher of Allworth Press, he lives in New York City. Kay Murray is deputy general counsel of the Open Society Foundations, where she advises colleagues on intellectual property and first amendment and tax matters and negotiates contracts of all kinds. She is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law and was general counsel and assistant director of the Authors Guild from 1994 to 2005. She has also worked as in-house counsel at the Tribune Company, one of the nations most prominent multimedia corporations. She lives in New York City.",authorship;books;education & reference;intellectual property;law;legal self-help;media & the law;patent;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;trademark & copyright;writing,12
1841767875,"Iranian F-14 Tomcat Units in Combat (Combat Aircraft) Osprey's Combat series combines the best archival photography available with specially commissioned artworks and first hand accounts, making these books favourites amongst historians, modellers and aviation enthusiasts everywhere.	Born in 1970, Tom Cooper is a native of Vienna, Austria. His travels in Europe and the Middle East have enabled him to establish excellent contacts with many informed sources in Iran, whose experiences he has drawn upon in his books and articles. Farzad Bishop is a well-known Iranian-born aviation analyst and writer who has spent many years researching the airpower aspects of the recent Middle Eastern conflicts. His articles and observations have appeared in both Iranian and international military aviation journals.",20th century;aerospace;aviation;books;engineering;history;iran;middle east;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);professional & technical;world,12
0374253536,"The Saints' Guide to Happiness It takes a gifted writer to engage readers in a book of insights from men and women commonly understood to have spent their lives so close to God that they were unusual in almost every way. In this eloquent, seamlessly woven and delightfully readable book, Catholic convert Ellsberg, editor-in-chief of Orbis Books, makes the spiritual struggles and triumphs of sanctified men and women accessible and relevant to believers who grapple with the tension between the desire for earthly pleasure and the call to leave all behind and follow Jesus Christ. Giving this series of life lessons a vivid immediacy is the fact that Ellsberg ranges far and wide in his choice of saintly examples, including some non-Catholics and many modern icons of holiness. In the chapter on learning to suffer, for instance, 14th-century mystic Julian of Norwich and 20th-century Catholic writer Henri Nouwen fittingly illustrate Ellsberg's point that affliction can become an instrument of grace and transfiguration. What unites all the saints, he argues, is their ability and decision to see God's hand at work in the whole composition of their lives. Interwoven with moments of gentle homage to his mentor, Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day, this volume suggests to Catholics and other Christian readers the possibility that happiness can come by using the lens of holiness to illumine their lives, both remarkable and ordinary. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Saints are experts on holiness, but what do they know about happiness? The answer, Ellsberg says, depends on what we mean by happiness and on our understanding of holiness. Saints aren't all that different. They wonder about the meaning and purpose of life, and they feel disappointment and sadness. Some of the saints he discusses are reasonably remote (Augustine, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, Teresa of Avila), others quite modern (Thomas Merton, Oscar Romero, Dorothy Day, Mother Teresa, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin). They all share finely developed senses of humanity and compassion, with which they remain ordinary in the best, most expansive sense of ordinariness. They model ideal behavior, setting standards to which we all can aspire. Ellsberg explores happiness through the lives and writings of these remarkable men and women, showing how relevant their stories are today but offering no guidance in the conventional sense. He insists that there is no way to happiness. Rather, there is a way of happiness. June SawyersCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""If you've been thirsting for a more authentic life, this is your book. No abstractions here, only real people scuffling, searching, stumbling into grace--and happiness.  In these pages are living templates, which spark recognition: `Hey, that's me.  I could be like that.' I love this book.""                                       -- Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, author of Dead Man Walking""Happiness--deep, true, stable, lasting--is not the result of feelings, but is a by-product of holiness. Whatever the common opinion, it is in fact the holy who live life to the full. Robert Ellsberg understands this lovely paradox and explains all its implications with grace and charm.""- Sister Wendy Beckett, author of Sister Wendys Book of Saints""Robert Ellsberg regards saints as friends worth knowing. His engaging book shows us why we should commune with the saints: for their uncommon wisdom as people who discovered that happiness and holiness are the same thing.""-- Kenneth L. Woodward, author of Making Saints""Books that promise painless enlightenment sit side-by-side with those that offer a lengthy practice too daunting to learn. The Saints' Guide to Happiness is neither. Robert Ellsberg has sifted through the wisdom of 'those who walk the path of holiness' and produced neither a quick-fix nor a stiff tome, but a modern, refreshing guide to a true life and the kind of happiness that lasts.""-- Nora Gallagher, author of Practicing Resurrection	Robert Ellsberg, a native of Los Angeles, became a Catholic in 1980 while a member of the Catholic Worker house in downtown Manhattan. He now serves as editor-in-chief of Orbis Books. Married with three children, he lives in Ossining, New York.	The Saints' Guide to HappinessOneLEARNING TO BE ALIVEWe beg you, make us truly alive.--Serapion of ThmuisMine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.--Gerard Manley HopkinsTHE SORROWS OF LIFE are many. But sorrow is not the opposite of happiness. At least in sorrow we are aware of being alive. So often the problem is not really sorrow but the deadness that attends our daily existence. The pace and pressures of the world, the struggle to ""make a living,"" the disquiet driven by constant advertising, the distracting drone of consumer culture--all these contribute to fatigue, numbness, an inability to feel anything at all. Our bodies may thrive--no generation has ever enjoyed such long life or good health--yet there is a sickness that eats away at our souls.We can see it in the faces of commuters on a train or shoppers in the mall; too often it is in the face we encounter in the mirror. But we may also see it in the faces in church. Religion in itself offers no special immunity against deadness,especially when religious practice becomes simply another task to perform, a set of rules to obey. William Blake wrote scornfully of ""priests in black gowns, walking their rounds, binding with briars my joys  desires.""Doubtless it often feels that way. But that is not the way it needs to be.Of the flock in his care, Jesus said: ""I came that they might have life and have it in abundance."" Such life in abundance is one way of describing the meaning of happiness. It is an antidote to the kind of existence--dry and hollow--that dulls even the memory of our ""joys  desires."" Yet over the centuries too many Christians have transposed Christ's promise to the other side of death, thereby spurning the challenge to seek life and happiness in the present. Against this tendency St. Theophanis the Monk, one of the early desert fathers, warned, ""Do not deceive yourself with idle hopes that in the world to come you will find life if you have not tried to find it in the present world.""St. Irenaeus, a second-century bishop and theologian, put it this way: ""The glory of God is the human being fully alive."" Irenaeus wrote these words to oppose a kind of spirituality that scorns material existence in the world. But his words pose a challenge for anyone who settles for a truncated life, whether reduced to work, entertainment, or an otherworldly spiritualism. To be fully alive--it was for this that we were created; it was toward this goal, as the saints remind us, that Christ pointed the way.But we have lost our way.ZEST FOR LIVINGWhat might it mean to be ""fully alive""? Obviously it is not the same as simply eating and breathing. Nor is it expressed in a flurry of manic activity. To be fully alive is a matter of living out of the deepest part of oneself. Call it the heart or the soul; these are words that describe the central and intimate core of our being, the place where we are most truly ourselves. Given the noise and distractions that surround us, it is often hard to imagine that such places exist. We glide along the surface, taking our cues from the newspapers, or our neighbors, or the commercials on TV. They tell us what to desire, what to fear, and what will bring us joy. Yet the more we listen to such voices, the less we know ourselves. No wonder happiness is so elusive.The men and women called saints have walked a different path, a path to God that was at the same time the path to their own true selves. There is much that they might teach us. Yet their authority as guides and teachers often fades in the shadow of an apparent ""otherness"" that renders them at once inaccessible and unappealing. To begin with, saints are supposed to be perfect people--""not like us."" Traditional stories about their lives reinforce this impression, emphasizing miraculous and otherworldly traits while airbrushing anything recognizably human. On this basis we might share George Orwell's conclusion that the very aspiration to holiness is evidence of a warped personality. ""Saints,"" he wrote, ""should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.""Sentimental and saccharine hagiography is partly to blame. Dorothy Day wrote about coming across one book about saints that included this passage on their eating habits:""The saints went to their meals sighing. St. Alphonsus, when sitting down, would think only of the sufferings of the souls in purgatory, and with tears would beseech Our Lady to accept the mortifications he imposed upon himself during meals. Blessed de Montfort sometimes shed tears and sobbed bitterly when sitting at table to eat."" To this, Day offered the brief comment: ""No wonder no one wants to be a saint.""Yet Day herself conveyed something else. No one who ever observed how she savored a cup of instant coffee or the rare luxury of a fresh roll, how she enjoyed watching the shifting tides of Raritan Bay off Staten Island or listened raptly to the Saturday afternoon opera broadcasts on the radio could fail to detect the quality that Teilhard de Chardin described as a ""zest for living"": ""that spiritual disposition, at once intellectual and affective, in virtue of which life, the world, and action seem to us, on the whole, luminous--interesting--appetizing.""As the otherworldly heroes of pious legend, saints may seem close to God but not exactly human. In fact, as Thomas Merton observed, sanctity is really a matter of being more fully human: ""This implies a greater capacity for concern, for suffering, for understanding, for sympathy, and also for humor, for joy, for appreciation for the good and beautiful things of life."" One observes those qualities in holy persons of recent times--Mother Teresa, or Pope John XXIII, or the Dalai Lama--a certain lightness of being, far from the torturous attitude of Blessed de Montfort toward his food. And it makes one wonder if a similar quality or aura did not surround the great saints of the past--whether St. Francis of Assisi, who built the first Christmas crche, or St. Teresa of Avila, who prayed to God to ""deliver us from sour-faced saints,"" or St. Francis de Sales, who said that a""sad saint is a sad sort of saint."" They stood out not just for their faith or good works but for exhibiting a certain quality of being. In traditional Christian art this aura was represented by a halo. Real saints have no such distinguishing marks. But the aura is real. It is the presence of life, life in abundance.Far from that goal, mired in deadness, where does our road to happiness begin? It might begin with a certain restless disquiet, a sense of subtle dissatisfaction, the suspicion that ""there must be more to life."" Of course to this our culture has a ready answer: Indeed there is more, infinitely more--more things, more pleasures, more fun.The world offers innumerable pleasures and distractions. But they cannot satisfy our deepest hunger. When we realize this, and if our disquiet remains intact, then we may find ourselves entering what Walker Percy, in The Moviegoer, calls the search: ""The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life ... . To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.""The lineage of such searchers is long. It includes such a recent figure as Thomas Merton, self-described ""complete twentieth-century man,"" who, at the dawn of World War II, abandoned the ambitions of his New York literary set to become a Trappist monk in rural Kentucky. Justifying this decision, he later wrote, ""What I had abandoned when I 'left the world' and came to the monastery was the understanding of myself that I had developed in the context of civil society--myidentification with what appeared to me to be its aims ... the image of a society that is happy because it drinks Coca-Cola or Seagram's or both and is protected by the bomb.""The lineage reaches back to Henry David Thoreau, the nineteenth-century sage of New England. In 1845 he withdrew to a hermitage on Walden Pond, near Concord, seeking to escape a world in which ""the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."" He decried the condition of everyday life, which seemed to him no better than a kind of sleepwalking. ""To be awake is to be alive,"" he wrote. ""I have not yet met a man who was quite awake."" And so he retreated for a while to the New England equivalent of the desert, hoping ""to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.""It extends back considerably further ...TO THE DESERTIn the fourth century, just as Christianity had achieved a certain level of acceptance, there emerged a new phenomenon, a source of wonder and fascination to Christians in late Roman society. Men and women--at first a few intrepid pioneers but gradually large numbers--began drifting into the desert, their ranks gradually populating the seemingly uninhabitable corners of Palestine, Arabia, Syria, and Egypt. Some gathered in small communities; others lived in remote and isolated caves or among abandoned ruins. In their solitude they occupied themselves with prayer and fasting, reflection on scripture, and simple labor.What did they seek? The possible answers are many: to live more deliberately, to seek a narrower road to salvation, to overcome the deadness they perceived in the surrounding culture, to tap into the source of life. Yes, all this. And yet it is striking how often the stories of these desert pilgrims relate their quest to the pursuit of happiness. There is St. Simeon Stylites (d. 459), who, after hearing a re...	Going beyond traditional notions of personal growth, success, and happiness, this charming group of biographies shows how living the life of the spirit is the only path to true happiness. The stories, all beautifully told, show how the Church's venerated icons lived in accordance with God and the universe, carrying out authentic lives that insulated them from the negative influences of their immediate cultures and their false rewards. With tempered compassion, these lives convince us that suffering is an acceptable part of our journey toward fulfilling the deepest dimension of our humanity--our destiny according to God's will. A quiet, profoundly moving tribute to the lives and values that shape what Catholics believe is true happiness.  T.W.  AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;devotionals;happiness;inspirational;religion & spirituality;religious studies;saints;self-help;spirituality;theology,12
B000OT7VYU,"A History of Popular Culture: More of Everything, Faster and Brighter Raymond F. Betts is Professor of History Emeritus at University of Kentucky. His previous publications include Decolonization (1998; new edition 2004)",20th century;anthropology;books;cultural;history;kindle ebooks;kindle store;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;popular culture;social sciences;world,12
1888992050,"Mass Confusion: The Do's & Don'ts of Catholic Worship ""[T]his book is essential reading for any faithful Catholic who wishes to vindicate his right to true and proper worship."" -- Charles Wilson, Executive Director, St. Joseph Foundation	Written by Jimmy Akin--a leading religion writer, Catholic apologist, and contributing editor to ""This Rock"" magazine--""Mass Confusion"" is a well-respected source of clear, concise answers about today's most common questions concerning the liturgy (especially liturgical abuses). In this book, you'll discover the answers to these commonly asked questions: -What are the proper times to stand, sit, or kneel? -Are we supposed to hold hands at the Our Father? -How much liberty does the priest have with the words of the Mass? -Where does the tabernacle go, and should there even be one? -What about altar girls--not to mention dancing girls? -Can the priest refuse to give you Communion on the tongue? -Can Communion be given to Protestants at weddings and funerals? -May lay people stand around the altar during the Consecration? These and many other questions are clearly and authoritatively answered for you--once and for all--in the pages of ""Mass Confusion.""	Jimmy Akin was born in Texas and raised in Arkansas. He grew up nominally Protestant but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant pastor or seminary professor, Jimmy started an intensive study of the Bible, but the more he immersed himself in Scripture, the more he found it to support the Catholic faith. Eventually, he was compelled in conscience to enter the Catholic Church, which he did in 1992. His conversion story, ""A Triumph and a Tragedy,"" is published in the book ""Surprised By Truth."" Jimmy is director of apologetics at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to ""This Rock"" magazine, a weekly guest on the global radio program, ""Catholic Answers Live,"" and the author of several books, including ""Mass Appeal: The ABCs of Catholic Worship"" and ""The Salvation Controversy.""	The starting point for understanding liturgical abuses is understanding why they are liturgical abuses and whom they abuse. A liturgical abuse--an instance where the liturgy is conducted out of accord with the Church's liturgical law--is not merely a misuse of dead text on a page in a lectionary or a sacramentary. It is an abuse of a living person, or rather, a group of living persons--the faithful who attend the liturgy--and it is an abuse of the sanctity of the Church, which requires its rituals to be performed in a certain way. This is because the faithful have a right to experience the liturgy as the Church has designed it and intended it. If those who plan or conduct a liturgy tamper with the Church's design for it, they are abusing the faithful by denying their right to an authentic liturgy.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;history;other religions;practices & sacred texts;religion & spirituality;religious;ritual;world,12
B000P0JMWM,Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication) ...demonstrates that fans are pro-active constructors of an alternative culture using elements poached and reworked from the popular media. -- Journal of Popular Culture	Henry Jenkins is Assistant Professor of Literature at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.,anthropology;art;books;communication & media studies;cultural;humor & entertainment;kindle ebooks;kindle store;media studies;politics & social sciences;pop culture;social sciences,12
0471631310,"Thème et Variations: An Introduction to French Language and Culture, 4th Edition Workbook, Audio Cassettes, Tapescript, Test Book, Software, Annotated Instructor's Edition available. -- The publisher, John Wiley & Sons	Now in its Fourth Edition, this popular first-year French language text provides the student with a functional command of basic listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Each lesson is built around a theme, with mini-dialogues and stimulating oral exercises. Grammar explanations--all in English--are clear and thorough, supported by examples and exercises.",books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;french;humanities;new;phrasebooks;reference;travel;used & rental textbooks,12
0130496154,"The Career Fitness Program: Exercising Your Options, Seventh Edition What makes The Career Fitness Program the best-selling undergraduate textbook for career development?    The Career Fitness Program has guided thousands of students through the critical processes of self-assessment, career exploration, and job search. Noted for its thorough coverage, The Career Fitness Program offers students practical advice and information coupled with hands-on activities, exercises, charts, and graphs.   Proven strengths include:   Offers comprehensive treatment of personal assessment and job search/interview strategies. Explores the role of positive attitude, confidence, and emotional intelligence in the discovery process. Connects skills with the SCANS Report. Explains how electronic resources are helpful in the career process. Offers practical, concrete help with goal setting and decision making. Investigates the world of work as it relates to job seekers and current statistics related to workplace trends.   New and expanded features include:   Real-life stories in each chapter with critical thinking questions help readers link the concepts to their own lives. Facts and figures are made relevant to students through reflective questions. Companion Website at www.prenhall.com/sukiennik has been expanded and reinforces the chapter concepts. 26-part Career Telecourse is available through RMI Media. Success strategies are featured in every chapter.	Dr. Diane Sukiennik is a career counselor; a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist; and a nationally recognized lecturer and workshop facilitator. She holds an advanced degree from Columbia University and has extensive postgraduate training in industrial psychology, management, and organizational development. Currently Dr. Sukiennik is on the faculty of Moorpark College in California, where her areas of expertise are career development, personal and professional presentational skills, and managerial effectiveness. She is a consultant, has a private practice, and has contributed to the development of a nationally distributed telecourse on career and life development called ""Career Advantage"" distributed by PBS.        Dr. William Bendat is a recognized leader and innovator in career development theory. While serving as Dean of Student Services at Moorpark College, he managed the award-winning counseling and career programs that gained both California and national eminence. His advanced degrees in counseling psychology, with emphasis in decision making and self-concept, have enriched the material within the text of The Career Fitness Program. Dr. Bendat is the Director of Careerscope, offering specialized career workshops to public and private agencies. He is also a licensed therapist, past President of the California Managers of Counseling, and a contributor to numerous workshops and professional journals.        Dr. Lisa Raufman has been Dean of Counseling and Career Center Coordinator at El Camino College in Torrance, California. She is a career counselor and consultant, as well as a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist. Her master's degree is in counseling with a specialization in the community college and vocational rehabilitation. Her doctoral degree from University of California at Los Angeles focused on higher education, work, and adult development. Previously Dr. Raufman coordinated the Career Transfer Center at Moorpark College. She is past president of the Los Padres chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and the California Community College Counselors Association. For the past decade, Dr. Raufman has been a member of the California Community College Chancellors Office State Advisory on Career Development.	Welcome to the Seventh Edition of The Career Fitness Program: Exercising Your Options. As authors, we are immensely gratified by the positive feedback from the field, which tells us that we continue to make a contribution to the quality of life for the thousands of students who use our book. We say ""use our book"" rather than ""read our book"" because the process of career planning is action oriented at its base. We have attempted to balance the text with a variety of exercises to encourage our users to ""get into the process"" and allow the process to unfold in the many unexpected ways that careers do take shape. Vide are committed to the process of career planning, which is part science and part art, part logic and part intuition, part inspiration and part perspiration. We recognize the critical role of the teacher/counselor/coach in this process as the voice of experience, reassurance, validation, and wisdom. Just as a personal trainer keeps a well-intentioned exerciser on track, so too, does the teacher keep students on track and moving forward in a process that all too often seems circuitous and convoluted rather than linear and straightforward.    Our book attempts to be a comprehensive and current compendium of the best art and science in the field of career planning. As such, the Seventh Edition has more fully incorporated the electronic medium into the text and exercises without implying that the Internet is the only or even preeminent tool in the process. In this edition, as in previous ones, we have updated the facts and figures and have added topics that have become relevant to the subject, such as a discussion of multiple intelligences and the role of benefits in a salary negotiation. We have also expanded real-life stories in each chapter and added critical-thinking questions to each chapter.    Of particular note is this book's usefulness to the undecided and the liberal arts-oriented students. These students have heard all too often that technology is the promise of the future, and while that may be true, they need the latitude to explore other career avenues that may be more compatible with who they are. We encourage and support them in this exploration.   Companion Website: A Virtual Learning Environment   Technology is a constantly growing and changing aspect of our field that is creating a need for content and resources. To address this need, we have significantly revised the Companion Website for the Seventh Edition. Moreover, to better facilitate student learning and comprehension of chapter content, we have integrated the Companion Website into the text. In creating a Companion Website, our goal is to build on and enhance what the textbook already offers.    The Companion Website, located at www.prenhall.com/sukiennik, is a valuable resource for both the professor and the student.    For the ProfessorEvery Companion Website integrates Syllabus Manager, an online syllabus creation and management utility that allows instructors to create and customize syllabi online. Your completed syllabus is hosted on our servers, allowing convenient updates from any computer on the Internet. Changes you make to your syllabus are immediately available to your students at their next logon.  For the StudentThe Companion Website helps students gauge their understanding of chapter content through the use of chapter objectives, reflection questions that connect chapter content to the ""Real Stories"" and ""Facts and Figures"" features in the text, and interactive self-assessments. It also provides web links mentioned in the text and a variety of other online resources (such as articles that relate to chapter content), as well as WWWebwise Activities at the end of chapters and chapter summary exercises.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business development;economics;human resources;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;job hunting;job hunting & careers;new;used & rental textbooks,12
0071443746,"Implementing Lead-Free Electronics (Professional Engineering) REVIEWED BY: Dr. George Riley, FlipChips Dot Com Dr. Jennie Hwang's second major book on lead-free electronics plays the ministerial role to its magisterial predecessor. It is the facilitator, carrying us from the calm of the laboratory to the clamor of the factory floor, where theories and realities collide. In the lead-free as in other worlds, implementation, not theory, ultimately determines survival.  The book patterns itself on the flow of factory implementation, moving from selecting the best approach, to choosing proper materials, to controlling the soldering operation, to concerns about compatibility, costs, and reliability. The prelude is a reality check of present manufacturing practices.  Here Dr. Hwang shows us how the actual conditions of use for today's eutectic lead-tin solders, rather than theoretical arguments, justify the ""drop-in"" approach to lead-free replacements. Present peak soldering temperatures of 230 C to 245 C are robust process parameters for printed-circuit board assembly with present surface-mount technology. Several lead-free solder formulations applicable in that temperature range promise a smooth transition to lead-free soldering, at lower costs. Manufacturing implementation follows upon a five-step evaluation. The key is recognizing the interdependence of process decisions, to insure compatibility at every stage. Solder selection summarizes some of the voluminous technical detail of Dr. Hwangs prior book, supplemented with side-by-side solder comparisons. It segues smoothly into stencil selection and solder paste application. Dr. Hwang applies an interdisciplinary headlock to embrace the physics, chemistry, metallurgy, and rheology of solder. Who would have thought that tiny little spheres could cause us so many problems? Once we are well pasted and on our way with compatible components, we are ready for the oven. Mass reflow soldering and wave soldering comprise separate chapters, again starting from a solid base of ""real-world production demands."" For mass reflow soldering, these include the difficulty of monitoring and controlling temperatures in a fast-moving environment. A six-pack of case studies with photographs illustrates the best practice in defect reduction. The specialty approaches of nitrogen atmosphere reflow, convection reflow, and vapor phase soldering are treated briefly, but with lead-free respect. Wave soldering is dismembered in detail. New hobgoblins here are dross, corrosion, turbulence, and compositional stability. Again, case studies tie the text to factory-based data. The specialized approaches of selective soldering and laser soldering are examined and found not wanting in lead-free suitability. Compatibility checklists remind us that no solder pot is an island. Cost simulations are presented as case studies, based upon manufacturers models. The reliability discourse highlights the causes and cures of commonly occurring production ills. The open, bullet-point format of much of the material will make this a handy reference book, as well as a worthy supplement to its predecessor. Dr. Hwang has enlisted her long industry experience, her understanding of solder manufacturing, and her sensitivity to the concerns of students in her lead-free training courses to present an exhaustive, normative, two-volume approach to lead-free technology and implementation. (Flipchips.com 2004-12-15)	AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING LEAD-FREE MANUFACTURING  Implementing Lead-Free Electronics provides magisterial, timely information on the choices and tradeoffs facing manufacturers seeking the most efficient and cost-effective ways to meet the challenge of converting to lead-free manufacturing.   The book is laid out as a quick guide, providing successful examples in conjunction with the basic principles of the implementation and production of lead-free electronics on a global basis.   This book shares the knowledge gained from the author's 15-year lead-free development leadership and her 25-year real-world SMT manufacturing experience.   An impressive, unparalleled resource for manufacturing technology in the electronics/microelectronics industry, with real-world application value, this is a must for all involved in research, manufacturing, and decision-making management.  Comprehensive Content From An International Expert: Introduction * Manufacturing Approaches * Selecting Interconnecting Solder Alloy * Selecting Component Coating * Selecting PCB Surface Finish * Solder Paste Application * Reflow Soldering * Wave Soldering * Other Manufacturing Techniques and Common Defect Considerations * System Reliability and Compatibility	Dr. Jennie Hwang's wide-ranging career encompasses entrepreneurship, corporate executive, innovative research, world-wide manufacturing and technology services, corporate governance, as well as the leadership positions of professional organizations. She has contributed to technology, business, and academic arenas. Her work is highlighted by numerous national and international awards and honors, as well as by her alma maters' distinguished Alumni Awards. Among her many awards and honors are the citations by the U.S. Congress and the Ohio Senate/House for her outstanding achievements; membership in the National Academy of Engineering; induction into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame; and being named a ""Star to Watch"" by Industry Week magazine; and induction into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame. She has held various ""woman pioneering"" capacities. At her YWCA Women of Achievement Award presentation, her citation read: ""Being honored as the FIRST WOMAN is a way of life for Dr. Hwang..., including being the first woman to receive the Ph.D. from the Case Western Reserve University-Materials Science & Engineering "" Dr. Hwang has extensive hands-on experiences in technology-transfer and bringing innovations to commercialization. She has been a pioneer and major contributor to the electronics surface mount technology establishment since its inception. She is also a highly solicited advisor to industry, government, and universities.   Hwang is the inventor of a number of patents and the author of more than 250 publications including the sole author of several internationally used textbooks and the co-author of several books. As a columnist for SMT magazine, a globally circulated trade magazine, she monthly addresses technology issues and market thrusts; her views are widely solicited and highly regarded worldwide. A popular keynoter and featured speaker at national and international events, she shares her thoughts and vision with various institutions. Her speaking engagements range from commencement keynote speeches at universities to speeches about emerging technologies at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Over the years, she has shared her knowledge and experience by delivering professional advancement lectures to over 15,000 professionals and researchers. In addition, she is a prolific author and speaker on education, workforce, trade, and social and business issues. Topics addressed include ""Leadership,"" ""Innovation, ""Entrepreneurship,"" ""Preparation for New-Millennium Education, Technology, and Workforce"", ""Education in Science and Engineering,"" ""Modern Manufacturing Workforce,"" ""Asia's Road to Economic Recovery,"" ""Accelerated Tax Depreciation for High-tech Manufacturing,"" ""Virtual Corporation,"" ""Modern Woman,"" "" Women in Education, Technology, and Workforce,"" ""Affirmative Action,"" ""International Trade and Trade Promotion Authority,"" ""Changes and Coping with Changes,"" ""Welcoming the Digital Economy,"" and ""Technology, Education, Trade, Jobs."" As a member of a number of professional organizations, she has served in various capacities, including National President of Surface Mount Technology Association, board trustee of ASM International, and member of the National Research Council/National Materials Boards Globalization Committee. Her educational background includes a Ph.D. in Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, and two M.S. degrees in Chemistry and Liquid Crystal Science respectively from Columbia University and Kent State University. She also has a bachelor's in Chemistry.   Dr. Hwang has held various senior executive positions with Lockheed Martin Corporation, Sherwin Williams Company, SCM Corporation, and International Electronic Materials Corporation. Currently, Hwang is the principal of H-Technologies Group, Inc., an intellectual property and service company, providing business and technological solutions to the electronics industry. In addition, she is a distinguished adjunct professor to the Engineering School of Case Western Reserve University, and serves on its Board of Trustees. She also serves on the board of NYSE Fortune 500 companies and the various civic boards.",aerospace;books;civil;electrical & electronics;engineering;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;mechanical;mechanical engineering;new;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,12
0972098100,"Half Mast ""A truly gripping story from its enigmatic opening through its stunning denouement... the best of contemporary American fiction.""  -- New York Resident, June 2002""Something we never get to see, a raw and frightening thing that we're going to remember for quite some time."" -- 3am magazine, August 2002A cautionary tale that will haunt you for a long time. -- The Compulsive Reader, November 2002A completely absorbing, provocative, and finely crafted story.  -- The Boox Review, December 2002A stunning accomplishment... gripping caper yarn, perceptive coming of age story, keen commentary on drastic Darwinian social stratification in school. -- Blogcritics, February 2003A very satisfying read with a shocking yet stunning ending.  -- All About Murder Reviews, November 2002I am deeply impressed with this novel... Christopher Null [has] made it to my immediate buy list.  -- Curled Up With a Good Book, January 2003Very believable... Readers returning to the trials of puberty will find this fast read disturbingly accurate. -- San Francisco Chronicle, September 28, 2003What separates Half Mast... is its coolly realistic gaze at the aftermath of the deed and its deeply flawed protagonist.  -- MyMac.com, December 2002	Thank you for considering Half Mast, a novel which took two years to make it to store shelves due to its difficult material: high school violence and its often catastrophic consequences. It's a cautionary tale about both bullying and revenge, suggesting that neither avenue leads to much good. Regardless of whether or not you find yourself rooting for the hero, I promise you won't be able to put it down. Thanks again, and thanks to all the readers who have sent their many kind words. I hope the book has an impact on your life -- for the better, of course. - Christopher Null	Christopher Null is an award-winning writer. He has been an entertainment and technology journalist and editor for more than 20 years.",action & adventure;books;contemporary;genre fiction;literary;literature & fiction;mystery;psychological thrillers;teens;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,12
0674443624,"Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art (Essays in Art and Culture) In vigorous prose and 86 astonishing illustrations, Camille demonstrates how 'Gothic marginal art flourished from the late twelfth to the late fourteenth century by virtue of the absolute hegemony of the system it sought to subvert'--for 'premodern societies used ritualized disruption to reinstate social norms rather than resist them'...In this fine book how exhilarating it is to see our ancestors giggling and roaring in vulgar delight in the comforting shadows of their sacred texts and sanctuaries. (Richard Locke Wall Street Journal )A witty and original account of a fascinating subject. Medieval manuscripts, buildings and sculpture abound with subversive, erotic or scatological marginalia. Why are they there? Do they undermine dogma or just provide light relief? Camille gives some closely-observed and convincing answers. (Chris Savage King New Statesman and Society )[A] sprightly and suggestive study. (Richard Eder Los Angeles Times Book Review )Michael Camille offers us a book that distracts and instructs us simultaneously, in part because images are given as much play as texts. Camille's pages teem with ideas that, like medieval hybrids, are protean in their inventiveness. Rather than condemning the margins of medieval art, Camille celebrates them in animated, even exuberant prose, arguing in the process that their often overlooked representations pose as many problems as the center that more often has riveted our attention. (Jeffrey F. Hamburger Art Bulletin )	Michael Camille was Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",ancient & classical literature;arts & photography;books;commercial;essays;essays & correspondence;graphic design;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;medieval;movements & periods,12
0721686222,"Nurse Anesthesia John Nagelhout, CRNA, PhD, Director, School of Anesthesia, Kaiser Permanente, Pasadena, CA;     Karen Zaglaniczny, PhD, CRNA, William Beaumont Hospital, Director, Perioperative Services Education and Research, Director, Graduate Program of Nurse Anesthesia, Royal Oak, MI",anesthesia;books;clinical;education & reference;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;nurse & patient;nursing;patient education;reference;used & rental textbooks,12
B0002IXVTW,"LARGE DUST BEE GONE MASK The last dust mask you will ever need to buy. Uses a surgical grade material to filter dust, pollen and other particles from the air that you breathe. Comes in three sizes: Medium for neck sizes smaller than 15/12""; Large for neck sizes 16""-19""; Extra Large for neck sizes 19""-24"".",airsoft;clothing & accessories;costumes & accessories;masks;novelty & special use;paintball & airsoft;protective gear;respirators;safety & security;sports & outdoors;tools & home improvement;work safety equipment & gear,12
0970577710,"Final Touch FINAL TOUCH is a poignant, courageous account of a family's triumph over unexpected tragedy. --Teresa Miller, author of REMNANTS OF GLORY and FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE.	This is a personal story with an important public message.	I don't know if I could have written this story if the deaths in megastores had ended with my mother's death.  But they continue to happen at an alarming rate. I've always believed in this story, but one reader's comments put the whole thing in place.   Vance Trimble, Pulitzer-Prize wining journalist, and author of the biographies of Sam Walton, E. W. Scripps, and others said, ""No one should innocently go shopping--and not return alive.  Yet that was the tragic fate of Dolly--an ordinary, yet extraordinary housewife.  Hers is a story that needed telling, that provides a timely alert on unexpected danger lurking in everyday places, as well as an expose about Big Business strong-arm tactics, and how to successfully fight those evils in court.  A gripping story that is must reading.	Judith Cain Dotson returned from California to her native Oklahoma in 1980. Five years later, tragedy destroyed the structure of her family and changed her life forever. After fifteen years, Dotson has found the words to tell the story of this unexpected tragedy. The focus is on the joy of my mother's life, my parents' experiences and values, and how a fifteen-year-battle with cancer was ended on a concrete floor of a warehouse store. Life is not promised past this very moment and my mother's story will stand as a solid reminder of that fact, says the author.",biographies & memoirs;books;death & grief;family relationships;grief & bereavement;memoirs;parenting & relationships;politics & government;politics & social sciences;regional u.s.;self-help;south,12
1411621654,"The My Little Pony Collector's Inventory: A Complete Checklist of All US Ponies, Playsets and Accessories from 1981 to 1992 Priced Nostalgia Press is dedicated to cataloging the still often overlooked toys of the 1980's, this guide delves into those colorful ponies every girl in the 80's had or at least wanted. . . --Funk & Junk	Hillary DePiano has been selling on eBay and other auction sites since 1997. An avid collector of Muppet memorabilia, My Little Pony, She-Ra, and other 80's toys, she soon found how profitable selling on eBay could be and has enjoyed a career as both a Trading Assistant and PowerSeller. On weekends, Ms. DePiano can be found scouring flea markets across the tri-state area (not to mention her attic) for deals and treasures to sell on eBay. In addition to her books about eBay which include The Seller Ledger, The Trading Assistant's Assistant and eBay Shipping Secrets, she is also the author of the play The Love of Three Oranges, and the collectibles guides The My Little Pony Collector's Inventory, and The She-Ra Collector's Inventory . Ms. DePiano currently resides in New Jersey.",antiques & collectibles;antiques care & reference;books;catalogs & directories;crafts;dolls;education & reference;hobbies & home;reference;toy animals;toys;toys & figurines,12
B000OT8CDY,"People Out of Place: Globalization, Human Rights and the Citizenship Gap People Out of Place analyzes the interaction of two traditions of rights--those nested in the nation state and available to citizens and those available to all human beings by virtue of their moral equality--and brilliantly illuminates the impact on them of the processes we label globalization.  This is not a collection of loosely related essays, but a tightly integrated multiplication of insights into the thinning out of citizenship rights through reduced state control over markets. For me this book exemplifies social science in the service both of imaginative and objective inquiry and of humane empathy.Tom Farer, Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies, University of DenverBoth timely and important, People Out of Place  is a great collection of empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated, and accessible essays on some of the fundamental problems of our time. Unafraid to ask big questions and to entertain bold alternatives to the status quo, Brysk and Shafir's book is a significant addition to the literature examining the costs, contradictions, challenges and opportunities facing those struggling to give weight to human rights, and to increase the protections of migrants and second-class citizens in an increasingly globalized world. This is a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate students alike, as well as for researchers and activists.Joseph Nevins, Department of Geology and Geography, Vassar College, and author of Operation GatekeeperA collection of insightful essays on the ways in which globalization has altered citizenship in the contemporary world....People Out of Place is a worthwhile and provocative read.Perspectives on Political Science	Alison Brysk is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Gershon Shafir is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.",books;civil rights & liberties;education & reference;globalization;human geography;human rights;kindle ebooks;kindle store;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics,12
0812017773,"Minerals (Barron's Nature Guide) Can you tell cacoxenite from walpurgite? If not, this new field guide will help you identify approximately 300 minerals by using two key tests: streak and hardness. Hochleitner's opening definition of what minerals are leads into a discussion of various properties: hardness, tenacity, density, streak, color, and cleavage. This is followed by sections on crystal forms, origins, modes of occurance, and gemstones.Each section on identification is based on the color seen when the streak test is done. Within each streak, ranking is by the hardness test. Every entry has at least one color photo adjacent to the listing. The listing is short, giving the mineral's particular identifying features. Some are accompanied with drawings of the crystal. The book closes with brief sections on finding and organizing specimens and a short glossary.This work compares favorably with other popular guides on minerals; Schumann's Minerals of the World [RBB S 1 92], which has a similar organization, and the Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals, which has a key by visual color, hardness, and cleavage. Both of these books mention places where the minerals have been found, not just rock-deposit type as Hochleitner does. Minerals is straightforward, easy to use, and visually appealing. Those public and school libraries not owning Minerals of the World, or where use of guides is heavy, will want to consider adding a copy.	Text: English (translation)  Original Language: German",books;children's books;earth sciences;education & reference;geology;math;mineralogy;nature & ecology;nature & how it works;rocks & minerals;science;science & math,12
1884822738,The Big Little Book of Irish Wit & Wisdom Fergus Kelly is a contributor for the following Black Dog & Leventhal Title: The Big Little Book of Irish Wit and Wisdom.Pat Fairon is a contributor for the following Black Dog & Leventhal Title: The Big Little Book of Irish Wit and Wisdom.Mary Dowling Daley is a contributor for the following Black Dog & Leventhal Title: The Big Little Book of Irish Wit and Wisdom.,books;cats;dogs & animals;education & reference;europe;history;humor;humor & entertainment;ireland;quotations;religion & spirituality;spirituality,12
0884153258,Hiking and Backpacking Trails of Texas (Hiking & backpacking) ...provides beginning and veteran walkers with information about trails throughout the state...one of the most complete anthologies available to the Texas backwoods hiker. (Texas Highways ),books;education & reference;excursion guides;general;hiking & camping;reference;south;sports & outdoors;texas;travel;united states;west south central,12
4770028792,"The Handbook of Japanese Adjectives and Adverbs (A Kodansha Dictionary) [The first pages of the opening chapter; without the bold type setting relevant words and with Japanese script represented by X's.] ADJECTIVES Introduction This section deals with some of the main features of Japanese adjectives as well as their similarities to and differences from English adjectives. You are advised to read it carefully before moving on to the main text. Types of Adjectives Japanese adjectives may be divided into two types: (a) i-adjectives, which end with i, and (b) na-adjectives, which end with na. I-adjectives are Japanese in origin while na-adjectives are mostly Chinese-origin words. atarashii XXX new isogashii XXX busy omoshiroi XXX interesting shizukana XXX quiet sukina XXX favorite benrina XXX convenient Noun Modifiers When used as noun modifiers, Japanese adjectives, like their English counterparts, precede the nouns they modify. Foreign words used as adjectives in Japanese become na-adjectives. (a) okii ie XXXXX a big house kuroi kuruma XXXXX a black car (b)kireina hana XXXXX a pretty flower genkina hito XXXXX a healthy person modanna biru XXXXX a modern building yuniikuna aidia XXXXX a unique idea Adjectival Predicates I-adjectives, when used as predicates, behave like verbs. For example, when okii XXX (big) or kuroi XXX (black) is used as a predicate, it means ""is big"" or ""is black,"" not just ""big"" or ""black."" Tanaka-san no ie wa okii. XXXXXXX Mr. Tanaka's house is big. Watashi no kuruma wa kuroi. XXXXXXX My car is black. Na-adjectives, when used as predicates, behave like nouns. That is, the stem form (the form without na) must be followed by the copula (be-verb) da, as must an ordinary noun. For this reason, na-adjectives are sometimes called ""nominal (nounlike) adjectives"" or ""adjectival nouns."" Kono hana wa kirei da. XXXXXXX This flower is pretty. Yamada-san wa genki da. XXXXXXX Miss Yamada is healthy. Some na-adjectives can be used as nouns when functioning as the subject or object of a sentence. anzenna asobiba XXXXXXX a safe playground Kodomo ni totte anzen ga taisetsu da. XXXXXXX Safety is important for children. zeitakuna kurashi XXXXXXX luxurious living Sonna zeitaku wa dekinai. XXXXXXX I can't afford such a luxury. Exceptions: The i-adjectives okii XXX (big), chiisai XXX (small) and okashii XXX (funny) may be used as na-adjectives when modifying certain nouns such as those given in the examples below. okina koen XXX a big park chiisana ike XXX a small pond okashina hanashi XXX a funny story Auxiliary Adjectives Auxiliary adjectives are adjectives that are attached to other adjectives or verbs. Some are i-adjectives (Examples 1, 2, 3, 4), while others are na-adjectives (Examples 5, 6). 1. Ano resutoran wa takai rashii. XXXXXXX That restaurant seems to be expensive. 2. Kono mondai wa judai kamoshirenai. XXXXXXX This problem might be serious. 3. Fuji-san ni noboritai. XXXXXXX I want to climb Mt. Fuji. 4. Kono kigu wa tsukaiyasui. XXXXXXX This utensil is easy to use. 5. Kono pai wa oishiso da. XXXXXXX This pie looks delicious. 6. Sumisu-san wa sumo ga sukina yo da. XXXXXXX Mr. Smith appears to like sumo. In addition to auxiliary adjectives, there are also auxiliary verbs. These, too, can attach to adjectives. (a) Kono heya wa semasugiru. XXXXXXX This room is too small. (b) Kare wa majime sugiru. XXXXXXX He is too serious. Tenses of Adjectives Japanese adjectives conjugate and have two tenses: present and past. The same adjectival form is used to express both present and future tenses. (a) Shiken wa yasashii. XXXXXXX The exam is/will be easy. Shiken wa yasashikatta. XXXXXXX The exam was easy. (b)Tetsuzuki wa kantan da. XXXXXXX The procedure is/will be simple. Tetsuzuki wa kantan datta. XXXXXXX The procedure was simple. Levels of Speech Japanese adjectives have plain, polite and superpolite forms or levels of speech. The plain form is used among family and friends, as well as in publications. The polite form is used among adults who are not close friends. The super-polite form is seldom used by younger speakers except in such greetings as o-hayo gozaimasu XXXXXXX (Good morning) or o-medeto gozaimasu XXXXXXX (Congratulations). ""It is interesting."" (a) Plain for i-adjectives Omoshiroi. XXX Polite form for i-adjectives Omoshiroi desu. XXX Superpolite form for i-adjectives Omoshiro gozaimasu. XXX (b) Plain form for na-adjectives Kantan da. XXX Polite form for na-adjectives Kantan desu. XXX Superpolite form for na-adjectives Kantan de gozaimasu. XXX	Preface[minus the original macrons and with Japanese represented by X's] The Japanese language is said to be rich in modifiers -- adjectives and adverbs. If you pick up a book or magazine and read a page or two, you will see how adjectives go with nouns, and adverbs with verbs, to convey accurate, vivid descriptions. In fact, these modifiers add indispensable nuance and flavor to the language. The purpose of this book is to help students obtain a basic knowledge of Japanese adjectives and adverbs so that they may use them effectively in sentences. Adjectives are presented in two parts. Part I deals with the conjugations of the two types of adjectives -- i-adjectives and na-adjectives -- and of some of the basic auxiliary adjectives. A conjugation practice follows the description of each adjective or group of adjectives. Part II deals with the usage of various adjectival forms. Each usage is illustrated with example sentences, and practices are provided every few lessons to allow you to test your understanding. Adverbs are presented by grouping them according to what they express -- time, quantity, degree, circumstance and so forth. Each adverb is illustrated with examples sentences, and practices are provided every few lessons. It is my wish that this book will prove useful, that you will come to better understand the meanings of Japanese adjectives and adverbs and be able to express yourself in ""true Japanese."" I thank my editors, Shigeyoshi Suzuki and Michael Staley at Kodansha International, for making the publication of this book possible.	TAEKO KAMIYA received her BA from Doshisha Women's College (Kyoto) and MAs from the University of San Francisco in education and from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in linguistics. She taught Japanese for twenty-five years at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. Among her publications are Speak Japanese Today (1989), Japanese for Fun (1990), Tuttle New Dictionary of Loanwords in Japanese (1994), Subject-Grouped 1016 Kanji in Context (1997), Japanese Particle Workbook (1998) and The Handbook of Japanese Verbs (2001).",books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;japanese;language & grammar;new;reference;used & rental textbooks;words,12
0201750775,"Guerrilla Oracle: The Succinct Windows Perspective Are you frustrated by your attempts to learn Oracle or improve your Oracle skills because of the sheer amount of technical documentation you have to wade through? This concise tutorial walks you step-by-step through the process, showing you exactly what you need to know to install, create, and support a successful Oracle 8i or 9i environment with Web capabilities.Guerrilla Oracle: The Succinct Windows Perspective presents clear explanations of database, SQL, and Oracle fundamentals. Using a real-world, large-scale example to demonstrate essential tasks, the book follows the Oracle DBMS life cycle from business idea to functioning database.Guerrilla Oracle gives you the foundation you need to build a functioning system and to begin exploring more complex technical topics. Along with a deeper understanding of the Oracle DBMS, you will learn the concrete skills, strategies, and techniques you need to make your database a reality.You will learn how to: Install and configure the Oracle Database server on a Windows server Configure client PCs Install and define the Oracle Database software Create basic database security schemas and formalize backup plans Design a database and normalize the data Integrate a legacy system into the Oracle relational database model using SQL*Loader Create the tables Develop and modify Oracle Forms and Reports Program in SQL, SQL*Plus, and PL/SQL Perform major DBA responsibilities Enable remote access Prepare your database for Web access and e-commerceThe accompanying CD-ROM includes a complete set of the book's code samples, scripts, and examples.  0201750775B01162003	Richard J. Staron is manager of IS applications at Eastern Connecticut State University. He has more than twenty years of experience in the data processing field, including hierarchical and relational database design. Richard has extensive experience managing Oracle database installations, supervising Oracle programmers, and teaching Oracle programming.        0201750775AB11012002	Try to make things as simple as possible; but not simpler.Albert EinsteinSimplicity is very difficult.Ray Ozzie, software inventorRead the following two sentences and choose the one that suits you: * Oracle is a rather complex subject, and this book will give you a close, detailed examination of its many intricacies. Intrinsic to our study is absolute concentration. * Welcome to the incredible world of Oracle databases!If you voted for the first candidate, I regret that this book is not for you. This book belongs in the hands of those who are intrigued by the Oracle environment and are looking for a complete view before they decide to focus on one particular area in depth. Yes, there is a lot to learn in the Oracle world, and it is a world that is continually changing. But certain basics are common to all Oracle installations, whether the scenario is a small Oracle shop with only three people or a large data center with several hundred. This book is aimed at those who are interested in a complete view of these basics--that is, those who are willing to do the work to turn a business idea into a functioning database.In other words, this book is good material for both the newcomer to Oracle and the seasoned veteran. If you're a newcomer, you will be guided through all the steps you need to develop a working system. If you're a veteran (someone who has specialized in one or two areas of the Oracle database environment), you will be introduced to some exciting areas that you may have missed.This book easily fits the bill for an intensive week-long seminar, a college class, a series of classes, or a self-study guide. If a company can make available a couple of servers, the book can be a do-it-yourself guide for employees, who can then work through the chapters on their own or in small, informal groups. This book is not meant to be the one, definitive reference resource on every bit and piece of an Oracle installation. Rather, it gives you just what you need to get the job done. You will constantly be referred to other in-depth sources to complete your knowledge.I believe that there is no knowledge like experience, and that is what this book will give youthe complete Oracle experience from the idea of a database through all the steps that are required to turn the idea into reality.Be persistent and good luck! I look forward to working with you.A Note about TypographySome typographic conventions used in this book should be noted.  * First, a word about script annotations: Sample scripts are often accompanied by notes in the left-hand margin. For convenience each note is numbered, with a corresponding number shown at the end of the relevant line of code. * In the sample scripts, system output is indicated in bold type. * In the text, bold type is used to indicate key terms being defined.Richard StaronMansfield Center, ConnecticutJuly 2002  0201750775P01022003	Try to make things as simple as possible; but not simpler.Albert EinsteinSimplicity is very difficult.Ray Ozzie, software inventorRead the following two sentences and choose the one that suits you: Oracle is a rather complex subject, and this book will give you a close, detailed examination of its many intricacies. Intrinsic to our study is absolute concentration. Welcome to the incredible world of Oracle databases!If you voted for the first candidate, I regret that this book is not for you. This book belongs in the hands of those who are intrigued by the Oracle environment and are looking for a complete view before they decide to focus on one particular area in depth. Yes, there is a lot to learn in the Oracle world, and it is a world that is continually changing. But certain basics are common to all Oracle installations, whether the scenario is a small Oracle shop with only three people or a large data center with several hundred. This book is aimed at those who are interested in a complete view of these basics--that is, those who are willing to do the work to turn a business idea into a functioning database.In other words, this book is good material for both the newcomer to Oracle and the seasoned veteran. If you're a newcomer, you will be guided through all the steps you need to develop a working system. If you're a veteran (someone who has specialized in one or two areas of the Oracle database environment), you will be introduced to some exciting areas that you may have missed.This book easily fits the bill for an intensive week-long seminar, a college class, a series of classes, or a self-study guide. If a company can make available a couple of servers, the book can be a do-it-yourself guide for employees, who can then work through the chapters on their own or in small, informal groups. This book is not meant to be the one, definitive reference resource on every bit and piece of an Oracle installation. Rather, it gives you just what you need to get the job done. You will constantly be referred to other in-depth sources to complete your knowledge.I believe that there is no knowledge like experience, and that is what this book will give youthe complete Oracle experience from the idea of a database through all the steps that are required to turn the idea into reality.Be persistent and good luck! I look forward to working with you.A Note about TypographySome typographic conventions used in this book should be noted.  First, a word about script annotations: Sample scripts are often accompanied by notes in the left-hand margin. For convenience each note is numbered, with a corresponding number shown at the end of the relevant line of code. In the sample scripts, system output is indicated in bold type. In the text, bold type is used to indicate key terms being defined.Richard StaronMansfield Center, ConnecticutJuly 2002  0201750775P01022003",books;computers & technology;database management systems;databases;home computing & how-to;mathematics;microsoft;oracle;relational databases;science & math;software;windows os,12
0393050025,"Lifelines: Living Longer, Growing Frail, Taking Heart The author (Tangled Minds: Understanding Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias, etc.), a medical specialist in elderly medicine, has written an accessible and instructive study of a subject that both individuals and society as a whole need to heed, particularly with the rising number of frail elderly (those who suffer from ""impairment in multiple domains leading to a profound difficulty functioning in daily life"") as life expectancy increases. According to Gillick, nearly two-thirds of women and almost half of men over the age of 85 are heavily dependent physically and emotionally on family members, who are frequently at a loss as to how to best help them. Through the stories of four patients drawn from her practice, Gillick combines professional experience, empathy and common sense to show possible ways that the elderly and their families can deal more effectively with the years of decline before death. Catherine Endicott and her daughters, for instance, struggled to face Catherine's escalating problems of breathlessness and pain caused by heart trouble. Although she rejected open-heart surgery as too risky, she finally compromised on a less intrusive procedure that allowed her to remain in an assisted living facility, where she found friends and a measure of security. Jack Simon, an energetic 84-year-old stroke victim, was expertly cared for by his wife; after her death, he had to adjust to life in a nursing home. The author deals forthrightly with the issue of sexual contact among the elderly through the unfolding of Jack's relationship with a female resident. Although Gillick cannot provide altogether happy endings to the lives of her elderly patients, she does illuminate their humanity as they and their families try to make the final years less frightening and more comfortable. (Nov.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Brilliant...an honest assessment of the pathways into and out of [elderly] disability.  -- Journal of the American Medical Association[G]ives me hope that if the worst should come, there is help to be found and meaning to be derived.  -- John Kotre, author of Make It Count	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Muriel R. Gillick practices medicine at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged in Boston. She is associate professor of medicine at Harvard University.",aging;books;fitness & dieting;gerontology;health;medical books;medicine;politics & social sciences;social issues;social sciences;teens;test preparation & review,12
B000MKYKTA,"Diana---The Last Word Simone will be appearing on a panel discussion show on Sky One on 31st August, looking into the conspiracy theories surrounding Diana's death.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""Simone, if anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is."" --Diana, Princess of WalesDuring the last five years of her life, the ""People's Princess"" had one friend and confidante who was special to her. She was not part of Diana's social circle; she was not a family friend. That woman was Simone Simmons, a healer, who devoted herself to the troubled Princess. Over countless phone conversations and cups of tea at Kensington Palace, Simone gave her candid opinions about Diana's heart, soul, and suffering. No subject was taboo, and the women shared laughter and tears as they discussed Diana's personal life, including: who among the Royals was good to Diana and who was hateful her only fling--with John F. Kennedy, Jr. why she inflicted self-harm how Mother Teresa hurt her why she never would have married Dodi  her enduring love for Prince Charles..and more. In these pages, Simone captures the essence of one of the great icons of the twentieth century. This book, which reads like a personal memoir, truly is Diana's last word.* With 8 pages of compelling photos *	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Simone Simmons is the author of Diana: The Secret Years, a New York Times bestseller. She is a natural healer and clairvoyant, who heals by empowering her patients rather than creating a dependency on the healer. She specializes in absent healing, mainly with sufferers of cancer and AIDS. She lives in London.Ingrid Seward has been writing about the Royal Family for over twenty years since her appointment as editor of Majesty magazine in 1983 and is internationally acknowledged as one of the leading experts in the field. Her previous books include William and Harry; Diana: Portrait of a Princess; By Royal Invitation; Royalty Revealed; Sarah, Duchess of York; Royal Children of the 20th Century; Prince Edward; The Last Great Edwardian Lady: The Life and Style of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother; and The Queen and Di. 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Diana--The Last Word1JFKBehind the shy glances, the radiant smiles and the occasional tears, the glamour and the good works that went to make up her public image, lay the passions which made Diana the extraordinary woman that she was.She wanted to be loved, but more than anything she wanted to give love. To the deprived and disadvantaged; to her sons, William and Harry; to her husband, Prince Charles, if only he had allowed her to--and to men with whom she became romantically involved.I know, because Diana told me. Sitting on the floor, perched on the edge of her bed, sitting on the sofa or in the kitchen, eating the occasional Italian takeaways and microwaved ready meals and drinking endless cups of herbal tea, we would talk for hours on end about her hopes, her cares, her interests and her love affairs. She held nothing back. She was far too open-hearted to bottle up her feelings. If a project caught her interest or a man her eye, she wanted to discuss it, right down to the frankest detail.And, as is the way when two friends are gossiping, one topic would lead easily into another. That is how she came to tell me of the fling she had with John Kennedy Jr.Diana and I were in her sitting room at Kensington Palace. She was wearing a pair of stylish yet comfortable beige suede ankle boots, a pair of jeans and a V-necked cashmeresweater that cost a great deal of money. We were sitting for a change on the sofa rather than on the floor when she brought up the subject of the remarkable woman she admired: Jackie Kennedy Onassis. She couldn't understand how she could have wed Aristotle Onassis, 'that Greek Frog', as she called him, especially after she had been married to Jack Kennedy.She described the late president as 'delicious' and from there the conversation moved on to his son, John Jr.She asked me what I thought of him and I said that I didn't really have an opinion as I didn't know him. She had a picture of him pulled from one of the newspapers she had delivered every morning, pointed at it and said, 'He's very good-looking isn't he?'She had met him in New York in 1995 when he was trying to persuade her to give an interview to his magazine, George. She turned down the request for the interview but agreed to meet him in her suite at the Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side.Diana was staying at one of the penthouse suites with large plateglass windows looking over Central Park and across the Manhattan skyline to the Twin Towers. The rooms, with a grand piano in one, were elegantly furnished in the manner of a private house rather than in the bland style favoured by so many hotels. The room was $3200 a night, which Diana thought expensive.When Kennedy arrived she was bowled over by his easy American charm and the physique he worked so hard to keep in shape. She told me, 'We started talking, one thing led to another--and we ended up in bed together. It was pure chemistry.'Diana was usually very circumspect in her courtships and approached them cautiously, insisting on getting to know the man and then examining her feelings to see if she really wanted to make an emotional commitment before she was prepared to make a sexual one.Diana had given the Royal Family something that it was conspicuously lacking, which was sex appeal. She was theGinger Rogers to Charles's Fred Astaire in the way that she brought glamour and romance to a dull, dusty institution. And as she made the transformation from a shy bride into a beautiful and mature woman, she came to like the effect she had on people and the way that men started to look at her. But there was always something of the ingnue about her. She did not have real womanly confidence, and, although she could be an outrageous flirt, there was always an innocence about her. Not every woman is aware of her sexuality, and Diana really was not aware that she had any real sex appeal.With Kennedy it was different. He made her feel desirable, wanton and very womanly. It was, she admitted, a moment of pure lust--the only time in her life that she succumbed in that way.My mouth dropped open. I was so flabbergasted that for a few seconds I couldn't say anything. She had just started seeing Hasnat Khan and, although there had been no real physical contact, she was very much in love with him which I thought would have precluded anyone else. I cried out, 'What! You're joking, aren't you?' and I really thought she was.She replied, 'No, I'm not. It happened. And he was an amazing lover--a ten, the tops.'Diana was keen on that rating system. James Hewitt came in at nine, Oliver Hoare as a six. Hasnat Khan was saved the embarrassment of being rated. Prince Charles, on the other hand, barely made the chart at all.Diana felt very pleased about her encounter with JFK Jr. She thought it was fantastic that for once she had got someone (other than Hasnat) whom she wanted, as opposed to being someone else's catch. It put a notch on her belt and she was tickled pink that it was JFK, one of the best-looking and most sought-after men in America, with a real body beautiful that came from endless workouts in the gym. He was a year older than her and three inches taller, which counted for a lot because Diana didn't like short men.What gave their brief liaison an extra dimension was that she admired him and the way he had dealt with the pressures which came with being the son of America's best-lovedpresident. Looking to her eldest son and the responsibilities he was born to inherit, she said, 'I'm hoping that William grows to be as smart as John Kennedy Jr. I want William to be able to handle things as well as John does.'Being Diana, she naturally wanted to take the relationship further. She started fantasising about what a powerful team they would make, and how, if everything went right, she could have become part of America's 'royal family'. On a trip to Washington she had been taken on a tour of the White House and told me afterwards, 'I would have loved it there,' and thought that, were Kennedy to follow his father into politics as everyone expected him to do, she might eventually become the First Lady of the United States.Looking back, I wish I had asked her more, but the conversation then moved on to Grace Kelly and Diana's conviction, based, it must be said, on no evidence, that the former film star had been murdered when she let slip that she was planning to divorce her husband, Prince Rainier of Monaco. She identified with Kelly, a comparatively ordinary girl who had become a princess, just as Diana had.She felt much the same about Jackie Kennedy, who had married a serial adulterer, yet succeeded in becoming an international symbol of grace and good taste. She thought Jackie O had been the perfect statesman's wife, a role that she imagined that she too might be able to perform with style and dignity as the consort of her son.When she got back to England she had John's astrological chart prepared and discovered that because he was a Sagittarius and she had Sagittarius rising, they were compatible in a number of respects, but not enough to sustain the relationship.Kennedy always spoke highly of the Princess and described her to friends as 'fascinating, stimulating and beautiful'. For a short while afterwards they stayed in touch: she telephoned and they had long-chats across the Atlantic. But it is always difficult to maintain a long distance relationship and there was never an encore. She had more love to give than any man could take, and when it came down to it, Ithink he found her too needy. I told her, 'You want him 24/7 but let's face it, unless you live in the United States you're not going to get him 24/7--and probably not even then.'She accepted that reality and, instead of dwelling on what might have been, accepted her short liaison with Kennedy Jr for what it was--an exhilarating fling. The following year he married Carolyn Bassette and Diana wrote to wish him well. She hoped that his marriage would work out better than hers had. By then, of course, she had become deeply involved with Hasnat Khan, although he refused to consummate their relationship until her divorce came through.I cannot help but wonder, though, what would have happened if Kennedy had been able to give her what she wanted, and she could have taken the stresses of being the consort of a Kennedy. They might both still be alive today.It was not to be. Diana had her own life to live, with all that that entailed.Copyright  2005 by Simone Simmons and Ingrid Seward. Update copyright  2007 by Simone Simmons and Ingrid Seward.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biographies & memoirs;books;british;europe;historical;history;leaders & notable people;princess diana;royalty;specific groups;wales;women,12
1400020204,"Japanese Coursebook: Basic-Intermediate (Complete Basic Courses) Learn to speak, read, and write Japanese quickly and easily with Living Language. Developed by U.S. government experts, this book introduces you step-by-step to all the basics of Japanese: pronunciation, vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and grammar.IN THIS BOOK, READERS WILL FIND:?  All the words and phrases from the 40 lessons on the Living Language Japanese Complete Course recordings, plus additional vocabulary?  A guide to pronunciation?  Useful topics including directions, introductions, shopping, faxes, and e-mail?  Explanations of grammar and usage?  Short quizzes to help you check your progress?  A comprehensive summary of Japanese grammar?  Verb charts including all tenses?  A special section on writing lettersWhile this book stands on its own as an instructional program and an invaluable reference, readers will find that using it with the recorded lessons is even more effective. Living Language Japanese Complete Course cassette and compact disc packages include this book as well as a dictionary.",books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;japanese;new;phrasebooks;reference;travel;used & rental textbooks,12
0970290853,"Iraq in a Nutshell (Nutshell Notes) As entertaining as it is informative. -- David Pecchia, Freelance Reviewer	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Amanda Roraback is the author of the ""Nutshell Notes"" book series that includes ""Afghanistan in a Nutshell,"" ""Iraq in a Nutshell,"" (both LA Times Bestsellers), ""Islam in a Nutshell,"" ""Pakistan in a Nutshell"" and ""Israel-Palestine in a Nutshell.""  Roraback has received a Bachelors and Masters degree in history and completed three years of work towards a PhD. degree in Soviet history at UCLA.  Amanda, who has traveled to more than 40 countries including Lithuania, China, Cuba and the Middle East, is also a public speaker on a number of international topics.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education & reference;history;international & world politics;iraq;israel;middle east;middle eastern;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;reference,12
0814404898,"The E-Factor: Building a 24/7, Customer-Centric, Electronic Business for the Internet Age The world of electronic commerce (e-commerce) is a highly competitive one that encompasses industries from banking to retailing to transportation. Focazio, president of Focazio.Com Enterprises, which assists organizations in creating practical interactive business strategies, here presents a guide to success strategies for e-commerce. Focazio maintains that e-commerce is ""more than fancy web servers, good visual design, and online shopping. E-commerce is about forming and managing effective interactive relationships with your target audiences."" The author stresses that e-business is a full-time undertaking and states that doing business online is like ""having an eighth day of the week, e-day."" The topics covered include identifying goals and forming a flexible action plan to attain them; identifying the right audience; creating an information-routing structure; implementing, maintaining, and improving the interactive service; and monitoring return on investment (ROI). Focazio uses case studies of successful and not-so-successful enterprises to illustrate strategies and guidelines. This helpful guide to becoming a competitive player on the web is recommended for both practitioners and students of business and should be considered for purchase by public and academic libraries. Lucy Heckman, St. John's Univ. Lib., Jamaica, NY Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Martin T. Focazio (Bloomsbury, NJ) is president of Focazio.Com  Enterprises, which helps organizations create practical interactive business  strategies. Prior to founding his company, he was Senior Business Strategist at  AGENCY.COM and Executive Producer in the online media group at VSI  Communications Ltd.",books;business & investing;business & management;computers & technology;customer service;e-commerce;industries & professions;internet & web culture;networking;networks;protocols & apis;web marketing,12
0761115757,"Mini House: Space Station (Mini House Book) Peter Lippman is the creator of the MINI HOUSE BOOKS and the MINI WHEELS BOOKS. In addition, hes written and/or illustrated more than 30 childrens books. He lives with his wife in New York.",animals;astronomy;astronomy & space;books;children's books;dogs;humor;nature & how it works;science;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;transportation,12
0966000900,"The Best Piano Buyers Guide ""...This educational and informative book is a must for  anyone in the market for a new or used piano.""    -- Joe Yamada - International Recording Artist	Kim Rawlings has been tuning, repairing, rebuilding,  refinishing, and selling pianos for over twenty-five years. He started  his career in the early 1970's at one of the West's largest piano  retailers. Kim was involved in all aspects of technical servicing of  pianos as well as the sales of pianos. He started his own piano retail  store in 1980 and soon developed three additional piano retail  outlets. From 1988 to 1998 Kim was the Head Piano Technician for one  of the largest piano retailers in America. He now owns and operates  his own piano retail store in Washington State selling his dream  piano. He has also maintained his own piano servicing business. Kim's  piano servicing abilities have made it possible for him to tune for  some of the greatest pianists and musicians in the world. From the  early 1970's until the present he has tuned for over fifty performers  as they performed in concert in his area.    Performers such as Liberace, Lawrence Welk, Elton John, Count Basie,  David Lanz, Joe Yamada, Vladimir Jan Kochanski, Suzanne Ciani, Tanya  Tucker, The Osmonds, Harry Belafonte, Johnny Mathis, Jim Brickman,  Lorie Line, Bob Hope, Barry Manilow, Melissa manchester, Oscar  Peterson, and the list goes on. His unique perspective has enabled him  to write this ""MUST"" book for anyone interested in purchasing any  piano. This book is easy to understand and provides the consumer with  enough knowledge to make a wise buying decision.",arts & photography;books;consumer guides;education & reference;humanities;instruments;music;new;performing arts;piano;reference;used & rental textbooks,12
0520208897,"Alliance Capitalism: The Social Organization of Japanese Business ""For anyone interested in Keiretsu (Japan's enterprise groups), Gerlach's Alliance Capitalism is a must-read. He offers insightful and comprehensive analyses of their character, behavior, and recent rapid transformation. His knowledgeable discussion of their roles in Japanese economic performance supplements as well as challenges the increasing number of analyses offered by Japanese and American economists of the many aspects of Keiretsu.""Kozo Yamamura, University of Washington	""For anyone interested in Keiretsu (Japan's enterprise  groups),  Gerlach's Alliance Capitalism is a must-read. He offers insightful and  comprehensive analyses of their character, behavior, and recent rapid  transformation. His knowledgeable discussion of their roles in Japanese  economic  performance supplements as well as challenges the increasing number of  analyses  offered by Japanese and American economists of the many aspects of  Keiretsu.""  (Kozo Yamamura, University of Washington)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Michael L. Gerlach is Assistant Professor of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.",asia;books;business & investing;economic history;economics;history;industries & professions;information management;japan;politics & social sciences;popular economics;sociology,12
1580890202,"Dancing with Daddy PreSchool-K-The major strength of this playful book is the joyous interaction between the little girl and her father as they dance ""like sillies."" Their movement takes them ""singing and laughing and dancing"" out of the house, through the farm, across the bridge, into the forest, and back home to bed. Along the way, cows, trees, fish, deer, frogs, hedgehogs, and fireflies all get caught up in the fun. Unfortunately, the text does not always capture the swinging, swaying mood of the story. The rhymes are inconsistent and occasionally awkward. The cartoon illustrations, done in pen and ink and watercolor, are not particularly distinguished, yet the fluid outlines of the figures and the curving composition capture the feeling of dancing.Karen James, Louisville Free Public Library, KY Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""The elusive childhood magic of dancing with one's father is captured with all its silliness and magnificence intact""  -- Kirkus Reviews	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Willy Welch is an actor, singer, songwriter, and storyteller. His first book, PLAYING RIGHT FIELD (Scholastic), is also a song recorded by over twenty different performing artists, including Peter, Paul and Mary. Many people are familiar with the story/song as a double-Clio award-winning Pizza Hut commercial!Among Willy's eclectic writing projects have been over thirty songs for Barney (that big, purple dinosaur that every child knows and loves), and a rock-a-billy version of ""The Two Gentlemen of Verona"" performed by the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas. Willy lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife and children.",arts;books;children's books;crafts & music;dance;family life;nature;nature & how it works;parents;performing arts;science;social situations,12
B0001VO07W,"Mechanix Wear MP2-02-012 M-Pact II Glove Red, XX-Large M-Pact 2 gloves are trusted by pit professionals as a vital track tool when the race is on the line. Whether you're in the pit or just tooling with your engine, M-Pact 2 gloves are made to withstand rigorous heavy-duty tasks where protection is critical - especially in the knuckle and palm areas. Their superior fit allows for full movement, which is crucial in tight spaces. Tough challenges call for tougher gloves and M-Pact 2s have consistancy you can count on. Item is on backorder until mid-June. Size: 2XL, Color: Red, Material: Synthetic leather, Cuff Material: Neoprene, Palm Material: Two ply synthetic leather, Machine Washable: Yes, Pairs (qty.): 1",gloves;hand & arm protection;industrial & scientific;lawn & garden;occupational health & safety products;outdoor décor;patio;personal protective equipment;safety & security;tools & home improvement;work gloves;work safety equipment & gear,12
0399137904,"A Question of Choice A milestone in the ongoing battle for abortion rights was achieved 20 years ago before the Supreme Court by the then 27-year-old Texas lawyer Weddington who won the Roe v. Wade case legalizing abortion in the U.S. Here she recounts with clarity and fervor the remarkable story of how she, her husband and a few other lawyers, supported by a handful of doctors and pro-choice advocates, researched and prepared briefs invoking the ""right of privacy"" defense as a main argument to challenge the Texas anti-abortion law. However, certain conditions--trimester viability of the fetus, etc.--imposed by states, limited funding and services, along with well-organized, occasionally violent pro-life factions supported by conservative administrations and their court appointees, threaten to overthrow the 1973 decision. The author urgently calls for immediate, major and sustained efforts on the part of pro-choice forces to preserve the freedom of women to control their lives. Photos not seen by PW. BOMC and QPB alternates. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Starting with her years at the University of Texas Law School at Austin, Weddington, the attorney who won Roe v. Wade , traces the history of her involvement with this momentous Supreme Court case and its aftermath. She laments the ground that sometimes complacent pro-choice activists have lost since Roe v. Wade on issues like the 1989 Webster v. Reproductive Health Services decision and the 1991 Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, and she stresses the urgent need to regain this ground from an unceasingly pro-life Supreme Court. Although her writing is less dramatic and less accessible to the general reader than Marian Faux's Roe v. Wade ( LJ 6/1/88), Weddington is generally direct and always sincere, and she offers some different perspectives on certain aspects of the case that differs from the Faux book. Recommended for all libraries. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/92.- Linda Knaack, Univ. of Lowell Libs., Mass.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Sarah Weddington recounts her experiences, struggles, triumphs and setbacks as the lawyer who won Roe vs. Wade. Mary-Louise Parker's reading of this historical account is excellent. Her steady narration builds the listener's interest and captures the excitement of Weddington's challenge. The readability of the book is translated well by Parker's easy, informal style. In an introduction by Linda Ellerbee, she and the author discuss the current political scene and feminist movement. Weddington's persistent urging of listeners to stay involved and aware fits beautifully with Parker's narration. This provoca-tive history lesson is well-narrated and abridged.  M.B.K. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio Cassette	 edition.",abortion & birth control;biographies & memoirs;books;lawyers & judges;politics & government;politics & social sciences;professionals & academics;public affairs & policy;social policy;specific groups;women;women's studies,12
B000FO54XO,"Knowledge Management Foundations (KMCI Press) ""Knowledge Management Foundations provides a much sought after intellectual platform for thinking about the management and development of knowledge in private and public organizations. He has created a reconstructive critique of Knowledge Management that goes far outside of the borders of traditional writing on the topic. This book offers a straightforward and major policy program for universities and corporations alike in thinking about their most valuable resource: knowledge. Managers on all levels should read this book, as should philosophers and sociologists of science who want to know about the ongoing real-world applications of their ideas. Fuller's book will become a classic.""-Tomas Hellstrm Fellow at the Institute for Management of Innovation and TechnologyStockholm School of Economics and Chalmers University of Technology ""Steve Fuller has written a book that finally takes a critical look at the guru-hype that passes for Knowledge Management (KM). Fuller points out that prior work is so ridiculous that universities are now classified as the 'dumb organizations' and any McDonald's franchise is a 'smart' one. We are witnessing the deskilling of the knowledge worker, and the McDonaldization of the university. As Steve puts it, there is no 'free lunch' in cyberspace. This book will set the KM field upside down, where it belongs.""-David BojeEditor of Journal of Organizational Change Management and TAMARA: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	'Knowledge Management Foundations' is just what it claims, the first attempt to provide a secure intellectual footing for the myriad of practices called ""knowledge management."" A breath of fresh air from the usual KM gurus, Fuller openly admits that the advent of KM is a mixed blessing that often amounts to the conduct of traditional management by subtler means. However, Fuller's deep understanding of both the history of management theory and knowledge production more generally enables him to separate the wheat from the chaff of the KM literature.  This ground-breaking book will prove of interest to both academics and practitioners of knowledge management. It highlights the ways in which KM has challenged the values associated with knowledge that academics have taken for granted for centuries. At the same time, Fuller resists the conclusion of many KM gurus, that the value of knowledge lies in whatever the market will bear in the short term. He pays special attention to how information technology has not only facilitated knowledge work but also has radically altered its nature. There are chapters devoted to the revolution in intellectual property and an evaluation of peer review as a quality control mechanism. The book culminates in a positive re-evaluation of universities as knowledge producing institutions from which the corporate sector still has much to learn.                                        A KMCI Press book - a definitive title from the leading, standard-setting KM organizationOnly book to describe fundamental KM concepts and theoriesApproach roots theory in current state of the procession/discipline	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & investing;computer science;computers & technology;entrepreneurship;industries & professions;information management;information systems;management;management & leadership;small business & entrepreneurship;software engineering,12
0819567841,"Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight For those who wonder at the meaning (and the why) of much contemporary high and low cultureand where did it spring from, where is it goingMr. Gilbert offers plenty of interesting ideas, concepts, and explanations, using a wide range of examples (there are a generous amount of illustrations) that intrigue and illuminate.Iconoclast""Alan Gilbert's collection of essays contributes to a distressingly small field-interdisciplinary studies of contemporary poetry. Very few books about recent poetry place the work in larger contexts-whether those be political, cultural, historical, or artistic... Gilbert's critiques hit the mark with occasional brilliance... What's wonderful about Another Future is its attention to marvelous, underappreciated poets and the care with which Gilbert reads them."" American Book Review	As the theoretical bubble bursts, Alan Gilbert brings us back to the attention poetry demands, with its local nuances, terms, and conditions. With referential breadth and political acuity, Another Future deftly traces cultures in the making within the confines of social space. (Ammiel Alcalay, author of From the Warring Factions)	Alan Gilbert is an independent scholar and poet. He lives in Brooklyn, New York",arts & photography;books;criticism;criticism & theory;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;postmodernism;used & rental textbooks,12
0131865358,"SPSS 13.0 Guide to Data Analysis GDA 13.0  Preface The goal of this book is to provide an unintimidating introduction to data analysis and to SPSS. This edition focuses on topics that interest today's studentsin particular, the role of the Internet in society. The book can be used either as a supplementary text or as a primary text in an introductory course in data analysis. It is designed for use with SPSS 13.0, including the Student Version. The SPSS 13.0 Statistical Procedures Companion (Norusis, 2005) and the SPSS 13.0 Advanced Statistical Procedures Companion (Norusis, 2004) cover many of the more advanced statistical procedures in SPSS 13.0 that are not discussed in this book. (The descriptions and contents of the books can be found on the Prentice Hall Web site at www.prenhall.com) Data Files Since the best way to learn about data analysis is to actually do it, this book uses real data to solve a variety of problems. Data from the General Social Survey are used to determine who uses the Internet, and for how long, each week. Data from the Impact of the Internet on Library Use study allows students to examine the role of the Internet in traditional institutions, such as libraries. Data from the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society allows students to investigate the effect of the Internet on socialization. But of course there's more to life than the Internet. Completion times from the Chicago marathon, opinions of the criminal justice system, and an ABC survey of manners are also analyzed. The variety of data files used should make this book appealing to a broad range of students and teachers. The data files used in the chapters and in the exercises are included with this book.  Using This Book This book is divided into four parts: ""Getting Started with SPSS,"" ""Describing Data,"" ""Testing Hypotheses,"" and ""Examining Relationships."" Each chapter presents a problem and introduces statistical techniques useful for solving it. Detailed descriptions of the SPSS procedures used are also provided. Each chapter also contains extensive exercises that use the data files described above, as well as others. Instructors can choose exercises that best suit the interests and sophistication of their students. Solutions to even-numbered statistical concepts exercises are in Appendix F.  Send Me Comments I am always eager to receive feedback and suggestions from readers of my books. Please send your suggestions and comments about the book (not the software) to marija@norusis.com.  Acknowledgments I wish to thank numerous users of the previous editions of the SPSS Guide to Data Analysis for their comments and suggestions. The book has benefited greatly from them. I am most grateful to the contributors of the data files used in this edition. In particular, I thank George D'Elia of the State University of New York at Buffalo for data from his study of the impact of the Internet on public library use, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Norman Nie and D. Sunshine Hillygus for data from the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society. I also thank Elizabeth Stapleton for the Chicago Marathon data, Richard Shekelle for the Western Electric data, the late Harry Roberts for the bank salary data, Howard Corwin for the renal data, and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research for permission to distribute the ABC Manners poll data. I remain grateful to the General Social Survey for providing such a wealth of data.  I also wish to thank Yvonne Smith, Bonnie Shapiro, JoAnn Ziebarth, and Mary Campbell of SPSS for editorial and production support and David Nichols for many helpful suggestions and corrections. Finally, I wish to thank my husband, Bruce Stephenson, for his varied contributions to the preparation of all editions of this book.          Marija J. Norusis",books;computer science;computers & technology;mathematical & statistical;mathematics;new;research;science & math;science & mathematics;software;statistics;used & rental textbooks,12
0966402790,"Keller's Math SAT Game Plan: Your Strategy for Success (Nuts & Bolts) After I followed Kellers math SAT Game Plan Im up with 100 points in two weeks! -- Sarah G., a StudentAn excellent text! It will help both those who enjoy math and those who struggle with it. -- Vincent Russo, B.S. in Mathematics, M.S. in Secondary Math EducationPhilip Kellers  refreshingly subversive tactics appeal to students and help them  maximize their scores. -- Carol White, SAT Instructor and Writing Consultant	What they said about the first edition... Vincent Russo, B.S. in Mathematics, M.S. in Secondary Math Education An excellent text! It will help both those who enjoy math and those who struggle with it.   Carol White, SAT Instructor and Writing Consultant Philip Keller's refreshingly subversive tactics appeal to students and help them maximize their scores.   Professor Laura Harrington As a college professor and long-time test-prep tutor, I've evaluated the gamut of test-prep resources. This is, hands-down, the best math SAT book I've seen: clear, articulate, and accessible without being condescending. I was so impressed that I researched the author, and found out that he's won several teaching awards as a high school math and science teacher in New Jersey, which may explain this book's effectiveness: it's written by a teacher who can anticipate student questions and areas of confusion, not a desk jockey. After using it with a few kids, I have decided to make it the required math text for all my student clients.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Teaching SAT math has been Philip Kellers ""other job"" since 1985.  While studying mechanical engineering at Princeton University, he taught SAT classes for a company called Pre-Test Review, a pioneer in SAT preparation.  After graduating, he became a high school math and science teacher, teaching mostly physics but also chemistry, calculus and geometry.  All through his years of teaching, he has continued to work with students to prepare them for the SAT.   He has also worked as a free-lance writer for the ACT, writing math and science questions, so he has seen the standardized testing world from inside and out.  Currently, he teaches physics at Holmdel High School, in Holmdel, New Jersey, where he also teaches the SAT and PSAT preparation classes. He lives in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, with his wife Daphne, his children Reuben and Jane, and his dogs, Ranger and Stella.",assessment;books;college & university;education;education & reference;education theory;new;sat & psat;schools & teaching;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks,12
1574885324,"Before Amelia: Women Pilots in the Early Days of Aviation In the early days of aviation, the Wright Brothers refused to  sell their airplanes to women because, in their opinion, women  lacked the requisite ""coolness and judgment"" to fly. Despite  such obstacles, a number of women in the first decades of flying  managed to become accomplished pilots and to play various other  roles in aviation. Lebow's book surveys the careers of these  remarkable women, both in the United States and internationally.  She looks at women such as Hilda Hewlett of England, who was not  only a pilot but cofounded England's first aviation school in  1910 and produced her own line of aircraft. Lebow (A Grandstand  Seat: The American Balloon Service in World War I) is an  accomplished writer particularly adept at doing archival and  historical research and then bringing it to life. Much of the  attention in the area of women in aviation has gone to later  figures, like Amelia Earhart, while the earlier pioneers of the  pre-World War I era have been largely overlooked. Lebow's  well-researched book fills that gap. It is engaging to read,  with useful chapter notes and ample illustrations. Highly  recommended for women's studies and aviation history  collections. Charles Cowling, SUNY at Brockport Lib.   Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The ""early days"" of the subtitle are those before 1914, and the number of women who flew then, some without actual licenses, runs well into three figures. The first to fly and get a license was French: Raymonde de Laroche. She had numerous compatriots, though, not least the amazing, long-lived Marie Marvingt. Harriet Quimby was first-with-license in the U.S., but she was killed less than a year afterward; Ruth Law and the Stinson sisters lasted longer and flew farther in the U.S. Hilda Hewlett was not only the first Englishwoman to fly; she and the German Milli Beese were the first women to run aircraft factories, which Beese, however, managed with the handicap of marriage to a Frenchman. There were Russians, Italians, Scandinavians, Austrians, Hungarians, and many others who demolished taboos, records, airplanes, and occasionally themselves with pioneering aplomb. Alas, that World War I and its plethora of higher-tech planes and male pilots befell these unsung pioneers, whose story belongs in every adult aviation and women's studies collection. Roland GreenCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Lebow has undertaken major international research to unearth the obscure and long-forotten pilots who finally receive the recognition they deserve in this lively and well-written book. . . . It is a peasure to be introduced to these wonderful women by such a talented writer. This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the earliest period of aviation or in women's history and to the general reader looking for a fast-paced, highly readable work on an unusual topic."" ---Gateway Heritage	Eileen F. Lebow is an author and former teacher. Her previous books includeCal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz: The First Transcontinental Flight  and A Grandstand Seat: The Army Balloon Corps in World War I. She lives in Washington, D.C.",aviation;biographies & memoirs;books;gay & lesbian;history;military;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;specific groups;transportation;women;women's studies,12
0333444388,Family Letters of Richard Wagner Text: English (translation)  Original Language: German	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.,( w );a-z;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;classical;history & criticism;music;musical genres;people;richard;wagner,12
1878067818,"Season of Adventure: Traveling Tales and Outdoor Journeys of Women over 50 (Adventura Series) The brief tales in this eclectic collection encompass a variety of settings that range from a backyard garden in Utah to a voyage on the Bering Sea. A restless longing underlies the experiences of these 28 writers, women between the ages of 50 and 90, a desire clearly articulated in Evelyn Wolfson's ""Journey to the Sea"": ""Maybe empty nests signaled a need to soar.... I had cut away guilt and closed down the responsibility department."" Unfortunately, some stories are so slight they amount to little more than random snippets, like Ginny NiCarthy's tale about riding a camel. Others are strong, well-written narratives, among them Alix Kates Shulman's description of her summers in Maine, sans electricity, telephone and indoor plumbing. Also satisfying are Florence Krall's observations as she revels in the unfathomable mysteries of nature in her garden and Helen Thayer's Arctic adventure in ""Polar Bear Pass."" Overall, these tales, whether they take place on familiar or exotic territory, show that age does not diminish a thirst for adventure. Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Editor Gould, who writes novels (Divorcing Your Grandmother, Morrow, 1985) as well as stories, essays, and reviews, has gathered here 28 descriptions of journeys written by women aged 50 to 90. They include part of Alexandra David-Neel's 1923 journey to Tibet's forbidden city of Lhasa, as well as Elinore Pruitt Stewart's 1928 letter describing an adventure fighting moonshiners. Novelist Alix Kates Shulman describes life in a beach cabin without plumbing, electricity, or telephone, while Betsy Aldrich Garland, a consultant on volunteer management, retells the experience of completing a high-ropes course. The concept of the book is appealing, but not all the selections have the same draw. A few are confusing until the author's biography is read. Still librarians should buy for public libraries and provide women over 50 with role models for adventure.Alison Hopkins, Queens Borough P.L., Jamaica, N.Y.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.",adventure;books;education & reference;hiking & camping;instructional;research & publishing guides;senior travel;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;travel writing;writing,12
0072460210,"Criminology with Free Power Web and Free ""Making the Grade"" Student CD-ROM Dr. Freda Adler is a Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice.  She has served as the President of the American Society of Criminology and as a criminology advisor to the United Nations, as well as federal, state, and foreign governments.  She is on the Board of Directors of The Police Foundation and is Chair of its Research Committee.Dr. Gerhard O. W. Mueller is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice. Between 1974 and 1982, he served as Chief of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch.  As such, he was responsible for all of the United Nations programs dealing with problems of crime and justice worldwide.  He has been  a faculty member of universities and colleges across the country and around the world.Dr. William S. Laufer is Associate Professor of Legal Studies at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.  Teaching since 1987, his subjects include criminological theory, corporate and white collar crime, and business ethics.  Dr. Laufers research has appeared in a wide range of journals.",books;computers & technology;criminal law;criminology;internet & education;internet & web culture;law;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,12
0299164241,"Consumer Guide to Long-Term Care Gary R. Ilminen, R.N., has served as director of nursing in both nursing homes and in home health and currently works at the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services in the Bureau of Health Care Financing, Managed Care Section.",aging parents;books;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;nursing;nursing home care;parenting & relationships;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;social services & welfare,12
0783815506,"New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) The author's previous blockbuster, Passages (LJ 5/15/76), introduced us all to the term ""midlife crisis."" In this sequel, Sheehy takes us beyond the midlife crisis to examine later life stages, with a short update on young adulthood in the 1990s. In a few ways, this is a better book than its predecessor. Sheehy pays closer attention to the influence of history on the life course of individuals. She also addresses the main criticism that social scientists have made of her work?that large-scale studies have shown no evidence that most people go through the life stages that she describes?by explaining that people should go through these ""passages"" and that everyone who doesn't is ""walking dead."" These improvements aside, her prose still sounds like that of a second-rate astrologer, her advice is often contradictory, and her adulation of famous personalities verges on embarrassing. Nevertheless, this is a ""critic-proof"" book?if you haven't already done so, order multiple copies to satisfy reader demand.-?Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, Wash.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	Sheehy's Passages (1976), in which she counseled thirtysomethings about the onset of midlife, went straight to the top of most best-seller lists, and her last book, The Silent Passage (1992), in which she schlepped women through menopause, did almost as well, despite the fact that females had been navigating the change of life for a millennium or so without Sheehy's help. Rapidly running out of passages, Sheehy now takes the obvious next step: edging her loyal readers, now entrenched in midlife, to the precipice and helping them face their mortality. Arguing that middle life is the ""most unrevealed portion of adult life"" (not once the Boomers dig in), Sheehy is here to tell you that the years from 45 to 65 are ""not the stagnant, depressing downward slide we have always assumed they would be."" Although she intends this book to be a ""gift"" to her anxious readers, it mostly fails. Before hearing about middle age's upside, we must wend our way through seemingly endless pages about women losing their spouses, men losing their jobs (to say nothing of their hair), and both men and women contracting enough diseases to make even the hardiest souls hurry in for a checkup. There is some good news. Women who make it to 65 can expect to live to 85, and if they've survived divorce or widowhood in midlife, they come to enjoy their own independence. Still, the overriding sense of this book, whether Sheehy admits it or not, is that everybody gets hit, everybody gets hurt. You don't need passage counseling to know that, and if you don't have the inner strength to endure, you might not even get to enjoy those upbeat nuggets Sheehy has gleaned from her surveys. Expect the usual demand; for whatever reason, this passage gambit sells  Ilene Cooper	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	'An optimistic analysis of adult development in pessimistic times... It is grounded in the economic and psychological realities that make adult life so complex today' New York Times Book Review	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	A provocative sequel to and a significant extension of Sheehy's international bestseller Passages. Sheehy finds a revolution in the adult life cycle as she traces not only radical changes in the earlier phases of the '20s, '30s, and '40s, but discovers and maps out the new frontier--a second adulthood in middle life.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;developmental psychology;emotions;fitness & dieting;general;health;men's health;mental health;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;social sciences;specific demographics,12
1400033233,"The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue Intimate, entertaining and thoughtful. . . . It is impossible to do do justice to all of the outstanding essays in this volume. --San Francisco ChronicleCharming, moving and funny reflections on childhood, family, nationality, and ethnicity as well as language. . . . Genuinely transporting  --The New York Sun Eloquently explores the links between childhood and language. Chicago TribuneProvides readers not just with a peak inside the heads of these dazzling writers, but a trip to each of their homelands, from Russia to Italy to Chile.  --Cond Nast TravelerThis delightful collection  vividly recounts the process that anyone who loves words goes through: the process of falling under the spell of languages seemingly infinite potential. --Publishers Weekly  Intimate, entertaining and thoughtful  this volume provides fascinating insight into the way that grappling with language is a way people also grapple with life. --San Francisco ChronicleThis is a collection that should heighten anyones awareness of the potential and the limitation of the English language. --San Jose Mercury NewsMs. Lessers contemporary Conrads  writers who write in English though its not their first language  have delivered charming, moving and funny reflections on childhood, family, nationality, and ethnicity as well as language.  --New York SunI laughed and cried over this collection of stories embracing the English language. {One of the 25 best books of 2004}. --Seattle Times and Post- Intelligencer A rich and surprising book brimming with love of culture and respect of language. --Tucson CitizenPowerful for their brevity  the richness and the range of the collection make this a valuable anthology. --Kliatt (Massachusetts) This collection of essays is fascinating.  Asheville (North Carolina) Citizen-Times	Wendy Lesser is the founding editor of The Threepenny Review and the author of four previous books. Her reviews and essays appear in major newspapers and magazines across the country. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, and in 1997 she received the Morton Dauwen Zaub Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and son.	The Way BackBy Bharati MukherjeeThere is a reason why the language we inherit at birth is called our mother tongue. It is our mother, forgiving, embracing, naming the world and all its emotions. Though I have lived for the last forty years in cities where English or French is the language of the majority, its Bangla that exercises motherly restraint over my provisional, immigrant identity. Mother-Bangla is fixed; I havent learned a new word nor had new thought or feeling in Bangla for nearly half a century. I dont need to. According to group-norms, as a native-born speaker, I have automatic membership in the worlds most articulate, most imaginative and most intelligent club. With its brazen appeals to love and vanity, enforced with coercive guilt, the language sabotages irony towards the communitys billowing self-esteem. Like a child whose mother might tipple or stray, I look for excuses, cannot condemn. To my inner Bengali I remain constant, as it does for me.How exclusive can a club of nearly a quarter-billion members be? Bangla is the language of Bangladesh, the eighth most populous nation in the world, and of the Indian state of West Bengal, the second-largest linguistic group in India. Millions more, documented or not, have settled abroad. Impressive numbers aside, every Bengali, to her at least, is a majority of one. We harbor the faith, implanted by myth and history, of our exalted place in the hierarchy of breeding and culture.To international relief agency workers, Bangla is the mother tongue of esurient poverty, but to the heirs of shonar bangla, golden Bengal of harvest-ready paddyfields and fish-filled rivers, it is the mother tongue of poetry, passion and abundance. It is also the language of nostalgia and of tentative hope: nostalgia for the Hindu-Muslim harmony that existed in undivided Bengal before its vindictive partition by the fleeing British; and hope for the shared mother tongue, devotion to the possible tomorrow that will transcend the religious furies exploited by todays politicians. I think a shared language is stronger than divisive religions. (Based on my travels in Bangladesh, I think Hindu and Muslim Bengalis could cross the abyss between them. Its the national politics of India and corrupt fiefdoms in Bangladesh that get in the way.)Up to age eight, I lived exclusively in Bangla. My father was the sole support of forty to fifty relatives, who lived with us crowded together in the ground-floor apartment of a two-storied house in a homogenously Hindu, Bangla-speaking, middle-class neighborhood of Kolkata (until recently mispronounced and misspelled as Calcutta by colonialists). All the adults in our large household had been born in villages or towns in the Dhaka (then Dacca) district of East Bengal (now Bangladesh); all their children, my sisters and cousins, in the thriving capital, Kolkata, in West Bengal. Among themselves, the adults spoke the dialect  of Dhaka, the children the Bangla of Kolkata. I had no idea as  a child that linguists considered the Dhaka dialect deviant,  and Kolkata the standard. In our home the Dhaka dialect, bangal, was the language of authenticity. You are what dialect your forefathers spoke even if you yourself have lost fluency in it be- cause of successive migrations. We were east Bengalis or bangal first, then Bengali. We distanced ourselves from west Bengalis or ghoti who surrounded us and considered us interlopers. We conducted ourselves as bangal, exiled permanently from our ancestral homeland.  To be born a displaced bangal was to inherit loss of, and longing for, ones true home. Identity had to do with mother tongue, but home was the piece of land that our forefathers had owned, the soil that they had slept and walked on. To be cast out of your janma bhumi or ancestral birth-soil is to be forever doomed. Unlike dialects, which can be transported by migrants, the loss of janma bhumi is permanent. The diasporic Bengali may own real estate in the country of her adoption, but that real estate can only be her residence, as provisional as her immigrant identity, her home. I think now that this intimate braiding of inherited language, place and identity is why Bengalis never took to the British system of primogeniture. Generation by generation, the extent of ancestral land owned by an individual male was whittled down to specks and strips. It didnt matter that the shrunken land was unprofitable for cultivation and support of large families. Second, third, fourth . . . eighth, ninth. Sons didnt emigrate; they just stayed and got poorer. Evaluation was symbolic, not economic. Even as a child I picked up on our linguistic nuancing of house (basha, bari ), room (ghar), land (jomi), soil (bhumi) and homeland (desh). My cousins and I were alert to the moral of the countless childrens stories about villagers willing to starve rather than sell off inherited strips of bhumi. The most menacing refrain from a popular poem we learned by rote was a rich, greedy landowners threatening a desperately poor farmer, Do you get it, Upen / Im going to buy up your land. Even now in comfortable San Francisco, with every mortgage and property tax payment, I can be thrown into panic by that simple refrain. (Refinance? Never! Lock it in and forget about it, like immigrants or Depression-era survivors who distrust banks.) The in- herited culture insists that accidents of impulse and geography have made homelessness my permanent condition; the adopted culture tries to persuade me that home is where I choose to invest love and loyalty.Better colleges, better job opportunities, natural disasters like floods and famines, and periodic flarings of Hindu-Muslim antago- nism had induced my parents immediate families to migrate  to Kolkata in the 1920s and 1930s, though they still owned land  in their hometowns. My father had been sent to Kolkata to  stay with a childless aunt and uncle-in-law so that he could get a sound English-language undergraduate education at St. Xaviers College, run by Jesuits from Belgium. By then a scholarship student, he stayed for graduate degrees in applied chemistry. After that, as the most educated though not the eldest of nine sons, he dutifully looked for a job in Kolkata, the most prosperous of Bengals cities. Dependents and family friends also in need of free food and lodging started arriving from the east as soon as theyd heard that he was job-hunting. For a while, the houseguests commuted from Kolkata to their homes in provincial towns of eastern Bengal, where they still jointly owned an ancestral strip. The Hindu-Muslim riots of 1946, the fiercest in communal memory, drove the last of the Mukherjee clan out of their hometown, where Muslims constituted an overwhelming majority. The refugees brought with them tales of arson, rape and looting. From their tears and nightmare-hour screams, I learned the special resonance that bhoi, the Bangla word for fear, carries. There is no English equivalence for the scale of terror that bhoi implies. In words such as bhoi, the individual experience of fear is shot through with the memory of unspeakable communal suffering. The partitioning of Bengal in 1947 transformed my vast, extended family from commuters shuttling between residence of convenience and homeland to political refugees stranded in  a city where they could never belong. Kolkata was their begrudged place of asylum.That exilic melancholy was passed on to me in infancy. We refugees were different from, and superior to, ghoti Bengalis. Which end of the soft-boiled egg do you crack, and should we go to war over it? We rejected matchmaking between ghoti families and ours. We made fun of the ghoti inability to pronounce the l sound in lebu (lemon) and loochi (deep-fried bread). Whenever the East Bengal soccer team played Mohun Bagan, the West Bengal team, we conducted ourselves not as well-brought-up young women but as rowdy soccer fans. The ghoti, in turn, stereotyped us as provincial bumpkins. We directed our Us- versus-Them pugnacity to people who spoke dialects other than the Dhaka one within the bangal community. Long before I  had heard of Freud, I had enacted the narcissism of small  differences.In our house, bangal was the language of passion and of discipline. Unhappy wives threatened death by fasting in bangal;  virtuous virgins gossipped about neighborhood sluts in it; headstrong young uncles swore at each other in it. Whenever my father had to assume the unwelcome role of patriarch and punish unseemly behavior by a relative, he first, in bangal, consulted his widowed mother, an autocratic upholder of conservative traditions. I remember bangal, however, mainly for the ancient doggerels that my paternal grandmothers coterie of tobacco-chewing, osteoporosis-bent widows recited for their deft delivery of sexist cruelty. Day in and day out, these widows tormented my mother for having borne three daughters and no sons. I may be walking on Haight Street, but I still hear them repeat their malicious couplets: Puter mutey kori / Meyer galai dori (Theres money to be made off a sons piss / Theres rope to hang a daughter with).My mother tongue transmitted unambiguously the societys values and taboos. Literacy turned women rebellious, unsubmissive, and unmarriageable. My mother, who had been married off the moment she had finished high school, was abused regularly by her in-laws, first for daring to express the hope that she might enroll in a womens college, and later for wanting to send her three daughters to the best elementary school for girls, which happened not to be in our neighborhood. There were harangues and beatings. I didnt realize at the time that I was not just a child-spectator of a scene of authorized sado-masochism, but that I was witness to the last chapters of a long, cultural mega-upheaval. Only very recently, while researching the battle bet...",books;classics;education & reference;english literature;humanities;language & grammar;literature;literature & fiction;new;united states;used & rental textbooks;words,12
0814735045,"Lover (The Cutting Edge : Lesbian Life and Literature) ""A wonder...I was seduced by its tantalizing elusiveness, its audacity, its sheer brio...a spellbinding, verbal sleight of hand as satisfying as it is serpentine.""-The Washington Post Book World,""Bertha Harris has created a woman's world as relaxed and sisterly and funny as [Joan] Didion's is tense and controlled. [She] presents a utopian vision of a world where women are in charge of themselves, and where, it is nice to note, they are very good company indeed."" -The New York Review of Books,""Violent, funny, beautiful, intelligent.""-Jane Rule,""Harris, an American equivalent of Monique Wittig,...is ingenious, sardonic, parodic. [She] explores the various roles women have played: grandmother, mother, daughter, sister, wife and second wife, businesswoman in man's clothing, prostitute, factory worker, movie star, muse and tutelary spirit, warrior, artist, fake saint, martyr.""-Catharine R. Stimpson,""The introduction [is] by turns funny, sad, moving, and outrageous...[Harris] illuminates the New York women's art and literary scene of the late sixties and seventies; the introduction alone is worth the price of the book. Altogether, Lover is everything a seduction should besmart, unpredictable, witty, provocative:and sexy."" -Carolyn Allen,University of Washington	Bertha Harris is also the author of Confessions of Cherubino and Catching Saradove. She lives in Tennyson, Massachusetts, and continues to write compelling, eccentric and faintly indecent fiction.",books;fiction;gay & lesbian;gender studies;lesbian;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;romance;self-help;sex;social sciences;united states,12
0340544406,"Rings, Fields and Groups, An Introduction to Abstract Algebra "" ... here is no dry-as-dust textbook ... it will pay rich dividends to those who give time and effort to delve into its pages"" Mathematical Spectrum	Retaining the highly readable style of its predecessor, this second edition has also been thoroughly revised to include a new chapter on Galois theory plus hints and solutions to many of the 800 exercises featured.	R. B. Allenby, Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds.",african-american studies;algebra & trigonometry;books;education & reference;mathematics;new;politics & social sciences;science & math;science & mathematics;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,12
0201407981,"George Wallace: American Populist A substantial, authorized biography of the Alabama governor whose racist posturing in the 1960s overshadowed his political career. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Former Alabama governor and presidential candidate George Wallace is remembered primarily for his opposition to racial integration in the 1960s and 1970s. Journalist Lesher's biography provides ample documentation, if any is needed, that Wallace encouraged racism and benefited from it in his campaigns. However, Lesher also argues that Wallace recognized and tapped a strain of populist sentiment in American politics that later politicians as different as Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton successfully used to further their own political careers. Moreover, he asserts that ""every successful presidential campaign from 1968 through 1992 was founded on popular issues and rhetoric first identified and articulated by Wallace."" This may be an exaggeration, but it is true that many contemporary politicians have more in common with Wallace than they would be comfortable acknowledging. The most comprehensive biography available of Wallace; highly recommended for academic libraries.- Thomas H. Ferrell, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, LafayetteCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	To his opponents on the left, George Wallace was the b{}ete noire of their nightmares: a race-baiting demagogue whose snarling contempt portended a chilling brand of populist authoritarianism. To his supporters, Wallace was a straight-talking, decisive politician who promised to remember those whom a swollen federal government had long neglected--""average, hard working American[s]."" As Lesher illustrates, the reality of Wallace was far more complicated. Lesher views him as a fascinating, charismatic, and enigmatic political figure whose influence on national politicsfar exceeded his modest vote totals in the elections of 1968 and 1972. Lesher traces Wallace's personal and political development from his youth in dirt-poor Barbour County to his metamorphosis into a respected southern moderate of the New South. Along the way, Lesher reveals a man of toughness, competitive fire, and a surprising capacity for growth and compassion. Above all, Lesher's Wallace is a product of the Deep South, with its sense of pride and victimization always present in Wallace's personal and political psyche. For anyone who wishes to understand the current political and cultural schisms in America, Lesher's biography provides an invaluable service.  Jay Freeman	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	As a correspondent for Newsweek, as well as a number of Southern dailies, Stephen Lesher covered Wallace from the time of the Montgomery boycott to the end of his political career. He is the author of A Coronary Event and Media Unbound, among other books.",20th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;history;leaders & notable people;memoirs;political;regional u.s.;south;state & local;united states,12
0824828445,Expressive Japanese: A Reference Guide For Sharing Emotion And Empathy Senko K. Maynard is professor of Japanese language and linguistics at Rutgers University.,books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;japanese;language & grammar;linguistics;new;used & rental textbooks;words,12
1929194196,"The Art of War Plus The Ancient Chinese Revealed ...one of the best...internally consistent...a level of knowledge and detail...not present in some other translations. -- Midwest Book Review, October 2002Best Multicultural Non-Fiction Title of 2003! -- Independent Publisher's Book Awards	Gary Gagliardi is America's leading expert on using the Sun Tzus The Art of War. He has created three ground-breaking works on Sun Tzu. 1) He authored the first published English-language transliteration of The Art of War. 2) He mapped the key elements of Sun Tzus competitive system into graphical diagrams, following the traditional methodology used all ancient Chinese sciences. 3) He developed a 306 page, stanza-by-stanza explanation of Sun Tzus competitive system in the terms of modern competitive principles and game theory. Mr. Gagliardi has also written a large number of other adaptations applying Sun Tzus methods to everything from career building, management, running a small business, marketing, selling, and even romance and parenting. Mr. Gagliardi began studying Sun Tzu 30 years ago, using Sun Tzu's secrets in a successful career in sales, marketing, and management. He went on to start his own software company (which became a multimillion dollar business, twice appearing on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies) developing his first Sun Tzu adaptation for his company's distributors and sales people. In 1996, he sold his company, to focus full time on speaking and writing about Sun Tzu's strategic principles.  Gary lives near Seattle with his wife.",ancient;books;china;engineering;history;military;military science;professional & technical;science & math;special topics;strategy;technology,12
079144581X,"Coloring Outside the Lines: Mentoring Women into School Leadership (Suny Series in Women in Education) Mentoring women into school leadership has become a popular idea over the last decade. Although there are books on the subject, few, if any, deal specifically with mentoring women in public education. This trio of authors (from three different colleges of education) wants to persuade more women to seek leadership positions in public schools, where administrative positions are currently around 90 percent male. Ironically, superintendents generally rise from the ranks of teachers, 70 percent of whom are female. The authors argue that this under-representation can be connected to the lack of mentoring of women. In this study, they interview 55 mentors and their female prot g s at the level of assistant principal or higher within a K-12 grade range. The authors describe how the various mentoring pairs worked together for at least one year and discuss how successful the mentoring was. While no single ""right way"" of mentoring was discovered, the practice of mentoring was found to be a key factor in women gaining leadership positions. Suitable primarily for academic libraries and public libraries with large education collections.DTerry Christner, Hutchinson P.L., KS Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Mary E. Gardiner is Associate Professor in the College of Education at Washington State University. She is the author of Parent-School Collaboration: Feminist Organizational Structures and School Leadership, also published by SUNY Press and School Cultures: Universes of Meaning in Private Schools. Ernestine Enomoto is Associate Professor in the College of Education at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Margaret Grogan is Assistant Professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Voices of Women Aspiring to the Superintendency, also published by SUNY Press.",administration;books;education;education & reference;education theory;gender studies;new;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,12
0805805281,"Statistics As Principled Argument Everyone doing research or planning to do research should read this book. You will be surprised at how much you will learn. - Psychological Science   The book itself is the best demonstration of the validity of Abelsons thesis. It proves that statistical issues can be addressed in an articulate, interesting, entertaining and persuasive way. - British Journal of Mathematical & Statistical Psychology   Abelson has, in brief, produced a thought-provoking synthesis of the woes and promises of much modern sychological statistics. - British Journal of Psychology",books;mathematics;medical books;new;psychology;research;science & math;science & mathematics;sexuality;social sciences;statistics;used & rental textbooks,12
0316738263,"Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash The v-p of a New York City waste transfer station recommends, ""You want to solve the garbage problem? Stop eating. Stop living."" Indeed, to ponder waste disposal is to confront the very limits of our society. Where does it all go? Most of us are content to shrug off the detailsas long as it's out of sight (and smell). Not so journalist Royte, whose book in some ways (including its title) echoes Fast Food Nation. That McDonald's is more immediately engaging a subject doesn't make, say, the massive, defunct Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, N.Y., any less compelling. Royte nicely balances autobiographical elements (where does her Fig Newmans carton end up, anyway?), interviews and fieldwork with more technical research. Her method yields palpable benefits, not least a wealth of vivid refuse-related slang (maggots are known as disco rice). The details unavoidably venture into the nauseating on occasion, and some might find the chemistry of trichloroethane and other toxins a bit dull. As the NIMBY logic of waste disposal forces its practitioners into secrecy, Royte is obliged to engage in some entertainingly furtive skullduggery. All in all, this is a comprehensive, readable foray into a world we'd prefer not to heedbut should.  Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Royte is a journalist with a nose for the sordid afterlife of trash, thoroughly at home in the putrid world of Coney Island whitefish (used condoms); disco rice (maggots); andthe darling of American consumer culture and the nemesis of waste activistsSatan's resin (plastic). Her book takes the form of a quest for the surprising final resting places of her yogurt cups, beer bottles, personal computer, and organic-fig-cookie packaging, and leads to an impassioned attack on overconsumption in America. If Royte does not quite demonstrate the muckraking skills of an Eric Schlosser in Fast Food Nation, she does expose the feculent underside of our appetite for things and challenges her readers to disprove the resigned assessment of a former New York sanitation commissioner: In the end, the garbage will win.  Copyright  2005 The New Yorker	Royte, a science writer, has written a disturbing and enlightening book about the 2 percent of our total waste stream that American households generate. Despite Garbage Lands almost inevitable environmentalist sympathies, Royte does not offer up easy answers; in fact, she leaves readers sensing the futility of their own small efforts to recycle and reduce waste. Although Royte considers herself to be ""in the middle of the argument,"" her liberal perspective might grate some readers. Even though portions of the book are overly technical or obviously biased, Garbage Land transcends the usual environmental audience to interest any reader.Copyright  2004 Phillips  Nelson Media, Inc.	*Starred Review* A visit to the filthy Gowanus Canal near her Brooklyn home got Royte thinking about garbage. What exactly does her family throw out each day? Who carries it away, where is it taken, how is it processed? To find out, she catalogs her daily household garbage and tracks her trash to garbage transit stations, landfills, and recycling plants. Royte's nervy and unprecedented journey through the land of garbage is fascinating, appalling, and--thanks to her keen first-person journalism, commonsense skepticism, and amusing personal asides--downright entertaining. Some of her more troubling disclosures include the hazards of sewage sludge and ""e-waste,"" that is, discarded computers, televisions, and cell phones. Smart and persistent, Royte annoys the heck out of closemouthed government officials and waste-management businesspeople and trespasses when denied access to key sites, enduring foul smells and bad vibes to glean the truth about how waste is handled, who profits from waste, what opportunities are wasted, and how waste can be reduced. What her staggering expose tells us is that as the quantity, variety, and toxicity of our garbage increases, we must, like nature, evolve ways to reclaim and reuse everything we make. Donna SeamanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""As impressive as Royte's doggedness and investigative skill is the care  she takes with language."" -- Jabari Asim, The Washington Post, July 10, 2005""Garbage has found its poet, and her name is Elizabeth Royte. ...a  thorough, perceptive, graceful, and often witty writer."" -- Jamie Malanowski, Washington Monthly, September 2005""The author's adventures in waste management provide a riveting travelog  punctuated by a scathing indictment of American consumption."" -- Daniel Terdiman, Wired, August 2005	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	AUTHORBIO: Elizabeth Royte has written for the New York Times Magazine, Harpers, National Geographic, Outside, Smithsonian, and The New Yorker. She was the recipient of an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship in 1999. She lives in Brooklyn.",books;civil;engineering;environment;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;recycling;rural;science & math;social sciences;sociology;urban,12
B000HWYMOQ,"The Deadly Space Between Her literary reputation well established with Hallucinating Foucault and The Doctor, Duncker here draws on Mary Shelley, Herman Melville and Freud, yet the work is powerfully her own, erotically charged and, finally, enigmatic. Most of this provocative novel is narrated by London-bred Tobias, the 18-year-old son of Iso, an unmarried girl who gave birth to him before she was 16. She has never identified his father, and perhaps not unconsciously encourages him to be infatuated with her, even allowing him certain sexual freedoms. Iso is fascinated by a huge man, identified only as Roehm, 25 years her senior; he is physically overwhelming and intuitively aware of her feelings and movements. Tobias, no less than his mother, develops a near-sexual relationship with him. When Tobias discovers that Roehm is actually his father, the Oedipal nature of this strange menage a trois is evident. In Melville's words, they have transgressed  the deadly space between.  Tobias finally tries to kill Roehm, but is unsuccessful, and after he and Iso flee to the glacier-covered mountains of Switzerland (corresponding to Shelley's Arctic ice floes), Roehm follows. His body is soon discovered in a crevasse near their retreat. When Iso goes to the police to confess to having killed him, they laugh. They have examined the body, they say; it is two centuries old and has been identified as one  Gustave Roehm, a Swiss alpinist.  Mother and son depart, but find they are still not entirely free of Roehm. The major source Duncker fails to acknowledge is Henry James, and if her contemporary ghost story lacks the exquisite subtlety of The Turn of the Screw, it captures the imagination, grotesquely repellant yet sinuously compelling. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	At 18, Toby Hawk is immersed in an all-female English household  that includes his too-young seductive mother, Isobel; Great-Aunt  Luce; and Luce's lover, Liberty. For a while, Toby's curiosity  about his mysterious paternity is deflected by Iso's artfully  distracting physical contact with her son, who is both his  mother's protector and her bedmate. Iso's occasional lovers have  never really bothered Toby until the sinister Roehm reenters his  mother's life, enraging Luce with his eerily controlling  influence. Even as Toby rails against Roehm's hypnotic powers  over Iso, Roehm draws Toby into a dark, confusing world of  sexual ambiguity. Pushed to the brink and beyond, Toby flees  with Iso after attacking Roehm. To no one's surprise, Roehm  doesn't stay dead any more than the Hawks stay hidden. This  foray into the horror genre by award-winning novelist Duncker  (Hallucinating Foucault) is a stiff hodgepodge of recycled  themes: the living dead, adolescent cybersurfing, incestuous  relationships, dark emotional furies, a shadowy father figure,  and the harsh forces of nature. This disappointing book is not  recommended.- - Beth E.  Andersen, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., MI   Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Toby Hawk, 18, lives in London with his mother, Iso. The only other people in their world are Iso's Aunt Luce and Luce's much younger lover, Liberty--until Iso begins to date a mysterious older man. Toby reacts badly until he meets Roehm, who appears to be just as interested in Toby as he is in Iso. Roehm courts Toby, taking him out to dinner and then to see the secret laboratory where he works. Toby basks in Roehm's attention much the way Iso does. Initially, Luce disapproves of Roehm and the age difference between him and Iso, but when she meets him, she is gradually won over. Toby alternates between odd attraction to Roehm and jealousy of Roehm's relationship with Iso, with whom Toby has an unnaturally close bond. Roehm's intense scrutiny of the family eventually sends Iso and Toby running far from England and toward the dark secret of Roehm's existence. Darkly atmospheric and reminiscent of gothic and romantic fiction, Dunker's novel moves steadily toward a thrilling climax. Kristine HuntleyCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	'Duncker is a mesmerizing stylist.' Times Literary Supplement 'A sexy Oedipal page-turner-cum-eerily effective ghost story in European tradition whose intelligence is as resonant as its sources: Freud, Faust and Frankenstein.' Financial Times 'Freud would have loved to have placed these characters on his couch; the general reader should rush to add them to his bookshelf' Daily Mail 'A psychological thriller-cum-ghost story in the great neo-gothic European tradition' Daily Mirror	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Patricia Duncker teaches writing and nineteenth-and twentieth-century literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She is the author of two previous novels, Hallucinating Foucault, which won Dillon's First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize for best first novel, and The Doctor, as well as a collection of stories, Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees.",books;british;contemporary;genre fiction;ghosts;horror;literary;literature & fiction;mystery;psychological thrillers;thriller & suspense;thrillers,12
0130394726,"Police Supervision and Management: In An Era of Community Policing (2nd Edition) ""The greatest strengths of this book are its contemporary nature, its thoroughness and the author's easy reading writing style. I will definitely use this text in my next course dealing with police supervision and will recommend it to other academic and police professionals.""  James Albrecht, John Jay College, New York, NY""The three greatest strength of this book are: The content is strong; Writing style is student-friendly; Charts and other pedagogy make it easy to understand.""  Alex del Carmen, University of Texas - Arlington	The authors bring more than 100 years of practical (including administrative, managerial, and supervisory) and academic police experience to this textbook; therefore, the chapters contain a ""real world"" flavor. A uniquely comprehensive view is provided of police supervision and management, and chapters also discuss such topics as critical incidents, tactical operations, patrol problems, officers' rights and discipline, community policing and problem solving, ethical issues and liability, and training and. evaluation. From beginning to end, the book provides an inside view of what are certainly difficult and challenging roles.	A comparatively large number of textbooks on police management and administration have been written over the past several decades, addressing the roles and responsibilities of chiefs of police or sheriffs. This text, however, focuses on first-line supervisors and middle managers and is grounded on the assumption that the reader is an undergraduate, possibly even a graduate, student or a neophyte practitioner, possessing but a fundamental knowledge of police organizations and operations. It is intended to help those persons learn more about the field of policing, as well as help those practitioners who are preparing for promotion, and new and experienced supervisors who are seeking to improve their skills. It will help to lay the foundation for the reader's future study and experience.    This text also assumes that a practical police supervision perspective is often lost in many administrative texts; therefore, while necessarily delving into some theory, this text is intended to focus on the practical aspects of a supervisor's or manager's job.    Those of us who have held a job or position, unless self-employed, have had a supervisor to whom we reported. That individual probably had a hand in showing us how to do our work and certainly was responsible for making sure that we did it properly. Even persons who have not yet entered the working world have experienced supervision in school, in sports, in the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, or in other nonwork settings. Supervision is a crucial element of any organized activity and is present in all organizations.    Our supervisors often reported to their supervisors, or managers. The managers coordinated and supervised the efforts of the lower-level supervisors as well as ensuring that the unit functioned as higher-level administrators envisioned. Supervisors and managers are the keys to quality work in any organization.    This book specifically concerns police supervision and management. In order to address these topics thoroughly and to provide as much useful information as possible, we must maintain a dual approach by looking at supervision and management broadly, while also focusing narrowly on these areas in police organizations. All supervisors and managers, whether in police departments, construction, or business firms, share similar concerns and duties. They manage people and activities.    It is also true that each and every organization is unique. Police departments in particular are different from most other organizations, for the simple reason that police work is different from most other vocations and occupations. Police officers have the unique authority to arrest people and investigate their activities. Also, police departments are not all made from the same mold. The New York City Police Department and the Chicago Police Department, the two largest departments in the United States, are different from the Las Vegas Police Department or the Nashville Police Department. Although all of these departments have the same or similar responsibilities, substantial variation within the police profession itself makes the job of police supervisors or managers unique and challenging. In addition, the police supervisors' and managers' jobs have recently been made even more specialized as a result of the implementation of community policing. Community policing has placed many new responsibilities on the police sergeant and manager.    During the course of a workday, police supervisors and managers directly oversee several employees in the performance of their activities and may even supervise a life-threatening situation or a critical incident or disaster. While a supervisor may not have ultimate command and control over critical incidents or disasters, he or she is often the first responder at the scene; his or her actions and directions to subordinates will be vital in determining the eventual success of the police in dealing with the problem. Managers are called to the scenes of major critical incidents to supervise groups of officers and to coordinate actions with other police units or agencies, such as the fire department or emergency medical services. Supervisors and managers essentially ensure that police operations unfold as planned.   KEY TERMS   Although the terms administration, management, and supervision are often used synonymously, it should be noted that each is a unique concept that occasionally overlaps with the others. Administration encompasses both management and supervision. Administration is a process whereby a group of people are organized and directed toward achievement of the group's objective. The exact nature of the organization will vary among the different types and sizes of agencies, but the general principles used and the form of administration are often similar. Administration focuses on the overall organization and its mission and its relationship with other organizations and groups external to it. Administrators are often concerned with the department's direction and its policies and with ensuring that the department has the resources to fulfill its community's expectations. Police administrators generally include the chief, assistant chiefs, and high-ranking staff who support the chief in administering the department.    Management, which is also a part of administration, is most closely associated with the day-to-day operations of the various elements within the organization. For example, most police departments have a variety of operational units such as patrol, criminal investigation, traffic, gang enforcement, domestic violence, or community relations. The Los Angeles Police Department, the third largest police department in the country, has more than 200 specialized units. Each of these units is run by someone who is most aptly described as a manager. In most cases, these managers are captains or lieutenants. These managers ensure that their units fulfill their departmental mission and work closely with other units to ensure that conflict or problems do not develop. They also attend to planning, budgeting, and human resource or personnel needs to ensure that the unit is adequately prepared to carry out its responsibilities.    Supervision involves the direction of officers and civilians in their day-today activities, often on a one-to-one basis. Supervisors ensure that subordinate officers adhere to departmental policies, complete tasks correctly and on a timely basis, and interact with the public in a professional manner. Supervisors often observe their subordinates completing assignments and sometimes take charge of situations, especially when a deployment of a large number of officers is needed. They also work closely with managers to ensure that officers' activities are consistent with the unit's mission and objectives.    In the police organization, the first-line supervisor is usually a sergeant. We say first-line because sergeants are responsible for supervising those officers who are engaged in providing basic police services. Captains and lieutenants (called middle managers) also supervise, but they supervise persons who are also supervisors, and are more concerned with a unit's activities rather than with an individual officer's activities. In actuality, all ranking personnel from the chief to the sergeant supervise, but this text is concerned with supervision by sergeants and mid-level managers.    Finally, the terms police officer, law enforcement officer, and peace officer are also generally interchangeable. The primary difference is that peace officer refers to anyone who has arrest authority and usually includes correctional officers, probation officers, parole officers, and persons with special police powers. Correctional officers have specific police powers in their correctional facility workplace, and investigators of welfare or Medicaid fraud have limited peace officer powers. In this text, we are primarily concerned with police officers, who include municipal or rural officers; deputy sheriffs; highway patrol; troopers; state police; and others holding local, state, or federal law enforcement officer status. For the purpose of this text, the term police officer will generally be used to refer to all the positions noted.   ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK   The 14 chapters of this book are organized to provide the reader with an understanding of the key elements of police supervision and management from both the theoretical and applied perspectives. To understand the challenges of police supervision and management, we must first place it within the ""big picture"" of a police organization. Thus, Part One, ""The Supervisor in a Police Organization,"" introduces the concepts of supervision and management, the roles and responsibilities of supervisors and middle managers, leadership and motivation, and effective communication and negotiation in an organization.    Part Two examines the supervision of human resources. This section addresses training, evaluation, stress and wellness, ethics and liability, and subordinates' rights and discipline. It essentially provides information on the ""people"" in the police organization. Somewhere between 75 and 90 percent of a police department's budget is for personnel. It is therefore important for the supervisor and manager to learn how to manage this important resource. These chapters elaborate how the police department via the supervisor and manager work with people, motivate them, and ensure that the department's mission is achieved.    Part Three, ""Supervising the Work of Police,"" contains information that is more applied in nature and reviews supervisors and managers at work, both on and off the street. It addresses what they need to know concerning officer deployment and scheduling, patrol and special operations, tactical operations and critical incidents, and community oriented policing and problem solving (COPPS). COPPS is now policing's primary paradigm and, as seen in Chapter 13, has had a profound impact on h...",books;criminal law;education & reference;law;law enforcement;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,12
0781806291,Egyptian Hieroglyphs Joseph and Lenore Scott,arts & photography;books;criticism;education & reference;egypt;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;history;history & criticism;language & grammar;middle east;words,12
0520207793,"Garrett Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living Marc Treib is Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and the editor of Thomas Church, Landscape Architect: Designing a Modern Californian Landscape (2004). Dorothe Imbert is Asssociate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the author of The Modernist Garden in France (1993).",architects & photographers;architecture;artists;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;buildings;catalogs & exhibitions;collections;landscape;professional & technical,12
0688168841,"Where the Heart Resides: Timeless Wisdom of the American Prairie At some time or other, just about every city dweller dreams of getting away from it all by living in a rural area. Here is an expansive look at the prairie that makes up America's heartland, which also examines and explores the nuances of the lifestyle it suggests. The author, a native of South Dakota, provides tenets of prairie wisdom in this primer for living there. She suggests becoming ""prairie wise,"" the rural equivalent of ""streetwise"" in an urban setting. This she describes as sustaining oneself by the simple attainable things in life--reducing life to basics, approaching it with a sense of humor, while enjoying animals and nature. Living life with ""heart"" brings an improved lifestyle, adding joy and meaning to one's daily experience. Full of historical tidbits, personal anecdotes, and interviews, her book provides a virtual trove of thought and wisdom. The accompanying photographs successfully capture the essence of the subject.  Fred Egloff	Feel-good dispensations from the flatlands. Everyone knows what it means to grow up streetwise, writes South Dakota native and journalist Hickman. Yet only a handful are familiar with what it means to grow up prairie wise to know how, for instance, to read the signs of the landscape and the clouds, to value simplicity, to persist in the face of adversity. Fine sentiments, those, but Hickmans little essays and homilies on that prairie wisdom never much rise above the level of platitude, and they tend to be maddeningly vague and circular at that. The prairies teachings, she writes, are universally significant and globally intriguing, because, you see, wisdom that is born of the heart can be modified to suit individual proclivitiesmeaning, one supposes, that whatever symbolic value one attaches to a corn stalk can serve an Osakan as well as a Nebraskan. Hickmans homespun prescriptions for harried urbanites lack specificity and weight: slow down, she says, and remember that our hectic lives cannot compare or compete with the persistent beauty and quiet strength of the prairie; cultivate a good heart and live a good life; be like Santa Claus and believe in the merits of giving gifts all year round; enjoy nature, do your chores and homework, and keep a song in your heart. You dont have to have ever seen a prairie to know that these are self-evident good things. Neither, for that matter, do you have to read this book, which revels in the obvious without once coming to grips with what it really means to live out on the Great Plainsa land of beauty, yes, but also of tremendous hardship and soul-testing challenge.  Theres real wisdom to be gained from studying the prairie, real self-awareness to come from living out a winter in Kansas. You can find that wisdom in the pages of Ian Frazier, Jonathan Raban, William Least Heat-Moon, Merrill Gilfillan, and Linda Hasselstrom, extraordinary writers all. You wont, however, find it here.  -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	""Daisy Ann Hickman underscores what she has learned from the South Dakota prairie, and her sensitivity helps the reader become 'prairie wise.'"" ~ Eugene Schmidtlein, Ph.D.                                 ""Daisy Hickman's writings reveal the quiet strength that underlies ... rural places--a strength that isn't flexed for public view but rests deep in the hearts of the people and their communities."" ~ Bernie Hunhoff, publisher South Dakota Magazine""A timely, outstanding, and thoughtful consideration of the importance of becoming 'prairie wise.' Undertake this spiritual and emotional journey to open your heart. You will be thankful you did."" ~ Betty A. Dobratz, Ph.D.""I heartily agree with the author that prairie lands represent an important American heritage currently being neglected, and that we must indeed become 'prairie wise.' Revisit the prairie heart of our nation with my fellow South Dakotan. Seek wisdom in the plains and ye shall surely find it."" ~ Linda Hasselstrom, editor of Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West	We hear so often that life is complicated. Is it? Quite possibly, we make it more complicated than it needs to be. As a world, however, we seem addicted to drama, controversy, conflict, headlines, news bulletins ... anything to distract us from our daily lives. Yet, true wisdom can only flow from what we know and experience; from what we have bothered to learn and practice. I grew up in small rural community, but the beauty of nature was what I really noticed. It was also what I most remembered about my physical roots. Whitman. Thoreau. They ""got it"" ... they understood the importance of tapping into something deeper than surface activity.   And there was always something about the open expanse of prairie and the lifestyle that grew up around it that spoke loudly to me about the true essence of life. Our spirits, our hearts, point to wisdom. To something beyond the endless musings of the conditioned mind. This book captured an important part of the country at the turn of the century ... its ideas for learning how to dwell peacefully and spiritually can be applied to any geographic location. I hope you enjoy this deep look at my prairie roots. Because in many ways, in the collective sense, we all share these roots. As Americans. As human beings always searching for contentment with ""what is,"" with the nature of the human condition. But developing a peaceful nature requires us to look deeper -- indeed, to look within. The landscape of prairie invites that kind of contemplation and reflection. Find the space within by gazing at it in the external sense. The match is undeniable, and deeply inspiring.	Evoking the penetrating simplicity of Willa Cather, this book is a pioneering exploration of the American heartland and the human spirit, where everyday inspiration is cherished and valued.	This gentle and delightful guide reminds us of what we already have and of what we already know, as we learn to reclaim our pioneer spirit, in the form of natural teachings from America's heartland.	Daisy A. Hickman is the founder of SunnyRoomStudio, a sunny creative space for kindred spirits, and is at work on a poetry collection and a memoir. ""I've always been a student of society; groups reveal the collective nature of existence, its temporary, ever-shifting nature. 'I' is always part of a 'we' at some level of culture and society; a simplistic focus on 'I' is unrealistic and primarily based on ego."" Hickman, a South Dakota native, holds a master's degree in sociology.",books;ethics & morality;inspirational;motivational;nature & ecology;nature writing;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;science & math;self-help;spirituality,12
0813025109,"Windover: Multidisciplinary Investigations of an Early Archaic Florida Cemetery (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) ""Glen Doran's book is a lasting contribution to the literature on the subject.""  -- Catherine S. Fowler, University of Nevada, Reno	Glen H. Doran is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at Florida State Universtiy and has served as Windover's principal investigator since 1984.",americas;anthropology;archaeology;books;history;native american studies;physical;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states,12
0231105584,"The Garden of Ediacara [A] thought-provoking personal exploration of what the Ediacaran fossils represent.  -- Tree[A] thought-provoking personal exploration of what the Ediacaran fossils represent. -- Review	Mark A. S. McMenamin is professor of geology at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of a number of groundbreaking books on paleobiology and evolution, including  The Emergence of Animals: The Cambrian Breakthrough and  Hypersea: Life on Land (with Dianna L. S. McMenamin), both published by Columbia. He edited and annotated the English translation of Vladimir Vernadsky's  The Biosphere, and is also the coeditor (with Lynn Margulis) of the English translation of L. Khakhina's  Concepts of Symbiogenesis.",biological sciences;biology & life sciences;books;earth sciences;evolution;geology;historical;new;paleontology;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,12
B0000DGF5Q,"Brussel's Calamondin Manderin Orange Indoor Bonsai Tree The Calamondin Manderin bonsais shiny, green leaves and bright, orange fruit bring a burst of tropical color and flavor indoors. It produces miniature oranges nearly the size of a golf ball. This bonsai is four years old, 10 to 12 inches tall, and comes in a 12-inch glazed rectangular pot. Every tree order includes specific growing instructions. Due to state agricultural regulations, this bonsai cannot be shipped to California, Texas, Louisiana, or Arizona.  Delivery and Packaging: What to expect when you receive your bonsai  To ensure only well-established, healthy trees are shipped, Brussel's Bonsai imports its trees from nurseries in China where growers spend years training and shaping tree branches. Some bonsai defoliate (drop leaves) when their environment changes. If upon the tree's arrival some leaves have dropped or turned slightly brown that does not mean the bonsai is unhealthy. Defoliation is the natural result of being in the low-light environment of a shipping box. Whenever possible, Brussels Bonsai avoids using Styrofoam-popcorn packaging. In some cases, Styrofoam popcorn must be used to safely pack unusually shaped bonsai. Organic popcorn packaging made from corn starch reacts with moisture from the trees and can dissolve. When you receive your tree, place the box in a shaded area to unpack. Inspect tree for damage to branches or leaves. Water soil if dry. Place each bonsai in protected shade for at least one week before moving to a sunny location.  What is a Bonsai? Literally, the Japanese word ""bonsai"" means ""tray tree"" or ""plant grown in a pot."" The term refers to the artistic techniques used to capture the natural beauty of trees, rather than a specific variety of tree. A full-grown tree and a bonsai can be grown from the same seed --the bonsai has simply been dwarfed and shaped through years of training. To develop authentic bonsai, Brussels grows specimens under carefully controlled conditions, meticulously training each tree with wire and pruning over a period of years. The value of a particular bonsai typically depends on size, age, and training. Generally, more expensive trees are larger, older, and have had more detailed, elaborate training. These qualities combined create the illusion of a large tree in a natural setting.  Tropical/Indoor Bonsai Care  Climate Suited to bright, humid, equatorial climates, tropical bonsai prefer common room temperatures, between 65 and 75 degrees F, 3 to 4 hours of direct sunlight, and humidity levels of about 75%. If your home tends to be dry, a cool mist humidifier or ceramic bonsai humidity tray can help mimic the moist, tropical climate ideal for growing indoor bonsai.                   Placement Indoor bonsai are tropical plants adaptable to indoor conditions. Select a spot with good air circulation, but avoid cold drafts, drying heat vents, and appliances with heat exhausts. They prefer sunny areas near windows facing southeast or west. Choose a location that receives morning sun and afternoon shade. Though they grow well indoors year-round, tropical bonsai flourish outdoors on a patio or deck that receives indirect sunlight. They can withstand outdoor summer temperatures up to 100 degrees F, as well as dryer, desert climates as long as they are watered adequately. Bring bonsai indoors when night temperatures fall below 55 degrees F. Do not allow tropical bonsai to freeze. In Japan, bonsai are traditionally displayed against a solid black, white, wood, or bamboo background, or on a stand or pot larger than the tree. Stark contrasts enhance a bonsais simple beauty.                  Watering In fall, winter and spring, water tropical bonsai thoroughly every two or three days. In hot summer months, water daily--especially in dry, hot climates. Use a can or hose attachment that casts a soft, rain-like spray that wont disturb the soil in the pot. Bonsai can never be allowed to dry out.  Soil and fertilizer Bonsai trees spend years in the same soil and eventually deplete the available nutrients. Providing supplemental nutrition is essential for a healthy tree. Most water soluble and time-released fertilizers work well when used as directed.                Run wire through drain           Trim rootball                Work soil into roots        Repotting Bonsai need to be repotted every 3 to 5 years. After receiving your tree, wait at least one growing season before repotting. Using proper bonsai soil is critical. Brussels bonsai soil consists of a mixture of high-fired clay particles and finely ground pine bark. The soil-free mix does not compact, allows water to drain easily, plus helps prevent the root rot that often occurs with ordinary potting soil.   It is important to pot your bonsai correctly. Prepare your container for potting by putting screen over the drain holes Run wire through the drain screen--you will need this to secure the tree in the container. Trim the rootball so it will fit in the bonsai pot.  Keep in mind, cutting larger roots is better than cutting small feeder roots. Continue trimming the root ball until it will fit into the bonsai container. Be sure to place a good layer of bonsai soil on the bottom of the bonsai container. Place the tree in the pot. Use the wire to secure the tree in the bonsai container. Twist and pull the wire with pliers to tighten. Add bonsai soil around the root ball. Use a chopstick to work the bonsai soil into the root system. Your bonsai should now be secure in its new container.                 Training All bonsai require some degree of seasonal pruning. Regular pruning produces smaller branches and maintains the trees miniature size. A simple pair of pointed-nose scissors does the job. Wiring may also be used to hold branches in a desired position or location. If youre happy with the branch placement as is, there is no real need to wire. For detailed instruction in the art of bonsai cultivation, Brussels Bonsai recommends purchasing a book on basic training techniques.  If you choose to wire your bonsai, make sure to use heavier gauge wire for larger branches on the bottom of the tree, and lighter gauge for smaller branches. Begin by sticking the end of the wire into the soil next to the trunk of the tree. Wrap the wire around the trunk until you come to the first branch. Continue curling the wire around the branch. Once you have come to the end of a branch, cut and remove the excess wire. The wire now allows you to bend the branch into the desired shape and location. Lifespan Most bonsai trees can live up to 100 years or more depending, of course, on the quality of care they receive. The Story of Brussel's Bonsai Nursery When Brussel Martin was five years old, he was instantly captivated by several bonsai his father brought back from a California business trip. As a teenager, he began to seriously study the art of bonsai. What started as an artistic endeavor in his parents' backyard quickly grew into a business. In the 1970s, he began selling bonsai through the mail and traveling to shows across the country. By the early '80s, he was making annual buying trips to Asia.  As the business has grown, so has his desire to introduce bonsai to more and more Americans. Brussels now offers a full range of bonsai trees, from modestly priced bonsai for the beginner to unique specimens styled by bonsai experts.",bonsai;fresh flowers & live indoor plants;garden center;gardening;grocery & gourmet food;lawn & garden;live indoor plants;patio;plants;power & hand tools;seeds & bulbs;tools & home improvement,12
0312269978,"The Sweet By and By The strange-but-true history of Maggie Fox, 19th-century founder of the American Spiritualist movement, haunts a 20th-century journalist in this double-barreled tale of love and loss. Mackin (Dreams of Empire; Queen's War; etc.) skips between Fox's story and that of middle-aged magazine writer Helen West, who takes on an assignment to write an essay about Maggie and her sister Katie. In 1848, the two inventive children drew crowds by claiming that they were receiving spirit messages at their home in upstate New York; in fact, they had devised a clever system involving hidden hammers and cracking joints. The ""Hydesville Rappings,"" as they were dubbed, gained popularity, and the Fox girls were swept off to New York City, where they performed sances for the likes of Horace Greeley. As Helen uncovers this bizarre tale, she begins to feel a kinship with Maggie, an unhappy child who grew up too quickly in a harsh environment. Like Helen, who has been mourning the death of her married lover, Jude, for three years, Maggie also lost her one great love, Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane, and spent the rest of her sorrow-filled life communing with his ghost. Although Helen is not a believer at first, she soon finds herself spooked by mysterious bumps in the night. She believes she feels Jude's presence, and a desperate hope of seeing him again persists even as a new man attempts to woo her. Mackin shifts skillfully between these two atmospheric worlds, and once she tones down the overwritten prose of the first few chapters, the dual narrative acquires rhythm. Intelligent if predictable in its setup, the novel pays homage to two strong women separated by history but united in spirit. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Is death the end? Do ghosts exist? What is faith? Mackin examines these and related issues in a totally nonmacabre manner, telling in tandem two stories that take place about 150 years apart. In 1998, journalist Helen West, while mourning the death of her married lover, Jude, researches the strange life of Maggie Fox, called the Founder of American Spiritualism. Maggie became famous after 1848 when, with her sisters' help, she developed a large following eager to contact the spirits of dearly departed loved ones. Helen becomes involved with her subject and with the concept of the possibility of returning spirits. Can they comfort those they love? Can one enter a loving relationship with another before finding closure with the deceased, previous loved one? This well-written tale is sympathetically conceived and entertainingly presented. Recommended.DEllen R. Cohen, Rockville, MD Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	What toll can grief extract from a life? This is the question that Mackin (Dreams of Empire, 1996) asks of her two main characters as their lives interweave in history. Helen West is a modern-day journalist seeking to recover from the devastating death of her lover. To do so, she is investigating the life of Maggie Fox, founder of the American spiritualism movement in the 1800s. As Helen writes an article on Maggie's tragic, brutal, and oddly heroic life, she begins to experience some of the same events that the visitors to Maggie's seances experienced. Living alone now, in a huge drafty Victorian manor house, off by itself at the side of a wood, Helen is the perfect candidate for a ghost story. Mackin controls Helen's spiral down into the terror of Maggie's life with a fine hand. In a mix of historical biography and lyrical prose, Mackin conjures Victorian America into a wholly realized world and brings to life two women the reader can only cheer and cry for. Despite a rather hackneyed end, the result is a lovely novel. Neal WyattCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Mackin offers a deft combination of historical fiction and ghost story, as well as a compelling meditation on the power of the past to alter the present"" - Kirkus""Great fun for a stormy eveningwhen the wind is howling and the trees scrape their naked nubs across the window glass"" - The Baltimore Sun	Jeanne Mackinteaches creative writing at Goddard College in Vermont and has taught or conducted workshops in Pennsylvania, Hawaii and New York. She lives with her husband, artist Steve Poleskie, in upstate New York. She is also the author of several novels:The Beautiful American,Dreams of Empire,The Queen's War, andThe Frenchwoman.",books;contemporary;genre fiction;ghosts;horror;literature & fiction;mystery;occult;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,12
0721676545,"Current Veterinary Therapy: Food Animal Practice REVIEW OF THE LAST VOLUME:  ""Allows easy access to knowledge useful to manag[ing] diseases of animal food...Should be a readily useful reference for food animal practitioners and the food animal veterinary curricula...A valuable resource."" -JAVMA",agricultural sciences;animal husbandry;books;food animal;food animals;general;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;science & math;used & rental textbooks;veterinary medicine,12
0816627541,"Reclaiming the Heartland: Lesbian and Gay Voicesfrom the Midwest The vision of the ""gay lifestyle"" conjured up by many Americans is informed chiefly by media and cultural images emanating from the large cities of the East and West Coasts. This vision, however, is limited and limiting. In places like Eau Claire, Lincoln, and Des Moines, there are also queers who possess their own distinct experiences, views, and voices that are often obscured in the bicoastal din. The two works here attempt to right this situation as they explore and celebrate from a Midwestern point of view the diversity within the gay community. Farm Boys presents a series of autobiographical narratives by gay men raised on farms over this century?the oldest was born in 1909, the youngest in 1967. They describe perceptions of and responses to conditions inherent in farming communities and the influence this experience has had on their lives. The roughhewn quality of the narratives (only one was written by a professional writer) creates an ambience that is often powerful and poignant, conveying the sadness of isolation and the strength of self-reliance. Reclaiming the Heartland takes a more literary approach, presenting a diverse collection of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and photography by men and women who have lived or are living in the Midwest. The works focus on the Midwest as place, the broader issues of desire, and the Midwestern perspective on and in other locations. The goal is to prove that queer identity and cultural practices do indeed thrive in the heartland. The pieces themselves are something of a mixed bag, but the whole is satisfying. Both these works serve as important reminders that gay people do live, work, and love all across the land. They should be seriously considered by all libraries supporting gay studies as well as public libraries throughout the Midwest.?David W. Henderson, Eckerd Coll. Lib., St. Petersburg, Fla.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Karen Lee Osborne is a novelist who teaches literature at Columbia College in Chicago. Among her published works are Carlyle Simpson (1986) and Hawkwings (1991).	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;criticism & theory;fiction;gay & lesbian;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;movements & periods;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,12
0964466260,"Massage: A Career at Your Fingertips ""A good overview of the profession . . . engaging and thorough . . . . The resource directory alone is worth the price.""  -- Massage""A well-written book which describes the various career options in the massage field.""  -- Career Opportunity News""Useful for both new and experienced practitioners.""  -- NAPRA	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Martin Ashley is a practicing attorney and massage therapist. He lives in Carmel, New York.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",acupuncture & acupressure;allied health professions;alternative medicine;books;business & investing;fitness & dieting;guides;health;job hunting & careers;massage;medical books;physical therapy,12
076180188X,"The Recurring Dream of Equality Ozinga develops a comprehensive history of communal sharing... Largely descriptive rather than analytical, the book could serve as a good introduction to the idea of utopia.>>>> (Choice )Ozinga develops a comprehensive history of communal sharing... Largely descriptive rather than analytical, the book could serve as a good introduction to the idea of utopia. (Choice )	James R. Ozinga is Professor of Political Science at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.  He is also the author of several books, including Communism: The Story of the Idea and Its Implementations (Prentice Hall, 1987, 1991).",books;communism & socialism;general;history;ideologies & doctrines;politics & government;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;utopian;world,12
B0002C7FHC,"PetSafe No-Bark Collar, PBC-102 Petsafe Bark Control Collar  The time you spend with your pet is precious, and you love having her in your life. When it comes to her behavior, you have very few complaints. Yet, there is one small issue you would like to fix  her constant chatter. Lately, her barking and yapping has become the soundtrack of your life. It isnt exactly music to your ears, and youre ready to do something about it. The Bark Control Collar is an easy-to-use solution that will tune out her barking.                     How it works:  When your dog barks, the vibration of your dogs bark triggers the sensor probe. The collar then administers a static correction through the contact points. It begins with the lowest level of correction and increases through the six levels each time she barks within 30 seconds of the previous barks. Once she stops, the collar will reset itself to the lowest level. When she barks again, the process will start over. Along with each static correction, the collar will also beep.  Static correction is a very mild tingle, and the collar adjusts the correction based on your dogs temperament. She will quickly learn not to bark when the collar is on. As an added safety feature the Bark Control Collar will automatically shut off for 3 minutes if your dog barks 15 times or more within 50 seconds.  When using your Bark Control Collar for the first time, fit the adjustable strap to your dog and wait nearby until your dog barks. Most pets will quickly understand the new sensation is telling her to be quiet.      Product Features:   The collar is lightweight and waterproof.  Six levels of automatically adjusting correcting lets your dog find the level that is just right for her size and personality.  Perfect for dogs 8 lbs. and up.  The Good/low battery indicator alerts you when it is time to change your collars power source.  Uses PetSafe RFA-67 lithium battery (included). *You should only use a bark control solution during times when barking is excessive and not more than 12 consecutive hours a day.*         What's in the Package:   1 adjustable collar with bark control unit  1 PetSafe RFA-67 lithium battery  1 Instruction Guide	Bark Control Collar",bark collars;bark control;barking control;collars;dogs;harnesses & leashes;pet behavior center;pet supplies;pet supplies: international shipping available;petsafe;repellents;training & behavior aids,12
0815716923,"Getting to Dayton: The Making of America's Bosnia Policy Ivo H. Daalder  is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and the Sydney Stein Jr. Chair in International Security at the Brookings Institution. He is the coauthor, with James M. Lindsay, of  America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (Brookings, 2003) and the coauthor of  Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo (Brookings, 2001), written with Michael E. O'Hanlon.",books;bosnia and herzegovina;eastern;europe;european;history;international & world politics;national & international security;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics,12
1592981208,"Opa & Oma Together Patrick ""Packy"" Mader is an elementary school teacher who lives in Northfield, Minnesota, with his wife and two children. He enjoys outdoor family activities, traveling, and visiting Opa and Oma on the farm.Andrew Holmquist grew up in rural Northfield, Minnesota. He now attends the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is focusing in painting and illustration.",books;children's books;family life;farm life;health;multigenerational;nature & how it works;personal hygiene;science;social situations;travel & cultures;where we live,12
B000NDYER4,"GoPro Digital HERO 3 Sports Wrist Camera The GoPro Digital HERO 3 Sports Wrist Camera is easy to use during any activity. This shockproof/waterproof wrist camera makes it easy to shoot digital video and photos during your favorite sporting activities. Miniature size and patented versatility combine with TV resolution video and 3 megapixel photos to form a highly-convenient and fun sports camera.   HERO 3 Sports Wrist Camera Highlights   Use camera while you surf, ski, hike, bike, kayak, or climb   Pivots upright for on the fly photos or video   Exceptionally durable, with crack proof poly carbonate water housing and glass lens  Waterproof up to 100 ft underwater  This camera has a 3MP (2048x1536) photo resolution and 640x480 video resolution, and 16mb of internal memory expandable to 2GB with an SD card (not included)   Comes with the ultimate camera strap and ski glove adapter lash Connects to your PC via USB (cable included) with no driver required  Powered by two AAA batteries which are included  Additional Features:   Instant power-up  Simple button layout Half-second or less click to capture   Self-timer  Optical viewfinder to preview the scene  File format compatibility: JPEG file format, AVI file format  White balance: Automatic for adjusting light	The Go Pro 3MP Digital Hero Camera. Finally a camera that's easy to use during any activity.  Surf, ski, hike, bike, kayak, or climb. Pivots upright for on the fly photos or video. Crack proof polycarbonate waterhousing and glass lens. Functional to 30 feet and waterproof up to 100 ft underwater. This camera has a 3MP (2048x1536) photo resolution and 640x480 video resolution, and 16mb of internal memory expandable to 2GB with an SD card (not included) .  Also comes with the ultimate camera strap and ski glove adapter lash, connects to your PC via USB (cable included) with no driver required, and is powered by two AAA batteries which are included.  Additional Features: Instant Power-Up, Simple Button Layout, Half Second or Less Click to Capture, Self-Timer, Optical Viewfinder to Preview the Scene, File Format Compatibility: JPEG File Format, AVI File Format, White Balance: Automatic for Adjusting Light.",action sports;boating & water sports;camcorders;camera & photo;digital cameras;electronics;hunting & fishing;leisure sports & games;outdoor recreation;point & shoot digital cameras;snow sports;sports & outdoors,12
0811720926,Trees of Pennsylvania: and the Northeast Charles Fergus has written numerous books about wildlife and the outdoors. He lives in the Green Mountains of Vermont.,americas;biological sciences;books;history;plants;science & math;specialty travel;state & local;travel;travel with pets;trees;united states,12
156663119X,"Wartime America: The World War II Home Front (American Ways Series) In a brief but sweeping summation of the ways in which WWII affected the nation's course and character, Jeffries, a professor of history at the University of Maryland, examines the conventional wisdom that the war was a watershed in the country's history that established the U.S. as a world economic and political power, expanded federal power at home, gave impetus to the drives for civil liberties and women's rights and laid the basis for decades of prosperity. Among social changes were increased divorce and juvenile delinquency, displaced small farmers and businessmen, a new reign of bureaucracies and the growth of the sunbelt. Jeffries argues that many of these changes were already in the making and not solely attributable to the war. In a style accessible to students and others new to this historical debate, Jeffries offers a good synthesis of arguments. Ultimately, he considers the ""watershed"" notion as an oversimplification of enormously complex factors that now distinguish the nation from its prewar past. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Jeffries (history, Univ. of Maryland) analyzes the home front both during World War II and in postwar life. He discusses the ""good war"" and what that really means. He explores Americans' mobility during the war as they relocated to work in defense plants, creating population shifts still evident today. He also takes up such topics as the expanding economy, women, and African Americans and other minority groups. The larger picture portrayed by Jeffries emphasizes the war as a turning point in American history. ""A Note on Sources"" serves as the concluding chapter, however, it does not take the place of documenting the facts presented throughout the book with footnotes or endnotes. This detracts from the credibility of the work. An optional title for history collections.?Dorothy Lilly, Grosse Pointe North H.S. Lib., Mich.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Beautiful...answers more questions than any other book about World War II. (William M. Tuttle Jr., author of Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 and Daddy's Gone to War The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children)A rare combination of virtues: both summarizes and modifies existing interpretations. It will become the standard account, the point from which future scholarship will evolve. (Roger Daniels, author of Prisoners Without Trial)A trenchant, lucid, and persuasive analysis. (John Morton Blum, author of V was for Victory)	John W. Jeffries teaches American history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has also written Testing the Roosevelt Coalition and is co-author of Why Soldiers Fought.",20th century;americas;books;history;humanities;military;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks;world war ii,12
1555838499,"Box Lunch: The Layperson's Guide to Cunnilingus The personable  Cage, who describes herself as a ""rug munching champ,"" comes off like  your best friend's slightly older and way sexy sister. Dudes get plenty  of unclinical instruction. -Douglas Lord. 02/04/2010 --Library Journal	Diana Cage worked as editor of  the groundbreaking lesbian sex magazine On Our Backs before becoming host of   The Diana Cage Show on Sirius XM. Called ""Smart, fun, informative, and in your face,"" by Curve Magazine   and ""fierce, feminist and insightful"" by L Word creator Ilene Chaiken,  Diana has been featured in dozens of publications including The San  Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York, The Bay Area Guardian, Maxim and   GQ. Diana holds an M.F.A. from San Francisco State University and has spoken   about media, culture, politics, sexuality, and gender at top colleges  and universities around the country.",books;fitness & dieting;gay & lesbian;health;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;self-help;sex;sexuality;social sciences;specific demographics;women's studies,12
0071374949,"The Complete Book of Locks and Locksmithing ""It's hard to find technical details on this subject:  locksmiths are relatively close-mouthed about the craft of their trade.  Laypeople to professionals will thus find this a winning reference: it covers all types of locks and keys from old-fashioned to modern electromagnetic locks and vending machines, providing the basics of locksmithing and different system operations."" --Midwest Book Review, on the Fourth Edition  INCLUDES PRACTICE TEST FOR THE RPL EXAM!  The standard reference in the field and a comprehensive source often used as a classroom text or for self study  Whether you want to learn lockpicking or locksmithing--or want to choose locks that are virtually impossible to defeat--Bill Phillips' classic THE COMPLETE BOOK OF LOCKS AND LOCKSMITHING is perfect.  For years the top reference in the field, this book suits everyone from beginners who want to master techniques step by illustrated step, to pros who need an up-to-date, all-inclusive shop manual.  This is a book that can help almost everyone, at one time or another, and an insider's guide to every facet of the world of mechanical security.  FEATURES: *Complete, illustrated coverage from a master locksmith *The perfect tool for teaching yourself lockpicking and lock fixing *Safe opening and servicing techniques *Coverage of electronic and high security mechanical locks *Auto lock opening and servicing how-to's *Lockmaking instructions *More than 100 new practice exam questions *Lists of tool and equipment sources	Bill Phillips is the leading author of locksmithing books, including this best-selling classic.  He also wrote McGrawe-Hill's LOCKSMITHING, a part of the ""Craftmaster"" series, and the COMPLETE BOOK OF ELECTRONIC SECURITY (McGraw-Hill).  Mr. Phillips is the author of the ""Lock"" article in the 1998-2001 editions of the World Book Encyclopedia, and has written hundreds of security-related articles for professional and general-circulation periodicals, including Home Mechanix, Los Angeles Times, Consumers Digest, and others.  He is president of the International Association of Home Safety and Security Professionals.",books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;education & reference;engineering;hobbies & home;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;materials;metal work;professional & technical;reference,12
0787956236,"Using the Law for Competitive Advantage (J-B-UMBS Series) The law touches almost every aspect of a manager's work. All types of business organizations show an increasing appreciation for the importance of law, as the globalization of business has fostered rapid changes in the law of contracts, environmental protection, securities regulation, and many other areas. These changes, says George Siedel, have created new opportunities for competitive advantage. Savvy managers can use the law to reduce their costs and develop products that are unique and priced lower than those of competitors-if they know how.Using the Law for Competitive Advantage provides a four-step process, the Manager's Legal Plan, that can help managers not only defend against costly and wasteful litigation, but actually turn legal resources into competitive assets as they address legal concerns on a daily basis. This tenth book in the University of Michigan Business School series shows managers how to:* Understand the law more broadly than the immediate legal challenge* Determine whether conventional legal approaches can be used to resolve legal concerns* Develop business strategies and solutions to minimize future legal problems* Reframe legal concerns as business opportunitiesSiedel illustrates how the process can be used to address many of the most troubling problems facing managers today, including product liability, workers' compensation, wrongful discharge, sexual harassment, and environmental regulation. He tells how to obtain the best legal resources and maximize their value, provides management tools for resolving disputes in a cost-effective manner, and shows how to use the Manager's Legal Plan to encourage ethical decision making.	The law has become an enabler that allows firms to expand globally, develop entrepreneurial ventures, establish a customer-focused company, and create corporate values. This book reveals the link between business objectives and legal objectives and explains how the law can help create competitive advantage for a company. Drawing on the latest research and numerous examples from business, the author shows how to manage legal resources to gain an edge in the marketplace in a cost-effective manner. He tells how to reframe legal problems as business problems. And he explains how to use legal frameworks to create both value and values for the company. In addition, the book includes practical, hands-on tools that managers can use to deal with a variety of stakeholders and legal concerns.	George J. Siedel is Williamson Family Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan Business School. He has received several research and teaching awards, including the Hoeber Award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, the International Case Writing Award from the Center for International Business Education, and the Thurnau Professorship from the University of Michigan.He has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University, Stanford University, and Cambridge University, and in 2001 was named as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences.",administrative law;books;business & finance;business & investing;law;law practice;management;management & leadership;motivational;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,12
0768914159,"In-a-Flash: Vocabulary, 6E Features and Benefits:  -More than 360 frequently tested SAT and ACT words.  -Tips on building skills to recognize key word roots.  -Index of Words and Word Roots.  -Three-Day Miracle Plan study system.",act (american college tests);books;college & university;education & reference;language & grammar;sat & psat;slang & word lists;study guides;studying & workbooks;test preparation;vocabulary;words,12
1890626627,"Terror in the Skies: Why 9/11 Could Happen Again This event is not a singular or isolated experience. The terrorists are probing us all the time. -- Gary Boettcher, president, Coalition of Airline Pilots AssociationsThis incident, and incidents like it, occur more than you like to think. It is a ""dirty little secret."" -- Mark Bogosian, a pilot for a major airlineThis is a major embarrassment [for the Department of Homeland Security]. . . . this is a scandal. . . . this needs to be exposed. -- Steven Emerson, author of",aviation;books;criminal law;intelligence & espionage;law;law enforcement;politics & government;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;specific topics;terrorism;transportation,12
0415137233,"African Voices, African Lives: Personal Narratives from a Swahili Village ""In this book, Caplan offers a nuanced response to the 'crisis of representation' loudly decried in the mid-1980s that problematized ethnographic author-ity and advocated the decolonization of anthropological writing.  Relinquishing authorship to those whose voices had been captured and squeezed into theoretical models irrespective of fit offered an ethical solution, it was argued, to the problem.""  -- Journal of Asian And African Studies	Pat Caplan is Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmith's College, University of London, and is author of Gendered Fields (1993).",africa;anthropology;books;cultural;history;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;tanzania;used & rental textbooks,12
0380727412,"Poison Perhaps Harrison's most signal achievement in this story of two doomed women is her reflection of their time and place: Spain in the 17th century, a sordid and barbarous era. Harrison (Exposure) is totally in command of her tragic narrative, which proceeds with the stately, mesmerizing pace of a pavane, stepping to one side to look behind, to the other to look ahead. Francesca Luarca, a humble silk farmer's daughter, is arrested for witchery. Her story parallels that of Queen Maria Luisa, the French Bourbon princess married to the impotent king of Spain, whose inability to produce an heir to the throne condemns her to death as surely as imprisonment in the Inquisition's prisons dooms Francesca. Francesca commits several sins: she begs a priest to teach her to read (a dangerous ambition for a woman); he also introduces her to carnal delights and impregnates her. Francesca is destroyed by passion, the queen-who is also called a witch by the jeering mob-by its complete absence. Hovering over everything is the ominous shadow of the Inquisition, fed by a greedy, corrupt church that plays on fears of devils and witches but forgives ""sins"" on the payment of hefty fines. Harrison weaves a marvelous tapestry of almost palpable details: people in Madrid wore enormous jeweled spectacles, ""an enhancement to dignity rather than eyesight""; ""the Spanish nobility's desire for loftiness was so intense and so literal that aristocratic women balanced on stilts."" This is hardly an historical novel in its accepted sense, however, since Harrison pulls free of exact historical documentation. While richly imagined, the narrative is sometimes overwrought; being confined inside the heads of the poisoned, delirious queen and the peasant woman torn by the Inquisition's rack is a feverish experience. This claustrophobic darkness, the unremitting misery of the story, may deter some readers. For others, it will be an illuminating portrait of a woman's lot in an age poisoned by superstition and the church's tyranny. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Harrison examines the lives of two women in 17th-century Madrid. One, Maria Luisa, the French-born queen of Carlos II, is dying of poison because she has not produced an heir in ten years of marriage. The other is Francisca de Luarca, a silk grower's daughter, who lies in the Inquisition's prison, accused of witchcraft. As Francisca reviews her life and that of the queen, a panoramic view of Spain emerges, from the superstitious peasants of Castile to the equally superstitious nobility of a fading country. The evocative historical setting is a departure for Harrison (e.g., Exposure, LJ 12/92), whose previous novels viewed contemporary life. However, her brilliant descriptions and compelling examination of the minds and motivations of her two heroines, each condemned by society for wanting happiness, will maintain the author's reputation as a writer of power and rare sensibility. For most collections.-?Andrea Caron Kempf, Johnson Cty. Community Coll. Lib., Overland Park, Kan.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Harrison is fascinated with the perils of eroticism. In Exposure (1993), she considered sexuality in our world. Here, in this highly unusual and beautifully written historical novel, she explores the consequences of forbidden desire in an era of cruel and demented extremes, the fearful years of the Spanish Inquisition. Harrison's strange, appalling, yet enrapturing tale focuses on two young women: Francisca de Luarca, the free-spirited daughter of a failed silkworm cultivator, and Marie Louise de Bourbon, doomed to marry the last surviving Hapsburg, the deformed and aberrant King Carlos. In an amazing feat of the imagination, Harrison dramatizes the horror of Marie's virtual imprisonment and her disgusting husband's inability to impregnate her. It's clear that the king's impotence promises death for his queen. Meanwhile, Francisca, sad and rebellious after her mother's death, asks a priest to teach her to read, but they quickly turn their attention from books to flesh and their lovemaking, gloriously described, becomes as serious a crime as the queen's seeming barrenness. As Marie writhes on her death bed and Francisca suffers on the rack, poison becomes a powerful metaphor for cultural insanity and spiritual death. A darkly lyrical and deeply disturbing tour de force.  Donna Seaman	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	""Fascinating...mesmerizing...a hypnotic tale...Poisonis a rich tapestry."" -- --USA Today	Kathryn Harrison is a graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her first novel, Thicker Than Water, was a New York Times Notable Book of 1991. Her second novel, Exposure, was also a New York Times Notable Book, and a national bestseller. She lives in New York City with her husband, the writer Colin Harrison.	""A wonderful novel, rich and wild and sweet.""",action & adventure;biographies & memoirs;books;genre fiction;historical;literary;literature & fiction;memoirs;mystery;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,12
1853674494,"Memoirs Napoleon's Egyptian Expedition 1798-1801 Text: English (translation) Original Language: French	Primary and secondary sources detail the campaign in its entirety. Includes a comprehensive transcription of Napoleon's key speeches, historical overview and footnotes by the translator/editor.	Rosemary Brindle is a researcher, writer and historian who lives on the Isle of Man.",18th century;19th century;asia;books;egypt;europe;france;history;middle east;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);napoleonic wars,12
0471273961,"This Is Not a Weasel: A Close Look at Nature's Most Confusing Terms In this popular science volume, Mortenson, who studied the philosophy of science at the University of Minnesota, clarifies nature's most confusing pairs or groups of words. To this end he has looked at 243 designations that refer to a form of plant or animal life and attempts to explain how they are related or not related to life forms thought to be similar, like the butterfly and the moth or the turtle and the tortoise. Although Mortenson has done exhaustive research and is knowledgeable about his subject, he does not transform specialist information into accessible prose for the layperson. His introductory discussion of nomenclature and taxonomy is difficult to understand for those not familiar with many of the Latin and technical designations used. For readers who persevere, the text does yield interesting nuggets about words often misused interchangeably. A sweet potato, for example, is a delicious root vegetable, while a yam is actually a bitter-tasting tuber. Rabbits and hares are definitely not rodents, even though their dental structure resembles that of the rat, a true rodent. Solitary grasshoppers can be transformed into swarming locusts, when environmental conditions are right. In order to uncover this information, however, it is necessary to plow through a great deal of dense verbiage. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	If they gave out awards for the oddest book titles, this exploration of confusing words used to describe natural phenomena would be a top candidate. The author focuses on pairs (and larger groups) of words whose meanings we often confuse, e.g., corn and maize, which are often used interchangeably but which actually mean slightly different things. Or mushroom and toadstool, which also describe different things, despite our behaving as though they mean the same thing. (See also frog/toad, turtle/tortoise, antler/horn, and ass/burro/donkey/mule.) It's an interesting little book, filled with tidbits of information (according to the U.S. Forest Service, anything under 12 feet in height is not a tree). The author organizes the text simply, with chapters on plants, aquatic life, mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, and terrestrial invertebrates (your spiders, ants, caterpillars, and grasshoppers). The first chapter, which explains scientific nomenclature and taxonomy--the reasons we call things what we do--is most illuminating. Definitely a niche book but a fascinating one for those whose interests run in this direction. David PittCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Pedants rejoice as Morenson sets verbal misapplication in his sights and lets loose a broadside of correction and proper vocabulary& -- Focus, May 2004Pedants rejoice as Morenson sets verbal misapplication in his sights and lets loose a broadside of correction and proper vocabulary (Focus, May 2004)        ""This book is the cat's whiskers."" (The Guardian (UK))        ""Next time you call someone a weasel, ask yourself: was that what you really meant? Or did you really mean a ferret, a mink, or a polecat? Or maybe an ermine, a fisher, or a marten? Mortenson (B.A., philosophy of science) settles that question and dissects commonly confused terms (e.g., corn vs. maize, frogs vs. toads) in this highly engaging work. He succinctly describes and dispels such misconceptions in short, well-rounded sections drawn from literature, popular use, and ancient lore, followed ultimately by more scholarly natural history resources. Although writing for a lay audience, he is not afraid to frame his explanations using scientific nomenclature. In fact, Mortenson begins the book with a brief yet excellent introduction to nomenclature and taxonomy. His work will appeal to a wide audience, from those with a love of natural history or the history of language to anyone simply looking for an interesting read. Highly recommended for all libraries."" (Library Journal)	Is your softwood hard or is your hardwood soft?How can you tell a buffalo from a bison and a yam from a sweet potato? What happens when a dolphin porpoises? Is it wrong to call a vulture a buzzard, and why are buzzards never called vultures? Whats the difference between a frog and a toad, and are crawfish and crayfish really the same?  This Is Not a Weasel helps you make sense of the ubiquitous similarities, confounding terminology, and downright misnomers that make plant and animal names so confusing.This entertaining and highly useful reference takes on a wide-ranging list of monikers for all types of plants and animals. It lays to rest any lingering confusion over the distinctions between seemingly relatedyet crucially distinctterms, such as hare and rabbit; seal and sea lion; moss and lichen; crocodile and alligator; skate and ray; turtle and tortoise; and mink, sable, ferret, ermine, stoat, and weasel. Reviewed by an impressive cadre of experts, this authoritative guide: Defines and clarifies 240 frequently misapplied plant- and animal-related termsCovers wild and domestic plants, insects, fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals Debunks common misconceptions and exposes flagrant misuse of termsIdentifies sources of confusion from history, the popular media, and scientific literature Whether youre a language lover, a nature buff, or just someone who insists on accurate information, you will find this a charming book.	PHILIP B. MORTENSON studied the philosophy of science at the University of Minnesota. This Is Not a Weasel is his first book.",biological sciences;books;conservation;education & reference;history & philosophy;nature & ecology;new;reference;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks;zoology,12
B000FQ79YE,"The Undoing of Death: Sermons for Holy Week and Easter This outstanding sermon collection by Rutledge reflects 26 years of preaching during Holy Week and Easter. Some of the sermons have been revised and reworked for publication; all are in print here for the first time. The collection focuses more heavily on Holy Week than on Easter Sunday itself, which is represented by just two sermons. Rutledge is to be commended for including sermons for the oft-neglected Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week, as well as messages for Eastertide, the ""Great Fifty Days"" that follow Christ's resurrection. Although fellow preachers will pore over her words to gather ideas for their own homilies, the general reader will also profit from these sermons, which are full of anecdotes and powerful insights into biblical passages. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus comprise the two-part event at the heart of the Christian story. Because of its unique meaning and the intense emotions it invokes, Holy Week brings high expectations on the part of congregations and places unusua	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;christian books & bibles;easter;holidays;lent;ministry & church leadership;other religions;practices & sacred texts;preaching;religion & spirituality;ritual;sermons,12
4770020686,"Let's Learn Kanji: An Introduction to Radicals, Components and 250 Very Basic Kanji (Kodansha's Children's Classics) Text: English, Japanese	Preface [slightly abridged]  In all languages, reading and writing are entirely separate skills from listening and speaking. Children, and even adults to a certain extent, can pick up the spoken language through listening to and participating in everyday conversation. But they go to school to learn to read and write because the written language cannot be ""picked up."" A person who can speak a foreign language quite fluently may have difficulty reading or writing it if not properly trained. Everyone, even native speakers, must make special efforts to acquire reading and writing skills, and the Japanese language is no exception. The only difference between Japanese and other languages is one of degree rather than of kind. The process of learning written Japanese may require more time because of the three writing systems, Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji, and because the number of Kanji is rather large. Native Japanese learn Kanji during nine years of their education (elementary and junior high).  Non-native students, in contrast, cannot afford to spend so much time learning Kanji, so they need a systematic method to help them learn Kanji quickly and efficiently. The system devised in this workbook focuses on radicals and components and the way in which these radicals and components allow the Kanji to be arranged into related family groups. In other words, Kanji which contain the same radicals or components can be considered something like a family and the method of learning Kanji in this book is organized around this family relationship.  In Part I, which is devoted entirely to Kanji fundamentals, students will begin with the smallest unit of a Kanji character: the stroke. Next they will move on to radicals and components. These are the identifiable parts of Kanji and often carry intrinsic meaning or derivation. Most importantly, as mentioned above, radicals and components form the basis of Kanji family groups. By learning these various family groups, students will be able to break down new and complex Kanji into familiar components. This skill will facilitate the process of learning more complex Kanji.  In Part II, the students are ready to actually start writing Kanji. They will practice and learn 250 ""very basic Kanji,"" most of which will appear later as components of more complex Kanji. In addition, each very basic Kanji is presented with examples of these more complex family group members, thereby enabling students not only to learn the 250 very basic Kanji but to recognize the related over 1,000 complex Kanji as well. Throughout Parts I and II, exercises are provided to help students learn the material presented in each chapter.  It is the authors' great hope that through the use of this workbook, students will develop a desire to continue and eventually master Kanji....  Joyce Yumi Mitamura Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura",books;computers & technology;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;introductory & beginning;japanese;new;programming;used & rental textbooks,12
158567320X,"Pied Pipers Poison Robert Watt, first-person narrator of Wallace's unsettling, uneven debut novel, is a Scottish doctor who, upon retirement, recalls his wartime service as a 24-year-old newly accredited medic sent out into the chaos of postwar Europe. His job was to identify the origins of a baffling epidemic at two refugee camps--one outside of Berlin and the other on the Polish-Ukrainian border--and he makes it clear that something awful happened that has haunted him for the rest of his life and even invalidated his career. ""I cannot talk of my career in medicine because I am, and always have been, a fraud."" His secret past gradually comes to light through a series of flashbacks--a lengthy process, since the primary narrative alternates with another: a ""paper"" on the true story behind the Pied Piper of Hamelin. This document is reputedly written by Arthur Lee, Robert's colleague at both camps, a man deranged yet enlightened by the loss in the Blitz of his wife and children. Presumably, Wallace decided to juxtapose these two narratives because both bear witness to how blind and ultimately evil humans can be when faced with situations of anarchy and chaos, but the fit is forced. Neither narrative is strong enough to support the portentousness of its themes--""the devils have taken over, the ones from within""--and the invented horrors feel a bit redundant in a novel that takes place right after the Holocaust. This failure is particularly disappointing as Wallace can write: his na?ve young Scot has a convincing voice, and it is easy to believe in his postadolescent fumblings and blindness. Given a decent plot, this new author could go far. (May) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	This ambitious first novel is an unrelenting descent into horror. It's 1946, and Rob, a young doctor from Glasgow, is in Berlin to work with refugees. He lives in a bleak makeshift camp set up by the Allies and spends his long days examining Europe's new homeless as they attempt to make it to the West. Wallace's depiction of Europe at the end of the war is absolutely brilliant. Although hardly a rich historical novel, Wallace picks his details wonderfully well, capturing the exhaustion, deprivation, and spiritual emptiness of the time. Suddenly, Rob is sent to Tarutz, a camp in Poland quarantined because of a horrific disease. As Rob investigates the illness, Wallace again makes unspeakable horror come painfully alive. Alternating with this narrative is a found text, a document written by Arthur Lee, Rob's roommate throughout this ordeal and sent to Rob in the present day, and it recounts the ""real"" story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin toward the end of the Thirty Years War. Unfortunately, this story never quite takes off. Nevertheless, these duel narratives do share parallels both obvious and more subtle that give the novel a claustrophobic intensity, perfect for the author's exploration of humankind's dark history.  Brian Kenney	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Uprooted by WWII, a strange group of sick refugees quarantined by the Soviets in southern Poland perplexes an innocent Scottish doctor, but a lack of historical perspective soon puts him out of his depth: a curious, split-screen debut from Edinburgh author Wallace. It's no fault of Rob Watts, fresh from med school in Glasgow in the first winter after the war, that he's too nice and nave for the grim work of screening refugees, first in a medical camp in Berlin under the direction of senior physician Arthur, a burly American with inscrutable designs. Rob makes a go of it, playing bridge in his off-hours and humoring Arthur, his roommate, who cries himself to sleep nightly. Yet when the American sends him to Poland, where in the cellars of a ruined estate a steady number of the ethnic Germans who occupy the refugee camp die mysterious, rapid, horrible deaths, Rob is completely baffled. The Soviet doctor at the camp, an English-speaking, cultured man, hopes to while away the hours playing chess with Rob as they study the disease, though Rob finds another diversion, in the supple young form of one of the refugees. When Arthur arrives on the scene with his crackpot intensity, however, he produces a startling hypothesis, which explains both the disease and the parallel plot involving a once prosperous German town and the devastating Thirty Years War of the 17th century: the refugees are directly linked to the story of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and their deaths are the revisit of an ancient curse first set in motion at the end of that long war, almost 300 years before. Unfortunately, with no evidence other than what Arthur, a less than reliable source, can offer, Wallaces two plots don't connect, and poor Rob, a hand-wringing, pleasure-seeking lightweight, has precious little to contribute whether they do or not.  -- Copyright 2000, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	'Quite simply stunning.' Brian Davis, Time Out 'Assured, ambitious... The novel's true achievement lies in its depiction of the chaos, despair, and privations which poisoned both victors and vanquished in the aftermath of the Second World War... a fascinating first novel.' Michael Arditti, The Times 'Wallace's fine debut novel taps straight into the murderous black heart of the age... highly ambitious and stunningly successful.' Peter Whittaker, Independent	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	'Quite simply stunning' - Brian Davis, Time Out 'It is winter 1946 and Robert Watt a young Army doctor, is sent to a camp in southern Poland, charged with discovering why refugees are dying of a hideous and unidentifiable disease. Is the camp being used by Russian doctors as a macabre experiment into the effects of radiation? Or are the symptoms of the disease as Watt's misanthropic colleague Arthur Lee believes proof of a poison that lurks within the human psyche. This account of a young man adrift and seeking solace in medical certainties is deftly interwoven with pages from Arthur's research paper on that most enduring of folk myths, the Pied Piper of Hamelin... These parallel narratives lead to a climax which is at once genuinely shocking and a hugely satisfying resolution to the mystery. Wallace's book is a grainy, honest attempt to probe those dark areas we give novelists sanction to investigate. As such, it is both highly ambitious and stunningly successful.' - PETER WHITTAKER,  Independent 'Kafka's Metamorphosis, Suskind's Perfume and David Lynch's Twin Peaks all rolled into one - sounds good? If so, then read Wallace's ambitious first novel, The Pied Piper's Poison. It is a heady mature of historical drama, romance and moral allegory. Wallace's prose style is remarkably fluent and never dull,' -  TOM ANGIER, Literary Review 'This young Edinburgh-based writer is the first discovery of the New Year. A superbly imagined, expertly executed two-stream historical novel, linking early Cold War Europe with the horrific, legacy of the Thirty Years War,' - Scotsman 'Assured, ambitious ... The novel's true achievement lies in its depiction of the chaos, despair, and privations which poisoned both victors and vanquished In the aftermath of the Second World War ... a fascinating first novel.' - MICHAEL ARDITTI, The Times 'In the wake of AIDS and Ebola, our latterday fascination with disease and its social implications has been taken up in this brilliant first novel. What really went on in rat-infested Hamelin? And was the same Pied Piper force at work in the winter of 1946 in a refugee camp in southern Poland, causing inmates to fall prey to a hideous disease? A young doctor investigates suggestions of an hallucinogenic fungus, Russian radiation experiments and something darker - deep in the human soul.' - JENNIFER SELWAY, Express on Sunday 'A memorable first novel, set in a quarantine camp in Poland in the bitter winter of 1946, in which a newly-qualified Scots doctor is set to investigating a horrific but unidentifiable disease and begins to discover links with the original Pied Piper tale.' - OWEN KELLY, Irish News	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Christopher Wallace was born in Germany in 1962 and educated at the University of Sterling in Scotland. The Pied Piper's Poison is his first novel; it has been published in five countries.",books;british;contemporary;genre fiction;historical;literary;literature & fiction;mystery;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers;war,12
1883513006,"Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Traveler's Literary Companions) Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion has been compiled in an attempt to provide tourists with a different perspective on the country. Each of the twenty-six remarkable stories in this collection has been selected to reflect the geographical area in which it is set. (Though Costa Rica is only about half the size of Ireland, it is wonderfully diverse.) Story settings range from the high valleys of the central plateau to the flatlands of the Caribbean coast to the plains of Guanacaste. A typical guidebook will instruct visitors on the politics, history, culture, economy, and ethnicity of a country, but only fiction can portray its soul. After reading the stories contained in this literary companion, travelers to Costa Rica will no doubt view this Central American nation with whole new eyes.	Text: English Original Language: Spanish	Barbara Ras, Editor",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;criticism & theory;education & reference;general;history & criticism;literature & fiction;short stories;south america;travel;travel writing,12
0759106673,"Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (Cognitive Science of Religion) For millennia, philosophers and others have offered explanations of religious belief. Barrett's discussion challenges every explanation I know of, doing so on the basis of fascinating and innovative empirical studies, and acute philosophical analysis. His theory is innovative, compelling, and provocative at many points, not least in its conclusion that theism, not atheism, is our natural condition. It's the sort of book that shakes up the field; all philosophers and psychologists of religion will have to take account of it. (Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology  Yale University )A brilliant and challenging presentation of the cognitive study of religion, by a psychologist who practically invented the field. Barrett marries exceptional conceptual rigour with an easy, accessible style. This should provide a much-needed guide for students and scholars of religion as well as a roadmap for future developments in the field. (Pascal Boyer, Washington University in St. Louis, Author of Religion Explained )In a beautifully argued presentation, Justin Barrett brings together diverse material from cognitive psychology to show that belief in God is natural. Belief is intuitively satisfying because it depends on mental tools possessed by all human beings. That it is natural does not imply that it is true, for the mental tools were elaborated through natural and cultural selection to help humans survive, not to find truth. This book will become a classic for religious studies, and should be read by anthropologists, theologians, and scientists, as well as all those puzzled by the force of religion. (Robert Hinde, Cambridge University )	After completing his Ph.D. in experimental psychology at Cornell University, Justin Barrett served on the psychology faculties of Calvin College (Michigan) and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and as a research fellow of the Institute for Social Research. Recently, he was the Associate Director for the International Culture and Cognition Consortium and an editor of the Journal of Cognition and Culture. His cross-cultural, developmental, and experimental research on religious concepts has appeared in numerous books and scholarly journals. Dr. Barrett currently provides consulting on numerous research and evaluation projects for academic and non-profit groups, especially concerning the interface of science and religion.",behavioral sciences;books;cognitive psychology;education & reference;humanities;new;psychology;religion & spirituality;religious studies;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0802409075,"What's Next?: God, Israel, and the Future of Iraq Atypically for a work of fundamentalist Christian eschatology, this primer takes the historical past of the Middle East as seriously as its prophetic future. Dyer (The Rise of Babylon), provost at the Moody Bible Institute, has a slightly revisionist interpretation of end-times prophecy, one informed by recent upheavals in Iraq. He contends that the Babylon discussed in Revelation is not, as many scholars believe, a recrudescent Rome but a reconstructed Iraq. Awash in oil wealth, the new Babylon will seduce the world economically and participate in complex political wranglings with a pan-European superstate during the seven-year run-up to the final assaults on Israel and the Second Coming. Based on passages from Ezekiel, Daniel and Revelation, Dyer's is a not entirely implausible exegesis of Biblical prophecy, but while it may lure the Left Behind audience, it is somewhat peripheral to the book's main focus on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. Spanning the century from the birth of Zionism to the al-Aqsa intifada, Dyer's account of the conflict is more even-handed than the usual fundamentalist cheerleading for the Israeli side. He argues that American evangelicals should support Israel, but acknowledges some Palestinian grievances, insists that God sanctions Palestinians' rights to the land they live on and even gives a sympathetic profile of a former PLO terrorist. Dyer's humanization of Palestinians seems partly an effort to reassure readers about the safety of travel in Israel (he has a sideline in guided tours of the Holy Land), but his nuanced, readable treatment makes this a good introduction to a region that is of central concern to fundamentalists. 8-page photo insert not seen by PW. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	CHARLES DYER (B.A., Washington Bible College; Th.M. and Ph.D., Dallas  Theological Seminary) served for ten years as provost of Moody Bible Institute before  becoming professor-at-large of Bible and host of The Land and the Book radio  program. He is the author of numerous books, including A Voice in the Wilderness,  What's Next?, The Rise of Babylon, and The New Christian Traveler's  Guide to the Holy Land. His most recent book is Character Counts: The Power  of Personal Integrity.",books;christian books & bibles;church & state;history;politics & state;reference;religion;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;theology;world,12
1566636086,"Race Day: A Spot on the Rail Watman describes an ideal day at the races, but it is a mighty long day. It begins with American Eclipse's legendary match-race victory over Sir Henry in 1823 and extends to last year's Belmont, in which Birdstone dashed Smarty Jones' hopes of becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978. Affirmed also appears on Watman's race card, as do his archrival Alydar and other luminaries such as Gallant Fox, Man o' War, Secretariat, John Henry, Cigar, and many more of the best Thoroughbreds ever to trod the American turf. Despite the crowded program, Watman finds plenty of time to set the scene for each race by providing the backgrounds of the major players, both equine and human. There are digressions, explanations, and anecdotes galore; and there are times the reader might be impatient to get on with the race. In the end, however, each race makes for a good story, and Watman, the racing correspondent for the New York Sun, is an amiable companion. Bill OttCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	An entertaining buffet of racing lore and legend told in a novel fashion and a crisp tempo. (Joe Hirsch Daily Racing Form)There is nothing like a good racetrack story and Max Watman has mined the best and told them better than they've ever been told. A fascinating journey for anyoneracetrack lifers to casual fans. (Sean Clancy Saratoga Special)Max Watman's intimate, comfortable, and stylish prose about horse racing is almost equivalent to a perfect day at the races. (Alaska Horse Journal)Wonderful. (Kacey McCann Bridle & Bit)Colorful writing style...very thrilling reading...a great tribute to American Thoroughbred racing. (Horse-Races.Net)An excellent tribute to racing, one that can be enjoyed by any fan of the sport. (Cindy Pierson Dulay Horseracing.About.Com)Fresh and Humorous. (Amy Ford Library Journal)An easy, compelling read for horse racing fans who wish for something offseason. (Diane C. Donovan Midwest Book Review)Race Day is filled with such wonderful stories. (Speedhorse)Watman's easyreading, agreeable style dresses up his chapters. (Lenny Shulman BloodHorse)Each race makes for a good story, and Watman...is an amiable companion. (Dennis Dodge Booklist)Many of these stories will be familiar to race fans. But the telling makes them worth reliving. (Neil Genzlinger The New York Times)It's an easy and entertaining, but very insightful, 235-page read for the lover of the Thoroughbred sport. (Steve Flairty Kentucky Monthly)His enthusiasm for the sport is contagious...Watman doesn't miss a beat. (Lauren Maruskin Equiery)	Max Watman is the regular turf correspondent for the New York Sun and has written about horse racing for the New York Times and the New York City OTB. His work has also appeared in Harper's, the Wall Street Journal, and Parnassus. Mr. Watman is also the fiction chronicler for The New Criterion and an editor of the Nebraska Review. He was raised in the mountains of Virginia and now lives with his wife in Brooklyn, New York.",19th century;20th century;americas;books;history;history of sports;horses;individual sports;miscellaneous;racing;sports & outdoors;united states,12
0879059621,"Cowboy Chic Contents  Acknowledgements  Introduction Westward Ho! The Development of Ranch Style Contemporary Expressions of the West Into the Future First Impressions Family Spaces Convivial Places Angles of Repose Places of Rejuvenation At Work and At Play Creative Spaces Cowboy Chic Collection Directory & Sourcebook	The style and spirit of the new West--fresh, forward-looking, and finely crafted.	Chase Reynolds Ewald is the author of two books on traditional craft, Old Masters of the West and Old masters of New England, as well as nearly 100 articles for periodicals such as Southwest Art, Sunset, Outside, and Countryside. She lives with her family in northern California.	Introduction  When I was eighteen and about to start college in the East, I went west. I was headed for a wrangling job in Wyoming, having been captivated by the grandeur of the western landscape ever since I'd spent three summers at a camp in Jackson Hole as a young girl. My destination was a historic dude ranch an hour from the nearest town, tucked at the ends of a dead-end valley surrounded by wilderness.",architecture;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;design & construction;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;how-to & home improvements;interior design;professional & technical;style,12
0201688565,"The Photoshop 4 Wow! Book: Tips, Tricks, & Techniques for Adobe Photoshop 4 : Macintosh Edition (Wow Books) If you're looking for guidance on creating excellent effects  in Photoshop 4.0, this is a great book to get. As with a lot of other  Photoshop books, The Photoshop 4 Wow! Book teaches you how to  paint; use filters; create special effects; manage selections and  layers; correct photos; create montages and collages; work with  Illustrator and Photoshop together; and output your work for 3-D,  multimedia, and Web applications. But here, each chapter is broken  down into discrete tips, and each tip is highlighted on one, two, or  three well-laid out, full-color pages, so it's easy to find exactly  what you need. For example, you might jump from the tip on ""using  images to make selections"" in the second chapter  (""Selections, Masks, Layers, and Channels"") to  ""chiseling"" in the eighth chapter (""Graphics Special  Effects""). Everyone from beginner to advanced users can glean  plenty from this book. The initial chapters are pretty basic, offering  an introduction to Photoshop's interface and various digital-imaging  and memory-management issues. Besides lots of screen shots you also  get thorough instruction, so there's not much room for messing up or  being led astray. At the same time, most of the tips include  suggestions for producing your own variations on the artwork  presented. Galleries show artwork produced by several Photoshop  experts, along with explanations of how each artist produced his or  her effects. The bundled CD-ROM has stock photos; demo versions of  filter software; demo versions of Adobe packages, such as Photoshop  PageMaker, Premiere, and Illustrator; and ready-made Actions  (Photoshop's batch processes) that run special effects. There's also a  Macintosh edition of  this book, which is identical except for keyboard commands and the  platform-specific advice in the first chapter.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The first edition of The Photoshop Wow! Book garnered the prestigious 1994 Computer Press Award for the best book of its class, and the second edition took top honors in the 1996 Benjamin Franklin Awards. This new edition, expanded and updated for version 4, continues to set new standards for clarity and creativity in computer publishing, combining hundreds of new techniques, new projects, and new illustrations.This hands-on guide provides ""click and drag"" presentations of painterly, photorealistic, and special effects techniques. Hundreds of time-and work-saving tips are covered as well. An all-new chapter on Web graphics and techniques explores the special considerations that this new medium entails. The book is heavily illustrated throughout showing real-life projects created by top Photoshop artists.",adobe photoshop;books;computers & technology;desktop publishing;digital media management;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;game programming;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;photo editing;programming,12
0965900312,"Oneness ""There is a higher Source behind this wisdom and it is in every person's best interest to get to know it . . . to pick up this book and read it, word by precious word."" Ervin Laszlo, author of Science and the Akashic Field and The Chaos Point	Author of Oneness and The Calling, Rasha awakened to her inner-calling as a messenger of Divine guidance in 1987. She has dedicated her life to addressing the profound spiritual awakening that's the hallmark of these times. Her teachings are universal and do not represent the beliefs of any religion, spiritual movement or guru. An incurable world traveler with an affinity for India and Northern New Mexico, Rasha actively continues to document the teachings of Oneness for future volumes.",aging;books;channeling;fitness & dieting;health;new age;new thought;personal transformation;religion & spirituality;self-help;spiritual;spirituality,12
0415056470,"Tener + Past Participle: A Case Study in Linguistic Description (Romance Linguistics) This book is an excellent piece of scholarship and will be of particular interest to Romance linguists and, more generally, students of grammaticalization..Language	Catherine E. Harre is a civil servant in the Department of Trade and Industry.",books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;instruction;language & grammar;linguistics;new;used & rental textbooks;words,12
0800759451,"Living Organized: Proven Steps for a Clutter-Free and Beautiful Home Develop strategies for mess-free living! Everyone wants a beautiful home--one that welcomes visitors gracefully and provides a sanctuary from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. But as we go through life we acquire all sorts of stuff that clutters up our lives and our houses. And a beautiful home is just not possible if every nook and cranny is considered fair game for storage!Now you can win the clutter war. Sandra Felton, The Organizer Lady, shares her insight on the best ways to bring out the hidden beauty in messy houses. She makes housekeeping less overwhelming for the organizationally challenged with-interior design tips-inspiring stories from the organizing trenches-advice for coping with a messy spouse or childDon't settle for a messy house. Learn the strategies you need to get organized and stay organized. Who knows? The house of your dreams could be right under your nose.	Sandra Felton is the founder of Messies Anonymous and is the author of several books, including the best-selling Messies Manual with more than 350,000 copies sold. She is a frequent guest on national radio and TV shows and lives in Miami, Florida.",books;caretaking & relocating;christian books & bibles;christian living;cleaning;crafts;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;home repair;how-to & home improvements;motivational;self-help,12
0764179764,"Mastering French Level Two: Audio CD Package (Mastering Series/Level 2 Compact Disc Packages) (box, back panel)  TEXTBOOK AND 13  AUDIO COMPACT DISCS   MASTERING   FRENCH   LEVEL TWO    THIS COMPREHENSIVE INTERMEDIATE LANGUAGE COURSE IS RECOMMENDED FOR THOSE WHO HAVE COMPLETED THE FSLI LEVEL ONE FRENCH PROGRAM. IT IS ALSO IDEAL FOR STUDENTS AND TRAVELERS WHO ALREADY HAVE BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF FRENCH AND WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR FLUENCY.     YOU'LL MASTER GRAMMAR, PRONUNCIATION, AND VOCABULARY AS YOU GAIN COMMAND OF THE SPOKEN LANGUAGE.    BARRON'S MASTERING FRENCH, LEVEL TWO, IS THE SAME COURSE USED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO TRAIN DIPLOMATS.     PACKAGE INCLUDES AN IN-DEPTH TEXTBOOK PLUS 13 COMPACT DISCS USING NATIVE SPEAKERS TO FAMILIARIZE YOU WITH THE SOUND OF CONVERSATIONAL FRENCH.     TEACH YOURSELF TO SPEAK FRENCH FLUENTLY",books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;french;humanities;new;phrasebooks;reference;travel;used & rental textbooks,12
B000FVR34A,"Internet Resources and Services for International Business: A Global Guide (Global Guides to Internet Business Resources) Containing over 2500 annotated listings covering the business-related web sites of 176 countries, this comprehensive resource will help individuals and organizations easily and quickly pinpoint specific business information on any country. The work is organized first by continent and then by country, and categories under each country may include general information, economy, business and trade, business travel, and contact information. Most of the web sites are managed by universities, government agencies, nonprofits, and other institutions with useful information. Often bilingual, but always including English, these sites provide the cultural, religious, political, social, and legal information often necessary to do business in other countries. Worldwide international business information is provided in Chapter 1, ""Global Resources,"" while three indexes list entries by web page name, country, and subject to make information even more accessible. Especially useful to new web surfers and those who are pressed for time; recommended for international and general collections.?Susan C. Awe, Univ. of New Mexico Lib., AlbuquerqueCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	There are currently thousands of Web sites on the Internet that relate to international business. This resource analyzes these Web sites and organizes them into convenient categories to make searching for international business information on the Web faster and more efficient. The guide contains over 2,500 annotated listings covering the business-related Web sites of 176 countries. Organized by continent, then by country, entries are divided into five categories for each country: General Information, Economy, Business and Trade, Business Travel, and Contact Information.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",accounting & finance;books;business & investing;business & management;computers & technology;education & reference;international;manager's guides to computing;professional & technical;reference;web development & design;web services,12
B0000544R5,"A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis What is it about humans that causes us to defy genetic programming and so often live in hope, despite all that's terrible about existence? In this audio program, Diane Ackerman shares what she has learned about human survival from working at a crisis hotline. Full of insight, drama, and self-revelation, her wisdom draws from all human knowledge - from the natural and social sciences to the insights of great artists - to show how humans, like animals, cope with stress, and to illumine the tenuous but gorgeous thread by which we all cling.",books;business & investing;fitness & dieting;health;management & leadership;mental health;mental illness;motivational;nature & ecology;nature writing;psychology & counseling;science & math,12
007136479X,"The Eternal E-Customer: How Emotionally Intelligent Interfaces Can Create Long-Lasting Customer Relationship ""...a masterful job. He presents a roadmap for the next generation of Web-based service delivery."" -- John P. Glaser, Ph.D., Vice President and CIO, Partners HeathCare System""...brilliant and entertaining... Bryan Bergeron has provided a comprehensive and insightful roadmap to this e-revolution now in its infancy.""  -- From the Foreword by Ray Kurzweil, Author of The Age of Spiritual Machines""A very readable overview of the strategies and technologies used to convert clicks to loyal customers...a must-read...""  -- Aaron Kleiner, Cofounder, MIT Enterprise Forum""If you're a manager in an organization that's trying to figure out a carack Web strategy, this book is for you...""  -- Peter Leyden, coauthor of The Long Boom and former Maaging Editor of Wired magazine	For anyone involved in developing, specifying or managing the Web component of their business, here is a strategic plan that will work! Harvard professor Bryan Bergeron clearly and compellingly explains how to take advantage of current  e-commerce technology to convert ""clicks"" into ""sticks"" - loyal, delighted customers who keep coming back for more!  ""How do you win consumer loyalty in today's economy? Merely satisfying a customer won't result in a loyal customer. It's not enough to meet or even exceed a consumer's needs once and then slack off into business as usual. Loyalty is the fruit of a focused, continuous, well-executed plan of relationship building."" -- Bryan Bergeron  Whether you're a traditional brick and mortar Fortune 1000 company with an evolving presence or a dotCom startup, the number one challenge in this era of consumerism is building consumer loyalty. Today, consumers are armed with more and more Internet-fueled information and newly acquired sophistication. Make no mistake: they are not predisposed to loyalty. They are drawn to convenience: lowest price, shortest time to delivery and highest quality service. You can't expect customer loyalty - you have to earn it. Fortunately, every customer contact is an opportunity to improve upon a customer relationship and to learn more about customer needs.  So asserts author and Emotionally Intelligent Interface (EII) designer Dr. Bryan Bergeron in this groundbreaking book that explains why EII's are such a critical factor for eCommerce success - and how to take advantage of today's EII technology to more effectively build long and lasting customer relationships.",books;business & investing;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;customer service;e-commerce;industries & professions;information systems;internet & web culture;software engineering;web marketing,12
1596052716,"The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century """"""Mr. Parkman's narrative constantly attests the fidelity, as well as the zeal, with which he has examined his authorities.""""New York Tribune""	      --This text refers to the 							Digital	 edition.		Working from firsthand sources--and through the bias and prejudices of his time--noted American historian and writer Francis Parkman produced, in 1867, this prodigious history of the Jesuit priesthood in North America during the early decades of the European colonization.  With reports, memoirs, journals, letters, and other papers both official and private serving as his background, Parkman details the Catholics' attempts to convert the Huron, Algonquin, and Iroquois, as well as the resulting Iroquois war on the converted tribes in 1670s. But Parkman, unlike his fellow contemporary historians, also explores the ways and traditions of the tribes themselves.	FRANCIS PARKMAN (1823-1893) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a wealthy family whose fortune allowed him the freedom to pursue his twin scholarly passions of horticulture and history. A founder of the Archaeological Institute of America, he authored The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and the eight-volume France and England in North America, both considered among the great masterpieces of historical literature.",17th century;americas;books;canada;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;first nations;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);religious;world,12
0415911966,"Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to the Present Patrick Murray's Reflections on Commercial Life is one of the most valuable books on my bookshelves devoted to business, business ethics, and economics.  It is a densely-packed treasury of selections from the great thinkers of history on the topics of money, exchange, and commerce.Robert C. Solomon, University of Texas, Austin[Patrick Murray] tells us that, although we live in a commercial society, we understand it as little as fish do water.  In this remarkable book he investigates what the idea of such a society has meant to an extraordinary gathering including Plato and Aquinas, Veblen and Arendt, and of course Adam Smith and Marx.Robert Heilbroner, The New School for Social Research... the carefully selected pieces from the masterworks of economic thinking, supported with concise bibliographies, make Reflections on Commercial Life a worthy addition to private libraries.Business Library Review... very useful for students interested in the intersection of economic and political theory.   The selections have been chosen judiciously and cover the whole Western tradition from Plato to Baudrillard.Telos	Patrick Murray is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, and the author of Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge (1988).",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;free enterprise;history & surveys;humanities;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;popular economics;used & rental textbooks,12
0804730334,"Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition (Writing Science) ""Varela's work, in general, and this book, in particular, offer many enduring and insightful perspectives to scholars in the field of education and the complexiity sciences.""Complicitiy: An International Journal of Complexity and Education	How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology and cognitive science: first, understanding how we unconsciously execute habitual actions as a result of neurological and cognitive processes that are not formal actions of conscious judgment but part of a habitual nexus of systematic self-organization; second, creating an ethics adequate to our present awareness that there is no such thing as a transcendental self, a stable subject, or a soul.In earlier modes of cognitive science, cognition was conceptualized according to a model of representation and abstract reasoning. In the realm of ethics, this corresponded to the philosophical tenet that to do what is ethical is to do what corresponds to an abstract set of rules. By contrast to this computationalism, the author places central emphasis on what he terms enactioncognition as the ability to negotiate embodied, everyday living in a world that is inseparable from our sensory-motor capacities.Apart from his researches in cognitive science, the bodies of thought that enable Varela to make this link are phenomenology and two representatives of what he calls the wisdom traditions: Confucian ethics and Buddhist epistemology. From the Confucian tradition, he draws upon the Mencius to propose an ethics of praxis, one in which ethical action is conceived as a project of being rather than as a system of judgment, less a matter of rules that are universally applicable than a goal of expertise, sagehood.The Buddhist contribution to his project encompasses the embodiment of the void and the pragmatics of a virtual self. How does a belief system that does not posit a unitary self or subject conceive the living of an I? In summation, the author proposes an ethics founded on savoir faire that is a practice of transformation based on a constant recognition of the virtual nature of ourselves in the actual operations of our mental lives.	Varelas work, in general, and this book, in particular, offer many enduring and insightful perspectives to scholars in the field of education and the complexiity sciences.Complicitiy: An International Journal of Complexity and Education	Francisco J. Varela is Director of Research at the French National Research Council and head of the Laboratory of Cognitive Psychophysiology at the Hospital of the Salptrire, Paris. The most recent of his many books co-authored or co-edited in English is (with Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch) The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience.",behavioral sciences;books;counseling;ethics & morality;fitness & dieting;health;history & philosophy;mental health;philosophy;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;science & math,12
B000H3BCXE,"Spalding Mini Jammer Junior Door-Mount Basketball System Keep your kids active and teach them hoops skills at a young age with the Spalding Mini Jammer Junior indoor basketball system (model 55NBA2), which mounts to the back of a door and features a folding rim for easy closure. The 24-inch wide fan-shaped backboard is illustrated with NBA team graphics, and it includes a 10-inch diameter molded slam rim and 5-inch inflatable basketball.	24"" reinforced backboard; NBA team graphics; 10"" diameter molded slam rim; child safe non-slip net; 5"" inflatable basketball; quick mount door bracket; rim folds down to fit behind door",backboard systems;backboards;basketball;basketball equipment;court equipment;fan shop;sports;sports & outdoor play;sports & outdoors;sports equipment;team sports;toys & games,12
1857922832,"Creation And Change: Genesis 1.1 - 2.4 in the Light of Changing Scientific Paradigms Douglas F. Kelly is the Richard Jordan Professor of Theology at the Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a well-known author and has had his books translated into other languages.",books;christian books & bibles;education & reference;evolution;meditations;reference;religion & spirituality;religious studies;science & math;science & religion;theology;worship & devotion,12
1931896135,"Green Rice: Poems by Lam Thi My Da ""A delightful aspect of My Da's poetry...is the surprising way it summons human feeling from the ancient landscape.."" -- John Balaban""Lam Thi My Da's poems absolutely affirm life, even while they acknowledge the reality of death."" -- New Pages Book Review""One of the most respected poets in Vietnam."" --  Pleiades""The best poems in this collection sound remarkably fresh and nuanced and surprisingly transcendent."" -- Marilyn Chin""There is an elevating, moving sensation we feel from My Da's deft frankness of her perceptions..."" -- ARTIS, Real Change Editorial Committee""accessible and subtle, evoking a sense of timelessness and renewal that lingers more profoundly than nostalgia, grief, joy or hope."" -- MultiCultural Review	Born in 1949 in the south central part of Viet Nam, Lam Thi My Da spent the war in Quang Binh province, near the scene of much heavy fighting. Author of five books of poetry in Vietnamese, she is widely recognized one of the Vietnam's major poets.",asia;asian;books;history;literature & fiction;poetry;politics & social sciences;vietnam;women in history;women writers;women's studies;world,12
0292731132,"Simple Things Won't Save the Earth In this provocative book, J. Robert Hunter asserts that using catchy slogans and symbols to sell the public on environmental conservation is ineffective, misleading, and even dangerous. Debunking the Fifty Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth approach, Hunter shows that there are no simple solutions to major environmental problems such as species extinction, ozone depletion, global warming, pollution, and non-renewable resource consumption. Writing in plain yet passionate prose for general readers, Simple Things Won't Save The Earth opens a national debate on what is really required to preserve the earth as a habitat for the human species. Simple Things Won't Save The Earth is a challenging and much needed contribution to the national environmental protection dialogue.  -- Midwest Book Review",animals;biological sciences;books;business & investing;conservation;earth sciences;ecology;environmental science;mammals;nature & ecology;popular economics;science & math,12
0880114010,"Wrestling Drill Book ""Whether you are a coach or a wrestler, this book will help you develop wrestling skills and techniques through the use of drills.""    Bruce R. Baumgartner  Olympic and world champion wrestler    ""This book has given me a new source of drills and games to share with those in the wrestling public who want to be the best they can be.""    Bruce R. Baumgartner  Olympic and world champion wrestler    ""Everyone who coaches wrestling should have this book.""    Marty Williams  Coach of four Illinois State Class A wrestling teams    ""If one is wondering how to incorporate some variety or just some new ideas or drills into their practices, this wrestling book does just that. Coaches always want ideas on specific drills and now they are available in writing.""    Dan Gable  Wrestling Coach, University of Iowa    ""A great reference tool for both the experienced and inexperienced coach to have available as a resource when planning practice or to use in developing new skills. [A] helpful book for all coaches as it combines basic skills with advanced techniques. A most helpful reference in introducing and explaining new drills and reminding coaches of drills they may have forgotten about.""     Rich Lorenzo  Head Wrestling Coach, Penn State University    ""An excellently organized drill book for every coaching level, with emphasis on position, motion, level change, penetration, backstep, lifting, and back archthe seven most important skills needed to achieve success. Drills are contributed by 41 coaches.""     Scholastic Coach	Dennis Johnson is a USA Wrestling Bronze Level-Certified coach who has coached high school wrestling since 1976. In addition, he has worked as a clinician in camp settings and directs his own camp in Warren, Pennsylvania. Johnson has studied wrestling in the Soviet Union at Moscow's Institute of Sport and Physical Education. He has also authored several articles on wrestling technique for Scholastic Coach magazine.    Johnson is a member of USA Wrestling, the National Wrestling Coaches Association, and the Pennsylvania Wrestling Coaches Association. He is a physical education instructor and wrestling coach in Warren County, Pennsylvania.",books;contemporary;education & reference;education theory;individual sports;literature & fiction;medical books;medicine;schools & teaching;sports & outdoors;sports medicine;wrestling,12
0684870274,"Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict Dan Rather CBS News Michael Lind is one of the smartest and most gifted writers I know of. He is also one of the bravest, unafraid to tackle the most controversial subjects. Now he turns his formidable attentions to the Vietnam War, and the results will dazzle you. More importantly, this book will make you think. Even if, ultimately, you don't agree with every single provocative analysis Michael Lind provides, I guarantee you will be challenged to reassess and reinvigorate every idea you have received, stockpiled, and taken for granted for three decades. ""Vietnam: The Necessary War"" is a necessary book -- for anyone who really wants to understand one of the most difficult periods in our history.	Michael Lind lives in Washington DC and is the Washington Editor of HARPER'S magazine. He is the author of five previous books, including THE NEXT AMERICAN NATION (0684825031) and UP FROM CONSERVATISM (0684831864). His work has appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST and THE ALTANTIC MONTHLY. He holds a master's degree in international relations from Yale and a law degree from the University of Texas.",20th century;americas;asia;books;ethics & morality;history;military;philosophy;politics & social sciences;southeast asia;united states;vietnam war,12
0714844403,"Sample: 100 Fashion Designers - 010 Curators Images from Sample	Even the cover of this book on innovative fashion design is unique; its white pleated paper is just a taste of the originality to be found within. Ten of the fashion world's most respected figures, such as four-time winner of the British Designer of the Year award Alexander McQueen, and freelance Paris-based journalist Stephen Todd, have chosen 100 international young designers of clothing and accessories to show off their work. Their creations are bold and often unusual. The book's smart layout has a collage feel to it, with descriptions of each designer written in typewriter-like font placed in a white box, and photographs and sketches surrounding the text. Azumi and David Percival Yamashita, the design duo behind the London label A'N'D', present bags made out of boots and shoes, and leg warmers derived from cut-off jeans. Nicole Noselli and Daphne Gutierrz, of the New York label Bruce, showcase a balanced collection of inventive yet accessible designs, including cotton shirtdresses with pin tucks on the sleeves. And Rio de Janiero's Isabela Capeto, in her line Ibo, features styles inspired by architecture and ethnicity (e.g., a blue and yellow dress with diagonal straps forming a halter top). Lovers of fashion will find much to ponder in this excellent overview of the next age of creators. 1,000 color illus.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	'For those who love fashion, SAMPLE is without a doubt the best book in town.' (Harper's Bazaar) 'Part museum exhibition, part encyclopedia [...] presents [...] talent from fashion capitals to far-flung outposts. Rich, visual layouts combine unseen sketches, illustrations, prints and fabric swatches along with ad campaigns and shows. And if that isn't enough to get this on this season's ""must have"" list, then the cover, pleated like a white Chanel skirt, complete with belt and pages cut on sharp slanted sections, make this a fashion accessory in its own right' (Guardian) 'SAMPLE should be on every stylish bookshelf.' (Independent Magazine) 'An invaluable reference tool for those in need of style counsel.' (Toro Magazine) 'Definitely more couture than pret-a-porter...an elegantly overblown presentation, extensively and beautifully illustrated and bound to make you chuck half your clothes out in shame. Form meets function and air kisses.' (Joseph Galliano, Gay Times) 'You can take it with you: SAMPLE, an artfully assembled book of sketches, photographs, swatches and other materials highlighting the work of 100 emerging fashion designers from around the world, is sure to delight clotheshorses everywhere.' (Town and Country) 'A beautfiully presented, visual and insightful book that is to be seen on the most stylish coffee tables...definitive...pages brimming with beautiful visuals.' (International Textiles) 'Part coffee-table book, part future-fashion bible...stunning.' (Independent on Sunday) 'Should be on every stylish bookshelf.'(Independent) 'Addictively flickable...the chicest and glossiest scrapbook that ever existed...highly inspiring' (Time Out) 'Beautiful' (Harpers & Queen) 'Bring the catwalk into your home with Sample...revel in 100 of the most cutting-edge designers...Designers, stylists, photographers: your style bible has landed.' (Metro) 'One accessory any fashionista would be proud to own.' (Hildon) 'Sublimely designed' (Eve) 'Ultra hip.' (AXM) 'The summer's coolest coffee-table book.' (Telegraph) 'A private catwalk show ... sure to broaden your fashion horizons, however clued up you think you are.' (Wallpaper*) 'Simply gorgeous...as covetable as a Lanvin shift...Sample isn't just another beautifully reproduced coffee table tome filled with fantastical fashion images (although it's admittedly all that as well) but more of a sculptural object in its own right...positively dazzling...a must-have tome.' (Sunday Herald) 'There are still some things in this often over-marketed and globally-accessible world we devotes call fashion that can cause your heart to flutter. One is the new fashion book from publishers Phaidon...To paraphrase Marilyn Monroe: it shakes you, it quakes you, it makes you go goosepimply all over...excellently edited...Even if you're not a fashion fiend this book is a must...[Sample] makes it clear that fashion is about so much more than clothes.' (Edwina Ing-Chambers, Financial Times) 'A triumph of design and paper-craft: the cover looks like the solid embodiment of an Issey Miyake dress.' (Prudence Hone, Guardian) 'The book makes for intriguing eye candy.' (Women's Wear Daily) 'This book focuses on the talents shaping the future of fashion...an eye-catching volume.' (DNR) 'Fashion nuts won't want to miss a thing. Lush close-ups of New York team Proenza Schouler's beading-drenched satin bustier dresses fill one page, Belgian Raf Simons's Loaded images of Arab-esque face coverings the next...some of these designers may end up as mere flashes in the pan; others will be superstars. I smell a series.' (Toronto Globe and Mail) 'An invaluable reference tool for those in need of style counsel.' (Toro (Canada)) 'Phaidon Press, no slouch in the special-effects department, has entered the fray with SAMPLE: 100 Fashion Designers, 010 Curators, designed by the doyenne of high-concept book design, Julie Hasting...SAMPLE is a masterpiece of production profligacy.' (Paper Magazine) 'A singularly stunning directory to the world's most promising up-and-comers... Gorgeous as the spreads are, they can't compete with the book itself - each copy hand-assembled and intended, with its white pleated cover and asymmetrically layered pages, to be as stunning as any of the creations therein.' (Fashion Quarterly Magazine (Canada)) 'Who knew we might have to start a best-dressed list for newly released books? It appears as this one wouldn't settle for anything less. Fully clad in chic, white pleats, SAMPLE displays itself on the literary catwalk as a hand-assembled, gagged-paged masterpiece with just enough edge, glamour, and sex-appeal to ensure passion and awe for anyone interesting in fashion...Simply said, SAMPLE is fabulous.' (Nylon) 'Beauty and brains are a winning combination. This fall, you can have both - right on top of your coffee table. Curated by 10 style superstars, including Alexander McQueen, SAMPLE (Phaidon) is a glossy encyclopedia of 100 innovative designers.' (7x7 Magazine) 'Like all great fashion, SAMPLE has you at hello. The cover's ripples and grooves draw you in at first sight, and once you get your hands on it, there's plenty of depth inside.' (Florida International Magazine) 'Even the cover of this book on innovative fashion design is unique; its white pleated paper is just a taste of the originality to be found within...Lovers of fashion will find much to ponder in this excellent overview of the next age of creators.' (Publishers Weekly) 'I'm obsessed with my latest purchase, an incredible fashion anthology called SAMPLE.'(Monique Meloche, Lucky Magazine) 'Printed on the jagged hand-cut pages, and bound between the artfully pleated white covers, are 1,000 illustrations, displaying the work of 100 often very obscure, often very gifted, and usually astonishingly young designers. By its very nature this compilation accentuates the avant-garde and the over-the-top; there's a lot of energy and creativity in these pages.' (The Atlantic Monthly)	10 Curators  Tim Blanks (London) hosts Fashion File, a magazine-style TV show, which takes an enthusiastic but clear-eyed view of the fashion world.   Patricia Carta (Sao Paulo) is Managing Director of Carta Editorial, the Brazilian publisher of Vogue, Casa Vogue and Vogue Men.   Ulrich Lehmann (London) is tutor of the post-graduate course in History of Design, run jointly by the Royal College of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum.   Alexander McQueen (London) is one of the most famous and respected international fashion designers.   Arianne Phillips (Los Angeles) works as a costume designer in Los Angeles and collaborates with Madonna, styling her for film, music videos, the theatre and the concert stage.   Harriet Quick (London) is Fashion Editor for British Vogue.   Stephen Todd (Paris) is Editorial Director of fashion and culture publications produced by Editions Dit-Voir, France.   Kyoichi Tsuzuki (Tokyo) is a writer, editor and photographer. In 2003 Paris' Centre National de la Photographie and London's Photographers' Gallery exhibited his portraits of obsessive Japanese consumers.   Walter Van Beirendonck (Antwerp) is a fashion designer and Professor of Fashion at Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts.   Brana Wolf (New York) is Fashion Editor-At-Large for Harper's Bazaar in New York and collaborates as a stylist with Steven Meisel for Italian Vogue.",art;arts & photography;books;commercial;decorative arts & design;designers;fashion;fashion design;graphic design;humor & entertainment;pop culture;textile & costume,12
B000FO7XII,"Understanding Crime Prevention, Second Edition Few security books qualify as great. This is one of them. It is a stimulating study of crime prevention brewed by the foremost experts in the field. The book masterfully counterpoints theory and substance, concept and reality, strategy and execution. The references read like a Who's Who in crime prevention and environmental design. This is an excellent publication that should be required reading for anyone involved in crime prevention. - Security Management	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Understanding Crime Prevention, Second Edition is a revamping of a popular classic written by NCPI, the primary training school for crime prevention officers in the country. It is a basic introduction to the concepts of crime prevention and security techniques and equipment which aid the crime prevention effort. The fundamental material has been updated with current and contemporary examples.                                        *Includes glossary of crime prevention terms*Includes an instructor's manual*Practical, basic and comprehensive introduction to  security and loss procedures	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;criminal law;criminology;education & reference;law;law enforcement;law practice;politics & government;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences;specific topics,12
0321136675,"English Fundamentals, Form B (13th Edition) The sentence is the fundamental element of expression, and forms  the basis of grammar usage. To construct a proper sentence is the first step in  communication and advancement in any field and in any endeavor. Like its  best-selling predecessors, this new edition of English Fundamentals offers a  solid treatment of grammar and usage that has proven successful for years.""Form B"" is one of three ""form"" books which covers the same  material using different exercises. Beginning with the basic elements of the  sentence, the book presents each topic with clear, detailed explanations and  numerous exercises. The first sections introduce the basic system of language  and provide carefully chosen examples of verb connections, basic sentence  patterns, and the internal workings of the sentence. Once the foundation is  laid, the book then goes on to explore the more complex structures and  relationships of the language. The final section emphasizes techniques of  invention, and how to apply them to a wide range of writing assignments.Linguists, writing instructors, composition instructors, students,  and enthusiasts in these disciplines.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;literature;new;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,12
1583940049,"Jeanne Rose: Herbal Body Book: The Herbal Way to Natural Beauty & Health for Men & Women Jeanne Rose has also written Jeanne Rose's Herbal Guide to Food, Jeanne Rose's Kitchen Cosmetics and The Aromatherapy Book.",& style;alternative medicine;beauty;books;fitness & dieting;general;grooming;health;herbal remedies;medical books;men's health;parenting & relationships,12
0452286808,"Patently Christmas Richard Ross is an award-winning photographer and professor based in  Santa Barbara, California. He has photographed for the New York Times Magazine,  Los Angeles Times Magazine, Discover, Vogue, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and has  had his work displayed in galleries throughout the West.",books;engineering;humor;humor & entertainment;intellectual property;law;lawyers & criminals;parenting & families;patent;patents & inventions;professional & technical;trademark & copyright,12
0874476984,"The College Board Scholarship Handbook 2004: All-New Seventh Edition The College Board has played a significant role in American education since 1900. Its members include virtually all colleges in the country and a growing number of high schools. Their faculties and administrators serve as advisers and supporters of College Board activities, giving the organization a level of authoritativeness that no other publisher can match. The College Board is the leader in the field of college information and test preparation publications. The College Board College Handbook has been published since 1941 and is widely recognized for its accuracy and comprehensiveness; as the sponsor of the SATs, the Board also publishes the most authoritative and respected book on preparing for the SAT -- 10 Real SATs.",books;business & investing;college & education costs;college & university;college entrance;college guides;education & reference;financial aid;personal finance;reference;schools & teaching;test preparation,12
0810945630,"Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architects Other Passion Wood-block prints by artists like Hiroshige and Hokusai exerted a palpable influence on Frank Lloyd Wright's design aesthetic, but Wright was able to profit materially from them as well. During his early years as an architect, he supplemented his income by dealing in Japanese art, earning tens of thousands of dollars from sales, often at highly inflated prices, to private collectors, museums, and clients for whom he had built homes. In this meticulously researched, lavishly illustrated account, Wright's mercenary impulse is laid alongside his genuine passion for Japonisme, culminating in a 1919 episode in which, duped by a Tokyo dealer, he wound up selling forged and retouched prints to his best customers. His reputation forever damaged, he responded by ignoring his mounting debts and buying Japanese art only for himself.    Copyright  2005 The New Yorker	Julia Meech, a scholar and art historian, is a senior consultant in the Department of Japanese Art at Christie's in New York.",architecture;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;catalogs & exhibitions;collections;criticism;ethnic & national;history & criticism;individual architects & firms;japanese;professional & technical,12
1560009527,Celine: The Crippled Giant (Library of Conservative Thought) Milton Hinduswas professor emeritus at Brandeis University. He is a widely heralded author in his own right; and general editor of the Library of Conservative Thought series for Transaction.,20th century;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);movements & periods;world;world literature,12
0966355903,"The Complete Guide to Horse Careers Our state legislators should read this book to learn the value of our industry.  The Complete Guide to Horse Careers by Sue Reynolds - A brand new book on the market that I was delighted to see.  This is a fun book to read and quickly me involved in.  Sue Reynolds has done her homework and delivered her material in a concise, well-laidout format.  Her book covers jobs related to Industry, education & training, resumes, references and wages available.  She has done over 200 interviews going directly to the source and speaking to successful people who love what they do- This ever changing industry is exciting to be a part of & this book will help establish for you what choice you may want to take to become involved or stay  involved.  Brighton Feed and Saddlery, Brighton, CO. -- Verna of Brighton Feed in BrightonReviewed by Rod Dowse:  Cascade Horseman.  ""If you are even remotely interested in pursuing a career related to the horse industry, Sue Reynolds' new book, The Complete Guide to Horse Careers will be of help.  Reynolds notes that nearly 700,000 people are employed in the United States in careers related to the nearly 7,000,000 horses roaming in the pastures in the U.S.  150 horse career specialists were interviewed in reseaching these topics.  The author's compiliation of careers ranges from working in the animal health field as farriers, to professional cowboys and publishers.  Each chapter highlights top professionals and businesses in specific lines of work.  Each listing provides tips from those professionals; ideas on building experience and preparing resumes, resources for grants, loans, federal aid, educational and training requirements, income expectations, and much more regarding the horse industry.  This guide to careers is both interesting to read and helpfu!  l. I recommend it as a valuable resource in finding a career to fit your personality and needs."" -- Rod Dowse: Cascade Horseman	Sue Reynolds is a freelance writer, speaker, horse enthusiast, and co-author of Sirens For The Cross.  She has a masters degree in education, a reading specialist credential, served as teacher for grades kindergarten through college, and was a Children's Minister for eight years.  She and her husband, Gaius, reside in the mountains of Colorado.",books;business & investing;crafts;equestrian;guides;hobbies & home;horses;individual sports;job hunting & careers;job markets & advice;pets & animal care;sports & outdoors,12
0321068785,"Elements of Ecology (5th Edition) Robert L. Smith holds a B.S. in Animal Science, an M.S. in Wildlife Biology along with a Ph.D. in Wildlife Biology from Cornell University. Currently, he is a professor of Ecology at West Virginia University. He has spent over 30 years teaching Ecology and conducting field research throughout the world.His teaching responsibilities have involved mostly undergraduate courses in general ecology and graduate courses in population ecology and wildlife management. His research has included forest-fire related problems in southern West Virginia, vegetational development and succession on abandoned and reclaimed surface mines, the relation between forest vegetational structure and the forest bird community, and forest habitat assessment and habitat evaluation procedures based on vegetational structure.Smith has served as a consultant to congressional committees, workshops on environmental education and energy and environmental problems, the National Landmarks program of the U.S. Department of Interior, National Research Council Task Forces on wildlife and fisheries issues and ecological classification systems for implementing environmental quality evaluation procedures. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews as well as the author of three ecology texts: Ecology and Field Biology, Elements of Ecology and Ecology of Man: An Ecosystem Approach, Harper and Row, New York.",biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;earth sciences;education & reference;environmental science;environmental studies;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,12
0525939741,"Grave Secrets: Leading Forensic Expert Reveals Startling Truth abt O J Simpson Vincent Foster D In the foreword to this book, Michael (Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner) Baden, M.D. says that Cyril Wecht, M.D., J.D. (no shrinking violet) has selected from his 35-year career a fascinating batch of cases in which his knowledge as a forensic pathologist was crucial in exposing official mistakes or otherwise illuminating weaknesses in the criminal justice system.  Grave Secrets brings out interesting forensic details in the following cases in which Dr. Wecht was personally involved: (1) the O. J. Simpson murder and civil trials (Wecht has an intriguing theory), (2) the death of Vincent Foster, (3) the Branch Davidian tragedy at Waco, (4) a racially-charged shootout in Cleveland in 1968, (5) a 1969 Black Panther episode, (6) alleged negligence after the 1989 Oakland earthquake, (7) a 1977 nightclub fire in Kentucky, (8-9) two unrelated deaths in Taiwan--a visiting Chinese-American professor and a Chinese activist, (10) the alleged poisoning of a Pakistani general, (11) the controversial murder of a Filipino maid in Singapore, (12) the swine flu scare of 1976, (13) a possible mob connection in the suspicious conviction of a Connecticut man for murdering his family, and (14) the alien autopsy footage from Roswell, New Mexico. (Note: Dr. Wecht, along with coauthors Mark Curridwen and Benjamin Wecht, also wrote Cause of Death>. --Fiona Webster 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The subtitle is an unfortunate bit of hype, since Wecht (Cause of Death), Pittsburgh forensic pathologist, reveals no ""startling truth"" of the three cases mentioned. The non-self-aggrandizing scientist is uncertain about the rightness of the Simpson verdict, although not about the bungling of the ""Keystone coroners"" who handled the evidence; he laments the government's action in the Koresh confrontation at Waco; he leaves no doubt that White House counsel Foster's death was a suicide, as reported. But Wecht's book becomes absorbing when he turns to older or less publicized cases and shows that the shooting of Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in 1969 was murder by the police, that the leisurely rescue attempts by Bay Area authorities after the 1989 earthquake caused at least four needless deaths and that the swine flu ""epidemic"" of 1976-1977 was a costly hype. The author's picture of the ineptitude of many local officials, especially in forensics, is chilling. Photos. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Pathologist Wecht, author of Cause of Death (Dutton, 1993), relates 14 cases involving forensic detection. Ignore the hyperbole of the tag line: ""A leading forensic expert reveals the startling truth about O.J. Simpson, David Koresh, Vincent Foster, and other sensational cases."" There is nothing very startling in Wecht's discussion of Vincent Foster and David Koresh, and, in the book's longest section, he is uncharacteristically circumspect about O.J. Simpson. His less recent investigations, including the murder of Black Panther Fred Hampton, the 1989 earthquake-caused Oakland, California, freeway collapse, and the Legionnaire's Disease case of 1976 and his sojourns to Taiwan, Pakistan, and Singapore, are more intriguing. A common theme in his book is the misdiagnosis or injustice caused by forensic incompetence, overzealousness, or corruption. Popular forensic accounts seem to be in vogue (Colin Evan's The Casebook of Forensic Detection is coming in October from John Wiley) and Grave Secrets is a suitable addition where interest warrants.-?Gregor A. Preston, formerly with Univ. of California Lib., DavisCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Wecht, M.D. and J.D., is the Allegheny County (seat: Pittsburgh) coroner. Consulting work takes him all over the world, so others obviously believe he has the credentials to credibly opine on such famous deaths as those of Vince Foster, Fred Hampton, and Nicole Brown Simpson. He believes that more than one culprit was involved in the Brown-Goldman murders and that the most dramatic disclosures will occur during the pending Goldman suit trial. For each case he considers, Wecht inspects the investigation carefully and often points out sloppy forensic work, so his book is predominantly about what a properly qualified forensic pathologist does. Especially interesting is Wecht's review of the Oakland earthquake (better rescue work, he says, could have saved some victims), and his report on the 1976 swine flu ""epidemic"" will be an eye-opener for those interested in public health. His fascinating and detailed book should captivate many kinds of reader.  William Beatty",biographies & memoirs;books;crime & criminals;forensic medicine;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;murder & mayhem;pathology;specific groups;true accounts;true crime,12
0070430365,"Building Your Kevlar Canoe: A Foolproof Method and Three Foolproof Designs ``Even though we didn't build a Kevlar canoe ourselves with the book, its easy-to-follow directions certainly make us want to.'' (Paddler)	As any canoe enthusiast knows, Kevlar is the perfect hull material for building strong, light (35 pounds for a 17-footer), fast, maintenance-free canoes. Far superior to fiberglass, Kevlar--literally bulletproof and virtually indestructible--has one drawback: It's expensive. A factory-built Kevlar canoe can easily sell for $2,000 or more. Here's a low-tech method for building high-tech canoes from Kevlar. With this book, the most inexperienced home builder can turn out a handsome canoe for an investment of about $600 and a few weekends. The building method centers on the foam sheathing used in home insulation, drywall compound, a $5 hand plane, and a sharp pair of scissors. Boatbuilding doesn't come any easier than this. Ingenious, simple, and inexpensive. Here is all you need to know to build a light, strong, maintenance-free Kevlar canoe in your backyard or basement--without an elaborate tool collection or years of boatbuilding experience.  A Tripper for Extended Wilderness Journeys A Stable Family Canoe A Swift Solo Canoe	James Moran has been building canoes for more than 20 years. Searching for an easier way to build these boats, he hit upon this amazingly simple method in 1986 and has tested it on a squadron of novice builders, all of whom came away with excellent canoes. When not at his workbench, the Eyota, Minnesota, resident is likely out paddling.",boat building;boating;books;outdoor recreation;professional & technical;sailing;science & math;ships;sports & outdoors;technology;transportation;water sports,12
1563272474,"Leading the Lean Initiative: Straight Talk on Cultivating Support and Buy-in (Manufacturing/Leadership) ""Davis illustrates the steps needed to convince employees to accept and embrace change.""",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;entrepreneurship;management;management & leadership;new;production & operations;quality control;small business & entrepreneurship;used & rental textbooks,12
0316323942,"The Crisis: The President, the Prophet, and the Shah-1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam The 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, exactly 25 years ago, awakened America to the depth of its unpopularity in the Middle East, and militant Islamism discovered its capacity to land a blow against a superpower. Journalist Harris (Shooting the Moon; etc.), formerly with the New York Times Magazine, rarely breaks from his suspenseful narrative for analysis, but the current relevance of the events is obvious. The initial antagonists are the shah, with his lavish lifestyle and authoritarian government, and the enigmatic Ayatollah Khomeini. Harris's main windows onto the Iranian revolution are its two most powerful moderates, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh and Abolhassan Bani Sadr, formerly Khomeini's brain trust during his exile in Paris. When a group of radical Muslim students stormed the American embassy and took 63 hostages, it helped consolidate the dominance of the Iranian revolution's Islamists. The psychology and decision-making process of the mullahs remain opaque in this account. Jimmy Carter's White House appears equally befuddled. Harris resourcefully reconstructs the administration's tortuous internal debates and hapless back-channel negotiations with Iran's revolutionary government. His dramatically paced tale culminates in gripping descriptions of the United States' failed rescue attempt and the endgame of the standoff, with its decisive effect on the election of 1980. 8 pages of photos not seen by PW. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Although the legacies of Vietnam have dominated the news recently, the true elephant in the foreign policy room these days may be the memory of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-80. Although premised on its historical gravity, this book leaves the analysis for the political scientists and avoids naming the specific lessons of the 444-day crisis that marred the end of the Carter presidency. Instead, it aspires to documentary journalism, offering a detailed narrative of a truly fascinating cascade of events. Harris sews together familiar narratives with recently released documents and personal interviews; the result is engaging and fast paced, and its tone is authoritative. Particularly captivating are the character studies of high-profile participants on all sides, which help to crystallize a comprehensive narrative around key interpersonal antagonisms and miscommunications. Readers familiar with Harris' Vietnam-era activism (see Our War: What We Did in Vietnam and What It Did to Us) may be surprised at the relative lack of finger-pointing critique, but they likely won't be disappointed. Brendan DriscollCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Harris skillfully depicts the crisis against the background of Iran's tormented history."" -- --Washington Post Book World""One of the most comprehensive, most compelling narratives of the hostage crisis ever written."" -- --The Nation""THE CRISIS is a quite simply terrific to read. Harris is a master storyteller....This is an extraordinary feat."" -- New York Times Book Review	David Harris, formerly a contributing editor at the New York Times Magazine and Rolling Stone, has written eight previous books, including The League, Dreams Die Hard, The Last Stand, and Shooting the Moon. He lives in California.",20th century;americas;books;history;history & theory;international & world politics;iran;middle east;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;united states,12
B000N4RFU6,"Handbook of Secondary Fungal Metabolites, 3-Volume Set ""This handbook provides a compilation of chemical, physical, spectal and biological data on secondary fungal metabolites that would otherwise be widely scattered throughout the literature...recommended for all scientists dealing with mycotoxins and other secondary fungal metabolites."" -ANIMAL FEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	This three-volume set is a desirable reference for a wide range of specialists who study secondary fungal metabolites ranging from pharmaceutical house researchers, agricultural researchers, those involved in food and feed control regulation, and veterinary researchers. It discusses in depth the molecular formula of, the molecular weights of, and fungal/plant source indexes of secondary fungal metabolites.                                        * Includes all major groups of secondary fungal metabolites* Covers various methods used to isolate and purify metabolites are present * Each metabolite is supported by appropriate references * Secondary metabolite molecular formula, molecular weights and fungal/plant source indexes are included	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;communicable diseases;diseases;fitness & dieting;health;infectious disease;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;nutrition;pathology;veterinary medicine,12
0792270827,"National Geographic Desk Reference Geographers, natural scientists, sociologists,  environmentalists, explorers (both armchair and ambulant), and  cartographers, take note: National Geographic has put out a  desk reference, and it's a beaut. The mere heft of it (3.75 lbs.) is  inspiring, and the contents more than live up to National  Geographic's reputation for quality.    It was written by five professors with Ph.D.s in geography and  geology, natural sciences, and urban studies, and the text adheres to  rigorous scholarly standards, nonetheless speaking to a broad  audience. In other words, there's much to by gained by professionals,  but it's accessible to those who routinely nodded off during high  school earth science, too. The Desk Reference is organized into  four parts. ""What Is Geography?"" takes a look at the history of  geography and the history of maps and globes, forming Part I. Part II,  ""Physical Geography,"" delves into the structure, composition,  formation, dimensions, and tilt of Planet Earth, followed by a lucid  discussion of weather, climate patterns, geology, and bioregions. Next  comes Part III, ""Human Geography,"" which examines the population,  migration, culture, politics, economy, and society throughout the  world. And finally there is Part IV, ""Places,"" with 216 pages devoted  to summarizing the nations of the world from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe,  providing relevant statistics and notes on each country's economy,  government, transportation, and communications. And these country  sketches are followed by 11 superb maps, as well as a glossary.    In a time of change that's affecting our climates and populations,  environments and national borders, National Geographic's Desk  Reference is a welcome source of information, analysis, and  perspective. --Stephanie Gold	Combining National Geographic's respected reputation with an overall plan and writing provided by prominent geographers and a physically attractive presentation that includes nearly 300 illustrations, this work should become a classic on many reference shelves. The structure is simple, providing the basics of geography and maps, physical geography (such as information on climate, geology, and soils), human geography, an alphabetical listing of the world's 191 nations, 80 maps, a glossary, and an index to the first three parts. About one page is dedicated to each nation--with basic information on physical geography, location, population, religion, language, government, and economy. There is no other reference work exactly like this. A volume that may also find its way into many homes, it is recommended for public and academic libraries.-Mary Lynette Larsgaard, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.",atlases;atlases & maps;books;earth sciences;education & reference;general;geography;reference;regional;science & math;travel;world,12
0789728656,"Network+ Exam Cram 2 (Exam Cram N10-002) This exam certifies that candidates know the layers of the OSI model, can describe the features and functions of network components, and have the skills needed to install, configure, and troubleshoot basic networking hardware peripherals and protocols. The certification is endorsed by Microsoft (as part of its popular new MCSA program), Cisco, Novell, and 3Com, among others. This book is not intended to teach new material. Instead it assumes that you have a solid foundation of knowledge but can use a refresher on important concepts as well as a guide to exam topics and objectives. This book focuses exactly on what you need to know to pass the exam - it features test-taking strategies, time-saving study tips, and a special Cram Sheet that includes tips, acronyms, and memory joggers not available anywhere else. The series is supported online at several Web sites: examcram, informit, and cramsession.The accompanying CD features PrepLogic Practice Tests, Preview Edition. This product includes one complete PrepLogic Practice Test with approximately the same number of questions found on the actual vendor exam. Each question contains full, detailed explanations of the correct and incorrect answers. The engine offers two study modes, Practice Test and Flash Review, full exam customization, and a detailed score report.	Mike Harwood (MCSE, A+, Network+, Server+, Linux+) has held a number of roles in   the computer world starting with PC repair to the more current tasks of being   the manager of a multisite network and independent consultant. Mike is the   co-author of numerous computer books, including the Network+ Training Guide from   Que Publishing and a regular technology presenter for CBC Radio. When not   working, Mike stays as far away from keyboards as possible.    Bill Ferguson (MCT, MCSE, MCP+I, A+, Network+) has been in the computer industry   for more than 15 years. Originally in technical sales and sales management with   Sprint, Bill made his transition to Certified Technical Trainer in 1997, with   ExecuTrain. Bill now runs his own company as an independent contractor in   Birmingham, Alabama, teaching classes for most of the national training   companies and some regional training companies. In addition, Bill writes and   produces technical training videos for Virtual Training Company, Inc. He   currently has certifications in A+, Network+, Windows 2000 management, Windows   XP management, and Windows 2000 security. Bill keeps his skills sharp by   reviewing books and sample tests. He says, ""My job is to understand the material   so well that I can make it easier for my students to learn than it was for me to   learn.""    Dave Bixler (MCSE, MCNE, PSE, CCSE) is the technology services manager for one   of the largest systems integrators in the United States. He has been working in   the industry for the past 15 years, working on network designs, server   implementations, and network management. Dave has focused on Internet   technologies, including DNS and Web servers, information security, firewalls,   and Windows 2000. Dave has also worked on a number of titles as an author, a   technical editor, and a book reviewer. Dave's industry certifications include   Microsoft's MCPS and MCSE, as well as Novell's CNE for NetWare versions 3.x,   4.x, and IntranetWare, ECNE, and MCNE. Dave lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his   wife, Sarah, and his sons, Marty and Nicholas.	<!--function popUp(pPage) {figLoc = '' + document.location;if (figLoc.indexOf('/') == -1 &&amp; figLoc.indexOf('\\') >= 0) {slash = '\\';} else {slash = '/';}openLoc = figLoc.substring(0, figLoc.lastIndexOf(slash) + 1);while (pPage.substring(0,3) == '../') {openLoc = openLoc.substring(0, openLoc.lastIndexOf(slash, openLoc.length - 2)+ 1);pPage = pPage.substring(3, pPage.length + 1);}popUpWin =window.open('','popWin','resizable=1,scrollbars=1,location=0,toolbar=0,width=525,height=394');figDoc = popUpWin.document;zhtm= '<html><head><title>' + pPage + '';zhtm += '';zhtm += '';zhtm += '';zhtm += '' + pPage.substring(pPage.lastIndexOf('/') + 1, pPage.length) + ' ';zhtm += '';figDoc.write(zhtm);figDoc.close();}// modified 3.1.99 RWE v4.1 -->IntroductionIntroductionWelcome to the Network+ Exam Cram. This book is designed to prepare you to takeand passthe CompTIA Network+ exam. The Network+ exam has become the leading introductory-level network certification available today. It is recognized by both employers and industry giants (such as Microsoft and Novell) as providing candidates with a solid foundation of networking concepts, terminology, and skills. The Network+ exam covers a broad range of networking concepts to prepare candidates for those technologies they are likely to be working with in todays network environments.About Network+ Exam CramExam Crams are specifically designed to give you the what-you-need-to-know information to prepare for the Network+ exam. They cut through the extra information, focusing on the areas you need to get through the exam. With this in mind, the elements within the Exam Cram titles are aimed directly at providing the exam information you need in the most succinct and accessible manner.In this light, this book is organized to closely follow the actual CompTIA objectives. As such, it is easy to find the information required for each of the specified CompTIA Network+ objectives. The objective focus design used by this Exam Cram is an important feature because the information you need to know is easily identifiable and accessible. To see what we mean, compare the CompTIA objectives to the books layout, and you will see that the facts are right where you would expect them to be.Within the chapters themselves, potential exam hotspots are clearly highlighted with Exam Alerts. Exam Alerts have been carefully placed to let you know that the surrounding discussion is an important area for the exam. To further help you prepare for the exam, a Cram Sheet is included that can be used in the final stages of test preparation. Be sure to pay close attention to the bulleted points provided in the Cram Sheet, as they pinpoint the technologies and facts you are likely going to encounter on the test.Finally, great effort has gone into the end-of-chapter questions and practice tests to ensure that they accurately represent the look and feel of the ones you will have on the real Network+ exam. Be sure, before taking the exam, that you are comfortable with both the format and content of the questions provided in this book.About the Network+ ExamThe Network+ N10-003 exam is a revised version of the original exam. The new Network+ objectives are aimed toward those who have nine months experience in network support and administration. CompTIA believes that new Network+ candidates will require more hands-on experience in network administration and troubleshooting, but this should not discourage those who do not. Quite simply, the nature of the questions on the new exam is not dissimilar to the old, and you can get by without the actual hands-on experience. Still, a little hands-on experience never hurt anyone and will certainly add to your confidence going into the exam.You will have a maximum of 90 minutes to answer the 72 questions on the exam. The allotted time is quite generous, and, by the time you are finished, you are likely going to have time to double-check a few of the answers you are unsure of. By the time the dust settles, you will need a minimum score of 646 to pass the Network+ exam. This is on a scale of 100 to 900.One of the best things about the Network+ certification is that after you pass the exam, you are certified for life. There is no need to ever recertify. This fact can make the cost of taking the Network+ exam a little easier to swallow. For more information on the specifics of the Network+ exam, refer to CompTIAs main website at http://www.comptia.org/certification/.Booking and Taking the Network+ Certification ExamUnfortunately, testing is not free. Youll be charged $207 for each test you take, whether you pass or fail. In the United States and Canada, tests are administered by Sylvan Prometric or VUE testing services. To book a test with Prometric or locate a Prometric testing center near you, refer to the website at http://www.2test.com or call directly at 1-800-776-4276. To access the VUE contact information and book an exam, refer to the website at http://www.vue.com or call directly at 1-877-551-7587. When booking an exam, you will need to identify the following information:Your name as you would like to have it appear on your certificate.Your Social Security or Social Insurance number.Contact phone numbers (to be called in case of a problem).Mailing address, which identifies the address at which you would like your certificate to be mailed.Exam number and title.Email address, once again for contact purposes. This often is the fastest and most effective means of contacting you. Many clients require it for registration.Credit-card payment to pay online. Vouchers can be redeemed by calling the respective testing center.What to Expect from the ExamFor those who have not taken a certification test, the process can be a little unnerving. For those who have taken numerous tests, it is not much better. Mastering the inner mental game often can be as much of the battle as knowing the material itself. Knowing what to expect before heading in can make the process a little more comfortable.Certification tests are administered on a computer system at a Prometric or VUE authorized testing center. The format of the exams is straightforward: Each question has several possible answers to choose from. In fact, the questions in this book provide a very good example of the types of questions you can expect on the actual exam. If you are comfortable with them, the test should hold few surprises. Many of the questions vary in terms of length; some of them are longer scenario questions, whereas others are short and right to the point. Read the questions carefully; the longer questions often have a key point in them that will lead you to the correct answer.Most of the questions on the Network+ exam require you to choose a single correct answer, but a few will require multiple answers. When there are multiple correct answers, a message at the bottom of the screen prompts you to choose all that apply. Be sure to read the messages.A Few Exam Day DetailsIt is recommended to get to the examination room at least 15 minutes early, although a few minutes earlier certainly would not hurt. This is good strategy used to prepare yourself and to allow the test administrator time to answer any questions you might have before the test begins. Many people suggest that you review the most critical information about the test youre taking just before the test. (Exam Cram books provide a referencethe Cram Sheet, located inside the front of this bookthat lists the essential information from the book in distilled form.) Arriving a few minutes early will give you some time to compose yourself and to mentally review this critical information.You will be asked to provide two forms of ID, with one of those being photo ID. Both of the identifications you choose should have a signature. You also might need to sign in when you arrive and sign out when you leave.Be warned: The rules are very clear about what you can and cannot take into the examination room. Books, laptops, note sheets, and so on, are not allowed in the examination room with you. The test administrator will hold these items, to be returned after you complete the exam. You might receive either a wipe board or a pen and a single piece of paper for making notes during the exam. The test administrator will ensure that no paper is removed from the examination room.After the TestWhether you want it or not, as soon as you finish your test, your score is displ...	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;networking;networks;new;protocols & apis;test prep & study guides;test preparation;testing;used & rental textbooks,12
1566399513,"Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell The most important public art program in the United States	JANE GOLDEN is executive director of the Philadelphia department of recreation's Mural Arts Program. ROBIN RICE is an independent artist and writer in Philadelphia. MONICA YANT KINNEY is the ""Metro"" columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer.",art;arts & photography;books;criticism;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;national;politics & government;politics & social sciences;pop culture;public affairs & policy;united states,12
0201741318,"Adobe After Effects 5.0: Classroom in a Book The depth of Adobe's After Effects is hidden by  its seductive and unintimidating interface, which is why many new users  quickly find themselves lost and full of questions. Adobe Press's  Adobe After Effects 5.0 Classroom in a Book levels the learning  curve and presents this complex program in manageable  chapters.Eleven lessons span the production of a single piece, from  importing elements from other programs, to assembling these and other  pieces into a final composition, through rendering for broadcast.  Step-by-step guides walk you through each phase and plenty of screen  shots help keep you on track.This book is ideal for someone who has  installed After Effects and toyed with it, but doesn't really know  where to go from there. It expects some familiarity with the computer  platform you're using, as well as some familiarity with external  applications that use After Effects, such as Premiere, Photoshop, and  Illustrator.While an excellent book for beginners, it offers little  information on using Expressions, and virtually nothing on audio  filters. While After Effects is rarely used for tweaking audio, an  appendix on the power of Expressions would have been welcome.Looking  at the finished product might seem a bit intimidating, but the team of  authors are accomplished motion graphics professionals and have put  together a solid body of work. While the early chapters seem wordy and  visually boring, the pieces begin to fall into place once we begin  rendering movies and using these movies as elements in a greater whole.  Overall, the Adobe After Effects 5.0 Classroom in a Book is a  valuable course in learning to harness the power of this impressive  application. --Mike Caputo	Adobe After Effects 5.0 Classroom in a BookYou can sink the Titanic with it, but you don't have to. Filmmakers andTV-commercial directors have turned to Adobe After Effects for years tocreate sophisticated visual effects, but its fan club is rapidly expandingto include graphic designers who want to add motion graphics to their Websites. Adobe After Effects 5.0 Classroom in a Book takes theintimidation factor out of this moviemaking program without diminishing itspowerful potential. Developed by the experts at Adobe, this project-basedguide walks you through easy-to-follow lessons tested in the company's ownclassrooms.Not assuming any prior After Effects knowledge, Adobe After Effects 5.0Classroom in a Book takes a building-block approach. The book isdesigned around one large and complex project that is broken down intomanageable lessons, each of which builds on topics covered in previoussections. The task-oriented format mimics a real-world work flow: Features,functions, and subjects are introduced as they come up during the course ofthe project. This edition of the book covers what's new and exciting inAfter Effects 5.0: 3D compositing, hierarchical layering, and powerfulanimation and masking enhancements. The accompanying cross-platform CDincludes all the files you need to complete the projects.	The Adobe Creative Team is made up of members of Adobe's User Education Group. They take their expertise in training users to work with Adobe products, combine it with the creative talents of the Adobe After Effects team, and add the valuable content of the CD-ROM to make a unique learning package from Adobe Systems.",after effects;books;computers & technology;digital media management;education & reference;graphics & multimedia;photo editing;programming;software;video production;web design;web development & design,12
0793539188,"The Great Big Book of Children's Songs Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard Corporation has become the worlds largest print music publisher, representing some of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time. We are proud to publish titles of interest to all musicians as well as music lovers, from songbooks and instructional titles to artist biographies and instrument price guides to books about the music industry and all the performing arts.",arts;arts & photography;books;children's books;composition & performance;crafts & music;education & reference;instruction & study;instruments;music;songbooks;theory,12
0877881944,"Saving Body and Soul: The Mission of Mary Jo Copeland In their beautiful and inspiring portrait of Mary Jo Copeland, author Margaret Nelson and photographer Keri Pickett capture perfectly the great love, powerful faith and selfless service of 'Minnesota's Mother Teresa.' Mary Jo Copeland has been my friend and inspiration for 20 years, just as she's inspired hundreds of thousands of people whose lives she's touched. As a frequent volunteer at Sharing  Caring Hands, I was gratified to bring Mary Jo and President George W. Bush together in 1999. President Bush was truly moved by his visit to Sharing  Caring Hands, and so will readers of this wonderful book. No one can come away unchanged after seeing Mary Jo washing the feet of the guests of her well-known day shelter, where thousands of people are fed, clothed and cared for every day of the year. In addition, Mary Jo's transitional shelter for homeless people and their children, Mary's Place, has dramatically changed lives. And I guarantee Saving Body and Soul; The Mission of Mary Jo Copeland will do the same for you. --U.S. Representative Jim Ramstad Mary Jo Copeland's story will make you long to roll up your sleeves and help the helpless among us. She is a living illustration of Christ's command to love one another.  Karen Kingsbury, bestselling author of	In their beautiful and inspiring portrait of Mary Jo Copeland, author Margaret Nelson and photographer Keri Pickett capture perfectly the great love, powerful faith and selfless service of 'Minnesota's Mother Teresa.' Mary Jo Copeland has been my friend and inspiration for 20 years, just as she's inspired hundreds of thousands of people whose lives she's touched. As a frequent volunteer at Sharing  Caring Hands, I was gratified to bring Mary Jo and President George W. Bush together in 1999. President Bush was truly moved by his visit to Sharing  Caring Hands, and so will readers of this wonderful book. No one can come away unchanged after seeing Mary Jo washing the feet of the guests of her well-known day shelter, where thousands of people are fed, clothed and cared for every day of the year. In addition, Mary Jo's transitional shelter for homeless people and their children, Mary's Place, has dramatically changed lives. And I guarantee Saving Body and Soul; The Mission of Mary Jo Copeland will do the same for you.--U.S. Representative Jim RamstadMary Jo Copeland's story will make you long to roll up your sleeves and help the helpless among us. She is a living illustration of Christ's command to love one another. Karen Kingsbury, bestselling author of the Redemption Series.Within the pages of this book you will see that Mary Jo Copeland's mission in life is to change the world one heart at a time.  Her goal is not accomplished through powerful speeches or glitzy productions but by giving herself in service to others.  Please beware that her life will not only challenge and inspire but motivate you to action in your own community!Donna VanLiere, author of The Christmas Shoes and The Christmas BlessingReading this bookwatered the struggling seed in me who wishes to live generously. [Mary Jo Copeland] welcomes every child with her hands and her heart both practically and spiritually. She showers these children with her gladness at their coming! She helps me to find the courage to open my own arms a little wider and ask, What more can I do?Debra Frasier, author and illustrator of On the Day You Were Born	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	One woman's miracle. Every person's potential. All around are people in need: a family seeking shelter under a bridge, an unemployed former coworker on the verge of losing his home, a single mom struggling to feed three kids. People's hearts may be touched with compassion, but more often than not they turn away--unsure how to help and convinced that one person cannot possibly make a difference.   Saving Body & Soul powerfully disproves that myth. Here is the remarkable story--told through essays, interviews, and powerful photographs--of one woman who is a compassionate advocate for the needy. With a persistence born of personal adversity and a wholehearted commitment to making a difference in the world, Mary Jo Copeland has created a network of services that assists more than 1,600 poor and indigent people each day.   As readers meet Mary Jo and the unforgettable people whose lives she's touched, this unique book will stir their spirits, challenge their perceptions,and lovingly usher them into the miracle of faith in action.	As a reporter, you can always tell when you have an especially good story. You think about it all the time, tell everyone you know about it, find the faces and words and ideas turning up in your personal life.   That's how it was with Mary Jo Copeland. I first encountered her shortly after she began her work almost 20 years ago. She gave the Sunday homily at my parish church, talking about how she'd raised 12 kids and now needed help to spread love and kindness to the poor and homeless. I called, introduced myself, and asked if I could see her in action. She said, ""Of course! I'm here.""   After watching her work, I was hooked: This was a story I wanted to tell. I saw her touch people in a way that few ever do, soothing wounds of both body and soul. She walked happily among people many of us go out of our way to avoid. She laughed and cried and prayed with them, washed their feet, gave out bus tokens and motel vouchers and dollar bills and hugs.  With only a high school education and with no previous experience, this slightly zany, faith-filled, suburban homemaker had become both the best and last resource for the poor and homeless of Minneapolis. Others could learn from her, replicate what she was doing: Poor people nationwide could benefit. I spoke of her to my editors and to my friends, including the acclaimed photographer Keri Pickett. In 1999, Keri and I collaborated on a story for People magazine about Mary Jo and her work and we knew we wanted to do more. We've been working on this book ever since.    Along the way, I've found myself applying Mary Jo's words to my life, her trademark phrases giving voice to my own deepest yearnings. ""Be a positive presence in the world. Make the world a better place because you're in it.""  What better goal? ... ""Look at me,"" Mary Jo says. ""I'm this kinda crazy woman who had a terrible childhood. If God works through me, He can work through anybody!"" Margaret Nelson	""Reading this book...watered the struggling seed in me who wishes to live generously. [Mary Jo Copeland] helps me to find the courage to open my own arms a little wider and ask, 'What more can I do?'"" - Debra Frasier, author and illustrator of On the Day You Were Born""...Mary Jo Copeland's mission in life is to change the world one heart at a time. Her life will not only challenge and inspire but motivate you to action."" - Donna VanLiere, author of The Christmas Shoes and The Christmas BlessingOne woman's miracle. Every person's potential. We are surrounded by people in need: a family seeking shelter under a bridge, an unemployed former coworker on the verge of losing his home, a single mom struggling to feed three kids. Our hearts may be touched with compassion, but more often than not we turn away - unsure how to help and convinced that one person cannot possibly make a difference.Saving Body & Soul powerfully disproves that myth. Through gripping black-and-white images and gritty, real-life stories, you'll witness the amazing life of Mary Jo Copeland, a housewife and mother of twelve who overcame, and continues to overcome, tremendous odds in order to serve the poor and homeless. As you meet her and the unforgettable people whose lives she's touched - and who have changed her life in return - this unique book will stir your spirit, challenge your perceptions, and lovingly usher you into the miracle of faith in action. One person can make a difference. With traditional government support decreasing even as the number of people needing assistance continues to rise, there has never been a greater need to witness the impact of faith, optimism, and kindness - and the reciprocal love they inspire.Filled with dramatic black-and-white images that explore some of the most unsettling issues facing America today, here is an intimate portrait of a hands-on mission to serve the neediest in today's society. With a persistence born of adversity, Mary Jo Copeland has created a network of services that reaches more than 1,600 poor and indigent people each day. Here is convincing proof of what can be accomplished through faith-based initiatives and through the loving acts of ordinary people.In a society that has too little inspiration and too few real heroes, Saving Body & Soul will restore your faith in the transforming power of compassion - and in your own ability to shape the world.	""In their beautiful and inspiring portrait of Mary Jo Copeland, author Margaret Nelson and photographer Keri Pickett capture perfectly the great love, powerful faith and selfless service of 'Minnesota's Mother Teresa.' Mary Jo Copeland has been my friend and inspiration for 20 years, just as she's inspired hundreds of thousands of people whose lives she's touched. As a frequent volunteer at Sharing & Caring Hands, I was gratified to bring Mary Jo and President George W. Bush together in 1999. President Bush was truly moved by his visit to Sharing & Caring Hands, and so will readers of this wonderful book. No one can come away unchanged after seeing Mary Jo washing the feet of the guests of her well-known day shelter, where thousands of people are fed, clothed and cared for every day of the year. In addition, Mary Jo's transitional shelter for homeless people and their children, Mary's Place, has dramatically changed lives. And I guarantee Saving Body and Soul; The Mission of Mary Jo Copeland will do the same for you.""--U.S. Representative Jim Ramstad""Mary Jo Copeland's story will make you long to roll up your sleeves and help the helpless among us. She is a living illustration of Christ's command to love one another.""  - Karen Kingsbury, bestselling author of the Redemption Series.""Within the pages of this book you will see that Mary Jo Copeland's mission in life is to change the world one heart at a time.  Her goal is not accomplished through powerful speeches or glitzy productions but by giving herself in service to others.  Please beware that her life will not only challenge and inspire but motivate you to action in your own community!"" - Donna VanLiere, author of The Christmas Shoes and The Christmas Blessing""Reading this book...watered the struggling seed in me who wishes to live generously. [Mary Jo Copeland] welcomes every child with her hands and her heart both practically and spiritually. She showers these children with her gladness at their coming! She helps me to find the courage to open my own arms a little wider and ask, 'What more can I do?'"" - Debra Frasier, author and illustrator of On the Day You Were Born	Keri Pickett is an award-winning photographer based in Minneapolis whose work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. Her journalistic work focuses primarily on human-interest feature stories and environmental portraits that capture the essence of her subjects. Her clients cover the spectrum of magazines from People, Time and Life, to Geo, Parenting, and Christianity Today. Her books include Love in the 90s: BB and Jo, The Story of a Lifelong Love. Margaret Nelson has worked as a journalist for more than five decades. A graduate of Northwestern University s Medill School of Journalism, she s written and reported on a wide variety of subjects for many national and international publications, including People, Newsweek, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. Based in Minneapolis, she has received numerous reporting and writing honors.	Brian Philbrick showed up on the doorstep a few hours after Mary Jo opened her storefront for the poor in 1985. Looking like a horror movie cross between Jesus and an ape man, he was 25 years old, but seemed far older, aged by childhood abuse and years spent defending himself on the streets and rails. That winter morning he'd been working his way into downtown Minneapolis from the railroad yard, scrounging in a garbage cans and scanning the sidewalk for coins. As he approached the old garment district, then a skid row of run-down stores, he saw a light in one building and watched from the street as a sweet-looking woman puttered around, making coffee, setting out doughnuts. He slumped on the concrete, afraid to go in, shy around people, but drawn to the light and warmth.   ""Mary Jo opened the door and invited me in,"" he recalled years later. ""But I pulled back, hunched into myself, covering up with my beard and my hair, so you could hardly see me."" The novice helpmate, who was calling her place Sharing & Caring Hands, wasn't deterred. ""Mary Jo brought me out a cup of coffee and some cookies. And she patted my hair, asked God to bless me. The next day I went back, and the day after that. Mary Jo and I, we'd talk."" Severely abused as a child, he said he'd run away from his Boston-area home at 15 and lived in the woods and on the rails for 10 years, unable to functon in society. ""Mary Jo showed me a different way,"" he said, stopping to catch his breath and wipe his eyes. ""Mary Jo changed me. I used to fight a lot. Somebody would say something I didn't like, I'd slap them. Usually I'd end up in jail, or I'd go to the railroad tracks and catch a train out of town real quick. I got to the point where I didn't care if I lived or died, but Mary Jo changed that. She'd talk to me. She'd tell me I shouldn't be fighting, that it hurts people. I'd get so mad and Mary Jo would say, 'Look at you, now look at you, now you're all angry.' And I was. I was real angry. Me and Mary Jo would pray. After awhile, I started believing what she says, that she loves me. And I love her too. Now I'm glad to be alive. I try to do good. It's kind of a miracle.""   Once unable to talk to others, so frightening in appearance and manner that people would hurry across the street to avoid him, he became a gentle-looking, sweet man, with a shy smile. Living on disability, he helped out around Sharing & Caring Hands and lived in a bungalow that the Copelands found him a few miles away. When he died in 2001, 16 years after he showed up at Mary Jo's door, he was 41. ""I think he just wore out,"" she said at his memorial service. ""He'd had a hard life, a very hard life.""  Critics call her crazy, mercurial, self-promoting. Fans--from those she's helped, to volunteers and donors--call her a saint, an angel, America's Mother Teresa. But Mary Jo Copeland shrugs off the labels, good and bad. ""I guess people all have their perspective,"" she says. ""Some of the comments are hurtful, some make me feel humble. But in the end I don't care too much what anyone says. I have to focus on my work. I have to do what I think best.""   Her vision is clear: to be a last-chance resource for the poor and homeless, a safety net for those who are falling through society's cracks. At a time when resources for the poor are continually dropping and government officials are calling on the private sector to take a larger role, Mary Jo is not only providing one-on-one assistance to the poor; she's also creating a model for others who want to make this a kinder, better world.",arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;criticism & essays;inspirational;leaders & notable people;photography;religion & spirituality;religious;spirituality,12
0752805975,"At the Mercy of the Sea On September 17, 1994, Clayton, an Englishwoman, set sail from Dartmouth, England, to circle the world nonstop and alone. After 31,000 miles and 285 days, she became the first woman to accomplish this feat. Clayton had been inspired by other solo circumnavigators, such as Joshua Slocum, who made the first recorded journey in 1898. Her trip aboard the 38' steel-hulled Spirit of Birmingham proved as unpredictable as the seas she traveled. Although the book is unevenly written, the drama and adventure of her journey remains engaging to the last page, and readers will find special interest in her daily log and the FAXes she exchanged with her friend and mentor Peter Harding?which stopped after her computer crashed permanently on day 214. Maps of Clayton's route and 38 color photographs are included. Recommended for public libraries with sailing or adventure collections.?Janet Ross, Sparks Branch Lib., NVCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.",biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;narratives;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;sailing;social sciences;sports & outdoors;travel;water sports;writing,12
B0002DVKOA,"Squier by Fender Black and Chrome Standard Telecaster, Black w/Mirrored Pickguard The Squier Black and Chrome Series Standard Telecaster guitar is edgy, but with classic appeal. Features include two single-coil pickups, three-way switching, a gloss black finish with matching headstock, and pickguards and hardware with that much sought-after chrome look",acoustic guitar amplifiers;amplifiers;desktop & rack multieffects;effects;electric guitar effects;electric guitars;guitar & bass accessories;guitars;instrument accessories;multieffects;musical instruments;solid body,12
0394743296,"Shoah The complete textspoken words and subtitlesof a recent documentary film on the Holocaust by French journalist and director Lanzmann is presented here in an unusual but grimly effective format. Doubtless seeing the film would be a vastly different experience, but the text carries a relentless strength and coherence of its own. Excerpts from interviews with a couple of dozen Jewish survivors, German officials and guards, Polish villagers and railway men, and contemporary historians in the United States, Israel, Germany, and Poland are juxtaposed, following the pattern of the film's scenes. The re sult is a powerful and unique impres sion of the Jewish tragedy drawn from the composite viewpoints of these radi cally different participants and observ ers. Highly recommended. James B. Street, Santa Cruz P.L., Cal.Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Text: English, French (translation)	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;documentaries;europe;genre fiction;history;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;movie tie-ins;movies;poland;theory,12
1593374127,"Author 101 Bestselling Book Proposals: The Insider's Guide to Selling Your Work Rick Frishman is one of the most powerful publicists in the media industry, working with authors such as Henry Kissinger. This top notch publicist has worked with the field's top agents editors and publishers. Robyn Freedman Spizman is no stranger to success. As an award-winning author, she has written dozens of inspirational and educational non-fiction books during her accomplished career.",authorship;books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,12
013958661X,"Understanding and Using English Grammar (Third Edition) (Full Student Edition without Answer Key) A classic developmental skills text for intermediate to advanced students of English, Understanding and Using English Grammar is a comprehensive reference grammar as well as a stimulating and teachable classroom text.   While keeping the same basic approach and material as in earlier editions, the Third Edition more fully develops communicative and interactive language-learning activities. Some of the new features are:     Numerous ""real communication"" opportunities   More options for interactive work in pairs and groups   Additional open-ended communicative tasks for both speaking and writing   Expanded error analysis exercises   Interesting and lively new exercise material   Shorter units for easy class use   The program components include the Student Book, Workbook, Chartbook, Teacher's Guide, and Companion Website.     Also available: Understanding and Using English Grammar Interactive (a multimedia CD-ROM).",books;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;grammar;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;new;used & rental textbooks;words,12
0385485743,"The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine Equality of value between men and women is an  eternal truth,  but this does not mean that men and  women are not psychically and  spiritually different  -- profoundly so. A woman must live her life as  a  woman, with a woman's values, or she fails. In  The Way Of  Woman, Luke drew from the  riches of the Bible, mythology,  folklore, Greek  tragedies, and modern poetry to reconnect women with   lost feminine images, symbols, and values. She  speaks with the power  of a true sage on continuity,  relationships, the women's movement,  marriage and  divorce, and mothering. Profound, graceful, and   transforming, The Way Of Woman is a  true celebration of  feminine worth.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Helen M. Luke (1904-95) was awriter, counselor, and Jungian therapist who shoed an extraordinary talent for applying religion, mythology, folklore, and literature to everyday life. She is the author of many books including, Kaleidoscope, Dark Wood to White Rose, Old Age, and Woman: Earth and Spirit.",books;fitness & dieting;health;inspirational;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality;religious studies;social sciences;sociology;spirituality;theology,12
1892941910,"The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy In the Aftermath of War""The plan was designed to completely destroy the German economy, enslave millions of her citizens, and exterminate as many as 20 million people"": John Dietrich, who served six years in the Defense Intelligence Agency, takes a hard, revisionist look at American policy toward Germany after WWII in The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy. Charting its origins, development and brief implementation, the author argues that the secretary of the treasury's plan for the demilitarization of Germany ""thoroughly reflected"" Roosevelt's opinions on postwar strategy (and that the president may have bribed Churchill to sign off on it); that the Soviet Union was the plan's sole beneficiary; and that the plan had far greater effects than anyone involved cared to admit.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.",20th century;americas;books;history;humanities;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;united states;used & rental textbooks;world;world war ii,12
0801864844,"The Evolution of Western Private Law The Evolution of Western Private Law is an innovative look at the development of the Western legal tradition. It makes an important contribution to the literature on legal history, and Watson has carefully examined the sources and the relevant legal documents. Although highly detailed and somewhat technical, Watson writes with great clarity. (Gerald J. Russello Bryn Mawr Classical Review)	A pioneering work [that] bids fair to open up a new direction in legal history... This book maintains the scholarly standards of Watson's previous works, and it is certainly one of his most provocative offerings. (American Journal of Philology)A bold, brilliant, and provocative book that will occasion much debate in legal circles. (American Historical Review)	Alan Watson  is the Ernest P. Rogers Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia Law School. He is the author of  Failures of the Legal Imagination, Slave Law in the Americas, International Law in Archaic Rome, and  Roman Slave Law, the last two available from Johns Hopkins.",ancient;books;comparative;education & reference;europe;history;humanities;law;legal history;legal theory & systems;new;used & rental textbooks,12
0811811824,"Okavango: Africa's Last Eden Most Westerners, thanks to television documentaries and numerous books, have some inkling of the appalling destruction of Africa's many ecosystems and the animal species that live in them. Fewer are aware of the work being done in several African nations to preserve these ecosystems. The noted travel photographer Frans Lanting takes us into one protected area, the Okavango River, which begins in the mountains of Angola and ends a thousand miles later in the very heart of Botswana's Kalahari Desert, the great thirstland. Lanting's photographs are stunning, capturing lionesses in mid hunt, ibises on the wing, and elephants preparing to charge. A trained ecologist, he also takes care to describe how the river interacts with the dry lands that surround it. Lanting's book belongs in the libraries of both Africa buffs and river aficionados. --Gregory McNamee	The Okavango is an enormous seasonal wetland in the midst of the Kalahari Desert. As Lanting warns, it's another precious habitat teetering on the edge. Though it has long been left to the wildlife because of the tsetse fly problem, recent fly control success has governments pondering whether cattle grazing and other developments should be allowed. Yet damming, draining, and road building would severely alter the natural cycles of water and wildlife migrations. In documenting the cycles of the Okavango, Lanting's photographic skills are seemingly boundless. His viewpoints, lighting, backgrounds, and composition are unparalleled. From vast aerial shots to closeups of lionesses lapping water, each extraordinary photo conveys life and power and feeling. Both in the brief chapter narratives and in each photo caption, Lanting's superb prose is equally absorbing. Highly recommended for public libraries, Africa collections, and photography collections.- Nancy Moeckel, Miami Univ. Libs., Oxford, OhioCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This latest in the long, long stream of African wildlife photo albums is in some ways just another one. It has a first-person text by the photographer, the familiar cast of animal subjects, the usual harping on water and sun as the determinants of life in its harsh settings, the expected rant about the fragility of the depicted environment (in this case, a nature preserve in Botswana rather than Kenya or Tanzania) in the face of encroaching civilization, etc. But Lanting's entry, more than most, is so full of photos in which the colors seem so unearthly that they make you wonder what bearing they have on reality. Just how did Lanting obtain the hues of the cover image, for instance, in which a group of elephants stand out against a magenta sky as it is reflected in an equally lurid pond? Sure, these are gorgeous pictures, real eyepoppers, but on what planet were they taken, by what necromancy?  Ray Olson	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Beautifully laid out and superbly printed, Okavango is a multi-level, multi-layered feast.  Washington Post In documenting the cycles of Okavango, Lanting's photographic skills are seemingly boundless. Library Journal	Frans Lanting is critically acclaimed as one of the world's great outdoor photographers. His work has appeared primarily in National Geographic, and he has several other books to his credit. Lanting was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and now lives in Monterey Bay, California.",africa;arts & photography;biological sciences;books;botswana;history;natural history;nature & ecology;photography;science & math;travel;zoology,12
0700712240,The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam: The Authenticity of Muslim Literature from the Formative Period (Routledge Studies in the Qur'an) 'The Western scholarly exploration of Islamic origins is alive and well. A very useful overview of the state of the field' - The Expository Times,books;ethnic studies;hadith;humanities;islam;new;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious studies;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,12
0609804901,"Leggetts' Antiques Atlas East, 2000 Edition: The Guide to Antiquing in America (Leggetts' Antiques Atlas East: The Guide to Antiquing in America) In this editionAlabama - Connecticut - Delaware - Florida - Georgia - Indiana - Kentucky - Maine - Maryland - Massachusetts - Michigan -Mississippi - New Hampshire - New Jersey - New York - North Carolina - Ohio - Pennsylvania - Rhode Island - South Carolina - Tennessee - Vermont - Virginia - West VirginiaThe most complete guide to antiquing in the United States, updated every yearOver 9,000 listings of antiques stores, malls, shows, auctions, and flea markets with full addresses and phone numbersWhere to stay and eat, no matter where you travelReviews and locations for the most-loved bed and breakfasts, hotels, and country inns throughout AmericaRecommendations for local dining spotsThorough, practical, completePersonal anecdotes from shop owners, with details about their specialties and inventoryDates and reviews of shows and auctions and eventsSpecial section listing America's largest antique mallsMaps for each state covered, travel suggestions (some off the beaten path), and moreExcellent ""How to Get There"" directionsEasy-to-read maps for each state highlighting each town with a source of antiques and collectiblesColorful editorials describing cities and towns to give the unique flavor of each area and to provide suggestions for enjoyable side trips",antiques & collectibles;antiques care & reference;books;catalogs & directories;crafts;education & reference;general;hobbies & home;northeast;reference;travel;united states,12
0521810086,"Cohesion: A Scientific History of Intermolecular Forces ""Rowlinson has crowned a distinguished research career by writing a detailed technical history of the field in which he has made so many important contributions...I cannot praise this book enough.""    William B. Jensen, University of Cincinnati""An intricate and intriguing saga...The book admirably fulfills its stated aim of serving historians of science and also physicists or physical chemists curious about the roots of modern approaches to intermolecular forces...Students of molecular science (and their teachers!) would do well to consult Rowlinson's book to see how discussions of topics such as capillarity, surface tension of liquids, elasticity of solids, and gas imperfection gain uncommon clarity from historical perspective, which brings out underlying assumptions and perplexing aspects often obscured in current texts. Those concerned about science literacy--either for the general public or for the coming generation of professionals--will find much material useful for seasoning their sermons.""   Physics Today	Why does matter stick together? Why do gases condense to liquids, and liquids to solids? This book provides a detailed historical account of how some of the leading scientists of the past three centuries have tried to answer these questions. It will be of primary interest to physical chemists and physicists, as well as historians of science interested in the historical origins of our modern day understanding of cohesion.	Sir John Rowlinson is Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry Emeritus in the department of chemistry at the University of Oxford.",books;chemistry;electromagnetism;general & reference;new;physical & theoretical;physical chemistry;physics;science & math;science & mathematics;solid-state physics;used & rental textbooks,12
0736825851,Squirrels and Their Nests (Pebble Plus) Martha E. Rustad is a Capstone Press author.,animals;biological sciences;books;children's books;crafts;guinea pigs & squirrels;hamsters;hobbies & home;mammals;mice;pets & animal care;science & math,12
0137956592,"Business Logistics Management (4th Edition) A comprehensive discussion of the planning, organizing, and controlling of such activities as transportation, inventory maintenance, order processing, purchasing, warehousing, materials handling, packaging, customer service standards, and product scheduling.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	This comprehensive discussion provides the basic decision  making tools and concepts used for finding cost reduction and strategic  opportunities. Covering the planning, organizing, and controlling  of such activities as transportation, inventory maintenance, order processing, purchasing,  warehousing, materials handling, packaging, customer service standards, and product  scheduling, it is specifically designed to help readers solve the actual problems that they  will encounter in todays marketplace.	No book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.THOMAS CARLYLE    This book is about the vital subject of business logistics/ supply chainan area of management that has been observed to absorb as much as 60 to 80 percent of a firm's sales dollar and that can be essential to a firm's competitive strategy and revenue generation. This management area has been described by many names, including physical distribution, materials management, transportation management, logistics, and now supply chain management. The business activities of concern may include all or part of the following: transportation, inventory maintenance, order processing, purchasing, warehousing, materials handling, packaging, customer service standards, and production.    The focus of this book is on the planning, organizing, and controlling of these activitieskey elements for successful management in any organization. Special emphasis is given to strategic planning and decision making as perhaps the most important parts of the management process. The mission of this managerial effort is to set the level of the logistics activities so as to make products and services available to customers at the time, place, and in the condition and form desired, in the most profitable or cost-effective way.    Because logistics activities have always been vital to companies and organizations, the field of business logistics/ supply chain management represents a synthesis of many concepts, principles, and methods from the more traditional areas of marketing, production, accounting, purchasing, and transportation, as well as from the disciplines of applied mathematics, organizational behavior, and economics. This book attempts to unify these into a logical body of thought that can lead to the effective management of the supply chain.    As with any field of management, there-are frequently changing terms to capture the methods and concepts of business logistics/ supply chain. An attempt has been made to resist following the popular press and fads, and to present the ideas, principles, and techniques that are fundamental to good business logistics practice, now and in the near future. In this spirit, the fifth edition is organized around two themes. First, the basic activities of management, namely, planning, organizing, and controlling, provide the overarching theme for the book. Second, a triangle of interrelated transportation, inventory, and location strategies are at the heart of good logistics planning and decision making. This triangle is emphasized through the text.    Several trends have been noted that affect the scope and practice of business logistics/ supply chain. These have been integrated into the body of the text as application illustrations of the fundamental ideas being presented. First, emphasis is placed on logistics/ supply chain in a worldwide setting to reflect the growing internationalization and globalization of business in general. Second, the shifting toward more service-oriented economies by industrialized nations is emphasized by showing how logistics concepts and principles are equally applicable to service-producing firms as they are to product-producing ones. Third, attention is given to the integrated management of supply chain activities, as well as managing these activities among the other functional areas of business as well as across multiple enterprises. Fourth, many practical examples are given to show the applicability of the material. Fifth, computer software is provided to assist in solving logistics/supply chain problems reflecting the growing use of computer technology in managerial decision making.    Over the years, so many people and companies have contributed to the ideas embodied in this fifth edition that a list of acknowledgments would be far too long to print. However, to all those students and professors around the world who were willing to comment on the previous editions, to those businesspeople who were willing to try the ideas embodied in them, and to all others who made comments of praise as well as criticismmy heartfelt thanks. A special note of gratitude goes to my wife, Carolyn, for editorial assistance and encouragement throughout this revision. Considering all of this help, any shortcomings and errors that remain must be mine.    R. H. BALLOU Weatherhead School of Management Cleveland, Ohio   	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & finance;business & investing;distribution & warehouse management;economics;education & reference;entrepreneurship;management;management & leadership;new;small business & entrepreneurship;used & rental textbooks,12
1550287117,"Counting Out The Scholars: The Case Against Performance Indicators in Higher Education (Canadian Association of University Teachers) ""This book is long overdue, and essential reading for all stakeholders in higher education."" (University of Toronto Quarterly )	WILLIAM BRUNEAU teaches in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is a specialist in university history and post-Confederation Canada.DONALD C. SAVAGE is a consultant in higher education, Former Executive Director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers and an adjunct professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal.",books;college & university;education;education & reference;education theory;educational philosophy;instruction methods;new;pedagogy;philosophy & social aspects;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,12
0140442820,"As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in 11th-Century Japan (Penguin Classics) Lady Sarashina (as she is commonly known), born in 1008, was a lady-in-waiting of Heian-period Japan. Her work stands out for its descriptions of her travels and pilgrimages and is unique in the literature of the period, as well as one of the first in the genre of travel writing.",asia;biographies & memoirs;books;contemporary;ethnic & national;history;japan;japanese;literature & fiction;specific groups;women;world literature,12
0802775195,"What Jazz Is: An Insider's Guide to Understanding and Listening to Jazz There have been many jazz appreciation primers over the years, but none clearer and more accessible than King's, and, of course, his is up-to-date. A pianist with two albums as leader to his credit, King describes jazz's musical basics (improvisation, musical conversation, and swing) and the elements crucial to its performance (the rhythm section of bass, drums, and piano; the melodic voices of horns, other instruments, and singers; and the set list or on-the-spot performing repertoire) both abstractly for those who know virtually no jazz (e.g., onomatopoeically representing musical effects) and by reference to particular musicians' characteristics (e.g., bassist Ron Carter's ""smooth attack where each note is articulated but sustains into the note that follows"") for those with some listening experience. The final third of the book he devotes to guiding readers through some classic recorded performances exemplifying various common jazz forms (blues, ballads, etc.). This is a staple tactic of jazz primers that King recharges by choosing working musicians' rather than critics' favorites to analyze and by restricting his sampling scope to the middle 1950s through the 1960s, the period most influential upon today's jazz mainstream. So quit moanin' low, ""I can't get started."" Take some time out with King, and start cookin'.  Ray Olson	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Jonny King has played jazz piano since he was nine. He has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America, and Downbeat magazine described him as ""One of the strongest piano voices of the new generation."" His three albums include Notes from the Underground and The Meltdown. King is also an attorney specializing in copyright law. He lives in New York City.",appreciation;arts & photography;blues;books;composition & performance;education & reference;history & criticism;jazz;music;musical genres;reference;theory,12
1403938253,Defending Albion: Britain's Home Army 1908-1919 (Studies in Military and Strategic History (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)).) Bill Mitchinson is a member of the Centre for World War One Studies at the University of Birmingham.,20th century;books;england;europe;history;humanities;military;military science;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;used & rental textbooks;world war i,12
0684871335,"Fire on the Waters : A Novel of the Civil War at Sea The naval beginnings of the Civil War receive lengthy treatment  in veteran author Poyer's latest seagoing adventure-cum-romance,  the first of a projected series involving the internecine  conflict. Here, the focus is on the efforts of the U.S.S. Owanee  to provide support and relief as the union crumbles. Poyer's  ensemble includes several crew members from the ill-fated ship,  the most prominent being Eli Eaker, the Harvard-dropout son of a  wealthy Maryland merchant, Micah Eaker, who joins the navy to  prove his independence from his tyrannical father. In his  adventures, Eaker turns his back on an arranged marriage with  his cousin Araminta Van Velsor, who discovers the loss of the  family fortune when she, too, attempts to escape her uncle's  iron hand by gaining access to her inheritance. Eli and  Araminta's romance plays out against the background of shifting  wartime alliances, as Fort Sumter falls and the Owanee  penetrates Chesapeake Bay on a clandestine mission. Poyer does a  nice job of integrating the various characters and plot lines,  including a narrative about a black seaman who tries to find his  family through the Underground Railroad, and the story of an  engine-room worker who finds himself involved in the building  and then the scuttling of the Merrimack. But despite his  impeccable naval and historical research, and his seeding of the  narrative with authentic details of food, clothing and  era-appropriate dialogue, Poyer never brings the combination of  the fall of Fort Sumter and the burning of the Portsmouth  shipyard together into an integrated story. The fragmented book  that results has plenty of meat on the bones for Civil War and  naval buffs, but may struggle to find a broader audience beyond  Poyer's legion of loyal fans. Agent, Sloan Harris, ICM. 8-city  author tour. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	The months prior to the attack on Fort Sumter found many  Americans, both Northerners and Southerners, questioning their  loyalties. Eli Eaker, son of the wealthy and influential New  York financier Micah Eaker, has more than one loyalty to  consider. There is an obligation to his father, a forceful man  staunchly opposed to his son's involvement in the impending war.  There is also the prospective marriage between Eli and his  heiress cousin, Araminta, a union greatly desired by Micah. And  finally, there is Eli's loyalty to his own Republican and  Unionist beliefs. Eli enlists in the navy, joining the crew of  the Owanee, recently returned from two years in West Africa and  led by Capt. Parker Trezevant, a U.S. Naval officer and Southern  gentleman. As the ship heads south to defend Fort Sumter, the  crew must deal with their own divided obligations. This first  book in Poyer's new Civil War trilogy is an interesting  character study of a young man's coming of age as well as an  accurate historical novel. The author of numerous nautical tales  (e.g., Bahamas Blue), Poyer once again displays his expert  knowledge of seamanship. For all libraries.- Loretta Davis, Broward Cty. Libs., Pembroke  Pines, FL   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	The first volume in Poyer's new Civil War at Sea trilogy introduces naval officer Elisha Eaker. The pampered son of a successful shipping magnate, Eli enlists to take a stand for his country and against his overbearing father. Commissioned to protect the Union forces at Fort Sumter, Eli and Captain Parker Bucyrus Tresevant, a Southerner torn between allegiances, sail into the danger, intrigue, and indecision necessarily engendered by a nation at war with itself. As Eli grapples with questions of love, loyalty, and honor, the country drifts inexorably toward a permanent rift. A solid introduction to a promising new series designed to appeal to both Civil War enthusiasts and fans of seafaring fiction. Margaret FlanaganCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	The New York Times Book Review Poyer knows what he is writing about when it comes to anything on, above, or below the water.The Bradford (Pa.) Era After reading this splendid novel....I have only one comment for the author, in regard to his series: FULL SPEED AHEAD!Kirkus Reviews A stirring story of the Civil War -- maritime style -- as told by savvy veteran Poyer in the first of an ambitious trilogy....Poyer, a former Navy captain, knows his ships, of course, but his cast is strong besides, and his grip on the tiller of Civil War history appears reassuringly firm.The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot If you have any love for ships or the sea, Poyer's narrative reads, as the critics say, as well as Conrad, Melville, and Wouk.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	David Poyer's twenty previous novels, including Thunder on the Mountain, The Med, The Gulf, The Circle, The Passage, Tomahawk, and China Sea, have won him millions of readers around the world. His nautical fiction has been required reading in the Literature of the Sea course at the United States Naval Academy, along with that of Conrad, Melville, and Wouk. He lives on Virginia's Eastern Shore with his wife and daughter, who sometimes sail with him researching his locales aboard his sloop, Frankly Scarlett.	Chapter 1  The United States Steam Sloop Owanee  Introduced to Lieutenant Ker Claiborne  Within a Damaged Boiler  The Silver-Filmed Eye of Uncle Ahasuerus  Disagreement Relating to the Newly Elected President  Contents of a Carpetbag  Captain Trezevant Boards His Ship  The black ship's wedge of bow split hammered-iron river from a galvanized sky. Her topmasts tilted above a spiky undergrowth of spars and shears. Smoke streamed from her single funnel off over the gray-green flatness of the East River, merging at last with the sooty pall from the thousands of other ships and homes and factories of Manhattan.  As Elisha Eaker dropped his boots into trampled mud, the smells of horse dung and coal ashes bloomed in his nostrils. He paid the hack off with a red-dog note, then stood coughing, holding a handkerchief to his lips as its wheels ground away.  Was it wise, to venture this? Was it really a way out? Or was all pride and folly, the disordered imaginings of a feverish brain?  Eli was tall and young, with pale, smoothly shaven cheeks. A sword tilted awkwardly at his side. He'd put on the regulation full dress for the first time that morning. Epaulettes from Warnock and lace from Tiffany's; a cocked hat and silk stock and gold-striped pantaloons.  Marine sentries in pomponed shakos and white gloves snapped to present arms as he reached the gate. He expected them to ask for a password, given the unrest in the city and, indeed, throughout the Republic this apprehensive spring. But they neither questioned nor hindered him, and after a moment he walked on, into the Brooklyn Navy Yard.  The sloop's masts loomed against the smoldering sky as he headed downhill past foundries and shops echoing with the clang of iron and the shouts of workmen. Her black sides towered from the murky bay. Even immobile, she looked somber and intimidating.  But did he belong here? Or was he only fooling himself?  He hesitated again, then pushed doubt away and marched up the gangway. His boot caught, and only the manrope saved him from flinging himself into the dark water that sloshed and bumped a frowsy lumber of dead rats and waterlogged dunnage. At the top he drew in a deep first breath of her, of the curious, deep, peculiar ship-redolence mingled and amalgamated of tar and brass polish, coal dust and slowly mortifying oak, of old food and the damp reek of packed-in men; and beneath it all the sweet, smoky cured-tobacco aroma of the hempen rigging that lifted above him like a frozen whirlwind up into the murky sky.  A stocky, bullet-headed petty officer aimed him a questioning scowl. Eli saluted him and said, -- Good day. My name is Elisha Eaker, and I am here to join your ship.  Lieutenant Ker Claiborne, U.S. Navy, first lieutenant and acting executive officer of U.S.S. Owanee, had slept for three hours out of the last forty-eight. Two days before, the yard commander had ordered her coaled and provisioned to sail at short order, and her just-dismissed crew remustered from the concert saloons, cider stubes, and panel houses of Five Points and the Bowery. Captain Trezevant had passed the command along with an ironic twist of the lips -- a sardonic humor Ker would have shared, if he had not been so disquieted of late.  He was in the teak-paneled wardroom, going over a bill of lading by the light of a gimbaled lamp, when one of the ship's boys, looking, as usual, as if he expected to be caned, rapped at the jamb.  -- What is it, Jerrett? Another of our lads back aboard drunk?  -- No sir. Gunner Babcock's compliments, and there's a gen'lman on the quarterdeck to see you.  A caulking hammer tapped somewhere. Ker dipped the pen; held the back of his wrist against his pointed beard, pondering; then etched a line in firm Spencerian. He glanced at the card the boy laid on his desk. -- Tell the gunner I will be up directly. Then carry this to Mr. Glass, if you please.  The boy vanished, and Claiborne rose, head brushing the varnished beams. He buttoned his coat and took his service cap off a peg. He studied a curved glass tube on the bulkhead. Then turned the lamp down, and went up the companionway.  The air on deck felt bracing after twenty-four months off West Africa. He'd contracted the fever of the country off the Guinea coast, and it came calling with chills and ague when he drove himself too hard. As he most likely was just now.  He touched his beard again, looking across the water not at the tropic continent but at his own country; but instead of comfort, memory and apprehension chilled his heart. When Owanee had deployed, two years before, the nation had been quiet. But since she'd returned, it seemed men had gone mad, lost their senses or been mastered by demons.  Like the Gadarene swine, he thought, we stampede blindly toward an infinite and fatal abyss.  Forward on the main deck, the gunners were scraping an amber paste of grease and varnish off the Dahlgren, flinging each bladeful into a tin bucket. A few yards aft, the boatswain was supervising a party swaying up the fore-topmast. At a pipe of his silver whistle the hoistlines tautened. The mast stood upright, then lifted its heel just clear of the deck, searching in the wind like an old man's uplifted and uncertain cane. Ker ran a critical eye over the rigging. He'd apprenticed to the art at Annapolis. The old school ship Preble had been just seaworthy enough to jog about the Chesapeake, but her sail plan and fitting out had been classic sailing Navy. Summer cruises to the Caribbean and Mediterranean on the Plymouth added experience of levanters and hurricanes, but it was off the coast of Africa that he'd become a master. Coal was scarce and dear, and Owanee had sailed through most of her service there.  A curious tableau awaited him on the quarterdeck. A fair-haired young fellow, not badly made, but whose pale face and slack posture gave the impression of a life spent at ease, stood beside the ship's gunner. He was in full dress, but wore no insignia of rank. Ker made him the abbreviated bow one gives a stranger of whose intention one is uncertain. -- Lieutenant Ker Claiborne, at your service.  -- My name is Elisha Eaker. Late of the firm of Eaker and Callo-well, of Manhattan.  -- Did you wish to see the purser, sir? If it is a matter of business.  Eaker hesitated, then drew a document from his sleeve.  Ker was pondering it when a hoarse snort bellowed from the smokestack. A black cloud shot up, then hovered between mainmast and mizzen like a cloud of summer midges. Greasy flakes fluttered down like black snow.  -- That turd Hubbard's doing, no doubt, and without the least concern for us topside, said the gunner angrily.  Eaker glanced around, at the morose-looking seamen, the rows of heavy guns that lined the waist. He flicked a flake of soot from his sleeve. -- Could we perhaps...?  And Ker said, -- Certainly, sir. If you'll accompany me below?  Eighty feet aft, a scraping clang sounded from within a well of darkness. A moment later a little man in grease-stained denims and a cap with a broken bill emerged headfirst from beneath an iron casting that extended from the shadowy bilges to thick glass skylights thirty feet up. Their pearly glow illuminated a firm chin, determined lips, and deep-set eyes that peered from a face so sooted he resembled a blackface minstrel.  Theodorus Hubbard, Owanee's engineer, wiped his hands on a twist of cotton and pitched it overhand into a bucket. He braced his diminutive frame against a massive door. It slowly gathered momentum, then slammed shut with an iron boom that traveled the length of the space, dying away along catwalks, pumps, copper-shining piping, gutta-percha hose, glass tube-gauges of foaming water the color of melted opals. He said in a Connecticut twang, -- Pappy, what I want to know is, how you let everything go to hell in just two weeks.  The burly man above him growled, -- Well, last I heard was they was going to jerk this heap o' junk out of her and install one of them new Isherwoods. Never thought to be takin' her back to sea.  -- Get them stokers on the rails. Watch the gauge when you cut in the crossover. Let's fire her up, see if she holds.  MacNail's shout echoed above the inhaling roar of fans and the slap of leather blower belts. Two huge men with Irish faces ran toward them, boots hammering the limber boards laid over bilges black with a slurry of coal dust, ash, and seawater. They seized fascines of kindling, heaved them into the furnace, and tossed bucketfuls of kerosene after. MacNail hastily seated twelve huge iron nuts on the man-cover from which Hubbard had emerged, then began torquing them down with a wrench as the stokers snatched shovels off iron clips and threw coal like men possessed, raising a fine choking dust of black anthracite.  Eli followed Claiborne down a shoulder-wide ladder into a low cabin that smelled of segar smoke, spar varnish, and the rotten-egg stench of sulphur fumigant. The lieutenant pointed to a chair. Eli aligned his cap on his knees and cleared his throat. -- Are you the master of this vessel?  -- The captain, you mean? No. I am the first lieutenant and executive officer. Just appointed as Captain Trezevant's second in command.  -- Might I see the captain?  -- He is not aboard at present. Nor would it be proper for me to intrude your presence upon him without ascertaining your business here, and that in considerable detail.  The lieutenant looked tired. Eli noticed he wore no sword, and began to doubt whether his own was not out of place. He nudged it around out of sight behind him as Claiborne said, -- Well, sir, let's have another look at those papers.  As he leafed through them, Eli found his glance arrested by two small gleaming eyes that stared back at him from a fiddle-boarded bookcase. In the dimness he gradually made out that they were set in a tiny wizened face. He stood to examine what he took for a stuffed curio, then put out a hand. And staggered back a moment later, gripping his finger and stifling a scream.  -- His name's Auguste, said Claiborne as the monkey hopped out, drawing a minuscule paw across its mouth and chattering angrily at the New Yorker. -- Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, to give him his complete honors. We took him and a few of his compatriots aboard at Porto Praya. As the days passed they gradually grew fewer, but we were hard put to tell where they'd gone. Finally we discovered this fellow here was pitching the smaller ones overboard at night to watch them swim.  The animal leapt to the floor and scrabbled up the companionway. Claiborne turned the documents over, scanning each with every appearance of interest. Finally he cleared his throat. -- I hope you will not take it amiss if I observe I have never heard of the New York Naval Militia.  -- Not at all. Eli wrenched his mind away from the ape, how disturbingly its shadowy leer had parodied a human smile. -- It's a volunteer body, recently organized among the better sort of the city. Those who wish to step forward, should the slavocratic conspiracy put our temper to the test.  -- Should the what?  -- The renegade Carolinians who feel disposed to insult our flag.  Claiborne said gravely, -- You must pardon me; I have been absent the country, and am unfamiliar with the political cant of the moment.  -- You must know that the Deep South states have rejected all compromise, and set up a rump legislature at Montgomery.  -- I read the journals, sir; and as far as I know, no offer of concession has been tendered them as yet. But let us lay that difficult topic aside. Your purpose in visiting Owanee?  Eli felt steadily less comfortable. The gravely courteous officer before him was plainly from south of the Mason-Dixon. The fellow's eyes, too, were unsettling, the same pale bleached blue as the noon sky in August. -- I'm here to help in any way you may find convenient. I won't require pay.  -- No pay, eh? It's true we're shorthanded just now. Claiborne examined the letters again. -- These reflect attendance at Harvard University. What degree did you take?  -- I was permitted to withdraw after two years, for reasons of health.  -- You appear robust enough to me.  Eli said carefully, -- Just now I feel well.  -- Do you have anything resembling experience at sea?  -- My family's been in shipping for three generations. I've also spent some considerable time aboard Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt's private yacht.  Claiborne's eyebrows rose. -- I see. Aboard his private yacht. You know Mr. Vanderbilt intimately, I take it?  -- Not intimately, but well enough to speak to.  The exec mused over this for a moment more, then reached for a bell. -- Ask the bo's'n to step in, he said to Jerrett's apprehensive countenance. -- Your qualifications would not go so far as a mate's ticket, would they, Mr. Eaker?  -- I'm afraid not. I'm willing to learn, though. And as I said, I will be happy to serve without emolument.  A tap at the doorjamb, and the exec motioned in a spare, spry old warrant with a furrowed brow, bright black eyes, and a preposterous forked gray-and-tobacco beard that hung below his waist. Claiborne introduced him as Josiah Girnsolver, Owanee's boatswain. He told Girnsolver their visitor had alluded to experience in yachts, and that his qualifications as a sailing officer were under discussion.  The old man turned his head slowly to the left, then to the right, as if easing a stiff neck. He pulled up a trowser-leg, revealing the top of a prickly-looking red wool sock. Then said in a Down East accent, scratching his ankle thoughtfully, -- Wal, let's say the cap'n tells ya to furl sails. What d'ya say to carry that out, now, sor?  Eli cleared his throat, calling on Mnemosyne to assist him. -- To furl sails. Well, first I should call away the men. Um, then, command them to go aloft.  -- ""Aloft t'gallant and royal yardmen?"" Girnsolver suggested.  -- Quite so. When they have gained the rigging, get the topmen aloft; then man my clew jiggers --   -- Buntlines and clew jiggers?  -- I was about to say, buntlines as well. When all men are in position, I tell them to furl away. Then when all is complete, to lay down from aloft, I suppose.  Claiborne prompted, -- And the downbooms?  -- I should tell them to lay in the downbooms.  They regarded him noncommittally. The warrant fingered his whistle, which hung from his neck on a lanyard of ornately embroidered marline. He said, -- Say ye're under way by the wind on a starboard tack, under all sail. What d'ya do if the wind hauls aft, as the officer of the deck?  Eli coughed into his fist, fighting both nervousness and the familiar rising tickle in his throat. -- Maintaining the same course? I should first ease off sheets. Get a pull of the braces. Man the halyards on deck, then haul taut and hoist away. And make sure, ah, make sure the boom, I forget the name of it, but make sure it's ready for coming back in.  Claiborne asked him, -- How many pieces of gear does a fully rigged ship need?  He sat struck dumb. There would be hundreds, no, thousands of fittings and parts from truck to keel. Then he smiled.  -- Why, none, of course. If she needed any, she would not be fully rigged.  The first officer favored him with a lifted eyebrow. -- He's got that right, at least. Well, Boats?  -- 'E don't know the commands, sor.  -- Granting that, his unfamiliarity with service phraseology.  -- Well, he's sort of got the idear. We maught could train him up, if he was willing to work. But a verbal examination ain't no proof of his effectiveness on deck. And a yacht ain't no warship.  The exec turned to Eli and cleared his throat. -- Well, you have heard your judgment rendered. A segar, sir?  -- Thank you, no. Feel free, if you like.  -- Bo's'n?  -- Thanks, sor, b'lieve I will indulge.  The two navy men lifted the globe of the lamp to light their cheroots. The lieutenant settled back on the settee, puffing out a cloud of rum-cured Cuban as the clank and drag of a massive chain reverberated through the overhead. -- Are you certain you wish to subject yourself to sea-discipline, Mr. Eaker? The rigors and subordination of a man-of-war are quite a comedown from the leisure of civilian existence.  -- I shall endeavor to do so to the best of my ability.  -- So you present yourself as a gentleman volunteer, is that what we are to understand? Serving on a pro bono basis, with no allowances of any sort?  -- That is correct, sir.  The exec cleared his throat. -- An irregular mode of proceeding; but these seem to be irregular times. The final decision must be the captain's. Still, it's true we're very shorthanded. I will propose this: you take over the Forecastle Division; and since our gunnery officer has left for Mississippi, assume that position as well, at least temporarily. I'll ask Mr. Duycker to be your bear-leader. That is, to break you in on deck, and give you such guidance as you may need to find your footing.  Eli recalled the black weapons couched on the deck above, the half-naked men slaving over them like acolytes of a heathen temple. He had not anticipated quite so responsible a task so soon. But this did not seem to be the time to offer demurrals. Claiborne waited, then went on, -- Bo's'n, have him put into Mr. Minter's stateroom, if you please. Then bring him back for luncheon, and we'll take his measure in the mess.  His cabin was soberingly small, dark, and dank, so much so he suspected he was being shown a punishment cell by way of further test; but he said nothing, simply nodded to the old man. Girnsolver was leading him down a narrow passageway when a smear-faced little fellow in dirty clothes shoved past. Eli started to protest, then closed his mouth again. He brushed smut off his coat and continued after Girnsolver, who was rambling to the end of what was obviously a well-worn tale about Captain Porter and the old Essex's battle with the Cherub and Phoebe off Valparaiso in March of '14.  -- Y're joinin' a good ship here, sor. Not tae much Andrew Miller and sichlike pimpiness, and the prog's first-rate. We're supposed to go inta ordinary, after this long trick in Africky, but scuttlebutt is they're sending us down to deal with these here se-cessionists. Since we're about the only steamer left around.  -- The rest of the fleet's overseas, I understand.  -- Yes sor, in the Med or off Brazil. If something goes to pop, we're the ones t'will have to pull the chestnuts. Girnsolver opened another door, gestured him through. -- Mind you use the right fork, sor, and good luck.  Claiborne introduced him simply as a Manhattan gentleman, interested in joining the sea service. Mindful that his stay was uncertain, Eli merely bowed as, one after the other, the exec introduced the men around the dining table.  The paymaster and purser was a supercilious-looking Israelite named Judah Glass. The smutty boy who'd jostled Eli in the corridor had become a small-framed but fully grown man, face scrubbed, re-attired in a civilian sack coat and tie. He was introduced as Mr. Theodorus Hubbard. A magnificently mustachioed officer in a blue army-style uniform and gold shoulder knots was presented as Lieutenant Robert Schuyler, commanding Owanee's detachment of marines.  Nicholas Duycker was a lean, graying master; he favored Eli with a Voltairean smirk as they shook hands. Eli recognized the man Claiborne had appointed to ""bear-lead"" him.  A corpulent, brandy-breathed fellow well past youth rose grudgingly to the name of Doctor Alphaeus Steele. There remained two very young midshipmen, Eddowes and Thurston, and three empty places. When the proprieties were satisfied Claiborne took the head of the table and led them in a short grace.  -- Well, and what is the mood of the city today? Dr. Steele asked Eli as an aged, bent Negro in a rusty frock coat slowly passed from one to the next, pouring out a tablespoon of claret to each glass.  He noted the others awaiting his lead as guest. He raised the glass to his lips, though he did not actually drink. Instead of answering he said, -- And this man? Has he a name?  Claiborne looked puzzled. -- I believe I have introduced everyone.  -- Not our sable friend here, said Eli, turning in his seat to face the Negro.  The table quieted. The old man had stopped short, on his way out with the carafe, but did not speak. Looking up, Elisha saw the far orb turned on him now. A silver-filmed sphere, immobile, obviously blind, it yet gave the impression of pr?ternatural observation. An elderberry mark was tattooed on each temple in the shape of a shark's fin. The front teeth were filed, not to points, but successively, long yellow teeth alternating with mere pegs. A chill hackled Eli's spine.  -- We call him Uncle Ahasuerus, said Claiborne quietly. -- He does not answer you because he cannot speak. He was mutilated some years ago by the Kroomen, his own tribe. Why, we do not know. When we took him off a Brazil-bound slaver he indicated his desire to stay with us, in the capacity wherein you see him. He is Commander Trezevant's -- is the phrase fidus Achates?  Eli nodded. The reference was to Vergil; Achates had been the faithful companion who accompanied Aeneas on his wanderings.  The steward left, vanishing into some back pantry. Dr. Steele rumbled his throat free and said again, -- What news from the city? Is the mayor still offering to secede, along with his friend Jeff Davis?  A chuckle ran around the table. Eli flushed, reminded of the corrupt Fernando Wood's proposal that New York should leave what he called a ""dismembered government,"" the better to retain its hundreds of millions in Southern business. -- The city's overwhelmingly loyal. My father says the price of gold has found its level --   An etheric current seemed to run around the table, as at the sances popular in some circles. Duycker drawled, -- Your father wouldn't be --   -- He is Micah Eaker.  -- Who is...? said Claiborne, looking from one to the other.  -- A Manhattan financier, Hubbard said darkly, helping himself to a tureen of Lynnhaven oysters. Eli caught his glance; the envy in it was unmistakable.  Steele hoisted his eyebrows. -- Not merely a ""financier,"" my dear Hubbard. Micah Eaker sitteth at the right hand of Vanderbilt and Astor.  -- One fellow who won't cavil at the mess bill, at least, Glass muttered.  -- Moreover, he is one of the leading lights of Republicanism in the Empire State. And you, sir? Do I sense you too worship at that dusky shrine?  Eli helped himself to the stewed oysters, trying to keep his sangfroid. The room was warm, and the hot food didn't help; he felt sweat break under the heavy wool uniform. -- I am a Republican. Not from any sense of righteousness, I am afraid. My grandfather traded to Africa and, I regret to say, trafficked in helpless men and women, stolen from their homes.  -- A trade which has not yet ended, Glass put in. -- We have just returned from a long patrol on the Gulf of Guinea, and had several encounters with illegal blackbirders. Most of whose masters, interestingly enough, hail from New England.  Steele pressed. -- You are a Lincolnian, sir?  -- Since hearing him, yes, I number myself among those friendly to him.  -- You've met the president? Schuyler said. The marine had a scratchy, damaged-sounding voice, and touched his collar as he spoke.  -- I heard him speak at Cooper Union, when he began his quest for the nomination.  Duycker said contemptuously, -- You support the man who's destroying the Union? Does he really resemble what Mr. Darwin would style -- how would you put it, Hubbard -- our ""anthropoid cousins""?  Claiborne cleared his throat in warning. But Eli replied, as coolly as he could, -- Not at all. It's true he's taller than the average, but he's not the outlandish character such pandering rags as the Herald make him out to be.  Duycker smiled loftily, started to respond, but the exec said sharply, -- Politics are out of order in the mess, gentlemen. Find some other topic.  -- Such as the impossibility of putting to sea with these wretched boilers, the engineer said.  The others sighed. Eli essayed a chuckle. -- We can still sail, can't we?  Hubbard glared. -- Useless top-hamper, and a lot of useless hands to pull it about. Throw it all overboard, and fill the hull with coal.  -- Mr. Hubbard is a mechanical enthusiast, Claiborne explained. -- But sails do not break down, Theo. Should a mast go to smash, we simply jury-rig a spar. But when her engine breaks down, a steamer is helpless.  -- A ship should have two, then.  -- That really is going beyond the bounds of good taste, said Glass silkily. -- We should be manned with nothing but grease monkeys and Paddy stokers, and sleep with lumps of bituminous stuffed into our ticking.  They chortled as the ancient Negro, glaring out from his unclouded eye, took off the soup plates and brought baked cod in thin, flaky crust, asparagus, hot scones and sweet butter, and sliced burgaloos for dessert. By the time they sipped hot coffee ground from beans purchased in the Bay of Benin, Dr. Steele was dilating on a remarkable flower that he had observed in Martinique. -- The mere scent of which can induce vomiting. If inhaled in a closed room, I was told, it would induce death in persons of weakened constitution; by reason of which, it has been implicated in numerous mercy murders of the aged and infirm.  And the unpleasant topic of disunion had been banished from the speech, if not the thoughts, of all.  After luncheon Claiborne put him together with the gunner, one Thomas Babcock, a heavyset, saturnine, bald-headed warrant, or senior petty officer, old enough to be his father, if not his grandfather; in fact the same man Eli had first saluted on stepping aboard. Babcock, who seemed to be in a bad humor, carried a colt, a short length of braided manila that he continually slapped against his thigh. He led Eli on a tour of their demesne. Owanee carried five guns. To port and starboard midships crouched four old-style thirty-two-pounders, grim Jaganaths on oaken carriages with lignum vitae trucks. The largest, though, was the single huge nine-inch Dahlgren. It was mounted forward, but iron racers on deck made it trainable to either broadside. The gunners were working on it, scraping off the last of a greasy coating. Babcock explained that they were preparing the metal for varnishing. Gradually Eli noted that their apparent leader was a huge man with enormous shoulders.  He muttered to the gunner, -- Is he a member of the crew?  -- Hanks! Stand to attention.  The sailor froze, half turned at the warrant's peremptory summons. For the merest fraction of a second Eli caught a red-eyed gaze, direct and full of what looked very much like hatred. Then, quick as the snap of a caplock, a blank mask took its place. The sailor laid aside an iron handspike, straightened from his work, and came to attention in front of them.  -- Calpurnius Hanks, sir.  -- Mr. Eaker didn't address you, boy, said Babcock threateningly. -- You keep that mouth shut till you hear an order, or you and me are going to have a falling-out. The sailor blinked; his mouth compressed, then sank back into a quiescent line.  Eli did not count himself as a small man, but Hanks looked twice as wide. He examined the rounded head, the small, protruding ears, curled as if they'd been given a hard twist in infancy. His beard was tightly curled, as if twisted back into the skin. His lips were fleshier than a white man's and, with the heavy, outthrust jaw, projected the lower half of his face forward. Deep brown irises deepened to a black pool, the whites like old ivory. Eli's glance dropped to large, curled hands, then to big, blacked, square-toed boots.  -- He calls himself a freedman, said Babcock, slapping the colt into his palm. Eli noted a tattooed American flag on the back of his hand. -- But I think he's an escaped slave.  He tried to imagine the black in rags, fleeing, the way Liza jumped across the ice floes in Mrs. Stowe's play. He could not catch the man's gaze. It floated beyond him, fast to the distant line of river and bay.  -- Your position aboard, Hanks? Eli asked him.  The wide lips hesitated. -- Second gun cap'n on numbah one, sir.  -- Are you truly an escaped slave?  -- Fugitive slaves not permitted to enlist in the navy, sir.  He nodded. A good answer to a question he realized now he should not have asked. -- Very well, Hanks. You can go back to your work.  They descended from there to inspect the magazines, arms lockers, and departmental records. Eli insisted on an inventory. Two hours later, he realized it was well he had. Eight of the ship's revolvers were missing.  -- Mr. Minter did leave with a heavy carpetbag, Babcock said darkly.  -- I had best report this loss to Mr. Claiborne.  -- You think he'll mind?  Eli frowned. -- What do you mean by that?  Babcock met his eye, glowering. -- Sir, we enlisted men can't resign. That'd be desertion. But the officers are let to walk off whenever they like. If I might speak frankly, there's others still aboard more secesh than otherwise.  -- I will not countenance criticism of the officers, Eli said stiffly. -- Excuse me.  Neither gun room nor wardroom held Claiborne. Only when Eli came out onto the main deck, now cooler beneath the threat of a squall, did he see him by the gangway, peering through a telescope. When he came up the first lieutenant clapped it shut.  -- A word, sir.  -- Your servant, Mr. Eaker.  He explained about the revolvers, and Babcock's suspicion as to their fate. Claiborne's lips tightened, but he said only, -- I will enter that information in the log. Now, if you please, stand away from the quarterdeck.  Two men were walking toward them down the pier. One was in undress uniform, a lean aristocrat with a raptorial nose and weather-beaten complexion. The other was stouter, black bearded, in a steel-pen coat and top hat. He gestured expansively with both arms as they paused at the brow.  The boatswain's pipe shrilled. -- Owanee, arriving, Midshipman Thurston shouted to the quartermaster. A pendant snapped down from the leaden sky, leaving the Stars and Stripes to rustle and flap alone in a sudden cold breeze.  The officer paused as he stepped aboard, sweeping a keen glance aloft, then down the main deck. As he returned Claiborne's salute his gaze marked Eaker, then returned to his companion as the latter resumed speaking.  -- That's the captain? Elisha asked, when the new arrivals had vanished below.  -- Commander Parker Bucyrus Trezevant, Owanee's commanding officer.  -- And the other?  -- A Mr. Fox, a former naval man who I understand now runs a woolen mill. He is connected with the Blairs. Something of a politician, I suspect.  Eli said, -- I'd like to step ashore now, if no one minds. Is that all right?  -- That is generally phrased in the service, ""Request permission to go ashore, sir."" Claiborne smiled, making a jest of it rather than a rebuke, and Elisha found himself liking the Southerner. -- You will not stay the evening? Theodorus is not a bad hand at the harmonium, and the captain carries a baritone. We also play various and beautiful but somewhat uncertain games of cards. But perhaps you have a rendezvous with one of the softer sex.  Eli flushed, recalling who actually waited for him, and what he had to tell him. The thought made his palms sweat. For a moment he was tempted to confide in Claiborne, perhaps ask his advice. But at last all he said was, -- I'm expected home.  Facing the old flag, he contemplated its bloody scarlet and empyrean blue, the scatter of stars, each separate, yet conveying in their massed ranks power and unanimity. Could it be possible that the ""mystic chords of memory,"" as the new president had styled them in his inaugural address, could be sundered? He could not believe it. The erring sisters would return, once a firm hand was shown. But by then he'd be free. One way or another, surely he would be free.  Descending the gangway, he vanished into the blue evening.  Copyright  2001 by David Poyer",americas;books;civil war;contemporary;genre fiction;historical;history;literature & fiction;naval operations;sea adventures;united states;war,12
1860940366,"Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness ""... no one could deny that Aleksander is doing a good job in this book of rehabilitating and making accessible some of the more unreasonable, some might say unfathomable, of AI's tenets: would recommend Aleksander's book as if nothing else, an excellent primer on matters of AI consciousness and philosopy."" (Peter Thomas, New Scientist, 1996)	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	... his book provides a popular account of the problem of consciousness. It is a personal view, from the perspective of a plain-speaking and clear-sighted engineer, articulated with all the optimism and confidence that engineers need to pursue the audacious goal of designing intelligent and conscious robots ... it is more of an 'ideas' book, and was fun to read. It should be an adventure and an inspiration for the human, if not yet the robotic, mind.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	""... his book provides a popular account of the problem of consciousness. It is a personal view, from the perspective of a plain-speaking and clear-sighted engineer, articulated with all the optimism and confidence that engineers need to pursue the audacious goal of designing intelligent and conscious robots ... it is more of an 'ideas' book, and was fun to read. It should be an adventure and an inspiration for the human, if not yet the robotic, mind.""  William Clocksin  Nature, 1996  ""... no one could deny that Aleksander is doing a good job in this book of rehabilitating and making accessible some of the more unreasonable, some might say unfathomable, of AI's tenets: would recommend Aleksander's book as if nothing else, an excellent primer on matters of AI consciousness and philosophy.""  Peter Thomas  New Scientist, 1996  ""... reading 'Impossible Minds' is a lot of fun, both for the variety of topics and for the controversies it touches upon. For the beginner it is a good introduction to a fast-growing discipline; for every reader it is a good starting point of healthy argument with the author's views.""  International Journal of Neural Systems  Apr 1997	Published by Imperial College Press and distributed by World Scientific Co.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Igor Aleksander has been researching intelligent machinery for more than 30 years, and has published 10 books and over 200 scientific papers on the subject. His books include the best-sellers Reinventing Man, Introduction to Neural Computing and Neurons and Symbols. For this work he was elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering. He currently leads a 20-strong team at Imperial College, London, researching artificial consciousness. He makes frequent TV and radio appearances.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;computers & technology;fitness & dieting;general;health;medical books;neuropsychology;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0691115621,"Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool ""Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail is one of the most nuanced, sophisticated, and ethnographically rigorous works on the process of racial formation available, stretching the analysis of 'race' well beyond the by now familiar somatic and political points of reference and theoretical debates. It is also an important and original contribution to our understanding of the spatial constitution of subjectivity and the African diaspora in a fascinating and little-researched ethnographic location."" - Steven Gregory, Columbia University, author of Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community; ""This eloquently written work engages with a variety of issues encompassing not just the discipline of anthropology but also sociology, race and ethnic studies, and black history."" - Diane Frost, University of Liverpool, author of Work and Community among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century""	""Take a tour around Black Liverpool, where race, sexuality, nation, and gender emerge from docksides, demonstrations, and dancehalls. Jacqueline Browns Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail presses forward a new anthropology of place, in which place emerges with a cultural agency of its own. Blacks become 'Liverpool born,' and the local is simultaneously global and so very English. In this compelling account, Liverpools place--and the making of race--come to life.""--Anna Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen""Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail is one of the most nuanced, sophisticated, and ethnographically rigorous works on the process of racial formation available, stretching the analysis of 'race' well beyond the by now familiar somatic and political points of reference and theoretical debates. It is also an important and original contribution to our understanding of the spatial constitution of subjectivity and the African diaspora in a fascinating and little-researched ethnographic location.""--Steven Gregory, Columbia University, author of Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community""This eloquently written work engages with a variety of issues encompassing not just the discipline of anthropology but also sociology, race and ethnic studies, and black history. While acknowledging the contributions of others, Brown also contributes something new, both in terms of the theoretical underpinning she employs to the subject and in the fascinating ethnographic details she so expertly draws out of her subjects. This material is exciting and very significant.""--Diane Frost, University of Liverpool, author of Work and Community among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century	""Take a tour around Black Liverpool, where race, sexuality, nation, and gender emerge from docksides, demonstrations, and dancehalls. Jacqueline Brown's Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail presses forward a new anthropology of place, in which place emerges with a cultural agency of its own. Blacks become 'Liverpool born,' and the local is simultaneously global and so very English. In this compelling account, Liverpool's place--and the making of race--come to life.""--Anna Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen""Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail is one of the most nuanced, sophisticated, and ethnographically rigorous works on the process of racial formation available, stretching the analysis of 'race' well beyond the by now familiar somatic and political points of reference and theoretical debates. It is also an important and original contribution to our understanding of the spatial constitution of subjectivity and the African diaspora in a fascinating and little-researched ethnographic location.""--Steven Gregory, Columbia University, author of Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community""This eloquently written work engages with a variety of issues encompassing not just the discipline of anthropology but also sociology, race and ethnic studies, and black history. While acknowledging the contributions of others, Brown also contributes something new, both in terms of the theoretical underpinning she employs to the subject and in the fascinating ethnographic details she so expertly draws out of her subjects. This material is exciting and very significant.""--Diane Frost, University of Liverpool, author of Work and Community among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Jacqueline Nassy Brown is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College of the City University of New York.",african-american studies;anthropology;books;cultural;england;europe;history;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;urban,12
0672315378,"Java Distributed Objects This book is a comprehensive guide to Java distributed computing. It assumes the reader is an experienced Java programming, but has little experience with network programming and distributed objects.   This book covers networking, distributed computing architectures, advanced Java facilities, security, data management, and specific distributed computing techniques including sockets, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java servlets, Microsoft's Distributed Component Model (DCOM), and the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). This book covers all these protocols, gives advice on when to use each protocol, and demonstrates how they work (or don't work) together.	Bill McCarty, Ph.D., is a professor of MIS and computer science at Azusa Pacific University. He has spent over 20 years developing distributed computing applications, and 7 years teaching advanced programming to graduate students. Dr. McCarty is also co-author of the well-received Object-Oriented Programming in Java, (see attached reader reviews). Luke Cassady-Dorion is a professional programmer with 8 years of experience developing commercial distributed computing applications, and specializes in Java/CORBA programming.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;java;languages & tools;mathematics;object-oriented design;programming;science & math;software;software design;testing & engineering,12
1840373644,"Messerschmitt Bf 109 (Combat Legends) Jerry Scutts has spent many years in journalism including a stint with the UK Civil Aviation Authority. As a full-time author since the 1980s he has written nearly sixty books dealing with aviation in WW2, Korea and Vietnam. Jerry has also written on his secondary interest, naval history.",aerospace;aviation;books;conventional;engineering;history;military;professional & technical;science & math;technology;weapons & warfare;world war ii,12
073570869X,"Windows 2000 Essential Reference (Essential Reference S.) More a volume of condensed wisdom than a traditional reference book,   Windows 2000 Essential Reference serves its readers well in a couple of   ways. You can use it to glean specific information about particular aspects of   Windows 2000 in all its forms, such as when you refer to the authors'   step-by-step instructions on how to configure a server for remote configuration   via a terminal. Alternately, you can read it straight through in order to   extract somewhat softer wisdom, such as what software system administrators   should carry in their briefcases and how to design Active Directory systems for   maximum reliability and minimum network traffic.     The thankfully small reference of command-line utilities disappoints, as it   lacks syntax templates and documentation of switches. But the rest of this book   more than compensates for the shaky command-line reference, and it's possible to   use the index as a surrogate for the alphabetical listings you would expect to   find in a reference. On virtually every Windows 2000 subject (the authors pay   attention to all four variants of the OS, by the way), you'll find some   explanatory prose and some procedures for common situations. Best of all,   there's a bunch of bulleted points in which the authors share nuggets of   knowledge that don't fit well anywhere else. These succinct facts make this book   a worthwhile buy for Windows 2000 systems administrators, particularly new ones   who are in need of guidance from more experienced users. --David Wall    Topics covered: Microsoft Windows 2000 for system and network   administrators. Sections deal with planning and installation, hardware   configuration, network setup and modification, Microsoft Management Console   (MMC) and other administration tools, accounts, and network services. There's   emphasis on Active Directory and its way of working with the Domain Name System   (DNS), as well as information on Windows 2000's TCP/IP implementation.	Steve Tate, MCT and MCSE, has had seven years of experience with Windows NT and   NetWare LAN administration. Most recently, Steve has focused exclusively on   training and consulting on networking with Microsoft technologies. He was   selected by Microsoft to be a member of the Windows NT 5.0 Rapid Deployment Team   and has also developed exam items for Microsoft for use in Microsoft Certified   Professional exams. His authoring experience includes two New Riders Publishing   books: MCSE Training Guide: Windows NT 4 Workstation and Windows NT Server 4:   Security, Troubleshooting, and Optimization.        Prior to teaching MS-certified courses, Steve was a trainer/consultant   specializing in end-user applications training. He also dabbled in corporate   life (a Systems Analyst programming in COBOL), and had stints as a PC analyst,   computer salesman, and graduate student.        Jon Boggs is an MCSE, MCSD, and CNE. As a senior consultant for the eBusiness   Networks practice of Xpedior Incorporated in Chicago, he has provided consulting   services to a number of nationally known corporations. He is an expert at   automating administrative tasks and system deployments, typically employing a   mix of Windows NT/2000, SMS, and Visual Basic. Jon co-authored Planning for   Windows 2000 and served as a technical reviewer on several BackOffice-related   books. He enjoys reading and biking in his spare time.        Scott Burgess is a Managing Consultant and Sr. eBusiness Architect for Xpedior   Incorporated, the number one Microsoft solution provider of the year worldwide   for both 1997 and 1999. Scott is an MCSE+I and is MCT certified to teach all the   current Microsoft products, including the new Windows 2000 curriculum. Scott has   15 years of experience implementing and designing enterprise-wide LAN, WAN, and   heterogeneous operating system environments, including OS390, AS400, UNIX, NT,   and OS/2. In the past two years, Scott's focus has been centered on the in-depth   beta testing of Windows 2000. Through his involvement with Microsoft's JDP   program (Joint Deployment Program), Scott and his team have architected and   implemented several rollouts of Windows 2000 to international customers.  Randy Cook is an independent contractor from Salt Lake City, Utah. His   qualifications include Certified Novell Instructor, Master CNE, Microsoft   Certified Trainer, MCSE, and the Cisco CCNA. He is currently working for Blue   Cross/Blue Shield of Florida as a LAN Architect in their NT Enterprise and   teaches in his spare time at Productivity Point International, Jacksonville   Florida. He has an extensive background in distributive network integration and   Directory Services.        Jeremy Deats (jeremy@pdq.net) is a Web application developer and e-commerce   consultant with Penta, Inc. in Houston, Texas. Jeremy is a Microsoft Certified   Professional in Visual Basic and is certified in IBM's Net.Commerce. When he's   not hard at work, Jeremy is either spending time with his beautiful fiance   Amanda Clement or playing his guitar.        Art Henning's 14-year career with Intergraph Corporation includes a wide scope   of experience in a support role for hardware, software, and networks with VAX   VMS, various flavors of Unix, and WinNT, beginning with beta versions of 3.1.   Art was staffed for three years as a Software Analyst and Consultant for   Intergraph's NFS products, which were licensed to Microsoft and released as part   of the WindowsNT Services for Unix bundle. This included certification work with   Windows 2000. He currently is a Systems Administrator for one of Intergraph's   MIS departments, and is an MCP.        Chris Jones is a Microsoft Certified System Engineer. He holds a B.S.B.A. in   Management Information Systems and Finance from the University of Arizona. Chris   is currently a Senior Systems Programmer for Intel Corporation. His experience   at Intel has included engineering and implementation of enterprise Windows NT   infrastructure architectures and extensive involvement in Microsoft's Joint   Development Program for Windows 2000. Chris enjoys mountain biking, golf, and   Tae Kwon Do in his spare time.        Thomas Lee is an independent computer consultant who has been working with   Windows NT since 1993. After graduating with a BS in Computer Problem Solving   from Carnegie Mellon University, he worked on two successful operating system   projects (Comshare___s Commander II and ICL___s VME) before joining Andersen   Consulting in 1981, where he was a manager in the London office. He has been an   independent consultant since 1987. Most recently, he worked in Redmond   developing Windows 2000 Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) training material   and is presently engaged in several consulting projects relating to Windows   2000. Thomas is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Member of the   Institute of IT Trainers, as well as being a Microsoft Certified Systems   Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), and Microsoft Valued   Professional (MVP). Thomas lives in a cottage in the English countryside with   his wife, Susan, and daughter, Rebecca. You can contact Thomas at tfl@psp.co.uk.  Mary McLaughlin, MCSE+I, MCT, ASE, ACT, lives in the Boston area with her   beloved daughter, Margaret. She started as a systems administrator 10 years ago,   and has worked consistently on small- to medium-sized LANs and WANs for profit   and non-profit organizations. In the last five years, her focus has been on   training individuals in Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Compaq technologies.   Currently, she is involved in security solutions such as firewall, VPN, and PKI   technologies.        Jim Mulvey is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Microsoft   Certified Trainer (MCT). He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the   University of Connecticut. His 13 years of experience in the IT industry include   project management, architecture, systems engineering, and technical support   under a variety of platforms. He is currently a Senior Consultant with Xpedior   Incorporated, an eBusiness solutions provider awarded Microsoft's ""Partner of   the YearWorldwide"" award for 1997. His experience at Xpedior includes   engagement in Microsoft's Joint Deployment Program for Windows 2000, in which he   was project manager and chief architect for one of the first production Windows   2000 Domain designs.        James O'Neill was born in 1965 and lives near Oxford, England. After doing a BSc   in Computer Science at the University of Exeter, he joined the UK's biggest   supplier of PCs for schools, where he planned and supported customers' networks   before leaving in 1993 to work in the IT training industry. In 1995 he became   Managing Director and major shareholder of SHX, a Microsoft Certified Technical   Education Centre, before selling it in 1998, but continued to teach Windows NT   and Microsoft Exchange. In 1999, he worked as part of Microsoft's team   developing the MCP exams for Windows 2000. He married his wife Jackie in 1989   and their daughter Lisa was born in January 2000. He collects quotations and has   the irritating habit of talking about himself in the third person.        David Shackelford holds a master's degree from California State University at   Fullerton. His background includes working as a beekeeper, screening submissions   for a popular poetry journal, and teaching NT operating system and networking   courses at Hewlett Packard and Intel. He currently works for a firm in southern   California as the supervisor of network operations.        Paul Papanek Stork is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the E-Ideas Lab for   Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Paul has an   MBA from Weatherhead and is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, a Microsoft Certified   Systems Engineer plus Internet, and a Certified Novell Engineer with more than   14 years of experience designing, implementing and supporting Microsoft and   Novell Networks. Prior to his appointment as a lecturer at Weatherhead in   January of 2000, Paul was an active member of Microsoft's Windows 2000 Rapid   Deployment Program for DeCarlo, Paternite, and Associates, Inc. As a staff   instructor at DPAI, he was one of the first MCTs in the Midwest to teach beta   classes on Windows 2000 to other trainers and network engineers.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;microsoft;networking;new;operating systems;software;used & rental textbooks;windows os,12
0471397512,"Valuation WorKbook: Step-by-Step Exercises and Test to Help You Master Valuation Test Your Knowledge with the Ideal Companion Workbook to the #1 Guide to Corporate Valuation!This professional workbook and study guide is the ideal complement to the bestselling Valuation, the definitive guide to measuring, managing, and maximizing a company's value. The Valuation Workbook allows you to self-test your knowledge before putting it to work in real-world situations. A clearly organized parallel volume to Valuation, the Workbook:* Walks you through the text, chapter by chapter* Tests your comprehension and calculation skills with multiple choice questions and problems that help you practice applying the principles in the book* Covers multibusiness, dot.com, bank, and insurance company valuation, as well as the ins and outs of valuing cyclical companies and option pricing methodsAlong with a complete answer key, the Workbook also covers such essentials as what drives value creation, value metrics, M and joint ventures, valuation frameworks, how to analyze historical information, estimating the cost of capital and continuing value, forecasting performance, and calculating results. Brief chapter summaries reinforce major points.The Valuation Workbook makes Valuation a more valuable business reference than ever before.Please visit us at www.WileyValuation.comWileyValuation.com is a premier Web site devoted to all things valuation. At this unique online community for financial professionals, you will enjoy the following features:* New information on valuation topics and links to key valuation sites* Valuation message boards and chats* Downloadable valuation spreadsheets	McKINSEY & COMPANY, INC. is an international top management consulting firm. Founded in 1926, McKinsey & Company, Inc., advises leading companies around the world on issues of strategy, organization, and operations, and in specialized areas such as finance, information technology and the Internet, research and development, sales, marketing, manufacturing, and distribution.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;education & reference;finance;new;professional & technical;reference;used & rental textbooks,12
1405115815,"Aviation Food Safety The provision of safe food to millions of airline passengers annually is now a multi-billion dollar industry. The consequences of in-flight food poisoning are extremely serious not only to the passengers, crew (and consequent safety of the aircraft) but to the airline company's reputation and possible exposure to litigation. This important book looks at all aspects of the provision of safe food to airline passengers, including coverage of topics such as codes of practice, food production, supply chain logistics, HACCP, galley design, managing aircraft water safety and liability issues. Written by Erica Sheward of Castle Kitchens, a company providing high class catering exclusively to business and private aviation, this book is an essential purchase to all those involved in this important and growing industry.	The provision of safe food to airline passengers is now a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide. As the aviation industry continues to grow year on year, so do passenger food service expectations, with increasing demand for wider choice and greater quality. Often neglected and under-regulated, food safety should be of paramount importance amid this growth.The consequences of in-flight food poisoning are extremely serious not only for the passengers involved, but also for the crew associated safety of the aircraft, and ultimately the airlines reputation. In this much needed book Erica Sheward makes a compelling case for better management of food safety for all aspects of the aircraft food supply chain with comprehensive coverage of:HACCP Codes of practice Supply chain logistics Fitness to fly Managing aircraft water safety Liability issues Food SecurityManufacturers and suppliers of products to the airline catering industry, business aviation caterers, airline Quality Assurance and hygiene personnel, product development managers, food safety regulators, aviation safety and security regulators, decision makers and company executives in any area of aviation as well as lecturers and students in all areas of the hospitality and travel sectors will find this book a vital tool.	Erica Sheward is a Director of Castle Kitchens Ltd, a UK based food manufacturer, providing bespoke meal solutions for business and private aviation, special dietary requirement meals to the commercial aviation and healthcare sectors and own branded recipe dishes to the retail market.",agricultural sciences;aviation;books;chemical;commercial;engineering;food science;new;professional & technical;science & math;transportation;used & rental textbooks,12
1403965420,"Summer Stock!: An American Theatrical Phenomenon ""With wit, clarity, thoroughness, and a wonderful sense of discovery, Martha LoMonaco has written a captivating, informative, and very entertaining history and debunking of the mythology of this most American of theatrical traditions... A stimulating and delightful journey to our past.""--Don B. Wilmeth, Brown University""The largely overlooked history of American summer stock is illuminated in this energetic and powerful book. Martha LoMonaco sets out to change our perception of summer stock, and she succeeds admirably. Combining meticulous research, breathtaking knowledge of twentieth-century theatre history, and deep love for the subject, the author has produced a groundbreaking account of this indigenous American art form. The book will broaden our understanding of American theatre history and enrich the study of American culture.""--David Krasner, Yale University""LoMonaco vividly profiles the colorful individuals who invented summer stock...And she knows a good quote when she sees one, such as Tallulah Bankhead's famous advice to faded starts: 'When th wolf's at the door, run to the barns.""--Wendy Smith, Variety	Martha Schmoyer LoMonaco is the Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University and Associate Professor of Theatre.",20th century;americas;arts & photography;books;history;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;modern (16th-21st centuries);performing arts;stagecraft;theater;united states,12
0631216774,"Norsemen in the Viking Age (The Peoples of Europe) ""This is an interesting, often informative and provocative book."" The Medieval Review ""[A] thought-provoking survey of, and engagement with, the whole gamut of Viking-age activities and resulting scholarship."" Saga Book""This book is an absolute delight, a quirky, hard-hitting potpourri to be dipped into and savoured by anyone even remotely interested in the period  Altogether this is a lively, provocative and stimulating book, strongly recommended to anyone with interest in early medieval Europe or indeed any reader seeking entertainment."" History July 2007	""This is an interesting, often informative and provocative book."" The Medieval Review ""[A] thought-provoking survey of, and engagement with, the whole gamut of Viking-age activities and resulting scholarship."" Saga Book""This book is an absolute delight, a quirky, hard-hitting potpourri to be dipped into and savoured by anyone even remotely interested in the period  Altogether this is a lively, provocative and stimulating book, strongly recommended to anyone with interest in early medieval Europe or indeed any reader seeking entertainment."" History July 2007	This history separates the Nordic peoples from such organizing principles & describes life in their homelands & colonies in terms of more or less ingenious responses to hostile environments at one & overseas.	This book is a lively introduction to Norsemen in the period 750-1050. Without dismissing stereotypes of aggressive, warmongering Vikings, Eric Christiansen shows how Nordic peoples responded to hostile environments at home and overseas. He concentrates on life within their homelands and colonies, families and communities.The Norsemen in the Viking Age covers many aspects of Nordic life, including ecology, politics, war, work, and migration. Christiansen examines both social conventions and self-awareness of individuals and groups, and reconstructs Viking-age ideas about the past, present, and future to explain contemporary behaviour.Runic, poetic, and archaeological evidence is used to illustrate the author's arguments, while an appendix sketches the outline of modern research and the directions it is taking.	Eric Christiansen was born in 1937 and educated in England. He is a Fellow Emeritus of New College, Oxford. His publications include The Origins of Military Power in Spain (1967), The Northern Crusades (Second Edition, 1996) and translations of Saxo Grammaticus books X-XVI (1980-81), Sven Aggesen (1992) and Dudo of St Quentin (1998).",archaeology;books;europe;history;humanities;ireland;medieval;new;politics & social sciences;scandinavia;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
1596581905,"University of Wisconsin: Off the Record (College Prowler) The new kid on the block when it comes to student-to-student assessments of college campuses. -- Benjamin Gilbert, Washington Post, April 27, 2004The prospective college student's antidote to the Princeton Review doldrums. -- Melissa Kaplan, Boston Globe, May 23, 2004The real lowdown on campus life. -- Laura Randall and Kimetris N. Baltrip, New York Times, January 18, 2004	College guides for each of the top colleges and universities in the US  While writing our series of college guides, we felt it was critical that our content was unbiased and unaffiliated with any college or university. We think it s important that our readers get honest information and a realistic impression of the student opinions on any college campus that s why if any aspect of a particular college is terrible, we (unlike a campus brochure) intend to publish it. While we do keep an eye out for the occasional extremist the cheerleader or the cynic we take pride in letting the college students tell it like it is. We strive to create a college guide that s as representative as possible of each particular campus. Our guides cover both the good and the bad, and whether the survey responses point to recurring trends or a variation in opinion, these sentiments are directly and proportionally expressed through our guides. College Prowler guides are in the hands of students throughout the entire process of their creation. Because you can t make student-written guides without the students, we have students at each college campus who help write, randomly survey their peers, edit, layout, and perform accuracy checks on every college guide that we publish. From the very beginning, student writers gather the most up-to-date stats, facts, and inside information on their colleges. They fill each section with student quotes and summarize the findings in editorial reviews. In addition, each college or university receives a collection of letter grades (A through F) that reflect student opinion and help to represent contentment, prominence, or satisfaction for each of our 20 specific categories. Just as in grade school, the higher the mark the more content, more prominent, or more satisfied the students are with the particular category. Once a college guide is written, additional college students serve as editors and check for accuracy even more extensively. Our bounce-back team a group of randomly selected students who have no involvement with the project are asked to read over the material in order to help ensure that the guide accurately expresses every aspect of the university and its students. This same process is applied to the nearly 300 colleges and universities College Prowler currently covers. Each guide is the result of endless student contributions, hundreds of pages of research and writing, and countless hours of hard work. All of this has led to the creation of a student information network that stretches across the nation to every college that we cover. It s no easy accomplishment, but it s the reason that our college guides are such a great resource. When reading our guides and looking at our college rankings, keep in mind that every college is different and that the students who make up each college are not uniform as a result, it is important to assess colleges on a case-by-case basis. Because it s impossible to summarize an entire college with a single number or description, each guide provides a dialogue, not a decision, that s made up of 20 different topics and hundreds of student quotes. In the end, we hope that this guide will serve as a valuable tool in your college selection process. Enjoy!	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;college & university;college entrance;college guides;counseling;education;education & reference;new;schools & teaching;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks,12
0787959367,"Best Contemporary Jewish Writing Michael Lerner selected poetry, essays and fiction for Best Contemporary Jewish Writing   because they connect to or reflect ""the fundamental Jewish project of healing and  transformation, both personal transformation (tikkun atzmi) and healing of the world  (tikkun olam). Lerner, founder of Tikkun magazine, selects work from a wide array of authors (feminist poet Adrienne Rich, novelist Phillip Roth, U.S. Senator Joseph  Lieberman, Al Gore adviser Naomi Wolf) writing about a wide variety of subjects (Steve  Greenberg's ""Gay and Orthodox,"" Benny Morris's ""The New Historiography of the  Palestinian Struggle""). The essays, organized by topic, explore identity, spirituality, scripture, the Holocaust, conflicts in Israel, and  Jewish culture. Taken as a whole, this volume admirably integrates the  personal and political concerns of contemporary Judaism, and provides something for just  about everyone to agree with--and, perhaps more importantly, disagree with. --Michael  Joseph Gross	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Widely known as a religious and political liberal, Tikkun editor Michael Lerner brings together poetry, fiction, essays and memoir from across the spectrum in Best Contemporary Jewish Writing, which includes work by Philip Roth, Yehuda Amichai, Naomi Wolf, Daniel Pipes and Rodger Kamenetz. Still, Lerner aims for writing ""that connects to or reflects the fundamental Jewish project of healing and transformation,"" both of the person and the world. This book also includes Lerner's list of the 100 best contemporary Jewish books, available in English and published since 1985. This book covers the years 1994-2000; the 2002 edition will include material from the years 2000 and 2001. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	In this collection of Jewish writings dating from 1994 to 2000,  Lerner, the editor of Tikkun magazine, highlights his idea of  the politics of meaning and the Jewish religious themes of  healing and reconciliation. A wide range of authors (writing  fiction, POETRY, and essays) discusses questions of Jewish  identity, religion, culture, the Holocaust, and Israel.  Feminism, gay studies, and environmental concerns are important  aspects of the selections. Many well-known authors are included,  among them Adrienne Rich, Philip Roth, Yehuda Amichai, Aharon  Appelfeld, and Norman Podhoretz. Zalman Schacter Shalomi  presents an open and honest attempt to rethink Jewish religious  thought, Marge Piercy and Jacqueline Osherow's poems bring new  elements to Jewish thinking, and Morris Dickstein describes the  changing themes and ideas of writers in the United States. The  result is an interesting and diverse anthology. Recommended for  Jewish studies collections. Gene Shaw, NYPL   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	In this collection of Jewish writing dating from 1994 to 2000, Lerner, the editor of Tikkun magazine, highlights his idea of the politics of meaning and the Jewish religious themes of healing and reconciliation. A wide range of authors (writing fiction, poetry, and essays) discusses questions of Jewish identity, religion, culture, the Holocaust, and Israel. Feminism, gay studies, and environmental concerns are important aspects of the selections. Many well-know authors are included, among them Adrienne Rich, Philip Roth, Yehuda Amichai, Aharon Appelfeld, and Norman Podhoretz. Zalman Schacter Shalomi presents an open and honest attempt to rethink Jewish religious thought, Marge Piercy and Jacqueline Osherow's poems bring new elements to Jewish thinking, and Morris Dickstein describes the changing themes and ideas of writers in the United States. The result is an interesting and diverse anthology. Recommended for Jewish studies collections. (Gene Shaw, NYPL, Library Journal, August 2001)Whenever my old friend, the curmudgeonly book lover, came across an anthology with a title like ""Best Plays"" or ""Best-Loved Poems,"" he'd always mutter, ""Best? Best? Who says so?"" Who, indeed? Why, editors of anthologies claiming ""bestness,"" of course. The editor of ""Best Contemporary Jewish Writing"" is Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine and himself included in Utne Reader's list of America's ""100 Most Important Visionaries.""Continuing his quest for the best, Lerner concludes his collection with a list of ""The One Hundred Best Contemporary Jewish Books."" So many judgment calls about what's best may well stimulate debate. Still, why quibble? As Lerner explains, this is simply his opinion of what is most significant.Lerner is a man with a mission, and the mission concerns Jewish spiritual renewal. If large numbers of American Jews in the early and middle decades of the 20th century were breaking loose from their traditional moorings, the last few decades have witnessed, if not quite a return to origins, then certainly a renewed interest among Jews in their religious and cultural heritage. And, indeed, the sheer diversity of voices in this collection, the passion, intelligence and sense of commitment that can be heard are ample evidence of this renewal.Many kinds of writing have been included: memoirs, essays, literary criticism, fiction and poetry. Sen. Joseph Lieberman describes the origins of his commitment to public life. Moroccan-born Ruth Knafo Setton reflects on her personal experiences as a ""Sephardic Jewess"" (from the title of her piece). In ""Gay and Orthodox,"" Rabbi Steve Greenberg discusses the dilemmas he has faced trying to reconcile his sexuality with scriptural injunctions against lying with men. Questions of Jewish identity, such as finding the right path between assimilation and distinctness, are addressed in a variety of forms, including an engaging poem by Kenneth Koch and a thoughtful essay by David Biale.Several pieces by feminists, such as theologian Rachel Adler and novelist Anita Diamant, offer provocative and illuminating interpretations of biblical stories (although Susan Schnur's diatribe against sexism in the Book of Esther is simply obtuse).On the current literary front, Morris Dickstein surveys contemporary Jewish writers, while Norman Podhoretz has some incisive things to say about Philip Roth and Saul Bellow.Perhaps the most fascinating material in this book deals with human responsibility toward the natural world. ""My commitment to the life of the planet is stronger than my commitment to any philosophy or creed,"" declares Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder of the Jewish Renewal Movement. ""If you have felt commanded by the Divine Imperative to protect Earth from planetary destruction, then you have undergone the first stage of a Gaean initiation."" Citing Evan Eisenberg's book ""The Ecology of Eden"" (one of the 100 best on Lerner's list), Arthur Waskow offers an account of the Hebrew religion as a response of humble, freedom-loving Western Semites--shepherds, hunter-gatherers and hill farmers--to the far more regimented, hierarchical world of the Babylonian empire, where a revolution in agricultural technology had created wealth, order and stability, but at the cost of a drastic change in man's relationship to the Earth, to women and to his fellow man.Two later sections, ""Living in the Shadows of the Holocaust"" and ""Israel in Conflict,"" are marked by a certain tendentiousness. Although Lerner makes some concession to representing those pushing for the peace process and those who consider it sadly unrealistic, the overall thrust is to lend plausibility to the doves. A triad of essays discussing the Holocaust--by Jonathan Rosen, Zymunt Bauman and Tikkun's associate editor Peter Gabel--makes some interesting points about everything from the film ""Schindler's List"" to the Nazi mentality. Read in sequence, they function as a kind of three-pronged critique of Jews who (as they see it) use the Holocaust as an ""excuse"" to justify Israeli hard-line policies.Jews concerned for their safety and survival having thus been discredited as victims of mass hysteria, the stage is set for Israeli revisionist historian Benny Morris' critique of previous Israeli historians for their tendency to minimize Israel's role in getting Palestinian Arabs to flee their homes during the Israeli War of Independence. Then, for anyone still concerned about the dangers of anti-Semitism--anyone who's been following the venomous goings-on at the soi-disant ""anti-racism"" (viz. anti-Zionism) U.N. conference in Durban--Jerome Slater notes (rightly, but perhaps no longer all that relevantly) that Palestinian Arabs were not innately anti-Jewish and only became that way after their land was occupied by Israel. (To this, one might say: Nor were Germans overwhelmingly anti-Semitic until they were humiliated at Versailles! To recognize a ""root cause"" does not necessarily, by itself, enable one to undo the effects.) A grimmer and (sadly, one fears) more realistic view is provided in Daniel Pipes' essay ""Land for What?""Still, there is an optimism, excitement and animation about Lerner's collection that is hard to resist. This volume is the first in a series that is planned to come out each year. It is clearly an auspicious beginning. (By Merle Rubin, LA Times, September 17, 2001)	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	""The message that the world could be healed and transformed was revolutionary when first articulated by Jewish writers of the past, and it remains radical even today. . . .Cruelty is not destiny. Jewish writing helps us understand that the pain of the past can be transcended.""   From the Introduction by Michael Lerner  Between the covers of this book is a treasure trove of great fiction, poetry, social analysis, and spiritual insight by renowned contributors such as Philip Roth, Marge Piercy, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Naomi Wolf, Norman Podhoretz, Jonathan Rosen, Robert Pinsky, Yehuda Amichai, Rachel Adler, Nathan Englander, Daniel Boyarin, Adrienne Rich, Arthur Waskow, William Safire, Zalman M. Schachter- Shalomi, and many others. Included are famous writers, young and upcoming writers, writers with politics ranging from liberal/progressive to neoconservative. Despite their disparate opinions and points of view, these writers have been chosen by Michael Lerner because they transcend the cynicism and narcissistic self-indulgence of contemporary culture and contribute to the Kabbalistic vision of a world that has been shattered but, can be healed. For some writers, the focus is on personal transformation (tikkun atzmi), for others on healing of the world (tikkun olam.) Still others search for ways to bring holiness into our personal lives and social institutions.  You will be astounded at how much creative new thinking is taking place among Jewish writers, and on topics that are extremely sensitive: the Holocaust, the limits of Jewish liberalism, women in Judaism, the current crisis in Israel, and the renewal of Jewish spiritual life. The first volume in a planned series of annual publications, Best Contemporary Jewish Writing is an essential tool for understanding contemporary culture and social reality.  You don't have to be Jewish to be moved and to learn from these authors. The poetry, fiction, memories, and essays in this book are provocative and engaging, entertaining and inspiring, irreverent, and filled with awe. 	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Rachel Adler  Yehuda Amichai  Aharon Appelfeld  Zygmunt Bauman  David Biale  Tsvi Blanchard  Daniel Boyarin  Anita Diamant  Morris Dickstein  Nathan Englander  Nomi Eve  Sidra DeKoren Ezrahi  Nancy Flam  Peter Gabel  Mordechai Gafni  Rebecca Goldstein  Arthur Green  Steve Greenberg  Martin Jay  Rodger Kamenetz  Irena Klepfisz  Kenneth Koch  U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman  Jonathan Mark  Benny Morris  Jacqueline Osherow  Ilana Pardes  Marge Piercy  Robert Pinsky  Daniel Pipes  Norman Podhoretz  Sarah Polster  Dennis Prager  Dahlia Ravikovitch  Rachel Naomi Remen  Adrienne Rich  Jonathan Rosen  Thane Rosenbaum  Philip Roth  William Safire  Susan Schnur  Jonathan Schorsch  Ruth Knaffo Setton  Zalman Schachter-Shalomi  Alan Shaprio  Rami Shapiro  Jerome Slater  Joseph Telushkin  Yona Wallach  Arthur Waskow  C. K. Williams  Naomi Wolf  David Wolpe      	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Michael Lerner is the editor of TIKKUN magazine and rabbi of the neo-Hasidic Beyt Tikkun Jewish Renewal synagogue in San Francisco. His most recent book, Spirit Matters: Global Healing and the Wisdom of the Soul, was selected as ""one of the most significant books of 2000"" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review and won a PEN award. His previous writings include Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin, a dialogue with Cornel West, and Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation described by Conservative Judaism journal as stunning, miraculous and faith-renewing. Rabbi Lerner, designated by Utne Reader as one of America's 100 Most Important Visionaries, has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, and Newsweek. He holds Ph.D.s in philosophy and clinical psychology.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",american literature;books;classics;humanities;judaism;literature;literature & fiction;new;religion & spirituality;religious studies;united states;used & rental textbooks,12
0071435360,"Finance & Accounting for Non-Financial Managers The Handy Paperback Edition of McGraw-Hill's One-Volume, MBA-Level Finance Course  As a manager, virtually everything you do has financial implications. Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers--today's most practical, in-depth introduction to the key elements of financial reporting, budgeting, and analysis--is your roadmap to understanding exactly what those implications are. This complete paperback edition provides you with everything you need to know regarding:  Financial reporting  Budgeting  Balance sheets  Income statements  Cash flow in operations, investing, and financing  Performance measures   The hardcover edition of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers showed thousands of decision-makers how to become comfortable with day-to-day finance. Now let this paperback edition provide you with every case study and statistic found in the hardcover--and help you relate to the numbers you see every day. Look to the McGRAW-HILL EXECUTIVE MBA SERIES for straight-talking, technique-filled books, written by front-line executive education professors and modeled after the programs of top business schools. Other paperback titles in the series include:  Sales Management  Mergers & Acquisitions  Corporate Strategy	Samuel C. Weaver, Ph.D., is associate professor of finance at Lehigh University, where he formerly served as the Theodore A. Lauer Adjunct Professor of Finance. He is a veteran of over 100 acquisition valuations and numerous other restructuring activities. J. Fred Weston, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus Recalled of Managerial Economics and Finance at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. Since 1968, he has been Director of the UCLA Research Program on Takeovers and Restructuring.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;finance;management;management & leadership;new;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,12
B000FO5YX4,"Visualizing Magnetic Fields: Numerical Equation Solvers in Action (With CD-ROM) Visualizing Magnetic Fields: Numerical Equation Solvers in Action provides a complete description of the theory behind a new technique, a detailed discussion of the ways of solving the equations (including a software visualization of the solution algorithms), the application software itself, and the full source code. Most importantly, there is a succinct, easy-to-follow description of each procedure in the code.The physicist Michael Faraday said that the study of magnetic lines of force was greatly influential in leading him to formulate many of those concepts that are now so fundamental to our modern world, proving to him their ""great utility as well as fertility."" Michael Faraday could only visualize these lines in his mind's eye and, even with modern computers to help us, it has been very expensive and time consuming to plot lines of force in magnetic fields.                                        * Overview of the physics of magnetic fields* Complete description of the theory behind the new technique* Overview of the theory of Gaussian elimination and Conjugate Gradient equation solvers (including a software application to visualise the algorithms in action)* Application software itself, the full-source code and a plain English description of each procedure in the code	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Visualizing Magnetic Fields: Numerical Equation Solvers in Action provides a complete description of the theory behind a new technique, a detailed discussion of the ways of solving the equations (including a software visualization of the solution algorithms), the application software itself, and the full source code. Most importantly, there is a succinct, easy-to-follow description of each procedure in the code.The physicist Michael Faraday said that the study of magnetic lines of force was greatly influential in leading him to formulate many of those concepts that are now so fundamental to our modern world, proving to him their ""great utility as well as fertility."" Michael Faraday could only visualize these lines in his mind's eye and, even with modern computers to help us, it has been very expensive and time consuming to plot lines of force in magnetic fields.                                        * Overview of the physics of magnetic fields* Complete description of the theory behind the new technique* Overview of the theory of Gaussian elimination and Conjugate Gradient equation solvers (including a software application to visualise the algorithms in action)* Application software itself, the full-source code and a plain English description of each procedure in the code	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",algorithms;books;computers & technology;electrical & electronics;electromagnetism;engineering;magnetism;mathematics;physics;professional & technical;programming;science & math,12
0804231311,"Isaiah 1-39: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching (Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching & Preaching) Christopher R. Seitz is Professor of Old Testament and Theological Studies at the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland. He is the author or editor of eight books including Figured Out: Typology, Providence and Christian Scripture and Nicene Christianity: The Future for a New Ecumenism.",books;christian books & bibles;education & reference;hebrew bible (old testament);judaism;meditations;ministry & church leadership;preaching;reference;religion & spirituality;sacred writings;worship & devotion,12
0691092877,"The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans ""Pitti is a scholar with an eye for the telling detail and a passion for social justice that turns his monograph into both a saga and a manifesto.""--Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review""Pitti's book  . . .  serves to correct a Mexican American historiography that has focused almost exclusively on southern California. Pitti argues that northern California has been too dynamic economically to be ignored by historians of ethnic minorities. His analysis focuses on the entwining of economic development, racism, and the formation of racialized Mexican communities over two centuries.""--Donna R. Gabaccia, American Historical Review	""Set in a valley of immense wealth and extensive poverty, Stephen Pittis expansive history of Latinos in the San Jose region stretches across a vast period of history, highlighting both the enormous contribution of Mexican-origin people to the areas economy, culture, and political development and the 'devil of discrimination' that has shaped growth in the Silicon Valley from the beginning. A masterful accomplishment!""--George Sanchez, University of Southern California.""Vestiges of the Devil in the form of historical racist ideologies and social inequalities from California's Spanish, Mexican, and American periods stubbornly persist in today's Silicon Valley. Stephen Pitti presents the seldom-told and hard-to-find causes of this dark and sometimes violent and discriminatory side of Silicon Valley's history, describing its continuing detrimental effects on  its old and still emerging Latino population, which has been left behind again in the latest wave of economic success.""--Fernando R. Zazueta, Founding Chairman of the Board, Mexican Heritage Corporation of San Jose""The Devil in Silicon Valley is a beautiful piece of work--sweeping narrative, compelling argumentation, and crisp writing throughout. Pitti demonstrates how San Jos is simultaneously central and peripheral to the main currents of Chicano/mexicano history. He helps readers make sense of why Mexicans were racialized in specific ways at specific times. And he adds new insight into the variety of ways ethnic Mexicans identify themselves and organize. This is an outstanding book.""--David Gutierrez, author of Between Two Worlds	""Set in a valley of immense wealth and extensive poverty, Stephen Pitti's expansive history of Latinos in the San Jose region stretches across a vast period of history, highlighting both the enormous contribution of Mexican-origin people to the area's economy, culture, and political development and the 'devil of discrimination' that has shaped growth in the Silicon Valley from the beginning. A masterful accomplishment!""--George Sanchez, University of Southern California.""Vestiges of the Devil in the form of historical racist ideologies and social inequalities from California's Spanish, Mexican, and American periods stubbornly persist in today's Silicon Valley. Stephen Pitti presents the seldom-told and hard-to-find causes of this dark and sometimes violent and discriminatory side of Silicon Valley's history, describing its continuing detrimental effects on its old and still emerging Latino population, which has been left behind again in the latest wave of economic success.""--Fernando R. Zazueta, Founding Chairman of the Board, Mexican Heritage Corporation of San Jose""The Devil in Silicon Valley is a beautiful piece of work--sweeping narrative, compelling argumentation, and crisp writing throughout. Pitti demonstrates how San Jos is simultaneously central and peripheral to the main currents of Chicano/mexicano history. He helps readers make sense of why Mexicans were racialized in specific ways at specific times. And he adds new insight into the variety of ways ethnic Mexicans identify themselves and organize. This is an outstanding book.""--David Gutierrez, author of Between Two Worlds	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Stephen J. Pitti is Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University.",americas;books;hispanic american studies;historical study & educational resources;history;minority studies;politics & social sciences;social history;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states,12
0676601839,"Official Price Guide to Football Cards 2000: 19th Edition THE OFFICIAL BECKETT SOURCEBOOK,WITH MORE THAN 200,000 PRICES LISTED!- COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE. Complete listings from 1948 to 1999, featuring prices for full sets and individual cards from the following manufacturers:COLLECTOR'S EDGEFLEER/SKYBOXPACIFICPINNACLETOPPS UPPER DECK- WRITTEN BY AN EXPERT. Dr. James Beckett is the leading sports card statistician.- CLEAR IDENTIFICATION. Every football card is identified by year, manufacturer, size, format, team, and player.- VALUABLE TIPS. Expert advice on buying, selling, caring for, and storing your cards.- CONDITION GRADE PRICING. Each listing includes prices for each of the two different condition grades.- FULLY ILLUSTRATED.",antiques & collectibles;antiques care & reference;books;crafts;education & reference;football;football (american);hobbies & home;reference;sports & outdoors;sports cards;sports memorabilia & cards,12
0738505692,"Race and Change in Hollywood (FL) (Voices of America) In Race and Change in Hollywood, Florida, veteran South Florida journalist and oral historian Kitty Oliver has compiled the fascinating stories and anecdotes of Hollywood residents, people who have documented the region's history in their hearts and minds. Illustrated with photographs from local archives, historical societies, and the family albums of community members, this engaging volume addresses the issue of race in a single town, and in doing so, encourages the continuing discussion of race in our collective American past.",americas;books;discrimination & racism;history;minority studies;politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;state & local;united states,12
B000OVLIJM,"Liszt's Kiss: A Novel Dunlap's latest (after Emilie's Voice) is an uneven but spirited mystery-cum-romance set in 1830s Paris. After cholera claims her mother, the Countess Anne de Barbier-Chouant's cartoonishly cold father, the marquis, locks up her beloved piano and announces that he wants her to wed distant cousin Armand. Anne finds this idea unappealing, but uses Armand as an excuse to secretly visit her mother's friend, patron of the arts Marie d'Agoult. Anne becomes infatuated with the pianist Franz Liszt; at the same time, medical student Pierre Talon falls for her. Liszt, enamored of Marie, offers his services as tutor to Anne, whom he intends to use as cover for his flirtation, but Anne misunderstands and thinks that Liszt is in love with her. Convinced that Liszt is trying to seduce Anne, Marie, whose feelings for Liszt are late-blooming, tries to pair off Anne with Pierre. Dunlap manages to hold her narrative's momentum halfway through the novel, but a slew of too-convenient coincidences and contrived plot twists eventually overwhelm the narrative. The story picks up again when Dunlap focuses on the marquis's secret past. Ultimately, things are unconvincingly explained away. Dunlap's novel is a near-miss. (Apr.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Set in Paris in 1832 during a deadly cholera outbreak, Dunlap's novel revolves around young Anne de Barbier-Chouant, who has just lost her mother to the disease. Living in solitude with her stern father, Anne is a gifted pianist who longs to make her way in the musical world her mother was so enchanted by. Opportunity knocks in the form of the elegant Marie d'Agoult, a friend of her mother's who chaperones Anne to her first concert. There Anne first lays eyes on the handsome, impassioned Franz Liszt and falls under his spell. Liszt, who has decided to pursue the married Marie, offers to teach Anne and hone her skills. Forced to work around Anne's exacting father, Marie enlists the help of a handsome young doctor who is taken with Anne to find out the secrets the girl's father is keeping. Dunlap immerses readers in the sights, smells, and feel of Romantic-era Paris, making her engrossing novel perfect escapist fare. Kristine HuntleyCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Susanne Dunlap is the author of milie's Voice and the former director of development for Connecticut Opera. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Northampton, Massachusetts.	One    Black crape covered the windows of the house. The smells of camphor and death hung in the air. The marquise had died only a few hours ago of cholera, a disease that was supposed to attack the poor who lived in dirty, crowded, airless hovels, not the wealthy who lived in mansions in the faubourg Saint Germain. Anne was too numb to do anything but stare out the long windows of the ballroom at Thrse, who, her face still streaked with tears, carried a basket full of linens to a corner of the courtyard and poured them in a lump onto a bonfire. Billows of black smoke curled up and merged with the flat, gray sky. It was a precaution, Dr. Magendie said. There was likely no danger to the rest of the household, if everyone took chamomile and wore a camphor sachet.   Anne forced herself to turn away from the window. Just three days ago, the marquise had been seated at the pianoforte in the corner of the room. Her eyes had shone with excitement about the music she had recently heard. The foreign pianists who were in Paris, she said, were the greatest geniuses ever known -- especially Monsieur Chopin and Monsieur Liszt. Most of all Liszt, who was quite new to the city. She had promised that the next time he gave a concert, Anne would go with her, despite the marquis's rule to the contrary. When I was your age, I attended concerts every night. Her mother's voice still echoed in her ears. It had all been so sudden. One moment she was in the bloom of health. Then as they watched, she grew pale, clutched her stomach, and became violently ill. Although Anne herself had seen the passage from torment to peace in her mother's face not even a day later, when the doctor told them that she had died, Anne did not believe him. She was convinced that each time she rounded a corner or entered a room in the great house, she would see the marquise walking toward her, or sitting in a favorite chair and smiling at her, just as before.   What are you doing here?   Anne jumped. She turned to see her father leaning heavily on his cane just inside the open ballroom door. Papa! She ran toward him. He had retreated to the silence of his library soon after the doctor left, and she had not seen him since the moment of her mother's death.   He shrank away from her, turning so that his shoulder prevented her embrace, and put his hand up to shield his eyes as if he could not bear to look at her, or bear to let her see his tears. Anne stopped a little away from him and balled her reaching hands into fists.   Leave this room at once. Don't ever come in here again.   Anne knew that pain lay beneath the anger in his voice, but still his tone stung her. Please -- , she began.   He turned his head to the side and gestured her through the door. Too tired and bewildered to think of disobeying him, Anne left, casting one more glance over her shoulder at the beautiful Pleyel, yearning to run to the instrument and play out her grief.      Since that time, Anne's pain had come and gone in waves. Sleep -- other than in fitful dozes -- was out of the question. Whenever she closed her eyes, her mother's stricken face floated across the blackness. Anne wished she could picture her happy and well, but even when she managed to think back beyond the time of her illness, the marquise still wore an expression of worried sadness. And yet Anne knew that she had been more often cheerful and lively during her lifetime. Why was it not possible to imagine her thus?   There was something, an event, an explanation, a reason, hidden just out of Anne's sight, behind a curtain across a part of her mind that was beyond her reach. She knew it was there, but she did not have the strength to draw that curtain aside. And what difference would it make? Her mother was no more. She would have to find a way to understand that simple fact.      Pierre Talon pulled the sheet up over the face of the young woman who had been telling him only a few hours ago about her childhood in Bretagne, before she had come to Paris to seek work as a seamstress. With a high, thin voice that breathed through cracked lips, she had begged for water with every other sentence and rambled on and on, clinging to life with a thread of narrative. Her efforts had been futile. She lay there dead now, like the twenty others Pierre had witnessed that evening alone. Evening? It was now morning. Through the high windows in the Htel-Dieu he could see the sky softening to a dark gray.   Come, Pierre, we can do no more here.   Pierre's friend Georges pulled him gently away from the stench and moans of the patients who were still in the grip of cholera. The two of them were only medical students who had come to the University of Paris to study surgery with Andral and Louis. The horrible epidemic promoted them quickly to doctors, as they did their utmost with the rest of the students and physicians to deal with this capricious disease. The authorities had already set up cordons sanitaires, and officiers hyginiques supervised the clearing of garbage and detritus from the streets. And yet still, cholera ravaged the population.   I don't think I can bear to spend another minute here, Pierre said. It had been three solid days, with only a few stolen hours of sleep.   Georges draped his arm over Pierre's shoulder. They admitted fewer today. There is word that the epidemic is abating.   Pierre nodded. Together they walked through the deserted streets back to the lodgings they shared on the rue des Bernardins near the university. Just two rooms, with a stove in the corner for heating and cooking. The furnishings were sparse, but Pierre managed to purchase an old square piano, and sometimes he played comic songs to amuse his friends. When he had the apartment to himself, he chose other pieces: sonatas and rondos, arrangements of arias from the opera. He was not very skillful, but he found it soothed his nerves to feel the keys beneath his hands and to fill the air with music.   In this time of disease and death, music was vital.   When they returned that morning, Georges threw himself on the one upholstered chair, and Pierre sat down at the piano. He played some waltzes by Schubert from a book he had purchased two years ago, when he first came to Paris.   Neither of them said a word but listened to the tender melodies until Pierre was too tired to continue.      Anne felt stiff and awkward in her heavy black silk gown, one of her mother's that Thrse had made over to fit her, which rustled annoyingly whenever she shifted her position. Her father wore clothes she had not seen him in since the death last year of a courtier he had known most of his life. She noted when they climbed into the carriage that there were moth holes in his black felt coat and that the edges of his black armband had started to fray.   There was no time for a proper funeral: the priest had come to the house the day before and told them he could say the requiem by the tomb. Although Anne thought fear of contagion rather than other circumstances made him discourage them from bringing the marquise's coffin to the church, his tears about his lovely parishioner's untimely death were genuine. So too was his shock when he tried to draw father and daughter together and the marquis refused to give him his hand. The Lord is merciful. He has left Your Excellency the compensation of a daughter to soothe the lonely hours of grieving, Father Jean had said in the singsong voice so familiar to Anne from mass. Her father did not have to say anything for Anne to understand that he felt her presence there more an insult than a compensation.   The marquis's gloved hands lay in tense stillness on his lap. She wished he would reach over and take hold of her. Such a simple gesture would bring her back to the world she knew instead of leaving her suspended somewhere vacant and strange. Anne turned away and stared out the window of the brougham. They drove in a queue of carriages through a dreary rain north toward Pre Lachaise, the cemetery that had become the fashionable place to be buried, to lay the marquise in the family vault. The hearse led the way. Anne and her father sat in the carriage directly behind, and whenever they rounded a curve, she could see the black feathers on the horses' bridles bobbing with each step they took.   To reach the cemetery, they had to drive through the poor districts of Paris. Anne raised her camphor sachet to her nose and kept it there, as much to prevent herself from inhaling the overpowering odor of dead bodies piled up in the streets as to protect herself from the disease they were told in pamphlets and in the daily papers could well up from poisonous miasmas. None of the articles had really explained what a miasma was, but it was invisible and sounded dangerous. And Anne was quite ready to believe that some mysterious, unseen force had been at work to make her mother fall ill so suddenly. Certainly there was no justice in it. The marquise was kind and beautiful, gentle and fair. She alone, of the few people Anne had known in her life, could make her father's face light up with a tender smile.   The marquis had stayed mostly out of sight ever since his wife died. Anne saw Julien bring him trays of food in the library and take them away again hardly touched a short while later. He only emerged when it was time to go to the cemetery. Anne was too frightened of his mood to approach him without being summoned. Yet she did not really know why she feared him. He had never been openly cruel to her. Aside from making his wishes known in the form of immutable rules, he simply ignored her most of the time, leaving it to her mother and Thrse to see that she had everything she needed and to educate her in all the subjects necessary for a young countess to know. She always kissed his proferred cheek before going to bed, but he accepted the kiss in silence. Special occasions entitled her to a pat on the head when he gave her a gift for her birthday or at Christmas.   When she was l...",books;contemporary;contemporary fiction;genre fiction;historical;historical fiction;kindle ebooks;kindle store;literary;literary fiction;literature & fiction;united states,12
0201433192,"Network Analysis and Troubleshooting Introduction  What qualifications do you need to become a good network analyst? Numerous Engineering or Computer Science degrees? A vast knowledge of UNIX or Windows 95/98/NT/2000/...? Fifty years of industry experience? Being able to recite the OSI seven-layer reference model?   The best qualification is to simply have a real passion for problem solving. Sure it helps to have a background in data communications, but nothing beats logical thinking with a ""detective"" bent when it comes to analyzing and troubleshooting networks.   To identify the culprit, you need to be resourceful and sift through clues provided by cable testers, protocol analyzers, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) probes and consoles, router tables, switch and hub statistics, network documentation, and even empirical observations from end-users.   In my eighteen years in the networking industry, I have learned far more over the past six years by ""doing"" rather than ""observing"" and critiquing (a.k.a. my early consulting years). The insights and case studies presented in this book are based on my experiences and adventures in solving real problems on real networks, mainly at Fortune 1000 companies with large networks. Although there is no substitute for hands-on experience, this book is intended to help you learn the operational details of many of today's popular protocols and enhance your skills in troubleshooting networks using proven protocol analysis techniques.   Sometimes working with networks can be hazardous to your health. My favorite story of all time is from a network support person working with me at an on-site troubleshooting job. As I recall, it went something like this:  We had completed an upgrade of our workstation wiring, making sure that Category 5 cable ran everywhere. During the process, we found a large wooden spool (like the kind the Telcos would discard and you could turn into a cheap table) containing several hundred feet of the old thick Ethernet coax. Unlike a spool of Cat 5, this baby was big and heavy. In the process of moving the spool of cable from one of our wiring closets to permanent cold storage, we proceeded to load it into the back of a pickup truck. Needless to say, the spool slipped off and began rolling down an incline. Imagine the look on the face of one of my colleagues who was approaching the truck and saw this big spool of wire hurtling down on him!  True story. Or so I've been told.   I should note that even though I mention a few commercial products from time to time, the emphasis of this book is on learning analysis fundamentals as well as techniques in solving problems. To avoid bias, I've intentionally used screen shots from a variety of protocol analyzers to show that the techniques can be applied using different analyzers. While conducting training classes, I really don't care what analyzer is used as long as there's some flexibility in the tool.  Who Should Read This Book  This book is aimed at those responsible for maintaining the efficiency and integrity of their network infrastructure on a day-to-day basis. This includes:Network Engineers: These are professionals involved in the analysis and troubleshooting of problems that escalate beyond the help desk. This includes network analysts, support specialists, senior technicians as well as independent consultants who are called in to assist in troubleshooting their client's networks. This book teaches a proven approach to troubleshooting and will help these users to become more comfortable and proficient when using the protocol analyzer to help solve those tough networking problems as well as to proactively analyze their networks.  Technical Managers: Managers will benefit from reading this book in that they will gain a better understanding of the kinds of problems that their network support staff can diagnose with the help of protocol analyzers. Such information can be used to better allocate tasks ranging from identifying the reason for poor response time or throughput to baselining the current network infrastructure for future expansion and rearchitecting.    The reader is assumed to have a basic understanding of data communications, especially in local area networks. Rather than simply rehash standards information and packet formats, this book presents the most pertinent information contained in packets along with the protocol operation details necessary to understand how to troubleshoot and optimize mission-critical networks. Even the ""seasoned pro"" will benefit from the generous analysis and troubleshooting tips, diagrams, and trace file snapshots that accompany the text throughout the book.   Although not covering every conceivable networking topology and protocol, the book offers a general approach for readers to focus on to identify and solve problems at the various layers of infrastructure. This book uses a ""bottom-up"" approach structured around the seven-layer OSI model that can be generalized and applied to many different situations.  A Brief Organization of This Book  Network Analysis and Troubleshooting begins with a look at the layered methodology to network analysis and why a protocol analyzer is the tool of choice for solving complex problems.   Chapter 2 looks at issues specific to the physical layer, including cabling types, Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR), and transmission encoding techniques.   Chapter 3 focuses on the data link layer. Topics covered include details on the IEEE 48-bit address format, the impact of different types of broadcast traffic, the role of the Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), operational details and analysis consideration for layer 2 switches, Ethernet and Token Ring operation and troubleshooting, and an in-depth look at the IEEE 802.2 Logical Link Control (LLC) protocol.   Chapter 4 concentrates on the network layer, beginning with a discussion of datagram concepts and router operation. The addressing schemes of various protocols are discussed, including details on IP classes and subnetting. IP specifics such as the role of the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) are analyzed. Other topics include IPX operation and analysis, and local routing problems.   Chapter 5 analyzes the transport layer by examining the operation of the NetWare Sequenced Packet Exchange (SPX), SPX II, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Specifically for TCP, the concepts of block size, segment size, and sliding window are covered in detail.   Chapter 6 covers the session layer, including how some session services are actually embedded in other layers, how different protocols operate to find resources via DNS, NetWare Services Advertising Protocol (SAP), or NetBIOS. The three major NetBIOS implementations--NetBIOS over LLC (NetBEUI), NetBIOS over IPX, and NetBIOS over TCP/IP--are covered.   Chapter 7 covers the presentation layer by examining presentation protocols that are specific to certain protocol families and why there is no general-purpose presentation protocol in widespread use today.   Chapter 8 examines the application layer, beginning with a discussion of networked application characteristics, followed by a discussion of logon sequencing for different protocol stacks. Then specific protocols are covered in depth, including the Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP), NetWare Core Protocol (NCP), Microsoft/IBM Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol, Sun Network File System (NFS), and the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). As a bonus, the NT Browse protocol (not to be confused with Internet browsing!) is discussed.   Chapter 9 shows how to use your protocol analyzer to measure and baseline throughput and latency, identify bottlenecks in your network, and determine server and client response times.  Throughout these chapters you'll find many helpful Tips that will be presented in this format.  Acknowledgments  Several reviewers provided excellent technical feedback from the rough draft. These people include Robert Bullen, Phil Koenig, Phillip Scarr, Howard Lee Harkness, Ehud Gavron, Glen Herrmannsfeldt, Louis Breit, Doug Hughes, Bob Vance, Barry Margolin, and William Welch.   I'd also like to thank those wonderful folks at Addison Wesley Longman who worked with me during the various stages of developing this book, including Mary Hart, Karen Gettman, Lorraine Ferrier, and Tracy Russ.   And last, but not least, my family, Nancy, Daniel, and Matthew. I love you guys!   Have any great troubleshooting experiences? Feel free to drop me a line at scott@net3group.   All the best, J. Scott Haugdahl, August 1999  I can do all things through Him, who strengthens me. Phil. 4:13.   0201433192P04062001	This comprehensive handbook provides the latest protocol information and troubleshooting strategies to help you keep your network running at peak performance.  Network Analysis and Troubleshooting  features proven network analysis techniques and experience-based strategies for isolating and solving network problems. This useful guide cuts to the chase by focusing on the most pertinent protocol packet formats you need to know to troubleshoot and optimize networks.     Network Analysis and Troubleshooting  uses a proven ""bottom-up"" troubleshooting methodology that examines in detail each network layer--physical, data link, network, transport, session, presentation, and application--revealing the problems and solutions specific to each layer. This book also discusses the role of the protocol analyzer to measure and baseline throughput and latency, identify bottlenecks, and determine server and client response times. Numerous practical tips, diagrams, case studies, and trace file snapshots illustrate important concepts and techniques.    You will find essential information on such topics as:     Wiring and cable testing issues  Transmission encoding techniques  Dissecting the IEEE 48-bit MAC address  The impact of different types of broadcast traffic  Operational details and analysis considerations for switches  Ethernet and Token Ring operational details and analysis  The IEEE 802.2 LLC protocol (explored in full)  Datagrams and routing  IP specifics, including addressing, subnets, and the role of ICMP  IPX operation and analysis  UDP, TCP, SPX, and SPX II protocol analysis  How different protocols find resources via NetBIOS, SAP, and DNS  Logon sequencing for various protocol stacks  DHCP, SMB, NCP, NFS, FTP, HTTP, and NT Browse protocol analysis and troubleshooting  Baselining throughput and latency, including understanding the ""latency wedge""      0201433192B04062001	J. Scott Haugdahl is the founder of Net3 Group, Inc. (www.net3group.com), a company focused on resources for network analysis, including a Web site, value-added software for users of protocol analyzers, analysis training, and on-site troubleshooting. Mr. Haugdahl's eighteen years of computer networking experience includes troubleshooting networks for numerous Fortune 1000 and government organizations. He has written articles for industry trade publications, including the popular ""On The Wire"" column, which he coauthored with analysis, insight, and humor for over three years in Network Computing Magazine. Early in his career he developed a popular DOS-based protocol analyzer.  Mr. Haugdahl holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology.           0201433192AB04062001	Introduction What qualifications do you need to become a good network analyst? Numerous Engineering or Computer Science degrees? A vast knowledge of UNIX or Windows 95/98/NT/2000/...? Fifty years of industry experience? Being able to recite the OSI seven-layer reference model?  The best qualification is to simply have a real passion for problem solving. Sure it helps to have a background in data communications, but nothing beats logical thinking with a ""detective"" bent when it comes to analyzing and troubleshooting networks.  To identify the culprit, you need to be resourceful and sift through clues provided by cable testers, protocol analyzers, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) probes and consoles, router tables, switch and hub statistics, network documentation, and even empirical observations from end-users.  In my eighteen years in the networking industry, I have learned far more over the past six years by ""doing"" rather than ""observing"" and critiquing (a.k.a. my early consulting years). The insights and case studies presented in this book are based on my experiences and adventures in solving real problems on real networks, mainly at Fortune 1000 companies with large networks. Although there is no substitute for hands-on experience, this book is intended to help you learn the operational details of many of today's popular protocols and enhance your skills in troubleshooting networks using proven protocol analysis techniques.  Sometimes working with networks can be hazardous to your health. My favorite story of all time is from a network support person working with me at an on-site troubleshooting job. As I recall, it went something like this:  We had completed an upgrade of our workstation wiring, making sure that Category 5 cable ran everywhere. During the process, we found alarge wooden spool (like the kind the Telcos would discard and you could turn into a cheap table) containing several hundred feet of the oldthick Ethernet coax. Unlike a spool of Cat 5, this baby was big and heavy. In the process of moving the spool of cable from one of our wiringclosets to permanent cold storage, we proceeded to load it into the back of a pickup truck. Needless to say, the spool slipped off and beganrolling down an incline. Imagine the look on the face of one of my colleagues who was approaching the truck and saw this big spool of wirehurtling down on him! True story. Or so I've been told.  I should note that even though I mention a few commercial products from time to time, the emphasis of this book is on learning analysis fundamentals as well as techniques in solving problems. To avoid bias, I've intentionally used screen shots from a variety of protocol analyzers to show that the techniques can be applied using different analyzers. While conducting training classes, I really don't care what analyzer is used as long as there's some flexibility in the tool.  Who Should Read This Book This book is aimed at those responsible for maintaining the efficiency and integrity of their network infrastructure on a day-to-day basis. This includes:  * Network Engineers: These are professionals involved in the analysis and troubleshooting of problems that escalate beyond the help desk. This includes network analysts, support specialists, senior technicians as well as independent consultants who are called in to assist in troubleshooting their client's networks. This book teaches a proven approach to troubleshooting and will help these users to become more comfortable and proficient when using the protocol analyzer to help solve those tough networking problems as well as to proactively analyze their networks.   * Technical Managers: Managers will benefit from reading this book in that they will gain a better understanding of the kinds of problems that their network support staff can diagnose with the help of protocol analyzers. Such information can be used to better allocate tasks ranging from identifying the reason for poor response time or throughput to baselining the current network infrastructure for future expansion and rearchitecting.  The reader is assumed to have a basic understanding of data communications, especially in local area networks. Rather than simply rehash standards information and packet formats, this book presents the most pertinent information contained in packets along with the protocol operation details necessary to understand how to troubleshoot and optimize mission-critical networks. Even the ""seasoned pro"" will benefit from the generous analysis and troubleshooting tips, diagrams, and trace file snapshots that accompany the text throughout the book.  Although not covering every conceivable networking topology and protocol, the book offers a general approach for readers to focus on to identify and solve problems at the various layers of infrastructure. This book uses a ""bottom-up"" approach structured around the seven-layer OSI model that can be generalized and applied to many different situations.  A Brief Organization of This Book Network Analysis and Troubleshooting begins with a look at the layered methodology to network analysis and why a protocol analyzer is the tool of choice for solving complex problems.  Chapter 2 looks at issues specific to the physical layer, including cabling types, Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR), and transmission encoding techniques.  Chapter 3 focuses on the data link layer. Topics covered include details on the IEEE 48-bit address format, the impact of different types of broadcast traffic, the role of the Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), operational details and analysis consideration for layer 2 switches, Ethernet and Token Ring operation and troubleshooting, and an in-depth look at the IEEE 802.2 Logical Link Control (LLC) protocol.  Chapter 4 concentrates on the network layer, beginning with a discussion of datagram concepts and router operation. The addressing schemes of various protocols are discussed, including details on IP classes and subnetting. IP specifics such as the role of the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) are analyzed. Other topics include IPX operation and analysis, and local routing problems.  Chapter 5 analyzes the transport layer by examining the operation of the NetWare Sequenced Packet Exchange (SPX), SPX II, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Specifically for TCP, the concepts of block size, segment size, and sliding window are covered in detail.  Chapter 6 covers the session layer, including how some session services are actually embedded in other layers, how different protocols operate to find resources via DNS, NetWare Services Advertising Protocol (SAP), or NetBIOS. The three major NetBIOS implementations--NetBIOS over LLC (NetBEUI), NetBIOS over IPX, and NetBIOS over TCP/IP--are covered.  Chapter 7 covers the presentation layer by examining presentation protocols that are specific to certain protocol families and why there is no general-purpose presentation protocol in widespread use today.  Chapter 8 examines the application layer, beginning with a discussion of networked application characteristics, followed by a discussion of logon sequencing for different protocol stacks. Then specific protocols are covered in depth, including the Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP), NetWare Core Protocol (NCP), Microsoft/IBM Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol, Sun Network File System (NFS), and the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). As a bonus, the NT Browse protocol (not to be confused with Internet browsing!) is discussed.  Chapter 9 shows how to use your protocol analyzer to measure and baseline throughput and latency, identify bottlenecks in your network, and determine server and client response times.  **Throughout these chapters you'll find many helpful Tips that will be presented in this format. Acknowledgments Several reviewers provided excellent technical feedback from the rough draft. These people include Robert Bullen, Phil Koenig, Phillip Scarr, Howard Lee Harkness, Ehud Gavron, Glen Herrmannsfeldt, Louis Breit, Doug Hughes, Bob Vance, Barry Margolin, and William Welch.  I'd also like to thank those wonderful folks at Addison Wesley Longman who worked with me during the various stages of developing this book, including Mary Hart, Karen Gettman, Lorraine Ferrier, and Tracy Russ.  And last, but not least, my family, Nancy, Daniel, and Matthew. I love you guys!  Have any great troubleshooting experiences? Feel free to drop me a line at scott@net3group.com.  All the best,  J. Scott Haugdahl, August 1999  I can do all things through Him, who strengthens me. Phil. 4:13.	Introduction  What qualifications do you need to become a good network analyst? Numerous Engineering or Computer Science degrees? A vast knowledge of UNIX or Windows 95/98/NT/2000/...? Fifty years of industry experience? Being able to recite the OSI seven-layer reference model?   The best qualification is to simply have a real passion for problem solving. Sure it helps to have a background in data communications, but nothing beats logical thinking with a ""detective"" bent when it comes to analyzing and troubleshooting networks.   To identify the culprit, you need to be resourceful and sift through clues provided by cable testers, protocol analyzers, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) probes and consoles, router tables, switch and hub statistics, network documentation, and even empirical observations from end-users.   In my eighteen years in the networking industry, I have learned far more over the past six years by ""doing"" rather than ""observing"" and critiquing (a.k.a. my early consulting years). The insights and case studies presented in this book are based on my experiences and adventures in solving real problems on real networks, mainly at Fortune 1000 companies with large networks. Although there is no substitute for hands-on experience, this book is intended to help you learn the operational details of many of today's popular protocols and enhance your skills in troubleshooting networks using proven protocol analysis techniques.   Sometimes working with networks can be hazardous to your health. My favorite story of all time is from a network support person working with me at an on-site troubleshooting job. As I recall, it went something like this:  We had completed an upgrade of our workstation wiring, making sure that Category 5 cable ran everywhere. During the process, we found a large wooden spool (like the kind the Telcos would discard and you could turn into a cheap table) containing several hundred feet of the old thick Ethernet coax. Unlike a spool of Cat 5, this baby was big and heavy. In the process of moving the spool of cable from one of our wiring closets to permanent cold storage, we proceeded to load it into the back of a pickup truck. Needless to say, the spool slipped off and began rolling down an incline. Imagine the look on the face of one of my colleagues who was approaching the truck and saw this big spool of wire hurtling down on him!  True story. Or so I've been told.   I should note that even though I mention a few commercial products from time to time, the emphasis of this book is on learning analysis fundamentals as well as techniques in solving problems. To avoid bias, I've intentionally used screen shots from a variety of protocol analyzers to show that the techniques can be applied using different analyzers. While conducting training classes, I really don't care what analyzer is used as long as there's some flexibility in the tool.  Who Should Read This Book  This book is aimed at those responsible for maintaining the efficiency and integrity of their network infrastructure on a day-to-day basis. This includes:     Network Engineers: These are professionals involved in the analysis and troubleshooting of problems that escalate beyond the help desk. This includes network analysts, support specialists, senior technicians as well as independent consultants who are called in to assist in troubleshooting their client's networks. This book teaches a proven approach to troubleshooting and will help these users to become more comfortable and proficient when using the protocol analyzer to help solve those tough networking problems as well as to proactively analyze their networks.   Technical Managers: Managers will benefit from reading this book in that they will gain a better understanding of the kinds of problems that their network support staff can diagnose with the help of protocol analyzers. Such information can be used to better allocate tasks ranging from identifying the reason for poor response time or throughput to baselining the current network infrastructure for future expansion and rearchitecting.    The reader is assumed to have a basic understanding of data communications, especially in local area networks. Rather than simply rehash standards information and packet formats, this book presents the most pertinent information contained in packets along with the protocol operation details necessary to understand how to troubleshoot and optimize mission-critical networks. Even the ""seasoned pro"" will benefit from the generous analysis and troubleshooting tips, diagrams, and trace file snapshots that accompany the text throughout the book.   Although not covering every conceivable networking topology and protocol, the book offers a general approach for readers to focus on to identify and solve problems at the various layers of infrastructure. This book uses a ""bottom-up"" approach structured around the seven-layer OSI model that can be generalized and applied to many different situations.  A Brief Organization of This Book   Network Analysis and Troubleshooting  begins with a look at the layered methodology to network analysis and why a protocol analyzer is the tool of choice for solving complex problems.   Chapter 2 looks at issues specific to the physical layer, including cabling types, Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR), and transmission encoding techniques.   Chapter 3 focuses on the data link layer. Topics covered include details on the IEEE 48-bit address format, the impact of different types of broadcast traffic, the role of the Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), operational details and analysis consideration for layer 2 switches, Ethernet and Token Ring operation and troubleshooting, and an in-depth look at the IEEE 802.2 Logical Link Control (LLC) protocol.   Chapter 4 concentrates on the network layer, beginning with a discussion of datagram concepts and router operation. The addressing schemes of various protocols are discussed, including details on IP classes and subnetting. IP specifics such as the role of the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) are analyzed. Other topics include IPX operation and analysis, and local routing problems.   Chapter 5 analyzes the transport layer by examining the operation of the NetWare Sequenced Packet Exchange (SPX), SPX II, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Specifically for TCP, the concepts of block size, segment size, and sliding window are covered in detail.   Chapter 6 covers the session layer, including how some session services are actually embedded in other layers, how different protocols operate to find resources via DNS, NetWare Services Advertising Protocol (SAP), or NetBIOS. The three major NetBIOS implementations--NetBIOS over LLC (NetBEUI), NetBIOS over IPX, and NetBIOS over TCP/IP--are covered.   Chapter 7 covers the presentation layer by examining presentation protocols that are specific to certain protocol families and why there is no general-purpose presentation protocol in widespread use today.   Chapter 8 examines the application layer, beginning with a discussion of networked application characteristics, followed by a discussion of logon sequencing for different protocol stacks. Then specific protocols are covered in depth, including the Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP), NetWare Core Protocol (NCP), Microsoft/IBM Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol, Sun Network File System (NFS), and the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). As a bonus, the NT Browse protocol (not to be confused with Internet browsing!) is discussed.   Chapter 9 shows how to use your protocol analyzer to measure and baseline throughput and latency, identify bottlenecks in your network, and determine server and client response times.    Throughout these chapters you'll find many helpful Tips that will be presented in this format.    Acknowledgments  Several reviewers provided excellent technical feedback from the rough draft. These people include Robert Bullen, Phil Koenig, Phillip Scarr, Howard Lee Harkness, Ehud Gavron, Glen Herrmannsfeldt, Louis Breit, Doug Hughes, Bob Vance, Barry Margolin, and William Welch.   I'd also like to thank those wonderful folks at Addison Wesley Longman who worked with me during the various stages of developing this book, including Mary Hart, Karen Gettman, Lorraine Ferrier, and Tracy Russ.   And last, but not least, my family, Nancy, Daniel, and Matthew. I love you guys!   Have any great troubleshooting experiences? Feel free to drop me a line at scott@net3group.com.   All the best,     J. Scott Haugdahl, August 1999   I can do all things through Him, who strengthens me. Phil. 4:13.     0201433192P04062001",books;certification;computer science;computers & technology;networking;networks;new;operating systems;protocols & apis;software;unix;used & rental textbooks,12
0060579188,"The Great American Mousical (Julie Andrews Collection) Grade 3-5Deep beneath the grand but dilapidated Sovereign on New York Citys Broadway, in a perfect miniature of the theater, a group of mice are furiously rehearsing for their own musical, due to open the next night, New Years Eve. However, the tempestuous leading lady, Adelaide, gets caught in a mousetrap, is abandoned outside the city, but with the help of a kindly stranger makes her way back in time for the performance. Alls well that ends well, but readers may not stick it out to the happy finale. So many stock characters are introduced so quicklyonly a few of whom are fleshed out even to the smallest degreethat it is impossible to care about the fate of any of them. A long list of the characters at the front and a glossary of theatrical terms in the back add nothing to childrens appreciation of the magic of Broadway musicals.Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Gr. 4-6. Edwards and her daughter have teamed up to create an affectionate spoof of New York theater life featuring a cast of mice who perform in a tiny theater, located in a forgotten area of an old, once-exquisite theater built for humans. New Year's Eve is approaching and along with it the wrecking ball, leaving the mice just enough time to produce one last musical revue, Broadway Airs. When the show's star, diva Adelaide, disappears into a mouse trap and is transported to Brooklyn, the cast does its best to work around her. In the meantime, Adelaide undertakes an arduous journey back to Times Square--arriving at the theater just in time for her dramatic final number. The mice are clever and appealing without being saccharine, the local color is well done, and the show-biz jokes are sure to keep young theater buffs rolling in the aisles. With chapter titles plucked from program notes and a complete list of theater terms appended, this hilarious tale will appeal to would-be thespians everywhere. Black-and-white illustrations, not seen in galley, will be scattered through the text. Kay WeismanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Big of heart and deserving of an enthusiastic round of applause."" -- Publishers Weekly	Julie Andrews Edwards is one of the most recognized figures in the world of entertainment. She is perhaps best known for her performances in Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and The Princess Diaries. Ms. Edwards is the author of many favorite children's books, including Mandy and The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles.",action & adventure;animals;arts;books;children's books;crafts & music;guinea pigs & squirrels;hamsters;humor;literature & fiction;mice;performing arts,12
0631184686,"Ethiopians (Peoples of Africa) ""Clear, balanced and well informed, drawing on the latest sources to valuable effect, especially in references to archaeological work."" Times Literary Supplement""Richard Pankhurst's contribution to The Peoples of Africa series will be a useful tool for students and general readers who are new to Ethiopian history."" Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies""The Ethiopians makes an excellent introduction to the fascinating past of Ethiopia."" Danny Yee's Book Reviews - For the full text of this review please visit: http://dannyreviews.com/h/Ethiopians.html""... excellent, based on current scholarship, factual and replete with the type of generalizations necessary for a good tertiary study."" Journal of African History	This comprehensive history charts the fascinating development of Ethiopian peoples & their society from prehistory to present day.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	This is a history of the Ethiopians from pre-history to the present day. Drawing on research in archeology, anthropology, linguistics and on recent historiography, the book charts the development of Ethiopian peoples and their society, placing emphasis on the African origins of Ethiopian civilization.The book opens with a review of Ethiopian prehistory, showing how the Ethiopian section of the African Rift Valley has come to be seen as the ""cradle of humanity"". It describes, for instance, the discovery of the remains of the oldest known hominid, ""Lucy"", in the middle Awash Valley, in 1974. The book then discusses Ethiopia in biblical time, reconsidering, for example, the legend of the Queen of Sheba. The author examines the various dynasties that ruled in the period up to the first Portuguese mission, and explores the subsequent political and religious struggles between Christians, Muslims and Falashas. He discusses the social and economic effects of key stages in Ethiopian history such as the Gondar period and the era of the ""Judges"".The book also examines the succession of modernizing monarchs that followed, culminating in the rule of Emperor Haile Selassie. The book concludes with a review of Ethiopian history and culture considering contemporary Ethiopia within an historical context.	Richard Pankhurst who has lived in Ethiopia for over thirty years, is Professor at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa. His most recent books include A History of Ethiopian Towns from the Middle Ages to the Early Nineteenth Century (1982) and A Social History of Ethiopia (1990), and History of the Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History (1997).",africa;anthropology;books;cultural;ethiopia;history;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;world,12
159658176X,"University of Rhode Island: Off the Record (College Prowler) (College Prowler: University of Rhode Island Off the Record) The new kid on the block when it comes to student-to-student assessments of college campuses. -- Benjamin Gilbert, Washington Post, April 27, 2004The prospective college student's antidote to the Princeton Review doldrums. -- Melissa Kaplan, Boston Globe, May 23, 2004The real lowdown on campus life. -- Laura Randall and Kimetris N. Baltrip, New York Times, January 18, 2004",books;college & university;college entrance;college guides;counseling;education;education & reference;new;schools & teaching;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks,12
0670839469,"Deliberate Indifference: A Story of Racial Injustice and Murder On Christmas Day, 1987, a law-abiding black man with a wife and six children went on what should have been a brief errand. He was stopped by a white police chief in a small Texas town near the Louisiana border, taken to jail, and beaten to death with a lead-filled blackjack. Award-winning journalist Howard Swindle, himself a Texan, draws on his personal knowledge to tell a spellbinding tale about the local law-enforcement and criminal-justice systems, both before and during this landmark case. As if the 70-foot-tall pines were an impenetrable social barrier, Swindle writes, Deep East Texas lies stagnant in a civil rights time warp, more forties and fifties than eighties and nineties. The New York Times praised the author's compelling storytelling [that] enriches every page of this nonfiction thriller.  Also recommended: Swindle's Edgar-Award-nominated Trespasses: Portrait of a Serial  Rapist.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	On Dec. 25, 1987, Loyal Garner Jr., a law-abiding black man who lived in Louisiana with his wife and six children, drove into Sabine County, Tex., with two friends. All three were arrested, although they were not told the charges. In the Hemphill, Tex., jail Garner was beaten unconscious by three officers; the next morning he was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Tyler, where he died a day later. Hemphill Police Chief Thomas Ladner had a reputation for abusing prisoners, but when he and his two assistants were arrested, the white community closed ranks behind them. The trial of the three officers for violating Garner's civil rights was held in Hemphill, where they were acquitted. The second trial, for murder, however, was held in Tyler, where all three were found guilty and received sentences of 10 to 28 years. The appeal of Ladner, who had drawn the longest sentence, was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court; appeals by the other two are pending. Swindle ( Once a Hero ), an editor at the Dallas Morning News , has written a devastating report about a segment of society he views as inbred, ignorant, racist, self-deluding and hypocritical. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Arrested with two friends for drunkenness in East Texas on Christmas day 1987, Loyal Garner Jr., was separated from them and taken into another part of the jail. He returned with a severe head injury, but police did not move him to a hospital until the following morning, and he subsequently died. The results of the autopsy, combined with testimony by Garner's friends and other prisoners, led to the arrest and prosecution of three Hemphill, Texas, policemen for civil rights violations and murder. Swindle, winner of a George Polk Award for investigative journalism, provides a careful account of the incident, the investigation, and the complex legal proceedings, painting a disturbing portrait of an insular community in which racism and police brutality were everyday realities. He also documents the determination of a number of lawyers and the bravery of ordinary citizens, white and black, who struggled to obtain justice through the legal system. This inspiring narrative is recommended for all collections.- Ben Harrison, East Orange P.L., N.J.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;discrimination & racism;history;murder & mayhem;politics & social sciences;race relations;sociology;state & local;true accounts;united states,12
0131879928,"Point & Click OpenOffice.org Robins book comes at the perfect time. With the extremely popular 2.0 release, more people will discover OpenOffice.orgs incredible value. A book like Robins is important because it helps people master the OpenOffice.org tools they need to get things done.  Jeffrey Bates, VP Editorial Operations, cofounder Slashdot.org    OpenOffice.org 2.0 made easy...incredibly easy!    Tired of Microsoft Office hassles, upgrades, and cost? Try OpenOffice.org 2.0!     OpenOffice.org 2.0 is all the office productivity software youll ever need for your Windows or Linux computer: word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing, even databases... and its free! Not sure its up to the job? It is. Not sure you can switch from Microsoft Office? You can. Just let OpenOffice.org expert and Open Source Technology Group (OSTG) editor-in-chief Robin Roblimo Miller teach you OpenOffice.org the easy wayusing the skills you already have!  Robin will help you become productive in minutesand you dont need to be a computer expert! His easy, visual instructions walk you through every step of every task you need to know... plus, youll find twenty how-to videos on CD! Youll master everything from formatting text documents to creating presentation slide shows and building what-if projections to designing flowcharts. Theres even bonus coverage of Firefox and Thunderbird, the fast, safe, free software for Web browsing and e-mail!   Master OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, and Base.   Create Microsoft Office-compatible documents anyone can read and use.   Analyze, manage, and manipulate business information with Calc.    Design attractive charts and other visuals.   Use mail merge to create great form letters or e-mails.   Create and manipulate sophisticated databaseseven if you have no previous database experience.   Start using Firefoxthe safest, most secure Web browser available for Windows!   Filter out junk mail with Thunderbird and say goodbye to Outlook Express.   Do things you cant do with Microsoft Officesuch as creating Flash slide shows for the Web!    TWO CD-ROMS INCLUDED    The first CD-ROM features OpenOffice 2.0 for Windows and Linux, plus the Windows versions of the latest Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird e-mail software... just install and run!   The second CD-ROM features Roblimo showing you how to perform twenty essential OpenOffice.org tasks in easy, bite-sized video tutorials... just watch, and do!	About the AuthorsRobin Roblimo Miller (http://www.roblimo.com) is editor-in-chief of OSTG, one of the worlds leading online tech news publishers. He has written extensively about computers and the Internet for Slashdot, Linux.com, NewsForge, Time New Media, Online Journalism Review, Web Hosting Magazine, the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, and many other Web sites, newspapers, and magazines. He is one of modern interactive journalisms creators and has served as an Internet business consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and many Internet entrepreneurs. He has also authored The Online Rules of Successful Companies (Financial Times Prentice Hall 2002) and Point  Click Linux (Prentice Hall 2004).Bruce Byfield (Chapter 11, Sharing Files Between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office) is a course designer, instructor, and computer journalist whose work has appeared on both NewsForge.com and the Linux Journal Web site.Daniel Carrera (Chapter 6, Slick OpenOffice.org Writer Tricks) is a long-time OpenOffice.org volunteer, user, and advocate who has written dozens of articles about OpenOffice.org.Lalaine Lizza Capucion (Chapter 5, OOo Calc: Spreadsheets and More, and Chapter 9, Make Calc Spreadsheets Dance for You) is a freelance writer, editor, and abstractor/indexer who has been creating and working with sophisticated spreadsheets since 1993.Rob Reilly (Chapter 3, OOo Impress: Slide Shows That Will Impress Almost Anyone, Chapter 8, OOo Impress: Smooth, Sophisticated Slide Shows, and Chapter 10, OOo Database Front End: Your Free Pass) is a consultant, speaker, and freelance writer who has set up countless databases for clientsand loves to wow audiences with sophisticated slide presentations.Linda Worthington (Chapter 7, Draw: Not Your Fathers Drawing Board) is a writer and graphics artist who maintains several sections of the official OOo Users Guide. Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.	<!--function popUp(pPage) {figLoc = '' + document.location;if (figLoc.indexOf('/') == -1 &&amp; figLoc.indexOf('\\') >= 0) {slash = '\\';} else {slash = '/';}openLoc = figLoc.substring(0, figLoc.lastIndexOf(slash) + 1);while (pPage.substring(0,3) == '../') {openLoc = openLoc.substring(0, openLoc.lastIndexOf(slash, openLoc.length - 2)+ 1);pPage = pPage.substring(3, pPage.length + 1);}popUpWin =window.open('','popWin','resizable=1,scrollbars=1,location=0,toolbar=0,width=525,height=394');figDoc = popUpWin.document;zhtm= '<html><head><title>' + pPage + '';zhtm += '';zhtm += '';zhtm += '';zhtm += '' + pPage.substring(pPage.lastIndexOf('/') + 1, pPage.length) + ' ';zhtm += '';figDoc.write(zhtm);figDoc.close();}// modified 3.1.99 RWE v4.1 -->ForewordForewordOver the last decade, open source has continued its meteoric ride to the top; with Web servers like Apache and operating systems like Linux and BSD Unix, open sources development and continued growth has profoundly impacted the software marketplace.For years, Microsoft Office has been the undisputed champion of the productivity suite. But recently, some critics have accused it of being bloated and overly complexnot to mention expensive! Suns acquisition of StarOffice, and its subsequent release as OpenOffice.org, was met with derision from some pundits, who said going up against Microsoft Office was a fools game.Yet, look where we are now: OpenOffice.org has reached the point where the development and user communities are growing by leaps and bounds. And recent efforts by corporations, institutions, and other groups to find ways to get their work done without having to pay more software licensing fees have given OpenOffice.org the opening it needs to really take off.Robins book comes at the perfect time. With the extremely popular 2.0 release, more people will discover OpenOffice.orgs incredible value. A book like Robins is important because it helps people master the OpenOffice.org tools they need to get things done. And thats ultimately what software should be aboutthe tools to get things done. OpenOffice.org is one of the best tools around for the business of doing businessand it is ready, willing, and able to work for you.Jeffrey BatesVP Editorial Operations, Co-Founder Slashdot.org Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.",accounting;books;business;computer science;computers & technology;operating systems;programming;software;software design;software development;software engineering;testing & engineering,12
0205378250,"Human Behavior and the Larger Social Environment: A New Synthesis Human Behavior and the Larger Social Environment promotes critical thinking through extensive review and analysis of macro-level systems and structures, highlighting both the positive and negative impacts they have on individuals and families.   Highlights of The First Edition:   Presents multiple perspectives in each chapter to explain each macro topic, helping students to become more adept at applying different perspectives and using critical thinking skills.  Avoids overwhelming students by organizing each chapter the same way, helping students mentally organize material so they can readily apply the knowledge to other social work courses.  Supports the person-in-environment orientation by moving away from an overemphasis on individual development, toward an examination of contextual issues that more fully demonstrate the challenges routinely encountered by social workers.    What reviewers are saying about Human Behavior and the Larger Social Environment: I cannot remember the last time that I read a textbook that was as fascinating and held my attention throughout... I predict that social work students will love this book and teachers will find students to be enthusiastic and engaged in the topic. Deborah Valentine, Ph.D., Colorado State University  The perspectives presented such as social constructionist, ecosystems, diversity, etc. will greatly facilitate students' learning and bridge the gap between theory, practice, and multiple dimensions of the macro environment.  I think that students will find this text interesting and understandable and that it will help students to critically examine the multiple dimensions of human behavior. Marian S. Harris, Ph.D., University of Washington, Tacoma   Don't Miss This Special Value Pack Option: The Career Center Do your students need help transitioning from being a student to becoming a professional? With The Career Center, they can register to receive eight 30-minute career counseling sessionsa total of four hours of career consultant time! The Career Center is designed to address the wide range of preparation and life stages of individuals who are attempting to develop their careers. Qualified career specialists advise students as they establish, or reestablish, themselves in today's competitive global economy. The Career Centera $25 valueis FREE to your students when you order it packaged with any new Allyn  Bacon textbook. Visit www.ablongman.com/careercenter for more information.   Contact your local Allyn  Bacon representative and request special packaging codes to take advantage of this great offer.",behavioral sciences;books;education & reference;medical books;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;science & math;social psychology & interactions;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,12
073571228X,"Perl for C Programmers (Landmark) Steve Oualline is the author of many programming and Linux related books. He is a professional software engineer, author, and educator. Currently, he works for a large software company as a quality engineer devising ways to improve the quality and reliability of the code produced by their programmers. Other books by this author include Vi iMproved (vim), 0-7357-1001-5, New Riders, 4/01, Practical C++ Programming, Second Edition, $39.99, O'Reilly, and Practical C Programming, Third Edition, $34.95, 1-5659-2306-5, O'Reilly, 9/97.",books;c & c++ windows programming;computers & technology;development;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;languages & tools;microsoft;perl;programming;software;web development & design,12
0325007624,"In Short: How to Teach Young Adult Short Story Currently the Editor in Chief and Vice-President of LeapFrog, Suzanne I. Barchers has written approximately 50 books, ranging from college textbooks to short, decodable children's books to readers theatre books (see books and scripts at www.storycart.com). She has served as a public school teacher, an affiliate faculty for the University of Colorado, Denver, an acquisitions editor for Teacher Ideas Press, and Managing Editor at Weekly Reader.",books;education;education & reference;instruction methods;literature & fiction;new;pedagogy;professional development;schools & teaching;secondary education;short stories;used & rental textbooks,12
0060174471,"Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds Beyond croaking, ""Nevermore,"" what exactly do ravens do all day? Bernd Heinrich, biology professor at the University of Vermont and author of Ravens in Winter, has spent more than a decade learning the secrets of these giants of the crow family. He has observed startlingly complex activities among ravens, including strong pair-bonding, use of tools, elaborate vocal communication, and even play. Ravens are just plain smart, and we can see much of ourselves in their behavior. They seem to be affectionate, cranky, joyful, greedy, and competitive, just like us. And in Mind of the Raven, Heinrich makes no bones about attributing emotions and intellect to Corvus corax--just not the kind we humans can understand. He mostly catalogs their behaviors in the manner of a respectful anthropologist, although a few moments of proud papa show through when he describes the pet ravens he hand-raised to adulthood.  Heinrich spends hundreds of loving hours feeding roadkill fragments to endlessly hungry raven chicks, and cold days in blinds watching wild ravens squabble and frolic. He is a passionate fan of his ""wolf-birds,"" a name he gave them when he made the central discovery of the book: that ravens in Yellowstone National Park are dependent on wolves to kill for them. Mind of the Raven offers inspiring insight into both the lives of ravens and the mind of a truly gifted scientist. --Therese Littleton	In a book that demonstrates the rewards of caring and careful observation of the natural world, Heinrich (Ravens in Winter, etc.), a noted biologist, Guggenheim fellow and National Book Award nominee (for Bumblebee Economics, 1979), explores the question of raven intelligence through observation, experiment and personal experience. Although he has raised many ravens through the years (beginning with a tame pair that shared his apartment at UCLA in the 1960s), Heinrich focuses much of his attention on four nestlings he adopted from the Maine woods near his home. As he describes tending to the demanding babies, chopping up roadkill, cleaning up after them and enduring their noisy calls for food, readers will marvel at how much Heinrich knows and at how much joy he derives from acquiring that knowledge. As the birds mature, Heinrich details how these and other ravens feed, nest, mate, play and establish a society with clear hierarchical levels. At its best, his writing is distinguished by infectious enthusiasm, a lighthearted style and often lyrical descriptions of the natural world. His powers of observation are impressive and his descriptionsAof how a raven puffs its feathers in a dominance display, of how a female calls for food from her mate, of the pecking order at a carcassAare formidably precise. Toward the end of the book, Heinrich addresses the question implied by the title: To what degree can ravens be said to think? His answer: ""I suspect that the great gulf or discontinuity that exists between us and all other animals is... ultimately less a matter of consciousness than of culture."" Illustrations. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	YA-Heinrich's adventures with ravens are consistently interesting and illuminating, whether he's crouching for hours in cold rain to observe them, hauling animal carcasses into the woods to attract them, or visiting in the homes of their human companions. In 29 readable and richly illustrated chapters, he shares his own experiences with the birds as well as many anecdotes collected by observers from around the globe. He explores ""the possibility of conscious choice"" in these obviously intelligent but often baffling birds, and believes they owe much of their complexity to the fact that they have evolved in close association with dangerous carnivores-wolves and men. Looking at the common fear that ravens damage crops, Heinrich asserts they have been unjustly accused and persecuted by farmers, and he studies firsthand the relationship of ravens with Eskimo hunters. Sometimes the research just leads him from one mystery to another, but wherever his questions take him, the journey is always fascinating as the many layers of raven psychology are revealed. Perhaps best known on this continent for its ""trickster"" talents, the raven has been associated in Europe with divination, death, and the Norse god Odin. Heinrich's perspective, that of the scientist, is just as compelling for modern readers and does full justice to this bird's mythical reputation. A fine, entertaining book for general readers, as well as an excellent resource for those seeking meticulously gathered and documented scientific information.Christine C. Menefee, Fairfax County Public Library, VA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	The raven (Corvus corax) is the largest crow, weighing between 1,200 and 1,400 grams (about 2.5 pounds), compared with about 400 for a standard American crow. It has a long-standing reputation as one smart bird.  Heinrich, professor of biology at the University of Vermont, has raised raven chicks in his home (""the world's worst roommate,"" he says), observed ravens in an aviary and spent a great deal of time watching the behavior of wild ravens. He admires the raven's intelligence and describes numerous examples of it.  Among the behaviors he or others have seen are flying upside down, doing barrel rolls, using objects to displace gulls from nests and rocks in defending their own nests, and poking holes in the bottom of their nests on a hot day. He inclines to the view that such behaviors are conscious, thinking acts. But it is a cautious conclusion. ""Extraordinary cleverness can often be explained by 'simpler' hypotheses,"" he says. ""With ravens I'm no longer always sure of how to distinguish a simple from a more complex hypothesis, how to know whether all of the ravens' behavior is somehow complexly preprogrammed or whether they know or learn to know what they are doing.""	The common raven, Corvus corax, is the world's largest crow, measuring from 22 to 27 inches long, and it can be found in much of North America. Heinrich, a University of Vermont biologist and illustrator, is the author of The Trees in My Forest, a homage to the rhythms of life in his 300-acre Maine forest, and Ravens in Winter. He has studied ravens at his Vermont home, at his Maine cabin, and as far away as the Arctic. Here, he writes about this highly intelligent bird's fascinating behavior, the result of his observations, experiments, and experiences (including raising young ravens to adulthood, giving them such names as Fuzz and Houdi). This is not a scholarly work but rather a fond tribute to these feathered creatures.  George Cohen	Still wild about ravens after all these years, award-winning zoologist Heinrich (Univ. of Vermont; The Trees in My Forest, 1997, etc.) continues his investigations into the big crow's behavior. What makes ravens tick, or, if you prefer, quork? What fires their love of baubles, their delight in tomfoolery? Why have so many cultures portrayed the birds as creators and destroyers, prophets and clowns and tricksters? Are they sentient? Do they scheme? To what use do they put that sizable brain? Heinrich has shared a lot of forest time with ravens over the years, trying to gain perspective on these questions. He has come away with an admittedly incomplete if anecdotally rich picture of the bird, one that bears up the historical image of a canny creature that trumps our expectations. Here is a bird that willingly incubates eggs that are obviously not its own, the smart guy falling for the oldest parasitic trick in the book. Yet here is also a bird that can sit down at the table, to a nicely fatted calf, say, with wolves and golden eagles, animals that are known to serve raven when the calves are scarce. Heinrich freely shares the glimmerings of real understanding he has mademuch the same way as ravens share food finds (in apparent, and typical, anti-evolutionary spirit)including the exploratory/carnal fixation the raven has with bijouterie, and how many ravens it takes to fish the Yellowstone River for cutthroat. But when it comes to measuring the ravens' intelligence, Heinrich suggests it would be folly to do so in human terms: We are, in effect, culturally incomparable, and for all the seeming pleasure we take in one another's company, how the bird goes about interpreting the world remains closed to us, enigmatic and contradictory as ever.  Left unsaid in this learned study is how many hours Heinrich sat motionless in the deep-space cold of a Maine winter to gather these observations. There lies the gauge of his enterprise, understanding, and passion. (illustrations, not seen)  -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	An amazing book...a scientist and naturalist of the first rank...a nature writer of uncommon talent. (Edward O. Wilson)Heinrich has a rare ability to embed dense scientific explications within graceful, lightfooted nature writing. (David Quammen, New York Times Book Review)Bernd Heinrich is one of the finest living examples of that strange hybrid: the science writer. (Los Angeles Times Book Review)A compelling exploration of the nature of consciousness with an unremittingly delicious jaunt in the woods.... a grand storyteller. (Baltimore Sun)Heinrich brings alive the romance of field research...A splendid book. (Library Journal (starred review))	Bernd Heinrich is the author of Mind of the Raven, which won the John Burroughs Medal for Natural History Writing and was a New York Times and Los Angeles Times Notable Book as well as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science and Technology Award. He is also the author of Bumblebee Economics, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and The Trees in My Forest, which won a New England Book Award. A professor of biology at the University of Vermont, Heinrich also spends time in the forests of western Maine, where he has done much of his field research and training for ultramarathons. 	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",animal psychology;behavioral sciences;biological sciences;birdwatching;books;humor;humor & entertainment;nature & ecology;nature writing;rural life;science & math;zoology,12
0306809397,"Beat Punks ""Victor Bockris is a brilliant young writer....He types like Van Cliburn plays the piano. He's always tape recording and taking pictures. I can't keep up with him."" -- Andy Warhol	Victor Bockris has written about the cultural heroes of the twentieth century for over thirty years. He is the author or co-author of major biographies on Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, The Velvet Underground, and many others. He lives in New York City.",arts & photography;beat generation;books;education & reference;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;movements & periods;music;musical genres;punk;rock,12
0815625154,"Coming to Public Judgment: Making Democracy Work in a Complex World (The Frank W. Abrams Lectures) Drawing on his experience as a public-opinion researcher, Yankelovich's ( Starting with the People ) highly readable work offers his notions on how ``creeping expertism'' is causing Americans to lose their ability to govern themselves. He also presents some optimistic views on what to do about it. When political leaders have problems, they consult experts (economic, military, scientific and so on), who assume that if the public knew as much as they do, all would acknowledge that they're right. Not so, says Yankelovich: the public has its own perspectives and priorities (though how these are formed remains unclear). Moreover, it is possible to improve the quality of what he calls ``public judgment'' (mass opinion that is thoughtful and accepting of the consequences of its conclusions, as opposed to the off-the-cuff opinion that polls often measure), not simply through better information but through a better process of forming judgment. Yankelovich offers a three-step model for achieving this: consciousness-raising (learning about the problem); working through (confronting the need for change); and resolution (forming coherent and responsible solutions). Copyright 1991 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",americas;books;democracy;education & reference;history;ideologies & doctrines;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;united states;world,12
0829812008,"The Humanizing Brain: Where Religion and Neuroscience Meet A working-out of theology through the lens of the neurosciences. . . . A thoughtful introduction to many of these issues. -- The Christian  Century, January 27, 1999This fascinating book....offers new insights [on]   relationships of  the body  and  mind and of human beings with the divine. -- San Francisco Medicine, April 24, 2003",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;history & philosophy;humanities;new;religion & spirituality;religious studies;science & math;science & mathematics;theology;used & rental textbooks,12
0471159859,"Enzyme Kinetics: A Modern Approach a useful book as an introduction to the topiccomplements existing authorative treatments in a concise way... (Journal of The Science of Food and Agriculture, Vol.85, No.1, 15 January 2005)""...a concise introduction to enzyme kinetics...recommended..."" (Choice, Vol. 40, No. 9, May 2003)""...extremely useful...particularly...the applications and practical examples to demonstrate the mathematical handling of experimental data..."" (Clinical Chemistry, Vol. 49, No. 5, 2003)""...a valuable companion for everyone seeking a quick overview of the theory of enzyme kinetics."" (Angewandte Chemie International Edition , Vol. 42, 2003)""...a useful manual for the experienced researcher and the developing enzymologist."" (Journal of Food Quality, Vol. 26)""...an innovative approach to the field of enzyme kinetic modeling, model transformation, and model analysis...a valuable reference for practitioners in this field."" (SIM News, Vol. 53, No. 3, May/June 2003)""...presents a new way of looking at an old subject... (Angewandte Chemie, 2003)""...the approach is quite mathematical and will appeal to the reader versed in mathematics and kinetics..."" (ChemBioChem, Vol 4(5), 2003)	A modern approach to enzyme kinetics and its applicationsAs catalysts for the majority of metabolic and biochemical reactions in the body, enzymes are important drug targets as well as useful synthetic catalysts.  Enzyme kinetics is the study of the speed of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction and provides useful knowledge that aids in the design of enzyme-based processes.  A. G. Marangonis Enzyme Kinetics: A Modern Approach provides a practical, how-to guide for students, technicians, and nonspecialists to evaluate enzyme kinetics, using common software packages to perform easy enzymatic analyses.The treatment of enzyme kinetics in this book is radically different from the way the topic is traditionally covered.  Marangoni stresses an understanding of how researchers arrive at models, what the models limitations are, and how they can be used in practical ways to analyze enzyme kinetic data.  With the advent of computers, linear transformations of models have become unnecessaryEnzyme Kinetics does away with all linear transformations of enzyme kinetic models, advancing the use of nonlinear regression techniques.  Marangoni develops new ways to carry out analyses of enzyme kinetic data, particularly in the study of pH effects on catalytic activity and multisubstrate enzymes.  Other topics addressed include:Tools and techniques of kinetic analysisReversible and irreversible enzyme inhibitionMultisite and cooperative enzymesImmobilized and interfacial enzymesCharacterization of enzyme stabilityEnzyme Kinetics is a handy, innovative resource for practicing researchers in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and food science industries.	A. G. MARANGONI, PhD, is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Food and Soft Materials in the Department of Food Science at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.",basic sciences;biochemistry;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,12
0738701823,"The Healer's Wisdom: Fundamentals of Whole Body Healing Jennifer Fraser works as a practicing intuitive healer. She specializes in aromatherapy and energy treatments, which include chakra work, sound toning, color therapy, and crystals.	It is necessary for healers to have an understanding of the essential systems    of the body. This chapter includes information on the body cells, structural system, respiratory system, circulatory system, digestive system, nervous system, the brain and the senses, hormonal control, defense mechanisms, energy field, and vibrational layers. Although this chapter is divided into separate sections covering the various systems, it is essential to remember that each system is innately linked to the next, as all components of the body work together to maintain the balance of life. The body is a complex assemblage of parts that function in a miraculous cooperative endeavor to sustain the whole.     As a healer it is important that you spend time studying this information. It provides essential groundwork for the start of your healing knowledge. It will allow you to understand the complex processes and needs of the body, presenting a firm foundation for your healing skills. It is one thing to learn the healing skills, but it is far better to know why you are applying them.    The Cells    We begin our exploration of the body with the cells, as they are the smallest living parts. Cells are the basic building blocks of life, with the body containing more than sixty million of them, all working together to form the individual systems. Cells perform all kinds of jobs, including manufacturing new chemicals, breaking down old ones, moving useful material through the body, excreting waste, dividing to create new cells, and many other essential tasks. Cells are constantly busy, and as they wear out they are continually replaced. A million new cells are formed every second. The liver is fully replaced in six weeks, the kidneys in one month, and the complete blood volume of the entire body is new in three weeks.    The complex structure of the body cells allows them to perform their jobs. Each cell is driven by a nucleus, the brain center of the cell that contains the blueprint for the cell purpose. Certain structures called organelles perform the actual work of the cells, creating chemicals and transporting them in and out of the cell. Each cell is surrounded by a membrane that holds the cell contents in place and lets molecules pass through the cell. The cell is really like a living factory that networks with other factories to keep the body functioning at peak efficiency.    The Skeletal System    The skeleton is a complex framework of living material, containing over two hundred bones. The skeleton supports the body tissues, protects internal organs, and provides anchor points for the muscles. Each bone is composed of active cells and has the marvelous property of being both flexible and rigid, as it is delicately formed from a mass of thin bone filaments.     Various joints permit a wide range of movement of the skeleton. Some joints are stiff and bracing, as they are filled with cartilage, like the supportive joints of the spine. Cartilage is very slippery and works to lower friction and absorb shock. Other joints are very flexible, as they are lubricated with synovial fluid; thus, they are called synovial joints; the knee joint is an example of a synovial joint.    Ligaments help to control the movement of joints. These tough fibrous cords attach to the bone casing on either side of the joint and hold it firmly in place, preventing it from twisting beyond its normal range of movement. Sometimes under heavy stress a ligament will tear and cause a painful injury, but ligaments really work to prevent more serious joint injuries.      Muscles    Movement of the body involves the coordination of the muscles. There are three types of muscles: striated muscles, which are composed of long fibrous cells bound tightly together; smooth muscles, which line the walls of the body tubes and cavities, including the stomach, intestines, and blood vessels; and the cardiac muscle, which controls the heart beat. Smooth muscles and the cardiac muscle are known as involuntary muscles, as they work automatically without conscious effort, while striated muscles are anchored to bones and are primarily under the conscious control of the brain. There are over six hundred muscles in the body that we have conscious control over in order to facilitate movement.     Voluntary muscular action is really very simple: it works on the principle of contraction and relaxation. The brain sends a chemical nerve signal down to the muscle to send it into action. The muscle then physically reacts to the messenger. Most muscles function in pairs; one muscle contracts to move a bone or organ as another muscle relaxes. In order to reverse the movement and pull the bone back to its original position, the first muscle must relax and the second muscle then contracts. It takes the coordination of many muscles to produce the body movements.     Muscles consume up to five times the amount of energy they produce, and their efficiency can be increased with exercise. Exercise is important-it supplies the body with higher oxygen levels, increases circulation, burns excess fat, and strengthens the muscles, heart, and lungs. Exercise is truly an essential first step in preventing many health problems.    The Respiratory System    The respiratory system brings life-giving air into the body. Oxygen is needed by the cells so they can burn food to fuel themselves in order to complete their various tasks. This process is called cellular respiration, and it begins when food arrives at the cell in the form of the simple sugar called glucose. Glucose is burned by the cell in order to release the energy contained in it. The hydrogen in glucose combines with oxygen to form water, while the carbon mixes with the oxygen to form carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide must be expelled, as it is toxic to the body.     When we...(Continues)",alternative medicine;books;energy healing;fitness & dieting;health;holistic;massage;mental & spiritual healing;naturopathy;new age;religion & spirituality;self-help,12
0965728595,"Disposable Animals: Ending the Tragedy of Throwaway Pets Although Brestrup deals with a variety of animal rights issues in this book, he focuses on ""throwaway pets"" in what appears to be the first real effort to deal with the problem. His main thesis is that shelters that kill contribute to a societal attitude that ""commodifies"" animals. What makes this work different from other animal rights resources is its social/psychological criticism of shelters that kill and their proponents. Brestrup is an excellent writer with a somewhat unusual background. A former social worker, he became executive director of Seattle's Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) in February 1994. Distressed by the killing of homeless pets there, he left in January 1996, just as PAWS officially became a ""no-kill"" shelter. It is hoped that any subsequent editions will include a foreword detailing the effects of this change on the pet situation in that area. An appendix lists animal rights organizations. For larger animal welfare collections.?Alicia Graybill, Lincoln City Libs., Neb.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	After presenting a detailed discussion...Disposable Animals' author Craig Brestrup offers a meaningful and detailed argument concerning the ineffectiveness of surplus animal control through euthanasia. In it, he highlights the paradoxical predicament in which a humane organization presumes to prove its humaneness by killing healthy animals.  -- The Latham Letter, Summer 1997Craig Brestrup's Disposable Animals: Ending the Tragedy of Throwaway Pets (Camino Bay Books, $14.95), one of the most powerful and provocative animal-welfare volumes to come along in years.  -- Seattle Times, June 1997	Although this book has been controversial among many animal welfare professionals, it has required that they reconsider and improve upon their practices. And many others express considerable respect for the book's message. Tom Regan (author and ethics professor): ""Unquestionably the most thoughtful work ever written on the tragic practice of 'euthanizing' healthy companion animals. Not everyone will agree with its findings. But no one who truly cares about companion animals can ignore the daunting challenge the book places before us."" Steve Ann Chambers (President of the Animal Legal Defense Fund): ""All of our lives are inextricably connected to the lives of animals-whether through personal relationships with companion animals, or by virtue of our inclusion in a species that systematically uses them toward its own ends. Brestrup challenges us to re-examine what animals do for us, and why we do what we do to them."" Nedim C. Buyukmihci (President of the Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights): ""To try to capture the depth, sensitivity, compassion, humility, logic and rightness of thought expressed by this book in a few words would be an injustice to it. Brestrup makes a compelling case for human animals to return to their rightful and natural place in nature, not above nor below the other creatures. He also makes persuasive arguments for discontinuing the killing of companion animals in the name of population control. He points out, with irrefutable logic, that such killing nullifies our plea to those responsible for this tragedy to stop treating these individuals as commodities.""	Craig Brestrup worked for twenty years in mental health, focusing on child and family welfare as a psychotherapist and clinic CEO. In 1989 he received a PHD from The Institute for Medical Humanities at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. His concentration was in medical and environmental ethics and his dissertation a study of Martin Buber's philosophical concepts as a way of understanding the proper human relation with the natural world. In 1994 he became executive director of the Progressive Animal Welfare Society near Seattle, an organization with divisions working on wildlife rehabilitation, companion animal services, and animal advocacy. In 1991 he received the Hoepfner Award for essays from the Southern Humanities Review for ""On the Natchez Trace."" He is now CEO/COO of Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, a wildlife conservation center in north-central Texas.",animal rights;animals;biological sciences;books;crafts;fauna;hobbies & home;nature & ecology;new;pets & animal care;science & math;used & rental textbooks,12
0764504991,"Frontpage 2000 for Dummies Quick Reference About the Author Damon Dean is the author of Web Channel Development For Dummies, also published by IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., as well as The Pocket Tour of Multimedia on the Internet, published by Sybex. The author of nearly 100 articles on computers and gaming, Dean also claims to know a thing or two about the Internet. After spending six delirious years in the multimedia and computer games industry, he now spends his time Working the Web for 415 Productions. As is required of all UCLA graduates, Dean is currently finishing up his first black-and-white movie short in his spare time.	Damon Dean is the author of Web Channel Development For Dummies, also published by IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., as well as The Pocket Tour of Multimedia on the Internet, published by Sybex. The author of nearly 100 articles on computers and gaming, Dean also claims to know a thing or two about the Internet. After spending six delirious years in the multimedia and computer games industry, he now spends his time Working the Web for 415 Productions. As is required of all UCLA graduates, Dean is currently finishing up his first black-and-white movie short in his spare time.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;networking;networks;new;protocols & apis;software;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design,12
0961815256,"100 Hikes in Southern Oregon William L. Sullivan is the author of six books and numerous articles about Oregon, including a regular outdoor column for Eugene Weekly. A fifth-generation Oregonian, Sullivan began hiking at the age of five and has been exploring new trails ever since. After receiving an English degree from Cornell University and studying at Germany's Heidelberg University, he earned an M.A. from the University of Oregon. In 1985 Sullivan set out to investigate Oregon's wilderness on a 1,361-mile solo backpacking trek from the state's westernmost shore at Cape Blanco to Oregon's easternmost point in Hells Canyon. His journal of that two-month adventure, published as ""Listening for Coyote,"" was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction . Since then he has authored a popular series of ""100 Hikes"" guidebooks to the regions of Oregon. Other titles in the series are ""100 Hikes in Northwest Oregon,"" covering Mt. Hood, the Columbia Gorge, Mt. St. Helens, and the Portland area; ""100 Hikes in the Central Oregon Cascades,"" covering the Three Sisters, Mt. Jefferson, Bend, and Eugene areas; and ""100 Hikes/Travel Guide: Oregon Coast & Coast Range,"" describing not only the hiking trails of the scenic Pacific shore, but also the campgrounds, beaches, lighthouses, aquariums, canoeing/kayaking options, bicycle paths, and birdwatching sites. He and his wife Janell live in Eugene, but spend summers in a log cabin they built by hand on a roadless stretch of Oregon's Siletz River.	Hike #86, Rogue River Trail East Easy (to Whisky Creek) 7 miles round-trip 300 feet elevation gain Open all year Maps: Mt. Reuben, Bunker Hill (USGS) Difficult (Grave Creek to Marial) 23.2 miles one way 2800 feet elevation gain Additional maps: Kelsey Creek, Marial (USGS) At times the irascible Rogue River idles along in lazy green pools, but elsewhere it's misty mayhem, plunging over Rainie Falls or boiling through Mule Creek Canyon's Coffeepot. During the peak whitewater season from May 15 to October 15, the 40-mile stretch between Grave Creek and Illahe has become such a popular float trip for kayakers and rafters that the Forest Service holds a lottery to issue 10,000 permits from 90,000 applications. But why not hike through this spectacular river canyon instead? The 40-mile Rogue River Trail offers the same scenery without the crowds or the permit hassles. This eastern section of the famous trail begins with a 3.5-mile jaunt that's easy enough for hikers with children. From Grave Creek, the route passes Rainie Falls' frothy 15-foot cascade and leads to the Whisky Creek Cabin, a gold miner's shack from 1880 restored as a rustic museum. Backpackers continuing west should bring stoves because campfires are only allowed within 400 feet of the river if they're kept in firepans. At night, hang food at least 10 feet high and 5 feet from a tree trunk to discourage black bears. To find the eastern trailhead at the Grave Creek bridge, take Interstate 5 north of Grants Pass 18 miles (or south of Roseburg 48 miles) to Wolf Creek exit 76, drive half a mile to the Wolf Creek Tavern, turn off into town 2 blocks, go under a railroad overpass, turn left, and follow this paved road 15 miles. Just before the Grave Creek bridge, turn right to a boat ramp and trail parking area. Mossy, gnarled canyon live oak trees provide spots of shade along the trail. Western fence lizards do push-ups on rocks, warning other lizards away from their territory. Expect tall blue wildflowers in May: cluster lily and 6-petaled elegant brodiaea. Beware of poison oak along the trail. At 0.2 mile the path overlooks Grave Creek Rapids, a rock-walled chute where boaters flail. After 1.2 miles, a trailside high-water mark commemorates the 1964 flood's crest, 55 feet above normal river level. Just beyond are the cement piers of Sanderson's Bridge, a miner's mule bridge from 1907 swept away by a 1927 flood.  In another 0.6 mile, a short fork to the left leads to the shore beside Rainie Falls. Most boats are lined around the falls on a channel blasted out of the rock for migrating fish. Daring souls in large rubber rafts sometimes run the falls without flipping. Continue on the main trail 1.6 miles, pass a cluster of popular campsites at a sandy beach, and then cross Whisky Creek on a footbridge. Here a spur to the right leads up to the historic 2-room log cabin, with its collection of rusty mining memorabilia. Note the 1890 flume ditch just uphill. Backpackers continuing to Marial will find the Rogue River Trail mostly traverses rocky slopes high above the river. Just 0.4 mile past Whisky Creek is Big Slide Camp, a quiet riverside tent area where a late 1800s landslide briefly dammed the Rogue, backing it up 15 miles. Attractions farther down the trail include Horseshoe Bend's dramatic river loop, Western author Zane Grey's (private) log cabin at Winkle Bar, and the restored 1903 Rogue River Ranch museum beside the Marial trailhead. To shuttle a car to Marial from the Grave Creek trailhead, turn left on the Mt. Reuben Road and follow signs 38.7 miles to Marial, mostly along narrow, winding gravel roads. For a description of the Rogue River Trail's next section, the 15 miles from Marial to Illahe, see Hike #85. OTHER OPTIONS The Rogue River Trail traverses sunny south-facing slopes that can be dizzyingly hot in August. For a cooler summer jaunt, park on the shoulder at the south end of the Grave Creek bridge and take the shady South Shore River Trail. It ends in 1.9 miles at a better viewpoint of Rainie Falls than the north shore offers. If you'd really rather float the Rogue<197>usually a 3-day whitewater trip from Grave Creek to Illahe<197>write for permit information to the Rand Visitor Center, 14335 Galice Highway, Merlin, OR 97532, or call (541) 479-3735.",books;california;excursion guides;general;hiking & camping;mount shasta;oregon;pacific;sports & outdoors;travel;united states;west,12
0226060454,"Shakespeare on Love and Friendship At his death in 1992, Allan Bloom was the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Shakespeare's Politics (with Harry V. Jaffa) and The Closing of the American Mind.",books;british & irish;drama;english literature;europe;history;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks;wales,12
0691099715,"Visions (2 Volume Set) ""The Visions seminars constitute a brilliant and demanding  masterpiece that was too long circulated in small circles and kept  secret from the general public. The publisher and editor are to be  congratulated for bringing this noteworthy historical work into the  public domain."" -- Polly Young-Eisendrath, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Jung""An extraordinary archival treasure of Jung's work in progress,  his style and evolving encounters with the unconscious, his own and his  analysands'. Claire Douglas and Princeton University Press are to be  applauded for bringing together this inimitable work by the grand  master of analytical, archetypal and depth psychology, Carl Gustave  Jung."" -- Clarissa Pinkola Ests, Ph.D., diplomate senior Jungian	""The Visions seminars constitute a brilliant and demanding masterpiece that was too long circulated in small circles and kept secret from the general public. The publisher and editor are to be congratulated for bringing this noteworthy historical work into the public domain.""--Polly Young-Eisendrath, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Jung""An extraordinary archival treasure of Jung's work in progress, his style and evolving encounters with the unconscious--his own and his analysands'. Claire Douglas and Princeton University Press are to be applauded for bringing together this inimitable work by the grand master of analytical, archetypal and depth psychology, Carl Gustave Jung.""--Clarissa Pinkola Ests, Ph.D., diplomate senior Jungian analyst, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves, The Gift of Story, and The Faithful Gardener",books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;new;psychoanalysis;psychology;psychology & counseling;reference;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0870812637,Moctezuma's Mexico: Visions of the Aztec World Moctezumas Mexico is a beautiful and useful contribution to the literature. It is a welcome addition to the library of virtually anyone interested in ancient indigenous America. -- The Bloomsbury Reviewbr /br /A stunning introduction to the Aztec priority. -- The Denver Postbr /br /Beautifully produced and very readable. --Library Journal	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Davd Carrasco is the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard University.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.,americas;ancient;aztec;books;folklore;history;literature & fiction;mythology & folk tales;native american;politics & social sciences;social sciences;world,12
B000FJBJ6U,"Mechanics of Composite Materials with MATLAB From the reviews:        ""Voyiadjis and Kattan have written an exercise book for the use of the computer package MATLAB and they demonstrate the use of MATLAB in selected simple fields of Mechanics of Composite Materials.  it is useful for students who like to receive an introduction into MATLAB and to connect the solution of problems using MATLAB with the step-by-step solutions of simple composite material problems."" (Johannes Altenbach, Zeitschrift fr Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, Vol. 86 (6), 2006)	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	This textbook makes use of the popular computer program MATLAB as the major computer tool to study mechanics of composite materials. It is written specifically for students in engineering and materials science, examining step-by-step solutions of composite material mechanics problems using MATLAB. Each of the 12 chapters is well structured and includes a summary of the basic equations, MATLAB functions used in the chapter, solved examples and problems for students to solve. The main emphasis of Mechanics of Composite Materials with MATLAB is on learning the composite material mechanics computations and on understanding the underlying concepts. The solutions to most of the given problems appear in an appendix at the end of the book. The accompanying CD-ROM includes a set of MATLAB functions that are written by the authors specifically to be used with the book and a detailed solutions manual.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;chemical;chemistry;computer science;computers & technology;electrical & electronics;engineering;general & reference;new;professional & technical;science & math;used & rental textbooks,12
3791327046,"A Hidden Love: Art and Homosexuality (Art & Design S.) With 350 color illustrations and elegant and eminently readable prose, prize-winning French writer Fernandez describes the sometimes explicit and more often implicit presence of homosexuality in art. From Classical Greece and Rome, through Renaissance Europe and the Far East, to contemporary Western culture, homosexual artists have created erotically charged works that sneaked their way into religious settings, public displays, and private collections, with their intent often hidden beneath a mantle of religious iconography or political chauvinism. The artists examined include Michelangelo, Ingres, Eakins, and Warhol, among many others, all of whose works are placed in the context of their times and the prevailing sensibilities. Though not a comprehensive study on the topic (the modern period especially seems a little thin-where are Paul Cadmus, George Tooker, Keith Haring, and Duane Michaels, to name just four?), this title is an impressive attempt. A worthwhile purchase for gay studies and larger collections with developed fine arts collections. [Libraries should be aware that, because of the focus on the erotic, there is some sexual content in this book.-Ed.]-Jeff Ingram, Newport P.L., O.--Jeff Ingram, Newport P.L., ORCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""A Hidden Love is a Stunner. Anyone whos moved by physical beauty can spend many hours reveling in this volume."" -- The Gay and Lesbian Review, March/April 2003""A superior sort of coffee-table book."" -- Haworth Press, December 2002""Fernandez has obviously done exhaustive research this is a real achievement and a gay art lovers dream book."" -- Frontiers, August 2002""The best all-around gay erotic coffee-table book of the year,...is a remarkable survey of gay imagery in art."" -- Unzipped, December 2002""The book has coffee-table appeal  the survey of representations of St. Sebastian is impressive."" -- Choice, December 2002	Text: English (translation) Original Language: French	The book is illustrated with many beautiful and often daring works by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Canova, Lucien Freud, and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others. A Hidden Love considers the many styles and strategies by which artists, sculptors, and photographers have elaborated on the essence of homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome, the Renaissance and Baroque movements, Chinese and Japanese erotica, the nineteenth century, the official art of Fascism, and finally the modern and contemporary eras. Throughout, Fernandez considers the morality of each society, comparing artistic success and acceptance across the centuries. He arrives at astonishing conclusions which demand a fundamental reassessment of art history and the creative process, and which can be extended far beyond the realm of homosexuality in art.	Dominique Fernandez is an essayist and novelist who has written widely on homosexuality, in particular in the novels ""L Etoile rose"" (1978) and ""Le Rapt de Ganymede"" (1989). He was awarded the Prix Medicis in 1974 for ""Porporino or The Secrets of Naples"" and the Prix Goncourt in 1982 for ""Dans la main de lange"". He lives in Paris, France.",arts & photography;books;erotic photography;gay & lesbian;history;history & criticism;nonfiction;photography;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;themes,12
031214931X,"Our Times: Readings from Recent Periodicals ROBERT ATWAN founded the Best American Essays series, for which he serves as series editor. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Atlantic Monthly, and Kenyon Review. For Bedford Books, he has edited Ten on Ten: Major Essayists on Recurring Themes and America Now: Short Readings from Recent Periodicals, now in its second edition, and he has coedited, with Donald McQuade, The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Essays, also in its second edition, and, with Jon Roberts, Left, Right, and Center: Voices from across the Political Spectrum.",books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;literature;new;research & publishing guides;rhetoric;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,12
0767916891,"Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America Former navy secretary Webb (Fields of Fire; etc.) wants not only to offer a history of the Scots-Irish but to redeem them from their redneck, hillbilly stereotype and place them at the center of American history and culture. As Webb relates, the Scots-Irish first emigrated to the U.S., 200,000 to 400,000 strong, in four waves during the 18th century, settling primarily in Appalachia before spreading west and south. Webb's thesis is that the Scots-Irish, with their rugged individualism, warrior culture built on extended familial groups (the ""kind of people who would die in place rather than retreat"") and an instinctive mistrust of authority, created an American culture that mirrors these traits. Webb has a genuine flair for describing the battles the Scots-Irish fought during their history, but his analysis of their role in America's social and political history is, ironically for someone trying to crush stereotypes, fixated on what he sees, in almost Manichaean terms, as a class conflict between the Scots-Irish and America's ""paternalistic Ivy League-centered, media-connected, politically correct power centers."" He even excuses resistance to the ""Northern-dominated"" Civil Rights movement. Another glaring weakness is the virtual absence of women from the sociological narrative. Webb interweaves his own Scots-Irish family history throughout the book with some success, but by and large his writing and analysis are overwhelmed by romanticism. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	*Starred Review* In telling the story of the Scots-Irish in America as a robust and passionate tale, novelist Webb writes straightforward, no-nonsense, readable history that clips right along while it is also very personal and highly idiosyncratic about a people who, he claims, are largely invisible--taken for granted--to the general public and who, seldom thinking of themselves in ethnic identity terms, mostly don't know their culture. Webb maintains that Scots-Irish attitudes form the bedrock of American society, especially among the working class. Scots-Irish culture has produced American presidents from Andrew Jackson to Bill Clinton, soldiers from Ulysses S. Grant to George Patton, pioneers, preachers, and others whose most common characteristics may be described as fierce individualism, persistent egalitarianism, and a strong sense of personal honor. Perhaps the most visible examples of broad and ongoing Scots-Irish legacy are the fundamentalist Christianity (a potent combination of Scottish Calvinism and headstrong populism) of America's Bible Belt and country music. Webb begins the Scots-Irish saga in Scotland, where, he says, the Scots-Irish character was formed, moves on to the Ulster Scots of what is now Northern Ireland, and follows them to the Appalachians and points beyond as well as through the American Revolution, the Civil War, and up to the present day. Popular history at its finest. June SawyersCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Born Fighting is a bombshellor else the most brilliant battle flare ever launched by a book. James Webb reveals the all-but-invisible ethnic group that has created the core beliefs of democracy American-style: our rights come from God, not the Government; all of us are born equal, and born aristocrats dont exist; and tread on either of those two truths, and well fight you down to the last unbroken hyoid bone. The Scots-Irish, for such is their name, have fought all our wars for us, including Vietnam. James Webb was there, and he can count. He has written not only an engrossing story but also an important work of sociological history in the tradition of the great James Graham Leyburn.Tom Wolfe	In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through the present day. More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of Englands Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself.  Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as ""captivating... unforgettable"" (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrians Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to Englands formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots odysseytheir clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character.  Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who fought against what they viewed as an invading army). It illustrates how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. And it explores how the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nations elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services, the Bible Belt, and country music.  Both a distinguished work of cultural history and a human drama that speaks straight to the heart of contemporary America, Born Fighting reintroduces America to its most powerful, patriotic, and individualistic cultural groupone too often ignored or taken for granted.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	JAMES WEBB is the author of six novels, including Fields of Fire, Lost Soldiers,and The Emperors General. He is also a filmmaker (Rules of Engagement), a world-traveled, Emmy Awardwinning journalist, and has taught literature at the university level. One of the most highly decorated Marines of the Vietnam War, he served as Assistant Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Navy during the Reagan Administration. A native of St. Joseph, Missouri, he lives in Arlington, Virginia.	1Big Moccasin GapGate city is more than four hundred miles from Arlington, down the long spine of mountains that marks Virginia's western border. It takes seven hours to drive there, interstate highway almost all the way. I go west on I-66 until it hits the mountains, then hang a left on I-81, keeping those low, blue ridges off to my right as I tear my way south, heading through history. I-81 is a busy road, lots of New York and Pennsylvania license plates weaving in and out of heavy traffic. The exit ramps whiz past my vision, heading off the interstate to towns like Staunton, Lexington, Roanoke, Radford, and Wytheville. I recognize the counties, Rockbridge, Botetourt, Franklin, and others, places where my ancestors once built log cabins and scraped corn patches out of the mud before heading farther south or west.The mountains are beautiful, smoky from the haze that the sun makes when it burns into the pine. My mind plays tricks. I tell myself that I've been right over there, once upon a time, or at least my blood has, taking water straight from a stream and staring out into the wild unknown, dreaming of the majestic deliverance that must be just over the next horizon, hiding in a valley that no white man has ever seen before. Or maybe the next horizon, or the next one, or the next one after that. Which is why my people kept on going, some of them getting hung up, staying behind in the cul-de-sacs of Appalachian hollows while the more adventurous worked their way, rat like, through the maze until it broke out into Kentucky and then Missouri, Texas, and Colorado, and one day even hit the palm-lined beaches of California.Because that is the story of my people, not for a generation or for ten generations but for forever. There was a time more than two thousand years ago when the Celtic tribes dominated middle Europe. They made beautiful jewelry and carvings. They were poetic and warlike. They followed strong leaders, even to their deaths. They brought their women and children to the battlefield and put them behind their ranks so they would be sure not to retreat. And they did not retreat. But they refused to recognize leadership beyond their local tribes and thus would not become a nation. And they had a permeating discontent that caused the more determined of them to keep pushing, every generation, a little bit farther into the wild unknown.Until God played his greatest trick on them. Up the English island they moved, a generation at a time, ever northward, each generation seeing the more restless and aggressive push farther, breeding a new generation of even more restless and aggressive travelers. To the far north they moved, into what is now called Scotland, and when it ended or became too bleak they found sea bridges into Ireland. And so after hundreds or thousands of years of insistent wandering, the most migratory and curious among them found that they were caught in a cruel genetic joke, all their energies bottled up in wild, desolate places that only faced each other or the sea. So back and forth they went, across the sea bridges from Ireland to Scotland and then back again, waves of them that they now called clans taking out their fury on each other, then uniting once in a while when the Romans or the English sought to conquer them. The wildest, most contentious people on all the earth, trapped in a sea-bound bottleneck, their emotions spattering out into poetry and music and brawls, calling each other Irish and Scottish now, or Catholic and Protestant, anything that might make another reason for a good, hard fight.Until they became the British Empire's greatest voyagers, indeed its greatest export, settling in odd places all around the world. And for that splinter of them that became my people, the Scots-Irish, this meant the Appalachian Mountains, their first stop on their way to creating a way of life that many would come to call, if not American, certainly the defining fabric of the South and the Midwest as well as the core character of the nation's working class.You yourself may see cars and Burger Kings when driving along I-81. But I am watching my own ghosts: tough, resilient women on the buckboards of narrow wagons, hard men with long rifles walking alongside, and wool-clad kids tending thin herds of cattle as they make their way down the mud trail called the Wilderness Road.That rough road, as Johnny Cash once sang. That old Breezy Creek Road. That low-down, troublesome road through Moccasin Gap.Nearing Gate City, I dip for a few miles into the hills and ridges of Tennessee, then drop off the interstate and come down a mountain until I am back in Virginia. Soon I pass a sign that remembers Big Moccasin Gap. This was Indian hunting ground for thousands of years. Arrowheads are almost as common as acorns if you scrape the thin soil around Gate City. It was also Daniel Boone's home. His son Jim was killed by an Indian war party in Castlewood, barely twenty miles away. And from this point in 1775, Daniel Boone blazed the first trails through the mountains into Kentucky. Big Moccasin Gap. Johnny Cash wrote the song about it many years ago, probably to honor his wife, June Carter Cash, whose famed musical family was from Hiltons, six miles up the road.I have family here, too.From Gate City, I follow narrow, winding roads along rushing streambeds and past small frame houses built at the bottom of the ridges. The mountains loom above me. Trucks are parked along the roads. Little wooden footbridges cross the streams, leading to the front doors of the houses. American flags are frequent, on the trucks and in the yards and on the porches. America got bombed and mountain people don't forget, even if it happened in New York and Washington, because when it comes to fighting wars, mountain people have always been among the first to go.A few miles outside of town I turn left onto a far narrower road. It has no marker other than a small hand-painted sign with an arrow and the name of a Baptist church, but I know it by heart. It wasn't so long ago that the road was still dirt. This is the entrance to Alley Hollow. My great-great-grandfather lived in this hollow. My great-grandfather left from here to move up to Kentucky. A lot of people back in Alley Hollow share my blood. And all of them share a large part of my history.My great-great-grandparents are buried back here along with maybe a dozen others in a rough patch of woods on top of a nearby mountain. There are no headstones, only large rocks that mark individual graves. When David G. Webb died, he owned no property and the value of his possessions totaled ten dollars, neither of which was unusual in these hills. Years ago I contacted the Veterans Administration and obtained a Confederate headstone for him and my great-great-grandmother, but there is no road leading to the top of the mountain and it is a laborious trek by foot, so the heavy marker has yet to find its proper resting place. Thinking of the anonymity of their graves, I remember a time when I visited a Protestant cemetery in Northern Ireland, in a little town along the coast just north of Larne. Most of the oldest headstones were unreadable, their etchings washed away by centuries of cold rain coming in from the sea. When I asked why they had not been replaced, I was told, simply, that the families that had buried those people had moved on.The mountain is on someone else's property, back in the hollow. My cousins have called to ask permission for us to visit it. We drive in a truck down dirt roads. Old frame houses mark our journey, their porches buckling and the springhouses along the rushing streams falling into ruin. Folks here are still moving on. They always have. That is the story of our people. The road roughens even more, ribbed like an old washboard from the rains. We pull up in front of a haunted, empty farmhouse and walk across its back pasture. Two yapping barn dogs appear from nowhere and stay with us as we head slowly up the mountain.On top of the mountain the wind, heavy with oxygen, hits my face. I look over at the deep green waves of mountains that surround me, thinking on the one hand that it reminds me of being in the open sea, and on the other that I can now see all the way to Tennessee. And I know this is what my ancestors must have thought as well. Another mountain, and then another. Why should I stop here? And I think not only of my great-great-grandparents lying underneath my very feet, but of all the others who made me, whose lives passed through these mountains and others just like them to the north and south. Perhaps they were brave. Perhaps they were merely desperate. But they were daredevils, not only to have shown up, but also to have had the courage to leave.On top of this mountain you can understand the Pioneer's Creed: The Cowards Never Started. The Weak Died Along the Way. Only the Strong Survived.The names jump at me, up from the front-porch chronicles of my grandmother, out from the pages of the past. Webb, Hodges, Smith, Doyle, McKnight, Marsh, Cox, Long, Leach, Condley, Murphy, Walker, DeHaven, McBride, Miller, Jewell, Cochran, Johnson, Leckie, Chitwood, Stuart, Lane. And the others whose names just now escape me, all of them coming here from one unknown, stopping for a while, and then heading out again into another.The earth is a ravisher in these mountains, its vines and tangles swallowing up the memories of those who went before, and in their place the wild things are moving back into the hollows. Deer are so thick that my cousin finds it hard to keep them from the alfalfa he grows for his small herd of cattle, and even from his garden. Someone nearby reported seeing elk up in the far woods. And at night if you listen close, you can hear an occasional coyote.Standing on the mountain, I worry that when this generation dies, the memory of those who went before me will be lost just as completely, buried under the avalanche of stories that have on occasion ridiculed my people and trivialized their journey. They came with nothi...",americas;books;ethnic studies;europe;historical study & educational resources;history;ireland;politics & social sciences;social history;social sciences;specific demographics;united states,12
0470863595,"Financial Derivatives in Theory and Practice (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) ""This one adopts the mathematics text style of approach...But, it is not a dry book...The book is deep and detailed..."" (Short Book Reviews, Vol. 20, No. 3, December 2000)  ""...It sets a new high standard for future texts on mathematical finance..."" (The Statistician, Vol.51, No.2, 2002)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A masterful work which explains clearly and precisely the mathematics and the practicalities of derivative pricing. Written by two leading experts from academia and industry, this is a rigorous description of the cutting edge of both research and practice. The excellent in-depth coverage of the interest-rate markets includes the application of basic theory coupled with descriptions of real-world products, convexity effects, and state of the art modelling. A very valuable book, which is destined to be a key reference for bankers and researchers Martin Baxter, Nomura International, London, UK (co-author of the best-selling Financial Calculus) This work strikes an excellent balance between theory and applications, between rigor and accessibility. The early chapters develop mathematical tools lucidly and with a clear focus on the important issues. Later chapters apply these tools to a broad range of problems and models in mathematical finance. The book is rich in links between theory and industry practice, and covers many topics not easily found elsewhere. It is a valuable and authoritative resource for both students and experts. Paul Glasserman, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, USA This book achieves two main goals. First, it provides an excellent and highly comprehensive account of martingale theory and Its stochastic calculus, which underpin arbitrage pricing theory. Secondly, it offers a thorough analysis of the fundamental ideas of modern financial modelling, with special emphasis on the concepts related to the valuation and hedging of interest-rate sensitive derivatives. The exceptional strength of the book lies in the fact that the authors never lose their perspective on the practical aspects of the theory. Hunt and Kennedy, who are themselves renowned experts in this area, have set a new high standard for future texts on term structure modelling. Marek Rutkowski, Financial Mathematics Centre, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Contents Part I: TheorySingle-period option pricingBrownian motionMartingalesStochastic integrationGirsanov and martingale representationStochastic differential equationsOption pricing in continuous timeDynamic term structure modelsPart II: PracticeModelling in practiceBasic instruments and terminologyPricing standard market derivativesFutures contracts Orientation: Pricing exotic European derivativesTerminal swap-rate modelsConvexity correctionsImplied interest rate pricing modelsMulti-currency terminal swap-rate models Orientation: Pricing exotic American and path-dependent derivativesShort-rate modelsMarket modelsMarkov-functional modellingAppendices	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Originally published in 2000, Financial Derivatives in Theory and Practice is a complete, rigorous and readable account of the mathematics underlying derivative pricing and a guide to applying these ideas to solve real pricing problems. It is aimed at practitioners and researchers who wish to understand the latest finance literature and develop their own pricing models. The authors combination of strong theoretical knowledge and extensive market experience make this book particularly relevant for those interested in real world applications of mathematical finance.This revised edition has been updated with minor corrections, and now includes a dedicated chapter of exercises and solutions. The balance of rigor and readability makes the book an ideal textbook for masters and postgraduate students of mathematical finance, stochastic calculus and derivatives pricing.Detailed coverage of interest rate derivatives, from 'vanilla' instruments through to many of the more exotic products currently being traded.Overview of popular term structure models along with their relationships to each other (including Heath-Jarrow-Morton, short rate models and the latest market models).Explanation of numeraires as a modelling and pricing tool.Pricing models for constant maturity swaps and other convexity products.Models and efficient algorithms for path-dependent and Bermudan swaptions.Insights into how to go about pricing products beyond those treated in the text.Accessible yet rigorous treatment of the stochastic calculus required for option pricing.A chapter of exercises and solutions enabling use as a course text or for self-study.",books;business & finance;business & investing;futures;investing;mathematics;new;popular economics;science & math;science & mathematics;statistics;used & rental textbooks,12
B000MV89UU,"The Art of Strategic Planning for Information Technology A revision of the bestselling book that shows IT departments how to take on new challengesAs technology becomes more mainstream and accessible, companies must develop new ways to use their IT resources in order to compete. In this extensive revision, IT expert Bernard Boar provides a methodology that shows readers how to use IT as a competitive business asset. He tackles the latest challenges facing IT departments over the next several years, including how to devise a complete strategy to make the department more effective and how to choose the best strategy framework for a company. Boar also shows how technologies like e-commerce, data warehousing, architectures, and Java can be used to make a business more competitive.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	A revision of the bestselling book that shows IT departments how to take on new challengesAs technology becomes more mainstream and accessible, companies must develop new ways to use their IT resources in order to compete. In this extensive revision, IT expert Bernard Boar provides a methodology that shows readers how to use IT as a competitive business asset. He tackles the latest challenges facing IT departments over the next several years, including how to devise a complete strategy to make the department more effective and how to choose the best strategy framework for a company. Boar also shows how technologies like e-commerce, data warehousing, architectures, and Java can be used to make a business more competitive.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;business & investing;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;industries & professions;information management;information systems;management & leadership;manager's guides to computing;software engineering;systems & planning,12
0471676233,"Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation: A Practical Perspective of the Design, Construction, and Test of Medical Devices ""The book is user-friendly, accurate...and will be very useful to anyone with a basic understanding of circuit theory"" (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, June 2006)""This reviewer will find this text a valued part of his library for the several areas extremely well elucidated. And talking with a few colleagues, the reviewer confirmed that this text will have wide appeal"" (Biomedical Instrumentation  Technology, July/August 2005)""details this application's unique requirements and constraints, exploring with general discussion, schematic diagrams, representative waveforms, and typical-design photos."" (EDN Online, January 12, 2005)	Master the building blocks of medical devices with this hands-on guideThis book provides a uniquely practical approach that enables readers to learn the design of medical electronic devices through the analysis of specific projects. Walking you through the building blocks of implementing medical devices, Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation addresses the practical aspects of amplifying, processing, simulating, and evoking biopotentials. It provides real-world projects that range from simple biopotential amplifiers all the way to a computer-controlled defibrillator. Anyone with a basic understanding of circuit design and electrical engineering mathematics and experience in electronic prototype construction will find these projects accessible. Chapters discuss:Biopotential amplifiers, including a refresher on the origin and acquisition of physiological electrical signalsSpectral content of biosignals, filter design, and the selection of frequency ranges for biopotential amplifiersDesign of safe medical device prototypesInternational regulations and design practices for electromagnetic compatibility of medical devicesData acquisition, smart sensors, analog-to-digital conversion, and high-resolution spectral analysis of physiological signalsArtificial signal sources for simulating physiological eventsPrinciples, clinical applications, and design of excitable tissue stimulatorsDesign of cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators, including a refresher on the electrophysiology of the heart, its conduction deficiencies, and arrhythmiasWith access to an ftp site that contains the software and information needed to successfully complete the projects outlined, plus a special epilogue on how to bring a medical device to market, this book will help one quickly master the essentials of medical device design and build sophisticated instrumentation for a broad range of purposes.	DAVID PRUTCHI, PhD, received his doctorate in biomedical engineering from Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Currently, he is Vice President of Product Development for Impulse Dynamics. He has over fifteen years of experience in biomedical and medical electronic instrumentation research, design, and management. He has published over thirty papers and holds over sixty patents in the field of active implantable medical devices.MICHAEL NORRIS is a senior electronics engineer for Impulse Dynamics. He has over twenty-five years of experience as a medical device designer, including research, design and development of analog and digital circuits, microprocessors, and embedded software.",biographies & memoirs;biological sciences;biotechnology;books;electrical & electronics;engineering;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;professional & technical;science & math;used & rental textbooks,12
0870136275,"Public Gardens of Michigan Miriam Easton Rutz taught Landscape Architecture at Michigan State University from 1976 to 2000, designed the flower gardens on Michigans Capitol grounds, and helped prepare a master plan for the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House. Rutz is a contributor to Pioneers of American Landscape Design and Midwestern Landscape Architects.",architecture;arts & photography;books;by region;crafts;garden design;gardening & landscape design;gay & lesbian;hobbies & home;landscape;nonfiction;professional & technical,12
0684194171,"Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model & Her Own Desire By combing through libraries and archives in Paris and New York, Lipton ( Looking into Degas ) hoped to reconstruct the life of Victorine Meurent and prove that this mysterious 19th-century woman, an artist in her own right as well as the model for the famous nudes of Manet's Olympia and Dejeuner sur l'herbe, was more than the pathetic alcoholic who appears in academic studies by male art historians. Even though the results of her quest were meager--she found little about Meurent's life and was unable to locate any of her paintings--Lipton's account of her search is as exciting as a good detective story. Using reminiscences of her own troubled childhood as a catalyst and projecting her feelings and desires onto her elusive subject, she fleshes out the story and constructs a highly original portrait of Meurent, for whom she invents colorful monologues. The model emerges as a strong and independent woman who defies all efforts by traditional scholars to patronize and degrade her. Lipton's iconoclastic, feminist approach is refreshing and intriguing. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Haunted by the steadfast gaze of the nude peering from the canvas of Manet's controversial ""Olympia,"" art historian Lipton ( Looking into Degas: Uneasy Images of Women and Modern Life , Univ. of California Pr., 1986) documents her relentless effort to unravel the model's life. Lipton's scant archival findings indicate that, in marked contrast to the lowly, depraved, alcoholic figure depicted by writers and artists, model Victorine Meurent was a recognized painter and a member of a distinguished society of artists. In the course of her research, Lipton imagines the thoughts of Meurent in some beautifully moving passages, and her own life begins to take on new meaning. She raises disturbing questions about the validity of much art historical scholarship concerning the role of women. A mesmerizing narrative recommended for women's studies, art history, and general collections.- Joan Levin, MLS, ChicagoCopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""In this wonderfully digressive blend of art history and autobiography, Eunice Lipton chronicles her search for Victorine Meurent, the model for two of Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, 'Olympia' and 'Dejeuner sur l'Herbe.' In the end, and much to the reader's delight, Lipton has done what she set out to do: rescue Victorine Meurent from history. It is a marvelous recovery.""New York Times Book Review""Beautifully writtenbrisk, poignant and humorous. . . . A witty critique of the art historical profession and a sexy, sad memoir with a happy ending. Alias Olympia is the most original art book to emerge from my feminist art generation.""Lucy R. Lippard, Women's Review of Books""A rare alchemy . . . a melding of art history and autobiography.""Village Voice""Scholarly research-as-usual is converted into a cliffhanger . . . a pioneering attempt to fashion a counteror post-academic self in print. . . . Alias Olympia will Liptonize art historians in the popular imagination.""Art in America""The elegance and clarity of Lipton's prose make Alias Olympia a joy to read. . . . Significantly advances our knowledge about lesbians in the visual arts.""Lambda Book Report""Think of Alias Olympia as a Canterbury Tale; a life-story told on a pilgrimage. It is an exploration in a dizzying variety of senses, from her laborious attempt to unearth the real life of her subject to reflections on her own childhood and career to the igniting effect of the feminist movement to musings on the fact that Victorine and Eunice have a common etymology, both signifying 'triumph.' Alias Olympia stands for part of the truth . . . but its humanity is entire.""Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times""Beautifully written . . . compelling.""Diane Wood Middlebrook, author of Anne Sexton: A Biography""Eunice Lipton's remarkable study combines personal history and archival history in a literate and provocative way. in this story of a nineteenth-century painter-model, or rather, the search for the woman who posed for Manet's most famous painting, Lipton combines the search for self in the Bronx with the search for documentation about this most intriguing of models. It is the conjunction of these intertwined quests that makes the book at once poignant and to the point.""Linda Nochlin, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts""Eunice Lipton's Alias Olympia is the one book I would give a non-academic friend or lover or a U.S. Senator to explain the rigors and rewards of art historical investigation, as well as research in other esoteric humanities fields. Lipton's reading from it at the University of Virginia (where I previously taught) is the only time I have ever seen graduate students weep during a public lecture. It's hard to write anything smart, significant, and new about a central icon of the modernist canon. It's amazing that Lipton has done all of the above and revealed an emotional life that scholarship conventionally conceals.""Judith Wilson, Yale University""I greatly admire both the energy and revelations of Eunice Lipton's private-eye pursuit as she searched for traces of Victorine Meurent. Inscribing her own history as well as imaginatively elaborating upon fragments of this unknown woman artist's life gave Lipton's work a profound subjectivity that added to the pleasure of reading an excellent 'detective story' on desire, always alas poignant for women who want to be themselves. Lipton's book touched me personally.""Julia Kristeva, Universit de Paris, VII""Alias Olympia is an inspiration, to art historians and to students of art history at any level. Lipton's revelations about the profession of art history and the particulars of her engagement in it as a human being, as a woman, and as a feminist are a pleasure, poignant at many times, to read. The writing is direct and vivid, and the reader gets a fascinating view of the terrors and rewards of research, the scholar's insecurities and skills, and the interweaving of an individual's life and her work. Lipton's book is of great value because much of what she says as well as the way she says itpersonally, humanlygoes publicly unsaid in academia, in art history, and in feminist scholarship. Alias Olympia dismantles the all too often deadening conservatism of art history and offers new ways of thinking and writing about the history of art.""Joanna Frueh, The University of Nevada""Suspenseful as a detective novel by Simenon, Alias Olympia rewards the reader at every turn.""Harriet Shorr, SUNY Purchase	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Eunice Lipton is the author of Looking into Degas: Uneasy Images of Women and Modern Life; French Seduction: An American's Encounter with France, Her Father and the Holocaust; and The Bad Brother. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Guardian, The Forward, Tikkun, The Women's Review of Books, and Art in America	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism & theory;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;specific groups;women,12
0966307534,"Carriage Barns: Sources of Building Plans, Kits, Products and Services to Help You Create a New Garage, Workshop, Stable, Backyard Office, Studio or Live-In with Old-Style Charm Architect Donald Berg's designs and articles have appeared  in Home Magazine, Traditional Building, The Old House Journal, Yankee  Home, Hudson Valley Magazine and many other publications. His books  include American Country Building Design, The Backroad Home and Barns  and Backbuildings.",architecture;books;crafts;design & construction;education & reference;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;house plans;how-to & home improvements;professional & technical;reference,12
159228325X,"History's Greatest Conspiracies: One Hundred Plots, Real and Suspected, That have Shocked, Fascinated, and Sometimes Changed the World ""Although one might disagree or take issue with his ranking system, History's Greatest Conspiracies"" succeeds in capturing a reader's attention""-- Sanford Herald (NC)	It s a conspiracy!  With the possible exception of murder, nothing has so captured the dark side of human imagination as the notion that conspiratorial doings are brewing behind the scenes. And indeed, throughout history such plots have often been afoot: Someone, somewhere, always seems to have been skulking around in search of one or more like-minded individuals to join in an exploit to change the status quo. Some of these plotters did it out of idealism. Other conspirators acted out of anger, frustration, jealousy, envy, greed, or revenge. And some were merely dupes, or just plain crazy.Ranked in order of historical significance, or because of their boldness, the one hundred real and imagined plots chronicled here by H. Paul Jeffers involve schemes ranging from biblical times to todays headlines. Among the conspiracies recounted by Jeffers are the arrest and trial of Jesus of Nazareth; the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; Cold War espionage and dirty tricks; spectacular robberies and kidnappings from around the globe; the mysterious connection between Jack the Ripper and the Freemasons; and what many believe to be the conspiracy of silence surrounding a flying saucer crash and the recovery of aliens at Roswell, New Mexico.Historys Greatest Conspiracies is popular narrative history at its most intriguing.	H. Paul Jeffers has published over fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including, most recently, Disaster by the Bay. A broadcast journalist for more than three decades, his other books include The Good Cigar and High Spirits; three volumes on Theodore Roosevelt; and the only biography of the late Sal Mineo. Jeffers has taught writing and journalism at NYU and other universities. He lives in New York City.",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;communication & media studies;education & reference;history;politics & social sciences;social sciences;true accounts;true crime;united states;world,12
1586854356,"Extraordinary Interiors: Decorating with Architectural Salvage & Antiques Architectural salvage is all about saving and reusing bits and pieces of old buildings and construction, reminders of the talent and artistry of yesteryear. Brian Coleman shows how architectural elements and antiques--such as a 200-year-old solid-oak door, an Arts & Crafts fireplace mantel, a Victorian stained-glass window, or an Art Deco lamp--can impart character and heritage to any home. See how vintage sinks, hardware, and lighting are perfectly blended into new environments, giving the items a new lease on life and, in the process, preserving them for future generations. From a Manhattan brownstone to a Marin County barn-turned-cottage, Coleman has documented an exquisite array of home styles incorporating salvage items in imaginative ways. Extraordinary doors, mantels, windows, sinks, hardware, lighting, art pieces, and more are attractively blended into new environments to start a second life and give character to newer homes. No place to install a salvaged window? Why not turn it into a mirror and put it on prominent display in your living room. In need of window shades for a funky bedroom? Some quirky pull-down maps salvaged from an old school can give your room personality plus. Apothecary doors can become classy cabinet fronts; and antiques of every type can take clever places in your decor.  More than 150 photographs by Dan Mayers will inspire you to enliven your own environment with found and rescued objects from the lovely to the quirky. Brian D. Coleman, M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist in Seattle, Washington. Also an old-house enthusiast, he has grown his love for historic restoration into an active second career. He has written numerous articles on historic home design for magazines ranging from Old House Journal to Period Living in the United Kingdom and is the West Coast editor for Old House Interiors. Brian is the author of Scalamandre: Luxurious Home Interiors, Classic Cottages, Vintage Victorian Textiles and The Victorian Dining Room. He divides his time between New York and Seattle. Dan Mayers is a New York-based photographer whose work appears regularly in Country Decorating magazine's Cottage Style, Country Collectibles and Country Victorian as well as Old House Interiors. He was the photographer for Scalamandre: Luxurious Home Interiors, and his work has been included in such books as The Ultimate Kitchen and has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.	Brian D. Coleman, MD, divides his time between Seattle and New York. His articles have appeared in magazines ranging from Old House Journal, where he is the West Coast editor; to Period Living in the U.K. Brian is the author of seven books on the decorative arts, including the recent titles Farrow & Ball and Cottages. Photographer Dan Mayers was the exclusive photographer for several books-Scalamandr, Extraordinary Interiors, Details, and most recently, Dog Palaces. Dan's work appears regularly in Harris Publications Decorating Magazines as well and Old House Interiors and La Vie Claire.	Architectural salvage has a special beauty all its own. The intricate turnings of a nineteenth-century, carved oak newel post from a Victorian mansion, the sparkling, jewel tones of a stained-glass window from a razed church, the color and patina of crusty, wrought-iron fence railing from an inner city brownstone all share a charm and attention to detail that is rarely found today. Castoffs from another time, these architectural details are actually works of art on their own. Pride of craftsmanship is the quality that still shines through, whether it's a roughly cut oak beam from a 200-year-old barn or a sophisticated Art Deco glass-and-metal chandelier from a 1930s movie palace. Saving and reusing these artifacts allows us to enjoy them once again and preserves these treasures for future generations.  This book celebrates the beauty of architectural salvage and showcases how common building elements of the past have been used to transform homes into distinctive and very personal spaces in the present. We visit fascinating and unique projects across the country, from Soho to San Francisco.",architecture;arts & photography;books;buildings;crafts;decorating;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;how-to & home improvements;interior design;professional & technical,12
B000FO5434,"Multicast Sockets: Practical Guide for Programmers (The Practical Guides) This is a terrific hands-on guide to programming multicast Internet applications. Gathering together all of the needed information, techniques, and illustrative examples in one place, it is the best source for material on multicast socket programming.  -James F. Kurose, Professor of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, AmherstMakofske and Almeroth have provided just the jump-start that most programmers will need to get started with multicast. Using the examples provided, any competent coder will be able to safely send and receive multicast packets in short order. Think of this as the crystal radio kit of multicast applications-and I mean that in the best possible sense. -Lucy Lynch, Computing Center, University of OregonUntil now, programming multicast applications has been an arcane pursuit, accessible to a select few. This book changes all that. It is very timely, with an introduction to programming multicast in .NET, in addition to Java and C. It is also very comprehensive, with a nice discussion of the history of multicast development. -Ramesh Govindan, University of Southern California	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Multicast Sockets: Practical Guide for Programmers is a hands-on, application-centric approach to multicasting (as opposed to a network-centric one) that is filled with examples, ideas, and experimentation. Each example builds on the last to introduce multicast concepts, frameworks, and APIs in an engaging manner that does not burden the reader with lots of theory and jargon. The book is an introduction to multicasting but assumes that the reader has a background in network programming and is proficient in C or Java. After reading the book, you will have a firm grasp on how to write a multicast program.                                        Features:* Author team of instructor and application programmer is reflected in this rich instructional and practical approach to the subject material* Only book available that provides a clear, concise, application-centric approach to programming multicast applications and covers several languages-C, Java, and C# on the .NET platform* Covers important topics like service models, testing reachability, and addressing and scoping.* Includes numerous examples and exercises for programmers and students to test what they have learned	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;java;languages & tools;networking;networks;performance optimization;programming;protocols & apis;software design;testing & engineering,12
0534644767,"Stress Management for Life: A Research-Based Experiential Approach (with Stress Relief DVD, Activities Manual, and InfoTrac 1-Semester Printed Access Card) Michael Olpin is a professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Human Performance at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, where he teaches courses in Stress Management, Mind/Body Wellness, and Wellness Coaching. His background includes instruction in stress management at four institutions of higher education and more than 25 years studying the subject. He has presented a large number of workshops and papers on stress management and mind/body wellness both in his own state and around the country. He consults privately for individuals and corporations in stress management, along with other areas of health and high-level wellness.Margie Hesson is a Registered Nurse and an Instructor in the College of Nursing at South Dakota State University, where her teaching focus areas are stress management, public health, epidemiology, health promotion and complementary/alternative health care. She is endorsed by the American Holistic Nurses Association as a Certified Holistic Stress Management Instructor. She is the author of two general-audience books on stress and healthy living and is a contributing author to numerous textbooks. In addition to more than 30 years' experience as a nurse and a teacher, she has been director of corporate health promotion and is active as a health ministry consultant to churches. She is a frequent presenter on stress management and health promotion topics at state, national, and international levels.",books;education;education & reference;education theory;fitness & dieting;health;new;schools & teaching;self-help;sports & outdoors;stress management;used & rental textbooks,12
0670893757,"Laughter: A Scientific Investigation Is it really the best medicine? Neurobiologist Robert R. Provine discovered that no scientist had ever looked into the weird, uncontrollable, and very human phenomenon of laughter, so he started off on his own. Laughter: A Scientific Investigation is his warm and--of course--funny report on how and why we giggle and snort with such regularity. Basing his views on field research conducted in a broad array of social situations (laughter being notoriously difficult to evoke in the laboratory), Provine posits that we use it as a universal, preverbal means of communication. Though animal research is controversial, it suggests that apes establish and maintain relationships using laughlike behavior, so it could be the missing link between animal communication and true language. He also explores instances in which we seem to laugh our way into and out of social situations, and includes a list of tips for keeping the laughs flowing. The irony of the scientific community not taking laughter seriously isn't lost on Provine, and he takes every opportunity to remind his fellows that even the seemingly most trivial matters can hide the most profound truths. If that isn't funny, what is? --Rob Lightner	One morning the principal's voice sounded over the intercom of my high school with the shocking announcement that a popular French teacher had just died in front of his class. Everyone fell silent. While the principal went on to explain that it had been a heart attack, I couldn't keep myself from a laughing fit. To this day, I feel embarrassed. What is it about laughter that makes it unstoppable even if triggered by circumstances that aren't amusing? Extreme bouts of laughter are positively worrisome, marked by loss of motor control, shedding of tears, gasping for air, even the wetting of pants while rolling on the floor! What a weird trick has been played on our linguistic species to express itself with such stupid ""ha ha ha"" sounds. Why don't we leave it at a cool ""that was funny""? These questions are old, going back to philosophers who have puzzled over why one of humanity's finest achievements--its sense of humor--is expressed in such an animal-like fashion. There can be no doubt that laughter is an inborn characteristic. It is a universal human expression that we share with our closest animal relatives, the apes. This was already known to Charles Darwin and confirmed by a Dutch ethologist, Jan van Hooff, who set out to elucidate under which circumstances apes utter their hoarse, puffing laughing sounds. He concluded that laughter is associated with a playful attitude in both humans and apes, even though play is considerably more physical (such as tickling and wrestling) in apes. Laughter: A Scientific Investigation builds on this work in that it assumes animal origins of laughter and follows van Hooff's distinction between the laugh and the smile. The two expressions are often mentioned in the same breath because they tend to grade into each other, yet they derive from quite different primate displays, with the smile expressing affection and appeasement rather than playfulness. Robert R. Provine has set himself the task of cracking the laugh code, as he calls it, rather than tackling the much more complex issue of humor. The two may appear inseparable, but one of the revelations of this book is that the stand-up comedy model of laughter as a response to jokes is mistaken. The large majority of laughs measured by Provine and his students in the shopping malls and on the sidewalks of the human natural habitat occurred after statements that were far from humorous. In spontaneous social contacts, people burst into laughter at unfunny comments such as ""I see your point"" and ""Put those cigarettes away"" far more often than at funny ones, such as ""He tried to blow his nose, but he missed."" This shows that humor is not the issue: social relationships probably are. Laughter is a loud display that much of the time seems to signal mutual liking and well-being. Some of its uses are unique to our species, such as the guffaws of bonding. When a group of people laugh, sometimes at the expense of outsiders, they broadcast solidarity and togetherness not unlike a howling pack of wolves. According to Vanderbilt University psychologist Jo-Anne Bachorowski [see ""More Than the Best Medicine,"" News and Analysis, Scientific American, August], the unifying function of laughter is particularly clear among men. Provine expands on this theme with the observation that women laugh more in response to men's remarks than the reverse. The asymmetry between the sexes starts early in life, between boys and girls, and seems to be cross-cultural. The man as laugh-getter also turned up in an analysis of personal ads, in which Provine found that women generally sought partners with a sense of humor, which male advertisers claimed to have in great measure. Provine's well-written, often amusing and always fascinating expos presents laughter in all its complexity and with all its contradictions. He does not try to sell us a one-issue explanation the way so many have tried before, such as that humor is a celebration of the detection of incongruity (Schopenhauer), an expression of derision (Hobbes), a safety valve for pent-up energy (Freud), and so on. Provine notes the armchair background of these high-flung notions and makes no secret that even after all his research he still finds laughter a baffling behavior that can be both hostile (as in ethnic jokes) and congenial and both a response to subtle humor and triggered by something as banal as a laughing box or a Tickle Me Elmo doll. The amazing contagiousness of laughter even works across species. Below my Office window at the Yerkes primate center, I often hear chimpanzees laugh when they tickle one another (they have the same tickling spots as we do: under their armpits and on their bellies), and I cannot suppress a chuckle in response. Tickle matches must be the original context of laughter, and the fact that tickling oneself is notoriously ineffective attests to its social significance. Tickling and laughter are essentially play patterns, with the latter having achieved a considerably expanded meaning in our species. The book reads like a first exploration of a behavior so common that it has been overlooked by science. As Provine notes, it may not be good for one's reputation to study jokes and laughter. In his eagerness to claim this new field for himself, however, the author neglects to mention people who went before him or who are currently tackling the same domain. For example, the pioneering work of van Hooff is buried in a footnote, even though it addressed some of the same points 25 years earlier. Toward the book's end, the author discusses neural disorders associated with laughter and laughing epidemics as well as the opposite: the healing power of laughter exploited by some churches and therapists. It is obvious that his research not only opens new avenues into human social life but also carries mental health implications. My own reaction to the death of a teacher was only a mild case of laughter under odd circumstances compared with the clinical, sometimes fatal cases reviewed here. The fact that we can lose control over this expression, that it may become mirthless, tragic, eerie, sly or sardonic, shows how close comedy can get to tragedy. We like to see ourselves as fully rational beings, but much of this dissolves when someone yanks our laughing muscle. FRANS B. M. DE WAAL, author of Chimpanzee Politics and Good Natured, is director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta and professor of psychology at Emory University.	As soon as Provine, a professor of neurobiology and psychology, introduces his groundbreaking, fun-to-read anthropological study of laughter, a taken-for-granted phenomenon intrinsic to human nature, the full scope of its strangeness and complexity begins to emerge. Laughter, Provine observes, can both forge bonds and be used as a weapon. It can be both therapeutic and annoying and a signal of either subservience or dominance. A cogent writer with a light touch, Provine draws his illustrative examples from his innovative lab and behavioral experiments and keen on-the-street observations. He examines gender differences (females laugh more, but men are the champion laugh-getters) and chronicles the patterns of laughter-related social behavior as well as the properties of laughter aroused by comedians. Laughter is contagious, a dynamic Provine ponders in discussions of laugh tracks and bizarre occurrences of laugh epidemics, and in some unusual cases it's connected to neurological disease. His discourse on tickling is quite provocative, and Provine's fresh and revealing investigation into the differences between chimp and human laughter gets to the root of the evolution of language. Donna SeamanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	A model of constructive scientific thinking....findings were revolutionary.   -- Sunday Times, LondonA pioneering investigation into the hows and whys of what it means to chuckle.  -- The Scotsman, EdinburghEnjoyable fairground tour of the science of the laugh.  -- Guardian, LondonIt's fascinating-enjoy.  -- The Arizona RepublicLaughter isn't about jokes, it's about relationships.  That's why it's no fun to laugh alone.  -- Boston Herald, October 8Laughter, the ""ancient vocal relic"" that ""predates both humor and speech,"" proves to be a fascinating topic.  -- New York TimesNot an unmitigated hoot, but it is certainly worthwhile.  -- Ottawa Citizen, CanadaPulls off the trick of transforming the commonplace business of laughter into something strange and new.  -- Financial Times, LondonScanning brains and eavesdropping on chimps, researchers are figuring out why we chuckle, guffaw and crack up.   -- NewsweekSome seriously funny research.  -- Dallas Morning NewsThis crisply written, often hilarious book....might make you giggly for days.   -- Evening Standard, London	Robert R. Provine is a professor of neurobiology and psychology at the University of Maryland. His work has been featured in media around the world, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Good Morning America.",books;emotions;fitness & dieting;health;humor;humor & entertainment;medical books;mental health;politics & social sciences;science & math;social sciences;theories of humor,12
1568028164,"Congress and Its Members This book is the foundation text for courses on the U.S. Congress. It is clear, comprehensive, and easy to read. Students appreciate the up-to-date examples and the clearly-presented information. The authors use of the dual Congress framework helps to illuminate the underlying tension between the individual and collective responsibilities of legislators. This is one of the fundamental books for understanding how Congress operates. --Pam Camerra-Rowe, Kenyon CollegeWritten in clear, direct prose, Congress and Its Members provides students with a central theme, the two Congresses, that enables them to organize and understand the myriad details that characterize the structure and operation of a very complex institution. I particularly value the fact that by following that theme through the many dimensions of Congress, students learn to think analytically as they learn about Congress itself. --Dennis J. Goldford, Drake UniversityWritten in clear, direct prose, Congress and Its Members provides students with a central theme, the two Congresses, that enables them to organize and understand the myriad details that characterize the structure and operation of a very complex institution. I particularly value the fact that by following that theme through the many dimensions of Congress, students learn to think analytically as they learn about Congress itself. --Dennis J. Goldford, Drake University	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Roger H. Davidson is professor emeritus of government and politics at the University of Maryland, and has served as visiting professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. For the 2001-2002 academic year, he served as the John Marshall Chair in political science at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. His books include Remaking Congress: Change and Stability in the 1990's, co-edited with James A. Thurber (1995), and Understanding the Presidency, Third Edition, co-edited with James P. Pfiffner (2003). Davidson is co-editor with Donald C. Bacon and Morton Keller of The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress (1995).Walter J. Oleszek is a senior specialist in the legislative process at the Congressional Research Service. He has served as either a full-time professional staff aide or consultant to every major House and Senate congressional reorganization effort beginning with the passage of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970. In 1993, he served as Policy Director of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress. A long-time adjunct faculty member at The American University, Oleszek is a frequent lecturer before various academic, governmental and business groups. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Congress and Its Members, 10th ed. (2006),with Roger H. Davidson, and Congress Under Fire: Reform Politics and the Republican Majority (1997), with C. Lawrence Evans. Frances E. Lee is associate professor of government and politics at University of Maryland. She has been a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution and an APSA Congressional Fellow. She coauthored Sizing Up The Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation with Bruce I. Oppenheimer, which won the D. B. Hardeman Prize in 1999. Her articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and American Journal of Political Science, among others./p	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;education & reference;government;legislative branch;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks,12
1560233222,"Blood Sisters: A Novel of an Epic Friendship ""AN EPIC NOVEL OF THE VERY BEST KIND."" -- Carla Tomaso, Author of Maryfield Academy""This is A LOVELY BOOK THAT STAYS WITH THE READER LONG AFTER ONE HAS FINISHED IT."" -- Christopher Bram, Author of Gods and Monsters and Lives of Circus Animals	Mary Jacobsen is a psychotherapist and consultant in private practice. She lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.",books;contemporary;fiction;friendship;gay;gay & lesbian;literature & fiction;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;women's fiction,12
0460876546,"Master Humphrey's Clock and Other Stories (Everyman Paperback Classics) Founded in 1906 by J.M. Dent, the Everyman Library has   always tried to make the best books ever written available to the   greatest number of people at the lowest possible price. Unique editorial   features that help Everyman Paperback Classics stand out from the crowd   include: a leading scholar or literary critic's introduction to the text,   a biography of the author, a chronology of her or his life and times, a   historical selection of criticism, and a concise plot summary.  All books   published since 1993 have also been completely restyled: all type has   been reset, to offer a clarity and ease of reading unique among editions   of the classics; a vibrant, full-color cover design now complements these   great texts with beautiful contemporary works of art. But the best   feature must be Everyman's uniquely low price. Each Everyman title offers   these extensive materials at a price that competes with the most   inexpensive editions on the market-but Everyman Paperbacks have durable   binding, quality paper, and the highest editorial and scholarly   standards.	Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. In 1824, his father was imprisoned for debt, so Charles was  sent to work in a shoe-dye factory.  He later became a clerk in a law firm, a shorthand reporter in the courts, and a parliamentary and newspaper reporter. In 1833, Dickens began to contribute short stories and essays to periodicals, heralding the start of a glittering and prolific literary career. He married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, with whom he had nine surviving children before they separated in 1858. Dickens died suddenly at home on June 9, 1870, leaving behind an internationally acclaimed canon of work, including Oliver Twist (1837), Nicholas Nickleby (1838), David Copperfield (1849-50), Bleak House (1852-53), Little Dorrit (1855-57), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-61) and Our Mutual Friend (1864-65). He was buried in Westminster Abbey. Michael Slater is Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College in the University of London.  He was editor of The Dickensian (1968-77) and President of the International Dickens Fellowship (1988-90).  He has published many books and articles on Dickens.",anthologies;books;british;classics;genre fiction;historical;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;short stories;used & rental textbooks,12
0131509969,"Principles of Corporate Communication Text: English (translation)  Original Language: Dutch	Readers will find up to date, scientifically based models to analyze corporate image and corporate identity, plus techniques to improve the effectiveness of corporate communication programs, planning and implementation. A cross functional perspective, integrating theory from the public relations tradition, and marketing communication. Focuses on the interdependent relations between corporate strategy, corporate identity  and corporate image (what is identity and how can one minimize the gap between deserved image and actual identity).  Student on corporate communication courses, usually at MBA and masters level. Also those on public relations, marketing comms, and advertising courses; professional courses on the above.",books;business;business & finance;business & investing;industries & professions;insurance;leadership;management & leadership;marketing;marketing & sales;new;used & rental textbooks,12
0192745352,"When the World Began: Stories Collected in Ethiopia (Oxford Myths and Legends) Grade 4-6-Twenty pourquoi tales, myths, and extended jokes paint a picture of a vibrant culture, open to the world around it. The title story tells how people stole the gift of dominance from God's favorite creature, the buffalo, and is followed by selections that explain such things as how the tortoise got her shell, how one might best depose a tyrant, and how arrogance and pride are answered. Some stories are reminiscent of Aesop and some of Perrault. The fluid recountings read aloud or tell equally well. Folktale enthusiasts who prefer to read their stories will find the tales extended by the work of four artists. Deep-hued oil pastels and jewel-toned watercolors have a sense of volume and heft, while the realistic pen-and-ink vignettes that accompany some endings add reality and grounding. Other stories are illustrated with cut-paper cartoons, accentuating their humor. This well-rounded collection could be used with multicultural offerings like Virginia Hamilton's In the Beginning (Harcourt, 1988) or as a springboard for Ted Hughes's slightly more sophisticated and tongue-in-cheek Tales of the Early World (Farrar, 1991). A solid addition to most folktale collections.Ann Welton, Terminal Park Elementary School, Auburn, WA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Gr. 3-6. Twenty retellings of classic Ethiopian tales, humorous to thought-provoking, introduce an array of heroes, villains, animals, and ogres. Often reminiscent of tales by Aesop or the brothers Grimm, the selections include the Cinderella-like ""Nyap and Nyakway""; the cumulative tale of ""Abba Bollo and the Necklace""; and the morality tale ""The Enchanted Flute."" Fans of animal stories will enjoy ""The Fox and the Crow,"" which recalls Brer Rabbit, and the witty, if crude, ""Day the Sky Fell."" The straightforward prose and the brevity of the tales make them good for reading aloud or story times (though some tales may be too dark or violent for younger children). Four artists provide delightful visual accompaniment, from dramatic to witty, from bright, playful collages to sublime, richly hued vignettes with stained-glass translucence. An endnote touches on similarities between these tales and classic fairy stories and characters and how Ethiopian religious beliefs (predominantly Christian and Muslim, here) are reflected in their stories. A welcome addition to multicultural story collections. Shelle RosenfeldCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Twenty pourquoi tales, myths, and extended jokes paint a picture of a vibrant culture, open to the world around it.... The fluid recountings read aloud or tell equally well.... Deep-hued oil pastels and jewel-toned watercolors have a sense of volume and heft.... well-rounded collection... A solid addition to most folktale collections.""--School Library Journal	Elizabeth Laird is a high profile, award-winning author who has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and has won the Smarties Young Judges prize.",africa;anthologies;books;children's books;explore the world;fairy tales;fantasy;folk tales & myths;literature & fiction;multicultural stories;science fiction & fantasy;travel & cultures,12
0073529656,"Contemporary Women's Health: Issues for Today and the Future Cheryl Kolander is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Education and Human Development, University of Louisville.  She is a professor in the Department of Health and Sport Sciences and previously served as a program director for health education.  She received her baccalaureate degree from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa and her masters and doctoral degrees from Indiana University, Bloomington.  She is a strong advocate for social justice and equity, and has a particular interest in advancing health equity for women.   Her primary research focus is prevention science, with an emphasis on womens health, school health education, and accreditation.  She directs the Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Science Research, a center for collaborative studies and advocacy related to prevention science.   She is a member of the performance team for UofL collegiate athletics, serves on the advisory board for Get Healthy Now and chairs the curriculum committee for Fit4Me, an after school program for at risk girls.Danny Ramsey Ballard, Professor in Health Education at Texas A University, has taught graduate and undergraduate TAMU students since 1985 and is the co-author of 19 health-related textbooks. Dr. Ballard conducts research in multiple dimensions of womens health and delivers presentations about womens health throughout the United States. She has published more than 30 research papers and other professional materials; presented more than 200 national, regional, and state presentations; and has been the co-principal investigator of more than $1.72 million in funded projects. Dr. Ballard has been named a Fellow for the American Association for Health Education and a Fellow for the American School Health Association. She is currently President of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD).Cynthia K. Chandler, Professor of Counseling at the University of North Texas, received her doctoral degree in Educational Psychology from Texas Tech University in 1986 and has served on the graduate faculty at UNT since 1989. Every year, Dr. Chandler teaches nine counseling graduate courses, organizes and leads a variety of institutes and workshops, and supervises an abundance of counseling interns. She is the founder and director of the UNT Biofeedback Research and Training Laboratory and the UNT Center for Animal Assisted Therapy. Dr. Chandler is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a nationally certified Biofeedback and Neurofeedback Therapist, and an Animal Assisted Therapist. The co-author of four books and numerous journal articles, she has given professional presentations in the United States, Korea, Austria, Greece, and Canada.",books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;gender studies;general;health;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;women's health;women's studies,12
0823010082,"The Crafty Diva's Lifestyle Makeover: Awesome Ideas to Spice Up Your Life! Grade 5 UpThis follow-up to The Crafty Diva's D.I.Y. Stylebook (Watson-Guptill, 2004) includes an introduction that poses the question, Are you ready for a makeover? Chapters include Redo Your Room, Wake Up Your Workout, and Get a Passion for Fashion. Complete with media references, each chapter includes three crafts with instructions, a difficulty meter for each one, and a list of needed supplies. A picture of the finished item, more ideas, and illustrations of supplies and the more difficult steps are included. The result is another fun, imaginative book that will surely keep some readers away from the television and in the creative mood on rainy afternoons or after school. The projects don't require spending oodles of time or money. Many supplies can be found around the house or at local craft stores. Especially useful are the tips for crafting parties and ideas for making money with projects. The author's suggestion that crafting can be more than just-for-fun may inspire readers to explore more creative job possibilities in the future.Delia Fritz, Sunset Ridge Middle School, West Jordan, UT Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Kathy Cano Murillo, the author of The Crafty Diva's DIY Stylebook (0823069931), writes the syndicated newspaper column ""Crafty Ideas."" She is MexicanAmerican, and in 2001, Latina magazine named her one of the year's ""10 Latinas to Watch."" Her artwork has been featured in Gourmet, Sunset, and Phoenix magazines and is carried in more than 300 retail, gift, and museum stores around the world. She lives in Phoenix.Carrie Wheeler is the illustrator of The Crafty Diva's DIY Stylebook. She lives in Phoenix.",arts & crafts;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;hobbies & home;psychology & counseling;social science;sports & hobbies;teens,12
970924101X,"Houses of Los Cabos A work of art in itself, the gorgeous new coffee-table book Houses of Los Cabos expresses the dream of creating a refuge at land's end.  At this recently remote edge of Mexico, in Baja California, local architecture is beautifully integrated into the surrounding natural landscape of sea and sky.  Houses of Los Cabos features extravagant color photos of beautiful homes, combined with an overview of the architectural process.  Each chapter profiles a unique residence, including detailed artistic depictions of its original vision, exterior, interior, furnishings, and more.  Interview with owners and architects reveal their dynamic interpretations of Los Cabos' playful, vibrant and welcoming lifestyle.  A perfect gift for any occasion, this book is a must for all who appreciate beautiful photography, unique architecture, and a glimpse of life in an unspoiled paradise.	AUTHOR BIO:	The houses of Los Cabos are recent phenomena in Mexican architecture, buildings which co-existing harmony at some times, and in contrast at others; they dialogue among each other in their own eclectic manner, speaking of different cultural influences, formal values and life styles.",architecture;books;buildings;crafts;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;humanities;new;professional & technical;regional;used & rental textbooks,12
0933849672,"You Can Improve Your Students' Writing Skills Immediately: A Revolutionary, No-Nonsense, Two-Brain Approach for Teaching Your Students How to Write Better and Enjoy It More Teachers will find this manual an effective self-contained unit that can be incorporated into a broad curriculum in toto.  -- JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT & ADULT LITERACYThis is one of the most positive approaches to teaching I've ever experienced.  -- Jean Tucker, High School English Teacher	--If you want to improve your students' writing skills in dynamic ways   --If you want to turn on your students to the thrill of writing exciting prose   --If you want your students to be eager to turn sentences and paragraphs into stories and articles   --If you want your students to aggressively search through a thesaurus to find the ""perfect word""   This book is for you!	David Melton -- author, illustrator, teacher, and publisher is one of the most versatile and prolific talents on the literary and art scenes today. His leterary works span the gamut of factual prose, analytical essays, newsreporting, magazine articles, features, short stories, and poetry and novels in both the adult and juvenile fields.    Mr. Melton has conducted seminars, workshops, and professional writing courses throughout the country. He has worked with students who were six to ninety-eight years of age.   Mr. Melton has illustrated eleven of his own books and six by other authors.  Many of his drawings and paintings have been featured in national publications and produced as fine art prints, posters, puzzles, calendars, book jackets, record covers, mobiles, and note cards.    To provide opportunities for students to become professionally published authors and illistrators, in association with Landmark Editions, Inc., Mr. Melton initiated THE NATIONAL WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED BY...AWARDS CONTEST FOR STUDENTS in 1986.",books;creative writing & composition;education;education & reference;elementary education;humanities;literature;new;research & publishing guides;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;writing,12
078795893X,"The 2R Manager: When to Relate, When to Require, and How to Do Both Effectively ""The professional services firm is the best possible laboratory for understanding the concepts of relating and requiring. Because such firms are filled with high-talent individuals, a tilt towards one style vs. the other would fail. Peter Friedes hit the perfect balance at Hewitt Associates?and this book provides a great service in conveying to others how that balance can (and must) be achieved in high performing organizations."" --Leo F. Mullin, chairman and CEO, Delta Air Lines""As a coach and trainer for thousands of managers, I find the 2R approach to be one of the most exciting new ideas around. This book is guaranteed to provide insights to managers of all ages and experience levels."" --Lynn Trautmann, cofounder, Collabora Consulting Group, a training consulting firm""When the former CEO of a highly successful organization writes a book about people management fundamentals, it's no accident is effective leadership at any level. The 2R Manager provides managers personalized roadmaps to success; and for new managers it's a good first look at what really counts in leading others. Not a bad payback for an easy read."" --Randy MacDonald, senior vice president, human resources, IBM Corporation	""The professional services firm is the best possible laboratory for understanding the concepts of relating and requiring. Because such firms are filled with high-talent individuals, a tilt towards one style vs. the other would fail. Peter Friedes hit the perfect balance at Hewitt Associates3/4and this book provides a great service in conveying to others how that balance can (and must) be achieved in high performing organizations.""  --Leo F. Mullin, chairman and CEO, Delta Air Lines  ""As a coach and trainer for thousands of managers, I find the 2R approach to be one of the most exciting new ideas around. This book is guaranteed to provide insights to managers of all ages and experience levels.""  --Lynn Trautmann, cofounder, Collabora Consulting Group, a training consulting firm  ""When the former CEO of a highly successful organization writes a book about people management fundamentals, it's no accident is effective leadership at any level. The 2R Manager provides managers personalized roadmaps to success; and for new managers it's a good first look at what really counts in leading others. Not a bad payback for an easy read."" --Randy MacDonald, senior vice president, human resources  IBM Corporation.	The Book CEO's and Employees Want Their Managers to Read  Managers have naturally either a ""relating"" or a ""requiring"" style. Those who naturally require are weaker at relating, and vice versa. The best managers possess the ability to do both well and know when to choose one over the other. Having the ability to relate and require is fundamental for effective managing. The 2R Manager offers specific advice tailored to an individual manager's current management style. Take the self-surveys, see the results, and learn the effect you have on those you manage. The 2R Manager will reveal what changes you must make in your management style . . . and will tell you exactly how to make them.""The 2R Manager moves the reader effortlessly from intriguing premise through interactive diagnostics to effective personalized coaching that will improve management performance. It's an exceptionally engaging book."" --John Eyler, chairman and chief executive officer, Toys ""R"" Us, Inc.""Identifying that Relating and Requiring are fundamental management skills is profound in its simplicity. More importantly, Friedes tells you how and when to do both. It makes total sense. The 2R Manager is very well written, a must-read for managers."" --Bonnie C. Hathcock, senior vice president and chief human resources officer, Humana, Inc.""Peter Friedes knows and understands things about managing that most of us struggle a lifetime to learn. At last, with this book, he is sharing his insights with a general audience."" --From the Foreword by David Maister, author and leading authority on managing professional service firms	Peter E. Friedes is former CEO of Hewitt Associates, an international human resources consulting firm. During his twenty-three-year tenure, Hewitt Associates grew over 20 percent per year and was featured in the book The 100 Best Companies to Work For in America. Friedes has taught at Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Emory, and the University of Michigan.",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;entrepreneurship;leadership;management;management & leadership;new;small business & entrepreneurship;total quality management;used & rental textbooks,12
189200514X,"Practical Spirituality: The Spiritual Basis of Nonviolent Communication (Nonviolent Communication Guides) Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. is the internationally acclaimed author of Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, and Speak Peace in a World of Conflict. He is the founder and educational director of the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC). He travels throughout the world promoting peace by teaching these remarkably effective communication and conflict resolution skills. He is based in Wasserfallenhof, Switzerland.",books;occult;politics & government;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious studies;self-help;sociology;specific topics;spiritual;spirituality;war & peace,12
0851708692,"The Usual Suspects (BFI Modern Classics) Ernest Larsen is a New York-based critic, novelist and film-maker. His novel Not a Through Street (1981) won an Edgar Allan Poe Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.",americas;arts & photography;books;education & reference;guides & reviews;history;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;movies;performing arts;reference;theory,12
0943373395,Lorine Niedecker: Woman and Poet (Modern Poet Series) 6 x 9  trim. 26 illus. LC 95-72165	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.,arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;poetry;used & rental textbooks,12
0687087570,"Ordinary Ministry, Extraordinary Challenge: Women and the Roles of Ministry Norma Cook Everistis Professor of Church and Ministry at Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa. She also has served as guide and mentor to many pastors struggling with conflict. She is author of The Church As Learning Community and editor of Ordinary Ministry, Extraordinary Challenge, published by Abingdon Press.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;church administration;ministry;ministry & church leadership;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious studies;sociology;theology;women's studies,12
097107867X,"The Creaky Traveler in the North West Highlands of Scotland: A Journey for the Mobile but Not Agile If the rest of this series is half as good as this first volume, we had best keep our bags packed. -- Donald Laing, American Book ReviewThis book made me long to be with the creaky travelers. I have never met a travel book with so much love in it--for nature, for the oddities encountered, for good food, and for the privilege of living on this planet. The book is deliciously readable and reveals a breadth of curiosity that is enticing. -- Anthony Smith, Explorers of the Amazon and the TV series WildernessSenior citizen Warren Rovetch and Gerda, his wife of 50 years have made 25 extended trips to Europe, slowly making the transition from travelers to ""Creaky Travelers.""  Rovetch has written and informative and interesting book for the ""mobile but not agile"" traveler that is filled with history, geography, culture, fascinating people and many helpful hints for senior travelers.  The Creaky Traveler documents the Rovetches' journey through the North West Highlands of Scotland, which he calls Britain's ""last wilderness.""  Travel books should appeal to those planning a trip and those not able, but who love to read about other people's travels.  The couple enjoy traveling independently, and tell how they plan their trips carefully, leaving room for the unexpected.  This particular adventure took them to an area of Scotland that is home to only 4 percent of the country's population, offering a casual lifestyle and unspoiled countryside that can be found in very few places these days.  The easy-reading book includes maps of the areas, plus beautiful color photos.  It is fun reading about the people and places that they got to know in the many small villages, staying in guest houses and visiting local pubs. They have also provided some interesting historical facts.  Whether or not you ever visit Scotland, you'll love the stories, and enjoy their approach to leisurely travel. This is not one of those ""If it's Tuesday, it must be Belgium"" travel books.  The chapters on Senior Travel trips are invaluable, as Rovetch provides simple but important suggestions for the Creaky Traveler, with a guide to assessing your individual limits, such as how far can you walk without needing a rest. --Don Fowler, Warwick Beacon, December, 2006 Join the author of The Creaky Traveler, Warren Rovetch, on an intimate driving holiday through the North West Highlands of Scotland where encounters with nature and the region's unique culture are an entertaining part of ""A Journey for the Mobile but Not Agile"".  What happens to the backpacking crowd when their backs grow too weak with age to shoulder the burden, when the lure of the open road is still strong, but the feet are better suited to loafers than hiking boots? Do nights of camaraderie in student-packed hostels turn to breakfasts in bed at bed-and-breakfasts? Does hitchhiking give way to most car rentals? Well traveled, 70-something adventurers Warren Rovetch, and his wife Gerda [known affectionately as G], answer these questions and many more in a charming yet practical new book, The Creaky Traveler in the North West Highlands of Scotland: A Journey for the Mobile but not Agile. --Travel with a Challenge, January 2003 Sub-titled A Journey for the Mobile but Not Agile, the author has found a good combination of travelogue, guidebook and charm to capture readers' attention. Aimed at more mature outdoor enthusiasts, this illustrated account takes us through the barren beauty of the north-west Highlands, detailing scenery, people and travel tips.  --The Scots Magazine, May 2003	Warren Rovetch has been a Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University, an economist, a textbook publisher, and a creator of an environmental education and conference center on the Columbia River. He and his wife, Gerda, live in Boulder, Colorado and have traveled extensively around the world.",books;education & reference;europe;general;great britain;history;reference;research & publishing guides;scotland;travel;travel writing;writing,12
1932031308,"Faithful Finances 101: From the Poverty of Fear and Greed to the Riches of Spiritual Investing Gary Moore has a degree in political science and was a senior vice president of investments at Paine Webber before founding his own investment firm as ""counsel to ethical and spiritual investors."" He has since advised some of Americas well-known ministries, churches, banks, and individual investors. He is the author of five other books about integrating religion/spirituality with personal financial management, including Spiritual Investments, also published by Templeton. He has served as a trustee of the Crystal Cathedral, a trustee of Messiah College, a board member of the John Templeton Foundation, a board advisor to Bill Bennetts Empower America, the lay leader of both a Lutheran and an Episcopal church, and a financial commentator for UPI Radio and the Skylight Radio Network. He lives in Sarasota, Florida, with his wife and teenage son.	Gary Moore was senior vice president of investments with Paine Webber before founding Gary Moore and Company: Counsel to Ethical and Spiritual Investors, which provides investment counsel to banks, churches, and individuals. He is the author of several best-selling books and currently lives in Sarasota, Florida.",books;budgeting & money management;business & investing;christian books & bibles;christian living;education & reference;ethics;personal finance;popular economics;reference;religion & spirituality;religious studies,12
1570622566,"Tibet Born in Mihara, Japan, in 1946, Kazuyoshi Nomachi graduated from Kochi Prefectural Technical School and went to study photography under Takashi Kijima before becoming a freelance photographer in 1971. Nomachi is known for his exhaustive research and field work, and his works have been published in many magazines, both internationally and in Japan.",asia;books;buddhism;china;general;history;pictorial;religion & spirituality;religious;tibet;travel;world,12
1587131447,"CCNP 3: Multilayer Switching Lab Companion (Cisco Networking Academy Program) (2nd Edition) Cisco Press is a collaboration between Cisco Systems, Inc., and Pearson Education that is charged with developing high-quality, cutting-edge educational and reference products for the networking industry. The products in the Cisco Networking Academy Program series are designed to prepare students for careers in the exciting networking field. These products have proven to be strong supplements to the web-based curriculum and are the only print companions that have been reviewed and endorsed by Cisco Systems for Cisco Networking Academy Program use.",books;bridges & routers;certification;cisco;computer science;computers & technology;hardware;networking;networks;new;protocols & apis;used & rental textbooks,12
0741400774,"Military Veterans PTSD Reference Manual I. S. Parrish's Military Veterans PTSD Reference Manual also contains a great deal of information about PTSD....  -- Books in Review, by Marc Leepson, Vietnam Veterans of America Magazine, April/May 2000It seems to me that you have created a tremendously affirming and practical tool for veterans...  -- Margaret L. PeckWritten by a Vietnam veteran for Vietnam veterans, this guide discusses the history and etiology of PTSD.....  -- Fred Lerner, D.L.S., Information Scientist	Mr. Parrish is a retired E-8, a Vietnam veteran who is disabled (30%, of which 10% is for PTSD.) He was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1944 and served as a Communications Specialist in Vietnam in 196667. He later served as a Drill Instructor and a U.S. Army recruiter before retiring in May of 1985. He has worked for the Veterans Administration and, until his diagnosis with PTSD, helped his son operate an Internet service company. This is his first book.	MILITARY VETERANS PTSD REFERENCE MANUAL by I.S. Parrish The Veterans Administration is currently treating approximately 500,000 Post Traumatic Stress  Disorder cases. As of March 1998 a total of 101,978 of those veterans were receiving  compensation. There are literally MILLIONS of other combat veterans who suffer from PTSD  yet have no idea what is causing their problems or what to do about it.  If you are one of these veterans, you have a choice. You can continue to deny that you have  problems (multiple divorces, drinking/drug abuse, un-employability, lack of friends and social  activity, flashbacks and nightmares) or seek assistance, with the aid of this manual.  A by-product, not the primary intention, of this book is to assist you, the combat veteran, in  securing deserved financial remuneration due you because of your involvement in something so  heinous that it will effect you for the rest of your life.  This reference manual for military veterans, medical and professional Service Representatives  seeking information on PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and how to apply for a disability  relating to PTSD. Sources for research and blank forms are provided as well  as a comprehensive worksheet.  Chapter 1  History and Definitions of PTSD Section I. GENERAL 01-01. General. Since you are reading this manual one of the followings  things is probably taking  place: a. You think you may have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  b. You are being treated for PTSD.  c. You know someone who has PTSD. Before you begin this journey you need to know what Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is.   Less than a year ago I did not know what PTSD was and I believed that  Veterans who claimed to have PTSD were using their claims to shield them from the  consequences of their own stupidity or alcohol/drug abuse. Boy was I wrong.   In this chapter I will present a brief history of PTSD and define PTSD in  language you can understand so that;  a. You can determine whether or not you may be afflicted with PTSD. b. When the time comes you will be better equipped to express your symptoms to your doctor,  justify your claim in your stress letter, and explain your condition to  your interviewer.  Section II. HISTORY 01-02. General. Prior to the studies done on Vietnam veterans, there were very few scientific  studies of what we today call Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  01-03. The 1800's. During the early 1800's military doctors began  diagnosing soldiers with ""exhaustion"" following the stress of battle. This ""exhaustion"" was  characterized by mental shutdown due to individual or group trauma. Like today, soldiers during  the 1800's were not supposed to be afraid or show any fear in the heat of battle. The only  treatment for this ""exhaustion"" was to bring the afflicted soldiers to the rear for a while then send them back into battle. Through extreme and often repeated stress, the soldiers became fatigued as a part of their body's natural shock reaction.  During that time, in England, there was a syndrome know as ""railway spine""  or ""railway hysteria"" that bore a remarkable resemblance to what we call PTSD today, exhibited  by people who had been in the catastrophic railway accidents of the period. In 1876 DR. Mendez  DaCosta published a paper diagnosing Civil War combat veterans with ""Soldiers Heart"": The  symptoms included startle responses, hyper-vigilance, and heart arrhythmia's.  01-04. The 1900's. During WWI overwhelming mental fatigue was diagnosed as  ""soldier's heart"" and ""the effort syndrome"". An article published on a now restricted  Internet web site maintained by Med. Access entitled ""Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"" states that  ""...some 60,000 of the British forces were diagnosed with the problem and 44,000 of these were  retired from the military because they could no longer function in combat"".  (www.medaccess.com/cfs/cfs_02.htm (this page is no longer accessible without a password)) The term ""shell shock"" emerged during WWI followed in WWII by the term  ""combat fatigue."" These terms were used to describe those veterans who exhibited stress and  anxiety as the result of combat trauma. The official designation of ""Post Traumatic Stress  Disorder"" did not come about until 1980 when the Third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical  Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was published. The above is only part of chapter one.",books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;new;pathologies;psychology;psychology & counseling;psychopathology;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0195127455,"Choosing Survival: Strategies for a Jewish Future It is interesting that with the success of Thomas Cahill's The Gifts of the Jews (LJ 3/15/98), there should be a book titled Choosing Survival: Strategies for a Jewish Future. Does this mean that with their gifts given to the world, the Jewish community will now wither away? Susser and Liebman, both professors of political science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, address this issue. How do Jews in Israel and the United States see themselves? Will they survive as a community, will their religion survive as a set of folkways, or will they be engulfed in the liberalization of Western thought and society? With crystal clarity, the authors delineate possibilities for the future, arguing that the outward norms of religion and community may form a bulwark of support for those who wish to maintain a Jewish society for themselves and their children. This thoughtful book is highly recommended for larger public libraries and ethnic studies collections; many of the issues addressed are pertinent to other communities and can be appreciated by an audience that questions the standardization of modern life.AIdelle Rudman, Touro Coll. Lib., Brooklyn, NY Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Historically, Jewish identity was built around the image of Jews as perennial victims, the objects of Gentile hostility--from the early pogroms, Crusades, mass expulsions, and the horrors of the Inquisition to the Holocaust. This is the so-called ideology of affliction. Choosing Survival examines what happens to Jews--in the U.S. and Israel--when such views are no longer credible. Some Jews, Susser and Liebman find, persist in clinging to this idea whatever the evidence may indicate, and others develop alternative forms of Jewish identity. The authors, professors at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, express an intense uneasiness about the future of Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism, but they see a reassuring sign in Jewish Orthodoxy. They feel that if the religion is to survive as a distinct cultural identity, Jews need to learn from the Orthodox how to adopt a critical posture toward their surrounding culture. With exceptional insight, they explore this growing dilemma and propose what direction Judaism should take to survive.  George Cohen	""This perceptive and provocative analysis of the Jewish condition in America and Israel poses a daunting challenge: `can Jews survive the end of the siege,' can they find some alternative to `the ideology of affliction' that has shaped the communal worldview throughout diaspora history"" Offering a bold prescription for the ailments of contemporary Jews, the authors point to Jewish learning and sensibilities, the lessons of Orthodoxy and the attachments of religious folkways, as possible remedies.  Their hope for a `literate, inspired and attractive form of Jewishness that is neither combatively Orthodox nor communally exclusivist' should command wide attention.""--Jonathon D. Sarna, Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Chair, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies""In this provocative new book, two American-born Israeli academics offer a trenchant analysis of the central dilemmas facing American and Israeli Jews today.  Written with unabashed candor and out of a deep personal engagement, Choosing Survival challenges contemporary Jews to renew their engagement with tradition to forge a distinctive and counter-cultural Jewish identity.  Readers will be rewarded by Liebman and Susser's incisive views of contemporary realities and future Jewish possibilities.""--Jack Wertheimer, Professor, The Jewish Theological Seminary""Susser and Liebman engage both their personal commitments as Jews, and their analytic insights as social scientists, to offer a challenging perspective on Jewish life and the Jewish future in Israel and the United States.  Their argument--that we have entered a new era in Jewish life, one in which Jews must recognize the tensions between Judaism and modernity if Judaism is to suvive--will engage and excite readers with interests in Israel, contemporary Jews, or modern religious identity.""--Steven M. Cohen, professor, The Hebrew University""With crystal clarity, the authors delineate possibilities for the future, arguing that the outward norms of religion and community may form a bulkwark of support for those who wish to maintain a Jewish society for themselves and their children.  This thoughtful book is highly recommended for larger public libraries and ethnic studies collections.""--Library Journal""This book is required reading for all persons dedicated to the perpetuation of Jewish peoplehood.  It offers a surgical exploration of the Jewish condition in America and Israel. What a fascinating phenomenon: two scholars, passionately committed in their personal lives to Jewish survival, dispassionately challenge the fundamental premises on which both communities are grounded.  They point us to a more complex and tortuous future, when the `ideology of afflicition' and the threat of war will no longer serve as the primary bonds of Jewish identity.  Though they offer no panaceas, they astutely raise the critical issues and project the difficult choices prerequisite to the quest for creative survival.... This book calls on Jews to `choose life.'""--Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch, Honorary Life President, World Union for Progressive Judaism""Written with unabashed candor and out of a deep personal enagement, Choosing Survival challenges contemporary Jews to renew their engagement with tradition to forge a distinctive and counter-cultural Jewish identity.  Readers will be rewarded by Liebman and Susser's incisive views of contemporary realities and future Jewish possibilities."" -- Jack Wertheimer, The Jewish Theological Seminary""Perceptive and provocative... Offering a bold prescription for the ailments of contemporary Jews, the authors point to Jewish learning and sensibilities, the lessons of Orthodoxy and the attachments of religious folkways, as possible remedies.  Their hope for a literate, 'inspired and attractive form of Jewishness that is neither combatively Orthodox nor communally exclusivist' should command world attention.""-- Jonathon D. Sarna, Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Chair, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University	Charles Liebman, the author of numerous books and articles dealing with the politics and religion of contemporary Jews, is a professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University.  He is the recipient of the 1998 Cultural Achievement Award for Jewish Social Thought from The National Foundation for Jewish Culture.  Bernard Susser, a professor of religion and political science at Bar-Ilan University, is the author of several books on political ideology. They both live in Israel.",anthropology;books;cultural;history;jewish;judaism;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;social sciences;specific demographics;world,12
B0007Y9KBO,"My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor's Tale What is the most baffling period in our lives? Not childhood, not old age, but the decades of our 40s and 50s, the period now generously known as middle age. It's both an occasion for regret and an opportunity for coming to terms, the moment when we come up against our limits and discover, for better and worse, who we are. My Life in the Middle Ages is a portrait of what that unnerving experience is like. A collection of unified pieces about the pleasures and pathos that attend the threshold of old age, it charts an original course between reportage and confession. Drawn from the author's own life, from the testimony of parents, children, teachers, and friends, from the books he's read and the life that he chose, and that chose him, My Life in the Middle Ages is a comic and poignant memoir that's both personal and generational. Whether he is struggling with God (or trying to find out if he believes in one), celebrating the books he's loved and regretting those he'll never read, leafing through the snapshots in his family album and marveling at the passage of time, or parsing the fine points of success and failure, James Atlas is always alert to the surprises of everyday life. At once pensive and funny, lighthearted and profound, My Life in the Middle Ages is a tale of survival, but also a meditation on how it feels to flourish, and how to live.",aging;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;fitness & dieting;gender studies;health;memoirs;men;politics & social sciences;social sciences,12
013026248X,"The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Profitable Decision Making (3rd Edition) Practical in focus and lively in style, this text provides a comprehensive, managerially-focused guide to formulating pricing strategy.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""The best book ever written about pricing is The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing by Tom Nagle and Reed Holdenthese guys know their stuff and it works!""  Guy Kawasaki, CEO, Garage Technology Ventures    ""For more than a decade, this book has been the most influential and highly regarded reference among pricing professionals.""  Eric G. Mitchell, President, The Professional Pricing Society    ""Most executives name pricing as their major challenge and major weakness. This book is an answer. It is full of new ideas arid insights.""  Philip Kotler, S.C. Johnson  Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Northwestern University    ""An investment in Tom and Reed's book will give you the highest return you've ever had. It's an investment you can't afford not to make.""  Dan Nimer, President, DNA Group	""Pricing is the moment of truthall of marketing comes to focus in the pricing decision.""     When Raymond Corey wrote these words at the Harvard Business School in the early 1960s, marketing was just coming into its own as a strategic discipline that could drive the direction of a business. Unfortunately, few marketing practitioners actually took Corey's words to heart. Enjoying their new prestige and power to influence corporate strategy, they were reluctant to let financial considerations constrain their ""strategic"" thinking.    Instead, they focused on achieving market share and customer satisfaction, believing that high profitability would somehow naturally follow. Marketing academics also slighted pricing, offering little research and few courses on the subject. Whenever the subject of pricing problems did arise, professors assured their students that all could be solved indirectly by redoubling efforts to differentiate products and services.    These attitudes toward pricing changed radically when marketers encountered the challenges of the 1980s. Companies with leading brand names saw brand loyalty and their power over distribution erode from years of price ""promotion"" to defend market share. Even large companies often found profits unattainable, as smaller firms targeted and lured away the most profitable customers (a practice labeled ""cream skimming"" by the victims). Successful corporate raiders then showed that they could increase cash flow and profits, often by raising prices, even as they lost some share. In the 1990s, a brief counterrevolution took place, as e-competitors bought market share from more efficient bricks and mortar competitors. By the end of 2000, most e-competitors went bankrupt, while the remainder looked for ways to charge prices consistent with financial viability.    Not only marketing practitioners are now under the gun to show that their efforts can ultimately pay off at the bottom line. So also are marketing theorists. Companies have become almost maniacal in their focus on increasing shareholder value. Strategies defined in terms of market share or customer satisfaction alone get short shrift. For marketers to achieve respect and influence, the key is to show how their ideas can generate profitability. As a result, creative thinkers are integrating marketing thought with financial concepts.    Successfully making that integration requires understanding not only what creates value for customers, but also how and when that value can be transformed into earnings per share. This does not mean that companies should regress to the days when they naively tried to increase profits by marking up costs with higher margins. It means understanding that strategic pricing is about much more than setting prices. It is about targeting markets that can be served profitably, communicating information that justifies price levels, and managing pricing processes and systems to keep prices aligned with value received.    These are not skills that have traditionally resided in finance or marketing departments. Strategic pricing is becoming a profession in its own right that bridges marketing, finance, sales, and top management. The Professional Pricing Society reported in a survey of its members that pricing decisions were principally made by a pricing manager in 25 percent of the companies and by a cross-functional team in another 20 percent. Others cited were the marketing department (15 percent) and product manager (15 percent). Decentralized pricing by the sales organization was practiced in only 11 percent of these companies, and none had pricing principally made by finance. Although this is a biased sample, it is indicative that price in the most sophisticated companies is being proactively managed.    As in the first edition, the primary objective of this edition is to develop a practical and readable manager's guide to pricing, not a textbook. Our references are not necessarily to the seminal articles on the subject, but to those that are most managerially relevant and accessible. Professors will be happy to learn that an expanded Instructor's Manual for this edition includes new classroom exercises. We expect that the combination of clear writing and current, relevant examples will continue to make this the most popular reference on pricing for managers as well as the most popular text in the classroom.	""Pricing is the moment of truthall of marketing comes to focus in the pricing decision.""     When Raymond Corey wrote these words at the Harvard Business School in the early 1960s, marketing was just coming into its own as a strategic discipline that could drive the direction of a business. Unfortunately, few marketing practitioners actually took Corey's words to heart. Enjoying their new prestige and power to influence corporate strategy, they were reluctant to let financial considerations constrain their ""strategic"" thinking.    Instead, they focused on achieving market share and customer satisfaction, believing that high profitability would somehow naturally follow. Marketing academics also slighted pricing, offering little research and few courses on the subject. Whenever the subject of pricing problems did arise, professors assured their students that all could be solved indirectly by redoubling efforts to differentiate products and services.    These attitudes toward pricing changed radically when marketers encountered the challenges of the 1980s. Companies with leading brand names saw brand loyalty and their power over distribution erode from years of price ""promotion"" to defend market share. Even large companies often found profits unattainable, as smaller firms targeted and lured away the most profitable customers (a practice labeled ""cream skimming"" by the victims). Successful corporate raiders then showed that they could increase cash flow and profits, often by raising prices, even as they lost some share. In the 1990s, a brief counterrevolution took place, as e-competitors bought market share from more efficient bricks and mortar competitors. By the end of 2000, most e-competitors went bankrupt, while the remainder looked for ways to charge prices consistent with financial viability.    Not only marketing practitioners are now under the gun to show that their efforts can ultimately pay off at the bottom line. So also are marketing theorists. Companies have become almost maniacal in their focus on increasing shareholder value. Strategies defined in terms of market share or customer satisfaction alone get short shrift. For marketers to achieve respect and influence, the key is to show how their ideas can generate profitability. As a result, creative thinkers are integrating marketing thought with financial concepts.    Successfully making that integration requires understanding not only what creates value for customers, but also how and when that value can be transformed into earnings per share. This does not mean that companies should regress to the days when they naively tried to increase profits by marking up costs with higher margins. It means understanding that strategic pricing is about much more than setting prices. It is about targeting markets that can be served profitably, communicating information that justifies price levels, and managing pricing processes and systems to keep prices aligned with value received.    These are not skills that have traditionally resided in finance or marketing departments. Strategic pricing is becoming a profession in its own right that bridges marketing, finance, sales, and top management. The Professional Pricing Society reported in a survey of its members that pricing decisions were principally made by a pricing manager in 25 percent of the companies and by a cross-functional team in another 20 percent. Others cited were the marketing department (15 percent) and product manager (15 percent). Decentralized pricing by the sales organization was practiced in only 11 percent of these companies, and none had pricing principally made by finance. Although this is a biased sample, it is indicative that price in the most sophisticated companies is being proactively managed.    As in the first edition, the primary objective of this edition is to develop a practical and readable manager's guide to pricing, not a textbook. Our references are not necessarily to the seminal articles on the subject, but to those that are most managerially relevant and accessible. Professors will be happy to learn that an expanded Instructor's Manual for this edition includes new classroom exercises. We expect that the combination of clear writing and current, relevant examples will continue to make this the most popular reference on pricing for managers as well as the most popular text in the classroom.",accounting;accounting & finance;advertising;books;business & investing;management & leadership;marketing;marketing & sales;pricing;product management;professional & technical;sales & selling,12
0152049134,"The Bagpiper's Ghost: Tartan Magic Book #3 In Jane Yolen's The Bagpiper's Ghost, book three in the Tartan Magic series, a trip to a Scottish cemetery entangles American twins Jennifer and Peter in the afterlife feud of former lovers. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Grades 4-7--This story, set soon after the events of The Pictish Child (Harcourt, 1999), finds Peter and Jennifer embroiled in another magical mess on their Scottish vacation. When the twins visit a graveyard hoping to see the ghost of Mary MacFadden, Peter is possessed by the unhappy spirit of her twin brother, Andrew. Jennifer and her Gran, a white witch, know that they have only one day to get the spirit to leave Peter's body or it will take him over forever. In life, Andrew plotted to keep Mary from marrying Ewan McGregor, and Mary pined away to her grave. The theme of Andrew's ghost needing forgiveness is echoed in the relationship between Peter and Jennifer, who have had a fractious relationship since they turned 13. The three ghosts; Peter, Jennifer, and Gran; and a magical horse and dog have a showdown in the graveyard, where of course everything is put right and the spirits of Ewan and Mary are together at last. The story is slight and the characters are two-dimensional. Granted, the action takes place within about 24 hours, but that leaves little time for the author to develop characters and setting. The Scottish dialect is wonderfully authentic, but could be difficult for most children. The glossary is helpful, but it doesn't include a phonetic pronunciation guide. Fans of this type of story will probably enjoy Mollie Hunter's novels or Susan Cooper's The Boggart (McElderry, 1993) more.Cheri Estes, Detroit Country Day Middle School, Beverly Hills, MICopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Gr. 3-5. Magic and the supernatural continue to haunt twins Jennifer and Peter and their little sister, Molly, in this volume in the Tartan Magic series. This time the twins find adventure in a graveyard haunted by the ghost of a young woman, Mary MacFadden, who was thwarted in her love for Ewan McGregor by her powerful twin, Andrew. Now, centuries later, Andrew's power still keeps the lovers apart. When Jennifer and Peter visit the graveyard, Peter becomes possessed by Andrew's angry, vengeful spirit. That leaves Jennifer, the children's grandparents (actually older cousins, both knowledgeable in the supernatural), and assorted magical animals--among them a dog who provides comic relief as well as a hefty taste of Scottish dialect--to free him from the ghost's power and reunite the phantom lovers. The book stands alone, but children may be curious about references to evil sorcerer Michael Scot. Passages of this book beg to be read aloud with the appropriate accent; there's a useful glossary but no pronunciation guides. Suggest books in the series to children deterred by the length of Harry Potter's adventures. Catherine AndronikCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Delightful.""--Science Fiction Chronicle""[This] story stands alone, and is rich enough in ghosts and magic to please readers of Susan Cooper's Boggart tales, or younger Betty Ren Wright fans.""--Kirkus Reviews""Fantasy aficionados . . . will enjoy Jennifer and Peter's latest magical escapade . . . a worthy addition.""--VOYA	JANE YOLEN has written more than two hundred books for children and adults. Among her critically acclaimed novels are Wizard's Hall, The Devil's Arithmetic, and Sword of the Rightful King. She has won the World Fantasy Award, the Kerlan Award, and several of the highest awards in children's literature. She lives in western Massachusetts and Scotland.	ONEBeliefI don't believe it!"" Peter cried. His body showed his astonishment even more than his face, for his arms and hands were raised, and his feet did a noisy jig under the kitchen table. It was the most animated he'd been in days, even though he was clearly putting it on.  Spoon half lifted, Jennifer looked up from her porridge and stared at her twin. ""You don't believe what?"" Given that they had already had days of magic, it wasn't an idle question.  ""Sun,"" Peter said, pointing out the window. ""And no clouds, not even a hint. Must be my doing. I-Peter the Great."" He waved his right hand as if he were royalty, something he'd just started that morning.  ""I can believe sun,"" said little Molly, nodding so hard her little dark curls bobbed like Slinky toys. ""It's easy. Sun, sun, you've just begun. See?"" Molly was in love with rhymes and repetition just now.  Peter turned on her. ""Not in Scotland, it isn't easy,"" he told her. ""Our sixth day on vacation here, and it's the first without a cloud in the sky. So I don't believe it. No-I take that back. It's beyond belief.""  Jennifer shook her head. Sometimes Peter's sarcasm was over the top. Especially since they'd turned thirteen. It seemed impossible for one twin to hate the other, but lately Jennifer found Peter exasperating. Like the royal hand-wave thing. Exasperating. That was one of her mother's words, but useful.  ""Nothing's beyond belief in Scotland,"" she reminded him, ""now that we've found magic.""  ""We haven't found magic,"" Peter said. ""There aren't bits of magic lying around that we just stumble over. No, wait a minute. I'm wrong. You just find magic, but it seems to avoid me. Maybe I have M.O."" He glared at Jennifer, which made her feel uncomfortable.  ""What's M.O., Peter?"" asked Molly.  Jennifer was glad Molly had asked, because there was no way she herself was getting suckered into Peter's bad mood. Not with the sun shining and all.  He lifted his arm and shoved his pit toward his little sister. ""Magic odor. Like B.O., only worse. Smelly as well as repellent. Magic stays away from me.""  Gran's white cat walked through the room and stopped to stare at Peter's uplifted arm.  Peter stared back and gave the cat the royal wave.  Jennifer sighed. ""It's not like I'm looking for magic,"" she said. ""Not like someone is leaving it on the ground...""  ""My Pict stone was on the ground,"" said Molly, remembering their last adventure. She spoke with the flat-footed assurance of a four-year-old. ""And it was magic.""  ""It called magic,"" Peter said, determined not to be outwitted by his baby sister. ""It wasn't magic on its own. And Jennifer got to do all the cool stuff while we were out cold.""  ""Peter, why are you so determined to be a pain?"" Jennifer asked.  ""Pain in the rain. Pain in the rain,"" sang Molly.  She's exasperating, too, thought Jennifer. She watched as the cat gave them all a disgusted look and went through the cat door and out into the garden.  ""But that's just what I was saying. It's not raining!"" Peter declared. ""So you are all wrong, as usual, and I-Peter the Great-am not."" This time he waved his arm grandly.  There was a roundness to his conversation. A great circle with no end. Jennifer recognized it just in time and bailed out.  ""I'm going downtown,"" she said. ""After breakfast. To Fairburn Castle.""  ""Me, too,"" Peter said.  ""Me, three,"" added Molly.  ""Mom!"" Jennifer and Peter cried out together, their voices eerily similar. Mom, who had been reading a magazine in the other room, came in.  ""We want to go for a walk,"" Jennifer said.  ""Without the kid,"" Peter added.  ""Jennifer and Peter want some twin time,"" Mom said to Molly. She opened her arms wide. ""Besides, I need some Molly time, myself. After all, I scarcely saw you at all yesterday. And I missed you dreadfully.""  ""You mostly missed the excitement,"" said Molly. ""And the magic. You went to Edinburgh. Without me. Me, me, me, and Mommy makes three.""  ""Two,"" Jennifer and Peter said together, but Molly ignored them, preferring her rhyme to reason. Or at least to math.  ""That I did,"" said Mom. ""Better tell me again.""  ""You missed the Pictish girl and the tallyman and the...""  As Molly began the whole story, interspersing rhymed words in the telling, Jennifer and Peter slipped out of the kitchen.#  In the living room, Jennifer turned on her brother. ""I don't need twin time, and I don't want you with me,"" she said. ""You're in a foul mood and you're determined to ruin my day, too.""  ""But I'm in a good mood, Jen,"" Peter protested. ""I am Goodness in person.""  ""No, you're not, Peter the Great."" Jennifer put her hands on her hips. ""You don't even sound like you anymore. So even if we go out the front door together, we are going to split up at the corner of Double Dykes Road."" The tone of her voice gave him no room to argue.  She immediately felt bad about coming down so hard on him. After all, before they'd become teens, they'd done everything together. But now it was boy stuff and girl stuff, Peter stuff and Jennifer stuff. She wasn't entirely used to it and didn't entirely like it. The best thing about twins was being a single unit. Forever. But with Peter acting so awful...  ""Nah-I'm sticking with you, kid,"" he said. ""You seem to get in the thick of things here, and I wouldn't want to miss any of it. This time.""  Jennifer wasn't sure he meant that admiringly. Lately it had been getting harder and harder to tell what Peter meant.  ""Oh-all right,"" Jennifer said grudgingly. ""But only if you lighten up.""  ""I will be lightness entire,"" Peter replied. ""As light as-this sunny day!""  ""There you go again,"" she told him.  He grinned at her, his old familiar grin, and suddenly all her anger disappeared.  Maybe, she thought, I'm overreacting. Maybe Peter isn't moving away from me. Maybe I'm the one who is the problem.  Just then a slim dog the color of ash pushed between them.  ""Yer nae leavin' me behind. A day like this, the sun oot and all. That garden's nae big enoughfer me. I want to spend the forenoon going my dinger.""  Peter looked down at him. ""'Going your dinger'? And what's that when it's in English?""  ""I'll give thee English, laddie! Yer American language is nae English. And I am nae English, either. A Scot's a Scot fer a' that! 'Going yer dinger' simply means to go oot and aboot with vigor, ye young daftie.""  Peter looked at Jennifer and shrugged. ""Maybe we should all go our dinger!"" He laughed. ""And stumble over some magic while we're at it.""  ""Och, nae learned ought yet?"" asked the dog, lying down and crossing his paws. ""Dinna ye call for magic. It'll nae be pleased wi' the summons.""  ""Which,"" Jennifer pointed out, ""is just what Gran would say if she were here."" Gran wasn't Mom's real mother or grandmother. She and her husband were actually some older cousins who had helped raise Mom after her own parents had died in a car crash.  ""And where is Gran?"" Peter asked, attaching the dog's leash to the collar.  ""The auld carlin is awa,"" said the dog. ""Gone to Edinburgh, the auld gray toon. Something about a capped tooth.""  ""Or a gapped tooth,"" Peter said, winking at his sister. ""Our gran being a witch, after all.""  ""White witch,"" Jennifer and the dog said together.  ""Whatever."" He shrugged, the smile gone from his face, and lifted the latch to the front door.  Jennifer's uneasiness returned, seeming to cloud what would otherwise have been a lovely day.Copyright  2002 by Jane YolenAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the workshould be mailed to the following address: Permissions Department, Harcourt, Inc., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777.",books;children's books;europe;explore the world;family life;fantasy & magic;literature & fiction;science fiction & fantasy;siblings;social situations;spine-chilling horror;travel & cultures,12
1579213081,"My Grandma's Angels Since Leah was so young when this all happened, Leah's mom was afraid she might forget this precious dream.  So Leah wrote down everything she saw using her preschool printing and spelling as best she could.  Leah drew the pictures for My Grandma's Angels at the age of seven.  Besides writing and drawing, Leah enjoys school, church, sports, reading music, and traveling with her family.",books;children's books;christian;christianity;death & dying;family life;inspirational;literature & fiction;multigenerational;religions;religious fiction;social situations,12
1580173748,"Be Your Own House Contractor: Save 25% Without Lifting a Hammer This handbook comes on cue in an era of belt-tightening in the home-building industry. And the fiscal corner Heldmann helps us cut with this book, enabling us to serve as our own contractor, may well represent the largest slice of the pie. But did we really pay that contractor 25% of the cost of our house, as the author suggests? Does Heldmann count the price of one's own time spent on the project? And what about his advice that we hire a good real estate attorney if in doubt at any of the planning stages outlined in his book? How much would that lawyer's fee turn out to be, and could it erase the advantages we've gained from taking his advice? The assumption of the book is that we must enjoy the challenges of buying land, reading plans, making estimates, getting permits, arranging loans, buying supplies and picking subcontractors-which may or may not be true or practical for most homebuilders. And then, Heldmann's examples apply mainly to the Northeast; rules differ state to state, which limits his book's usefulness. Yet it does make sense to attempt an overall view of home-building before undertaking it yourself-to get to know how a house is planned, paid for and built, from basement to roof. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Heldmann offers something that you can hold dear for a lifetime: the skinny on homebuilding.Mike McCarthy, Timber Home Building, December 2006 (Mike McCarthy Timber Home Building)If you are thinking about building a new house, or renovating your current home, first read [this book]. San Diego Union-TribuneIf you are bound and determined to plunge aheadpick up a copy of this little book before you start. Seattle Post-IntelligencerIf youre intrigued by the idea of being your own contractor for your dream house, heres where to begin. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Heldmann offers something that you can hold dear for a lifetime: the skinny on homebuilding.  Timber Home Building  Carl Heldmann has written the bible for people who want to act as their own general contractor.Strewn through the book are interesting tidbits a layman probably wouldnt hear unless he showed up at a job site at break time with a box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts.  Los Angeles Times If youre intrigued by the idea of being your own contractor for your dream house, heres where to begin. (Marcia Schnedler Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)If you are thinking about building a new house, or renovating your current home, first read [this book]. (Robert Bruss San Diego Union-Tribune)If you are bound and determined to plunge aheadpick up a copy of this little book before you start. (Gordy Holt Seattle Post-Intelligencer)	Simple language with no technical jargon. (The New York Times)  This excellent book offers the average person a way to say 25% of the high cost of a new house. Recommended. (Library Journal)  For those who are considering building a home (or addition) this book is a must! (American Homeowners Foundation)  If you can balance a checkbook, read, and deal with people in a fair manner, you can build your own house or addition. You don't need any technical knowledge or building skills - in fact, you'll never pick up a hammer.  With veteran contractor Carl Heldmann as a guide, you'll learn that you can get exactly the house you want, done the way you want it, for less.  In this completely revised and updated fourth edition of his classic how-to book (more than 185,000 copies in print), Heldmann gives an overview of all the steps of building and includes a glossary of building and business terms and sample contracts. He tells how to:  Select land  Secure financing  Develop house plans  Establish schedules  Identify cost-saving options  Select subcontractors  Negotiate contracts  Buy materials and supplies  Estimate building costs	Carl Heldmann is a construction loan consultant and an expert on residential construction costs. A licensed homebuilder and real estate broker, he is co-founder of the Michigan School of Home Building and founder of the North Carolina School of Home Building. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.",architecture;books;buildings;contracting;crafts;design & construction;do-it-yourself;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;how-to & home improvements;professional & technical,12
047175126X,"CSS Instant Results (Programmer to Programmer) With the latest generation of modern browsers expanding support for CSS 3, it is an exciting time in the CSS world. Featuring ten ready-to-use projects on the book's CD-ROM, this helpful reference dives into working code so you can rapidly master the increasingly diverse applications web designers can use with CSS, including some that previously could be done only with JavaScript.Featuring in-depth explanations, these ten ready-to-use projects are easy to implement in your own projects. The description of each project enables you to understand and then modify it so you can reuse it in different situations. The code has been tested with several browsers including Mozilla Firefox 1.0, Opera 8, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Windows, and Safari 1.3 for Mac OS X.CD-ROM includes source code for all 10 projectsReady-to-use projects you'll find in this bookTab-based navigationMulti-column layoutsDynamic dropdown menusA different approach to the dropdown menuWeb-based slideshowCustom borders and rounded cornersApplying CSS to a webmail applicationStyling input formsUser interface for a web-based file viewerStyling a web-based calendarWho this book is forThis book is for experienced web developers and designers who are looking to learn how to use CSS for better, faster design and markup. Some previous JavaScript use is helpful.Instant Results guides are packed with unique, ready-to-use projects that are perfect for the busy programmer. They require minimal set-up, and can be modified, enhanced, and reused in real-world situations.	Richard York is a web application developer for Trilithic, Inc., a company specializing in test equipment for the telecommunications industry. He wrote his first book, Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design (Wrox Press) in 2004.Richard began his web development career taking courses at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Since college, he has continued a self-imposed curriculum, mastering various technologies used in web development including HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL. An avid supporter of open source software, he has written an open source webmail application for PHP PEAR, and is currently working on an open source PHP library and framework called Hierophant, which he hopes to release in 2006.Richard maintains a personal web site at http://www.richard-york.com where you can learn more about his professional and personal interests.",books;computer science;computers & technology;css;languages & tools;new;programming;software;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design;web services,12
B00004Z69Y,"Epson Photo Paper GLOSSY (11x17 Inches, 20 Sheets) (S041156) Print your own digital photos, reprints, contact sheets and enlargements. Brilliant photo-quality color and lifelike images. Quick-dry. Form Type: N/A; Global Product Type: Photo Paper; Paper Type: N/A; Sheet Size (W x H): 11 in x 17 in.",arts;computer components;computers & accessories;craft supplies;crafts & sewing;electronics;office & school supplies;office products;paper;paper & paper crafts;photo enhanced paper;photo paper,12
0767916123,"Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish Consistently engaging, these 60 interviews conducted by journalist Pogrebin explore the thoughts of well-known artists, politicians and others in the public eye on the complexities of Jewish identity;and the emotions they engender. The issues touched on range from the legacy of the Holocaust to the Middle East, Jewish traditions, intermarriage and much more. The conflicts are typified by Sarah Jessica Parker, who says her supportive feelings about Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians make her feel more Jewish, but she is uncertain about the religious education she will give her child. Others, like Dustin Hoffman and William Kristol, have been firmly committed to passing on Jewish rituals and history to their children. Gloria Steinem, who joyfully attends feminist seders, still remains alienated by the sexist bias of most religions. In two arresting pieces, politician Barney Frank and playwright Tony Kushner address what it's like to be both gay and Jewish. Pogrebin says this book grew out of her efforts to clarify her own Jewish identity. But you don't need to be on such a quest to enjoy the wide range of experiences and feelings recorded here. Photos. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	From Publishers WeeklyConsistently engaging, these 60 interviews conducted by journalist Pogrebin explore the thoughts of well-known artists, politicians and others in the public eye on the complexities of Jewish identity;and the emotions they engender. The issues touched on range from the legacy of the Holocaust to the Middle East, Jewish traditions, intermarriage and much more. The conflicts are typified by Sarah Jessica Parker, who says her supportive feelings about Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians make her feel more Jewish, but she is uncertain about the religious education she will give her child. Others, like Dustin Hoffman and William Kristol, have been firmly committed to passing on Jewish rituals and history to their children. Gloria Steinem, who joyfully attends feminist seders, still remains alienated by the sexist bias of most religions. In two arresting pieces, politician Barney Frank and playwright Tony Kushner address what it's like to be both gay and Jewish. Pogrebin says this book grew out of her efforts to clarify her own Jewish identity. But you don't need to be on such a quest to enjoy the wide range of experiences and feelings recorded here. Photos. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.This worksimply can't be put down after you start browsingStars of David is the talk of the town.  LIZ SMITHengaging, intimatefrequently surprising and insightfulthis is a provocative and enjoyable book for Jews and gentiles alike. Library Journalencompasses the joys and anxieties, the comfort and self-consciousness, the tension between assimilation and self-identification that Jews feel in American society. St. Louis Post Dispatch A wide and interesting variety of stories about faith and the lack thereof, family, memory, ritual, continuity and choices they have made. The Jewish WeekA fascinating new book. -The Charlotte ObserverI open the book, and find an actually interesting interview with Dustin Hoffman, who casually advises the author over breakfast that she is not so smart ordering an omelet, when she could be having a couple egg whites, scrambled loosely, with a yolk thrown in, some salsa, onion, garlic and a little olive oil. -The Philadelphia Inquirer, Blinq blogs site	ABIGAIL POGREBIN has been a producer for Charlie Rose, Bill Moyers, and60 Minutesfor Mike Wallace and Ed Bradley. She was a senior correspondent for Brills Content, a contributing writer for Talk magazine, andis now afree-lance journalist whose work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.	Dustin HoffmanDustin Hoffman vividly recalls one afternoon, sitting in his apartment on 11th Street in New York City, talking on the phone to Mike Nichols. The director was trying to convince Hoffman to audition for the part of Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate. Mike was asking, 'What do you mean you don't think you're right for the part?'  Hoffman says.  'Because you're Jewish?' I said, 'Yeah.' Mike said, 'But don't you think the character is Jewish inside?'  Hoffman reminds me that Braddock was originally written as a thoroughbred WASP. The guy's name is Benjamin Braddock--not Bratowski, Hoffman says with a smile. He's a track star, debating team. Nichols tested everybody for the part--I think he tested Redford, who visually was the prototype of this character.Hoffman finally agreed to fly to L.A. to audition. That day was a torturous day for all of us, he says. I think I was three hours in the makeup chair under the lights. And Mike was saying with his usual wry humor, 'What can we do about his nose?' Or, 'He looks like he has one eyebrow'; and they plucked in between my eyebrows. Dear Mike, who was, on the one hand, extremely courageous to cast me, in the end was at the same time aware that I looked nothing like what the part called for. Hoffman laughs.We're having breakfast in a Columbus Avenue restaurant near his apartment in New York City. He arrives in buoyant spirits, dressed in jeans, white T-shirt, and blue blazer. Right away he befriends the waitress--Where did you grow up? She turns out to be from his childhood neighborhood in Los Angeles: Orlando Street. Oh my God, he says, I grew up on Flores!He orders very specific loose scrambled egg whites with one yoke thrown in, plus onions, salsa, and garlic. Not too dry, no milk, no butter; a little olive oil. Hoffman shakes his head when I order my omelet. Omelets aren't the best way to go, he advises me. Scrambled is tastier. But you go ahead with your omelet.Back to 1967: Nichols, who had seen Hoffman in an off-Broadway play, invited him to California to audition: I flew out to L.A. with very little notice, and of course hadn't slept, says Hoffman. I was very nervous. And in my memory, it was an eight-page or ten-page scene in the bedroom, and of course I kept fucking it up. I distinctly remember Mike taking me aside and saying, 'Just relax; you're so nervous. Have you ever done a screen test before?' I said, 'No.' He said, 'It's nothing; these are just crew people here; you're not on a stage. This is just film; no one's going to see it. This isn't going into theaters.' And I nodded and I was so thankful that he was trying to soften me; but then he put his hand out to shake mine, and his hand was so sweaty that my hand slipped out of it. Now I was terrified. Because I knew, 'That man is as scared as I am.'I felt, from my subjective point of view, that the whole crew was wondering, 'Why is this ugly little Jew even trying out for this part called Benjamin Braddock?' I looked for a Jewish face in the film crew, but I don't think I sensed one Jew. It was the culmination of everything I had ever feared and dreaded about Aunt Pearl. He's referring to his Aunt Pearl, who, upon learning that Dusty wanted to become an actor, remarked:  'You can't be an actor; you're too ugly.'  It was like a banner, Hoffman continues:  'Aunt Pearl was right!' She'd warned me.Hoffman reaches into the bread basket to break off small chips of a baguette. It was probably one of the more courageous pieces of casting any director has done in the history of American movies, he continues. And an act of courage is sometimes accompanied by a great deal of fear.Obviously the film went on to become a classic and made Hoffman a star. But even after becoming a Hollywood icon, with memorable roles in such films as Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, and Rainman, at the age of sixty-eight, Hoffman says he's still being miscast: Someone told me about a review of this movie I did, Runaway Jury, which indicated that I was miscast because the part was a Southern gentleman lawyer. Which must mean to that critic, 'He shouldn't be Jewish.' The unconscious racism is extraordinary--as if there are no Southern gentlemen Jews. So he implied I was miscast. And I mentioned that to my wife and she said, 'Well, you've always been miscast.' And she's right. The truth is that you've got two hundred million people in this country and I don't know the number of Jews--are there six or seven million? [An estimated 5.7 million.] I think there's thirteen million in the world [13.9]. So in a sense, we're miscast by definition, aren't we? That's what a minority is: It's a piece of miscasting by God.Hoffman grew up unreligious--My father later told me he was an atheist, he says of Harvey Hoffman, a furniture designer. Though they celebrated Christmas, one year he decided to make a Hanukkah bush instead. About the time I realized we were Jews, maybe when I was about ten, I went to the delicatessen and ordered bagels and draped them around the tree.But when it came to Hoffman's neighborhood friends, something told him he should deny his Jewishness. It was so traumatic to me, before puberty, realizing that Jews were something that people didn't like. I have a vivid recollection--literally sensory feeling--of the number of times people would say to me (whether they were adults or kids), 'What are you?'  Hoffman pauses. It was like it went right through me. He twists his fists into his belly. It was like a warning shock--painful. And I lied my way through each instance of that kind of questioning. So here would be the dialogue: You ask me, 'What are you?' POGREBIN: What are you?HOFFMAN: American.He gives me direction: Now you press.POGREBIN: What kind of American?HOFFMAN: Just American.POGREBIN: What are your parents?HOFFMAN: American--from Chicago.More direction: Keep pressing--because they would. They'd ask, 'What religion are you?' And I'd play dumb.So he knew that being Jewish was something to hide? Oh God, yes, he replies immediately. I didn't want the pain of it. I didn't want the derision. I didn't come from some tough New York community where I'd say, 'I'm Jewish--you want to make something out of it?' There was an insidious anti-Semitism in Los Angeles.It's one of the reasons he was impatient to move to New York, which he did, at age twenty-one. I grew up always wanting to live in New York, even though I'd never been here. And what's interesting is that all people ever said to me and still say is, 'Oh, I always assumed you were from New York!' Even now, if you look Jewish, you're from New York. I didn't know that most of the Jews in America live in New York. But I did know it inside. I flew to New York to study acting in 1958; I took a bus from the airport terminal to New York City and they let me off on Second Avenue. It was summer, it was hot, and I walked out of the bus, and I saw a guy urinating on the tire of a car, and I said, 'I'm home.'  He smiles. The guy pissing on the tire must have represented to me the antithesis of white-bread Los Angeles: New York City was the truth. It was a town that had not had a face-lift, in a sense--that had not had a nose job.Despite the city's ethnic embrace, when it came to open casting calls, Hoffman learned quickly into which category he fell. Character actor, he says with a grin. The word 'character' had a hidden meaning: It meant 'ethnic.' 'Ethnic' means nose. It meant 'not as good looking as the ingenue or the leading man or leading woman.' We were the funny-looking ones.I ask whether it frustrated him--being pigeonholed. Sure. But everything frustrates you when you're not working. He pauses. I think I just gave you the glib answer. I think the non-glib answer would be how quickly you accept the stereotype that's been foisted on you: 'They're right; I'm ugly.' You learn that early, before you even think about acting. You learn that in junior high school.I assume that changed for him when he became a bona fide movie star whom many considered adorable. I still don't feel that, by the way. He shakes his head. One's self-image, he maintains, is indelibly shaped in adolescence. You're really stuck with those first few years, he says. That's what stays with you. It takes a lot of therapy to break through that.What about all the women who must have thrown themselves at him at the height of his fame? It doesn't matter, he insists. If you're smart, you know you're interchangeable. It's like people coming up and asking for your autograph; they'll ask any celebrity. He also says he realized after a while that the shiksa conquest has little staying power. The cliche from the male point of view--which is another interview--is the number of times we men in our youth would talk about girls that we had bedded down. And there was often the comment, 'What a waste; I mean here she is--a model, gorgeous--and she's just a lox.'  He laughs. I mean, you learn. That outward stereotype only goes so far.But the short Jewish guy with th...",biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;ethnic studies;history;jewish;leaders & notable people;politics & social sciences;rich & famous;social sciences;specific demographics;world,12
0140249087,"Willie: Raising and Loving a Child with Attention Deficit Disorder Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric illness among children. An estimated 10 percent of school-age boys are currently on Ritalin. At age four, Ann Colin's son Willie was charming, bright, belligerent ... and kicked out of preschool. Willie, written in the form of a journal, is an interesting and often moving story about parenting an ADD child--diagnosis problems, psychiatrists, drug trials. Colin, writing from the perspective of a middle-class Manhattanite who wants Willie to achieve, moves from fear and uncertainty to finding the care and school situation that is right for him. She asks, What is normal and by whose definition?	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A former editor of McCall's magazine and mother of two comforts other parents of children whose only constant is their unpredictability. Her son Willie, born in 1989, is alternately bouncy and distant, gifted and obnoxious. Colin kept a journal of his early life, in which she noted that Willie ""never stays within the lines."" He also gets kicked out of nursery school, only to learn, with the help of resources including Ritalin, therapy, parental perseverance and ""shadows"" (companions at school), how to work with others and how to be safe on the street unattended. This book excels as practical advice to parents of potential ADD children by showing how to take vacations anyway and how to wade through the ADD establishment. With up to 10% of school-age American children possibly affected by the condition, this book will be a valuable diagnostic tool for parents who fear both ADD and those who over-diagnose it. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A mother's account of raising a child who threw tantrums, had sleep disturbances and speech problems, scratched and hit schoolmates, but was also loving and bright. Willie was Colin's first child. The pregnancy was reasonably uneventful, as was the birth. Although the cord was wrapped twice around the baby's neck, it seemed to cause no damage. It wasn't until Colin saw other children playing near or with each other in Willie's play schools and baby gym classes that she began to have questions about her son's aversion to noise and groups, his seemingly low level of frustration in certain situations (such as the sandbox, where he wopuld get ``really territorial''), and his occasional hyperkinetic behavior. A tortured year in a preschool where the head teacher finally suggested that Willie might be brain-damaged sent the angry parents on a frustrating round of evaluations for their son. Finally, one sympathetic psychologist suggested that Willie might be suffering from attention deficit disorder (ADD), and the cluster of symptoms seemed to fit Willie perfectly. The next year in a new preschool was only slightly more successful, as Ritalin and Dexedrine, the medications commonly prescribed for ADD, seemed only to aggravate Willie's behavioral problems. But weekly sessions of play therapy and speech therapy, plus the prospect of a splendid new school geared to working with children with ADD, launched Willie optimistically into his fifth year. Colin, a former features editor at McCall's, offers a careful explanation of what ADD is believed to be and touches on the problem of the increasing frequency with which an ADD diagnosis and medication are used to bring disruptive children under control in school. This tale of the discrimination, rejection, and misunderstanding that Willie faced is redeemed by a portrait of parents who persisted until they found the right slot for their son. (Author tour) -- Copyright 1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ann Colin is a former features editor of McCall's magazine. Her articles have appeared in Marie Claire, Elle, New York magazine, and Seventeen. She lives in New York City.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;child psychology;children's health;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;learning disorders;parenting;parenting & relationships;psychology & counseling;schools & teaching;special needs,12
157488154X,"Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer The late Howard R. Simpson was the author of eight other well-received novels. He also wrote several nonfiction books, including Someone Else's War and Dien Bien Phu",biographies & memoirs;books;criminal law;historical;law;law enforcement;leaders & notable people;national & international security;political;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics,12
0152699538,"Sacred Places Yolen and Shannon, previously paired for the rollicking Ballad of the Pirate Queens, turn solemn in this verse-and-picture tour of sacred places around the world. Visiting 12 sites, the book attempts, with mixed results, an empathetic introduction to a variety of beliefs and practices from past and present religions. Subjects range from the ambiguous oracle of Delphi, speaking truth ""from the perfumed cave,/ from the earth's dark center,/ from the navel of the world,"" to the Shinto shrine Itsukushima. While she relies heavily on repetition, Yolen's approaches vary: ""Wailing Wall"" reflects a contemporary view of Jerusalem; ""Easter Island"" asks who made the great carved heads; ""Cathedrals"" echoes the rhythms of nursery rhymes (""This is the crypt,/ This the nave,/ This the apse,/ These the graves""). Shannon's paintings more successfully capture different moods, as in a brooding and mist-shrouded Stonehenge, a glowing image of a stained glass window or a night view of Uluru (Ayers Rock) with animal forms from the Dreamtime creeping up its side. A bookend poem, ""Hush,"" calls for respect and on its second appearance grandly but unconvincingly asserts that ""Since you have been here,/ truth has been shaped,/ truth has been shifted,/ truth has been shown in its many forms."" Ages 6-12. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Grade 5-9?Holy in the distant past (Delphi), or still sacred today (Mecca), the sites of Yolen's poetic tributes include some of the world's most celebrated spiritual and cultural power centers. The poems evoke, rather than describe, their subjects, with brief additional information on each provided in an appendix. Nevertheless, many of the references to places, gods, and concepts require further research for comprehension. Of the 12 sites chosen, one is in the U.S., one in Honduras, two each in the Middle East and the Pacific, and three each in Asia and Europe. Since one of the ""places"" in Europe is the vast category ""cathedrals,"" Europeans appear disproportionately blessed with sacred sites. An otherwise helpful map unavoidably highlights the utter absence of sacred places in Africa and South America. The familiar ""Ayers Rock"" is rightly called Uluru, but Jerusalem's Western Wall is still tagged ""Wailing Wall"" here. Shannon's paintings are compelling. Recognizably realistic, they are nevertheless given expressionistic emphasis, from point-of-view, composition, coloring, or simplification of form, to suggest their spiritual dimension. Browsers may be attracted by the pictures, and if the text is too allusive for some readers, others may accept the mysteries as part of the allure of the sacred.?Patricia (Dooley) Lothrop Green, St. George's School, Newport, RICopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Gr. 4^-6. The poems in this large-format book concern sacred places around the world: Delphi, Copan (Mayan), the Wailing Wall, Easter Island, Stonehenge, the Ganges, Uluru (Australian aborigine), the European cathedrals, the Bo Tree, Mecca, Four Corners (Native American), and Itsukushima (Shinto). A world map on the title page locates each site. Two pages of notes at the end of the book tell a little about each place. Readers unfamiliar with the sites will find the notes helpful, since the poems presuppose some knowledge of the place or the religion. Although the poetry incorporates details from each culture, the tone varies little from one poem to another. The most effective is the verse about sacred places, which opens and closes the volume. Facing the pages of poetry are full-page acrylic paintings, including many striking illustrations, deep in color and often mysterious. An unusual supplement to units on world religions.  Carolyn Phelan	Ages 6-12 will find this an unusual blend of poems and paintings which celebrate sacred places around the world, capturing the history and essence of these holy places. Many of these poems are rather challenging in concept: adult assistance will help young explorers realize their full message and content.  -- Midwest Book ReviewBo Tree Cathedrals Copan Delphi Easter Island Four Corners Ganga Hush Hush Itsukushima: High Tide Itsukushima: Low Tide Mecca Stonehenge Uluru Wailing Wall -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder	Jane Yolen is a highly acclaimed children's author who has written hundreds of books for adults and children and has won numerous awards. She and her husband divide their time between Massachussetts and Scotland.DAVID SHANNON is the illustrator of many successful picture books, including How I Became a Pirate. His numerous awards include a Caldecott Honor for No, David! He lives in Burbank, California.",books;children's books;explore the world;literature & fiction;multicultural stories;nature & how it works;poetry;religions;science;science fiction & fantasy;social science;travel & cultures,12
0684836246,"Ready or Not: Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future--and Ours The kids aren't alright, says Kay S. Hymowitz: Americans are doing a lousy job of raising their children. The next generation isn't being socialized properly, she elaborates, and the result is a country full of sexually active youngsters and exploding juvenile crime rates. ""Until the middle of the twentieth century, it was considered an obvious fact that children are prone to cruelty, aggression, and boundless egotism and that a major purpose of their upbringing is to restrain and redirect those impulses,"" writes Hymowitz, a mother of three. Today, however, so-called experts have advanced ""the idea that children are autonomous, independent individuals discovering their own reality."" Perhaps this is natural in a country that values individualism, she says, but that doesn't mean adults--parents, teachers, and neighbors--should abandon their traditional roles as authority figures and moral guides. ""The truth is, children are ignorant,"" says Hymowitz; they need adults to help them grow up. Ready or Not emphasizes the problem at the expense of suggesting solutions, but perhaps this is appropriate. There is a real freshness in the author's argument that won't be found elsewhere, but after reading her book, many will wonder how we could have missed the truth for so long. --John J. Miller	Asking how we can raise morally responsible children while nurturing their individuality, Hymowitz critiques the radical individualism that seems to have subsumed concern for the common good, the narrow vocationalism of much education, a vulgar and sensationalized media and the insidious ways in which such natural childhood activities as play and exploration have been channeled toward enhanced cognition and academic achievement. The author, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, advocates somewhat nostalgically for a return to the republican childhood of the 19th centuryA""a profound moral achievement""Athat she believes effectively socialized the young into life as active democratic citizens. In a clear and accessible style, Hymowitz draws on the work of educational and psychological theorists, as well as popular culture, to develop her arguments. Unfortunately, the book suffers from a number of conceptual weaknesses, including the notion of ""anticulturalism"" (the belief that today's youth are being raised outside the influence of culture) and that we can overcome anomie and nihilism by constructing and transmitting a ""common culture"" (whose culture this would be remains largely unaddressed). Those readers who believe that contemporary social problems can be solved with a renewed emphasis on old-fashioned family values, back-to-basics schooling and rejuvenated adult authority will find much in this book resonant. Those who question the viability of returning to a romanticized past will find the complex issues addressed here oversimplified and framed in rather tired ideological terms. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Hymnowitz, an editor, author, and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, believes that America has lost its sense of childhood in recent years. Offering no real solutions, she laments that psychologists, educators, and child advocates have advanced ""the idea of children as capable, rational, and autonomous"" and that childhood has lost its ""traditional purpose as the time set aside for shaping raw human material into a culturally competent adult."" She argues that the notion that children develop independently of the cultureAwhich she calls anticulturalismAis at the heart ""of what has gone wrong with childhood in America"" and suggests that a complete philosophical reordering of the American idea of childhood is needed. A thought-provoking addition to education and psychology course reading lists but probably not a necessary purchase for most public libraries.AKay L. Brodie, Chesapeake Coll., Wye Mills., MD Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	A flawed yet fascinating look at the changing nature of childhood. Hymowitz blames ``psychologists, psychiatrists, educators, child advocates, lawmakers, advertisers, marketers, [and] storytellers'' for fostering what she dubs an ``anticultural'' model of child rearing. Rather than view their children as works-in-progress who need to be ``inducted by their elders into a pre-existing society'' or culture, Hymowitz believes that today's hands-off parents have been encouraged to think of their offspring as ``autonomous, independent individuals discovering their own reality.'' Anticulturalism begins at birth, the author asserts, aided by recent neuroscience-based theories that present babies as ``information-organizing individuals,'' who operate as pint-sized scientists making sense of the world around them, As a result, everything from play to love, from Matisse to Mozart is reduced to ``data for the computerized brain'' instead of ``food for the soul.'' The process continues with the growing child's exposure to anticultural education,'' featuring trendy theme-based learning in which students take the lead, and to the media, whose ``teening of childhood'' teaches kids to be tough, cool, and ironic before their time. Hymowitz longs for the days of something called ``republican childhood,'' in which parents molded their children into democratic citizens by striking a balance between freedom and restraint. But nostalgia blinds the author to the ironies of her position. Rather than being ``anticulture, today's kids are the natural end products of culture. The author's real quarrel lies with the debasement of pop culture itselfa much larger issue. Similarly, Hymowitz gives only cursory attention to rampant consumerism, television, and peer pressure, all of which fill the void left by parents who lack the time to do the sort of nurturing she envisions. Hymowitz writes gracefully and weaves observations drawn from a variety of fields into an argument that is witty, erudite, and exhaustive. But because the author has used her considerable talents to construct an ``anticultural'' straw man, this book's parts are greater than its whole.  -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	...the argument here is nuanced enough and politically balanced enough for neither left nor right to dismiss.... she has produced a book worth debating. -- The New York Times Book Review, Margaret TalbotBarbara Dafoe Whitehead author of The Divorce Culture, Rethinking Our Commitments to Marriage and Family Kay Hymowitz has written the most important book on Ameican childhood to come along since Reviving Ophelia. Casting a cool and critical eye across the span from infancy through the teen years, she tells the story of a revolution in childrearing: Gone is the idea that children are to be molded, shaped, and instructed by their parents and other elders; now, we are told, children are to mold themselves -- to be their own tutors, parents, teachers, and most of all, their own moral compasses. Hymowitz leaves us with an indelible and compelling picture of children in the driver's seat, careening along without the brakes, the controls, or the road map that culture is supposed to provide. -- Review	This challenging book shows what happens when a culture gives up its traditional mission of handing down its wisdom and moral heritage to the next generation.  it will make the reader think harder about the needs of children and the responsibilities of adults in a democratic society. 	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Kay S Hymowitz	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;children's books;children's studies;developmental psychology;fitness & dieting;health;parenting;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;social sciences;sociology,12
0862415861,"The Wilderness Journeys (Canongate Classic) John Muir (1838-1914) was born and raised in Dunbar, East Lothian, andhis family emigrated to Wisconsin in 1849. His journals, articles, and lectures helped to develop international awareness of the need to preserve and protect the environment, and led to the foundation of the General Grant, Sequoia, and Yosemite National Parks. John Muir has been honored ever since as the father of the modern environment movement.",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;conservation;education & reference;nature & ecology;research & publishing guides;science & math;travel;united states;writing,12
0135708621,"Essence of OLE With Active X, The: A Programmer's Workbook The Essence of OLE  puts a training workshop in your hands, allowing you to explore and experiment with OLE and ActiveX in the context of modern development tools. David Platt teaches you to swim in the shallow end of the pool while always encouraging you to challenge yourself in deeper waters.  Kraig Brockschmidt, Author of Inside OLE   Finally, OLE explained the right waysimply, elegantly, and consistently.   OLE has a reputation for being hard to learn. But it isn't-not if you take the time to understand OLE's underlying principles, and learn OLE techniques one step at a time. That's where The Essence of OLE'  comes in. It's the first self-study OLE guide and workbook that actually makes OLE easy to understandand helps you become comfortable using it.   With The Essence of OLE, you'll start with the simplest OLE applications, and then build on what you learn, one technique at a time, in easy, bite-size chunks. Along the way, you'll discover OLE's internal elegance and consistency. You'll also see both the underlying API and the prefabricated functionality provided by the MFC. Through masterfully explained examples, you'll learn about:   The Component Object Model at the heart of OLE.   Sourcing and using data objects, data transfer and drag-and-drop techniques.   OLE automation, including both controllers and servers.   ActiveX controls and their containers.   OLE on the Internet, including ActiveX Scripting.   You'll also get 10 megabytes of working sample code you can cut and paste into your own applicationscode that can help you jumpstart virtually any OLE development project!   As OLE and ActiveX play an ever-greater role in both desktop and Internet applications, strong OLE skills are becoming even more important. There's simply no better way for Windows developers to get those skills than with The Essence of OLE.'	DAVID S. PLATT is President of Rolling Thunder Computing, Inc., and an instructor in Computer Science for the Harvard University Extension School. He is also the author of The Win32 API from Scratch (Prentice-Hall).",books;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;mathematics;object-oriented design;operating systems;programming;science & math;software;software design;testing & engineering,12
1570671370,"Simple Treats: A Wheat-Free, Dairy-Free Guide to Scrumptious Baked Goods Ellen Abraham, together with her sister Jill, developed a line of wheat- and dairy-free pastries that they sold at their bakery, Simple Treats, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. These products are now sold commercially.",aerobics;baking;books;cookbooks;desserts;exercise & fitness;fitness & dieting;food & wine;health;healthy;meals;special diet,12
0131193538,"Classroom Assessment for Students in Special and General Education (2nd Edition) Now in its third edition, Assessment for Students in Special and General Education continues to provide a full-spectrum of assessment strategies supported by current research and best practices, with newly added focus on progress monitoring and Response to Intervention (RTI). The text remains as strong as ever on providing teachers with a variety of assessment procedures, and the directions on how toconstruct, administer, score, interpret, graph, monitor, write, and report assessment results. Future educators will gain the pertinent skills necessary to effectively use assessment, particularly informal assessment, in understanding the needs of the whole student in todays general and special education classrooms. With a fresh, new four-part structure, (Overview of the RTI and Special EducationProcess; Types of Assessment;Basic Skills and Content-Subject Assessment; and Special Focus Assessment ), and thorough updates and revisions in every chapter, once again Spinellis text proves its worth in being one of the top-selling texts on assessment in special education. 	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Cathleen G. Spinelli is a professor and chair in the Special Education Department at Saint Josephs University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in assessment and teaching techniques. She has extensive experience working in the public school system, evaluating students from preschoolers to adults, as a certified school psychologist and educational diagnostician. She has enjoyed her years as both a special education teacher and a school administrator in the public school system. She is the author of another Pearson text, the recently published, Linking Assessment to Instructional Strategies: A Guide for Teachers. 	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",assessment;books;education;education & reference;education theory;new;professional development;schools & teaching;special education;test preparation;testing;used & rental textbooks,12
0801847559,"The Dominican Intervention A balanced and insightful presentation of valuable historical data, and a very fine analysis of the process which produced the U.S. intervention, in which Lowenthal sheds much new light on developments in both Santiago and Washington. (American Political Science Review )The intervention by the United States in the Dominican Republic in 1965 has inspired several books, and this one is clearly the best. (Review of Politics )A major contribution to the understanding of American foreign policy. (Ernest R. May, Harvard University )	Abraham F. Lowenthal  directs the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California. His books include  Partners in Conflict: The United States and Latin America in the 1990s, revised edition.",americas;books;caribbean & west indies;central america;dominican republic;history;international & world politics;military;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;united states,12
0898796024,"Creating Melodies: A Songwriter's Guide to Understanding, Writing and Polishing Melodies Beginning songwriters as well as experienced ones wishing to enhance their ability to compose tuneful melodies can turn to Weissman's primer. He first defines a melody as ""the single line of the structure that you can hum or whistle"" and discusses generally how to read and write musical notation before delving into the melody-generating process. One interesting note: ""The book is designed to be equally user-friendly for guitarists or keyboard players."" Whether one is attempting to write ad jingles or pop tunes, Weissman's guide demonstrates the steps to follow in devising the melody and melding it with the lyrics.  Denise Perry Donavin",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;composition & performance;country & folk;education & reference;instruction & study;music;songwriting;theory,12
0595209041,"Triumphs of the Human Spirit: Real Cancer Survivors, Real Battles, Real Victories Barry Summers is a five-year survivor of kidney cancer, and since has earned a black belt in karate, a master/instructor certificate in the Japanese Healing Art of Reiki, and has pursued many other areas since his diagnosis.",books;cancer;clinical;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;nursing;oncology;used & rental textbooks,12
0321356748,"Adobe Creative Suite 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques The fully updated Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium software (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, and Acrobat) is a unified design environment. The Creative Suite 2 enables you to realize your ideas anywherein print, on the Web, or on mobile devices, and this info-packed guide lets users get right down to doing just that by focusing on the Creative Suite 2 features theyre most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the programs in a way that makes sense to them.	George Penston is an interaction designer and an authority of all things Adobe. With an extensive background in print production and design, George segued into online and interface design in the mid-90s. In 1999, George started one of the first all Adobe focused website offering tips and tricks, news, rumors, and reviews. Hes written numerous how-to articles and reviews online related to Adobe applications.",books;computer science;computers & technology;desktop publishing;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;graphics & visualization;new;programming;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design,12
0140252827,"The Vikings: Revised Edition A survey of Viking civilization, originally published in Denmark (1987), concentrating on the period c.750-c.1050. One chapter covers sources, and about one-third of the book deals with Viking expansion into Russia, Normandy, the British Isles, Iceland, Greenland, etc. (Only a few pages touch upon activities in North America.) Most of the book surveys the geography, people, society, religion, art, etc., of the Vikings' Scandinavian homelands, stressing the complexity of their civilization. The Vikings is a sober, factual, accurate, though somewhat pedestrian account accessible to laypersons and reflecting recent scholarship. Public or academic libraries needing an up-to-date (post-1980) survey should acquire it. Roesdahl is the author of Viking Age Denmark (State Mutual Bk., 1982)-- J.F. Husband, Framingham State Coll., Mass.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: Danish	Else Roesdahl is Professor in Medieval Archaeology at the University of rhus, Denmark, and Special Professor in Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham, England.",archaeology;books;europe;history;humanities;medieval;new;politics & social sciences;scandinavia;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,12
1563431025,Mastering Diversity: Managing for Success Under ADA & Other Anti-Discrimination Laws (Taking Control) This has received prior mention but deserves ongoing recommendation as an extraordinary and valuable reference for any seeking to understand ADA and other anti-discrimination laws. Any employer considering workplace diversity and management issues will want to make this a part of the company library: it analyses and illustrates issues ranging from sexual harassment to family and medical leave rights.  -- Midwest Book Review,books;business & investing;constitutional law;disability;discrimination;education & reference;law;research;research & publishing guides;small business & entrepreneurship;specialties;writing,12
0672325500,"Alison Balter's Mastering Microsoft Office Access 2003 Microsoft Access has the steepest learning curve of all the Microsoft Office applications. Its basic functions aren't really intuitive, and users typically need to do some programming as part of their first Access project. For those reasons, Access is the Office application for which Office users--even experienced, highly competent ones--tend to need help learning. Alison Balter's Mastering Microsoft Access 2003 is a new addition to the shelf of Access manuals, and it's one of the best. Balter does a great job of helping a novice Access user (someone who can open a database and edit fields, but can do little more) become an accomplished user. In other words, this book teaches Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming as it applies to Access. The word ""Mastering"" is appropriate in its title. Balter's basic approach is to introduce a concept (say, the Implements keyword or ADO Database objects) and quickly explain its purpose with prose, then provide an example of how the concept works in practice. Which is to say, she provides a code sample. Because of this strategy, almost every page of this book has code on it. However, the author appears to have made a conscious effort to keep her code snippets short and easily comprehensible. Long, difficult-to-trace listings that span multiple pages are thankfully absent. Balter also does a good job of illustrating the Access development environment, including many screen shots of Access at work and of the applications that result from her code. This is a detailed, carefully considered book that will make sense to all but the most inexperienced Access users. --David Wall Topics covered: How to write applications with Microsoft Access 2003. Noteworthy coverage deals with the Access way of handling object orientation, clever form-design strategies, and scores of techniques for performing various procedures on databases. Security coverage is good, too.	Alison Balter is the president of InfoTechnology Partners, Inc., a computer consulting firm based in the rural Santa Rosa Valley Area, close to Camarillo, California. Alison is a highly experienced independent trainer and consultant specializing in Windows applications training and development. During her 19 years in the computer industry, she has trained and consulted with many corporations and government agencies. Since Alison founded InfoTechnology Partners, Inc. (formerly Marina Consulting Group) in 1990, its client base has expanded to include major corporations and government agencies such as Shell Oil, Accenture, Northrop, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Prudential Insurance, Transamerica Insurance, Fox Broadcasting, the U.S. Navy, and others.  InfoTechnology Partners, Inc., is a Microsoft Certified Partner, and Alison is a Microsoft Certified Professional. Alison was one of the first professionals in the computer industry to become a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer.  Alison is a partner in the multimedia training company Blast Through Learning, Inc., and is the author of more than 300 internationally marketed computer training videos and CD-ROMs, including 18 Access 2000 videos, 35 Access 2002 videos, and 15 Access 2003 videos. These videos and CD-ROMs are available by contacting Alisons company, InfoTechnology Partners, Inc. Alison travels throughout North America, giving training seminars on Microsoft Access, Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Basic, and Visual Basic for Applications. She is also featured in several live satellite television broadcasts for National Technological University.  Alison is a regular contributing columnist for Access/Office/VB Advisor as well as other computer publications. She is also a regular on the Access, Visual Studio .NET, SQL Server, and Visual Basic national speaker circuits. She was one of four speakers on the Visual Basic 4.0 and 5.0 World Tours seminar series co-sponsored by Application Developers Training Company and Microsoft.  Alison is also the author of six other books published by Sams Publishing: Alison Balters Mastering Access 95 Development, Alison Balters Mastering Access 97 Development, Alison Balters Mastering Access 2000 Development, Alison Balters Mastering Access 2002 Desktop Development, Alison Balters Mastering Access 2002 Enterprise Development, and Learning Office Access 2003 in 24 Hours. Alison is a coauthor of three Access books published by Sams Publishing: Essential Access 95, Access 95 Unleashed, and Access 97 Unleashed.  An active participant in many user groups and other organizations, Alison is a past president of the Independent Computer Consultants Association of Los Angeles and of the Los Angeles Clipper Users Group.  On a personal note, Alison keeps herself busy horseback riding, skiing, ice skating, running, lifting weights, hiking, traveling, and dancing. She most enjoys spending time with her husband, Dan, their daughter, Alexis, their son, Brendan, and their golden retriever, Brandy.  Alisons firm, InfoTechnology Partners, Inc., is available for consulting work and on-site training in Microsoft Access, Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic, and SQL Server, as well as for Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows XP, PC networking, and Microsoft Exchange Server. You can contact Alison by email at Alison@InfoTechnologyPartners.com, or visit the InfoTechnology Partners Web site at http://www.InfoTechnologyPartners.com.",access;books;computer science;computers & technology;database storage & design;databases;home computing & how-to;microsoft;new;office;software;used & rental textbooks,12
013156837X,"Systems in English Grammar: An Introduction for Language Teachers This book teaches teachers how to present grammar lessons to their students with confidence and clarity.Introduces future teachers of English to the major elements of English grammar in a systematic fashion, using step-by-step procedures, charts, diagrams, and exercises.  Includes a complete answer key to exercises.Grammar teachers.",books;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;new;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,12
080931455X,"The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome (Ad Feminam) ""A much-needed survey of women writers in antiquity.""Rochelle Snee, Religious Studies Review""The pages of Snyders text are filled with stirring revelations about womens achievements.""Susan C. Jarratt, Composition Chronicle""The discussion of this tradition not only encompasses a vast historical span, but requires a significant degree of both historical and literary reconstruction. Snyder is more than equal to the task, and the result is a volume that is informative, entertaining, and impressive for its command of the scholarly literature. . . . Specialists in the field will want to take this work seriously. General readers will be much enriched by it.""M. B. Arthur, Choice	Jane McIntosh Snyder, professor of classics at The Ohio State University, is the author of Puns and Poetry in Lucretius ""De Rerum Natura"" and (with Martha Maas) of Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece.",ancient & classical literature;books;criticism & theory;education & reference;greek;history & criticism;literature & fiction;medieval;movements & periods;politics & social sciences;women writers;women's studies,12
B000A0LFH2,"Ortho 0295160 Rose Pride Rose & Shrub Disease Control - Pint Spray when first sign of disease appears on roses, flowers, shrubs, shade trees and other ornamentals. Apply every 7-10 days if disease conditions persist. People and pets may enter treated area after spray has dried. Protects plants from damaging diseases including black spot, rust and powdery mildew. Endorsed by the American Rose Society.	Funginex Rose Pride Disease Control Shrub & Rose Disease Control Controls black spot, rust, and powdery mildew on roses, flowers, shrubs and shade trees. One pint makes up to 32 gallons of spray. Endorsed by the American Rose Society. Black Spot is one of the most common fungal rose diseases. It is characterized by rough, round spots appearing on the leaves. Infected leaves will turn yellow, and fall. Canes will turn a reddish-purple, and eventually blacken. Powdery Mildew is another common fungal disease. You will see grayish-white powdery patches overtake the leaves, twigs, and buds of your plants. Leaves will fall, buds will fail to open. Powdery Mildew can easily be spread. Item Specifications: How It Works: Spray when first sign of disease appears. Apply every 7-10 days if disease conditions persist. Treats over 200 rose bushes. Funginex (also known as Rose Pride) is absorbed by leaves and stems for internal protection that will not wash off with rain or watering. How To Use: Apply using hose-end, tank sprayer, or watering can. Where To Use: Safe to use on roses, flowers, shrubs and shade trees. Cautions: For use on non-edible plants only. People and pets may enter treated area when dry. Active Ingredient s: 6.5% Triforine Common Problems & Diseases Funginex (Rose Pride) Controls: Black Spot Azalea Petal Blight Powdery Mildew Rust on oxalis, poplars & plane trees Rust Aster Rust on asters Carnation Rust on carnations Entomosporium Leaf Spot on photinia *Unavailable in the following states: CA and MA",camping & hiking;garden center;insect repellent;lawn & garden;outdoor recreation;patio;personal care;pest control;power & hand tools;repellents;sports & outdoors;tools & home improvement,12
078521285X,"Napoleon on Project Management: Timeless Lessons in Planning, Execution, and Leadership ""Manas does an excellent job of keeping his advice relevant . . . The ultimate case study in effective project management."" -- Kirkus Reviews, January 2006	A certified Project Management Professional, Jerry Manas has provided project management, team building, training, and product development services to the Information Technology sector for international Fortune 500 companies. He and his teams have received awards for numerous projects, including a global Y2K conversion project as well as acquisition and divestiture projects. He also contributed his leadership expertise to a multi-national Euro Currency Conversion Project. Manas is on the Board of Directors for PMI's Aerospace and Defense Specific Interest Group (SIG), is co-founder of PMThink! Project Management Thought Leadership (www.pmthink.com),  and is a contributor to several of PMI's international standards, including the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3) and the upcoming standards for program and portfolio management.",books;business & finance;business & investing;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;leadership;management & leadership;new;project management;psychology & counseling;used & rental textbooks,12
0804835454,"Asian Kites (Asian Arts and Crafts For Creative Kids) Grade 3-6Likely to please both armchair enthusiasts and outdoorsy types, this survey offers brief anecdotes and legends along with carefully annotated construction diagrams for 15 simple kites commonly flown in Asia, the continent where the practice originated. Hosking opens with a historical introduction, followed by a discussion of traditional materials and low-cost alternatives, decorating advice, savvy tips for kite construction, troubleshooting, and safe launching techniques. The ensuing models are grouped by country: two each from China, Malaysia, Thailand, and Korea, and seven from Japan. Each entry features a list of supplies, an age recommendation, assembly diagrams in three to five steps, comments about individual flying characteristics, and a photo of a finished (expertly decorated) example laid out on the ground. Closing with notes on running a kite-making workshop for children, lists of associations and sources of supplies, and a relatively extensive bibliography, this title merits, and will find, a wide audience in libraries large or small.John Peters, New York Public Library Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""Likely to please both armchair enthusiast and outdoorsy types, this survey offers brief anecdotes and legends along with carefully annotated construction diagrams for 15 simple kites.""School Library Journal	Wayne Hosking is a world renowned kite authority, collector, and designer. The author of several books on kites and kite making, Hosking has displayed his kite collection in museums, schools, and universities and continues to teach kite making and give demonstrations throughout the country. Most recently, his collection of Japanese kites was on display at the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach, Florida.",art;arts;asia;aviation;books;children's books;crafts & hobbies;crafts & music;history;professional & technical;sports & outdoors;transportation,12
080543190X,"Believing God Devotional Journal (Moore, Beth) Beth Moore is a writer and teacher of best-selling books and Bible studies whose public speaking engagements carry her all over the United States. A dedicated wife and mother of two adult daughters, Moore lives in Houston, Texas, where she is president and founder of Living Proof Ministries.",bibles;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;devotionals;education & reference;inspirational;meditations;reference;religion & spirituality;spirituality;worship & devotion,12
0553212281,"The Tell-Tale Heart (Bantam Classics) In his short, troubled life Edgar Allan Poe originated the mystery story, brought new psychological depth to the tale of horror, and made inimitable contributions to Romantic poetry and literary criticism. Born in Boston in 1809 to itinerant actors, Poe was orphaned as an infant and sent to live with a Richmond merchant, John Allan. Allan sent him to the University of Virginia in 1826, but Poe withdrew because of gambling debts. In 1830, with his first book of poems already published, he entered West Point but was dishonorably discharged the next year. In 1835 Poe was chosen editor of the Southern Literary Messenger. Poe was already established as an author when, in 1845, the publication of The Raven made him famous. He began to lecture, engaged in a celebrated feud with Longfellow, and became sole proprietor of his own magazine, Broadway Journal. But in 1846 the magazine went bankrupt, and in 1847, after years of suffering, Poe's wife died of consumption. His ill health and drinking worsened. In October 1849 he was found semiconscious outside a polling place in Baltimore; a few days later he died without regaining consciousness. Ignored for the most part by his countrymen, he was idolized by the French Symbolists, who thought of him as the first modern poet and helped to win him the recognition that is now his.	The Tell-Tale HeartTRUE!--NERVOUS--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses--not destroyed--not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily--how calmly I can tell you the whole story.It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture--a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees--very gradually--I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded--with what caution--with what foresight--with what dissimulation I went to work!I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it--oh, so gently! And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, so that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly--very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep. It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed. Ha!--would a madman have been so wise as this? And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously--oh, so cautiously--cautiously (for the hinges creaked)--and I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven long nights--every night just at midnight--but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye. And every morning, when the day broke, I went boldly into the chamber, and spoke courageously to him, calling him by name in a hearty tone, and inquiring how he had passed the night. So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon him while he slept.Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door. A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine. Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers--of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph. To think that there I was, opening the door, little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts. I fairly chuckled at the idea; and perhaps he heard me; for he moved on the bed suddenly, as if startled. Now you may think that I drew back--but no. His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness (for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers), and so I knew that he could not see the opening of the door, and I kept pushing it on steadily, steadily.I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening, and the old man sprang up in the bed, crying out--Who's there?I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lie down. He was still sitting up in the bed listening;--just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall.Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief--oh no!--it was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart. I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise, when he had turned in the bed. His fears had been ever since growing upon him. He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not. He had been saying to himself--It is nothing but the wind in the chimney--it is only a mouse crossing the floor, or it is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp. Yes, he has been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions; but he had found all in vain. All in vain; because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim. And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel--although he neither saw nor heard--to feel the presence of my head within the room.When I had waited a long time, very patiently, without hearing him lie down, I resolved to open a little--a very, very little crevice in the lantern. So I opened it--you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily--until, at length, a single dim ray, like the thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice and fell full upon the vulture eye.It was open--wide, wide open--and I grew furious as I gazed upon it. I saw it with perfect distinctness--all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones; but I could see nothing else of the old man's face or person: for I had directed the ray as if by instinct, precisely upon the damned spot.And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?--now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.But even yet I refrained and kept still. I scarcely breathed. I held the lantern motionless. I tried how steadily I could maintain the ray upon the eye. Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every instant. The old man's terror must have been extreme! It grew louder, I say, louder every moment!--do you mark me well? I have told you that I am nervous: so I am. And now at the dead hour of the night, amid the dreadful silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror. Yet, for some minutes longer I refrained and stood still. But the beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart must burst. And now a new anxiety seized me--the sound would be heard by a neighbor! The old man's hour had come! With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room. He shrieked once--once only. In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him. I then smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done. But, for many minutes, the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased. The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. I placed my hand upon the heart and held it there many minutes. There was no pulsation. He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more.If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings. I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye--not even his--could have detected any thing wrong. There was nothing to wash out--no stain of any kind--no blood-spot whatever. I had been too wary for that. A tub had caught all--ha! ha!When I made an end of these labors, it was four o'clock--still dark as midnight. As the bell sounded the hour, there came a knocking at the street door. I went down to open it with a light heart--for what had I now to fear? There entered three men, who introduced themselves, with perfect suavity, as officers of the police. A shriek had been heard by a neighbor during the night: suspicion of foul play had been aroused; information had been lodged at the police office, and they (the officers) had been deputed to search the premises.I smiled,--for what had I to fear? I bade the gentlemen welcome. The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. The old man, I mentioned, was absent in the country. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search--search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues, while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim.The officers were satisfied. My manner had convinced them. I was singularly at ease. They sat, and while I answered cheerily, they chatted of familiar things. But, ere long, I felt myself getting pale and wished them gone. My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears: but still they sat and still chatted. The ringing became more distinct:--it continued and became more distinct: I talked more freely to get rid of the feeling: but it continued and gained definitiveness--until at length, I found that the noise was not within my ears.No doubt I now grew very pale;--but I talked more fluently, and with a heightened voice. Yet the sound increased--and what could I do? It was a low, dull, quick sound--much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I gasped for breath--and yet the officers heard it no...",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;classics;general;genre fiction;horror;literature & fiction;mystery;short stories;thriller & suspense;united states,12
0742518477,"Herbert Schiller (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture) Masterful digests of Schiller's major arguments, solid research, and a  skilful selection of biographical material to make this text a fascinating and extremely engaging reading. [An] incisive analysis of both the U.S. and international political economy of communication. --Yuezhi  Zhao, Canadian Journal of Communication.This is a useful overview of an influential academic and his work. Recommended. (Choice )A must-read for anyone who wants an introduction to Schiller or just simply wants to know more about him.A succinct and useful overview of Schiller's ideas. . . . For those interested in Schiller's writings and legacy, Herbert Schiller is a worthwhile read: it contains useful insights and, it should be noted, a tidy bibliography of his publications. (Global Media And Communication )Herbert Schiller was the foremost critical media intellectual of the twentieth century. His insights into corporate domination of the U.S. media are still fresh and dynamic, forty years after they first appeared. And Richard Maxwell is the ideal chronicler and analyst of Schiller's legacy. This accessible yet brilliant text shows us why his ideas are of continuing importance and how we can apply them at a crucial moment in world history. (Miller, Toby )	Richard Maxwell is professor of media studies at Queens College, City University of New York.",arts & literature;biographies & memoirs;books;entertainers;humor & entertainment;leaders & notable people;new;political;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,12
041508198X,"The Uralic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series) Daniel Abondolo is Lecturer in Hungarian language and literature at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London.",books;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;instruction;language & grammar;linguistics;new;reference;used & rental textbooks;words,12
0226044092,"My Way: Speeches and Poems One of the key theorists of the workshop-busting Language poets, the charismatic Bernstein (A Poetics; Dark City, Rough Trades) continues to expand his purview past the formal concerns of that group. His latest critico-poetic salvo takes in issues of multiculuralism; ""standard"" vs. ""non-standard"" forms of language usage; the ossified conservative agenda of literary institutions in the United States; poetry in performance?both on the page and on stage; and graduate-level pedagogical practices (""Frame Lock""). Eclectic both in its forms of expression (scholarly essays; interviews; generous explications of poets like Charles Reznikoff, Larry Eigner, Hannah Weiner and Susan Howe; quirky poems; and forms that are hybrids of all of these) and in its range of interests, My Way also grants us peeks beneath the surface of Bernstein's sometimes strategically difficult discourse, as in a long autobiographical interview with Loss Glazier, or deceptively accessible poems like ""A Test of Poetry,"" which documents the traumas of his translators. ""Water Images of The New Yorker"" is a fine little investigative piece, discovering that 86% of the poems over a 16 week period contained images of water, while ""Dear Mr. Fanelli,"" a poem in skinny Schuyleresque lines, takes the language of a subway administrator's ""request for comments"" literally, highlighting how even bureaucratic language is vexed with double-meanings. ""Poetics of the Americas"" creates an important bridge between the ethnically marginalized practices of poets like Claude McKay and Paul Lawrence Dunbar and more self-consciously ""avant-garde"" writers like Louis Zukofsky, Basil Bunting and the Language poets themselves. This book, for all of its centrifugal activity, is a singular yet globally relevant perspective on the literary arts and their institutions, offered in good faith, yet cranky and poignant enough to not be easily ignored. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In this collection of speeches, cultural critiques, personal essays and anecdotes, interviews, and poems, Bernstein (poetry and letters, SUNY at Buffalo) intentionally bounces back and forth among sociological, ontological, poetic, and banal frequencies. There are flashes of brilliance but often with enormous helpings of malice and defensiveness. Self-indulgence in the style and authoritative presumptions and irreverent cleverness in the writing sometimes detract from what might have made for a leaner, more interesting volume. Bernstein loves class polemics, has a Rousseauean notion of ""relevant discourse,"" and displays a wicked sense of humor. But his rhetoric often opts for inference over observation, and readers may be left wandering whether for Bernstein having it ""my way"" isn't having it at all. If one is after genuine insight into the elegance of writing (which counts modesty as an ingredient), one would do better with Marie Ponsot and Rosemary Deen's Beat Not the Poor Desk (1981). For those who like their discourse theoretical and shrill.?Scott Hightower, NYU/Gallatin, New YorkCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	paper 0-226-04410-6 An imaginative mensch fruitfully complicates poetry. Bernstein (A Poetics, not reviewed, etc.) is one of the most sophisticated readers and writers we have. And hes also a wagbut seriously. His alternative perspective can only rejuvenate, partly because hes both a teacher (State Univ. of New York, Buffalo) and a student (by temperament), both the critic and the criticized, earnestly engaged with and yet also helpfully detached from poetry and its ongoing politics. Combining commentary on general intellectual issues (e.g., multiculturalisms move into the academy) and criticism (of Ezra Pound, Charles Reznikoff, et al.) with interviews and even poemswhich here tend to double as philosophical or aesthetic credosthis excellent collection could serve well either as an introduction for newcomers or as the latest installment, for familiars, of a continuing conversation with the author. For, more than is true of most literary thinkers, Bernstein remains a committed personalist (without downsizing the scale of his investigations): You hear his voice as though he were sitting beside you, offering an amazingly mixed bag of wise asides and sensibly contrarian discussions. A sampling: The poets life is one of quiet desperation, although sometimes it gets noisy . . . Many days I feel like one of those 50s street vendors demonstrating multi-purpose vegetable cutters; the flapping hands and jumping up and down may generate a small crowd because there remains interest if not in the product at least in the humiliation of trying to sell something few seem to want. Bernsteins pluralism, favoring the goal of finding the possibilities for articulation of meanings that are too often denied or repressed, is in fact anything but politically correct; as a founder of language poetry, he has always chosen to side with outsiderhood. Its remarkable how much more persuasive his renegade stance now seems than that of the poetic mainstream. For, as Bernstein so eloquently shows and tells us, ``Language, along with outer space, is the last wilderness.''  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Bans O' Killing Beyond Emaciation Claire-in-the-building Dear Mr. Fanelli, A Defence Of Poetry Distance Learning Don't Be So Sure Flotsam In My Jetsam Gertrude And Ludwig's Bogus Adventure Hinge Picture Inappropriate Touching Lachrymose Encaustic/abrasive Tear 'the Only World We've Got' The Republic Of Reality Salute Shaked But Not Mixed Shaker Show Solidarity Is The Name We Give To What We Cannot Hold Taps A Test Of Poetry Thelonious Monk And The Performance Of Poetry Up High Down Low Too Slow Whose He Kidding -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder",american;american literature;books;criticism & theory;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;poetry;used & rental textbooks,12
1558539646,"Gentleman and Soldier: A Biography of Wade Hampton III ""In Gentleman and Soldier, prolific Civil war historian Edward G. Longacre focuses on Confederate General Wade Hampton III's military career but also introduces his and his prominent Southern family's past. . . . highly recommended to those interested in the Civil War and South Carolina history.""Curled Up with a Good Book  (Curled Up with a Good Book )	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Ed Longacre has written more than20 books and 100 journal and magazine articles on the Civil War. The Cavalry at Gettysburg won the Fletcher Pratt Award as the best book of Civil War nonfiction. Pickett, Leader of the Charge was a finalist for the Douglas Southall Freeman Award. Lee's Cavalrymen was a main selection of the History Book Club. He was a historical advisor to the 1993 motion picture Gettysburg. Ed Longacre lives in Newport News, Virginia, where he is a civilian historian for the United States Air Force.",19th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;civil war;historical;history;leaders & notable people;military;state & local;united states;united states civil war,12
0786175540,"Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World: Library Edition Ever since the cloning of Dolly in 1997, critics have warned that human society has begun sliding down the slippery slope to posthumanity. In a rather repetitious and bland look at the moral questions arising out of biotechnologies such as cloning and stem cell technology, Smith (The Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America) does offer some helpful insight into the practices themselves. Much like Leon Kass, the chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, and Francis Fukuyama (Our Posthuman Future), Smith argues that any medical or scientific development that diminishes human dignity""the intrinsic worthiness of embodied human life""ought to be avoided, regardless of the good it promises. Smith contends that the technologies are not in and of themselves pernicious; rather, the political, ideological and entrepreneurial promotion of any scientific advance, he asserts, can lead us to ignore its dangers (for instance, producing a hybrid pig-human embryo). Smith opposes human reproductive cloning and embryonic stem cell technology. On the other hand, he argues that some advances, such as adult stem cell technology and umbilical cord blood/stem cell technology (which has been used to treat sickle-cell anemia), should be embraced. Along the way, Smith makes some mistakesJoseph Fletcher, for example, is not the ""patriarch of bioethics""and his case has been stated better and more forcefully by others, notably Kass. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Smith deserves exceptionally high marks for providing an eminently readable, profoundly insightful and thoughtful conversation on the impact of biotechnology. -- American Conservative	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	WESLEY J. SMITH is the award-winning author of Forced Exit, Culture of Death, and A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy.  He is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture. He lives with his wife, the syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders, in Castro Valley, California.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",biological sciences;biotechnology;books;business & investing;education & reference;engineering;history & philosophy;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;reference;science & math;social sciences,12
0609803484,"Wild New York: A Guide to the Wildlife, Wild Places and Natural Phenomena of New York City Wild New York is two books in one--a beautifully illustrated, deftly written natural history of New York City and an indispensable guidebook for the urban explorer. From beneath the city's skyscrapers and between cracks in the sidewalk, nature writers Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson have shined their unique spotlight on the concrete jungle--and come up with more wildlife and more natural wonders than anyone ever imagined. Wild New York includes:Dozens ofWild Facts describing the city's worst snow storms, the best places to watch the sunset, the rarest animals,the highest points, the healthiest forests, and the hottest spots for bird-watchingFascinating biographies of the city's animals, from the unsung pigeon and the dreaded rat to falcons nesting on Park Avenue and sharkslurking off Coney IslandAhistory of the city's 1.1 billion-year-old geologic past, including the unearthing of a mastodon's 10,000-year-old bones in ManhattanSixteen pages of color photographs, taken by two of the city's most accomplished naturalists, showing never-before-seen views of New York City and its wildlifeDirections for 33 walking tours in parks and wildlife refuges throughout New York City with 18 detailed maps to help urban eco-tourists find nature in the city	""A wayward, whimsical field guide.""--The New York TimesSelected by the New York Public Library as ""Best of Reference 1997""	Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdsonhave written extensively about the natural world for New YorkNewsday and other publications. They live in Brooklyn, New York.",americas;animals;biological sciences;books;history;mid atlantic;northeast;science & math;state & local;travel;united states;wildlife,12
1559704837,"Digital Babylon: How the Geeks, the Suits, and the Ponytails Fought to Bring Hollywood to the Internet On the Web, where art, entertainment and commerce commingle, developing fresh content that is both successful and compelling can be a daunting job. Here are the stories of those who undertook the challenge in the mid-to-late '90s, told from the perspectives of the creative types (whom the authors dub ""ponytails""), the techies and a number of executives sprinkled in for good measure. In sharp, lucid prose, the coauthors spin a tale as dramatic as any Web serial, as the players and their companies angle for advantage in ways that only the intersection of Silicon Valley and Hollywood could engender. It begins in 1995 with the launching of The Spot, a Web soap opera and sleeper hit that served as the archetype of future projects. As the Web develops, new media companies like Digital Planet and Entertainment Asylum, AOL's Greenhouse division and Microsoft all try their hand at the form, independently and sometimes together, with various degrees of success. The growing pains of these startups are described in meticulous detail, from the financial troubles and skittish IPO market that doomed the company American Cybercast, to the narrow bandwidth and glacial downloads that plagued the early years of the Web. The authors draw few conclusions from these examples, and they tend to overplay the significance of such ventures, while underplaying the vast cacophony of the Web. Their story is told with panache and accuracy, but ultimately proves to be as flashy and lightweight as the programs they chronicle. (Sept.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Another peek inside the unfolding universe of the World Wide Web. A broad cast of characters from a variety of backgrounds and work experiences (hence the subtitle) populates this short chronology, which looks at what has been accomplished in the brief history of interactive entertainment on the Internet. Geirland, who writes for Wired and the Los Angeles Times, and Kedar, a management consultant, cover only a few ventures and give little background or explanation as to why some are included or what might be left out. The introductory section covers the birth and short life of ``The Spot,'' a quirky Web-based production that combined elements of television soap opera and call-in radio. Another start-up, ``The Greenhouse,'' helped pioneer some of the tools and interactive uses of the Web environment. Larger ventures, such as the Microsoft Network, (MSN) did not suffer from lack of capital or talent but erred in their premature assessment of which way the Internet was developing. Rapid growth, deadline crunches, shifting competition, and lack of business savvy were shared problems as these and other companies struggled to succeed. Many of them generated material while grounded in creative bases in southern California that were awkwardly opposed to the technology-based teams working to the north. The authors claim that ``online entertainment failed'' in these and other efforts because it was too different from established practices, but they add that its already ``coming back'' because of demand from the huge Web audience. All this may be true, but their poorly organized presentation makes the argument hard to follow. Meandering and erratic; rarely imparts any meaningful understanding of the topic it covers.  -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",americas;books;business & investing;communication & media studies;computers & technology;history;humor & entertainment;politics & social sciences;popular culture;social sciences;sports & outdoors;united states,12
B000P28VV8,"Who Stole My Customer?? Winning Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Customer Loyalty Praise for Who Stole My Customer?? Everyone talks about becoming a customer-centered company. This practical and readable book shows how actually to make it happen. --Dr. Michael Hammer, Author of the international bestseller Reengineering the Corporation Who Stole My Customer?? offers unique and powerful insights into the world of acquiring and retaining customers. Most importantly it provides new approaches to keeping existing customers from defection. A must-read in today's challenging business environment. --Dieter Huckenstein, President, Hotel Operations, Hilton Hotels Corporation Harvey Thompson probably knows more about how companies should work with customers than anyone else in the world. In an age when computers and mass communications make it difficult to keep or attract new customers, Thompson's insights on what managers must do to keep them make this one of the most important business books published this year. Clearly must reading for all levels of management. --James W. Cortada, IBM Institute for Business Value Harvey Thompson has done it again with this well-written book that offers valuable insights about the roots of sustained corporate greatness. He captures a lifetime of building winning formulas and puts them into a simple and practical context for executives at any level looking to take their business to the next level in the 21st century. --Mark R. Richards, President, Structures Division, Valmont Industries, Inc. One of the leading causes of the rapid turnover of marketing and sales executives isn't the economy, it's the ignored cancer of customer attrition. Who Stole My Customer takes this challenge head-on and tackles it from a pragmatic perspective with actions you can take today. --Louis Columbus, Senior Analyst, AMR Research I think Harvey Thompson really understands how customers feel about products and services--for better or worse! His central point is well taken--take care of them now or lose them to competitors who are more in tune with your customers' needs and wants. This book helps us remember that we must build our offerings from the 'outside in' to build customer loyalty and minimize defection. Thank you, Mr. Thompson! --Bill Ghormley, Executive Consultant, The Forum Corporation, and Past President, The Marketing Science Institute With many customers focused on the 'next innovation,' Harvey Thompson straightforwardly breaks down the process for examining customer touchpoints and defection drivers and for recognizing and exploiting customer loyalty. Thompson also reaffirms the next value proposition in customer service: the customer's need for a solution. With that framework, he insightfully turns the magnifying glass 180 degrees to elicit the reader's experience as a customer. This help drive home his message that a good part of success in customer acquisition and retention is dependent on continual reexamination of customer 'needs.' --Michael Perry, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, IndyMac Bank	Who Stole My Customer?? offers unique and powerful insights into the world of acquiring and retaining customers. Most importantly it provides new approaches to keeping existing customers from defection. A must-read in today's challenging business environment.Dieter Huckenstein, President, Hotel Operations, Hilton Hotels CorporationHarvey Thompson probably knows more about how companies should work with customers than anyone else in the world. In an age when computers and mass communications makes it difficult to keep or attract new customers, Thompson's insights on what managers must do to keep them makes this one of the most important business books published this year. Clearly must reading for all levels of management.James W. Cortada, IBM Institute for Business ValueHarvey Thompson has done it again with this well-written book that offers valuable insights about the roots of sustained corporate greatness. He captures a lifetime of building winning formulas and puts them into a simple and practical context for executives at any level looking to take their business to the next level in the 21st century.Mark R. Richards, President, Structures Division, Valmont Industries, Inc.One of the leading causes of the rapid turnover of marketing and sales executives isn't the economy, it's the ignored cancer of customer attrition. Who Stole My Customer?? takes on this challenge head-on and tackles it from a pragmatic perspective with actions you can take today.Louis Columbus, Senior Analyst, AMR ResearchI think Harvey Thompson really understands how customers feel about products and services-for better or worse! His central point is well taken-take care of them now or lose them to competitors who are more in tune with your customers' needs and wants. This book helps us remember that we must build our offerings from the 'outside in' to build customer loyalty and minimize defection. Thank you, Mr. Thompson!Bill Ghormley, Executive Consultant, The Forum Corporation, and Past President, The Marketing Science InstituteA start-to-finish program for addressing your #1 challenge: customer retentionWho's stealing your customers? Why is it happening? How can you stop it? These are the toughest questions facing virtually every enterprise. Who Stole My Customer?? is your complete guide to planning and implementing customer loyalty processes that really work-because they're built around what your customers really want.Harvey Thompson helps you view your business and its processes through your customer's eyes  and you might be shocked at what you see. You'll systematically discover the real drivers of customer loyalty in your business, so you can focus your customer relationship investments for maximum value. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience at IBM and other world-class enterprises, Thompson shows exactly how to rebuild every touchpoint around your customer's needs  and overcome every obstacle that stands in your way. You won't just improve customer retention for a quarter or two: you'll build resilient customer relationships that resist competition for years to come.Current customers are up to nine times as profitable as new ones, but keeping customers has never been tougher. Traditional customer satisfaction programs and Have a Nice Day platitudes won't cut it anymore. It's time you developed a customer-defined, outside-in vision of your business, plus the capabilities and infrastructure to make it real. Who Stole My Customer?? shows you how to do it. Harvey Thompson led customer-focused process improvement at Lou Gerstner's IBM, helping to drive one of the greatest transformations in business history. Drawing on his experiences with IBM and other world-class enterprises, he'll help you discover how your customers have changed, what they're expecting now, which facets of customer satisfaction actually drive loyalty  and where you're most vulnerable.Next, Thompson shows you exactly what to do about it. You'll learn how to engineer a winning customer experience around your customer's view of the world, and how to institutionalize loyalty, making it resilient enough to resist virtually any competitor.A systematic, customer-centered approach to retention. Rebuilding your processes around your customer's real needs and desires.Your customers have changed. Have you? Why your traditional strengths may now be fatal weaknesses.Investing to improve loyalty, not just satisfaction. Which aspects of customer satisfaction drive retention-and which don't.Different drivers for different customers. Segmenting your customers for improved retention.From vision to reality. Implementing world-class customer loyalty capabilities and infrastructure.Institutionalizing customer loyalty for the long term. Staying glued to your customers-no matter what your competitors do.	Harvey Thompson is a leading executive consultant who specializes in helping major companies become more customer-centric and customer-preferred. He formerly served as IBM's Global Executive for customer-focused business strategy and design, where he led the development and deployment of innovative, customer-focused business process improvement approaches that have been used successfully throughout IBM and other Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies worldwide.  An internationally respected expert on customer loyalty, Thompson has been published, interviewed, and/or cited by publications such as Newsweek, The Economist, Investor's Business Daily, PC Week, and The Journal of Business Strategy. He serves as an editorial board member for the Europe-based Journal of Financial Services Marketing.  He has been a regular guest/executive lecturer at the Advanced Business Institute in New York and the International Executive Education Centers in Brussels, Belgium and Milan, Italy, and often serves as keynoter or featured speaker at professional conferences on customer service or customer relationship and loyalty management throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.	You are a customer.You are considering your next purchaseperhaps to replace an old, well-used product, or possibly to buy a new item or service that you have never before owned.Think about it. What will drive your decision regarding where you will conduct this business? What determines whether you do business with one provider of a product versus another? And later, will you return and purchase again from that firm or move on to a new source?In today's environment, one firm's products pretty much resemble those of other potential vendors. When a company does introduce a truly unique product idea, their innovation is soon replicated and available from virtually everyone else in their industry. Improvements to existing product lines are also quickly copied by competitors. So, considering the similarities, the product itself is often not the reason that you select one provider over another.Consider how you make your buying decisions and how you determine where to conduct your business. Is it strictly based on the product, or do other factors come into play? For example, if you are already a customer and familiar with a firm's products and services, to what extent can the touchpoint experiences you have had (i.e., shop, buy, pay, delivery, and post-sale service) influence whether you will return to purchase there again or defect and buy elsewhere?If you learned that a firm, with which you have had no experience, provides great benefit and value during such customer interactions, might you drive across town to purchase from them, although similar products are available nearby? Do you already do that today? Is your favorite source for clothes the nearest haberdashery, or do you travel past nearby stores and shopping areas to get to a preferred retailer? Is your current bank the one most conveniently located to you? Is your car serviced at the closest professional mechanic or gas station, or at the absolutely lowest-cost provider? If not, then why not? Why do you drive past one potential provider to get to another?In the past, consumers had to walk or drive to obtain most products and services. Still, they often did not select providers simply on the basis of proximity or a prior relationship. Today, location or a prior business relationship can have even less importance in their selection of a vendor. With overnight or express delivery service, one can literally conduct a global search for the best possible source via the Internet, and often can switch their customer account to a new provider with a mouse-click. So, if you are like most consumers, the customer experiences during touchpoint interactions are increasing as the motivators to remain a customer or to leave. Bad experiences during interactions with a current vendor can easily drive you away, even though you are satisfied with their products, because alternative sources are literally a click away. And extraordinary, positive experiences during touchpoint interactions can give you an incentive to stay with a vendoror if offered elsewhere, could also attract or steal you away.Question: What if such powerful touchpoint interactions were actually designed by you to provide the things you most value during those moments? What if a vendor identified you as a highly desired customer (perhaps based on your financial, psychological, or other characteristics) and let you design their business to provide the greatest possible value to you? What ifeven though their products and prices were similar to othersyour interactions with them during your shop, buy, pay, receive, and post-sale service interactions were completely designed into their business, outside-in, and from YOUR perspective?Can you envision being attracted away from your current bank, automobile dealer, airline, hotel chain, financial services firm, insurance company, retail store, or so on because someone with a relatively equal product knew you, valued you, and did things your way? Can you envision how you could receive value that would differentiate a firm if their sales processes were designed to make your own purchase process fast, easy, and low cost? Could a firm's knowledge of you and your long-running relationship with them enable a more personal, high-value, consultative sales or service relationship that would make them your preferredprovider?For example, if a car dealership, or financial services firm, or audio/video store had a selling process that was literally defined by you to ideally meet your needs, and given that their products were equal or similar to others', would you move your business there? Can you envision how you could later receive extraordinary benefit during interactions with their service processes, if those were also designed from your perspective to make it easy, quick, and ideally convenient for you?What if that company's invoicing or billing statements were also designed from your viewpoint, to make it easy to reconcile, pay them, and keep your records, might you prefer doing business with them over others? How about a telephone company bill that you could readily understand, have confidence in, and conveniently pay? If their products were similar, would such a process or service win your business?If you are like the hundreds of customers with whom I have met and facilitated in creative, business visioneering exercises, then your answer to each of the above is, Yes.So, if you already know the above to be true when you are a customer, why isn't your business already doing that with your own customers? You are likely both a customer and a provider of goods and services! That's true of most managers, but somehow, when they change hats and assume their provider or vendor roles, managers lose sight of the customer perspective. Instead of designing and measuring business processes and customer touchpoints from their customers' viewpoints (outside-in), managers shed their customer skins, don their management hats and adopt the perspective of the firm (inside-out). Touchpoint interactions and supporting infrastructure are designed from the company's point of view to optimize internal processes, based on an understanding of what may have minimally satisfied customers in the pastpossibly back when the firm was more successful. Ironically, when in the role of customers, a firm that allowed them to define and design high-value touchpoint interactions would attract those same managers, however they do not do that with their own customers and are losing them at an accelerating rate. Sound familiar? It should, because it occurs in all industries and is a major obstacle for even the most well-intentioned management teams.We will use several techniques in subsequent chapters to overcome this inside-out business orientation and help you to more effectively fulfill your role as a business leader. It will not be enough to simply cite to you innovative new ways to become customer centric and retain loyal customers. You have already read business books and articles on such topics, but always with your inside-out filters on. We must overcome the company-first viewpoint that has been ingrained into you from the time you attended your first business course, management seminar, or company meeting. You have been programmed with certain common, business-driven approaches to develop your mission, vision, strategies, plans, and programs. The problem is that those always only include the customeras opposed to being actually developed, designed, and driven by them. And when you do read a book that promotes how to take more of an outside-in customer viewpoint, you read that material while mentally and emotionally still wearing your company hat. You do not move past mere intellectualization of the material, or viscerally experience the truth of it so it becomes a part of your actual system of beliefs.To truly understand and appreciate such customer-centric materials, you must take off your current industry or company management hat and consider the concepts from fresh perspectives. In the effort to contrast a company viewpoint versus a customer viewpoint, the examples used in this book will often be automobile companies or banks because you are a customer of those, and you will be able to visualize and internalize how to improve them from an actual customer's point of view. The customer-centered concepts we will cover are generic and do not apply to only one industry, so once you consider and internalize them via a bank or automotive example, you can later apply them to your own industry and firm.For instance: within the examples we will examine the points of view of executives in those firms, so that you can see how they see you as a customer. Then we will place you into the role of the customer, so you can shed your management hat (and the inside-out business viewpoint that accompanies it) as you consider the innovative customer-centric approaches being discussed.We begin, in Part 1, with an introduction to an automobile company and the case for action to become more customer centric, attract, and keep your customers.",books;business & investing;customer service;industries & professions;kindle ebooks;kindle store;management & leadership;management science;marketing;marketing & sales;research;systems & planning,12
0226249506,"Everyday Genius: Self-Taught Art and the Culture of Authenticity CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2006 (CHOICE)	From Henry Darger's elaborate paintings of young girls caught in a vicious war to the sacred art of the Reverend Howard Finster, the work of outsider artists has achieved unique status in the art world. Celebrated for their lack of traditional training and their position on the fringes of society, outsider artists nonetheless participate in a traditional network of value, status, and money. After spending years immersed in the world of self-taught artists, Gary Alan Fine presents Everyday Genius, one of the most insightful and comprehensive examinations of this network and how it confers artistic value.Fine considers the differences among folk art, outsider art, and self-taught art, explaining the economics of this distinctive art market and exploring the dimensions of its artistic production and distribution. Interviewing dealers, collectors, curators, and critics and venturing into the backwoods and inner-city homes of numerous self-taught artists, Fine describes how authenticity is central to the system in which artistsoften poor, elderly, members of a minority group, or mentally illare seen as having an unfettered form of expression highly valued in the art world. Respected dealers, he shows, have a hand in burnishing biographies of the artists, and both dealers and collectors trade in identities as much as objects.Revealing the inner workings of an elaborate and prestigious world in which money, personalities, and values affect one another, Fine speaks eloquently to both experts and general readers, and provides rare access to a world of creative invention-both by self-taught artists and by those who profit from their work.	Gary Alan Fine is professor of sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of numerous books, including Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial; With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture; and Shared Fantasy: Role-Playing Games as Social Worlds, all published by the University of Chicago Press.",art history;arts & photography;books;business of art;history;history & criticism;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,12
0471202800,"Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food & People ""...Tracing the connection between major historical events and their affect on different culinary traditions, this hearty meal of 12 ""courses"" explains everything from how the Franch gained their gastronomic stature to the roots of American cuisine..."" (Sante)""...Based on the sweep self-assurance and verve exhibited in this book, subtitled ""A History of Food and People,: we will be reading more of and from her. ""Ah,"" you say ""a game of trivia."" Not really, it's too satisfying."" (Chicago Tribune)	An illuminating account of how history shapes our dietsThroughout history, food has played a critical and defining part in individual cultures and the overall development of civilization. Cuisine and Culture presents an engaging, informative, and amazing story of the interaction among history, culture, and food that draws connections between major historical events and how and why these events affected and defined the culinary traditions of different societies.Covering prehistory and the earliest societies around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to todays celebrity chefs, Cuisine and Culture is a multicultural and multiethnic approach to food and history, providing enlightening answers to many such questions as:How did the French establish a notable reputation in world cuisine?Where does American cuisine have its roots?How has food been used to control populations and as a weapon during war?How did the Romans come to believe cinnamon grew in swamps guarded by giant killer bats?Why did some restaurants print their own money?Complete with sample recipes and menus, as well as revealing photographs and illustrations, Cuisine and Culture is an important resource for people interested in food history.	LINDA CIVITELLO has an M.A. in History from U.C.L.A. and has taught food history in California.",books;business & finance;business & investing;cookbooks;essays;food & wine;gastronomy;hospitality;industries & professions;new;travel & tourism;used & rental textbooks,12
0671850059,"The Human Odyssey: Four Million Years of Human Evolution Intended as a companion volume to the newly opened Hall of Human Biology and Evolution at the American Museum of Natural History, this book stands well alone. Opening chapters survey life's diversity, highlight human biological systems, and define the place of humankind within the animal kingdom. Upon this foundation, Tattersall--a noted anthropologist and a curator at the museum--interweaves information on fossil finds, artifacts, climate, geology, biology, and sociology to create a vivid depiction of the evolution of primates into Homo sapiens. Current mainstream opinions, alternate views, and earlier theories are explained in a well-balanced fashion. The addition of top-quality photos, maps, charts, and artist's reconstructions makes for an inviting package accessible to both young adult and lay readers. The result is similar in scope and quality to Roger Lewin's In the Age of Mankind: A Smithsonian Book of Human Evolution ( LJ 12/88). Highly recommended for general collections.- Frank Reiser, Nassau Community Coll., Garden City, N.Y.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Ian Tattersall received his Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics from Yale University and has been a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York since 1971 and chairman of the Department of Anthropology since 1990. His articles have appeared in Nature, Scientific American, Natural History, and other journals. His books include The Monkey in the Mirror and Becoming Human. He has hunted fossils and studied primates around the world, and in 1974, he discovered a new Lemur species in Madagascar, which was subsequently named Propithecus tattersalli. He lives in New York City.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",anthropology;biology & life sciences;books;education & reference;evolution;new;physical;politics & social sciences;science & math;science & mathematics;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0415107520,The Ancient Novel: An Introduction Text: English (translation) Original Language: German	Niklas Holzberg is Professor of Classics at the University of Munich.,ancient;books;criticism & theory;education & reference;history;history & criticism;humanities;literature & fiction;new;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,12
0631223037,"American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays ""This is a ground breaking volume. Its ideas intersect with diverse subfields of the discipline of philosophy as taught in North American universities. Each essay offers fresh ways of defining what philosophy is about."" Iris Marion Young, University of Chicago !--end--""Descendants of survivors of the moral monstrosity of near genocidal oppression of Native peoples are now within the ranks of professional philosophers and are hard at work rescuing and rehabilitating Indian philosophical thought. By reading these essays carefully, respectfully, and with open minds we have an opportunity to do better by Indian peoples than was the shameful case several centuries ago, and since. We will be better persons and philosophers for having done so, and better citizens, too."" Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr., Vanderbilt University""American Indian Thought contrasts US indigenous philosophies with Western academic philosophy. The writers explain perspectives on metaphysics, epistemology, phenomenology, social and political philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics, in ways that will challenge, inspire and fascinate readers across disciplines."" Naomi Zack, University of Oregon	This book brings together a diverse group of American Indian thinkers to discuss traditional and contemporary philosophies and philosophical issues. The essays presented here address philosophical questions pertaining to knowledge, time, place, history, science, law, religion, nationhood, ethics, and art, as understood from a variety of Native American standpoints.Unique in its approach, this volume represents several different tribes and nations and amplifies the voice of contemporary American Indian culture struggling for respect and autonomy. Taken together, the essays collected here exemplify the way in which American Indian perspectives enrich contemporary philosophy.Scholars, students of philosophy, and general readers alike will benefit from this distinctive collection.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	This book brings together a diverse group of American Indian thinkers to discuss traditional and contemporary philosophies and philosophical issues. The essays presented here address philosophical questions pertaining to knowledge, time, place, history, science, law, religion, nationhood, ethics, and art, as understood from a variety of Native American standpoints. Unique in its approach, this volume represents several different tribes and nations and amplifies the voice of contemporary American Indian culture struggling for respect and autonomy. Taken together, the essays collected here exemplify the way in which American Indian perspectives enrich contemporary philosophy. Scholars, students of philosophy, and general readers alike will benefit from this distinctive collection.	Anne Waters is Research Associate at the Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Center at the State University of New York, Binghamton. Sheis the founder and President of the American Indian Philosophy Association. She edits the American Philosophical Association (APA) Newsletter on American Indian Philosophy and is chair of the APA Committee on American Indians in Philosophy. Among other publications, she is co-editor of American Philosophies: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2001).",books;eastern;history & surveys;humanities;modern;native american studies;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,12
0844283916,"NTC's Dictionary of Japan's Cultural Code Words - The Complete Guide to Key Words That Express How the Japanese Think, Communicate, and Behave Text: English, Japanese	McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide",books;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;japanese;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,12
0849308844,"Datums and Map Projections: For Remote Sensing, GIS and Surveying Written for those working with spatially referenced data a guide to the problems that may be associated with datums and map projections. -Sci Tech Book News, Vol. 25, No. 3, September 2001The author of this book should be congratulateda very practical approach to the subjectthe author has very sensibly opted for the use of numerous, well-presented, detailed examples and diagrams to simplify the conceptssuitable for anyone involved in the use of spatial data-Allison Kealy, University of Melbourne",books;civil;computer technology;earth sciences;education & reference;engineering;geography;new;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,12
8881582317,"Toyo Ito: Blurring Architecture 1971-2005 Text: German, English",architecture;arts & photography;books;buildings;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;history;history & criticism;individual architects & firms;professional & technical;reference;regional,12
0789711583,"Introduction to Networking (4th Edition) Learning networking has never been particularly easy. There are so many variables and acronyms that it's easy to be buried in minutiae at the outset or to get a skewed view that focuses on only one particular network operating system and its idiosyncrasies. Introduction to Networking starts to address the need for a solid, general purpose overview of how networks work and what the practical world of building, managing, and using networks is like.  The book does a good job describing the basics of connecting multiple computers and covers Novell Netware, Windows 95, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT Server, Warp Server, and Warp Connect in specific chapters. Other topics include types of connections, protocols, using and installing network adapters, using file servers, network management products, and e-mail and network interoperability.   One weak point is that Introduction to Networking offers shallow and rather outdated coverage of Unix networks and the new generation of network computers. However, this book is an excellent starting point for an overview of how networks work, and is a good starting point for PC users who need to know how to use the network, managers who need to start making decisions about networking investments for large businesses, and anyone who just wants to understand what happens when a computer is hooked into a network.	Readers will get a thorough introduction to the world of networking from this new edition, which covers the fundamentals as well as more advanced skills of computer connectivity.  How to mix and match networking technologies to meet any need. Covers TCP/IP, WANs, LANs, workgroups, and more. Includes a complete vendor reference.   Covers IBM & Compatibles.     -- Que Corp	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	With all of the changes in networking and operating systems, the  need for a complete reference becomes essential. Using real-world  examples, this updated book will teach users how to design the perfect  system and add new capabilities to their networks-in no time.  -  Provides information on using the Internet and the World Wide Web with  a network - Shows how to mix and match networking technologies to  meet any need - Updated to cover Windows NT 4 NetWare 4.11,  IntranetWare, and Windows 95	How do I get started with networking? What do I need to choose the right system and  networking technologies for my business? What do I need to know about TCP/IP, WANs,  communications services, and protocols? Que's revised and updated edition of Introduction to Networking answers these questions. In plain, easy-to-understand language, you will learn the increasingly valuable world of networking technologies, so you can design the system that best fits your business needs. The book starts you off on the ground floor, where you learn the basics of sharing computer resources. You quickly learn how networks are put together using file servers, workstations, and protocols, and you discover how to manage a network. This book also shows you all recent product releases, from Windows NT Server 4 and Warp Server to NetWare 4.11.",beginning & introductory;books;certification;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;databases;education & reference;lan;networking;networks;protocols & apis;software,12
0789308568,"City Wedding: A Guide to the Best Bridal Resources in New York, Long Island, Westchester, New Jersey, and Connecticut Joan Hamburg dishes out the best advice on shopping, dining, entertaining, travel and theater daily on WOR (NY) Radio's ""The Joan Hamburg Show"" and hosts the annual ""WOR Bridal Show with Joan Hamburg."" She has been a broadcast and print journalist for over twenty years, is an editor at Family Circle magazine and writes for many other publications.",books;crafts;education & reference;general;hobbies & home;mid atlantic;new york;northeast;planning;travel;united states;weddings,12
1581770200,"LUPUS NOVICE: Toward Self Healing Laura Chester has published many volumes of poetry, prose and non-fiction. Most recently, Holy Personal, looking for small private places of worship, was made available from Indiana University Press, and a selection of prose-poems, Sparks, was published by The Figures. Both books include extensive photographs by Donna DeMari. Station Hill Press released an updated version of Lupus Novice, an account of Chester's personal struggle and breakthrough with the auto-immune disease SLE, while Black Sparrow Press, published three of Chester's early books of fiction. Other novels include The Story of the Lake, Faber & Faber; and Kingdom Come, Creative Arts Book Company. Chester has edited four important literary anthologies, including Deep Down and The Unmade Bed. She is currently completing a fifth, Eros & Equus, a passion for the horse. Having grown up in Wisconsin, lived in Albuquerque, Paris, and Berkeley, she now travels between Patagonia, Arizona and the Berkshires of Massachusetts.Fo",addiction & recovery;biographies & memoirs;books;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;health;lupus;mental & spiritual healing;new age;religion & spirituality;rheumatic diseases;substance abuse,12
0896082946,"Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement Calling the FBI America's political police, this book examines the agency's harassment, surveillance, and disruption of black and Native American groups in the 1960s and 1970s, and shows how it sought to maintain the sociopolitical status quo within the country. The authors demonstrate how the FBI's covert counter-intelligence program known as COINTELPRO, which was set up to undermine liberal groups, came to symbolize the whole context of ""clandestine political repression activities."" For students of radical movements and government repression. John R. Sillito, Weber State Coll. Lib., Ogden, Ut.Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ward Churchill (Keetowah Cherokee) has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues. A Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a leading member of AIM, Churchill is the author of numerous books, including From a Native Son, and, with Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression, and COINTELPRO Papers.",20th century;african-american studies;americas;books;history;native american studies;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states,12
1850759251,"The Psalms in the Early Irish Church (Library Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) Martin McNamara is Emeritus Professor of Scripture at Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Dublin.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;humanities;meditations;new;reference;religion & spirituality;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks;worship & devotion,12
0872203166,"The Prince This is an excellent, readable and vigorous translation of The Prince, but it is much more than simply a translation. The map, notes and guide to further reading are crisp, to-the-point and yet nicely comprehensive. The inclusion of the letter to Vettori is most welcome. But, above all, the Introduction is so gripping and lively that it has convinced me to include 'The Prince' in my syllabus for History of Western Civilization the next time that I teach it... Great price, too! And lovely printing and layout. -- Rachel Fulton, University of Chicago. ...lively and readable and makes the pithy, bracing, and forceful aspects of Machiavelli's thought accessible to nonspecialists. -- Michael C. Downs, Indiana University. The best edition of The Prince that I have ever read. Wooton's translation is lively and easy to read, and his introduction is provocative and engaging. -- Angelo Louisa, University of Nebraska, Omaha. ...readable text in vigorous prose. I have not read a translation of The Prince into English that is more lively... --J H Hexter, Washington University.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: Italian	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education & reference;history & theory;humanities;new;philosophy;political history;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0671003984,"Singing Lessons (w/CD) The sad truth about Collins's memoir is that the person for whom she seems to have written the book will never read it. The singer's son, Clark, committed suicide in 1992 after a long bout with depression and substance abuse, and every chapter ends with a Collins-composed prayer directly relating to his death. Otherwise, given her image as a confessional, heart-on-the-sleeve folkie, Collins tells her life story with vigor, candor and a surprising lack of sentimentality. She describes her alcoholism without apology, with a degree of forgiveness that seems to encompass not only herself but the memory of her addiction-tormented son. Collins's lack of self-absorption brings poignancy to her tales of growing up the daughter of a blind Seattle radio host, her interest in her seagoing ancestors and her fears that she contributed to her son's intense despair, while the tension between celebrity autobiography and letter to a lost loved one makes the book a disarming read. Perhaps her grave manner in discussing her son led Collins to the tasteful restraint with which she recounts her early glory days in Greenwich Village, when the likes of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Jim Morrison were among her drinking buddies. Her reticence only adds to the dignity of this moving memoir. 16 b photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Collins's singing career made her a voice for civil rights and won her an Academy Award, but her success couldn't shield her from heartache. Her first autobiographical account, Trust Your Heart (LJ 11/1/87), ended with the wedding of her son, Clark. Similarly, this second account ends with a weddingACollins's own, to long-time companion LouisAbut, sadly, the book begins with Clark's suicide. Both books cover some of the same ground, such as Clark's problems with drugs and Judy's with alcohol, except that Judy recovers and Clark does not. The format is similar to the firstAdated entries as if taken directly from her journal, providing a sense of intimacy. Like the memoirs by George McGovern (Terry: My Daughter's Life and Death Struggle with Alcoholism, LJ 6/15/96) and Gloria Vanderbilt (A Mother's Story, LJ 5/1/96), this is more than a celebrity memoir; it is a deeply personal, gut-wrenching story of the loss of a child. Painful but important reading; highly recommended.ARosellen Brewer, Monterey Bay Area Cooperative Lib. System, CACopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Written in response to her son Clark's 1992 suicide, Collins' memoir is as introspective as her fans may expect from her and is told with an intimacy akin to that of her singing voice. Stephen Stills, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and the expected roster of cosmic cowboys and cowgirls of the 1960s turn up, of course, as Collins returns again and again to her leitmotivs, loss and survival. Her father, she notes, didn't live to hear her song ""My Father,"" and her relationship with Stills was doomed from the start because ""Stephen didn't want anything to do with New York, and hated shrinks"" whereas she ""wanted New York"" and ""needed shrinks."" Survivor is a term bandied about by far too many aging celebrities who flourished during the late 1960s, but Collins convinces us that she is a true survivor. Her story may resonate deeply with pop music fans and with those who have lost a loved one to suicide.  Mike Tribby	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Carl Bernstein  Judy Collins has written an astonishing, brave, wrenching, and beautiful book. -- Review	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Judy Collins' voice has been described as ""liquid silver."" Its uniqueness allows her to sing the songs of a disparate range of artists -- from Leonard Cohen and Dylan to Brecht and Weill, to her own compositions -- with equal authenticity. Her early musical studies led her from Denver to New York and to the eclectic musical style that has become her trademark. Judy's thirty albums have sold millions of copies and been certified gold and platinum. Her musical talents continue to enchant a growing following worldwide. A voice for civil rights throughout her life, Judy also produced and codirected an Academy Award-nominated documentary, Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman, about her first music teacher, the pioneering orchestral conductor Antonia Brica. Judy is also the author of three previous books: her autobiography, Trust Your Heart, the story of a spiritual quest, Amazing Grace, and Shameless, a novel.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Chapter One: Nightfall  When I heard the news of my son's death, I was standing in the foyer of my apartment in New York among the paintings and the flowers and the photographs of my family, in the beautiful space I have called home for twenty-eight years. Louis was in Washington, D.C., making a presentation for the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall. He had called at six that evening, saying he would take the noon shuttle and be home by two the following day. Meanwhile I waited for my son to call me back from St. Paul. I had left a number of messages for him. I worked for a while longer and ate a solitary dinner around eight. I was alone but contented, a normal, quiet evening.  My last.  The doorbell rang at around eight-thirty. I wasn't expecting anyone and a strange feeling came over my heart. I peeked out the keyhole and saw my brother Denver and sister-in-law Allison standing in the hallway. I let them in. There was a deep silence and I knew from my brother's eyes what had happened. He didn't even have to speak. He took me in his arms and my world changed forever. I heard a scream from some primitive place I had not known before.  I clung to my brother, slowly becoming aware of the scent of roses and violets from a bouquet on the hall table; there was a sweet, lingering taste of mint in my mouth; my eyes focused on a photograph of my brothers and sister in a silver frame next to the flowers. I heard the sound of a siren on a Manhattan street below, and then my eyes moved to a picture of my son as a child, his red hair cropped close to his head and his big blue eyes looking out at me. Our eyes held each other and I caught my breath for what seemed an eternity, knowing the world was turning to darkness and I would never see it or hear it or live in it the same again.  My brother and sister-in-law comforted me as best they could. I stood up. I sat down. I laid on the bed. Allison made tea. I wept. My brother had tracked Louis down in Washington and told him the terrible news and Louis had lovingly arranged for Denver to tell me about Clark's death in person so that I wouldn't have to hear it on the telephone. My mother had been called, my siblings -- the family Clark had loved so much and who had loved him all now knew that he was gone.  I had thought we had won this battle, that the darkness had been averted. But it was not to be. Denver, Allison, my nephew Joshua and my niece Corrina and I flew to the Twin Cities the next day, where Louis joined us. The rest of my family arrived from far-flung cities to gather at the mortuary, putting their arms around me and each other; brothers and sister, mother, cousins, holding me close.  The tears for this terrible loss would keep coming in the days and years to follow, dropping like rain from the foggy valley through which I would walk, the valley of the shadow of death.  The world was suddenly the enemy, the place where this could happen, where it had happened. My knees wouldn't hold me, nothing could -- but my loving family held me, and we held on to each other. None of us were sure we would survive Clark's death, floating on this new and terrible ocean that had sprung up around us, an ocean full of storm and sorrow.  In St. Paul, snow had fallen, a heavy white mantle covering every statue in the city, every tree, every lamppost. A whiteness and a cold penetrated my nostrils and my breath froze, holding back even my tears after a while. The weather seemed to foretell the end of a world. This must have been what it was like for primitive peoples, this disappearing of the sun, the brightness and light gone. The weight of my son's death, like the weight of the white snow, stilled every bird, froze all life. Nature wanted to stop, time wanted to stop, life had stopped. For my son, there would be no thaw.  January 16, 1992, Thursday. Bitter cold. Snow. St. Paul, Minnesota  The snow has fallen on the pine trees, and their branches bend, heavy with white drifts. I stand at the door of a long, narrow room covered with a green carpet, my fingers tremble and my knees shake. The walls of the room are hung with flowered wallpaper, a design of green ivy on a cream background. Far away, at the end of the room, is the end of the road, the end of my dreams; a body under a white sheet lies lengthwise on a marble slab and I struggle forward toward the ancient, familiar figure as though climbing a great mountain, as though swimming an endless sea. I walk against the wind, I fight tides. The distance I travel is the breadth of the known world, to the furthest galaxy, to the end of time, to the end of life.  There, I see my son's freckled face, his shining red hair in plaits falling from his high forehead. Red streaks line his pale skin, the mark of the carbon monoxide, the stamp of death. He is some warrior from another time. I kiss his forehead, cold as marble under my lips, and sink to my knees. My tears fall on my hands and on my shoes, then on the snow and on the coverlet of the bed in the hotel in which I lay, my eyes open, waiting, trying to keep breathing. I keep thinking, this is not him, there is some terrible mistake, he is not dead, he cannot be gone.  The next day, Clark lay under the aspen leaves, under the bed of white roses on the lid of the carved wooden casket. Under the baby's breath and intertwined white rosebuds, Clark kept his silent vigil at his funeral.  A suicide.   Louis talked to the press, keeping the newspapers and reporters at bay. He and my brothers handled details at the mortuary, letting me think I was making the decisions myself.  A woman at the mortuary, kind and gentle, told me she would take care of my son.  Alyson, my daughter-in-law, was very shaky and seemed to be in a daze, little Hollis was opened-eyed, aware of everything. She and her mother had discovered Clark's body, as he must have known they would. I knew both must still be in shock. All of us were moving through a dream. A nightmare. Our friend Terry helped Louis order flowers and put the obituary together. We chose an urn for my son's ashes and picked out the casket. The terrible chores. God must have lifted us through these because none of us could do this thing. Together we planned the funeral, Louis inviting Alyson and all of Clark's friends and family to speak. I didn't know if I could walk through this fire.  It was all such a waste, it was all such a tragedy.   Louis spoke with tender words about his stepson. Then he invited everyone to share, Quaker-style. Nearly two hundred of Clark's friend's and family were there and many spoke of his loving spirit. The love for my son poured out in floods of emotion as Clark's friends memorialized my beautiful son. Everyone who loved Clark knew that he fought with his demons, knew that he had lived close to the angels.  After my daughter-in-law spoke, Rosalind, Clark's halfsister, stood, wearing my son's face, his fine bones, his gentleness, his beauty. She is tall like my boy, thin as he was, beautiful, her face pale under her pale complexion, her hair long and strawberry, as his had been. She talked of the secret suicide they shared, the death of their paternal grandfather Al. There was a sound, almost a sigh, in the room as she spoke.  ""I see my father and his brother, as grandfather died, taking in that last breath, breathing in as he breathed out, and holding that breath for forty-five years. With Clark's death, that breath can finally be let out."" Rosalind had earned the right to speak the truth, and truth was what was needed.  Under the white lilies and roses and aspen leaves atop his coffin, I seemed to see Clark's red hair shimmering all through the ceremony. At the end the bagpiper played ""Amazing Grace."" I sang ""Amazing Grace"" for my son for the last time.  At home in New York the mortuary sent me his clothes, the jeans they cut off him, the belt, the gr	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",arts & literature;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;death & grief;entertainers;humor & entertainment;pop;self-help;specific groups;suicide;women,12
080474100X,"Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary (Cultural Memory in the Present) The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when and how was this fate sealed? Image, Icon, Economy considers this question and recounts an essential thread in the conceptualization of visual images within the Western tradition.  This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary lifethe contemporary imaginarycan be traced back to the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries.   It was during this period that the church was compelled to produce an account of the theological status of the religious image that would nevertheless not be open to even the slightest suspicion of idolatry.  The solution arrived at was the dual doctrine of the image, invisible (and thus beyond the charge of idolatry) and the icon, visible, and thus perfectly fitted to be placed at the center of a pedagogical and political strategy serving the temporal power of the church.  The foundations of this immense philosophical enterprise were laid in no less than the multifarious, interwoven strands of the divine economy, God's overall plan for the salvation of humanity.	Marie-Jos Mondzain is Director of Studies at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.",art;arts & photography;books;criticism & theory;education & reference;history;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;philosophy;politics & social sciences;pop culture,12
0807127582,"Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History The South, according to Goldfield, has a serious identity crisis regarding race. An example: Kentucky was a Northern state during the Civil War, yet today Todd County, Ky., holds a ""Miss Confederacy"" contest in which the winner is judged by her ""poise, hair, hooped skirt, and answers to questions such as `What will you do... to promote and defend Southern heritage?' "" But the biggest divide is between the experiences of whites and blacks, and this provocative book raises the difficult question of how and if Southern history can honor the different, often deeply antithetical experiences of black and white Southerners. Goldfield (Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture), professor of history at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, carefully uncovers and dissects many aspects of Southern history how evangelical Christianity evolved to embrace white supremacy; the role white women assumed as wives and mothers in maintaining and promoting the unequal racial status quo after the Civil War; Booker T. Washington's call to Southern blacks ""to submit to segregation... in exchange for white assistance in gaining educational opportunities"" and charts the myriad ways in which, according to the author, racism has become accepted and integral to how Southern heritage is conceptualized. Goldfield's main focus, however, is in making the case that while blacks and whites have held radically different visions of it, a more unified Southern history is possible. Goldfield notes that ""the danger is that both visions will reside, as do the races, in parallel universes""; he points out that while 100 Southern cities have renamed streets to honor Martin Luther King, most ""run through dilapidated black neighborhoods."" Drawing on a wide range of sources as well as contemporary reporting, this deftly written historical analysis takes on a difficult topic with passion, sensitivity and integrity. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Goldfield (history, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte) focuses  on how race, religion, and Civil War history have shaped  Southern culture. He discusses how Southern white men turned the  Civil War and the Reconstruction era into the ""Lost Cause"" and  ""Redemption"" in an effort to restore the principles on which  Southern society rested, namely, white supremacy and patriarchy.  The first part of the book focuses on the white male  establishment's efforts to maintain the status quo. Goldfield  then describes how white and African American women and,  finally, African American men slowly but steadily worked toward  equality. The author argues that, despite a great deal of  progress, the South continues to be burdened by its past, citing  the recent South Carolina flag controversy as an example.  Goldfield's narrative consists of short historical vignettes  drawn from history, journals, diaries, and novels interspersed  with his own musings and opinions, making it more a compilation  of interesting stories and reflections than a social history of  the period. Recommended only for academic libraries with  comprehensive Southern history collections. Robert K. Flatley,  Frostburg State Univ., MD   Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	David Goldfield is Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the author of many books, and editor of the new LSU Press series Making the Modern South.",19th century;americas;books;civil war;historical study & educational resources;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;social history;sociology;state & local;united states,12
0871664658,"Mel Bay Fun with the Ukulele Mel Bay was born on February 25, 1913 in the little Ozark Mountain town of Bunker, Missouri. He bought a Sears Roebuck guitar at the age of 13 and several months later played his first ""gig."" (He recalled playing until his fingers were raw!) Mel took up the tenor banjo shortly thereafter and continued to play both instruments. During his teenage years Mel played with a wild assortement of bands and characters in rural Missouri. Perhaps no ""gig"" was as strange as the job he landed with, in Mel's words, ""a snake oil salesman."" This flamboyant peddler would pull his ostentatious Pierce Arrow automobile, complete with steer horns mounted on the grill, into the center of a small, rural town. Mel would sit on the car and play up a storm on the tenor banjo. After a crowd gathered, the peddler took over and began extolling the merits of his ""wonder elixer."" In 1933 Mel Bay moved to St. Louis and began his professional career. He played with numerous local and traveling bands. In addition, he landed staff guitar jobs on several radio stations. Mel fronted his own trio (piano, bass, guitar) and played steadily for 25 years! He was equally adept on most fretted instruments and played mandolin, uke, Hawaiian guitar, tenor and plectrum banjo professionally.  While Mel was actively pursuing his playing career, he continued to teach as many as 100 students a week. He decided to begin writing instructional materials due to the difficulty encountered by guitarists at playing good sounding chord forms in rhythm sections and due to the poor note reading ability prevalent among guitarists.  After the war Mel was asked to write instructional materials on guitar for GI's wanting to learn music under the GI Bill. In 1947 Mel formed his own publishing company and wrote his landmark initial book titled The Orchestral Chord System for Guitar. (This book is still in print under the title Rhythm Guitar Chord System and continues to be one the finest rhythm guitar chord texts available!) His Modern Guitar Method was penned shortly thereafter. For years Mel traveled from town to town talking to guitar teachers and players and showing them his publications. At one time Mel claims to have known virtually every guitar teacher in America on a first name basis! The guitar and Mel Bay books caught on in a big way in the 1950's. Things have continued to grow ever since.  Mel used to sell D'Angelico guitars. At any given time he would have 5 or 6 ""lying around the house."" Mel played professionally on his New Yorker model but his favorite was the initial Mel Bay Model crafted as a gift for him by John D'Angelico. This famous guitar had all of the main features of the New Yorker but was a ""cut away"" model and had a slightly thinner neck. This instrument has been pictured on the Mel Bay Modern Guitar Method for decades.  Someone once calculated that sales of guitar books written by Mel Bay have exceeded 25 million copies. When asked, Mel frequently said that he quit counting long ago. Sales of his Modern Guitar Method have alone surpassed the 7 million mark. It is safe to say that Mel Bay is one of the pivotal figures in the world of guitar music and instruction in this century.",arts & photography;books;composition & performance;education & reference;guitar;humor & entertainment;instruction & study;instruments;music;strings;techniques;theory,12
0849320208,"Vehicular Accident Investigation and Reconstruction This is an essential text for any attorney involved in personal injury litigation. Mr. Van Kirk has used his considerable experience to organize and present highly technical information in a manner that is extremely useful. - Geoffrey N. Fieger, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Fieger, Fieger, Schwartz & Kenney, P.C., Southfield, Michigan",biographies & memoirs;books;criminal law;education & reference;forensic science;law;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;true accounts;true crime;used & rental textbooks,12
0967339804,"The Updated and Expanded 9to5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment : Candid Advice from 9to5, the National Association of Working Women Ellen Bravo is national Co-Director of 9to5 and is also the author of The Job Family Challenge: A 9to5 Guide (Not for Women Only).  Since 1985 she has conducted numerous sexual harassment awareness trainings for a wie variety of workplaces and worked with employers and unions to design effective anti-sexual harassment policies.    Ellen Cassedy, a founder of 9to5, is co-author of 9to5: The Working Woman's Guide to Office Survival.  She currently lives and writes in Washington, D.C.",books;business & investing;gender & the law;gender studies;law;legal theory & systems;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;women & business;women's studies,12
019530652X,"The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead ""Cuevas' achievement lies in his association of a time, place, and likely author(s) with the earliest works, a major step forward in our understanding of this genre.  The presentation of the sophisticated religious milieu of the text's 'revealers' is lucid, grounded as it is in a strong command of the literature.  Historical developments relating to hagiography, textual transmission, funeral liturgy, and other matters are treated with similar ease...In many ways, this constitutes a model contribution to Tibetan studies."" --Religious Studies Review"" ...deserves to be highly recommended as a precious contribution to the field of the fascinating Tibetan Book of the Dead"" --Journal of Asian Studies"" ...deserves to be highly recommended as a precious contribution to the field of the fascinating Tibetan Book of the Dead"" --Journal of Asian Studies""Cuevas's book is required reading for anyone seriously interested in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.""--Choice""The Tibetan Book of the Dead is without doubt the Tibetan work best known in the West and in the three-quarters of a century since its initial translation it has won a secure place for itself in the Religious Studies canon. Nevertheless, its actual history and role in Tibetan religious culture have remained topics of ignorance, even among scholars of Buddhism. In The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Bryan Cuevas now masterfully addresses these matters, shedding welcome light on a celebrated book and on Tibetan religious history more generally.""--Matthew Kapstein, Professor, The University of Chicago, Director of Tibetan Studies, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris""Works that are considered to be timeless world classics arose at specific times and in specific places. The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one such work, and it is through understanding its time and its place that we can gain new insights into many meanings. In this compelling study, Bryan Cuevas provides a lamp that illuminates this book that we thought we knew so well.""--Donald S. Lopez, author of Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West and The Story of Buddhism: A Concise Guide to Its History and Teachings	Bryan J. Cuevas is Assistant Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Religion at Florida State University.",asia;book of the dead (tibetan);books;buddhism;china;history;other eastern religions & sacred texts;religion & spirituality;religious;spirituality;tibet;world,12
0789424940,"Parsnip and the Runaway Tractor Sue Porter is a well-known author and illustrator. Her titles for DK include A Little Rabbit Tale and her first book in this series, Parsnip.",activities & toys;animals;books;children's books;farm animals;farm life;humor;pets;sports & games;transportation;travel & cultures;where we live,12
B0009RJ6TA,Safety Face Shield Safety Face Shield,airsoft;clothing & accessories;costumes & accessories;masks;novelty & special use;paintball & airsoft;protective gear;respirators;safety & security;sports & outdoors;tools & home improvement;work safety equipment & gear,12
0945454082,"Yuruparí: Studies of an Amazonian Foundation Myth (Religions of the World) Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff was, until his death in 1994, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, in Bogot, Colombia, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.",books;earth-based religions;folklore & mythology;native american;native american studies;other religions;politics & social sciences;practices & sacred texts;religion & spirituality;social sciences;specific demographics;tribal & ethnic,12
0679445765,"Men's Wardrobe (Chic Simple) If you don't know how to tie a tie--or pretend you don't--obtain this book posthaste. The Chic Simple folks have once again produced a classic, stunning collection with gorgeous color photographs, perfect problem solvers, and helpful resources, including the Web site addresses for everyone from Adidas to Waterman pens. They show you the essentials for preventing Monday morning ""I have nothing to wear to the office"" panics, the basics for a camping trip, and the perfect shoes to wear with a tux. Can you mix a tattersall shirt with a checked tie? What does tattersall look like, anyway? Have no fear, it's in here. This book will help you create a sensible, organized wardrobe that'll keep you prepared for any fashion situation, from a job interview to ""casual day"" at the office to the golf course. The book is especially suited for men who hate to shop because they have no idea what they're doing. How do you spot a good-quality dress shirt? Look for at least 14 stitches to the inch on the placket. What to wear for a nice slimming effect? Try a suit with a tailored vest. How do you take care of leather shoes?  How to pack a suitcase so your clothes don't come out looking like crepe paper? Chic Simple Men's Wardrobe tells you.	Men's clothes today are confusing--they reflect the multi-task world we all live in, where work is a constant presence and fun is serious business. The old uniforms are gone, with casual work environments, new cultural standards, and increasing global influences, new styles are evolving. In this changing time, Chic Simple Men's Wardrobe makes the myriad options easy, accessible, and inexpensive. The book is divided into four sections of a guy's life:WORK LIFE takes you through everything you need to compete sartorially whether you work at home or in an office, EVERYDAY LIFE reflects today's more casual society and the new dress codes for weekends and after work, OUTDOOR LIFE is a gear guide to both the classics and the tech-advanced sport clothes for golf, tennis, skiing, fishing, hunting, or the gym, and evening wear, whether for a casual dinner date or opening night, is covered in NIGHT LIFE. In addition, you'll learn to:--dress for an interview or a night on the town--handle the new corporate casual look--travel for a week with an overnight bag--relax when the invite reads ""black tie""--choose the right cut for your body type--dejunk your closet and recycle the classics you own--create a low-maintenance lifetime wardrobeFirst Aid, a section in the back, turns you into your own valet--stains, starch, ironing are demystified; how to pack and how to shop are deconstructed; and a glossary defines more than 200 terms from ""gusset"" to ""placket.""	""What a year for men! First a cure for impotence, and now Chic Simple.""--Jay McInerney, author of The Last of the Savages, Brightness Falls, and Bright Lights, Big City""Chic Simple Men's Wardrobe gives excellent advice and sartorial counsel.""--Stanley Marcus, chairman emeritus, Neiman Marcus""Here's everything I need to know about clothes--not that I knew I needed to know anything, but my wife just took the blue blazer and chinos I've been wearing since 1965 and ran them through the leaf mulcher.""--P. J. O'Rourke, author of Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut""Dressing like a woman always came naturally to me, but I needed help dressing like a man. Thank God for Men's Wardrobe.""--RuPaul	Jeff Stone and Kim Johnson Gross created the Chic Simple series of guides to modern-day living. They are also owners of the SoHo design firm Chic Simple Design. A Monday-through-Friday wardrobe for Jeff is Levi's 501's, Levi's 501's, Levi's 501's, Levi's 501's, Levi's 501's.",& style;beauty;books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;general;grooming;health;men's grooming & style;men's health;self-help;style & clothing,12
1931953163,"Blacklight Gary Telles has been narrating audiobooks for the past ten years. A veteran stage actor, he has performed classical, contemporary and original theatre across the country, in addition to appearing on television, radio and CD-ROM.	Mike Murray is a prolific author of men's adventure fiction, including the Navy Seals series featuring American hero, Commander Robert Getts.    Gary Telles has been narrating audiobooks for the past ten years. A veteran stage actor, he has performed classical, contemporary and original theatre across the country, in addition to appearing on television, radio and CD-ROM.",action & adventure;adventure;books;genre fiction;literature & fiction;mystery;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;spy stories & tales of intrigue;thriller & suspense;thrillers;war,12
B000FC23CQ,"The English Constitution (digireads) This timely new edition of Bagehot's classic study is essential reading for today's constitutional reformers and students of Britain's elective dictatorship. Gavin Phillipson's scholarly and shrewd introduction makes key links between past and present. --Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC.		Chronicling the past is much easier than chronicling the present, which was exactly Walter Bagehot's project when writing The English Constitution, first published in 1873. His ambitious undertaking was to describe the British government as it actually worked during 1865 and 1866. Government as it functions is very different from the government as it is spelled out on paper. Many factors, including the mindset of the people and the habits of those already in government, affect how a country is run. Political scientists and historians will find Bagehot's commentary on the living English government and invaluable tool in understanding the politics of the era.	Walter Bagehot  Badgett; 3 February 1826  24 March 1877) was a British businessman, essayist, Social Darwinist and journalist who wrote extensively about literature, government, and economic affairs. Bagehot was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn, but preferred to join his father in 1852 in his family's shipping and banking business. He wrote for various periodicals, and in 1855 founded the National Review with his friend Richard Holt Hutton.[3][4] Later becoming editor-in-chief of The Economist, which had been founded by his father-in-law, James Wilson, in 1860, Bagehot expanded The Economist's reporting on the United States and on politics and is considered to have increased its influence among policymakers over the seventeen years he served as editor. In 1867, he wrote The English Constitution, a book that explored the nature of the constitution of the United Kingdom, specifically the functioning of Parliament and the British monarchy and the contrasts between British and American government. The book appeared at the same time that Parliament enacted the Reform Act of 1867, requiring Bagehot to write an extended introduction to the second edition, which appeared in 1872. The book became an instant classic, has been translated into many languages, and is still available in scholarly editions from Oxford University Press (in its World's Classics series) and Cambridge University Press. Bagehot also wrote Physics and Politics (1872), in which he coined the still-current expression the cake of custom to describe the tension between social institutions and innovations. In this book, he also expressed the fundamental ideas of the struggle school and described the historical evolution of social groups into nations. Bagehot argued that these nations evolved principally by succeeding in conflicts with other groups. For many political scientists, sociologists, and military strategists, this strain of social Darwinism justified overseas expansion by nations (imperialism) during the 1890s. In his contributions to sociological theory within historical studies, Bagehot may be compared to his contemporary, Henry James Sumner Maine.",books;classics;constitutional law;england;europe;fiction classics;history;kindle ebooks;kindle store;law;literature & fiction;wales,12
0300063962,"Irish Country Furniture, 1700-1950 ""This splendid book explores a wholly different furniture landscape, that of the rural population... [It] bristles with sharp insights into the social history of furniture."" Christopher Gilbert, Country Life ""This is a welcome addition to the small collection of works on Irish material folk culture. It is beautifully illustrated and will be of interest not just to folklorists but also to anyone who has an interest in history or antiques."" Timothy P. O'Neill, Irish Arts Review [Kinmonth's] is a sympathetic and deeply committed account of a fast-disappearing victim of contemporary Irish culture to which she does full and fitting justice."" Nicola Gordon Bowe, Journal of Design History ""Kinmonth's champion study of Irish vernacular furniture is strong on social history and literary allusion, over and above its engagement with craftsmanship and aesthetics... A pioneering book,... full of riveting details."" Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement ""Not only an informative history and gazetteer of a subject we all know about and may not adequately appreciate, but thanks to the energy of the author, it does convey a very vivid sense of how life was lived in rural Ireland."" Milo Drummond, Irish Sunday Independent""	Claudia Kinmonth is an independent cultural historian and former researcher in the Furniture Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum. She is the author of the forthcoming Irish Rural Interiors in Art, published by Yale University Press.",antiques & collectibles;arts & photography;books;crafts;decorative arts & design;europe;furniture;furniture design;history;hobbies & home;houseware & dining;ireland,12
096523441X,"Romance on the Road Discusses a topic not often voiced aloud among women -- sexual mixing with men not of the same culture. -- Naomi Klouda, editor, Tundra Drums, Bethel, AlaskaFirst-of-its-kind exploration of Western women who seek steamy flings, amorous affairs, and genuine long-term, affectionate relationships in non-traditional countries. -- Pamela Barrus, Author, Dream Sleeps: Castle & Palace Hotels of EuropeOffers the most complete, candid assessment in print of women who travel to love foreign men. -- Midwest Book Review	Jeannette Belliveau has worked as  a financial and graphics editor at the Baltimore Sun and Washington Post and as a newspaper reporter, editor and designer in Maryland, Alaska and Britain (Montgomery Journal, Tundra Drums, Surrey Advertiser).  From 1985 through 1994, she traveled in six continents. In 1991, she revisited Asia as a Jefferson Fellow, sponsored by the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.  Her first book, An Amateurs Guide to the Planet, described adventure travels to 12 countries and became a surprise hit as a cultural geography and intercultural communications text, used by 30 colleges.  In her second book, Romance on the Road, Belliveau blends five years of painstaking research with a brave examination of her own between-marriages sojourns as a romance traveler in Greece, the Caribbean and Brazil. Romance on the Road also reflects the input of 25 of the worlds top scholars, from five countries and numerous prestigious universities, on mating behavior, international public health and sex tourism.   Belliveau was born in 1954 in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Rockville, Md. She graduated in 1976 as a journalism major, summa cum laude, from the University of Maryland.Belliveau lives in the maritime district of Fells Point in Baltimore, Md., with her husband, artist and historian Lamont W. Harvey, and their Shetland sheepdogs and cats.",adventure;books;general;human geography;politics & social sciences;reference;self-help;sex;social sciences;specialty travel;travel;women's studies,12
0679415262,"Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday The brilliant Italian writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985) compiled Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday, a historical overview of great fantastic literature of the 19th century. Many of his 26 selections are from well-known authors (Sir Walter Scott, Honor de Balzac, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Ivan Turgenev, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and H.G. Wells), but Calvino largely avoided their best-known stories; the only inclusions likely to be familiar to many Americans are Hawthorne's ""Young Goodman Brown,"" Poe's ""The Tell-Tale Heart,"" and H.G. Wells's ""The Country of the Blind."" The remaining contributors range from moderately well-known to obscure. So the reader who purchases Fantastic Tales gains not only an intelligently annotated anthology of superb fiction, but, in one pleasant sense, a collection of mostly new stories. Interestingly, some of the finest stories are by authors least known in America. Thophile Gautier's beautifully written, wrenchingly ironic ""The Beautiful Vampire"" establishes the traditions for romantic vampire fiction. Mrime's ""The Venus of Ille,"" a tale of culture clashes (Parisian and rural, ancient classical, and contemporary Christian), is sharp, well-written, and uncommonly horrific. With the gorgeous ""A Lasting Love,"" the sole woman contributor, Vernon Lee, paints the most vivid portrait of obsessive, transcendent, destructive love. Caveat: Calvino's introductions sometimes reveal more of the plot than readers will like. --Cynthia Ward	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The famed Italian novelist and folk literature scholar Calvino (1923-85) assembled a rich and wide-ranging anthology of 26 fantastic tales from the 19th century, first published in Italian in 1983. The collection includes imaginative selections from the pen of famed writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, and Ivan Turgenev. The illuminating introduction traces the fantastic story from the beginning of 19th-century German Romanticism, with special attention to E.T.A. Hoffman (1766-1822), proclaimed the greatest author of the genre. Each of the stories, carefully selected, leaps immediately into intrigue and engages the reader with macabre descriptions and challenging juxtapositions. Concise, informative headnotes precede each story, identifying the author and the story's significance. These fascinating tales, along with Calvino's thoughtful comments, will be enjoyed by mature readers from the high school level and beyond.?Richard K. Burns, MSLS, Hatboro, Pa.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	An attractive compendium of 26 American and European 19th- century tales that was originally published in Italy in 1983, shortly before Calvino's death. Altogether, it's a curious mix, prefaced by a charmingly learned Introduction that elucidates the distinction the subtitle proclaims, and enhanced by disarmingly personal headnotes to each story. English-language readers will note overfamiliar contributions from several masters, including Scott, Hawthorne, Gogol, Stevenson, and Poe, among others. But there are also several fortuitous, little-known choices, including Philacrte Chasles's strange blend of folklore and surrealism, ``The Eye with No Lid''; Henry James's underrated ``The Friends of the Friends'' (a partial precursor of his masterly ``The Turn of the Screw''); and the pseudonymous Vernon Lee's magnificent tale (``A Lasting Love'') about a dead beauty who reaches from beyond the grave to destroy men seduced by her painted image. Several flourishing literary traditions are un- or under-represented: For example, the sole Scandinavian choice is Hans Christian Andersen's wispy ``The Shadow'' (one wonders if Calvino knew the infinitely superior storytelling of Selma Lagerlf and Jonas Lie). Other omissions are equally puzzling, making this an entertaining selection, though hardly a comprehensive or authoritative one. -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Calvino possesses the power of seeing into the deepest recesses of human minds and then bringing their dreams back to life.--Salman RushdieProvides a grand entrance to the stange logic of the tale-like form, its obsession with the coexistence of multiple realities.--BookforumFrom the Trade Paperback edition.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: Italian	Compiled by Italo Calvino, one of the essential writers of the twentieth century (and editor of the best-selling Italian Folktales), Fantastic Tales is a rich and wide-ranging collection of twenty-six classic, uncanny tales from the nineteenth century written by an intriguing panoply of European and American authors. Master storyteller himself, Calvino has contributed an informative introduction to the collection, and an engaging prcis to each story. As Calvino writes in Fantastic Tales, which traces the genre from its roots in German Romanticism to the ghost stories of Henry James: ""The fantastic tale is one of the most characteristic products of nineteenth-century narrative. For us, it is also one of the most significant. . . . As it relates to our sensibility today, the supernatural element at the heart of these stories always appears freighted with meaning, like the revolt of the unconscious, the repressed, the forgotten. . . . In this we see the modern dimension of the fantastic, the reason for its triumphant resurgence in our times."" Fantastic Tales is a fantastically canonical anthology assembled by an editor who, in the words of Salman Rushdie, ""possesses the power of seeing into the deepest recesses of human minds and then bringing their dreams back to life. "" Italo Calvino's works include The Road to San Giovanni, Numbers in the Dark, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, The Baron in the Trees, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Invisible Cities, and Mr. Palomar. Calvino died in 1985.	""Calvino possesses the power of seeing into the deepest recesses of human minds and then bringing their dreams back to life.""--Salman Rushdie""Provides a grand entrance to the stange logic of the tale-like form, its obsession with the coexistence of multiple realities.""--Bookforum	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Italo Calvino's works include The Road to San Giovanni, Numbers in the Dark, , The Baron in the Tress, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Invisible Cities, and Mr. Palomar. Calvino died in 1985.From the Trade Paperback edition.",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;general;genre fiction;horror;literature & fiction;mystery;psychological thrillers;short stories;thriller & suspense;thrillers,12
0714842168,Villa Mairea Aid (Architecture in Detail) 'The Architecture in Detail series is without question one of the most beautifully illustrated and well-documented collections of monographs on individual buildings produced anywhere in the World.'	Richard Weston is head of the Portsmouth Polytechnic School of Architecture and writes for the Architectural Review and the Architects' Journal.,architecture;arts & photography;books;buildings;crafts;history;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;individual architects & firms;professional & technical;reference,12
1932354050,"Sign2Me - ASL Flashcards: Beginners Series - Quick Start Pack (Incl. ASL + English + Spanish) (American Sign Language Flashcards, Beginner) (Spanish Edition) Sign2Me produces tools and resources to enhance two-way communication between all children and their peers, educators, medical practitioners and adult caregivers. We only use genuine American Sign Language vocabulary in our products.	Sign2Me Early Learning, the creator of the Sign with your Baby program for Baby Sign Language, is a world-leading publisher of tools and resources to enhance two-way communication between all children and their peers, educators, medical practitioners and adult caregivers. From Baby Sign Language to Early Literacy, Sign2Me Early Learning uses only genuine American Sign Language (ASL) vocabulary in its products and programs.",books;children's books;education & reference;foreign language learning;foreign language study & reference;games;parent participation;parenting;parenting & relationships;schools & teaching;spanish;sports & games,12
1904132626,Cyber Alert: How the World Is Under Attack from a New Form of Crime Peter Warren is an expert on computer security issues and writes for The Sunday Times of London and Computer Weekly. Michael Streeter is a freelance journalist and correspondent.,biographies & memoirs;books;business & management;computers & technology;criminology;culture;hacking;internet & web culture;politics & social sciences;social sciences;true accounts;true crime,12
0738707139,"Tibetan Magic and Mysticism J. H. Brennan (Ireland) is the acclaimed author of over 90 books, both fiction and non-fiction, including Forbidden Truth, The Aliens Handbook, and The Spys Handbook (all published by Faber  Faber), Death: The Great Mystery of Life (Carroll  Graf), Martian Genesis and The Atlantis Enigma (both published by Dell), The Magical I Ching and Time Travel (both published by Llewellyn), and the popular Book of Wizardry (Llewellyn) under the alias Cornelius Rumstuckle. His works have appeared in more than fifty countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Australia.      Brennan is best known for his young adult fiction series, Herbie Brennans Faerie Wars (Bloomsbury) with combined sales exceeding 7.5 million. The creator of several role-playing books, his solo fantasy gamebook series GrailQuest (Dell) has sold over 6.5 million copies.      He resides in County Carlow, Ireland with his wife and ten cats.",books;buddhism;earth-based religions;mysticism;new age;occult;other religions;practices & sacred texts;religion & spirituality;spirituality;wicca;witchcraft,12
0698116062,"Ribbons Yep fumbles with this strained tale about an 11-year-old girl who yearns to dance. The star of her ballet class, Robin Lee has  to give up her lessons at Madame Oblamov's academy when her mother imposes a draconian budget on the household, in order to save enough money to bring Robin's grandmother from China to  the Lees' home in San Francisco. Robin gamely practices on her own, stuffing her feet into outgrown toe shoes and dreaming of her return to ballet school, but tuition money isn't available, even after her grandmother finally moves in. To make matters worse, Grandmother blatantly favors Robin's younger brother. In a forced parallel, Robin damages her feet (those too-small toe shoes), and only Grandmother can understand her determination to dance anyway: Grandmother's feet were bound in childhood and, despite immense pain, she unbound them in adulthood as a way of embracing modern values. A lot of the characterizations here verge on stereotypes: the indomitable Chinese matriarch, the unstoppable young artist with a dream, the impoverished but noble-hearted Russian ballet mistress. Combine this with the adults' extremist stances (Mom won't even let Robin keep the $20 her other grandmother sends for Christmas), and the novel reads as a lengthy contrivance. Ages 10-14. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Gr. 5^-7. Robin, 11, is a gifted dancer, and she bitterly resents having to give up her ballet classes to help her parents pay for her lame grandmother to come from Hong Kong to live with them in San Francisco. To make things worse, Grandmother treats Robin with contempt. But when Robin discovers Grandmother's terrible secret--her grotesquely mangled broken feet--their relationship suddenly changes. Chinese foot-binding is dramatic social history, but the contemporary fiction is contrived, with purposive dialogue and coincidences and heavy metaphors. Robin's feet begin to hurt because she practices ballet on concrete floors with too-tight shoes; and, in case we still don't get the parallel, she reads the story of the brave little mermaid who wanted to walk even though it hurt. Yep has written novels with considerable depth and subtlety about the Chinese American experience, but here we get only glimpses of Robin's interracial family and her neighborhood friends; they never quite come together as people in a story. As in Yep's Hiroshima (1995), it's the fact that's compelling.  Hazel Rochman	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Startlingly realistic and refreshingly different is this story of a young Chinese would-be dancer forced to give up her dreams when her family must save to bring an aged grandmother into their home from China. Robin's parents can no longer afford ballet lessons, Robin's grandmother proves a crusty old woman who obviously favors her younger brother, and Robin is forced to compromise her dreams until her actions threaten her future. Yep creates a moving and absorbing drama of cultures colliding.  -- Midwest Book Review	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts;asian & asian american;books;children's books;crafts & music;dance;family life;literature & fiction;multicultural stories;performing arts;social situations;travel & cultures,12
052177151X,"A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic (Reference Grammars) A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic is a comprehensive handbook on the structure of Arabic. Keeping technical terminology to a minimum, it provides a detailed yet accessible overview of Arabic in which the essentials of its phonology, morphology and syntax can be readily looked up and understood. Accompanied by extensive examples, it will prove an invaluable practical guide for supporting students' textbooks, classroom work or self-study, and will also be a useful resource for scholars and professionals wishing to develop an understanding of the key features of the language.	Karin C. Ryding is Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic, Department of Arabic Language, Literature and Linguistics, Georgetown University.",books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;language & grammar;new;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,12
0130143278,"Essential Flash 4 for Web Professionals Although the title suggests that this book is for serious pros, Essential Flash 4 is actually an easy-to-read and accessible tutorial guide. Aimed at experienced Web designers looking to use Flash in real-world situations, it describes, in deceptive simplicity, everything you need to know to get started with Macromedia's Web page animation tool. Beginning with easy chapters that immediately have you creating text and graphics, the book launches into the steps needed to create practical Web pages. Although Flash is--among other things--an animation tool, the author shows how Flash can be used for Web page design and navigation. The small size of a Flash file, and its ability to include links and audio, makes it ideal for almost any kind of Web graphics and navigation scheme. Flash is a tool built for interactive animation, and this is covered well in chapters 2 and 3 (""Animating the Page"" and ""Making the Page Interactive""). The book also describes animating shapes, keyframes, buttons, and sound effects in simple tutorials that take you through the process without weighing you down in complexity. Of all seven chapters, ""Publishing to the Web"" had to be the most valuable. Learning to animate with Flash is something covered well in this book, but there is more to building Flash animations: namely, proper delivery of the file to the viewer. This chapter covers issues concerning which resolution to use, which Flash version to use (for compatibility reasons), preloading, optimizing, and detecting the Flash plug-in on the viewer's computer. It's unfortunate the publisher didn't include a CD-ROM. All of the tutorials must be typed in (a great way to learn perhaps), and this can severely limit the number of examples new users have access to. There is, however, a Web site hosted by the publisher from which the tutorials can be downloaded. For Web professionals new to using Flash, Essential Flash 4 serves well as a handy guide that wastes no time getting you up to speed on this powerful animation tool. --Mike Caputo	For experienced web masters who need to learn Flash quickly, Kyle's guide offers step-by-step tutorials. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	With Flash 4's slick, fast-loading vector graphics and animation, you can transcend the limits of HTML, building sites as hot as your imagination! Now, learn Flash 4 in a flash from a professional Web designer-through real-world projects you can view live on a linked website! Start with the basics, then master every key technique, from animation through navigation, interactivity through building a complete opening sequence. Best of all, the projects are linked to a live website where you can see (and download) each Flash effect, in each stage of completion. It's all the guidance you'll need-every step of the way!   You'll learn all this, and much more!   Flash basics: Drawing and modifying text and shapes   Texture fills, transparency, and imported graphics   Animation: Timelines, frames, tweening, fading, transitions, and more   Interactivity, including symbols, buttons, actions, sound effects, and forms   Fine-tuning your graphics with advanced techniques   Building animated opening sequences, step-by-step!   Publishing to the Web: pre-loading, plug-in detection, and server settings   Look to Essential Books for ALL the Web Skills You Need!   All these books share the same great format, and the same dynamic website...so once you've used one, learning from the others is a piece of cake!   Essential CSS and DHTML for Web Programmers   Essential PERL 5 for Web Programmers   Essential Photoshop for Web Designers   Essential JavaScript for Web Programmers   With more to come, including Essential ASP for Web Professionals and Essential JSP for Web Professionals	LYNN KYLE is President and Founder of Ricochet Associates, Los Alamos, NM. Ricochet's Web clients have included DeBeers, Pfizer, and Lloyd's of London.",books;computers & technology;flash;graphics & multimedia;internet & web culture;mathematics;networking;programming;science & math;web design;web development & design;web services,12
1598186655,"Uncle Tom's Cabin Variously beloved, denounced and dismissed over its 150-plus year history, Stowe's classic 1852 novel has been nothing if not productive. As Gates and Robbins note, the novel was vastly important in shaping American ideas and attitudes about race, but it also influenced the ways people thought about relationships and sexuality, and it continues to spur debate about the meanings of slavery and domesticity. Those are just some of the reasons it's an oft-assigned text in colleges, a market this beautifully annotated, wide-format edition addresses nicely. Joining seven other titles in Norton's handsomely produced ""Annotated"" series, the book offers 32 pages of color illustrations (not seen by PW), 150 b period illustrations, and a two-column format that has Stowe's text at left, and the annotations at right. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	*Starred Review* Celebrated when it was published in 1852 and later vilified, Uncle Tom's Cabin unquestionably changed American history and has had an enduring impact on American literature. In this annotated version of the novel, college professors Gates and Robbins explore changes in perspective on race, sex, and literature since the publication of the novel and its subsequent critique in the 1950s by James Baldwin. Throughout the book are illustrations of Uncle Tom across the years, including posters, postcards, woodcuts, and advertisements, all reflecting changing images of Uncle Tom and black Americans. Gates and Robbins explore images of heroism and subservience, contrasting the unctuous sentimentality of the novel with the implicit sexual tension between Uncle Tom and Little Eva, and explore the reason the novel remains so strong in the public imagination. Both new readers and those familiar with the work will appreciate the scholarly insight into the culture and social conventions that directed Stowe's writing. She sought to rouse abolitionist sentiments and, in the process, rendered Uncle Tom as no threat to white men. The editors ultimately applaud the novel as an enduring part of the American literary canon. Vanessa BushCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	""So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!""	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Library of Liberal Arts title.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, ""a man of humanity,"" as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking, controversial, and powerful work -- exposing the attitudes of white nineteenth-century society toward ""the peculiar institution"" and documenting, in heartrending detail, the tragic breakup of black Kentucky families ""sold down the river."" An immediate international sensation, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold 300,000 copies in the first year, was translated into thirty-seven languages, and has never gone out of print: its political impact was immense, its emotional influence immeasurable.From the Paperback edition.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	""Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about American slavery.""--Alfred Kazin	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) published her first book, The Mayflower, in 1843. In 1852 she published her bestselling classic, Uncle Toms Cabin, the first novel to criticize the institution of slavery. She lectured and wrote for twenty-five years.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	From Amanda Claybaugh's Introduction to Uncle Tom's Cabin The publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin lifted Stowe out of a purely Beecher orbit and put her in the stratosphere of international fame. But the novel is nonetheless indebted, as Joan D. Hedrick shows in her Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life (1994), to the many and varied Beecher family projects. The father's battle for the soul of the nation, the brothers' Christian ministries, one sister's advocacy for women and slaves, another's celebration of the properly run home-all of these can be found in Uncle Tom alongside Stowe's own gifts: her ear for dialect and her eye for detail, her masterful handling of suspense and pathos, and her sympathetic embrace of all the nation's regions. The result was a novel more popular, and more influential, than anyone could have imagined. When Calvin Stowe negotiated Uncle Tom's contract on his wife's behalf, he confided to the publishers that he hoped the novel would be successful enough so that his wife could buy a ""good black silk dress"" (Thomas F. Gossett, Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture, 1985, p. 165). The novel turned out, of course, to be far more successful than that. Within the first week of publication, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold 10,000 copies; within its first year, 300,000 (this in a nation with a total population of only 24 million). Uncle Tom's Cabin was the first American novel to sell more than a million copies, and no book of any kind, except for the Bible, had ever sold so well. Astonishing as the sales figures are, even they fail to suggest the full extent of Uncle Tom's popularity. For the book was published in an era when novels were still treated as a kind of communal property, borrowed from circulating libraries, passed from hand to hand, read aloud to entire households at a time; knowing this, one reviewer speculated that Uncle Tom had ten readers for every copy sold. The best measure of Uncle Tom's popularity lies, then, not in numbers, but rather in the kind of anecdotal evidence that Thomas F. Gossett has collected in the book noted above. Reading through the letters and journals of Stowe's contemporaries, Gossett finds Richard Henry Dana, Jr., noting that four men were reading Uncle Tom in a single railway car and Ralph Waldo Emerson observing that it was the ""only book that found readers in the parlor, the nursery, and the kitchen in every house-hold"" (p. 165). Such popularity produced a flood of subsidiary merchandise, as Eric J. Sundquist recalls in his introduction to New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin (1986). There were innumerable plays, poems, and songs, all elaborating and exploiting the pathos of the novel's most affecting scenes; there were also, more surprisingly, Uncle Tom dioramas, engravings, figurines, candles, plates, busts, embossed spoons, painted scarves, needlepoint, and games, including one in which players competed to reunite the families of separated slaves. By the end of the year, three hundred Boston babies had been christened ""Eva,"" in honor of the novel's heroine (Gossett, p. 164). The success of Uncle Tom was not limited to the United States. In Britain, the novel was equally popular, and it was during a triumphal tour of Britain in 1853 that Stowe experienced the consequences of her fame at first hand. When she landed in Liverpool, she found the docks thronged with people who wanted to be the first to catch a glimpse of her. Her subsequent travels toward London confirmed that Stowe could go nowhere in public without attracting crowds who would call out her name and cheer. In London, the Lord Mayor held a dinner in her honor; she was seated across from Charles Dickens and toasted along with him. Over the course of her visit, Stowe was introduced to the most important figures in Britain: the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Earl of Carlisle, Lord and Lady Palmerston, Lord John Russell, and William Gladstone. Everywhere Stowe went, she was presented with extravagant tributes: a gold purse filled with 130 pounds; a silver salver covered with one thousand pounds; an agate cup filled with one hundred gold sovereigns; and a heavy gold bracelet, made to resemble slave shackles, engraved with the date on which slavery was abolished in the British colonies (Hedrick, pp. 233-252). Uncle Tom was received quite differently, of course, in the southern states. In some regions, the book was not sold at all, while in others it was not advertised. Those southerners who did read the novel were nearly all outraged, and it was the subject of scathing reviews. While a few of these reviews limited themselves to defending the South from what were taken to be Stowe's unfair attacks, the majority of them took the occasion to attack Stowe in turn. George Frederick Holmes, of the Southern Literary Messenger, called her ""an obscure Yankee school mistress, eaten up with fanaticism, festering with the malignant virtues of abolitionism, self-sanctified by the virtues of a Pharisaic religion, devoted to the assertion of women's rights, and an enthusiastic believer in many neoteric heresies"" (Gossett, p. 189). William Gilmore Simms went even further, in the Southern Quarterly Review: ""Mrs. Stowe betrays a malignity so remarkable,"" he claimed, ""that the petticoat lifts of itself, and we see the hoof of the beast under the table"" (Gossett, p. 190). Nor was the southern response confined to reviews. It also took the form of an astonishing new genre, what Gossett calls the anti-Uncle Tom novel (pp. 212-239). The titles of these novels often reveal their agendas: Mary H. Eastman's Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life as It Is (1852); Robert Criswell's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" Contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the Planter's Home; or, A Fair View of Both Sides of the Slavery Question (1852); and John W. Page's Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom without One in Boston (1853). Despite the references to slaves in their titles, these novels tend to focus on the debate between slave owners and abolitionists. Sometimes abolitionism is shown to be merely foolish and misguided; more often, however, it is shown to be a form of hypocrisy, as when abolitionists prefer to sympathize with distant slaves than to care for the exploited workers around them or, worse, when abolitionists use the cause as a pretext for pursuing cross-racial desires. The slave owners, on the other hand, tend to be wise and humane, but their widely varying attitudes toward physical punishment suggest a deep confusion about what, in a slave-owning society, wisdom and humanity might mean. In some of these novels, for instance, the owners do not punish their slaves at all, for reasons either of kindness or self-interest; in others, they punish their slaves only on the rare occasions when it is deserved; in still others, they punish their slaves often because it is only through punishment that slaves can be governed; others insist that it is only the rare owner who punishes his slaves and that he is sure to be shunned for his cruelty, or that it is only overseers who punish and that they do so without the consent of the owners. With such confusion about the ethics of slave-owning, these novels leave it to the slaves themselves to articulate a defense of slavery, which they are remarkably happy to do. In postbellum novels nostalgic for plantation life, a genre that culminates in Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (1936), slaves tend to be passionately devoted to their masters and mistresses; in these antebellum novels, by contrast, loyalty matters less than self-interest. As one slave says in Martha Haines Butt's Antifanaticism: A Tale of the South (1853), ""Dis nigger never leab his massa to go wid nobody, 'caze he know dat nobody ain't gwine treat him good no how like massa does"" (Gossett, p. 224). Other slaves offer a more abstract defense of slavery as the system best suited to the needs and capacities of blacks. Some of these slaves may wish to be free themselves, but they recognize that freedom is not possible for the majority of those in their position. Aunt Phillis would have been very happy, the narrator tells us, to receive her freedom, but she ""scorned the idea of . . . obtaining it otherwise than as a gift from her owner"" (Gossett, p. 228). As Phillis lays dying, her owner at last offers to free her and her children, but she refuses, arguing that her children will be more secure enslaved on a plantation than free in the North or in Africa. The sheer number of anti-Uncle Tom novels offers an inadvertent measure of the popularity of Uncle Tom, while the vehemence of their attacks on abolitionism is a backhanded tribute to its potential to effect political change. This potential was ultimately realized. Twelve years after Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin, Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves, and the connection between these two events is vividly condensed in the much-repeated story of Stowe and Lincoln's meeting. In December 1862, after the Emancipation Proclamation had been announced but before it went into full effect, Stowe was invited to the White House to have tea with Lincoln and his wife. It was on this occasion that Lincoln is famously rumored to have called Stowe ""the little woman who made the great war."" Hedrick can find no evidence that he actually said this: In a letter written to her husband that evening, Stowe describes nothing more specific than ""a real funny interview with the President,"" and her daughter's diary concurs that their visit was ""very droll"" (p. 306). While the story may be apocryphal, it nonetheless captures a crucial truth. Uncle Tom may not have ""made"" the war single-handedly (a host of political, economic, and social differences had made sectional war all but inevitable), but it did help to set the terms on which the ""great war"" would be fought and won. For the novel not only increased the number of antislavery act...	      --This text refers to the 							Mass Market Paperback	 edition.	Using a mixture of clearly distinguished voices, Ricco Ross brings Southern accents, Negro dialects, and another era to life in this rendering of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. Listeners can almost see the young Negro quadroons, Jim Crow, and Topsy, who says, ""I just growed,"" when asked when and where she was born. While Ricco portrays the ugly slave master, Simon Legree, with menacing tones of cruelty, he switches to sounds of compassion and grace with Uncle Tom. Ricco depicts the barbarisms of slave trading in which men, women, and children are bought and sold like livestock with chilling reality. This timeless classic is worth revisiting.  G.D.W.  AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio Cassette	 edition.",african-american studies;books;classics;humanities;literary;literature;literature & fiction;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,12
1887128905,"Exit Strategy Exit Strategy, the much-hyped open source novel by columnist and commentator Douglas Rushkoff (Coercion, Ecstasy Club), is both a moral allegory and a ""hypertext labyrinth of references and cross-references"" creating a ""community riff on our bizarre age."" It can be as daunting as it sounds: the tale of a modern Joseph who's caught between the opposite worlds of hackers and venture capitalists sometimes nearly gets buried beneath the footnotes added by readers of the novel's online version, who were told to imagine that the novel had been discovered in the 23rd century (""wedgie: an attack meant to cause pain and embarrassment simultaneously,"" writes a helpful contemporary reader to future humans).Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.",books;contemporary;high tech;judaism;kabbalah;literary;literature & fiction;religion & spirituality;sacred writings;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;talmud,12
0884895351,"May You Never Stop Dancing: A Professor's Letters to His Daughter Recognizing that young people are more and more searching for values in their college education, Lawry emphasizes the spiritual as well as the psychological and the academic. This book makes an excellent gift for every graduating high school senior and college freshman.  -- Teaching Today (review of original edition)	Praise for the original edition: Humorous, factual, wise, and so applicable to the transitions and challenges that college students encounter. (Cathie Hatch, assistant director of admissions, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN) John Lawry has written a wise and satisfying book. His charming letters to his daughter dare to give good advice! He draws upon his own pragmatic experience of college life, his professional psychological knowledge, and his own spiritual quest. Parents, students, and college teachers concerned about character and culture can enjoy and profit from this collection. (Sidney Callahan, associate professor of psychology, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY)	John D. Lawry is professor of psychology at Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York, and author of Guide to the History of Psychology and College 101: A Freshman Reader. He has one daughter, Lili.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;inspirational;personal transformation;prayer;religion & spirituality;self-help;spirituality;teens,12
0415043689,"The Importance of Being Earnest and Related Writings (Routledge English Texts) In short, there is material aplenty here for the average reader and considerable matter for the specialist. --English Literature in Transition 1880-1920	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	This is a full cast production with sound effects and original music produced at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The Importance of Being Earnest marks a central moment in late-Victorian literature, not only for its wit but also for its role in the shift from a Victorian to a Modern consciousness. The play began its career as a biting satire directed at the very audience who received it so delightedly, but ended its initial run as a harbinger of Wilde's personal downfall when his lover's father, who would later bring about Wilde's arrest and imprisonment, attempted to disrupt the production.  In addition to its focus on the textual history of the play, this Broadview Edition of Earnest provides a wide array of appendices. The edition locates Wilde's work among the artistic and cultural contexts of the late nineteenth century and will provide scholars, students, and general readers with an important sourcebook for the play and the social, creative, and critical contexts of mid-1890s English life.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Born in Ireland, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was educated in Dublin & Oxford and went on to become the leading and most prominent exponent of flamboyant aestheticism. As well as his many plays, he wrote one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), and published several volumes of poetry and criticism. He was imprisoned in 1895 for homosexual offences and after his release he died in exile in Paris.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	First ActSceneMorning-room of Lord Windermeres house in Carlton House Terrace.Doors C. and R. Bureau with books and papers R. Sofa with small tea-table L. Window opening on to terrace L. Table R. (Lady Windermere is at table R., arranging roses in a blue bowl.) (Enter Parker.Parker. Is your ladyship at home this afternoon?Lady Windermere. Yeswho has called?Parker. Lord Darlington, my lady.Lady Windermere. (Hesitates for a moment.) Show him upand Im at home to any one who calls. Parker. Yes, my lady. (Exit C.Lady Windermere. Its best for me to see him before to-night. Im glad hes come. (Enter Parker C.Parker. Lord Darlington. (Enter Lord Darlington C. (Exit Parker.Lord Darlington. How do you do, Lady Windermere?Lady Windermere. How do you do, Lord Darlington? No, I cant shake hands with you. My hands are all wet with these roses. Arent they lovely? They came up from Selby this morning.Lord Darlington. They are quite perfect. (Sees a fan lying on the table.) And what a wonderful fan! May I look at it?Lady Windermere. Do. Pretty, isnt it! Its got my name on it, and everything. I have only just seen it myself. Its my husbands birthday present to me. You know to-day is my birthday?Lord Darlington. No? Is it really?Lady Windermere. Yes, Im of age to-day. Quite an important day in my life, isnt it? That is why I am giving this party to-night. Do sit down. (Still arranging flowers.)Lord Darlington. (Sitting down.) I wish I had known it was your birthday, Lady Windermere. I would have covered the whole street in front of your house with flowers for you to walk on. They are made for you. (A short pause.)Lady Windermere. Lord Darlington, you annoyed me last night  at the Foreign Office. I am afraid you are going to annoy me again.Lord Darlington. I, Lady Windermere? (Enter Parker and Footman C., with tray and tea things.Lady Windermere. Put it there, Parker. That will do. (Wipes her hands with her pocket-handkerchief, goes to tea-table L., and sits down.) Wont you come over, Lord Darlington? (Exit Parker C.Lord Darlington. (Takes chair and goes across L.C.) I am quite miserable, Lady Windermere. You must tell me what I did. (Sits down at table L.)Lady Windermere. Well, you kept paying me elaborate compliments the whole evening.Lord Darlington. (Smiling.) Ah, now-a-days we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. Theyre the only things we can pay.Lady Windermere. (Shaking her head.) No, I am talking very seriously. You mustnt laugh, I am quite serious. I dont like compliments, and I dont see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesnt mean.Lord Darlington. Ah, but I did mean them. (Takes tea which she offers him.)Lady Windermere. (Gravely.) I hope not. I should be sorry to have to quarrel with you, Lord Darlington. I like you very much, you know that. But I shouldnt like you at all if I thought you were what most other men are. Believe me, you are better than most other men, and I sometimes think you pretend to be worse.Lord Darlington. We all have our little vanities, Lady Windermere.Lady Windermere. Why do you make that your special one? (Still seated at table L.)Lord Darlington. (Still seated L.C.) Oh, now-a-days so many conceited people go about Society6 pretending to be good, that I think it shows rather a sweet and modest disposition to pretend to be bad. Besides, there is this to be said. If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesnt. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.Lady Windermere. Dont you want the world to take you seriously then, Lord Darlington?Lord Darlington. No, not the world. Who are the people the world takes seriously? All the dull people one can think of, from the Bishops down to the bores. I should like you to take me very seriously, Lady Windermere, you more than any one else in life.Lady Windermere. Whywhy me?Lord Darlington. (After a slight hesitation.) Because I think we might be great friends. Let us be great friends. You may want a friend some day.Lady Windermere. Why do you say that?Lord Darlington. Oh!we all want friends at times.Lady Windermere. I think were very good friends already, Lord Darlington. We can always remain so as long as you dontLord Darlington. Dont what?Lady Windermere. Dont spoil it by saying extravagant silly things to me. You think I am a Puritan, I suppose? Well, I have something of the Puritan in me. I was brought up like that. I am glad of it. My mother died when I was a mere child. I lived always with Lady Julia, my fathers elder sister you know. She was stern to me, but she taught me, what the world is forgetting, the difference that there is between what is right and what is wrong. She allowed of no compromise. I allow of none.Lord Darlington. My dear Lady Windermere!Lady Windermere. (Leaning back on the sofa.) You look on me as being behind the age.Well, I am! I should be sorry to be on the same level as an age like this.Lord Darlington. You think the age very bad?Lady Windermere. Yes. Now-a-days people seem to look on life as a speculation.8 It is not a speculation. It is a sacrament. Its ideal is Love. Its purification is sacrifice.Lord Darlington. (Smiling.) Oh, anything is better than being sacrificed!Lady Windermere. (Leaning forward.) Dont say that.Lord Darlington. I do say it. I feel itI know it. (Enter Parker C.Parker. The men want to know if they are to put the carpets on the terrace for to-night, my lady?Lady Windermere. You dont think it will rain, Lord Darlington, do you?Lord Darlington. I wont hear of its raining on your birthday!Lady Windermere. Tell them to do it at once, Parker. (Exit Parker C.Lord Darlington. (Still seated.) Do you think thenof course I am only putting an imaginary instancedo you think that in the case of a young married couple, say about two years married, if the husband suddenly becomes the intimate friend of a woman ofwell, more than doubtful character, is always calling upon her, lunching with her, and probably paying her billsdo you think that the wife should not console herself? Lady Windermere. (Frowning.) Console herself?Lord Darlington. Yes, I think she shouldI think she has the right.Lady Windermere. Because the husband is vileshould the wife be vile also?Lord Darlington. Vileness is a terrible word, Lady Windermere.Lady Windermere. It is a terrible thing, Lord Darlington.Lord Darlington. Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. I take the side of the charming, and you, Lady Windermere, cant help belonging to them.Lady Windermere. Now, Lord Darlington. (Rising and crossing R., front of him.) Dont stir, I am merely going to finish my flowers. (Goes to table R.C.)Lord Darlington. (Rising and moving chair.) And I must say I think you are very hard on modern life, Lady Windermere. Of course there is much against it, I admit. Most women, for instance, now-a-days, are rather mercenary.Lady Windermere. Dont talk about such people.Lord Darlington. Well then, setting mercenary people aside, who, of course, are dreadful, do you think seriously that women who have committed what the world calls a fault should never  be forgiven?Lady Windermere. (Standing at table.) I think they should never be forgiven.Lord Darlington. And men? Do you think that there should be the same laws for men as there are for women?Lady Windermere. Certainly!Lord Darlington. I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.Lady Windermere. If we had these hard and fast rules, we should find life much more simple.Lord Darlington. You allow of no exceptions?Lady Windermere. None!Lord Darlington. Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, Lady Windermere!Lady Windermere. The adjective was unnecessary, Lord Darlington.Lord Darlington. I couldnt help it. I can resist everything except temptation.Lady Windermere. You have the modern affectation of weakness.Lord Darlington. (Looking at her.) Its only an affectation, Lady Windermere. (Enter Parker C.Parker. The Duchess of Berwick and Lady Agatha Carlisle. (Enter the Duchess of Berwick and Lady Agatha Carlisle C. (Exit Parker C. Duchess of Berwick. (Coming down C., and shaking hands.) Dear Margaret, I am so pleased to see you. You remember Agatha, dont you? (Crossing L.C.) How do you do, Lord Darlington? I wont let you know my daughter, you are far too wicked.Lord Darlington. Dont say that, Duchess. As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.Duchess of Berwick. Isnt he dreadful? Agatha, this is Lord Darlington. Mind you dont believe a word he says. (Lord Darlington crosses R.C.) No, no tea, thank you, dear. (Crosses and sits on sofa.) We have just had tea at Lady Markbys. Such bad tea, too. It was quite undrinkable. I wasnt at all surprised. Her own son-in-law supplies it. Agatha is looking forward so much t...	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Shaun MacLaughlin's direction of this Wilde play strives for an effective dramatic reading, rather than a fully realized radio-drama production with sound effects and atmospheric music.The production uses a narrator (Michael Drew) to read the stage directions. Such directorial emphasis calls attention to Wilde's brilliant dialogue and the strong performances. In THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, one of the most celebrated of all stage comedies, a faster pace helps Greg Wise and Richard Pearce sound young and carefree as they concoct witty deceptions to pursue their sweethearts. Wilde's comic attack on the shams of superficial earnestness in late-Victorian society finds rich expression in Miriam Margolyes's comically formidable Lady Bracknell. She plays the role slightly less broadly than Edith Evans did in the old Angel recording, and her performance keeps with MacLaughlin's subtle approach to Wilde's comedy of manners. G.H.  (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;british & irish;comedy;criticism & theory;drama;english literature;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks,12
0195507886,"Media and Society: An Introduction 'O'Shaughnessy's books is very student-friendly and is written with pedagogical concerns to the fore. Students are constantly invited to analyse the media in terms of their own media experience and their own considerations of pleasure and emotional engagement. Each chapter then contains a clear overview of points to be covered, together with several practical exercises, commentaries and a conclusion.' Des Freedman, senior lecturer in media and communications policy, University of North London - The Times Higher Education Supplement May 2000	Michael O'Shaughnessy, Lecturer in Media Studies, Edith Cowan University.",books;communication & journalism;communication & media studies;humanities;humor & entertainment;media studies;new;performing arts;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,12
084769299X,"Ecofeminist Philosophy Warren has provided a useful book for feminist and environmental philosophy instruction. She makes a number of interesting arguments in very accessible ways in chapters on vegeterianism, social justice, spirituality, and ecofeminism as a particularly Western philosophical movement. This informative overview and set of arguments about ecofeminism as a productive philosophical and social movement is a very useful resource for academic libraries. (Choice Magazine )Warren is a key thinker in this field, and the philosophical enquiry here is exemplary in its detail: terms are rigorously defined, arguments move by careful and clearly indicated steps, and the material is presented with painstaking care for thorough explanation. (Feminist Theory )This is a welcome project, as a philosophically inclined yet accessible introductory book on ecofeminism is long overdue, and especially welcome from an established ecofeminist. (Environmental Values )This book is highly recommended especially for those who believe that ecofeminism has a lot to offer in guiding attempts to reach a greener society. (Environmental Politics )A well-organized explication of the ideology that perpetuates the domination of women and nature. It would make an excellent introductory textbook for a class on environmental philosophy, feminist studies, or ecofeminism. It is clear and concise. Because of its accessible style, the book will serve particularly well as an introduction to ecofeminism. Finally, because of the discussions regarding moral pluralism and the reconciliation of holism with individualism, the book also captures a somewhat higher level of intellectual interest. Ecofeminist Philosphy embodies a rare blend of accessibility and wide-ranging synthesis of debates in the field. Even more rare is her analysis opening onto avenues for further inquiry, which renders the book highly recommendable for almost anyone to read, whether student, philosopher, feminist, environmentalist, or simply the curious. (Nwsa Journal )A treasure tove of discussions in ecofeminist philosophy that people will draw on for years to come. (Ethics )	Karen J. Warren is professor of philosophy at Macalester College.",books;conservation;environment;environmentalism;ethics & morality;feminist theory;movements;nature & ecology;philosophy;politics & social sciences;science & math;women's studies,12
0688172725,"As the Romans Do: The Delights, Dramas, And Daily Diversions Of Life In The Eternal City Although it retreads ground familiar to readers of Tim Parks, this slight if enjoyable collection of essays on life in Italy provides many amusing anecdotes. Epstein is a city-lover, particularly enamored with the Eternal City, and in 1995 he moved there from California with his wife and two young sons. These pieces collect his thoughts on the quirks of Italian life, but they often pertain to Italy in general rather than Rome (and too many of them concentrate on the joys of living in a city where women ""not only don't mind that you look at them, but actually seek your gaze, your glance, your stare""). The most successful of these pieces examine the differences in the minutiae of life as experienced in Rome and in the U.S. Epstein's thoughts on making photocopies, something that in Rome is as difficult as ""trying to get into Fort Knox,"" is well detailed, and the material on child-rearing (which the Italians consider both a communal responsibility and a pleasure) is sweet and poignant. Epstein often remarks that present-day Rome resembles the 1950s Philadelphia where he grew up, but he is too easily blinded to the weaknesses of both cultures. For example, in the face of growing xenophobia and violence against immigrants, he writes glowingly of how friendly Italians are to foreign vendors. Nevertheless, Epstein's love for his adopted home is often charming. (Apr.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Epstein, European correspondent for American radio and president of a travel association aptly named As the Romans Do, has written a colorful account of his experiences and observations of daily life in Rome. Focusing mainly on the Italian people, Epstein compares and contrasts their lifestyle as well as their views on religion, marriage, and family. The reader is taken on a magical journey through a land of plenty, as Epstein discusses the importance of the piazza (not only for watching people but for catching up on neighborhood gossip) and such traditional activities as baking bread, playing bocci, and eating in trattorias. The account ends with the preparations being made for the end-of-the-century millennium party. The love and awe Epstein feels for the Italian people shine through in his vivid descriptions. Warmly recommended for all lovers of Italy.-Stephanie Papa, Baltimore Cty. Circuit Court Law Lib., Towson, MD Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	It is intoxicating to read about a love affair, the more so when we glimpse the beloved and recognize our own desire. How much more so when the beloved is the ancient and glorious city of Rome. Epstein is an unabashed lover: a transplanted Californian, he and his wife and sons have chosen to live in a place they were not born to but have completely embraced. He captures the texture of so many obvious Roman delights: food to bring tears to your eyes; history and art on every corner. But he also renders nuances not so easily described: the frank sensuality of Roman men and women, their elegance, the way they make conversation and argument writ large. The Italians cherish children and worship family; their ways--patterned, slower, ritualized--are not our ways, but Epstein adores the differences. This is better than Peter Mayle, because Rome is more fun than Provence, and almost as sweet as Tim Parks' An Italian Education (1996).  GraceAnne A. DeCandido	""Alan's impeccable taste and attention to details put an elegant touch to a memorable experience for all sixty of us. The history, the culture, and the habits of the Romans intertwined in an enlightening and most original tour of the Eternal City. Some of the participants said it was the best time of their lives -- especially the mystical walk at night on the Appia Antica, the ride through the ancient center, the dinner accompanied by opera singers in a marvelous country-like-setting in the heart of the city. Of course the book AS THE ROMANS DO is the perfect companion, as well, even if you don't make it to Rome"" -- Mourad Chaouch European Sales Manager Spacelabs Medical Corporation Rome, Italy""If you've been to Rome and thrown your coin in the Trevi Fountain, but still haven't been able to take your return trip, As the Romans Do will bring you back. And, if you haven't lived and loved a trip to Rome, the book will take you there. As you read it and figuratively walk the streets with Alan Epstein, Rome envelopes you. The beauty, the sights, the smells, the history that is Rome with its vibrant past and present, fill every page. Alan's insights and observations bring the city to you in a way no guide book or novel ever could. You can learn the secrets that the Romans know about a life brimming with passion and joy, simplicity and sensuality. If you've ever fantasized about beginning life anew in an exotic place, this book will enthrall you. And, even if you stay right where you are, reading As the Romans Do will inspire you to weave a bit of that Roman wisdom into your daily life."" -- Hot Topics, Publisher""In this richly anecdotal account of his life in Rome, Epstein captures the essence of la dolce vita -- and holds it up as a model for the workaholic Puritains he left at home in the U.S. The best travel writers tell as much about home as they do about their destinations. Think of all those Brits -- from Robert Byron to Bruce Chatwin -- whose deadpan Englishness made them revealing foils for the foreigners they encountered. Alan Epstein's ""As the Romans Do"" belongs on the same shelf. Part hymn, part insider's guide to life in the Eternal City, Epstein's thoughtful essay collection also holds a mirror to America.. Going to Rome from San Francisco, Epstein and his family learned to love the bustling cafes, the monuments and the quiet hours between 1 and 4 p.m. when stores close, the streets empty and ""the only sounds you hear... are the particular rhythms of plates clacking, silverware clinking, and linen snapping on the tables.""...Epstein's real discovery is that Romans believe in forgiveness and an immutable order to things: People are flawed, government is a nuisance, society can't be improved, so lets relax, forgive each other and focus on cooking dinner. Buon appetito!"" -- MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE  Chris Waddington, Books Editor Feature Sunday Book Review, April 16An expatriate American writes lovingly of life in Rome and of its residents. It is essential reading for visitors.. with more than a little humor sprinkled through this cultural survey... For the Romans of 2000, ""the lessons are obvious. Life is to be lived passionately, excessively, publicly - in bars, restaurants, streets and piazzas - applying charm and style mixed with a healthy respect for tradition."" And for the next 284 pages, Epstein tells us with charm and style - and a healthy respect for tradition - what makes the city and, most particularly, its people so attractive, so frustrating, so perplexing, and often so difficult to leave. -- PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER SUNDAY TRAVEL SECTION  April 23, 2000	As over seven million Americans pack their bags for Jubilee 2000 in Rome, travel aficianado Alan Epstein offers the perfect touring companion.  As the Romans Do is a behind-the-scenes journey through present-day Rome. It goes beyond the familiar tourist attractions and shines a probing light on the often hidden corners of the city and its environs. As the Romans Do amplifies on any traveler's experience of Rome, as people, places, activities, customs, and the habits of the Romans are woven into the various episodes that comprise the deep impression that the city has made on this American writer and his family. The interplay of the old and the new, the ancient and the modern, the expected and the startling, told with humor, insight and a fresh perspective, is the subject of As the Romans Do. The book highlights these characteristics as they are expressed in everyday life -- in the way people talk; the near obsessive relationship they have with eating well; the things that are important to them; the crucial role played by family, friends, and community; the importance of pleasure, la bella figura, and children; and their unparalleled social adeptness and hospitality. The book takes place in the locations where Romans congregate -- in eating establishments, markets, stores, homes and piazzas; in conversations, at meals, on the street, and in the sites where they go for outings in the country and holiday vacations. It captures the maddening, sensual, intimate nature of life in the city, how the close physical space and the continuing influence of tradition create the necessity for interactions to be carried out personally rather than anonymously.	Rome has always been a source of both inspiration and fascination to me. From my first moments in the city, I have been charmed by its beauty, history, and people, so much so that the idea of living here quickly took hold and never uprooted. Moving to Italy was a dream finally fulfilled after a twenty-year long love affair with the city, and from the beginning of my residence it has been my intention to write about Rome and its inhabitants.  I have been noting with painstaking persistence all the things that seemed to me remarkable about the city, especially the differences in the ways of being, thinking, feeling that contrast Rome and the Romans from their American and European counterparts. I have tried to portray the city as it is lived everyday, an experience that is deeper, more varied and ultimately more incredible than a trip to the city of whatever duration. For it is in the daily interaction with the people that the true nature of the city emerges -- maddening, frustrating, challenging, yet ultimately sweet, sensual, and satisfying. It forces you to adapt to its rhythm, way of life, values and priorities. And in the end it pleases you because of its slower, more human pace, a life focused on the enjoyment of the present, which lures you into a completely different way of being.""We were hooked on the beauty, the thrill, the incomparable joy of starting over in a new land with a new language. Our spirits were revived, and we were willing to endure whatever it took to make our dreams come alive. We left the shores of the New World and set sail for the Old, as we sorted through documents and personal papers, all the while thinking of the beautiful apartment in the historic Aventino, one of the seven original hills of the city, that awaited us.""  Please visit my site at www.astheromansdo.com for discussions/feedback, photographs of Italy, letters and postcards from Rome and much more.	PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER SUNDAY TRAVEL SECTION April 23, 2000, Jack Severson, Travel Editor How Eternal City got to be that way AN EXPATRIATE AMERICAN WRITES LOVINGLY OF LIFE IN ROME AND OF ITS RESIDENTS. IT IS ESSENTIAL READING FOR VISITORS. ""Just in time for the Jubilee 2000 celebration in Rome comes As the Romans Do (William Morrow), an insightful look at life in contemporary Rome. With more than a little humor sprinkled through this cultural survey, author Alan Epstein weaves in the 3,000 years of history that informs today's Eternal City. Epstein, an American with a doctorate in European history, allowed Rome to seduce him on his first visit. On subsequent visits, his ardor grew stronger and, 20 years after that first visit, he, his wife and their two sons shifted into expat mode and moved there. Rome, he writes in his introduction, has been around so long, has been ruler of the known (to Romans, at any rate) world and a mere observer, and has accumulated so much experience over the millennia that ""all it wants to do is exist in eternity according to the wisdom of what it has learned."" For the Romans of 2000, ""the lessons are obvious. Life is to be lived passionately, excessively, publicly - in bars, restaurants, streets and piazzas - applying charm and style mixed with a healthy respect for tradition."" And for the next 284 pages, Epstein tells us with charm and style - and a healthy respect for tradition - what makes the city and, most particularly, its people so attractive, so frustrating, so perplexing, and often so difficult to leave. He delves into virtually every aspect of Roman culture, explaining through examples and anecdotes and the wisdom he has gained  from 25 years of observation. For example, take the Roman male. To the uninitiated, he may seem proud, arrogant, worldly, at ease with himself in every situation. But as Epstein learned from female Roman friends, he is also thin-skinned, easily hurt when criticized, particularly by women - his wife, his lover, his mother. Especially his mother. There may be a lot of macho in his confident strolling down the Via Veneto, but lurking under those $1,200 worth of Armani threads is the soul of a mama's boy. Rome remains the capital of la dolce vita, the sweet life, even if it is not quite as excessive as portrayed in the Fellini film of the same name. Romans, according to Epstein, live in the moment more than almost anyone on Earth. Dues are to be paid at some vague future date, perhaps long after a Roman draws the final breath. That explains why, for example, they smoke - almost everyone, almost everywhere. And why they lie for hours in the sun, defying cancer-causing rays, to get that perfect tan. It also explains their attitude toward sex. ""It is no more - or less - than a pleasurable fact of life, like eating and sleeping and talking and walking and reading a magazine,"" Epstein writes. ""Romans do not fall in love any more or less than other people, but they do have more sex, and they are more likely to engage in indiscriminate sex - without either guilt or contraception - than their non-Latin counterparts."" Whether discoursing on the excellent cuisine or the historical founda! tions of the predominant habits and niceties of civil intercourse, Epstein captures the heady atmosphere of Rome so completely as to make this book essential for anyone who would understand the city before heading there.""	Alan Epstein holds a Ph.D. in European history from New York University. A successful author and speaker on Italian life and culture, he also offers corporate and private escorted tours, special events, and retreats in Rome and other parts of Italy. He has reported on Italian life for America Online and is a regular Europe correspondent for American radio. He has appeared on Oprah and numerous other television shows. He lives with his wife and two sons in the heart of Rome.	Just Another Day in the Piazza:The Show Must Go OnNot everybody who comes to Rome, either to visit or to stay, as we have, likes it. In fact, if you polled visitors arriving from other countries, asking them where their favorite places are in Italy or where they would want to live if they were ever to embark on just such an enterprise, few would list Rome as their first choice. Most of them would focus variously on some spot in Tuscany, either the cities -- Florence, Siena, Lucca, Pisa, Cortona -- or the delightful countryside that surrounds these beautiful places and gives new meaning to the words ""bucolic"" and ""tranquil."" In fact, there are so many people of British extraction living in the Florence-Siena vicinity that it has been dubbed ""Chiantishire,"" in honor of the English way of identifying place.Rome is considered too ""Italian"" for the tastes of many of the English and North Americans who come to Italy to vacation, recreate, sightsee, or indulge. Rome is too ""other,"" too much like venues the average English-speaking traveler would never think to experience-Cairo, Beirut, Jerusalem, or other placesin the Middle East, or Sicily, Greece, or Turkey, lands that barely qualify for being called ""Europe.""What gives Rome this character, what makes Rome, Rome, is a sense of drama, of the theatrical, the exaggerated; a quality that pervades everyday life and distinguishes the city from most places one would find in the United States, Canada, England, and the other countries in the English-speaking world, as well as northern Europe. People live in these places precisely for the reason that nothing much happens, that nothing much should happen, at least not in a way that creates public spectacle. Rome is not like that. Every ounce of its soul is devoted to the art of being seen, to the show, to a way of being that opts for dramatization at the expense of understatement, histrionics that push aside silence. The ethos of Rome partakes of another culture the Levantine, the Latin-rather than the European. The first thing I noticed on the way to my hotel after landing at Cairo, another Mediterranean capital, other than the fact that I was thinking that I probably wouldn't make it there alive, is that every driver, for no apparent reason, is leaning on his horn, creating a maddening cacophony that has only one purpose --  create a disturbance, to liven up the moment, to add a stupefying sense of dislocation in order to cancel out the reality that nothing much is really happening.Although drivers do not use their horns much in Rome (in fact, it is considered bad form, a brutta figura; if you do hear a toot-toot, chances are someone is trying to acknowledge his friend on the street), the same principle of commotion applies. The other day, in the Piazza Santa Maria Liberatrice, in Testaccio, not far from Piazza Testaccio, one of Rome's most characteristic open-air markets, popular among the locals and near to where we live, an incident erupted that illustrates perfectly the sense of making the ordinary encounters of everyday existence a matter of life and death.The piazza was crowded with people of all ages. The elderly were occupying the many benches, while children made use of the swings, slides, and climbing frames of the play areas as their parents watched and chatted with one another. Several young boys, including Julian and Elliott, our nine- and six-year-old sons, were playing soccer with a soft, light ball not far from a bench where four elderly women were sitting. The ball strayed often in the direction of the anziane, and, in fact, on more than one occasion glanced off their bench, bringing less than loving looks and sporadic admonitions. Finally, exasperated at her inability to carry on conversation -- as she has done in the same spot for probably the last forty years-without the nuisance of having to dodge a harmless but definitely annoying ball, one of the anziane grabbed it and would not let go, placing the palla in a plastic bag she was holding.The six boys crowded around the bench, engulfing the four steadfast matrons. Loud words and a million hand gestures began to fly -- to no avail, as it turned out, because the woman would not budge. This brought into the fray the mother -- obviously peeved that the conversation in which she was excitedly engaged on her telefonino, her portable cell phone, had been interruptedof one of the offending ragazzi.She was dressed alla romana, that is, as if she were on her way to an audition for a movie, TV show, play, commercial, or whatever anyone would have for her. She was wearing heavy makeup, accentuating her deep blue eyes -- a rarity for Romans -- with dark liner that extended past the sockets, creating a kind of catlike effect.  Her long, full head of curly jet-black hair was flying in the breeze, as were her bronzed hands and arms.  She wore a glowing orange sweater that crisscrossed in the fron and revealed, here and there, glimpses of her bright white bra, made more obvious by her outsized body guestures -- which forced her to become distracted now and then from her primary mission by having to pull together the folds of her sweater so as to avoid revealing everything -- and by the dark skin of her killer tan.",books;europe;european;general;history;international & world politics;italy;politics & government;politics & social sciences;reference;travel;travel writing,12
0130310565,"Administering Windows 2000 and Lab Manual Pkg. (IT Certification) This textbook, combined with the hands-on Lab Guide and the full-featured Instructor's Guide, is a powerful Windows 2000 administration course that provides you with first-line knowledge and skills.    This combination, along with the certification-specific test materials on the examGear CD-ROM that comes with this book, prepares you to challenge the Microsoft 70-210, Installing, Configuring and Administering Windows 2000 Professional and 70-215, Installing, Configuring and Administering Windows 2000 Server certification exams. This material will also give you a good head start on the 70-216 and 70-217 exams.    Each chapter begins with a list of learning objectives to be achieved within that chapter. A list of new terminology to be learned is located at the beginning of each chapter. Step-by-step hands-on instructions for accomplishing particular tasks have been included at appropriate points in the text. Each chapter contains a mini troubleshooting section that deals specifically with problems and symptoms related to the topics covered. Each chapter concludes with a summary that restates the objectives at the beginning of the chapter. At the end of each chapter is a review section consisting of fifteen open-ended questions. There is also a ten-question multiple-choice chapter quiz. Each chapter includes a key point review that permits a quick overview of the major chapter points. Contains computer and software terms that are applicable to the Windows 2000 product line. The glossary also defines many acronyms as well as the terms they are based on. Includes a hands-on Lab Guide that provides 39 procedures to reinforce the theory material discussed in the textbook.	Patricia L. Barton is a technical instructor at Boston University. She began teaching network administration on a one-to-one basis in the late 1980s, and moved to formal classroom instruction in 1992. Her initial focus was on Novell's NetWare product line, but when customer demand began to shift to Windows NT 3.51 in 1995, she became certified to support and teach the full line of Microsoft operating systems. She has been working primarily with Windows 9x, NT, 2000, and associated products since that time.        Since 1994, Pat has spent a great deal of time working in Boston University's Computer Career Programs. Her focus has been on teaching Windows NT administration to individuals going through career changes into the technology field, most with little or no prior experience. This has given her a strong background on methods of presentation and instruction that are effective with this type of student, and also a good perspective on the needs and mindset of entry-level students trying to break into the field. She is regularly involved in the development of courseware and lab materials to supplement the Microsoft authorized curriculum for BU.        Pat began working seriously with Windows 2000 in July of 1999, and began teaching Beta 3 classes in September of 1999. Windows 2000 has been her focus since that time, averaging 70 hours per month of classroom instruction time on this topic alone, and many hours of course preparation and research to go along with it. She is currently MCSE, MCT, MCNE, CNI, CCNA, and CCAI certified.        Brian Alley has been in the PC industry since 1985, working as a contract consultant primarily at law enforcement agencies installing networks and custom software. Joining Boston University's Corporate Education Center in 1992 as a contract instructor, Brian developed their first PC Service and Support course. This involved writing training materials, labs, and course outlines for PC Service and Support. Additionally, Brian taught several Novell Netware courses, data communications, network, and applications programs.        In 1995 Brian joined BUCEC as a full-time staff instructor, becoming the lead instructor for PC Service and Support and the A+ Certification programs. In his role as lead instructor he regularly reviews new training materials, writes new labs, and qualifies new instructors. He has been contracted by a major computer training material publisher to serve as Technical Editor for three books currently in print and is working on soon to be published materials for Network+.        As an MCT and MCSE, Brian is currently certified to teach over 20 Microsoft courses, including Windows 95, Windows 98, and several Windows NT and network-related topics. He has served as a Subject Matter Expert for the 1995 A+ exam rewrite, and served as a Beta tester for A+, Network +, Windows 98, Windows 2000, and several other products. He has served on the A+ Advisory Committee and is currently working with the CompTIA Internet+ Advisory Committee. He is currently A+, i-Net+, and Network + certified, in addition to being an MCT, MCP, and MCSE.        Charles J. Brooks is currently the President of Marcraft International Corporation, located in Pasco, Washington. He has authored several books on subjects ranging from electronic speech synthesis, pneumatic instrumentation, and linear integrated circuits to introductory computer hardware courses, IBM PC peripheral troubleshooting and repair books, and A+ Certification preparation manuals.        A former electronics instructor and technical writer, Charles has taught and written on technical subjects for more than 18 years. At Marcraft and eITPrep, Charles oversees the development and production of a variety of technical book titles.	Microsoft's launch of its Windows 2000 products represents a major market plateau. Windows 9x from the consumer market meets Windows NT from the business world. Windows 2000 brings so many new and improved features and functions to the Windows NT platform that Microsoft has completely revamped its professional certification and training programs.    Not only will new people entering the Microsoft operating system world need training, so will the old-line professionals. Ultimately then, this book, and the supporting materials associated with it, are designed to prepare you to manage Windows 2000 systems. This task is accomplished through a three-part effort:    A solid theory text Hands-on explorations through associated lab exercises A troubleshooting emphasis applied throughout the book    The theory portion of the book develops from underlying concepts to actual applications and scenarios. Additionally, the lab procedures provide you with real examples of the theoretical discussions from the text. Finally, the text develops the most advanced learning levels by causing you to analyze problems that may occur in different areas of the Windows 2000 architecture.   Purpose   This book is designed to provide the first line of information necessary to get you up to speed in administering Windows 2000. However, it should not be confused with an entry-level, how-to-use book. We have left most of the desktop descriptions and navigating material for those ""Do it in 24 hours"" books. It should also not be confused with the rash of Windows 2000 MCSE prep books that are pouring into the market. Instead, this is a textbook designed with all of the pedagogy necessary to provide a solid, instructor-led course.    When the textbook is combined with the hands-on lab manual and full-featured instructor's guide, the combination becomes a powerful Windows 2000 administration course.   Key Features   Learning Objectives. Each chapter begins with a list of learning objectives to be achieved in that chapter.    Key Terms Lists. A list of new terminology to be learned is located at the beginning of each chapter.    Step-by-Step Activities. Hands-on instructions for accomplishing particular tasks have been included at appropriate points in the text. These sections are different than those steps featured in the Lab Manual in that they represent a learning snapshot of the process, instead of a complete step-by-step exploration of the process.    Chapter Troubleshooting Sections. Each chapter contains a mini-troubleshooting section that deals specifically with problems and symptoms related to the topics covered in that chapter. When combined with the Troubleshooting chapter at the end of the book, the course provides you with a wealth of Windows 2000 troubleshooting information.    Chapter Summaries. Each chapter concludes with a summary that restates the objectives presented at the beginning of the chapter. This element brings those objectives together with the information presented throughout the chapter to reinforce the key concepts that have been covered.    Review Questions and Chapter Quizzes. At the end of each chapter, there is a fifteen-question Review consisting of open-ended questions. There is also a ten-question multiple-choice Chapter Quiz.    Key Points Reviews. Each chapter includes a key points review that permits a quick overview of the major chapter points. This tool is invaluable when studying for chapter examinations.   Glossary   The glossary contains computer and software terms that are applicable to the Windows 2000 product line. It is as comprehensive as it practically can be. The Glossary also defines many acronyms, as well as the terms they are based on.   Acronym List   The entire computer world is filled with acronyms. Windows 2000 is no exception. Even though the Glossary defines many of the acronyms given in this book, the acronym list is included to provide a quick lookup point for these shorthand terms. Once again, the acronym list is as extensive as we could practically make it.   Index   What textbook would be complete without an index? In this book, we have included an exceptional index to help you efficiently locate references in the text.   Notes Tips and Warnings   Special text items are pointed out through the use of special Notes, Tips, and Warning boxes located in the margins. These graphical windows separate special items from the body of the text to make them truly stand out.   Lab Guide Exercises   The course includes a hands-on Lab Manual that provides 39 procedures to reinforce the theory material discussed in the textbook. The procedures are keyed to accompany the chapters of the textbook.   Art Program   The other important aspects of the text and lab books are backed up by an extensive amount of supporting artwork. Each chapter features between 35 and 50 graphics designed to expand the learning experience with visual reinforcements. Most of these graphics are screen shots taken of actual screens produced in the developmental process of this courseware set.   Other Pedagogical Features   Various type and font styles are used throughout the text to call attention to certain elements. Typographical conventions used throughout this book include: (Domain Names, Monotype font; Domain controllers, All Caps; Organizational units, All Caps; Web Sites, Monotype font; Dialog boxes, Italic; Menu options, Italic; Glossary Terms, Bold; Key Terms, Bold; Selections, All caps; Paths, slashed italics).  Instructor Support   The courseware (textbook/lab book set) is supported by a full-featured Instructor's Guide. The Instructor's Guide CD includes many valuable tools to aid in the class management aspect of teaching a class such as this. Some of these tools are:    Sample Curriculum Outlines. Answers to all End of Chapter Review and Chapter Quiz questions. Answers to all Lab fill-ins and Review Questions. Special Lab setup notes. Multiple-choice Chapter tests that can be printed out and used by the instructor. As with all of the other evaluation material in this course, the answers and their locations in the text are provided.   Organization   This text has been laid out in a progressive manner so that it begins with basic Windows NT/2000 information and, moves into more progressive and difficult concepts. In general, it is not necessary to move through this text in the same order that it is presented. Also, it is not necessary to teach any specific portion of the material to its extreme. Instead, the material can be adjusted to fit the length of your course.    Chapter 1  Introduction to Windows 2000  provides an introductory exploration of the Windows 2000 operating systems. It explores the operating systems in terms of its structure and features. The initial sections define basic networking terminology, including the different roles a computer can perform in the network, the differences between Local Area and Wide Area networks, and the differences between workgroup and domain networking models. They also describe the use of access permissions to permit, deny, and control user access to network resources.    The chapter next presents a brief outline of the history of the Microsoft operating systems. These sections provide insight into the forces that have shaped the development of the Microsoft operating system product line leading up to the Windows 2000 platform. The material goes on to describe the features and benefits of the different Windows 2000 versionsWindows 2000 Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server.    The first chapter concludes with an introduction to basic operating system troubleshooting that initiates the extensive troubleshooting information that runs throughout the book.    Chapter 2  Installing Windows 2000  deals with the installation and configuration of the various Windows 2000 operating system versions and the process required to bring them to a basic operational level.    The chapter begins by identifying the hardware requirements for installing Windows 2000. Afterward, it provides information for choosing an appropriate file system for a Windows 2000 installation, given specific installation parameters. It also describes steps for choosing a licensing mode for Windows 2000 Server installations. Next, the chapter describes procedures for CD-ROM and network-based Windows 2000 installations.    The chapter goes on to describe the procedures for upgrading Windows 3.x, 9x, and NT to Windows 2000. The process for establishing a dual-booting situation with other Microsoft operating systems is also covered. Finally, the use of Windows 2000 installation utilities such as RIS, the Setup Installation Wizard, and Sysprep.exe are examined.    Chapter 3  Logging on, Exploring, & Customizing Windows 2000  deals with accessing and navigating the Windows 2000 system. This chapter covers logging on and off a Windows 2000 system, working with Windows 2000 security functions, accessing Windows 2000 Help functions, using Windows Explorer to manipulate files and folders, and customizing the Windows 2000 desktop, Taskbar, and Start Menu.    The initial sections of the chapter deal with normal Windows 2000 logon and authentication procedures required to logon locally, or to log into a Windows 2000 domain. It also covers logoff, shutdown, and restart procedures for Windows 2000.    After logging into a Windows 2000 system, the user must be able to deal with its many security features. The chapter moves on to deal with the Windows 2000 Security dialog box. In particular, it covers locking and unlocking the computer, changing passwords, and using the Windows 2000 Task Manager.    The next portion of the chapter discusses the many types of Help available in a Windows 2000 system. Th...",books;business;certification;computer science;computers & technology;home computing & how-to;microsoft;new;operating systems;software;used & rental textbooks;windows os,12
0300107528,"Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400-1600 ""'To reconstruct the activity of shopping in the Renaissance, Welch deploys an extraordinarily wide range of material... Her valuable book offers the reader an acute insight into the origins of our present-day consumer culture.' RA Magazine 'outstanding... written with such a pace that you're hooked before you have a chance to feel scared by the scholarship.' Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian 'An innovative work of social history... Renaissance Italy's fragmented nature, and the fact that much modern scholarship remains parochial and focused on individual centres, makes the breadth of this study one of its most original features... An original and handsome volume.' Fabrizio Nevola, The Burlington Magazine 'Welch's painstaking analysis of often quite disparate archival and visual evidence is quite masterful... An engaging, illuminating, and wide-ranging book... A visual feast.' Catherine Kovesi, Renaissance Quarterly""	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Evelyn Welch is professor of Renaissance studies, Queen Mary, University of London, and was formerly reader in the history of art, University of Sussex. She is the author of Art and Authority in Renaissance Milan, published by Yale University Press, and of Art in Renaissance Italy.",16th century;anthropology;arts & photography;books;cultural;europe;history;history & criticism;italy;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;renaissance,12
1583227121,"The 5 Unanswered Questions About 9/11: What the 9/11 Commission Report Failed to Tell Us Ridgeway, Washington correspondent for the Village Voice, finds no hidden plot behind the 9/11 terrorist attack. Instead, he cites the open secret of a general and long-standing tendency to put American corporate interest ahead of the interest of citizens. Ridgeway focuses on five key questions: why the government couldn't stop the attack, why it didn't protect us, why we were unaware of plans for the attack, how U.S. ""allies"" abetted the attack, and why the 9/11 Commission couldn't get at the truth. In separate chapters, Ridgeway examines the political and economic issues behind the questions and offers a grim look at the actions and inactions of the Bush administration, which left the nation vulnerable to the terrorist attack, unwilling or unable to act on intelligence that raised the possibility of such an attack, and still vulnerable to troubling policies and attitudes. The placing of airline profitability above public safety, the coziness existing between regulators and the airlines, and U.S and Middle Eastern funding of Islamic extremists are all elements inadequately explored by the 9/11 Commission, according to Ridgeway. Vanessa BushCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	James Ridgeway has authored over fifteen books and co-directed the films Blood in the Face and Feed. He has also written for Harpers, The Economist, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, Parade, Ramparts and The Wall Street Journal.",20th century;21st century;americas;books;history;national & international security;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics;terrorism;united states,12
B000OT85MW,"Involuntary Unemployment (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy) 'Involuntary Unemployment will to the teacher constitute a valuable text in any course on theories of unemployment. To the historian of ideas, it displays a stimulating disregard for the clichs of intellectual (pseudo) history. To the general economist, it makes for a sprightly performance, full of position and thought'. - William Coleman, Australian National University, Economic Record	Michel De Vroey is Professor of Economics at the Universit catholique de Louvain (Belgium). His main research interest is the history of macroeconomics. He has held visiting positions at the Universit de Paris, Panthon-Sorbonne, Duke University and the Universit de Montral. He has published articles in Economics and Philosophy, The Cambridge Journal of Economics and in the main history of economic thought journals.",biographies & primers;books;business & investing;economic conditions;economics;international;kindle ebooks;kindle store;labor & industrial relations;politics & social sciences;popular economics;unemployment,12
0534581897,"Contemporary Social Research Methods Using MicroCase, InfoTrac Version (with Workbook and Revised CD-ROM) Rodney Stark is a renowned scholar and researcher, and is recognized as one of the foremost sociologists working in the field of sociology of religion. Professor Stark has published more than 140 articles and 27 scholarly books that have won numerous awards and acknowledgements, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination. He is also known as a pioneer in the technology field. He co-founded the MicroCase Corporation, which is now a part of Thomson Wadsworth. With his background in journalism, it isn't surprising that in addition to receiving praise for his unique approach to sociology, he's received praise for having one of the better-written texts on the market.Michael Corbett received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He was professor of Political Science at Ball State University, where he taught courses covering an introduction to Political Science, research methods in Political Science, and public opinion. He was the author of numerous scholarly articles and of several books: POLITICAL TOLERANCE IN AMERICA: FREEDOM AND EQUALITY IN PUBLIC ATTITUDES (New York: Longman, 1982); AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION: TRENDS, PROCESS, AND PATTERNS (New York: Longman, 1991); SOCIAL RESEARCH USING MICROCASE (co-authored with Lynne Roberts ) (Bellevue, WA: MicroCase Corporation, 1998); and POLITICS AND RELIGION IN THE UNITED STATES (co-authored with Julia M. Corbett) (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999). Professor Corbett passed away in November of 2001 after battling cancer. His many years of service to the Research Methods book remain evident on every page and will continue for many editions to come.",books;family relationships;marriage & family;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;research;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,12
0299148041,"Joyce's Waking Women: A Feminist Introduction to Finnegans Wake Sheldon Brivic is professor of English at Temple University. He is the author of Joyce the Creator, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, The Veil of Signs: Joyce, Lacan, and Perception, and Joyce between Freud and Jung.",20th century;books;british;criticism & theory;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);movements & periods;politics & social sciences;women writers;women's studies,12
1402709110,"The Encyclopedia of Pastel Techniques: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to Traditional and Contemporary Techniques This outstanding volume on pastel techniques lives up to the encyclopedic claims of its title in a most delightful way. The book introduces soft, hard, oil, and water-soluble pastels, plus pastel pencils. The first section contains more than 40 demonstrations of techniques, from pouncing to scumbling. In addition, Martin explores pastel in combination with several other media, including acrylics and watercolors. With so few good books available on the subject, most libraries should consider both this and Guy Roddon's Pastel Painting Techniques ( LJ 8/91).- Daniel J. Lombardo, Jones Lib., Amherst, Mass.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Judy Martin is a teacher, a professional artist, and the author of The Complete Guide to Airbrushing, Drawing with Colour, The Encyclopedia of Printmaking Techniques, and The Longman Dictionary of Art.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",art;arts & photography;books;drawing;education & reference;encyclopedias;humanities;literature;new;pastel;used & rental textbooks;visual arts,12
B0000547KE,"The Aardvark Is Ready for War Nicknamed after the gas mask he and his fellow soldiers will wear as they fight in the Persian Gulf War, Aardvark is a tactical jet crewman headed for combat in this dark comedy. He recounts the days before he is called to fight and the carrier's progress toward its destination in blistering prose. The war is really happening on TV, and everyone on the ship is tuned to CNN. Aardvark wanders the ship with video camera in hand, filming the rule-bound officers, musclehead bunkmates, and porn entrepreneurs in an attempt to tune out reality. But as the ship nears its destination, he is forced to face his growing fears and sense of alienation.",books;contemporary;genre fiction;historical;humor;literary;literature & fiction;mystery;spy stories & tales of intrigue;thriller & suspense;thrillers;war,12
1580174647,"Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Homemade Cheeses [Ricki Carroll] has inspired artisans from Lorie to Las Vagas. Shes the Billy Graham of Cheese.  Barbara Kingsolver, from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.  This book covers everything the novice cheesemaker needs to know about making delicious cheese on the first try  San Francisco Examiner  A thorough and practical guide.  Bon Appetit  A must-read for anyone interested in cheese making!offering abled cheese makers knowledge to excel at their craft and novices a world of information  Jodi Wische, Old Chatham Sheepherding Co.	The co-founder and owner of New England Cheesemaking Supply in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Ricki Carroll learned cheesemaking in England. Her company has been supplying home cheese makers since 1978, with the goal of providing people with all the equipment and information needed to enjoy this most delicious of hobbies. Ricki teaches cheese making workshops around the country for beginners and advanced hobbyists alike, leads cheese making tours to Europe, and is a member of the American Cheese Society. Her book has become a classic reference.	Chapter 1- Ingredients   In the beginning, God created goats, they produced milk, and that was good. Then he was so excited that there came sheep, cows, and other milk-producing mammals. Then came human beings, who used this wondrous,wholesome product to feed their families. When they realized that milk in stomach pouches coagulated, it was their first miracle. They had discovered cheese! And that was VERY good! Stomach linings became their source for rennet, soured milk and whey became their source for cultures, and fingers were turned into instant thermometers (but that we'll save for the equipment chapter). The miracle of cheese solved an age-old question of how to save milk. After a while, naturally occurring molds added vim and vigor to cheeses and introduced variety to the palate.  Today, we use the same ingredients but obtain them in more sophisticated ways. Cultures and rennets are now made and standardized in factories and can be obtained from cheese-making supply houses. Milk comes in bottles and is bought at the grocery store. But hark! I hear the artists calling, because in the right hands, these ingredients can be turned into gastronomic delights. Read on, and happy cheese making.Milk   Milk means different things to different people. For the shopper in a grocery store, milk is the white liquid found in plastic jugs in the dairy case. For the owner of a dairy animal, milk is obtained in the course of a day's chores. Milk is a complicated substance. About seven eighths of it is water. The rest is made up of proteins, minerals, milk sugar (lactose), milk fat (butterfat), vitamins, and trace elements. Those substances are called milk solids.  When we make cheese, we cause the protein part of the milk solids, called casein, to coagulate (curdle) and produce curd. At first the curd is a soft, solid gel, because it still contains all the water along with the solids. But as it is heated, and as time passes, the curd releases liquid (whey), condensing more and more until it becomes cheese. Most of the butterfat remains in the curd and very little passes into the whey. Time, temperature, and a variety of friendly bacteria determine the flavor and texture of each type of cheese.  Throughout history, people have used milk from many animals. The familiar cow, goat, and sheep have fed people for centuries, along with less common animals such as the yak, camel, water buffalo, llama, ass, elk, mare, caribou, zebu, and reindeer. When making the cheeses in this book, you may use whatever milk you have available in your area. Cow's and goat's milks are the most readily available in the United States; you may find some sheep's and water buffalo's milks, if you are very lucky. You may make the cheeses in this book with store-bought milk, as long as it is not Ultra-Heat Treated (UHT), and you can use dried milk powder for the all the recipes in chapter 4, ""Soft Cheese,"" and in chapter 10, ""Other Dairy Products.""  No matter what type of milk you use for cheese making, it must be of the highest quality. Always use the freshest milk possible. If it comes from the supermarket, do not open the container until you are ready to start. This will prevent possible contamination from bacteria in the air. Above all, if the milk tastes sour or ""off,"" throw it away -- the cheese-making process will not make your milk taste better! When purchasing milk, remember that 1 gallon yields 1 pound for hard cheeses or 2 pounds for soft cheeses. This varies from milk to milk. Yields from goat's milk and nonfat milk are lower, and the yield from sheep's milk is higher. The following list includes the many types of milk used in the cheese-making process.Cow's Milk  In the United States today, cow's milk is the most popular for use in cheese making. This is not the case in the rest of the world, however, as goats and sheep feed the majority of the globe's population. Cows are large animals that are more difficult to raise; they eat more and therefore take up much more grazing land and natural resources. Yet cow's milk is abundant, the curd is firm and easy to work with, and it produces many wonderful cheeses. If you are considering buying your own cow, start with a Jersey -- its rich milk will produce a high cheese yield because it has a high butterfat content, and Jerseys are very sweet animals. Goat's Milk  Goat's (doe's) milk has smaller butterfat globules than cow's milk, making it more easily digested. It is more acidic than cow's milk, so it ripens faster, and it has no carotene, so it produces a whiter cheese. Because of its natural homogenization, goat's milk makes a slightly softer cheese than that from cow's milk, though the butterfat content is about the same. Cheese made from raw goat's milk has a distinct peppery hot pungency caused by naturally occurring lipase enzymes and fatty acids. During the renneting process, you may lower the temperature five degrees, because goat's- milk curd tends to be more delicate. Remember to treat these softer curds very gently.  If you are looking for your own goats, Nubians and Alpines are good producers and tend to have the sweetest milk. Saanens often produce more milk, but it has a stronger flavor. Toggenburgs produce a slightly lower yield, but also a strong flavor.Sheep's Milk  Sheep's (ewe's) milk is one of the most nutritionally valuable foods available. It is high in protein and vitamins, which so often have to be artificially added to our diet. Sheep's milk contains almost 10 percent less water than cow's or goat's milk and is almost twice as high in solids as cow's milk; therefore, it produces a very high cheese yield -- almost 2H times what you would expect from cow's or goat's milk.  Milking sheep are now making an appearance in the United States, and there are some differences to note if you use sheep's milk for cheese making. When adding rennet, use three to five times less than that used for cow's milk, and top-stir carefully. When cutting the curd, make larger cubes; when ladling, take thicker slices, or you will lose too much butterfat and the cheese will be too dry. Use half the amount of salt called for and exert only light pressure when pressing. Water Buffalo's Milk  This milk has three times as much butterfat as cow's milk and is traditionally used to make mozzarella. Unless you have your own herd, using water buffalo's milk is not a possibility in the United States at this time. Raw Milk  Several terms need to be defined, so that you know what I am talking about when I use the word milk. Raw milk comes directly from a farm animal and is filtered and cooled before use. It is not pasteurized, so it has a higher vitamin content than heat-treated milk. Raw milk brings out the fullness and richness of flavors, and it has the added advantage of bringing the subtleties of pasturing and the diet of the animal into your final cheese.  Raw milk contains natural flora, many of which are very useful in cheese making. It may also contain harmful bacteria, known as pathogens, that can produce disease in humans. Pathogens that may be found in milk include Mycobacterium, which causes tuberculosis; Brucella, which cause brucellosis, and Salmonella, which causes salmonellosis.  A few salmonella outbreaks in recent decades, however, all have occurred in pasteurized milk. Typically, salmonella outbreaks are caused by a lack of cleanliness in factories, where the thinking is that ""pasteurization will take care of it."" Taking precautions to avoid foodborne illness is important for everyone, but especially for those most vulnerable to disease -- children, the elederly, and people with weakened immune systems.  If you consume raw milk or use raw milk to produce cheese that is aged fewer than 60 days (this includes almost all fresh cheeses), you must be absolutely certain that there are no pathogens in the milk. To ensure that your raw milk is pathogen-free, consult a local veterinarian for advice. A good rule to follow is: If in doubt, pasteurize.  When using raw milk, never use milk from an animal that is suffering from mastitis (inflammation of the udder) or receiving antibiotics, which will destroy the helpful bacteria that are essential in making cheese. (If you make raw-milk cheese for sale, U.S. federal law dictates that it must be aged longer than 60 days to prevent the development of pathogenic bacteria.) That said, raw-milk cheeses are some of the best in the world. Homogenized Milk  This milk has been heat-treated and pressurized to break up the butterfat globules into very small particles so that they are distributed evenly throughout the milk and do not rise to the top. Homogenized milk produces a curd that is smoother and less firm than that of raw milk, so I recommend adding calcium chloride during cheese making. Homogenized milk may require up to twice as much rennet as does raw milk. Although store-bought milk is usually both pasteurized and homogenized, farm-fresh milk does not need to be homogenized. Cream-Line Milk  This milk has not been homogenized and has a ""line"" that separates the cream on the top from the milk on the bottom. (This is delicious! If you're my age, you remember the glass bottles on the porch -- that was cream-line milk.)Pasteurized Milk  This type of milk has been heat-treated to destroy pathogens. In effect, it kills all bacteria, which is why you need to add bacterial starter to most cheese recipes. Pasteurization makes proteins, vitamins, and milk sugars less available, and it also destroys the enzymes that help the body assimilate them. How to Pasteurize Milk. If you acquire milk directly from a cow or a goat and need to pasteurize it, follow this simple procedure:  1. Pour the raw milk into a stainless-steel or glass pot (do not use aluminum) and place the pot into another, larger pot containing hot water. Put the double boiler on the stovetop and bring the water to a boil.  2. Heat the milk to 163F, stirring occasionally to ensure even heating. Hold the temperature at 163F for exactly 30 minutes. The temperature and time are ...",agricultural sciences;books;canning & preserving;cheese & dairy;cookbooks;cooking by ingredient;crafts;food & wine;hobbies & home;science & math;sustainable living;vegetables & vegetarian,12
0826320392,"World War II and the American Indian The first full ethnohistory of American Indian responses to, and participation in, World War II; beginning with the drift toward war in the 1930s, including their reactions to propaganda campaigns directed at them by Nazi sympathizers.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The first full ethnohistory of American Indian responses to, and participation in, World War II; beginning with the drift toward war in the 1930s, including their reactions to propaganda campaigns directed at them by Nazi sympathizers.	Professor Kenneth William Townsend is a specialist in twentieth-century American history and the author of studies on the 1930s and World War II. He teaches at Coastal Carolina University.",20th century;americas;books;history;military;native american;native american studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states;world war ii,12
0471839655,"Fundamentals of Photonics (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics) Solutions Manual available. -- The publisher, John Wiley & Sons	Covers the interaction of optics and electronics and their important applications in lasers, optical fibers and semiconductor optical devices. Examines the four theories of light--ray, wave, electromagnetic and photon optics as well as the theory of interaction of light with matter. Numerous applications and examples of actual systems are also provided.	In recent years, photonics has found increasing applications in such areas as communications, signal processing, computing, sensing, display, printing, and energy transport. Now, Fundamentals of Photonics is the first self-contained introductory-level textbook to offer a thorough survey of this rapidly expanding area of engineering and applied physics. Featuring a logical blend of theory and applications, coverage includes detailed accounts of the primary theories of light, including ray optics, wave optics, electromagnetic optics, and photon optics, as well as the interaction of light with matter, and the theory of semiconductor materials and their optical properties. Presented at increasing levels of complexity, these sections serve as building blocks for the treatment of more advanced topics, such as Fourier optics and holography, guidedwave and fiber optics, photon sources and detectors, electro-optic and acousto-optic devices, nonlinear optical devices, fiber-optic communications, and photonic switching and computing. Included are such vital topics as:* Generation of coherent light by lasers, and incoherent light by luminescence sources such as light-emitting diodes* Transmission of light through optical components (lenses, apertures, and imaging systems), waveguides, and fibers* Modulation, switching, and scanning of light through the use of electrically, acoustically, and optically controlled devices* Amplification and frequency conversion of light by the use of wave interactions in nonlinear materials* Detection of light by means of semiconductor photodetectorsEach chapter contains summaries, highlighted equations, problem sets and exercises, and selected reading lists. Examples of real systems are included to emphasize the concepts governing applications of current interest, and appendices summarize the properties of one- and two-dimensional Fourier transforms, linear-systems theory, and modes of linear systems.	In recent years, photonics has found increasing applications in such areas as communications, signal processing, computing, sensing, display, printing, and energy transport. Now, Fundamentals of Photonics is the first self-contained introductory-level textbook to offer a thorough survey of this rapidly expanding area of engineering and applied physics. Featuring a logical blend of theory and applications, coverage includes detailed accounts of the primary theories of light, including ray optics, wave optics, electromagnetic optics, and photon optics, as well as the interaction of light with matter, and the theory of semiconductor materials and their optical properties.Presented at increasing levels of complexity, these sections serve as building blocks for the treatment of more advanced topics, such as Fourier optics and holography, guidedwave and fiber optics, photon sources and detectors, electro-optic and acousto-optic devices, nonlinear optical devices, fiber-optic communications, and photonic switching and computing. Included are such vital topics as:* Generation of coherent light by lasers, and incoherent light by luminescence sources such as light-emitting diodes* Transmission of light through optical components (lenses, apertures, and imaging systems), waveguides, and fibers* Modulation, switching, and scanning of light through the use of electrically, acoustically, and optically controlled devices* Amplification and frequency conversion of light by the use of wave interactions in nonlinear materials Detection of light by means of semiconductor photodetectorsEach chapter contains summaries, highlighted equations, problem sets and exercises, and selected reading lists. Examples of real systems are included to emphasize the concepts governing applications of current interest, and appendices summarize the properties of one- and two-dimensional Fourier transforms, linear-systems theory, and modes of linear systems.	About the authors BAHAA E. A. SALEH is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the Editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of America and the author of Photoelectron Statistics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Optical Society of America, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Dr. Saleh is currently involved in research in the areas of image processing, optical signal processing, statistical optics, optical communications, and vision. MALVIN CARL TEICH is Professor and past Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He is also a member of the Department of Applied Physics, the Columbia Radiation Laboratory, and the Center for Telecommunications Research. He is the Deputy Editor of the journal Quantum Optics. Dr. Teich is a Fellow of the IEEE, the AAAS, the Optical Society of America, the American Physical Society, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He was awarded the IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize. He is currently involved in research in quantum optics, lightwave communications, and sensory perception.",books;electrical & electronic engineering;electrical & electronics;engineering;light;new;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;telecommunications;used & rental textbooks,12
0198246420,"The Cement of the Universe: A Study of Causation (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy) `It is a singularly impressive and powerful essay and one that will provide a basis for comment and  controversy about causation and allied problems for a long time to come.'  D. J. O`Connor, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science",books;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;logic;logic & language;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words,12
B000FQJ7PI,"MDX Solutions: With Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services A hands-on tutorial on building and using multidimensional data warehouses    The SQL query language is used to access data in most simple databases. But for multidimensional (or OLAP) data warehouses, Microsoft developed MDX. The MDX query language has become essential know-how for developers and users alike, whether for data warehouses or for budgeting and planning systems. This tutorial/reference guide shows developers and users how to use MDX to access and analyze data for decision support. Both the standard language and Microsoft's own extensive additions to MDX are explained. The authors provide practical examples of MDX in use, and explain both standard usage and more advanced techniques, such as optimization, cube design, and Pareto analysis. Finally, the appendices provide a handy reference guide that users can rely on.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A hands-on tutorial on building and using multidimensional data warehouses    The SQL query language is used to access data in most simple databases. But for multidimensional (or OLAP) data warehouses, Microsoft developed MDX. The MDX query language has become essential know-how for developers and users alike, whether for data warehouses or for budgeting and planning systems. This tutorial/reference guide shows developers and users how to use MDX to access and analyze data for decision support. Both the standard language and Microsoft's own extensive additions to MDX are explained. The authors provide practical examples of MDX in use, and explain both standard usage and more advanced techniques, such as optimization, cube design, and Pareto analysis. Finally, the appendices provide a handy reference guide that users can rely on.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;computers & technology;data warehousing;database management systems;databases;development;education & reference;languages & tools;microsoft;programming;sql;sql server,12
8170210593,"Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica and a Word Index James Tyler Kent, A.M., Chicago, Illinois, Professor of Materia Medica in Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago physician and author of several valuable medical works, His contributions to the literature of the profession are known by their strength rather than their length, and include, more prominently, his ""Repertory"", ""Homoeoapthic Philosophy"" and ""Lectures on Materia Medica Kent died, on June 6, 1916 at Stevensville, Montana.",alternative medicine;books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;homeopathy;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,12
031211995X,"Listen Up, Girlfriends!: Lessons on Life from the Queen of Advice This collection of homespun wisdom has a 100,000-copy first printing.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.",& style;beauty;books;fitness & dieting;grooming;health;love & romance;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;relationships;self-help;women's studies,12
0521007909,"How to Use a Computerized Telescope: Practical Amateur Astronomy Volume 1 '[Covington] writes clearly and the text is presented in an orderly manner, so that the reader is unlikely to become confused.' Times Higher Education Supplement	How to Use a Computerized Telescope is the first handbook that describes how to get your computerized telescope up-and-running, and how to embark on a program of observation. It explains in detail how the sky moves, how your telescope tracks it, and how to get the most out of any computerized telescope. Packed full of practical advice and tips for troubleshooting, it translates the manufacturers' technical jargon into easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, and includes many of the author's tried and tested observing techniques.	Michael Covington is one of America's leading amateur astronomers and the author of Astrophotography for the Amateur (0521641330).",astronomy;astronomy & astrophysics;astronomy & space science;books;experiments;instruments & measurement;new;science & math;science & mathematics;star-gazing;telescopes;used & rental textbooks,12
1560438010,"Can You Stand to Be Blessed? With words that stand the test of time, T.D. Jakes' three books cross denominational lines, racial barriers, and gender biases to reach into the heart of the reader. With the compassion of Jesus Christ, he touches the hidden places of every woman's heart to bring healing to past wounds with the phenomenal best-selling Woman, Thou Art Loosed! With the same intensity he calls all men, women, and children to stop being afraid to reveal what God longs to heal in Naked and Not Ashamed. Only when we drop our masks and facades can we be real before our Lord and others. And with Can You Stand to Be Blessed? T.D. Jakes, a man of many accomplishments and life goals, shares personal insights that will help all people survive the peaks and valleys of daily living out God's call upon their lives. This classics gift set is sure to become a special part of every reader's personal library!	Does any runner enter a race without training for it? Does a farmer expect a harvest without preparing a field? Do Christians believe they can hit the mark without investing any effort? The heart of every believer holds a desire to fulfill his destiny in God. Yet the way to success--and beyond--is full of twists and turns and obstacles. In this book T.D. Jakes teaches you how to unlock the inner strength to go on in God. The requirements that he discusses prepare you for your intended purpose. The only question that remains is, Can You Stand to be Blessed?	T. D. Jakes, Bishop T. D. Jakes was born and raised in Charleston, West Virginia. He received a Doctorate of Ministry and was the founder and senior pastor of the Temple of Faith Ministries in Charleston for sixteen years. He relocated with T. D. Jakes Ministries, in 1996, to Dallas, Texas. Bishop Jakes is also the CEO for T. D. Jakes Ministries and has promoted hundreds of conferences across the country. He is the author of the bestsellers ""Woman, Thou Art Loosed!,"" ""Naked And Not Ashamed,"" ""Can You Stand To Be Blessed,"" ""Daddy Loves His Girls,"" ""The Harvest,"" and ""Loose That Man And Let Him Go."" He serves on the board of directors and as a contributing writer for several religious magazines. He also has a weekly television broadcast called Get Ready with T. D. Jakes, which is aired in several countries throughout the world, and Bishop Jakes was named one of the nation's most influential ministers by The New York Times.",books;charismatic;christian books & bibles;christian living;inspirational;pentecostal;personal transformation;protestantism;religion & spirituality;self-help;spirituality;worship & devotion,12
0613240707,"Guinness World Records (Guinness Book of Records) Searching for the name of the most tattooed woman, or in desperate need of knowing which NFL team has accomplished the highest number of consecutive wins? As always, the Guinness Book of World Records is the prime source of such top-ranked trivia, and this fancy edition for 2001 is no exception. With its large, hardcover format, bright colors, numerous photos, and quality print job, this book deserves a permanent home on your coffee table. Divided into color-coded sections such as crime, gadgets, spacecraft, weather, sports, and the ever-fascinating human body, you'll find everything from the bestselling hip-hop album (CrazySexyCool by TLC) to the rarest living creature (an Abingdon Island giant tortoise by the name of Lonesome George). Fun high-tech categories include most-visited Web sites (www.france98.com), fastest-selling PC game (Myst), and fastest-spreading worm (the dreaded ""I love you""). Showcasing some of mankind's proudest achievements, the two pages devoted to robots present us the slightly absurd ""most cocktails mixed by a robot,"" accomplished by Cynthia and Rastus from Cynthia's Cyberbar, along with many more-practical successes. Young and ambitious readers will find one short section especially inspiring. At the back of the book, specific instructions tell you how to go about setting your own world record, including contact information, guidelines, and suggestions on how to prevail without becoming a world-class athlete or permanently altering your body. Following this helpful information is a list of some of the more unusual accomplishments that resulted in new records: marshmallow nose blow, heaviest ear lift, longest bubble, and fastest ketchup drinker are but a few. Whether you use this book to settle bar bets, entertain the family, or inspire yourself to dizzying heights of personal achievement, it's a sure hit for trivia buffs of all ages. --Jill Lightner 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Guinness World Records is the authority on world records. Guinness World Records 2001, the 41st edition, will provide endless hours of fascination, fun and information.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The unmatched authoritative collection of world class facts, figures and feats from around the globe. This newly revised 2000 edition contains in depth reports, incredible photographs, fascinating features, wacky record attempts, and information for hopeful record-breakers. A survey of the world's most extraordinary human achievements and natural phenomena, this astounding collection will continue to entertain millions. Including exciting new records as seen on the amazing TV series Guinness World RecordsTM: Primetime!The must-have, fun-to-read guide to every amazing fact, figure, and feat for the dawn of the new millennium!From the fastest car to the most recently discovered element, from the wonders of nature to the wild world of extreme sports, Guinness World Records is the undisputed authority for every record that's worth knowing--fastest, tallest, smallest, most expensive--with photos to back them up!Read about it here: The hotel that's rebuilt completely--every year: the igloo that sleeps up to 150 guests!  Rush pizza delivery--in 9 hours: the New Zealand pizza parlor that airlifts pies to Antarctica!  Space--the final resting place: the mass funeral that launched the ashes of Timothy Leary and Gene Roddenberry into orbit!The world's most popular reference book Incredible new knowledge section More sports records than ever Entertainment, medical, Internet, and crime records	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Courage: Space HeroesFastest Speeds AttainedThe record for the greatest speed at which a human being has ever traveled is 24,791 mph, achieved by the crew of the command module of Apollo 10 (Col. Thomas Stafford, CDR. Eugene Cernan, and CDR. John Young, all US) on the craft's trans-Earth return flight in May 1969.Greatest Altitude Attained by a WomanKathryn Thornton (US) attained an altitude of 375 miles after an orbital engine burn on December 10, 1993, during the STS 61 Endeavour mission.Most Isolated Human BeingThe greatest distance that a person has ever been from a fellow human being is 2,234 miles 1,330 yd. This was experienced by command module pilot Alfred Worden during the US Apollo 15 lunar mission, which lasted from July 30 to August 1, 1971. Fellow astronauts David Scott and James Irwin were at Hadley Base exploring the moon's surface.Most Experienced Space TravelerRussian doctor Valeriy Poliyakov clocked up 678 days 16 hr. 33 min. 16 sec. during two space missions.Most People in Space at OnceOn March 14, 1995, a record 13 people were in space at the same time: seven Americans aboard the US STS 67 Endeavour, three CIS cosmonauts aboard the Russian Mir space station, and two CIS cosmonauts and a US astronaut aboard the CIS Soyuz TM21.Most Nationalities in SpaceFive countries had astronauts or cosmonauts in space on July 31, 1992: four Russian cosmonauts and one Frenchman were aboard Mir, and one Swiss, one Italian, and five US astronauts were on STS 46 Atlantis.On February 22, 1996, there were four US, one Swiss, and two Italian astronauts on STS 75 Columbia and one German and four Russian cosmonauts aboard the Mir space station.Biggest Shuttle CrewTwo shuttles have had a crew of eight: STS 61A Challenger, which was launched on October 30, 1995, and STS 71 Atlantis, which docked with the Mir space station on July 7, 1995.Most People Aboard a SpacecraftIn June 1995, a record 10 people (four Russians and six Americans) were aboard the Mir station. Longest Lunar MissionThe crew of Apollo 17 (Capt. Eugene Cernan and Dr. Harrison Hagen Schmitt, both US) were on the surface of the moon for a record 74 hr. 59 min. during a lunar mission lasting 12 days 13 hr. 51 min. (December 7 to 19, 1972).Longest Shuttle FlightColumbia's 21st mission, STS 80, began on November 19, 1996, and lasted for 17 days 15 hr. 53 min. 26 sec. (to main gear shutdown), beating its own previous record. Bad weather at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida meant that the landing had to be postponed for two days.Longest Manned SpaceflightValeriy Poliyakov was launched to the Russian Mir space station aboard Soyuz TM18 on January 8, 1994, and landed aboard Soyuz TM20 on March 22, 1995, after a spaceflight lasting 437 days 17 hr. 58 min. 16 sec.Most Trips Around Earth by a Space StationBy March 2, 1999, Mir had completed more than 75,000 trips around Earth. By the time of its scheduled landing, the station will have been in orbit for 13 years.Biggest Space FuneralThe ashes of 24 space pioneers and enthusiasts, including Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and counterculture guru Dr. Timothy Leary, were sent into orbit in April 1997 on Spain's Pegasus rocket, at a cost of $5,000 each. They will stay in orbit for 3 1/2 to 10 years. Farthest Final Resting PlaceIn January 1998, 1 oz. of the ashes of the celebrated geologist Dr. Eugene Shoemaker (US) was launched aboard NASA's Lunar Prospector as it set out on a one-year mapping mission above the moon's surface. When its power fails, the craft will crash to the moon's surface, carrying Shoemaker's remains with it. He once said that never having been to the moon was his greatest disappointment. Largest Audience for a Space EventThe broadcast of the first moon walk by the Apollo 11 astronauts (Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin) in July 1969 was watched by an estimated 600 million people worldwide (about one-fifth of the world's population at that time).Oldest AstronautThe oldest astronaut is John Glenn Jr., who was 77 years 103 days old when he was launched into space as part of the crew of Discovery STS-95 on October 29, 1998. The mission lasted 11 days, landing on November 7, 1998.Astronaut Responsible for Most Laptop ComputersSpanish astronaut Pedro Duque had to look after a total of 19 laptop computers aboard Discovery in October 1998.Epic AdventurersBiggest Ancient Civilization DiscoveryIn the late 1820s, deserting soldier Charles Masson discovered the ruins of the world's biggest ancient civilization--the Indus Valley civilization at Harappa, India (now Pakistan). Extensive excavations carried out at the site by Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni in 1920 indicated that the civilization dated back to 3300 b.c. The discovery of a second site at Mohenjo-daro showed that the Harappans used the same sized bricks and standard weights for 1,000 miles and that the civilization supported a population of 50,000 at certain periods. More recent excavations have shown that it extended even farther than had been thought, stretching along and beyond the banks of the ancient Ghaggar-Hakra (Saraswati) River and covering an area of 220,000 square miles from Baluchistan, Pakistan, in the west to Uttar Pradesh, India, in the east and Bombay (Mumbai), India, in the south. The majority of the civilization's cities have still to be excavated, and its script has not yet been deciphered.Biggest Inca DiscoveryThe Yale University Peruvian Expeditions of 1911-12 and 1914-15, both led by US historian Hiram Bingham, resulted in the discovery of the lost Inca cities of Machu Picchu and Vitcos--two of the most important archaeological finds in the Americas. Fastest Desert CrossingIn 1998, Moroccan adventurer Mohammed Ahansal completed the Marathon des Sables in a record time of 16 hr. 22 min. 29 sec. The marathon, which has been held every year since 1986, is a six-day event in which runners must cross 137 miles of the Sahara Desert, where temperatures regularly reach 120 degrees F. The runners carry food, clothes, a sleeping bag, and a first-aid kit with them and have to prepare their own meals. The youngest person to have competed in the marathon is a 16-year-old boy, and the oldest is a 76-year-old man. In April 1999, 584 people from 27 countries took part in the marathon.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;criticism & theory;education & reference;english literature;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;reference;trivia & fun facts;used & rental textbooks,12
1585070548,"From VHS to DVD It's time to dig out those old home videos and take them into the digital age.     Whether you are filming with Super 8, VHS or have upgraded to DV, you can now turn your home videos into digital masterpieces.      * Establishing proper connections  * Selecting the interface card format  * Setting the correct compression    * Adding audio and text  * Produccing transitions and fades  * Special effects    * Copy DVD files  * Transfer to MPEG1 or MPEG2  * Format for VCD, XVCD, or SVCD    * Preparing for DVD play  * Adapting to 80 minute CDs  * Adding menus and titles    Bonus CD contains great freeware for editing and production:  * VirtualDub  * AIST MovieXone  * FlaskMPEG  * DVTool  * TMPEGEnc	Mark-Steffen Goewecke is an established media designer, video producer and photographer. His first film, L'Hotel, received international awards and recognition. Goewecke has also produced a vast array of short films and his photography can be found in numerous international galleries.",books;computers & technology;desktop publishing;digital media management;digital music - general;direction & production;graphic design;humor & entertainment;movies;video production;web design;web development & design,12
0195123298,"Law and the Language of Identity: Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial ""This work is at the cutting edge of contemporary sociolinguistic theory. Law and the Language of Identity reflects a very high level of scholarship. The technical linguistic analysis is particularly brilliant.""--Susan Hirsch, Author of Pronouncing and Persevering and Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at Wesleyan University	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Greg M. Matoesian, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Illinois, Chicago.",books;criminal law;criminal procedure;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;law;linguistics;new;philosophy;used & rental textbooks;words,12
0878331484,"Spielberg: The Man, the Movies, the Mythology That adversity is the mother of invention certainly holds in the life of the most successful filmmaker of all time. Born in 1947, Spielberg grew up as a harassed Jew in a WASP suburb of Cincinnati. Fascinated by film from an early age, he used his sisters as actors as he made movies as a teenager. Rejected at the prestigious UCLA Film School because of insufficient grades, in 1969 he directed his first movie, Amblin', which won awards at the Venice and Atlanta film festivals and was brought to the attention of executives at Universal Studios. His first professional job was directing Joan Crawford in a segment of Rod Serling's Night Gallery TV series. He first hit paydirt with The Sugarland Express and in 1975 would become an artistic and financial success with Jaws, which was followed by Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Sanello (Cruise: The Unauthorized Biography) chronicles behind-the-scenes stories about the making of each Spielberg picture. He also looks at the director's marriages to actresses Amy Irving and Kate Capshaw. Although the author tends to psychoanalyze Spielberg over his emerging sense of Jewish identity and the making of Schindler's List (for which Spielberg won an Oscar for best director), this is a solid, fast-paced bio. Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Spielberg often ranks at or near the top of Hollywood's power list. The world's most successful director, he also heads his own production company and recently helped form the potential entertainment conglomerate DreamWorks SKG. This book traces Spielberg's career from apprenticeship days to the triumph of Schindler's List. Unfortunately, the author seems less interested in Spielberg's work than in speculation, gossip, and trivia regarding Spielberg's failed first marriage to actress Amy Irving and his second marriage to actress Kate Capshaw. The book has too many sneering asides on critics and performers, doesn't give enough detail on individual films, and quotes Look magazine in 1979 (it ceased publication years earlier). A truly outstanding book on the director has yet to be written, but libraries should consider Douglas Brode's The Films of Steven Spielberg (Carol Pub. Group, 1994), a good introduction to basic themes in his work. This superficial book is not a necessary purchase.?Stephen Rees, Levittown Regional Lib., Pa.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Any with a prior interest in Steven Spielberg's movies and efforts will  welcome this in-depth biography which probes both his career, film contributions, and personal  life. Sanello's coverage exposes the personal influences which helped form Spielberg's films and  unique style: chapters provide a revealing portrait of the man's controversies, tumultuous  relationships, and career challenges.  -- Midwest Book Review	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Frank Sanello, author of Cruise: The Unauthorized Biography, has written for The New York Times, People, and The Los Angeles Daily News. He lives in Los Angeles, California.",( s );a-z;arts & literature;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;entertainers;humor & entertainment;movies;people;spielberg;steven,12
0609610422,"American Bar Association Family Legal Guide, Third Edition: Everything your family needs to know about the law and real estate, consumer protection, ... home ownership, wills & estates, and more The American Bar Association Family Legal Guide is the most comprehensive and authoritative legal resource available for the layperson. Revised and updated, it helps readers steer clear of legal pitfalls and achieve a better understanding of their rights and responsibilities under the law.Covers a wide range of legal areas, including family law, home ownership, small business, consumer credit, wills and estates, and the rights of older AmericansRevision includes new chapters on computer law and health lawFollows a straightforward question-and-answer format featuring sidebars, bulleted focal points, and charts and graphsThoroughly prepared and reviewed by top legal experts	The American Bar Association is the nation's leading legal authority and the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world. With more than 400,000 members, the ABA provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public.",books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;law;law practice;legal reference;new;political science;reference;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0847825647,"Jeffrey Bilhuber's Design Basics: Expert Solutions for Designing the House of Your Dreams Jeffrey Bilhuber's unique interpretation of ""American Classicism"" has been featured in such publications as Architectural Digest, Vogue, In Style, the New York Times, as well as on CNN, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and HGTV. His clients include Iman and David Bowie, Peter Jennings, Anna Wintour, and Halston, among others. He lives in New York.Annette Tapert,a long-time writer on style, fashion, and beauty, is author of nine books, including The Power of Style.",architecture;books;buildings;crafts;decorating;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;home repair;how-to & home improvements;interior design;professional & technical,12
1881320219,"My Quilts and Me: The Diary of an American Quilter ""Nora Ezell is a great storyteller.  She takes bits and pieces of  cloth and imposes upon them an ingeniously creative imagination,  producing a pictorial story of great power, emotion, and beauty.""  --Jim Sokol, collector ""Mrs. Ezell's quilts demand to be noticed.  They dazzle, they play with abstraction, symmetry, and sculptural  balance.  They are meant to be displayed, exhibited, heralded, and  paraded.""  --Henry Willett, Director, Alabama Center for Traditional  Culture ""These quilts are delightful examples of a tradition that  places ingenuity alongside practicality, which values imagination  along with the work ethic, and which reflects the human capacity for  seeing beauty in every task well done.""                              -- James Nelson, Art Critic, Birmingham News	Nora McKeown Ezell was named a 1992 National Heritage Fellow in the National Endowment for the Arts program that recognizes individuals who carry on folk traditions in the United States.  She received the Alabama Folk Heritage Award in 1990, the state's highest honor for achievement in the traditional arts.  Her work has been the subject of a number of one-woman shows, and she has exhibited at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City.",african-american & black;architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;biographies & memoirs;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;ethnic & national;hobbies & home;needlecrafts & textile crafts;quilts & quilting,12
1585747319,"Beeing: Life, Motherhood, and 180,000 Honey Bees Novelist Thomas (The Angel Carver) recounts her first year in a  small New England town with her young daughter, her old cat, and  her laptop. Once there, she decided on a lark to try her hand at  beekeeping, about which she knew nothing, and headed to a local  beekeeping store for advice and supplies. As she learned to care  for her three hives, she overcame her initial apprehension. With  a bit of philosophizing and a lot of self-appreciation, Thomas  describes how she tended her hives from one spring to the next  and how, during that time, she developed a strong animosity  toward one man and opportunistic friendships with several  others. As she distributed her first crop of honey as gifts, she  concluded that ""a single narrow four-inch-high jar cost  approximately $200 to produce. It was worth it."" With her newly  acquired facts and enthusiasm, Thomas strives to be an  inspiration to other novice beekeepers. But tedious descriptions  of her mundane activities bog down the narrative, and Thomas's  depiction of her trial-and-error methods tends to confuse the  reader. A beginner will find a much sounder introduction in such excellent guides as Diana Sammatro and others' The Beekeeper's  Handbook and R. Bonney's Beekeeping. Not recommended.Ilse  Heidmann, Olympia, WA    Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""Thomas writes with the gentle precision of a master.""--Newsweek""Through Rosanne Daryl Thomas's witty prose the reader is catapulted into a land where bee colonies, with the ever-swarmed queen, prove to be remarkably similar to human society...In between her Ball jars of sugar honey and countless trips to True Value hardware, we also come to know August, and amazing little girl who is able to encourage her mother's spiritual growth while acting like a regular kid."" -- St. Petersburg Times Review""Wonder, anticipation, devotion--all are implicit in this scrupulous writing.""--The New York Times Book Review	Post-husband, pre-rest-of-life, Rosanne Daryl Thomas and her seven-year-old daughter move to a small New England town. When, on a whim, she decides to take up beekeeping, her daughter is so proud of her that she can't back out-no matter how bumbling and unprepared she is. Thomas learns much from the Bee Master and other locals intrigued by a novice woman beekeeper who needs their help-at first.As she finds her courage, Thomas also finds herself embracing a life she never dreamed of. Entering the mysterious world of bees, she begins a relationship with nature that mingles science with mythology, wonder with humility, and motherly devotion with a search for new ways of seeing and untried possibilities. She learns that beekeeping, like life, can never be mastered. There is always room to make another mistake, and with each mistake comes an opportunity. Along the way, she gets her share of stings, some honey-and, perhaps, a little bit wiser.With a novelist's eye for detail, and prose that intimately engages the reader, Rosanne Daryl Thomas opens the mysterious and seductive world of beekeeping to a whole new audience. (6 1/4 x 9 1/4, 240 pages)Rosanne Daryl Thomas is the author of Awaiting Grace and The Angel Carver, which was a New York Times Notable Book. This is her first full-length work of non-fiction.	ROSANNE DARYL THOMAS is the author of Awaiting Grace and The Angel Carver, which was a New York Times Notable Book. She lives with her daughter in New England. This is her first full-length work of nonfiction.",agricultural sciences;animal husbandry;animals;biographies & memoirs;biological sciences;books;historical;insects & spiders;nature & ecology;new england;regional u.s.;science & math,12
B000AMX834,"Bite Shield - 2 Pack Refill Lentek Bite Shield portable, lightweight biting insect repellent produces pleasant fragrance that Biting Insects hate. The repellent cartridge contains beads made with a naturally occurring essential oil called Geraniol. It has a fan that quietly distribu",camping & hiking;garden center;insect repellent;lawn & garden;outdoor recreation;patio;personal care;pest control;power & hand tools;repellents;sports & outdoors;tools & home improvement,12
1556525834,"Oddball Texas: A Guide to Some Really Strange Places (Oddball series) ""If you hanker for offbeat adventure, this is a guidebook to stick under the front seat of your pickup."" The Enterprise""Droll descriptions that make even Bonnie and Clyde and Lee Harvey Oswald seem comedic."" The Chicago Tribune""A great book for browsing . . . great to keep handy on your next trip to or across the Lone Star State."" All Info About	Jerome Pohlen is the author of the Oddball series and a regular travel commentator for 848 on WBEZ, the Chicago affiliate of National Public Radio. He is a recent recipient of the Illinois Associated Press Broadcasters Award for Best Essay.",arts & photography;books;catalogs & exhibitions;collections;education & reference;general;south;specialty travel;tourist destinations & museums;travel;united states;west south central,12
0806983655,"Whirligigs & Weathervanes: A Celebration of Wind Gadgets With Dozens of Creative Projects to Make YA-- A delightful collection of projects for creative students and beginning woodworkers, illustrated with large, full-color photos. The authors include traditional whirling ducks and airplanes, as well as a shakin' wind-powered Elvis and racing Coyote and Roadrunner. This wry history of an All-American art form is a gem.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;education & reference;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;how-to & home improvements;projects;reference;toymaking;toys & models;woodworking,12
0253334896,"Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader (Philanthropic Studies) ""This is a volume that everyone concerned about nonprofits--scholar, practitioner, and citizen--will find useful and illuminating."" --ARNOVA News   ""What David C. Hammack conveys most vividly in his new book is how deeply the roots of the nonprofit sector are intertwined with this nation's earliest history and with its most fundamental political principles."" --Museum News   ""A remarkable book.""--Robert Putnam, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	DAVID C. HAMMACK is Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Educational Programs of the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University. Previously he taught in the City University of New York and at Princeton University. Hammack has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Resident Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation.  His research has also been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Research Fund. He is the author of Power and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century and Social Science in the Making: Essays on the Russell Sage Foundation, 1907-1972, and editor with Dennis Young, of Nonprofit Organizations in Market Economy.",biography & history;books;business & finance;business & investing;company profiles;industries & professions;new;nonprofit organizations & charities;philanthropy & charity;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0632020334,"Pattern Cutting for Lingerie, Beachwear and Leisurewear Readers are shown how to derive the basic lingerie blocks and how to adapt them for creative design. Pattern cutting for underwear, nightwear, beach and leisurewear is fully illustrated and dealt with in detail. Sewing techniques are explained and blocks for stretch fabric are provided. Since the dividing line between lingerie and some types of lightweight clothing has become less defined recently, the book also shows how to adapt lingerie blocks to other categories of clothing.	Ann Haggar has taught extensively at degree level using her wide industrial experience. She has also written two fashion supplements for the classic books Dress Pattern Designing and More Dress Pattern Designing, both by Natalie Bray.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & finance;business & investing;crafts;crafts & hobbies;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;home repair;how-to & home improvements;industries & professions;new;used & rental textbooks,12
1885211961,Travelers' Tales Alaska: True Stories (Travelers' Tales Guides) Travelers' Tales is a valuable addition to any pre-departure reading list,americas;books;education & reference;history;pacific;research & publishing guides;state & local;travel;travel writing;united states;west;writing,12
0670837679,"Dictionary for Writers and Editors, The Penguin This is a compact dictionary of difficult spellings and usage, up to date for 1991. First published in England, it is perhaps unique in its frequent distinctions between U.S. and U.K. conventions: program in the first, programme in the latter, or collectable (U.K.) and collectible (U.S.). Bryson, an American who has worked in British journalism for 15 years, is well qualified to make such distinctions. In fact, he may even have overemphasized the British entries, at least for American tastes. Bryson is heavy on places and people but light on contemporaries from either side of the Atlantic. One can find entries for Graham Greene but not Anita Brookner, William Faulkner but not Saul Bellow. Still, as a companion to the Asso ciated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual (Addison-Wesley, 1987) or any such guide, this book would be highly useful. For copy editors and reference librarians.- John Mort, Kansas City P.L., Mo.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;foreign language study & reference;language & grammar;new;reference;synonyms & antonyms;used & rental textbooks;words,12
0375416269,"The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la As the 20th century neared its close, few corners of the globe remained unexplored. One exception was a ""monstrous and largely obscure river in southeastern Tibet"" that had already resisted several British expeditions: the Yarlung Tsangpo. Raging through a nearly impenetrable gorge in one of the most remote places on the planet, it was a place variously reported as the source behind the Western myth of Shangri-La and the ""Everest of rivers."" In 1998 a team of middle-aged American men--all of them expert river runners--aimed to notch their paddles with this last great stretch of virgin whitewater that many knowledgeable river people considered ""beyond the means of what humans could do in a boat."" But after securing crucial funding from National Geographic and flying halfway around the world, the team of four paddlers (three in expedition kayaks, one in a whitewater canoe) arrived in-country to find the river at flood stage. Their leader, a man with a ""stubborn allegiance for things that look hopeless,"" decided they would continue anyway. Those familiar with the story know what happened next.  Fans of the man-versus-nature genre popularized by Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm will not be disappointed by Todd Balf's fast-flowing reconstruction of events. All the elements are on board: rugged individuals, intensive logistical planning, a strange, unforgiving landscape--and death. While Balf, a former editor at Outside magazine, delivers the expected adrenaline-fueled adventure, the nuanced emotional and psychological dimensions that allowed Krakauer and Junger to rise above the genre are less in evidence in The Last River. Portages through personal histories, for instance, bog down with character portraits that sometimes read more like screen treatments (""His face bears out the Baby Boomer ideal: seasoned but searching""). But once Balf plunges into the heart of his narrative--the river navigation itself--he finds the right stroke:Paddling hard to get to the protected shore-side of a house-sized rock, he missed the move, then plunged over another small drop. Flipped again, Jamie got spit out and tried to roll but couldn't. Seconds later he felt the boat getting pushed beneath an undercut rock.... What happened on the Tsangpo is not so much a tragedy as another sad loss in the increasingly competitive realm of extreme sports. One wonders about the actual tragedies (i.e., cultural fallout, environmental degradation) ready to unfold as the world's last remote places become playgrounds for the burgeoning adventure-travel industry. The Last River avoids speculating. It's first and foremost an action-packed chronicle of an expedition gone bad that will appeal to landlubbers and water rats alike. --Langdon Cook	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Boutsikaris does a fine job of matching Balf's (a former editor of Outside magazine) comfortable, plainspoken style, ringing true in all instances except the few where he is called upon to simulate foreign accents, an area that is clearly not his forte. Balf spends a considerable amount of time characterizing the trip's participants and describing the years of preparation that have gone into the journey, and he manages to give just enough insight and background to make the story more palpable instead of bogging it down. Listeners will have a real sense of loss when, nearly two weeks into the exploration of the Tibetan river Tsangpo, one of the members flips over an eight-foot waterfall and is never seen again. Perhaps, though, the fact that Balf was not actually a participant in the trip itself is what accounts for the lack of the immediate, cinematic narration that has made other books in this genre, particularly Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, so successful. Balf reconstructs events through interviews with the members of the party and attempts to raise the excitement through a dated, sequential telling, but he still just doesn't manage to bring the drama home in a way that a story of this nature demands. Simultaneous release with the Crown hardcover (Forecasts, July 31). (Sept.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This book tells of a 1998 expedition by a team of expert kayakers down the entire Tsangpo Gorge in the Tibetan Himalayas. The Everest of whitewater rivers, the uncharted Tsangpo plunges 10,000 feet over its course. This book will appeal to anyone with ""America's late 20th-century fascination with fatal adventures."" Think Into Thin Air on water or The Perfect Storm in a kayak. At his best, journalist Balf (Outside and Men's Journal magazines) delves into why some people are compelled to stake their lives attempting to conquer nature's ultimate challenges in the pursuit of exploration. However, there is also a lot of technical jargon to wade through here, and most readers will need to use the glossary at the back of the book. Despite the terminology, the writing is stylish and the character sketches fairly adept, making the book an interesting read that would fit in any collection. John Maxymuk, Rutgers Univ. Lib., Camden, NJ Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	One of the few spots of Earth's surface without a recorded sighting by unassisted eyeballs is a gorge in southeast Tibet, cut by the Tsangpo River, known as the Brahmaputra after its debouchment into India. The gorge has titanically tall walls and huge waterfalls, or so say satellite photos and local lore. This geographic mystery, whose siren call an American group of elite kayakers answered in 1998, remains an enigma, but due to Balf's flowing chronicle, at least its fatal attractions might be more humbly assessed by any who dare it in the future. Balf was not a Boswell on the trip, but reconstructed it afterward with admirable objectivity. Consisting of about eight men, some ex-Olympians, the expedition planned to run the Tsangpo, but found the current high and violent--yet they persisted, confident their kayaking expertise could conquer at least parts of the torrent. Balf dramatically paces the deadly denouement, and by refraining from judging such risk-taking, conveys the ineffable thrill its practitioners seek. A sober grabber for the adventure-reading legions. Gilbert TaylorCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	""Todd Balf's saga of an assault on the 'Everest of rivers' -- the fabled Tsangpo -- is a rich and troubling story about the dark side of America's infatuation with extreme adventure. It's a must-read for anyone who loved Into Thin Air -- or who might be contemplating that next first descent on a killer river.""--Erik Larson, author of Isaac's StormFrom the Hardcover edition.	It is a challenge few top kayakers could resist.The Tsangpo remains one of the world's few uncharted, unconquered whitewater rivers, epic in both scale and beauty.Plunging 10,000 vertical feet, its waters run beneath snowcapped Himalayan peaks, past verdant jungle, and through the treacherous Tsangpo Gorge.Ancient Buddhist monastic textx name the region Pemako and suggest a real-life Shangri-La within its unexplored depths, along with mist-shrouded waterfalls and other wonders witnessed by few, if any, human eyes.In October 1998, a team of four expert kayakers, partially funded by the National Geographic Society, attempted the first end-to-end descent of the gorge.The expedition ended in tragedy when the team's strongest paddler, Doug Gordon, executing a perilous but not impossible jump, was swept into the river's main current and never seen again.The Last River is the story of that ill-fated adventure and a riveting evocationof one of our planet's wildest and most alluring places.In the words of an eighth-century monk, ""Even to take one single step toward Pemako is to be liberated from mundane existence.""	""Todd Balf's saga of an assault on the 'Everest of rivers' -- the fabled Tsangpo -- is a rich and troubling story about the dark side of America's infatuation with extreme adventure. It's a must-read for anyone who loved Into Thin Air -- or who might be contemplating that next first descent on a killer river.""--Erik Larson, author of Isaac's Storm 	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Todd Balf writes for Outside magazine, Men's Journal, and other publications.  He lives in Beverly, Massachusetts.	Great Falls of the Potomac, August 1975Predawn, the Potomac River. Boyhood friends Wick Walker and Tom McEwan, now in their late twenties, and a young tagalong, Dan Schnurrenberger, stumble around their island campsite gathering up gear. They don helmets and spray skirts, grab paddles, and furtively slip into the swift but familiar current. The plan is simple: Before the park service is up and about -- the Virginia side of the Potomac is part of Great Falls National Park -- before anyone is up and about, they will paddle upstream a mile and a half to the base of Great Falls, then climb and rope-haul their boats to an overlook where they can scout the crux move of the seventy-five-foot drop one last time.Great Falls is a twisting, rock-jammed stretch of whitewater where the immense western river-sized volume of the Potomac abruptly plunges off the Piedmont Plateau to the coastal plains. Nobody has ever run the vertical falls. The conventional wisdom is that nobody will run the falls. As it is, some seven park visitors each year drown in the rapids. Most of them slip off the gorge's high cliffs and are swept into the fierce whirlpools at the bottom of the falls. The thrashing currents can hold a person for a long time. Some victims are never spat out.And yet Walker and McEwan, hotshot local whitewater racers, have been toying with the idea of a run down Great Falls almost as long as they can remember. Day after day they'd train at O-Deck Rapids and look the short distance upstream to the pounding, mist-shrouded cascade. Could they? At some point the pair began to believe something fundamentally different from what a million or so residents in metro D.C. and every single boater on the Potomac believed -- they could. Not only could they run it, but they'd show everyone that their endeavor wasn't the reckless act of thrill-seeking idiots but the work of shrewd, utterly rational individuals. After all, they weren't day campers out on a dare. Walker, fair-skinned and block-chester, was a decorated military officer stationed at nearby Fort Belvoir. McEwan, dark-complected and six-footer, was married, with a child on the way. They'd show that Great Falls was an objective that could be professionally trained and planned for, something they could study and know until the craziness had been wrung from it.In the years preceding that Sunday in August, they put the falls under their peculiar microscope. As far as they knew, nobody had ever boated off a major falls. They mapped the river's holes and eddies and drops at a myriad of water levels, then they went out and played guinea pigs at nearby, presumably less sinister, waterfalls. From West Virginia to North Carolina, they boated off increasingly high drops and even swam into the thrashing maelstrom at their base.In one episode McEwan didn't get flushed out for almost a minute. Part of what they were doing was river morphology -- understanding the chaotic behavior of a river at its wildest. Part of it was survivalist training -- keeping it together when every mental impulse screamed for hitting the panic button. Each experience added up to a kind of blueprint for what to do, or, more accurately, what not to do when boating off a vertical fall. By the time they scrambled up the cliffs above the first twenty-five-foot drop, the Spout, they had a sense they'd done their homework, cracked the code. Moreover, they had a belief that they'd come to understand Great Falls (and, by extension, any other similarly monstrous and mythic river) for what it truly was -- rocks and water, as Tom put it. What it WAS. Not what their fears or other people's fears told them it was. And what it was was runnable.The river cascades seventy-five feet in two hundred yards and is defined by three distinct drops. They'd put in above the bottom falls and run that first. Then the middle and bottom together. Finally it is time to do the complete top-to-bottom run. The day is lightening and time is running out. Soon the park rangers will be wandering about. First sight of boaters atop the falls will no doubt cause a convulsive response involving a phalanx of pissed-off fire and rescue squads. Tom McEwan moves fast, but he's not rushing. He slides into the boat's cockpit, fastening the stretchy, girdlelike spray skirt around the lipped oval opening to seal him in -- and water out. Then he peers ahead to a point where the river's course drops completely from sight, and launches his twelve-foot fiberglass boat into the abyss. McEwan, Walker, and Schnurrenberger run the upper rapids just as they drew it up. They ferry hard left at the first eight-foot drop, zigzag through the bouldery middle rapids, and then approach the Spout, the final cataclysmic drop. Miss the hard left move, and the current will pile-drive them into a massive hole studded with rocks and ledgy outcroppings. A boat can easily become vertically pinned in the subsurface rock pile. If the boater's hands are free, maybe he can pull his spray skirt and maybe he can swim out. Only a few years earlier McEwan had been in a similarly grim scenario in the Linville Gorge, when he'd managed to exit at the last moment by upthrusting his knees with such desperate force he emerged with the splintered deck of his boat hanging off his spray skirt. More likely the thundering whitewater simply pounds the life out of whoever is beneath it. There is little to no rescue option. You have to save yourself. In a minute, maybe a little more, it will all be over.But nobody misses the move. The trio dig their paddles into the current with a hard right sweep stroke. The boats pivot -- almost in midair, it seems -- and skip across the lip of the falls. Then the world drops away and they're falling almost three stories. Exploding into the pile below, each disappears momentarily and then bursts free to the surface. A moment later they're safely tucked into an eddy. They don't whoop it up as though they've cheated death. Rather, there's the sense of satisfaction that they are up to the unknown. Utterly fit for it. Then they paddle away, not bothering to tell anybody about their feat for several years to come (and to this day they refuse to say which of them ran the falls first). This makes the tale of the run even better when it does finally surface. And then the mystique about it -- and about them -- grows. Tom and Wick become local legends.But the Great Falls was a mere prelude, a training trip for a major whitewater expedition Walker and McEwan had planned for the Bhutanese Himalaya later the same year. After Bhutan the duo had in mind an even bigger, more audacious objective: a monstrous and largely obscure river in southeastern Tibet called the Yarlung Tsangpo. It appeared to have the largest drop of any river in the world. It traveled through a gorge that was one of the most remote places on the planet. According to a book Wick Walker had unearthed, there were reports (in the sacred texts of a particular monastery) of some seventy-five waterfalls in a virtually unexplored and fabled stretch of about twenty miles. The suggestion of a real-life Shangri-la in those same gorge depths captivated them. It was the Everest of rivers. Undone and unopposed. Of the few river runners who were familiar with it, almost all believed its volume, gradient, and remoteness made the Yarlung Tsangpo beyond the means of what humans could do in a boat. Maybe not surprisingly, Walker and McEwan weren't so sure.From the Hardcover edition.	For a 1998 American kayaking team, the Tsangpo River, deep in Tibet, was the ultimate white-water challenge, requiring years of research, training, and fund-raising. For Dennis Boutsikaris, the text has a challenge of its own--how to make a third-person narrative full of technical information (and no maps or pictures) immediate and engaging. He succeeds with a well-paced and clear-voiced reading that involves the listener in every stage of the trip. You feel the adrenaline, the frustration at obstacles, and the helplessness of being at risk in a remote and hostile land. If you like high-octane adventure, this is for you. Think of it as ""Into White Water.""  J.B.G.  AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine",adventure;biographies & memoirs;books;earth sciences;kayaking;rafting;rivers;science & math;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;water sports,12
0810836505,"The Healthy Cookery Index The author clearly fulfills her major objective to create ""a tool for librarians, researchers, chefs, and home cooks."" (Arba )Provides an index of 20 of the most popular and accessible vegetarian, low cholesterol, and other healthy and international food cookbooks. This index lists some 8,000 recipes, each with at least two cross-refrences. (Reference & Research Book News )	Rhonda H. Kleiman is currently a senior information specialist for the American Association of Advertising Agencies. She graduated cum laude from Brooklyn College and received her Masters in Library Sciences from St. John's University. She has written two previous cooking indexes: American Regional Cookery Index and International Cookery Index.",bibliographies & indexes;books;cookbooks;education & reference;fitness & dieting;food & wine;health;publishing & books;reference;research & publishing guides;vegetables & vegetarian;writing,12
0737714735,"Great Disasters - Tornadoes (paperback edition) Reviewed with The Black Death, edited by Jordan McMullin.Gr. 9-12. ""Natural disasters can have as much impact on human societies as the bloodiest wars,"" notes the introduction to these titles in the new Great Disasters series. Each volume collects excerpts from articles and historical documents that represent a range of opinions about the science behind cataclysmic events and how those catastrophes have affected human life. In The Black Death readers will be particularly intrigued by a 1365 treatise on plague prevention that suggests avoiding baths and hot food, and a terrifying eyewitness account in Tornadoes that describes what it feels like to be inside a roaring funnel cloud. Black Plague concludes with articles that offer differing views on the plague's repercussions, illustrating the subjectivity of historical interpretation, and Tor nadoes closes with pieces about new tracking and prevention technology. A smattering of maps, photos, and engravings illustrate. Each well-edited selection begins with a concise, clear introduction and an annotated table of contents; appended are a bibliography and suggestions for further research. Excellent titles to support reports or high-school speech assignments. Gillian EngbergCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",atmospheric sciences;books;earth science;earth sciences;education & reference;mathematics;new;science & math;science & mathematics;science & technology;teens;used & rental textbooks,12
1845370503,"How to Draw People: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners with 10 Projects Patricia Monahan is a well-known author who has written a number of books on practical art. She lives in London.James Horton is an experienced artist with a particular knowledge of the field of anatomy. He lives in Cambridge.Angela Gair is a painter, writer, editor and the author of many practical art books. She lives in Charlton, London.",arts & photography;books;drawing;figure drawing;history & criticism;human figure;humanities;new;specific objects;themes;used & rental textbooks;visual arts,12
B0006628SA,"Cloth Paper Scissors Cloth Paper Scissors covers many types of fiber arts and collage work, including mixed media, assemblage, altered books, art dolls, visual art journals, rubber stamping, creative embroidery, and book arts.	Cloth Paper Scissors covers many types of fiber arts and collage work, including mixed media, assemblage, altered books, art dolls, visual art journals, rubber stamping, creative embroidery, and book arts.",crafts & hobbies;crafts for children;dye;fashion;home & garden;magazine subscriptions;needlecrafts;papercrafts;scrapbooking;stenciling;textile arts;weaving,12
0299130541,"Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature (Wisconsin Project on American Writers) David Bergman is professor of English at Towson State University and author of Cracking the Code, winner of the 1985 George Elliston Poetry Prize.",books;classics;criticism & theory;gay & lesbian;history & criticism;literary criticism;literature & fiction;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states,12
0824515099,"The Chronicles of Noah & Her Sister: Genesis and Exodus According to Women Winter (Defecting in Place, LJ 9/1/94) reimagines the central narratives of Genesis and Exodus as read through the eyes of women in these stories. Noah, one of the Hebrew wives of Solomon, is the narrator and organizer of these tales. We not only hear the voices of Sarah, Rachel, and Rebekah but also encounter the stories of Keturah, who bore six sons for Abraham after Sarah's death, and Asenath, the Egyptian wife of Joseph. These women's recollections give us insights into a little-known side of biblical history. An interesting but not a necessary purchase.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	What would the Bible sound like if it were written by women? Harold Bloom argued in The Book of J that at least some of it was, and others have found evidence suggesting that the ring of l'ecriture feminine in some passages is real. Winter goes a step further and reimagines two entire books from a woman's point of view, thereby changing several familiar stories. Frightened by Eve's sensual nature, Adam commits the first sin, the sin of withholding his heart from his beloved, for which both of them lose paradise. Lot's wife deliberately chooses to return to her burning home, and Lot rapes his orphaned daughters. Miriam the prophet, sister of Moses, comes into her own during the flight from Egypt. Written in a deliberately biblical tone, these stories are moving and illuminating.  Patricia Monaghan",biblical;books;christian books & bibles;fiction;hebrew bible (old testament);judaism;literature & fiction;meditations;religion & spirituality;sacred writings;spirituality;worship & devotion,12
0738808466,"The Unshackled Mind Almas Jamil Sami's message is empowering   people to proudly take control of their own lives. Mr. Sami' also shows African Americans how to positively reconnect themselves to African Histories and cultures . . . in a way that will leave them feeling empowered and proud of the past  rather than embittered and ashamed.  He has been noted as ""serious with a sense of humor, sensational, motivational, and inspirational."" The message is targeted for corporations, associations, managers, universities/colleges, private/public   schools, and organizations concerned with fostering positive race relations within their structure.  Almas Jamil Sami' has also participated in college panel discussions regarding race relations.",books;fitness & dieting;health;motivational;new;personal transformation;psychology;psychology & counseling;self-esteem;self-help;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
019507288X,"The Children of Herakles (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) Text: English (translation)  Original Language: Greek	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Henry Taylor is a poet and Professor of Literature at the American University in Washington, D.C.The late obert A. Brooks was a poet and author of the critical study Ennius and Roman Tragedy.  He was also translator of Persius' satires.",books;business & finance;business & investing;drama;economic history;economics;greek & roman;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks,12
0743444787,"Mad Strikes Back Book 2 (Mad Reader) These are the first four of five scheduled facsimile editions of  the original MAD paperbacks from the 1950s written by ""the usual  gang of idiots,"" as the publication professed. Love it or hate  it, MAD has been read by everyone, and Alfred E. Newman is one  of the 20th century's most unlikely cultural icons. Some of the  material might be a tad dated (parodies of long-gone comic  strips and TV shows like Howdy Doody), but funny is funny and  this is. The MAD reprints are great pieces of Americana and  essential for pop culture collections. If you don't buy these,  then you're.   Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.",arts & photography;books;comic strips;comics & graphic novels;graphic design;graphic novels;humor;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;techniques,12
020527465X,"Psychology: The Brain, the Person, the World ""It is one of the most engaging texts I've seen. The chapter stories are among the best I've seen, and really flow well with the text. Kosslyn & Rosenberg do a great job threading these stories throughout the book. The writing style is solid and consistent."" - Dan Horn, University of Michigan  ""Because of their complementary backgrounds in clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience, the authors bring both a biological and psychological as well as an applied multidimensional approach to the understanding of human behavior."" - Joseph Davis, San Diego State University  ""As you read the Kosslyn & Rosenberg textbook you can certainly see the combined influence of the authors, one being a cognitive neuroscientist and the other a clinical psychologist. The levels of analysis theme clearly reflects these dual influences."" - Kathy Immel, University of Wisconsin Fox Valley  ""The Looking at Levels sections are a unique feature of this book. Students often struggle to understand how so many different topics can fit into one discipline. The Looking at Levels sections do a good job of explaining this."" - Marcia McKinley, Mount St. Mary's College  ""The Looking at Levels sections are AWESOME- these sections will engage the student and bring them right into the topic."" - Joel Alexander, Western Oregon University  ""I can say that the greatest strengths of this book, in my opinion, are its clear organization, its relevant examples, and its overall interesting look, including effective photos, tables and other features."" - Stephan Hoyer, Pittsburgh State University  ""The Kosslyn & Rosenberg textbook definitely incorporates timely research and does so in a way that makes it understandable for students."" - Kathy Immel, University of Wisconsin Fox Valley  ""A strength of this book is its great dedication to being current. Numerous areas are receiving updates of the latest, greatest research. This is wonderfully balanced with classical studies."" - Linda Lockwood, Metro State College  ""It is a concise, well written text that has a variety of good ancillary materials."" - Sally B. King, University of Maryland Eastern Shore  ""The artwork is visually interesting and different than what I usually see in textbooks."" - Melvyn King, SUNY Cortland  ""This text conveys the enthusiasm I feel for the field of psychology."" - Irene Vlachos-Weber, Indiana University  ""The writing style is terrific."" - Paul G. Shinkman, University of North Carolina  ""The second edition has a wonderful 'feel' to it."" - Marisa B. McLeod, Santa Fe Community College  ""The authors do a nice job of presenting both the historical studies and integrating them with the recent neuroscience work."" - Bennett Schwartz, Florida International University  ""The level of reading, the explanations, the descriptions, the examples, the follow through, and the pedagogy, are excellent."" - Michael K. Garza, Brookhaven College  ""Nice use of consistent stories that continue throughout the chapters."" - Jackie Pope-Tarrence, Western Kentucky University	MyPsychLab (insert logo here for v. 2.0)      One Place. Everything your students need to succeed.    Kosslyn and Rosenberg, Psychology in Context, 3e is supported by MyPsychLab,   the exciting online learning and teaching tool designed to increase student success and to give instructors quick and easy access to every resource needed to teach and administer their courses. MyPsychLab stays ahead of the competition by constantly evolving to meet customer needs.    Version 2.0 Is Better than Ever!    Brand new non-course management versions  New, Mac-friendly Flash-based e-book for faster navigation  New Flash-based audio glossary  New multi-media library thats easier to use and navigate  New multi-media assets in every book  Brand new chapter exams for all new titles  New pre-, post- and practice tests for all new titles    Learning in context  With MyPsychLab students use an actual e-book of Psychology in Context, 3e in the same layout as the printed version to launch multi-media resources such as animations, video clips and audio clips, activities and simulations, and more.    Additional help is always available  MyPsychLab offers students free access to the Tutor Center, a one-on-one service available from 5 p.m. to 12 a.m. (E.S.T.) when students need help most. They also receive unlimited access to Research Navigator, an online database of academic journals, with help in writing papers and navigating resources.    Individualized Study Plans  MyPsychLab gives students multiple testing and quizzing opportunities in each chapter. Results from these assessments generate an Individualized Study Plan that allows students to pinpoint exactly where additional review is needed.    An easy-to-use solution  You can spend as much or as little time as youd like customizing your course. Content is pre-loaded and ready to use. With a click of the mouse, you have access to the test item file, class grade book, PowerPoint slides, lecture outlines, and more!    Visit www.mypsychlab.com for more details.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;general;health;medical books;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;social psychology & interactions;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,12
0472098977,"Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing One of the many loaded questions Spark poses is, Why is there so little ""happy fiction""? Readers may ask, how much fun can a book about writing fiction be? The answer: a whole lot with Spark as your guide. An adventurous novelist and an experienced teacher, she takes a personal, anecdotal approach to the challenge of creating fiction, lacing her illuminating essays with provocative quotes from writers as varied as Raymond Carver and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Spark writes about where stories come from, why openings and closings are so difficult to pull off, what we mean by style, the difference between sentiment and sentimentality, and how magic realism fares in North America. Her lines of inquiry are significant. Her observations about craft are fluent. And her ability to both analyze fiction and respect its mystery makes for a suitably frank and bemused perspective backed by unabashed wonder at the workings of the imagination and the undeniable power of literature. Spark's canny essays are a pleasure for readers and writers alike. Donna SeamanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved",books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;essays;essays & correspondence;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,12