uid,text,target,num_keyphrases 0201760436,"Agile Software Development Ecosystems In a highly volatile software development environment, developers must be nimble, responsive, and able to hit a moving target--in short, they must be agile. Agile software development is designed to address this need for speed and flexibility. Agility describes a holistic, collaborative environment in which you can both create and respond to change by focusing on adaptability over predictability, people over process. Agile software development incorporates proven software engineering techniques, but without the overhead and restrictions of traditional development methodologies. Above all, it fulfills its promise of delivering software that serves the client's business needs. Written by one of the leaders of the Agile movement, and including interviews with Agile gurus Kent Beck, Robert Charette, Alistair Cockburn, Martin Fowler, Ken Schwaber, and Ward Cunningham, Agile Software Development Ecosystems crystallizes the current understanding of this flexible and highly successful approach to software development. It presents the key practices of all Agile development approaches, offers overviews of specific techniques, and shows how you can choose the approach that best suits your organization. This book describes--in depth--the most important principles of Agile development: delivering value to the customer, focusing on individual developers and their skills, collaboration, an emphasis on producing working software, the critical contribution of technical excellence, and a willingness to change course when demands shift. All major Agile methods are presented: Scrum Dynamic Systems Development Method Crystal Methods Feature-Driven Development Lean Development Extreme Programming Adaptive Software Development Throughout the book, case stories are used to illustrate how Agile practices empower success around the world in today's chaotic software development industry. Agile Software Development Ecosystems also examines how to determine your organization's Agile readiness, how to design a custom Agile methodology, and how to transform your company into a truly Agile organization. 0201760436B03042002 Jim Highsmith is a well-known consultant, software developer, writer, and speaker. He is a founding member of the AgileAlliance, serving on its first board, and is coauthor of the Agile Manifesto. Jim is director of the Agile Project Management Advisory Service for the Cutter Consortium. He is also the author of Adaptive Software Development (Dorset House), winner of the 2000 Jolt Award. 0201760436AB03112002 From February 11 to 13, 2001, at the Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, 17 people met to talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground. What emerged was the Agile Software Development movement. Representatives from Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, the Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), Adaptive Software Development (ASD), Crystal Methods, Feature-Driven Development (FDD), Pragmatic Programming, and others sympathetic to the need for an alternative to document-driven, rigorous software development processes convened. What this meeting produced--The Manifesto for Agile Software Development, signed by all 17 of the participants--was symbolic. It declares that: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan. That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more. This value statement has a number of fascinating aspects, not the least of which was getting 17 people to agree to it. Although this was a group of experienced and recognized software development ""gurus,"" the word uncovering was selected to indicate that the authors don't have all the answers and don't subscribe to the silver-bullet theory. The phrase ""by doing it"" indicates that the authors actually practice these methods in their own work. Ken Schwaber told the story of his days of selling tools to automate comprehensive, ""heavy"" methodologies. Impressed by the responsiveness of Ken's company, Jeff Sutherland asked him which of these rigorous methodologies he used for internal development. ""I still remember the look on Jeff's face,"" Ken remarked, ""when I told him, None. If we used any of them, we'd be out of business.'"" The authors want to help others with Agile practices and to further our own knowledge by learning from those we try to help. The value statements have a form. In each statement, the first segment indicates a preference, while the latter segment describes an item that, while important, is of lesser priority. This distinction lies at the heart of agility, but simply asking people to list what's valuable doesn't flesh out essential differences. Roy Singham, CEO of ThoughtWorks, put it well when he said that it's the edge cases, the hard choices, that interest him. ""Yes, we value planning, comprehensive documentation, processes, and tools. That's easy to say. The hard thing is to ask, What do you value more?'"" When push comes to shove--and it usually does--something must give, and we need to be clear about what stays and what gives. The first value statement recognizes the importance of processes and tools but stresses that the interaction of talented individuals is of far more importance. Rigorous methodologies and their business process reengineering brethren place more emphasis on process than people. Agile development reverses this trend. If individuals are unique, and we believe they are, then processes should be melded to individuals and teams, not the other way around. Similarly, while comprehensive documentation is not necessarily harmful, the primary focus must remain on the final product--working software. This means that every project team needs to determine, for itself, what documentation is absolutely essential to delivering working software. Working software tells the developers and sponsors what they really have in front of them--as opposed to promises of what they might have in front of them. Working software can be shipped, modified, or scrapped, but it is always real. Contract negotiation, whether through an internal project charter or an external legal contract, isn't a bad practice, just a seriously insufficient one. Customers want a product that conforms to their needs--at the time of delivery. ""Contract negotiation encourages the addition of buffers contingency,"" says colleague Ron Holliday. ""This makes projects take even longer, drives up costs, and reduces responsiveness to change. A collaborative arrangement is a team effort between customer and supplier to deliver the best possible solution."" Contracts and project charters provide boundary conditions within which the parties can work, but only through ongoing collaboration can a development team hope to understand and deliver what the client wants. No one can argue that following a plan is a good idea--right? Well, yes and no. In a world of business and technology turbulence, scrupulously following a plan can have dire consequences, even if it's executed faithfully. However carefully a plan is crafted, it becomes dangerous if it blinds you to change. As you will see in several of the case studies presented in this book, few, if any, of the projects delivered what was planned for in the beginning. And yet they were successful because the development team was Agile enough to respond again and again to external changes. In the Information Age, planning is important, but accepting that deviations from any plan are ""normal"" is even more important. The meeting at Snowbird was incubated at a spring 2000 gathering of Extreme Programming leaders organized by Kent Beck. At that meeting in Oregon, a few ""outsiders"" but ""sympathizers,"" such as myself, were invited, and attendees voiced support for a variety of ""light"" methodologies. During 2000, a number of articles referenced the category of ""light"" or ""lightweight"" practices. In conversation, the soon to be ""Agile"" authors didn't like the moniker ""light,"" but it stuck at that time. In September 2000, ""Uncle Bob"" Martin of Object Mentor in Chicago started what was to become the Agile ball rolling with an email: ""I'd like to convene a short (two-day) conference in the January to February 2001 time frame here in Chicago. The purpose of this conference is to get all the lightweight method leaders in one room. All of you are invited, and I'd be interested to know who else I should approach."" Bob set up an online group site, and the discussions raged. Early on, Alistair Cockburn weighed in with an epistle that identified the general disgruntlement with the word ""light"": ""I don't mind the methodology being called light in weight, but I'm not sure I want to be referred to as a lightweight attending a lightweight methodologists meeting. It somehow sounds like a bunch of skinny, feeble-minded lightweight people trying to remember what day it is."" The fiercest debate was over location! There was serious concern about Chicago in wintertime--cold and nothing fun to do. Someone suggested Snowbird, Utah--cold, but fun things to do, at least for those who ski on their heads, as Martin Fowler tried on the first day. Someone else mentioned Anguilla in the Caribbean--warm and fun, but time consuming to get to. In the end, Snowbird and skiing won out. The Agile Manifesto value statements represent a deeper theme that drives many, but not all, of the Manifesto's authors. At the close of the two-day meeting, Bob Martin joked that he was about to make a ""mushy"" statement. Although tinged with humor, no one disagreed with Bob's sentiments--that we all felt privileged to work with a group of people who held a set of compatible values, based on trust and respect for each other, promotion of organizational models based on people, and the desire to build collaborative communities in which to work. At the core, I believe Agile developers are really about mushy stuff--about delivering products to customers while operating in a vibrant, sustaining workplace. So in the final analysis, the meteoric rise of interest in--and criticism of--Agile Software Development is about the mushy stuff of values and culture. For example, I think that, ultimately, XP has mushroomed in use and interest not because of pair programming or refactoring but because, taken as a whole, the practices define a developer community freed from the baggage of Dilbertesque corporations. Kent Beck tells the story of an early job in which he estimated a programming effort to be six weeks for two people. After his manager reassigned the other programmer at the beginning of the project (effectively halving the resources), Kent completed the project in twelve weeks--and felt terrible! The boss, of course, harangued Kent throughout the second six weeks. Somewhat despondent because he was such a ""failure"" as a programmer, Kent finally realized that his original estimate of six weeks was extremely accurate--for two people--and that his ""failure"" was really his manager's failure to take the responsibility for removing project resources. This type of situation goes on every day with individuals who don't want to make hard tradeoff decisions, so they impose irrational demands. The Agile movement is not anti-methodology; in fact, we seek to restore credibility to the concept of methodology. We want to restore a balance. We accept modeling, but not in order to file some diagram in a dusty corporate repository. We accept documentation, but not hundreds of pages of never-maintained and rarely used tomes. We plan, but recognize the limits of planning in a turbulent environment. Those who would brand proponents of FDD or Scrum or any of the other Agile approaches as ""hackers"" are ignorant of both the approaches and the original definition of the term hacker--a programmer who enjoys solving complex programming problems, rather than one who practices either ad hoc development or ""cracking."" Agile Software Development incorporates proven software engineering techniques, but without the overhead of traditional methodologies. The Agile Alliance was born in early 2001, but the history of the various approaches and the people who developed them goes back 10 to 15 years. This book describes these practices and th...",books;civil;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;engineering;environmental engineering;languages & tools;new;professional & technical;programming;programming languages;software design;software design & engineering;software development;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,17 1889833762,Sacco and Vanzetti (New England Remembers) Robert J. Allison is chairman of the history department of Suffolk University in Boston and teaches courses in American Constitutional history and the history of Boston at Harvard Extension School. He lives in South Boston and summers in Provincetown on Cape Cod.,20th century;americas;anarchism;biographies & memoirs;books;history;ideologies & doctrines;law;leaders & notable people;legal history;murder & mayhem;political;politics & government;politics & social sciences;state & local;true accounts;united states,17 B000P2XICU,"Adele Marion Fielde: Feminist, Social Activist, Scientist (Women in Science) Leonard Warren was born in Toronto, and received his BA and MD degrees at the University of Toronto. After an Internship at the Toronto General Hospital, he earned a PhD degree in biochemistry at MIT in Cambridge MA. He did research at the National Institute of Health, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Wistar Institute in Philidelphia, with Sabbatical years at the Pasteur Institute (Paris), and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (London). Recently, he had published a biography Joseph Leidy, the Last Man Who Knew Everything. He has completed a biography of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, and is presently writing the life of William Maclure, philanthropist, education, and 'father of American Geology'.",19th century;americas;asia;biographies & memoirs;books;china;history;kindle ebooks;kindle store;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);professionals & academics;science & math;scientists;specific groups;united states;women,17 1550024086,"One Soldier's Story: 1939-1945: From the Fall of Hong Kong to the Defeat of Japan This story details the fateful adventures of two Canadian army regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, George MacDonell enlisted in 1939, at the age of seventeen, and served as a Company Sergeant Major in Canada and Hong Kong until 1946. Post-military, he earned a BA at the University of Toronto and launched a successful business career. He was Deputy Minister of Ontario from 1980 to 1985.",20th century;americas;asia;biographies & memoirs;books;canada;canadian;historical;history;hong kong;humanities;leaders & notable people;memoirs;military;new;used & rental textbooks;world war ii,17 0887388434,"Risky Business: Rock in Film This is an encyclopedia of movies that have rock and roll soundtracks. Listing films chronologically from the 1950s through 1991, the authors offer plot synopses, production and marketing information, box office and record album receipts, and a summary of critical reviews for a couple hundred films For general readers. L. Rabinovitz, Choice R. Serge Denisoff (1939-1994) taught at many universities in his career, including San Francisco State College, Simon Fraser University, Los Angeles State University, and Bowling Green State University. He founded and was editor of the Journal of Popular Music and Society. In addition he is the author of many books, including Inside MTV, Sing a Song of Social Significance, and Solid Gold: The Popular Record Industry. William D. Romanowski is assistant professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in American Culture at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.",arts & photography;books;communication;communication & journalism;communications;education & reference;film & television;genre films;humanities;humor & entertainment;language & grammar;movies;music;new;performing arts;used & rental textbooks;words,17 0963308734,"creative childbirth ...DR. Leclaire O'Neill has integrated the mind/body concepts in the area of pregnancy and delivery. -- O Carl Simonton M.D....exploring ones feelings about pregnancy, childbirth, motherhood, career in order to pave the way for a relaxed experience. -- LA TIMESMinimal pain bottom line for CREATIVE CHILDBIRTH whose techniques have also been used by husbands before a stressful day... -- LA Weekly The best model of childbirth education to prevent complications, to alter the perception of pain, to access important emotions, to enhance the pregnancy, labor and birthing process for mother, baby and support person. This book is the new Lamaze/Bradley for the 21st century. A classic. Science now confirms that our brain controls our emotions. Here you will learn how to re direct your brain to have the emotions you want to have, how to define and reach your goals, how to reeducate your mind and body through hypnobirthing, imagery and your pregnancy health plan. It's fun, Its easy, and it works. There is no failure. Even if you choose chemical anesthesia reading this book will enhance your comfort and serenity. Have a wonderful pregnancy and birth! Michelle Leclaire O'Neill PhD, R.N., has worked for 30 years in NYC and LA helping patients to heal. She was on the staff of the Simonton Cancer Centerfor ten years where she taught THE GETTING WELL AGAIN PROCESS in family, individual and retreat settings. Dr. O'Neill has also trained physiciancs, Nurses and other professionals from all over the world in Mind/Body medicine. As a balance to her long term work with cancer, Dr. O'Neill developed THE HYPNOBIRTHING METHOD of childbirth education. A mother of three as well as an educator Dr. O'Neill is the author of Creative Childbirth, The Pregnancy Diary, Twelve Weeks to Fertility, and The Hypnobirthing Pregnancy, Labor and Inner Guide audio cassettes also Bach for Babies music",books;clinical;fitness & dieting;general;health;hypnosis;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;obstetrics & gynecology;parenting & relationships;pregnancy & childbirth;self-help;used & rental textbooks;women's health,17 1853685127,"Photographic Guide to Birds of Borneo Pb (Photographic Guides to) Dr G.W.H. Davison is a specialist in the birdlife of the region who worked for WWF Malaysia for many years. He is also the author of New Holland's A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Malaysia and The National Parks and other Wild Places of Malaysia. Chew Yen Fook has received much acclaim for his nature and wildlife photography, and he is a specialist on South-East Asia. He is also the photographer for New Holland's A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Thailand and A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Malaysia and Singapore. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & photography;asia;biological sciences;birds;birdwatching;books;catalogues & exhibitions;collections;field guides;history;indonesia;nature & ecology;ornithology;photography;science & math;sports & outdoors;zoology,17 0195101170,"First among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism ""The last three decades have seen a remarkable development in Quaker historiography...Larry Ingle's extraordinary biography of George Fox is not only a fitting contribution to this corpus, but the essential starting place for the next generation of scholars.""--Albion""Ingle tells his story sensibly and responsibly, making careful use of Fox's Journal and the other (happily plentiful) Quaker sources...Valuable in reminding us of the most important dimension of the history of the seventeenth century, which was the searing intensity of its religious beliefs.""--New Republic""A valuable book that fills a long-felt need...A biography of Fox that is respectful and thorough but not overly reverential or hagiographical.""--Sixteenth Century Journal""Larry Ingle's First Among Friends is a landmark work of Quaker history. Anyone who seeks to understand the origins and essence of the Society of Friends could do no better than to read it. Certainly every Friends' meeting should own it, and every Friend should read it. The book's scholarship is pioneering, its style solicitous, and its insights into the tumultuous, history-making life of George Fox are numerous and eye-opening. This benchmark work secures Larry Ingle's stature as the leading American historian of Quakerism.""--Charles Fager, Quaker author and editor of ""A Friendly Letter""This book is, quite rightly, far from being hostile. But in it a historian who seems to be a Quaker himself takes a fresh look at all surviving evidence, provides a comprehensive assembly of scholarly research and discussion, and offers conclusions which are objective.""--Church Times H. Larry Ingle is at University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.",17th century;accounting & finance;biographies & memoirs;books;business & investing;christian books & bibles;christian living;england;europe;history;international;leaders & notable people;modern (16th-21st centuries);professional & technical;protestantism;quaker;religious,17 0071434941,"McGraw-Hill's 400 Essential SAT Words Ace the vocabulary on the new SAT* with this surefire study guide! The new SAT* I is here--and the vocabulary is slated to be more challenging than ever. This vocabulary is now included in reading passages and sentence completions, and you'll be expected to know the correct words based on the context. That's why you must have this book! McGraw-Hill's 400 Essential SAT* Words gives you an expert's proven method, guaranteed to increase your command of the 400 vocabulary words most often tested on the SAT. You get a complete introduction to the newly revised SAT vocabulary elements, a detailed review of the 400 words and their meanings, and plenty of sentence completion and words-in-context stories to help prepare you for the real thing. Plus, this powerhouse guide also offers you: Chapters on how to identify synonyms, roots, prefixes, suffixes and how to paraphrase sentences Simulated verbal reasoning exercises for the new SAT* I Theme ""cluster"" groupings to help reinforce your usage ability and understanding Memory tips and techniques to boost your retention Drills and exercises after every word cluster and story Complete with valuable test-taking tips for the new SAT I, McGraw-Hill's 400 Essential SAT* Words is the only guide you need to master the vocabulary sections and score well on this high-stakes exam! Denise Pivarnik-Nova is the coordinator for the Minnesota Advanced Placement Incentive Program. She is also an advanced placement specialist and item writer for the SAT and other standardized tests for the College Board and Educational Testing Service. She has been involved with the College Board since 1980 and has many expert insights into its standardized tests. She lives in Robbinsdale, Minnesota.",books;college & university;education & reference;language & grammar;new;reference;sat & psat;slang & word lists;study guides;studying & workbooks;teens;test prep & study guides;test preparation;testing;used & rental textbooks;vocabulary;words,17 0801441412,"The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere, 2 Vol. Set (Comstock Books in Herpetology) ""Campbell and Lamar provide an authoritative perspective on the remarkable diversity of venomous reptiles. As the global loss of species and habitats continues at an astonishing rate, books like this constitute our most powerful arsenal in the fight against extinction. . . . These volumes should change the mind of anyone who sees snakes as hostile tubes of varying colors with a mouthful of fangs. Documenting the impressive taxonomic and ecological diversity of venomous reptiles in the New World, Campbell and Lamar establish venomous reptiles as a significant component of global biodiversity. Ignorance is no longer an excuse for fear of venomous reptiles, whereas knowledge and respect are certainly in order.""Laurie J. Vitt, University of Oklahoma, Science Vol. 305, 9 July 2004""This two-volume set grew out of the authors' 1989 Venomous Reptiles of Latin America and is more than double its size. . . . Enhanced by 1500 full-color photos, drawings, and maps, this is a unique, comprehensive reference.""Library Journal, August 2004""The information available is overwhelming, yet it is presented in scholarly and clearly understandable fashion, utilizing every available form of still documentation. . . . The two volumes are indeed a masterful compilation and overview of the venomous reptiles in this geographic region. The volumes are well-produced and published, with sturdy binding, easily readable font size and style, and excellent quality printing of illustrations, colored figures, and the abundant colored photographic plates. . . . The chapter on 'Venom Poisoning by North American Reptiles' and the following contribution entitled 'Snake Bites in Central and South America: Epidemiology Clinical Features and Clinical Management' offers abundant experiences, observations, and recommendations that often support those currently used by toxicologists and emergency room physicians in North America, yet are diverse enough to highlight some of the controversies and continuing debates on what is most appropriate when and how! . . . One could easily spend many hours reviewing the clinical recommendations made and observing the excellent documented color photographs of effects and the good-and-bad results from various management procedures. . . . Just to skim through the illustrations and accompanying text for elaboration opens up a new world for students, herpetologists, zoologists, and veterinary and human toxicologists conducting research in the field or at the zoo, or managing envenomated patients.""Veterinary and Human Toxicology, December 2004""Some books are publishing triumphs, the 'must-have' books, tomes that eclipse all previous publications on their subject and stand out as milestones, the baseline for future publications. This is one such book, or rather two such books. . . . Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere is one of the most essential purchases for anybody interested in venomous snakes or American herpetology. It is a feast, a banquet, you will be thumbing through these volumes for hours.""Mark O'Shea, The Herptile""The discussion of envenomation identification, grading, and treatment is fascinating and clinically valuable. I was very impressed with the organization and readability of the text. I nearly forgot to mention the wonderful color photographs. . . . The amount of information packed into these two volumes is truly mindboggling. This is a 'must have' reference for anyone interested in these creatures.""Grady Calhoun, ""The Forked Tongue,"" The Monthly Newsletter of the Greater Cincinnati Herpetological Society, August 2004""The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere is a spectacular accomplishment. Jonathan A. Campbell and William W. Lamar have assembled remarkably thorough accounts of the systematics and natural history of almost two hundred species, as well as a phenomenal set of color illustrations, and their collaborators have provided scholarly overviews of snakebite, mimicry, and evolution. This wonderful set will be an instant herpetological classic and a must for anyone with a serious interest in venomous reptiles.""Harry W. Greene, Professor and Curator, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University""There is so much information collected in these two up to date volumes that these books are a must read and reference material you will want in your library. . . . The chart on venom yields was very helpful for research in this area and there is so much in this book that it is a definite must read for medical personnel who work in this field.""Linda Boyko, President of the Northern California Herpetological Society 10/24/04 ""The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere is a spectacular accomplishment. Jonathan A. Campbell and William W. Lamar have assembled remarkably thorough accounts of the systematics and natural history of almost two hundred species, as well as a phenomenal set of color illustrations, and their collaborators have provided scholarly overviews of snakebite, mimicry, and evolution. This wonderful set will be an instant herpetological classic and a must for anyone with a serious interest in venomous reptiles.""-- Harry W. Greene, Professor and Curator, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University Jonathan A. Campbell is Professor and Chair of Biology at the University of Texas at Arlington and the author of several books. William W. Lamar is Adjunct Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Tyler. Campbell and Lamar are coauthors of The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America.",animals;basic sciences;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;pharmacology;reptiles & amphibians;science & math;science & mathematics;toxicology;used & rental textbooks;zoology,17 0674016343,"Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education The idea of the college campus as a refuge for intellectual pursuits has been all but swept away as colleges and universities succumb to highly competitive market pressures, with liberal arts suffering especially as interest focuses on the ""practical arts."" Kirp, a professor of public policy at the University of California-Berkeley, examines how these trends have led to a consumeristic approach to the marketing of higher education. Students, once thought of as minds to be molded, are now ""customers,"" a school's reputation is its ""brand,"" each department a ""revenue center."" Disturbing as this trend may be, its effects have been widely varied. Kirp examines about a dozen schools and the ways they position themselves to attract the highest quality ""customers."" There was a staff revolt when a marketing strategist was brought in to the highly intellectual University of Chicago, yet several years later a budget crisis was averted as both enrollment and students' qualifications increased significantly. An illuminating view of both good and bad results in a market-driven educational system. David SiegfriedCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. The monastery is colliding with the market. American colleges and universities are in a fiercely competitive race for dollars and prestige. The result may have less to do with academic excellence than with clever branding and salesmanship. David Kirp offers a compelling account of what's happening to higher education, and what it means for the future. (Robert B. Reich, University Professor, Brandeis University, and former U.S. Secretary of Labor)Can universities keep their purpose, independence, and public trust when forced to prove themselves cost-effective? In this shrewd and readable book, David Kirp explores what happens when the pursuit of truth becomes entwined with the pursuit of money. Kirp finds bright spots in unexpected places--for instance, the emerging for-profit higher education sector--and he describes how some traditional institutions balance their financial needs with their academic missions. Full of good stories and swift character sketches, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line is engrossing for anyone who cares about higher education. (Laura D'Andrea Tyson, former Chair, Council of Economic Advisers)David Kirp wryly observes that ""maintaining communities of scholars is not a concern of the market."" His account of the state of higher education today makes it appallingly clear that the conditions necessary for the flourishing of both scholarship and community are disappearing before our eyes. One would like to think of this as a wake-up call, but the hour may already be too late. (Stanley Fish, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the University of Illinois at Chicago)This is, quite simply, the most deeply informed and best written recent book on the dilemma of undergraduate education in the United States. David Kirp is almost alone in stressing what relentless commercialization of higher education does to undergraduates. At the same time, he identifies places where administrators and faculty have managed to make the market work for, not against, real education. If only college and university presidents could be made to read this book! (Stanley N. Katz, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University)Once a generation a book brilliantly gives meaning to seemingly disorderly trends in higher education. David Kirp's Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line is that book for our time [the early 21st century?]. With passion and eloquence, Kirp describes the decline of higher education as a public good, the loss of university governing authority to constituent groups and external funding sources, the two-edged sword of collaboration with the private sector, and the rise of business values in the academy. This is a must read for all who care about the future of our universities. (Mark G. Yudof, Chancellor, The University of Texas System)David Kirp not only has a clear theoretical grasp of the economic forces that have been transforming American universities, he can write about them without putting the reader to sleep, in lively, richly detailed case studies. This is a rare book. (Robert H. Frank, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University)David Kirp wanders America's campuses, and he wonders--are markets, management and technology supplanting vision, values and truth? With a large dose of nostalgia and a penchant for academic personalities, he ponders the struggles and synergies of Ivy and Internet, of industry and independence. Wandering and wondering with him, readers will feel the speed of change in contemporary higher education. (Charles M. Vest, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)An illuminating view of both good and bad results in a market-driven educational system. (David Siegfried Booklist 2003-11-15)Kirp has an eye for telling examples, and he captures the turmoil and transformation in higher education in readable style. (Karen W. Arenson New York Times 2003-11-09)Mr. Kirp is both quite fair and a good reporter; he has a keen eye for the important ways in which bean-counting has transformed universities, making them financially responsible and also more concerned about developing lucrative specialties than preserving the liberal arts and humanities. Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line is one of the best education books of the year, and anyone interested in higher education will find it to be superior. (Martin Morse Wooster Washington Times 2003-12-14)There is a place for the market in higher education, Kirp believes, but only if institutions keep the market in its place...Kirp's bottom line is that the bargains universities make in pursuit of money are, inevitably, Faustian. They imperil academic freedom, the commitment to sharing knowledge, the privileging of need and merit rather than the ability to pay, and the conviction that the student/consumer is not always right. (Glenn C. Altschuler Philadelphia Inquirer 2003-12-28)David Kirp's fine new book, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line, lays out dozens of ways in which the ivory tower has leaned under the gravitational influence of economic pressures and the market. (Carlos Alcal Sacramento Bee 2004-02-29)The real subject of Kirp's well-researched and amply footnoted book turns out to be more than this volume's subtitle, 'the marketing of higher education.' It is, in fact, the American soul. Where will our nation be if instead of colleges transforming the brightest young people as they come of age, they focus instead on serving their paying customers and chasing the tastes they should be shaping? Where will we be without institutions that value truth more than money and intellectual creativity more than creative accounting? ...Kirp says plainly that the heart of the university is the common good. The more we can all reflect upon that common good--not our pocketbooks or retirement funds, but what is good for the general mass of men and women--the better the world of the American university will be, and the better the nation will be as well. (Peter S. Temes San Francisco Chronicle 2003-12-28)David Kirp's excellent book Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line provides a remarkable window into the financial challenges of higher education and the crosscurrents that drive institutional decision-making...Kirp explores the continuing battle for the soul of the university: the role of the marketplace in shaping higher education, the tension between revenue generation and the historic mission of the university to advance the public good...This fine book provides a cautionary note to all in higher education. While seeking as many additional revenue streams as possible, it is important that institutions have clarity of mission and values if they are going to be able to make the case for continued public support. (Lewis Collens Chicago Tribune 2004-06-27)In this delightful book David Kirp...tells the story of markets in U.S. higher education...[It] should be read by anyone who aspires to run a university, faculty or department. (Terence Kealey Times Higher Education Supplement)David Kirp's Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line is more than a breath of fresh air: it is a healthy slap upside the head to academics who think they are immune to the grubbing and grabbing of raw market forces. Elegant, amusing, irreverent, refreshingly written, and beautifully edited, this book shakes the scales off a purist's eyes [Kirp] balances descriptions of the impressive successes of some experiments with a warning that the assertion ""leave it to the market"" is itself a political statement, ""a default of institutional leadership and an abandonment of the idea of a university's mission."" His concluding chapter raises all the right questions about the balance between providing for the private gain of individuals and corporations by charging market rates for the products of professors' work and protecting the common good by arranging subsides for the things that enrich society but that do not pay for themselves (like ""sociology, comparative literature, and pure mathematics""). (David W. Leslie Academe 2004-07-01) David L. Kirp is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of fourteen books, most recently Almost Home: America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community.Jonathan VanAntwerpen is Director of Communications and Program Director at the Social Science Research Council. He is editor of The Immanent Frame, an SSRC blog on secularism, religion, and the public sphere.",books;business & finance;business & investing;college & university;economics;education;education & reference;education theory;educational philosophy;funding;marketing & sales;new;philosophy & social aspects;public relations;reference;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,17 0892365838,Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity (Introduction To) Margaret MacLean is an independent consultant and the editor of Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific. Ben H. Davis is electronic publications manager for Getty Trust Publications.,arts & photography;beginning & introductory;books;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;culture;database storage & design;databases;library & information science;new;politics & social sciences;science & math;social sciences;software;technology;used & rental textbooks,17 0872863271,"Tracking the Serpent: Journeys into Four Continents In this loosely unified collection, poet Vega visits not four but three continents and produces a rambling but brave-hearted account of her exploits. Pursuing evidence of a neolithic earth goddess, she alights in the English countryside, where she treks to ancient towers and earthworks and engages in a brief, romantic fling with an eager innkeeper whose wife similarly espouses open marriage. Following sidetrips to Ireland and a quick visit to Chartres, the reader is whisked to the Peruvian Amazon, where Vega visits a former convict she encountered while on a prison visit years before, who now lives in a bug-infested backwater. Our adventurer learns, among other things, how to ward off mosquitoes while relieving herself, engages in an intense affair with a handsome exdrug trafficker, and tops off her trip in fine, hallucinogenic style by consuming the local yage. Two years later, returning to Peru, she keeps to the high ground, trekking through the Andes with a group of guides (her sexual advances rebuffed), avoiding Shining Path guerillas, and severely testing her stamina. Yet this romp is nothing compared to her next journey, to Nepal. After arriving in Kathmandu, Vega hires a guide for a treacherous climb through the Himalayas. Twice plunging ahead of her sullenly uncooperative companion, she finds herself on perilous outcroppings. Determined to avoid a group of obnoxious tourists, she crosses a 17,000-foot pass during a snowstorm. Cropping up at odd intervals are discussions about female energy, Vega's sexual intensity and evaluations of her consorts' talents, and other arcana that are treated with such brevity (there's a one-sentence account of a miscarriage in a bathroom) that the reader can't care. While Vega's is a likable voice, her narrative never rises above the self-indulgent, unfocused standard that seems to have become the norm for the recent outpouring of travel adventures. -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",biographies & memoirs;books;earth sciences;education & reference;geography;politics & social sciences;reference;religion & spirituality;religious studies;research & publishing guides;science & math;spirituality;theology;travel;travel writing;women's studies;writing,17 B00006LDW8,"Texas Gardener Texas Gardener is a bimonthly (six times a year) magazine that provides practical, how-to information on all aspects of gardening in the Lone Star State. We cover vegetable, flower, fruit, herbs and landscaping with an emphasis on using native and adapted plants and proven organic techniques and products that are both effective and good for the environment. Our experienced and knowledgeable cadre of gardening experts and writers will help you garden more successfully under our tough Texas conditions. Texas Gardener is a bimonthly (six times a year) magazine that provides practical, how-to information on all aspects of gardening in the Lone Star State. We cover vegetable, flower, fruit, herbs and landscaping with an emphasis on using native and adapted plants and proven organic techniques and products that are both effective and good for the environment. Our experienced and knowledgeable cadre of gardening experts and writers will help you garden more successfully under our tough Texas conditions.",agricultural sciences;biological & natural sciences;east;east south central;gardening & horticulture;home & garden;magazine subscriptions;professional & trade;regional;regions;science & technology;south;southeast;states;texas;travel & regional;united states,17 0826335365,"G-Dog and the Homeboys: Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los Angeles This is an updated edition of the story of the gang scene in East L.A. and Father Gregory Boyle's innovative ministry and economic development efforts in the area. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Celeste Fremon is a freelance journalist living in Los Angeles. She has retained close ties with Father Greg Boyle, Homeboy Industries, and the East L.A. Pico neighborhood residents.",biographies & memoirs;books;children's books;christian books & bibles;education & reference;ethnic & national;hispanic & latino;hispanic american studies;leaders & notable people;ministry;ministry & church leadership;politics & social sciences;religious;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;urban,17 0786714417,"Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK Starred Review. There has been a long hiatus in significant books on the JFK assassination since Gerald Posner's Case Closed argued in 1993 that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Posner took the CIA's lack of involvement for granted, and that, according to this mammoth and painstakingly researched account, was a big mistake. It is Waldron and Hartmann's (The Edison Gene) contentionbolstered by access to many previously unavailable files, and interviews with little-known as well as prominent figuresthat the CIA knew a great deal about the assassination. But the agency couldn't admit what it knew because that could uncover the existence of a U.S. plan for a coup in Cuba, run by JFK's brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy. The assassination, say the authors, was carried out by hired gunmen on the orders of three noted Mafia dons whose lives were being made miserable by RFK's ruthless pursuitand these Mafia men knew about the planned invasion because they had worked with the CIA on previous efforts to topple Castro. Oswald, long a hidden CIA agent, was set up as the patsy, and it had always been Jack Ruby's job to eliminate him if he wasn't killed at the scene of Kennedy's shooting. How do the authors make their case? With a relentless accumulation of detail, a very thorough knowledge of every political and forensic detail and the broad perspective of historians rather than assassination theorists. They spend perhaps too much time with people they admire, like the late Enrique Ruiz Williams, who was a crucial early source for them. They also cannot resist chasing stories of only marginal relevance to their principal one, like what really happened to Che Guevara in Cuba. But no future historian of that tormented period in American history will be able to ignore their very convincing presentation, even if a lay reader may feel overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the evidence. Bw photos. Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Lamar Waldron's groundbreaking research has been cited in media outlets ranging from Vanity Fair and The New Republic to the History Channel and USA Today. His work has been acknowledged by authors such as Anthony Summers and Gus Russo, historians like Dr. John Newman and John H. Davis, and former goverment investigators Gaeton Fonzi and FBI veteran WIlliam Turner. Waldron received both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Georgia State University and lives in Atlanta.Thon Hartmann is the award-winning, best-selling author of fourteen books currently in print in over a dozen languages. An internationally known speaker, his most recent books are The Edison Gene, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Unequal Protection, We the People: A Call to take Back America, and What Would Jefferson Do? His nationally syndicated radio show is currently on Air America and Sirius Satellite Radio. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",20th century;americas;books;communication & media studies;essays;historical study & educational resources;history;holocaust;humanities;jewish;new;political science;politics & social sciences;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks;world,17 0521780403,"Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography ""No other introduction to lexicography outshines the limpid style of Dictionaries or the rich balance of its contents."" Journal of the Dictionary Society of America""Here is a new thing under the sun: a virtually exhaustive treatment of lexicography...should be required reading for all lexicographers and can be heartily recommended to everyone else who cares to know what dictionaries are like and how to use them to best advantage."" The Times Literary Supplement This second edition of Sidney I. Landau's landmark work offers a comprehensive and completely up-to-date description of how dictionaries are researched and written, with particular attention to the ways in which computer technology has changed modern lexicography. Landau has an insider's practical knowledge of making dictionaries and every feature of the dictionary is examined and explained. Written in a readable style, free of jargon and unnecessary technical language, it will appeal to readers with no specialist knowledge of the field, as well as to professional lexicographers.",art;books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;encyclopedias;history;humanities;language & grammar;library & information science;new;politics & social sciences;reference;semantics;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words,17 B000OT89EG,"Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader This valuable collection of forceful writings by an influential Native American leader is highly recommended for all academic libraries.Library Journal, March 15, 2003Ward Churchill has carved out a special place for himself in defending the rights of oppressed people, and exposing the dark side of past and current history, often forgotten, marginalized, or suppressed. These are achievements of inestimable value..Noam ChomskyWard Churchill is one of our most powerful chroniclers of Indian history-both of the sorry record of the United States government and the extraordinary resistance of the Indian people to policies of removal and annihilation. Each one of his books is an education in itself..Howard Zinn Ward Churchill is Professor and Associate Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has written scores of articles, along with eight books, including Agents of Repression and A Little Matter of Genocide. Three of his books have won the Gustavus Meyer Award for Human Rights.",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;civil rights & liberties;ethnic & national;history;kindle ebooks;kindle store;native american;native american studies;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;special groups;specific demographics;specific topics;united states,17 0415915317,"Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present Delamotte (English, Arizona State Univ.), Jean O'Barr (director of women's studies, Duke Univ.), and Natania Meeker, a Duke graduate student, have compiled an impressive collection of women's writings through the ages. The book is organized into six sections: Sexuality, Spirituality, and Power; Work and Education; Representing Women; Writing the Body Politic; Identifying Sources of Resistance; and Vision and Transformation. The collection presents writings ranging from Sumangalamata, a Buddhist nun (sixth century B.C.E.) to a section from the ""Platform for Action"" of the Beijing Conference in 1995. Also very useful are indexes by geographical location and chronology, since women from 40 countries are included. This will make an excellent reader for survey classes on world history as well as women's history and studies. Highly recommended for high school and academic libraries.?Sharon Firestone, Ross-Blakley Law Lib., Arizona State Univ., TempeCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. One has difficulty imagining anyone not being impressed by this prodigious volume. It is a perfect book for a women's studies class, particularly because of its unusualy broad range, and a book many undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty will wish to read from cover to cover. -- ChoiceThe editors have collected a remarkable range of writings from more than 100 women from 40 countries, spanning almost 2,600 years. General readers as well as scholars will be absorbed by the poems, journal entries, letters between friends, speeches, fictional accounts, and personal observations...We leave these pages with the inspiration that comes from knowing that women have resisted oppression for over two millenia. Now we can plot our future--by borrowing from our past. -- Ms. Magazine[A]n impressive collection of women's writings through the ages...This will make an excellent reader for survey classes on world history as well as women's history and studies. Highly recommended for high school and academic libraries. -- Library JournalWomen Imagine Change is a seminal contribution to the literature on women and social change. DeLamotte, Meeker, and O'Barr demonstrate great sensitivity, sophistication, and political savvy in their selection of narratives, organization of the volume, and commentaries on the book's central themes. Grounded in women's lived experience, which it neither trivializes or romanticizes, Women Imagine Change is a great monument to women's resistance. -- Amrita Basu, Amherst CollegeThis is an incredibly ambitious collection of women's aspirations for social change, across ages, lands, and cultures. The collection represents the very latest and most probing apporoaches to gender and history, in a thoroughly accessible way, through the clear and diverse voices of women across world history. -- Ellen DuBois, co-editor of Unequal SistersBridging centuries, continents and cultures, this volume is a wonderful testament to women's resistance to the limitations of gendered worlds. It belongs in every library and on every woman's bookshelf. -- Susan McGee Bailey, Executive Director, The Wellesley Centers for WomenA formidable volume that dares to take on the whole world and covers more than 2000 years of history. -- National Women's Studies JournalThey're all here--Sappho, Christine de Pizan, Fatima Mernissi, Alexander Kollentai. But they are only the tip of this astounding feminist historical iceberg. Here in one volume, each speaking with first person immediacy and intimacy, are theorizing activist women from dozens of cultures, across two millenia. Japanese, Senegalese, Bengali, English, African American, Russian women analyzing and strategizing. Here are women you've read about but need to re-read, women who you've meant to read and then all the women thinkers who you haven't even relized--till now--that you must read. -- Cynthia Enloe, author of Does Khaki Still Become You?This book is accessible, broad in scope, and at once clear in its editorial rationale. The authors provide a feminist reader; this work is not simply a collection of stories about women. It is a collection that shows how throughout history women's resources have been exploited by the patriarchy, exercising power over their lives. -- Journal of Popular Culture Eugenia C. DeLamotte is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. Her publications include Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic (1990). Natania Meeker is a doctoral candidate at Duke University and has published on feminist theory. University. Jean F. O'Barr is the Director of Women's Studies at Duke University. Her many books include the edited collection Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques (1996).",books;civil rights;education & reference;feminist theory;gay & lesbian;gender studies;history;language & grammar;new;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;rhetoric;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks;women's studies;words,17 0883635100,"Diving the World: (Underwater) Photography by Norbert Wu ...[filled] with iridescent underwater images, as well as several landscapes and aerials, from all corners of the globe. -- American Photographer...a synopsis of Wu's productive and well-traveled career. The text offers more than captions...providing brief stories...and biographical segments. -- California Wild Magazine, Summer 2004Beautifully illustrated and packed full of must-dive destinations, it is an excellent guide for finding your new favorite locale. -- Sport Diver Magazine (PADI Diving Society)Beautifully packaged and produced, this impressive...book appeals to diving enthusiasts, naturalists, conservationists, boaters, and anyone captivated by the sea. -- Water's Edge Magazine, Aug-Sept 2004Undoubtedly one of the finest underwater photographers in the world...Wu showcases his abilities to dazzling effect here. -- Library JournalWu has the unique ability to capture the mood and personality--whether whimsical or fearsome--of his subjects. -- Undercurrent MagazineWu's photographs are remarkable in every way.... McAlpine's text...is a thoughtful, intriguing, informed commentary... -- Islands Magazine",adventure;arts & photography;books;equipment;marine life;nature & ecology;nature & wildlife;oceans & seas;photography;science & math;scuba;scuba diving;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;techniques & reference;travel;water sports,17 0803232284,"The Trial of ""Indian Joe"": Race and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century West (Law in the American West) McKanna very skillfully weaves the extensive trial transcript into a highly readable narrative while at the same time injecting very interesting information on capital punishment, juries, judges, and even the literary treatment of Indians. . . . This is high-quality history at its evidential best.John R. Wunder, author of Retained by the People: A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights (John R. Wunder) ""McKanna very skillfully weaves the extensive trial transcript into a highly readable narrative while at the same time injecting very interesting information on capital punishment, juries, judges, and even the literary treatment of Indians. . . . This is high-quality history at its evidential best.""John R. Wunder, author of Retained by the People: A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights. On the night of 16 October 1892, a double homicide occurred on Otay Mesa in San Diego County near the Mexican border. The two victims were an elderly couple, John and Wilhelmina Geyser, who lived on a farm on the edge of the mesa. Within minutes of discovering the crime, neighbors subdued and tied up the alleged killer, Jos Gabriel, a sixty-year-old itinerant Native American handyman from El Rosario, California, who worked for the couple. Since Gabriel was apprehended at the scene, most presumed his guilt. The local press, prosecutors, witnesses, and jurors called him by the epithet ""Indian Joe."" The sensational murder trial of Gabriel highlights the legal injustices committed against Native Americans in the nineteenth century. During this time, California Native Americans could not vote or serve on juries, so from the outset Gabriel was unlikely to receive a fair trial. No motive for murder was established, and the evidence against Gabriel was inconclusive. Nonetheless, the case went forward. Drawing on court testimony and newspaper accounts, Clare V. McKanna Jr. traces the murder trial: the handling of the case by the prosecution, the defense, the jury, and the judge; an examination of the crime scene; and the imaging of ""Indian Joe."" Through his considerable research, McKanna sheds light on a dark time in the American legal system. Clare V. McKanna Jr. (19352012) was a lecturer in history and American Indian Studies at San Diego State University. He is the author of Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 18801920 and Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California.",19th century;americas;books;criminal law;history;humanities;law;modern (16th-21st centuries);native american;native american studies;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,17 1932159134,"Dynamic Scheduling With Microsoft Project 2002: The Book by and for Professionals Eric Uyttewaal is Vice President of Microsoft Project Certification at the International Institute for Learning, an internationally recognized learning organization and leader in the field of project management. Eric is a best-selling author and a project management practitioner. Over the past 15 years, he has managed many projects using Microsoft Project and he has taught thousands of people in its use. Eric was the first Canadian certified in Ms Project by Microsoft and he was certified as a Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;home computing & how-to;management & leadership;microsoft;microsoft project;new;operating systems;pmp exam;project;project management;software;used & rental textbooks,17 0813026970,"Green Empire: The St. Joe Company and the Remaking of Florida's Panhandle ""A persuasive call to citizens and government to insist upon a greater public interest."" -- Tallahassee Democrat, June 6, 2004""A thought-provoking look at an unfolding chapter in the history of a state and country."" -- H-Net, May 2004""Does not whitewash over the reasons the company is controversial today, and yet it does not read as a diatribe."" -- E-Streams, August 2004...what some might call a First World political economy and political ecology. -- The Professional Geographer, February 2005A lively and well-researched narrative... -- Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 83, No 3A masterful, bold, and compelling account. -- Southeastern Naturalist, Issue 4/1 2005Anyone concerned with land use and growth management, Floridas fragile wildlife and natural resources will learn a great deal... -- The Polish American Journal, January 2005Highly recommended. -- Choice, October 2004 Vol. 42, No. 2More than just a story of recent and projected change in this neglected region... -- The Professional Geographer, February 2005 Green Empire has implications far beyond Florida's panhandle. The book reminds us that throughout much of America. the fates of open landscapes are intricately tied to the missions of the people and corporations that own the land.--Bloomsbury ReviewA groundbreaker in Florida's environmental history. . . . Should be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the history and future of development in Florida and elsewhere.--Gulf South Historical ReviewA persuasive call to citizens and government to insist upon a greater public interest.--Tallahassee Democrat Since the Great Depression, the St. Joe Company (formerly the St. Joe Paper Company) has been Florida's largest landowner, a forestry and transportation conglomerate whose influence has been commensurate with its holdings. The company owns nearly one million acres, mainly in northwestern Florida, where undeveloped coastal and riverside landscapes boast some of the state's most scenic and ecologically diverse areas. For 60 years, the company focused on growing trees, turning them into paper, and managing its ancillary businesses. In the late 1990s, the company shifted directions: it sold its paper mill, changed its name, and launched a concerted drive to turn its natural-resource assets into greater profits. Today the St. Joe Company is a critical and fiscally powerful force in the real-estate development of northwest Florida, with access to the most influential people in government. Based on hundreds of sources--including company executives, board members, and investors, as well as outside observers--this factual and balanced history describes the St. Joe Company from the days of its founders to the workings and dealings of its present-day heirs. For anyone concerned with land use and growth management, particularly those with an interest in Florida's fragile wildlife and natural resources, Green Empire will illuminate the issues surrounding the relationship between one of the most ambitious players in Florida's real-estate market and the state's last frontier.\ Kathryn Ziewitz is an environmental writer whose work has appeared in Sierra, Florida Naturalist, and High County News. She has served as director of the St. Andrews Project, a grassroots effort to revitalize a waterfront community in Panama City, and she is currently a high school teacher in Bay County, Florida.June Wiaz has worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her most recent writing includes a chapter in The Book of the Everglades.",americas;books;business & investing;civil;conservation;economics;engineering;environmental economics;history;nature & ecology;popular economics;professional & technical;real estate;sales;science & math;state & local;united states,17 0814707149,"The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father Scholars whose interests include the political, diplomatic, and economics aspects of the early republic will find these works rewarding additions to their reading.-Journal of the Early Republic,This book . . . achiev[es] a badly needed analysis of Hamilton's impact on his and later times.-The Historian,Talleyrand, who was acquainted with all of the statesmen of Europe, once remarked that he had never encountered anyone equal to Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton may, in fact, have been the greatest of the American Founding Fathers. He was certainly one of the most important. Despite this, he has rarely been given his due. This superb collection of essays goes a considerable distance towards redressing the balance and towards restoring an American statesman to the central place that he occupied in his own time.-Paul A. Rahe,author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American RevolutionHere are many fresh thoughts by many of the most innovative scholars at work on Alexander Hamilton today. Every student of the new republic and many general readers who are captivated by the subject will want to read this volume.-Lance Banning,author of Conceived in Liberty: The Struggle to Define the New Republic, 1789-1793-, Douglas Ambrose is Sidney Wertimer, Jr. associate professor of history at Hamilton College, in Clinton, New York. He is the author of Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South.Robert W. T. Martin is associate professor of government at Hamilton College and author of The Free and Open Press (NYU Press, 2001).",( h );a-z;alexander;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;hamilton;historical;history;humanities;leaders & notable people;new;people;political;revolution & founding;united states;used & rental textbooks,17 0300072759,"What Americans Know about Politics and Why It Matters The American public's cynical attitude toward politics is much discussed, but what do Americans really know about politics? Two political scientists provide a detailed examination of who knows what, how much, and why it matters in American politics. Employing survey data of Americans for a nearly 50-year period and utilizing sophisticated statistical techniques, Delli Carpini (Barnard Coll.) and Keeter (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.) find that, while Americans are not as knowledgeable as they should be, they are not completely ignorant of politics and that the level of political knowledge has remained virtually unchanged over 40 years. Among the authors' other major findings: women, African Americans, the poor, and the young tend to be less politically knowledgeable than the rest of the population; and people with higher levels of motivation and skills tend to be better educated about politics. This excellent study places its quantitative research in the context of thoughtful and significant discussions of democratic theory. Recommended for political science students at all levels.?Thomas J. Baldino, Wilkes Univ., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",americas;books;civil rights;civil rights & liberties;education & reference;government;history;humanities;national;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;united states;used & rental textbooks,17 0415938791,"The Importance of Being Lazy: In Praise of Play, Leisure, and Vacation 'The Importance of Being Lazy solidifies Al Gini's reputation as a leading philosopher of contemporary American culture.' - Ronald M. Green, Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College, USA 'Finally - a book written around the thesis that ""doing nothing"" is one of life's necessities!' - Publishers Weekly 'Gini is so persuasive I kept putting the book down to go play!' - Chicago Tribune Al Gini is a Philosophy Professor at Loyola University Chicago and a member of Loyola's Institute of Human Resources and Industrial Relations. He is the co-founder and Associate Editor of the journal Business Ethics Quarterly and the author of Why IT's Hard to Be Good(Routledge).",americas;books;fitness & dieting;health;historical study & educational resources;history;history & surveys;humanities;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;popular culture;psychology & counseling;social history;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks,17 1896522432,Beatles Undercover with CD (Audio) Kristofer K Engelhardt,arts & literature;arts & photography;beatles;bibliographies & indexes;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;entertainers;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;music;musical genres;pop culture;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;rock;writing,17 0745620795,"The Stakeholding Society: Writings on Politics and Economics 'Will Hutton believes that economic activity and decisions should be made compatible with the well-being of human society by using the power of democracy. His special talent is to explain lucidly why that should happen, to show rationally how it can happen, and to do both tirelessly. The Stakeholding Society proves that again. Other political and economic commentators provide analysis. Hutton offers real answers too.' Neil Kinnock, European Commissioner, Leader of the Labour Party 1983-92 'Will Hutton belongs to the great tradition of the scholar-journalist. His range is extraordinarily wide; his writing is fresh and hard-hitting; above all, he has a marvellous capacity to make unexpected connections and provoke new thinking. Hutton is a pathfinder in the world-wide search for a new political economy marrying the dynamism of the capitalist market economy with the core social-democratic values of justice and solidarity. This book is an important signpost to a new left-of-centre politics.' Professor David Marquand, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford'Will Hutton's The State We're In has had more influence on the policy debate than any other book published in the 1990s, challenging the assumptions of the Thatcher era and helping to shape a new climate. The essays and articles contained in The Stakeholding Society take the argument an exciting stage further. Readable, rigorous, bursting with the intellectual energy that is Hutton's hallmark as a journalist and thinker, this book will stimulate and infuriate and become-in its turn -a catalyst for change.' Ben Pimlott, Warden of Goldsmith's College, London'Will Hutton is the authentic intellectual voice of the British left. Anyone interested in the ideas which are shaping the transformation of Thatcherism into Blair's new Britain should read this book.' Anatole Kaletsky, The Times 'The Stakeholding Society elegantly showcases Hutton's not inconsiderable skills as the informed journalist ... Hutton's work has the rare qualities of passion and thoughtful reason. His popularity as an accessible advocate of profound change in capitalism ... is highly recognisable from this collection.' International Journal of Employment Studies For over a decade Will Hutton has been one of Britain's leading progressive voices. He has been at the centre of every significant economic and political debate that has reshaped and reimagined the British centre-left: the mounting calls for a. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. For over a decade Will Hutton has been one of Britain's leading progressive voices. He has been at the centre of every significant economic and political debate that has reshaped and reimagined the British centre-left: the mounting calls for a democratic constitutional settlement, the criticisms of the short-termism of the domestic and international financial systems, the idea of a stakeholding society. In The State We're In he combined all three in a passionate and powerful diagnosis of Britain's problems and the possibility of a just and democratic renewal.This collection brings together the full range of Hutton's work as a journalist, pamphleteer and essayist, advocate and critic, and shows the spectrum of issues with which he has engaged. Yet Hutton has remained true to his best journalistic instincts. He has proved to be not only an acute thinker but an engaged writer and effective popularizer.Brought together, his work over the last ten years represents the emergence of a new politics and new political imagination in Britain. Founded on a coherent critique of neo-liberal economic orthodoxy and monetarist practice, and a sophisticated reassessment of neo-Keynesianism, Hutton has put the politics back into political economy. The case he makes for new economic institutions, the regulation of global capital markets, the refounding of British industry, has always been matched by the complementary requirements of a new politics which is consensual, democratic, open and innovative and which must be pursued as much in Brussels and the regions and nations of the UK as at Westminster. Will Hutton is Editor in Chief of The Observer. He is one of Britian's most distinguished journalists and the author of The State We're In (1995, Vintage) and The State to Come (1997, Vintage).",books;business & finance;business & investing;business development;development & growth;economic conditions;economics;elections & political process;general;international & world politics;international relations;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,17 0271019611,"Voices from the Gulag: Life and Death in Communist Bulgaria Tzvetan Todorov, a Bulgarian-born French philosopher, studied the phenomenon of the concentration camps in totalitarian societies from the detached point of view of the historian and social scientist he is, with as much objectivity as is possible for a normal mind. Taking for example the death camp in Lovech, he used personal accounts by former prisoners and guards in books and interviews published soon after the fall of Communist dictator Zhivkov, or included in the overwhelming 1990 documentary film The Survivors (Stories from the Camps) by director Atanas Kiryakov. The value of Todorov's book is not so much as a sinister chronicle of atrocities by psychopaths empowered to dispose of their fellow men's lives. What is impressive is his analysis of the reasons for and nature of such abominable practices. His chilling conclusion is that they were not an exception, not an aberration, but an inherent part of the entire system, a conditio sine qua non institutionalized by the regime. --Stephane Groueff, Boston Book ReviewPainful questions will keep disturbing the nation's conscience, begging for right solutions. But when the civilized world probes them in the future, our children and grandchildren will at least be able to turn to books such as this, as a proof that the martyrs were not totally forgotten. --Stephane Groueff, Boston Book ReviewPainful questions will keep disturbing the nation's conscience, begging for right solutions. But when the civilized world probes them in the future, our children and grandchildren will at least be able to turn to books such as this, as a proof that the martyrs were not totally forgotten. --Stephane Groueff, Boston Book Review Born in Sofia, Tzvetan Todorov left Bulgaria in the early 1960s and moved to Paris, where he established himself as a literary theorist, historian of ideas, and world-renowned essayist. He is a director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the author of numerous books. Several of these have been translated into English, including: Facing the Extreme (Holt, 1996), A French Tragedy (New England, 1996), On Human Diversity (Harvard, 1993), and The Conquest of America (HarperCollins, 1984). Robert D. Zaretsky is an Associate Professor at the University of Houston where he holds a joint appointment in the Honors College and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. He is the author of Nimes at War: Religion, Politics, and Public Opinion in the Department of the Gard, 1938-94 (Penn State, 1995), which won the 1997 Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.",biographies & memoirs;books;bulgaria;criminology;eastern;education & reference;ethnic & national;europe;historical;history;human rights;ireland;irish;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics,17 0201608219,"Songs Of The Fluteplayer: Seasons Of Life In The Southwest Russell, who teaches writing at Western New Mexico University, here recounts her life in southwest New Mexico's Mimbres Valley, where she and her husband moved in 1981. While writing of the men and women who run modern-day trading posts and of the wars between ranchers and environmentalists in the Gila National Forest, she explores her desire for self-sufficiency and freedom from convention--ideals she finds symbolized by a mythical, prehistoric flute player whose humpbacked image adorns pottery and rock walls throughout the American Southwest. We see the couple build their own adobe house, learn to irrigate their land, grow their own food, and Russell give birth to her children at home. But the family soon begins to compromise: they hire illegal aliens to finish the house, they give up the garden, they install a flush toilet. Modest in scope, these essays say much about the difficulty of maintaining an alternate lifestyle. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Russell's well-written essays describe her life as an urban immigrant to the rural Southwest (New Mexico's Mimbreno Valley). The Southwest as she finds it has been sparsely repopulated by retirees and other escapees from urban life. The land is also colored by itinerant Mexican workers, who stay sometimes for days, sometimes for months, but who usually disappear without word. Traces of Native Americans remain in the relics, pot shards, and tourist ""trading posts"" that Russell and her husband discover around them. As all southwesterners must, Russell carefully observes the forces of land and water that have unique importance in southwestern American life. Her writing is careful and honest and her observations are wise. For public libraries.- Tim Zindel, San FranciscoCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ""Russell's well-written essays describe her life as an urban immigrant to the rural Southwest. . . . Her writing is careful and honest and her observations are wise.""Library Journal (Library Journal)""A fine contribution to the literature of the modern American Southwest and 'constructed' lifestyles. . . . Russell's candor about reality versus dream is refreshing as she recounts their loss of naivet. . . . She achieves just the right mix of fact and metaphor, humor and poetics.""Booklist (Booklist)""A lovely little book. To be kept and read and read again.""Tony Hillerman (Tony Hillerman) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Sharman Apt Russell is the author of several books, including Hunger and Songs of the Fluteplayer, which won the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award. She has written for publications including Discover and Nature Conservancy, and currently contributes to OnEarth, the magazine for the National Resource Defense Council. Russell teaches creative writing at Western New Mexico University and at Antioch University in Los Angeles, California. She lives in Silver City, New Mexico.",americas;anthropology;biographies & memoirs;books;cultural;history;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;regional u.s.;sociology;specific groups;state & local;united states;west;women;women writers;women's studies,17 0415164753,"Rethinking Health Promotion: A Global Approach The differences in cultural values...and the implications for health promotion are a potentially fascinating field study. This author is to be congratulated for opening the door on that possibility....Health Promotion Practice, April 2000...insightful text.Philadelphia New Observer, Nov 25, 1998 Theodore H. MacDonald is Professor and Director of Postgraduate Studies in Health at Brunel University. He is a Chartered Psychologist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and Consultant to the World Health Organisation (Eastern Mediterranean Region).",administration & medicine economics;administration & policy;books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;health care delivery;hospital administration;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;public health;social services & welfare;used & rental textbooks,17 0201310074,"The Java Tutorial: Object-Oriented Programming for the Internet (2nd Edition) Some of the best sources for learning Java are online. The Java Tutorial, Second Edition is an updated compilation of online resources from the JavaSoft Web site, edited for clarity. This guide gives you the advantage of having all you need to learn Java in one book (and includes a CD-ROM).The authors organize the book's sections around lessons and trails (which correspond to online tutorials). Beginners will find the sections on running simple Java applications and applets and on the nuts and bolts of the Java programming language especially useful. However, there is plenty of expertise here for the Java expert. (Because this is all official JavaSoft material, it gives excellent perspective on the ideal use of Java--100 percent pure programming that runs on all hardware platforms.) For example, the sections on using the JavaStream classes present some hard-to-find material on memory streams and pipes.Additional topics discuss how to get around the basics of creating user interfaces with AWT classes (though this is less useful because most programmers will use a Java compiler that handles the details of inner classes and adapters for them). Chapters on graphics programming benefit both beginners and experts and include a great explanation of image filters and animation techniques.Some of the niftiest stuff in The Java Tutorial is presented in the sections on network programming in Java, with a clear explanation of reading and writing to URLs and working with sockets. (These capabilities are all built in to Java, and this tutorial shows you how to execute them.) The book finishes up with a discussion of new features in JDK 1.2--still under development--and with the printed source code for all the examples in the book. This book makes a good argument that print still has its advantages. You'd spend hours digging up the relevant tutorials online. --Richard V. Dragan Since the release of the JDK 1.0.2 in May of 1996, the Java engineering team has been hard at work improving and enhancing the Java platform. We have been similarly laboring to update The Java Tutorial to reflect the work of the engineers. From the first page to the last, this edition now documents the APIs in JDK 1.1. We have fully integrated JDK 1.1 updates into the text, plus we've added coverage of some of the new features of 1.1 such as the new AWT event model, object serialization, and inner classes. We also added a new trail to the end of the book that provides a summary of what changed for 1.1, information to help you decide when to convert 1.0 programs to 1.1, and instructions about how to perform the conversion. And finally we've included a preview of what's likely to come in the next major release of the JDK. Yet, this edition of The Java Tutorial is more than just an update of the previous edition. It's more polished and mature. We have rewritten, clarified, and reorganized many areas of the book based on feedback from readers and reviewers. Like the first edition, this book is based on the online tutorial hosted at the Java Web site.At that time, it contained a few basic lessons on writing applets, the fundamentals of the language itself, and some key classes. Since then, the tutorial has grown to over 10MB of HMTL files, images, and running programs. It contains dozens of lessons covering topics ranging from applet communication to security, from internationalization to JavaBeansTM. We are constantly updating the online version of the tutorial to cover new APIs developed by the engineering team. Like the online version, this book reflects the latest Java advances. However, unlike the online version, page count limits what this book can cover. Hence, it focuses on the Java APIs needed by most beginning to intermediate Java programmers. If you don't find information in this book about part of the Java platform, check our Web site for it. From the online tutorial to the first edition, and from the first edition to the second, our intent has always been to create a fun, easy-to-read, task-oriented programmer's guide with lots of practical examples to help people learn to program in Java. Who Should Read This Book? This tutorial assumes that you have some programming experience, whether it be traditional procedural programming or object-oriented programming, and are familiar with programming tenets and terminology and at least one high-level language. All Java programmers--novice and experienced alike--can benefit from this book. The first section begins with an overview of the Java platform and what it can help you do. It then presents two Java programs--one application and one applet--and shows you how to compile and run both. Finally, it describes how they work. From this hands-on beginning, you can follow your own course of learning: New programmers can benefit most by reading the book from beginning to end, including the beginning material on object-oriented concepts, the standard features of the Java language, and the object-oriented features of the Java language. Programmers experienced with procedural languages such as C may wish to skip the section that describes the standard features of Java and start with the material on object-oriented concepts and the object-oriented features of Java. Experienced object programmers may want to jump feet first into more advanced trails, such as those on applets, essential classes, or UIs. No matter what type of programmer you are, you can find a path through this book that fits your learning requirements. What You Need This book documents the JDK 1.1 release of the Java platform. To compile and run the examples in this book you need a development environment that is compatible with JDK 1.1. You can use a commercially-available Java development environment or you can use the JDK itself. You can use the version of JDK 1.1 that's on the CD-ROM accompanying this book.For testing applets, you can use a special limited browser called the Applet Viewer that ships with the JDK. For information about the browsers that are currently available and support 1.Also, the editor must allow you to specify both uppercase and lowercase letters in the filename. Acknowledgments For the Second Edition of the Tutorial Many Internet readers have helped us maintain and improve the quality of the tutorial by sending us e-mail and cheerfully pointing out our numerous typos, broken links, and more importantly, areas of the tutorial that caused confusion or could benefit from rewriting. Many members of the Java engineering and documentation team have given us counsel, answered our many questions, reviewed our material, and even made contributions to it. They also make JavaSoft a fun place to work. The list is long but we'd particularly like to note the contributions of Brian Beck, Joshua Bloch, David Connelly, Chris Darke, Bill Foote, Carol Hayes, Herb Jellinek, Doug Kramer, Marianne Mueller, Marla Parker, Mark Reinhold, John Rose, John Wegis, and Beth Whitman. Kathy would like to thank all the members of the Swing engineering team for being such a great group to work with. And, notably, Ron Mandel, who kept our Macs and PCs operating in a mostly Sun environment. We are grateful for the other writers at Sun who have contributed to the online tutorial as guest authors. So far this list of professional and talented writers includes Mary Dageforde, Andy Quinn, Beth Stearns, and Greg Voss. The Java language wouldn't exist without its creator, James Gosling. We'd like to thank James, not only for creating the language but also for staying involved as the Java platform develops. On a personal note, we'd like to thank him for accepting an award for us from JavaWorld (who named the tutorial as one of three finalists in the Best Training Aid category). Our team managers, Lisa Friendly, Rick Levenson, and Stans Kleijnen, create a work environment that lets us get our job done. We especially appreciate their support of flexible, if a bit unusual, work arrangements. Mike Hendrickson, our editorial advisor at Addison-Wesley, is always a calming influence and keeps us on schedule. Sarah Weaver was the production manager on the book and Laura Michaels was our copy editor and grammar queen. The whole team at Addison-Wesley have been a pleasure to work with and continually strive for excellence on this and the other books in the series. Our heartfelt appreciation goes to the newest member of the tutorial team, Alison Huml, who calmly and professionally managed this edition of the book. She managed our schedule, handled the relationship with the copy editor, incorporated copy edits, drew or fixed many diagrams and images in the book, and handled all of the PC and Mac file conversions--all within the first month of working with us. Alison provides us with a fresh perspective and renewed energy. We look forward to her contributions to future book projects and to the online version of the tutorial. For the First Edition of the Tutorial Of course, the Java team made everything possible by creating Java in the first place. But many individuals contributed to getting this book out the door. A million thanks go to the Java team members who answered questions, reviewed material, and in some cases, contributed examples--all of this in the face of tight deadlines: Thomas Ball, Brenda Bowden, David Brown, Patrick Chan, Tom Chavez, David Connelly, Pavani Diwanji, Amy Fowler, Jim Graham, Herb Jellinek, Jonni Kanerva, Doug Kramer, Eugene Kuerner, Tim Lindholm, Ron Mandel, Henry McGilton, Marianne Mueller, Scott Rautmann, Benjamin Renaud, Hassan Schroeder, Richard Scorer, Sami Shaio, Arthur van Hoff, Frank Yellin, and Steve Zellers. Painful though they may have been, the feedback our reviewers provided us was invaluable. These reviewers were Mike Ballantyne, Richard Campione, Lee Collins, Greg Crisp, Matt Fahrner, Murali Ghanta, Bill Harts, Eileen Head, Murali Murugan, Roberto Quijalvo, Philip Resnik, Roger Riggs, Roman Rorat, Neil Sundaresan, Michael Weiss, the ones who preferred to remain anonymous, and all of the Internet readers who were kind enough to take the time to send us e-mail to let us know of problem areas. Chris Warth spent several weeks writing scripts and filters to convert our complex web of HTML pages into MIF format. He was most patient with us despite our demands and changes. Marsh Chamberlain designed and created our trail icons, and Jan Kaerrman provided us with the html2ps script, which we used to create PostScript files from HTML and print our first review copy of the manuscript. Nathan Walrath created the figure in the Trail Map section. When we both went on maternity leave after giving the book to Addison-Wesley, Randy Nelson served as our backup, taking care of the CD-ROM and the Web site for the tutorial. The staff at Addison-Wesley--Mike Hendrickson, Katie Duffy, Pamela Yee, and Marty Rabinowitz--were professional, competent, and courteous throughout the development of this book and provided us with guidance, encouragement, and instruction. They also managed the practical things like copy editing, page design, graphics, and reviewers so that all we had to do was worry about content. Lisa Friendly, the Java Series editor, our manager, and our friend, made this book possible by suggesting that we turn the online tutorial into a book. She kept us calm, reassured us often, and managed everything, from our relationship with Addison-Wesley to consistency with other books in the series. Without her encouragement and hard work, this tutorial would not exist. About the Dedication Mary: This book is dedicated to my husband, Richard Campione, for being my greatest friend. It's also dedicated to Sophia, a delightful child and a constant reminder of what's truly important. Kathy: This book is dedicated to my husband, Nathan Walrath, and to our children, Laine and Cosmo. Nathan has done whatever it takes to help me write this book, from distracting kids to dispensing advice and art criticism. Laine and Cosmo are not old enough to help--quite the opposite--but like their dad, they sure are fun. 0201310074P04062001 Third Editionnow available! Follow your own path to expertise with this self-guided tour of the Java programming language. Written by two members of the JavaSoft team at Sun Microsystems, the book employs a hands-on interactive approach to teaching Java basics, object-oriented concepts, applet programming, and everything else you need to know to become a proficient Java programmer. Through a task-oriented, example-driven approach, The Java Tutorial introduces you to fundamental concepts and applications. Designed so that you can customize your own path through the specific information you need, the book explains the nuts and bolts of the language, applet construction, and the fundamental Java classes. You will also learn about more advanced topics such as creating a graphical user interface (GUI), using multiple threads, and working with Java's networking capabilities. This Second Edition has been extensively updated to cover API changes in Java 1.1 regarding UI, networking, and I/O, and to include the latest Java language developments. New and updated material includes: * receiving broadcasts using a multicast socket * new I/O features, including character streams and object serialization * the latest developments in applet tags * using the 1.1 AWT event system * new language features, such as nested classes * tips for writing 100% Pure Java programs * updating 1.0 programs to use the 1.1 API In addition, the Second Edition has been revised and reorganized to offer a stronger and more cohesive presentation, making this best-selling and award-winning book even better. The Tutorial now starts with a new lesson that introduces you to the Java phenomenon and provides a foundation for understanding the rest of the book. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the Tutorial and all its code samples, versions of the Java Development Kit (JDK) and the JDK documentation for each major platform, and the HotJava Browser. On the CD, the HTML version of the book is browser-friendly and contains information not found in the printed text, such as draft lessons on internationalizing Java programs, calling non-Java libraries from Java programs, using the security API, developing JavaBeans components, and using the GUI components in the Swing/JFC package. 0201310074B04062001 Mary Campione was formerly a senior technical writer at Sun Microsystems, where she started writing about the Java platform in 1995. Mary graduated from California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo, with a B.S. in Computer Science and has worked as both a technical writer and programmer. Kathy Walrath is a senior technical writer on the Swing team at Sun Microsystems. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kathy wrote extensively about Unix, Mach, and NextStep. Since 1993, Kathy has been writing specifications and how-to guides for the Java platform. 0201310074AB11062003",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;java;languages & tools;mathematics;networking;new;object-oriented design;programming;programming languages;science & math;software;software design;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,17 1857990625,"Wilder Shores of Love Their true stories, first told grippingly by Blanch in 1954, are amazing...makes you realise that we, with our wimpish long-haul packages and compulsory travel insurance, don't know we're born. -- Val Hennessy DAILY MAIL --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Lesley Blanch was born in London and has travelled over most of the globe. Her essays and articles have appeared in many of Britain's leading periodicals, including the Observer and the New Statesman. She now lives in France.",19th century;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;essays;essays & correspondence;history;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;specific groups;travel;travel writing;women;women's studies;writing,17 0521429013,"Theatre in Spain, 1490-1700 This is the first book to examine the rise of Spain's extraordinary national theatre in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in all its aspects - the commercial theatre, the court drama and the Corpus autos, the organisation of theatrical life, the playhouses themselves and their public, the literary and moral controversies, and the plays as literary texts.",arts & photography;books;continental european;drama;europe;european;history;humanities;humor & entertainment;literature;literature & fiction;new;performing arts;spain;theater;used & rental textbooks;world literature,17 087486903X,"Six Months to Live : Learning from a Young Man with Cancer Matt Gauger, the subject of this slim, poignant book, suddenly found himself dying of cancer at age 22. Hallock gives readers an intimate account of events, beginning with the robust, athletic young man's descent into unmanageable pain, followed by a serious diagnosis and months of reckoning with end-of-life issues. The text features long quotations from interviews with and diaries of those closest to Gauger among them his wife, parents, brother and doctor and in doing so paints the emotional, spiritual and physical landscape within which this drama unfolded. Hallock admirably avoids hagiography, as do Gauger's loved ones, and instead reveals the ennobling effect dying had on Gauger. As Gauger's pastor says, ""Matt's death... brought him and all of us around him back to the essentials; to the things of eternity to the childlike spirit each of us needs in order to be part of the kingdom of God."" This book features life in the Pennsylvania Bruderhof, which is one of a handful of Anabaptist communes worldwide that preach and practice pacifism and simplicity. Hallock and his interviewees repeatedly emphasize the love with which this community enveloped the Gaugers, detailing the practical and spiritual ways they both supported and learned from Gauger's struggle. As such, the book becomes as much a testament to the Bruderhof way of life as it is the story of one person. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. An extraordinary account simple and profound. Matts struggle is one we will all eventually have to go through. -- Francis S. MacNutt, author, Healing It is a tragedy when a life is cut this short, though in being compressed it becomes like a diamond. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green Too many books are written about physical healing and not enough about triumph at the spiritual level. -- Paul Brand Daniel Hallock, a Cornell graduate, is the author of Bloody Hell and Hell, Healing, and Resistance, two acclaimed volumes of war stories. Described by The Nation as part narrator and part reporter, with all skills polished, Hallock has drawn praise for his writing from the likes of Studs Terkel.",biographies & memoirs;books;cancer;death & grief;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;grief & bereavement;health;lymphatic;memoirs;mid atlantic;occult;regional u.s.;religion & spirituality;self-help;special needs;specific groups,17 1580650627,"I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out The most commonly used rejection line spewed by studio executive honchos when they do not buy a script is, ""I liked it, didnt love it."" What happens to your screenplay or novel when it leaves your hands and is submitted to a studio or production company? What happens to it after its optioned or sold? What does ""in development"" really mean? Rona Edwards and Monika Skerbelis will shed light on all those questions for both those who are new to the business, and those already journeying through the ""storied"" halls at a film studio, television network, or production company. Edwards and Skerbelis will tackle how to find new ideas, what it takes to be a development executive or a story analyst, how to work with producers and writers, and tips for pitching. They present exercises created to assist the reader in developing their writing skills. Monika Skerbelis and Rona Edwards have lived the life of a studio and development executive, having developed and sold screenplays for the past 15 years. They have taught feature film development classes at UCLA for the past six years.. Both authors live in Los Angeles. Monika Skerbelis and Rona Edwards have lived the life of a studio and development executive, having developed and sold screenplays for the past 15 years. They have taught feature film development classes at UCLA for the past six years.. Both authors live in Los Angeles.",arts & photography;books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;film & television;humanities;humor & entertainment;literature;movies;new;performing arts;play & scriptwriting;research & publishing guides;screenplays;screenwriting;used & rental textbooks;writing,17 1584502770,"Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics, Second Edition Eric Lengyel is a veteran of the computer games industry with over 16 years of experience writing game engines. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California at Davis and an MS in Mathematics from Virginia Tech. Eric is the founder of Terathon Software, where he currently leads ongoing development of the C4 Engine.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;game programming;graphics & multimedia;graphics & visualization;humor & entertainment;mathematics;new;programming;programming languages;puzzles & games;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks;video & electronic games,17 041590725X,"Communication as Culture, Revised Edition: Essays on Media and Society (Media and Popular Culture) Carey's seminal work joins central issues in the field and redefines them. AN historically inspired treatment of major figures and theories, required reading for the sophisticated scholar..George Gerbner, Dean, The Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania",books;communication;communication & journalism;communication & media studies;communications;education & reference;general broadcasting;humor & entertainment;language & grammar;media studies;new;politics & social sciences;radio;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks;words,17 0071402527,"Case Files: Surgery The closest you can get to seeing patients without being on the wards Students need exposure to cases to pass the USMLE Step 2 and the surgery shelf exam. This book presents 55 clinical cases illustrating essential concepts in general surgery. Perfect for the clerkship and the USMLE Step 2, each case includes an extended discussion, definitions of key terms, clinical pearls, and USMLE-style review questions. This interactive learning system helps you to learn instead of memorize. *55 surgical cases with complete discussions *Clinical pearls highlight key points *USMLE-style comprehension questions with each case *Primer on how to approach the surgical patient *Proven learning system improves shelf exam scores Superior to other case file books. --Chang-Kun Choi, Medical Student, Midwestern University School of Medicine Using clinical scenarios not only makes the reading fun and interesting, but it is far more engaging than sitting down with a bulleted text and reviewing detail after detail. This is a much better way to learn clinical information. I have not read a book like this before, and I certainly have enjoyed it. -Eric Hossler, Medical Student, James H. Quillen College of Medicine I LOVED this book! I would recommend this book to all third-year students The book uses a clinical approach and does not lose sight of the pathophysiology behind the disease -- GREAT preparation for being on the wards! The subject matter is also deceptively detailed, with much more information than one normally finds in a text of case files. The reader can use this book as either a rigorous self-test or a read-through introduction to the subject. Once again - a GREAT text! -Elizabeth Johnston, Medical Student, Emory University Eugene C. Toy, MD is a dual certified family physician and ob/gyn. He is the John S. Dunn Senior Academic Chair and Program Director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program; Vice Chair of Academic Affairs in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The Methodist Hospital--Houston; Clerkship Director and Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The University of Texas--Houston Medical School (Houston, Texas).Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery Department of Surgery University of California, San Francisco San Francisco General Hospital San Francisco, California --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.",allied health professions;allied health services;books;clinical;education & reference;general;general surgery;medical & surgical;medical assistants;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;nursing;surgery;test preparation & review;used & rental textbooks,17 0810928817,"Discoveries: North Pole, South Pole (Discoveries (Harry Abrams)) Text: English (translation) Original Language: French",arctic & antarctica;books;earth sciences;education & reference;experiments;experiments & projects;geography;historical study & educational resources;history;instruments & measurement;mathematics;science & math;science & technology;social history;sports & outdoors;teens;winter sports,17 0415945534,"The Black Studies Reader A marvelous compendium featuring many of the field's most able practitioners. The sprightly essays are fresh and timely. This is black studies for the twenty-first century. The book is a must-have for courses and the scholar's bookshelf, and will appeal to a wide range of general readers.Brenda Gayle Plummer, University of Wisconsin, Madison Jacqueline Bobo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Black Studies and Women's Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Cynthia Hudley is Professor in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California Santa Barbara. Claudine Michel is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.",africa;african-american studies;americas;asia;books;education & reference;ethnic studies;history;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states;used & rental textbooks;women in history;world,17 0262072610,"Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services ""Document Engineering provides a thorough, common-sense approach to designing the documents used in service-oriented architectures. Well written and packed with examples, it is timely reading for architects, developers, and managers."" Ronald Bourret, author of XML and Databases ""*Document Engineering* provides a thorough, common-sense approach to designing the documents used in service-oriented architectures. Well written and packed with examples, it is timely reading for architects, developers, and managers.""--Ronald Bourret, author of ""XML and Databases"" Robert J. Glushko is Adjunct Full Professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the coauthor (with Tim McGrath) of Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services (MIT Press).Tim McGrath is an independent consultant and is Chair of the Universal Business Language Library Content Subcommittee. With collaborator Robert J. Glushko, he maintains the http://docordie.blogspot.com/ Doc or Die blog.",books;business & investing;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;e-commerce;electronic data interchange (edi);industries & professions;information management;manager's guides to computing;networking;new;popular economics;used & rental textbooks;web development & design;web services,17 0761525203,"Electronic Currency Trading for Maximum Profit: Manage Risk and Reward in the Forex and Currency Futures Markets Master and Profit from the Global Currency Markets Once dominated by institutional traders and banks, the $1.5 trillion, 24-hour global currency markets are now open to a growing number of online traders. Larger than all the world's stock markets combined, currency markets offer unbelievable oppurtunities to profit from the daily fluctuations of exchange rates. But decentralized and largely unregulated, the markets are risky for traders without the right tools.Inside, currency-trading experts Keith Long and Kurt Walter offer a comprehensive guide to trading intellegently in the complex currency markets. Their detailed lessons cover everything from mastering technical analysis to developing successful swaps and options strategies. You will discover how to: Understand the risks and rewards of currency trading Trade spot forex, futures, and options online Analyze fundamental and technical data Choose the best online currency broker And much moreComplete with easy-to-understand charts and a full glossary, this book is your currency trading bible.""An excellent introduction to trading in the world's largest, most liquid financial market. It offers practical guidance to making informed trading decisions."" Mark Galant, CEO and founder Gain Capital""A must-read for all aspiring and experienced FX traders. Review the lessons step-by-step before you trade dollar-one in the markets."" Blair Baker, director of FX trading, Global Capital Investments, LLC""Keith Long and Kurt Walter have provided the comprehensive resource tool many investors have been looking for."" Lars Seier Christensen managing director, Midas, Denmark Master and Profit from the Global Currency Markets Keith Long, an experienced currency trader and financial writer, is a regular contributor to the financials.com. His articles often appear in the Financial Times, among other publications. He lives in Clearwater, Florida.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business;business & investing;computers & technology;e-commerce;foreign exchange;futures;industries & professions;international;introduction;investing;networking;popular economics;professional & technical;software,17 0195095677,"The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening Includes 2 CDs ""I really enjoyed the complete integration of Theory and ET--and these students are significantly more advanced than any sophomore class in the seven years I've been at St. Olaf College, especially in the aural skills department. I did supplement with . . .melodies, but the arpeggiations in the text and also the plethora of harmonic dictations were especially helpful. Having tons of materials to choose from in the workbook was helpful as well, although we didn't begin to use all of it.""--Dr. Catherine Rodland, Artist-in-Residence in Organ and Music Theory, St. Olaf College Steven G. Laitz, Associate Professor and Chair of Music Theory Department, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.",arts & photography;biological sciences;biology & life sciences;books;botany;composition & performance;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;instruction & study;music;new;performing arts;science & math;science & mathematics;theory;used & rental textbooks,17 B000OT83U6,"Polypharmacy In Psychiatry I found this book a pleasure to read.I strongly recommend this book for any clinician or teacher seriously interested in the subject, both for ongoing use and as a valuable reference.-Canadian Journal of Psychiatry",biological sciences;biotechnology;books;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;kindle ebooks;kindle store;medical books;medical ebooks;medicine;professional & technical;psychiatry;psychology & counseling;psychopharmacology;science & math;specialties,17 0787955264,"Beyond the Podium: Delivering Training and Performance to a Digital World ""Whether you are new to the training field or an old hand, Beyond the Podium points you to the future with a readable, succinct summary of the main forces shaping our profession today."" --Ruth Colvin Clark, Clark Training and Consulting ""There are those who say corporate training is dead. Rossett says otherwise, providing a view of an ever-expanding field, full of opportunities."" --Marc Rosenberg, principal, DaimondCluster International, and author of E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age ""The training world is undergoing unprecedented change, and trainers are both the drivers and the targets of this change. . . . This book provides a unique 'trainer's eye view' of what's needed to transform both a personal career and an entire training organization."" --Roy Foshay, corporate vice president, Instructional Design and Cognitive Learning, PLATO Learning, Inc. ""Whether you are new to the training field or an old hand, Beyond the Podium points you to the future with a readable, succinct summary of the main forces shaping our profession today.""Ruth Colvin Clark, Clark Training and Consulting""There are those who say corporate training is dead. Rossett says otherwise, providing a view of an expanding field, full of opportunities.""Marc Rosenberg, principal, DiamondCluster International, and author of E-Learning""The training world is undergoing unprecedented change, and trainers are both the drivers and the targets of this change...This book provides a unique 'trainer's-eye-view' of what is needed to transform both a personal career and an entire training organization.""Rob Foshay, corporate vice president, Instructional Design and Cognitive Learning, PLATO Learning, Inc.""This is most engaging, clear, useful, and insightful book on the future of training that I've seen. I'll use it in my client workshops and graduate courses as a top resource for practical explanations about new professional models for the training field.""Diane Gayeski, Ph.D.,Professor, Ithaca College and Principal, Gayeski Analytics""A practical, eminently readable book for real performance warriors those who live in the trenches trying to integrate learning and performance strategy, timelines, budgets, systems, cross-organizational alliances, changing sponsorship, and impatient customers. The examples, QA, and references will prove invaluable as a resource for envisioning solutions that move from individual to organizational learning.""Leigh A. Kelleher, Partner, Deloitte Consulting, Global Learning Leader "" Whether you are new to the training field or an old hand, Beyond the Podium points you to the future with a readable, succinct summary of the main forces shaping our profession today.""'Ruth Colvin Clark, Clark Training and Consulting "" There are those who say corporate training is dead. Rossett says otherwise, providing a view of an expanding field, full of opportunities.""Marc Rosenberg, principal, DiamondCluster International, and author of E-Learning "" The training world is undergoing unprecedented change, and trainers are both the drivers and the targets of this change...This book provides a unique 'trainer's-eye-view' of what is needed to transform both a personal career and an entire training organization.""Rob Foshay, corporate vice president, Instructional Design and Cognitive Learning, PLATO Learning, Inc. ""This is most engaging, clear, useful, and insightful book on the future of training that I've seen. I'll use it in my client workshops and graduate courses as a top resource for practical explanations about new professional models for the training field.""Diane Gayeski, Ph.D.,Professor, Ithaca College and Principal, Gayeski Analytics ""A practical, eminently readable book for real performance warriors those who live in the trenches trying to integrate learning and performance strategy, timelines, budgets, systems, cross-organizational alliances, changing sponsorship, and impatient customers. The examples, Q, and references will prove invaluable as a resource for envisioning solutions that move from individual to organizational learning.""Leigh A. Kelleher, Partner, Deloitte Consulting, Global Learning Leader ""Whether you are new to the training field or an old hand, Beyond the Podium points you to the future with a readable, succinct summary of the main forces shaping our profession today."" Ruth Colvin Clark, Clark Training and Consulting ""There are those who say corporate training is dead. Rossett says otherwise, providing a view of an ever-expanding field, full of opportunities.""Marc Rosenberg, principal, DiamondCluster International, and author of E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age ""The training world is undergoing unprecedented change, and trainers are both the drivers and the targets of this change. . . . This book provides a unique 'trainer's eye view' of what's needed to transform both a personal career and an entire training organization.""Rob Foshay, corporate vice president, Instructional Design and Cognitive Learning, PLATO Learning, Inc. The Authors Allison Rossett is professor of educational technology at San Diego State University and a consultant in the design, development, and evaluation of performance and training systems. She has coached and advised business and government leaders, managed corporate contracts and federal and state grants, and presented keynote speeches in the United States and abroad.Kendra Sheldon is a writer and performance consultant living in San Diego, California. With a background in media, technology, and education, Kendra has had work appear in local television, radio, and new media publications. The digital age is infiltrating the training profession faster than most of us can stay breast of it. In Beyond the Podium, Allison Rossett and Kendra Sheldon get you up to speed on the new directions in training and development while also refreshing your understanding of the fundamentals. With a focus on the questions you're asking, they open your eyes to the possibilities that are emerging?or already exist?-as organizations move into new technologies and performance improvement. Rossett and Sheldon examine the opportunities presented by e-learning, informal learning, independent learning, knowledge management, globalization, object-oriented design, wireless technologies, and more, while revisiting what makes great training, how to do an analysis, and evaluation strategies and tools. In Beyond the Podium, Rossett and Sheldon redefine the nature and function of training and trainers as they offer the following: A tour of the possibilities: Intrigued about the meaning of e-business for training and development? Concerned about what new learning theories contribute? Wondering about what knowledge management is and what it might mean for training? All this, and more, is covered here. A guide to professional development: Every chapter presents four kinds of professional development resources?references, examples of presentation slides, experts' favored resources, and resources, including websites, designed to match how much time the reader chooses to invest. A focus on the questions you and others have: How is my job going to change? How might my unit think about its strategy and value differently? What kinds of skills will be required? What should I be thinking about and planning for? How can I explain all this to my customers? A wealth of featured interviews with experts in the field: Marc Rosenberg, Roger Chevalier, Margo Murray, Roslyn Price, James Li, Jack Phillips, Ruth Clark, and others. Varied and rich examples: We'll visit real people with real projects in real organizations including computer companies, museums, investment houses, and government agencies. Beyond the Podium will challenge, teach, excite, and inspire you. Most importantly, it will help you to envision and build for the future?and to get there fast! ALLISON ROSSETT is professor of educational technology at San Diego State University and a consultant in the design, development, and evaluation of performance and training systems. She has coached and advised business and government leaders, managed corporate contracts and federal and state grants, and presented keynote speeches in the United States and abroad. Rossett is the author of three award-winning books, including First Things First: A Handbook for Performance Analysis (Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 1999) and its Website, www.jbp.com/rossett.html.SHELDON KENDRA is a writer and performance consultant living in San Diego, California. With a background in media, technology, and education, Kendra has had work appear in local television, radio, and new media publications.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business & management;computers & technology;consulting;economics;entrepreneurship;human resources;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;management & leadership;manager's guides to computing;new;small business & entrepreneurship;training;used & rental textbooks,17 0910965447,"Super Searchers on Health & Medicine: The Online Secrets of Top Health & Medical Researchers (Super Searchers series) Susan Detwiler is the president of the Detwiler Group, a leading information company in the health and medical field. She is the editor of Detwilers Directory of Health and Medical Resources. She lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Reva Basch is the author of Secrets of the Super Searchers, Secrets of the Super Net Searchers, and Researching Online for Dummies. She lives in Sea Ranch, California.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;internet & web culture;medical books;medical informatics;medicine;medicine & health sciences;networking;new;online searching;reference;research;used & rental textbooks;web development & design;web services,17 1889330515,"A Fine Excess : Contemporary Literature at Play This unusual collection of 36 writings is unlike most anthologies of mixed genres; its common element, claim editors Gann and Herbert--themselves writers--is a sense of ""play,"" by which they do not mean ""merely lighthearted, whimsical riffs,"" but rather works by ""writers who show creative delight, who explore the possibilities within the compound sentence, within composed phrases."" The editors are not opposed to what Tom Wolfe calls ""K-Mart Realism,"" they are simply on to something else--and although their selections may seem curious, there is much here to enjoy. Pieces by such well-known writers as e.e. cummings, William Gass and Edmund White are included, along with those by newer names such as Valerie Wohlfeld and Connie Voisine. Poetry, short fiction, essays and other writings that defy easy labeling, such as Lynn Emanuel's ""Who Is She Kidding,"" appear without following any pattern. Overall, the short fiction is especially memorable. In ""Give the Millionaire a Drink,"" Mike Newirth, without using the conventions of plot and character, captures the aimlessness and emotional underdevelopment of the very rich partying in East Hampton. Rick Moody demonstrates his eye for plaintive eccentricity and surrealism in ""The Mansion on the Hill,"" about a poor soul working for a wedding banquet hall. And Peter La Salle's ""The Latin Ice Kings"" is an energetic, free-associative, first-person narrative by a ""pasty-faced Anglo"" underachiever playing street hockey in Texas with the Mexicans, reflecting on crack, his girlfriend and Martha Stewart. (Jan.)Forecast: This miscellany will appeal only to the literarily adventurous--a small but discrete market.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. In response to what writer Tom Wolfe has dubbed ""K-Mart realism""--the preponderance of drab, uninspired prose as the prevailing contemporary literary style--the editors of this volume have assembled a collection of poetry and prose authors who have defied that trend. Many contributors to numerous fiction journals and independent presses from around the country wrote the works in this volume and employ a more dynamic and inventive choice of language and structure. Rick Moody and Patrick Chamoiseau are among the up-and-coming writers showcased. Moody's ""The Mansion on the Hill,"" the story of a power-mad wedding planner and her assistant, veils the pathos of coming to terms with the death of a loved one. Chamoiseau's ""The Eighteen Dream-Words That Afoukal Gave Him"" is a formally eclectic experiment, combining a variety of Western and non-Western literary traditions. The poetry in the collection also expands the boundaries of form and language while retaining some traditional elements to keep them accessible, thus the title ""A Fine Excess,"" borrowed from Keats. A worthy collection and refreshing for those tired of popular conventions. Ted LeventhalCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved A Fine Excess is the thirty-third title to be published by Sarabande Books, a nonprofit literary press headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Since the 1996 debut of the press, Sarabande Books titles have received positive review attention from nationally distinguished media including The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, American Book Review, Small Press, The Nation, and Library Journal. The Editors: Kirby Gann is the Managing Editor at Sarabande Books. His fiction has appeared in American Writing, bananafish: short fiction, The Crescent Review, The Southern Indiana Review, and Witness, among other journals. His work has received Special Mention in The Pushcart Prize, and is anthologized in The Best of Witness. Also a musician, he plays guitar in the band Jakeleg, whose CD is available on ear X-tacy records. Kristin Herbert has been awarded grants for her poetry from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her stories and poems have been recognized with an Academy of American Poets Prize, four Pushcart Prize nominations, and publication in journals including Colorado Review, The Cream City Review, 5 AM, Kingfisher, Phoebe, Red Brick Review, New Delta Review, The Louisville Review, Controlled Burn, The American Voice, Green Mountains Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Antioch Review as well as in the anthologies Present Tense: Writing and Art by Young Women and ChickLit2: No Chick Vics. She lives in Santa Monica, California.",american literature;anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;classics;essays;essays & correspondence;general;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;poetry;united states;used & rental textbooks,17 0821227548,"Antarctica: A Year at the Bottom of the World Jim Mastro has a degree in biology and a master of arts in English. His photography has been featured in Omni, Discover, International Wildlife, Skin Diver, and Geo. He lives with his wife and son in New Hampshire.",antarctica;arts & photography;books;education & reference;nature & ecology;nature & wildlife;photography;photojournalism;polar regions;research & publishing guides;science & math;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;travel with pets;winter sports;writing,17 0201758822,"Nitty Gritty Delphi 6 Text: English (translation) Original Language: German Discover Object Pascal, the basis for Borland's Delphi 6 development environment, and get togrips with it quickly. Addison-Wesley's Nitty Gritty Delphi 6 leads you right to the core ofDelphi. The author, Frank Eller, tells you about the most important classes and components.Thanks to the many examples in the practical section, you will quickly be able to understandhow things are done and how the different elements of Delphi work together, before putting theminto practice yourself.Let's get down to the nitty gritty of: The most important classes and components The new features of Delphi 6 Programming DLLs Delphi and databases Delphi and the internet Developing componentsAddison-Wesley Nitty Gritty Programming Series provides the most important facts that you willneed to know to get up and running in new programming topics quickly and when you have becomeproficient you can use it as an on-going reference book for all the fundamentals.Divided into three sections, this book provides everything you need to know to startprogramming in Delphi 6. Introduction -- all the main topics that you'll need to get working now. Reference section -- all the necessary instructions and topics in one easy reference section so that you can refer back to the book again and again. Practical tips and tricks -- find out how to put those important concepts into practice and get expert tips on how to improve your programming. 0201758822B07222002 Frank Eller has many years' experience as a computer programmer. 0201758822AB07222002 The idea behind the Nitty Gritty seriesWhen you are programming, you also usually read a great deal. The fact is that the various programming languages have reached performance levels that make it almost impossible to get an overview of all the functions offered by a programming environment. This is why there are so many and varied reference books that attempt to provide a lot of information in an understandable way. Unfortunately, the really good reference books from the reputable publishing houses are usually weighty tomes that will just clutter up your desk. The slimmer books are easier to handle but often do not contain the information you are actually looking for. It is just when you are learning something new that you could really do with a book that has sections that contain reference material about the programming language, and sections that show you how to create functioning programs quickly, and how to make best use of many of the options available in a programming environment.The Nitty Gritty series of books is based on this idea. These books are interesting not only for people who are learning a programming language, because they contain a lot of basic facts, but also for people who already know how to use other programming languages and want to extend their knowledge. This is the next chapter of the Delphi story, which began with Borland and Delphi 5 and continued with Delphi 6. Although the software has become more expensive, the Personal Edition (previously the Delphi Standard Edition) still has almost all the same features as Version 5. I am rather disappointed by this. It would have been possible to increase the price slightly and introduce a few of the new features in return. Sadly, this didnt happen. There isnt much point in writing a book about the Personal Edition (it really cant do a great deal), and there is nowhere near enough space for the features of the Enterprise Edition (I could write 1000 pages in this format and would still only scratch the surface), so I have restricted myself mainly to the options offered by the Professional Edition. In my last book, I mentioned that this version is the very least you should purchase, and I am still convinced of this. It really is a wise investment because Delphi 6 has become even better than I dreamed it could. The critics among you will say that it took long enough to appear. But you will have a product that is well worth the money and lives up to its reputation. It is a professional development tool that gives you all the freedom and possibilities of programming under Windows and (if you also have Kylix) Linux. I wish you every success and hope that this book will be of some use.Style conventionsI have tried to design this book so that you can easily see what it contains. The following styles and ways of emphasizing text are used in this book:Menu items and directories are shown in Small capital letters.Source code and descriptors associated with the source code are shown in the body of the text in Courier font. Reserved words are shown in bold text.Keys and shortcuts are shown as if they were keys on your keyboard, e.g. S + c means that you must press the S and c keys one after the other, then release them at the same time.Tip This icon is used to indicate tips and typical programming errors.This is the second Nitty Gritty paperback about Delphi. The first Nitty Gritty book was also the very first book I wrote, and when I handed over the manuscript I still had a few doubts about my abilities as an author. Luckily for me (and all the readers), my worries were groundless. Numerous letters and other communications have reassured myself and my editor, Christina Gibbs, that we had found a successful concept and selected the right authors for all the books, and that the books themselves were also very useful. You could say it was a real success. So, I would like to thank everyone who has purchased and read this book, despite the delay in its appearance.I must thank the editing department at Addison-Wesley Germany, especially the editors Christina Gibbs and Christiane Auf. Christina started the book and then the support tasks passed on to Christiane. At this point, I would like to give them both my warmest thanks for all their support and hope that we will be able to work together again on the next Nitty Gritty edition.Another person who deserves my thanks is my former tutor Klaus Kappler, who is now a good friend of mine. He supported my decision to leave my former job and to break into completely new areas in my professional life. I am sure that this was a very good decision. So thank you very much. If you are ever in Munich, Ill buy you a coffee.My last thank you goes to Anders Ohlsson from Borland who was kind enough to allow me to use his code in this book. You will see his code for a cgi counter in the internet chapter of this book. The last thing for me to say is that I hope that you enjoy the book.Frank EllerJune, 2002 0201758822P07152002 The idea behind the Nitty Gritty seriesWhen you are programming, you also usually read a great deal. The fact is that the various programming languages have reached performance levels that make it almost impossible to get an overview of all the functions offered by a programming environment. This is why there are so many and varied reference books that attempt to provide a lot of information in an understandable way. Unfortunately, the really good reference books from the reputable publishing houses are usually weighty tomes that will just clutter up your desk. The slimmer books are easier to handle but often do not contain the information you are actually looking for. It is just when you are learning something new that you could really do with a book that has sections that contain reference material about the programming language, and sections that show you how to create functioning programs quickly, and how to make best use of many of the options available in a programming environment.The Nitty Gritty series of books is based on this idea. These books are interesting not only for people who are learning a programming language, because they contain a lot of basic facts, but also for people who already know how to use other programming languages and want to extend their knowledge. This is the next chapter of the Delphi story, which began with Borland and Delphi 5 and continued with Delphi 6. Although the software has become more expensive, the Personal Edition (previously the Delphi Standard Edition) still has almost all the same features as Version 5. I am rather disappointed by this. It would have been possible to increase the price slightly and introduce a few of the new features in return. Sadly, this didnt happen. There isnt much point in writing a book about the Personal Edition (it really cant do a great deal), and there is nowhere near enough space for the features of the Enterprise Edition (I could write 1000 pages in this format and would still only scratch the surface), so I have restricted myself mainly to the options offered by the Professional Edition. In my last book, I mentioned that this version is the very least you should purchase, and I am still convinced of this. It really is a wise investment because Delphi 6 has become even better than I dreamed it could. The critics among you will say that it took long enough to appear. But you will have a product that is well worth the money and lives up to its reputation. It is a professional development tool that gives you all the freedom and possibilities of programming under Windows and (if you also have Kylix) Linux. I wish you every success and hope that this book will be of some use.Style conventionsI have tried to design this book so that you can easily see what it contains. The following styles and ways of emphasizing text are used in this book:Menu items and directories are shown in Small capital letters.Source code and descriptors associated with the source code are shown in the body of the text in Courier font. Reserved words are shown in bold text.Keys and shortcuts are shown as if they were keys on your keyboard, e.g. S + c means that you must press the S and c keys one after the other, then release them at the same time.Tip This icon is used to indicate tips and typical programming errors.This is the second Nitty Gritty paperback about Delphi. The first Nitty Gritty book was also the very first book I wrote, and when I handed over the manuscript I still had a few doubts about my abilities as an author. Luckily for me (and all the readers), my worries were groundless. Numerous letters and other communications have reassured myself and my editor, Christina Gibbs, that we had found a successful concept and selected the right authors for all the books, and that the books themselves were also very useful. You could say it was a real success. So, I would like to thank everyone who has purchased and read this book, despite the delay in its appearance.I must thank the editing department at Addison-Wesley Germany, especially the editors Christina Gibbs and Christiane Auf. Christina started the book and then the support tasks passed on to Christiane. At this point, I would like to give them both my warmest thanks for all their support and hope that we will be able to work together again on the next Nitty Gritty edition.Another person who deserves my thanks is my former tutor Klaus Kappler, who is now a good friend of mine. He supported my decision to leave my former job and to break into completely new areas in my professional life. I am sure that this was a very good decision. So thank you very much. If you are ever in Munich, Ill buy you a coffee.My last thank you goes to Anders Ohlsson from Borland who was kind enough to allow me to use his code in this book. You will see his code for a cgi counter in the internet chapter of this book. The last thing for me to say is that I hope that you enjoy the book.Frank EllerJune, 2002 0201758822P07152002",books;borland delphi;computers & technology;database design;databases;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;hardware;languages & tools;mathematics;object-oriented design;pcs;programming;science & math;software design;testing & engineering;web development & design,17 1928994156,"Hack Proofing Your Network: Internet Tradecraft Too many network administrators depend on the ""big sky"" principle of network security--they believe that the large number of Internet-connected machines out there will keep black-hat hackers away. Hack Proofing Your Network: Internet Tradecraft points out that statistics are no defense, and that such an attitude is irresponsible. The book shows steps that you can take to harden your resources against attack. Although most of the material in this book isn't up-to-the-minute (how could it be, when the tactics of attackers change daily), you can discourage hackers by implementing the strategies that it describes. Many antihacking texts assume a fair bit of knowledge, but this one doesn't. Ryan Russell and coauthors explain many terms and concepts, such as traffic sniffing, cryptography, and file differentiation (""diffing""), and the tools that evildoers use to wreak havoc on the systems that they attack--complete with Internet addresses from which you can download them. The book walks you through sample attacks, too, such as hijacking a connection by using a tool called Hunt. Overall, this is a fine introductory-to-intermediate antihacking volume that leads well into more current and advanced resources. You might want to supplement it with two other practical computer-security books: Hacking Exposed catalogues many of the tools that bad guys use, while Network Intrusion Detection helps you analyze security logs and spot attacks in progress. --David Wall Topics covered: Modes of attack, and means of defending against them Political environment governing software and networking Laws and policies springing from that environment Approaches to the problem of breaking into systems or denying their services to legitimate users Spoofing Sniffing Transmission interception Several other popular tactics Kevin Mitnick's quote on the Hack Proofing cover says it nicely: Ryan Russell has an important message for us all: ""What you don't know *will* hurt you."" In his book, ""Hack Proofing Your Network: Internet Tradecraft"" Ryan reveals the ""how to"" of systems penetration techniques that intruders may use against you! While ""full disclosure"" is a two-edged sword, the benefits include forcing software manufacturers to quickly fix security holes and informing potential victims of the vulnerabilities that exist in their infrastructures.Kevin Mitnick This book brings together some of the most talented IPSec professionals and prominent grey-hat hackers to tell you how to protect your systems from attack. The focus is on the practical and the objective is to leave you with the know-how and tools to deal with virus, session hijacking, client holes, spoofing, and more. Learn from the best: Mudge, advisor to the WHite House and Congress; Rain Forest Puppy; Elisa Levy, BUGTRAQ moderator; Blue Boar, Vuln-Dev moderator; Dan Effugas Kaminsky, Advanced Network Services division, Cisco Systems; Oliver Friedrichs, Co-founder, SecurityFocus.com; Riley ""Caezar"" Eller, Senior Security Engineer, Internet Security Advisors; Greg Hoglund, Founder, Click To Secure If you dont hack your systems, who will? One of the reasons I put this book project together is that I believe security professionals should be hackers. In this case, by hackers, I mean people who are capable of defeating security measures. This book purports to teach people how to be hackers. In reality, most of the people who buy this book will do so because they want to protect their own systems and those of their employer. So, how can you prevent break-ins to your system if you dont know how they are accomplished? How do you test your security measures? How do you make a judgement about how secure a new system is? When youre through reading Hack Proofing Your Network, youll understand terms like smashing the stack, blind spoofing, building a backward bridge, steganography, buffer overflow and youll see why you need to worry about them. You will learn how to protect your servers from attacks by using a 5-step approach: 1. Planning 2. Network/Machine Recon 3. Research/Develop 4. Execute Attack and Achieve Goal 5. Cleanup And youll understand the theory of hacking, how to fend off local and remote attacks, and how to report and evaluate security problems. The Only Way to Stop a Hacker Is to Think Like One. ---Ryan Russell, Hack Proofing Your Network Ryan has been working in the IT field for over 10 years, the last 5 of which have been spent primarily in an information security capacity. He has been an active partcipant in various security mailing lists, such as Bugtraq, for years. Ryan has served as an expert witness, and has done internal security investigation for a major software vendor. Ryan has contributed to 3 other Syngress books, on the topics of networking. He has a degree in computer science from San Francisco State University. Ryan is presently employed by SecurityFocus.com.",& telecommunications;books;business & management;certification;computer science;computers & technology;groupware;internet;network programming;network security;networking;networks;new;privacy;protocols & apis;systems analysis & design;used & rental textbooks,17 0321024672,"Good But Not Perfect: A Case Study of Managed Care Written in an intriguing narrative format, this book demonstrates the skills necessary for effective social work practice in managed care settings. Centered around the case study of a professional ballet dancer who is admitted to a rehabilitation unit following a cerebral stroke, Good But Not Perfect follows the struggles of the patient and her health care team as they confront changes in the health care delivery system. This story-line approach engages the interest of the reader as it demonstrates the application of theories and the real-life impact of the managed care model.At the end of each chapter, the story is analyzed using conceptual knowledge, and critical thinking is encouraged in practice exercises. Throughout the book, readers are guided through the processes of effective patient assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, discharge, and rehabilitation. They will learn the issues surrounding managed care and will be provided with the skills necessary to function as part of an interdisciplinary health care team.For anyone interested in social work or managed health care.",administration & medicine economics;administration & policy;books;health care administration;health care delivery;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;public policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;social work;used & rental textbooks,17 0471292826,"Web Commerce: Building a Digital Business (Upside) Experts estimate that Web-based shopping revenues have jumped from $407.3 million in 1996 to $1.1 billion in 1997 and will reach a record $4.5 billion in the year 2000. These figures suggest that a growing number of companies have adopted electronic commerce as a means to sell their products online, thereby increasing the number of customers they reach by the millions. This book details the methods that companies as diverse as Cisco, AT, and Broadvision are using to sell their products electronically and to tap into a marketplace with explosive growth potential. Maddox describes how companies, both large and small, are taking their Web sites to the next level, moving from merely marketing and promoting products online to actually selling them. Specific questions and important business issues related to e:commerce are addressed in detail, and over two dozen examples are offered of companies that are setting the benchmark for successful Web commerce. In Web Commerce, Kate Maddox clearly identifies the many different Web commerce solutions available today and helps those of you in management positions decide which system best fits the needs of your company. This indispensable guide also helps you develop surefire strategies for making your site a success-whether your company is a Fortune 500 or a start-up travel agency. Comprehensive discussions are included on all major categories of software and systems for transacting Web commerce, such as outsourcing commerce (on malls or hosting services), electronic-catalog and merchant-server software, high-end commerce solutions, payment options, and security solutions. There are in-depth explanations provided for the various features, pricing, and setup requirements, as well as the pros and cons of each type of system. The important and pressing topic of Web commerce security is also explored in detail. Beyond selecting the right kinds of hardware, software, payment options, and security solutions for your Web commerce system, the book also considers issues that go beyond system setup. Depending upon what kind of industry you're in, or what kind of customers you have, unique strategies are necessary to make the most of your Web commerce systems. Maddox addresses industry-specific questions like: If you're a car manufacturer, what are some of the problems you'll face trying to sell expensive items over the Web? If you're a business-to-business seller, how do you avoid disrupting the sales channel? She then presents strategies for dealing with these unique problems effectively. The book goes on to describe how to best reach your target audience and how to personalize and promote your Web site effectively. Finally, Maddox takes a look at the future of Web commerce. In Web Commerce, Kate Maddox clearly identifies the many different Web commerce solutions available today and helps those of you in management positions decide which system best fits the needs of your company. This indispensable guide also helps you develop surefire strategies for making your site a success-whether your company is a Fortune 500 or a start-up travel agency.Comprehensive discussions are included on all major categories of software and systems for transacting Web commerce, such as outsourcing commerce (on malls or hosting services), electronic-catalog and merchant-server software, high-end commerce solutions, payment options, and security solutions. There are in-depth explanations provided for the various features, pricing, and setup requirements, as well as the pros and cons of each type of system. The important and pressing topic of Web commerce security is also explored in detail.Beyond selecting the right kinds of hardware, software, payment options, and security solutions for your Web commerce system, the book also considers issues that go beyond system setup. Depending upon what kind of industry you're in, or what kind of customers you have, unique strategies are necessary to make the most of your Web commerce systems. Maddox addresses industry-specific questions like: If you're a car manufacturer, what are some of the problems you'll face trying to sell expensive items over the Web? If you're a business-to-business seller, how do you avoid disrupting the sales channel? She then presents strategies for dealing with these unique problems effectively.The book goes on to describe how to best reach your target audience and how to personalize and promote your Web site effectively. Finally, Maddox takes a look at the future of Web commerce.A comprehensive look at the Web commerce solutions available today and how to choose the right one for your companyToday, managers in every type of business are looking to branch out onto the Web to promote and ultimately sell their products to a much wider audience. In Web Commerce, Kate Maddox provides managers with all the information they need to know-from software and hardware options to strategizing effectively for a particular business to security issues to the future of Web commerce. Web Commerce is the managers' road map to business in the next century.""Kate Maddox gives us a detailed account of how the best companies are selling their products and services on the Internet. Web Commerce is a must read for managers looking to take their companies into the next century."" -Jim McCann President, 1-800-FLOWERS Author, Stop and Sell the Roses""Anyone looking to conduct business on the Internet needs to read Web Commerce. If you're looking to do business on the Net now, this book has it all!"" -Chuck Martin President, Net Future Institute Author, The Digital Estate Kate Maddox is Editor of Interactive Media and Marketing for Advertising Age magazine, a Crain Communications publication. She has served as a senior editor of CMP Media's Information Week and Interactive Age magazines and has published numerous articles in publications, including Business Marketing, NetGuide, and Communications Week. Ms. Maddox has spent the past four years investigating and reporting on the topic of electronic commerce.Dana Blankenhorn is currently a freelance writer and editor of ""A Clue . . . to Internet Commerce,"" a free e-mail newsletter at www.a-clue.com. In 1994, he also helped launch CMP Media's ""Interactive Age Daily,"" the first daily on-line report about the Internet.",books;business & investing;business & management;computers & technology;e-commerce;industries & professions;internet & web culture;management;management & leadership;marketing;networking;networks;protocols & apis;small business & entrepreneurship;web development & design;web marketing;web services,17 0375404090,"Arctic Crossing: A Journey Through the Northwest Passage and Inuit Culture When Jonathan Waterman set out to cross the Arctic Circle by way of kayak, cross-country skis, and a dogsled, he was less interested in conquering the 2,200 miles between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans than in learning to live as the Inuit had before him (Inuit, for The People, is the name Canadian Eskimos prefer). Good thing, for the Arctic, as revealed in this candid and engrossing travelogue, is no place for jock-style adventure. Over the course of three summers, Waterman paddled through storms, capsized in 39-degree water, blacked out, and was bitten by thousands of mosquitoes, smoked out by exploding underground seams of coal, and chased by a grizzly bear. The land was so vast and empty that swans and bears vanished before him, ice chunks appeared as kayaks, and driftwood morphed into people in a disorienting series of mirages. Perhaps most challenging of all for Waterman was spending weeks at a time in this setting without seeing another soul. Under these circumstances, he had no choice but to draw on remnant instincts to avoid disaster, forget about time and goals, and to connect deeply to ""the Earth and Its Great Weather,"" as the Inuit say. ""Any committed adventurer eventually learns that equipment and performance are just a means to that greater end of finding your place in the natural world,"" writes Waterman, who proves he is willing to go the extra thousand miles for a moment of insight. Of course, he also experiences moments of unparalleled serenity--caribou trotting out to his boat, belugas spouting around him, grizzlies on the shore--and creates warm friendships with the Inuit themselves, who have changed radically since their own days of traveling by kayak and dogsled. Waterman works admirably to understand The People without judging them, though he is discouraged by what he finds left of the culture he emulates--communities caught in a ""depraved limbo, somewhere between paradise and tuberculosis."" As with the Arctic itself, the Inuit turn out to be more complex in reality--and ultimately more appealing--than in mythology. Waterman's stark and satisfying account excels in its ability to grapple with the human condition while illuminating a mystical world inaccessible to the rest of us. --Lesley Reed In 1997, Waterman (In the Shadow of Denali) embarked on a series of solo journeys across the arctic, taking the southernmost water route through Canada's northern islands. During the first summer, he went west, from the Mackenzie River delta to Prudhoe Bay in Alaska. In ensuing springs and summers, he completed his 2,200 mile odyssey, proceeding east in stages from the Mackenzie delta to Lord Mayor Bay. Waterman made most of the trips by kayak, but walked across the Eskimo lakes and took one snowmobile side trip with Inuit guides. He vividly portrays the arctic landscape, people, weather and wildlife, but as he reiterates ad infinitum, his goal was to experience solitude in the wilderness, and much of the book consists of self-absorbed ruminations on braving arctic waters alone in a kayak and pulling a sled across frozen lakes and tundra with only a dog for company. Waterman admits that he didn't get all that close to wilderness since he was supported by a wealth of modern technologies, from a Gore-Tex dry suit to a specially constructed kayak, and could fly home any time. His encounters with the Inuit and his candid observations of their culture and poverty-stricken, often brutal lifestyle provide the most interesting passages. Interwoven discussions of arctic explorers, the history of the Northwest Passage and the Hudson Bay Company, relations between the Inuit and the Canadian government, and anthropologists who have studied the Inuit flesh out his narrative. Though there is no map to help the reader follow his complex itinerary, Waterman includes appendixes of the birds and animals he saw, a Canadian arctic cultures timeline, a section on Inuit language and an extensive bibliography. 85 b photos and illus. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Waterman (Most Hostile Mountain, Kayaking the Vermillion Sea), a mountaineer, birder, photographer, and avid kayaker, spent three summers crossing the Northwest Passage from west to east by kayak, skis, and dogsled. More than just a self-propelled journey across the frozen north, this is an in-depth look into Inuit culture. Journeying across remote areas alone in a kayak, the author portrays the Inuit people as hospitable and willing to share their food and shelter with a complete stranger. He also explains that they were content to live as nomads, following the game and living off the land until the ""Kabloona"" (an Inuit term for bushy-eyebrowed whites) tried to help by paying them to live in stationary villages. Waterman's compassionate account reveals a people who are far happier to be out on the land hunting for game than gathered together in squalid, government-built towns. He freely uses many Inuit terms throughout the book and includes a glossary, a complete list of his wildlife observations, an Arctic cultures time line, and a very detailed bibliography. In addition, this gifted writer beautifully describes the natural wonder of the countryside and the animals. Highly recommended for public libraries. John Kenny, San Francisco P.L. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. Waterman says he is ""an observant writer rather than a trained anthropologist,"" but he provides plenty of insight into the culture of that arctic people, the Inuit. As an adventurous travel writer, he journeyed alone more than 2,000 miles across the Northwest Passage, with little more than a kayak, skis, dogsled, and the advice of the Inuit. He lived among the Inuit and observed how their lives have changed as global assimilation and the encroachment of the Kabloona or whites have altered the milieu of the legendary tales of ""the Eskimos."" He witnessed their poverty, recorded both ""anguish and joy,"" and wound up conceding that no outsider can really understand another culture. Of course, he also recounts his solitary journey, earlier arctic expeditions, surviving the occasional encounter with bears, and facing the challenge of staying alive and mentally balanced in a vast and barren landscape. Adventure lovers and those who share Waterman's desire to ""do something unequivocal"" in a time ruled by machines and technology will warm to his book. Vanessa BushCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Sheer poetrySea Kayaker MagazineJonathan Waterman's excellent book, Arctic Crossing chronicles his solothree year expedition that follows 2200 miles of coastline from Prudoe Bayto eastern Canada . . . If you taped all the previous pages written about the Northwest Passage, endto end, it would reach from Tuktoyakuk to the edge of the Andromeda Galaxy.But we are in professional hands here, and Waterman leads us simply andelegantly through the history and spirit of the region . . . Waterman carefully documents that current Inuit society has become dysfunctional. Sadly, he concludes, 'Everything Inuit have taught me showsthat the world, even the remote Arctic, is a different place from what Iwould like it to be.' . . . Arctic Crossing is a complex and rewarding book, evocative andthought-provoking. Jon Turk, Paddler MagazineVividly portrays the arctic landscape, people, weather and wildlife .... [with] candid observations of culture. Publishers WeeklyArctic Crossing is the most eloquent book about the North I've read in years likewise, for my money, the most honest. Jon Waterman is an explorer cut from the classic cloth and, what's more, a terrific writer. Lawrence Millman, author of Last Places and Northern LatitudesWaterman remains a charming, if occasionally bumbling, host on a stirring outdoor adventure. KirkusWaterman's perspective on the inevitable clashes between his own culture and that of the Inuit is honest and insightful. He is not drawn into glorifying the Inuit's pre-contact past, despite its attraction for him, and does not shirk from talking about the current problems....Arctic Crossing is a step above many of the adventure books currently on the market and will be of interest to travellers, armchair or otherwise. However, its lasting value will be its snapshot of the struggles faced by the Inuit culture in the midst of painful transition. John Wilson, author of North with Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames. The Arctic?with its twenty-four-hour daylight, surprisingly curious animals and inexplicable humming noises?is a world of constant danger and limitless possibility. This unforgiving landscape is home to the Inuit (the name they prefer to ?Eskimos?), whose complex and little-studied society is fascinating in its divergence from as well as its assimilation into Western culture. Jonathan Waterman?s 2,200-mile journey across the roof of North America took him through Inuit communities in Alaska to Nunavut, Canada?s new, 770,000-square-mile, self-governed territory. His story, at once illuminating and alarming, offers firsthand observations of their life, language and beliefs; records their reactions to global modernization; documents their centuries of unjust treatment at the hands of Kabloona (bushy-eyebrowed whites); and witnesses unemployment, teen suicide and such persistent plagues as spousal violence and substance abuse. From the perspective of his 1997?1999 voyage?as the Inuit stand on the brink of a more hopeful, independent future?he also looks into a past marked by famous (or infamous) Arctic explorers, government cover-ups and environmental destruction.This beautifully written work of intrepid reporting and even scholarship also reveals the physical risks and psychological perils of crossing the legendary Northwest Passage. Utterly alone for weeks at a time, Waterman struggles against freezing conditions, the tricks played on him by his own mind and dangers more complex than aggressive bears, stormy seas and mosquito blizzards. Following the advice of an Inuit shaman, who said that ?those things hidden from others? are discovered only ?far from the dwellings of men, through privation and suffering,? Waterman kayaks, skis, dogsleds and sails across the Great Solitudes in a thrilling and ultimately successful quest for this ?true wisdom,? arriving at a profound understanding of environment and culture. Arctic Crossing, a first-person narrative that chronicles Watermans remarkable journey through the Northwest Passagemore than just a pulse-raising adventure bookWaterman has a refreshing tendency to describe his own problems in an oddly detached wayThe Arctic may be a barren, unforgiving land, covered half the time in darkness and ice, but in Watermans hands it becomes a mysterious, often-abused place that, though harsh, seems like a kind of paradise on earth. ExploreArctic Crossing is a step above many of the adventure books currently on the marketits lasting value will be in its snapshot of the struggles faced by the Inuit culture in the midst of painful transition. Quill QuireArctic Crossing is a notable hybrid work at once a first-person account of a 2,200 mile journey, mostly by kayak, through the Northwest Passage, and an eyewitness portrayal, sometimes painfully honest, of the Inuit who inhabit Canadas northern frontierWatermans eye is keen, his gaze unflinching, his empathy palpableThis urgent dispatch from the top of the world should not be ignored. The Globe and MailIn his fascinating, armchair-gripping new book, Arctic Crossing, Waterman vividly describes the gorgeous landscape that any home-bounder would thrill to see. He writes sympathetically about the Inuit he meets and whom he defends against decades of injustices from whites. Sid Adilman, Toronto Star --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition. Jonathan Waterman has worked as a naturalist, Outward Bound instructor, park ranger, boatman, mountain guide, freelance writer, magazine editor and director of a small press. He developed, wrote and appeared in the television documentaries The Logan Challenge, for PBS, Surviving Denali (which won an Emmy), for ESPN, and Odyssey Among the Inuit, for the Outdoor Life Network. Widely known for his diverse experiences on Mount McKinley, he quietly began traveling to the Arctic and its villages twenty years ago, sowing the seeds for Arctic Crossing. He lives in Colorado with his wife, June, alongside out-of-the-way national forest land and the worlds largest aspen grove. Chapter 1part oneTesting the WatersFiery-Looking BirdsI am paddling the western channel of a dozen rivercourses, running at maybe 2 miles an hour. Honey brown and quiet as slow wind, it is more tilted swamp than river. My eyes flit between the maps and the mudbanks, trying to figure out where I am on the Mackenzie River. Maps are deceiving here in these shifting channels. The delta is 45 miles wide and a sweltering 75 degrees-too hot for 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle.It is mid-July 1997. I am not exactly lost because I know that I'm three days below the village of Aklavik (place of the grizzly). I'm alone and trying not to be scared. Fortunately there are other distractions to keep me occupied.If I step out of my kayak without probing the bank with a paddle, like testing the texture of a baking cake with a knife, I will plunge deep into dry-looking ground. Still, I can't help myself when I spy another potential bird's nest: wispy strands of grass lying in a depression on sage-colored tundra several yards above the river.I paddle along the shore and feign indifference to being absorbed by the brown cloud of mosquitoes waiting in the riverbank lee. I plant my paddle behind to span the cockpit and then pry myself up and out. As soon as I step out in my rubber boots, I sink up to my thighs in mud while a blinding mass of thirsty insects brandish their proboscises.I lever up and out of the black silt by pushing down, handstand style, on a driftwood trunk. While perched like a frog on a log, contemplating the leap to dry ground, I unwittingly open my mouth and inhale a crunchy mouthful of mosquitoes that will keep me blowing my nose all night. While trying to clear my throat, waving away the cloud to see, I discover that the nest is merely a caribou print, squashed grass.During my first outings twenty-five years ago, I started using insect repellents containing the virulent and unpronounceable chemical combination called DEET. Now I've given it up, thinking it might be responsible for my receding hairline; wearing a head net makes me claustrophobic.Local Inuit also scorn head nets. Aside from hindering one's vision, Inuit think that trapping anything but fish inside a net is the mark of a fey Kabloona. Still, no race is immune to aggressive swarms of mosquitoes that shoot up your face at each step on the tundra, like bits of ax-splintered wood. One story of an unattended baby eaten by the mozzies-the autopsy determined the baby had been exsanguinated-cannot be dismissed as fable. A scientist here recently removed all of his clothes to show that the mozzies are as bad as Canadians say. An assistant stood by counting with the aid of a video camera. The scientist took nine thousand bites each minute, showing that a grown man's blood could be removed in less than two hours. This northern species is prolific because of their ability to reproduce without drawing blood and unlimited egg-laying groundwater.I am no stranger to bugs. Alaska, whose state bird is the mosquito, used to be my home. Now I live in Colorado, where it's too dry for such aggressive clouds of insects. Accepting such things as bug bites seems a fair trade for my favorite pastime, exploring stretches of remote wilderness.Although I've planned this trip for too long to remember, I'm not sure how to handle being alone, totally alone without another human soul for many miles. During the weeklong drive north I wanted to turn around every day. Now that the trip has really started I can hardly paddle back against the current. To add to my misgivings, yesterday I sawed the cast splinting a torn thumb ligament off my right hand because it interfered with my paddle strokes. Now I am tremble-fingered about how quiet and huge my undertaking is. It seems that the path of least resistance is to try to become a conduit for all that I will experience in this trackless wilderness.Downriver, a bevy of least sandpipers appears. The light is brilliant yet soft enough that I don't need to pull on my sunglasses. As the kayak skims soundlessly, the sandpipers alight like flies, barely rippling the water's surface tension. Their buff primaries are lit cleaner than in Audubon's perfect lilting brushstrokes. Their eyes are black orbs. I blink and hold my eyes shut to dispel the illusion that the sandpipers are on fire. When I open up, they are still burning, twittering and bobbing in the warming light. They cavort just in front of my bow. They move their heads together, collectively, like soldiers marching in parade review. But Calidris minutilla will not fly off as the current pulls me past close enough to touch them. It's still too early for them to migrate. As the birds twitter in primeval and measured joy under the spongy light, I honor the moment by holding still, keeping my hands belowdeck and whispering, Hello, everyone.I'm crazy, I know.On this, my third day into solitude, approaching the ocean, I am learning to shut down all the emotional noise in my head and exist quietly and without complaint. After all, I can't lose my center. So, lacking birds to watch, I turn to anxiety-reducing tasks. Pitching the tent. Cleaning the stove. Immersing myself in a novel. Then, when all else fails, I lie down and breathe deeply until sleep carries me away from the stress of absolute silence.Hours later, my dream of a Great White Bear is interrupted by a barren ground grizzly tripping over a tent line and snorting with surprise. Before I can zip down the tent door, I hear his bowels erupt wet berries. His claws throw gravel as he sprints away. Looking out, I can still smell his sour, fishy breath.The tundra sweeps south in an infinity of green swells, not dissimilar to the blackened ocean to the north. In an early-morning mirage, distant pack ice is undulating like an accordion (Inuit call such visual phenomena puikartuq [rising up for air]). I catch myself holding my breath as the sun's thick saffron glow brings to life otherwise inanimate objects: oblong stones, bleached driftwood and the distant British Mountains. The landscape is as untouched by civilization as several millennia ago, when the first Paleo-Eskimos wandered past with their stomachs clutched by hunger.I am now north of the trees, just south of an immense ice pack that slides across the sea like grease in a hot pan. If one were to spend enough time alone here, one's thoughts could similarly slide off into the mysterious waters of Inuit myth. Linear thinking holds little coin to those who linked their souls with animals and never had their own written language. Many Inuit still do not understand banks, credit cards, or forty-hour workweeks; I often feel the same way.This is all too much to grasp while half asleep at three in the morning. So I stand up and bow to the bear's hindquarters disappearing into the vastness. I don't normally bow. I am emulating the author Barry Lopez, who used this technique to show his respect, and to cope with all that is infinite and enigmatic. The bear, and the landscape, demand no less from me.Inuit back in the village of Aklavik had scolded me for not carrying a gun or a radio. When I showed them my bear deterrents-air horn, flares and pepper spray-they laughed long and hard. Like many adventurers, I am indebted to Inuit for the kayak, the feathered and double-bladed paddle, the dry top and the iglu, to name only a few of their innovations. So I listened, even though I believed they had lost their shamans and their nomadic lifestyle.They told me that bears might not respect an unarmed Kabloona, that grizzlies were more dangerous than polar bears and that dreams about polar bears were really dreams about sex. One Inuk described three knocks out on the door of his hunting shack along the ocean. He found a polar bear, eight feet tall, asking for food. He handed her a frozen fish.I lie back in the tiny tent and try to sleep, my mind spinning. I would like to look into a wild polar bear's eyes, without holding a rifle. But what would I have done if this morning's visitor had been a polar bear, whose huge footprints litter the beaches? On the basis of no personal experience and few statistics, I am trying to believe that polar bears won't harm me.In Canada during the last two decades only a half dozen people had been killed by polar bears, while people in defense of life and property had destroyed 251. In Alaska, from 1900 to 1985, bears (mostly grizzlies) killed only twenty humans. Although a polar bear caused one injury in that time period, they caused no fatalities.The Russian biologist Dr. Nikita Ovsyanikov lived alone in the high Arctic and used only a driftwood stick to rap several bears on the nose during hundreds of polar bear encounters. This is the sort of polar bear story that Inuit tell.Inuit carvings feature Nanuq-the Great White Bear-as an animal above all beings. Two-thousand-year-old ivory carvings (as well as modern soapstone pieces) feature the polar bear flying through the air as if it had supernatural powers. Often small, but incredibly detailed, the carvings are engraved with lifelines and anatomically precise skeletons. You can hold one of these tiny bear amulets in your hand and sense the supernatural power behind it, the carvings as robust as fifteen-thousand-year-old European works.In Aklavik, an Inuk described to me how a lone bear boxed a twelve-foot-long beluga over the head, hooked its paws into the blubber and dragged the half-ton whale up out of the water onto an ice floe. Another day he had seen it on the sea ice kicking a child's rubber ball back and forth.From the Kabloona perspective, the polar bear sits on top of the animal kingdom. Ursus maritimus fears nothing and is adept on both land and water. Pilots have reported bears swimming more than 100 miles from the nearest land or ice. They dog-paddle on top of the water at several miles an hour and cavort underwater like seals. They ...",adventure;americas;antarctica;arctic;arctic & antarctica;books;canada;first nations;general;history;native american;polar regions;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;travel writing;winter sports,17 0825434319,"Joy to the World: The Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Carols . . . absolutely perfect for family or small-group devotions. (Southern California Christian Times 20040603) Kenneth W. Osbeck (MA, University of Michigan) taught for thirty-five years, first at Grand Rapids School of the Bible and Music, and then at Grand Rapids Baptist College and Seminary. He also served as music director for Childrens Bible Hour, Radio Bible Class, and several churches. He is the author of several books, including the best-selling Amazing Grace: 366 Inspiring Hymn Stories for Daily Devotions; 101 Hymn Stories; Hallelujah, What a Savior!; 25 Most Treasured Gospel Hymn Stories; and Joy to the World.",arts & photography;books;christian;christian books & bibles;christian living;christmas;devotionals;education & reference;folk & traditional;history & criticism;holidays;jewish;music;musical genres;religion & spirituality;religious & sacred music;spirituality,17 0194346064,"Integrated English: Gateways 1: 1 Student Book (Bk. 1) Irene Frankel is the former Assistant Director of the English Language Studies Center at New School University, New York. She has an MA in TESOL from New York University, and has done extensive teaching, teacher training, consulting, and materials development.",books;chemical;education;education & reference;engineering;english as a second language;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;new;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,17 0826212727,"Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West (MISSOURI BIOGRAPHY SERIES) More than a biography, this book about Missouri's secessionist governor analyzes the antebellum socioeconomic and political history of a state both literally and figuratively on the border-between North and South, East and West, freedom and slavery, modernity and tradition. The reader will come away with enhanced understanding of why Missouri suffered a vicious civil war within the larger Civil War.James M. McPhersonChristopher Phillips has written about people named Marmaduke, Sappington, Thomas Hart Benton, and 'the Fox,' about places like The Boon's Lick, about a horse named Duke Sumner. And he tells good stories. But this book is about nationality, culture, imagination, and identity. This is an important work of mature scholarship.Emory M. Thomas Christopher Phillips is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. He is the co-editor of The Union on Trial: The Political Journals of Judge William Barclay Napton, 1829-1883 and author of Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon and Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860.",19th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;history;leaders & notable people;midwest;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);political;politics & government;politics & social sciences;regional u.s.;state;state & local;united states;united states civil war,17 076183317X,"The Furrow And Us Poisoned water, infertile land, unhealthy food. Sixty years ago, a Quaker farmer predicted these results of big farming. It's not too late to heed his warning. (Dr. Robert T. Rhode, author of The Harvest Story: Recollections of Old-Time Threshermen )The Furrow and Us belongs on the shelf of everyone concerned with organic farming, agricultural history, soil conservation, and all who cherish our agronomic heritage . . . . Thanks to Zachary Jack, whose introduction is itself a bit of brilliant agricultural history, we have this fascinating book available again. (Dr. Charles E. Little, author of Green Fields Forever, Louis Bromfield at Malabar, and Hope for the Land )This edited and updated version of Walter Thomas Jack's conservation classic, The Furrow and Us, is a timely reminder that American farmers have long grappled with many of the public resource issues that preoccupy environmentally conscious citizens in these more urbanized times. . . . Zachary Michael Jack's thoughtful Preface artfully constructs a contemporary framework for linking the original author's times, insights, and priorities with the problems and concerns that bedevil all of us who are concerned about the future of rural life in America and the implications of industrialized agriculture for people and the land in these times. (Dr. Max Geier, University of Western Oregon )Professor Zachary Jack provides a timely service with this updated edition of The Furrow and Us. Authored by his great-grandfather sixty years ago, the original edition offered a much needed antidote to Edward Faulkner's highly publicized Plowman's Folly. . . . Consisting of succinct, reflective, and technical essays, this short treatise deserves wide readership among academics, policy-makers, and the general public. (Dr. Glenn Harris, St. Lawrence University )The Furrow and Us is aninformative guide to the intricacies that are the everyday work life of the experienced farmer...highly recommended read for the ecologist, soil conservationists, practicing farmers, and students of agriculture and agronomy. (Wisconsin Bookwatch )A message from the past still . . . thoroughly modern, The Furrow and Us is the work of a visionary writer. (Dr. Brooks Blevins, author of Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image )This classic collection is more than just a legacy. If we place Jack's concerns about sustainable growth, local ecologies, and organic methods in the twenty-first century, where they certainly belong, we can see that his vision about the appropriate relationship between a farmer and the soil is also a vision about our own health...a must read for all Iowans who seek some basic knowledge in order to participate in the ongoing debates about soil fertility and healthy agriculture. (Barbara J. Dilly The Annals Of Iowa ) Zachary M. Jack is Assistant Professor of English at North Central College and a fourth generation Iowa farmer's son.",agricultural sciences;americas;books;civil;engineering;history;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;rural;science & math;social sciences;sociology;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,17 0195171551,"Awakening Children's Minds: How Parents and Teachers Can Make a Difference Children inherently want to be acceptable members of society, and Berk asserts that parents, and then teachers (in cooperation with parents), can assist children enormously in reaching their potential. In this fascinating if somewhat clinical discussion, Berk (professor of psychology at Illinois State University) begins with an interesting lesson about child development theory. She compares major schools of thought (Piaget and Freud) with the research of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, who believed that both children's genetic inheritance and their social experiences influence their social and intellectual development. After laying out the practical components of her sociocultural ideas (e.g., ""scaffolding,"" whereby the parent or teacher appropriately supports a child's developing ability during one-on-one interaction), Berk explains why kids talk to themselves, the benefits of make-believe, the deplorable state of child care in America and parenting challenges in modern U.S. culture. She has a compassionate and informative chapter on children with disabilities focusing on ADHD, followed by a lengthy chapter on how teachers can implement sociocultural precepts. She ends with a q applying her ideas to frequent parenting concerns. Concentrating on children ages two and eight, Berk illustrates her concepts with observed dialogues and cites many studies and examples. Instructive and even inspiring, the book may prove too academic for the common reader, but educators and motivated parents will find much to explore. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. The author of such classic texts as Child Development and Infants & Children: Prenatal Through Middle Childhood, Berk (psychology, Illinois State Univ.) minces no words in this important book on a much-debated subject. Using research-based consensus and 30 years of research experience, Berk discusses parents' and teachers' profound influence on children, highlighting essential principles and knowledge about child development and supporting the overall importance of early childhood education. Her lucid insights are complemented by examples throughout the text. Berk's application of sociocultural theory makes this an essential title in the child development collections of academic and public libraries, and her suggestions about how to structure home and school environments make this an invaluable reference for school administrators and daycare operators as well. Leroy Hommerding, Citrus Cty. Lib. Syst., Fort Myers, FL Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ""Berk minces no words in this important book on a much-debated subject.... Her lucid insights are complemented by examples throughout the text. Berk's application of sociocultural theory makes this an essential title in the child development collections of academic and public libraries, and her suggestions about how to structure home and school environments make this an invaluable reference for school administrators and daycare operators as well.""--Library Journal (starred review)""Berk illustrates her concepts with observed dialogues and cites many studies and examples. Instructive and even inspiring...educators and motivated parents will find much to explore.""--Publishers Weekly""This is one incredible book! A veritable college course for parents on children's mental development, richly detailed, persuasively reasoned, and sensitively conveyed. Its contents are directly linked to the explosive growth in scientific knowledge in developmental psychology yet rendered in a style not at all stuffy or pompous. Among the best advice the science of child psychology has to offer, this book contains not a shred of nonsense, folklore, or unscientific advice.... Exceptionally informative, this books strikes just the right balance among the various influences that determine a child's mental development. It does so without talking down to parents, treating them instead as the experts they are on their children yet who are in search of further information on what science has to tell us about our children's development.""--Russell A. Barkley, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical School""In this wonderful volume Berk outlines some of today's most exciting ideas about child development. She goes well beyond theory, however, by providing insightful suggestions for concrete practice. This is a powerful, yet accessible text by a major author that promises to have a major impact for years to come on how we go about teaching and parenting.""--James V. Wertsch, Professor and Chair, Department of Education, Professor, Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis""A refreshingly practical and pragmatic guidebook for parents and teachers of young children. Complex and controversial concepts, such as biological vs. environmental influences, are readily understandable through the use of vignettes, illustrations, and clear explanations. Berk emphasizes the critical role of adults as she offers insights into young children's thoughts, emotions, and actions and discusses accompanying implications for practice.""--Kathy R. Thornburg, Director of the Center for Family Policy and Research, University of Missouri Laura E. Berk is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Illinois State University. She is a leading authority on early childhood development and education, with more than thirty years of research experience and numerous publications, including three popular texts and articles in publications such as Psychology Today and Scientific American. She lives in Normal, Illinois.",books;child psychology;developmental psychology;education;education & reference;education theory;educational psychology;medical books;new;parent participation;parenting;parenting & relationships;psychology;reference;schools & teaching;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,17 0205275400,"Sign Language Interpreting: Its Art and Science Sign Language Interpreting is designed to bridge the gap between those who know and use sign, those who do not, those who interpret, and those who administer and finance interpreting programs. This book reflects the recent and revolutionary changes in policy and practices affecting deaf people. With particular attention given to interpreting in the United States and Canada, this book reports on the extent of, and specific changes in, the conditions for deaf people in North America and around the world. Readers are taken on a journey from the early days of interpreting, to the professionalization of interpreters, to an examination of past and present models of interpreting. Two new models are introduced that take into account the influence of all participants and environmental factors in a variety of interpreting situations. The business and ethical aspects of interpreting are discussed while focusing on current practice. Many issues related to interpreting are too often not taught in school and left to deaf people to learn from experience. This book reflects an ongoing effort to address many of those issues. It also serves as a guide to further explorations of the cultures of deaf and non-deaf people, economics, the process of interpretation, linguistics, physiology, psychology, sociology, and even politics-all having baring on the interactions that take place when a sign language interpreter intervenes in the communication process. Anyone who has an interest in, is affected by, or knows someone who is hearing impaired. Also appropriate for legislators, program administrators, agencies that underwrite interpreting, and those whose facilities and services accommodate deaf people.A Longwood Professional Book",books;education;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;instruction methods;new;pedagogy;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;public policy;schools & teaching;social sciences;social services & welfare;special education;used & rental textbooks,17 1903998271,"Poisoned Arrows It is stunning ... he ran great personal risks, living under false identities and suffering extraordinary tropical fits - but the strength of the book is that he resists the twin temptations of humourless campaigning and macho bragging ... It is far more than a travel book, yet as entertaining as any. Don't miss it Sunday Express George Monbiot's fresh, often amusing account offsets the young author's wonder at the untouched natural beauty of the place with his horror at the systematic genocide being waged against its ancient tribal culture Sunday Telegraph George Monbiot is the author of The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order and Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain. His other books include Poisoned Arrows and Amazon Watershed. He is a columnist for The Guardian and Visiting Professor of Planning at Oxford Brookes University. He has held visiting professorships or fellowships at the universities of Oxford (environmental policy), Bristol (philosophy), Keele (politics) and East London (environmental science).",asia;books;education & reference;general;human rights;indonesia;minority studies;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;social sciences;specific demographics;specific topics;travel;travel writing;writing,17 B000OZ0NP8,"Faith and Politics Danforth, a Missouri Republican as well as a lawyer and Episcopal minister, tended to avoid nasty partisan politics during his three terms in the U.S. Senate (with the notable exception of his defense of his protg Clarence Thomas during U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings). After voluntarily retiring from the Senate in 1995, Danforth accepted appointments by White House Republicans, including ambassador to the United Nations and envoy for peace in Sudan. But the partisanship of President George W. Bush, a variety of other Republicans and quite a few Democrats has now led Danforth to urge political rivals to pull together to strengthen the United States, so the nation can in turn promote world peace. Danforth oozes sincerity and good sense as he excoriates Christian conservatives (naming James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson, among others) for corrupting religious doctrine on reproduction and marriage and inappropriately inserting it in government. Conceding that he's an imperfect human being who sometimes failed as a student, husband, father, lawyer, minister and senator, Danforth comes across as a welcome paragon of virtue. (Sept.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. *Starred Review* A former three-term Republican U.S. senator from Missouri and an ordained Episcopal priest, Danforth brings exceptional insight to the debate about the political use of religion and the separation of church and state. He worries that Republican courting of the Christian Right is distorting all notions of public and private morality. He laments that when Republicans voted to have federal courts overrule the state court in the Terri Schiavo case, violating long-held principles, it allowed the Christian Right to take over the party. Danforth urges more liberal and moderate Christians to challenge the presumptiveness of the Christian Right to speak for all Christians. Rather than construct a political agenda based on narrow interpretations of religious orthodoxy, Christians should focus an expansive faith in God that embraces conflicting opinions on a range of controversial issues, including stem-cell research and gay marriage. Danforth is honest in revealing his own struggles to maintain humility in seeking political consensus, and offers a primer for politicians to conduct themselves by Christian principles without dogmatic orthodoxy that ultimately divides the nation. This incredibly thoughtful book will give pause to readers of all political and religious beliefs. Vanessa BushCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Advance Praise: John Danforth was a Republican senator and is an Episcopal priest, and he is deeply disturbed by his party's engagement with religion. He knows whereof he speaks in this meditation about the contested terrain where politics and religion intersect. -George F. Will Heed the call of this certain trumpet! No one speaks with more clarity, honesty or sincerity than my old friend Jack Danforth. When things would get rough in the U.S. Senate, he was the guy we would send off to negotiate our way out of the tough problems with the troops on the other side of the aisle. Heed this thoughtful and provocative message. He always gave his very best. He again does so here. -Alan Simpson, served as Senator from Wyoming 1979-1997 With passion, clarity, and common sense, John Danforth has given us a great gift: a lucid, powerful book that is at once reflective and instructive. By candidly writing about his own unusual pilgrimage through what Roger Williams called 'the wilderness of the world and the garden of the church,' Danforth--priest and politician--sheds light on the complexities and ambiguities of religion and politics. Jesus once told his followers that 'in this world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer,' and, reading Danforth, one is heartened anew that if we all conduct ourselves with humility and a sense of history, we shall find fresh cause to be of good cheer as we face the storms of the present. -Jon Meacham, managing editor of Newsweek and author of American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation This stirring book--part political memoir, part sermon, part moral plea--reminds us again why the remarkable Jack Danforth has become one of the most respected voices in American political life. His thoughtfulness, deep wisdom, and simple decency radiate from every page, and leave one at the end with rare hope that through commitment, faith and politics can ultimately enrich, and not corrupt, one another. -Harold Hongju Koh, Dean, Yale Law School Danforth's is a welcome voice of reason and moderation during a time of divisive and polarizing rhetoric. As priest and politician he ably sets forth the deeper truths of the Christian tradition with clarity and compassion and applies them to the issues of our time. -Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold, Episcopal Church John Danforth is an ordained Episcopal priest and former U.S. senator (R-MO). In 2001, President Bush appointed Danforth as special envoy to Sudan, where he worked to broker a peace agreement that ultimately ended the twenty-year north/south civil war in 2005. Senator Danforth's dry tome is not well suited for audio, especially given his plodding delivery. It is read, slowly, in his funereal speaking voice, and the net effect will be squirming in most seats, as if one is attending an overly long sermon. What it takes Danforth eight CDs to ask and answer is, at heart, why can't we all just get along? His strong advocacy of moderation in politics and political discourse, while a worthy goal, is laid out in far too much detail. The author is sincere and his message reasonable, but a professional narrator might have improved the audio experience. However, even with a better voice, this book might not work in audio form. T.F. 2007 Audies Award Finalist AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright AudioFile, Portland, Maine",books;church & state;elections & political process;ethics & morality;history;kindle ebooks;kindle store;philosophy;political parties;politics & government;politics & social sciences;politics & state;religion;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;world,17 0684810573,"New Well Pregnancy Book: Completely Revised and Updated Mike and Nancy Samuels have long been committed to teaching people how to have control over their own health, and have been among the strongest advocates in the medical establishment for preventive medicine education and self-care. Mike Samuels, M.D., is a graduate of Brown University and the New York University College of Medicine. Nancy Harrison Samuels, who died in 1993, was a graduate of Brown University and the Bank Street College of Education. They are the authors of The Well Baby Book, The Well Child Book, and The Well Adult. Mike Samuels lives in Bolinas, California. CHAPTER 1 Introduction Why This Book Was Written It is with great joy and excitement that I write this second edition of The Well Pregnancy Book. I would like to thank the hundreds of thousands of readers who made the first edition successful and would like to welcome new mothers and fathers to what I believe is a wonderful time. Pregnancy, childbirth, and new parenthood constitute a special time in our lives. Pregnancy and birth are one of the great mysteries, and to live and share that mystery ties us all together and unites us to everything around us. How many times in our lives do we exist in a space of creation? How often does the everyday world show us its majesty and power? To come down to earth, I write this new edition with the knowledge that prenatal education is even more valuable in helping pregnant women than Nancy and I had thought. New studies have shown that learning about pregnancy and childbirth increases satisfaction and participation for the pregnant woman and decreases her need for pain medication during labor. Learning about what is normal in her body relieves her worry and raises her expectations of a positive experience. New studies have shown that a mother's expectations tend to be fulfilled during labor. If she believes she will do well, she is more likely to have a positive birth experience. I hope that this book will give mothers a positive picture of pregnancy and childbirth, relieve worry, and help the mother and father fully experience the joys of this mysterious time. Since Nancy and I wrote the first edition of The Well Pregnancy Book, many things have changed in obstetrics. Prenatal tests have increased in sophistication, new studies have further elucidated which interventions are most helpful in prenatal care and in labor and delivery, and new treatments have emerged for both mother and baby. Perhaps the largest changes have taken place in the attitudes and preferences of the mother. Pregnant mothers are now more likely to give birth in a hospital with an obstetrician in attendance and more likely to use epidural anesthesia. In general, mothers are more interested in what can be done to reduce risks than to reduce technical interference. Mothers of today are less likely to be distrustful of medical authority than mothers at the height of the maternity parents' movement of the late 1970s, and they may be more interested in comfort than in control. The contemporary mother is more likely to be working away from the home. She has a healthy interest in her baby and her long-range future and perhaps less interest than her predecesor in the perfect delivery. I hope these changes help make the experience of pregnancy and childbirth better for the new parents. Many of the things we helped ask for, such as support for the mother during labor, and newborn bonding, have now become routine, so that the mother need not fight for control as she used to do. But I also hope that the focus of technology does not take away from the comfort and satisfaction of the mother by creating a delivery experience designed for the caregiver and not the mother. After all, the goal for both the mother and the caregiver is a healthy baby and a joyful delivery. We believe that childbirth should be mother-and baby-centered to best achieve this goal. I believe that pregnancy is extraordinarily beautiful, if not holy. A pregnant woman is a metaphor for the earth. She is all creation, she is growth, she is manifestation, and the experience is not under her control or the father's control. Pregnancy is the earth speaking. She -- the earth -- is pregnant through the new mother and father. This makes the pregnant woman beautiful and holy. A woman is never more beautiful than when she is pregnant. She is like a fairy woman, like a spirit lover, like a goddess. It is as if she has come into her own, flowered, bloomed. It is as if through her the earth and the sky have spoken. In becoming pregnant, a woman is like the greatest manifestation of the feminine, she is Her in her most beautiful and fullest form. She grows like the universe, expands like space. I think both the mother-to-be and the father-to-be know this deep inside of them. Even if a woman feels clumsy and large and looks different, she knows that she is very special in a soft, intense way while she is pregnant. The parents-to-be also know that their baby is unique and precious, that he or she is like a baby of God, is blessed, new, and is from above them. The mother-to-be and father-to-be are not unlike the manifestation of a living myth, the myth of God and a Goddess giving birth to a holy child. I think this is why some parents love each other so deeply during pregnancy, childbirth, and the newborn period. They know that their baby-to-come is the purest manifestation of their love on earth, and this heals them and everyone around them as the baby is born. This is the first book in a series. The second and third books have already been written. In 1976 we wrote a self-help medical book called The Well Baby Book, which we began just before the birth of our second child. The book was specifically written for new parents, and its goal was to help create happy, healthy babies. We did not give parents any dogmatic solutions or advice but tried to provide them with a broad understanding of growth and development, of health and disease, so that they could make their own choices about patterns that would contribute to their baby's lifelong health. Our next book, The Well Child Book, was written as our children started to grow up. It also pursued the objectives of wellness and preventive medicine, but for the age group of four to twelve. We began the present book because we realized that the same concerns needed to be addressed in terms of pregnancy. There was a lot of information that still was not readily available to the layperson, and much that needed to be demystified. We wanted to give expectant mothers and fathers information on the normal processes of pregnancy and childbirth, so that they would develop confidence in the mother's body and a profound respect for the natural changes her body would undergo during gestation. We believed such information helps because it replaces fear of the unknown with understanding, enables parents to avoid those things that might have negative effects on the baby, and gives parents a realistic basis for positive images of labor and delivery. Our goal in The New Well Pregnancy Book was to help foster happy, healthy pregnancies with good deliveries and healthy babies. In this book we tried not to give rigid answers or advice but to make parents aware of the way pregnancy is currently managed so they will be able to make their own choices and feel comfortable and satisfied with the outcome. Birth is a natural process, which women and babies have evolved over millions of years. Both mother and baby are eminently suited to play out their parts in the processes of fertilization, conception, gestation, labor, and delivery. If a mother were asked to ""design"" a baby, ""grow"" it, and bring it forth from her body, she could not do it. Yet her body has the wisdom to do just that in a manner that never ceases to be miraculous. So an expectant mother's learning doesn't have to do with how to grow a baby but with helping her body do what it instinctively knows how to do without getting in its way. Basically there are two major ways in which expectant mothers hinder their own bodies: one physical, the other mental. In terms of the mother's physical environment, her diet, exercise, exposure to chemicals, and general health are all important variables. Doctors are beginning to learn that certain things in these categories will help the mother's body work at its best, while others may impede it. For example, a baby is much more likely to be healthy if its mother has an optimal diet than if her diet is deficient in calories or protein. In terms of the mother's mental environment, her experiences and her perceptions of them are the important variables. The less fear, stress, and anxiety the mother experiences, the less complicated her pregnancy and delivery are likely to be. Blood flow to the uterus, which controls the delivery of food and oxygen and the removal of waste products, is governed by the autonomic nervous system, the unconscious branch of the nervous system. When a mother can relax and visualize positive images, blood flow to the uterus is maximized; her body tends to nurture the baby in an optimum way during pregnancy and to promote the most effective contractions during labor and delivery. A relaxed, reassured mother who is knowledgeable and feels loved and supported is able to keep out of her body's way by releasing tension and fear and by allowing her body to take over with the inborn skills it has evolved over the centuries. In The Well Body Book, Michael referred to this kind of inborn body wisdom as the three-million-year-old healer. In this book, in a similar way, we visualize that each pregnant woman has inside her a three-million-year-old mother. When a woman lets go of fear and tension, her three-million-year-old mother is free to work at her best. Having a Baby Today Having a baby at this time in our culture not only requires a mother to let her three-million-year-old mother work at its best but requires her to be able to understand and deal with technical medical knowledge when necessary. Modern medicine has tools that have helped optimize the chances of a healthy pregnancy and delivery in certain situations, but these tools and techniques are too new to have become part of any mother's age-old bioprograms or cultural patterns. Mothers may find certain medical techniques to be anxiety producing and in conflict with their instinctual feelings. Thus, some midwives, childbirth educators, and doctors believe that medical intervention can be counterproductive in some instances, working against the natural processes involved in pregnancy and birth. This is the dilemma of modern obstetrics, and it has l...",books;clinical;family relationships;fitness & dieting;general;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;motherhood;new;obstetrics & gynecology;parenting & relationships;pregnancy & childbirth;used & rental textbooks;women's health,17 0415901766,The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory Tania Modleski is Florence R. Scott Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Among her other books are Loving with a Vengeance and Feminism without Women. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.,books;communication & journalism;criticism & theory;film & television;history & criticism;humanities;humor & entertainment;literary theory;literature;literature & fiction;media studies;movies;new;performing arts;social sciences;theory;used & rental textbooks,17 0782141838,"Mastering C# Database Programming Enter a New World of Database Programming C# and ADO.NETfacilitate the development of a new generation of database applications,including remote applications that run on theWeb. Mastering C# Database Programming is the resource you need to thrivein this new world. Assuming no prior experience with database programming, thisbook teaches you every aspect of the craft, from GUI design to server developmentto middle-tier implementation. If youre familiar with earlier versions ofADO, youll master the many new features of ADO.NET all the more quickly.You'll also learn the importance of XML within the new .NET paradigm. Coverageincludes:Accessing a database using C# andADO.NETUsing SQL to access a databaseUsing Visual Studio .NET to buildapplicationsCreating and modifying database tablesUnderstanding ADO.NETclassesDesigning, building, and deploying Web applications that access adatabaseDesigning, building, and deploying effective Web servicesUsingSQL Servers built-in XML capabilitiesWorking with a database in adisconnected mannerUsing advanced transaction controlsUsingTransact-SQL to create stored procedures and functions in a SQL Server database Jason Price has more than 10 years' experience in the software industry. He is an MCSE, OCP, and has extensive experience with C#, .NET, and Java. He is the author of Sybex's Mastering Visual C# .NET and two Oracle books for other publishers. All his books have received 5-star reviews on Amazon.",books;c#;computer science;computers & technology;database storage & design;databases;education & reference;languages & tools;new;object-oriented design;object-oriented software design;programming;programming languages;software;software design;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,17 1573926655,"A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (Revolutionary Studies) Le Blanc is an assistant history professor at Pittsburgh's Carlow College and a self-described activist in labor and social movements. He edited From Marx to Gramsci: A Reader in Revolutionary Marxist Politics. Although most books that consider the ""working class"" are usually devoted to studying or portraying the poor, Le Blanc's book takes a much broader view. For Le Blanc, working class and labor are synonymous. His aim is to make the history of labor in the U.S. more accessible to students and the general reader. He succeeds by outlining major events in the history of the U.S., then showing the role of labor in shaping them or describing their impact on labor. Le Blanc's primer not only informs but should also prove to be a helpful resource. Included are a chronology of U.S. labor history, a U.S. history time line, a glossary of labor terms, and a bibliographic essay highlighting research, classical works, fiction, and films about labor. David Rouse ""exceptional book...not just for scholars or even for students, but for the working class. Such books are rare..."" -- Labor Notes, October 1999",americas;books;business & investing;economics;history;humanities;labor & industrial relations;minority studies;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;specific topics;united states;used & rental textbooks,17 0471735329,"A Piece of My Mind (Jama & Archives Journals) reflections and insights on health, disease, and healingNow in paperback for the first time, A Piece of My Mind brings together revealing personal essays that first appeared in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). These engrossing, moving vignetteswritten by physicians, patients, family members, medical students, and othersoffer a unique glimpse into the everyday experiences and relationships in the medical world.Baring their souls and opening their hearts, the authors share their most personal moments, stories, and observations. You'll hear from the intern who could not hide her emotions, earning reprimand from her supervisors but appreciation from her patients . . . meet an alcoholic whose indomitable spirit helped her defy all the odds . . . experience the heartbreaking comedy of a Monday morning HIV clinic . . . be inspired by the oncology social worker who found a new love of life during her own struggle with breast cancer . . . and learn from the physician who realized that by witnessing her patients' courage she became a better physician.Compelling, touching, and at times humorous, A Piece of My Mind offers a deeper understanding of physicians, patients, medicine, and the simple human act of helping another person.""These stories, based in science, are transmitted to readers . . . after filtering through a human heart . . . consistently succeeds in bridging science and the humanities.""William H. Foege, MD, Emory University JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) is one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world. The American Medical Association is the leading group of physicians in the United States and one of the most respected health-related organizations around the globe. ROXANNE K. YOUNG has been an editor with JAMA since 1977.",administration & medicine economics;books;clinical;doctor-patient relations;essays;fitness & dieting;general;health;medical books;medical history & records;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;physician & patient;reference;special topics;used & rental textbooks,17 1567186483,"Origins of Modern Witchcraft: The Evolution of a World Religion Modern witches devote themselves to evoking and guiding the forces of the natural world to the benefit of humanity. Moura, a high school history teacher, is a practicing witch who has written several books on the practice of witchcraft and its nature-oriented spirituality. Here she goes a step further and tries to show that Wicca derives from the faith of the ancient Dravidians of the Indus Valley. She argues that Dravidian-like religions spread through all of south Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North Africa. Eventually, though, Aryan conquerors overwhelmed the Dravidians of India and replaced the goddess based faith with the orthodoxy of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. In the end, her arguments, while both well presented and well organized, are unconvincing owing to too many logical and factual errors. For instance, we do not have enough knowledge to claim that the Druidism of Celtic Europe clearly derived from the Dravidian faith of the Indus Valley; Latin and Aramaic have never been ""sacred languages"" for Christians, though they have been liturgical languages; the name Christ is not the Aramaic form of the name Krishna; the New Testament never taught a belief in reincarnation; and the Knights Templar were not trying to restore Aryanism in Europe during the Middle Ages. And so on. Not recommended.AJames F. DeRoche, Alexandria, VA Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. ""To find the lost heritage, identify its threads, and trace those threads back to the present, we need to go as far back in our history as we currently can-to our beginnings."" - author Anna Moura"" Ann Moura has been a practitioner of Green Witchcraft for over forty years. She holds both a B.A. and an M.A. in History. Maura lives in Florida where she runs her own metaphysical store, presents public rituals, and teaches classes on the Craft. Visit her online at www.annmourasgarden.com or at www.lunasolesoterica.com.",ancient;books;comparative religion;early civilization;earth-based religions;education & reference;general;history;jewish life;judaism;paganism;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;wicca;witchcraft;world,17 0735608563,"Small Business Solutions for Windows 2000 Professional (Smart Solutions) While it's unclear which part of Small Business Solutions for Windows 2000 Professional is of particular interest to people who run small businesses, there's no doubt that this book provides a solid introduction to Microsoft's latest workstation operating system as it applies to small LANs, dial-up Internet access, and standalone application use. This makes it a super how-to guide for small offices, home offices, and even home LANs for family use. Though you'll find step-by-step procedures in this book, of greater value are the explanations of conceptual matters, such as defining Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Snap-In and describing how to design a good network from the ground up. This approach works well for people who are moving directly to Windows 2000 (and its networking capabilities) from Windows 98 in a standalone configuration. The book takes special care to describe features (such as Internet Connection Sharing) that could save organizations money and time and devotes extra time to the administration tools and procedures fledgling system administrators have to understand. Read this book before you switch to Windows 2000, and keep it on hand during and after installation. --David Wall Topics covered: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, as it applies to someone who will both use and administer it. The book gives detailed help on setting up the operating system, configuring hardware, establishing accounts and other security measures, adding Internet connectivity, and working with small LANs.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business;business & finance;business & investing;computer science;computers & technology;home computing & how-to;microsoft;new;operating systems;professional & technical;small business & entrepreneurship;software;used & rental textbooks;windows os,17 0873514807,"Forest for the Trees: How Humans Shaped the North Woods Forester's book should be required reading for anyone planning an adventure in the Minnesota north woods?or, for that matter, for anyone who wants a better appreciation for the past, present, and future of America?s forests.--Natural History A detailed and monumental work on the history of lumbering in Minnesota.--Milt Stenlund, wildlife biologist and former regional administrator for the Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources An engrossing, authoritative account of the evolving human relationship with land, natural resources, and the environment, The Forest for the Trees is a story of greed, entitlement, corruption, ingenuity, idealism, bureaucratic inertia, and survival, an insightful, unflinching examination of our past, present, and possible future beliefs and behaviors regarding the natural world we inhabit.--Samuel Ligon, author of Safe in Heaven Dead A meticulously researched and richly detailed history of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. This is a book that can and should be embraced by conservationists, members of the timber industry, backpackers, hunters, and anyone who has hiked through a stand of timber, looked up through the sun-streaked canopy, and felt a giddy, primeval sense of wonder that only a still-wild forest can provoke.--David Weddle, author of Among the Mansions of Eden Jeff Forester is a freelance writer whose work has been published in Whole Earth Review, Rolling Stone, Oregon Quarterly, and Timberline. He is executive director of a nonprofit organization and an instructor at Concordia University in St. Paul.",americas;biological sciences;books;business & investing;canoeing;historical study & educational resources;history;midwest;plants;popular economics;science & math;social history;sports & outdoors;state & local;trees;united states;water sports,17 0874517370,"Hunting the Whole Way Home The prose in this collection of hunting essays from the writer and poet Sydney Lea is as lyrical and colorful as a fall morning in the New England woods. Like other writers who have tried to convey the beauty and knowledge that can be gained through blood sport in an age of dogmatic NRA rhetoric and shrill animal-rights advocacy (Tom McGuane comes to mind), Lea wrestles with the central paradox of 20th-century hunting: stalking and killing wild animals can bring one closer to a mostly forgotten elemental earth. Lea conveys a respect for his quarry, the land they both inhabit, and man's place in a living chain in which the actions of any single link can be felt throughout. One need not be a hunter to enjoy these meditations on landscape and humankind's place within the natural community. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 trim. 1 illus. LC 94-20491",americas;animals;biological sciences;books;essays;essays & correspondence;history;hunting;hunting & fishing;literature & fiction;nature & ecology;nature writing;science & math;sports & outdoors;state & local;united states;wildlife,17 0471144304,"Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright's Design for America The fascinating parallel narratives of three men who influenced the era between 1920 and 1950--Wright, Henry Ford and Franklin D. Roosevelt--are interwoven with provocative details about other lives, historic events and personal insights to demonstrate how Wright's ideas have shaped modern America. Describes how the architect's vision failed and succeeded and how Usonia was realized in expected and unexpected ways.",architecture;arts & photography;books;buildings;crafts;drafting & presentation;history;history & criticism;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;humanities;individual architects & firms;new;professional & technical;reference;used & rental textbooks,17 0745325173,"Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where it Comes From and What it Means for Politics Today ""'A sobering analysis of anti-Arab racism, from neo-conservative to liberal, rooted in America's settler colonial past and seeping into every corner of our lives. Steven Salaita takes the reader into the crisis of Arab-American communities in the wake of 9/11. Written with passion, this lucid account of the dangers of American imperialism paints a dark picture of the agenda of the Bush administration not only in the Arab world but also for people of color at home.' Miriam cooke, Professor, Duke University 'An impassioned and deeply compelling look at the origins, evolution, manifestations and implications of anti-Arab racism today.... A tour-de-force which makes it impossible to avoid grappling with the seriousness of anti-Arab racism and its implications for our times.' Lisa Suhair Majaj, co-editor, Etel Adnan: Critical Reflections on the Arab-American Writer and Artist and Intersections: Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women's Novels 'A highly recommended read...Salaita has thoughtfully articulated a very regretful era of unabashed racism in American history.' Ramzy Baroud, editor, Palestine Chronicle and author of Searching Jenin"" Steven Salaita is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He writes frequently about Arab America and the Arab World.",asian;books;civil rights;civil rights & liberties;discrimination & racism;ethnic studies;international & world politics;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,17 0446528293,"Sweetie : Tantalizing Tips from a Furry Fashionista ""Getting dressed without Sweetie's fashion tips would be a nightmare. Throw her a bone and buy her book."" -- Elizabeth Hurley""I love Sweetie for the survivor she is, and I loved reading her story."" -- Liz Smith ""Sweetie has the best taste and worst breath of any fashion icon I know."" -- Julianne Moore""Sweetie is fashion's most influential and hairiest insider."" -- Michael Kors""Sweetie is that rare beauty expert who is black, white, and brown. This is one gorgeous bitch!"" -- Iman Sweetie is an international model, muse, man magnet, and mutt who soared to fame as an Elle magazine columnist, critically acclaimed actress, and inventor of the scientifically unproven ""miracle organ meat diet."" Never one to forget her humble beginnings, Sweetie is the devoted spokesmutt for the A.S.P.C.A. (promoting pet adoption) and the honorary first lady of the North Shore Animal League America. Sweetie lives in New York with her loyal companions, designer John Bartlett and writer Mark Welsh.",arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;cats;commercial;crafts;dogs;dogs & animals;fashion;fashion design;graphic design;hobbies & home;humor;humor & entertainment;mid atlantic;pets & animal care;regional u.s.,17 1577172817,"Highlander: Fearless Celtic Warriors (Military Illustrated) This series was created by Military Illustrated magazine, the leading monthly military history publication in the English language. It has built an unrivaled reputation for authoritative articles, primary research, rare photographs, and specially commissioned artwork.The Scots Highlander was famous for his fearless charges into the face of the enemy and renowned for his bravery, loyalty, and sheer fighting skills. The remarkable story of the Highlanders is fully explored, beginning with their Celtic inheritance, their battles for independence against the English, and their involvement in the Jacobite rebellionHighlanders today are an important element in the fighting forces of the United Kingdom and have fought around the world for their country from the Napoleonic wars to the most recent conflicts. First-hand accounts bring their courage and fighting skills vividly to life.",anthropology;biographies & memoirs;books;england;ethnic & national;europe;history;humanities;ireland;irish;leaders & notable people;military;new;politics & social sciences;scotland;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,17 0786716177,"The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Engimatic Agency ""Valuable ... unveils the agency in all its glory and blemishes."" Philp H. Melanson, Ph. D., an expert on political violence and governmental secrecy, has done original research into the JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King assassinations, prompting appearances on CBS Evening News, BBC, History Channel, Discovery Channel, and C-SPAN. He has served as a consultant to the (JFK) Assassinations-Records Review Board, and is coordinator of the RFK Assassination Archives at the University of Massachussetts Dartmouth. His last book was SECRECY WARS: NATIONAL SECURITY, PRIVACY, AND THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO KNOW. He lives in Marion, Massachussetts.",americas;books;criminal law;history;humanities;intelligence & espionage;law;law enforcement;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;united states;used & rental textbooks;world,17 0415916135,"Hunger and Shame: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro ...make[s] important contributions to the fields of international health and nutrition.Medical Anthropology QuarterlyAn examination is presented of child malnutrition among a relatively wealthy populace, the Chagga of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Views of family members, health workers, and government officials provide insight into the complex of ideas, institutions, and human fallibility that sustain malnutrition. Discussing the moral and practical dilemmas posed by the presence of malnourished children in the community, and exploration is presented of the shame associated with child hunger in relation to social organization, colonial history, and the global economy. The work of NURU, the Nutrition Rehabilitation Unit, established among the Chagga in 1972 is discussed. A joint European/USA NGO, NURU provides an instructive example of the cultural complexities that must be confronted if nutrition rehabilitation is to succeed.M. Howard, Millard, A.V. Mary Howard is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio Wesleyan University. She has extensive fieldwork experience on Mt. Kilimanjaro. Ann Millard is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University.",anthropology;books;clinical;cultural;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;pediatrics;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;sociology;used & rental textbooks,17 1891386492,"The Sitting Swing Named for a childhood swing the author remembers as being impossible to get moving because of the rose bushes directly behind it, Watson's memoir recounts her fearful, highly sheltered years growing up an only child to Ukrainian immigrants in 1940s Alberta, Canada. Watson writes from the hindsight of her 50s, living in a Quebec addiction-recovery facility, where she has checked herself in for 28 days, unsure whether she can stay married to a husband she considers as overbearing as her mother was to her. Gradually, Watson uncovers the childhood wounds leading to her personality crisis: until age six, she lived in a log cabin in the wilderness within a few feet of her prohibitive mother, who pined for her dead firstborn son. Watson was largely ignored by her farmer father, abused by cousins and neighbors, and unable at first to speak English at her schoolhouse or make friends. Denied expression and love within the family, she acted out and married a man who helped continue to make excuses for her lack of ambition. She undergoes a rigorous 12-step program and a systematic breaking down of her ego so that she can re-create herself. This is an earnest memoir, well structured, though the writing lacks rigorous urgency. (Jan.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Brave and inspiring, full of heartbreak and hope. -- Barbara Robinette Moss, author of FierceIrene Watson is no longer in hiding. -- Stan Biderman, author of Everything ChangesThe Sitting Swing looks at one womans life as she seeks to escape childhood bonds and deal with her pain. --TMC Reviews, October 2005 God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,courage to change the things I can,and the wisdom to know the difference. --Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) This book is Dedicated to You, the reader, and my father 1914 - 2008 This narrative, according to my memory and perception, is of my life and how I found a way to find peace within. May reading it help you find your own authentic self and the wisdom to re-write life scripts that have been passed down for generations. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Irene Watson has taught and facilitated healing workshops and retreats throughout the United States and Canada. Most recently she has produced workshops, seminars and retreats for Nekoda Development Institute from her office in Austin, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Liberal Studies, Summa Cum Laude, in Psychology from Saint Edward's University in Austin and her Master of Arts, with honors, in Liberal Studies: Psychology, from Regis University in Denver. Her emphasis was in spirituality and psychosynthesis. She is a member of the American Society of Training and Development--Austin Chapter; a member of the International Womens Writing Guild; member of Spirit at Work; member of Story Circle Network; member of Texas Writer's League; listed in Whos Who of American Women 2004, 2005; is author of the poem Gifts; and was published by The National Library of Poetry in 1996.",addiction & recovery;biographies & memoirs;books;codependency;fitness & dieting;health;marriage & family;mental & spiritual healing;new age;politics & social sciences;relationships;religion & spirituality;self-help;sociology;specific groups;substance abuse;women,17 026274015X,"Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (October Books) "" Looking Awry is a wonderful introduction to dialectical psychoanalysis; to a fresh approach to the subjectivities of mass culture, and to an extraordinary new voice we will hear often in the coming years."" Fredric R. Jameson , Duke University""A Hegelian and a Lacanian Hitchcock has my vote! Looking Awry is a wonderful introduction to dialectical psychoanalysis; to a fresh approach to the subjectivities of mass culture; and to an extraordinary new voice we will hear often in the coming years."" Fredric R. Jameson ""iek is a one-person culture mulcher. Flinging out readings of film noir or Hitchcock""s The Birds, drawing maps of the unconscious, analyzing the commodity form, Stephen King, or Hegel""s Phenomenology of Spirit, be plays the philosopher as standup comic.... The elusive Lacan, who cultivated an aura of indecipherability with the care of a diva becomes a field guide to life in an age of media."" Edward Ball , Voice Literary Supplement Slavoj Zizek is a philosopher and cultural critic. He has published over thirty books, including Looking Awry, The Puppet and the Dwarf, and The Parallax View (these three published by the MIT Press).",books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;movements;movements & periods;movies;phenomenology;philosophy;politics & social sciences;psychoanalysis;psychology & counseling;research & publishing guides;writing,17 1566916569,"Foghorn Outdoors California Recreational Lakes and Rivers: The Complete Guide to Boating, Fishing, and Water Sports ""Meticulously researched and smartly written, ""Foghorn Outdoors offers some of the best recreation guides around. the books provide exceptionally reliable information on each location and activity, while emphasizing sensible, low-impact enjoyment of the outdoors.""",boating;books;california;education & reference;fishing;food;general;hunting & fishing;lodging & transportation;outdoor recreation;pacific;parks & campgrounds;sports & outdoors;travel;united states;water sports;west,17 1561632740,"The Mystery of Mary Rogers (A Treasury of Victorian Murder) Geary (Jack the Ripper) adds to his Treasury of Victorian Murder series, this time retelling a true tale of the disappearance and murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers, which prompted a media frenzy in 1840s New York. Rogers sold cigars in a tobacco store that catered to many of the city's illustrious characters, including Tammany Hall politicos, authors James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving, and, most particularly, Edgar Allen Poe, who was so intrigued by the mystery that he wrote a novel based on the story and offered his own theories about the murder. With her ""natural vivacity"" and ""dark smile,"" Rogers was popular and had many admirers. But after her bruised and bound corpse was found floating in the Hudson, a rushed investigation and hasty burial led to rampant speculation about her character and her murder. There were rumors of a botched abortion and accusations pointing to gangs of ruffians or spurned lovers some observers even suggested that the body wasn't Mary Rogers's at all. Geary comes up with his own twist on the mystery and manages to capture the spirit of a booming and boisterous New York City in the 1840s, a city without a full-time police force at a time when bodies turned up in the city's rivers regularly. Drawing on news accounts of the time and the many fictional accounts surrounding the case, Geary's retelling is detailed and well researched, and his impressive black-and-white drawings depict Victorian New York with great care. The book includes a bibliography and several maps of Manhattan and the Jersey Shore. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Adult/High School-This is the ""Chronicle of the Disappearance and Murder of `The Beautiful Segar Girl' in July, 1841-a crime which was never solved-and which inspired the sensational tale by Edgar A. Poe."" It was not so much Mary's murder that was sensational-bodies were often found floating in the river-but the fact that the victim, who worked in a popular cigar store, had an unusually wide acquaintance among the ""gentlemen"" of the city. With many suspects and loose ends, each new piece of evidence only seemed to muddy the case further, and Geary tells this twisting and fascinating story with remarkable clarity. His compelling art brings the time and place to life; the black-and-white drawings, varying in style to suit his points, lead readers to discover underlying human truths and predicaments that they will recognize as timeless, even as they marvel at the strangeness of the past. The effect is an undertone of creepiness in which any of a number of equally appalling scenarios (and even one happy ending) might have occurred; readers are left to decide upon a solution. Those familiar with today's New York and the New Jersey shore should be particularly fascinated by Geary's maps and evocations of the area's past. YAs susceptible to a good mystery or true-crime story should relish this book. With its commendable historical accuracy, it would also enliven studies of U.S. history.Christine C. Menefee, Fairfax County Public Library, VACopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. The longest of Poe's three tales featuring C. Auguste Dupin, the first modern fictional detective, was based on the 1841 murder of Mary Rogers, a Manhattan tobacconist's assistant. Her apparently beaten corpse (or was it hers?) was pulled from the Hudson at Castle Point in New Jersey a few days after she was last seen alive. Her mother and her alcoholic fiance seemed less than shocked by her demise, yet the latter drugged and drank himself to death shortly thereafter. He had been a suspect; a disappointed suitor, a sailor who roomed at her mother's boardinghouse, and her employer were also investigated. Furthermore, gang rape and a botched abortion were also advanced as the cause of death. And maybe the abortion succeeded, and Mary then ran away. At any rate, the case was never solved. The newest addition to comics creator Geary's Treasury of Victorian Murder series is executed with his customary attention to period detail, cinematic plenitude of points of view, and compositional brio. Ray OlsonCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved An award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, Rick Geary has worked for Marvel Entertainment Group, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and Heavy Metal, and has contributed to National Lampoon and The New York Times Book Review.",19th century;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;comics & graphic novels;graphic design;graphic novels;history;humor;humor & entertainment;lawyers & criminals;modern (16th-21st centuries);murder & mayhem;mystery;true accounts;true crime;world,17 B000PDZFOI,"Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software In the 80s, Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine attempted to define the story of the development of a minicomputer: from the new science to the business and nascent culture of electronic hardware and software that was characteristic of that time. Scott Rosenberg's Dreaming in Code draws on Kidder's model as it attempts to document the state of software, the Internet, and everything circa 2006 through the lens of Chandler, an as-yet-unfinished software application for the management of personal information. The Chandler project--driven by Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development and main author of its 1-2-3 spreadsheet, and later co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation--isn't the primary point of Dreaming in Code, though reading about software people and their social behavior is at least as interesting as reading about that of meerkats or monkeys. Rather, Chandler is a rhetorical device with which Rosenberg takes on the big questions: How do software development teams work (or not)? Why does the reuse of software modules rarely work altogether correctly? Does open-source development by volunteers on the Internet lead to innovation or just insanely bifurcated chaos? Chandler helps his readers think more clearly about all of these issues; however, answers to these questions are, of course, not to be had, which is one of his points. The problem with books about technical subjects that aspire to appeal to a general audience, particularly computers and software, is that such subjects are so far outside the realm of familiarity of most people that the prose bogs down in analogy and metaphor. Rosenberg manages to avoid too much of that and deliver a readable account of software development and culture. --David Wall Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new, Rosenberg observesbut the catch is that the only software worth making is software that does something new. This two-tiered insight comes from years of observing a team led by Mitch Kapor (the creator of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet) in its efforts to create a personal information manager that can handle to-do lists as easily as events scheduling and address books. Rosenberg's fly-on-the-wall reporting deftly charts the course taken by Kapor's Open Source Applications Foundation, while acknowledging that every software programmer finds his or her own unique path to a brick wall in the development process. (The software is still in development even now.) With equal enthusiasm, Rosenberg digs into the history of the computer industry's efforts to make programming a more efficient process. Though there's a lot of technical information, it's presented in very accessible terms, primarily through the context of project management. Even readers whose computer expertise ends at retrieving their e-mail will be able to enjoy digressions into arcane subjects like object-oriented programming. (Jan.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Programmers practice a most abstract and incomprehensible art; yet, as end users, we take them for granted and demand perfection from the software they create. Rosenberg, a theater and movie critic turned technology columnist and founder of the Web magazine Salon.com,^B attempts to shed light on the day-to-day realities of what turns out to be a Herculean task: getting computers to do what we want them to. He spent three years following the course of development of a software program code named Chandler, a combination calendar, to-do list, e-mail manager, and personal database. This open-source project was the dream child of Mitch Kapor, the creator of Lotus 1-2-3, who envisioned a simple, elegant interface capable of easy storage and retrieval of any number of personal data. The practical matter of creation was another story, however, and we learn how the fits and starts of software engineering make even creating a simple program an arduous task. Although this is not edge-of-your-seat stuff, it is highly instructive for anyone planning on managing a software project. David SiegfriedCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Technology people like to call complicated problems 'nontrivial.' Scott Rosenberg has taken an extremely nontrivial topic and made it accessible. He plainly admires the people who create code, but shows them as the complex, flawed beings we all are- and how human talents, quirks and passions become part of what people create. Dreaming in Code is stellar reporting and writing. Dan Gillmor, Director, Center for Citizen Media and author of We the Media We live in a world increasingly governed by the near-invisible logic of software, and yet most of us know almost nothing about that hidden world inside our computers. Dreaming in Code is a fascinating and sobering exploration of how the challenges of programming both inspire and undermine our human drive to create new tools. Beautifully written, it's a book for anyone interested in the roots of creativity and innovation, for coders and non-coders alike. Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You and Emergence The great software genius Bill Joy likes to say that writing software is like building a cathedral: It's art, science, architecture, and manual labor all rolled into one. Dreaming in Code illuminates the truth of that metaphor in all its subtlety and fullness. It has drama, comedy, pathos, and poignancy- and its center, in Mitch Kapor, is one of the most fascinating and yet least understood figures of the digital revolution. It's also so smart and insightful on its subject as any book I know. John Heilemann, New York Magazine columnist and author of Pride Before The Fall: Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era Dreaming in Code is the first true successor to Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine, and is written with a combination of technical sophistication and narrative skill not seen in many years. Read it to understand what all these software wizards actually do. ... Our civilization runs on software. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts, and the greater our ambitions, the more spectacularly we seem to fail. Big software projects regularly crash and burn--just ask the FBI and the IRS, the Pentagon and the FAA, or any decent-size corporation. The software that runs our personal computers is just as trouble prone: The latest version of Microsoft Windows took years longer than planned, and it will still have mountains of bugs. Never in history have we depended so completely on a product that so few know how to make well. Why is it so hard to bend computers to our will? Is creating a great program more like building a bridge or making a movie? Why do software projects display an almost metaphysical capacity for making time come to a stop? And will there ever be a bug-free program? To answer such questions, Scott Rosenberg spent three years following a group of men and women--led by Lotus 1-2-3 creator Mitch Kapor--who are developing a novel personal information manager named Chandler (as in Raymond) meant to challenge market-leader Microsoft Outlook with elegant innovations. Their goal: to build something truly different--an application versatile enough to allow you to take emails, appointments, and notes and effortlessly transform one into another, organizing and displaying them as you please. The team included legendary programmer Andy Hertzfeld, author of much of the original Macintosh operating system, and Lou Montulli, the Netscape cofounder who invented the Web browser cookie. Chandler's first manager, Michael Toy, dreamed of speedy releases but found himself stuck in quicksand; its second, Katie Parlante, resolutely held together a crew of gifted but stubborn programmers--including John Anderson, a philosophical coder who frequently found himself chasing elusive bugs down ratholes, and Andi Vajda, a database expert who once hacked open his high school's minicomputer and found his future inside. Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior, especially their own. Along the way, we encounter black holes, turtles, snakes, dragons, axe-sharpening, and yak-shaving--and take a guided tour through the theories and methods, both brilliant and misguided, that litter the history of software development, from the famous mythical man-month to Extreme Programming. Not just for technophiles but for anyone captivated by the drama of invention, Dreaming in Code offers a window into both the information age and the workings of the human mind. Dreaming in Code is the first true successor to Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine, and is written with a combination of technical sophistication and narrative skill not seen in many years. Read it to understand what . . . software wizards actually do. --James Fallows, The Atlantic Technology people like to call complicated problems 'nontrivial.' Scott Rosenberg has taken an extremely nontrivial topic and made it accessible. He plainly admires the people who create code, but shows them as the complex, flawed beings we all are. Dreaming in Code is stellar reporting and writing. --Dan Gillmor, director of The Center for Citizen Media and author of We the Media Dreaming in Code is a fascinating and sobering exploration of how the challenges of programming both inspire and undermine our human drive to create new tools. Beautifully written, it's a book for anyone interested in the roots of creativity and innovation, for coders and non-coders alike. --Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You and Ghost Wars Scott Rosenberg bravely goes where no nonprogrammer has dared to go before: into the whirlwind where human imagination struggles to become code. In Dreaming in Code he brilliantly interweaves the story of a start-up software company with the history of our (endless) attempts to rationalize the process of programming. --Ellen Ullman, author of Close to the Machine Dreaming in Code has drama, comedy, pathos, and poignancy--and at its center, in Mitch Kapor, one of the most fascinating and yet least understood figures of the digital revolution. It's also as smart and insightful on its subject as any book I know. --John Heilemann, author of Pride Before The Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era SCOTT ROSENBERG is an award-winning journalist and the cofounder of Salon.com, where he served as technology editor, then managing editor, and is now vice president for new projects. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wired, The San Francisco Examiner, and other publications. CHAPTER 1DOOMED[JULY 2003]Michael Toy places his palms on his cheeks, digs his chin into his wrists, squints into his PowerBook, and begins the litany.John is doomed. He has five hundred hours of work scheduled between now and the next release. . . . Katie's doomed. She has way more hours than there are in the universe. Brian is majorly doomed. Plus he's only half time. Andy--Andy is the only one who doesn't look doomed. There are no hundreds on his list.They don't look doomed, these programmers sitting around a nondescript conference room table in Belmont, California, on a summer day. They listen quietly to their manager. Toy is a tall man with an impressive gut and a ponytail, but he seems to shrink into a space of dejection as he details how far behind schedule the programmers have fallen. It's July 17, 2003, and he's beginning to feel doomed himself about getting everything done in the less than two months before they are supposed to finish another working version of their project.Everybody who has a list with more time than there is in the universe needs to sit down with me and go over it.These lists are the bug lists--rosters of unsolved or open problems or flaws. Together they provide a full accounting of everything these software developers know must be fixed in their product. The bug lists live inside a program called Bugzilla. Toy's programmers are also using Bugzilla to track all the programming tasks that must be finished in order to complete a release of the project; each one is responsible for entering his or her list into Bugzilla along with an estimate of how long each task will take to complete.Now let's talk about why we're behind. Does anyone have a story to tell?There's silence for a minute. John Anderson, a lanky programming veteran whose title is systems architect and who is, in a de facto sort of way, the project's lead coder, finally speaks up, in a soft voice. There's a bunch of reasons. In order to build something, you have to have a blueprint. And we don't always have one. Then you hit unexpected problems. It's hard to know how long something's going to take until you know for sure you can build it.But you can't just throw up your hands and say, I quit. Toy usually prefers to check things off his agenda fast, running his developers' meetings with a brisk attitude of let's get out of here as fast as we can that's popular among programmers. But today he's persistent. He won't let the scheduling problems drop. We need to make guesses and then figure out what went wrong with our guesses.Jed Burgess, one of the project's younger programmers, speaks up. There's a compounding of uncertainty: Your estimates are based on someone else's estimates.Toy begins reviewing Anderson's bugs. The famous flicker-free window resizing problem. What's up with that?Officially, this was bug number 44 in Bugzilla, originally entered on January 19, 2003, and labeled Flicker Free window display when resizing windows. I had first heard of the flicker-free window resizing problem at a meeting in February 2003 when the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF), whose programmers Toy was managing, had completed the very earliest version of its project, Chandler--an internal release not for public unveiling that came even before the 0.1 edition. Ultimately, Chandler was supposed to grow up into a powerful personal information manager (PIM) for organizing and sharing calendars, email, to-do lists, and all the other stray information in our lives. Right now, the program remained barely embryonic.At that February meeting, Anderson had briefly mentioned the flicker bug--when you changed the size of a window on the Chandler screen, everything flashed for a second--as a minor matter, something he wanted to investigate and resolve because, though it did not stop the program from working, it offended him aesthetically. Now, nearly six months later, he still hasn't fixed it.Today Anderson explains that the problem is thornier than he had realized. It isn't simply a matter of fixing code that he or his colleagues have written; its roots lie in a body of software called wxWidgets that the Chandler team has adopted as one of the building blocks of their project. Anderson must either wait for the programmers who run wxWidgets to fix their own code or find a way to work around their flaw.So you originally estimated that this would take four hours of work, Toy says. That seems to have been off by an order of magnitude.It's like a treasure hunt, Anderson, unflappable, responds. You have to find the first thing. You have to get the first clue before you're on your way, and you don't know how long it will take.So you originally estimated four hours on this bug. You now have eight hours.Sometimes, Anderson offers philosophically, you just wake up in the morning, an idea pops into your head, and it's done--like that.Mitchell Kapor has been sitting quietly during the exchange. Kapor is the founder and funder of the Open Source Applications Foundation, and Chandler is his baby. Now he looks up from his black Thinkpad. Would it be useful to identify issues that have this treasure-hunt aspect? Is there a certain class of task that has this uncertainty?Within the first hour of working on the bug, Burgess volunteers, you know which it's going to be.So it is agreed: Bugs that have a black hole-like quality--bugs that you couldn't even begin to say for sure how long they would take to fix--would be tagged in Bugzilla with a special warning label.Shortly after the meeting, Toy sits down at his desk, calls up the Bugzilla screen, and enters a new keyword for bug number 44, Flicker Free window display when resizing windows: scary.Toy's fatalistic language wasn't just a quirk of personality: Gallows humor is a part of programming culture, and he picked up his particular vocabulary during his time at Netscape. Though today Netscape is remembered as the Web browser company whose software and stock touched off the Internet boom, its developers had always viewed themselves as a legion of the doomed, cursed with impossible deadlines and destined to fail.There was, in truth, nothing especially doomed about OSAF's programmers: Several of them had just returned from a conference where they presented their work to an enthusiastic crowd of their peers--who told them that their vision could be crisper but who mostly looked at the blueprint for Chandler and said, I want it now! Though the software industry had been slumping for three straight years, they were working for a nonprofit organization funded by $5 million from Kapor. Their project was ambitious, but their ranks included veteran programmers with estimable achievements under their belts. Andy Hertzfeld had written central chunks of the original Macintosh operating system. John Anderson had written one of the first word processors for the Macintosh and later managed the software team at Steve Jobs's Next. Lou Montulli, another Chandler programmer who was not at the meeting, had written key parts of the Netscape browser. They'd all looked doom in the eye before.Similarly, there was nothing especially scary about bug number 44. It was a routine sort of problem that programmers had accepted responsibility for ever since computer software had migrated from a text-only, one-line-at-a-time universe to today's graphic windows-and-mouse landscape. What scared Toy was not so much the nature of Bug 44 but the impossibility of knowing how long it would take to fix. Take one such unknown, place it next to all the other similar unknowns in Chandler, multiply them by one another, and you have the development manager's nightmare: a black hole in the schedule, a time chasm of indeterminate and perhaps unknowable dimensions.Two months before, the entire Chandler team of a dozen programmers had met for a week of back-to-back meetings to try to solve a set of problems that they had dubbed snakes--another word Toy had salvaged from Netscape's ruins. A snake wasn't simply a difficult problem; it was an important problem that we don't have consensus on how to attack. Snake superseded a looser usage at OSAF of the word dragon to describe the same phenomenon.Black holes, snakes, dragons--the metaphors all daubed a layer of mythopoetic heroism over the most mundane of issues: how to schedule multiple programmers so that work actually got done. You could plug numbers into Bugzilla all day long; you could hold one meeting after another about improving the process. Software time remained a snake, and it seemed invincible.This was hardly news to anyone in the room at OSAF. The peculiar resistance of software projects to routine scheduling is both notorious and widely accepted. In the software development world, lateness was so common that a new euphemism had to be invented for it: slippage.Certainly, every field has its sagas of delay; the snail's pace of lawsuits is legendary, and any building contractor who actually finishes a job on time is met with stares of disbelief. But there's something stranger and more baffling about the way software time bends and twists back on itself like a Mobius strip. Progress seems to move in great spasms and then halt for no reason. You think you're almost done, and then you turn around and six months have passed with no measurable progress.This is what it feels like: A wire is loose somewhere deep inside the workings. When it's connected, work moves quickly. When it's not, work halts. Everyone on the inside tries painstakingly to figure out which wire is loose, where the outage is, while observers on the outside try to offer helpful suggestions an...",books;business & investing;business & management;computers & technology;culture;debugging;education & reference;high-tech;industries & professions;kindle ebooks;kindle store;languages & tools;programming;software;software design;software development;testing & engineering,17 0826211887,"A Creed for My Profession: Walter Williams, Journalist to the World (MISSOURI BIOGRAPHY SERIES) Williams was the founder of the first journalism school in the U.S.--the University of Missouri at Columbia--and creator of a code of ethics for journalists. This biography focuses on his contribution to moving journalism from a trade to a profession by recognizing the need for standards that could be applied internationally to the delivery of news. He was also an advocate of world peace and saw a free press as essential to assuring free societies. He started his career as a printer's apprentice and later became editor and part owner of a newspaper in Columbia. Williams was born during the Civil War, when the overdramatized and uneven quality of reporting was glaringly evident. As Williams came of age as a journalist, he spoke against personal attacks on editors that routinely filled newspapers in competitive markets and advocated a focus on the news. This book is probably more detailed than the average reader might care for, but those with a particular interest in journalism and journalism education will enjoy it. Vanessa Bush From The Journalist's Creed: I believe in the profession of journalism. I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of their responsibility, trustees for the public; that acceptance of lesser service than the public service is a betrayal of this trust. . . . Walter Williams found journalism a tradeand helped make it a profession.New York Times Ronald T. Farrar, a former newspaperman, is Reynolds-Faunt Memorial Professor of Journalism and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He is the author of numerous books, including most recently The Law of Advertising and Public Relations. The Missouri Biography Series, edited by William E. Foley",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;communication & media studies;education & reference;historical;history & criticism;journalism & nonfiction;journalists;literature & fiction;movements & periods;politics & social sciences;professionals & academics;research & publishing guides;social sciences;writing,17 0812972031,"Those Who Forget the Past: The Question of Anti-Semitism The growing concern about a global revival of anti-Semitism has been reflected in a number of new books, from Abraham H. Foxman's Never Again? to Phyllis Chesler's The New Anti-Semitism and Gabriel Schoenfeld's The Return of Anti-Semitism. All discuss the shift in geopolitical attitudes and events toward Jews and Israel since September 11; each also reflects its author's own political perspective. Rosenbaum's outstanding compilation of nearly 50 sharp essays has the advantage of not only displaying a wide range of views but juxtaposing pieces in debate with one another. Harvard president Lawrence Summers's critique of academic anti-Israeli sentiment, for instance, is answered by postmodern philosopher Judith Butler's pointing out the chilling effect of calling criticism of Israel ""anti-Semitic."" Rosenbaum (Explaining Hitler) focuses his collection on specific debates: three essays discuss the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, and another three discuss the controversy surrounding the alleged massacre by Israelis of Palestinians at Jenin. The selections are balanced""anti-Semitism and freedom of speech on college campuses, for instance, are discussed by Jeffrey Toobin, Todd Gitlin and Laurie Zoloth. Rosenbaum is also attuned to new aspects of old issues: ""The Greatest Story Ever Sold"" presents Frank Rich's thoughts on the controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, while in ""Who Did Kill Christ?"" Nat Hentoff describes Christian rightists' ongoing promotion of the charge of deicide against the Jews. It's rare to find a book that includes essays by both Gabriel Schoenfeld and Edward Said, Ruth R. Wisse and Bernard Lewis. This is an estimable collection and may find a place with course adopters as well as common readers. Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Repeated attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions in France, the constant drumbeat of slanders against Jews in the Arab media, and even the unveiling of swastikas at anti-Israel demonstrations on American college campuses all document a recent resurgence of anti-Semitism. But this anthology is hardly redundant. Rosenbaum, who examined efforts to ""explain"" evil in Explaining Hitler (1998), has compiled a cross section of outstanding, thought-provoking, and deeply disturbing articles and essays on the revival (or resurfacing) of the ""longest hatred."" Jeffrey Goldberg looks behind the moderate facade to uncover the depth of Jew hatred in Mubarak's Egypt. Bernard Lewis analyzes the links between European and Arabic anti-Semitism. Tariq Ramadan offers a hopeful piece that pleads for tolerance, respect, and interreligious dialogue. Cynthia Ozick provides devastating examples of how the ""big lie"" technique is used to demonize Israel (of course, under the guise of sympathy for the Palestinian people). This is an important and vital contribution to efforts to comprehend what is new and what is the same in this ancient virus of ignorance and hatred. Jay FreemanCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Chapter 1Jonathan RosenThe Uncomfortable Question of Anti-SemitismWhen i was growing up, my father would go to bed with a transistor radio set to an all-news station. Even without a radio, my father was attuned to the menace of history. A Jew born in Vienna in 1924, he Xed his homeland in 1938; his parents were killed in the Holocaust. I sometimes imagined my father was listening for some repetition of past evils so that he could rectify old responses, but he may just have been expecting more bad news. In any event, the grumbling static from the bedroom depressed me, and I vowed to replace it with music more cheerfully in tune with America. These days, however, I Wnd myself on my fathers frequency. I have awakened to anti-Semitism.I am not being chased down alleyways and called a Christ killer, I do not feel that prejudicial hiring practices will keep me out of a job, and I am not afraid that the police will come and take away my family. I am, in fact, more grateful than ever that my father found refuge in this country. But in recent weeks I have been reminded, in ways too plentiful to ignore, about the role Jews play in the fantasy life of the world. Jews were not the cause of World War II, but they were at the metaphysical center of that conXict nonetheless, since the Holocaust was part of Hitlers agenda and a key motivation of his campaign. Jews are not the cause of World War III, if thats what we are facing, but they have been placed at the center of it in mysterious and disturbing ways.I was born in 1963, a generation removed and an ocean away from the destruction of European Jewry. My mother was born here, so there was always half the family that breathed in the easy air of postwar America. You dont have to read a lot of Freud to discover that the key to a healthy life is the ability to fend oV reality to a certain extent. Deny reality too much, of course, and youre crazy; too little and youre merely miserable. My own private balancing act has involved acknowledging the fate of my murdered grandparents and trying to live a modern American life. I studied English literature in college and in graduate school, where I toyed with a dissertation on Milton, a Christian concerned with justifying the ways of God to man. I dropped out of graduate school to become a writer, but I always felt about my life in America what Milton says of Adam and Eve entering exilethe world was all before me.Living in New York, pursuing my writing life, I had the world forever all before me. I chose within itI married and had a child. For ten years I worked at a Jewish newspaper. But my sense of endless American possibility never left meeven working at a Jewish newspaper seemed a paradoxical assertion of American comfort. My fathers refugee sense of the world was something that both informed me and that I worked to deWne myself against. I felt it was an act of mental health to recognize that his world was not my world and that his fears were the product of an experience alien to me. I was critical of the Holocaust Museum in Washington. I didnt want ancient European anti-Semitism enshrined on federal land. But now everything has come to American soil.Recently, I read an interview with Sheik Muhammad Gemeahawho was not only the representative in the United States of the prominent Cairo Center of Islamic Learning, al-Azhar University, but also imam of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York City. The sheik, who until recently lived in Manhattan on the Upper West Side, explained that only the Jews were capable of destroying the World Trade Center and added that if it became known to the American people, they would have done to Jews what Hitler did. This sentiment will be familiar to anyone who has been watching the news or reading the papers. In Kuwait, there were reports that New York rabbis told their followers to take their money out of the stock market before September 11; in Egypt, the Mossad was blamed for the attack. It is easy talk to dismiss as madness, I suppose, but because so many millions of Muslims seem to believe it, and because airplanes actually did crash into the World Trade Center, words have a diVerent weight and menace than they had before.So does history, or rather the forces that shape historyparticularly the history of the Jews. It would be wrong to say that everything changed on the eleventh of September for me. Like the man in the Hemingway novel who went bankrupt two waysgradually and then suddenlymy awareness of things had also been growing slowly. My fathers sister escaped in the 1930s from Vienna to Palestinenow, of course, called Israeland I have a lot of family there. I grew up knowing that Israel, for all its vitality, was ringed with enemies; I knew how perilous and bleak life had become after the collapse of the Oslo peace process a year ago and how perilous and bleak it could be before that.I knew, too, that works like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Russian forgery about demonic Jewish power, have been imported into Arab society, like obsolete but deadly Soviet weapons. By grafting ancient Christian calumnies onto modern political grievances, Arab governments have transformed Israel into an outpost of malevolent world Jewry, viewing Israelis and Jews as interchangeable emblems of cosmic evil. So when the Syrian defense minister recently told a delegation from the British Royal College of Defense Studies that the destruction of the World Trade Center was part of a Jewish conspiracy, I wasnt really surprised.Id gotten a whiV of this back in early September, while following the United Nations conference on racism and discrimination in Durban, South Africa, where the Arab Lawyers Union distributed booklets at the conference containing anti-Semitic caricatures of Jews with fangs dripping blooda mere sideshow to the isolation of Israel and the equating of Zionism with racism that ultimately led to the United States withdrawal. Singling out Israel made of a modern nation an archetypal villainJews were the problem and the countries of the world were Wguring out the solution. This was hardly new in the history of the United Nations, but there was something so naked about the resurrected Nazi propaganda and the anti-Semitism fueling the political denunciations that I felt kidnapped by history. The past had come calling.I felt this in a diVerent form reading coverage of Israel in European papers. Though public expressions of anti-Semitism are taboo in a post-Holocaust world, many Europeans, in writing about Israel, have felt free to conjure images of determined child killers and mass murderers. Earlier this year, the Spanish daily La Vanguardia published a cartoon depicting a large building labeled Museum of the Jewish Holocaust and behind it a building under construction labeled Future Museum of the Palestinian Holocaust. The cartoon manages to demonize Jews and trivialize the Holocaust simultaneously. Tom Gross, an Israel-based journalist, recently pointed out to me that a BBC correspondent, Hilary Andersson, declared that to describe adequately the outrage of Israels murder of Palestinian children one would have to reach back to Herods slaughter of the innocentsalluding to Herods attempt to kill Christ in the cradle by massacring Jewish babies. After leading an editor from The Guardian on a tour of the occupied territories, Gross was astonished at the resulting front-page editorial in that highly inXuential British paper declaring that the establishment of Israel has exacted such a high moral price that the international community cannot support this cost indeWnitely.I understood that the editorial, speaking of the cost of the establishment of Israelnot of any particular policiesimplied that Israels very right to exist is somehow still at issue. (One cannot imagine something similar being formulated about, say, Russia, in response to its battle with Chechen rebels, however much The Guardian might have disagreed with that countrys policies.) And this reminded me inevitably of the situation of the Jews in 1940s Europe, where simply to be was an unpardonable crime.I had somehow believed that the Jewish Question, which so obsessed both Jews and anti-Semites in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, had been solvedmost horribly by Hitlers Wnal solution, most hopefully by Zionism. But more and more I feel Jews being turned into a question mark once again. How is it, the world still asksabout Israel, about Jews, about methat you are still here? I have always known that much of the world wanted Jews simply to disappear, but there are degrees of knowledge, and after September 11 my imagination seems more terribly able to imagine a world of rhetoric fulWlled.There are Wve million Jews in Israel and eight million more Jews in the rest of the world. There are one billion Muslims. How has it happened that Israel and world Jewry, along with the United States, is the enemy of so many of them? To be singled out inside a singled-out country is doubly disconcerting. There are a lot of reasons why modernizing, secularizing, globalizing America, whose every decision has universal impact, would disturb large swaths of the world; we are, after all, a superpower. Surely it is stranger that Jews, by their mere presence in the world, would unleash such hysteria.And yet what I kept hearing in those Wrst days in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center is that it was our support of Israel that had somehow brought this devastation down on us. It was a kind of respectable variant of the belief that the Mossad had literally blown up the World Trade Center. It could of course be parriedafter all, the turning point in Osama bin Ladens hatred of the United States came du...",21st century;anthropology;books;cultural;discrimination & racism;essays;essays & correspondence;ethnic studies;history;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;race relations;religion & spirituality;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics,17 0787953091,"Achieving Success Through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks Why do some people prosper while others struggle? The difference is more than what they know. It's also who they know. Successful people know how to improve their wealth, health, and happiness by creating rich social capital, tapping the hidden resources in their business, professional, and personal networks.Achieving Success Through Social Capital is your hands-on guide to success through building and using your social capital. You'll learn why rich social capital produces higher pay, faster promotions, better jobs, breakthrough ideas, new business opportunities, and profitable companies. Rich social capital can even make you luckier. You'll also learn why good networks are essential for your health and emotional well-being, and for a meaningful life even a longer life.With his 1994 business bestseller Networking Smart, Wayne Baker established himself as a leader in the social capital field. In this new book, he incorporates the latest findings about social capital into an empowering, practical, step-by-step program. He shows you how to move beyond the myth of individualism to the recognition that we are all connected and that connections are the keys to success. He guides you through the process of evaluating the quality of your current networks, improving your networks by applying dozens of proven practices, and using your social capital to invoke the power of reciprocity, helping yourself by contributing to others.Baker has helped thousands of people, companies, and associations discover the power of social capital, take charge of their networks, and create the vibrant networks they need to support their missions and achieve their goals. His books, workshops, and business courses enable people to learn, apply, and benefit from the universal principles of networks.Whether you're an entrepreneur with a growing business, a corporate executive trying to manage change, or a free agent in transitiondiscover the power of social capital. Learn to val Why do some people prosper while others struggle? The difference is more than what they know. It's also who they know. Successful people know how to improve their wealth, health, and happiness by creating rich social capital, tapping the hidden resources in their business, professional, and personal networks.Achieving Success Through Social Capital is your hands-on guide to success through building and using your social capital. You'll learn why rich social capital produces higher pay, faster promotions, better jobs, breakthrough ideas, new business opportunities, and profitable companies. Rich social capital can even make you luckier. You'll also learn why good networks are essential for your health and emotional well-being, and for a meaningful life even a longer life.With his 1994 business bestseller Networking Smart, Wayne Baker established himself as a leader in the social capital field. In this new book, he incorporates the latest findings about social capital into an empowering, practical, step-by-step program. He shows you how to move beyond the myth of individualism to the recognition that we are all connected and that connections are the keys to success. He guides you through the process of evaluating the quality of your current networks, improving your networks by applying dozens of proven practices, and using your social capital to invoke the power of reciprocity, helping yourself by contributing to others.Baker has helped thousands of people, companies, and associations discover the power of social capital, take charge of their networks, and create the vibrant networks they need to support their missions and achieve their goals. His books, workshops, and business courses enable people to learn, apply, and benefit from the universal principles of networks.Whether you're an entrepreneur with a growing business, a corporate executive trying to manage change, or a free agent in transitiondiscover the power of social capital. Learn to value connections, reinvent your networks, and create blockbuster results. This book will show you how. WAYNE BAKER is professor of organizational behavior at the University of Michigan Business School. He puts his knowledge into action through his work with HUMAX Corporation, an assessment and training firm specializing in personal and organizational development. In addition to his business bestseller, Networking Smart, he has published numerous articles on business and social networks. He leads workshops and gives lectures around the world on the power of social capital.Email: wayneb@HUMAXnetworks.com",books;business & finance;business & investing;business communication;communications;management;management & leadership;new;organizational behavior;politics & social sciences;self-help;skills;social sciences;sociology;success;used & rental textbooks;workplace,17 0760326320,"The Longest Ride: My Ten-Year 500,000 Mile Motorcycle Journey Sun Medias Newspapers, Dec. 9, 2007 The following list is in no special order of preference, except for one book in particular that topped the list hands down: The Longest Ride. Cycle World, May 2007 F650.com, If you are only going to read one book this year, it should be this one I have just read the first few chapters, but I'm totally hooked. Scotto is a great story-teller ...I definitely recommend it. Motorcycle travel writer Emilio Scottos book The Longest Ride chronicles his amazing 10-year, 500,000-mile journey around the world on the 1980 Honda Gold Wing he dubbed The Black Princess. In his native South America and almost everywhere else, Scotto took lots of compelling photos and tells even more compelling stories about the 279 countries and territories he visited.Emilio, today I will say a prayer for you and your Black Princess. You both have my blessing.Pope John Paul II, Vatican City, 1987Friction Zone, July 2007 Scotto is a natural born story-teller who is able to effectively relate much of the excitement of his trip into the Longest Ride. Hopping aboard the Black Princess, his 1980 Honda Gold Wing, Emilio Scotto set out on a record-breaking world tour that lasted more than a decade. He began by exploring his native South America, followed by Central America, Mexico, and the United States. From there he went to Europe, from there the Soviet Union, and from there on to Africa. The list of countries Emilio toured in the following years--Tunisia, Libya, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone (where he was set upon by cannibals), Liberia, Congo, Zaire, Mozambique, Tanzania, Somalia (which he escaped from on an old freighter), Petra, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal, China, Tibet, Singapore-- is practically endless, matched only by the list of adventures he had during his journey. With over 300 photos, The Longest Ride takes the reader along on Emilios ride as he relives this amazing, record-breaking adventure of a lifetime. For his eighth birthday, Emilio Scottos mother bought him a world atlas. He told his mother that he would someday make a route that would pass through all the countries of the world. As an adult, through a melding of fate, karma, and luck, he got his hands on the most amazing machine: a black 1100 Honda Gold Wing motorcycle. This will be my ticket to see the world, he said to himself. With no money or credit cards, and zero travel experience, Emilio bid farewell to his family, hopped on his motorcycle, and headed into the unknown. Thus began a decade-long journey that landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. Through words and photos, Emilio takes you on the journey of a lifetime in The Longest Ride. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Emilio Scotto began his professional life as a pharmaceutical salesman. But a long-simmering dream to travel the world eventually got the best of him. In 1985 he set out on a motorcycle journey around the world that would last a record-setting 10 years. Emilio lives with his wife Monica in Los Angeles, California.",adventure;automotive;books;education & reference;food;general;lodging & transportation;motorcycles;professional & technical;reference;research & publishing guides;road travel;specialty travel;transportation;travel;travel writing;writing,17 0471157058,"How to Disagree Without Being Disagreeable: Getting Your Point Across with the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense As bestselling author Suzette Haden Elgin proves, you don't have to live your life on red alert. With her Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense techniques, you'll be able to respond clearly to hostile comments from othersor deliver necessary negative messages of your ownwithout sacrificing your dignity or principles. You'll learn to: Keep domestic disagreements from escalating Deliver criticism to coworkers, employers, or employees Handle aggressive, negative comments about race, politics, or religion Provide discipline without increasing hostility Use language that reduces tension and creates rapport in every situation Suzette Haden Elgin, Ph.D., is the founder of the Ozark Center for Language Studies, near Huntsville, Arkansas. She is nationally recognized for her seminars and public speaking and is the author of ten books on the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense, including Genderspeak, You Can't Say That to Me!, The Gentle Art of Communicating with Kids and Try to Feel It My Way (all published by Wiley)",behavioral sciences;books;business & investing;communication;conflict management;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;interpersonal relations;language & grammar;parenting;parenting & relationships;psychology & counseling;relationships;science & math;self-help;words,17 1860649823,Reviving Phoenicia: The Search for Identity in Lebanon 'Asher Kaufman has produced a fascinating study which will be of interest not only to students of Lebanese and Middle Eastern history but also to those interested in nationalism generally and in the Middle East in particular.'Islam and Christian -Muslim Relations Asher Kaufman teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace.,19th century;20th century;anthropology;books;cultural;ethnic studies;folklore & mythology;history;humanities;lebanon;middle east;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,17 1590590627,"Advanced .NET Remoting in VB .NET Ingo Rammer is co-founder of thinktecture, a company providing in-depth technical consulting and training services for software architects and developers. Ingo is a world-renowned expert for design and development of distributed applications, and he provides architecture, design, and architecture review services for teams of all sizes. He focuses mainly on improving performance, scalability and reliability of critical .NET applications. Apart from his consulting services, he is a regular speaker at developer conferences around the world, has authored the award-winning best-selling Advanced .NET Remoting books for Apress, and writes a regular column on software design and architecture which is published in English, German and Italian. Ingo is the Microsoft Regional Director for Austria, and was awarded the Microsoft ""Most Valuable Professional"" status of Solution Architect. You can read more about him at www.thinktecture.com/staff/ingo.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;languages & tools;microsoft;networking;new;programming;programming languages;software design;software design & engineering;software development;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks;visual basic,17 0521399297,"Peace and War: Armed Conflicts and International Order, 1648-1989 (Cambridge Studies in International Relations) ""The study's broad scope and its accessibility render it an admirable student text. ... It is not only its findings, but also its methods which pose an interesting challenge to the prevailing modes of analysis in international relations."" International Journal""Holsti's approach is also salient: transcending the simple empiricism of so many US scholars of international relations during the 1960s, 1970s and even the 1980s; rejecting all mono-causal explanations of war and casting doubt upon sociological accounts of international conflict and violence. Politics, for Holsti 'is purposeful activity' and the study of international politics can thus be recovered as a humanistic discipline."" R.J. Barry Jones, Times Higher Education Supplement""Combined with its astute investigation of the attitudes of the statesman, the empirical findings of this pioneering work make this book rich ground for subsequent theory development...A full incorporation of other approaches to world politics with the splendid empirical assessments of this volume promises many further insights into the cause and results of aspirations to world order."" American Political Science Review Starting with the peace treaties of Munster and Osnabruck of 1648, 177 international wars are examined to analyze conflict-producing issues as well as the changing attitudes of policy makers and their success at conflict resolution over 350 years.",books;engineering;history;international & world politics;international relations;military science;military sciences;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;science & math;social sciences;special topics;technology;used & rental textbooks,17 0971828601,"Flee to the Fields: The Founding Fathers of the Catholic Land Movement ""For a book originally published in 1934, it is remarkably on target."" -- The Wanderer, February 19, 2004 This volume is an anthology of essays by various scholars including Hilaire Belloc, Fr. Vincent McNabb, Herbert Shove, George Maxwell, Reginald Jebb, and others.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;church history;history;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks;world,17 0198268017,"Contra Gentes and De Incarnatione (Oxford Early Christian Texts) Text: English, Greek (translation) Original Language: Greek",biochemistry;biological sciences;biology & life sciences;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;earth-based religions;humanities;jesus;new;paganism;religion & spirituality;religious studies;science & math;science & mathematics;theology;used & rental textbooks,17 1852334053,"Gemini Steps to the Moon From the reviews: ""David J. Shayler has written a fascinating book which tells, with a fresh perspective from the end of the twentieth century, the achievements of Project Gemini. His book, which is based on extensive research of NASA archives and interviews with some of the Gemini astronauts, relives the pioneering years of American manned spaceflight."" (John ODonoghue, Astronomy Space, July, 2002) ""David Shayler has an easy style of writing and an excellent way of putting over what could have been a difficult subject. With plenty of line drawings and black and white images, this book does the subject proud. It should appeal to anyone with an interest in spaceflight and to those wishing to understand how the US got to the Moon in under a decade from the first crewed spaceflight. I expect it to become the bible on Gemini for spaceflight enthusiasts everywhere."" (Paul Money, Astronomy Now, September, 2002) ""David Shayler is well qualified to write a book about Gemini, and he has succeeded admirably. He deals with the project in all its aspects; the initial steps, the design and planning, the astronauts themselves, the flights . It is clear that a tremendous amount of research has been involved; the text is well-written, accurate, and very detailed. serious students and scientific historians will find it invaluable as a reference work, and it should certainly have a place in every scientific library."" (Patrick Moore, The Observatory, Vol. 122 (1168), 2002) ""David Shayler brilliantly wrote the essential history of Gemini with his newest book . a highly entertaining and readable account of a unique program . The author has ensured the book contains an extensive study of these goals and the flights on which they were carried out. Often the information was completely new to me. Gemini: Steps to the Moon is a book that I can highly recommend to anyone interested in a little known era in the history of spaceflight."" (Kate Doohan, CRCSS Space Industry News, Issue 93, March, 2002) ""David Shaylers superb history of the Gemini Project is subtitled Steps to the Moon . An up to date biographical index of all astronauts involved in Gemini and its potential USAF developments is incorporated as an appendix. Shayler has obviously researched widely. His history is full of fascinating details that were previously unknown to this reviewer. With Shaylers history you need never research Gemini again for its all here!"" (John ODwyer, News Bulletin of the Astronautical Society of Western Australia, Vol. 27 (4), 2002)",aeronautical engineering;aeronautics & astronautics;aerospace;astronomy;astronomy & astrophysics;astronomy & space science;astrophysics & space science;books;engineering;history & philosophy;new;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;technology;used & rental textbooks,17 0471169161,"Foundations of Application Management An insider's guide to more effective application monitoring and control Foundations of Application Management Monitoring applications on all of your corporation's systems is a daunting, never-ending challenge that has probably caused you to lose more than your share of sleep. It's tough to keep track of the currently installed software and to make sure that only the legally licensed versions of software are in use across the organization. So far, there has been very limited success managing application systems. The challenge arises because software components may be running on thousands of PCs across, our organization, many with different operating systems. This book will help you meet the challenges of managing applications in todays highly distributed computing environment. Written by leaders in the movement for better application management, this book gives you practical and proven advice including:* Clear definitions of application management disciplines* What to look for in commercial application management tools* Coverage of the mainframe, desktop, and distributed computing environments* A review of the CIM, DMI, SNMP, POSIX, ARM, and AMS standards* Practical guidance for achieving application management* Details about current management toolsWiley Computer Publishing. Timely. Practical. Reliable. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/ RICK STURM is a principal with Enterprise Management Associates, a consultancy focused on management issues. He was a founder of the Enterprise Management Summit, the OpenView Forum and was co-chair of the IETF Application MIB Working Group. WINSTON BUMPUS has had over 25 years of experience in the computer industry. He is currently a member of Novell's Corporate Architecture team. He was a founder of Annatek Systems, Inc. that developed Network Navigator, a distributed application management family of products. Winston is now the President of the DMTF where he participated on the Technology Development Committee to define the Common Information Model.",books;business & finance;business & investing;computer science;computers & technology;economics;entrepreneurship;information systems;mathematics;networking;networks;new;protocols & apis;science & math;small business & entrepreneurship;software engineering;used & rental textbooks,17 1871592232,"Rapid Eye 2 (v. 2) There isn't much that can go wrong with Rapid Eye, each volume has enough activity within its covers to keep the most jaded revolutionary on the go. -- Sin",american literature;anthologies;architecture;arts & photography;books;classics;education & reference;essays;essays & correspondence;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;professional & technical;short stories;united states;used & rental textbooks,17 0195044215,"No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940 ""A careful and scholarly work which manages at the same time to display a humane and respectful attitude towards the community it is examining.""--Bulletin of Hispanic Studies""Well-documented yet animated discussion of forces that affected Chicano community--labor, family, women--Offers lively analysis and discussion, and sees culture as transformational, not static.""--Daniel Morena, California State University, Long Beach""Excellent source, not only on... gender-class-ethnicity in the modern U.S. West, but also because part of the research was conducted here in Weld County, Colorado.""--Michael Welsh, University of Northern Colorado""An important and much needed contribution to the growing historical literature on Chicano workers.""--International Labor and Working Class History""Excellent source on several topics: women, the Southwest, Hispanic history.""-- Michael Welsh, Univ. of Northern Colorado""Unique....highly original interpretations...yield first rate revisionist scholarship. As a social history monograph, the book is thoroughly documented and skillfully organized, and the interpretive insights should encourage social theorists of migration, gender, and community to recast many assumptions.""--International Migration Review""The research is thorough; the scholarship is impressive.""--The Historian""A marvelous social history....No Separate Refuge sparkles with historical and geographical insight and creativity....a marvel.""--Journal of Historical Geography""Impressive....An important book that merits the attention of scholars in southwestern, frontier, and community history as well as those in women's studies and in the various social sciences.""--Southwestern Historical Quarterly""In an extremely well organized and lucid study, Deutsch traces Southwestern Hispanics, as their migrations expand community and produce several different cultural frontiers....Gracefully written....her synthesis maps out a cultural motif that brings new meaning to the contours of western history.""--Reviews in American History --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Sarah Deutsch is at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.",19th century;20th century;americas;books;class;hispanic american studies;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,17 0595126103,"77 Sure-Fire Ways to Kill a Software Project: Destructive Tactics That Cause Budget Overruns, Late Deliveries, and Massive Personnel Turnover Daniel and Noelle Ferry have worked for Washington, D.C. metropolitan area Beltway Bandits for over twenty-five years. Noelle is the author of the womens issues novel Lies and Raspberry Coffee (iUniverse.com). Daniel is the author of the hard-boiled mystery, Death on Delivery (iUniverse.com). They live on their farm in Virginia.",books;business & investing;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;decision-making & problem solving;industries & professions;information management;information systems;management & leadership;pmp exam;programming;project management;software design;software development;software engineering;testing & engineering,17 0192805568,"The Oxford Book of Exploration (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse) The compiler of this volume, himself an explorer, author, and world traveler, has put together a sampler of some of the best of the vast literature of exploration from around the world. It consists of carefully selected brief excerpts from the writings of Chinese foot and camel travelers of c.300 A.D. to 20th-century explorers on polar expeditions by balloon and airplane. Each excerpt is accompanied by a brief description of the expedition and a reference to the complete source of the excerpt. Unfortunately, Hanbury-Tenison's somewhat arbitrary distinction between ""exploration"" literature (included) and ""travel"" literature (excluded) serves to rule out many of the distinctive voices of women travelers. The result is nevertheless a series of fascinating vignettes that introduce the reader to the world of exploration literature, delight armchair travelers, and invite further reading. Suitable for both young adult and adult readers and a worthwhile addition to all libraries.- Barbara Walden, Univ. of Minnesota Libs., MinneapolisCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review of previous edition: ""It is an exceedingly handsome but affordable volume, full of exciting stories and odd bits of historical facts.""--The Times [London] Robin Hanbury-Tenison is a well-known explorer, author, conservationist, broadcaster, film-maker, and campaigner. Named by the Sunday Times in 1982 as 'the greatest explorer of the past 20 years', he made the first land crossing of South America at its widest point, and the first river crossing of South America from north to south from the Orinoco to Buenos Aires. He was one of the founders of Survival International, the worldwide movement to support tribal peoples, and has been awarded an OBE for his work in lobbying on their behalf. He is a regular contributor of articles and reviews to newspapers and magazines, has made several films of his expeditions for television, and broadcasts regularly in radio and on TV.",adventurers & explorers;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;essays;essays & correspondence;history;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;research & publishing guides;specific groups;travel;used & rental textbooks;world;writing,17 0071424962,"Hands-on AI with Java : Smart Gaming, Robots, and More Demystify AI and Make It Work -- or Play! * Give your robot uncanny abilities * Build programs that work intelligently with humans * Add smarts to computer games * Program optimal path-finding for machining and robotics LEARN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITH DO-IT-YOURSELF PROJECTS Edwin Wise' Hands-On AI with Java shows you how to put AI techniques to work in a wide variety of useful and entertaining ways. Robot builders, hobbyists, game developers, automated-help-desk programmers, and even manufacturing engineers can take advantage of Wises clear explanations and generous samples of customizable Java code. This book shows you how to: * Give computer game characters role-playing and decision-making skills * Simulate evolution to find solutions to hard problems * Develop machine-to-human text interactions for help desks, adventure games, computerized tutorials, and Web agents * Guide machine tools for intelligent behavior, such as tool-path optimization and efficient sheet utilization * Teach your computer to play strategy games * Solve control problems, including the classic inverted-pole problem With its own helpful Web site (and an author who answers e-mails), Hands-On AI with Java is the perfect starting point in artificial intelligence. Edwin Wise is Vice President of Development and partner at Wittlock Engineering, LLC, Austin, Texas. His expertise and interests range from basic electronics and software development to microcontrollers, AI, and robots. He is the author of Applied Robotics; Applied Robotics II; and Animatronics: A Guide to Animated Holiday Displays. He lives in Austin.",artificial intelligence;books;computer science;computer technology;computers & technology;education & reference;engineering;graphics & multimedia;human vision & language systems;java;languages & tools;new;professional & technical;programming;programming languages;robotics;used & rental textbooks,17 0521776929,"Let's Talk 3 Student's Book This communicative speaking and listening course in American English is designed to develop oral communication skills. A variety of interesting and innovative topics encourage students to express their feelings, ideas, and opinions. In Student's Book 3 topics include cross-cultural communication, mysteries, famous people, technology, and current events. The Student's Book contains 16 thematic units divided into two-page lessons. Review puzzles after every four units recycle key vocabulary. This level provides between 40 and 60 hours of class instruction. A special Self-study section, including an Audio CD packaged with the book, assists students needing additional practice.",books;communication;communication & journalism;communications;education;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;instruction methods;language & grammar;new;pedagogy;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,17 0521353114,"Industrialisation and Everyday Life Text: English (translation) Original Language: German Industrialising und Volksleben by Rudolf Braun is widely regarded as a classic of modern social history, inspiring a whole series of profound debates about the transition from pre-industrial society to the modern world. Utilising evidence from an upland Swiss canton, Industrialisation and Everyday Life provides a comprehensive survey of the impact upon popular life styles of the development of widespread cottage industry, as land-hungry labourers added textile manufacture to their existing agricultural concerns.",18th century;19th century;books;crafts;europe;history;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;humanities;ireland;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;politics & social sciences;small homes & cottages;social sciences;switzerland;used & rental textbooks,17 1567513042,American Nightmare: Predatory Lending and the Foreclosure of the American Dream Richard Lord is a writer for the Pittsburgh City Paper whose work on subprime lending has won numerous awards and appeared in national forums.,agriculture;books;business & investing;business life;credit ratings & repair;economic conditions;economics;ethics;industries & professions;personal finance;political economy;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;reference;specific topics;united states,17 1582343438,"The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East Starred Review. The title of this moving, well-crafted book refers to a tree in the backyard of a home in Ramla, Israel. The home is currently owned by Dalia, a Jewish woman whose family of Holocaust survivors emigrated from Bulgaria. But before Israel gained its independence in 1948, the house was owned by the Palestinian family of Bashir, who meets Dalia when he returns to see his family home after the Six-Day War of 1967. Journalist Tolan (Me Hank) traces the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the parallel personal histories of Dalia and Bashir and their familiesall refugees seeking a home. As Tolan takes the story forward, Dalia struggles with her Israeli identity, and Bashir struggles with decades in Israeli prisons for suspected terrorist activities. Those looking for even a symbolic magical solution to that conflict won't find it here: the lemon tree dies in 1998, just as the Israeli-Palestinian peace process stagnates. But as they follow Dalia and Bashir's difficult friendship, readers will experience one of the world's most stubborn conflicts firsthand. 2 maps. (May) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. *Starred Review* To see in human scale the tragic collision of the Israeli and Palestinian peoples, Tolan focuses on one small stone house in Ramla--once an Arab community but now Jewish. Built in 1936 by an Arab family but acquired by a Jewish family after the Israelis captured the city in 1948, this simple stone house has anchored for decades the hopes of both its displaced former owners and its new Jewish occupants. With remarkable sensitivity to both families' grievances, Tolan chronicles the unlikely chain of events that in 1967 brought a long-dispossessed Palestinian son to the threshold of his former home, where he unexpectedly finds himself being welcomed by the daughter of Bulgarian Jewish immigrants. Though that visit exposes bitterly opposed interpretations of the past, it opens a real--albeit painful--dialogue about possibilities for the future. As he establishes the context for that dialogue, Tolan frankly details the interethnic hostilities that have scarred both families. Yet he also allows readers to see the courage of families sincerely trying to understand their enemy. Only such courage has made possible the surprising conversion of the contested stone house into a kindergarten for Arab children and a center for Jewish-Arab coexistence. What has been achieved in one small stone building remains fragile in a land where peacemaking looks increasingly futile. But Tolan opens the prospect of a new beginning in a concluding account of how Jewish and Arab children have together planted seeds salvaged from one desiccated lemon tree planted long ago behind one stone house. A much-needed antidote to the cynicism of realpolitik. Bryce ChristensenCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved ""Rarely...have the competing narratives of individual experience been set forth so poignantly as in Sandy Tolan's The Lemon Tree...Tolan is a magnificent storyteller. The Lemon Tree reads like a novel.""--Roane Carey, The Nation""A wonderful book. I learned so much about the Middle East conflict--from a historical and human perspective. The author took great care with his research. I walked away with a better understanding of the Jewish and Palestinian points of view.""--Kathy Litts, Oregon Book Company, Orgeon City, OR""This truly remarkable book presents a powerful account of Palestinians and Israelis who try to break the seemingly endless chain of hatred and violence. Capturing the human dimension of the conflict so vividly and admirably, Sandy Tolan offers something both Israelis and Palestinians al too often tend to ignore: a ray of hope.""--Tom Segev, author of One Palestine, Complete and 1949: The First Israelis""This is a hard book to read with dry eyes and without a lump in one's throat. And it is hard to read, also, without feeling--dare one even say the word in speaking about the Middle East?--something approaching hope. Sandy Tolan has found a remarkable story, and has told it in all its beauty and sadness.""--Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains and King Leopold's Gold""This is a passionate and astonishing story through which some of the most extraordinary events of the twentieth century unfold. The inspiring lives of two unique people, and Tolan's compassion and cleverness in narrating them, illuminate the tragedy of Palestine in the most moving and revealing way. Readers will acquire a huge amount of knowledge while being carried along effortlessly through the epic events of war and peace in the Middle East.""--Karma Nabulsi, Prize Research Fellow, Oxford University, and author of Traditions of War""This fascinating book is a tapestry of compassion, grief, and hope about a land that has not been running short of any. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been one of the most bitterly disputed and extensively analyzed in the world, and yet only a few books can claim to grasp the human dimension of the conflict as honestly and thoroughly as this one. This painfully beautiful narrative lingers in the mind long after the book is over.""--Elif Shafak, professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, and author of The Flea Palace and The Saint of Incipient Insanities In the summer of 1967, Bashir a young Palestinian man knocks on the door of his childhood home in the town of Ramla in Israel, a home from which his family was driven some twenty years earlier. The door is opened by a young Jewish woman, Dalia, whose family settled in the house after fleeing persecution in Bulgaria at the end of the Second World War. Thus begins an unlikely and difficult friendship, which bridges religious divides and lasts more than four decades. The Lemon Tree tells the story of this extraordinary friendship and offers a much needed human perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At a time when peace seems remote and darkness deepens, this lucid, humane, hopeful book shines like a ray of light The Times 'Reads like a novel...an informed take for anyone interested in the human stories behind a conflict New Statesman A fascinating and highly absorbing account full of warmth, compassion and hope Belfast Telegraph Extraordinarya highly readable and evocative history Washington Post Affectingsensitively told. Humane and literate and rather daring in suggesting that the future of the Middle East need not be violent Kirkus Reviews --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Sandy Tolan is the author of Me Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-five Years Later. He has written for the New York Times Magazine and for more than 40 other magazines and newspapers. As cofounder of Homelands Productions, Tolan has produced dozens of radio documentaries for NPR and PRI. His work has won numerous awards, and he was a 1993 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and an I. F. Stone Fellow at the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he directs the school's Project on International Reporting. This portrayal of two real families, one Jewish, the other Arab, is living history that someone will surely turn into a documentary. It reveals the parallel and divergent lives of Bashir and Dalia, both struggling since the 1940s through the bloody clashes in and around what is now Jewish Israel. Tolan's well-documented nonfiction explores the very souls of Bashir and Dalia--tortured, conflicted, proud, and hopeful, but rarely cheerful. That's why Tolan's voice is not the best fit for his own rich writing. He reads too fast and is too perky to perform this grave chapter in Middle Eastern history. A professional reader could make this an audio award winner. D.J.M. AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",anthropology;biographies & memoirs;books;cultural;ethnic & national;history;humanities;israel;leaders & notable people;middle east;new;palestine;politics & government;politics & social sciences;religious;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,17 0271023864,"Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability (Rural Studies) Mike Bell's new book immerses the reader at once into the science of rural sociology, the practical art of farming, and the uncertainties of rural life--a delightful and informative read for farmer, university professional, or anyone interested in the sociology of rural communities. Bell's scholarly method, 'dialogue with practical implications,' combines academic rigor with personal and heart warming anecdotes, providing the reader with a comprehensive understanding of farming and rural life and how to move toward sustainability. --Frederick Kirschenmann, Leopold Center, Iowa State UniversityMichael Bell recognizes and describes wonderfully the continuing dialogue that is going on between people and the land. He truly captures the meaning of practical, sustainable agriculture both in its daily work and in its dreams of what it could be in the future. --Ron Rosmann, Rosmann Family Farms, Harlan, IowaFarming for Us All challenges our accepted national dedication to power farming and the notion that bigger is better. By putting a human face on the work, culture, and meaning of sustainable agriculture, Michael Bell performs an important service for a movement sometimes seen as preachy and self-righteous by mainstream farmers. --Sonya Salamon, University of Illinois Michael Mayerfeld Bell is Associate Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of several books including the award-winning Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village (1994) and The Face of Connecticut: People, Geology, and the Land (1984).",agriculture;books;business & finance;business & investing;business development;economics;environmental economics;industries & professions;new;politics & social sciences;popular economics;rural;science & math;social sciences;sociology;technology;used & rental textbooks,17 0896035689,"Rna-Protein Interaction Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology) ""This manual is recommended to investigators with experience in molecular biological research, wishing to become introduced into the field of RNA-protein interactions. This book will also be a valuable source of reference for scientists needing general information about the theoretical basis and current methodological approaches to investigating ribonucleoprotein complexes.""-International Journal of Medical Microbiology ""The coverage of the book is broad and reasonably comprehensive, with chapters arranged in a coherent sequence....Many of the authors are well-known, leading researchers in their field, and describe key contemporary techniques. In these respects the coverage is authoritative and likely to remain relevant for some years, before being overtaken by new technologies and methods...represents value for money.""-Cell Biology International ""This is a book which any scientist involved in any kind of cellular and molecular biology will find profitable for his experimental investigations since RNA and proteins are unavoidable matters to solve any problem in Life Sciences. Highly skilled experimentalists provide a comprehensive series of commonly used, as well as specialized techniques for analyzing how proteins and RNA interact. Richly detailed and readily reproducible, these methods enable researchers to analyze the structural details of an RNA-protein interaction, to determine in detail what parts of the protein and RNA are in close contact, and to isolate RNP complexes from cells."" - Cellular and Molecular Biology Due to the vital biological importance of RNA and proteins functioning together within a cell, a protocol volume describing experimental procedures to study their interactions should find a home in many laboratories. RNA-Protein Interaction Protocols, Second Edition updates, complements, and expands upon the popular first edition by providing a collection of cutting-edge techniques developed or refined in the past few years along with tried-and-true methods. The expert contributors explore the isolation and characterization of RNA-protein complexes, the analysis and measurement of RNA-protein interaction, and related novel techniques and strategies. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, the chapters include brief introductions to the material, lists of necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and a Notes section which highlights tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Comprehensive and up-to-date, RNA-Protein Interaction Protocols, Second Edition is an ideal guide for researchers continuing the study of this all-important biological partnership. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.",basic sciences;biochemistry;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;cell biology;evolution;genetics;medicine;medicine & health sciences;microbiology;molecular biology;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,17 013594581X,"Business Data Communications Making liberal use of ""real-world"" cases, this text provides a comprehensive treatment of data communications and telecommunications from a business perspective. It gives students a solid grasp of the technical fundamentals of data communications, networking, distributed applications, and network management and security--always emphasizing the practical concerns of business management and staff. This latest edition has been updated with new material throughout, particularly in the area of multimedia technology and services for ISDN. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Key Benefit: This book presents the concepts of information communications related specifically to the business environment, business management and staff. Key Topics: The book covers the fundamentals of data communication, networking, distributed applications, and network management and security. This book presents comprehensive coverage of the Internet and the World Wide Web and gives a detailed examination of intranets which are the newest and most important technology for internal corporate data communications. WILLIAM STALLINGS has made a unique contribution to understanding the broad sweep of technical developments in computer networking. He has authored 15 titles, and counting revised editions, a total of 35 books on various aspects of this subject. He has five times won the annual Text and Academic Authors Association award for the best computer science textbook. He is an independent consultant whose clients have included computer and networking manufacturers and customers, software development firms, and government research institutions. Dr. Stallings holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Computer Science. He maintains the computer science student support site at WilliamStallings.com/StudentSuport.html. All of his Prentice Hall titles can be found at the Prentice Hall Web site Preface Background Four trends have made a solid understanding of the fundamentals of data communications essential to business and information management students: The increasing use of data processing equipment. As the cost of computer hardware has dropped, data processing equipment has become an increasingly important and pervasive part of the office, factory, and engineering environments. The increasing use of distributed systems. Dropping hardware costs have resulted in the increasing use of small systems, including servers, workstations, and personal computers. These systems are distributed throughout a business and must be interconnected to exchange messages, share files, and share resources, such as printers. The increasing diversity of networking options. The emergence of a broad range of local area network (LAN) standards plus the evolution of LAN technology have led to a broad, overlapping range of products for local area communications. Similarly, the planning for the next generation of telephone equipment and networks and the evolution of new transmission and networking technologies have led to a broad, overlapping range of options for long-distance communications. The sudden emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web. In a very short time, the Internet and especially the World Wide Web have attracted millions of business and personal users. No business can ignore the potential of this enormous facility. As a result of these factors, business data communications courses have become common in business and information management sequences, and this book intends to address the needs for such a course. However, a focus on data communications is no longer enough. Over the past twenty years, as data processing capability has been introduced into the office, data communications products and services have gradually assumed increasing importance. Now, technological developments and the widespread acceptance of standards are transforming the ways in which information is used to support the business function. In addition to the traditional communications requirements for voice and data (meaning text and numerical data), there is now the need to deal with pictorial images and video information. These four types of information (voice, data, image, and video) are essential to the survival of any business in today's competitive international environment. What is needed is a treatment not just of data communications but of information communications for the business environment. Information communications and computer networking have become essential to the functioning of today's businesses, large and small. Furthermore, they have become a major and growing cost to organizations. Management and staff need a thorough understanding of information communications in order to assess needs; plan for the introduction of products, services, and systems; and manage the systems and technical personnel that operate them. This understanding must comprise the following: Technology: The underlying technology of information communications facilities, networking systems, and communications software Architecture: The way in which hardware, software, and services can be organized to provide computer and terminal interconnection Applications: How information communications and networking systems can meet the requirements of today's businesses Approach The purpose of this text is to present the concepts of information communications in a way that relates specifically to the business environment and to the concerns of business management and staff. To this end, the book takes an approach based on requirements, ingredients, and applications: Requirements: The need to provide services that enable businesses to utilize information is the driving force behind data and information communications technology. The text outlines the specific requirements that this technology is intended to address. This linkage between requirements and technology is essential to motivate a text of this nature. Ingredients: The technology of information communications includes the hardware, software, and communications services available to support distributed systems. An understanding of this technology is essential for a manager to make intelligent choices among the many alternatives. Applications: Management and staff must understand not only the technology but also the way in which that technology can be applied to satisfy' business requirements. These three concepts structure the presentation. They provide a way for the student to understand the context of what is being discussed at any point in the text, and they motivate the material. Thus, the student will gain a practical understanding of business information communications. An important theme throughout the book is the essential role of standards. The proliferation of personal computers and other computer systems inevitably means that the manager will be faced with the need to integrate equipment from a variety of vendors. The only way to manage this requirement effectively is through standards. And, indeed, increasingly vendors are offering products and services that conform to international standards. This text addresses some of the key groupings of standards that are shaping the marketplace and that define the choices available to the decision-maker. Intended Audience This book is addressed to students and professionals who now have or expect to have some information communications responsibility. As a full-time job, some readers may have or plan to have responsibility for management of the company's telecommunications function. But virtually all managers and many staff personnel will need to have a basic understanding of business information communications to perform their tasks effectively. For students, this text is intended as an introductory course in information communications for business and information management students. It does not assume any background in data communications but does assume a basic knowledge of data processing. The book is also intended for self-study and is designed for use as both a tutorial and a reference book for those already involved in business information communications. Plan of the Text This text is a survey of the broad and fast-changing field of information communications. It is organized in such a way that new material is seen to fit into the context of the material already presented. By emphasizing requirements and applications as well as technology, the student is provided with motivation and a means of assessing the importance of a particular topic with respect to the whole. The book is divided into six parts: Part One: RequirementsDefines the needs for information communications in the business environment. It discusses the way in which various forms of information are used and the need for interconnection and networking facilities. An examination of the nature and role of distributed data processing is the highlight of this first part. Part Two: TCP/IP and the InternetProvides an overview of the Internet and the basic protocols that are the foundation of the Internet and also addresses the critical issue of quality of service. This part provides a context for much of the material covered in the remainder of the book. Part Three: Data Communications FundamentalsDeals with the basic technology of the communication of information. The emphasis is on digital communications techniques, since these are rapidly displacing analog techniques for all products and services related to information communications. Key topics include transmission media, data link control protocols, multiplexing, and compression. Part Four: NetworkingExamines the way in which communications facilities are organized into a network. There is a wide variety of options available to the manager and planner; this part presents the range of options and compare their strengths and weaknesses so that the reader can make informed choices based on specific requirements. Both wide area networks (WANs) and local area networks (LANs) are covered. Part Five: ApplicationsDeals with the specific business applications that require information communications facilities and networks. This part presents key applications, such as electronic mail and the World Wide Web. The part closes with a discussion of client/server computing and intranets. Part Six: Management IssuesThis part examines some of the most important issues that confront the manager with respect to the in-house implementation or the purchase of networking and communications services. It begins with the increasingly important issue of doing business on the Internet. This is followed by a discussion of network management and network security. In addition, the book includes an extensive glossary, a list of frequently used acronyms, and a bibliography. Each chapter includes problems and suggestions for further reading. Finally, a number of real-world cases studies are sprinkled throughout the book. Note to the Instructor The major goal of this text is to make it as effective a teaching tool for this exciting and fast-moving subject as possible. This goal is reflected both in the structure of the book and in the supporting material. The book contains a number of features that provide strong pedagogical support for the instructor. Each chapter begins with a list of chapter objectives, which provides, in effect, an outline of the chapter and alerts the student to look for certain key concepts as the chapter is read. Key terms are introduced in boldface in the chapter, and all of the new key terms for that chapter are listed at the end of the chapter. Acronyms are highlighted and listed on the back endpaper; this is important because the field of information communications is loaded with acronyms. A glossary at the end of the book provides a handy summary of key terms. The summary at the end of each chapter highlights the key concepts and places them in the context of the entire book. In addition, there are questions and homework problems to reinforce and extend what has been learned. The book is also liberally supplied with figures and tables to enhance points made in the text. Throughout the book a number of case studies are presented. These are not ""made-up"" or ""toy"" cases, but actual cases reported in the literature. Each case is chosen to reinforce or extend concepts introduced prior to the case study. The text is also accompanied by supplementary material that will aid the instructor. A solutions manual provides answers to all of the problems and questions at the end of each chapter. A test bank of additional problems is also available. PDF figures and Powerpoint slides are available on line and on a CD-ROM version of the instructor's manual. Internet Services for Instructors and Students There is a Web page for this book that provides support for students and instructors. The page includes links to relevant sites, transparency masters of figures in the book in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format, Powerpoint slides, and sign-up information for the book's Internet mailing list. The Web page is at WilliamStallings.com. An Internet mailing list has been set up so that instructors using this book can exchange information, suggestions, and questions with each other and with the author. As soon as typos or other errors are discovered, an errata list for this book will be available at WilliamStallings.com/BDC4e.htm. Note to the Reader In a book on this topic, for this sort of audience, it is tempting to launch immediately into a description of communications and networking technology and to examine and compare the various approaches. Certainly, this is an essential element of a book that deals with business information communications. However, we believe that this approach is inappropriate. The business reader wants, and rightly so, to see the technical material in the context of the needs of the business and the ways in which communications and networking technology support desired business functions. Thus this book begins by defining the requirements for information communications in business. The types of information and their utility are examined first. This sets the stage for an examination of communications and networking alternatives. And, as these alternatives are presented and compared, the applications for which they are suited, as well as the underlying technology, are explored. It is hoped that this strategy will make the material more comprehensible and provide a structure that is more natural to a reader with a business orientation. What's New in the Fourth Edition In the four years since the third edition of this book was published, the field has seen continued innovations and improvements. In this new edition, we try to capture these changes while maintaining a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field. To begin the process of revision, the third edition of this book was extensively reviewed by a number of professors who teach the subject and by professionals working in the field. The result is that, in many places, the narrative has been clarified and tightened, and illustrations have been improved. Also, a number of new ""field-tested"" problems have been added. Beyond these refinements to improve pedagogy and user friendliness, there have been major substantive changes throughout the book. Highlights include the following: TCP/IP and the Internet: A new part has been added early in the book (Part Two) that covers the TCP/IP set of protocols, the Internet, and Internet quality of service. TCP/IP has won the ""protocol wars"" with OSI and is now the focus of the protocol coverage in this book. Part Two motivates the topics covered in the remainder of the book. Wireless networks: Wireless networking, both for local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs), has become an increasingly important component of many networking configurations. This new edition expands and updates the coverage of wireless technology and networks. High-speed LANs: Coverage of this important area is expanded and updated and includes detailed treatment of leading-edge approaches, including Fast Ethernet (100BASE-T), Gigabit Ethernet, and Fibre Channel. Business Internets: Innovative uses of Internet technology, including intranets and extranets, have flourished in the business environment. Chapter 17 provides extensive coverage of this important area. Quality of Service: Quality of service (QoS) and the related areas of integrated services, differentiated services, and RSVP are introduced in this edition. The implications of these important topics are examined in Chapter 5. Network security: The chapter on network security (Chapter 20) has been updated provide a timely presentation that emphasizes the important tools and strategies that management needs to implement. The chapter also includes an extensive discussion of Web security. In addition, throughout the book, virtually every topic has been updated to reflect the developments in standards and technology that have occurred since the publication of the third edition. Acknowledgments Richard Van Slyke of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute has made substantial contributions to the second and third editions of this book and was listed as a coauthor. Much of his contribution has been retained and revised. In addition, he has contributed new material to this edition. This new edition has benefited from review by a number of people, who gave generously of their time and expertise. The following people reviewed the fourth edition and made many helpful suggestions: Glenda Dilts of Devry Institute; Qing Hu of Florida Atlantic University; Neil Shaw of the University of TexasArlington; Hugo Moortgat of San Francisco State; Mark Pullen of George Mason University; Jim Holden of Clarion University; Peter Mathys of the University of Colorado; Art Dearing of Tarleton State University; and Divakaran Liginla of the University of Wisconsin. In addition, Professor M. Tamer Ozsu of the University of Alberta and Professor Nalin Sharda of Victoria University of Technology provided detailed reviews of Chapters 2 and 3, respectively, and Zygmunt Haas of Brooklyn Polytechnic reviewed the material on wireless networks. Professor Varadharajan Sridhar of the Indian Institute of Management contributed the case study on Staten Island University Hospital, and Steven Kilby of AT contributed the case studies on ING Life and Archstone. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business communication;communications;computer science;computers & technology;industries & professions;information management;information systems;networking;networks;new;protocols & apis;skills;software engineering;used & rental textbooks,17 076684952X,"The Pediatric Nurse's Survival Guide Lisa M. Rebeschi, RN, MSN, PhDc",books;clinical;education & training;general;maternity;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;nursing;obstetrics & gynecology;pediatric & neonatal;pediatrics;perinatal;reference;used & rental textbooks;women's health,17 B000P28VKO,"Cyberbranding: Brand Building in the Digital Economy ForewordIt has become fashionable in recent months to beat up on the Internet evangelists who told us how brands like eToys and Furniture were going to make the world forget about Toys r Us and Ethan Allen. The notion that young, aggressive entrepreneurs were going to change the rules of business and steal the bread off the tables of traditional companies was too good a story to ignore. Netscape's Marc Andreessen and Yahoo's Jerry Yang and David Filo were poster children for the new era. Stock options promised to turn even low-level programmers into millionaires.During my four years as an editor of Internet World magazine, our publication was one of several voices to warn that the Wall Street rollercoaster ride would ultimately hit a big descent. We saw fundamental challenges related to customer acquisition costs, low-margin merchandise, poor customer service, and the logistical nightmares of shipping dining room sets and other products across the country. But still the IPOs kept coming and every wild success drove more half-baked business plans into the public markets.Nearly a year after the April, 2000 NASDAQ correction, almost as much ink and as many screen pixels have been devoted to chronicling the collapses as were spent on feeding the hype. But many of those who've joined the Internet backlash overlook the fact that the network has changed the business world significantly since the Mosaic Web browser emerged from the University of Illinois supercomputer center in 1993.As Deirdre Breakenridge so aptly chronicles in the pages that follow, every business needs to have an Internet strategy. The Net may no longer be the province of instant millionaires, but it is definitely a channel through which tens of millionspossibly hundreds of millionsof people will be exposed to your company and its brands. Brand managers who once concerned themselves with finding a jingle to imprint on the American consciousness through 30-second radio and TV spots now have the opportunity to hold the attention of potential consumers much longer and to vastly improve their impressions of a brand. The new challenge is to come up with the tools, contests, or other Internet content that leaves the potential consumer satisfied and coming back for more. The many examples of smart cyberbranding that Breakenridge cites range from Benjamin Moore's paint calculator to Pampers' parenting institute to Nabisco's arcade, and they deserve the close attention of anyone trying to use the Internet to raise brand awareness.Each illustrates the Net's ability to grab the attention of interested consumersthose leaning into their computer screens with mouse in hand rather than those leaning back on their sofas in front of the television. While some just want to be entertained, others are in search of information to guide them in purchasing decisions or bigger lifetime decisions. The brands they associate with helping them achieve their goals are likely to benefit.Determining just what you need to do to carry your brand into cyberspace is the hard part, of course. As Breakenridge points out, you still need to know your audience and the best approach for reaching it. Successful Internet brands like Yahoo! and Amazon have demonstrated the power of personalizationknowing enough about their customers to offer them the information and products most likely to fit with their interests. Both companies have also demonstrated the importance of having solid plans for building out your Web activities to ensure that customer demands do not get beyond the levels of service that your technology or your people can provide.In the end, however, smart cyberbranding is not about building the next Amazon or Yahoo! or eBay. Current market conditions all but guarantee that no pure-play Internet start-up will achieve their phenomenal levels of brand awareness anytime soon. The new phase of the Internet revolution is about how businessesoften derisively referred to as old economy companiestake advantage of the new medium to vastly improve their bottom lines. And Breakenridge has done her part to point them in the right direction.Thomas J. DeLoughryWestwood, New JerseyJanuary 2001 The first complete framework for integrating offline and online marketing! * Step-by-step processes for reengineering any brand! * Achieving true synergies between online and offline brands * Includes interviews with the world's leading Internet branding executivesThe Internet has changed all the business rules you live byespecially the rules for branding your products, services, and organization. Cyberbranding doesn't merely show you how the rules have changed: it presents a complete framework for branding that works nowand for years to come. Drawing on her extensive experience as a marketing consultantand on interviews with many of the world's leading Internet branding executivesDeirdre Breakenridge answers these and other crucial questions: * How do you move your brand online without compromising the values it already holds in the real world? * How can you re-engineer an existing brand in the wake of the Internet revolution? * How can you create a new brand that leverages the full power of the Web? The Internet. It isn't easy money. It isn't an excuse to forget the fundamentals. But for marketers willing to work hard, and work intelligently, it is the brand-building opportunity of a lifetime. In Cyberbranding, Deirdre Breakenridge shows how to use the Internet to build brandsand customer relationshipsof remarkable depth and power. Drawing on the Internet's most impressive success storiesand its cautionary tales of disastershe shows how to: * Develop the vision of your online brand * Identify your true online audience * Persuade your customers by empowering them * Personalize without becoming intrusive * Make the most of online and offline research * Use the much-maligned banner ad as a key branding tool * Integrate Internet-based and off-line branding activities * Appeal more effectively to today's multi-tasking consumer * Draw the repeat traffic you're looking for * Create affiliate marketing programs that workWith Cyberbranding you can master lessons others spent billions to learn-and build 21st century brands worth billions to own. Whether you're a business leader, strategist, marketing professional, or public relations specialist, Cyberbranding gives you an action plan for strengthening your brand online and offand leveraging it for maximum competitive advantage. Finally, a book that covers all the important aspects of Internet marketing! Chuck Riegel, EVP Worldwide Marketing, CybercashFrom the Foreword: ...Smart CyberBranding is not about building the next Amazon or Yahoo or eBay... The new phase of the Internet revolution is about how businessesoften derisively referred to as old economy companiestake advantage of the new medium to vastly improve their bottom lines. And Breakenridge has done her part to point them in the right direction.Thomas J. DeLoughry, Former Executive Editor, Internet World DEIRDRE BREAKENRIDGE is Executive Vice President of PFS New Media, based in Totowa, NJ, a marketing and public relations company whose clients have included Chubb, Microsoft, Emerson Electric, ATT, Lucent Technologies, BMW, and the American Cancer Society. Previously President and Founder of the New Jersey-based Breakenridge Group, she has extensive experience in public relations, marketing, and communications. She is a frequent speaker on Internet marketing and branding topics.",accounting;accounting & finance;advertising;books;business & investing;business & management;computers & technology;culture;e-commerce;global;industries & professions;internet & web culture;kindle ebooks;kindle store;marketing;marketing & sales;professional & technical,17 0761953213,"Discourse Set : A Multidisciplinary Introduction `One of the more pleasing features of both volumes is that a number of the chapters are co-authored by a recognized authority within the field under discussion and a young scholar at the beginning of his or her academic career. It is unlikely that any single reviewer could do justice to all the chapters, and I shall certainly not make the attempt.... the work as a whole is a valuable contribution to discourse studies' - Language and Literature `The books are offered as a ""first introduction"" and I do think they would provide an excellent base for a broadly conceived course in ""discourse studies"".... whether used as a ""first introduction"" or for reference purposes, the books can be extremely useful to anyone interested in one or another aspect of discourse studies to deepen and broaden one's outlook' - Discourse and Society Teun A. van Dijk is a Visiting Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. From 1980 to 2006 he held a personal chair as Professor of Discourse Studies at the University of Amsterdam. A world leading scholar of discourse studies and author of over 250 books and articles, he edits the SAGE journals Disourse Society, Discourse Studies, and Discourse and Communication.",books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;history & criticism;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;literature & fiction;mental health;movements & periods;new;politics & social sciences;postmodernism;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words,17 0631194452,"The Frege Reader ""The book aims to be the best single edition available for introductory Frege courses. It is a well organized, reasonably priced one-stop Frege shop. It is too convenient not to be used in introductory courses on Frege; in fact, as a single volume, it has no competition I can think of. The general conception is excellent. It is easily readable by graduates or advanced under graduates. The forty-six page introduction and notes to the translations make it useful also for Frege scholars. The book's virtues are strong. I recommend it for courses on Frege, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, and analytic philosophy."" Jan Dejnozka, History and Philosophy of Logic This is the first single-volume edition and translation of Frege's philosophical writings to include all of his seminal papers as well as substantial selections from all three of his major works. It is intended to provide the essential primary texts for students of logic, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics. It contains in particular Frege's four papers ""Function and Concept"", ""On Concept and Object"", ""On Sense and Reference"", and ""Thought"", and new translations of key parts of the Begriffsschrift, The Foundations of Arithmetic, and the Basic Laws of Arithmetic. The editor's substantial introduction provides the reader with an overview of the significance and development of Frege's philosophy, while the footnotes, appendices and glossary facilitate understanding of some of the more difficult elements of Frege's thought. Michael Beaney is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds and author of Frege: Making Sense (1996).",books;education & reference;history & surveys;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;logic;logic & language;mathematics;modern;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks;words,17 031327990X,"The Rehnquist Court: In Pursuit of Judicial Conservatism (Contributions in Legal Studies) .,.""It is a readable book. The author's opinions are documented with recent case decisions. The reader will find it hard to quarrel with his conclusions. Freidelbaum's text is recommended to any academician who studies or teaches the United States Supreme Court. ...It is Friedelbaum's conclusion that the Rehnquist Court will bring gradual judicial changes--slowly and studiously. The Court will remain collectively a conservative body. It will not strive to effect change dramatically. And in so doing, it is Freidelbaum's point of pinnacle signigicance that the Rehnquist Court will continue to exercise constitutionally responsible leadership. Excellent reading!""-Southeastern Political Review This is the first in-depth analysis of the Rehnquist Court viewed as a functional entity which shows how a new centralist coalition is controlling policy relating to abortion, the right to die, affirmative action, reverse discrimination, and privacy interests. STANLEY H. FRIEDELBAUM, Founder and Director of the Burns Center for State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, is the author of Human Rights in the States: New Directions in Constitutional Policymaking (Greenwood Press, 1988).",20th century;americas;books;constitutional law;education & reference;history;humanities;law;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;public policy;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks,17 012663355X,"Enterprise XML Clearly Explained Few recent developments on the Internet have held as much promise--and brought with them such hype--as the eXtensible Markup Language (XML). Robert Standefer's Enterprise XML Clearly Explained lives up to its title, with a clearly rendered tour of XML and related standards that are geared to the IT professional who wants to understand what XML is and what it's used for. While many computer titles compete for maximum page count, this book makes it a point to remain economical in its presentation style. The history of markup languages from SGML to HTML and on to XML is explained from the very beginning. That's not to say that the tour of basic XML is simplistic; it's not. A number of standards (like XLinks, XPointers, and XML namespaces) that are still under construction also are described. The book moves from theory to practice--first, by way of a survey of a number of today's XML tools. Then, XML as used in actual standards is discussed, such as the Chemical Markup Language for describing chemical formulas, and Microsoft's Channel Definition Format (CDF) for describing channels of ""push"" content. You also learn about how XML schemas and structured data (DVD database records are used in examples) are designed. This book closes with a case study of an ASP-powered Web site (reviews of DVDs), using XML on the middle tier, formatted with XSL into HTML for browsers. This simple yet state-of-the-art sample helps cement the reader's understanding of XML. There's also good material that will help you grasp how XML is used in today's databases, such as Oracle and SQL Server. (Most readers will want to ignore 100+ pages of appendices, however, which are reprints of the XML 1.0 specification in full. This material likely will be nothing but intimidating to the XML novice.) On the whole, Enterprise XML Clearly Explained accomplishes its stated mission. It's a digestible, intelligent guide to a cluster of standards that surround XML, which is a perfect choice for any IT manager or developer who's unsure about what XML is and what it can do for future Web-development efforts. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: History of XML, including SGML, HTML, and XML Goals of XML Structured data Document Type Definitions (DTDs) Valid and well-formed XML documents Emerging XML standards (XLinks, XPointers, and namespaces) Survey of XML tools (including xmlproc, Xparse, and DOMParser) XML authoring tools and content management tools Current XML standards Extensible Forms Description Language (XFDL) Vector Markup Language (VML) Mathematical Markup Language Microsoft's Channel Definition Format (CDF) XML support in today's browsers Server-side XML XML Document Object Model (DOM) Building XML with Visual Basic Perl, Active Server Pages (ASPs), and PHP XML and databases (Oracle and SQL Server) Case study for DVD content Web site Reference for XML 1.0 specification and Resource Description Framework (RDF) Extensible Markup Language XML enables Web publishers and programmers to display information in ways that HTML cannot by customizing and adapting the language to meet special needs. As people take advantage of this diverse language, XML is quickly becoming the key for enterprise database companies, vendors, and consultants to connect and automate enterprise systems and databases. In short, XML creates interoperability and more integrated systems for any complex computer system. InEnterprise XML Clearly Explained, computer specialist Robert Standefer shows you how to implement XML in enterprise applications such as data warehousing, databases, electronic commerce, and the simplification of data retrieval. Written in a concise, enjoyable style,Enterprise XML Clearly Explainedis ideal for the novice to XML without boring the experienced and will show you how to use this booming technology to benefit your organization.Features:* Offers comprehensive and easy-to-read coverage of XML without being overwhelming* Appeals to IS managers, DBAs, and systems analysts interested in how XML can benefit their organization and what it takes to implement it* Offers a topical discussion of several enterprise-class shrink wrapped applications that utilize XML and exploit its power* Covers several XML-based markup languages such as Vector Markup Language VML* Discusses how to use XML with programming languages, including ASP and Perl* Provides an in-depth discussion of XML implementation in enterprise applications Robert Standefer is Chief Systems Architect for Virtual Giant, where he is in charge of all research and development. He enjoys reading and writing about Internet technologies, including XML, XHTML, and BizTalk.",books;business;business & investing;computers & technology;education & reference;industries & professions;information management;languages & tools;network administration;networking;networks;programming;protocols & apis;software;web design;web development & design;xml,17 0226067467,"Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain, and the Great War Bourke evokes a real tenderness and understanding for the men who were pushed to breaking point and beyond ... in a book well illustrated with contemporary photographs and sketches from men's letters and diaries ... a fine work Times Higher Education Supplement cogent insights into wartime experience Independent on Sunday stunning The Observer --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Joanna Bourke is Professor in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & investing;england;europe;gender studies;history;humanities;ireland;men;military;new;politics & social sciences;popular economics;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,17 0674632052,"The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker: Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity, Preface Books I-IV, and V (Two Volumes) Georges Edelen is Professor of English at Indiana University.W. Speed Hill is Associate Professor of English, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York.",books;british;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;education & reference;england;europe;history;humanities;literature & fiction;new;religious;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks;world,17 0471114987,"Dino-Trekking: The Ultimate Dinosaur Lover's Travel Guide A fun, funny, practical, and priceless book for anyone interested in seeing dinosaurs indoors--or even in their natural habitats! Dino-Trekking is a true labor of love that every dinosaur fan would embrace with joy and use for years. Contains descriptions of practically every paleontological museum and public dinosaur site across the U.S. and Canada. Also includes a comprehensive directory of where to order dinosaur products ranging from dinosaur hardware (er, fossils), software (for your computer, silly!)--even dinosaur egg soap (?!). Looking for the dinosaur (bones) nearest you? Dino-Trekking: The Ultimate Dinosaur Lover's Travel Guide by Kelly Milner Halls, with black-and-white illustrations by Rick Spears, covers all 50 states and Canada in an exhaustive listing of dino-related museums, parks, trails and traveling exhibits, with each site rated on a scale of one to three bones. Also included are a ""Dino-Shopping Guide"" and a prehistoric who's who. (Wiley, $14.95 paper, 224p, all ages ISBN 0-471-11498-7 Feb.)Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Grade 4 Up?This directory organizes sites, museums, and theme parks by state, for the U.S. and Canada. Locations, fees, and facilities are listed for each site, and sidebars called ""Curator's Corner"" feature mini-interviews with scientists and museum personnel. The book goes a step further than the Cohens' Where to Find Dinosaurs Today (Cobblehill, 1992) by including a shopping guide to prehistoric merchandise. Contacts for items such as posters, software, jewelry, and birthday paraphernalia are listed. It's a kind of a Home Shopping Network for the Jurassically inclined, in book form, and will be well used where dinosaurs are popular.?Cathryn A. Camper, Minneapolis Public LibraryCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. I love it. I took it home and read it cover to cover. -- Ray Ann Havsay, Executive Director of the Dinosaur SocietyIndispensable for the family interested in smart fun...perfect for dinosaur enthusiasts, budding paleontologists, and families interested in the history of life. -- Louie Psihoyos, author ofHunting Dinosaurs This entertaining and fact-filled guide will appeal to dino lovers of all ages. Contains over 300 alphabetical listings of dinosaur and prehistoric sites across North America. Each site includes the name, address, phone number, a brief description, a rating and symbols for restrooms, gift shops, food vendors, handicap accessibility and if there is an admission charge or donation required. The Dino-Shopping Guide provides sources for purchasing all kinds of dinosaur-related products--from party goods to authentic fossils. Features an illustrated Dino-Identifier of 70 prehistoric creatures. ""Dino-Trekking is the best guide to finding dinosaursand appreciating them once you've found themto come along since dinosaurs were trekking themselves. It's lively and thorough."" Don Lessem Founder, The Dinosaur Society and author of Dinosaurs Rediscovered""Indispensable for the family interested in smart fun . . . perfect for dinosaur enthusiasts, budding paleontologists, and families interested in the history of life."" Louie Psihoyos Author of Hunting Dinosaurs""I love it. I took it home and read it cover to cover."" Ray Ann Havasy Executive Director The Dinosaur SocietyLooking for the best dinosaur museums? The oldest fossil exhibit? The widest selection of dinosaur memorabilia and souvenirs? This fun-filled, informative guide has the answers for die-hard dino-fans of all ages. You'll find: Listings of over 300 dinosaur sites across the United States and Canadamuseums, nature preserves, even amusement parks Details on admission prices, refreshments, and travelers' conveniences A Dino-Shopping Guide with details on dozens of mail-order sources for games, toys, clothing, software, and more An illustrated ""Who's Who""Dino-Identifier with fascinating profiles of seventy prehistoric creatures Interviews with top curators from each regionA unique rating system helps you decide which places are best for your particular interests: No regular paleo exhibittraveling exhibits booked from time to time. Strictly for fossil fanaticsnot much on display, but if you're nearby with time to spare, consider the stop. Worth the detour if you're a real fossil fangood paleo material, plus! Fossil fans shouldn't miss it! Premium paleo goods you won't soon forget! KELLY MILNER HALLS is a freelance writer and journalist with a passion for dinosaurs. She has written for The Dino Times, The Dinosaur Report, Dinosaurus, Children's Digest, Kid City (published by Children's Television Workshop), Highlights for Children, and Guidepost for Kids. Her inspiration for Dino-Trekking came from her two children's eagerness to see dinosaur exhibits wherever the family traveled.",adventure;animals;biological sciences;books;children's books;dinosaurs;earth sciences;geography;math;nature & how it works;paleontology;science;science & math;specialty travel;travel;travel & cultures;vertebrate,17 0521364922,"The Theatre of Robert Wilson (Directors in Perspective) Robert Wilson's insane, brilliant 14-hour avant-garde theatre experiments in the 1970s often were punishments even to the brave audiences willing to go along with him. But they were packed with theatre ideas and experiments that have been appropriated and digested by a generation and a half of more conventional directors. Here, for the first time on this scale, Wilson's body of work is treated as a whole, and its innovations labeled and catalogued for the ages. Extremely useful both for those who are seeking entry to Wilson's oeuvre, and for Wilson veterans longing for a better understanding of what exactly it was they saw in Einstein on the Beach, CIVIL WarS, and other projects. 'Holmberg's special achievement lies in his acute attention not only to the aesthetic components of Wilson's work, but also to its aesthetic principles ... The book is organised according to clusters of ideas which with what feels like the help of a good editor, pulls together the prodigious amount of material Wilson has generated. Above all, it shows anyone who wishes to discover or rediscover Wilson just how marvellous he really is.' New Theatre Quarterly Robert Wilson, the leading American avant-garde theatre director, revolutionised the stage by making visual communication more important than words. His productions cut across the boundaries that traditionally have defined theatre, dance, opera and the visual arts to create a total work of art. This book, the first comprehensive study of Wilson, traces the evolution of the director's astonishing career. It explains how Wilson renovated the stage and describes in detail major productions such as Deafman Glance, Einstein on the Beach and Civil Wars.",american literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism & theory;direction & production;drama;history & criticism;humanities;humor & entertainment;literature;literature & fiction;new;performing arts;theater;united states;used & rental textbooks,17 0822314851,"The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child (New Americanists) Famous during her lifetime, Child (1802-1880) had a remarkable career as author and social reformer. Karcher (Shadow Over the Promised Land) has prodigiously researched 19th-century life in America to place her subject in historical context for this definitive biography. Child wrote novels (Hobomok), women's advice books (The Frugal Housewife) and journalism. She also founded a children's magazine. She sacrificed a flourishing literary career to devote herself to the abolitionist cause, publishing the influential antislavery text, An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called African (1833), as well as editing an abolitionist newspaper. Although she and her husband, David, were united in social activism, their marriage lacked passion, and Child expressed her sexual feelings through her fiction, according to Karcher. She also agitated for the rights of Native Americans and women. Her seemingly secure reputation was erased, notes the author, by the ""backlash against Reconstruction."" This work should bring her recognition again. Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. New Englander Child (1802-80) was foremost among social activists of the 19th century who, while working for rights denied to them, also fought against the genocide of the Indian and the enslavement of the African American. As a writer of nonfiction and fiction (she predated James Fenimore Cooper with her first historical novel) and as an abolitionist and crusader for human rights and religious tolerance, she was one of the most controversial and even heralded women of her time. Unlike the work of some 19th-century activists, her writings are in many cases still relevant today, leaving the question of how Child has simply disappeared from the literary and historical textbooks. Karcher (English, Temple Univ.) details Child's life in a thoroughly researched manner that emphasizes Child's own writings. It is not geared to casual reading but is recommended for all large public and academic libraries as well as women's studies collections. A meticulous study of a fascinating woman.Kathrine Gillen, Luke Air Force Base Lib., Ariz.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Child, rescued from obscurity over the past decade and a half largely by publication of the Meltzer/Holland edition of her letters (1980, 1982) and of Deborah Clifford's scholarly biography, Crusader for Freedom (1992), had been remembered in the preceding century primarily for her children's Thanksgiving song (""Over the river and through the wood"") and later as editor of the slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs (1861). Karcher's ""cultural biography"" explores the intersection between Child's life and her work, blending ""the close reading necessary to establish the significance of Child's fiction and cultural criticism"" with attention to ""central problems in nineteenth-century American culture that she worked out in her life and writings: the creation of a national literature; the redefinition of womanhood; the extension of the country's egalitarian creed to disfranchised groups; and the quest for a faith free of sectarian dogmatism."" Volume 1 takes Child from a lonely Massachusetts childhood through literary accomplishments and antislavery agitation to age 45 (1847). Not an essential acquisition but should be of interest to larger U.S. literature, U.S. history, and women's studies collections. Mary Carroll A close look at a 19th-century author and abolitionist that integrates her personal life, her work, and the eventful period in US history during which she lived. Karcher (English, American Studies, Women's Studies/Temple Univ.; Shadow Over the Promised Land, not reviewed) is a staunch advocate of her subject, tracing the ``trajectory'' of Child's life from her earliest fiction through her anti-slavery work and later advocacy of women's and Indian's rights. Child (180280), who entered the literary limelight with Hobomok, a novel sympathetic to Indians and hostile to patriarchy, compounded her success by founding Juvenile Miscellany, a hugely popular children's magazine. But love came to Child at a high price: Her husband, newspaper editor David Lee Child, was a terrible businessman who accumulated debts faster than she could cover them. Karcher, clearly appalled by a woman ``abasing herself to the husband responsible for sabotaging her career,'' indicates that Child's early opposition to gender equality could have been rooted in devotion to her marriage. Need for cash drove her to write on domestic economy, but after an 1830 meeting with abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, her life and writings acquired a greater goal. With the publication of her first major work on slavery, Child's formerly adoring public became incensed, the Juvenile Miscellany folded, and her activities as an anti- slavery activist put her in danger (as Karcher's comments on mob violence effectively indicate). Karcher is at her best when Child herself is a lion; less impressive are the occasional psychological speculations (e.g., on the possible connection in Child's mind between abolitionist John Brown and her parents) and excuses for Child not meeting late-20th-century standards for political correctness (e.g., depression and housework kept her from fighting the Fugitive Slave Law). This valuable portrait of a complex and talented woman may be most notable for indicating the extent to which she was of- -rather than ahead of--her time. (10 b photos, not seen) -- Copyright 1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. A monumental scholarly achievement.Joan Hedrick, author of Harriet Beecher Stowe: A LifeThe definitive biography of a major figure in American literary and political history.Richard Slotkin, author of Gunfighter NationThis is a magnificent book. Childs character emerges as a model for what a woman can be.Jane Tompkins, author of West of Everything Carolyn L. Karcher is Professor of English, American Studies, and Womens Studies at Temple University.",19th century;americas;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;historical;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific groups;united states;used & rental textbooks;women,17 0812234731,"Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy (The Middle Ages Series) ""Lochrie takes a significant feature of medieval culture, secrecy, and translates the issues it raises to urgent contemporary concerns while still illuminating their meaning within medieval contexts. Her writing is lucid and concise while at the same time suggestive and provocative. She has an unerring eye for detail, and an impressive ability to argue through example. This is an important book.""Larry Scanlon, Rutgers University""Engaging and innovative. . . . The present volume offers exemplary close readings of primary works enhanced and enriched by the theoretical framework.""Choice Karma Lochrie is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University of Chicago. She is the author of Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.",ancient & classical literature;anthropology;books;british;criticism & theory;cultural;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;medieval;movements & periods;politics & social sciences;social sciences;women in history;women writers;women's studies;world,17 0684195445,"The MODULAR BRAIN Restak, a neurologist and author of The Brain and The Mind , examines recent discoveries in neuroscience that radically alter traditional views of how the brain operates and, at the same time, cast light on free will and identity and other matters central to the human condition. Since the early 1800s, science has understood that different locations in the brain are responsible for different functions, with later research suggesting a hierarchical organization in which the cerebral hemispheres control the deeper, more primitive areas that are not so recently evolved. But a new, more dynamic model of the brain posits a parallel rather than a hierarchical structure, in which many processes, including perception and comprehension, occur simultaneously. Citing research and case studies, Restak describes the modular theory as it relates to such acts as vision and speech, also describing its impact on such issues as consciousness, memory and morality. More interesting for the questions raised than answers offered, this is an accessible, provocative look at the relationship between science and philosophy. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. In a book somewhat oversold by its subtitle, neurologist Restak covers ground he has already worked elsewhere (e.g., The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own, LJ 9/1/91), offering more a reassessment of what is known about how we think than answers of any kind. (The ""modular"" theory of brain function described here implies a sort of democratic brain in which all cells communicate with one another rather than via highly structured regions.) Through liberal use of case studies a la Oliver Sacks and with the benefit of an encyclopedic grasp of the history of neurological theories, Restak writes elegantly and accessibly about a subject of almost endless fascination: how the ""mind"" works. Though scholars or professionals in the field may find the result less ambitious than it could be, this is highly recommended as a primer on the subject. A good choice for general collections.--Mark L. Shelton, Athens, OhioCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Restak, author of several books on the brain and bioethics, once again tackles a difficult subject and produces lucid, fascinating, informative reading for both the laity and nonspecialist scientists. Asking whether the self is a unity or a multiplicity, Restak shows that the modular conception of the brain suggests that multiplicity in the individual becomes unity, but that each person is unique. With Restak enlivening his discussions of historic and current research with many case histories, we learn about willed versus involuntary action, memory, and consciousness. Restak also shows how patients' injuries and diseases have helped researchers and clinicians to pinpoint brain functions and elucidate connections between brain modules. Computers cannot duplicate brains nor can they explain how the brain works, Restak argues, for Information transfer within the brain is not like a train moving from station to station but more like the spread of a rumor. William Beatty Neuropsychiatrist Restak (The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own, 1991, etc.) tackles age-old questions about the nature of free will, thought, emotion, and creativity in the process of explicating the theory of the modular brain. In essence, this theory assumes both a horizontal and vertical organization to the brain; it posits that information about the world is extracted and stored in many different places and processed in parallel to produce a unified construction. What the theory does away with is the idea of some central soul that reads the data. Some areas of the brain, like the prefrontal lobes, figure in planning and motivation (free will); others are concerned with emotions. Myriad interconnections make the brain a federation and not an empire dominated by one part. Restak describes case studies that have led researchers to this notion of the brain: To people with ``word deafness,'' for example, spoken language sounds like noise or wind, but there is no loss of reading, writing, or speaking abilities; and some people with right hemisphere strokes deny that their left arm or leg belongs to them. Much of this is old news. What is really new is Restak's chapter on emotions and the use of the brain-damage defense to excuse crimes of violence. He glibly suggests that lower socioeconomic class and a ``culture'' of violence are the root causes of violence; however, he is on solid ground in discounting the brain-damage defense (except in rare cases) not only because we are subject to other constraints, but also because there is so much variation that we can hardly define what a ``normal'' brain looks like. There is a certain comfort in that. An informative tour of the current conventional wisdom in neurology. Some new wine, but mostly old brew in old bottles. -- Copyright 1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",behavioral sciences;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;cognitive psychology;fitness & dieting;general;health;medical books;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;science & mathematics;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,17 0764516728,"ColdFusion MX for Dummies help you get a good grasp on the programme without sending you to sleep or into an apoplectic fit& -- Cre@te Online, January 2003will help you get a good grasp on the programme without sending you to sleep or into an apoplectic fit(Cre@te Online, January 2003) The fun and easy way(TM) to serve up rich Internet applicationsGet a handle on CFML, components, database connectivity, and moreTurn up the heat with the new ColdFusion and take your site to the next levelColdFusion MX is loaded with tools to help you build high-performance Web applications. But where do you begin? This friendly guide delivers the answers. From working with databases, forms, variables, and tags to harnessing Flash Remoting, XML handling, Web services support, and other new features, it's all you need to get up to speed.The Dummies Way* 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 fun John Paul Ashenfelter heads a technology consulting company and cowrote ColdFusion 4 For Dummies.Jon N. Kocen is the senior Web Developer for all enterprise applications at a major aerospace company.",books;cold fusion;computer science;computers & technology;database design;database storage & design;databases;education & reference;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design;web services,17 1566399432,"Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora This important and groundbreaking collection of 32 essays is particularly valuable to those who have scant knowledge about African American theater, as the ideas are informing, eyeopening, and challenging. Gathered here are pieces by playwrights such as Ntozake Shange, Femi Euba, Wole Soyinka, Derek Wolcott, and Gus Edwards, while academic writers include Paul K. Bryant-Jackson, William Cook, and Keith Walker. The academic essays are excellent, but this reviewer favored those by theater professionals as they are the people who deliver ""the goods"" to the audience. Playwright and director George C. Wolfe contributes a superb and thought-provoking essay called ""Performance Method,"" in which he discusses his use of the minstrel show, carnival, mask, and the Japanese theater techniques found in bunraku. For Wolfe, television is about character, film is about story, and theater is about ideas. His essay, which deserves a careful reading, is last in the text but should be read second, after Paul Carter Harrison's introductory ""Praise/Word,"" which sets out the volume's theoretical underpinnings. Recommended for all academic libraries and public libraries with theater and/or African American collections.Susan L. Peters, Univ. of Texas, Galveston Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. ""Black Theatre is an indispensable volume--insightful, wide-ranging, global in scope--to be enjoyed, studied, mulled over and argued with."" --Douglass Turner Ward, Founder of The Negro Ensemble Company ""In 1970, in the heat of the Black Arts Movement, Paul Carter Harrison published his seminal The Drama of Nommo, challenging readers to look beyond the political orthodoxy of kitchen sink realism to discern the aesthetic foundations of black theatre. This present anthology demonstrates the impressive extent to which scholars, playwrights, and directors have built upon that call. Drawing from performance practices in Africa, the Caribbean, the United States, and black Britain, this landmark collection delineates the cultural specificity of an African diaspora theatre that, while it appears to 'wear the mask' of conformity to EuroAmerican values, enacts a profoundly different world view aimed at confronting an oppressive past and reaffirming the humanity of black peoples. The anthology's analytic rigor and creative insight set a challenge for subsequent generations to engage."" --Sandra L. Richards, Leon Forrest Professor of African American Studies and Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Northwestern University ""The spirit and the intellect of the late Larry Neal, as well as the tremendously resilient legacy of the radical Black theatre movement of the sixties and seventies, animate most of the essays and documents collected in this volume. It is a feast of powerful critical and theoretical reflections on the past and the future of Black theatre in this country and in other parts of the African diaspora. Without the slightest nudge toward racial absolutism or essentialism, the volume is a model of how 'race' can be deployed as a subtle and progressive analytic category in contemporary dramatic and cultural criticism. This book should be compulsory reading for every student of contemporary theatre scholarship."" --Biodun Jeyifo, Professor of English, Cornell University ""...a powerful examination of ritual-based performance traditions practiced throughout the African diaspora. It belongs on the shelf of anyone studying black performance. [The editors] succeed on many levels with this collection of compelling articles...this text is a valuable contribution to current critical, historical and theoretical debate about this rich and varied field."" --Theatre Research International ""[E]ssential. This book illuminates, challenges, and expands the consciousness. It also inspires the reader..."" --The African American Review ""This book is a powerful examination of ritual-based performance traditions practiced throughout the African diaspora. It belongs on the shelf of anyone studying black performance... This text is a valuable contribution to current critical, historical and theoretical debate about this rich and varied field."" --Theatre Research International An insider's view of Black theatres of the world and how they reflect their culture, concerns, and history --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Paul Carter Harrison is playwright in residence at the Theatre Center, Columbia College, Chicago. He is the author of several books including, The Drama of Nommo and the editor of several play anthologies. His play, The Great MacDaddy, received an Obie Award for playwriting. Victor Leo Walker is Chief Executive Officer of the African Grove Institute for the Arts, Inc. and the author of The Cultural MatriX: Los Angeles Inner City Cultural Center, 1965 to 1998 (forthcoming). Gus Edwards teaches Film Studies and directs a multi-ethnic theatre program at Arizona State University. He has published two volumes of monologues from his plays including The Offering, Black Body Blues, and Louie & Ophelia. He is coeditor with Paul Carter Harrison of the anthology, Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company. Contributors: J.C. de Graft, Babatunde Lawal, Tejumola Olanian, Derek Walcott, SuAndi and Michael McMillan, Wole Soyinka, Marta Vega, Femi Euba, Keith Walker, May Joseph, Joni Jones, Debra Holton, Sydne Mahone, Paul K. Bryant-Jackson, Andrea J. Nouryeh, Jean Young, Beverly Robinson, Lundeana Thomas, Amiri Baraka, Keith Antar Mason, William Cook, Ntozake Shange, George E. Wolfe, Eleanor Traylor, and the editors. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.",20th century;african-american studies;arts & photography;books;criticism;drama;ethnic studies;history;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);performing arts;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;theater,17 0195179374,Getting Started with MATLAB 7: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers (The Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering) Rudra Pratap is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.,books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;engineering;languages & tools;mathematical & statistical;mathematics;new;professional & technical;programming;programming languages;science & math;science & mathematics;software;statistics;used & rental textbooks,17 1405121041,"Anthropology of Religion This bestselling introduction to the anthropology of religion is now available in a fully revised new edition. Along with comprehensive updating, it now features a new chapter on mythology, as well as coverage of topics such as pilgrimage, spirit possession and cargo cults. Illustrates central theoretical ideas with specific case studies Features self-contained chapters, each with its own comprehensive bibliography, so that they can be approached in any order Links the work of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholars with contemporary ideas and practices Lists ethnographic films and videos that illustrate particular issues. This accessible textbook will inspire students to explore the field further and encourage them to see that anthropology is not just about reading or doing fieldwork, but offers an enriching way of looking at world. The second edition of this popular introduction to the anthropology of religion now features new chapters on mythology and pilgrimage, as well as coverage of topics such as spirit possession and cargo cults. The volume:Introduces readers to the central theoretical ideas in the anthropology of religion, illustrating them with specific case studies; Features self-contained chapters, each with its own comprehensive bibliography, so that they can be approached in any order; Develops ideas throughout the book, linking the work of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholars, and contemporary ideas and practices; Includes an appendix offering a list of ethnographic films and videos that can be used to illustrate and extend the discussion of particular issues.This accessible textbook will inspire students to explore the field further and encourage them to see that anthropology is not just about reading or doing fieldwork, but offers an enriching way of looking at the world. Fiona Bowie is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol.",anthropology;books;cultural;education & reference;general;history;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;religious history;religious studies;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks;world,17 1592280706,"The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats: A Comprehensive Guide to the Trackable Animals of the United States and Canada ""His descriptions of scat-the poop pictures, as it were-will surely capture the imagination of even the most video-game hooked child, at least for a moment.""--Santa Fe New Mexican""Good stuff.""--Statesman Journal Len McDougall is a full-time outdoor writer and professional photographer and illustrator with more than thirty years' experience in the North Woods. He teaches survival classes by appointment and tests outdoors products and has also worked as a field guide and tracker. His books include The Complete Tracker, The Field Stream Wilderness Survival Handbook, Made for the Outdoors, The Outdoors Almanac, and Practical Outdoor Survival.He lives in Paradise, Michigan.",animals;biological sciences;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;fauna;hiking & camping;hunting;hunting & fishing;instructional;nature & ecology;reference;science & math;sports;sports & outdoors;veterinary;wildlife,17 0471533955,"Computer Modeling of Chemical Reactions in Enzymes and Solutions "". . . strongly recommended to scientists and students who want to advance beyond the menu screen and graphic user interface of their computer."".Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Examines computer modeling of enzyme reactions (including enzyme kinetics), techniques popular in the fields of physical, organic, and biochemistry as well as pharmaceutical research. Includes practical computer exercises and sample computer programs which can be run on a PC. The programs serve as simple illustrations of the different concepts of computer modeling and as an introduction to more versatile computer modeling packages which can be run on mainframes. Also provides an introduction to the rapidly growing field of computer simulation and modeling of macromolecules, emphasizing structure-function correlation in proteins and the action of enzymes.",3d graphics;artificial intelligence;biochemistry;biological sciences;biology & life sciences;books;chemistry;computer science;computers & technology;general & reference;graphic design;new;organic;physical & theoretical;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,17 0130304549,"Fluids, Electrolytes, & Acid-Base Balance: Reviews & Rationales (Prentice Hall Nursing Reviews & Rationales Series) Essential for course review and NCLEX review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of fluids, electrolytes, acid-base balance. Content includes all of the ""need-to-know"" information covering balances and imbalances of sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, acids bases, replacement therapies, common health problems and much more Each chapter provides the following tools that will help lead you to success in your course and on the NCLEX-RN: Chapter Objectives Pre- and post-chapter tests with comprehensive rationales Vocabulary review Practice-to-Pass exercises Critical thinking case studies NCLEX alerts Enhance your review with the Nursing Review Rationales' with the free CD-ROM and Companion Website. These additional tools feature even more detailed explanations of difficult concepts and visuals, interactive practice exercises and NCLEX-RN questions, audio glossaries, and more related resources. About the Series Prentice Hall's Nursing Review Rationales Series is the complete foundation for success both within the classroom and on the NCLEX-RN. Each volume offers a concentrated review of core content from across the nursing curriculum, while providing hundreds of practice questions and comprehensive rationales. The only review series with an integrated technology package, each book offers a free corresponding CD-ROM and Companion Website. The complete series includes books for: Nursing Fundamentals Child Health Nursing Fluid, Electrolyte, Acid-Base Balance Maternal-Newborn Nursing Medical-Surgical Nursing Mental Health Nursing Nutrition Diet Therapy Pathophysiology Pharmacology Mary Ann Hogan, RN, CS, MSN has been a nurse educator for 20 years, currently as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught in diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate nursing programs. A former item writer for the CAT NCLEX-RN, Ms. Hogan has been teaching NCLEX-RN review courses throughout New England for the last 14 years. She has also contributed to a number of publications in the areas of adult health and fundamentals of nursing. Ms. Hogan is an ANCC-certified clinical specialist in medical-surgical nursing and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau. Daryle Wane, APRN, BC, MSN, BSN is an Assistant Professor at Pasco Hernando Community College in New Port Richey, Florida. Ms. Wane has taught various courses in the nursing program, including fundamentals, medical-surgical nursing, and maternity nursing. As a nurse educator for 9 years, she has taught generic RN, LPN, and paramedic-RN bridge students. She has served as a reviewer for several nursing textbooks, and published materials for nursing instructors. In addition to nursing, Ms. Wane has a BA in Nutrition and teaches nutrition courses at the college. She is an ANCC-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau. INTRODUCTION Welcome to the new Prentice Hall Reviews and Rationales Series! This 9-book series has been specifically designed to provide a clear and concentrated review of important nursing knowledge in the following content areas: Child Health Nursing Maternal-Newborn Nursing Mental Health Nursing Medical-Surgical Nursing Pathophysiology Pharmacology Nursing Fundamentals Nutrition and Diet Therapy Fluids, Electrolytes, Acid-Base Balance The books in this series have been designed for use either by current nursing students as a study aid for nursing course work or NCLEX-RN licensing exam preparation, or by practicing nurses seeking a comprehensive yet concise review of a nursing specialty or subject area. This series is truly unique. One of its most special features is that it has been authored by a large team of nurse educators from across the United States and Canada to ensure that each chapter is written by a nurse expert in the content area under study. Prentice Hall Health representatives from across North America submitted names of nurse educators and/or clinicians who excel in their respective fields, and these authors were then invited to write a chapter in one or more books. The consulting editor for each book, who is also an expert in that specialty area, then reviewed all chapters submitted for comprehensiveness and accuracy. The series editor designed the overall series in collaboration with a core Prentice Hall team to take full advantage of Prentice Hall's cutting edge technology, and also reviewed the chapters in each book. All books in the series are identical in their overall design for your convenience (further details follow at the end of this section). As an added value, each book comes with a comprehensive support package, including free CD-ROM, free companion website access, and a Nursing Notes card for quick clinical reference. STUDY TIPS Use of this review book should help simplify your study. To make the most of your valuable study time, also follow these simple but important suggestions: Use a weekly calendar to schedule study sessions. Outline the timeframes for all of your activities (home, school, appointments, etc.) on a weekly calendar. Find the ""holes"" in your calendarthe times in which you can plan to study. Add study sessions to the calendar at times when you can expect to be mentally alert and follow it! Create the optimal study environment. Eliminate external sources of distraction, such as television, telephone, etc. Eliminate internal sources of distraction, such as hunger, thirst, or dwelling on items or problems that cannot be worked on at the moment. Take a break for 10 minutes or so after each hour of concentrated study both as a reward and an incentive to keep studying. Use pre-reading strategies to increase comprehension of chapter material. Skim the headings in the chapter (because they identify chapter content). Read the definitions of key terms, which will help you learn new words to comprehend chapter information. Review all graphic aids (figures, tables, boxes) because they are often used to explain important points in the chapter. Read the chapter thoroughly but at a reasonable speed. Comprehension and retention are actually enhanced by not reading too slowly. Do take the time to reread any section that is unclear to you. Summarize what you have learned. Use questions supplied with this book, CD-ROM, and companion website to test your recall of chapter content. Review again any sections that correspond to questions you answered incorrectly or incompletely. TEST TAKING STRATEGIES Use the following strategies to increase your success on multiple-choice nursing tests or examinations: Get sufficient sleep and have something to eat before taking a test. Take deep breaths during the test as needed. Remember, the brain requires oxygen and glucose as fuel. Avoid concentrated sweets before a test, however, to avoid rapid upward and then downward surges in blood glucose levels. Read each question carefully, identifying the stem, the four options, and any key words or phrases in either the stem or options. Key words in the stem such as ""most important"" indicate the need to set priorities, since more than one option is likely to contain a statement that is technically correct. Remember that the presence of absolute words such as ""never"" or ""only"" in an option is more likely to make that option incorrect. Determine who is the client in the question; often this is the person with the health problem, but it may also be a significant other, relative, friend, or another nurse. Decide whether the stem is a true response stem or a false response stem. With a true response stem, the correct answer will be a true statement, and vice-versa. Determine what the question is really asking, sometimes referred to as the issue of the question. Evaluate all answer options in relation to this issue, and not strictly to the ""correctness"" of the statement in each individual option. Eliminate options that are obviously incorrect, then go back and reread the stem. Evaluate the remaining options against the stem once more. If two answers seem similar and correct, try to decide whether one of them is more global or comprehensive. If the global option includes the alternative option within it, it is likely that the more global response is the correct answer. THE NCLEX-RN LICENSING EXAMINATION The NCLEX-RN licensing examination is a Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) that ranges in length from 75 to 265 individual (stand-alone) test items, depending on individual performance during the examination. Upon graduation from a nursing program, successful completion of this exam is the gateway to your professional nursing practice. The blueprint for the exam is reviewed and revised every three years by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing according to the results of a job analysis study of new graduate nurses (practicing within the first six months after graduation). Each question on the exam is coded to one Client Need Category and one or more Integrated Concepts and Processes. Client Need Categories There are 4 categories of client needs, and each exam will contain a minimum and maximum percent of questions from each category. Each major category has subcategories within it. The Client Need categories according to the NCLEX-RN Test Plan effective April 2001 are as follows: Safe, Effective Care Environment Management of Care (7-13%) Safety and Infection Control (5-11 %) Health Promotion and Maintenance Growth and Development Throughout the Lifespan (7-13%) Prevention and Early Detection of Disease (5-11 %) Psychosocial Integrity Coping and Adaptation (5-11%) Psychosocial Adaptation (5-11%) Physiological Integrity Basic Care and Comfort (7-13%) Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies (5-11%) Reduction of Risk Potential (12-18.%) Physiological Adaptation (12-18%) Integrated Concepts and Processes The integrated concepts and processes identified on the NCLEX-RN Test Plan effective April 2001, with condensed definitions, are as follows: Nursing Process: a scientific problem-solving approach used in nursing practice; consisting of assessment, analysis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Caring: client-nurse interaction(s) characterized by mutual respect and trust and directed toward achieving desired client outcomes. Communication and Documentation: verbal and/or nonverbal interactions between nurse and others (client, family, health care team); a written or electronic recording of activities or events that occur during client care. Cultural Awareness: knowledge and sensitivity to the client's beliefs/values and how these might impact on the client's healthcare experience. Self-Care: assisting clients to meet their health care needs, which may include maintaining health or restoring function. Teaching/Learning: facilitating client's acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that lead to behavior change. More detailed information about this examination may be obtained by visiting the National Council of State Boards of Nursing website at http://www.ncsbn.org and viewing the NCLEX-RN Examination Test Plan for the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses. HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS BOOK Chapter Organization Each chapter has the following elements to guide you during review and study: Chapter Objectives: describe what you will be able to know or do after learning the material covered in the chapter. OBJECTIVES: Review basic principles of growth and development. Describe major physical expectations for each developmental age group. Identify developmental milestones for various age groups. Discuss the reactions to illness and hospitalization for children at various stages of development. Review at a Glance: contains a glossary of key terms used in the chapter, with definitions provided up-front and available at your fingertips, to help you stay focused and make the best use of your study time. Pretest: this 10-question multiple choice test provides a sample overview of content covered in the chapter and helps you decide what areas need the mostor the leastreview.",basic sciences;books;clinical;fitness & dieting;fundamentals & skills;general;health;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;nursing;nutrition;physiology;reviews & study guides;test preparation & review;used & rental textbooks,17 1583226737,"Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks Published two years ago as Modern Jihad in a British edition from Pluto Press, this first full U.S. release adds a chapter on globalization and a new preface to what is perhaps the most systematic treatment in print of how terror is financed. Journalist Napoleoni has a doctorate from the London School of Economics, and she traces 50 years of Western economic and political dominance in developing Muslim countries: backing repressive, corrupt regimes, fighting the Cold War by proxy and blocking the legitimate economic ascendancy of millions of people. In sometimes riveting, sometimes pedantic prose, Napoleoni weaves interviews and first-person accounts of her encounters with terrorists with a fascinating close analysis of the connections among drug cartels, gunrunners and major Western economies in the network of financing for terror organizations: ""billions of dollars generated by narcotics are laundered in the United States; between 30 and 40 percent enter the US economy, while the rest is pumped into the international illegal economy""to the tune of $1.5 trillion a year. Avoiding the sometimes inflammatory political and religious rhetoric that characterizes many of the debates about terrorism, Napoleoni offers a sobering look at its economic roots. Agents, Roberta Oliva and Daniela Ogliari.(Apr. 20) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. A woman of the Left who garners praise from Noam Chomsky and Greg Palast at the same time as she is quoted respectfully inForbesand theWall Street Journal, economist LORETTA NAPOLEONI has been an advisor to national governments while being one of the harshest of critics of the underlying principles and policies of the current world banking system. Napoleonis books, includingRogue Economics: Capitalism's New Reality(aPublishers WeeklyBest Book of 2008) andTerror Incorporated: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism, have been international bestsellers and are translated into eighteen foreign languages. A longtime activist, a former Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School, a Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics, and chair of the Club de Madrid countering terrorismfinancing group, Napoleoni has traveled widely in the Middle East and around the world. Her essays and columns have appeared in theChicago Tribune,La Stampa,La Repubblica,El Pas, andLe Monde. Her most recent book isMaonomics: How Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do.",20th century;americas;books;business & investing;economics;history;international;iraq;iraq war;middle east;military;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics;terrorism;united states;world,17 0567085694,"Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction To New Testament Ethics ""Richard Hays has succeeded in providing a set of parameters in which ethics can be discussed in a meaningful way... I will be surprised if all do not see this as a text book for NT ethics into the early decades of the 21st Century."" A leading expert in New Testament ethics discovers in the biblical witness a unified ethical vision -- centered in the themes of community, cross and new creation -- that has profound relevance in today's world. Richard Hays shows how the New Testament provides moral guidance on the most troubling ethical issues of our time, including violence, divorce, homosexuality and abortion. ""Hays passionately written book, with its bold agenda, has neither peer nor rival."" --Leander E. Keck, Winkley Professor of Biblical Theology, Yale Divinity School ""There are few people I would rather read for the actual exposition of the New Testament than Richard Hays. This book is filled with wonderful readings that not only inform us about how to think better about the so-called problem of the relation between the New Testament and ethics but, even more, speak of how our lives should be lived in the light of Christs cross. -Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Studies, Duke University Divinity School ""Richard Hays has succeeded brilliantly in bringing New Testament studies, contemporary theology, and ethics into a deeply reflective conversation... Hays point is that the New Testament norms the Christian life, and, with the help of imagination and metaphor, can address the moral conflicts of our time."" --Ellen T. Charry, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University ""This book isnt just a breath of fresh air. Its a hurricane, blowing away the fog of half-understood pseudo-morality and fashionable compromise, and revealing instead the early Christian vision of true humanness and genuine holiness. If this isnt a book for our time, I dont know what is."" --N. T. Wright, author of The New Testament and the People of God --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Richard Hays is professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School. He is noted for his work in the fields of New Testament ethics and Pauline theology. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Chapter OnePaulThe Koinonia of His Sufferingsl . Is Paul's Ethic Theologically Grounded?Paul was first of all a missionary, an organizer of far-flung little communities around the Mediterranean that united clusters of disparate people in the startling confession that God had raised a crucified man, Jesus, from the dead and thus initiated a new age in which the whole world was to be transformed. The letters of Paul that survive in the New Testament are his pastoral communications with these mission outposts. Though separated from them, he continued to offer them exhortation and counsel about how to conduct their common life ""in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ"" (Phil. 1:27)All of the letters except Romans were written to communities that Paul himself had founded, communities that were well acquainted with his preaching and teaching; consequently, much is left unsaid, taken for granted. As belated readers of the letters, we are left to imagine how the gaps should be filled in. How had Paul preached the gospel to them originally? What norms of behavior had he already sought to inculcate? What shared assumptions were so fundamental that they remained implicit rather than explicit in Paul's correspondence? The letters give us some clues, but when we read them we repeatedly encounter the tantalizing challenge of the unspoken, just as though we were listening to one end of a telephone conversation.Paul nowhere sets forth a systematic presentation of ""Christian ethics."" Nor does he offer his communities a ""manual of discipline,"" a comprehensive summary of community organization and duties. Such summaries were not uncommon in the ancient world: in various ways, the genre is represented by the Community Rule (1QS) found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, the presentation of Jesus' teaching in the Gospel of Matthew, the Didache, and the codification of Jewish Halakah in the Mishnah. Paul, however, does not formulate such a code. As we shall see, he has theological reasons for preferring not to do so. Instead, he responds ad hoc to the contingent pastoral problems that arise in his churches. Should Gentile believers be circumcised? Should converts to Paul's movement divorce their unbelieving spouses? Are Christians obligated to obey the Roman authorities? In every case, Paul offers answers.But are his answers based on some coherent set of theological convictions?' Has he unreflectively taken his moral norms from traditional sources, or are they derived from a logic internal to his gospel?New Testament scholars have sometimes suggested that there is no direct connection between Paul's ethical prescriptions and his theological proclamation. Martin Dibelius, one of the founders of form criticism, proposed that the blocks of moral advice that characteristically occur at the end of Paul's letters should be understood as parenesis, general collections of maxims adopted from popular Hellenistic philosophy. According to Dibelius, the early Christians expected the end of history to occur almost immediately; consequently, they did not concern themselves with formulating an ethic. When the parousia did not occur as expected, they filled the ethical vacuum by appropriating philosophical parenesis. Thus, in Dibelius's view, the ethical teachings in, for example, Galatians 5-6 and Romans 12-15 are not integrally related to Paul's gospel or derived from ""revelation"" (see Gal. 1:12); rather, they recycle a general moral wisdom widely shared in Hellenistic culture.'Although Dibelius's description of the Pauline ethical material has been strongly challenged ,4 his sharp disjunction between the theological and ethical aspects of the letters has continued to find significant support. For example, Hans Dieter Betz, in his major commentary on Galatians, writes this with regard to Galatians 5:1-6:10:Paul does not provide the Galatians with a specifically Christian ethic. The Christian is addressed as an educated and responsible person. He is expected to do no more than what would be expected of any other educated person in the Hellenistic culture of the time. In a rather conspicuous way Paul conforms to the ethical thought of his contemporaries.According to Betz's account, Paul's gospel may provide motivation to do what is right, but it does not generate a singularly Christian account of ""what is right""; Paul adopts his moral norms from the surrounding educated culture.The implications of such an analysis are great: if there is no integral relation between Paul's ethics and his theology, the nonnative status of his particular ethical teachings is tenuous. When the Christian gospel moves in time or space to a different culture, one could presumably substitute a different set of cultural norms without difficulty. (One frequently hears this sort of argument made with regard to Paul's pronouncements on sexual ethics.) If, on the other hand, Paul's ethic does have a material relation to his theology, then the normative status of his moral teaching is inextricably bound up with the authority of his gospel. Such hermeneutical concerns cannot, of course, predetermine the result of our analysis, but it is well to recognize what is at stake in the question.Thus, we confront a cluster of critical questions for our study of Pauline ethics: Are Paul's ethical norms grounded in the gospel? On what is his pastoral counsel based? Is Paul a sort of early Christian advice columnist or editorial writer who addresses the issues of the day by appealing to commonsense standards of morality and decency? Or is his advice distinctively shaped by the gospel? Does the truth of the gospel require the particular counsel that he gives?In the pages that follow, I will offer a reading of Paul that seeks to demonstrate how his ethical teachings are rooted in his theological thought. Only if we back off some distance from the actual content of the Pauline letters can we posit a dichotomy between Paul's theology and his ethics--or between kerygma (the proclamation of the gospel) and didache (the teaching of standards of conduct), or between indicative (what God has done in Christ) and imperative (what human beings are called upon to do). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.",bibles;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;church history;ethics;history;humanities;new;reference;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks;world,17 0275951863,"The Times Square Hustler: Male Prostitution in New York City ""Bob McNamara has done a remarkable job of capturing the character and complexity of the street life of Times Square hustlers--a difficult and hard to reach deviant environment to be sure. Throughout, he not only tells their fascinating story, but goes further to examine the relations between hustlers, the hustled, and those who facilitate the entire process. A well-written account, his result should be read by all who are interested in the subject, the difficulties of ethnographic research, or the interactions between deviance (crime) and the environment in which it occurs.""-Dennis Jay Kenney, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha Director of Research, Police Executive Research Forum Lives of male prostitutes, and the cohesive community developed to face AIDS, crack cocaine, and urban redevelopment. Appropriate for upper-division undergraduate students of sociology of deviance. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. ROBERT P. McNAMARA is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Furman University.",books;fitness & dieting;gender studies;health;men;new;politics & government;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;public affairs & policy;sexuality;social sciences;social services & welfare;sociology;urban;used & rental textbooks,17 019210019X,"A Dictionary of English Folklore If your hand itches, you're about to receive money. Walking under a ladder is not just unlucky, but might mean you'll never marry or are bound for the gallows. To get rid of mice, speak to them politely, suggesting another house they might prefer. Filled with fascinating bits of information, A Dictionary of English Folklore catalogues many of the tales and beliefs, ancient, medieval, and contemporary, in England. The term ""folklore"" may have been invented in 1848, but the stories and legends it encompasses reach far back into history. Their intention, say authors Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud, ""is to provide a work of reference, not to build theories--the entries therefore emphasize established dates and facts; speculative interpretations are kept to a minimum."" Though dryly academic at times, the dictionary is a wealth of information on English folklore, of which little has been written (Scotland, Ireland, and Wales all have their own folklore and mythologies). Broader than just a collection of tales, the book includes important folklorists, holidays, numbers, plants, animals, and customs. Did you know ""Goldilocks"" was once ""Silver-Hair"" and before that an old woman? Or that folding your thumb into the palm of your hand and closing the fingers over it was believed to protect against witches? Organized in alphabetical order with cross-referencing, the entries are thorough and well-cited (including books, publication dates, and page numbers). A Dictionary of English Folklore is a great reference tool for historians and folklorists, but also for those interested in the origins of fairy tales, old wives' tales, and superstitions. --Dana Van Nest Containing more than 1200 alphabetically arranged entries, this folklore dictionary spans familiar beliefs, from the earliest cultural traditions to more familiar subjects, such as Mother Goose. The authors, esteemed British folklore experts with many publications to their credit, include a broad range of oral genres, calendar customs, festivals, life-cycle customs, and supernatural and superstitious beliefs. Everyday lore is fully explored, from the Tooth Fairy and Godiva to the modern tales of wonderment such as ""The Vanishing Hitchhiker."" Fairies, mermaids, hobgoblins, and changelings are examples of the supernatural forces surveyed. The historical foundations of folk cures and old wives' tales, as well as classic legendary characters (e.g., Robin Hood) are identified and traced. Other topics include festivals, past and present, that are celebrated throughout English literature, as well as children's games, ""fakelore,"" cross-dressing, mumming, and more. All are provided with dependable information and references, and the many See and See Also citations add considerably to the book's richness as a reference source. The one drawback to this solidly researched work is its exclusively British approach, which will limit its appeal to American readers. Students and researchers, however, will find it valuable. Recommended for inclusive and extensive library collections.DRichard K. Burns, MSLS, Hatboro, PA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. This scholarly dictionary begins with a broadly inclusive definition of what constitutes folklore . Briefly, the editors have chosen to include oral and performance genres of common culture, calendar customs, life-cycle customs, and supernatural and superstitious beliefs, dating from antiquity through current day. Not included are traditional foods, sports, games, fairs, or obsolete customs. There is only limited coverage of children's lore, fairies, and plants. English has a much narrower definition: England and England only. The folklores of Ireland, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Isles are not considered, nor are those of any of the ethnic groups that form part of English society. Researchers will find no references to banshees or Nessie but will find detailed entries concerning strictly British inventions such as boy bishops, Farthing Bundles, the Lambton worm, and Stir-Up Sunday.The 1,250 alphabetically arranged definitions range from a sentence or two to more than a page, with the focus on factual documentation as opposed to analytical interpretation. Footnotes appear at the end of each entry, referring to more than 350 academic resources detailed in the bibliography. These sources mostly date from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (although some are as early as the fourteenth century) and include standards of folklore scholarship, unpublished doctoral treatises, reference works, and folklore periodicals.There are just eight illustrations, and the scholarly approach makes for rather dry prose. Text is arranged in a no-nonsense double-column format, with indexed terms appearing in boldface. There is no index, but see and see also references guide readers to appropriate entries. An asterisk next to a term indicates that the term is the subject of a separate entry.Although the concentration on English folklore might seem to limit this source's research value, the bibliography alone should warrant interest in academic and specialized collections. General public and school collections might be better served by one of the broader works currently available: for example, David Pickering's A Dictionary of Folklore [RBB My 15 00], originally published in England as the Cassell Dictionary of Folklore , or The Larousse Dictionary of World Folklore, by Alison Jones (1996). Still, this represents a unique contribution to the body of work about folklore and should be considered by academic and large public libraries. RBBCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved `splendid book' Christopher Hawtree, Independent, 31/7/00`The book is full of absorbing information ... a valuable research tool.' TLS 29/9/00`delightful book' Lancshire magazine 12/2000`The authors ... have certainly done their homework ... Packed with information the authors and publishers deserve full praise for a valuable addition to works on this fascinating subject.' James Whetter, The Cornish Banner, Aug 2000, No.101. Dr. Jacqueline Simpson was president of the Folklore Society from 1993 to 1996, editor of Folklore from 1979 to 1993, and is currently Honorary Secretary of the Folklore Society. Her publications include Folklore of Sussex, Folklore of the Welsh Borders, and Scandinavian Folktales. Steve Roud has been Honorary Librarian of the Folklore Society for the last 15 years. He is the author of Mumming Plays in Oxfordshire and has compiled the Index to the Journal Folklore 1968-1992.",books;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;encyclopedias;england;english;europe;fairy tales;folklore;folklore & mythology;history;literature & fiction;mythology & folk tales;mythology & folklore;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences,17 0618391134,"J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (Two Volume Box Set) Wayne G. Hammond is a librarian at the Chapin Library of Rare Books at Williams College, Massachusetts. He is the author of 'The Graphic Art of C.B. Falls' (1892), 'J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography' (1993), and regular notes on Tolkien in the journal 'Mythlore'. Christina Scull is the former librarian of Sir John Soane's Museum, London. She is the author of 'The Soane Hogarths' (1991), edits the journal 'The Tolkien Collector', and frequently writes and speaks about Tolkien. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;british;criticism & theory;education & reference;english literature;fantasy;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;used & rental textbooks,17 0743237560,"The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World Starred Review. Children may start to speak at a year, but that's hardly the beginning, as Yale linguist and psychologist Yang shows in this engrossing book. Babies recognize the first elements of language before birth, start to babble at three to four months and can memorize and recognize the sounds of words at six to nine months. Yang uses this fascinating progression to explain one of the core theories of contemporary linguistics: Noam Chomsky's universal grammar, that human understanding of language is in the genes. Yang takes the theory a step further in arguing that the keys to acquiring language are not in the learning, but in unlearning: ""Viewed in the Darwinian light, all humanly possible grammars compete to match the language spoken in a child's environment.... This theory of language takes both nature and nurture into account: nature proposes, and nurture disposes."" Yang unfolds this complex argument systematically and with appealing animation, using creative exampleshis son's first word, neurological experiments, baseball analogiesto keep the narrative moving. For readers who will never venture into the field to study language acquisition, he reveals that some of the most exciting linguistic experiments are happening much closer to home. (June) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Charles Yang teaches linguistics and psychology at Yale University. Trained as a computer scientist at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, he has written extensively on children and language and contributes articles to The London Review of Books, among other literary publications. He lives in Delaware with his wife, a frequent research collaborator, and young son, a frequent research subject. Chapter 1: The Greatest Intellectual Feat Chromosomes. Sex. Grasshoppers. ""Pick me up, Mommy."" This is an odd list, except in the eye of evolution. For in the major developments in the history of life, the ability to say, ""Pick me up, Mommy"" features prominently along with the emergence of genes, sexual reproduction, and multicellular organisms. On a smaller but no less wondrous scale, the ability to speak opens one mind to another. Babies announce their arrival with a loud cry, but it is their first words that launch the journey of a lifetime:""Kitty.""""Big drum.""""Drink tea.""This is the miracle of language, the ability to arrange sounds into infinitely many ways to convey infinitely varied meanings. Language is what we use to tell stories, transmit knowledge, and build social bonds. It comforts, tickles, excites, and destroys. Every society has language, and somehow we all learn a language in the first few years of our lives, a process that has been repeated for as long as humans have been around. Unlike swimming, using Microsoft Windows, or making the perfect lemon souffl -- which some of us never manage to do -- learning a language is a task we can all take for granted. Although every form of life is a testament to the power of evolution, language is an achievement of humans, and humans alone. The talents for cooperative hunting, tool making, and having sex for fun, once thought to be unique to us, have all been found in other species. However, as far as we know, there is nothing like language in the vastly varied systems of communication in other animals, which makes it a lasting -- and perhaps the last -- grip for our anthropocentric arrogance. The centrality of language to human nature is what prompted the great French thinker Ren Descartes to separate men from beasts:It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same.Just how do we do this?My son, Russell, had just turned three when I started writing this book. A medium-sized newborn, he soon shot off the growth charts that now populate parenting books. At three, he was wearing size five. However, Russell was rarely mistaken for a five-year-old. When he ran, he still waddled. Although he could throw, he couldn't catch. And he still couldn't tie his shoes. Children develop along a fairly consistent schedule, which leaves landmarks of physiological attributes and abilities. If you watched Russell in the playground, you would see just an unusually large specimen among three-year-olds.But you didn't need to see him at the playground to know Russell was just three. Every waiter or waitress who greeted us was successful at guessing his age. As soon as Russell started insisting on pizza over anything else on the menu, his language betrayed his age. What his words sounded like and how they were put together are familiar to anyone who has been around kids.Much like motor skills and head-to-body ratio, language also develops along a fairly consistent schedule. Out of the cries, coos, and laughs, all infants start babbling around the eighth month. Deaf babies babble too -- with their hands. For children learning to speak English, the first words more or less coincide with the first birthday, and sentences -- the arrangement of words -- start appearing when the child is a year and a half. By age three, most children know over a thousand words. They have command of many complex sentence structures, and can carry out fully independent and undeniably cute conversations with adults. And similar successive stages show up not only in English-speaking children, but also in those learning to talk in French, German, Chinese, and Swahili.All children learn a language and they do so in similar ways. This, coupled with the fact that language learning occurs only in human youngsters, suggests that the root of language is in our biology. There is something in our genes that other species don't have, which is why a child's puppy, which grows up in the same household and hears the same sounds, never learns the language that the child learns.Claiming language to be uniquely human may sound like a desperate attempt to assert our special place in nature: the latest count shows that chimpanzees share 96 percent of our genes. But every species is a unique product of biological evolution. Bats can find their way in the dark. Squirrels can hide and find thousands of nuts to pass the winter. Frogs are far better than us at catching mosquitoes. Biologically speaking, language is no more special than any of these abilities; what is special is the things that humans have done with language, including writing and reading books on how language is learned. Thus, Charles Darwin, the ultimate destroyer of our self-importance, didn't hesitate to remark that ""Man has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of young children, whilst no child has an instinctive tendency to bake, brew, or write."" Furthermore, humans' specialty for language is not at odds with biological evolution. As Darwin notes, ""the faculty of articulated speech does not in itself offer any insuperable objection to the belief that man has developed from some lower form.""But a biological basis cannot be all there is to language. Learning a language is not like walking, which is simply (and automatically) a matter of neuromuscular maturation, occurring around a child's first birthday. Again, in Darwin's words, language ""is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt."" After all, English children grow up speaking English, and Chinese children, Chinese. And for a lot of people, the most impressive thing about languages is how different they seem. This means that the neural hardware for language must be plastic; it must leave space and possibilities to respond to the particular environment a child is born into, and to result in different organizations of the brain for different speakers. To put it simply, language learning requires both nature and nurture.This book explains how nature and nurture work together to give children language. To develop such an explanation, one necessarily faces many obstacles that are not present in other disciplines; there can be no poking around in a child's brain, for instance. An indirect route of research must be sought when direct tampering with a child's nature or nurture is not possible. And a useful clue may be found just outside your bedroom window.Songbirds constitute the largest order of birds in the world, and their songs vary considerably across species and even by geographical location. Think of these as English vs. Chinese, Harvard accent vs. Texas twang.Chicks do not start singing at birth: songs have to be learned. The onset of learning is a period of listening to adult songs and memorizing them for later use. This is followed by a stage of unstructured chirps: the chick experiments with its vocal organs.But then song learning takes off. The youngsters quickly become specialized in their native songs and dialects; by then, avid birders can identify their species and origin by their songs alone. For some birds, a period of creativity follows. The bird may thump out a few variations, all of which are potentially songs native to the species, but only those unique to the geographical region are eventually retained.Birdsong learning is the work of both nature and nurture. Of all the acoustic events in its environment, a young songbird can somehow pick out the songs of its own kind: songbirds don't learn from ducks or hawks, for instance. In an experiment, chicks were hatched in a laboratory so that they had no experience with adult songs whatsoever. They were then exposed to the recorded songs of their own species as well as others. Remarkably, a strong preference for the native tunes was discovered; this affinity must then have come from the genome.At the same time, songs that are unique to a species must be learned from experience. A songbird that grows up without ever hearing adult birds of its own species never sings. In addition, songs can be learned only if the experience comes within a sensitive period as the bird matures; this window of opportunity then shuts permanently. The chaffinch, for instance, cannot learn new songs after the tenth month.Birdsong learning and language learning have unmistakable parallels. Human infants aren't born talking either, but they come fully prepared. Somehow babies can tune out radios, telephones, and their sibling's tantrums and zero in on the sounds of speech. Just as songbirds listen and store up their adult songs, babies quietly register many specific features of their language in the beginning of language learning. Babbling is babies' experimentation with their vocal organs. While young children's speech may sound imperfect to adults, there is no doubt that the children are working on the language that they will eventually attain. After all, children generally understand us (though sometimes it does seem that they pretend not to). And when Russell says:""Tickles me""""The sun is sweating you""""Super Grover flied away""he is not just mimicking adults, who would never talk that way. Children, like some songbirds, are innovators, not just imitators.No scientist has reared a child in a laboratory in isolation, but the necessity of experience for language learning cannot be doubted. The ultimate experiment, so the legend goes, was carried out by Psamtik I, who ruled Egypt in the seventh century BC. As told by the Greek historian Herodotus, the king wanted to know which people were the most ancient in the world, a distinction he thought could be identified by seeing who used the most ancient language. He gave two newbo... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",alphabet;behavioral sciences;books;child psychology;cognitive psychology;developmental psychology;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;medical books;new;psychology;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words,17 0520236572,"Frontiers and Ghettos: State Violence in Serbia and Isræl ""In the best tradition of social science research, Ron examines state-directed violence to find out not how states ought to act but how they do act. A well-documented study [within a] sophisticated framework.""--""Foreign Affairs"" ""Frontiers and Ghettos is based on the idea that when it comes to ethnopolitical conflict, lousy is better than horrible. How outcomes better than horrible arise, despite ideological imperatives, hatreds, and predatory opportunities, is brilliantly analyzed in this empirically rich, vividly written, and provocative comparison of Serbian and Israeli policies toward Croatians, Muslims and Palestinians. A terrific book!""Ian S. Lustick, author of Unsettled States, Disputed Lands""Abusive governments try to avoid leaving fingerprints on acts of repression, often using paramilitaries or death squads for deniability. James Ron reveals that territorial boundaries can serve a similar function. Abuse is more likely, he shows, as one crosses the frontiers of established state power, obscuring the signature of official action. This original and insightful book encourages us to expose cross-border involvement in human rights violations and re-establish official accountability.""Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch""With terrifying lucidity, Ron uses the experiences of Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Israel, and Palestine to examine how a state's definition of the boundary separating its favored population from a different people authorizes, channels, or inhibits its use of force. This veteran participant-observer uses first-hand observation tellingly.""Charles Tilly, author of Durable Inequality""Frontiers and Ghettos represents a major step forward in social science's effort to understand state violence. James Ron shows that while all states use violence, they do so differently in their well-policed interiors and at their margins. This book is powerful, timely, and important for both scholars, policy-makers, and those who would advance respect for human rights.""Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council""James Ron has written a strikingly clear and convincing study of the factors affecting controlled and uncontrolled state-directed violence in the current period, with an analysis that adds substantially to the sociology of the state. His book will be important for all those concernedfor scholarly reasons and for broader oneswith modern confrontations of world norms, state power and human rights. And its gripping accounts will be important for those concerned with the specific violent conflicts it examines, in Serbia and Israel.""John W. Meyer, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, Stanford University""This ingenious and courageous comparison of the types of violence used by nationalist regimes should transform the way we think about borders and state sovereignty. In demonstrating that even the most unsavory governments can be sensitive to international norms and the appearance of legality, Ron also strikes a serious blow at standard policy prescriptions -- from imposing sanctions and isolation on offending regimes to offering autonomy packages and soft borders for ethnic minorities. This book deserves wide circulation and serious reflection.""Susan L. Woodward, author of Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War""As the horrific escalation of violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories grips international headlines, the inability of commentators to locate these tragic events in a comparative analytical frame is striking. This book is an impressive exception. Ron's elegant comparative analysis of Serbia and earlier periods of Israeli-Palestinian conflict makes the dynamics of the present conflict and its future possibilities comprehensible in a way that few others have managed to do. It is a signal contribution to our understanding of modern state violence.""Peter Evans, Eliaser Chair of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley ""Frontiers and Ghettos is based on the idea that when it comes to ethnopolitical conflict, lousy is better than horrible. How outcomes better than horrible arise, despite ideological imperatives, hatreds, and predatory opportunities, is brilliantly analyzed in this empirically rich, vividly written, and provocative comparison of Serbian and Israeli policies toward Croatians, Muslims and Palestinians. A terrific book!""-Ian S. Lustick, author of Unsettled States, Disputed Lands ""Abusive governments try to avoid leaving fingerprints on acts of repression, often using paramilitaries or death squads for deniability. James Ron reveals that territorial boundaries can serve a similar function. Abuse is more likely, he shows, as one crosses the frontiers of established state power, obscuring the signature of official action. This original and insightful book encourages us to expose cross-border involvement in human rights violations and re-establish official accountability.""-Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch ""With terrifying lucidity, Ron uses the experiences of Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Israel, and Palestine to examine how a state's definition of the boundary separating its favored population from a different people authorizes, channels, or inhibits its use of force. This veteran participant-observer uses first-hand observation tellingly.""-Charles Tilly, author of Durable Inequality ""Frontiers and Ghettos represents a major step forward in social science's effort to understand state violence. James Ron shows that while all states use violence, they do so differently in their well-policed interiors and at their margins. This book is powerful, timely, and important for both scholars, policy-makers, and those who would advance respect for human rights.""-Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council ""James Ron has written a strikingly clear and convincing study of the factors affecting controlled and uncontrolled state-directed violence in the current period, with an analysis that adds substantially to the sociology of the state. His book will be important for all those concerned-for scholarly reasons and for broader ones-with modern confrontations of world norms, state power and human rights. And its gripping accounts will be important for those concerned with the specific violent conflicts it examines, in Serbia and Israel.""-John W. Meyer, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, Stanford University ""This ingenious and courageous comparison of the types of violence used by nationalist regimes should transform the way we think about borders and state sovereignty. In demonstrating that even the most unsavory governments can be sensitive to international norms and the appearance of legality, Ron also strikes a serious blow at standard policy prescriptions -- from imposing sanctions and isolation on offending regimes to offering autonomy packages and soft borders for ethnic minorities. This book deserves wide circulation and serious reflection.""-Susan L. Woodward, author of Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War James Ron is the Canada Research Chair in Conflict and Human Rights in McGill University's Department of Sociology.",anthropology;books;cultural;customs & traditions;education & reference;europe;history;humanities;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;serbia;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks;yugoslavia,17 1583918744,"The Spirituality Revolution: The Emergence of Contemporary Spirituality 'It is sometimes possible to recommend a book without hesitation. This is such a book. It is exceptionally intelligent, readable, timely and full of hope. Tacey's mature comments, for example on fundamentalism, on the link between wholeness and perfection, on the distinction between spirituality and spiritualism, and his entire critique of comtemporary religion (focused mainly on Christianity), so succinctly and reasonably put, are worth the price of the book alone'. - Dr Larry Culliford, Network Review: Journal of the Scientific and Medical Network, Winter 2004",books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;general;health;humanities;medical books;mental health;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality;religious studies;social sciences;sociology;spirituality;used & rental textbooks,17 0521790697,"Engineering and Product Development Management: The Holistic Approach ""Stephen Armstrong's book makes a good contribution to the body of knowledge on product development, and deserves a place in the library of any manager working in this area."" Mark Crowne, IEE Review""Stephen Armstrong's book is an invaluable resource that advocates the integration of technical aspects of engineering with leadership and process management. It is an excellent addition to the libraries of planning, design, and operation engineers, consulting engineers, project and program managers, engineering managers, directors and executives."" Daria Babaie, Engineering Dimensions""...a practical guide to the components of engineering management..."" Business Horizons This book is a practical guide to the components of engineering management, using a holistic approach. It will help engineers and managers understand what they have to do to improve the product development process by deploying new technology and new methods of working in concurrent teams. The book takes elements from six well known and understood bodies of knowledge and integrates them into a holistic approach: integrated product development, project management, process management, systems engineering, product data management, and organizational change management. These elements are framed within an overall enterprise-wide architecture. The techniques discussed in this book work for both huge multinational organizations and smaller enterprises. Stephen Armstrong is a partner of AMGI-Bywater, an international strategic management consultancy. He has a proven track record as a performance improvement expert in technologically complex environments - from individual executive leadership performance to broad enterprise wide improvement. He provides services directly to CEOs, executive teams and steering groups leading various types of performance improvement transformation initiatives. Stephen began his career first as an apprentice, then as a graduate engineer in the aerospace industry, specializing in manufacturing engineering research and development in advanced composite materials. He entered the management consulting profession in 1988 joining KPMG (formerly Stevenson Kellogg Ernst and Whinney) and has developed innovative approaches and proprietary methodologies in the areas of strategic change and future state visioning, business design/transformation, new product development (NPD), Lean process management, ERP implementation, organizational development, and enterprise integration. While at KPMG he earned the Certified Management Consultant (CMC) - the international premier qualification in the profession. In 1993, Stephen undertook his first entrepreneurial venture by developing an integrated product development process that was adopted by numerous aerospace and defense companies. He has adapted performance improvement methodologies to a broad range of industry sectors to achieve dramatic improvements by coaching his clients' self-directed innovation teams within integrated enterprise systems architecture. Stephen has also assisted many CEOs and executive teams to develop stakeholder-driven strategic plans and to resolve key issues of governance at senior management levels. His coaching delivery is based on practitioner-based expertise in change management, operations management, engineering and product development management, technology management and project management. Stephen teaches a Masters cours",books;business & finance;business & investing;business development;economics;education & reference;engineering;industrial;industrial engineering;industrial relations;industries & professions;management;management & leadership;manufacturing & operational systems;new;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,17 1405112239,"When Faiths Collide ""When I teach courses at this level I always include religious diversity. Martin Marty's recent text, When Faiths Collide, provides a good entry into this topic on three fronts: by drawing on history, theology, scripture and the intersection of religion with politics, medicine and other fields, Marty reinforces my claim to students that our discipline is polymethodical.""Journal of Teaching Theology and Religion !--end-- This is a marvellous accomplishment When Faiths Collide is an original and fresh contribution to the discussion of religious otherness (the stranger in our midst) as it has unfolded in the aftermath of September 11. Scott Appleby, University of Notre DameAn essential read. Journal of ReligionIn his typically comprehensive way, Martin Marty kindly gives all sides a hearing, eager to make sure every position is fairly represented with its nuance.Word and World Collisions of faiths are among the most threatening conflicts around the world. In the face of these conflicts, this manifesto is a call to embrace religious pluralism. Tackling people's fears of religious pluralism, the author demonstrates that citizens, religions, and identities can in fact survive in radically pluralist settings. He argues that the first address to communities involved in collisions of faith should not be the conventional plea for tolerance, but a call that at least one party risk hospitality toward the other. The book deals with conflicts that affect or occur within those nations whose polities can be called republican, open, democratic, liberal or free, particularly the UK, the US, and Western Europe. Martin Marty is a renowned commentator on religious matters. He has written over 50 books, has won the National Book Award among numerous other honors, and has received 74 honorary doctorates. Collisions of faiths are among the most threatening conflicts around the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century. In the face of these conflicts, this manifesto is a call to embrace religious pluralism. Tackling peoples fears of religious pluralism, the author demonstrates that citizens, religions, and identities can in fact survive in radically pluralist settings. He argues that the first address to communities involved in collisions of faith should not be the conventional plea for tolerance, but a call that at least one party risk hospitality toward the other. The book deals with conflicts that affect or occur within those nations whose polities can be called republican, open, democratic, liberal, or free, particularly the UK, the US, and Western Europe. Martin E. Marty is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where the Martin Marty Center has been founded to promote public religion endeavors. Marty is a renowned commentator on religious matters. He has written over 50 books, including the three-volume Modern American Religion (198696) and Righteous Empire: Protestantism in the US (Second Edition, 1986), which won the National Book Award, and has received 74 honorary doctorates.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;comparative religion;education & reference;general;history;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;religious history;religious studies;sociology;used & rental textbooks;world,17 0896087468,"Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace 'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.' - The Guardian 'Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power.' - The Progressive 'A leading thinker who has eloquently blended her views on the environment, agriculture, spirituality, and women's rights into a powerful philosophy.' - Utne Reader --This text refers to the Paperback edition. A world-renowned environmental leader and recipient of the 1993 Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award), Shiva has authored several bestselling books, most recently Earth Democracy. Activist and scientist, Shiva leads, with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin, the International Forum on Globalization. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India's leading physicists.",books;business & finance;business & investing;conservation;democracy;gender studies;ideologies & doctrines;nature & ecology;new;political ideologies;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,17 0521352223,"Surface Analysis of Polymers by XPS and Static SIMS (Cambridge Solid State Science Series) ""...written by one of those that mostly contributed to the development of the field...valuable to academic and industrial researchers interested to be introduced in the field."" Polymer News The behaviour of polymer and plastic surfaces is critical to a variety of applications of these materials, for example in printing, adhesive bonding, lamination and biomedical applications. This in turn is governed by the chemical structure and composition of the outermost molecular layers. This book describes the instrumentation, physical bases and application of two of the most powerful techniques for polymer surface chemical analysis to have emerged in the past 25 years. It brings together the present state of knowledge in one book for the first time and is written by a pioneer in the field whose research has been driven by industrial requirements.",books;chemical;chemistry;clinical chemistry;engineering;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;new;organic;pathology;physics;polymers & macromolecules;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,17 0205280013,"Writing for Psychology Writing for Psychology offers a concise, yet thorough guide to successful writing for psychology courses. This theoretically grounded resource covers experimental laboratory reports, term papers (non-experimental research reports), essay exams, and oral presentations.This book thoroughly explains writing as a four-step process involving writing as a tool for thinking and learning, drafting, revising, and editing. The authors provide explicit instruction along with annotated student samples of the experimental lab report, the term paper, and the exam essay. Samples also help to explain effective note taking, annotation of research materials, the keeping of reading-response and research logs, and methods of varying written style. Readers learn how to plan their written projects and how to seek and receive good advice on revising drafts. The book also includes a section on dealing with the most common errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling as well as a concise guide to APA style.For those who need to know the standards for writing in the field of psychology.",academic & commercial;books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;fitness & dieting;general;health;humanities;literature;medical books;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;research & publishing guides;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;writing,17 1572303379,"Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling ""This book offers a superb treatment of structural equation modeling. It is really the clearest and most accessible introduction that I have encountered and, as such, it should be the leading source on the topic for many years to come. Kline has a remarkable talent for writing clearly about difficult and complex issues and making the logic of modeling clear to the reader. The book has a wise and gentle hand, thoroughly and thoughtfully discussing both the virtues and potential abuses of SEM. I will certainly use it in my classes and recommend it to others."" --Charles M. Judd, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley""This clear guide provides a user-friendly SEM roadmap for those navigating unfamiliar statistical waters. The book translates abstract and often complex mathematical concepts into plain speech. As such, it will be a welcome resource to those teaching in this area. Both novices and experts will appreciate the logical chapter organization and the useful chapter summaries. Students or professionals seeking to incorporate SEM into their armamentarium of statistical tools will do well to make this book required reading."" --Jeffrey P. Bjorck, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA Rex B. Kline, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology and a member of the Clinical Psychology faculty at Concordia University in Montreal. He is trained as a child clinical psychologist and as a methodologist. Much of his research concerns the psychological assessment of children in school or clinical settings. ContentsI. Fundamental Concepts1. Introduction2. Basic Statistical Concepts3. SEM Family Tree4. Data Preparation and ScreeningII. Core SEM Techniques5. Structural Models with Observed Variables and Path Analysis: I. Fundamentals, Recursive Models6. Structural Models with Observed Variables and Path Analysis: II. Nonrecursive Models, Multiple Group Analysis7. Measurement Models and Confirmatory Factor Analysis8. Hybrid Models with Structural and Measurement ComponentsIII. Avoiding Mistakes; Advanced Techniques; Software9. How to Fool Yourself with SEM10. Other Horizons: Overview of Advanced Techniques11. Software for SEM: Amos, EQS, and LISREL",behavioral psychology;behavioral sciences;books;fitness & dieting;health;mathematics;mental health;methodology;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;science & mathematics;social sciences;statistics;used & rental textbooks,17 B000OT88YW,"The Changing World of Bali: Religion, Society and Tourism (The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia) 'This is a clearly written book about the complex relationship between religion, social change and cultural identity. It will be valuable for scholars of Southeast Asia, as well as students who wish to familiarise themselves with the world of Bali.' - Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol. 34 No.4 (2006) 'The Changing World of Bali covers an impressive amount of information...Howe's expert and stimulating critical review of most of the issues that continue to absorb scholars on Bali, carried into his treatment of current concerns of Balinese, make this a valuable resource indeed.' - Lene Pedersen, Indonesia, 84, October 2007 'The changing world of Bali represents a well-written account of the state-of-the-art anthropological research on Bali. Leo Howe asks the right questions about contemporary Balinese lide and gives enthnographically inspired answers... it is a 'must read' for those who teach the anthropology of Indonesia.' - Martin Slama, Social Anthropology, Vol. 15 Issue 2, June 2007 University of Cambridge, UK",anthropology;asia;books;cultural;ethnic & tribal;ethnic studies;history;indonesia;kindle ebooks;kindle store;politics & social sciences;religious;social sciences;southeast asia;special groups;specific demographics;world,17 0195136691,"Prescriptive Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide to Systematic Treatment Selection ""How can we sum up this valuable work? Rather than being a manual, it is more a guide for a therapist who wishes to incorporate the best that research has to offer with the flexibility and creativity that practitioners see as vital to success. As such, it is also a good example of the local clinical scientist in action, and I applaud its inentions and eagerly await further updates on this project.""--Psychotherapy Research Larry E. Beutler and T. Mark Harwood are both at University of California, Santa Barbara.",books;clinical psychology;compulsive behavior;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;mental health;new;psychiatry;psychology;psychopathology;psychotherapy;social sciences;ta & nlp;used & rental textbooks,17 0818908394,"The Doctors of the Church, Vol. 1: Doctors of the First Millennium John F. Fink is Editor Emeritus of The Criterion, the Catholic newspaper of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis of which he was editor from 1984 to 1997. Prior to that he was with Our Sunday Visitor for 30 years, 11 of them as president and publisher. Past President of the Catholic Press Association and the International Federation of Catholic Press Associations, he has written seven other works for STPALS/Alba House.",biographies & memoirs;books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;general;history;humanities;leaders & notable people;new;religion & spirituality;religious;religious history;religious studies;used & rental textbooks;world,17 0415059038,"Deprivation and Delinquency: D.W. Winnicott D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) was one of the giants of child psychiatry and analysis. Whether writing or talking, he always argued eloquently for an increased sensitivity to children, their development and their needs. His books such as Playing and Reality and The Family and Individual Development, are now considered classics in the field of child development.",books;child psychology;children's books;criminology;developmental psychology;fitness & dieting;general;health;medical books;mental health;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,17 9652204986,"Dictionary of Basic Biblical Hebrew (Hebrew Edition) Useful book designed for English-speaking students of Hebrew Bible who require a rudimentary tool for entering into its language. --Joseph Lowin , editor, Hadassah Magazine, August/Sept. 2003",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;judaism;language & grammar;new;reference;religion & spirituality;religious studies;used & rental textbooks;words,17 0470849487,"Programming for the Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS (Symbian Press) ""an excellent book for Java and C++ programmers seeking to develop their knowledge of the series 60 platform"" (M2 Best Books, 19 February 2003) ""The solid technology underlying the Series 60 Platform provides mobile software developers with a great opportunity for mobile software innovation. The latest technologies and open standards offered by the Series 60 Platform provide great possibilities to create world-class applications. The user interface and application set provides a host of reusable components that can make an application attractive and easy to use.""Jouko H?yrynen,Vice President, Forum Nokia.Visit the associated websites at:www.symbian.com/bookswww.digia.comwww.wileyeurope.comThe Series 60 platform, designed for Symbian OS, supports mobile browsing, multimedia messaging service (MMS) and content downloading, as well as many personal information management (PIM) and telephony applications. The exploding market in Symbian OS smartphones means that understanding the key technologies and unique characteristics of programming for embedded devices will be vital in building the applications and services of the future.Programming for the Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS, written by software professionals at Digia, provides the reader with a complete overview of the Series 60 Platform and its software, and explains the best development practices with numerous examples covering:software design and toolsGUI framework, UI components and UI customizationcommunications and messaging interfaces for MMS, SMS, e-mail, smart messaging, Bluetooth, IrDA, and TCP/IPUser Experience and Interaction DesignJava MIDP application developmentThis invaluable handbook will help experienced C++ and Java programmers develop their knowledge of the Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS programming. It will also provide managers, testers and designers with valuable information on architecture interfaces, tools, user experience, and testing. Digia Inc. is a mobile software supplier of personal communications technologies and solutions for Symbian OS based smartphones; they have been working with Nokia on the development of the Series 60 Platform for several years. As one of the largest Symbian Competence Centres in the world, Digia provides product creation and consultation services, software solutions and training.",apis & operating environments;books;computer science;computers & technology;engineering;epoc-symbian;networking;networks;new;professional & technical;programming;protocols & apis;telecommunications;used & rental textbooks;user experience & usability;web development & design;wireless networks,17 1869620437,"The Gardener's Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Native Plants A wealth of information on a deservedly popular group of plants. -- Alice Joyce, San Francisco Examiner, October 6, 2000For anyone interested in the flora of New Zealand [this] book will prove of immense value. -- UK online, September 2000Indispensable for the plant enthusiast. -- The American Herb Association, Vol. 16:4 2001This book will give a taste of the many unusual plants of this exciting flora to plant enthusiasts. -- Graham Hutchins, The Garden, October 2000Without a doubt it is the book you will need [to] increase your knowledge of the flora of New Zealand. -- John E. Bryan, Gardening News, April 2000 This islands that comprise New Zealand offer a unique and diverse flora that includes hundreds of outstanding garden plants. Fully 80 percent of these native plants are found nowhere else on earth. They also display an astonishing diversity, since they are adapted to climates ranging from rugged mountains to subtropical lowlands. Valda Paddison is an experienced garden writer and native plants enthusiast from North Auckland who has written extensively for The New Zealand Gardener. If you believe that natives are lacking in spring blossom and autumn color, then perhaps you can be persuaded to change your mind. The yellow flower of the kowhai attracts tui to its nectar and is a beautiful harbinger of spring, and the crimson red of the pohutukawa is the essence of summer. Leptospermum cultivars smother themselves with single and double flowers in white and red and all shades in between, and the same can be said of the many Hebe cultivars available. The Hoheria sports its white flowers in abundance in late summer while others such as Rhabdothamnus solandri flower spasmodically all year round. Many natives such as olearias, kanuka and cabbage trees have small flowers but make up for this with sheer quantity. Some trees and shrubs are colorful in other ways. Toronia toru (toru), Pseudowintera colorata (horopito), and Nathofagus fusca (red beech) take on attractive leaf coloration at various times, while berries and other fruit are a prominent feature of a number of plants, including coprosma, titoki and whau. Some have a distinctive form, such as the spiny fruit of the whau, while others bear large quantities of small berries. Many of these are attractive to native birds such as the kereru (wood pigeon).",biological sciences;biology & life sciences;books;botany;by region;children's books;crafts;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;gardening & landscape design;hobbies & home;nature & ecology;new;reference;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,17 0521237106,"The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 2, Books 5-8 ""...extraordinary new study of Books 13-16....Janko clearly knows the Iliad (and, indeed, all early Greek poetry) inside and out, and has one interesting and insightful thing after another to say about it. This is thus an extremely important book...."" S. Douglas Olson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition. The second volume of the major six-volume commentary on the Iliad. Special attention is given to language, style and thematic structure in four introductory essays which are followed by the commentary itself.",ancient & classical literature;books;classics;education & reference;epic;greek;history & criticism;humanities;language & grammar;literature;literature & fiction;medieval;movements & periods;new;poetry;used & rental textbooks;words,17 0814332609,"The Quotations Of Mayor Coleman A. Young (African American Life) The small, red-covered book resembles the collected thoughts of Chairman Mao. But history does not record that Mao ever called a political foe pruneface, or a foreign leader a mean sucker. Such wry and ribald utterances come from Detroits Mayor Coleman Young . . . a barb-tongued Democrat whom metro Detroiters either love or love to lambaste. Through eighteen years in office, Young has left a trail of trademark sayingsfrom courageous to outrageous. USA Today The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young amasses an impressive array of one-liners and insults and poignant commentaries from Detroits singular chief exec, spanning the nearly forty years between Youngs bold testimony to Joe McCarthys feared House Committee on Un-American Activities to his fifth term as Detroits mayor. Detroit News The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young is a fascinating, hilarious, and long-overdue compilation of his wit and wisdom. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in black power, political humor, and in the unique man who has provided both to the citizens of Detroit for almost twenty years. Zeev Chafets, author of Devils Night and Other True Tales of Detroit What I dislike most about this book, in fact, what I absolutely loathe, abhor, and detest about this book is the fact that I wasnt smart enough to write it first. What a great idea. Susan Watson, Detroit Free Press --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition. This little red book brings together many of the longtime Detroit Mayors most unforgettable lines in a format meant to recall the famous little red book of quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. It was first published in 1991 by Droog Press, a small Detroit-based press founded by a long-time reporter and editor at the Detroit Free Press. This new edition features quotations that did not make it into the original book and a chronology outlining Coleman Youngs life and career. Both insightful and entertaining, this is an essential reference for anyone interested in politics, black politics in particular, and political humor. Some quotes from Coleman A. Young: ""Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words."" ""Racism is like high blood pressurethe person who has it doesnt know he has it until he drops over with a goddamned stroke. There are no symptoms of racism. The victim of racism is in a much better position to tell you whether or not youre a racist than you are."" ""I issue a warning to all those pushers, to all rip-off artists, to all muggers: Its time to leave Detroit; hit Eight Mile Road! And I dont give a damn if they are black or white, or if they wear Superfly suits or blue uniforms with silver badges. Hit the road.""",african-american & black;african-american studies;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;ethnic & national;history;local;politics & government;politics & social sciences;quotations;social sciences;specific demographics;state;united states,17 0140442286,"Mencius (Penguin Classics) Irene Bloom is a sensitive and well-trained scholar. Her translation of Mencius, one of the most influential philosophical works ever written in China, marks an important step forward for Asian and Confucian studies. (Harold D. Roth, professor of religious and East Asian studies and director, Contemplative Studies Initiative, Brown University )Irene Bloom's book is an exemplification of the best Sinological scholarship. Its interpretive brilliance will be a source of inspiration for years to come. (Tu Weiming, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Peking University, and senior research fellow, Harvard University )While Mencius may be generally more 'accessible' when compared with other classical Chinese texts, as P. J. Ivanhoe observes, it is still a challenge to capture in translation the flavor of its fine prose and the force of its arguments. This, I think, is precisely what Bloom sets out to do, and we are richly rewarded for her effort. Her translation is eminently reliable and has a graceful directness and simplicity. Ivanhoe's introduction helpfully highlights key ethical, political, and religious views and relates them to relevant contemporary philosophical debates. This book will be widely used and consulted by scholars. (Alan K. L. Chan, National University of Singapore )A tremendous accomplishment that crowns Bloom's exemplary career.... Essential. (Choice 3/1/10) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Text: English (translation) Original Language: Chinese --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. David Hinton's translations of ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy have earned wide acclaim for creating compelling English texts that convey the ambiguity and texture of the originals. His books include translations of the ancient poet Tu Fu, T'ao Ch'ien, Meng Chiao, and Li Po, as well as the contemporary poet Bei Dao. He has held fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and The National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1997 his work was awarded the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Read the Introduction. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.",books;eastern;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;humanities;inspirational & religious;literary;literature;literature & fiction;new;other eastern religions & sacred texts;philosophy;poetry;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious studies;used & rental textbooks,17 0471394424,"Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Systems Solutions Manual available. -- The publisher, John Wiley & Sons --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. The authors include systems from at least two disciplines in some depth to illustrate the commonality of the modeling and analysis techniques, to encourage students to avoid compartmentalizing their knowledge and prepare them to work on projects as part of an interdisciplinary team. Linear models are developed in terms of state-variable equations, input-output differential equations and transfer functions. Emphasizes such concepts as damping ratios, time constants, poles and zeros, mode and frequency-response functions. This revision demonstrates how to apply specific computer packages to linear and nonlinear models. Contains nearly 200 examples and over 400 end-of-chapter problems. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",aerospace;books;civil;computers & technology;engineering;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;mathematics;mechanical;mechanical engineering;new;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;system theory;used & rental textbooks,17 0262083116,"Writing Machines (Mediaworks Pamphlets) ""Hayles's book is one of the most exciting examples of technological anti-determinism I have ever read."" Jan Baetens Image [&] Narrative""N. Katherine Hayle's Writing Machines is a beautiful little book."" Davin Heckman Reconstruction.ws""...one of the most exciting examples of technological anti-determinism I have ever read."" Jan Baetens Image [&] Narrative""Without a doubt, Writing Machines is an important book...."" Dene Grigar Leonardo Digital Reviews""In the age of the immaterial, Writing Machines compellingly argues that all forms of literature are inescapably material. Through Burdick's melding of graphic evidence and Hayles' weaving of critical and biographical perspectives, Writing Machines deftly embodies its subject while disrupting our expectations about academic publishing.""--Andrew Blauvelt, Design Director, Walker Art Center N. Katherine Hayles is Professor of English and Design/Media Arts at the University of California at Los Angeles.",books;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;criticism & theory;history;history & criticism;humanities;literary theory;literature;literature & fiction;methodology;movements & periods;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,17 1567511503,"Against the Grain: Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover of Your Food Bailey, Britt -- Bailey, Britt",agricultural sciences;biography & history;biological sciences;biotechnology;books;business & investing;company profiles;evolution;fitness & dieting;food science;genetics;globalization;health;politics & government;politics & social sciences;science & math;specific topics,17 0873514211,"Norwegians in Minnesota (People Of Minnesota) Jon A Gjerde is professor of history at University of California, Berkeley, and author of 'The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917'.",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;discrimination & racism;ethnic studies;europe;history;midwest;norway;politics & social sciences;race relations;regional u.s.;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;state & local;united states,17 0312213271,"Spies and Saboteurs: Anglo-American Collaboration and Rivalry in Human Intelligence Collection and Special Operations, 1940-45 Jay Jakub is presently the Senior Investigator for International Affairs for a major US Congressional Committee.",20th century;americas;books;canada;england;europe;history;humanities;intelligence & espionage;military;military science;military sciences;new;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks;world war ii,17 1585710067,"Hitler, the War and the Pope This sympathetic portrait of Pope Pius XII serves as a direct rebuttal to John Cornwall's recently published Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII (1999), a scathing indictment of the controversial pontiff's wartime record. After placing the beleaguered pope's actions firmly into historical context, Rychlak concludes that Pius did everything within his limited scope of power to condemn Hitler and to save Jews without endangering even more innocent lives. Although this respectful, painstakingly researched account of an undoubtedly compassionate and well-intentioned holy man mired in incomprehensibly difficult circumstances provides a wealth of thoughtfully outlined rationalizations, it fails in its mission to completely convince doubters that Pius XII could not have taken a more heroic public stand against Nazism. Margaret FlanaganCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved In this extensive revision, Ronald J. Rychlak plumbs the depths of the Vatican s internal report on Pius XII as well as investigates recent charges that Soviet counter intelligence was involved in a plan to discredit Pius XII.He also takes on all the various charges against Pius XII from John Cornwell, James Carroll, Susan Zuccotti, and others. No serious charge is left unrebutted.Mr. Rychlak is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law. Mr. Rychlak has received three medals from the Holy See for his diplomatic service, and he advises the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations. His most recent book is Righteous Gentiles: How Pius XII and the Catholic Church Saved Half a Million Jews from the Nazis. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;history;holocaust;humanities;jewish;military;new;popes;religious;religious studies;used & rental textbooks;world;world war ii,17 0684852349,"Love Lessons: Twelve Real Life Love Stories In the infectiously optimistic voice that has earned Brady a cult following for her syndicated ""Vows"" column in the New York Times, she recounts more ""how they met and fell in love"" anecdotes in this follow-up to her first book, Vows. Brady clearly admires the protagonists of these true-life fairy talesAwhom she calls ""survivors"" of bad relationships, widowhood, disabilityAand tells of their experiences in loving detail. The stories are the real reason to read the book, since there's nothing new about these ""love lessons"": that persistence and patience pay off; that emotionally it's riskier sometimes not to take risks; that love may be found in the least likely of places, or that it may go unnoticed for some time. While love may be easiest to evoke by comparing it to other experiences, at times the narrative is packed with too much metaphoric imagery. The poetry should have been reigned in a bit more in passages such as: ""her spirit was as natural and clear as a Vermont stream. Eddy was the rough ocean."" The writing improves when the author reminisces about attending dancing school at age 12 and her parents' tempestuous 50-year marriage. Perhaps ""Vows"" enthusiastsAand othersAwill someday enjoy a memoir by this chronicler of others' nuptials. Agent, Linda Chester. Author tour. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From the author of the New York Times's popular ""Vows"" column.Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Love stories for the agesor at least for the weddings and engagements section of the Sunday paper. Brady is the writer of the popular New York Times Sunday feature ``Vows,'' where amid the usual formal announcements of engagements and marriages this thin slice of life appears, describing the wedding, the ``meet,'' and a few interviews with friends on why this couple is different from other couples. Love Lessons includes expanded versions of what Brady calls ``goosebump love stories,'' stories that are the ``rare, real thing.'' They help explain ``what love is,'' she says; if these reports hold up, what it is, is unpredictable. Couples are young and old, compatible and seemingly totally incompatible; love is instantaneous or develops over, in one case, 40 years. But, says the author, ``true love has some universal qualities,'' including a ``giddy'' feeling after meeting and a resemblance to ``finding a pair of great old blue jeans that are exactly your size and seem as if you've worn them forever.'' Among the couples presented are Susie and Randy, who met on the Internet and romanced like the couple in You've Got Mail; the author's parents, whose roller coaster relationship led finally to a return of love and adventure (after the children were gone); Allison and Pete in Hailey, Idaho, who might have been ``flower children'' in the '60s and who are surrounded by a close community of similar couples; affluent Susan with four children from Park Avenue and super-bachelor Rick; Linda and Andres, who began their love affair as teenagers in the 'hood and resumed it again only when their daughter brought them together to greet the grandchildren. And don't miss Paisley and Karl (post-teens), or Clarice and Victor, who met when they were both past 70 and fell in love when Clarice went parasailing. Sweet stories, destined to give hope to singles who despair that love will never come. (b photos, not seen) -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",anthologies;books;family relationships;fitness & dieting;health;interpersonal relations;literature & fiction;love & romance;marriage;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;relationships;self-help;sexuality;short stories;social sciences,17 B000OT8GL2,"Wireless Data for the Enterprise (ProTel) ...A valuable tool for management considering or already involved in wireless project planning. This book addresses the most important questions that all organizations should ask themselves when considering deploying wireless applications.--Stephen Drake, Research Manager, Wireless Mobile Enterprise Access, IDCTHE BLUEPRINT TO FOLLOW WHEN DECIDING IF, WHEN, AND HOW TO GO WIRELESSHere's THE resource a company needs to determine whether or not to go wireless, and how to use wireless data within your organization. You'll find the information needed to gain priceless perspective on:* Mobile workers* Customers* Suppliers* Setting-up new models for profitabilityWIRELESS DATA FOR THE ENTERPRISE will prove invaluable to IT managers, CEOs, CIOs, corporate decision-makers, technical developers, and anyone else involved with deciding how to use wireless data to improve their business. We believe this book will help corporate managers develop a sense of what is possible with wireless today--to tailor personalized data for users while selecting wireless devices, gateways, and networks. It will show the technical reader how to implement wireless applications that enable disruptive market strategies and new methods to generate revenue, linking enterprise assets securely with people using laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), smart phones, palmtops, dashboards, and other varying flavors of mobile devices. Here is the definitive blueprint for firms considering or already implementing the technologies required to go wireless. Presented in a clear, concise, and jargon-free style, WIRELESS DATA FOR THE ENTERPRISE: * Goes beyond the consumer hype to explain both the pitfalls and advantages of going wireless * Offers an unmatched overview of what is currently possible with wireless data, identifying the requirements, illustrating how to implement wireless applications, and focusing on how to make money while doing it * Provides detailed, step-by-step guidelines on researching and developing wireless pilots and blueprints, including selecting middleware and implementing security measures * Includes eye-opening case studies of several early Fortune 500 wireless adopters Guiding the reader on a journey beyond the Internet and simple cellular systems to a world of wireless knowledge, WIRELESS DATA FOR THE ENTERPRISE will prove to be a valuable reality check for the many claims about wireless, sorting out myth from fact, truth from exaggeration. For managers, it details what can be accomplished in both the business and consumer space utilizing existing applications and networks. An eye-opening futuristic view of how wireless data will touch every aspect of our lives from home monitoring, to wireless coupons, to email access, to news alerts, to wireless business applications makes for fascinating reading, and helps put present day developments in perspective. If you or your firm need a single source for authoritative information detailing everything you should know about going wireless--the search ends here. GEORGE S. FAIGEN is currently Broadbeam's Chief Marketing Strategy Officer, driving the company's strategy as it rapidly expands its presence in new markets.BORIS FRIDMAN, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Broadbeam Corporation, is a founder of Broadbeam Corporation. Under his leadership, the company became one of the premier providers of software products designed to equip developers with tools to speed and facilitate the integration of wireless connectivity and solve common mobile challenges. Broadbeam Corporation (Princeton, NJ) formerly Nettech Systems was established in 1992, and is now considered to be a worldwide leader in wireless middleware. Broadbeam and its employees are dedicated to providing developers with the tools to speed and ease the integration of wireless connectivity.For more information, please visit http://www.broadbeam.com ARIELLE EMMETT, Wallingford, PA) is a leading telecommunications writer and editor. The former Editor-in-Chief of Americas Network, Communications Consultant and Wireless Integration magazine, she is Chief Editor of the Wireless Data Forum and author of Going Mobile II: The Wireless Web; Other Data Solutions (@WDF/CTIA, 2001) and Direct Connections: Making Your Personal Computers Communicate (New American Library, 1986). Emmett is currently a contributing editor for Broadband Wireless Business and Advanstar Communications Special Projects Group",books;business & investing;computers & technology;contemporary;contemporary fiction;e-commerce;engineering;industries & professions;information management;kindle ebooks;kindle store;literature & fiction;mis;networking;professional & technical;telecommunications;wireless networks,17 0446527092,"Beyond the Deep: The Deadly Descent into the World's Most Treacherous Cave Set in stygian gloom, this account of a 1994 caving expedition in southern Mexico produces what adventure readers crave: danger, dissension, death, and ultimate success. Led by author Stone, the spelunkers sought the furthest reaches of a cave system, the Sistema Huautla, which plunged a kilometer and a half down and stretched out for tens of kilometers. To go the deepest, the coveted ""booty"" in the caving community, Stone developed a special ""rebreathing"" apparatus for swimming through submerged passages called sumps. As the saga unfolds (dramatically assisted by admittedly reconstructed dialogue), the riskiness of the enterprise becomes apparent as the cavers survive various snafus, which rattle some group members who come to resent Stone's hard-charging style. A cheerful wisecracker named Ian Rolland is not daunted--but soon pays the final price for this adventure. After much acrimony about whether to continue, Stone and his then-girlfriend press on, their course marked by helpful diagrams of their progress. The technicalities of this death-defying recreation, and the raw honesty with which this episode is depicted, will win over extreme-sport fans. Gilbert TaylorCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved "" BEYOND THE DEEP is an extraordinary and heroic account. I shuddered as I read it."" -- Wade Davis, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society, author of THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW""... describes one of the most significant achievements of modern exploration, with personal stories that make this an exciting, page-turning read."" -- Hazel A. Barton, Ph.D., co-star of the IMAX film, ""Journey into Amazing Caves""""For anyone wanting to vicariously experience the hardship and dangers of expedition life underground, this is the book to read."" -- Bernie Chowdhury, author of THE LAST DIVE and publisher of Immersed: the international technical diving magazine.""From the opening page...BEYOND THE DEEP plunges you into a tubular heart of darkness. -- Jeff Long, author of THE DESCENT BILL STONE is the world's most accomplished caver invented the Cis-Lunar rebreather enabling cave divers to stay underwater for up to 24 hrs. BARBARA AM ENDE has a Ph.D in geology and is a member of the National Speleological Society.",adventurers & explorers;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;hiking & camping;instructional;mountain climbing;mountaineering;mountains;nature & ecology;outdoor recreation;research & publishing guides;science & math;specific groups;sports & outdoors;travel;writing,17 B000FJBZTG,"Petri Nets for Systems Engineering: A Guide to Modeling, Verification, and Applications From the reviews: ""This is an extensive work providing an overview of the current state of the art of the use of Petri nets in systems engineering. The book has been carefully written avoiding an excess of formulas and technicalities. This book is suited for those well acquainted with formal modelling of systems and who now want to learn which techniques are available from the perspective of Petri nets."" (J.F. Groote, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1024, 2003) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Using formal methods for the specification and verification of hardware and software systems is becoming increasingly important as systems increase in size and complexity. The aim of the book is to illustrate progress in formal methods based on Petri net formalisms. It presents both practical and theoretical foundations for the use of Petri nets in complex system engineering tasks. In doing so it bridges the gap between Petri nets and the systems modeling and implementation process. It contains a collection of examples arising from different fields, such as flexible manufacturing, telecommunication and workflow management systems. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;engineering;industrial;logic;manufacturing & operational systems;methodology;new;professional & technical;programming;software design;software engineering;systems analysis & design;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,17 1567182925,"Celebrating the Crone: Rituals & Stories Ruth Gardner (1933-2010) is the author of The Truth About Graphology, Instant Handwriting Analysis, Celebrating the Crone and Instant Handwriting Interpretor, all published by Llewellyn Worldwide. She was born on a South Dakota prairie farm and was educated in a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade. Later, she migrated to St. Paul to study nursing, and became an R.N. at age 20. In 1969 she began studying and eventually teaching, graphology. Ms. Gardner had a BA in Human Services and was a consultant in areas of personal development, and was nationally accredited in biofeedback. She had also worked in a therapeutic massage clinic, instructing staff and clients in stress management. In 1985 Ruth and her husband sold their home and purchased a 52-foot houseboat which they named Ra, after the Egyptian sun god. The Gardners moved aboard the houseboat and several months later cruised down the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Tennessee, the Tombigbee, and the inland on the Caloosahatchee River to Ft. Meyers, LaBelle, and Moore Haven (on Lake Okeechobee), Florida, living in each place a few months.",aging;books;fitness & dieting;folklore & mythology;general;health;personal transformation;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious studies;self-help;social sciences;specific demographics;spirituality;theology;women's health;women's studies,17 082305862X,"Branding: Brand Strategy, Design, and Implementation of Corporate and Product Identity (Design Directories) Helen Vaid is a veteran branding consultant who has worked for Shopsmart.com and Siegelgale. She lives in North London, England.",accounting;accounting & finance;advertising;arts & photography;books;branding & logo design;business & investing;commercial;computers & technology;direct;graphic design;marketing;marketing & sales;professional & technical;programming;web design;web development & design,17 B000PC0V9I,"The Information World of Retired Women (New Directions in Information Management) ?The study has many strengths: It is well written and clear. The work as a whole makes a strong case for the use of ethnographic research in library and information science and is original, ground-breaking research in an area that is of increasing importance in planning, developing, and evaluating information services.?-Library and Information Science Research Highlights the information needs of older women, identifying their help-seeking behaviors and the role information professionals can play. ELFREDA A. CHATMAN is Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.",aging;aging parents;books;education & reference;ethnic studies;fitness & dieting;health;kindle ebooks;kindle store;library & information science;parenting & relationships;personal health;politics & social sciences;social sciences;special groups;specific demographics;women's studies,17 0201702819,"After Effects 4.1 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickPro Guide Adobe After Effects 4.1 software offers extraordinary creative freedom and control for designing sophisticated motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, multimedia, and the Web. Its tight integration with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere gets you up and running fast and makes you more productive.After Effects: Visual QuickPro Guide introduces video and film producers to the comprehensive set of tools available in After Effects. Step-by-step instructions lead intermediate-level readers through some of After Effectss more advanced features in video editing. The most useful, project-enhancing features of Adobes powerful application are covered in detail. Antony Bolante is author of Premiere 5.1 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide. He works at Video Arts, an editorial and design facility in San Francisco. A freelance video editor, he teaches editing to graduate and undergraduate students using Avid Media Composer, Media 100, Premiere, and of course, After Effects. Antony is currently working on a documentary entitled The Slanted Screen.",after effects;arts & photography;books;cinematography;computers & technology;digital media management;education & reference;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;humor & entertainment;languages & tools;movies;photo editing;photography;programming;web design;web development & design,17 0521803012,Dictionnaire Cambridge Klett Poche Français-Anglais/English-French (English and French Edition) A fully bilingual dictionary of English and French for intermediate learners.,books;dictionaries;dictionaries & terminology;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;english as a second language;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;french;humanities;medical books;medicine;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,17 4770028784,"Tokyo Metropolitan Area Rail and Road Atlas (English and Japanese Edition) Text: English, Japanese",asia;atlases;atlases & maps;books;civil;education & reference;engineering;food;general;japan;lodging & transportation;professional & technical;railroad travel;reference;tokyo;transportation;travel,17 1562057677,"AutoCAD 14 Fundamentals This is a hands-on tutorial that leads you through the essentials of using AutoCAD 14 and grasping CAD principles. Fully illustrated exercises teach you to navigate the AutoCAD 14 interface, create and edit drawings, insert text, plot and print your drawings, and more. Every chapter progressively builds on skills learned in previous chapters to keep you productive throughout the book. A combined glossary and index of all the commands presented makes this an easy reference tool. This visually oriented guide is supplemented with time-saving tips and workarounds that will have you working with AutoCAD 14 like a pro in no time. Learn everything you need to know to create and edit AutoCAD drawings immediately. Explore AutoCAD 14 basics with a clear, visual approach. Find a detailed discussion of the AutoCAD 14 interface and tips on how to successfully navigate it. Understand how to create basic and advanced objects. And more.",architecture;books;cad;computer technology;computers & technology;drafting & presentation;engineering;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;mechanical;object-oriented design;professional & technical;programming;software;software design;testing & engineering;web development & design,17 0876687516,"What Did They Think of the Jews? ""...a fantastic and massive collection of opinions, likes, and dislikes of famous people from ancient times to the present."" -- (Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter, 1997)""...ideal for reference and browsing and contains a surprising amount of material that is inspirational and even entertaining."" -- (The Canadian Jewish News, 1997)""Here is a book that should be in every Jewish library."" -- (Heritage Southwest Jewish Press, 1997) --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Allan Gould is the author of sixteen books, including The Unorthodox Book of Jewish Records and Lists (co-authored with Danny Siegel); he also wrote the introduction to The Holocaust: The Nazi Destruction of Europe's Jews, a classic anthology of documents and photographs. He lectures frequently on Jewish humor, literature, Midrash, ethics, and the Holocaust, and has had over 500 articles published in many national magazines. Mr. Gould lives in Toronto.",anthropology;books;cultural;ethnic studies;history;humanities;jewish;judaism;new;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks;world,17 0750644397,"Statistical Process Control, Fourth Edition 'This new edition has been restructured to reflect the latest thinking in the field, giving the foundations of good quality management and process control. The book remains a solid and reliable reference to SPC.'Quality World Statistical Process Control helps readers, in a wide array of industries, understand the effective application of statistical techniques to analyze product defects in manufacturing and optimize the process so they are minimized. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. By Other John S Oakland --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Statistical Process Control helps readers, in a wide array of industries, understand the effective application of statistical techniques to analyze product defects in manufacturing and optimize the process so they are minimized. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & finance;business & investing;engineering;industrial;industrial engineering;management & leadership;manufacturing & operational systems;mathematics;new;professional & technical;quality control;science & math;science & mathematics;statistics;total quality management;used & rental textbooks,17 0521641861,"Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service ""...Aldrich provides an important supplemental history in an area that has been long dominated by a western focus on WWII's European theater."" Kirkus Reviews""The author examines the politics of the British and American intelligence services in the Far East where they became the key players in the struggle between Churchill and Roosevelt over postwar Asia... This book is not only fascinating but often amusing."" Virginia Quarterly Review""Richard J. Aldrich opens up an important new dimension to Pacific war studies with his revelations about the unfighting between the British and American allies to secure commercial hegemony in the post-war Far East."" The London Times, military books of the year""...significant contribution of this densely written work..."" Choice""...Richard J. Aldrich has done a superb job - his focus is clearly the politics of intelligence organizations and he leaves no stone unturned in significant British and US private and public despositories....Wellorganized and lucidly written....this is an important study and major contribution to the inteligence literature of the Second World War."" Carl Bolyd The International History Review""A comprehensive, scholarly history of the development of the British secret intelligence and its American counterparts during the war against Japan....He argues that from the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the Allies focused increasingly on each other's future ambitions, rather than the common enemy. Key players in this strtegic theme are Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt and their rivalry over the future of empire in Asia. Aldrich's cogent analysis of the role of intelligence in Far Eastern developments offers a through and incisve account of this high level maneuvering."" Reviews and Things Cryptologic""Intelligence and the War Against Japan is a much-needed addition to the literature on both intelligence and coalition warfare. it moves beyond the cloak-and-dagger anecdotes that all too often characterize intelligence studies to explore how intelligence service serve as instruments of politics....a highly worthwhile book."" Jrnl of Military History""...prodigiously researched and well-written..."" Military Review""... both works are valuable additions to the growing interplay between diplomatic history and intelligence history"" The Journal of American History Dec 2001 This is the first comprehensive history of the development of the British secret service and its relations with its American intelligence counterparts during the war against Japan. Richard J. Aldrich uses recently declassified files to examine the bitter and controversial politics of secret service: he argues that, from 1942, the Allies increasingly spied on each other's future ambitions, rather than the common enemy. Dr Aldrich's fluent analysis of the role of intelligence in Far Eastern developments is the most thorough and penetrating account of the period yet published.",20th century;americas;asia;books;history;humanities;japan;military;military science;military sciences;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks;world;world war ii,17 B000FA5LSQ,"Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays (Quick Guides) Great Essays...The Schaum's Way. Write the kinds of essays that will help you succeed in college and the professional world. Quickly and simply, this guide gives you clear, concise explanationsillustrated by dozens of examplesthat show you how to: Choose a topic, state a thesis, and construct arguments that work Overcome typical writing obstacles Do effective research Learn by example, from successful sample topics, questions, and thesis statements Look to Schaum's Quick Guides for: Step-by-step guidance to help you move quickly through the essentials Dos and don'ts for avoiding common errors clear explanations and practice exercises Checklists and exercises for skill-building If you want to master essay writing, this compact, right-to-the-point Schaum's Quick Guide is your most powerful tool! ...A welcome addition to the library of helpful reference material for written English...It is astounding that so many college graduates have completed their courses of study without having been exposed to the fundamentals of academic essay writing. Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays manages to give serious exposure to those fundamentals in a way that is effective, extensive and easy to swallow.James A. Thomas, Dean of Admissions, Yale Law School This is just the sort of practical information that every beginning history student needs to know but which, somehow, no one ever bothers to tell them...It is written at just the right level for college freshmen and sophomores, and I think they will be taken (as I was) by your many well chosen examples.Mark A. Kishlansky, Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of English and European History, Harvard University McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide",adult & continuing education;books;college & university;education & reference;education theory;kindle ebooks;kindle store;language & grammar;research & publishing guides;rhetoric;schools & teaching;student life;study guides;studying & workbooks;test preparation;words;writing,17 0198691629,"The Oxford Dictionary of Music YA-This volume identifies and provides short discussions of terms, composers, conductors, works, singers, instruments, instrumentalists, and orchestras. Eighty percent of the original entries have been revised to include modern works, and 1,500 entries have been added to update this rapidly changing field. An excellent resource for music and history students.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Kennedy, a longtime British music critic and author, has updated and expanded his 1985 Oxford Dictionary of Music with more than 1,000 new entries plus revisions (in many cases major) to about four-fifths of the original 11,000 entries. Entries define and identify all facets of music from titles of individual works to performers, orchestras, musical forms, instruments, and composers. Identifications can be as short as one line (moll) or as long as four pages (Mozart). Much mention is made of debuts in various places and of first performances; almost no note is made of personal lives apart from music. Among new entries are those for performers Cecilia Bartoli, Evelyn Glennie, Hakan Hardenberger, and Bryn Terfel; composers Robert Moran, Andrew Toovey, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich; and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Many composer entries have added compositions, including such operas and musicals as William Bolcom's 1992 McTeague, John Corigliano's Ghosts of Versailles (which also has its own entry), and Andrew Lloyd-Webber's Sunset Boulevard. Death of Klinghoffer and Einstein on the Beach also have their own entries. An update to the entry for Paul McCartney includes his 1991 Liverpool Oratorio. Many 1990s dates of new compositions, debuts, first performances, and deaths are noted, including those of Copland and Bernstein. Entries for Carreras, Domingo, and Pavarotti are all updated, but no mention is made of the ""Three Tenors"" concert(s). A few people not included: Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg, Ofra Harnoy, neither Wynton nor Branford Marsalis, nor Ida or Ani Kavafian. The Beaux Arts Trio entry still includes the names Pressler, Cohen, and Greenhouse even though they have left the group; the Juilliard Quartet entry mentions Robert Mann as the sole original member left while not naming others. The first edition of this title received an unequivocal endorsement in RBB stating that it was ""indispensable to all types of libraries""; this new edition merits the same recommendation. ""The first edition of this title received an unequivocal endorsement in RBB stating that it was 'indispensable to all types of libraries'; this new edition merits the same recommendation.""--Booklist""An excellent resource for music and history students.""--School Library Journal""Up-to-date, and, frankly, indispensable.""--The Times IAbout the Author: Michael Kennedy is one of England's foremost authorities on music. He has been a music critic for over forty years, at present with The Sunday Telegraph of London, and he has written books on Mahler, Strauss, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, and Britten.",arts & photography;bibliographies & indexes;books;classical;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;humanities;music;musical genres;new;performing arts;publishing & books;reference;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,17 0807848778,"Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist) Dunn's work is a model of contemporary historical research. He writes with admirable clarity.London Financial TimesDunn's is rich social history, based on factual data brought to life by his use of contemporary narrative accounts.Willie Lee Rose, New York Review of BooksProfessor Dunn has written an excellent book: not only is it informative, it is also readable.Business History ReviewA masterly analysis of the Caribbean plantation slave society, its lifestyles, ethnic relations, afflictions, and peculiarities.Journal of Modern History[This] elegantly written book is easily the finest on the subject and a major addition to colonial scholarship.Journal of Economic History Drawing upon such sources as travelers' accounts, plantation records, census returns, wills, inventories, land patents, maps, and parish registers, Richard Dunn presents a composite portrait of plantation life in the Caribbean three centuries ago.",17th century;18th century;americas;books;caribbean & west indies;discrimination & racism;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;politics & social sciences;race relations;slavery & emancipation;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks;world,17 0966107578,"Gardner's Guide to Screenwriting: The Writer's Road Map (Gardner's Guide Series) lays out the rules of screenwriting in a clear concise manner -- Laurice Elehwany, Hollywood Screenwriter Marilyn Webber has worked as a professional writer in Los Angeles for the past eight years. Earning her M.F.A. at The American Film Institute, her work has garnered nominations for both an Academy Award and a Humanitas. In addition, her work has won an NAACP Award, an NEA Award: For The Advancement of Learning in Broadcasting, an American Association Library Award: For Most Notable Children's Video, and winner of The Indiana Film Festival. Miss Webber began her career in children's programming, writing Saturday morning cartoons and animation teleplays progressing to writing one hour action/adventure and dramas for both day time and prime time television. During this period, her romantic comedy screenplay, How To Kill Howie, won Best Screenplay at the Texas Film Festival, while her science fiction script, The Lawless Legion, her action script, Mouth of the Cat, her drama, A Place Called Harmony, and television spec for NYPD Blue, Suffer the Little Children, all placed as Semi-finalists in The Writer's Foundation America's Best Contest. She has freelanced for networks such as ABC and CBS, and for studios such as Universal and Disney. Her screenplays have been optioned by numerous producers including those at Hearst Entertainment, Saban Entertainment, and Paramount Pictures. Miss Webber has taught creative writing extension courses through Johns Hopkins University IAAY program, as well as giving independent seminars on screenwriting and writing for animation. Occasionally, she consults as script analyst. A member of the Writer's Guild of America, she has also been a judge for the Cable Ace Awards in the category of dramatic writing. Miss Webber's other titles in The Writer's Road Map series are Gardner's Guide to Animation Scriptwriting, and Gardner's Guide to Feature Animation Writing. She has completed a historical novel, and is developing it as a mini-series. Her latest feature film, Murder Seen, a suspense/thriller for Saban Entertainment, will be released in 2001. She continues to freelance for television, and is pursuing producing and directing her feature films.",arts & photography;books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;film & television;humanities;humor & entertainment;literature;literature & fiction;movies;new;performing arts;play & scriptwriting;research & publishing guides;screenwriting;used & rental textbooks;writing,17 0813530563,"The Pennsylvania Weather Book The weather has always been a favorite topic of conversation. Undoubtedly, someone must have said to Noah, ""I thought they said it was supposed to let up on Tuesday."" Over a century ago, American essayist Charles Dudley Warner wrote in the Hartford Courant, ""Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it."" And now with the advent of the 24-hour Weather Channel and high-tech radar and satellite imagery, we have more information about the weather at our disposal than ever before. But what about weather in the past? Is the climate changing? Are the summers hotter now than ever before? Were winters colder when our grandparents were children? In The Pennsylvania Weather Book, meteorologist Ben Gelber provides the first comprehensive survey of 250 years of recorded weather in the Keystone State. He reports on noteworthy weather happenings by category (snowstorms, windstorms, cold and heat waves, thunderstorms, floods, and tropical storms) and places them in historical context. Throughout the book, Gelber clearly defines meteorological terms and explains what creates weather events. The book features appendices and tables containing useful references for average temperatures, precipitation, snowfall, and climate data. It also provides a brief history of the weather watchers who contributed to the state's meteorological records since the late eighteenth century. This volume will serve as a valuable resource for weather professionals, amateurs, and local enthusiasts alike. Ben Gelber is an on-air meteorologist at NBC 4 (WCMH-TV) in Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of Pocono Weather: A Weather History of Eastern Pennsylvania, the Poconos, and Northwestern New Jersey.",18th century;19th century;20th century;americas;books;climatology;earth sciences;education & reference;environment;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);nature & ecology;science & math;state & local;trivia & fun facts;united states;weather,17 9004112030,"The Fate of the Dead: Studies on Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (Supplements to Novum Testamentum) '""@ l'ividence, un excellent volume'Simon C. Mimouni, ""Revue des itudes juives, 2000.'""seine Thesen verdienen eine ausf]hrlichere Rezeption und Diskussion.'Jvrg Frey, ""Theologische Literaturzeitung, 2001.",architecture;books;christian books & bibles;comparative religion;crafts;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;humanities;interior design;new;professional & technical;reference;religion & spirituality;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks,17 091734202X,"My Deep Dark Pain is Love Text: English, Portugese (translation)",anthologies & literary collections;books;criticism & theory;education & reference;fiction;gay;gay & lesbian;general;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;united states;used & rental textbooks;world literature,17 0201422980,"The Computer Image Computer images are everywhere, occupying a dominant part of the computer culture and now rivaling their analogue cousin the TV image in popularity, a process bound to increase with the advent of digital TV. This book is about the computer image, emphasizing the 'how', but also addressing the 'whys' and 'wherefores' of this creation of the 20th century. Where did it come from? Where is it going? What is its importance? These questions cannot be answered without a knowledge of the technology itself, its past and its evolutionary forces. The three main fields of computer imagery - Computer graphics, image Processing and Computer vision - are merging in many applications. Computer Vision techniques are used in computer graphics to collect and model complex scenes; computer graphics techniques are used to constrain the recognition of 3D objects by computers; image processing techniques are routinely used by graphic designers to manipulate photographs. For the first time this textbook brings all three areas together in a coherent overview. Special features Unique breadth of coverage of subjects that have previously only appeared in separate texts. Novel treatment of the moving image, Virtual reality, medical imaging and computer art. Packaged with the book is a CD-ROM that provides implementations of many of the techniques described in the book. The CD-ROM contains scene files, animation demonstrations, a complete set of all the images used in the book and a suite of programs. 'The software can be used for teaching, experimentation and the development of an application package. The source code is written in C++. The software includes a Z-buffer renderer, a distributed ray tracer, a radiosity renderer, an image processing module containing all the normal filtering facilities and transforms, morphing and warping software particle/elastic object simulation with collision detection, a progressive image compressor using wavelets (including a Java, ActiveX, OLE, 3DSMAX plugin), stereo and autostereogram generator, modeling software (including a Bezier modeller and a rnesh optimizer), computer vision software including depth from stereo, (low field estimation, object tracking and classification of satellite imagery. 0201422980B04062001 Alan Watt is a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. Fabio Policarpo is a software developer with his own software company Paralelo Computaao (www.paralelo.com.br) in Rio de Janeiro. 0201422980AB04062001",artificial intelligence;books;computer science;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;database design;databases;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;graphics & multimedia;machine vision;networking;networks;new;programming;protocols & apis;used & rental textbooks,17 0534526055,"Of Children: An Introduction to Child and Adolescent Development Guy Lefranois is the author of leading Thomson Learning textbooks in child and adult development (OF CHILDREN AND THE LIFESPAN), and in Educational Psychology (PSYCHOLOGY FOR TEACHING). He is currently at the University of Alberta.",books;child psychology;counseling;developmental psychology;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;new;parenting;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;psychotherapy;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,17 0922915814,"It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, The Postwar Pulps Alternately called ""adventure magazines"" and ""armpit slicks,"" publications like True West, American Manhood and Challenge for Men enjoyed their heyday from the early 1950s through the early '70s. With their campy cover paintings of men at war, hunks on horseback and buxom women, these magazines gave blue collar workers ""warnings, how-to's, and comforting memories of wartime."" For Parfrey, they're worth looking at today because ""they tell us so much about American working-class fears, desires and wet dreams."" Parfrey intersperses this collection of full-color reproductions with essays by contributors on subjects ranging from exotica and ""the sadistic burlesque"" to the Cold War. The essays will be helpful to readers trying to make sense out of such images as UFOs closing their clamp-like hands around fretting females with their shirts unbuttoned (from Peril: The All Man's Magazine), and a burly, shirtless man straddling a flagpole flying a torn American flag (from Climax: Exciting Stories for Men).Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. ...(Feral House has) brought the socially incompatible flotsam back to us in a wonderful book, IT'S A MAN'S WORLD. -- Robert Williams...stunning historical evidence of the convoluted sexuality lurking in our epic archetype of the Real, True and All Man. -- Carlo McCormick, Senior Editor, Paper Man's Exploits, Rage, Escape to Adventure -- these were a few of the 35-cent magazines that helped veterans confront the confusion of jobs, girls and the Cold War after coming home from World War II. IT'S A MAN'S WORLD looks back at the last great run of pop illustration, at least as brilliant as pulp's best. Contributions from Bruce Jay Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman and David Saunders help bring us inside the offices, showing us how the writers, illustrators, editors and publishers put together two decades of ""armpit slicks."" Original art from the notorious Mort Knstler, Norman Saunders and Norm Eastman are featured within, and Bill Devine's annotated checklist of the many thousands of adventure magazines is essential for collectors of the genre. Author Adam Parfrey is the editor of EXTREME ISLAM, APOCALYPSE CULTURE II and the co-author of LEXICON DEVIL: THE FAST TIMES AND SHORT LIFE OF DARBY CRASH AND THE GERMS. Since his influential collection, Apocalypse Culture, was first released in 1987, the award-winning writer Adam Parfrey has been credited for discovering and revealing the inner workings of cults and unusual pop culture histories. With ""Love, Sex, Fear, Death,"" Parfrey has captured the cooperation of primary players in the most secretive and talked about cult of our time.",antiques & collectibles;art;arts & photography;books;crafts;education & reference;gender studies;history;history & criticism;hobbies & home;humor & entertainment;magazines & newspapers;men;politics & social sciences;pop culture;popular culture;social sciences,17 0813190614,"All This Hell: U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese ""A genuine gift to the documentation from which we need to learn, appreciate and take to heart in the future."" -- Stars and Stripes""A readable and gripping introduction to the topic."" -- Library Journal""Should be read by every school child in generations to come."" -- Victoria Advocate""Their stories are worth telling, worth reading and most important, worth remembering."" -- St. Petersburg Times More than one hundred U.S. Army and Navy nurses were stationed in Guam and the Philippines at the beginning of World War II. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, five navy nurses on Guam became the first American military women of World War II to be taken prisoner by the Japanese. More than seventy army nurses survived five months of combat conditions in the jungles of Bataan and Corregidor before being captured, only to endure more than three years in prison camps. In all, nearly one hundred nurses became POWs. Many of these army nurses were considered too vital to the war effort to be evacuated from the Philippines. Though receiving only half the salary of male officers of the same rank, they helped establish outdoor hospitals and treated thousands of casualties despite rapidly decreasing supplies and rations. After their capture, they continued to care for the sick and wounded throughout their internment in the prison camps. This account of the nurses' imprisonment adds a vital chapter to the history of American personnel in the Pacific theater. Lt. Col. Madeline Ullom, one of the captured nurses, remarked, ""Even though women were not supposed to be on the front lines, on the front lines we were. Women were not supposed to be interned either, but it happened to us. People should know what we endured. People should know what we can endure."" When freedom came, the U.S. military ordered the nurses to sign agreements with the government not to discuss their horrific experiences. Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have conducted numerous interviews with survivors and scoured archives for letters, diaries, and journals to uncover the heroism and sacrifices of these brave women. The authors' dedication to accuracy, combined with their personal expertise in medical care and military culture and discipline, has enabled them to produce a realistic reconstruction of the dramatic experiences of these POWs--All This Hell. Evelyn M. Monahan served as a U.S. Army Medic during the Vietnam Era and is a retired psychologist. Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee served in the Navy Nurse Corps during the Vietnam Era, and has held a number of clinical posts within the Department of Veterans Affairs. They are coauthors of And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II.",americas;asia;books;gender studies;history;humanities;japan;military;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks;women in history;women's studies;world;world war ii,17 1555705669,"Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians This volume offers abundant useful guidance not only for reaching the target audience, but also for planning and promoting library services to teens in general. Martin and Murdock also discuss exemplary and appropriate interactions between library staff and teens, all with the intent of providing a library that functions well for LGBTQ youth. While the authors' sources include historical as well as recent professional discussions and literature, the tone is friendly and largely free of jargon. Chapters on collection building and promotion include both generous title lists and booktalk scripts; those on program planning and production include suggestions of each program's likely reception in varying communities, from the cautious to the most liberal, as well as complete lists of equipment needed to bring each idea to fruition. The audience addressed is assumed to include school as well as public librarians, and the authors spell out when distinctive differences in the roles and responsibilities of these two groups might require differences in collection or programming. All librarians should turn to this book for pertinent insight on the needs of 5 to 10 percent of the teen population and sound suggestions for providing excellent service to all local teens.Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This addition to the Neal-Schuman How-To-Do-It Manuals series takes on the challenge of providing library services to LGBTQ teens. In a clearly laid-out format and a highly readable style, the guide focuses on helping queer teens within the larger umbrella of providing service to all teens. Part1 covers library service to the LGBTQ population. Understanding the queer community and identifying LGBTQ teens' informational needs, offering effective service in a safe environment, handling readers'-advisory and reference interviews, doing collection development, integrating LGBTQ themes into general programming, and assesssingand responding to the rate of change and inclusion a community will tolerate are all covered in an accessible manner. Part2consistsof an excellent annotated bibliography as well as sample booktalks and instructions for program design. An additional source bibliography and afine index complete asuperior tool for starting or enhancing library services to a formerly neglected subset of the teen population. Welton, Ann This book will be a valuable addition to any teen librarian's professional collection. --Young Adult Library Services, Winter 2008Abundant useful guidance. All librarians should turn to this book for pertinent insight on the needs of 5 to 10 percent of the teen population and sound suggestions for providing excellent service to local teens. --School Library Journal, June 2007Supported with thorough research and abundant statistics, yet still highly accessible and readable...Highly Recommended. --Library Media Connection, October 2007",bibliographies & indexes;books;education & reference;gay & lesbian;gay & lesbian studies;humanities;library & information science;new;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;science;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks;writing,17 0393321959,"Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America Recalling guidos, gavones and gedrools, Laurino presents a concise but stimulating look at Italian-American culture as a model for the immigrant experience as a whole. The author, a third-generation Italian-American, grew up in 1950s New Jersey as a minority whose ethnicity was long stifled. Not until then-Governor Mario Cuomo asked her, ""Were you always an Italian?"" did she consider the implications of her roots and identity. This entertaining memoir chronicles Laurino's experiences from childhood to marriage, eventually getting to the heart of what it means to be Italian in America. She creatively approaches various cultural facets, from clothing to politics to religion, with candor and personality, using specific examples to illustrate general cultural themes. Her take on Italian fashion is amusing; she claims that the contrasting styles of Versace and Armani are symbols of the dichotomy faced by many immigrants and their families: cutting-edge boldness vs. European class. The historically tumultuous situation in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, serves as an example of the friction between Italians and other cultural groups in this country, and Laurino suggests that the Italian-American experience, rife with stereotypes and struggles, is not unlike that of African-, Korean- and Ecuadorian-Americans. She covers the hallmarks of Italian culture, including dialect, family and faith. In examining each component, Laurino openly expresses the mixed feelings of pride and embarrassment she felt as a child, which eventually developed into understanding and veneration. This book will serve as a welcome reminder that there is more to Italian culture than The Sopranos. (July) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Laurino, a New York writer who grew up in suburban New Jersey and was once a speechwriter for NYC mayor David Dinkins, explores the disconnect that many Italian Americans, rooted in the rocky soil of Southern Italy, feel between images from Bensonhurst and Mafia movies, on one hand, and Northern Italian style and verve on the other. Her essays ask questions that follow like beads on a rosary: Do we smell bad? Is our food weird? Why is it so hard to accept leisure in our lives? Her deconstruction of Italian dialect--captured snatches of parents' and grandparents' unwritten past in words like gavone and stunodis mesmerizing, both as a journalist's examination of words and their uses and as a woman's study of what makes her herself. And her witty analysis of the difference between Versace and Armani from an Italian American standpoint is itself worth the price of admission. Essential for Italian Americans, enlightening for anyone else. GraceAnne A. DeCandidoCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Three generations in America doesn't necessarily take the sting out of being an immigrant, as described in this appealing and sometimes thought-provoking memoir that moves from suburban New Jersey to Italy's southern provinces. The title question was posed by former New York governor Mario Cuomo as journalist Laurino was interviewing him on his own roots. Laurino's honest answer was no, as she recalls her adolescent efforts to distance herself from her Italian heritage. They began in earnest when a classmate characterized her as the smelly Italian girl: assured by friends that she did not have an odor, Laurino nevertheless began to understand that, despite her wardrobe from Saks, her darker skin and the vowels at the end of her name put her on a lower rung of the social ladder than the WASPs or JAPs who were the popular cliques at her high school. Broadening her perspective, Laurino examines the stereotyping of Italian-Americans via Mafia movies and a visit to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bensonhurst (where gold-chained guidos and big-haired guidettes mark one very visible end of Italian-American rankings). Laurino blends personal experience and academic research in examining class bigotries not only in America, but also in Rome and Milan (where she found the northern Italian contempt for southern Italians as powerful as the prejudice against African-Americans in the US). When she and her husband finally visit what is left of the family in southern Italy (on the ankle of the boot), she finds them poor, hardworking, and closely knit, as they were when her grandparents sailed for America. Their habits and concerns resemble those of Laurino's mother (in her work rituals, for example, or in her inclination to hoard any luxury), leading the author to speculate that her own tendency to hoard may have been born in the fields of abject poverty. Other hyphenated Americans who have experienced discrimination and confusion about their heritage will find this often funny and graceful book simpatico. -- Copyright 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Starred Review. This entertaining memoir chronicles Laurino's experiences from childhood to marriage, eventually getting to the heart of what it means to be Italian in America. She creatively approaches various cultural facets, from clothing to politics to religion, with candor and personality, using specific examples to illustrate general cultural themes....In examining each component, Laurino openly expresses the mixed feelings of pride and embarrassment she felt as a child, which eventually developed into understanding and veneration. This book will serve as a welcome reminder that there is more to Italian culture than The Sopranos. (Publishers Weekly)[A] delightfully companionable book ....a fine contribution to the literature of American ethnicity. (Phillip Lopate, author of Portrait of My Body)Finally, someone has had the intelligence and the honesty to go beyond the stereotypes....completely original and informative. (David Chase, creator/executive producer, The Sopranos)Adroitly, without defensiveness, Laurino takes us on a journey of exploration of the Italian-American experience, with intelligence and love. (Helen Barolini, author of Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity) Maria Laurino is the author of Were You Always an Italian?, a national bestseller, and Old World Daughter, New World Mother. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.",anthropology;books;criticism & theory;cultural;customs & traditions;education & reference;emigration & immigration;essays;essays & correspondence;ethnic studies;history & criticism;literature & fiction;minority studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;world literature,17 012553180X,"Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation (The Interactive 3d Technology Series) ""I think this book is great. It's state-of-the-art, and covers the area from soup to nuts and with more depth than any other book I know."" -Eric Haines, Autodesk Inc. The most complete guide to renderingin both concept and code ""Computer graphics, and rendering in particular, is full of beautiful theory. This book turns the theory of image-making into a practical method for creating images."" from the foreword by Pat Hanrahan, Canon USA Professor, Stanford UniversityFrom movies to video games, computer-rendered images are pervasive today. Physically Based Rendering introduces the concepts and theory of photorealistic rendering hand in hand with the source code for a sophisticated renderer. By coupling the discussion of rendering algorithms with their implementations, Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys are able to reveal many of the details and subtleties of these algorithms. But this book goes further; it also describes the design strategies involved with building real systemsthere is much more to writing a good renderer than stringing together a set of fast algorithms. The rendering system described in this book is itself highly readable, written in a style called literate programming that mixes text describing the system with the code that implements it. Literate programming gives a gentle introduction to working with programs of this size. This lucid pairing of text and code offers the most complete and in-depth book available for understanding, designing, and building physically realistic rendering systems.Features* Finalist for the 15th Annual Jolt Awards in March 2005.* Companion CD-ROM includes the source code for a complete rendering system for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linuxwith many of the features found in high-quality commercial systems.* The system's plug-in architecture makes its basic structure transparent and allows for new features to be added easily.* The rendering system implements a number of newer or difficult-to-implement algorithms and techniques, including subdivision surfaces, Monte Carlo light transport, and volumetric scattering. Matt Pharr is works as an engineer for Neoptica, a San Francisco start-up, where he works on interactive graphics. Previously, he was a member of the technical staff at NVIDIA and was a co-founder of Exluna, where he developed off-line rendering software and investigated applications of graphics hardware to high-quality rendering. He holds a BS degree from Yale University and a PhD from the Stanford Graphics Laboratory under the supervision of Pat Hanrahan, where he researched both theoretical and systems issues related to rendering and has written a series of SIGGRAPH papers on these topics.Greg Humphreys is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, where his research focuses on interactive visualization of very large datasets. Greg has a B.S. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University under the supervision of Pat Hanrahan. His doctoral dissertation ""A Stream Processing Approach to Interactive Graphics on Clusters of Workstations"" showed that it was possible to build scalable interactive graphics systems using only commodity components. His cluster rendering software called ""Chromium"" is in widespread use in research and industry labs around the world.",books;civil;computer science;computers & technology;desktop publishing;engineering;game programming;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;graphics & visualization;new;professional & technical;programming;rendering & ray tracing;software;used & rental textbooks;web development & design,17 0872206033,"Lysistrata (Hackett Classics Series) A perfect Lysistrata for the new millennium: rich apparatus and a sparkling, metrical, accurate translation. --Rachel Hadas, Rutgers University Text: English (translation) Original Language: Greek --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Sarah Ruden",ancient & classical literature;books;classical & early;criticism & theory;drama;education & reference;greek;greek & roman;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;medieval;movements & periods;new;poetry;used & rental textbooks,17 1576871487,"Clown Paintings This odd book is as much a look into the dark heart of Hollywood narcissism and juice as it is an excellent introduction to a grim, fascinating artistic subgenre. Keaton writes in her introduction that she came across a Don Barclay clown painting at a Pasadena Rose Bowl Swap Meet and ""had an epiphany.... All of us have begged for attention and cried out in loneliness. Each and every one of us has been surprised and hurt, over, and over, and over, again and again, just like the exhausting, repeated shock that is the life of a clown."" She has been collecting clown paintings ever since, and has become a proselytizer for the unsung genre. Here Keaton has collected 66 wrenching, full-color reproductions along with the responses of fellow thespians to her collection (and the collection of L.A. gallery-owner Robert Berman), since clowns and actors have ""all gone for the laugh, sold out on occasion, dressed for effect, and paraded our hearts on our sleeves."" Beginning with Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd and Roseanne Cherri Barr, Keaton's book includes reflections from Ben Stiller (""When someone says `be funny' to me, I immediately want to hide, or punch that person in the mouth""), Steve Martin (""The Sex Life of Clowns"") and Lisa Kudrow (""As a performer, I'm mostly associated with `witless' characters. Maybe the disdain is for myself"") among many other high-wattage names. This unlikely combination of clown paintings and 33 texts by mostly comedic actors yields irony levels reaching the heights of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm (many comedians hate their close cousins the clowns, and particularly clown paintings)-and is every bit as entertaining and affecting. This ""monstrous and hideous"" (as David calls it in his contribution) collection should prove a surprise hit and justify Keaton's pounding the pavement in search of these much maligned painted faces. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Diane Keaton is one of Hollywood's leading ladies. Since her screen debut in Lovers and Other Strangers, Keaton has proven to be an extremely versatile actress, director and producer. Her acting career spans three decades, having appeared in over 25 films, including The Godfather trilogy, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Annie Hall (for which she received an Academy Award for best actress), Father of the Bride, and The First Wives Club. Keaton also received Academy Award nomination for her roles in the films Reds and Marvin's Room. She is the director of a number of films including Heaven, Unstrung Heroes, and Hanging Up. Keaton most recently directed, as well as executive produced (along with Columbia Tri-Star and Brad Grey Entertainment) the TV pilot Pasadena. She is the acclaimed author of Mr. Salesman (Twin Palms), Local News (D.A.P.), Still Life (Calloway), and Reservations (Knopf). Keaton lives and works in Los Angeles.",art;arts & photography;books;catalogs & exhibitions;collections;comedy;education & reference;history & criticism;human figure;humor;humor & entertainment;painting;politics & social sciences;pop culture;popular culture;social sciences;themes,17 0767904028,"Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire Renowned anthropologist Wade Davis shows us how preserving the diversity of the world's cultures and spiritual beliefs is just as important as preserving our endangered plants, insects, and animals. In this collection of personal essays, Davis tells of dramatic personal adventures during which he visits and often lives with indigenous communities in the remote regions of the world. He offers reports of toad-smoking shamanistic journeys in the Amazon forests, tracking an elusive cloud leopard in the mountains of Tibet, and a soulful lament for the lost American buffalo. Although he has been called a modern-day Indiana Jones, Davis has far more integrity. His stories are not in service to self-glorification, but rather to one resounding theme: If there is one lesson I have drawn from my travels, it is that cultural and biological diversity are far more than the foundation of stability; they are an article of faith, a fundamental truth that indicates the way things are supposed to be.... There is a fire burning over the Earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills, and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame and reinventing the poetry of diversity is the most important challenge of our times. --Gail Hudson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Davis, who holds a Harvard Ph.D. in ethnobotany and degrees in biology and anthropology, is also a prolific writer (e.g., One River, LJ 7/96). His current work is an eclectic collection of essays, some previously published, dealing with topics that include hallucinogenic plants (of which he partakes), toad licking, disappearing rain forests, Haitian voudoun, and the elusive clouded leopard. While at first glance these may not seem related, an overall appreciation for native cultures and for the natural world is evident throughout. Davis is straightforward and clear but not quite spellbinding. Still, this enjoyable read takes the armchair traveler to places few have written about. Recommended for all travel collections.?Kathleen A. Shanahan, American Univ. Lib., Washington, DCCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Anthropologist and ethnobotanist Davis has sojourned in places where people still live in harmony with the earth, remote communities at the base of the Himalayas, on the ice of the Arctic, or deep in the center of the Amazon rain forests. In essays so sensitively written their pristine language reflects the landscapes they describe, Davis chronicles his unusual adventures and striking observations as a welcome guest in these spiritually vibrant enclaves now threatened by industrial invasion. Drawing on the great wealth of botanical, anthropological, and historical knowledge from which he created his magnum opus about the Amazon, One River (1996), Davis delves into the mysteries of South American shamanic healing and Haiti's vodun religion, relates the maddening story of the fight to save the rain forests of Borneo, and describes the ingenuity of the Inuit. Truly global in thought and deed, poetic and outspoken, Davis deftly illuminates the little understood connection between biodiversity and cultural diversity and strongly suggests that more be done to preserve what's left of wilderness. Donna Seaman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. The wonders of the diversity of various cultures and their relationship to their landscape - from the high Arctic and the northern forests to the swamps of the Orinoco - are hunted, gathered, and honestly appreciated here by the peripatetic Davis (One River, 1996). Davis is a sojourner in remote places. He tarries, hoping to get a taste of the intimate, deep reverence for the home place that indigenous people experience by staying put, to sample some of the mythopoetic associations and enigmatic happenings that spring like gifts from the land for those who sit still long enough to witness. Here he recounts a dozen journeys, some in search of ethnobotanicals, some to expose himself to the poetics of a particular patch of ground, others to get a psychic education, as when he accompanies the Haitian Vodouns in their pilgrimage to sacred places, both terrestrial and ethereal. There is a good profile of Bruno Manser, a Swiss who went to live among Sarawak's Penan and joined them in their fight against the pillagers (many of them governmental) of their forest, thus becoming ``a fugitive straddling the cusp of cultures.'' That same place, the shear zone, is inhabited by hamans, and Davis has been disturbed and fascinated in many of his travels by these men and women operating outside our familiar calculus of explanation. And as an ethnobotanist, he is drawn to the human potential unleashed by profoundly altered states - firewalking, slowing heartbeats to near imperceptible levels - and the psychotropics that serve as launch pads. One such hallucinogen comes from a monstrous toad that secretes a drug from glands on its head; it seems very handy for a quick slurp, but it turns out that you have to toke the toad to get the best buzz. Davis's lovely, cubist, rich landscape portraits are also topographies of the spirit, conveying a sense of place, but perhaps even more, the music of place. -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. The wonders of the diversity of various cultures are hunted, gathered, and appreciated here--Davis's lovely, cubist, rich landscape portraits are topographies of spirit, conveying a sense of the music of place.--Kirkus Reviews Delightful. . . . [Shadows in the Sun] is an educational, entertaining miscellany of hard science and weird science.--OutsideEssays so sensitively written their pristine language reflects the spectacular beauty of the landscapes they describe. . . . Davis deftly illuminates the little understood connection between biodiversity and cultural diversity, and strongly suggests that more be done to preserve what's left of wilderness.--Booklist ""One of the intense pleasures of travel is the opportunity to live among people who have not forgotten the old ways, who still feel their past in the wind, touch it in stones polished by rain, recognize its taste in the bitter leaves of plants.""In this riveting collection of stories and essays, gifted scientist, anthropologist, and writer Wade Davis offers a captivating look at indigenous cultures around the world--from the nomadic Penan of Malaysia to the Vodoun practitioners of Haiti--and a poetic, timely examination of the rapport between humans and the natural world. Traveling from the mountains of Tibet to the jungles of the Amazon, Davis delves into the mysteries of shamanic healing, experiences first-hand hallucinogenic plants, explores the vanishing Borneo rain forests, and describes the ingenuity of the Inuit as they hunt narwhale on the Arctic ice.A compelling and utterly unique celebration of the beauty and diversity of our planet, Shadows in the Sun is about landscape and character, the wisdom of lives drawn directly from the land, and the hunger of those who seek to rediscover such understanding. Davis shows that preserving the diversity of the world's cultures and spiritual beliefs is as important as preserving endangered plants and animals--and vital to our understanding of who we are. ""The wonders of the diversity of various cultures are hunted, gathered, and appreciated here--Davis's lovely, cubist, rich landscape portraits are topographies of spirit, conveying a sense of the music of place.""--Kirkus Reviews ""Delightful. . . . [Shadows in the Sun] is an educational, entertaining miscellany of hard science and weird science.""--Outside""Essays so sensitively written their pristine language reflects the spectacular beauty of the landscapes they describe. . . . Davis deftly illuminates the little understood connection between biodiversity and cultural diversity, and strongly suggests that more be done to preserve what's left of wilderness.""--Booklist Wade Davis is a scientist, anthropologist, and writer who received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany from Harvard University and has spent twenty-five years studying the plants, psychotropic drugs, and ceremonial rituals of indigenous cultures around the world. He is the author of the international bestseller The Serpent and the Rainbow, which was later released as a feature motion picture, as well as six other books including One River. Davis's writing has appeared in Outside, National Geographic, Fortune, and Cond Nast Traveler. Angelita was not happy to learn that I intended to visit the Laguna Negra. Her concern was not that my presence might violate the sanctity of the lakes. She just didn't want the responsibility of explaining my disappearance to the police. What possible protection did I carry? What would keep me from becoming encantada, enchanted by the wind songs and turned into stone? The very thought of exposing oneself without the guidance of a maestro appalled her. I showed her my seguro, the small bottle of herbs and red perfume that her father-in-law had given me the morning after the ceremony. She was not impressed. Neither was Jorge Eduardo. But after a brief argument, he at least offered to go, provided I did not expect him to enter the lake. I agreed, and the two of us headed off.The trail from Angelita's house at Talaneo passed for an hour over the open grasslands and through a series of moist fens and marshes before coming down on a small alpine lake, jet black and sunk in a depression at the base of a rocky escarpment. Clouds moved low over the water. The wind was picking up, and rain blew in great gusts over the lake. It was very cold, our clothes were wet, and the ground underfoot was sodden. Jorge Eduardo wrapped himself in a magenta poncho and sought shelter in the lee of a large boulder. I moved closer to the lakeshore. To please Angelita I held my seguro in my hand, but felt rather silly doing so. The lake in its solitude seemed utterly ordinary. The shoreline covered by brown tuits of ichu grass, the stones luminescent with lichens. Patches of Polylepis running up the creeks that drained into the far shore. The mountain spurs soaring above. Gentians, madders, violets, and heathers here below. In between the windswept surface of a simple lake.The water was freezing. I tried to imagine pilgrims from the jungle and coast approaching such a place, stripping to their underwear, and standing in the cold drizzle as the maestro poured perfume and alcohol into the palms of their hands. A long invocation, the potion inhaled through the nose, their movement into the water, the ritual tossing into the lake of silver coins and sweet limes sprinkled with sugar. Plump matrons and young children, shaking with cold, drying off with damp rags, waiting for the blessing of the maestro before getting back into wet clothes. A spray of white powder. A cleansing with the maestro's swords. A ritual purification with amulets. A madman kneeling alone by the water, perhaps in the very spot where I stood, blowing sweet wine and perfume over the lagoon. The maestro ending the ceremony by again invoking the power of the lake, calling its protection down upon the patients, and blessing each one with a final libation, an herbal tincture poured from his seguro, and made from the plants that grew at his feet.There was a yell, and I turned to see Jorge Eduardo, exposed amid the tussocks, waving for me to get away from the shore. I walked over and found him huddled behind the boulder. He said it was time to leave. I told him to wait a few more minutes, then returned to the lake, stripped off my clothes, and entered the water, for no other reason than to wash. It was very cold, and I was soon back on shore, shivering in the wind. Jorge Eduardo was horrified that I had entered the waters without proper protection, and I tried to make it up to him by walking directly back to Talaneo, not pausing in the rain to collect any plants. I recognized the gulf that lay between us. For me the Laguna Negra was a mountain lake. For him it was a repository of spiritual power of a decidedly ambivalent nature. Neither one of us was more correct than the other. We just came from different worlds.pegapega mixed with honey was a strong remedy for respiratory ailments. A decoction of chagapa morada in aguardiente was taken specifically for yellow fever. For more general treatment of fever, they used its cousin chagapa roja, a different species of the same genus. There were scores of such medicines, employed in various combinations.But for Angelita the boundary between the material world and that of the spirit was imprecise. A delicate member of the rush family, hierba de dominacion, the herb of domination, lay a shroud of protection over the living, insulating the forces of white magic from the power of evil. Other plants of the lakes were employed magically as admixtures to San Pedro. The most important of these was hornamo, a powerful purgative taken when the power of the cactus ran wild and brought turmoil to the dreams of the pilgrim. There were dozens of plants known by this name, each with a specific epithet--the purple hornamo, the white form, the hornamo of the horse, the hornamo of the fox. All, it turned out, were species of Valeriana, a natural sedative. Taken in excessive dosage they bring on hallucinations and blind spasms of excitation. --",anthropology;biological sciences;books;cultural;ecology;education & reference;geography;human geography;new;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;science & math;social sciences;travel;travel writing;used & rental textbooks;writing,17 1576837327,"I Surrender All: Rebuilding a Marriage Broken by Pornography (By Design) Contemporary Christian singer Clay Crosse shares his journey as a performer whose 1994 number-one hit, ""I Surrender All,"" captured the attention of the Christian music scene as he secretly battled a consuming addiction to pornography. Crosse tells how a mysterious throat ailment stopped him cold, causing his financial world to tip precariously, and bringing the realization that the road he was traveling was surely going to end in the demise of his marriage, crushing both his faith and his career. Telling his sobering story, Crosse takes turns with wife, Renee, as they candidly reveal the desperate condition to which their spiritual and marital lives had deteriorated before Crosse acknowledged his addiction. After he confessed that he would have had sex with any woman who offered, Crosse and his wife started a harrowing journey toward building a relationship characterized by trust and accountability. Renee had to struggle to overcome a wide range of feelings, including a sense of inadequacy as a wife, as well as hurt and anger at her husband's betrayal. Many Christian readers will appreciate the candor of the Crosses' story, which offers a fragile but persistent message of redemption. (Sept.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Clay Crosse burst onto the contemporary Christian music scene with his 1994 hit I Surrender All. And over the next four years, his star climbed higher and higher with more number-one hits and sold-out concerts. But beneath his success lurked a dark secret: He was addicted to pornography. No one knew he had a problem--not even Clay--until the day God took away his voice. What followed that day was a story of the power of grace and forgiveness. Now Clay and Renee tell their story with the prayer that it will help countless other marriages--perhaps even yours. Clay Crosse is a three-time Dove Award-winning singer who has spent more than a decade recording and performing worldwide. He has had nine number-one singles. Married since 1990, Clay and Renee began Holy Homes Ministries in 2002, challenging Christian families to live godly lives.Mark Tabb is the author of eight books, including Greater Than and the 2004 ECPA Gold Medallion Finalist Out of the Whirlwind.",addiction & recovery;biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;fitness & dieting;health;leaders & notable people;marriage;politics & social sciences;pornography;relationships;religion & spirituality;religious;self-help;social sciences;substance abuse,17 0781805716,"Treasury of Czech Love Poems, Quotations & Proverbs Going To You by Jan Alda Golden Fish by Eva Bernardinova The Love Song by Frantisek Branislav Poem About You by Frantisek Branislav Music In The Soul by Emil Frida To The Unknown Woman by Emil Frida Elegy by Frantisek Gellner Confession by Frantisek Halas So Often When I Am Embracing You by Viteslav Halek Love, You Are Falling Asleep Like The Verdure Of Trees by Josef Hanzlik Why Does Happiness Hang On Such A Thin Thread by Jiri Hejda Sadness by Iva Hercikova She Came To Me At Night by Adolf Heyduk It Is Not by Vladimir Holan I Wish To Sing To You As A Bird by Josef Hora Morning Gift by Bohumil Hrabal Sleeping Nude by Bohumil Hrabal Sleeping Nude by Vaclav Hrabe Variations On A Renaissance Theme by Vaclav Hrabe At The Descent Of Love by Frantisek Hrubin Of This World by Frantisek Hrubin You, Jealous Star by Frantisek Hrubin Man's Embrace by Karel Kapoun I Fear Your Love by Milan Kundera Why Are You So Beautiful by Milan Kundera At A Seashore by Radmila Lexova May by Karel Hynek Macha Deserted Lover by Jiri Mahen Fire by Frantisek Nechvatal Italian Motif by Jan Neruda The Flowers Of Love by Stanislav Karel Neumann Like A Tawny Peach by Stanislav Karel Neumann About The Beauties Of The Female Body by Vitezslav Nezval Farewell And A Handkerchief by Vitezslav Nezval When You Are Lonely by Vitezslav Nezval You Came by Jan Noha Regions Of Happiness by Jiri Orten Believe Me, I Would So Truly Like by Jaroslav Seifert Dialogue by Jaroslav Seifert Song About Love by Jaroslav Seifert In April by Petr Skarland Song by Antonin Sova Who So Tousled Your Dark Tresses by Antonin Sova Fourteen Years Old by Frana Sramek Overflow by Frana Sramek January by Karel Sys To The Young Sun by Karel Toman By A Water On A Steep Hill by Anonymous Flies The Little Bird, Flies by Anonymous I Am In Love, That I Do Not Conceal by Anonymous If I Would Know My Dear Annie That You Would Be Mine by Anonymous Love Me by Anonymous Tell Me My Dear If You Love Me by Anonymous When You Are Thinking That You Are Alone by Jarmila Urbankova Key by Helena Vajgantova Far Away Love by Jiri Wolker Sonnet From Your Absence by Jiri Zacek Apostrophe by Vilem Zavada -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder Text: English, Czech (translation) Original Language: Czech",anthologies;books;education & reference;folklore;gothic & romantic;history & criticism;literature & fiction;love & romance;love poems;movements & periods;mythology & folk tales;poetry;quotations;relationships;russian;self-help;world literature,17 1883011760,"Slave Narratives (Library of America) The prestigious Library of America series now includes a volume featuring 10 of the most important slave narratives in African American history. Edited by English professor William L. Andrews of the University of North Carolina and Harvard University's Henry Louis Gates Jr., Slave Narratives tells the true story of American slavery and freedom through the voices of the slaves themselves. These voices, which span from 1772 to 1864, portray an astonishing unity in diversity: from the African-born accents of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and Olaudah Equiano to the deadpan humor exhibited by J.D. Green on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1865. ""The Narrative of Frederick Douglass"" illuminates what life was like for fugitive slaves, while ""The Confessions of Nat Turner"" rekindles the flames of the slave revolt. Sojourner Truth's story reflects the revolutionary Christianity that fueled the abolitionist movement and Harriet Jacobs's ""Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"" documents the black woman's dual fight against sexual and racial conquest. All told, these works of literature are as important to the American principles of freedom and democracy as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. --Eugene Holley Jr. This volume contains ten full slave narratives, including ""Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,"" ""The Confessions of Nat Turner,"" ""Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,"" ""Narrative of Sojourner Truth,"" ""Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom,"" and ""Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green,"" along with a chronology and scholarly and biographical notes by the editors. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. This stirring volume contains some of the most passionate, potent slave narratives ever to be published. Appearing in this collection are memoirs penned by well-known activists Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Henry Bibb, and Sojourner Truth. In addition, several powerful, evocative works by less celebrated writers are also featured. Of special note are the chronicles of William and Ellen Craft, a husband-and-wife team who escaped together to freedom, and of Harriet Jacobs, a slave subjected to both racial oppression and brutal sexual harassment. Together these 10 narratives paint a vivid portrait of the cruelties of the institution of slavery, serving as an eloquent testament to the essential dignity and tenacity of the human spirit. A significant contribution to the literature of the African American experience. Margaret Flanagan The Library of America is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as ""the most important book-publishing project is the nation's history"" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in ""the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made"" (New Republic). William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of To Tell a Free Story and editor or coeditor of more than thirty books on African American literature. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Africana Studies at Cornell University, and also tenured at Yale, Duke, and Harvard, where he was appointed W.E.B. DuBois professor of humanities in 1991. Professor Gates is the author of Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self, Wonders of the African World, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, Loose Cannons: Notes on the Culture Wars, and Colored People: A Memoir. With Cornel West, he co-wrote The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country and The Future of the Race. He is also the editor of the critically-acclaimed edition of Our Nig, an annotated reprint of Harriet E. Wilsons 1859 novel, The Slaves Narrative (with the late Charles T. Davis), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience, Six Womens Slave Narratives, and In the House of Oshugbo: Critical Essays on Wole Soyinka. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Prize.",19th century;abolition;african-american & black;african-american studies;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;civil war;discrimination & racism;ethnic & national;history;politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;united states,17 1896522378,"Space Toys of the 60's: Major Matt Mason, Mighy Zeroid Robots & Colorforms Outer Space Men James H. Gillam is a social worker, toy enthusiast and avid science-fiction novel and motion picture movie fan. He is the author of Treasures from the Misty Mountains.",antiques & collectibles;antiques care & reference;astronomy & space science;astrophysics & space science;books;crafts;dolls;education & reference;engineering;hobbies & home;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;professional & technical;reference;science & math;toys;toys & figurines,17 0072416467,"Mass Media/Mass Culture with free ""Making the Grade"" CD-ROM and PowerWeb Access Card James Ross Wilson is a professor of mass communication and journalism at California State University, Fresno. He earned his masters degree from CSUF and his bachelors degree from what was then known as Fresno State College. In addition to teaching classes in broadcast management, news writing, production, and pop culture, Wilson serves as general manager and faculty adviser for the student-run campus radio station, KFSR-FM. Wilson spent 20 years working in radio broadcasting as a news reporter, news director, program director, and station manager before joining the faculty at CSFU in 1983. He also trained military personnel for work in the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service while assigned to the Department of Defense Information School at Fort Slocum, New York.Stan LeRoy Wilson is Professor Emeritus at the College of the Desert. He holds a doctorate from the University of Southern California and earned his bachelors and masters degrees from California State Universities, Fresno and Stanislaus. In addition to a 34-year teaching career at California State universities and community colleges, he has worked as a newspaper and radio journalist, a public relations consultant, and as the four term mayor of Palm Desert California.",books;communication;communication & journalism;communication & media studies;communications;education & reference;humanities;humor & entertainment;language & grammar;media studies;new;performing arts;politics & social sciences;popular culture;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words,17 1401899234,"Exam Preparation for Firefighter I & II Chris Hawley is a Deputy Program Manager for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and is responsible for several WMD courses within the DOD/FBI/DHS International Counterproliferation Program. Previous to his international work, Chris retired as a Fire Specialist with the Baltimore County Fire Department and was responsible for the coordination of the Hazardous Materials Response Team and the Advanced Technical Rescue Team along with two team leaders. Chris has designed innovative programs in hazardous materials and anti-terrorism and has assisted in the development of many other training programs provided by the National Fire Academy, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and U.S. Secret Service.Andrea Walter is a firefighter/technician with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and a life member and former officer of the Sterling Volunteer Rescue Squad. She has been active in the fire and emergency services community for over twenty years and has served as the Manager of the Commission on Fire Accreditation International for the International Association of Fire Chiefs, and assisted in a variety of projects with the National Volunteer Fire Council, Women in the Fire Service, and the United States Fire Administration.Marty Rutledge is a Firefighter/Engineer and EMS Program Manager for Loveland Fire and Rescue in Loveland, Colorado. Marty is a member of the Fire Certification and Advisory Board to the Colorado Division of Fire Safety, serving also as the State First Responder program coordinator. He is also a member of the Colorado State Fire Fighter's Association and has over 11 years of fire and emergency services experience in both volunteer and career ranks. Marty also authored and served as technical expert for a supplementary firefighter training package for Delmar Learnings Firefighter's Handbook.",books;careers;civil service;education & reference;engineering;firefighting & prevention;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;new;professional & technical;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;test preparation;testing;used & rental textbooks;vocational tests,17 0944624111,"Theory, (Post)Modernity, Opposition: An """"Other"""" Introduction to Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory (PostModernPositions series) ""A much needed reconsideration of postmodern theory."" -- Pamela A. Genova, World Literature Today --This text refers to the Paperback edition.",books;criticism & theory;history & criticism;history & theory;humanities;literary theory;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;political history;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;postmodernism;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,17 0970185391,"The Rest You Know: A Mother's Story of Survival Irene W. Russ was born in 1924. This is her first book. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. From her son, Daniel: ""All these years, we knew Momma held some deep hurt deep inside of her. We knew her history. But outside, she never wavered. She was always the most loving, fun, sweet, nurturing, homemaking, overprotective kind of Jewish mom you could ever imagine. She looks a little like Dr. Ruth, but with actor Ruth Gordon's wit. ""We had all long since moved away, scattered from Las Vegas to Jerusalem, from Texas to Georgia, when one day we all received this package from Mom. A notebook with high -school lined paper. And in her neat handwriting and measured voice, she told us what happened. ""Finally she has dealt with it. It is done. Right here. In her own beautiful words.""",biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;europe;history;humanities;hungary;jewish;military;new;social sciences;specific groups;teens;used & rental textbooks;women;world;world war ii,17 0020636601,"Guide to the National Wildlife Refuges For travelers interested in seeking out wild animals without having to enter the deep wilderness, there is no better resource than this. It will guide you to some 225 federal preserves across the United States, from Rhode Island's postage-stamp-sized Ninigret to Alaska's 19.5 million-acre Arctic reserves, both homes to a wide range of wildlife. Laura and William Riley, who helped found the Raptor Trust in the 1970s, have an easygoing style that balances their sometimes overwhelmingly exhaustive cataloging of the nation's wild creatures. Their useful book ought to make a lot of readers head for the nearest wildlife refuge--every state has at least one--and take a look for themselves.",animals;biological sciences;biology;books;business & investing;civil;economics;ecotourism;engineering;environmental economics;professional & technical;science & math;specialty travel;travel;travel with pets;united states;wildlife,17 1590593316,"Pro Apache Tomcat 5/5.5 (Expert's Voice in Java) Matthew Moodie was a technical and developmental editor for two and a half years, and served as editor for Beginning JSP 2: From Novice to Professional and Foundations of JSP Design Patterns, both published by Apress.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;engineering;java;languages & tools;new;professional & technical;programming;programming languages;software;software design;software design & engineering;software development;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,17 0071363181,"Fundamentals of Options Market Find Out How Any Investor Can Use Options to Lock in Fast Trading Profitsand Decrease Portfolio Risk Options are today's most complex, versatile investment tool. Ignored by investors who see them as an aggressive, no-limits trading gambitwhich they definitely can beoptions can, in addition, provide conservative investors with risk-hedging qualities available nowhere else. One thing is certain: all investors who trade options, regardless of their goals and strategies, quickly learn that the leverage provided by options opens the door to a world of innovative, profitable trading possibilities. Fundamentals of the Options Market is a step-by-step guidebook for gaining increased trading profitswhile protecting against market downturnsby using listed stock options, index options, and LEAPS. Plain-English analyses and explanations combine with quizzes, checklists, charts, graphs, and more to reveal: How to open an options account, map out your strategy, and place your first trade Trading toolsfrom synthetics to Greeksfor protecting positions and exploiting any market Tips of the Trade How to remain focused, keep control of risks, and manage your options position From hands-on basics to advanced technical skills, Fundamentals of the Stock Market will provide everything you need to profit from options in today's volatile markets. Let this hands-on bookalong with its companion Fundamentals of investing guideshelp you build the skills and confidence for options trading success ... before you risk money in the no-room-for-error waters of real-time trading! Hone Your Trading Skills with McGraw-Hill's Fundamentals of investing series! Fundamentals of the Stock Market by O'Neill Wyss Fundamentals of the Futures Market by Donna Kline Fundamentals of the Bond Market by Esm Faerber Michael S. Williams is president and CEO of Market Compass, LLC, which specializes in financial education for investors and traders online, via the Internet, and through the PCX Institute. Williams has been an options market maker on the Pacific Exchange (PCX) for nearly a decade. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the country including the TSAA annual conference, the Options Industry Council seminars, and The Money Show. Amy S. Hoffman is a founder and vice-president of Market Compass, LLC. She has been an options market maker on the Pacific Exchange (PCX) trading for hedge funds and as an independent market maker. Hoffman's financial career began in 1989 as a compliance officer and in-house trader for a large commodities firm. She is currently an instructor for the PCX Institute and Options Industry Council.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;finance;introduction;investing;investments & securities;marketing;marketing & sales;new;options;popular economics;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,17 1565924932,"Lingo in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) Once again, O'Reilly scores big with a comprehensive treatment of a programming language that doesn't spend much time teaching the fundamentals. Lingo in a Nutshell sets a benchmark for Lingo documentation that no other book or online resource meets. Lingo in a Nutshell has to do with behind-the-scenes aspects of Lingo, including file management, data structures, loops, conditionals, and event handlers. Simply put, this book treats Lingo as a programming language, rather than merely as a piece of Macromedia Director. The coverage you'll find in Lingo in a Nutshell backs up the more obviously practical material found in this book's companion volume, Director in a Nutshell. This book also features an excellent chapter called ""How Lingo Thinks,"" which explains how the various pieces of a Lingo-controlled presentation fit together. Like most Nutshell books, Lingo in a Nutshell includes a very good language reference in addition to its tutorial and explanatory materials. Listing Lingo's enumerated values, keywords, and commands in full--including some otherwise undocumented ones--this reference makes it easy to locate the information you need as you write programs. The only minor drawback of this book is that it doesn't cover the changes made to Lingo in the newly released Director 7. --David Wall Bruce Epstein first learned Director when it became apparent that no one would fund his desire to wander aimlessly unless he was doing so in front of a keyboard. Since that time, he has become a recognized Director and Lingo expert, spouting unsolicited advice in various books, magazines, and multimedia fora. Bruce has programmed and optimized dozens of cross-platform multimedia products, such as children's edutainment titles, enhanced audio CDs, and interactive advertisements, including the Chrysler/Plymouth Virtual Auto Plaza. He writes voraciously about multimedia development, software design, and project management, and refers to himself in the third person. In his copious spare time, Bruce runs Zeus Productions, which offers Lingo consulting and Xtras for Director.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;graphics & multimedia;languages & tools;mathematics;networking;networks;object-oriented design;programming;protocols & apis;science & math;software design;software development;testing & engineering;web design;web development & design,17 1884065538,"Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Dr. Arnold is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.",books;clinical;fitness & dieting;health;hyperactivity;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;mental health;neurology;new;parenting & relationships;pediatrics;psychiatry;special needs;used & rental textbooks,17 B000FZEISU,"The New Ayn Rand Companion, Revised and Expanded Edition ""Now in a completely revised, updated, and expanded edition, Mimi Gladstein's DEGREESIThe New Ayn Rand Companion DEGREESR continues to be a critically important, essential guide to the life and works of author/philosopher Ayn Rand....a must for all serious students of her writings."" - The Bookwatch --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. An essential guide to the life and works of Ayn Rand, the book chronicles and summarizes her writings, presents information about her national and global impactand the response to itand provides the most comprehensive bibliography published to date. Written by an independent scholar who is not part of either the Ayn Rand establishment or the Ayn Rand detractor camp, The New Ayn Rand Companion builds on the foundation of the original. New materials about Rand's posthumous publications, the latest biographical information, and summaries of books and articles about Rand, published since her death, have been added.Burgeoning interest in Rand, the publication of her Letters and Journals and Russian Writings, and the growing body of critical works necessitates an expanded and revised edition of the Ayn Rand Companion. This new edition is the only general reference work that covers the complete Rand corpus, including both those works published during her life and those published to date. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.",( r );20th century;a-z;ayn;biographies & memoirs;books;classics;criticism & theory;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);people;philosophy;politics & social sciences;rand;united states,17 0415251311,"Interdisciplinarity (The New Critical Idiom) And as I discussed two years ago in this column, the Routledge New Critical Idiom series offers some excellent overviews of significant terms and topics in contemporary theory.Victorian Poetry Joe Moran lectures at Liverpool John Moores University.",books;british;criticism & theory;education & reference;english literature;history & criticism;humanities;literary theory;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,17 0822329131,"Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent Nugent is one of the best-known unknowns of the Harlem Renaissancewidely quoted by its chroniclers and revered by people interested in black gay history. By restoring his place in history and making his work widely available for scrutiny, this book performs an invaluable service. Wirths introduction also provides an extraordinary tour of the gay side of the Renaissance and vivid glimpses of bohemian life in Harlem and the arts circles Nugent moved in.George Chauncey, author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male Worldldquo;One of the key figures in both the creative world of the Harlem Renaissance and the complex underground world of gay culture, Bruce Nugent at last speaks here for himself.rdquo;mdash;from the foreword, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ""Nugent is one of the best-known unknowns of the Harlem Renaissancewidely quoted by its chroniclers and revered by people interested in black gay history. By restoring his place in history and making his work widely available for scrutiny, this book performs an invaluable service. Wirths introduction also provides an extraordinary tour of the gay side of the Renaissance and vivid glimpses of bohemian life in Harlem and the arts circles Nugent moved in.""-George Chauncey, author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World ""One of the key figures in both the creative world of the Harlem Renaissance and the complex underground world of gay culture, Bruce Nugent at last speaks here for himself.""from the foreword, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Richard Bruce Nugent, one of the last surviving Harlem Renaissance luminaries when he died in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1987, was born in Washington, DC in 1906 and lived most of his life in New York City. Thomas H. Wirth is an independent scholar, bibliophile, and publisher who for twenty-five years was a staff representative for the New Jersey State College/University affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. He has a Ph.D. in chemistry from California Institute of Technology, and has taught at South Carolina State University, Southern University, Mary Holmes College, and Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. His website devoted to Richard Bruce Nugent is located at http://www.brucenugent.com/Richard Bruce Nugent, one of the last surviving Harlem Renaissance luminaries when he died in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1987, was born in Washington, DC in 1906 and lived most of his life in New York City. Thomas H. Wirth is an independent scholar, bibliophile, and publisher who for twenty-five years was a staff representative for the New Jersey State College/University affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. He has a Ph.D. in chemistry from California Institute of Technology, and has taught at South Carolina State University, Southern University, Mary Holmes College, and Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. His website devoted to Richard Bruce Nugent is located at http://www.brucenugent.com/",african-american & black;african-american studies;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism & theory;ethnic & national;gay & lesbian;history;history & criticism;individual artists;literary criticism;literature & fiction;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,17 059600110X,"Peer-to-Peer : Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies Peer-to-Peer is a book about an emerging idea. That idea is that the traditional model of participating in the Internet, in which a small computer operated by an everyday user (a ""client"") asks for and receives information from a big computer administered by a corporation or other large entity (a ""server""), is beginning to give some ground to a new (new to the fringes of the Internet, anyway) model called peer-to-peer networking. In peer-to-peer networking, all participants in a network are approximately equal. Furthermore, the participants are usually ordinary computers run by everyday people. The ICQ chat service and the Napster music-sharing community are examples of what this book is about. The chief advantage of peer-to-peer networks is that large numbers of people share the burden of providing computing resources (processor time and disk space), administration effort, creativity, and--in more than a few cases--legal liability. Furthermore, it's relatively easy to be anonymous in such an environment, and it's harder for opponents of your peer-to-peer service to bring it down. The primary disadvantage of peer-to-peer systems, as anyone will attest who's had an MP3 download prematurely terminated when a dialup user went offline will attest, is the tendency of computers at the edge of the network to fade in and out of availability. Accountability for the actions of network participants is a potential problem, too. This is a book about the idea of equipping ordinary Internet users' computers with mechanisms that enable them to connect, more or less automatically and without human attention, to other everyday Internet users' machines. By forming networks of computers at the so-called ""edge"" of the Internet, it's possible to offer valuable services without the burden of building and administering large, centralized computer systems of the sort that host traditional Web sites. Napster is the most successful example to date, though nerds will note that it's not a completely peer-to-peer system because users register their file libraries with a central server when they log on to the service. Don't approach this book expecting to learn how to build the next Napster system. It's not a how-to book. It's not even much of a why-to book. Rather, it's a book that aims to get its readers thinking about what happens when information systems shift away from the client-server model and toward the peer-to-peer model (that's one of the book's points, by the way, that this is not a one-or-the-other architectural decision). Mostly, Peer-to-Peer makes its point by letting experts in peer-to-peer take turns in the spotlight. Any other approach would be kind of ironic, wouldn't it? In any case, David Anderson explains how SETI@home puts space buffs' idle computing cycles to use in analyzing radio noise from outer space. Gene Kan explains how Gnutella (a truly serverless environment) works. The architects of Publius explain how distributed computing is especially resistant to censorship and denial-of-service attacks. Other contributors discuss peer-to-peer chat software, anonymous remailing services, and other applications of peer-to-peer design. There's no one from Napster represented as an author in this collection of essays, but Clay Shirky presents an essay called ""Listening to Napster."" In that essay, Shirky gives an opinion on why Napster has succeeded: It focused on providing something consumers wanted, and bypassed Internet conventions (like the Domain Naming System) because they weren't the best way to provide the service. This is not an earth-shattering revelation, but it's true, and it's something developers of any new service (Internet-based or otherwise) need to keep in mind. Some of the technical proposals presented here will get readers thinking. An example: Require that senders of e-mail solve a moderately complex math problem before recipients' mailboxes will accept their mail. The problem would be no big deal for a mailer to solve if he or she were sending messages one at a time, but the processor load would really add up for spammers who blast tens of thousands of unwanted emails onto the Internet in a single session. Another idea: mechanizing the concept of reputation so people know whose thoughts and whose creative works (like software) are worth using or believing. More business-oriented readers might want to read more about the more subtle ways of incorporating peer-to-peer components into business models. Lots of traditional Web services--Amazon.com is an example--are supplementing their client-server activities with others that have peer-to-peer characteristics. Amazon.com, for example, lets operators of small Web sites promote goods and rely on the centralized resources for billing and fulfillment. There's no distributed software (other than a few links), but the company takes advantage of creativity and marketing efforts outside of its official core. Coverage of that sort of ""soft"" distributed computing might be a good supplement for the second edition of this book. Peer-to-Peer is a thought-provoking book that will help its readers understand an exciting, still-emerging application architecture for the Internet. --David Wall Topics covered: Peer-to-peer applications that run at the edges of the Internet, usually on home computers run by ordinary people. Much of this book comprises case studies on SETI@home, Gnutella, Freenet, Jabber, and other peer-to-peer services. Later chapters address technical issues, such as accountability, security, efficient use of limited bandwidth, and data cataloging. 'Provides an interesting insight in to the world of P2P;, the projects currently tearing up the ;net and the future of the technology. Initial repetition aside, this is a well thought out and useful book which is definitely worth reading.- Linux Format, October 2001 'All in all a typical well-presented O'Reilly package - nice paper, good hardback binding and excellent content.' - Lindsay Marshall, news@UK, June 2001 'Essential reading for budding computer scientists and leaders of oppressive regimes' Computer Shopper, June 2001 'I have used this much space on this particular book because it is currently the best text I have seen that gives a wide introduction to P2P technologies and trends, and there is absolutely no question that infosec practitioners will have to understand this subject.' Information Security Bulletin, May 2001 (2 page review) Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Associates, specializing in books on Linux and programming. Most recently, he edited Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies.",books;client-server systems;computer science;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;design & architecture;hardware;human-computer interaction;lan;linux;networking;networks;operating systems;programming;protocols & apis;software;unix,17 0664219306,"Paul: Apostle to the Gentiles Text: English (translation) Original Language: German Jurgen Becker is Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.",bibles;biographies & memoirs;books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;church history;congregations & orders;history;meditations;middle east;reference;religion & spirituality;religious studies;saints;theology;turkey;worship & devotion,17 0816031584,"Atlas of American Migration This source, rather than having an alphabetical or chronological arrangement, is divided into 10 thematic chapters, from ""A Shifting Mosaic: America and Migration,"" to ""The Suburban Frontier: Migration Since 1945."" Intervening chapters cover such topics as slavery, Native American migration, the settlement of the West, and the move to the cities after 1890. Each chapter is an extended essay that is broken into various headings and subheadings. The most important features of the atlas are the many tables, graphs, and maps. For example, chapter two, ""The Earliest Americans: Pre-Columbian Migration,"" has a time line as well as maps showing, among other things, settlement in the Pre-Columbian Southwest, distribution of the Mississippi Temple Mound culture, Norse exploration, and Native American language families. The chapter on American slavery, entitled ""Migration in Chains,"" includes the maps ""Underground Railroad,"" ""Slave Revolt and Flight,"" and ""Slavery's Westward Migration after 1820,"" among others. All maps were created especially for this volume. Data in charts and tables were drawn primarily from sources such as the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. The volume concludes with a selected bibliography, mostly of secondary sources, and an index. The index would be improved if it identified the illustrations, maps, and other graphics that are listed.We the People: An Atlas of America's Diversity (Macmillan, 1988) also looks at migration patterns in the U.S. A more scholarly source, it is now somewhat out-of-date. Atlas of American Migration contains information up to the mid-1990s. Because of its arrangement, libraries may be tempted to put it in the circulating collection. However, it contains many valuable maps and statistics for reference use in high-school, public, and academic libraries.",americas;atlases;atlases & maps;books;earth sciences;education & reference;emigration & immigration;geography;history;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;reference;science & math;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks,17 0766828611,"Construction Scheduling with Primavera Enterprise David A. Marchman is a professor of Construction Engineering Technology at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has held the positions of Controls Manager (responsible for all estimating, scheduling and cost engineering functions of assigned projects) Project Estimator and Project Cost Engineer at Brown & Root U.S.A., Inc.",books;chemical;civil;civil engineering;crafts;design & construction;education & reference;engineering;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;industrial;industrial engineering;manufacturing & operational systems;new;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,17 0807824429,"Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America (Gender and American Culture) Isenberg has a finely honed sense of the ironies that emerged within the antebellum polity, which she illustrates.American QuarterlyThe substantive chapters of the book contain consistent interest and insight and pockets of brilliant research and analysis.Law and History Review[A]dmirably executes its stated mission to recapture the variety and theoretical sophistication of U.S. feminism at its origins.American Literature[S]heds entirely new light on this important chapter in womens political history in the United States.Journal of Interdisciplinary History[A] pathbreaking book.Virginia Quarterly Review --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Illuminates the origins of American feminism by showing how antebellum feminists moved beyond suffrage to influence thinking about the nature of citizenship and rights more generally. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Nancy Isenberg is the Mary Frances Barnard Chair in History at the University of Tulsa. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.",19th century;americas;books;civil rights & liberties;feminist theory;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;specific topics;united states;women in history;women's studies;world,17 0814796990,"Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America (Nation of Newcomers: Immigrant History as American History) Where do marriage, diaspora, racism, and the politics of global alliances converge? In the dreams and dailiness of the thousands of Korean women living in the United States today. Ji-Yeon Yuh's engaging and revealing book shows us that by listening attentively to the Korean women married to white and black American men, we can become a lot smarter about the realities of globalized living.-Cynthia Enloe,author of Maneuvers: the International Politics of Militarizing Women's LivesSensitive and absorbing, Beyond the Shadow of Camptown probes a little-known but fascinating aspect of Asian-American history: the lives of nearly 100,000 Korean women who married American soldiers, and often live a silent, marginal existence in the United States. Professor Yuh gives eloquent voice to these women, linking their diaspora to a gripping and original account of the often appalling circumstances of American military occupation in Korea, while also locating many heartening stories of personal empowerment and triumph over the odds.-Bruce Cumings,author of Korea's Place in the SunJi-Yeon Yuh uses a wealth of sources, especially moving oral histories, to tell an important, at times heartbreaking, story of Korean military brides. She takes us beyond the stereotypes and reveals their roles within their families, communities, and Korean immigration to the U.S. Without ignoring their difficult lives, Yuh portrays these women's agency and dignity with skill and compassion.-K. Scott Wong,Williams CollegeBy studying the lives and history of Korean &38220;military brides, Ji-Yeon Yuh pays tribute to an important group that has not received the understanding, attention, and respect that it deserves. Full of compelling stories, Beyond the Shadow of the Camptowns is sure to inspire new ways of thinking about U.S. and especially immigration history, as well as Asian American and Asian history.-Elaine Kim,University of California at Berkeley""Yuh has composed a complex, provocative, and compassionate portrayal of the experiences of Korean military brides from the 1950s through the 1990s. . . . Delving into how these women face isolation and alienation from both Korean and US societies because of their transnational status, Yuh's masterful history demonstrates that these women have resisted perceptions of both societies and forged communities based on their claiming Korean and US identities as Korean military brides. A wonderful resource... Highly recommended.""-Choice, Ji-Yeon Yuh is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Miami Herald, and the Baltimore Sun, as well as in major newspapers in Japan and Korea.",biographies & memoirs;books;emigration & immigration;gay & lesbian;gender studies;history;humanities;korean war;military;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks;women in history;women's studies;world,17 1558614850,"Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development ARVONNE S. FRASER has been Coordinator of the Office of Women in Development at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. representative to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and a member of the U.S. delegations to the first two UN World Conferences on Women 1993 UN World Conference on Human Rights. She is currently senior fellow emerita of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, where she organized and directed the International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) and co-founded the Institute's Center on Women and Public Policy. IRENE TINKER has served on the faculties of Howard University, Federal City College, American University, and the University of California/Berkeley. She has conducted research in fifty-four countries and lectured in thirty-six. Tinker was director of the office of International Science at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where Margaret Mead taught her about lobbying the UN, and she co-founded the Wellesley Center for Research on Women and founded the International Center for Research on Women and the Equity Policy Center.",activism;books;civil rights;feminist theory;gay & lesbian;gender studies;international & world politics;international relations;new;nonfiction;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,17 0596005032,"Perl Debugger Pocket Reference Richard Foley is an itinerant Perl programmer (since 1996), born in London, currently living near Munich, Bavaria. He fritters most of his time programming in Perl and Oracle, when he could be spending quality time with his family, reading or playing chess, walking or skiing in the nearby Alps. He has a technical illustration background, and has developed applications using Perl and Oracle on UNIX in the Aerospace, Internet and Banking industries. Responsible for maintaining the perlbug database, from 1997 to 2001, he has submitted patches to the Perl debugger, and written the perl debugger tutorial (perldebtut). He is the author of several modules on the CPAN including Oracle::Debug, an interface to the server-side Oracle PL/SQL engine, which was inspired by the Perl debugger. Co-organiser of YAPC::Europe::2002 in Munich, he is a also a member of the YAPC::Europe committee, the group responsible for organizing Perl conferences in Europe. High point was 24,000 feet on Broad Peak in the Karakorum Himalaya and low point 300 feet under the Yorkshire Dales in the North of England. Oh, and even the grey hairs are receding, when his daughters don't pull them out first!",books;business;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;linux;operating systems;perl;programming;software;software design;software development;testing;testing & engineering;unix;utilities;web development & design,17 0521624894,"Wisdom in Ancient Israel ""Written by experts in their respective fields, each essay is well researched and documented....necessary reading for those who want to know what is being said in the field."" The Bible Today""This volume, with its comprehensive grasp of the key areas of research, careful attention to textual and philological detail, judicious and well-supported conclusions, and grace in expression, is an apt reflection of the intellectual rigor and literary excellence which are so characteristic of the man whom it honors."" Daniel J. Estes, Ashland Theological Journal A collection of essays on wisdom literature and its relation to ancient near eastern thought.'This collection immediately becomes mandatory reading for students of the Old Testament because of its breadth, erudition, and state-of-the-art currency. Anyone wishing to encounter more closely and intelligently the riches of the Old Testament's wisdom writings should spend time with it.' Regent's Reviews, Vol 7",ancient;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;history;history of religion;international & world politics;israel;judaism;middle east;middle eastern;politics & government;politics & social sciences;reference;religion & spirituality;religious;world,17 084931626X,"Nutritional Ergogenic Aids This excellent resource offers many chapters dealing with specific nutritional factors. Written by an expert in the field, each chapter brings the latest scientific evidence to its evaluation of these nutritional substances as potential ergogenic aids . This new book should be required reading for those in the sports nutrition arena. Summing Up: Highly recommended. - CHOICE, March 2005[I] highly recommend this book for all of our practitioner shelves. It is both up-to-date and well written. It is not often that a text comes along that should be universally recommended for those interested in and living the life in sports nutrition - this is it! - Douglas S. Kalman, MS, RD, FACN, Director, Nutrition & Applied Clinical Researchan essential guide for any sports dietitian or those interested in nutritionproviding an up-to-date review of the efficacy of NEA's Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics,vol.18, 2005",books;chemical;chemical engineering;clinical;diets & weight loss;engineering;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;nutrition;other diets;professional & technical;sports medicine;used & rental textbooks,17 0679783342,"Walden and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics) ""This book is like an invitation to life's dance.""--E. B. White With their call for""simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"", for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in tis volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, Civil Disobedience and Life Without Principle. A lifetime of brilliant observation of nature -- and of himself -- is recorded in selections from A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers, Cape Cod, The Maine Woods and The Journal. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Naturalist, philosopher, champion of self-reliance and moral independence, Henry David Thoreau remains not only one of our most influential writers but also one of our most contemporary. This unique and comprehensive edition gathers all of Thoreau's most significant works (including his masterpiece Walden, reproduced in its entirety). Taken together, they reveal the astounding range, subtlety, artistry, and depth of thought of this true American original. Included in this Modern Library Paperback Classics edition are: Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, selections from Cape Cod and The Maine Woods, ""Walking,"" ""Civil Disobedience,"" ""Slavery in Massachusetts,"" ""A Plea for Captain John Brown,"" and ""Life Without Principle."" ""This book is like an invitation to life's dance.""--E. B. White Ralph Waldo Emerson (180382), influential essayist and philosopher, was one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement and a close friend and mentor to Thoreau. Henry David Thoreau was the last male descendant of a French ancestor who came to this country from the Isle of Guernsey. His character exhibited occasional traits drawn from this blood, in singular combination with a very strong Saxon genius.He was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on the 12th of July, 1817. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1837, but without any literary distinction. An iconoclast in literature, he seldom thanked colleges for their service to him, holding them in small esteem, whilst yet his debt to them was important. After leaving the University, he joined his brother in teaching a private school, which he soon renounced. His father was a manufacturer of lead-pencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft, believing he could make a better pencil than was then in use. After completing his experiments, he exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune. But he replied that he should never make another pencil. Why should I? I would not do again what I have done once. He resumed his endless walks and miscellaneous studies, making every day some new acquaintance with Nature, though as yet never speaking of zoology or botany, since, though very studious of natural facts, he was incurious of technical and textual science.At this time, a strong, healthy youth, fresh from college, whilst all his companions were choosing their profession, or eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that his thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to refuse all the accustomed paths and keep his solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends: all the more difficult that he had a perfect probity, was exact in securing his own independence, and in holding every man to the like duty. But Thoreau never faltered. He was a born protestant. He declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living well. If he slighted and defied the opinions of others, it was only that he was more intent to reconcile his practice with his own belief. Never idle or self-indulgent, he preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him, as building a boat or a fence, planting, grafting, surveying or other short work, to any long engagements. With his hardy habits and few wants, his skill in wood-craft, and his powerful arithmetic, he was very competent to live in any part of the world. It would cost him less time to supply his wants than another. He was therefore secure of his leisure.A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of his mathematical knowledge and his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him, the size of trees, the depth and extent of ponds and rivers, the height of mountains and the air-line distance of his favorite summits--this, and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made him drift into the profession of land-surveyor. It had the advantage for him that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds, and helped his studies of Nature. His accuracy and skill in this work were readily appreciated, and he found all the employment he wanted.He could easily solve the problems of the surveyor, but he was daily beset with graver questions, which he manfully confronted. He interrogated every custom, and wished to settle all his practice on an ideal foundation. He was a protestant outrance, and few lives contain so many renunciations. He was bred to no profession, he never married; he lived alone; he never went to church; he never voted; he refused to pay a tax to the State; he ate no flesh, he drank no wine, he never knew the use of tobacco; and, though a naturalist, he used neither trap nor gun. He chose, wisely no doubt for himself, to be the bachelor of thought and Nature. He had no talent for wealth, and knew how to be poor without the least hint of squalor or inelegance. Perhaps he fell into his way of living without forecasting it much, but approved it with later wisdom. I am often reminded, he wrote in his journal, that if I had bestowed on me the wealth of Crsus, my aims must be still the same, and my means essentially the same. He had no temptations to fight against--no appetites, no passions, no taste for elegant trifles. A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on him. He much preferred a good Indian, and considered these refinements as impediments to conversation, wishing to meet his companion on the simplest terms. He declined invitations to dinner-parties, because there each was in every one's way, and he could not meet the individuals to any purpose. They make their pride, he said, in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little. When asked at table what dish he preferred, he answered, The nearest. He did not like the taste of wine, and never had a vice in his life. He said--I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking dried lily-stems, before I was a man. I had commonly a supply of these. I have never smoked anything more noxious.He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself. In his travels, he used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking hundreds of miles, avoiding taverns, buying a lodging in farmers' and fishermen's houses, as cheaper, and more agreeable to him, and because there he could better find the men and the information he wanted.There was somewhat military in his nature, not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise. It cost him nothing to say No; indeed he found it much easier than to say Yes. It seemed as if his first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit, of course, is a little chilling to the social affections; and though the companion would in the end acquit him of any malice or untruth, yet it mars conversation. Hence, no equal companion stood in affectionate relations with one so pure and guileless. I love Henry, said one of his friends, but I cannot like him; and as for taking his arm, I should as soon think of taking the arm of an elm-tree.Yet, hermit and stoic as he was, he was really fond of sympathy, and threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people whom he loved, and whom he delighted to entertain, as he only could, with the varied and endless anecdotes of his experiences by field and river: and he was always ready to lead a huckleberry-party or a search for chestnuts or grapes. Talking, one day, of a public discourse, Henry remarked that whatever succeeded with the audience was bad. I said, Who would not like to write something which all can read, like Robinson Crusoe? and who does not see with regret that his page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights everybody? Henry objected, of course, and vaunted the better lectures which reached only a few persons. But, at supper, a young girl, understanding that he was to lecture at the Lyceum, sharply asked him, Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story, such as she wished to hear, or whether it was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care about. Henry turned to her, and bethought himself, and, I saw, was trying to believe that he had matter that might fit her and her brother, who were to sit up and go to the lecture, if it was a good one for them.",19th century;books;classics;criticism & theory;essays;essays & correspondence;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);movements & periods;nature & ecology;nature writing;philosophy;politics & social sciences;science & math;united states,17 0299196208,"Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture (Ray and Pat Browne Books) ""Goddesses and Monsters is written by one of the leading scholars (and thinkers) about man-woman relationships in academia today. Neither shrill nor strident, Jane Caputi thoroughly examines the evidence and reads itthough to be sure from a feminist point of view.""Ray Browne Popular Press, A Ray and Pat Browne Book ""Goddesses and Monsters is written by one of the leading scholars (and thinkers) about man-woman relationships in academia today. Neither shrill nor strident, Jane Caputi thoroughly examines the evidence and reads it-though to be sure from a feminist point of view.""--Ray Browne Jane Caputi is professor of womens studies and communication at Florida Atlantic University and author of The Age of the Sex Crime and Gossips, Gorgons Crones: The Fates of the Earth. She also collaborated with Mary Daly on Websters First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language.",books;criticism & theory;feminist theory;gay & lesbian;gender studies;history;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;women writers;women's studies,17 1560254661,"The Red and the Blacklist: A Memoir of a Hollywood Insider Barzman arrived in Hollywood from Radcliffe in 1941, a good-looking 21-year-old who wanted to be a writer or director, not an actress. She met Ben Barzman at a party for Hollywood ""progressives""; before long, they were in the Communist Party together. Ben stayed focused on his career of script writing. Norma, especially after they married, made do with anything, mainly writing for Hearst's Examiner. By 1944, they knew they were both under surveillance; by 1949, they realized they had to leave the country or face HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) and jail for refusing to inform. They settled in Paris, their base for nearly 20 years. Even though Ben subscribed to leftist ideals about equality, his wife's career made him uncomfortable, so from 1955 on, Norma made babies, had affairs and researched movie ideas for Ben. From her stories-dealing with the likes of Picasso, Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Anthony Quinn and Ingrid Bergman-it seems the life of a Cold War expatriate was more attractive than anything America was offering. Still, blacklisted men like Ben and his sometime collaborator Joseph Losey ""hugged their bitterness,"" while the women just adapted. Visiting the Soviet Union and watching the Communist betrayal of May 1968 in France were profoundly disillusioning, but Norma found new hope stateside in the '70s amid women's liberation and the push to restore the reputations of the blacklisted Hollywood artists. Her unique, absorbing and richly detailed memoir is a contribution to both, restoring women to the history of this period and documenting the bravery with which some people stood by their ideals. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. She wouldn't name names then, but she does now. Blacklisted along with her husband, Ben, during McCarthy's Hollywood witch hunts, Barzman has written an explicit memoir of their HUAC-inposed European exile that reads like a ""who's who"" of the entertainment community during its most controversial and creatively challenging decades. Thwarted by her specific situation and by society in general, Barzman would find inconsistent success in her attempts to forge an independent career, serving instead as her husband's muse, collaborator, and, frequently, adversary. As such, she was destined to sit at both the periphery and center of a core of defiant artists who defined a cultural revolution. From this unique and unorthodox vantage point, Barzman writes a tantalizing expose of political, philosophical, and personal upheaval as only an insider can. Whether recounting titillating behind-the-scenes exploits of entertainment icons or reflecting on the daunting struggles of expatriate Americans whose movements and motives were constantly scrutinized, Barzman brings a brooding, yet legitimate, perspective to a complex and confusing era in American history. Carol HaggasCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved ""Sometimes funny, sometimes rueful memoir ... Dishy, and substantial, contribution to film history, and to studies of the unfortunate McCarthy era."" -- Kirkus Reviews, February 1, 2003",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;entertainers;historical;humor & entertainment;industry;journalism & nonfiction;journalists;memoirs;movies;professionals & academics;research & publishing guides;screenwriting;writing,17 1770071474,"Africa: In the Footsteps of the Great Explorers Kingsley Holgate's name is synonymous with adventure, not only in Africa, but thanks to his National Geographic documentaries, also worldwide. Inspired by the African explorers of old - the likes of Livingstone and Speke - Kingsley and his family have undertaken a number of epic trips across the African continent in the past decade. While travelling, the self-described 'romantic adventurer' and his team make their own documentaries, recording the traditional cultures and the variety of fauna and flora en route. Despite his love of travel and adventure, Kingsley's roots are planted firmly in Zululand. He lives with his wife Gill at Zinkwasi Beach, on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast.",africa;animals;arts & photography;biological sciences;books;education & reference;equipment;general;photography;reference;research & publishing guides;science & math;techniques & reference;travel;travel writing;wildlife;writing,17 0801057582,"Living by the Book: The Joy of Loving and Trusting God's Word The universal goal of men and women is happiness . . . Blessed are they whose ways are blameless,who walk according to the law of the Lord.Blessed are they who keep his statutesand seek him with all their heart.--Psalm 119:1-2. . . but how many know how to get there?How can a person find blessedness or happiness? What is commended to us at the start of Psalm 119, says James Montgomery Boice, is getting to know and live by the whole of God's revelation, which is what we call the Bible.Living by the Book opens dimensions of what it means to learn from, love, trust, and obey God's words. Psalm 119, Scipture's longest chapter, is a series of brief thoughts about living by the Bible in a day when it is neglectec--studying it, memorizing it, meditating on it, using it. Within those brief sections of Hebrew poetry, Boice isolates components of blessed living. The Bible, he says, -enables the faithful to survive the trials unique to believers--alienation, slander, and sorrow.-is God's school--engaging the mind as well as the heart.-is the only place to find God's love and comfort, and God himself.-reveals the meaning and purpose of suffering.-is eternal, and therefore we can build on it not only now but for eternity.-assures us of God's mercy.-guides is in prayer and into obedience and blessedness.But we cannot live by the Bible unless we know it. Living by the Book focuses on making Scripture a central source of life. James Montgomery Boice (1938-2000) was senior pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was also president and cofounder of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, the parent organization of The Bible Study Hour, on which Boice was a speaker for more than thirty years.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;church history;hebrew bible (old testament);history;inspirational;judaism;meditations;reference;religion & spirituality;religious;sacred writings;spirituality;world;worship & devotion,17 0824061055,Sir Gawain & Green Knight (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) Text: English (translation),ancient & classical literature;arthurian romance;books;british;criticism & theory;education & reference;english literature;gothic & romantic;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;medieval;movements & periods;new;poetry;used & rental textbooks,17 0139620699,"Fiber-Optic Communications Technology A useful source of information to anyone who works with fiber optics, this state-of-the-art guide covers the newest technological innovations in fibers, systems and networks, and provides a solid foundation in the basics with lots of examples, practical applications, graphical presentations, and solutions to problems that simulate those found in the workplace. Devotes complete chapters to optical fibers, singlemode fibers, light sources and transmitters, photodetectors and receivers, and more. Provides real data and specification sheets to help users hone their ability to read data sheets and integrate concepts - a critical skill for practicing engineers. Offers a ""two-level discussion"" in each chapter: a ""Basics"" section introduces the main ideas and principles involved in the devices covered, and ""A Deeper Look"" section offers a more theoretical and detailed discussion of the same material. Describes the test, measurement, and troubleshooting of fiber optics communications systems based on existing standards and commercially available equipment. Integrates many pictures of commercially available devices and equipment throughout. For professionals in the electronic technology industry.",books;computer technology;crafts;electrical;electrical & electronics;engineering;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;how-to & home improvements;new;optics;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;telecommunications;used & rental textbooks,17 0137584911,"80X86 IBM PC and Compatible Computers, Vol. II, The: Design and Interfacing of the IBM PC and Compatible Computers Key Benefit:Hailed by experts for its topical breadth and ""hands-on"" format, this thorough and visually appealing guide uses a step-by-step approach to teach the basics of PC architecturecovering all x86 microprocessors from the 8088 to the Pentium Pro. Clarifying concepts with many real-world examples throughout, it offers intimate details of 80x86 assembly language programming, DOS memory map, BIOS, microprocessor architecture, interfacing techniques, system programming, hard disk characteristics and more. It uses the Debug utility to explore the internal working of the PC and microprocessor interfacing, shows readers early on how to combine assembly and C programming, and places all C programming in the last section of each chapter to accommodate those with no background in the subject Key Topics: Discusses 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit interfacing of x86 microprocessor, and uses fragments of programs form IBM PC technical reference to show how PC system programming is being used in today's business world. Ensures an understanding of binary and hex numbering systems before delving into PC system programming, and analyzes hardware differences among 8086, 286, 386, 486, Pentium and Pentium Pro chips. Second edition features include: how to design your own PC interface card; discussions on PC interfacing (with real world devices such as LCD, stepper motor, ADC, DAC, and temperature sensors); programming I/O with C; serial and parallel ports programming in C; the latest DRAM technologies; and how to use new parallel ports.Market: >For PC technicians, designers of complex PC interface cards, and system programmers.",books;computer design;computer science;computers & technology;design & architecture;education & reference;electrical & electronics;engineering;hardware;mathematics;microprocessor design;microprocessors & system design;new;pcs;professional & technical;science & math;used & rental textbooks,17 0195147537,"All About Fibromyalgia: A Guide for Patients and Their Families Fibromyalgia, a syndrome rather than a disease, is more widely accepted by the medical profession now than it was a decade ago. This informative, accessible manual begins with the syndrome's history and proceeds to who generally gets fibromyalgia (more women than men) and why. The Wallaces describe the often localized or regional pains and discomforts associated with the syndrome, show how they affect different parts and systems of the body, and explore the relationships between the syndrome and stress, sleep, hormones, and the immune system. Many conditions can be related to fibromyalgia, and a physician must consider such possibilities in making a differential diagnosis and in preparing a program of treatment. The Wallaces also discuss various therapies and methods for coping with the condition. They give both patients and health professionals a fuller understanding of fibromyalgia and suggestions for working together in successfully combating it. William BeattyCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Daniel Wallace, M.D., is an attending physician who has served as Clinical Chief of Rheumatology at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, and has treated hundreds of victims of fibromyalgia. He is the author of The Lupus Book and co-author of All About Osteoarthritis, both by Oxford. Janice Wallace is a freelance medical writer. They live in Los Angeles.",allied health services;books;chronic fatigue syndrome & fibromyalgia;clinical;diseases;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;health;medicine;medicine & health sciences;musculoskeletal diseases;new;orthopedics;parenting & relationships;preventive medicine;rheumatology;used & rental textbooks,17 1570715343,"The Bully at Work: What You Can Do to Stop the Hurt and Reclaim Your Dignity on the Job Bullies on the job can cause irreparable harm to their colleagues, contend the authors, founders of the Campaign Against Workplace Bullying. While violent or vengeful workers occasionally make the news, there are insidious bullies in nearly every workplace, whether co-worker, boss or junior colleague. Their behavior causes other people to suffer shame, humiliation and fearAall of which can affect their nonwork life as well as their job performance. The Namies recommend that ""targets"" act quickly to dismantle a bullying dynamic once they recognize it, and they also urge government and judicial recognition that ""bullying"" is an endemic workplace issue that deserves to be taken seriously. The last 100 pages of the book are the most useful; one chapter, ""Control Destructive Mind Games,"" analyzes how people let their emotions color their actions. Subsequent chapters offer concrete strategies that ""targets"" can take to alleviate their workplace distress (including using humor to deflect a bully's tactics and finding support among colleagues and friends). Overall, this volume presents an intriguing concept that is rarely given such detailed analysis. However, the notion of ""bullying"" as a crime seems farfetched; the book would be even more effective if it focused on interpersonal skills and tools that could be used to fight back, rather than on trying to initiate change in public policy. (July) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. Because bullying has been identified as a contributing factor in the epidemic of violence in schools, teachers and counselors are being trained in methods for dealing with bullies. Unfortunately, many bullies do not stop their disruptive, hurtful behavior after they leave school and get jobs; they often just become more subtle. Few people, though, acknowledge that workplace bullying is or can be a real problem. The Namies, both psychologists, are out to change that. In 1998 they launched the Campaign against Workplace Bullying. Calling those who experience bullying ""targets"" rather than ""victims,"" they have counseled nearly 3,000 such targets. They define what bullying is, show why it is harmful, and attempt to explain why it occurs. They describe efforts in Europe to prevent bullying, where the problem is taken more seriously, and they decry the lack of substantive legal recourse here in the U.S. The authors provide techniques and tactics for bully-proofing oneself and show how targets, once sufficiently prepared emotionally, can move on to ""bully-busting"" and ""tyrant-toppling."" David RouseCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Gary Namie, PhD, is a social organizational psychologist. He is the president of the Campaign Against Workplace Bullying. Ruth Namie, PhD, is the CEO of the Campaign Against Workplace Bullying. Dr. Namie has been a psychotherapist since 1986 and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. A simple truth: to stop a bully from turning you into a Target, just firmly announce that her behavior (when she decides to test your resistance) will not be accepted without her running the risk that it will be reported immediately to both a private lawyer and the company's legal team. Gesture that she has one chance to stop now (palm of your raised hand facing her) and that she consider the consequences of continuing her childish, embarrassing behavior.Easy to say, right? Easy to understand and dream about, too. But nearly impossible to do. If it were just that simple, you would have done it in the first place and skipped all the misery from being the bully's Target. All the pain now felt comes not from that single missed opportunity alone, but from the postponement of taking action to right the wrong. Nipping it in the bud, people call it. But using another old saying, it's all water under the bridge, the current situation requires you to stop the hurt now however you can.",books;business & investing;business life;fitness & dieting;guides;health;job hunting & careers;management;management & leadership;motivational;occult;organizational behavior;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality;sociology;workplace,17 0782128777,"Mastering Visual Basic .NET Mastering Visual Basic .NET is the update to the best-selling Mastering Visual Basic 6, by Evangelos Petroutsos. Because of the enormous changes introduced by .NET, Petroutsos has rewritten his book from the ground up. In contrast to some other large VB.NET books, Petroutsos is the only author of the Mastering. For the reader, the benefit is a unified author voice and continuity in the examples, which is not found in many other big books on VB. And the examples are not trivial. Instead of using simplistic examples to demonstrate isolated points, Petroutsos shows actual applications and ties them together. The book goes into highly specific detail about topics given short shrift in other books. For example, Petroutsos goes beyond showing you how to populate an array; he also shows how to save the array to a disk file. In the printing chapter, he doesnt just show how to print a few lines of text; he shows how to print a text file (including the logic to break long lines), and how to print tabular data and bitmaps. Mastering Visual Basic .NET is the perfect book for upgraders from VB6 and includes special VB6 to VB.NET sidebars throughout, which highlights special points for upgraders. The book is suitable for beginners who have had some programming experience, but goes well beyond the basics, covering Windows Forms, Web Forms, and database programming with ADO.NET. Readers who want more in-depth coverage of database and Web programming can go on to Mastering Visual Basic .NET Database Programming (by Petroutsos and Asli Bilgin) and Mastering ASP.NET with VB.NET (by Russell Jones). VB Programmers: Get in Step with .NETWith the introduction of Visual Basic .NET, VB transcends its traditional second-class status to become a full-fledged citizen of the object-oriented programming, letting you access the full power of the Windows platform for the first time. Written bythe author of the best-selling Mastering Visual Basic 6 this all-new edition is the resource you need to make a successful transition to .NET. Comprising in-depth explanations, practical examples, and handy reference information, its coverage includes:Mastering the new Windows Forms Designer and controlsBuilding dynamic formsUsing powerful Framework classes such as ArrayLists and HashTablesPersisting objects to disk filesHandling graphics and printingAchieving robustness via structured exception handling and debuggingDeveloping your own classes and extending existing ones via inheritanceBuilding custom Windows controlsBuilding menus and list controls with custom-drawn itemsUsing ADO.NET to build disconnected, distributed applicationsUsing SQL queries and stored procedures with ADO.NETFacilitating database programming with the visual database toolsBuilding web applications with ASP.NET and the rich web controlsDesigning web applications to access databasesUsing the DataGrid and DataList web controlsBuilding XML web services to use with Windows and web applicationsSpecial topics like the Multiple Document Interface and powerful recursive programming techniques Evangelos Petroutsos is a computer engineer who gained much of his experience at the California Institute of Technology and MCI. Currently, he writes computer books and works as a computer communications consultant. He has authored and co-authored dozens of programming titles, including the best-selling Mastering Visual Basic 6, Mastering Database Programming with Visual Basic, and Visual Basic 6 Developer's Handbook, all from Sybex. A Visual Basic programmer since version 1, Evangelos has taught numerous VB courses and worked as a consultant on many VB projects.",.net;books;computer science;computers & technology;development;education & reference;hardware;languages & tools;microsoft;new;pcs;programming;programming languages;used & rental textbooks;visual basic;web design;web development & design,17 189466390X,"No One Can Stop The Rain: A Chronicle of Two Foreign Aid Workers during the Angolan Civil War Karin Moorhouse was born in Nowra, Australia. She is now marketing vice president for Nestl Canada Inc.Wei Cheng was born in Beijing, China. He is a paediatric surgeon, currently conducting medical researcher at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.",africa;african;angola;books;central africa;history;history & criticism;international & world politics;literature & fiction;military;movements & periods;non-governmental organizations;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;south africa;southern africa,17 0395845203,"Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery (Clarion Nonfiction) A natural follow-up to Freedman's biography of FDR, this impeccably researched, highly readable study of one of this country's greatest First Ladies is nonfiction at its best. As a role model for girls and an inspiration to both genders, Eleanor Roosevelt remains unsurpassed. Freedman relates how she transcended both an unhappy childhood (her parents separated when she was six; her mother died when Eleanor was eight, and her father, an alcoholic, died two years later) and a timid nature to become one of the most outspoken, vigorous, highly regarded women in history. The vast range of her interests and activities--journalism, politics and social activism--becomes even more remarkable as the author deftly considers Eleanor Roosevelt's times and her social milieu. Approximately 140 well-chosen black-and-white photos amplify the text. Freedman writes both authoritatively and compellingly, and the Eleanor that emerges is a complex, flesh-and-blood individual, not a dull heroine of textbook history. He also deals plainly with some of the more sordid aspects of the Roosevelts' married life (namely FDR's infidelity), but he never sensationalizes, and his honesty and candor signal his respect for his subject and for his readers. This biography cannot be recommended highly enough. Ages 9-up. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Grade 6-12-Fans of Eleanor Roosevelt will enjoy this detailed anecdotal record of her life, while those unfamiliar with her life will count themselves among her admirers by the end of their listening. Barbara Caruso ably narrates Eleanor's transformation from shy and gawky young girl to internationally known world traveler and major political force. Convinced that what she wanted from life could only be attained by ""the opportunity for doing something useful,"" Eleanor seized every chance afforded her by her position as wife of the president to work for peace and prosperity both at home and overseas. Caruso's matter-of-fact tone matches Mrs. Roosevelt's personality. Her reading is crisp and no-nonsense-a good choice for conveying Roosevelt's pragmatic and self-effacing character. Listeners will want to take a look at Russell Freedman's book (Clarion, 1993) for the many splendid black-and-white photographs it contains. Highly recommended for both school and public library collections.ACindy Lombardo, Ashland Public Library, OHCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. A timid child from a dysfunctional family, Eleanor Roosevelt became a courageous woman whose career was propelled by a series of devastating events: FDR's polio, his relationship with Lucy Mercer, his election to offices that doomed his wife to supportive roles, his death; each time, with energy, determination, and an eye for the essential, Eleanor found new outlets and broke new ground with her accomplishments. Giving up her Democratic Party office when FDR was elected governor, she became his eyes and ears--a role she expanded as First Lady, touring the country and the world to observe and ask questions, winning over critics, reporting, advising, and acting as bellwether for forward-looking ideas on social policy and women's rights. After FDR's death, she chaired the UN commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. And always, she wrote--articles, books, a daily column; presided over a large family with its share of troubles; and kept in touch with an ever-growing circle of close friends. In this generously full history (longer than his Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1990, and with more numerous, equally fine b photos), Freedman focuses, properly, on the public life more than the personal one, as Mrs. Roosevelt herself did. Even so, synthesizing a wealth of resources (ably surveyed in a descriptive bibliography), he brings her wonderfully to life as a rare blend of honesty, intelligence, deep concern for humanity, and ability to inspire loyalty and convey her ideas. Freedman at his best: a splendid achievement. Index. (Biography. 10+) -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ""Freedman has created a sensitive biography of Eleanor Roosevelt -- certainly sympathetic but not overly adulatory; it captures her spirit. The beautifully crafted text flows smoothly and is accompanied by over one hundred black-and-white photographs portraying Roosevelt at every age. Young readers will find inspiration, hope, and guidance in the life of the outstanding woman. Bib., ind."" -- Copyright 1994 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.Horn Book""Freedman at his best: a splendid achievement."" Kirkus Reviews with Pointers Russell Freedman received the Newbery Medal for LINCOLN: A PHOTOBIOGRAPHY. He is also the recipient of three Newbery Honors, the Sibert Medal, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and was selected to give the 2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. Mr. Freedman lives in New York City. Although written for young adults, this biography has much to offer ""older"" adults who are interested in a broad brush portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. Barbara Caruso's clear, straightforward narration introduces the listener to a young woman fraught with insecurities and shyness who went on to live a most extraordinary life as the ""First Lady of the World."" Caruso reflects Roosevelt's reserved affection for her friends, family and her colleagues and the quiet but firm resolve with which she undertook challenges and opportunities to serve. Roosevelt's fears and disappointments are presented with the same calm composure as her accomplishments, reinforcing the impression of a woman of great fortitude and quiet preserverance. J.E.M. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",( r );1900s;a-z;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;children's books;education & reference;eleanor;historical;history;people;political;roosevelt;specific groups;united states;women,17 0674005821,"The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition Homo sapiens has existed as a separate species for only a very short period of time on the evolutionary scale (six million years at most), and we share 99 percent of our DNA with our closest primate relatives. How then can humans be as different from other primates as we obviously are? Developmental psychologist Tomasello thinks that all of the many unique characteristics of humans are elaborations of one trait that arises in human infants at about nine months of age: the ability to understand other people as intentional agents. (He dismisses a bit too cavalierly the anecdotal evidence of recent animal behaviorists who would describe a good deal of animal behavior as intentional in this sense.) Language, elaborate cultures, and other hallmarks of humanity are all natural outgrowths of this single trait. The author is clearly highly credentialed, his thesis is certainly plausible, and the language is not jargony. However, his topic is really very limited; the bulk of the book focuses on the narrow issue of ""shared attention."" Only graduate students and developmental psychologists will want to know this much about the subject. Recommended for academic collections.-Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, WA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Students of primate behavior are one of several groups who should read this important book. It spells out forcefully what appears to make human development so distinctive, and does so from the perspective of an expert in language acquisition who has also devoted much time to comparative work with apes. It is strong medicine for anybody in danger of romanticizing the similarity of ape to child. Developmental psychologists will find here a well-articulated account of the ontogeny of cultural learning, which challenges alternative accounts from the vantage point of extensive research. (Andrew Whiten Nature)In The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition...[Tomasello] argues that what makes human beings unique is that they are so good at learning from one another and that they create new, original things with what they learn. (Helen Epstein Lingua Franca)A much needed book that covers a broad territory with both clarity and authority. Having spent much of his career comparing human and nonhuman primate cognition, Michael Tomasello makes the case for a social developmental foundation of the unique capacities of the human primate--language, complex cognition, and culture. His ontogenetic 'ratchet hypothesis' is both simple and provocative. It will be welcomed--and argued about--by a wide audience. (Katherine Nelson, Distinguished Professor of Developmental Psychology, City University of New York)Tomasello is one of the very few scholars who works at the intersection of the phylogenetic, cultural-historical, and ontogenetic contributions to development. His studies linking non-human primate development to the development of human infants are exciting and compelling. He has done the study of human development a great service with the publication of this book. (Michael Cole, Professor of Communication and Psychology and Director of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, University of California at San Diego)A powerful and coherent synthesis, and the best formulation of cultural psychology we've yet had. (Jerome Bruner, New York University) A much needed book that covers a broad territory with both clarity and authority. Having spent much of his career comparing human and nonhuman primate cognition, Michael Tomasello makes the case for a social developmental foundation of the unique capacities of the human primate--language, complex cognition, and culture. His ontogenetic 'ratchet hypothesis' is both simple and provocative. It will be welcomed--and argued about--by a wide audience. --Katherine Nelson, Distinguished Professor of Developmental Psychology, City University of New York --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. A much needed book that covers a broad territory with both clarity and authority. Having spent much of his career comparing human and nonhuman primate cognition, Michael Tomasello makes the case for a social developmental foundation of the unique capacities of the human primate--language, complex cognition, and culture. His ontogenetic 'ratchet hypothesis' is both simple and provocative. It will be welcomed--and argued about--by a wide audience. (Katherine Nelson, Distinguished Professor of Developmental Psychology, City University of New York) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.",anthropology;behavioral sciences;books;cognitive psychology;cultural;evolution;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;social psychology & interactions;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,17 0299207501,"Women Medievalists and the Academy ""Jane Chance's pioneering collection sets the record straight on the role of women in medieval studies. Young scholars will find in it models of courage and persistence, warnings, humor, and perhaps even consolation.""Sheila Delany, Simon Fraser University ""Pioneering. . . . An important and timely collection that profiles the lives and professional careers of women medievalists in the last two centuries.""Maureen Mazzaoui. University of WisconsinMadison ""Jane Chances pioneering collection sets the record straight on the role of women in medieval studies. Young scholars will find in it models of courage and persistence, warnings, humor, and perhaps even consolation.""Sheila Delany, Simon Fraser University Jane Chance is professor of English at Rice University and author or editor of nineteen other books, including Woman as Hero in Old English Literature (1986), Medieval Mythography, volumes 1 and 2 (1994, 2000), and Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages (1996). She edits three series, the Boydell and Brewer Library of Medieval Women, the Greenwood Guides to Historic Events in the Medieval World, and the new Praeger Series on the Middle Ages.",bibliographies & indexes;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;gay & lesbian;historical study & educational resources;historiography;history;medieval;politics & social sciences;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;social sciences;specific groups;women;women's studies;writing,17 1903973686,A Line in the Water Norman Ackroyd RA is one of Britain's foremost printmakers. He has published a number of books and has had many solo exhibitions. His works are in the collections of many major museums. Douglas Dunn is a poet whose works include St Kilda's Parliament (1981) and Elegies (1995).,art history;arts & photography;books;british;criticism;education & reference;english literature;history & criticism;humanities;individual artists;landscapes & seascapes;literature;literature & fiction;new;poetry;themes;used & rental textbooks,17 0226734889,"On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig In On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life, Eric Santner puts Sigmund Freud in dialogue with his contemporary Franz Rosenzweig in the service of reimagining ethical and political life. By exploring the theological dimensions of Freud's writings and revealing unexpected psychoanalytic implications in the religious philosophy of Rosenzweig's masterwork, The Star of Redemption, Santner makes an original argument for understanding religions of revelation in therapeutic terms, and offers a penetrating look at how this understanding suggests fruitful ways of reconceiving political community. Eric L. Santner is the Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies, professor of Germanic studies, and a member of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, most recently On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald, also published by the University of Chicago Press.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;humanities;medical books;new;psychoanalysis;psychology;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality;religious studies;social sciences;theology;used & rental textbooks,17 019588955X,"The Malay Archipelago (Oxford in Asia Hardback Reprints) ""One of the great classics of travel literature. It is indeed good news that Oxford University Press has now made available a handsome new edition of the book . . . . Natural scientists and anthropologists, in addition to being entertained, will find a vast store of scientific facts, many of which can no longer be observed firsthand."" --Science Books and Films",asia;biological sciences;books;earth sciences;ecology;education & reference;general;geography;history;indonesia;research & publishing guides;science & math;southeast;specialty travel;travel;travel with pets;writing,17 0415926335,"Readings for Diversity and Social Justice : An Anthology on Racism, Sexism, Anti-Semitism, Heterosexsm, Classism, and Ableism PetersCompletely on target! The organization, quality, and thoroughness are impressive....This would be valuable in introductory women's studies, education, and sociology courses.Jean O'Barr, co-editor of Women Imagine ChangeAn invaluable resource for teaching. The range of social differences and injustices covered is comprehensive and the diverse contributions are held together by strong and accessible introductions to each section.Stevi Jackson, author of Heterosexuality in QuestionA highly readable and thought-provoking collection of theoretical and personal essays....[A] welcome supplement in courses which seek to actively engage students in learning about the barriers to and promises of social justice education.Lee Ann Bell, co-editor of Teaching for Diversity and Social JusticeGiven that there has been an upsurge of narratives and statistical research on the 'other,' this book successfully combines multiple voices into one comprehensive piece. It is a wonder that so much depth can be covered given its breadth of diversity issues. Moreover, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice provides a very readable introduction to the key terms and conceptual frameworks underlying diversity and social justice. In addition, the book consists of essays that seek not only to inform, but also to empower readers..Journal of College Student Development --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Maurianne Adams is Chair of the Social Justice in Education Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her previous works include Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice (Routledge 1997) and Strangers and Neighbors (1999).Warren J. Blumenfeld's previous works include Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price (1992) and Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life (1993). National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education, USXimena Ziga is Lecturer in the Social Justice Education Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and co-editor of Multicultural Teaching in the University (1995).Rosie Castaeda, Heather W. Hackman, and Madeline L. Peters are all at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.",books;discrimination & racism;education;education & reference;gender studies;new;parenting & relationships;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;race relations;schools & teaching;social sciences;sociology;special education;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,17 0415942446,"Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts provides a much needed critical introduction to the cognitive study of the verbal, visual, and musical arts, basing its claims on the methods and findings of mainstream cognitive science. Written with authority, verve, and above all clarity, Hogan's exciting new book will prove an indispensable guide for those new to the field and a provocative and challenging overview for those already engaged in cognitive criticism and theory..Alan Richardson, Professor of English, Boston College and author of British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind Patrick Colm Hogan is Professor of English and Comparative literature at the University of Connecticut.His many books include The Culture of Conformism, Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Literature, Colonialism and Cultural Identity, and The Politics of Interpretation.",aesthetics;behavioral sciences;books;criticism & theory;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;science & math;used & rental textbooks;writing,17 0862418461,"Around the Sacred Sea: Mongolia and Lake Baikal on Horseback In 1993, three recent Harvard graduates, well armed with letters of introduction and privileged contacts, both political and scientific, rode horses north from Mongolia to Siberia and around Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake with the greatest volume of fresh water on earth. It was a four-month journey of self-imposed physical challenges, in part an endeavor to report on the environmental damage being accelerated by the break-up of the Soviet Union and in part a youthful lark liberally oiled by alcohol consumption with the local characters encountered along the way. (It's astonishing how much vodka was consumed on this trip!) While the book is attractive and well produced, its sketchmap fails to trace the route taken, and the environmental information is now seven years out of date. But, overall, Bull (Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure) has written a spirited account of a most interesting and little-known part of the world that will fill a gap in public library collections.DHarold M. Otness, formerly with Southern Oregon Univ. Lib., Ashland Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.",asia;books;education & reference;general;history;lakes & ponds;marine life;mongolia;nature & ecology;oceans & seas;reference;research & publishing guides;russia;science & math;travel;travel writing;writing,17 1591021316,"Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision It may be, as Chomsky writes in his foreword, that radical historian Howard Zinn has taught us ""that objectivity is... problematic in historical writing,"" but a little more objectivity would have improved this study of Zinn's life and work. Zinn, now 81, is best known for A People's History of the United States, a look at American history from the point of view of the ""dispossessed."" Joyce comprehensively charts Zinn's life: the son of working-class Jews in New York City, Zinn served in the U.S. Army during WWII before getting his doctorate in history from Columbia. Joyce dutifully details Zinn's career as an activist/academic, his activism (for civil rights, against the Vietnam War) creating problems for him in his academic life. In fact, he was fired from Spellman College in the early 1960s for his activism, and later, while teaching at Boston University, he battled with the school's conservative president John Silber. There's little doubt that Zinn's life and work have taught and inspired many. But while Joyce (professor emeritus of history at East Central University in Oklahoma) occasionally takes issue with some of Zinn's more radical positions, such as his desire to abolish all U.S. prisons, Joyce's stated admiration for Zinn gets in the way of a balanced biography. Much of the book is based on Zinn's own recollections or those of friends and others sympathetic to him. As a result, this book's appeal is likely to be limited to the historian's fellow travelers. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. ""...a must read..."" -- Oklahoma Observer, December 10-25, 2004""...an engaging and informative biography...a useful overview of Zinn's oeuvre and social activism..."" -- History: Reviews of New Books, Summer 2004""should be read by both non-historian and professional...glimpse at the constricted nature of the present discipline of history."" -- Tulsa World, March 7, 2004""the same readable, jargon-free style that has made Zinn's books as popular with general readers as they are with historians."" -- Foreword Howard Zinn's popular alternative history of America, A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, has sold over one million copies, has been assigned in countless high school and college courses, and even found its way into the Oscar-winning script for the movie ""Good Will Hunting."" Originally published in 1980, this ""New Left textbook"" looks at history ""from below""--from the perspective of the disenfranchised and marginalized--and is just one of the fifteen books Zinn has contributed over more than five decades. At age eighty he continues to write and speak as a historian, activist, critic of U.S. military and foreign policy, and enthusiastic proponent of radical social reform. For those who appreciate the importance of viewpoints outside the mainstream, Howard Zinn is a national treasure. This first-ever biography of Zinn traces in broad strokes the story of his life, placing special emphasis on his involvement in both the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War protests. Biographer and historian Davis Joyce summarizes each of Zinn's books within the context of his life, analyzes the evolution of Zinn's ideas, and concludes with a preliminary assessment of his life's work. Joyce argues that Zinn's views are radical because they seek to bring about fundamental change in the political, social, and economic order. No armchair historian, Zinn has spent his whole life working for change and crusading for peace and justice. In a crucial and often-quoted passage from A PEOPLE'S HISTORY, Zinn boldly declares his agenda: ""I prefer to try to tell the story of the discovery of America from the viewpoint of the Arawaks, of the Constitution from the standpoint of the slaves, of Andrew Jackson as seen by the Cherokees . . . of the rise of industrialism as seen by the young women in the Lowell textile mills."" Though some would label Zinn's position anti-American, Joyce contends that Zinn's approach is rooteed in the very ideals upon which the United States was founded, especially those embodied in the Declaration of Independence. His life has been motivated by the vision of what America could be, as opposed to what it actually is, and has been dedicated to the struggle to make that vision a reality. Joyce also considers how Zinn fits into the New Left, radical school of historical writing of the 1960s and beyond. For anyone who has ever been moved by social advocates with the vision of a better, more inclusive, and egalitarian American future, this biography will be an indispensable resource. Davis D. Joyce, Ph. D. (Spavinaw, OK) has taught at the University of Tulsa, Keele University (England), and the University of Debrecen (Hungary). He is Professor Emeritus of History at East Central University (Ada, Oklahoma), and teaches part-time at Rogers State University (Claremore, Oklahoma). Some of his earlier books are Edward Channing and the Great Work, The Writing of American History (with Michael Kraus) and ""An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before"": Alternative Views of Oklahoma History (editor).",20th century;americas;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;elections & political process;historical study & educational resources;historiography;history;leaders & notable people;leadership;modern (16th-21st centuries);political;politics & government;politics & social sciences;united states,17 0896033368,"Protein Purification Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology) ...includes some very useful contributions.- Angewandte Chemie This book is recommended for protein chemists, whether beginner or professional. There is something in this book for everyone. It is an excellent working book as well as an excellent reference.-INFORM-American Oil Chemists Society Doonan's handy compendium...holds its own against Methods in Enzymology [and] Current protocols in Protein Science... will be valuable to keep around the laboratory for most graduate students in biochemistry, and indeed for more senior practitioners of biotechnology as well. -Biopharm Overall, a well presented utilitarian bench manual and a worthwhile purchase for novice and established practitioner alike-Society for General Microbiology Quarterly",biochemistry;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;cell biology;chemistry;general;general & reference;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;organic;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,17 0198610408,"New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors: The Essential A-Z Guide to the Written Word (Reference) `For anybody working on a newspaper or magazine which does not have its own style book, for any author, for any freelance writer, this should be the first book on the shelf. It will stop you making an ass of yourself.' John Jenkins, Writers' Forum",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;foreign language study & reference;language & grammar;new;reference;research & publishing guides;slang & word lists;study & teaching;used & rental textbooks;vocabulary;words;writing;writing skills,17