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080583916X,"Counseling and Psychotherapy With Religious Persons: A Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Approach (The Lea Series in Personality and Clinical Psychology) Nielsen, Johnson, and Ellis do an outstanding job of illustrating why REBT is well suited for work with religious persons....Highly recommended for counseling and psychotherapy collections serving upper-division undergraduates through professionals.CHOICEReaders who notice that the authors of this volume on religion and counseling include a professor at Brigham Young University of LDS persuasion (Nielsen), a professor of the Naval Academy who is an evangelical (Johnson), and the often-religiously antagonistic Albert Ellis will quickly realize that this book is a significant one. All three authors are impressively knowledgeable about Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), of which Ellis is the founder, and all three authors have collaborated elsewhere on the use of REBT with relilgious themes...Not only is this authorial trio quite remarkable, the content of the book is important. All therapists need to be familiar with current REBT strategies, and this book willgive all readers a good and comprehensive overview of this important clinical approach.Journal of Psychology and ChristianityReligious beliefs contribute to the attributions an individual constructs, shaping personal meaning, emotional experience and behavior. Counseling and Psychotherapy With Religious Persons provides a detailed introduction to the application of rational emotive behavior therapy to the clinical consideration of religious beliefs. [It] considers the challenging ethical issue of addressing personal beliefs while respecting a client's faith perspective...[and] contributes to the evolving literature which takes seriously the role of religion in mental health and psychological treatment.Edward Shafranske, Ph.D.Pepperdine UniversityWhen my students ask me for a reference on how REBT can be used with religious clients, I will, without hesitation, recommend this splendid volume. The authors' views blend well together to make this a very important contribution...Windy Dryden, Ph.D.Goldsmiths College, University of London",books;fitness & dieting;general;health;humanities;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;new;psychiatry;psychology;psychology & counseling;psychotherapy;religion & spirituality;religious studies;social sciences;ta & nlp;used & rental textbooks,18
0471392030,"Information Technology Project Management Jack T. Marchewka is an associate professor, the Barsema Professor of Management Information Systems, and the director of the Business Information Technology Transfer Center (BITTC) at Northern Illinois University. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia State University's department of Computer Information Systems in 1994 and was a former faculty member at Kennesaw State University. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Marchewka was a vice president of MIS for a healthcare company in Atlanta, Georgia.Dr. Marchewka has taught a number of courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and has been a guest lecturer at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands. His current research interest include IT project management, electronic commerce, knowledge management, and organizational security and business continuity. His articles have appeared in journals such as Information Resources Management Journal, Information Technology & People, Journal of International Information Management, and Journal of Informatics Education and Research.Jack Marchewka is also an instrument-rated commercial pilot, who enjoys his family, flying, golf, guitars, good BBQ, riding his motorcycle, and a good laugh.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;engineering;industrial;industrial engineering;management & leadership;manufacturing & operational systems;new;pmp exam;production & operations;professional & technical;project management;total quality management;used & rental textbooks,18
013802331X,"Human Neuropsychology The book is well-written and very up-to-date; it has a readable and accessible style, with the jargon kept to a minimum.The discussion point in the assessment chapter was ingenious and stimulating.  Dr Graham Hole, University of Sussex  Following the success of the first edition, Human Neuropsychology has been comprehensively updated to cover every major topic in the field while simultaneously introducing students to significant new developments in the area. This book provides the perfect balance between theory and application, enabling the reader to develop a complete understanding of the subject. It is also an invaluable reference tool to aid further study.  Features   Incorporates chapter summaries, case studies, illustrations and examples throughout the text for clear explanation and understanding.   Uses photographic content to convey the science through visual examples.   Includes a listing of neuropsychology web resources, alongside links to relevant journals.  It is the only text that provides several theories on frontal lobe function and also mentions the dysexecutive syndrome. The problems associated with neuropsychological testing are well-presented. The case studies are an excellent component of the book. It brings a truly applied aspect to each chapter. Id definitely recommend this book.  Dr Nicola Starkey, University of Wakato    Human Neuropsychology is accompanied by a website containing multiple choice questions and essay questions to help you with your studies. Please visit  www.pearson.co.uk/martin .  About the a uthor  Dr G Neil Martin is Principal Lecturer in Psychology at Middlesex University and a Fellow of the RSA. He is the author of over 150 articles on psychology and is the co-author Psychology, also published by Pearson Education.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",basic sciences;books;fitness & dieting;general;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;neurology;neuropsychology;neuroscience;new;psychiatry;psychology;psychology & counseling;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,18
B000FJGOJ2,"C++: Object-Oriented Data Structures This book provides a broad coverage of fundamental and advanced concepts of data structures and algorithms. Its aim is to provide readers with a modern synthesis of concepts with examples of applications that find practical use. Throughout, C++ is used to illustrate the construction and use of abstract data types and to demonstrate object-oriented implementations. As a result, it will make a superb textbook for students taking courses in data structures and software engineering as well as for software professionals. Readers are assumed to have a basic working familiaritiy with C and C++, but is otherwise self-contained.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This book provides a broad coverage of fundamental and advanced concepts of data structures and algorithms. Its aim is to provide readers with a modern synthesis of concepts with examples of applications that find practical use. Throughout, C++ is used to illustrate the construction and use of abstract data types and to demonstrate object-oriented implementations. As a result, it will make a superb textbook for students taking courses in data structures and software engineering as well as for software professionals. Readers are assumed to have a basic working familiaritiy with C and C++, but is otherwise self-contained.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",algorithms;books;c;c & c++ windows programming;computer science;computers & technology;data structures;development;education & reference;languages & tools;microsoft;new;object-oriented design;objects;programming;software design;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,18
0201895358,"The CRC Card Book Applying the object-oriented paradigm to the development of software  requires individuals and teams to think and act differently than when  designing procedural projects. While proponents of the object paradigm  often say identifying objects is a simple and intuitive process,  experienced developers know that this is not always true. The solution is  the CRC (Classes, Responsibilities, Collaboration) Card method, a proven  technique for identifying classes and visualizing and testing different  class-based models during the design phase.      The CRC Card Book covers the CRC method from start to finish, illustrating  its application in three different in-depth case studies which supply tips  and pointers drawn from real world experience. The case studies are  presented in the engaging style of a novella to demonstrate how  personalities and organizational culture come into play when using the CRC  technique. C++, Java, and Smalltalk experts provide implementation  examples in each language. The CRC Card Book demonstrates how to:    Discover classes through team brainstorming  Refine project requirements Test the conception of the system and evaluate potential paths of  collaboration using role play  Manage an object-oriented project Implement a CRC design in C++, Java, and Smalltalk; all source code is  available via the World Wide Web.   Includes language implementation examples from such noted experts as:    Java: Cay Horstman, San Jose State University  Smalltalk: Larry Smith, IBM Corp.  C++: Jeremy Raw, Interactive Software    0201895358B04062001	David Bellin is Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Computer   Science at North Carolina A State University and consults   internationally on object analysis and technical training with   organizations such as Macy's, Universidad Nacional Autonomia de Mexico,   and the United States government.  He has received a Congressional   Fulbright Award in computer science and an IBM Corporation University   Partnership Award.    Susan Suchman Simone is the President of Information Fountain Inc.,   specializing in technical writing and training.  She has taught classes   for Yourdon, Inc. and North Carolina State University and has developed   training materials for companies across the country including Chase   Manhattan Bank, New York Life, and Banamex.         0201895358AB04062001	Applying the object-oriented paradigm in the development of software  applications requires the individual developer and the application team to  think and act quite differently than one would in approaching a procedures  based project. Object-oriented projects follow a new software development  life cycle, one that is both iterative and incremental, a cyclic spiral of  analysis, design, and deployment. In this new application-development  process, determining and defining properly the classes that are central to  the desired system at the beginning of the life cycle is critical.  Thorough analysis of the problem and good design up front saves time, and  money and helps ensure a successful end result.  Although proponents of the object paradigm often say that identifying  objects is a simple and intuitive process, a number of noted experts admit  that this is not always true! Particularly with larger-scale applications,  omitting a formal analysis of the base classes necessary to the  application and the related analysis of their responsibilities and  collaboration is certain to lead to missed schedules, blown budgets, and  frayed nerves. The solution is to use the CRC process to determine the  classes necessary to the system as part of the design process for the  application. CRC (classes, responsibility, and collaboration) cards can be  used to visualize and test different class-based models during the design  phase. It is a proven technique used and advocated by leading  methodologists.  The CRC Card Book demonstrates the use of the CRC methodology in a  realistic team setting, covering the full range this methodology from  initial identification of classes to the production of code based on these  classes. At this writing, there are two other books on or incorporating  coverage of CRC. Rebecca Wirfs-Brock wrote Designing Object-Oriented  Software many years ago. It remains the classic definition of  responsibility-driven design, but does not discuss the application of the  technique in the team-oriented setting in which large-scale applications  are developed. Nancy Wilkinson's book, Using CRC Cards, focuses  specifically on the C++ programming community and likewise does not  include any illustration of the team approach to class discovery.  The approach of The CRC Card Book is to cover the CRC method from start  to finish, demonstrating its application in three different, detailed  case-study examples while supplying tips and pointers throughout. The book  demonstrates how real teams can use the CRC technique to accomplish a  variety of tasks, including:  Initially discovering classes Selecting the core classes Acting out class relationships and scenarios Refining the project requirements Furthering project management Serving as a guide to the design of code (in C++, Java, and  Smalltalk)   This book is a useful tool for those applying the CRC technique. The  tips, tricks, and pointers included are drawn from real-world experience,  and all the various tables and lists presented in the text, are collected  together in an appendix. The case studies are provided to help you  visualize how the guidelines developed in the descriptive chapters might  be applied in a real-life situation. All three case studies are based on  real systems and are presented in a dramatized style to help you  understand how to use the method better. Also included are two examples of  how our third case study, the control of automobile traffic intersections,  might look when in Smalltalk, C++, and Java. The source code from these  chapters is available from Addison-Wesley at  http://www.awl.com/cp/bellin-simone.html.    The CRC Card Book is organized as follows:  Brainstorming    We place special emphasis on the dynamics of team work, and how these  dynamics are applied to the successful use of CRC. The first team strategy  we suggest is brainstorming. We show how this applies to the task of  finding classes and listing scenarios.   Role Plays    The second team strategy we recommend is role play. CRC cards provide a  uniquely dynamic way of testing out your conception of the system and  evaluating potential paths of collaboration. Role plays get everyone  involved and invested in the system.   Case Studies    Three case studies are provided to help you visualize how the guidelines  developed in the descriptive chapters might be applied in a real-life  situation. All three case studies are based on real systems. They are  presented in a dramatic, novella style to demonstrate more clearly how  personalities and organizational culture come into play when a group is  using the CRC technique. This is especially important in the context of  brainstorming and role play. We hope that this approach not only will  clarify the use of the method, but will provide a little entertainment  along the way!   Implementations in Code    We also provide two examples of how our third case study, the control of  automobile traffic intersections, might look when a programmer uses CRC  cards as the basis for coding in Smalltalk, C++, and JAVA. Three experts  in each language community joined with us to write this unique material.   Managing Object Analysis    Following the examination of role playing in the CRC method, we discuss  the overall demands of managing an object-oriented project, along with  suggestions as to useful metrics for monitoring the process, and for  including legacy software in OO systems. We also provide some ideas for  the transition from informal modeling with CRC cards to the use of a  full-blown, formal methodology such as Schlaer-Mellor or the Unified  Modeling Language. The final case study in the book provides additional  insight into the application of these techniques.    Transition to Methodologies    In this concluding chapter we discuss the limitations of CRC cards and  examine several popular and more comprehensive object-oriented analysis  and design methodologies.   CRC Roadmap    Every chapter is full of useful tips, tricks, and pointers drawn from the  real world. In addition to the various tables and lists in the text, we've  collected these together in an appendix with pointers back into the book,  so you can find things quickly when you need them.   Get to Work!    In The CRC Card Book, we have tried to distill a wide range of  experiences and training tips for the use of CRC. We hope that some of it  applies to all of you, and that all of it applies to some of you. Above  all, remember, let CRC make your team work fun!   0201895358P04062001",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;mathematics;new;object-oriented design;object-oriented software design;operating systems;programming;programming languages;science & math;software design;software design & engineering;software development;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,18
0736037969,"Coaching Youth Volleyball-3rd Edition (Coaching Youth Sports) Junior volleyball for both boys and girls is one of the fastest growing sports in the U.S.--and sure to grow even more given the additional interest generated by this summer's Olympics. The American Sport Education Program has consistently provided helpful guides for youth-league coaches, and this second edition of its volleyball text is no exception. Geared to those coaching 6-to-14-year-olds, the guide includes a discussion of the rules, a review of court sizes based on age, and a catalog of the skills needed to achieve a modest level of success. The book also features drills useful in mastering those skills and tips on game strategy and preparation. Despite the excellent nuts-and-bolts instruction, though, the most important part of the book may well be the reminder that one's motivation to coach at this level should be the desire to teach, not to win.  Wes Lukowsky	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""This is a great book for coaches of beginning to intermediate players of all ages. The 'athletes first, winning second' coaching philosophy applies to all competitive levels, and especially to kids who are learning the game.""  Ruben Nieves  Head coach, men's volleyball  Stanford University	The American Sport Education Program (ASEP) is the most widely used and respected sport education program in the United States. More than 30 states now require ASEP courses for their high school coaches, and more than 200 universities use ASEP courses and resources. Over one million peoplecoaches, parents, and directors alikehave used ASEP products since the program began in 1981. The ASEP headquarters is located in Champaign, Illinois.",books;clinical;contemporary;education & reference;education theory;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;other team sports;schools & teaching;sports & outdoors;sports medicine;used & rental textbooks;volleyball,18
0226143783,"Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America ""This vivid narrative succeeds in provoking new questions about the role of homelessness in shaping American history."" (Brad D. Lookingbill The Historian)""DePastino offers a fascinating look at a little-known sector of the laboring class that often did not work. In so doing he contributes to a welcome trend in which historians are redirecting attention from the workplace to the community in order to understand more fully the texture of working-class life."" (Evelyne Savidge Sterne American Historical Review)	In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's ""wageworkers' frontier"" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as ""hobohemia."" Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the American road as the preserve of white manhood, hoboes took command of downtown districts and swaggered onto center stage of the new urban culture. Less obviously, perhaps, they also staked their own claims on the American polity, claims that would in fact transform the very entitlements of American citizenship.In this eye-opening work of American history, Todd DePastino tells the epic story of hobohemia's rise and fall, and crafts a stunning new interpretation of the ""American century"" in the process. Drawing on sources ranging from diaries, letters, and police reports to movies and memoirs, Citizen Hobo breathes life into the largely forgotten world of the road, but it also, crucially, shows how the hobo army so haunted the American body politic that it prompted the creation of an entirely new social order and political economy. DePastino shows how hoboeswith their reputation as dangers to civilization, sexual savages, and professional idlersbecame a cultural and political force, influencing the creation of welfare state measures, the promotion of mass consumption, and the suburbanization of America. Citizen Hobo's sweeping retelling of American nationhood in light of enduring struggles over ""home"" does more than chart the change from ""homelessness"" to ""houselessness."" In its breadth and scope, the book offers nothing less than an essential new context for thinking about Americans' struggles against inequality and alienation.	Todd DePastino is an independent scholar in Pittsburg.",19th century;20th century;americas;books;historical study & educational resources;history;humanities;new;politics & government;politics & social sciences;poverty;public affairs & policy;social history;social sciences;social services & welfare;specific demographics;united states;used & rental textbooks,18
1555425550,"On Being a Therapist (Jossey-Bass Social & Behavioral Science) ""This is one of those rare and exciting books that reaches deep into the heart of a profession and discloses not only its day-to-day workings but also the very personal satisfactions, problems, doubts, and joys its practitioners experience.""""Written in an engaging style and filled with examples from the writings of well-known therapists, it should be required reading for those considering entering the profession.""	Jeffrey A. Kottler provides a candid account of the profound ways in which therapists are influenced by their interactions with clients. This thoroughly revised and updated edition shows how therapists themselves can learn, develop, and grow during the process of therapy. The book explains how practitioners can use their professional skills and insights gained from their clients' experiences to solve their own problems, realize positive change in themselves, and so become better therapists.	Jeffrey A. Kottler provides a candid account of the profound ways in which therapists are influenced by their interactions with clients. The book explains how practitioners can use their professional skills and insights gained from their clients' experiences to solve their own problems, realize positive change in themselves, and become better therapists.	JEFFREY A. KOTTLER is associate professor of counseling and educational psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of numerous books on therapy, including Compassionate Therapy (Jossey-Bass, 1992), Private Lives, Secret Selves, and The Compleat Therapist (Jossey-Bass, 1991).",allied health professions;allied health services;books;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;mental health;new;physical therapy;psychiatry;psychology;psychotherapy;social sciences;ta & nlp;used & rental textbooks,18
0136138454,"The Primate Anthology: Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology and Conservation from Natural History Offers a multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspective.  this anthology offers a collection of 33 readings on primate behavior, ecology, and conservation  originally published in Natural History Magazine.",animals;anthropology;apes & monkeys;biological sciences;biology & life sciences;books;conservation;ecology;mammals;nature & ecology;new;politics & social sciences;primatology;science & math;science & mathematics;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;zoology,18
0820468061,American Masculinity under Clinton (Popular Culture and Everyday Life) Brenton J. Malin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University. He received his Ph.D. in communication studies from the University of Iowa.,anthropology;books;drama;education & reference;engineering;gender studies;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;men;new;politics & social sciences;popular culture;professional & technical;social sciences;telecommunications;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,18
0520200551,The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea Text: English (translation) Original Language: Korean	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	JaHyun Kim Haboush is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and History at the University of Illinois.,18th century;asia;asian;biographies & memoirs;books;historical;history;humanities;korea;leaders & notable people;literature;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;royalty;south;used & rental textbooks;world literature,18
1578064023,"Cool Cars, High Art: The Rise of Kustom Kulture *Starred Review*  One consequence of the twentieth-century project to break down the barriers between popular and fine arts is the aesthetic discussion of objects and media not previously considered artistic, such as comic strips, photographs, quilts, and customized cars, the objects of DeWitt's incisive appreciation in this lavish book. Right off the bat, DeWitt discloses his investment in the subject with an account of his '50s Friday nights, which began by ""attend[ing] to the hygiene"" of his ""metallic blue, nosed and decked, lowered 1953 Chevy."" He belongs to the largest cohort of custom-car aficionados, former post-World War II teenagers who injected the new '50s youth culture into the small, mostly West Coast, working-class men's avocation of modifying stock cars into hot rods, capable of much greater speeds, and custom cars, intended to look much better than what rolled off the assembly lines. The marriage of custom cars and '50s youth fashions stuck, but before he ponders the implications of that, DeWitt backtracks. He explains why customizing is an art medium, demonstrating that customizers approach their work the same way fine artists do, and likening the ground rules of customizing to those of cubism and surrealism. He analyzes the various styles of customizing and distinguishes periods in the now 60-plus-year history of the practice. Finally, he weighs the symbiosis of the '50s and customizing and its implications for the future of customizing. Throughout, he refers with pinpoint pertinence to the 56 figures and 65 colorplates that make the book itself quite a dream machine. Ray OlsonCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	A revved-up cruise through a world where chopped Mercs and slammed Chevies are works of art	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",art;arts & photography;automotive;books;classic cars;classics;customize;engineering;history;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;pop culture;professional & technical;sociology;transportation;united states,18
1931836604,"10 Cool LEGO Mindstorms Ultimate Builder Projects: Amazing Projects You Can Build in Under an Hour Mario Ferrari received his first Lego box around 1964, when he was 4. Lego was his favorite toy for many years, until he thought he was too old to play with it. In 1998, the Lego Mindstorms RIS set gave him reason to again have Lego become his main addiction. Mario believes Lego is the closest thing to the perfect toy. He is Managing Director at EDIS, a leader in finishing and packaging solutions and promotional packaging. The advent of the MINDSTORMS product line represented for him the perfect opportunity to combine his interest in IT and robotics with his passion for LEGO bricks, which started during his early childhood. Mario has been a very active member of the online MINDSTORMS community from the beginning and has pushed LEGO robotics to its limits. Mario holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Turin and has always nourished a strong interest for physics, mathematics, and computer science. He is fluent in many programming languages and his background includes positions as an IT manager and as a project supervisor. Mario estimates he owns over 60,000 Lego pieces. Mario works in Modena, Italy, where he lives with his wife Anna and his children Sebastiano and Camilla.Giulio Ferrari is a student in Economics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where he also studied Engineering. He is fond of computers and has developed utilities, entertainment software, and Web applications for several companies. Giulio discovered robotics in 1998, with the arrival of MINDSTORMS, and held an important place in the creation of the Italian LEGO community. He shares a love for LEGO bricks with his oldest brother Mario, and a strong curiosity for the physical and mathematical sciences. Giulio also has a collection of 1200 dice, including odd-faced dice and game dice. He studies, works, and lives in Modena, Italy.",artificial intelligence;books;computer mathematics;computer science;computer technology;computers & technology;education & reference;engineering;games & strategy guides;hardware;human vision & language systems;humor & entertainment;new;professional & technical;puzzles & games;used & rental textbooks;video & electronic games;video games,18
0688163262,"Earthdance Kindergarten-Grade 2-Terra represents Earth in her school production, ""Earthdance,"" a poem about our planet's place in the solar system. The child's mother, an astronaut, flies off into space in the morning, making ""a quick trip to the edge of the universe,"" and arrives back just in time to deliver the necessary astronomical pictures for the play that evening. The story is written in a clear poetic style such as, ""In the silent space/between the stars "" and explains the Earth's rotation in the solar system. Alliteration and repetition give movement and rhythm, masking the story's instructional intent. The whimsical, childlike drawings of the performance, flooded with primary colors, magically fuse with the full-page, full-color NASA photographs with the mother's rocket superimposed on them. These two illustrative styles parallel one another throughout the school production. The brief explanation of each photograph at the end of the book is an added bonus. A fresh, imaginative approach to a standard topic.Tina Hudak, Takoma Park Maryland Library Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	PLB 0-688-16327-0 Terra's mother is an astronaut, but as she kisses her daughter farewell before firing up her rockets, she promises to return that evening in time for Terra's school show, ``Earthdance.'' Terra practices all day, and in the evening, in a green and blue leotard and toe shoes, she dances the part of Earth, with classmates dancing the roles of sun, the planets, and the seasons. The mother, true to her promise, arrives in time for the finale, with a picture of earth from her travels. The illustrations tell the stories of the mother's travels through space and Terra's show simultaneously, with adapted photographs from NASA opposite scenes of the children performing. It's a lyrical introduction to the solar system and a charming futuristic family story, although science is occasionally sacrificed to poetry, e.g., Earth is not ``in the middle of the Milky Way,'' and it does not ``turn the moon.'' Reiser (Cherry Pies and Lullabies, 1998, etc.) concludes with thumbnail-sized photographs she worked with; her lovely perspective on the universe and its mysteries is easy to embrace. (Picture book. 5-8)  -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Lynn Reiser is the author of many popular books for children.She is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University and practices psychiatry in New Haven, Connecticut.She lives in a house in a garden in a forest in a town on the planet Earth.  In Her Own Words...""I am a psychiatrist. Much of my time is spent practicing and teaching at Yale Medical School. In recent years I have also found pleasure in making books for children.""My books start out as images and sketches and evolve as I draw them. Out of the art comes a dialogue, and from this the story emerges. Putting a picture book together is like playing a game--there are rules and surprises. The book must have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and fit into a set number of pages and a particular size.""I draw wherever and whenever I have timewaiting in a train station, sitting by a stream, even on an airplane. Sometimes I begin sketches for a book years before I have a complete story or text. I draw the whole book in whatever order the images come, then I cut and paste the drawings until they fit. I listen for the rhythm of the words and of the pictures-once I sense it, it becomes another guide and constraint. The finished book is always a surprise.""I always knew I liked to draw. I did not know that I liked to write until after I began to do it. One of the first books I submitted to Susan Hirschman at Greenwillow Books was the wordless dummy for Bedtime Cat I asserted that the words were obvious. Susan said, ""Then write them down."" Through this process of ""writing them down"" I became a writer. Now I collect interesting words and phrases as well as sketches, and play with words as I play with images.""I like to learn as much as I can about nature, the world, and people. Studying biology and medicine and psychology satisfies my curiosity about these subjects, and practicing psychiatry and teaching fulfill my wish to work with people and to help them. At first glance this sort of work may seem very different from the process of making picture books. But I feel that it is similar in that much of what I do as a physician is help others to express themselves, to discover their own stories, and to fit them together to make more sense of their lives. Words and dream images appear in my work every day. Metaphors and stories are part of communicating with students and patients.""I have learned to trust that whatever comes to mind and hand is likely to be relevant and useful, no matter how silly it may seem at first.""Making books is hard work, but it is a joy.""",arts;astronomy & space;books;careers;children's books;crafts & music;education & reference;family life;fantasy & magic;nature;nature & how it works;performing arts;school;science;science & math;science fiction & fantasy;social situations;technology,18
0789709708,"The Cold Fusion Web Database Construction Kit This is a one-stop resource for crating applications on the Web. Using step-by-step instructions and examples, anyone can walk through the entire process from initial design to final roll-out, thus creating a complete web-based application. With this powerful book/CD-ROM combination, readers can explore web applications and learn about some of the hottest topics on the web. The Cold Fusion Web Database Construction Kit includes an SQL and OBDC tutorial, as well as an HTML reference, comprehensive coverage of Cold Fusion's database integration capabilities, its integration with BackOffice and intranets, as well as its transaction dynamic email, Java graphlets, and new features in CFML. The Cold Fusion Web Database Construction Kit is another benchmark publication in the rapidly developing field of web-based applications.  -- Midwest Book Review	Cold Fusion Web Database Construction Kit is an all-in-one kit   that gives users everything they need to create their own Web   database-quickly and easily  - Bonus Books: electronic copies of   Special Edition Using HTML, Second Edition, Special Edition Using   Microsoft SQL Server, and Special Edition Using Java in HTML   format    - Provides complete coverage of data manipulation,   replication, validation, and security    - CD-ROM includes Cold Fusion   2.0 Developer Version, a key-locked version of Cold Fusion 2.0,   evaluation copies of Cold Fusion Fuel Pack and Allaire Forums",books;cold fusion;computer science;computers & technology;database design;database storage & design;databases;education & reference;languages & tools;mathematics;networking;networks;new;programming;protocols & apis;science & math;used & rental textbooks;web development & design,18
0321044312,"Connections: Writing, Reading and Critical Thinking The Longman Anthology of World Drama and Theatre is a fully-integrated text/anthology of drama with a global emphasis for the Introduction to Drama course.  The book is divided into two parts: Part One covers the origins of drama: genres, conventions, styles and descriptions of roles, and Part Two is a six chapter anthology of plays, including plays from around the world with a solid core of western plays. Each chapter in Part Two includes visuals, maps, timelines, biographical and contextual headnotes, and an overview of the history and conventions of each period that help students gain a better understanding of the drama and theater being presented.  For aspiring actors.",adult & continuing education;books;creative writing & composition;education;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;literature;new;reading skills;research & publishing guides;rhetoric;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,18
1582870454,"Life on the Mississippi (Twelve-Point Series) Memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883.  The book begins with a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541. Chapters 4-22 describe Twain's career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood dream.  The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain's return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New Orleans. By then the competition from railroads had made steamboats passe, in spite of improvements in navigation and boat construction. Twain sees new, large cities on the river, and records his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture.  -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	8 1.5-hour cassettes	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimentaland also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called the Lincoln of our literature.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Chapter One. The River and Its HistoryThe Mississippi is well worth reading about. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in all ways remarkable. Considering the Missouri its main branch, it is the longest river in the world--four thousand three hundred miles. It seems safe to say that it is also the crookedest river in the world, since in one part of its journey it uses up one thousand three hundred miles to cover the same ground that the crow would fly over in six hundred and seventy-five. It discharges three times as much water as the St. Lawrence, twenty-five times as much as the Rhine, and three hundred and thirty-eight times as much as the Thames. No other river has so vast a drainage-basin; it draws its water-supply from twenty-eight states and territories; from Delaware on the Atlantic seaboard, and from all the country between that and Idaho on the Pacific slope--a spread of forty-five degrees of longitude. The Mississippi receives and carries to the Gulf water from fifty-four subordinate rivers that are navigable by steamboats, and from some hundreds that are navigable by flats and keels. The area of its drainage-basin is as great as the combined areas of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Turkey; and almost all this wide region is fertile; the Mississippi valley, proper, is exceptionally so.It is a remarkable river in this: that instead of widening toward its mouth, it grows narrower; grows narrower and deeper. From the junction of the Ohio to a point half-way down to the sea, the width averages a mile in high water; thence to the sea the width steadily diminishes, until, at the Passes, above the mouth, it is but little over half a mile. At the junction of the Ohio the Mississippi's depth is eighty-seven feet; the depth increases gradually, reaching one hundred and twenty-nine just above the mouth.The difference in rise and fall is also remarkable--not in the upper, but in the lower river. The rise is tolerably uniform down to Natchez (three hundred and sixty miles above the mouth)--about fifty feet. But at Bayou La Fourche the river rises only twenty-four feet; at New Orleans only fifteen, and just above the mouth only two and one-half.An article in the New Orleans Times-Democrat, based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons of mud into the Gulf of Mexico--which brings to mind Captain Marryat's rude name for the Mississippi--the Great Sewer. This mud, solidified, would make a mass a mile square and two hundred and forty-one feet high.The mud deposit gradually extends the land--but only gradually; it has extended it not quite a third of a mile in the two hundred years which have elapsed since the river took its place in history.The belief of the scientific people is that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills cease, and that the two hundred miles of land between there and the Gulf was built by the river. This gives us the age of that piece of country, without any trouble at all--one hundred and twenty thousand years. Yet it is much the youthfulest batch of country that lies around there anywhere.The Mississippi is remarkable in still another way--its disposition to make prodigious jumps by cutting through narrow necks of land, and thus straightening and shortening itself. More than once it has shortened itself thirty miles at a single jump!These cut-offs have had curious effects: they have thrown several river towns out into the rural districts, and built up sand-bars and forests in front of them. The town of Delta used to be three miles below Vicksburg; a recent cut-off has radically changed the position, and Delta is now two miles above Vicksburg.Both of these river towns have been retired to the country by that cut-off. A cut-off plays havoc with boundary lines and jurisdictions: for instance, a man is living in the state of Mississippi to-day, a cut-off occurs tonight, and tomorrow the man finds himself and his land over on the other side of the river, within the boundaries and subject to the laws of the state of Louisiana! Such a thing, happening in the upper river in the old times, could have transferred a slave from Missouri to Illinois and made a free man of him.The Mississippi does not alter its locality by cut-offs alone; it is always changing its habitat bodily--is always moving bodily sidewise. At Hard Times, Louisiana, the river is two miles west of the region it used to occupy. As a result, the original site of that settlement is not now in Louisiana at all, but on the other side of the river, in the state of Mississippi. Nearly the whole of that one thousand three hundred miles of old Mississippi River which La Salle floated down in his canoes, two hundred years ago, is good solid dry ground now. The river lies to the right of it, in places, and to the left of it in other places.Although the Mississippi's mud builds land but slowly, down at the mouth, where the Gulf's billows interfere with its work, it builds fast enough in better protected regions higher up: for instance, Prophet's Island contained one thousand five hundred acres of land thirty years ago; since then the river has added seven hundred acres to it.But enough of these examples of the mighty stream's eccentricities for the present--I will give a few more of them further along in the book.Let us drop the Mississippi's physical history, and say a word about its historical history--so to speak. We can glance briefly at its slumbrous first epoch in a couple of short chapters; at a second and wider-awake epoch in a couple more; at its flushest and widest-awake epoch in a good many succeeding chapters; and then talk about its comparatively tranquil present epoch in what shall be left of the book.The world and the books are so accustomed to use, and over-use, the word new in connection with our country, that we early get and permanently retain the impression that there is nothing old about it. We do of course know that there are several comparatively old dates in American history, but the merest figures convey to our minds no just idea, no distinct realization, of the stretch of time which they represent. To say that De Soto, the first white man who ever saw the Mississippi River, saw it in 1542, is a remark which states a fact without interpreting it: it is something like giving the dimensions of a sunset by astronomical measurements, and cataloguing the colors by their scientific names--as a result, you get the bald fact of the sunset, but you don't see the sunset. It would have been better to paint a picture of it.The date 1542, standing by itself, means little or nothing to us; but when one groups a few neighboring historical dates and facts around it, he adds perspective and color, and then realizes that this is one of the American dates which is quite respectable for age.For instance, when the Mississippi was first seen by a white man, less than a quarter of a century had elapsed since Francis I's defeat at Pavia; the death of Raphael; the death of Bayard, sans peur et sans reproche; the driving out of the Knights-Hospitallers from Rhodes by the Turks; and the placarding of the Ninety-five Propositions--the act which began the Reformation. When De Soto took his glimpse of the river, Ignatius Loyola was an obscure name; the order of the Jesuits was not yet a year old: Michelangelo's paint was not yet dry on the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel; Mary Queen of Scots was not yet born, but would be before the year closed. Catherine de' Medici was a child; Elizabeth of England was not yet in her teens; Calvin, Benvenuto Cellini, and the Emperor Charles V were at the top of their fame, and each was manufacturing history after his own peculiar fashion; Margaret of Navarre was writing the Heptameron and some religious books--the first survives, the others are forgotten, wit and indelicacy being sometimes better literature-preservers than holiness; lax court morals and the absurd chivalry business were in full feather, and the joust and the tournament were the frequent pastime of titled fine gentlemen who could fight better than they could spell, while religion was the passion of their ladies, and the classifying their offspring into children of full rank and children by brevet their pastime. In fact, all around, religion was in a peculiarly blooming condition: the Council of Trent was being called; the Spanish Inquisition was roasting, and racking, and burning, with a free hand; elsewhere on the Continent the nations were being persuaded to holy living by the sword and fire; in England, Henry VIII had suppressed the monasteries, burned Fisher and another bishop or two, and was getting his English Reformation and his harem effectively started. When De Soto stood on the banks of the Mississippi, it was still two years before Luther's death; eleven years before the burning of Servetus; thirty years before the St. Bartholomew slaughter; Rabelais had not yet published; Don Quixote was not yet written; Shakespeare was not yet born; a hundred long years must still elapse before Englishmen would hear the name of Oliver Cromwell.Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her a most respectable outside aspect of rustiness and antiquity.De Soto merely glimpsed the river, then died and was buried in it by his priests and soldiers. One would expect the priests and soldiers to multiply the river's dimensions by ten--the Spanish custom of the day--and thus move other adventurers to go at once and explore it. On the contrary, their narratives, when they reached home, did not excite that amount of curiosity. The Mississippi was left unvisited by whites during a term of years which seems incredible in our energetic days. One may sense the interval to his mind, after a fashion, by dividing it up in this way: af...	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",american literature;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism & theory;east south central;history;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;memoirs;new;south;state & local;travel;united states;used & rental textbooks,18
0716753006,"Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology '[A]n admirable balance between breadth and depth.' - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry	BRIAN KOLB lectures at the University of Lethridge. He is a Killiam Fellow (Canadian Council), Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Royal Society of Canada. He is a recipient of the Hebb Prize from CPA, and is former president of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Science. - IAN Q. WHISHAW lectures at the University of Lethridge. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Royal Society of Canada. He is the recipient of a bronze medal from the Canadian Humane Society, has been awarded the Ingrid Speaker Medal, and is CEO of NeuroDetective, Inc.",basic sciences;books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;neurology;neuropsychology;neuroscience;new;physiological aspects;psychology;psychology & counseling;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,18
1887128883,"Painful But Fabulous: The Life and Art of Genesis P-Orridge """"A rare and extreme opportunity to read the extraordinary method, theory and insight into the genius of Genesis P-Orridge. So Please take advantage of this exotic rare creature since this breed of individuality and originality is only one of a kind.""	Genesis P-Orridge is the world-renowned artist and musician (over 250,000 albums sold) from Manchester. As founder of the controversial art group COUM Transmissions, the industrial bands Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and Thee Majesty and the ironic cult religion Thee Temple Ov Psychic Youth, Genesis has reached an enormous audience and inspired countless contemporary acts, even those within the mainstream media such as Marilyn Manson. He also contributes frequently to magazines such as Penthouse and develops projects for the Sci Fi Channel.",architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;composition & performance;conceptual;etc.;humor & entertainment;midi;mixers;music;musical genres;other media;punk;theory,18
0393325326,"The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work Though students of literature or writing are often told to stick to the text-to avoid guessing at authorial intention and process-the dictum doesn't squelch their curiosity. Fledgling writers, especially, wonder how the pros get the job done, where they find their inspiration and how they can tap into those creative wells. This rich anthology, which offers shrewd insight into writers' approaches-thereby sating our desires for their secrets while validating our own eccentric quirks-reassures all lovers of good writing that there is no one correct way to craft a good tale. The contributors, all recent faculty members at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers in Swannanoa, N.C., offer model short stories followed by informal mini-essays on how they came to fruition. Antonya Nelson credits the seedling of ""Strike Anywhere"" to a student; Jim Shepard owes much of the title story from his new collection, Love and Hydrogen, to a flurry of research; while Tracey Daugherty cagily tips his hat to both imagination and autobiography, admitting only of his story, ""City Codes,"" ""it's all true except for the parts I made up."" Writers' experiences couldn't be more different, with Robert Cohen ""cackling"" his way through the feverish high-speed ride of composing ""The Varieties of Romantic Experience,"" while Ehud Havazelet took years to pen ""Pillar of Fire."" By sharing their stories as well as their struggles, their risk-taking and rule-breaking (Charles Baxter claims to have ""violated most of the narrative norms"" he tries to instill in his own students), these authors remind us that writing is a messy, fascinating and highly individualized process. This collection is a treasure trove of literary encouragement and wisdom. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Warren Wilson College's unique MFA writing program has counted among its faculty some of the finest contemporary American writers. In this welcome collection, 26 writers contribute a short story, followed by revealing personal commentary that offers insight into, as David Shields writes, ""the secret (now not so secret) nerve-centers of the story."" Many of the stories are a departure in style or content from the authors' best-known works: ""inspired by students, and unlike any story I've written,"" says Antonya Nelson about her piece. In their personal essays, the writers speak both with authority and with vulnerability about their struggles, fragile moments of inspiration, and the help that they, too, receive from other writers. Perhaps most affecting is the authors' deep, affectionate faith in the stories that defy common writing wisdom: ""Any writing workshop would hammer it to bits,"" Charles Baxter says of his selection. Intimate and instructive, this is a collection for anyone who cares about contemporary short fiction. Gillian EngbergCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Andrea Barrett is the author of The Air We Breathe, Servants of the Map (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), The Voyage of the Narwhal, Ship Fever (winner of the National Book Award), and other books. She teaches at Williams College and lives in northwestern Massachusetts.Peter Turchi, director of the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program, lives in Asheville, North Carolina.",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;authorship;books;education & reference;general;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;short stories;united states;used & rental textbooks;writing,18
013093674X,"In the Realm of the Circuit: Computers, Art, and Culture Broad in scope, this book provides a clear introduction to both the aesthetics and historical precedents of the multi-faceted dialog of which electronic multimedia is the latest incarnation. It tells the story of how technology has always been integrally connected to human expressionand gives users the tools to connect their technological practice to their cultural heritage.  Chapter topics explain the foundations of digital culture, Metafora, the language of structure, the communication between individuals and civilization, and the creative interlocutor.  For creative people in all of the arts.	Mr. Traub is Chair of the Graduate MFA Program in Photography and Related Media, School of Visual Arts in New York City, the largest independent college of art in the United States. He received his masters of Science from the institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology and A Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois. He is also principal of Charles H. Traub Photography, a consulting photographic firm, and was formerly the director of The Light Gallery. He is President of Tecota (Technology Conservatory of America), a non-profit organization for support of humanities and technology and President of the Aaron Siskind Foundation for support of creative photography. He is one of the co founders of the organization and exhibition Here Is New York . He has had numerous one-person exhibitions including Marcus Pfeifer Gallery, Van Straaten Gallery, Art Directors Guild of New York, Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Hudson River Museum. Mr. Traub has authored and edited many books including Beach, Italy Observed, and Anglers Album, and has had his work published in Connoisseur, Fortune, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, American Photographer, Popular Photography, Aperture, and Afterimage. He has received awards from the New York State Council on the Arts, Hendrecks Foundation, Illinois Art Council, Manda Foundation, and Olympics Arts Organization Committee. His new book In the Realm of Circuit is due from Prentice Hall in the fall of 2002      Jonathan Lipkin is associate professor of digital media at Ramapo College of New Jersey, consistently ranked one of the Northeast's best public liberal arts colleges, and on the graduate faculty of the School of Visual Arts' Computer Art and Photography and Related Media programs. He received his master of fine arts from the School of Visual Arts and his bachelor of arts from Wesleyan University. As a photographer his work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines from the New York Times to Hip Hop Connection, and been exhibited across the country in public spaces like the Port Authority of New York and in exhibitions such as Imaging/Aging. His writing has appeared in many academic journals, and he has been a columnist for electronic publications such as the ASCI newsletter. His book In the Realm of the Circuit is due from Prentice-Hall in the Fall of 2002, and his book Digital Art and Design: Photography is due from Harry N. Abrams in Spring 2003. As a designer, he created the first web art exhibited by New York's prestigious PS1 museum. He has lectured across the country and internationally on issues of digital media.",arts & photography;books;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;culture;electrical & electronics;engineering;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;graphics & visualization;mathematics;new;professional & technical;programming;science & math;software;used & rental textbooks,18
1931841497,"Inspired 3D Lighting & Compositing David Parrish went straight to work for Industrial Light & Magic after earning his master's degree from Texas A University. During the five years that followed, he worked on several major films including Dragonheart, Return of the Jedi: Special Edition, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace, Deep Blue Sea, Glaxy Quest, and The Perfect Storm. After five years with ILM and a short stay with a startup company, he was hired by Sony Pictures Imageworks to work on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.",books;computer science;computers & technology;digital media management;game programming;games & strategy guides;graphics & multimedia;graphics & visualization;humor & entertainment;networking;new;programming;puzzles & games;software;used & rental textbooks;video & electronic games;video production;web development & design,18
0312238991,"Being Indian in Hueyapan: A Revised and Updated Edition ""When I read this book in a graduate seminar in 1982, it provoked passionate debate and critical engagement. How to gauge the cumulative ideological influence of colonialism, state building, and other powerful forces on the meaning of Indianness, and the socio-economic place of indigenous peoples, in Mexico? How to fully register this influence, without neglecting the generative processes of indigenous self-making and resistance? Especially with the new final chapter on neoliberal multiculturalism, Friedlander's answers to these questions are just as provocative, timely and vital to consider now as they were 25 years ago. There is no higher praise that can be bestowed on social science research than to affirm its longevity, its ability to link empirical particularity to the enduring, big picture problems of our times. Being Indian in Hueyapan is richly deserving of this praise.""--Charles R. Hale, University of Texas at Austin; President of the Latin American Studies Association 2006-07""This is a very instructive book on one of Mexico's old, poor, now mostly trashed villages, the kind that urbane Mexicans keep reinventing as 'Indian,' or 'indigenous,' and keep exploiting however they can. In a poignant ""revision"" it combines the author's original work of 1969-70 (when she was 25), her mature reflections on her work and the village now, particularly the family she loved there and its new generations, and her critical take on ""self-serving"" anthropology, American and Mexican. It carries sharp, strong arguments about the meaning of 'being Indian,' or 'indigenous,' and the confusion in Mexico (but not only there) over nationalism, ethnicity, belonging, and alienation, 35 years ago and now. It makes you see power's continual resort to 'culture' to justify exploitation.""--John Womack, Harvard University	Judith Friedlander has done anthropological research on questions of ethnic identity in Mexico, the American Southwest and France.In addition to Being Indian in Hueyapan, she is best known for having written Vilna on the Seine: Jewish Intellectuals in France Since 1968 and for translating works by the French public intellectual Alain Finkielkraut. Since 1972, Friedlander has taught Anthropology at SUNY Purchase, Hunter College/the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the New School for Social Research.She has also served as an academic dean at these three institutions, most recently as dean of arts and sciences at Hunter College.",anthropology;books;cultural;ethnic studies;folklore;history;humanities;latin america;literature & fiction;minority studies;mythology & folk tales;native american studies;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks;world,18
0619217537,"70-291: MCSE Guide to Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network, Enhanced Jason Eckert is an experienced T author.  He has adapted the first 3 T/Novell texts for the academic market.  A graduate of the University of Waterloo, Jason has 13 years of experience as a UNIX administrator and software developer, mainly in large batch-scientific computing environments.  He currently teaches at triOS College and holds 12 different UNIX and Linux certifications.  He has authored or co-authored several texts for TnT, including Linux+ Guide to Linux Networking and MCSE Guide to Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network.A graduate of McMaster University, M. John Schitka is a former instructor at triOS College.  Initially teaching NT4 technologies, he currently conducts courses on Windows 2000, UNIX, Linux, and more.Dr. Brian T. McCann has taught courses in managerial economics, strategic management, and entrepreneurship at the undergraduate, MBA and executive education levels. He holds an MBA from Vanderbilt University where he earned the Founder's Medal as the top graduate of the class. Dr. McCann received his doctoral training in strategic management at Purdue University's Krannert School of Management where he was awarded the Ross Fellowship, the Krannert Certificate for Distinguished Teaching, and the Purdue Research Foundation Research Grant. His more than 10 years of industry experience include running a residential land development company, serving as the CFO for an Internet start-up, and implementing new strategic initiatives for a non-profit economic development group. In addition to co-authoring this MBA-level textbook in managerial economics, Dr. McCann's work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Journal of Management Studies. His current research interests span strategic management and entrepreneurship and include the performance implications of firm agglomeration, the effects of ownership structure on competitive behaviors, and the role of threshold-based decision making in the entrepreneurial process.",.net;books;business & management;client-server systems;computer science;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;development;home computing & how-to;lan;microsoft;networking;networks;new;protocols & apis;software;used & rental textbooks;windows server,18
0201309580,"Software Project Management: A Unified Framework For a cutting-edge take on how to manage today's object-oriented, iterative software development process, take a look at Walker Royce's Software Project Management. This readable, comprehensive guide shows how well-managed software teams can produce better, more profitable software in less time.  The book begins by outlining the ""traditional"" waterfall approach to software development. The author looks at what changes for management when it comes to today's iterative software processes. Written with an eye toward management (with plenty of tables and figures for project estimation and planning), the author takes you through common pitfalls of managing software.  Besides reviewing older studies and metrics, the author offers his own 10 principles to managing software, along with hints for all facets of development, from initial inception to construction and deployment of software. The author provides detailed project milestones and other deliverables to help you manage software better, including a breakdown of tasks for your team that will help maximize your efficiency. After a look forward at what better software management means for return on investment (ROI), the author presents several very useful appendices, which include software metrics (like COCOMO), as well as a description of the CCPDS-R missile command system (which used many of the author's management principles). Overall, this groundbreaking title will be useful to any software manager or project leader seeking to get control of software costs and improve team efficiency. --Richard Dragan	Royce's thesis is that many current software management practices are tied to archaic technologies and techniques. His book therefore focuses on what we should keep doing, what we should change, and why. For example, Chapter 4 is a point-by-point discussion of the points raised in Alan Davis's influential article ""Fifteen Principles of Software Engineering."" Royce argues that some of Davis's principles, such as evaluating design alternatives before starting construction, are anchored in the discredited waterfall model, and may actually be counter-productive in a world where iterative development is done using commodity components.  Similarly, Royce is sceptical about the benefits of code inspections, believing both that modern tools allow automated testing through the project lifecycle, and that code inspections are usually so boring that they are inevitably superficial. Perhaps his most challenging statement is that you shouldn't plan to throw this process away. Instead, you should plan to evolve your product...Read more from this review. --Gregory V. Wilson, Dr. Dobb's Journal   -- Dr. Dobb's Journal	The software industry moves unrelentingly toward new methods for managing the ever-increasing complexity of software projects. In the past, we have seen evolutions, revolutions, and recurring themes of success and failure. While software technologies, processes, and methods have advanced rapidly, software engineering remains a people-intensive process. Consequently, techniques for managing people, technology, resources, and risks have profound leverage.   This book captures a software management perspective that emphasizes a balanced view of these elements:Theory and practice   Technology and people   Customer value and provider profitability   Strategies and tactics   Throughout, you should observe a recurring management theme of paramount importance: balance. It is especially important to achieve balance among the objectives of the various stakeholders, who communicate with one another in a variety of languages and notations. Herein is the motivation for the part opener art, an abstract portrayal of the Rosetta stone. The three fundamental representation languages inherent in software engineering are requirements (the language of the problem space), design (the transformation languages of software engineers), and realizations (the language of the solution space executable on computers). Just as the Rosetta stone enabled the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics, software management techniques enable the translation of a problem statement into a solution that satisfies all stakeholders.   There is no cookbook for software management. There are no recipes for obvious good practices. I have tried to approach the issues with as much science, realism, and experience as possible, but management is largely a matter of judgment, (un)common sense, and situation-dependent decision making. That's why managers are paid big bucks.   Some chapters include sections with a pragmatic and often hard-hitting treatment of a particular topic. To differentiate this real-world guidance from the general process models, techniques, and disciplines, headings of these sections include the word pragmatic.  By pragmatic I mean having no illusions and facing reality squarely, which is exactly the intent of these sections. They contain strong opinions and provocative positions, and will strike nerves in readers who are entrenched in some obsolete or overhyped practices, tools, or techniques.   I have attempted to differentiate among proven techniques, new approaches, and obsolete techniques using appropriate substantiation. In most cases, I support my positions with simple economic arguments and common sense, along with anecdotal experience from field applications. Much of the material synthesizes lessons learned (state-of-the-practice) managing successful software projects over the past 10 years. On the other hand, some of the material represents substantially new (state-of-the-art), hypothesized approaches that do not have clear substantiation in practice.   I have struggled with whether to position this book as management education or management training. The distinction may seem nitpicky, but it is important. An example I heard 15 years ago illustrates the difference. Suppose your 14-year-old daughter came home from school one day and asked, ""Mom and Dad, may I take the sex education course offered at school?"" Your reaction would likely be different if she asked, ""May I take the sex training course offered at school?"" (This meant less to me then than it does now that my three daughters are teenagers!)   Training has an aspect of applied knowledge that makes the knowledge more or less immediately useful. Education, on the other hand, is focused more on teaching the principles, experience base, and spirit of the subject, with the application of such knowledge left to the student. I have tried to focus this book as a vehicle for software management education. (I am not sure there is such a thing as management training other than on-the-job experience.) I will not pretend that my advice is directly applicable on every project. Although I have tried to substantiate as many of the position statements as possible, some of them are left unsubstantiated as pure hypotheses. I hope my conjecture and advice will stimulate further debate and progress.   My intended audience runs the gamut of practicing software professionals. Primary target readers are decision makers: those people who authorize investment and expenditure of software-related budgets. This group includes organization managers, project managers, software acquisition officials, and their staffs. For this audience, I am trying to provide directly applicable guidance for use in today's tactical decision making and tomorrow's strategic investments. Another important audience is software practitioners who negotiate and execute software project plans and deliver on organizational and project objectives.  Style  Because I am writing for a wide audience, I do not delve into technical perspectives or technical artifacts, many of which are better discussed in other books. Instead, I provide fairly deep discussions of the economics, management artifacts, work breakdown strategies, organization strategies, and metrics necessary to plan and execute a successful software project.    Illustrations are included to make these complex topics more understandable. The precision and accuracy of the figures and tables merit some comment. While most of the numerical data accurately describe some concept, trend, expectation, or relationship, the presentation formats are purposely imprecise. In the context of software management, the difference between precision and accuracy is not as trivial as it may seem, for two reasons:Software management is full of gray areas, situation dependencies, and ambiguous trade-offs. It is difficult, if not impossible, to provide an accurate depiction of many concepts and to retain precision of the presentation across a broad range of domains.   Understanding the difference between precision and accuracy is a fundamental skill of good software managers, who must accurately forecast estimates, risks, and the effects of change. Unjustified precision--in requirements or plans--has proven to be a substantial, yet subtle, recurring obstacle to success.In many of my numeric presentations, the absolute values are unimportant and quite variable across different domains and project circumstances. The relative values constitute the gist of most of the figures and tables.  I occasionally provide anecdotal evidence and actual field experience to put the management approaches into a tangible context and provide relatively accurate and precise benchmarks of performance under game conditions. Several appendixes clarify how the techniques presented herein can be applied in real-world contexts. My flagship case study is a thoroughly documented, successful, large-scale project that provides a concrete example of how well many of these management approaches can work. It also provides a framework for rationalizing some of the improved processes and techniques.  Organization The book is laid out in five parts, each with multiple chapters:   Part I, Software Management Renaissance. Describes the current state of software management practice and software economics, and introduces the state transitions necessary for improved software return on investment.Part II, A Software Management Process Framework. Describes the process primitives and a framework for modern software management, including the life-cycle phases, artifacts, workflows, and checkpoints.Part III, Software Management Disciplines. Summarizes some of the critical techniques associated with planning, controlling, and automating a modern software process.Part IV, Looking Forward. Hypothesizes the project performance expectations for modern projects and next-generation software economics, and discusses the culture shifts necessary for success.Part V, Case Studies and Backup Material. Five appendixes provide substantial foundations for some of the recommendations, guidance, and opinions presented elsewhere.  Acknowledgments  Although my perspective of iterative development has been influenced by many sources, I have drawn on relatively few published works in writing this book. Providing a more detailed survey of related publications might have helped some readers and satisfied some authors, but most of the correlation with my views would be coincidental.   The foundation of my material comes basically from three sources, on which I have drawn extensively:TRW's Ada Process Model Guidebook Royce, Walker, 1989. I wrote this guidebook to capture the process description implemented successfully on a large-scale TRW project so that it could be used throughout TRW.  Rational Software Corporation's software management seminar Royce, Walker, 1997. I wrote this two-day seminar on software best practices to describe Rational's software management approach. The peer reviewers for this material included Don Andres (TRW), Barry Boehm (University of Southern California), Larry Druffel (Software Engineering Institute), Lloyd Mosemann (U.S. Air Force), and Winston Royce (TRW), in addition to numerous field practitioners and executives within Rational. The seminar was delivered dozens of times in the mid-1990s to a broad range of audiences, including government groups, defense contractors, and commercial organizations.  Rational's Unified process. The acquisition of Objectory by Rational resulted in a large internal investment to merge the techniques of the Objectory process (focused on use-case-driven techniques) and the existing Rational process (focused on management techniques and object-oriented modeling). This investment is on-going, as Rational continues to broaden the process description and prescription across more of the life-cycle activities, tools, and methods, resulting in the Unified process.   Several other sources had a significant effect on the management process presented in this book. Their influence is the result of long-term relationships that encapsulate years of interaction, exchange of ideas, and extensive firsthand communication.My association with Barry Boehm over the past 15 years has been a rich source of software engineering knowledge.Don Andres's extraordinary leadership and project management expertise set him apart from the many project managers I have worked for and with, and I have learned much from him.Dave Bernstein, Robert Bond, Mike Devlin, Kevin Haar, Paul Levy, John Lovitt, and Joe Marasco, senior managers at Rational, have evolved a nimble company with a clear vision of software engineering as a business.Philippe Kruchten's work on software architecture and process frameworks, as well as his own field experience, has helped gel many of my perspectives and presentations.Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, and Jim Rumbaugh, Rational's three senior methodologists, have done the software engineering community a great service in defining the Unified Modeling Language.Hundreds of dedicated software professionals in the Rational field organization have been responsible for delivering value to software projects and transitioning software engineering theory into practice.   The most important influence on this work was my father, Winston Royce, who set my context, validated my positions, critiqued my presentation, and strengthened my resolve to take a provocative stand and stimulate progress.   Several people invested their own time reviewing early versions of my manuscript and contributing to the concepts, presentation, and quality contained herein. My special thanks go to Ali Ali, Don Andres, Peter Biche, Barry Boehm, Grady Booch, Doug Ishigaki, Ivar Jacobson, Capers Jones, Hartmut Kocher, Philippe Kruchten, Eric Larsen, Joe Marasco, Lloyd Mosemann, Roger Oberg, Rich Reitman, Jim Rumbaugh, and John Smith.   Finally, the overall presentation quality, consistency, and understandability of this material are substantially the work of Karen Ailor. Her critique, sense of organization, attention to detail, and aggressive nitpicking contributed greatly to the overall substance captured in this book.0201309580P04062001	Software Project Management presents a new management framework uniquely suited to the complexities of modern software development. Walker Royce's pragmatic perspective exposes the shortcomings of many well-accepted management priorities and equips software professionals with state of the art knowledge derived from his twenty years of successful from the trenches project management experience.    This book provides a clear and provocative discussion of the economics, metrics, and management strategies needed to plan and execute a software project successfully. Royce discusses--with refreshing candor--some of the fads, follies, and excesses of the software industry, clearly differentiating proven techniques from obsolete methods. Paired with this insightful examination are compelling arguments for new management approaches that are sure to stimulate debate. The relative impacts of these new techniques are quantified through simple economic analyses, common sense, and anecdotal evidence. The resulting framework strikes a pragmatic balance between theory and practice that can be readily applied in today's challenging development environment. An extensive case study analysis of a large-scale, million-line project--deployed successfully on schedule and under budget using these techniques--further illustrates their application.    Software Project Management provides the software industry with field-proven benchmarks for making tactical decisions and strategic choices that will enhance an organization's probability of success. This book includes:    Top ten principles for modern software management  Strategies for smoothly transitioning an organization to modern processes and technologies (such as Rational's Unified process)  Methods for keeping software engineering teams motivated and effectively prioritized  Insight into the impacts of technology, people, and economics on managing a project  Metrics and forecasting guidance for project costs, schedules, and quality control     0201309580B04062001	Walker Royce is a Vice President and General Manager at Rational Software Corporation. During the past two decades at Rational and TRW he has performed in roles ranging from coder, designer, integrator, cost estimator, and trainer to software architect, project manager, product manager, R manager, technical fellow, and principal consultant.              0201309580AB04062001	The software industry moves unrelentingly toward new methods for managing the ever-increasing complexity of software projects. In the past, we have seen evolutions, revolutions, and recurring themes of success and failure. While software technologies, processes, and methods have advanced rapidly, software engineering remains a people-intensive process. Consequently, techniques for managing people, technology, resources, and risks have profound leverage.   This book captures a software management perspective that emphasizes a balanced view of these elements:     Theory and practice   Technology and people   Customer value and provider profitability   Strategies and tactics   Throughout, you should observe a recurring management theme of paramount importance: balance. It is especially important to achieve balance among the objectives of the various stakeholders, who communicate with one another in a variety of languages and notations. Herein is the motivation for the part opener art, an abstract portrayal of the Rosetta stone. The three fundamental representation languages inherent in software engineering are requirements (the language of the problem space), design (the transformation languages of software engineers), and realizations (the language of the solution space executable on computers). Just as the Rosetta stone enabled the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics, software management techniques enable the translation of a problem statement into a solution that satisfies all stakeholders.   There is no cookbook for software management. There are no recipes for obvious good practices. I have tried to approach the issues with as much science, realism, and experience as possible, but management is largely a matter of judgment, (un)common sense, and situation-dependent decision making. That's why managers are paid big bucks.   Some chapters include sections with a pragmatic and often hard-hitting treatment of a particular topic. To differentiate this real-world guidance from the general process models, techniques, and disciplines, headings of these sections include the word pragmatic.  By pragmatic I mean having no illusions and facing reality squarely, which is exactly the intent of these sections. They contain strong opinions and provocative positions, and will strike nerves in readers who are entrenched in some obsolete or overhyped practices, tools, or techniques.   I have attempted to differentiate among proven techniques, new approaches, and obsolete techniques using appropriate substantiation. In most cases, I support my positions with simple economic arguments and common sense, along with anecdotal experience from field applications. Much of the material synthesizes lessons learned (state-of-the-practice) managing successful software projects over the past 10 years. On the other hand, some of the material represents substantially new (state-of-the-art), hypothesized approaches that do not have clear substantiation in practice.   I have struggled with whether to position this book as management education or management training. The distinction may seem nitpicky, but it is important. An example I heard 15 years ago illustrates the difference. Suppose your 14-year-old daughter came home from school one day and asked, ""Mom and Dad, may I take the sex education course offered at school?"" Your reaction would likely be different if she asked, ""May I take the sex training course offered at school?"" (This meant less to me then than it does now that my three daughters are teenagers!)   Training has an aspect of applied knowledge that makes the knowledge more or less immediately useful. Education, on the other hand, is focused more on teaching the principles, experience base, and spirit of the subject, with the application of such knowledge left to the student. I have tried to focus this book as a vehicle for software management education. (I am not sure there is such a thing as management training other than on-the-job experience.) I will not pretend that my advice is directly applicable on every project. Although I have tried to substantiate as many of the position statements as possible, some of them are left unsubstantiated as pure hypotheses. I hope my conjecture and advice will stimulate further debate and progress.   My intended audience runs the gamut of practicing software professionals. Primary target readers are decision makers: those people who authorize investment and expenditure of software-related budgets. This group includes organization managers, project managers, software acquisition officials, and their staffs. For this audience, I am trying to provide directly applicable guidance for use in today's tactical decision making and tomorrow's strategic investments. Another important audience is software practitioners who negotiate and execute software project plans and deliver on organizational and project objectives.  Style  Because I am writing for a wide audience, I do not delve into technical perspectives or technical artifacts, many of which are better discussed in other books. Instead, I provide fairly deep discussions of the economics, management artifacts, work breakdown strategies, organization strategies, and metrics necessary to plan and execute a successful software project.    Illustrations are included to make these complex topics more understandable. The precision and accuracy of the figures and tables merit some comment. While most of the numerical data accurately describe some concept, trend, expectation, or relationship, the presentation formats are purposely imprecise. In the context of software management, the difference between precision and accuracy is not as trivial as it may seem, for two reasons:     Software management is full of gray areas, situation dependencies, and ambiguous trade-offs. It is difficult, if not impossible, to provide an accurate depiction of many concepts and to retain precision of the presentation across a broad range of domains.   Understanding the difference between precision and accuracy is a fundamental skill of good software managers, who must accurately forecast estimates, risks, and the effects of change. Unjustified precision--in requirements or plans--has proven to be a substantial, yet subtle, recurring obstacle to success.       In many of my numeric presentations, the absolute values are unimportant and quite variable across different domains and project circumstances. The relative values constitute the gist of most of the figures and tables.  I occasionally provide anecdotal evidence and actual field experience to put the management approaches into a tangible context and provide relatively accurate and precise benchmarks of performance under game conditions. Several appendixes clarify how the techniques presented herein can be applied in real-world contexts. My flagship case study is a thoroughly documented, successful, large-scale project that provides a concrete example of how well many of these management approaches can work. It also provides a framework for rationalizing some of the improved processes and techniques.  Organization The book is laid out in five parts, each with multiple chapters:   Part I, Software Management Renaissance. Describes the current state of software management practice and software economics, and introduces the state transitions necessary for improved software return on investment.    Part II, A Software Management Process Framework. Describes the process primitives and a framework for modern software management, including the life-cycle phases, artifacts, workflows, and checkpoints.    Part III, Software Management Disciplines. Summarizes some of the critical techniques associated with planning, controlling, and automating a modern software process.    Part IV, Looking Forward. Hypothesizes the project performance expectations for modern projects and next-generation software economics, and discusses the culture shifts necessary for success.    Part V, Case Studies and Backup Material. Five appendixes provide substantial foundations for some of the recommendations, guidance, and opinions presented elsewhere.  Acknowledgments  Although my perspective of iterative development has been influenced by many sources, I have drawn on relatively few published works in writing this book. Providing a more detailed survey of related publications might have helped some readers and satisfied some authors, but most of the correlation with my views would be coincidental.   The foundation of my material comes basically from three sources, on which I have drawn extensively:    TRW's Ada Process Model Guidebook Royce, Walker, 1989. I wrote this guidebook to capture the process description implemented successfully on a large-scale TRW project so that it could be used throughout TRW.  Rational Software Corporation's software management seminar Royce, Walker, 1997. I wrote this two-day seminar on software best practices to describe Rational's software management approach. The peer reviewers for this material included Don Andres (TRW), Barry Boehm (University of Southern California), Larry Druffel (Software Engineering Institute), Lloyd Mosemann (U.S. Air Force), and Winston Royce (TRW), in addition to numerous field practitioners and executives within Rational. The seminar was delivered dozens of times in the mid-1990s to a broad range of audiences, including government groups, defense contractors, and commercial organizations.  Rational's Unified process. The acquisition of Objectory by Rational resulted in a large internal investment to merge the techniques of the Objectory process (focused on use-case-driven techniques) and the existing Rational process (focused on management techniques and object-orien...",books;business & investing;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;management;management & leadership;mathematics;object-oriented design;pmp exam;programming;project management;science & math;software;software design;software development;software engineering;testing & engineering,18
0849308119,"Stalking Crimes and Victim Protection: Prevention, Intervention, Threat Assessment, and Case Management The editor, who is an expert in the field of public safety psychology, has a background in both psychology and law. Thus he is well qualified to undertake this task of bringing together experts for this book.  Stalking is an interesting, and important, topic  .  The volume is a significant further addition to this literature.  The authors are well chosen, and write authoritatively. Overall, this is a very good book  . - Sexual & Relationship Therapy, Vol. 19, No. 2, May 2004",books;clinical;criminal law;forensic science;internal medicine;law;law enforcement;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;psychiatry;social sciences;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,18
1590593618,"Beginning Visual Web Programming in C# Daniel Cazzulino (a.k.a. kzu) lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is a senior architect, developer, and cofounder of Clarius Consulting S.A.. He has coauthored several books on web development and server controls with ASP.NET, written and reviewed many articles for ASP Today and C# Today, and currently enjoys sharing his .NET and XML experiences through his blog, kzu:dotnet. Daniel works closely with Microsoft in key projects from the Patterns and Practices group. Microsoft rewarded him as ""Most Valuable Professional"" (MVP) on XML Technologies for his contributions to the community, mainly through the XML-savvy open source project, NMatrix, that he cofounded. He also started the promising MVP.XML project with fellow XML MVP experts worldwide. Surprisingly enough, Daniel is a lawyer who found a more exciting career as a developer and .NET/XML geek.Victor Garcia Aprea is founder of Clarius Consulting, which provides training, consulting and development in Microsoft .NET technologies. Aprea has been involved with ASP.NET since its beginning, and he was named Microsoft ""Most Valuable Professional"" for ASP.NET in 2002 and 2003. Aprea has written books and articles and reviewed for numerous publishers. He is a regular speaker at Microsoft Argentina (MSDN DevDays, Ask the Experts panel, etc.) and .NET local user groups. Please read Victor's own blogs, or check out his Apress blogs. Or you may email him at vga@aspnet2.com.A bio is not available for this author.",books;c#;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;graphics & multimedia;introductory & beginning;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;software design;software design & engineering;software development;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design,18
0674808169,"The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Koyka (1873-1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Izumi Kyoka is without a doubt one of modern Japan's great writers. Acknowledging that Kyoka 'does not fit as neatly as [other writers] into the conventional story of Japan's modernization,' Inouye rightly argues that readers are 'better off searching for an alternative story in which he fits more naturally.' That story includes a strong reaction against the prevailing current of literary naturalism (which Kyoka saw as mired in mundane realism and confessional autobiography) and an obsession with the fantastic and the otherworldly. Inouye underscores the qualities that marked Kyoka's writing as unique from early on, in particular its single-minded preoccupation with a nurturing yet threatening female archetype (rooted in Kyoka's loss of his mother at age ten)...All [readers] will gain from his expert description of Kyoka's literary milieu. (E. Fowler Choice )One of the many rewards of The Similitude of Blossoms, Charles Inouye's study of Kyoka's life and work, is an appreciation of the ways in which Kyoka's often puzzling fiction influenced writers who came to ""dominate the world of letters in a way Kyoka himself never did.""...Inouye provides a masterful account of Kyoka's role in helping to shape the Japanese modern...Inouye's description of Kyoka's relationship with his mentor Ozaki Koyo and his circle...is one of the best accounts of the Meiji literary master-disciple relationship to have appeared in English...Inouye's accomplishment is enormous...The Similitude of Blossoms is a definitive introduction to a writer who is as essential to our understanding of the modern Japanese tradition as he is difficult to comprehend or classify. (Stephen Snyder Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies )	Charles Shiro Inouye is Associate Professor of Japanese at Tufts University.",anthologies;arts & literature;asia;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism & theory;ethnic & national;historical;history;history & criticism;japan;japanese;japanese & haiku;literature & fiction;poetry;short stories;world literature,18
0415935105,"Widening the Circle: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy for American Indian Children '[Widening the Circle] speaks to the focus on inclusion emerging within the American educational system. The text advocates ethical teaching practices and supports the learning needs for a long under represented group.' - Dale-Elizabeth Pehrsson, Oregon State University, USA",anthropology;books;college & university;cultural;education;education & reference;education theory;educational philosophy;history;history & theory;instruction methods;new;pedagogy;philosophy & social aspects;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,18
0970828012,"Saving the Savior : Did Christ Survive the Crucifixion? For 2000 years, billions of human beings have believed that Jesus Christ died on the cross and physically rose from the dead.  And at least two billion human beings are currently waiting anxiously for Jesus to return.  Christians are waiting for him to return to establish the Kingdom of God.  Muslims are waiting for him to return physically with someone called ""Imam Mahdi"" to force the rule of Islam globally. In Europe and the United States, a new restlessness is almost palpable, especially amongst the youth.  The pews have all but emptied in Europe, while the New Age and other movements are challenging Christianity in America.  The promise of paradise on earth in the Kingdom of God no longer seems to attract American youth. In the Islamic world, formal meetings occur all over the globe.  And the subject of these meetings is: ""Where is Isa [Jesus]?  Where is Imam Mahdi?""  The youth are looking for new answers, sometimes towards the West.  The Imams are worried: ""How do we hold our youth?""  They continue to promise the arrival of Imam Mahdi and Jesus, ""soon."" We are now in the third millennium of Christianity and the 15th century of Islam.  Jesus has not returned.  Why not?  The answer appears to be a simple one: He is dead--in this earth. Saving the Savior: Did Christ Survive the Crucifixion? brings to light astonishing bits of powerful evidence detailing a long post-crucifixion life of Jesus Christ.  Had Mr. Salahuddin lived in Europe during the Middle Ages, he would have been sent to the rack--no doubt about it. Though it is not likely that humanity will return to the rule of dictatorial priesthood, Jammu Press urges you to take advantage of today's freedoms by purchasing a copy of this explosive and important book.  Saving the Savior cannot be dismissed as ""speculative.""  It's all documented.	""Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find.  When they find, they will be disturbed.  When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all.  And after they have reigned they will rest."" Those are the words of Jesus Christ.  When you read Saving the Savior, you may become disturbed.  But then you will marvel.  And what will you marvel about?   ""After all, there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and there is nothing covered up that will remain undisclosed."" (Jesus Christ) You will marvel at the fact that despite 2000 years of cover-up by a tenacious (and sometimes vicious) Church, in your own hands you will have a book that clearly demonstrates what Jesus said: ""...there is nothing covered up that will remain undisclosed.""  And then you will ""reign over all.""  Why?  Because you will have knowledge and truth. But not a worldly ""reign.""  Your reign will be the reign of a giving teacher to your eager students.  And after your reign, you will rest--rest in the contentment that you have helped to liberate the mind and the soul by spreading truth.	Abubakr Ben Ishmael Salahuddin, author of Saving the Savior, is a student of comparative religious studies and a passionate explorer in the realm of religion and spirituality.  He was raised as a staunch Roman Catholic for twelve years of his life.  Though a deep lover of his Roman Catholic religion (attending 10:00 a.m. mass every day for twelve years), he could not resolve in his mind and soul what he felt to be a deep injustice: that the prayers of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, as recorded in the Bible, had been rejected by God, and that God had decided that Jesus Christ must be crucified and killed on the cross despite those passionate prayers that he be saved from such an awful death. Each Easter season, on Good Friday, he would cry silently in his room as he thought about this deep injustice.  He realized, as he stated openly to the Roman Catholic nun in his seventh grade classroom, that ""something is missing.""  Remaining thoroughly loyal to his religion, he nevertheless made a verbal commitment in public that, ""I am going to find what is missing.  Something is wrong."" After graduating from high school, he became actively involved in the social revolution of the 1960s in America.  But during this time he never forgot his commitment, and continued exploring, reading and researching. While attending the University of Illinois at Chicago, he became exposed to the religion of Islam, and accepted that religion in the year 1975.  But he continued his committment to find the truth about Jesus. Over a period of time (which included some rather mysterious circumstances) he came to be aware of the theory that Jesus Christ may have survived the crucifixion.  Delving deep into the subject, and also praying and meditating over the matter, he slowly and meticulously gathered information on the subject, culminating, on December 10, 1999, in the introduction to the Internet of his now popular, Tomb of Jesus Christ Website.  A few months after the creation of the Tomb of Jesus Christ Website, he met Dr. Fida Hassnain.  Dr. Hassnain is the former Director of Archives, Archaeology, Research and Museums for the state of Kashmir, and lives in the city of Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir, and the city which houses the tomb of Jesus Christ (called, the Roza Bal).  Dr. Hassnain graciously and enthusiastically agreed to work with Mr. Salahuddin on collecting ancient documents that mention the sojourn of Jesus Christ in India/Asia after the crucifixion.	""'During this time Hazrat Yuz Asaf having come from Bait-ul Muqaddas [the Holy Land] to this holy valley [Kashmir] proclaimed his prophethood.  He devoted himself, day and night, in (prayers to) God, and having attained the heights of piety and virtue, he declared himself to be a Messenger [of God] for the people of Kashmir...I have seen in a book of Hindus that this prophet was really Hazrat Isa [Jesus], the Spirit of God, on whom be peace [and salutations] and had also assumed the name of Yuz Asaf.  The real knowledge is with God.  He spent his life in this [valley of Kashmir].  After his departure [his death] he was laid to rest in Mohalla Anzmarah.'""",apocrypha;biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;comparative religion;fiction;general;history;jesus;leaders & notable people;mystery;other religions;practices & sacred texts;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;theology;world,18
081576443X,"How to Be a Cheap Hawk: The 1999 and 2000 Defense Budgets (Studies in Foreign Policy) Michael O'Hanlon, formerly an analyst at the Congressional   Budget Office, is a fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the   Brookings Institution. His previous Brookings books include  Saving   Lives with Force: Military Criteria for Humanitarian Intervention   (1997) and Defense Planning for the Late 1990s: Beyond the Desert Storm   Framework (1995). Studies in Foreign Policy",books;business & investing;economic policy;economic policy & development;economics;engineering;finance;history;military science;national & international security;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;public affairs & policy;special topics;specific topics;united states,18
0471099805,"Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the International Building Code From bestselling author Francis D.K. Ching and building codes expert Steven Winkel  . . .Building Codes Illustrated combines highly illustrative explanations with expert guidance to provide an accessible, timesaving companion guide to the new International Building Code (IBC). Understanding the criteria for code development and the reasons for code provisions is essential to unlocking this unified code, and no better team than Ching and Winkel can demystify the complex, layered sections of the IBC with more direct, insightful interpretations.Organized to correspond with related subject matter in the IBC, Building Codes Illustrated enables architects, engineers, and other design professionals to quickly find clarifying information on the nonstructural provisions of the IBC and gain a clear and complete understanding of those sections at a glance through enlightening computer-rendered illustrations and succinct, thorough interpretations.Experienced practitioners can no longer rely on memory or old habits when picking construction types or assemblies based on prior practice, and emerging professionals must have a strong understanding of the new Code to avoid costly mistakesboth need Building Codes Illustrated.	FRANCIS D.K. CHING is a registered architect and professor of architecture at the University of Washington. He is the author of numerous architecture and design books, including Architectural Graphics; Building Construction Illustrated; Architecture: Form, Space, and Order; A Visual Dictionary of Architecture, and Design Drawing, all published by Wiley.STEVEN R WINKEL, FAIA, an expert in building codes and regulations, is Senior Associate at Field Paoli Architects in San Francisco. He is also a past AIA board member and past president of the AIA California Council.",architecture;books;civil;codes & standards;crafts;design & construction;drafting & presentation;education & reference;engineering;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;humanities;new;professional & technical;project planning & management;reference;used & rental textbooks,18
1576855007,"Texas Real Estate Sales Exam LearningExpress writers are experts in test preparation questions. They are reading, writing, and math professionals from throughout the United States.",books;business & finance;business & investing;counseling;education;education & reference;graduate & professional;guides;job hunting & careers;new;professional;real estate;sales;schools & teaching;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks;vocational guidance,18
067232685X,"SQLite Chris Newman is a consultant programmer specializing in the development of custom web-based database applications to a loyal international client base.  A graduate of Keele University, Chris lives in Stoke-on-Trent, England, where he runs Lightwood Consultancy Ltd, the company he founded in 1999 to further his interest in Internet technology. Lightwood operates web hosting services under the DataSnake brand and is proud to be one of the first hosting companies to offer and support SQLite as a standard feature on all accounts.  More information on Lightwood Consultancy Ltd can be found at http://www.lightwood.net, and Chris can be contacted at chris@lightwood.net.	Introduction: SQLiteIntroductionWelcome to SQLiteSQLite is one of the fastest-growing database engines around, but that's growth in terms of popularity, not anything to do with its size. In fact one of SQLite's greatest strengths is that it is extremely lightweight indeed yet still manages to retain a large number of features.Why Use SQLite?There are many reasons for choosing SQLite, includingPerformanceSQLite performs database operations efficiently and is faster than other free databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.SizeSQLite has a small memory footprint and only a single library is required to access databases, making it ideal for embedded database applications.PortabilitySQLite runs on many platforms and its databases can be ported easily with no client/server setup or ongoing administration required.StabilitySQLite is ACID-compliant, meeting all four criteriaAtomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability.SQL supportSQLite implements a large subset of the ANSI-92 SQL standard, including views, subqueries, and triggers.InterfacesSQLite has language APIs for C/C++, PHP, Perl, Python, Tcl, and many more beyond those covered in this book.CostSQLite is in the public domain and therefore is free to use for any purpose without cost and can be freely redistributed.Who This Book Is ForThis book is aimed at intermediate- to advanced-level programmers looking to include database functionality within their applications. You should have at least a basic working knowledge of one of the languages covered by this bookC/C++, PHP, Perl, Python, or Tcl. The underlying library is written in C/C++; however, it is not necessary to understand that language in order to use the full capabilities of SQLite in your applications.If you are a new programmer you should still be able to pick up SQLite fairly quickly, but this book does not cover programming basics in any of the languages for which there is a SQLite interface. The benefits of SQLite are only realized through using a programming API as it does not include the tools required to operate as a standalone database system.It is not a prerequisite to have used a relational database in the past. If SQLite will be the first SQL-based database you have encountered, the book gives a thorough SQL tutorial covering the syntax as understood by SQLite. SQL veterans will still benefit from reviewing the sections that cover features included and omitted by SQLite.How the Book Is OrganizedThis book is organized into three parts.Part IGeneral SQLite UseChapter 1: Getting StartedGives some background on SQLite and discusses its strengths and weaknesses. Covers a few basic SQL commands to get things going and looks at the interactive interfaces to SQLite.Chapter 2: Working with DataA concise SQLite tutorial introduces working with the SQLite back end. Discusses programming and database design issues related to SQLite.Chapter 3: SQLite Syntax and UseExamines SQL syntax as supported by SQLite and suggests workarounds for the unsupported features.Chapter 4: Query OptimizationDiscusses performance considerations related to SQL queries and gives some techniques that can be used to speed up your database application.Part IIUsing SQLite Programming InterfacesChapter 5: The PHP InterfaceHow to use the SQLite library within PHP scripts to create dynamic, database-driven web pages.Chapter 6: The C/C++ InterfaceHow to write C/C++ programs using the SQLite library.Chapter 7: The Perl InterfaceHow to write Perl scripts using the Database Interface module and SQLite Database Driver.Chapter 8: The Tcl InterfaceHow to write Tcl scripts using the supplied SQLite extension.Chapter 9: The Python InterfaceHow to write Python programs using the PySQLite extension.Part IIISQLite AdministrationChapter 10: General Database AdministrationDiscusses basic administration of SQLite and examines SQLite's internal architecture and the Virtual Database Engine (VDBE).Versions of Software CoveredAt the time of writing, the most recent stable version of SQLite is 2.8.15; however, SQLite 3 is already available as a beta and includes some changes and enhancements over the version 2 series. This book was written with the established, stable, and well-supported version 2 series in mind.For the other software discussed in this book, the current versions are as follows:PHP 5.0.1Perl 5.8.5Perl::DBI 1.4.3DBD::SQLite2 0.32Tcl 8.4.7Python 2.3.4Additional ResourcesThe following are the primary web pages for each of the packages used in this book:SQLitehttp://www.sqlite.org/PHPhttp://www.php.net/Perl DBIhttp://dbi.perl.org/Tclhttp://www.tcl.tk/Pythonhttp://www.python.org/For support with any of these technologies the relevant mailing list is a good place to start. Instructions on joining them can be found in the following locations:SQLitehttp://www.sqlite.org/support.htmlPHPhttp://www.php.net/mailing-lists.phpPerl DBIhttp://dbi.perl.org/support/Tclhttp://wiki.tcl.tk/1301Pythonhttp://www.python.org/community/lists.html Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.",books;computer science;computers & technology;database design;database storage & design;databases;education & reference;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;relational databases;software design;structured design;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design,18
0199267995,"Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith: Union, Knowledge, and Divine Presence (Oxford Early Christian Studies) `an important addition to our knowledge of the subject.' Gerald Brau, Churchman	Martin Laird is Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;church history;education & reference;history;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;new;religious;religious studies;saints;used & rental textbooks;words;world,18
0816519986,"Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border ""Davidson's journalistic eye captures the legacy of squalor and misery that greed and irresponsibility have created along the borderlands. There is nothing new in this, but the stories Davidson tells form a textbook on just how closely woven even and good, banality and heroism can be. . . . Ambos Nogales has something to teach all of us, and Davidson shares these lessons well."" National Catholic Reporter  ""She offers hope for progress in the troubled region with her detailed reports on charitable church projects and progressive corporate policies that are helping to alleviate suffering and reduce antagonism. Timely and compelling."" Booklist   ""Her book examines the impact of the maquiladoras on two towns on either side of the border . . . and condemns industry and the Mexican government for forgetting workers in the pursuit of profits. . . . But in the end, the stories that stand out the most are her vivid portraits of those who have been left behind by economic progress."" New York Times Book Review  ""This book by American journalist Davidson is a vivid portrait of what is happening in the twin border towns of Nogales in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico-the US's Berlin Wall. . . . This gripping book should be read by all ages and belongs in all libraries."" Choice  ""A rare glimpse into the personal stories of life and death on the razor's edge in a contrary bordertown. . . . Her impassioned writing and acute investigative talents reveal the human faces often lost to the attention focused on increasing political rhetoric and now-commonplace headlines of tragedy."" Bloomsbury Review	Straddling an international border, the twin cities of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, are in many ways one community. For years the border was less distinct, with Mexicans crossing one way to visit family and friends and tourists crossing the other to roam the curio shops. But as times change, so do places like Nogales. The maquiladora industry has brought jobs, population growth, and environmental degradation to the Mexican side. A crackdown against undocumented immigrants has brought hundreds of Border Patrol agents and a 14-foot-tall steel wall to the U.S. side. Drug smuggling has brought violence to both sides. Neither Nogales will ever be the same.    In Lives on the Line, Miriam Davidson tells five true stories from these border cities to show the real-life effects that the maquiladora boom and the law enforcement crackdown have had on the people of ""Ambos (Both) Nogales."" Readers will meet Yolanda Snchez, a single mother who came to work in the factories; Jimmy Teyechea, a cancer victim who became an outspoken environmental activist; Dario Miranda Valenzuela, an undocumented immigrant who was shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent; Cristina, a ""tunnel kid"" who aspired to flee the gang lifestyle; and Hope Torres and Tom Higgins, maquiladora managers who have made unique contributions to the community.    In sharing these stories of people transformed by love and faith, by pain and loss, Davidson relates their experiences to larger issues and shows that, although life on the border is tough, it is not without hope.    Lives on the Line is an impassioned look at the changes that have swept the U.S.-Mexico border: the rising tension concerning free trade and militarization, the growing disparity between the affluent and the impoverished. At the same time, the book highlights the positive aspects of change, revealing challenges and opportunities not only for the people who live on the border but for all Americans.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Miriam Davidson is a freelance journalist and writer whose credits include the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, and The Progressive.",americas;anthropology;books;cultural;customs & traditions;hispanic american studies;history;humanities;latin america;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;state & local;united states;urban;used & rental textbooks,18
0072195436,"OCP Oracle9i Database: Fundamentals II Exam Guide Get Certified with Official Exam Prep Material from Oracle PressPrepare for the Oracle Certified Professional Oracle9i Database: Fundamentals II exam--a required exam for Oracle9i DBA certification--using this Oracle Press study guide. Throughout each chapter, you'll find in-depth details on all the material covered on this challenging exam, followed by practice questions and chapter summaries to highlight what you've learned. Authorized by Oracle Corporation, this book and CD-ROM package is the most comprehensive preparation tool available for the Oracle9i Database: Fundamentals II exam.100% complete coverage of all official exam objectives Exercises at the end of all discussions that reinforce your Oracle knowledge right away Tips, examples, and reviews in every chapter to help you remember key concepts Two-minute drills--quick and concise checklists that summarize each chapter's main points Chapter self-tests--exam-based questions complete with in-depth explanations More than 300 practice questions--including scenario-based questions Book and CD-ROM include more than 300 interactive exam-based questions. CD-ROM contains interactive exams that simulate the actual OCP exams and include hotlinked questions, answers, and explanations.	Rama Velpuri is the CEO of ORAMASTERS inc., (www.oramasters.com).    ORAMASTERS which has a very strong Oracle technology team has been    founded with a mission to provide reliable and dependable support    services, online, for Oracle Users worldwide. Before founding ORAMASTERS    (formerly Aquilasoft Corporation), Mr. Velpuri worked with Oracle    Corporation for over 10 years. At Oracle, he was an Executive Director    of the Oracle Application Development Center. He has built two offshore    development centers for Oracle, one in Bangalore, India (India Product    Engineeing Center) and the other in Hyderabad, India (Oracle Application    Development Center). Before that, he was a Sr. Manager of the Mission    Critical Support Center. Mr. Velpuri has presented numerous technical    papers at various International Oracle Conferences and Oracle user    conferences on disaster recovery and trained Oracle support personnel in    21 different countries in problem solving techniques.",books;certification;computer science;computers & technology;database storage & design;databases;education & reference;graduate & professional;mathematics;new;oracle;professional;relational databases;science & math;software;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks,18
0199204810,"The Evolving Reputation of Richard Hooker: An Examination of Responses, 1600-1714 ""Brydon's book is a fascinating and thoroughly researched treatment of the manifold uses of Hooker.... The reader has to look hard to find fault with this book; on the whole, it tellingly illuminates the story of English religion in the seventeenth century simply by tracing what has being and about the judicious Hooker.""--Dewey D. Wallace Jr., The Historian	Michael Brydon is Assistant Curate of St Peter's, Bexhill-on-Sea.",17th century;18th century;anglican;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;protestantism;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks;world,18
0521387159,"Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire (Cambridge Music Handbooks) Each of twenty-one poems are individually analyzed in the first guide in English to a work that continues to be performed, broadcast, and recorded worldwide. The text of all the poems is provided in German as well as a new English translation by Andrew Porter.",arts & photography;books;classical;composition;composition & performance;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;humor & entertainment;music;musical genres;new;opera;performing arts;reference;theater;theory;used & rental textbooks,18
1884015824,"The Motivating Team Leader (St Lucie) Known as ""The Doctor of Encouragement,"" Lew Losoncy is known nationally and internationally for his unique slant on psychology through encouragement and motivation.  He is the corporate psychologist for Matrix Essentials, a division of L'Oreal.  The author of 17 books, he has appeared on CNN and CBS This Morning and in Psychology Today and The Wall Street Journal.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;entrepreneurship;human resources;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;leadership;management;management & leadership;management science;motivational;new;self-help;small business & entrepreneurship;success;used & rental textbooks,18
0130936723,"CCNP 2.0: Building Cisco Remote Access Networks (BCRAN) Exam 640-505 Cisco Remote Access: more than a ""test prep"" guide, a total on-the-job reference! Comprehensive coverage of configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting Cisco remote access devices Master Cisco remote access through real-world scenarios and a book-length case study Remote access solutions for telecommuters, SOHO, and branch offices Includes sample exam questions in every chapterIf you're a Cisco professional, you know the crucial importance of remote access-and of passing your CCNP 2.0 Remote Access Exam (640-505) on the first try! The solution: CCNP 2.0: Building Cisco Remote Access Networks (BCRAN). This book delivers start-to-finish coverage of configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting remote access connections in any Cisco environment: branch office, small/home office, and beyond. Robert N. Myhre and Steven Dangerfield cover every exam objective, presenting scenarios that deliver hands-on practice and building your skills incrementally through a single, book-length case study. Far more than a ""test prep"" guide, this is your total on-the-job reference for deploying remote access and managing it securely! Cisco WAN connections, design, and product selection Configuring modem connections and remote users Utilizing PPP authentication, compression, callback, and multilink features  Deploying remote access via ISDN and frame relaystep by step Optimizing limited bandwidth using queueing and compression Extending IP addresses using network address translation Configuring authentication, authorization, and accounting with Cisco routers and CiscoSecure Delivering SOHO remote access with the Cisco 700 router	ROBERT N. MYHRE is an independent trainer and consultant who currently teaches Cisco certification courses for Ascolta Training Company and Microsoft certification courses for MindSharp. Myhre's company, Network Aware, Inc., provides training in areas not traditionally covered well by vendor courseware. STEVEN DANGERFIELD is a consulting internetwork security analyst currently working with a major UK telecommunications and Internet Service Provider.	Introduction""As an instructor in a classroom environment, I have learned there are two types of instructors. The first type, whether likable or not, is proud to show off his or her knowledge, but dislikes anyone learning anything. This type of instructor is more concerned with being better than everyone else. The second type of instructor, again whether likable or not, actually enjoys teaching. This person likes to share knowledge and does so in an informative way. I like to think of myself as the latter type."" This is now my third book, and the previous paragraph was quoted from my introduction in the CCNA Certification book. It has become somewhat of a motto for my career and when I feel I might be getting off track, I reread this statement as a reminder. Yet another year has progressed and I still love teaching and learning. The Cisco certifications are undergoing revision changes, and with those changes the curriculum has changed.  This book was written with the new CCNP 2.0 certifications in mind. I feel that a certification book should also be a learning book, and so each chapter progressively (as much as possible anyway) discloses new information. Each chapter configures one or more routers in a logical way such that even without the use of a physical router to practice on, you should be able to see the results of all the actions.  Who Is this Book For?This book makes a quick jump into the advanced technologies needed for the CCNP certification test: Remote Access 2.0. I assume that the reader understands RIP and IGRP and can configure these two routing protocols and manipulate other facets of the Cisco IOS without much thought. I also assume the reader knows how to subnet, which means you can actually subnet, not use a calculator or have a chart memorized. As you continue into the Cisco career path it is important to differentiate yourself from other certifications as well as other CCNPs by having a full understanding of TCP/IP, including subnetting.  If you feel weak in any of these areas, or while reading the book, and you feel you need a refresher, I recommend my first book. How this Book Is Laid OutThe material required for the Remote Access 2.0 test includes many different protocols found in a variety of Wide Area Networks. This test requires understanding the foundation of each of these protocols and how to configure them for basic connectivity. While I have tried to give more information about each topic then is required on the exam to further help the learning process, I had to restrict myself from placing more detailed information which could lead to confusion due to being overwhelmed. Please realize that any topic in this book could, and has been, a book in its own right.With that said, this book follows the exam objectives as posted on the Cisco website. I tried to keep a consistent flow through the chapters by building on the same network. If you have enough equipment at home or the office, it can be quite a challenge (and an excellent reward) to build this network entirely. The idea of this book is to provide progressive disclosure of information and skipping chapters may lead to missed information.How to Obtain Cisco CertificationsTo become a CCNP you must pass either four tests, or two tests. Three tests, Remote Access (640-505, for which this book was written), Switching (640-504), and Routing (640-503) can all be taken individually at $125 each, or can be combined into a large test called the Foundation (640-509) for $250. The other test is the Support test (640-506), also costing $125 to take. Please refer to Cisco's website for update information (cisco/certifications).To register for a test, call Sylvan Prometric at 1-800-204-EXAM (3926) or through Virtual University Enterprises at vue. You can pay via credit card, or have them bill you for the test. Note that you cannot actually take the test until it has been paid for though. I would recommend calling Sylvan Prometric 24 hours in advance of your test for confirmation. Remember to bring two forms of IDs, including a photo.Other Cisco CertificationsThe best way to get a feel for the different certifications is to visit Cisco's Web site at cisco and explore the training and certification paths. You will find there are many other certifications, including: CCDA (Cisco Certified Design Associate) for designing small LAN and WAN networks. CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) for building and configuring bigger and more complex LANs and WANs. CCDP (Cisco Certified Design Professional) for designing bigger and more complex LANs and WANs. CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert). The biggest and probably the most coveted certification in the industry. How to Contact the AuthorI can be reached at RemoteAccess@networkaware.net. I do read all the email, and try to respond to each and every one, but I am frequently out of town or very busy. It might take me a few days to reply. You can also visit my website at networkaware for errata. As much as I try to avoid mistakes in this book, no one is perfect. Please feel free to email me with any and all corrections that need to be made.	Introduction""As an instructor in a classroom environment, I have learned there are two types of instructors. The first type, whether likable or not, is proud to show off his or her knowledge, but dislikes anyone learning anything. This type of instructor is more concerned with being better than everyone else. The second type of instructor, again whether likable or not, actually enjoys teaching. This person likes to share knowledge and does so in an informative way. I like to think of myself as the latter type."" This is now my third book, and the previous paragraph was quoted from my introduction in the CCNA Certification book. It has become somewhat of a motto for my career and when I feel I might be getting off track, I reread this statement as a reminder. Yet another year has progressed and I still love teaching and learning. The Cisco certifications are undergoing revision changes, and with those changes the curriculum has changed.  This book was written with the new CCNP 2.0 certifications in mind. I feel that a certification book should also be a learning book, and so each chapter progressively (as much as possible anyway) discloses new information. Each chapter configures one or more routers in a logical way such that even without the use of a physical router to practice on, you should be able to see the results of all the actions.  Who Is this Book For?This book makes a quick jump into the advanced technologies needed for the CCNP certification test: Remote Access 2.0. I assume that the reader understands RIP and IGRP and can configure these two routing protocols and manipulate other facets of the Cisco IOS without much thought. I also assume the reader knows how to subnet, which means you can actually subnet, not use a calculator or have a chart memorized. As you continue into the Cisco career path it is important to differentiate yourself from other certifications as well as other CCNPs by having a full understanding of TCP/IP, including subnetting.  If you feel weak in any of these areas, or while reading the book, and you feel you need a refresher, I recommend my first book. How this Book Is Laid OutThe material required for the Remote Access 2.0 test includes many different protocols found in a variety of Wide Area Networks. This test requires understanding the foundation of each of these protocols and how to configure them for basic connectivity. While I have tried to give more information about each topic then is required on the exam to further help the learning process, I had to restrict myself from placing more detailed information which could lead to confusion due to being overwhelmed. Please realize that any topic in this book could, and has been, a book in its own right.With that said, this book follows the exam objectives as posted on the Cisco website. I tried to keep a consistent flow through the chapters by building on the same network. If you have enough equipment at home or the office, it can be quite a challenge (and an excellent reward) to build this network entirely. The idea of this book is to provide progressive disclosure of information and skipping chapters may lead to missed information.How to Obtain Cisco CertificationsTo become a CCNP you must pass either four tests, or two tests. Three tests, Remote Access (640-505, for which this book was written), Switching (640-504), and Routing (640-503) can all be taken individually at $125 each, or can be combined into a large test called the Foundation (640-509) for $250. The other test is the Support test (640-506), also costing $125 to take. Please refer to Cisco's website for update information (www.cisco.com/certifications).To register for a test, call Sylvan Prometric at 1-800-204-EXAM (3926) or through Virtual University Enterprises at www.vue.com. You can pay via credit card, or have them bill you for the test. Note that you cannot actually take the test until it has been paid for though. I would recommend calling Sylvan Prometric 24 hours in advance of your test for confirmation. Remember to bring two forms of IDs, including a photo.Other Cisco CertificationsThe best way to get a feel for the different certifications is to visit Cisco's Web site at www.cisco.com and explore the training and certification paths. You will find there are many other certifications, including: CCDA (Cisco Certified Design Associate) for designing small LAN and WAN networks. CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) for building and configuring bigger and more complex LANs and WANs. CCDP (Cisco Certified Design Professional) for designing bigger and more complex LANs and WANs. CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert). The biggest and probably the most coveted certification in the industry. How to Contact the AuthorI can be reached at RemoteAccess@networkaware.net. I do read all the email, and try to respond to each and every one, but I am frequently out of town or very busy. It might take me a few days to reply. You can also visit my website at www.networkaware.net for errata. As much as I try to avoid mistakes in this book, no one is perfect. Please feel free to email me with any and all corrections that need to be made.",books;bridges & routers;certification;cisco;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;graduate & professional;hardware;networking;networks;new;professional;protocols & apis;test prep & study guides;test preparation;testing;used & rental textbooks,18
1560253347,"Adrenaline 2001: The Year's Best Stories of Adventure and Survival This collection of adventure stories, the second in an annual series that brings together the world's best adventure writing, includes 17 tales describing a wide variety of adventure seekers, from doctors who risk their lives studying and fighting the Ebola virus in Africa to a boxer's emotionally risky first experience in a boxing ring. Other stories include people who escape confinement, a deceitful sailor who goes mad and dies at sea, and a biologist who walks across the Congo. The styles of writing differ greatly from story to story. Some are first-person narratives of modern-day adventures while others describe historical events, such as a World War II battle; some describe deeply emotional journeys, while others factually recount events. Writers include Peter Nichols, Greg Child, Jim Carrier, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and others. Since Adrenaline 2000 sold over 400,000 copies, this volume is guaranteed some readership. Recommended for all public libraries looking to increase collections of adventure stories. Alison Hopkins, Queens Borough P.L., New YorkCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.",action & adventure;adventure;anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;education & reference;general;genre fiction;literature & fiction;miscellaneous;reference;research & publishing guides;short stories;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;travel writing;writing,18
0877629331,"Breaking Away from the Textbook: A New Approach to Teaching American History Its practical wisdom reveals the way two experienced teachers think about teaching and prepare for instruction, and its myriad examples explain the way the social studies curriculum may be transformed into an exciting and creative program of learning. (Professor Michael Whelan )A dynamic alternative to classroom lecture by combining a broad compendium of activities with a high degree of student involvement...Easily adapted as a supplement to any American history textbook. (Social Education )",19th century;americas;books;civil war;curricula;curriculum & instruction;education;education & reference;education theory;history;history & theory;humanities;instruction methods;lesson planning;new;schools & teaching;united states;used & rental textbooks,18
1880090589,"Mall of America: Reflections of a Virtual Community This book is an odd combination of history, sociology, and memoir.   Author Eric Nelson recounts his vertigo at the opening of Mall of America, the  greatest tourist attraction in the United States, and uses this as an   opportunity to  create a dialogue with all things American. Stories from Indian casino  workers, Jerry Siegel's recollections of creating Superman, the odd  goings-on at a wedding that took place inside the mall, and more come  together to create a truly unusual literary venture. Nelson uses the mall  as a geographical and economic locus to tell the story of how the U.S. came  to be the consumer-friendly pseudo-world that it is today. --James  DiGiovanna	Eric Nelson has spoken about the human and social aspects of the Mall of America at national seminars and conferences and with groups as diverse as French architects and engineers, college students, and senior citizens from every part of the U.S. He teaches in the English department of St. Olaf College.",anthropology;books;business & finance;business & investing;class;cultural;customs & traditions;industries & professions;marketing;marketing & sales;new;politics & social sciences;retailing;sales;sales & selling;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,18
0205387012,"The Media in Your Life: An Introduction to Mass Communication (3rd Edition) ""The text's strengths... are on the emphasis on media history, convergence trends, and marketplaces.  I also appreciate that the text is written at a sophisticated yet appropriate level for college students.""  Kim Smith, Iowa State University""The material covered is essential to the understanding of the current student in today's media culture.""  Jeanne Rollberg, University of Arkansas- Little Rock""Authors that forget that they are teachers and try too hard to pretend they're the students' friends don't do their content justice, nor do they model appropriate writing for students to emulate.  Folkerts and Lacy don't fall into this trap; they present material credibly, appropriately, and yet readably.""  Rebecca Lind, University of Illinois- Chicago""The overall strengths of Media in Your Life are that it is exhaustively researched and attractively presented.  The broad topic of mass media is effectively structured into an accessible format.""  Randall K. Pugh, Montana State University- Billings""The book's emphasis on knowledge students can use in navigating our complex culture is a major strength.  Its organization is logical.  It is well documented... It provides a solid summary of most significant media-related issues of the day.""  William Lingle, Linfield College""The authors have a good framework to present an overview of the structure and process of mass communication in the U.S.  The text is visually appealing and will attract students' interest.""  Elizabeth Perse, University of Delaware	What do reviewers have to say about Media in Your Life ?   The text's strengths... are on the emphasis on media history, convergence trends, and marketplaces.  I also appreciate that the text is written at a sophisticated yet appropriate level for college students. -Kim Smith, Iowa State University   The material covered is essential to the understanding of the current student in today's media culture. -Jeanne Rollberg, University of Arkansas- Little Rock  Authors that forget that they are teachers and try too hard to pretend they're the students' friends don't do their content justice, nor do they model appropriate writing for students to emulate.  Folkerts and Lacy don't fall into this trap; they present material credibly, appropriately, and yet readably. -Rebecca Lind, University of Illinois- Chicago  The overall strengths of Media in Your Life are that it is exhaustively researched and attractively presented.  The broad topic of mass media is effectively structured into an accessible format. -Randall K. Pugh, Montana State University- Billings  l;The book's emphasis on knowledge students can use in navigating our complex culture is a major strength.  Its organization is logical.  It is well documentedIt provides a solid summary of most significant media-related issues of the day. -William Lingle, Linfield College  The authors have a good framework to present an overview of the structure and process of mass communication in the U.S.  The text is visually appealing and will attract students' interest. - Elizabeth Perse, University of Delaware",books;business & finance;business & investing;business communication;communication;communication & journalism;communication & media studies;communications;education & reference;language & grammar;linguistics;media studies;new;politics & social sciences;skills;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words,18
0262182068,"Machine Musicianship ""Rowe's book is written for the DIY music hacker.... Machine Musicianship could help you turn your old computer into your new bandmate - able to do anything but help you carry your gear to the next gig."" - Douglas Geers, Electronic Musician""	Robert Rowe is Associate Professor of Music at New York University.",artificial intelligence;arts & photography;books;composition;composition & performance;computer science;computers & technology;contemporary;education & reference;etc.;human vision & language systems;literature & fiction;midi;mixers;music;new;theory;used & rental textbooks,18
0471428973,"Advertising by Design: Creating Visual Communications with Graphic Impact A complete guide to the process behind effective advertising designAdvertising by Design is a brilliantly accessible approach to the creative process behind effective, memorable advertising. This full-color text provides a highly illustrative, behind-the-scenes look at developing successful ads for a variety of mediaincluding print, television, online, and guerrilla advertisementsempowering students to find creative solutions.Advertising by Design encourages students to push past the obvious design choices to find the big idea! Dozens of celebrated ad campaigns demonstrate such concepts as the visual and verbal relationship, visual metaphors, creating unified campaigns, and many others. Fully supplemented with interviews from esteemed creative directors and chapters on developing imaginative ideas, copywriting, and advertising history, Advertising by Design is a perfect text for beginning and intermediate advertising design courses and core courses in all visual communications programs that incorporate advertising concepts and design strategies.	ROBIN LANDA is Professor of Visual Communications in the Department of Design at Kean University. The courses she created there have become models for fostering creativity in advertising and design. Landas extensive research is showcased in her bestselling book, Graphic Design Solutions, which is used by colleges and universities around the world. She is an award-winning designer and a creativity consultant to major corporations.",accounting;accounting & finance;advertising;arts & photography;books;business & finance;business & investing;commercial;computer science;computers & technology;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;graphics & visualization;marketing & sales;new;professional & technical;programming;used & rental textbooks,18
1931741379,"ADD: The 20-Hour Solution ""Extremely gratifying discussion of neurofeedback."" -- Andrew Abarbanel, M.D., Ph.D.I have learned and applied neurofeedback techniques with great success."" -- Hank Mann, M.D.	Mark Steinberg, Ph.D. is a practicing licensed psychologist in Los Gatos (San Jose), California with over 29 years of experience in clinical, educational, and neuropsychology. Siegfried Othmer, Ph.D. is the Chief Scientist at the EEG Institute of the Brian Othmer Foundation in Woodland Hills (Los Angeles), which is dedicated to research, education, and clinical services in the field of neurofeedback.",behavioral sciences;books;children's health;cognitive psychology;communicative disorders;disabilities;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;learning disorders;parenting & relationships;pathologies;psychology & counseling;schools & teaching;science & math;self-help;special education;special needs,18
0929173252,"Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills ''Detailed and well-researched, yet is written in such a fashion the non-medical person will come away with a good understanding of the subject.'' -- Medical Sentinel  ''Excitotoxins is a valuable contribution to the understanding of the brain, and the need to protect it from assaults that result in various health problems and diseases.'' --Townsend Letter for Doctors''Upsetting, yet it is responsibly researched and well argued. It opens a fresh view on the hazardous relationship of food (in this case, the wrong food) and brain health.'' --Alternative Medicine's Reviews''This is an electrifying and important book that should be available to every American consumer.'' -- Wilson Library Bulletin ''This text will be of most interest to those serious about protecting their health, as well as to medical professionals.'' -- Biosis ''Blaylock releases a well-researched bombshell.'' --Book News	      --This text refers to the 							MP3 CD	 edition.	RUSSELL L. BLAYLOCK, MD, board certified neurosurgeon, recently retired as a clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Medical University of Mississippi. He has practiced neurosurgery for the past twenty-four years and runs a successful private nutritional practice.	      --This text refers to the 							MP3 CD	 edition.",basic sciences;books;clinical;diets & weight loss;fitness & dieting;food additives;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;neurology;new;nutrition;other diets;pharmacology;toxicology;used & rental textbooks,18
0194230147,The Secret Garden (Oxford Bookworms Library) Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was English but she lived mostly in the USA. She was a writer all her life and The Secret Garden is her most famous book.,biological sciences;biology & life sciences;books;botany;children's books;classics;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;language & grammar;new;schools & teaching;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks;words,18
0867094303,"College Writing, 2e Toby Fulwiler directs the writing program at the University of Vermont, where he also teaches composition and literature courses. Editor of The Journal Book (1987), Fulwiler is also author of College Writing: A Personal Approach to Academic Writing, Second Edition (1997) and coeditor, with Art Young, of Programs That Work: Models and Methods for Writing Across the Curriculum (1990) and Writing Across the Disciplines: Research into Practice--all published by Boynton/Cook.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",academic & commercial;books;college & university;creative writing & composition;education;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;literature;literature & fiction;new;reference;research & publishing guides;rhetoric;used & rental textbooks;words;writing;writing skills,18
0761809201,Mestizo Arnoldo Carlos Vento is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin.,anthropology;books;caribbean & latin american;cultural;ethnic studies;history;history & theory;humanities;international & world politics;latin america;new;political history;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,18
0762739398,"You Know You're in New Jersey When...: 101 Quintessential Places, People, Events, Customs, Lingo, and Eats of the Garden State (You Know You're In Series) New Jersey has its own view of the world. Look through that lens and learn 101 quintessential people, places, events, eats, and traditions that help form the personality of the Garden State. Youll find out where Bruce Springsteen relaxes on the weekends, why you have to bear right to turn left, and how little of Ellis Island actually belongs to New York. Whether youre a first-time visitor or a born-and-bred native, this book will make you smile as you discover what it really means to be in New Jersey.	New Jersey resident Lillian Africano is the author of fifteen books and contributes regularly to New York Magazine, Biography, New York Post, Copley News Service, American Way, and Leisure Travel News. She is also a columnist for Woman's World and an op-ed columnist as ""One Woman's Voice"" for the New York Times Syndicate.Coauthor and daughter (and fellow New Jerseyan) Nina Africano writes regularly on golf and lifestyles for a variety of publications, including Golf Digest and Asbury Park Press.",americana;americas;antiques & collectibles;books;crafts;education & reference;essays;history;hobbies & home;humor;humor & entertainment;mid atlantic;northeast;puzzles & games;state & local;travel;trivia;united states,18
0815320809,"Literatura chicana, 1965-1995: An Anthology in Spanish, English, and Calo (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) Literatura Chicana 1965-1995: An Anthology in Spanish, English, and Calo is the only comprehensive anthology of Chicano/o literature charting the evolution of contemporary Mexican American writing and its major themes: identity, feminism, conservatism, revisionism, homoeroticism, and internationalism. Comprising essays, short stories, poems, plays, and two complete novels, the collection is ideal for Chicana/o students and Anglo-American, Latin American, and Peninsular readers. Literatura Chicana 1965-1995 is further enhanced with historical details and cultural references for contemporary readers, and explanations of little-known colloquial and regional uses of Spanish. Highly recommended for Hispanic-American literary studies reading lists.  -- Midwest Book Review	Manuel de Jes(oe)s Hern ndez-Guti rrez is an Associate Professor, and David William Foster is a Regents' Professor of Spanish, Arizona State University.",american literature;anthologies & literary collections;books;classics;education & reference;foreign language fiction;general;hispanic;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;research & publishing guides;united states;used & rental textbooks;writing,18
0814736408,"Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire This fabulous study shows where global history can go. It adventurously moves to practically every continent, producing especially sharp insights into world views of race in the U.S. Horne arrestingly shows how Anglo-U.S.racism enabled Japan to pursue empire while claiming a place as the champion of struggles against white supremacy.-David Roediger,University of Illinois, author of Colored White: Transcending the Racial PastThrough multi-archival research that spans five continents, Gerald Horne demonstrates how and why the Pacific War should be understood as a Race War, not as an exculpation of Japan's Pan Asianism, but because of the poisonous triumph of the 'color line.' Horne powerfully argues that we should not forget that white supremacy retains salience in spite of, or because of, the Anglo-American victory in the Pacific War half a century ago.-Yukiko Koshiro,Colgate UniversityGerald Horne is one of the most gifted and insightful historians on racial matters of his generation. In Race War! Horne presents a provocative yet convincing argument that unearths the racial dimensions of U.S. policies pursued in the Far East during the Second World War. Horne's thesis provides a strikingly new and powerful interpretation of the international politics of race in the twentieth century.-Manning Marable,Center for Contemporary Black History, Columbia UniversityAn expansive and unflinching survey of race and empire, Race War! shows the complexities of white supremacy and resistances to it.-Gary Y. Okihiro,Columbia University and author of Common Ground: Reimagining American HistoryBesides writing an important history, Horne adds to our understanding of the evolution of white supremacy.-Political Affairs,	Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Houston. His books include Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois and Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire (both available from NYU Press).",asia;books;discrimination & racism;england;europe;history;humanities;japan;military;minority studies;new;politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks;world war ii,18
031332154X,"Issues in the French-Speaking World ""The authors, college professors of French, research 11 major historical, economic, social, and political issues in the French-speaking world, ranging from the historical importance of the image of Jeanne D'Arc, the French heroine, to the most recent ban of the Muslim head scarf in French schools. Of particular interest is the issue of the Americanization of the French film industry and the silent revolution taking place in the French-speaking province of Quebec, Canada....[t]his valuable and useful resource provides excellent topics for discussion and debate by social studies, history, and political science students and teachers.""-Multicultural Review	Eleven major issues are encapsulated for students of French language and culture, providing an informed platform for critical thinking and engaged discussion.",anthropology;books;cultural;education & reference;ethnic studies;geography;history;human geography;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks;words,18
0253212596,"FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society ""This is the most comprehensive, professional book to date on FTM transsexualism and the many aspects of their life journeys. For its volume, this book is clearly understandable and reads without excessive use of scientific and academic rhetoric, thus making the book available to a broad audience. It is non-judgmental, non-sensational, and provocative in its honesty, interpretation, and challenge to the future of societal opinion regarding FTM gender identity."" -- Journal of Sex Research ""Holly Devor's exploration of the life experiences and transformations of female-to-male transsexuals richly describes a heretofore neglected topic. Her compelling description provides readers with insights that both contrast with and complement the existing literature on male-to-female transsexuals and other transgendered individuals."" -- Contemporary Sociology "" ... a landmark in the documentation of the personal lives of transsexual men."" -- The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality ""The book alternates specialised academic analysis with the individual studies, and should be of interest to both professionals who work with transsexuals and scholars interested in gender theory."" -- Choice ""Writing with an intelligent and accessible style, Dr. Devor balances exposition, analysis, and excerpts from her subjects' interviews to present a coherent picture of what social life is like for FTMs as they find their identity and learn about themselves."" Jamison 'James' Green	Holly Devor, Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, is recognized as an international expert on female gender dysphoria, female transgenderism, and female-to-male transsexuals. Dr. Devor, a member of the International Academy of Sex Research, is also author of the award-winning book Gender Blending: Confronting the Limits of Duality. In recognition of her scholarship, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality has honored her with the Hugo Biegel Research Award.",behavioral sciences;books;fitness & dieting;gay & lesbian;gender studies;health;new;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;self-help;sex;sexuality;social sciences;transgender;used & rental textbooks,18
1584882441,"A First Course in Fuzzy and Neural Control Simple, concise, and easy to read from the student's perspectivea welcome addition to thereferences in the fields of neural and fuzzy systems. SIAM Review Vol. 46, No. 1",aerospace;artificial intelligence;books;civil;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;engineering;human vision & language systems;mathematics;mechanical;mechanical engineering;neural networks;new;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,18
0226945464,"Pursuit of Justices Winner of the 2000 Richard E. Neustadt Award for Best Book on the American PresidencyDrawing on the papers of seven modern presidents-and firsthand interviews with key figures like Edwin Meese, Ramsey Clark, and Gerald Ford-David Alistair Yalof documents and analyzes the strategies used to select Supreme Court nominees, offering a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse into executive branch decision making and the Supreme Court appointment process as a whole.	David Alistair Yalof is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut.",books;constitutional law;courts;education & reference;elections & political process;government;law;leadership;national;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;reference;rules & procedures;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks,18
0444817859,"Elsevier's Legal Dictionary: In English, German, French, Dutch and Spanish 2001  Elsevier's Legal Dictionary meriterait de seduire son public et de devenir un best-seller.    -- L'Interete	Text: English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & terminology;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;instruction;law;library & information science;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,18
0595162304,"Memorable Quotations: American Women Writers of the Past Diana J. Dell, a former college instructor, personnel counselor, second and seventh grade teacher, photographer, business owner, disc jockey, social worker, and journalist, lives in the Boston area. Her other books are Memories Are Like Clouds, a 1950s childhood memoir, and A Saigon Party: And Other Vietnam War Short Stories.",american literature;antiques & collectibles;art;books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;encyclopedias;foreign language study & reference;humanities;language & grammar;literature;new;quotations;reference;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,18
0814799280,"Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone (Qualitative Studies in Psychology) The writings of Rubin, Mukhopadhyay, and all of the contributors are testament to the need to embrace a disability consciousness in seeking educational and therapeutic options for autistic persons so that they can achieve their full potential. While Biklen refrains from extensive analysis of his contributors' words, his book is truly valuable in its straightforward presentation of the voices of autistic persons speaking not only for but as themselves.-Disability Studies Quarterly,Disagrees with the common picture of autism, presenting chapters written by those with autism themselvesincluding those considered most severely disabled within the world of autismto present a personalized view of how autism is experienced by those diagnosed. . . . A must for any who understand the autistic experience.-Bookwatch,Biklens tenacity is to be admired.-CHOICE,The prevailing view of autism and disability is redefined in this beautifully written book. Can you ask for more than to inform, inspire, challenge, and help to create new ways of understanding? Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone forces us to confront misunderstanding, misperceptions, and lack of knowledge, and to rethink disability and autism. It demands that we embrace people who act, communicate, and socialize differently. I love this book!-Jan Nisbet,Director, Institute on DisabilityAustism and the Myth of the Person Alone is one of those rare professional books that causes one to pause and consider what it tells us about our literature, our field, and, perhaps, ourselves...Biklen has given us a fascinating, thoughtful and, most important, essential book by including insights, experiences, and perspectives of individuals with autism to add to the canon.-American Association on Mental Retardation,	Douglas Biklen is professor of cultural foundations of education and teaching and leadership, and coordinates the Inclusive Education Program at Syracuse University. He is a senior faculty member in the Center on Disability Studies, Law and Human Policy. He is the author of Access to Academics and Contested Words, Contested Science. He was Educational Advisor for the Academy-Award-winning HBO documentary Educating Peter and is coproducer of the CNN documentary Autism is a World.",autism & asperger's syndrome;books;children's health;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;mental illness;new;politics & government;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;psychopathology;public affairs & policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;used & rental textbooks,18
0596008406,"Essential SNMP, Second Edition Without Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), network  administrators might have to actually get out of their chairs and go  see what's up with all of the network-connected equipment under their  authority. Perish the thought. Essential SNMP explains how the  management protocol works and how it's implemented by several operating  systems and pieces of equipment. More importantly, this book shows its  reader--who should be a network administrator who's familiar with the  problems of running a distributed network--how SNMP can earn its place  as a network administration tool. In other words, this book examines  SNMP as a strategic resource as well as a technical  phenomenon.Because it's oriented toward SNMP as a tool, much of the  coverage in this book has to do with software that uses SNMP to provide  network monitoring and control services. After a  strengths-and-weaknesses overview of a number of SNMP packages, the  authors use mainly HP OpenView, Castle Rock SNMPc, and Net-SNMP (the  last in combination with Perl scripting) to demonstrate how SNMP works  and how to take advantage of it. It's the scripting that really  distinguishes this book from other SNMP books, by the way. It's  integral to the authors' presentation, and the latter half of this book  is packed with shell and Perl listings. --David Wall  Topics covered: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and  its applicability as a network management tool. Details like object  identifiers (OIDs), management information bases (MIBs), traps, and  community strings are defined and explained. The configuration of SNMP  agents is detailed for several software packages and operating systems,  and the integration of SNMP and scripts (in shell languages and in  Perl) is covered nicely.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""It is difficult to find fault with the content of the book... This is a solid textbook in the O'Reilly mould. The only criticism I have is an unfair one, I had difficulty staying awake whilst reviewing it, I find SNMP just about the driest subject in IT but this book will enable you to get though all the tedious configuration as fast as possible allowing you to move onto more interesting things that much sooner."" - Greg Matthews, news@UK, June 2006	Douglas Mauro received a bachelor's degree at the University of Albany, New York, and worked as a system administrator for several years before becoming a project engineer with Sun Microsystems, Inc. In addition to his consulting duties with Sun, he authors their internal OneStop Sun Management Center page and has published several InfoDocs with them. Kevin J. Schmidt currently lives in Lilburn, Georgia. He is a senior software developer at SecureWorks, Inc. (http://www.secureworks.com), where he is lead developer for the comapny's SIM platform. He also leading the development of the company's log analysis service line. Prior to SecureWorks, Kevin was a senior Java/C developer at Reflex Security (http://www.reflexsecurity.com). And prior to Reflex, Kevin spent four years at GuardedNet, Inc. (http://www.micromuse.com/sols/dom_man/sec_man.html) as a senior software developer and team lead. Kevin's experience with network management began in 1995 while working at a regional ISP in Pensacola, Florida. In 1996 he moved to Atlanta, Georgia to work for MindSpring Enterprises (now known as Earthlink), a national ISP. He spent four years in network management and was the senior network management architect for Earthlink. He left Earthlink to work at Netrail, a tier-1 Internet backbone provider. While at Netrail, Kevin was in charge of the company's network management architecture.",books;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;intranets & extranets;languages & tools;network administration;network security;networking;networks;new;privacy;programming;programming languages;protocols & apis;snmp;used & rental textbooks,18
0231109385,"Sources of Chinese Tradition (Volume One) This masterful compilation is the most comprehensive sourcebook of chinese civilization ever published in a Western language.  -- PLA, Appearing in University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School LibrariesThis masterful compilation is the most comprehensive sourcebook of chinese civilization ever published in a Western language. -- Review	Wm. Theodore de Bary is John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus and provost emeritus of Columbia University, where he currently holds the title of Special Service Professor. He is the author of many books, including  Waiting for the Dawn, Message of the Mind, and  Learning for One's Self, and the editor of  Sources of Japanese Tradition and  Sources of Korean Tradition, as well as (with Tu Weiming)  Confucianism and Human Rights, all published by Columbia.Irene Bloom is Wm. Theodore and Fanny de Bary and Class of 1941 Associate Professor of Asian Humanities at Columbia University, associate professor and chair of the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, and program director of the Columbia University Committee on Asia and the Middle East. She is the editor and translator of  Knowledge Painfully Acquired: The K'un-chih chi of Lo Ch'in-shun and editor, with Joshua A. Fogel, of  Meeting of Minds, both published by Columbia.",ancient;asia;books;china;civilization & culture;customs & traditions;education & reference;history;humanities;new;other eastern religions & sacred texts;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious studies;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks;world,18
0674015576,"Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good By addressing the fundamental question of whether Asian values can enrich liberal concepts such as liberty, rationality, human rights, and the due process of law, de Bary makes a significant contribution to the current dialogue among civilizations. --Tu Weiming, Harvard UniversitySince the clash of cultures has replaced the wars of nationalism, whoever wants to be intelligent about American foreign policy needs to know more than the press supplies. In Nobility and Civility Wm. Theodore de Bary, the ranking authority on East Asian civilizations, gives the reader a vivid account of the mingled traditions that guided rulers and moved masses over the ages and that still govern feeling and action in China, India, and Japan. --Jacques Barzun, author of From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the PresentDe Bary shows how notions of nobility and civility arose in South Asia and East Asia and formed the background for their encounter with Western European thought and various forms of modernization and globalization today. These are topics of immense importance not only to scholars but also to any educated person in the modern world. --John Berthrong, author of Confucianism and EcologyDe Bary, arguably the West's leading scholar of classical Asian thought, has written an elegant and thoughtful essay on the essence of true leadership and political virtue as expounded in the classics of Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Japanese thought. Instead of treating the classical writings of Asia as mere relics of 'traditional' thought that will be replaced by more 'modern' thinking, he demonstrates that the great books of Asia contain within them valuable concepts and insights for preserving civilized life in an age of materialistic globalization...Just to follow de Bary's journeys through Asian classical texts is an intellectually broadening experience for anyone, including specialists on contemporary Asia. (Foreign Affairs 20050101)De Bary...is one of the few scholars trying to probe beneath the easy generalizations about East Asian values. [He] has devoted his career to probing the moral underpinnings of Asia's successes and failures--and his latest book explores how those ethics are poised to transform the West. --Douglas Todd (Vancouver Sun 20050122)In a time when nobility is scarce, civility in short supply, and intercultural understanding badly needed, this book belongs in every library. De Bary draws on a lifetime of study and reflection to summarize and distill how three very different Asian traditions (Chinese, Indian, Japanese) addressed issues of governance and civil life in a process shaped by intellectual and political contestation and compromise. Written in a clear language free of jargon and supported by quotations from major texts, de Bary presents a coherent overview that should generate discussion (and contestation). --C. Schirokauer (Choice 20050601)William Theodore de Bary has long been an influential voice among Asianists and a leading proponent of cross-cultural dialogue. The authors insightful discussion about inter-Confucian discourse concerning nobility and civility is carried over into the four-chapter study of how the Japanese have tended to think about and develop interpretations of noble personhood and the common good. --Tom Pynn (Journal of Ethics in Leadership )	Wm. Theodore de Bary is John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University, Emeritus and Provost, Emeritus of Columbia University.",asia;asian;books;earth sciences;elections & political process;geography;history;humanities;international & world politics;leadership;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;regional;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,18
078796767X,"The Ethical Challenge: How to Lead with Unyielding Integrity The Enron debacle, the demise of Arthur Andersen, questionable practices at Tyco, Qwest, WorldCom, and a seemingly endless list of others have pushed public regard for business and business leaders to new lows. The need for smart leaders with vision and integrity has never been greater. Things need to change and it will not be easy.  We can take a first step toward producing better business leaders by changing some of our own ideas about what it means to ""win."" Noel M. Tichy and Andrew R. McGill have brought together a stellar group of contributors from a variety of perspectives including General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, and renowned management gurus Robert Quinn and C. K. Prahalad, among others to offer insights that will help build better leaders, communities, and organizations. They show how to present a ""Teachable Point of View"" about business ethics that will help all leaders within an organization:     Internalize core values  Build a values-based culture across the organization  Become engaged to teach the same values lessons to their staff  Take action and raise the ethical bar   Successful business leaders must be able to articulate their own unique Teachable Point of View on business ethics and drive it through their organization to ensure that everyone knows the ethical line and is neither shy nor silent if others risk crossing it.	Today's business leaders must fight to win the renewed support of a skeptical public not through new products, fads, or other manipulations but with foundations of ethical absolutes the world can trust. Noel M. Tichy and Andrew R. McGill bring together thought leaders from private, public, nonprofit, and governmental organizations to highlight the dilemmas leaders are facing, the decisions some are making, and the reasoning they all must contemplate.Contributors include:Professors Noel M. Tichy and Andrew R. McGill on teaching ethicsProfessor C. K. Prahalad on the ""core invariants""UMBS Dean Robert Dolan on courageJames Hackett, CEO of Steelcase, on ethics in everyday situationsProfessor Robert Quinn on doing the norm vs. the ethically right thingEleanor Josaitis, cofounder of Focus: hope on living values every day	Noel M. Tichy author of the best-selling The Leadership Engine and the Cycle of Leadership is a professor of organizational behavior and human resource management at the University of Michigan Business School, where he is director of the Global Leadership Program and the Global Business Partnership. His consulting clients have included Citibank, Exxon, General Motors, Hitachi, IBM, Pepsico, Royal Dutch Shell, and other international corporations.Andrew R. McGill is director of the Global Business Partnership at the University of Michigan Business School, where he is also adjunct associate professor of organizational behavior and human resource management. His research focuses on organizations changing to better serve their customers and he consults widely on the topic in the health care, financial services, technology, and automotive industries.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business ethics;business life;economics;entrepreneurship;ethics;leadership;management;management & leadership;new;organizational behavior;philosophy;politics & social sciences;small business & entrepreneurship;used & rental textbooks;workplace,18
0874176174,Mapping And Imagination In The Great Basin: A Cartographic History 11 photos; 79 maps	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Richard V. Francaviglia is Professor of History and Geography and Director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography at the University of Texas in Arlington. He is the author of Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin and of several other studies of the history and geography of the American West.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.,americas;atlases;atlases & maps;books;cartography;earth sciences;education & reference;geography;history;humanities;new;reference;regional;science & math;science & mathematics;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,18
0195121422,"Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History Completing a trilogy that includes Presidential Anecdotes and Presidential Campaigns, Boller ""looks to the ladies"" in entertaining stories and vignettes of presidents' wives from Martha Washington to Nancy Reagan. Each First Lady is accorded a thoughtful essay that fixes the historical moment of her residency in the White House; the accompanying anecdotes illuminate her special relationship to the country as well as her husband. We hear of Jefferson's profound grief on Martha's death, which put him ""in a stupor of mind""; of Dolley Madison's unfortunate propensity to snuff-taking; of Teddy Roosevelt's wife, who thought he was ""just the biggest of her children."" Tales about presidential wives prior to the 20th century are not abundant because, as Boller points out, many were practically ""invisible women,"" exerting their influence in the recesses of the White House by coping with husband and children. For the more public First Ladies of recent times, the author provides some fresh, even amusing, anecdotes in this lively popular history. 30,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo; author tour. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""For anyone interested in a snapshot view of the presidency, this anecdotal history of American presidential wives...is important to read--and certainly fun....Boller's anecdotes are fascinating and amusing.""--Letitia Baldrige, Washington Post Book World""Boller has splendidly fulfilled his purpose of producing a fascinating...account of what it has meant for a woman to be the wife of a president....This collective history of presidential wives calls attention to their significance in the nation's history.""--Journal of American History""Boller's deep insight into [these women's] lives and personalities...[adds] new historical detail to White House folklore.""--Los Angeles Times Book Review""Boller excels at illuminating the pathos and tragedy that suffused the lives of...presidential wives.""--The Chicago Tribune	Paul F. Boller, Jr., is Professor of History, Emeritus, at Texas Christian University. He is the author of many books, including Presidential Anecdotes and Presidential Campaigns.",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;gender studies;historical;history;humanities;leaders & notable people;new;political;politics & social sciences;presidents & heads of state;social sciences;specific groups;united states;used & rental textbooks;women;women's studies,18
0471170437,"Rent Two Films and Let's Talk in the Morning: Using Popular Movies in Psychotherapy Therapists continually strive for new ways to engage their clients and bring about desirable outcomes in therapy. In the age of managed care, homework is becoming a relied-upon adjunct to brief therapy. Videowork is a therapeutic process in which the therapist assigns films that relate to core issues of on-going therapy for a client to watch between sessions, and then discuss the client's reactions to the videos in future sessions. This book provides an introduction to using video in therapy and provides a ready-reference for therapists who want to assign videos as homework but need some guidance about what films to select in specific situations.	The complete guide to video workThe use of popular films as catalysts in the psychotherapeutic process has gained increasing support in recent years. Accompanied by informed and sensitive therapeutic counseling, films can help clients get in touch with repressed emotions, find inspiration in the midst of despair, and understand the problems of others. But how can a therapist know when it is appropriate to assign a film? Which films have therapeutic punch? Where should the discussion focus after a client has seen a particular film?Rent Two Films and Let's Talk in the Morning answers these questions and many more. It provides friendly guidance and detailed information on every aspect of using films as tools in therapy, including: Techniques for using video assignments to enhance traditional therapy Concise descriptions of more than 100 popular films available on video Suggestions for using each film to meet specific therapy needs A quick-reference list of hundreds of films categorized by presenting problem Numerous examples of clients who have gained insights from film therapy and how these successes were achieved Ways to use films as powerful therapeutic metaphorsThe Hesleys' e-mail address is movietalk@hesley.com.	JOHN W. HESLEY, PhD, is a psychologist with a consulting and psychotherapy practice in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In addition to scientific papers, he has written numerous articles for popular magazines, newspapers, and trade publications. JAN G. HESLEY, MSSW, is an advanced clinical practitioner who specializes in marriage and family therapy. She has taught at the university level and has consulted with agencies, churches, and public and private schools.",books;compulsive behavior;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;mental health;new;psychiatry;psychoanalysis;psychology;psychology & counseling;psychopathology;psychotherapy;social sciences;ta & nlp;used & rental textbooks,18
1590595424,"Foundation Flash 8 Sham Bhangalhas worked on books in new media forfive years,during which time he has authored and co-authored numerous friends of ED books, including critically acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling titles like Foundation Flash, New Masters of Flash, Flash MX Upgrade Essentials, Flash MX Most Wanted, and the Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference. He has considerable working experience with Macromedia and Adobe products, as well as other general web design technologies (such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.). In addition to speaking appearances at FlashForward, the biggest Macromedia Flash developer conference, Sham has also been a beta tester for Macromedia and Discreet products for a number of years.Kristian Besleyhas worked with multimedia for three years, but has been creative with computers for much longer. He currently develops Flash-based material within an educational environment. This material includes interactive presentations to illustrate how scientific things work, as well as graphical user interfaces and tools allowing web-based content creation with basic computer skills. He was a contributing author on the seminal Flash Math Creativity, and many other friends of ED books. In 2002, he launched the world's first bi-annual HTML markup-based TableArt competition. The competition was an unbelievable success.",books;computer science;computers & technology;flash;game programming;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;graphics & visualization;new;programming;software design;software design & engineering;software development;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design;web services,18
0899974279,"Rail-Trails Mid-Atlantic: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC and West Virginia The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy is a membership-based organization with more than 100,000 supporters who are dedicated to converting former railroad corridors into multiuse trails.",adventure;books;cycling;excursion guides;food;hiking & camping;individual sports;lodging & transportation;professional & technical;railroad travel;railroads;south;south atlantic;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;transportation;travel;united states,18
0131553267,On a Roll: A Conversation and Listening Text M->CREATED,books;conversation;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;etiquette;fitness & dieting;general;health;language & grammar;medical books;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;reference;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words,18
0323013252,"Workbook to Accompany Mosby's Essentials for Nursing Assistants, 2e Clear and logical content help readers master the concepts and skills needed to be a successful nursing assistant	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Sheila Sorrentino, RN, PhD, Curriculum & Health Care Consultant, Normal, IL; Bernie Gorek, RNC, GNP, MA, Senior Learning Associate, Evangelical Lutheran Society, Greeley, CO",allied health professions;allied health services;books;clinical;education & reference;fundamentals & skills;general;medical assistants;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;nursing;nursing home care;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks;workbooks,18
0888390602,Wings of the North Dick Turner,action & adventure;adventurers & explorers;aerospace;aviation;biographies & memoirs;books;engineering;genre fiction;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;professional & technical;science & math;specific groups;technology;transportation;used & rental textbooks,18
1860646662,"Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and the Tsar's Mission to the Shah of Persia ""Laurence Kelly deserves congratulation for producing this riveting fast-paced story of Griboyedov's life and death""--Antony Wynn, www.cornucopia.net""a dramatic story, hardly known in the West. . . anyone with even a casual interest in Russian history will be gripped, and moved, by this book."" --The Tablet (UK)	In this first biography of Alexander Griboyedov in English, Laurence Kelly paints a vivid picture of a man ofremarkable literary talent and diplomatic gifts that were nevertheless overshadowed by ill-fortune. Involved inthe 1825 Decembrist plot to overthrow the Tsarist state andthe mission to further Russia's expansionist agenda in the Caucasus,the famous writerwas eventually murdered byzealous mobs in Tehran. This book makes an invaluable contribution to the diplomatic history of Russia, the Caucasus and Iran and celebrates the life and works of a writer who was among ninteenth-century Russia's most respected and prominent writers.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Laurence Kelly is the author of a biography of Lermontov.",19th century;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;drama;history;humanities;iran;leaders & notable people;literature & fiction;middle east;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;political;russia;used & rental textbooks,18
0714650366,"The Future of Terrorism (Political Violence) 'A helpful stimulus to those engaged both in the study of this subject and the implementation of practical measures designed to reduce the exsistence and impact of terrorism in todays society.' - RUSI Journal'Interesting and sometimes controversial papers on terrorism.' - Professional Security Magazine'It is a masterly piece of work, innovative, thought-provoking and very readable.' - Defense Analysis'This is one of the most useful collections of essays on terrorism I have read in recent time.' - The Journal of Contingencies & Crisis Management'This thought provoking book provides valuable insight into the complexity of terrorist organizations and their evolution. I highly recommend it.' - Military Review",books;criminal law;criminology;education & reference;history;humanities;international & world politics;international relations;law;law enforcement;military;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,18
0824701402,"Acute Coronary Syndromes, Third Edition This well written third edition maintains its place as one of the definitive references on the subject of acute coronary syndromes.-Doody's Reviews.well done and heavily referenced.-The American Journal of Cardiologya thorough volume with an impressive group of contributorsrecommended for all medical libraries.-E-Streams	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",basic sciences;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;cardiology;cell biology;clinical;immunology;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;molecular biology;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,18
0130650749,"The IT Payoff: Measuring the Business Value of Information Technology Investments A systematic, step-by-step methodology for assessing the value of technology investments and establishing a mechanism for an ongoing evaluation.Yesterday, IT budgets were approved on faith. Today, they're subject to relentless questioningand in many cases, they are being slashed indiscriminately. But neither approach is achieving the most important goal: maximizing business value. The IT Payoff gives IT and financial decision-makers what they desperately need: a systematic approach to measuring the true impact of IT spending, and making rational technology investment decisions. This book's methodology addresses today's most critical issues in technology investment, including: identifying where technology can add the greatest value; timing the adoption of new technologies; and coordinating process change with technological change. The authors present a detailed case study, showing how a top healthcare provider used this book's methodology to transform their approaches to technology investment. The IT Payoff concludes by outlining a complete action plan for the technology decision-maker: one that encompasses operational, strategic, and management issues, addresses partnerships throughout and beyond the organization, and can gain the full commitment of top management.  * A breakthrough, start-to-finish roadmap for technology investment decision-making New, step-by-step techniques for quantifying the real value of information technology * Bringing ""balanced scorecards"" to the technology arena Capturing impacts that conventional approaches miss: process impacts, organizational impacts, and strategic impacts * Technology ""S-curves"": Sweet spots in the technology lifecycle Determining when a technology is most ripe for exploitation-and when to move on to the next * Evaluating the ""conventional"" approaches to technology cost-justification What works when: cost-benefit analysis, breakeven analysis, NPV, economic models, statistical models, and common sense models? * Coordinating process change with technology investment Making sure new technology and new processes work in tandem * Strategic IT: Applying technology where it will deliver the greatest business value Identifying the projects most likely to enhance organizational effectiveness * The unique challenges of e-business investment  Technology evaluation for today's new Web-centered environments Identifying your best opportunities to add value through technology Avoiding key pitfalls that lead to insignificant or negative ROI Deciding when to implement leading-edge technology-and when to jump off the technology curve Detailed case studies from healthcare and manufacturing New metrics, detailed templates, and concrete action plans Organizational issues that is valuable for financial professionals, IT decision-makers, line-of-business managers, and software clients  Today, nearly half of all capital investment is information technology relatedand yet, decision makers still find themselves asking the most fundamental questions: Does technology really add value? If so, when? Where should one look for it? What's the best way to quantify technology ROIand maximize it? If you're asking these questions, The IT Payoff gives you powerful new tools for answering them. Sarv Devaraj and Rajiv Kohli begin with a historical perspective on technology investment, reviewing the strategic role of technology, analyzing the key risk factors in technology investment, and helping you assess the limitations of your organization's current approach to decision-making. Next, the authors introduce a powerful new methodology for making funding decisions, show how their approach has been applied successfully, and demonstrate exactly how to apply it in your own business. The IT Payoff provides specific templates, metrics, and other resources you can begin using with your very next projecttools that rationalize and optimize IT purchasing decisions, once and for all.	SARV DEVARAJ is a faculty of the Management Department at the Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame, specializing in technology management, quality and productivity management, and manufacturing strategy. He consults widely in the areas of technology management, performance evaluation, just-in-time manufacturing, work teams, and optimizing manufacturing. He is also a Fellow of India-based software companies. Devaraj speaks frequently at conferences, including the Annual Conference for the Decision Sciences Institute. His work has won several international awards. RAJIV KOHLI is a faculty in the College of Business and Economics at Lehigh University, specializing in strategic information systems, enhanced decision support systems, process innovation, and the role of information technologies in enabling competitive advantage. Recently, he was an internal Consultant in the Decision Support Services at the corporate office of Trinity Health in South Bend, Indiana. He has worked and consulted with organizations in manufacturing, telecommunications, and healthcare. Devaraj and Kohli's recent joint publications include ""Information Technology Payoff in the Health-Care Industry: A Longitudinal Study,"" published in the Journal of Management Information Systems and (with Ming Fan) ""E-Loyalty: Elusive Ideal or Competitive Edge,"" published in Communications of the ACM. They are currently jointly researching new methods for analyzing e-commerce customer satisfaction and loyalty.	Foreword  The IT Payoff is all about being a professional. It's a management book that addresses the single most important issue for the future of the information services (IS) field and one that will become more and more central to general managers and functional managers: the need for a compelling, convincing, disciplined and well-communicated financial model for IT investments. The IS field has largely lacked all four of the adjectives that precede ""financial model"" in my previous sentence. Indeed, many executives would argue that it's lacked any sense of financial realism and hasn't had any model.  Historically, to be an IT ""professional"" meant having training and experience in systems development and project management. Development was the core of any information services organization and technology skills the necessary base for its success. There was very little attention paid to what should have been a priority: the financial responsibility of true professionals to ensure effective use of the firm's capital investment in IT. This just wasn't on the agenda. In the close to thirty years that I've taught at major business schools, I can't recall a single course devoted to the topics The IT Payoff so lucidly and comprehensively addresses. In the 1980s, the focus of IT education did shift from development to IT-and-competitive-advantage (an almost breathless single word), but the focus was on market share, growth and new product, and service development. Here again, the financial responsibility was ignored. The implicit assumption was that growth would generate return and that competitive advantage ends up on the bottom line. I recall my own book Competing in Time, published in 1986; it did not contain a single page on managing the costs and benefits of the investment. In 1988, I sponsored and published a book, Getting Business Value from IT; it sank with little trace. The flood of books about Net Something were largely naive or even irresponsible about the financial side of the dotcom era. Of course, there has for a long time been plenty of discussion of the issues of IT payoff. Much of this has basically been ideological in nature and highly repetitive, centered around the Productivity Paradox, a term coined by an economist skeptic about IT that set the agenda for much of the academic research on IT payoff. (Most economists have been skeptics in this regard.) Little of this work has had any real management relevance. It ignores what I believe is the strength of The IT Payoff: attention to the process of financial analysis, justification, and communication.  The data the academic work has used has also largely been very dubious; it uses macro level figures that are incomplete and do not reflect the multiplicity of cost elements. IT costs are scattered across many budgets and in my own experience only 20% of them are visible; the rest is what I call the cost iceberg. In addition, the fundamental problem in assessing IT payoff has always been how to attribute value to infrastructures that enable specific applications. At the level of the individual project it's possible to measure return on investment (ROI) in many instances, though even here, it's very difficult to quantify all the ""soft"" benefits such as ""better"" service, ""improved"" communication, and the like. All this is well-known but until the problem of the search for payoff is handled in managerial rather than conceptual terms we will see no more progress in the next ten years than we have in the past ten.  Business executives have long been frustrated by the IT payoff problem. The last 3-5 years have seen several shifts in their view of IT that in my own opinion demand that IS make the financial side of IT its professional core. The earliest shift came from the accelerated move of technology from the periphery of business to its mainstream, first through the massive investments in ERP necessary to end the mass of disintegrated applications and infrastructures that had accumulated over a twenty year period, and second, the emergence of e-commerce as a force that has transformed many industries and is now part of everyday life, regardless of whether or not companies make money from it. Executives now realize that technology is an executive responsibility. In around half the firms I work with, the Chief Marketing Officer or Chief Operations Officer is effectively the CIO. More and more IT investments are led by the business. The second shift was Y2K. This was a massive and largely unplanned expenditure that in many companies took money away from other priorities. CEOs and CFOs felt they were being forced to write a blank check. Perhaps the business community as a whole might have felt the investment more worthwhile if Y2K had been a disaster instead of a non-event! In any case, when the third shift came, Y2K looked inexpensive. This was the dotcom frenzy. Here, CFOs who had long been concerned about controlling IT costs and ensuring detailed ROI analyses, lost all control. The new blank checks had extra zeros on the end of the figures, with minimal business justification. ""Never again!"" That's the view from the executive boardroom, a boardroom that knows much more about IT than it did a few years ago. We are in a fourth major shift: from customized systems development as the norm and packages the exception, to the reverse. The art form of development is now ""tweaking"" and ""chunking""my own term for how companies now integrate ERP, CRM, legacy systems, and data resources through such tools as C++/Java and XML.  All these shifts subtly, sometimes slowly, inevitably redefine the role of the IS professional. Of course technology skills still matter, but many of these will be obtained from outside, by using integrators and software houses, many will be built in business units, such as data warehousing and CRM expertise. What has changed is the matter of financial responsibility. Who is responsible for ensuring IT payoff? If not IS, then who? If, though, IS has the responsibility and leadership, then it had better have the professionalism. The topics of this book are the core of that professionalism. If the business is responsible, it too needs a new management competence. Again, this book provides the grounding for that competence. The strengths of The IT Payoff are its management focus and its inclusion of all the elements of cost, benefit, technology, and business justification. It's marked by its realism and lack of the fogginess of so much of the ideologically-driven work pro or con the Productivity Paradox. It does full justice to the wide research and methodologies that have emerged over the past decades but places them in their business and organizational context. It is simple in the best sense of the term: well-articulated, well-paced, well-reasoned, and not simplistic. It is a very valuable contribution to helping IS people become business professionals and also to aiding non-IT managers in understanding and taking charge of business change, which almost invariably now requires substantial investment in IT as platform, enabler, or support for innovation.  The era of IT as technical development is coming to its close. The era of IT as financial responsibility is long overdue. Peter G. W. KeenChairman, Keen Innovations,and Senior Fellow, Differentis Fairfax Station, VirginiaDecember, 2001",books;business & finance;business & investing;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;economics;finance;industries & professions;information management;information systems;management;management & leadership;manager's guides to computing;new;software engineering;systems & planning;used & rental textbooks,18
0226960315,"The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 ""A convincing and judicious case for the need in a post-September 11 era to re-evaluate what the Constitution says about foreign affairs. Mr. Yoo's book covers a broad range of foreign policy areas like international law, treaties and multilateralism and addresses each with clarity and scholarly care. But at its heart, The Powers of War and Peace is a scathing criticism of those whom he argues have neglected their constitutional responsibility. . . . A valuable contribution to the tradition of works about the Constitution and foreign affairs. Like The Prince, it uses insider knowledge to boldly state political truths that others dare not utter."" (Nicholas J. Xenakis Washington Times 2005-10-25)""Can the president of the United States do whatever he likes in wartime without oversight from Congress or the courts? This year, the issue came to a head as the Bush administration struggled to maintain its aggressive approach to the detention and interrogation of suspected enemy combatants in the war on terrorism. But this was also the year that the administration's claims about presidential supremacy received their most sustained intellectual defense [in] The Powers of War and Peace."" (Jeffrey Rosen New York Times 2005-12-11)""There is a refreshing elegance to Yoo's theory. Forgoing hair-splitting doctrinal debates about congressional and executive claims to primacy in foreign affairs, Yoo tells the two branches to duke it out politically, deploying their allocated powers to reach a political equilibrium. By shifting the debate from the legal to the political arena, Yoo's theory promotes frank discussion of the national interest and makes it harder for politicians to parade policy conflicts as constitutional crises. Most important, Yoo's approach offers a way to renew our political system's democratic vigor. . . . An impressive scholarly achievement, The Powers of War and Peace should be read by anyone with an interest in constitutional law and foreign policy."" (David B. Rivkin Jr. & Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky National Review 2005-11-21)The book argues that the Constitution gives the president a much larger role in foreign affairs and military operations than the other two branches of the federal government, that the president does not need a congressional declaration of war before placing troops on the ground and that treaties ratified the Senate have no legal impact unless Congress explicitly passes laws saying that they do. (Neal Katyal Washington Post)	John Yoo is professor of law at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He served as general counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee; as a law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge Laurence H. Silberman; and, from 2001 to 2003, as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice.	John Yoo deserves much credit for helping open up a secretive subject for public discussion, even when it has meant unpleasantness for himself. As the apparent author of many of the Bush administration's post-9/11 policies, including those that authorize the National Security Agency (NSA) to violate the wiretap statute and strip Geneva Convention protections from anyone suspected of affiliation with al Qaeda and the Taliban, Yoo lives in a firestorm. In the past few months alone, international lawyers have called for his criminal indictment, students have broken into his classroom at Berkeley (where the former deputy assistant attorney general now teaches law) to stage a mock detainee hearing, and lecture halls where he is scheduled to speak have been boycotted.  Such political grandstanding is shameful behavior; in fact, Yoo should be commended for not hiding behind the standard Washington clich of saying, ""That's classified; I can't talk about it.""Of course, much of Yoo's work for the Justice Department is indeed still classified, most important his opinions on NSA spying and those justifying the legality of a military trial system at Guantanamo Bay. Nevertheless, Yoo's new book is marketed as a defense of the administration's post-9/11 conduct. Yet the book doesn't really accomplish that, or even attempt it. Rather, it is a sometimes careful, academic work about presidential powers in wartime. In particular, the book argues that the Constitution gives the president a much larger role in foreign affairs and military operations than the other two branches of the federal government, that the president does not need a congressional declaration of war before placing troops on the ground and that treaties ratified by the Senate have no legal impact unless Congress explicitly passes laws saying that they do. In advancing these claims, the book is burdened by its strange attempt to mix constitutional claims grounded in the Founders' intent in 1787 with the practicalities of living in an age of terrorism. Either one can take the position of such conservative icons as Robert Bork and Justice Antonin Scalia  --  that the original intentions of the Constitution's authors bind us today and changes can only come through amendment  --  or hold the view of more liberal figures such as Justice Stephen Breyer that practical, functional considerations create a living Constitution that adapts as times change. Both are perfectly plausible. What isn't credible is a theory that cherry-picks from the two to advance a particular thesis. And that's exactly what Yoo does at times. Yoo is at his best in skewering the academics who believe that Congress must formally declare war before the president can engage in military operations. After all, hundreds of U.S. military operations have occurred without a declaration of war. Yoo's argument here, and the history he marshals, is contribution enough. There have been no declarations of war since World War II, yet a majority of academics today still adhere to the position that such a declaration is required before troops can be deployed. Unfortunately, Yoo goes further, explaining that the president would not be made all powerful by such a broad reading of his war-making power because Congress could cut off funds or pass legislation to end the war. Yet it isn't remotely plausible that Congress's funding power can check the president. As Yoo's main academic opponent, former Stanford Law School dean John Hart Ely explains in his book War and Responsibility, ""Once the president had committed 'our boys' to the battlefield, it would become emotionally and politically difficult to vote to cut off their 'support.' "" If the legislative branch really did use its funding power in the way Yoo advertises, it would destroy his thesis, which is built on the speed, unity and decisiveness of the executive branch compared to Congress. It is jarring to watch a sober realist like Yoo ignore the obvious reality that Congress is incapable of defunding a war when troops are already engaged.  In the end, the most glaring failure of the book is its one-sided attack on the courts and Congress, with no real attention paid to the failures of the executive branch. The underlying message is that the executive doesn't need checks on its activities, but that the other branches consistently do. Yet presidents of both parties have made tremendous mistakes, and recent events have shown that claims of unchecked power can lead to massive abuse. Yoo even unwittingly refers to at least one recent miscalculation, in words that already date the book, by stating that Iraq was ""potentially armed with weapons of mass destruction."" If scholars like Yoo want to exalt the executive, they will have to do a better job of figuring out ways to develop checks and balances inside the executive branch. Otherwise, faith in the executive is little more than a recipe for unaccountable and poor decisionmaking. This wasn't the way the Constitution was written; and I, for one, have more faith in our Founders than that.   Reviewed by Neal Katyal Copyright 2006, The Washington Post. All Rights Reserved.",books;constitutional law;education & reference;government;international & world politics;international relations;law;legal history;national & international security;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;treaties;united states;used & rental textbooks,18
B000GBESEW,"Ginger Rogers: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts) Provides a short biography and detailed record of the career of Ginger Rogers.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Though chiefly remembered as the dance partner of Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers had many other significant achievements in the entertainment world. She was a dancer, singer, comedienne, and Academy Award winning dramatic actress, as well as the highest paid Hollywood star in 1942. Miss Faris provides a detailed record of Ginger Roger's life and career, painting a  picture of her as one of the most versatile performers in the United States.The volume begins with a short biography of Ginger Rogers, along with a succinct chronology of the major events in her life and career. These portions of the book provide a context for the chapters that follow, which contain annotated entries for her stage, film, radio, and television performances. The entries provide production information and cast listings, along with excerpts from reviews and critical commentaries. An extensive annotated bibliography lists books, magazine and newspaper articles, and movie trade publications that provide further information about Ginger Rogers's fascinating career.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",actors & actresses;art & photography;arts & literature;bibliographies & indexes;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;communication;education & reference;entertainers;humor & entertainment;language & grammar;movies;music;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;words;writing,18
0471348279,"Global Solutions for Multilingual Applications: Real-World Techniques for Developers and Designers Although English is the dominant language on the net, this is now changing. The old ASCII text could not display languages with non-Latin alphabets such as Chinese, but now the adoption of the UNICODE standard enables the web to handle any language. Author Ott, who had provided technical support to a department that used more than a dozen languages, explains how to set up both Macs and PCs for multilingual applications, what UNICODE is, the major issues in setting up multilingual Inter- and intranets, and how to deal with graphics and multimedia in a culturally sensitive fashion. For IT departments and management as well as public libraries that need to provide online information and services in multiple languages. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	The complete resource for developing multilingual applications and Web sites.Global Solutions for Multilingual Applications With the increasing need for worldwide accessibility to the Web and other computer applications, Webmasters, developers, and IT managers must find solutions to any multilingual computing problem that may arise. This book provides you with the hands-on information you'll need to address these language and translation issues. After a concise overview of multilingual capabilities, you'll find real-world details and techniques for creating global Web sites and applications. And you'll gain additional insight on how to make multilingual electronic communications easier. Chris Ott provides you with:* Advice for setting up both PC and Macintosh computers* An overview of the multilingual capabilities of productivity applications (including Web browsers)>* Information on the new standard Unicode* Tips to travelers on how to connect to the Web anywhere in the world* A better understanding of the major issues involved when developing multilingual applications, and intranet and Internet sites* An examination of the multilingual aspects of work in publishing, graphic design, and multimediaThe companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/ott features:* Update information* Examples of online multilingual techniques* Links to translation sites and resourcesVisit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/	Chris Ott is an expert on multilingual computing. He has written for Multilingual Computing & Technology, Independent Publisher, The Denver Business Journal, and the online magazine Salon. Chris also managed the technical resources of a university language center, participated in a foreign-language education project sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has given presentations on language courseware at educational conferences.",artificial intelligence;books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;human vision & language systems;natural language processing;networking;networks;new;programming;protocols & apis;software;systems analysis & design;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design;web services,18
0879307420,"Marvin Gaye, My Brother (Book) This posthumous memoir (Frankie Gaye died of a heart attack in 2001), reconstructed from a year of interviews with collaborator Basten, presents the tragic, tumultuous career of Motown singer Marvin Gaye from his younger brother's perspective. Bookended by the sorrowful scene of Marvin's violent death, the story moves from the brothers' tough childhood, dominated by a stern, God-fearing father, through Marvin's rise to fame and into his paranoid, drug-fueled dissolution. Through it all, brother Frankie watches from the wings, offering support and solace, and joining in the party when the times are good. Due to their close physical resemblance, Frankie appears with Marvin onstage at times to confuse the crowd. Perhaps most importantly, both for Frankie and Marvin, Frankie's experience in Vietnam colors Marvin's increasingly politicized art in the 60s. ""I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Marvin, my brother, the star, was so inspired by me that he had written a song about me-for me-a song about the frustrations of a returning Vietnam vet, a song that was so personal and heartfelt I started to cry,"" Frankie says. The song was ""What's Happening, Brother,"" on the landmark What's Goin' On. With great affection for his deeply flawed family-his father's religious zealotry, his brother's rebellious self-destruction-Frankie himself emerges as a sensitive, cautious peacekeeper and witness, a paradigmatic younger brother to one of music's great voices. 30 b photos. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Frankie Gaye was a composer and singer, whose experiences in the Vietnam War were credited with influencing his older brother Marvin's album What's Going On. He died in December 2001 at the age of 60. Fred E. Basten, of Santa Monica, has written twenty books on Hollywood and entertainment.",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;composition & performance;education & reference;ethnic & national;humor & entertainment;memoirs;music;musical genres;performing arts;reference;rock;songwriting;soul;theory,18
0471426164,"The Millionaire Code: 16 Paths to Wealth Building Do you want to become a millionaire? Seriously, do you really want to become a millionaire? If the answer is yes then youre in luck, because no matter who you are, you already have all the tools to achieve this goal. Dr. Paul Farrell will show you how to harness that power. First, you need to get in touch with your secret millionaires personality code. Then, get into action and travel the path that best suits your unique personality. The Millionaire Code will show you how to do all that and much more.Unlike so many other books that offer a one-size-fits-all approach to becoming a millionaire, this comprehensive guide will help you discover the only real way you can ever become a millionaireyour way! Author Paul Farrell believes that understanding who you are is the first step toward becoming a millionaire. He has created a personality profiling system to help you discover the type of millionaire you really are. Once youre in sync with your true personality type, you will quickly understand your individual strengths and weaknesses, so you can focus your efforts on becoming a millionaire.Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, The Millionaire Code will clearly show you how to create a personal road map for success. In four intensely engaging and penetrating sections, this unique book will: Provide a valuable overview of the history and science supporting personality profilingDetail a simple self-test that will enable you to identify the four distinguishing factors in your unique Millionaires CodeDiscuss Millionaire Temperaments that will give you four quick shortcuts into the depth of your personalityDiscover your true character and mission in life, fulfill your dreams, and help you get rich in spirit and in factOnce you take the test, have your unique four-letter code, and are pointed in the right direction, youll be introduced to sixteen different and fascinating millionaire personalities, from the visionary thinker to the results-oriented expert.  Each profile summarizes the distinguishing characteristics of this personality type, what makes them tick, and how they are most likely to become financially successful in the world as well as fulfill their true destiny. In looking at each of these personalities youll receive invaluable lessons about the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in your journey, and what you can do to get there.There is no one way to become a millionaire because no two people are alike. Your way is the only real wayand you will find it within these pages. With The Millionaire Code as your guide, youll learn how to discover the real you and unleash the millionaire within.	Praise for THE MILLIONAIRE CODEA wonderfully worthy book, especially in an era when the wrong kind of capitalism has been in the drivers seat. The Millionaire Code is about something far more noble than moneythe joy of living your life to the fullest simply by finding what it is you love to do, and then doing it. Hats off to Paul Farrell for picking up where William Shakespeare left off: This above all: to thine own self be true.John C. BogleFounder and former CEO, The Vanguard GroupTo make your savings grow, you need to know three things: the way the markets work, the way market history works, and the way you work. Let Paul Farrell take you on an enlightening, enjoyable, and profitable journey to the inner self of the successful investor.William J. Bernstein, PhD, MDauthor of The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio and The Intelligent Asset AllocatorCombining personality theory, solid investment advice, and Zen philosophy, Paul Farrell demonstrates concretely how necessary it is to combine your personality and investing styles in order to create meaningful wealth. If you want to learn what it takes to develop your own unique investment strategythe only kind likely to succeedthis is the book to get.Dr. Richard Geist Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry (Psychology) Harvard Medical SchoolAn important work. Leave it to Paul Farrell to provide a truly unique insight into the minds of millionaire investors. I have been impressed with Paul Farrells work for many years. His latest book, The Millionaire Code, provides an important contribution to the world of investing. Truly unique insights.Charles Carlsonauthor, Eight $teps to $even Figures: The Investment Strategies of Everyday Millionaires and How You Can Become Wealthy TooIts often said that if you dont know who you are, Wall Street is an expensive place to find out. By helping you understand more about yourself, this book will help you become a more successful investor.Ric EdelmanChairman, Edelman Financial Services, author of Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth, and Discover the Wealth Within You	PAUL B. FARRELL, JD, PhD, is an investing and personal finance columnist for CBS MarketWatch. Dr. Farrell has written more than 1,000 columns, many of which have been syndicated on America Online, Yahoo!, and E*Trade.com. He frequently appears on television and radio, including CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, and FOX. He has written four books and previously worked as an executive vice president of Financial News Network, associate editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley.",applied psychology;books;business & finance;business & investing;fitness & dieting;guides;health;job hunting & careers;leadership;management & leadership;medical books;new;personal finance;popular economics;psychology;psychology & counseling;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,18
0195058801,"Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the 1980s ""A fine collection of essays by experts in the field,...an excellent introduction to the subject....[A]s a study of the relationship of Christianity to American life the book is excellent...a valuable book that will prove useful to many.""--Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society""The articles discuss the place of religious conviction in a pluralistic democracy characterized by an institutional separation of church and state....They contribute a wealth of scholarly bibliographic material.  Readers interested in the subject will enjoy the text.""--Grace Theological  Journal""This volume of essays...sets a high standard for further interpretation of the interaction of religion and politics in American history....Prescriptions are avoided. Surprises and insights abound. This volume marks a point from which further discussion must begin.""--Journal of Religion""An ideal example of a type of theological conversation which should be much more widely practiced.""--Owen C. Thomas, in Anglican Theological Review""Draws on an extraordinary range of social historical work--including work in the history of the professions and of women....A sophisticated view of religion informed by reflection and politics sensitized to theological issues.""--Journal of Southern History""A distinguished work by a distinguished group of collaborators.""--Church History""Provides a good selection of essays in the area--effective length and challenging quality.""--Christopher J. Viscardi, Spring Hill College""This volume is now the place to begin one's reflections on the relationships between religion and politics in America.  Few collections have done a better job of laying out the issues.""--Presidential Studies Quarterly""...Rich and stimulating...An invaluable guide to a broad range of issues.""--Journal of The Early Republic""These comparative essays round off and enhance what is in any case a valuable and useful collection.""--The Catholic Historical Review	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Mark A. Noll is a Professor of History, Wheaton College.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business development;christian books & bibles;christian living;development & growth;economics;education & reference;ethics;ethics & morality;humanities;new;philosophy;political science;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,18
0192830953,"10,000 German Words (Oxford Reference) Now retired, William Rowlinson was Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Sheffield. He has compiled five other German and French minidictionaries for OUP.",books;classical & early;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;drama;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;german;greek & roman;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;reference;teens;used & rental textbooks,18
0971437246,"In My Father's Bakery This tale of Bronx life circa the '30s and '40s teems with wonderful characters striving to bring order and meaning into their often-chaotic lives. The author came of age in an extended secular Jewish family dependent on his father's bakery. His father's struggles to make the bakery a success resulted in interesting encounters, such as that with a venal Communist labor boss who threatened to ruin the bakery if the father failed to reduce bread prices. Korman limns affectionate portraits of family members, especially his mentally challenged uncle, Maxie, who could sell only one product in the bakery but who found the courage to stand up to a bully. Korman reminds modern readers how Jewish baseball star Hank Greenberg granted every American Jewish boy a sense of dignity. Other indelible personalities include the Presbyterian minister Leslie Turner, who played a vital role in spiriting a Korman family relative out of Nazi Germany. A well-told piece of American ethnic history. Mark KnoblauchCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""I grew up in the Bronx and used to go to a bakery like this. I used to know people like this. And do you want to know something? It was great being with them again."" ---Regis Philbin ""Marvin Korman takes his riotous, Giants-loving, savvy Bronx family and with enormous skill, makes them universal. He is a Master Baker of a writer."" ---Patricia Volk, author of Stuffed ""I love In My Father's Bakery=BEparticularly Korman's very personal account of the impact that Hank Greenberg had on Jewish kids in the Bronx."" ---Lawrence Ritter, author of The Glory of Their Times",20th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;ethnic studies;history;jewish;memoirs;mid atlantic;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;regional u.s.;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states;world,18
0465028446,"A Memoir of No One in Particular: In Which Our Author Indulges in Naïve Indiscretions, a Self-Aggrandizing Solipsism, and an Off-Putting Infatuation with His Own Bodily Functions While attempting to ""use myself as a pretext for probing the banalities of life,"" Harris realizes that ""an effete homosexual... may not, in the final analysis, be an ideal candidate for the starring role of Everyman,"" but forges ahead as ""a kind of living camcorder"" in ""a Cartesian quest for absolutes"" in physical existence. Yet Harris (The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture) is far more interested in the specifics of himself than in the generality of humanity: his teenage diaries, he tells us, are not ""outbursts of uncontrollable emotions"" but ""are in fact complex literary acts""; he details his underwear fetish (""jockey shorts... last far longer than love affairs"") and how he ""stares into the toilet bowl after I poop."" Despite the inoculation of the subtitle, the relentlessly smarmy and self-indulgent prose (""my disgust with the floor is intensified by one of the major obstacles my broom encounters: extension cords"") becomes annoying, despite attempts at shock: ""fucking for me revolves around a rigidly defined ritual based on the allegory of domination and submission."" Such jolts deliver no human insight despite lengthy neo-psychoanalytic ruminations. The idea of reinventing, or reinvigorating, the memoir is terrific, but this is no Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Oh, joy, another writer's memoir. Not quite. Early on, Harris establishes his disgust for the genre and its sudden burgeoning. He instead offers a sort of metamemoir intended to parody such literary reminiscers and the current rage for them. Drawing on his own clever knowledge of critical theory, he regards his life, not just his writings, as text. Oh, he starts with boyhood letters and angst-ridden college journal entries, comparing them to his recent and caustic book reviews, but his everyday life intrudes. How he dresses and laughs and urinates are examined as if he were scientifically studying a newly discovered species. Somehow, despite his disdain for the memoir, his life as a WASP-y gay man of bourgeois propensities peppered with bohemianisms, trying to make it as a writer in New York, peeks through. He confronts the everyday with ease and his own life with honest emotional responses, from ennui to excitement. And he certainly leaves no stone unturned in his paradoxical pursuit of examining his life while attempting to destroy the literary memoir. Michael SpinellaCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""A satisfyingly politically incorrect portrait of a gay man.""	Daniel Harris is the author of Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic as well as The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture. He lives and draws in Brooklyn.",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism & theory;essays;essays & correspondence;gay;gay & lesbian;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;memoirs;movements & periods;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,18
0766835987,"Opening & Operating A Successful Child Care Center Dorothy June Sciarra continues to be an active early childhood educator in a diverse variety of situations. She has served as director of the child development laboratory center at the University of Cincinnati, serving children and families from a wide range of backgrounds. Dr. Sciarra served as department head with responsibility for early childhood associate, bachelor's and master's degree programs. Currently she is involved in several community early childhood efforts including board membership on the University of Cincinnati Early Learning Center. She is active in 4C, A National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agency, and has participated on many of its Agency training committees. Dr. Sciarra is a recipient of the 4C early childhood award and was the first recipient of the Ohio Association for the Education of Young Children's Early Childhood Teacher Educator Award. In 2007, 4C again recognized Dr. Sciarra's work by naming the 4C library in her honor. June Sciarra has mentored many early childhood educators, including coauthor, Anne Dorsey. Together they also wrote Leaders and Supervisors in Child Care Programs published by Thomson Delmar Learning. In 2010, Dr. Sciarra and Professor Dorsey were honored with the United Way Impact Award for their work in promoting appropriate early childhood education.Anne G. Dorsey, M.Ed., is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Cincinnati.  She is a board member for the National Association for Early Childhood Teacher Educators and serves as a board member of OMEP.  Ms. Dorsey is also a member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.  She was awarded Cincinnati Enquirer Woman of the Year.  Ms. Dorsey serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education.",administration;books;business & investing;counseling;early childhood education;education;education & reference;education theory;elementary education;instruction methods;job hunting & careers;new;parenting;parenting & relationships;pedagogy;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;vocational guidance,18
0071398783,"Schaum's Easy Outline Applied Physics McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide",applied;books;curricula;curriculum & instruction;education;education & reference;engineering;new;physics;professional & technical;schools & teaching;science & math;science & mathematics;study guides;studying & workbooks;technology;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,18
0521004586,"Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State During World War II In a scorching scrutiny of African-Americans' wartime experience on the home front during WWII, MIT political science professor Kryder asserts that Franklin Roosevelt's administration did more to correct racial injustice than had any post-Civil War presidency. Nevertheless, charges Kryder, FDR's race policies, while appearing progressive, co-opted protest and served to maintain rather than undermine segregation, because this expedient wartime president's overriding concerns were reelection for the Democratic Party and full mobilization of industrial production. To combat widespread discrimination in defense training, in vocational programs, war-related factory production and federal contracts, FDR in 1941 established the Fair Employment Practices Committee. He also appointed a ""Black Cabinet,"" i.e., a handful of black federal appointees in key advisory roles in industry and the armed services. Yet these measures, focusing on the resolution of individual grievances, were viewed by militant African-American leaders as a mere buffer to pacify blacks rather than to fully integrate them. When black protest escalated, the army defused rebellion within the ranks--by shipping black troops overseas. But in 1943, after insurrections by mistreated black soldiers in Georgia, Texas, Kentucky and California, the War Department invented new policies to prevent or control racial disruptions. These included surveillance, desegregation of post facilities and transport vehicles, and an anti-prejudice indoctrination campaign. Yet FDR's piecemeal reforms, concludes Kryder in this illuminating scholarly study, both energized and subverted the nascent movement for racial equality, creating bureaucratic channels that acted to detour the mass agitation which, two decades later, would secure civil rights. (Feb.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	The title of this otherwise commendable piece of scholarship is misleading--rather than discussing race relations broadly, the book focuses more narrowly on relations between African Americans and the federal government. Philosophically and historically, Kryder (political science, MIT) bases his analysis on Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma (1944). During World War II, he notes, the U.S. government needed to mobilize African American factory workers, farm laborers, and soldiers for the war effort. This, public officials decided, required, in part, some limited racial reform; it also required coercion to achieve the greater good. Kryder does an excellent job of examining the causes and effects of wartime race management and seeks to develop a broader understanding of how government regulates social differences in war. In doing so, to his credit, he avoids simplistic racial arguments and provides an insightful and unique analysis of this period. Highly recommended for academic libraries.-Daniel D. Liestman, Hale Lib., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	The experience of blacks in World War II was a major factor in the civil rights equation of the 1950s. The affronts blacks endured on the home front during the war, and federal reactions to blacks' complaints, are less the focus of Kryder's analysis than his evidence for modeling the states' race policies during a war emergency. Consequently, political-science diction permeates Kryder's book. However, enough narrative muscle hangs on Kryder's academic frame to garner interest. Well-known figures in black history, such as union leader A. Philip Randolph, appear at the interstices between insistence on reforms and the states' imperative to mitigate disruptions to mobilization issuing from racial inequality. The Federal Employment Practices Committee was one expression of the former; an expression of the latter, a racial shoot-out on an Army base in Georgia, attracts Kryder's minute, blow-by-blow examination that shows how fundamental problems were kicked down the road for the postwar years to deal with. A serious work for the serious student.  Gilbert Taylor	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	""Kryder powerfully bursts through the analytic barriers between international and domestic politics, shattering the myth of FDR's wartime racial reforms.  Skillfully revisiting the past, this insightful work lays bare the strategic but evasive efforts to contain a second front at home. War is hell for social policy.""   Anthony W. Marx, Columbia University""Kryder does an excellent job of examining causes and effects of wartime race management and seeks to develop a broader understanding of how government regulates social differences in war....[Kryder] provides an insightful and unique analysis of this period. Highly recommended for academic libraries.""    Library Journal""In Divided Arsenal, the political scientist Daniel Kryder has made an outstanding contribution to analysis of both the US federal government  and African American politics. In his highly original and meticulously researched study, Kryder employs archival material to demonstrate how the US federal government was required, by the demands of wartime mobilization, to address the position of African Americans and how sharply the resultant policies were shaped by the US's racial injustices. For scholars and students of twentieth century American history and African American politics Divided Arsenal will become required reading. I recommend this book highly.""   Desmond King, University of Oxford""...impressive new book...[The author of] Divided Arsenal clearly establish that significant racial progress occurs in spite of - not because of - white morality and that white leaders pursue racial justice primarily out of racial self-interest.""    Black Issues Book Reviews""Divided Arsenal is a commendable piece of scholarship that certainly delivers some new insights into wartime racial tensions and the policies that were crafted to defuse potentially (and sometimes literally) explosive interracial violence.... I strongly recommend the book to anyone interested in the origins of race-specific policy (both civilian and military), the operation of wartime labor markets, or the remarkable political balancing act of the Roosevelt Administration.""   Journal of Economics""An intriguing alternative survey of why reforms were so limited.""    The Midwest Book Review""Divided Arsenal is a well-researched, thoughtfully constructed study and a valuable addition to the literature on African Americans' struggles to achieve equality in the twentieth century.""    The Journal of Military History""...Kryder's extensive research adds to a growing list of state studies analyzing the war's effect on New Deal liberalism. By focusing on Roosevelt's race management style, the author also gives new insight into both the complexity of the New Deal president and the evolution of race management policies during the 20th century.... Dividen Arsenal provides perhaps the most sophisticated and clear analysis of Roosevelt's race management style to date.""   Charles D. Chamberlain, Labor History""Divided Arsenal is a compelling and important analysis of American racial manpower policy in World War II. It advances significantly our understanding of American race relations in this critical period and, more broadly, of the interrelationship among war, the state, and social movements.""   American Political Science Review""This study contributes much to our understanding of the politics of race management during World War II. Kryder has illuminated many dark corners of racial policy formation, revealing the ulterior motives of wartime policy makers who often used African Americans as pawns and were more interested in demands of war mobilization than in racial justice.""   American Historical Review	Divided Arsenal compares the causes and effects of federal race policy during World War II in factories, the Army, and agriculture. Two overarching executive imperatives--the full mobilization of industrial production and the maintenance of the New Deal Coalition--outweigh the goals of interracial reform. The history of industrial employment policies confirms the role of party and war-fighting concerns in both the creation of the Fair Employment Practices Committee and in the committee's subsequent investigative casework. While military racial policies were initially repressive by spurring black soldier resistance, they paradoxically facilitated steps toward desegregation by transforming the executive's calculation of military efficiency.",20th century;african;americas;books;education & reference;government;history;humanities;international & world politics;military;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks;world war ii,18
0782142729,"Mac Digital Photography ""If you want a good book to start with digital photography, Mac Digital Photography is an excellent buy."" -- IT-Enquirer, http://www.it-enquirer.com""This is a great book for those interested in learning about digital photography, especially for Mac users."" -- Dick Baker, The Macintosh Guild, http://mac.excaliburworld.com/reviews/	""this book is an excellent resource for the beginning digital photographer.""MacCompanionThe Essential Companion to Your Digital Camera and Your MacYoull be amazed at what you can create with your digital camera and your Mac. Whether you're making striking portraits or hilarious montages, this book provides the essential tools, techniques, and advice to turn you into a photo pro. Written by two Mac and digital photography experts, Mac Digital Photography explores everything essential to snapping, enhancing, and sharing great digital images.Inside you'll find expert techniques for refining your photo-taking techniques, editing and repairing your images, choosing the right camera peripherals, using your photos for fun craft projects, and sharing your creations with others across the globe or across the room.Mac Digital Photography teaches you how to:Snap high-quality photographs by concentrating on composition, lighting, and posingEnhance your images and fix picture flaws with Photoshop Elements 2 and iPhotoCreate panoramas, 3D images, and poster-sized photographsGet craftyuse your photos for T-shirts, calendars, greeting cards, tattoos, and moreShare your photos via e-mail and the WebMake DVDs, picture CDs, and video CD slide showsPerform special effects such as warping, morphing, and animation	Dennis R. Cohen has coauthored many books on Apple programs and technology, including the iLife Bible, the iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie,  iDVD Bible, the Macworld OS X Bible, and the Macworld Office 2001 Bible.Erica Sadun is an imaging expert and a prominent member of the Macintosh community. Her books for Sybex include the best-selling Digital Photography Essentials: Point, Shoot, Edit, Share, and the upcoming iMovie 3 Solutions: Tips, Tricks, and Special Effects.",apple;arts & photography;books;computer science;computers & technology;digital photography;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;graphics & visualization;home computing & how-to;humanities;new;operating systems;os x;photography;programming;used & rental textbooks;visual arts,18
157392797X,"Close Encounters With the Religious Right: Journeys into the Twilight Zone of Religion and Politics Robert Boston, assistant director of communications for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, is the author of The Most Dangerous Man in America? Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition and Why the Religious Right Is Wrong about Separation of Church and State.",20th century;books;church & state;conservatism & liberalism;elections & political process;general;history;ideologies & doctrines;modern (16th-21st centuries);political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;politics & state;religion;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;world,18
0415905109,"Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University D'Emilio authored one of the pioneering studies of the birth of the gay movement, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities. In this collection, he expands on that work, with forays into gay historiography, the rise of gay and lesbian studies in the university and further explorations of the history of gay and lesbian activism in the U.S. One of the author's greatest strengths is his ability to relate the personal to the political, using an illuminating detail from his own life where applicable to make a larger historical point. Thus, his own early sexual experiences in Times Square come into play in an incisive essay on Women Against Pornography, and the introduction recalls movingly his trajectory from working-class white ethnic kid to gay activist and scholar. Because it is a collection of essays, papers and speeches drawn from a fairly narrow period of time, the book is occasionally repetitive. However, D'Emilio is an engaging writer and a superb historian. The final essay, one of the longest in the book, is a quick history of the movement with particular attention to post-Stonewall (1969) activism; one fervently hopes that it is a hint of what D'Emilio's next book project will be. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Gay historian, author, and activist D'Emilio has collected here 20 of his insightful personal and historical essays on the rise of gay scholarship in the United States. Topics range from the birth of a gay identity in post-World War II America to the crucial role that feminism played in turning the heretofore personal issues of gender and sex into social and political ones. He also scores a few more points in the continuing debate over homosexual behavior vs. gay identity. Positioning himself firmly on the radical side, D'Emilio advocates nothing less than a total reevaluation of our society's sexual paradigm. Although a single voice is heard in these essays, D'Emilio's call for gays and lesbians to move beyond minority status to one of freedom and choice, ""to embark on new journeys of sexual definition,"" may well be the rallying cry for renewed activism in the struggle for social justice. Highly recommended for academic libraries or larger public collections with informed lay readers.- Jeffery Ingram, Newport P.L., Ore.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Positioning himself firmly on the radical side, D'Emilio advocates nothing less than a total reevaluation of our society's sexual paradigm.  Although a single voice is heard in these essays, D'Emilio's call for gays and lesbians to move beyond minority status to one of freedom and choice, `to embark on new journeys of sexual definition,' may well be the rallying cry for renewed activism in the struggle for social justice.Library Journal",americas;books;classics;criticism & theory;gay & lesbian;gay & lesbian studies;history;history & criticism;humanities;literature & fiction;new;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;united states;used & rental textbooks,18
0313299455,Lois Weber: The Director Who Lost Her Way in History (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture) Slide has written a very professional study of one of the great   directors of the silent screen....Most useful to the researchers in   film and in the history of ideas.	ANTHONY SLIDE is the author or editor of more than 50 books on   the history of popular entertainment.,arts & photography;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;communication;communication & journalism;communications;direction & production;education & reference;film & television;humanities;humor & entertainment;language & grammar;movies;new;performing arts;used & rental textbooks;words,18
1931841977,"Internet Security and Firewalls (Networking) V.V. Preetham is the Chief Architect of ConceptUniv in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a Sun Certified Architect, a Sun Certified Java Programmer, a BEA WebLogic Enterprise Developer, a CIW Enterprise Developer, and a Microsoft Certified Product Specialist. He is also an IBM certified specialist on WebSphere 3.5, Visual Age, XML, and UML. He authored Java Web Services Programming and has extensive knowledge of C, C++, C#, and Java.",& telecommunications;books;business & management;certification;comptia;computer science;computers & technology;encryption;groupware;internet;network security;networking;networks;new;privacy;protocols & apis;security & encryption;used & rental textbooks,18
0415921635,"Race in Cyberspace Race in Cyberspace is relevant to a rhetorically-based vision of the field because it opens up opportunities for a more insightful understanding of how race can operate in environments that assume it is- and should be- irrelevant.Adam J. Banks, Technical Communication QuarterlyThis collection is the first scholarly attempt to examine issues of race in 'cyberspace.' A discussion of this subject in any medium has been pressing for more than a decade. Despite the exponential growth of the computer industry and network communications during the last twenty years, considerations of the role of 'race' in the production and popular uses of the technology have been repressed. For breaking the silence, this book will remain an important contribution... This collection will enrich scholar's understanding of race in 'cyberspace'.Maria Fernandez, Callaloo	Beth Kolko is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. Lisa Nakamura is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gilbert B. Rodman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida.",art;books;business & management;communication & journalism;communication & media studies;computer science;computers & technology;culture;humor & entertainment;media studies;minority studies;new;politics & social sciences;pop culture;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,18
0716750457,"Images of Mind (Scientific American Library) Michael I. Posner, one of the world's most respected cognitive psychologists, is professor of Psychology and former Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the University of Oregon in Eugene.Marcus E. Raichle is Professor of Neurology and Radiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and is one of the pioneers in using positron emission tomography.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",basic sciences;behavioral psychology;behavioral sciences;books;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;neurology;neuroscience;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,18
140396534X,"Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works ""We have an opportunity, in this generation, to reduce global poverty, both through acts of charity and by working as citizens to influence public policy. Stephen Smith offers reliable information, stories of success, and good advice on how to get personally involved in this important fight. Read it, and then take action. "" --David Beckmann, President, Bread for the World ""This practical and remarkably hopeful guide to ending world poverty delivers what it promises, clear-headed remedies for heart-breaking conditions. Stephen Smith finds solutions where others see only problems. All who truly place moral values at the top of their agendas will want to read this book. ""--Forrest Church, author of The American Creed and Freedom from Fear""A most comprehensive strategy for fighting poverty-of great interest to activists, scholars, and all who care about those most in need. Clearly written and with much conviction.""--Amitai Etzioni, author of From Empire to Community""Smith's book is a terrific contribution to our understanding of how to improve the well-being of impoverished people. [His] discussion of the keys to poverty traps dispels many popular misconceptions, and helps the reader understand the real issues. This book should help raise the effectiveness of donors, organizations, and governments in their efforts to help those in need."" --Judith M. Dean, International Economist, Washington, DC""Anyone who seeks a better understanding of human poverty should read this book. The author's optimism is a welcome antidote against the skepticism, pessimism and cynicism that often characterizes the debate on global poverty. He also offers a guide for those in rich countries who want to make a difference by supporting aid and relief organizations."" --Jan Vandemoortele, Leader, Poverty Group, United Nations Development Program""The world's leaders have repeatedly promised to tackle poverty on a massive scale, but they always seem to find excuses for failing to mobilize the necessary resources. Stephen Smith shows convincingly that even the poorest of the poor can help themselves - with a little help from the rest of us. Anyone who wants to understand why so many remain trapped in poverty, and what they and we can do about it, should read this inspiring book."" --Ann Florini, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Director of the World Economic Forum's Global Governance Initiative""Get this book. Read it. Step up. Amid a million reasons to shrink away in frustration, Stephen Smith offers a clear and engaging guide to meeting the greatest challenge of our timeand reports on practical innovations that he has witnessed around the world--new ideas that are already in place and working. The book, by a leading voice in development economics, offers simple steps, small and large, to push the fight forward.""--Jonathan Morduch, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and co-author of The Economics of Microfinance""Offers sensible guidelines to both individuals and corporations about how they can help, but its main contribution is to describe the successes of many programs on the ground, ranging from programs to improve nutrition to those working on education or microcredit, often run by local nongovernmental organizations, which have emerged to fill the gaps left by incompetent or corrupt governments."" -Foreign Affairs""A straightforward and accessible book on the causes of poverty and some successful programs for reducing it. Smith reports on a number of successful programs that have helped desperately poor communities overcome those traps. He emphasizes micro-projects that rely on the commitment, ingenuity and hard work of poor people themselves. Smith advocates a bottom-up approach that focuses on community efforts and relies on the generosity and involvement of individuals and non-government organizations."" -Washington Post	""We have an opportunity, in this generation, to reduce global poverty, both through acts of charity and by working as citizens to influence public policy. Stephen Smith offers reliable information, stories of success, and good advice on how to get personally involved in this important fight. Read it, and then take action. "" --David Beckmann, President, Bread for the World ""This practical and remarkably hopeful guide to ending world poverty delivers what it promises, clear-headed remedies for heart-breaking conditions. Stephen Smith finds solutions where others see only problems. All who truly place moral values at the top of their agendas will want to read this book. ""--Forrest Church, author of The American Creed and Freedom from Fear""A most comprehensive strategy for fighting poverty-of great interest to activists, scholars, and all who care about those most in need. Clearly writen and with much convinction.""--Amitai Etzioni, author of From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations""Smith`s book is a terrific contribution to our understanding of how to improve the well-being of impoverished people. It is accessible and informative for anyone who is interested in understanding clearly the fundamental causes of chronic poverty, and the innovative responses by organizations worldwide to address them. Smith`s discussion of the keys to poverty traps dispels many popular misconceptions, and helps the reader understand the real issues. His profiles of successful programs designed to address those traps shows the impact many organizations have already made worldwide, and highlights some of the lessons they have learned in the process. This book should help raise the effectiveness of donors, organizations, and governments in their efforts to help those in need."" --Judith M. Dean, International Economist, Washington, DC; former Associate Professor of Economics, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, and former Board member, World Relief.""Anyone who seeks a better understanding of human poverty should read this book. It provides a rich set of anti-poverty initiatives and programs, ranging from playpumps in South Africa to phone ladies in Bangladesh. The author`s optimism is a welcome antidote against the skepticism, pessimism and cynicism that often characterizes the debate on global poverty. In readable language, he describes the many faces of human poverty and unbundles its complexities at the hand of concrete stories and practical approaches. He also offers a guide for those in rich countries who want to make a difference by supporting aid and relief organizations."" --Jan Vandemoortele, Leader, Poverty Group, United Nations Development Program""The world`s leaders have repeatedly promised to tackle poverty on a massive scale, but they always seem to find excuses for failing to mobilize the necessary resources. Stephen Smith shows convincingly that even the poorest of the poor can help themselves - with a little help from the rest of us. Anyone who wants to understand why so many remain trapped in poverty, and what they and we can do about it, should read this inspiring book."" --Ann Florini, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Director of the World Economic Forum`s Global Governance Initiative""Get this book. Read it. Step up. Amid a million reasons to shrink away in frustration, Stephen Smith offers a clear and engaging guide to meeting the greatest challenge of our time. The book is much more than a call to arms. Smith sifts through the latest research and reports on practical innovations that he has witnessed around the world--new ideas that are already in place and working. The book, by a leading voice in development economics, offers simple steps, small and large, to push the fight forward.""--Jonathan Morduch, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and co-author of The Economics of Microfinance""Offers sensible guidelines to both individuals and corporations about how they can help, but its main contribution is to describe the successes of many programs on the ground, ranging from programs to improve nutrition to those working on education or microcredit, often run by local nongovernmental organizations, which have emerged to fill the gaps left by incompetent or corrupt governments."" -Foreign Affairs""A straightforward and accessible book on the causes of poverty and some successful programs for reducing it. Ending Global Poverty (Palgrave), in fact, takes as its starting point the fact that pockets of intense poverty can persist even within growing economies because of self-reinforcing ""traps"" such as illiteracy, overpopulation and a lack of working capital. Smith reports on a number of successful programs that have helped desperately poor communities overcome those traps. He emphasizes micro-projects that rely on the commitment, ingenuity and hard work of poor people themselves. The book is part of a growing literature that questions the top-down approach taken by the United Nations, World Bank and regional development banks to alleviate poverty through major infrastructure projects, deregulation and reform of national economic institutions. Smith advocates a bottom-up approach that focuses on community efforts and relies on the generosity and involvement of individuals and non-government organizations."" -Washington Post	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Stephen C. Smith is Professor of Economics at George Washington University. He lives in Reston, Virginia.",books;business & finance;business & investing;economic theory;economics;international;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;popular economics;poverty;public affairs & policy;public policy;social policy;social sciences;theory;used & rental textbooks,18
020135411X,"Authorware 5 Attain Authorized (2nd Edition) Authorware 5 Attain Authorized includes step-by-step instructions for creating visual-rich media for the Web and online learning. Presented in manageable task-oriented sessions, users can work through the lessons at their own pace. The CD-ROM contains all the files you'll need to complete the lessons, plus a full-feature, time-limited version of Authorware 5 Attain.	Orson Kellogg designs and develops instructional and marketing interactive media. His work -- on behalf of such companies as Autodesk, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Sun, and Symantec - has won three awards from the Society for Technical Communication.	Using Map Icons to Organize the Flowline Before you build a hot spot interaction, you need to prepare the Design window for your new work. Your first task will be to create two map icons to hold two groups of related icons from the two previous lessons. A map icon's purpose is to contain other icons and thereby break the flowline into manageable segments.  You'll start by selecting the first group of icons with the mouse.  1] Open 05_Begin.a5p in the Beginning Files folder and save it as 05_Game.a5p in the Game Project folder. Alternatively, you can use the file you worked on in the previous lesson and save it as 05_Game.a5p. 2] In the Design window, move the mouse so it is just above and to the left of the second display icon, Text 1.You need to draw a rectangle around the first group of icons you want to place in a map icon.  3] Click and hold down the mouse button to draw a rectangle around all the icons starting with Text 1 and including - All Text. When you release the mouse button, the selected icons are highlighted. This selection method is called marquee selection. These icons contain the opening animation. 4] Choose Modify  Group (Ctrl+G).Now the map icon encompasses the selected icons. The main flowline is much shorter. 5] Double-click the map icon. As you can see, the selected icons are stored inside. Using a map icon to hold a group of related individual icons is the main technique you will use to organize and condense the flowline in Authorware. 6] Click the close box at the upper right to close the map window. Then name the map icon Opening. Now you'll create another map icon containing the keypress interaction from the previous lesson.  7] In the Design window, marquee select all the icons in the keypress interaction. When you release the mouse button, the icons are highlighted.  8] Choose Modify  Group to group the selected icons. Note that the title of the interaction icon becomes the title of the map icon. You've just reduced the number of icons on the main flowline from 15 to 4 using two map icons. Keeping the flowline organized like this is essential to successful Authorware development.  Storing Content Off the Flowline with a Decision Icon In this task you'll take one more step in preparing for the main work of this lesson. Your key tool will be the decision icon, which is generally used to branch, or select a path, based on some value or expression, such as a user's score on a pretest or the type of computer running the piece. In this case, you'll use a decision icon to temporarily store content off the flowline. To do this, you'll create a decision icon that doesn't branch at all-which might seem puzzling at first, but the logic is simple, as you will see. You attach icons to a decision icon just as you do to an interaction icon.  1] Drag a decision icon to the flowline just below the Keypress map icon and name it Temp. Storage. Next you'll set some of the properties of the decision icon.  2] Double-click the Temp. Storage decision icon to open the Decision Icon Properties dialog box. Decision icons determine which content is displayed to users, but unlike a display or interaction icon, they don't contain content themselves, so when you double-click a decision icon, you go directly to its dialog box.  3] Open the Branch menu. The power of the decision icon lies mainly in the branching options. Before you attach icons to a decision icon, you can choose branching options that determine which path the flowline will follow. The first icon attached to a decision icon is considered to be path 1, the second icon is path 2, and so on. The Branch menu contains four options.  The option you choose is represented by a letter on the decision icon.  Sequentially (S on the decision icon): Selects the first path the first time Authorware encounters the decision icon, the second path the second time, and so on. Randomly to Any Path (R): Selects any path at random.  Randomly to Any Unused Path (U): Selects any path the first time, but doesn't select the same path twice until all paths have been selected.  To Calculated Path (C): Selects a path specified by a value, variable, or expression you enter.  4] Select To Calculated Path. The box below the Branch box is no longer dimmed; it is now available for you to enter a value or expression.  5] Type 0 as the value for the calculated path. A path set to 0 is actually no path. When you attach icons to this decision icon, Authorware will ignore them as it moves down the flowline.  6] Click OK to close the dialog box. Next you'll attach the two map icons you created earlier to the decision icon, creating paths 1 and 2.  7] Drag the Opening map icon to the right of the Temp. Storage decision icon. You attach icons to the right of a decision icon, just as you do with interaction icons. When you attach an icon to a decision icon, the resulting flowline structure represents the path from the decision icon, through the attached icon, and back to the flowline below. The symbol above the Opening map icon is the decision path symbol. 8] Drag the Keypress map icon to the right of the Opening map icon. As long as the calculated path is set to 0, Authorware will bypass the content in both the map icons you've attached to the Temp. Storage decision icon. Having completed two sections of this piece, you have temporarily set them aside. Yet just by dragging the two map icons back to the main flowline, you can include all the content in the two map icons in the piece again. This is a simple way to manage the content in a piece as it gets larger, and it helps you stay focused on the part that you're working on.",books;computer science;computers & technology;electronic documents;graphic design;networking;networks;new;object-oriented design;object-oriented software design;programming;protocols & apis;software;software design;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design,18
0273663976,"The Definitive Guide to Project Management: Every executives fast-track to delivering on time and on budget Knowing that you're managing a project that is going well is a good feeling. That moment when you know that its going to happen on time, that its avoided the pitfalls and delays that could have derailed it, and that people and resources have come together surely and smoothly, is a moment to savour. Fortunately, its a very achievable moment if you have mastered the tools and techniques of great project management. Developed from the day-to-day experiences of real project managers facing real organizational and logistical challenges, this book is designed to put you on a fast-track to managing projects of every shape and size with speed and accuracy.  The Definitive Guide to Project Management will show you, step by step, how to deliver the right projects in the right way at the right time, while keeping your life balance. Using the principles of both traditional and critical chain project management, the authors help you master the essentials of good project management and then explore the sitiations where good projects and good business meet. How to manage risks and politics; how to demonstrate the value added by a project; how to communicate upwards and downwards in project teams; how to energize projects; how to turn failing projects around; and how to spot likely problem projects. As well as covering all the conceptual tools needed for project management, this book pays special attention to the soft issues involved - how to manage the people side of project management. Inside you will find key questions, step-by-step guidance and action checklists to help with each stage of a well-executed project:  Before you start  Planning  Preliminary Definition  Full Definition  Design  Build and test  Implementation  Shutdown and review  With The Definitive Guide to Project Management, you can deliver results on time, every time.	Sebastian was edcucated at Birkbeck  Imperial Colleges, University of London and has an MSc in finance from the London Business School. He was trained in investment banks, the insurance industry, the IT industry and publishing.Sebastian is the author of a number of business books published by Pearson Education.",accounting;books;business;business & finance;business & investing;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;management;management & leadership;management science;manager's guides to computing;new;pmp exam;project management;software;used & rental textbooks,18
067232220X,"Commerce Server 2000: Building e-Business Solutions This book introduces concepts and capabilities new to Commerce Server 2000 and gives readers all the tools needed to implement Commerce Server solutions on their own systems. The book guides readers from installation through creation of a store by exploring various customization scenarios. The author's approach focuses on the hands-on details of how Commerce Server can be employed out-of-the-box, and explores reasons and methods for customization. The book will include case studies to illustrate key issues and problems, with solution sections explaining different alternatives.	Gopal Sreeraman is a Senior Consultant in the Emerging and Integrating   Technologies service line of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP's Management Consulting   Services. He routinely works with challenging projects for many Fortune 500   clients. However, he remembers consulting for quite a few small companies, too,   during the boom! Gopal's recent engagements have been focussed around content   management, portal infrastructure, and custom Internet applications. He also   contributes to IEEE journals in the area of Systems Engineering. In his spare   time, he is probably watching one of the original 80 Star Trek episodes for the   nth time while the fight for the remote continues at home!",books;business;business & investing;computers & technology;database design;databases;e-commerce;home computing & how-to;internet & web culture;marketing;marketing & sales;microsoft;multilevel;networking;software;web design;web development & design;web services,18
1931841942,"Data Structures for Game Programmers (Premier Press Game Development) Ron Penton is an independent programmer with a primary interest in computer games.  He began using GW-BASIC in 1989, moved on to Visual Basic 4 in 1995, QBasic in 1996, and learned C++ in 1997.  Ron began working on his degree in 1998 at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and is working on completing his Bachelors in Computer Science at the University of Buffalo. Ron contributed a chapter in the book titled Game Programming All in One published by Premier Press.",algorithms;books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;game programming;games & strategy guides;graphic design;graphics & visualization;humor & entertainment;networking;new;programming;programming languages;puzzles & games;software;used & rental textbooks;video & electronic games,18
0231115067,"The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith ""Our species is not the creation of design but the result of accumulated errors."" Robert Pollack is a molecular geneticist and a Jew, who realizes that his two belief systems have a certain conflict: ""Evolution through natural selection explains certain facts of life that touch on matters of meaning and purpose,"" but he finds that ""the vision of the natural world these explanations produce is simply too terrifying and depressing to me to be borne without the emotional buffer of my own religion."" Pollack is not exactly trying to reconcile religion and science, but he's trying to show how each can illuminate the other, protecting them from their greatest weakness, dogma--thinking you have all the answers. He argues that ""current practices of my religion of Judaism would contribute to an improvement in medical care."" In particular, doctors should make room for patients to feel and express free will, to make their own choices and not bow to an illusionary inevitable. He also feels we should forsake the idea of a mind-body split, and give the placebo effect the respect it deserves--not as a way to ""fool"" the patient's body into getting well, but as an acknowledgement that treating the mind is part of treating the body. Pollack's hope is that science and religion can pull together, so that medicine is practiced ""when the doctor keeps all tools of science at her fingertips, when the meaning of those tools is given by the mysterious capacity for free will, and the choice to use them to preserve another person's life and health, and when the person who uses these tools for that purpose knows herself to be no different in any important way from her patient."" --Mary Ellen Curtin	This fresh and unassuming look at natural selection and genetics from a Jewish perspective successfully departs from the mainstream theology-and-science literature, ringing true in spite of some theoretical gaps. Molecular biologist Robert Pollack, a recognized researcher and science commentator, wrestles with the disharmony between the ""purposeless"" worldview of evolutionary biology and the human need, reflected in both religion and medicine, to interpret life as meaningful. Pollack's goal is not to reconcile these competing claims, but to make room for both by cultivating ""acceptance"" of both scientific naturalism and religious or ethical feelings that grope beyond the limits of rational knowledge. After describing and defending a sphere of the ""unknowable"" that includes concepts of God, free will and the meaning of life, Pollack addresses more specific concerns about his field of molecular genetics, where what is technologically possible often runs ahead of respect for diversity and free will. Pollack's insights are original and often engagingly personal, conveying the authentic flavor of his passionate engagements with both biology and his Jewish faith. With disarming honesty, he admits to past missteps and the limits of his perspective. His thoughtfulness and candor should be appreciated by readers whose commitments to science, religion or medicine involve them in similar conflicts, although many will be uncomfortable with the cognitive dissonance he is willing to embrace. (Nov.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In this series of recent lectures, Pollack lucidly explores the interface between science and religion, and thoughtfully discusses the bioethical issues that loom large as the twenty-first century begins. Drawing on his own faith and his work in molecular biology, he highlights striking parallels between the seemingly disparate practices of science and Torah study, paying particular attention to experiences of insight and revelation that he characterizes as ""gifts of the unknowable."" He makes recent developments in biological science, particularly genetics, accessible to a general audience, but his unique gift lies in setting those developments in a context of meaning derived from elegant, unassuming reflection on his faith as it has developed during a lifetime devoted to science--a devotion that, in the end, looks like what he calls ""the science of one lifetime at a time."" Pollack models an approach to bioethics that makes a humanizing contribution to an expanding public-policy debate, in which informed and engaged nonspecialists, aided by him, should participate on equal footing with the experts. Steven SchroederCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Pollack's book is enigmatic and provocative... [He] argues for the value of religious or spiritual insights in making decisions about DNA research and other aspects of medical biology... [and] shows that good medicine is as much a religious as well as a scientific exercise. (Tikkun)Pollack, distinguished as a clear persuasive writer on the biological sciences, makes a challenging entry into the developing academic field of science and religion with  The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith. His mix of cutting-edge life science and open-minded Judaic exploration is original, meaty, and moving. (Herman Wouk)A thought-provoking and refreshingly good read. (Biologist)Pollack's short book is a thoughtful addition to current efforts to integrate the messages of objective science and subjective spirituality. (Network)Pollack's insights are original and often engagingly personal, conveying the authentic flavor of his passionate engagements with both biology and his Jewish faith. (Publishers Weekly)Pollack lucidly explores the interface between science and religion, and thoughtfully discusses the bioethical issues that loom large as the twenty-first century begins. Drawing on his own faith and his work in molecular biology, he highlights striking parallels between the seemingly disparate practices of science and Torah study. (Booklist)Pollack writes gracefully, and is able to make science, in particular, molecular biology, accessible to the layman. His approach is original and provocative, as he brings emotions and religious experience to the scientific discourse. (Sandee Brawarsky The Jewish Week)	Out of Robert Pollack's personal struggles with the seeming logic of memes and his own Jewish observance emerges this thoughtful plea for a reconciliation of religion and medicine. (Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Laureate)	Robert Pollack is professor of biological sciences at Columbia University. His books include  The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science and  Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA.",behavioral sciences;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;cognitive psychology;education & reference;history & philosophy;humanities;judaism;new;religion & spirituality;religious studies;science & math;science & mathematics;science & religion;theology;used & rental textbooks,18
0345472500,"The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB Bearden, who headed up the CIA's Soviet/ Eastern European  division as the Soviet Union was coming undone, joins with  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Risen to chronicle those  fateful years.    Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE MAIN ENEMYRisen, the journalistic outsider, and Bearden, the clandestine insider, have combined their insight and knowledge to give us a compelling account of the last fierce days of Cold War machinations between Soviet and American intelligence. This is history very up close and very personal. --Seymour M. HershFascinating stuff . . . an inside view of a complex world . . . it doesn't get any better than this. It's great. --Robert De NiroSome study war from an armchair; others through field glasses. The best go into the firing line. Milt Bearden of the CIA was one of those. For those of us who recall the Cold War, this is fascinating stuff. For those who are too young, read and learn.--Frederick Forsyth, author of The Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of WarFrom the Hardcover edition.	A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them.Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts us inside the heads of CIA officers as they dodge surveillance and walk into violent ambushes in Moscow. This is the story of the generation of spies who came of age in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis and rose through the ranks to run the CIA and KGB in the last days of the Cold War. The clandestine operations they masterminded took them from the sewers of Moscow to the back streets of Baghdad, from Cairo and Havana to Prague and Berlin, but the action centers on Washington, starting in the infamous ""Year of the Spy""--when, one by one, the CIA's agents in Moscow began to be killed, up through to the very last man.Behind the scenes with the CIA's covert operations in Afghanistan, Milt Bearden led America to victory in the secret war against the Soviets, and for the first time he reveals here what he did and whom America backed, and why. Bearden was called back to Washington after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and was made chief of the Soviet/East Euro-pean Divisionjust in time to witness the fall of the Berlin Wall, the revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe, and the implosion of the Soviet Union.Laced with startling revelations--about fail-safe top-secret back channels between the CIA and KGB, double and triple agents, covert operations in Berlin and Prague, and the fateful autumn of 1989--The Main Enemy is history at its action-packed best.From the Hardcover edition.	ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE MAIN ENEMYRisen, the journalistic outsider, and Bearden, the clandestine insider, have combined their insight and knowledge to give us a compelling account of the last fierce days of Cold War machinations between Soviet and American intelligence. This is history very up close and very personal. --Seymour M. HershFascinating stuff . . . an inside view of a complex world . . . it doesn't get any better than this. It's great. --Robert De NiroSome study war from an armchair; others through field glasses. The best go into the firing line. Milt Bearden of the CIA was one of those. For those of us who recall the Cold War, this is fascinating stuff. For those who are too young, read and learn.--Frederick Forsyth, author of The Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of War	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A thirty-year veteran of the CIAs clandestine services, Milt Bearden was chief of the Soviet/East European Division at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union. As CIA chief in Pakistan, he supplied the Afghan freedom fighters who overthrew the Soviets. He received the Donovan Award and the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the CIA's highest honor. He is featured in the Discovery Channel's Secret Warriors and the BBC's Covert Action. He was born in Oklahoma and spent his childhood in Washington State, where his father worked on the Manhattan Project. He served in the Air Force before joining the CIA in 1964 and currently lives outside Washington, D.C., with his French-born wife.James Risen covers national security for The New York Times. He was a member of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2002 for coverage of September 11 and terrorism, and he is coauthor of Wrath of Angels. He lives outside Washington, D.C., with his wife and three sons.From the Hardcover edition.	PART ONETHE YEAR OF THE SPYWashington, D.C., 1830 Hours, June 13, 1985There was nothing more he could do, Burton Gerber told himself again. The run had been choreographed like a ballet, of this he was certain. He had imposed his own iron discipline on the night's operation and had personally signed off on every detail, every gesture. Now that the route had been selected, he could close his eyes and visualize each intersection.Gerber knew Moscow as well as any American, and from the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters half a world away, he routinely insisted on approving each turn to be followed on the operational run from Moscow's city center through the bleak outer neighborhoods. Night after night during his own years in Moscow, he had taken his wife, Rosalie, to obscure Russian theaters in distant parts of town rarely frequented by foreigners. His knowledge of Russian and his reputation as a movie buff had served him well. A good case officer has to learn his city, he told himself.From his office in Langley, Virginia, Gerber had approved the script for the conversation that was to take place at the end of tonight's run, during the ten-minute meeting in the shadows of the Stalinist apartment blocks on Kastanayevskaya Street that was the sole object of the operation. Finally, Gerber had demanded that rigorous rehearsals be conducted inside the cramped working spaces on the fifth floor of the U.S. embassy in Moscow before the run was launched.A wraith-thin Midwesterner, Jesuitical in his approach to his work, Gerber was one of the most demanding spymasters the CIA had ever sent against its main enemy, the Soviet Union's KGB. As chief of the CIA's Soviet/East European Division for the past year, he had made his mark. His exacting attention to the details of espionage tradecraft and his impatience with those who failed to meet his standards were legendary. Some critics called him a screamer who berated subordinates, but most respected his single-minded devotion to his job and, in an old-fashioned sense, to duty. Gerber was a complex man who evoked a jumble of emotions from those who worked for him. Longtime Soviet/East European hands studied him with the same intensity they brought to their analysis of the Soviet leaders in the Kremlin. What were they to make of a man whose greatest avocation was for the care, feeding, and preservation of wild wolves?The truth was that Burton Gerber was a deeply spiritual man, a Roman Catholic who felt a moral obligation to the Russian agents he and his case officers were running. He lit a candle at Mass for each one of his agents unmasked and arrested by the KGB. He had come home from serving as station chief in Moscow three years earlier, so he understood the dangers of operating inside the Soviet bloc better than most at CIA headquarters. He believed that nothing less than perfection was owed to America's Russian agents, and if he yelled at case officers who failed to meet his standards, so be it. Cable traffic between Langley and Moscow was frequently dominated by a tense running debate between Gerber and his Moscow station chief, Murat Natirboff, over the minutiae of operations. There were some in SE Division who whispered that Natirboff was miscast as Moscow station chief, and it was increasingly clear that Gerber didn't trust him to get things done right. He seemed to believe he had to run Moscow operations himself-so much so that to some within SE Division, it sometimes felt as if Burton Gerber had never left Moscow.But at some level, beneath the rigorous precision so necessary to a successful spy, Gerber also believed in both faith and fate. And so, after he signed off on the night's run, he closed the door to his fifth-floor office at CIA headquarters and smoothly turned his mind to other duties.It was almost perfect late spring weather in Washington. The day was ending quietly as Gerber left for his home in a graceful old apartment building in Washington's Kalorama neighborhood. He had planned a modest dinner that night, after which he had promised to join a night training exercise.At the very moment one of his officers would be winding his way through Moscow to meet the CIA's most valuable Soviet spy, Gerber would be watching green trainees playacting espionage on the streets of Washington. Better, he thought, that he devote his time to making certain that the next crop of officers be properly schooled than waste his energy fretting over details of a run he could no longer control. Gerber willed himself to stop worrying, to move on.This was no routine training course, to be sure. Like the Navy's famed Top Gun school for fighter pilots, the CIA's Internal Operations course was the most arduous training program the agency had to offer. It was restricted to a handpicked elite-case officers slated for assignments in Moscow, Warsaw, Prague, and other capital cities in the Soviet empire. These were among the most difficult jobs in the CIA. The physical and mental stresses that came with the constant surveillance, the threat of exposure and arrest, meant that inside work was a young case officer's game.After searching for some time for new tactics to defeat the KGB's suffocating surveillance in Moscow, the agency hit upon the idea of adding some green officers to the Moscow pipeline, recruits who wouldn't be easily recognized from other tours of duty. The decision to send rookies to Moscow placed an added burden on the IO course. It had to provide the most realistic training possible for officers who had never before faced a hostile opposition, much less the professional spy catchers of the KGB's Second and Seventh Chief Directorates.Run by Jack Platt, a gruff ex-Marine and longtime Soviet targets officer, the six-week course simulated Moscow Rules. The new case officers had to pass messages and receive documents from spies even as they were being trailed through Washington by teams of FBI agents playing the part of a hostile counterintelligence service. The FBI agents played hard-because the course kept them sharp for following real Soviet spies. Still, the best-trained CIA officers in the course could defeat the FBI, often through the use of sophisticated electronic devices, such as burst transmission equipment, that allowed them to pass messages without face-to-face contact.But the FBI always had a lesson in store. The trainees-often with their spouses in tow-would go out on what they thought was an ordinary operation and walk into an explosive surprise arrest. They'd be roughed up and charged with drug dealing by FBI agents who were totally convincing in making it seem as though the bust had nothing to do with the IO course. After a few hours of questioning, only the most controlled students had the will to hold back their CIA connections. Invariably, some would try to talk their way out by explaining that there had been some horrible mistake: You see, Officer, I was loitering on a deserted street corner late at night with this woman, who happens to be my wife, as part of a CIA training exercise, not to sell drugs.Gerber had invited Jim Olson, who had served with him in Moscow, to join him for dinner before they both went and played their parts in the training exercise. Olson, chief of internal operations for the Soviet Division, had amassed a remarkable record in Moscow and was now one of Gerber's most trusted lieutenants. But when he arrived at Gerber's apartment, Olson brought devastating news: Paul Stombaugh had been arrested in Moscow.Olson's words hit Gerber like a gut shot. He knew instinctively what Stombaugh's arrest meant: The CIA's most important spy in twenty-five years had been rolled up by the KGB. It meant that Adolf Tolkachev, the billion-dollar agent, code-named GTVANQUISH, the man Stombaugh was supposed to meet, had been fatally compromised.Typically, when an operation was carried off successfully in the heart of Moscow, right in the middle of a rolling sea of KGB surveillance, Langley wouldn't hear about it until the next morning. To keep the KGB from guessing that an important operation was under way, case officers returning from a late-night run would simply get black, disappear into the city, and wait until the next morning to reinsert themselves into their cover jobs at the embassy. So only when the officer reported to work the next day would he go through a thorough debriefing, while the tape recordings of his brief encounter with the agent were transcribed.That was when a flurry of messages would come pulsing into Langley, providing the details of how the run had unfolded the night before. Adrenaline would be pumping across the cable traffic, and well into the next day it would infect the small circle in the SE Division managing the case. Days later, the tape recordings of the agent meeting would arrive by diplomatic pouch, allowing senior SE Division managers to hear the tense voices and feel the strained emotions of the Moscow street encounter for themselves. They could then try to gauge the state of mind of an agent most of them had never met, as well as the performance of a case officer trying to ask all the right questions while constantly scanning his surroundings for signs of the KGB.Success took a while to percolate through the system. But word of failure came quickly. It would originate in Moscow in the middle of the night, a clipped cable chasing the sun and arriving in Washington in the early evening. The first sign of trouble might come from the wife of a Moscow officer, signaling that her husband had failed to return home on schedule. A few hours later, confirmation would come that the officer had been arrested and that a consular officer from the embassy had been dispatched to secure his release from the KGB's Lubyanka Center at #2 Dzerzhinsky. Tonight's message, Gerber knew, meant that Stombaugh, a young former FBI agent now on his first CIA tour, had been ambushed while tracing the run that he had choreographed so carefully.Gerber made...",20th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;espionage;european;history;intelligence & espionage;international & world politics;military;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;russia;russian & former soviet union;specific topics;true accounts;united states,18
0521663164,"Freud's Literary Culture (Cambridge Studies in German) ""Frankland...is the only scholar to date to aspire to exhaustive treatment of Freud's complicated involvement with literature....a valuable resource.""   Choice""Freud's Literary Culture is a truly remarkable book that will stir the reader to reread Freud's work from a fresh point fo view....Freud's Literary Culture is a wonderfully stimulating and extraordinary comprehensive study of nonclinical influences on Freud's work.""   Psychoanalytic Quarterly	This original book investigates the role played by literature in Sigmund Freud's creation and development of psychoanalysis. Graham Frankland analyses the whole range of Freud's own texts from a literary-critical perspective, providing a comprehensive reappraisal of his life's work. His study reveals how Freud was deeply rooted in European literary tradition, examining in detail the rhetoric and imagery of his writing, the influence of literary criticism on his approach to analysing patients and his creation of psychoanalytical 'novels', quasi-literary fictions fraught with profoundly personal subtexts.",books;british;criticism & theory;european;fitness & dieting;health;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;medical books;new;psychoanalysis;psychology;psychology & counseling;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;world literature,18
0521425263,"The Adaptive Decision Maker ""The Adaptive Decision Maker provides a compelling overview of the empirical results and conceptual framework that the authors have been pursuing in their research program over the last fifteen years.  The effort-accuracy framework represents an attempt to shift the research agenda from demonstrations of `irrationality' in the form of heuristics and biases to an understanding of the causal mechanisms underlying the behavior...a significant work for the field of behavioral decision making as a whole.""   John Carroll, Massachusetts Institute of Technology""...a framework for showing that an accuracy-effort approach to understanding how people decide to decide is a powerful one for understanding decision-making processes.""   Marketing News""...The effort-accuracy perspective outlined in this book has considerable merit as a model of how decision makers cope with cognitive limitations.  As such, it provides insight about where and when decision heuristics will produce errors...provides a valuable contribution to our grasp of these issues.""   Contemporary Psychology""...a unique work in the study of human decision processes.  The book is suitable reading for researchers and graduate students who study decision making from either a descriptive or normative perspective.  It would also serve as an excellent source of discussion in graduate and advanced undergraduate seminars in decision research.""   Andre Kushniruk, Journal of Mathematical Psychology""...highlights the intricacies of choice environments and demonstrates how we can begin to systematically assess the usefulness of various heuristics both to understand and to improve human decision making.""   Sandra L. Schneider, American Journal of Psychology	Arguing that people use a variety of strategies when making judgments and choices, this study demonstrates how decision makers balance effort and accuracy considerations and predicts which strategy will be used in a given situation.",behavioral sciences;books;cognitive psychology;fitness & dieting;health;humanities;inspirational;motivational;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality;religious studies;science & math;self-help;social sciences;spirituality;used & rental textbooks,18
0822325934,"Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century I am Reyita, a regular, ordinary person. A natural person, respectful, helpful, decent, affectionate, and very independent. For my mother, it was an embarrassment, that Iof her four daughterswas the only black one. I always felt the difference between us, because she didnt have as much affection for me as she did for my sisters. . . . I was the victim of terrible discrimination from my mother. And if you add that to the situation in Cuba, you can understand why I never wanted a black husband. I had good reason, you know. I didnt want to have children as black as me, so that no one would look down on them, no one would harass and humiliate them. Oh, God only knows! I didnt want my children to suffer what Id had to suffer.from ReyitaThis joyous, amusing, and self-reflective blending of personal, family, and community life is a splendid example of the testimonio genre which Cuban authors have pioneered. Like Miguel Barnets classic Autobiography of a Runaway Slave this book is obligatory reading for those of us interested in life histories, racism, subaltern studies, and Latin American history.Barry Carr, La Trobe University	This joyous, amusing, and self-reflective blending of personal, family, and community life is a splendid example of the testimonio genre which Cuban authors have pioneered. Like Miguel Barnets classic Autobiography of a Runaway Slave this book is obligatory reading for those of us interested in life histories, racism, subaltern studies, and Latin American history.Barry Carr, La Trobe University	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Mara de los Reyes Castillo Bueno (19021997) was a mother, laborer, and activist living in Cuba during the twentieth century.Daisy Rubiera Castillo, the authors daughter, is founder of the Fernando Ortiz African Cultural Centre in Santiago de Cuba. In addition to the Spanish edition of Reyita, published in 1997, she is the author of Black Women in Cuba: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries.	I am Reyita, a regular, ordinary person. A natural person, respectful, helpful, decent, affectionate, and very independent. For my mother, it was an embarrassment, that Iof her four daughterswas the only black one. I always felt the difference between us, because she didnt have as much affection for me as she did for my sisters. . . . I was the victim of terrible discrimination from my mother. And if you add that to the situation in Cuba, you can understand why I never wanted a black husband. I had good reason, you know. I didnt want to have children as black as me, so that no one would look down on them, no one would harass and humiliate them. Oh, God only knows! I didnt want my children to suffer what Id had to suffer.from Reyita	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;caribbean & west indies;central america;cuba;ethnic & national;history;humanities;latin america;minority studies;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;specific groups;used & rental textbooks;women,18
0865436010,"Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa received ""Special Commendation"" in the 1996 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. The book was praised by the jury for ""combining in an indigenous way the study of geometry with that of the visual arts, presenting an important challenge and stimulant to the future of mathematics in relation to gender and race, and erases the borders between mathematics and popular culture as experienced in the work and crafts of women in South Africa. The book's importance lies in its prospective impact on the education of African women in mathematics."" Africa needs to awaken and nurture its magnificent creative potential. African women, constituting half of the population, are strongly under-represented in scientific and technological careers where mathematics plays an important role. Women themselves appear to lack the confidence to take up studies in the science fields that have been considered male domains in Europe and throughout colonial Africa. Ironically, however, outside this context, Southern African women have traditionally been involved in cultural activities - such as ceramics, beading, mural decoration, mat and basket weaving, hair braiding, tattooing, string figures - which bear a striking artistic and mathematical character. The main objective of the book is to call attention to some mathematical ideas incorporated in the patterns invented by women of Southern Africa. An appreciation of these mathematical traditions may lead to their preservation, revival and development. Use of female art traditional forms has implications in the field of mathematics education.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Paulus Gerdes, a Mozambican scientist, is a professor of mathematics at Mozambique's Universidade Pecdaogica, where he was rector of the University from 1989-1996. He was the 1986 chairman of Commission of History of Mathematics in Africa and from 1991 to 1995 was the Secretary of the Southem African Mathematical Sciences Association. He has published several other books on mathematics and mathematics education in Africa.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Preface - African peoples and countries in general, and those in Southern Africa entering the post-apartheid era in particular, are facing the urgent need to awaken and nurture their magnificent potential for the benefit of all. Women, constituting half of the population, are still strongly under-represented in scientific and technological careers where mathematical ideas play an important role. For instance, only 2096 of the mathematicians and mathematics educators included in the ""Who is Who in Mathematics and Mathematics Education in Southern Africa"" (Gerdes ed., 1992, 1993) are women. Lydia Makhubu, chemist and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Swaziland, points out that in addition to other sociocultural obsta- cles, women themselves appear to lack the confidence to take up studies in the science fields that have - in the context of school tra- ditions transplanted from Europe to Africa - been considered male domains (cf. Makhubu, 1991, p. 143). Outside the context of the forcibly imported school, however, Southern African women have traditionally been involved in cultural activities - such as ceram- ics, beading, mural decoration, basket weaving, hair braiding, tattooing, string figures - which bear a strong artistic and mathematical character. Although the mathematical aspects of these traditional cultural activities have so far not, or hardly, been recognised by 'Academia', this does not render them less mathematical. After all, what is mathematics all about?   The famous number theorist, Hardy, once wrote that ""A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."" and ""The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. The ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics"" (Hardy, 1940, p. 84, 85). Along the same lines go the remarks of the Cameroonean mathematician Njock: ""Pure mathematics is the art of creating and imaginating. In this sense black art is mathematics"" (Njock, 1985, p. 8). Southern African women have created and continue to create, invent, and imaginate beautiful patterns. The main objective of the book Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa is to call attention to some mathematical aspects and ideas incorporated in the pat- terns invented by women in Southern Africa. It is our wish to contribute to the valuing, revival and development of traditions which may otherwise vanish.  In an earlier book ""Sipatsi: Technology, Art and Geometry in Inhambane"" (1994) it was first explained which mathematical ideas are involved in the weaving of sipatsi handbags by Gitonga speaking women in the Mozambican province of Inhambane. Then a catalogue of strip patterns with which the basketweavers decorate their sipatsi was presented, followed by examples of an educational and mathematical exploration of these handbags. With the publication of Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa it is hoped to stimulate research all over the region, such as that which led to ""Sipatsi: Technology, Art and Geometry in Inhambane"": fieldwork, pattern gathering and analysis, and educational experimentation. The suggestions presented in this book attempt to support the preparation of further initiatives which may contribute to a fuller realization of the mathematical potential of women (and men) in Southern Africa, and to - what Africa so urgently needs, in the words of the well- known historian Ki-Zerbo - a ""new educational system, properly rooted in both society and environment, and therefore apt to generate the self-confidence from which imagination springs "" (Ki-Zerbo, 1990, p.104). Several of the suggestions were briefly presented earlier at conferences and talks in Swaziland (University of Swaziland, Kwaluseni, 1992; Waterford College, Mbabane, 1993), Lesotho (SAMSA Symposium, Maseru, 1986; National University of Lesotho, 1980, 1995), Botswana (SAMSA Symposium, Gaborone, 1993), South Africa (AMESA-lectures in Durban, Cape 1bwn, Johannesburg, 1994). Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa is dedicated to all the artists, artisans and geometers who create the fascinating worlds of sipatsi, titja, mafielo, oku-taleka, nembo, ovilame, litema, ikghuptu, ...  Maputo, March 27, 1995 Paulus Gerdes  Universidade Pedagogica  C.P. g15, Maputo, Mozambique  The first edition of Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa was published in 1995 by Mozambique's 'Universidade Pedagogica'. In this new edition by Africa World Press, the book is extended with an appendix (an initial response to a challenge made in the first edition) written by Salimo Saide, one of my former students at the 'Universidade Pedagogica'. He presents extracts of interviews with some of the old and maybe last female potters from the Yao speaking population and describes some geometrical aspects of their pottery decoration. The Yao live in Mozambique's northern Nyassa Province, that borders Lake Nyassa and Vanzania.  I dedicate the new edition by Africa World Press to my youngest daughter Likilisa. June 1998  Paulus Gerdes	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",arts & photography;books;decorative arts & design;design;gender studies;geometry;history & criticism;humanities;mathematics;new;politics & social sciences;science & math;science & mathematics;social sciences;themes;used & rental textbooks;women in art;women's studies,18
0321011627,"Literature, Race, and Ethnicity: Contesting American Identities Literature, Race and Ethnicity is a text-anthology of American literature organized around issues of race and ethnicity.  Divided into nine units, the anthology gives focus to issues of race and ethnicity faced by members of different communities.  Located at every section opening, introductions help readers to see issues within the general ideas of race and ethnicity. Throughout the book, attention to historical context allows readers to see ethnicity and race as a perennial American issue.  Awareness of ""whiteness"" and white ethnicity helps readers to place themselves in the story. Includes well-written and accessible works by writers from many racial and ethnic communities.  For those interested in literature and American studies.",american literature;anthropology;books;cultural;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks;writing,18
0719071216,"Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counter-terrorism (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis) Richard Jackson is Lecturer in International Security at the Centre for International Politics at the University of Manchester.",books;commentary & opinion;education & reference;humanities;international & world politics;international relations;language & grammar;linguistics;national & international security;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;terrorism;used & rental textbooks;words,18
0195069943,"Emotion and Adaptation Advance praise: ""This volume is certainly the magnum opus of Lazarus' distinguished career. His landmark investigations and formulations of cognition, emotion, and motivation provide a much needed framework for social, abnormal, and clinical psychology. I have personally learned a great deal from reading this volume and recommend it to my colleagues."" --Aaron T. Beck, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania""The book is a masterpiece. Novel and well-written, it contains the most thorough and thoughtful treatment of emotion presented by anyone anywhere. The concept of core relational themes is a major breakthrough in our understanding of the generation of affect. Especially important are the treatment of unconscious processes in emotion, and the discussion of the development of cognition-emotion relationships. The book is must reading for basic researcher and clinician alike."" --Joseph J. Campos, Ph.D., Director of Institute of Human Development, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley""Another landmark work from the country's leading stress and coping researcher. Emotion and Adaptation is a must read by every emotion researcher. It will encourage some and irritate others, but all will find it thought-provoking."" --Shelley E. Taylor, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles""Boldly original and insightful, this new comprehensive and controversial theory of emotion will challenge and inform the field. Beautifully written, this book is essential for students and scientists alike, for practitioners and researchers in fields as diverse as social, cognitive, developmental, personality and health psychology, as well as practitioners in psychology, psychiatry, and social work."" --Paul Ekman, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Francisco""Lazarus' book sets forth compellingly the rich results and theoretical conclusions that come from a lifetime of research on emotion. The outlines of his 'cognitive-motivational-relational' theories are broad and sweeping, yet the detailed findings on which his views are based provide a stunning rationale for those views. It has been Lazarus' achievement to discern with remarkable acumen the interaction between cognition, motivation and cultural transactions in giving shape to our emotional lives.  His espousal of concepts like appraisal and 'meaning-making' has changed the way psychologists look at emotion."" --Jerome Bruner, Ph.D., Research Professor of Psychology, New York University""This latest contribution by one of our most seminal scholars addresses the formidable task of reintegrating emotion into our conceptualization of human adaptation. The results, in this volume, are remarkable. Emotion and Adaptation is both far ranging in scope and manifests the depth of Lazarus' scholarship. His reasoning is clear, the material well documented and appropriately illustrated. Equally impressive is the simplicity and even humor of his writing style. This is an edifying and important work. It will have a significant impact on our thinking."" --Carl Eisdorfer, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychology, University of Miami""Thoughtful, scholarly, provocative, with many theoretical and practical implications.  A 'magnum opus' from the pen of a distinguished psychologist."" --Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Waterloo""As someone who has studied the field of emotions for over 20 years, I believe that this is the best book on emotions yet published in the field of psychology.  It is must reading for any professional interested in the topic."" --Dr. Edwin A. Locke, University of Maryland""An outstanding contribution from one of the foremost authorities on the psychology of emotions. . . .The author deals deftly with the complex task of attempting to define, classify and measure emotions. . . .Highly recommended."" --The Newsletter of the American Institute of Stress""All in all, Lazarus has something to say about cognition and emotion, says it lucidly and with warmth, and tips us off to where the focal research should be."" --Contemporary Sociology	Richard S. Lazarus is at University of California at Berkeley (Emeritus).",addiction & recovery;behavioral sciences;books;cognitive;cognitive psychology;emotions;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;mental health;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;psychopathology;science & math;social sciences;substance abuse;used & rental textbooks,18
081381779X,"Inside the Writer's Mind: Writing Narrative Journalism Making up this delightful collection are 30 short journalistic essays, originally published in Salon.com, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Los Angeles Times, among other places, and grouped under broad headings such as ""Ordinary People,"" ""Extraordinary People,"" and ""Extraordinary Circumstances."" Although it contains a useful albeit brief introductory chapter on good essay writing and how to conduct an interview with a subject, this is not a book about how to write narrative journalism. Rather, it is a fine example of the range of journalism professor Bloom's (Postville) own creative journalism; it instructs by example rather than by didacticism. As Bloom aptly observes, ""good writing is storytelling, i.e., turning observation into narrative."" Whether he is interviewing Dr. Michael Levitt, an expert on flatulence (""Dr. Fart Speaks"") or Dr. Ruth Westheimer, our popular culture's expert on sex (""The Joy of Dr. Ruth""), Bloom captures his subjects with verve and interest. Somewhat less insightful are the short reflections accompanying each story that reveal their genesis and writing. Students wanting direction on their own writing process might need to look elsewhere, although the suggested ""assignments"" at the end of each chapter might be useful; readers of creative journalism will enjoy this book. Herbert E. Shapiro, SUNY/Empire State Coll., RochesterCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.",authorship;biographies & memoirs;books;communication & journalism;communication & media studies;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;journalism;journalism & nonfiction;media studies;new;politics & social sciences;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;schools & teaching;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;writing,18
1585421626,"Soul Sisters: The Five Sacred Qualities of a Woman's Soul ""Soul Sisters is a book for anyone who considers herself on a spiritual journey...This is a lovely trail guide."" -- Seattle New Times, September 2002Few books today are put together this beautifully. An enormous amount of care, skill and...love went into...this how-to. -- Pathways, Winter 02-03Peay takes age-old concepts of courage, love, faith, beauty, and magic and brings to light some of their ageless teachings. -- The Marshall News Messenger, November 24, 2002Peay writes with a queenly grace that reads like storytelling...This work is as relevant for men as for women."" -- NAPRA Review, September 2002Peay...argues that women act as ""faith-holders"" for one another...(by)""giving the gift of faith"" to another woman. -- Los Angeles Times, Religion, August 24, 2002This unique workbook shows women how to enhance and strengthen their full potential through this new feminine spirituality.  -- Borders Living In Balance Magazine, July/August 2002	Pythia Peay is a noted journalist who has written on spiritual topics for Utne Reader, Washingtonian, Common Boundary, and the Religion News Service. She collaborated with Sufi teacher Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan on his book Awakening.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;general;history;inspirational;other eastern religions & sacred texts;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;self-help;spiritual;spirituality;theology;women's studies;world;zoroastrianism,18
0674005341,"The Trouble with Principle American democracy rests its freedoms and legal procedures on principles that are impersonal and universal (e.g., freedom, equality). A good idea? No, says Fish. He argues vigorously that universal principles actually impede democracy. Counterintuitive as his claim may appear, Fish makes a strong and lucid case. The trouble with principle, he explains, is this: it disregards history, tradition and contexts of every sort that shape understanding. According to FishAa controversial literary scholar and theorist who has applied his theories of interpretation to the study of lawAwe can never find a neutral position that will fully transcend our prejudices, commitments and beliefs. And worse yet, high-minded abstractions can be used to mask undemocratic privilege. He offers the current controversy over affirmative action and reverse discrimination as a case in point. Those who agitate for an end to affirmative action usually do so on the principled grounds that it ignores ""merit."" But what is merit? It describes, says Fish, ""whatever qualifications are deemed desirable for the performance of a particular task, and there is nothing fixed about those qualifications."" Fish supports affirmative action because he believes we must take into account the history of oppression suffered by the groups that affirmative action is meant to benefit. Yet Fish is no liberal. In fact, he devotes most of his book to the problems entailed in the liberal understanding of freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Liberals, he says, duck behind the comforting fictionAor ""principle""Athat we are all the same underneath. FishAhard-nosed, unflinching and persuasiveAmaintains that differences are real and must be faced squarely without recourse to timeless, abstract principles. His cautiously reasoned argument, not easily dismissed, will excite controversy. (Dec.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	By turns ludicrous and shrewd, a polemic against ``neutral'' principles like free speech, freedom of religion, and nondiscrimination. Continuing his pilgrimage away from his origins as a literary critic, Fish (Dean/College of Liberal Arts and Sciences/Univ. of Illinois, Chicago; There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too, 1993, etc.) plays political philosopher here, applying his own brew of postmodern pragmatism to analyses of current public issues. He wants to expose as a sham what he calls ``neutral principle''''abstractions like fairness, impartiality, mutual respect.'' These, he says, are inherently empty of meaning, which they acquire only when invoked in the service of a ``partisan agenda,'' at which point they are no longer neutral. Fish doesn't mind using these principles when they serve the agenda he favorsleft-centrist concerns like enhanced opportunities for minorities and womenbut is annoyed when they are used to support causes he opposes, such as the repeal of affirmative- action laws. Largely to discredit the ``hijacking'' of these principles by right-wingers and other foes, he deconstructs neutral principles in many forms: First Amendment law, multiculturalism, religious tolerance, foundationalist philosophies. Many chapters have previously been published as separate articles, and their presentation here is sometimes repetitive. Fish is, nonetheless, an entertaining writer, adept at close reading and handy with a barb (the ACLU, ``that curious organization whose mission it is to find things it hates and then to grow them''). Still, his neo-Machiavellianism will repel anyone who does believe in principle, and his arguments are rife with muddy concepts and self-contradiction. How, exactly, do you tell the difference between ``neutral principle'' (bad) and ``moral principle'' (good)? And how can Fish deny the existence of a neutral point of view while insisting he does so from a neutral point of view? Fish likes to think of himself as appealingly ``provocative'' and ``perverse,'' but the appeal may escape some readers, leaving him merely perverse.  -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	[Stanley Fish's] attacks are so smartly provocative that they are worth reading. (Edward Rothstein New York Times)[A] beautifully written and genuinely provocative book. (Raymond Tallis Times Literary Supplement)The Trouble with Principle continues the assault on liberal shibboleths that Fish first launched with There's No Such Thing as Free Speech...and It's a Good Thing Too...He is a penetrating thinker and, rarity of rarities, a clear and accessible writer...He will challenge, if not change, the way liberals think about, say, multiculturalism. (Sanford Pinsker Philadelphia Inquirer)In The Trouble with Principle, his latest collection of papers, Fish deploys a master argument that goes like this: The trouble with principle is that they are either so abstract and contentless that all the work is done filling in the details, or else sufficiently concrete as to be very controversial indeed. (Richard Rorty New Leader)Fish's main target in The Trouble with Principle is the influential school of liberal thought developed by such well-known theorists as John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Amy Gutmann, and Jurgen Habermas. What unites these writers--and their many followers, especially in legal circles--is a deep commitment to the principle of 'neutrality,' that is, to the idea that the essence of liberalism is to be open to all points of view and ways of life...As Fish convincingly shows, however, this pose of neutrality is little more than a sham, a rhetoric of tolerance that often serves as a cover for intolerance...There is much to recommend in The Trouble with Principle, not least the wit and elegance with which Stanley Fish punctures the pretensions of modern liberalism. (Adam Wolfson Commentary)That his arguments so crisply challenge traditional ways of thinking about jurisprudence is what makes The Trouble with Principle so provocative and engaging. Lawyers or anyone else interested in examining and questioning the foundations of judicial thought should consider this book required reading. (Randall J. Peach New Jersey Law Review)I consider this book a splendid rarity: a work by a non-Christian with the (unintended?) virtue of making those Christians more devout. It's also a good read: Fish is master of a lucid and witty prose of a kind rarely written by academics these days. (Paul J. Griffiths Christian Century)Sports, film, TV and radio, politics and journalism--Fish is fluent wherever he goes... His rhetorical style is surgically precise, and in The Trouble with Principle it is his best friends who are put under the knife--liberals comfortable with beliefs whose rightness they take for granted...In the art of argument, he is formidably skilled...He will unravel your every position, reducing it to words of reversible meanings...The Trouble with Principle is a shrewd, unsparing critique of liberalism by a man most people assume to be one of them. (Michael Skube Atlanta Journal Constitution)No stranger to controversy, Fish smashes an idol sacred to conservatives and liberals alike: the principle of government neutrality in cultural disputes. Taking on conservatives, Fish challenges the racial neutrality championed by opponents to affirmative action, arguing that such neutrality serves only to obscure historical inequalities crying out for redress. But he pours out his most scalding criticisms on the liberal theorists--from Locke to Rawls--who have formulated the neutralist rhetoric and its underlying logic...True liberals will rally to defend the principled neutrality Fish assails, but many readers will welcome his call for an end to doctrinal paralysis. Sure to become a touchstone in debates on political theory. (Bryce Christensen Booklist)[Fish] argues vigorously that universal principles actually impede democracy. Counterintuitive as his claim may appear, Fish makes a strong and lucid case. The trouble with principle, he explains, is this: it disregards history, tradition and contexts of every sort that shape understanding. According to Fish, we can never find a neutral position that will fully transcend our prejudices, commitments and beliefs...Fish--hard-nosed, unflinching and persuasive--maintains that differences are real and must be faced squarely without recourse to timeless, abstract principles. His cautionary reasoned arguments, not easily dismissed, will excite controversy. (Publishers Weekly)[Fish] wants to expose as a sham what he calls 'neutral principle'--'abstractions like fairness, impartiality, mutual respect.' These, he says, are inherently empty of meaning, which they acquire only when invoked in the service of a 'partisan agenda'...Fish is...an entertaining writer, adept at close reading and handy with a barb. (Kirkus Reviews)Fish...has made a career out of corralling sacred cows and showing that they are only bovine, not divine...In this intellectual tour de force, Fish's big target is liberalism in its modern Rawlsian mode: the belief that it is possible and desirable to organize social life in such a way as to retain neutrality among competing visions of the good. But he works at it from the bottom up by taking on practical but key issues such as free speech, multiculturalism and church-state relations. (Allan Hutchinson Literary Review of Canada)Both Stanley Fish and this particular collection of his essays have been described as 'contrarian.' It is a label that Fish himself obviously revels in...The very title of his book, The Trouble with Principle, suggests the deliberately perverse approach and methodology of his essays. The result is a sheer reading delight and an excellent contribution to an understanding of argument. (Robert D. Spector World Literature Today)	Stanley Fish is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His many books include There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too.",anthropology;books;constitutional law;cultural;ethics;ethics & morality;history & theory;humanities;law;new;philosophy;political history;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,18
1565848551,"Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism Robert McChesney is the greatest of our media historians. -- Mark Crispin Miller	Robert W. McChesney is a research professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy, the winner of Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize and the Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award. Ben Scott is a doctoral student in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.",20th century;americas;books;communication & journalism;communication & media studies;education & reference;history;humanities;journalism;journalism & nonfiction;media studies;new;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks;writing,18
0295983655,"Advanced Reader of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories ""The stories, all published after 1990, reflect the zeitgeist of contemporary China."" -- Shuhui Yang, Bates College	Ying Wang, assistant professor of Chinese at Mount Holyoke College, is a coeditor of Literature and Society: Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese. Carrie E. Reed, associate professor of Chinese at Middlebury College, is a coauthor of Xioyun Hnyu / Speaking Chinese on Campus: A Textbook for Intermediate Chinese Courses.",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;asian;books;chinese;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;general;humanities;instruction;literature;literature & fiction;new;short stories;used & rental textbooks;world literature,18
0674015584,"Just Work Offering much more of a practical survey than the sort of academic criticism that typifies manifestos on workers and labor, Harvard government professor Muirhead confronts often contradictory elements of the modern working life, from the frustration of slaving away in order to merely survive in a meaningless consumerist cycle to the questionable justice of outsourcing labor that pays foreign workers pennies. In focusing on a consideration of ""fit,"" the author's uniquely comprehensive bit of moral vocabulary that encompasses a concern for ""work that fits"" and ""fitting work,"" Muirhead reveals that the question of just work, even in our modern capitalist society, is still very much aligned with the ancient question of ""the good."" Much of the book shows that the debates throughout history over varieties of the social, material, intrinsic and personal good are mirrored in philosophical observations on labor. Drawing from a historical study of perspectives on work from Plato and Aristotle, Marx and Mill, and modern thinkers like Rawls and Friedan, the book lends a powerful perspective on how human history comes to define what is important about work. This relationship is revealed in the story of slavery, domestic servitude and women as unpaid household laborers within American history. Muirhead's deft sketch is as much a sort of therapeutic exploration of the working life as it is hopeful social theorizing. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Muirhead confronts often contradictory elements of the modern working life, from the frustration of slaving away in order to merely survive in a meaningless consumerist cycle to the questionable justice of outsourcing labor that pays foreign workers pennies...Muirhead reveals that the question of just work, even in our modern capitalist society, is still very much aligned with the ancient question of 'the good.' (Publishers Weekly 2004-08-16)Muirhead blends sociological, economic, and philosophical perspectives into a comprehensive analysis of the purpose and importance of work as part of life. He carefully considers the importance of person-job fit and emphasizes the personal value to individuals of finding fulfilling work and how the absence of meaningful work can negatively impact social justice...Well written and interesting. (T. Gutteridge Choice 2005-03-01)Muirhead's clearly and concisely written book is well worth reading for what it has to say about the nature of work in modern America, and the prospects for improving our relationship to it. (David L. Stebenne Labor History 2006-02-01)	Muirhead makes a contribution to both the scholarship and the general public understanding of what's happening to work in modern society. He writes well, and has something important to say about the partial satisfactions of working life, and the balances between work, family, and community. (Richard Sennett, author of Respect in a World of Inequality)	Russell Muirhead is Associate Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin.	http://www.hup.harvard.edu/pdf/MUIJUS_excerpt.pdf",anthropology;books;business & investing;cultural;economics;humanities;labor & industrial relations;new;philosophy;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;public policy;social policy;social sciences;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,18
0789019108,"Sexual Conversion Therapy: Ethical, Clincial, and Research Perspectives ""The editors present a wealth of first-person accounts of often-harrowing journeys by those seeking to become 'ex-gays' and those seeking to 'cure' them via psychoanalysis, aversive conditioning, or religious faith healing.""	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;clinical;gay & lesbian;gay & lesbian studies;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;psychiatry;psychology;psychotherapy;social sciences;specific demographics;ta & nlp;used & rental textbooks,18
0415132274,"Awareness: What It Is, What It Does ...the book is worth reading for philosophers with an interest in consciousness, because it covers many provocative topics clearly and because it strikes just the right balance between technical detail and intelligibility to the non-expert. Thomas Bittner, University of Nevada, Las Vegas An up-to-date summary of scientific thinking about the nature of consciousness.. Philosophy and Science, NO. 7",basic sciences;books;fitness & dieting;general;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;mental health;neurology;neuropsychology;neuroscience;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,18
0471372889,"What Works in Online Day Trading Fueled by a roaring bull market and breakthroughs in communications technology, online trading has taken a firm hold in the public imagination. The media has helped fan the flames of this phenomenon with sensational reports of hotshot traders who left the nine-to-five world to make fortunes working for themselves at their computer screens.So much for the fantasies, but what are the realities of making a living in the markets? How solid are the average person's chances of coming out ahead, let alone making a killing trading online? Is the new electronic playing field really as level as the pundits claim? And, above all, what important lessons must beginners learn before embarking on a career as online traders if they don't want to see their dreams go up in smoke even before they get off the ground?Written by a team of today's top online traders, trading coaches, analysts, systems experts, and financial journalists,What Works in Online Trading provides an in-depth look at what it takes to make a living in today's markets. This book will help you determine whether a career in trading is right for you, as well as give you the tools to get started. Plus you'll gain powerful insights-from trading professionals-into what really works online and what doesn't.Because approaching online trading without clearly defined long- and short-term goals is so dangerous, this book takes a simple approach: Trading is a business and should be approached as such-with proper capitalization, a solid trading plan, and the skills to put that plan into action. With that in mind, What Works in Online Trading provides detailed analysis in four major areas:? Trading Basics-What you need to know before you make your first trade including the mechanics of trading, how markets such as the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq work, and the inside scoop on today's trading technology, from direct-access brokerages to Electronic Communications Networks.? Trading Strategies-Step-by-step instruction for implementing different trading plans, from swing-trading approaches to Level II scalping techniques, to taking profits out of the markets.? Risk Control and Money Management-Learn the probabilities of trading techniques for limiting your risk, and how to integrate them into your trading plan.? Trader Interviews-Read firsthand accounts-from ""household names"" to up-and-coming players-of what it takes to become a consistently profitable trader from those who have been there.Understandable, concise, and realistic, What Works in Online Trading is a valuable source of insight and ideas for those currently trading online and must reading for anyone seriously considering it as a career.	Must reading for anyone thinking about taking the plunge into online day tradingIf you're looking for an honest and authoritative assessment of different trading strategies, risk control techniques, and trading technology, you've come to the right place.""Etzkorn has assembled a cutting-edge blueprint for those looking to move into online trading. Covering everything from trading basics like Level II screens to more advanced technical analysis, What Works in Online Trading provides all the tools to excel.""-Henry O. (Hank) Pruden, Ph.D. Professor and Exec. Director, Institute for Technical Market Analysis at Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California""With a career spanning nearly 15 years in the markets, both as a trader and writer, Mark Etzkorn, now Editor in Chief of Active Trader magazine, has gained the experience and the contacts to provide you with a well-balanced education on trading. Take advantage of the insight presented in this book.""-Thom Hartle Editor, eCharts.com (www.echarts.com), and Vice President, Wizard on Wallstreet, Inc. (www.thewow.com)	MARK ETZKORN is Editor in Chief of Active Trader magazine. He was a senior editor at Futures magazine and a freelance editor and writer. He is the author, co-writer, and editor of several financial books, including Trading with Oscillators (Wiley). Prior to becoming a financial author and editor, Mr. Etzkorn was a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He also worked at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Board of Trade Clearing Corporation, and as an off-the-floor trader.",accounting;books;business;business & finance;business & investing;computers & technology;e-commerce;economics;finance;industries & professions;introduction;investing;investments & securities;new;personal finance;popular economics;software;used & rental textbooks,18
0136180426,"Women's Philosophies of Education: Thinking Through Our Mothers This work presents the educational philosophies of seven women from a variety of times, cultures, and classes whose ideas have influenced our thinking on education in the United States.   Readers can access a broad range and depth of information from this book in  order to form their own answers to essential questions about education. The book presents several philosophical themes in each chapter which include each female pioneer's beliefs about human nature and  the purpose of life, the author's answers to questions such as how education ought to be, how women ought to be educated, and the role of women in society, as well as the type of curriculum and pedagogy that emerge from the woman's specific philosophical stance. Covers the contributions of two women who are contemporary U.S. philosophers; and five women from a variety of racial and ethnic groups.For educators or individuals interested in the role women play in education.",biographies & memoirs;books;education;education & reference;education theory;educational philosophy;gay & lesbian;gender studies;history;new;nonfiction;philosophy;philosophy & social aspects;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,18
0306814099,"Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941-1945 ""A vivid account of operations and an insightful study."" -- Foreign Affairs	Steven H. Newton is Professor of History at Delaware State University. His previous books on World War II include Kursk: The German View and Retreat from Leningrad.",armored vehicles;biographies & memoirs;books;conventional;europe;european;history;intelligence & espionage;international & world politics;leaders & notable people;military;military science;poland;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics;weapons & warfare;world war ii,18
0764574779,"Digital Photography Just The Steps For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback)) Easy steps and full color photos help you take and print great shots.Simple steps for great results . . .Change a Photo to a Colored Pencil DrawingWith an image open in Adobe Photoshop Elements, choose FilterArtisticColored Pencil. The Colored Pencil dialog box opens, as shown in Figure 10-5.Experiment until you achieve the desired effect in the sample window. The options are...Click OK to apply the effect to the photo, as shown in Figure 10-6.Using artistic effects is a wonderful way to create paintings and drawings, even if you are not a graphic artist. In addition to the digital effects, the choice of paper and printing technique you use can add quality to the finished product.Get Ready to:Compare camera featuresCompose shots like a proTake great photos for eBay auctionsTransfer images to your computerEnhance and repair photosShare prints or electronic images	Frederic Jones, PhD, (Masters at FST/GTU, Masters/PhD(ABD) at Florida State Univ., PhD at International College), is an experienced multimedia  artist, filmmaker, and author. He has written over 30 books including: How to do Everything with Digital Video (McGrawHill) and Desktop Digital Video (PrenticeHall), Sing to the Lord a New Song: Contemporary Songs, Rituals and Liturgy (Judith Jones, co-author, Speak from the Heart Press). He co-authored and produced, with Judith Jones, Beyond Time, a major CD-ROM game published by Virgin Interactive which sold over 400,000 copies worldwide. He has written, animated, and produced several international hit interactive CD-ROM childrens titles. He produced a number of videos for a wide variety of clients including: Herman Miller Corporation, Westinghouse, Lightolier, and so on. He is also a Christian pastor.",arts & photography;books;computer science;computers & technology;digital photography;engineering;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;graphics & visualization;humanities;new;photography;professional & technical;programming;software;telecommunications;used & rental textbooks;visual arts,18
1594770530,"Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca Ralph Metzner, world famous pioneer of psychedelic research and consciousness explorer, brings together a masterful collection of writings exploring the nature of this extraordinary sacred potion, from its chemical and biological properties and psychological effects to its enormous healing and spiritual potential. This book will be an inspiration for lay audiences and a treasure trove of information for scholars studying consciousneess and the human psyche. (Stanislav Grof, M.D., author of LSD Psychotherapy, Psychology of the Future, and The Cosmic Game)Thought-provoking, wide-ranging, and well-reasoned, Metzner's collection of essays and self-reports contains the widest representation of subjective effects and scientific information on ayahuasca in the modern West. It provides ideas for future research and is essential for beginners and veterans of the field. (Rick Strassman, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule)""Metzner's book is a valuable investment in exploration of consciousness and an inspiration for further studies and personal experiences of the healing and spiritual potential of Ayahuasca.""  (Galina Vladi, Alaska Wellness, Vol. 13, No. 3, May/June 2008)	VISIONARY PLANTS / ENTHEOGENS  Ralph Metzner, world famous pioneer of psychedelic research and consciousness explorer, brings together a masterful collection of writings exploring the nature of this extraordinary sacred potion, from its chemical and biological properties and psychological effects to its enormous healing and spiritual potential. This book will be an inspiration for lay audiences and a treasure trove of information for scholars studying consciousneess and the human psyche. --Stanislav Grof, M.D., author of LSD Psychotherapy, Psychology of the Future, and The Cosmic Game  Thought-provoking, wide-ranging, and well-reasoned, Metzner's collection of essays and self-reports contains the widest representation of subjective effects and scientific information on ayahuasca in the modern West. It provides ideas for future research and is essential for beginners and veterans of the field. --Rick Strassman, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule  Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic Amazonian plant mixture that has been used for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years by native Indian and mestizo shamans in Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador for healing and divination. Many Western-trained physicians and psychologists have acknowledged that this substance can allow access to spiritual dimensions of consciousness, even mystical experiences indistinguishable from classic religious mysticism.  In Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca Ralph Metzner, a pioneer in the study of consciousness, has assembled a group of authoritative contributors who provide an exploration of the chemical, biological, psychological, and experiential dimensions of ayahuasca. He begins with the history, psychology, and chemistry of ayahuasca from leading scholars in the field of psychoactive research and then presents more than twenty firsthand accounts from Westerners who have used ayahuasca. He concludes with his own findings on ayahuasca's applications in medicine and psychology, and compares the worldview revealed by ayahuasca visions to that of Western cultures.  RALPH METZNER, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist and professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He studied psychology and psychopharmacology at Harvard University and was part of the Psilocybin Research Project with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass). He is the author of Green Psychology, coauthor of The Psychedelic Experience, and editor of Sacred Mushroom of Visions: Teonancatl. He lives in Sonoma, California.	Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist and professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He studied psychology and psychopharmacology at Harvard University and was part of the Psilocybin Research Project with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass). He is the author of Green Psychology, coauthor of The Psychedelic Experience, and editor of Sacred Mushroom of Visions: Teonantl. He lives in Sonoma, California.	from Chapter 2 The Psychology of Ayahuasca  Charles S. Grob, M.D. What Is Ayahausca?There is an important hallucinogenic drink consumed by the native peoples of the western half of the Amazon valley and by isolated tribes on the Pacific slopes of the Ecuadoran and Columbian Andes. The primary plant material used for this botanical brew is the bark of the giant forest liana Banisteriopsis caapi. This ayahuasca, as it is most commonly called, is prepared by boiling Banisteriopsis bark with the leaves of one or more admixture plants, most commonly Psychotria viridis. Although some aboriginal tribes have traditions of using Banisteriopsis solely, without any admixture plants, the predominant pattern of use has called for the addition of plants with diverse profiles of chemical constituents and psychoactive effects.Ayahuasca possesses a unique phytochemistry. When taken alone, without the Banisteriopsis, many of the admixture plants are not psychoactive. Although Psychotria viridis is rich in alkaloids of the potent hallucinogen dimethyltryptamine (DMT), it is rendered biochemically inactive after oral consumption through inactivation by monoamine oxidase, an enzyme that degrades DMT, along with endogenous neurotransmitters. However, when Psychotria is prepared along with Banisteriopsis, which has monoamine oxidase inhibiting action, the DMT is actively absorbed, passes the blood-brain barrier, and exerts powerful hallucinogenic effects on the central nervous system. How the native peoples of the Amazon discovered this sophisticated synergistic plant biochemistry is unknown, although the reductionistic explanation asserts that through generations, even centuries, of trial and error sampling of the abundant and diverse tropical flora, the aboriginal inhabitants of the region happened upon this unusual combination. Asking the native peoples themselves, however, yields a very different response. Virtually all of the ayahuasca-using tribes of the Amazon Basin, as well as the modern syncretic churches, who use this plant hallucinogen concoction as a legal psychoactive ritual sacrament, attribute the discovery of ayahuasca, along with the mythological origins of their own idiosyncratic religious belief systems, to a form of divine intervention. However human beings happened to come upon or were directed to this unique phytochemical combination, its discovery was integral to both the development of early native cultures as well as the rise of interest in these sacred plants in our own day.Anthropological PerspectiveAmong the diverse native peoples of the Amazon Basin, ayahuasca has been known by a variety of names, including caapi, yagnat, mihi, kahi, pinde and dapa. Ayahuasca is perceived as a magic intoxicant, of divine origin, which facilitates release of the soul from its corporeal confinement, allowing it to wander free and return to the body at will, carrying with it information of vital import (Schultes and Hofmann 1992). Among native peoples, ayahuasca was traditionally used for purposes of magic and religious ritual, divination, sorcery, and the treatment of disease (Dobkin de Rios 1972). Living among the Cashinahua of the Peruvian Amazon, the anthropologist Kenneth Kensinger (1973) identified ayahuasca-induced visions as integral to the genesis of volitional behavior. These visions are perceived as the experiences of an individuals dream spirit, which has access to knowledge contained in the supernatural realms. Kensinger has described how the Cashinahua use ayahuasca as a means of receiving information not available through the normal channels of communication, which, along with additional information accessed through other means, constitute the basis for personal action. For the Cashinahua, however, taking ayahuasca is an unpleasant and even fearful experience, which is resorted to only when such revelations from the spirit world are urgently needed.For the Jivaro Indians of the Ecuadoran Amazon, the supernatural realm, which can be accessed only through the door of the experience, is seen as the true reality, whereas normal waking life is simply an illusion. Michael Harner, an anthropologist who has lived among and studied the Jivaro, has understood the importance of the ayahuasca experience itself in order to fully grasp the aboriginal mindset. Although traditional anthropological observers have typically assumed a passive role in compiling and recording native habits and customs Harner elected to undergo a first-hand encounter with the object of his study. Harner has described how for several hours after drinking the brew, I found myself, although awake, in a world literally beyond my wildest dreams. I met bird-headed people, as well as dragon-like creatures who explained that they were the true gods of this world. I enlisted the services of other spirit helpers in attempting to fly through the far reaches of the Galaxy. Transported into a trance where the supernatural seemed natural, I realized that anthropologists, including myself, had profoundly underestimated the importance of the drug in affecting native ideology (Harner 1973b).Integral to the content of the realm of ayahuasca-induced visions is the cultural context in which they occur. Throughout the tropical rain forests of South America, the traditional ayahuasca-using tribal people have many shared common cultural elements as well as similar contextual themes for their mythologies and ayahuasca-induced experiences. Indeed, some anthropological observers have asserted that it is virtually impossible to separate the nature of the ayahuasca experience from its cultural context (Harner 1973a). Through contacting the supernatural realm of their ancestors, as well as their mythological deities and spirits, the ritual use of ayahuasca has served to bind the communities of disparate individuals into a cohesive collective culture. Culturally syntonic visions are induced by shamanic manipulation of set and setting to provide revelation, blessings, healing, and ontological security for those using such sacramental plants (Grob and Dobkin de Rios 1992). Within traditional contexts, shamanic initiation into the world of plant hallucinogens, including ayahuasca, have included long preparations associated with strict self-discipline, including prolonged social isolation, sexual abstinence, and diets free of meat, salt, sugar and alcohol. The collective ingestion of these ceremonial sacraments by the adult members of the community achieves an amplified degree of social cohesion and identity which has been characterized by Mircea Eliade as a periodic symbolic regression to the powerful time of mythical origin (Eliade 1964).",alternative medicine;books;ethnic studies;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;medicine & health sciences;mental & spiritual healing;new;new age;politics & social sciences;popular culture;psychology;psychopharmacology;religion & spirituality;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,18
0745612679,"Democracy and Development: Theory and Practice ""A valuable contribution to comparative analysis ... it is a pleasure to find a rare edited book which amounts to appreciably more than the sum of its individual chapters."" Political Studies ""This volume is an important contribution to the debate."" Development and Change	Is democracy a necessary condition for economic development or is it an outcome of it? This is the central question addressed in the chapters specially commissioned for this book. Current Western orthodoxy holds that third-world countries must democratize if they are to develop, and aid has become increasingly conditional on such political reforms. But can democracy survive in the conditions which are found in many developing countries or will it only engender turbulence and instability? The book deals with these questions at the theoretical and empirical levels, focusing first on the theory and then on case studies of the relationship between democracy and development in Botswana, India, South Korea, Chile, South Africa, China and the islands of the South Pacific. Contributors include Geoffrey Hawthorn, John Holm, Sudipta Kaviraj, Yong Cheol Kim, Jan-Erik Lane, Peter Larmour, Tom Lodge, Chung-in Moon, Jenny Pearce, Peter Rutland, Richard Sklar, and Gordon White. Overall, these authors call into question the current orthodoxy about the relationship of democracy and development. In so doing, they have written a text which will be of wide interest to students in development studies, international relations and political theory, as well as to all those engaged in international organizations grappling with the nature and policies of development itself.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business development;democracy;development & growth;economics;ideologies & doctrines;international & world politics;international relations;management & leadership;new;political ideologies;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,18
0838580424,"Sonography in Obstetrics and Gynecology: Principles and Practice Arthur C. Fleischer, MD (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee)  Frank A. Manning, MD (Sloane Hospital for Women, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, New York)  Philippe Jeanty, MD, PhD (Formerly of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee)  Roberto Romero, MD (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland; Wayne State University/Hutzel Hospital, Detroit, Michigan)",allied health professions;allied health services;books;clinical;diagnostic imaging;general;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;radiologic & ultrasound technology;radiological & ultrasound technology;radiology;radiology & nuclear medicine;reproductive medicine & technology;ultrasonography;used & rental textbooks,18
0767900480,"How the Web Was Won: The Inside Story of How Bill Gates and His Band of Internet Idealists Trans- Formed a Software Empire In a brilliant--and, at times, overwhelming--display of  research and perspicacity, Paul Andrews chronicles Microsoft's  internal and public battles to adapt to Internet technology and fight  the browser wars. He starts in 1991: the Internet is barely a blip on  the company radar. Meanwhile, 22-year-old new hire J Allard is asked  by Microsoft's No. 2 man, Steve Ballmer, to ""make the pain go away""  with TCP/IP, the standard Internet protocol. It's just Allard's second  day on the job, and he realizes that the software giant doesn't get  it: interoperability between networks and the Internet is key to  Microsoft's future. He begins a grassroots effort to raise Internet  consciousness, eventually distributing a widely read 17-page memo  titled ""Windows: The Next Killer Application on the Internet."" Higher  up, Bill Gates's technical assistant, Steven Sinofsky, gets snowed in  at technically progressive Cornell University. He's stunned to witness  a student body that's already devoted to a fledgling Internet, and  writes home: ""Cornell is WIRED."" After intense internal debate (and  more than a few late nights), Gates stops the engines and changes  course to pursue integration of Windows and an Internet browser called  Explorer.    Andrews--a personal-technology columnist for the neighboring  Seattle Times--has actually layered several books into one. In  the first, he writes scores of fascinating profiles on the Internet  idealists, architects, and managers who devoted ""Microsoft Hours"" to  redirect the company's focus. In the second, he reports on external  battles against foes such as Netscape and Sun Microsystems. In  addition, he explores the hundreds of technological developments  (occasionally to the point of distraction) that flourished during this  high-tech revolution. And, finally, he comments throughout on what led  the Department of Justice to file the largest antitrust action since  the breakup of AT Andrews's coverage of this last issue is slanted  heavily in Microsoft's favor, but is thorough enough to deflect most  accusations of bias. Although the Web is far from won, Microsoft's  ability to turn its ship around is certainly a victory. --Rob  McDonald	That Microsoft was late getting onto the Web is a common piece of corporate lore. For Andrews, who for more than 10 years has covered Microsoft for the Seattle Times and is the coauthor of the balanced Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America, the nuts and bolts of how the company has rebounded to dominate the browser market is a milestone of corporate history. As such, he treats it lovingly, lingering over memos, basking in the company's high-stakes, big-money energy and spotlighting various corporate players as they maneuver the monolith into pole position. Andrews makes clear that Microsoft had been thinking at least peripherally about Web-like technology since 1990. Even before rival browser-purveyor Netscape went public in mid-1995 (creating a $3 billion company), the race had already started. The story is familiar: technologies crop up as challengers, only to fall or be absorbed. Internet Explorer becomes part of a desktop bundle. Antitrust suits are fended off. IE becomes something of a standard. Andrews's minute descriptionsAthough often slow movingAof the technology and of the problem-solving approaches of Microsoft and its rivals will fascinate tech-heads and intrigue the uninitiated. Yet, as Andrews notes, Microsoft's victory may not be permanent: the software giant is threatened by AOL's purchase of rival Netscape and its alliance with operating-system competitor Sun Microsystems, by the ""open-source"" movement that advocates giving users direct access to program code, and by the government's ongoing antitrust action. The notoriously volatile technology business may yet render at least the title of this book premature. Photos not seen by PW. (June) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	How Microsoft triumphed; from the Seattle Times columnist for technology.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Microsoft was so late in seeing the potential of the Internet that it didn't get a domain name (which identifies a company's location on the Internet) until 1991. On the other hand, its competitor, Apple, has had a domain name since 1987. But Microsoft quickly made up for lost time and four years later dominated the market for Internet software to such an extent that it provoked the scrutiny of the Justice Department and was targeted for an antitrust action. Andrews, coauthor of Gates (1993), chronicles the internal debates and machinations that brought one of the most powerful and profitable software makers to the Internet. The effort to bring Windows to the Net was led by a new Microsoft techie, recently graduated from college, who faced the task of overcoming Microsoft's and Bill Gates' skepticism about the commercial potential of the Internet. Andrews describes the cultural dichotomy of an open, freewheeling Internet accustomed to free access to software as well as information and a profit-driven, proprietary Microsoft. The debates centered on whether to adapt the Internet protocols for file sharing or to put effort into a proprietary online service just as the Internet was emerging as a major communications force and moving away from its academic and government origins. After three years of reporting and more than 100 interviews, Andrews brings humor and drama to this narrative account. This is a riveting look at the strong wills, huge egos, and technological and business prowess that engineered Windows' dominance of Internet software, making the Net more accessible to millions and making millions for Microsoft and Gates at the same time.  Vanessa Bush	The detailed story of how Microsoft created a substantive position for itself in the rapidly growing world of the Internet. Other books have already covered Microsofts meteoric rise and massive presence in the computer software industry; Seattle Times technology columnist Andrews himself co-authored a business bio of the companys leader, Bill Gates (Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America, not reviewed). This time, he turns to Microsoft's decision to make itself a major player on the Internet, based on the companys belief that the World Wide Web would offer big opportunities for future profits. In a chatty and personal style, Andrews introduces the cast of characters assigned to this task, starting with those who had the initial realization that something big was brewing with this universal network. Bits and pieces of information are offered about how software is created, but Andrewss relentless main mission is to portray Microsoft's efforts to enter the Internet era as mortal combat with competitors rather than creative programming. Hyperbole often obscures the subject. We read that ``the earth shook'' at a Microsoft news conference, for instance, and that one of Microsoft's competitors is a ``sworn archenemy.'' Still, software developers will feel kinship with the deadlines, crises, and interdepartmental fighting that accompany the story, and Microsoft aficionados may enjoy learning more about the workings of the company (including product and management failures) and about the expansive team of professionals who get as much credit and emphasis as the boss himself. Fan-club reading for Microsoft supporters. ($75,000 ad/promo; author tour)  -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Critical acclaim for Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in the World:""The most complete and colorful account yet of the meteoric rise of the nation's No. 1 personal computer software company.""--Business Week""Meticulously researched . . . well-written, with much of the drama and suspense of a novel."" --The Washington Post""A hot read. . . . The good stuff begins on the first page.""--Fortune""Fast-paced, informative, riveting.""--The Wall Street Journal	The inside story of how a small band of agitators at Microsoft staged the stunning turnaround that transformed the company from an Internet laggard into such a dominant force that it was accused of monopolizing the industry.1993. Microsoft's Windows software ruled the desktops of America. Nine out of ten personal computers ran the operating system, and most applications--from word processors to spreadsheets--couldn't function without it. When Bill Gates peered into Microsoft's crystal ball, he saw a world of Windows.Then the Internet burst on the scene, and suddenly Gates's Windows-oriented future didn't look so bright. The Internet ran on UNIX, not Windows. The World Wide Web, not Windows, linked information in a global electronic library. A new software program called Mosaic, not Windows, made finding and reading Web documents as easy as skimming a magazine. Moreover, companies with little stake in Windows--Netscape, America Online, Sun Microsystems--were laying first claim to the Internet frontier.The Internet was the future of computing--and the world's largest software company wasn't ready for it. Yet four years later, Microsoft's Internet metamorphosis was so complete that the Department of Justice slapped the company with the broadest antitrust action since the breakup of AT In How the Web Was Won, veteran Seattle Times journalist Paul Andrews chronicles, for the first time, the most remarkable business turnaround of the 1990s: the story of Microsoft's turbulent journey from Windows to the Web--and of the handful of Internet believers who led the charge.Taking the reader into the mind of Microsoft, Andrews reveals how the company struggled first to comprehend and then capitalize on the Net. How twenty-two-year-old Internet hound J Allard was shocked to learn that nobody at Microsoft seemed to know anything about networking computers when he arrived in late 1991. How Steve Ballmer, Gates's Harvard buddy and second in command at Microsoft, lit the Internet fuse with a head-scratching e-mail in December 1993. How Gates's technical assistant, Steven Sinofsky, discovered in early 1994 that Cornell University, his alma mater, was more ""wired"" than the world's most successful software company. And how by mid-1995, awash in the rising tide of Netscape, America Online, Java, and the Web, Bill Gates assigned the Internet the highest level of importance, launching an effort that, in a matter of months, would provoke the Justice Department, competitors, and industry analysts to warn that Microsoft could someday rule the Internet.Based on three years of reporting and more than 100 interviews with the prime movers driving Microsoft's Internet strategy and deployment, How the Web Was Won captures the explosive drama and high-stakes gamesmanship of Microsoft's epic struggle for Internet supremacy. The result is an illuminating portrait of a software empire under siege and an intimate look at the fiery competitiveness that kindled its dramatic reversal of fortune.	Critical acclaim for Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in the World:""The most complete and colorful account yet of the meteoric rise of the nation's No. 1 personal computer software company.""--Business Week""Meticulously researched . . . well-written, with much of the drama and suspense of a novel."" --The Washington Post""A hot read. . . . The good stuff begins on the first page.""--Fortune""Fast-paced, informative, riveting.""--The Wall Street Journal	Coauthor of the 1993 national bestseller Gates, Paul Andrews has watched Microsoft as a Seattle Times reporter since the company moved to suburban Bellevue from Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1979. Since 1989 he has written one of the nation's longest-running weekly personal technology columns, ""User Friendly."" Andrews has won numerous awards for his coverage of Microsoft over the past decade. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Cecile, and bichon frise, Maggie.	NightmareYou would never have known it from his wealth, fame, and reputation, but Bill Gates was a worried, worried man.On April 30, 1991, the software king isolated himself for a week at the family compound he had built along the southeastern shore of Hood Canal in Washington State's Puget Sound. The canal, a long, narrow stretch of inlet that ran the length of the sound, was one of Gates's favorite spots on earth. Growing up in Seattle, Gates had spent some of his happiest times visiting Hood Canal, going water-skiing, attending summer camp, staying with his grandmother Adelle Maxwell, whom he and the rest of the family called Gam, at her summer cabin there. After she passed away, Gates had built as a monument to his grandmother Gateaway, a four-house compound on three and a half acres, for family and executive retreats. An hour and a half's drive from Seattle, Gateaway was well known to Microsofties as the site for Microgames, an annual summertime adventure competition where teams of players matched wits and motor skills in a sort of extreme games for the brainy set. The compound also hosted periodic strategic planning sessions for Microsoft's inner circle, guys like Steve Ballmer, Paul Maritz, Jeff Raikes, Brad Silverberg, Jim Allchin. And Gates liked to bring in friends like megainvestor Warren Buffett and Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham for occasional get-togethers.That week, Gates was alone. There was something calming yet energizing about the canal. The damp air seemed to enclose you in a cocoon of concentration and focus. Your mind cleared out. Issues and challenges became more defined. Ideas flowed more easily. It was amazing how when you eluded the noise and demands of the everyday world, you could grab hold of the things that really mattered. Drilling down, augering in-call it what you wanted, the misty isolation of Hood Canal really allowed you to bring things into focus.Gates had been poring over a stack of technology-oriented reading material-memos, white papers, journals, magazines, and books-early that afternoon. The software king loved to read. The bookshelves in the living room of his compound quarters held some of his recent perusings. There was Running Critical by Patrick Tyler, examining the Cold War power struggle between Admiral Hyman Rickover and General Dynamics. There was Robert Lacey's look at Ford and God Knows, the bleak Joseph Heller novel. The Great Getty, by Bob Lenzner, on the oil baron turned art patron; Honorable Justice by Sheldon Novick, on Oliver Wendell Holmes; The Second Creation, a look at twentieth-century physics; The Bishop's Boys, Tom Crouch's study of the Wright brothers, and Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis's look at Wall Street. Gates gravitated toward historical biographies. Part of his fascination derived from his own sense of history and his role in one of the great revolutions of the twentieth century: the Information Age. By any measure, Gates and Microsoft were successes-amazingly, astonishingly so. Founded in 1975 by Gates and his Seattle private-school chum Paul Allen, Microsoft had grown sixteen years later into an international software empire generating $1.8 billion in revenues and 25 percent after-tax profits. Microsoft's third version of Windows, issued a year earlier on May 22, 1990, had sold 9 million copies and was well on its way to supplanting MS-DOS as the bestselling software program ever written. Within five months Gates, thirty-five years old and worth $4.8 billion, would ride the success of Microsoft and Windows to the No. 2 position on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans, a distinction Gates considered more a distraction than an honor.To the world at large, Microsoft was a mighty kingdom, yes. But to Gates, that just made it a bigger target. The way he saw things, Microsoft was under assault from every front. And if the company relaxed its defense for a moment, if it made the wrong strategic decision or pursued the wrong technology, the whole thing could go up in smoke tomorrow. It was one reason he liked to tell executives at Microsoft, ""For every piece of good news you send me, tell me a piece of bad news."" Gates mentally ticked off the challenges Microsoft faced. First there was IBM, upset about the success of Windows versus OS/2-the big, next-generation PC operating system that Big Blue wanted to use to supplant Microsoft's DOS and Windows. The delicate partnership that had defined personal computing through the 1980s had in the fall of 1990 finally dissipated in a miasma of distrust and reprobation. ""IBM always had these projects to wipe us out, so every company retreat we're saying, 'It looks like IBM is going to try and replace us,'"" Gates would recall. ""What can we do to prevent that? What's our strategy once that happens?""The two companies were still working together under a three-year agreement to share some technologies, but IBM's strategy was for OS/2 to supersede Windows by the time the agreement expired in 1993.Besides Big Blue, there was Big Brother to worry about. The Federal Trade Commission was investigating possible antitrust violations related to the way Microsoft licensed DOS to computer manufacturers. Then there was the Apple lawsuit, filed three years earlier and still hanging fire. Perhaps worst of all, Microsoft was having to bear the ignominy of being crushed by Novell, the Provo, Utah, PC networking software company. For eight years Microsoft had been trying to come up with a good networking strategy. And each year it seemed to fall deeper and deeper off the chart. Starting in 1989 Microsoft had made overtures of a merger with Novell. But talks were desultory, and Gates held little hope the two companies would get together. Networking was an embarrassment, one that Gates repeatedly used as a reminder when someone started talking about how big and powerful and dominant Microsoft was becoming.Gates thought about a memo he had been reading by John Walker, the founder of Autodesk. Warning his wildly successful computer-aided design company of complacency, Walker depicted a nightmare scenario where Microsoft decided to compete in the market Autodesk had built an empire upon. Gates considered Walker's notion irrelevant; getting Microsoft into CAD might spread the company too thin. On the other hand, Gates considered the notion of nightmare scenarios all too relevant. Unless he and his company could make the leap to the next paradigm, Gates mused, Microsoft would be tomorrow's WordStar. When the IBM PC had come out, WordStar was the No. 1 word processor, with something like 90 percent market share. Everyone knew what control-KD did. You could ask out loud, ""How do you boldface?"" And someone across the room would call out the command. WordStar had been the standard, the market leader, the dominant force in word processing.And where was WordStar today?If Microsoft continued to execute well on its core strategy, the company would do well, Gates knew. He could see DOS and Windows and Microsoft's desktop applications-Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and on down the line-continuing to thrive in their traditional market, the desktop computer. It was a good business, one that had brought Microsoft much of its success. The operating system standards Microsoft had created-first DOS, on the IBM PC and ""clone"" computers, and then Windows-empowered computer users to create and customize information in new and exciting ways. PCs had exploded in power, functionality, and popularity throughout the 1980s, putting the Gates-Allen vision of a computer on every desk and in every home ever more closely within reach. By 1990 computers were selling at the clip of more than 20 million a year. But peering down the road ahead, Gates saw a looming dead end. Ultimately the model of standalone computers on desks and in homes had a fundamental limitation that would prevent it from continuing to transform society. To be truly useful, to become as popular and effective as television and radio and the telephone, computers had to be linked together somehow. Like people, computers could get a lot done on their own. But like people, they became a real social force and powerful change agent when they networked together.And networking, Gates knew, was Microsoft's bte noir.",( g );a-z;bill;biographies;biographies & memoirs;biography & history;books;business & investing;business & management;company profiles;computers & technology;gates;management;management & leadership;people;user experience & usability;web development & design;web services,18
1557787891,"Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Vol. 1: Chart Detail & Encyclopedia, 1900-1949 This is the first and only book which completely and accurately summarizes American popular music for  the first half of the century.   This volume covers the period 1900-1949. Its principal feature is the presentation of monthly popularity  charts, 600 of them, running from January 1900 to December 1949. These charts appear in this book as  they would have appeared if regular, accurate surveys had been conducted in those early years. Song  charts were not created before 1944. Another section of the book uniquely displays these charts in a  spreadsheet format so the reader can see how each song rose and fell during its period of popularity and  how it compared with the other competing songs of its day.   The remaining section contains a massive and exhaustive encyclopedia of all charted songs giving every  vital fact that pertains to each song, including chart highlights, writers, shows, movies, records, and  principal artists connected with the song. An alphabetical index of song titles allows easy access to song  information, and it eliminates the confusion that arises when two or more different songs have the same  title but different writers. Likewise, it identifies any single song that charted on two or more occasions  during the century by way of revivals and recording remakes.	This volume is a charted history of pop music. Its principal feature is the presentation of 600 monthly popularity charts, running from January 1900 to December 1949. These were created during ten years of exhaustive research, and they appear in this book as they would have appeared if regular, accurate surveys had been conducted and charted prior to 1945. The next section of the book displays these charts in a spreadsheet format so the reader can see how each song rose and fell during its period of popularity and how it compared with the other competing songs of its day. The remaining section contains a massive and comprehensive encyclopedia of all charted songs giving every vital fact that pertains to each song, including chart highlights, writers, shows, movies, records, and principal artists.  An alphabetical index of song titles allows easy access to song information, and it eliminates the confusion that arises when two or more different songs have the same title but different writers. Likewise, it identifies any single song that charted on two or more occasions during the century by way of revivals and recording remakes. Research into the early part of the century disclosed that music periodicals of the day contradicted some of the information commonly found in music history books. For example, a song universally listed with a 1908 publication date was shown to actually have been published and widely popular in 1900. A song listed with a 1910 publication date did not actually become popular until 1915. Some of the most famous songs in history, such as St. Louis Blues and Star Dust did not make a huge splash upon introduction and never became big chart successes although they became all-time standards. It was proven that many show tunes were overrated in their national popularity by historians and were actually minor chart items in their time. Then there were some songs, enormously popular in their time, which received scant mention, if any, in previously issued music history books and encyclopedias. Gardner notes that prior to 1920, many songs did not come out on records until they became ! established hits by way of sheet-music sales and vaudeville performances. After that early period, the recording industry gradually became a major factor in the popularizing of a song and by the mid-1950s became practically the exclusive factor.	Edward F. Gardner lives in Pennsylvania and is a mathematician by trade and an avid musicologist. He is a lecturere on music and musical and social trends of the twentieth century. He has collected more tehan 40 000 popular, country  western, and rhythm  blues recordings from every era.",antiques & collectibles;arts & photography;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;humanities;humor & entertainment;music;musical genres;new;performing arts;politics & social sciences;popular;popular culture;reference;social sciences;songbooks;used & rental textbooks,18
0806133554,"Maya Wars: Ethnographic Accounts from Nineteenth-Century Yucatan Terry Rugeley, editor of Maya Wars, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma.",19th century;americas;ancient;anthropology;archaeology;books;history;humanities;latin america;mayan;modern (16th-21st centuries);native american studies;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,18
080474078X,"The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture:  the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or no longer, a theological already-given.  It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives. Both witty and immensely erudite, Jacques Rancire leads the critical reader through a maze of arrivals toward the moment, perhaps always suspended, when the word finds its flesh.  That is what he, a valiant and good-humored companion to these texts, goes questing for through seven essays examining a wide variety of familiar and unfamiliar works.A text is always a commencement, the word setting out on its excursions through the implausible vicissitudes of narrative and the bizarre phantasmagorias of imagery, Don Quixotes unsent letter reaching us through generous Balzac, lovely Rimbaud,  demonic Althusser.  The word is on its way to an incarnation that always lies ahead of the writer and the reader both, in this anguished democracy of language where the word is always taking on its flesh.	Jacques Rancire is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. Stanford has also published Rancire's Short Voyages to the Land of the People (2003).",authorship;books;criticism & theory;education & reference;encyclopedias;history & criticism;humanities;literary theory;literature;literature & fiction;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;publishing & books;reference;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,18
0195160037,"White Collar Zen: Using Zen Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Your Career Goals The workplace is often a forum where aggressive competition, underappreciation, and self-doubt rule the day. Heine shows how the principles of Zen Buddhism can effectively dissipate stress and anxiety in the professional world. In dealing with conflict, Heine brings to light two seemingly contradictory Zen mindsets: the ""Way of the Hermit,"" which requires one to step back and view the situation in contemplative objectivity, and the ""Way of the Warrior,"" which requires quick and decisive action without hesitation. It is only through practice and intuition that the student of Zen will utilize the appropriate method in any given situation. Heine wisely avoids pop spirituality and instead uses thoughtful examples straight out of the Zen tradition, including effective use of stories and quotations, some from Eastern philosophies and others that may be familiar yet are very Zen-like. Heine, a recognized authority on Buddhism and Japanese culture, gives workshops on the techniques described in this book. David SiegfriedCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Heine deserves credit for offering a bold alternative to the conventional wisdom that has dominated discussions of career success in organizations."" --Academy of Management Review""A sly, good-humored book [about] applying Zen attitudes and concepts to your work and career.... Reach for this book when work makes no sense and people are getting on your nerves.""--USA Today""Heine wisely avoids pop spirituality and instead uses thoughtful examples straight out of the Zen tradition, including effective use of stories and quotations, some from Eastern philosophies and others that may be familiar yet are very Zen-like. Heine, a recognized authority on Buddhism and Japanese culture, gives workshops on the techniques described in this book.""--Booklist""Buddhism authority Heine lays out, in a non-pop psychology fashion, how embracing Zen's two counterbalancing viewpoints (that of the objective, detached 'Hermit' and the decisive, nimble 'Warrior') can bring rewards in the workplace and on a career path.""--Washington Post""If you're looking for a more thoughtful way to approach your work life look no further. White Collar Zen translates ancient wisdom into practical advice for today's business professional. And the way Heine seamlessly weaves Zen teachings and modern work examples together makes for an easy and pleasurable read."" --Mark McNeilly, author of Sun Tzu and the Art of Business: Six Strategic Principles for Managers""A gem that accomplishes one of the prime missions of Zen, the ageless directive to introduce insight and compassion into the situation at hand. Via the inner dynamics of the Zen encounter, Steven Heine presents for modern use a major Zen motif, the deep balancing of contemplative awareness, here symbolized by the Hermit, and its application to the world, represented by the Warrior. This book will help foster individual success through practical lessons presented humorously, with contemporary examples as well as venerable Zen stories that offer wider vantage from which to function freely and think outside the box of stale structures. But more important than personal advantage, these guidelines for good teamwork will promote beneficial cooperation in our world, at a time when we surely are in need of such."" --Taigen Dan Leighton, author of Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes, and translator of Dogen's Extensive Record	Steven Heine is Professor of Religious Studies and History and Director of Asian Studies at Florida International University. A well-known authority on Buddhism and Japanese culture, he gives workshops based on the techniques described in this book. His books include Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters and Buddhism in the Modern World: Adaptations of an Ancient Tradition.   Dr. Heine was recently awarded the Kauffman Professorship in Entrepreneurship Studies at the Florida International University Business School.",books;buddhism;business & finance;business & investing;eastern;guides;humanities;job hunting & careers;management;management & leadership;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious studies;self-help;success;used & rental textbooks,18
0425148270,"The Haldeman Diaries These diaries landed immediately on the best-seller list after their publication (no prepub galleys were available for review). Historians, however, won't extract much beyond daily reminders of Nixon's bark-off persona, especially his habit of airing all options, from the ludicrous to the realistic. Chief of Staff Haldeman was the PR guy, the scheduler, the enforcer (the lord high executioner, Nixon once said) who, though totally trustworthy as a sounding board for his boss, was a nonsubstantive decision maker. Haldeman dramatically tells, for example, of the August 1971 demolition of the world financial system without exhibiting much understanding of the economic ramifications. At bottom, Haldeman's diary is another thimbleful poured into the huge vat of Nixonia; however, the book's juicy quotations (such as those Nightline ran) boost interest dramatically.  Gilbert Taylor	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",( n );a-z;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;historical study & educational resources;history;leaders & notable people;nixon;people;political;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;reference;richard;united states,18
0140272127,"Mottled Dawn; Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story. --Salman RushdieManto s stories will endure as perhaps the best work of fiction on the Partition and its painful impact on the Indo-Pak ethos... --Indian ExpressThere is still no literary rival to Manto...(and) as communalism, religious intolerance and enmity between India and Pakistan continue to grow, his stories are still highly relevant. --Independent	Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and the most controversial short-story writer in Urdu, was born on 11 May 1912 at Samrala in Punjab s Ludhiana district.   In a literary, journalistic, radio scripting and film-writing career spread over more than two decades, he produced twenty-two collections of short stories, one novel, five collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, two collections of personal sketches and many scripts for films.   He was tried for obscenity half a dozen times, thrice before and thrice after independence. Some of Manto s greatest work was produced in the last seven years of his life, a time of great financial and emotional hardship for him.   He died several months short of his forty-third birthday, in January 1955, in Lahore.",20th century;anthologies & literary collections;asia;books;contemporary;europe;general;genre fiction;historical;history;humanities;india;literature;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;used & rental textbooks;world,18
0935312242,"Reena and Other Stories: Including the Novella ""Merle"" Paule Marshall grew up in Brooklyn and barbados. She has published four novels and a book of short stories in career dating back to Random House's publication of BROWN GIRL in 1959. She has received the John Dos Passos Award for Literature and an American Book Award, and was an honoree of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Marshall teaches creative writing at New York University.",african-american studies;anthologies;books;contemporary;gender studies;humanities;literary;literature;literature & fiction;new;politics & social sciences;short stories;single author;social sciences;specific demographics;united states;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,18
084202848X,"The Civil War on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites This new guide aims to help serious researchers and casual browsers find what they're looking for about the war. If you buy only one book this year on the Civil War, this should be it. (Civil War Times Illustrated )The authors give equal time to both the battlefield and the homefront, where important social, cultural and racial changes occurred. (The New York Times )A valuable guide to anyone who is interested in the war and hopes to avoid hours of circular and fruitless web navigation. (The Christian Science Monitor )More than 300 sites have been neatly packaged by categories that include special looks at black troops, slavery, and women in the Civil War; along with the battles and military leaders. (Roanoke Times And World News )Highly recommended. This work will serve as a guide to the best current Civil War scholarship available online. (Library Journal )A new portal to a feast of information. The Civil War on the Web is a boon to those exasperated by their search engines. (QUOTE AFFILIATION: Publisher's Weekly )	Alice E. Carter is director of project management at Interactive Media Associates, an Internet consulting firm in New Jersey. Richard Jensen is professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and research associate at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications. He also founded H-Net, the groundbreaking and highly successful web-based book review, information, and scholarly discussion source for the academic community.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",19th century;americas;books;civil war;computer science;education & reference;historical study & educational resources;history;humanities;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;reference;research;research & publishing guides;united states;used & rental textbooks;writing,18
0345394321,"Wisdom of the Elders Robert Fleming has collected a wealth of inspirational quotations of African Americans.   Among the topics covered by these esteemed men and women are power and politics, culture, self-esteem, education, community, race and racism, and strategies for change.  Fleming offers a reflection on each quotation and then a daily affirmation to go forth with that day.  My favorite affirmation: ""There is no room for negativity in my life.  I see the positive possibilities in all things.""-- JMC	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.""--James BaldwinIn these troubled times, wisdom often seems in short supply. But as this magnificent volume reminds us, African Americans have been blessed with a precious legacy of wisdom, gained through long hard years of struggle by those who have gone before. Wisdom is the most hallowed gift born of experience and endurance.The life-affirming guidance in The Wisdom of the Elders has been gleaned from this bountiful harvest and includes some of the most electrifying and deeply moving writings and speeches ever produced. Here are the unedited works of such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, W. E. B. DuBois, Martin Luther King Jr., Elijah Muhammad, Lorraine Hansberry, Thurgood Marshall, Zora Neale Hurston, Adam Clayton Powell, Mary McLeod Bethune, Marcus Garvey, Barbara Jordan, Paul Robeson, Jean Toomer, and many others. The elders' empowering messages and Robert Fleming's interpretations offer us mother wit, cultural truths, and spiritual sustenance. These words challenge and inspire us to build on the best of our past, to insure our future.",african-american studies;americas;books;education & reference;ethnic & tribal;history;inspirational;literature & fiction;other religions;politics & social sciences;practices & sacred texts;religion & spirituality;religious;social sciences;specific demographics;spirituality;united states;world,18
0072487828,"The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, and Sexual Orientation Karen E. Rosenblum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Vice President for University Life at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.  She is a former Director of Womens Studies and the Womens Studies Research and Resource Center and a faculty member in Cultural Studies.  Professor Rosenblum received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder.  Her areas of research and teaching include sex and gender, language, and deviance.Toni-Michelle C. Travis is Associate Professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.  She is also a faculty member in the Womens Studies and African American Studies Programs.  Professor Travis received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.  Her areas of research and teaching include race and gender in political participation, and urban politics.  She has served as the President of the National Capital Area Political Science Association and the Womens Caucus of the American Political Science Association.  She hosts Capital Regional Roundtable, a cable television show, and is a frequent commentator on Virginia politics.",anthropology;books;cultural;education & reference;ethnic studies;gender studies;government;national;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;united states;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,18
1576852075,"Police Officer Exam LearningExpress writers are experts in test preparation questions. They are reading, writing, and math professionals from throughout the United States.",books;business & finance;business & investing;careers;civil service;economics;education & reference;graduate & professional;guides;job hunting & careers;new;professional;reference;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks,18
0201704897,"Making iMovies Just as digital cameras revolutionized still photography, digital  motion-picture devices are sure to have a big effect on the home and amateur  video scenes. Making iMovies shows how you--the owner of a video camera,  and with an interest in digital movie production--can make professional-quality  video sequences on your personal computer. Author Scott Smith's editing platform  of choice? The Apple iMac DV, or any other Macintosh computer with a FireWire  interface for external devices. Smith presents a beautifully illustrated guide  to the techniques of telling stories and eliciting emotions via digital  video. As you'd expect, Smith covers his bases in terms of explaining iMovie's  essential capabilities. More valuably, he takes readers beyond the basics of  connectivity and clip splicing. A typical example: While makers of traditional  film-based movies can depict characters against a brick-wall background with no  worries, bricks can cause jitter and compression problems in digitally recorded  sequences. Therefore, Smith says, digital video producers need to zoom closer to  subjects that are backed by a complicated surface. Not all of his advice is as  explicitly technical. He also offers advice on orienting elements in the video  frame, choosing subtle but effective music, selecting costumes, and  storyboarding. He's written (and, no less importantly, helped lay out) a superb  book that balances the technical and artistic sides of digital video production  on the Macintosh. --David Wall Topics covered: Digital video production, with emphasis on the tools and  resources available on the iMac DV and other editing platforms based on Mac OS  and FireWire. Using the iMovie application as his prime tool, the author  explains story planning, visual design, time management, and other technical  aspects of videography. Sound, lighting, music, costumes, and the like receive  ample coverage, as do editing techniques, titling, transitions, and narration.	Scott Smith is a senior editor at RES: The Magazine of Digital Filmmaking, where he reports on trends in digital video production. An experienced filmmake and animator, he is also a founding partner of Silver Planet Studio, creator of digital effects for dozens of feature films including director Frank Grow's Love God and Tood Solondz's latest film, Happiness. His last book was The Film 100, a ranking of the msot influential people in the history of cinema.	Scott Smith is a senior editor at RES: The Magazine of Digital Filmmaking, where he reports on trends in digital video production. An experienced filmmake and animator, he is also a founding partner of Silver Planet Studio, creator of digital effects for dozens of feature films including director Frank Grow's Love God and Tood Solondz's latest film, Happiness. His last book was The Film 100, a ranking of the msot influential people in the history of cinema.",apple;arts & photography;audio & video editing;books;computers & technology;digital media management;direction & production;education & reference;graphics & multimedia;home computing & how-to;humor & entertainment;mac administration & networking;movies;networking;photography;programming;web design;web development & design,18
1589011163,"Health Care Ethics, Fifth Edition: Health Care Ethics: A Catholic Theological Analysis ""While affirming Catholic Church teaching, [the editors] address controversies within the Catholic community and challenges from without... Provides a much-needed account of social responsibility and public policy as well as the sacramental and healing dimensions of true care."" --  America""Clear, careful on reproductive and life issues and yet challenging, particularly in addressing matters of distributive justice and the social responsibility of health care systems and practitioners... the fifth edition offers an intriguing way of classifying ethical theories, a bit different from any traditional classification method I have seen to date."" --  Vision""This [book] can become a great teaching moment for the Church's magisterium."" --  The Thomist""The fifth edition of this classic work is equal in its quality, if not better, than earlier versions... While this work is intellectually solid, deeply grounded in scripture, theology, a humanistic natural law tradition, and various ethical approaches to bioethics, this book is remarkably 'user friendly.' I recommend this text for educated adults, undergraduates and graduate ministerial students."" --  Catholic Library World""What was already a stellar theological compendium of health care ethics a decade ago has been fully revised to meet the challenges of a new century, from the genome project, adult and embryonic stem cell research and genetic therapies to new controversies over end-of-life care. Clearly rooted in the Catholic, natural law and personalist traditions, it astutely weighs diverse opinions within Catholicism, as well as alternative approaches from other Christian and non-religious thinkers... A treasure."" -- John F. Kavanaugh, SJ, Director of Ethics Across the Curriculum, Saint Louis University""This is the most thorough revision to date of Ashley and O'Rourke's classic analysis of Catholic health care ethics. For Catholics 'doing' health care ethics or those wanting to understand Catholic thinking on foundational and controversial issues in health care it is an invaluable reference and should be in every library. Adding Jean deBlois as a third author brings a critical and new voice to this volume."" -- Carol R. Taylor, CSFN, RN, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University	Benedict M. Ashley, OP, a priest of the Dominican Order, Chicago Province, is Emeritus Professor of Moral Theology at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis. He is a senior fellow of the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. He has been honored with the medal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice conferred by John Paul II and the Thomas Linacre Award from the National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds. He is coautor of  Ethics of Health Care: An Introductory Textbook, Third Edition (with Kevin O'Rourke, OP). Jean deBlois, CSJ, is director of the Master of Arts in Health Care Mission program at Aquinas Institute of Theology. She also acts as sponsor liaison to Ascension Health for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and serves on the Ascension Health Board of Directors. She is a former Vice President for Mission and Sponsorship at the Catholic Health Association.Kevin O'Rourke, OP, is professor emeritus and founder of the Center for Health Care Ethics at the Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center. He is a professor of bioethics at the Neiswanger Institute of Bioethics and Public Policy, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University, Chicago. He is author of  Medical Ethics: Sources of Catholic Teachings, Third Edition and coauthor of  A Primer for Health Care Ethics: Essays for a Pluralistic Society, Second Edition.",administration & policy;books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;ethics;fitness & dieting;health;humanities;medical books;medical ethics;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks,18
0198269226,"A History of the Popes 1830-1914 (Oxford History of the Christian Church) ""...this book will benefit students, scholars and serious readers of ecclesiastical history....This book should remain a standard in the field of papal studies for years to come.""--History	Major figure in academia.",19th century;20th century;books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;church history;europe;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;religious;religious studies;used & rental textbooks;western;world,18
060980801X,"The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la As the 20th century neared its close, few corners of the globe remained unexplored. One exception was a ""monstrous and largely obscure river in southeastern Tibet"" that had already resisted several British expeditions: the Yarlung Tsangpo. Raging through a nearly impenetrable gorge in one of the most remote places on the planet, it was a place variously reported as the source behind the Western myth of Shangri-La and the ""Everest of rivers."" In 1998 a team of middle-aged American men--all of them expert river runners--aimed to notch their paddles with this last great stretch of virgin whitewater that many knowledgeable river people considered ""beyond the means of what humans could do in a boat."" But after securing crucial funding from National Geographic and flying halfway around the world, the team of four paddlers (three in expedition kayaks, one in a whitewater canoe) arrived in-country to find the river at flood stage. Their leader, a man with a ""stubborn allegiance for things that look hopeless,"" decided they would continue anyway. Those familiar with the story know what happened next.  Fans of the man-versus-nature genre popularized by Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm will not be disappointed by Todd Balf's fast-flowing reconstruction of events. All the elements are on board: rugged individuals, intensive logistical planning, a strange, unforgiving landscape--and death. While Balf, a former editor at Outside magazine, delivers the expected adrenaline-fueled adventure, the nuanced emotional and psychological dimensions that allowed Krakauer and Junger to rise above the genre are less in evidence in The Last River. Portages through personal histories, for instance, bog down with character portraits that sometimes read more like screen treatments (""His face bears out the Baby Boomer ideal: seasoned but searching""). But once Balf plunges into the heart of his narrative--the river navigation itself--he finds the right stroke:Paddling hard to get to the protected shore-side of a house-sized rock, he missed the move, then plunged over another small drop. Flipped again, Jamie got spit out and tried to roll but couldn't. Seconds later he felt the boat getting pushed beneath an undercut rock.... What happened on the Tsangpo is not so much a tragedy as another sad loss in the increasingly competitive realm of extreme sports. One wonders about the actual tragedies (i.e., cultural fallout, environmental degradation) ready to unfold as the world's last remote places become playgrounds for the burgeoning adventure-travel industry. The Last River avoids speculating. It's first and foremost an action-packed chronicle of an expedition gone bad that will appeal to landlubbers and water rats alike. --Langdon Cook	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Boutsikaris does a fine job of matching Balf's (a former editor of Outside magazine) comfortable, plainspoken style, ringing true in all instances except the few where he is called upon to simulate foreign accents, an area that is clearly not his forte. Balf spends a considerable amount of time characterizing the trip's participants and describing the years of preparation that have gone into the journey, and he manages to give just enough insight and background to make the story more palpable instead of bogging it down. Listeners will have a real sense of loss when, nearly two weeks into the exploration of the Tibetan river Tsangpo, one of the members flips over an eight-foot waterfall and is never seen again. Perhaps, though, the fact that Balf was not actually a participant in the trip itself is what accounts for the lack of the immediate, cinematic narration that has made other books in this genre, particularly Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, so successful. Balf reconstructs events through interviews with the members of the party and attempts to raise the excitement through a dated, sequential telling, but he still just doesn't manage to bring the drama home in a way that a story of this nature demands. Simultaneous release with the Crown hardcover (Forecasts, July 31). (Sept.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Audio Cassette	 edition.	This book tells of a 1998 expedition by a team of expert kayakers down the entire Tsangpo Gorge in the Tibetan Himalayas. The Everest of whitewater rivers, the uncharted Tsangpo plunges 10,000 feet over its course. This book will appeal to anyone with ""America's late 20th-century fascination with fatal adventures."" Think Into Thin Air on water or The Perfect Storm in a kayak. At his best, journalist Balf (Outside and Men's Journal magazines) delves into why some people are compelled to stake their lives attempting to conquer nature's ultimate challenges in the pursuit of exploration. However, there is also a lot of technical jargon to wade through here, and most readers will need to use the glossary at the back of the book. Despite the terminology, the writing is stylish and the character sketches fairly adept, making the book an interesting read that would fit in any collection. John Maxymuk, Rutgers Univ. Lib., Camden, NJ Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	One of the few spots of Earth's surface without a recorded sighting by unassisted eyeballs is a gorge in southeast Tibet, cut by the Tsangpo River, known as the Brahmaputra after its debouchment into India. The gorge has titanically tall walls and huge waterfalls, or so say satellite photos and local lore. This geographic mystery, whose siren call an American group of elite kayakers answered in 1998, remains an enigma, but due to Balf's flowing chronicle, at least its fatal attractions might be more humbly assessed by any who dare it in the future. Balf was not a Boswell on the trip, but reconstructed it afterward with admirable objectivity. Consisting of about eight men, some ex-Olympians, the expedition planned to run the Tsangpo, but found the current high and violent--yet they persisted, confident their kayaking expertise could conquer at least parts of the torrent. Balf dramatically paces the deadly denouement, and by refraining from judging such risk-taking, conveys the ineffable thrill its practitioners seek. A sober grabber for the adventure-reading legions. Gilbert TaylorCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Heart-pounding . . . like Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, The Last River is a page-flipping odyssey fueled by the adrenaline and near-madness of a team of well-heeled world-class thrill seekers . . .  -- Entertainment WeeklyDifficult to put down . . . a fascinating book . . . a kind of kayaker's Rashomon.-- the New York TimesA thrilling read about a terrifying expedition.-- Men's Journal	It is a challenge few top kayakers could resist.The Tsangpo remains one of the world's few uncharted, unconquered whitewater rivers, epic in both scale and beauty.Plunging 10,000 vertical feet, its waters run beneath snowcapped Himalayan peaks, past verdant jungle, and through the treacherous Tsangpo Gorge.Ancient Buddhist monastic textx name the region Pemako and suggest a real-life Shangri-La within its unexplored depths, along with mist-shrouded waterfalls and other wonders witnessed by few, if any, human eyes.In October 1998, a team of four expert kayakers, partially funded by the National Geographic Society, attempted the first end-to-end descent of the gorge.The expedition ended in tragedy when the team's strongest paddler, Doug Gordon, executing a perilous but not impossible jump, was swept into the river's main current and never seen again.The Last River is the story of that ill-fated adventure and a riveting evocationof one of our planet's wildest and most alluring places.In the words of an eighth-century monk, ""Even to take one single step toward Pemako is to be liberated from mundane existence.""	      --This text refers to the 							Audio Cassette	 edition.	Heart-pounding . . . like Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, The Last River is a page-flipping odyssey fueled by the adrenaline and near-madness of a team of well-heeled world-class thrill seekers . . .  -- Entertainment WeeklyDifficult to put down . . . a fascinating book . . . a kind of kayaker's Rashomon.-- the New York TimesA thrilling read about a terrifying expedition.-- Men's Journal	TODD BALF, a former senior editor for Outside magazine, writes for Men's Journal, Fast Company, and other publications. His cover story in Men's Journal on the Tsangpo and the Walker-McEwan expedition appeared in March 1999. He lives in Beverly, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.	Great Falls of the Potomac, August 1975Predawn, the Potomac River. Boyhood friends Wick Walker and Tom McEwan, now in their late twenties, and a young tagalong, Dan Schnurrenberger, stumble around their island campsite gathering up gear. They don helmets and spray skirts, grab paddles, and furtively slip into the swift but familiar current. The plan is simple: Before the park service is up and about -- the Virginia side of the Potomac is part of Great Falls National Park -- before anyone is up and about, they will paddle upstream a mile and a half to the base of Great Falls, then climb and rope-haul their boats to an overlook where they can scout the crux move of the seventy-five-foot drop one last time.Great Falls is a twisting, rock-jammed stretch of whitewater where the immense western river-sized volume of the Potomac abruptly plunges off the Piedmont Plateau to the coastal plains. Nobody has ever run the vertical falls. The conventional wisdom is that nobody will run the falls. As it is, some seven park visitors each year drown in the rapids. Most of them slip off the gorge's high cliffs and are swept into the fierce whirlpools at the bottom of the falls. The thrashing currents can hold a person for a long time. Some victims are never spat out.And yet Walker and McEwan, hotshot local whitewater racers, have been toying with the idea of a run down Great Falls almost as long as they can remember. Day after day they'd train at O-Deck Rapids and look the short distance upstream to the pounding, mist-shrouded cascade. Could they? At some point the pair began to believe something fundamentally different from what a million or so residents in metro D.C. and every single boater on the Potomac believed -- they could. Not only could they run it, but they'd show everyone that their endeavor wasn't the reckless act of thrill-seeking idiots but the work of shrewd, utterly rational individuals. After all, they weren't day campers out on a dare. Walker, fair-skinned and block-chester, was a decorated military officer stationed at nearby Fort Belvoir. McEwan, dark-complected and six-footer, was married, with a child on the way. They'd show that Great Falls was an objective that could be professionally trained and planned for, something they could study and know until the craziness had been wrung from it.In the years preceding that Sunday in August, they put the falls under their peculiar microscope. As far as they knew, nobody had ever boated off a major falls. They mapped the river's holes and eddies and drops at a myriad of water levels, then they went out and played guinea pigs at nearby, presumably less sinister, waterfalls. From West Virginia to North Carolina, they boated off increasingly high drops and even swam into the thrashing maelstrom at their base.In one episode McEwan didn't get flushed out for almost a minute. Part of what they were doing was river morphology -- understanding the chaotic behavior of a river at its wildest. Part of it was survivalist training -- keeping it together when every mental impulse screamed for hitting the panic button. Each experience added up to a kind of blueprint for what to do, or, more accurately, what not to do when boating off a vertical fall. By the time they scrambled up the cliffs above the first twenty-five-foot drop, the Spout, they had a sense they'd done their homework, cracked the code. Moreover, they had a belief that they'd come to understand Great Falls (and, by extension, any other similarly monstrous and mythic river) for what it truly was -- rocks and water, as Tom put it. What it WAS. Not what their fears or other people's fears told them it was. And what it was was runnable.The river cascades seventy-five feet in two hundred yards and is defined by three distinct drops. They'd put in above the bottom falls and run that first. Then the middle and bottom together. Finally it is time to do the complete top-to-bottom run. The day is lightening and time is running out. Soon the park rangers will be wandering about. First sight of boaters atop the falls will no doubt cause a convulsive response involving a phalanx of pissed-off fire and rescue squads. Tom McEwan moves fast, but he's not rushing. He slides into the boat's cockpit, fastening the stretchy, girdlelike spray skirt around the lipped oval opening to seal him in -- and water out. Then he peers ahead to a point where the river's course drops completely from sight, and launches his twelve-foot fiberglass boat into the abyss. McEwan, Walker, and Schnurrenberger run the upper rapids just as they drew it up. They ferry hard left at the first eight-foot drop, zigzag through the bouldery middle rapids, and then approach the Spout, the final cataclysmic drop. Miss the hard left move, and the current will pile-drive them into a massive hole studded with rocks and ledgy outcroppings. A boat can easily become vertically pinned in the subsurface rock pile. If the boater's hands are free, maybe he can pull his spray skirt and maybe he can swim out. Only a few years earlier McEwan had been in a similarly grim scenario in the Linville Gorge, when he'd managed to exit at the last moment by upthrusting his knees with such desperate force he emerged with the splintered deck of his boat hanging off his spray skirt. More likely the thundering whitewater simply pounds the life out of whoever is beneath it. There is little to no rescue option. You have to save yourself. In a minute, maybe a little more, it will all be over.But nobody misses the move. The trio dig their paddles into the current with a hard right sweep stroke. The boats pivot -- almost in midair, it seems -- and skip across the lip of the falls. Then the world drops away and they're falling almost three stories. Exploding into the pile below, each disappears momentarily and then bursts free to the surface. A moment later they're safely tucked into an eddy. They don't whoop it up as though they've cheated death. Rather, there's the sense of satisfaction that they are up to the unknown. Utterly fit for it. Then they paddle away, not bothering to tell anybody about their feat for several years to come (and to this day they refuse to say which of them ran the falls first). This makes the tale of the run even better when it does finally surface. And then the mystique about it -- and about them -- grows. Tom and Wick become local legends.But the Great Falls was a mere prelude, a training trip for a major whitewater expedition Walker and McEwan had planned for the Bhutanese Himalaya later the same year. After Bhutan the duo had in mind an even bigger, more audacious objective: a monstrous and largely obscure river in southeastern Tibet called the Yarlung Tsangpo. It appeared to have the largest drop of any river in the world. It traveled through a gorge that was one of the most remote places on the planet. According to a book Wick Walker had unearthed, there were reports (in the sacred texts of a particular monastery) of some seventy-five waterfalls in a virtually unexplored and fabled stretch of about twenty miles. The suggestion of a real-life Shangri-la in those same gorge depths captivated them. It was the Everest of rivers. Undone and unopposed. Of the few river runners who were familiar with it, almost all believed its volume, gradient, and remoteness made the Yarlung Tsangpo beyond the means of what humans could do in a boat. Maybe not surprisingly, Walker and McEwan weren't so sure.	For a 1998 American kayaking team, the Tsangpo River, deep in Tibet, was the ultimate white-water challenge, requiring years of research, training, and fund-raising. For Dennis Boutsikaris, the text has a challenge of its own--how to make a third-person narrative full of technical information (and no maps or pictures) immediate and engaging. He succeeds with a well-paced and clear-voiced reading that involves the listener in every stage of the trip. You feel the adrenaline, the frustration at obstacles, and the helplessness of being at risk in a remote and hostile land. If you like high-octane adventure, this is for you. Think of it as ""Into White Water.""  J.B.G.  AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio Cassette	 edition.",adventure;adventurers & explorers;asia;biographies & memoirs;books;earth sciences;general;india;kayaking;rafting;rivers;science & math;specialty travel;specific groups;sports & outdoors;travel;travel writing;water sports,18
0762736771,"Death in the Grizzly Maze: The Timothy Treadwell Story On the afternoon of Sunday, October 5, 2003, in Alaska's Katmai National Park, one or more brown bears killed and ate Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard. The next day, park rangers investigating the site shot and killed two bears that threatened them; it was later determined that one of the bears had human flesh and clothing in its stomach.     This chilling story immediately captured worldwide media attention, not only because of the horrific manner of Timothy and Amie's deaths, but also because Timothy was a well-known wildlife celebrity. His films of close-up encounters with grizzly bears  he spent more than a dozen summers living with and videotaping giant bears in the Alaskan bush  were the subject of television talk shows, movies, and books.But his work was not without controversy, and some bear experts felt that Treadwell's fatal encounter was a tragedy waiting to happen  the result of the unorthodox tactics he used in his life among the bears.Death in the Grizzly Maze is the compelling account of Treadwell's intense life and dramatic death. Author Mike Lapinski chronicles Treadwell's rise from self-described alcoholic loser to popular grizzly-bear advocate. Lapinski explores how a waiter from Malibu, California, with no background in biology or wildlife science, came to be considered a bear expert. And he reveals the high cost of the current craze for wildlife celebrities  and what it means for the future of wildlife conservation.	Mike Lapinski is the author of eleven outdoor and nature books and hundreds of magazine articles. His photographs have appeared as inside and cover art in a variety of magazines and books. Mike is considered an expert on the use of bear pepper spray and often speaks on this subject, bears, and self-defense for nature lovers. He lives with his wife Aggie most of the year in Superior, Montana, close to grizzlies and grizzly country. While the bears are hibernating, Mike and Aggie live in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where Mike writes about jaguars, ocelots, and other wilderness animals of the Southwest.	Breaking the Rules in Bear CountryIt was finally dark...Suddenly, I felt the ground shake and the crush of grass being trampled outside my tent. A bear was bedding down for the evening. Without alarm, I left the tent, shining my flashlight into the pitch-black evening and saw Mr. Chocolate, my beautiful half-ton friend, who had stopped by to spend the evening with me...""Good night, big fellow, and sleep tight,"" I crooned. ""We're gonna have a great day tomorrow.""--Timothy Treadwell, Among GrizzliesNight descended upon the Run Amuck Campground northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska, as George Tullos, a forty-one-year-old resident of Ketchikan crawled into his tent, feeling snug and safe after a long day of watching bears.And why not? He was in a well-used camping area in a place where the big brown (coastal grizzly) bears were thought to be benign because thousands of spawned-out salmon clogged the nearby river and provided an abundance of food. The spot was so safe that the Forest Service maintained a bear-viewing platform three miles away along the river, where people could watch bears passing by as close as twenty yards away as the bloated bruins blissfully gorged on dead salmon.Tullos was stirred awake during the night by the shaking of the ground and the crush of grass outside his tent. He probably poked his head outside his tent with flashlight in hand. The next morning, a passerby found the Tullos campsite torn apart, and investigating rangers discovered the partially eaten body of George Tullos. A short time later, they encountered a brown bear and killed it. A necropsy found human flesh in its belly, along with berries and grass.Back at Katmai, Timothy Treadwell emerged from his tent, stretching and yawning, and set out to find his good friend Mr. Chocolate among the dozens of brown bears roaming within a mile of his campsite. He wrote, ""I sat only 30 feet away, watching and photographing Mr. Chocolate, a half-ton brown male grizzly bear, who paused between bites and gazed up toward me, not concerned at all by my presence as he ate...throughout the years, Mr. Chocolate had not only tolerated my presence, but seemed to enjoy it.""Ironically, George Tullos, who always kept a clean camp and made it a practice to observe bears at a distance, fell victim to claw and fang, while Timothy Treadwell lived, despite the fact that he'd repeatedly violated most of the rules for proper behavior in bear country.Timothy ignored these simple rules, at first out of ignorance; later out of a growing conviction that the bears accepted and trusted him. Beginning with his very first foray into bear country, Timothy exhibited a disturbing lack of judgment, largely attributable to his admitted naivet as an outdoorsman.After traveling to Alaska in 1989 and learning where to find bears, Timothy set shortly after lunch on a drizzly August afternoon in Katmai National Park. Hiking along a major bear trail, he began finding huge piles of bear droppings, black and squishy from fish oil. He waited for hours at a place where the trail followed a river, but no bears appeared. Timothy penned his thoughts: ""I waited in the rain, getting soaked as my cheap raincoat failed. And when it wasn't raining, the mosquitoes and white socks bit and gnawed at my flesh. Tears of frustration welled up in my eyes. All I wanted was the company of bears.""As the long Alaska day ended at about 11 P.M., Timothy started back to camp along the gloomy forest trail he'd traveled hours earlier, the path now dark and slick in the pouring rain. Suddenly, branches snapped and cracked just ahead. Timothy Treadwell was about to get his wish.""In the dim light,"" he reminisced, ""a massive form took shape, definitely not human. As the bear slowly ambled my way, fear enveloped me. My body told me to run, but my brain knew better. Without turning my back on the bear, I slowly retreated and started singing softly. What I sang, I haven't a clue, but it calmed my frazzled nerves. Maybe it communicated some goodwill to the approaching bear because the animal veered to my left and disappeared into the night. I shook with adrenalin spiked with fear. Triumphantly, I resumed the hike back to camp.""After another bear encounter that ended the same way, Timothy was feeling pretty shaken and wanted only to get back to camp because it was almost dark. Then the vague outline of another bear loomed ahead in the trail.""This brown bear was massive, possibly weighing 1,000 pounds. On all fours, the bear's head was as high as mine. Again I attempted to back up and sing sweet songs, but the bear came too fast and quickly closed the distance between us. I stumbled on the mud and fell face-first. As I curled into a fetal position, the grizzly's steps vibrated right next to my sniveling face. Pearl-dagger claws stopped inches from my cheek.""Spreading my fingers over my eyes in a bizarre form of peekaboo, I gaped up at the grizzly's face. What little light was left exposed an immense, furry face horribly engraved with long, deep scars from battles past. The bear exhaled a puff of fish-breath, then quickly inhaled my odor. No brilliant defensive strategy occurred to me. The grizzly hovered above for a few minutes, but for me, it was a lifetime. Then, ever so gently, he stepped over my quivering body, his bloated tummy scraping across my right shoulder, and vanished into the night.""After he was gone, I picked up my shaking body and stumbled along the path, all the while chanting, 'Thank you, bears...thank you, bears.' This brush with the wild grizzly was more than I had hoped for.""On his very first outing, Timothy Treadwell had violated two cardinal rules: Never hike in the dark, and never go looking for bears. Bear experts often don't even bother to warn hikers about traveling through bear country in the dark because the danger is so obvious.In retrospect, it might even have been a life-saving, though painful, experience at that embryonic stage of his bear vision quest, if that half-ton grizzly had swatted Timothy Treadwell with a sledge hammer-like blow and busted a half dozen of his ribs, or shaken him like a rat while crushing the bones in his shoulder.But Timothy got lucky. The bear passed without incident, no doubt bolstering his budding notion that if you love bears, they'll love you back. What ultimately brought Timothy fame among bear lovers, and incurred the wrath of bear experts, was his continual practice of getting close to grizzlies. Timothy moved toward bears over and over again without being attacked, though he had many close calls. In one day, a single bear charged him three different times. On his first trip to a place in Katmai National Park he called the ""Grizzly Sanctuary,"" Timothy recorded his first close encounter during which he willfully moved toward a bear. Katmai, it turned out, was an ideal location for getting the closeness that he craved.Located 30 miles west of Kodiak Island via the Shelikof Straight, Katmai National Park was created to preserve the famed Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a spectacular forty square mile pyroclastic ash flow deposited by the Novarupta Volcano. Currently, there are fourteen volcanos in Katmai that are considered active, though none are currently erupting. It's no surprise that Timothy Treadwell would choose Katmai National Park for the staging ground of his star-crossed odyssey. It had everything he needed: fantastic scenery, wilderness, isolation, lots of big brown bears--and a perplexingly cordial staff.In the beginning, Katmai received some attention from geologists and volcano lovers, but attendance didn't come close to matching the envious attendance record of its sister park to the northeast--Denali, where tens of thousands of animal lovers vied for the privilege of viewing its wildlife. It wasn't that Katmai didn't have bears. More than 2,000 of the giant brown bears roamed its shores and inland forests, sustained by a series of salmon spawning runs that saw millions of the dying fish struggling up its numerous fresh water streams that flow into the ocean. The big problem at Katmai was access. It was truly a wilderness park, with no roads slicing through the heart of it like at Denali. At Katmai, you either flew or boated to get anywhere in the park, and then you were stuck there until you flew or boated out.Katmai was officially ""discovered"" when the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound. This catastrophic oil spill in 1986 threatened to destroy hundreds of miles of pristine Alaskan shoreline. Desperate federal officials sent urgent pleas for all charter craft to aid in corralling the spreading black oil slick. Lured by the promise of big bucks, fishing and sight-seeing boats steamed down the Shelikof Straight to help with the oil cleanup.It was during these trips back and forth along the Katmai Coast that charter boat captains noticed the large numbers of brown bears roaming in plain view along the shore. After the oil spill was contained, many of these charter boats began offering bear-viewing excursions in the comfort of their fully equipped boats, and added land excursions led by experienced bear guides. Tourism exploded from a meager 3,000 visitors annually, to more than 30,000 today, with 70 commercial operators of bear viewing excursions working within park boundaries.Initially, rules and regulation were few at Katmai, since almost all of the bear viewing occurred from boat or plane, with overnight stays a rarity. By contrast, Denali requires anyone planning a camping trip to apply for a back country camping permit and attend a half hour training session. Katmai, on the other hand, didn't even require a camping permit (and still doesn't, except in certain areas). In Denali, visitors are not allowed to move closer than afs20quarter mile (1400 feet) from any grizzly bear. In Katmai, it's 100 yards from sows with cubs, and only 50 yards from all other bears. These lax rules and regulations, in turn, fostered lax enforcement by park rangers. In other words, Katmai National Park wa...",animals;bears;biological sciences;biology;books;civil;conservation;ecotourism;engineering;fauna;field guides;mammals;nature & ecology;professional & technical;science & math;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel,18
063119942X,"Cities of Tomorrow Cities of Tomorrow remains the definitive story of modern Euro-American planning. The seamless integration of new information and perspectives in this latest edition reaffirms its status as a classic, compelling and extraordinarily readable synthesis. Professor Robert Freestone, University of New South Wales !-end""Peter Hall's new edition of Cities of Tomorrow is better than ever. With extraordinary skill he weaves the separate strands of planning of the last century into a rich tapestry that vividly displays its intricate links, perceptively portrays the foundations of today's profession yet cleverly reveals the field's enduring questions and concerns. To do this in one volume is a work of genius!"" Professor Genie Birch, University of Pennsylvania	Cities of Tomorrow remains the definitive story of modern Euro-American planning. The seamless integration of new information and perspectives in this latest edition reaffirms its status as a classic, compelling and extraordinarily readable synthesis.Robert Freestone, University of New South Wales ""Peter Hall's new edition of Cities of Tomorrow is better than ever. With extraordinary skill he weaves the separate strands of planning of the last century into a rich tapestry that vividly displays its intricate links, perceptively portrays the foundations of today's profession yet cleverly reveals the field's enduring questions and concerns. To do this in one volume is a work of genius!""Genie Birch, University of Pennsylvania""This classic history of modern urban planning has now been updated for the new century with a third edition. Cities of Tomorrow is an excellent guide to the urban development of the 20th century, and a good platform from which to view the evolution of the 21st.""Amanda Huron, Urban Land	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.	Sir Peter Hall is Professor of Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Building, Environmental Design and Planning at University College, London and Director of the Institute of Community Studies. He was previously Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of Geography at the University of Reading. He is the author of over 30 books in planning and related subjects, including London 2000, The World Cities, Great Planning Disasters and High Tech America. He has been credited with the invention of the Urban Enterprise Zone concept now widely employed in the USA, the UK and Europe. An advisor to governments and international agencies across the world, Professor Hall is known throughout the world for his contribution both to the theory and to the practice of city and regional planning.",20th century;arts & photography;books;city planning & urban development;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;public policy;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;urban;urban planning & development;used & rental textbooks,18
0195163443,"Street Gang Patterns and Policies (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) ""This is an important book. Malcolm Klein and Cheryl Maxson here draw upon their own rich and pioneering research experience and that of others to provide the most comprehensive review of what is known and what needs to be known about gangs and their control in community contexts. I stand in awe of their accomplishment.""--James F. Short, Jr., Past President of the American Sociological Association""The need to intervene successfully with street gangs is self-evident; unfortunately the way to do so is not. Klein and Maxson, based on a masterful review of the empirical literature on gangs and on gang intervention efforts, lay out a balanced and comprehensive strategy for confronting this problem head-on. Neither falsely optimistic nor unnecessarily gloomy, they provide a road map that, if followed, will yield substantial progress in our fight against gangs.""--Terence P. Thornberry, Director, Research Program on Problem Behavior, University of Colorado	Malcolm W. Klein is Emeritus Professor at the University of Southern California. Cheryl L. Maxson is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine.",biographies & memoirs;books;children's books;criminal law;criminology;law;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;public policy;social policy;social sciences;true accounts;true crime;used & rental textbooks;violence in society,18
1568843224,"About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design An excellent book for anyone who wants to understand why so much software is so poorly designed -- and an even better book for anyone who wants to DO something about the problem. Must reading (and doing!) for programmers of any level.	Alan Cooper is the ""Miss Manners"" of software design...My advice is to buy two copies -- autograph the second, and send it to an engineer at Microsoft. -- Paul Saffo, Director, Institute for the Future	About Face The Essentials of User Interface Design Cooper Interaction Design Dear Reader, This book has a simple premise: if achieving the users goals is the basis of our user interface design, then the user will be satisfied and happy. If the user is happy, he will gladly pay us money, and then we will be successful. To those who are intrigued by the technology  which includes most of us programmer types  we share a strong tendency to think in terms of functions and features. This is only natural, since this is how we build software: function by function. The problem is that this isnt how users want to use software. Developers are frequently frustrated by this, because it requires us to think in an unfamiliar way. But after the initial strangeness wears off, goal-directed design is a boon  it is a powerful tool for answering the most important questions that crop up during the design phase:What should be the form of the program?How will the user interact with the program?How can the programs functions be most effectively organized?How will the program introduce itself to first-time users?How can the program put an understandable and controllable face on technology?How can the program deal with problems?How will the program help infrequent users become more expert?How can the program provide sufficient depth for expert users?In About Face, youll explore new ways to look at what you work with every day, learning how to create workable designs in the real world, on a real deadline, inside a real budget. Sincerely, Alan Cooper President Cooper Interaction Design Alan Cooper is the Miss Manners of software design My advice is to buy two copies autograph the second and send it to an engineer at Microsoft.  Paul Saffo, Director, Institute for the Future About Face defines a new interface design vocabulary that speaks to programmers in their own terms. We have come a long way from the time when there were just modal (bad) and modeless (good) interfaces, and this book reflects that progress.  Charles Simonyi, Chief Architect, Microsoft Corp.	About the Author Alan Cooper is one of the most respected software designers of our time. He is the winner of the Microsoft Windows Pioneer Award for his work in designing Visual Basic. He is also one of the most outspoken critics of how the software industry goes about building the interface between products and people. His thirteen-year-old software design consulting company, Cooper Interaction Design, is based in Palo Alto, CA.",books;computer science;computers & technology;home computing & how-to;microsoft;new;operating systems;programming;software;software design;software design & engineering;software development;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks;user experience & usability;web design;web development & design;windows os,18
B000OT7YGA,"Assessment of Couples and Families: Contemporary and Cutting-Edge Strategies (Family Therapy and Counseling) This book is right on target and fulfills the lofty and inclusive goals elucidated by the editor in the preface.  In the current era which increasingly demands accountability, documentation, and empirically based assessment methods and treatment interventions, this book is extremely timely and highly readable.  Sperry merits congratulations for this descriptive and insightful book which is a must-read and refer-to-frequently volume, with contributions by a stellar cast of authors knowledgeable in couple and family assessment and testing.  The interchange between L'Abate and the other authors in the final chapter is gutsy and illuminating..Florence W. Kaslow, Ph.D., ABPPThis comprehensive cutting-edge volume presents over 100 assessment instruments and techniques including specific measures for child custody and abuse, violence, couple conflict, and intimacy. The student, clinician, and researcher will find that it provides a way to rapidly compare which measure is most appropriate. With the need for greater clinical, financial, and legal accountability, this book will be an indispensable resource. Sperry's book is an essential building block in advancing the field as a science. .Gerald R. Weeks, Ph.D., ABPP, Department of Marriage, Family, and Community Counseling at the University of Nevada-Las VegasThe organization is excellent, and every chapter is solid and well written.  A particularly useful touch is the listing of assessment instruments in table form, included in each of the chapters on specific applications. The tables together with the comprehensive coverage of issues and methods make this a reference we will all want to keep handy on the shelf.  Many of the chapters cover a dizzying range of possible assessments, leaving the reader wanting more discussion of how to make choices between them or between types of assessment strategies.  But it is not a bad thing for a book on such a topic as this to leave the reader interested, curious and wanting to learn more. Our search is now over, as this book does an excellent job of filling the gap. I would consider it required reading for all marriage and family therapy educators, as well as researchers and clinicians.     Highly recommended..Anne Rambo/  Nova Southeastern University",books;compulsive behavior;counseling;couples & family therapy;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;kindle ebooks;kindle store;medical books;mental health;parenting;parenting & relationships;psychology;psychology & counseling;reference;research;sexuality,18
0374527520,"Living in Hope and History: Notes from Our Century ""Nothing I write in such factual pieces will be as true as my fiction,"" Nadine Gordimer asserts in the opening essay of Living in Hope and History. It's hard to think of any line that would inspire less confidence in a book of nonfiction. But the author, after all, is a Nobel laureate, an antiapartheid activist, an African National Congress member, and a public figure of unimpeachable moral seriousness--and her warning is no piece of postmodern playfulness. Instead she means to draw an important distinction between genres. Nonfiction, in Gordimer's view, issues from her own political agenda, while her transcendent aim in fiction is to represent the way things are. The two impulses may overlap, of course, but they are seldom congruent. She's quick to acknowledge that writers can't truly escape politics, nor would it be desirable if they could. Still, writes Gordimer, ""the transformation of the imagination must never 'belong' to any establishment, however just, fought-for, and longed-for."" What this collection offers, then, is not art itself but the record of one woman's fierce dedication to both her art and her politics--and her attempts to negotiate the relationship between them. Living in Hope and History includes graduation addresses, lectures, the author's Nobel acceptance speech, impressively learned essays on Joseph Roth and Gnter Grass, and even her correspondence with Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe. Dating from the dark old days of apartheid through the present, the assemblage also offers a moving document of the South African struggle and its eventual fruits. Some of the most exhilarating pieces chronicle the new, postapartheid nation--""The First Time"" finds Gordimer standing in voting queues for her country's first democratic elections, and ""Act Two: One Year Later"" is a celebration of Johannesburg's newfound vibrancy. Living in Hope and History is first and foremost a record of Gordimer's life as a public figure. In these essays, however, the political and the imaginative seem to sound a common, joyful note: this is the way things are, this is the way things should be. --Mary Park	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Nobel literature laureate Gordimer (The House Gun, etc.) has collected decades' worth of erudite essays and lectures about literature, culture, human rights and, of course, her work and home ground of South Africa. The first essay, a 1988 effort on fiction, morals and politics, lays out the distinction between political partisanship in her nonfiction and ""the free transformation of reality"" in what she refers to as her more ""true"" fiction. As essays, these writings shouldn't be expected to attain the nuance and depth of Gordimer's best fiction, but some of them are devastating, such as a 1966 piece on how South African black writers were being banned while whites were offered lectures called ""Know the African."" The more recent pieces deftly capture what she calls ""the epic of our transformation"": South Africa's first democratic election, she writes, ""has the meaning of people coming into their own."" Still, it troubles her that writers she admiresAHungary's Joseph Roth, Milan Kundera, Czeslaw MiloszAhave rejected the leftist politics to which she remains committed. Unfortunately, this book lacks Gordimer's up-to-date reckoning with the fate of South Africa's Left, not to mention the more autobiographical reflections readers might desire. Still, this literary world citizen ranges widely (there are essays on Senghor, Grass and Mahfouz), musing thoughtfully about the sociocultural ""givens"" that a writer and reader must share. In her 1991 Nobel Prize lecture, Gordimer asserted that ""the writer is of service to humankind only insofar as the writer uses the word even against his or her own loyalties."" Though it is a tough credo to live up to, these essays are the work of a tough-minded, morally rigorous writer who has managed to do it. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	YA-This collection of nonfiction pieces, written for the most part in the 1980s and 1990s, takes a tough, uncompromising look at the moral interplay between literature and politics. Gordimer's essays, lectures, speeches, and commentaries address such subjects as G?nter Grass, Joseph Roth, Naguib Mahfouz, Nelson Mandela, apartheid, censorship, and human rights. Yet, all of the pieces have one overriding theme: writers must, as she quotes Salman Rushdie, ""speak the unspeakable,"" so that they may help the rest of us take a moral stand with certainty and conviction. Although Gordimer's nonfiction generally does not have the same power and accessibility as her fiction, there is much here for teenage readers, especially those young people developing a strong sense of moral outrage at the political injustices of the world.Robert Saunderson, Berkeley Public Library, CA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Gordimer on her very public role as both novelist and political observer. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Gordimer is the first to admit that nothing she writes in her factual pieces is as ""true"" as her fiction. This collection of speeches, political essays, commentaries, and articles does not have the power and intimacy of the short stories and novels for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Her voice here is often distant, dry, self-conscious. Yet, as in her other popular nonfiction collections, The Essential Gesture (1988) and Writing and Being (1995), she speaks with the authority of the insider, both participant and observer, bearing witness to what it has been like, as a white citizen and writer, to live in Johannesburg through the worst days of apartheid, then in the years of transition, and now in a time of hope and history. In the best pieces, the particulars are eloquent. ""A Morning in the Library"" (1975) describes the madness of apartheid censorship that banned works by just about every great writer, including Gordimer herself. ""The First Time"" (1994) tells what it was like to stand in long lines in her country's first democratic elections. Her focus is always on politics and literature: she is vehement that fiction cannot toe any line.  Hazel Rochman	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Nadine Gordimer [is] one of the grand chroniclers of the era...[She] gives the power of voice to a world where history so often seems to stamp out hope.""--Jill Piggott, The Boston Globe Review""Gripping and important...A rare glimpse of the crumbling of the last bastion of colonialism, told by a writer of consummate skill.""--Steven Harvey, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution""Gordimer has undoubtedly become one of the World's Great Writers...Her rootedness in a political time, place and faith has never dimmed her complex gifts as an artist; her partisanship has not compromised her artistic distance. Great writers can retain political faith; they can believe and create. This is an important message for all aspirant writers of the next century.""--The Independent (London)	Nadine Gordimer's most recent work includes  None to Accompany Me (FSG, 1994), The House Gun (FSG, 1998) and The Pickup (FSG, 2001). She has received many awards, including the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.	THREE IN A BED:FICTION, MORALS, AND POLITICSThree in a bed: its a kinky cultural affair. I had better identify the partners.Politics and morals, as concepts, need no introduction, although their relationship is shadily ambiguous. But fiction has defining responsibilities that I shall be questioning all through what I have to say, so I shall begin right away with the basic, dictionary definition of what fiction is supposed to be.Fiction, says the Oxford English Dictionary, is the action of feigning or inventing imaginary existences, events, states of things . . . prose novels and stories collectively. So poetry, according to the OED, is not fiction. The more I ponder this, the more it amazes me; the more I challenge it. Does the poet not invent imaginary existences, events, states of things?If I should ask any erudite and literary gathering to give examples of the powers of the poets invention of imaginary existences, events, the poets matchless evocation of states of things, all drawn, just as the prose writers is, from lifethe fact of lifeas the genie is smoked from the bottle, I could fill pages with quotations. If fiction is the suprareal spirit of the imagination, then poetry is the ultimate fiction. In speaking of fiction, I should be understood to be including poetry.What is politics doing in bed with fiction? Morals have bedded with story-telling since the magic of the imaginative capacity developed in the human brainand in my ignorance of a scientific explanation of changes in the cerebrum or whatever, to account for this faculty, I believe it was the inkling development that here was somewhere where the truth about being alive might lie. The harsh lessons of daily existence, coexistence between human and human, with animals and nature, could be made sense of in the ordering of properties by the transforming imagination, working upon the states of things. With this faculty fully developed, great art in fiction can evolve in imaginative revelation to fit the crises of an age that comes after its own, undreamt of when it was written. Moby-Dick can now be seen as an allegory of environmental tragedy. The whale is the agent of cosmic retribution: we have sought to destroy the splendid creature that is nature, believing we could survive only by winning a battle against nature; now we see our death in the death of nature, brought about by ourselves.But the first result of the faculty of the imagination was, of course, religion. And from the gods (what a supreme feat of the imagination they were!), establishing a divine order out of the unseen, came the secular, down-to-soil-and-toil order of morals, so that humans could somehow live together, and in balance with other creatures.Morals are the husband/wife of fiction. And politics? Politics somehow followed morals in, picking the lock and immobilizing the alarm system. At first it was in the dark, perhaps, and fiction thought the embrace of politics was that of morals, didnt know the difference . . . And this is understandable. Morals and politics have a family connection. Politics ancestry is moralityway back, and generally accepted as forgotten. The resemblance is faded. In the light of morning, if fiction accepts the third presence within the sheets it is soon in full cognisance of who and what politics is.Let me not carry my allegory too far. Just one generation further. From this kinky situation came two offspring, Conformity and Commitment. And you will know who fathered whom.Until 1988 I would have said that the pressures to write fiction that would conform to a specific morality, whether secular or religious, long had been, could be, and were, safely ignored by writers in modern times. The Vatican still has its list of proscribed works, but in most countries one assumed there was freedom of expressionso far as religion was concerned. (The exception was perhaps in certain North American schools . . . )Blasphemy? A quaint taboo, outdated, like the dashes which used to appear between the first and last letters of four-letter words. Where censorship was rigidly practised, in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and South Africa, for example, the censors were concerned with what was considered politically subversive in literature, not with what might offend or subvert religious sensibilities. (In the Soviet Union these were not recognized, anyway.) This was true even in South Africa, where the Dutch Reformed Church with a particular form of Calvinistic prudery had twisted religion to the service of racism and identified the church with the security of the state, including its sexual morality based on the supposed purity of one race. A decade ago, in 1988, an actor in South Africa could not get away with exclaiming My God! in a secular context on the stage, and Jesus Christ Superstar was banned; by 1989, savage satire of the church and its morality was ignored. As for sexual permissiveness, full frontal nudity in films was not snipped by the censors scissors.But in holding this illusion about freedom of expression in terms of religious and sexual morality, I was falling into the ignorance Islam finds reprehensible in the Judeo-Christian-atheist world (more strange bedfellows)that worlds ignorance of the absolute conformity to religious taboos that is sacred to Islam. And here Islam was right; I should have known that this kind of censorship was not evolving into tolerance, least of the rights of non-Muslim countries to grant their citizens the freedom of disbelief, but was instead becoming an international gale force of growing religious fanaticism. Then came the holy war against The Satanic Verses, in which the enemy was a single fiction, a single writer, and the might and money of the Islamic world were deployed in the fatwa: death to Salman Rushdie.Now I, and other writers, were stunned to know that situations were back with us where religious persecutionthe denial of peoples right to follow their faith in freedomis turned on its head, and religion persecutes freedomnot alone freedom of expression but a writers freedom of movement, finally a writers right to life itself. Now in a new decade, with freedoms rising, we see that while a writer becomes president in one country, another writer is being hounded to death throughout the world. We see how a religion has the power to terrorize, through its followers, across all frontiers. Political refugees from repressive regimes may seek asylum elsewhere; Salman Rushdie has nowhere to go. Islams edict of death takes terrorist jurisdiction everywhere, contemptuous of the laws of any country.Pre-Freudian hypocrisy, puritan prudery may be forgotten. The horror of what has happened to Rushdie is a hand fallen heavily on the shoulder of fiction: pressures to write in conformity with a specific morality still can arrive, and pursue with incredible vindictiveness, even if this is unlikely to happen to most writers.Am I positing that morals should be divorced from fiction? That fiction is free of any moral obligation? No. Fictions morality lies in taking the freedom to explore and examine contemporary morals, including moral systems such as religions, with unafraid honesty.This has not been an easy relationship, whether in the ghastly extreme of Salman Rushdies experience or, say, that of Gustave Flaubert, who, commenting on the indecency case against Madame Bovary after he won it in 1857, wrote of the establishment of spurious literary values and the devaluation of real literary values such a case implies for fiction. My book is going to sell unusually well . . . But I am infuriated when I think of the trial; it has deflected attention from the novels artistic success . . . to such a point that all this row disquiets me profoundly . . . I long to . . . publish nothing; never to be talked of again.The relationship of fiction with politics has not had the kind of husband/fatherly authoritarian sanction that morals, with their religious origins, lingeringly have. No literary critic I know of suggests that moralizing as opposed to immorality has no place in fiction, whereas many works of fiction are declared spoiled by the writers recognition of politics as as great a motivation of character as sex or religion. Of course, this lack of sanction is charactistic of an affair, a wild love affair in which great tensions arise, embraces and repulsions succeed one another, distress and celebration are confused, loyalty and betrayal change place, accusations fly. And whether the fiction writer gets involved with politics initially through his/her convictions as a citizen pushing, within, against the necessary detachment of the writer, or whether the involvement comes about through the pressure of seduction from without, the same problems in the relationship occur and have to be dealt with in the fiction as well as in the life.For when have writers not lived in time of political conflict? Whose Golden Age, whose Belle Epoch, whose Roaring Twenties were these so-named lovely times?The time of slave and peasant misery, while sculptors sought perfect proportions of the human torso? The time of revolutionaries in Czar Alexanders prisons, while Grand Dukes built mansions in Nice? The time of the hungry and unemployed, offered the salvation of growing Fascism while playboys and girls danced balancing glasses of pink champagne?When, overtly or implicitly, could writers evade politics? Even those writers who have seen fiction as the pure exploration of language, as music is the exploration of sound, the babbling of Dada and the page-shuffling of Burroughs have been in reaction to what each revolted against in the politically-imposed spirit of their respective times; theirs were literary movements that were an acthowever far-outof acknowledgement of a re...",20th century;africa;african;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;commentary & opinion;education & reference;history;history & criticism;international & world politics;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & government;politics & social sciences;south africa;specific topics,18
0393303144,"Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South Never before have I found the experience of the free slaveholding caste of antebellum Negroes brought to live in such vibrant detail. To be able to detect what Henry James called the 'density of felt experience' behind the enigmatic details of the letters is indeed a scholarly achievement of a high order and, I think, a contribution to all who would grasp the complexity of our American past. (Ralph Ellison )	Michael P. Johnson is professor of history at the University of California in Irvine.James L. Roark is professor of history at Emory University.",19th century;african-american & black;african-american studies;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;civil war;ethnic & national;history;leaders & notable people;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states;united states civil war,18
0385494610,"Foxfire 11 With this newest volume in the Foxfire series comes a wealth of the kind of folk wisdom and values of simple living that have made these volumes beloved bestsellers for the last three decades, with more than two million copies in print.In 1966, in the Appalachian Mountains of Northeast Georgia, Eliot Wigginton and his students founded a quarterly magazine that they named Foxfire, after a phosphorescent lichen. In 1972, several articles from the magazine were published in book form, and the acclaimed Foxfire series was born. Almost thirty years later, in this age of technology and cyber-living, the books teach a philosophy of simplicity in living that is truly enduring in its appeal. This new volume--Foxfire 11--celebrates the rituals and recipes of the Appalachian homeplace, including a one-hundred page section on herbal remedies, and segments about planting and growing a garden, preserving and pickling, smoking and salting, honey making, beekeeping, and fishing, as well as hundreds of the kind of spritied firsthand narrative accounts from Appalachian community members that exemplify the Foxfire style. Much more than ""how-to"" books, the Foxfire series is a publishing phenomenon and a way of life, teaching creative self-sufficiency, the art of natural remedies, home crafts, and other country folkways, fascinating to everyone interested in rediscovering the virtues of simple life.	Kaye Carver Collins is the community and teacher liaison at The Foxfire Fund, Inc. Lacy Hunter is a sophomore at Brenau College in Gainesville, Georgia.",americas;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;education & reference;encyclopedias;folklore & mythology;history;hobbies & home;mythology & folklore;nature & ecology;politics & social sciences;reference;schools & teaching;science & math;social sciences;state & local;united states,18
0072438908,"Hole's Human Anatomy & Physiology with OLC Bind-In Card David Shier teaches at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan and is the biology department chair.  He received his Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Michigan.Jackie Butler is chair of the Department of Science at Grayson County College.  She did her graduate studies in Neuroscience at the University of North Texas.Ricki Lewis, well-known author of Life, Beginnings of Life, and Human Genetics.  She received her Ph.D. in genetics from Indiana University.  She is practicing genetics counselor for Women's Medical Health Care in New York.",allied health professions;allied health services;anatomy;anatomy & physiology;basic sciences;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;education & reference;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;physiology;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,18
0803950675,"Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals ""I was familiar with an earlier (3rd) version of this text. I thought it was an excellent resource for graduate students and faculty mentoring graduate student researchers and/or grant writers. I was equally impressed with the 5th edition of this text and have recommended it to all faculty in both of the departments in which I teach research courses."" (Dr. Lorraine Pearl-Kraus 20110225)	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Lawrence F. Locke is Professor Emeritus of Education and Physical Education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A native of Connecticut, he received his bachelors and masters degrees from Springfield College and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has written extensively on the production and utilization of research on teaching and teacher education. He has authored a number of books designed to assist non-specialists with the tasks of reading and understanding research. After many years residing in Sunderland, MA he now makes his home on Cape Cod, but with his wife, Professor Lorraine Goyette, he has spent much of each year writing, running, and exploring the Beartooth Mountains at Sky Ranch in Reed Point, MT. Waneen Wyrick Spirduso is the Mauzy Regents Professor Emerita in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a native of Austin and holds bachelors and doctoral degrees from The University of Texas and a masters degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research focuses on the effects of aging and the mechanisms of motor control. She has been a prolific contributor to the research literature and has authored textbooks related to research methods and aging. She taught research methods and directed student research for more than four decades and has received numerous research grants from the federal government and foundations. She plays golf and rows, and lives with her husband, Craig Spirduso, in Austin, TX. Her website is http://www.edb.utexas.edu/coe/depts/kin/faculty/spirduso/index.htmlStephen J. Silverman is Professor of Education and Chair of the Department of Biobehavioral Sciences at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a native of Philadelphia and holds a bachelors degree from Temple University, a masters degree from Washington State University, and a doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research focuses on teaching and learning in physical education and on methods for conducting research in field settings. He has authored numerous research articles and chapters, and is coauthor of a number of books. He has served as editor of two research journals, is an experienced research consultant, has directed graduate students, and has, for many years, taught classes in research methods, statistics, and measurement. He enjoys running, following politics, and aquatic sports, and lives with his wife, Patricia Moran, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. His website is: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ss928",books;education;education & reference;fitness & dieting;general;health;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;mental health;new;reference;research;research & publishing guides;study skills;studying & workbooks;used & rental textbooks;writing,18
1590593227,"The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming (Expert's Voice) Nathan Yocom has worn many hats in the IT industry over the years. He currently works as a software engineer for Bynari, Inc., specializing in messaging and groupware software. With a bachelor's degree in computer science from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, Nathan is also the cofounder of XPA Systems (http://www.xpasystems.com) and author of pGina, an open source program that simplifies the Windows logon process by providing for the authentication of a user via many different methods. In his spare time, in addition to playing the guitar and an occasional round of golf, Nathan enjoys spending time with his wife, Katie.John Turner is an application developer and systems administrator in Detroit, Michigan, supporting the advertising and marketing campaigns of Fortune 50 clients. With over two decades of computer experience, John has designed and administered high-availability and fault-tolerant systems for the automotive, health care, and advertising industries. He coauthored the Apache Tomcat Security Handbook and is an Apache Group committer. He holds a bachelor's degree in information systems. John's industry interests include vintage hardware, open source, mobile computing, and wireless networking. His outside interests include farming, DIY projects, dogs, history, recycling, tattoos, travel, and music composition.Keir Davis was first exposed to programming at the age of 12, when his father brought home a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. Keir has been programming ever since and now holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Today, Keir is the owner of Xtern Software (http://www.xternsoftware.com), a provider of custom software development services to manufacturers around the world.Keir and his wife, Jennifer, live with their two dogs, Tess and Maggie, in North Carolina. When not sitting in front of a computer, Keir enjoys playing racquetball.",books;certification;computer science;computers & technology;linux;network programming;networking;networking & system administration;networks;new;operating systems;programming;protocols & apis;software design;software design & engineering;software development;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,18
031225251X,"Julia's Mother: Life Lessons in the Pediatric ER These artfully written, real-life narratives about what goes on in a pediatric emergency room detail one doctor's devotion to medicine and patient care. The eponymous episode concerns the death of six-year-old Julia, from injuries she sustained in a traffic accident. A year after Julia's death, her mother contacted Bonadio to ask if he knew whether she had actually arrived at the ER before the moment of her daughter's death--i.e., had her daughter died alone? Bonadio (a doctor at the Children's Hospital of St. Paul, Minn.) poignantly describes groping for words to reassure the grieving parent that her bond with Julia had not been broken by her death. It's this sort of humane medicine, learned anew each day, that the author recounts here--a process informed by his conviction that ""parents know certain things about their children in a way the doctor can never know."" He convincingly explains that even the most competent doctors can misread an X-ray or make other mistakes because of the exhaustion that comes at the end of an emergency room shift. (After reading the X-rays of one child who was sent home by another ER physician, he remembers, he found a fracture in her second vertebral bone. Fortunately, he reached the family and had the child immobilized and taken back to the hospital before further damage was done.) Bonadio also details the exercise and diet routines that he follows before the beginning of an overnight ER shift and the agonizing process of deciding when to abandon a resuscitation effort on a critically ill child. This is a deeply moving memoir by a physician who clearly loves his work. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Emergency-room dramas on the small screen rivet our attention. In real life, the stories don't wrap up as neatly as they do in the 60 minutes known in trauma circles as the golden hour. Part memoir, part testimonial, this slim volume engages us in the professional and personal growth of a pediatric emergency-room physician. Proceeding from nervous student dissecting his first cadaver to experienced practitioner, Bonadio shares with readers his anxieties and awe as he treats his young patients and their families. Memorable vignettes of exhaustive resuscitation attempts--some successful, others tragically not--will make readers feel as if they themselves are alongside the staff in the curtained cubicles, willing each child to live. The story that begins and ends the book--that of Julia and her mother--is not only moving but serves as a kind of epiphany for the author. A poetically written addition for larger health or true-medicine collections.-Anne C. Tomlin, Auburn Memorial Hosp. Lib., NY Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""A simply written, completely absorbing memoir, Julia's Mother shows how and why an earnest young man became a dedicated pediatrician."" --New York Times Book Review	William Bondaio, MD., practices pediatric emergency medicine at The Children's Hospital in St. Paul Minnesota.  He has written ten numerous medical articles on a variety of topics.  He and his wife live on a farm in Hastings, Minnesota.	JuliaOCTOBER 15, 1998THE EMERGENCY ROOMCHILDRENS HOSPITAL3:00 A.M.The ER winds down, like a wobbling top. The last patient is discharged homeat least for now. Still six more hours to go on this overnight shift. But for now the lights are dimmed low, as nurses brew more coffee and riffle through magazines to pass the time.Will I get to rest a bit?A cold chill always runs through me at about 3 A.M. Its the night-watch chill. We all get it. Drags on you, makes it difficult to finish an overnight shift. I can abort itartificiallyby taking coffee. A caffeine push is necessary at 3 A.M. when the ER stays busy, to trick the gears of your body through it; but you pay a price later on, because then you are nauseated for the next twenty-four hours. Or, the chill will resolve itselfnaturallyif I can get some sleep during a lull like this, to let my internal clock reset to a new day.Sleep.I move out of the ER arena to the adjoining physician on-call room. Go through an outer doorconnected to a short passagewaythen through an inner door. Now I am in. Its cold, and darkly quiet inside, with no hint of ventilation. Dont need much to furnish an on-call roomjust a telephone, a pillow and blanket on a plastic-lined mattress.You realize just how tired you are on an overnight shift after closing your eyes in a dark quiet room. It doesnt take long before weariness gives way to subtler shades of drifting. Everything is small, then big. I am joined to it, but not completely gone over yet. Then the boundaries of self begin to merge and fade, like drifting smoke from the lingering ash of a cigarette. . . .And then it was my turn. It was early morning when the nurse came in to get meI thought it was still night time, with the street so dark and quiet outside my hospital window. Saw her shadow above me rolling back the netting over the bed top, pushing down the side rail. She whispered, Its time to go, today you get your tonsils out. I obediently got upright and pulled the rope belt tight on my pajamas up around my chest, and put on my robe and woolen slippers. Didnt even think about being hungry or tired. Then there were two nurses, and they took both of my hands as we went down a hallway into an elevator. One of them saidPush the button with the 4 on it. We went up fast, and stopped. The doors opened. It was quiet therequiet and darker; the air smelled antiseptic. The floors were cold and hard, speckled like marble. We walked fast down another hallway; they held my hands tight going through swinging doors into a room with big people all around wearing masks and hats and white robes. I panicked when I couldnt see their faces, kicked hard to get away, but they grabbed me all over and I was floating and laid out flat on a high table. The big silver dish of bright light overhead burned my eyes. There were hands all over me now, holding my arms and legs and head, forcing me. Then a black cone came down over my face, hard and snug, and I couldnt breathe through the bitter hissing gasI was choking, and it seemed I struggled out my last to get free. And then a man who was upside-down over me said, Dont worry just count to ten. Theres a ringing in my ears, like a bell under water. I struggled out my last it seemed, sure that I was going far away alone and would never come back; then it all blurred, and the last of my strength was gone, so I gave in. I gave in. And the last thing I remember is how easy it was, to let gohow peaceful it felt, to finally pass over. . . .Ringing . . . in my ears . . . like a bellWe need you out herenow.The voice on the other end is . . . emphatic about this. I have to stay with it. Yet cant quite place where I am, or how I got hereWhats wrong? I ask.Motor vehicle accident. Child hit by a car.Stark consciousness is jerked all the way back. Yet even with my eyes wide open, everything around me is still deep in black. I cant see my hands in front of my faceAre they here now?No, not yetthree minutes out, the voice says.How bad?Its seriousthe paramedics sounded panicked over the radio. We only got part of their report.What time is it?Just past seven. We need to get set up. Now.Now . . . it echoes like a rifle shot through my brain, as I grope to replace the phone on the receiver. Then pause in the motionless dark. Just past seven. It always takes a moment to accept that yes I do have to get up, its my shift, my watch . . . then recruit the same automatic reflexes to fight back the temptation to doze again.My neck and back are stiff, as if Ive been down a while; I have to push my forty-three-year-old body through it, quickly, but in degrees: Sit upshoes onstand, straighten up, steadyshuffle forwardgrope for the door handleopen the inner door. I reenter the dark passageway, the floor lit by flames of white light streaming in beneath the outer door. I hesitate to open it, anticipating the painful assault on my unprepared eyesand then a searing white intensity beats upon my consciousness. . . .There is only one thing Im looking forand I spot it, peripherally at first: The pattern made by the hectic pace of others, which indicates an impending crisis is comingnowfrom somewhere.7:11 A.M.Theyre here!The team rushes to their preassigned positions in the glaringly lit resuscitation room. Nurses, a respiratory therapist, several aides, and a pharmacist all scrambling at their posts to prepareoverhead lights are focused, machines whir into calibration, the cardiac monitor scintillates, IV pumps and tubes and fluids are readied.The sliding glass doors open down the hall.Looks badtheyre moving fast! someone calls out.I know what that means. You get an early gauge on the prognosis of an injured child coming at you by the body language of the paramedics. I can see this crew far down the hall, quickly wheeling their load toward us like panicked pallbearers; shuffling sideways, stiffly hunched over their burden, looking down instead of straight ahead. I can hear the thud of their feet running. This is going to be bad. Now going past the empty waiting room areaand its an all-out sprint. Did something just get worse? I cant tell, looking from this far away. The fluid bags and connecting tubes hanging above the stretcher clank in unison, like rigging on a ships mast in a heavy wake.Should we call for a surgeon? someone asks.Not just yet. Lets wait and see what we have here. You learn the hard way that too many hands can be just as ineffective as too few. There is time to call for their help, if we need itA last-second checkall the equipment is set up; everyone is in position. Just a bit longer. . . . We stand in place, and wait to take it on. The resuscitation room is warped with tension. I cant feel myself inside the way I normally do. The rhythmic beep of the monitors on the stretcher rolling toward us intensifies. Theyve almost reached us now . . . then we grasp the baton, and run our heat with it.Everyone ready?I scan the faces surrounding me. There is no response to my rhetorical question, since no one knows quite what to expect. Weve all been here before; yet each resuscitation is an unprecedented event. Which is why your chest feels tight and your hands shake. All you can do when this kind of reality comes at you from down the hallway is stand in, and take it on.The paramedics rush headlong through the doorway. Its a young girl lying on the stretcher, wearing what was a white dress. We all strain to see, like wedding guests viewing the processional. Her clothes are sopped thick with blood. She has only one shoe on; the other foot is bare. I can see her left hand lying open at her sidethe right is heavily wrapped in red-stained gauze. Surely Ive felt tender hands and feet like these many many times before. But this is differentbecause there is no strength in her limbs, and because of the wet and dried blood staining everything.The paramedics frantically steer the stretcher carrying the lifeless body up alongside the ER resuscitation table. They dock.Do something.Make the transferlets go!Four sets of hands hastily reach in to grab a side of the undersheet support.One, two, threelift!Now she has passed over to us.Do something.Link her up!More hands reach in, to untangle the tubes and bags and wires, disconnect them from transport mode and reconnect them to our life-support system.Do something.Do somethingnow.My first impression of her condition is the most important predictor: Does she have any fight in her? Will the birth-cry force of life reassert itself? But so far theres been no movement to her, none at all.Despite the frenzy of it, her transfer to us was orderly. Each is doing his or her part, working together. My basic instinct is to jump at itreach in both hands, take full control of the situation by doing everything myself. But to be most effective, the captain of the resuscitation team must stand apart, stay at the foot of the tabledecipher the overall evolving pattern, direct the action and delegate to others.A nurse with big shears is frantically cutting away the girls clothingher dress, tights, T-shirt, underwear drop wet to the floor. The skin beneath is so white, shes bled all the color out of it. No question we need more helpthe calls go out: Surgeon, orthopedist, a...",books;clinical;emergency;emergency medicine;essays;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;parenting;parenting & relationships;pediatrics;reference;special topics;used & rental textbooks,18
0735711488,"Inside AutoCAD 2002 (Inside (New Riders)) First and bestagain. New Riders began life as an AutoCAD publisher back in the mid 1980s with this book, Inside AutoCAD, one of the first mass market, third-party computer books ever published, and still the best selling AutoCAD book of all time. The book has been rewritten from the ground up several times since, always implementing tutorial explorations of how and why AutoCAD works like it does, geared toward serious students of CAD as well as professional-level users who need a stand-by reference.	Bill Burchard is an information systems consultant, a registered Autodesk author/publisher, and a consulting author and technical editor. He has worked on numerous books, including Inside AutoCAD 2000 and Inside AutoCAD 14, Limited Edition among others. Bill also contributed to ""Inside AutoCAD,"" a monthly newsletter published by ZD Journals, and regularly writes articles and product reviews for CADALYST magazine. David Harrington has been using AutoCAD since 1987 when he began working with AutoCAD Release 2.6. David has won CADENCE magazines Top Gun AutoCAD contest and the CADALYST Challenge AutoCAD contest. David has authored numerous articles for national trade magazines and user group publications. Additionally, he is a member of the faculty for Autodesk University, and regularly speaks and teaches at the event. In addition to this book, Harrington also technically edited Inside AutoCAD, Release 14 and co-authored/technical edited Inside AutoCAD 2000 and Inside AutoCAD 2000, Limited Edition. David Pitzer is an AutoCAD instructor and consultant. He is a frequent contributing editor for CADALYST magazine, and appeared in CADENCE magazine and the AutoCAD Tech Journal. In addition to being a two-time lecturer at Autodesk University, David co-authored several books, including Inside AutoCAD 2000, Limited Edition and Inside AutoCAD 14. He has been writing about and using AutoCAD since 1987 and is a member of the Autodesk Developers Network.	""If you're looking for an all-inclusive, how-to of AutoCAD 2002, this is it.  A great reference for the AutoCAD enthusiast and for those jsut starting out."" -Eric Stover, AutoCAD Product Manager, Autodesk ""This book is clearly written and well organized.  It includes every detail of AutoCAD 2002 and points out what is new or has changed from previous releases.  This is a must-have for every serious AUtoCAD professional."" -Scott DeGaro, CSI, CCCA, CAD Manager, Trudeau/Achitechts	This edition provides rock solid information on the latest changes and enhancements of the past two AutoCAD releases. The book guides you through the newest enhancements and shows you how to apply them to real projects. The great thing about this book is that it gets you up to speed fast and clearly outlines what is new from the previous versions. The CD-ROM has all the files to complete the tutorials. From Attributes to Xrefs, Inside AutoCAD 2002 details the features that put you on the fast track to AutoCAD success.  Find out how to use dimensions, explore 3D modeling, learn how to plot, and learn about dozens of other features just waiting to be utilized.	David Harrington has been writing AutoLISP and articles on AutoCAD since Release 9 and has   been an active user of AutoCAD since 1987. Dave is an instructor and speaker for Autodesk University and   is widely accepted as an expert in the field. He has won the coveted award of Cadence AutoCAD Top Gun   and Cadalyst AutoCAD Challenge and has been published in national magazines. Original author of   REVCLOUD, Harrington strives to improve AutoCAD for the users, not customers. He has worked with   many Local AutoCAD User Groups as well as serving as President of Autodesk User Group   International.   Bill Burchard is an information systems consultant with Psomas and has been in the AEC business   for over 20 years. He has extensive experience in computer modeling and applications development for   AEC projects including plan preparation, technical publications, engineering design among other areas of   expertise.  David Pitzer has over 11 years experience with AutoCAD and is a contributing editor to   CADalyst Magazine. He has been published in CADENCE and AutoCAD Technical   Journal and is a sought after speaker at conferences.",architecture;books;cad;computer science;computer technology;computers & technology;drafting & presentation;engineering;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;graphics & visualization;mechanical;new;professional & technical;programming;software;used & rental textbooks;web development & design,18
0399148442,"Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men This fascinating investigation into what makes abusive men tick is alarming, but its candid handling of a difficult subject makes it a valuable resource for professionals and victims alike. Bancroft, the former codirector of Emerge, the nation's first program for abusive men, has specialized in domestic violence for 15 years, and his understanding of his subject and audience is apparent on every page. ""One of the prevalent features of life with an angry or controlling partner is that he frequently tells you what you should think and tries to get you to doubt or devalue your own perceptions and beliefs,"" he writes. ""I would not like to see your experience with this book re-create that unhealthy dynamic. So the top point to bear in mind as you read [this book] is to listen carefully to what I am saying, but always to think for yourself."" He maintains this level of sensitivity and even empathy throughout discussions on the nature of abusive thinking, how abusive men manipulate their families and the legal system and whether or not they can ever be cured.  Jargon-free analysis is frequently broken up by interesting first-person accounts and boxes that distill in-depth information into simple checklists. Bancroft's book promises to be a beacon of calm and sanity for many storm-tossed families.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Bancroft, a former codirector of Emerge, the first U.S. program for abusive men, and a 15-year veteran of work with abusive men, reminds readers that each year in this country, two to four million women are assaulted by their partners and that at least one out of three American women will be a victim of violence by a husband or boyfriend at some point in her life. His valuable resource covers early warning signs, ten abusive personality types, the abusive mentality, problems with getting help from the legal system, and the long, complex process of change. After dispelling 17 myths about abusive personalities, he sheds light on the origin of the abuser's values and beliefs, which he finds to be a better explanation of abusive behavior than reference to psychological problems. Bancroft extends his approach to problematic gay and lesbian relationships as well, making the book that much more useful and empowering. This is essential reading for those in the helping professions and highly recommended for all libraries, especially those in communities with emergency shelter programs. Dale Farris, Groves, TXCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	""""This is essential reading for those in the helping professions and highly recommended for all libraries, especially those in communities with emergency shelter programs."""" ---Library Journal Starred Review	      --This text refers to the 							MP3 CD	 edition.	Lundy Bancroft has spent the last fifteen years of his career specializing in domestic abuse and the behavior of abusive men and is considered one of the world's experts on the subject. He is the author of The Batterer as Parent and several journal articles on abuse that have appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of Contemporary Psychology. The former codirector at Emerge, the nation's first program for abusive men, Bancroft now practices in Massachusetts while training various state and judicial agencies in dealing with domestic abuse situations.",abuse;books;dysfunctional relationships;emotions;family relationships;fitness & dieting;gender studies;health;men;mental health;new;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;self-help;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,18
0750632933,"Metric Handbook CD-ROM: Planning and Design Data The Metric Handbook CD-ROM is a time-saving tool for all  architects, planners and designers. On this CD-ROM you'll find newly  updated key illustrations from the Metric Handbook as symbols  compatible with three of the most popular CAD packages. There are over  1700 symbols on this CD-ROM and a key word search, select and insert  facility alongside the standard menu options. The spacing needed  between different sets of furniture, as well as the normal spacing  between, for example, a desk and a chair are also given.    The package is compatible with AutoCAD R12, R13, R14 and AutoCAD LT  and also with Microstation SE and Microstation 95 and IntelliCAD 98.	BSc  DIC  CEng  MICE, Civil Engineer",architecture;books;buildings;cad;computer science;computers & technology;drafting & presentation;education & reference;engineering;graphic design;humanities;mathematics;new;professional & technical;reference;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,18
0844272949,"Cómo Escribir un Currículum Vitae en Inglés que Tenga Éxito: How to Write a Successful Job Résumé in English (Spanish and English Edition) Text: Spanish, English	Este libro se difiere de los dems textos sobre la bsqueda de trabajo. En primer lugar, se concentra en la redaccin del currculum vitae, el primer documento que recibe un empleador de cualquiera que busque trabajo. En segundo lugar, est escrito de una manera clara y concisa. En tercer lugar, no slo le ensea los pasos para escribir un currculum vitae sino tambin le proporciona una gran veriedad de modelos de currculum vitae y de las cartas de explicacin.",books;business & finance;business & investing;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;job hunting & careers;new;research & publishing guides;resumes;study guides;studying & workbooks;technical;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,18
0156069989,"Accounting Irregularities and Financial Fraud: A Corporate Governance Guide ""As the chairman of three audit committees and a former auditor at an international firm, I have found the advice in this book to be invaluable.  Making the book of particular use is its easy-to-read 'how to' style and its specific reommendations of concrete steps to maximize the effectiveness of audit committee oversight.  This book is an extremely useful tool directed to a problem that should be foremost in the minds of board members, audit committee members, senior executives, accountants, and their lawyers."" -- William U. Westerfield-Former Chairman of the Retail Service Group, Price Waterhouse LLP""Michael Young's insights into audit committee oversight of financial reporting are original, bold, and exactly what's need to root our accounting problems and to prevent them in the first place.  The prose is lively and the advice straghtforward and no-nonsense."" -- John O. Whitney-Professor of Management, Columbia Business School""This book couldn't come at a better time. It is thorough, insightful, and accurate both in its depiction of how most financial frauds occur and in its prescription to audit committees on how to prevent their occurrence.  It will reward any reader, but particularly corporate directors and independent accountants."" -- Bevis Longstreth-Former Member, SEC; Member, Public Oversight Board Panel on Audit Effectiveness""This book gets to the bottom of 'accounting irregularities'-in other words, financial fraud.  It talks about the corporate enviroment that causes it, how it spreads, the kind of crises it can create for a company, and the best ways to deal with them.  All of this is described clearly and vividly, from the cumulative experience of knowledgeable professionals, making this volume the first authentic 'how to' book on dealing with, and preventing, fraudulent financial reporting."" -- Mario M. Cuomo	Editor:  Michael R. Young is a litigation partner of Willkie Far & Gallagher specializing in securities and financial reporting.  For more than a decade, Mr. Young has served as a counsel to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and he has accordingly assisted in such matters as the formulation of the federal securities tort reform legislation of the mid-1990s, the drafting of generally accepted auditing standards,the enactment of the Uniform Accountancy Act, and the submission to the United States Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal of amicus curiae briefs on matters of importance to finanical reporting.  Mr. Young also actively investigates and defends companies, officers and directors, accounting firms, and others in matters involving financial reporting and liability, and he has been involved in some of he most significant accounting irregularities matters of the past twenty years.  He is a member of the American Bar Association's Committee on l!  aw and accounting and writes and lectures frequently on financial reporting and liability issues.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business;business & finance;business & investing;business law;economics;education & reference;finance;franchising;law;leadership;management & leadership;new;professional & technical;reference;used & rental textbooks,18
0670882097,"Wanderlust: A History of Walking The ability to walk on two legs over long distances distinguishes Homo sapiens from other primates, and indeed from every other species on earth. That ability has also yielded some of the best creative work of our species: the lyrical ballads of the English romantic poets, composed on long walks over hill and dale; the speculations of the peripatetic philosophers; the meditations of footloose Chinese and Japanese poets; the exhortations of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. Rebecca Solnit, a thoughtful writer and spirited walker, takes her readers on a leisurely journey through the prehistory, history, and natural history of bipedal motion. Walking, she observes, affords its practitioners an immediate reward--the ability to observe the world at a relaxed gait, one that allows us to take in sights, sounds, and smells that we might otherwise pass by.  It provides a vehicle for much-needed solitude and private thought. For the health-minded, walking affords a low-impact and usually pleasant way of shedding a few pounds and stretching a few muscles.  It is an essential part of the human adventure--and one that has, until now, been too little documented. Written in a time when landscapes and cities alike are designed to accommodate automobiles and not pedestrians, Solnit's extraordinary book is an enticement to lace up shoes and set out on an aimless, meditative stroll of one's own. --Gregory McNamee	Walking, as Thoreau said and Solnit elegantly demonstrates, inevitably leads to other subjects. This pleasing and enlightening history of pedestrianism unfolds like a walking conversation with a particularly well-informed companion with wide-ranging interests. Walking, says Solnit (Savage Dreams; A Book of Migrations), is the state in which the mind, the body and the world are aligned; thus she begins with the long historical association between walking and philosophizing. She briefly looks at the fossil evidence of human evolution, pointing to the ability to move upright on two legs as the very characteristic that separated humans from the other beasts and has allowed us to dominate them. She looks at pilgrims, poets, streetwalkers and demonstrators, and ends up, surprisingly, in Las Vegas--or maybe not so surprisingly in that city of tourists, since ""Tourism itself is one of the last major outposts of walking."" Inevitably, as these words suggest, Solnit's focus isn't pedestrianism's past but its prognosis--the way in which the culture of walking has evolved out of the disembodiment of everyday life resulting from ""automobilization and suburbanization."" Familiar as that message sounds, Solnit delivers it without the usual ecological and ideological pieties. Her book captures, in the ease and cadences of its prose, the rhythms of a good walk. The relationship between walking and thought and its expression in words is the underlying theme to which she repeatedly returns. ""Language is like a road,"" she writes; ""it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read."" Agent: Bonnie Nadell. 4-city author tour. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Solnit (A Book of Migrations) casts a wide net in an attempt to understand what walking contributes to the human experience. She argues that creativity has been linked to walking from human's first steps and that, now, our speeding culture discourages people from taking the time to walk. If this happens we risk losing a critical tie to ourselves as well as our communities and landscapes. Solnit's smart and entertaining points come to life through her study of the many literary references to walking (by such authors as Rousseau, Wordsworth, Woolf, Muir, and many others) and a social overview of the many ways people have incorporated walking into their lives (through pilgrimage, wilderness hikes, political marches, and city strolls, to name a few). Each of these modes of walking is a vibrant part of this compelling, sometimes meandering, social history. Throughout, Solnit clearly enjoys the different feelings and philosophical thoughts that walking evokes, often telling stories of her own walks along the way. Personable, but challenging and serious, this is recommended for all libraries. [See profile of Solnit on page 185.--Ed.]--Rebecca Miller, ""Library Journal.---Rebecca Miller, ""Library Journal"" Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Aristotle walked while he thought, earning his school of philosophy the name ""peripatetic."" Social activists marched on Washington, walking in defiance of injustice and oppression. The religious faithful still make pilgrimages by walking to holy shrines, a ritual phenomenon crossing all denominational and dogmatic lines. Solnit presents an absolutely fascinating look at how the act of walking itself has influenced our history, our science, our literature, and the very way that we see ourselves as human beings. Drawing on a multitude of diverse disciplines, Solnit illustrates that walking has led to some of the best, and worst, incidents in all of history. She examines why, for instance, Britain has devoted a large portion of its infrastructure development to maintaining well-manicured walking paths throughout the country. She investigates the social cohesion existing among city dwellers who prowl through their urban landscapes, day and night, and she delves into suburban angst and ennui, linking it to the dearth of walkable public spaces. In this discussion of walking's role in literature, politics, education, philosophy, feminism, and religion, Solnit walks to great heights with a historical masterwork.  Michael Spinella	A luminous study of a little-considered but essential human capability. Walking is natural, or rather part of natural history, writes essayist Solnit (A Book of Migrations, 1997, etc.), but choosing to walk in the landscape as a contemplative, spiritual, or aesthetic experience has a specific cultural ancestry. Moving with ease from discussions of early hominid skeletal structure to the place of wandering on foot in the development of the Romantic poetic sensibility, Solnit embraces nature and culture alike in this vigorous look at all things peripatetic. Walking, she observes, is good for us humans, and not only for the exercise it affords; it also allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them. Her portraits of famous walkers of city streets and rural byways alikeHenry Thoreau, John Muir, Aristotle, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Charles Baudelaire among themsuggest that the best thinking is indeed done, as Saint Jerome observed, by walking around; the authors remarks on the history of pilgrimage show the importance of peregrination in contemplative spiritual traditions. And Solnits own memoirs of wandering on foot across the hills of California and England and down the busy streets of Europes great capitalsand, in a particularly inspired turn, along the Las Vegas Stripoffer inspiration and succor to anyone who rails against the soulless supremacy of automobiles in the modern age. Walking alone can mark a person as an oddball, she observes (especially if, like the French poet Grard de Nerval, the walker chooses a lobster on a leash as a strolling companion). And walking alone can mark a woman as a potential victim or a prostitute, with all the attendant perils. Even so, the careful reader, duly warned, will emerge from Solnits pages moved to wander. Full of learned asides and juicy historical tidbits: a fine addition to the literature of rambling. (First serial rights to Outside)  -- Copyright 2000, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	""Rebecca Solnit has created an anthropology of walking that delights and challenges our notion of what it means to put one foot in front of the other.  To participate in the meandering path of her imagination and intellect is just one of the many pleasures of Wanderlust, but perhaps its greatest strength is a call to slowness and a life of greater attention.""  -- Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge""Solnit walks, but her prose soars.  This is a stunningly original account of the simple, subversive activity that keeps us human. Pedestrians of the world, unite!""  -- Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz""Through landscapes of pleasure, over the hills and dales of politics, Wanderlust is a long, sweet walk through history in very good company. With her unique combination of erudition, lyricism, and irreverence, Rebecca Solnit has written a book for those who trespass with both mind and body.""  -- Lucy R. Lippard, author of On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place'Wanderlust' made me feel more alive, more connected.  -- Jonah Raskin of Santa Rosa The Press Democrat, June 4, 2000... her observations are sound, even profound.  -- San Jose Mercury News, April 30, 2000A rigorous polymath capable of stunning flashes of original thought.... -- LA Weekly, August 18-24, 2000Solnit's story is wry and seductive, threading in Virginia Woolf... -- New City Chicago, June 29, 2000	Rebecca Solnit is the author of fourteen books, including A Paradise Built in Hell, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, River of Shadows, Wanderlust: A History of Walking. and As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco.",books;education & reference;excursion guides;hiking & camping;history;history of sports;humanities;individual sports;literary;literature;literature & fiction;miscellaneous;new;running & jogging;self-help;spiritual;sports & outdoors;used & rental textbooks,18
1892123282,"Graduate: Everything You Need to Succeed After College (Capital Ideas) ""Advice on finding a job, renting, roommates, budgeting, credit, health and auto insurance, decorating, cooking and dressing."" -- Mike Pulfer, Cincinnati Enquirer""Gustafson, herself a 20-something, wrote the book in response to a few of her own rude awakenings after college.""   -- Laureen Fagan, South Bend Tribune""Gustafsons book gives a thorough rundown of ... survival skills every young adult should know."" -- Selena Ricks, Portland Press Herald""The book discusses the emotional issues surrounding the transition, as well as such nitty-gritty problems as stocking a kitchen..."" -- Mary Giunca, Winston-Salem Journal	Kristen Gustafson is a 1998 graduate of Stonehill College, and currently works in the public relations department of a healthcare organization. She has previously worked in publishing and sales. Her writing has appeared in Young Money magazine and several online newsletters and publications. She lives in Bangor, Maine with her husband and stepdaughter, and is involved in a number of community organizations.",& style;beauty;books;crafts;education & reference;fitness & dieting;grooming;health;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;home repair;how-to & home improvements;personal transformation;reference;schools & teaching;self-help;sports & outdoors;travel,18
1558605827,"GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers (Interactive Technologies) In GUI Bloopers, consultant Jeff Johnson uses 550+ pages to illustrate common pitfalls in user interface design, the all-important iceberg tip that end users confuse with applications and that developers confuse with end users. Reporting on 82 incidents of bad design, Johnson manages to cover the essential point of his message: software designers should think of their user interfaces from the user's point of view. Not profound, but profoundly overlooked in most low-end to mid-range development efforts. His codification of GUI design in eight predictable principles will help GUI newbies realize that the customer must be pleased with the product. Of course, the customer doesn't always understand what he or she wants. Hence, GUI development is iterative. When the customer is not at hand, a surrogate will do, so usability testing is essential. The bloopers include mistakes in window design, labeling consistency, visual/grammatical parallel construction, coherence of look and feel, and clarity. Most perceptively, Johnson observes that CPU speed in the development group hides many design mistakes. Moreover, context-scoping, already a subtle problem in software design, must be implemented in GUI design. Input error handling is the most psychologically sensitive of all GUI design characteristics. User error messages can easily be too vague or too specific, and diagnostic error messages should be user-manageable, if not actually user-interpretable. Like the Hollywood outtakes that gave us the ""blooper,"" the entertainment quotient here is measured in mistakes, not successes. Teaching by counter example rather than by example at an estimated ratio of three to one, Johnson panders to our invertebrate instinct to measure our own successes by someone else's failure. To his credit, he recognizes that user interfaces include pedestrian texts (like his) as well as graphical interfaces for computer applications. His self-referential style gives the book an egocentric slant, but he is both priest and practitioner: he submitted a draft to usability testers and reports the results in an appendix. One criticism was that there were too many negative examples. Hmmm. Thanks to other tester comments, GUI Bloopers is a browsable book, allowing the few nuggets of wisdom to be located. For the most part, the book's value can be captured by reading the seven-page table of contents carefully. --Peter Leopold	GUI stands for graphical user interface. Bloopers are incredibly dumb designs created over the past ten years such as error messages, unreadable fonts, hidden functionality, installation nightmares, back buttons that don't go back, and untimely feedback. Highlighting those and other (82 total) examples of bad design, Johnson, president and primary consultant at UI a Wizards Inc., believes software designers should design from the user's point of view. Readers will find his chapter on good design principles useful; recommended for university and large public libraries.Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""Better read this book, or your design will be featured in Bloopers II. Seriously, bloopers may be fun in Hollywood outtakes, but no movie director would include them in the final film. So why do we find so many bloopers in shipped software? Follow Jeff Johnson as he leads the blooper patrol deep into enemy territory: he takes no prisoners but reveals all the design stupidities that users have been cursing over the years.""Jakob Nielsen, Usability Guru, Nielsen Norman Group""If you are a software developer, read this book, especially if you don't think you need it. Don't worry, it isn't filled with abstract and useless theory--this is a book for doers, code writers, and those in the front trenches. Buy it, read it, and take two sections daily.""Don Norman, President, UNext Learning Systems	""Better read this book, or your design will be featured in Bloopers II. Seriously, bloopers may be fun in Hollywood outtakes, but no movie director would include them in the final film. So why do we find so many bloopers in shipped software? Follow Jeff Johnson as he leads the blooper patrol deep into enemy territory: he takes no prisoners but reveals all the design stupidities that users have been cursing over the years.""-Jakob Nielsen Usability Guru, Nielsen Norman Group""If you are a software developer, read this book, especially if you don't think you need it. Don't worry, it isn't filled with abstract and useless theory--this is a book for doers, code writers, and those in the front trenches. Buy it, read it, and take two sections daily.""-Don Norman President, UNext Learning SystemsGUI Bloopers looks at user interface design bloopers from commercial software, Web sites, and information appliances, explaining how intelligent, well-intentioned professionals made these dreadful mistakes--and how you can avoid them. While equipping you with all the theory needed to learn from these examples, GUI expert Jeff Johnson also presents the reality of interface design in an entertaining, anecdotal, and instructive way.This is an excellent, well-illustrated resource for anyone whose work touches on usability issues, including software engineers, Web site designers, managers of development processes, QA professionals, and usability professionals.FeaturesTakes a learn-by-example approach that teaches you to avoid common errors by asking the appropriate questions of your own interface designs.Includes two complete war stories, drawn from the author's personal experience, that describe in detail the challenges faced by UI engineers.Covers bloopers in a wide range of categories: GUI components, layout and appearance, text messages, interaction strategies, Web site design, responsiveness issues, management decision-making, and even more at www.GUI-bloopers.com.Organized and formatted based on the results of its own usability testing--so you can quickly find the information you need, packaged in easily digested pieces.	Jeff Johnson is president and principal consultant at UI Wizards, Inc., a product usability consulting firm (www.uiwizards.). He has worked in the field of Human-Computer Interaction since 1978, as a software designer and implementer, usability tester, manager, researcher at several computer and telecommunications companies, and as a consultant. In the course of his career, he has written many articles, cowritten several books, and given numerous presentations on a variety of topics in Human-Computer Interaction.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;games & strategy guides;graphics & multimedia;graphics & visualization;human-computer interaction;new;programming;software design;software design & engineering;software development;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks;user experience & usability;web design;web development & design,18
0060514906,"Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood In her imperfect yet fascinating biography, Watts (Mae West) unveils the largely tragic tale of Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Academy Award. Born in 1893, the youngest daughter of freed slaves, McDaniel sang and danced to help provide for her poverty-stricken family. Her early career as a comedian and singer garnered raves. She landed in Hollywood, appearing as an extra in scores of early 1930s films. Soon speaking roles in films like Stella Dallas led to her Oscar-winning performance as Mammy in the 1939 epic Gone with the Wind. This achievement marked the pinnacle of McDaniel's careerand heralded its collapse. Despite the complexity of her portrayal, McDaniel became typecast as the affable, disgruntled or tippling domestic. Although she'd educated herself , dressed elegantly and became involved in a range of political and social issues, McDaniel was hampered by studios that presented her as an eye-rolling, dialect-speaking Jemima. Watts's strength lies in her explication of the political and social conflicts in which McDaniel was embroiled. Yet her illumination of the complex actress herself is weak; she only comes alive in the book's final chapters. Nevertheless, Watts has crafted a compelling, disturbing history of blacks in early Hollywood. Photos. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Adult/High School Through research and interviews with friends of McDaniel, Watts explores the actress's life and career. Though she worked in a variety of venues, including television and radio, she was arguably best known for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind. When McDaniel signed the contract, in 1939, to play the part, she said, This is a chance to glorify Negro womanhood. The first black actress to win an Academy Award, she said in her acceptance speech, I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race and the motion picture industry. For a time, she hoped that the award would mean more opportunities for her and a wider range of roles for black performers in general. That did not happen. Forced into continuing to play the role of the faithful servant, she was criticized by many members of the black community, including the press, for perpetuating negative stereotypes. The choice, as she saw it, often came down to accepting the parts she was offered and trying to give them worth or leaving the entertainment industry. Watts presents a fascinating and well-written study of a complex woman who strived for recognition as an actress and yet too many times was denied the opportunity to use her talents. Peggy Bercher, Fairfax County Public Library, VA Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	McDaniel's Oscar-wining role as Mammy, the sassy but doting slave of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, sealed her image as a black woman willing to succumb to subservient stereotypes to get work in Hollywood. McDaniel famously replied that she'd rather play a maid than be one. History professor Watts explores the life of this controversial black actress, from poverty in Denver to a vaudeville career on the road and eventually to Hollywood. McDaniel was influenced by a talented brother who chose entertainment over domestic service. McDaniel's mother worked as a domestic, taking Hattie along to help and train. But McDaniel rejected that life and developed a reputation as a comedienne, a platform she sometimes used to subvert white racism. Watts details the personal price McDaniel paid for the compromises she made, along with her contemporaries Stepin Fetchit, Louise Beavers, and others, as black entertainers came under the scrutiny of the budding civil rights movement. Watts offers a thoughtful portrait of a talented and complex woman at a time of severe racial restrictions. Vanessa BushCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	A provocative biography. (Edward Rothstein, The New York Times on Mae West: An Icon in Black and White)Fascinating. . .A compelling, disturbing history of blacks in early Hollwyood. (Publishers Weekly)	A professor of history at California State University and the coordinator of the film studies program at California State University, San Marcos, Jill Watts has written two previous books, God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story and Mae West: An Icon in Black and White. She lives in San Marcos, California.",actors & actresses;african-american & black;african-american studies;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism;entertainers;ethnic & national;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;specific groups;women;women's studies,18
0195145046,"Dictionary of Ancient Deities ""A valuable resource for quick reference and for beginning research on the topic.""--Library Journal	Patricia Turner is a writer and researcher living in Daly City, California. The late Charles Russell Coulter, of Los Angeles, was a novelist and engineer.",ancient;books;comparative religion;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;fairy tales;folklore;folklore & mythology;general;history;literature & fiction;mythology & folk tales;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;social sciences;world,18
0764597302,"Hacking Wireless Networks For Dummies Become a cyber-hero  know the common wireless weaknesses""Reading a book like this one is a worthy endeavor toward becoming an experienced wireless security professional."" Devin Akin - CTO, The Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) ProgramWireless networks are so convenient  not only for you, but also for those nefarious types who'd like to invade them. The only way to know if your system can be penetrated is to simulate an attack. This book shows you how, along with how to strengthen any weak spots you find in your network's armor.Discover how to Perform ethical hacks without compromising a system Combat denial of service and WEP attacks Understand how invaders think Recognize the effects of different hacks Protect against war drivers and rogue devices	Kevin Beaver, CISSP, is a 16-year specialist in security assessments and incident response.Peter T. Davis, CISSP, has worked with information systems audits and security for 24 years.",books;business & management;certification;computer science;computers & technology;encryption;hacking;internet & web culture;lan;network security;networking;networks;new;privacy;protocols & apis;security & encryption;software;used & rental textbooks,18
0882897128,"Majesty Of The Felicianas, The (Majesty Architecture) Paul and Lee Malone, husband and wife, also collaborated on Louisiana Plantation Homes: A Return to Splendor, The Majesty of the River Road, The Majesty of the Felicianas, The Majesty of New Orleans, The Majesty of the Garden District, and The Majesty of the Garden District Postcard Book, all published by Pelican. In each, Paul provided the stunning photography of interiors and exteriors, and Lee has written the historical background.",architecture;arts & photography;books;buildings;catalogues & exhibitions;collections;crafts;education & reference;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;photography;professional & technical;research & publishing guides;travel;travel writing;united states;writing,18
0195117409,"God and the Land: The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil ""...helpful insights here into two fascinating poems.""--New England Classical Journal""God and the Land...offers perceptive readings in clear prose.  English translations precede all citations from Latin and Greek.  Nelson's discussion, which always begins with basics, would be a useful introduction for undergraduates.""--Religious Studies Review	Stephanie Nelson is at Boston University. David Grene is at University of Chicago.",ancient & classical literature;books;criticism & theory;education & reference;greek;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;medieval;metaphysics;movements & periods;mythology;mythology & folk tales;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks,18
1584350199,"Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land (Semiotext(e) / Active Agents) Hass, a Jewish Israeli journalist for the newspaper Ha'aretz, has chosen to live on the West Bank-and her intimate knowledge of the plight of the Palestinians illuminates this book. Culled from her dispatches during the past five years, these pieces offer a three-dimensional portrait of the daily experiences of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation. The early pieces, written while serious peace talks were being conducted in the late '90s, shows the roots of the current violence: most notably, Palestinians' frustration that the Oslo peace accords hadn't produced many tangible results. As Hass presciently wrote: ""The distance from here to private and collective acts of despair is not great."" As the book wends its way through the outbreak of violence in September 2000, that despair is increasingly on display. Her pieces illustrate how Palestinian frustration-over detentions, house demolitions, a life so riddled with restrictions that ""hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are criminals or potential criminals""-erupted into suicide bombings and other forms of terrorism. But what distinguishes this book is its emphasis on the personal-and how the conflict has created a logic that has driven both sides to violence. In an in-depth interview, an Israeli sharpshooter discusses the rules of when to open fire (""Every day, the regulations... change""). Members of Palestinian society discuss the difficulty of keeping children healthy and educated under the pressures of violence and occupation. Members of Palestinian terrorist groups discuss what drove them to their acts and the internal rivalries among competing factions. Anyone who wants an in-depth, humanizing portrait of the Palestinians should look no further. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This book is particularly timely given the current peacemaking efforts in the Palestinian territories. And with her experience as an Israeli journalist actually living in Ramallah, Hass brings particular insights into the social and political issues involved in the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians. In this collection of her news accounts from 1997 through 2002, Hass writes eloquently of the ""violence of plenty,"" the hearty resentment and animosity between the haves and have-nots underlying much of the tension in the region. ""Plenty draws the line between the worthy and the unworthy,"" she writes, noting the inequities in the administration of everything from land for farming and development to road construction and utilities. Hass provides a firsthand description of the day-to-day lives of the Palestinians under Israeli military occupation, the hypocrisy of administrative bodies that bend the law to the advantage of Israeli settlers, and the escalation of violence on both sides as Palestinians and Israelis lay claim to the territory. Readers interested in understanding this conflict will appreciate Hass' honesty and insight. Vanessa BushCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Anyone who wants an in-depth, humanizing portrait of the Palestinians should look no further."" Publishers Weekly""Readers interested in understanding this conflict will appreciate Hass' honesty and insight."" Vanessa Bush Booklist""Reporting from Ramallah is frontline stuff, powerful in the accumulation of daily detail."" Iain Finlayson The Times Weekend Review""Stark, simple analysis underpinned by exemplary interviews and a fine historical and moral sense."" Mark Mazower New Statesman""The Palestinians need a sovereign Palestinian state. That Israel lives under constant threat to its very existence is indisputable, but no one who cares about Israel should wish it to survive whatever the means. A particular debt of gratitude is owed to courageous Israeli Jews such as Amira Hass who have born witness to the increasingly cruel terms of Israeli military occupation and settler annexation. Amira Hass speaks on behalf of justice; in speaking of the sufferings and the rights of people in despair, she defends the true interests of Israel."" Susan Sontag",asia;books;education & reference;europe;history;humanities;international & world politics;international relations;israel;middle east;middle eastern;new;philosophy;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,18
0071374647,"The Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California: Golden Gate to Ensenada, Mexico, Including the Offshore Islands ""* ""One of the best cruising guides we have ever seen."" - National Fisherman * ""An exceptional book providing the best descriptions of the nature and causes of the various Channel Island weather systems."" - SAIL * ""This is the most complete set of sailing directions to come off the presses since the first coast surveys were attempted in the early 1800s."" - SEA	""An exceptional book.""--SAIL The Definitive Guide for Sailors and Powerboaters The coast of Central and Southern California offers some of the most extraordinary--and challenging--cruising in the world. Whether you're planning a cruise of the Channel Islands, a weekend on Catalina Island, or an offshore passage around Point Conception, you'll want expert guidance. The Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California provides comprehensive coverage of all the anchorages and harbors from the Golden Gate Bridge to Ensenada, Mexico, including the offshore islands. It includes historical background, information on local weather and cruising conditions, passagemaking strategies for sailors and powerboaters, and photographs of all ports and anchorages as they appear from the water. Brian Fagan has sailed these waters for over thirty years and has visited every port and anchorage in the book, most of them many times. His Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California will give you all the information you need for a safe, comfortable, and spectacular cruise. ""One of the best cruising guides we have ever seen.""--National Fisherman ""This is the most complete set of sailing directions to come off the presses since the first coast surveys were attempted in the early 1800s.""--SEA magazine	Brian Fagan is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an internationally known archaeologist with more than thirty books to his credit. An avid sailor for four decades, Brian has sailed many thousands of miles in California, Europe, and the Caribbean.",boating;books;california;excursion guides;general;mexico;outdoor recreation;pacific;professional & technical;sailing;santa barbara;ships;sports & outdoors;transportation;travel;united states;water sports;west,18
0963625519,"The Fear Book: Facing Fear Once and for All Cheri Huber is the author of 19 books, including There Is Nothing Wrong with You, When You're Falling, Dive, and Time-Out for Parents. She founded the Mountain View Zen Center in Mountain View, California, and the Zen Monastery Practice Center in Murphys, California, and teaches in both communities. She travels widely and often, leading workshops and retreats around the United States and abroad, most recently in Costa Rica and Italy. She founded Living Compassion in 2003, a nonprofit group comprised of There Is Nothing Wrong With You Retreats (based on the book); Global Community for Peace: The Assisi Peace Project; The Africa Vulnerable Children Project; and Open Air Talk Radio, her weekly call-in radio show originating from Stanford University. She lives in Murphys, California.",books;buddhism;emotions;fitness & dieting;health;humanities;mental health;mood disorders;new;personal transformation;psychology;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality;religious studies;self-help;social sciences;stress management;used & rental textbooks,18
0801850797,"Five Fair Rivers: Sailing the James, York, Rappahanock, Potomac, and Patuxent ""In five voyages over as many months, de Gast sailed, rowed, and motored his double-ended Dovekie, Fiddler, up all the fair rivers -- enjoying the access that his light and trailerable 21footer, with its 4-inch draft, afforded him to their shores and shallows. The result is an observant, literate, and gently humorous combination of ship's log, personal essay and local history."" -- Mid-Atlantic Country""Sailors will enjoy it, and other readers will enjoy... his riverward approaches to well known places... As de Gast points out in his conclusion, these wonderful rivers offer beauty, solitude, and adventure, and amazingly enough, all within a day's drive of half the population of the United States."" -- Virginia Librarian	""Good-humored, observant, and knowledgeable, Robert de Gast is an ideal cruising companion on the historic rivers of the Chesapeake's lower Western Shore. In an unconventional small boat with a four-inch draft, he takes us where few other sailors can. Five Fair Rivers will delight all who love Tidewaterland."" -- John Barth",americas;books;education & reference;general;history;nature & ecology;research & publishing guides;sailing;science & math;south;south atlantic;sports & outdoors;state & local;travel;united states;virginia;water sports;writing,18
1563472457,"Have Blue and the F-117A: Evolution of the ""Stealth Fighter"" (AIAA Education) Dr. David C. Aronstein is a principal aerospace engineer at ANSER in Arlington, Virginia, where he provides senior technical support to such programs as the Joint Strike Fighter and F-22 air superiority fighter.  Mr. Albert C. Piccirillo is a principal aerospace engineer and a manager of the Joint Technology Division at ANSER, where he leads technical and analytical efforts on advanced weapons systems, including the Joint Strike Fighter.",aeronautical engineering;aeronautics & astronautics;aerospace;astronomy & space science;aviation;books;education & reference;engineering;history;military science;military sciences;new;professional & technical;science & math;social sciences;special topics;transportation;used & rental textbooks,18
0766828670,"Using Autodesk Inventor Ron K.C. Cheng is head of the Engineering Design and Appreciation Unit of the Industrial Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and has over thirty years of experience in the area of teaching and practical training. He is responsible for the centre's computer aided design, automobile engineering, and integrative project training. For the past ten years Mr. Cheng has designed and initiated the integrative project training programs which are now widely implemented in the centre's undergraduate and graduate practical training programs. His area of specialization is the application of various computer aided design tools, including finite element analysis tools and product data management tools and he is now working on several integrative automotive projects building three wheel cars as well as four wheel electric cars. In addition to teaching and training, Mr. Cheng has written nineteen books, including books on AutoCAD, Mechanical Desktop, Autodesk Inventor, Pro/Desktop, Rhinoceros, and SmartSketch. He has also published a series of paper automata. Mr. Cheng has earned the following Degrees: ACP, LCP, Master of Science Degree and Master of Education Degree.",architecture;books;cad;computer science;computer technology;computers & technology;drafting & presentation;engineering;graphic design;industrial;industrial engineering;manufacturing & operational systems;mechanical;new;professional & technical;software;used & rental textbooks;web development & design,18
0898865972,"Wilderness 911 (Backpacker Magazine) Auerbach, former editor of Journal of Wilderness Medicine and author of several outdoor medicine books, has updated his classic text, first published in 1986, with instructions for handling almost any medical problem likely to arise. Divided into five sections, this book covers basic first aid, major medical emergencies, minor problems, those specific to particular environments such as high altitude or underwater settings, and miscellaneous topics like transporting the injured and performing procedures. Appendixes include medication dosages and conversion tables. Weiss, an emergency medicine physician and medical editor for Backpacker magazine, has written a compact guide for remote situations where professional medical care is not readily available, diagnosis must be rapid, and treatment may have to be improvised using whatever materials are at hand. Part 1 covers basic techniques such as CPR; Part 2, specific injuries or illnesses. For each problem Weiss lists signs and symptoms, general treatment guidelines, ""when to worry"" icons recommending prompt evacuation, and ""backcountry tips"" showing how to use what you have as makeshift medical supplies. Appendixes cover medications, evacuation of the injured, and what to include in a wilderness first-aid kit. Both physicians emphasize the need for preparation and prevention before embarking on any outdoor travel. Auerbach includes topics not covered in the shorter Weiss book, but in general they include much the same material. Both are well illustrated with excellent line drawings demonstrating techniques. (Indexes not seen.)AAnne C. Tomlin, Auburn Memorial Hosp. Lib., NYCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Wilderness 911 will increase your confidence in the backcountry. -- Washington Trails",books;camping;emergency;excursion guides;fitness & dieting;health;hiking & camping;instructional;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;miscellaneous;mountain climbing;mountaineering;outdoor recreation;reference;safety & first aid;sports & outdoors,18
1556432860,"Journey Toward Complete Recovery : Reclaiming Your Emotional, Spiritual & Sexual Wholeness Founder of the Institute for Staged Recovery in New York City and creator of ""Authentic Process Therapy,"" Picucci is an addictions counselor who bases his methods primarily on personal experience. In this updated edition of his self-published Complete Recovery, Picucci describes a ""Stage Two"" recovery program for evolving beyond freedom from addictions to ""holism,"" which encompasses ""joy, bliss, love, empowerment, creativity, respect for all life, and peace."" Picucci makes an interesting distinction between ""'recovery from' addictions and childhood traumas"" and ""recovery of fulfillment, wisdom, serenity, and emotional, spiritual and sexual wholeness."" Using a structure of 12 ""stations,"" which can be visited and revisited in any order as often as needed, he guides readers through six ""fundamental"" and six ""emergent"" modules of this process for healing the ""spiritual-sexual split"" and the ""cultural pain... of oppressed minorities,"" and ultimately achieving the ""shame-free presentation of self."" Picucci says he offers ""nothing less than a re-birthing process"" through a combination of one-on-one psychotherapy, support groups and spirituality. His own life experiences?as a gay man, once married, now HIV positive, surviving AIDS, cancer, a heart attack, triple-bypass surgery and drug and alcohol addictions?give him a uniquely credible perspective on healing and wholeness. In his cogent, well-organized handbook, Picucci functions a bit like the gay shamans who had a special place in North American Indian tribes. His compassionate acceptance of diversity will inspire many readers to care to take the next step and seek the help they need. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Finally! A book that addresses spirituality as a part of sexuality in terms everyone can understand. I look forward to incorporating the material in this book to add new dimensions to our recovery programs.-Joseph M. Amico, M.DIV., CAS, Executive Director, Pride Institute, Co-Chair, National Council on Sexual Addiction and CompulsivityPicucci teaches us how to integrate the mind, body, and spirit and to reclaim our lives, passion, and our humanity. Written with great clarity and compassion, this is a must-read for anyone wishing to recover, to grow, and to love.-Joyce A. Kovelman, Ph.D., author of Once Upon ASOUL: The Story Continues	Written with warmth, honesty, and compassion, The Journey Toward Complete Recovery charts a new path toward spiritual growth and renewal. Picking up where the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book left off, Picucci addresses the personal struggle recovering people so often express: ""I'm doing the best I can. Why do I feel so empty and limited? Why do I still feel a lack of purpose and meaning in life?"" The offering in this book is not solely for addicts, ex-addicts, or those who identify themselves as survivors of childhood trauma. It demonstrates a significant healing approach for every person seeking a richer life.	This book presents a bold new vision of psychotherapeutic healing. This type of therapy is called An Authentic Process Toward Complete Recovery or simply ""Authentic Process Therapy."" It has organically grown out of my personal experience, the experiences of my clients, the countless workshops I've conducted over the years, the wisdom of the maturing recovery movement, and insights from diverse cultural perspectives. Authentic Process Therapy (APT) is a significant healing approach for all human beings who want to enrich their lives. It is not just for addicts, ex-addicts, and those who identify themselves as adult survivors of a traumatic childhood. While the research comes from the reclaiming of health, happiness, and fulfillment for the most broken of us, the application of these healing strategies is beneficial to every person seeking a richer life. Those who have experienced the depths of despair have used these healing techniques, emerging from their personal process with profoundly illuminating insights for all of us. APT is a multi-staged system for recovering your emotional, psychological, cultural, spiritual and sexual wholeness through community healing. The goal (also, the result, I trust) of your commitment to the process is complete recovery, or holism as described in Chapter One. What makes Authentic Process Therapy bold, new and distinct from other modes of healing? I feel that there are several important factors: * It was developed out of the experience of those being healed, rather then from an academic or medical perspective. * It incorporates from many disciplines and cultures that which has consistently demonstrated the ability to effect transformational change.  * It incorporates the ""community healing approach"" used in addictions recovery (Twelve-Step, Therapeutic Communities, etc.) but shifts the focus to breaking down the barriers to feeling whole and complete experienced by all people. * It merges clinical, scientific, and psychotherapeutic discoveries and places them within the spiritual community context.  * The healing process is clearly defined from the onset. This awareness of the ""big picture"" of one's journey brings comfort and grace to the healing. However, it allows unlimited flexibility providing for individual adaptation. * The personal ""powers"" and tools required for the journey are described in simple terms.  * The process is pragmatic because anyone who dedicates themselves to the journey will experience concrete results with each engagement.  The benefits of committing one's self to the process are glimpsed before the process has begun. The living map presented in this book invites you to move towards concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action and towards personal power. It invites the reader to make good sense out of what has previously been an ambiguous process. For example, this book presents a list of universally ""shared desires""- what most people really want from therapy - then provides tools and insights for fulfilling those desires, culminating in complete recovery.	Finally! A book that addresses spirituality as a part of sexuality in terms everyone can understand. I look forward to incorporating the material in this book to add new dimensions to our recovery programs. (Joseph M. Amico, M.Div., CAS, Executive Director, Pride Institute Co-Chair, National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity)	Michael Picucci is one of the growing number of people today who have gone from surviving to ""thriving."" From a childhood of trauma, abandonment, loss, and continuous uprooting, he reached his teens already addicted to alcohol and drugs. In 1983, he was diagnosed with a fast-growing lymphoma, now recognized as an AIDS-classified cancer. As well as being a long-term survivor of HIV, he has endured the deaths of two life partners, countless friends, and a recent heart attack. In struggling to heal himself both physically and spiritually he has discovered many powerful methods of healing that he now shares with others. A nationally credentialed Master Addiction Counselor with a doctorate in The Psychology of Addictions Psychotherapy, Michael discovered a method that combines psychotherapy, the wisdom of the maturing recovery movement, and his own personal healing strategies. The result is a bold new form of healing for all people called Authentic Process Therapy. It allows deep feelings, longings for intimacy, and spiritual yearnings to emerge and become integrated, creating the experience of Complete Recovery. Through his workshops, lectures, seminars, professional training program, and writing, Dr. Picucci brings forth a new and timely vision of joy and personal realization, one which shows how our most challenging personal hardships can be catalysts which guide us to and through our ""life purpose."" This psychospiritual approach to healing has helped many find their way to fulfillment. He has a private practice in New York City and is co-founder of The Institute for Staged Recovery and Institute Psychotherapy Associates.	Moving Forward: Transforming Our World Praying for The Hundredth Monkey ""Only from a place of total self-acceptance do we stand the real possibility of transforming ourselves and satisfying our thirst for wholeness. When I say ""acceptance,"" I mean ""what is,"" not ""how we want it to be."" In a similar way, perhaps it is only by accepting our outer world ""as it is"" that we can change it - not only for ourselves but for generations to follow. How is this possible? The Hundredth Monkey, a well-known essay by Ken Keyes, Jr., offers inspiration and hope. He tells the story of how a few young monkeys living among a colony of monkeys on isolated islands tried a new spontaneous behavior and gradually inspired their peers to do the same. A couple of the monkeys accidentally discovered the advantages of washing the sand off of their potatoes at the seashore before eating them. At first, their elders resisted the new ways, continuing to eat the potatoes, sand and all. At a certain point in the study, when enough young monkeys had changed their behavior (symbolized by the hundredth monkey), there was an almost instantaneous shift in consciousness and all of the resistant older monkeys adjusted to the new practice. What was so remarkable was that this shift even occurred on neighboring islands simultaneously. I believe that if, one by one, we continue to empower ourselves to act in an enlightened, positive way, the critical mass of this growing energy will gradually transform our world. The phenomena that inspired Keyes was taught to him by researcher Marilyn Furguson and psychologist Carl Rogers. They felt that the ""hundredth monkey"" research story illustrated an important psychological phenomenon: that when enough of us are aware of something, all of us become aware of it. This concept confirms my own intuitive trust in the basic tenet of my work - that the appreciation and love and respect we have for ourselves and others creates an expanding energy field that becomes a growing, transforming power in the world. This also reflects Carl Jung's teachings on the collective unconscious. These philosophical realities, and the support that they suggest, give us a counterbalance of hope to offset the doomsday feelings and fears that our culture sensationalizes daily. Many of us are healing. The recovery movement lives. The feminist movement lives. The men's movement lives. The gay/lesbian/ bisexual/transgender movement lives. People of all colors continue to create healing communities. An extraordinary force emerges as we heal ourselves and respect the mysteries of our diversity. In the organic, self-organizing whole of the universe, this is a worthy energy to want to live, grow, and play in. The Twelve-Step programs and other recovery models are doorways to profound growth. If each of us in recovery surrender our lives to a loving spiritual power in a radical and life-altering manner, doesn't it seem possible that we could inspire every person in our society in a healing way, without consciously trying to change anything? Authentic Process Therapy is based on the principle that all people have suffered emotional or physical trauma to their natural emergent energies at some stage in their development; that we all have moments of dissociation and separation from ourselves, and that we are all consciously or unconsciously seeking a more holistic connection with the universe. This then is the common ground with Twelve-Steppers and with others in recovery, with those seeking holism through spirituality and with the general population. We are all working through stages of awakening to recover our lost innocence, our lost joy, our lost place in the universe; and we can help each other succeed, just by speaking our truth as we discover it. We in recovery are in as good a position to be the hundredth monkey for global transformation as any group in history, and the Stage Two process (however you choose to undertake it) offers an opportunity to connect with every other sentient being and to the planet as a whole. Perhaps it is the ""missing link"" you have been looking for. Authentic Process is not new. For centuries, Native Americans have gathered in ""talking feather"" circles to speak from the heart, to express grief and joy (in a truly authentic process) and to pray for help from a higher power to become ""one with the Creator"" again. Community healing, by whatever name it is called, has always been highly valued by Native Americans and indigenous people all over the globe. It is safe to say that there are many true shamanic healers in these communities, whether they are located in Africa, Asia, or South America, who understand complete recovery without ever reading a book, and some may even share their insights through these ""talking circles."" They are the oldest school of therapists on the planet. We should honor these elders - they may be praying for our healing! The authors of the twelve steps were divinely inspired individuals as well, and the miracle of their works are still unfolding. Perhaps Stage Two recovery, as an expansion outward from the original program, can help a greater number of people to more fully realize the ""promises"" originally offered by AA, mentioned in the introduction of this book. The AA Big Book states that these ""promises will always materialize if we work for them,"" and countless recovering people can attest to the validity of that statement. Yet a complete realization of these attributes eludes many Twelve-Steppers I know. These people struggle between feelings of gratitude - thankful to have their lives back in control - and feelings of emptiness that something is still missing. Authentic Process Therapy shows how to respond to these unconscious conflicts and work through the Stage Two issues that isolate us and block us from achieving the state of Complete Recovery. Recovering people sincerely want to experience the vitality that comes with being fully alive. Many of us have battled - and conquered - a major addiction. Many of us report that we ""have been to hell and back."" We struggle to adjust our characters; we labor to remove limitations. We are motivated and will usually do whatever hard work it takes, providing we have access to, and respect for, the process. In order for recovering people to commit themselves at this high level, we must trust the healing process and it must be community-driven. The model must be honest, realistically hopeful, and it must resonate with our specific needs and be as inclusive as possible.... Closing Words Now you come to yet another gateway. As you close this book, go back in your mind and think about all that you've seen and experienced within yourself during this psychological and spiritual journey. I hope it has been transformational. Now you must begin a new phase of the same journey, the one that leads to the holistic state and the complete recovery of the spiritual self. This time, the map is the world around you. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep!",abuse;addiction & recovery;behavioral sciences;books;death & grief;fitness & dieting;gay & lesbian;health;mental & spiritual healing;new age;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;science & math;self-help;social sciences;specific demographics;substance abuse,18
0786714379,"Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary Thomas Jefferson is depicted here as a venal and vindictive opportunist who, during his second term as president, attempted to abuse the federal judicial system to persecute his one-time vice-president and chief political rival, Aaron Burr. Conversely, Wheelan, a former editor and reporter with the AP, renders Burr as a complex, flawed politico who stood in the dock charged, excessively, with treason after a misguided attempt to conquer Spain's holdings in North America and establish a rival American republic. The man Wheelan shows running interference between these two founding lions is the only true hero in the narrative: Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall. Partisans for either Jefferson or Burr may debate Wheelan's portrayal of their respective heroes, but they are bound to come out agreeing with the author that Marshallwhom Jefferson hated with a ferocity rivaled only by his feelings against Burrseized and saved the day during the trial. Burr was acquitted in 1807 thanks to Marshall's strictly interpreting the Constitution's definition of treason, ensuring through his opinion that similar unfounded charges could never again be used by a president against a political enemy. Wheeler (Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror, 18011805) offers an elegantly written and smartly conceived revisionist history that is sure to engage and entertain.  Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Among the precedent-setting decisions of Chief Justice John Marshall was a restrictive interpretation of the Constitution's treason clause, which he pronounced during the celebrated trial of former vice-president Aaron Burr in 1807. Burr went free as a result, though he had hardly been an innocent abroad when he toured the trans-Appalachian states and territories in 1805-06. Wheelan, a former journalist who presents his second book on a topic from Jefferson's presidency, following Jefferson's War (2003), dramatizes the case, encompassing its historic legal significance, but its forte is the re-creation of the ambience of the trial. Held during a sweltering summer in Richmond, Virginia, the proceedings drew in the day's top lawyers, surviving heroes from the War of Independence (including Burr himself), and behind the scenes, President Thomas Jefferson. The proceedings were prolix, partisan, and contentious, and Wheelan shapes them into a lively popular account of the Burr affair. Gilbert TaylorCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Joseph Wheelan, a graduate of the University of Wyoming and University of Colorado, Denver, was for twenty-six years an editor and reporter for the Associated Press and the Casper Star-Tribune (Wyoming). Author of Jeffersons War, also available from Carroll & Graf, he lives in North Carolina with his wife, Pat.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",19th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;history;history & theory;law;leaders & notable people;legal history;military;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;presidents & heads of state;revolution & founding;specific groups;united states;united states civil war,18
0520206002,"Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State ""Kafadar contributes a distinguished addition to Ottoman studies with this thoughtful and thought-provoking discussion of the pioneer phase of Ottoman state building between the late 13th century and 1453. . . . It is a measure of the breadth and seriousness of his approach that his reflections on history, nationalism, and historic folk memory acquire an immediate relevance in the present context of the enormities occurring in those Balkan lands that were once among the Ottomans' oldest territorial acquisitions.""--""Choice	Cemal Kafadar is Associate Professor of History at Harvard University.",16th century;asia;asian;books;history;humanities;international & world politics;middle east;middle eastern;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;turkey;used & rental textbooks;world,18
1403969787,"Dangerous Strangers: Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the Urban West, 1850-2000 ""Kevin Mullen brings a unique, ex-cop's perspective to the historical study of crime. He not only restores the police to an important place in determining why homicide rates go up and down, but brings the painstaking thoroughness of the best detective work to his analysis of hard-to-interpret statistics from the past.""--Roger Lane, Haverford College. ""Kevin Mullen uses his meticulous reconstruction of San Francisco homicides and his broad knowledge of the history of American violence to tackle two big questions: Why were some eras and communities more deadly than others? And what did the cultures of urban immigrants have to do with the fluctuating levels of violence? In Dangerous Strangers, Mullen delivers forceful and insightful answers to both questions.""--David Courtwright, author of Violent Land ""Ex-cop Kevin J. Mullen investigates 150 years of lethal mayhem in San Francisco, and what he uncovers in the history of the city's successive newcomers--Australian, Latino, Irish, Asian, Italian, African American--will no doubt prove as controversial as it is illuminating.  Rigorously grounded and thoughtfully nuanced, Dangerous Strangers elevates the issue of urban homicide rates among America's immigrant subcultures to a new level of discourse.""--Robert R. Dykstra, SUNY Albany	Kevin J. Mullen served for more than twenty-six years with the San Francisco Police Department and retired at the rank of deputy chief. He has written extensively in magazines and newspapers on criminal justice issues. He is the author of Let Justice Be Done: Crime and Politics in Early San Francisco.",19th century;20th century;administrative law;americas;books;criminology;emigration & immigration;history;humanities;law;minority studies;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,18
0321125290,"The Macintosh Digital Hub: An interactive guide to iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD If the current generation of the Apple Macintosh, which enables anyone to edit video and author a DVD right out of the box, represents the future of multimedia computers, then The Macintosh Digital Hub represents the future of multimedia books. Illustrated in color, and with a DVD included, this book can be read, watched, or put to use as a desktop handbook.The new Macintosh is much more than a computer, and Jim Heid's book explains how to make the most of media management tools like iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD. Using all of these tools to control and manage digital music, photos, and video and then share them with others is what this book, and the digital hub philosophy, is all about. Apple's online documentation is more than adequate in most cases, especially since the software itself is so easy to use. This book picks up where the official docs leave off--how to use these tools in the real world, and how to use them together.In addition to text about simply using the software, there are sections detailing things that every digital jockey should know: what MP3 compression is and how it affects what you hear, printing digital photos, tips for editing video, creating DVD menus, recording Internet radio, and importing and exporting photos and video for the Web. There's also a large section on Apple's iPod and how to use it for more than just music. The single best tip was learning how to record live Internet radio streams and save them to disk.Jim Heid has written an informative and fun manual. A small, friendly book, The Macintosh Digital Hub should be the second thing you buy after getting that hot new iMac, or the first thing given to a new owner of one.  --Mike Caputo	In the Macintosh world, Apple's free digital hub tools--iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iPod, and iTools--are the driving force behind the convergence of digital media and digital devices. You can use these tools to entertain, educate, persuade, and inspire your audiences at home, school, and work. To help you master this elegant and fun desktop studio, there's no better place to turn than The Macintosh Digital Hub.The Macintosh Digital Hub is a unique book-DVD hybrid that provides an interactive tour of the digital hub. Written by noted digital media expertJim Heid, a contributing editor of Macworld since 1984 and a Macintosh columnist for the Los Angeles Times, it uses clear, to-the-point text, gorgeous illustrations, and interactive video to do justice to the digital hub's enormous capabilities. The book-DVD combo addresses the basic concepts behind the digital hub, like how to balance file size and image quality in digital photography and how to create effective DVD menus. It also tackles more advanced concepts, like how to record Internet radio for later playback, prepare video for Web distribution, and get digital photos printed onto mugs and mousepads.The accompanying DVD-Video disc contains two hours of entertaining instruction covering all of Apple's i-programs. You'll see how to produce professional-looking digital media, and you'll see hardware add-ons that will round out your digital studio. Beautiful to look at and enjoyable to watch, The Macintosh Digital Hub is your user manual for the digital lifestyle!	Jim Heid is one of the most admired writers and instructors in theMacintosh community. A contributing editor of Macworld magazine since 1984,he also covers personal technology for the Los Angeles Times, as well aspresiding over numerous Thunder Lizard Productions conferences, includingWeb Design World, Web Builder, and Macromedia Web World. He recentlyco-founded Avondale Media, where, as editorial director, he oversees theplanning and production of DVD-based courses on all manner of computerapplications. An indefatigable digital media maven, Jim co-hosts  ""Point  Radio"", a weekly call-in show on KZYX, Mendocino (CA) County PublicBroadcasting, and he's the onscreen host of several Avondale Media trainingDVDs.",apple;books;computer science;computers & technology;digital media management;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;graphics & multimedia;hardware;home computing & how-to;mp3 & music management;new;operating systems;os x;pcs;programming;software;used & rental textbooks,18
1573920363,"Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World (Great Minds Series) The brilliant German mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), one of the founders of modern astronomy, revolutionzed the Copernican heliocentric theory of the universe with his three laws of motion: that the planets move not in circular but elliptical orbits, that their speed is greatest when nearest the sun, and that the sun and planets form an integrated system. The Epitome of Copernican Astronomy is a textbook of Copernican science, remarkable for the prominence given to physical astronomy and for the extension to the Jovian system of the laws recently discovered to regulate the motions of the plants. Here is presented an elaborate system of celestial harmonies depending on the varying velocities of the planets.  -- Midwest Book Review	Text: English (translation) Original Language: Latin",astronomy;astronomy & astrophysics;astronomy & space science;books;history & criticism;humanities;literary;literature;literature & fiction;modern renaissance;movements & periods;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;renaissance;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,18
0691083932,"Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life Praise for Princeton's previous editions: ""Shapin and Schaffer have written one of the very first lives of an instrument. . . . They [also] had the wit . . . to take virtually the first piece of apparatus of the new laboratory science, and so have given us an unparalleled vignette of the birth pangs of a new style of reasoning.	      --This text refers to the 							Kindle Edition	 edition.	Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Simon Schaffer is professor of history of science at the University of Cambridge.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",17th century;books;education & reference;engineering;history;history & philosophy;mechanical;mechanics;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,18
156032046X,"Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Second Edition (Series in Computional and Physical Processes in Mechanics and Thermal Sciences) ""I have always considered this book the best gift from one generation to the next in computational fluid dynamics. I earnestly recommend this book to graduate students and practicing engineers for the pleasure of learning and a handy reference. The description of the basic concepts and fundamentals is thorough and is crystal clear for understanding. And since 1984, two newer editions have kept abreast to the new, relevant, and fully verified advancements in CFD.""Joseph J.S. Shang, Wright State University ""Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer is very well written to be used as a textbook for an introductory computational fluid dynamics course, especially for those who want to study computational aerodynamics. Most widely used finite difference and finite volume schemes for various partial differential equations of fluid dynamics and heat transfer are presented in such a way that anyone can read and understand them rather easily. In this sense, this book is also a good textbook for self-learners of CFD. In addition to the fundamental and general topics to be covered in a typical CFD textbook, chapters concerning high-speed aerodynamics in depth are also included, which is very important for computational aerodynamicists.""Prof. Seung O. Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",aerospace;books;civil;dynamics;energy;engineering;fluid dynamics;mathematics;mechanical;mechanical engineering;mechanics;new;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;thermodynamics;used & rental textbooks,18
020184463X,"Supply Chains: A Manager's Guide An excellent summary of the state of supply chain management going into the twenty-first century. Explains the essential concepts clearly and offers practical, down-to-earth advice for making supply chains more efficient and adaptive. Truly a survival guide for executives as they struggle to cope with the increasing competition between supply chains. Christian Knoll, Vice President of Global Supply Chain Management, SAP AG Through real-world case studies and graphic illustrations, David Taylor clearly demonstrates the bottom-line benefits of managing the supply chain effectively. Although the book is written for managers, I recommend it for everyone from the executive suite to the shipping floor because they all have to work together to master the supply chain. But bewareyou can expect many passionate employees demanding improvements in your companys supply chain after reading this book! David Myers, President, WinfoSoft Inc., Former Board Member of Supply Chain Council A comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and well-designed book that gives managers the information they need in a highly readable form. I am already starting to use the techniques in this book to improve our international distribution system. Jim Muller, Vice President of Produce Sales, SoFresh Produce Supply chain management is a deceptively deep subject. Simple business  practices combine to form complex systems that seem to defy rational analysis: Companies that form trading partnerships continue to compete despite their best efforts to cooperate; small variations in consumer buying create devastating swings in upstream demand, and so on. In his trademark fashion, Taylor clearly reveals the hidden logic at work in your supply chain and gives you the practical tools you need to make better management decisions. A must-read for every manager who affects a supply chain, and in today's marketplace there are few managers who are exempt from this requirement. Adrian J. Bowles, Ph.D., President, CoSource.net David Taylor has done it again. With his new book, David makes supply chain management easy to grasp for the working manager, just as he did with his earlier guides to business technology. If you work for a company that is part of a supply chain, you need this book. Dirk Riehle, Ph.D. David Taylor has done a masterful job of defining the core issues in supply chain management without getting trapped in the quicksand of jargon. This concise book is well written, highly informative, and easy to read. Marcia Robinson, President, E-Business Strategies, author of Services Blueprint: Roadmap Taylor has done a tremendous job of giving readers an intuitive grasp of a complicated subject. If youre new to supply chains, this book will give you an invaluable map of the territory. If you're already among the initiated, it will crystallize your insights and help you make better decisions. In either case, you can only come out ahead by reading this book. Kevin Dick, Founder of Kevin Dick Associates, author of XML: A Managers Guide My motto for compressing data is squeeze it til it gags. In the current business climate, thats what you have to do to costs, and Taylor shows you many ways to squeeze costs out of your supply chain. He also writes with the same economy: This book contains exactly what you need to manage your supply chain effectively. Nothing is missing, and nothing is extra. Charles Ashbacher, President, Charles Ashbacher Technologies Today's fiercest business battles are taking place between competitors' supply chains, with victory dependent on finding a way to deliver products to customers more quickly and efficiently than the competition. For proof, just look to Dell and Amazon.com, both of which revolutionized their industries by changing how companies produce, distribute, and sell physical goods. But they're hardly alone. By revamping their supply chains, Siemens CT improved lead time from six months to two weeks, Gillette slashed $400 million of inventory, and Chrysler saved $1.7 billion a year. It's a high-stakes game, and you don't have a lot of choice about playing: If your company touches a physical product, it's part of a supply chain--and your success ultimately hangs on the weakest link in that chain. In Supply Chains: A Manager's Guide, best-selling author David Taylor explains how to assemble a killer supply chain using the knowledge, technology, and tools employed in supply-chain success stories. Using his signature fast-track summaries and informative graphics, Taylor offers a clear roadmap to understanding and solving the complex problems of supply-chain management. Modern manufacturing has driven down the time and cost of the production process, leaving supply chains as the final frontier for cost reduction and competitive advantage. Supply Chains: A Manager's Guide will quickly give managers the foundation they need to contribute effectively to their company's supply-chain success.	An internationally recognized authority on object technology, Dr. David A. Taylor has written numerous articles on business and technology, given keynote speeches at conferences, and served as the voice of authority for some of the worlds leading companies. He is the author four books and coauthor of two others, including the acclaimed Object Technology, Second Edition: A Managers Guide,  (Addison-Wesley, 1998). Before founding Enterprise Engines, Inc., a company that develops supply-chain software, Dr. Taylor worked as a consultant helping Fortune 500 companies adopt object technology.         020184463XAB06252003	In May 2001, Nike announced that it had lost sales in the preceding quarter because of problems in its supply chain. The amount of income lost was impressive: a cool $100 million. Three months later, Cisco Systems announced that it was writing down unusable inventory due to some confusion in its supply chain. The amount of its write-down was even more impressive: $2.2 billion. Isolated incidents? Only in terms of magnitude--supply chain failures are becoming increasingly common, and they are costing companies dearly. In addition to their impact on profits, problems in the supply chain have a devastating effect on stock prices, causing an average loss of $350 million in shareholder value with each reported incident. That's a steep price to pay for a single mistake.The flip side of this coin is that, as Dell and Wal-Mart demonstrate every day, getting the supply chain right can yield a tremendous competitive advantage, allowing new players to overthrow entrenched industry leaders. Why is the supply chain so important to success? Because it's the new frontier of business. Modern manufacturing has driven most of the excess time and cost out of the production process, so there is little advantage to be gained on the shop floor. But supply chains are still notoriously wasteful and error-prone, and they offer huge opportunities for gaining competitive advantage. The result is a fundamental shift in the nature of competition. The fight for market dominance is no longer a battle between rival companies. The new competition is supply chain vs. supply chain.What makes this new competition so challenging is the level of cooperation it requires. To forge winning teams, companies have to tear down the barriers between the functional silos within their organizations, and they have to replace adversarial supplier relationships with a win-win collaboration across the chain. Bringing about this level of cooperation isn't easy, but the best companies are already doing it, and they're starting to distance themselves from the rest of the pack.As a by-product of this new competition, supply chain management has escalated from a support function to a core competence that cuts across the entire company. Managing the chain can no longer be left to specialists; in the new competition, the supply chain is every manager's business. If your company touches a physical product as it moves toward the market, it's part of a supply chain, and it will succeed in the new competition only if you and your fellow managers understand how to make the chain as efficient and effective as it can be.This understanding can be hard to come by because supply chain management is a deep and technical subject. Most books on supply chains offer either simplistic formulas for success, in which a single solution fits every problem, or the kind of detailed analysis that only a practitioner could love. This book is my attempt to provide the balanced overview you need, giving you enough information to make intelligent decisions without dragging you into a morass of detail. Think of it as your playbook for the new competition.The book is organized into five parts of three chapters each, as shown in Figure I. Part I lays out the business challenge, Part II describes the tools you need to meet this challenge, and the remaining parts explain supply chain management at three levels: operations, planning, and design. These last three parts all have the same structure, with one chapter each on demand, supply, and performance. This common structure provides a unique nine-chapter matrix for understanding and solving supply chain problems. At the back of the book, you'll find sources for the facts cited in the text, some suggested readings, and a glossary of common terms.I assume you're busy and don't have a lot of time for reading, so I use something I call the fast track to help you absorb the material quickly. As you can see from this page, the fast track summarizes the key point of every paragraph. This is the fifth book I've written using this technique since I developed it 15 years ago, and I continue to use it because loyal readers all over the world have threatened to shoot me if I don't. In fact, many managers have told me that the best thing about my books is they don't actually have to read them--they get everything they need by skimming the fast track and looking at the drawings. I'm never sure whether to be flattered or offended by this observation, but there it is.Feel free to jump around in the book. Part I is an executive briefing on chain-based competition; if all you need is the big picture, here it is. Part II is an introduction to supply chain tools; depending on your needs, you can study it, skim it, or skip it. The matrix organization of the remaining parts allows you to tackle the material in slices, reading Part IV to learn about planning, say, or Chapters 7, 10, and 13 for a tour of demand management.Like all technical disciplines, supply chain management has developed jargon to help practitioners communicate with each other and keep outsiders at bay. To ease your way into the subject, I use specialized terms only as necessary and keep abbreviations to a minimum. But I also want to give you a working vocabulary in the subject, so I do introduce the appropriate terms as they come up, setting them in bold type and defining them in the glossary.An excellent way to further your understanding of supply chains is to experience them directly using simulation models of the sort described in this book. If you'd like to see supply chains in action, direct your browser to www.supplychainguide.com. The site also offers in-depth discussions of advanced topics, reviews of books about supply chains, and links to software vendors, service providers, and other online resources. You can also find my current e-mail address there if you would like to drop me a note about the book or ask me a question about supply chains.David A. Taylor, Ph.D.San Mateo, CaliforniaMay 2003  020184463XP09092003",accounting;books;business;business & finance;business & investing;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;distribution & warehouse management;education & reference;information systems;management;management & leadership;manager's guides to computing;new;software;software engineering;used & rental textbooks,18
0761962506,"The Media Reader: Continuity and Transformation (Published in association with The Open University) `This book represents a valuable resource in helping students make sense of the rapid and perplexing changes in media technologies and institutions from a range of perspectives.... I shall certainly be recommending The Media Reader to my students' - ConvergenceAlertness to the chaning terms of debate, familiarity with the latest scholarship and a shrewd, practical sense of what works in teaching makes this collection a very worthwhile addition to course reading lists. (John Corner )",books;communication;communication & journalism;communication & media studies;communications;education & reference;humor & entertainment;language & grammar;media studies;new;politics & social sciences;reference;research;research & publishing guides;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,18
0881632465,"Standing in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma, and Dissociation ""Philip Bromberg's essays on psychoanalysis are unique jewels that derive from the convergence of two strikingly different sensibilities. On the one hand, Bromberg is an interpersonal analyst par excellence, with a plain-speaking forthrightness, a finely honed sense of the mutual impact of people upon each other, and a distaste for the abstractions of theorizing. On the other hand, he has a keen appreciation of the mostly deeply private domains of experience, the hidden recesses, the nuances of 'innerness' within which personal existence is preserved. This combination has generated a unique vision and finely textured conceptualization of the psychoanalytic process that captures, with both wit and warmth, some of its deepest contrasts: sameness and difference, safety and growth, the emotional contacts that make a deeply personal life possible and the immutably private. Standing in the Spaces makes available a body of work that is one of the finest achievements of contemporary pychoanalysis."" - StephenA. Mitchell, Ph.D., Author, Relationality (Analytic Press, 2000)  ""Setting out to solve the riddle of meaning formation and therapeutic leverage, Bromberg presents a vivid and compelling new picture of the mind as more tenuously integrated than we had thought - a paradigm that sheds so much light on clinical phenomena and on the margin available for change that conflict theorists simply cannot ignore it. But Bromberg's greatest service is to reveal the high, technical dignity of those powerful forces that practitioners sensed in their bones but scorned as nonspecific and ungovernable, now orienting us to a more respectful and less impatient use of them. I predict that the impact of Bromberg's book will remain with the reader in every subsequent clinical encounter and rescue him in times of trouble."" - Lawrence Friedman, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Medical School, Cornell  ""Every psychoanalyst and psychotherapist should read Standing in the Spaces in order to achieve a full understanding of what it is they do every day. The scholarship is remarkable; the style elegant and readable; the content imaginative, original, and wide-ranging; the clinical presentations tremendously evocative. The book is written from a predominantly interpersonalist perspective, but is masterly in the way it gathers in a wide range of ideas from other psychoanalytic orientations and beyond. Philip Bromberg is clearly an exceptionally gifted clinician as well as one of the outstanding theorists of our time."" - Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., Freud Memorial Professor, University College London	A preeminent author on the understanding of trauma and dissociative phenomena, Philip M. Bromberg, Ph.D., is the author of Standing in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma, and Dissociation (Analytic Press, 1998). He is Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute, and Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Co-Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Dr. Bromberg serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, and Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. He lectures widely throughout the United States and is actively involved in the training of mental health professionals.",applied psychology;books;fitness & dieting;general;health;medical books;medicine;mental health;new;psychoanalysis;psychology;psychology & counseling;psychotherapy;social sciences;surgery;ta & nlp;trauma;used & rental textbooks,18
0842027130,"Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Vietnam War Anthology This excellent anthology is substantially revised from the first editionalmost half the items included are new. I am delighted that it is back in print and available for class use. (George Herring )An important work simply because it is so extended. (Indochina Chronology )Thoroughly balanced, providing accounts with different emphases and interpretations of what remains a hgihly emotional ordeal in our history, Light at the End of the Tunnel offers numerous opportunities to stimulate thought, discussion, and debate. (Kenton Clymer )Andrew Rotter has compiled an illuminating selection of essays and book excerpts. His introduction is an insightful, concise history of the Indochina wars. (Marc Leepson )A truly brilliant overview . . . perhaps the best anthology yet assembled. (Palo Alto Daily News )	Andrew J. Rotter is Charles A. Dana Professor of History at Colgate University.",20th century;americas;anthologies & literary collections;asia;asian american;books;contemporary;general;history;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;military;new;southeast asia;united states;used & rental textbooks;vietnam war,18
0826149421,"Experiential Treatment For PTSD: The Therapeutic Spiral Model """"This book introduces something substantially new...original, clinically valid and well-thought out ideas which have been extensively ?tested? in workshops conducted internationally over the last decade...a great book!""Adam Blatner, MDThe author presents the Therapeutic Spiral Model TSM, a systematic modification of Psychodrama, for therapists working with people who are suffering from severe trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. A step-by-step guide for using experiential methods safely, the author first explains the theoretical foundations of TSM, research and theories on trauma, and experiential psychotherapy as a basis for understanding its development. Throughout, clinical action structures and advanced intervention modules for using experiential methods are presented. Each chapter contains active vignettes and case examples to demonstrate the process and progress of the spiral technique.""	Kate Hudgins, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and board certified trainer in psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy.  She received the 2001 Innovator's Award from the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama for creating The Therapeutic Spiral Model, which integrates classical psychodrama with recent clinical advances in trauma practice and training.  She established the nonprofit organization Therapeutic Spiral International in 2000 to bring this model of healing to underserved areas of the global community.  She is a published author whose work includes Psychodrama with Trauma Survivors: Acting Out Your Pain (2002).  Kate travels extensively and has trained Action Trauma Teams in Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, and South Africa, and has taught in many additional countries including Israel, South Korea, and Turkey.",books;clinical;clinical psychology;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;mental health;neuropsychology;new;physical medicine & rehabilitation;post-traumatic stress disorder;psychiatry;psychology;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,18
140396940X,Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory: From Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11 (Studies in European Culture and History) Gene Ray has taught at New College of Florida and the University of Hawaii at Manoa and is a former German Chancellor's Scholar of the Alexamder con Humboldt Foundation.,20th century;aesthetics;americas;art history;arts & photography;books;education & reference;europe;history;history & criticism;humanities;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;popular culture;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks,18
0679770275,"Field Guide to Southwest Indian Arts and Crafts A comprehensive guide to identifying and understanding Southwest Indian jewelry, pottery, basketry, weaving, and carvingsThe Field Guide to Southwest Indian Arts and Crafts includes Descriptive captions for 210 color and 50 black-and-white photographs Clear and compelling explanations of centuries-old techniques The featured work of more than two hundred leading Southwest Indian artisans Information on visiting the reservations Cultural histories of more than thirty tribes, including the Navajo, Hopi,  Zuni, and PuebloThe Pages offer expert advice on How to spot the unmistakable signs of excellence in an object How to judge the quality of turquoise  How to determine the value of a Navajo rug by its weave, design, colorchanges, and artist What questions you should ask (and the answers you should hear) before you buy Indian arts and crafts How to identify imitations and fakes	Jake Page and his wife, photographer Susanne Page, are the authors of Hopi and Navajo. Jake Page is also the co-author of Wild Justice: The People of Geronimo vs. the United States, among many other books, and a former editor of Smithsonian magazine. The Pages live in Corrales, New Mexico.",arts & photography;books;carving;crafts;crafts & hobbies;criticism;history;history & criticism;hobbies & home;jewelry;jewelry & beadwork;mountain;needlecrafts & textile crafts;needlework;travel;united states;west;wood crafts & carving,18