uid,text,target,num_keyphrases 0330491415,"Patriots 'Here are the themes of Orwell's The Lion and the Unicorn stretched over the subsequent sixty years and widened to embrace the whole United Kingdom. Brimming with zest and feel this is politico-cultural history at its best.' Peter Hennessy; 'Wide-ranging, intelligent, sensible and important.' Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph; 'A marvellously rich, ambitious and at times iconoclastic study by a young historian of how, in the broadest sense, national identity in Britain has changed in the last 60 or so years' David Kynaston, Financial Times; 'A major work: the fruit of long research, wide reading and hard thinking, engagingly written, bubbling with fresh ideas' Stephen Howe, Independent Richard Weight studied history at Cambridge and London universities. He has published a number of articles for a range of journals, including national newspapers, was the editor of The Right to Belong: Citizenship and National Identity in Britain 1930-1960, and is a regular broadcaster on both radio and television. He lives in Camberwell, south London.",20th century;books;england;europe;european;historical study & educational resources;history;ideologies & doctrines;international & world politics;modern (16th-21st centuries);nationalism;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social history;world,16 0934641870,"Hueco Tanks Climbing and Bouldering Guide, 2nd (Regional Rock Climbing Series) Since the first edition of this book was released, Hueco Tanks has earned a reputation for hosting the best bouldering on the planet, not to mention being a darn good fall, winter and spring cragging area. The completely revamped second edition of this cult classic is greatly expanded and essential for such a complicated area.",adventure;books;education & reference;food;general;lodging & transportation;mountain climbing;mountaineering;parks & campgrounds;rock climbing;south;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;united states;west south central,16 0736916423,"Balance That Works When Life Doesn't: Simple Steps to a Woman's Physical and Spiritual Health Susie Larson is a popular speaker, a freelance writer for Focus on the Family, and an author. She has been certified with the American Council on Exercise since 1991. She and her husband, Kevin, have three teenage boys and make their home in Minnesota.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;fitness & dieting;general;health;humanities;inspirational;new;religion & spirituality;religious studies;spirituality;theology;used & rental textbooks;women's health,16 0195149726,"A House on Fire: The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul In his latest meticulously detailed slice of pop music history, Jackson (American Bandstand: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock and Roll Empire) focuses on the creation, expansion and dissolution of Philadelphia International Records, whose songs and artists dominated soul and pop airwaves throughout the 1970s. Specifically, he follows the careers of three men who defined the company's ""Philly Soul"" sound: Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, a powerhouse producing-writing team who made stars of Teddy Pendergrass and the O'Jays, and Thom Bell, whose solo work as a producer brought success to groups such as the Spinners and the Stylistics. On the musical side, Philadelphia International combined the smooth harmonies and sophistication of Motown with the hard-driving funk of the Memphis-based Stax Records; on the business end, the black-owned label mirrored the almost dictatorial Motown machine while seeking to emulate the family feel of the smaller Stax. The unlikely combination of the outgoing Gamble and the gruff, taciturn Huff""a study in complementary talents""managed to create some of the most memorable songs of the era, including ""Back Stabbers"" and ""If You Don't Know Me By Now."" Though by 1983 the label was but ""a shell of what it once had been,"" the Philadelphia International sound influences pop-soul and rap artists today. Photos not seen by PW. Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Jackson tells the inside story of 1970s Philadelphia soul, ""a multilayered, bottom-heavy brand of . . . glossy urban rhythm and blues"" featuring ""crisp, melodious harmonies backed by lush, string-laden orchestration""--a sort of polite funk notably delivered by songwriters Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff of Philadelphia International Records and Thom Bell, whose creations graced various Philly-area labels. Their hits' performers--the O'Jays, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, the Spinners, the Stylistics, Gamble--gave Gamble-Huff and Bell's songs a smooth, urbane sound rivaling Berry Gordy's Motown sound for success with black and white audiences alike. Indeed, the vapid 1974 Hues Corp. record ""Rock the Boat"" actually charted higher on the pop charts than on those for R/Disco (1 and 2, respectively). Endorsement or indictment of Philly soul, this is just one of the informative tidbits embedded in Jackson's highly readable text, the writing of which was made much more difficult by Gamble and Huff's notorious inaccessibility. Essential for thorough pop-music collections. Mike TribbyCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved ""A meticulously researched and engaging story.... There are lessons to be learned from the often forgotten Philadelphia International; before the triumph of the more mechanized sounds of disco and then hip-hop, it was a place where the human dynamics of musicians, songwriters and producers, all collaborating under one roof, were essential to success.""--New York Times Book Review""Jackson tells fascinating tale.... Jackson carefully threads through his story the changing backdrop of soul music and society in general, but it's what's happening in Philadelphia that drives the account.""--San Francisco Chronicle""A beautiful job of chronicling Philadelphia International Records.... You actually feel that you are right in the studio witnessing their creative processes. Music fans will enjoy the way the author intertwines PIR with Detroit's Motown, Memphis's Stax-Volt, and the sounds coming out of Chicago, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama.... Jackson includes a song list in Appendix 1 that is worth the price of the book alone.""--Black Issues Book Review""The definitive account of Philadelphia Soul. John Jackson's five years of research have resulted in a fascinating study of the hit sound that left lasting impressions on both the recording industry and American culture. A House on Fire is a wonderful human drama set in the tumultuous world of pop music, and John Jackson expertly captures the full breadth of this rollicking story."" --Gerald Posner, author of Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power""A meticulously detailed slice of pop music history.""--Publishers Weekly John A. Jackson is the author of the award-winning books Big Beat Heat: Alan Freed and the Early Years of Rock and Roll and American Bandstand: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock and Roll Empire. He lives outside Tampa, Florida.",african-american studies;americas;arts & photography;books;history;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;music;musical genres;politics & social sciences;recording & sound;social sciences;soul;specific demographics;state & local;united states,16 0262692066,"Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet Fay Sudweeks is Research Associate, Key Centre of Design Computing, University of Sydney. Margaret L. McLaughlin is Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Sheizaf Rafaeli is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Information Systems area, School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.",artificial intelligence;books;certification;communication & media studies;computer science;computers & technology;games & strategy guides;human vision & language systems;human-computer interaction;machine learning;networking;networks;politics & social sciences;protocols & apis;social sciences;software,16 B000FDJ3FU,"The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals The best-selling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the 21st century.""What should we have for dinner?"" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't, which mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance.The cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet has thrown us back on a bewildering landscape where we once again have to worry about which of those tasty-looking morsels might kill us. At the same time we're realizing that our food choices also have profound implications for the health of our environment. The Omnivore's Dilemma is best-selling author Michael Pollan's brilliant and eye-opening exploration of these little-known but vitally important dimensions of eating in America.We are indeed what we eat, and what we eat remakes the world. A society of voracious and increasingly confused omnivores, we are just beginning to recognize the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices, both for ourselves and for the natural world. The Omnivore's Dilemma is a long-overdue book and one that will become known for bringing a completely fresh perspective to a question as ordinary and yet momentous as ""What shall we have for dinner?""",agricultural sciences;anthropology;books;cookbooks;education & reference;fitness & dieting;food & wine;food science;gastronomy;health;history;nutrition;politics & social sciences;popular culture;science & math;social sciences,16 004440932X,"Making Out: The Book of Lesbian Sex and Sexuality The complete illustrated guide to lesbian sexuality and relationships, celebrating the freedom and diversity of expression that is redefining the lesbian experience of the nineties.",books;fitness & dieting;gay & lesbian;gay & lesbian studies;gender studies;health;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;self-help;sex;sexuality;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,16 1403968268,"Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History) ""Wertheimgives us what is likely to be the definitive work on the business side of vaudeville for a long time to come, offering countless details available nowhere else, well organized and completely comprehensive. . . . A valuable resource, one long needed."" --American Theatre""Vaudeville Wars offers the only thorough account of the vaudeville business from the ground up, centering on the roistering entrepreneurs who, within a generation, lifted their enterprise into America's leading diversion. Wertheim shows both the human side and the voraciousness of the moguls. Unraveling the business-end of show business from the motley fabric that was vaudeville, he demonstrates that when the enterprise faded, only a few of the founders were left to witness their lofty estimate of vaudeville's manic display ensconce itself in the national lore.""--Leigh Woods, author Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan)""Until Wertheim's Vaudeville Wars, the men who created the institution of vaudeville had remained as inscrutable as official portraits. Wertheim drags away from their ledgers, telephones and mahogany desks the derby-hatted, cigar-smoking barons of vaudeville and places them downstage center under the spotlight. They emerge as human beings--some venomous, all ambitious and a few nearly decent. Wertheim has provided the most clear, entertaining and reliable history of the business end of vaudeville. Besides being an engrossing read, Vaudeville Wars makes a fine case study fit for any MBA program.""--Frank Cullen, founder, American Vaudeville Museum, Vaudeville Times Quarterly Arthur Frank Wertheim has written several books on 20th Century American culture, including The New York Little Renaissance and Radio Comedy. He has also edited three volumes of The Papers of Will Rogers, Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies, and American Popular Culture. A former American history professor at the University of Southern California and other universities, as well as an administrator at the University of California, Los Angeles, his awards include a Fulbright grant to teach at the University of Indonesia.",19th century;20th century;americas;arts & photography;books;comedy;drama;history;history & criticism;humor;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);performing arts;theater;united states,16 0810914247,"Masterpiece Paintings: From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Affluent Boston was among the first American cities to establish a museum of fine arts, in 1870. By 1888, an observer was describing the enthusiasm with which self-confident Boston families were buying the works of ""those mad outlaws, the Impressionists."" Such early acquisitions form the basis of the MFA Boston's superlative collection, which could never be amassed today; the museum owns 38 works by Monet, for example, the largest group of Monets outside Paris. Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston presents 125 of the museum's finest treasures. Beginning with a crucifixion of 1310 by Duccio, the first great artist of the Italian Renaissance, they exemplify the different schools and styles of Western painting. The works are grouped by country rather than chronologically, the largest European section being French, from a delightful Watteau garden party to the huge Gaugin allegory Where Do We Come From? Well-loved icons such as Renoir's Dance at Bougival and Sargent's The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit shine among lesser-known gems like a mysterious landscape by the Danish painter Holm. The short essays by the MFA's curators that describe each painting are succinct and enlightening. Issued to celebrate the refurbishing of a new wing, Masterpiece Paintings was first published in 1986; this is why the final section, titled ""Modern Paintings,"" appears rather charmingly dated. So wide is the range and so high the quality of the paintings that the book forms a surprisingly complete and very enjoyable introduction to Western art history. --John Stevenson This lush feast for the eyes selects 125 of the finest American and European paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The short introductory essay provides a history of the museum and describes the development of the paintings collection. Each painting is faithfully reproduced in excellent color. An explanatory or interpretive commentary accompanies each work and gives the layperson a basis for better understanding the painting's meaning or the times or circumstances in which it was created. This is a beautiful book, with a lucid design and a comfortable size that makes it a pleasure to handle. For all collections. Lynell A. Morr, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Lib . , Sarasota, Fla.Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.",architecture;arts & photography;books;boston;catalogs & exhibitions;collections;criticism;history & criticism;individual architects & firms;massachusetts;painting;professional & technical;specialty travel;tourist destinations & museums;travel;united states,16 033377809X,"A History of Central European Women's Writing (Studies in Russian and East European History) ""A History of Central European Women's Writing represents an intellectual event of considerable magnitude.""--Halina Filipowicz, Slavic Review Celia Hawkesworth teaches Serbian and Croatian studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London.",books;criticism & theory;education & reference;european;gender studies;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;women writers;women's studies;world literature,16 0789018365,"Midlife and Older LGBT Adults: Knowledge and Affirmative Practice for the Social Services ""An INTERESTING, EXTREMELY WELL-DOCUMENTED, EASY-TO-READ book that is not afraid to challenge stereotypes."" -- Carol L. Tully, PhD, Professor of Social Work, University of Louisville""Provides health and human service professionals with a NUANCED, BALANCED, AND COMPREHENSIVE portrait of midlife and older LGBT people."" -- Jeane Anastas, PhD, MSW, Professor and Director, PhD Program, School of Social Work, New York University --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.",allied health professions;allied health services;books;gay & lesbian;gay & lesbian studies;gerontology;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;social work;specific demographics;transgender;used & rental textbooks,16 141302291X,"The Composition of Everyday Life: A Guide to Writing, Brief Edition ""Thank you for allowing me to review THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE. Bluntly put, its the best composition text I have read.""""When this text appears, I will adopt it and will encourage my colleagues to also. If its not clear why, Ill restate: This text reinforces the message I try to communicate in my courses: that ""composition""--the art of composing --contributes to ones well-being in ways that go beyond academia and vocation.""""On my first reading of the text, I was as happily absorbed as if I had chosen the text on my own instead of for the business of a review. Ive got to tell you that that is a colossal achievement; the last time I helped select a text I wanted to scream with frustration and boredom as I worked my way through one sanctimonious, sensitive, dull text after another. There is nothing sanctimonious or dull about this text.""""I would describe the text as outstanding. It unfolds the many layers of writing as a social process in useful and accessible ways, and reveals writing as something immediate to peoples everyday lives.""""My first comment has to do with the title. THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE has a marvelously complex sense to it. Not only does it get at the heart of everything that I would want composition students to realize - that writing is real, it is vital, it is not ""merely"" academic, it is everyday - but also suggests the subject of that real, vital, everyday writing; that is the ""composition"" of everyday life."" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. John Mauk has a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing from Bowling Green State University and a Masters in Language and Literature from the University of Toledo. Scholarship includes an article on critical geography and composition (College English, March 2003). Mauk now teaches composition and rhetoric courses at Northwestern Michigan College. In 2007, he served on the NCTE Nominating Committee.John Metz has a B.A. in English from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (1983) and an M.A. in English from the University of Toledo (1985). He has taught first year writing for over twenty years and currently teaches at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;college & university;creative writing & composition;education;education & reference;education theory;humanities;language & grammar;lesson planning;literature;new;research & publishing guides;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,16 0739102303,Promise Keepers and the New Masculinity This is an excellent collection that shows sociological research at its best. (Contemporary Sociology ) Rhys H. Williams is Associate Professor of Sociology at Southern Illinois University. He is the co-editor of Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations(1998).,books;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;humanities;new;other religions;politics & social sciences;practices & sacred texts;protestantism;religion & spirituality;religious studies;ritual;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,16 1886347034,"Merl Bilingual Law Dictionary-Diccionario Juridico Bilingue Cuauhtmoc Gallegos is an attorney, a professional translator and interpreter, and the author of two volumes of the Bilingual Law Glossary on Crimes and Criminal Procedure. He is a frequent consultant on bilingual legal terminology in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. He lives in Chicago.",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & terminology;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;law;law practice;legal reference;new;reference;spanish;used & rental textbooks,16 007213027X,"SQL Server 2000 Backup and Recovery Secure your company's mission-critical data Plan for an implement a sound SQL Server 2000 data protection solution. SQL Server 2000 Backup & Recovery explains in detail how to develop a strategy based on your business requirements, select hardware and software, plan for data storage, perform backups, and execute data restore procedures. The focus is on practical, real-world information that you can immediately apply in your own environment. Case studies and scenarios illustrate how to apply all the methods presented in the book. Increase SQL Server performance and provide high levels of data protection with help from this practical resource. Create a valid data protection plan based on business requirements Configure and manage security and data protection in Windows NT/2000 Understand SWL Server 2000 architecture, including transaction logs, concurrency, locking, and data storage features Determine the best hardware and software for your backup and recovery operations Plan for and perform full, differential, and transaction log backups Design data storage solutions using RAID, file groups, and other SQL Server 2000 technologies Develop restore plans to accommodate everything from minor data loss to complete system failures Implement advanced data protection to increase reliability and uptime using replication, standby servers (log-shipping), and fail-over clustering Anil Desai, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA (Austin, TX) is a Technical Architect for QuickArrow, Inc. in Austin, TX. He has worked as an independent consultant for numerous companies ranging from global companies such as 3M and Motorola to small startups. Anil is the co-author of MCSE Fast Track: SQL Server 7.0 Administration (New Riders Press, 1999). He is also the author of Windows NT Network Management: Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (New Riders Press, 1999).",books;computers & technology;database management systems;databases;development;education & reference;languages & tools;mathematics;microsoft;network administration;networking;programming;relational databases;science & math;sql;sql server,16 3895780812,"Computed Tomography: Fundamentals, System Technology, Image Quality, Applications ...""I highly recommend this book to both the radiological and the imaging physics communities. It provides a superb overview of the contemporary state-of-the-art of CT, and is an excellent resource for those involved in teaching medical imaging to scientists or physicians.Physics in Medicine and Biology The book offers a comprehensive and user-oriented description of the theoretical and technical system fundamentals of computed tomography (CT) for a wide readership, from conventional single-slice acquisitions to volume acquisition with multi-slice and cone-beam spiral CT. It covers in detail all the characteristic parameters relevant for image quality and all performance features significant for clinical application. Readers will thus be informed how to use a CT system to an optimum depending on the different diagnostic requirements. This includes a detailed discussion about the dose required and about dose measurements as well as how to reduce dose in CT. All considerations pay special attention to spiral CT and to new developments towards advanced multi-slice and cone-beam CT.For third edition most of the contents have been updated and latest topics such as dual source CT, dual energy CT, flat detector CT and interventional CT have been added.The enclosed DVD again offers copies of all figures in the book and attractive case studies, including many examples from the most recent 64-slice acquisitions, and interactive exercises for image viewing and manipulation.This book is intended for all those who work daily, regularly or even only occasionally with CT: physicians, radiographers, engineers, technicians and physicists. A glossary describes important technical terms in alphabetical order. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition. In 1995 Willi A. Kalender was appointed full professor and director of the newly established Institute of Medical Physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany. His main research interests are in the area of diagnostic imaging, the development and introduction of volumetric spiral CT was a particular focus. He is involved in many international research projects in the fields of Multimodal Imaging and Optimisation of CT and Dosimetry and others.November 2007 Willi Kalender was awarded the European Science Foundation's Latsis Prize which in 2007 was dedicated to the field of medical imaging. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.",allied health professions;allied health services;books;clinical;computer science;computers & technology;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;radiologic & ultrasound technology;radiological & ultrasound technology;radiology;radiology & nuclear medicine;used & rental textbooks,16 1893115542,"Data Mining & Statistical Analysis Using SQL Data Mining and Statistical Analysis Using SQL concerns itself with the interface between applied mathematics--the discipline of statistical analysis--and really applied mathematics in the form of Structured Query Language (SQL) code that carries out such analysis. It's a subject that deserves careful coverage in a book, and the authors of this one--both working analysts with distinguished academic backgrounds--have done great work. If you're faced with a need to derive meaning from large quantities of data (from retail sales, industrial processes, or even scientific observations), and canned analysis tools aren't cutting it for you, take time to study what Robert Trueblood and John Lovett have to say.Though some background in statistics will help you pick up on what Trueblood and Lovett have written, a low-level university class (even one far in your past) should be enough. Their approach to all of the analysis techniques they teach is to explain terms and concepts with prose, then with graphs, then with formulas. Then, they translate the formulas into SQL queries for Microsoft Access and show variations on the code that yield differently tweaked results. Finally, T-SQL source code (for Microsoft SQL Server 2000) is listed, though most readers will prefer to grab this code from the book's companion Web site. Additional coverage of graphics would make this book better, but in its present state it's great reading for people who want to interpret their mountains of data. --David Wall Topics covered: Statistical analysis as a set of mathematical tools that may be implemented in Structured Query Language (SQL), specifically SQL variants for Microsoft database products. Chapters explain how to use hypothesis testing, curve fitting, scatter plots, measurements of central tendency, and regression analysis to spot significant characteristics of data. John N. Lovett, Jr. is a senior engineering consultant at QuantiTech, Inc. and co-owner, with his anthropologist/archaeologist wife, Jane, of Falls Mill and Museum in Belvedere, Tennessee. He has a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, a master's degree in operations research, and a bachelor's degree in mathematics.Robert P. Trueblood is an analyst at QuantiTech, Inc. He has a Ph.D. in computer science and applications, and taught at the university level for 18 years before transitioning into private industry. He enjoys designing and implementing systems in Visual Basic.",books;compilers;computers & technology;data mining;database management systems;databases;education & reference;languages & tools;mathematics;programming;relational databases;science & math;software;software design;software development;testing & engineering,16 0306801132,"Encyclopedia Of The Musical Theatre (Da Capo Paperback) Stanley Green, a lecturer, radio commentator, magazine writer, and editor, has authored Starring Fred Astaire, The World of Musical Comedy, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Story, and Ring Bells! Sing Songs!:Broadway Musicals in the 1930's.",antiques & collectibles;art;arts & photography;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;history;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;instruments;music;performing arts;pop culture;stagecraft;theater;voice,16 0195118030,"Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South YA?Stevenson uses diaries, letters, journals, and other firsthand accounts to describe the lives of a variety of people in Loudon County, VA, including slaveholders, slaves, free blacks, and poor whites, during the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. The material is clearly organized and the writing is easily understood. Section one deals with white citizens and includes family life, gender roles, courtship and marriage, and parenting. The second half of the book focuses on African Americans and analyzes the nature of slavery, black family structure, slave marriage, and the lives of free blacks. Because Stevenson focuses on several prominent families, readers will gain insight into the mind-set of several generations of slaveholders. She creates an interesting portrait of the society of the time. Most gripping, however, are her descriptions of the lives of slaves. Narratives of severe physical punishment and rape are eye opening and stress the atrocities of the system. This moving, realistic book will prove valuable for research.?Mary Proudman, Bridgewater-Raritan Regional High School, Bridgewater, NJCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ""An impressive example of the kind of local and regional history that for the last generation has transformed our understanding of the past.""--The New York Review of Books Brenda E. Stevenson, a native of Virginia, is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the editor of The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke.",19th century;african-american studies;americas;books;civil war;history;humanities;marriage & family;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,16 0815332017,"The Nursing Home Market: Supply and Demand for the Elderly (Garland Studies on the Elderly in America) The authorrgues that only by understanding the determinants of supply and demand for nursing home care can one expect to have any hope of understanding the potential impact of proposed nursing home care policy on utilization by the elderly.Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment",aging;books;clinical;fitness & dieting;gerontology;health;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;nursing;nursing home care;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,16 086171492X,"Pure and Simple: The Extraordinary Teachings of a Thai Buddhist Laywoman Upasika Kee (1901-78) was an extremely popular Buddhist teacher in Thailand, starting a retreat center in the hills outside Rajburi that still thrives today. In this rare collection of her writings, Upasika Kee displays relentless honesty in conveying her experience of, and devotion to, Dhamma practice. She says one must be uncompromising in one's dedication to upholding Buddhist precepts. To detach from ego-based thought, to persistently practice meditation and breath work, to tame the ""monkey mind,"" these are the basics, and, in her opinion, the only road to awareness. According to Upasika Kee, without serious practice, one will never stop the suffering caused by the mental ""defilements"" that drive us. Readers just learning about Buddhism will find the book thought-provoking, but the real audience will be those already dedicated to Buddhist practice. Interestingly, Upasika Kee was self-taught, learning most of her practice from reading. It seems apropos for this book to be the means for other Buddhist devotees to follow suit. Janet St. JohnCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Thanissaro Bhikkhu is the author of numerous books and articles. He is the abbot of Metta Forest Monastery, in northern San Diego county.",alternative medicine;asia;books;buddhism;christian books & bibles;fitness & dieting;gender & sexuality;health;history;meditation;meditations;religion & spirituality;religious studies;spirituality;thailand;worship & devotion,16 0323019838,"Primary Care Tools for Clinicians: A Compendium of Forms, Questionnaires, and Rating Scales for Everyday Practice Lorraine Loretz, DPM, MSN, FNP",assessment & diagnosis;books;clinical;clinical chemistry;education & reference;family & general practice;family practice;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;nursing;pathology;reference;used & rental textbooks,16 1567185606,"The Mysteries of Isis: Her Worship & Magick (Llewellyn's World Religion and Magic Series) A student of the sacred sciences since childhood, deTraci Regula explores the mystical through writing, dreams, and art. She has been a Priestess of Isis with the Fellowship of Isis since 1983. With David Harrington, she is the co-author of the upcoming biography of their friend Scott Cunningham, Whispers of the Moon. In addition to work in the animation industry on such secular epics as the animated version of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, she also produced and directed the video programs Herb Magic with Scott Cunningham and Witchcraft: Yesterday and Today with Raymond Buckland. She has traveled to sacred sites in Turkey, China, Japan, and Britain, as well as the United States. When not writing, deTraci Regula practices Taoist painting and exploring the family geneaology. Named for her ancestor William deTraci, deTraci Regula comes from a long line of pagans and freethinkers. One of her ancestors was chastised by the local bishop for ""consorting magically with the horses,"" though what that means exactly has been mysteriously excised from the family histories. Another ancestor, a Protestant during the reign of the Catholic Queen, ""Bloody"" Mary, was dug up and burned as a heretic after his death because of certain comments he made in his last will and testament.",ancient;books;comparative religion;earth-based religions;egypt;history;middle east;mythology & occult;new age;occult;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;wicca;witchcraft;world,16 074320185X,"Kaplan DAT (Book with CD-ROM for Windows & Macintosh) Chapter 1: Introduction to the DAT The Dental Admission Test, affectionately known as the DAT, is designed to provide dental schools with common measures for comparing the qualifications of applicants. Dental schools use DAT scores to assess whether you possess the foundation upon which to build a successful dental career. In addition to evaluating your knowledge of the sciences, the test also calls for your skills in solving mathematical problems, reading comprehension, and spatial manipulation. The DAT's power comes from its use as an indicator of your abilities. Good scores can open doors. Your power comes from preparation and mindset, because the key to DAT success is knowing what you're up against. And that's where this book comes in. We'll explain the test, review the sections one by one, share some of Kaplan's proven tips, provide you with practice questions and answers, and clue you in to what the test makers are really after. You'll get a handle on the process, find a confident new perspective, and achieve your highest possible scores. REGISTRATION The DAT is administered exclusively on computer, and can be taken almost any day of the year. For the most up-to-date information regarding the exam, contact the Dental Admission Testing Program directly at (312) 440-2689. To register for the DAT, pick up an Application and Preparation Materials booklet from your Pre-Med/Pre-Dental adviser, or write to: Dental Admission Testing Program 211 East Chicago Avenue, Suite 1846 Chicago, IL 60611-2678 (312) 440-2689 After you submit your application to the Dental Admission Testing Program, you will receive a toll-free number to register with a Sylvan Testing Center for the exam. The testing centers require at least a 48-hour lead time for scheduling a test. NOTE: Sylvan Testing Centers require a two-business day notification to reschedule or cancel a test date. Anything less than two days will not be recognized for a refund. ANATOMY OF THE DAT Before mastering the content and test-taking skills, you need to know exactly what you're dealing with on the DAT. It consists of four multiple-choice sections: Survey of the Natural Sciences, Perceptual Ability Test, Reading Comprehension, and Quantitative Reasoning. You will have a total of about four hours to complete the four sections. There is a 15-minute break (optional) after completing the second section. It's a grueling experience, to say the least. If you can't approach it with confidence and stamina, you'll quickly lose your composure. That's why it's so important that you take control of the test. In this book we'll take an in-depth look at each DAT section, but here's a general overview: Survey of the Natural Sciences Time: 90 minutes Format: 100 multiple-choice questions, subdivided into three science areas: Biology (40 questions) Inorganic (General) Chemistry (30 questions) Organic Chemistry (30 questions) What it tests: knowledge of university-level sciences Perceptual Ability Time: 60 minutes Format: 90 multiple-choice questions, subdivided into six parts of 15 questions each: Keyholes (Apertures) Top-Front-End (Orthographic Projections) Angle Ranking Hole Punching Cube Counting Pattern Folding What it tests: ability to visualize and mentally manipulate objects in three dimensions; angle discrimination Reading Comprehension Time: 60 minutes Format: 50 multiple-choice questions: three passages with 16-17 questions each What it tests: ability to absorb and keep track of information in long, technical writings Quantitative Reasoning Time: 45 minutes Format: 40 multiple-choice questions on the following topics: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents Algebra Word Problems Geometry Trigonometry What it tests: proficiency in mathematics and problem-solving skills SCORING You will get your score after you complete the test. Each VAT section receives its own score, based on a scale of 1-30. In addition, each Natural Sciences subsection (Biology, General Chemistry, and Organic Chemistry) also receives its own score. Finally, your scores in all sections except for the PAT are combined into an academic average based on the same scale. Your score report will tell you (and dental schools) not only your scaled scores, but also your percentile ranking. Each question within a section is worth the same amount, and there's no penalty for guessing. That means that you should always answer every question, whether you get to that question or not! This is an important piece of advice, so pay it heed. Never let time run out on any section without answering every question. Students often ask: What's a good score? Much depends on the strength of the rest of your application (if your transcript is first rate, the pressure to strut your stuff on the DAT isn't as intense) and on where you want to go to school (different schools have different score expectations). However, recent statistics show that the average score per section is about 17. You don't have to be perfect to do well. In the PAT section, for example, you can typically get 30 questions wrong (that's a third!) and still obtain a scaled score of 17. Even students who receive perfect scaled scores usually get a handful of questions wrong. It's important to maximize your performance on every question. Just a few questions one way or the other can make a big difference in your score. KAPLAN'S TOP DAT TIPS 1. Relax! You don't have to get every question right to get a great score. 2. Remember: It's primarily a thinking test. Never forget the purpose of the DAT: It's designed to test your powers of analytical reasoning. You need to know the content, as each section has its own particular ""language,"" but the underlying intention is consistent throughout the test. 3. Avoid wrong-answer traps. Try to anticipate answers before you read the answer choices. This helps boost your confidence and protects you from persuasive or tricky incorrect choices. Most wrong answer choices are logical twists on the correct choice. 4. Think, think, think! We said it before, but it's important enough to say again: Think. Don't compute. 5. Don't look back. Don't spend time worrying about questions you had to guess on. Keep moving forward. Don't let your spirit start to flag, or your attitude will slow you down. You can recheck answers within a section if you have time left, but don't worry about a section after your time has run out. 6. Don't leave any questions unanswered. There are no points taken off for wrong answers, so if you're not sure of an answer, guess. And guess quickly, so you'll have more time to work through other questions. 7. Mark it up. Take advantage of the ""Mark"" feature on the computer for questions you may want to revisit. At the end, you can review all the marked questions before submitting your answers as final. Copyright 2000 by Kaplan, Inc.",books;dentistry;education & reference;general;graduate & professional;graduate preparation;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;schools & teaching;test prep & study guides;test preparation;test preparation & review;testing;used & rental textbooks,16 0122274105,"Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Eighteen-Volume Set, Third Edition Although almost a decade has passed since the second edition of this work was published, this encyclopedia's reputation as a high-quality scholarly work has not diminished. Guided by an advisory board comprising leading researchers (including eight Nobel laureates), editor in chief Meyers (Ramtech, Inc.) used a peer review process that produced over 780 articles written by experts. The coverage in this third edition has expanded to include molecular biology, biochemistry, and biotechnology. The decision to eliminate articles on military technology contributed to the deletion of about 200 articles; however, nearly 300 articles were added to cover new topics such as molecular electronics, nanostructured materials, tissue engineering, superstring theory, and the World Wide Web. The remaining articles were either updated or rewritten. Averaging 17-18 pages in length, the well-written articles present detailed information in a logical, organized manner. All follow a basic format: outline, glossary, defining statement, main body, cross references, and bibliography. A separate volume contains a list of contents by broad subject area, a relational index with groupings of connected articles, and the traditional subject index. The 20-volume McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (LJ 9/1/97) focuses on a broader range of scientific disciplines and a broader audience, so its articles are generally shorter and less detailed. With an intended audience of scientists and engineers and an emphasis on the physical sciences and technology, this encyclopedia aims to provide in-depth, authoritative coverage without limiting the mathematical treatment to algebra. This is an excellent source for students and researchers needing an overview of a particular subject. Highly recommended for academic and other types of libraries with significant science/technology collections. Teresa Berry, Univ. of Tennessee Libs., Knoxville Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. ""This third edition of this definitive source of information in the physical sciences includes nearly 800 articles that provide overviews of 16 general subject areas. All of the articles contain an outline of their contents, a glossary of terms, and references. In addition to the usual subject index, this edition has both a Relational Index and a Thematic Index.""-JOURNAL AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY""The third edition of this encyclopedia has been expanded, adding nearly 300 new articles... Each article provides a comprehensive overview of the topic, including definitions of key terms, diagrams and illustrations, see also references, and a bibliography. The index provides three useful entry points. ...articles are well written, and there is no other encyclopedia of physical sciences that reaches the depth of this one. It will meet most of the needs of students and general readers. For academic and larger public libraries.""-CHOICE""The EPST is a splendid tool for new approaches, taking account of advances in topics which are generally considered being far away from each other, but which can be of mutual support.""-JEAN CARPENTIER, OFFICE NATIONAL D' ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES, FRANCE Robert A. Meyers, TRW, Inc., Redondo Beach, California Foreword: I had the privilege to write the foreword for the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology in 1987 and was asked to write a shorter foreword for the third edition as an update to the first foreword. Barely fifteen years have elapsed between the two publishing dates. Fifteen years is a short time in terms of the development of science or technology; but as this Encyclopedia shows, momentous changes have occurred during this span of years, necessitating not only the updating of many sections of the Encyclopedia, but more startling, the addition of hundreds of new topics. Significant examples are entries for the World Wide Web, nanostructured materials, nanotubes, and smart pixels to name a few of the more prominent additions. The appearance of new subject matters over fifteen years is not in itself a surprising event. What should capture our attention, however, are the changes in the science and technology field itself. I want to concentrate on four such changes. Importance of Science and Technology Science and technology are moving center stage in the considerations of nations and states, because of the recognized nexus of technology and the economy. The great spurt in the U.S. economy over the last decade has been in great part due to our investment in research over many decades, transforming education, living, government and industry alike. Other nations have seen this U.S. process and what it begot and are trying to duplicate it within their own boundaries. Creating the Knowledge and Information Age. The last century was dominated by the exploitation of physical systems, be it the detailed aspects of materials and their properties, transportation and energy systems, mechanical systems or electronic ones. This century will be characterized by the pervasiveness of information technology and computers, altering forever the content of products and the approaches to their creation and production. Multidisciplinary Nature of Science and Technology. It is the pervasiveness of the information technology that increases the multidisciplinary nature of research, which in turn leads to the proliferation of new disciplines and activities that spring up at the interfaces of technologies and the sciences, as well as at their interfaces with the arts and the humanities. These same technologies also contribute foremost to the rapid development that the biological and health sciences are experiencing today. The decoding of the Human Genome and its exploitation to create new cures and new products would be unthinkable without computers, database concepts and large-scale storage. Globalization of Technology. Hand in hand with the much touted globalization of the economy goes the globalization of science and technology. R is becoming a global enterprise. This is driven by the increasing diffusion of information, the increasing investment by most nations in R activities, the availability of educated technical human resources around the globe and the world wide web capability of connecting in real time geographically distributed human resources for a common purpose, as well as the remote access to specialized equipment and instrumentation. These four basic changes in the science and technology enterprise are indicative of what we can expect for the next decade. We certainly can expect an accelerating pace in the generation of new ideas and concepts. This is caused by the increased participation in the performance of R and the productivity increases from the use of new tools and approaches. One can also expect a more rapid time to market of some of the inventions and developments. The use of modeling and simulation made possible by the computer revolution is the driver for this development. Lastly, the focus on science and technology means that the community itself needs to be more aware and more active, explaining to the public at large its activities and the fallout from new science and technology. The community also needs to be ready to explain the choices that science affords and that confront the citizens and governments. Scientists and engineers need also to be willing to enter the political fray as informed observers or active participants. In the past we have not been necessarily wrong in forecasting how science and technology would develop, but we have horribly underestimated both the acceptance of new technical developments and their effects on the individual and society as a whole. We probably are in the same position as far as the future is concerned. Erich Bloch The Advisory Group",applied;books;computer science;computers & technology;earth sciences;education & reference;engineering;history & philosophy;new;physics;professional & technical;reference;science & math;science & mathematics;technology;used & rental textbooks,16 1931836876,"Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box Stealing the Network is a book of science fiction. It's a series of short stories about characters who gain unauthorized access to equipment and information, or deny use of those resources to the people who are meant to have access to them. The characters, though sometimes well described, are not the stars of these stories. That honor belongs to the tools that the black-hat hackers use in their attacks, and also to the defensive measures arrayed against them by the hapless sysadmins who, in this volume, always lose. Consider this book, with its plentiful detail, the answer to every pretty but functionally half-baked user interface ever shown in a feature film. One can read this book for entertainment, though its writing falls well short of cyberpunk classics like Burning Chrome and Snow Crash. Its value is in its explicit references to current technologies--Cisco routers, OpenSSH, Windows 2000--and specific techniques for hacking them (the heroes and heroines of this book are always generous with command-history dumps). The specific detail may open your eyes to weaknesses in your own systems (or give you some ideas for, ahem, looking around on the network). Alternately, you can just enjoy the extra realism that the detail adds to these stories of packetized adventure. --David Wall ""Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box is a unique book in the fiction department. It combines stories that are false, with technology that is real. While none of the stories have happened, there is no reason why they could not. You could argue it provides a road map for criminal hackers, but I say it does something else; it provides a glimpse into the creative minds of some of today's best hackers, and even the best hackers will tell you that the game is a mental one."" - from the foreword by Jeff Moss, President & CEO, BlackHat, Inc. ""...the reader will find this an informative, instructive and even entertaining book."" - Managing Risk magazine In the real world, hackers go after the ""low-hanging fruit."" They take the least risk and go for the greatest reward. They often act alone or in small groups. They dont have government funding or belong to world criminal organizations. What they do have is spare time and a lot of curiosity, and believe me, hacking takes a lot of time. Some of the best hackers spend months working on one exploit. At the end of all that work, the exploit may turn out to not be reliable or to not to function at all! Breaking into a site is the same way. Hackers may spend weeks performing reconnaissance on a site, only to find out there is no practical way in, so its back to the drawing board. In movies, Hollywood tends to gloss over this fact about the time involved in hacking. Who wants to watch while a hacker does research and test bugs for weeks? Its not a visual activity like watching bank robbers in action, and its not something the public has experience with and can relate to. In the movie ""Hackers,"" the director tried to get around this by using a visual montage and some time- lapse effects. In ""Swordfish,"" hacking is portrayed by drinking wine to become inspired to visually build a virus in one night. One of the oldest hacking movies, War Games, is the closest to reality on the big screen. In that movie, the main character spends considerable time doing research on his target, tries a variety of approaches to breaking in, and in the end, is noticed and pursued. But what if ? What would happen if the attackers were highly motivated and highly skilled? What if they had the guts and skills to perform sophisticated attacks? After a few drinks, these authors of the book you are holding in your hands are/were quick to speculate on what would be possible. Now, they have taken the time and effort to create ten stories exploring just what it would take to own the network. Dan Kaminsky, also known as Effugas, is a Senior Security Consultant for Avaya's Enterprise Security Practice, where he works on large-scale security infrastructure. Dan's experience includes two years at Cisco Systems, designing security infrastructure for cross-organization network monitoring systems, and he is best known for his work on the ultra-fast port scanner, scanrand, part of the ""Paketto Keiretsu,"" a collection of tools that use new and unusual strategies for manipulating TCP/IP networks. FX of Phenoelit has spent the better part of the last few years becoming familiar with the security issues faced by the foundation of the Internet, including protocol based attacks and exploitation of Cisco routers. He has presented the results of his work at several conferences, including DefCon, Black Hat Briefings, and the Chaos Communication Congress. Mark Burnett is an independent security consultant, freelance writer, and a specialist in securing Windows-based IIS Web servers. Mark is a contributor to Dr. Tom Shinder's ISA Server and Beyond: Real World Security Solutions for Microsoft Enterprise Networks (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 1-931836-66-3). Joe Grand is the President and CEO of Grand Idea Studio, Inc., a product design and development firm that brings unique inventions to market through intellectual property licensing. As an electrical engineer, many of his creations including consumer devices, medical products, video games and toys, are sold worldwide. A recognized name in computer security and former member of the legendary hacker think-tank, The L0pht, Joes pioneering research on product design and analysis, mobile devices, and digital forensics is published in various industry journals. Ido Dubrawsky (CCNA, CCDA, SCSA) is a Network Security Architect working in the SAFE architecture group of Cisco Systems, Inc. His responsibilities include research into network security design and implementation. Paul Craig is a network administrator for a major broadcasting company in New Zealand. He has experience securing a great variety of networks and operating systems. Paul has also done extensive research and development in digital rights management (DRM) and copy protection systems. Ken Pfeil is a Senior Security Consultant with Avaya's Enterprise Security Consulting Practice, based in New York. Ken's IT and security experience spans over 18 years with companies such as Microsoft, Dell, Identix and Merrill Lynch in strategic positions ranging from Systems Technical Architect to Chief Security Officer. While at Microsoft, Ken co-authored Microsoft's Best Practices for Enterprise Security white paper series, was a technical contributor to the MCSE Exam, Designing Security for Windows 2000 and official curriculum for the same. Timothy Mullen is CIO and Chief Software Architect for AnchorIS, a developer of secure enterprise-based accounting solutions. Mullen is also a columnist for Security Focus' Microsoft Focus section, and a regular contributor of InFocus technical articles. Also known as Thor, he is the founder of the ""Hammer of God"" security coop group. Ryan Russell has worked in the IT field for over 13 years, focusing on information security for the last seven. He was the primary author of Hack Proofing Your Network: Internet Tradecraft (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 1-928994-15-6), and is a frequent technical editor for the Hack Proofing series of books. Ryan founded the vuln-dev mailing list, and moderated it for three years under the alias ""Blue Boar."" Ryan is the Director of Software Engineering for AnchorIS, where he's developing the anti-worm product, Enforcer.",& telecommunications;books;business & management;certification;computers & technology;encryption;groupware;hacking;internet;internet & web culture;network security;networking;networks;privacy;protocols & apis;security & encryption,16 1870775953,"Making Music on the Apple Mac Keith Gemmell is a UK music technology writer who contributes monthly to Music Tech Magazine. He also publishes educational sheet music and audio products from his busy Internet site. Keith began his musical career at the age of seventeen playing saxophone, composing and recording for such labels as Virgin, Electra and Elton John's Rocket Records. This valuable experience enabled him to work alongside top record producers such as Gus Dudgeon. Since then he s been involved in just about every style of music imaginable both as a player and writer ranging from jazz orchestras to reggae outfits. You can find out more about him at www.saxmusicplus.com.",arts & photography;books;composition & performance;computers & technology;education & reference;etc.;hardware;humor & entertainment;macs;midi;mixers;music;reference;theory;web design;web development & design,16 0292712766,"Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600 ""Based on a broad array of sources, including extensive archival research, this book presents a provocatively new interpretation of indigenous-European relations in Portuguese America, as they unfolded over the course of the sixteenth century... The topic is fascinating and the sources extremely rich and suggestive."" --John Monteiro, Anthropology Department, UNICAMP, Brazil, and Visiting Professor of History, Harvard University Based on a broad array of sources, including extensive archival research, this book presents a provocatively new interpretation of indigenous-European relations in Portuguese America, as they unfolded over the course of the sixteenth century. . . . The topic is fascinating and the sources extremely rich and suggestive. (John Monteiro, Anthropology Department, UNICAMP, Brazil, and Visiting Professor of History, Harvard University) Alida Metcalf is Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor of History at Rice University.",16th century;americas;anthropology;books;brazil;europe;history;humanities;latin america;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;politics & social sciences;portugal;social sciences;south america;used & rental textbooks,16 0881924385,Orchids of Papua New Guinea Introduces the many diverse species of orchids to be found in Papua New Guinea.,australia & oceania;biological sciences;books;by region;crafts;flowers;gardening & landscape design;history;hobbies & home;humanities;new;orchids;papua new guinea;plants;science & math;used & rental textbooks,16 0891305602,"Sallust's Bellum Catilinae ""This new commentary, while going into a good deal of detail on the historical side...is laudably concerned at every turn to make sure that the student understands Sallust's grammar.... Ramsey has read his text with attention, and will stimulate his readers to do the same.""-- Michael Winterbottom, Classical Review""The commentary is a mine of solid information for students, not only on the immediate topic, but also on related aspects of Roman civilization.... It is an exemplary commentary for the modern student of Sallust.""--Thomas Scanlon, Classical World""Ramsey has produced what is likely to become the standard textbook for all intermediate students of Latin studying Sallust.... It has just the right balance of all the factors necessary for such a student to gain a good understanding of this great work and its author.""--Darel Engen, Favonius Text: English, Latin J.T. Ramsey is Professor of Classics, University of Illinois at Chicago --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",ancient;ancient & classical literature;books;criticism & theory;education & reference;greek;history;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;medieval;movements & periods;new;rome;used & rental textbooks,16 0273659294,"The Beermat Entrepreneur: Turn Your Good Idea into a Great Business 'What I really liked about this book was that it was easy to read. There are too many half-finished books by my bed that would have helped get me there years ago if I had just finished them. Yet I read Beermat in just one sitting; I enjoyed the book and related to it. I came out liking the authors and wishing they hadn't retired so they could come and run one of my companies.' ""Simon Woodroffe, Founder of Yo Sushi! in Management Today"" 'Mike and Chris understand with unusual clarity what drives a start-up.'Tim Smit, Founder, The Eden Project 'Refreshing and very readable.' Richard Donkin, Financial Times 'This book, for me, says it all! It should become standard reading for all employees, managers and founders of start-up businesses.' ""Professor Sir Christopher Evans OBE, Founder, Merlin Biosciences"" 'Provocative, down-to-earth and witty, too -- if you're looking for an antidote to the smoke and mirrors of the dotcom era, this is it!' ""Nayyer Hussain, Co-founder, McGeoch Techonolgy"" "" ""'The Beermat Entrepreneur is honest and practical, and it works.' Steve Packard, original publisher of Trivial Pursuit and founder of whereonearth.com'An embarrassingly accurate picture of entrepreneurs -- I went round the office reading out sections, and people laughed out loud.' ""Peter Hall, Founder, The Wadenhoe Consultancy"" "" ""'I recommend this book to any aspiring entrepreneur.' ""Charles Dunstone, Founder, Carphone Warehouse"" 'It's all here!' ""Phil Tee, Founder, RiverSoft PLC"" 'At times provocative but unpretentious, the author challenges the conventional wisdom of other business books on this subject. Passionate about his beliefs, the book is witty and amusing. For example, having discussed the pros and cons of various sources of finance, Southon asks: ""Are there any other sources of cash?"" and responds: ""There's always organised crime, I suppose, but the debt collection methods are a bit radical."" This is a book not just for entrepreneurs. Based on the author's real life experiences at the sharp end and packed full of wisdom and wit, there is much in this book for managers of whatever ilk and their employees to learn and enjoy.' ""Ian MacEacheran FCMI"" ""...you can only benefit from reading this book. You'll gain valuable advice and knowledge from people who have seen it, done it and bought the T-shirt."" ""Evening Standard"" ""The Beermat Entrepeneur has become a bestseller because it sets out the key stages of a business' growth clearly and describes exactly what needs to be done for it to flourish. Such plain speaking in business books is unfortunately rare."" ""EN, Manchester"" "" ""Among the many excellent qualities of the Beermat Entrepeneur is its thoroughly practical, no-nonsense, anecdote-free approach...jam packed with solid advice you seldom see in other books."" ""Training Journal"" ""...a modern thinking manual full of smart media concepts."" ""Word Magazine, June 2005"" Mike Southon is a serially successful entrepreneur. He co-founded The Instruction Set, an open systems consultancy in 1984, and sold the company five years later to what is now Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Mike has since been involved in seven start-up ventures, responsible for sales and marketing as well as helping to secure funding from venture capitalists. Mike is very active as an independent consultant, and has been a keynote speaker at conferences all over the world for Microsoft, IBM, Novell, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and many others. He has been a visiting lecturer at City Univeristy Business School since 1992. Chris West is a writer and journalist. His China Quartet of mysteries is published in Asia, the USA, the UK and Europe. He also works in PR and marketing, and is currently involved in his own start-up enterprise.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business communication;business ethics;business life;communications;economics;entrepreneurship;ethics;management & leadership;new;skills;small business & entrepreneurship;systems & planning;used & rental textbooks,16 0632038195,"Understanding and Management of Nausea and Vomiting Nurses are the healthcare professionals most likely to manage and care for the patient with symptoms of nausea and vomiting. This book provides an overview of the physiology and causes of vomiting, and can be used as a guide to dealing with a variety of different forms of sickness and subsequent complications. Includes specific sections on the most frequently occurring forms of sickness, natural or treatment-induced. Therapeutic management is discussed, but consideration is also given to the potential benefits of supportive techniques such as acupuncture and relaxation.",administration & management;books;clinical;diseases;internal medicine;medical & surgical;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;nurse & patient;nursing;oncology;pathology;patient education;used & rental textbooks,16 1560003995,"Except-Africa: Remaking Development, Rethinking Power ""Roe's approach to African development is highly original. Agree or disagree, his book is certain to make you think of the issues in a new way.""--David K. Leonard, University of California, Berkeley Emery Roe runs the Center for Sustainable Resource Development at the University of California, Berkeley.",africa;african;books;business & investing;city planning & urban development;development & growth;economics;history;international & world politics;politics & government;politics & social sciences;popular economics;public affairs & policy;social sciences;specific demographics;urban planning & development,16 1589830245,"The Deuteronomic School: History, Social Setting, and Literature (Studies in Biblical Literature) Raymond F. Person, Jr., Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and Semitic Studies (1991), The Graduate School, Duke University, is Associate Professor of Religion at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, USA. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;christian books & bibles;education & reference;general;history;history of religion;humanities;judaism;new;reference;religion & spirituality;religious;religious history;religious studies;used & rental textbooks;world,16 0071387048,"Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing Machine and nature are not often used in the same sentence. The title of this book may seem, at first glance, to be an oxymoron. For what is natural about a machine? Our collective consciousness is filled with ""unnatural machines,"" frightening Frankenstein monsters that lead their human creators into frozen wastelands of hubris. It is time to move beyond these dusty concepts of natural creation--as ancient as the Greeks' Prometheus--and take a fresh look at the nature of the machines around us. In Machine Nature, computer scientist Moshe Sipper takes us on a thrilling journey to the terra nova of computing for a compelling look at cutting-edge computers, robots, and machines. Marvels of human ingenuity, computers have extended our reach far beyond the wildest dreams of our grandparents. Yet, for all of their amazing complexity, computers are notoriously bad at learning new things and dealing with new situations. Researchers at the frontiers of computer science have turned to Nature for solutions to this fundamental problem. By applying models of complex biological systems to the realm of computing machines, they have given rise to a new breed of adaptive software and hardware. Undaunted, Sipper guides us through this brave new world--in which machines and computers adapt, evolve, learn, heal, reason, and more--as he explores the very latest technologies. He takes us into engineering labs to investigate ""embryonic"" chips that self-heal; bridges, artwork, and computer programs that evolve; fuzzy systems that tolerate human imprecision; robots that learn to walk; artificial immune systems that function like their biological counterparts to fight off computer viruses; DNA computing that hopes to replace silicon; and cellular computing, in which millions of tiny computers work in concert, like living cells. Finally, Sipper asks the question that quivers in all our minds when faced with such Promethean marvels: ""Can our creations one day take on a life of their own?"" Standing at the front lines of computer theory and practice, Moshe Sipper speaks not just to the issues of today, but to the ideas that will bear fruit in generations to come, all the while unafraid to tackle the deeper questions arising from the arrival of machines that are adaptive, autonomous, lifelike, and perhaps--one day--living. Moshe Sipper, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University in Israel and a Visiting Professor in the Logic Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Dr. Sipper has published close to 100 scientific papers in the field of bio-inspired computing, and is the author of Evolution of Parallel Cellular Machines: The Cellular Programming Approach. His Web site is www.moshesipper.com. Journey to the front lines of computer science, where researchers have crossed the paths of machines and living organisms ""Many people feel they were born too late. Then there are those who deem themselves to have been born too early. I, for one, belong to this latter group. I like to envision a future in which our bodies are on a par with our imagination, where humans will have unchained their earthly shackles, and, perhaps most importantly, a future in which humanity's spirit finally matches its technological wizardry. Maybe that is why my research revolves around what might, prima facie, seem like science fiction: machines and computers that adapt, evolve, learn, heal, reason, and more--accomplishing feats we usually associate only with Nature. . . .""--From Machine Nature What if Darwinian evolution could occur in machines? It can. Today, computing scientists are using evolution to create not only new objects, but indeed an entirely new way of creating objects. Evolving computer programs, malleable computer chips, self-healing machines braced with artificial immune systems, DNA-based computer ""bodies,"" and entire symphonies of tiny computers that sing to each other like the cells of your own human body--surely these are the dreams of scientists and creative writers alike. Not so. In Machine Nature, computer scientist and theorist Moshe Sipper takes us on a thrilling journey to the front lines of the latest computer technology, along the way tackling the difficult questions that arise from such Promethean marvels: What are the fundamental differences between the Nature-made and the human-made? And can our creations one day take on a life of their own? With elegance and intrepidity, Sipper guides us straight to the clockwork heart of this brave new world, opening our eyes along the way. Moshe Sipper, Ph.D., (Israel) is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University in Israel and a visiting senior researcher in the Logic Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.",artificial intelligence;biological sciences;biotechnology;books;computer mathematics;computer science;computer technology;computers & technology;engineering;human vision & language systems;new;professional & technical;robotics;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,16 0198764057,"Fundamentals of American Law ""...this volume achieves excellence precisely because its goal is to communicate to those who do not have a working knowledge of our culture or legal system.""--Bimonthly Review of Law Books Alan Morrison has served as professor at both Harvard Law School and New York University Law School. He is currently a Senior Attorney for the Public Citizen Litigation Group in Washington, DC, which he co-founded with Ralph Nader.",books;criminal law;education & reference;law;law enforcement;law practice;legal reference;legal theory & systems;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,16 0802134289,"Black Eagle Child: The Facepaint Narratives This wonderful volume of stories, told in both prose and poetry, floats between memoir and fiction, history and storytelling. To tell his story, Young Bear creates a fictional counterpart to Iowa's Mesquakie Settlement, where he is an enrolled, lifelong resident, and the fictional persona of Edgar Bearchild. Bearchild's account of childhood to young manhood, from the Fifties through the Seventies, mixes the common history of drugs, Vietnam, and The Doors with the racism and injustice of Native American experience. Interwoven through this personal story are tales told by other speakers, sometimes elegiac, often comic. Effectively the book is as much an autobiography of a community as it is the history of a singular life. This is recommended for most collections.- Brian Kenney, St. John's Univ. Lib., Jamaica, N.Y.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Fascinating and accomplished memoirs in which a Mesquakie poet blends myth, fact, and the unvarnished recollections of a young Native American. Edgar Bearchild, the author's alter-ego in this impressionistic account (also narrated by composites of characters Young Bear has known), grew up on the pseudonymous Black Eagle Child Settlement of central Iowa during the turbulent 60's and 70's--an era whose conflicts would help shape Bearchild's personal vision. His early years careen between the extremes of depressing, mission-supported Thanksgiving ceremonies and passionately religious ``star medicine'' rituals involving psilocybin-induced visions. Bearchild's adolescence includes alcohol-driven small-town adventures with which many American males can identify, as well as encounters with medicine women, spirits of the dead, and signs from nature. His consciousness filled with Doors lyrics, tribal histories and songs, and unidentified spiritual longings, Bearchild leaves for college in California, where, in a confused effort to dull the pain of homesickness, he succumbs to the temptations of synthetic forms of his tribe's hallucinatory drugs. A year later, Bearchild returns to the settlement, a college dropout with no discernible place in the tribe, a published poet originally inspired by his own people, though the English language in which he writes is inadequate to express the tribe's deepest concerns. Nevertheless, Bearchild devotes himself to writing poetry and recording the stories of his ancestors. One result is this tale of the artist as a young man, powerful in its earthy yet often ethereal style. A unique account and a milestone in Native American literature. (Photos--not seen.) -- Copyright 1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. A classic of Native American literature, Black Eagle Child uses a rich mix of verse, prose narrative, and letters to tell Edgar Bearchild's journey to adulthood. Although the backdrop of much of Young Bear's novel may be familiar-the conflicts over race, drugs, Vietnam and others that gripped America in the fifties, sixties, and seventies--Bearchild's recounts his coming-of-age story from a distinct vantage point, as a member of the Mesquakie nation. From his childhood delight in Jell-O to his induction into the faith of his elders, Bearchild's journey is a uniquely American one. Seamlessly mixing tribal memory and the comic events of Bearchild's life, Young Bear's story excels in its presentation of startling, absurdist juxtapositions of the ancient and modern, expresses bemusement and anger at the strange ways of whites, and tells of the strength and vision that come from his Native tradition. ""The American Indian poet and novelist Ray A. Young Bear possesses a robust imagination and a wonderfully droll narrative voice.""--The New York Times ""This book is a story with great liveliness. It reminds me of Huckleberry Finn but with real huckleberries this time. The complicated mysteries and zaniness of the Native American soul rise up in the story, and the 'other world' crosses this world in a way that is deeply satisfying.""--Robert Bly ""Ray A. Young Bear's work is the gift of an anguished imagination marked with grief and humor. His writing alternately lashes and heals, but always instructs from a deep vision of the world.""--Louise Erdrich ""Ray A. Young Bear is generally acknowledged as the nation's foremost contemporary poet.... Young Bear is destined for even wider and more fulsome recognition as a national treasure.""--Robert Gish, The Bloomsbury Review ""[Young Bear] speaks from a kind of timeless experience, his voice is the voice of the coyote or singer of Beowulf or the inventor of words.""--N. Scott Momaday Ray A. Young Bear is a writer, musician, and poet who lives in the Mesquakie Settlement in Central Iowa. He has taught at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and Eastern Washington University. His published works include two volumes of poetry, Winter of the Salamander and The Invisible Musician, and the novel Remnants of the First Earth.",american;anthropology;biographies & memoirs;books;cultural;literary;literature & fiction;midwest;native american;native american studies;poetry;politics & social sciences;regional u.s.;social sciences;specific demographics;united states,16 0786405457,"Science Fiction Serials: A Critical Filmography of the 31 Hard Sf Cliffhangers, With an Appendix of the 37 Serials With Slight Sf Content A generation of kids with free Saturdays enjoyed movie serials, 15^-20 minutes of action and cliffhanger endings. Especially with the advent of popular SF writing, science fiction serials were a big draw and presaged the science fiction craze of the 1950s. Covering all 31 SF serials, from The Vanishing to Panther Girl of the Congo this book is the result of in-depth research and commitment. Author Kinnard was able to get valuable information from Buster Crabbe and Jean Rogers (of Flash Gordon fame) and other actors, film curators, and librarians.Serial entries are arranged in order of original release and include the following: production crew, cast, chapter titles, story (from one to three pages), commentary, and present-day distributor. At least one stock photo accompanies each entry; up to four black-and-white photos or posters may be included. Probably the most interesting section is the comment one in which Kinnard discusses (and sometimes editorializes about) production and studio details, actors' backgrounds and future careers, and off-shoot films and TV programs. He notes how footage and costumes were shared among series; applauds Henry MacRae, who produced the Flash Gordon series, for revitalizing serials for the sound stage; and derides Superman producer Sam Katzman, who helped push the serials toward their demise. The Board has only two complaints. The story line for each serial is presented uninterrupted, so the reader cannot tell where individual episodes begin and end. On a more minor note, Kinnard is especially generous in his appraisal of actress Linda Stirling and her beauty--but doesn't include any pictures of her.The writing is clear and succinct, and occasional opinions are backed up with sufficient evidence. An appendix lists 37 additional serials with incidental science-fiction elements. This is followed by a brief bibliography and an index. For the academic or public library with a strong SF or serious film readership, this volume is an entertaining and useful, though not vital, addition to the field. ""a fascinating look at these serials...will be useful in most film collections"" -- ARBA""a useful critical guide"" -- Interzone""chapters cover 31 sound serials in chronological order"" -- Psychotronic""clear and succinct...an entertaining and useful...addition to the field"" -- Booklist/RBB""detailed information.... Complete credits and chapter titles are given, along with the storylines, detailed commentaries and information as to video availability"" -- Classic Images""everything you ever wanted to know"" -- VideoScope""the book is a hoot.... The author's research skills and eye for details adds depth"" -- ForeWord Magazine Roy Kinnard, a researcher, is also the editor of McFarland's ""The Lost World"" of Willis O'Brien (1993). He lives in Chicago, Illinois.",bibliographies & indexes;books;education & reference;film & television;genre films;history & criticism;humanities;humor & entertainment;movies;new;performing arts;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;science;used & rental textbooks;writing,16 B000FO6RJY,"Chemistry of the Upper and Lower Atmosphere: Theory, Experiments, and Applications ""The authors have put together an up-to-date large-format volume covering all aspects of atmospheric chemistry. The book includes some 5000 references as well as problems (and answers) for students. The book can serve as a text for atmospheric chemistry courses or as a reference for scientists and engineers.""--BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, May 2000""Atmospheric chemistry is an exciting, relatively new field"" states the initial sentence of this very impressive, nearly encyclopedic overview of the field's fundamental science, pressing issues, and major policy concerns. Both of the book's authors have played important roles in the field's development. ...In nearly a thousand (8.5 X 11"") full size pages they have assembled an extremely thorough and up-to-date (with references through mid-1999) overview of the field. ...This book should be required reading for anyone who is seriously interested in atmospheric chemical processes and/or their policy implications. My colleagues and I think so highly of its utility as an atmospheric chemistry handbook that we subsidize its purchase by collaborating graduate and postdoctoral students who spend time in our laboratory working on atmospheric chemistry projects.""--Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, November 2000 ""Finlayson-Pitts and Pitts (both, Univ. of California at Irvine) offer a comprehensive, excellent review of the current stage of knowledge in and applications of atmospheric chemistry. It is clearly and concisely written and extremely well organized, facilitating its use as both a teaching text and reference resource. The book not only documents the physical and chemical processes that determine atmospheric composition but also provides a concise review of measurement methods and a wealth of data regarding observed concentrations of many key atmospheric compounds. The book also discusses chemical aspects of current environmental change issues and, in the final chapter, provides and interesting overview of risk assessment as applied to tropospheric air quality. All the diagrams are in black-and-white but are of high quality and clarity. Other features that add significantly to the overall quality of the book are the thorough and well-documented reference sections at the end of each chapter, the comprehensive index, and the problem sections that span a range of difficulty levels. Not surprisingly, this excellent book is authored by two scientists who have significantly contributed to the discipline of atmospheric chemistry over the last 40 years. Upper-division undergraduates and up."" --S. C. Pryor, Indiana University, CHOICE, June 2000. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Here is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of one of the hottest areas of chemical research. The treatment of fundamental kinetics and photochemistry will be highly useful to chemistry students and their instructors at the graduate level, as well as postdoctoral fellows entering this new, exciting, and well-funded field with a Ph.D. in a related discipline (e.g., analytical, organic, or physical chemistry, chemical physics, etc.). Chemistry of the Upper and Lower Atmosphere provides postgraduate researchers and teachers with a uniquely detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative resource. The text bridges the ""gap"" between the fundamental chemistry of the earth's atmosphere and ""real world"" examples of its application to the development of sound scientific risk assessments and associated risk management control strategies for both tropospheric and stratospheric pollutants. Key Features*Serves as a graduate textbook and ""must have"" reference for all atmospheric scientists* Provides more than 5000 references to the literature through the end of 1998* Presents tables of new actinic flux data for the troposphere and stratospher (0-40km)* Summarizes kinetic and photochemical date for the troposphere and stratosphere*Features problems at the end of most chapters to enhance the book's use in teaching* Includes applications of the OZIPR box model with comprehensive chemistry for student use --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.",atmospheric sciences;books;chemical;chemistry;civil;earth sciences;engineering;environment;environmental science;general & reference;physical & theoretical;professional & technical;rivers;science & math;special topics;weather,16 0618442200,"Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing: A Rhetoric with Readings 1. THINKING. Thinking Critically About Visuals: The Mystery of the Mind. Living an ""Examined"" Life. Thinking Critically About Visuals: You Are the Artist of Your Life. A Roadmap to Your Mind. Working Toward Goals. Achieving Short-Term Goals. Achieving Long-Term Goals. Images, Decision-Making, and Thinking About Visual Information. Images, Perceiving, and Thinking. Thinking Critically About Visuals: Disaster and Perspective. Thinking Passage: The Autobiography of Malcolm X. From The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with Alex Haley. An Organized Approach to Making Decisions. Living Creatively. ""Can I Be Creative?"" Becoming More Creative. Thinking Critically About Visuals: ""Expect the Unexpected"" - Heraclitus. Thinking Critically About New Media: Creative Applications. Thinking Passage: Nurturing Creativity. 'Original Spin,"" by Lesley Dormen and Peter Edidin. ""Revenge of the Right Brain,"" by Daniel Pink. Thinking Critically About Visuals: 'Express Yourself!"" Chapter Summary. Suggested Films. 2. THINKING CRITICALLY. Thinking Critically About Visuals: ""Now It Is Time for Us to Part ..."" Thinking Actively. Influences on Your Thinking. Becoming an Active Learner. Carefully Exploring Situations with Questions. Thinking Independently. Viewing Situations from Different Perspectives. Thinking Critically About Visuals: Thinking Independently. Supporting Diverse Perspectives with Reasons and Evidence. Thinking Critically About Visuals: ""You Leave, I Was Here First!"" Discussing Ideas in an Organized Way. Listening Carefully. Supporting Views with Reasons and Evidence. Responding to the Points Being Made. Asking Questions. Increasing Understanding. Reading Critically. Asking Questions Using a Problem-Solving Approach. Thinking Critically About Visuals: Complex Issues, Challenging Images. Becoming a Critical Thinker. Thinking Critically About New Media: Issues with Communication. Analyzing Issues. What Is the Issue? What Is the Evidence? What Are the Arguments? What Is the Verdict? Thinking Passage: Jurors' and Judges' Reasoning Processes. ""Jurors Hear Evidence and Turn It into Stories,"" by Daniel Goleman. Thinking Critically About Visuals: ""Members of the Jury, Don't Be Deceived..."" Analyzing On-Line Trends in Higher Education. Will the Web Kill Colleges?"" by Zephyr Teachout. Chapter Summary. Suggested Films. 3. SOLVING PROBLEMS. Thinking Critically About Problems. Introduction to Solving Problems. Solving Complex Problems. Accepting the Problem. Step 1: What Is the Problem? Step 2: What Are the Alternatives? Step 3: What Are the Advantages and/or Disadvantages of Each Alternative? Thinking Critically About Visuals: ""I Have a Creative Idea!"" Step 4: What Is the Solution? Thinking Critically About Visuals: ""Why Didn't I Think of That!"" Step 5: How Well Is the Solution Working? Solving Non-personal Problems. Thinking Critically About New Media: Surfing Dangers and Addictions. Thinking Critically About Visuals: Advertising to Change Behavior. Thinking Passage: The Influence of New Media ""Is Google Making Us Stupid?"" by Nicholas Carr. Chapter Summary. Suggested Films. 4. PERCEIVING AND BELIEVING. Actively Selecting, Organizing, and Interpreting Sensations. People's Perceptions Differ Thinking Critically About Visuals: The Investigation. Viewing the World Through ""Lenses"". What Factors Shape Perceptions? Thinking Critically About Visuals: Witnessing a Martyrdom. Five Accounts of the Assassination of Malcolm X. Thinking Passage: Experiences Shape Your Perceptions. Untitled by Luis Feliz (student essay). Thinking Critically About Visuals: Perceiving and Managing Fear. Perceiving and Believing. Believing and Perceiving. Types of Beliefs: Report, Inferences, Judgments. Thinking Critically About Visuals: Observing a Street Scene. Reporting Factual Information. Inferring. Judging. Differences in Judgments. Thinking Critically About New Media: Distinguishing Perception from Reality. Thinking Passage: Perception and Reality on Reporting the Earthquake in Haiti. Haiti,"" by Jonah Lehrer. ""Making Sense of Haiti,"" by Amy Davidson. ""Suffering,"" by George Packer. ""Aftershock,"" by Bryan Walsh, Jay Newton-Small, and Tim Padgett. Chapter Summary. Suggested Films. 5. CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE. Believing and Knowing. Knowledge and Truth. Stages of Knowing. Thinking Critically About Your Beliefs. Thinking Critically About Visuals: ""I Knew That Aliens Existed!"" Using Perspective-Taking to Achieve Knowledge. Several Accounts of Events at Tiananmen Square, 1989. Beliefs Based on Indirect Experience. How Reliable Are the Information and the Source? Thinking Critically About New Media: Evaluating Online Information. Before You Search. Choose Sources Likely to Be Reliable. Was the United States Justified in Dropping Atomic Bombs on Japan? Thinking Critically About Visuals: After the Bomb. Thinking Passage: Seeking the Truth vs. Winning a Battle. ""The Story Behind the Story,"" by Mark Bowden. Chapter Summary. Suggested Films. 6. LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT. The Evolution of Language. The Symbolic Nature of Language. Semantic Meaning (Denotation). Perceptual Meaning (Connotation). Syntactic Meaning. Pragmatic Meaning. ""Jabberwocky"". Thinking Passage. ""How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect,"" by Benedict Carey. Using Language Effectively. Thinking Critically About Visuals: Reading the Unwritten. Thinking Passage. From Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon. Using Language to Clarify Thinking. Thinking Critically About Visuals: Words Paint a Picture. Improving Vague Language. Using Language in Social Contexts. Language Styles. Standard American English. Thinking Critically About Visuals: ""What's Happening?"" Slang Jargon. The Social Boundaries of Language. Using Language to Influence. Euphemistic Language. ""Ancient Greece to Iraq, the Power of Words in Wartime,"" by Robin Tolmach Lakoff. Emotive Language. Thinking Passage: Persuading with Political Speeches. Thinking Critically About New Media: How to Write for the New Media. ""How to Write for the New Media,"" by Neal Jansons. Thinking Passage: Will Twitter Make Us Nit-Twits? ""Twitter, Communication, and My Inner Luddite,"" by Yves Smith. ""The Hidden Problem With Twitter,"" by Carin Ford. ""How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live,"" by Steven Johnson. Thinking Critically About Visuals: ""You're Not Going to Believe This..."" Chapter Summary. Suggested Films. 7. FORMING AND APPLYING CONCEPTS. What Are Concepts? The Structure of Concepts. Forming Concepts. Applying Concepts. Thinking Critically About Visuals: Fashion Statements as Concepts. Thinking Passage: Femininity and Masculinity. ""Women and Femininity in U.S. Popular Culture,"" Susan Grayson. ""The Second Coming of the Alpha Male,"" by Michael Segell. Thinking Critically About Visuals: ""Pose!"" Using Concepts to Classify. Thinking Critically About Visuals: ""A Tree Is Just a Tree, Is Just a Tree ..."" Defining Concepts. Thinking Passage: Defining Cultural Identity. ""Identify Yourself: Who's American?"" by Gregory Rodriguez. Thinking Critically About Visuals: Who Is an American? Relating Concepts with Mind Maps. Thinking Passage: The Concepts Religion and Religious Experience.""What Is Religion?"" by Frederick J. Streng. Thinking Critically About New Media: Using New Media to Research a Concept. Chapter Summary. Suggested Films. 8. RELATING AND ORGANIZING. Chronological and Process Relationships. Chronological Relationships. Thinking Passage ""Back, But Not Home,"" by Maria Muniz (student essay). Process Relationships. Comparative and Analogical Relationships. Comparative Relationships. Analogical Relationships. Thinking Passage: Thinking Literally. Thinking Literally: The Surprising Ways that Metaphors Shape Your World. Thinking Critically About New Media: New Media Metaphors for Our World. Causal Relationships. Thinking Critically About Visuals: The Places We Think. Causal Chains. Contributory Causes. Interactive Causes. Thinking Critically About Visuals: Why...? Thinking Passage: Environmental Issues. ""Playing God in the Garden,"" by Michael Pollan. ""Eating the Genes,"" by Richard Manning. Chapter Summary. Suggested Films. 9. THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT MORAL ISSUES. What Is Ethics? Your Moral Compass. I Would Follow My Conscience. I Do Not Know What I Would Do. I Would Do Whatever Would Improve My Own Situation. I Would Do What God or the Scriptures Say Is Right. I Would Do Whatever Made Me Happy. I Would Follow the Advice of an Authority, Such as a Parent or Teacher. I Would Do What Is Best for Everyone Involved. The Thinker's Guide to Moral Decision-Making. Make Morality a Priority. Thinking Critically About Visuals: ""What Homeless Person?"" Recognize That a Critical-Thinking Approach to Ethics Is Based on Reason. Include the Ethic of Justice in Your Moral Compass. Include the Ethic of Care in Your Moral Compass. Thinking Critically About Visuals: Ethics and Emotions. Accept Responsibility for Your Moral Choices. Seek to Promote Happiness for Oneself and Others. Seek to Develop an Informed Intuition. Discover the ""Natural Law"" of Human Nature. Choose to Be a Moral Person. Thinking Critically About New Media: Ethical Issues with the Internet. Thinking Passage: Thinking and Acting Morally. ""The Disparity Between Intellect and Character,"" by Robert Coles. Solving the Problem of World Hunger. ""The Solution to World Hunger,"" by Peter Singer. Chapter Summary. Suggested Films. 10. CONSTRUCTING ARGUMENTS. Thinking Critically About Visuals: 'Let Herbs Grow Free!"" Recognizing Arguments. Cue Words for Arguments. Thinking Passage: Legalizing Drugs. ""Drugs"" by Gore Vidal. ""The Case for Slavery."" by A. M. Rosenthal. Arguments Are Inferences. Evaluating Arguments. Truth: How True Are the Supporting Reasons? Validity: Do the Reasons Support the Conclusion? Thinking Critically About Visuals: The Changing Rules of Love. The Soundness of Arguments. Understanding Deductive Arguments. Application of a General Rule. Disjunctive Syllogism. Thinking Critically About New Media: Freedom of Speech on the Internet. Constructing Extended Arguments. Writing an Extended Argument. Thinking Passage: Should We Ration Health Care? ""Why We Must Ration Health Care,"" by Peter Singer. ""Rationing Health Care: A Second Opinion,"" by Leonard Laster. Thin... John Chaffee, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at The City University of New York, where he has developed a Philosophy and Critical Thinking program that annually involves 25 faculty and 3,000 students. He is a nationally recognized figure in the area of critical thinking, having authored leading textbooks and many professional articles. He also has conducted numerous conference presentations and workshops throughout the country. In developing programs to teach people to think more effectively in all academic subjects and areas of life, he has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, the Annenberg Foundation, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He was selected as New York Educator of the Year and received the Distinguished Faculty Award for Diversity in Teaching in Higher Education.Christine McMahon was a professor in the Department of English Composition, Literature, and Professional Writing at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. She planned and coordinated ""Critical Literacy,"" a professional development program for Montgomery College faculty, librarians, and counselors on educational theory and techniques for fostering critical thinking across the curriculum. In 1997, she received a NISOD Excellence Award (National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development from the University of Texas at Austin) for this work. Her work has been published in Teaching Writing in the Two-Year College.Barbara Stout was professor of English at Montgomery College. She was chairperson of the Department of English and helped establish the ""Writing Across the Curriculum"" and ""Critical Literacy"" programs. Professor Stout was secretary of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and is active in the Two-Year College English Association. She has made presentations at CCCC, TYCA-Northeast, NCTE, and other conferences. Her publications include chapters in NCTE publications and books about two-year college writing programs.",books;college & university;creative writing & composition;education;education & reference;humanities;instruction methods;language & grammar;literature;literature & fiction;new;research & publishing guides;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,16 0195089812,"The First Industrial Woman ""[A] brilliant historical work...elegant and accessible...; it is sure to become standard reading in many women's studies classes, but it ought to be read by everyone.""--The Women's Review of Books""Should attract serious excitement in the field....The book is very well written and will make an excellent text for students....I can imagine adopting it for a Western civilization class, a women's history survey, or a nineteenth-century European history survey.""--Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University""This book is to be welcomed as a brave contribution to the study of a complex subject."" -- The Times Higher Education Supplement""[The book] is beautifully written and uses a dazzling range of sources. Even serious scholars of this topic will find something new in the bibliography.""--Business History Review""...her book will take a key place in the crucial debates defining women's role in modern industrialization. This valuable contribution to the history of technology and economic development is a model for future studies to explain the far-reaching effects of technological change.""--Technology and Culture --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Deborah Valenze is at Barnard College.",19th century;americas;books;business & investing;economics;history;labor & industrial relations;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;united states;women in history;women's studies;world,16 1570034788,"My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915 ""My Dear Stieglitz charts a short, but key period in the careers of two extraordinary figures in American modernism."" -- Jonathan Weinberg, Getty Research Institute""My Dear Stieglitz is an important contribution to Hartley/Stieglitz scholarship."" -- Townsend Ludington, University of North Carolina JAMES TIMOTHY VOORHIES works in the Department of European Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has taught art history at the San Francisco Art Institute. He lives in New York City.",americas;architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;classics;essays & correspondence;history;individual artists;letters & correspondence;literature & fiction;painting;united states;world,16 0300115040,"Modernist America: Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture In his impressive new study, Pells (Radical Visions and American Dreams) works to dispel the common misconception that Modernism originated in America. He argues that Modernist America was a land not of invention, but of adaptation, blossoming through a mutual transatlantic relationship, mass immigration, and a healthy ""disregard for cultural borders."" Pells surveys the power of art in the 20th century, looking at the ways in which Picasso and Cubism, Futurism, and stream-of-consciousness literature influenced artists, such as Jackson Pollock, and subsequent movements. He examines the influx of European intellectuals during WWII, which stimulated a new era of creativity infused with non-American ideologies. Architectural celebrities Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, indebted to the Bauhaus, transformed cities; and the skyscraper became a symbol of the modern age. When Hollywood faltered, the French New Wave and Italian Neorealism took center stage and influenced American cinema. The author's cultural appraisal of evolving musical tastes is nothing short of extraordinary; he begins in the 20th century, with ""...in the history of Western modernism, the unrivaled American contribution...had always been jazz,"" then tracks back, folding in early Hollywood musicals (which introduced the world to Gershwin, Berlin, Porter, Bernstein, and others) and even Tin Pan Alley. Debates over high and low art, and the avant-garde vs. popular culture, rage throughout this absorbing volume. (Mar.) [T]here is much to enjoy here . . . a rousing jaunt through a period of remarkable upheavals in entertainment and the arts.The Wall Street Journal (The Wall Street Journal)""Richard Pells's book leaps, lunges, gallops, and, once in a while, pirouettes its way toward something very close toa unified field theory of twentieth-century American culture.""Gene Seymour, Bookforum (Gene Seymour Bookforum)""Pells has written a capacious, original, even compelling book...there is nothing like this in print.""Daniel Horowitz, Smith College (Daniel Horowitz)""Richard Pells was one of the first scholars to teach us the importance of looking beyond national boundaries in writing the history of American culture. Now he has valuably extended that lesson in this rich, accessible study of modernisms transatlantic reach.""Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester (Joan Shelley Rubin)""In his cosmopolitan study of American modernism, Richard Pells reveals the open borders for artistic work. With his impressive command of several art forms, high and popular, he illuminates the transnational circuitry of artistic borrowing and innovation.""Thomas Bender, author of New York Intellect (Thomas Bender)By showing that American modernism emerged as part of an international artistic movement, Richard Pells provides an important contribution to the growing scholarly literature on the globalization of American culture.Elaine TylerMay, author of America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril and Liberation (Elaine Tyler May) Richard Pells is professor of history emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Austin, TX.",20th century;americas;arts & photography;books;criticism & theory;historical study & educational resources;history;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;modernism;movements & periods;movies;music;social history;united states,16 0195096487,"Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 ""Becoming Mexican American makes a significant contribution to Chicano historiography through its examination of the dynamics of Mexican American life in Los Angeles....Snchez should be praised for this important and carefully written book. It is a dynamic portrayal of the social and political transformation of Mexican immigrants into a well-defined Mexican American community in Los Angeles.""--New Mexico Historical Review""A fascinating and richly textured study of Chicanos in the urban setting of Los Angeles....It is...the best study available on the experiences of the Mexicans in Los Angeles, especially on their struggle for equality and justice.""--ILWCH""Monumental....Inviting reading....A consummate scholar and masterful storyteller, Snchez rediscovers the missing threads and restores the vibrant colors in the fabric of Los Angeles.""--Los Angeles Times""A brilliant historical study of Hispanic asimilation, resistance, and self-reflection in Los Angeles.""--Tikkun""Becoming Mexican American is a remarkable chronicle of Mexican history and influence in the United States. Written with a compelling combination of heart and insight, this study rounds out and redefines the role of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Chicanos from our nation's past. In Becoming Mexican American George Snchez has narrowed a mighty void in American history.""--Xavier Becerra, Member of Congress, 30th District, California George J. Sanchez in Associate Professor of History, University of Southern California.",20th century;americas;anthropology;books;cultural;emigration & immigration;history;humanities;minority studies;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,16 0312224095,"Global Institutions and Local Empowerment: Competing Theoretical Perspectives (International Political Economy) Kendall Stiles is Associate Professor of Political Science at Loyola University, Chicago.",books;business & finance;business & investing;education & reference;government;history & theory;new;political history;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences;state;united states;used & rental textbooks,16 0789727870,"Novell Netware 6.5 CNA Exam Cram 2 The Certified Novell Administrator (CNA) certification is the frist step to becoming Novell certified. To pass this important exam, you need to surround yourself with the most comprehensive, exam-focused materials on the market. Thats where Novell Netware 6.5 CNA Exam Cram 2 comes in. You will be able to focus your knowledge with this guide, which emphasizes the learning topics of the CNA exam and closely follows the exam objectives. Step-by-step lessons offer the no-nonsense, straight-forward information needed to pass the exam. It is accompanied by a CD-ROM that features ExamForces CramMaster product, a powerful, full-featured test engine. Prepare for the CNA with the smartest, most efficient way to study the Novell Netware 6.5 CNA Exam Cram 2. Warren E. Wyrostek is the owner of Warren E. Wyrostek, M.Ed. (a Novell Authorized Partner), and 3WsCertification.com (a portal dedicated to Novell Training and Support). He holds a Masters degree in Vocational-Technical Education from Valdosta State College, a Masters in Divinity from New Yorks Union Theological Seminary, and is devoted to technical education as reflected by his list certifications. He currently holds 25 Novell certifications including the CNI, MCNE, and CDE. Warren has been teaching over 20 years and has taught on the College and Secondary School levels. He has taught Novell authorized courses since 1996. Professionally, his main joy comes as a Freelance Writer, Course Developer, and Contract Trainer for various technologies that revolve around integrated networking. He has been the Technical Editor for over 20 certification titles in the last few years. At heart, he is a teacher who loves what technical education offers. Many of Warrens certification articles can be found on Informit.com, including ""Now What? -A Career Changers Odyssey."" You can reach Warren at wyrostekw@msn.com. Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved. Introduction Introduction Terms Youll Need to Understand Form test Adaptive test Practicum test Hot-spot question Drag-and-drop question Mutiple-choice question Fill-in-the-blank question Techniques Youll Need to Master Test-taking strategies Identify the differences among a form test, an adapative test, and a practicum Identify the differences among the various question types I would like to welcome you to Novell NetWare 6.5 CNA Exam Cram 2. The sole purpose of this book is to help you earn the CNA by passing the Novell Foundations of Novell Networking: NetWare 6.5 exam (050-686). Sometimes I simply call this the Foundations exam. At those occasions, I am abbreviating the title of the exam simply to conserve on space. Realize when I say the Foundations exam that I am referring to the Foundations of Novell Networking: NetWare 6.5 exam (050-686). The NetWare CNA is an introductory certification that requires you to pass a single test, the 050-686. This is not a difficult exam if you have some background in networking and a bit of hands-on experience with NetWare 6.5. Even a complete network novice can pass this exam if he is willing to work and study diligently. The test is not a cakewalk, but a true test of your ability to perform basic workstation-based administrative tasks. You will also be tested on a few server-based tasks and the steps and requirements for installing a fresh NetWare 6.5 server. Quite honestly, because Ive taught the CNA courses as a Novell contract instructor for the past eight years, my students are my main motivation for writing this text. Students come into the Foundations class seeking knowledge and leave enthusiastic about what they can do based on the knowledge they have learned. The real success stories are the students who contact me after earning their CNA. Their pride is amazing. For my future students and those of you whom I will never meet in a classroom, I hope you leave this Exam Cram 2 with the enthusiasm that my in-class students have, and more importantly, with the CNA in NetWare 6.5. At the beginning of every class, I ask my students what their objectives are for the class. Some come to learn a skillset, some come because their employer forced them, some come because they want to take a week off from work, and some come because they want to earn the CNA and realize its value. This book is not the War and Peace of NetWare 6.5 administration. Its sole purpose is to help you pass the Foundations exam. If you are looking for more detailed information on administrative skills, I encourage you to take the instructor-led Novell authorized course, 3016, Foundations of Novell Networking: NetWare 6.5; purchase the authorized self-study kit from Novell; or seek out one of the great titles from Novell Press on NetWare 6.5 (http://www.novell.com/training/books/). You can find further information on Novell training options at http://www.novell.com/training/. As we begin this journey together, I hope you have as much fun preparing for this exam as I have presenting the information to you. I wish you all good things as you prepare to earn the CNA. About This Book Each chapter in this Exam Cram 2 follows a regular pattern and offers graphical cues about important or useful information. Following is the structure of a typical chapter: Opening hotlistsThis is a list of the terms, tools, and techniques that you must learn to fully understand the chapters subject matter. Topical coverageEach chapter covers the main content that is related to the chapters subject title. Each chapter has sections that relate to one of the published test objectives. Exam alertThroughout each chapter, topics or concepts that are likely to appear on a test or specific pieces of exam advice are highlighted using a special Exam Alert layout, like this: Exam Alert - An Exam Alert stresses concepts, terms, software, or activities that are likely to relate to one or more certification test questions. They reflect the information you need to know as defined in the exam objectives laid out by Novell. TipsIn addition to Exam Alerts, Tips are included to give you an alternative method of accomplishing a NetWare 6.5 administrative task. This is more practical real-world information that might or might not be on the test. Tip - This is an example of a tip. Although Novell is moving away from NetWare Administrator in NetWare 6.5, NetWare Administrator can still perform many administrative functions more efficiently than some of the newer utilities. NotesThe Note icon flags information that is related to the material within the chapter body but is not meant to be part of the content flow. A note is also known as an aside. Note - This is what a note looks like. A note details or clarifies information in the chapter body. Exam Prep questionsThese practice questions appear at the end of every chapter. These exam-like questions are similar to what you will find on the Foundations of Novell Networking: NetWare 6.5 (050-686) exam. Further details and resourcesOn the CD you will find a document that provides direct pointers to Novell and third-party resources offering more details on the chapters subject. In addition, Chapters 13, Practice Exam 1, and 15, Practice Exam 2, include two sample tests that review the material presented throughout this book to ensure that youre ready for the exam. Chapters 14, Answer Key for Practice Exam 1, and 16, Answer Key for Practice Exam 2, offer the answer keys to the sample tests that appear in Chapters 13 and 15. Take the sample tests when you think youre ready for the live exam. This book also offers appendixes that provide technical resources, additional practice questions for file system rights, commonly used management URLs and ports, the low-down on whats on the CD-ROM that accompanies this book, and instructions for using the ExamForce software (again, see the CD-ROM). Concluding this book are a Glossary, which explains terms, and an index, which you can use to track down terms as they appear in the text. Finally, the tear-out Cram Sheet that is attached to the inside front cover of this Exam Cram 2 book represents a condensed and compiled collection of facts, exam alerts, and tips that you should memorize before taking the test. It is a summary of key testable points that you might encounter on the Foundations exam. Exam Experience The Foundations of Novell Networking: NetWare 6.5 exam is a straightforward computer-based assessment of your knowledge. Authorized exam providers administer this test. Arrive at the test center, after registering with your provider, at least 15 minutes before your scheduled appointment. This gives you time to sign in with the test proctor; provide two forms of identification, one of which must be a photo ID; deposit any books, bags, cell phones, or study aids with the proctor; and take a deep breath. Remember that all Novell tests, including the Foundations exam, are closed book exams. The proctor then escorts you into a test room that has a window or closed-circuit camera system enabling him to monitor the test. Each test room has one or more computers, generally separated from each other by a partition. You are given a sheet of scrap paper and a pen or pencil (some provide erasable boards and an erasable pen) to write down any notes before or during the exam. After you compose yourself and before you start the exam, write down on the notepad any facts or mnemonics you want to remember during the exam. This includes any lists that you memorized during your study time. You must surrender all notes when you leave the test room. When the proctor leaves the room, you can click Start for the Foundations exam. The proctor has the exam preloaded for you. The computer has a clock in the upper-right corner of the screen. This tells you how much time you have left in the exam. As you proceed through the exam, answer every question. You cannot mark a question and return to it at the end of the exam. You have only one chance at each question. Take your time, look at the possible answer choices, and provide the best possible answer. If you leave a question blank, it is scored as incorrect. For this reason, its better to guess than to skip a question entirely. After you answer the final question, the test is scored automatically. You are notified immediately on your computer screen if you earned a passing score. A score report is routed to a printer that the proctor monitors and given to you when you leave the test center. The score report provides your score, the passing or cut-off score, and the objectives that correspond to questions that you answered incorrectly. This gives you an immediate reference to this Exam Cram 2 and any authorized courseware you might have used to study from. When you leave the test center, you are asked to sign out and return any notepads that were given to you at the beginning of the exam. Your personal possessions are then returned to you. Test-Taking Strategies The exam experience is an exhilarating one. Depending on whether this is your fir...",apis & operating environments;books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;lan;networking;networks;new;novell netware;programming;protocols & apis;test prep & study guides;test preparation;testing;used & rental textbooks,16 1403969434,"After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro's Regime and Cuba's Next Leader As Fidel Castro continues to show signs of his own mortality, questions about Cuba's future-and America's role in that future-naturally arise. As a longtime Cuba analyst for the CIA, Latell is in a unique position to offer insights into the psyche of Fidel's unquestioned successor: his enigmatic, underestimated brother, Raul, the world's longest-serving defense minister who has always stayed in the shadows, among his own countrymen and in the press. Even in their student days in Havana, Raul failed to impress as Fidel did: ""The Jesuits found Raul apathetic and disinterested. After Fidel's intensity and promise, he was a great disappointment ... Lacking in confidence and fearing he could not match his brother's accomplishments, he did not even try."" But just because Raul has allowed himself to be a cipher doesn't mean he lacks a certain initiative. Latell describes the many executions carried out by Raul's orders, and sometimes, by his own hand. Yet he also has a sensitive side, and, unlike Fidel, openly enjoys the company of friends and family. Who is the real Raul, and which one will lead a post-Fidel Cuba? Latell argues that the answer is vitally important to US-Cuba relations. Readers looking for a primer on the Cuban Revolution or a meaty biography of Fidel should start elsewhere; this book assumes prior knowledge of the Cuban situation. However, those hungry for a greater understanding of Fidel's character and the complicated relationship between the Castro brothers will find priceless nuggets here.Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ""In After Fidel, Brian Lattel combines more than thirty years of CIA expertise with academic rigor and lively prose. The combination is particularly suited for analyzing the CIA's nemesis for now nearly half a century and for making sense of what the future will bring to Cuba: a country whose importance to the United States and Latin America one should never underestimate.""--Jorge Castaneda, Former Foreign Secretary, Mexico""Brian Latell is one of Americas foremost Cuba analysts. He has produced a fascinating psychological profile of Fidel Castro and the man who, after forty-plus years in the shadows, may soon succeed him--his brother Raul.""--George J. Tenet, Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency""Few Americans understand Cuba--past, present, and future--better than Brian Latell. He has combined an old CIA hand's knowledge and insights with a clear, readable writer's touch to bring both Castros--Fidel and his enigmatic brother Raul--to life.""--Evan Thomas, Newsweek Magazine, New York Times bestselling author of Robert Kennedy: His Life""After Fidel is the first complete and detailed analysis available on the impenetrable world of the leaders of Cuba. Latell succeeds in putting together the puzzle that 10 American administrations have been trying to decipher. This is invaluable work for those trying to understand Cuba and its future--the result of Brian Latells decades of dedication, discipline and sacrifice.""--FAR Brigadier GeneralRafael del Pino, Highest Ranking Defector of the Cuban military ""Latell dispels many of the fallacies, myths, and legends about Fidel and demonstrates how he uses the United States every time an internal problem arises in Cuba. . . Latell uses interviews with present and former members of Cuba's leadership and his own extensive knowledge, developed over 45 years in the intelligence community, to create a readable narrative and an excellent addition to the growing literature on Cuba. Highly recommended""--Library Journal This is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of the Castro brothers and the impending dynastic succession of Fidel's younger brother Raul. Brian Latell, the CIA analyst who has followed Castro since the sixties, gives an unprecedented view into Fidel and Raul's remarkable relationship, revealing how they have collaborated in policy making, shared responsibilities, and resolved disagreements for more than forty years--a challenge to the notion that Fidel always acts alone. Latell has had more access to the brothers than any other American, and his briefs to the CIA informed much of U.S. policy. Based on his knowledge of Raul Castro, Latell makes predicts what kind of leader Raul would be and how the shift in power might influence U.S.-Cuban relations. The paperback includes a new afterword by the author, with insights about recent developments in Fidels health and insider information about the U.S. governments position on the impending transition. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Brian Latell was the CIA's National Intelligence Officer for Latin America from 1990-1994, and has tracked Castro for the CIA since the sixties. The author's experience as a CIA analyst focused on Cuba gives him excellent credentials to write about the Castro brothers, Fidel and Ral. His in-depth research reveals abundant detail about how they thought and behaved, as well as how they related to each other, during their rise to power as dictator and deputy. Stefan Rudnicki's deep, articulate voice carries the listener through the detailed commentary, made challenging by its lack of chronological organization. He narrates with comfort, never sounding like he's reading from a page, but he suffers from an unfamiliarity with the abundant Spanish. While he doesn't create voices for the characters, other than an accent for Latin Americans speaking English, he distinguishes people's words from those of the author by varying his force and volume. J.A.H. AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;caribbean & latin american;caribbean & west indies;central america;cuba;history;history & theory;international & world politics;leaders & notable people;political;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;presidents & heads of state,16 0193533154,"The Oxford Book of Carols: Music edition Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM (1872-1958) was an influential British composer.",arts & photography;books;christian;education & reference;humanities;instruments;music;musical genres;new;performing arts;religion & spirituality;religious & sacred music;songbooks;songbooks & chorale music;used & rental textbooks;voice,16 0262072548,"The Cognitive Neurosciences III (Bradford Books) Another magnificent achievement, and truly new as well! With some 70 new chapters and over 100 new authors, The Cognitive Neurosciences III is as up-to-date as current work in the field. (Endel Tulving, Tanenbaum Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience, Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto)...a benchmark for what is to come. (Sean Spence British Medical Journal) The Cognitive Neurosciences III is a magnificent accomplishment. It covers topics from ions to consciousness, from reflexes to social psychology. It is authoritative and encyclopedic, but also lively and unafraid of controversy. Michael Gazzaniga, The MIT Press, and the community of cognitive neuroscientists are to be congratulated for assembling this landmark of twentieth-century science and thrilling preview of what we will learn in the twenty-first. (Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, author of The Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, and Words and Rules)Praise for earlier editions: A hugely impressive volume... a breathtaking achievement. (Richard Cooper The Times Higher Education Supplement)This may be the most important reference book in cognitive neuroscience for the next decade. (R.A. Drake Choice)This very good and important book confirms the arrival of a major new scientific discipline: cognitive neuroscience. (Chris Frith The Times Higher Education Supplement) ""*The Cognitive Neurosciences III* is a magnificent accomplishment. It covers topics from ions to consciousness, from reflexes to social psychology. It is authoritative and encyclopedic, but also lively and unafraid of controversy. Michael Gazzaniga, The MIT Press, and the community of cognitive neuroscientists are to be congratulated for assembling this landmark of twentieth-century science and thrilling preview of what we will learn in the twenty-first."" --Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, author of *The Blank Slate*, *How the Mind Works*, and *Words and Rules* ""Successful third editions of large reference works must be reliable sources for their field, and Gazzaniga's *The Cognitive Neurosciences* certainly is, authored by a remarkable group of contributors. But this book is far more: it is full of exciting chapters touching on such newly important fields as adult neurogenesis, and it embraces controversy where appropriate. In my view, this already superb text has only gotten better."" --Steven E. Hyman, Provost, Harvard University, and Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School ""To me, this book redefines the idea of comprehensiveness in a reference work. For the cognitive neuroscientist, it provides the latest in integrative cellular and system work. For the neuroscientist who wants to grasp cognitive functions and mechanisms, it offers a thoroughly up-to-date picture of the field."" --Floyd E. Bloom, Chairman, Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute ""Another magnificent achievement, and truly new as well! With some 70 new chapters and over 100 new authors, *The Cognitive Neurosciences III* is as up-to-date as current work in the field."" --Endel Tulving, Tanenbaum Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience, Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto ""Gazzaniga and his fearless colleagues have taken on the most challenging topics at the mind-brain interface. Given the brain's complexity, it is easy to get mired in details. This book steps back, looks at the fund of knowledge that has been acquired at all levels of neuroscience, and focuses our attention sharply on the essential questions that fascinate us all: From the mass of cells and circuits that is the brain, how do we come to think, feel, perceive, act, and be aware of who we are? It deftly captures the exciting and ever-challenging journey towards understanding the neurobiology of thought."" --Huda Akil, Gardner C. Quarton Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, University of Michigan Michael S. Gazzaniga is Professor of Psychology and Director for the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition, he is the Director of the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, President of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, and a member of the President's Council on Bioethetics.",basic sciences;behavioral sciences;books;clinical;cognitive psychology;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;neurology;neuroscience;new;psychology;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,16 0803268572,"I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century ""A spell-binding accountnot only of the murder of a family by a 'madman,' but also the murder of free will and responsibility by the mad-doctors. A glimpse into the birth of the psychiatrization of law, the medicalization of crime, and the therapeutization of justice.""Thomas S. Szasz, M.D. (Thomas S. Szasz )""For Foucault, Rivire provides the 'excuse' to examine power structures and social institutions, to question the scientificity of medical science, and to delineate the chaos of values and beliefs, of knowledge and power as it existed 150 years agoa chaos we have not yet eliminated.""Edith Kurzweil, The Age of Structuralism (Edith Kurzweil ) Text: English (translation) Original Language: French",american literature;biographies & memoirs;books;criminology;criticism & theory;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;true accounts;true crime;used & rental textbooks,16 0071464913,"McGraw-Hill's Spanish for Educators w/Audio CD Communicate with your Spanish-speaking students and parents as easy as uno, dos, trece McGraw-Hill's Spanish for Educators, CD Edition gives you more than 3,000 Spanish words and phrases and the basic grammar needed to use them properly and with confidence. You will learn vocabulary that covers every aspect of a student's school career, from kindergarten enrollment through high school graduation. Designed to get you quickly up and running with all the Spanish you need to build stronger relationships with Spanish-speaking students and families, McGraw-Hill's Spanish for Educators, CD Edition features English-Spanish mini-dictionary Spanish grammar primer Hundreds of practical, hands-on exercises Bilingual forms and letters for parents . . . and more Gain more confidence and get more practice with the 70-minute audio CD: Hundreds of listen-and-repeat exercises Review of key vocabulary and pronunciation Jos Daz is a Spanish teacher at Hunter College High School in New York and the author of several Spanish study guides for high school students. Mara F. Nadel, Ed.D., has more than thirty years of secondary school teaching experience. She is the author of several Spanish textbooks and study guides.",books;conversation;education;education & reference;etiquette;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;instruction;instruction methods;new;pedagogy;schools & teaching;spanish;used & rental textbooks,16 0786402059,"Social and Ethical Effects of the Computer Revolution ""useful...the essays are of high quality...universally clear and thought provoking"" -- Library Software Review",books;business & finance;business & investing;business & management;business ethics;business life;computer science;computers & technology;culture;ethics;mathematics;new;politics & social sciences;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,16 0072133686,"Access Denied: The Complete Guide to Protecting Your Business Online The Complete Guide to Protecting Your Business Online As more and more businesses today are relying heavily on computers, the issue of security is critical. And, with the number of employees operating from mobile offices and using portable devices for network and email access, security risks have also increased--making valuable systems even more vulnerable to attacks. Laptop theft also puts sensitive, unencrypted information at risk. Each year the number of significantly destructive security incidents--widely-publicized virus infections and denial of service attacks--is escalating, so how can companies protect their information effectively and economically? The answers can be found inside Access Denied. This highly practical resource provides hands-on tools and strategies for selecting the right technology solutions for creating a successful and cost-effective security policy. This book helps bridge the gap between business and technology--addressing both the need for profit and the requirement to invest in stronger security technology. Covering everything from data encryption methods to distribution list management, the book addresses key security risks associated with email, Web sites, portable devices, ecommerce, networks and computer systems. Through use of real-world examples the expert authors explain concepts, terminology, and related business issues, and offer solid security recommendations for small- medium-, and large-sized companies. Appropriate for both technology-implementers and the non-IT audience this book is ideal for any executive or business owner wanting to secure their company's information, form an efficient response team, and maintain a competitive edge in today's fast-moving, high-tech environment. Cathy Cronkhite (San Diego, CA) is the Manager of Client Operations, San Diego, for Xerox Connect. As a systems integrator, her expertise includes security evaluations and implementations. She is an accomplished public speaker and instructor. Jack McCullough (San Diego, CA) is founding consultant of Razorwire Information Security Consulting. He is a ""white hat"" hacker who performs denial of service tests, security and network auditing, and cryptanalysis for clients.",books;business & investing;business & management;computers & technology;e-commerce;encryption;industries & professions;internet & web culture;mathematics;network security;networking;networks;privacy;protocols & apis;science & math;security & encryption,16 015600884X,"Blood Song: A Silent Ballad Starred Review. Drooker's postindustrial silent ballad of man's place within a planetary life cycle is back in print with this lush new softcover edition. Also known for his New Yorker covers, Drooker's wordless comics and graphic novels follow the traditions of politically motivated woodcut-novelists including Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel. Drooker infuses those artists' emblematic approach with comics-specific narrative forms, fluid storytelling, and gracefully animated drawing. Less frenetic than his darkly urban Flood! this book moves at a stately pace matched to the grander rhythms and cycles of a living world. In the highly symbolic and sharply pointed narrative, a rural Southeast Asian woman's budding maturity dovetails with her awareness of a larger, technological worldforcibly manifested by a platoon of familiar-looking, heavily armed GIs. The woman escapes in an epic journey that takes her to a cosmopolitan city, where she discovers both the creative and oppressive possibilities of civilized modernity. This contemporary fable is expressed entirely through the intense artwork, combining dark, inky scratchboard with sensitive and judicious watercolor, crisply and brightly reproduced. The high production values of this affordable paperback edition are perfectly calibrated to communicate Drooker's universal message with maximum clarity. (Dec.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Adult/High School-This remarkable book induces in readers the powerful emotional truth of a folktale or myth. Told entirely through art, the narrative is simple. Driven from their rural home by war in Southeast Asia, a young woman and her dog survive a sea crossing and find themselves in an industrial city in the West where they encounter love and another sort of war. Varying his images from spreads to multi-panel sequences, Drooker is a master of pace and mood. His perspectives veer in a visionary fashion from galactic to intimate. He movingly portrays a striking range of emotional states from calm tranquillity to loving sex to panicked flight. His scratchboard-and-watercolor art is monochromatic and expressionistic, with visual echoes of traditions as varied as the lyrical watercolors of Southeast Asia and the muscular woodblocks of socialist realism. When color does make a rare appearance, it has a powerful narrative effect. Readers are likely to be drawn, like the protagonist, into the maelstrom, and to find themselves thinking deeply.Christine C. Menefee, Fairfax County Public Library, VACopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. PRAISE FOR FLOOD!: A NOVEL IN PICTURES""A brilliantly colorful, almost Blakean lyricism suffuses Drooker's . . . post-apocolyptic visions of urban bleakness.""--The New Yorker""Drooker's old Poe hallucinations of beauteous deathly reality transcend political hang ups and fix our present American dreams.""--Allen Ginsberg Introduction by Joe SaccoI met Eric Drooker only once for a few short hours six or seven years ago in New York City. Over drinks, Drooker, this far-out, far-left, street-wise artist, held me spellbound with stories of the outbursts and upheavals that have punctuated the Lower East Side's dense political history, which, clearly, was his own. Walking me back to the subway station, Drooker motioned to doorways and street corners, describing what had happened there five or 15 or 100 years ago as if those things were happening before his eyes again and now. No person I have met since has seemed as organically from a place, not simply by virtue of his being born, raised and schooled there, but because his streets also teemed with long dead and mostly forgotten characters who had lived and ached and struggled, too, and from whose lives he was still able to draw much meaning. At the time, Drooker was known to me as one of the New York cabal of activist cartoonists and poster artists, which included Peter Kuper and Seth Tobocman, who had joined forces on the oversized anthology of political comics, World War 3 Illustrated. And I knew Drooker's wordless narrative, Flood! A Novel in Pictures, then recently released and the recipient of an American Book Award. Flood!'s powerful images of confrontation between protesters and police were informed by Drooker's own physical batterings in the city's campaign-by-truncheon to sort out the punks and squatters and whores and homeless people who were among his neighbors and, incidentally, not in step with some grander, happy-faced vision of a well scrubbed populace for a well scrubbed New York. In some ways, Blood Song is a companion to Flood!, a refining of those same themes, but this is a story of greater scope, its starting point, in fact, images of the universe and then the earth and then a pastoral, mountainous landscape far removed from the skyscraper heights and valleys that dominate Drooker's previous settings. Where are we here? South-East Asia? And when? An idyllic time, perhaps, when villagers took only what they needed and left their surroundings as they found them. But we are in for surprises and jolts as Drooker pushes his story squarely into a modern, more ruthless age and from one landscape to another, each strikingly familiar but none wholly identifiable. Drooker's images seem to invoke settings that are more general than specific, emphasizing that this is not the story of one or two places, but of the opposing life-affirming and life-crushing forces that rage wherever people live on our planet. Set against Blood Song's themes of regeneration, rebirth, and resistance is the brute power of armies and police forces that do the bidding of vested interests. Drooker's real accomplishment is that he tells this modern story without words, using an ancient form of communication, one that relies on pictures to record stories (think Egyptian tomb paintings or the picture manuscripts of pre-Columbian Central America, for example). Without the interpretive filter of words, relying solely on the images and their sequence, we comprehend Drooker's narrative immediately and viscerally. He is granting us a direct line into the heart of the female protagonist. In the words of Belgian expressionist Frans Masereel, who produced several woodcut novels over 50 years and is Drooker's obvious modern antecedent, art is in the first place communication addressed to all men. But in reaching all men artistry is needed, and much is owed to the masterly way Drooker has constructed his tale, his exquisite sense of pacing, and the clarity of his images. Each scratchboard-etched and watercolored image in Blood Song works in sequential step to drive the story forward, and yet each could stand alone as a work of art. The drawings of mountains, seas, and urban streets are breathtaking. Drooker's use of light and dark accentuate mood, and his occasional and precise touches of color in this black-and-blue tale are refreshing to the point of invoking joy. For all the glories of Drooker's previous work Flood!, that book was partly a proving ground, a place where he learned his craft. Blood Song is the work of an artist of the first order at his maturity. The aforementioned Masereel, whose work Drooker first discovered at age 12 (courtesy of his grandfather, an old-school socialist), was a pacifist who fled to Switzerland rather than participate in the carnage of the First World War. He would have approved not only Drooker's revival of the wordless medium, but his engagement in the real world against the backdrop of snickering complacency. Said Masereel, I cannot conceive of an artist isolating himself in an ivory tower, this seems anti-human, and, in any case out of keeping with our way of life. . . . The artist is in the very front rank of those who lead humanity toward a better world, more beautiful, more free, more just, more brotherly. It is just this sort of idyllic hope, amidst the enormous ugliness and brutality of our worse nature that lies at Blood Song's heart. Years ago, when I met Drooker, he seemed so much from New York's Lower East Side. That much is probably still true. But with this work about oppression and the struggle against it on two sides of an ocean, Drooker seems to come from the rest of the world, too. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Eric Drooker is a painter and graphic novelist, born and raised on Manhattan Island. He's the award-winning author ofFlood! A Novel in PicturesandBlood Song: A Silent Ballad. For many years Drooker was a street artist, well known for his provocative posters which were plastered on city lampposts and walls. His paintings now appear on covers of The New Yorker, and hang in numerous collections. He collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on the book,Illuminated Poems, and later designed the animation for the movie,Howl. In 2006, the Library of Congress acquired his original art forFlood! A Novel in Pictures, including preliminary drawings, sketches and cover paintings.Joe Sacco, winner of the American Book Award, is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and the author of Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde.",arts & photography;books;comics & graphic novels;dark horse;graphic design;graphic novels;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;mystery;new;publishers;techniques;teens;thriller & suspense;used & rental textbooks,16 0415137713,"Mapping Men and Empire: Geographies of Adventure 'This pathbreaking book...will be seen both as an important contribution to the new cultural geography and as an example of how a geographical imagination can enrich literary criticism' - James Duncan, Cambridge University Richard Phillips is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.",books;earth sciences;education & reference;geography;history & criticism;human geography;new;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;science & math;science & mathematics;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;writing,16 1589790472,"ADHD: The Great Misdiagnosis Pediatrician Haber, who works regularly with developmental and behavioral problems, stresses realism and careful attention to facts when dealing with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), for ADHD is championed by a large and diverse band in which ""entrepreneurism frequently overcomes logic."" Elementary and high-school teachers, as well as school administrators, often urge parents to take a child to their physician for a prescription for Ritalin or another of the other putative ADHD drugs. Note that the parents are told to get a prescription, not to find out what, if anything, is wrong. Occasionally, Ritalin or another drug can play a role in treatment, but only after careful study has shown that the child's problem will probably be best served by it. Even then, Ritalin should be used for a relatively brief period only. Many cases are misdiagnosed, and unfortunately, some major disorders whose symptoms mimic those of ADHD grow very malign if not identified in time. Haber explodes myths, relays much scientific information, and makes many practical suggestions. William BeattyCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Every parent and every teacher will need personal copies they can dog-ear and highlight. (Margaret Carr, M.Ed., Executive Vice President of Learning Disabilities of Texas)Haber advises parents to be cautious and patient and clearly explains other problems that have similiar symptoms. He also explores drug companies' marketing campaigns that he believes led to so many misdiagnoses. Most importantly, Haber explains the different treatments available and suggests ways to find a good clinician. (Pam Lilley Cleveland Plain Dealer)This book is a comprehensive, avuncular, discussion of the incresing frequency with which children are diagnosed or misdiagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The information is solid and potentially very helpful. (Infodad.Com)Haber explodes myths, relays much scientific information, and makes many practical suggestions. (Booklist) Julian Stuart Haber, M.D. is a practicing pediatrician with Cook Children's Physician Network in Texas. He has served on numerous task forces in the state of Texas and testified before the Senate Working Committee on Education on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He resides in Ft. Worth, Texas.",books;child;children's health;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;learning disorders;medical books;medicine;parenting;parenting & relationships;pathologies;psychiatry;psychology;psychology & counseling;special needs,16 0761954015,"Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman (Culture, Media and Identities series) Keith Negus entered higher education as a mature student, having spent many years playing keyboards and guitar in a variety of bands after leaving school. He gained a degree in Sociology from Middlesex Universit and then completed a PhD study of the acquisition, production and promotion of recording artists at SouthBank University. He subsequently taught at the Universities of Leicester and Puerto Rico and was based in the Department of Media and Communications prior to moving the Department of Music at Goldsmiths. He is Director of thePopular Music Research Unit, convenor ofBMus Popular Music, convenor of theMA Music (Popular Music Research)and a coordinating editor ofPopular Music(Cambridge University Press).",antiques & collectibles;books;communication;communication & journalism;communications;crafts;education & reference;hobbies & home;language & grammar;new;politics & social sciences;records;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks;words,16 1557864063,"Growing up Bilingual ""Growing up Bilingual is a profoundly compelling account of what it means to come of age in an economically impoverished but linguistically rich cultural environment.Without romanticising an often grim situation, Zentella tells a story that has long needed to be told. It should be read by every teacher and social worker who deals with Puerto Rican children. It should also occupy a prominent spot on the bookshelf of anyone seriously interested in language policy, ethnolinguistics, applied linguistics, bilingual education, ethnic identity or Hispanic studies."" Alicia Pousada, University of Puerto Rico""Along with her splendid sense of the need to portray memory and history, she brings wit, grace, and intelligence to her intimate and detailed portrayals of the life and language of Puerto Rican children and their families in New York."" Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford UniversityWinner of the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award 1999Winner of the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize 1998""Zentella's book achieves its goal of describing the social and linguistic realities of New York Perto Ricans.........those who advocate for an English-only society and the elimination of bilingual education, as well as their foes, should read this work and consider the significance of language for those who are subject to domination by a different culture.""Yolanda Rivera-Castillo, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa This book provides an inside view of the social construction of bilingualism in one of the largest and most disadvantaged Spanish-speaking groups in the United States. It walks readers through a New York Puerto Rican Community and describes the five varieties of Spanish and English that constitute the community's bilingual and multi-dialectal repertoire, the four major communication patterns that predominate in the homes of twenty families with children, and the syntactic features and discourse strategies of so-called ""Spanglish"". Ana Celia Zentella, an anthro-political linguist, is Professor in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, and in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Developmental Psychology at the City University of New York Graduate Center.",books;child psychology;education & reference;education & training;fitness & dieting;health;language & grammar;linguistics;medical books;minority studies;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;social sciences;specific demographics;words,16 1557283281,The Poem Itself Text: English,19th century;books;criticism & theory;education & reference;history;history & criticism;humanities;language & grammar;literature;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;poetry;rhetoric;used & rental textbooks;words,16 0766834506,"Introduction to Early Childhood Education 4e ""I was particularly pleased to see that the author has addressed the specific issues of infants and toddlers, children with disabilities, and school-aged children, a fact that enhances the quality of the text immeasurably."" - Linda Gamble, M.Ed., University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington, ME""The addition of Developmentally Appropriate Practices as well as key points even enhances the chapters more."" - Jeanne Barker, MS, Tallahassee Community College, Tallahassee, FL""Overall, I liked the emphasis on families. The Key Questions throughout (and I liked the way they were not just at the end of the chapter, but embedded within) offer opportunities for application, which encourages ownership of what the student is reading. I also liked the websites that were listed as resources along with the more typical print resources."" - Gail Summer, Ed.D., Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Eva L. Essa, Ph.D., recently retired as Foundation Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she taught early childhood education and human development for 41 years. Dr. Essa's research and writing on topics related to early childhood education have been published in a variety of professional journals and books. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & finance;business & investing;early childhood education;economics;education;education & reference;elementary education;instruction methods;new;parenting;parenting & relationships;pedagogy;reference;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,16 0965377490,"Dialogues After victory in a June primary, former California governor Brown is campaigning for November election as mayor of Oakland. Before he takes on that daunting responsibility, he shares 18 of his more than 300 interviews during the 18 months he spent hosting the syndicated radio program We the People. On issues of justice, Brown's interview subjects include Jonathan Kozol, Sister Helen Prejean, Noam Chomsky, and David Korten. The environment, the arts, globalization, and spirituality are among subjects he discusses with Thich Nhat Hanh, Judi Bari, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandana Shiva, Wolfgang Sachs, and Gary Snyder. John Taylor Gatto and Susannah Sheffer converse about education and home schooling; Paolo Soleri, urban design; Donovan Webster and Lt. Col. David Grossman, war and ""the violent society""; Suzanne Arms, childbirth; and Ivan Illich and Alice Walker, friendship and kindness. Most appropriate for libraries where Brown won a significant following in the 1992 presidential race, where his radio program was popular, or where books by his interview subjects circulate. Mary Carroll Jerry Brown's great gift has always been his willingness to bring his intelligence to bear on the innovative as opposed to the received idea, and Dialogues is a rich and brilliant display of that process, a stimulating exposure to interesting and provocative minds in play. (Joan Didion) For three decades, Jerry Brown has been one of the most provocative and insightful figures on the American cultural landscape. Former Governor of California, Presidential candidate, and Mayor of the city of Oakland, he has re-evaluated and attacked entrenched ideas, forging a political philosophy that transcends conventional boundaries. Dialogues is a collection of conversations between Brown and eighteen men and women whose ideas and activism have helped shape his vision. Ranging from the villages of India to the streets of the South Bronx, from birth centers in Holland to LouisianaM-^Rs Death Row, from battlefields to Buddhist monasteries to a place at the table with friends, this work explores accepted practices that undermine the foundations of society, and proposes ways of being that can create a more just and sustainable future. A native of San Francisco, Jerry Brown studied for the Catholic priesthood, and received degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and Yale Law School. In 1970 he was elected Secretary of State of California, and served as Governor of California from 1974 to 1982, where he was in the forefront of labor, environmental, and race and gender equity issues. After leaving electoral politics in 1984, he traveled to Japan, Mexico and India, where he worked with Mother Teresa, then returned to California to serve as Chair of the state Democratic Party. Disillusioned by the increasing influence of money on politics, he resigned and sought the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1992. In this historic campaign, Brown refused all donations larger than $100, won six state primary elections, and was the only candidate other than Bill Clinton to gain enough voter support to continue until the Democratic convention. In 1994, Brown began broadcast of his radio program, ""We The People with Jerry Brown,"" which aired in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, New York and Washington D.C. He suspended broadcasts of this program in December 1997 to run for Mayor of Oakland, California. He won the mayoral election in June, 1998, and will take office in January, 1999. Brown's commentary on the contemporary political scene has appeared recently in George magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Times, Newsday, the Washington Monthly, the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, the Seattle Times and USA Today. He appears frequently on television, most recently on such programs as: Larry King Live, Politics with Chris Matthews, CNN Inforum, Fox In-Depth, C-Span, MSNBC, the Charles Grodin Show, the Tom Snyder Show, Crossfire, Inside Politics, Firing Line, and Equal Time. He has lectured at UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia University, Northwestern University, Yale University, Pennsylvania State, the University of Texas, and many other prestigious universities.",biographies & memoirs;books;business & investing;commentary & opinion;economics;elections;elections & political process;environmental economics;history & theory;leaders & notable people;political;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics;united states,16 0945323026,Prisoners' Inventions Temporary Services is an artists' group that rgularly collaborates with others to create works often involving participatory situations.,arts & photography;books;education & reference;engineering;history;history & criticism;humanities;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;new;painting;professional & technical;science & math;technology;used & rental textbooks;visual arts,16 0582320259,"Transport and Tourism (Themes in Tourism) Transport and TourismStephen PageTransport and Tourism provides a much-needed account of the key issues that transport providers, decision-makers, managers and tourists face in the use, operation and management of tourist transport. It addresses all the key issues affecting transport and tourism in the new millennium.Key features of the book include:. up-to-date, international case material addressing low-cost airlines, environmental impacts, coach tourism in national parks and biosecurity topical coverage of the enhanced role of the car and the effect of crises on travel, safety and security chapter summaries and reflective questions focusing on the core material weblinks and further reading extending the reader to sources and data beyond the textThis new edition provides a clear understanding of the shared relationship between transport and tourism, examining what is meant by a tourist transport system and how the needs of the traveller are incorporated into management systems. Transport and Tourism is an essential text for students on travel and tourism degrees and will be of key interest to students and practitioners in related fields also including strategic management and geography.Stephen Page is the Scottish Enterprise Forth Valley Chair in Tourism in the Department of Marketing, School of Management, University of Stirling. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.",books;business & finance;business & investing;civil;earth sciences;engineering;geography;management;management & leadership;new;professional & technical;regional;science & math;science & mathematics;transportation;used & rental textbooks,16 0520207378,"Outcast Cape Town ""There is much in Outcast Cape Town to make the white reader wince (black readers, one suspects, will know it all too well)."" -- Lin Menge, Rand Daily Mail""[Western's] central point is a large one: that apartheid is something more than an anachronistic system of segregation, that it represents the active use of state power for purposes of social dominance."" -- Joseph Lelyveld, New York Times Book Review ""Straightforward, unapologetic, clearheaded, and morally alert, yet unsentimental. When the reader has finished this book he/she will know how South Africa's outcasts live.""Robert Coles ""Straightforward, unapologetic, clearheaded, and morally alert, yet unsentimental. When the reader has finished this book he/she will know how South Africa's outcasts live."" (Robert Coles) John Western is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University and author of A Passage to England: Barbadian Londoners Speak of Home (1992).",20th century;africa;books;cape town;earth sciences;general;geography;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;reference;science & math;sociology;south africa;travel;urban,16 1843102153,Mind Reading: The Interactive Guide to Emotions 'An adult or teenager with Asperger's syndrome who struggles to decipher facial expressions and their emotional link would find it valuable. I work in school using a joint working/consultative model and have to plan my use of the software carefully. I would have no hesitation in recommending this to teaching colleagues. The manual is simple and refreshed my approach to programme planning.' - Bulletin 'I am delighted that my acting might actually help people with autism learn to recognize how other people feel. It is wonderful that drama and special education can be combined in this exciting new software.' - Daniel Radcliffe,behavioral disorders;books;education;education & reference;emotions;fitness & dieting;health;mental health;new;parenting;parenting & relationships;psychology;schools & teaching;social sciences;special education;used & rental textbooks,16 0944428495,"The Complete Diving Guide: The Caribbean, Volume 3 (Puerto Rico/US Virgin Islands/British Virgin Islands) ""At last, the Eastern Caribbean has the dive guide it deserves. "" Volume I covers the Caribbean Islands from Dominica to Tobago. The first book of its kind for the area, The Complete Diving Guide - The Caribbean Volume 1 by Colleen Ryan and Brian Savage is meticulously researched and packed with useful information. The book describes over 240 dive sites and covers 50 extensively, and includes full-color underwater site plans. All in all, the guide contains everything a diver needs to know to decide which island to dive and where to stay, which operators to dive with, which sites to visit, what to expect to see and even which camera lenses to use to capture on film what you actually see. "" -- PADI Undersea Journal - First Quarter 1998""The Complete Diving Guide - The Caribbean (Volume 1) is exactly what it professes to be. Intended to be the first in a series, it looks at the southern islands of the Eastern Caribbean. Each chapter starts with a short island introduction followed by a very specific description of the dive sites, operators and hotels. The write-ups of the dive sites are full of interesting personal experiences. The rest of the chapter provides just the sort of information you need, such as which operators have english speaking dive guides and which recognise the depth limitations of BSAC rather than PADI. Throughput the book's 390 information-packed pages are numerous interesting side panels. One describes the ships that sank in St. Pierre Harbour on Martinique when Mount Pelee erupted in 1902. The resulting dive sites sound so fascinating that I at once booked a trip to the island. Surely this is the acid test of a dive guide?"" -- Diver Magazine, October 1998, Brendan O'Brien""This book on the area is a must for visitors and tour group leaders"" -- PADI Undersea Journal - Second Quarter 1998 We are PADI dive instructors and combine our love of diving with sailing aboard our yacht Theta Volantis. We arrived in the Caribbean in 1994 anticipating a few years of sailing and diving the Eastern Caribbean Islands. We soon found that there were no detailed diving guides that would enable us to decide where we would find the type of diving we enjoy. We wanted to know which islands had good visibility and sheltered sites suitable for underwater photography; which had the steep walls and fast drifts that would give us exciting diving; which had good wrecks; which islands should we take our novice friends to; and where would we find sites we could dive independently from our yacht? Because we were able to sail from island to island on our yacht we were fortunate to be able to sample the diving everywhere. But we realised that someone planning a vacation would not have that opportunity and by then we had discovered how different the diving was on each of the islands and what a wide range of quality of service was offered by the dive operators. So, in the absence of a truly comprehensive and objective guide, we decided to write one. The Complete Diving Guide Series is the result of 5 years researching the diving in the Eastern Caribbean. We spent months on each island instead of the normal one or two week vacation that most people have, so we were able to study the diving and the operators in depth. We did some great diving and gained a real insight into the diving business in this region. In the course of our research we met many diving vacationers and often, in the absence of good information, they had not made the best choice of island (or even the best location on that island) for their particular diving needs. We have written the type of diving guide we wanted to be able buy and we hope that our readers can make better informed decisions about their choice of diving vacation in the Eastern Caribbean. As far as the eye can see tiny islands surrounded by turquoise water line the horizon, offering a fascinating mix of cultures - British, American, and Spanish. The region has a wide range of diving: shallow water sites (where white sand reflects the sun so brightly that you need sunglasses underwater), seemingly bottomless walls and numerous wrecks. This guide is packed with information giving vacationers, local divers, and yacht crews everything they need to know to dive the area. Colleen Ryan and Brian Savage are Diving Instructors who have spent five years diving in the Eastern Caribbean carrying out research for the Complete Diving Guide series. Brian's interest in underwater photography and Colleen's extensive knowledge of the marine environment combine to bring the reader detailed and informative descriptions and underwater maps of the dive sites of this area. They live aboard their yacht 'Theta Volantis' and are contributing writers to Yachting World.",adventure;books;caribbean;computers & technology;databases;education & reference;general;puerto rico;reference;scuba;scuba diving;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;virgin islands;water sports,16 089789538X,"Ethics in American Adoption ""Ethics In American Adoption is a benchmark publication in the fields of ethics and adoption. [Babb] offers numerous case studies describing what is amiss with America's adoption system as it is currently constituted. She raises significant questions about what adoption facilitators are doing who is accountable for what they are doing, and whose interests they are serving. This seminal work should be read by policy makers, social workers, children's court judges, prospective adopters, and anyone else involved in the adoption process.""-Wisconsin Bookwatch, August 1999 Addresses the problem of unethical behavior in adoption service delivery and examines the values underlying adoption practice. L. ANNE BABB is Executive Director of a nonprofit adoption advocacy center, the Family Tree Adoption and Counseling Center in Norman, Oklahoma.",adoption;books;ethics;ethics & morality;humanities;new;parenting & relationships;philosophy;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;sociology;used & rental textbooks,16 0875847374,"Standing Room Only: Strategies for Marketing the Performing Arts Kotler, the marketing guru who teaches at Northwestern University and is author of definitive texts on marketing management and international marketing, has also written groundbreaking work on the subject of marketing for nonprofit organizations. With coauthor Scheff, an arts management lecturer at Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, he now turns his expertise to the performing arts. Given shrinking government support and increased competition among performing arts organizations (and other entertainment media) for audiences, it seems that only those groups that effectively market themselves may survive. Kotler and Scheff stress the need for organizations to define their mission and think strategically. They apply basic marketing concepts like product, pricing, and positioning to the arts but they also consider the unique aspects of audiences and the ""performing arts market."" While some artists and performers may see a conflict between artistic mission and an emphasis on the ""bottom line,"" the new reality is that the arts are also a business. Highly recommended. David Rouse ""STANDING ROOM ONLY is at once an instruction manual, a sober-minded analysis, a set of case histories, and a hand-holding guide to promotion."" -- The New York Times, September 21, 1997Any working with the performing arts will welcome this in-depth guide, which surveys marketing strategies and keys to attracting new audiences. From collaborative efforts to increasing funding and surviving transitions, this treats the performing arts world like a business, examining product offerings and attraction, marketing, and building audience/customer loyalty. -- Midwest Book Review Philip Kotler is the S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago.",accounting;accounting & finance;advertising;arts & photography;books;business & finance;business & investing;humanities;humor & entertainment;industries & professions;marketing;marketing & sales;new;performing arts;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,16 029919390X,"A Match Made in Hell : The Jewish Boy and the Polish Outlaw Who Defied the Nazis Rarely has the old saw about war making strange bedfellows been more appropriate than in this story of a small 16-year-old Jewish boy and one of rural Poland's most notorious criminals, Jan Kopec. Stillman has found a very different kind of Holocaust story, full of drama and adventure. When Hitler's army invaded Poland in 1939, Goldner and his rural Jewish family were spared from immediate roundup. But by 1943, he had witnessed his mother and sister being herded onto a train and been left for dead beneath his father's body, both of them shot and bayoneted by a collaborator who had been one of his father's childhood friends. After Kopec, Goldner's unlikely rescuer, nursed him back to health, the pair began an 18-month partnership in which Kopec received money from partisans for having Goldner carry out acts of sabotage against the Nazis. His small size, courage and ability to learn-Kopec trained his young charge in marksmanship, a renegade German soldier taught him fluent German and a Gypsy trained him in hand-to-hand combat-resulted in impressive victories for area partisans. Goldner blew up trains and bridges used by the Nazi army and photographed Jews arriving at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Stillman has done a remarkable job tracking down what little documentation exists in order to corroborate Goldner's unique story, making a trip to the region, meeting with former neighbors and with the children and grandchildren of Jan Kopec. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. ""I can remember crawling out from beneath my father's lifeless body."" From the first line, this Holocaust memoir grips you with its searing action. At the same time, it raises crucial moral issues. In 1943, in southern Poland, Morris Goldner, 16, was rescued by Jan Kopec, a notorious criminal who trained the small, quiet Jewish kid as a ruthless accomplice in armed robberies and sold the boy's services to the partisans. Now Goldner lives in Chicago, haunted forever by what he saw and what he did. Stillman allows the survivor to tell his story in a riveting first-person narrative. On the one hand, it reads like a fast-paced Bonnie-and-Clyde outlaw adventure. But there's absolutely no romanticism either about the Holocaust horror the boy witnesses (including the roundup and massacre of his own family) or about his own role as robber, saboteur, and killer. The outlaw brutalizes the boy; did the boy humanize Kopec? When is killing justified? Discussion groups will want this one. Hazel RochmanCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved ""From the first line, this Holocaust memoir grips you with its searing action. . . . A riveting first-person narrative. . . . Discussion groups will want this one.""Booklist""A very different kind of Holocaust story, full of drama and adventure.""Publishers Weekly""This book is an exceptional memoir of the Holocaust: it chronicles the personal and symbiotic relationship between a Christian and a Jew in an era of unfathomable hatred.""Foreword Wisconsin edition for sale only in North America & U.S. dependencies Larry Stillman is a writer living in Lake Forest, Illinois. Morris Goldner lives in Chicago and is retired from the garment trade.",biographies & memoirs;books;criminology;ethnic & national;europe;historical;history;holocaust;jewish;memoirs;military;poland;politics & social sciences;social sciences;world;world war ii,16 1582970041,"From Me to You: The Reluctant Writer's Guide to Powerful, Personal Messages ""Few books deliver what they promise; this one does...more. I especially like the chapters on letters of comfort and condolence."" -- Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People""Morris and Fair make a significant contribution to the power of caring between people. I highly, highly recommend [this book]."" -- Terry Kay, author of To Dance with the White Dog and Taking Lottie Home""This book teaches the reader how to deliver a message with eloquence and meaning."" -- Alexis Abramson, NBC Today Show Expert Guest and Founder & CEO of MatureSmart, Inc. JacLynn Morris is a freelance writer and marketing consultant who has written on a diversity of topics ranging from child abuse to fundraising. Paul Fair, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in stress disorders, individuals and couples' therapy. He has published several articles in professional journals and written chapters in numerous clinical textbooks.",books;counseling;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;interpersonal relations;literature & fiction;motivational;parenting;parenting & relationships;psychology & counseling;relationships;research & publishing guides;self-help;writing;writing skills,16 B000OVLK8G,"The New American Story He doesn't have an exploratory committee, but the former Democratic senator and one-time presidential hopeful certainly has a platform in this thoughtful policy agenda. Bradley (Time Present, Time Past) scathingly critiques Republican ideology and presents a liberal-centrist program for change that advances a multilateralist foreign policy, spending cuts (including Pentagon sacred cows) and tax hikes to reduce the deficit. There are also detailed, often far-reaching proposals to shore up (not privatize) Social Security and reform private pensions, health care, education and energy policy. His insightful account of the politics of Republican ascendancy and Democratic eclipse in recent decades is coupled with a cogent call for Democrats to abandon the star system of celebrity candidates (take that, Hillary and Barack!), develop a coherent governing philosophy and rebuild the party from the grass roots. Bradley's proposals range from the boldfree college tuition for the top third of every high-school classto the nigglingBan trans fats. He loses his nerve on health care, as he won't unequivocally endorse the Medicare for all insurance system he obviously prefers. Still, Bradley puts forward a tough, plainspoken indictment of the Republicans and a vigorous and substantive Democratic reform program that deserves to be read and debated. (Apr. 3) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Taking advantage of his long and varied experience--and the credibility he earns because he's not running for office--Bradley appeals to Americans' better nature in a bid to recast politics. Lamenting the current cynicism that has divided the nation into red and blue states, Bradley aims to counter the conventional wisdom that the nation lacks the resources or the will to tackle problems. Recounting past national glories, Bradley proposes a new American story that focuses on the realities, not scare tactics or rosy political spin. He offers a specific agenda to help the U.S. find a place in the world that is not determined by military might but by a civil religion that works to improve common conditions for all nations. The current focus on the war in Iraq has distracted the U.S. from attending to growing tensions between Japan and China, the rise of anti-Americanism in South America, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, among a host of other crucial developments. On the domestic front, Bradley advocates health care for every American, higher teacher salaries, lower employment taxes, and publicly funded congressional and presidential elections, among other policies. Bradley appeals to both Democrats and Republicans--and individual citizens--to seize the current moment to reshape the nation's direction. Bradley, former professional basketball player, U.S. senator, and presidential candidate, offers a thoughtful look at American politics for citizens of whatever political persuasion. Vanessa BushCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved A thoughtful look at American politics for citizens of whatever political persuasion. ---Booklist Bill Bradley served three terms as the U.S. senator from New Jersey, and he is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Time Present, Time Past and Values of the Game. Michael Prichard is a professional narrator and stage and film actor who has played several thousand characters during his career. An Audie Award winner, he has recorded well over five hundred books and has earned several AudioFile Earphones Awards. Michael was also named a Top Ten Golden Voice by SmartMoney magazine. Chapter 1. The Story Were ToldAll Americans want a good life for themselves and their families. They want to be proud of their country and to believe that it can live up to its ideals. A friend asked me recently if I thought dealing with our national problems was possible in the money-soaked political and media world we live in. I said Yes, emphaticallyanything is possible in America. But no one is going to make us do the right thing. Its our choice.Either we can ignore our countrys problems until theyre so big that theyre almost impossible to solve or we can make the substantive decisions now that will secure Americas future. At this watershed moment, political courage and political action have to take precedence over ideology. Politics, like many other human activities, can become inflexible. Once that happens, what needs to be done to save the whole cannot break through. We are at such a moment.How can ordinary citizens bring about a change in the political culture that will give us a fresh start and realize our best hopes as a nation? Will one of our two major parties seize the high ground with an agenda that takes the country to a new level of greatness?In this book, I will talk about where we are, what we must do now, and why its good politics to do it. I will talk about what role politics plays in our society generally, and I will show how the Republican Partys dedication to building party structure usually has allowed it to outstrip the Democrats, who dream instead of finding a charismatic leader. I will describe how the warring factions within the Republican Party now endanger a structure carefully built over thirty-five years, threatening even the party itselfand how the only way the Democratic Party can overcome the inertia of its recent history is to connect emotionally with voters, which requires a clarity rooted in values, based on convictions, and expressed in explicit programs that can help people where they live their lives.A key to our countrys future is the word commonthat which we share as Americans. Its not just the so-called blue states that have compassion, and its not just the so-called red states that want to fight terrorism. One of the biggest lies perpetrated on the public in recent decades is the red/blue division of our countrythe idea that we are hopelessly split by warring ideologies, unforgiving in our criticism of each other, unwilling even to listen to the other side of the argument. The media amplify this lie and, in doing so, have helped to drive a spike through the heart of civility and compromise. The political elites may indeed be at one anothers throats, but the Ameri- can people are not.We are obliged to recognize our common human aspirations as well as our abundant human frailties. Friends may have different political opinions, but they often walk for a while in each others shoes. We give our neighbors the benefit of the doubt every day. When youre watching your sons Little League baseball game, you dont say to yourself, I wonder if the parent sitting next to me is a red or a blue. Even family members hold different views on hot topicson abortion, immigration, the war in Iraq, what to do about income inequalitybut they still love, honor, and communicate with one another. Within families, differing political views are often treated as lovable idiosyncrasies rather than battle cries. An aunt of mine is a staunch conservative. We dont spend a lot of time talking politics (except when Im kidding her), but I dont love her less because her political philosophy differs from mine.There is a new storya New American Storywhich says that America is a family, too, and that it has, collectively, the same generosity of spirit. All we have to do is bring it out, not stifle it with fear or poison it with animosity. That doesnt mean that our politics will be less important or that Republicans and Democrats will come to agree on most issues. Far from it. Politics has never been more important, and differences openly expressed are the only way a democracy can make a choice. It just means that demonizing the other side doesnt facilitate the process that leads to informed consent of the governed.The story were told today by our current leadership is largely a cant-do story. In this book, I want to shine a light on this negative story and show how misleading it is. To do that, I had to put myself in the shoes of its proponents. I had to feel the way they feel about what theyre telling us, and I have done my best to represent it accurately. I tell an alternate storyone that offers hope and sets out to inspire all Americans to work toward securing, as promised in the Preamble to our Constitution, the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.During the forty-two years I travelled around Americafirst as a basketball player, then as a United States senator, then as a presidential candidateI formed a strong sense of what it meant to be an American. I visited every state in the union and travelled to thirty-one foreign countriessome regularly. I came to my own conclusions about what the United States meant to the world. As a candidate for the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination, I talked about the goodness of the American peoplethe heroic acts that seldom got reported, the courage shown against all odds, the generosity to strangers, the capacity to dream. I still believe in those American traits I observed firsthand over many yearstraits that are part of our heritage.But while Americans have inspiring stories to tell about their individual lives, these days you rarely hear an inspiring narrative about America itself. When I ran for president, I had a positive story in mind about what kind of country America had been, was, and could be. Losing the race did not diminish my desire to tell that story, to demonstrate that we can lead our nation and the world in new ways.But first we need to examine the story we are told todayover and over, both in the media and by the present administration and its supportersabout America. What does it say is possible for us to achieve, both individually and as a nation? What does this story say about who we are, what we believe is important, what we are willing to sacrifice for? What are we proudest of? What do we have to offer other nations?As I hear it, the story were being told about America now goes something like this:Today we are the most powerful nation in the world. Our economy dwarfs all others. Our military faces no serious challengers. We won the cold war. We need other countries less than before. We straddle the world like a colossus. Although its true that many countries dont like us, thats the price of success, of leadership, of being number one.Our democracy represents the worlds most advanced form of governance. The free market, with its efficient allocation of resources, brings the greatest good to the greatest number of people. The most important values are individual economic freedom and faith in God. Government help to those in need can be replaced by the charitable, faith-based impulse of millions of Americans. Charity will suffice, because Americans are the worlds most generous and devout people.Its no coincidence that we have more millionaires than any other country. Its no surprise that we win more gold medals than any other Olympics participant. Its neither coincidental nor surprising that millions of people worldwide want to immigrate to America: After all, our songs are sung everywhere, our movies are watched around the globe, and everybody wears our blue jeans. We have what the world wants.The most important thing to remember about our post-9/11 role in the world is that we are at war. The presidents first job, as commander in chief, is to protect us from physical threats. Nothing is more essential than our national security. Without it, we will perish. People who oppose the war in Iraq are dangerously wrong. Would they prefer to fight the terrorists in Iraq or here in the United States?There is evil in the world, and evil nations are doing evil things. We have to put the full weight of the United States on the side of righteousness and democracy, not only to ensure our own safety but to establish the freedom of people everywhere. The normal rules of war and of our judicial system cannot always be observed in this conflict. Terrorists have no appreciation of the sanctity of human life. Unless we take extreme measures, our enemies will inflict much pain, suffering, and death. Americas very existence is at stake in this struggle. On the issue of constitutionality, we have to recognize that the presidents fundamental responsibility is to protect the American people. Without guaranteed security, there would be no Constitution.This is the story were being told about our role in the worldbut does operating under it really assure our long-term security? To continue:America is not perfect, but none of our problems is unmanageable. Their seriousness is often exaggerated, generally for political reasons. Yes, our budget deficit is large, but as a percentage of our gross domestic product it is smaller than the deficits of the early 1980s. Yes, our trade deficit is at an all-time high, but in a world with $9.8 trillion in savings, foreigners may well be willing to continue lending us the money to finance our consumption of their exports. The U.S. economy is so big that foreign ownership of our assets still represents only a fraction of our total assets. That household indebtedness as a percentage of GDP is higher than it has ever been tells... Bill Bradley's book is a political call to arms that is more interested in substance over style. It's engagingly written. But it's the ideas that are important. At times, listeners might wish they could underline passages to remember them, but otherwise it's easy to pick up the author's thoughts and certainly easy to take in his main point, that an involved, educated citizenry can take back the political process. Michael Prichard's diction is clear and crisp. It has almost a stentorian quality to it but without the stridency that is attached to deep political thoughts. On occasion, Bradley's sentences run longer than even Prichard's practiced lungs, but the pauses are neither distracting nor inappropriate. Prichard doesn't sound at all like Bradley, but that means nothing. Few listeners have any idea what Bradley's voice sounds like, anyway. Again, it's the ideas that count in this book. R.C.G. AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright AudioFile, Portland, Maine",books;civics & citizenship;conservatism & liberalism;elections & political process;general;ideologies & doctrines;kindle ebooks;kindle store;political parties;politics & government;politics & social sciences;practical politics;public affairs & policy;public policy;specific topics;united states,16 0782141242,"Mastering ColdFusion MX A Database-Powered WebsiteEasier and Yet More Powerful ThanEverThe latest release of ColdFusion represents a giant leapforward in the creation of dynamic, database-driven websites. MasteringColdFusion MX is the resource you need to take advantage of everything MX hasto offer. Whether youre just getting started or making the transition froman earlier version, youll quickly gain the skills that will take you tothe next level. Master database interactions, integrate with Flash applications,build and consume web services, manage and secure your serverand, mostimportantly, develop full-blown, dynamic web applications.CoverageIncludes:Including outside codeCreating andmanipulating variablesInteracting with email, web, FTP, and LDAPserversCreating dynamic charts and graphsCreating and validatingformsUsing SQL for advanced, dynamic database interactionUsing JSPcustom tag libraries in ColdFusionBuilding rich-media applications withFlash RemotingUsing XML with ColdFusionUsing object-orientedprogramming with ColdFusion ComponentsBuilding and consuming web servicesScheduling automatic execution of ColdFusion programsImplementingfine-grained, advanced securityImplementing error controlBuilding a search engine with VerityAdministering ColdFusion servers Arman Danesh is an MIS manager responsible for developing ColdFusion applications. He has been working with the product since 1997. Raymond Camden is an engineer at Macromedia and a certified ColdFusion instructor. He has written articles for ColdFusion Developer's Journal.Guy Rish is an independent consultant and carries developer and instructor certifications from Macromedia and Rational.",books;cold fusion;computer science;computers & technology;database design;database storage & design;databases;education & reference;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design;web services,16 1403968144,"Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973 (Palgrave Studies in Oral History) ""An important collection of edited interviews . . . By recovering the participation of clergy and medical practitioners in the reproductive choice struggle, Cline reminds readers of the many kinds of people, organizations, and activities that combine to make a social movement.""--Oral History Review""David Cline has assembled an amazingly rich repository of testimonies chronicling a community's efforts to facilitate reproductive autonomy at a time when the state prohibited such activities. This work is a major contribution to the project of preserving and disseminating the histories of activism, feminism, and reproductive politics in the United States.""--Rickie Solinger, author of Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America (2005) and other books""A powerful document of the history of abortion before and after legalization, this book offers a compelling collection of oral history interviews that weave together the story of abortion in an entire community. Creating Choice gives voice to a group of people whose stories are crucial to our understanding of women's history but who have so far not been heard. This collection is not only crucial to students of the history of abortion. It provides an equally rare look into the history of the sexual revolution and the women's health movement on college campuses. Creating Choice is wonderfully accessible, an important collection for anybody trying to understand the history of women and sexuality.""--Johanna Schoen, University of Iowa David P. Cline is an oral historian and journalist. He has worked for American Radio Works, the documentary division of National Public Radio, and currently serves as a Research Assistant at the Southern Oral History Program at the Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill.",20th century;abortion & birth control;americas;books;historical study & educational resources;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;politics & social sciences;social history;social sciences;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,16 B00026WV0E,"Plan of Attack Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, examining the causes and consequences of the most controversial war since Vietnam. Based on interviews with 75 key participants and more than three-and-a half hours of exclusive interviews with President Bush, Plan of Attack is part presidential history charting the decisions made during 16 critical months; part military history; and part a harrowing spy story as the CIA dispatches a covert paramilitary team into northern Iraq six months before the start of the war. What emerges are astonishingly intimate portraits: President Bush in war cabinet meetings and in private conversation; Dick Cheney, the focused and driven vice president; Colin Powell, the conflicted and cautious secretary of state; Donald Rumsfeld, the controlling war technocrat; George Tenet, the activist CIA director; Tommy Franks, the profane and demanding general; Condoleezza Rice, the ever-present referee and national security adviser; Karl Rove, the hands-on political strategist; other key members of the White House staff and congressional leadership; and foreign leaders ranging from British Prime Minister Blair to Russian President Putin. Plan of Attack provides new details on the intelligence assessments of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction and the planning for the war's aftermath.",21st century;americas;books;executive branch;history;international & world politics;iraq war;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);national;national & international security;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics;united states,16 B000PDZFMK,"The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud For readers who can't get enough of the religious suspense genre, here's a heaping helping of more of the same. When the unidentified body of a tongueless man turns up in the ashes of a suspicious fire in the Turin cathedral, home of the Holy Shroud of Turin, Marco Valoni, director of the Italian Art Crimes Department, investigates. This gruesome find reflects a pattern of tongueless men and mysterious fires that goes back many years and centers on the shroud. A history of Jesus' burial cloth through the ages alternates with a modern mystery involving several shadowy, anonymous groups of powerful, wealthy men, who either want to steal the sacred cloth or protect it. Marco and his band of art crimes cops and researchers must piece together who wants what and why. This was a bestseller in Europe, and while Navarro never gets up to Da Vinci Code speed, she does neatly solve the pesky problem of just why carbon dating puts the age of the shroud at the 13th or 14th century. (Jan.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This internationally best-selling first novel takes place in modern-day Italy and across the ages. A fire at the Turin cathedral, where Jesus' shroud is about to be displayed, leads to the discovery of a secret group that is after the holy relic. Descended from a disciple of Jesus who obtained the original shroud, those sent to reclaim the cloth cut out their tongues so they will not disclose their mission. Out to foil their plans are modern-day Knights Templar, who believe they are the true guardians of the shroud. Navarro's story flips back and forth, covering the Italian police's investigation into the fire and following the shroud's journey from the first century CE. Plenty of action and a cast of well-drawn characters will satisfyThe Da Vinci Code fans, though, as in Dan Brown's book, the biblical history is not always accurate. But fans of the genre will find much to like here, and Navarro even provides an explanation as to how the Shroud of Turin can be a true relic even though the cloth has been carbon-dated to the Middle Ages. Ilene CooperCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved For readers who cant get enough of the religious suspense genre.Publishers WeeklyFrom the Hardcover edition. 'An exuberant, deeply involved thriller...Terrifically lively characterizations and the author's passion for her subject make this one stand out' -- Kirkus Reviews 'For readers who can't get enough of the religious suspense genre' -- Publishers Weekly 'Tosh of a superior quality' -- Peter Guttridge, Observer 'A thrilling tale, building to a dramatic and deadly climax' -- Yorkshire Post Julia Navarro is a well known Madrid-based journalist who is currently a political analyst for Agencia OTR/Europa Press and a correspondent for other prominent Spanish radio and television networks and print media, including a weekly column for Tiempo magazine. Bantam Dell will publish the English translation of her second novel, The Bible of Clay, in Spring 2008.Andrew Hurley is best known for his translations of Jorge Luis Borges's Collected Fictions (1998), as well as Reinaldo Arenas's Pentagony novels (1986-2000). He lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Chapter OneC. 30 A.D. Abgar, king of Edessa, to Jesus the good Savior, who appears at Jerusalem, greetingsI have been informed concerning you and the cures you perform without the use of medicines and herbs.For it is reported that you cause the blind to see and the lame to walk, that you cleanse lepers, cast out unclean spirits and devils, and restore to health those who have been long diseased, and, further, that you raise up the dead.All of which, when I heard, persuaded me of one of these two: either that you are God Himself descended from heaven who does these things, or you are the Son of God.On this account, therefore, I write to you earnestly, to beg that you take the trouble of a journey hither and cure a disease which I am under.For I hear the Jews ridicule you and intend you mischief.My city is indeed small, but neat, and large enough for us both.The king laid down his pen and turned his eyes toward a young man of his own age, waiting motionless and respectful at the far end of the room.You are certain, Josar? The king's gaze was direct and piercing.My lord, believe me. . . . The young man could barely hold himself back as he spoke. He approached the king and stopped near the table at which Abgar had been writing.I believe you, Josar, I believe you. You are the most faithful friend I have, and so you have been since we were boys. You have never failed me, Josar, but the wonders that are told of this Jew are so passing strange that I fear your desire to aid me may have confounded your senses.My lord, you must believe me, for only those who believe in the Jew are saved. I have seen a blind man, when Jesus brushed his fingers over the man's dead eyes, recover his sight. I have seen a lame man, whose legs would not move, touch the hem of Jesus' tunic and have seen Jesus gaze sweetly upon him and bid him walk, and to the astonishment of all, the man stood and his legs bore him as your legs, sire, bear you. I have seen a poor woman suffering from leprosy watch the Nazarene as she hid in the shadows of the street, for all men fled her, and Jesus approached her and said to her, 'You are cured,' and the woman, incredulous, cried, 'I am healed, I am healed!' For indeed her face became that of a human once more, and her hands, which before she hid from sight, were whole.And I have seen with my own eyes the greatest of all miracles, for when I was following Jesus and his disciples and we came upon a family mourning the death of a relative, Jesus entered the house and commanded the dead man to rise. God must be in the voice of the Nazarene, for I swear to you, my king, that the man opened his eyes, and stood, and wondered at being alive. . . .You are right, Josar, I must believe if I am to be healed. I want to believe in this Jesus of Nazareth, who is truly the Son of God if he can raise the dead. But will he want to heal a king who has been prey to concupiscence?Abgar, Jesus cures not only men's bodies but also their souls. He preaches that with repentance and the desire to lead a life free thenceforth of sin, a man may merit the forgiveness of God. Sinners find solace in the Nazarene, my sire. . . .I do sincerely hope so, Josar, although I cannot forgive myself for my lust for Ania. The woman has brought this plight upon me; she has sickened me in body and in soul.How were you to know, sire, that she was diseased, that the gift sent you by King Tyrus was a stratagem of state? How were you to suspect that she bore the seed of the illness and would contaminate you? Ania was the most beautiful woman we had ever seen. Any man would have lost his reason and given his all to have her.But I am king, Josar, and I should not have lost my reason, however beautiful the dancing girl may have been. . . . Now she weeps over her lost beauty, for the marks of the disease are upon her face, and the whiteness is eating it away. And I, Josar, have a sweat upon me that never leaves me, and my sight grows cloudy, and I fear above all things that the illness will consume my skin and leave meAbgar fell silent at the sound of soft footsteps. A smiling woman, lithe, with black hair and olive skin, entered.Josar admired her. Yes, he admired the perfection of her features and the happy smile she always wore; beyond that he admired her loyalty to the king and the fact that her lips would never have uttered the slightest reproach against the man stolen from her by Ania, the dancing girl from the Caucasus, the woman who had contaminated her husband the king with the terrible disease.Abgar would not allow himself to be touched by anyone, since he feared he might pollute all those with whom he came in contact. He appeared less and less frequently in public. But he had not been able to resist the iron will of the queen, who insisted upon caring for him personally and, not just that, who also encouraged him in his soul to believe the story brought by Josar of the wonders performed by the Nazarene.The king looked at her with sadness in his eyes.It is you, my dear. . . . I was talking with Josar about the Nazarene. He will take a letter to him inviting him to come. I have offered to share my kingdom with him.An escort should accompany Josar, to ensure that nothing happens on the journey and to ensure also that he returns safely with the Nazarene.I will take three or four men; that will be enough, Josar said. The Romans have no trust in their subjects and would not look with favor on a group of soldiers entering the town. Nor would Jesus. I hope, my lady, to complete my mission and convince Jesus to return with me. I will take swift horses and will send you and my lord the news when I reach Jerusalem.I shall complete the letter, Josar.And I shall leave at dawn, my lord.Chapter TwoThe fire began to lick at the pews as smoke filled the nave with darkness. Four figures dressed in black hurried toward a lateral chapel. A fifth man, humbly dressed, hovering in a doorway near the high altar, wrung his hands. The high wail of sirens reached a crescendo outsidefire trucks responding to the alarm. In a matter of seconds firefighters would burst into the cathedral, and that meant another failure.The man rushed down from the altar, motioning his brothers to come to him. One of them kept running toward the chapel, while the others shrank back from the fire that was beginning to surround them. Time had run out. The fire had come out of nowhere and progressed faster than they'd calculated. The man trying so desperately to fulfill their mission was enveloped in flames. He writhed as the fire consumed his clothes, his skin, but somehow he found the strength to pull off the hood that concealed his face. The others tried to reach him, to beat back the flames, but the fire was everywhere, and the cathedral doors began to buckle as the firefighters battered against them. Their brother burned without a scream, without a sound.They retreated then and raced behind their guide to a side door, slipping outside at the same instant the water from the fire hoses poured into the cathedral. They never saw the man hiding among the shadows of one of the pulpits, a silencerequipped pistol at his side.Once they were gone, he came down from the pulpit, touched a spring hidden in the wall, and disappeared.Marco Valoni took a drag off his cigarette, and the smoke mixed in his lungs with the smoke from the fire. He'd come outside for fresh air while the firefighters finished putting out the embers that were still glowing in and around the right side of the high altar.The piazza was closed off with police blockades, and the carabinieri were holding back the curious and the concerned, all craning their necks to try to see what had happened in the cathedral. At that hour of the evening, Turin was a beehive of people desperate to learn whether the Holy Shroud had been damaged.Marco had asked the reporters covering the fire to try to keep the crowds calm: The shroud had been unscathed. What he hadn't told them was that someone had died in the flames. He still didn't know who.Another fire. Fire seemed to plague the old cathedral. But Marco didn't believe in coincidences, and the Turin Cathedral was a place where too many accidents happened: robbery attempts and, within recent memory, three fires. In the first one, which occurred after the Second World War, investigators had found the bodies of two men incinerated by the flames. The autopsy determined that they were both about twentyfive and that, despite the fire, they had been killed by gunshot. And last, a truly gruesome finding: Their tongues had been surgically cut out. But why? And who had shot them? No one had ever been able to find out. The case was still open, but it had gone cold.Neither the faithful nor the general public knew that the shroud had spent long periods of time outside the cathedral over the last hundred years. Maybe that was why it had been spared the consequences of so many accidents.A vault in the Banco Nazionale had been the shroud's place of safekeeping. The relic was taken out of it only to be displayed on special occasions, and then only under the strictest security. But despite all the security, the shroud had been exposed to dangerreal dangermore than once. It had been moved back to the cathedral only days ago, in preparation for the unveiling of extensive refurbishments.Marco still remembered the fire of April 12, 1997. How could he forget, since it was the same nightor early morninghe'd been celebrating his retirement with his colleagues in the Art Crimes Department.He was fifty then, and he'd just be... This European bestseller concerns a plot to steal the Shroud of Turin and possess its supposed power. Mixing history and plausible fiction, the story follows police investigator, and art historian, Marco Valoni as he races to stop the theft. The historical vignettes give context, and are a nice counterpoint, to Valoni's situation, and the action is continuous. James Langton's expressive voice is calm, almost serene, and fits well with this abridgment. He gives credible accents and voices to the characters--male, female, ancient Hebrew, or modern Italian. All are performed with skill and appropriate expression. Narrative sections are performed consistently and with the same skill. All this makes for splendid listening. M.T.F. AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright AudioFile, Portland, Maine",books;contemporary;contemporary fiction;education & reference;genre fiction;historical;historical fiction;kindle ebooks;kindle store;literature & fiction;mystery;short stories;single author;thriller & suspense;thrillers;world literature,16 0300043783,"Magdalena and Balthasar : An Intimate Portrait of Life in 16th Century Europe Revealed in the Letters of a Nuremberg Husband and Wife Text: English, German (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",americas;bibliographies & indexes;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;europe;germany;history;humanities;new;publishing & books;reference;research & publishing guides;united states;used & rental textbooks;writing,16 1900850850,"The Phoenix Land Mikls Bnffy (1873-1950) was a diplomat, a member of the Hungarian parliament, and Hungary's foreign minister. He was the author of the Transylvanian Trilogy, They Were Counted, They Were Found Wanting, and They Were Divided.",architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;austria;biographies & memoirs;books;central;eastern;europe;historical;history;humanities;hungary;memoirs;new;used & rental textbooks,16 0791449661,When Poetry Ruled the Streets: The French May Events of 1968 Text: English --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Andrew Feenberg is Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University. Jim Freedman is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario.,20th century;books;europe;european;france;history;humanities;international & world politics;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;world,16 0452010950,Custer's Fall: The Native American Side of the Story (Meridian) David Miller lives in Australia.,19th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;civil war;historical;history;leaders & notable people;military;native american;native american studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states;united states civil war,16 0202301133,"Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Family Life in a Federal Slum This book represents one analytical aspect of data obtained in a six-year study of a Federal housing project in St. Louis. There was a brief period of racial integration following a court ruling on the original separate-but-equal housing plan, but within a short time the thirty-three eleven-story buildings housed a totally Black community. In 1959, five years after it was opened for occupancy, the Pruitt-Igoe Development had become a community scandal and even the 10,000 residents in the the complex still left it with the highest vacancy rate of any public housing complex in the country. M. Estellie Smith, American Anthropologist Rainwaters book represents the results of much that has been happening to social scientists in the field of race relations since the mid-1960s This book is mandatory reading for students of race relations, has much to say to students of social policy, and is deserving of a place on reading lists for methodology courses. Robert S. Moore, The British Journal of Sociology The research on which this book was based focuses upon the family lives of some 10,000 black children and adults living in the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St. Louis. The project has periodically received coverage from the national news media by virtue of its high incidence of crime, delinquency, tenant fear, illegitimacy, matrifocal families, welfare dependency, unemployment, poor school performance, racial problems, and widespread physical deterioration The data, gained through participant observation and unstructured interviews, reveal ghetto life as entailing considerable deprivation and frustration as well as a community of people who think poorly of each other, who attack, exploit, and manipulate each other, and who give each other small comfort in a desperate world. James W. Vander Zanden, Contemporary Sociology Although it is hardly unexpected, it is worth noting that the qualities which established Trans-action as an important policy-oriented magazine in the latter half of the 1960s are particularly evident in the latest writing of its senior editor, Lee Rainwater. The freshness and honesty of his approach would have been surprising in Behind Ghetto Wallsa long summary of eight years of field workhad it not been for the success of the magazine [A] most impressive achievement. Hannan Rose, Sociology --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Lee Rainwater is professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard University and research director emeritus of the Luxembourg Income Study. He was an editor at Transaction, the associate editor of theJournal of Marriage and the Family, and a member of the review board of Sociological Quarterly. He has written various books and many professional journal articles, including Poor Kids in a Rich Country: Americas Children In Comparative Perspective; Income Packaging in the Welfare State: A Comparative Study of Family Income; and Social Policy and Public Policy: Inequality and Justice.",20th century;african-american studies;americas;anthropology;books;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;state & local;united states;urban;used & rental textbooks,16 0375706615,"The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss Amnesia is an illusive subject that many artists have pursued, particularly literary artists. And like most things hard to get, its suitors are legion. Haruki Murakami's ""The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds"" exhibits the utterly evasive nature of memory and is emblematic of the razor wit of these contributors. Lethem has mined a rich field for this splendid collection of short stories and turned up such authors as Julio Cortazar, Jorge Luis Borges, Philip K. Dick, Martin Amis, Oliver Sacks, Shirley Jackson, Walker Percy, Thomas M. Disch, and Vladimir Nabokov. They're all winners. Bonnie SmothersCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Jonathan Lethem is perhaps our most active literary voice mining the genre margins of our culture.In this unique collection he creates an anthology that no one else could.He draws on the work of such unforgettables as Julio Cortazar, who presents a man caught between the ancient and modern worlds unable to say which is real; Philip K. Dick, who tells the story of a man trapped on a spaceship of the somnolent, unable to sleep and slowly losing his mind; Shirley Jackson, who takes us on a nightmarish trip across town with a young secretary; and Oliver Sacks, who presents us with an aging hippie who possesses no memory of anything that has taken place since the early seventies.What Lethem has done is nothing less than define a new genre of literature-the amnesia story-and in the process he invites us to sit down, pick up the book, and begin to forget.Also including: John Franklin Bardin, Donald Barthelme, Thomas M. Disch, Karn Joy Fowler, David Grand, Anna Kavan, Haruki Murakami, Flann O'Brien, Edmund White, and many others. Jonathan Lethem lives in Brooklyn, New York.Motherless Brooklyn is coming from Vintage in Fall 2000.",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;contemporary;general;humanities;literary;literature;literature & fiction;medical books;neuropsychology;new;psychology;short stories;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,16 0471719404,"Wiley CPA Examination Review 2005-2006, Outlines and Study Guides (Wiley Cpa Examination Review Vol 1: Outlines and Study Guides) (Volume 1) ""The authors offer abundant examples.... Offering more than the title suggests"" (CPA Journal, October 2003) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Wiley CPA Exam review32nd Edition 2005--2006Volume 1Outlines and Study Guides Covers all four sections of the CPA examination point by point Stresses important topical areas to study for each part Helps establish a self-study preparation program Divides exam into 45 manageable study units Provides an outline format supplemented by brief examples and illustrations Makes material easy to read, understand, and remember Includes timely, up-to-the-minute coverage for the computerized exam Explains step-by-step examples of the ""solutions approach"" Contains all current AICPA content requirements for all four sections of the examVolume 2Problems and Solutions Offers selected problems from all four examination sections Contains rationale for correct or incorrect multiple-choice answers Covers the new simulation-style problemsoffering more than 75 practice questions Details a ""solutions approach"" to each problem Updates unofficial answers to reflect current laws and standards Groups multiple-choice questions into topical categories within modules for easy cross-referencing Provides a sample examination for each of the four exam partsThe computer-based CPA exam is here! Are you ready?GET EVEN MORE INFORMATION ONLINE:You'll find a wide range of aids for doing your best on the CPA exam at wiley.com/cpa, including content updates, CPA exam study and test-taking tips, and more. All Wiley CPA Exam Review products are listed on the site. Ray Whittington, PhD, CPA, CMA, CIA, is the Ledger Quill Director of the School of Accountancy at DePaul University. Prior to joining the faculty at DePaul, Professor Whittington was the Director of Accountancy at San Diego State University. From 1989 through 1991, he was the Director of Auditing Research for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and he previously was on the audit staff of KPMG. He was a member of the Auditing Standards Board of the AICPA and has previously served as a member of the Accounting and Review Services Committee and the Board of Regents of the Institute of Internal Auditors. Professor Whittington has published numerous textbooks, articles, monographs, and continuing education courses.Patrick R. Delaney was the Arthur Andersen LLP Alumni Professor of Accountancy and Department Chair at Northern Illinois University. He received his PhD in Accountancy from the University of Illinois. He had public accounting experience with Arthur Andersen LLP and was coauthor of GAAP: Interpretation and Application, also published by John Wiley Sons, Inc. He served as Vice President and a member of the Illinois CPA Societys Board of Directors, and was Chairman of its Accounting Principles Committee; was a past president of the Rockford Chapter, Institute of Management Accountants; and had served on numerous other professional committees; and has made many presentations to professional groups. He was a member of the American Accounting Association, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and Institute of Management Accountants. Professor Delaney was published in The Accounting Review and was a recipient of the Illinois CPA Societys Outstanding Educator Award, NIUs Excellence-in-Teaching Award, and Lewis Universitys Distinguished Alumnus Award. He was involved in NIUs CPA Review Course as director and instructor.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business & finance;business & investing;careers;cpa;education & reference;new;popular economics;professional & technical;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks,16 0029236851,"Nixon's Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to Clinton University of Alaska historian O'Reilly (Racial Matters) ably synthesizes a large volume of material to portray what he sees as the mostly sorry record of American presidents who, on matters of race, pandered to what was worst in America for the sake of votes. The early leaders, Reilly posits, were hypocrites; Abraham Lincoln ""was the first to act his conscience on matters of race."" Even New Dealer FDR accommodated himself to Jim Crow in military strategy, and Harry Truman and JFK (a ""civil rights minimalist"") were pushed not by ideals but by pressure or expediency. O'Reilly has harsh words for Ronald Reagan's attempt to turn the clock back and George Bush's consistent flip-flops on race. If Jimmy Carter's compromises on affirmative action couldn't keep his fellow Southern whites in the fold, Bill Clinton has even more carefully pursued a ""balancing act"" in which he regularly dissociates himself from the likes of Jesse Jackson and Lani Guinier. ""These are bleak times,"" the author concludes, suggesting that attacks on welfare and affirmative action still don't address the source of white middle-class anxiety. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Yes, the title is strange: it refers to a racist minstrel-show performance in which the president and vice president (Spiro Agnew) mocked their ""Southern strategy"" before journalists and guests at a 1970 Gridiron Club dinner. The argument of University of Alaska historian O'Reilly is just as audacious: he maintains that a ""Southern strategy"" --"" a belief that presidential elections can be won only by following the doctrines and rituals of white over black"" --has been ""the gut organizing principle of American politics"" ever since the Constitutional Convention compromised with slavery. Only Lincoln and LBJ stand as exceptions: despite the former's ""white supremacist caveats"" and the latter's ""surveillance state,"" these two presidents truly improved African Americans' status and opportunities. After one chapter on ""Owners"" (Washington to McKinley) and one on ""Progressives"" (Teddy Roosevelt to Hoover), O'Reilly's remaining seven chapters study the many ways in which presidents from FDR to Clinton--often despite personal goodwill--have ""deepened . . . the racial rut"" in which ""the politics that came out of the Constitution and its articles on slavery"" has been stuck for more than two centuries. Provocative history, convincingly argued. Mary Carroll",18th century;19th century;20th century;africa;americas;anthropology;books;cultural;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);national;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;united states,16 052180986X,"Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) ""...an important and original contribution that deserves attention from anyone interested in ethnic conflict, eastern European politics and history, or indeed mass political behavior."" Slavic Review""[A]n orignal look at the emotional motivations behind ethnic violence.... Recommended."" Choice""Thought-provoking..."" Foreign Affairs This book seeks to identify the motivations of individual perpetrators of ethnic violence. The work develops four models, labeled Fear, Hatred, Resentm ent, and Rage, gleaned from existing social science literatures. The empirical chapters apply these four models to important events of ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe, from the 1905 Russian Revolution to the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990's. Each historical chapter generates questions about the timing and target of ethnic violence. The four models are then applied to the case, to learn which does the best job in explaining the observed patterns of ethnic conflict.",20th century;anthropology;books;business & investing;criminology;cultural;economics;ethnic studies;european;history;international & world politics;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,16 0201878070,"Ready to Write More: From Paragraph to Essay Good writing is a network of skills that can be taught, practiced, and mastered. These books present paragraph development and composition skills in clear, teachable steps. Each book offers students dependable strategies as well as opportunities to bring their own ideas and talent to the writing process.Important features of the series: Presents important organizational principles of good academic writing, including topic sentences, maintaining unity and coherence, making and supporting a point, providing clear transitions, and writing clear introductory and concluding paragraphs. Shows students how to apply these organizational principles to major rhetorical forms: classification, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, problem and solution, writing a summary, personal expression, and essays for college applications. Offers extensive practice in every step of the writing process, including prewriting, drafting, revision, and editing. Provides individual practice on additional topics in ""On Your Own"" sections. Offers effective error correction and editing practice in ""You Be the Editor"" sections.Ready to Write More:Are your students ready to move beyond single-paragraph assignments? From the building blocks of good prose to writing for specific purposes, Ready to Write More gives readers the confidence and skills needed for longer and more complex assignments. New to this edition is an updated presentation of the writing process, new peer-editing worksheets, web-based exercises, and expanded guided practice. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;creative writing & composition;criticism & theory;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;research & publishing guides;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;writing,16 0136464491,"Simulations for Electric Circuits Using Electronic Workbench Key Benefit: This lab manual provides hands-on experience in using the virtual instruments of Electronic Workbench to simulate the operation of many typical DC and AC circuits from basic configurations (series, parallel, series-parallel), through loop analysis, Thevenin equivalent circuits, resonance, and others. It features clear, multi-step procedures supported with screen shots for each step, troubleshooting exercises, critical thinking questions, and an accompanying disk with all necessary files. Key Topics: Each laboratory contains: Objectives; a summary of the relevant theory; a multi-step Procedure containing schematic figures for the circuits under examination; tables for measured data; a troubleshooting exercise; and critical-thinking questions. Features many screen shots that show exactly what to expect. Market: For anyone interested in learning how to use Electronic Workbench to analyze DC and AC circuits.",artificial intelligence;books;business & investing;computer science;computers & technology;counseling;education;education & reference;electrical & electronics;engineering;job hunting & careers;new;professional & technical;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;vocational guidance,16 0521312434,"Great Ideas Teacher's manual: Listening and Speaking Activities for Students of American English ' ... Great Ideas remains faithful to its title. The listening and speaking activities provide plenty to talk about, covering a wide range of topics to suit a diversity of interest. Moreover, the text is enjoyable to use - both for students and teachers.' The Language Teacher --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. The Teacher's Manual contains detailed notes on the activities, as well as vocabulary suggestions, glossaries, answer keys (where appropriate), listening scripts, and suggestions for follow-up activities.",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;language & grammar;new;reference;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,16 3540643796,"Supercarbon: Synthesis, Properties and Applications (Springer Series in Materials Science) This book is a status report on the synthesis, properties, and applications of new carbonaceous materials. These materials are called pi-electron materials since they have extended pi-electron clouds in the solid state. They include carbon, nanotubes, fullerenes, and graphite. The major topics are the synthesis of graphite and carbon nanotubes at low temperatures, intercalation compounds of carbon nanotubes exhibiting universal conductance fluctuation, and technological applications of carbon materials in semiconductor physics, chemistry, and biology. The special properties of pi-electron materials give rise to the development of novel functional devices. This book is written for materials researchers, physicists, and research engineers involved in the development of these new carbon-based devices.",books;chemical;chemistry;crystallography;electrical & electronics;engineering;nanostructures;new;physical & theoretical;physical chemistry;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;technology;used & rental textbooks,16 0226077845,"Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe James A. Brundage is the Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Law at the University of Kansas. He is the author of nine books, including The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and Courts, also published by the University of Chicago Press.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;history;humanities;law;medieval;new;politics & social sciences;religious;self-help;sex;social sciences;theology;used & rental textbooks;world,16 0631202706,"The Jameson Reader Fredric Jameson is one of the most provocative and influential cultural critics of our age. Analyzing and historicizing cultural phenomena, he weaves together some of the most powerful critical paradigms, including Marxism, psychoanalysis, and poststructuralism, into an original and systematic vision of the contemporary world. The Jameson Reader, which presents essays and excerpts from the broad spectrum of his writings, will be useful for both initiates and veteran readers of his work. For those who are new to Jameson, the Reader will provide an accessible introduction to the intricacies of his thought. Those familiar with Jameson will not only find a convenient collection of important essays, but will also inevitably discover new and exciting aspects of his work. The generous coverage given to seminal texts, such as The Political Unconscious and Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, is complemented by ample attention to lesser-known works. In addition, the editors' opening essay explores Jameson's project as a whole. The Jameson Reader will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences, and to anyone who wishes to gain an insight into the work of this important cultural thinker. Michael Hardt teaches in the Literature Program at Duke University. His previous books include Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy (1993), Empire (forthcoming) and with Antonion Negri he is co-author of Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-form (1994). Kathi Weeks teaches in the Politics department at Fairfield University. She is the author of Constituting Feminist Subjects (1998).",behavioral sciences;books;cognitive psychology;criticism & theory;essays;essays & correspondence;history & criticism;humanities;literary theory;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;postmodernism;science & math;used & rental textbooks,16 1878239740,"Maine Mountain Guide, 8th: The hiking trails of Maine featuring Baxter State Park The 'AMC Maine Mountain Guide' is widely recognized as the definitive trail guide to the mountains of Maine. This revised edition now features new full color, GPS-rendered trail maps - the first and only GPS plotted maps available for the area. From Baxter State Park and spectacular Mt. Katahdin to the rugged Mahoosuc Range, this is the ultimate guide for exploring the Maine wilderness. This fully revised and updated 8th edition includes notes on scenic views, geology and nature, trip planning, map and compass use, and bushwacking. It also contains helpful guidelines for backcountry hikers on low-impact camping, winter camping, hypothermia, search and rescue, fire regulations, and permit information. (5 X 7, 260 pages, index, glossary, accident report, pull-out map)",adventure;books;education & reference;excursion guides;general;hiking & camping;maine;mountain climbing;mountaineering;new england;northeast;reference;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;united states,16 0521412544,"Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History) ""For students this is an excellent overview of ealry modern Eyropean medical history, and for the academic who is a non-specialist in this field it serves as a valuable introduction."" Jrnl of early Modern History Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe, in the highly successful series of New Approaches, offers undergraduate students a concise introduction to a subject rich in historical excitement and interest. Mary Lindemann, a distinguished scholar of the history of medicine, writes with exceptional clarity and examines medicine from a social and cultural perspective rather than a narrowly scientific one. She focuse s on the experience of illness and on patients and folk healers as much as on the rise of medical science, doctors and hospitals. Mary Lindemann is Professor of History at the University of Miami. Her publications include Health and Healing in Early Modern Germany (1996) which was awarded the 1998 William Welch Book Medal Prize by the American Association for the History of Medicine. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.",administration & medicine economics;books;europe;history;humanities;ireland;medical books;medical history & records;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;special topics;used & rental textbooks,16 1590595688,"Foundation ASP for Dreamweaver 8 Rob Turnbullis the senior developer for Lighthouse Design for Business Ltd., an established new media design and marketing company based in Shrewsbury, U.K. Clients across Europefrom small businesses to blue chip companiesprovide an increasing workload, which includes the development of databases, web sites, multimedia presentations, interactive CD-ROMs, promotional videos, and 3D artwork (animations and stills). His personal web site, www.robgt.com, is primarily focused on offering help and guidance to fellow Dreamweaver users, including tutorials and links to helpful resources and some useful extensions.OmarElbagahas been passionately involved in web development for oversix years, completing several projects for small businesses and non-profit organizations, including personal sites. He has previously co-authoredtwo books on Dreamweaver MX web development and maintains his own Dreamweaver MX tutorial/resource site now known as dmxfire.com. Because he did not start out as a programmer himself, he has a knack for teaching dynamic web development to those who do not have programming backgrounds. He is also a language arts teacher (certified in New Jersey), artist, and independent filmmaker. He is currently a graduate student at New Jersey City University completing his master's as a reading specialist. You can find some of his work in this area and more information at omarelbaga.com.",asp;books;computer science;computers & technology;dreamweaver;internet & web culture;new;programming;programming languages;software design;software design & engineering;software development;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design,16 0198504748,"Introduction to Protein Architecture: The Structural Biology of Proteins ""A text for second- and third-year undergraduate students and beginning post-graduate students in biological and medical science, incorporating an introduction to the use of the Web in bioinformatics. Explains the general characteristics that underlie all structures, functions, and interactions of proteins observed in nature. Emphasis is on protein architecture and the three-dimensional patterns of protein structures, with a wealth of computer-generated color images. Includes exercises, problems, and 'weblems,' designed to give students practice with the tools required for research in the field. The author is affiliated with the University of Cambridge.""--SciTech Book News""In An Introduction to Protein Architecture, Arthur Lesk presents an insightful survey of this most fundamental topic. It is particularly timely for a new text on this subject as the current availability of extensive web-based information resources for protein sequences and structures modifies the traditional role for the textbook. Arthur Lesk is one of the pioneers of the analysis of protein structure and its evolution. ... So, needless to say, this book is brilliantly illustrated with an extensive array of large, clear stereo diagrams for the structures or motifs that are described in the text. Moreover, we believe that the use of stereo figures is essential for truly visualizing the complex 3D geometry of proteins. ... [T]his text, written by a leading expert in the field, is to be highly recommended for anyone wishing to learn about protein architecture in the context of the current structure of bioinformatics information resources.""--Trends in Biochemical Sciences Arthur M. Lesk, Senior Research Associate, Haematology Department, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge. Phone 01223 336829 email aml2@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk",basic sciences;biochemistry;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;cell biology;education & reference;medicine;medicine & health sciences;microbiology;molecular biology;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,16 0813209609,"Preaching Peace in Renaissance Italy: Bernardino of Siena and His Audience ""An exceptionally readable and enjoyable work. . . . The book opens up the entire Renaissance period, making accessible to the beginning student mentalities, social valences, and long-term interactions that have simply never been spelled out, or at least never before so clearly."" -- Prof. Robert C. Davis, Ohio State University""Polecritti effectively draws the reader into Bernardino's sermons, and acts as a well-informed and observant guide to what they reveal about him and his Siena. . . . The text is a pleasure to read: vivid and engaging, perceptive and persuasive."" -- Prof. Daniel Bornstein, Texas A University Cynthia L. Polecritti is associate professor of history at the University of Santa Cruz.",biographies & memoirs;books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;congregations & orders;history;humanities;leaders & notable people;new;religious;religious studies;renaissance;saints;used & rental textbooks,16 1558610197,"A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader The first autobiographical picture of Harper's life (1825-1911), this informative introduction approaches her through her complete extant works: speeches, poetry, letters, essays, short stories, and a chapter from her novel, Iola Leroy (the second novel published by an African-American). Foster shows that Harper's work took on a national scope, focusing on race and gender equality, temperance, and Christian reform, and that these themes intensified as she continued writing well after the emancipation. Harper was the most popular African-American poet of her time; the first paid black abolitionist lecturer and short story writer; the first to experiment with dialect in the speech of her characters to express the sensibilities of the oppressed (a technique usually credited to the younger Dunbar); and the first to develop heroic black characters. Foster maintains that the nation's racist reaction to emancipation and sexist reaction to the woman's movement at the turn of the century resulted in Harper's absence from the literary canon. Highly recommended.-Veronica Mitchell, New YorkCopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER (1825 - 1911) published 12 volumes of poetry, a novel, stories, and essays. FRANCES SMITH FOSTER is professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.",african-american & black;biographies & memoirs;books;classics;criticism & theory;education & reference;ethnic & national;history & criticism;literature & fiction;movements & periods;politics & social sciences;specific groups;united states;women;women writers;women's studies,16 1572316055,"Microsoft Project 98 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) Tim's first connection with Project began as a product support professional at Microsoft, starting with Project 3.0. Later Tim worked in the Project user assistance team, where he brought his first-hand knowledge of Project customers' issues to new learning solutions for Project. Tim remains involved in the computer industry and continues to look for ways to help customers better understand and use their computer applications.",books;business;business & investing;business & management;computers & technology;hardware;home computing & how-to;management;management & leadership;microsoft;microsoft project;pcs;pmp exam;project;project management;software,16 0521361060,"A History of the University in Europe: Volume 2, Universities in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800) (v. 2) s This is the second volume of a four-part History of the University in Europe, written by an international team of authors under the general editorship of Professor Walter Regg, which covers the development of the university in Europe (east and west) from its origins to the present day. It focusses not only on the history of individual institutions, nor on the universities in any individual country, but on a number of major themes viwed from a European perspective. The chief originality of this work lies in its comparative, inter-disciplinary, collaborative and trans-national nature. Volume II, Universities in Early Modern Europe attempts to situate the universities in their social and political context throughout the three centuries spanning the period 1500 to 1800.",18th century;19th century;books;college & university;education;education & reference;education theory;europe;history;history & theory;humanities;ireland;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,16 0198602308,"Twentieth Century Words Ayto, the author of The Longman Register of New Words and The Oxford Dictionary of Slang, presents ""the most salient"" new English (British and U.S.) words and word meanings from the 20th century. Based on The Oxford English Dictionary and its supplements, entries include the date of the word's earliest appearance in the OED, a definition, and examples of usage. Words are arranged by decade, which is fine in theory but problematic in practice: had Ayto traced linguistic developments thematically, this volume would have been much easier to navigate. As it is, readers will have to rely heavily on the index. More importantly, a thematic structure would have given readers a sense of the issues that have dominated linguistic developments throughout the century. The brief essays that introduce each decade, situating new words in their historical context, aren't enough. Indeed, it would appear that Ayto has a poor grip on the issues and themes that shaped 20th-century English. For example, in his introduction to the 1990s (a decade marked, among other things, by high visibility of gay and lesbian culture), he makes the following, puzzling statement: ""The gay community, meanwhile, had to face the new threat of outing."" Despite its flaws, this book encapsulates 20th-century developments and will appeal to scholars and readers. For larger public and academic libraries.AAnna Youssefi, Univ. of Houston Lib. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. 'The virtues of the diachronic approach to linguistics are splendidly exemplified by John Ayto's unpretentious gold mine of a book.'Paul Dean, TLS, 1.10.99'Fascinating.' - Dot Wordsworth, Daily Telegraph, 18.9.99'Endlessly fascinating book' - Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday, 26.12.99",20th century;books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;foreign language study & reference;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;reference;research;research & publishing guides;synonyms & antonyms;used & rental textbooks;writing,16 0789734281,"Manage Your Money and Investments with Microsoft Excel Sure you want to save money. We all do. But saving money is sometimes easier said than done. Did you know that there is a program probably already installed on your computer that can help you manage your money better? Its Microsoft Excel, part of the Microsoft Office suite. Manage Your Money and Investments with Excel can help you take control of your finances with Excel. Learn how to: Perform basic financial calculations. Track and analyze investments. Compare mutual fund options. Manage mortgages, loans, and escrow accounts. Balance checking accounts and manage credit card debt. Track your net worth. Discover new ways to make money-saving decisions and manage your finances with Manage Your Money and Investments with Excel. Peter Aitken was writing about computers and software before the first version of Excel was released. Since then he has written more than 40 books and innumerable magazine and Web articles on topics ranging from office applications and personal finance to application development and digital photography. Peter is also the proprietor of PGA Consulting, providing application development and technical writing services to clients since 1996. You can learn more about Peters books at http://www.pgacon.com/books.htm. Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved. Introduction Introduction Benjamin Franklin said, A penny saved is a penny earned. Its true, tooalthough we are not too concerned with pennies these days, each dollar, or ten dollars, or fifty dollars that you save is just like having that much more in your paycheck. Im not talking about the kind of saving that results from denying yourself the pleasures or even some necessities of life. No, what this book is about is the savings you can realize by taking charge of your finances. People start working with personal finance at an early age. You might start with just an allowance and then maybe in high school move onto a part-time job and a small savings account. Eventually you find yourself on your own with a job, a checking account, and maybe a family to help support. Car loans, credit cards, and a mortgage come soon enough for many of us. All these aspects of personal finance seem to be an unavoidable part of modern life. How you approach your personal finances can have a big impact on your life. Some people seem to just muddle through from week to week while others make an effort to learn the ins and outs of personal finance so they can take charge of their own situation. Is it worth the effort? You bet it is! Let me explain. First of all, when you dont master your own finances, you are almost sure to be paying out a lot in unnecessary fees and interest. I am always amazed to hear how much profit banks and credit card companies make from overdraft and late fees, interest, and other avoidable charges to the consumer. This money is coming out of your pocket! When you take charge of your finances, you can eliminate or at least greatly reduce these unnecessary payments. That means more money in your pocket to spend or save as you see fit. Second, many of lifes major goals require some financial planning. Buying your first house, saving for Juniors college education, affording that fishing boat you have always wanted, looking forward to a secure retirementthese are some of the more important examples. Without planning, such goals might remain forever beyond your grasp. My goal in writing this book is to provide you with the information and tools you need to take charge of your finances. Its not always the easiest thing to doafter all, bad financial habits can die hardbut it is very worthwhile. Why Excel? Why did I focus this book on using the Excel spreadsheet program? Arent there some specialized personal finance programs available? Please let me explain. There are several sophisticated personal finance programs on the market, the best known being Quicken and Microsoft Money. They are excellent programs, butand this is a big butthey try to provide every possible feature any user could conceivably want. As a result, these programs are unavoidably complex. Andunavoidably as wellyou must buy them. Excel, in contrast, is a general purpose data manipulation program that includes many tools for working with finances. Most importantly, it is already installed on millions of computers. Chances are that when you bought your computer, it had Excel already installed as a free extra. Or you might have installed Excel yourself for your personal or business use. Either way, there are millions of people around the world who can use the Excel templates provided with this book without any additional expense. Who This Book Is For The people who want to take charge of their finances come from all walks of life, and not all of them are computer experts. Thats why I wrote this book to be understandable and usable by almost anyone. As long as you know the basics of using your computer and Excel, you will do just fine. The only requirement is that you have Excel installed on your computer. The templates that come with this book work with any of the recent versions of Excel, including Excel 2000, Excel XP, and Excel 2003. Each workbook is provided in two versions. The one with Example in the name (for example, Check Register Example.xls) contains sample data that you can use to experiment with and see how the workbook functions. The one without Example in the name (for example, Check Register.xls) is empty and ready for you to start entering your own data. More Information and Updates The publisher maintains a website for this book at http://www.quepublishing.com/title/0789734281. You can visit this site for more information about the book, to place orders, and to find links to Ques other publications. I maintain my own site for this book at http://www.pgacon.com/Books/ManageMoneyExcel.htm. Visit my site if you want to send me a comment and to check for corrections in the text and templates. Please note that even though I love to hear from readers, I can respond only to matters that are directly related to the book. Peter Aitken Chapel Hill, North Carolina April 2005 Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business & finance;business & investing;computer science;computers & technology;introduction;investing;new;personal finance;popular economics;professional & technical;security & encryption;software;used & rental textbooks,16 0271018690,"Sparks of Liberty: An Insider's Memoir of Radio Liberty Taking an insider's look at a little-known chapter of Cold War history, Sosin, a senior adviser to, and broadcast planning director of, the Munich-based station in the 1960s and '70s, tells how Radio Liberty went after the hearts and minds of people in the U.S.S.R., while it struggled to survive incessant jamming, a Kremlin campaign of vilification and infiltration by spies. Radio Liberty's first broadcast in 1953 occurred, by a strange twist of fate, hours before Stalin suffered a stroke; he died four days later. Sosin's account, drawing on confidential and previously unpublished documents, reveals, for instance, how Radio Liberty disseminated the content of Khrushchev's key 1956 anti-Stalin speech, given to a closed session of the Communist Party. The station, claims Sosin, became the principal forum for airing samizdatAthat is, uncensored, self-published calls by dissidents such as Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov for human rights and an end to one-party dictatorship. The station also broadcast Eleanor Roosevelt, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Linus Pauling, Martin Luther King Jr., ex-Communist novelist Howard Fast and Trotsky's widow, Natalia Sedova. In 1971, Senator J. William Fulbright, opposing the Cold War, widely publicized the fact that Radio Liberty was secretly subsidized by Congress via the CIA, but the station weathered the storm, merging in 1975 with Radio Free Europe (which had primarily targeted Eastern Europe). Sosin ends by arguing that RFE/RL (now headquartered in Prague) has a continuing role to play, working for democratic pluralism and opposing xenophobic nationalism in the former Soviet Union. Photos. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Gene Sosin, former director of program planning for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, is also a contributing author to Dissent in the USSR (Johns Hopkins, 1975) and other books on Russia.",books;communication & media studies;czech republic;europe;general broadcasting;history;history & criticism;humanities;humor & entertainment;new;performing arts;politics & social sciences;radio;russia;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,16 0195046722,"Godel's Incompleteness Theorems (Oxford Logic Guides) ""A delightful introduction to the Godel incompleteness theorems and related results. . . . reader is treated to a series of careful formulations and proofs of the central results, always with a high degree of generality and insight. The author has superbly combined his unique presentation of the 'big picture' with an appreciation of detail and rigor. Even readers who are already familiar with the incompleteness results will enjoy and benefit from this book."" --Mathematical Reviews""Elegant . . . the strategy . . . is highly instructive, as it casts the purpose behind each step of the proof in high relief."" --Choice""Combines scholarly contributions with the flavor of his popular works. Smullyan is not only an outstanding authority on this subject, but also a skilled pedagogue, with a special talent for formulating simple riddles, which illuminate this very difficult and profound subject. . . . an important contribution toward the wider understanding of the work of Godel and his followers. . . . Smullyan plays a significant role in the further development of mathematical logic and the elucidation of its relation to metamathematics. He continues to be one of the foremost popularizers of the subject."" --American Scientist""Smullyan lives up to his aims. The book provides a highly accessible, user-friendly introduction to incompleteness. . . . the treatment is rigorous and contains material that even a professional logician can find informative and interesting. . . . Smullyan never confuses rigor with dullness or obscurity. His writing is clear and lively . . . . I am eagerly awaiting the sequel's appearance."" --Leon Harkleroad, Modern Logic Raymond M. Smullyan is at Indiana University, Bloomington.",books;computer science;computers & technology;humanities;logic;logic & language;mathematics;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;programming;science & math;science & mathematics;software design;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,16 1553800117,"No Time to Mourn ""Leon Kahn's story is poignant and its message eloquent."" -- Elie Wiesel Leon Kahn was born Leon Kaganowicz in 1925 in Eisiskes, Poland, near present-day Vilnius, Lithuania. During the war he fought in Eastern Europe with partisans against the Nazis. In 1948, lone survivor of his family, he immigrated to Vancouver, where he made a living in various small business enterprises until he became a successful real estate developer, first with Block Brothers and then with his own company. He was noted for his humility, his contributions to the Jewish community and his work as an anonymous philanthropist. He died in 2003, leaving behind his wife, two sons and a daughter.",biographies & memoirs;books;eastern;ethnic & national;europe;history;holocaust;humanities;jewish;leaders & notable people;military;new;religious;used & rental textbooks;world;world war ii,16 0520044258,"My Century: The Odyssey of a Polish Intellectual Published years after Wat's death, this remarkable transcription of his taped memoirs sears the imagination. Like Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn, Wat records the life of a political prisoner with agonizing precision, texturing his recall with comic and compassionate portraits of his fellow prisoners and their guards. But Wat's genius lies beyond memorable evocation of place or even portraiture. His work is subtitled an ""odyssey,"" and its true force transpires through the political and spiritual implications of his journeys among 13 Polish and Russian prisons during the 1930s and 1940s. Wat begins as a Communist and Jew and ends as an anti-Communist and Christian who still affirms his Jewishness. Above all, he defends his inner life against monstrous efforts to reduce it to time and trivia. Arthur Waldhorn, City Coll., CUNYCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. Text: English, Polish (translation) ALEKSANDER WAT (19001967), the nom de plume of Aleksander Chwat, was born in Warsaw, the descendant of an old and distinguished Jewish family which counted among its members the great sixteenth-century cabalist Isaac Luria. He attended Warsaw University, where he studied philosophy, psychology, and logic, and formed strong ties with the literary avant-garde, publishing a first book of poems, Me from One Side and Me from the Other Side of My Pig-Iron Stove, in 1920 and, some years later, a collection of stories entitled Lucifer Unemployed. Wat edited a variety of influential journals and helped to disseminate the work of Mayakovsky and the futurists in Poland, before forming an allegiance with the Communist Party and confining his writing to journalism. In 1939 he fled east before the advancing German army and was separated from his wife and young son. The family reunited in Lww, then under Soviet control, where Wat found work on a newspaper, only to be placed under arrest. Imprisoned in the Soviet Union for the better part of two years, during which time he converted from Judaism to Christianity, Wat again rejoined his family, who had been exiled to Kazakhstan, in 1942. They returned after the war to Poland, where Wat began to write poetry again while serving as editor of the state publishing house. In 1963, he left his native country for France. Wat was invited in 1964 to the University of California, Berkeley, where he taped a series of conversations about his life and times with his countryman the poet Czeslaw Milosz. Edited by Milosz, these were published posthumously as My Century. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.",20th century;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism & theory;eastern;education & reference;ethnic & national;europe;history;history & criticism;irish;literature & fiction;memoirs;modern (16th-21st centuries);poetry;world literature,16 1859841864,"A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland Though the scenario is familiar?an American with Irish ancestry travels to Ireland to explore her roots and her identity?this book is not typical. The essays here have a more intellectual bent; the descriptions of the people and the landscape are interspersed with philosophical musings on things such as the use of animal metaphors in our language, the life of Irish patriot Roger Casement, the imagery of blood in discussions of ethnicity, and the reasons why the Travelers (the Irish version of gypsies) are so hated. Solnit (Savage Dreams, Sierra Club, 1994), who has written numerous essays in publications such as Sierra, writes in an accessible, readable style and displays a thorough knowledge of Irish history and literature. For academic libraries and public libraries with larger travel collections.?Kathleen A. Shanahan, American Univ., Silver Spring, Md.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Truly exceptional, a paradise for readers.Kirkus Reviews Rebecca Solnit is author of, among other books, Wanderlust, A Book of Migrations, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built In Hell. A contributing editor to Harpers, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.",books;earth sciences;education & reference;emigration & immigration;europe;general;geography;history;ireland;politics & social sciences;reference;research & publishing guides;science & math;social sciences;travel;writing,16 0948390360,Haile Sellassie and the Opening of the Seven Seals a profound document...rasta really has it this time! it is definitely a mind buster...mystical yet practical...rastafari speaks Rastafarian born in London of Jamaican parents,africa;books;comparative religion;ethnic & tribal;history;humanities;new;other religions;practices & sacred texts;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;spirituality;tribal & ethnic;used & rental textbooks;world,16 0870817604,"Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration: Protesting Federal Segregation in the Early Twentieth Century ...ideal for classroom use...Patler offers ample evidence to support his arguments, using an array of sources from original manuscript collections and newspapers archives to government documents and political commentaries. Clearly written and well-researched, Patler nicely balances social and political history with well-drawn portraits of significant figures inside and outside the NAACP. -- Glen Anthony Harris, The Journal of African American Historybr /br /...original and insightful material on African American activism. -- John A. Kirk, American Historical Review, April 2007br /br /There is clearly a hero in this well-documented, very readable volume: William Monroe Trotter, the Boston-born founder and leader of the National Equal Rights League. Patler's admiration for Trotter...shines through... --David M. Kinchen, Huntington News, April 2, 2007 Nicholas Patler is collaborating on a screenplay on the life of early equal rights proponent, William Monroe Trotter.",20th century;african-american studies;americas;books;civil rights & liberties;discrimination & racism;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & government;politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;specific topics;united states,16 0520232305,"Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 ""Christina Klein takes a fresh, stimulating, and enlightening look at the complex visions of Asia dreamed over the decades by American popular culture. She argues her provocative viewpoints with the verve and flair of a showman, in a book which helps us to see the whole world through new eyes.""David Henry Hwang, author of M. Butterfly and Flower Drum Song (2002)""An extraordinarily interesting study of Cold War internationalism. Kleins brilliant and imaginative reading of such musicals as South Pacific and The King and I enables us to see how culture and geopolitics were woven together to transform the Cold War order into todays ethnically diverse and economically interdependent worldwithin the framework of U.S. global expansion.""Akira Iriye, Professor of History, Harvard University, and author, Global Community ""Christina Klein takes a fresh, stimulating, and enlightening look at the complex visions of Asia dreamed over the decades by American popular culture. She argues her provocative viewpoints with the verve and flair of a showman, in a book which helps us to see the whole world through new eyes.""-David Henry Hwang, author of M. Butterfly and Flower Drum Song (2002) ""An extraordinarily interesting study of 'Cold War internationalism.' Klein's brilliant and imaginative reading of such musicals as South Pacific and The King and I enables us to see how culture and geopolitics were woven together to transform the Cold War order into today's ethnically diverse and economically interdependent world-within the framework of 'U.S. global expansion.'""-Akira Iriye, Professor of History, Harvard University, and author, Global Community Christina Klein is Associate Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.",20th century;american literature;americas;asia;books;history;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks;world,16 0262232030,Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence Gerhard Weiss is Research Scientist in the Computer Science Department atthe Technical University of Munich.,artificial intelligence;books;computer science;computers & technology;expert systems;human vision & language systems;mathematics;new;programming;science & math;software design;software development;software engineering;testing & engineering;theory of computing;used & rental textbooks,16 0735621993,"Microsoft® SQL Server(TM) 2005 Analysis Services Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) The popular STEP BY STEP approach provides hands-on guidance to beginning-level programmers and those new to SQL Server 2005. A sequential, learn-by-doing tutorial, this book covers key features and techniques of Analysis Services to help programmers harness the full power of SQL Server 2005. The companion CD includes data sets and sample code. Key Book Benefits: Delivers step-by-step instruction about how to install, enable, envision, create, and share analytical models based on SQL Server 2005 data stores Provides hands-on exercises that help develop proficiency quicklybased on data stores and examples provided on the enclosed CD Features expertise from Hitachi Consulting, which creates specialized SQL Serverbased data solutions for corporate customers STEP BY STEP is ideal for anyone with a basic understanding of SQL Server Reed Jacobson is a senior architect in Hitachi Consultings Business Intelligence practice. He has authored several training courses and books, including Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services Step by Step.Stacia Misner, MCITP, MCTS, is a consultant and trainer specializing in Microsoft business intelligence solutions. She has more than 20 years of IT experience and has written several books on SQL Server, including Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Step by Step. Stacia is also one of the first to earn the new SQL Server Analysis Services Maestro certification.Hitachi Consulting, a division of Hitachi Ltd., is a global business and IT consulting firm serving Fortune 2000 companies. It is a leader in developing corporate training and custom solutions for Reporting Services",books;computer science;computers & technology;data mining;database design;database management systems;databases;development;education & reference;languages & tools;microsoft;programming;software;sql;sql server;systems analysis & design,16 B0000B0T0G,"Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS (Data Transformation Service) A lot of corporate databases are what's behind the Internet revolution. Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS gives DBAs and programmers a handy guide to getting the most out of the Data Transformation Services (DTS)--a flexible set of tools that work on a wide variety of databases--that are available in SQL Server 2000. The hands-on focus of the book makes it a win for readers of all backgrounds. While online help for DTS is not always easy to decipher, this book remedies the situation with plenty of screen shots of all of the major tools in action. Early sections examine nearly two dozen built-in tasks or functions in DTS--from the obvious (copying data from one database to another) to the more esoteric (sending files via FTP within DTS). A gentle introduction to using VBScript and ActiveX objects gets at the DTS object model to design ""custom tasks."" By using this approach, you can automate and transform data reliably among different formats, including mainframe and Office documents. (Specific tips guide you in working with DB2 and Excel data.) A standout section looks at ""linking"" servers and querying data from heterogeneous sources. You also learn how to build a Web front end (using ASPs) for a data application that uses SQL-DMO APIs to automate database tasks through a browser. Later, there's an excellent tutorial on data warehousing, done the Microsoft way--from the basics of the star, snowflake, and hybrid fact tables for a data mart to setting up and loading the data using DTS, and then running the database with Microsoft Analysis Services. The book closes with a thorough reference section that lists the objects and methods in the DTS object model. Whether you're performing normal database administration or setting up a data warehouse--or you just want to work with data more effectively within your applications--Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS gives you all of the information that you need to be productive with a powerful (and sometimes overlooked) set of database tools and components. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: Introduction to Data Transformation Services (DTS) Survey of DTS wizards and tools The Import/Export Wizard The Copy Database Wizard The DTS Designer Survey of automated tasks in SQL Server 2000, including the Bulk Insert, Execute SQL, Copy SQL Server Objects, and Transfer Databases tasks The Multiphase Data Pump Using a Data Driven Query (DDQ) The FTP Task The Execute Package Task The Message Queue Task Advanced package options General package properties Transfer Data Task options Data scrubbing Working with heterogeneous data (using linked servers from mainframe and legacy servers) Tips for converting Excel and DB2 data DTS ActiveX Script basics Quick tutorial for VBScript syntax The DTS Object Model File management with the FileSystemObject object DTS security issues Meta Data Services Backing up databases DTS error handling Building custom tasks in DTS Star, snowflake, and hybrid designs for data warehouses Extract, Transformation, and Load (ETL) with DTS Microsoft Analysis Services Creating Web front ends for DTS applications Reference to the DTS and ADO object models Reference to essential VB functions and keywords Microsoft Scripting Run-Time Reference Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS follows on from Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming to drill down into this important and powerful feature of SQL Server 2000. This book begins with a complete introduction to DTS fundamentals and architecture. Building on this introduction we'll take a look at more complex data transformations and security issues involved in moving data between different servers, applications and providers (eg Oracle, DB2, Sybase). The book then focuses on DTS via the DTS object model, which enables developers to incorporate custom transformations and reporting capabilities into their applications. We use examples in both Visual Basic and scripting languages. More advanced topics are then explained including error handling, dynamic data loading, OLAP and Datawarehouses. With code and case studies this book provides a thorough guide to this new upcoming area of SQL Server 2000. DTS (Data Transformation Services) helps you create a transactional system to load and transform your data from and to a wide variety of sources. SQL Server DTS was introduced in the release of SQL Server 7.0; SQL Server 2000 sees the functionality and power of this outstanding and incredibly useful tool greatly increased. DTS can be used to maximum effect in data-driven applications, offering rapid and effective solutions to a wide range of common problems.Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS provides a complete introduction to DTS fundamentals and architecture before exploring the more complex data transformations involved in moving data between different servers, applications, and providers. The book then focuses on DTS programming via the DTS object model, enabling developers to incorporate custom transformations and reporting capabilities into their applications. Advanced topics are explained including error handling, dynamic data loading, and data warehouses. With code and case studies, this book gives the reader a complete picture of how to use DTS to its fullest potential.Who is this book for?This book is principally aimed at database programmers and administrators who have a working knowledge of SQL Server, and who wish to take DTS beyond its most basic level and tailor it to their needs. It will also appeal to managers and project managers who want to gain an understanding of DTS and how it could benefit their businesses.What does this book cover?A detailed explanation of the seventeen principal DTS tasksConnecting to, querying, and converting heterogeneous dataDynamic configuration of your DTS packagesEnhancing your DTS packages with VBScript and Visual BasicWriting your own custom tasksUsing DTS in a data-warehousing environmentEmploying DTS in other applications --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. He also works as a Sr. SQL Server DBA and spends most of his time deep in DTS and SQL Server. Todd Robinson (MCP, MCP+I, MCP+SB, MCSE, MCSE+I, MCSD, MCDBA, MCT, CCNA) lives in Atlanta, GA where he is an internet application developer and data warehousing guru for Metlife. He specializes in MTS/COM+, ASP, XML, SQL Server and related Windows DNA technologies. In addition to his normal job duties at Metlife, he is President of GradesNow.com an internet application service for teachers, students and parents to allow access to grades online.",books;computer science;computers & technology;database management systems;database storage & design;databases;development;education & reference;languages & tools;microsoft;new;programming;programming languages;sql;sql server;used & rental textbooks,16 0631195521,"The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz (Blackwell Reference) ""The Blackwell Guide is in its second edition (1995), and is structured as a beginning buyer's guide: there's a history of the music and chapters by five other writers."" John F. Szwed, Jazziz, September 2000 ""The Blackwell Guide is in its second edition (1995), and is structured as a beginning buyer's guide: there's a history of the music and chapters by five other writers."" John F. Szwed, Jazziz, September 2000 The first edition of the Guide was widely praised for identifying 150 key recordings that should form the basis of any jazz collection, backed up by a series of detailed critical commentaries unrivalled in any competing book of its kind for their depth and critical insight. This new edition broadens the scope of the Guide, looking at recent developments and styles and suggesting almost 250 discs as the core collection. The focus of the book remains the music itself. The authors chart the issues of the sessions discussed, and introduce ideas for further listening. To the newcomer to jazz forming a basic collection, this remains the essential guide. To the more seasoned listener, the Guide offers a path through recent areas of the music, and some unexpected selections, as well as providing information and helpful critical discussion. Barry Kernfeld is an independent scholar. He is the editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (1988) and the author of What to Listen For in Jazz (1995).",arts & photography;bibliographies & indexes;books;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;jazz;music;musical genres;new;performing arts;publishing & books;reference;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,16 0838907547,"Being Analog: Creating Tomorrow's Libraries Because of my tremendous respect for Crawford, Access Services Officer of the Research Libraries Group, I read and reread Being Analog to see if the problem with it is me. Maybe it is, but I couldn't figure out for whom the book is written or why. It is a collection of vintage Crawford, so well aged that much of it was already dated when he first thought, said, or wrote it. You will recognize the Crawford voice, the warning, and even many of the villains. These are not exactly ""straw targets"" as Walt takes great pains to point out, but surely they are rare enemies of libraries, singled out to give the author targets for his attack on a kind of technovision that very few professionals hold anymore, indeed that very few ever did believe. It is the ""digital dreamers"" who fake ""hardnosed practicality"" and ""those who still write about digital libraries as replacements for mixed libraries"" whom Crawford attacks. I doubt any exist in the extreme terms he uses for them, although he did find one to name in the text and in the ten-item bibliography (three by Crawford). It is hard to believe, for example, that anyone is really so dumb that he can be described thus: ""They don't read books, so books are dead.... They circulate preprint journal articles and consider magazines beneath contempt...."" Oh, sure, there's some good stuff. I like many of Crawford's arguments, like those against Internet filters, but nearly all have been exhausted through heavy use, or are so basic as to already be among ""the givens"" of librarianship. Crawford says it all in straightforward, popular language. It is exhortative stuff, presuming such low levels of understanding that it is sometimes downright condescending. Most disappointing, the book fails to define or specify the problems it wants to solve, the enemies it wants to vanquish, or the future it wants to shape. After the second reading, I began to think that those problems, enemies, and futures all had an uncanny resemblance to windmills.AJohn Berry, ""Library Journal"" Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.",books;books & reading;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;electrical & electronics;engineering;history & criticism;humanities;library & information science;literature & fiction;new;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,16 0470851562,"Levy Processes in Finance: Pricing Financial Derivatives (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) Financial mathematics has recently enjoyed considerable interest on account of its impact on the finance industry. In parallel, the theory of L?vy processes has also seen many exciting developments. These powerful modelling tools allow the user to model more complex phenomena, and are commonly applied to problems in finance. L?vy Processes in Finance: Pricing Financial Derivatives takes a practical approach to describing the theory of L?vy-based models, and features many examples of how they may be used to solve problems in finance.* Provides an introduction to the use of L?vy processes in finance.* Features many examples using real market data, with emphasis on the pricing of financial derivatives.* Covers a number of key topics, including option pricing, Monte Carlo simulations, stochastic volatility, exotic options and interest rate modelling.* Includes many figures to illustrate the theory and examples discussed.* Avoids unnecessary mathematical formalities.The book is primarily aimed at researchers and postgraduate students of mathematical finance, economics and finance. The range of examples ensures the book will make a valuable reference source for practitioners from the finance industry including risk managers and financial product developers.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;investing;investments & securities;mathematics;new;popular economics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;statistics;used & rental textbooks,16 0201702894,"C++ Coach: Essentials for Introductory Programming By the end of this book, readers will have a firm understanding of C++ syntax and problem-solving skills. Its premise is the same one that successful coaches have using for centuries: the more you practice a skill, the better your mastery of that skill becomes. Concepts are presented and then practiced repeatedly in the form of drills that explore the subtleties of the syntax. These drills are supplemented with real-world examples of programming problems, from the world of business, which build upon knowledge gained from these drills. Once a set of skills is mastered, more advanced concepts are presented and practiced. This book is organized into three sections. The first section provides a basic understanding of programming constructs: variables, operators, conditional statements, loops, and functions. These constructs are used to develop programs that solve relatively simple problems. The focus is on mastery of basic C++ syntax. The second section concentrates on additional features of C++ such as arrays, structures, classes, pointers, and files. The third section discusses the benefits and implementations of some simple C++ data structures to help the reader appreciate the issues of performance when dealing with real-world problems. This is the ideal book for any beginning programmer who plans to use a computer for information acquisition and processing.",books;c;c & c++ windows programming;computer science;computers & technology;development;education & reference;introductory & beginning;languages & tools;microsoft;new;programming;programming languages;software;tutorials;used & rental textbooks,16 0374166005,"Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War The lives of Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman are classic underdog stories. Both of these ""obscure failures"" experienced more disappointment than success prior to the start of the Civil War. By 1861, they had each resigned from the U.S. Army and failed in several civilian pursuits between them, including farming, real estate, retail, and banking. Further, Grant was known as a drunk and Sherman was labeled insane. But once they threw themselves into the war effort, their best traits and talents began to reveal themselves. Even their motives were similar--both men joined the war not to eradicate slavery but to hold the Union together, believing that secession was equal to treason. This dual biography gracefully reveals how the two men grew to be ""as brothers,"" why their partnership proved essential to victory for the Union, and how well they complemented and helped each other in their lives and careers, despite some major differences. For instance, though he possessed tremendous talent, Sherman was insecure and initially asked Abraham Lincoln never to give him a superior command. Grant, on the other hand, never doubted his ability to lead, and he quickly, if quietly, moved up the chain of command. Once he recognized Sherman's abilities, Grant made sure to keep him close, and they grew to depend upon each other completely. Through their near-daily interaction, even when separated by distance, both men honed their skills and eventually came up with a winning strategy for the war, which they executed in a brilliant two-pronged assault. The book also discusses Grant's and Sherman's marriages, their relationships with their soldiers, and their dealings with politicians to provide well-rounded and complete portraits of these fascinating leaders. Grant and Sherman is a thoughtful portrait of the two men who ""other than Lincoln... would have more to do with winning the war that preserved the Union than anyone else."" --Shawn Carkonen Nodding acquaintances at West Point, Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman met again in 1862 and liked each other immediately. The author of this engaging dual biography doesn't claim this friendship ""won the Civil War,"" but it made Union leadership remarkably friction free. Sherman, returning from a four-month sick leave he took to combat nerves, arrived on the battlefield of Shiloh with reinforcements for Grant; he served Grant loyally during the Vicksburg campaign, then accompanied him east to share in the victory at Chattanooga in November 1863. When Lincoln appointed Grant leader of all Union forces, Grant gave Sherman the Army of the Tennessee, an independent command. He captured Atlanta and marched brutally across Georgia while Grant fought to a bloody stalemate with Lee near Richmond. The surrender at Appomattox restored Grant's pre-eminence, and he and Sherman remained close after the war. The key, Flood writes, is that Sherman was the ideal subordinate, brilliant but insecure. In Grant he found a leader whose poise was contagious and who convinced Sherman he could do whatever job he was assigned. Better biographies of both exist, but Flood (Lee: The Last Years) has written a solid book that illuminates their productive relationship. (Oct.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. *Starred Review* The story seems like a fairy tale: two men who were remarkable failures as civilians use their West Point backgrounds to rejoin the army during the American Civil War. They steadily rise to the highest ranks and lead the North to victory over the secessionist South, becoming friends in the process. But that's exactly what happened. In his winning book, Flood underscores the powerful bond formed between Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman and tells the story of a friendship that would influence both the politics and the military operations of the Civil War. In 1860, Grant was working as a clerk in his father's general store. Sherman was a failed banker. Flood shows how--when war broke out--each man found the help he so desperately needed in the other. He describes how Grant discovered in Sherman a gifted and fearless subordinate whose support was unfailing. And in Grant, his superior, Sherman found someone who saw beyond his reputation for being ""crazy"" and recognized his brilliance. As the war raged on, the two men worked out the winning military strategy together, and their mutual admiration deepened. Flood reminds us how important their bond was in shaping the outcome of the bloodiest conflict this country has ever seen, as well as the republic that stands in its wake. One of the big-profile history books of the season and highly recommended for all history-minded readers Jerry EberleCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved ""Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman forged a superb partnership during the Civil War, a team of opposites drawn together, striving to end a horrendous conflict without excessive suffering and bloodshed. Ironically, they succeeded by rendering war too terrible for the South to continue. Charles Bracelen Flood skillfully explores the dynamics of an unlikely partnership formed on horrifying battlefields. Both Grant and Sherman have attracted more than their share of biographers, but never before an author been audacious enough to tackle both at once. Their subtle and complex relationship deserves attention from a sophisticated and experienced writer; Flood is up to the task."" --John Y. Simon, editor of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant""Grantand Sherman: The Friendship ThatWon theCivilWar is a profound study of the relationship of the generals who endured and determined the tide of victory in our nations most divisive and bloody war.Charles Bracelen Floods masterpiece ranges from vivid battlefield reports to intimate sketches of Grants and Shermans marriages to subtle cameo sketches of the officers and politicians who harassed or supported them. He animates, too, a haunting portrait of their Commander-in-Chief, Abraham Lincoln, muse and martyr to the cause of Union.Fusing his talents as a resourceful scholar and distinguished novelist with a touch of the poet, Charles Bracelen Flood has achieved a moving and inspired classic of American history."" --Sidney Offit, president of The Authors Guild Foundation""This book describes with force, clarity, and admirable terseness the forging in the field of the historic leadership team that was essential to Union victory. Civil War scholars and general readers alike will profit from its insights."" --Charles P. Roland""Charles Bracelen Flood studies the friendship between Grant and Sherman and rightly concludes that it had a major impact on the results of the Civil War. Thoroughly researched and written with verve, this book is easy reading and provides rewarding insight into a friendship which influenced the lives of two significant individuals and the war in which they played such crucial roles."" --John Marszalek, Professor Emeritus of History, Mississippi State University, and author of Commander of All Lincoln's Armies, A Life of General Henry W. Halleck""For those who think there is nothing new to be said about the Civil War, Grant and Sherman will be a pleasant surprise. The book is a unique blend of emotional power and historical insight. A must read."" --Thomas Fleming, author of Liberty! The American Revolution Praise for Lee: The Last Years:""An American classic."" --Atlanta Journal Constitution""Wonderful, tragic, and powerful . . . story for which we have been waiting over a century."" --Theodore H. White""Unforgettable portrait of a hero."" --Philadelphia Inquirer""It is a rare blend of history and emotion, a book that speaks to both the mind and the heart. It should be read north and south, east and west, throughout America."" --Thomas Fleming Charles Bracelen Flood is the author of Lee: The Last Years, Hitler: The Path to Victory, and Rise and Fight Again, which won an American Revolution Round Table Award. He lives in Richmond, Kentucky. Excerpted from Grant and Sherman by Charles Bracelen Flood. Copyright 2005 by Charles Bracelen Flood. Published October 2005 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. All rights reserved.PROLOGUEIn the early hours of April 7, 1862, after the terrible first day of the Battle of Shiloh, Brigadier General William Tecumseh Sherman came through the darkness to where his superior, Major General Ulysses S. Grant, stood in the rain. Sherman had reached the conclusion that the Union forces under Grants command could not endure another day like the one just ended. When the massive Confederate surprise attack on the vast federal encampment beside the Tennessee River began at dawn on April 6, Grants command had numbered thirty-seven thousand men. Now seven thousand of those were killed or wounded, another three thousand were captured, and more than five thousand were huddled along the bank of the river, demoralized and useless as soldiers. Sherman, who had been wounded in the hand earlier in the battle, was coming to tell Grant that he thought they should use the transport vessels near them at Pittsburg Landing to evacuate their forces so that they could put the river between us and the enemy, and recuperate.Sherman found Grant alone, under a tree. Hurt in a fall from a horse on a muddy road a few days before, Grant was leaning on a crutch and held a lantern. He had a lit cigar clenched in his teeth, and rain dripped from the brim of his hat. Looking at the determined expression on Grants bearded face, Sherman found himself moved by some wise and sudden instinct not to mention retreat and used a more tentative approach. Well, Grant, he said, weve had the devils own day of it, havent we?Yes, Grant said quietly in the rainy darkness, and drew on his cigar. Lickem tomorrow though.That was the end of any thought of retreat. At first light, Grant threw his entire force at the Confederates under General P.G.T. Beauregard, and after a second bloody day, Grant, with Sherman right beside him, had won the biggest Northern victory of the Civil Wars first year. The author and Confederate soldier George Washington Cable wrote, The South never smiled after Shiloh.* * *Shiloh was a great victory in itself, but that meeting in the rain symbolizes something more. Enormous military and political results flowed from the friendship between Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, two men who had been obscure failures before the Civil War. Their relationship as superior and subordinate began when they moved toward the Battle of Shiloh, which took place ten months into the conflict. At Shiloh they came together on the field, and here Grant and Sherman took each others measure under fire and began two years of successful cooperation and friendship. They separated in the final year of the war to lead armies in different areas, but though their headquarters were hundreds of miles apart, they remained in virtually constant contact by what was then known as the magnetic telegraph. Throughout the war, each supported the others efforts in every way; each furthered and on occasion saved the others career.In some ways the two men were different. Grant, whom a fellow officer described as plain as an old stove, was reserved in manner and worked with decisive inner power. A man who knew Sherman described his torrential energy: He is never quiet. His fingers nervously twitch his whiskersOne moment his legs are crossed, and the next both are on the floor. He sits a moment, then paces the floor.Sherman was an intellectual, widely read in military history and theory. Early in the war, Sherman, greatly talented but insecure, asked President Abraham Lincoln to agree that he would remain as second in command in a specific assignment and not have to lead it. By contrast, Grant operated on military intuition, thinking boldly and acting with quiet confidence: another officer said that Grant looked as if he had determined to drive his head through a brick wall, and was about to do it. (As Grant advanced into Confederate territory, Abraham Lincoln said of him, When Grant once gets possession of a place, he holds on to it as if he had inherited it.)Grant needed a gifted and effective subordinate, and at first Sherman needed a man to give him orders and then stand by him, no matter what. And each needed a friend. They worked together for twenty-three months, planning, consuming countless cigars, learning the lessons taught them by their battles and campaigns.At that point, in March of 1864, Lincoln summoned Grant east to assume command of all the Union armies and to oppose Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia during the final year of the war. Before they parted, Grant and Sherman agreed on what each had to do next. Grant would attack Lee in northern Virginia, working to outflank Lee until he could break through Lees extended and continually thinning lines. Sherman would march southeast from Chattanooga, Tennessee, disemboweling the South.Turning that strategy into action, Grants forces and Shermans Army of the West supported each other as effectively as if the two men had remained together. By then the two leaders thought alike, and any differences they had were quickly resolved.After Grant came east to take the Union supreme command, he and Sherman did not meet again for a year. When they did, it was Sherman who traveled north on a swift courier vessel from his successful Carolina campaigns to meet Grant at City Point, Virginia, prior to a conference with Lincoln concerning what all three knew would be the closing scenes of the war. As Grant walked down the dock to where Sherman was coming ashore, one of Grants staff witnessed this:In a moment, they stood upon the steps, with their hands locked in a cordial grasp, uttering words of familiar greeting. Their encounter was more like that of two school-boys coming together after a vacation than the meeting of the chief actors in a great war tragedy.Soon after that conference at City Point, Grant forced Lees final defeat at Appomattox Court House, and in North Carolina Sherman brought to an end the resistance of the Souths other remaining large army under Joseph E. Johnston.Grant and Sherman learned the lessons that led to the final victory during many desperate hours in dramatic campaigns. Those who believe that the Norths greater industrial strength and manpower guaranteed the Souths eventual defeat forget that those well-equipped Union columns had to be led by generals. The North had other good generals besides Grant and Sherman, as well as many that Lincoln tried in various areas who failed, but the partnership between these two leaders was unique. Grant and Shermans way to victory required intelligence, luck, and brave soldiers, but it was built on the mutual trust that their friendship inspired. Charles Bracelen Flood examines the unique story of two military ""brothers"" who led Union forces in the Civil War. As he unfolds the lives of Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Flood reads with a lecturer's tone, but the details of the two extraordinary lives he tracks from their early years to the end of the Civil War are fascinating. Listeners might be distracted by the lack of gravitas in Flood's voice as he quotes Lincoln and other historical figures. In an interview at the end Flood reflects on the rarity of wartime friendships as close as that of Grant and Sherman. J.A.S. AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",( g );19th century;a-z;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;civil war;grant;historical;history;leaders & notable people;military;people;ulysses s.;united states;united states civil war,16 0071361219,"Communications Receivers: DPS, Software Radios, and Design, 3rd Edition ""A nice mix of theoretical and practical information. Many useful detailed circuits are shown and system analyses and trade-off studies are included."" --Ham Radio magazine* The leading guide to receivers-- with updates on all crucial DSP elements COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVERS Third Edition From reception basics to cutting-edge software radio design, this update of Communications Receivers brings you a storehouse of task-simplifying and task-clarifying information, examples, and tips. Prized by professionals and hobbyists for its ready-to-use insights on the theory and design of all types of communications receivers--including shortwave, military, broadcast, and direction-finding--this newly revised edition features: Advances in DSP, cellular, and software radio design. Details on designing, operating, specifying, installing, and maintaining every kind of receiver in common use. Specific design approaches, circuit examples, and component specs. Help with microprocessors and logic devices. Coverage of important pulse and data operating modes. More than 250 illustrations and diagrams. Handy reference material in tables, charts, and figures. Underlying theory linked to real-life technological applications. Necessary and understandable mathematical applications and explanations. Here, youll learn the principles and practices involved in receivers and receiver systems, antennas and antenna coupling, amplifiers and gain control, mixers, frequency, oscillators, demodulation and demodulators, digital signal processing, and much more. For better designed and better functioning receivers, Communications Receivers is your first choice. * On the second edition Tackle any receiver design job with this example-packed guide, the favorite of receiver designers and operators through three editions Ulrich L. Rohde is the President of Communications Consulting Corporation, Executive Vice President of Ansoft Corporation, Chairman of Synergy Microwave Corporation, and a partner in Rohde & Schwarz, Munich. He is Honorary Visiting Professor of Electronic and Microwave Engineering at the University of Bradford, UK and is the author of six books. He resides in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Jerry Whitaker is the president of Technical Press, and the former editor of Broadcast Engineering. He is the author of more than a dozen technical books, including McGraw-Hill's Standard Handbook of Video and Television Engineering. He lives in Morgan Hill, California. Andrew Bateman is Director of Avren Ltd., a company specializing in digital signal processing and software radio consultancy. He was formerly Professor of Communications and Signal Processing at Bristol University. He lives in Bath, UK.",acoustics & sound;books;computers & technology;dsps;education & reference;electrical & electronics;engineering;hardware;microprocessors & system design;networking;new;physics;professional & technical;science & math;telecommunications;used & rental textbooks,16 0631210652,"Seventeenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell Annotated Anthologies) This book offers an in-depth annotation to a chronologically arranged selection from more than 50 poets including Milton, Denham, Dillon, Anne Wharton. Robert Cummings's important new anthology offers in-depth annotation to a chronologically arranged selection from more than 50 poets writing between 1600 and 1700. The so-called canonical poets are generously represented (all of Milton's Comus, all of Marvell's Upon Appleton House, all of Denham's Coopers Hill) and sometimes with a novel emphasis on what are often taken as unanthologizable (non-lyric) kinds (more of Donne's epistolary and funerary poetry, selections from Drayton's Poly-Olbion, more of Waller). But the volume is notably catholic, including writers rarely anthologized (Wentworth Dillon) or only recently brought to critical notice (Mary Wroth, Anne Wharton) or discovered (Martha Moulsworth). It runs from anonymous ballads on the one hand to selections on the other out of the great translators (from Chapman and Sylvester to Dryden). The texts are freshly edited from contemporary sources, with more important variants recorded. The spelling has been modernized. The annotation is much fuller than is customary in anthologies - it makes explicit the literary and other historical contexts of the poems printed in the volume. Bibliographical and other aids make this an invaluable volume for students engaging with the poetry of the period, whether for the first time or at a more advanced level of appreciation and acquaintance. Robert Cummings teaches at the University of Glasgow. He is author of Spenser: The Critical Heritage (1970) and George Herbert: Language of Canaan. He has a special interest in translation and co-edits Translation and Literature.",17th century;anthologies;books;british;criticism & theory;english literature;history;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);movements & periods;new;poetry;used & rental textbooks,16 0807881260,"The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision around 1900 ""An ambitious and learned study. . . . A complex revisioning of literary categories from which the present proliferation of work in visual studies will undoubtedly also profit."" German Quarterly""[Strathausen's] analysis demonstrates the emergence of pre-cinematic modes of perception in literary language and brings the reader into the eye of the social, aesthetic, and intellectual storm of German modernity in the early twentieth century.(Neil H. Donahue, Hofstra University)""""This is a book to be contemplated, a welcome addition to the growing field of visual studies, and a sensitive reading of some of the major poetic voices of European modernity. (Ulrich Baer, author of Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma)"" Carsten Strathausen is assistant professor of German at the University of Missouri at Columbia.",19th century;20th century;books;criticism & theory;european;german;history;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;poetry;used & rental textbooks;world literature,16 0292765975,"Thinking with Things: Toward a New Vision of Art As a major scholar of Meso-American art, Pasztory has written a valuable and substantive text. (Richard McElroy Art Documentation 2006) ESTHER PASZTORY is the Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Pre-Columbian Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.",anthropology;art history;arts & photography;behavioral sciences;books;cognitive psychology;education & reference;history;history & criticism;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,16 0896085236,"Eyes Right!: Challenging the Right Wing Backlash This collection provides essays which challenge the right wing backlash, considering how the political right is determined to roll back social gains and threaten democratic processes. This anthology examines the movements and forces which motivate the hard right, examining the facts for those seeking to oppose the right wing: an entire section of suggested strategies provides a most important series of ideas. -- Midwest Book Review",20th century;americas;books;civil rights;conservatism & liberalism;gay & lesbian;history;ideologies & doctrines;nonfiction;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;radicalism;social sciences;specific demographics;united states,16 0875883125,"The Dolls of Jules Nicolas Steiner with Historical Perspective After years of research comes this long-awaited, definitive book about Jules Nicolas Steiner and his dolls. Dorothy McGonagle's original research into the unexplored regions of Jules Nicolas Steiner's life and work are all revealed here in this fascinating study of a remarkably clever and inventive 19th century French doll maker. The author explores the variety of dolls produced by Steiner, including those with ingenious patented mechanisms utilizing key-wound clockworks and early bebes of the ""bisque-hip"" or Motschmann-type. New information, never before reported, is gathered within the pages of this important reference book. Also included is an in-depth study of the Series and Figure marks found on Steiner dolls and a comparative study of mold marks, bodies, trademarks, and the many patents for dolls and toys issued to Steiner. The Historical Perspective: In Search of Steiner, by Barbara Spadaccini Day, Assistant to the Curator of the Toy Department at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, France, will be of great value to the serious researcher and student of dolls. The sheer beauty of the color plates throughout this book would be enough to recommend it to doll collectors, but there is much, much more. Here is the most comprehensive and complete story of Steiner and his remarkable dolls shown in all types and variations from start to finish. The chronological order in which they are presented enables you to date each doll with accuracy, aided by the appearance of marks and patented techniques invented by Steiner. The author's intensive research of government and private documents in France has enabled this unparalleled account of the Steiner story to be told. An insightful historical introduction by Barbara Spadaccini Day, Assistant to the Curator of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, France, adds greatly to the value of this book to serious researchers and collectors.",19th century;antiques & collectibles;antiques care & reference;books;crafts;dolls;education & reference;engineering;history;hobbies & home;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;modern (16th-21st centuries);professional & technical;reference;toys & figurines,16 0815411723,"Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart Nearly two decades after her death, the legend of Josephine Baker continues to flourish. Subject of a number of books and recent films, ""the most successful music hall performer ever to take the stage"" (according to Ebony magazine) was larger than life: She was the toast of Paris in the 1920s, star of stage and screen in the 1930s, Red Cross volunteer and undercover agent in World War II, participant in the 1963 Civil Rights Movement march on Washington, and star of several farewell (and comeback) tours. Baker adopted 12 children of different races and called them her ""rainbow tribe."" Jean-Claude, ""the 13th of her twelve adopted children,"" and Chase have crafted a biography rich in anecdotes and personal recollections of many of her fellow entertainers. This intriguing story is recommended for most public libraries. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 4/15/93.- Carolyn M. Mulac, Chicago P.L.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Josephine Baker ""adopted"" 14-year-old Jean-Claude when he waited on her in a Paris hotel. Although they didn't meet again until the last years of Josephine Baker's crazy, improvised life, Jean-Claude sustained an intense fascination for this most original and flamboyant of women and, after her death, devoted himself to learning as much of the truth about her as he could. His is not a scholarly biography but rather an impassioned, bemused, frank, and fond portrait of a woman who reinvented herself as often as the moon changes shape. Josephine, the daughter of an unloving black mother and an unidentified, most likely white father, became stagestruck early on and quickly left her miserable childhood behind to begin her metamorphosis from a poor, gawky, clowning youngster into an international sex symbol. Jean-Claude does a fine job of chronicling Josephine's progress from chorus girl to the hottest commodity in Paris during the heady years between the world wars. Hard as she worked on perfecting her talents, Josephine remained a wild child, capricious, manipulative, mercurial, and sexually voracious. Jean-Claude reveals all about Josephine's many conquests of both sexes, her penchant for telling lies, and her extreme eccentricity, but he always makes sure we recognize her unfailing sense of humor and endless craving for admiration. As we watch Josephine grow from chanteuse to hero of the Resistance, from seductress to adoptive mother of 12 children of different racial backgrounds, we marvel at her resiliency, zest for life, and sheer chutzpah. Donna Seaman --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Latest and perhaps best of several recent bios of Josephine Baker (e.g., Phyllis Rose's Jazz Cleopatra, 1989)--this one by the performer's semiadopted/fully discarded son (owner of a Manhattan restaurant named Chez Josephine) and Chase (The Great American Waistline, 1981, etc.). Author Baker--who became the 13th member of Josephine's famous Rainbow Tribe of adopted children from all nations and colors--did all the research here (some 2,000 interviews and 3,000 letters), while Chase put his French into better-than-passable English. That this version of Josephine's life comes closest to the facts, and in no way hides behind a mask of academic research, is undeniable. The story is told by Jean-Claude, who sets the record straight on matters that his mother fibbed about in her several published autobiographies, as well as in the one left unfinished at her death. Josephine had lovers beyond number, which even she admitted, though her split with Jean-Claude came about when a Paris scandal- sheet falsely attributed to him the statement that she'd remarried yet again without benefit of divorce. The authors open with Josephine's colossal smash hit show in Paris at 19, which climaxed with her shamelessly bare-breasted, barbaric dance of seduction to a half-naked savage as she runs her hands all over him. Josephine, we learn, loved her body and spent a lot of time naked among hotel- room mirrors. We follow her through her St. Louis childhood--and her first marriage at 13 and second at 15--to her first big shows on Black Broadway and then to stardom in Paris. Bakermania erupts, her hair jell is a hit, she makes movies. Did she bed Picasso and Charles de Gaulle? Well...she died in bed at age 69, while reading fabulous reviews of her latest farewell appearance. No whitewash but sympathetic and gripping indeed. (Photos--32 pp.--not seen) -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. In this biography, Baker, all illusions exposed, becomes fascinating, endearing, exasperating, and abundantly alive all over again. (The Boston Globe)Mesmerizingirresistibleperversely fascinatinga killer achievement. Here is Josephine stripped of glamour and defensesone of the most paradoxical figures in twentieth-century entertainment. (The New York Times)The writer's bewitchment is contagious. [Josephine's] exotic beauty, flaming ambition, flashing eyes, rolling hips, small and large peculiarities seduce the reader. (Maya Angelou, Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)Spiced with some of the best anecdotes in print, and even spicier photos. (Entertainment Weekly)I was just reading the brilliant Josephine Baker book Josephine: The Hungry Heart by Jean-Claude Baker. It's un-put-downable. It's full of her life and energy. (Helen Mirren, Oscar-Nominated Actress, Gosford Park) Jean-Claude Baker spent years with his ""second mother"" Josephine Baker and her family on tour in Europe and America. Currently owner of the restaurant Chez Josephine, he lives in New York City. Chris Chase also lives in New York City.",african-american & black;african-american studies;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism;entertainers;ethnic & national;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;specific groups;women,16 0801489105,"Governing NOW: Grassroots Activism In The National Organization For Women ""Barakso has written a brief and accessible history of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the first group of the 'second wave' of feminism and still the primary women's movement association. . . . The heart of the book focuses on almost 40 years of national politics and players within the organization. Recommended for large public libraries and academic libraries.""-Library Journal, February 1, 2005""Barakso takes a measured approach to her analysis, neither overly praising the NOW leadership for adhering to founding principles, nor chastising them for slavish adherence to ideals that may have compromised the organization's ability to react to changing circumstances. Recommended.""-E. Broidy, Choice, September 2005""Barakso's data sources are impressive, including documents from the national NOW archives, interviews with a small stratified sample of NOW leaders and members, and participant observation at NOW conferences. . . . I find Barakso's depiction of NOW as being more complicated that a cookie-cutter liberal feminist organization convincing and her argument about the impact of governance structure an important return to earlier approaches focusing on internal movement processes. . . . The book has much to offer both social movement scholars and scholars interested in the women's movement from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective.""-Leila J. Rupp, University of California, Santa Barbara, Mobilization, 10:3""Through a careful and original case study of NOW, Maryann Barakso demonstrates that social-movement organizations can maintain a commitment to their founding principles while weathering the vagaries of the political-electoral system. The key to NOW's persistence, according to Barakso, is linked to its governance structure, which altered over time to provide ongoing mechanisms for member input and leadership accountability in ways that enabled the organization to stay true to its guiding principles. This well-written, informative account is linked to such critical moments as NOW's founding, formalization, and transformation in light of changed political circumstances.""-Debra Minkoff, University of Washington""Few political scientists have examined a single organization with such clarity and insight. Maryann Barakso's Governing NOW is an important and impressive work.""-Jeffrey M. Berry, author of A Voice for Nonprofits""Maryann Barakso's analysis of the organizational tactics and strategies developed by NOW is exceptionally well done. She combines field research, documentary analysis, and interviews of activists, members, and leaders with participant observation at NOW conferences. Further, she ties together a range of the literature on political organizations and interest-group politics with social-movement theory, presenting a unique and persuasive interpretation of NOW's actions.""-Anne Costain, author of Inviting Women's Rebellion""Maryann Barakso has captured the excitement and frustration of NOW's external and internal struggles. Whether or not you were lucky enough to live this history, this is a must read.""-Lois Galgay Reckitt, longtime NOW activist and domestic violence advocate Maryann Barakso is Assistant Professor of Government at American University. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",20th century;activism;books;civil rights;elections & political process;feminist theory;gay & lesbian;history;human rights;modern (16th-21st centuries);nonfiction;political advocacy;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics;women's studies,16 0815125186,"Study Guide to Accompany Maternal-Infant Nursing Care A clinically-oriented text for a maternity nursing course, presenting the complete cycle of pregnancy, labor, and birth as it proceeds in most women. For each of the complications of pregnancy, the physiology of the body system is reviewed and rationales for alterations are explained. The text emphasizes the importance of promoting self-care activities and educating clients about factors that contribute to the achievement of a healthy pregnancy; the awareness of the client's cultural background and the involvement of the family; and legal aspects, especially accountability in documentation. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;clinical;education & reference;maternity;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;midwifery;new;nursing;obstetrics & gynecology;parenting;parenting & relationships;perinatal;used & rental textbooks;women's health,16 0889204322,"My Husband Dacia Maraini was born in Florence in 1936. Her fathers profession as an anthropologist and his antifascist stance led the family to emigrate to Japan where, during the war, they were confined for two years in concentration camps. In 1945 the family returned to Sicily and, when her parents separated in 1954, Dacia moved to Rome with her father. Marainis first two novels, La vacanza (The Holiday) and Let del malessere (The Age of Indifference), published when she was twenty-six and twenty-seven, were instant international successes: the latter received the editors international Formentor prize and was instantly translated into twelve languages. In 1990 Maraini sealed her international success with the publication of the novel La lunga vita di Marianna Ucra (The Silent Duchess, Feminist Press, 1992) which stayed on Italys bestseller list for almost two years and won the prestigious Premio Campiello (Italys equivalent of the us National Book Award). It was published to critical acclaim in fourteen languages. Several of her books have been made into films, and Maraini has also written screenplays for directors like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Carlo di Palma, and Margarethe Von Trotta. She is a prolific writer with more than fifty publications of novels, poetry, and plays. She lives in Rome, actively promoting theatre groups, playing a very active role in the literary scene, and speaking on tv and in national newspapers and magazines on the evolving economic and social conditions of Italian and European women. Vera Golini emigrated with her family to Canada from Abruzzo in 1956. She has been a professor of Italian studies at St. Jeromes University since 1975, and since 1997 has also directed the Womens Studies program at the University of Waterloo. She is currently president of the Canadian Society for Italian Studies.",anthologies;books;family relationships;history & criticism;literature & fiction;marriage;movements & periods;mystery;parenting & relationships;psychological thrillers;relationships;self-help;short stories;single author;thriller & suspense;thrillers,16 0201633396,"Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering Joining action plans with actual project experiences, this book focuses on using - not just describing - metrics. It provides detailed coverage of essential issues and techniques, including software metrics, software reliability models, and models and analysis of program complexity. Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering goes even further, discussing such topics as in-process metrics, defect removal effectiveness, customer satisfaction, and more. Numerous real-life examples, many taken from the author's experience as the software quality focal point for IBM's Baldrige Award-winning AS/400, show you how to put the theories and techniques to work. The book also contains examples from such major computer companies as Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, and the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory. This excellent balance of theory, techniques, and examples makes for a highly-instructive and practical book on one of the most important topics in software development. ""I've devoted considerable space to Kan's Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering because I believe it is an important book that bridges the worlds of industrial statistical process control and software engineering. The AS/400 software is a large, complex and very successful product for IBM. Kan provides insights into the methods IBM used to control the quality in this project which provide lessons that we would all do well to study."" -Software Development ""The concise and clear explanation of function point counting is a jewel. Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering If you are looking for just one book on metrics, this is a good choice."" -The Northwest C++ Users Group newsletter Stephen H. Kan is Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) and a technical manager in programming for IBM in Rochester, Minnesota. As process manager of the quality management process in product development for IBM's eServer iSeries software development, his responsibilities include quality goal setting, supplier quality requirements, quality plans, in-process metrics, field quality status, and quality and project assessments. Dr. Kan has been a faculty member of the Master of Science in Software Engineering program at the University of Minnesota since 1998. He is certified by the American Society for Quality as a Quality Engineer, a Reliability Engineer, and a Quality Manager, and by the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional. 0201633396AB08212002 Looking at software engineering from a historical perspective, the 1960s and earlier could be viewed as the functional era, the 1970s the schedule era, the 1980s the cost era, and the 1990s and beyond the quality and efficiency era. In the 1960s we learned how to exploit information technology to meet institutional needs and began to link software with the daily operations of institutions. In the 1970s, as the industry was characterized by massive schedule delays and cost overruns, the focus was on planning and control of software projects. Phase-based life-cycle models were introduced, and analysis, like the mythical man-month, emerged. In the 1980s hardware costs continued to decline, and information technology permeated every facet of our institutions and became available to individuals. As competition in the industry became keen and low-cost applications became widely implemented, the importance of productivity in software development increased significantly. Various software engineering cost models were developed and used. In the late 1980s, the importance of quality was also recognized. The 1990s and beyond is certainly the quality era. With state-of-the-art technology now able to provide abundant functionality, customers demand high quality. Demand for quality is further intensified by the ever-increasing dependence of society on software. Billing errors, large-scale disrupted telephone services, and even missile failures during recent wars can all be traced to the issue of software quality. In this era, quality has been brought to the center of the software development process. From the standpoint of software vendors, quality is no longer an advantage factor in the marketplace; it has become a necessary condition if a company is to compete successfully. Starting in the mid 1990s two major factors emerged that have proved to have an unprecedented impact on not only software engineering but also on global business environments: business reengineering for efficiency and the Internet. Software development has to be more efficient and the quality level of the delivered products has to be high to meet requirements and to be successful. This is especially the case for mission-critical applications. The adverse impact of poor quality is much more significant and at a much wider scale; the quality ""dikes"" that software is supposed to provide are never more important. These factors will continue to affect software engineering for many years to come during this new millennium. Measurement plays a critical role in effective and efficient software development, as well as provides the scientific basis for software engineering that makes it a true engineering discipline. This book describes the software quality engineering metrics and models: quality planning, process improvement and quality control, in-process quality management, product engineering (design and code complexity), reliability estimation and projection, and analysis of customer satisfaction data. Many measurement books take an encyclopedic approach, in which every possible software measurement is included, but this book confines its scope to the metrics and models of software quality. Areas such as cost estimation, productivity, staffing, and performance measurement, for which numerous publications exist, are not covered. In this edition, seven new chapters have been added, covering in-process metrics for software testing, object-oriented metrics, availability metrics, in-process quality assessment, software project assessment, process improvement dos and don'ts, and measuring software process improvement. The chapter that described the AS/400 software quality management system has been eliminated. Updates and revisions have been made throughout the original chapters, and new sections, figures, and tables have been added. Two of the new chapters are special contributions from two experts. This is a key feature of the new edition. The chapter on the dos and don'ts of software process improvement is contributed by Patrick O'Toole. A highly regarded process improvement expert and with over 20 years of experience, Patrick brings to this book a perspective on process improvement that I share as a practitioner. That perspective is based on practical experience, is project-centric, and is aligned with the strategic business imperative of the organization. Patrick also brings humor to this otherwise serious subject, making the reading of the chapter so enjoyable. The chapter on measuring software process improvement is a special contribution by Capers Jones. A pioneer in software metrics, productivity research, software quality control, and software assessments, Capers's work is well known nationally and internationally. His data-based and fact-based approach in software assessments and benchmarking studies is unparalleled. Based on experience and data from more than 10,000 projects, he brings to the readers a practical approach to software process improvement and the major quantitative findings related to software process improvement. The value of function point metrics is demonstrated via the analyses and findings. The chapter is a must read for software process professionals who are interested in measuring software process improvement. Another new feature in this edition is a set of recommendations for small teams and organizations that are starting to implement a metrics program, with minimum resources. These recommendations are shown in the form of box inserts in nine of the chapters. A number of examples in the book are based on small team projects, and many methods and techniques are appropriate for large projects as well as small ones. This set of recommendations is from the perspective of small organizations or teams using a small number of metrics, with the intent to effect improvement in their software development effort. This book is intended for use by software quality professionals; software project managers; software product managers; software development managers; software engineers; software product assurance personnel; and students in software engineering, management information systems, systems engineering, and quality engineering and management. For teachers, it is intended to provide a basis for a course at the upper-division undergraduate or graduate level. A number of software engineering, computer science, and quality engineering programs in the United States and overseas have used the first edition of this book as a text. Themes of This Book This book has several themes. First, balancing theory, techniques, and real-life examples, it provides practical guidelines in the practice of quality engineering in software development. Although equations and formulas are involved, the focus is on the understanding and applications of the metrics and models rather than mathematical derivations. Throughout the book, numerous real-life examples are used from the software development laboratory at IBM Rochester, Minnesota, home of the AS/400 and the IBM eServer iSeries computer systems, and from other companies in the software industry. IBM Rochester won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 1990. A number of metrics described in this book were being used at that time, and many have been developed and refined since then. All metrics are substantiated by ample implementation experience. IBM Rochester develops and delivers numerous projects of different sizes and types every year, including very large and complex as well as small ones; and they range from firmware, to operating systems, to middleware, to applications. Second, I attempt to provide a good coverage of the various types of metrics and models in the emerging field of software quality engineering. In addition to general discussions about metrics and techniques, this book categorizes and covers four types of metrics and models: (1) quality management models; (2) software reliability and projection models; (3) complexity metrics and models; and (4) customer-view metrics, measurements, and models. These metrics and models cover the entire software development process from high-level design to testing and maintenance, as well as all phases of reliability. Furthermore, although this book is not on total quality management (TQM), it is a major consideration in the coverage of metrics. The philosophy of TQM is the linking of product quality and customer satisfaction for the purpose of achieving long-term success. TQM is the reason for including two chapters on customer-view metrics and measurements--availability metrics and customer satisfaction--in addition to the many chapters on product and process metrics. In other discussions in the book, the customer's perspective is included where appropriate. Third, by linking metrics and models to quality improvement strategies and improvement actions, we attempt to focus on using, not just describing, metrics. A framework for interpreting in-process metrics and assessing in-process quality status--the effort/outcome model--is presented. The direct link between a recommended quality strategy during development and the defect-removal model is shown. Examples of actions tied to specific metrics and analysis are given. Furthermore, to illustrate the metrics, many figures and graphs are used. This is a reflection of the fact that in real-life project and quality management, a clear visual presentation often improves understanding and increases the effectiveness of the metrics. Fourth, following up on quality and process improvement at a more general level than specific metric discussions, the book continues with chapters that discuss the in-process quality assessment process, a method for conducting software project assessments, practical advice on process improvement dos and don'ts, and quantitative analysis of software process improvement. The common thread underlying these chapters, as with other chapters on metrics and models, is practical ... --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.",books;business;business & investing;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;management & leadership;mathematics;programming;quality control;science & math;software;software design;software development;testing & engineering;total quality management,16 0804819122,"Martin's Concise Japanese Dictionary: English-Japanese Japanese-English (Tuttle Language Library) Samuel E. Martin received his undergraduate and masters degree in Oriental languages from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale University. At Yale he has served as chairman of the Department of East and South Asian Languages and Literatures, and the Department of Linguistics. He is the author of numerous books and papers on Japanese and Korean, including the definitive A Reference Grammar of Japanese and A Reference Grammar of Korean.",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;instruction;japanese;language & grammar;new;reference;used & rental textbooks;words,16 0198153112,"Chryselephantine Statuary in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) A catalogue of fifty-one examples which, while it will not revolutionize the history of ancient art, will put all its historians in his [Lapatin's] debt ... Today's students will rejoice in his forty pages of testimonia in both the original language and translation. But perhaps the most interesting of Lapatin's appendices are his inventories of statues mentioned or described in antiquity and here classified by site, subject and period ... It is not the benefits of autopsy but the virtues of candour and clear-headedness that set this book apart from other works on ivory and colour. Anthony Cutler, Times Literary Supplement Useful for the general reader as well as the specialist ... The text is supported by abundant illustrations, which alone make an important contribution ... a thoroughly researched study, which is well organized and presented ... This volume will likely become a standard handbook in ancient sculpture and classical archaeology. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Excellent ... It is hard to imagine the job of presenting all this material being better done or more competently arranged; this volume will not only last for a good many years as the fundamental work in its particular field, but its re-ignition of the specific significance of chryselephantine statuary for the wider arena of the study of Greek sculpture gives us pause for thought and is a spur to revising old assumptions. Apollo Magazine Assistant Professor of Art History, Boston University",ancient;ancient & classical literature;appreciation;art history;arts & photography;books;greek;history;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;sculpture;used & rental textbooks;visual arts,16 0130176028,"Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets (4th Edition) Thoroughly revised and updated, the Fourth Edition includes: Three new chapters: Exotic Options and Other Non-Standard Products Credit, Weather, Energy, and Insurance Derivatives Derivative Mishaps and What We Can Learn from Them Important new material on interest rate markets, volatility smiles, and value at risk. Many new problems reinforcing key concepts. A Solutions Manual containing worked-out answers for end-of-chapter questions and problems can now be purchased (ISBN 0-13-060603-0). New Excel-based software, DerivaGem, has been carefully designed to complement the material in the text. Updates to the software can be downloaded at: http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/~hull For more information on this and other Prentice Hall titles, please visit the Prentice Hall Web site at: www.prenhall.com (Select ""Finance"" in the discipline finder). This book has been written for undergraduate and graduate elective courses offered by business, economics, and other faculties. Many practitioners who want to acquire a working knowledge of futures and options markets will also find the book useful. I was persuaded to write this book by colleagues who liked my other book Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives, but found the material a little too advanced for their students. Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets (formerly Introduction to Futures and Options Markets) covers some of the same ground as Options, Futures, and Other Derivativesbut in a way that readers who have had limited training in mathematics will find easier to understand. One important difference between this book and my other one is that there is no calculus in this book. The text can be used in a number of different ways. Instructors who like to focus on one- and two-step binomial trees when valuing options may wish to cover only the first 10 chapters. Instructors who feel that swaps are adequately covered by other courses can choose to omit Chapter 6. There are many different ways in which Chapters 11 to 21 can be used. Instructors who feel that the material in Chapters 14, 16, 17, or 18 is too specialized can skip one or more of these chapters. Some instructors may choose to devote relatively more time to futures and swaps markets (Chapters 1 and 6); others may choose to structure their course mostly around options markets (Chapters 7 to 21). The three new Chapters (19 to 21) contain very little mathematics and do not rely heavily on earlier material. I find they work well when used in the last two to three weeks of a course regardless of what, is covered earlier. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to futures and options markets and outlines the different ways in which they can be used. Chapter 2 describes the mechanics of how futures and forward contracts work. Chapter 3 shows how forward and futures prices can be determined in a variety of different situations by using pure arbitrage arguments. Chapter 4 discusses how futures contracts can be used for hedging. Chapter 5 deals with interest rate markets. Chapter 6 covers swaps. Chapter 7 describes the mechanics of how options markets work. Chapter 8 develops some relationships that must hold in options markets if there are to be no arbitrage opportunities. Chapter 9 outlines a number of different trading strategies involving options. Chapter 10 shows how options can be priced using one- and two-step binomial trees. Chapter 1 I discusses the pricing of stock options using the Black-Scholes model. Chapter 12 extends the ideas in Chapter 11 to cover options on stock indices and currencies. Chapter 13 extends the ideas in Chapter 11 to futures options. Chapter 14 discusses volatility smiles. Chapter 15 provides a detailed treatment of hedge parameters such as delta, gamma, and vega. It also discusses portfolio insurance. Chapter 16 explains how to calculate and use the value-at-risk measure. Chapter 17 covers the use of multistep binomial trees to value American options. Chapter 18 focuses on interest rate options. Chapter 19 covers exotic options, mortgage-backed securities, and nonstandard swaps. Chapter 20 covers some relatively new derivative products: credit derivatives, weather derivatives, energy derivatives, and insurance derivatives. Chapter 21 describes some well-publicized derivatives disasters and reviews the lessons we can learn from them. At the end of each chapter (except the last one) there are seven quiz questions that students can use to provide a quick test of their understanding of the key concepts. The answers to these are at the end of the book. What's New The major changes in this edition include: Three new chapters have been added (Chapters 19, 20, and 21). These are entitled Exotic Options and Other Nonstandard Products; Credit, Weather, Energy, and Insurance Derivatives; and Derivative Mishaps and What We Can Learn from Them. In my experience, students really enjoy covering the material in these chapters. Chapter 5 on Interest Rate Markets has been rewritten to make it more relevant and easier to understand. Chapter 14 on Volatility Smiles has been rewritten so that it accurately reflects current trading practices. This chapter now appears earlier in the book than the corresponding chapter in the third edition. Chapter 16 on Value at Risk has been rewritten to reflect developments in this area. The notation has been improved. For example, S0 and F0 are now used to refer to the spot price and the forward/futures price today. Many new problems have been added. Material has been updated throughout the book and the presentation improved. Software New Excel-based software, DerivaGem, is included with the book. This software is a great improvement over that included with previous editions. It has been carefully designed to complement the material in the text. Users can calculate options prices, imply volatilities, and calculate Greek letters for European options, American options, exotic options, and interest rate options. The software can be used to display binomial trees (see, for example, Figures 17.3 to 17.9) and to produce many different charts showing the impact of different variables on either option prices or the Greek letters. The software is described more fully at the end of the book. Updates to the software can be downloaded from my Web site http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/~hull Slides Several hundred PowerPoint slides can be downloaded from my Web site. They use only standard fonts. Instructors adopting the book are welcome to adapt the slides to meet their own needs. Answers to Questions Solutions to all end-of-chapter problems (except quiz questions) were available only in the Instructors Manual for the first three editions of this book. Over the years, many people have asked me to make the solutions more generally available. I have hesitated to do this because it would prevent instructors from using the problems as assignment questions. In this edition I have dealt with this issue by dividing the end-of-chapter problems into two groups: ""Questions and Problems"" and ""Assignment Questions."" There are over 200 Questions and Problems, and answers to these are in the Solutions Manual for Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets, which is published by Prentice Hall. There are about 70 Assignment Questions. Solutions to these are available only in the Instructors Manual. Acknowledgments Many people have played a part in the production of this book. Academics, students, and practitioners who have made excellent and useful suggestions include Farhang Aslani, Emilio Barone, Giovanni Barone-Adesi, George Blazenko, Laurence Booth, Phelim Boyle, Peter Carr, Don Chance, J.-P. Chateau, Brian Donaldson, Jerome Duncan, Steinar Ekern, Robert Eldridge, David Fowler, Louis Gagnon, Mark Garman, Dajiang Guo, Bernie Hildebrandt, Jim Hilliard, Basil Kalymon, Patrick Kearney, Cheng-kun Kuo, Elizabeth Maynes, Izzy Nelken, Paul Potvin, Richard Rendleman, Gordon Roberts, Edward Robbins, Chris Robinson, John Rumsey, Klaus Schurger, Eduardo Schwartz, Michael Selby, Piet Sercu, Yochanan Shachmurove, Bill Shao, Stuart Turnbull, Yisong Tian, Ton Vorst, George Wang, Zhanshun Wei, Bob Whaley, Alan White, Qunfeng Yang, and Jozef Zemek. Huafeng (Florence) Wu provided excellent research assistance. I would particularly like to thank Alan White. Alan is a colleague at the University of Toronto with whom I have been carrying out joint research in options and futures for the last 18 years. We have spent many hours discussing different issues concerning options and futures markets. Many of the new ideas in this book, and many of the new ways used to explain old ideas, are as much Alan's as mine. Special thanks are due to many people at Prentice Hall for their enthusiasm, advice, and encouragement. I would particularly like to thank Mickey Cox (my editor), P. J. Boardman (the editor-in-chief), and Richard DeLorenzo (the production editor). I am also grateful to Scott Barr, Leah Jewell, Paul Donnelly, and Maureen Riopelle, who at different times have played key roles in the development of this book. I welcome comments on the book from readers. My e-mail address is hull@rotman.utoronto.ca John Hull University of Toronto",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;education & reference;finance;investing;investments & securities;marketing;marketing & sales;new;popular economics;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,16 0199265615,"The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789 ""Witty, conversational in tone, the book is also encyclopedic, ranging from Luther to Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks, while exploring fascinating tangents on dietary nationalism and British xenophobia....This innovative work is highly recommended for educated readers and scholars alike.""--CHOICE T. C. W. Blanning is a Professor of Modern European History, University of Cambridge.",17th century;18th century;books;education & reference;england;europe;history;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;used & rental textbooks;western;words;world,16 0471575178,"Write the Perfect Book Proposal: 10 Proposals That Sold And Why A successful agent explains how to create winning non-fiction book proposals. Takes writers step-by-step through 10 diverse proposals that were bought by publishers and describes why they worked. Includes information on cover and query letters as well as fiction proposals. JEFF HERMAN is President of his own very successful literary agency and has been profiled in Success, Entrepreneur, and Publishers Weekly. His other book for writers is The Insiders Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents. DEBORAH M. ADAMS is an attorney, a literary agent, and a proficient proposal doctor.",almanacs & yearbooks;authorship;books;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;literature & fiction;new;publishing & books;reference;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;words;writing;yearbooks & annuals,16 088448212X,"Greatest Mountain--Katahdin's Wilderness: Excerpts from the Writings of Percival Proctor Baxter ""This is a must book for anyone who loves the wilds of Maine...."" -- Bob Cummings, Habitat, Autumn 1999This is a must book for anyone who loves the wilds of Maine.... -- Habitat",americas;books;education & reference;history;miscellaneous;mountains;native american studies;nature & ecology;nature writing;politics & social sciences;science & math;social sciences;specific demographics;sports & outdoors;state & local;united states,16 013300211X,"Fieldworking: Reading and Writing Research Designed to fill the gap between reading about the process of fieldwork and actually engaging in the process and ""writing up"" the results, this innovative text presents specific methods and models -- and offers hands-on practice -- for carrying out all phases of field-based research. In considering the research process, FieldWorking addresses the reading, writing, listening, and speaking techniques and strategies necessary for understanding, interpreting, and presenting the lives and surroundings of others through their eyes -- not just one's own. Key Benefit: Designed to fill the gap between reading about the process of fieldwork and actually engaging in the process and writing up the results. Key Topics: This innovative book presents specific methods and models and offers hands-on practice for carrying out all phases of field-based research. In considering the research process, FieldWorking addresses the reading, writing, listening, and speaking techniques and strategies necessary for understanding, interpreting, and presenting the lives and surroundings of others through their eyes not just one's own. BONNIE STONE SUNSTEIN is professor of English and education at the University of Iowa, where she teaches nonfiction writing, research methods, the teaching of writing, and folklore. She directs the undergraduate writing program in the English department and is the program coordinator of English education in the College of Education. ELIZABETH CHISERI-STRATER is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro, where she teaches nonfiction writing, research methods, and English education. She is director of the composition program and director of graduate studies in the women's and gender studies program. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",anthropology;books;cultural;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;language & grammar;new;politics & social sciences;reference;research;research & publishing guides;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,16 0130611778,"Automotive Engine Performance: Tuneup, Testing, and Service Volume II-Practice Manual (2nd Edition) This practice manual gives readers a through introduction to the theory and service skills involved in engine performance. This second volume provides the testing and repair instructions necessary to learn the service skills of a master mechanic. Using a step-by-step procedure similar to service manuals, Volume 2 helps readers understand professional reference manuals and use them as basic tools in their service work. It also explains the reasons for different service procedures and the common features of all carmakers' service methods. This book covers expanded coverage of basic service procedures for fuel injection systems; highlights the common features of all carmakers' service methods; increased coverage of DIS installations on domestic engines, and more.",automotive;books;business & finance;business & investing;consumer behavior;consumer guides;education & reference;marketing & sales;mechanics;new;professional & technical;reference;science & math;technology;transportation;used & rental textbooks,16 0761923543,"This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine Any woman contemplating a career as a physician or already working in the profession will gain a good deal of insight from this collection of personal essays and poems by female physicians over the last century and a half. Organized into categories such as ""Internship and Residency,"" ""Mothering and Doctoring,"" and ""Barriers,"" the anthology presents feminine and feminist perspectives on all aspects of a medical career. Most of the pieces are contemporary and previously unpublished, solicited by Chin, an internist and former Columbia University medical professor. In her essay ""We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Men as Medical Mentors,"" pediatrician and author (Her Own Medicine) Sayantani DasGupta describes how her search for a ""female"" professional mentor turned up a vital male role model instead. Psychiatrist Bhuvana Chandra's evocative poem recalls how much it meant to her father that she became a doctor. Several pieces deal with reconciling the commitment to patients with the commitment to family life, such as Molly Carnes's down-to-earth ""Balancing Family and Career: Advice from the Trenches."" Chin also provides a historical overview of the barriers that faced 19th-century women physicians like Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to graduate from an American medical school, and Harriet Hunt, whose recollections are among the archival pieces featured in the anthology. This is an engaging and frequently inspiring collection. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Like a patchwork quilt, this richly-textured compilation represents each womans extraordinary life and career while their common experiences clearly emerge, cutting across different specialties, ages, and geographic divides. (Academic Library Book Review) ""The book is an anthology of heartfelt and honest essays, stories, and poems written by more than 150 women (and a few men), edited by an academic general internist and mother on temporary leave from her medical career. The first chapter recounts the history of women in medicine, beginning with Harriet Hunt and Elizabeth Blackwell. The next chapter anthologizes essays and poems of early pioneers, women who received their medical degrees between the 1850s and 1950s. Subsequent chapter topics follow the chronology of medical training and additional issues, such as mothering, barriers to career success, and family members perspectives. What a delight to discover so many talented, skilled physician authors! The writing is nuanced, the emotions are genuine, and the delivery is candid. Readers will enjoy discovering works of contributors Sayantani DasGupta, Alison Moll, Danielle Ofri, Audrey Shafer, and others whose body of literature demands attention and celebration. The authors voice multiple aspects of the transition from layperson to physician. The parallels between being a patient and being a physician feelings of loneliness, expressions of dismay over unmet personal needs are striking and ironic. Tales of courage and conviction abound. A rich-textured assemblage of voicesthis compendium repeatedly documents persistent double standards and expectations for women physicians compared with their male counterparts despite all the progress since 1850. To experience this book is to relive the emotions from ones own medical training. It may inspire readers to write about their own experiences of medical life."" - ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, July 2002 ""One of the many lessons learned from the second wave of feminism in the United States is that women cannot be spoken of as a discreet sociological category. Not all women possess the same qualities by virtue of their biology, which is one among many factorsrace, social class, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, and othersthat collectively form a persons identity. Applying this belief to medicine, we came to recognize that no uniform category for female physician existsthat a white, female family doctor in rural Iowa may have some common characteristics with a Latina general surgeon in New York City but that many other aspects of their circumstances diverge, regardless of their shared biology. Thus, any collection of readings on women in medicine faces the difficult task of how to chronicle the wide experiences of women as women in the profession without claiming that an all-inclusive, generalizable category exists. Yet This Side of Doctoring: Reflections From Women in Medicine, Eliza Lo Chins collection of 140 stories, essays, and poems, succeeds in compiling what Janet Bickel, who writes the foreword, calls a welcome network of like experiences. The book is divided into 12 sections: Historical Perspectives, Early Pioneers, The Formative Years, Life in the Trenches: Internship and Residency, On Doctoring, Mothering and Doctoring, Making Choices Barriers, Connections, Balancing, Our Families Perspectives, and Reflections. Each section, other than the first, which is written solely by Chin, contains multiple entries that include poetry, anecdotes involving memorable patients, short and pithy observations, and longer reflective essays and stories, often focusing on personal and professional issues. Some are excerpts of previously published longer works by such well-known authors as Rachel Naomi Remen and Perri Klass; most are original pieces. The book provides several insights for readers seeking new understandings of the lived experiences of women in US medicine. First, many of the entries are surprisingly gender neutral. In fact, if the reader did not know the volume was written entirely by women, she would not have a clue as to whether some of the authors were male or female. These accounts of doctoring and family concerns are universal enough to transcend gender in relationships with patients and colleagues, balancing work and family, and finding meaning in ones profession. One of the best-crafted entries, Audrey Shafers poem Monday Morning, has to do with the fluid boundaries between home and hospital. In the prelight as she leaves for the hospital, she encounters her three-year-old son just in time for a kiss and hug. Later, as she enjoys the rote motions getting ready in the operating suite, I try to recall his just awakened warmth In that brief moment before The patient arrives Naked under hospital issue Ready to sleep. Of course, some entries arise directly from the experience of being a woman who is also a doctor: breastfeeding while working long hours or sexist remarks from residency interviewers: I hope you dont plan on getting pregnant or the more subtle So you probably want to have at least a few children? However, many of the entries in the Barriers section sound dated: an anecdote from the anatomy lab in the 1960s, accounts by someone in the profession 22 years, another by a physician who had graduated in 1958. Such accounts are historically valuable but offer little new understanding of the more subtle, nuanced barriers confronting women in medicine today. Bickel closes her foreword with I also read [the book] as Acts 1 and 2 of a drama with tragic, comic, and poetic elements. Act 3 is about to begin. She has captured what the book portrays: snapshots of young, midcareer, and older women in medicine. These snapshots convey the dailiness of being a doctor, a colleague, an academic, sometimes a mother or wife, or deciding whether to be a mother, a dailiness unique to each author, which cannot be generalized. But, as Bickel points out, women in medicine are just the beginning of Act 3, becoming actively involved in the plot, creating personal identities, not merely receiving them from past generations. Kathryn Ko, a neurosurgeon, describes this inherited medical environment, a landscape of a profession whose pulse, until recently, was transfixed by men with women in supporting roles at home, in the office and in the hospital. What will women do with this landscape? Ko does not offer specifics, but she does project that women in medicine are unlikely to travel the road that many of the men took because the steps they left for us are too narrow. Or as Daphne Miller writes, The person (and doctor) that I am expected to be and that I want to be is very different from those older men who taught me. Of course, this is inevitable because I am a young woman and a mom a far cry from Marcus Welby. Gayatri Devi uses the metaphor of gloves to describe the life she has created as a woman in medicine. I tried on many gloves before I found the one that fit. I find I can use the tools of my trade so much the better for it. The fabric of my life is richer for my not fitting into a stereotype and, instead, accentuating those individual characteristics about me that are important for my profession. Like other women in medicine at the beginning of Act 3, Devi has chosen the road less traveled and oh, the difference to me! For those looking for a critical reader on the social and political dimensions of women in medicine, this is not it. But for those looking for a compendium of experiences that documents the lives of a diverse cross-section of women in US medicine, This Side of Doctoring is a fine addition to the literature."" - JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, July 2002 Eliza Lo Chin is a general internist with an interest in womens health. She received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, an M.P.H. from Columbia University, and completed her residency in internal medicine at the Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston. Until recently, she was an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons where she was actively involved in both the clinical and teaching programs. In August 2000, Dr. Chin took a brief reprieve from clinical medicine to move to California where her husband Doug completed a fellowship in hand surgery. She has devoted this year to her three children and the completion of this anthology. She currently resides in northern California with her husband and three children and anticipates returning to her medical career in a part-time capacity.",administration & medicine economics;administration & policy;books;clinical;clinical chemistry;health care delivery;internal medicine;medical books;medical history & records;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;pathology;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,16 0226666883,"The University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary, Fifth Edition, Spanish-English, Englis: Universidad de Chicago Diccionario Espanol-Ingles, Ingles-Espanol (English and Spanish Edition) Text: English, Spanish The University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary is the most popular dictionary of its kind. Its familiar name is known to millions of general readers, students, educators, and travelers. Improved for greater ease of use, and brought completely up to date, the fifth edition of The University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary is now more than ever the perfect resource for both language learners and experienced language users.With thousands of added entries, the Dictionary builds on the features that have made it the leader in its field for more than fifty years: authority, scope, clarity, and conciseness. And with this edition, the Dictionary brilliantly captures the current core vocabularies of two rapidly changing--and increasingly connected--languages and cultures.This new edition features* New words and meanings for a new age* Greater help in finding the right words * Enhanced language and grammar guides David Pharies, a Professor of Spanish at the University of Florida, enjoys an international reputation as an expert on the history and development of the Spanish language. His publications deal chiefly with Spanish morphology, lexicology, and etymology.",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;earth sciences;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;geography;humanities;new;reference;regional;science & math;spanish;used & rental textbooks,16 0393019543,"Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde This biography of Audre Lorde, the self-described ""black, lesbian, feminist, mother, poet warrior"" who died of metastasized breast cancer in 1992, at age 58, captures the complexities of a charismatic figure whose every personal move was indeed political. De Veaux, chair of the women's studies department at SUNY-Buffalo, draws from over 60 of Lorde's unpublished journals as well as testimony from friends and family, though she points out with academic caution in her introduction that this is only a ""subjective"" story. De Veaux divides her book between Lorde's ""two lives,"" her emergence from a difficult Harlem childhood to a celebrated literary career and, later, her struggle with cancer. Born in 1934 to Caribbean immigrants, Lorde had a persistent, haunting feeling of being an outsider. An early interracial marriage to Ed Rollins brought two children, but Lorde came to find deeper satisfaction in lesbian love, embarking on a decades-long relationship with Frances Clayton and maintaining erotic friendships with activists and poets who informed and shaped her work. By the 1980s, Lorde's writings were internationally recognized, and she continued to articulate her ideas on race, sexuality and gender in groundbreaking ways, eventually bravely documenting her personal experience with breast cancer. This account does not include Lorde's final days, focusing instead on her working years. While De Veaux occasionally slips into academic-speak, she is a skilled biographer, pulling together the contradictory facts of Lorde's public and private personae with ease. Subjective it may be, but Warrior Poet is also a satisfying portrait of a brave life. 16 pages of photos not seen by PW.Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. De Veauxs thorough tale of a complicated artist is compelling. Lorde comes to life, and her powerful prose is presented in a whole new light. (Essence)Warrior Poet is a literary event of considerable significance. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)A clearly written and extensively researched volume that is every bit as formidable as Lorde herself was, and will likely be regarded as the definitive study of the controversial poet. (Buffalo News) --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Alexis De Veaux is the chair of the women's studies department at the University of Buffalo (SUNY). She has written for Ms., Essence and the Village Voice, among other publications.",20th century;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism & theory;ethnic & national;gay & lesbian;history;history & criticism;lesbian;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);movements & periods;specific groups;women,16 1565925823,"Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (O'Reilly Open Source) Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution is a fascinating look at the raging debate that is its namesake. Filled with writings from the central players--from Linux creator Linus Torvalds to Perl creator Larry Wall--the book convinces the reader of the overwhelming merits of freeing up the many iterations of software's source code. The open-source movement has become a cause clbre in light of the widespread adoption of Linux, Perl, and Apache as well as its corporate support from Netscape, IBM, and Oracle--and strongly felt opposition from Microsoft. Open Sources doesn't address why these Microsoft foes are throwing their weight behind the movement. Instead, it focuses on the history and philosophy of open-source software (previously referred to as freeware) as an argument for shaping the future of programming. Open Sources is much larger than just a fight with any one company. Instead, it is a revolutionary call to release software development from the vested interests that label new directions in software development as threatening. This is not to say that opening the source code is an entirely egalitarian and communistic endeavor. These are programmers and startup owners; they want to be able to continue to program for a living. To that end, Open Sources contains strong business profiles from entrepreneurs such as Apache's--and now, O'Reilly & Associates'--Brian Behlendorf, who discusses how to give away software in order to lure customers in for specialized versions. In many ways, this is a hands-on guide, displaying an insider's view of the development process and providing specifics on testing details and altering licensing agreements. However, interspersed with tech talk is a reader-friendly guide for those interested in the future of software development. --Jennifer Buckendorff The idea for open source software began years ago with Richard Stallman, who at the time was considered crazy for proposing that computer code be free to all to use as they see fit as long as they posted the changed code for the common good. Along the way he won a MacArthur (""Genius"") award, Linus Torvalds created Linux, and Brian Behlendorf developed Apache, the most used free web server package. This collection of writings by the leaders of the open source movement offers readers a chance to think about the past and how it will change the future of software development. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Chris DiBona is the cofounder of both Konstrux Technologies, which implements gforge for companies, and her sister company, Damage Studios. He also co-edited the O'Reilly book Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Software Revolution and was an editor at Slashdot.org for some time, where he also ran the polls and can be found on TechTV where he does Linux segments for The ScreenSavers.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;fitness & dieting;hacking;health;human-computer interaction;internet & web culture;languages & tools;mathematics;programming;science & math;software design;software development;testing & engineering,16 0916260208,The Clown Ministry Handbook Litherland,acting & auditioning;arts & photography;books;circus;comedy;drama;education & reference;humor;humor & entertainment;inspirational;literature & fiction;performing arts;reference;religion & spirituality;spirituality;theater,16 B000INB6DE,"Colorado Outdoors Colorado Outdoors is the official magazine of the Colorado Division of Wildlife. This colorful 32-page magazine is jam-packed with information on Colorado's wildlife. It gives the information you want about Colorado and its hunting, fishing and wildlife viewing opportunities. It is published 6 times per year and contains no advertising. Colorado Outdoors is the official magazine of the Colorado Division of Wildlife. This colorful 32-page magazine is jam-packed with information on Colorado's wildlife. It gives the information you want about Colorado and its hunting, fishing and wildlife viewing opportunities. It is published 6 times per year and contains no advertising.",colorado;hiking & camping;hunting & fishing;magazine subscriptions;mountain;nature & ecology;outdoors & nature;regions;science & nature;south;sports & leisure;states;travel & regional;united states;west;west south central,16 159200105X,"Digital Nude Photography Roderick Macdonald is an Australian photographer who lives in Cambridge, England, where he works in multimedia production, training, and management. His interest in photography spans over 20 years, and he specializes in portraiture and images of nudes. He is the author of Digital Nude Photography (159200105X) and co-author of Erotique Digitale (1592005268).",arts & photography;books;computer science;computers & technology;digital photography;electronic documents;erotic photography;graphic design;graphics & visualization;humanities;new;photography;used & rental textbooks;visual arts;web design;web development & design,16 0806119926,"A Guide to Ancient Maya Ruins C. Bruce Hunter is Lecturer in Archaeology for the American Museum of Natural History, former Adjunct Professor of Archaeology in New York University, and former Professor of Art in Dalhousie University. Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of the companion Guide to Ancient Mexican Ruins, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.",americas;ancient;anthropology;archaeology;books;central america;history;humanities;latin america;mayan;native american;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;world,16 076454599X,"Active Server Pages Bible Learn how to employ Active Server Pages (ASP) and VBScript to write powerful server-side code with the Active Server Pages Bible, a smooth introduction to Microsoft ASP technology. Although this is an entry-level text, it offers enough depth to teach you how to build database-driven Web sites. The techniques presented can easily be used to create online shopping carts and track customer profiles and other features that make professional-looking sites. Inside is an overview of key HTML elements such as tables, anchors, and images, plus an excellent tutorial to the VBScript language. The book points out key differences between VBScript and Visual Basic, such as the way each deals with variables, and discusses the circumstances that call for certain VBScript elements such as Do/Loop structures and Select/Case structures. Instead of making you wade through a formal presentation of the standard ASP objects, practical examples offer immediate hands-on experience. The book uses a common home page search box to introduce the Request and Response objects--the most frequently used ASP objects for any programmer. The form examples, which show how to process radio buttons and checkboxes, offer nice boilerplate code for every Web site you build. There's also an appetizing example of how to use cookies, which tracks a user's pizza size and topping preferences. This section is very accessible to readers, but it illustrates one of the most powerful features of ASP. A large part of the book is devoted to the construction of a series of Web pages that provide database browsing and editing via the Web. Beginning with an Access database, the author shows how to create drill-down data menus, update records, and issue queries based on user-specified criteria. Since database access is central to most sites, the example code used here will serve as a reference time and time again. Database paging--a technique many programmers struggle to implement--is also demystified and explained. Chapters on building Visual Basic COM components, using Microsoft Transaction Server, and WebClasses are included, but the coverage of components is a bit brief. The book finishes up with a walkthrough of a complete online discussion forum that shows how to construct an object-based, database-driven ASP application. If you've previously coded static HTML pages and want to move your talents to the next level with server-side processing, this is a good place to begin. --Stephen W. Plain Topics covered: Basic HTML, VBScript, server-side includes (SSI), ASP objects, cookies, Active Data Object (ADO), Microsoft Index Server, classes and components in Visual Basic, WebClasses, and Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) integration. About the Author Eric A. Smith is an independent consultant who lives in the Washington, D.C. area. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and works extensively in both Web and traditional client/server environments. He has written, edited, or contributed to eight books in the Visual Basic and Web markets. Mr. Smith is also the owner of both the VB Techniques Web site (http://vbtechniques.com) and the ASP Techniques Web site (http://asptechniques.com). These sites are used to provide ""service after the sale"" to his readers. You can get updated code and related articles for all of his books at these sites. He is also the creator of inquiry.com's Ask the VB Pro site, now part of Fawcette Technical Publications. Mr. Smith is active at his church and is a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician for the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department. If you'd like to contact him with questions about the book, you can reach him via e-mail at aspbib1e@ asptechniques.com.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;hardware;internet & networking;languages & tools;networking;networks;new;programming;programming languages;protocols & apis;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design,16 0534588166,"Biological Psychology (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac) Dr. James W. Kalat received his B.A. degree from Duke University, Summa Cum Laude, and then continued his education at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his Ph.D. in Psychology under the supervision of Paul Rozin. Currently Dr. Kalat is at North Carolina State University where he is a professor of psychology, teaching both introductory psychology and biological psychology. Besides having authored the best selling biological psychology text, Dr. Kalat has also written an introductory psychology text titled INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY, now in a Seventh Edition, and has published articles on a variety of diverse topics such as taste aversion learning and on the teaching of introductory psychology. With co-author Michelle Shiota, he recently wrote a new textbook, EMOTION (Thomson Wadsworth, 2006). He recently presented to rave reviews at the Texas Community College Teachers Association and received the same when he presented at NITOP (the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology).",books;clinical;counseling;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;mental health;new;physiological aspects;psychology;psychology & counseling;psychotherapy;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,16 0595318967,"First Course: Data Structures and Algorithms Using Java Dr. Edward Hill, Jr. has held technical and managerial positions in government. Dr. Hill is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Hampton University. Dr. Hill has a B.S. degree in mathematics/education from Southern University, M.S. in mathematics: Atlanta University, and a D.Sc. in Computer Science: The George Washington University.",algorithms;books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;information theory;java;languages & tools;modeling & simulation;new;programming;software;software design;structured design;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,16 0471417645,"XHTML Essentials ""this is a very practical title"" (.Net, January 2002)""All in all, this book is a very complete and comprehensive guide to web authoring using XHTML and confirms the very high professional level of the Wiley XML Essentials series. The book is warmly recommended to both beginners and advanced webcasters."" (EBU Technical Review, January 2002) The complete how-to guide to moving Web development from the desktop to wireless technologiesXHTML EssentialsNeed to migrate your HTML documents to wireless and other platforms in a hurry, but don't have the time to master XML? Then XHTML is the answer, and this book shows you how to use it.Quickly and painlessly, Michael Sauers and R. Allen Wyke get you up to speed on everything you need to know to use this powerful new tool to ensure that your documents stay true-to-form on virtually any platform. Using extensive code examples and real-world examples, they teach you, step-by-step, how to migrate legacy HTML documents to XHTML documents and how to create new documents and applications for handheld, wireless, mobile, and other environments.Like all the books in the critically acclaimed XML Essentials series, XHTML Essentials features:* Loads of source code and working examples* A down-to-earth, accessible style and tone geared to professional developers* Helpful listing of where to find updated information and rap with experts* A CD-ROM containing all the source code from the book* A companion Web site with links to resources, experts, newsgroups, and newslettersThe CD-ROM contains all the source code and examples from the book.The companion Web site features links to resources, experts, newsgroups, and newsletters.Wiley Computer PublishingTimely. Practical. Reliable.Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/Visit the companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/sauers MICHAEL SAUERS is the Internet trainer for the Bibliographical Center for Research. He also trains librarians throughout twelve states on the Internet and related technologies. His other books include Mastering Microsoft Outlook 2000, Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Advanced Topics, and Using the Internet as a Reference Tool.R. ALLEN WYKE is Vice President of Research and Development at Engage, an Internet marketing company. He was the Webmaster columnist for SunWorld, and contributed a weekly column on Integrating Windows and Unix to Itworld.com. He has written several books on Internet technologies, including Perl, JavaScript, and PHP.",books;computer science;computers & technology;databases;education & reference;languages & tools;networking;new;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design;web services;xhtml,16 0060541350,"John F. Kennedy: His Life and Legacy Grade 4-8An engaging portrait of our 35th president. In discussing his curious mind, his love of reading, and his sense of humor, Sommer creates an empathetic connection with readers early in the book. She describes her subject's privileged childhood and large Irish family and explains how he used his World War II experiences, especially his role in the PT-109 incident, to connect with a largely poor and middle-class population when he successfully ran for Congress and six years later for the Senate. The author notes that the 1960 presidential campaign was the first in which television played an important role. In addressing his legacy, she notes that Kennedy liked big ideas, and while many were not fulfilled during his term, some, especially the Civil Rights Act, were passed soon after his death. In an easy-to-read style, Sommer does a fine job of painting an interesting and sympathetic picture of a leader who left his mark. The book includes lots of black-and-white photos, a time line, Kennedy's inaugural address, a sampling of quotations, and detailed notes. A solid choice for general reading as well as for reports.Jane G. Connor, South Carolina State Library, Columbia Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Gr. 5-8. Sommer, an administrator at Boston's JFK Library, swings wide the gates of Camelot with a flattering portrait of the ""intelligent, witty, skillful, fortunate and charismatic"" president, laced with telling incidents, homely details, and inspirational quotations. She begins with his birth, ends with an assessment of his lasting legacy, and in between devotes chapters to his youth, education, political rise, presidential campaign, family life in the White House, and major foreign and domestic threats and achievements. She closes with the full text of his inaugural address, several pages of significant quotes, and resource lists for both younger and older readers. Based on personal interviews as well as published sources, and illustrated with small, mostly family photos, this sticks to the shiny side of the Kennedy saga (Caroline Kennedy wrote the preface)--in contrast to Barbara Harrison's franker Twilight Struggle: The Life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1992)--so the intended audience will find plenty here to respect, admire, and emulate. For an excellent, more in-depth view of Kennedy's younger years, give readers Ilene Cooper's jack (2003). John PetersCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Shelley Sommer worked for the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Foundation for fifteen years, first as the director of public relations and then as the director of the Profile in Courage Award. Ms. Sommer is currently a graduate student at the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College. She lives with her husband and son on the South Shore of Massachusetts. This is her first book.",( k );1900s;a-z;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;children's books;explore the world;history;john f.;kennedy;people;political;travel & cultures;u. s. presidents & first ladies;united states,16 0802067050,"Street Kids: The Tragedy of Canada's Runaways Marlene Webber is a writer living in Toronto. She is co-author, with Tony McGilvary of Square John: A True Story.",books;canadian;children's studies;international & world politics;new;parenting & relationships;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;public policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;sociology;teens;used & rental textbooks,16 0155104802,"Short Fiction by 33 Writers: 3 x 33 ""3 X 33 may be unique in combining both breadth and depth in its selection of contemporary authors. For instructors looking for a short fiction anthology focused on mid-to-late Twentieth Century works with a good selection from each author, 3 X 33 may be ideal.""""The selections, for the most part, are great. I think Winegardner avoids the mistake of selecting stories just because they are easily 'teachable'. So many anthologies do this and you're left to wonder why the student is being asked to read the least ambitious of, say, Alice Munro's stories.""""I think the selections are terrific, and the ideas underlying the book are also terrific.""""The alphabetical arrangement of the course material seems democratic and not overly prescriptive, as organizing the material historically might be."" Mark Winegardner is the Burroway Professor of English at Florida State University. He is the author of the novels The Veracruz Blues and Crooked River Burning and the short story collection, That's True of Everybody. His novel The Godfather Returnsa sequel to Mario Puzo's The Godfatherwill be published in November of 2004. For more information, go to http://markwinegardner.com.",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;education & reference;general;humanities;language & grammar;literary;literature;literature & fiction;new;poetry;short stories;united states;used & rental textbooks;words,16 0817436154,"The Business of Portrait Photography (Photography for All Levels: Advanced) Tom McDonald is a successful portrait photographer and business owner. He lives in Jonesboro, Arkansas.",arts & photography;books;business & finance;business & investing;contemporary;equipment;humanities;literature & fiction;new;photography;portraits;professional;reference;techniques & reference;used & rental textbooks;visual arts,16 0801860393,"Global Communications since 1844: Geopolitics and Technology A magnificent work, Braudelian in its conception, scope, and attention to detail... A delight. (Progress in Human Geography )A first-rate historical study in the genre of world history... Combines geography with the social sciences in skillful fashion. It is lucidly written and will appeal to the specialist and general reader. (Virginia Quarterly Review )Hugill provides a refreshingly long historical sweep in arguing that transportation technologies have been the key to success in world trade... A wealth of historical and technical detail. (Geonomics ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Peter J. Hugill is a professor of geography at Texas A & M University. He is the author of World Trade since 1431, also available from Johns Hopkins.",19th century;20th century;books;communication & media studies;earth sciences;education & reference;engineering;geography;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;professional & technical;science & math;social sciences;telecommunications;world,16 0393325970,"The Soul of Iran: A Nation's Journey to Freedom Afshin Molavi provides a brilliant tableau of today's Iran. -- Foreign AffairsCulturally fluent messengers like Molavi are invaluable, now more than ever. -- Chris King, Washington Post Book WorldNo book compares with Molavi's to give a feel for contemporary Iran. -- Middle East QuarterlyNo book compares with [this one] to give a feel for contemporary Iran.Simultaneously engaging and profoundly depressing. -- Patrick Clawson, Middle East QuarterlyProvides us with a fascinating glimpse of Iran beyond the headlines. -- Sunday Times [London] Afshin Molavihas a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, has reported on Iran for Reuters and the Washington Post, and contributes to many publications, including Foreign Affairs. He lives in Washington, DC.",20th century;asia;books;education & reference;general;history;international & world politics;iran;middle east;middle eastern;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & government;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;travel;writing,16 1576750914,"PeopleSmart: Developing Your Interpersonal Intelligence ""...essential reading for growing important relationships in our personal and professional lives."" -- Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager, Raving Fans, Empowerment Takes more than a Minute and Gung Ho!""...inspirational and practical. If you want to be interpersonally effective, this book will show you the way."" -- Glenn Parker, author of Team Players and Teamwork""As e-commerce 'commoditizes' the world, PeopleSmart is the preeminent intelligence...Theoretically sound. Well researched. Very reader friendly!"" -- Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People""Mel Silberman is the Leonardo da Vinci of experiential learning...PeopleSmart is a masterpiece."" -- Jim Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Heart, Chairman Emeritus, tompeters!company""PeopleSmart offers insight and assistance for today's biggest workplace challenges, getting things done through others."" -- Ron Zemke, coauthor of Generations at WorkPeople with high intellect but low interpersonal effectiveness are likely to succeed only in limited areas of their lives. Here's an intelligent and clearly written book that will raise your interpersonal quotient. Read it! -- Arnold A. Lazarus, ABPP Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Rutgers UniversityPeopleSmart is an elegantly simple fieldbook jam-packed with everything you need for great relationships. Make it a must-read for all your relationsassociates, friends, spouse--and reap the rewards of harmony, understanding, and productivity. -- Chip R. Bell, coauthor of Dance Lessons: Six Steps to Great Partnerships in Business and Life Mel Silberman, Ph.D., is professor and coordinator of the Adult and Organizational Development Program at Temple University. He is also president of Active Training, a provider of cutting-edge business and personal development seminars based in Princeton, NJ. A licensed psychologist, he specializes in training and development, marital and family health, performance improvement, and team building. Silberman has written a dozen bestselling books for parents, business people, educators, and trainers, including Active Training, Active Learning, Confident Parenting and 101 Ways to Make Meetings Active. He is also editor of The Team and Organization Development Sourcebook and The Training and Performance Sourcebook. Freda Hansburg, Ph.D., is a psychologist and facilitator of change at both the personal and organizational levels. She currently maintains a clinical practice with individuals and couples and directs the Technical Assistance Center, a consultation and training program at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.",books;business & investing;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;interpersonal relations;language & grammar;mental health;psychology & counseling;relationships;self-help;speech;success;words,16 0262162172,"Seeing and Visualizing: It's Not What You Think (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology) ""Over the past thirty years, Zenon Pylyshyn has played a leading role in developing theories of high-level visual cognition. In this book, he brings together his long-standing interests in the modularity of visual processing, the relations between visual attention, spatial indexing, and 'seeing', and the relationship between imagery and vision. The work not only summarizes his influential views, but also raises important questions for future research. It will be of considerable relevance to all interested in high-level vision, from psychologists to computer scientists and philosophers.""--Glyn Humphreys, University of Birmingham"" Seeing and Visualizing offers a persuasive account of why visual perception and visual imagery do not depend on internal pictorial representations, and puts forward the deeply counterintuitive notion that the machinery of visual thinking does not use mental pictures at all. Pylyshyn""s masterful defense of this idea is a ""must-read"" not only for committed Fodorians but also for those who believe that mental representations resemble the things they depict. The book is challenging and provocativeand even occasionally infuriatingbut always thoughtful and immensely readable. I recommend it to anyone who has ever wondered about how we see and visualize the world."" Mel Goodale, Canada Research Professor in Visual Neuroscience, University of Western Ontario""Pylyshyn's book is to be commended as a thorough and persuasive defense of the information-processing approach to vision and visualizing. It should be essential reading for psychologists, cognitive scientists, and philosophers."" Paul Coates Metapsychology""*Seeing and Visualizing* offers a persuasive account of why visual perception and visual imagery do not depend on internal pictorial representations, and puts forward the deeply counterintuitive notion that the machinery of visual thinking does not use mental pictures at all. Pylyshyn's masterful defense of this idea is a 'must-read' not only for committed Fodorians but also for those who believe that mental representations resemble the things they depict. The book is challenging and provocative -- and even occasionally infuriating -- but always thoughtful and immensely readable. I recommend it to anyone who has ever wondered about how we see and visualize the world.""--Mel Goodale, Canada Research Professor in Visual Neuroscience, University of Western Ontario Zenon W. Pylyshyn is Board of Governors Professor of Cognitive Science at Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. He is the author of Seeing and Visualizing: It's Not what You Think (2003) and Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science (1984), both published by The MIT Press, as well as over a hundred scientific papers on perception, attention, and the computational theory of mind.",behavioral sciences;books;cognitive psychology;consciousness & thought;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;neurology;neuropsychology;neuroscience;philosophy;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;science & math,16 1930865317,"Bountiful Harvest: Technology, Food Safety, and the Environment Thomas R. DeGregori is a professor of economics at the University of Houston.",agricultural sciences;books;business & investing;economics;education & reference;food science;industries & professions;nonprofit organizations & charities;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;popular economics;reference;science & math;social sciences;technology,16 902771536X,"The Social Relations of Physics, Mysticism, and Mathematics: Studies in Social Structure, Interests, and Ideas (Episteme) `Sal Restivo's book is a major achievement in the sociology of science and mathematics. It is exciting to read and constitutes a creative, wide-ranging exploration of the connections between physics and mysticism, between the natural science and the humanities. Of particular interest is his attempt to show the emergence of abstraction and of formal disciplines in science by relating them to the structure of social interests in society. All told, this book challenges the separation of C.P. Snow's `two cultures' and is an original attempt to overcome the chasms between the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. The implications of the book's content certainly go far beyond its title.' Prof. W. Heydebrand, New York University",books;education & reference;gay & lesbian;history & philosophy;humanities;new;nonfiction;philosophy;politics & social sciences;popular culture;reference;religious;science & math;science & mathematics;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,16 B0002Z8A1O,"Dance 6 [Old Version] Dance eJay 6 is the ultimate audio production suite for your PC! Select from 4,000 brand new studio-quality sounds or use the 5 virtual instruments, CD grabbing function and Recording Studio to create your own unique samples. Fine-tune your music using the new editing tools in the Arranger or simply create a mix on the fly in Live Jam mode. Finally, add visuals in the 3D VJ Box!",accessories & supplies;compositing & effects;computer recording;education & reference;electronics;home & hobbies;illustration & design;instrument instruction;mp3 editing & effects;music creation & sequencing;musical instruments;software;sound libraries;studio recording equipment;video & music;video editing & effects,16 0226817024,"Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) Hailed as a national hero and musical revolutionary, Thomas Mapfumo, along with other Zimbabwean artists, burst onto the international music scene in the 1980s with a unique style that combined electric guitar with indigenous Shona music and instruments. The development of this music from its roots in the early Rhodesian era to the present and the ways this and other styles articulated with Zimbabwean nationalism is the focus of Thomas Turino's new study. Turino examines the emergence of cosmopolitan culture among the black middle class and how this gave rise to a variety of urban-popular styles modeled on influences ranging from the Mills Brothers to Elvis. He also shows how cosmopolitanism gave rise to the nationalist movement itself, explaining the combination of ""foreign"" and indigenous elements that so often define nationalist art and cultural projects. Thomas Turino is a professor of musicology and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Moving Away from Silence, also published by the University of Chicago Press.",africa;arts & photography;books;ethnic & international;ethnomusicology;history;humanities;ideologies & doctrines;music;musical genres;new;performing arts;politics & government;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks;zimbabwe,16 1933633085,"Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights demonstrators in the South, the Center for Constitutional Rights is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Most recently CCR has filed a case against the President and NSA for warrantless wiretapping.",20th century;21st century;americas;books;commentary & opinion;education & reference;elections & political process;executive branch;general;history;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;reference;specific topics;united states,16 0198641923,"The Oxford English-Russian Dictionary ""An excellent general dictionary and, together with its companion volume, makes an unprecedented advance in resources for the student of Russian.""--Times Literary Supplement""All students and teachers of Russian will welcome The Oxford English-Russian Dictionary.""--Modern Languages About the Editor: P.S. Falla is a well-known linguist and translator of Russian and other languages.",biological sciences;biology & life sciences;books;botany;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;reference;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,16 0201604442,"Measuring the Software Process: Statistical Process Control for Software Process Improvement This book is about using statistical process control (SPC) and control charts to measure and analyze software processes. It shows how characteristics of software products and processes can be measured and analyzed using statistical process control so that the performance of activities that produce the products can be managed, predicted, controlled, and improved to achieve business and technical goals. If you are a software manager or practitioner who has responsibilities for product quality or process performance, and if you are ready to define, collect, and use measurements to manage, control, and predict your software processes, then this book is for you. It will put you on the road to using measurement data to control and improve process performance. Not only will the discussions here introduce you to important concepts, but also they will introduce you to tried-and-true process measurement and analysis methods as set forth in a software environment. On the other hand, if your organization does not yet have basic measurement processes in place, you should make establishing measures for planning and managing projects your first priority. Handbooks such as Practical Software Measurement: A Foundation for Objective Project Management McGarry 1998 and Goal-Driven Software Measurement Park 1996 make excellent starting points, as do the examples and advice found in books by people such as Watts S. Humphrey and Robert B. Grady Humphrey 1989; Grady 1987, 1992. This book is an extension and elaboration of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) guidebook Practical Software Measurement: Measuring for Process Management and Improvement Florac 1997. The guidebook grew out of a collaborative effort with the authors of Practical Software Measurement: A Foundation for Objective Project Management McGarry 1998. Both publications were written to encourage and guide software organizations to use measurements to quantitatively manage software projects and processes. This book is organized into eight chapters. The focus of Chapter 1 is to introduce you to the primary concepts associated with managing, measuring, controlling, and improving software processes. The motivation for using statistical process control is also discussed--that is, utilizing control charts for making process decisions and for predicting process behavior. This chapter begins by characterizing the term software process, especially as it is used in SPC applications. Issues of process performance, stability, compliance, capability, and improvement are briefly introduced (and elaborated throughout the book) since these form the basis for improving process performance. A section on measuring process behavior then follows. A framework for measuring process behavior is presented next and serves as the guiding structure for the rest of the book. The remaining chapters follow this framework with more detailed discussions, expanding on the activities associated with using statistical process control techniques for improving the software process. The focus of Chapter 2 is to discuss the activities associated with measuring the software process. They include identifying process management issues, selecting and defining the measures, and integrating the measurement activities with the organization's processes. The idea here is to understand what you want to measure and why and to select appropriate measures that will provide insight into your issues. In Chapter 3, we discuss the specifics associated with collecting software process data. The principal tasks include designing methods and obtaining tools for data collection, training staff to execute the data collection procedures, and capturing and recording the data. Additionally, there is a discussion of many of the important tools available to analyze, understand, and explain causal relationships to the process performance data. In Chapter 4, we embark on the initial discussion of analyzing process behavior with Shewhart's control charts by graphically illustrating the concepts of process variation and stability. The basics of constructing control charts, calculating limits, and detecting anomalous process behavior are given to provide a basis for the ensuing chapters. Chapter 5 is dedicated to providing the information to construct and calculate limits for the several different control charts applicable to software processes. Examples of the calculations and charts are set in familiar software settings. Chapter 6 discusses a number of topics that arise when using control charts. Guidelines are offered for how much data is necessary for control charting, recognizing anomalous process behavior patterns, rational subgrouping, aggregation of data, and insufficient data granularity. Chapter 7 provides insight on what actions to take after you have plotted your data on process behavior charts. The actions involve removing assignable causes of instability, changing the process to make it more capable, or seeking ways to continually improve the process. The book concludes with Chapter 8. It provides ten steps for getting started using statistical process control, cites the experiences by some of those who have used statistical process control in a software environment, and addresses a number of frequently asked questions. The appendixes include several of the more commonly used tables for calculation of control chart limits and a special topics section that contains detailed discussions addressing statistical process control fundamentals. For those who wish to learn more about the topics addressed in this book, we have included an extensive list of references following the appendixes. Everything in this book has its roots in experience--often that of the authors, at times that of others. Much of the experience comes from software settings, while other lessons are adapted from other service- and industrial-oriented environments. Some of the numerical examples are composed rather than factual; in others, the names of organizations providing the data are disguised to maintain confidentiality. We have tried to ensure that the examples represent reasonable extensions of practices that have been demonstrated to be meaningful and successful in software settings. The focus, then, is on the acquisition of quantitative information and the use of statistical process control methods to help you to reliably identify the problems (and the opportunities) present in the processes you operate. When the methods are properly used, you can confidently use the results to control and predict your process behavior and guide your improvement actions. We recognize that much more can be said about the use of measurements and statistical methods for controlling and improving processes than this book addresses. On the other hand, we have striven to provide the information, ideas, and methods that are sufficient for you to get started using statistical process control to better understand the behavior of your software processes. We trust that it will encourage you and others to begin applying the concepts that it explains and illustrates.0201604442P04062001 ""While it is usually helpful to launch improvement programs, many such programs soon get bogged down in detail. They either address the wrong problems, or they keep beating on the same solutions, wondering why things don't improve. This is when you need an objective way to look at the problems. This is the time to get some data."" Watts S. Humphrey, from the Foreword This book, drawing on work done at the Software Engineering Institute and other organizations, shows how to use measurements to manage and improve software processes. The authors explain specifically how quality characteristics of software products and processes can be quantified, plotted, and analyzed so the performance of software development activities can be predicted, controlled, and guided to achieve both business and technical goals. The measurement methods presented, based on the principles of statistical quality control, are illuminated by application examples taken from industry. Although many of the methods discussed are applicable to individual projects, the book's primary focus is on the steps software development organizations can take toward broad-reaching, long-term success. The book particularly addresses the needs of software managers and practitioners who have already set up some kind of basic measurement process and are ready to take the next step by collecting and analyzing software data as a basis for making process decisions and predicting process performance. Highlights of the book include: Insight into developing a clear framework for measuring process behavior Discussions of process performance, stability, compliance, capability, and improvement Explanations of what you want to measure (and why) and instructions on how to collect your data Step-by-step guidance on how to get started using statistical process control If you have responsibilities for product quality or process performance and you are ready to use measurements to manage, control, and predict your software processes, this book will be an invaluable resource. 0201604442B04062001 William A. Florac is a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University, and a member of the Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis Team. Previously he spent 30 years developing and managing hardware and software products for IBM. He was chairman of IBM's Corporate Programming Measurements Committee, which was responsible for the development of company-wide use of software measurements for quality, productivity, and customer satisfaction. Anita D. Carleton helped to launch the software measurement initiative at the SEI in 1988, and served as the manager of the Software Process Measurement Project until 1995. She currently provides technical leadership to the Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis Team. Before joining the SEI she worked for GTE Government Systems, where she initiated a quality measurement program. 0201604442AB04062001 This book is about using statistical process control (SPC) and control charts to measure and analyze software processes. It shows how characteristics of software products and processes can be measured and analyzed using statistical process control so that the performance of activities that produce the products can be managed, predicted, controlled, and improved to achieve business and technical goals. If you are a software manager or practitioner who has responsibilities for product quality or process performance, and if you are ready to define, collect, and use measurements to manage, control, and predict your software processes, then this book is for you. It will put you on the road to using measurement data to control and improve process performance. Not only will the discussions here introduce you to important concepts, but also they will introduce you to tried-and-true process measurement and analysis methods as set forth in a software environment. On the other hand, if your organization does not yet have basic measurement processes in place, you should make establishing measures for planning and managing projects your first priority. Handbooks such as Practical Software Measurement: A Foundation for Objective Project Management [McGarry 1998] and Goal-Driven Software Measurement [Park 1996] make excellent starting points, as do the examples and advice found in books by people such as Watts S. Humphrey and Robert B. Grady [Humphrey 1989; Grady 1987, 1992]. This book is an extension and elaboration of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) guidebook Practical Software Measurement: Measuring for Process Management and Improvement [Florac 1997]. The guidebook grew out of a collaborative effort with the authors of Practical Software Measurement: A Foundation for Objective Project Management [McGarry 1998]. Both publications were written to encourage and guide software organizations to use measurements to quantitatively manage software projects and processes. This book is organized into eight chapters. The focus of Chapter 1 is to introduce you to the primary concepts associated with managing, measuring, controlling, and improving software processes. The motivation for using statistical process control is also discussed--that is, utilizing control charts for making process decisions and for predicting process behavior. This chapter begins by characterizing the term software process, especially as it is used in SPC applications. Issues of process performance, stability, compliance, capability, and improvement are briefly introduced (and elaborated throughout the book) since these form the basis for improving process performance. A section on measuring process behavior then follows. A framework for measuring process behavior is presented next and serves as the guiding structure for the rest of the book. The remaining chapters follow this framework with more detailed discussions, expanding on the activities associated with using statistical process control techniques for improving the software process. The focus of Chapter 2 is to discuss the activities associated with measuring the software process. They include identifying process management issues, selecting and defining the measures, and integrating the measurement activities with the organization's processes. The idea here is to understand what you want to measure and why and to select appropriate measures that will provide insight into your issues. In Chapter 3, we discuss the specifics associated with collecting software process data. The principal tasks include designing methods and obtaining tools for data collection, training staff to execute the data collection procedures, and capturing and recording the data. Additionally, there is a discussion of many of the important tools available to analyze, understand, and explain causal relationships to the process performance data. In Chapter 4, we embark on the initial discussion of analyzing process behavior with Shewhart's control charts by graphically illustrating the concepts of process variation and stability. The basics of constructing control charts, calculating limits, and detecting anomalous process behavior are given to provide a basis for the ensuing chapters. Chapter 5 is dedicated to providing the information to construct and calculate limits for the several different control charts applicable to software processes. Examples of the calculations and charts are set in familiar software settings. Chapter 6 discusses a number of topics that arise when using control charts. Guidelines are offered for how much data is necessary for control charting, recognizing anomalous process behavior patterns, rational subgrouping, aggregation of data, and insufficient data granularity. Chapter 7 provides insight on what actions to take after you have plotted your data on process behavior charts. The actions involve removing assignable causes of instability, changing the process to make it more capable, or seeking ways to continually improve the process. The book concludes with Chapter 8. It provides ten steps for getting started using statistical process control, cites the experiences by some of those who have used statistical process control in a software environment, and addresses a number of frequently asked questions. The appendixes include several of the more commonly used tables for calculation of control chart limits and a special topics section that contains detailed discussions addressing statistical process control fundamentals. For those who wish to learn more about the topics addressed in this book, we have included an extensive list of references following the appendixes. Everything in this book has its roots in experience--often that of the authors, at times that of others. Much of the experience comes from software settings, while other lessons are adapted from other service- and industrial-oriented environments. Some of the numerical examples are composed rather than factual; in others, the names of organizations providing the data are disguised to maintain confidentiality. We have tried to ensure that the examples represent reasonable extensions of practices that have been demonstrated to be meaningful and successful in software settings. The focus, then, is on the acquisition of quantitative information and the use of statistical process control methods to help you to reliably identify the problems (and the opportunities) present in the processes you operate. When the methods are properly used, you can confidently use the results to control and predict your process behavior and guide your improvement actions. We recognize that much more can be said about the use of measurements and statistical methods for controlling and improving processes than this book addresses. On the other hand, we have striven to provide the information, ideas, and methods that are sufficient for you to get started using statistical process control to better understand the behavior of your software processes. We trust that it will encourage you and others to begin applying the concepts that it explains and illustrates. This book is about using statistical process control (SPC) and control charts to measure and analyze software processes. It shows how characteristics of software products and processes can be measured and analyzed using statistical process control so that the performance of activities that produce the products can be managed, predicted, controlled, and improved to achieve business and technical goals. If you are a software manager or practitioner who has responsibilities for product quality or process performance, and if you are ready to define, collect, and use measurements to manage, control, and predict your software processes, then this book is for you. It will put you on the road to using measurement data to control and improve process performance. Not only will the discussions here introduce you to important concepts, but also they will introduce you to tried-and-true process measurement and analysis methods as set forth in a software environment. On the other hand, if your organization does not yet have basic measurement processes in place, you should make establishing measures for planning and managing projects your first priority. Handbooks such as Practical Software Measurement: A Foundation for Objective Project Management McGarry 1998 and Goal-Driven Software Measurement Park 1996 make excellent starting points, as do the examples and advice found in books by people such as Watts S. Humphrey and Robert B. Grady Humphrey 1989; Grady 1987, 1992. This book is an extension and elaboration of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) guidebook Practical Software Measurement: Measuring for Process Management and Improvement Florac 1997. The guidebook grew out of a collaborative effort with the authors of Practical Software Measurement: A Foundation for Objective Project Management McGarry 1998. Both publications were written to encourage and guide software organizations to use measurements to quantitatively manage software projects and processes. This book is organized into eight chapters. The focus of Chapter 1 is to introduce you to the primary concepts associated with managing, measuring, controlling, and improving software processes. The motivation for using statistical process control is also discussed--that is, utilizing control charts for making process decisions and for predicting process behavior. This chapter begins by characterizing the term software process, especially as it is used in SPC applications. Issues of process performance, stability, compliance, capability, and improvement are briefly introduced (and elaborated throughout the book) since these form the basis for improving process performance. A section on measuring process behavior then follows. A framework for measuring process behavior is presented next and serves as the guiding structure for the rest of the book. The remaining chapters follow this framework with more detailed discussions, expanding on the activities associated with using statistical process control techniques for improving the software process. The focus of Chapter 2 is to discuss the activities associated with measuring the software process. They include identifying process management issues, selecting and defining the measures, and integrating the measurement activities with the organization's processes. The idea here is to understand what you want to measure and why and to select appropriate measures that will provide insight into your issues. In Chapter 3, we discuss the specifics associated with collecting software process data. The principal tasks include designing methods and obtaining tools for data collection, training staff to execute the data collection procedures, and capturing and recording the data. Additionally, there is a discussion of many of the important tools available to analyze, understand, and explain causal relationships to the process performance data. In Chapter 4, we embark on the initial discussion of analyzing process behavior with Shewhart's control charts by graphically illustrating the concepts of process variation and stability. The basics of constructing control charts, calculating limits, and detecting anomalous process behavior are given to provide a basis for the ensuing chapters. Chapter 5 is dedicated to providing the information to construct and calculate limits for the several different control charts applicable to software processes. Examples of the calculations and charts are set in familiar software settings. Chapter 6 discusses a number of topics that arise when using control charts. Guidelines are offered for how much data is necessary for control charting, recognizing anomalous process behavior patterns, rational subgrouping, aggregation of data, and insufficient data granularity. Chapter 7 provides insight on what actions to take after you have plotted your data on process behavior charts. The actions involve removing assignable causes of instability, changing the process to make it more capable, or seeking ways to continually improve the process. The book concludes with Chapter 8. It provides ten steps for getting started using statistical process control, cites the experiences by some of those who have used statistical process control in a software environment, and addresses a number of frequently asked questions. The appendixes include several of the more commonly used tables for calculation of control chart limits and a special topics section that contains detailed discussions addressing statistical process control fundamentals. For those who wish to learn more about the topics addressed in this book, we have included an extensive list of references following the appendixes. Everything in this book has its roots in experience--often that of the authors, at times that of others. Much of the experience comes from software settings, while other lessons are adapted from other service- and industrial-oriented environments. Some of the numerical examples are composed rather than factual; in others, the names of organizations providing the data are disguised to maintain confidentiality. We have tried to ensure that the examples represent reasonable extensions of practices that have been demonstrated to be meaningful and successful in software settings. The focus, then, is on the acquisition of quantitative information and the use of statistical process control methods to help you to reliably identify the problems (and the opportunities) present in the processes you operate. When the methods are properly used, you can confidently use the results to control and predict your process behavior and guide your improvement actions. We recognize that much more can be said about the use of measurements and statistical methods for controlling and improving processes than this book addresses. On the other hand, we have striven to provide the information, ideas, and methods that are sufficient for you to get started using statistical process control to better understand the behavior of your software processes. We trust that it will encourage you and others to begin applying the concepts that it explains and illustrates. 0201604442P04062001",books;computer science;computers & technology;design tools & techniques;information systems;methodology;new;programming;quality control;software;software design;software design & engineering;software development;software engineering;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,16 0721694209,"Review of Sports Medicine & Arthroscopy Mark D. Miller, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Virginia Sports Medicine, Charlottesville, VA; Daniel E. Cooper, MD, Associate Clinical Instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery, W.B. Carrell Memorial Clinic, University of Texas SW Medical Center, Dallas, TX; and Jon J.P. Warner, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedics, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA",books;clinical;education & reference;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;orthopedics;sports & outdoors;sports medicine;study guides;studying & workbooks;surgery;test prep & study guides;training;used & rental textbooks,16 0764506919,"Linux Programming For Dummies Download sample code at the companion Web siteFun mini quizzes let you test your programming knowledgeThe fun and easy way(TM) to start writing Linux(r) bash shell programs With Linux shell programming, it's easy to create sophisticated applications quickly - after you pick up a few basic programming skills. That's where this friendly guide comes in. Walking you through all the basics, from variables and subprograms to printouts and debugging, programming pro Jim Keogh will have you creating Linux apps in a snap.Discover how to: Write your first shell program Design a user interface Work with loops, functions, and more Create database and e-mail programs Harness the ten most useful Linux utilities Debug your programsThe 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 Jim Keogh is the chair of the Software Development for Electronic Commerce track at Columbia University and the author of more than 40 computer books.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;linux;new;operating systems;programming;software;software design;software design & engineering;software development;testing & engineering;unix;used & rental textbooks,16 0824522516,"Blessed Among All Women: Women Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time ""Robert Ellsberg does it all again--and with magnificence!"" -- Richard Rohr,OFM Center for Action and Contemplation, Author of Everything BelongsThis book makes a serious contribution to the newly emerging consciousness of the full equality of women. -- Joan Chittister, OSB Robert Ellsberg, editor-in-chief of Orbis Books, is author of All Saints and numerous books, three of which have been honored with the Christopher Award medal. He lives in Ossining, New York.",biographies & memoirs;books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;general;history;leaders & notable people;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;saints;specific groups;women;women's studies;world,16 0684856786,"Survivor: Taking Control of Your Fight against Cancer Although the subtitle is given in second person, only the opening and closing sections of this volume speak directly to the reader. The rest is a first-person account of the author's battle with leukemia more than six years ago. Landro, entertainment editor for the Wall Street Journal, describes in graphic terms the hell she went through during treatment. Intensive chemotherapy, radiation and a bone marrow transplant made her lose all her hair, enter menopause at age 37 and rendered her unable to stomach even a lemon drop. But Landro's was a well-padded hell: her mother is an expert nurse, both brothers had compatible bone marrow (a rarity), the Journal's extensive resources were at her fingertips and she had the means to fly around the country to investigate treatment options and rent a deluxe apartment in Seattle for her year of treatment there. Readers will, as she does, appreciate the value of a supportive family, plenty of income and connections to medical communities. For those without these advantages, however, Landro offers plenty of encouragement and worthwhile information. Her story also emphasizes the importance of what money and position can't buy: an indomitable will to survive. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. What a great story for a journalist: investigate the process of cancer from diagnosis to bone marrow transplant and its aftermath. Landro, in 1991 the entertainment editor for the Wall Street Journal, might have considered this a plum assignment had not the diagnosis of chronic myelogenous leukemia been her own. Still, a good reporter knows how to go after information, and here Landro documents her search for ways to survive and conquer this disease. Pre-Internet data-gathering made her efforts harder than they would be today, with all information just a click away. But with the help of friends who scoured medical journals and her own tenacity, she procured what she considered the best treatment (sibling-match bone marrow transplant) at the best hospital (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle). Her story is as harrowing as any survival tale, but the reader is heartened by the notion that anyone can be their own advocate for the best in modern healthcare. Landro pursued every avenue toward her recovery and long-term health outlook, and she advises others to do the same?one step at a time. A fine narrative for all patient health collections.?Bette-Lee Fox, ""Library Journal""Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Wall Street Journal entertainment editor Landro was diagnosed, at 36, with chronic leukemia in 1991. The ensuing crisis spurred her to use all her journalistic resources, including her Hollywood contacts, to explore her options for dealing with this fatal blood cancer. Her expansion of a prizewinning Journal article is the account of initially being paralyzed by fear, subsequently taking charge of her battle against the disease, and finally waging a near-death battle and triumphing over despair. Throughout, Landro emphasizes the patient's need to be armed with research studies and facts, to interrogate and, if necessary, confront doctors, and to investigate treatment facilities. Of course, these were options open to an affluent, well-insured professional (her insurance covered the quarter-million-dollar price tag of her bone marrow transplant), whose employer gave her time off to jet cross-country from treatment center to treatment center, getting a feel for the ambience as well as the technical aspects of these facilities. Some may wonder whether many other--especially uninsured--Americans would have fared similarly. Whitney Scott --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. People magazine Survivor is a veritable how-to manual for sufferers and their families.Tom Brokaw Laura Landro is a sassy, intelligent woman who beat cancer with brains, love, and courage. She'll enrich your life with her story.Jill E. McGovern, Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer, The Marrow Foundation I found Survivor to be the best account I have ever read of everything involved in considering treatment options, identifying a [bone] marrow match, undergoing a transplant, and overcoming post-transplant complications. The book will now be required reading for the staff of The Marrow Foundation.Larry King One of the most important books I have ever read. Laura Landro is a senior editor in charge of entertainment, media, and marketing coverage at The Wall Street Journal. She won the National Print Journalism Award from the Leukemia Society of America for her October 24, 1996, Wall Street Journal article, ""A Survivor's Tale."" She lives in New York City. Chapter One: THE BAD NEWSOn the afternoon of August 20, 1991 -- my thirty-seventh birthday -- I was in my apartment in New York City, trying to muster some energy to celebrate. For weeks, I had been feeling increasingly tired and out of sorts. My parents were in town to take me out to dinner at my favorite Italian restaurant, and the following day we were planning to drive to Long Island for a family vacation at the beach, a period of rest that I hoped would do me some good. Too bad I'm not there already, I thought. I suddenly had such a crushing sense of fatigue that I decided to lie down for a few minutes.Three hours later, it took all the strength I had just to get up off the bed again. Something has got to be wrong with me, I thought to myself as I stared at my pale face in the mirror, trying with makeup to cover the dark circles under my eyes.But what was it that was wrong? Had I been staying out too late, not taking good enough care of myself, working too hard? My job -- managing a dozen reporters and writing about the entertainment industry for The Wall Street Journal -- entailed more than its share of stress, but not enough to make me feel this tired. If anything, life at the newspaper was energizing; I did my best work on the adrenaline of deadlines. I had always been in good health. And though I was no athlete, after years of regular exercise, I had never been in better physical condition.Like most people, I had my share of modern day health paranoia, illogically wondering if a bad headache could be a brain tumor. Each of my father's four sisters had battled breast cancer. That put me in a higher risk category, and I worried about it. But when you came right down to it, I regarded illness and disease as the curse of the old and infirm, a vague concern for the distant future. I decided whatever was ailing me now must be some temporary aberration, a virus, something I would soon shake off.The next day we arrived in Southampton to stay at a friend's oceanfront house. I looked forward to being outside every day -- riding my bike, running, swimming laps in the heated pool. But when I tried to exercise, the effort left me winded, gasping for breath. I complained to my mother that I had never felt so run down. As a nurse, she had always been a better diagnostician than the average mother, and she, too, was worried. ""You look so pale and tired,"" she told me as we walked along the beach one morning. ""Why don't you see a doctor as soon as you get back home?""I promised her I would, but after I returned to work in September, things got so hectic that I put off making an appointment. I figured if I ignored it, maybe it would go away. But it didn't. In fact, some mornings, I felt as if I were nailed to my bed, unable to shake off sleep without great effort. There was a nagging ache in my left side that sometimes intensified into a sharp pain. A surge of that adrenaline would get me through the pressure-cooker afternoon deadlines at the office, but I was so spent at night that I would often have to lie down in the back seat of a taxi on the way home.As if I needed a further incentive to see a doctor, a notice arrived in the mail from Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, offering to pay for a complete annual physical as part of a new health plan. Finally I stopped procrastinating. On the morning of Tuesday, October 22, I went to see Dr. Steven Marks, who had treated me for the occasional flu or stomach virus, and I told him about my symptoms. ""You look fine,"" he said after examining me in his office. ""But let's do some blood work just to be sure.""Two days later, on Thursday, October 24, I was in my office, thinking of little else but a story I was writing for the next day's paper. The newsroom was in its usual state of contained pandemonium, reporters hammering away at their computer terminals, the fax machine spewing out press releases, the phones ringing incessantly. I was still waiting for some sources to call me back with information I needed for my story. On days like this, anyone who called me on unrelated business, including my mother, was usually dispatched with a brusque, ""Can't talk now, I'm on deadline.""I picked up the phone at about 3 P.M., blanking on the name for a second when the caller said, ""Laura, Steven Marks here."" Realizing who it was, I assumed it was a courtesy call from the nice doctor to tell me my malaise was all in my head; I had actually been feeling a little better that day. ""What's up, Doc?"" I chirped, still mostly focused on the computer screen in front of me. But his tone as he answered was grave. What he was about to tell me would divide my life into everything before this phone call, and everything after.""Well, your blood tests have come back, and there's a problem,"" Dr. Marks began. ""Your white blood cell count is extremely elevated.""He suddenly had my undivided attention. ""Like, how elevated?"" I asked, feeling a prick of alarm. Dr. Marks replied that my white blood cell count was close to 75,000, while the normal level was closer to 4,000. My alarm intensified. ""But what does that mean?"" I asked.""It could be an infection, but there's nothing else in the blood test that indicates that,"" Dr. Marks said. With my reporter's instincts kicking in, I pressed him harder. ""Dr. Marks, what else could this be? What is the worst case scenario here?"" I asked.""Well,"" he said carefully, ""I've consulted a hematologist, and he says it looks like something called chronic myelogenous leukemia."" I heard the word ""leukemia"" and a wave of panic washed over me. I felt disoriented, and my heart started to pump faster in my chest. I wasn't even sure exactly what leukemia was, but I knew it had to do with the blood, and that it was a form of cancer. A friend's son had died of it a decade earlier after a desperate battle that took up most of his short life. ""Leukemia,"" I repeated, then asked incredulously, ""are you telling me I'm going to die here?""""Of course not,"" Dr. Marks said, assuring me I was in no immediate danger. ""But a hematologist I work with can see you today if you want. Why don't you get there this afternoon?"" I jotted down the name and address he gave me, and told him I would head there straight away.As I hung up the phone in a daze, I glanced up to see my friend and colleague Alix Freedman, one of the paper's best reporters and an equally good eavesdropper, in my doorway. She had been standing there long enough to hear most of my end of the conversation. ""What is going on?"" she whispered. I shakily relayed what Dr. Marks had said, and told her I had to leave the office right away. ""I'm coming with you,"" she said, and ran off to call a car service for us.Mechanically, I made the calls necessary to enable me to walk out of the office in the middle of a really important story, which suddenly didn't seem so important anymore. I called Marty Schenker, the national news editor, and told him a medical emergency had come up; he would have to find something else to fill the big space where my story was supposed to go. Something in my voice told him not to argue with me. My deputy, Dennis Kneale, agreed without question to edit any other stories that broke that afternoon. Finally, I called the executive who was the main subject of my story and told him it was on hold for today.I gathered my briefcase, coat, and purse, and walked out with Alix to the waiting car. We headed up the FDR Drive, the quickest route to the upper East Side from lower Manhattan. Mercifully, for once there was no traffic. I stared out at the sun glinting off the familiar city skyline, the tugboats pushing barges down the East River, the graceful bridges linking Manhattan to Brooklyn and Queens. It was a perfect day, but to me everything seemed unreal. I couldn't stop tears from welling up in my eyes. ""I can't believe this, I just can't believe this,"" I kept saying. Alix clutched my hand, trying to reassure me.In twenty-five minutes I was in the Park Avenue office of Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, a young, soft-spoken hematologist with a calm, reassuring manner. ""I'm going to repeat the blood tests and I'll need a bone marrow biopsy,"" he told me as he ushered me into a large examination room with a wide table in the middle. After taking off my clothes and donning a paper robe, I climbed up on the table and lay face down. Dr. Gaynor warned me that I might feel some pain, as he injected me with a local anesthetic.Moments later, he plunged a long needle deep into my lower back at the iliac crest of my pelvic bone, then twisted it like a corkscrew to extract the marrow he needed to confirm the diagnosis. I felt a sense of extreme pressure, and despite the anesthetic, a sharp pain shot down my leg. I shuddered at the grinding sound of metal into bone; my leg jerked involuntarily.As he worked, Dr. Gaynor asked, ""Do you have any brothers or sisters?"" I told him I had two younger brothers, thinking he was making polite chitchat. He swabbed antiseptic over the biopsy site, then applied a big gauze bandage, warning me not to take it off for twenty-four hours.Wincing as I sat down in his office afterward, I listened as he told me that he would know more in a couple of days, but was fairly sure that I had chronic myelogenous leukemia. ""CML is a more indolent form of leukemia,"" he explained; as Dr. Marks had said, the danger was not as imminent as some of the more acute forms of the cancer, and I had several options to consider for treatment. He mentioned interferon, an immune-boosting drug he had been working with that put some patients into remission. He also mentioned a bone marrow transplant, a procedure I was only dimly aware of, as something to think about down the road. He was glad to hear I had siblings; we would need to test both my brothers to see if they could provide a ""match"" that would make a transplant possible.My head was spinning as I tried to take in all that he was saying. The incongruity of it struck me as almost comic. A few hours earlier, my bi...",administration & medicine economics;alternative medicine;biographies & memoirs;books;cancer;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;healing;health;health care delivery;internal medicine;medical;medical books;medicine;oncology;professionals & academics,16 0892813822,"The Healing Cuisine: India's Art of Ayurvedic Cooking (Healing Arts Press) Ayurveda's renaissance man... -- Yoga Journal Harish Johari is also the author of Leela: The Game of Self-Knowledge, Tools for Tantra, Chakras, The Healing Power of Gemstones, Breath, Mind, and Consciousness, and Numerology. His audiocassettes include Sounds of Tantra, Sounds of the Chakras, and Attunements for Dawn and Dusk. He makes his home in India, but lectures worldwide, preparing sumptuous feasts wherever he goes.",asian;books;cookbooks;diets & weight loss;fitness & dieting;food & wine;health;indian;natural foods;occult;other diets;regional & international;religion & spirituality;special diet;vegetables & vegetarian;vegetarian,16 0826116264,"Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners in Gynecologic Settings: Eighth Edition Joellen W. Hawkins, RN, PhD, WHNP-BC, FAAN, FAANP has been a women's health nurse practitioner since 1969 and is Professor Emerita, William F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College where from 1983 to 2007 she was the coordinator of the women's health nurse practitioner program, teaching clinical and theory courses for that program, as well as the advanced practice role course. Currently, she is Writer in Residence at Simmons College, Department of Nursing, Boston. For 30 years, she practiced as a WHNP in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Her research includes abuse during pregnancy; screening for abuse, coalition building to address violence in a community, and historical work on individual nurses, advanced practice nursing, and women's health nurse practitioners. She is the Chief Nursing Consultant for Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary T-22. She is the author or editor of 36 books and more than 100 articles in professional journals. Diane M. Roberto-Nichols, BS, APRN-C, has practiced as an OB/GYN nurse practitioner for more than 30 years. She practices at the University of Connecticut Student Health Services (Storrs) and Ellington OB/GYN Associates in Ellington, CT. Her practice focus has been women's health, starting as coordinator of the Women's Health Clinic at the University of Connecticut (Storrs), where she was instrumental in making contraception and confidential health care available to female students. She also co-developed a protocol and implemented an assault crisis center for sexually and physically abused students at the University, as well as co-authored the protocols that served as the prototype for this book. She continues to provide education and health care to women throughout the life span.J. Lynn Stanley-Haney, MA, APRN-C, is an Adult Medicine nurse practitioner with special practice areas in Gynecology and Psychiatry. Her current practice includes Ellington OB/GYN Associates (Ellington, CT), Eastern Connecticut State University Counseling and Psychological Services (Willimantic, CT) and Private Practice in Psychotherapy and Psychotherapeutic Medication Management. Since certification in 1980, she has pursued advocacy in women's health and access to care. As the Director of Nursing for the University of Connecticut Student Health Services (1978 - 1993), she worked with their Women's Health Clinic in assuring quality of care and also provided direct care to students. Along with her long time colleague and co-author Diane Roberto-Nichols, she co-developed and implemented a 24-hour sexual assault crisis service for physically abused and sexually assaulted women students as well as co-authored the protocols that served as the prototype for this book. Since leaving the university, she has worked to implement and manage, as well as practice clinically in state funded school-based health services.",books;clinical;fundamentals & skills;general;internal medicine;maternity;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;midwifery;new;nursing;obstetrics & gynecology;perinatal;used & rental textbooks;women's health,16 0802714714,"Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan Starred Review. The Allied bombing of Axis cities, which killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and made smoking ruins of Dresden, Tokyo and Hiroshima, remains one of the great controversies of WWII; this probing study does the issue full justice. Philosophy professor Grayling (The Meaning of Things) focuses on Britain's ""area bombing"" of entire German cities, a strategy adopted initially because bombers couldn't hit smaller sites and then, as attitudes hardened, continued as a deliberate attack on civilian morale. Grayling scrupulously considers the justifications for area bombingthat it would shorten the conflict by destroying Germany's economy and will to resist, that civilian workers were also combatants or that it was simply the rough justice of warand finds them wanting. British bombing, he contends, did little damage to the German war effort at an unconscionable price in innocent lives, in contrast to American pinpoint bombing of industrial and military targets, which succeeded in paralyzing the German economy with few civilian casualties. (The Americans, he sadly notes, resorted to area bombing in their devastating air campaign against Japan.) Drawing on firsthand accounts by theorists, architects, victims and opponents of area bombing, Grayling situates a lucid analysis of the historical data within a rigorous philosophical framework. (Mar.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Adult/High SchoolGrayling's purpose is not to condone the atrocities carried out by the Axis or to condemn the Allies for carpet bombing cities in Germany and Japan, but to show that, even in a good war, the good guys can do bad things. He examines the decision making, the circumstances, and the contemporary debate over the practice that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians and the destruction of so many cities. While the author discusses the practical military drawbacks of the tactic, he is most engaged with its moral implications. Black-and-white photos show the effects of the campaign. This is an engaging and readable work, intended to bring readers into contact with the shaded moralities of war.Ted Westervelt, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. *Starred Review* Was it wrong for the Allies to bomb German and Japanese civilians in World War II? In this book, one of the world's most passionate and articulate humanists attends to one of the twentieth-century's largest unexploded moral conundrums. Although obscured in the immediate postwar period by the greater evil of the Holocaust and the blind eye of victor's justice, the British and American strategy of ""area bombing"" entire cities and their nonmilitary populations poses difficult questions about the use of overwhelming violence as a strategic tool. Structured as a legal case in the court of public morality, Grayling's book builds careful, generous cases for and against the bombing, admitting as evidence both the experience of the bombed as well as the bombers. Exhibit A is ""Operation Gomorrah,"" a series of missions in 1943 in which the RAF and USAAF dumped more than 9,000 tons of firestorm-causing bombs on the citizens of Hamburg. Perhaps most swayed by the voices of contemporaneous critics, Grayling's verdict is surprising not in ultimately condemning the attacks but in doing so in an elegantly blunt fashion that simultaneously radiates profound compassion for the perpetrators. Brendan DriscollCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved 'Its obvious contemporary relevance gives this book a timeliness to add to the timeless nature of the debate to which it contributes ... Books like this should be compulsory reading for all senior politicians' Guardian 'Extraordinary ... deserves to be read, not only by those interested in the history of the Second World War, but also by those who continue to be interested in the ethical questions of warfare, in a world where British governments and their allies still try to justify the bombing of civilian targets' Daily Telegraph 'Grayling recognises all too well that area bombing must be put firmly in the context of the wider war and the blurring (indeed the obliteration) of moral lines it caused ... A challenging, thought-provoking book that forces us to confront some uncomfortable home truths' Glasgow Herald 'A provocative and readable study ... that is the purpose of his book, to provoke our leaders, and those on whose behalf they purport to act, to ask how to wage a war by methods short of barbarism' John Charmley, Guardian --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. A.C. Grayling is one of Britain's leading intellectuals. Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a supernumerary fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford, he is the multi-talented author of the best-selling The Meaning of Things, The Reason of Things and The Mystery of Things. He is a regular contributor to The Times, the Financial Times, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television, including CNN, Newsnight, the Today programme, In Our Time and Start the Week. He was a Man Booker judge in 2003, is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and an advisor on many committees ranging from Drug Testing at Work to human rights groups. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. In the summer of 1943, the Bomber Command of Britain's Royal Air Force began what it chose to call Operation Gomorrah, ""five major and several minor"" aerial attacks on the German city of Hamburg, ""with the aim of wiping Hamburg from the map of Europe."" Most of the bombs it dropped were incendiaries, ""small bombs filled with highly flammable chemicals, among them magnesium, phosphorus and petroleum jelly."" The result was ""the first ever firestorm created by bombing, and it caused terrible destruction and loss of life,"" almost entirely among civilians. At least 45,000 human corpses were found in the ruins, and more than 30,000 buildings were destroyed. A.C. Grayling writes: ""In the cellars, otherwise unscathed people suffocated to death. Police reports and eyewitness accounts later confirmed many of the horror stories told 'of demented Hamburgers carrying bodies of deceased relatives in their suitcases -- a man with the corpse of his wife and daughter, a woman with the mummified body of her daughter, or other women with the heads of their dead children.' "" At about this time, Winston Churchill watched ""a film showing RAF bombers in action over the Ruhr."" According to one who was present, Churchill suddenly blurted out: ""Are we animals? Are we taking this too far?"" Quite to the contrary was the view of Bomber Command, in particular its commander, Air Marshall Sir Arthur Harris, who ""wanted to make a tremendous show"" (the words are his own) in Hamburg and got what he wanted. But the question remains: Was the indiscriminate bombing of civilians -- in Hamburg, in Dresden, in Tokyo, in Hiroshima, in Nagasaki -- justifiable militarily, or was it ""in whole or in part morally wrong""? This is the question addressed in Among the Dead Cities by Grayling, a professor of philosophy at the University of London and one of Britain's more prominent and outspoken public intellectuals. Almost immediately one senses what his answer will be -- an unequivocal ""Yes"" -- but he must be given full credit for reaching that conclusion only after a careful, nuanced analysis that gives full credit to the views and intentions of the bombers as well as making clear that the Allied bombing, however terrible, was ""nowhere near equivalent in scale of moral atrocity to the Holocaust of European Jewry, or the death and destruction all over the world for which Nazi and Japanese aggression was collectively responsible: a total of some twenty-five million dead, according to responsible estimates,"" by contrast with the toll of ""about 800,000 civilian women, children and men"" exacted by Allied bombing. Grayling's study focuses primarily on British bombing and especially on Operation Gomorrah, ""because it took place when the war was, although running in the Allies' favour, by no means securely won."" The bombing of Hamburg, in other words, occurred at a time when the arguments for bombing would seem strongest: It aimed to sap the power of a formidable enemy, to reduce military and civilian morale, to weaken enemy industry, and to divert ""soldiers, guns and fighter planes away from the battlefronts to protect the cities instead."" By comparison with the far better known attacks on Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which occurred when the outcome of the war was known, the bombing of Hamburg may -- emphasis on may -- have helped swing the war in the Allies' favor and thus have served a desirable and justifiable end. Grayling is at considerable pains to give the advocates of bombing civilian targets their full say. He is fair to Harris, who ""was not a man of culture,"" but ""balance requires that one remember that (in the phrase much then employed) 'there was war on,' and he took himself to be in command of a campaign that would not only defend his own country from a dangerous aggressor, but would win the war to boot, and thereby destroy the regime which had plunged the world into catastrophe."" Harris meant to destroy ""one major city after another until the population of Germany could take it no longer,"" and he ""fervently believed that bombing was a war-winning weapon."" On the European front, American policy, by contrast with British, was to use precision bombing aimed as directly at military and industrial targets as circumstances permitted. In the Far East, though, the United States embraced saturation bombing of civilians with the same zeal that Britain directed it at Germany, and with the same arguments. To this day, most Americans apparently believe that the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki drove Japan to surrender and saved uncountable American lives that would have been lost in an invasion of the Japanese mainland. When, several years ago, a controversial exhibition at the Air and Space Museum revived debate over this issue, I was one of many who expressed in public the prevailing, and conventional, view. Grayling has me thinking second thoughts, and others are likely to have the same response. He argues that the firebombing of Tokyo in 1945 -- of which Gen. Curtis LeMay said, ""We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo that night of March 9-10 than went up in vapour in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined"" -- and the Soviet invasion of Mongolia, as well as other influences, had Japan on the brink of surrender and that the atomic attacks were far less crucial than is commonly believed. If there was no military justification for the bombings, then there cannot possibly be a moral one, and Grayling's judgment that they were immoral seems to me exceedingly difficult to refute. It would be quite another matter had Grayling stacked the deck in his favor, as has been done by too many American critics of aerial attacks on civilians, in particular those who wrote the text for the Air and Space Museum's deservedly infamous Enola Gay exhibition. The military and moral arguments against the bombing of civilian targets are not so airtight as their adherents believe, especially in circumstances -- Saddam Hussein's Iraq, for one -- in which regimes have deliberately situated military and/or industrial targets in civilian areas. But Grayling gives the benefit of the doubt to supporters of bombing before, finally, coming down on the opposite side. He praises the courage of the bombers' crews and readily acknowledges the sincerity and patriotism of those who sent them on their missions. He emphasizes that World War II was as close to a ""just war"" as humankind has undergone. But he also insists, correctly, that ""acts of injustice can be perpetrated in the course of a just war, and if the injustices committed are themselves very great, their commission can threaten the overall justice of the war in which they took place."" St. Thomas Aquinas argued that ""on three conditions, war can be justified."" These are ""first, that there is a just cause of war, second, that it is begun on proper authority, and third, that it is waged with the right intention, meaning that it aims at 'the advancement of good, or the avoidance of evil.' "" Obviously World War II satisfied all of these conditions. But what about two others formulated by modern just-war theorists: ""that to be just a war must have a reasonable chance of success, and that the means used to conduct it must be proportional to the ends sought."" It is on this final condition that bombing of civilians comes a cropper. Leave aside all the other objections to such bombing, moral and otherwise -- and there are plenty of them -- the simple fact is that it is disproportionately cruel, destructive and wanton. The ends sought -- defeat of Germany and Japan -- were in sight before the bombings of 1944 and 1945, and even the bombing of Hamburg in 1943 was out of proportion to the gains it allegedly brought to the Allied cause, if in fact there were any. The ""horrific firestorm"" it produced may have been small compared to the atrocities of Auschwitz, but it was horrific all the same. Grayling is right to insist that by acknowledging that we do not ""have clean hands ourselves,"" we would be in a far stronger position to condemn ""the people who plunged the world into war and carried out gross crimes under its cover."" As matters stand now, we are at the very least open to the charge of hypocrisy.Copyright 2006, The Washington Post. All Rights Reserved.",20th century;americas;asia;aviation;books;ethics & morality;europe;germany;history;japan;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);philosophy;politics & social sciences;world;world war ii,16 026269235X,"Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization The energy of solar radiation reaching the earth clocks in at 5,500,000 exajoules, an exajoule being one watt per second taken to 10 to the 18th power. The energy used to strike a typewriter key is 20 millijoules, a millijoule being one watt per second taken to 10 to the negative 3rd power; that keyboard-striking energy is a full order of magnitude larger than the energy a flea expends in hopping from one spot to another. Such is the sort of information that geographer Vaclav Smil delights in presenting in his endlessly interesting handbook of the various energy technologies of nature and culture. ""Energy is the only universal currency,"" Smil writes, but, he notes, it is little understood. Beginning with a grand tour of the solar system and the terrestrial biosphere, and taking into account such matters as the movement and latent heat of waves, Smil moves on to consider the energy of natural food chains, the efficiency of human growth, the energy requirements of agriculture, and the terrible force of modern weapons, among hundreds of other subjects. His heavily illustrated book is one of a kind, and it makes for both entertaining bedside reading and a highly useful reference. --Gregory McNamee --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ""Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve."" Thus Smil begins his teeming cross-disciplinary book--""a hybrid,"" he calls it, ""combining a quasi-encyclopedic sweep with the brevity of mini-essays,"" together with some 300 illustrations, old and new. The 82 essays are grouped under the headings of sun and earth, plants and animals, people and food, preindustrial societies, fossil-fueled civilization, and transportation and information; they cover a broad span of knowledge. Dip into the book anywhere, and you will find a bracing fact or connection. Examples: Total runoff of the earth's rivers averaged 38,000 cubic kilometers during the 1980s, which was more than 5 percent below the mean during the late 17th century. The relation between the energy cost of walking and speed has a clear U shape: the energy cost is highest at a bit less than one meter per second, lowest at about 1.6 and moderate at about 2.4; the energy cost of running, however, is basically constant for speeds between three and 5.5 meters per second. The theoretical capacity of windmills increases with the cube of the wind speed; this in turn is proportional to the height above the ground raised to the power of 0.14; in other words, for a given wind speed at the surface, a machine with a shaft 10 meters above the ground will be only about 60 percent as powerful as one with its shaft 30 meters above the ground. And so on, in a dazzling procession. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ""A thought-provoking and enjoyable piece of work."" Wolfgang Rueckner, Harvard University Vaclav Smil is the author of more than thirty books on energy, environment, food, and history of technical advances, including Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines and Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature, both published by the MIT Press. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. In 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers.",biological sciences;biology;books;earth sciences;ecology;energy;engineering;environmental science;environmental studies;new;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;technology;used & rental textbooks,16 0300109067,"Irving Penn: Platinum Prints This beautiful volume showcases the exquisite platinum/palladium prints of legendary photographer Irving Penn. Featuring many of Penns most iconic images, the book includes portraits of Pablo Picasso, Saul Steinberg, and Marcel Duchamp; studies of indigenous people of New Guinea and Peru; innovative still lifes; and celebrated fashion studies by one of photographys most masterful craftsmen. Sarah Greenough is curator and head of the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art.",architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;catalogues & exhibitions;collections;equipment;essays & correspondence;history;individual artists;letters & correspondence;literature & fiction;photography;techniques & reference,16 0860913872,"The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena Such quality and accuracy of insight indicate both the power of Baudrillards initial position and the value of the French tradition of the grand philosophical analyst moving freely through the culture.Brian Appleyard, The SpectatorWe may not like Baudrillards merciless honesty about the modern age, but we need his voice: the crow on the shoulder.Pat Kane, The Scotsman Text: English (translation) Original Language: French Jean Baudrillard (19292007) began teaching sociology at the Universit de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007. His many works include Simulations and Simulacra, America, The Perfect Crime, The System of Objects, Passwords, The Transparency of Evil, The Spirit of Terrorism, and Fragments, among others.",books;fitness & dieting;general;good & evil;health;humanities;medical books;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;self-help;sex;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,16 157886125X,The School Uniform Movement and What It Tells Us about American Education: A Symbolic Crusade A sociologist who is a longtime researcher of school uniform policies gives a comprehensive history of the movement toward school uniforms and offers a critical evaluation of the literature addressing the topic. (Education Week )A fascinating exploration of the place of uniforms in our schools. (Colorado Parent ) David L. Brunsma is an assistant professor of sociology and black studies at the University of MissouriColumbia.,administration;books;college & university;education;education & reference;education theory;educational philosophy;elementary education;history;history & theory;new;philosophy & social aspects;reform & policy;schools & teaching;secondary education;used & rental textbooks,16 0306810476,"Cute, Quaint, Hungry And Romantic: The Aesthetics Of Consumerism From his perch somewhere in Brooklyn, New York, essayist Daniel Harris launches a loquacious jeremiad against the way in which consumerism and its ideologies have insinuated themselves into our sense of self. Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic is a critical examination of the everyday things that surround us--from washing machines to vitamin supplements, reproduction antiques to supermodels. Taking aim at cuteness, quaintness, coolness, the romantic, zaniness, the futuristic, deliciousness, the natural, glamorousness, and cleanness, he seeks to expose just how tangled is the web we have woven, his goal being to show ""how the aesthetics of consumerism are the lies we tell ourselves to preserve our individuality."" Buying a four-by-four does not make us roughriders or adventurers, despite the names such vehicles bear. We know this as we drive our Wrangler or Jeep through the smooth streets of suburbia, yet the off-road ads still appeal. The perversity is the way in which attempts at iconoclasm are themselves domesticated into corporate opportunity: dirty denim, pick-up trucks as general vehicles, ""wackiness."" Harris is not a man to mince his words. The reader sits almost breathless in the face of his vituperation. For example, discussing teenagers and coolness, he writes: ""The romantic movement's cult of the child has created a foul-mouthed enfant terrible who has turned the playground into a necropolis, where prematurely aged Byronic figures stagger from the merry-go-round to the seesaw to the jungle gym, striking poses of misery and ennui, convinced that their solemnity lends them an air of sophistication and maturity."" The critique is scathing and often penetrating. Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic is a bracing read and a call to consciousness. Even the least sophisticated consumers know they are manipulated. Even the most sophisticated, Harris argues, do not really acknowledge how much they, too, are willing dupes.--J. Riches --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. In an attempt to elucidate the intricate cultural interaction between the consumer and the consumed, Harris (The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture) examines a wide sampling of cultural relics, such as wood-burning stoves, Taco Bell Meximelts, Absolut Vodka and television sitcoms. While he is occasionally on target--as with his observation that the more destructive the product (e.g., cars, cigarettes), the more likely its advertisements will feature gorgeous nature photography--he more frequently states the obvious. For example, he notes that cute dolls are really parents' wish projections, aimed at compensating for the more ambivalent reality of kids, and that the ""quaintness"" sold by stores like Renovation Hardware doesn't reflect a desire for a less commercial past so much as an unthinking commercialization of that fantasy. All too often, Harris makes sweeping generalizations--such as his argument that hardcore porn and beautifully photographed food ""interfere with our ability to appreciate real"" lovers or food--that ignore the complexity of human existence and interaction. As Harris reveals in his afterword, he doesn't have any solutions, but ""as a cultural critic and not a visionary... I have always felt it is sufficient for me to destroy--to slash, to burn."" Unfortunately, his unrelenting negativism undercuts his arguments and makes for arduous reading. (May) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Harris (The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture) examines the aesthetics of everyday items in this insightful analysis of popular culture. The author studies cuteness, quaintness, coolness, zaniness, and the futuristic in light of how these concepts are manipulated to maximize consumer appeal. For example, quaintness is used to ""reproduce the past selectively, editing out its discomfort, inconvenience, misery, stench, and filth and concentrating instead on its carnal pleasures, its 'warm and homey feelings.'"" Thus, quaintness is manipulated to influence people to buy things that take them back to ""the good old days."" Considering the political aspects of how goods are designed and advertised, Harris concludes that consumerism results in disappointment and a sense that something is lacking, which only leads to further consumerism to fill the void. This action continues in a vicious cycle of unfulfilled wants and attempts to meet them. While Harris provides an insightful analysis of consumerism and the aesthetics of the everyday, this book is sometimes difficult to follow owing to the advanced nature of the language used and is only appropriate for academic libraries.DMark Bay, M.D., Univ. of Houston Lib., TX Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. The popularity of such recent works as Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point , John Seabrook's Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing--the Marketing of Culture , and Paco Underhill's Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping represents not only our fascination with the material products of mass consumption but also a growing interest in how deeply and why consumer culture shapes our lives. Harris, a contributor to publications like Harper's and Salmagundi, has already charged that marketing has homogenized gays to detrimental effect in his The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture (1997). Now, in a similarly loosely connected collection of essays, he ""delves into ways in which the ostensibly purposeless appearance of consumerist debris affects us psychologically, even if it serves no pragmatic function."" Harris successfully turns mylar balloons, Joe Boxer underwear, hydrating facial cleanser, Dove bars, and ""Goth rock"" singer Marilyn Manson into topics of serious, thought-provoking discussion. David RouseCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ""An exhilarating collection by a brilliant writer...a scholar of kitsch, a penetrating observer of things so familiar that they're in danger of not being noticed."" - Steven Millhauser ""Among the rising voices in the new American essay, none is more brilliant or quirky than Daniel Harris. His new book raises cultural analysis to dizzying, voluptuous heights. Even as he skewers the ridiculous and pompous, he brings a rare tenderness and poetic wit to the task."" -Phillip Lopate"" Daniel Harris is the author of The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture, a New York Times Notable Book in 1997. His essays have appeared regularly in Harper's, Salmagundi, and the Nation and have been included in the Anchor Essay Annual and Best American Essays. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.",aesthetics;antiques & collectibles;books;business & investing;consumer behavior;crafts;essays;essays & correspondence;hobbies & home;literature & fiction;marketing & sales;philosophy;politics & social sciences;popular culture;social sciences;sociology,16 0387982345,"Intelligence, Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to THE BELL CURVE (Silver Burdett Professional Publications) Bernie Devlin is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie-Mellon University. He serves on the DNA Advisory Board to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Director regarding standards for forensic DNA testing laboratories, and the National Forensic Review Panel for the National Institute of Justice regarding the performance of proficiency tests. Stephen E. Fienberg is Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics and Social Science at Carnegie-Mellon University and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Statistical Association. Daniel P. Resnick is Professor of History at Carnegie-Mellon University. His research deals with the relationship of historical thinking and experience to public policy development. Kathryn Roeder is Associate Professor of Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon University. She has a strong research interest in applied problems including statistical genetics, DNA forensic inference and criminology. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.",behavioral sciences;books;business & finance;cognitive psychology;fitness & dieting;health;mathematics;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,16 157488915X,"Spymaster: My Life in the CIA ""A veritable handbook for spies."" --From the foreword by B. Hugh Tovar, former head of CIA Covert Action and Counterintelligence Staffs Ted Shackley's final CIA position was as associate deputy director for operations. He died in December 2002, weeks after completing this book.A twenty-six-year veteran of the CIA's Clandestine Service, Richard A. Finney was a case officer and a training officer. He died in 2004.",biographies & memoirs;books;espionage;history;intelligence & espionage;leaders & notable people;life & institutions;memoirs;military;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics;true accounts;united states;vietnam war,16 1586380087,"God Makes the Rivers To Flow: Sacred Literature of the World This book is incandescent with insight and inspiration. It reveals a common wisdom uniting the great spiritual traditions of the world, which is a much-needed realization in our troubled times. --Larry Dossey, MD --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. I have read these passages countless times, yet I have never tired of them. With every encounter I find deeper meaning. May you, too, find in them a river of inspiration without end. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. The truth is one; the wise call it by many names. Rig Veda --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation in California, Eknath Easwaran (1910-1999) is widely respected as an authentic guide to universal wisdom. There are over 1.5 million of his books in print, including The Bhagavad Gita and The Upanishads. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.",alternative medicine;books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;meditation;meditations;mysticism;new age;other religions;personal transformation;practices & sacred texts;prayer;religion & spirituality;self-help;spirituality,16 1588291758,"Field of Vision: A Manual and Atlas of Perimetry (Current Clinical Neurology) From the reviews: Field of Vision: A Manual and Atlas of Perimetry is written by Jason J.S. Barton, a neurologist/neuro-ophthalmologist and Michael Benatar, a clinical neurologist, in response to a correctly perceived need. The book begins with a chapter on the importance and principles of perimetry and the normal visual field. This is followed by chapters on the functional anatomy of the visual system and the techniques for performing perimetry in the office and at the bedside. The final two didactic chapters detail the use of the two most important instruments: the Goldmann perimeter and the Humphrey automated field analyzer. After the five didactic chapters, there is an impressive 120 case atlas complete with relevant histories, neuroimaging, and detailed explanations of the pathophysiology of the visual field disturbances. All of the major disorders that cause visual field disturbances are covered by this beautiful atlas. - Martin A. Samuels, MD Neurologist-in-Chief, Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA ""...a welcome addition to the basic texts for all those who practice clinical neurology, as well as those training in the area...I enjoyed reading it from beginning to end and will undoubtedly refer back to it in the future.""-Martin A. Samuels, MD Neurologist-in-Chief, Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA ""This book is packed with high-resolution photographs and visual field charts. this book is appropriate for medical libraries and large academic libraries supporting programs on vision research."" - E-STREAMS ""This is a comprehensive overview of the use of perimetric devices and bedside testing of visual fields. The authors focus only on the clinically relevant points, providing enough technical detail and anatomic knowledge for the physician to competently interpret visual field defects. To develop the clinician's skills in interpretation, the authors include an impressive atlas of 120 cases. The superb integration of clinical and technical material will make this book a valuable teaching reference for all involved in the management of visual disorders."" - J Neuro-Opthalmol ""Field of Vision: A Manual and Atlas of Perimetry is a welcome addition to the already vast array of neurology and opthalmology texts. Field of Vision fills a void in the visual field literature: a text and atlas that meld together to teach perimetry and functional visual anatomy effectively to the clinician. It is a text that will instruct students at all levels and enhance the clinical acumen of any practicing neurologist."" -Neurology ""...an excellent addition to the world of visual field texts...should be obtained by every neurologic and ophthalmologic teaching library...highly recommended for any clinicianwho has an interest in the visual system and disorders."" - Le Journal Des Sciences Neurologiques ""This textbook is one of the most interesting books in visual fields that I have yet come across. In conclusion, I believe this is must buy text for neurologists as well as all ophthalmologists from the posterior segment ophthalmologist to the anterior segment ophthalmologist. It is also an excellent text for medical students and residents. I therefore rate this as a must buy text and give it a four star rating. This text is a virtual gold mine for the visual field enthusiast."" (Dinnis Denick, Annals of Ophthalmology, Vol. 37 (3), 2005) Although the visual field provides clinicians with important diagnostic information for many neurologic and ophthalmologic conditions, its evaluation is often perceived as difficult or mysterious. In Field of Vision: A Manual and Atlas of Perimetry, neuro-ophthalmologist Jason J.S. Barton, MD, PhD, and neurologist Michael Benatar, MBChB, DPhil, provide a comprehensive overview of the use of both perimetric devices and bedside testing, and how to interpret the results. The authors focus on the clinically relevant points, providing enough technical detail and anatomic knowledge for the physician to competently examine patients with a perimeter. To develop the clinician's skill in interpretation, the authors include an atlas of 100 real-life cases arranged in anatomic order from retina to striate cortex. Each case contains a brief clinical vignette, a visual field, and a description of the field and its causal lesion, most with photographs of the pathology. The accompanying discussion addresses the nuances of the field and considers some of the clinical issues relevant to each case. An additional quiz section of 20 randomly arranged visual fields provides readers with an opportunity to test newly acquired skills in detecting the abnormalities, describing them, localizing them, and making a reasonable guess at their pathology. Simply written and clinically focused, Field of Vision: A Manual and Atlas of Perimetry brings together in an accessible format the specialist knowledge and skills needed by today's clinicians to successfully measure and interpret the visual fields of patients.",atlases;atlases & maps;books;clinical;education & reference;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;neurology;neuroscience;new;ophthalmology;reference;surgery;used & rental textbooks,16 157610995X,"Visual Studio .NET: The .NET Framework Black Book Julian Templeman (London, UK) has over 30 years of experience in computer programming and runs a training and consultancy company that focuses on Java, XML, Windows programming, C++, and COM/ActiveX. He has been a user of Microsoft C/C++ since version 2.0 and has developed with all versions of Visual Studio. He has authored five programming books published by Wrox Press, several articles, and many software reviews. David Vitter (Charlottesville, VA) is currently a Technical Lead developer with Computer Sciences Corporation developing web-based solutions for NATO and DEA. Prior to that he spent 10 years in the Air Force where he was an Electronic Intelligence Analyst. He is a Microsoft Certified Programmer (MCP) in Visual Basic development and a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) with 7 years experience in Visual Basic and over 20 years experience in writing Basic programs.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;hardware;home computing & how-to;languages & tools;microsoft;networking;object-oriented design;pcs;programming;software design;software development;testing & engineering;visual basic;windows os,16 0809322803,"Mr. Chairman: Power in Dan Rostenkowski's America Reading Mr. Merriners rollicking account is what I imagine it would be like to be a guest at a Polish-American picnic in Chicago, being regaled with storiessome admiring, some damningabout big Joe Rustys cocky kid. I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Merriners detailed, colorful and anecdotal reports of life and politics in Chicagos old 32nd Ward.Washington Times Merriner paints Rostenkowski as a dealmaker who worked hard for special interests, whether it was a $288 million tax break in 1984 for 333 Chicago options traders, tax breaks to finance a new Comiskey Park, or $200 million in advantages for Commonwealth Edison. He details Rostenkowskis crimes and leaves no doubt that many serious misdeeds were at stake, not just the usual congressional corruption of favors-for-donations that Rostenkowski dealt with on an everyday basis at Ways and Means. As Merriner puts it, Dan Rostenkowski all but wore a sign around his neck that flashed I want power.Chicago Sun Times Merriners vivid portrait of Rostenkowski as a larger-than-life figure hinges on his extensive examination of Chicago politics in the twentieth century. . . . [He strives] to be fair and take due note of Rostenkowskis shortcomings as well as his achievements. . . . [P]olitical junkies will find much to savor in the stories retold here.Chicago Tribune[Mr. Chairman] is a good wrap-up on a key political figure with more than a few good insights into the person and the process. Too often individuals like Dan Rostenkowski are victims of journalistic overgeneralizationthis book provides a more balanced view of one of Illinoiss most important twentieth-century congressmen.Paul M. Green, coeditor (with Melvin G. Holli) of The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition James L. Merriner covered Chicago and national politics for more than two decades as political editor of the Chicago Sun-Times and the Atlanta Constitution. He was the James Thurber Journalist in Residence at Ohio State University in 1996. Merriner is coauthor of Against Long Odds: Citizens Who Challenge Congressional Incumbents.",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;elections & political process;gender studies;general;history;leaders & notable people;men;political;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;state & local;united states,16 0763710830,"New Dimensions in Women's Health Dr. Linda Lewis Alexander has an extensive career in public health and women's health. She is currently Vice President, Women's Health and Global Advocacy for QAIGEN, Inc. In this role, Dr. Alexander oversees corporate women's health program efforts in the public sector and advocacy support initiatives in global cervical cancer prevention. Her previous professional experiences include serving as Vice President, Women s Health at Digene Corporation and President and CEO of the American Social Health Association (ASHA). At ASHA she provided national leadership and worked in close partnership with industry and federal leaders to promote national awareness for all sexually transmitted diseases. Dr. Judith LaRosa's career has spanned education, research, and clinical practice. Her present position is vice dean and professor, SUNY Downstate Graduate Program in Public Health, where her current research focuses on cultural perceptions of health and disease. Prior to this, she served as professor and chair, Department of Community Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Director, Tulane Xavier National Center of Excellence in Women s Health. Helaine Bader has focused her work in the fields of health communications and women s health. In her present position as Director, Women s Health and Global Advocacy at QIAGEN, Inc., Ms. Bader works to ensure access to cervical cancer screening through developing and implementing advocacy and educational initiatives, with the ultimate goal of eliminating cervical cancer. Susan Garfield is a market access, reimbursement, and economics strategist, with expertise in demand creation and advocacy. For more than 12 years, her professional career has focused on women s health, innovations in health care, the economics of practice change, and the role of reimbursement and policy to the adoption of new technologies. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.",books;clinical;fitness & dieting;general;health;maternity;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;midwifery;new;nursing;obstetrics & gynecology;perinatal;used & rental textbooks;women's health,16 1560983868,"Aiming for the Stars: The Dreamers and Doers of the Space Age From Johannes Kepler's 17th-century drawing board to the Mars Society's Web site; from Apollo XI to Apollo XIII; from Russia's Mir space station (scheduled to return to Earth in bits) to American robots (scheduled to return to Mars, but when?), the story of human endeavors in outer space has plenty of physics and engineering, plenty of drama, plenty of heroism and not a few bits of hubris and folly. Crouch (whose previous work includes The Bishop's Boys, a biography of the Wright brothers) has produced a book far more informative than his gung-ho title suggests: his book explains, very accessibly, the prehistory and history of space flight, mixing accounts of key players (well known and unknown) with relevant technical and political history. Crouch covers not only rocket science pioneer Robert Goddard, but his German counterpart, Hermann Oberth, who in 1923 published Die Rakete zu den Planetenraumen (The Rocket into Interplanetary Space). Another chapter covers the U.S. and Soviet race to recruit ex-Nazi scientists: after Sputnik, a Pentagon spokesman was heard to complain, ""We got the wrong Germans!"" Wernher von Braun plays a big role in Crouch's account, but so do Soviet space expert Sergei Korolev, Caltech's eccentric experts John Parsons and Theodore von K rm n (who worked to invent better rocket motors) and the able technocrat James Webb, who took the helm of NASA after Kennedy promised the U.S. public the moon. Later chapters deal ably with the space stations of the 1970s, the space shuttle missions of the 1980s and the current use of commercial satellites and unmanned space exploration. Illustrations not seen by PW. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. In this narrative history of the space age, Crouch (curator of Aeronautics, National Air and Space Museum) rounds up the usual suspectsAKonstantin Tsiolkovsky and Robert H. Goddard, Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev. He does a capable job of laying out the story of space travel for a general audience, focusing especially on the contributions these major players made in their lifetimes. He details both the manned programsAfrom Vostok and Mercury, to Apollo and Soyuz and on through the Shuttle and the International Space StationAto the major unmanned probes that have been sent to the planets. The only problem with this latest single-volume space history is that it covers the same ground as two other excellent and recent effortsAT.A. Heppenheimer's Countdown (LJ 5/15/97) and William Burrows's This New Ocean (LJ 9/15/98). Recommended for libraries (both public and academic) not holding either of these earlier works.AThomas J. Frieling, Bainbridge Coll. Lib., GA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Aiming for the Stars is much more than an informative guide to the past, present, and future of the space program. It is also an inspiring personal account of the men and women who sacrificed so much for all of us along the pathways to space. If you have only one book on your shelf about space history, make it this one. Even the most avid space-flight junkie will find something new on every page. (Homer H. Hickam Jr. ) Tom D. Crouch is senior curator of aeronautics at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum and the author of numerous award-winning books on aerospace history. (Robert) Goddard left Roswell in 1941 to work with U.S. Navy and Curtiss-Wright engineers on the development of jet-assisted-takeoff and variable-thrust, liquid-propellant rockets. By the spring of 1944 he was receiving detailed reports on a new German long-range rocket, the V-2. ""The weapon is reported to be almost identical with the rocket we were working on in New Mexico at the time we changed over to war work,"" he wrote to Harry Guggenheim, ""except that it is larger."" Goddard provided the editor of the National Geographic News Bulletin with a list of his own patents for almost every aspect of V-2 design. ""So closely do the mechanical features of the V-2 parallel the American projectile [Goddard's rocket],"" the News Bulletin announced in January 1945, ""that some physicists think the Germans may have actually copied most of the design."" That, certainly, was the opinion of Robert Hutchings Goddard. On August 14, 1945, he died of throat cancer, convinced that his work had played a key role in the Germans' success. It simply was not true. The Germans had followed the same path as Goddard, quite unaware that he had been there before them. Under the inspired leadership of Wernher von Braun, they had surged past him without a backward glance, achieving Goddard's goal of sending a rocket to the edge of space.",aeronautical engineering;aeronautics & astronautics;astronomy & astrophysics;astronomy & space science;astrophysics & space science;books;engineering;history;history & philosophy;humanities;new;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,16 0807849952,"Stitched from the Soul: Slave Quilts from the Antebellum South Includes many illustrations of surviving slave-made quilts, some utilitarian and others wonderful examples of the seamstress's art. (Washington Post Book World)Stitched from the Soul is an interesting study showing how African culture influenced American quilting as well as commenting on the life of the slave. (Library Journal) Gladys-Marie Fry is Professor Emerita of Folklore and English at the University of Maryland at College Park. She has also curated more than a dozen exhibitions at institutions such as the American Folk Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Her books and exhibition catalogs include Night Riders in Black Folk History, Man Made: African American Men and Quilting Traditions, and Black Folk Art in Cleveland.",19th century;african-american studies;anthropology;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;cultural;education & reference;history;hobbies & home;modern (16th-21st centuries);needlecrafts & textile crafts;politics & social sciences;quilts & quilting;social sciences;specific demographics,16 0471121576,"Wind Effects on Structures: Fundamentals and Applications to Design Recognized as the sole source of detailed information on the design of wind resistant structures, this edition reflects the numerous changes that have occurred during the past decade. Revised, updated, and augmented, it includes the latest information on such topics as windstorm damage and insurance, hurricane micrometeorology, empirical aeroelastic models, progress and limitations in wind tunnel modeling, designing low-rise buildings, and behavior of roofing. A new chapter has been added on standards which includes a useful reference to a recently issued diskette containing an interactive computer version of the ASCE 7-95 Standard provisions for wind loads. The brand-new editionwith complete, up-to-date coverage of new methods and standards for the construction of wind-resistant structures Long recognized as the sole source of detailed information on the design of wind-resistant structures, Wind Effects on Structures equips designers and engineers with crucial knowledge concerning the atmosphere, the forces placed on a structure by the wind environment, and the behavior of structures under the action of these forces. Revised, updated, and augmented with material on new building codes, engineering practices, and technology, this latest edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-the-minute reference available on this important subject. New features include: Special material on the design of low-rise buildings, including building code provisions for wind loads on these structures Technical information on hurricane micrometeorology, computational fluid dynamics, empirical aerolastic models, and many other areas Easy-to-use software package for the automatic calculation of wind loads in accordance with ASCE Standard 7-95, and much more The damage done by recent hurricanes such as Andrew and Iniki has inspired a number of significant developments in the wind engineering field, from increased use of technology to predict structural loading to the creation of more stringent building codes. Long recognized as the sole source of detailed information on the design of wind-resistant structures, Wind Effects on Structures has now been fully revised to address these important changesproviding engineers with completely up-to-date methods and standards for the construction of wind-resistant structures. Divided into sections on the atmosphere, wind loads, and their effects on structures, the text now incorporates the latest information on the design of low-rise buildings, revised building code standards, and suspended-span structures, plus new material on an extensive range of technical subjectsincluding across-wind and torsional effects on tall structures, damping of flexible buildings, and progress in wind tunnel modeling. Combining fundamental concepts with real-world applications, this new edition features an easy-to-use software package that enables fast and accurate calculation of wind loads in line with ASCE Standard 7-95 provisions. Thoroughly updated, revised, and amended, Wind Effects on Structures provides the invaluable guidance designers and engineers need to assure the adequate structural safety and serviceability of virtually any wind-sensitive project. EMIL SIMIU, PhD, PE, NIST Fellow, and Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University, has conducted research for the National Institute of Standards and Technology and has served as a consultant for industry, government, and the World Bank. A past chairman of the ASCE Committee on Wind Effects, he was the 1984 recipient of the U.S. Federal Engineer of the Year Award from the National Society of Professional Engineers.ROBERT H. SCANLAN, PhD, Dr. ?s Sci., PE, is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University and Professor of Civil Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He is a past chairman of the ASCE Committee on Wind Effects, Honorary Member of ASCE, Life Member of ASME, Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, and Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.",aerospace;architecture;books;civil;civil engineering;crafts;design & construction;drafting & presentation;engineering;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;humanities;new;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,16 0824084705,"American Communes, 1860-1960: a Bibliography (Sects and Cults in America--Bibliographical Guides ; vol. 13 / Garland Reference Library of Social Science ; vol. 402 This is an excellent bibliography of American religious and secular experiments in communal living from the Civil War through the Eisenhower era. The bibliography makes a strong case for Miller's contention that the communal spirit was alive and well in a period often considered a ""dry spell"" for American communal movements. Miller shows particular depth in his entries on Anabaptist, Jewish, and Mormon groups, although he also gives quite comprehensive coverage to secular radical and utopian groups. The book is strengthened by a broad and inclusive definition of what constitutes communal living, but Miller's exclusion of Catholic religious groups is surprising. Nevertheless, this should be purchased by all academic libraries that support graduate programs in American history.- Susan A. Stussy, St. Norbert Coll., De Pere, Wis.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.",bibliographies & indexes;books;education & reference;history;ideologies & doctrines;new;politics;politics & government;politics & social sciences;publishing & books;reference;religion;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;utopian;writing,16 0807046426,"City of Sacrifice: Violence From the Aztec Empire to the Modern Americas A brilliant, provocative, timely, and eternal book.... We know that power, whatever its origin-sacred, natural, ethnic, contractual, or democratic-is an expression of violence. Davd Carrasco now demonstrates a shattering, unsentimental truth: civilizations themselves are born and maintained by violence. Carlos Fuentes --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Davd L. Carrasco is professor of history of religions at Princeton University. Author and editor of many books, he is editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.",americas;ancient;aztec;books;central america;early civilization;general;history;native american studies;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;social sciences;specific demographics;world,16 088920408X,"Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women (Life Writing) Helen M. Buss (aka Margaret Clarke) is a professor in the English Department at the University of Calgary. She has written fiction and memoir as well as books on Life Writing. She is winner of a best first novel award in Manitoba for her book The Cutting Season and the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Mapping Our Selves. Three of her most recent books published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press are Memoirs from Away: A New Found Land Girlhood, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives, edited with D. L. Macdonald and Anne McWhir, and Working in Womens Archives edited with Marlene Kadar.",biographies & memoirs;books;counseling;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;research & publishing guides;specific groups;women;women writers;women's studies;world literature;writing,16 0764504800,"MCSE SQL Server 2000 Administration for Dummies (with CD-ROM, covers test #70-228) Dummies Test Engine, QuickLearn(TM) Game, and more on CD-ROMCD-ROM includes hundreds of sample exam questionsThe fun and easy way(TM) to study for the exam - all the rewards in half the time! Here's the MCSE SQL Server 2000 Administration test-prep guide you've been waiting for - a For Dummies book-and-software package that actually makes studying fun. Prepared by Microsoft-certified experts and packed with proven tips and practice exams, it's all you need to master the topic - and pass the test! all this on the bonus CD-ROM Dummies Test Engine, our exclusive, fully customizable test-prep software featuring hundreds of sample questions QuickLearn(TM), an exclusive sci-fi adventure game that builds test-taking skills Plus an MCSE screensaver and bonus demos from Specialized Solutions Windows 95 or later; Windows NT or later; 16MB RAM; CD-ROM drive. Separate requirements for QuickLearn. Plus demos from Transcender CorporationDiscover how to: Review the material, objective by objective Assess what you know - and don't Spot and avoid test traps Answer questions quickly Hone your skills on top test-prep software Create custom practice examsGet smart! www.dummies.com Rozanne Whalen and Dan Whalen, both MCSE, MCDBA, and MCT, teach MCSE and MCDBA exam-preparation courses. Rozanne also writes instructor training manuals and is the editor of the Inside Microsoft Windows 2000 journal.",books;computer science;computers & technology;database management systems;database storage & design;databases;development;education & reference;languages & tools;microsoft;new;programming;programming languages;software;sql server;used & rental textbooks,16 0613494326,"The Greatest: Muhammad Ali (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Gr 7 Up-An introduction to Ali's life from his childhood to the present day, focusing on his career and the controversies surrounding him. Both his talent in the boxing ring and his showmanship earned him international fame, while his refusal to accept the stereotypical role of a black athletic star in the 1960s and his membership in the Nation of Islam brought him notoriety. Myers interweaves fight sequences with the boxer's life story and the political events and issues of the day. He doesn't shy away from reporting on the brutality of the sport and documents the toll it has taken on its many stars. Ample black-and-white photographs of the subject in and out of the ring illustrate the book. Covering Ali is a daunting task, especially since dozens of books and hundreds of articles have been written about him in the last 40 years. Fortunately, young adults have their own award-winning author, one with the perspective of being a young African American in Harlem during the height of the boxer's fame, to tell his story. Myers's writing flows while describing the boxing action and the legend's larger-than-life story.-Michael McCullough, Byron-Bergen Middle School, Bergen, NYCopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Gr. 6-10. Myers tells the familiar story of Muhammad Ali's life and career in such a way as to inspire a new generation of readers, young people whose first glimpse of Ali may have come at the 1996 Olympics, when the Parkinson's-stricken former heavyweight champion lit the Olympic torch. Focusing on race, politics, religion, and boxing--""the arenas in which Ali's mark was indelible in . . . the national consciousness""--Myers vividly re-creates the life of the young Cassius Clay, from his childhood in segregated Louisville in the 1950s, through his Olympic triumph in 1960, to his rise as a professional fighter, culminating with the stunning victory over Sonny Liston in 1964. Then comes the dramatic second act of the Ali story--the transformation of young Clay into Muhammad Ali, a committed Black Muslim who would sacrifice his heavyweight title and face imprisonment by refusing to serve in the army during the Vietnam War. Myers succinctly summarizes the furor surrounding Ali's political activism, and he captures the excitement that Ali created in a generation of young African Americans (including Myers himself), who found in the brash, young boxer a new kind of hero. And, perhaps most vividly, Myers describes Ali the fighter, explaining his technique and offering a perceptive overview of the troubled business of boxing and the great physical risks the sport entails. This is finally a story about a black man of tremendous courage, the kind of universal story that needs a writer as talented as Myers to retell it for every generation. Bill OttCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Walter Dean Myers is the 2012 - 2013 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. He is the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author an award-winning body of work which includes, SOMEWHERE IN THE DARKNESS, SLAM!, and MONSTER. Mr. Myers has received two Newbery Honor medals, five Coretta Scott King Author Awards, and three National Book Award Finalists citations. In addition, he is the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.",( a );a-z;ali;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;children's books;explore the world;muhammad;people;people of color;sports;sports & games;sports & recreation;travel & cultures;united states,16 0596006772,"Online Investing Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools After spending 10 years as a project manager and tech writer for Electronic Data Systems, McDonnell Douglas, and others, Bonnie Biafore became a full-time financial-software writer in 1997. She's a columnist for both Quicken.com and Better Investing magazine and the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Personal Finance.",books;business;business & investing;computers & technology;education & reference;internet & web culture;introduction;investing;management;management & leadership;mathematical & statistical;personal finance;software;web browsers;web development & design;web services,16 1566901634,"Pro/engineer Solutions Advanced Techniques & Workarounds. Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) - developer of Pro/ENGINEER - is one of the CAD/CAM/CAE industry's leading supplier of software tools used to automate the mechanical development of a product from conceptual design through production. Worldwide, more than 16,000 companies employ PTC's integrated software technologies to reduce time to market, improve engineering processes, and optimize product quality. Robert Townsend is an independent consultant based in Sioux City, Iowa, where he has been helping companies implement SNMP-based network management programs for over ten years. This is his first book.",architecture;books;cad;computer science;computer technology;computers & technology;drafting & presentation;education & reference;engineering;graphic design;mechanical;new;professional & technical;reference;used & rental textbooks;web development & design,16 1896219330,"Breakfast at the Hoito: And Other Adventures in the Boreal Heartland This regional classic brings together a collection of stories of northwestern Ontario. Charles Wilkins is the author of eight books, including two national bestsellers, Paddle to the Amazon (with Don Starkell) and After the Applause.""Wilkins writes with flair and insight, and is not satisfied simply to relate what is obvious about his subject.""- Martin Levin, The Globe & Mail",agricultural sciences;americas;biographies & memoirs;biological sciences;books;canada;canadian;field guides;historical;history;nature & ecology;plants;science & math;sports & outdoors;travel;trees,16 0393020134,"Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement In the decade after Brown v. Board of Education, ""white intellectuals, in the North and the South... having helped for so long to keep Negroes apart and below... were faced with the challenge of racial equality,"" asserts Polsgrove (It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, but Didn't We Have Fun? Esquire in the Sixties). In this disturbing book, she shows them to have been ""fearful, cautious, distracted, or simply indifferent."" Based on interviews and archival research, she indicts not only prominent novelists and thinkers, including William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, Hannah Arendt and even the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (""none better exemplifies the caution that northern white intellectuals... displayed toward desegregation""), but also their editors (who were ""more interested in southern whites' responses to the Negro challenge than in what Negroes had to say"") and the media, which ""at a time when national magazines ought to have been leading the way to change... opened their pages to those who resisted it."" Many of the best-known African-American novelists, cowed by ""the emotional and political atmosphere of the McCarthy days,"" fare little better than their white counterparts in Polsgrove's hands. Only a few heroes emerge from her portrait: Lillian Smith, Kenneth Clark, Lawrence Reddick, James Silver, and most importantly, James Baldwin. Polsgrove concludes her accessible and disturbing account with a thought-provoking broadside against contemporary American intellectuals, who she thinks ""have abandoned their responsibility even more completely"" than those in the 1950s and 1960s and whose ""publishing industry has moved farther and farther from any sense of obligation for the social enterprise."" (May) Forecast: A wide range of periodicals (and their editors) from major weeklies and monthlies to small journals take a thrashing here. Polsgrove could set off a firestorm if she doesn't get the silent treatment.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Between 1954, when the Supreme Court declared segregated schools unconstitutional, and the mid-sixties, when Congress passed civil-rights and voting-rights bills, American academics and writers were invited to opine on race relations. In this brisk and understated account, Polsgrove shows that, with a few brave exceptions, whites told blacks to be patient rather than risk white Southerners' violence. Editors were slow to call on black thinkers, and, in the McCarthy era, racists found support for their argument that desegregation was a Communist plot. In 1960, the sit-ins staged by black students interrupted the timid debate, and, soon after, James Baldwin's New Yorker essay Letter from a Region in My Mind gave condescending white intellectuals a sense of black anger and suffering. Copyright 2005 The New Yorker Polsgrove explores why American intellectuals, black and white, didn't lend their voices more aggressively to the call for racial justice during the infancy of the civil rights movement, especially in the period after the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) required school desegregation. Celebrated Southern authors William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren were at best ambivalent about the growing unrest in their region. National magazines ignored pro-integration writers, such as Lillian Smith, in favor of writers and historians who promoted a gradualist approach to ending discrimination. In the North and among black expatriates in Paris, intellectuals were similarly restrained in supporting desegregation. Fear of reprisals from entrenched anticommunist campaigns silenced or dampened many black intellectuals, who had noted the marginalization of the radical W. E. B. Du Bois and the ruined career of Paul Robeson. James Baldwin broke the silence with The Fire Next Time (1963), opening the floodgates of protest and resistance. An absorbing book about a troubled time in U.S. history, whose lessons continue to resonate. Vanessa BushCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved I know of no other study like it...an important addition to the literature of the civil rights movement. -- Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States[A] narrative as compelling as any the sages wrote in the heat of battle. -- John Egerton, author of Speak Now Against the Day[A]n excellent history of intellectuals being overtaken by the problem of the 20th centuryrace. -- David Levering Lewis, author of W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 Carol Polsgrove is professor of journalism at Indiana University. She is the author of It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun?: Esquire in the Sixties.",20th century;african americans;african-american studies;americas;books;civil rights & liberties;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;specific topics;united states;world,16 1568214383,"In the Image of God: A Feminist Commentary on the Torah Judith S. Antonelli is a religious Jew of Italian descent who lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She has has numerous works published by both Jewish and feminist presses. She was associate editor of The Jewish Advocate newspaper and continues as a contributing writer. She was coeditor of Neshama, a quarterly publication on women's spirituality in Judaism. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Antonelli has degrees in psychology, journalism, and women's studies, as well as many years of expertise in the study of Western religious tradition.",books;christian books & bibles;criticism & theory;education & reference;history;history & criticism;history of religion;judaism;literature & fiction;reference;religion & spirituality;religious;sacred writings;torah;women and judaism;world,16 0253335914,"James Whitcomb Riley: A Life (Indiana) An unvarnished, dutiful, rather dull life of the 19th-century ``Hoosier Poet,'' author of ``Little Orphant Annie'' and ``When the Frost Is on the Punkin.'' When Riley's personal manager, Marcus Dickey, published an official two-volume biography shortly after his death, Riley's popularity (and sales) as America's most-read poet, celebrated for his folksy vernacular verse, eclipsed that of Longfellow, Whittier, and Whitman. Now, on the 150th anniversary of his birth, van Allen's authoritative if humdrum biography must contend not only with the fame-obscured details of Riley's life but with the precipitous decline in his literary reputation. Van Allen's Riley supersedes earlier portraits of the poet as a boozing colloquial rhymester and an upstanding embodiment of midwestern virtues, but her more measured account is correspondingly less engaging. In the post-Civil War Midwest, Riley sowed a few wild oats as an itinerant sign-painter and medicine show assistant, but apart from his hoax in producing a posthumous Edgar Allan Poe poem, ``Leonainie,'' his is a fairly conventional success story. Although Riley's lack of formal education goaded his poetic industry, his ambition for celebrity and money bound him to the successful formula of his top-selling The Old Swimmin'-Hole and `Leven more Poems and the down-home humorous vignettes he read on the lucrative lecture circuit. By 1894 he was a bigger draw on the stagebill than Mark Twain, though a few years earlier his persistent battle with the bottle had terminated another tour. Riley overcame that blot on his reputation, however, and lived to receive an honorary degree from Yale and to have his birthday celebrated as a public event. Historian Van Allen adroitly situates Riley in the contemporary social trends leading up to the industrialized Gilded Age, during which nostalgia for the simple agricultural frontier boosted his sentimental, sententious verse, but she cannot erase Ambrose Bierce's verdict against his ``dreary illiterature.'' The life of a literary local heroof mostly local interest. (16 pages b photos, not seen) -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. ."".. a thorough biography that should supplant all previous attempts tounderstand the man."" -- H-Net Reviews Elizabeth J. Van Allen received her Ph.D. in history from Yale University. She is a former historian of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association where she was Senior Editor for and contributor to Keeping the Dream, a book celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Association.",19th century;american;americas;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;england;europe;historical;history;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);poetry;state & local;united states,16 0071375961,"Retina: Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Ophthalmology (Wills Eye Series) COLOR ATLAS & SYNOPSIS OF CLINICAL OPHTHALMOLOGY SERIES Developed at Philadelphias famed Wills Eye Hospital, this exciting new series presents unmistakable guidelines for the differential diagnosis and treatment of the full range of ophthalmic problems. For each condition youll find one or more photographs coupled with salient points of epidemiology, history, physical examination, differential diagnosis, laboratory and special examinations, disease course, and up-to-date treatments. PORTABLE, VISUAL, CONCISE, AFFORDABLE A POWERFUL COMBINATION THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE FOR QUALITY EYE CARE McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide",atlases;atlases & maps;books;clinical;education & reference;medical atlases;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;ophthalmology;otolaryngology;otorhinolaryngology;reference;surgery;used & rental textbooks,16 0520058801,"Ethnic Groups in Conflict ""Offers a great deal of constructive advice backed by numerous examples--all worth pondering by those who try to engineer peace and democracy in divided societies.""--Arend Lijphart, ""New York Times --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Donald L. Horowitz is the James B. Duke professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University. He is also the author of A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society (California, 1991), which won the Ralph Bunche Prize of the American Political Science Association, and coeditor of Immigrants in Two Democracies: French and American Experience (1992). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.",africa;african;anthropology;books;cultural;ethnic studies;history;humanities;international & world politics;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,16 1885477945,"Taking Care of Myself: A Hygiene, Puberty and Personal Curriculum for Young People with Autism Mary Wrobel is a speech-language pathologist with more than twenty years of experience working with students who have autism and other disabilities. She wrote Taking Care of Myself to help teach students with disabilities the necessary information and skills they need to live safe, healthy lives as independently as they are physically and mentally capable of. Mary believes that by teaching these special young people self-care skills, we can instill personal safety and reduce confusion, fear, and the incidence of abuse.",books;disabled;education;education & reference;instruction methods;new;pedagogy;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;schools & teaching;social sciences;social services & welfare;special education;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,16 0762729651,"Rock Climbing Joshua Tree West: Quail Springs to Hidden Valley Campground (Regional Rock Climbing Series) For more than twenty-five years, FalconGuide has set the standard for outdoor recreation guidebooks. Written by top outdoors experts and enthusiasts, each guide invites you to experience the endless adventure and rugged beauty of the great outdoors.Rock Climbing Joshua Tree West directs you to more than 2,300 rock routes in one of the most popular climbing destinations in the world. This comprehensive guide documents, with unprecedented detail, nearly every climb in the western region of this desert national park: Quail Springs, North Wonderland of Rocks, Lost Horse, Hemingway and Roadside Rocks, Real Hidden Valley, and Hidden Valley Campground and the Outback.This guide features:Guaranteed binding - if this binding fails, the publisher will replace the book for freeComplete written descriptions, recommended gear, and first-ascent informationDetailed route photos, topos, and mapsEasy-to-follow driving, approach, and descent directions An attorney by trade and an accomplished rock climber, mountain biker, and outdoorsman, Randy Vogel is the author of Rock Climbing Joshua Tree; Classic Rock Climbs Number 1: Joshua Tree National Park; Southwest Rock Climbing: SoCal Select; and Best Easy Day Hikes Orange County. He is also the coauthor of Rock Climbing Tahquitz and Suicide Rocks and Mountain Biking Orange County. He lives in Laguna Beach, California.",adventure;books;food;lodging & transportation;mountain climbing;mountaineering;outdoor recreation;pacific;parks & campgrounds;rock climbing;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;teens;travel;united states;west,16 0271015020,"Swedish Mentality Text: English (translation) Original Language: Swedish --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Ake Daun is Professor and Head of the Institute of Ethnology at Stockholm University and the Nordic Museum. He is the author of many books in Swedish, but this is his first to be available in English.",20th century;anthropology;books;cultural;europe;fitness & dieting;health;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;scandinavia;social psychology & interactions;social sciences;sweden;world,16 0273650211,"12 E-Commandments About the BookIn the world of e-business there is no such formula as e = mc2. This is still an evolutionary entity: it lives, it develops, it expands, it reproduces. It exists in an environment with other trading means and interacts with them like any other ecosystem.The Ecademy's mission is: 'To provide the knowledge that drives e-commerce by sharing information, developing careers and uniting people'. Our core activities are focused on four areas: e-commerce education, training, networking and career development.This book came about to complement those activities, by providing practical examples of how successful companies have developed their own strategies and applied them to the marketplace. It is not a book of answers to every question about building an e-business. No book can ever provide all the answers.Neither is it a statement of my personal vision. That has already been covered in part in my earlier book, Battle of the Portals (Thomas Power and George Jerjian, 1999). Rather, it is a distillation of the practical wisdom and experiences of people and companies deeply involved in e-business at all levels.This book does not claim that the principles which it embraces are a total approach to e-business. Indeed, in some respects, I disagree with some of the comments made by people we interviewed and whose views are reflected here. In the field of education the views, ideas and visions of one educator or team of educators should be taken in conjunction with the ideas and theories of others, and in this case with the business schools of the world's universities and the training divisions of the great internet-related companies.In any research, the truth resides in Nature. Nature, in this instance, is in the marketplace. What The Ecademy has done is aggregate information on all possible types of business, profession and organization that are directly involved in the internet markets. They have been split into different bins. Many of the bins shared the same qualifications, so they were grouped under what we now call 'Principles'. For this book, George Jerjian and Thomas Power interviewed executives from 48 companies, four from each principle. That provided an overall framework within which to work. Using this framework the book addresses one of the components necessary for the completion of the e-business jigsaw, that of learning a new language. For the sake of clarity, wherever possible, the complexities of technical language have been avoided, or explained by the use of common analogies. For the executive who has remained aloof from information technology, this should provide a primer to that new language, sufficient to give a new perspective and understanding of the words and concepts with which they may be faced by the technologically educated. In turn, this is the language with which they can communicate with customers, shareholders, employees, partners, competitors and the world at large. Economic growth is a function of connectivity or connectedness.In the USA in 1956, during the administration of President Dwight Eisenhower, Congress passed the Highway Act. Over the next 25 years 48,000 miles of highway were constructed across the country. These highways caused both the gradual death and the gradual birth of many communities, because the growth of community and commerce is a function of being connected or linked. Today, instead of roads, fibre optics (internet) and radio waves (mobiles/cell phones) connect us. One strand of fibre, the thickness of a hair, can provide the tarmacadam on which 40,000 telephone calls can run.Fibre optic cables, bunched together and laid under the ground and under the ocean floor, will eventually connect every television set, personal computer or other internet-linked device. This will inevitably cause the gradual death of traditional business practice as it has existed and we will see the emergence of new businesses wedded to a non-stop, never-closed world. All wars are said to be about economics and it is no coincidence that in this book the maxims of arguably the most authoritative figure ever to write on the principles that underlie war are used as a theme. However, could it also be that all economics is about war? On the one hand, when there is no further new land to fight about, fights occur on existing land that belongs to someone else. Witness the hundreds of small wars that took place last century and continue into this one. On the other hand, when there is new land, battles ensue for domination. Witness events in history, especially the struggles of the European powers to colonize the Americas in the 18th century and the rest of the world in the 19th century. Witness the struggles of the USA to win the world by economic means in the 20th century and to colonize it in the 21st century through the power of the internet. The internet is new land, carved out of mathematics (0s and 1s) and right now we are witnessing a land grab and a rush for the gold that the land contains. Yet however much the media suggest it resembles the California 'gold rush' of the mid-1850s, it would be unwise to dismiss it as vapor or a phenomenon that will vanish as the gold runs down.A correction will comeindeed, we have already seen the start of it. But after it the internet and its electronic business proposition, like a rose garden that has been weeded and trimmed, will grow more bountiful and beautiful.It is to this end that we at The Ecademy have targeted our sights.This book is for those who are prepared to leave their comfortable, well-paid, secure jobs, knowing that there is little mileage left in the old economy and invest or risk their time and difference in pay to learn and grow in the new economy. It is also for the young who have nothing to forget or abandon and everything to learn and gain. The distinction between e-business and business is blurring post-haste. Soon the majority of business will be e-business, as e-commerce goes mainstream.Yet the rush to exploit the potential of e-business is countered in many firms by a fear of the unknown and a lack of experience. We need this vast arena to be broken down and distilled into the language of business rather than the language of technology. E-business to the power of 12 does this.This book is designed to complement education, training, networking and career development by providing examples and case studies of how successful companies have developed their own strategies and applied them to the marketplace.The 12 e-principles are a framework in which an e-business can find solutions to its operation. This is not an answer to all the questions on how to build an e-business, but rather a distillation of the practical wisdom and experiences of people and companies deeply involved in e-business at all levels. Thomas Power: Author of the recent Financial Times report From ""Supply Chain to Value Chain"", Thomas Power is co-author of ""The E-Business Advantage"", which stressed the importance of adapting your business to the new electronic economy and to the flexible and pragmatic approach that it demands. ""The Battle of the Portals"" examines the onset of global marketplaces, how information can change consumer behavior and challenge traditional distribution channels. A former Managing Director of the TDS Group, Thomas Power left to create The Ecademy, an Ecommerce learning Institute. Widely recognised for his experience, vision, energy and drive, Thomas has worked with Amstrad, Microsoft and Mercedes-Benz.",books;business & investing;computers & technology;e-commerce;e-mail;entrepreneurship;industries & professions;internet & web culture;management;management & leadership;marketing;marketing & sales;microsoft;multilevel;small business & entrepreneurship;software,16 0471288780,"Statistical Methods for Environmental Pollution Monitoring This book discusses a broad range of statistical design and analysis methods that are particularly well suited to pollution data. It explains key statistical techniques in easy-to-comprehend terms and uses practical examples, exercises, and case studies to illustrate procedures. Dr. Gilbert begins by discussing a space-time framework for sampling pollutants. He then shows how to use statistical sample survey methods to estimate average and total amounts of pollutants in the environment, and how to determine the number of field samples and measurements to collect for this purpose. Then a broad range of statistical analysis methods are described and illustrated. These include:determining the number of samples needed to find hot spotsanalyzing pollution data that are lognormally distributedtesting for trends over time or spaceestimating the magnitude of trendscomparing pollution data from two or more populationsNew areas discussed in this sourcebook include statistical techniques for data that are correlated, reported as less than the measurement detection limit, or obtained from field-composited samples. Nonparametric statistical analysis methods are emphasized since parametric procedures are often not appropriate for pollution data. This book also provides an illustrated comprehensive computer code for nonparametric trend detection and estimation analyses as well as nineteen statistical tables to permit easy application of the discussed statistical techniques. In addition, many publications are cited that deal with the design of pollution studies and the statistical analysis of pollution data. This sourcebook will be a useful tool for applied statisticians, ecologists, radioecologists, hydrologists, biologists, environmental engineers, and other professionals who deal with the collection, analysis, and interpretation of pollution in air, water, and soil.",biological sciences;biology;books;civil;conservation;earth sciences;engineering;environmental engineering;environmental science;environmental studies;nature & ecology;new;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,16 0321200195,"Software Configuration Management Strategies and IBM Rational ClearCase: A Practical Introduction (2nd Edition) I wrote that the first edition of this book communicates much of the experience, wisdom, and insight that was acquired along the way to discovering what SCM best practices are and how to implement/deploy them. The second edition is full of even more practical experience! It not only refines and expands upon earlier strategies and best practices, it also contains even more concrete how-to information about implementing and deploying them. Brad Appleton co-author of Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration Read this book when youre getting started with configuration management (CM); read it again in six months and once more two years later. Software Configuration Management Strategies and IBM Rational ClearCase goes beyond the basics to provide a coherent review of CM strategies for projects of all sizes and complexities. Jennie Brown, CM Specialist IBM Corporation This book covers practical software configuration management (SCM), ClearCase UCM and ClearCase use for project teams. Every project lead and SCM specialist should (re)read this book before starting a project. Roger Jarrett, Senior Software Engineer IBM Rational Software This second edition captures vital Unified Change Management (UCM) features and concepts. It brings the entire UCM feature set full circle and lays the ground work for a successful UCM implementation; Bellagio and Milligan continue where the first edition left off. The inclusion of composite baseline concepts, single stream development, performance tuning, and other features and concepts make this the core of any old or new Unified Change Management implementation. It is rare that a second edition of a book can hold your interest like the first. This publication does just that...this continues to be the standard for users interested in Unified Change Management deployment. Adam Levensohn, Manager IBM Rational Software Software Configuration Management (SCM) can help even the largest, most complex project teams manage change, so they can deliver higher quality products faster. The First Edition of Software Configuration Management Strategies and Rational ClearCase established itself as the definitive single source for guidance on both SCM best practices and the markets leading product, IBM Rational ClearCase. This fully updated Second Edition systematically addresses the latest ClearCase and ClearQuest innovations, while offering even deeper insight into SCM strategy and management. The authors each draw on more than 15 years of SCM experience, and the knowledge of working with IBM Rational field teams in customer engagements worldwide. They systematically cover SCM planning and deployment, and SCMs use throughout the entire project lifecycle: development, integration, building, baselining, release deployment, and beyond. They offer practical guidance on addressing challenges that arise as projects grow in size and complexity, from managing geographically distributed teams to tracking change requests. Coverage includes Understanding basic SCM concepts, and the role, value, and components of SCM systems Mastering IBM Rationals Unified Change Management (UCM) modelincluding todays most effective usage models, strategies, and policy configurations Creating ClearCase repositories and establishing UCM environments, step-by-step Working as a project manager in the ClearCase environment Leveraging new ClearCase MultiSite and ClearQuest technologies to full advantage Using the new ClearCase Remote Client to access centralized repositories across WANs Monitoring ClearCase and tuning it for maximum performance This book is valuable for everyone concerned with SCM: developers who wantSCM to be as intuitive and convenient as possible; project managers and technical leaders who must efficiently manage change; tools engineers; even IT managersevaluating SCM technologies. Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved. David E. Bellagio has been involved in software development for the last 25 years, ever since he got addicted to it in high school. After realizing that he would not be a professional baseball player, he went on to receive his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in computer science, with honors, from Chico State University, California. David worked previously at CSC, Tandem Computers, ADP, and HP. He first began using ClearCase in 1994, and he spent the next four years deploying ClearCase to many developers while employed at ADP and HP. In 1998, he joined Rational Software as a technical field representative in the Pacific Northwest. David currently is a Worldwide Community of Practice Leader for Enterprise Change Management at IBM, Rational Software. He works with customers and IBM teams to ensure successful deployment and adoption of Rational SCM solutions. David works with Rational field teams delivering workshops, seminars, and assessments to help improve software process and customer results. He also works onsite with customers around the world to define and manage successful deployment of Rational Software solutions. David has presented these topics at Rational User Conferences: 1995: Building Software with Clearmake on Non-ClearCase Hosts 1996: ClearAdminA Set of Scripts and Processes for Administrating ClearCaseSites 2004: UCM Stream Strategies and Best Practices David has also led the UCM Hands on Workshop sessions at the 2003 and 2004 Rational User Conferences. David currently resides in Washington with his wonderful wife and three children. When time allows, he also enjoys brewing fine ales and mead. He can be reached via e-mail at dbellagio@us.ibm.com. Tom Milligan is a Senior SCM Technical Marketing Engineer on IBM Rational Softwares Worldwide Technical Marketing team. Prior to this assignment he worked in Rational Softwares Western Region Consulting Organization. Prior to joining Atria Software in 1995, Tom worked in Electronic Design Automation, Software QA, software tools acquisition and development as well as real-time embedded software development. Tom holds a B.A (Honors College) in Computer Science from the University of Oregon (1978). Tom has spoken at the Rational User Conference several times: 1997: Integrating ClearCase NT with Third-Party Applications(specifically, integrating ClearCase with Microsoft Word) 1999: Integrating Requisite Pro and DDTs 2001: Using Perl with the ClearCase Automation Library (CAL) 2003: ClearCase Performance Analysis, Monitoring and Tuning 2004: Fundamentals of Good Software Configuration Management, ClearCase Performance Analysis, Monitoring and Tuning Tom has also published the following articles: The Rational Edge November 2001: Using Perl with Rational ClearCase Automation Library (CAL) September 2002: Using Perl with the Rational ClearQuest API July 2003: ClearCase Performance Analysis, Monitoring and Tuning (part 1) September 2003: ClearCase Performance Analysis, Monitoring and Tuning (part 2) Websphere Advisor July/August 2003: 7 Attributes of Highly Effective SCM Systems Rational Developer Network ClearCase Cheat Sheet Tom was also keynote speaker at the 2003 Association of Configuration and Data Management (ACDM) Conference. Tom resides on the central coast of California with his most excellent wife and three children. In his spare time Tom enjoys playing Ultimate (also known as Ultimate Frisbee), watching his kids play volleyball and soccer, and staying up late with his telescope. He can be reached via e-mail at tmilligan@us.ibm.com . Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;new;object-oriented design;object-oriented software design;programming;software;software design;software design & engineering;software development;software engineering;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,16 0340661925,"Clinical Examination For Medical Students Wai-Ching Leung, Department of Publich Health, Northern and Yorkshire Regional Health Authority, Newcastle.",allied health professions;allied health services;books;clinical;clinical chemistry;diagnosis;education & reference;education & training;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;pathology;reference;used & rental textbooks,16 0878910395,"Passage to India, A (MAXNotes Literature Guides) REAs MAXnotes is an insightful series of literature study guides covering over 80 of the most popular literary works. MAXnotes study guides are student friendly and provide all the essentials needed to prepare students for homework, discussions, reports, and exams. Our MAXnotes for E.M. Forsters A Passage to India study guide includes an overall summary, character lists, explanation and discussion of the plot, overview of the works historical context, and a biography of the author. Each section of the work is individually summarized and includes study questions and answers. Our E.M. Forsters A Passage to India MAXnotes study guide is a handy resource when preparing for exams or doing homework, and it makes a great companion to the original work. The E.M. Forsters A Passage to India MAXnotes is also an invaluable resource for English teachers who are teaching the original work and need a refresher. Each MAXnotes includes topics for term papers with sample outlines.",books;british;children's books;criticism & theory;education & reference;english literature;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,16 0764547283,"Visual Basic 6 Database Programming Bible It takes exposure to quite a few tools and APIs to be successful with database development today. The Visual Basic 6 Database Programming Bible lets the beginning reader master what's really important, with a wide-ranging and effective tutorial on databases, along with some excellent coverage of the latest in XML and Oracle support in VB. This book starts from the ground up, with a nicely digestible tour of the essentials of databases and SQL that's aimed at the beginner. Of course, it's de rigueur for VB titles to cover ActiveX Data Objects (ADOs), Microsoft's recommended set of objects for database programming. This book does a good job here, with three excellent chapters on how to be effective with ADO within your VB programs, both with ""bound"" controls and through custom code. Besides the fundamentals of ADO, this title also will serve as a handy reference, as each section lists all of the objects and methods that you'll need to use everyday. Other sections look at COM+ transactions and message-queue services, which provide much of the power for building robust, scalable database applications on the Microsoft Windows platform. But this text goes much further than the ""official"" Microsoft way, with excellent coverage of administering and programming stored procedures on Oracle 8i (as well as MS SQL Server 7.0). With plenty of screen shots, this book does a great job of demystifying Oracle, and helps put this popular database into the reach of any VB developer. Several sections even look at XML done in VB, along with a basic tutorial of what XML is and how to combine it with ADO to deliver intermediate datasets. It's this cross-vendor perspective that distinguishes Visual Basic 6 Database Programming Bible from the rest of the pack. Clearly, today's VB programmers no longer can afford to have a narrow, Microsoft-only focus. This up-to-date text will help you gain a wider view of some of the more popular APIs and tools that you'll need to use to succeed with VB in real software for real organizations. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: History and overview of databases, relational databases, basic database-design principles: tables, views, and indexes; ODBC, RDO, and ADO database connectivity compared; SQL primer, introduction to Visual Basic 6 and tools, ""codeless"" database applications with bound controls, report design with the Microsoft Data Report Designer, ADO 2.5 (and ADOX) objects and methods, using SQL stored procedures and the Command object, writing and debugging stored procedures, the Connection, Recordset, and Field objects; basic COM+ principles, building custom VB COM objects, transaction basics with COM+, message queues and asynchronous messaging, XML tutorial (XML, XSL, and the XML Document Object Model), XML used with ADO and IIS applications, SQL Server 7.0 and Oracle 8i administration and database-programming tutorials (including stored procedures on both platforms), and a tutorial for the Microsoft Jet database engine. Inside you'll find complete coverage of Visual Basic database programming: Jump start your programming with Data Environments and Data Report Designer Harness the power of the ADO 2.5 object model, from connections to commands Integrate XML with Internet Information Server applications Manipulate Recordsets to optimize the performance of your application Create custom bound controls, COM+ transactions, and message queuing modules Tailor an application for Microsoft SQL Server 7, Oracle 8i, or Microsoft Jet 3.51/4.0 Capitalize on custom utilities and SQL language extensions, such as PL/SQL Construct platform-specific data types and manage security, logins, roles, and users Wayne S. Freeze is a full-time author and computer technology consultant. He has written nine different books on Visual Basic and SQL Server since he began his career three years ago. He lives in Beltsville, Maryland, with his lovely wife Jill who is also a well-respected writer, specializing in Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and Windows.",books;client-server systems;computer science;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;database storage & design;databases;education & reference;languages & tools;networking;new;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks;visual basic,16 0198284632,"Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation ""[The] best book on famine available--important theoretical perspective, good case-study material.""--Barbara D. Miller, Cornell University""Embodies the best tradition of social science....Empirical and rational, yet neither virtue is pushed to the point where human beings are forgotten.""--The Economist""A truly seminal book....[Has] helped to shift the attention of policy-makers and international organizations away from excessive concentration on food production to broader issues of 'food security.'""--International Affairs Amartya Sen is at Harvard University.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business development;criticism & theory;development & growth;economics;history & criticism;literature & fiction;new;politics & social sciences;poverty;rural;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,16 0131470256,"The Leader Within: Learning Enough About Yourself to Lead Others Discover the leader inside you! Become the leader you've always wanted to be Understand how you behave at your key 'moments of influence' Reinvent your approach for better results -- and happier people Build more effective teams and organizations, without compromising your values Co-authored by Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager If you lead... if you intend to lead... if you work with leaders... you need this book. You need it to discover why......self-change is your most urgent leadership challenge...your values, beliefs, and personality are driving your success -- or your failure -- even when you don't realize it You need it to discover how to...... lead brilliantly, in ways that reflect your own values and personality... connect in both group settings and one-to-one contexts... liberate personal traits and energies you never knew you had... rekindle your team's spirit -- and build stronger, more effective, more joyful organizations. Liberate the outstanding leader inside you -- with The Leader Within . About the Authors DR. DREA ZIGARMI is a respected management consultant, bestselling author, and powerful trainer and motivational speaker. He co-authored Leadership and The One Minute Manager, and has co-developed several Blanchard Training and Development products, including its Leader Behavior Analysis instruments. Few people have impacted the day-to-day management of people and companies more than KEN BLANCHARD. His phenomenal best-seller, The One Minute Manager (co-authored with Spencer Johnson), has sold 9,000,000+ copies and been translated into 25 languages. He leads the Ken Blanchard Companies, a global leader in workplace learning, productivity, leadership, and team effectiveness. MICHAEL OCONNOR co-founded and directs the Center for Managing by Values. He specializes in strategy, behavior, and process-driven performance. With Ken Blanchard, he co-authored Managing by Values. DR. CARL EDEBURN has spent 25 years consulting on key management and leadership issues. A certified trainer for the Ken Blanchard Companies, he has co-developed several Blanchard instruments. Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved. Preface The Book's Origin The Leader Within is the result of our many years of experience training, consulting, coaching, and researching American business managers and leaders. At the heart of this book is a seven-year, in-depth, statistical study of the influence behaviors used by American corporate executives. Although the report's statistics are not included (to reduce reading time and save space), the conclusions presented in this book are sound and substantiated. The Book's Purpose This book is a self-development resource; its purpose is to help you learn more about yourself so that you can change, grow, and become a better leader. Its primary objective is to present some well-developed models that help you re-create or reinvent your leadership approach so that you can bring about better organizational results and greater human satisfaction. Knowing yourself is key to being an effective leader. The models explained in this book can help you examine the inner self that you bring to your organizational life's frequent moments of influence. Examining how you presently behave as a leader, and then contrasting and comparing those behaviors with possible alternatives, can provide you with invaluable insights for becoming a more effective leader. The Book's Intended Audience We wrote this book for managers and leaders--people who earn a living by influencing others within organizational settings. However, other audiences will also find it informative and helpful. Consultants can utilize the information within this book to better understand the executives they coach. Human resource professionals can use this book as a tool for broadening and refining their executive development programs. College and university faculty can use this book as a challenging and stimulating text for their own leadership teaching or research, and the research formulated by the students they advise. The Authors' Frame of Reference The working definition of leadership used in this book is, of course, values based, as is any definition of worth. We define a leader as anyone who acts to arouse, engage, and satisfy the motives of the follower--within an environment of conflict, competition, or change--that results in the follower taking action toward a mutually shared outcome or vision. As you will see, that vision must be growthful for the follower, ultimately societal, and also contribute to the well-being of all involved. The values inherent in this definition involve the follower's growth and development; they imply the follower's eventual independence and autonomy of action when serving the (organizational) outcome or vision. The term servant leader might come to mind. The leader who is a servant judges his or her success not only in the accomplishment of the outcome, but also by the effects the accomplishment has on those who do the accomplishing. Are those who are led healthier, happier, committed, and more apt to become leaders themselves? The true intent of the servant leader is to serve both the vision and all those who seek to achieve that vision. The servant leader's inner intent is not self-oriented, but other-oriented. Such a leader ensures that other people's high-priority needs are being served.1 The Book's Organization The book is organized into seven chapters, which move from a discussion of an individual's inner makeup or personality dimensions, to the role of a leader, to the implications inner personality has on an individual's potential to carry out the leader role. Each chapter is divided into two sections that help organize the seven key chapters. Chapter 1 discusses the leadership challenge of self-change. Chapter 2 defines the parameters of personality and leadership. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 present in-depth discussions and models for understanding the three key aspects of personality: disposition, values, and persona. Chapter 6 discusses leader behaviors in a one-to-one context. Chapter 7 makes the important connection among disposition, values, and leadership behaviors. This chapter examines the relationship between personality and leadership behaviors that may help you become a more effective leader. The Authors' Hopes We wrote this book with the hope that increased self-awareness would result in better leadership and fewer negative personalities in organizations. We hope for less ego, politics, personal hurt, and psychological turn off on the part of all people in organizations; and we hope for more organizational go, action, personal joy, and liberation of personal energy and motivation for organizational purpose. Our dream of healthier organizations will happen more readily if leaders become more self-aware and elicit more self-awareness from their followers. Discovering who you are and what you can be is a lifelong challenge. Connecting to the lost or as yet undiscovered facets of your humanness will make you a better leader and will go far to rekindle the spirit of the people you lead. D.Z., K.B., M.O., C.E.March 2004 Endnotes Greenleaf 1991.",books;business & finance;business & investing;developmental psychology;fitness & dieting;health;leadership;management & leadership;motivational;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;self-help;social sciences;success;used & rental textbooks,16 0449002772,"Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Probes the Minds of Killers We met no Jimmy Cagneys or Robert Mitchums among the inmates in the prisons we visited. We found ourselves, rather, in the company of a pathetic crew of intellectually limited, dysfunctional, half-mad, occasionally explosive losers. Long before these men wound up on death row, their similarly limited, primitive, impulsive parents had raised them in the only fashion they knew.... These brutish parents had set the stage on which our condemned subjects now found themselves playing out the final act. It was a drama generations in the making. Psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis, working in a professional partnership with neurologist Jonathan Pincus, has been steadily accumulating and publishing (in medical journals) evidence that almost all vicious criminals have some combination of (1) a childhood of abuse and/or neglect, (2) brain injuries through accident or abuse, and (3) psychotic symptoms, especially paranoia. This fascinating and well-written book, aimed at a wide audience, takes the form of a memoir in which Lewis tells us about the events that led her to study violent patients and about some of her more interesting cases, especially those on death row. Far from being another shallow oh wow book about conversations with horrifying killers, this is a thoughtful, humane examination of the horrible experiences that most murderers have endured, and a penetrating analysis of how subtle signs of brain damage in these people have been missed by other researchers. Lewis has an engagingly humble and personal way of writing about her experiences, which makes her findings all the more credible. --Fiona Webster New York psychiatrist Lewis, whose ""curiosity about differences between us"" caused her to change career paths and study homicidal criminals, offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of psychiatry and violent crime. How the mild-mannered Radcliffe College graduate found herself face-to-face with death row inmates and testifying in well-publicized trials is most intriguing. Lewis rationally explains her findings that violent crimes often are perpetrated by persons with abusive childhoods or organic brain impairments or both. A humanizing factor in her memoir is her psychiatrist's ability to reflect on her own shortcomings and miscues in diagnosing disorders. Lewis concludes that ""given certain neurologic and psychiatric problems, any of us could be a killer,"" which is frightening, perhaps controversial, and always interesting. Sue-Ellen Beauregard A psychiatrist who meets the criminally insane tells all. Lewis, a professor at New York University and Yale, spends a good deal of time examining the most violent among us. Her specialty is violent children, but over the years she has also met with adults. Her subjects include Arthur Shawcross, who mutilated and ate his victims, and Ted Bundy, who kissed her goodbye shortly before his execution. Lewis has clearly seen and heard a great deal, and she's unsparing in the details of what makes a child violent. As expected, she finds that poverty and abuse are strong indicators of a tendency toward violence, and she writes movingly of one little girl who became a murderer after her family repeatedly ignored her cries for help. Not every child in those situations becomes a law-breaker, but years of abuse combined with inattentive medical care can lead to serious behavioral problems and terrible violence. Lewis early on makes the point that she has often identified more with a killer waiting to be executed than with society, which she believes makes her more sensitive to those who kill. This approach has limited appeal, however, and the book often veers between overly long sections on Lewis's background and and relationships with colleagues and her parents, and too little real analysis. The reader is left with excellent insights into Lewis's own modus operandi, but not much in the way of a true understanding of what makes an abused child turn into a Ted Bundy. Like Barbara Kirwin's The Mad, The Bad, and The Innocent, this book focuses too much on the analyst. (Author tour) -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. COMPELLING.--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt The New York TimesRIVETING . . . POWERFUL . . . READS LIKE A TOP-DRAWER SUSPENSE THRILLER.--New York PostA REFRESHING AND COMPELLING LOOK AT THE WORKINGS OF THE CRIMINAL MIND.--ANN RULESPELLBINDING . . . A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY.--SHERWIN B. NULAND, M.D.GRIPPING.--The Boston GlobeFrom the Paperback edition. Everyone has felt the urge to kill. Most people don't kill. Some people do. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, has spent the last quarter century studying the differences between those who do and those who don't. Among the murderers she has examined are the notorious killers Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Now, she shares her groundbreaking discoveries--and the chilling encounters that led to them.Guilty by Reason of Insanity is the gripping, brilliantly written true story of Dr. Lewis's search to understand those who kill. The unforgettable cases revealed here clearly illustrate how the disparate elements of brain damage, paranoia, and family brutality combine to create a killer.It starts at a juvenile court in New Haven. A thirteen-year-old girl--out of the blue, in broad daylight--has stabbed her best friend to death before an audience of gaping classmates. Dr. Lewis convinces her colleague, the eminent neurologist Jonathan Pincus, to help her figure out why. Thus begins a collaboration that continues to this day.The passion to understand the underpinnings of violence draws the Lewis-Pincus team to the psychiatric and forensic wards of New York City's Bellevue Hospital, and then to prisons around the country--eventually leading to the corridors of death row and to an infamous gallery of condemned killers.There we meet a thirty-six-year-old woman who forms a sexual attachment to a fourteen-year-old boy. Together, they kidnap, torture, and ultimately murder a teenaged girl. Suddenly, in the midst of the interview with the doe-eyed, soft-spoken murderess, a menacing, male persona appears and Dr. Lewis finds herself face-to-face with her first case of multiple personality disorder, a condition she never before believed existed. We sit in on the psychiatric evaluation of a condemned boy who, at seventeen, raped and murdered a seventy-six-year-old nun. Only after his death does Dr. Lewis discover the grotesque secrets of his childhood that finally explain his murderous rage and his bizarre choice of victim.Powerful, controversial, and utterly absorbing--including an intense final interview with an executioner--Guilty by Reason of Insanity is a tour de force, a compelling odyssey of one extraordinary psychiatrist striking a delicate balance between emotion and objectivity. It will forever change the way you think about crime, punishment, and the law itself. ""COMPELLING.""--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt The New York Times""RIVETING . . . POWERFUL . . . READS LIKE A TOP-DRAWER SUSPENSE THRILLER.""--New York Post""A REFRESHING AND COMPELLING LOOK AT THE WORKINGS OF THE CRIMINAL MIND.""--ANN RULE""SPELLBINDING . . . A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY.""--SHERWIN B. NULAND, M.D.""GRIPPING.""--The Boston Globe --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, M.D. grew up in New York City. She is a graduate of the Ethical Culture Schools, Radcliffe College, and Yale University School of Medicine. She is a psychiatrist at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, a professor at New York University School of Medicine, and a clinical professor at the Yale University Child Study Center. Her studies on violence have been cited in decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. She is married to Dr. Melvin Lewis, a child psychiatrist and professor at Yale. The Lewises have two children. The secret of working with violent people is knowing when to end an interview. Then again, in certain situations that is not an option. Occasionally, in spite of what seem to be adequate precautions, I find myself alone in the company of a very dangerous person. For example, several years ago I was locked n a room with Theodore Bundy. I had not planned it that way.The very best setting for interviewing a potentially violent prisoner is one where guards can see everything and hear nothing. Indeed, when I began my interview with Mr. Bundy, that was the setup. He and I were locked inside a room adjoining the administrative area of the Florida State Penitentiary at Starke. One side of the room, the side with the door through which we entered, had a large pane of soundproof glass that looked like a picture window; the other three walls were solid concrete. A guard was posted just outside the glass where we could see him and he could see but not hear us. he stood in a common area, surrounded by two or three administrative offices and another glassed-in interview room. The doors to the office were open, and I could see people inside, working behind their desks. I was perfectly safe. Every so often someone came into the common area to fill a mug from a coffee urn, which was always full and hot.The room, small to begin with, was further cramped by the presence of a rectangular wooden table that filled almost the entire space. Mr. Bundy and I sat across from each other, our chairs pushed up against opposite walls. He had taken the chair nearest the door and had managed to angle his seat so that he could keep an eye on me and also keep track of the guard's movements beyond the glass. I was obliged to take the one remaining chair jammed up against the far wall of the cubicle. I would have felt trapped were it not for my clear view of the guard and his clear view of me. There was nothing to worry about. I relaxed and focused my attention entirely on Mr. Bundy and the task at hand. Once an interview is under way, I am oblivious to my surroundings.We had been talking since nine o'clock and, in spite of the deliberately fat-filled, death row breakfast that I try to consume in order to keep going for hours, my stomach had started to rumble. This tendency of my gastrointestinal tract to make its needs known has been an embarrassment since high school. I looked at my watch. It was a little after twelve noon. Time for a candy break. (Jonathan and I have learned the folly of leaving prisons in order to get lunch. It can take hours to get back inside.) I turned from Mr. Bundy, on whom my attention had been riveted, and tried to catch the eye of the guard to unlock the cubicle so that I could get to a candy machine. The guard was gone. Not only was he gone, but everyone else who worked in the surrounding offices had also disappeared. They had all gone to lunch. It took me a few seconds to realize that I was alone, locked in a soundproof room with a man who had murdered more than two dozen women. I was not happy.I turned my attention back to Mr. Bundy. You were saying? To this day, I do not recall much of what he was saying; I do remember trying to remain calm and appear attentive. If Mr. Bundy knew the guard had left, he kept the knowledge to himself.... Only one of Mr. Bundy's statements during that period of time remains with me: The man sitting before you never killed anyone. During a previous interview with him, Theodore Bundy had described to me in detail several of the murders he had committed. I made a clinical decision: I chose not to point out the discrepancy between our two interviews. Alone in a room with a serial killer is neither the time nor the place to quibble about inconsistencies.",biographies & memoirs;books;criminal law;criminology;fitness & dieting;health;law;medical books;murder & mayhem;pathologies;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;social sciences;true accounts;true crime,16 B000FQ4NFC,"One Fine Day: A Radio Play Grade 4-7-Through introductory narration and clear, no-nonsense dialogue, Van Steenwyk tells the story of the fears, hopes, and dreams of Orville and Wilbur Wright on that fateful day in Kitty Hawk in December of 1903. Written as a radio play with suggested sound effects and accompanied by stunning half- to full-page oil paintings, it is a painless history lesson told from the Wright brothers' point of view. The text, based on reminiscences of the brothers' grand nephew, is informative yet concise, if at times a bit stilted. Readers learn just enough of the general background of the inventors, but the focus is on the events of that one memorable day. The proposed music and sound effects help ignite listeners' imagination, and the author is careful to include specific suggestions on how to create the desired effects. Set between covers designed to look like an old-time radio set, the exceptional illustrations are the highlight of the book. Farnsworth's use of sepia tones underscores the historical nature of the subject, and his expert use of shading and shadow enhances the pictures' realistic feel. These are paintings that not only elucidate but also expand upon the text. This is a natural follow-up, though for an older audience, to Alice and Martin Provensen's picture-book tale of Louis Bleriot (The Glorious Flight [Puffin, 1987]). It's a story that begs to be enacted either on tape or live on stage, and it will provide great motivation for students to create their own radio plays based on historical events.Nancy Menaldi-Scanlan, LaSalle Academy, Providence, RICopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers changed the world when they first flew their homemade powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In One Fine Day author Elizabeth Van Steenwyk celebrates that first flight in the form of an old-time radio pla --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.",arts;aviation;biographies;books;children's books;crafts & music;drama & theater;historical fiction;inventions & inventors;literature & fiction;nature & how it works;performing arts;science;science & technology;transportation;united states,16 0877884838,"The Swiftly Tilting Worlds of Madeleine L'Engle (Wheaton Literary) Madeleine L'Engle was the author of more than forty-five books for all ages, among them the beloved A Wrinkle in Time, awarded the Newbery Medal; A Ring of Endless Light, a Newbery Honor Book; A Swiftly Tilting Planet, winner of the American Book Award; and the Austin family series of which Troubling a Star is the fifth book. L'Engle was named the 1998 recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards award, honoring her lifetime contribution in writing for teens.Ms. L'Engle was born in 1918 in New York City. She wrote her first book, The Small Rain, while touring with Eva Le Gallienne in Uncle Harry. She met Hugh Franklin, to whom she was married until his death in 1986, while they were rehearsing The Cherry Orchard, and they were married on tour during a run of The Joyous Season, starring Ethel Barrymore.Ms. L'Engle retired from the stage after her marriage, and the Franklins moved to northwest Connecticut and opened a general store. After a decade in Connecticut, the family returned to New York.After splitting her time between New York City and Connecticut and acting as the librarian and writer-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Madeleine LEngle died on September 7, 2007 at the age of 88.",20th century;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;classics;criticism & theory;essays;essays & correspondence;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;united states;women writers;women's studies,16 025207145X,"Power and Gender in Renaissance Spain: Eight Women of the Mendoza Family, 1450-1650 (Hispanisms) ""No other scholarly work has attempted to address the significance of a whole panoply of women from a single noble family. This groundbreaking work makes a very important contribution to our understanding of patriarchy and women's agency in the past."" Mary Elizabeth Perry, author of Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville",books;europe;gender studies;history;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;portugal;renaissance;social sciences;spain;used & rental textbooks;western;women in history;women's studies;world,16 1557866813,"Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference ""As always with Harvey's work, this is a book rich in ideas and dense in argument... It should be widely read and argued over by all of us in the urban and environmental field.""P. Healey, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design""This surely is a most important book and one to turn to again and again as David Harvey's work never fails to be challenging.""Linda McDowell, University of Cambridge""... Harvey's writing remains enviably readable and maintains a compelling sense of urgency and purpose.""Steve Hinchliffe, Open University""... this book deserves a very wide readership, even among those who are more practically or even policy oriented. It is a rich and creative text, which confronts some of the biggest social and political questions we face today."" Allan Cochrane, The Open University""As a contribution to the development of geographical scholarship in the historical materialist tradition, this is a landmark volume...""David M. Smith, Queen Mary and Westfield College""Clearly, this book is a tour de force ... Its breadth of reference makes almost every page interesting and provocative.""Alan M. Hay, The Geographical Journal This book engages with the politics of social and environmental justice, and seeks new ways to think about the future of urbanization in the twenty-first century. It establishes foundational concepts for understanding how space, time, place and nature - the material frames of daily life - are constituted and represented through social practices, not as separate elements but in relation to each other. It describes how geographical differences are produced, and shows how they then become fundamental to the exploration of political, economic and ecological alternatives to contemporary life.The book is divided into four parts. Part I describes the problematic nature of action and analysis at different scales of time and space, and introduces the reader to the modes of dialectical thinking and discourse which are used throughout the remainder of the work. Part II examines how ""nature"" and ""environment"" have been understood and valued in relation to processes of social change and seeks, from this basis, to make sense of contemporary environmental issues.Part III, is a wide-ranging discussion of history, geography and culture, explores the meaning of the social ""production"" of space and time, and clarifies problems related to ""otherness"" and ""difference"". The final part of the book deploys the foundational arguments the author has established to consider contemporary problems of social justice that have resulted from recent changes in geographical divisions of labor, in the environment, and in the pace and quality of urbanization.Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference speaks to a wide readership of students of social, cultural and spatial theory and of the dynamics of contemporary life. It is a convincing demonstration that it is both possible and necessary to value difference and to seek a just social order. David Harvey is Professor of Geography at the Johns Hopkins University. From 1987-1993 he was Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. He received the Outstanding Contributor Award from the American Association of Geographers in 1980; the Anders Retzius Gold Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 1989; the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and the Vautrin Lud Prize in 1995.His books include The Explanation in Geography (1969); Social Justice and the City (Blackwell, 1973, new edition 1988); The Limits to Capital (Blackwell, 1982); The Urban Experience (Blackwell, 1989) and The Condition of Postmodernity (Blackwell, 1989).",anthropology;books;cultural;earth sciences;education & reference;geography;human geography;law;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;regional;science & math;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,16 0823083497,"New York: Songs of the City The Big Apple deserves exploration ""through the poetry of its music"" because, Groce says, ""no [other] American city has inspired more music."" Well, New Orleans might seriously challenge New York in songs per capita, but her point is well taken, considering the roster of music notables who have referenced the big burg, from George M. Cohan to Cole Porter to Billy Joel. Stars aside, Groce emphasizes the songs in such chapters as ""Mass Transit in Song"" and ""Celebrating Broadway,"" which delightfully detail the tuneful specifics of life in the boroughs. In ""New Yorkers in Love"" --which doesn't have to be a frightening concept--she recalls such favorites as ""Manhattan Serenade"" and ""She's Got a Great Big Army of Friends Since She Lives Near the Navy Yard."" In ""Crime and Punishment,"" she cites ""Slaughter on Tenth Avenue,"" among others. Many beautiful sheet-music covers colorfully illustrate this playful and--with such sidebar fare as a summary of ""Brooklyn's Biggest Sex Scandal,"" involving that nineteenth-century Swaggart, Henry Ward Beecher--informative book. Mike Tribby",americas;arts & photography;books;ethnic & international;ethnomusicology;history;history & criticism;music;musical genres;politics & social sciences;popular;popular culture;social sciences;songbooks;state & local;united states,16 0874519675,"The Return of the Wolf: Reflections on the Future of Wolves in the Northeast (Middlebury Bicentennial Series in Environmental Studies) ""John Elder has assembled an excellent primer on the subject . . . This is must reading for lovers of eastern wilderness."" Audubon Magazine 6 x 9 trim. 4 drawings. LC 00-010446 ""Scientists, politicians, wilderness advocates, and public agencies have all begun looking at the northeastern United States as a region where packs of wolves might once more be able to live. It is remarkable to find this conversation taking place in this long-settled and densely-populated part of the country, and one where the last wild wolf was killed well over a century ago. Public controversy has followed hard on the heels of such speculation, with bills to prohibit the reintroduction of wolves already debated in the state legislatures of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. In the scientific realm, too, questions have arisen about whether restoration projects are called for . . . The debate will continue to be played out in the coming years. These four essays contribute their own distinctive and thoughtful reflections to this process. They remind us that the future of our entire region is connected, in vital and surprising ways, to the drama of these gray shadows just at the edges of our field of vision."" -- from the Introduction by John Elder JOHN ELDER is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and author of Reading the Mountains of Home (1998) and Imagining the Earth (1985).",animals;biological sciences;biology;books;conservation;ecology;endangered species;essays;essays & correspondence;field guides;literature & fiction;mammals;nature & ecology;science & math;sports & outdoors;wildlife,16 0929975251,"Gemstone Buying Guide: A Guide to Buying ""Praiseworthy, a beautiful gem-pictorial reference and a help to everyone in viewing colored stones as a gemologist or gem dealer would . . .One of finest collections of gem photographs I've ever seen. The amount of work in this book is to be believed only by holding it in your hands. If you see the book, you will probably purchase it on the spot."" -- Anglic Gemcutter""With colour on almost every opening few could resist this book whether or not they were in the gemstone and jewelry trade . . .here the reader is given all the information needed to show the custoemr what a stone is, interesting facts about particular species and advice on cleaning and conservation. . . we are show how to evaluate cuts, styles, color, inclusions. Treatments, phenomenal stones and synthetic stones are also described. Beautifully produced with fresh photographs of a high standard, it could be sold to the customer along with their gemstone or jewelry purchase."" -- Journal of Gemmology",antiques & collectibles;books;carving;consumer guides;crafts;crafts & hobbies;earth sciences;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;hobbies & home;mineralogy;nature & ecology;rocks & minerals;science & math;wood crafts & carving,16 0060193778,"Prisoners Of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence Noted as the founder of cognitive psychotherapy, Beck (emeritus, Pennsylvania State Univ.) here applies his work to greater social problems, from domestic violence to bigotry, crime, and war. Focusing on involuntary and usually unnoticed thought patterns, Beck's therapy emphasizes relearning. He wants patientsAand, now, everyone from gang members to world leadersAto examine their cognitions rationally with a view to decreasing hostility. Beck's approach is so sweeping that economic, geographic, and racial issues all can be subsumed under it, and he makes a strong case. However, he oversimplifies when he argues that anger, hate, and hostility are the same whether the conflict is between spouses or nations. Unfortunately, he gives short shrift to the constructive aspects of anger and chooses to ignore the psychology of nonviolence, though his approach is consistent with Gandhi's and King's. Still, Beck's broad scope; valuable summaries on prejudice, altruism, and political psychology; and optimistic, humane, and rational treatment of a vital subject recommend this for lay and professional readers.AE. James Lieberman, George Washington Univ. Sch. of Medicine, Washington, D.C. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. A reflective consideration of the dysfunctional thinking that results in acts ranging from verbal abuse on the personal level to mass murder on the societal level, as well as suggestions for remedying these problems. Known as the father of cognitive therapy, Beck, professor emeritus of psychology at the Univ. of Penn. School of Medicine, finds parallels between violent reactions of troubled individuals to presumed wrongs, bombings by extremist militant groups, and acts of genocide perpetrated by states. In his psychotherapeutic work with patients, he observed a pattern of thinking that he describes as ``hostile framing,'' that is, perceiving the person one is in conflict with as dangerous and evil and the self as right and good. Such thinking locks the mind in a ``prison of hate'' in which a false image is mistaken for the real person. Beck calls such cognitive distortion ``primal thinking'' because it occurs in the earliest stage of information processing and also in the early developmental stage of children. When primal thinking pigeonholes adversaries as evil, even subhuman, creatures who deserve to be punished, the moral code against killing is weakened. Beck demonstrates how such cognitive errors have led to wife-beating, group rape, the Salem witch trials, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Holocaust, and genocide in Cambodia, Turkey, and the Soviet Union. The cognitive distortions that led to WWI get special attention. There is hope, however, says Beck, who argues that war is not inevitable and asserts that humans have an innate capacity for altruistic behavior to override hostile tendencies and for rational thinking to correct cognitive distortions. He argues that an understanding of individual psychology can provide the tools for developing corrective political and social programs, and he describes how these might operate in preventing child and spousal abuse, juvenile delinquency, and ethnopolitical violence. A provocative and most timely report in this era of ethnic cleansing abroad and high school shootings at home. -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. ""A brilliant book, deeply needed in today's world. Dr. Beck brings to bear both immense knowledge and creative intelligence to synthesize this amazingly practical, yet never too simple book of advice and insight."" -- Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., author of Worry and Connect""Aaron Beck draws on a lifetime of scientific research and therapeutic experience. . . . He has devoted his career to showing how the rational side of human nature can be trained to overcome the merciless legacy of irrelevant evolutionary imperatives and the tragic result of individual traumas. By reducing conflict arising, not from clashes of interest, but mistaken judgments and unprocessed impulses, this book will help both laymen and professionals put human rationality to its most important use."" -- Ian S. Lustick, department chair and professor of political science, University of Pennsylvania ""In this important book, one of America's most distinguished psychiatrists draws on his vast clinical experience, personal wisdom, and scholarly knowledge to offer a fascinating account of the dark side of the human psyche."" -- Roy F. Baumeister, author of Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty""Prisoners of Hate offers a profound analysis of a most pressing human challenge: the causes--and prevention--of hatred. Of the many important books Aaron Beck has written, this may be his greatest gift to humanity."" -- Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence""The leading authority on depression here turns his clinical radar on the cognitive sources of anger and hostility. As Dr. Beck demonstrates, hate and violence bring pain not only to the victims but also to the perpetrators. Hostility and rage can become habitual and, like other bad habits, these can be broken. This fine book can help."" -- David T. Lykken, Ph.D., professor emeritus of psychology, University of Minnesota""This valuable book shows that even the most extreme forms of hate and violence arise from diminishing and dehumanizing other people, from seeing them as enemies--even if they are our wives and husbands. Very importantly, it also offers remedies--ways to alter our thinking so that we can live more loving lives."" -- Ervin Staub, Ph.D., author of The Roots of Evil ""Prisoners of Hate offers a profound analysis of a most pressing human challenge: the causes--and prevention--of hatred. Of the many important books Aaron Beck has written, this may be his greatest gift to humanity."" Aaron T. Beck, M.D., is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and president of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research. Dr. Beck is the author of thirteen books. He lives with his wife, Judge Phyllis Beck, in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, and has four children and eight grandchildren. Chapter 1The Prison of HateHow Egoism and Ideology Hijack the MindIt is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of a complex of phenomena that to direct observation appear to be separate things. Albert Einstein (April 1901)The violence of humans against humans appalls us but continues to take its toll today. The dazzling technological advances of our era are paralleled by a reversion to the savagery of the Dark Ages: unimaginable horrors of war and wanton annihilation of ethnic, religious, and political groups. We have succeeded in conquering many deadly diseases, yet we have witnessed the horrors of thousands of murdered people floating down the rivers of Rwanda, innocent civilians driven from their homes and massacred in Kosovo, and blood flowing in the killing fields of Cambodia. Wherever we look, east or west, north or south, we see persecution, violence, and genocide.In less dramatic ways, crime and violence reign in our countries and cities. There seem to be no limits to the personal misery people inflict on one another. Close, even intimate, relationships crumble under the impact of uncontrolled anger. Child abuse and spouse abuse pose a challenge to legal as well as mental health authorities. Prejudice, discrimination, and racism continue to divide our pluralistic societyThe scientific advances of the age are mocked by the stasis in our ability to understand and solve these interpersonal and societal problems. What can be done to prevent the misery inflicted on the abused child, the battered wife? How can we reduce the medical complications of hostility, including soaring blood pressure, heart attacks, and strokes? What guidelines can be developed to address the broader manifestations of hostility that tear apart the fabric of civilization? What can the policy makers and social engineers-- and the average citizens--do? Sociologists, psychologists, and political scientists have made concerted efforts to analyze the social and economic factors leading to crime, violence, and war. Yet the problems remain.A Personal ExperianceSometimes a relatively isolated experience can expose the inner structure of a phenomenon. I received a clear insight into the nature of hostility many years ago when I was its target. I had received the usual laudatory introduction at a book-signing event in a large bookstore and had just completed a few introductory remarks to an audience of colleagues and other scholars. Suddenly, a middle-aged man, whom I shall call Rob, approached me in a confrontational manner. I recalled later that he seemed ""different""--stiff, tense, his eyes glaring. We had the following interchange:Rob (sarcastic tone): Congratulations! You certainly drew a large crowd.ATB: Thanks. I enjoy getting together with my friends.Rob: I suppose you enjoy being the center of attention.ATB: Well, it helps to sell books.Rob (angry tone): I guess you think you're better than me.ATB: No. I'm just another person.Rob: You know what I think of you? You're just a phony.ATB: I hope not.At this point it was clear that Rob's hostility was rising, that he was getting out of control. Several of my friends moved in and, after a brief scuffle, led him out of the store.Although this scene might be dismissed as simply the irrational behavior of a disturbed person, I believe it shows, in bold relief, several facets of hostility. The exaggerations in the thinking and behavior of clinical patients often delineate the nature of adaptive as well as excessive human reactions. As I reflect on the incident now, I can note a number of features that illustrate some universal mechanisms involved in the triggering and expression of hostility.First, why did Rob take my performance as a personal affront, as though I were in some way injuring him? What struck me--and was obvious to the other observers with a background in psychology--was the egocentricity of his reaction: he interpreted the recognition I received as having diminished him in some way. Such a reaction, although extreme, probably is not as puzzling as it may seem. Others in the audience may have been thinking about their own professional status--whether they deserved recognition--and may have experienced regret or envy. Rob, however, was totally absorbed in how my position reflected on him; he personalized the experience as though he and I were adversaries, competing for the same prize.Rob's exaggerated self-focus set the stage for his anger and his desire to attack me. He was impelled to make an invidious comparison between the two of us, and in accord with his egocentric perspective, he presumed that others would consider him less important than I, perhaps less worthy. Also, he felt left out, because he was receiving none of the attention and friendship that were being given to me.The sense of social isolation, of being disregarded by the rest of the group, undoubtedly hurt him, a reaction commonly reported by patients in like situations. But why didn't he simply experience disappointment or regret? Why the anger and hatred? After all, I was not doing anything to him. Yet he perceived an injustice in the proceedings: I was no more deserving of recognition than he was. Therefore, since he was wronged, he was entitled to feel angry. But he carried this further. His statement, ""You think you're better than me,"" shows the degree to which he personalized our interaction. He imagined what my view of him would be, and then projected it into my mind, as if he knew what I was thinking (something I call the projected image). In essence Rob was using (actually overusing) a frequent and mostly adaptive device: mind-reading.Reading other people's minds, to some extent, is a crucial adaptive mechanism. Unless we can judge other people's attitudes and intentions toward us with some degree of accuracy, we are continuously vulnerable, stumbling blindly through life. Some authors have noted a deficiency in this capability in autistic children, who are oblivious to other people's thinking and feeling. In contrast, Rob's interpersonal sensitivity and mind-reading were. . .",behavioral sciences;books;emotions;fitness & dieting;general;health;medical books;mental health;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;violence in society,16 0910965595,"Super Searchers Make It on Their Own: Top Independent Information Professionals Share Their Secrets for Starting and Running a Research Business (Super Searchers series) ""When information professionals choose to be self-employed, they often decide to work from home. What they need is the kind of collegial inside information the seers of this young industry share in ""Super Searchers Make It on Their Own."" Suzanne Sabroski is principal of Sabroski & Associates, a firm providing general research and writing support to business professionals. She has written for Searcher magazine and has worked as a corporate librarian. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.",books;business & investing;business & management;computers & technology;education & reference;internet & web culture;library & information science;library management;management;management & leadership;manager's guides to computing;network administration;networking;online searching;politics & social sciences;social sciences,16 1570983798,"America's National Wildlife Refuges: A Complete Guide Russell Butcher's America's National Wildlife Refuges: A Complete Guide is a grand invitation to visit the country's more than 530 refuges. (T. Edward Nickens Wildlife Conservation )Butcher's book is far more than a guide; it is an invitation to come to know and cherish the 540 units across the entire range of the National Wildlife Refuge System. It mingles history, anecdotes and perspective to give us the best assessment yet of these national treasures. (Frank Graham Jr. Audubon )If the outdoors is your getaway, this could be the source of trip ideas for the next couple of decades. (Mike Maza Dallas Morning News )This monumental reference work is filled with detailed information on more than 530 locations...good photos...to have all the data between the covers of one book is immensely valuable. (Southwest Books Of The Year, 2003 ) Russell D. Butcher is a lifelong conservationist and the author of Exploring our National Parks and Monuments and Exploring our National Historic Parks and Sites, both published by Roberts Rinehart.",animals;biological sciences;books;education & reference;food;general;lodging & transportation;mountain;nature & ecology;parks & campgrounds;reference;science & math;travel;united states;west;wildlife,16 155861026X,"Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present, V: 600 B.C. to the Early Twentieth Century While the introduction's history of feminist literary criticism is often tangential, with its rehashings of Kate Millet's Sexual Politics and Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic , the selections themselves (derived from 10 regional languages and English) and the editors' accompanying essays give valuable insight into 2500 years of daily life on the subcontinent, subtleties of caste and religion, and the legacies of language from pre-Aryan through the Vedic age, the Mughal empire, up to the penultimate days of the Raj. The literary quality of many of the writers, such as Swarnakumari Devi (once a leading figure in modern Bengali literature but later eclipsed by her younger brother, Rabindranath Tagore), is notable. While Tharu, an English teacher at the Central Institute for English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad, and Lalita, a political scientist, present a number of obscure writers, they never yield to the inaccessible. Few women could be more remote from us than Sumangalamata, a 6th century B.C. Buddhist nun, but still her sentiment is familiar: ""A woman well set free! How free I am, / How wonderfully free, from kitchen drudgery. / Free from the harsh grip of hunger, / And from empty cooking pots, / Free too of that unscrupulous man."" Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. This volume is an enlightened and lengthy project--locating, identifying, and translating Indian women's writings produced over 2500 years. The research is painstaking and the selections of almost infinite variety and interest, the subject matter convincingly illuminating the exceedingly difficult roads to recognition the women of India have had--and still have--to travel in order to escape the yokes of marriage, politics, and custom. Eleven editors supervised these remarkable selections of letters, poetry, fiction, and autobiography written in Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu, first assembling 600 writers and then choosing 140 for translation by 70 scholars. Writers included are nuns, court historians, polemicists, poets, and memoir and fiction authors. Many archaic and destructive traditions are explained, such as the horrifying ritual of suttee (sati). Praiseworthy headnotes and detailed biographical and critical discussions are included. This admirable collection is a monumental achievement.- Glenn O. Carey, Eastern Kentucky Univ., Richmond, Ky.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. SUSIE THARU teaches English literature at the Central Institute for English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad. K. LALITA directs Anveshi Research Centre for Womens Studies at Osmania University in Hyderabad.",asia;books;contemporary;essays;essays & correspondence;gender studies;history;humanities;india;literature;literature & fiction;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,16 0761976264,"Resilience Education This book stands alone in that it is the first to present a model of educational practice that is both loyal to the resilience (and risk) research and to the realities of education in todays hectic and multicultural class environment. (Dennis Saleebey )Everyone in practice, from superintendents to teachers, will enjoy this book. Offers a strong foundation and a neat model to assist educators in implementing resilience education. Everyone from superintendents to teachers will enjoy this book! (Patrick Akos )Resilience Education gives practical strategies for working with children and illustrates them with examples. It readily lends itself to the education of both teachers and parents. This book should be on every reading list. (Rodney Skager )Bravo to the authors! A refreshing look at asset building that can lead to the learner utilizing more of her/his own personal resources in the learning process. (Lynn Jones )Completely accessible to all readers. All students would benefit from the objectives of Resilience Education. (Cheryl Armon )Highly recommended for educators and social services professionals who work with youth. (Randy Kroeker )This is a helpful book whose prescriptions can bring a transformation in the way you think, feel, and act in the educational environment. It can strengthen your belief in the power and promise of students themselves. (Dennis Saleebey )Highly recommended for educators and social services professionals who work with youth. (Randy Kroeker, Associate Professor, Counseling Services )",books;business & finance;business & investing;college & university;economics;education;education & reference;education theory;educational philosophy;language experience approach;new;philosophy & social aspects;reference;research;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,16 0133421716,"Asynchronous Transfer Mode: Solution for Broadband ISDN (3rd Edition) ATM is the hottest network in the marketplace because it allows huge packets of data to pass through networks. It covers the latest standards such as the ATM Forum Version 3.1, an invaluable guide to the specification, design, purchase and installation of ATM-based systems. It explains introduction strategies for ATM in the public and private network, both for computer (ATM LAN) as well as consumer (Video-on-Demand) applications. For communications engineers and programmers developing ATM applications and equipment.",books;computer science;computers & technology;electrical & electronic engineering;electrical & electronics;engineering;isdn;networking;networks;new;professional & technical;protocols & apis;science & math;technology;telecommunications;used & rental textbooks,16 0521802644,"Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) ""The Federal Theatre Project is a great read."" John Earnest, American Literature, University of New Hampshire Theatre has often served as a touchstone for moments of political change or national definition. In this book Steve Wilmer selects key historical moments in American history and examines how the theatre, in formal and informal settings, responded to these events, from the Colonial fight for independence, through Native American struggles, the Socialist Worker play, the Civil Rights Movement, and up to works of the last decade. In addition to examining theatrical events and play texts, Wilmer also considers audience reception and critical response. S. E. Wilmner is a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and formerly Director of the School of Drama. He has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the faculty of the International Centre for Advanced Theatre Studies, in Finland. Steven Wilmer is editor of Portraits of Courage: Plays by Finish Women (Helsinki University Press, 1997) and of Beckett in Dublin (Lilliput, 1992), among other works. He is also a playwright, with his works performed at the Manhattan Theatre Club and Lincoln Center.",american literature;americas;arts & photography;books;drama;history;history & criticism;humanities;humor & entertainment;literature;literature & fiction;new;performing arts;theater;united states;used & rental textbooks,16 0674600754,"Nariokotome Homo Erectus Skeleton Walker and Leakey's book brings together contributions by experts in paleobiology, geology, anatomy, anthropology and ecology. It is a stunning detective story, and a satisfying demonstration of the power of the scientific method to give flesh to the past. --Chet Raymo (Boston Globe )The information provided by the various studies reported in this volume is of immense value to our knowledge of human evolutionary history. The authors and editors have provided a model for descriptive and comparative analyses against which all subsequent endeavors will be measured. In my opinion, this work will stand as one of the classics of paleoanthropology. --Fred H. Smith (Science )What impressed me most about the volume is that, apart from the basic description of the fossil, which itself is of great importance, the editors have sought out leading experts to tackle problems relating to specific issues in the evolutionary biology of Homo erectus. Many of these chapters would stand alone as major contributions. Together, they make a remarkable volume. --R. A. Foley, University of Cambridge Alan Walker is Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. A Royal Society and MacArthur fellow, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996, he and Pat Shipman won the prestigious Rhone-Poulenc Award for The Wisdom of the Bones.",anthropology;biological sciences;biology & life sciences;books;education & reference;evolution;new;paleontology;physical;politics & social sciences;reference;science & math;science & mathematics;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;vertebrate,16 1593375999,"All About Mom: From Mark Twain to Maya Angelou--Insights, Thoughts, And Life Lessons on Motherhood ""Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart."" Dahlia Porter and Gabriel Cervantes are the authors/editors of several books, including: 365 Reflections on Fathers, 365 Reflections on Grandmothers, 365 Reflections on Sisters, 365 Reflections on Daughters, 365 Reflections on Sex and 365 Reflections on Being Single.",ancient;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;education & reference;family relationships;history;inspirational;mayan;motherhood;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;quotations;religion & spirituality;social sciences;spirituality,16 0596001894,"Python Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition Mark Lutz is an independent Python trainer, writer, and software developer, and is one of the primary figures in the Python community. He is the author of the O'Reilly books Programming Python and Python Pocket Reference (both in 2nd Editions), and co-author of Learning Python (both in 2nd Editions). Mark has been involved with Python since 1992, began teaching Python classes in 1997, and has instructed over 90 Python training sessions as of early 2003. In addition, he holds BS and MS degrees in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, and over the last two decades has worked on compilers, programming tools, scripting applications, and assorted client/server systems. Whenever Mark gets a break from spreading the Python word, he leads an ordinary, average life with his kids in Colorado. Mark can be reached by email at , or on the web at http://www.rmi.net/~lutz.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;new;object-oriented design;object-oriented software design;operating systems;programming;programming languages;python;software;software design;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,16 1568385552,"Dangerous Drugs : An Easy-To-Use Reference for Parents and Professionals (A Hazelden Guidebook) (Hezelden Guidebook) Carol Falkowski, Director of Research Communications at the Hazelden Foundation, is author of the new reference book, Dangerous Drugs: An Easy-to-Use Reference for Parents and Professionals.For nearly 20 years she has monitored drug abuse trends at the national level, as one of 20 researchers in the country who participates in a drug abuse monitoring network of the National Institute of Drug Abuse.Falkowski advised the US Food and Drug Administration (1995 - 1999) regarding the safety, efficacy, and abuse potential of certain drugs, and has provided consultation to the National Institute of Justice, the National Drug Intelligence Center, Join Together, and numerous states. Before coming to Hazelden in 1997, she was research coordinator at the Minnesota state alcohol and drug abuse authority for 15 years.Falkowski was featured in the 1999 Showtime documentary by Robert Zemeckis, Smoking, Drinking, and Drugging in the Twentieth Century. She also produced a Hazelden video entitled Addi --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.",addiction & recovery;books;drug guides;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;medicine & health sciences;new;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;reference;self-help;social services & welfare;substance abuse;used & rental textbooks,16 0761985069,"News in a New Century: Reporting in An Age of Converging Media Jerry Lanson, a writing coach and columnist, has taught journalism at seven colleges and universities. In January 1998, he joined the faculty of Emerson College as chair of its Department of Journalism and Public Information. He has also taught on the journalism faculties of Syracuse University, San Francisco State University, New York University, and Boston University. Lanson is a former reporter for The (Bergen County, NJ) Record and a former deputy city editor and bureau chief of the San Jose (California) Mercury News. This is his second textbook. His honors include a National Teaching Award from the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.Barbara Croll Fought, an Associate Professor in the broadcast journalism department of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, and a lawyer, has specialized in the areas of Internet research and public access to government documents. She teaches communications law as well as broadcast journalism classes. She is a former news researcher and special projects producer for WDIV-TV, Detroit, where she earned nine Emmy Awards. In 1995, students at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications chose her as Professor of the Year.",books;communication & journalism;computers & technology;education & reference;journalism;journalism & nonfiction;language & grammar;library & information science;new;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;social sciences;speech;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,16 0070527148,"Schaum's Easy Outlines: College Chemistry (Schaum's Easy Outlines) When you don't have the time...but you still need the grade! If our life is too busy to spend hours pouring over lengthy textbooks, and you need every study minute to count, this Schaum's Easy Outline is perfect for you! This super-condensed, high-torque study guide gives you what you need to know in a fraction of the time. Built for quick, effective study, this Easy Outline packs exciting new learning tools that make mastering college chemistry fast, funand almost automatic. 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Students know that Schaum's is going to be there for them when they need it! McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide",books;chemistry;curricula;curriculum & instruction;education;education & reference;general & reference;mathematics;new;schools & teaching;science & math;science & mathematics;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,16 1886705801,"Streetwise San Diego Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of San Diego, California - Folding pocket size travel map with trolley lines 'Don't leave home without STREETWISE.' --The New York Times 'STREETWISE is an absolute travel essential.' --Travel + Leisure Magazine 'In a strange city, your sense of direction is only as good as the map in your hands. The best maps to carry are published by STREETWISE.' --Chicago Daily Herald STREETWISE is the first map to be designed with modern graphics and is the originator of the laminated, accordion-fold map format. Weve set the standard that every map company has imitated but never duplicated. Our mission is to make you feel comfortable, to make you feel safe in a place where youve never been before and to enable you to experience a familiar place more fully.The company was founded in 1984 by Michael Brown, who had been in international publishing for many years, setting up subsidiaries for textbook publishers. In the 1970s, Brown traveled extensively throughout Africa, India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Brown would take a large paper map, cut out the city center, folded it up and slip it into his pocket, thus preventing him from looking like a tourist in areas where discretion is the better part of travel. This was his tool for surviving.After many years on the road, Brown settled back in New York and decided to start his own business, based on the adaptations he had made to maps in his travels. His goal was to give someone the ability to navigate easily in unfamiliar terrain.He started with a new map format: the accordion fold. Such a simple idea, but at the time it was revolutionary. No more struggling to fold an awkward, oversized paper map. This new format would enable the user to blend in like a native, instead of stick out like a tourist. Brown then added lamination to ensure that the map would be a lasting tool.More important than the format was the design of the map itself. It had to be a map that not only succeeded above and beyond any map he had used, but was esthetically appealing as well. The look of it had to be as striking as the functionality. Color was introduced in a way that was never seen before in a map - vivid purple for water, soothing gray for the background of street grids, gold to highlight elements of the map. Clarity, conciseness and convenience in a very stylish package.Building the business was a 24 hour job. Brown sold the maps during the day, zipping around Manhattan making deliveries on his Harley Davidson. At night he packed the orders and did the design work. More titles were added, each title requiring months of research and design.Today, STREETWISE produces over 130 titles for major destinations, regions and countries throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia. We have grown from the back of a motorcycle to selling millions of maps around the world.Yet each title is still painstakingly researched and updated. STREETWISE is one of the only, if not THE only map company that conducts research by walking or driving an area to ensure accuracy. After all, what good is the map if what you hold in your hands doesnt match what you see on the street sign? This lengthy fact checking results in superior accuracy; in effect, weve done the work, now you have the adventure.In the end, its not about the map, its about getting out and finding your own authentic experience wherever you go. Its about being in a city or a region and discovering things that you never thought you would find. You can do this if you have confidence and you have confidence if you have a great map. STREETWISE is the great map that you need.",atlases & maps;books;california;education & crafts;education & reference;maps;office & school supplies;office products;pacific;san diego;social studies materials;specialty travel;tourist destinations & museums;travel;united states;west,16 1592281044,"Hustler Days: Minnesota Fats, Wimpy Lassiter, Jersey Red, and America's Great Age of Pool This lyrical, profane ode to the irresponsible life explores the dissolute romance of pool through the lives of legendary hustlers Minnesota Fats, Wimpy Lassiter and Jersey Red. Journalist Dyer follows the fluctuating fortunes of the hustler demimonde from its Depression-era heyday, when unemployed men flocked to pool halls looking to make a quick buck (""idle men...surge like lifeblood into poolrooms""), to the doldrums of the years after World War II, when these men had jobs, families and mortgages to absorb their time and money and a ""black plague infected pool,"" to the explosion in pool's popularity in the 1960s, after the movie The Hustler glamorized it for a new generation seeking escape from propriety. Following sociologist Ned Polsky, Dyer appreciates the pool hall as the last redoubt of the ""permanent bachelor,"" a classless, defeminized zone where ""men argued and spat and threw money across green felt"" and evaded the burdens of respectability and domesticity. Dyer brings this subculture to life through many colorful anecdotes about his three anti-heroes, examining their childhood opposition to chores, their unfitness for gainful employment, their titanic tournament duels, where their human deficiencies become virtues, and the sad denouement-especially for pool demi-god Wimpy Lassiter-of a lonely old age. His prose can shade toward the purple (""Jersey Red came at the other fellow ferociously...his young lion heart pounding with every soft thud of the nine-ball,"") but connoisseurs of urban decadence will enjoy soaking up the rich atmospherics. Photos. Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Every great countercultural moment lives longer in analysis than in real time. Adding to a slow-growing canon, Dyer explores ""America's second great age of pool"" (roughly 1960-72) and the players who defined it: self-inventing bloviator Fats; shambling, hypochondriacal, shot-making genius Wimpy; and Red, gifted but a perennial also-ran. Pool hustlers, like con men, tap into an especially American envy of those who literally refuse to play by the rules. Dyer knows this, even as he, too, is seduced by the film noir quality of these lives: predatory masters of an obscure craft, the hustlers' greatest triumphs are little-known and most die broke and alone. One senses that the prose has been bullied in an attempt to make it sing, and one wonders if, despite his long research, the author is a bit too credulous when stories are too good to be true (he cites Fats' fanciful autobiography too often). Yet this labor of love has much to recommend it. Pool players leave no troves of correspondence for researchers, only great stories, and maybe that's enough. Keir GraffCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved "" Well researched and stylishly written, this salute to pool's glory days is recommended for all public libraries.""--Library Journal""People who love pool will love this book. People who love a good story -fact or fiction-will love this book.""-- Morning Star Telegram""What makes Hustler Days so engaging, and so readable for those with little interest in the game, is that Dyer subverts the hustler's life while also celebrating it. His love for the game and its hustlers is evident.""--American-Statesman""overall, a darned good book""--Ft. Worth, TX Morning Star-Telegram""Dyer has a passion for the game, a nostalgia for those times and a gift with the profane language of the pool halls that will have you reaching for ""The Hustler,"" if not your chalk and cue.""--The Oregonian Minnesota Fats was a brilliant pool player, but he was even better at lying about his past. Wimpy Lassiter, the gentleman hustler, started playing at age seven, and for the rest of his life lived for the rush of victory and high stakes. Violent and determined, Jersey Red made and lost a fortune at the table. With a passion for the game evident on every page, R.A. Dyer takes us through smoky bars and late nights where a win was just as dangerous as a loss. He captures the game's popularity in the Thirties, its dark days in the Fifties, and its renaissance and apex in the Sixties, fueled by the smashing success of Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason going toe-to-toe in The Hustler. It was an era that culminated in the legendary, nationally televised tournaments in Little Egypt, Illinois, where Jersey Red and Wimpy Lassiter went at it for hours. And it was an era that ended in perhaps the most dramatic scene in all of pool. Just as Jersey Red beat Wimpy Lassiter in 1969, after a decade of bitter rivalry, the police shut down the tournament. Cameras in tow, they arrested eighty hustlers - including the new champion.Dyer offers fascinating insight into the game of pool, as it paralleled the economy of our country and its trends. Readers will embrace Fats, Wimpy, and Red the fool, the poor-boy-done-good, and the hustler-with-a-heart-of-gold as their stars rise and fall. Complete with a glossary of pool terms, a list of tournaments, and profiles of other top players, this is the definitive book on a time when pool was king and these three players, its princes. From Fat's first showdown in Brooklyn, with a Texas-style gunslinger in cowboy boots and revolvers to world championship clashes, Hustler Days is a rollicking portrait of America's most roguish sport. R. A. DYER is a regular contributor to the nation's premier pool magazine, Billiards Digest. He spent over four years researching this book, and conducted more than one hundred interviews. He is currently statehouse reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and before that, was a reporter for The Houston Chronicle, where he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Austin, Texas.",americas;billiards & pool;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;history;history of sports;humor & entertainment;individual sports;midwest;miscellaneous;puzzles & games;regional u.s.;sports & outdoors;state & local;united states,16 0762403853,"Among the Amish More gentle matters are covered by Keith Bowen with skill and grace in Among the Amish. He weaves vignettes drawn from his time spent among the Amish of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, complementing his reports with his own marvelously evocative illustrations, many in full color.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",americas;arts & photography;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;drawing;history;minority studies;politics & social sciences;protestantism;religious;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states;world,16 0781737826,"The Psychology of the Body (LWW Massage Therapy and Bodywork Educational Series) ""There are no other books that compare with this most interesting offering . . . presented in a most enjoyable, readable writing style."" -- Doody's Review Service, Expert Reviewer: Martha J. Greenberg, PhD""This long-awaited book provides a well-researched overview of these concepts [and practical methodlogies] grounded in many years of experience."" -- Massage Therapy Journal, Winter, 2004 Explores the connections between the mind and body and the underlying psychological factors influencing the massage therapist-client relationship and the outcome of work. Includes case studies, conceptual issues, suggestions for applying concepts, and more. Softcover.",allied health professions;allied health services;alternative medicine;books;fitness & dieting;health;massage;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;physical therapy;physiological aspects;psychology;psychology & counseling;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,16 0631215336,"Representations of the Social: Bridging Theoretical Traditions ""Social psychology urgently needs greater rapprochement between its theories. This valuable volume directly addresses this need. With the social representations paradigm as their starting point, Deaux and Philogene have assembled a diverse selection of 24 essays. American readers especially will benefit from the book's many European authors and wide-ranging bibliography."" Thomas F. Pettigrew, University of California, Santa Cruz""This brilliant collection of essays is going to become a seminal reader for cultural psychologists on both sides of the Atlantic."" Richard A. Shweder, University of Chicago""The book consists of an excellent and highly diverse collection of essays"" Ivana Markova, University of Stirling, Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, Vol.13, No.5, September-October 2003 Humans are social animals, living through interaction with each other. We construct a framework of shared references to define how we think about the world around us. Such shared references are social representations. This theoretical concept allows us to rethink the complex interaction between our individual minds and the social life by focusing primarily on socio-cultural phenomena and their integration into our common sense.This volume brings together prominent social psychologists from the United Stages and Europe to present the major concepts and applications of social representation theory. Both content and methodological issues are raised in a series of case-study chapters. In addition, 3 key themes - social construction, social categorization, and social identification - are addressed through chapters and commentaries by social psychologists of representing different theoretical traditions and geographical locales. Covering a wide range of issues, this diverse collection will have a forceful impact on the future of social psychology. Kay Deaux is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at The City University of New York. She is past president of the American Psychological Society and is author/editor of many books and journal articles.Gina Philogne is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, New York). She has published several journal articles in both the United States and Europe and is the author of From Black to African American: A New Social Representation (1999).",books;fitness & dieting;general;health;interpersonal relations;medical books;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;relationships;self-help;social psychology & interactions;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,16 0964326108,"Power vs Force (Author's Official Revised Edition): The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior I especially appreciate [the] research and presentation on the attractor patterns of business.... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. [A] beautiful gift of writing....[You] spread joy, love and compassion through what you write. The fruit of these three is peace, as you know.... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ...particularly timely....a significant contribution to understanding and dealing with the problems we face today. -- Lee IacoccaOverwhelming! A masterpiece! A lifetime work! --Sheldon Deal, then President, International College of Applied Kinesiology Power vs Force is the culmination of a lifetime's work and study, a brilliant fusion of the mystical and the scientific, and the most thorough exposition yet of the art of kinesiology and its connections with both the new physics and ancient Eastern philosophy. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. All human endeavor has the common goal of understanding or influencing human experience. To this end, man has developed numerous descriptive and analytical disciplines: Morality, Philosophy, Psychology, and so on....Regardless what branch of inquiry one starts from-philosophy, political theory, theology-all avenues of investigation eventually converge at a common meeting point: the quest for an organized understanding of the nature of pure consciousness....To explain that which is simple can be difficult indeed. Much of this book is devoted to the process of making the simple obvious. If we can understand even one simple thing in depth, we will have greatly expanded our capacity for comprehending the nature of the universe and life itself. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. David R. Hawkins has practiced psychiatry since 1952 and is a life member of the American Psychiatric Association. A widely respected therapist and lecturer, his national television appearances include The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, The Barbara Walters Show, The Today Show; radio interviews include Oprah Radio. He has authored numerous scientific papers and videotapes, and co-authored the book Orthomolecular Psychiatry with Nobelist Linus Pauling. His diverse background as a researcher and teacher is noted in his biographical listing in Who's Who in America. Dr. Hawkins currently divides his time between his practice, books in progress, and direction of The Institute for Advanced Theoretical Research in Sedona, Arizona. (From the Foreword) IMAGINE-what if you had access to a simple yes-or-no answer to any question you wished to ask? A demonstrably true answer.... Any question. Think about it. There's the obvious: ""Jane is seeing another guy.""(Y/N?) Johnny is telling the truth about school. (Y/N?) But it's only a short step to: ""This is a safe investment."" (Y/N?) or ""This career is worthy of my pursuit."" (Y/N?) What if everyone had such access? Staggering implications suggest themselves immediately. Think again. What would happen to our ponderous and all-too-often flawed judicial system if there were a clear, confirmable answer to the proposition, ""John Doe is guilty as charged."" (Y/N?) What would happen to politics as we know it if all of us could ask the question, ""Candidate X honestly intends to fulfill this campaign promise."" (Y/N?)-and all of us got the same answer? And what would happen to advertising, period? You get the idea. But the idea gets bigger, fast. What happens to nationalism (Nation X is in fact an Evil Empire-Y/N?)? To government (This bill is in fact intended to protect the rights of citizens-Y/N?)? What happens to ""The check is in the mail.""? If, as has been said, man learned to lie an hour after he learned to talk, then a phenomenon such as we are discussing would be the genesis of the most fundamental change in human knowledge since the beginning of society. The transformations it would wreak in fields from communications to ethics, in our most basic concepts, in every detail of daily existence, would be so profound that it is difficult even to conceive what life would be like in a subsequent new era of truth. The world as we know it would be irrevocably changed, to its very roots. The study of kinesiology first received scientific attention in the second half of this century, through the work of Dr. George Goodheart, who pioneered the specialty he called Applied Kinesiology after finding that benign physical stimuli-for instance, beneficial nutritional supplements-would increase the strength of certain indicator muscles, whereas inimical stimuli would cause those muscles to suddenly weaken. The implication was that at a level far below conceptual consciousness the body knew, and through muscle-testing was able to signal, what was good and bad for it. The classic example, cited later in this work, is a universally observed weakening of indicator muscles in the presence of a chemical sweetener; the same muscles strengthen in the presence of a healthful natural supplement. In the late seventies Dr. John Diamond refined this specialty into a new discipline he called Behavioral Kinesiology. Dr. Diamond's startling discovery was that indicator muscles would strengthen or weaken in the presence of positive or negative emotional and intellectual stimuli as well as physical stimuli. A smile will make you test strong. The statement, ""I hate you."" will make you test weak. ""It takes two people to perform a kinesiological test. Choose a friend or a family member for testing. We'll call him or her your subject. 1. Have the subject stand erect, right arm relaxed at his side, left arm held out parallel to the floor, elbow straight. (You may use the other arm if you wish.) 2. Face your subject and place your left hand on his right shoulder to steady him. Then place your right hand on the subject's extended left arm just above the wrist. 3. Tell the subject you are going to try to push his arm down as he resists with all his strength. 4. Now push down on his arm fairly quickly, firmly and evenly. The idea is to push just hard enough to test the spring and bounce in the arm, not so hard that the muscle becomes fatigued. It is not a question of who is stronger, but of whether the muscle can lock the shoulder joint against the push."" Assuming there is no physical problem with the muscle and the subject is in a normal, relaxed state of mind, receiving no extraneous stimuli (for this reason it is important that the tester not smile or otherwise interact with the subject), the muscle will test strong-the arm will remain locked. If the test is repeated in the presence of a negative stimulus (for instance, artificial sweetener), although you are pushing down no harder than before, the muscle will not be able to resist the pressure and the subject's arm will fall to his side. A striking aspect of Diamond's research was the uniformity of response among his subjects. Diamond's results were predictable, repeatable, universal. This was so even where no rational link existed between stimulus and response. For totally undetermined reasons, certain abstract symbols caused all subjects to test weak; others, the opposite. Some results were perplexing: certain pictures, with no overtly positive or negative content would cause all subjects to test weak, while other apparently neutral pictures caused all subjects to test strong. And some results were food for considerable surmise: whereas virtually all classical music and most pop music (including classic rock-and-roll) caused a universally strong response, the hard or metal rock that first gained popularity in the seventies produced a universally weak response. There was one other phenomenon which Diamond noted in passing, though devoting no deeper analysis to its extraordinary implications. Subjects listening to tapes of known deceits-Lyndon Johnson perpetrating the Tonkin Gulf hoax, Edward Kennedy stonewalling the Chappaquiddick incident-universally tested weak. While listening to recordings of demonstrably true statements, they universally tested strong. This was the starting point of the work of the author of this volume, the well-known psychiatrist and physician, David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. In 1975 Dr. Hawkins began research on the kinesiological response to truth and falsehood. It had already been indicated that test subjects did not need any conscious acquaintance with the substance (or issue) being tested. In double-blind studies and in mass demonstrations involving entire lecture audiences, subjects universally tested weak in response to unmarked envelopes containing artificial sweetener, and strong to identical placebo envelopes. The same naive response appeared in testing intellectual values. What seems to be at work in such occurrences is a form of communal consciousness, spiritus mundi, or as Hawkins calls it, following Jung, a ""Database of Consciousness"" The phenomenon seen so commonly in other social animals, whereby a fish swimming at one edge of a large school will turn instantaneously when its fellows a quarter mile away flee a predator, pertains in some subconscious way to our species, also. There are simply too many documented instances of individuals having intimate acquaintance with information experienced firsthand by remote strangers for us to deny that there are forms of shared knowledge other than those achieved by rational consciousness. Or perhaps, more simply, the same spark of inner subrational wisdom that can discriminate healthy from unhealthy can discriminate true from false. One highly suggestive element of this phenomenon is the binary nature of the response. Hawkins found that questions must be phrased so that the answer is very clearly yes or no, like a nerve synapse that is on or off, like the most basic cellular forms of knowledge, like so much of what our cutting-edge physicists tell us is the essential nature of universal energy. Is the human brain, at some primal level, a wondrous computer linked with a universal energy field, that knows far more than it knows it knows? Be that as it may. As Dr. Hawkins' research continued, his most fertile discovery was a means of calibrating a scale of relative truth by which intellectual positions, statements or ideologies could be rated on a range of one to one thousand. One can ask, ""This item (book, philosophy, teacher) calibrates at 200(Y/N?); at 250"" (Y/N?) and so on, until the point of common weak response determines the calibration. The enormous implication of these calibrations was that for the first time in human history ideological validity could be assessed as an innate quality in any subject. Through twenty years of similar calibrations, Hawkins was able to analyze the full spectrum of the levels of human consciousness, developing a fascinating map of the geography of man's experience. This Anatomy of Consciousness produces a profile of the entire human condition, allowing a comprehensive analysis of the emotional and spiritual development of individuals, societies, and the race in general. So profound and far-reaching a view provides not only a new understanding of man's journey in the universe, but also a guide to all of us as to where we and our neighbors are on the ladder of spiritual enlightenment and on our own personal journeys to become who we could be. In this volume Dr. Hawkins brings these fruits of decades of research and insight into the penetrating illumination of revolutionary discoveries in advanced particle physics and nonlinear dynamics. For the first time in our Western intellectual record, he shows, the cold light of science is confirming what mystics and saints have always said about the self, God, and the very nature of reality. This vision of being, essence, and divinity presents a picture of man's relation to the universe that is unique in its capacity to satisfy both soul and reason. There is a rich intellectual and spiritual harvest here, much that you can take, and much more that you can give yourself. Turn the page. The future starts now. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",behavioral sciences;books;cognitive psychology;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;new;new age;new thought;physiological aspects;psychology;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,16 0253335590,"Landmarks on the Iron Road: Two Centuries of North American Railroad Engineering (Railroads Past and Present) England and France may have been the birthplaces of the railroad, but America was its nursery and playground. The need to link the already far-flung territory of the United States in the early 19th century spurred significant advances in civil engineering, transportation historian William Middleton writes, especially in the design and construction of railroad bridges. These spans needed to cross great rivers and deep canyons as well as bear weights unknown to earlier bridges. Bridges until that time were built much as they had been in Roman antiquity; to develop safe load-bearing bridges required much trial and error. It also required vision and experience, and Middleton's text is populated by a cast of brilliant, practical-minded men who figure little in standard histories of westward expansion but who were as important as any explorer or military leader in uniting the country. One such man was Wendel Bollman, a carpenter who developed a patented ""suspension and trussed bridge"" that was widely used along the Potomac, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers; another was J. E. Schwitzer, who adapted Swiss designs to the daunting conditions of the Rocky Mountains; still another was Theodore Dehone Judah, who built the first railroad along the tortuous California coast. Middleton celebrates these and other bridge builders and their remarkable creations, many of which are still in use today. His text, illustrated with historic photographs and drawings, will be of much interest to railroad buffs. --Gregory McNamee ""It's [Middleton's] ability to clearly explain the intricacies of civilengineering to a general-interest audience that really makes Landmarks on the IronRoad soar.... a must-read for anyone touched by the greatness of railroading."" --Trains American civil engineers were unsurpassed in their ability to build railroads over great distances and across high mountain passes, to erect great bridges, or to bore tunnels of prodigious length. This is a remarkable story of the application of engineering to the building of a transportation system that civilized and settled America, and then supported an industrial revolution and created a world power.",19th century;20th century;books;civil;engineering;food;history;lodging & transportation;modern (16th-21st centuries);professional & technical;railroad travel;railroads;science & math;technology;transportation;travel,16 0738701513,"Llewellyn's 2006 Herbal Almanac (Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac) Llewellyn Publications has grown and expanded into new areas of personal growth and transformation since it began as the Portland School of Astrology in 1901. Along with the strong line of astrology books the company was founded upon, Llewellyn publishes books on everything from alternative health and healing, Wicca and Paganism, to metaphysics and the paranormal-and since 1994 has published a growing list of Spanish-language titles. Llewellyn has long been know as one of America's leading publishers of New Age books, producing a wide variety of valuable tools for transformation of the mind, body and spirit. Reach for the Moon-and discover that self-help and spiritual growth is what Llewellyn is all about.",almanacs;almanacs & yearbooks;alternative medicine;books;crafts;education & reference;encyclopedias;fitness & dieting;gardening & landscape design;health;herbal remedies;herbs;hobbies & home;mythology & folklore;occult;religion & spirituality,16 002410213X,"Clinical Phonetics (2nd Edition) *HA18, Clinical Phonetics, 2/e, Lawrence D. Shriberg(University of Wisconsin), Raymond D. Kent (University of Wisconsin), U6401-6, 512 pp., 7 1/2 x 9 1/4, 0-024-10213-x, spiralbound, 1995, $39.75nk, October*/This is a comprehensive introduction to the art and science of clinical transcription. The teaching formats have withstood the test of ten years of use in a wide variety of programs in communicative disorders. The book and accompanying tapes allow the instructor to present and up-to-date course and prepare students for clinical practicum. Lawrence D. Shriberg, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Communicative Disorders and a principal investigator in the Communicative and Cognitive Sciences Group, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research is centered on genetic and other origins of pediatric speech sound disorders of known and unknown origin. Raymond D. Kent, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Communicative Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research has been primarily in the acoustics and physiology of speech, typical and atypical development of speech in children, and neurogenic communication disorders in children and adults with an emphasis on acoustic analysis and the assessment of intelligibility. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.",allied health professions;allied health services;audiology & speech pathology;books;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;medical books;medicine & health sciences;neuropsychology;new;psychology;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words,16 0762703369,"Guide to Sea Kayaking in Southern Florida: The Best Day Trips and Tours from St. Petersburg to the Florida Keys Let world-renowned sea kayaker Nigel Foster guide you through one of his favorite kayaking havens. In 'Guide to Sea Kayaking in Southern Florida,' he leads kayakers of all skill levels on 40 trips, with many additional route alternatives, in some of the most spectacular and wildlife-rich marine habitats on the planet. Designed for the beginner, intermediate, and advanced kayakers, this guide gives detailed descriptions of the routes, including prominent landmarks and interesting sites along the way. Detailed maps as well as overviews of Southern Florida's weather, tide, and current patterns add to the thorough coverage of paddling this spectacular coastline.",adventure;americas;books;florida;history;kayaking;keys;sea kayaking;south;south atlantic;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;state & local;travel;united states;water sports,16 1840184655,"Homeland: Into a World of Hate ""Could not be more timely"" -- The Observer""Reportage of the most illuminating kind - a vividly atmospheric narrative... unsettling and fascinating."" -- Times Literary Supplement""Terrifying...should appear in the bookcases of every politician in the land."" -- Daily Mail""The overall picture of hatred on our streets is vivid."" -- The Mirror""Tremendous...a pulsating book...he writes furiously, at times brilliantly."" -- The Independent --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition. Nick Ryan is an award-winning British journalist and writer, as well as consultant TV producer. His work has appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world, including The New York Times Magazine, The Times Magazine, The Independent on Sunday Review, The Telegraph Magazine, The Observer Magazine, The Mail on Sunday Review, The Weekend Australian, and he is a regular reviewer for The Express newspaper. He was creative producer of the BBC1 drama, England Expects, starring Steven Mackintosh, and a consultant for the Ross Kemp on Gangs series shown on Sky 1.",books;discrimination & racism;ethnic studies;european;fascism;ideologies & doctrines;international & world politics;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;specific topics;terrorism,16 0195583353,"Indigenous People's Rights in Australia, Canada and New Zealand Paul Havemann is in the Department of Law, University of Waikato. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",australian & oceanian;books;canadian;civil rights;constitutional law;education & reference;human rights;international & world politics;law;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,16 0485114836,"Freud & Nietzsche (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers) ""A lucid, incisive analysis of the interrelationship between Nietzsche's unsystematic, but acute, psychological observations and significant elements in Freudian psychoanalysis.""George J. Stack --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Text: English (translation) Original Language: French Professor Assoun is an active historian of philosophy and has published widely on Freud, Marx and psychoanalysis. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.",books;fitness & dieting;health;history & surveys;humanities;medical books;modern;new;philosophy;physiological aspects;politics & social sciences;psychoanalysis;psychology;psychology & counseling;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,16 0809320827,"The Feature Film Distribution Deal: A Critical Analysis of the Single Most Important Film Industry Agreement ""It is the primary contention of this book... that the pervasive market power of the major studio distributors in the United States (the MPAA companies, generally) has been gained and is maintained by engaging in numerous questionable, unethical, unfair, unconscionable, anticompetitive, predatory and/or illegal business practices.... Such practices are often referred to as creative accounting or creative contract interpretation.""John W. Cones, from the Introduction John W. Cones was a practicing securities/entertainment attorney based in Los Angeles during the time he researched and wrote this book. He is a prolific writer and lecturer on film finance. His books include Film Finance and DistributionA Dictionary of Terms, Film Industry Contracts, and 43 Ways to Finance Your Feature Film, also available from Southern Illinois University Press. Currently seeking to encourage interest in the reform of the U.S. film industry, he is working as a staff attorney in the U.S. Congress.",books;business & finance;business & investing;communications;film & television;history & criticism;humanities;humor & entertainment;industries & professions;industry;movies;new;performing arts;skills;sports & entertainment;used & rental textbooks,16 0595341470,My Rory: A Personal Journey Through Teenage Anorexia My Rory captures a rare glimpse of the inner feelings and thoughts of an anorexic as she battles to find herself.,addiction & recovery;biographies & memoirs;books;children's health;drug dependency;eating disorders;fitness & dieting;health;memoirs;mind & body;self-esteem;self-help;social issues;specific groups;teens;women,16 0415939704,Guibert of Nogent: Portrait of a Medieval Mind Jay Rubenstein studied medieval history at the University of Oxford and the University of California at Berkeley. Currently he teaches history at the University of New Mexico.,ancient & classical literature;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism & theory;education & reference;historical;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;medieval;movements & periods;new;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,16 0691120722,"Sharks of the World (Princeton Field Guides) One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005""This is a reference anyone in any age group or level of knowledge could use easily. You don't need to be a shark fan for Sharks of the World to be a useful addition to your library: this is one book I'd recommend to any diver or naturalist any day.""--Virginia Cowell, Diver Magazine""The reader learns about shark biology (body structure, teeth and jaws, senses, life history, etc) and the interactions between sharks and people, both good and bad. This is a very nice, handy-sized guide for those interested in sharks and their conservation.""--Robert E. Hoopes, Wildlife Activist""The amazing diversity of these magnificent yet maligned animals is wonderfully represented here.""--Christine Adkins, Discovery ""This exceptionally well-produced book, written by the leading authorities on shark systematics and conservation, is the only stand-alone field guide that covers all known shark species of the world. It is therefore an invaluable reference for shark scientists and enthusiasts alike. Nowhere are the identification, distribution, and conservation status of sharks more clearly presented.""--Professor Dr. Marcelo R. de Carvalho, researcher of shark and ray evolution, Universidad de So Paulo, Ribeiro Preto, Brazil""The first field guide to cover all species of sharks, Sharks of the World is a welcome addition to the field bags of both professional and amateur naturalists. Filling a role heretofore satisfied only by owning a series of regional field guides, this volume offers one stop shopping for worldwide shark aficionados. Sharks of the World is a must-buy for anyone interested in identifying sharks.""--George H. Burgess, Florida Program for Shark Research, Florida Museum of Natural History --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ""This exceptionally well-produced book, written by the leading authorities on shark systematics and conservation, is the only stand-alone field guide that covers all known shark species of the world. It is therefore an invaluable reference for shark scientists and enthusiasts alike. Nowhere are the identification, distribution, and conservation status of sharks more clearly presented.""--Professor Dr. Marcelo R. de Carvalho, researcher of shark and ray evolution, Universidad de So Paulo, Ribeiro Preto, Brazil""The first field guide to cover all species of sharks, Sharks of the World is a welcome addition to the field bags of both professional and amateur naturalists. Filling a role heretofore satisfied only by owning a series of regional field guides, this volume offers one stop shopping for worldwide shark aficionados. Sharks of the World is a must-buy for anyone interested in identifying sharks.""--George H. Burgess, Florida Program for Shark Research, Florida Museum of Natural History Leonard Compagno is an international authority on shark taxonomy and the author of many scientific papers and books on the subject. He currently works in the South African Museum's Shark Research Centre. Marc Dando is a freelance artist specializing in marine ecology and wildlife. Sarah Fowler works in marine ecology, biodiversity, and conservation and management, with a particular focus on sharks. She cofounded the UK Shark Trust and the European Elasmobranch Association. She also serves on the Conservation Committee of the American Elasmobranch Society (based at the University of Florida).",animals;biological sciences;books;earth sciences;field guides;fish;fish & sharks;geography;ichthyology;marine life;nature & ecology;oceans & seas;regional;science & math;sports & outdoors;zoology,16 1557508313,"The Naval Institute Guide to Naval Writing Robert Shenk, a retired captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve who taught at the U.S. Naval and Air Force academies, is a professor of English at the University of New Orleans. He is the author of The Naval Institute Guide to Naval Writing, 2nd Edition (978-1-55750-831-7) Paperback, 1997. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.",books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;history;humanities;literature;military science;military sciences;new;reference;research & publishing guides;social sciences;technical;used & rental textbooks;writing;writing skills,16 0810850567,"The Mountain Encyclopedia: An A-Z Compendium of More Than 2,300 Terms, Concepts, Ideas, and People Though it is described in the preface as ""an overview of all things connected to mountains,"" this volume does not have the lengthy definitions of mountain environments, animals, geology, or peoples that one might expect to find in an encyclopedia. Rather, the emphasis seems to be on mountaineering. Definitions are brief and often leave many aspects of the term defined in question. The entry for Marmot explains that climbers must hang their food away from the ground because of this mammal, but other than stating it is about the size of a woodchuck, it gives^B no clear idea of what a marmot is. The longest entry in the book is under the term Clothing. There are short biographical entries on hundreds of mountaineering personalities; these can be difficult to locate elsewhere. There are also entries for several-hundred mountain peaks, containing information not previously found in one source. All countries and territories of the world (omitting East Timor), U.S. states, and Canadian provinces have individual entries providing their highest and lowest points and occasionally a brief commentary. In addition to some black-and-white illustrations found throughout the text, more than 400 color photos and maps of mountains are collected in the middle of the volume, sorted by country or region. The appendixes include lists of the world's 1,000 highest peaks, the world's highest volcanoes, and unclimbed peaks above 7,000 meters. Also included are a long list of climbing-related Web sites and a bibliography of books and articles that the authors consulted in their writing. The volume is functional as a compendium of mountaineering information but not as a comprehensive encyclopedia of mountains. It could certainly be useful in a public library setting as long as its limitations are considered. Steve StrattonCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved The volume is functional as a compendium of mountaineering information...It could certainly be useful in a public library setting... (Booklist, 1/1/2006)With no comparable equivalent, this resource is an easy-to-use, interesting, inexpensive, and worthwhile addition to any reference collection. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students; general readers. (CHOICE)A physicist and a reference librarian who are avid mountaineers have compiled this excellent broad, yet fundamental, encyclopedia on mountains. The A-Z listings cover everything connected to mountains, yet are brief, basic, and easy to use....This book is highly recommended for both public and academic libraries. (American Reference Books Annual)This compendium is presented as the first in English devoted to mountain-related topics. Avid climber/US physicist Hartemann introduces the encyclopedia with his reflections on why we are so attracted to mountains. He and fellow enthusiast Hauptman (St. Cloud State U.) feature terms and information on aspects including mountain geography, geology, ecology, sports, and noted explorers and mountaineers. Appendices list the highest mountains worldwide and by region, and major unscaled peaks. Visual offerings include topographical maps, technical drawings, and photographic images. J. Tenzing Norgay, whose father climbed Mt. Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary, supplies the foreword. (Reference and Research Book News)Any insider in the mountaineering world will love this book....This will go directly into any self-respecting reference and personal collection on the subject...Likely to delight are about 100 pages of colour photographs...deeply evocative of the compelling attractions and memories of mountaineering....the bibliographic side of this encyclopedia is strong, with an expertly-chosen bibliography... (Reference Reviews)The Mountain Encyclopedia, with more than 2,300 entries spanning from Abruzzi to Zurbriggen, provides a wealth of information on the mountain environment, film, history, music, people, technique, and terminology. Whether researching Saint Elmo's Fire or planning a trip to the Aigulles of Chamonix, this most useful reference will guide you and open up an expansive new world. (Greg Glade, www.topworldbooks.com)Frederic Hartemann and Robert Hauptman have gathered facts and information from every corner of the mountaineering world, in a comprehensive, instructive, and entertaining reference and guide to the principles and workings of the mountains, climbing, and other outdoor pursuits. This is no mere catalogue, nor is it anything like other books, or even what it might seem to be at the surface. One has to handle, sample, and ponder to understand the true objective of the authors. The overview is unique, making a fresh penetration of ideas and concepts. At times there is a certain high elegance. Hartemann and Hauptman don't shy away from the complexity and depth of their subject. (Pat Ament)The vastness of the mountain landscape, both literal and allegoric, is aptly presented in this wonderful book: from the science of volcanoes, to the music of the mountains; from the techniques of ice climbing, to the poetry of a moonrise over a high ridge; from the snow leopard, to satellite cartography; from haunting tragedies to sheer triumph; innumerable aspects of the high realm are presented in detail, along with beautiful color photographs and maps. (Jamling Tenzing Norgay) Frederic V. Hartemann is a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is an excellent mountaineer who has climbed in Europe, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. His hundreds of summits include Mt Blanc and Mt Rainier.Robert Hauptman is a professor at St. Cloud State University where he teaches information media and honors program classes. He has hiked, climbed, and enjoyed mountains all over the world for more than 50 years. He has just six peaks to go to complete the 50 state highpoints.",books;earth sciences;education & reference;encyclopedias;geography;geology;historical study & educational resources;history;humanities;mountains;nature & ecology;new;reference;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,16 0700714529,The Kingdom of Armenia: New Edition (Caucasus World) M. Chahin lectured on the Ancient History of the Near East at the University of Bristol.,ancient;armenia;books;eastern;ethnic studies;europe;history;humanities;medieval;new;politics & social sciences;russia;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,16 3540431810,"Chemical Mechanical Planarization of Semiconductor Materials This volume is a comprehensive review of CMP (Chemical-Mechanical Planarization) technology, which is now a major part of state-of-the-art semiconductor technology. There are detailed discussions of all aspects of the technology, for both dielectrics and metals. The state of polishing models and their relation to experimental results are covered. Polishing tools and consumables are also covered. The leading edge issues of damascene and new dielectrics as well as slurryless technology are discussed.",books;chemical;chemistry;electrical & electronics;engineering;industrial;industrial engineering;manufacturing & operational systems;new;optics;physical & theoretical;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,16 1565848322,"Under The Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See San Diego is the latest Sunbelt metropolis to come under the scrutiny of historian Davis (City of Quartz) in this damning trio of essays on ""America's Finest City."" As in The Grit Beneath the Glitter, the collection on Las Vegas he co-edited in 2002, Davis teams up here with local critics to penetrate the shiny surface of a city that has always seemed to resist the idea of historical depth. Together they present ""an alternative, peoples' history of San Diego (from the dual perspectives of its elites and their opponents) as well as autobiographical portraits of some of the `other' San Diego's everyday heroes."" While those who believe that Davis has become the very embodiment of the noir sensibility he once scrupulously dissected may chafe at the book's tabloid-like promises to uncover the city's ""real"" or ""true"" history, they will nevertheless find his chapter on San Diego's multigenerational plutocracy engrossing. Davis is meticulous in showing how a succession of robber barons, from the early 20th century to the present, have used their control over city politics (and politicians) to turn San Diego into one of the most unregulated, militarized and segregated regions in the country. Co-authors Miller and Mayhew are no less diligent in their efforts to document the struggles of San Diego's embattled workers, unions and ethnic minorities. Miller's recovery of the city's radical past offers a powerful counter-image of a town virtually synonymous with the Navy and the G.O.P. And in what surely is the most accessible piece in the book, Mayhew gathers the first-person narratives of current immigrants and activists. Some readers will no doubt be put off by the book's admittedly partisan outlook and at times strident rhetoric; however, the sense of urgency will certainly appeal to anyone concerned about the rate at which private wealth determines public policy in America. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. A left-leaning, fascinating history of San Diego that debunks the notion of America's Finest City. -- San Diego MagazineDefinitely not on the Approved Reading List of the Convention & Visitors Bureau....A provocative, in-your-suntanned-face history of San Diego. -- San Diego Union-Tribune --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Jim Miller is a professor of English at San Diego City College. Kelly Mayhew is a professor of English, philosophy and humanities at San Diego City College.",20th century;americas;books;conservatism & liberalism;education & reference;historical study & educational resources;history;ideologies & doctrines;marriage & family;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & government;politics & social sciences;social history;sociology;state & local;united states,16 1568984766,"Dish: International Design for the Home There's no good way to do it, but the title of this book should somewhere reflect that the exhibition for which it is the catalogue (and from which it takes its title), was conceived ""to promote women in the field of industrial design,"" and thus includes only women designers. With that clarified, the contributions from the 30 young artists represented here come through as great design bracingly packaged. Mller is a consultant who head-hunts designers for industry; her eight-paragraph introduction notes that the designers chosen (born all over, but working mostly in New York and Europe) do work that breaks ground in ""fabrication, material, or concept."" Nicolette Brunklaus contributes ""Blonde curtains"" (not hair, but silk imprinted with a digital image of hair); Anette Hermann made the ""Glory light blanket"" of clear silicone and optic fibers; Marre Moerel's ""Barnacle wall tiles and towel hooks"" look like lovely white bulbous coral growths. Each designer is represented by five to 10 pieces shown in 250 captioned color illustrations and further explained in first-person artists' statements (which serve as the only commentary on each designer). No one here is a household name (yet), but the whole reflects thought, care and understated glamour. Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. DISH steers clear of second-wave feminist bumper stickering activism and provides a refreshing look at the overlooked. -- Florida Inside OutThought-provoking design . . . this excellent compendium gives them their due. -- I.D. Magazine, January 2005 Susan Yelavich is a curator and writer, and the author of Design for Life.",architecture;arts & photography;books;decorative arts;decorative arts & design;drafting & presentation;fashion;furniture design;graphic design;history;history & criticism;industrial & product design;professional & technical;reference;techniques;textile & costume,16 0764554328,"Mythology for Dummies Features charts comparing gods and goddesses for easy referenceGet to know musclebound mortals, mighty monsters, and divine deities in no time at all!From the Iliad to the Aeneid, from Camelot to Valhalla, this highly readable book demystifies mythologies from all over the globe. Beginning with the ancient Greeks and Romans, this book explores the lesser-known stories of northern Europe, the Middle East, Egypt, India, China, Japan, and the Americas.The Dummies WayExplanations in plain EnglishGet in, get out informationIcons and other navigational aidsTear-out cheat sheetTop ten listsA dash of humor and funGet smart! @www.dummies.comFind listings of all our booksCreate your own personalized book with Hungry Minds a la CarteSign up for daily eTips at www.dummiesdaily.com Dr. Christopher W. Blackwell is Assistant Professor of Greek, Department of Classics, Furman University. Amy Hackney Blackwell is a freelance author who has an MA in history.",books;education & reference;fairy tales;folklore & mythology;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;mythology & folk tales;new;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;writing,16 0764572024,"French Phrases For Dummies Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertipsSpeak French instantly!Shopping. Ordering dinner. Chatting about the weather. Talking about your family. Dealing with emergencies. Whether youre a traveler or student, this handy French phrase book makes everyday communication a breeze!Discover how to:Get directions, shop, and eat outTalk numbers, dates, time, and moneyChat about family and workDiscuss sports and the weatherDeal with problems and emergencies Dodi-Katrin Schmidt has been a writer, a translator, and an editor for almost ten years. Aside from translating German, French, and English text of various kinds, including linguistic handbooks, film reviews, travel guides, and childrens books, she has also been involved in developing language textbooks, language courses, teachers handbooks, and grammar companions for video language courses. Dodi has been teaching for more than two decades at high school, adult education, and college levels in Europe as well as the United States. She also writes test items for various national language tests and recorded textbook and test material. Together with her husband, she travels a great deal, and they continually house and entertain foreign students and former students in their home in Princeton, NJ.Michelle Williams is an editor at a major educational publisher. A former French teacher, she has taught students ranging from two years old to adults, in both the public and private sectors. She is currently a private French tutor to a young Olympic-hopeful figure skater. She is a firm believer in making language fun and accessible to all who want to learn. Her most rewarding experience, however, is in watching and listening to her son, Nathaniel, learn to speak and sing in French.Dominique Wenzel has been a freelance teacher of French and translator for 15 years. Born and raised in France, she received a Masters degree from the University of Paris-Sorbonne and studied at the University of Chicago on a postgraduate Fulbright scholarship. Her students include business professionals, children, and adults of all levels and interests. She travels regularly to France. Dominique raised two bicultural, bilingual children who are both active in the international field.",books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;french;grammar;humanities;instruction;language & grammar;new;phrasebooks;reference;travel;used & rental textbooks;words,16 0156724006,"A Poetry Handbook This slender guide by Mary Oliver deserves a place on the shelves of any budding poet. In clear, accessible prose, Oliver (winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for poetry) arms the reader with an understanding of the technical aspects of poetry writing. Her lessons on sound, line (length, meter, breaks), poetic forms (and lack thereof), tone, imagery, and revision are illustrated by a handful of wonderful poems (too bad Oliver was so modest as to not include her own). What could have been a dry account is infused throughout with Oliver's passion for her subject, which she describes as a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind. One comes away from this volume feeling both empowered and daunted. Writing poetry is good, hard work. National Book Award winner Oliver ( New and Selected Poems ) delivers with uncommon concision and good sense that paradoxical thing: a prose guide to writing poetry. Her discussion may be of equal interest to poetry readers and beginning or experienced writers. She's neither a romantic nor a mechanic, but someone who has observed poems and their writing closely and who writes with unassuming authority about the work she and others do, interspersing history and analysis with exemplary poems (the poets include James Wright, William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore and Walt Whitman). Divided into short chapters on sound, the line, imagery, tone, received forms and free verse, the book also considers the need for revision (an Oliver poem typically passes through 40 or 50 drafts before it is done) and the pros and cons of writing workshops. And though her prose is wisely spare, a reader also falls gladly on signs of a poet: ""Who knows anyway what it is, that wild, silky part of ourselves without which no poem can live?"" or ""Poems begin in experience, but poems are not in fact experience . . . they exist in order to be poems."" Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Late in his career, William Butler Yeats urged fellow poets to learn their craft. Heeding his advice, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Oliver (New and Selected Poems, LJ 10/92) provides an excellent handbook for young poets on the formal aspects and structure of poetry. Oliver excels at explaining the sound and sense of poetry-from scansion to imagery, diction to voice. She stresses the importance of reading poetry, since, in order to write well, ""it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply."" Sage advice is given in an entire chapter dedicated to revision, wherein Oliver urges poets to consider their first draft ""an unfinished piece of work"" that can be polished and improved later. Written in a pleasant and lucid style, this book is a wonderful resource for teachers of poetry. Highly recommended for all school libraries.Tim Gavin, Episcopal Acad., Merion, Pa.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Why another such handbook, when Babette Deutsch's and John Hollander's are more than sufficient? Because Mary Oliver does more with this book than simply review the difference between a haiku and a tanka, between free verse and blank. She starts in at poetry's real beginning, discussing the need for patient application: the need, in brief, to write and to do so regularly. She immediately proceeds by insisting on the necessity of reading poetry and of imitating favorite poets, and she even includes a chapter on the usefulness of workshops. Her chapters on those basics, sound and meter, are brief but exact, and she offers an entire chapter on free verse, another on poetic diction. But it is not really the book's contents that make it such a treasure: it is rather the pithiness and perfection of Oliver's expression. She so deeply knows her craft that she can describe it with perfect simplicity and concision. Pat Monaghan National Book Award winner Oliver ( New and Selected Poems ) delivers with uncommon concision and good sense that paradoxical thing: a prose guide to writing poetry. Her discussion may be of equal interest to poetry readers and beginning or experienced writers. She's neither a romantic nor a mechanic, but someone who has observed poems and their writing closely and who writes with unassuming authority about the work she and others do, interspersing history and analysis with exemplary poems (the poets include James Wright, William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore and Walt Whitman). Divided into short chapters on sound, the line, imagery, tone, received forms and free verse, the book also considers the need for revision (an Oliver poem typically passes through 40 or 50 drafts before it is done) and the pros and cons of writing workshops. And though her prose is wisely spare, a reader also falls gladly on signs of a poet: ``Who knows anyway what it is, that wild, silky part of ourselves without which no poem can live?'' or ``Poems begin in experience, but poems are not in fact experience . . . they exist in order to be poems.'' (July) (Publishers Weekly ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Mary Oliver is one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America. Her books include Red Bird; Our World; Thirst; Blue Iris; New and Selected Poems, Volume One; and New and Selected Poems, Volume Two. She has also published five books of prose, including Rules for the Dance and, most recently, Long Life. She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.",authorship;books;criticism & theory;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;poetry;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;teens;used & rental textbooks;writing,16 1587130254,"Cisco Networking Academy Program: First-Year Companion Guide (2nd Edition) The Only Authorized Textbook for the Cisco Networking Academy Program Additional chapters, not found within the Web-based curriculum, include troubleshooting, residential networking, and moreCompanion CD-ROM contains exclusive enrichment materials such as interactive e-Lab activities, animations, and CCNA preparation questions that prepare you for the practical portion of the CCNA examChapter objectives provide references to the concepts covered in each chapterReview questions at the end of each chapter help track your progress and focus your studyNew Command Summary adds to your understanding of commands used to configure Cisco routers and references the chapters in which each command appearsMaterial covered in this book helps you prepare for CCNA Exam #640-507 Cisco Networking Academy Program: First-Year Companion Guide, Second Edition is the Cisco-approved textbook for the first and second semesters of the Cisco Networking Academy Program. This book supports and reinforces the Web-based curriculum for the Cisco Networking Academy Program, while reinforcing concepts pertaining to CCNA certification. The first-year guide provides an in-depth discussion of the OSI reference model layers and path determination, in addition to the configuration details for IP routing and addressing, subnetting topics, and basic router configuration and operation. The instructional materials for the First-Year Companion Guide follow the instructional style and format that Cisco Systems has created for the Cisco Networking Academy Program and is the only print companion that Cisco Systems reviewed and endorses for the Cisco Networking Academy Program Cisco Systems, Inc., is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco solutions, which include industry-leading publications from Cisco Press, educate and provide competitive advantage to customers through more efficient and timely exchange of information, leading to cost savings, process efficiencies, and closer business relationships. These solutions form the networking foundation for many organizations worldwide.",books;bridges & routers;certification;cisco;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;hardware;networking;networks;new;protocols & apis;test prep & study guides;test preparation;testing;used & rental textbooks,16 0877458278,"Memoirs of a Revolutionary (Sightline Books) ""Memoirs is a document that is essential, above all, as a denouncement of oppression, an eye-witness account, written in heat and at speed, but with the talent of the true writer, of what it was like to be at the heart of the machine and to stand up to it. This is the most complete edition yet published in English (Sedgwick's first, abridged translation appeared nearly 50 years ago). How it has taken so long to appear is one of those unfathomable mysteries. Anyway, here it is at last, and anyone who cares about justice and freedom of speech should have a copy."" Nicholas Lezard, The GuardianThis book is a fiery testament to political conscience and revolutionary hope. Mike Davis, author of City of QuartzI cant think of anyone who has written about the revolutionary movement in [the 20th century] with Serges combination of moral insight and intellectual richness. Dwight MacdonaldSerge is one of the most compelling of twentieth- century ethical and literary heroes. Susan Sontag""The tight links among Serge's traitshis intellectual seriousness, the drive to literary expression, an intransigent radicalism not quite separable from restiveness in the face of routine corruption and dishonestyare especially evident in Memoirs of a Revolutionary, now available for the first time in a complete English translation...Serge can recognize the range of experience and responses that make up the texture of life in even the most nightmarishly repressive system."" --Scott McLemee, Bookforum --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Victor Serge (18901947) was born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich to Russian anti-Tsarist exiles, impoverished intellectuals living by chance in Brussels. A precocious anarchist firebrand, young Victor was sentenced to five years in a French penitentiary in 1912. Expelled to Spain in 1917, he participated in an anarcho-syndicalist uprising before leaving to join the Revolution in Russia. Detained for more than a year in a French concentration camp, Serge arrived in St.Petersburg early in 1919 and joined the Bolsheviks, serving in the press services of the Communist International. An outspoken critic of Stalin, Serge was expelled from the Party and arrested in 1929. Nonetheless, he managed to complete three novels (Men in Prison, Birth of Our Power, and Conquered City) and a history (Year One of the Russian Revolution), published in Paris. Arrested again in Russia and deported to Central Asia in 1933, he was allowed to leave theUSSR in 1936 after international protests by militants and prominent writers like Andr Gide and Romain Rolland. Using his insiders knowledge, Serge published a stream of impassioned, documented exposs of Stalins Moscow show trials and of machinations in Spain, which went largely unheeded. Stateless, penniless, hounded by Stalinist agents, Serge lived in precarious exile in Brussels, Paris, Vichy France, and Mexico City, where he died in 1947. His classic Memoirs of a Revolutionary and his great last novels, Unforgiving Years and The Case of Comrade Tulayev (both available as NYRB Classics), were written for the desk drawer and published posthumously.Peter Sedgwick (19341983) translated and wrote the introductions for Victor Serges Memoirs and Year One of the Russian Revolution. A lifelong activist and a founding member of the New Left in Britain, he wrote seminal essays on Serge. In addition to his journalism and political writings, he is the author of a book, Psycho-Politics.Adam Hochschild has written for The New Yorker, Harpers Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and The Nation. His books include King Leopolds Ghost and, most recently, To End All Wars. He teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.George Paizis is the author of Marcel Martinet: Poet of the Revolution, Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction, and, with Andrew N. Leak, The Holocaust and the Text: Speaking the Unspeakable. He is a longstanding member of the Socialist Workers Party and until recently was Senior Lecturer in the French Department at University College London.Richard Greeman has translated and written the introductions for five of Serges novels (including Unforgiving Years and Conquered City, both available as NYRB Classics). A veteran Socialist and co-founder of the Praxis Center and Victor Serge Library in Moscow, Russia (www.praxiscenter.ru), Greeman is author of Beware Of Vegetarian Sharks: Radical Rants And Internationalist Essays. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.",20th century;anarchism;biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;historical;history;ideologies & doctrines;irish;leaders & notable people;memoirs;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & government;politics & social sciences;russia,16 063116734X,"The Nasca (Peoples of America) ""An outstanding contribution to the field of Andean archaeology. This book is the most comprehensive treatment of the Nasca available and is a must read for any person interested in the origins of complex societies in South America and beyond."" Charles Stanish, University of California, Los Angeles !--end--""Preposterous but popular arguments that the enigmatic Nazca Lines were created by extraterrestrials detract from appreciation of Native American culture, making an entertaining and scholarly archaeology of ancient Nasca civilization especially pertinent. Silverman and Proulx have written exactly the right book. A formidable pair of scholars, erudite while engaging, they present an almost encyclopaedic account of what is known about Nasca without ever failing to fascinate. This is an excellent book for scholars, students, and for educated general readers. It represents a real contribution to knowledge about Native American civilization."" William H. Isbell, State University of New York at Binghamton""This is the first book to discuss, in depth, the culture of the Nasca, which not only produced monumental works, but whose society flourished in seven river valleysfrom Chincha to Chala. The 11 chapters, written by the two foremost scholars of Nasca archaeology, present an up-to-date synthesis of what is known of Nasca society between 150BCE and 800CE."" Choice, Nov. 2002""The Nasca can be recommended as the only comprehensive overview of its subject, and it is hoped that it will stimulate the programme of research badly needed to put to the test the plethora of ideas advanced in it."" Journal of Latin American Studies""Andeanists should welcome this addition to the series devoted to single prehistoric societies ... much will be of considerable interest to both specialists and students, as well as the general public ... the book is a feast for all."" Dwight T. Wallace, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute ""This book consolidates some hundred years of scholarship, since Max Uhle first sought out these pre-Inca people in 1901."" British Bulletin of Publications, October 2003 ""An outstanding contribution to the field of Andean archaeology. This book is the most comprehensive treatment of the Nasca available and is a must read for any person interested in the origins of complex societies in South America and beyond."" Charles Stanish, University of California, Los Angeles !--end--""Preposterous but popular arguments that the enigmatic Nazca Lines were created by extraterrestrials detract from appreciation of Native American culture, making an entertaining and scholarly archaeology of ancient Nasca civilization especially pertinent. Silverman and Proulx have written exactly the right book. A formidable pair of scholars, erudite while engaging, they present an almost encyclopaedic account of what is known about Nasca without ever failing to fascinate. This is an excellent book for scholars, students, and for educated general readers. It represents a real contribution to knowledge about Native American civilization."" William H. Isbell, State University of New York at Binghamton""This is the first book to discuss, in depth, the culture of the Nasca, which not only produced monumental works, but whose society flourished in seven river valleysfrom Chincha to Chala. The 11 chapters, written by the two foremost scholars of Nasca archaeology, present an up-to-date synthesis of what is known of Nasca society between 150BCE and 800CE."" Choice, Nov. 2002""The Nasca can be recommended as the only comprehensive overview of its subject, and it is hoped that it will stimulate the programme of research badly needed to put to the test the plethora of ideas advanced in it."" Journal of Latin American Studies""Andeanists should welcome this addition to the series devoted to single prehistoric societies ... much will be of considerable interest to both specialists and students, as well as the general public ... the book is a feast for all."" Dwight T. Wallace, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute ""This book consolidates some hundred years of scholarship, since Max Uhle first sought out these pre-Inca people in 1901."" British Bulletin of Publications, October 2003 --This text refers to the Unknown Binding edition. Provides a penetrating examination of one of ancient Peru's best-known & important civilizations. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Ancient Nasca culture of the south coast of Peru is famous for its magnificent polychrome ceramics, textiles, and other works of art, as well as the enigmatic ground markings on the desert plain at Nasca. In the past two decades much has become known about the people who produced these fascinating works. This scholarly yet accessible book provides a penetrating examination of this important civilization. It traces the history of archaeological research on the south coast and reveals the misconceptions that became canonized in the scholarly literature. Based on years of fieldwork by the authors in the region, it provides a comprehensive and readable analysis of ancient Nasca society, examining Nasca social and political organization, religion, and art. The highlight for many readers will be the chapter on the Nazca Lines which debunks Erich von D'niken's contention that the desert markings were made by extraterrestrials.This well-illustrated, concise text will serve as a benchmark study of the Nasca people and culture for years to come. Helaine Silverman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World (1993) and various articles and chapters on ancient Nasca society.Donald A. Proulx is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is the author of numerous publications on Nasca culture including Local Differences and Time Differences in Nasca Pottery (1968) and The Nasca Style (1983).",americas;ancient;archaeology;books;history;humanities;latin america;native american studies;new;peru;politics & social sciences;social sciences;south america;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks;world,16 0071361634,"Interior Design Handbook of Professional Practice ... embraces the profound changes occurring in the design industry now, supporting designers by establishing a benchmark of excellence ... -- Officeinsight, Oct. 1, 2001...Something important has...happened in the Interior Design Profession. It now has a Handbook of Professional Practice...It's great. -- officeInsight, October 1, 2001...The inclusion of men and women from a wide cross section of professions reveals the interconnectedness among disciplines... -- Land Forum, September 2001 The Problem-Solving Tool Every Designer NeedsGood design is not possible today until we begin working with a broader definition of the profession. The Interior Design Handbook of Professional Practice embraces the profound changes occurring in the design industry now, supporting designers by establishing a benchmark for excellence in interior design practice.--Ed Friedrichs, CEO Gensler This comprehensive guide, the first title in a joint publishing venture between McGraw-Hill and Interior Design magazine, brings together the best writers and thinkers in the field today. Interior Design Handbook of Professional Practice provides both the knowledge and practical tools designers need to shape and sustain the profession and the physical environments they create for their clients. This book begins with a look at designers themselves, exploring the culture and history of the profession. Best-practice examples explore how designers can be more strategic in their methods, using information technology, financial management, marketing and human resources principles, and team dynamics to perfect the practice of interior design. The authors show strategy in action by presenting benchmarks for the ways in which they address strategy and research, sustainability and global practices. Narratives and examples from a group of todays top designers describe a variety of individual methods and approaches to the process of design while examining effective ways to manage projects and relationships. With the Interior Design Handbook of Professional Practice designers will realize their commitment to professional excellence. This unique, contemporary, and authoritative volume will be a must-have for every interior design library.What kinds of knowledge do interior designers need to do their work? What knowledge does the interior design profession require to remain viable now and not merely relevant in the future, but a powerful force for social change? And, how can this body of knowledge put designers on a level playing field with other professions, sustain the profession over the long term, and give designers opportunities to influence new thinking in industry, the academy, and society?The Interior Design Handbook of Professional Practice describes the changes currently occurring in the design profession and industry. It suggests new, unique ways of thinking and working from the experts in the field.* Growing a Profession by Ed Friedrichs, CEO of Gensler* Intelligent Interiors and Information Technology by William Mitchell, author and Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT* Opportunity for Change by Karen Stephenson, Anthropologist and President of Netform, with Neil Frankel, design partner of Frankel + Coleman and design industry leader * Team Dynamics by Jon Katzenbach, author and founder of Katzenbach Partners, LLC* Strategic Practices and Global Practices by Frank Duffy, author, educator, and principal of DEGW* Sustainable Design by Bill Odell, sustainability expert and Partner, HOK* The Legal Environment by Barry LePatner, business and legal expert on design and construction law, LePatner & AssociatesThe handbook is itself designed to be used flexibly and repeatedly by professionals in search of new definitions, new strategies, and new benchmarks by which to measure success. Ideally, this book will provide a catalyst for all designers and students of design who seek excellence in interior design practice. The book is intended to offer a thorough and authoritative account of all aspects of design, from the conceptual to the practical. INTERIOR DESIGN magazine, based in New York City, is the leading professional interior design publication in the field. The Interior Design organization is an industry leader and the premiere source for consistent and effective communication regarding design excellence and the value of good design. Editor-in-Chief CINDY COLEMAN is a graduate of The Art Institute of Chicago in Interior Architecture. She is a partner in the Chicago-based design and communications firm Frankel +Coleman and the former executive editor of the International Interior Design Associations magazine Perspective. Colemans design work has won numerous awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Institute of Business Designers (IBD), the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and ID Magazine. She is a frequent contributor to many of the nations design-related magazines and newsletters, advocating the value of design. Coleman lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter.",architecture;arts & photography;books;crafts;decoration & ornament;decorative arts & design;drafting & presentation;education & reference;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;humanities;interior design;new;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,16 0321245504,"Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, Compact Edition (4th Edition) X.J. Kennedy, after graduation from Seton Hall and Columbia, became a journalist second class in the Navy (""Actually, I was pretty eighth class""). His poems, some published in the New Yorker, were first collected in Nude Descending a Staircase (1961). Since then he has written five more collections, several widely adopted literature and writing textbooks, and seventeen books for children, including two novels. He has taught at Michigan, North Carolina (Greensboro), California (Irvine), Wellesley, Tufts, and Leeds. Cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and reprinted in some 200 anthologies, his verse has brought him a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lamont Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an award from the American Academy for Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English. He now lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he and his wife Dorothy have collaborated on four books and five children. Dana Gioia is a poet, critic, and teacher. Born in Los Angeles, he attended Stanford and Harvard before taking a detour into business. (""Not many poets have a Stanford M.B.A., thank goodness!"") After years of writing and reading late in the evenings after work, he quit a vice presidency to write and teach. He has published three collections of poetry: Daily Horoscope (1986); The Gods of Winter (1991); Interrogations at Noon (2001), winner of the 2001 American Book Award; an opera libretto, Nosferatu (2002); several anthologies; and an influential study of poetry's place in contemporary America, Can Poetry Matter? (1992). Gioia has taught at Johns Hopkins, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Mercer, and Colorado College. He is also the co-founder of the summer poetry conference at West Chester University in Pennsylvania and a frequent commentator on literature for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He currently lives in Santa Rosa, California, with his wife, Mary, two sons, and an ever growing number of cats. (The surname Gioia is pronounced JOY-A. As some of you may have already guessed, gioia is the Italian word for joy.)",books;criticism & theory;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;language & grammar;literary;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;research & publishing guides;rhetoric;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,16 0195039963,"The Creation of Patriarchy (Women and History) Using admittedly sparse prehistorical evidence, Lerner offers a plausible multicausal theory to explain the development of the patriarchical system. She seeks to show that the subordination of women is a historical (i.e., changeable) phenomenon, not a natural one. Lerner posits that division of labor by sex occurred early but that the oppression of women began with the emergence of agriculture; the domination of women, she argues, preceded and served as the foundation for the origin of private property and the state and the institutionalization of slavery. More narrowly focused and more successful than Marilyn French's Beyond Power ( LJ 6/1/85), Lerner's book will appeal to a sophisticated general reader. For large public libraries. Cynthia Harrison, American Historical Assn., Washington, D.C.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. ""The Creation of Patriarchy is history in the grand mode....[It] should be on everyone's reading list.""--Women's Review of Books""The Creation of Patriarchy gives us a grand historical framework that was impossible even to imagine before the enlightenment about women's place in the world provided by her earlier work and that of other feminist scholars.""--Ms. Magazine""The Creation of Patriarchy may well be the most important work in feminist theory to appear in our generation.""--New Directions for Women""Written by one of the most brilliant historians of our era, this book dramatically reopens a chapter of women's history that historians had thought was forever closed to them--the origins of the collective dominance of women by men. Its evidence is fascinating, its arguments compelling, and its conclusions full of significance for our time as well as the distant past.""--Kathryn Kish Sklar, University of California, Los Angeles""The Creation of Patriarchy has the boldness, authority, and richness of The Second Sex.""--Catharine R. Stimpson, Rutgers University""A magnificent achievement.""--William Chafe, Duke University""A valuable contribution to history and women's studies.""--Booklist Gerda Lerner, Robinson-Edwards Professor of History and Senior Distinguished Research Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison.",books;clinical;gay & lesbian;gender studies;history;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;pediatrics;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,16 0471212202,"How to Write a Grant Proposal (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series) Effective grant proposals are not so much written as they are extensively researched, developed, and positioned. The actual writing, obviously an essential component, is nevertheless only the tip of the iceberg. Grant seekers must possess the necessary skills to correctly identify potential funders, craft a proposal that meets a specific funders needs, and follow that funders directions to the letter. Cheryl New and James Quick take grant seekers step-by-step through the entire development and drafting process in How to Write a Grant Proposal.The authors concentrate on all the behind-the-scenes, pre-writing work that makes the difference between successful grant proposals and those that potential funders discard as nonresponsive. New and Quick concentrate on crafting specific proposals that prove a perfect match between a funder and a solicitors needs. Funders and the nonprofit organizations they support are both in the business of solving problems; the key is creating a project that addresses a problem that both parties are interested in solving. How to Write a Grant Proposal provides targeted guidance for a variety of kinds of organizations, including:K12 private and public educational organizationsGovernment agenciesFor-profit businessesHealth care organizationsTraditional nonprofitsHigher education universities and centersA companion CD-ROM contains guidesheets and templates that can be easily downloaded, customized, and printed. The authors provide examples of completed proposals and numerous case studies to demonstrate how the grant-seeking process typically works.How to Write a Grant Proposal proves a one-stop resource on how to interpret a funders guidelines to create a successful grant proposal. CHERYL CARTER NEW and JAMES AARON QUICK are the sole owners and directors of Polaris Corporation. Polaris teaches grantsmanship to nonprofit organizations (The United Way National Training Center, the Non-Profit Center, and the Kellogg Foundation), primary and secondary schools, and for-profit and nonprofit healthcare facilities using three primary mediums: workshops, consulting services, and resource publishing. They lead over 100 workshops that have taught more than 4,000 people per year how to develop and plan projects, research funders, and write grants.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business writing;education & reference;industries & professions;literature & fiction;new;nonprofit organizations & charities;philanthropy & charity;politics & social sciences;popular economics;skills;small business & entrepreneurship;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,16 0330301268,"Travels A Harvard medical-school graduate, inveterate traveler and author of, among other books, The Great Train Robbery (the film version of which he directed), Crichton seeks in immediate experience of new places and cultures to ""redefine"" himself and uncover the nature of reality. His curiosity and self-deprecating humor animate recitals of adventures tracking animals in Malay jungles, climbing Kilimanjaro and Mayan pyramids in the Yucatan, trekking across a landslide in Pakistan, scuba diving in the Caribbean and New Guinea and amid sharks in Tahiti. This memoir includes essays on his medical training and forays into the psychic, including channeling and exorcism, that have led him to conclude that scientists and mystics share the same basic search for universal truth by different paths. 75,000 first printing; BOMC alternate; Franklin Library First Edition selection. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Crichton, an accomplished novelist and filmmaker, here gives us autobiography. The first quarter of the book chronicles his gradual disillusionment with medical school and his decision not to practice medicine. His accounts of visits to remote places in Asia and Africa present a perspective on his personal life. Shuffled among these chapters are accounts of psychic experiences that include channeling, exorcism, and spoon-bending and end with a defense of ""paranormal experience."" Crichton has had an interesting life, which he writes about in a crisp and disarmingly frank manner. His inner ""travels"" offer something for almost everyone.Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., AshlandCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ""Entertaining, and in the best sense of the word, unsettling.""THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDFueled by a powerful curiosity--and by a need to see and feel and hear, firsthand and close-up--Michael Crichton's travels have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling. This is a record of those travels--an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world. It is an adventure of risk and rejuvenation, terror and wonder, as exciting as Michael Crichton's many masterful and widely heralded works of fiction.From the Paperback edition. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Michael Crichton was born in Chicago in 1942. His novels include The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Jurassic Park, and Timeline. He is also the creator of the television series ER. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;european;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;research & publishing guides;travel;travel writing;used & rental textbooks;world literature;writing,16 0761806156,"The Essence of Totalitarianism ...illustrates the significant correspondences that exist between the underlying assumptions of Fascism and those of Marxism and its variations. The chapter on Collectivism and Sadism was well-done and to the point. It is a most worthwhile book and Ihope that it will be widely read.>>> (Donald Atwell Zoll )...excellent in all respects. The authors can take a great deal of satisfaction in having done something very important for the subject and for the continuing scholarly interest in the subject.>>>> (Nisbet, Robert )...fills a long felt need for a concise acccount of totalitarian systems that is intelligible to undergraduate students. Unlike so many textbooks, the book explores the intellectual roots of Fascism, Nazism and Communism and prepares the student for abroad understanding of mass movements in the 20th century. Especially worthy of notice is the authors' objectivity and knowledge of the subject...ideally suited for classroom use in political science courses dealing with modern ideologies and European governments.>> (McClellan, James )...fills a long felt need for a concise acccount of totalitarian systems that is intelligible to undergraduate students. Unlike so many textbooks, the book explores the intellectual roots of Fascism, Nazism and Communism and prepares the student for a broad understanding of mass movements in the 20th century. Especially worthy of notice is the authors' objectivity and knowledge of the subject...ideally suited for classroom use in political science courses dealing with modern ideologies and European governments. (McClellan, James )...illustrates the significant correspondences that exist between the underlying assumptions of Fascism and those of Marxism and its variations. The chapter on ""Collectivism and Sadism"" was well-done and to the point. It is a most worthwhile book and I hope that it will be widely read. (Donald Atwell Zoll )...excellent in all respects. The authors can take a great deal of satisfaction in having done something very important for the subject and for the continuing scholarly interest in the subject. (Nisbet, Robert ) Richard Vetterli is Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The late William E. Fort, Jr. was Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the same university.",books;elections & political process;government;history & theory;ideologies & doctrines;leadership;new;political history;political ideologies;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;radicalism;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks,16 B000OVLIRY,"Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood Levine has a message for aging boomer women: if you're feeling out of sorts, confused, in a rut, there's nothing wrong with you: you're just entering your Second Adulthood, a time, she says, when women can remake themselves. Levine, Ms. magazine's editor for 17 years and now a contributor to More magazine (and author of Father Courage: What Happens When Men Put Family First), draws on the latest research on hormonal and other physical changes women begin to go through in their 40s, and draws on 50 in-depth interviews she conducted with women in their middle years to show how they can improve their lives. Levine's subjects describe a time of confusion (the fertile void) that led them to re-sort their lives, revise priorities and make new decisions about work and intimate relationships. Samantha, for example, left an alcoholic husband after decades of marriage. Joanie, a traditional wife and mother, renegotiated her marriage and bought herself an apartment in New York City, becoming a fund-raiser for a dance company. Although Levine did interview some women with fewer economic resources and she discusses the importance of financial planning, much of the self-discovery stories will resonate best with women who are financially comfortable. Her gung-ho go-rappelling-off-the-mountain tone may grate on some women while inspiring others. Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Levine takes us beyond the frontier of our own expectations and into a new and hope-filled stage of life. Gloria Steinem I found so many resonances with my own experiences in this book It will have a huge impact and will clarify so many things for so many women.Carol Gilligan, Ph.D., author of In a Different Voice and The Birth of Pleasure Suzanne Braun Levine made me understand why I always envied older women . . . life just gets bettermore outrageous, more radical, more passionate, less fraught, wiser, deeper, and kinder. Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues A you-go-girl manual for the menopause crowd.People Levine takes us beyond the frontier of our own expectations and into a new and hope-filled stage of life. Gloria Steinem I found so many resonances with my own experiences in this book It will have a huge impact and will clarify so many things for so many women. Carol Gilligan, Ph.D., author of In a Different Voice and The Birth of Pleasure Suzanne Braun Levine made me understand why I always envied older women . . . life just gets bettermore outrageous, more radical, more passionate, less fraught, wiser, deeper, and kinder. Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues A you-go-girl manual for the menopause crowd. People Suzanne Braun Levine is a writer, editor, and nationally recognized authority on women, media matters, and family issues. Editor of Ms. magazine from its founding in 1972 until 1989 and editor in chief of the Columbia Journalism Review, she is currently a contributing editor of More magazine . The author of a book about fatherhood and numerous articles and essays, she has also produced a Peabody Award-winning documentary about American women. She has appeared on Oprah and the Today show and has lectured widely.",applied psychology;books;fitness & dieting;general;happiness;health;kindle ebooks;kindle store;personal health;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;self-help;social sciences;sociology;women's health;women's studies,16 0520235886,"Sensory Biographies: Lives and Deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists ""One of the most powerful ethnographies in any field that I have read in recent years...a model of anthropological analysis that addresses questions on the cutting edge of the discipline.""-Veena Das, author of Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India ""One of the most powerful ethnographies in any field that I have read in recent years. A model of anthropological analysis that addresses questions on the cutting edge of the discipline.""Veena Das, author of Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India ""One of the most powerful ethnographies in any field that I have read in recent years . . . a model of anthropological analysis that addresses questions on the cutting edge of the discipline.""-Veena Das, author of Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Robert Desjarlais is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College. His most recent book is Shelter Blues (1997), for which he won the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing.",anthropology;biographies & memoirs;books;buddhism;cultural;death;humanities;leaders & notable people;new;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,16 0062515381,"The Celtic Spirit: Daily Meditations for the Turning Year ""Because the Celtic Spirits simplicity and gentleness cut across boundaries, theres something here for almost everyone."" -- --Rocky Mountain News ""Because the Celtic Spirit's simplicity and gentleness cut across boundaries, there's something here for almost everyone."" -- --Rocky Mountain News Caitlin Matthews is a respected teacher of Celtic traditions, shamanism, British myths, and practical spirituality. The author of thirty-six books, she lives in Oxford, U.K.",alternative medicine;books;celtic;christian books & bibles;earth-based religions;fitness & dieting;folklore & mythology;health;meditation;meditations;occult;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;social sciences;spirituality;worship & devotion,16 0521847060,"The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism (New Studies in European History) ""With The World Hitler Never Made Gavriel Rosenfeld takes a completely fascinating and highly original cut into the complex of questions concerning the relationship between history and memory on the subject of Nazism and its place in post-1945 popular culture. He tackles these themes with great verve, writing with admirable clarity, and marshalling a prodigious array of speculative fictions and 'alternate histories' in order to build his arguments. The resulting book is both accessible and challenging, densely documented and thoroughly absorbing. All German historians will want to read it, as will anyone interested in Holocaust memory and the legacies of Nazism."" Geoff Eley, University of Michigan""Gavriel Rosenfeld's analysis of 'alternative historical' treatments of Nazi Germany, embracing a broad range of popular media, is bound to raise hackles. Yet in seeking to comprehend the comparative, changing mentalities of postwar America, Britain, and Germany he has conceived and produced a provocative and deeply insightful book. The World Hitler Never Made is a strikingly original and imaginative cultural history that reveals a great deal about the post-war world by examining 'alternative historical' forays into Nazism and the Holocaust. It is perhaps the most accessible, as well as one of the most important scholarly books ever written about the role of the Holocaust in popular consciousness from the war's end up to our own time."" Michael Berkowitz, University College London""A history of alternative histories, The World Hitler Never Made is an imaginative and intriguing look at our culture's fascination with what might have been, had things gone differently during the Second World War. With panache, erudition and a broad comparative sweep, Rosenfeld analyzes these distorted images of what occurred, unearthing our evident pleasure in imagining other outcomes and what that says about our relationship to the Nazi past. The possibility of evil winning, or at least sidestepping defeat, cuts perhaps all too close to the bone today."" Peter Baldwin, University of California, Los Angeles""In this wide-ranging and highly stimulating book, Gavriel Rosenfeld explores the changing nature yet strange persistence of alternate histories of the Nazi past, showing the ways in which Hitler and the Third Reich have occupied Western popular culture long after the regime's demise. In so doing Rosenfeld does more than simply advance a persuasive case for why such mass market myth-making and counterfactual history deserve to be taken more seriously as revealing expressions of popular memory; The World That Hitler Never Made goes a long way towards furnishing a cultural history of some of the most powerful fears and fantasies haunting the Western social imagination from the end of the Second World War to the present."" Paul Betts, University of Sussex""The World Hitler Never Made is an impressive work."" -Financial Times, Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Government at Oxford University""There is no better guide than The World Hitler Never Made, which takes us through this strange domain without descending into it."" -The New Leader""The World Hitler Never Made is an important, well-researched book."" Ronald Hilton""Gavriel Rosenfeld's recent study is an interesting and original contribution to our understanding of history and memory."" -Clifton Ganyard, German Studies Review What if the Nazis had won World War II? What if Adolf Hitler had escaped from Nazi Germany in 1945 and gone into hiding? What if Hitler had been assassinated or had never been born? Gavriel Rosenfeld's 2005 study explores why those questions about Nazism have proliferated within Western popular culture. Gavriel Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of History at Fairfield University (Connecticut). He is a specialist in the history and memory of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. His previous publications include Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich (2000).",20th century;alternate history;books;communication & media studies;europe;germany;history;humanities;ireland;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;politics & social sciences;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,16 0880489308,"Stranger Than Fiction: When Our Minds Betray Us Stranger Than Fiction is intelligently written and well documented with valuable references. It is balanced, sober, and richly displays the depth of the authors' knowledge of their subject -- Richard A. Gardner, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New YorkStranger Than Fiction is required reading not only for psychiatric consumers and their families, but for anyone who has sought to understand how our minds can go awry -- Rogene W. Parris Founding President, Alabama Alliance for the Mental IllStranger Than Fiction will be useful to people who want to learn more about mental illness, especially in its more dramatic forms -- Bulletin of the Menninger ClinicThis thoughtful book will help to break down the barriers of misunderstanding, fear, and contempt that many people feel when they hear the word 'mental illness -- U.S. Senator Richard C. ShelbyUsing vivid examples, Drs. Feldman clearly depict how the mind can distort reality, especially for those who suffer from mental illness U.S. -- Senator Pete V. DomeniciWith excellent case material, buttressed by an easy and understandable flow that could be a source of intriguing and interesting reading to laypersons and professionals, it is packed with keen observations -- JAMA Marc D. Feldman, M.D., is Vice Chair for Clinical Services in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He is also Medical Director of the UAB Center for Psychiatric Medicine and is a recipient of an Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Jacqueline M. Feldman, M.D., Director of the Division of Public Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is also Executive Director of the UAB Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center and Medical Director of the UAB Community Psychiatry Program. She has received the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.",books;clinical;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;mental health;mental illness;new;psychiatry;psychology;psychology & counseling;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,16 0471644447,"Valuation for Mergers, Buyouts, and Restructuring (Wiley Finance) Specialist analysis of the situation in the US that combines both theory and practice (Long Range Planning, 38, 2005) ""Enrique Arzac has provided an excellent analytical framework for the LBO business.""William T. Comfort, Chairman, Citigroup Venture Capital""Enrique Arzac has created a masterpiecehis work combines the theoretical with the practical. He has created an invaluable reference guide that is thoughtful, complete and very user friendly. He provides insight into the theory behind core valuation, LBOs, and options pricing, which creates the foundation for mergers, buyouts and restructuring. In addition to the theoretical, he provides practical insight into deal structuring and deal dynamics. His work should be standard material for all incoming associates.""James P. McVeigh, Managing Director, Corporate Investment Banking, Banc of America Securities""This first-rate book of applied financial theory provides the tools for financial institutions and capital market participants seeking a methodology for comparing, contrasting, and evaluating investment opportunities and options. By incorporating over 30 years of research, teaching, and practical experience, Professor Arzac has created a text that us not only timely, but timeless in its usefulness to anyone interested in learning the applications of financial theory for the best and most useful allocation of the scarcest economic resource in the worldcapital.""William W. Priest, Co-Managing Partner, Steinberg, Priest and Sloane Capital Management and Former Chairman and CEO of Credit Suisse Asset Management""There are two important aspects in graduate business education. The first is acquiring a thorough understanding of the theories of modern finance and the second is acquiring an appreciation for how these theories can be applied to important decisions. Enrique Arzac has taken on this task and made it a successful venture for readers of this book. Unlike other texts on valuation, he explains the reasons for the process and sequence that he recommends rather than just providing the ingredients and the recipe without explanation. This is a welcome addition to the literature in applied corporate finance.""Joel M. Stern, Managing Partner, Stern, Stewart Co. Enrique Arzac has provided an excellent analytical framework for the LBO business.--William T. Comfort, Chairman, Citigroup Venture Capital Enrique Arzac has created a masterpiece--his work combines the theoretical with the practical. He has created an invaluable reference guide that is thoughtful, complete and very user friendly. He provides insight into the theory behind core valuation, LBOs, and options pricing, which creates the foundation for mergers, buyouts and restructuring. In addition to the theoretical, he provides practical insight into deal structuring and deal dynamics. His work should be standard material for all incoming associates.--James P. McVeigh, Managing Director, Corporate Investment Banking, Banc of America Securities This first-rate book of applied financial theory provides the tools for financial institutions and capital market participants seeking a methodology for comparing, contrasting, and evaluating investment opportunities and options. By incorporating over 30 years of research, teaching, and practical experience, Professor Arzac has created a text that us not only timely, but timeless in its usefulness to anyone interested in learning the applications of financial theory for the best and most useful allocation of the scarcest economic resource in the world--capital.--William W. Priest, Co-Managing Partner, Steinberg, Priest and Sloane Capital Management and Former Chairman and CEO of Credit Suisse Asset Management There are two important aspects in graduate business education. The first is acquiring a thorough understanding of the theories of modern finance and the second is acquiring an appreciation for how these theories can be applied to important decisions. Enrique Arzac has taken on this task and made it a successful venture for readers of this book. Unlike other texts on valuation, he explains the reasons for the process and sequence that he recommends rather than just providing the ingredients and the recipe without explanation. This is a welcome addition to the literature in applied corporate finance.--Joel M. Stern, Managing Partner, Stern, Stewart Co When should you acquire a target or enter a new business? How do you go about structuring and valuing leveraged buyout transactions? What do you do id the application of the weighted average cost of capital approach is not correct?Answers to these commonly encountered valuation problems and more are given right here in this complete valuation toolkit for mergers, buyouts, and restructuring.Enrique Arzac, an internationally recognized authority on the subject, provides an up-to-date, comprehensive synthesis of current valuation theory and practice, including free cash flow valuation, financing and valuation of leveraged buyouts, real option analysis for entry and exit decisions, contract design to resolve disagreements about value, and the valuation of special offer structures.Keep up-to-date with the latest thinking on valuation for mergers and acquisitionsEnrique Arzac applies the latest academic thinking to mergers, buyouts, and restructuring, and blends it with his own practical approach to valuation developed over years of consulting.Apply practical valuation procedures to a variety of situationsYoull learn how to value stand-alone companies and business units, merged firms, foreign firms in developed or emerging markets, troubled-company restructuring, and more.Learn how to use expert analysis toolsThe book provides the essential analysis tools for estimating the cost of capital for public and private companies, performing discounted cash flow valuation, estimating and applying valuation multiples, estimating sustainable debt, and much more.Save time modeling transactions with professional-grade softwareThe CD included with this book contains DealModeler and Valuation Aids software. DealModeler is integrated modeling software for preparing pro-forma financial statements and valuing mergers, acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts, similar to those used by investment bankers and appraisal professionals. Valuation Aids software is designed to help you perform specialized computations, such as estimating the equity premium and valuing financial and real options. Praisefor Valuationfor Mergers, Buyouts,and RestructuringEnrique Arzac has provided an excellent analytical framework for the LBO business.William T. Comfort, Chairman, Citigroup Venture CapitalEnrique Arzac has created a masterpiecehis work combines the theoretical with the practical. He has created an invaluable reference guide that is thoughtful, complete and very user friendly. He provides insight into the theory behind core valuation, LBOs, and options pricing, which creates the foundation for mergers, buyouts and restructuring. In addition to the theoretical, he provides practical insight into deal structuring and deal dynamics. His work should be standard material for all incoming associates.James P. McVeigh, Managing Director, Corporate Investment Banking, Banc of America SecuritiesThis first-rate book of applied financial theory provides the tools for financial institutions and capital market participants seeking a methodology for comparing, contrasting, and evaluating investment opportunities and options. By inc orporating over 30 years of research, teaching, and practical experience, Professor Arzac has created a text that us not only timely, but timeless in its usefulness to anyone interested in learning the applications of financial theory for the best and most useful allocation of the scarcest economic resource in the worldcapital.William W. Priest, Co-Managing Partner, Steinberg, Priest and Sloane Capital Management and Former Chairman and CEO of Credit Suisse Asset ManagementThere are two important aspects in graduate business education. The first is acquiring a thorough understanding of the theories of modern finance and the second is acquiring an appreciation for how these theories can be applied to important decisions. Enrique Arzac has taken on this task and made it a successful venture for readers of this book. Unlike other texts on valuation, he explains the reasons for the process and sequence that he recommends rather than just providing the ingredients and the recipe without explanation. This is a welcome addition to the literature in applied corporate finance.Joel M. Stern, Managing Partner, Stern, Stewart Co. Enrique R. Arzac is Professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, Director of the Merger, Buyouts, and Restructuring program for executives at Columbia Business School, and Co-Director of the Merger and Acquisitions program for executives at London Business School. He is the author of many academic articles in financial economics and has been consultant to corporations and financial institutions in North and South America and Europe. He is a director of the Adams Express Company, Petroleum and Resources Corporation and Credit Suisse Asset Management funds.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business & finance;business & investing;consolidation & merger;economics;finance;industries & professions;information management;investing;investments & securities;management & leadership;new;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,16 0812694236,"The Ontology of Cyberspace: Law, Philosophy, and the Future of Intellectual Property An exciting book on the frontiers of both metaphysics and intellectual property law. -- Peter Hare, Editor of Transactions of the C. S. Peirce SocietyDavid Koepsell is one of the few people to examine critically the ontological assumptions that underlie our conception of cyberspace... -- James Moor, Dartmouth UniversityThe most philosophically sophisticated treatment of intellectual property issues in the literature. -- Dennis Patterson, Rutgers University David Koepsell is Executive Director of the Center for Applied Ontology, professor of philosophy at SUNY-Buffalo, and the business web exchange ontologist at Bowstreet.com.",books;business;business & management;computers & technology;culture;education & reference;intellectual property;jurisprudence;law;legal theory & systems;methodology;patent;philosophy;politics & social sciences;property;trademark & copyright,16 0710626002,"Jane's Chem-Bio Handbook Frederick R. Sidell, M.D., spent 31 years at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense. While with the government, Dr. Sidell saw hundreds of casualties from chemical warfare agents, wrote extensively on this topic in scientific and medical journals and books. In 1979 the Army Surgeon General sent him to Thailand to investigate the alleged use of chemical agents against the refugees Laos, and in March 1995 he was one of three physicians sent by the State Department to Tokyo to advise Japanese physicians on the management of nerve agent casualties after the nerve agent subway incident. William C. Patrick, III has 47-years experience in the field of Biological Warfare (BW); the first 21 years were devoted to the offensive aspects of BW (1951-1972); 14 years were devoted to the development of medical defense research programs to counter potential offensive BW of adversary nations; and since his retirement in 1986, Mr. Patrick has served as a consultant to the US Government as well as private organizations. Thomas R. Dashiell Extensive Research and Development (R) management experience. Over thirty-eight years of hands-on technical and managerial experience in R involving major programs of increasing scope and responsibility. Mr. Dashiell was a biologist and chemical engineer born in Riverton, Maryland, graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1962. Arms expert, biologist Thomas Dashiell dies at seventy. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biological & chemical;books;chemistry;education & reference;engineering;general & reference;history;medical books;military;military science;pharmacology;professional & technical;science & math;special topics;toxicology;weapons & warfare,16 0811834336,"Eva Zeisel Part of Chronicle's Compact Design Portfolio series, this small-format illustrated volume showcases the graceful, curvy Modernist ceramic pieces of Hungarian-born industrial designer Eva Zeisel (previous books in the series have highlighted the work of designers including Michael Graves, Richard Sapper and Eileen Gray). With a career spanning several continents and nearly eight decades, Ziesel has racked up honors-a solo show at MoMA, for example (the museum has 75 of her pieces in its permanent collection), a Schramberg street named for her-and survived harrowing experiences (accused of plotting to kill Stalin, she spent 16 months Russian prisons). From sweetly humble 1926 handmade ""crinkle planters"" to the popular 1946 ""Town and Country"" salt and pepper shakers, reminiscent of softened Brancusi sculptures-or Schmoo-to the lovely ""Eva"" pitcher sets she made in 2002 for a Brooklyn design team, Zeisel's ceramics are pleasing, warmly minimalist, often ""zoomorphic"" forms. She identifies her mission as ""the playful search for beauty,"" and believes that ""one has to learn not to take oneself too seriously, not to overly respect one's designs,"" since for every choice made, ""there are always many more possibilities."" A true and endlessly energetic artist, Zeisel is as interesting as her designs, and Young's snappy, economical essay disappoints only in that one wishes it were longer, since there is obviously so much more to be said about Zeisel's life and art. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. Raul Cabra is the principal of Cabra Diseno, a San Francisco design firm.Marisa Bartolucci is former executive editor of Metropolis magazine and the author of several critically acclaimed design books. She lives in New York City.",architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;crafts;furniture;graphic design;history & criticism;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;specific groups;techniques;women,16 0891060812,"Tools for Team Excellence: Getting Your Team into High Gear and Keeping it There Provides guidelines for getting back on track when teams break down. -- Human Resource Executive, Sept. 1, 1996This book is aimed at people in organizations who want to take teams seriously. -- Houston Business Journal, June 14, 1996This book outlines a lucid approach and includes exercises that any organization can use. -- Business Journal, Sept. 16, 1996 Gregory E. Huszczo, Ph.D., is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Development in the Management Department of Eastern Michigan University. As a consultant, trainer, and facilitator, he has served numerous large and small manufacturing and service corporations, government agencies, unions, and nonprofit agencies in the U.S. and abroad. His clients include Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Case Equipment, Digital Equipment Company, Caterpillar Inc., Navistar Corporation, Michigan Bell, Fireman's Fund Mortgage Corporation, the Australia Electoral Commission, the United Auto Workers, the Jaycees and the Junior Leargue, local school systems, institutes, and university centers.",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;entrepreneurship;human resources;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;leadership;management;management & leadership;motivational;new;small business & entrepreneurship;teams;used & rental textbooks,16 0814250726,"SOCIAL HISTORY OF WET NURSING IN AMERICA: FROM BREAST TO BOTTLE (WOMEN & HEALTH C&S PERSPECTIVE) ""...a cogent analysis of the complicated and changing relationships among wet nurses...rich with fascinating details."" Journal of Human Lactation""Janet Golden's history of wet nursing tells an important story....This book is well worth a close reading both for its contributions to the history of medicine and for its illustration of these tensions."" Ellen S. More, Johns Hopkins University Press""Overall, Golden's book is an enjoyable read. Her work provides a thoughtful and detailed discussion of the complexities involved in various wet nursing arrangements....Golden's book is useful for those who are interested in the historical regulation of women's bodies and lives, especially for those who want to learn more about the historical regulation of poor, single mothers."" Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association""One of the more interesting chapters in human history is that of the feeding of infants by breast or bottle [and] Golden has gone a long way in explaining this necessary aspect of human behavior in this well-written and fascinating book."" Ray Browne, Journal of American Culture --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. A Social History of Wet Nursing in the United States: From Breast to Bottle examines the intersection of medical science, social theory, and cultural practices as they shaped relations among wet nurses, physicians, and families from the colonial period through the twentieth century. It explores how Americans used wet nursing to solve infant feeding problems, why wet nursing became controversial as motherhood slowly became medicalized, and how the development of scientific infant feeding eliminated wet nursing early in the twentieth century. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.",18th century;19th century;20th century;books;historical study & educational resources;history;marriage & family;mathematics;modern (16th-21st centuries);parenting;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;science & math;social history;sociology;women's studies,16 078688844X,"Foolish/Unfoolish: Reflections On Love Adult/High School-This book contains many of the highly successful singer's poems, written when she was a teen, complete with the stories behind them and her thoughts on relationships and friendships. Small black-and-white photos of Ashanti as a child are sprinkled throughout. The selections aren't very distinctive, but teen fans will still enjoy this title.Jamie Watson, Enoch Pratt Free Library, BaltimoreCopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Ashanti first sang in a gospel choir at age six. Her professional music career began in 1994 when her performance at a local talent show caught the eyes of music industry insiders. She has been writing poetry since she was 13 years old. She lives in Glen Cove, New York.",african-american & black;american;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;blues;books;composers & musicians;ethnic & national;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;love poems;music;musical genres;poetry;soul,16 0415927773,"Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World Right-Wing Women is an invaluable, unprecedented collection of comparative, interdisciplinary essays. It illuminates both the scope of right-wing projects, and the centrality of women, gender, and sexuality to them.Amrita Basu, editor of The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women's Movements in Global PerspectiveIn these essays, upstarts and activists break out of conventional stereotypes about right wing women, and force us to re-think our assumptions about political activism and women's roles. Writing from almost as many disciplinary perspectives as national contexts, the authors have produced a pioneering work about global gender politics.Claudia Koonz, author of Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi PoliticsThe essays in Right-Wing Women raise profound questions about the relationships between women, nationalism, and feminism. The book not only explores and expands this under-researched field of feminist and political scholarship, but it attempts to do this in a truly global way.Nira Yuval-Davis, author of Gender and NationIf ever a collection showed the necessity of focusing on women's agency, it is Right-Wing Women. This book is also a good read, one that will appeal to specialists and ordinary readers alike.Temma Kaplan, author of Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements Paola Bacchetta is Associate Professor in the Departments of Women's Studies and Geography at the University of Kentucky. Margaret Power is an Assistant Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology.",books;conservatism & liberalism;gay & lesbian;gender studies;history;history & theory;ideologies & doctrines;new;political history;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,16 0810842416,"The Modern Singing Master: Essays in Honor of Cornelius L. Reid A stimulating mlange of articles...There is much good common sense to be found here (Music Teacher )It will be compulsive, and perhaps should be compulsory, reading for teachers of singing. (The Singer )This book is a wonderful read, no pun intendedfull of challenging propositions and affirmations for our own knowledge and practiceAbove all, this publication is a mountain-top achievement for a man whose life's journey has been one of constant discoveryThank you to the initiators of the project that brought this book to fruition. (Australian Voice )Well written and well organized, The Modern Singing Master is an overview of Reid's philosophy, both in his own words, and in the words of others. The volume is an important contribution to the ongoing dialogue about differing pedagogical theories. (Nats Journal Of Singing )The creator of ""Functional Voice Training,"" modern singing master Cornelius L. Reid claims to have rediscovered the science and craft of the Bel Canto maestros. This volume contains contributions from singing teachers trained by him (as well as one from Reid himself) discussing his vocal pedagogy. Sample topics include vocal repair, scientific support for the two-register theory, and the influence of Reid's ideas on voice teaching in Germany. (Reference & Research Book News )This volume is a compilation of essays written by singing teachers as their testament to Cornelius Reid, a great singing instructor who enabled them to really understand how to sing and how to teach singing to their students. In this book, Reid is honoured as the ""Philosopher of singing"", a teacher whose research and interpretations have given birth to a new era of voice and pedagogy known as Functional Voice Training. The work concludes with an article written by Cornelius Reid himself, detailing the musical journey he has taken over 60 years. (Amazon.Com ) Ariel Bybee is currently Associate Professor and Artist-in-Residence in the Opera Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she teaches voice and directs operas.James E. Ford is in the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He teaches and publishes books and articles on critical theory and research methods.",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;composition & performance;education & reference;humanities;instruments;music;new;performing arts;techniques;theory;used & rental textbooks;voice,16 188999913X,"Wahhabism: A Critical Essay Hamid Algar, born in England in 1940, received his formal training in Islamic studies at Cambridge University, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1965. Since 1965, he has been teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, a wide range of courses including tafsir, Sufism, Shi'ism, the history of Islam in Iran, Arabic, Persian and Turkish literature.",books;essays & correspondence;history;humanities;islam;letters & correspondence;literature;literature & fiction;middle east;new;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;saudi arabia;used & rental textbooks;world,16 033521570X,"Leading a Support Group Keith Nichols is a consulting clinical health psychologist at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, United Kingdom. John Jenkinson is a group consultant, Cornwall Alcohol and Drugs Agency, United Kingdom.",books;fitness & dieting;health;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;psychotherapy;public affairs & policy;public policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;social work;used & rental textbooks,16 B000FO4ZB6,"Corporate Portals Empowered with XML and Web Services ""Corporate Portals Empowered with XML and Web Services is a must-read for those planning or developing a corporate portal for their organization. The book provides both technical and business management insight into the issues both groups face. This is key to a truly integrated system. Guruge's use of real world examples makes this a lesson in practicality, not simply another book on theory.""-David Johnson, Cisco Systems""My recommendation for any business, regardless of what industry it is in, is to take a very serious look at portals and the business benefits offered. It is too risky to ignore this area of Web technology. This book provides the best starting point I can think of for getting an understanding of the many facets associated with portals and their relevance to modern businesses.""-Stuart McIrvine, Program Director, Market Management, WebSphere Integration Middleware, IBM --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Following the humbling of the 'dot.coms' it is well implemented corporate portals that are ushering in a new and prosperous era of e-business. Corporate Portals Empowered with XML and Web Services provides decision makers with a clear and concise explanation of what portals are all about, why you really need a portal strategy, how you go about implementing one, and the issues you have to encounter and surmount. Guruge shows how you can successfully use XML and web services to empower your portals for collaboration, knowledge management, CRM, ERP and supply chain management. Extensive examples of corporate portals illustrate the viability of the technology Architectural and network diagrams show detailed portal implementations Comprehensive references to guides, solutions, products and terminology leverage living outside resources --This text refers to the Paperback edition.",books;business & management;computers & technology;education & reference;internet & web culture;intranets & extranets;languages & tools;manager's guides to computing;networking;networks;programming;protocols & apis;web design;web development & design;web services;xml,16 0070602328,"Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Theoretical Mechanics Murray Speigel, Ph.D., was Former Professor and Chairman of the Mathematics Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hartford Graduate Center.",americas;books;education & reference;history;humanities;mechanics;new;physics;science & math;science & mathematics;state & local;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;united states;used & rental textbooks,16 0684841126,"These Rare Lands If a picture's worth 1,000 words, this book--with its hundreds of breathtaking photos of America's National Parks--is a well-stocked bookstore. Accompanied by the words of poet laureate Mark Strand, These Rare Lands is a perfect coffee-table book for anyone who has enjoyed the wonders of nature's wildest places. From a storm over Sequoia National Park in California to the otherworldly stalactites and stalagmites of New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns and an Atlantic sunset in Maine's Acadia, this is a book that draws you back again and again. Photographer Stan Jorstad's obvious love of nature comes through in the thoughtful approach he takes to his life's work, contained in the pages of These Rare Lands. Landscape photographer Jorstad traveled numerous times to each of this country's 54 national parks to capture the unique beauty found in each. Arranging the photos chronologically by the date each park was established lends an interesting perspective to this all-color collection of largely panoramic views; by focusing on unique angles and subject matter, Jorstad offers an alternative to more traditional tourist-vista collections. While the large-format photos convey the sense of space and grandeur found in the parks, some of the most striking images are the smaller-format close-ups of more mundane subjects that benefit from the scrutiny. Accompanied by text from former American Poet Laureate Strand and a brief foreword by actor Robert Redford, this top-notch work offers a most inviting glimpse of world-renowned scenery. Highly recommended for most public libraries and color photography/landscape collections.?Tim Markus, Evergreen State Coll. Lib., Olympia, Wash.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.",americas;architecture;arts & photography;books;history;nature & ecology;nature writing;photography;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;science & math;social sciences;specialty travel;travel;travel with pets;united states,16 0838563864,"Conservative Management of Cervical Spine Syndromes ""...this has to be counted among the best."" ""This is a valuable addition to the chiropractic literature."" ""4 stars"" (Doody's 20000101) McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide",allied health professions;allied health services;alternative medicine;books;chiropractic;clinical;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;orthopedics;physical medicine & rehabilitation;physical therapy;surgery;used & rental textbooks,16 1556220413,"Direct3D ShaderX: Vertex and Pixel Shader Tips and Tricks with CDROM Wolfgang F. Engel has been addicted to game programming for more than 12 years. Since the early betas of DirectX 8, he has focused on vertex and pixel shader programming.He is the author of Beginning Direct3D Game Programming and two upcoming books on Direct3D, and conducts tutorials on Direct3D from all over the world.",books;computers & technology;directx;education & reference;games & strategy guides;graphics & multimedia;humor & entertainment;languages & tools;programming;puzzles & games;software design;software development;testing & engineering;video & electronic games;web design;web development & design,16 1568985495,"Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture David Stephenson is head of photography at the University of Tasmania School of Art, Hobart. His work has been exhibited throughout the world and published in numerous publications.",architectural;architecture;arts & photography;books;buildings;history;humanities;individual artists;new;photo essays;photography;professional & technical;reference;travel;used & rental textbooks;visual arts,16 0782122833,"Visual Basic 6 Developer's Handbook The Visual Basic 6 Developer's Handbook helps every VB programmer become a pro. The book's complete discussions clearly explain the most difficult, and most important, topics faced by Visual Basic programmers today. Coverage includes new Internet tools, new HTML tags, advanced client/server programming, and VBA/VBScripts integration of Windows 98 and other Microsoft applications. Written by two leading VB developers who have created commercial applications for clients such as COMPAQ, Exxon, Texas Instruments, and NASA, this resource offers a variety of topics and depth you won't find in any other book. Evangelos Petroutsos is a computer engineer who has worked for several corporations and organizations, including the California Institute of Technology and MCI. Currently, he writes computer books and articles, teaches networking and programming courses, and works as a computer communications consultant. He has authored and co-authored many programming books, including Mastering Visual Basic 6 from Sybex.Kevin Hough is an author and consultant specializing in high-level client/server applications written using Visual Basic and SQL Server. His advanced custom controls have been used in large-scale commercial projects and custom software applications. He is the author of MCSD: SQL Server 6.5 Database Design Study Guide from Sybex.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;languages & tools;mathematics;microsoft;networking;new;programming;programming languages;science & math;software;used & rental textbooks;visual basic,16 0674011848,"Yankee No!: Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations McPherson examines the years from 1958 to 1966, when anti-Americanism was a prominent theme in inter-American diplomacy, to deliver a helpful reminder that anti-Americanism is not a new phenomenon nor a product only of the Middle East--and that it has been confronted quite effectively in the past, at least when its sources were sought out and taken seriously. He provides several vivid case studies, starting with the attacks on Vice President Richard Nixon in Caracas and continuing on to Cuba, Panama, and the Dominican Republic. Together, these examples show the variability and ambivalence of anti-Americanism; they also emphasize the importance of U.S. policies that respond to its challenges rather than dismissing it as a cynical invention of alienated elites...This well-written and balanced book should be required reading in the White House, in Langley, and around Foggy Bottom. (Foreign Affairs 2004-03-01)[Yankee No!] makes a singular contribution to our understanding of a generally neglected aspect of inter-American relations. It represents a bold attempt to add a cultural dimension to diplomatic history. The current upsurge in anti-Americanism across the globe in the wake of the Iraq war makes its appearance most timely. (Philip Chrimes International Affairs 2004-10-01)This is a book that should be read by everyone interested in foreign relations, not merely historians specializing in the field but others in the academy and general public. Latin America has always been the testing ground for the development of U.S. foreign policies, and McPherson admirably takes these case studies and demonstrates the nature of anti-Americanism, one that bears a striking resemblance to the current global phenomenon. (Kyle Longley American Historical Review 2004-12-01)[McPherson's] understanding of Latin American anti-Americanism and the U.S. response is more complex and has more analytical depth than any previous study. The book is extremely well researched in both U.S. archival and Spanish-language sources, and combines a rich discussion of U.S. foreign policy through three presidential administrations, with a sophisticated attention to larger domestic historical processes in both the United States and Latin America. (David Sheinin International History Review)Exquisitely timed...McPherson's scrupulous historical account and subtle treatment of inter-American relations illuminates the dilemmas and complexities posed by the multiple variants of anti-Americanism. His superb study can help interpret contemporary political realities and the strains and challenges of managing global affairs in a decidedly unipolar world...McPherson treats 'anti-Americanism' precisely as it deserves to be treated--seriously, carefully, and with great sophistication. (Michael Shifter Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 2004-06-01)The urgency of Alan McPherson's excellent book increases daily during these tumultuous and sanguinary times. The United States would do well to heed his conclusion, that 'arrogance in the face of aggression eventually produce[s] more aggression'...Yankee No! is a timely call to form a new genre of scholarly inquiry into the global phenomenon of anti-Americanism, which has not been treated widely heretofore. (Eric Roorda Hispanic American Historical Review)Alan McPherson's study in contemporary international history is a timely one. Yankee No! combines cultural and political analysis of the decade or so between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s to uncover 'the broader meanings and workings of anti-Americanism' during a period when it was particularly prominent...Written in an admirably detailed and clear style, Yankee No! should answer the needs both of general readers interested in the modern politics of the Americas and American foreign policy, and of scholars and students of these disciplines. (British Bulletin of Publications 2004-04-01)Alan McPherson's monograph on the role of anti-Americanism in inter-American relations is a timely one. As the author correctly observes, the events and aftermath of September 11 added new urgency to the task of unraveling and understanding the roots of anti-Americanism throughout the world...Yankee No! exhibits both solid research and strong writing...As far as McPherson's writing is concerned, his prose is at once concise and engaging. The author has a good eye for the compelling quote, and the title of the first chapter, 'The Road to Caracas: Or, Richard Nixon Must Get Stoned,' combines humor and compelling historical analysis. Although the book is somewhat brief (170 pages of text), McPherson makes persuasive arguments and explains complex events and issues without resorting to jargon. In short, the book is both intellectually provocative and a good read...For both scholars and interested laypeople, it should be considered essential reading. (Matthew Loayza H-Net) Alan McPherson has not only made a valuable contribution to the literature on U.S.-Latin American relations but, more importantly, he has provided a superb analysis of anti-Americanism by identifying its variability, its ambivalence, and the U.S. resilience in confronting the challenge during the critical years framed in this book. In his sophistication and in his writing he demonstrates all the attributes of a seasoned historian. (Lester D. Langley, author of The Americas in the Modern Age) Alan L. McPherson is Associate Professor of Internatioal and Area Studies, University of Oklahoma. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/pdf/MCPYAN_excerpt.pdf",20th century;americas;books;caribbean & latin american;caribbean & west indies;central america;diplomacy;dominican republic;history;international & world politics;modern (16th-21st centuries);political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;united states;world,16 0151001030,"The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism In a gem of a book, Mexican poet, critic and essayist Paz explores the boundaries between love, sex and eros. He defines eroticism as sexuality transfigured by the imagination, and romantic love as a desire for completeness manifested as a mysterious attraction toward a single person. The Nobel laureate moves easily in these erudite, reflective essays through Plato, Sappho, Provencal love poetry, Dante, Lady Murasaki's The Tale of Genji, Gnostic and Taoist erotic practices, Proust, Joyce, Freud, Breton and Lawrence. He argues that love, in the West, is an exercise in freedom, a creative and subversive sentiment, whereas in the East love has been conceived within a religious tradition. Modern sexual freedom, according to Paz, has become a narcissistic pursuit, accompanied by the erosion of family and personal values. Rejecting comparisons between the human mind and the computer, he calls for a dialogue between science and philosophy that restores the centrality of love and the soul. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Originally published in Spanish (La llama doble, amor y erotismo, 1993), this work by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1990) consists of reflections on the diverse manifestations of sex, eroticism, and love from ancient to contemporary times. Definitions are given: ""Sex is the primordial source. Eroticism and love are forms derived from the sexual instinct: crystallizations, sublimations, perversions, and condensations which transform sexuality."" From Plato and the great civilizations of antiquity to the modern period (including an examination of medieval courtly love and side excursions into Eastern approaches), the themes are studied through their literary and philosophical aspects. Paz bemoans today's commercialization of eroticism but optimistically posits that science is, after a centuries-long hiatus, returning to an examination of the ontological (and hence, moral) questions of love as part of being. This is an erudite, thought-provoking work, intended for readers acquainted with literary and philosophical traditions. Recommended for general collections serving a sophisticated clientele.-?Charles E. Perry, East Central Univ., Ada, Okla.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Originally published in Spanish (La llama doble, amor y erotismo, 1993), this work by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1990) consists of reflections on the diverse manifestations of sex, eroticism, and love from ancient to contemporary times. Definitions are given: ""Sex is the primordial source. Eroticism and love are forms derived from the sexual instinct: crystallizations, sublimations, perversions, and condensations which transform sexuality."" From Plato and the great civilizations of antiquity to the modern period (including an examination of medieval courtly love and side excursions into Eastern approaches), the themes are studied through their literary and philosophical aspects. Paz bemoans today's commercialization of eroticism but optimistically posits that science is, after a centuries-long hiatus, returning to an examination of the ontological (and hence, moral) questions of love as part of being. This is an erudite, thought-provoking work, intended for readers acquainted with literary and philosophical traditions. Recommended for general collections serving a sophisticated clientele.-Charles E. Perry, East Central Univ., Ada, Okla. (Library Journal)Nobel laureate Paz presents a humanist examination of the roles played by love and eros in modern life and society. (Publishers Weekly) --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Octavio Paz was born in 1914 and died in 1998. The author of eighteen books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.",books;civil;criticism & theory;engineering;essays;essays & correspondence;fitness & dieting;health;history & criticism;literature & fiction;movements & periods;professional & technical;psychology & counseling;self-help;sex;sexuality,16 0810843072,"Image to Word: Art and Creative Writing This is a useful and encouraging guide for teachers at all levels. (Arts & Activities )...a welcome self-teaching resource as well as a fine addition to creative writing educator's reference shelves. (Wisconsin Bookwatch ) Kathy Walsh-Piper is director of the University of Kentucky Art Museum. A former teacher, she has worked in the museum profession for more than twenty-five years where she specializes in teaching about works of art through inquiry and creative writing.",books;creative writing & composition;education;education & reference;humanities;instruction methods;language & grammar;literature;new;pedagogy;research & publishing guides;rhetoric;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,16 084932369X,"Asphyxia and Drowning: An Atlas (Cause of Death Atlas Series) volumes are appropriate for the target readership of death investigators, law enforcement officers, and attorneys. Physicians-in-training, in such specialties as Pathology, Emergency Medicine, and Surgery would benefit from careful reading of these booksI anticipate that the remaining volumes in this series will prove equally useful.es are appropriate for the target readership of death investigators, law enforcement officers, and attorneys. Physicians-in-training, in such specialties as Pathology, Emergency Medicine, and Surgery would benefit from careful reading of these booksI anticipate that the remaining volumes in this series will prove equally useful.",books;clinical;criminal law;education & reference;fitness & dieting;forensic medicine;forensic science;health;internal medicine;law;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;pathology;used & rental textbooks,16 0300100248,"Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture Many historians have focused ad nauseam on the most extreme religious movements of the 1960s, dissecting these small groups but ignoring larger trends. Oppenheimer, a staff writer for the Christian Century, asks a more provocative question of the 20th century's most radical decade: how did the 1960s influence ordinary people in mainstream religious traditions? As he shows in this competent, accessible study, people in ""mainline"" religions were deeply and irrevocably changed by the revolutions of the 1960s. (Oppenheimer uses the moniker ""the 1960s"" to denote a period that includes much of the 1970s, and he is sensitive to the transformations within this brief but tumultuous historical era: 1969, he reminds us at one point, was very different than 1974.) A rather bland opening chapter traces the bloodless revolution that led to the Unitarians' creating an Office of Gay Concerns in the early 1970s, while a second, more compelling, chapter discusses the stunning changes in Roman Catholic worship that resulted from the concurrent forces of Vatican II reforms and the rise of American folk music. Oppenheimer then traces the growth of Jewish havurot-small, communal gatherings of mostly young and urban Jews-and makes a compelling case that these Jews were deeply influenced by observing the Black Panthers, whose example prompted them to self-identify as a proud ethnic minority group. The author next examines the Episcopalians' battles over women's ordination in the 1970s and the responses of progressive Southern Baptists to the Vietnam War. American religion, Oppenheimer persuasively shows, is surprisingly flexible, incorporating dissent and welcoming new ideas. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. *Starred Review* Much hyped by the media, the cults and communes of the 1960s--with their exotic farragoes of sex, drugs, and Zen mysticism--never merited the attention they received. So argues cultural historian Oppenheimer, who finds the real story of '60s religion not among the relatively few devotees of psychedelic gurus but rather among the millions belonging to previously staid religious denominations. These denominations, Oppenheimer shows, responded to the turmoil of the era with startling and permanent changes in their forms of worship and in the character of their clergy. Thus, Episcopalians acceded to feminist demands by ordaining women; Unitarians permitted gay activists to receive church funding; Catholics abandoned Latin and discovered the guitar; Jews left the synagogue to pray in their living rooms--or in the woods. While he sees a loosening of discipline throughout American religion during the '60s, Oppenheimer perceptively distinguishes between, for instance, the aesthetic acceptance of countercultural reform in Catholic liturgy, on the one hand, which left traditional metaphysical and moral doctrines intact, and the thoroughgoing counterculturalism in Unitarianism, on the other hand, which opened the sanctuary to self-identified pagans and amoralists. As the country's metamorphosed religious communities continue to weigh in on diverse social issues, readers will turn to this book for context and understanding. Bryce ChristensenCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved [A] competent, accessible study. -- Publishers Weekly This book offers a witty and provocative reappraisal of the impact the cultural revolution had on American religious life in the 1960s. It argues that most Americans did not drop out of mainstream religious groups during the Age of Aquarius but instead brought the counterculture with them to their churches and temples, changing the face of American religion. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. ""Knocking on Heaven's Door provides a valuable historical service in 'de-exoticizing' the 1960s. Mark Oppenheimer argues, provocatively and persuasively, that the most dramatic and lasting impact of the era is to be found in the changes it brought, not to the margins, but to the mainstream of American culture.""-Maurice Isserman, Hamilton College Mark Oppenheimer is a freelance writer. He is a staff writer for the Christian Century and has written for many publications, including Harper's, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Yale Review, the Hartford Courant, Playboy, and Slate. He has taught at Wesleyan and Stanford universities.",20th century;americas;books;education & reference;general;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;popular culture;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;social sciences;sociology;united states;world,16 0310585716,"Life and Death Dilemma, The You might be standing by the bedside of an ill or dying family member, facing agonizing moral and medical choices. Or you may be struggling with a disability, asking questions that seem to have no answers. Where can you find practical encouragement and realistic perspective to help you make the best decisions? Joni Eareckson Tada, herself a quadriplegic, helps you and your family tackle the hard questions about death, illness, and suffering, such as: - Is it ever right to choose death, either for yourself or a suffering loved one? - How can I make the best decisions in a medical crisis? - Where is God in the unanswerable questions? - Are our rights being protected? Stories of real people who have faced life-and-death decisions, practical suggestions for coping in crisis, and scriptural insight on the meaning of life help you find hope and answers in difficult situations. From the legal facts to the human factor, Joni brings a unique perspective to what makes life worth living and how to make health care choices with dignity, wisdom, and compassion. The Life and Death Dilemma, written with families' needs in mind, offers help and insight for those who are disabled, dying, or terminally ill. Complete with practical questions at the end of each chapter and full of relevant case studies, it offers help and guidance through one of the toughest issues families must face. Joni Eareckson Tada is founder and CEO of Joni and Friends, an organization that accelerates Christian outreach in the disability community. Joni and Friends provides practical support and spiritual help to special needs families worldwide, and equips thousands of churches in developing disability ministry. Joni is the author of numerous best-selling books, including When God Weeps, Diamonds in the Dust, A Lifetime of Wisdom, and A Step Further, winner of the Gold Medallion Award. Joni and her husband, Ken, have been married for over 30 years. For more information on Joni and Friends, visit www.joniandfriends.org SPANISH BIO: Joni Eareckson Tada es el fundadora del Centro Internacional de Discapacidad Joni y sus amigos, una organizacion con sede en California que promueve el alcance cristiano en la comunidad de discapacitados a nivel mundial (www.joniandfriends.org). En 1967, un accidente durante un salto de clavado dejo cuadriplegica a Joni, pero los anos no fueron desaprovechados. Su siempre profundo amor por la Palabra de Dios ha generado mas de treinta y cinco libros, incluyendo sus exitosos devocionales, Diamantes en el polvo y Mas precioso que la plata. Joni y su esposo, Ken, han estado casados durante veinticuatro anos y tienen su hogar en Calabasas, California. 1 There Are Answers Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day to day living that wears you out. ANTON CHEKHOV Chekhov's words were no doubt intended to be a backhanded encouragement. They elicit a knowing smile from those of us facing the day-to-day struggles of modern life--mortgages, diapers, cranky bosses, sibling fights, aches, and pains. Such mundane troubles wear us out, and a crisis now and then can seem a welcome diversion. But what would Chekhov say to people facing a crisis that had become day to day? What would Chekhov say to people like Sharon: My father had Parkinson's disease for many years. He became dangerous to himself and to my mother to the point that the doctor put him into the hospital for surgery for prostate problems and then into a nursing home. At that time we were told he also had Alzheimer's disease. After four years of being in a coma (brought on by undetected diabetes), amputation of first a toe, then a leg, there would come the amputation of the other leg and both hands. He had been in a coma for months but showed extreme pain in his facial gestures. He had not recognized me for about four to five years. My father was a wonderful man, husband, poppa, and grandpa who was loved by all. He was also a proud man and very self-sufficient. It was so sad to see his weakness take away every part of him except breath--due to feeding tubes and life support. Sharon and her mom faced life-and-death questions on a daily basis for four years. 'Do we continue treatments?' 'Do we 'pull the plug'?' 'Do we remove the feeding tube?' I wonder if Chekhov pictured such questions being answered by 'any idiot.' And what would Chekhov say to people like Jim and Julie? Julie endured eight surgeries and biopsies and four regimens of chemotherapy. We experienced the dread and terror of two years of watching Julie receive, and then react to, those powerful drugs. She lost her hair three different times. She would get deathly sick. Her face would turn white, her eyes dark. Her fingernails became knurled and black. Her mouth and entire GI track would break out in open, bleeding ulcers. Her white blood-cell count was often below 1000. A common cold could have killed her. She underwent a full course of radiation and a six-week, risky bone-marrow transplant. At one point, she had hanging over her, thirteen IV bottles filled with powerful drugs and antibiotics. We also experienced five unsuccessful trips out to the National Cancer Institute. Their state-of-the-art experiment failed. Jim and Julie lived in a health care crisis for seven years before Julie went home to heaven. For them there was always the wondering: 'Will this drug work?' 'Is the cancer really gone?' 'Do we try this risky experiment?' They faced these questions, all while raising four kids and serving in full-time ministry. And what would Chekhov say to Debbie: I am a mother of three beautiful triplet girls. They were born three months early, despite fourteen weeks of bed rest and medication to try to prevent premature delivery. As a result of their extreme prematurity, two of the girls are handicapped. The girls are two years old now and I am having a hard time trying to make sure everyone gets what she needs. Amanda is a normal two-year-old; Jennifer cannot crawl, sit up, or walk but mentally seems to be about fifteen months; and Rachel can sit up and crawl but mentally seems to be ten--twelve months. Both Jennifer and Rachel do not eat and need g-tube feedings (feeding through a tube into the stomach) and medications around the clock besides physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and feeding therapy. Everything I do is devoted to and revolves around them and their needs, but I still go to bed at night knowing how much better they could be if I could do more. Our church was great in the beginning, and people were always helping me, but as the girls showed evidence of lasting problems, the help stopped. The problem is that I need help now more than ever. I have had a nurse in the home twenty-four hours a day for two years, but they are cutting that down to nothing by Christmas because the girls are off oxygen and their ventilators. To top everything off, right now the girls are in a rehabilitation facility for three months for intense feeding therapy. They are miserable there, and I have had to put Amanda in day care so I can be there for Jen and Rachel. We have no family nearby to help with all this. Debbie is looking ahead to years of daily crises of disability with her kids. She and her husband will ask: 'How will the kids get an education?' 'Where will the money come from to pay for therapy?' 'Are we ever going to get a break just for us?' We Are in a Dilemma Crises like the ones just described are being rehearsed everywhere. Twenty-eight years in a wheelchair has introduced me to the world of advocacy, and with it, thousands of people who were either sinking into or surfacing out of suicidal despair. Decades of visiting hospitals and rehab centers has introduced me to the business executive with Lou Gehrig's disease whose body was shrinking and shriveling; to the young athlete paralyzed from a spinal cord injury and living in a nursing home; to the Vietnam veteran coping with a strange new mental illness; and to the teenager with cerebral palsy sitting on the sidelines, watching her classmates date, and drive cars. These crises are not private. While straining to cope with their own pain, people are learning that they are part of a confusing debate in society over medical issues ranging from physician-assisted suicide to rationed health care. Along with advocates on both sides of the issue, they are learning technical distinctions between words like nonvoluntary euthanasia and active euthanasia. Technological advances in how we can treat people and keep them alive have added to the confusion surrounding the debate. The pain and confusion expressed by people in crisis has made it fashionable (and compassionate according to some) to talk about a simple yet deadly solution: 'Give it up. It's not worth the pain.'",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;death;death & grief;euthanasia;medical books;medicine;parenting;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious studies;self-help;sociology;suicide,16 0415239346,"Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies: Guerrillas and their Opponents since 1750 (Warfare and History) this is a first rate book [with] an excellent up-to-date bibliography at the end of each chapter.The International History Review, December 2002 Ian F. W. Beckett is Professor of Modern History at the University of Luton and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His many publications include The Amateur Military Tradition (1991) and Encyclopedia of Guerilla Warfare(1999).",books;history;humanities;military;military science;military sciences;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;strategy;terrorism;used & rental textbooks;world,16 0262550121,"Protocol Analysis: Verbal Reports as Data (Bradford Books) Although the theory of verbal reports is psychologically interesting in and of itself, this book will undoubtedly be read for its more practical aspects, as well. It provides an excellent introduction for those who wish to learn protocol analysis and a valuable reference for those who use it. Ericsson and Simon give a detailed discussion of how to code and analyze protocols, including a significant number of worthwhile examples. It is very fitting that one of the pioneers of the modern use of verbal data, Herb Simon, should be one of the authors of this important and sorely needed book.... Michelene T. H. Chi, University of Pittsburgh K. Anders Ericsson holds the Dr. Edward Conradi Eminent Scholar Chair of Psychology at Florida State University.Herbert Simon is Professor of Psychology at Carnegie-Mellon University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 1978.",behavioral sciences;books;cognitive psychology;communication & journalism;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;language & grammar;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;social sciences;speech;used & rental textbooks;words,16 0801492599,"Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method ""This book is generally considered one of the most- significant contributions to literary criticism in the 1970's, and it is almost essential or anyone doing serious study of narrative. The book is difficult and introduces a great deal of terminology, some of which has already been adopted by critics. It is well organized and systematic, a good example of what Robert Pirsig called the classical manner, a whole divided into its subordinate parts, those parts being further subdivided. To illustrate the use of his narrative analysis Genette applies it to Proust's Remembrance of Things Past and provides us with an insight into that great series."" -Lawrence J. Gorman (April, 1984) Text: English, French (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;creative writing & composition;criticism & theory;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;language & grammar;literary theory;literature;literature & fiction;new;research & publishing guides;rhetoric;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,16 B000060MJV,"Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors The Magazine of the Coast celebrates living, laughing, working, playing, visiting, and boating on the Maine coast. Maine's best writers and photographers cover downeast boats, coastal homes, gourmet food, fine artists, the natural world, and current events. Five full-color issues per year. The Magazine of the Coast celebrates living, laughing, working, playing, visiting, and boating on the Maine coast. Maine's best writers and photographers cover downeast boats, coastal homes, gourmet food, fine artists, the natural world, and current events. Five full-color issues per year.",boating;east;home & garden;hunting & fishing;magazine subscriptions;maine;nature & ecology;northeast;regional;regions;science & nature;sports & leisure;states;travel & regional;united states;water sports,16 0415170338,"Discographies: Dance, Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound In this fascinating study of dance music's formal, aesthetic and political properties, Jeremy Gilbert and Ewan Pearson team up to provide an authentic account of dance music. This is essential reading for anyone who considers dance music their lifestyle of choice.URB MagazineGilbert and Pearson provide a fascinating, complex, and well-written analysis...the chapters on gender and sexuality and on technology are superb...it is sophisticated and important. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.Choice, April 2000This is a lucid, informative, engagingly written and stimulating work. It admirably covers a variety of different theoretical issues and takes off from dance to raise all sorts of questions about the treatment of music in cultural studies.Simon Frith, University of Stirling...contemporary, committed and compelling.Will Straw, McGill University Jeremy Gilbert is currently teaching in the Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London. He is contributor to Living Through Pop and The Moderniser's Dilemma. Ewan Pearson has been a visiting lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of East London. He is now a full-time musician and has recorded for several Uk dance labels including Glasgow's Soma recordings.",art;arts & photography;books;humanities;humor & entertainment;instruments;music;musical genres;new;performing arts;politics & social sciences;pop culture;popular;reference;sociology;used & rental textbooks,16 0299163202,"Ancient Goddesses (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) Lucy Goodison is an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London and has written several books on mythology and religion, specializing in the early Aegean.Christine Morris is Leventis Lecturer in Greek Archaeology in the School of Classics, Trinity College, Dublin.",ancient;archaeology;arts & photography;bibles;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;comparative religion;education & reference;history;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;women's studies;world,16 0886853281,Audiology (Praxis Study Guides) Educational Testing Service (ETS) is the worlds premier educational testing organization and the only publisher of GRE and TOEFL test preparation materials containing authentic test questions from start to finish.,allied health professions;allied health services;audiology & speech pathology;books;communicative disorders;education;education & reference;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;schools & teaching;special education;test prep & study guides;test preparation;testing;used & rental textbooks,16 0895872218,"Backroad Buffets and Country Cafes Don O'Briant has been a journalist with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for 25 years. He has also written Looking for Tara, Atlanta, and several books using the persona of good ole boy Sonny Bubba.",books;business & investing;cookbooks;dining;food;food & wine;general;hospitality;industries & professions;lodging & transportation;regional & international;south;travel;travel & tourism;u.s. regional;united states,16