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0801434300,"What Evil Means to Us Alford (government and politics, Univ. of Maryland, College Park) spent over a year interviewing state prison inmates, college students, and working people to find out how people conceptualize and experience evil. To many of his informants, doing evil is the ""pleasure in hurting and lack of remorse."" It is rooted, from what they told the author, in a baleful, bottomless sense of dread; to cause others to suffer this existential dislocation is somehow (in the mind) expected to alleviate it in oneself. ""How to know and live with this malicious destructiveness in oneself, one's friends, one's lovers, and the world around?"" Alford suggests that hope, and the answer to the problem of evil, may be found through shared narrative?the realm of ""metaphysics and theology."" Although this is a difficult book, it provides an unusually systematic approach to a topic more often addressed through anecdote or abstraction. Of interest especially to professionals who work with people ""on the edge.""?John R. Leech, BrooklynCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""Alford . . . spent over a year interviewing state prison inmates, college students, and working people to find out how people conceptualize and experience evil. To many of his informants, doing evil is the 'pleasure in hurting and lack of remorse.' It is rooted, from what they told the author, in a baleful, bottomless sense of dread; to cause others to suffer this existential dislocation is somehow (in the mind) expected to alleviate it in oneself. . . . Alford suggests that hope, and the answer to the problem of evil, may be found through shared narrative-the realm of 'metaphysics and theology.' Although this is a difficult book, it provides an unusually systematic approach to a topic more often addressed through anecdote or abstraction. Of interest especially to professionals who work with people 'on the edge.'""-Library Journal""The provocative general thesis of this narrative account is twofold. First, the impulse to do evil is all around us and lies deeply and inextricably within each of us. . . . Second, the amelioration of evil in society depends on our acknowledging the universality of its grip on human persons and seeking its containment through creative acceptance of the dread that is inherent in the human condition.""-Choice""This is not a tale for the weak of heart.""-Times Literary Supplement""This is a deeply thoughtful and humane book which anyone interested in the phenomenon of evil- and who isn't?-will want to read and ponder.""-V. Bradley Lewis, Review of Metaphysics""Alford makes many intriguing connections between evil as understood in classic literature and evil as recognized in popular culture. Anyone interested in the anatomy of human destructiveness would do well to consult this book.""-Theological Studies""Alford's writing has a rich quality. . . . Alford has a great degree of skill in raising thought-provoking questions without premature closure. It is refreshing to read a book that leaves one feeling unsettled, informed, and yet with a desire to pursue further readings and investigation. This book will be of great interest to anyone who studies the social and psychological effects of violence and who is interested in the philosophy of evil.""-Stuart W. Twemlow, M.D., Psychoanalytic Books: A Quarterly Journal of Reviews""Alford has written a most interesting volume on how we experience evil. . . . His book is a beautifully crafted psychoanalytic meditation. . . . Lyrical and evocative. . . . Extremely thought provoking, compelling and accessible. I urge all psychoanalysts to read this small gem.""-Paul Marcus, The Psychoanalytic Review""This scholarly gem should appeal to a very broad cross-section of the population. . . . Even those among us who have thought at great length about evil will likely benefit from Alford's remarkably accessible reflections on the darker side of human interaction.""-Virginia Quarterly Review""What does the clich that 'evil spelled backward is live' mean? Fred Alford wants to know, and with this provocative question he takes the reader on an intellectual journey which is, in his words, a 'domestic anthropology' of evil. . . This book is provocative, intellectually stimulating, and well written.""-J. Reid Meloy, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association""Intelligent, erudite, and wide-ranging. . . . His material is certainly rich, but it is his organization and critical analysis of that material, coupled with his exact and yet sometimes lyrical prose, that makes the book a landmark study. . . . Alford's book is without a doubt a superlative study.""-Sara L. Knox, Journal of Popular Culture""At a time when many construct babbling towers as a monument to their own erudition, Fred Alford is truly unique: a political theorist who brings his own brave, innovative research to bear on a profound question-the nature of evil-and does so with ringing clarity of intellect and prose.""-Stanley Renshon, City University of New York""The book gives a healthy jolt to our psychological insight into evil. Alford's thesis-that a sense of dread can be the impetus for doing evil-demands serious attention.""-Fred E. Katz, author of Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil: A Report on the Beguilings of Evil""Total loss, total meaninglessness-in a lucid analysis packed with brilliant insights, C. Fred Alford shows how those phrases sum up what evil means to us. Taking his readers into a labyrinth formed by injustice and suffering, hopelessness and indifference, as well as by the agonizing questions raised by those afflictions of body and soul, Alford proves to be a trustworthy guide. He can help us not only to understand but also to restrain the human tendency to inflict on others the very conditions that we most dread.""-John K. Roth, Claremont McKenna College""If man's capacity to perpetrate evil is deeply rooted in his psyche, so too is the concept of evil. Alford solves the riddle of 'What Evil Means to Us' by asking. The results of this creative inquiry are at once profound and deeply disturbing.""-Jerrold M. Post, M.D., author of Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World",behavioral sciences;books;christian books & bibles;cognitive psychology;ethics & morality;good & evil;philosophy;politics & social sciences;science & math;sociology;theology,11
0801443709,"Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction ""Four qualities make Philip Weinstein's book the best critical book I have read in many years. He combines an enviable precision in his operating concepts with an elegant and intimate style. This precision is accompanied by remarkable scope and exemplary sensitivity to the resonance in his major figures-Freud, Kafka, Proust, and Faulkner. Weinstein tells an intricate and powerful and utterly convincing tale that spreads from realism's ways of binding knowledge within firm concepts of space, time, and subject, to modernism's experiments in unknowing or shattering each of these framing conditions, to postmodernism's adapting all questions of framework to aspects of vocabularies, where even this shattering becomes primarily a rhetorical effect. And, most important, he writes so well that he makes us care deeply about his being right.""-Charles Altieri, Stageberg Chair of English, University of California, Berkeley""Informed by a lifetime's reading and reflection on the modernist novel, and making use of an existential, urgent vocabulary, Philip Weinstein proposes a geography of the novel from realism to postmodernism with Faulkner-or the zone where Proust and Faulkner overlap-as the central and defining interest. Philosophy, theory, the richest array of critical views, and historical schemata guide this vital and inventive study of Proust, Kafka, and Faulkner along with their ancestors and heirs. Weinstein finds in the term 'unknowing' a common ground of shared attention among thinkers from Freud to Levinas and Bakhtin and writers from Faulkner and Beckett to Morrison and Rushdie.""-Philip Fisher, Harvard University""Unknowing is a kind of love poem to modernist fiction by one of its most gifted and sympathetic interpreters. Philip Weinstein moves easily among the works in several languages he compares. His wide-ranging narrative gives us a valuable new vision of the modern novel's evolution as a critical apparatus of self-knowledge.""-John T. Matthews, Boston University	Philip Weinstein is Professor of English at Swarthmore College. He is the author of What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison; Faulkners Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns; and The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce.",20th century;books;classics;criticism & theory;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);modernism;movements & periods;united states,11
B000QRIHY8,"Our Lady of Weight Loss: Miraculous and Motivational Musings from the Patron Saint of Permanent Fat Removal Taylor has maintained a weight loss of 50 pounds for more than five years. Her secret? Her work as a ""weight-loss artist."" Taylor says her turning point came during a meeting at a weight-loss center, when she decided to stop obsessively tracking the food she ate. Instead, she would create food-centric art whenever she had the urge to eat. She quit her job and combined her artistic leanings with a childhood fascination with nuns (she lived near a convent as a kid; the kindly nuns never commented on her chubbiness) in a creative homage to Our Lady of Weight Loss, an inner voice that provides inspiration and support to Taylor. The book offers a refreshing take on weight. Sure, there are recipes, and discussions of nutrition and self-image and exercise, but Taylor gets that most overweight folk already know they need to eat less and exercise more. In chatty, supportive prose, Taylor highlights her book with ""weighty confessions"" that offer absolution and cute ""fat-oids"" (""It takes twenty-two muscles to smile and sixty-two to frown""). And there are clear, witty instructions for art projects, including sewing, collage and lamp makeoversmost projects call for glitter glue, and lots of it. (Aug.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Can you lose weight from sheer wackiness? After leafing through  Taylor's...dieting revelations you won't want to rule it out. -- NY  TimesFinally! A bit of wacky originality, humor and creativity in the world of weight loss. -- Simon Doonan, author of Nasty: My Family and Other Glamorous VarmintsThe best makeovers begin from the inside out. Our Lady of Weight Loss makes the phrase ""lighten up"" quite literal. -- Julia Cameron, author, The Artist's Way	Early Praise for Our Lady of Weight Loss  ""Janice Taylor and Our Lady of Weight Loss, give us  just what we need -- a lift, a laugh, and, of course, a kick in the tush. Taylor has found a unique way to fuse weight loss with creative  expression, and she puts it out there to help others with wit and warmth."" -Jami Bernard, author of The Incredible Shrinking Critic  ""Divine intervention at its best and funniest! Who knew? The powers that be are hilarious! Never has losing weight been so much fun!"" -Colette Bouchez, medical writer for The New York Daily News  Funny, compassionate and wise, Our Lady of Weight Loss and Janice Taylor speak to the whole person stuck inside every professional dieter."" -Jessica Porter, author of The Hip Chicks Guide to Macrobiotics  ""Janice Taylor was sent from above to bless us all! Using her  personal experience, she takes the daunting task of losing weight and  turns it into a frisky and inspirational craft project. Consider this book your personal diet guardian angel to lead you to a healthy, artful life where veggies aren't only tasty, but also make for great collage embellishments."" -Kathy Cano Murillo, author of Crafty Chica's Art de la Soul  ""Slim down while you laugh it up. Be inspired by Janice Taylor's success story. If she can do it, anyone can.  . . . . Losing weight and keeping it off isn't easy, but it is possible. Instead of drugs, you need a sense of humor. Instead of gimmicks, you need to find new   sources of joy. Janice turned to art. Turn to her and see if it helps. We all need a good kick in the tush sometimes."" -Marilynn Preston, Tribune Syndicated Columnist	Janice Taylor spent a lifetime losing and gaining weight, until Our Lady of Weight Loss entered her life. Now more than fifty pounds lighter, Janice is a professional weight-loss coach, artist, and creator of a popular e-newsletter. She has been featured in Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, and the New York Daily News.	Blueberry Sauce              From Abby, my daughter.        Pour this sauce on your toast or fruit, mix with yogurt, or just eat it by the spoonful. It is divine.        1/4 cup water      1/4 cup light brown sugar      juice from freshly squeezed lemon      1 pt. of blueberries        Heat water with light brown sugar until dissolved. Add lemon juice.       Then the blueberries. Just keep cookin' and stirrin' until it breaks down and it's all saucy.       Serves 5        Nutrition facts (per serving):      60 calories| 0g protein | 0g fat | 0mg sodium | 1g dietary fiber | 13g sugars",books;diets & weight loss;fitness & dieting;health;humor;humor & entertainment;motivational;satire;self-help;self-help & psychology;weight loss,11
0071452885,"McGraw-Hill's Conquering the New SAT Math (McGraw-Hill's Conquering SAT Math) Get the edge you need to score high on the math sections of the new SAT!    The new SAT I has a revised math sectionone that presents greater challenges than ever before. McGraw-Hills Conquering SAT Math is packed with inside strategies and intensive practice for all the latest SAT math question types. Created and classroom-tested by two acclaimed math educators, its got everything you need to get ready for this difficult part of the SAT  and to help you achieve your best SAT Math score. McGraw-Hills Conquering SAT Math includes:    5 practice SAT math tests with worked-out solutions to every question   Hundreds of sample questions just like those on the real test   Test-smart strategies for answering every question type: factors, ratios, percents, powers, basic algebra, geometry, functions, probability, and more  Valuable tips for using your calculator    Look for these top-quality SAT guides  with all the expert test-taking guidance students expect from McGraw-Hill.	Robert Postman is a professor of mathematics and education at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Ryan Postman teaches high school mathematics in Montvale, New Jersey.",books;college & university;education & reference;mathematics;new;sat & psat;schools & teaching;science & math;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks,11
0072336935,"An Introduction to Human Communication: Understanding and Sharing Judy Pearson is the director of Northern Virginia Graduate Center in Falls Church, Virginia, and she is an associate dean of the Graduate School and a professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She has co-authored the two books mentioned previously, has authored or co-authored six other textbooks, and has authored two trade books.  The authors have been writing basic course texts for twenty years, because the beginning courses are their first love. Both began their careers as basic course directors in large programs at the University of Missouri, Iowa State, and Bradley. They even met at a basic course conference, married, and have been producing children and books ever since.      Paul Nelson is the dean of the College of Communication at Ohio University and has co-authored seven editions of Confidence in Public Speaking and eight editions of An Introduction to Human Communication.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;communication;communication & journalism;communications;education & reference;language & grammar;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words,11
1586853473,"Portable Houses This attractive book is sure to awaken daydreams of leaving the settled life and going on the road, down to the sea or into the wild blue yonder. Rawlings and Abel, editors at Mountain Living and Log & Timber Style magazines, present movable homes for all tastes and income levels. Divided into sections by type-Trailers; Buses & RVs; Trains, Planes, and Boats; Tepees, Tents, & Yurts; and Sheep Wagons-the book discusses how to procure, remodel and/or build your own traveling home, with tips on what to look for and what to avoid. The first chapter specifies how to choose and remodel a trailer, down to types of floor coverings (new wood flooring or vintage linoleum), naming your trailer and painting portraits of cowgirls on the exterior. As the book progresses, however, the number of how-tos declines. The last section contains some of the most intriguing structures: a high-tech portable ""ski haus,"" moved from place to place by helicopter; a 36-square-foot acrylic ""home box"" designed for a Young Architects Competition; and a 3,000-square-foot house built of packing crates, shipping containers, recycled newspaper and bamboo. Frustratingly, these unusual designs receive cursory attention, often warranting only abbreviated descriptions and a single, exterior view. The Boats section is also meager, represented by a single pricey vintage yacht. Where are the houseboats? 60 color photos.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Irene Rawlings is the editor of Mountain Living magazine and is always on the go.  Mary Abel, managing editor of Mountain Living and Log & Timber Style magazines, wants to buy a vintage trailer, paint it pink, and take it into the mountains where she will fly fish and cook chili over a campfire.	Portable houses are getting more attention today than they've had since the frontier closed. And this ""new nomadism"" concept calls for living small, taking advantage of new technologies, and being free to travel. The idea of a portable house--of traveling while accompanied by our favorite possessions--is endlessly appealing. It starts when we are still children, listening with fascination to stories of pioneers living out of prairie schooners for months at a time while slowly making their way out West. That sense of adventure does not leave us when we become adults; it just intensifies. The portable houses of today have to be cozy and warm, but they also have to be practical. They must fit with our idea of simplifying our lives, of living lightly on the land, yet must have a technological component. We may want to travel small, but we also want our favorite creature comforts--radio, CD, wireless Internet access, and portable GPS. Folks who enjoy living on the move cut across a broad spectrum--from young people just getting started to retirees following the sun. The portable houses they choose to call home cut across an equally broad spectrum--from old steel shipping containers to shiny Boeing jets, from vintage trailers to new RVs, from tents, tepees, and yurts to floating homes, from remodeled sheep wagons to restored train cars.",architecture;books;crafts;design & construction;do-it-yourself;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;home repair;how-to & home improvements;professional & technical,11
B000FOT5Y8,"AIX 5L Administration (McGraw-Hill Osborne Networking) Configure, customize, and administer AIX version 5L effectively using this expert resource.  Use system management tools, work with network and distributed file systems, manage the user environment, tune and monitor the system, and much more.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Configure, customize, and administer AIX version 5L effectively using this expert resource.  Use system management tools, work with network and distributed file systems, manage the user environment, tune and monitor the system, and much more.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",aix;books;computers & technology;linux;network administration;networking;networks;operating systems;programming;protocols & apis;unix,11
1885266219,"The Reaper Essays The Reaper, a literary quarterly, ceased publication after 18 issues in 1989, having fulfilled is proclaimed purpose: to make a place in contemporary American poetry for narrative poetry and to improve poetry reviewing and criticism. Editors Jarman and McDowell created an editorial persona known as ""The Reaper"" to expound on editorial views in each issue. Essays, letter exchanges, and satirical interviews from the magazine are collected in this current title. The appendix shows the covers and contents pages of each issue. Typical of The Reaper's style and views is this observation on Wallace Stevens: ""That is one problem with Steven [sic] influence?that a poet can think on paper, make a poem of that thought process, call it meditation, and still get nowhere."" The collection provides a good overview of the journal and a look back at the poetry scene of the 1980s and the New Narrative movement. Of interest to academic libraries.?Nancy Shires, East Carolina Univ., Greenville, Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.",20th century;books;criticism & theory;essays;essays & correspondence;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);movements & periods;poetry,11
0830816534,"Coming Out of Homosexuality: New Freedom for Men and Women BOB DAVIESretired in 2001 as the North American director of Exodus International, a worldwide coalition of Christian ministries to men and women overcoming homosexuality. He currently serves on the music department administrative team at University Presbyterian Church in Seattle, Washington. LORI RENTZELwas on staff for many years at Love In Action (San Rafael, Calif.) where she ministered to friends and family members of those struggling withsexual identity issues and their Christian faith. She and her husband now live in Northern California.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;gay & lesbian;history;ministry & church leadership;nonfiction;pastoral counseling;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,11
0743260821,"Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause Frascella and Weisel's expansive overview isn't the first book to document the influential Warner Brothers classic, but it does deserve recognition for its exhaustiveness. With the first third of the book focusing on script problems, casting and unusual prefilming improvisatory rehearsals, the detailed chronological coverage of the actual filming doesn't begin until just after page 100. As Frascella (former chief movie critic of what was then Us Magazine) and Weisel (a Premiere contributor) explain, screenwriter Stewart Stern struggled to develop director Nicholas Ray's innovative idea for a film about middle-class juvenile delinquents, delivering the final script only four days before the 1955 production start. Upon revealing this fact, the book kicks into high gear, examining everything from the history and symbolism of James Dean's red jacket to Natalie Wood's affair with Ray. Dean created friction with the film's older actors, the authors say; some were taken aback by the on-set ""atmosphere of improvisation and borderline anarchy."" Behind-the-scenes conflicts, feuds and power plays come to life thanks to the authors' thorough research and interviews with surviving cast and crew members. Concluding chapters probe the Dean cult and the film's ""enduring power."" Photos. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Rebel without a Cause (1955), a sympathetic view of those of its era's teenagers demonized as juvenile delinquents, is one of the rare movies that had a massive cultural impact and was of significant artistic merit. Its immediate renown came because of star James Dean's car-crash death just before its release, which sparked his myth and the film's big box office. Frascella and Weisel credit director Nicholas Ray for Rebel's artistic excellence, noting that his insistence on getting his vision to the screen was fueled by estrangement from his teenaged son and anguish over his failings as a father. They construct Rebel's production history from archival research and interviews with surviving cast and crew members (costars Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo met violent ends, too, and Ray spent most of his last 20 years in exile from Hollywood) and satisfyingly balance scholarship--in, for example, detailed accounts of such key scenes as the knife fight at the planetarium and the chickie run--and gossip, such as dish on Ray's affair with then-16-year-old Wood. Gordon FlaggCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Compulsively readable.""-- Chris Fujiwara, The Boston Globe""Easily the best 'making of' since [Lillian Ross's] Picture, Live Fast, Die Young recounts the tumultuous production of Rebel Without a Cause with scrupulous scholarship.""-- David Ehrenstein, The Advocate""Frascella and Weisel pay determined homage . . . engaging and learned. . . . A passionate depiction of how art can create, inspire, and destroy -- all at the same time.""-- Kirkus Reviews	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Lawrence Frascella has served as chief movie critic of Us Magazine and theater critic for Entertainment Weekly, as well as an editor at Aperture. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Harper's Bazaar and Rolling Stone.Al Weisel is a regular contributor to Premiere magazine, a former contributing editor at Us Magazine, and has written for Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Spin, and New York Newsday. He lives in New York City.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	IntroductionNear dusk, on the evening of September 30, 1955, a telephone rang at the main gate of Warner Brothers Studios. When the guard on duty answered, a woman on the other end said that she was calling from Paso Robles War Memorial Hospital. Speaking calmly, without emotion, she told him that an actor who worked at the studio, James Dean, had been killed that evening in a car accident. Though Dean had starred in a mere three films and only one -- East of Eden -- had been released at that point, the guard knew who he was. The untamed young actor's reputation in the industry was growing much faster than his film resume. And only a few days earlier, he had been stopped by security for speeding around the lot in his brand-new Porsche and told never to drive there again because he might kill somebody.Immediately after hanging up the phone, the guard called Warners' publicity department, and word began to spread throughout town. ""It was like a strange wind that came right through the streets of Hollywood,"" said screenwriter Stewart Stern about the news. And that wind blew quickly through Dean's favorite hangouts: Googie's diner, the Villa Capri, the Chateau Marmont. It cast a pall over that evening's black-tie functions: the Whisper Ball, sponsored by Jane Russell's new World Adoption International Fund, and the Deb Star Ball, a beauty pageant hosted by the town's makeup artists and hairstylists. At the Deb Star Ball guests thumbing through the official program were stunned to find a full-page ad that Dean had taken out thanking his makeup artist, which featured nothing but a close-up of Dean's eyes staring back at them. When the wire services got hold of the story, radio and TV stations around the country interrupted their programs to announce Dean's death to his growing legion of fans, young people who had responded enthusiastically to their first emotionally wrenching encounter with him in East of Eden.Despite the immediate sense of shock and loss that accompanied the news, Dean's death might not necessarily have gone on to become such an enduring tragedy on the basis of East of Eden alone. After all, Dean's career had only just begun, and he wasn't the first young promising actor who would never get the chance to fulfill his potential. His sudden demise might have been just another sad story in a town full of sad stories, eventually fading away like a bad Technicolor print or a once-famous star of the silent screen. But the image of Dean was about to seep deeper into the public consciousness when, less than a month after his fatal accident, Warner Brothers released his second film -- Rebel Without a Cause.Almost immediately, Dean's image became inseparable from Jim Stark, the character he played in Rebel. With his white T-shirt, blue jeans and red jacket, Dean was instantly transformed into an adolescent ideal. His magnificent confusion, pained fragility, sexiness and even his narcissism made Jim Stark the template for teen rebellion. In fact, in many ways, Rebel Without a Cause invented the teenager.Largely because of his work in Rebel, James Dean remains an undeniable force half a century after his death. But Dean's presence is not the only reason for the film's continuing relevance. Rebel Without a Cause asserted a romantic, mythic notion of adolescence that remains with us, that colors the way we see our own youth. And its preeminence resulted from the intense interactions of many fresh, raw-nerved personalities who came together at critical junctures in their lives and careers, including actors Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo and fledgling screenwriter Stewart Stern. Even the film's young supporting players -- who portrayed the various gang members -- contributed to the film's authenticity. But more than anyone, it was director Nicholas Ray who continually stoked Rebel's fire.The forty-three-year-old Ray was someone who revered youth, who viewed adolescence as a heightened human state and who refused to relinquish the teenager in himself. He was one of the great dark neurotic geniuses of American film. He raised the bar for emotional nakedness on screen, pushing his juvenile cast to reach ever more precarious heights of film acting. Ray had a dream vision of kids creating a world of their own. And under his direction, Ray's young cast coalesced into one large dysfunctional family, embarking on a journey rife with reckless behavior, deep devotion and betrayal.Rebel Without a Cause is a film of sheer poetic expression that attempts to give shape to the internal feelings of kids alienated from the restrictions and contradictions of the adult world around them. At the time of its release, it frightened many parents with its violence, its upfront sexuality and its relentless desire to imbue teenagers with power -- and glory. But in many ways, the behind-the-scenes story is more provocative than the already provocative film. James Dean stands defiantly at Rebel's center, but the unbridled emotions that were channeled offscreen are the essential source of the film's dynamism and its endless ability to speak to the teenager in all of us.Copyright  2005 by Lawrence Frascella and Al WeiselChapter One: Birth of a RebelIn the early 1950s, director Nicholas Ray was a regular at the classic Saturday night parties thrown by actress Betsy Blair and her husband, Gene Kelly -- the kind of exclusive Hollywood soirees that would find Judy Garland singing at the piano, Leonard Bernstein playing charades or Greta Garbo sitting casually on the edge of the Kellys' kitchen sink. Blair remembers the tall, handsome, seductive Ray with great fondness. ""He was always lively and iconoclastic and full of serious opinions,"" says Blair, who calls him ""a Melville hero"" for the way he chased dream projects and battled against the confines of the studio system. Blair knew Ray to be a compulsive womanizer, gambler and drinker, although ""never a sloppy drunk."" But one night in July 1951, after their weekly party broke up, Blair and Kelly looked out their front window and encountered a bizarre sight.""There was a little slope in front of our house,"" says Blair, ""and I remember Nick leaving and instead of getting into his car, he sank onto the grass, just sort of lying there. I was ready to go out and get him. But Gene said, 'Let's see if he gets up again.' And so we waited, fifteen to twenty minutes. I think Nick was actually planning to lie there all night. Eventually, we did go out and get him."" Like everyone else in Hollywood, the Kellys knew that Ray had just filed for divorce from his second wife, the quintessential film noir blonde, Gloria Grahame, after a stormy three-year marriage, but they had no idea what precipitated the separation. ""We didn't know in the beginning what had happened,"" says Blair, ""just that they were fighting and breaking up and that he was desperate. And then, when I found out, it was hard to believe."" The real story behind the breakup was shocking even by Hollywood standards.Earlier that summer, everything seemed to be going well for Ray. In June 1951, he signed a lucrative contract with RKO Pictures, negotiated by his powerful new agents at MCA, making him RKO head Howard Hughes's right-hand man. That year, with the red-baiting McCarthy hearings getting under way in Washington and the Rosenbergs on trial in New York, having a protector like Hughes gave Ray -- who had a history of leftist affiliations -- a security and stability he rarely felt in his peripatetic career. Hughes kept him busy that summer doing uncredited patch-up work on such potential RKO disasters as The Racket and Josef von Sternberg's Macao.One afternoon late in June, Tony, Ray's thirteen-year-old son from his first marriage to journalist Jean Evans, unexpectedly appeared on the doorstep of the Malibu beach house Ray was renting next door to his close friend, producer John Houseman. On vacation from military school, Tony had made the three-thousand-mile journey from New York all by himself, without telling anyone he was coming. Ray was not home when Tony showed up, so Grahame, who had met Ray's son only once, when he was ten years old, invited him inside. When Ray arrived home later that afternoon, he walked into the bedroom and stumbled on a sight almost too outrageous to believe. He found Grahame and his barely teenage son ""in bed together,"" as Ray described it years later to his friend, writer Gavin Lambert.Nicholas Ray was someone who always allowed himself -- and those around him -- an astounding amount of moral wiggle room. But this level of crisscrossing betrayal was too much to bear. Ray exploded in fury, smashing up the house and flinging Tony out into the street. Then Ray took off, refusing to spend another minute in the house with Grahame. Tony slept that night beneath a neighbor's porch.Ray and Grahame had a famously tempestuous relationship. Ray claimed he married Grahame only because she was pregnant with his second son, Timothy, who was born five and a half months after the wedding. Ray said he spent their Las Vegas wedding night at the craps table, losing almost all his money because he ""didn't want this dame...to have anything of mine."" Their marriage had no chance of surviving the events of that afternoon in June 1951. Immediately, Ray filed for divorce and moved for a time into the Garden of Allah, a hotel once popular with screenwriters and silent-film stars. Seething with rage and paranoia, he forced Tony to make a tape recording detailing what happened, and threatened to make the tape public if Grahame tried to seek a large alimony settlement. In the end, Grahame did not ask for alimony and received only child support for their son Timothy. Ray never played the recording or made any mention in court of what happened that summer afternoon -- which did not stop the story from becoming common knowledge. ""In the circle emanating from Houseman's house we all knew,"" says actor Norman Lloyd, who was a friend of Ray's for many years, dating ...	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & photography;books;genre films;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;industry;movies;performing arts;politics & social sciences;popular culture;social sciences,11
0201896842,"Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms (3rd Edition) Volume 2 of Donald Knuth's classic series The Art of Computer Programming covers seminumerical algorithms, with topics ranging from random number generators to floating point operations and other optimized arithmetic algorithms. Truly comprehensive and meticulously written, this book (and series) is that rarest of all creatures--a work of authoritative scholarship in classical computer science, but one that can be read and used profitably by virtually all working programmers. The book begins with fundamental questions regarding random numbers and how to use algorithms to generate them. Subsequent chapters demonstrate efficient computation of single-precision and double-precision arithmetic calculations and modular arithmetic. The text then presents prime factorization (which can be used in cryptography, for instance) and algorithms for calculating fractions. This volume ends with algorithms for polynomial arithmetic and manipulation of power-series topics, which will benefit those with some knowledge of calculus. Throughout this beautifully presented edition, Knuth incorporates hundreds of useful exercises for trying out the algorithms. These range from simple problems to larger research project topics. (The book provides answers, where appropriate, at the end of the book.) The result is a text that's suitable for college or graduate-level computer science courses or individual study by programmers. Volume 2 is an indispensable part of any working programmer's library.	The bible of all fundamental algorithms and the work that taught many of todays software developers most of what they know about computer programming.  Byte, September 1995  I cant begin to tell you how many pleasurable hours of study and recreation they have afforded me! I have pored over them in cars, restaurants, at work, at home... and even at a Little League game when my son wasnt in the line-up.  Charles Long  If you think youre a really good programmer... read [Knuths] Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.  Bill Gates  Its always a pleasure when a problem is hard enough that you have to get the Knuths off the shelf. I find that merely opening one has a very useful terrorizing effect on computers.  Jonathan Laventhol The second volume offers a complete introduction to the field of seminumerical algorithms, with separate chapters on random numbers and arithmetic. The book summarizes the major paradigms and basic theory of such algorithms, thereby providing a comprehensive interface between computer programming and numerical analysis. Particularly noteworthy in this third edition is Knuths new treatment of random number generators, and his discussion of calculations with formal power series.	Donald E. Knuth is known throughout the world for his pioneering work on algorithms and programming techniques, for his invention of the Tex and Metafont systems for computer typesetting, and for his prolific and influential writing. Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University, he currently devotes full time to the completion of these fascicles and the seven volumes to which they belong.	O dear Ophelia!I am ill at these numbers:I have not art to reckon my groans.Shakespeare, ""Hamlet"", Act II, Scene 2, Line 120  The algorithms discussed in this book deal directly with numbers; yet I believe they are properly called seminumerical, because they lie on theborderline between numeric and symbolic calculation. Each algorithm not onlycomputes the desired answers to a numerical problem, it also is intended toblend well with the internal operations of a digital computer. In many casespeople are not able to appreciate the full beauty of such an algorithm unlessthey also have some knowledge of a computer's machine language; the efficiencyof the corresponding machine program is a vital factor that cannot be divorcedfrom the algorithm itself. The problem is to find the best ways to make computers deal with numbers, and this involves tactical as well as numerical considerations. Therefore the subject matter of this book is unmistakably a part of computer science, as well as of numerical mathematics. Some people working in ""higher levels"" of numerical analysis will regard thetopics treated here as the domain of system programmers. Other people working in""higher levels"" of system programming will regard the topics treated here asthe domain of numerical analysts. But I hope that there are a few people left who will want to look carefully at these basic methods. Although the methods reside perhaps on a low level, they underlie all of the more grandiose applications of computers to numerical problems, so it is important to know them well. We are concerned here with the interface between numerical mathematics and computer programming, and it is the mating of both types of skills that makes the subject so interesting. There is a noticeably higher percentage of mathematical material in this book than in other volumes of this series, because of the nature of the subjects treated. In most cases the necessary mathematical topics are developed here starting almost from scratch (or from results proved in Volume 1), but in several easily recognizable sections a knowledge of calculus has been assumed. This volume comprises Chapters 3 and 4 of the complete series. Chapter 3 isconcerned with ""random numbers"": It is not only a study of various ways togenerate random sequences, it also investigates statistical tests forrandomness, as well as the transformation of uniform random numbers into othertypes of random quantities; the latter subject illustrates how random numbersare used in practice. I have also included a section about the nature ofrandomness itself. Chapter 4 is my attempt to tell the fascinating story ofwhat people have discovered about the processes of arithmetic, after centuriesof progress. It discusses various systems for representing numbers, and how toconvert between them; and it treats arithmetic on floating point numbers,high-precision integers, rational fractions, polynomials, and power series, including the questions of factoring and finding greatest common divisors. Each of Chapters 3 and 4 can be used as the basis of a one-semester collegecourse at the junior to graduate level. Although courses on ""Random Numbers""and on ""Arithmetic"" are not presently a part of many college curricula, Ibelieve the reader will find that the subject matter of these chapters lendsitself nicely to a unified treatment of material that has real educationalvalue. My own experience has been that these courses are a good means ofintroducing elementary probability theory and number theory to collegestudents. Nearly all of the topics usually treated in such introductorycourses arise naturally in connection with applications, and the presence ofthese applications can be an important motivation that helps the student tolearn and to appreciate the theory. Furthermore, each chapter gives a fewhints of more advanced topics that will whet the appetite of many students forfurther mathematical study.For the most part this book is self-contained, except for occasional discussions relating to the MIX computer explained in Volume 1. Appendix B contains a summary of the mathematical notations used, some of which are a little different from those found in traditional mathematics books.Preface to the Third EditionWhen the second edition of this book was completed in 1980, it represented thefirst major test case for prototype systems of electronic publishing calledTeX and METAFONT. I'am now pleased to celebrate the full development of those systems by returning to the book that inspired and shaped them. At last I am able to have all volumes of The Art of Computer Programming in a consistent format that will make them readily adaptable to future changes in printing and display technology. The new setup has allowed me to make many thousands of improvements that I have been wanting to incorporate for a long time.In this new edition I have gone over every word of the text, trying to retainthe youthful exuberance of my original sentences while perhaps adding some moremature judgment. Dozens of new exercises have been added; dozens of old exercises have been given new and improved answers. Changes appear everywhere, but most significantly in Sections 3.5 (about theoretical guarantees of randomness), 3.6(about portable random-number generators), 4.5.2(about the binary gcd algorithm), and 4.7(about composition and iteration of powerseries).  The Art of Computer Programming is, however, still a work in progress. Research on seminumerical algorithms continues to grow at a phenomenal rate. Therefore some parts of this book are headed by an ""under construction"" icon, to apologize for the fact that the material is not up-to-date. My filesare bursting with important material that I plan to include in the final, glorious, fourth edition of Volume 2, perhaps 16 years from now; but I must finish Volumes 4 and 5 first, and I do not want to delay their publication any more than absolutely necessary. I am enormously grateful to the many hundreds of people who have helped me togather and refine this material during the past 35 years. Most of the hard work of preparing the new edition was accomplished by Silvio Levy, who expertly edited the electronic text, and by Jeffrey Oldham, who converted nearly allof the original illustrations to METAPOST format. I have corrected every error that alert readers detected in the second edition (as well as some mistakes that, alas, nobody noticed); and I have tried to avoid introducing new errors in the new material. However, I suppose some defects still remain, and I want to fix them as soon as possible. Therefore I will cheerfully pay $2.56 to the first finder of each technical, typographical, or historical error. The Web page cited on pageiv contains a current listing of all corrections that have been reported to me.D.E.K. Stanford, California July 1997   When a book has been eight years in the making,there are too many colleagues, typists, students,teachers, and friends to thank.Besides, I have no intention of giving such peoplethe usual exoneration from responsibility for errors which remain.They should have corrected me!And sometimes they are even responsible for ideaswhich may turn out in the long run to be wrong.Anyway, to such fellow explorers, my thanks.Edward F. Campbell, Jr. (1975)  `Defendit numerus,' there is safety in numbersis the maxim of the foolish;`Deperdit numerus,' there is ruin in numbersof the wise.C. C. Colton (1820)   0201896842P03062003",algorithms;books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;new;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks,11
0876591683,"Preschool Art: It's the Process, Not the Product! Preschool Art is a lifesaver . . . All the activities are easy, all are fun. . . a real find. -- Sesame Street Parents, Picks for ParentsPreschool Art, by MaryAnn Kohl, offers help to parents of preschoolers struggling to meet the challenge of their children's creative impulses. Prodigies aside, most kids this age aren't interested in the final product; they are into the doing of art.  There is no right or wrong way, only their way. Kohl understands. She explains how to make and use many kinds of art materials based on the concept that the process not the product, is important. From old standbys like play dough to new craft discoveries like liquid crayons and frozen balloons, she provides hundreds of ways to enjoy and explore the creative process.  -- MetroParent, Milwaukee, WisconsinThis is a very organized, thorough assembling of preschool art activities that could be a valuable asset to any preschool teacher as well as individual interested in doing art with young children . . . I can see this book becoming my primary art resource. -- Tot Spot Coordinator, Discovery Center MuseumWe found the book very well put together, easy to use and the instructions complete and easy to follow. . . . -- Youth Museum of Southern West VirginiaYoung children do art for the experience, the exploration and the experimentation. It's a process by which they can discover the world. . . Using materials commonly found in the home, child care or preschool program, children can explore discover and create open-ended art experiences. Best of all, there are no adult-made samples so the imagination of the artist can roam free.  Each activity has up to five icons Age, planning/Preparation, Help, Caution, and author's Favorite which serve as a guide for making the projects more usable and accessible for the artist, caregiver, teacher or parent. -- Family Times	Preschool Art offers over 200 process-oriented art experiences for children ages 3-6.  Using materials commonly found in the home, child care, or preschool program children explore, discover, and create open-ended art experiences.  There are no adult-made samples to copy-only the imagination of the artist and materials at hand.	Award-winning author MaryAnn Kohl has written 14 books for Gryphon House. Her philosophy, Its the process, not the product, guides her writing as she provides open-ended art activities for young children. MaryAnns activities focus on the experience of art, not the final product a child creates.",arts & photography;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;early childhood education;education & reference;hobbies & home;instruction methods;parenting;parenting & relationships;schools & teaching,11
1892975475,"Eating and Drinking in Paris: French Menu Reader and Restaurant Guide (The What Kind of Food Am I? series) ""Two guys from Milwaukee are opening up the world of good eating with their innovative paperback series."" -- Salt Lake Tribune""a charming and whimsical guide."" -- Chicago Tribune""an elegant, small guide."" -- Minneapolis Star Tribune""inveterate travelers who know their cervelle (brains) from cervelle de canut (herbed cheese spread)..."" -- USA Today	Eating & Drinking in Paris includes: A great (and down-to-earth) restaurant guide The most comprehensive menu reader available Advice on restaurant etiquette A short French pronunciation guide and opinions on everything from what to eat to where to order it.	Even if you speak French fluently, we'll bet you a place of racasse with a side of pourpier that you'll still need a guide. There are always strange and unusual items on a menu. With this guide tucked inconspicuously in your pocket, you'll know where to dine in Paris and boldly go where you once feared to enter.",books;dining;education & reference;europe;food;france;general;lodging & transportation;paris;reference;travel,11
1840184698,"Scottish Exodus: Travels Among a Worldwide Clan ""Recommended."" Choice""Extraordinary . . . no book has gone to these lengths to unpick so many human elements of the Scottish diaspora."" The Herald	James Hunter is the author of a number of books on Scottish history including Culloden and the Last Clansman; Glencoe and the Indians; Last of the Free; and A Dance Called America.",anthropology;books;cultural;demography;emigration & immigration;england;europe;history;politics & social sciences;scotland;social sciences,11
0194311872,"Basic English Usage Michael Swan is a writer specializing in English language teaching and reference materials. His interests include pedagogic grammar, mother-tongue influence in second language acquisition, and the relationship between applied linguistic theory and classroom language-teaching practice, and he  has published a number of articles on these topics. Michael has had extensive experience with adult learners and has worked with teachers in many countries. He is a Visiting Professor at St Mary's College, University of Surrey.",books;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;grammar;language & grammar;new;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,11
0375406360,"Houdini's Box: The Art of Escape ""We cannot describe ourselves without also describing what we need to escape from, and what we believe we need to escape to,"" argues psychoanalyst Phillips (Promises, Promises; On Monogamy; etc.). He explores literature and mythology from Adam and Eve to Icarus to Emily Dickinson for allegories of escape, but dubs Houdini, the great escape artist, as ""the modern role model,"" for having transformed escape into mass entertainment. Phillips interweaves his meditations on these lofty characters with therapy-couch snippets from a rather annoying patient of his, who never knows what he wants until he escapes from it. Escape, Phillips suggests, is the life project of those contemporary Houdinis, ""the neurotics, and their more fervent risk takers, the perverts."" But unlike Houdini, they are ""driven by a daunting misapprehension. They don't realize that we don't always flee from something because it is unacceptable; sometimes it is unacceptable to us because we flee it."" Although Phillips writes elegantly, and is capable of provocative analytic insights, he sometimes lapses into banal aphorisms or puzzling digressions. This isn't an account of Houdini's career or the details of his tricks so much as a catalogue of the showman's obsessions. Phillips follows up pronouncements like ""Houdini was to escapism what pornography is to sex"" with discourses on how porn averts the ""death of desire."" At one point Phillips tells his patient, ""I don't know if you've changed the subject or not""; it's a confusion readers may also share. Agent, Kimberly Witherspoon. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Psychotherapist Phillips explores the concept of escapism in a piquant two-pronged inquiry in which he combines case histories with a vigorous analysis of the master of escapism, Harry Houdini. Phillips believes that the urge to escape is ""often linked to a sense of failure,"" an insight that he applies both to his fresh consideration of Houdini's performances and to his patients, who employ various forms of escape ranging from reading to engaging in sexual fantasies. Arguing that understanding what a person is escaping from is just as crucial as analyzing what they're escaping to, Phillips discusses how avoidance and desire interact to define the self. Noting that Houdini called himself a ""self-liberator,"" Phillips marvels over Houdini's obsession with confinement, strange parodies of madness, the curiously overlooked sexuality, and the ""uncanny symbolic resonance"" of his over-the-top performances, and how he intuitively tapped into the fears and longings, ambitions and mania of his time. So compelling is Phillips' take on Houdini that the more muted patient portraits pale in comparison. Donna SeamanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Adam Phillips does not seek to pin his escape artists down.  He offers no glib analysis, but compassionate insight instead.  It sounds simple, yet this is a rare achievementas remarkable a piece of tightrope walking as Houdini ever performed himself. Daily TelegraphHoudinis Box purports to explore a discrete subject, but is really a guide to life. Like Phillipss previous meditations, it provokes without foreclosing. Escape, we learn, is both a symptom and an end in itself. It is impossiblesince death and the past are ineluctableand exhilarating. The Economist	In this uniquely brilliant and insightful book, acclaimed essayist and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips meditates on the notion of escape in our society and in ourselves.No one can escape the desire and need to escape. By analyzing four examples of escape artists?a young girl who hides from others by closing her eyes; a grown man incapable of a relationship; Emily Dickinson, recluse extraordinaire; and Harry Houdini, the quintessential master of escape?Phillips enables readers to identify the escape artists lurking within themselves. Lucid, erudite, and audacious, Houdini's Box is another scintillating and seminal work by one of the world's most dazzlingly original thinkers.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Adam Phillips does not seek to pin his escape artists down.  He offers no glib analysis, but compassionate insight instead.  It sounds simple, yet this is a rare achievementas remarkable a piece of tightrope walking as Houdini ever performed himself. Daily TelegraphHoudinis Box purports to explore a discrete subject, but is really a guide to life. Like Phillipss previous meditations, it provokes without foreclosing. Escape, we learn, is both a symptom and an end in itself. It is impossiblesince death and the past are ineluctableand exhilarating. The Economist	Adam Phillips is the author of Winnicott; On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored; On Flirtation; Terrors and Experts; Monogamy; The Beast in the Nursery; Darwins Worms; and Promises, Promises. Formerly the principal child psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, he lives in England.	Chapter OneA five-year-old girl comes into my room ready to play another round of her favorite game, hide-and-seek, a game she has been playing with me twice a week for several months. It is the way, down to the smallest detail, we always begin our time together. In the room there is an armchair, a table, and a chair. She stands in the middle of the room, closes her eyes, and says, ?Start looking.?I have watched her, as usual, walk into the room and simply close her eyes. But in her mind she is now hiding. And quite quickly getting impatient.?Look!? she says. ?Start looking!? Of course I am looking?what else could I be doing??but I don?t seem to be playing the game. It occurs to me, for once, that perhaps I should close my eyes, which I do. And then she says a bit crossly, ?OK, I?ll give you a clue. I?m not behind the chair.?I say to her, not too plaintively, ?How will I ever find you???Just keep looking,? she says blithely, clearly wanting to be helpful. Then, a bit more frantic, a bit more Alice in Wonderland, ?I can?t escape, I can?t escape . . . I must be here somewhere.??No one can look everywhere,? I say.?We can?t escape, we?re doing that,? she replies thoughtfully, as though this was the most sensible, least histrionic of acknowledgments.She waits, eyes squeezed shut, while I keep failing to do what it looks like I?ve already done. So what I have found?indeed can?t help seeing: her in the middle of the room, hiding?is obviously not what she wants me to look for.?Will it be dangeroos when I find you?? I ask. (Her mother would read the sign at the zoo as ?Do not feed these animals, they are dangeroos,? so ?dangeroos? is her word for it.)?You?ll die,? she replies. Then there?s a pause, and she says in her most world-weary voice, ?I give up.? It is as if the rehearsal is over, and we can now resume, after another failed attempt at something, our ordinary life in the room.There is a drama, a tableau that she has to show me, that we are both trapped in. This is what we have to take for granted, she seems to be saying, this is what we need to do together, to get things started. And the sign of our entrapment is that she never changes; whatever I say, her lines are always the same. So what I say?even though it is as different as I can make it each time, even though I rack my brains for what she wants to hear?seems equally repetitious. I am her desperate improviser, trying to spring her. I will only know if I am someone else to her if she wants to change her tune. But in this strange duet for one the hide-and-seek is like a dream game, secluded away; a play within a play that we both briefly enact and watch, and then give up on. She rarely refers to it afterwards, and I refer to it as much as I can, trying to fit it in or link it with the rest of her life. But because there is no conversation about it, because it is at once open and unopened, it is, to all intents and purposes, an unspoken thing between us.I thought sometimes that there was a note of triumphant relief in her apparent dismay inside the game. She wants me to find her, but she warns me that I will suffer if I do; or she fears that no one really wants to find her because they wouldn?t be able to bear the consequences. Either she is practicing her privacy or there is a solitude she feels imprisoned by. The girl standing in the middle of the room with her eyes closed sometimes seems to be parading her safety, and sometimes alerting us to a terror (people often feel most alive while they are escaping, most paralyzed before and after). But either way, what is most striking about the game, when we are playing it, is that I can?t escape from looking for her, and she can?t escape from hiding. There is nowhere else for either of us to go.This girl has been referred to me for what is called, in the strange language of what is called Social Services, ?query child sexual abuse,? and truanting from home and school. So the voices of my (psychoanalytic) education provide me with a serviceable understanding of this apparently split-off game. There is something eerie about her ability to remember her lines?her knack of keeping them identical, whatever I say?but this too might be a way of managing a bewildering invasion (the violent imposition of another?s desire making her mechanical). The game might literally repeat her experience: the impossibility of being able to hide, and the wish for a magical solution to this?all you have to do is close your eyes. If I do find her she fears that I will do something terrible to her?but the terror of waiting seems more unbearable than the terror of the event?or that she might do something to me. So I might think of myself as finding words for her fears, voicing what there might be to escape from, and one way or another providing reassurances about safety. But both she and I, in her ?game? and my practice, are telling each other stories about safety and danger. Indeed, what else could there be to talk about? Whether or not fear is our founding passion, we are haunted by a picture of ourselves in flight, on the run. Whether we are getting away from something or getting away with something; as Icarus or Oedipus or Narcissus, as victims or tyrants, we cannot describe ourselves without also describing what we need to escape from, and what we believe we need to escape to.When children play hide-and-seek?or when adults are knowingly or unknowingly elusive with each other, playing at repulsion and enticement?what is being played with is the fear (and the wish) of never being found. When the game goes on too long the child who is hiding always helps the seeker out. No one must disappear for too long, no one must get too far away. And the odd moment of being found is the end of the game. But if playing hide-and-seek is one of our emblematic games?at once testing the appetite of the seeker and the resolve of the one who hides?it is also a game haunted by the possibility of escape, of being able to escape the intention, the desire of another (chosen) person. Every successful game of hide-and-seek?and one way or another, barring tragedy, it is always successful?reassures the players that no one can escape, that there is nowhere else to escape to. The transgression is to disappear, to find a place where no one keeps an eye on you. The puzzle of hide-and-seek?its absurd drama of conflicting wishes, in which to be found is to lose the game, and not being found has to be got just right?becomes a blueprint for the dilemma of the erotic, of whether we want our sexuality to intensify our self-consciousness or release us from it. In her game the little girl is convinced that neither of us can escape, that what we are doing is not escaping; that the adult is as confined as she is. What they (we) share is being trapped in something together, which might be called need or sexuality, or the wish for certain kinds of recognition and reassurance.When I first discussed this game with her parents, they told me that when she played hide-and-seek with her friends, ?she often goes so far away that she?s not really playing the game anymore.? This had made her friends very scared at first, but eventually they got used to it and ?didn?t waste much time on her. . . . They don?t bother.? Beyond a certain point, after an uncertain amount of time, she has changed the game (and it is worth wondering what this particular kind of arranged solitude releases her into). And the impatience of her parents and her friends?verging on indifference, as impatience always does?seems to be an essential part of her drama, a message carefully though unconsciously sent, a reminder of the frustration that is afoot here. She makes everyone so impatient with her that they are quite unable to think exactly what it is that they are impatient for. Her not playing the game properly is not seen by her friends as a fascinating innovation; from their point of view she contributes nothing. But what do they want from her? What is assumed not to be working properly here, or indeed, in her? Like all so-called symptoms her truancy stages a dilemma for everyone involved with her. She creates a conflict inside them that they dispose of as blame and accusation. When she gets away?when the school, her friends, or her parents give up on her, that is, do the opposite of invade her?who is disappointing whom? Her behavior conjures up in people something they want to get rid of. It is not clear, when her friends just stop looking for her, who is fleeing from whom (or from what). To escape?or, of course, to be unable to escape?is often linked to a sense of failure.Because it is apparently the preferred life one is escaping to, our fears are the key to our ideals. What we want is born of what we want to get away from. ?She?s a right little Houdini,? her father told me, ?she can?t wait for anything.?",books;fitness & dieting;health;interpersonal relations;mysticism;new age;psychoanalysis;psychology & counseling;relationships;religion & spirituality;self-help,11
0935015930,"Analysis of Derivatives for the CFA Program Don M. Chance, CFA, holds the William H. Wright,  Jr. Endowed Chair for Financial Services at Louisiana State  University.  He earned his CFA charter in 1986 and has served as a  consultant and advisor to AIMR in many capacities, including  authorship of monographs on managed futures and real options.  He has  spoken at many conferences of AIMR and other organizations.  He is the  author of the university text An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk  Management, 6th edition (2003), Essays in Derivatives (1998), and many  academic and practitioner articles.  He has extensive experience as a  consultant and an instructor in professional training programs.  Professor Chance is widely quoted in the local, regional, and national  media on matters related to derivatives, risk management, and  financial markets in general.  He was formerly First Union Professor  of Financial Risk Management at Virginia Tech, where he founded its  student-managed investment fund.  He holds a Ph.D. in finance from  Louisiana State University.",books;business & finance;business & investing;education & reference;investing;investments & securities;new;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,11
0764309307,"The Collector's Guide to Vintage Cigarette Packs (A Schiffer Book for Collectors) Although their collection numbers over 9,000 packs, Joe Giesenhagen and his wife JoAnn are still traveling the U.S. collecting cigarette packs and information. In a year or two they plan on retiring and opening up a cigarette pack museum outside of Clinton, Missouri.",antiques & collectibles;arts & photography;books;crafts;engineering;graphic design;hobbies & home;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;professional & technical;techniques,11
0345441451,"Warrior Queen: The Totally Unauthorized Story of Joanie Laurer LADIES FIRST--OR ELSE!With her body of death, quick-fire moves, and show-no-mercy attitude, Joanie Laurer, also known as ""Chyna,"" has definitely earned her nickname: The Ninth Wonder of the World. Not content to play with the girls, Joanie has belted her way into the men's division where she more than holds her own--while knocking countless guys to the mat. Raw and riveting, this is the incredible story of Joanie Laurer's awesome climb to the pinnacle of a sport she's made her own.NINTH WONDER OF THE WORLDThey never know what hit 'em	Scott Edelman is the founding editor of Rampage, a glossy, full-color, national magazine devoted to the ups and downs of the professional wrestling world. He has also edited Sci Fi, the official magazine of the Sci Fi Channel, since 1996, and the award-winning short-story magazine Science Fiction Age since 1992.Over a twenty-five-year career, he has written for both Marvel and DC Comics, Hanna-Barbera, the syndicated TV show Tales from the Darkside, The Washington Post, and others.",arts & literature;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;entertainers;humor & entertainment;individual sports;specific groups;sports & outdoors;women;wrestling,11
0805062688,"The Circus Lunicus Singer (Deal with a Ghost) serves up an energetic but predictable male Cinderella story, with a supernatural twist. Ever since his mother's supposed death, 11-year-old Solomon Yanish has lived with his hard-edged stepmother, ""Old Staircase,"" and his two stepbrothers, Jason and Mason. Old Staircase makes Solly do all the chores and rewards her lazy, bullying biological children with expensive gifts. His father, perpetually away on business, doesn't seem to care. But when the mysterious Circus Lunicus comes to town after a six-year absence, and Solly's toy lizard begins to grow to enormous proportions, Solly begins to suspect the truth: his mother was involved with the circus in mysterious ways. Freeble Komodeeble, once a lizard toy but now his fairy godmother, teaches Solly ""Lizardry"" and tells him secrets in a made-up dialect. For example, after transforming the malevolent stepbrothers into Solly's doting servants, she quips, ""Just a weeble switchereeble."" The climactic scene is utter mayhemDSolly himself calls it ""bedlam""Dwith plot elements that are more over the top than Big Top. The strange activities of the circus will intrigue fantasy fansDeven if they can guess the plot's resolution. Ages 10-up. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Grade 4-6-Solly Yanish's dad is off again on yet another long, slightly mysterious business trip, leaving the boy at the mercy of his stepmother and two disagreeable stepbrothers. The only good thing to look forward to is the return of the magical Circus Lunicus. Just when it appears that he won't be able to go because of his many chores, a fairy lizard arrives-sounds like a fractured Cinderella, except that his mother is not dead as he had been told, but is the half-alien and half-human daughter of the circus Ringmaster. The opening chapters are charming, with references to the circus, mysterious developments, and a refreshingly multifaceted stepmother. Solly is a likable lad, and his stepbrothers have a few interesting quirks. As Freeble, the fairy lizard, begins to grow, the plot takes a turn downward. The creature's language, basically English with an ""eeble"" added to the end of many words, grows tiresome and the pacing becomes rather frantic with alien alligators and a convoluted conclusion. This offbeat novel should appeal to graduates of Jon Scieszka's ""Time Warp Trio"" tales (Viking). An even stronger humorous alien romp is Daniel Pinkwater's Lizard Music (Dell, 1996).Marilyn Payne Phillips, University City Public Library, MO Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Gr. 3-6. Poor Solly Yanish. His father is away on an extended business trip and may never come home; his awful stepbrothers, Jason and Mason, delight in making his life miserable; and he's had a falling out with his best friend, Reuben. Now his evil stepmother, Casey, whom he calls ""Old Staircase,"" has forbidden him to go to the Circus Lunicus. Things go from bad to downright weird, when the 11-year-old disobeys and sneaks off to the big top anyway, where he encounters a sinister, slow-talking ringmaster, a weeping little girl who looks strangely like his mother (who died when he was five), some singing alligators, and a green fairy godmother. This loony, fast-paced mystery-fantasy, which doubles as a severely fractured reimagining of ""Cinderella,"" is full of surprises and clever plot twists, and it's as much fun as a three-ring circus. Michael CartCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Marilyn Singer  is the award-winning author of more than seventy books for young readers, including Deal with a Ghost, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award and A Dog's Gotta Do What a Dog's Gotta Do. She lives with her husband, three cats, two doves, a starling, and a standard poodle in Brooklyn, New York.",arts;books;children's books;crafts & music;family life;fantasy & magic;literature & fiction;parents;performing arts;science fiction & fantasy;social situations,11
0840777302,"In Search of the Heart ""...a book that is clearly the fruit of a life lived with a deep care for people.""  -- Henri Nouwen""Your book brought me into recovery after a 30 year search."" -- Reader's commentsHe helps us step out of the sea of information that floods us about abuse and become personal... -- Truman G. Esau, M.D., Lake Luzerne, New York When did you last hear someone exhort you to become a missionary to your own heart?  -- Jeff Crosby of Logos of Bloomington	Trained in medicine at St. Andrew's University, Scotland, Dr. Allen specialized in psychiatry and public health at Harvard University.  He taught psychiatry and religion at Yale University and is presently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown Medical School.  In 1987, Dr. Allen was awarded the Bennet Commonwealth Prize by the Royal Society of Arts in London for his pioneering work in cocaine addiction.  Dr. Allen is the author of several other books and is the founder and Medical Director of The Renascence Clinics in Arlington, Virginia and Nassau, Bahamas.	""Anger is temporary; hate is permanent, fed by our destructive anger. I had seen that kind of hate a few years earlier when I visited prisoners on death row.  ""Allen, what are you doing here? What do you have to say to us?  We are going to die in two weeks.""  I was glad the thick bars were between us.  He had echoed my own fears.  ""Well, I'm not sure what I can say to you,"" I admitted.  ""Maybe you have something to say to me.""  I walked toward his cell sheepishly.  He told me something I will never forget.  He said, ""I want you to tell people after I'm dead that they better learn how to handle anger."" ""Let them know, Allen, the same anger they feel every day is the anger that makes us kill each other.  One Sunday morning my brother made me angry, and the next thing I knew a jackknife was down his chest and he was dead."" Anger kills.  Anger is the most destructive emotion.  Often people let their emotions--or someone else's--control who they are and how they feel.  You can't fix anything until you understand the deep-seated nature of the problem--in this case, anger--and identify its source.  In your emotional life, awareness leads to healing.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;devotionals;emotions;fitness & dieting;health;inspirational;mental health;religion & spirituality;spirituality,11
184176230X,"Second Manassas 1862: Robert E Lee's greatest victory (Campaign) Highly visual guides to history's greatest conflicts, detailing the command strategies, tactics, and experiences of the opposing forces throughout each campaign, and concluding with a guide to the battlefields today.	John P. Langellier received his bachelor's and master's degrees in History from the University of San Diego and his Ph.D. in Military History from Kansas State University. He is the author of numerous books and monographs, including Warrior 31 Union Infantryman 1861-65 and Men-at-Arms 281 US Dragoons 1833-55.",19th century;americas;books;bull run;campaigns & battlefields;civil war;history;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);united states;world,11
1558683127,"Golden Dream: California from Gold Rush to Stateho Drager's work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers, and he also writes a column or The Sacremento Bee.",americas;arts & photography;books;catalogues & exhibitions;collections;history;photo essays;photography;state & local;travel;united states,11
1579121551,Photo OOPS: 101 Photo Opportunities Gone Horribly Awry Hal Buell was head of the Associated Press Photography Service for 25 years and is the author of Moments: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs.,arts & photography;books;cats;dogs & animals;humor;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;photography;political;satire;united states,11
0716777339,"How Children Develop & Scientific American Reader to Accompany How Children Develop ROBERT S. SIEGLER, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. - JUDY S. DELOACHE, University of Virginia, USA. - NANCY EISENBERG, Arizona State University, USA.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;child psychology;developmental psychology;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
B000FO522W,"Monitoring and Managing Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server (HP Technologies) Best practices and innovative everyday techniques for running the new version of Exchange Server for Windows 2000. This authoritative book teaches IT professionals responsible for Exchange messaging systems how to efficiently manage the program's many and complex system capabilities and features. Once you've designed and implemented a messaging system, the bulk of the day-to-day work involves monitoring to ensure an optimum traffic flow, accomplished by continuously reviewing and fine-tuning dozens of system specifications and components. Monitoring and Managing Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server teaches readers proven and innovative techniques, tools, and procedures for managing and optimizing systems of all sizes and types built on the forthcoming Exchange 2000 Server. Based on the author's own twenty years of messaging system experience and the collective experience of Compaq, the leading implementer of Exchange Server systems, this book will be a leading resource for Exchange administrators and designers.                                        Part of Digital Press's Exchange Server Cluster, complements Redmond bookCrucial topic and large audience - a book for ""everyday administrators""Author is one of Compaq's experts on implementing and managing Exchange Server	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Best practices and innovative everyday techniques for running the new version of Exchange Server for Windows 2000. This authoritative book teaches IT professionals responsible for Exchange messaging systems how to efficiently manage the program's many and complex system capabilities and features. Once you've designed and implemented a messaging system, the bulk of the day-to-day work involves monitoring to ensure an optimum traffic flow, accomplished by continuously reviewing and fine-tuning dozens of system specifications and components. Monitoring and Managing Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server teaches readers proven and innovative techniques, tools, and procedures for managing and optimizing systems of all sizes and types built on the forthcoming Exchange 2000 Server. Based on the author's own twenty years of messaging system experience and the collective experience of Compaq, the leading implementer of Exchange Server systems, this book will be a leading resource for Exchange administrators and designers.                                        Part of Digital Press's Exchange Server Cluster, complements Redmond bookCrucial topic and large audience - a book for ""everyday administrators""Author is one of Compaq's experts on implementing and managing Exchange Server	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;electrical & electronics;engineering;home computing & how-to;microsoft;networking;networks;professional & technical;protocols & apis,11
0804831793,"Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death The Fourth Day by Aki-no-bo No Sign by Aki-no-bo Lightning Flickers by Amano Hachiro Running Shallow by Arimaru Flowers Of The Grass: by Asei Earth And Metal... by Atsujin People, When You See The Smoke, by Baika Plum Petals Falling by Baiko Now Spring Has Come by Bainen O Hydrangea- by Bairyu Island Of Eternity: by Baisei The Journey West, by Baiseki Looking Back At The Valley: by Bako Looking Back At The Valley: by Bako The Longest Winter Night: by Bankoku Farewell- by Banzan Look Straight Ahead. What's There? by Bassui Tokousho Child Of The Way, by Benseki Cuckoo, I Too by Bokukei A Parting Word? by Bokusui A Swollen Bottle Gourd by Botange Shohaku Yesterday, It Was Hibiscus by Botange Shohaku Oh, I Don't Care by Bufu I Crossed From Last by Bunzan The Running Stream by Chiboku Butterflies In Flight: by Chikuro It Lights Up by Chine Feast Of The Dead- by Chiri First Crops: by Chiri In Earth And Sky by Chirin A Fawn Frolics by Chiyo Ni I Saw The Moon As Well by Chiyoni I Long For People- by Chogo A Raging Sea by Choha This Final Scene I'l Not See by Choko Paradise, by Chora Leaves Never Fall by Chori On The Way West by Choshi I Wait, White Clouds by Chosui This Is One Poem by Chowa My Seventy Years-a Withered by Daibai You Cannot Tell by Daibai A Tune Of Non-being by Daido Ichi'i Needles Pierce My Ailing Body, And Pain Grows by Daigu Sochiku My Whole Life Long I've Sharpened My Sword by Dairin Soto Cargoless, by Dohaku Here In The Shadow Of Death It Is Hard by Dokyo Etan Lotus Seed In Ten by Donsui In All My Six And Fifty Years by Doyu All My Life I Taught Zen To The People- by Enni Ben'en Autumn Waters by Enryo A Parting Gift To My Body: by Ensei Autumn Gust: by Ensetsu Many Things Befell Me A S I Followed Buddha by Ensetsu All Moving Things by Enshi My Companion In The Skies by Fufu Rise, Let Us Go- by Fujo Empty Cicada Shell: by Fukaku A Bright And Pleasant by Fukyu Today, Then, Is The Day by Fusen Upon The Lotus Flower by Fuso The Earth Is Fragrant by Fuwa One Spot, Alone by Gaki Blow If You Will, by Gansan I Lean Against by Gazen Morning Glory by Gengen'ichi A Graveyard: by Gensho Inhale, Exhale by Gesshu Soko Stumble, by Getsurei Illness Lingers On And On by Gimei I Leap From Depths by Ginka See- by Ginko Clear Sky- by Gitoku All Doctrines Split Asunder by Giun I Was Born Into This World by Gizan Zenrai This Is What I Think: by Gochu Chrysanthemums Were Yellow by Godo I Have Not Yet Grown Weary by Gofu A Lone Paulownia Leaf by Gohei The Second Month: by Gohei Fields Dying Off: by Gokei The Truth Embodied In The Buddhas by Goku Kyonen Spring Will Meet This Year by Gosen Returning Thanks by Goshi Disgusted With by Goshu A Cuckoo Cries by Goshuku Blossoms Scent The Air by Gozan The Snow Of Yesterday by Gozan I Wonder Where by Hakuen What Is It But A Dream? by Hakuen My Heart Serene, by Hakujubo Pampas Grass, All Dry by Hakukin To A Melody Of Prayer by Hakuni Well, Then, Let's Follow by Hakurin An Ailing Mallard by Hakuro Farewell-and Though There Be by Hakusai Oh, Morning Glory, by Hakusen At Peace, by Hakusetsu Deutzia Blossoms: by Hakuto Man's End, by Hamei In Stillness, I, by Hamon The Year Is Ending: by Hankai My Life: by Hanri Quick Sounds by Hogyoku Now As A Spirit by Hokusai Gone Up In Flames- by Hokushi I Write, Erase, Rewrite, by Hokushi O Sacred Spirit by Hokuso Mountain Temple: by Horoku Coming, All Is Clear, No Doubt About It. by Hosshin Encased By Winter: by Hou Praise To The Skies: by Hoyu Late-blooming Cherry: by Hyakka Winter Ice by Hyakka When I Die by Hyakuri A Broken Dream- by Ichimu What Do You Understand? by Ichishi In All The Kingdom Southward by Ikkyu Sojun Three And Seventy Years by Ingo I Give My Name Back by Inseki Falling In The Wind by Ippu Though I Tarry On The Road by Isaibo The Autumn Hues by Isan For Not Honoring My Parents by Isan From Deep In My Heart by Issho Cut Your Price! by Isso Cuckoo, by Jakua This Year I Want by Jakura Family Whispers by Jikko Leaves Of Words: by Jomei This Must Be by Joseki Second Month: by Jowa A Back-yard Chrysanthemum by Kaen If I Must Die by Kafu Nights Grow Short: by Kafu Barren Branches: by Kagai Strange-like Messengers by Kaiga Round A Flame by Kaikai Evening Cherry-blossoms: by Kaisho A Chill: by Kanga It Is Indeed Like That- by Kangyu Autumn Breeze: by Kanna Although The Autumn Moon by Kanshu Why Should I Hesitate? by Karai How Sad: Cherry Blossoms by Kari The Ash I Leave Behind by Kasei Depths Of Cold by Kasenjo Cicada Of The Light by Kasenni A Drop Of Water Freezes Instantly- by Kaso Sodon Summer by Kassan The Moon Departs: by Kato Bound Homeward Under by Keido The Cuckoo's Voice by Keido Border Of The Realm, by Keizan The Melting Snows: by Kenju My Old Body: by Kiba My One Wish by Kibai Cutting A Swath by Kifu Seventy-one! by Kigen That Which Blossoms by Kiko Today Is The Day by Kimpo One Gulp, by Kimpu The Autumn Flowers by Kin'ei How Leisurely The Cherry by Kin'u Within The Vast And Empty by Kinko Ninth-month Moon: by Kisei Since I Was Born by Kisei Evening: by Kiyu Clouds Drifting Off: by Kizan When I Am Gone by Kizan (1787-1851) From One Basin by Kobayashi Issa What Matter If I Live On- by Kobayashi Issa My Final Words Are These: by Kogaku Soko Katsu! by Kogetsu Sogan I Cast The Brush Aside- by Koha To Depart While Seated Or Standing Is All One. by Koho Kennichi And If I Do by Koju For Over Sixty Years by Kokei Sochin Farewell, Sire- by Konishi Raizan Raizan Had Died by Konishi Raizan This Stone Made Ready For My Tomb by Konkan When I Leave The World by Konkan The Joy Of Dewdrops by Koraku Autumn Ends: by Kosai Poor Kosai- by Kosai Three Years: by Kosai Swear To Me, Pine, by Koseki I Die by Koson If I Must Die by Koyo How Sublime- by Kozan Empty-handed I Entered The World by Kozan Ichikyo My Morning Porridge, by Kusamaru A Last Fart: by Kyo'on I Am Not Worthy by Kyohaku When You Contemplate The Waters by Kyokusai A Journey Of No Return: by Kyoshu In Heavy Snow by Kyutaro Tender Winds Above The Snow by Kyutaro Moon In A Barrel: by Mabutsu The Snowman's Eyes by Mabutsu Now That My Storehouse by Masahide While I Walk On by Masahide I Draw The Willow by Masumi Kato The Path To Paradise by Masumi Kato The Surface by Masumi Kato An Ailing Mallard by Matsuo Munefusa Airing Out The Robe by Matsuo Munefusa On A Journey, Ill: by Matsuo Munefusa My Only Hope Against by Meisetsu Today I Put On Summer by Michikaze Fall, Plum Petals, by Minteisengan The Foam On The Last Water by Mitoku I Constantly Aspire by Mokudo Clouds Breaking Up, by Momen Today by Moritake The Drone Of The Mosquitoes by Motojo Sadly I See by Mukai Kyorai Life Is An Ever-rolling Wheel by Mumon Gensen When It Comes-just So! by Musho Josho Thus Have I Rolled My Life Throughout by Muso Soseki At The Crossroad by Nakamichi Ice In A Hot World: by Nakamichi In Fall by Namagusa Tazukuri To Hell With The Wind by Nampo Jomyo Since Time Began by Nandai Over The Fields Of by Okano Kin'emon Kanehide This Phantasm by Okyo What A Lark! by Osen At Night My Sleep by Oto O White Chrysanthemum- by Otsuchi Hidden Among The Roots by Otsuin Still Tied To The World, by Ozui My Body In Its Autumn: by Ra-in I Take Leave by Rairai You've Done Your Duty by Raishi For A Moment There by Rando I Wish To Die by Rangai Thirty Years And More by Rankei Doryu Each Day The Absent Grow by Ranseki This Last Night Of Nights by Ranseki One Leaf Lets Go, And by Ransetsu Let Them Bloom Or by Rekisen I Cleansed The Mirror by Renseki The Night I Understood by Retsuzan All Freezes Again- by Riei I'm Happy Through And Through by Rifu A Water Bird, Asleep, by Robun Is It Only Me? by Rochu On The Ground by Rogan The Times Are Torn Asunder- by Rogen Evening Shadows Steal by Roka I Wake Up by Rokushi Sweep Away by Rosen Time To Go... by Roshu Now It Reveals Its Hidden Side by Ryokan Is Man A by Ryosa I Understand: by Ryoto Till Now by Ryoto A Plover Rises by Ryou The New Year by Ryu'u Now I Understand How by Ryuho Brittle Pampas Grass- by Ryusai Man Is Buddha- by Ryushi I Shift My Pillow by Saiba I Borrow Moonlight by Saikaku In This Delusive World by Saikaku I'll Cross The Ridge by Saimaro Dawn Breaks by Saimu How Sad... by Sakyoku Cherry Blossoms Fall by Saruo Joy Of Living, by Seigan Soi Not Even For A Moment by Seiju Water Veins by Seiju Boarding The Boat by Seira My Body, Useless by Seisa My Hour Draws Near And I Am Sill Alive, by Seisetsu Shucho Rain Clouds Clear Away: by Seishu Deep In The Underbrush by Sempo I Cup My Ears by Senchojo He Who Comes Knows Only His Coming by Sengai Gibbon Somehow Or Other by Senkei Bitter Winds Of Winter- by Senryu Like Dewdrops by Senryu A Willow Tree In Fall: by Senryu At Long Last I Am Leaving: by Senseki Like Ice In Storage by Sentoku Now Then, by Setsudo Reality Is Flowerlike: by Shagai I Have Gone Through by Sharyu Hold On!- by Shayo Returning As It Came, by Shidoken Of Such A Time As This by Shiei Farewell To Blessed Be by Shigan A Willow Branch by Shigenobu To Grass It Comes by Shikaku A Barrelful Of Phlegm- by Shiki The Loofah Blooms And by Shiki Loofah Water by Shiki A Cricket, Crying, by Shiko I Vanish- by Shiko Feast Of The Dead: by Shinga Fickle Winter Shower: by Shinseki And Won't There Be by Shiyo Snow On The Pines by Shiyo Surely There's A Teahouse by Shiyo Willingly by Shizan One Moon- by Shofu Autumn Ends: by Shogetsu Today The Sky Above Mount Hiei, Too, by Shogo O Morning Glory- by Shohi My Shame In This World by Shokei Chilling Cold: by Shoku'u Pampas Grass, Now Dry, by Shoro Flowers Bloomed Yesterday, by Shoshun The Fall Of Leaves by Shozan Cicada Shell: by Shuho Is It Me The Raven Calls by Shukabo Above The Fence by Shukyo The Winter Fowl by Shumpan My Sword Leans Against The Sky. by Shumpo Soki No Single Bone In My Body Is Holy- by Shumpo Soki Adrift Between The Earth And Sky by Shun'oku Soen I Wake And Find by Shushiki Frost On S Summer Day: by Shutei Walking Westward, by So'oku Whether Or Not A Paradise by Soa Full Autumn Moon: by Sodo Festival Of Souls: by Sofu Empty Are by Sohoku This Winter by Sohoku The Road I Take by Sokin Like Full, Plump by Soko Shadows From A Lingering Sun by Soko A Green Gourd by Somaru Skies At Dawn- by Sonome Autumn Winds: by Soryu Lotus Seeds by Sosen The Years Have Piled Up by Sugetsu By The Fifth Month by Suikoku Spitting Blood by Sunao This Frosty Month by Tadatomo I Raise The Mirror Of My Life by Taigen Sofu The Deutzia Has Bloomed- by Taikyo Flowers Bloom A Score Of Days- by Tairyu Brittle Autumn Leaves by Takao When Summoned, by Takuchi Soon I Shall Hear by Takuro Cool- by Tamanari A Lone Monk by Tamashichi Such Is The World's Way: by Tanehiko The First Snow by Tanko For Eight And Fifty Years by Tanko Life-cutting Axe: by Tanko The Moon Leaks Out by Tanko Today Too, by Tanko With My Cane by Tantan Open The Shutters by Teikitsu A Plover Wades Through by Teisa A Morning Glory- by Teishi New Year- by Teishitsu I Wish This Body by Tembo Among The Barley Stalks by Tesshi When I Leave by Tesshu Full Of Great Changes by Tetsugen Doko I Look Now At The Very Moment by Tetto Giko The Truth Is Never Taken by Tetto Giko When Autumn Winds Blow by Togyu Food Is Steaming by Toho Within Your Life And Mine by Toho I Go Back by Tojaku Even Dew Distilled by Tojun Death Poems by Toko My Life Was by Tokugen Sound Of A Melody: by Tomoemon Seventy Years And More by Tosui Unkei Though My Dwelling Be Small by Tosui Unkei Today Is The End Of Religion's Work- by Tosui Unkei All Four Pillars Of Enlightenment by Toyo Eicho Is It Like by Toyokuni From The Day Of My Coming Hither by Tsugen Jakurei Give My Dream Back, by Uejima Onitsura Cuckoo, by Uko The Voice Of The Nightingale by Uko I Came Into The World After Buddha. by Ungo Kiyo The Second Of The Second Month: by Unrei Six And Sixty- by Usei The Owners Of The Cherry Blossoms by Utsu New Year's Dawn: by Wagin In The End by Wakyu My Four And Forty Years by Wakyu A Voice Calls Me- by Yaba I Pass Beneath by Yaitsu Paradise- by Yaitsu My Six And Seventy Years Are Through. by Yakuo Tokuken Clouds Of Flowers by Yaohiko My Sickness Lingers; I Part From This World. by Yayu A Short Night by Yayu Yesterday? Today? by Yayu Of Late The Nights by Yosa Buson Katsu! by Yoso Soi Frost On Grass: by Zaishiki You Must Play by Zosan Junku I Pondered Buddha's Teaching by Zoso Royo -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Text: English, Japanese (translation)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Professor Yoel Hoffman has written several books on Buddhism and comparative philosophy, including The Sound of the One Hand, Radical Zen: the Sayings of Joshu, and The Idea of Self-East and West.",anthologies;asian;books;death;japanese & haiku;literary;literature & fiction;poetry;politics & social sciences;sociology;world literature,11
0811908704,"The Last Inauguration Routine antiterrorist high-tech thriller with a cooly complicated hero, well-researched settings, and frighteningly accurate knowledge of lethal technologies. What would suspense writers do without Saddam Hussein? Mad, bad, impossible to know, the mustachioed dictator has kept the tired genre alive. Here, Saddam, annoyed at yet another US-sponsored attempt on his life, pays Carlos the Jackal a king's ransom to wipe out everybody who's anybody in the American government by sabotaging the President's Inaugural Ball at the Kennedy Center. The first hundred or so pages follow the sly but oh-so-impolite Carlos as he navigates the mostly out-in-the-open world of international terrorism, blithely laundering money, staying in great hotels, smuggling great gobs of plastic explosives past bored customs personnel, and finding the right fanatics for the job. But just when Carlos seems to have his lethal ducks in a row, the CIA and Mossad stumble on the fact that's something's up and turn for help to renegade agent Norman Richards, an exCIA man earlier bounced out of the Company for having an active conscience. Though newcomer Lichtman seems more interested in exploring the mechanics of mayhem than animating any of his tissue-thin characters, the endlessly suffering, quietly restrained Richards is a winner. Unlike Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy's lock-jawed bermensch, Richards, for all his tough-talking and misplaced idealism, is a sensible, decent guy. As interesting as Richards is, though, he's reduced to little more than an action toy as Lichtman sends him on a series of pointless chases that culminate in a surprisingly convincing last-minute rescue of Washington's fatuous Beltway elite. Rigidly formulaic, and far too predictable, but Lichtman's by-the-numbers debut proves that he can do a big-boys-with-bad-toys tale and create a believable hero to hang it on. The suspense this time, though, is lackingyou end up feeling sorry for Saddam. (Author tour)  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	""...antiterrorist high-tech thriller with a coolly complicated hero,  well-researched settings, and frighteningly accurate knowledge of lethal  technologies...[Lichtman's] debut proves that he can do a  big-boys-with-bad-toys tale and create a believable hero to hang it  on...""(Kirkus Reviews) ""Lichtman's debut novel gives us a glimpse into what could be America's  worst nightmare complete with page turning suspense...An authentic  glimpse into the terrifying underbelly of the world's covert  operations...A good read.""  (New York Times' best-selling author of  Triangle of Death) ""A high-concept spy romp, THE LAST INAUGURATION whipsaws the reader  across the globe and through a series of ever escalating treacheries  toward a final, satisfying resolution.  Well researched, the novel places  you at the epicenter of international intrigues and in the company of  shadowy, soulless terrorists bent on diabolical revenge.  Fun reading.""   (Glen Kleir, author of THE LAST DAY)  ""THE LAST INAUGURATION is an exciting, realistic story with non-stop  action throughout the book.  Lichtman clearly understands and accurately  portrays the terrorist's mentality, the Mid-Eastern peace process, and  the mindset of Saddam Hussein, especially in these days."" -- Lt. Col. Naor  Seidmann, Director of the Israel Aircraft IndustriesSaddam Hussein is mad as heck and he's not going to take it anymore.  After an attempt on his life by American Marines, he enlists the help of Carlos the Jackal, the infamous international terrorist, to wipe out the President of the United States, his Cabinet, and most of the House and Senate.  Afterward, it will be on to Israel, using a plan of bombing raids left over from the Gulf War.  The balance of world power will shift to the Middle East, with Saddam as top dog.  The author is an expert on terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs, and he uses his encyclopedic knowledge to make the action scenes horrifically real.  The meticulous planning for Carlos' day of terror fascinates with the details of training terrorists, and gives an insider's view of a fanatic's mind.  However, the plot suffers from too many of these scenes, and the writer often indulges his characters in pointless dialogue.  The hero, a weak, disgusting drunk, is no match for the Iraqis' strength, single-mindedness and charm.  When Carlos the Jackal is the most appealing character in the book, you know the story's in trouble, but they can fix that in central casting. -- From Independent Publisher	THE LAST INAUGURATION    233 MARINES KILLED BY A BOMB ATTACK IN LEBANON!  243 PASSENGERS BLOWN OUT OF THE SKY OVER LOCKERBIE!  TWO PEOPLE KILLED IN THE BOMBING OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER IN NEW YORK  CITY!  A DEADLY ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES' CAPITOL!    TODAY'S HEADLINES PROVE THIS NOVEL MIGHT NOT BE FICTION.  ANYTHING IS  POSSIBLE!    Dictator Saddam Hussein and the notorious terrorist, ""Carlos the  Jackal,"" join forces to plot the most heinous of schemes against their  mortal enemies, the United States and Israel, sending a scaringly  believable message about both the security loopholes in terrorist  defense, and just how easily the delicate balance of the teetering Middle  East peace process could falter.  Charles Lichtman's debut novel weaves a spellbinding tale of ruthless  terrorism, capturing the intriguing tensions behind today's political  realities.  The action starts when a group of U.S. Marines attempts to  assassinate Saddam Hussein, moves on to a murderous bombing attack at the  United Nations' headquarters in Geneva, and finally climaxes during a  dramatic showdown in Washington, D.C.  Only Norman Richards stands in the way of the legendary Carlos.   Formerly one of the CIA's top field operatives, Richards quit the dirty  works trade in exchange for a lucrative arms dealing career.  However,  his past catches up with him, forcing him to take on his most dangerous  mission yet,  tracking down Carlos and his trained assassins to prevent  the most atrocious terrorist act ever devised.  The only problem is he  doesn't know what he is trying to stop, much less whom, when, or where.   The odds are against him.  Time is against him.  Carlos is against him.    ""Unlike Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy's lockjawed ebermensch, Richards, for all  his tough talking misplaced idealism, is a sensible, decent guy.""   (Kirkus Reviews)	Educated at Indiana and DePaul Universities, Charles Lichtman  is a business lawyer living in South Florida with his wife and two  daughters.  Having completed his debut novel, THE LAST INAUGURATION, he  is currently at work on his second novel, ""4.""  He is also the first  person ever to be granted an interview with the infamous terrorist  ""Carlos the Jackal.""",action & adventure;books;contemporary;genre fiction;literature & fiction;mystery;spy stories & tales of intrigue;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states;war,11
0915306913,"Clandestine Poems/Poemas Clandestinos ""The Salvadoran guerilla poet Roque Dalton is one of the greatest poets of Latin America. And one of the most original. In one thing he is unsurpassed: poetic humor; humor even when he wrote about something as tragic as his beloved El Salvador, for which he gave his life.""--Ernesto Cardenal, Minister of Culture, Nicaragua	Text: English, Spanish (translation)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Roque Dalton Garca (San Salvador, El Salvador, 14 May 1935  Quezaltepeque, El Salvador, 10 May 1975) was a leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist. He is considered one of Latin America's most compelling poets. He wrote emotionally strong, sometimes sarcastic, and image-loaded works dealing with life, death, love, and politics.",books;caribbean & latin american;humanities;latin american;literature;literature & fiction;new;poetry;spanish;used & rental textbooks;world literature,11
B000JMKT14,"The Keeper In her assured but overstuffed horror debut, Langan lovingly crafts the struggling town of Bedford, Maine, its unlucky inhabitants and the troubling history of the town's shuttered paper mill, before tearing it all to bloody pieces. Bedford is haunted by the beautiful Susan Marley, a damaged young woman who wanders the streets and never speaks a word, stirring feeling[s] of something undone, something quite wrong, at the sight of her. Those feelings are strongest in Susan's maladjusted little sister, Liz, wracked with guilt over Susan's fate; their mother, who refuses to acknowledge her wayward daughter's existence; and alcoholic high school teacher Paul Martin, who once had an affair with Susan. Susan's fall to her death in the final, rain-soaked days of winter triggers a series of events that bring the buried secrets of the town to terrifying realitypeople and animals rise from the dead, and a spirit of homicidal rage grips the living. Fighting to survive, Langan's characters come brilliantly to life, their inner conflicts rendered in sharp but exhausting detail at once expansive and constricting, slowing the narrative to a crawl just before it whips into frenzied, graphic violence. This is horror on a big scale, akin to the more ambitious work of Stephen King, and though Langan's enormous imagination can slow her narrative, this effective debut promises great things to come. (Oct.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	THE KEEPER kept me up, late into the night...Im hoping for a whole shelf of novels by Langan.	Sarah Langan received her MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. She studied with Michael Cunningham, Nicholas Christopher, Helen Schulman, Susan Kenney, and Maureen Howard, among others, all of whom have been instrumental to her work. The author of The Keeper and the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Missing, she is a master's candidate in environmental medicine at NYU and lives in Brooklyn, New York.",books;genre fiction;horror;kindle ebooks;kindle store;literature & fiction;mystery;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,11
0965377415,"Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music This comprehensive study of the noted jazz pianist and composer is a revised edition of a book first published in Germany in 1987. It is divided into three sections: a biography of Monk (1917-1982); an examination of his pianistic and compositional style; and an exhaustive, annotated catalogue of his recordings. Monk, introverted and given to bouts of depression, had few interests other than music, and his biography does not make exciting reading. The meat of the book is in Fitterling's insightful analyses of his subject's distinctive pianistic sound, his personal style as an ensemble player and his talent as a composer. Fitterling continues his assessment of Monk's musical style in the catalogue, where he includes critical commentary for each entry. He also lists films and videos relating to Monk's life. Two appendices--a guide to the multitude of Monk recordings and a glossary of musical expressions--will be helpful to those new to Monk's work. Fitterling, who lives in Germany, is a jazz journalist as well as a jazz percussionist and vibe player. This is his first book. Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1997 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Parker were pioneers in an original form of music called bebop that reclaimed jazz as a primarily African American form of cultural expression in the 1940s. Monk in particular, with his shades, goatee, and ever-changing array of unusual headgear, came to epitomize bopper cool. Even in his novel music, Monk's originality stood out. Unfortunately, emotional problems, run-ins with the law, and a reputation for unreliability derailed his career just as he was reaching his creative height, and he spent the last years of his life watching television. Fitterling, a jazz performer, producer, and journalist, has done a fine job in recounting the development of Monk's style, his contributions as a composer, and the influence of his music. But the reader interested in learning what made this complex and unique artist tick will be left wanting more. For music collections.?Dan Bogey, Clearfield Cty. P.L. Fed., Curwensville, Pa.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: German",african-american & black;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;ethnic & national;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;jazz;music,11
087930605X,"Programming Industrial Strength Windows with CDROM Petter Hesselberg is a partner with Accenture in Oslo, Norway. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim. He has been programming Windows for over thirteen years, seven of which he was partner in a firm exclusively devoted to Windows programming. He writes the monthly ""User Interface Programming"" column for Windows Developer's Journal.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;microsoft;operating systems;programming;software design;software development;testing & engineering;windows os,11
0816632707,"Faking It: U.S. Hegemony in a ""Post-Phallic"" Era Weber (political science, Purdue Univ.; Simulating Sovereignty, Cambridge Univ., 1995) provides an invigorating analysis of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America through the lens of queer theory, one that is certain to spark controversy and debate. She probes popular ideas of how the United States is personified, arguing that a degree of queerness is both absent and present in these perceptions. Weber critically engages the popular image of American culture. Reviewing U.S. military interventions in Latin America from 1959 to 1994, Weber posits that American foreign policy is a set of strategic displacements of castration anxiety. She brilliantly illuminates the cultural anxieties and imperatives that shape foreign policy. Utilizing humor and critical logic, she provides a fascinating perspective on American foreign relations in the Caribbean. Most suitable for academic gay/lesbian and Latin American studies collections.Michael A. Lutes, Univ. of Notre Dame Libs., INCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.",books;caribbean & latin american;gay & lesbian;international & world politics;nonfiction;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states,11
0471986216,"Marketing the Unknown: Developing Market Strategies for Technical Innovations Innovations are always exceptional events in company life and they tend to stay in the hands of technicians or design offices - they are peripheral to mainstream business and people do not know how to manage them. In 'Marketing the Unknown', Paul Millier attempts to find new answers to these innovation problems, on the grounds that each problem is unique and that there is not necessarily a known recipe for it or a success story that corresponds. Paul Millier lays down firm principles to guide systematic and constructive plans for the marketing and development of technological innovations. These have been derived from observing a large number of industrial innovation projects over a long period of time - examples of which are used throughout the book to illustrate his argument. He also encourages the reader to think constructively and stimulates the imagination with the intention of enabling the reader to realise that other possible solutions exist.	Marketing the Unknown Developing Market Strategies for Technical Innovations Paul Millier, Professor of Industrial Marketing at E.M. Lyon, Visiting Professor at Cranfield School of Management "". the most detailed, accurate and pragmatic approach to emergent markets that I know. It should be of interest to anyone who is in charge of transforming research investments into products with a secured market. To me, it is not just a book: it is a reference manual."" Jean Robert Passemard, Executive Vice President, Product and Marketing, Renault Automation, France ""Professor Paul Millier brings a pragmatic and systematic approach to launching technological innovations. His book represents a major marketing contribution with a profusion of valuable ideas."" Marc Fermont, Dow Europe Vice President ""Placing considerable emphasis on practical tools, this book provides an original methodology and essential guidelines to further the commercial success of innovative industrial products."" Kazuya Matsumoto, President of Canon Research Centre, France ""Filled with innovative concepts and dynamic examples, Paul Millier brings concrete solutions to a challenge that many companies have yet to resolve. Those who apply these concepts may never launch another 'failure'."" Agathe Massat, Manager, Corporate Risk Management, Motorola, USA 70% of the costs of R lead to failure - between 20% and 40% of these failures is due to technical reasons, the remainder can be attributed to the shortcomings of marketing strategy. In a world of ever-increasing technological innovation the questions on any industry's minds are:* How do you make a product successful?* What is the process to follow?* How do you chose or transform markets in order to have a successful launch?In this book, Paul Millier demonstrates that products have a 'life' before their 'life cycle'. He has developed the techniques of a marketing strategy which can be applied to products which do not yet exist on the market place and for markets which themselves do not exist - in essence a marketing strategy for technical innovations. This practical book will pave the way for marketing managers, R managers and project managers in industrial organizations to successfully launch and market innovations in a very competitive field and will enable the reader to outline strategies for further development. Marketing	PAUL MILLIER is Professor of Industrial Marketing at E.M. LYON in France. He is currently Visiting Professor at Cranfield School of Management. He has been responsible for the research team for the marketing of technological innovation since 1982. He has also consulted in many industrial organizations such as Canon, EDF, Elf, Hutchinson, Kermel, Renault-Automation, Saint-Gobain Group, Schlumberger Industries, Schneider Electric SA and Thomson-CSF.",books;business & finance;business & investing;marketing;marketing & sales;new;product management;research;sales;sales & selling;used & rental textbooks,11
1888451750,"The Cocaine Chronicles (Akashic Drug Chronicles) There are some strong entries in this depressing all-original anthology of 17 stories involving the always powerful, often destructive, effects of cocaine use. The editors call cocaine ""the scourge of our times"" in their introduction, and that judgment is evident whether the story is about a user, a dealer or someone simply caught up in someone else's thrall to the drug. Some tales offer a macabre sense of humor, such as Lee Child's ""Ten Keys,"" in which a drug courier rips off a shipment, and Laura Lippman's ""The Crack Cocaine Habit,"" in which two white girls venture into a bad neighborhood to make a buy. Children are the focus of Kerry E. West's shocking ""Shame,"" about a kid who copes with her mother's habit and the world's indifference. Another child is the victim of her mother's habit in Nina Revoyr's highly effective ""Golden Pacific."" James Brown's sobering ""The Screenwriter"" details the rise and cocaine-induced fall of a screenwriter. Other contributors include editors Phillips and Tervalon, Ken Bruen, Bill Moody and Manuel Ramos. None of the stories glamorize cocaine, but some do exhibit what the editors call ""scary charms."" (Apr.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	The best fiction anthology of cocaine-themed tales to blow through in years, featuring ALL NEW stories by Susan Straight, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Jerry Stahl, Nina Revoyr, Bill Moody, Emory Holmes II, James Brown, Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon, Kerry E. West, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel Ramos, and Detrice Jones.	""The Cocaine Chronicles is a pure, jangled hit of urban, gritty, and raw noir. Caution: These stories are addicting."" --Harlan Coben, award-winning author of Just One Look	JERVEY TERVALON is the author of All the Trouble You Need, Understand This (winner of the 1994 New Voices Award from the Quality Paperback Book Club), and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Dead Above Ground. In 2001, he received the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles National Literacy Award for Excellence in Multicultural Literature. He lives in Altadena, California, with his wife and two daughters. Gary Phillips is the author of several crime-fiction novels, including ""Bangers"" and ""The Perpetrators."" He writes in several other mediums -- from screenplays to comic books -- and remembers vividly the days of disco and the fever that coke, then crack, unleashed.",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;general;literary;literature & fiction;mystery;short stories;single author;thriller & suspense;united states,11
0966940903,"Palm Desert ""It's a beautiful tribute, a work of art in and of itself."" -- Open Sky""The startling contrast between the desert-alone and the desert-intervened is made clear in Vanderlans's color photographs."" -- The Journal of Artists BooksIt is brilliant. An inspiring visual journey through the Palm  Desert area of California, undertaken by someone who obviously cares  for the works of Van Dyke Parks. Accessible to all who have been  touched by Parks's surrealist lyrics and imagery. Beyond that, Palm  Desert is a great artistic statement that can easily stand on its  own.  -- Songcycler websiteIt's an evocative mix of the ethereal,  regal, mythical and humane aspects of the Southern California  landscape. The elegant simplicity of the entire presentation brings to  mind the work of Ed Ruscha.  -- Pulse!The type, illustrations, paper, binding, and size all  contribute to making this book a pleasure to look at and hold. The  typography is a quiet lesson in proportion.  -- Lingua FrancaVanderLanss introductory essay is quite touching and his photographs combine the precision and obliqueness of their source material. There are several books that need writing on Van Dyke Parks and this may well be one of them.  -- Eye magazine	Rudy VanderLans is the editor and designer of Emigre magazine, a quarterly journal dedicated to graphic design.  Together with his wife, type designer Zuzana Licko, Emigre has won the 1994 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, the 1997 Gold Medal Award of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and the 1998 International Charles Nypels Award for Innovation in typography.  Their work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design in New York, and the National Design Museum in London.",arts & photography;books;california;general;individual artists;oil painting;painting;photo essays;photography;travel;united states,11
0761928286,"Girls, Women and Crime: Selected Readings Lisa Pasko, Assistant Professor, received her PhD from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Lisa's primary research and teaching interests include criminology, punishment, sexualities/gender studies, as well as methodological issues in conducting studies of crime and deviance. Her dissertation examined juvenile delinquency and justice in Hawaii, with particular attention on the differential effects institutional policies and behaviors have on boys and girls. She is co-author of ""The Female Offender"" and other articles that explore issues of gender and delinquency. Dr. Pasko teaches courses on criminology, the female offender, men and masculinities, and crime and punishment. For the past ten years, she has been involved in criminal justice research. As project coordinator for the University of Hawaii Youth Gang Project, she evaluated numerous prevention and intervention programs for at-risk youth. Dr. Pasko has published in a variety of areas, including an ethnography of stripping, pathways predictors of juvenile justice involvement, a feminist analysis of restorative justice initiatives, and evaluations of two girl offender programs. Her current research is funded by the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice and examines the treatment of sexual minority girls in youth corrections.Meda Chesney-Lind is Professor of Womens Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Hawaii, and a B.A. Summa Cum Laude from Whitman College. She has served as Vice President of the American Society of Criminology and president of the Western Society of Criminology. Nationally recognized for her work on women and crime, her books include Girls, Delinquency and Juvenile Justice, The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime, Female Gangs in America, Invisible Punishment, Girls, Women and Crime, and Beyond Bad Girls: Gender Violence and Hype. She has just finished an edited collection on trends in girls violence, entitled Fighting for Girls: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Violence, published by SUNY Press. Dr. Chesney-Lind is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and the Western Society of Criminology. She has been on the Womens Studies faculty at the University of Hawaii since 1986, and also serves on the graduate faculty in the Department of Sociology.She received the Bruce Smith, Sr. Award ""for outstanding contributions to Criminal Justice"" from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in April, 2001. She was named a fellow of the American Society of Criminology in 1996 and has also received the Herbert Block Award for service to the society and the profession from the American Society of Criminology. She has also received the Donald Cressey Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for ""outstanding contributions to the field of criminology,"" the Founders award of the Western Society of Criminology for ""significant improvement of the quality of justice,"" and the University of Hawaii Board of Regent's Medal for ""Excellence in Research."" Chesney-Lind is an outspoken advocate for girls and women, particularly those who find their way into the criminal justice system. Her work on the problem of sexism in the treatment of girls in the juvenile justice system was partially responsible for the recent national attention devoted to services to girls in that system. More recently, she has worked hard to call attention to the soaring rate of women's imprisonment and the need to vigorously seek alternatives to women's incarceration. In Hawaii, Chesney-Lind has served as Principal Investigator of a long standing project on Hawaii's youth gang problem funded by the State of Hawaii Office of Youth Services. She has more recently also received funding to conduct research on the unique problems of girl's at risk of becoming delinquent from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Finally, she has also recently been tapped by the Hawaii Department of Public Safety to serve on an advisory panel on the problems of women in prison in Hawaii.",books;children's books;criminal law;criminology;gender studies;law;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,11
0816030669,"The Facts on File Dictionary of Environmental Science YA-- Clearly worded definitions presented in an appealing format make this an essential reference work. Students with assignments in science, social science, health, computers, etc., will find it a great resource. Definitions are often cross-referenced, thus opening up new avenues for research. Appendixes include acronyms, abbreviations, unit equivalents, concentrations, and chemical elements. Multiple copies would be well used.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This environmental dictionary includes over 3000 terms, with heavy emphasis on U.S. government agencies and laws, chemistry, engineering, public policy, and environmental health. Words and phrases such as ""rad,"" ""greenhouse effect,"" ""ozone layer,"" and ""nuclear winter"" are all here. A useful list of acronyms such as EPA, EIS, and GRAS is also included. Unfortunately, there is no pronunciation guide. Michael Allaby's Dictionary of the Environment (Macmillan, 1989. 3d ed.) includes more on flora and fauna, less on law and engineering, so the two are complementary. This title, with so few competitors, seems essential for most public and science libraries.- Laura Lipton, Miller Horticulture Lib., SeattleCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Update of a title first published in 1991. New entries include Acid rain, Global warming, and Zero population growth. RBBCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biological sciences;books;business & investing;dictionaries & thesauruses;earth sciences;ecology;education & reference;environment;environmental science;popular economics;science & math,11
1885640455,"Your Platform Is The World: How To Celebrate Interpersonal Communication Through Vocation, Education, Inspiration, and Recreation This is Larry Clifton's second textbook on public speaking, the first being A Reference for Public Speaking: An Academic and Professional Source.  Among his many writings is the critically acclaimed, original book on the nineteenth-century playwright Edward Fitzball, The Terrible Fitzball: Melodramatist of the Macabre.    Larry Stephen Clifton completed his undergraduate degree at The University of Tennessee, his masters' degrees at New York University and Vanderbilt Universities, and the Ph.D. at Southern Illinois University.  He did conversatory work in speech at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.  He has taught at several colleges and universities, often beginning new communication and film programs.",books;business & investing;communication;communications;education & reference;instruction methods;language & grammar;pedagogy;schools & teaching;skills;words,11
0760308535,"101 Projects for Your Porsche 911 1965-1989 Wayne R. Dempsey is the author of 101 Projects for Your Porsche 911, How to Rebuild and Modify Porsche 911 Engines, and 101 Projects for Your Porsche Boxster, all from Motorbooks. Dempsey resides in southern California.",automotive;books;customize;food;lodging & transportation;professional & technical;repair;road travel;transportation;travel;trucks & vans,11
0131254693,"Sociology of Mental Disorder Overview of the field, emphasizing the application of sociological theory to problems of mental health.	Preface   This book presents the major issues and research findings found in the abundant sociological literature on mental disorder. Although a subfield of medical sociology, the study of mental health is a significant area of sociological inquiry. Numerous books and research papers have been published by sociologists on mental problems. For example, a contents analysis of the American Sociological Association's Journal of Health and Social Behavior for the past several years discloses that nearly as many articles are published on some aspect of mental health as are published on physical health. Medical sociologists constitute one of the largest groups of scholars in sociology worldwide. The focus on mental health issues by many scholars has not only resulted in a large volume of research; it has also increased the number of courses taught on this subject in universities. The fifth edition of this book represents a continuing effort to summarize and analyze the direction of the field.    The title of this book, Sociology of Mental Disorder, reflects its contents and orientation. I used the word ""disorder"" in the title rather than ""illness"" because illness is a medical term that involves consideration of topics focusing more or less exclusively on medicine and biology rather than the social features of mentally disordered behavior. I don't use the phrase ""mental health"" because mental health can be positive or negative, and sociologists typically study the negative features of mental health as a phenomenon causing disruptions or disorder in social relationships. Consequently, the term ""mental disorder"" more accurately reflects sociological concerns.    Although the conclusions expressed in this book are solely the responsibility of the author, other individuals provided extremely helpful comments. A note of appreciation is due to the following colleagues who contributed comments on the various editions of this book: John Collette, University of Utah; Gary A. Cretser, California Polytechnic University (Pomona); Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Robert Emerick, San Diego State University; Hugh Floyd, University of New Orleans; John W. Fox, University of Northern Colorado; David D. Franks, Virginia Commonwealth University; Sharon Guten, Case Western Reserve University; Michael Hughes, Virginia Polytechnic and State University; John E. Johnson, SUNY-Plattsburgh; Jeffrey Kamakahi, University of Central Arkansas; Matt Kinkley, Lima Technical College; Michael Radelet, University of Florida; Frederick O. Rasmussen, Rutgers University; Paul Roman, Tulane University; Martha L. Shwayder, Metropolitan State University; Neil J. Smelser, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford; Stephen P. Spitzer, University of Minnesota; Raymond Weinstein, University of South Carolina at Aiken; R. Blair Wheaton, University of Toronto; and Mark Winton, University of Central Florida.William C. Cockerham Birmingham, Alabama	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Key Benefit: Offering a complete review of the field of mental health from a sociological perspective, this book incorporates the most current data and research findings available, including the latest edition of the Diagnostic Statistical Manu al of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). Key Topics:  Revised for clarity and currency, the Fourth Edition now presents an informative section on age and mental disorder; considers current governmental efforts in mental health reform; provides the most comprehensive discussion of mental health law available in the social sciences; contains up-to-date statistics on mental health in Japan; examines Poland's change from a socialist country and its effect on mental health; and identifies and discusses such major issues as community care, deinstitutionalization, and the use of drugs in psychotherapy. Market:  For sociologists and social workers.	William C. Cockerham received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also Co-Director of the UAB Center for Social Medicine and holds secondary appointments in medicine and public health. He is the recipient of the UAB Connors Prize in the History of Ideas and the Ireland Award for Distinguished Scholarship. Currently, he is serving as the President of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association and is on the Editorial Board of the American Sociological Review. Dr. Cockerham has published numerous peer-reviewed papers in academic journals and is author or editor of fourteen books. His most recent books published by Pearson Prentice-Hall include Medical Sociology, 11th edition (2010) and the Sociology of Mental Disorder, 8th edition (2010).	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This book presents the major issues and research findings found in the abundant sociological literature on mental disorder. Although a subfield of medical sociology, the study of mental health is a significant area of sociological inquiry. Numerous books and research papers have been published by sociologists on mental problems. For example, a contents analysis of the American Sociological Association's Journal of Health and Social Behavior for the past several years discloses that nearly as many articles are published on some aspect of mental health as are published on physical health. Medical sociologists constitute one of the largest groups of scholars in sociology worldwide. The focus on mental health issues by many medical sociologists has not only resulted in a large volume of research; it has also increased the number of courses taught on this subject in universities. The sixth edition of this book represents a continuing effort to summarize and analyze the direction of the field.    The title of this book, Sociology of Mental Disorder, reflects its contents and orientation. I used the word ""disorder"" in the title rather than ""illness"" because illness is a medical term that involves consideration of topics focusing more or less exclusively on medicine and biology rather than the social features of mentally disordered behavior. I don't use the phrase ""mental health"" because mental health can be positive or negative, and sociologists typically study the negative features of mental health as a phenomenon causing disruptions or disorder in social relationships. Consequently, the term ""mental disorder"" more accurately reflects sociological concerns.    Although the conclusions expressed in this book are solely the responsibility of the author, other individuals provided extremely helpful comments. A note of appreciation is due to the following colleagues who contributed comments on the various editions of this book: John Collette, University of Utah; Gary A. Cretser, California Polytechnic University (Pomona); Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Robert Emerick, San Diego State University; Hugh Floyd, University of New Orleans; John W. Fox, University of Northern Colorado; David D. Franks, Virginia Commonwealth University; Sharon Guten, Case Western Reserve University; Michael Hughes, Virginia Polytechnic and State University; John E. Johnson, SUNY-Plattsburgh; Jeffrey Kamakahi, University of Central Arkansas; Matt Kinkley, Lima Technical College; Michael Radelet, University of Florida; Frederick O. Rasmussen, Rutgers University; Paul Roman, Tulane University; Martha L. Shwayder, Metropolitan State University; Neil J. Smelser, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford; Stephen P. Spitzer, University of Minnesota; Raymond Weinstein, University of South Carolina at Aiken; R. Blair Wheaton, University of Toronto; and Mark Winton, University of Central Florida.    William C. Cockerham Birmingham, Alabama   	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This book presents the major issues and research findings found in the abundant sociological literature on mental disorder. Although a subfield of medical sociology, the study of mental health is a significant area of sociological inquiry. Numerous books and research papers have been published by sociologists on mental problems. For example, a contents analysis of the American Sociological Association's Journal of Health and Social Behavior for the past several years discloses that nearly as many articles are published on some aspect of mental health as are published on physical health. Medical sociologists constitute one of the largest groups of scholars in sociology worldwide. The focus on mental health issues by many medical sociologists has not only resulted in a large volume of research; it has also increased the number of courses taught on this subject in universities. The sixth edition of this book represents a continuing effort to summarize and analyze the direction of the field.    The title of this book, Sociology of Mental Disorder, reflects its contents and orientation. I used the word ""disorder"" in the title rather than ""illness"" because illness is a medical term that involves consideration of topics focusing more or less exclusively on medicine and biology rather than the social features of mentally disordered behavior. I don't use the phrase ""mental health"" because mental health can be positive or negative, and sociologists typically study the negative features of mental health as a phenomenon causing disruptions or disorder in social relationships. Consequently, the term ""mental disorder"" more accurately reflects sociological concerns.    Although the conclusions expressed in this book are solely the responsibility of the author, other individuals provided extremely helpful comments. A note of appreciation is due to the following colleagues who contributed comments on the various editions of this book: John Collette, University of Utah; Gary A. Cretser, California Polytechnic University (Pomona); Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Robert Emerick, San Diego State University; Hugh Floyd, University of New Orleans; John W. Fox, University of Northern Colorado; David D. Franks, Virginia Commonwealth University; Sharon Guten, Case Western Reserve University; Michael Hughes, Virginia Polytechnic and State University; John E. Johnson, SUNY-Plattsburgh; Jeffrey Kamakahi, University of Central Arkansas; Matt Kinkley, Lima Technical College; Michael Radelet, University of Florida; Frederick O. Rasmussen, Rutgers University; Paul Roman, Tulane University; Martha L. Shwayder, Metropolitan State University; Neil J. Smelser, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford; Stephen P. Spitzer, University of Minnesota; Raymond Weinstein, University of South Carolina at Aiken; R. Blair Wheaton, University of Toronto; and Mark Winton, University of Central Florida.    William C. Cockerham Birmingham, Alabama   	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education & reference;medical books;medicine;mental illness;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,11
8172233302,"Weapons of Peace: Secret Story of India's Quest to Be a Nuclear Power Raj Chengappa is deputy editor of India Today, India's largest circulated and most respected weekly newsmagazine.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;history;humanities;military;military science;new;nuclear;political science;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;weapons & warfare,11
1560235977,"Going Down in La-La Land ""A RACY ROMP through the dark and funny sides of Hollywood, porn, drugs, and the closet."" -- Michael Musto, Columnist, Village Voice""Going Down in La-La Land takes a concise, unflinching look at the seamier side of Hollywood."" -- Ben Patrick Johnson, Actor, Activist, and Bestselling Author of In and Out in Hollywood and Third and Heaven	Andy Zeffer is Features Editor of The Express News in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His work has appeared in the Provincetown Banner, the New York Blade, the Washington Blade, Southern Voice and US Weekly. In a previous life, he was an actor, appearing in Woody Allen's Celebrity and the hit independent film, The Fluffer.",books;contemporary;fiction;fitness & dieting;gay;gay & lesbian;health;humor;literature & fiction;psychology & counseling;sexuality,11
1412050006,"Welcome to the Dance: Caffeine Allergy - A Masked Cerebral Allergy and Progressive Toxic Dementia none	Educated in chemistry and biochemical imbalances and  recovered from a horrendous case of altered mental status, I knew what to  look for regarding ""mental illness."" Most psychiatric patients have  abnormal lab test results, but they don't know it. Unable to pinpoint the  cause of abnormal lab results, doctors commonly diagnose ADHD or a mental  disorder. But an abnormal lab result means that a person is suffering from  an abnormal physical state. The altered physical state can change mental  status. Caffeine allergy, caffeine poisoning, and adrenaline allergy and  poisoning, all hidden conditions, all discussed in my book, change normal  brain function.	""Embarking on a research effort, she discovered that her  symptoms were similar to classic symptoms of schizophrenia and bipolar  disorder, and yet she had a hard time convincing doctors and psychiatrists  that their treatments weren't helping her; they only made her worse and  forced her into a psychiatric ward for awhile... ""Welcome to the Dance"" is  Whalen's harrowing story of struggling with a confusing set of physical and  psychiatric symptoms and waking up and learning to deal with the  situation...The caffeine anaphylaxis that Whalen underwent was like being  chronically drugged on amphetamines, altering perceptions, thoughts and  actions. If you think you may have a caffeine allergy, you'd be well  advised to investigate the literature on the subject, and Whalen provides  extensive listings."" Ruth Parnell, contributing editor, Nexus New Times  magazine (a leading information source of suppressed information, including  suppressed medical news). Volume 12, No. 5, p73. September-October 2005.    ""You are a brilliant writer. You are a brilliant researcher... I am certain  that literally millions of people have suffered from this allergy and have  been misdiagnosed for a lifetime."" Tony K., host Artistfirst.com,  interviewing Ruth Whalen. July 2005.	Miss Whalen is a writer and a medical laboratory technician with extensive experience in chemistry and immunology. Miss Whalen is allergic to caffeine and was first misdiagnosed in 1975. In fact, the emergency room doctor induced psychosis. For the next 25 years, Miss Whalen continued ingesting caffeine. Psychosis became chronic and progressed. Although Ruth desperately sought adequate medical care for symptoms directly related to caffeine toxicity and allergic response to caffeine, doctors diagnosed anything but, including TMJD, rosacea, and muscular dystrophy. After a good doctor accurately diagnosed the allergy, Miss Whalen began recovering and researching. Her articles appear in the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Positive Health Magazine, and Medical Veritas, the Journal of Medical Truth.   Miss Whalen states, ""Doctors commonly ignore abnormal lab results. Instead, unable to pinpoint the cause of a complaint and its related abnormal lab results, doctors diagnose ADHD and/or a mental disorder. However, an abnormal lab result means that a person is suffering from a physical condition.""	Excerpted from Welcome to the Dance: Caffeine Allergy - A Masked  Cerebral Allergy and Progressive Toxic Dementia by MLT (ASCP) Ruth Whalen,  M.D. A. Hoffer. Copyright B) 2005. Reprinted by permission. All rights  reserved. A. Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP (C), President, International Schizophrenia  Foundation: ""...In this valuable book, we learn what it is like to be  psychotic for so many years... We learn that it is possible to be psychotic  from drinking caffeine, and we learn... But we learn even more because Miss  Whalen has become the world's expert on caffeine toxicity and has  referenced an enormous number of publications from the medical literature  to support her claims. No psychiatrist will ever neglect to ask about the  caffeine habits of her/his patients after reading the book.""",addiction & recovery;anxiety disorders;books;caffeine;dementia;fitness & dieting;health;mental health;nutrition;schizophrenia;substance abuse,11
0078277477,"Algebra 1, Skills Practice Workbook McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide",algebra & trigonometry;books;education & reference;mathematics;new;schools & teaching;science & math;science & mathematics;science & technology;teens;used & rental textbooks,11
0140443398,"The Journey Through Wales and The Description of Wales (Penguin Classics) Text: English (translation) Original Language: Latin	Betty Radice read classics at Oxford, then married and, in the intervals of bringing up a family, tutored in classics, philosophy and English. She became joint editor of the Penguin Classics in 1964. As well as editing the translation of Livys The War with Hannibal she translated Livys Rome and Italy, Plinys Letters, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise and Erasmuss Praise of Folly, and also wrote the introduction to Horaces Complete Odes and Epodes, all for the Penguin Classics. She also edited Edward Gibbons Memoirs of My Life for the Penguin English Library, and edited and annotated her translation of the younger Plinys works for the Loeb Library of Classics and translated from Renaissance Latin, Greek and Italian for the Officina Bodoni of Verona. She collaborated as a translator in the Collected Works of Erasmus, and was the author of the Penguin Reference Book Whos Who in the Ancient World. Betty Radice was an honorary fellow of St Hildas College, Oxford, and a vice-president of the Classical Association. Betty Radice died in 1985.",books;england;europe;general;great britain;history;literature & fiction;medieval;travel;travel writing;wales,11
0072300604,"Readings in Social Theory James Farganis was born and raised in New York City, attended its public schools and received his B.A. from Brooklyn College and Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has taught sociology at several colleges and universities.  He is now affiliated with the New School for Social Research.",books;history & criticism;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;politics & social sciences;postmodernism;social sciences;social theory;sociology;used & rental textbooks,11
0915760029,"An Album of Fluid Motion Everybody with an interest in fluid dynamics, from freshman to expert, will enjoy and benefit from this book; everybody can afford to buy it; everybody should. --Peter Bradshaw, Contemporary PhysicsSelf-published, designed handsomely within the family, this collection needs and will enduringly reward many owners. What technical library can be without it? --Philip Morrison, Scientific AmericanThis book is a unique publishing event in the field of fluid mechanics. Its price is low and its quality is so high that instructors can recommend it without reservation as a supplemental text at both the undergraduate and graduate level. --Sheila Widnall, Journal of Applied MechanicsThis book is a unique publishing event in the field of fluid mechanics. Its price is low and its quality is so high that instructors can recommend it without reservation as a supplemental text at both the undergraduate and graduate level. --Sheila Widnall, Journal of Applied MechanicsSelf-published, designed handsomely within the family, this collection needs and will enduringly reward many owners. What technical library can be without it? --Philip Morrison, Scientific AmericanThis book is a unique publishing event in the field of fluid mechanics. Its price is low and its quality is so high that instructors can recommend it without reservation as a supplemental text at both the undergraduate and graduate level. --Sheila Widnall, Journal of Applied MechanicsSelf-published, designed handsomely within the family, this collection needs and will enduringly reward many owners. What technical library can be without it? --Philip Morrison, Scientific AmericanThis book is a unique publishing event in the field of fluid mechanics. Its price is low and its quality is so high that instructors can recommend it without reservation as a supplemental text at both the undergraduate and graduate level. --Sheila Widnall, Journal of Applied MechanicsSelf-published, designed handsomely within the family, this collection needs and will enduringly reward many owners. What technical library can be without it? --Philip Morrison, Scientific AmericanThis book is a unique publishing event in the field of fluid mechanics. Its price is low and its quality is so high that instructors can recommend it without reservation as a supplemental text at both the undergraduate and graduate level. --Sheila Widnall, Journal of Applied MechanicsSelf-published, designed handsomely within the family, this collection needs and will enduringly reward many owners. What technical library can be without it? --Philip Morrison, Scientific American	Milton Van Dyke was a Stanford professor emeritus who held joint appointments in Astro/Aero and Mechanical Engineering.",books;dynamics;engineering;fluid dynamics;mechanics;new;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,11
0385487010,"The Speed Queen Stewart O'Nan's The Speed Queen opens on Oklahoma's death row. Marjorie Standiford, scheduled to die that night for the murder of 12 people, dictates the story of her life into a tape recorder. Before she goes, she wants to set the record straight.  It seems that one of her accomplices, Natalie, has already produced a bestselling book on the subject, and Marjorie doesn't want to be outdone. Her tape will be sent to an unnamed writer known as the King of Horror with a list of titles identical to those of Stephen King.  It's evident why a horror writer might be interested in Marjorie's story--the details of her life are pretty darned horrifying. A deep love of cars is what attracts Marjorie to her husband, Lamont, in the first place; an unplanned pregnancy is what pushes them into marriage. In the early days of their love affair, driving around in Lamont's convertible with the baby in the back and doing a little speed on the side is enough, but possession leads to prison time for Marjorie. There she meets Natalie, who will complete their deadly triangle. Once on the outside, Natalie, Marjorie, and Lamont start mainlining speed, then dealing it, and before long, a landscape of drive-thru restaurants and convenience stores becomes the backdrop for a series of gruesome murders. Marjorie may not be the most reliable narrator, but she is an original one, and The Speed Queen provides one heck of a joy ride.	Guilt looks innocent in this latest novel by O'Nan, named one of Granta's 20 best young American novelists. Narrator Marjorie Standiford waits on Oklahoma's death row for her role in the infamous ""Sonic"" drive-in killings. America's ""King of Horror"" (a never-named Stephen King) buys the rights to Marjorie's story, and she is given a tape recorder and more than 100 questions to answer in the hours before her death. The questions range from the mundane (""What did we wear that day?"") to the impossible (""Why did I do it?""). Each answer blurs the line between good and evil, which is easier to draw without human details. Marjorie's ingenuous and wry voice reveals her essential badness--a weakness for cars and speed, both vehicular and drug-related--and makes it almost understandable. As Marjorie says, ""I was there but I didn't kill anyone."" Technically she's right: she's the get-away girl who participates in crimes like she's watching TV. Her tragic road trip through America's quiet towns and highways lulls us into detachment, and innocence redefined.  Deanna Larson	Granta hotshot O'Nan (The Names of the Dead, 1996, etc.) gives us his variation on In Cold Blood, new and improved, for those who never read the original. On death row in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, on the very night of her execution, Marjorie Standiford is busy with her tape recorder. Last-minute appeal? Last Will and Testament? A farewell letter? No, nothing like that. Marjorie is making notes for Stephen King, who has decided to write a book about her. Apparently Marjorie is a very hot ticket: Natalie, her partner in crime, has already published a bestseller about the twosome's life on the road as bandits and serial killers. But Marjorie has become a Christian since her arrest, you see, and is now worried about her image. ``Sometimes in your books you make fun of religious people. You make them crazy or evil, like in Children of the Corn or Needful Things. I'd appreciate it if you didn't this once. Just make me the way I am.'' So Marjorie proceeds to tell Stephen the whole sad story, from white-trash childhood to pothead adolescence to marriage with speed-freak Lamont on to her eventual discovery of bisexuality with roommate Natalie. Eventually those three set up shop as drug dealers and are quickly successful. When they find the cash from their big haul stolen, however, they turn to outright theft, murdering an old farmer and his wife in the process. From that point on, their fate is basically sealed: They take to the road, barrelling down Route 66 to the border, knocking off a restaurant and several of its customers before getting caught. As much as Marjorie regrets all the mess, she knows it makes a great story. Stretching the credible and highly pretentious: O'Nan's portrait of a redneck who watches Monty Python and works out book treatments on her deathbed would be merely bizarre if she were just a character. Unfortunately, she's the entire story. (Author tour) -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Stewart O'Nan (whose previous novels include Snow Angels and The Names of the Dead) has in abundance the imaginative sympathy his characters lack. Marjorie, Lamont, Natalie, Marjorie's mother and a dozen walk-ons are vividly realized, and with the most economical of touches. In addition to its exacting art, his book features an unfailing intelligence, a grim an bracing humor, an unblinking eye for the telling detail. -- The New York Times Book Review, George Stade	""Stewart O'Nan sees with a vengeance.""--New York Times Book Review	Why did I kill them?I didn't kill them. I was there, but I didn't kill anyone.I know exactly what happened, though. It's pretty boring, actually. It's pretty normal. I don't think people will be that interested. But if anyone can make it interesting, you can. You'll make it funny, too, which is right. Sometimes it was really funny. Even now some of it's funny.Marjorie Standiford sits on Oklahoma's death row, hours away from execution, speaking into a tape recorder, telling her life story. She's answering questions about how she became the Speed Queen, one of the Sonic Killers--how mainlining speed with her husband Lamont and her lover Natalie grew into dealing, how dealing grew into robbery, and robbery into mass murder. She's telling her story because she wants to set the record straight, to correct the lies in Natalie's book, which became a bestseller.Marjorie's book will be better. It will be written by a bestselling novelist.Told in Marjorie's dreamy, bemused, unforgettable voice, The Speed Queen is a startling new work from a writer whose novels have been called ""masterful"" by the Washington Post and ""stunning"" by The New York Times. Set against a uniquely American landscape of fast-food joints and endless highways, and scored by the blare of the dashboard radio, it is a taut, violent, darkly comic story sure to expand exponentially the readership and renown of this uncommonly gifted novelist.""	""CLASSIC AMERICAN NOIR.""--San Francisco Chronicle""A SEXY, BREATHLESS, AND PITCH-PERFECT TALE . . . AN UNABAHED ROLLERCOASTER OF A BOOK.""--Detour""I liked The Speed Queen so much I went back and bought five or six copies to send to everyone I know. The conceit is ingenious and the book is beautifully executed. I wish I'd written it.""--Sue Grafton""UNFAILING INTELLIGENCE, A GRIM AND BRACING HUMOR, [AND] AN UNBLINKING EYE FOR THE TELLING DETAIL.""--The New York Times Book Review	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The first time I had sex I threw up.This was at the Sky-Vue Drive-In, in the bed of Monty Hunt's Ford Ranger.We were watching Halloween and drinking pink Champale.We'd been going out all summer, and I was going to be a junior, so I thought it was time.We'd been close before.I'd made him beg me.I heard it hurt, so I was two bottles ahead of Monty.He had the truck backed up on a hump with the speaker hanging over the side.It was warm but the bugs were bad, and we were under a blanket.We were kissing, getting our faces wet. I was wearing anklets with little pom-poms in the back, that was all.I'd started the night with shorts and a tube top but they were gone.In my bag I had another pair of underwear.I opened my legs and let Monty put his hand there.I think I surprised him. He dug around down there, then got on top of me; the movie was blue on his face.The music was building up to a killing.Two speakers over sat a family in lawn chairs, eating popcorn out of a giant yellow bag.He couldn't find his way in at first, and I had to help him.It's funny how they want it so much and them don't know what to do.I could barely feel it in me.He had his mouth open and I could see up his nose.It felt uncomfortable, almost like the beginning of cramps, and then something gave way, like when you realize you have a nosebleed.It stung, and I tipped my chin up so he couldn't see that it hurt me.The Champale wasn't working.He was pushing against my stomach; I felt like I had to go to the bathroom.Above me, upside down, Jamie Lee Curtis was riding through a graveyard with this other girl, getting stoned. Monty stopped all of a sudden and let out a hot breath right in my face and fell on top of me like he'd been stabbed.His back was sweaty, and I could feel him seeping inside of me.We didn't use anything, and I knew I was going to get pregnant.I love you, he said, still gasping.He didn't even say my name.And what was I supposed to say?That I felt sick, that I wished I hadn't let him?I said it back.Are you okay? he said.I knew there would be blood but not so much.I wiped my thighs with the blanket and folded it over.I'm okay, I said.I just need to clean up.I've got Kleenex, he said, and reached through the back window of the cab and handed me the box.He knelt there staring at me.Watch the movie, I said.I stuffed some up there, but I still felt sick, so I put on my top and my old underwear and my shorts and found my clogs.Monty wouldn't leave me alone. I'm okay, I kept telling him.I just need to use the bathroom.He wanted to come with me, but I finally shouted at him, and he let me go.I jumped down from the tailgate and almost fell.My legs were shaky and my stomach was churning like a washing machine.Everything down there stung.I stumbled over the dusty mounds toward the red fluorescents outlining the snack bar.It was circular and shaped like a witches hat, the projector in the top part.You could see the movie scissoring through the air.We were in the back, like a mile away.The last hundred feet were deserted.A green light burned on each unused speaker like an eye.Halfway there, I knew I wasn't going to make it.I stopped and leaned against a speaker pole and heaved up everything I'd eaten--the Champale and the mustard fries, the nachos and the Dots--all of it splashing hot over my Dr. Scholl's.I spit to clean my mouth and kicked dust over everything and went on.My thighs were sticky, and getting sick made me cry, so my face was a mess.I knew the bathrooms were by the front, so I walked around the outside and slipped in, hoping no one would see me.Inside there was a line--seven or eight girls smoking, hands on hips.I stood outside in the pink glow, the movie huge behind me.The music was building again.A fat guy carrying a little kid in pajamas on his shoulders was coming. I pretended to be looking for something I dropped, then when he was even with me, I fell in beside him.The girls inside didn't even look.I walked straight past them into the men's room.There was one guy at a urinal, but he didn't turn around.I wetted a handful of paper towels and took them to the farthest stall and locked the door.It was so filthy I didn't sit down.I threw the Kleenex in the toilet and the water went red.As I was wiping my legs, I heard the guy getting some paper towels and the door closing.In the mirror I looked the same, maybe a little buzzed, a little tired, but the same girl I'd been before.I didn't think I'd learned anything.Outside, the girls in line took one look at me and ran for the men's room.Monty was waiting back at the truck, asking the same questions.I'm fine, I said, and let him hold me.Now that I look back on it, he was being as sweet as he knew how, but right then I hated him.Marjorie, he said, real serious, like he was going to follow it with something like I love you or I want to marry you.I didn't give him the chance.Hey, I said, did you leave me any of that Champale?That was a weird time for me, fifteen and sixteen.I think it is for most girls.The world can be so perfect, and then it can just suck.That's unnecessary language, but I've already said it; just don't have me say it in the book.People are mean or dishonest for no reason.It makes you angry, and angry with yourself for being that way sometimes.I was weird, I know that now.I think my mom blames it on my dad dying right in front of me, but I don't think that's it.That's some of it maybe, but not all.Don't make too big a deal out of it.I read somewhere that your dad left early, so you know how people try to pin everything on that.You know not to fall for it.The big thing when I was fifteen is that I got a job and started drinking a lot of diet Pepsi.I was a fry man at Long John Silver's.That's what they called me--a fry man.I worked the Fry-o-lator.Actually they call them fryers there.Some other goofy stuff they had were chicken planks and hush puppies and corn cobettes, which were just frozen ears of corn snapped in half.You had to wear these ugly blue uniforms with this dorky bow at your throat; they were made of polyester and stuck to your sweat.It was boring because no one ever came in besides the dinner rush.When an order did come in, the girl at the counter said it into her microphone, and I tossed a breaded fish square into the grease.You had to jump back fast or it would get your hands.I'd fill up the metal basket with frozen fries and lower it into the grease. Everything there was frozen.We used to play broom hockey with the filets; they hurt when they hit your shins.I wasn't really drinking then, not like every day..I'd come in after school, and the first thing I'd do was pour myself a jumbo diet Coke.The biggest cup they had then was 44 ounces, now it's 64.I'd drink two of those before the dinner rush and I'd be flying.In some ways it wasn't a bad job, compared to some of the ones I've had.You didn't have to do much.The manager's name was Cissy, and when there was nothing to do, she made us sweep.You'd sit down to read a magazine or something--maybe I could be reading The Stand, the original one, because it was around that time.If Cissy saw you sitting down, she'd get on the microphone and say, Grab a broom.We'd go to the bathroom to read so much that she set a time limit on how long you could be in there.She'd come in and knock on your stall.I liked the longer version of The Stand.I liked the original one too. Even the miniseries was good, with the guy from Forrest Gump with no legs.I thought his dog was great.It's such a great story.Do you think someday you'll put out an even longer version?You could just keep adding to it.I'd read it.You could do the same thing with all your books, the ones people like.Not like It or The Eyes of the Dragon or The Tommyknockers, but the good ones.I could read a lot more of Salem's Lot.Anyway, it wasn't a bad job.I could quit anytime cause I was still living with my mom.I didn't really need the money for anything.Monty always paid for everything.One night when we were out on a date, Monty took me to Charcoal Oven.It's this old-time drive-in off Northwest Expressway with this great neon, this chef guy in a hat in six different colors.You could see it for miles.We pulled up and ordered, and Monty said to me, What do you want to drink?And automatically I said, Large diet Coke.Diet Pepsi okay? the girl on the speaker says.Monty looks at me like it might not be okay.He was like that, he wanted everything to be just right.I think he was scared that he wasn't....",books;humor;humor & entertainment;literary;literature & fiction;mystery;self-help & psychology;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,11
0943575524,"Discipling Music Ministry: Twenty-First Century Directions ""This thoughtful and challenging book should be studied by leaders of worship, lay and ordained, and be the subject of discussions and workshops for congregations.""Dr. Alec Wyton, Manhattan School of Music""Calvin Johansson sets forth a strong case for a worship that arises out of the gospel. Standing in historical tradition, he sees worship as the gospel in motionthe gospel told, acted out, and sung. His argument for good musical forms as a means of delivering the gospel deserves wide and careful consideration.""Dr. Robert Webber, Wheaton College""A thoughtful, thought-provoking, and prophetic statement about the nature of church music in our time which avoids the thoughtless and superficial by raising basic and primal questions.""Dr. Paul Westermeyer, Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary""Calvin Johansson is a prophet with an important message for pastors, worship leaders, and church musicians of our day. He calls us from our preoccupation with novelty in music styles and instant gratification of pleasure needs to a sober evaluation of how music can truly be. . . . Johansson's message challenges pastors and church musicians to think again about how and when church music truly glorifies God and edifies human beings.""Dr. Donald P. Hustad, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary -- Review	Calvin M. Johansson has served as a church music director for four decades. He is Professor of Music at Evangel College. He is the author of Music and Ministry: A Biblical Counterpoint, and Discipling Music Ministry: Twenty-first Century Directions.",arts & photography;books;christian;christian books & bibles;church institutions & organizations;gospel;ministry & church leadership;music;musical genres;religion & spirituality;religious & sacred music,11
0783890842,"Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot What a great idea for a deep-dish tell-all! JFK's lonely, classy wife, Bobby's athletic, competitive wife, and Ted's meek, alcoholic wife, together at last between covers, soothing each other when not fighting like fishwives. Taraborrelli's breathless prose makes you a fly on the wall when formidable mother-in-law Rose Kennedy walks in on Joan commiserating with Ethel about their honeymoons: ""I think Bobby was finished before I got into the room!"" said Ethel. ""Now what are you ladies talking about?"" asked Rose. Jackie, who was present, cooed, ""Oh, we were just saying how well Bobby sleeps at night."" ""He gets that from me,"" said Rose. Ethel should never have been so catty when gentle, simple Joan joined the clan: ""Goodbye wine and cheese,"" hissed Ethel. ""Hello macaroni and cheese."" And she shouldn't have mocked Jackie for being unable to compete in touch football--with the Kennedys, it was more like ""claw, scratch and bite"" football. And what about when she rubbed it in that she and Bobby were closer than Jackie and Jack? After all, when Lee Remick phoned Ethel to say ""You're on the way out,"" and Ethel replied that Bobby was home in bed, Bobby was in fact (says Taraborrelli) in bed with Lee Remick. You may have heard that JFK's dad, Joe Kennedy, offered Jackie $1 million not to divorce JFK, but did you hear Jackie's alleged reply? ""The price goes up to $20 million if Jack brings home any venereal diseases."" Did Ethel betray Jackie's discontent to Joe--and then go ballistic when Joe only gave Ethel $500,000? You'd think Joan would be the clinker in the group, like Zeppo Marx. She was a bit dim, but should Ted have put her down as dumb? He's the one who showed up soused with a prostitute for dinner with the king and queen of Belgium, whose priceless antique couch Ted's date ruined by wetting it. Who knows how historians will judge this book, but it sure does a great job of making history into a Jackie Collins novel. --Tim Appelo 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The author of best-selling biographies of Sinatra, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross on being a Kennedy woman. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""...provides surprisingly three-dimensional portraits...and their complex relationships with one another...""  -- People, 2/14/00""Taraborrelli's book is filled with fascinating glimpses into the private lives of Jackie, Joan, and Ethel Kennedy--their arguments, their parties, their concerns about their husbands' affairs, their relationships with their own and each other's children.  There are more than enough meaty, gossipy stories to satisfy any Kennedy watcher.""  -- Boston Herald, 2/3/00""This book is the first to really examine the relationshipd between the three Kennedy wives, all so different, yet all with one tragic, common bond.""  -- Liz Smith, ""New York Post""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	J. Randy Taraborrelli is a respected journalist, a recognizable entertainment personality, and in-demand guest on many television programs including Today, Good Morning America, The Early Show, Entertainment Tonight, and CNN Headline News. He is the bestselling author of thirteen books.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	At times, this book-both in its text and in its reading-seems to present the so-called second-generation Kennedy women as saints or saint-like. It praises the Kennedy men at times but also includes periodic criticisms of their personal lives. While Fowler reads with clarity and an even pace, her reading is too positive and too cheery. Such a reading seems to reflect the almost uncritical characterizations of the women, and perhaps Fowler is merely reading in a manner consistent with the text. It seems, however, that a voice not so warm would have been better for this book.  M.L.C.  AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",( o );a-z;biographies & memoirs;books;jacqueline kennedy;leaders & notable people;onassis;people;rich & famous;specific groups;women,11
0071440429,"Increase Your Score in 3 Minutes a Day: SAT Essay ""If Strunk and White did stand-up . . . a serious and funny book."" -- Matt Barrett, student, Stanford University	""If you want to ace the SAT essay, this is the book to buy . . . a creative approach that actually works and doesn't bore you to death in the process.""--Darshan Patel, student, Albuquerque Academy ""If Strunk and White did stand-up . . . a serious and funny book.""--Matt Barrett, student, Stanford University Master the SAT Essay--FAST! If SAT savvy is what you seek, this book is the resource you need. Learn the secrets, shortcuts, and strategies to succeed--with only minutes of effort a day. This lively, straight-to-the-point guide presents essential writing principles on English grammar, proven essay-writing strategies that are life-savers when you're under time restraints, and sample essays with revealing commentary on their strengths and weaknesses from a professional grader. Consult this practical guide and in no time you'll learn how to:  Use an examiner's eye to structure your writing and cut the clutter  Put yourself into your essay--and have the examiner root for you  Prepare a Plan B for when you can't think of anything to write   Whether you follow the eight-week plan or you need the last-minute approach, let this book lead you to SAT success.	Randall McCutcheon is a high school educator nationally recognized by the U.S. Department of Education for innovation in curriculum, with experience teaching English, speech, debate, and journalism. Jim Schaffer, a finalist for the Teacher-in-Space program, is chair of the English Department at Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he teaches English and journalism.",books;college & university;education & reference;new;sat & psat;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;test preparation;testing;used & rental textbooks,11
0781774276,"High-Yield™ Comprehensive USMLE Step 1 Review (High-Yield Series) , Justin M. Simmons, Second-Year Medical Student, Kansas City, MO -- ""Very informative and an easy read. A definite must have for board preparation.""-Justin M. Simmons, Second-Year Medical Student, Kansas City, MO",books;dictionaries & terminology;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;reference;test preparation & review;used & rental textbooks,11
B000MTEKOQ,"Wireless Security End-to-End ""...this book has convinced me..."" (Communications News, February 2003)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Wireless Security End to End is a comprehensive guide covering encryption, PKI, SSL, third party certificate validation, Smart card, pin authentication, device level security, threat analysis, strategies for developing a wireless security solution and a look ahead at future biometric technology all in the End to End series targeted at real-world professionals.Wireless Security End to End is being done in the End to End series, a new series dedicated to cutting-edge technologies designed to provide proven solutions, real-world tips and best practices. The End to End series takes a no ""techno-babble"" modular approach in explaining cutting edge wireless technology. Special features include case studies, real-life implementations and wireless decision tree.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;computers & technology;encryption;engineering;network security;networking;networks;professional & technical;protocols & apis;security & encryption;telecommunications,11
0810839458,"Historical Dictionary of Lutheranism Number 35 in the publisher's Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements series. RBBCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	The articles are by and large clear and succinct, offering essential knowledge...the book can be an invaluable resource for college students and seminarians. (Religious Studies Review)Gnther Gassmann...has provided yet another incalculable service to theologians, historians, pastors, students, and anyone the least bit interested in the Lutheran churches of the world...Every English-speaking church library should purchase a copy of this book...There is simply no other current source in English where this much information is packed into such a usable form. (Theologische Literaturzeitung)This obvious labour of love is an important collection of articles and a repository of information on one branch of the Christian faith over the past five hundred years. (Journal Of Religious Thought)The book commends itself as an important reference addition to any librarychurch, university, or seminary. (Lutheran Quarterly)...the excellent general bibliographies at the end include most of the major English-language studies on Lutheran topics...more up-to-date than anything else available...Essential...it will prove valuable to readers who want good, basic information on the subject. (Choice)	Dr. Gnther Gassmann now teaches at the Gettysburg Seminary and was previously president of the Central Office of the United Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Germany, then associate director of the Department of Studies of the Lutheran World Federation and finally director of the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches.Dr. Duane H. Larson is president of the Wartburg Theological Seminary at Dubuque.Dr. Mark W. Oldenburg is professor of liturgics at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg.",books;christian books & bibles;education & reference;general;history;lutheran;protestantism;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;world,11
B000OYEZ7G,"Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm And Blues, Black Consciousness And Race Relations Addressing a gathering of black DJs in Atlanta in 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said: In a real sense you have paved the way for social and political change by creating a powerful, cultural bridge between black and white.... You introduced youth to that music and created a language of soul and promoted the dances which now sweep across race, class and nation. That music was rhythm and blues, and Brian Ward uses King's quote to further the premise of his fascinating book, Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations: that the music moved not only the feet of listeners, but their hearts and minds as well.  But as with nearly anything associated with race relations in the U.S., there is a flip side to this record, and Ward offers ample evidence that suggests RB also served to reinforce white stereotypes of blacks and promoted continued segregation. As he points out, many of the same white fans who packed venues to see Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin never supported the notion of equal rights or integration. In other words, entertainment was fine as long as it didn't challenge the status quo. It is precisely this lack of acceptance--combined with the snail's pace of civil rights legislation--that led to the emergence of the Black Power movement and the concurrent rise of funk and soul, the self-consciously inclusive offspring of RB originally geared specifically for black audiences. Of course, the fact that James Brown's Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud or Curtis Mayfield's People Get Ready carried undeniably political messages for blacks didn't mean the average white music fan couldn't get up, get into it and get involved. Ward's insistence on this point clearly suggests, despite his attempt at objectivity, that he believes the music made a difference.  Ward's coverage of RB stretches from the release of the Chords' single Sh-Boom in 1954 through the mid-1970s, so it is far from a complete history of the genre, but his work is to be applauded for both its ambition and enthusiasm. Though his theorizing may wear thin at times, Just My Soul Responding is exhaustively researched (the notes and sources stretch nearly 100 pages) and packed with the kind of anecdotes that music lovers will savor. Particularly adept coverage of Chuck Berry, James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic, Motown founder Berry Gordy, and the roles of many other prominent artists who either supported and avoided the civil rights cause stand out as some of the book's highlights. In all, a rousing hybrid of history, social commentary, and the literate liner notes of an ardent fan. --Shawn Carkonen	...an account that is evenhanded and common-sensical but also committed and felt ... an uncommonly comprehensive introduction to the formative decades of black rock-and-roll...   -- The New York Times Book Review, Robert Christgau	Ward brings passion and an encyclopedic knowledge of R to bear in his account of Brown vs. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power Movement, and the ebb and flow of economic and political clout within the Black community. . . . A densely textured and fascinating study.Susan McClary, author of Feminine EndingsA highly original and imaginative history connecting African American popular music with corresponding developments in the Black freedom struggle. . . . Ward is particularly adept in his use of sources, combining a creative rendering of discography with ample use of archival material. . . . [Ward] forces the reader to think about the civil rights and Black power movements in new ways and offers keen insights for measuring the impact of the African American freedom struggle on both Black and white Americans.Steven Lawson, Stanford University	Ward brings passion and an encyclopedic knowledge of R to  bear in  his account of Brown vs. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Movement,  the  Black Power Movement, and the ebb and flow of economic and political  clout  within the Black community. . . . A densely textured and fascinating  study.  (Susan McClary, author of Feminine Endings)	Brian Ward is Associate Professor of History, University of Florida. He is coeditor of The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement (1996).",americas;asia;books;history;kindle ebooks;kindle store;politics & social sciences;race relations;sociology;united states;world,11
0917211014,"The Cancer Microbe One of the great tragedies of modern medical science is its refusal to recognize the cancer microbe - the hidden killer in cancer, AIDS, and other immune diseases - and the germ that exists in all of us. Dr. Cantwell, an outstanding researcher in cancer microbiology, has spent a lifetime studying and documenting this hidden killer in breast cancer, lymphoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, AIDS, lung disease, scleroderma, lupus, and other diseases. His published research is found in every medical library in the world. Now he has written an easy-to-read book that will appeal to anyone interested in learning the secret cause of cancer. You will learn about the suppressed research of physicians like Wilhelm Reich, Antoine Bechamp, Virginia Livingston, and other scientists whose brilliant cancer discoveries and treatments were censored, suppressed, or ignored by the medical establishment. If you have ever wondered what causes cancer, and why doctors can't cure it, this is the informative book you must read.	Someday Cantwell's work will be taught in medical schools.  -- Australian Health and Healing	Alan Cantwell is the author of over 30 published papers in the medical literature proving the existence of the cancer microbe in cancer. He is also the author of Four Women Against Cancer.",americas;books;general;history;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,11
081731007X,"Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture: A View from the Southeast ""These authoritative, provocative, and wide-ranging studies of human skeletons provide perspectives on life and death in the prehistoric Southeast that are impossible to obtain through other kinds of archaeological investigations. ""George R. Milner, Pennsylvania State University""A wealth of new data and ideas . . . challenging our assumptions about the broad patterns of population adaptation and decline before and after European contact.""American Antiquity	Patricia M. Lambert is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Utah State University.",americas;anthropology;archaeology;books;epidemiology;history;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;physical;politics & social sciences,11
0781805023,"Uncertain Glory: Lee's Generalship Re-Examined McKenzie, a contributor to Civil War magazine, reexamines General Robert E. Lee's military skills. MacKenzie's work is bound to stir up controversy, because he claims that Lee wasted lives with pointless attacks, created an inefficient staff structure, was unable to take a long-term strategic view of the war, and could not adapt to the changing military technologies. It is easy, some 130 years after the war, to criticize a general's performance under extraordinarily stressful conditions. Despite this, McKenzie presents his arguments forcefully and well in a number of short chapters that provide a glimpse into various aspects of Lee's generalship. Whether or not the reader will agree with the author's conclusions is something else again. For public libraries.?Robert A. Curtis, Taylor Memorial P.L., Cuyahoga Falls, OhioCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	A candid evaluation of Robert E. Lee's military career,  penetrating the misty legends surrounding the ``marble man'' and  the Lost Cause that grew after his death in 1870.  At the end of the war, McKenzie points out, many Southern  newspapers blamed Lee and Jefferson Davis, among others, for  their defeat. But Southern historians, he suggests, came to  dominate the study of the Civil War and gradually reworked Lee's  image, turning him into an idealized figure, incapable of error.  Early Southern victories, he reminds us, were won by the skilled  use of defensive tactics applied against the hapless efforts of  incompetent Union generals. McKenzie asserts that Lee, an  engineer, had a genius for just such warfare, but that he had to  be pushed by Davis and ``Stonewall'' Jackson to go on the  offensive, where he was often less effective. Jackson emerges as  the greatest Southern strategist, an innovative general who  advised Lee against a war of attrition, arguing for attacks  designed to cause maximum casualties to the enemy. But Jackson  died, and Lee, applying Jackson's tactics in less favorable  circumstances, staged massive frontal assaults at Antietam and  Gettysburg, against strong defenses, that resulted in huge  casualties. And as younger, more innovative and battle-tested  Union generals (Grant, Sherman, etc.) emerged, their new  strategies and tactics consistently outclassed the poorly staffed  and supplied Southern armies. McKenzie argues that Jackson's  tactics, if used early in the war, might have won more battles  and foreign allies for the Confederacy, leading to a negotiated  peace. But Lee was not the figure to carry out such a strategy,  and he was further handicapped by an interfering, inept  president, by ill health, and by a bureaucracy unable to provide  sufficient food, clothing, and arms for his troops.  McKenzie's first book offers a clear, concise, realistic  rereading of Lee's career and strategic abilities. A powerful  revisionist work. (12 b photos, 6 maps, not seen) -- Copyright 1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",19th century;americas;books;campaigns & battlefields;civil war;history;life & institutions;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);strategy;united states,11
0764128701,"Why Boys Are Different: And How to Bring Out the Best in Them [back cover]   Is it true that boys are better at science than girls? How can I stop my boys from fighting with each other? Why wont my five-year-old son have anything to do with girls? Do boys perform better at single sex schools?  Sort the fact from the fiction and find the answers to these questions and more in this fascinating study. Discover how boys and girls are actually more alike than they appear and why differences in brain structure and hormones affect their developmental timetables and patterns of behavior. Packed with research findings and practical advice, this book explains how and why boys are different and what you can do to make the most of their potential.   Dr. Bonnie Macmillan, B. Ed., M.A., Ph.D., is an educational psychologist. She has over 30 years experience working in the field of education, teaching young children and conducting and analyzing experimental research on reading methods, learning, memory, and childrens brain development.	Bonnie Macmillan, Ph.D., is an occupational psychologist with many years of experience teaching younger children. She is a qualified primary school teacher and educational psychologist who has worked as a teacher, lecturer, and researcher in several countries, including Canada, the United States, Australia, and England. Her research projects have concentrated on teaching methods and the development of learning and memory skills in children.",books;child psychology;education & reference;education theory;fitness & dieting;health;parenting;parenting & relationships;philosophy & social aspects;psychology & counseling;schools & teaching,11
0674090616,"Cahiers du Cinéma: The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave (Harvard Film Studies) (v. 1) A good case can be mode for the 1950s as the most stimulating decode in the annals of film criticism. Credit for this goes largely to the French journal Cahiers du Cinma, which nurtured and published a small band of iconoclasts who later moved into active filmmaking and became the core of the influential New Wave group. Jean-Luc Godard and the late Franois Truffaut were probably its most important members, with Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and Claude Chobrol right at their heels...Jim Hillier's collection...concentrates on the 1950s, assessing the pre-New Wove cinema of France, as well as classical Hollywood film and Italy's neo-realist school. It also treats such technical issues as the essence of mise en scne and the advent of CinemaScope...This is a fascinating and provocative book that casts a keen light on the ideas (and by extension, the films) of such astonishing cinastes as Godard and Rivette, while also showing their affinities with the incisive thought of Andr Bazin, the group's mentor...This collection deserves a wide readership among casual and committed filmgoers alike. (Christian Science Monitor )This isn't simply an anthology of interesting film criticism; it's something much more rare and intriguing--the documentary history of an important intellectual shift...By treating movies as movies, not as poor relations to books or plays, the Cahiers critics helped introduce a new art form to the century that produced it. (New York Times Book Review )Wonderfully intellectual and anti-academic at the same time, the articles are, more than anything else, supremely personal...These are immensely serious people, self-consciously bent on nothing less than changing the history of cinema. In important ways they first taught us how to look at movies, especially our own. (American Film )	Jim Hillier is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Bulmershe College of Higher Education, Reading, England.",arts & photography;books;film & television;history & criticism;humanities;humor & entertainment;movies;new;performing arts;theory;used & rental textbooks,11
1580931456,"The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death Bizarre and utterly fascinating, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death is a dark and disturbing photographic journey through criminal cases and the mind of Frances Glessner Lee--grandmother, dollhouse-maker, and master criminal investigator. Photographer Corinne May Botz stumbled across the ""Nutshell Studies"" while making a video about women who collect dollhouses. On the suggestion of a collector, she visited the Baltmore Medical Examiner's Office, where Lee's miniature reconstructions of crime scenes were on display. The macabre dioramas fascinated and repulsed her: ""I was entranced by the details: the porcelain doll with a broken arm in the attic, the grains of sugar on the kitchen floor...I was also riveted by the miniature corpses. Shot in bed, collapsed in the bathtub, hung in the attic and stabbed in the closet; all were eternally frozen in miniature rooms that had become their tombs.""   A remarkable woman, Frances Glessner Lee established the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936. At the time, innumerable murders went undetected because evidence was mishandled, or ignored. To train investigators of sudden and violent deaths to better assess visual evidence, Lee created the Nutshell Studies--dollhouses that students could study from every angle, with minute crime scenes details taken from actual cases. Lee created 18 dioramas, using only the most mysterious cases (cases that could have been ruled as accidents, murders, or suicides) to train detectives and challenge their ability to read evidence.  Botz reveals as much about the nature of obsession as she does about Frances Glessener Lee--each model is painstakingly photographed from multiple vantage points, allowing the reader to witness the astounding level of realism and precision in each case, as well as giving the reader unobstructed access to each eerie setting. All 18 studies include a brief synopsis of each case, as well as a key to each grisly floor plan. Perfect for amateur sleuths, aspiring medical examiners, and fans of CSI, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death is grim and oh so bewitching.  --Daphne Durham   Amazon.com Content  Inside The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death     Case: ""Living Room"" Case: ""Three-Room Dwelling"" Case: ""Dark Bathroom""	""The Nutshell dioramas are compelling, a bit disturbing, and engagingly weirdit never previously seemed possible to use the words 'forsenic' and 'cute' in the same sentence. Corinne May Botz has done a grand job both in exposing them to a nonspecialist public and in photographing them with such fanatical verisimilitude."" Luc Sante	Corinne May Botz has published photographs and essays in magazines such as Life, Metropolis, 2wice, and Popular Science. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally.",books;criminal law;criminology;education & reference;forensic science;law;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;social sciences;social services & welfare,11
0312153988,"Shadow Play: The Murder of Robert F. Kennedy, the Trial of Sirhan Sirhan, and the Failure of American Justice Investigative journalist Klaber and Melanson, curator of the Kennedy Assassination Archives at the University of Massachusetts, spent six years researching the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. They conclude that Sirhan ""may"" not have acted alone, that his gun ""may"" not have killed Kennedy, and that the police investigation and Sirhan's courtroom defense were flawed. Since almost 30 years have passed, the authors can only speculate about certain aspects of the case, but they successfully document problems with the police investigation and the handling of Sirhan's defense. The case generates many intriguing questions about the crime's bizarre aspects, such as Sirhan's insistence that he acted alone but failure to remember the shooting. Similar studies (Robert. Kaiser's R.F.K. Must Die!, LJ 12/1/70; William Turner's The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, LJ 7/78; and anticonspiracy theorist Dan Moldea's The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy, LJ 6/1/95) also argue that the police and the court were lax. Recommended for academic and public libraries.?Gary D. Barber, SUNY at Fredonia Lib.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Investigative journalist Klaber and political scientist  Melanson, curator of the Kennedy Assassination Archives at the  University of Massachusetts, reopen the RFK assassination in an  exhaustive and intriguing study.  Klaber and Melanson tell the story of the police  investigation (Sirhan Sirhan, eventually convicted of the murder,  was taken into custody immediately), the trial, and the 20-year  battle with the LAPD over crucial files that seem to have  disappeared, as have the only photographs of the shooting by a  supposedly lone gunman, which took place at L.A.'s Ambassador  Hotel on June 4, 1968, at a celebration of Kennedy's victory that  day in the California primary. The authors show that the police  investigation and the trial glossed over key pieces of evidence,  such as the reported hurried departure of a mysterious couple  from the hotel moments after the shooting (reported by a  respected police investigator), the testimony of several  witnesses that Sirhan was accompanied by an attractive woman in a  polka-dot dress, and substantial ballistic evidence that some of  the shots fired did not come from Sirhan's gun. The authors point  out that both the prosecution and the defense in the trial raised  significant questions about whether the ballistic exhibits were  properly preserved. Ending with a narrative of a 1993 interview  with Sirhan in prison--in which he reiterates his admission of  guilt, his denial that he worked with anyone, his motive, and his  courtroom contention that he had only hazy memories of the events  leading to the assassination and no actual memory of the shooting  itself. The authors draw no conclusions from their account, other  than that neither the investigation nor the trial have adequately  explained the assassination.  An eye-opening review of the evidentiary discrepancies that  are possible in a celebrated criminal case, even one with over 70  witnesses and an admission of guilt by the accused. (8 pages  illustrations, not seen) -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",20th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;criminology;history;murder & mayhem;politics & social sciences;social sciences;true accounts;united states,11
0471434213,"Human Resources in the 21st Century this book tackles HRs need to evolve (Employee Benefits October 2003	Marc Effron (Darien, CT) is the Global Practice Leader for Hewitt Associates Leadership Practice. His leadership work centers on helping organizations attract, develop and retain top leadership talent. Robert Gandossy (Redding, CT) heads Hewitts Global Practice Leaders for Talent and has over twenty years experience in human resources, leadership, and change management. Marshall Goldsmith (Santa Fe, CA) is a founding Director of The Alliance for Strategic Leadership, a consulting organization.",books;business & finance;business & investing;communications;human resources;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;management & leadership;new;skills;used & rental textbooks,11
1577361725,"Someone Stole Yesterday A guidebook for all others who will find themselves  unceremoniously thrown into the unforgiving world of traumatic brain  injury.    -- Dr. Cathearine Jenkins-Hall, NeuropsychologistI was moved from tears to exhilaration by the story of this  remarkable woman and her family's love, mutual support, strength,  tenacity, and determination.  -- Dr. Carole H. Browner, Department of Anthropology, School of Medicine, University of California, Los AngelesThis is a moving story of how the ingredients of faith,  courage, and love combined to help a young man with a near fatal  injury beat the odds and receive a future with promise.  -- Dr. James A. King, United Methodist Minister	Helene was born and raised in Los Angeles, and graduated  from Whittier College, where she met her husband, Bob.  She was  granted a resource specialist credential in special education from  University of California at Irvine. Her twenty-year career as an  educator includes both classroom and special education teaching.  She  served as coordinator for special programs in the LaHabra School  District from 1985 to 1987.  A pioneer in the field of mainstreaming  students with special needs, she also taught summer classes at  Whittier College, and has served as a court appointed child advocate  for Orange County.  Currently she is the chair of the education  ministry at St. Andrews Church in San Clemente, California, where she  and her husband reside.",biographies & memoirs;books;inspirational;medical;memoirs;professionals & academics;religion & spirituality;special needs;specific groups;spirituality;women,11
0764564846,"Suzy Gershman's Born to Shop New York, 9E ""Gershman's may be the best guide for novice and pro shoppers alike."" ?The Washington PostFor nearly twenty years, Suzy Gershman has been leading savvy shoppers to the world's best finds. Now Born to Shop New York is easier to use and packed with more up-to-date listings than ever before.Inside you'll find:The best of Manhattan's shopping scene, from world-renowned department stores to hip boutiques ? now with even more coverage of the hottest downtown neighborhoodsGreat values on everything from bath and beauty to wedding gowns ? plus insider tips on sample sales, flea markets, and factory outletsTerrific gift ideas, even for the friend who has everything ? plus the best gifts for under $10Tips on finding the best hotel and dining values ? so you can maximize your shopping dollarsPlan Your Trip Online at Frommers.com	Suzy Gershman is an author and a journalist who has worked in the fiber and fashion industry since 1969 in both New York and Los Angeles, and has held editorial positions at California Apparel News, Mademoiselle, Gentleman's Quarterly, and People magazine, where she was West Coast Style editor.  She writes regularly for various magazines and her new essays on retailing are text for Harvard Business School. She frequently appears on network and local television; she is a contributing editor to Travel Holiday.",books;business & investing;consumer guides;education & reference;general;mid atlantic;new york;northeast;reference;travel;united states,11
0618110240,"Pocket Keys For Writers And Hunt Dolphin Reader, Fifth Edition Ann Raimes, a respected authority on writing, research, grammar, and ESL, created KEYS FOR WRITERS to be the most accessible, user-friendly handbook in the tabbed, spiral-bound market.	      --This text refers to the 							Spiral-bound	 edition.",books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;literature;new;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,11
0873514033,"Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales And Oral Histories (Native Voices) This substantial volume presents a rich and varied collection of  tales from the Ojibwe (Chippewa) tradition while also  integrating material from associated Algonquian tribes who  migrated westward for centuries before European contact. Ten  Indian elders from the northwestern United States and Canada  provide narratives in their native language, with English  translations appearing on the facing pages. Each participant is  profiled, and his contributions (assembled over several years)  follow in numbered paragraphs. These contributions present  various aspects of Ojibwe daily life, including fishing, maple  sugaring, ricing, devilish childhood tricks, religious  ceremonies, and more. Drawn from both printed and oral sources,  the stories are meticulously and sensitively translated and  annotated, giving shape, form, and nuance to a fragile, almost  extinct civilization. This preservation project will be a vital  addition to Native American lore and is certain to be treasured  by comprehensive collections in special and academic  libraries. Richard K. Burns, MSLS, Hatboro, PA   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Anton Treuer, Editor",americas;books;education & reference;folklore & mythology;history;native american;native american studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;world,11
0825673011,"Mojo Triangle: Birthplace of Country, Blues, Jazz and Rock 'n' Roll Mojo Triangle considers the developments and major figures who shaped pop within an imaginary triangle encompassing Natchez, New Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, and the Delta, and ranges over to Alabama for a stop-off in Muscle Shoals, recording home of the most famous soul-music rhythm section of the 1960s and 1970s. Dickerson also examines, at chapter length, the role climate and weather played in the area's musical development and history. Another valuable resource and readable history for pop enthusiasts. Mike TribbyCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Dickerson's book adds another chapter to the legacy of vital works that trace the South's prominence in American cultural development."" -- Ron Wynn, Nashville City PaperA rich and rewarding book. -- Beth Goehring, The Literary Guild	Author James L. Dickerson was born and raised at the intersection of Highways 61 and 82, the heralded crossroads of ""the blues"" in the Mississippi Delta. That music was his inspiration and hes become the dominant voice in the South on matters related to music, politics, and culture. With more than 18 non-fiction books under his belt, hes written about everyone from Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker to Ashley Judd and Stevie Ray Vaughn.",americas;arts & photography;books;history;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;music;musical genres;popular;state & local;united states,11
0395937582,"Rites of Spring : The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age ""In a trailblazing, iconoclastic work of cultural history, Eksteins links the modern avant-garde's penchant for primitivism, abstraction and myth-making to the protofascist ideology and militarism unleashed by WW I,"" reported PW . ""This provocative and disturbing reappraisal of modernism rings with authority."" Photos. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A brilliantly conceived and wonderfully written book of cultural and intellectual history that considers the impact of World War I on the 20th century. Ekstein (history, Toronto) begins by arguing that the ballet The Rite of Spring prefigured the mass psychology that was necessary to the waging of the war. He then carefully elucidates how the soldiers who fought experienced and internalized the horrors of the trenches. The last third of the book deals with the postwar era, considering Lindbergh's flight and its effect on Europe, the best seller All Quiet on the Western Front , and the Hitler phenomenon. Like Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory (LJ 7/75), this will likely become required reading for anyone who seeks to understand the central importance of the Great War to the decades that followed. For both public and college libraries.- Ann H. Sullivan, Tompkins Cortland Community Coll. Lib., Dryden, N.Y.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""A Fertile Book."" -- Paul Fussell ""A bold and unforgetable journey into the heart of our Daemonic century.""  - Alfred Kazin	In a remarkable display of originality and discerning historical  analysis Rites Of Spring describes the origins, the impact, and  the aftermath of the Great War of 1914-1918, arguably the most  traumatic event of this century.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In a remarkable display of originality and discerning historical analysis Rites Of Spring describes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of the Great War of 1914-1918, arguably the most traumatic event of this century.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Modris Ekstein is a professor of history at the University of Toronto's Scarborough campus.",20th century;books;europe;history;humanities;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;used & rental textbooks;world;world war i,11
B000OT82JS,"Ecocriticism (The New Critical Idiom) 'The publication of Greg Garrard's monograph on ecocriticism in Routledge's New Critical Idiom series marks a significant milestone in the development of ecologically oriented literary and cultural studies. As the first introductory textbook in this area, with a useful glossary, annotated list of further reading and extensive bibliography, it bears witness to the growth of tertiary studies in literature, culture and environment over the past decade ... ' - www.altitude21c.com	'The publication of Greg Garrard's monograph on ecocriticism in Routledge's New Critical Idiom series marks a significant milestone in the development of ecologically oriented literary and cultural studies. As the first introductory textbook in this area, with a useful glossary, annotated list of further reading and extensive bibliography, it bears witness to the growth of tertiary studies in literature, culture and environment over the past decade ... ' - www.altitude21c.com	Greg Garrard is a senior lecturer in English Literature at Bath Spa University, UK.",books;books & reading;classics;general;history & criticism;kindle ebooks;kindle store;literary criticism & theory;literature & fiction;movements & periods;united states,11
0195215508,"Oxford Latin Course: Part I ""Looks interesting....I like the inclusion of pictures.""--Margaret Ann Smith, Salisbury High School""The entire series is excellent--while obviously aimed at junior high students, it is emminently suitable in classes in high school where many students have low reading levels in English--yet challenging enough for those who are gifted.""--Gayle H. Cloud, Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas""Has lots of possibilities for oral and written practice.""--Robert Haglage, Woodward High""A very useful accessory--attractive and lively.  It should save the teacher time and effort.""--Gillian Vardon, Nichols School""Excellent....I would recommend it.""--Etan Savir, The John Cooper School	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Text: English, Latin (translation) Original Language: Latin	Maurice Balme is retired from the Harrow School. James Morwood, formerly Head of Classics at Harrow School in England, is now a Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford and Grocyn Lecturer for the Literae Humaniores Faculty.",books;christian books & bibles;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;reference;religious studies;used & rental textbooks,11
0762708298,"Britain by Rail 2001: How to Tour Britain by Train There is no better way to see England, Scotland, and Wales than by train, and there is no better guide to the British train system than Britain by BritRail. For more than twenty years, travelers using a BritRail pass have made this book their rail-travel bible. This guide explains how you can use London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Cardiff as base cities for day excursions to outlying points of interest - including the Isle of Wight, Liverpool, and St. Andrews. Britain by BritRail is the only book on the market that features fully updated information on fares, schedules, and pass options; personally researched day excursions that take you throughout Great Britain; practical travel tips on keeping costs down, traveling light, conquering jet lag, exchanging currency, understanding British terminology; the latest information on the Chunnel and other Channel crossings. (5 1/2 x 81/2, 320 pages, maps, charts)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;europe;food;general;great britain;lodging & transportation;professional & technical;railroad travel;railroads;transportation;travel,11
0822000911,"Troilus and Cressida (Cliffs Notes) 'I commend this new edition particularly for the introductory sections.' Shakespeare at the Centre Magazine'... fine new edition ...Anthony B. Dawson's readable and reliable text, together with his excellent explanatory footnotes and his superb discussion of theatrical adaptations of the play, will make this edition a valuable resource for scholars as well as an attractive text for classroom use.' Shakespeare Quarterly	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Troilus and Cressida, long considered one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays, is both difficult and fascinating. Largely neglected during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it has recently proved popular and rewarding on the stage as well as in the study. In this edition, Dawson views the play from a performance perspective--both in the commentary as well as in the detailed section on stage history in the introduction. His textual choices are often surprising but at the same time carefully grounded.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Frances Shirley is Professor of English Emerita, Wheaton College, Norton, MA.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Too long, with too many rambling speeches from undifferentiated characters, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA is not one of Shakespeare's most entertaining plays. And, like JULIUS CAESAR, it's one in which the title characters are not even the protagonists. Indeed, among the legions of Greek and Trojan princes and soldiers, no one really emerges as a memorable figure in this drama, and it needs to be rescued by fine performances in the minor roles. David Troughton as the witty Thersites and Ben Martin as the brutish Ajax both help carry off the more memorable scenes in this play, which, for all its faults, does have some remarkable poetry.  D.B.  AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;schools & teaching;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,11
B000FQ4K9G,"Coaching & Mentoring For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) ""excellent"" (TrainingZone.co.uk, 13th April 2007)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	If you want to create a lean, mean, working machine in todays environment you need a game plan for building employee morale and commitment. By coaching and mentoring your work forceinstead of implementing staid traditional management techniquesyoull start to see tremendous results.Regardless of where you find yourself on the corporate ladder and what level of authority you carry, what you and other managers share in common is the responsibility for the performance of others. Coaching and Mentoring For Dummies can open your eyes to this innovative way of managing and show you the best way to get the most out of those who work for you.Coaching and Mentoring For Dummies provides the foundation for understanding what business coaching is all about, and helps you gain or improve the coaching skills that drive employee performance and commitment. These skills, which serve as the main topics of this book, involve: getting employees to deliver the results you need; guiding employees to think and do for themselves; motivating employees to take on responsibility and perform effectively; and growing employee capabilities that lead to career development and successYoull also discover how to:Use questions rather than commandsBe a delegator, not a doerComplete performance reviews without anxietyGrow your employees talentsIncrease productivity and decrease turnoverWith Coaching and Mentoring For Dummies as your guide, you can start to put these techniques and tools to work for you and inspire your employees in ways you never imagined. From tried-and-true worksheets to tools that you can tailor to you own situation, this friendly guide helps you call all the right plays with regards to your employees. Forget about micromanaging! When you become a coach, youll be surprised by the tasks your group can perform.The fun and easy guide to today's hottest trends in management training, Coaching and Mentoring For Dummies shows managers how to take advantage of these state-of-the-art management tools -- without spending hundreds of dollars on training seminars! This book features Guidance on being a coach rather than a doer"" and giving feedback in a positive wayAdvice on motivating, grooming, and growing employeesTips on tackling diversity issues, performance reviews, and other challengesPut these techniques and tools to work and inspire your employees in ways you never imagined. Forget about micromanaging! When you become a coach, you'll be surprised by the tasks your group can perform.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & investing;entrepreneurship;guides;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;job hunting & careers;management & leadership;small business & entrepreneurship;teams;training,11
B00016ZLHA,"Brother 1/2 Inch x 26.2 Feet Black on White Flexible ID Tape (TZFX231) This tape features our exclusive laminated tape process and a specially formulated adhesive. The adhesive is designed to stick to itself as well as to laminate. Great for wrapping around an item. Perfect for labeling cylindrical surfaces such as cables, PVC piping, etc. Best suited for wire wrapping and flagging. Each tape is 26.2 feet. long.",accessories & supplies;adhesives;adhesives & fasteners;education & crafts;electronics;labeling tapes;office & school supplies;office electronics accessories;office products;shipping label tape;tape,11
1931223033,The Moon of the Swaying Buds: A Spiritual Autobiography This title is out of print,arts & literature;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism & theory;history & criticism;leaders & notable people;literature & fiction;new age;religious;specific groups;women,11
0226327434,"Numbered Voices: How Opinion Polling Has Shaped American Politics (American Politics and Political Economy Series) Susan Herbst is president of the University of Connecticut. She previously served as executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer at the University System of Georgia, as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at SUNY-Albany, as dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University, and as a professor of political science and communication studies and chair of the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University.",books;education & reference;government;national;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;united states;used & rental textbooks,11
0749439033,"Reshaping Teaching in Higher Education: A Guide to Linking Teaching with Research (SEDA Series) 'This book is readable, well researched, timely, thought-provoking and practical ... The book would certainly serve the purpose of raising key policy, curriculum and pedagogic debates in any department or institution. It would be particularly useful in staff development and enhancement courses such as PG CERT HE and other courses developed for new university tutors.' - Escalate'The book puts forward practical suggestions and flexible tools that will be of interest to individual staff, course teams, departments, institutions and policy makers alike.' - Higher Education Digest'I strongly recommend this book to anyone looking for an imaginative way forward for their university's and their own management of teaching and research activities. This book nicely balances a scholarly case for creating and designing productive links between research and teaching with suggestions and illustrations as to how to do this.' - Studies in Higher Education'This text will make interesting and easy reading for anyone interested in developing their own teaching practice, particularly if struggling to reconcile the roles of teaching and research in their careers - Association of Clinical Pathologists News'With a wealth of suggested strategies and an abundance of supporting examples, this book is a useful road map for any individual, department, or institution wanting to enhance the relationship between teaching and research and its impact on student learning. The review of the research, which challenges commonly accepted myths and demonstrates the need for further research, is probably the most enlightening part of the book.' - Elizabeth Normandy, University of North Carolina at Pembroke'This is a timely book ... There is a strong theoretical base and many ideas in this book, all of which are accessible and not embedded in a morass of jargon. There is a reassuring level of scholarship underpinning the material.' - Gordon Suddaby, Higher Education Review	Professor Alan Jenkins, Westminster Institute, Oxford Brookes University. Rosanna Breen, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Dr Roger Lindsay Department of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University. Dr Angela Brew Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Sydney",books;college & university;education;education & reference;education theory;instruction methods;new;pedagogy;research;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,11
0393060802,"Happiness in a Storm: Facing Illness and Embracing Life as a Healthy Survivor In 1990, Harpham, a physician with three young children, was diagnosed with chronic lymphoma. She has lived through reoccurrences, undergone a variety of therapies and is now in her sixth year of remission. In her latest book, she shares here the guidelines she has developed for becoming a healthy survivor: a patient who gets good care and lives as fully as possible. Harpham (After Cancer: A Guide to Your New Life) is no Pollyanna and fully acknowledges the devastating physical and emotional toll diagnosis and treatment take. Harpham advocates first choosing a treatment that is based on current scientific knowledge, rather than alternative approaches. Even for chronic conditions, she says, an appropriate plan of action can help control the disease and pain, and provide a sense of empowerment and optimism. The author offers a wealth of suggestions on nourishing hope, and her advice on managing family and financial stresses related to illness is particularly well founded on her own experience. Rather than a rigid program, this is a sensible and realistic compendium of techniques that will help survivors cope with serious illness while embracing times of happiness. (Sept.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Frank, realistic, scientific, and up-to-date, but most important helpful.Harpham has turned the ""how-to"" book into an art form. -- Natalie Robins, author of Living in The Lightning and Copeland's CureHappiness in a Storm is more than a book, it is a blessing. -- Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of Kitchen Table WisdomA jewel of a book and a gift to all who are confronting a serious illness. -- JoAnn E. Manson, MD, Dr.PH., Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical SchoolA warm, knowledgeable and personal exploration of living with cancer.wise and clear advice about riding the emotional roller coaster. -- David Spiegel, M.D., author of Living Beyond LimitsA wonderful bookmust reading for people and families threatened by serious disease. -- Eric J. Cassell, MD, M.A.C.P., Clinical Professor of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell UniversityAn inspiring message of achieving happiness. -- Doug Ulman, Director of Survivorship, Lance Armstrong Foundation, Austin, TXEveryone faced with a cancer diagnosis would do well to read this book. -- Susan P. Halpern, MSW, author of The Etiquette of IllnessHarpham speaks to people with cancer with an authenticity that comes through in shining colors in her new book. -- Jimmie Holland, chairman, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterPulses with the fervent heart and knowledge that its author brings as both patient and physician. -- Joanna Bull, M.A., founder, Gilda's Club WorldwideThorough, practical, concise, and hopeful. -- Christine K. Clifford, CEO/President of The Cancer Club, author of Not NowI'm Having a No Hair Day!	Wendy Schlessel Harpham, M.D., the author of several books, including Diagnosis: Cancer and After Cancer, lectures nationally on cancer and serious illness. She lives in Dallas, Texas, with her husband and children.",books;cancer;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;happiness;health;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;self-help;social services & welfare,11
0872072541,"Going Bohemian: Activities That Engage Adolescents in the Art of Writing Well Have you ever felt ""underwhelmed"" with your adolescent  students' lazy responses to writing assignments? Would you like to use  more creative lessons to catch their attention and develop their  writing potential?  Do you wish you could get your students excited  about coming into your classroom? It's time for you to go Bohemian!     The act ivities in GOING BOHEMIAN: ACTIVITIES THAT ENGAGE ADOLESCENTS  IN THE ART OF WRITING WELL advocate using unconventional strategies,  competitive games, art and multimedia, and indirect approaches to  teaching some of the difficult lessons of writing. Rather than  employing a teacher-dominated approach, Bohemian lesson plans use  hooks that interest students and encourage them to participate.    A collection of 45 lesson plans contributed by English language arts  scholars and practitioners, GOING BOHEMIAN provides activities that  have been tested and proven effective with all levels of learners in  middle school and high school classrooms.     Once students become involved in these activities, they will excel on  their own.  However, the success of any of these lessons is dependent  on your role as teacher, evaluator, organizer, helper, cheerleader,  disciplinarian, and writer. Learn how to assume these roles in your  classroom with the help of this valuable resource.  Go Bohemian, and  instill in your students high literacy standards, an artistic  sensibility, and an unshakable belief in the power of words.	Lawrence Baines is holder of the Green Endowed Chair in  Education at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia, USA.    Anthony Kunkel teaches English and Creative Writing at Rome High  School in Rome, Georgia, USA.",books;creative writing & composition;education;education & reference;humanities;literature;new;research & publishing guides;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;writing,11
093521657X,"Temptation and Discernment Everyone will find some things in this book which will assist them as they journey in human community to the fullness of life with God. --Richard Hardy, Catholic Issues	Text: English (translation) Original Language: Spanish",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;humanities;inspirational;new;religion & spirituality;religious studies;spirituality;theology;used & rental textbooks,11
0517586436,"Young Disraeli, 1804-1846 At the age of 20, future British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) lost a borrowed fortune speculating in South American mines, and his battles with creditors over the next 20 years, according to British historian Ridley, shaped a personality addicted to political intrigue and dissimulation. Overcome by self-doubt exacerbated by virulent anti-Semitic attacks, the young novelist, dandy, epic poet and journalist suffered a nervous breakdown in 1827-28. But he rebounded, proudly asserted his Jewishness (though baptized a Christian in 1817) and toured the Middle East in 1830-31. Disraeli then developed a theory of Jewish (and Caucasian) racial superiority, stressing his own ancient descent. Ridley maintains that this was his way of compensating for feeling like an outsider. Marrying a rich widow 12 years his senior, Mary Anne Lewis, to help pay off his debts, Disraeli evolved into a devoted husband to his adoring wife. This first half of a planned two-volume biography is a captivating, full-bodied portrayal. Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;british;england;europe;historical;history;leaders & notable people;u.k. prime ministers,11
0325004889,"Shakespeare for One: Men: The Complete Monologues and Audition Pieces Among many other things, Douglas Newell has acted professionally on stage, film, and television. While earning an M.F.A. in Acting from U.C.L.A., he couldn't help but notice the need for a more comprehensive and actor-friendly collection of classical monologues. Enter, Shakespeare for One.",arts & photography;books;criticism & theory;english literature;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;performing arts;used & rental textbooks,11
1859842771,"Disfigurations: Discourse/Critique/Ethics Ian Angus teaches humanities and sociology at Simon Fraser University in Canada. He is the author of A Border Within: National Identity, Cultural Plurality and Wilderness; Primal Scenes of Communication; Technique and Enlightenment: Limits of Instrumental Reason; and George Grant's Platonic Rejoinder to Heidegger.Ernesto Laclau is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Government, University of Essex, and Distinguished Professor for Humanities and Rhetorical Studies at Northwestern University.  He is the author of, amongst other works, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Chantal Mouffe), New Reflections of the Revolution of Our Time, The Populist Reason, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (with Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek), and Emancipation(s).Chantal Mouffe is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. Her books include The Return of the Political; Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Ernesto Laclau); The Dimensions of Radical Democracy; Gramsci and Marxist Theory; Deconstruction and Pragmatism; The Democratic Paradox; and The Challenge of Carl Schmitt, all from Verso.",books;education & reference;language & grammar;linguistics;methodology;modern;philosophy;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;words,11
1570340145,"Pale Moon: Tales of the American Indians Of Comanche heritage, John Long has established himself as a talented collector of classic stories for anthologies, and his award-winning short stories--known for taught action and psychology intensity--have been anthologized and translated into many languages, and appeared in everything from Granta to Reader's Digest.",books;classics;folklore & mythology;literature & fiction;mythology;mythology & folk tales;native american studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states,11
0295962704,Haboo: Native American Stories from Puget Sound Text: English (translation),anthologies;books;contemporary;folklore;literature & fiction;mythology & folk tales;native american;short stories;single author;travel;united states,11
1567182585,"Crystal Medicine (More Crystals and New Age) Marguerite Elsbeth (New Mexico) has facilitated shamanic healing and ritual groups, is a hereditary Strega, and is also exploring her ancestral ties to the Delaware Indian culture. She has personally experienced crystal healing at the hands of a Shoshone medicine man and uses crystals in her own healing work.",alternative medicine;books;crystals;divination;energy healing;fitness & dieting;health;new age;occult;religion & spirituality;spirituality,11
1576602192,"Just What I Said: Bloomberg Economics Columnist Takes on Bonds, Banks, Budgets, and Bubbles ""Among her rarefied and demanding readership she has earned a reputation for timeliness, originality, knowledge, and--believe it or not--wit. How has she pulled it off? She's a reporter first and an analyst second, which means she actually knows what shes talking about, and this allows her to cut the columnizer smoke blowing to a bare minimum. She knows everybody, and fears nobody. Most important of all, she has a strong point of view, best tagged as 'classical liberal,' which equips her with a refreshing impatience with cant and self-serving obfuscation."" (The Weekly Standard, 10/31/05)	""Caroline Baum is one of the few topical commentators who write things that have lasting value. This compilation provides a history of the economic issues of the time and timeless insights.""Paul H. O'NeillFormer Secretary of the U.S. Treasury""Caroline Baum is a rarity--an economics commentator who actually understands economics and writes about it with clarity and passion. Read her and learn! Read her and enjoy!""Gregory MankiwProfessor of Economics, Harvard UniversityChairman, U.S. Council of Economics Advisors, 2003-2005""If you are interested in the Fed, interest rates, the budget deficit, taxes, China, or anything economic under the sun, Caroline Baum is a must-read.""Lawrence KudlowHost, CNBC's Kudlow  Company""Not many financial journalists' columns repay a reading months or years later. Caroline Baum's knack for making complex ideas understandable and her irreverent style make her book one of the rare exceptions.""Dr. Allan H. MeltzerThe Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon University	Following is some of the advance praise we've received for Just What I Said: ""Caroline Baum is one of the few topical commentators who writes things that have lasting value.  This compilation provides a history of the economic issues of the time and timeless insights.""Paul H. ONeillFormer Secretary of the U.S. Treasury ""Caroline Baum is a rarityan economics commentator who actually understands economics and writes about it with clarity and passion.  Read her and learn! Read her and enjoy!""Gregory Mankiw Professor of Economics, Harvard UniversityChairman, U.S. Council of Economics  2003-2005 ""If you are interested in the Fed, interest rates, the budget deficit, taxes, China, or anything economic under the sun, Caroline Baum is a must-read.""Lawrence KudlowHost, CNBC's Kudlow & Company	Caroline Baum has been a columnist at Bloomberg News since 1998. She has been writing about the economy and the bond market since 1987. In 2004 and 2005, she received first-place National Headliner Awards in the wire service/commentary category.",bonds;books;business & finance;business & investing;economic conditions;economics;investing;investments & securities;new;popular economics;used & rental textbooks,11
1890856193,"Girl Genius Volume 1: Agatha Heterodyne & The Beetleburg Clank Adult/High School-The Heterodyne family, who ""travelled the globe negotiating peace, stopping monsters, and shutting down doomsday devices,"" are heroes among those with the Spark, the ability to play with the laws of physics, until their disappearance. Now, student lab assistant Agatha Clay works for Dr. Beetle at Transylvania Polygnostic University. After soldiers of fortune steal the locket her uncle gave her years before, she is cast out of the university and left alone while her anxious foster parents go to retrieve it. Agatha takes a nap and awakes, disheveled and greasy, to be confronted by one of the soldiers. He is looking for revenge because his companion died and he blames her and the locket, which contains a complicated mechanism. Meanwhile, back at the university, Baron Wulfenbach and his son Gilgamesh run into a clank, a mechanical robotlike device that seems to be searching for someone. They reprogram it to find its maker, whom the Baron suspects is a new Spark. The clank returns to the shop where Agatha and the soldier are arguing, and the Baron orders them both kidnapped. The sepia-and-white art is lively and appealing, with distinctive characters and a richly imagined environment. There are many humorous touches, such as the ""big fish"" sign on a, well, big fish in the marketplace, or the Jagermonsters, humanlike soldiers who have an odd joie de vivre. The book includes a bonus color story that gives a glimpse into Agatha's future, which apparently involves a talking cat and several constructs. Sly, witty, and great fun.Susan Salpini, Fairfax County Public Schools, VACopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""Girl Genius: Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank"" collects issues #1-3 of the Phil & Kaja Foglio's popular Gaslamp Fantasy series.  Features of the first collection include beautiful sepia art (highlighting the lovely inks of Brian Snoddy), 7 1/2"" x 11"" art-book presentation, and a new 8-page color story from Agatha's exciting future of Adventure, Romance, & Mad Science... Teens & Up.  Girl Genius is well-loved by (and suitable for) all-ages, but we fully support parental review prior to reading.	This is a story about Science.  Or Magic.  Or possibly both. There have always been those with the Spark--people who seem to be able to tinker with the laws of physics as we know them.  This sort of person can be the worst of evil mad scientists or a tremendous force for Good. The last members of the great house Heterodyne stood as the models against which all other heroes of their time were measured.  With a collection of like-minded companions, they travelled the globe, negotiating peace, stopping monsters and shutting down doomsday devices.  Their exploits were the stuff of legends. And then they disappeared.  Our story begins some years later.	Phil and Kaja Foglio create art primarily in the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Gaming markets and make comic books like Girl Genius, Buck Godot- Zap Gun for Hire and What's New? with Phil and Dixie",books;comics & graphic novels;fantasy;graphic novels;humor;humor & entertainment;satire;science & scientists;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;teens,11
0194421686,"Simple Listening Activities (Oxford Basics) Jill Hadfield has been involved in EFL either as a teacher or teacher trainer for over 20 years and is the author of over 20 books for teachers, some written with her husband Charles. She has taught and trained teachers in Britain, France, China, Tibet, and Madagascar, and held workshops and courses for teachers around the world. She is currently senior lecturer in the School of English and Applied Linguistics at Unitec, Auckland, NZ. Charles Hadfield has worked as a teacher and trainer, administrator, and consultant in many places including Madagascar, Tibet, China, and France, with shorter visits to many African countries, most of Europe, and Japan. He often collaborates with his wife Jill on education projects as colleague and co-author. He studied at Southampton, London, and Bordeaux, and is currently teacher-training coordinator at the English Language Academy at the University of Auckland, NZ.",books;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,11
1419550799,"Kaplan AP English Language and Composition, 2007 Edition (Kaplan AP English Language & Composition) Denise Pivarnik-Nova is an AP English Teacher and an independent consultant for the Midwest Office of the College Board in AP English and English Vertical Teams (pre-AP). She has been an English AP Exam reader for over 16 years. She has taught freshman literature and composition at the college level as well as in high school. In addition to working on College Board publications and other AP prep materials, Denise is a teacher and College Advisor at Breck School in Golden Valley, Minnesota. Every summer she facilitates AP English teacher workshops throughout the Midwest.",advanced placement;books;college & university;education & reference;new;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;test preparation;testing;used & rental textbooks,11
0743265114,"The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved A throwaway buzzword in pop psychology, intimacy remains a litmus test for the health of relationships and is something everyone should strive for, says Kelly, the bestselling author of The Rhythm of Life. ""Intimacy is the one thing a person cannot live happily without,"" he writes. Since many people cling to the ""pubescent notion"" that intimacy and sex are synonymous, Kelly begins by talking about what intimacy is not-sex, common interests-and proffering up inspirational tidbits and oft heard motivational questions (""Who energizes you?"" ""Why do they energize you?"" ""How do you want to be remembered?"") before hammering home the thesis of this book: intimacy is a ""legitimate need."" His seven levels of intimacy-clichs; facts; opinions; hopes and dreams; feelings; faults, fears and failures; and legitimate needs-each get a chapter-length discussion. Kelly advocates openness-in communication, enduring pain, delaying gratification-and sprinkles in bits of spirituality in cajoling readers to foster intimacy, and, in turn, love and the meaning of life. ""Life is about love. It's about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life's about how you love and hurt the people close to you."" His view may seem simplistic, but Kelly's simple, direct prose and patient explanations will appeal to spiritual readers. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""A highly readable, well-written book that contains deep wisdom and practical guidance about relationships that will be useful to everyone seeking genuine and durable intimacy, especially couples. I especially appreciate his thesis that love is a commitment to helping the other become the best person he can be. I highly recommend it.""-- Harville Hendrix, Ph. D., author of ""Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples""	Matthew Kelly, the New York Times bestselling author of The Rhythm of Life, has been captivating audiences around the world since his late teens. Over the past decade, more than three million people have attended his talks and seminars in over fifty countries. Kelly is the president of Beresford Consulting.",books;inspirational;interpersonal relations;love & romance;marriage;motivational;relationships;religion & spirituality;self-help;spiritual;spirituality,11
0471192090,"The Home Office Solution: How to Balance Your Professional and Personal Lives While Working at Home America's #1 virtual office expert tells how to conquer the psychological and work-management problems associated with having a home office. Among the many challenges home office workers face are isolation, stress, burnout, time management problems, family and relationship conflicts, depression, and procrastination. Written by a nationally syndicated columnist, this book tells you how to motivate yourself to survive and prosper in your home office, and how to be your own best boss.	Practical advice and proven techniques to succeed and prosper in your home officeIf you're one of the millions of people currently working out of your home, you know that, along with independence and flexibility, there are challenges. Home office workers face isolation, stress, burnout, time management issues, family and relationship conflicts, and procrastination, among other concerns. Now, America's leading virtual office authority gives you the tools and techniques you need to thrive. Keep yourself motivated-and productive-as you learn to:* Manage time and workload-avoid scheduling conflicts, control interruptions and distractions, overcome overwork* Balance work and home life-prioritize responsibilities while constructing boundaries between home and office, deal with spouses and children* Cope with emotional fallout-manage stress and burnout; overcome depression, isolation, and rejection* Maintain good health-establish routines of regular sleep, nutrition, and exercise; organize a safe work environmentBecome your own best boss!	ALICE BREDIN has helped millions of people around the world learn to thrive in the home office. She writes the popular syndicated newspaper column ""Working at Home"" and is the author of The Virtual Office Survival Handbook (also published by Wiley). Ms. Bredin is the host and resident expert of the American Express Small Business Exchange website and is featured biweekly on the Hewlett-Packard small business website. Her New York City-based business, Bredin Business Information, helps Fortune 500 companies market to the home-based and small business market.",books;business & investing;business & management;business life;computers & technology;home based;management & leadership;popular economics;small business & entrepreneurship;telecommuting;work life balance,11
0806135999,"North American Watersnakes: A Natural History (Animal Natural History Series) J. Whitfield Gibbons is Professor of Ecology at the University of  Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Lab, Aiken, South Carolina. He is the  author of the classic Their Blood Runs Cold: Adventures with Reptiles  and Amphibians.Michael E. Dorcas is Associate Professor of  Biology at  Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina.",animals;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;ecology;new;reptiles & amphibians;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,11
0071456724,"McGraw-Hill's SAT II: Math Level 2 (McGraw-Hill's SAT Math Level 2) Expert Help That Will Get You.  Top Scores on Your SAT II Math Level 2 Exam!.  .  You need a great score on the SAT II: Mathematics Level 2 test to get into your first-choice college. You've always been good at math, but now you want to be sure you're ready for this tough exam. How can you make certain you're getting the very best preparation available?.  .  McGraw-Hill's SAT II: Math Level 2 is the answer. It's the best because it's packed with the first-rate instruction and practice students expect from McGraw-Hill. Everything you need is here, from top-quality topic reviews to full-length sample exams. So choose the test-prep guide that's sure to help you reach your goal - from the experts more students trust!.  .  McGraw-Hill's SAT II: Math Level 2 gives you an unbeatable edge with:.  .  .  9 full-length sample exams with detailed solutions for every question .  In-depth review of every test topic: functions, statistics, probability, permutations, combinations, logic and proof, elementary number theory, sequences, limits, and more .  Tips formaking the best use of your calculator .  .  .  .	John J. Diehl teaches mathematics at Hinsdale Central High School, Hinsdale, Illinois, and is a member of the AP Statistics Development Committee.",books;college & university;education & reference;new;sat & psat;schools & teaching;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks,11
074353557X,"The Art of Happiness at Work In their 1998 book The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and co-author Howard C. Cutler, M.D., explored how inner development contributes to overall happiness. In their second collaboration, the authors considered how they could best follow their highly successful first book. They chose a subject that affects millions of people around the world and produced. In this very readable, useful book, the authors attempt to discover the following: ""Where does work fit in to our overall quest for happiness?"" and ""To what degree does work satisfaction affect our overall life satisfaction and happiness?""   The Art of Happiness at Work is a modern-day Socratic dialogue in which Cutler asks the Dalai Lama about the difficulties and rewards we might encounter in the workplace. The authors explore issues such as work and identity, making money, the Buddhist concept of ""right livelihood,"" and transforming dissatisfaction at work. The discussion appears simple, if not obvious, at first, but upon closer scrutiny, the Dalai Lama's profound wisdom and sensitivity emerges. For the Dalai Lama, basic human values such as kindness, tolerance, compassion, honesty, and forgiveness are the source of human happiness. Throughout the book, he illustrates with clear examples how bringing those qualities to bear on work-related challenges can help us tolerate or overcome the most thorny situations. Recognizing that not all problems can be solved, the Dalai Lama provides very sound advice. The authors urge balance and self-awareness and wisely state, ""No matter how satisfying our work is, it is a mistake to rely on work as our only source of satisfaction."" --Silvana Tropea	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	It should come as no surprise that the Dalai Lama, who is believed by his followers to be the human incarnation of the Buddha of Compassion, would take a compassionate interest in helping Westerners find happiness in the daily grind. Still, this slim follow-up to the 1998 bestseller The Art of Happiness will be a revelation to those who aren't yet familiar with the thought of the brilliant Buddhist monk. Attitude and a sense of meaning are the keys to happiness at work, the exiled Tibetan leader tells psychiatrist Cutler in the course of conversations that took place over several years. What will surprise many is the prime importance the Dalai Lama places on reason and analysis, and on the need to acquire ""a sense of self that is grounded in reality, an undistorted recognition of one's abilities and characteristics."" Cutler presents the findings of various Western researchers, including the concept of ""flow,"" that state of blissful absorption in an activity that allows people to lose track of time and self-identity. The Dalai Lama compares flow to meditative experience, yet downplays it. In order to achieve the kind of happiness that can be sustained even in the hardest times, he says, we must engage in the slow, steady work of training our hearts and minds, rooting out negative habits and cultivating basic human values like kindness and compassion. The Dalai Lama avoids generalization, emphasizing the complexity of individual situations. He won't condemn the manufacture of weapons, for example, because, he says, although they are destructive, ""nations do need weapons for security purposes."" At a time when Western spiritual seekers are flocking to books telling them that all they really need to be happy and good is to enter into a blissful meditative communion with the now, it is provocative and moving to be urged to think and to know oneself by the man who is arguably the greatest living symbol of the developed spirit in action. And what may be most moving is this: if the Dalai Lama is right, and if people do as he suggests-if they learn to see themselves impartially and to analyze their work in light of how many people it touches-they will begin to see, whether they are picking oranges or writing a novel, that the highest purpose of work and, indeed, of life is the helping of others. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	...provides comfort for us working stiffs: during some meditation rituals, even the Dalai Lama gets bored on the job. -- Time, October 23, 2003While this might sound a little lofty, you...might be surprised at how your perspective changes as you read the book. -- USA Today, October 13, 2003	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He frequently describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk. Born in northeastern Tibet in 1935, he was as a toddler recognized as the incarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and brought to Tibet's capital, Lhasa. In 1950, Mao Zedong's Communist forces made their first incursions into eastern Tibet, shortly after which the young Dalai Lama assumed the political leadership of his country. He passed his scholastic examinations with honors at the Great Prayer Festival in Lhasa in 1959, the same year Chinese forces occupied the city, forcing His Holiness to escape to India. There he set up the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, working to secure the welfare of the more than 100,000 Tibetan exiles and prevent the destruction of Tibetan culture. In his capacity as a spiritual and political leader, he has traveled to more than sixty-two countries on six continents and met with presidents, popes, and leading scientists to foster dialogue and create a better world. In recognition of his tireless work for the nonviolent liberation of Tibet, the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. In 2012, he relinquished political authority in his exile government and turned it over to democratically elected representatives. His Holiness frequently states that his life is guided by three major commitments: the promotion of basic human values or secular ethics in the interest of human happiness, the fostering of interreligious harmony, and securing the welfare of the Tibetan people, focusing on the survival of their identity, culture, and religion. As a superior scholar trained in the classical texts of the Nalanda tradition of Indian Buddhism, he is able to distill the central tenets of Buddhist philosophy in clear and inspiring language, his gift for pedagogy imbued with his infectious joy. Connecting scientists with Buddhist scholars, he helps unite contemplative and modern modes of investigation, bringing ancient tools and insights to bear on the acute problems facing the contemporary world. His efforts to foster dialogue among leaders of the world's faiths envision a future where people of different beliefs can share the planet in harmony. Wisdom Publications is proud to be the premier publisher of the Dalai Lama's more serious and in-depth works.	Chapter 1 Transforming Dissatisfaction At Work It had been a long day for the Dalai Lama. Even by the time he had eaten his meager breakfast of tsampa and tea at 7:30 a.m., he had already been up for four hours, completing his rigorous daily regimen of prayer, study, and meditation. After breakfast he began his usual workday, and that day there was a full line-up: meeting with one person after another, he saw an Indian government liaison officer, the head lama of one of the ancient lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, the president of a member republic of the Russian Federation, a high official in the Tibetan government-in-exile, and various members of his private office staff. And scheduled among these private meetings, I watched with admiration as he met with a group of newly arrived Tibetan refugees. They had made the arduous journey across the Himalayas by any means of conveyance they could find, lucky if they could afford a ride on an antediluvian bus, but more likely to have caught a lift, riding in the open bed of a shuddering pickup truck. Some had crossed the rugged border on foot, climbing high-altitude passes with grim determination. Here and there one could see a child missing a finger or a toe-casualties of frostbite. Many arrived penniless, destitute, their traditional chubas (native Tibetan costumes) tattered and dusty from the long journey. In some of the older faces, ruddy faces, weathered and creased by winds and harsh climate, one could detect traces of untold suffering, spirits hardened by years of mistreatment at the hands of the Chinese Communists. For many of these people, however, a mere glimpse of the Dalai Lama, the fulfillment of a lifelong dream, was enough to revive their withered spirits and infuse them with renewed hope and joy. He offered them all, young and old, words of hope and encouragement, as well as hardheaded practical advice, ranging from ""Education is critical to success"" to ""Now you men should be careful of going with prostitutes-you could catch a disease.""   Finally, it was 2 p.m., his last scheduled appointment for the day. And here was I. I had been allotted several hours each afternoon to collaborate on our book, and I was here to collect. Our meetings were far from chatty t-te--t-tes, however. In fact, I often gave him no end of difficulty as we struggled to reconcile East and West, pestering him with endless questions, a fair proportion of which he labeled so silly or impossible to answer that it had become a running joke between us, trying even his legendary patience.   Standing outside on his bougainvillea-draped porch, with the majestic snowcapped Dhauladhar Mountains of northern India as a backdrop, the Dalai Lama greeted me warmly as he led me inside his home. Little had changed in this room since our first meeting twenty years before. The same traditional Tibetan thanka paintings lined the pale yellow walls, the same Buddhist shrine covered with ornate Buddhist icons at one end of the room, and the same floor-to-ceiling relief map of Tibet dominating the opposite wall. Even the modest furniture appeared to be the same, although it's possible the sofa may have been reupholstered.   As I unpacked my notebooks and fumbled with my tape recorder, we spoke casually about some of his activities and meetings earlier that day. The Dalai Lama generally scheduled our meetings for his last appointment of the day, so as I loitered in the attached reception room waiting for our meeting to begin, I often had the opportunity to observe the collection of individuals who came to meet with him. On that day in particular I was struck by the diversity of individuals seeking his time and counsel, people coming to visit him from all corners of the earth.   Thinking about this as I began our session, I said, ""You know, I couldn't help but notice how many different kinds of people come to see you, people with various professions, all sorts of jobs. And I was thinking about how you also are involved in so many different kinds of activities. Now, this week I want to focus on the topic of work . . .""   ""Yes. Good."" The Dalai Lama nodded.   ""And since we're going to be talking about work this week, I was just curious, what do you consider to be your primary job?""   The Dalai Lama looked puzzled. ""What do you mean?""   I was puzzled why he was puzzled. It seemed to be a simple question.   ""Well, in the West,"" I explained, ""when you meet somebody, often the first question you ask a stranger is, 'What do you do?' meaning specifically, 'What kind of work do you do? What's your job?' So, if you met a complete stranger and they didn't know you or had never heard of the Dalai Lama and they didn't even know what your monk's robes signified, they just met you as a human being and they asked you, 'What do you do for a living?' what would you tell them?""   The Dalai Lama reflected in silence for a long while, and finally declared, ""Nothing. I do nothing.""   Nothing? In response to my blank stare, he repeated himself. ""If I was suddenly posed with this question that would probably be my answer. Nothing.""   Nothing? I didn't buy it. He clearly worked as hard as anyone I knew, harder even. And as grueling as this day had been, it was light duty compared to his schedule during his frequent trips abroad. In fact, informally attached to his small staff on a speaking tour of the U.S. the year before, I had witnessed a remarkable display of relentless activity, dedication, and hard work: as a statesman, he had met with President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and a host of high-ranking senators and members of Congress. As a teacher, an ordained Buddhist monk and consummate Buddhist scholar, he gave extensive lectures expounding the most subtle facets of Buddhist philosophy. As a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and tireless advocate for world peace and human rights, he gave public addresses to tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands. As a religious leader striving to promote interfaith dialogue and harmony, he met with religious figures from many faiths: priests, rabbis, ministers, and swamis, even the president of the Mormon Church. He met with scientists, scholars, entertainers, the famous and the obscure. And in each place he visited, he met with local Tibetan refugees struggling to make a life and prosper in their new country. He worked morning till night, traveling from city to city with such speed that one place seemed to merge into the next. And yet not a single meeting or event on this tour was initiated at his own request-all were based on invitations from others. And even more remarkable-no matter how rigorous his schedule became, he seemed to handle his work effortlessly. He was happy doing it.   He did nothing? Not by a long shot.   ""No, really,"" I pressed. ""What if someone persisted and asked you again?""   ""Well,"" he laughed, ""in that case, I would probably say, 'I just look after myself, just take care of myself.'"" Perhaps sensing my frustration with this glib response, he smiled and continued, ""I think maybe this answer isn't entirely serious. But actually, if you think about it, that's true. All six billion human beings in the world are just 'taking care of number one.' Isn't it? So whether one is a professional, or whatever line of work one is in, each of us from birth to death is just working to take care of ourselves. That's our main task.""   My attempt to pin him down on his job description was getting nowhere fast. And this wasn't the first time I had noticed his natural reluctance to engage in discussion about his role in the world. Perhaps it was due to a certain lack of self-absorption, an absence of self-involvement. I don't know. But I decided to drop the subject of his job for now and turn to the wider issue.   ""Well, in working to take care of ourselves most people need some kind of job. Now many times in the past I've heard you say that the purpose of life is happiness.""   ""That's right,"" he affirmed.   ""So, we need a way to be happy at work as well as at home, but that's not always easy. Let me give you an example of a friend of mine. I gave her a copy of The Art of Happiness shortly after it came out. She told me that she kept it on her bedside table and read from it each night before she went to bed. She was tremendously inspired by your words, and she said that when she read it she felt it was really possible to be happy. But then she told me, 'When I go to bed, I'm thinking that if I make the effort, happiness is within my reach, genuine happiness is out there waiting for me. But then the next morning I have to get up at five o'clock in the morning and face an hour-long commute to work. And the minute I step into the office, everything changes-I have to deal with the pressures, the demands, my boss is a jerk, and I can't stand my co-workers. And suddenly it seems like the idea of happiness slips away. It just evaporates. Things are so hectic that I barely have a chance to catch my breath, let alone think about training my mind or inner development. And of course the company I work for doesn't care a bit about my happiness. But I need to work. I need the money. I can't just quit and expect to get another job. So, how can I find happiness at work?'   ""And of course my friend isn't an isolated case,"" I continued. ""In many countries throughout the world, there seems to be a kind of widespread dissatisfaction at work. In fact, I recently read a survey that reported that nearly half of American workers are dissatisfied at work, unhappy with their jobs. I've talked to some experts who say that the number may even be higher than that. And things seem to be getting worse. According to the Conference Board, the nonprofit organization that conducted the survey, that same survey showed that over the past five or six years the percentage of people who are satisfied with their job has dropped by around eight percent.""   The Dalai Lama appeared surprised. ""Why is that?"" he asked.   ""Well, according to the studies I've read, there may be a variety of reasons, ranging from inadequate compensation, or simple boredom, ...	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Expanding the authors' previous book, THE ART OF HAPPINESS, the Dalai Lama answers questions from a thoughtful psychiatrist about the difficulties Westerners have finding happiness at work. Dr. Cutler's ideas and knowledge of behavioral science are important in this dialogue; he's a rich thinker who can speak about Western attitudes without disavowing them or being con-descending toward those who hold them. The Dalai Lama responds to his questions with spectacular encap-sulations of Buddhist thought: We enjoy work when we approach it with respect for our own mental life and for the connections we have with everyone at work. More than being just a place to produce, work is a place to express human values and our own unique gifts in the broader context of life.  T.W.  AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine",books;buddhism;business & investing;eastern;happiness;management & leadership;motivational;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;self-help,11
0060230355,"Gorillas Grade 3-6-A clear, concise picture of these endangered creatures and their lifestyle. Simon includes information on the three gorilla species and their physical differences, their habitats, diet, daily habits, various behaviors, and decreasing populations. The extremely handsome, oversized color photos enhance the readable text and complement it perfectly. Sadly missing is a map so that children can see how restricted the gorilla's range has become. However, this attractive, informative book certainly deserves a place in all collections, even those already holding Paul Burgel's well-written Gorillas (Carolrhoda, 1993).Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Reviewed with James P. Delgado's Native American Shipwrecks.Gr. 5-7. Despite the dramatic titles, these two books in the Watts Library--Shipwrecks series are not about Titanic -like disasters but about underwater archaeology: how scientists find and excavate wrecks and what the lost ships and boats tell us about the people who traveled in them long ago. The history is exciting and so is the archaeology. The cover painting on the Native American book is like a generic picture postcard, but Delgado writes with authentic detail about particular ancient cultures. He focuses on the voyages they made and the boats they used, some of which are still being made today. Smith's book is as much about exploration and settlement through history as it is about today's exploration of evidence from ships that were lost at sea. She talks about particular voyages, including those of Columbus and of Amundsen, and recent archaeological projects. The books are profusely illustrated with color photos and prints on every spread, and the design is spacious, with short chapters and lots of colored screens. A glossary, a bibliography, and personal source notes show the writers' extensive experience. Hazel RochmanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""The combination of the text and photographs creates a striking, powerful impression. Good for browsing as well as reports.""  -- --Booklist, 10/15/2000	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Seymour Simon has been called ""the dean of the [children's science book] field"" by the New York Times. He has written more than 250 books for young readers and has received the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Lifetime Achievement Award for his lasting contribution to children's science literature, the Science Books  Films Key Award for Excellence in Science Books, the Empire State Award for excellence in literature for young people, and the EducationalPaperback Association Jeremiah Ludington Award. He and his wife, Liz, live in Great Neck, New York. You can visit him online at www.seymoursimon.com, where you can read ""Seymour Science Blog,"" participate in ""Writing Wednesday,"" and download a free four-page teacher guide to accompany this book, putting it in context with Common Core objectives. Many of Seymour's award-winning books are also available as ebooks.",animals;apes & monkeys;arts;books;children's books;crafts & music;environment;nature;nature & how it works;photography;science,11
0835606910,"Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt West updates his 1979 account of the advanced civilization of Ancient Egypt. Illustrated. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.",ancient;books;egypt;fairy tales;history;literature & fiction;mythology & folk tales;new age;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;social sciences,11
0313292248,"The Regions of Spain: A Reference Guide to History and Culture ""During my 30 years of teaching at the secondary school level, I wished many times for just this sort of book. Not only is the information practical, up to date and comprehensive, but the format allows students to understand something of the process through which Spain has come to be the country it is today. While the weightier aspects of history can be found elsewhere, this condensation provides the basics and adds bits of culture that add the real flavor of Spain today.""- Nancy A. Humbach, past president American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese	The first complete reference book on Spanish history, life, and culture with regional and province-by-province coverage.	ROBERT W. KERN is Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.",books;education & reference;europe;history;humanities;ireland;new;portugal;spain;used & rental textbooks;world,11
1843107449,"Living and Loving With Asperger Syndrome: Family Viewpoints Patrick McCabe is very well qualified to write on the subject of Asperger Syndrome because he has lived with it for 43 years. Having previously worked in the Navy, Police Force and Army, he currently he works as the Operations and Facilities Manager for a rescue mission. He has been married to Estelle for 18 years. Estelle McCabe has taught writing and has edited for ten years while homeschooling her son Jared. Presently, she uses her writing skills in her position as the PASS tutor at the local Junior High school. Jared McCabe is currently 17 years old. They live in Wellington, Colorado.",aging;biographies & memoirs;books;disabilities;fitness & dieting;health;memoirs;mental health;parenting & relationships;psychology & counseling;special needs,11
1565847725,"Theater of War Harper's magazine editor Lapham (Money and Class in America) comes out doing the sarcastic equivalent of swinging in this collection of diatribes against incompetent hypocrisy in the media and government: ""Maybe it's a trick of memory or a sign of age, but when I watch President George W. Bush threaten a White House television camera with a promise to punish the world's evildoers, the call to arms sounds like the sale pitch for an off-road vehicle or a lite beer,"" he writes in one of 14 jeremiads, published in his Harper's ""Notebook"" column between October 2000 and March 2002. Unfortunately, just as the above quote provides a double dose of self-doubt at the beginning and nowhere near enough wallop at the finish, most of these pieces, including an introductory tour of the last 50 years of U.S. foreign policy and small wars, lack laser-guided punch. At his best, however, Lapham summarizes and asserts his version of fin de siecle politics. Some of his post-September 11 remarks hit home, e.g., when he cites Alfred North Whitehead in arguing that the business of the future is to be dangerous. He wisely observes that ""all societies, like most individuals, are always in some kind of trouble"" and acutely concludes that it isn't trouble that kills, but rather ""the fear of thought and the paralysis that accompanies the wish to believe that only the wicked perish."" But such moments are difficult to pick out of the often diffuse text, and while criticism of the president has been somewhat muted, readers sympathetic to Lapham's point of view will wish he had gone even further out on a rhetorical limb.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Among the wittiest, most lucid stylists in the business....None of his observations proves to be anything less than prophetic. -- Boston GlobeIntelligent insight...for those who are tired of the endless cruise-missile rattling and Clint Eastwood-speak emanating from the White House. -- Washington PostRarely are hard-won insights so bluntly and so perceptively put. -- The New York TimesStands out. -- Newsweek	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Lewis Lapham is the editor of Harper's magazine and received a National Magazine Award for his essay writing. He is the author of several books, including Money and Class in America, Imperial Masquerade, The Wish for Kings, Hotel America, and Waiting for the Barbarians. He lives in New York City.",21st century;americas;books;education & reference;history;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences;united states,11
1421808749,"The Well Beloved This novel, Hardy's last, is quite a delightful tale, almost comical in tone, and its wry, tongue-in-cheek flavor is beautifully realized by reader Robert Powell. It concerns sculptor Jocelyn Pierston and his 40-year quest for the incarnation of the ideal woman. This phantom eludes him as it flits from woman to woman most especially Avice Caro, his sweetheart at 20; then Avice's daughter, Anne Avice, who charms him when he is 40; and finally Avice the third, the granddaughter, whom he courts at 60. Alas, none of these romances reach fruition, and he loses both his artistic abilities and drive and his interest in the old quest. At 62, he can pass for 75, and in his old age he finds an old flame who sees him into his dotage. Hardy classed this work with his ""Romances and Fantasies,"" and it is indeed almost an allegory or fable. Very enjoyable and excellently read, this is a good addition to fiction collections that feature important British writers. Harriet Edwards, East Meadow P.L., NYCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Founded in 1906 by J.M. Dent, the Everyman Library has  always tried to make the best books ever written available to the  greatest number of people at the lowest possible price. Unique editorial  features that help Everyman Paperback Classics stand out from the crowd  include: a leading scholar or literary critic's introduction to the text,  a biography of the author, a chronology of her or his life and times, a  historical selection of criticism, and a concise plot summary.  All books  published since 1993 have also been completely restyled: all type has  been reset, to offer a clarity and ease of reading unique among editions  of the classics; a vibrant, full-color cover design now complements these  great texts with beautiful contemporary works of art. But the best  feature must be Everyman's uniquely low price. Each Everyman title offers  these extensive materials at a price that competes with the most  inexpensive editions on the market-but Everyman Paperbacks have durable  binding, quality paper, and the highest editorial and scholarly  standards.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Thomas Hardy was a poet and novelist of the naturalist movement. He trained as an architect. He was a religious man who was also deeply influenced by Darwin and fascinated by ghosts and spirits. During his lifetime, he was best known for his novels. His stories combine nuanced description of natural surroundings with the sense of impending moral crisis. He claimed that poetry was his first love, though, and in recent years his poetry has received much critical acclaim.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	As a novelist, Thomas Hardy is known for his somber tales of the brooding English Midlands and their denizens, though he also penned a number of what he called ""romances and fantasies.""  This is one of them, and those familiar with RETURN OF THE NATIVE and JUDE THE OBSCURE will find this much lighter, even witty, while sharing the eloquence, strong characterizations, and pictorial detail of his more familiar fare. A noted sculptor, at heart a decent guy, finds his ideal ""well-beloved"" embodied temporarily in one woman after another, causing him numerous problems even as his passions breathe life into his art. We see him as a young man, in middle age, and in his 60s, in his infatuations for a country girl, then her daughter, and at last her granddaughter. Narrator Robert Powell delivers a tour-de-force rendition, shifting tones subtly for the three stages of our hero's life. These adjustments in maturity also communicate the gathering weight of the book's seriousness of purpose. Along the way, Powell superbly animates the characters and verbally contrasts the worldliness of the artist's professional milieu with the homely working-class roots to which our hero returns.  Y.R.  Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award  AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",american literature;books;classics;education & reference;humanities;literary;literature;literature & fiction;new;united states;used & rental textbooks,11
0882404881,"Nature of Southeast Alaska: A Guide to Plants, Animals, and Habitats (Revised) O'Clair taught biology on the faculty of the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau, Alaska, for fifteen years, leaving in 1993 to devote full time to writing.  She has a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Washington in Seattle.",americas;books;history;natural history;nature & ecology;pacific;science & math;state & local;travel;united states;west,11
0415143152,"Modern Public Economics Professor Jha's Modern Public Economics is one of those rare feats--an accessible, wide-ranging and marvelously organized survey of the field for intermediate students and a precise down-to-earth manual for practitioners.Edmund S. Phelps, Columbia UniversityJha's book fills an important lacuna from the point of view of students.... The challenging task before a contemporary text is to convexy the movement from the old to the new public economics in a manner that will enthuse and motivate the studnets. This is a subtle task and Jha has accomplished this admirably... Modern Public Economics is an excellent and exciting book and belongs on the bookshelf of every serious student of the effect of state intervention in the market place.Economic and Political WeeklyThis is a significant book. I am confident that it will rapidly gain pole position for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates.P.M. Jackson, University of LeicesterModern Public Economics is clearly a winner.... Readers will be thankful to Jha for bringing out such a book.... the strength of the book lies in its vast coverage [and it] is likely to be valued as an important text on public economics for years to come.Reserve Bank of India, Occasional Papers	Raghbendra Jha is Professor of Economics at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Bombay.",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;finance;new;political science;popular economics;public finance;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
0827364849,NSNA Review Series: Gerontologic Nursing THIS IS NOT AN AUTHOR   BUT A FULL PRODUCTION HOUSE THAT THE SERIES IS ORGANIZED UNDER.,books;clinical;education & reference;gerontology;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;nursing;reviews & study guides;test preparation & review;used & rental textbooks,11
1569244928,"Eating for Acid Reflux: A Handbook and Cookbook for Those with Heartburn JILL SKLAR, a freelance medical writer and the vice president of the Michigan chapter of the Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America, is the author of The First YearCrohns Disease and Ulcerative Colitis.  She and her family live in Huntington Woods, Michigan. ANNABEL COHEN is a writer, gourmet chef, cooking instructor, caterer, and food stylist whose work has been featured in the Detroit News and Style magazine, among others. She lives with her daughter in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.	""Through the use of this book, we hope you will learn that having reflux is not the end of the world, that it is manageable with medication, surgery, and lifestyle modification, including diet. Hopefully, the condition will go from the thing that keeps you up at night to the thing you barely remember that you have. You canand shouldlead a fulfilling life, with or without the reflux."" from the introduction",abdominal;books;cookbooks;diets & weight loss;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;food & wine;health;healthy;other diets;special diet,11
1884737854,"Barnett's Manual Barnett is a cancer survivor, an instructor in chronic disease self-management, an ombudsman advocating for the rights of nursing home residents, and a trained bereavement worker. He runs Youth Tennis Outreach in Seattle's inner city and leads tours of Seattle's Arboretum and the Japanese Garden.",aerospace;automotive;bike repair;books;civil;cycling;engineering;individual sports;mechanical;professional & technical;sports & outdoors,11
0385500785,"God's Soldiers: Adventure, Politics, Intrigue, and Power--A History of the Jesuits They numbered 20,408 at the start of the 21st century, and their 400-year history is marked by crisis, accomplishment and persecution. They are the Jesuits, the Society of Jesus founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534; and Wright, a British historian, tells their amazing story in this thoroughly documented account. Given the scope of his subject, Wright's was no small task and he has neatly compressed the four-century Jesuit saga into a reasonably concise and balanced history. Along the way, he does not shrink from the darker side of that history, whether he is addressing the hatred the order engendered among its detractors or describing the failings of individual members and methods. But he is largely forgiving, allowing for human frailty as an explanation for times when the order's history was marred by less than exemplary behavior. Although Wright acknowledges there have been ""Jesuit villains, Jesuits possessed of unseemly ambition, [and] Jesuits who preferred politicking to preaching,"" he believes the order as a whole has not deserved to be painted with a negative broad brush. Besides recounting the facts of Jesuit history, Wright's chronicle also sheds light on the roots of tensions between Catholics and Protestants that still simmer and even flare up today despite the new spirit of ecumenism fostered by the 1960s Second Vatican Council. Given the Jesuits' missionary spirit and their wide reach in the worlds of education, science and religion, a large and diverse audience should find this book to be of interest. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	British historian Wright provides a digestible account of one of the world's most accomplished and controversial religious orders. Founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola, the Society of Jesus quickly evolved into one of the largest and most influential arms of the Catholic Church. Individually and collectively the Jesuits have zealously pursued missionary work, independent scholarship, holistic education, and political activism for five centuries. Most recently, many members have embraced liberation theology, a radical strategy aimed at achieving social justice and political reform. Despite their undeniably amazing theological, spiritual, scientific, educational, and cultural contributions, the Jesuits have been consistently steeped in intrigue and controversy, alternately revered and reviled by contemporaries and church historians. Seeking to separate fact from fiction and to set the often romanticized or exaggerated record straight, Wright offers a balanced overview that represents and preserves all the gore and glory of the Jesuit past. Margaret FlanaganCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Gods Soldiers goes for the broad picture but doesnt lose the human element, and Wrights dry wit keeps things lively. Star-Telegram (Fort Worth)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Throughout history members of the Society of Jesus, popularly known as Jesuits, have been accused of killing kings and presidents, have traveled as missionaries to every corner of the globe, founded haciendas in Mexico, explored the Mississippi and Amazon rivers, and served Chinese emperors as map makers, painters, and astronomers. As well as the predictable roll call of saints and martyrs, the Society can also lay claim to the thirty-five craters on the moon named for Jesuit scientists. Jesuits have been despised and idolized on a scale unknown to members of any other religious order; they have died the most horrible deaths and done the most outlandish deeds.Whether loved or loathed, the Jesuits? dramatic and wide-ranging impact could never be ignored.  By the mid-eighteenth century, they had established more than 650 educational institutions. They were also strongly committed to foreign missions, and like the secular explorers and settlers of the Age of Discovery, they traveled to the Far East, India, and the Americas to stake a claim. They were especially successful in Latin America, where they managed to put numerous villages entirely under Jesuit rule.The Jesuits? successes both in Europe and abroad, coupled with rumors of scandal and corruption within the order, soon drew criticism from within the Church and without. Writers such as Pascal and Voltaire wrote polemics against them, and the absolute monarchs of Catholic Europe sought to destroy them. Their power was seen as so threatening that hostility escalated into serious political feuds, and at various times they were either banned or harshly suppressed throughout Europe.God?s Soldiers is a fascinating chronicle of this celebrated, mysterious, and often despised religious order. Jonathan Wright illuminates as never before their enduring contributions as well as the controversies that surrounded them. The result is an in-depth, unbiased, and utterly compelling history.	The British historian Jonathan Wright was born in Hartlepool in 1969. He was educated at the universities of St. Andrews, Pennsylvania, and Oxford, where he earned his doctorate in 1998. He has published on various aspects of early modern religious history and is a contributor to Oxford University Press's New Dictionary of National Biography and Scribner's revised Dictionary of American History.	1New Athletes to Combat God's Enemies(1)Jesuits and Reformations . . . this sect, which was . . . only recently established by the Roman pontiff for the specific purpose of destroying the Churches that embrace the pure teaching of the Gospel.Martin Chemnitz, Examination of the Council of Trent, 1565(2)It may be said with truth, that this order alone has contributed more than all the other orders together to confirm the wavering nations in the faith of Rome, to support the tottering authority of the high pontiff, to check the progress of the Reformation, and to make amends for the losses their holiness had sustained in Europe, by propagating the gospel, and with it a blind submission to the Holy See, among the African, American and Indian infidels.Archibald Bower, History of the Popes, 1766(3)In any case, although the Society of Jesus would have had a much different history, it would have come into being even if the Reformation had not happened, and it cannot be defined primarily in relationship to it.John O'Malley, S.J., The First Jesuits, 1993(4)1527Early in the fog-smothered morning of May 6, 1527, troops of Charles V's imperial army began their clumsy assault on Rome. The feeble, neglected defenses of the city were breached with embarrassing ease, and the soldiers, undisciplined, unpaid, grumbling about months of pestilence and hunger, embarked upon a spree of looting, vandalism, and fleshy excess. Very quickly, reliable, sober reports of workshop smashing, iconoclasm, and theft merged with the more gruesome stories of torture, dismemberment, and serial rape. Across Europe, for generations to come, tales would be told of entire hospitals and orphanages being emptied, their helpless inmates drowned in the blood-gorged waters of the Tiber.Charles, Habsburg ruler of Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands, was quick to deny all responsibility for his renegade forces. The Italian Wars, the dynastic struggles inaugurated by a French king's crossing of the Alps in 1494, had once more flaunted their uncanny talent for blighting southern Europe.The sack of Rome sent monks and artists scurrying, and it convulsed the Western imagination. Not until the grotesque Parisian carnage of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, four decades later--when hundreds of French Protestants lost their lives--would Europe be quite so scandalized, quite so shaken. The events of May 1527 were really about dynastic politics and disgruntled, leaderless troops. Religious animosity played its part--shrines were desecrated, cardinals were threatened, and one especially zealous participant brandished a golden rope with which he intended to hang the pope--but Spanish Catholics had contributed to the mayhem just as eagerly as German Lutherans.What truly mattered, though, was the symbolism. Rome, the place that stood for papal plenitude, for Italian Renaissance grandeur, for the Roman Catholic Church, had, as one onlooker put it, become a cadaver of a city. The Venetian ambassador suggested that not even hell itself could offer so miserable a vista. In 1527, a decade on from the first stirrings of reformation, there was still much hope that schism might be averted and schismatics reconciled. But the sight of a ruined, ransacked Rome, of a pope hidden away in the Castel Sant'Angelo, was an eloquent reminder of how much had changed since Martin Luther's Wittenberg revolution, since the iconoclasm of Ulrich Zwingli's Zurich, since the withering assault on Catholic dogmas, rituals, and certainties had begun. Anarchic weeks that can best be blamed on the quarrels of supremely Catholic kings had managed to sum up Christendom's newly found frailty.And at this bleakest of moments, Ignatius Loyola, the Jesuits' future founder and first superior general, was about to arrive in Salamanca, as part of his search for a belated education. Within a few decades his place in the Catholic pantheon would be secure, and at his death a viceroy of Sicily could confidently announce that after so many battles and victories he has taken up his rightful place in heaven alongside Dominic and Francis.5 In the mission fields of seventeenth-century Canada, pregnant women, having struggled in labor for twenty-four hours, would have Ignatian relics applied to their stomachs and babies would apparently rush into the world; a man with a burning fever would be urged to invoke Loyola's name, and in an instant he would be rendered as cool as a fish.6But in the summer of 1527, the heirs of St. Dominic had not been so sure of Loyola's credentials. Rather, they had invited him to a meal at their San Esteban convent, questioned him about his suspect brand of spirituality, and consigned him to twenty-two days in prison. Throughout its history, the Society of Jesus would enjoy similar encounters with the machinery of Catholic orthodoxy, whether the Inquisition or the papal Index. It was the kind of setback to which Loyola, incarcerated for six weeks at Alcal? a year earlier, was growing accustomed.For the man who would soon be likened to David--providentially sent to combat Luther's Goliath, to help the Catholic world recover from indignities such as the sack of Rome--these were inauspicious beginnings: an early sign that there was to be nothing easy or inevitable about the Jesuits' contribution to the defense and renovation of the Roman Catholic Church.LoyolaWhen Loyola died, at Rome, in 1556, his autopsy revealed a body wasted by disease. Renaldo Colombo, holder of the chair of anatomy at Padua University, reported, I extracted almost innumerable gallstones of various colours that I found in the kidney, the lungs, the liver and the portal vein.7 There was a distinct lack of Xavierian incorruptibility. For years, Loyola had been a part-time patient, often made worse by inept medical advice: one doctor even prescribed that he be shut indoors during the summer months and be given nothing to drink but strong wine--hardly the most suitable regimen for a man prone to stomachaches and systemically weakened by extreme austerities and mortifications earlier in life.8 But at least Loyola had suffered one worthwhile injury, back in May 1521, when it was definitively proven that a cannonball shot to the legs could do much for a person's hopes of sainthood.The facts of Loyola's early life are not easy to excavate. Any account inevitably relies on his so-called autobiography, dictated late in life to his close friend Lu's Gonzalves da Camara, a work that was always destined, first and foremost, to be an inspirational exercise in rousing admiration among future members of the Society of Jesus.9 But basic facts there are. Born in 1491 at the castle of Loyola in northern Spain, close to Azpeitia in the province of Guipuezcoa, Inigo Lopez de Loyola was destined for a typical courtier's life, entering the service of Juan Velazquez de Cuellar at Arevalo at the age of thirteen and, by his own admission, quickly developing a taste for brawling and for unseemly encounters with women.In 1517, military duty under Antonio Manrique de Lara, viceroy of Navarre, beckoned, and it was four years later, when Loyola was facing French troops at the battle for Pamplona, that the fabled cannonballs entered the historical record. His right leg was shattered and his left badly injured. While recuperating back at home, it seems that Loyola was deprived of his favorite chivalric literature and had to make do with reading Ludolph of Saxony's Life of Christ and the saint-filled Golden Legend of Jacopo de Voragine. And that, so we are told, is when the extraordinary transformation began. Loyola apparently discerned something enviable in the heroic lives of the saints, a sort of spiritual chivalry, and he determined to emulate it. Or as a caustic account from Enlightenment France would have it, the Spanish gentlemen . . . having had his brain heated by romances of chivalry and afterwards by books of devotion, took it into his head to be the Don Quixote of the Virgin.10Loyola's account of the next few years is replete with epochal, stirring moments. A night spent before the Black Madonna at the Benedictine monastery in Montserrat prompted Loyola to exchange his robe and sword for a pilgrim's staff and the rough cloak and sandals of a beggar. A spell at Manresa saw him begging, praying, fasting, and flagellating, allowing his hair and fingernails to grow to uncommon length, being treated to visions, and working on his Spiritual Exercises. The Exercises, on which Loyola continued to work over the coming decades, would emerge as the lodestone of a distinctive Ignatian spirituality--arguably one of the most impressive, enduring Jesuit contributions to the Roman Catholic tradition. Over the next five centuries, Loyola's spiritual vision--optimistic, rooted in notions of magnanimity and fraternity--would lead Catholics through prayer and meditation, allowing them to examine their consciences, convincing them that their God was in all things and that it was entirely possible for them to discern the specific will of their Creator in their individual lives.By 1523 Loyola was visiting the holy sites of Jerusalem, but when it became clear that the city was far too dangerous for an extended stay, he opted to return to Europe in pursuit of a university education. After two years at Barcelona, taking Latin classes with children, Loyola moved on to the lecture halls of Alcal? in 1526 and Salamanca in 1527, the university towns where his preaching and theologizing (reminiscent to some minds of the outlawed alumbrado movement) first attracted unwelcome attention.11 Released by the Dominicans of Salamanca without prejudice (although they urged him to remain silent on certain theological issues), Loyola rode a donkey to Barcelona and decided to cross over into France. Friends warned him that given the political climate, he risked a hostil...",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;general;history;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;world,11
0786864699,"FamilyFun's Cookies for Christmas: 50 recipes for You and Your Kids This bright, colorful cookie book is as much fun to look at as  it is to bake from. Glossy photos of Sweet Sugar Plums, Candy Cane  Twists, and many other sugary delights will make your taste buds  tingle. These recipes are ideal for kids and parents to make  together--and many call for icing on top. This messy but creative task  is bound to be the best part of the whole cookie process (aside from  eating them, of course!). Since Christmas is the main focus of the  book, there are several seasonal novelties to create. A cookie advent  calendar is sure to make December extra exciting, and a holiday  garland will be gobbled up in no time. Every recipe could quite  happily be given as a holiday present, so the authors offer terrific  advice for wrapping and mailing these fragile gifts. Finally, don't  forget to leave some cookies out for Santa--but not too many!  --Naomi Gesinger",baking;books;children's books;children's cookbooks;cookbooks;cookies;cooking;food & wine;holidays;special occasions;sports & games,11
0715309412,"Cats of the World in Cross Stitch '...another corker of a book...' Quick & Easy Cross Stitch; '...there's plenty to stitch in this great new book...' The World of Cross Stitching	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Jayne Netley Mayhew is a renowned wildlife artist and cross stitch designer. Her work is produced by Janlynn kits and both Needlecraft and Needlework magazines. Nicki Wheeler is a theatrical costume designer, and her knowledge of fabrics and stitching led to her successful creative partnership with Jayne. Jayne and Nicki live in South Devon.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;cats;crafts;crafts & hobbies;cross-stitch;dogs & animals;hobbies & home;humor;humor & entertainment;needlecrafts & textile crafts;sports,11
B000H28NKA,"Gibson P-90 ""Super Vintage"" Single Coil - Black Dogear At one time, the P-90 was considered a ""budget"" alternative to genuine humbuckers. They were often found on Gibson's mid-level instruments, plus on some Epiphone models. But times change and the P-90 has made a big time comeback. See, the P-90 is actually one coil pickup and we now know that single coils can deliver plenty of top end response, allowing it to cut through even the most dense mixes. Many of The Beatles biggest hits were recorded using P-90 equipped guitars. But the coolest thing about the P-90 pickup is that once you roll off the highs, you can still get the smoky tones we normally associate with humbuckers. P-90s come in two styles: Soapbar (for solid body guitars) and ""Dog Ear"" (for hollowbody guitars). This one is a Soapbar in black.",accessories & supplies;audio & video accessories;audio cables;cables & interconnects;electric guitar parts;electronics;guitar & bass accessories;instrument accessories;musical instruments;pickups & pickup covers;speaker cables,11
076032221X,"John Force: The Straight Story of Drag Racing's 300-MPH Superstar SPEEDTV.com, Mar. 2, 2006 (audience: 98,000) Erik has the rare talent of integrating quotes, facts and statistics from multiple sources. He mines nuggets of poignant or humorous incidents from his many interviews of those close to Force and blends them in such a way that the biography reads like a page-turning work of Stephen King fiction.Eurodragster.com (UK), Mar. 1, 2006 (audience info unavailable) Erik has taken a lot of time and care over this work. Although press and Internet interviews and features are extensively quoted, Erik has also gone to the effort of tracking down and interviewing no less than 19 people involved in Johns racing career even before he started to race.The biography is well-illustrated with excellent action and portrait pictures on just about every page.Suncoast News (FL), Nov. 25, 2006  An excellent biography of the greatest funny car racer of all-time and loaded with 175 photos. Bill, from an episode of King of the Hill in which John Force makes a guest appearance. John Force is the greatest Funny-Car racer ever. He's done more in a quarter-mile than I've done in my whole life.	One thing youve got to say about me, though, is that I leave em cheering. Its not every guy who goes through the lights on fire and wins, too. John Force, Los Angeles Tribune  The fastest mouth in motorsports is also arguably the most dominant drag racer of modern times. With 14 NHRA championships and more than 130 wins, John Forces victory record rivals Dale Earnhardt Sr.s and Richard Pettys. Force built his career from nothing, spending nearly a decade dragging rag-tag equipment to the races behind his camper truck, breaking more often than winning, and living on mustard sandwiches. Determined beyond all reason, Force forged a partnership with veteran crew chief Austin Coil, and within a few years began putting together a string of electrifying driving performances. As his championship wins became routine, his straight-from-the-heart statements and brash, honest comments to fans, press, and anyone else within earshot earned him a loyal fan base and a reputation as the best interview in motorsports. In this updated edition of the first-ever photo biography on Force, veteran drag race reporter Erik Arneson covers Forces path from a grassroots, dirt-poor racer to NHRA star driver to reality show star. The story is brought up to date through the 2008 season, the hit TV show Driving Force, and the racing success of daughter Ashley Force and the entire John Force Racing team. Nearly 200 photos accompany the story of this outspoken and outrageous 300-mph folk hero.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Erik Arneson is a former design editor and motorsports reporter for USA Today and is now director of public relations for SPEED Channel. He resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife and children. He is author of Motorbook's Mickey Thompson: The Fast Life and Tragic Death of a Racing Legend.Jon Asher is one of the premier drag racing photographers, having covered the sport for nearly 30 years. He lives in Glorietta, New Mexico.",automotive;biographies;books;history;miscellaneous;motor sports;pictorial;professional & technical;racing;sports & outdoors;transportation,11
0809136511,"The Lawyer's Calling: Christian Faith and Legal Practice Allegretti, who teaches legal ethics at Creighton University, defines the crisis of the legal profession as a spiritual crisis rather than a crisis of ethics, commercialization, or public relations. His response in this book is an exemplary exercise in professional ethics that goes beyond examination of codes of conduct to rethink ""vocation"" and ""profession"" in the context of legal practice. Drawing on formal training and experience in both law and theology, Allegretti uses H. Richard Niebuhr's familiar typology to characterize Christian attitudes toward law and to advocate what Niebuhr described as a ""transformative"" practice. Allegretti's discussion of covenant, care, and calling--thoroughly informed by Calvin, Luther, and Carol Gilligan--will be of interest not only to lawyers but also to other readers who struggle with a separation between job and calling.  Steve Schroeder",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;history;inspirational;religion & spirituality;religious;spirituality;theology;world,11
0310221307,"NIrV Kids' Book of Devotions Growing Up and Growing Strong! Starburst: Ages 8-12 Gods Word is like food. You need to eat some of it every day to get strongand to stay strong! The NIrV Kids Book of Devotions is your daily treat from God. It includes ? A Scripture passage ? A short message you can read for yourself ? A prayer Weekly themes help you to learn more about God and his world. Youll see that the Bible has something to say about everythingfrom school to salvation, from friendship and families to fear and faith. A Scripture index will help you to find devotions about your favorite Bible passages. God loves you, and he wants you to grow strong. So start eating his Wordtoday -- Publisher	When kids think of another word for adventure, is devotions in their vocabulary? It will be once you've introduced them to the NIrV Kids' Book of Devotions. In their own language of modern kidspeak, Mark Littleton introduces boys and girls ages 7 to 11 to awesome adventures and way-cool discoveries in the Bible--and to its central person, Jesus Christ. Designed to help young Christians ground their lives in Christ and get off to a good start, here are 365 daily insights that will challenge and encourage them with simple, biblical insights for the world they live in. Based on the easy-to-read New International Reader's Version, each half-page, daily devotion is like a short talk with Jesus, focusing on learning and applying Scripture in daily life. Weekly themes include prayer, friendship, school, sports, television, entertainment, and more. This devotional will help children start their own daily quiet time and encourage them in their Bible reading. The NIrV Kids' Book of Devotions is an adventure kids and parents alike will love.	Mark Littleton is the best-selling author of Beefin Up, a teen devotional, Tales of the Neverending, and the Sports Heroes series. He is a graduate of Dallas Seminary, a former pastor and youth pastor, and is now president of a ministry to churches, singles, and youth called Winsun Gatherings. He is a frequent speaker at churches, retreats, and conferences	God's word is like food. You need to eat some of it every day to get strong -- and to stay strong! The NIrV Kids' Book of Devotions is your daily treat from God. It includes: - A scripture passage from the NIrV -- ""The NIV for kids!"" - a short message you can read for yourself - a prayer Weekly themes help you to learn more about God and his world. You'll see that the Bible has something to say about everything -- from school to salvation, from friendship and family to fear and faith. A Scripture index will help you find devotions about your favorite Bible passages. God loves you, and he wants you to grow strong. So start ""eating"" his Word -- today!	Mark is a former pastor and youth pastor, is president of WINSUN Ministries, a ministry to families, churches, and Christian writers.  He is the author of more than 70 books, including the NIrV Book of Devotions.  Mark holds a master's of Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary.  He lives near Kansas City, MO.",books;children's books;christian;christianity;devotional;education & reference;literature & fiction;prayer;religion & spirituality;religions;religious fiction,11
B000FO7OL4,"Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction: The handbook for construction professionals and students on NEBOSH and other construction courses ""There are many books on the market dedicated to health and safety but few that so comprehensively cover the entire spectrum of the construction process from design through to completion.""- From the foreword by George Brumwell CBE, General Secretary, Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians""This study book complements training with a structured approach to give students the tools to allow positive safety management within the construction industry.""- John Lacey, FIOSH, RSP, FSIA, MASSE, President of IOSH and the Past Chairman of the Construction Specialist Group""This reference book is an excellent study aid for those engaging in the new NEBOSH Construction Certificate syllabus. The text of this book is well laid out and easy to read. It follows a logical sequence similar to that instigated on a project - namely planning through implementation to review.""- Lawrence Webb, MIOSH, RSP, AIEMA, Costain Limited & International SHE Manager	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The construction industry is working hard to improve its health and safety record. It is now essential for employers and employees to be aware of the health and safety issues that concern them and demand for qualifications in this area is increasing.The coverage of this book has been directly matched to the Certificate course in Construction Safety and Health from NEBOSH (National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health). However, the comprehensive coverage of health and safety topics in a construction context make it relevant for other courses in Construction Design and Management, Construction Safety and Health, and the Built Environment, both in the UK and overseas. It will prove essential reading for the building industry.The text is highly illustrated in full colour, easy to read and includes self-assessment questions taken directly from NEBOSH examinations as well as a study skills chapter. The text is also supported with checklists, report forms and record sheets, making it a valuable reference tool for construction managers, supervisors, designers, building and civil engineers to consult on the day to day issues of health and safety.                                        * Fully covers the syllabus for the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Safety and Health* Deals with the majority of construction activities as well as the key health and safety areas identified by the HSE* Includes a summary of the main legislation, ideal as a reference for students as well as for all managers in the construction industry	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;civil;crafts;design & construction;engineering;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;professional & technical;science & math;technology,11
0752215078,"Roger's Profanisaurus Roger Mellie, a keen disciple of 'tossed salad' and never known to turn down a 'vicar's calling card' is ably assisted by Prof. Bernard Fuck, a well known exponent of the 'Cyprus manoeuvre'.",books;british;contemporary;education & reference;humor;humor & entertainment;humor & satire;literature & fiction;love;parodies;sex & marriage,11
0520086880,"Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War ""It is hardly novel to describe abortion politics as a 'struggle for alliances,' because only two small minorities of voters fully back the two contending camps, but Bearing Right explicates the complexities of this struggle in consistently insightful detail. . . . His analysis of contending abortion strategies is undeniably acute.""--David J. Garrow, New York Times, August 25, 2003 -- Review	""Saletan's Bearing Right is as subtle and intelligent a study of abortion politics as has ever been written. You may not agree with the conclusions, but no one concerned about this issue can afford to miss this brilliant analysis.""--Charles Krauthammer, syndicated columnist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary""Saletan destroys the myth that there's nothing new to say about America's abortion debate. His argument that the pro-choice movement has preserved abortion rights by co-opting conservative rhetoric will make activists on both sides of the debate uncomfortable, which is an achievement in and of itself. There's no smarter political commentator in Washington today.""--Peter Beinart, editor, The New Republic""Will Saletan is one of America's shrewdest political writers. He brings clarity and intelligence to the roiling abortion debate, in a challenging and illuminating work of contemporary history. If you care about the issue of abortion, you must read this book.""--Rich Lowry, editor, National Review""A unique assessment of recent abortion politics. Saletan uncovers political and institutional strategies with lucidity and verve. This book makes a raft of challenging arguments--a must-read, especially now.""--Rickie Solinger, author of Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the U.S.""Will Saletan is a great political journalist with a strong moral sense. He also has an unusually shrewd understanding of what happens when ethics and values meet elections and the legislative process. So partisans on every side of the abortion debate--Saletan shows convincingly there are more than two--will be challenged by his book, at times upset, and always enlightened. Based on exceptional reporting and fiercely independent analysis, Bearing Right is eloquent, important, and surprising."" --E.J. Dionne, Jr., syndicated columnist and author of Why Americans Hate Politics ""A unique assessment of recent abortion politics. Saletan uncovers political and institutional strategies with lucidity and verve. This book makes a raft of challenging arguments--a must-read, especially now.""--Rickie Solinger, author of Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the U.S.	""Saletan's Bearing Right is as subtle and intelligent a study of abortion politics as has ever been written. You may not agree with the conclusions, but no one concerned about this issue can afford to miss this brilliant analysis.""-Charles Krauthammer, syndicated columnist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary  ""Saletan destroys the myth that there's nothing new to say about America's abortion debate. His argument that the pro-choice movement has preserved abortion rights by co-opting conservative rhetoric will make activists on both sides of the debate uncomfortable, which is an achievement in and of itself. There's no smarter political commentator in Washington today.""-Peter Beinart, editor, The New Republic  ""Will Saletan is one of America's shrewdest political writers. He brings clarity and intelligence to the roiling abortion debate, in a challenging and illuminating work of contemporary history. If you care about the issue of abortion, you must read this book.""-Rich Lowry, editor, National Review  ""A unique assessment of recent abortion politics. Saletan uncovers political and institutional strategies with lucidity and verve. This book makes a raft of challenging arguments--a must-read, especially now.""-Rickie Solinger, author of Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the U.S.  ""Will Saletan is a great political journalist with a strong moral sense. He also has an unusually shrewd understanding of what happens when ethics and values meet elections and the legislative process. So partisans on every side of the abortion debate--Saletan shows convincingly there are more than two--will be challenged by his book, at times upset, and always enlightened. Based on exceptional reporting and fiercely independent analysis, Bearing Right is eloquent, important, and surprising."" --E.J. Dionne, Jr., syndicated columnist and author of Why Americans Hate Politics  ""A unique assessment of recent abortion politics. Saletan uncovers political and institutional strategies with lucidity and verve. This book makes a raft of challenging arguments-a must-read, especially now.""-Rickie Solinger, author of Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the U.S.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	William Saletan is Chief Political Correspondent for the online magazine Slate. He has written for the New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Village Voice, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, and the Washingtonian.",abortion & birth control;americas;books;gender studies;history;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;united states;women's studies,11
0874807611,"Navajo & Photography James Faris's Navajo and Photography concerns a world that has nearly disappeared: that of the traditional Navajos, the Indian people of the high desert American Southwest. What Faris calls non-hostile Navajos became an essential part of the tourist trade following the Indian Wars of the 19th century, and their representation in photographic images was a carefully crafted departure from the realities of reservation life. The Navajos were depicted as proud yet friendly warriors, not as defeated enemies and wards of a conquering state. Those photographs--and Faris's book contains scores of them--were important instruments in the foundation of a conventional wisdom about who Indians were and how they lived. As Faris shows in his commentary, the Navajos did not always willingly participate in this mythmaking process, and sometimes subtly subverted it. Even so, history and anthropology books are full of ersatz images of characters such as the famous Navajo Brigand of the Black Mountain Country. Faris's text is an important contribution to a growing body of criticism of what might be called the manufacture of The Other.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This important and durable work sets a new standard for the study of photography and culture.The Journal of the WestThis book should be required reading for all who share a concern for the ways in which photographs help shape how we perceive and understand a subject.Montana Magazine	James Faris is emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Connecticut and is the author of The Nightway: A History and A History of Documentation of a Navajo Ceremonial.",americas;anthropology;arts & photography;books;history;native american;native american studies;photography;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,11
B00006JEGB,"Eastman Outdoors 19-Inch Gauntlet Cooking Gloves These all-leather, heavy-duty cooking gloves protect from hot oil and steam.  The longer gauntlet style offers protection up to the elbow.",accessories;all eastman outdoors;cookware;eastman outdoors;grill & smoker accessories;grills & outdoor cooking;home & kitchen;kitchen & dining;lawn & garden;patio;turkey fryers & outdoor cookers,11
0823013375,"Mary Gilliatt's Home Comforts with Style: A Decorating Guide for Today's Living Comfort and style can be highly compatible--not to mention colorful and vibrant-- as interior designer Gilliatt illustrates in this handsome collection of home interiors that focus on integrating comfort with great style. She takes the reader step-by-step from the entry hall through traditional rooms of the home, advising on space, color, light, scent, and sound to balance her dual concerns for style and comfort. Recognizing the increasing commonality of the workspace in modern homes, she offers advice on and illustration of how these spaces too can be decorated with an eye toward comfort and style. The dual-purpose office sections, coupled with a section on organizing workspace, should be welcome information for those who work at home. She includes an excellent section on domestic libraries, discussing every element--bookshelves, lighting, color, walls, accessories, and so on. The book not only includes functional advice and suggestions but also is filled with beautiful photographs that reflect the integration of style and comfort that makes even a casual perusal delightful. Vernon FordCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Mary Gilliatt is an acclaimed international interior designer and writer. She is the author of more than 30 best-selling books, including Mary Gilliatt's Interior Design Course, Mary Gilliatt's Complete Room by Room Decorating Guide, and Mary Gilliatt's Great Renovations and Restorations. She divides her time between England and France.",architecture;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;decorating;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;interior design;professional & technical;style,11
0198645422,"The Oxford Paperback Greek Dictionary Text: English, Greek	About the Editor: Niki Watts is a Fellow of the Institute of Linguistics, a member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, and Membre de la Socit Francais des Traducteurs.",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,11
0300067097,"Hitler's Airwaves: The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting and Propaganda Swing The previously untold story of how the Nazi war machine used  jazz and swing for propaganda.  Independent scholars Bergmeier and Lotz have succeeded in  crafting a work that will appeal to both a specialized audience  and the general public. Most people know that jazz and swing were  immediately banned upon Hitler's ascension to power in 1933.  Swing represented the decadent society of America, while jazz  threatened the racial purity of the Aryan race. A deep-rooted  anti-Semitism underlay these attitudes: Swing was one component  of modernism (``the refuse of a rotting society''); and jazz was  being used by the Jews to corrupt the Aryan race through  ``musical race defilement.'' Music at the home front had to  conform to the traditionalist tastes of Hitler and the Nazi  elite, but when it came to propaganda aimed at foreign countries,  swing and jazz seemed the perfect bait. Minister of Propaganda  Joseph Goebbels was always sensitive to the enormous influence of  the radio, which he viewed as second only to the press as the  ``most effective weapon in our struggle for existence.'' Strictly  speaking, the book's title is misleading; only one of the eight  chapters deals with jazz and swing radio propaganda. Four  chapters offer a historical introduction to the propaganda  ministry and the development of radio in Germany after WW I. An  additional chapter reviews the well-known rivalry within the Nazi  hierarchy over propaganda; and the final two chapters deal with  Nazi radio broadcasts over Europe. The authors have made good use  of previously unseen documents to reconstruct the Nazi effort to  use music as propaganda. The CD accompanying the book includes  catchy tunes (such as a jazzy ``Onward Christian Soldiers'' with  new, anti-Semitic lyrics) and original radio broadcasts.  A fascinating footnote to the history of the Nazi propaganda  machine. (40 illustrations, not seen) -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",20th century;books;europe;germany;history;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);radio;world war ii,11
0201178184,"Advanced PC Interfacing author's successful Applied PC                     Interfacing, Graphics and Interrupts                     this book covers all the different                     aspects of computer systems from                     low-level hardware (such as                     processors and interface devices) to                     high-level software (such as Win32                     programming). Clearly written with                     easy-to-understand examples and                     end-of chapter exercises PC                     Interfacing, Communications and                     Windows Programming is the book for                     you if you have every wondered:                    * How do I communicate using the                     serial port?              * How do I communicate using the                     parallel port?            * How do I write interrupt-driven                     software?             * How do I communicate over a                     network?           * How do I program in Microsoft                     Windows?     * What is the best bus for                     connection to this peripheral                     (serial or parallel)?      *  How do I program using Win32?  * How do I create a menu? * Which is better for my                     application, C++ or Visual Basic? *  What devices does a PC use?                      Divided into 8 sections, Hardware,                     Interfaces, RS-232/Parallel port,                     Windows Programming, Windows                     Interfacing (Windows NT/95), Win32                     Programming, Networking and Java, PC                     Interfacing, Communications and                     Windows Programming is shows why                     covers the intersection of hardware                     and software engineering.                                          Key Features                 * Includes worked examples                     and case studies                * State of the art software                     used when discussing software                     interfacing     0201178184B04062001	William Buchanan is a Senior Lecturer at Napier University, Edinburgh.  He acts as a consultant for British Gas, among other companies, and he is a founding partner of Real-Time Technologies, Ltd.0201178184AB04062001",books;computer science;computers & technology;hardware;home computing & how-to;microsoft;operating systems;pcs;software;unix;windows os,11
0205408176,"Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice, The (4th Edition) The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice presents an unrivaled collection of essays that explain the strengths-based philosophy, demonstrate how it works, and provide clear and practical tools for its application.   It presents a balanced approach to social work practice, in contrast to a problems-based approach, that takes into account the strengths and assets of clients and their environments.    Highlights of the Fourth Edition    Six New Chapters   Shifting our Habits of Mind: Learning to Practice from a Strengths Perspective (Chapter 2) examines how social work practice was historically a more problem-focused profession and the how the current shift towards strengths plays an important part in our work.   Solving Problems from a Strengths Perspective explores, with relevant examples, how a practitioner can take a perspective on problems that leads to strengths-based and solution-focused practices.   Strengths-Based Case Management: Enhancing Work with Persons with Substance Abuse Problems (Chapter 8) explores the further extensions of and developments in this important and ground-breaking work.   The Resilience of Families (Chapter11) examines those factors that promote family resilience and how they can be applied in practice.   Consciousness and Commitment: Slave Narratives in Todays Movement to End Poverty (Chapter12) applies the lessons of the resistance movements of slaves in order to develop effective and strengths-based strategies for ending poverty.   Honoring Philosophical Traditions: The Strengths Model and the Social Environment (Chapter 14) presents the strongest and clearest relationship between environmental resources and individual strengths in practicing from the strengths perspective.  Extensive revisions of existing chapters make this a fresh, more up-to-date book that retains the passion and sensibilities of the previous editions but with innovative examples and revised, more current bibliographies.   Dont Miss This Exciting Value-Added Option!    Social Work Skills Demonstrated: Beginning Direct Practice CD-ROM with Student Manual, Second Edition   Linda K. Cummins, Barry University  Judith A. Sevel, Illinois State University  Laura Pedrick, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee    A practical guide to development of crucial social work skills including basic counseling and interviewing techniques, in a CD-ROM format with companion student manual that allows students to work at their own pace.  Social Work Skills Demonstrated: Beginning Direct Practice CD-ROM with Student Manual is available at a discount when packaged with this text: 0-205-47316-4.",books;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;public policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;social work;used & rental textbooks,11
B000P28VW2,"10 Secrets to Successful Home Buying and Selling: Using Your Housing Psychology to Make Smarter Decisions Buying a house may be love at first sight or seemingly take forever. This terrific book covers all the bases. Readers will enjoy discovering the secrets as they are revealed. There's something valuable for everyone.  Willard Scott, Noted NBC Radio and Television Personality    This book helps you get at not only the practical aspects of home buying and selling, but also the emotional side of what is usually the largest and most anxiety-riddled transactions of your lifetime. If you are thinking of buying or selling a home, it pays big dividends to read Lois Vitt's advice before you do!  Jordan E. Goodman, America's Money Answers Man and author of Everyone's Money Book    If you want to get in touch with your inner home buyerand make clearer decisions based on those insightsthis is the book to take you there.  Kenneth Harney, Syndicated Real Estate Columnist, Washington Post Writers Group.    The most significant purchase a person makes in a lifetime is a home. The process of finding, purchasing, or selling a home can be down right nerve-racking. Lois Vitt has written a thought-provoking book that addresses both the technical and emotional aspects of home ownership.  Deborah Owens, Financial Commentator and author of Confident Investing and Nickel and Dime Your Way to Wealth.    Buying a home is not just the most important financial decision: It is also one of the most important emotional decisions. With 10 Secrets to Successful Home Buying and Selling, you get it right! Lois A. Vitt helps you discover your housing value system, your personal housing psychology. Learn how your expectations compare with your family's expectations, so that you can make the best decisions for everyone. After you discover what you really want, answer crucial housing questions, such as: Rent or buy? Move or remodel? Sell or hold? Refinance? Vitt's practical examples, real-life stories, and easy quizzes help you make housing decisions that enrich your life emotionally and financially!   Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.	Dr. Lois A. Vitt founded and directs the Institute for Socio-Financial Studies, an organization focused on research, education, and the development of finances, society, and the daily lives of individuals. She has taught financial sociology and financial gerontology at American University, and she edits the Encyclopedia of Financial Gerontology. Formerly a consultant to major financial services firms, she pioneered the development of innovative financing instruments for home buying.  Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.	PrefacePrefaceUntil recently, the longest time I lived in one place was five years, and my usual limit was two years. I have changed homes, transformed rooms to accommodate new uses, rented, bought, and sold homes, refinanced them, leveraged them, and invested in rental homes.I've moved to save money, to seek or accept new employment, to find better schools, to move to a different location, or to collapse my commuting time. I moved to change environmentsthe suburbs, the city, the beach, the countryand for long periods, I shuttled between two homes at a time. My work required me to travel, and sometimes a city became a routine business destination. Whenever that happened, I thought about trading hotel life for local living, and once, I actually did it. Most of my moves, now that I look back on them, were wonderfully happy moves. A few were definitely losers. Housing was also my business. As a mortgage banker, I financed thousands of houses, apartments, co-ops, and condominiums. As an investor, I rescued, renovated, restored, and remodeled houses. As the Director of Housing for an urban renewal agency, and other non-profit and for-profit organizations, I helped transform and uplift the lives of low-wage, inner-city, middle-income, Caribbean Island, and Native American populations by helping them become homeowners. For my doctoral dissertation, I researched the social and psychological ties we have to housing and I examined the differences homeownership makes to people who are able to achieve it. Not surprisingly, my research results empirically supported the prevailing wisdom surrounding homeownership as a personal and an American ideal. Since completing my thesis, and increasingly during the past decade, financial research has more frequently crossed the line into the social and behavioral sciences. In turn, the social and behavioral sciences grapple with questions about personal financial literacy and financial management. At the heart of this emerging body of research is the home. Perhaps nowhere else can we learn so much about ourselves and one another as when we consider our values, feelings, attitudes, beliefs, and customs in the context of the financial realities, constraints, opportunities, and investment potential of our homes. Nothing else motivates us to learn how to handle money better than the prospect of owning or investing in our homes. Yet, partially due to the complexity of the times in which we live, and partially due to credit availability and increasingly creative advertising, we have fallen behind the personal financial knowledge curve we need to master. It doesn't have to be this way.I've learned from my research, teaching, and the people I've helped to housefrom college students to older retirees seeking assisted living arrangementsthat our decisions about homes can be financially and personally enhancing or exactly the opposite, depending upon the mindset, willingness to learn, and emotional baggage we bring to the transactions. Housing emotions can derail us financially. They can be so powerful in fact that during seminars I offer on home and decision-making, I've seen grown men and women cry over home-connected memories. One man who was about 50 years old, a participant in a half-day workshop, suddenly began weeping uncontrollably and had to leave the room. He later told me he had not allowed himself to grieve over the loss of his wife almost two years earlier. The exercises in the workshop had loosened memories he suppressed far too long, he said. The experience of home can be so intimate that I've witnessed participants heal childhood trauma by revisiting the homes of their past through exercises designed expressly for this purpose. My hope is that 10 Secrets to Successful Home Buying and Selling will simplify what can be a complicated, intimidating, and emotionally draining experience for many. By introducing you to your own housing psychology, better negotiating and decision skills will be more accessible to you as a homebuyer, seller, renter, and housing investor. 10 Secrets to Successful Home Buying and Selling is not just a how-to book, but an introduction to a whole new strategy that can transform the way you approach housing decisionsand maybe other financial decisions as well.Lois A. VittMiddleburg, VA http://www.RealityStudies.com Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.",applied psychology;books;business & investing;buying & selling homes;industries & professions;kindle ebooks;kindle store;medical books;personal finance;psychology;real estate,11
B000MTEJYM,"Hacking Firefox: More Than 150 Hacks, Mods, and Customizations (ExtremeTech) They dreamed of a better browser . . . and before you could say ""explore no more,"" Firefox was born. But already you want more. Tighter security, greater functionality. A custom installation for Linux. Maybe even that unique extension you've always dreamed of creating. Well, if you want to tweak the Fox, here are over 400 pages of ways to do it. From hacking profile settings to cracking links and cleaning out the cookie jar, this is the stuff that puts you in control.        Step-by-step instructions for these hacks and dozens more            Settings, content, and extension hacks      Hacking the interface and themes      Performance boosters      Anti-phishing and security hacks      Toolbar and status bar tweaks      Navigation, download, and search hacks      Hacks for common plugins      Extension and theme creation      	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	They dreamed of a better browser . . . and before you could say ""explore no more,"" Firefox was born. But already you want more. Tighter security, greater functionality. A custom installation for Linux. Maybe even that unique extension you've always dreamed of creating. Well, if you want to tweak the Fox, here are over 400 pages of ways to do it. From hacking profile settings to cracking links and cleaning out the cookie jar, this is the stuff that puts you in control.        Step-by-step instructions for these hacks and dozens more            Settings, content, and extension hacks      Hacking the interface and themes      Performance boosters      Anti-phishing and security hacks      Toolbar and status bar tweaks      Navigation, download, and search hacks      Hacks for common plugins      Extension and theme creation      	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & management;computers & technology;encryption;hacking;internet & web culture;network security;networking;privacy;security & encryption;web browsers,11
185960613X,"The Kawasaki Story: Racing and Production Models from 1963 to the Present Day One of the worlds foremost motorcycle historians, Ian Falloon is the author of twenty books on motorcycles, including ten on Ducati. These titles include the best-selling Ducati Story, and Ducati Twins Restoration Guide. As an owner of several Ducati 750s since 1973 he has a particular enthusiasm for this model, still owning the 750 Super Sport he bought back in the 1970s. Ian Falloon trained as a symphony orchestra oboist before a serious motorcycle accident forced a change in profession. Now a freelance contributor to a number of motorcycle magazines around the world.He resides in Australia.",automotive;books;history;miscellaneous;motor sports;motorcycle racing;motorcycles;professional & technical;racing;sports & outdoors;transportation,11
0516263544,"A Luna Moth's Life (Nature Upclose) PreSchool-Grade 2AA series designed to be read aloud to younger children or alone by beginning readers. Each title records the life cycle of a specific insect/mollusk. Mating is mentioned, but specifics are not provided. Death never enters the scene. The realistic illustrations are large, colorful, and framed with clear borders in colors that match the main tones of the covers. Visually appealing, the books have accurate (if very elementary) texts that may satisfy some childrens' immediate informational needs and raise a storm of question from others. Although each title has a brief assortment of facts for adults and a glossary of terms italicized in the text, these sections will prove inadequate if more detail is demanded. While ladybugs are often featured in juvenile nonfiction, luna moths are not, and slugs, alas, being somewhat unlovely, give ground to coverage of their ""cuter"" cousins, the snails. Nicely done, if simplistic.APatricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NYCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	John Himmelman is the author of several nonfiction books for children.",anatomy & physiology;animals;books;bugs & spiders;children's books;diseases;environment & ecology;health;literature & fiction;nature & how it works;science,11
1569753873,"San Francisco As You Like It: 23 Tailor-Made Tours for Culture Vultures, Shopaholics, Neo-Bohemians, Famished Foodies, Savvy Natives & Everyone Else Bonnie Wach is the fabulously well-informed editor of Where magazine and has written for many other publications. She was born and raised in San Francisco, which is still her home today.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;food;hotels & inns;lodging & transportation;pacific;reference;specialty travel;tourist destinations & museums;travel;united states;west,11
0521771641,"Foundations of Component-Based Systems ""...at the cutting edge of computer science.""   Application Development Advisor""The book is well written and, more important, matches one of the current emphases of the software and systems industry...it is quite detailed and thorough, but it could certainly serve well as a text for a graduate-level computer science course.  Practitioners and researchers who apply these approaches will also want to have this book in thier libraries.""   Computing Reviews	This collection of articles by well-known experts brings together several elements that are fast becoming the focus of much current research and practice in computing.  About half of the articles deal with theoretical frameworks, models, and systems of notation.  The rest of the book presents case studies by researchers who have built prototype systems, including findings on architecture verification, which show how theory might move into practice.  This will be an essential purchase for researchers in computer science, practitioners of formal methods, and computer programmers working in safety-critical applications or in the technology of component-based systems.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;object-oriented design;programming;software design;software development;software engineering;testing & engineering,11
0595145000,"The 59-Second Employee : How to Stay One Second Ahead of Your One Minute Manager Dr. Rae Andr is Professor of Organizational Behavior in the College of Business at Northeastern University in Boston. A noted lecturer, she is the author of Positive Solitude and Homemakers, the Forgotten Workers, among other books.",books;business & investing;business & professional;humor;humor & entertainment;management;management & leadership;motivational;parodies;self-help;self-help & psychology,11
B000G68GPE,"Lifetime 1558 XL Base Height-Adjustable Portable Basketball System with Clear 52-Inch Square Shatter Guard Backboard Hone your jumpshot in your spare moments or perform a backyard dunking drill with this Lifetime Shatter Guard XL portable basketball system. Unlike in-ground basketball hoops--which are typically anchored in concrete--this portable system rolls on wheels, letting you position the basket support in any desired location, from the back patio to the middle of the cul-de-sac. All you have to do is fill the heavy-duty 35-gallon base with water or sand and play.  The basketball system comes with a 52-inch-square Shatter Guard backboard made of Makrolon polycarbonate, which is virtually unbreakable and several times stronger than acrylic. When combined with the heavy-duty steel frame and the sturdy steel Y-extension arms, the basketball goal looks and plays just like pro-style glass, with superior rebound effects and terrific stability. The system also includes a three-piece, 3.5-inch round pole with Lifetime's patented pneumatic Action Grip height mechanism. To change the pole's height--it adjusts from 7.5 to 10 feet in infinite increments--simply activate the Power Lift with one hand and push it to the correct height. And Lifetime knows that dunking and above-the-rim play are a huge part of modern basketball, which is why the basketball goal includes a Slam-It rim. The solid-steel rim features double-compression springs that give way during dunks to protect the player, then spring back once released.  Other features include welded-steel net hooks with an all-weather nylon net; fade-resistant graphics that are screen-printed with UV-protected inks for superior color endurance; and a five-year warranty that covers everything on the system.  Amazon.com Basketball System Buying Guide With the high-quality construction of many portable basketball systems, turning your driveway into a basketball court can be as simple as hooking up your garden hose. But while a portable system may ultimately be your best choice, there are reasons you may want to consider an in-ground or wall-mount system before you decide.  In-Ground Systems In-ground systems are permanently cemented into the ground--either via a bolt mounting kit or directly into the ground--and are generally more rigid and take up less space than portables. In-ground systems often require that you hire a professional to complete the task, but when the cement dries you'll have a hoop that can take punishing dunks with ease.  Many in-ground systems are height-adjustable, include removable post features that let you take the system down for off-season storage, and feature heavy-duty breakaway rims. You'll also want to research the adjustable mechanisms on the systems, as there are several types to choose from. Some feature a counter-balance spring that lets you perform easy, one-hand adjustments while others may feature a sturdy, pneumatic system.  Wall-Mount Systems Wall-mount systems can be mounted to the side of a house, a tall retaining wall, or a garage. Generally sturdier than portables, wall-mounts have the added advantage of optimizing your existing ground space for the court, as you won't need to dedicate any space to the base or pole. Not all systems include the necessary hardware, so make certain you add a mounting kit to your list.  Portable Systems Portable systems require minimal installation and offer ultimate convenience. These systems generally feature a base that can be filled with sand or water to stabilize them and include wheels for portability. Although they are not as sturdy as in-ground or wall-mounted hoops, portables are simple to set up and can often be folded for convenient storage.  Backboard Considerations Regardless of which system you choose, you'll want to brush up on Backboards 101. Most residential systems feature backboards made of acrylic, fiberglass, graphite, or various other composite materials. While clear acrylic gives the professional look and feel of glass, it is not as rigid as fiberglass or graphite. Some systems may offer steel or aluminum backboards, which are virtually vandal resistant, but don't offer the true rebounding action.  The regulation size of an NBA backboard is 72 inches wide and 42 inches high. Most portable hoops are 42 or 44 inches wide and 36 inches tall. In-ground systems tend to be a bit larger, with 54-inch and 60-inch widths being the most popular. While rectangular shaped backboards provide more bank shot opportunities, they are generally more expensive than the streamlined fan-shaped board.	Lifetime XL Base, 52"" Clear Square Shatter Guard Backboard making broken backboards a thing of the past, made of Makrolon polycarbonate, making it virtually unbreakable and many times stronger than acrylic. Black hammertone steel , 3 Piece, 3.5"" Round pole system with  Action Grip  height mechanism, offers a easy one-hand height adjustment from 7.5 to 10 feet in 6-inch increments.  Our Orange Slam-It rim features double-compression springs providing spring-back action.  Built for competitive play with welded-steel net hooks and an all-weather nylon net.   XL  portable base has a 35 gallon capacity  and fills easily with water or sand providing a stable foundation and  rolls easily on its own wheels to your desired location.  Play today, no cement required !   5 year warranty that covers everything on the system.  Lifetime Customer Care @ 1-800-225-3865 (or) www.lifetime.com",backboard components;backboard systems;backboards;basketball;court equipment;portable boards;sports;sports & outdoor play;sports & outdoors;team sports;toys & games,11
0275902358,"Forgotten Legions: German Army Infantry Policy 1918-1941 ""Lewis's book is not another sentimental treatment of doomed soldiers and megalomaniacal generals but a hardheaded, sure-handed analysis of developments in the German Army from the end of WW I to 1941. Lewis details changes in weaponry, training, and organization of troops. He discusses the debate within the German General Staff on the proper place of armored vehicles and mobile infantry, the effects of Hitler's increasingly direct intrusion into military planning, and other subjects great and small. Along the way he passes a few harsh but well-considered judgments on Basil Liddell Hart and Heinz Guderian, for too long the unquestioned authorities on several of the above topics. Lewis also defends the General Staff against charges of stodgy conservatism, attributing the Wehrmacht's lack of preparedness of WW II to Hitler's reckess expansion of the army and his confused economic priorities. In purely military matters the book is well grounded in the German and English source materials, It is less reliable, but by no means shoddy, when dealing with the intricate larger context of military developments. In its major concerns the work is excellent, free from military jargon, and accessible to the nonexpert reader. Libraries at all levels.""  -- Choice",20th century;books;europe;germany;history;humanities;military;military science;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;used & rental textbooks,11
0395090660,"American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language The third edition of the American Heritage Dictionary is a beauty--2,134 pages and 8.5 pounds--containing a lexicon of more than 200,000 entries, plus an appendix of Indo-European roots for etymology enthusiasts. The crisp white pages and sharp black print are easy on the eyes, the drawings and pictures (nearly 4,000 in all) are a delight, and along with the lucid, erudite definitions are 4,000-plus quoted illustrations of usage from the likes of Shakespeare, Melville, and Updike. Though it's the chosen reference of editors, it's more than a mere tool of the trade--it's a luxurious linguistic experience.  	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Heftier (7 lbs. vs. 4 lbs.) and more expensive than competing adult desk dictionaries ($40 vs. $20), the new edition of The American Heritage Dictionary ( AHD3 ) will especially appeal to those who found the original (1969. o.p.) a refreshingly readable, attractive, and candid source of lexical information. The hallmarks of the first edition--handsome graphics and format, accessible definitions and etymologies, hardnosed advice on usage questions--are all here, updated to reflect American English as used in the early 1990s. AHD3 's stats (yes, that's a word, you can look it up) are impressive: 200,000 ""boldface forms""; 16,000 new words and meanings including such recent constructions as birthparent , date rape , moonquake , slam-dunk , and wellness ; 30,000 illustrative examples prepared by the staff and more than 4000 quotations from reputable writers and publications; 30,500 etymologies, complemented by 400 word histories and 100 regional notes; 900 synonymies; and 4000 pictorial illustrations, 80 percent of which are new. The Usage Panel, a familiar feature of previous editions, has now grown to 173 members and includes more women, English professors, and linguists. The panel offers 500-plus usage notes, many quite lengthy, that render stern, usually conservative judgments on questionable usage (see the flout / flaunt controversy, for example). AHD3 measures up well against the major competition--the Random House Webster's College Dictionary ( LJ 6/15/91), Webster's New World Dictionary (Prentice Hall Pr., 1988. 3d ed.), and Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictio nary ( LJ 9/1/83). All libraries of any consequence need the new edition of the American Heritage Dictionary . For an interview with editor Soukhanov, see ""Dictionaries Defined,"" LJ , June 15, p. 44-45.--Ed.- Ken Kister, author of ""Best Encyclope dias,"" Tampa, Fla.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Dictionaries and thesauri have come to play an interesting role in American culture.  More than the rented cap and gown, more than the diploma, they are visible symbols of the high school graduate . . . They are the likeliest presents that a graduate will receive, an unfailing resource from distant aunts and uncles.  They are the armor for the future, being the two books a 18-year-old will take along to college, where they are to ease his or her passage through freshman English.  They even bear ritual names.  The dictionary is generally called Webster's no matter who edited or published it. In the United States, dictionaries have about a 200-year history.  Noah Webster did not edit the first one, but he did edit the first major one, and American dictionaries have borne both his mark and his name ever since.  Among the characteristics are wide learning, pedantry, humorlessness, a wish to separate American from English speech and a horror of anything vulgar. (Using the simplified spelling he hoped to make popular, Webster wrote ""An Address to Yung Ladies"" in 1790.  Here is what he told him:  ""The moment a woman suffers to fall from her tung, any expression that indicates the leest indelicacy of mind; the moment she ceeses to blush at such expression from our sex, she ceeses to be respected; because as a lady she is no longer respectable."") In our time, horror of vulgarity has vanished, being replaced with something more like relish; and though several of the various Websters have wavered back and forth, putting the four-letter words in one edition and taking them out in the next, full expression now prevails.  Almost any dictionary will define all sexual language, and often all racial and ethnic terms, too. But the wide learning, the pedantry, and the humorlessness remain - with one exception.  That exception happens to be the one important American dictionary that does not pretend to be connected with Noah Webster.  The American Heritage Dictionary came out in 1969 and immediately distinguished itself as the liveliest wordbook in America.  Improvement has not ceased.  A much-revised third edition is now out.  It is surely the most pleasurable dictionary ever published in this country, and one of the most useful. There are about five characteristics which set the American Heritage apart from the various Websters.  One is a series of word histories, dotted through the book.  There are about 400 of them.  These are not mere etymologies, they are one paragraph essays, extremely well written and sometimes quite funny.  The one that elegantly gives the history of the most four-lettery of all four-letter words is likely so to captivate most college freshman that they will wind up reading all 400, hoping for more.  They'll get it too.  Not just oral-anal surprises, such as the extraordinary history of the word ""fizzle,"" but also sober linguistic history, as of the words ""alligator,"" ""cynic,"" ""funky"" and ""tooth.""  If anything will convert the average student to a fascinated interest in language, I think these word histories will.  A few are perhaps too pedantically jocular; most strike just the right note. Another discussion of the American Heritage is a series of about 500 usage notes, written in the same readable essay style as the word histories.  The various Websters also treat usage, but none do it half so well.  I knew I was going to love the book early on, when I came to a usage note for the verb ""to author.""  I had winced for years, reading phrases like ""she has authored four best sellers"" when  ""she has written"" would clearly serve the turn.  But I never analyzed my discomfort. Suppose you look up the verb ""author"" in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate.  You find it defined as ""to be the author of,"" and that is the total entry.  Now look it up in the Random House Webster's College Dictionary.  The definition is ""to be the author of.""  Then there is a brief usage example: ""to author a novel."" Look in the American Heritage, though, and you will find a 22-line note, after and separate from the definition.  It begins thus: ""The verb author, which has been out of use for a long period, has be rejuvenated in recent years with the sense 'to assume responsibility for the content of a published text.'  As such it is not quite synonymous with the verb write. One can write, but not author, a love letter or an unpublished manuscript and the writer who ghostwrites a book for a celebrity cannot be said to have 'authored' the creation.""  At last!  No wonder I winced; it was the wrong verb. Still another distinction is the set of 100 or so regional notes.  A fourth is the physical layout.  From 1969 on, the American Heritage has had wide margins and a highly readable format, and continues to.  The various Websters are all much more crowded. Finally, there is a difference in price and perhaps category.  The American Heritage is a bigger book than any of the collegiate dictionaries and a more expensive one. An aunt or uncle or uncle would have to dig twice as deep.  Do it, would be my advice.  There is a real possibility you would wind up contributing about 10 times as much toward the education of the young graduate. (The New York Times)A remarkable bargain and a pleasure to use for research or browsing, notable for its aesthetic attractiveness (a particularly clear and handsome typeface, spacious pages, and some 4,000 pieces of margin art--bw photographs, line drawings, and maps); its ease of use (thumb-indexing, large and dark running heads, no bemystifying abbreviations or symbols to decipher); its abundance of aids to usage; and finally its clear and precise word meanings (some 350,000 entries, about 16,000 of them new), along with thousands of etymologies, 400 word history paragraphs, 900 cross-referenced synonym paragraphs, and more than 100 Regional American English Notes. Goes to the head of the class. (Booknews, Inc.)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	ROBERT W. HARRIS has been a freelance writer and designer since 1990. He has written twelve books, including DOS, WordPerfect  Lotus Office Companion and When Good People Write Bad Sentences. His books have been main selections in the Small Computer Book Club and the Book-of-the-Month Club.",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;foreign language study & reference;language & grammar;new;reference;used & rental textbooks;words,11
1578065224,"The Cajuns: Americanization of a People In The Cajuns, Shane K. Bernard relates the story of how one of America's most distinctive ethnic groups, the Acadians, or Cajuns, of South Louisiana, made the transformation from a close-knit people retaining the strong cultural ties of their heritage to a group that has become assimilated into the mainstream of American society. Bernard maintains that for much of their history the Cajuns were looked down upon, derided as backward, ignorant, and un-American (p. xvii). They spoke a separate language and lived a life-style that emphasized isolation and separation from traditional American culture.  World War II changed that. Thousands of Cajuns served in the armed forces, and for the first time many were exposed to outside influences. Those influences were, of course, accelerated by such postwar developments as the introduction of television into typical homes and the creation of the interstate highway system. In addition, young Cajuns found themselves strongly influenced by the advent of rock and roll music and other national cultural trends that led to a sharp reduction in traditional Cajun habits.    Most people think of the Cajuns as Caucasian, but in 1960, 28 percent of Acadiana's population was black. Although several violent incidents did mar the region's integration, in general it progressed quite peacefully. One reason lay in the large degree of racial intermingling that the region had historically experienced. Another lay in the strong support for desegregation by the Roman Catholic Church. Today, many African American Cajun families have surnames such as Doucette and Thierry. Many are as proud to proclaim themselves coonasses (p. 109) as their white counterparts.  By the early 1970s the Americanization of the Cajuns had proceeded so rapidly that some of the region's leaders organized efforts to preserve its rich heritage. The Council for the Development of French in Louisiana (CODOFIL), for example, forcefully espoused the teaching of French in the schools and helped to restore some of the traditions and values of the Cajun language.  CODOFIL also became known for its promotion of Cajun pride and empowerment.  Cajun music and cuisine also became highly publicized features of this movement.  Bernard concludes that during the last sixty years of the twentieth century the meaning of the word Cajun was redefined from the popular perception of a lazy, shiftless, ignorant people; Cajuns came to be recognized as a unique and valued ethnic group. The core identity of the Cajuns has transformed itself into one of pride.   Bernard has done an excellent job in treating this neglected aspect of Cajun history. His sources include a wide variety of both primary and secondary works. His chapters on the influences of World War II and of the atomic age on the Cajuns are fine interpretations. He also gives full credit to the important roles played by women and blacks in the region. This reviewer highly recommends this immensely readable and informative volume to anyone interested in learning more about one of America's most fascinating peoples. -- The Journal of American History (June 2004)Shane K. Bernard, a descendant of Acadian exiles who settled in Louisiana, wondered why in his lifetime, after more than three hundred years in the New World, [his] family had suddenly lost the ability to speak French (p. xii). He, and Cajuns in general, Bernard concludes, had been Americanized. That transformation, which he thoroughly explores and examines, was rapid, widespread . . . sparked by the onset of World War II and fueled by the convergence of several ensuing trends and events during the postwar period: the advent of mass communications, rampant consumerism, interstate highways, the jet age, educational improvements, even the rise of rock 'n' roll. . . .  The strength of this study rests in the way Bernard follows the effects of postwar changes as they ripple through Cajun culture. . . . Bernard, as both scholar and participant, has written a thorough and interesting study of that transformation. -- Journal of Southern History (August 2004)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	A history of how Cajun culture coped with forces that threatened its uniqueness	A Cajun from New Iberia, Louisiana, Shane K. Bernard is the author of Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues (1993), The Cajuns: Americanization of a People (2006), Tabasco: An Illustrated History (2007), and Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History (2008).  He holds a doctorate in History from Texas A University and degrees in English and History from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",20th century;african-american studies;americas;books;ethnic studies;history;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states,11
B000FJC0Z4,"Mathematica in Action From the reviews of the third edition:  The book is full of interesting things. The first half focuses on visualization and the math is relatively elementary (nothing beyond multivariable calculus). The second half works on much harder problems. MAA Reviews  Beginners will benefit from the book as will more experienced Mathematica programmers as the explorations build from simple introductory concepts  . The best feature of the book is that it teaches via interesting examples.  The writing is remarkably good.  The book contains a good number of color illustrations and is rich in Mathematica output.  interesting explorations with clear and engaging writing are hard to come by. Im delighted to have this book in my collection. (Playing with Mathematica, June, 2011)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Plenty of examples and case studies utilize Mathematica 7's newest tools, such as dynamic manipulations and adaptive three-dimensional plotting.   Emphasizes the breadth of Mathematica and the impressive results of combining techniques from different areas.   Whenever possible, the book shows how Mathematica can be used to discover new things. Striking examples include the design of a road on which a square wheel bike can ride, the design of a drill that can drill square holes,and new and surprising formulas for p.   Visualization is emphasized throughout, with finely crafted graphics in each chapter.   	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;computer science;computers & technology;graphics & multimedia;mathematical & statistical;mathematics;new;programming;science & math;software;used & rental textbooks,11
082736749X,"Architectural Drafting and Design ""I absolutely loved this book. Once I started reading this book, it was hard to put it down. It was much like a well loved novel. The proposed organization of this book was great. It is well written. The information in the charts and illustrations fit each topic. Many of the chapters were short in length which made it easier to offer one a chance to absorb the subject better. There is enough information in this book that several syllabuses can be made up for several semesters.""""This book provides a very comprehensive outlook into residential architectural design and drafting. It discusses all aspects of architectural design.""""The information contained on all plan areas is great. My students learn very much from this text. It is very self explanatory, easy to read and comprehend. Illustrations shown throughout the text help students understand what is being taught.""	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	Alan Jefferis, who obtained his BS degree from San Diego State University in 1972, has been an instructor of drafting technology at Clackamas Community College, an Authorized AutoCAD Training Center, for over thirty-one years. Prior to that, Mr. Jefferis taught for four years at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon. His professional experience includes eight years of drafting for structural engineers and thirty years of residential designing. Currently, he is the owner of Residential Designs, as well as an Autodesk Developer Network member and a former member of the A.I.B.D. Mr. Jefferis is the co-author of numerous books from Delmar Cengage Learning, including RESIDENTIAL DESIGN, DRAFTING AND DETAILING, ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTING AND DESIGN, COMMERCIAL DRAFTING AND DETAILING', AUTOCAD FOR ARCHITECTURE, and PRINT READING FOR ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION.David Madsen is Faculty Emeritus, Former Department Chair Drafting of Technology at Clackamas Community College, an Autodesk Premier Training Center in Oregon City, Oregon.  He is an Autodesk Developer Network Member and Director Emeritus of the American Design Drafting Association.",architecture;books;drafting & presentation;engineering;humanities;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;mechanical;new;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,11
1562056484,"Web Concept & Design This book shows users how to add life to dull, complicated, and   confusing Web page design using step-by-step techniques from   professional Web designer Crystal Waters.  - Discusses topics such as   what belongs on a page and how to arrange content for maximum   readability    - Provides tips and tricks from top Web experts    -   Includes strategies for displaying advertising on a Web site",books;computers & technology;desktop publishing;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;lan;networking;networks;programming;protocols & apis;web development & design,11
0195793404,"The Oxford English-Urdu Dictionary `This is an excellent dictionary. It...easily surpasses all other dictionaries known to me from India and Pakistan.'  Peter Wheeldon, National Development Officer for Urdu, Scottish Qualifications Authority",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,11
1560256389,"Families of Value: Personal Profiles of Pioneering Lesbian and Gay Parents Families comprised of same-sex parents are examples of ""the ultimate triumph of courage and integrity,"" argues Bernstein, author of Straight Parents, Gay Children. To demonstrate this courage, he assembles a collection of real-life stories of gay parents' struggles to raise their children in a society hostile to their lifestyle. From a gay Protestant minister to two lesbian police officers hoping to extend death benefits to each other, these narratives offer insight into what motivates same-sex parents in their fight for legitimacy and acceptance-namely, the wellbeing of their children. For example, Bernstein chronicles the plight of Steven and Roger, foster parents to five children born with HIV, who are fighting against the state's attempts to remove one of the boys from their care. One of the most enlightening chapters, ""Cherry-Picking the Truth,"" debunks many of the myths about children of gay parents and reveals the particular hardships that they endure. Unfortunately, however, the book focuses too much on the parents' struggles for social change and not enough on their family relationships. Thus, while this is an intriguing study of those leading the movement for same-sex parenting, it lacks the passion and emotional depth that would make these profiles truly resonate with readers. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	With gay marriage in the news, attention has turned to gay parents. Bernstein, author of Straight Parents, Gay Children (1995), here portrays the gay and lesbian parents whose intimate lives he explores as pioneers fighting a cultural battle to change society. Growing numbers of children are raised in gay and lesbian households, he says, with hard-to-access statistics ranging from 1 to 14 million. The family stories he tells embrace a religiously conservative Protestant minister who is the gay father of two, a pair of lesbian policewomen who battled for extension of police death benefits, and a 12-year-old who, renouncing his lesbian mom's Quaker pacifism, beats up a boy who calls her a ""lezzie."" While some stories demonstrate the silver linings of storm clouds, one woman objects that the media light shone on gay families is too often rosy: she recalls a childhood spent in terror of being taken from her gay dad and his partner and of fearing their house would be torched. A strong addition to sociology and gender studies collections. Whitney ScottCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""A wonderful book. . . . Bob Bernstein has done an amazing job."" -- Rosie O'DonnellA strong addition to sociology and gender strudies collections. -- BooklistAn excellent read beyond the political because it focuses on the purely personal. -- Robb Michaels, 365Gay.comBernsteins book...gets to the heart of the debate over gay peoples freedom to marry. -- Evan Wolfson, Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, author of Why Marriage MattersEngaging . . . a valuable contribution. . . . This informative book will appeal to a wide audience and is recommended to all public libraries. -- Library JournalThe compelling, documented stories in this book make clear that allowing same-sex marriage is in fact a strongly pro-child policy. -- The Honorable Barney Frank (D-MA)This book will open hearts and minds and move this debate to a whole new place. A major accomplishment. -- John Shelby Spong, Bishop, author of The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bibles Texts of Hate to Discover the God of LoveYou will learn a lot about the love and dedication these parents are devoting to raising healthy...well adjusted children. -- The Honorable Richard Gephardt, former Majority Leader and Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives	ROBERT A. BERNSTEIN, MA, JD, has served as a supervisory trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice and as associate professor of law at Southern Methodist University School of Law. From 1988 to 1995 he was national vice president of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). His previous book, Straight Parents, Gay Children, won the Award for Best Scholarship on the Subject of Intolerance, awarded by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in America. He and his wife divide their time between Bethesda, Maryland and Portland, Oregon.",books;gay & lesbian;marriage & family;nonfiction;parenting;parenting & families;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics,11
0815308183,"HILDEGARD OF BINGEN (Garland Library of Medieval Literature) ""With care and graceful style, Bruce Hozeski has rendered this important but little-known work by one of medieval Europe's great women mystics. This is a valuable contribution to a growing inventory of resources in the history of spirituality.""--Ralph Keen, University of Iowa ""This volume...discusses the human weaknesses that separate us from god, and focuses on our moral flaws, which appear to be inherent in human consciousness, while revealing the importance of repentane and the virtues of rebuilding our union with God....If you're looking for a handbook of life, here it is.""--Medium	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: Latin	About the Translator: Bruce W. Hozeski is Professor of English at Ball State University. Largely responsible for the establishment of Hildegard studies in the United State beginning in the 1960s, he is the founder of the International Society of Hildegard Von Bingen Studies.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;comparative religion;criticism & theory;education & reference;history & criticism;literature & fiction;mysticism;other religions;practices & sacred texts;religion & spirituality;religious studies,11
B0002H0GUA,Gibson Gear PMMH-010 Electric Guitar Part Gibson Vintage Nickel Machine Heads with Pearloid Buttons,accessories & supplies;audio & video accessories;audio cables;cables & interconnects;electric guitar parts;electronics;guitar & bass accessories;instrument accessories;musical instruments;speaker cables;tuning pegs,11
0809235285,"""If the Other Guy Isn't Jack Nicholson, I've Got the Part"": Hollywood Tales of Big Breaks, Bad Luck, and Box-Office Magic Often what seems obvious about a star's or movie's fame is the result of chance or whim. The search for Scarlett O'Hara that contributed to the legend of Gone with the Wind owed as much to David O. Selznick's indecision and Jack Warner's and Bette Davis' intransigence as to any difficulty in finding the right actress. The discovery of Bogart's tough-guy appeal owes much to George Raft turning down several roles that Bogie took and ran with. Base reexamines many such familiar Hollywood stories from the perspective of how casting decisions affected the finished movies and their appeal. Who gets offered a part and who has the foresight to accept a part have as much to do with the creation of great movies as technical accomplishment and good scripting, and careers are made and broken in the casting. In crisp, well-researched prose, Base's eminently readable and informative film history imparts valuable insight into the workings of the Hollywood star machine from the 1930s to the present. Add this book to your movie-book shelves!  Mike Tribby",acting & auditioning;arts & photography;biographies;books;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;movies;performing arts;politics & social sciences;sociology;theater,11
0385491670,"Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth: Book 2 Praise for Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth:It's easy. It's fast. And it works! I love this program: it can make a tremendous difference in your health, your energy, and the way you live your life.--John Gray, Author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from VenusIn this volume, you will be introduced to ideas, techniques, and wisdom that can empower you, enhance your health, increase your joy of living, and cause you to live longer. However, you won't notice that you're living longer. You'll be too busy enjoying life and living it fully.--Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.,from the ForewordI have done the Five Rites and passed Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth on to many friends over the years. I recommend them without reservation.--Martin SheenThese five simple exercises will make you feel young again.--Natural Health	Praise for Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth:It's easy. It's fast. And it works! I love this program: it can make a tremendous difference in your health, your energy, and the way you live your life.--John Gray, Author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from VenusIn this volume, you will be introduced to ideas, techniques, and wisdom that can empower you, enhance your health, increase your joy of living, and cause you to live longer. However, you won't notice that you're living longer. You'll be too busy enjoying life and living it fully.--Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.,from the ForewordI have done the Five Rites and passed Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth on to many friends over the years. I recommend them without reservation.--Martin SheenThese five simple exercises will make you feel young again.--Natural Health	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Finally, the exciting and long-awaited sequel to one of the biggest health and healing bestsellers of all time has arrived. When Peter Kelder's Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth was released by Harbor Press in 1985, it immediately touched off an incredible sales phenomenon rivaled only by The Celestine Prophecy and Conversations with God.In this book, readers were introduced to the Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation, a series of exercises developed over centuries in the monasteries of Tibet and credited by thousands for everything from increased energy to better memory, weight loss, and just looking and feeling younger.Almost as quickly as the books filtered across the globe, letters began to pour in to Harbor Press requesting more information on these mysterious rites. Now, more than ten years and two million books later, comes a comprehensive companion volume that addresses the unanswered questions of so many readers.Picking up where Kelder's book left off, Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth, Book 2 provides the complete Fountain of Youth health program, with detailed information on a variety of topics discussed only fleetingly in the original bestseller: the history and origins of the Five Rites, valuable insights about how the Rites work, diet suggestions, and easy-to-follow exercises. Illustrated with fifty black-and-white photographs, this guide will help turn back the hands of time, invigorating and energizing readers' lives as never before.	Praise for Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth:""It's easy. It's fast. And it works! I love this program: it can make a tremendous difference in your health, your energy, and the way you live your life.""--John Gray, Author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus""In this volume, you will be introduced to ideas, techniques, and wisdom that can empower you, enhance your health, increase your joy of living, and cause you to live longer. However, you won't notice that you're living longer. You'll be too busy enjoying life and living it fully.""--Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.,from the Foreword""I have done the Five Rites and passed Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth on to many friends over the years. I recommend them without reservation.""--Martin Sheen""These five simple exercises will make you feel young again.""--Natural Health	In this volume, you will be introduced to ideas, techniques, and wisdom that can empower you, enhance your health, increase your joy of living, and cause you to live longer. However, you won't notice that you're living longer. You'll be too busy enjoying life and living it fully.I often see people start to live their lives to the fullest only after they develop a life-threatening illness and must come to grips with their own mortality. When this happens, they experience a spiritual and physical rebirth so powerful it can improve or even cure the illness completely. Once this renewal process takes over, aging ends and youthing begins. Please, don't wait until you're facing death to set the youthing process in motion in your life. Begin it now.This book is intended to help you do just that. In it, you'll discover a wonderful series of simple exercises called the Five Rites.You will also find a wealth of related information on diet, breathing, voice energetics, and many other topics. You will read about the uplifting experiences of people who practice the Five Rites. And you'll find advice and insights from physicians who will share their knowledge with you.But as you read the pages that follow, keep in mind that this book is not really about ritual, or exercise, or techniques. At its heart, it is about you--your uniqueness, your attitudes and beliefs, your desires and hopes, your potential, your ability to joyfully embrace life and live it fully.Science has demonstrated that your body and brain are physically altered by both your activities and your thoughts. By the same token, you can purposefully alter your activities and thoughts to achieve your goals for change. The exercises and techniques in this book are aimed at this very thing. I have done the Five Rites, and they make a lot of sense to me. I am convinced that if you do them regularly, and if you engage in life joyfully, you will improve your physical health and your mental outlook, and you will begin the youthing process.Also, you will access and put to use the life force energy which is the essence of all things. Science now has the ability to measure this energy and is beginning to explore it. I have experimented with this book's advice on mantras and mantrums, and I can feel the energy difference they make. Allow me to share this story:The other night I was meditating and performing my mantras while lying in bed. My cats were in bed with me, curling up to go to sleep. My wife, who was in the other room, could feel an unusual energy, and she came in to see what was happening.When she entered, I opened my eyes and discovered that the cats had also sensed something unusual. They were sitting upright, as alert and wide awake as I have ever seen them at 11 p.m. To me, the incident demonstrated how real and palpable this energy is and how it can make things happen in your life, things that are sensed and perceived by those around us.My advice to you is this: Take the valuable information you are about to read. Bring to it your own insights and inspiration. Then, create your own personal transformation. Remember, you will not find the fountain of youth by looking outside yourself. The source of all things is found by going within. So start right now!Peace,Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.The five Tibetan rites presented in Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth can be described as a modified version of Hatha yoga postures. It's clear to me that the two spring from the same source. Both the Five Rites and Hatha yoga are based on a similar understanding of the human body and how it works.Yoga is an ancient science, not a religion, that enables one to unite the body, mind, and spirit; the word itself means union.Westerners might use the word wholeness to describe the concept.Yogic postures are designed to heal and revitalize the body, calm the emotions, and clear the mind, and they can be done solely for this purpose. However, meditation is considered the real end product of practice.To meditate is to make an intentional effort to be quiet, calm, and aware. It can expand and enhance perceptions of another level of reality, no matter what belief system you may ascribe to. Whether you think of it as prayer, contemplation, or the quest for consciousness, meditation is a kind of deep and silent process of observation that makes it possible to experience a sense of being present. I describe presence as an intense feeling of being in touch with what's going on in and around myself. For me, the daily practice of yoga and meditation has meant that I am more connected to whatever I'm doing in the moment. I feel alive, positive, and able to experience meaning in my life.Yoga practices are specifically designed to create the physical relaxation and mental tranquillity necessary to achieve this higher quality of life. The exercises are a method for yoking together the physical with the mental and spiritual parts of a human being so they can serve one another and function in harmony. The postures actually lead those who do them into a meditative state.They also help build up the physical strength and stamina necessary for the practice of a meditative spiritual discipline. Prana, a Hindu term used by those who practice yoga, means both energy and spirit. The two are inextricably intertwined. The Greeks, too, made the same connection: pneuma meant breath and also spirit. Consider the single, simple fact that to meditate, it's essential to sit very still and upright for a long period of time. Most people in today's world are too nervous, too stiff, and too tired to be able to do this for more than a few minutes. Yogic postures train and prepare the body to sit still and cross-legged with the spine straight and unsupported. In tantric literature (religious writings), it is written that the Buddha himself once said, Without a perfectly healthy body, one cannot know bliss.In recent years modern science has begun to document and verify the beneficial psychological and physiological effects of yoga, meditation, and yoga-like practices such as the Five Rites.A study published in Journal of Research in Indian Medicine found that the daily practice of yoga asanas (postures) for six months led to a decreased heart rate, a drop in blood pressure, weight loss, a lower breathing rate accompanied by an increase in lung capacity and chest expansion, and a decline in incidence of anxiety. A subsequent study found that regular yoga practice led to a decrease in physiological stress, lower cholesterol levels, balanced blood sugar levels, an increase in alpha brain waves (associated with relaxation), and a general reduction of physical problems.Numerous other studies have produced similar results. T.J. Thorpe, Ph.D., of the University of Tennessee, found that yoga practitioners consistently reported decreases in feelings of anxiety and nervousness. Many of his subjects experienced relief from symptoms of insomnia, fatigue, headaches, body aches, spinal curvature, dizziness, joint stiffness, and skin problems. Yoga was helpful for those dealing with obesity, and some noticed a decrease in the use of alcohol and cigarettes. Benefits included an increase in feelings of composure, relaxation, and joy, improvements in interpersonal relationships, and an increased capacity for concentration.In another experiment, Dr. V. H. Dhanaraj of the University of Alberta, in Canada, compared a group of people who engaged in six weeks of yoga practice with a group that did conventional exercises for the same period. He found that those who practiced yoga showed significantly greater improvements in cell metabolism, oxygen consumption and lung capacity, cardiac efficiency, thyroid function, hemoglobin and red blood cell count, and overall flexibility.From India to Tibet: The Historical Link Between Yoga and the Five RitesScholars believe that a Buddhist master named Milarepa brought yoga to Tibet from India sometime in the 11th or 12th century A.D. It's my understanding that, in those ancient times, as well as today, Tibetan people did not see their spiritual lives as separate from their day-to-day existence. They believed that the presence of God could be felt in their own vitality. They experimented with practices that helped them connect their physical bodies with their spiritual selves, their souls. My feeling is that the Tibetan monks discovered over time what was, for them, an effective combination of yoga exercises which became what we call the Five Rites. The rugged, mountainous conditions they lived in may well account for their particular emphasis on vigor.The Five Rites are quite special in that I think they represent a very old teaching that has come to us intact. By contrast, most of the yoga sequences that are being taught in the West today have been created within the past 50 years. The meditation techniques and postures are ancient, but the ways of practicing them are often modern adaptations. Traditionally these postures and exercises were passed on orally, from teacher to student, and they were constantly being modified and recreated. But I believe the form and sequence of the Five Rites are centuries old. Therefore, I think it's very important to do the rites as they're presented, without altering the form and sequence. The order makes sense to me from the perspective of my medical training and my personal experiences practicing both yoga and the rites. And the fact that people continue to find this sequence effective and get beneficial results makes the best case of all for not changing the manner in which they're done.A Body Blueprint: The Master Plan for Energy FlowAccording to the systems of thought in which both yoga and the rites are rooted, human beings have a number of energy centers. In yoga they're called chakras and the Tibetan monks described them as vortexes. Specific movements can stimulate and open...",alternative medicine;books;exercise & fitness;fitness & dieting;health;injuries & rehabilitation;new age;occult;parenting & relationships;religion & spirituality;yoga,11
0965650103,"Kara Mia: The Story of Sudden Loss & Slow Recovery in a Teenager with Long QT Syndrome This book has important messages on several different levels. For a nonmedical audience, it provides an extraordinarily detailed and personal account of a teenage girl's gradual, and unfortunately, still incomplete, recovery from a severe brain injury. For physicians it shows a side of rehabilitation that is hidden from them - what happens when the respirator, intravenous tubing, and even the wheelchair are no longer needed and a patient returns to family and friends with neurological problems that just don't disappear. For all of us, it reinforces the vulnerability of our most human traits to a single mutation in the genetic code.	This is a stunning account of a partnership between a family, a physician and their medical/social communities in their journey to unravel a genetic mystery and its incredible impact on them all.	I found Kara Mia to be an authentic rendering of the thoughts, emotions and actions of a courageous mother in a crisis situation. It was apparent that Maryann is a skilled participant and nonparticipant observer of self and others. -- Mary Ann McDermott, R.N. Ed.D., Professor, Maternal Child Health Nursing, Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University of Chicago	Maryann Anglim, R.N., B.S.N., an operating room nurse and Kara's mother brings an intimate, medically informed view as a parent confronting Long QT syndrome. She has an open and direct writing style filled with wit and wisdom.  Walter Allan, M.D. a child neurologist for almost twenty years and Kara's physician for seven, explains the medical events clearly. His expertise in brain injury allows readers to understand Kara's predicament and the difficulties the Anglims faced. Over the course of Kara's hospitalization his relationship changes from that of just physician to family friend.",books;cardiovascular;diseases;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;parenting & relationships;pathology;special needs,11
0897898567,"The McDonaldization of Higher Education: ?[a] provocative introduction to many views of the changes taking place in higher education.?-Journal of Higher Education	There are many books on the changing world of higher education and many discussing McDonaldization. This book is the first to bring both discussions together.	DENNIS HAYES is Head of the Department of Post-compulsory Education at Canterbury Christ Church University College, Kent, England. ROBIN WYNYARD is Visiting Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University College, Kent, England.",administration;books;college & university;education;education & reference;education theory;educational philosophy;new;philosophy & social aspects;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,11
0789002574,"Using Public Relations Strategies to Promote Your Nonprofit Organization (Haworth Marketing Resources) ""A GEM OF A BOOK about the critical importance of public relations to  nonprofits! Every reader, no matter how knowledgeable in the field and  regardless of the size of the organization, will find useful  information inside[..] -- n""A MUST READ FOR ANY NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION because it addresses crucial areas that are heretofore ignored. The field of public relations as it pertains to nonprofits has a new champion in Kinzey.""  -- Marilyn H. MacKenzie, BS, Librarian, The Duke Endowment, Charlotte, North Carolina	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Discover how to produce an annual report for your nonprofit agency! 	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & finance;business & investing;children's books;economics;industries & professions;marketing & sales;new;nonprofit organizations & charities;public relations;used & rental textbooks,11
0140514457,"The Penguin Dictionary of Chemistry (Penguin Dictionary) D. W. A. Sharp was formerly Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. He has edited Miall's Dictionary, and all three editions of the Dictionary of Chemistry, and written many papers for learned journals in his field. He lives in Glasgow.",books;chemistry;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;general & reference;new;reference;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,11
0830616462,"Kitplane construction THE Guide for Kitplane Builders        Featuring new and classic kitplane designs, this bestseller shows you how to choose, build, and fly a homebuilt plane. Kitplanes magazine calls this book ""required reading for anyone thinking about building an airplane.""        More than a how-to, Kit Airplane Construction is also a why-to. In this unbiased look at every aspect of the kitplane process, award-winning aviation writer Ron Wanttaja covers everything from cost comparisons with certified used aircraft to drilling all those holes for the rivets.        Expert, easy-to-understand instructions help you construct your chosen kitplane type: tubing and fabric, wood, traditional sheet metal, or leading-edge composites. Case studies confer the benefit of others' experiences in purchasing and building a variety of kitplanes. You'll find state-of-the-art kitplane designs; high-quality illustrations; current prices and costs associated with shipping kits; expanded information on financing options; highlights of the auto-engine debate; and quality control features to add confidence to workmanship.        THERE'S A LOT NEW IN KITPLANE CONSTRUCTION, Third Edition!    Costs and Materials Guides    Details on Avionics    Occupant Comfort Section    ""Experimental Light Sports"" Category    Safety Regulations    New photographs	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Ronald J. Wanttaja is an award-winning aviation writer and a systems engineer with Boeing, working in satellite orbit/constellation design and analysis, launch vehicle and onboard propulsion system trades, and operations concepts for space systems. He worked on the early design studies for the International Space Station. An Air Force veteran, he was an on-duty operator for the Defense Support Program missile early-warning satellite. As a freelance aviation journalist, he has written for Private Pilot, Flying, Sport Aviation, Flight Line, Kitplanes, and other publications. He is author of the book Airplane Ownership, also from McGraw-Hill. His aviation writing has won several prizes, including the EAA ""Bax Seat Trophy"" and a journalism award from the Aviation/Space Writer's Association. Mr. Wanttaja has also written and published historical fiction.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",aeronautical engineering;aeronautics & astronautics;astronomy & space science;aviation;books;engineering;new;professional & technical;science & math;transportation;used & rental textbooks,11
1577661389,"Teaching the Social Sciences and History in Secondary Schools : A Methods Book . . . An excellent reference and resource for beginning and professional teachers. -- J. Merrell Hansen, Brigham Young University. . . An exciting and welcome addition to the secondary methods publications currently available. --Randall R. Butler, Northern Arizona University	"". . . An exciting and welcome addition to the secondary methods publications currently available. The novice teacher and the veteran alike can benefit from this book as a learning how to teach tool and a resource for reassessing and enhancing ones teaching skills and abilities.""  (Randall R. Butler, Northern Arizona University) "". . . An excellent reference and resource for beginning and professional teachers. It provides an excellent mix of theory, philosophy, application, modeling, and resources."" (J. Merrell Hansen, Brigham Young University)",books;education;education & reference;historical study & educational resources;history;instruction methods;new;pedagogy;schools & teaching;study & teaching;used & rental textbooks,11
096574681X,"Into the Wind: This High Plains Life DAVID HORSLEY received a Master of Divinity degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and served as a hospital chaplain for nine years, most of them in Houston. Horsley presently lives in Amarillo with his wife and two children.",americas;books;history;humor;inspirational;literature & fiction;midwest;religion & spirituality;spirituality;state & local;united states,11
1887089446,"Vegetarian Restaurants and Natural Food Stores in the U. S.: A Comprehensive Guide to Over 2,500 Vegetarian Eateries John Howley was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in Atlantic City. For a few years he lived and worked part time in the hotel that his mother operated. He also spent some time working in some restaurants. He studied to be an accountant at Drexel and Rutgers Universities. He became a member of ISKCON to study the Vedic scriptures and became a pure vegetarian. He has been a vegetarian for over 20 years and has visited many vegetarian restaurants and natural food store during his extensive travel around the US.",books;business & investing;cookbooks;food;food & wine;hospitality;industries & professions;lodging & transportation;travel;travel & tourism;vegetables & vegetarian,11
0141013125,"Alexander the Great Michael Wood is the writer and presenter of many critically acclaimed series on television, including In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great.  Dr Tania Gergel teaches Greek and Latin language and literature at King's College London.",( a );a-z;alexander the great;ancient;biographies & memoirs;books;europe;greece;historical;history;people,11
1564597156,"Dweller on Two Planets or the Dividing Way Kessinger Publishing reprints over 1,500 similar titles  all available through Amazon.com.",books;fairy tales;literature & fiction;metaphysics;mythology & folk tales;new age;occult;philosophy;politics & social sciences;reincarnation;religion & spirituality,11
0520082257,"The Cloak of Competence, Revised and Updated edition ""The republication of The Cloak of Competence is welcome because in addition to making an important book available to those who do not have access to the original publication, in this revision Edgerton enriches the original through additional chapters.""--""American Journal on Mental Retardation	Robert B. Edgerton is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His many books include Rules, Exceptions, and Social Order (1985), and The Individual in Cultural Adaptation (1971), both published by California.",anthropology;books;fitness & dieting;health;politics & government;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;public affairs & policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;sociology,11
0198764855,"The Oxford Handbook of Criminology '...quite simply an outstanding achievement ... the only text that is authoritative, comprehensive and serious enough to be the basis of an entire course in criminology.'  Professor Stan Cohen, The British Journal of Criminology'It will define undergraduate and postgraduate criminology courses for some time to come ...'  Criminal Justice Matters""Excellent text covering wide body of criminology but providing depth of cover"", Clare Connelly, University of Glasgow""very comprehensive and authoritative. Excellent guides to further reading in each area. An excellent book  but we recommend a number of boolks which combined vover our course well"", Gavin Dingwall, University of Wales, Aberystwyth""A very useful background for students, varied and interesting"", Katherine Allan`This book brings together a collection of views giving the criminology student quick access to theories on almost all aspects of criminology. It is the first thing you should reach for when an assignment is given out!     '  Amazon.com Reader Review	Mike Maguire, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Administration, University of Wales, Cardiff.  Rod Morgan, Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Bristol.  Robert Reiner, Professor of Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science.",books;criminology;education & reference;law;law practice;legal reference;new;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
0897324161,"The Best of Virginia Farms Cookbook and Tour Book: Recipes, People, Places ...a masterpiece of a book celebrating the history, geography and farm products of Virginia...all-encompassing portrait of Virginia's legacy. -- The News-Gazette, April 8, 2003...a wonderful book to read and savor...find something new in it every time you pick it up. -- Raleigh News & Observer, May 21, 2003...pick up for five minutes and put down two hours later without realizing how much time has passed. -- Washingtonian, August, 2003At the end of the book is a splendid resource listing. This book really delivers. -- The Roanoke Times, August 24, 2003The combination cookbook and tourguide...is rich with regional marginalia on local historic sites, cooking tips and trivia. -- Washington Post, May 28, 2003	Through recipes, tours, interviews, essays, maps, and illustrations, The Best of Virginia Farms Cookbook  Tour Book tells the fascinating story of Virginia agriculture. The book reveals the intimate relationship between agriculture and Virginia's history, character, and personality. With a light, often humorous tone, it entertains, enlightens, and educates readers about Virginia's land, people, and food.Readers will find hands-on, show-and-tell insights into traditional small-farm values, organic farming's successful practices, sustainable agriculture's cutting-edge developments, and corporate farming's most enlightened programs.The Best of Virginia Farms will give you pleasure as it reveals the history and mystique that surround Virginia farming. It will enrich your spirit as it celebrates the family bonds and the formation of uniquely American character molded by a way of life directly connected to the land.	The author of five cookbooks, CiCi Williamson has been writing a weekly food column in numerous newspapers across the country for 21 years. She's also a travel writer and photographer who has visited more than 80 countries and written hundreds of travel articles. But the McLean, Virginia resident always returns home thinking her state is the most beautiful and diverse.	Fish and Shellfish IntroductionAs the sun rises and its coppery reflection shimmers on Chesapeake Bay, Virginia's ""watermen"" (commercial fishermen) are already on their job of landing 500 million pounds of seafood a year. Soon they will point their skipjacks (historic bay sailboats) and oyster boats toward the marshy shores and beckoning sea grasses to deposit their catch.What's for dinner tonight? Take your pick from almost 300 species: Saltwater fish and shellfish or freshwater fish. Saltwater mixes into the Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. Freshwater flows from the Bay's 48 major rivers and 100 small tributaries. Thus the Bay can support both fresh and marine life forms, plus those that can tolerate fluctuating salt levels.The great Chesapeake Bay dominates coastal Virginia. Its marshlands offer shelter for millions of migrating waterfowl; its tides nurse the state's network of creeks and rivers. Broad sloughs, coves, wetlands, and tidal ponds intermingle and embrace three lush, green ""necks"" (peninsulas) cut out by the long, wide mouths of the Potomac, Rappahannock, York and James Rivers.",books;cookbooks;education & reference;food & wine;general;northeast;reference;regional & international;travel;u.s. regional;united states,11
0697316378,"Introduction to Politics: Governments and Nations in the Post Cold War Era Martin Slann, Clemson University",books;education & reference;elections & political process;leadership;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
0743200926,"George Foreman's Big Book of Grilling, Barbecue and Rotisserie George Foreman is a world boxing champ--and a cookbook author. For his Big Book of Grilling, Barbecue, and Rotisserie, the genial endorser of the widely popular Grilling Machine offers 75 recipes for meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, and more--dishes devised by his coauthor, Barbara Witt. ""In this cookbook you will travel with me and visit Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean, Africa, Latin America, and finally home to America,"" says Foreman. That's a lot of travel, but Witt's accessible recipes are full of big, exciting flavor and should become favorites of outdoor and indoor grillers alike.  Beginning with useful information about grilling equipment--the recipes are  tailored to work using rotisseries, open-flame, and indoor and outdoor  electric grills--the book then dishes up winners like Kingwood Skirt Steak with Grilled Bananas, Barbecued Spicy Lime and Cilantro Chicken, and Ginger Shrimp with Mango Mayonnaise. A chapter on burgers and pizza offers a particularly innovative assortment of those treats, among them the  Open-Face Catfish Burger and grilled pizzas like the knockout (how else to put it?) pie topped with charred red and white onions, prosciutto, and black walnuts. Throughout, the book provides useful tips and nutritional breakdowns for the recipes, which take advantage of the microwave and other timesaving preparation techniques. This is another Foreman winner. --Arthur Boehm	Foreman could have designed this cookbook as a blatant tool to bolster sales of the electric grill that bears his name. It is a relief then to find that, once again, Foreman, writing with Witt (Pan-Asian Express), has taken the high road. What he presents is a happy-go-lucky collection of more than 75 recipes inspired by his salad days of boxing all over the world. Most entries can be cooked indoors or out, using electricity, gas or good old American charcoal. Foreman leads with a Kingwood Skirt Steak, taking the underappreciated cut of meat and treating it to a dry rub of chili powder, oregano and cinnamon. The thin cuts cook up fast and are served alongside grilled bananas. When Foreman turns chicken he does so with a rotisserie-roasted Moroccan Cornish Hen in a marinade of yogurt with cumin, turmeric and paprika. The seafood section features a Danish Mary Bluefish with a marinade containing Aquavit, the Dutch liquor, and also spicy skewered Tangerine Scallops made with hot Asian chili sauce. These exotic concoctions are superior to the more domestic efforts, the most worrisome of which is an American version of Indonesian chicken satay with a peanut sauce made of peanut butter, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, honey and vinegar. Rounding out the book are a dozen salad and vegetable offerings including a winning Watercress and Cucumber with Fresh Tuna. The only gap is a section on drinksAand given the author's unique credentials, who better to devise an unforgettable punch? (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	George Foreman These recipes capture the diverse flavor memories of my travels, allowing me to savor them all over again along with the good times...In this cookbook, you will travel with me and revisit Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean, Africa, Latin America, and finally come home to America.	George Foreman is a two-time former heavyweight champion of the world, an Olympic gold medalist, a revolutionary in the grilling industry, and an ordained minister, in addition to being a best-selling author. He lives in Houston, Texas, where he founded the George Foreman Youth and Community Center.	About Equipment  If you've ever doubted the extent of enthusiasm for grilling in America, you need only check out the Web sites devoted to nothing else or turn the pages of a mail-order equipment catalog. There's a gadget designed to quell every irritant, muzzle every expletive: from a clever flexible grid basket to trap odd-shaped food to a krypton flip-up headlamp to keep the nocturnal chef from stubbing his toe. First prize for frivolity goes to a meat thermometer that beeps you as you lounge indoors, watching a game on TV, to let you know your steak is ready. Is that the perfect gift for kill-joys, or what?  But before you start collecting fun gadgets, you should know the basics about the equipment you're cooking on.  Open-Flame Grills  Whether charcoal or gas, these grills give the best results for the widest range of meat, poultry, or fish, whether they require fast or slow cooking methods. Basically, you can cook burgers, steaks, and hot dogs outdoors over the simplest of rigs, but if you're serious about success with a wide range of food, look for the following features in your equipment: a charcoal unit large enough to allow for at least two zones of heat; a gas unit with dual flame control; a cover to keep flare-ups to a minimum; a grate that can be adjusted to varying heights above the flame; a fire door to allow adding more coals; and, preferably, a side shelf or rack to keep tools handy. Don't forget to buy a cover to keep the rust away.  Indoor and Outdoor E-Grills  The outdoor electric grill has a higher wattage than the countertop indoor model and has a well-insulated cover to reflect the heat evenly. It is intended for use where open flames are prohibited -- on apartment balconies or patios, for instance, or on a townhouse deck. It does a very credible job of cooking food that you would normally prepare under a broiler because it is hotter than your household range; however, it is not intended for the kind of long, slow, indirect cooking you can achieve on an adjustable open flame. Happily, steaks, chops, chicken, and fish do just as well on these grills as on an outdoor gas grill. Look for accurate temperature control, sturdiness, and good looks. This is in-your-face equipment. Outsize casters for moving it to and from tableside and a convenient cover hook are both desirable features. A flat griddle plate to cover the ridged grid will allow you to cook a dandy pancake or ham and egg breakfast on your balcony. If your interior wiring can handle such high-heat equipment (close to 1,800 watts), a portable e-grill can make an indoor dinner party, since cooking tableside is a lot of fun. Despite their high heat, these units don't smoke noticeably, if at all.  The kitchen counter electric grill is a smaller version of the unit described above. It also cooks from the element just below the grid and is therefore best for quickly prepared foods you might otherwise prepare in a skillet over high heat or under the broiler. The wattage, though lower than for the outdoor model, is high enough to sear a nice, crusty exterior while sealing in moisture. If the grill has a lid that can be lowered, the food will cook in half the time, but meat must be boneless for even cooking. These units are attractive, and their nonstick surfaces are very easy to clean. They have the added advantage of draining off excess fat, but with today's lean meat you have to be careful you don't end up with a paper-dry exterior. A thin coating of oil is generally called for to prevent that.  Rotisseries  Thank heaven, they are back, as nothing does a better job than an electric rotisserie on small roasts and birds. They are not effective for tough cuts of meat, however, because the heating elements are too close to the surface of the food, which will char before it cooks throughout. But with beef, lamb, or pork loin roasts, they do a superb job, producing a delicious crust and keeping the interior moist. Chicken, duck, and small turkeys cook perfectly. Most units have a kabob accessory and a basket for grilling vegetables. Look for a unit compact enough to keep out on your counter for frequent use, and check it out for the simplicity of inserting and removing the spit mechanism. A hot 10-pound turkey will take up the width of the spit and can be difficult to grab hold of. Temperature control can be a problem and so far has not been solved. Some units allow you to turn off one or more of the heating elements, which is a move in the right direction. What we'd like to see is thermostatic control of the elements themselves, which is a refinement we suspect will come in future deluxe models. Right now we're just happy to have rotisseries back.  Accessories  For the charcoal grill, we're fond of the chimney-style starter requiring only one sheet of newspaper and a match. The smell, taste, and residual chemicals from liquid flame starters are nasty and a safety hazard. We also recommend a covered waterproof container for storing charcoal (which somehow manages to be left out only on rainy nights). A small garbage can with a clamp-on lid is perfect and raccoon proof.  For either style of outdoor grill, invest in a clip-on light so you can see your way past twilight. Tongs are essential. Kitchen supply shops are now carrying cheap restaurant kitchen tongs in varying lengths. They work better than fancy, expensive ones and are easily replaced. If you don't want to invest in a basket for turning burgers, fish, or small food that might drop through the grate, pick up a piece of fine-mesh screening at the hardware store, cut it to fit the grate, and keep it oiled. At least one heavy asbestos-lined oven mitt will protect you from brutal burns -- two are better. You will not regret having a couple of sturdy, heatproof, washable trays for carrying things to and from the kitchen, and finally, but most important, an instant-read meat thermometer is a must.  Copyright  2000 by George Foreman  Ham Steak with Peach Chutney  These days we can find fresh peaches in the dead of winter, and they make a perfectly wonderful chutney even when the fruit isn't seasonally ripe. As for a nice thick ham steak, it develops personality when it's grilled, particularly over charcoal. Try precooking lengthwise-quartered sweet potatoes until not quite soft. Dip them in butter melted with curry powder and put them on the grill with the ham. A side dish of creamy coleslaw would be a worthy accompaniment.  Serves 4  Peach Chutney:  1 1/2 cups chopped peeled peaches, with the juice 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander 1 teaspoon grated lime zest 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves pinch of salt 1/4 cup currants, raisins, or sweetened dried cranberries 1 tablespoon snipped fresh chives 1/2 teaspoon Caribbean-style hot sauce 3 tablespoons peach jam 1 tablespoon rice or champagne vinegar 1-pound ham steak, 1 inch thick  Put all the ingredients for the chutney in a covered microwave-proof dish and cook on high for 5 minutes. Drain the peaches with a slotted spoon, pressing them gently so their juices run back into the dish. Set the peaches aside in a storage container.  Return the liquid to the microwave and reduce it on high in 2- to 3-minute intervals, or until syrupy and thickened. Pour it back over the peaches and store in the refrigerator. The chutney will taste best if the flavors are allowed to develop at least overnight. It will keep more than a week in an airtight container.  Grill the ham steak indoors or out for 5 minutes on each side. Serve with the chutney.  nutritional breakdown (per serving) Calories: 225 Carbohydrates: 30 g Protein: 20 g Fat: 4 g Saturated fat: 1 g  calories from fat: 16 Cholesterol: 53 mg Sodium: 1,420 mg  Copyright  2000 by George Foreman  About Brining  The endless search for more and more flavor in our processed and farmed food has led chefs and cookbook authors to experiment with the ancient practice of brining -- a simple method of preserving meat by soaking it in salt water. Preservation is no longer the issue, of course, but creative chefs have discovered that salted water carries flavor deep into meat and seems to intensify its natural flavor through a process of osmosis too convoluted to explain here. It also plumps the meat with moisture to the extent that it actually weighs more after brining and is juicier when cooked. We think success can be iffy for the novice because it's dependent upon the type and size of the meat, as well as the saltiness of the brining solution and the length of time the meat spends in it.  It all started with large turkeys, which seem to take to this procedure very well, but most of us have a hard enough time getting that big holiday bird in the refrigerator at all, let alone trying to cram it into a bucket of water. Whole chicken or bone-in parts and pork loin or chops offer less frustrating possibilities of success and a good place to begin this trial-and-error adventure. On page 111 is a basic formula you can play with.  For a 3- to 4-pound chicken, 8 bone-in chicken parts, a whole pork loin, or 6 1 1/4-inch-thick pork chops:  2 quarts hot water 1/2 cup coarse salt 1/3 cup sugar, honey, or maple syrup  Copyright  2000 by George Foreman  Grouper Ti-Malice  This is an unadulterated hot, tart Haitian classic that begs for a sultry evening, a few friends who want to reminisce about their last memorable trip to the Caribbean, cool rum punches, and a soft calypso beat in the background. Toss some thick slices of parboiled sweet potatoes on the grill and serve a tropical fruit salad.  Serves 4  2 tablespoons canola oil 1 sweet onion, thinly sliced 4 garlic cloves, minced 1 habanero pepper, seeded and minced salt to...",barbecuing & grilling;books;cookbooks;cooking by ingredient;food & wine;low fat;meat;meats;outdoor cooking;poultry & seafood;special diet,11
0844771716,"Trade Liberalization in Aviation Services: Can the Doha Round Free Flight? (AEI Studies on Services Trade Negotiations) Trade Liberalization in Aviation Services is one in a series of new AEI studies on negotiations to liberalize trade in services. Each study focuses on a particular service sector, identifies the major obstacles to liberalization in that area, and presents policy options for trade negotiators and interested private-sector participants.",accounting & finance;aviation;books;business & investing;commercial;economics;industries & professions;international;professional & technical;reference;transportation,11
0972530053,"Ingles: Que Buen Acento! An English Pronunciation Guide for Spanish Speakers (Book & 2 Audio CDs) (Spanish Edition) ""Simply studying every day or at least three times per week, for 15  minutes, you will be able to speak better English, with a smooth accent.  Ingls Qu buen acento! is the course that will help you solve your  problems of pronunciation and get rid of your strong accent."" -- Acento Latino newspaperQu bueno que ya aprendi el ingls; pero me imagino que le  molesta un poco su fuerte acento e incluso se acompleja cuando las personas  le hacen una expresin como si no le estuvieran entendiendo. Si le sirve  de consuelo, muchos viven lo mismo. Y qu piensa cuando muchos latinos  hablan el ingls con un sutil acento, como si llevaran muchos aos  viviendo en los Estados Unidos? Es cierto que muchos, es porque llevan  aos y aos en los Estados Unidos, pero hay los que tienen muy buen odo  y los que han trabajado y estudiado mucho por mejorar su pronunciacin.  Y... cmo se logra esto? Pues ""echndole ganas"", como dicen mis amigos  mexicanos. Simplemente estudiando todos los das o por lo menos tres veces  a la semana, durante 15 minutos, usted podr hablar el ingls mejor y con  suave acento. Ingls Qu Buen Acento!, es un curso que le ayudar a  solventar los problemas de pronunciacin y el fuerte acento, a un precio  de $24.55. Este curso fue realizado por el peruano Santiago Reynaga, un  reconocido profesor de idiomas e intrprete profesional. -- Acento Latino newspaper	Santiago Reynaga has taught English for more than thirteen years at many universities and institutes, including the Catholic University Language Institute and the Inlingua language school. Reynaga has taught English to executives of Bristol Myers, Goodyear, Ely Lilly, Merck and Philip Morris in Lima, Peru. He holds a degree from the Department of Interpreters and Translators at Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Per.",books;conversation;education & reference;english as a second language;etiquette;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
0830628584,"Building a Log Home from Scratch or Kit (Second Edition) ""The best book available on log homes.""   -- William Sitler, Beaver Log Homes",books;carpentry;crafts;design & construction;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;home repair;house plans;how-to & home improvements;small homes & cottages,11
0805013024,"Smart Speaking: Sixty-Second Strategies Here is another of the ubiquitous quick-fix self-help books. Purporting to help readers learn communication skills, this one is filled with short, snappy essays that offer ideas for learning to speak with polish and confidence. The authors do not concentrate only on speaking before groups, but give hints on successful speaking on the telephone, in social situations, and in business meetings. The book is fun to leaf through, but a number of the problems covered need more detailed ideas and suggestions than can be given in such brief essays. Libraries wanting books on this topic would be better off with Lillian Glass's Say It . . . Right ( LJ 12/90).- Rebecca Wondriska, Trinity Coll. Lib., Hartford, Ct.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	THE SPEECH IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, INC.   World Headquarters:  Boston, MA  USA  (617) 739-3330  1-800-LETS RAP  Fax: (617) 232-9430   www.speechimprovement.com ! Email: info@speechimprovement.com      Laurie Schloff, BS., MS.   Senior Coaching Partner            As Director of Executive Training with THE SPEECH   IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, INC., Ms. Laurie   Schloff has a nationwide reputation as a trainer and   coach in areas of presentation skills, leadership   training, fear of speaking, conference coaching and   facilitation skills.  She is a member of the IPO/VC   coaching team and also heads the group workshop   Effective Presentation Certificate Program.       Laurie is the author of two popular books - Smart   Speaking and He and She Talk.  Her books have been   published in German, French and Chinese.  Smart   Speaking has been described by Communication   Briefings as ""one of the best books ever written about   speaking.""       Laurie is a frequent guest expert on radio and television.  She has been a guest on the Oprah   and Today Show and a contributor to magazines including Cosmopolitan, Woman's Day,   Ladies Home Journal and Women's Health.  She is known as a popular and humorous   speaker at conventions and organizations ranging from the American Bar Association to The   National Association of Women's Business Owners.       Schloffs range of clients include: MassMutual, Babson Capital, GE Aircraft Engines, Sun   Microsystems, Bank Of America, Fidelity Investments, The Bose Corporation, The Society   of Actuaries, The TJX Companies, The Anti Defamation League and the American Bar   Association.  Laurie is also the developer of Pearls of Presentation and Participation for   MassMutual, a training CD.      Ms. Schloff received her undergraduate degree in Speech Pathology from Rutgers University   in New Jersey and her graduate degree from Columbia University in New York. She holds   her Certificate of Clinical Competence from The American Speech-Language-Hearing   Association and is a member of the Speech Communication Association.  She founded the   Fear of Speaking Association in 1989 and is co-founder of electionspeakers.com in 2008.      Ms. Schloff's experience, friendly relaxed style, humor and insight make her a valued member   of THE SPEECH IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, INC.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & investing;communication;communications;education & reference;language & grammar;politics & social sciences;skills;social sciences;sociology;words,11
0802774091,"The Beginning Filmmaker's Business Guide: Financial, Legal, Marketing, and Distribution Basics of Making Movies Film can be a great vehicle for getting your ideas out to a  wide audience; however, between the production, advertising and  distribution, it can be confusing for a novice, as well as quite  expensive.  How are you going to finance your film?  Should you  solicit investors, or should you try to interest one of the studios?  Are there grants available?  What part of the promotional material are  you responsible for?  How should your approach differ for a low-budget  film, an art film or a documentary?  Renee Harmon answers these  questions and more, as she outlines the business end of getting your  project to the silver screen, from acquiring story rights to  negotiating with a distributor.  While her focus is more on  entertainment films, her advice is applicable to other genres as well. -- From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by FGP	Share of profits.  It is mandatory that you inform your  prospective investors that profits are not to be shared until after  the costs of the film have been paid back to the investors.  The  traditional profit participation is 50/50, that is to say, 50 percent  of the profits go to the investors and 50 percent of the profits go to  the producer.  Investors share their profits based on the percentage  level of investment.  Profits will be shared on net profits only.  (Later, we will discuss the delicate balance between net profit and  gross profit, since accounting concepts do vary from distributor to  distributor and studio to studio.)    A film of special appeal to certain geographic areas and/or  socioeconomic groups does best if distributed market-by-market.  A  rather small number of prints, rarely more than about two hundred,  supported by adequate but not expensive local advertising, moves from  territory to territory.  Most independent distribution companies  employ market-by-market distribution, by ""farming"" a picture out to  territorial subdistributors.  Both distributor and subdistributor  (called ""territorials"") share the advertising cost.  Of course,  ultimately you, the producer, will pay for these.  A film distributed  market-by-market does not utilize any national advertising.",arts & photography;books;business & investing;cinematography;direction & production;humor & entertainment;industries & professions;industry;movies;performing arts;photography,11
0385314116,"Together Forever: 125 Loving Ways to Have a Vital and Romantic Marriage Together Forever! is one of the most simple, practical, 'must-read' books on relationships that I've ever read. It is filled with insightful nuggets on every page. What is most important is that the authors walk their talk.-- Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D., and Diane V. Cirincione, authors of Change Your Mind, Change Your LifeAn excellent resource for all married couples. Full of practical, easy-to-utilize wisdom.--Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of How to Live Between Office Visits and Love, Medicine, and MiraclesPresenting words of wisdom in a simple and clear style is a difficult task -- the Richfields have accomplished this beautifully in their lovely and loving book.--Susanna McMahon, Ph.D., author of The Portable TherapistFrom the Trade Paperback edition.	""Together Forever! is one of the most simple, practical, 'must-read'books on relationships that I've ever read. It is filled with insightfulnuggets on every page. What is most important is that the authors walk theirtalk.""-- Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D., and Diane V. Cirincione, authors of ChangeYour Mind, Change Your Life""An excellent resource for all married couples. Full of practical,easy-to-utilize wisdom.""--Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of How to Live Between Office Visits andLove, Medicine, and Miracles""Presenting words of wisdom in a simple and clear style is a difficulttask -- the Richfields have accomplished this beautifully in their lovely andloving book.""--Susanna McMahon, Ph.D., author of The Portable Therapist Copyright  1995 by Dr. Lew Richfeld and Dr. Gloria Richfeld	Have you ever looked at a happily married couple and wished they could tell you the secret to their success? Drs. Lew and Gloria Richfield are marriage and family therapists who have been married to each other for almost fifty years, and this book presents their professional and personal secrets to a lasting and fulfilling marriage.Together Forever! was written for the millions of men and women who want to keep their marriages vital for their lifetimes. Written simply and to the point, Together Forever! covers the multitude of interactions couples face daily, such as:* talking about feelings* making decisions* coping with personality differences* fighting* keeping romance and sex aliveThe Richfields present 125 keys to a good marriage--sound psychological principles distilled through years of experience into practical, realistic advice. These keys give couples the tools they need to get through the inevitable rough spots, enabling them to feel stronger in their marriages and united in the joy a lasting marriage brings.From the Trade Paperback edition.	After we were married in 1949 and began living together for the first time, the only model of a happily married couple we had was Ozzie and Harriet. They seemed to have the perfect family. Our own union featured Lew, carrying around memories of World War II and trying to figure out what to do with his life, and Gloria, soon up to her knees in children and housekeeping, wondering where all the romance had gone. What a shock it was to discover that real life was more like our parents' marriages, which in retrospect we realize were filled with despair and resignation.So without any realistic model for our marriage, we muddled through.As we look back on our forty-six years together, we can see three distinct marriages within one. During the first ten years, we were totally unconscious. We kept bumping into each other, completely confused. We had two children, changed jobs and moved five times. We kept so busy we didn't have time to think about our marriage. However we both knew something was missing. During our second marriage we awakened to our discontent. We tried, but couldn't figure out how to communicate with one another in ways that we both understood. There was a lot of blaming and accusing. We didn't have a clue about how to get to the real issues that divided us. No matter how hard we tried, we continued to unconsciously sabotage our efforts to work it out. We had met the enemy and it was us.This put us on the road to our third marriage.We found a therapist who taught us how to communicate with one another. We learned how to take the chance of being completely open, expressing ourselves on a more intimate level, and trusting each other's ability to handle our vulnerability with care. The growing richness in our marriage allowed us to focus on other issues that required serious attention. In our early fifties, we were learning that we could have it all. We decided to change our lifestyle in order to achieve our new goal, which was to become psychotherapists. We decided to enroll in college as freshmen.Together we attained our bachelor degrees, then ultimately our doctorates and licenses as marriage and family therapists. The excitement of achieving these goals in mid-life brought us even closer together.Our experiences of living and working together through the difficulties that life presents to us all, coupled with our training and our experience working with many troubled couples in our private practice, have brought us to the creation and the writing of Together Forever!It is our fervent hope that as you read Together Forever!you will learn more about yourself and your partner. You will become more fully alive and engaged in one another's life.We believe marriage is a shared vision and an ongoing process of change. No one really gets there. There is always opportunity for deeper and deeper intimacy. We believe the basic keys to a lasting, alive, and satisfying marriage are: Love, Equality, Partnership, Passion, Communication, Commitment -- AND THE DETERMINATION TO KEEP THE MARRIAGE A HIGH PRIORITY IN LIFE.We have divided Together Forever! into seven chapters that correspond to the main issues that create confusion in a marriage. Each entry describes a situation that occurs in most marriages. We may have left some out. We hope you will let us know what they are, so we can include them in future volumes of Together Forever!We offer this book to you in your loving journey together.From the Trade Paperback edition.",& style;beauty;books;family relationships;fitness & dieting;grooming;health;marriage;parenting & relationships;relationships;self-help,11
0970459890,"Vintage Humor for Wine Lovers ""It's a great gift for anyone who loves wine...."" -- Napa Valley Register, March 19, 2003""Kushner offers hundreds of funny wine thoughts in a Henny Youngman delivery throughout the book."" -- Wine on the Web, March 2003""Not everything is laugh-out-loud funny...but there are plenty of chuckles as well."" -- San Jose Mercury News, April 23, 2003	Malcolm Kushner, ""America's Favorite Humor Consultant,"" is an internationally acclaimed expert on humor and communications. His previous books include Public Speaking For Dummies (IDG Books) and The Light Touch: How To Use Humor For Business Success (Simon & Schuster).",books;cookbooks;cooking;drinks & beverages;food & wine;humor;humor & entertainment;jokes & riddles;spirits;wine;wine & winemaking,11
1904034780,"Sea Change Ian Dickens is the great, great grandson of Charles Dickens. He has started the Cresta Run 50 times, successfully completing it on 49 occasions. He learned to fly, taking up a Tiger Moth solo, raced his MG Midget to the Arctic Circle and back for charity and has tried a couple of skydives for good measure.",biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;research & publishing guides;sailing;sports & outdoors;travel;travel writing;water sports;writing,11
0674630769,"The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press) Vendler's study of the Odes is as sympathetic, as fundamentally Keatsian, as it is persuasive. It contains the fullest and most searching expansion of these six poems...that has yet appeared. --John Bayley (Times Literary Supplement )[Vendler] is often described as the best living American ""close reader"" of poetry, and rumors of a forthcoming book on Keats have aroused expectations of pleasure such as are not always to be detected when a professor announces a book on a poet. She has met this new challenge with her usual admirable vigor and confidence...She is a virtuoso. --Frank Kermode (New York Times Book Review )[A] scrupulous and sensitive exploration of Keats' odes...Treating the odes as a unit is not new, but Vendler uses them with new-minted relevance to reveal the development of Keats' creative mind. She is our finest close reader of poetry, and page after page brims with the excitement of the poet's intellectual and artistic discoveries...When you finish this book, you don't reach an end; you understand why Keats made or did not make the choices he did; and you are compelled to go back and reconsider these complex relationships, both in the criticism and the odes...The prose brilliantly illumines the mind and art of Keats. --Robert Taylor (Boston Globe )Helen Vendler's readings of Keats's major poems are simply superb. (Nation )	Helen Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.",books;british;criticism & theory;english literature;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;poetry;used & rental textbooks,11
0803939639,"Planning Ethically Responsible Research: A Guide for Students and Internal Review Boards (Applied Social Research Methods) Joan E. Sieber, a psychologist and Professor Emerita, California State University, East Bay, has specialized in empirical research on questions of scientific ethics, culturally sensitive methods of research and intervention, data sharing methodology, and scholarship on ethical problem solving. In 2001-2002, she was Acting Director of the National Science Foundation program Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology. She is the author of eight books and numerous other publications including software and encyclopedia entries on ethical problem solving in social and behavioral research.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business ethics;business life;ethics;new;politics & social sciences;research;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
1568812140,"Audio Anecdotes II: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Digital Audio (Tools, Tips & Techniques for D) (v. 2) "" """"A superb reference, resource and research tool highly recommended for anyone applying digital sound to computer-created projects, including musicians, game developers, and software producers..."""" -Midwest Book Review, January 2005  """"The wonderful thing about this book is that it contains well-written introductions to many subjects, including sound propagation, auditory scene analysis, audio file formats, and rate conversion, that otherwise might be found in magazines, on the Internet, or not at all."""" -Vladimir Botchev, Computing Reviews , December 2004  This book discusses creating, recording, processing, and analyzing many forms of sound and music... -E-Streams, September 2005""	Ken Greenebaum is a software engineer and has been developing audio and video digital media applications over the past 15 years for companies that include Silicon Graphics and Microsoft. Ken is an adjunct faculty member of the DigiPen Institute of Technology where he develops and teaches the interactive audio for gaming curriculum. Ronen Barzel received his undergraduate and Masters from Brown University. He then completed his Ph.D. at Caltech in computer graphics, researching physically based modeling techniques. He has worked at Pixar on production of the first Toy Story movie (among other things, he built the Slinky Dog model) and in R of modeling and lighting software. He is the editor in chief of the journal of graphics tools.",audio & video editing;books;computer science;computers & technology;digital media management;game programming;graphics & visualization;new;programming;software;used & rental textbooks,11
084466622X,"Native Religions of North America ""Hultkrantz is without question one of the leading authorities on American Indian religions. His mind is inquiring, his perceptions are sound, his learning is substantial, and his writing is clear and engaging."" -- N. Scott Momaday	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Basso, The Cibecue Apache (ISBN 9780881332148); Downs, The Navajo (ISBN 9780881330373); Dozier, The Pueblo Indians of North America (ISBN 9780881330595); Farrer, Thunder Rides a Black Horse: Mescalero Apaches and the Mythic Present, Third Edition (ISBN 9781577666998); Garbarino-Sasso, Native American Heritage, Third Edition (ISBN 9780881337730); Kehoe, The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577664536); and McCleary, The Stars We Know: Crow Indian Astronomy and Lifeways (ISBN 9780881339246).	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;history;humanities;new;religious;religious studies;used & rental textbooks;world,11
0748618104,"Get Set for Study in the UK (Get Set for University) The author's coverage of the subject is very comprehensive, and his organization is superb. The chapters follow a logical sequence, progressing nicely through the various stages of the process for the international student. Why? What? Where? How?-- it's all there. The world needs an honest, informative, straightforward guide to UK higher education. -- Rhoda Borcherding, Pomona College, Claremont, California This is a very well written and readable book. It is the author's breadth of knowledge about the UK education system coupled with his intimate understanding of the needs and concerns of international students that will ensure this book is a success. -- Jacqui Allan, Education Promotion Manager, India Few books are so complete, brief and easily navigable as Tom Barron's Get set for Study in the UK. -- Katie Trapp, University of North Carolina, Wilmington Education The author's coverage of the subject is very comprehensive, and his organization is superb. The chapters follow a logical sequence, progressing nicely through the various stages of the process for the international student. Why? What? Where? How?-- it's all there. The world needs an honest, informative, straightforward guide to UK higher education. This is a very well written and readable book. It is the author's breadth of knowledge about the UK education system coupled with his intimate understanding of the needs and concerns of international students that will ensure this book is a success. Few books are so complete, brief and easily navigable as Tom Barron's Get set for Study in the UK.	The author's coverage of the subject is very comprehensive, and his organization is superb. The chapters follow a logical sequence, progressing nicely through the various stages of the process for the international student. Why? What? Where? How? - it's all there. The world needs an honest, informative, straightforward guide to UK higher education. (Rhoda Borcherding, Pomona College)	Director of the International Office at the University of Edinburgh from 1989-2001. Now an International Officer, providing consultancy work.",books;college & university;college guides;education;education & reference;new;schools & teaching;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,11
1893601269,"Making Sense of Sensory Integration (Audio Cassette & Booklet) (Informational) I have shared Making Sense of Sensory Integration with several families and teachers, and each was very happy to have the information shared in this calm, succinct cassette.  The conversation itself is clear and very informative, and the booklet accompanying the cassette is full of helpful information...  The checklists are invaluable in helping parents frame their questions.  This is an essential tool for clinicians and any specialist concerned with educating people about sensory integrative function.   -- Lee Pennington Neill, PhD, Interim Editor, Sensory Integration Quarterly, Spring/Summer 1999Three articulate and reassuring occupational therapists answer the most frequently asked questions about SI - a subtle, hidden neurological problem that can have a huge impact when it prevents a child from enjoying just being a kid.  -- Carol Kranowitz, author of The Out-of-sync Child	Because this audio tape demystifies sensory integration, it will be a valuable resource for educators, therapists, physicians, and parents.  It will encourage increased awareness of the problems and foster more acute observational skills in discerning them.  It will highlight the importance of compassionate, child-centered therapy. (Lois Hickman, MS, OTR, Belle Curve Records)	Belle Curve implies that every point on that curve has potential to change and grow.  While data may be static, people are not.  Kids with challenges often have amazing assets and latent potentials easily activated through music, play, drama, and experientail learing.  Belle Curve Recores celebrates the amazing possibilities of growth that can be nurtured thoruhg music and self-expressioin. Belle Curve is Aubrey Lande, Lois Hickman, and Bob Wiz",books;car & vehicle electronics;electronics;exercise & fitness;fitness & dieting;health;injuries & rehabilitation;medical books;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;special needs,11
1929145136,"2003-2004 Annual Supplement to Larry Fine is a member of the Piano Technicians Guild and has been involved in the field of piano technology for more than 25 years. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.",arts & photography;books;business & investing;consumer behavior;consumer guides;education & reference;instruments;marketing & sales;music;piano;reference,11
B00069PDYI,Stansport Sportsman's Polarshield Emergency Blanket Stansport Sportsman's Polarshield Emergency Blanket is made from extremely tough polyester rip-stop material for maximum durability. This technology was developed in the space program to provide the maximum warmth with minimum weight.	Stansport Sportsman's Polarshield Emergency Blanket is made from extremely tough polyester rip-stop material for maximum durability.  This technology was developed in the space program to provide the maximum warmth with minimum weight.,camping & hiking;emergency blankets;emergency kits;emergency response equipment;industrial & scientific;occupational health & safety products;outdoor recreation;safety & security;safety & survival;sports & outdoors;tools & home improvement,11
082482265X,"The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia [With CDROM] ""At last, a single-volume reference book on the Pacific  islands, filling a tremendous need.  Readable and informative, this  useful book will be welcomed by students and teachers, by those living  in the Pacific region as well as visitors and tourists, by specialists  and also the wider non-specialist reading public."" --Kerry Howe,  Massey University	Brij V. Lal is professor and director, Centre for the  Contemporary Pacific, Australian National University.    Kate Fortune is executive editor and research associate, Division of  Pacific and Asian History, Australian National University.",australia;australia & oceania;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;history;humanities;new;new zealand;reference;used & rental textbooks,11
0684856662,"Kaplan GMAT CAT 1999-2000 with CD-ROM The GMAT Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) doesn't have to be scary. If you know what to expect, you'll have the edge, and Kaplan GMAT CAT 1999-2000 will fill you in on everything you need to know to do your best. Introducing the test and all of its sections, Kaplan staffers break it down into manageable bits, explaining how the questions are written and the best strategies for selecting the right answers. Different types of verbal and quantitative questions (like sentence correction and data sufficiency) are analyzed--and become much less threatening! Next, the authors outline the Kaplan AdvantageTM Stress Management System, a set of simple solutions to the major blocks that cause test anxiety. Practice tests on paper and CD-ROM are the real meat of the package, though--each question and answer is thoroughly explained, and strategies for the CAT are outlined on the disk. You'll learn how it's set up, and how it differs from the traditional pencil-and-paper test, plus how these differences can help you raise your score. The book concludes with a section on getting into business school; after all, the GMAT isn't everything. Explaining where, when, and how to apply, these chapters take you through the application process with all the grace and skill with which they take you through the test. If business school is in your plans, pick up Kaplan GMAT CAT 1999-2000 to help you get there. --Rob Lightner",books;education & reference;gmat;graduate & professional;graduate preparation;new;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks,11
0582237149,"The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day, Vol. 1: The Gothic Tradition This two-volume set (the other half is  Volume 2: The Modern Gothic) by David Punter is more than simply a history of the gothic form in American and British literature. It's an ambitious attempt to redefine the word gothic so that it encompasses most of fantastic fiction and film for the past 200 years under a unifying theme: a preoccupation with fear. This is, of course, an extremely broad definition, so don't be surprised if you find yourself taking the theoretical sections of the book with a grain of salt. Also, since the book was first written in the late 1970s, much of the discussion of language and symbol relies on rather outdated Marxist and Freudian theories. Punter apologizes for the latter in the preface to the second edition, saying that rather than doing a massive revision, he decided to ""leave it largely as an 'unrestored' period piece, with its own characteristic style, silhouette, and mood""--while adding additional material on the contemporary gothic.  Those caveats aside, however, The Literature of Terror is mostly successful as a comprehensive study. And it's an enormously useful reference for anyone with a more than passing interest in horror literature. Plus, it benefits from being the work of a single author: Punter is an extremely well-read scholar who perceives fascinating connections between a wide variety of books and films, and he explains his ideas lucidly enough that you can judge for yourself how far you agree with them.  Some of the high points are Punter's overview of what the word gothic means in other fields (such as architecture); his summaries of the roles of graveyard poetry, the sentimental novel, and the theory of the sublime in the development of the gothic concept; and his inclusion (as gothic and even horror writers) of such notables as Isak Dinesen, William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Thomas Hawkes, and Robert Coover. If that's not enough to tempt you, the footnotes and bibliography alone offer ample yet well-chosen pointers to authors whose entertaining fiction you may not have discovered yet. Best of all, The Literature of Terror is written in English--that is, not loaded down with annoying words such as transgressive and trope that mar so much of postmodern criticism. You can browse for information about specific authors or dip into it at your leisure without losing the thread. And for an academic work, it's darn fun to read. (Be sure to get both Volume 1 and Volume 2.) --Fiona Webster",books;classics;criticism & theory;genre fiction;gothic & romantic;history & criticism;horror;literature & fiction;movements & periods;reference;united states,11
089594569X,"Eating Our Hearts Out: Personal Accounts of Women's Relationship to Food This collection of 92 brief poetry and prose pieces, some previously published, is a virtual celebration of dysfunction. With few exceptions, these works--many written in the first person--depict a world in which a Ben and Jerry's shop can be a ""den of . . . sin"" or a ""house of worship,"" but not just a plain old ice cream store. Many of the works (no distinction is made between fiction and nonfiction) depict dieting, gorging, anorexia and/or bulimia as a way of life; ultimately eating is ""all one extended, unsatisfying experience."" ""Empty"" and ""full"" have little meaning; the standards are victory (e.g., getting a snack on the sly) and defeat (e.g., gorging on that snack). These women fight the contradictory influences of families, friends, and society at large, that promote food while elevating svelteness to a cardinal virtue: ""Women's magazines give us luscious cake recipes for our families and diet tips for ourselves."" While many individual works are effective and the sheer number of pieces argues for the prevalence of eating disorders, for the general reader Newman's ( Good Enough to Eat ) collection goes beyond thoroughness to obsession--an interesting failing, considering the subject. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Feminist writer Newman (Good Enough to Eat, 1986, etc.--not  reviewed) put together this collection of original cries,  complaints, and confessions on the belief that ``most of us  [women] have, or at least at one time had, a voice inside us that  nags at almost every meal: You shouldn't eat that.'' Lee Lynch,  one of several lesbian contributors, maintains that ``there is  probably not a lesbian in the world who would not, at the  slightest sign of interest, tell you about her personal history  with food.'' The ninety other anorexics, bulemics, overeaters,  and other food- disordered women represented here--few if any of  them accomplished writers--would seem to bear out these  assertions with their lamentations about ups and downs and mostly  losing battles against cake and chocolate and whatever high-fat  confection might stuff up their empty and demanding selves.  Typical openers: ``I can't remember a time when I wasn't obsessed  with food''; ``...another sob story of a female blaming her  family for the voids in her life.'' True, but this last writer  assumes too much when she adds that ``my story was different.''  These no doubt heartfelt accounts, whether in the first or  third person, might be therapeutic for the writers and company  for the misery of similarly obsessed readers. They might even act  as a temporary curb for overeaters (it's hard to imagine anyone  wading through the entire volume with appetite intact)--but they  are pathetically short on insight, analysis, perspective, or even  compelling re-creation of experience. In the last of these  qualities, at least, they can't touch the several well-known  harrowing tales by slaves to alcohol and drugs. -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",addiction & recovery;books;drug dependency;eating disorders;fitness & dieting;health;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;self-help;women writers;women's studies,11
0252016920,"Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers ""Satisfying and provocative."" -- ALA Booklist	Modern science fiction writers inhabit a land far removed from the comfortably familiar realms of E.T. and Star Wars. Lurking here in the suburbs of literature are some of the most intelligent, fiercely imaginative, and outrageous writing talents at work today.  Across the Wounded Galaxies probes the minds and psyches of 10 writers whose works have had a significant influence on the evolution of the genre over the past quarter-century. As Larry McCaffery puts it, While SF authors have been sifting through familiar SF elements and discovering new complexities and syntheses, they have also been boldly exploring literary terrain where no authors have gone before. The interviewees, most of whom claim SF writing as a full-time career, discuss New Wave, cyberpunk, hard vs. soft SF, and the viability of science fiction as a means of suggesting political, radical, and sexual agendas.  Science fiction's formal and thematic concerns are shown to be intimately related to other postmodern art forms. As the authors speak candidly about their works, their backgrounds, and their aesthetic impulses, it becomes clear that science fiction deserves serious attention, and that the issues they examine are absolutely central to late-20th-century life and art.",20th century;books;criticism & theory;education & reference;fantasy;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);science fiction;science fiction & fantasy,11
0714509159,"A Kind Of Testament ""[Gombrowicz is] one of the profoundest of the late moderns."" --John Updike""What we have here is an unusual manifestation of a writing talent."" --Bruno Schulz""Gombrowicz is one of the most original and gifted writers of the twentieth century: he belongs at the very summit, at the side of his kindred spirits, Kafka and Cline."" --The Washington Post	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Text: English, French (translation)	Awarded the International Publishers'  Prize in 1967, Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) published various novels, plays, and essays during his lifetime, including Ferdydurke, Pornografia, and Trans-Atlantik. Born in Poland, Gombrowicz spent most of his adult life in Argentina, living in relative obscurity and isolation, working in a bank and writing in his spare time. After his return to Europe in 1963, Gombrowicz became internationally famous when several of his plays were staged in Paris.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",biographies & memoirs;books;contemporary;drama;history & philosophy;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;religious & liturgical;science & math;sociology,11
1592572871,"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pool and Billiards, 2nd Edition Ewa Mataya Laurance is a world, European, U.S., national, and Swedish billiards tournaments champion. Twice named player of the year by leading billiard publications, she has also earned WPBAs Sports Person of the Year Award and served as its president. Ms. Laurance writes a monthly column for Pool & Billiard Magazine. She resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, Mitchell, and daughter, Nikki.       Thomas C. Shaw, managing editor of Pool & Billiard Magazine, has authored The Proprietors Manual: How to Open and Operate a Successful Billiard Room and numerous articles on pool. Mr. Shaw lives in Charleston, South Carolina.",billiards & pool;books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;humor & entertainment;individual sports;miscellaneous;puzzles & games;reference;sports & outdoors,11
0691073384,"Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan So convincing is the historical and religious thought displayed here, it is impossible to imagine how anyone can ever again read these documents in the old way. (The Journal of Religion )	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""This volume has significantly raised the standard of scholarship on early Japanese and Man'yoshu studies.""--Joseph Kitagawa	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",asia;books;death;history;japan;japanese & haiku;literature & fiction;poetry;politics & social sciences;sociology;world literature,11
B000NVIM9M,"Professional Visual Studio 2005 (Programmer to Programmer) Taking a unique IDE-centric approach, well-respected authors examine the IDE capabilities readers will need to perform specific tasks, demonstrated in the context of building XML Web servicesThe only book on the topic that introduces each characteristic of the IDE followed by an example of the context in which that feature is usedCovers creating custom templates and wizards, reusing code and lightweight code generators, dynamically generating forms through reflections, managing data in the IDE, using the SQL designer to write stored procedures, debugging ASP.NET Web forms, and much more	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Taking a unique IDE-centric approach, well-respected authors examine the IDE capabilities readers will need to perform specific tasks, demonstrated in the context of building XML Web servicesThe only book on the topic that introduces each characteristic of the IDE followed by an example of the context in which that feature is usedCovers creating custom templates and wizards, reusing code and lightweight code generators, dynamically generating forms through reflections, managing data in the IDE, using the SQL designer to write stored procedures, debugging ASP.NET Web forms, and much more	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;languages & tools;microsoft;networking;programming;software design;software development;testing & engineering,11
B000FO6YUG,"Big Bets Gone Bad: Derivatives and Bankruptcy in Orange County. The Largest Municipal Failure in U.S. History Jorion (finance, Univ. of California-Irvine) had a ringside seat at the great Orange County, California, financial debacle of 1994. He gives readers information about the major players and a thorough analysis of the esoteric financial instruments that provided the vehicle by which the treasurer, Robert Citron, bankrupted the county after losing $1.5 billion. Readers unfamiliar with financial jargon may find the chapters detailing the high-flying world of repos and derivatives heavy going, but those interested in learning what really happened in Orange County will find that time invested in Jorion's book is well spent. Recommended for public and academic libraries.Andrea C. Dragon, Coll. of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, N.J.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	How can a municipal investment pool, which is supposed to be safe, lose billions of dollars? What are derivatives and how did they contribute to this tragedy? In December 1994, Orange County became the largest municipality in U.S. history to become bankrupt. By borrowing heavily and placing the wrong bets, Orange County Treasurer Robert Citron lost $1.7 billion of Orange County's $7.4 billion investment portfolio. ""Big Bets Gone Bad: Derivatives and Bankruptcy in Orange County"" is the first detailed description of the Orange County bankruptcy. Author Philippe Jorion, the only professor in Orange County who teaches and researches derivatives, is uniquely placed to understand the technical details of the portfolio and climate in the Orange County municipal government that encouraged the decisions that led to the bankruptcy. ""Big Bets Gone Bad"" provides an introduction to the U.S. bond market and details Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan's efforts to tighten credit. Its description of the $35 trillion derivatives market makes the losses of Barings Bank, Kashima Oil, West Virginia, and Metallgesellschaft more understandable.  ""Big Bets Gone Bad"" explains what everyone should know about tax monies and public investments. Because nobody likes to lose $1.7 billion.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",americas;biography & history;books;business & investing;company profiles;economics;history;popular economics;public finance;state & local;united states,11
1400040949,"The Anatomy of Fascism A scholar of Vichy France, Paxton focuses here on the literature about fascism. The term is used with abandon in contemporary political discourse, reflecting scholarly disagreement about how to define it. His historical source material predominantly emanates from Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in Germany, an obvious but necessary observation since the ""fascist"" status of other authoritarian regimes is contentious. Paxton does integrate biographies of the two ur-fascists into his dissection, but he comments frequently that a researcher's fixation on the leader obscures rather than clarifies the rise of his party, as does a propensity to focus on the party's ideology instead of its actions, and he follows the significantly different trajectories of radicalism taken by the Fascists and the Nazis. Formulating a five-stage life cycle of fascism from birth in ""mobilizing passions"" provoked by World War I to its destructiveness in power, Paxton wants his intricate but readable work to ""rescue the concept [of fascism] for meaningful use,"" a laudable goal largely achieved. Gilbert TaylorCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	So fair, so thorough and, in the end, so convincing, it may well become the most authoritative . . . study of the subject. . . . A splendid book. The New York Times Book ReviewUseful and timely. . . . Mussolini and Hitler were the prototypical fascist leaders, and Paxton chronicles their rise to power--and their global influence and ultimate fall--with a brilliant economy. San Francisco ChronicleA deeply intelligent and very readable book. . . . Historical analysis at its best. The Economist[A] helpful contribution, thoughtfully mapping out the descent of a civilized people  first the Italians, then the Germans  into a primal state (and state of being) ruled by mythology, symbol and emotion. . . . Serves as a reminder of our power and responsibility.  The Washington Post Book WorldUntil now there has been no satisfying account of fascism that includes a convincing diagnostic kit for identifying its symptoms. . . . Robert Paxton steps in to restore sanity, with his view that fascism is not what was believed but what was done. Los Angeles Times Book ReviewFrom the Trade Paperback edition.	From the author of Vichy France, a fascinating, authoritative history of fascism in all its manifestations, and how and why it took hold in certain countries and not in others.What is fascism? Many authors have proposed succinct but abstract definitions. Robert O. Paxton prefers to start with concrete historical experience. He focuses more on what fascists did than on what they said. Their first uniformed bands beat up ?enemies of the nation,? such as communists and foreign immigrants, during the tense days after 1918 when the liberal democracies of Europe were struggling with the aftershocks of World War I. Fascist parties could not approach power, however, without the complicity of conservatives willing to sacrifice the rule of law for security. Paxton makes clear the sequence of steps by which fascists and conservatives together formed regimes in Italy and Germany, and why fascists remained out of power elsewhere. Fascist regimes were strained alliances. While fascist parties had broad political leeway, conservatives preserved many social and economic privileges. Goals of forced national unity, purity, and expansion, accompanied by propaganda-driven public excitement, held the mixture together. War opened opportunities for fascist extremists to pursue these goals to the point of genocide. Paxton shows how these opportunities manifested themselves differently in France, in Britain, in the Low Countries, and in Eastern Europe?and yet failed to achieve supreme power. He goes on to examine whether fascism can exist outside the specific early-twentieth-century European setting in which it emerged, and whether it can reappear today. This groundbreaking book, based on a lifetime of research, will have a lasting impact on our understanding of twentieth-century history.	Robert O. Paxton taught at Columbia University. His other books include Vichy France, Vichy France and the Jews (with Michael Marrus), Europe in the Twentieth Century, and French Peasant Fascism. He lives in New York City.	Chapter 1 Introduction The Invention of Fascism Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain. The other major currents of modern Western political cultureconservatism, liberalism, socialismall reached mature form between the late eighteenth century and the mid-nineteenth century. Fascism, however, was still unimagined as late as the 1890s. Friedrich Engels, writing a preface in 1895 for his new edition of Karl Marxs The Class Struggles in France, clearly believed that wider suffrage would inexorably deliver more votes to the Left. Both time and numbers, Engels was certain, were on the socialists side. If it [the growing socialist vote] continues in this fashion, by the end of this [nineteenth] century we [socialists] shall conquer the major part of the middle strata of society, petty bourgeois and peasants, and grow into the decisive power in the land. Conservatives, Engels wrote, had noticed that legality was work- ing against them. By contrast, we [socialists], under this legality, get firm muscles and rosy cheeks and look like life eternal. There is nothing for them [the conservatives] to do but break through this legality themselves. While Engels thus expected that the Lefts enemies would launch a preemptive attack, he could not imagine in 1895 that this might win mass approval. Dictatorship against the Left amidst popular enthusiasmthat was the unexpected combination that fascism would manage to put together one short generation later.There were only a few glimmers of premonition. One came from  an inquisitive young French aristocrat, Alexis de Tocqueville. Although Tocqueville found much to admire on his visit to the United States in 1831, he was troubled by the majoritys power in a democracy to impose conformity by social pressure, in the absence of an independent social elite.The kind of oppression with which democratic peoples are threatened will resemble nothing that had preceded it in the world; our contemporaries would not find its image in their memories. I myself seek in vain an expression that exactly reproduces the idea that I form of it for myself and that contains it; the old words despotism and tyranny are not suitable. The thing is new, therefore I must try to define it, since I can not name it.Another premonition came at the eleventh hour from a French engineer turned social commentator, Georges Sorel. In 1908 Sorel criticized Marx for failing to notice that a revolution accomplished in times of decadence could take a return to the past or even social conservation as its ideal.The word fascism has its root in the Italian fascio, literally a bundle or sheaf. More remotely, the word recalled the Latin fasces, an axe encased in a bundle of rods that was carried before the magistrates in Roman public processions to signify the authority and unity of the state. Before 1914, the symbolism of the Roman fasces was usually appropriated by the Left. Marianne, symbol of the French Republic, was often portrayed in the nineteenth century carrying the fasces to represent the force of Republican solidarity against her aristocratic and clerical enemies. Fasces  are prominently displayed on Christopher Wrens Sheldonian Theater (166469) at Oxford University. They appeared on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington (1922) and on the United States quarter minted in 1932.Italian revolutionaries used the term fascio in the late nineteenth century to evoke the solidarity of committed militants. The peasants who rose against their landlords in Sicily in 189394 called themselves the Fasci Siciliani. When in late 1914 a group of left-wing nationalists, soon joined by the socialist outcast Benito Mussolini,sought to bring Italy into World War I on the Allied side, they chose a name designed to communicate both the fervor and the solidarity of their campaign: the Fascio Rivoluzionario dAzione Interventista (Revolutionary League for Interventionist Action).At the end of World War I, Mussolini coined the term fascismo to describe the mood of the little band of nationalist ex-soldiers and pro-war syndicalist revolutionaries that he was gathering around himself. Even then, he had no monopoly on the word fascio, which remained in general use for activist groups of various political hues.Officially, Fascism was born in Milan on Sunday, March 23, 1919. That morning, somewhat more than a hundred persons, including war veterans, syndicalists who had supported the war, and Futurist intellectuals, plus some reporters and the merely curious, gathered in the meeting room of the Milan Industrial and Commercial Alliance, overlooking the Piazza San Sepolcro, to declare war against socialism . . . because it has opposed nationalism. Now Mussolini called his movement the Fasci di Combattimento, which means, very approximately, fraternities of combat.The Fascist program, issued two months later, was a curious mixture of veterans patriotism and radical social experiment, a kind of national socialism. On the national side, it called for fulfilling Italian expansionist aims in the Balkans and around the Mediterranean that had just been frustrated a few months before at the Paris Peace Conference. On the radical side, it proposed womens suffrage and the vote at eighteen, abolition of the upper house, convocation of a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution for Italy (presumably without the monarchy), the eight-hour workday, worker participation in the technical management of industry, the partial expropriation of all kinds of wealth by a heavy and progressive tax on capital, the seizure of certain Church properties, and the confiscation of 85 percent of war profits.Mussolinis movement was not limited to nationalism and assaults on property. It boiled with the readiness for violent action, anti-intellectualism, rejection of compromise, and contempt for established society that marked the three groups who made up the bulk of his first followersdemobilized war veterans, pro-war syndicalists, and Futurist intellectuals.Mussolinihimself an ex-soldier who boasted of his forty woundshoped to make his political comeback as a veterans leader. A solid core of his followers came from the Arditiselect commando units hardened by front-line experience who felt entitled to rule the country they had saved.The pro-war syndicalists had been Mussolinis closest associates during the struggle to bring Italy into the war in May 1915. Syndicalism was the main working-class rival to parliamentary socialism in Europe before World War I. While most socialists by 1914 were organized in electoral parties that competed for parliamentary seats, syndicalists were rooted in trade unions (syndicates). Whereas parliamentary socialists worked for piecemeal reforms while awaiting the historical development that Marxists predicted would make capitalism obsolete, syndicalists, scornful of the compromises required by parliamentary action and of most socialists commitment to gradual evolution, believed they could overthrow capitalism by the force of their will. By concentrating on their ultimate revolutionary goal rather than on each trades petty workplace concerns, they could form one big union and bring down capitalism all at once in one momentous general strike. After capitalisms collapse, workers organized within their syndicates would remain as the sole functioning units of production and exchange in a free collectivist society. By May 1915, while all Italian parliamentary socialists and most Italian syndicalists ada- mantly opposed Italian entry into World War I, a few ardent spirits around Mussolini concluded that warfare would drive Italy further toward social revolution than would remaining neutral. They had become national syndicalists.The third component of Mussolinis first Fascists were young antibourgeois intellectuals and aesthetes such as the Futurists. The Futurists were a loose association of artists and writers who espoused Filippo Tommaso Marinettis Futurist Manifestos, the first of which had been published in Paris in 1909. Marinettis followers dismissed the cultural legacy of the past collected in museums and libraries and praised the liberating and vitalizing qualities of speed and violence. A racing automobile . . . is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace. They had been eager for the adventure of war in 1914, and they continued to follow Mussolini in 1919.Another intellectual current that provided recruits for Mussolini consisted of critics of the tawdry compromises of Italian parliamentarism who dreamed of a second Risorgimento. The first Risorgimento, in their view, had left Italy in the hands of a narrow oligarchy whose soulless political games were inappropriate for Italian cultural prestige and Great Power ambitions. It was time to complete the national revolution and give Italy a new state capable of summoning up the energetic leadership, motivated citizenry, and united national community that Italy deserved. Many of these advocates of a second Risorgimento wrote for the Florentine cultural review La Voce, to which the young Mussolini subscribed and with whose editor, Giovanni Prezzolini, he corresponded. After the war, their approval gave respectability to the rising Fascist movement and spread acceptance of a radical national revolution among middle-class nationalists.On April 15, 1919, soon after Fascisms founding meeting at the Piazza San Sepolcro, a band of Mussolinis friends including Marinetti and the chief of the Arditi, Ferruccio Vecchi, invaded the Milan offices of the socialist daily newspaper Avanti, of which Mussolin...",books;ethics;ethics & morality;europe;history;humanities;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks;western,11
3822878650,"Sissi: Elisabeth, Empress of Austria (Albums) Text: German, English, French",arts & photography;austria;biographies & memoirs;books;europe;historical;history;hungary;leaders & notable people;photography;royalty,11
0300101686,"Moral Questions in the Classroom: How to Get Kids to Think Deeply About Real Life and Their Schoolwork ""This is a book for every educator committed to helping students expand their intellect, while grappling with the big questions of life and living."" Patricia A. Wasley, Dean and Professor, University of Washington; ""Simon writes fluently, integrating transcripts of classroom discussions smoothly into her narrative and engagingly conveying her idealist's passion for reform."" Publishers Weekly	Winner of the 2002 Educator's Award given by The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, Selected as one of four outstanding books in curriculum for 2001-2002 by Division B (Curriculum) Book Forum Committee of the American Educational Research Association	""This is a book for every educator committed to helping students expand their intellect, while grappling with the big questions of life and living.""-Patricia A. Wasley, Dean and Professor, University of Washington; ""Simon writes fluently, integrating transcripts of classroom discussions smoothly into her narrative and engagingly conveying her idealist's passion for reform.""-Publishers Weekly	Katherine G. Simon, Ph.D., is co-executive director at the Coalition of Essential Schools in Oakland, California.",books;education;education & reference;education theory;educational philosophy;new;philosophy & social aspects;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
1565543416,"Cruising Guide to the Northern Gulf Coast: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana ""A fine, new guidebook, a bona fide keeper."" -- --Sailing""Youngs warm and conversational writing style gives even a landlubber a comfortable trip through the navigational intricacies of sailing..."" -- --Touring America	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Claiborne S. Young's books for Pelican have become the gold standard for cruising guides. A resident of Elon College, North Carolina, Young edits the on-line cruising newsletter Salty Southeast.",boating;books;excursion guides;general;navigation;sailing;south;sports & outdoors;travel;united states;water sports,11
1885593589,"The Kids' Guide to First Aid: All about Bruises, Burns, Stings, Sprains & Other Ouches (Williamson Kids Can!) Grades 4-6--This clever guide gives children lots of information about how to respond to the routine bumps and splinters, and the more serious situations like burns and choking with directions on how to do the Heimlich maneuver. (Better yet, says the author, take a first-aid course.) Each section describes a situation and tells what to do, what to expect, and when and whom to call for help. There are directions on how to put together a first-aid kit and experiments to do. Tricks of the trade explain how to stop bleeding and how to make a butterfly bandage. Precautions about avoiding injuries include how to deal with a strange dog. Throughout, readers are cautioned against attempting to do more than they can. The text is casual, with jokes and puns, but accurate and to the point, often in the form of a list. While funny, the black-and-white cartoons are only occasionally helpful. Alvin and Virginia Silverstein's Bites and Stings (Watts, 2001) covers first aid along with a lot of information about the animals and insects.Martha Gordon, formerly at South Salem Library, NYCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Receiving more entries than ever; your work is among the small percentage selected to receive a Parents' Choice commendation. -- Parent's Choice Recommended Reading Award, 2002.	Children's Digest Health Education Award (2003) Parents' Choice Recommended (2002) ForeWord magazine Honorable Mention (Health category) (2002) IPPY: Independent Publishers Awards Finalist: Health/Nutrition/Medicine	First Aid is great.  Enjoy, be safe and teach a friend.	A Registered Nurse with 15 years experience.",arts;books;children's books;crafts & hobbies;crafts & music;education & reference;health;nature & how it works;science;social situations;social skills,11
0195130979,"Oxford Pocket Dictionary and Thesaurus Frank Abate is a Connecticut-based lexicographer whose credits include more than 20 different dictionaries. Recently, he was Managing Editor for The Oxford Desk Dictionary, American Edition and The Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus, and served as special consultant for U.S. usage on The Concise Oxford Dictionary, Ninth Edition.",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;foreign language study & reference;new;reference;synonyms & antonyms;thesauruses;used & rental textbooks,11
0304352349,Prisoner of the Turnip Heads: The Fall of Hong Kong and the Imprisionment by the Japanese George Wright-Nooth CPM QPM was born in Kenya in 1917 where his father was an army officer.  In 1938 he trained at the Metropolitan Police College in Hendon before being posted to Hong Kong.  When the Japanese invaded Hong Kong in 1941 he was imprisoned at Stanley for four years.  After the war he was awarded the Colonial Police Medal for Gallantry.,asia;biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;history;hong kong;japanese;leaders & notable people;military;singapore;world war ii,11
0972502718,"The Art of the Russian Matryoshka Anyone who's ever enjoyed seeing or playing with a series of wooden nesting dolls--matryoshki in Russian--will gravitate instinctively to Ertl and Hibberd's lavishly illustrated tome. In it, several myths are quickly debunked: first, that these dolls were born in the Motherland (they emigrated from Japan); and second, that all are made from a single piece of wood (actually, one linden tree trunk yields about four or five blanks). The authors continue to reveal the world of matryoshki, including designs, manufacturing, themes, production centers, artists, and purchase of this native toy. The color photographs alone are worth the price, aiding a true appreciation of the art, whether readers admire the elegantly decorated Cinderella dolls or a wonderfully comic Bill Clinton and ""family."" Includes a useful glossary of English and Russian terms. Barbara JacobsCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	...unique...Recommended for all comprehensive decorative arts and Russian culture collections. -- Library JournalThroughout, the volume is marvelously illustrated...This book is clearly a labor of love...it comes off masterfully... -- Russian Life, Sept-Oct 2003 Paul Richardson	The Art of the Russian Matryoshka is the definitive account of the wooden nesting dolls, covering their history, how and where they are made, the many variations and different styles of dolls, and their creators. Author Rett Ertl uses his thirty years of experience in Russia to present this information in a straightforward and engaging style, while tying the story of nesting dolls into the story of Russias development. He concludes that matryoshki are not just dolls within dolls, but themes within themes and symbols within symbols. The first Russian doll was created in 1899. It was turned on a lathe by a master toy maker in Sergiev Posad, home of a well known monastery and several wooden toy workshops. The doll was soon widely produced, becoming the symbol of Russia that it is today. The tools and techniques for making matryoshki are essentially unchanged since the time of the first dolls. The book presents each step in the manufacturing process, from the cutting and drying of linden and birch logs, to preparing the wood and turning it on a lathe, to the priming, painting, and lacquering of the dolls. The photos reveal a Russia that most would think had disappeared long ago. In classifying and describing the immense variety of kinds, shapes, sizes and styles of dolls, Ertl brings to bear more than ten years as an importer of Russian crafts. He has applied the product and marketing sense of a businessman to survey the full range of these dolls, from toys to souvenirs to works of fine art. The chapter on cities and factories describes the ""Matryoshka Trail,"" beginning in Sergiev Posad, which is still a major production center, moving to Polkhovsky Maidan, where matryoshka making is literally a backyard business, and including the large factories in Semyonov, Kirov, and Nolinsk.  Matryoshka making has blossomed since the fall of the Soviet Union. Artists are now able to create whatever kinds of dolls they wish and to sell them freely. Creating matryoshki has also provided a living to people who have lost the jobs that they held in the planned economy. The chapter on artists gives a brief look into the lives of some of these independent matryoshka artists. Ertl draws on his decades of experience to give advice on collecting matryoshki in the final chapter. Dolls shown in this chapter and throughout the book come from Ertls own shelves, several collectors in the United States, Russian museums, and other importers. Readers are invited to collect matryoshki as an accessible way to participate in a Russian folk art tradition that is tightly tied to the past, yet has evolved to reflect the fascinating changes occurring in Russia today.	RETT ERTL Rett Ertl is a career-long Russia hand. He began studies of Russian language in high school and continued through Stanford University. Rett holds two masters degrees from Columbia University, one in Russian literature and one in international relations. Professionally, from his first job in trade with the Soviet Union, to IBM marketing representative there, to his consulting projects in privatization, Rett has been focused on Russia and the former Soviet republics. His company, Tolstoys Inc. of Boulder, Colorado, has specialized in importing the traditional handcrafts of Russia, including matryoshki, since 1991. Rett lives in Boulder with his wife Tania. They have a son and a daughter, both now grown. RICK HIBBERD Rick worked in Moscow for three years as a consultant in advertising and marketing. His clients included corporations, arts organizations, and American development agencies in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and Russia. Previously, Rick founded an advertising and design agency in New York City, which he managed for twenty years. He has produced publications for clients throughout his career, but this is the first with his name on the cover. Rick lives in New York with his wife Gail.",antiques & collectibles;arts & photography;books;crafts;criticism;dolls;history;history & criticism;hobbies & home;russia;toys & figurines,11
0801858941,"The Legends of the Jews: From the Creation to Exodus: Notes for Volumes 1 and 2 (Volume 5) Nothing better illustrates the odd intimacy of the Bible and interpretation than  Legends of the Jews, a seven volume set of biblical interpretations that was compiled by the famous Judaic scholar Louis Ginzburg nine decades ago, and that remains unsurpassed and indispensable today. (Boston Book Review, December 1998 )",books;christian books & bibles;history;history of religion;judaism;reference;religion & spirituality;religious;sacred writings;theology;world,11
B000MTEKCS,"MySQL and Java Developer's Guide (Java Open Source Library) Shows Java developers everything they need to know to build Java database applications with MySQL.Takes a hands-on, code-intensive approach in which readers will learn how to build a sophisticated Web database management application.Begins with a review of the fundamentals of MySQL.Explains using Java's JDBC with MySQL, as well as servlet and JSP programming with MySQL.Provides a code-rich tutorial on how to build the sample Java database application using EJBs.The companion Web site provides the full code examples plus links to useful sites.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Shows Java developers everything they need to know to build Java database applications with MySQL.Takes a hands-on, code-intensive approach in which readers will learn how to build a sophisticated Web database management application.Begins with a review of the fundamentals of MySQL.Explains using Java's JDBC with MySQL, as well as servlet and JSP programming with MySQL.Provides a code-rich tutorial on how to build the sample Java database application using EJBs.The companion Web site provides the full code examples plus links to useful sites.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;computers & technology;databases;education & reference;java;languages & tools;mysql;programming;software design;software development;testing & engineering,11
B000K2IUGY,"The Laws of Spirit: A Tale of Transformation Former world-champion athlete turned best-selling author (The  Way of the Peaceful Warrior and Secret of the Peaceful Warrior), Dan  Millman proffers his latest book, The Laws of Spirit, in that time-honored  form of storytelling, the parable. In a series of fictional allegorical  tales, Millman is taken on a tour of wild forest and mountain habitats by  a shaman-like wise woman he meets in a mountainside cove. Together they  explore and observe nature and her creatures who show them much about  principles such as faith, compassion, choice, action and surrender. A  modern-day oracle of uplifting wisdom, this little book aims to open the  heart and enlighten the mind. -- Body, Mind, Spirit magazine, January 1996Millman's parable of a wise woman and laws of spirit which help to make life work smoothly contains gentle reflection and spiritual education for all who consult his title. The laws of spirit are at the basis of all religious traditions: Millman's outline documents their importance.  -- Midwest Book ReviewMillman, the author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior, has another likely  bestseller in his latest book. The fictional story begins with the  author/hero taking a walk in the mountains and meeting a wise woman who  leads him on a journey to places not connected by our understanding of  spatial reality. Along this journey, she teaches our hero some simple  spiritual principles, such as The Law of Balance, The Law of Integrity,  The Law of Action. Each of the twelve laws is illustrated by coupling the  heros simple ignorance with the wise woman's storytelling. Readers who  have enjoyed Millman's other books will certainly want this one; his easy  conversational style is still engaging. -- NAPRA ReVIEW, Fall 1995	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	While hiking in the mountains, Millman encounters a mysterious woman sage who invites him on ""a mission of great importance"". Over the course of several days and nights, she uses the mountain wilderness as a means to reveal the ""laws that make life work"". The Law of Spirit represents Millman's most accessible and far-reaching vision of spiritual growth to date.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	To our readers: The books we publish are our contribution to  an emerging world based on cooperation rather than on competition, on  affirmation of the human spirit rather than on self-doubt, and on the  certainty that all humanity is connected. Our goal is to touch as many  lives as possible with a message of hope for a better world. - Hal and  Linda Kramer, Publishers	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The Laws of Spirit is, like Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, a parable or allegory, a teaching tale -- in which the author encounters an woman of great wisdom while on a mountain hike. In a single weekend in the wilderness, this ageless sage takes Dan, and his readers, through experiences and tests in the wilderness that demonstrate the powers of spiritual laws in everyday life, including the laws of balance, choice, process, presence, compassion, faith, action, cycles, surrender, and unity.As the woman reveals, These laws belong to all of us. They reside in every heart and in the heart of every religion and spiritual tradition. Here is a book whose covers you may open again and again for inspiration and guidance on life's journey.	Praise for The Laws of Spirit ""We're in great need of such books. Don't let this one pass you by."" (John Bradshaw, Author of Family Secrets) ""Wise and playful teachings, as easy as your breath, a gracious as the  Tao."" (Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart) ""A can't put down book filled with spiritual nuggets."" (Gerald G. Jampolsky, Author of Letting Go of Fear) ""Dan Millman brings into our consciousness the flowering of spirit."" (Lynn Andrews, Author of Medicine Woman) ""A valuable contribution to our growing collective awareness."" (Ken Carey, Author of The Third Millennium)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Dan Millman, a former world champion athlete, coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor, is author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior (adapted to film in 2006), as well as The Four Purposes of Life, and numerous other books read by millions of people in 29 languages. Dan teaches worldwide and has influenced people from all walks of life, including leaders in the fields of health, psychology, education, business, politics, sports, entertainment and the arts. Dan and his wife, Joy, live in Northern California -- three grown daughters and two grandsons so far. For more info: peacefulwarrior.com	Over the years, for health and enjoyment, I have often hiked  into the wilderness near my home - up the narrow deer trails and down  forested hillsides covered with oak, pine, and manzanita - wandering as  impulse has taken me along the mountains leading to the coast. On one such occasion, some years ago, when my family was away for a long  weekend, I rose before dawn and set out without a plan except to climb at  leisure and explore new country. The mountains, no more that a few  thousand feet high, still had enough rises and dips to lose sight of  civilization, evoking a sense of mystery and wonder as I imagined myself  a hundred miles from anywhere. The rolling hills reflected the peaks and valleys of my own inner life.  At the moment, I felt lost in a valley filled with shadows of doubt. My  life had fallen into an orderly routine. So on this particular morning I  took with me into the hills an unspoken desire for excitement, for  insight, for change. I was soon to discover the truth of the saying Be  careful what you ask for; you might get it. On this morning, low clouds had drifted in from the coast to settle over  the wilderness, and after I had hiked up some distance I found myself in  a fold between the hills, enveloped in a fog so thick I could see no more  than a few feet ahead. The air became cold and still, and I soon lost any  sense of direction. Hearing a stream somewhere below, I kept it behind  me, thinking I might climb up out of this shrouded valley. I soon came to a plateau nestled beneath some ancient oaks just above a  steep drop-off. I had, quite by accident, approached the plateau from the  only possible anglea narrow path between a wall of boulders. As I  climbed around one of the massive stones, the fog disappeared to reveal a  tiny hut standing before me. I approached and tapped lightly on the door. To my surprise, a resonant voice rang out with unexpected warmth, as if I  were a long-awaited guest: ""Do come in , Traveler, come in!"" And so,  wandering off the beaten path of my life, I opened the door and found the  sage, sitting quietly, smiling up at me. For no reason I could discern,  goose bumps appeared on my arms. She sat with a feline grace, erect yet relaxed, balanced upon a cushion  of leaves on the earthen floor. She was dressed in a green tunic. Maybe  she thinks she's in Sherwood Forest, I thought. Her eyes held my attention - almond eyes, hazel colored, illumined by rays  of sunlight shining through a crack in the walleyes set like jewels in a  face of smooth olive skin, crowned by short brown hair that gave no clear  sign of her age, race, or culture. She seemed to be surrounded by a  bright field of energy, which I assumed was a trick of the light. I began to feel oddly disoriented. I lost my bearings in time as well as  space; Was this a primeval rain forest, a hillside in Shakespeares  England, the Scottish highlands, or a mountain abode of the Chinese  immortals? ""A long time since I've had a visitor,"" she said. ""I'm glad you have  come, for I have much to share. And I need your assistance in a mission  of great importance."" Was she lost? Did she need a guide: Puzzled but intrigued, I only said,  ""That sounds interesting."" ""I believe you'll find it so,"" she replied, ""but first you'll need some training to prepare you."" ""Prepare me? Uh, if this is going to take hour than a couple of hours,  I'm not sure I have the time."" ""You have both less and more time than you imagine,"" she said, a strange  response. Judging her odd but harmless, I decided to play along and see  where this led. She gestured for me to sit down. ""Make yourself  comfortable, Traveler; I know why you have come and that you have  journeyed far."" I was about to tell her that we were only an hour's hike from my home;  then I sensed she was referring not to my morning's walk, but to the long  and winding path of my life. Abruptly, my mind was flooded with countless  images, impressions of may different times and cultures. I had a strange  sense that they were somehow connected with her. Then doubt entered my  mind: Surely, I thought, she's just a reclusive woman and I'm weaving an  adventure where there is none. ""Who are you?"" I asked. ""A reflection in a quiet pond,"" she said. ""A ray of moonlight on a dark  night, as young as the morning dew and as old as the Earth. All things  are in me, and I am in all things. Beyond that, Traveler, I cannot say,  for my life is as mysterious as yours. The only difference between us is  that I live in the embrace of a Spirit to which you are just awakening."" Speechless at first, I finally asked, ""What should I call you? Do you  have a name?"" ""A name?"" She looked genuinely surprised. ""I've had so many names, I  hardly remember."" ""Well, what do you call yourself?"" ""I hardly ever call myself,"" she replied with a smile. And that was that. ""Well, where do you come from?""  ""I venture forth from the past and the future. I live in the eternal  present. We've lost and found one another time and time again. I've  worked with you in an old gas station and walked with you through the  Hawaiian rain forest. I've lived in great cities. I've sat in high courts  under arched domes lined with silver and gold. I've known the comforts of  hearth and home and the solitude of the mountain monastery. I've labored  in dusty fields, know the risk and riches of high enterprise, and felt  the cold lash of poverty. I've walked beneath jeweled canopies of stars,  through shadows cast by moonlight. I've traveled the seas, won and lost  fortunes, known health and illness, pleasure and pain. And I have found  treasures that would dazzle your eyes - luminescent silks, opals as large  as fists, and sparkling gems of every color - but I would share with you  the greatest treasure of all, a gift that grows in the giving and never  loses its luster."" As she continued, her voice was the voice of All People, shifting like  the wind, blowing through dusty hallways of history and places of radiant  light. ""Magic is alive in the world, Traveler. I intend to share with you  the secrets of alchemy.""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & investing;fitness & dieting;guides;health;job hunting & careers;personal transformation;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality;self-help;spirituality,11
1590523385,"Life as a Vapor: Thirty-One Meditations for Your Faith John Piper, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis since 1980, is the author of Desiring God, Future Grace, A Godward Life, The Pleasures of God, Pierced by the Word, and Dangerous Duty of Delight. He holds degrees from Wheaton College (BA), Fuller Theological Seminary (BD), and received his doctorate in theology from the University of Munich . He taught biblical studies for six years at Bethel College , St. Paul , before becoming a pastor. He and his wife, Noel, have four sons and one daughter.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;devotionals;education & reference;meditations;reference;religion & spirituality;spirituality;theology;worship & devotion,11
1418507067,"So You Want to Be Like Christ? Workbook Charles R. Swindoll has aired Insight for Living since 1979 in major Christian radio markets around the world. His extensive writing ministry and leadership as president and now chancellor of Dallas Theological Seminary has helped prepare and equip a new generation for ministry. Chuck and Cynthia, his partner in life and ministry, have four grown children and ten grandchildren.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;humanities;new;religion & spirituality;religious studies;spirituality;theology;used & rental textbooks,11
0028972031,"Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia Few books have tested the limits of this reviewer's arsenal of superlatives quite like this one. The two-volume set boasts authoritative contributors (1400 from Japan and around the world), comprehensiveness, ease of use (cross references, a bilingual index), and handy supplementary materials (atlas, bibliography, chronology). The work is current: articles from an earlier nine-volume version ( Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, LJ 1/84) have been updated and often completely rewritten. The subject matter ranges far beyond history, politics, and biography, which were the main focus of the 1983 work. This new set includes features on topics as varied as making sushi, corporate socializing, and literary best sellers. The ponderous style that burdens most reference books is missing here: Japan actually invites casual reading. Finally, unlike the earlier work, this set is lavishly illustrated with color photographs, maps, and charts. The publisher, the distinguished board of editors, and an army of contributors deserve high praise for this monument of scholarship. No reference collection should be without it.- John H. Boyle, California State Univ., ChicoCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.",asia;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;historical study & educational resources;history;humanities;japan;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,11
084993785X,"Plant a Geranium in Your Cranium Broken people need to laugh, and Barbara Johnson's book filled this skeptic with hope and joy. -- News-Gazette, Champaign, IL	Barbara Johnson guided millions of hurting women through the tunnel of despair with her best-selling books including Plant a Geranium in Your Cranium, Living Somewhere Between Estrogen and Death, and Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy.  She and her husband, Bill, founded the non-profit Spatula Ministries  which helps parents in crisis. She died of cancer in 2007 at the age of  79.",biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;education & reference;humor;humor & entertainment;parenting & families;religion & spirituality;specific groups;women,11
2070393712,"L' Etranger (French Edition) Text: French, English	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;contemporary;education & reference;foreign language fiction;foreign languages;french;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks,11
B000JMKVL2,"The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding In the wake of 9/11, Idliby, an American Muslim of Palestinian descent, sought out fellow mothers of the Jewish and Christian faiths to write a children's book on the commonalities among their respective traditions. In their first meeting, however, the women realized they would have to address their differences first. Oliver, an Episcopalian who was raised Catholic, irked Warner, a Jewish woman and children's author, with her description of the Crucifixion story, which sounded too much like Jews killed Jesus for Warner's taste. Idliby's efforts to join in on the usual Judeo-Christian debate tap into a sense of alienation she already feels in the larger Muslim community, where she is unable to find a progressive mosque that reflects her nonveil-wearing, spiritual Islam. The ladies come to call their group a faith club and, over time, midwife each other into stronger belief in their own respective religions. More Fight Club than book club, the coauthors pull no punches; their outstanding honesty makes for a page-turning read, rare for a religion nonfiction book. From Idliby's graphic defense of the Palestinian cause, Oliver's vacillations between faith and doubt, and Warner's struggles to acknowledge God's existence, almost every taboo topic is explored on this engaging spiritual ride. (Oct. 3) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	*Starred Review* Ranya Idliby is a Palestinian Muslim; Suzanne Oliver, an ex--Catholic now in the Episcopal Church; and Priscilla Warner, Jewish. Initially, the idea behind establishing a faith club was simple--the three women would collaborate on an interfaith children's book emphasizing the connections among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam that would reinforce the common heritage the three religions share. In post-9/11 America, however, real life began getting in the way. Almost from the start, differences that culminated in conflict emerged; at one point, the tension even jeopardized the project altogether. Prophetically, while searching for a story to help illustrate connections among the religions, Suzanne chose the Crucifixion, which immediately set off alarm bells for Priscilla. Yet they persevered. All three agreed that to work together they had to be brutally candid, no matter how rude or politically incorrect. Eventually--and as they make abundantly clear, not easily--conflict and anger gave way to a special kind of rapprochement that merged mutual understanding and respect. Each woman brings to the table her prejudices, unique faith stories, and personal stereotypes and misconceptions (Priscilla, for example, had those of one who had never before met a Palestinian woman). Brimming with passion and conviction, and concluding with suggestions for starting a similar faith club, this is essential reading for anyone interested in interfaith dialogue. June SawyersCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Three mothers' engaging account of their interfaith dialogue. . . . The three charming narrators transform potentially dry theological discourses into personal, intimate heart-to-hearts. . . . An invitation to discussion that's hard to turn down -- and a natural for book groups. -- Kirkus	Ranya Idliby holds a bachelor of science from Georgetown Universitys School of Foreign Service, and she earned her M.S. in international relations from the London School of Economics.  Suzanne Oliver has worked as a writer and editor at Forbes and Financial World magazines. She graduated from Texas Christian University.  Priscilla Warner spent many years in Boston and New York as an advertising art director, shooting ads for everything from English muffins to diamond earrings. Priscilla coauthored the New York Times bestselling memoir The Faith Club and authored Learning to Breathe. Pam Ward has performed in a variety of venues, but she found her true calling reading books for the blind and physically handicapped for the Library of Congress Talking Books program, for which she received the prestigious Alexander Scourby Award from the American Foundation for the Blind. She is also an AudioFile Earphones Award winner.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;comparative religion;faith;kindle ebooks;kindle store;religion & spirituality;religious studies;spirituality,11
1564772799,"Pink Ribbon Quilts: A Book Because of Breast Cancer It is amazing how many quilters have been touched by  breast cancer, whether it's as a patient, a caregiver, or a  survivor. As a breast-cancer survivor, quilting has played a very  important part in my recovery, and it continues to foster my ongoing  positive attitude. Quilting can spark our creativity, give us goals,  focus our attention on positive projects, and bring us together with  other quilters. If you know a friend of loved one who has had an  experience with breast cancer, pick up some fabric and make a quilt  block from Pink Ribbon Quilts. When your friend receives your  gift, it will brighten her day. Or try gathering several friends  together to make a quilt to raise money for breast-cancer  research. All of us can make a contribution in the fight against  breast cancer.	Mimi Dietrich is the author of several popular That  Patchwork Place books, including Happy Endings, Baltimore Bouquets,  The Easy Art of Appliqu (with Roxi Eppler), Quilts: An  American Legacy, and Basic Quiltmaking Techniques for Hand  Appliqu. She is the ""founding mother"" of the Village Quilters in  Cantonsville, Maryland, and of the Baltimore Appliqu Society. A  prominent appliqu expert, Mimi also teaches appliqu classes.",books;breast cancer;cancer;crafts;crafts & hobbies;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;health;hobbies & home;needlecrafts & textile crafts;quilts & quilting,11
0749433132,"Brand Building on the Internet Lindstrom is recognized as one of the world's primary online branding gurus. He developed some of Australia's, Asia's and Europe's most successful websites. He was co-founder of Europe's largest Internet company, BBDO Interactive (now Fremfab), in 1995, founder of Australia/Asia's largest Internet solution company, ZIVO, in 1997 and in 1999 International Chief Operating Officer for BTLookSmart.",books;business & finance;business & investing;computer science;computers & technology;management & leadership;marketing;marketing & sales;new;systems & planning;used & rental textbooks,11
076181809X,ADVENTURE IN AFRICA: The Story of Don McClure Charles Partee is P.C. Rossin Professor of Church History at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.,african-american & black;african-american studies;biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;ethnic studies;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,11
0743251040,"The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King One scene sums up a major shortcoming of this otherwise impressive account of the life and times of King Henri II of France: Henri's queen, Catherine de' Medici is peering through a hole in the floor of her palace bedroom to watch her husband make love to his mistress, and Princess Michael writes, ""A knife must have pierced fat little Catherine's heart."" This is one of dozens of often cruel references to the physical attributes of Catherine and others at court. Fortunately, the author devotes more energy to creating a compelling image of Henri's mistress, Diane de Poitiers, 18 years his senior, who emerges as a fascinating character. Princess Michael is descended from both Diane and Catherine, but her sympathies appear to lie with Diane. Catherine is generally described as jealous, scheming and vindictive, while Diane is beautiful and well bred. Yet, as Princess Michael shows, Catherine was a quiet, dutiful wife who endured the indignity of his infidelity. Still, the author's comprehensive research ensures that readers will get a solid picture of the three main players and the complex negotiations required by life at court. 70 bw and 16 pages color illus. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Hannah Pakula, author of ""The Last Romantic"" and ""An Uncommon Woman""Catherine de' Medici and Diane de Poitiers -- the unattractive wife and the beautiful mistress of King Henri II of France -- were both ancestors of the author, H.R.H. Princess Michael of Kent, who has constructed a brightly colored, ever moving kaleidoscope of love, pomp, and politics in the fascinating courts of the Renaissance and Reformation.	Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent is the author of two previous books, Crowned in a Far Country: Portraits of Eight Royal Brides and Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours. For more than ten years, the Princess has pursued a successful career lecturing on historical topics. She lives with her husband, Prince Michael of Kent, in Kensington Palace in London and in their seventeenth-century manor house in Gloucestershire, England.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Chapter One:The Royal Wedding  As the sun filtered through the autumn mist shrouding the harbor of Marseilles, three hundred cannons boomed from the ramparts of the chteau d'If and all the bells of the city rang out to announce the arrival of the papal flotilla. It was October 11, 1533. The din must have been deafening, and yet so gratifying to Pope Clement VII to be thus received by the king, Franois I. This journey would be the apogee of the ailing Medici pope's extraordinary career.  It had taken three years for Clement VII to negotiate the marriage of his fourteen-year-old cousin Catherine to fourteen-year-old Prince Henri d'Orlans, a son of the king of France. The pope was well aware that the Medici, no matter how rich and powerful, were considered no better than glorified merchants by Europe's reigning families. The marriage of this Florentine heiress to the second son of Franois I would raise his house far higher than he had ever dreamed possible.  The procession of ships was led by a galleon, the Duchessina, which carried the Holy Sacrament, while the pontiff traveled in the second great galleon, the Capitanesse. Fourteen cardinals, sixty archbishops and bishops, and countless priests followed in other vessels. The bride was not in the pope's party. To allow the pope to make his own entry into Marseilles in state, for the marriage contracts to be finalized, and the preparations completed, Catherine de' Medici had left the Capitanesse shortly before Marseilles to await her summons in the Jardin des Rois. Still, the pope's arrival signaled the beginning of the royal wedding, and dozens of small boats sailed out from the shore, carrying noblemen and musicians to greet and escort the papal flotilla into the ancient Phoenician harbor.  The pope watched the eighteen galleys in his fleet maneuver to dock, each of them draped in his signature red, gold, and purple damask, and manned by hundreds of oarsmen shining bright in crimson satin and orange silk. As Clement VII disembarked, eighty lancers and two companies of infantry stood at attention on the quay and on every bridge. It was a sight worthy of the supreme head of the Christian church.  The pope's party was received on shore by the Grand Master of France, Anne de Montmorency, the senior statesman in the kingdom charged with the court and its residences. He presented Clement VII to several French cardinals and a number of other clerics. The pope then moved into the house prepared for him outside the city to await the next day when he would make his formal entry and complete the final leg of the house of Medici's journey into the French royal family.  On the morning of October 12, the streets were lined with people who had come from every home in the city as well as the surrounding countryside. They were eager to see a pope, but even more eager to see the little bride for whom their lives had been so disrupted. Indeed, the people of Marseilles needed to be dazzled since the choice of their city for this grand event had cost them dear. An official entrance into a city by royalty, or indeed a pope, was one of the greatest public spectacles of the time. This one was no exception; the king had ordered a large swathe of the city demolished to make a wide avenue for the triumphal processions and the ceremonies surrounding this diplomatically important marriage. For the pope's temporary residence, a huge wooden building had been erected next to the old palace of the counts of Provence where the king and his party would lodge. An enclosed ""bridge,"" so large it could be used as an extra reception room, was built to link the dwellings of the monarchs temporal and spiritual.  The pope was preceded in the procession by the Holy Sacrament displayed in a monstrance, mounted on a white palfrey caparisoned in a cloth of gold. As he made his way slowly to the cathedral, Clement VII was carried shoulder-high in his red velvet sedia, or papal litter, covered by a large square awning supported at the corners on poles carried by four noblemen. On either side of the pope strode the king's two younger sons, the bridegroom himself, Prince Henri d'Orlans, and Prince Charles d'Angoulme. They were followed by the Italian cardinals and bishops in purple and red, riding on mules. Behind them walked the chanting choir of the Sistine Chapel and a procession of noblemen, prelates, abbots, curates, and monks.  As he heard the gasps of appreciation from the crowd, Clement settled back on his silken cushions beneath the awning of red, green, and yellow damask, nodding benignly and blessing the gaping crowds. He was tired after his sea voyage, and his ten years on the throne of St. Peter had prematurely aged him. All his life he had struggled to increase the glory of his family; finally, through his intervention, the Medici ruled in Florence once again. The French marriage could not come too soon; Catherine was becoming rather attached to his illegitimate nephew, Ippolito de' Medici -- brilliant, extravagant, and very, very handsome. But Catherine was the pope's most valuable piece on the chessboard of European politics and could not be wasted for a childish attachment with no possible advantage for the family. Ippolito was promptly dispatched into the church and made a cardinal.  As he passed the royal box, Clement VII caught his first sight of his partner in the Medici-Valois union, King Franois I. The pope's litter stopped as he blessed the king and his company, then moved on. While the pope was in awe of the French king's power, Clement VII also knew he held the key to the king's heart's desire: Italy.  Ever since France had lost Milan to the Habsburg Emperor Charles V eight years earlier, Franois I's only thought had been to regain the territory. Patiently, he watched and waited until the moment was right to make his first move. That time came when Henry VIII of England needed a favor from Pope Clement VII and asked the French king for his help. The two monarchs met briefly at Boulogne, where Franois tactfully explained the need for his son's marriage to Catherine de' Medici, cousin of the pope and Henry's enemy. To soften the blow, Franois promised he would pressure the pope to annul Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Desperate to marry Anne Boleyn in church, Henry VIII posed no obstacles to the French proposal.  Pope Clement had his own road to clear to the marriage. By actively endorsing the French match, he risked offending the other great power in Europe, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and France's greatest enemy. For this reason, Clement was obliged to seek the powerful emperor's approval. When the pope asked Charles V's permission to approach the French king, the emperor shrugged and demurred, confident that the royal house of Valois would not accept a mere parvenu Medici girl into its illustrious fold. But the emperor failed to see that, to the king, Catherine represented the coveted duchy of Milan, and that the Valois-Medici marriage would ensure Franois I achieved his goal. The pope's path was clear, and it had led to this glorious day in Marseilles.  The day after the pope's official entry into the city, The Most Christian King of France, Franois I, attended by his second son, Henri d'Orlans, and his youngest, Charles d'Angoulme, and flanked by two cardinals, made his entrance into Marseilles.  The city was newly decorated with a series of triumphal arches extolling the king's great deeds, real or imaginary. Tableaux with allegorical allusions to the principal guest were staged at various stops on the route. The city's prettiest girls, scantily clad in classical fashion, scattered flower petals in front of the procession. Fresh lavender and rosemary were strewn before the excited, prancing horses, their hooves crushing the herbs to release heady aromas as they passed. The best tapestries and carpets were hung in a kaleidoscope of color from the balconies overhanging the royal route. Leaning on them were the most elegant and privileged of the citizens, who tossed flowers and ribbons on those below. The king was escorted by his twenty-seven maids of honor, dubbed by his mother Louise de Savoie his ""Petite Bande,"" a corps of feminine aides-de-camp chosen from the best families for their beauty, vivacity, and superb horsemanship. Franois saw to it that they were always dressed in matching elegance -- furs, cloth of gold and silver, velvets, and scarlet satin -- all paid for by him. Their sole duty was to be in constant attendance upon their monarch. Behind these Amazons rode a vast retinue of several thousand nobles glittering in their finery, doffing feathered hats, their horses richly caparisoned with elaborate aigrettes bobbing on their foreheads. This dazzling display was accompanied by music, bell ringing, jingling of harnesses, wild cheering, and the crowd's exclamations of joy and admiration to see the king and the princes at close quarters.  Observing tradition, Franois I and his sons prostrated themselves at the feet of the pope and kissed each of his slippers. The French king was as much a showman as his wily guest and performed the elaborate gestures with panache. A man of exquisite manners, Franois had allowed the Holy Father to make the first state entrance into the city, though all judged the king's procession the next day the more brilliant.  Feasting continued during the following week, and as the bride had not yet appeared, the pope was the center of attraction. Clement VII reveled in the adulation and was himself overawed by the great honor accorded to his family, despite the surprise and shock of the entire world. ""The house of Medici,"" he said, ""has been raised by God's own hand. I know I shall die soon, but I will die happy.""  Before the marriage could take place, there were still a number of outstanding negotiations between king and pope that needed to be finalized. No record of their discussions remains other than notes in Fran...	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",16th century;biographies & memoirs;books;europe;france;history;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);specific groups;women;world,11
B000MOL29C,"Swimline Aluminum Cartridge Pool Skimmer, Blue Swimline Aluminum Cartridge Skimmer 1 Blue",& nets;cleaning tools & attachments;hot tubs & supplies;lawn & garden;patio;pools;pools & water fun;rakes;skimmers;sports & outdoor play;toys & games,11
0521652456,"Funding Social Security: A Strategic Alternative ""Seidman's book presents a thoughtful analysis of a proposal to fund Social Security without creating individual accounts - a proposal based on an excellent approach to Social Security reform.""   Peter A. Diamond, MIT""Too often, the first casualty of intense debate is sober and honest analysis. As the debate on Social Security reform intensifies it is, therefore, particularly gratifying to come upon a study as clear, sober, and sensible as Laurence Seidman's Funding Social Security: A Strategic Alternative. In this book, he explains why it is important both to fund Social Security - and thereby boost national saving - and retain the reliability of pension benefits that Social Security provides.""   Henry J. Aaron, The Brookings Institution	Funding Social Security offers serious consideration of the debate on social security reform that is taking place in many countries around the world. The work advocates the concept of ""funded social security"" as a middle position between pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) social security and privatized social security, and constitutes a politically strategic alternative. Professor Seidman's analysis covers two distinct components, fund accumulation and portfolio diversification. The concept of funded social security uses a mix of payroll taxes and portfolio investment income to finance benefits.",books;business & investing;economic history;economic policy;economic policy & development;economics;politics & government;politics & social sciences;popular economics;public affairs & policy;social security,11
0890895686,"American Paradox: Young Black Men ""American Paradox: Young Black Men . . . is an eye-opening read that brings to focus some the contemporary social issues that black and white America are reluctant to discuss."" --Journal of Urban Affairs, November 2006	Renford Reese is an associate professor of political science at Cal Poly Pomona and director of the Colorful Flags Program.",books;gay & lesbian;gender studies;men;minority studies;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;urban,11
0893342912,"Life Before Death: A Spiritual Journey of Mind and Body His insights stimulate, provoke and inspire simultaneously."" -- John Shelby Spong, Bishop, The Diocese of NewarkI find Lawrence Merediths spiritual journey, Life Before Death, quite remarkable. -- Charles M. Schulz, creator of PeanutsLarry Meredith is an American original!  Hes the Mark Twain of theology. -- Todd Barton, Resident Composer & Music Director for the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalLarry Meredith shows that he has enormous courage.  After finishing this book, the reader is more prepared to face life. -- Maya Angelou, Author, I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsLife Before Death is a winner, and Larry Meredith's in a spiritual zone.  I didn't understand a word of it. -- Don Meredith, Former Dallas Cowboys Quarterback",books;consciousness & thought;fitness & dieting;health;new age;new thought;philosophy;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality;spirituality,11
0938399101,"Benjamin Franklin's The Art of Virtue: His Formula for Successful Living Franklin conceived of this book at the age of 26 but never actually got around to writing it. In 1986, editor George Rogers completed the task by gleaning Franklin's thoughts on the subject from his various writings. We could all use a little virtue these days, so libraries would do well to stock this volume.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Perhaps more than any other 18th century notable, Franklin grappled with the 'codes of behavior' as they applied to the individual's place in the universe--how one might reach his or her potential for a meaningful existence in a world of uncertainty...I highly recommend the Art of Virtue to anyone concerned with self-improvement, or simply curious about what made Franklin tick. -- Roy E. Goodman, Curator, American Philosophical Societybr /br /In 1732, at the age of 26, Benjamin Franklin conceived the idea of writing a guide for living that he named The Art of Virtue. Although he nurtured this idea of a book for the next fifty years, Franklin never completed the work before he died. 250 years later, George Rogers discovered a set of Franklin's writings in an old mansion in Tarrytown, New York. Inspired by what Franklin had to say, and believing his ideas to be of general benefit to all people, Rogers researched and organized Franklin's writings into the book Franklin had intended to write. The rather impressive result is Benjamin Franklin's The Art Of Virtue. This compendium of the famous wit and wisdom of Ben Franklin is as apt today as it was in the colonial era of our nation's founding. Benjamin Franklin's The Art Of Virtue is appropriate reading (and study) for all ages, in all conditions and walks of life. Benjamin Franklin's The Art Of Virtue is a yet another of Benjamin Franklin's many treasured legacies to the American people. --Midwest Book Review	In 1732, at the age of 26, Benjamin Franklin first conceived the idea writing a book he wanted to title, The Art of Virtue. The book was to be based a method of self-improvement he had earlier developed and felt had been quite helpful to him. Though Franklin never completed this work, he nurtured the idea for well over fifty years of his life. In 1860, Franklin wrote to a close friend, Lord Kames: I propose. . . .a little work for the benefit of youth, to be called The Art of Virtue. From the title I think you will hardly conjecture what the nature of the book may be. I must therefore explain it a little. Many people lead bad lives that would gladly lead good lives, but do not know how to make the change. They have frequently resolved and endeavored it; but in vain, because their endeavors have not been properly conducted. . . . Most people have naturally some virtues, but none have naturally all the virtues. To acquire those that are wanting, and secure what we acquire, as well has what we have naturally, is as properly an art as painting, navigation, or architecture. If a man would become painter, navigator, or architect, it is not enough that he is advised to be one, that he is convinced by the arguments of his advisor that it would be for his advantage to be one, and that he resolves to be one, but he must also be taught the principles of the art, be shown all the methods of working, and how to acquire the habits of using properly all the instruments; and thus regularly and gradually he arrives, by practice, at some perfection in the art. . . . My Art of Virtue has also its instruments and teaches the manner of using them. . . . While writing his autobiography in 1785, Franklin commented on The Art of Virtue as follows, . . . .being fully persuaded of the utility and excellence of my method, and that it might be serviceable to people of all religions. . . .I purposed writing a little comment on each virtue, in which I should have shown the advantages of possessing it and the mischief's attending its opposite vice; and I should have called my book, The Art of Virtue. But it so happened that my intention of writing and publishing this comment was never fulfilled. . . .the necessary close attention to private business in the earlier part of my life, and public business since, have occasioned my postponing it. . . .[and] it has hitherto remained unfinished. Thanks to Mr. Rogers, The Art of Virtue which Dr. Franklin so long contemplated has now been masterfully completed. Providing marvelous insight into both his methods and his motives for self-improvement, the Art of Virtue is must reading for anyone serious about getting the most out of life.	A number of years ago, I came across an odd volume of Franklin's writings and was immediately drawn in by some of the most sagacious and entertaining reading I had ever encountered. Nothing would do but that I should obtain a complete set of his writings. It took some effort, a couple of years, and a little money, but I was eventually able to acquire my own set Franklin's writings; old, dusty, and not well used; but well worth the effort. As I began reading these dusty old volumes, I could not help but feel the previous owner had been sitting upon a virtual storehouse of knowledge without ever appreciating its value. Whether in letters to friends, essays, satires, or official correspondence, Franklin wrote with pith, clarity, and humor. Moreover, he wrote about things that are important to know, things that for the most part are as relevant to day as when he wrote them. To me, Franklin gave moving and compelling expression to ideas I had long believed, but had never been able to articulate myself.  So it was, that while reading these wonderful books, I began to ponder how I might communicate some of these ideas to my children. I felt it would have been a great advantage to me had I come across these ideas at a younger age and wanted to find some way to pass them on to my children while they were still in their youth. Recognizing they might not be as interested as I was in plowing through these old books, I began marking passages and sections intending to somehow extract and compile them in a form my children might be likely to read. In the process, it occurred to me that the material I was marking was information Franklin would likely have included in his book, The Art of Virtue, had he been able to write it. For all of his accomplishments, these were the ideas that mattered most to him, the beliefs, motivations, and purposes that guided his life. It then occurred to me that others would probably enjoy and benefit from this material as well, so I began forming it in a manner that corresponded with Franklin's original intent as best as I could. The happy result has been Benjamin Franklin's The Art of Virtue. It has now been read by thousands of readers, whose experience has largely confirmed my own, that Franklin had something of worth to say to anyone who would take the time to find out what he had to say.	George L. Rogers resides with his wife and family in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. He is the father of eight children and the author of several books and publications, including Benjamin Franklin's The Art of Vitue, Mac and Zach from Hackensack, and ChoiceSkills.	CHAPTER ONE     BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WANT YOU MAY GET IT    DON'T PAY TOO MUCH FOR THE WHISTLE       Benjamin Franklin was a wonderful correspondent. His private letters contain a wealth of wisdom and insight. He often included in them accounts of personal experiences and lessons learned. The following letter to a friend, Madame Brillon, provides both delightful reading and valuable instruction. In it he observes that, A great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.       I am charmed with your description of Paradise, and your plan of living there; and I approve much of your conclusion, that, in the meantime, we should draw all the good we can from this world. In my opinion we might all draw more good from it than we do, and suffer less evil, if we would take care not to give too much for whistles. For to me it seems that most of the unhappy people we meet with are become so by neglect of that caution.   You ask what I mean? You love stories, and will excuse my telling one of myself.   When I was a child of seven years old, my friends on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children; and being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth; put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money; and laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation; and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.    This, however, was afterwards of use to me, the impression continuing on my mind; so that often, when I was tempted to buy some unnecessary thing, I said to myself, Don't give too much for the whistle; and I saved my money.    As I grew up, came into the world, and observed the actions of men, I thought I met with many, very many, who gave too much for the whistle.    When I saw one too ambitious of court favor, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle.       When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, He pays, indeed, said I, too much for his whistle.      If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellowcitizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.    When I met with a man of pleasure, sacrificing every laudable improvement of the mind, or of his fortune, to mere corporeal sensations, and ruining his health in their pursuit, Mistaken man, said I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle.    If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune, for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.       When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered girl married to an ill-natured brute of a husband, What a pity, say I, that she should pay so much for a whistle.     In short, I conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.     Yet I ought to have charity for these unhappy people, when I consider that, with all this wisdom of which I am boasting, there are certain things in the world so tempting, for example, the apples of King John, which happily are not to be bought; for if they were put to sale by auction, I might very easily be led to ruin myself in the purchase, and find that I had once more given too much for the whistle.",americas;books;education & reference;ethics & morality;history;philosophy;politics & social sciences;revolution & founding;self-help;success;united states,11
B000FO751S,"Complete Maya Programming, Vol. II: An In-Depth Guide to 3D Fundamentals, Geometry, and Modeling (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics and ... Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) ""A great follow-up to Volume I! Volume II is an in-depth guide to the mathematical and geometric concepts indispensable to advanced Maya programmers.""Larry Gritz, Exluna/NVIDIA	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	David Gould's acclaimed first book, Complete Maya Programming: An Extensive Guide to MEL and the C++ API, provides artists and programmers with a deep understanding of the way Maya works and how it can be enhanced and customized through programming. In his new book David offers a gentle, intuitive introduction to the core ideas of computer graphics. Each concept is explained progressively and is fully implemented in both MEL and C++ so that an artist or programmer can use the source code directly in their own programs. Geometry and modeling are covered in detail with progressively more complex examples demonstrating all of Maya's possible programming features. David Gould's first volume is widely regarded as the most authoritative reference on Maya programming. Volume II continues this tradition and provides an unmatched guide for the artist and programmer tackling complex tasks.                                        * Covers a spectrum of topics in computer graphics including points and vectors, rotations, transformations, curves and surfaces (polygonal, NURBS, subdivision), and modeling.* Offers insights to Maya's inner workings so that an artist or programmer can design and develop customized tools and solutions.* Discusses problem solving with MEL (Maya's scripting language) and the more powerful and versatile C++ API, with plenty of code examples for each.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;civil;computers & technology;engineering;game programming;graphics & multimedia;professional & technical;programming;software design;structured design;testing & engineering,11
091164749X,"Legends 4: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares Legends 4 carries on the tradition of its predecessors, profiling great horses who have significantly influenced the Quarter Horse breed. Four mares and 13 stallions comprise this volume, which includes both tales that predate the 1940 formation of the American Quarter Horse Association, and contemporary stories whose ultimate conclusions may not be known for years to come.Each chapter is devoted to a specific stallion or mare, and includes a four-generation pedigree, a summary of the horse's performance accomplishments, a sire or production record, and several photographs. Yet what sets the Legends books apart from pure pedigree research is the personal information and commentary from the people involved with each horse - the people stories behind the horse tales. (8 x 11, 216 pages, b photos)	Frank Holmes has been penning horse-related feature articles and historical books for more than 35 years. His interests have always been centered on the historical aspects of the western horse breeds, and his broad-based knowledge of the origins of the Quarter Horse, Paint, Appaloosa and Palomino registries have established him as one of the pre-eminent equine historians of all time.As a former staff writer for Western Horseman magazine, Frank co-authored volumes 2 through 5 of the immensely popular Legends book series and authored The Hank Weiscamp Story.",animals;biological sciences;books;crafts;equestrian;hobbies & home;horses;individual sports;pets & animal care;science & math;sports & outdoors,11
B000NVL5O6,"Information Storage and Retrieval We're drowning in a glut of information--how can we organize  it all and present it in meaningful ways? Information Storage and  Retrieval explores every facet of this complex problem facing  programmers and system designers. Robert Korfhage addresses different  components of the problem; for example, in addressing querying, he explores not  just the familiar Boolean-logic queries but also vector queries,  weighted queries, fuzzy queries, and probabilistic queries. The book  also discusses techniques for determining the similarity of two  documents, methods for incorporating user profiles into queries, and  nontraditional ways of presenting query results. And, importantly,  Korfhage includes measures for rating the effectiveness of  information retrieval systems. While Information Storage and  Retrieval won't necessarily tell you what solution will best suit  your needs, it offers a useful survey of the numerous options so you  can decide which are most appropriate for further consideration.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The way information is stored, retrieved and displayed is changing. Simple bibliographic databases are giving way to unregulated and unorganized multimedia data repositories, which can give the user great difficulty when searching for information. A methodology is needed to keep all of this information in its various forms retrievable. This is the first modern survey of the field of information storage and retrieval to discuss how to work with information in all its varying forms. It shows information professionals how to handle full-text, graphics, video and audio, and how to distribute these massive databases over networks.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;library & information science;library management;network administration;networking;politics & social sciences;programming;social sciences,11
0826206794,"A Guide to the Architecture of St. Louis ""An altogether fine, handsome, sturdy. . . .paperback makes both a deluxe traveler's companion and a handy resource on the distinguished buildings in and near the Gateway City.""--Booklist	George McCue is the retired art and urban design critic of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He is the author of three editions of The Building Art in St. Louis: Two Centuries. Frank Peters is the retired arts editor and architecture critic of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for Distinguished Criticism.",americas;architecture;arts & photography;books;criticism;history;professional & technical;reference;state & local;teens;united states,11
0520084101,"Deep Politics and the Death of JFK Scott, a poet, an English professor at UC Berkeley and a long-time investigator into the impact of drugs on U.S. foreign policy in Asia and Central America, has been examining the issues surrounding the John Kennedy assassination for many years. His thoughtful, extremely (and sometimes excessively) detailed book promises more than it actually delivers. Scott's thesis is that under the surface of everyday politics is an often sinister mingling of business and criminal interests that sometimes coincide with the national interest as perceived by the military and intelligence communities; and that such a combination lay behind JFK's shooting. This is hardly a new concept, although Scott broadens the scope of the shadowy business villains considerably beyond the usual military-industrial complex to include fruit companies and law firms. His drawing of suggestive links is tireless--he is a great synthesizer--but since the ""facts"" on which he relies are often the result of other people's not necessarily accurate reporting, the whole structure has a ramshackle feel. The book's most useful feature is a careful discussion of how U.S. Vietnam policy changed abruptly after Kennedy's death. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Over the past 30 years, more than 2000 books about the Kennedy assassination have been published. While Posner and Scott come to different conclusions, their studies are important additions to the field. Providing a detailed account of Oswald's life from childhood on, Posner shows him to have been a psychologically disturbed malcontent who was unhappy with both the U.S. and Soviet political systems. Posner counters claims of the major conspiracy theorists point by point and backs up his arguments with documentary evidence, recent interviews, and up-to-date computer analysis. Faulting conspiracy theorists for equating coincidence as evidence, Posner concludes that there was no other gunman and no conspiracy. Scott, a Berkeley English professor, approaches the assassination in its sociopolitical context, focusing on why it happened rather than on who did it. The phrase ""deep politics"" refers to the secret networks operating within and outside government agencies. While they do not constitute a unified shadow government, they comprise a coalition of individuals who cooperate in order to maintain the status quo. Accordingly, Scott examines Ruby's links with organized crime, army intelligence and JFK's planned withdrawal from Vietnam, J. Edgar Hoover's misuse of his authority, and the collusion of international drug traffickers with the CIA and FBI. Scott believes that Oswald and Ruby were part of this convoluted network. Both these titles offer important insights and are highly recommended for most libraries. Case Closed was previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/15/93.- Gary D. Barber, SUNY at Fredonia Lib.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Staggeringly well-researched and intelligent overview not only of the JFK assassination but also of the rise of forces undermining American democracy--of which the assassination, Scott says, is symptomatic. Scott (English/UC at Berkeley; coauthor, Cocaine Politics, 1991, etc.) advances the idea that each decade has produced its own adjustment to prolonging and deepening the cold war but that this adjustment can't be seen merely as an effort of nefarious power grabbers but rather as a synergism emerging from many interrelated political layers reacting to each other. The author is less interested in actual facts than in working toward public control of political life. To do this, he uses a huge magnifying glass he calls ``deep politics''--the study of ``political practices and arrangements that are usually repressed rather than acknowledged.'' The JFK assassination, he contends, is only one of four incapacitating political crises in Washington since WW II: The others are McCarthyism, Watergate, and the Iran-contra scandal, which, along with the JFK killing, have striking continuities in personnel, supranational ties, and outcome. Scott warns: ``I am not suggesting that the four crises were part of some single conspiracy, only that we recognize that in all cases the outcome was roughly the same: a prolongation of a system committed to the Cold War.'' His chief villain is J. Edgar Hoover, the real power behind McCarthyism, McCarthy himself having been a weak arm of systematic governmental violence that increased during Hoover's incumbency and that involved organized crime, assassination of black leaders, CIA assassinations, and much, much more. A kind of Rosetta stone for cracking open the deepest darkness in American politics. Will test the most well-informed. -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	""Staggeringly well-researched and intelligent overview not only of the JFK assassination but also of the rise of forces undermining American democracy. . . . A kind of Rosetta stone for cracking open the deepest darkness in American politics. Will test the most well-informed.""--""Kirkus Reviews	""A serious study by a concerned scholar into the underlying motives of our time. A book that will become part of our alternate history--to be read and studied by future generations. Thank you, Mr. Peter Dale Scott.""--Oliver Stone""I have used Peter Dale Scott's work the way I would a CIA archive: to name names, establish relationships, and generate hyphotheses. That we still have no CIA archives, establishes the worth of Scott's work.""--Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago""A masterful synthesis of decades of research into President Kennedy's assassination. Weaving together the malevolent common interests of organized crime, J. Edgar Hoover, the CIA, Military Intelligence, and various upperworld businesses that comprise the ""deep politics"" most likely responsible for the assassination, Scott's work is a major contribution to assassination research and, indeed, the social history of modern America. This work sets the standard for all future inquiries into the assassination.""--Alan A. Block, Pennsylvania State University""From probing the conspicuous deficiencies of the Warren Commission to exploring the skewed political priorities of the House Assassinations Committee, Peter Dale Scott offers a trenchant analysis of Government's failure to solve the murder of President Kennedy. I've long been an admirer of Scott's prodigious ability to synthesize and clarify the disparate components that have been injected into the investigation of the Kennedy assassination over the years. No one provides a broader and more revealing perspective. From what he calls 'the underlying continuities of deep politics' to the mutual interests of military, right-wing, intelligence agency and organized crime conspirators, Scott's selective revelations move the Kennedy assassination into the historical context all Americans must first grasp before they can truly understand the consequences that terrible event had--and still has--on their lives.""--Gaeton Fonzi, Former Investigator, U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations	""A serious study by a concerned scholar into the underlying  motives  of our time. A book that will become part of our alternate history (to  be read  and studied by future generations. Thank you, Mr. Peter Dale Scott.""  (Oliver  Stone)	Peter Dale Scott is a Lannan Literary Award-winning poet and Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also coauthor (with Jonathan Marshall) of Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (California, 1991), among other books.",20th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;history;politics & social sciences;popular culture;social sciences;true accounts;true crime;united states,11
0787960705,"On Leading Change: A Leader to Leader Guide On Leading Change explores the complex challenges of shepherding organizations through change. Part of the Leader to Leader Guides, which offer a wellspring of rich insight and information from top leadership thinkers, it provides readers with key strategies for change, sustaining growth, and leading transition.Drawn from Leader to Leader, the award-winning journal, On Leading Change brings together Peter F. Drucker, Peter M. Senge, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Frances Hesselbein, William Bridges, and other thought leaders to offer practical guidance for those who seek to lead their organizations through the challenges of transformation. Readers will learn from successful leaders how to encourage their organizations to question, innovate, experiment, and learn from their mistakes. Throughout the book expert contributors show how to prepare for change, seek new perspectives, and broaden participation throughout an organization.Each of the four volumes in the Leader to Leader Guides-On Mission and Leadership, On Leading Change, On High-Performance Organizations, and On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal-- is organized around an essential topic with a diversity of views presented in clear, short chapters. These essential collections provide leaders with insight and inspiration to take their organizations to new levels of excellence.	On Leading Change features the best thinking from top experts on strategies for change, sustaining growth, and leading transition. Written in a concise style that is ideal for the busy executive with little spare time, the book presents a stellar roster of contributors. On Leading Change is one title in the Leader to Leader Guides, which draw from the most compelling articles that have appeared in Leader to Leader, the Drucker Foundation's award-winning journal.	Frances Hesselbein is chairman of the board of governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and editor-in-chief of its journal Leader to Leader. She is also the lead editor for the best-selling Drucker Foundation Future Series. Hesselbein served as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. from 1976 to 1990 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, in 1998. Rob Johnston is president and CEO of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. He was executive producer for Leading in a Time of Change, a 2001 video featuring Peter F. Drucker and Peter M. Senge and for the Nonprofit Leader of the Future video teleconference. He is a senior editor for the Leader to Leader journal, and has contributed a chapter to Enterprising Nonprofits (Wiley, 2001).",books;business & finance;business & investing;education & reference;leadership;management;management & leadership;new;organizational behavior;organizational change;used & rental textbooks,11
1566080754,"The Ultimate Improv Book: A Complete Guide to Comedy Improvisation Gr. 9-12. Teens who like to perform but find organized high-school theater out of reach or too limiting will find great tips for a new acting outlet here. Suggestions for assembling a capable, compatible team of players, setting up performances guidelines, and keeping the action flowing and on target for the audience preface setups for 60 games. The game-exercises, most for teams of 2 to 20, are specifically designed to assist players in using language, literature, song, and movement in their skits. Helpful word and idea lists round out this excellent tool, which emphasizes that practice makes perfect--even when it comes to improvisation. Stephanie ZvirinCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Edward J Nevraumont and Nicholas P Hanson",acting & auditioning;arts & photography;books;comedy;drama;humor;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;performing arts;stagecraft;theater,11
056729224X,"Promise of Trinitarian Theology ""A fresh perspective on a classical theological topic. Theologians most of all, but philosophers of religion and historians of Christianity as well, should profit from his clear and critical insights.""	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Colin E. Gunton was Professor of Christian Doctrine, King's College, London, UK, and a Minister of the United Reformed Church.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;history;humanities;new;religious;religious studies;used & rental textbooks;world,11
B00000LW6N,"Seiko QT2001EDGB Quicktionary Reading Pen The only dictionary that automatically scans words, looks them up, defines and pronounces them. Reads multiple fonts and type sizes. Special 'left-hand mode'. Includes batteries, instructional video. Provides definition for over 480,000 words and expressions. includes example sentences, verbal phrases idioms, synonyms, antonmys, etymology and pronunciation. Useful for students and professionals, especially tose with reading difficulties such as dyslexia or foreign students learning English. Data for the American Heritage Collegiate Dictionary.",computer accessories;computers & accessories;digital pens;electronic dictionaries;electronics;english dictionaries;keyboards;mice & input devices;office electronics;office products;thesauri & translators,11
8408018825,"El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha (Clasicos Universales Planeta) (Spanish Edition) This imposing volume presents the first part of the quest by the beloved Don, whose name stands for chivalry and courage--""The Impossible Dream."" The book's heavy stock, binding and design all impart an air of style and prestige, reinforced by Bogin's suave translation, which makes good use of abundant dialogue. (The phraseology and vocabulary, however--""erstwhile,"" ""apothecary,"" ""coherence""--will be beyond younger readers.) Though the paintings by Spanish artist Boix are masterfully executed, some lack the sweep expected from this panoramic work; much of the imagery is somewhat pallid, both in tone and emotional impact. And, though the architectural details, period apparel and scenery are all richly evocative, the characters themselves are often small in scale and dwarfed by their stunning surroundings. Nevertheless, the presence of an elegantly produced, picture book version of this classic merits attention and applause. All ages. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Grade 5 Up-- Cervantes's Don Quixote, the moniker and persona adopted by the addled Senor Quijada , who has read a few too many chivalric romances, hardly needs introduction to adults. However, most young people will have hardly heard him mentioned, much less had any firsthand contact with this larger-than-life literary creation. Bogin has taken some of the more involving, outrageous, and well-known adventures of the knight errant and his squire, Sancho Panza, and put them together into a relatively brief narrative that nonetheless is strikingly true to the tone and style of the Spanish original. Her prose, lively and at times employing modern vernacular to good effect, does full justice to Cervantes's mad Knight of the Sad Countenance. It begs reading aloud, and may well start discussion and contemplation. Boix's illustrations are delicate, detailed, gold-washed watercolors that create a kind of fairy-tale ambience. They will grab readers' attention and imaginations and direct anyone picking the book up to delve into it and to find out what's going on. Taken as a whole, this is a lovely job of bookmaking, providing an examplary introduction to a classic work. --Ann Welton, Thomas Academy, Kent, Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Don Quixote, a poor gentleman of La Mancha, a man of gentle and amiable disposition and otherwise sane, has had his wits disordered by inordinate devotion to the tales of chivalry, and imagines himself called upon to roam the world in search of adventures on his old horse, Rosinante, and accoutred in rusty armour, accompanied by a squire in the shape of rustic Sancho Panza..."" -Oxford Companion to English Literature""	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: Spanish	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being,"" said novelist Milan Kundera. ""And yet, in our memory, what character is more alive?""----Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. This Modern Library edition presents the acclaimed Samuel Putnam translation of the epic tale, complete with notes, variant readings, and an Introduction by the translator.----The debt owed to Cervantes by literature is immense. From Milan Kundera: ""Cervan-tes is the founder of the Modern Era. . . . The novelist need answer to no one but Cervantes."" Lionel Trilling observed: ""It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote."" Vladmir Nabo-kov wrote: ""Don Quixote is greater today than he was in Cervantes's womb. [He] looms so wonderfully above the skyline of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through [his] sheer vitality. . . . He stands for everything that is gentle, forlorn, pure, unselfish, and gallant. The parody has become a paragon."" And V. S. Pritchett observed: ""Don Quixote begins as a province, turns into Spain, and ends as a universe. . . . The true spell of Cervantes is that he is a natural magician in pure story-telling.""The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Miguel de Saavedra Cervantes (1547-1616), the celebrated Spanish novelist and dramatist, was born in Alcala of an ancient but impecunious family. He lost the use of his left hand at the battle of Lepanto (1571) and was taken by pirates in 1575, spending the next five years a prisoner in Algiers. The remainder of his life was, for the greater part, a struggle to earn a living from literature and humble government employment.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	The Life of CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra was at once the glory and reproach of Spain; for, if his admirable genius and heroic spirit conduced to the honour of his country, the distress and obscurity which attended his old age, as effectually redounded to her disgrace. Had he lived amidst Gothic darkness and barbarity, where no records were used, and letters altogether unknown, we might have expected to derive from tradition, a number of particulars relating to the family and fortune of a man so remarkably admired even in his own time. But, one would imagine pains had been taken to throw a veil of oblivion over the personal concerns of this excellent author. No inquiry hath, as yet, been able to ascertain the place of his nativity;1 and, although in his works he has declared himself a gentleman by birth, no house has hitherto laid claim to such an illustrious descendant.One author* says he was born at Esquivias; but, offers no argument in support of his assertion: and probably the conjecture was founded upon the encomiums which Cervantes himself bestows on that place, to which he gives the epithet of Renowned, in his preface to Persiles and Sigismunda.2 Others affirm he first drew breath in Lucena, grounding their opinion upon a vague tradition which there prevails: and a third* set take it for granted that he was a native of Seville, because there are families in that city known by the names of Cervantes and Saavedra; and our author mentions his having, in his early youth, seen plays acted by Lope Rueda, who was a Sevilian. These, indeed, are presumptions that deserve some regard, tho', far from implying certain information, they scarce even amount to probable conjecture: nay, these very circumstances seem to disprove the supposition; for, had he been actually descended from those families, they would, in all likelihood, have preserved some memorials of his birth, which Don Nicholas Antonio would have recorded, in speaking of his fellow-citizen. All these pretensions are now generally set aside in favour of Madrid, which claims the honour of having produced Cervantes, and builds her title on an expression? in his Voyage to Parnassus, which, in my opinion, is altogether equivocal and inconclusive.In the midst of such undecided contention, if I may be allowed to hazard a conjecture, I would suppose that there was something mysterious in his extraction, which he had no inclination to explain, and that his family had domestic reasons for maintaining the like reserve. Without admitting some such motive, we can hardly account for his silence on a subject that would have afforded him an opportunity to indulge that self-respect which he so honestly displays in the course of his writings. Unless we conclude that he was instigated to renounce all connexion with his kindred and allies, by some contempt'ous flight, mortifying repulse, or real injury he had sustained; a supposition which, I own, is not at all improbable, considering the jealous sensibility of the Spaniards in general, and the warmth of resentment peculiar to our author, which glows through his productions, unrestrained by all the fears of poverty, and all the maxims of old age and experience.From the Trade Paperback edition.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Christopher Casenove employs an impressive range of British accents in his Performance--and presents everyone from earl to washerwoman. Such voices may not be what listeners expect from DON QUIXOTE, but they make it easy to tell who's speaking, even when a scene contains more than one character of a certain ""type."" Together, the excerpts which comprise this abridgeent convey the tone and spirit of the source without awkward breaks or transitions. The music that begins and ends each tape--solo classical guitar--summons images of the Spanish countryside, and might have done so more effectively had it been integrated into the reading.  T.J.W.  AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;classics;education & reference;foreign language fiction;foreign language study & reference;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks;world literature,11
B000FMRK9W,"Principal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers Presents in-depth interviews with 13 prominent cinematographers, who discuss their careers and the art and craft of feature film cinematography.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	By using photography as a storytelling medium, the cinematographer plays a key role in translating a screenplay into images and capturing the director's vision of a film. This volume presents in-depth interviews with 13 prominent cinematographers, who discuss their careers and the art and craft of feature film cinematography. The intervieweeswho represent the spectrum of big-budget Hollywood and low-budget independent filmmaking from the sixties through the ninetiestalk about their responsibilities, including lighting, camera movement, equipment, cinematic grammar, lenses, film stocks, interpreting the script, the budget and schedule, and the psychological effect of images. Each interview is preceded by a short biography and a selected filmography, which provide the background for a detailed analysis of  the photographic style and technique of many highly acclaimed and seminal films.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",arts & photography;books;cinematography;communication;education & reference;humor & entertainment;language & grammar;movies;photography;theory;words,11
0521317932,"The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution ' ... a book which will rank with The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection and The Causes of Evolution as a milestone in evolutionary biology.' Nature'I have enjoyed the book immensely. It is argumentatively written, but always with fair presentation of the other side.' Bid Essays'... a work of great significance, which should be read by everyone with a serious interest in evolution.' New Scientist'... this book is a major contribution to the field.' The Times Higher Education Supplement	Motoo Kimura, as founder of the neutral theory, is uniquely placed to write this book. He first proposed the theory in 1968 to explain the unexpectedly high rate of evolutionary change and very large amount of intraspecific variability at the molecular level that had been uncovered by new techniques in molecular biology.",biochemistry;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;developmental biology;evolution;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,11
1576104494,"MCSE Core Four Exam Cram Pack Adaptive Testing Edition: Exam: 70-067, 70-068, 70-073, 70-058 Microsoft systems specialists who are on their way to earning  the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) rating and other  Microsoft certifications need to ready themselves for the new adaptive  style of testing, which the company is phasing in. The newly revised  MCSE Core Four Adaptive Testing Edition boxed set includes  practice software that will help aspiring MCSEs prepare for this new  type of exam. Adaptive testing attempts to gauge a test taker's  skill level as the test progresses. The computer software  administering the exam records correct and incorrect responses,  estimates the candidate's skill level, and then selects further  questions suited to that level. If at the end of the exam the software  has rated the candidate's knowledge above a certain threshold, the  candidate passes. The software may decide that a candidate who has  demonstrated great expertise need only answer a few very hard  questions correctly, while requiring a less skilled (but still  competent) candidate to respond correctly to a greater number of  easier questions. While adaptive exams have time limits, their rules  prohibit going back to change (or even review) responses to earlier  questions, allowing most candidates to finish before time expires.  The new MCSE Core Four books are similar to their popular  predecessors, which makes sense since only the format of the Microsoft  exams is changing. The books--addressing subject areas like Networking  Essentials (70-058), Windows NT Server 4 (70-067), Windows NT  Workstation 4 (70-073), and Windows NT Server 4 in the Enterprise  (70-068)--provide succinct statements of the facts and concepts the  Microsoft exams are designed to test for. The most notable change is  in the CD-ROM included with this boxed set, which is composed of two  adaptive-style practice exams for each of the four tests, in addition  to two exams in the old test format. --David Wall	Ed Tittel (Austin, TX) is president of LANWrights, Inc., a training and content development company.  His author team specializes in certification training and networking and has authored over 100 best-selling computer books.",books;certification;computers & technology;networking;networks;programming;protocols & apis;software;software design;testing;testing & engineering,11
1590560299,"Move the Message: Your Guide to Making A Difference and Changing the World In this comprehensive but dry guide, Bellaccomo teaches social activists how to craft ""a powerful, positive message that targets those who have the power to make change happen as quickly as possible, and moves those who hear the message to take action and want to move the message, too."" An activist and public speaker who has worked as a communications coach for over 10 years, Bellaccomo argues that it is the minutiae of your argumenthow you define it, target it, design itthat makes real world change possible. The power of positive persuasion is at the root of any good activists campaign, she says: ""STOP or DONT messages either conjure or emphasize problem images, whereas DO messages work because they help your audience visualize the positive outcome you want."" While her guide is certainly thorough, Bellaccomo tends to discuss her methods in a highly theoretical manner, an approach that may alienate some readers. (The maps, arrows and charts sprinkled throughout the volume dont make for very intriguing visuals, nor do they help her discussion of communication tactics feel any more concrete.) The few examples of real-life activist campaigns that Bellaccomo does include are predominantly taken from the animal rights and environmental movements because, she explains, these messages ""are some of the most challenging to make heard."" Still, in the current, polarized sociopolitical climate, there are several more timely issues that could have helped this guidebook feel more up to date, and less like a textbook. Bellaccomo is at her most engaging when she offers straightforward advice, such as how to target a specific audience, how to reach a more diverse group and how to ""create sharp soundbites."" At these moments, her guide becomes interactive and useful, and moves its message too.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Activist Josephine Bellaccomo has been a professional communications consultant and executive coach for over ten years. She has a masters degree from New York University and is a certified corporate communications specialist. She lives in New York City.",books;business & investing;education & reference;language & grammar;marketing & sales;politics & social sciences;public relations;public speaking;social sciences;sociology;words,11
0764587587,"Spanish II (Cliffs Quick Review) Your effective tutorial for mastering Spanish IIWhy CliffsQuickReview Guides?Go with the name you know and trustGet the information you needfast!Written by teachers and educational specialistsAbout the contents:Parts of SpeechAdjectives and comparisonsPrepositionsPronounsConjunctionsVerb Review Present tense indicativePast tensesFuture and conditional tensesThe perfect tensesSubjunctive indicatorsPresent and past subjunctive formsThe imperativePast subjunctive and sequence of tensesVerb chartsVocabularyAntonyms, synonyms, and false cognatesGlossaryPutting it TogetherSpelling and pronunciationSentence and question structureReview and ResourcesHandy pocket guide to key conceptsSpecial review section to reinforce learningResource Center with Web sites and ideas for further studyWe take great notesand make learning a snap	Jill Rodriguez has fourteen years of experience teaching Spanish and English, including preparing students to pass the AP Spanish exam. She has been honored with Teacher of the Year, Teacher with the Greatest Impact, and Outstanding Educator Awards.",books;education;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;instruction;new;schools & teaching;spanish;used & rental textbooks,11
0892726458,"Everybody Needs a Hideaway Kindergarten-Grade 3Ben's hideaway is a tree house high in the branches of an old pine in the woods of western Maine. One day, a bull moose stops to rest at the foot of the ladder, trapping the child in the tree. When he does not come home on time, his mother sends their dog after him. On his way, Boo observes several animals and interesting details along the trail. Finally, he arrives at the tree house and scares the moose away with a brave bark. This is a very quiet story. All of the nature information, while somewhat engaging, dilutes the little drama there is in the tale. The perspectives in the illustrations give readers a bird's-eye view of the events. The artwork is competently done and overshadows the meandering text. Add only as a supplemental purchase.Elaine Lesh Morgan, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Dean Bennett is the author of a number of books and lives in Mount Vernon, Maine.",animals;books;children's books;friendship;literature & fiction;nature;nature & how it works;science;social situations;travel & cultures;where we live,11
0886852765,"Elementary Education: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment 2nd Edition (Praxis Study Guides) Educational Testing Service (ETS) is the world's premier educational testing organization and the only publisher of GRE and TOEFL test preparation materials containing authentic test questions from start to finish.",books;careers;education;education & reference;elementary education;new;schools & teaching;test prep & study guides;test preparation;testing;used & rental textbooks,11
B00065VQN4,"MXR Eddie Van Halen Phase 90 Pedal Now you can grab a piece of Eddies magic with the new MXR EVH 90a collaboration between Eddie Van Halen and Dunlop Manufacturing that represents a totally redesigned, updated version of the legendary Phase 90.",chorus;effects;effects processors;electric guitar effects;flange & tremolo;guitar & bass accessories;instrument accessories;musical instruments;signal processors;single effects;studio recording equipment,11
1552978141,"Guide to Gems (Firefly Pocket series) This book is so informative, so inclusive, and so beautifully designed that it should find a place in every high school library. (Rayna Patton VOYA 2004-06-00)A little gem in itself, this guide is rich in information... A valuable reference guide. (Pat Moore Kliatt 2004-05-15)Makes the grade... a clear introduction to the classification of rocks and basic crystal structure... excellent section of gem descriptions. (Cary Seidman National Science Teachers Association Recommends 2004-05-12)Small but informative, handsome, and richly illustrated book... well-written and well-illustrated... highly recommended. (W.C. Peters Choice 2004-07-00)Concise but thorough... a wealth of information... outstanding color photographs, computer graphics, diagrams, and charts. (Claudia Moore School Library Journal 2004-06-00)This expert knows his material expertly and provides an intriguing and colorful look at the world of gemstones... a gem of a guide. (Lynn C. Westney E-Streams 2004-07-00)	Cally Oldershaw is a mineralogist and Liaison Officer for the Geological Society of London as well as an examiner for the Gemmological Association of Great Britain.	Foreword We often use the word 'gem' in everyday language, for example 'she is a real gem' and 'this book is a little gem'.. In this context a gem is something special, highly valued and well-thought of, something to be treasured, with special attributes. Gemstones are also treasures -- something special. Their unique qualities have been valued throughout the ages, across continents and by different peoples, from our earliest ancestors to the present-day. It may have been the color or the crystal shape of a gemstone. or a brightly colored shell that first attracted the attention of someone who then bent down to pick it up. Something special about it would have encouraged that person to keep it, to own it, maybe to put it in a special place such as a bag hung around the neck, for safekeeping, to polish or make a hole in it, or to tie it onto clothing as an adornment or as a piece of jewelry. Gems and jewels are associated with the rich and famous, We may admire the jewels worn by our favorite film star, celebrity, or sportsperson. We may even aspire to own some particularly fine piece ourselves. Gems have been worn as a symbol of status, adorning the crowns of royalty - a visual reminder of wealth, success and achievement to both the wearer and the observer. The mystic power and energy ascribed to certain gemstones are an attribute defined by healers. The tales of famous stones, the luck they may hold or the curse they may inflict, can captivate an audience. In choosing this book, you may already have been captivated by the 'specialness' of gemstones, or you may be interested in knowing more about them. We hope that this book inspires and informs you. It is intended as a guide to the beautiful and fascinating world of gemstones. It shows you the glorious diversity of colors and the incredible crystal shapes of these wonders of the natural world. Some crystals look as fragile as glass and are incredibly rare, but they have an inherent strength. Crystals may take millions of years to form, or may form as you watch. They may have been formed in rocks deep beneath the Earth's surface, or they may be survivors of mountain-building episodes or devastating volcanic eruptions, or they may have been washed into rivers and streams to be retrieved maybe millions of years after their formation. These survivors are nature's treat: perfect and brightly colored crystals formed in dark, deep rocks. But for a gemmologist (someone who studies the science of gemstones, their physical and optical properties and their origins), what are the special attributes of gemstones? For gemstones to be used in jewelry, ideally they should have three main attributes: beauty, durability and rarity. However, not all gemstones possess all three. For example, some may be insufficiently durable (hard and tough) to use as a cut gemstone in a ring, but may be good for fashioning as a piece within a brooch, protected from damage by the mounting. Beauty and rarity have a direct impact on the value of a gemstone, the more beautiful and rare, the greater the price that will be paid. Generally speaking, gemstones are minerals that have formed as sufficiently clear, large crystals that can be cut and polished for use as pieces for personal adornment or objects d'art such as sculptures, inlays etc. Precut gemstones and minerals in matrix are also collectable. In addition to the mineral gemstones there are also other materials that can be used for adornment, such as PEARL, SHELL, AMBER and other derivatives of plants or animals. These are called organic gems. But not all gemstones are what they seem. A gemstone that has similar properties to a more valuable or rare specimen may be used to imitate it. Color can be misleading: for example, at first glance the color of a red SPINEL might be mistaken for a RUBY. Glass, plastic and other materials both natural and man-made can also be used to imitate gemstones. Even the assumption that a gemstone has been formed naturally in the rocks of the Earth, may not be true. Synthetic gemstones have the same chemical and physical properties as their natural equivalent, but they are made in the laboratory. Part of the excitement of being a gemmologist is to know how to use your eyes and the various pieces of equipment available in order to distinguish the imitations, fakes and forgeries from the real gems.	Foreword    We often use the word 'gem' in everyday language, for example 'she is a real gem' and 'this book is a little gem'.. In this context a gem is something special, highly valued and well-thought of, something to be treasured, with special attributes.    Gemstones are also treasures -- something special. Their unique qualities have been valued throughout the ages, across continents and by different peoples, from our earliest ancestors to the present-day. It may have been the color or the crystal shape of a gemstone. or a brightly colored shell that first attracted the attention of someone who then bent down to pick it up. Something special about it would have encouraged that person to keep it, to own it, maybe to put it in a special place such as a bag hung around the neck, for safekeeping, to polish or make a hole in it, or to tie it onto clothing as an adornment or as a piece of jewelry.               Gems and jewels are associated with the rich and famous, We may admire the jewels worn by our favorite film star, celebrity, or sportsperson. We may even aspire to own some particularly fine piece ourselves. Gems have been worn as a symbol of status, adorning the crowns of royalty - a visual reminder of wealth, success and achievement to both the wearer and the observer. The mystic power and energy ascribed to certain gemstones are an attribute defined by healers. The tales of famous stones, the luck they may hold or the curse they may inflict, can captivate an audience.    In choosing this book, you may already have been captivated by the 'specialness' of gemstones, or you may be interested in knowing more about them. We hope that this book inspires and informs you. It is intended as a guide to the beautiful and fascinating world of gemstones. It shows you the glorious diversity of colors and the incredible crystal shapes of these wonders of              the natural world.    Some crystals look as fragile as glass and are incredibly rare, but they have an inherent strength. Crystals may take millions of years to form, or may form as you watch. They may have been formed in rocks deep beneath the Earth's surface, or they may be survivors of mountain-building episodes or devastating volcanic eruptions, or they may have been washed into rivers and streams to be retrieved maybe millions of years after their formation. These survivors are nature's treat: perfect and brightly colored crystals formed in dark, deep rocks.    But for a gemmologist (someone who studies the science of gemstones, their physical and optical properties and their origins), what are the special attributes of gemstones? For gemstones to be used in jewelry, ideally they should have three main attributes: beauty, durability and rarity. However, not all gemstones possess all three. For example, some may be insufficiently durable              (hard and tough) to use as a cut gemstone in a ring, but may be good for fashioning as a piece within a brooch, protected from damage by the mounting. Beauty and rarity have a direct impact on the value of a gemstone, the more beautiful and rare, the greater the price that will be paid.    Generally speaking, gemstones are minerals that have formed as sufficiently clear, large crystals that can be cut and polished for use as pieces for personal adornment or objects d'art such as sculptures, inlays etc. Precut gemstones and minerals in matrix are also collectable. In addition to the mineral gemstones there are also other materials that can be used for adornment, such as PEARL, SHELL, AMBER and other derivatives of plants or animals. These are called organic gems.    But not all gemstones are what they seem. A gemstone that has similar properties to a more valuable or rare specimen may be used to imitate it. Color can be misleading: for              example, at first glance the color of a red SPINEL might be mistaken for a RUBY. Glass, plastic and other materials both natural and man-made can also be used to imitate gemstones.    Even the assumption that a gemstone has been formed naturally in the rocks of the Earth, may not be true. Synthetic gemstones have the same chemical and physical properties as their natural equivalent, but they are made in the laboratory. Part of the excitement of being a gemmologist is to know how to use your eyes and the various pieces of equipment available in order to distinguish the imitations, fakes and forgeries from the real gems.",books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;earth sciences;hobbies & home;jewelry;jewelry & beadwork;mineralogy;nature & ecology;rocks & minerals;science & math,11
0131476548,"Trading Commodities and Financial Futures: A Step by Step Guide to Mastering the Markets, 3rd Edition Trading Commodities and Financial Futures: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering the Markets  Third Edition  About the Authors    George Kleinman is President of Commodity Resource Corp., a well-established futures and options advisory, brokerage, and trading firm headquartered in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Kleinman has been trading for over twenty-five years on behalf of individuals and commercial commodity users. He entered the business in 1977 as a futures broker with the commodity division of Merrill Lynch, becoming a member of its Golden Circle, its top ten commodity brokers worldwide. In 1983, he founded CRC, a firm that has been highlighted repeatedly in national publications for its trading performance.  Kleinman has been an exchange member for over twenty years, currently a member of the New York Mercantile Exchange (COMEX Division) and the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (former board member). He is a member of the National Futures Association, executive editor of Trends in Futures, and contributing editor to Trading Floor Pro.  www.ft-ph.com An imprint of Pearson Education   Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.	Trading Commodities and Financial Futures: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering the Markets: Preface   Preface Why trade commodities?  In recent years, Ive seen more market moves of significance take place in commodities than anywhere elsemoves that can literally make the financial difference of a lifetime (for better or for worse). Because of the leverage inherent in commodity futures, more fortunes are made and lost more quickly than in any other markets. Yet, with all the potential that the commodity futures markets have, few really make out well. Do you wonder why that is? Why this book?  Ive been trading for more than 25 years now. As head of a trading firm working with individuals and corporations alike, Ive witnessed thousands of trades and participated in thousands more. Ive seen fortunes won and lost. After awhile, you do learn a few things, and its my goal to share some of what Ive learned with you. Hopefully, I can save you some of the grief Ive experienced and give you a jump-start on the road to success. Of course, Im still learning and still have a lot left to learn. This, the third edition of Trading Commodities and Financial Futures, is probably my last book (Im a trader, not a writer) and no doubt my best work. I call it my best work (with all due modesty) because Ive grown older, and as you grow older, you learn more. Some call trading a young mans game; however, I can honestly say that after 25 years in the business, I now trade with less stress and better results than I did when I was younger and more impulsive. This is because the older one gets, the less important ego becomesand Ive seen the disasters that can result when ego takes precedence over the major prevailing trend of the marketplace.  Without trying to be all things to all people, Ive written this book for both novice and seasoned traders. It is meant to be a primer and reference source for those of you who are seriously considering, but have not yet taken, the plunge into the shark-infested commodity waters. This book is also designed to help those of you who are currently trading and want to perform better. What will it take to succeed? Youll need patience, guts, discipline, and vision. I cannot infuse these qualities into you; instead, I can tell you only what to look for and what to watch out for. Well start slow and then build up to a master trading plan. Along the way, Ill share some good stories with you.  Why trade commodities now? I entered this crazy business during the commodities boom of the late 1970s. The Hunt brothers were attempting to corner the silver market, the Carter Administration couldnt get a grip on inflation, the currency markets were in turmoil, the Russians were invading Afghanistan, the world was running out of food due to a series of weather disasters, the Iranians were holding American citizens hostage, and there was an energy crisis. Hard assets were in vogue. Paper assets were just that. During the 1970s, the CRB Index (basket of commodities) appreciated well over 100%. The Dow Jones Index (basket of blue chip U.S. stocks) literally went nowhere for more than 10 years.   Heres an interesting (and frightening) statistic: The world is adding to its population at the rate of the country of Mexico every yearthats more than 80 million people. If we could shrink the earths population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look approximately like this:    Just 14 people would be from the western hemisphere (only 5 from the United States).   27 would be from Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East combined.   57 would be Asian (38 from China and India).    The rapid movement of China and India into the mainstream of the world economy is generating new demands for commodities, the likes of which have never been experienced. As just one example, take a look at oil. Today, the United States consumes approximately one quarter of all the oil produced; this is approximately 25 barrels per capita per year. When Japan accelerated its economic growth (from 1950 to 1970), Japanese oil consumption rose from 1 barrel per capita per year to more than 17 barrels. China and India are now in the early stages of a similar growth curve, today consuming just over 1 barrel per capita per year. China and Indias combined populations are 18 times that of Japan. As their consumer economies continue to expand, its hard to fathom the stress that will be placed on the worlds limited and diminishing capacity to produce crude oil (or metals, or food for that matter).   China, in particular, is in the back of investors minds these days because it is driving the most powerful investment trend witnessed since the tech bubble burst in 2000. Look at food consumption trends. China has a huge population with a rapidly growing economy and a growing middle class. As its population becomes richer, subsistence-level eating just isnt good enough. China cant grow enough food to feed its people (which is behind the huge exports of soybeans and wheat to China). All nations face a crop failure every decade or so. What happens when one of the worlds major food producers such as the United States, Brazil, or China has the next one? In 1995, due to a poor domestic crop, China turned from the largest corn exporter in Asia into a corn importer. It was no coincidence that this was the year of the greatest bull corn market in history, with corn prices surging from less than $2 per bushel to more than $5.   Chinese agriculture brings about other demands. For example, a large part of increasing the efficiency of Chinese agriculture is fertilizer. Good fertilization could dramatically increase Chinas ability to produce the basic foodstuffs it needs, and most fertilizers contain a mineral known as potasha mineral China simply doesnt have enough of. In fact, industry estimates put Chinas requirements at about 10 million tons five years from now, of which it is able to produce only about a million tons domestically. When I wrote the first edition of this book, nobody had ever heard of the Dalian Commodity Exchange in China. Today, it is the ninth largest exchange in the worldand growing. The Chinese factor is not going away. Instead, it is accelerating the demand for commoditieseverything from gold to copper to soybeans to wheatand as a result, this decade and beyond will be the era of a new and sustained mega-bull market for commodities. For now, think of this as a game  Financial markets come in many flavors. Think of commodity futures and options trading as a gamethe highest stakes money game in the world, where fortunes are made and lost daily. Sure, theres a loftier purpose. Governments allow the traditional financial markets to operate for the purpose of capital formation. Futures markets are allowed to operate as a vehicle of risk transference for commodity producers and users. However, this book is not a scholarly treatise, and it is not about investing for your retirement. It is a guide to winning the game.  A game with consequences If you choose to play the game, be forewarned that it can dramatically affect your lifestyle. For every buyer of a gold, copper, bond, cattle, or Euro contract, there is someone unseen (but out there) on the other side of the transaction. The buyer is known as the long and the seller as the short. At any point in time, except for the split second when a new trade is initiated, someone is winning, and someone is losing. You should understand from the outset that commodity futures are a zero sum game. For every dollar won by one player, someone else loses that same dollar. Accurate statistics are not available, but it generally is agreed that the great majority of players lose this game. Because this game is zero sum, by definition, the great minority are winning what this majority is losing. This is one of the reasons the stakes are so high. Fortunes are made in commodity futures, in some cases starting with an extremely small stake. Luck might play a part in the short run, but in the end, only those players who play the game better will triumph. No method is foolproof, so the best I can do is help you to place the odds in your favor. If I am able to accomplish this, and you are able to act in a disciplined manner, success is assured. Sound simple? If it were so simple, most people wouldnt lose, and the nature of the markets is to punish the majority. The purpose of this book is to place you in the minority, because it is the minority who will reap the rewards!  George Kleinman 2004   Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.",books;business & finance;business & investing;commodities;futures;introduction;investing;investments & securities;new;popular economics;used & rental textbooks,11
0826413072,"Jesus: A Colloquium in the Holy Land (Biblical Studies) ""The scholarly, yet accessible, essays in this volume are not to be sneezed at. With such big names as Elizabeth Johnson and John Meier on the title page, one expects (and is not disappointed) serious scholarship. [The articles] are excellent, lucid introductions for the non-specialist into some of the most important, but most jargon-ridden, questions of theology to have developed in recent decades.""Travis du Priest, The Living Church, October 2001""This book is a helpful collection which rounds up what these important scholars have to say about significant topics in the study of the historical Jesus.""Robert J. Miller, Religious Studies Review, January 2003""when piety, scholarship and sacred sites are brought together in popular theological writing, does the mixture prove beneficial? On the strength of this collection, I would say that it does. The scholars use their gifts for clear exposition and work seriously at serious questions Each essay raises interesting issues, and offers teachers excellent material for discussion in tutorials."" -Andrew Hamilton	Doris Donnelly is director of the Cardinal Suenens Program in Theology and Church Life at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;humanities;jesus;new;reference;religion & spirituality;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks,11
158573523X,"Langenscheidt Universal Croatian Dictionary (Langenscheidt Dictionary) (Croatian Edition) Since 2000. Hammond, American Map, Langenscheidt Dictionaries, Insight Travel Guides, Delorme  the famous names in the Langenscheidt family. These represent the most authoritative, up-to-date, and extensive travel and reference products available. In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group.  The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent.",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,11
0201734206,"Multitool Linux: Practical Uses for Open Source Software This resource-packed guide delivers pragmatic solutions for real-world Linux development needs	Michael Schwarz has worked as a UNIX system programmer for more than fifteen years and as a Linux programmer since its emergence. He started the SASi open source project, and has been a frequent contributor to Linux Journal.       Peter Curtis is a Web applications designer for HealthPartners, a Minnesota HMO, where he runs a combined Linux and Windows network. He has extensive experience as a UNIX, Perl, C/C++, and Java programmer.         Steven Murphy is a UNIX and Linux programmer for HealthPartners. He is also a professional musician who uses Linux in his various musical and video editing tasks.        Jeremy Anderson teaches UNIX classes at Hennepin Technical College. He has expertise in UNIX, Linux, Perl, C/C++, and Java programming.             0201734206AB04092002	You've Been Hoodwinked!You picked this book up thinking it was about Linux. Hah! We fooled you completely! This book is only tangentially about Linux. It is really about a number of pieces of Free Software (note the capitals--there's more about this in Chapter 1) that are frequently packaged with Linux in common distributions.There are quite a few books out there on how to install Linux, how to administer Linux, how to program for Linux, and how to secure Linux. What we believed was lacking, however, was some guide for those who are new to Free Software and Open Source software as to just what you can do with a Linux system once you have one.This book is all about things you can do either with a base Linux distribution or with software that is readily available on the Web for the Linux platform. Every single piece of software we cover in this book is available under one or another ""open source"" license, meaning that you can get the software for free and redistribute it freely. In all cases the source code is available for you to see and modify for your own use. The differences in the licenses tend to govern what you are allowed to do with the modified source code.The authors have a definite bias (which you should know about up front) in favor of the GNU Public License (the GPL), which allows you to do anything with the source code except refuse to give away any work derived from it. We cover some of the reasoning behind various source code licenses in Chapter 1.Now, how, exactly, did we fool you? Well, although all of the software we cover here runs on Linux on Intel-based PCs, most of it will run on any flavor of Unix, from the BSD-derived systems of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD (all of which are freely available and open source and run on Intel PCs), on up to the most closed and expensive commercial proprietary versions of Unix running on the most expensive high-speed massively parallel hardware.Why You Want This BookLet's face it: It's a Windows world. If you have an Intel-based PC, the odds are you own a copy of one or another of the dozens of versions of Microsoft Windows. The odds are, also, that you didn't have any choice in the matter. The hardware comes with Windows preinstalled. There are tons of software packages available for from $20 to $20,000 for PCs running that operating system, and they are right there in your local SuperCompuMegaHut. What more could you want?In the most selfish sense, you might want all of that software for from $0 to $0. You can do that with the commercial software. This is called ""piracy,"" and it is, quite rightly, against the law. It turns out, however, that those of us who write software also would like to get software for free. So some of us started writing code and giving it away. We get paid back in the form of the other free software written by other programmers.At this point, thanks to people like Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation and Linus Torvalds (author of the Linux kernel), you can now have a complete multiuser network server operating system and a whole slew of applications for free. You can also, if you are a programmer, get all the source code for all of it and add features or fix bugs yourself, if you are so inclined.Even if you are not a programmer, you benefit from this openness because bugs get found and fixed much more rapidly in this model than in the closed, commercial, distributed media model. And you don't have to pay an upgrade price every few months.Still, as we said, it is a Windows world. People who are not computer scientists know Windows. They know Microsoft Office. They know only this way of doing things. And Linux is different. So how do I do useful things like I do with my Windows PC? And what can I do with a Linux PC that I never even imagined doing with my Windows PC?That's what the rest of this book is about. At one of our darkest hours, we thought of calling this book Hooray! I've installed Linux...Now What? Fortunately, our editors stared at us dumbfounded until we came to our senses. But that is still what the book is about. It is about some of the practical things you can do with Free Software.How This Book Is OrganizedThis book is organized as follows:An introductory section (which consists of this Preface and Chapter 1). The ""toolbox,"" in which each chapter covers a single application or piece of software at some length. This toolbox is further divided into sections covering: Networking and Communications (Chapters 2-9)Privacy and Security (Chapters 10-14)Miscellaneous Applications (Chapters 15-17)Music and Audio (Chapters 18-21)Graphics and Photography (Chapters 22-23)Video (Chapter 24)Afterword (Chapter 25 and About the Authors)The bulk of the book is the toolbox section. Each chapter begins with a resource box, which includes our ""patented"" Difficult-o-Meter, a list of the programs being presented, their versions, and URLs where the software may be obtained. Every effort has been made to provide accurate and timely information. But because this book was over a year in the making, there will be newer versions of most of these packages by the time you read this.Why You Might Not Want This BookIf you are looking for a book to help you install or administer Linux, this is not the one for you. There are many such books on the market, frequently on the same shelf where you found this one. This book is meant to show you some interesting things you can do with a Linux box.Naturally, we think this is a great book to acquire while you're getting that book on installing and administering Linux.  0201734206P04292002",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;linux;operating systems;programming;software;systems analysis & design;unix,11
0877939322,"Finding Your Way After Your Spouse Dies (Christian Guides) This book presents a guide for coping with the practical issues that face the recently widowed as they struggle through the grieving process. It is written by one who has experienced personal grief and loss and understands what needs to be faced when a spouse dies. --Mauryeen O'Brien, O.P., Author Praying Through Grief	Marta Felber has worked as a counselor, social worker, and educational consultant in various locations in the United States and abroad. She did social work in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and counseling in the Palisades School District, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Felber worked overseas as school counselor at the Cairo American College in Egypt and head of the counseling center for expatriates in Jakarta, Indonesia, a position she held for ten years. During those years she also served in a consultant role, working with teaching staffs at international schools in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh.She returned to the United States and entered private practice in counseling, combined with leading groups and workshops. After the death of her husband, Felber wrote two books about the grieving process, Grief Expressed When a Mate Dies and Finding Your Way after Your Spouse Dies. She currently lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;death & grief;grief & bereavement;love & loss;ministry;ministry & church leadership;ministry to the sick & bereaved;relationships;self-help,11
0029103150,"The UNMASKING MARRIED TO A RAPIST The marriage of Ronda Hunter and Eddie Wyatt in 1975 seemed to be ordained by heaven, for the young Texans viewed their Pentecostal religion as the primary focus of their lives. They had arrived at their fundamentalist Christianity by vastly different routes: Ronda had been raised by parents who enforced strictures against drinking, smoking and dancing; she was trained to be a wife and mother who was subservient to her husband. Eddie, the child of a broken home, had found religion while imprisoned for robbery after spending time in reform schools. But within a few years of marriage, Eddie stopped having sex with his wife and became a serial rapist. He was convicted, divorced by Ronda and served a nine-and-a-half-year sentence before being paroled in 1991. After just 14 months of freedom, he was arrested again, charged with burglary with intent to commit sexual assault and other counts. He is awaiting trial. Rocky Mountain News reporter Flynn provides a disquieting, sensitive, in-depth depiction of Ronda's deluded love for her husband and her devastation at discovering his unsuspected criminality. As a subtext, we're also shown that the naive, trusting Ronda was almost destined to become a victim. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	A repeat offender in his youth, Eddie Wyatt withstood six-month stays in the notorious Gatesville, Texas, reform school for petty theft and truancy. In prison on yet another burglary conviction, Eddie was given a religious tract by a cellmate that offered him a ray of hope and the possibility of altering the unstable course of his life. After his release, he immediately started to counsel troubled, aimless youth like himself at a Dallas Christian counseling center, where he met Ronda Jean Hunter, also a counselor. She befriended Eddie, knowing of his past, and before long married him. The Unmasking tells the heartbreaking story of their seven-year marriage. Eddie's deepening anger and despair, the author shows, isolated him from Ronda, pushing him back into drugs and alcohol, then into violent sexual assaults against women. Convicted on one rape charge, Eddie served time in prison (during which time Ronda filed for divorce) and was released in 1991. In November 1992, only 14 months later, Eddie was arrested on burglary and other charges. Texas revoked his parole; he awaits trial as of this writing. Flynn, a reporter for the Rocky Mountain News , has written a riveting book. A recommended addition to true crime shelves.- Lisa Nussbaum, Euclid P.L., OhioCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Sluggish, standard-model true-crime account of a multiple rapist who concealed his crimes for seven years while married and involved in a fundamentalist church. When Eddie Wyatt was five, in 1956, his drinking and gambling father walked out the door for good. At age 11, Wyatt first entered Gatesville Reform School and began to live among the killings, dope dealings, and guard beatings that plagued the Texas prison system. In and out of jail for the next 12 years, he suddenly ``found Jesus'' while perusing a religious tract in his cell. Given his freedom at age 23, Wyatt was taken in by the Assembly of God Church, an insular Pentecostal sect that tithed and prohibited dancing, movies, alcohol, etc. Wyatt was considered a great prospect and took eagerly to religious counseling. Within the year, he married Rhonda Jean Hunter, a girl raised in the church and so sheltered that, at 16, she visited a farm and begged for an explanation when she saw a rooster mount a hen. Not long after the wedding, Wyatt joined the Navy and eventually drew permanent shore duty. Rocky Mountain News reporter Flynn (coauthor, The Silent Brotherhood, 1989) devotes the bulk of his narrative to detailing his subject's activities during this period, precisely depicting Wyatt's many assaults on women. Interestingly, the rapist, convinced he had no control over his impulses, took no relief from his rapes but, rather, was constantly depressed. When finally caught, Wyatt had committed numerous assaults, but he was tried only on the most airtight case. ``The devil made me do it'' was his defense, but he soon plea-bargained and, in 1982, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Flynn leaves undeveloped an interesting angle by giving short shrift to Judy Hayes--the first-ever woman detective in Kingsville, Texas--who contributed essential insights toward nailing Wyatt. Moreover, he leaves us to wonder whether the rapist ever got treatment or achieved self-insight. Overall, then, a torpid chronicle. -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;history;military;politics & social sciences;social sciences;state & local;true accounts;true crime;united states,11
0471783935,"Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling The author shares his original system for getting more clients by following seven self-promotion strategies. Youll gain the confidence to authentically market yourself and your services and tap into a bountiful supply of referrals. (Realtor Magazine, July 2006)	According to the Small Business Administration, ninety percent of service businesses will fail within the first five years. They fail not because they don't offer great services and products, but because the owners are extremely uncomfortable with traditional marketing and sales. The result is a frustrated, isolated, and overwhelmed business owner who does not know there is an entirely different, highly successful approach to marketing and sales availableand it's laid out in the pages of Book Yourself Solid.Book Yourself Solid is based on Michael Port's proven system for getting more clients. And it works. In fact, ninety-three percent of business owners who have used the system have experienced a thirty-four percent increase in their total number of clients and a forty-two percent increase in sales in the first year alone.Original, wildly inspiring, personal, and provocative, Book Yourself Solid is an easy-to-follow road map for starting and growing your service business based on seven core self-promotion strategies. Through verbal and written exercises, you'll not only learn how to develop a strong marketing plan and brand identity, but you'll also learn why self-promotion is absolutely critical to your successand how to do it with passion and purpose. Even if you hate the idea of marketing and selling yourself, this practical, inspirational guide will lift you up and give you the confidence you need to comfortably and authentically market yourself and your services, tap into an endless supply of quality referrals, and watch your business grow.If you're a seasoned professional, you'll find the fresh ideas and tactics you need to keep bringing in new business for years to come. If you're a novice service professional looking for a complete business building system, you'll have the keys to unlock long-lasting business prosperity, security, and abundance for yourself and your family. Once you make a name for yourself using the seven core strategies for self-promotion, you'll be able to run a profitable, meaningful, and absolutely booked-solid business overflowing with as many clients as your heart desires.Book Yourself Solid is a one-of-a-kind, step-by-step guide to building a successful service business from the ground up. These proven methods have helped thousands of service professionals realize their dreams. And they will do the same for you.	Praise for Book Yourself Solid""Lead generation and conversion is the heart of any marketing enterprise, and Michael Port's ingenious and practical system is among the best I've seen. Read this book and transform your business!""Michael E. Gerber, founder and Chairman, E-Myth Worldwide, author of The E-Myth Revisited""Do your homework! This is not a conceptual, theoretical look at how to succeed as a service professional. Instead, it's just what you need if you're stuck and you'd rather invest in your future (by doing the right kind of work) than complain about it later.""Seth Godin, author of All Marketers Are Liars and Permission Marketing""Going out on your own can be scary. But this book is a welcome antidote to that fear. It brims with savvy advice and nearly overflows with practical, hands-on exercises. Once you absorb the wisdom in these pages, you'll be ready, willing, and eager to fashion a more rewarding work life. Michael Port is the guy to call if you're tired of thinking small.""Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation""If you're even slightly uncomfortable with the idea of networking, marketing, or selling, this is the book for you. Book Yourself Solid gives you everything you need to fill your business with ideal clients. Before you're even finished reading the book, you'll be inspired to take action!""Ivan R. Misner, PhD, founder and CEO, BNI, coauthor of Masters of Networking""Wow! I never expected this book to be so good. I love how it focuses on getting your ideal clients-and more than you can imagine possible. An excellent, inspiring, practical guide to outrageous success!""Joe Vitale, author of There's a Customer Born Every Minute	MICHAEL PORT is the creator of The Think Big Revolution, an online club for service professionals; the Book Yourself Solid line of training products; the Product Factory, the #1 information product-creation course on the Internet; and Traffic School, the ultimate Web traffic and conversion system. He owns a successful consulting firm, through which he has provided lectures, training, and coaching services to more than 20,000 business owners. To think bigger about who you are and what you offer the world, please visit him at MichaelPort.com.",books;business & finance;business & investing;management & leadership;marketing;marketing & sales;new;sales;sales & selling;systems & planning;used & rental textbooks,11
0071370145,"Primary Care for Physician Assistants Rodney L. Moser, PA-C, PhD Sutter Health Medical Group/ Roseville Pediatrics Roseville, California Clinical Coordinator/ Associate Professor Samuel Merritt College Physician Assistant Program Oakland, California",allied health professions;allied health services;books;medical assistants;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;physician assistants;test preparation & review;used & rental textbooks,11
0679991336,"Chicken for a Day (Step-Into-Reading, Step 3) Gr. 1-2. Daisy wakes up one day to find she's a chicken. No problem. She has cornflakes for breakfast (no eggs) and heads off to the farm to find out how she's supposed to behave. While she's there, a real fox appears, and it takes some clever logic to capture the fox and make him promise to leave the chickens alone. The story has some very funny moments, especially the deadpan way Daisy's parents accept the fact that their daughter is now a fowl. The amusing illustrations, in autumnal colors, will keep new readers turning pages. A fun addition to the Step into Reading Series. Ilene CooperCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Daisy wakes up one morning and finds that she has turned into a chicken. Instead of worrying her pretty little feathers about it, she hops off as best she can to have a chicken adventure. But who knew that being a chicken would put you in such danger? This delightful Step 2 book lets readers know whether being a chicken is all it's cracked up to be.",action & adventure;animals;birds;books;children's books;farm animals;farm life;humor;literature & fiction;travel & cultures;where we live,11
1570671435,"Medicinal Mushrooms (Herbs and Health Series) For those who already enjoy eating fungi, Medicinal Mushroms will answer your questions and deepen your appreciation of mushrooms.  -- Herb Companion, 1996.Mushroom toxicity, uses in traditional medicine, and appearances in the human diet are supported by clinical studies and explorations of cultural influences in this technical coverage. Over 100 species of edible fungi are documented in the most complete work on medicinal mushrooms published to date.  -- Midwest Book ReviewThe wealth of information gleaned from excellent sources make this  book a valuable addition to professional and amateur mushroom  library.  -- SIDA 17(1):250. 1996	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Christopher Hobbs is a fourth generation herbalist and botanist with over 25 years experience. He writes and lectures internationally on herbal medicine, and has written over a dozen books on herbs and health.",alternative medicine;biological sciences;books;fitness & dieting;health;herbal remedies;mushrooms;nutrition;plants;science & math;sports & outdoors,11
B000FKPANC,"The Dog Lover's Guide to Dating: Using Cold Noses to Find Warm Hearts Unleash your love life by walking your dog!Think romance has gone to the dogs? You're right-and it's actually a good thing! Studies show you're three times more likely to meet someone if you have a dog with you. So leash up your pooch and get ready to enter the world of meeting, greeting, and falling in love with dog lovers and their dogs in The Dog Lover's Guide to Dating. Combining wit, warmth, and wisdom with lots of practical advice, dog trainer Deborah Wood shows you the techniques of dog experts-as well as the secrets of the American Kennel Club!-for finding the right human mate for you. She offers encouragement and inspiration for the romantically challenged dog lover, providing a list of the best and worst date breeds and activities you can do with your dog to meet new friends-and maybe even Mr. or Ms. Right. You'll see how to:* Find the hot spots where single dog lovers congregate* Break the ice with conversation starters that are perfect for dog lovers* Train your dog to fetch a date* Write a canine-friendly personal ad* Ensure that your dog and your new love get along* Spot dog owners who should be avoided* Use your dog to prolong a date-or end itFeaturing a host of true-life love stories and fun, revealing self-quizzes, The Dog Lover's Guide to Dating will help you find your perfect match!	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Unleash your love life by walking your dog!Think romance has gone to the dogs? You're right-and it's actually a good thing! Studies show you're three times more likely to meet someone if you have a dog with you. So leash up your pooch and get ready to enter the world of meeting, greeting, and falling in love with dog lovers and their dogs in The Dog Lover's Guide to Dating. Combining wit, warmth, and wisdom with lots of practical advice, dog trainer Deborah Wood shows you the techniques of dog experts-as well as the secrets of the American Kennel Club!-for finding the right human mate for you. She offers encouragement and inspiration for the romantically challenged dog lover, providing a list of the best and worst date breeds and activities you can do with your dog to meet new friends-and maybe even Mr. or Ms. Right. You'll see how to:* Find the hot spots where single dog lovers congregate* Break the ice with conversation starters that are perfect for dog lovers* Train your dog to fetch a date* Write a canine-friendly personal ad* Ensure that your dog and your new love get along* Spot dog owners who should be avoided* Use your dog to prolong a date-or end itFeaturing a host of true-life love stories and fun, revealing self-quizzes, The Dog Lover's Guide to Dating will help you find your perfect match!	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;breeds;crafts;dating;dogs;hobbies & home;interpersonal relations;love & romance;pets & animal care;relationships;self-help,11
0826328008,"Mesoamerica's Ancient Cities An armchair travelogue through Mesoamerican prehistory. -- American Anthropologist	A thoroughly revised edition of the classic photographic portrayal of the major pre-Columbian ruins of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras.	A former rancher, writer, banker, lawyer, and state official, the late William M. Ferguson wrote six books on Southwest U.S. and Mesoamerica ruins.Richard E. W. Adams received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University. He has over 37 years of field work experience in the Maya area. He is author and editor of twelve books and author and co-author of ninety-five papers. He is past president of the Society for American Archaeology, resident fellow at the Rockefeller Study Foundation, Bellagio, and overseas fellow at Cambridge University. His most recent field work is in the Maya lowlands of Guatemala and Belize. Adams is a professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio, director of the Rio Azul Archaeological Project and Programme for the Belize Regional Project.",americas;archaeology;books;central america;general;history;native american studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;travel,11
B0000548N5,"How to Drive Your Competition Crazy Guy Kawasaki presents the definitive take-no-prisoners' guide on how to win in business. A key participant in the success of the original Macintosh computer and a best selling author, he presents a top 10 countdown of irreverent, and sometimes extreme, stratagems in sales, marketing, production, and human resources that will help your company get and keep the upper hand. These include arguments for being the customer and shareholder of your competition and creating disruption.",biography & history;books;business & investing;company profiles;direct;entrepreneurship;management & leadership;marketing;marketing & sales;small business & entrepreneurship;strategy & competition,11
0002571153,"Outcasts of the Islands Sebastian Hope was born in 1964 and had lived in five different homes by the age of seven. He caught his first fish, a trout, before he was three. In 1986, after gaining a degree in English Literature from Bristol University he set off for Pakistan. Arriving on the Caribbean coast of Mexico two years later he decided on the toss of a coin to pursue a career in writing and photography. His travel stories and photographs have appeared in the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph, Highlife and both Traveller Magazines, among others.",anthropology;asia;books;cultural;education & reference;general;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;travel;travel writing;writing,11
0534553117,"Reading to Learn in the Content Areas ""An outstanding resource for students that models best practices in its organization and design.""""The READING TO LEARN IN THE CONTENT AREAS text is a prized possession for my teachers . . . it is easy to read, offers good examples for them to use in their classrooms and they really like and continue to use the PAR lesson format as it benefits their students.""""Overall, I think this is one of the best books on the market. My students and I really appreciate the plethora of examples across the disciplines and the PAR reference guide to help them locate them. . . . I tell [colleagues] that the book is theoretically sound and it contains examples to which students can relate.""""I have been a fan of this text for many years. It seems to improve with every edition. Its greatest strengths are its in-depth topic coverage, range of activity examples (drawn from real classrooms), and integration of the PAR Lesson Framework.""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Judy Richardson is a Professor Emerita, recently retired from the Department of Teaching and Learning in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has experience teaching at the elementary, middle, high school and adult levels. She has numerous articles published in noted reading journals. In addition to READING TO LEARN IN THE CONTENT AREAS, Richardson is the author of READ IT ALOUD! USING LITERATURE IN THE SECONDARY CONTENT CLASSROOM, published by the International Reading Association, and AN ENGLISH TEACHER'S SURVIVAL GUIDE. Richardson is an authority on using technology in content reading instruction. She received the Virginia Commonwealth University Award of Excellence for 2004.Raymond F. Morgan is a Professor of Reading Education in the Department of Educational Curriculum and Instruction at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Morgan, who has experience in teaching at the elementary, junior high, and high school levels, received his doctorate degree from the University of Virginia in 1974 and has taught at Old Dominion University since that time. He has over 60 publications in the field of reading education, including 13 textbooks. Among his publications are co-authored texts entitled THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, Second and Third Editions (Harper and Row, 1985; Kendall-Hunt Publishing, 1993) and CRITICAL READING-THINKING SKILLS FOR THE COLLEGE STUDENT, First and Second Editions (Kendall-Hunt, 1985; 1986). His newest textbooks are READING FOR SUCCESS (South-Western Publishing, 1996) and the Fifth Edition of READING TO LEARN IN THE CONTENT AREAS (Wadsworth, 2003).	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education;education & reference;instruction methods;language & grammar;new;pedagogy;reading skills;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,11
0471557684,"Principles of Timber Design for Architects and Builders Examines current industry standards concerned with the use of wood and wood products. Features detailed studies of joists, special beams, residential trusses and arches. Contains accessible tables in order to figure out the most economical way of building a structure using wood. Includes numerous examples.",architecture;books;buildings;drafting & presentation;history;humanities;methods & materials;new;professional & technical;reference;used & rental textbooks,11
1845961161,"Scottish Exodus: Travels Among a Worldwide Clan ""Recommended."" Choice""Extraordinary . . . no book has gone to these lengths to unpick so many human elements of the Scottish diaspora."" The Herald	James Hunter is the author of a number of books on Scottish history including Culloden and the Last Clansman; Glencoe and the Indians; Last of the Free; and A Dance Called America.From the Hardcover edition.",anthropology;books;cultural;emigration & immigration;england;europe;history;politics & social sciences;scotland;social sciences;world,11
0060741384,"Crossing the Wire Grade 5 Up Ever since his family moved to the tiny village of Los rboles, Victor has been best friends with Rico. When Rico tells him that he has enough money to pay for a coyote to help him cross into El Norte, Victor is unable to decide if he, too, should go along and look for work or try to feed his family with the pitiful annual corn harvest. The decision is made for him the next day when he discovers that the corn prices have bottomed out and that there is no point in even planting this year. Readers suffer with the 15-year-old as he makes his painful decision to leave his mother and younger siblings and attempts the dangerous border crossing, jumping trains, fleeing thieves and border officials, and suffering from thirst and hunger. His desperation and fear are completely believable as he faces near-death situations and must decide whom to trust. The author deftly weaves information concerning the local geography and customs into the plot. The story is well paced, sustaining readers' attention throughout. Pair this novel with Ann Jaramillo's La Lnea (Roaring Brook, 2006) for another fictional view of young people crossing the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Melissa Christy Buron, Epps Island Elementary, Houston, TX Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Gr. 5-8. As in Ann Jaramillo's La Linea (2006), Hobbs' latest puts a human face on the controversial issue of illegal immigration. No longer able to grow corn profitably in his Mexican village, 15-year-old Victor, who has supported his family since his father's death, resolves to go to El Norte: ""It's time for me to do what men from our village have to do."" Lacking the money to secure a guide, he ventures to a border town to wait his chance in the ""whirlpool"" of recent deportees, newcomers, and grizzled mojados (""wetbacks""). Successive attempts find him trekking through mountains and desert, fleeing la migra, and unwittingly becoming entangled with ruthless drug traffickers. Hobbs' effort to show a broad view of the border-crossing experience, often by incorporating the hard-luck tales of Victor's acquaintances, results in a story arc that occasionally feels artificial. But the questions raised here are provocative and worthwhile (""Are [Americans] willing to pick the fruits and the vegetables to fill their grocery stores?""), and the propulsive adventure-and-survival elements will keep Hobbs' core audience hooked. Jennifer MattsonCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	A page-turning adventure (Kirkus Reviews)Riveting...an exciting story in a vital contemporary setting (Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA))This gritty and realistic tale will be an eye-opener for many YAs (KLIATT)Provocative...puts a human face on the controversial issue of illegal immigration. (Booklist)	Will Hobbs is the award-winning author of nineteen novels, including Far North, Crossing the Wire, and Take Me to the River.Never Say Die began with the authors eleven-day raft trip in 2003 down the Firth River on the north slope of Canadas Yukon Territory. Ever since, Will has been closely following what scientists and Native hunters are reporting about climate change in the Arctic. When the first grolar bear turned up in the Canadian Arctic, he began to imagine one in a story set on the Firth River.A graduate of Stanford University, Will lives with his wife, Jean, in Durango, Colorado.",action & adventure;books;children's books;explore the world;friendship;hispanic & latino;literature & fiction;mexico;multicultural stories;social situations;travel & cultures,11
0793562538,"The Hal Leonard Guitar Superbook Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard Corporation has become the worlds largest print music publisher, representing some of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time. We are proud to publish titles of interest to all musicians as well as music lovers, from songbooks and instructional titles to artist biographies and instrument price guides to books about the music industry and all the performing arts.",arts & photography;books;composition & performance;education & reference;guitar;instruction & study;instruments;music;songbooks;techniques;theory,11
0451404505,"The Right Kind of War This impressive first novel is based on McCormick's WW 11 experience with the elite Marine Raiders, later consolidated as the 4th Marines. Unpretentious prose and a straightforward narrative style highlight the grim realities of combat against Japanese forces in the Solomons, on Guam, and above all, on Okinawa. Episodes set outside battle areas convincingly depict Raider training and attitudes. Pvt. Moe, the narrator, and his comrades are products of the Depression, more likely to have served in the CCC than to have graduated from high school. They do not question their roles in the right kind of war, waged without pity or hatred against an absolute enemy. McCormick's understated prose ultimately enhances his presentation of the value system promulgated in the Marine Corps. By urging Marines to objectivize the enemy, thereby encouraging detachment, they brought about the Corps's evolution into a warrior elite--America's samurai. 25,000 first printing. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This episodic first novel, written by a veteran of World War II, so realistically details the activities of a company of U.S. Marine Corps Raiders during the Pacific campaign that the reader suspects it is actually thinly veiled autobiography. Told from a private's viewpoint, it follows the Raiders across several Pacific islands as they fight the Japanese as well as their other enemies--disease, fear, and boredom. Spanning the months between July 1943 and September 1945, this tale is of a simpler time when the United States was right and everyone else was wrong, and ""the Pacific War was the right kind of war, the simple war in which there were not the distractions of things like pity or Geneva conventions."" Obviously no pacifist or antiwar sentiments here. Sure to be popular with World War II fans.- Rebecca House Stankowski, Purdue Univ. Calumet Lib., Hammond, Ind.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A Marine Raider veteran of the war in the Pacific puts his WW II battle memories into unsentimental, unrevisionist novel form. No-nonsense prose--plus a refusal to load in five decades of postwar psychochat or political hindsight--keeps McCormick's account of island-hopping and man-to-man combat crystal-clear and unusually immediate. Today's gentle readers may find themselves gasping to discover that the ``Right Kind of War'' for the Marine Raiders was a war in which no questions were asked and few prisoners taken. But for the young men yanked from their farms and blue-collar jobs to defend democracy from Japanese expansionism, it was the only way to fight. As the Pacific war was a series of battles fought island by island, the novel is a series of anecdotes leading to the horrors of Okinawa and Guam. The narrator is a matter-of-fact Illinoisan fighting alongside boys from all over the country, following the orders of sergeants more frightening than the enemy, doing the bidding of generals and admirals who may or may not know what they are about. There are no detailed portraits of the boys, everything is action, but there are amusing moments- -and moving ones--and flitting through the narrative are spooky appearances and reappearances of a boot-camp buddy who became an assassin for the corps and kept his job classification afterward. Gung-ho and good. -- Copyright 1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",action & adventure;books;contemporary;genre fiction;literary;literature & fiction;mystery;spy stories & tales of intrigue;thriller & suspense;thrillers;war,11
047113225X,"MRP II: Making It Happen: The Implementers' Guide to Success with Manufacturing Resource Planning (Oliver Wight Library) This practical, comprehensive guide outlines the critical challenges, opportunities and a proven execution strategy. Includes the essentials to develop a successful implementation game plan along with insights on how to launch MRP II on a company-wide basis. Details a blueprint for executing MRP II in one area of an organization's operations.	MRP II: Making It Happen In a highly practical approach, MRP II: Making It Happen provides a proven path to successfully implement and manage Manufacturing Resource Planning-MRP II. Organized in a step-by-step approach, Wallace outlines the challenges, opportunities, and a tested process that's been effective for companies around the globe. Packed with planning advice and ideas for dealing with implementation challenges, Wallace provides unique insights on integrating MRP II with your operation. In addition, you'll learn the essential ingredients to develop and launch the implementation from a management perspective, as well as how to implement MRP II on a company-wide basis. Wallace also delivers a ""Quick Slice"" approach to implementing MRP II in just one area of your operation. The ""Quick Slice"" approach offers the opportunity for early success and lays the groundwork for a broader-based implementation. Beyond the initial planning efforts, the book includes advice on managing MRP II over the long haul to ensure the maximum benefit to your company.	Books in the Oliver Wight Library Distribution Resource Planning The Gateway to True Quick Response and Continuous Replenishment Revised Edition by Andre J. Martin Gaining Control Capacity Management and Scheduling by James G. Correll The Instant Access Guide to World-Class Manufacturing by Thomas F. Wallace Inventory Record Accuracy Unleashing the Power of Cycle Counting by Roger B. Brooks and Larry W. Wilson Manufacturing Data Structures Building Foundations for Excellence with Bills of Materials and Process Information by Jerry Clement, Andy Coldrick, and John Sari The Marketing Edge The New Leadership Role of Sales and Marketing in Manufacturing by George E. Palmatier and Joseph S. Shull Master Scheduling A Practical Guide to Competitive Manufacturing by John F. Proud MRP II: Making it Happen The Implementers' Guide to Success with Manufacturing Resource Planning by Thomas F. Wallace The Oliver Wight ABCD Checklist for Operational Excellence Fourth Edition Orchestrating Success Improve Control of the Business with Sales and Operations Planning by Richard C. Ling and Walter E. Goddard Purchasing in the 21st Century A Guide to State-of-the-Art Techniques and Strategies by John E. Schorr World Class Production and Inventory Management by Darryl V. Landvater	TOM WALLACE was one of the early pioneers of MRP II and has been instrumental in helping dozens of companies manage a successful implementation. Tom consults with numerous companies in the areas of continuous improvement and manufacturing strategy. A frequent speaker for professional organizations, Tom is also the author of Customer-Driven Strategy: Winning Through Operational Excellence. Currently, Tom is coauthoring a book with William Barnard, Quantum Leap: Breaking Through Performance Barriers with QFD.",books;business & finance;business & investing;engineering;industrial;management;management & leadership;manufacturing & operational systems;new;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,11
0688163513,"Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews Rabbi Telushkin (An Eye for an Eye, 1991), rooted in the tradition of reverence for past learning, has gathered lots of hoary jokes and aged wisecracks, together with a few more recent japes, that make Jews laugh. To coreligionists, they'll seem like old friends; to others, the gags and their elucidation may be more in the nature of revelation. Another book of ethnic gags? Hold the cry of ``gevalt!'' because Telushkin has an unstated agenda. True to his calling, he uses the funny stuff to instruct. In this collection (in which some bits are, naturally, funnier than others), everything stands for something else--but all of it carries explanations. The exegesis of the jokes becomes a little primer on a religion and a way of life mystifying to strangers and sometimes just as puzzling to nominal adherents. It's a truism that Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle applies to humor--observing and analyzing it alters it. That effect can be seen here as Telushkin trots out Jackie Mason and Sigmund Freud, as well as Leo Rosten and a host of Unknown Comics for a higher purpose. The tales of the wise rabbis, the fabled fools of Chelm, the anti-Semites, the schnorrers, and the big shots all serve to illustrate his lessons. Was the shtetl a forerunner of Catskills on Broadway? Why are comedians so often Jewish? Why are Jews so often comedians? Why ask questions? Just listen to the rabbi and his jokes. Fine, funny fare for Jew and non-Jew alike. -- Copyright 1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A widely known spiritual leader and scholar, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is the author of eleven influential Jewish books, including A Code of Jewish Ethics; Words That Hurt, Words That Heal; Biblical Literacy; and four novels. He lives in New York City and lectures throughout the United States.",books;humor;humor & entertainment;jewish american;jewish life;jokes & riddles;judaism;literature & fiction;religion & spirituality;satire;united states,11
0631224262,"On the Plurality of Worlds This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true. After putting forward the type of modal realism he favors, Lewis answers numerous objections that have been raised against it. These include an insistence that everything must be actual; paradoxes akin to those that confront naive set theory; arguments that modal realism leads to inductive skepticism, or to disregard for prudence and morality; and finally, sheer incredulity at a theory that disagrees so badly with common opinion. Lewis grants the weight of the last objection, but takes it to be outweighed by the benefits to systematic theory that acceptance of modal realism brings. He asks whether these same benefits might be gained more cheaply if we replace his many worlds by many merely 'abstract' representations; but concludes that all versions of this 'ersatz modal realism' are in serious trouble. In the final chapter, Lewis distinguishes various questions about trans-world identity, and argues that his 'method of counterparts' is preferable to alternative approaches.	David Lewis (1941- 2001) was Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His publications include Convention (reissued by Blackwell 2002), Counterfactuals (reissued by Blackwell 2000), Parts of Classes (1991), and of numerous articles in metaphysics and other areas. Many of his writings are available in his Collected Papers.",books;humanities;logic;logic & language;mathematics;metaphysics;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;science & math;used & rental textbooks,11
0231132867,"Love, Amy: The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt Composed over a forty-four year period, Clampitt's letters are written in a markedly different voice from that of her intricate, highly learned poems. Here we get her recipe for granola, her thoughts on proper attire for Manhattan parties (Being underdressed is the best way of keeping one's perspective), and her complaints about literary types (miserable) and Paradise Lost (dull and pompous). Clampitt achieved recognition for her writing late in life, and it is fascinating to learn of the many things she was doing before then, such as getting jailed for participating in political protests. Her letters are suffused with an inexorable optimism, devoid of any tinge of writerly melancholy or self-pity. At the age of thirty-three, Clampitt wrote to her youngest brother, Why are people so afraid of being enthusiastic?  Copyright  2005 The New Yorker	Lively and accessible, thoughtful and entertaining,  Love, Amy is recommended. (Library Journal)In giving us these frank, unpretentious, immensely revelatory letters,  Love, Amy enables us to learn more about the remarkable woman who created a splendid body of poetry more likely than many others to endure. (Merle Rubin The Los Angeles Times)This book is a welcome reminder of the unique intimacy afforded by reading another person's letters. (Ben Downing The Wall Street Journal)Clampitt's letters... Offer an expansive view - of her generous spirit, her exceptional mind. (Michelle Gillett The Berkshire Eagle)Her letters are suffused with an inexorable optimism. (New Yorker)[Readers] get to see Clampitt's life... The view is as surprising as her writing style, which is clear, vivid and engaging.  (Elizabeth Lund Christian Science Monitor)In short, she is heroic. The  Letters are very moving. (Todd Swift ToddSwift.BlogSpot.com)Vibrant, attractive, life affirming letters... In this slim collection of letters, is a wonderful sense of the delightful woman. (Martin Rubin Sunday Times)Here is what e-mail has no patience for: grace, wit, wonder, embellishment, asides, details and real vocabulary. (Isabel Nathaniel Dallas Morning News)Women can do anything. Or, at least, some women's life stories encourage us to believe... Clampitt's is one of them. (Megan Marshall Boston Sunday Globe)This is a charming record of a serious, essentially private life... Recommended. (Choice)The smooth, lucid prose of her letters always reminds us that the verbal athlecticism of her verse... is the work of a highly conscious, purposeful artisan. (Anthony Cuda The New Criterion)Spiegelman's impeccable and (as only the best are) subtle editorial decisions make this volume a rare pleasure. (Anthony Cuda New Criterion 1900-01-00)This collection shows how she applied in life the moral inquisitiveness and artistic rigour that makes her poetry so remarkable. (London Review of Books)He has performed an important service by assembling this selection. (Karl Kirchwey Philadelphia Inquirer)Clampitt's letters, which reveal her sense of literary vocation... are infused with the kind of imagination filled her poetry. (American Literature)Posterity shimmers in these refractions of a variegated life. (David Galef Verse)From the first page of  Love, Amy, an engaging voice emerges: curious, quirky, opinionated, rueful, celebratory... Spiegleman has made judicious selections. (Judith Kitchen Georgia Review)What a fine book Willard Spiegelman has given readers, a book that will make people read Amy Clampitt's poetry and appreciate the poetry of her life. (Sam Pickering Kenyon Review 1900-01-00)	Like the steam locomotive in its time, the age of letter writing may be passing. How fortunate, then, to hear from Amy Clampitt! The letters of good poets have a special interest, and hers are remarkably vivid. It is impossible to predict where her attention will alight next -- a chickadee, the Unicorn tapestry, the workings of grace, a bowl of raspberries, the economy of love and solitude, a Bach fugue -- each and everything described with a passionate curiosity, a palpable sympathy, and a shining moral poise. In the half-century of letters collected here, Clampitt offers us a whole world recreated in a poet's extraordinary sensibility and style. This book is a treasure. (J. D. McClatchy)	Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. The author of four books, most recently  How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry; he writes regularly for the  Wall Street Journal and is editor-in-chief of  The Southwest Review.Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. The author of four books, most recently How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry; he writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal and is editor-in-chief of The Southwest Review. The author would like us to include his photograph on the back cover. He submitted it for the hard cover but we neglected to put it on the flap then.",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism & theory;essays & correspondence;history & criticism;inspirational & religious;letters & correspondence;literature & fiction;poetry,11
0470236361,"Russia and the Post-Soviet Scene: A Geographical Perspective James H. Bater, Professor of Geography, University of Waterloo.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;earth sciences;geography;human geography;new;politics & social sciences;regional;science & math;science & mathematics;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
1555531857,"Burglars On The Job: Streetlife and Residential Break-ins ""Richard Wright and Scott Decker . . . have made a milestone  contribution to the understanding of residential burglary. . . . If the  enterprising spirit of this study were to be taken as a model for  studying other forms of street crime, we would enjoy a major leap forward  in criminological knowledge.""  -- Contemporary Sociology",biographies & memoirs;books;criminal law;criminology;law;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;true accounts;true crime;used & rental textbooks,11
159059472X,"Physics for Game Programmers Grant Palmer is the author of the acclaimed Java Programmer's Reference and is a recognized expert in both the C# and Java languages. Grant has worked as a scientific programmer in the Space Technology Division at NASA's Ames Research Center for the past 20 years. This has involved working with Java since 1996, developing programs for scientific applications as well as converting older FORTRAN and C applications to the Java and C# platforms.",books;computers & technology;game programming;games & strategy guides;physics;programming;science & math;software design;software development;testing & engineering;video games,11
0740757385,"Because I'm the Child Here and I Said So: A Joke Book for Parents (Because You Need a Laugh!) You don't have to be a rocket scientist to create cartoons, but Pat Byrnes erred on the side of caution, getting his aerospace degree at Notre Dame in 1981. His science skills have languished, however, as he has spent most of the last 25 years following his love of writing, acting, and cartooning-and most recently as a stay-at-home dad. Since 1998 he's been a regular contributor to the New Yorker. He lives in Illinois with his wife, Lisa, and their baby daughter.",books;comic strips;comics & graphic novels;humor;humor & entertainment;jokes & riddles;parenting;parenting & families;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;satire,11
B000GCFXS6,"The Managerial Moment of Truth: The Essential Step in Helping People Improve Performance The inherent awkwardness of evaluating an employee's or team's performance may cause managers to avoid confrontation altogether, resulting in work not done right, tension between employees and unnecessary strain on high performers. In this guide, Bodaken, CEO of Blue Shield of California, and Fritz (Corporate Tides) delineate a methodology of truth telling'' in order to curb bad habits early on and institutionalize good behaviors. A proper approach to managerial moments of truth (MMOTs)which the authors define as a manager's awareness of her unmet expectations, followed by the decision about how to handle themwill add capacity without cost, Bodaken and Fritz claim. Their four-step technique first requires manager and employee to acknowledge the truth or agree on what happened. Then they analyze together how the situation occurred, establish an action plan and finally put a feedback system in place. The book provides a variety of case studies, which show how to provide individual feedback and team evaluations, plus how to deal with repeat offenders or an employee/team mismatch. With dozens of sample conversations throughout, the authors present an action-oriented communication technique they believe will improve the managerial process and thus a company's performance, productivity, and creativity. (May 2) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	The truth, or so the maxim goes, will set you free. Blue Shield of California CEO Bodaken and author (The Path as Least Resistance, 1999, among others) Fritz take that statement quite a few steps further, emphasizing that only fact-based conversations about issues--among individuals, teams, leadership, and organizations--with three follow-up actions will change substandard or wrong performances. In fact, for CFO types, they point to truth as a competitive advantage; with Blue Shield as the Managerial Moment of Truth (MMOT) guinea pig, the results added anywhere from 25 to 40 percent to organizational capacity. Three case studies in dialogue format and very explicit directions throughout provide good models to adapt; furthermore, Bodaken and Fritz anticipate possible resistance--I have no time or The behavior wasn't bad enough (add your own here)--and demonstrate practical, realistic responses. From this and other newly added books to the business shelf, the trend in thought leadership seems to be moving from the obscure and jargon filled to simple, straight, and comprehensive. Barbara JacobsCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	The Managerial Moment of Truth is very simply about how managers must have the discipline to tell the truth and help their employees to confront reality. At a time when people have lost trust in many of the basic institutions of our society, this book will benefit managers and employees alike and support integrity within the organization.  -- Hon. Leon E. Panetta, Director, Panetta Institute for Public Policy, former Chief of Staff to President Clinton	Bold, important, groundbreaking. This is the most important book you'll read as a business manager and coach. You'll learn a powerful and simple four-step method to shift your organizational culture to one of truth telling and empowerment. Your employees will thank you and your customers will thank them.   -- Patricia Seybold, author of Customers.com and The Customer RevolutionA valuable addition to our understanding of the power of conversation to transform ourselves and the workplaces we inhabit. It offers a precise framework and dialogue for creating authentic relationships in difficult moments. It delivers the means to replace blame and rationalization with learning and action. No small accomplishment.   -- Peter Block, author of StewardshipThis book will genuinely revolutionize the way you relate to your boss, your peers, and your employees. It can remove the greatest stress we all experience in organizations by allowing you to relate freshly and directly to what is really going on, which is to say, facing reality. Best of all, the result will be exceptional performance and productivity.   -- Candice Carpenter, author of ChaptersBodaken and Fritz offer a simple but powerfully effective method to enhance organizational learning. MMOT conversations are the best investments you and your team can make: their payback lasts for years.   -- C. Sherry Immediato, President and Managing Director, SOL, the Society for Organizational LearningThis book is for anyone who manages. The authors provide a simple and elegant model for truth telling that will, if practiced and followed, improve the performance of your team. Yet this is not just a technique for performance improvement. It has everything to do with how to develop, engage, and retain the talent on your team.   -- Beverly Kaye, Founder/CEO: Career Systems InternationalThe Managerial Moment of Truth is very simply about how managers must have the discipline to tell the truth and help their employees to confront reality. At a time when people have lost trust in many of the basic institutions of our society, this book will benefit managers and employees alike and support integrity within the organization.   -- Hon. Leon E. Panetta, Director, Panetta Institute for Public Policy, former Chief of Staff to President Clinton	Bruce Bodaken is Chairman, President, and CEO of Blue Shield of California, a 3.3 million-member not-for-profit health plan that serves the commercial, individual, and government markets in California. During Mr. Bodaken's five-year tenure as CEO, Blue Shield's membership has more than doubled and company revenues have risen from $3 billion to nearly $7 billion. Before embarking on a career in health care, he taught philosophy at the college level. In addition to his work at Blue Shield, Mr. Bodaken serves on numerous professional and civic boards, including the board of directors of the California Business Roundtable; America's Health Insurance Plans; and the University of California, Berkeley's Health Services Management Program. He lives in Mill Valley, California.Robert Fritz has for more than twenty years been developing the field of structural dynamics through his work, first in the area of the creative process, and then in the area of organizational, business, and management issues. At least eighty thousand people throughout the world have participated in courses Fritz has created. He is the author of several books, including the bestseller The Path of Least Resistance. As a consultant, Fritz has helped numerous organizations put the structural approach into practice, and his clients include Fortune 500 companies, many midsize firms, as well as governmental and nonprofit organizations. Fritz is also a composer and a filmmaker. He lives in Newfane, Vermont.",books;business & investing;business life;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;kindle ebooks;kindle store;management;management & leadership;organizational behavior;workplace,11
B000FNWJ24,"Multimedia Software Engineering (International Series in Software Engineering) Multimedia has two fundamental characteristics that can be  expressed by the following formula: Multimedia = Multiple Media +  Hypermedia. How can software engineering take advantage of these two  characteristics? Will these two characteristics pose problems in  multimedia systems design? These are some of the issues to be explored  in this book.     The first two chapters will be of interest to managers, software  engineers, programmers, and people interested in gaining an overall  understanding of multimedia software engineering. The next six  chapters present multimedia software engineering according to the  conceptual framework introduced in Chapter One. This is of particular  use to practitioners, system developers, multimedia application  designers, programmers, and people interested in prototyping  multimedia applications. The next three chapters are more  research-oriented and are mainly intended for researchers working on  the specification, modeling, and analysis of distributed multimedia  systems, but will also be relevant to scientists, researchers, and  software engineers interested in the systems and theoretical aspects  of multimedia software engineering.    Multimedia Software Engineering can be used as a textbook in a  graduate course on multimedia software engineering or in an  undergraduate course on software design where the emphasis is on  multimedia applications. It is especially suitable for a  project-oriented course.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Multimedia has two fundamental characteristics that can be  expressed by the following formula: Multimedia = Multiple Media +  Hypermedia. How can software engineering take advantage of these two  characteristics? Will these two characteristics pose problems in  multimedia systems design? These are some of the issues to be explored  in this book.     The first two chapters will be of interest to managers, software  engineers, programmers, and people interested in gaining an overall  understanding of multimedia software engineering. The next six  chapters present multimedia software engineering according to the  conceptual framework introduced in Chapter One. This is of particular  use to practitioners, system developers, multimedia application  designers, programmers, and people interested in prototyping  multimedia applications. The next three chapters are more  research-oriented and are mainly intended for researchers working on  the specification, modeling, and analysis of distributed multimedia  systems, but will also be relevant to scientists, researchers, and  software engineers interested in the systems and theoretical aspects  of multimedia software engineering.    Multimedia Software Engineering can be used as a textbook in a  graduate course on multimedia software engineering or in an  undergraduate course on software design where the emphasis is on  multimedia applications. It is especially suitable for a  project-oriented course.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;programming;software design;software development;software engineering;testing & engineering;web design;web development & design,11
1560274689,"Private Pilot Test Prep_2003 Asa-Tp-P-03 with Book The Federal Aviation Administration operates the world's largest aviation system. It is responsible for the safety and certification of aircraft and pilots, for the security of airports, and for the around-the-clock operation of the air traffic control systems.",aviation;books;business & investing;education & reference;graduate & professional;piloting & flight instruction;professional;professional & technical;reference;test preparation;transportation,11
0764584480,"Window Treatments and Slipcovers For Dummies Gain inspiration from 8 pages of full-color photosCreate a stunning room with dozens of step-by-step projectsWant to ditch your drab drapes and so-so slipcovers and create a style that's uniquely your own? Top designer Mark Montano reveals how easy it is to jazz up your windows and furniture  without breaking the bank! You get expert tips on everything from measuring and cutting material to accessorizing, as well as savvy shortcuts and quick fixes.Discover how to Express your individual style Choose fabrics, trims, and hardware Ensure the perfect fit Create no-sew or low-sew treatments Add decorative details	Mark Montano is the lead designer for the TV series While You Were Out and a columnist whose creativity has impacted the worlds of fashion and interior design.Carly Sommerstein writes for many publications and cowrote Super Suite with Montano.",books;crafts;decorating;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;home repair;how-to & home improvements;interior design;upholstery & fabrics;windows,11
0590390198,"Perfect Poems for Teaching Phonics (Grades K-2) Judi Hechtman, Deborah Ellermeyer, and Sandra Ford Grove all teach in a primary multi-age classroom at the University School at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, PA. The is their second book for Scholastic Professional Books, following Teaching Math with Favorite Picture Books. Judi has spent nearly 30 years teaching grades K-8. She and her husband live in a log cabin in Murrysville, PA with their 3 cats and German Shepherd.She  coauthored the hands-on science series Explore and Discover, and I'm Glad I'm Me: Self Esteem for Young Learners (Creative Teaching Press) with Sandra Ford Grove. Sandra has been an elementary teacher since 1990. She and her husband reside in Johnstown, PA, with their two cockatiels. Deborah Ellermeyer has been an educator since 1987. She has taught high school English as well as students in grades 1-8. She resides in Indiana, PA with her daughter, son, and cat.",books;children's books;education & reference;education theory;instruction methods;language & grammar;language experience approach;pedagogy;phonetics & phonics;schools & teaching;words,11
0679752862,"Where I Was From California comes under Didion's captivating, merciless microscope in her controversial look at the greed, acquisitiveness and wasteful extravagance lurking beneath the state's eternal sunshine. In admirably lean, piercing prose, she describes her ancestors, women who could shoot, handle stock and shake snakes from their boots every morning. These pioneers had lived through an arduous crossing far removed from the noble odysseys chronicled by California mythmakers and arrived in wrecked wagons, facing desolation and death. Didion dramatically highlights the gap between California's rosy notion of itself as a land that stood for individual entrepreneurship, and the reality of growing government control and reliance on federal money. As a Sacramento native now living in New York, she conveys the tension of loving an area that's also disappointed her. She utilizes the 1993 Spur Posse scandal, in which teenage boys in Southern California slept with as many girls as possible and then regarded them as notches on their gun, to portray the spiritual vacancy of young Californian men, particularly in light of an overindulgent public attitude that downplayed their moral callousness. Didion cites cozy, pastel paintings by artists like Thomas Kinkade as contributing to the hazily romantic view of a state that treated foreigners early in its history with vicious bigotry, underrated education's importance and committed disturbed citizens to institutions on unacceptably flimsy evidence of their mental state. Throughout, Didion digs deep to find the ""point"" of California. Many will find her conclusions inflammatory and may rise to California's defense, but the book is a remarkable document precisely because of its power to trigger a national debate that can heighten awareness and improve conditions on the West Coast and throughout the country. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	For four decades, Didion has written in masterly fashion about the contradictions of California culture. In this book, she casts an arctic eye on recent phenomenathe Rodney King riots, the Spur Posseand on her own upbringing in the Sacramento area. Her great-great-grandparents crossed to California in the eighteen-hundreds, and she was brought up on wistful recollections of the past. Her family lived in dark houses, ate with tarnished silver, dressed her in an eccentric amount of black, and prized anything that was old. Along with a recipe for India relish and a green-and-red calico appliqu, she inherited a view that California had been spoiled. And yet the logical extension of this thought, that we were the people who had spoiled it, remained unexplored. Addressing her own confusion about the place, she identifies the settler imperativethe past could be jettisoned, children buried and parents left behindin the fact that her birthplace is now a hologram that dematerializes as I drive through it.  Copyright  2005 The New Yorker	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Didion's remarkable family history parallels that of the U.S. in its journey west, belief in starting over, and enduring stoicism. Her great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth Scott, was born in 1766 and left what became Virginia for Tennessee, Kentucky, and the Missouri Territory. Elizabeth's granddaughter traveled deep into the western frontier with the infamous Donner-Reed party, and others made it to the promised land of California, where Didion was born and raised. Her homeland has always influenced her work, but now in the wake of her parents' deaths, she sees her native land with startlingly fresh and revelatory clarity. As always, Didion is scrupulous in her research, discerning in her observations, and eloquent as she scours the outer world for keys to inner conflicts, and, consequently, her insights into California's psyche are perspicacious and arresting. A land seemingly dedicated to personal freedom, it is in fact a state saddled with an inordinate number of prisons, a debilitating dependence on the federal government, and an extraordinarily high incidence of mental instability. As Didion uncovers sharp memories and incisively interprets California's messy politics and dire economics, she not only creates an electrifying inquiry into the spirit of a unique place and the soul of an uncommon family but also illuminates with piercing candor the dark side of the pioneer mythos, the very heart of the American mystique. Donna SeamanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Compelling. . . . A love song to the place where her family has lived for generations, but a love song full of questions and doubts. Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAn arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline. . . . Exquisitely crafted, as subtle as the slow waking from a pleasant dream. The Baltimore SunOne beautiful sentence follows another. . . . This is a book about history, about what we learn from genealogy and history books, novels and old newspapers, and how we square all that with what we see around us. . . . Didion has remained a clearheaded and original writer all her long life. Malcolm Jones, NewsweekSuccinct and quite beautiful. . . . Its rewards are many. If anyone needs further confirmation that she is one of the finest essayists currently at work, this book will nail it. The Seattle Times/Post IntelligencerOne of the most recognizableand brilliantliterary styles to emerge in America during the past four decades. . . . [Didion is] a great American writer. The New York Times Book Review  Didion has written a brave little book . . . a fine book that must be read with as much care it was written. . . . [Didion is] an implacably honest writer. Jonathan Yardley, Washington PostValediction and elegy alike, Where I Was From is a storm-tossed book. Its history is dense . . . its prose sharp, direct and chiseled. The Los Angeles Times Book ReviewEloquent, spare, and rendered without sentiment. Boston Globe[Didion is] a latter-day Walt Whitman, singing of America by singing of herself. Slate.com Joan Didion is a brilliant explicator of the American political and cultural consciousness. Rocky Mountain NewsMany of us have tried, and failed, to master [Didions] gift for the single ordinary deflating word, the word that spins an otherwise flat sentence through five degrees of irony. But her sentences could only be hers. Michael Gorra, Chicago Tribune[A] fascinating, informative, obscureand yes, movinglittle book. San Jose Mercury NewsA bracing mix of personal and public history. Benjamin Kunkel, NewsdayOdd, elliptical and ultimately revealing. . . . Didion discovers the exact locus where geography and personal journey intersect, and has produced a work as compelling and enigmatic as its subjects. Time Out New YorkWhere I Was From is a beautifully written and intensely personal tome. . . . One of the countrys most intelligent writers . . . Ms. Didions prose is like a razor cutting straight to the bone. New York Sun[Didion's] appraisal is cool, her eye is sharp, and her turn of phrase is wicked. TimeHow odd that bad news can be so much fun to read. Her essays are as sinewy as her novels, written in the same ice-pick/laser-beam prose. Harpers	In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic's often tenuous relationship to reality.Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California's romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and her book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.	""Compelling. . . . A love song to the place where her family has lived for generations, but a love song full of questions and doubts.""  - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times""An arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline. . . . Exquisitely crafted, as subtle as the slow waking from a pleasant dream.""  - The Baltimore Sun""One beautiful sentence follows another. . . . This is a book about history, about what we learn from genealogy and history books, novels and old newspapers, and how we square all that with what we see around us. . . . Didion has remained a clearheaded and original writer all her long life.""  - Malcolm Jones, Newsweek""Succinct and quite beautiful. . . . Its rewards are many. If anyone needs further confirmation that she is one of the finest essayists currently at work, this book will nail it.""  - The Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer""One of the most recognizable - and brilliant - literary styles to emerge in America during the past four decades. . . . [Didion is] a great American writer.""  - The New York Times Book Review  ""Didion has written a brave little book . . . a fine book that must be read with as much care it was written. . . . [Didion is] an implacably honest writer.""  - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post""Valediction and elegy alike, Where I Was From is a storm-tossed book. Its history is dense . . . its prose sharp, direct and chiseled.""  - The Los Angeles Times Book Review""Eloquent, spare, and rendered without sentiment.""  - Boston Globe""[Didion is] a latter-day Walt Whitman, singing of America by singing of herself.""  - Slate.com ""Joan Didion is a brilliant explicator of the American political and cultural consciousness.""  - Rocky Mountain News""Many of us have tried, and failed, to master [Didion's] gift for the single ordinary deflating word, the word that spins an otherwise flat sentence through five degrees of irony. But her sentences could only be hers.""  - Michael Gorra, Chicago Tribune""[A] fascinating, informative, obscure - and yes, moving - little book.""  - San Jose Mercury News""A bracing mix of personal and public history.""  - Benjamin Kunkel, Newsday""Odd, elliptical and ultimately revealing. . . . Didion discovers the exact locus where geography and personal journey intersect, and has produced a work as compelling and enigmatic as its subjects.""  - Time Out New York""Where I Was From is a beautifully written and intensely personal tome. . . . One of the country's most intelligent writers . . . Ms. Didion's prose is like a razor cutting straight to the bone.""  - New York Sun""[Didion's] appraisal is cool, her eye is sharp, and her turn of phrase is wicked.""  - Time""How odd that bad news can be so much fun to read. Her essays are as sinewy as her novels, written in the same ice-pick/laser-beam prose.""  - Harper's	Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction.	1 My great-great-great-great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Scott was born in 1766, grew up on the Virginia and Carolina frontiers, at age sixteen married an eighteen-year-old veteran of the Revolution and the Cherokee expeditions named Benjamin Hardin IV, moved with him into Tennessee and Kentucky and died on still another frontier, the Oil Trough Bottom on the south bank of the White River in what is now Arkansas but was then Missouri Territory. Elizabeth Scott Hardin was remembered to have hidden in a cave with her children (there were said to have been eleven, only eight of which got recorded) during Indian fighting, and to have been so strong a swimmer that she could ford a river in flood with an infant in her arms. Either in her defense or for reasons of his own, her husband was said to have killed, not counting English soldiers or Cherokees, ten men. This may be true or it may be, in a local oral tradition inclined to stories that turn on decisive gestures, embroidery. I have it on the word of a cousin who researched the matter that the husband, our great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, appears in the standard printed histories of Arkansas as 'Old Colonel Ben Hardin, the hero of so many Indian wars.' Elizabeth Scott Hardin had bright blue eyes and sick headaches. The White River on which she lived was the same White River on which, a century and a half later, James McDougal would locate his failed Whitewater development. This is a country at some level not as big as we like to say it is.I know nothing else about Elizabeth Scott Hardin, but I have her recipe for corn bread, and also for India relish: her granddaughter brought these recipes west in 1846, traveling with the Donner-Reed party as far as the Humboldt Sink, then cutting north for Oregon, where her husband, the Reverend Josephus Adamson Cornwall, was determined to be the first Cumberland Presbyterian circuit rider in what was then called Oregon country. Because that granddaughter, Nancy Hardin Cornwall, was my great-great-great-grandmother, I have, besides her recipes, a piece of applique she made on the crossing. This applique, green and red calico on a muslin field, hangs now in my dining room in New York and hung before that in the living room of a house I had on the Pacific Ocean.I also have a photograph of the stone marker placed on the site of the cabin in which Nancy Hardin Cornwall and her family, still short of their destination in the Willamette Valley but unable to get their wagons through a steep defile on the Umpqua River without abandoning Josephus Cornwall's books (this option seems to have presented itself only to his daughters), spent the winter of 1846-47. Dedicated to the memory of Rev. J.A. Cornwall and family, the engraving on the marker reads. They built the first immigrant cabin in Douglas County near this site, hence the name Cabin Creek. The family wintered here in 1846-1847, were saved from extreme want by Israel Stoley, a nephew who was a good hunter. The Indians were friendly. The Cornwalls traveled part way westward with the ill-fated Donner Party.My mother was sent the photograph of this marker by her mother's cousin Oliver Huston, a family historian so ardent that as recently as 1957 he was alerting descendants to an occasion which no heir should miss, the presentation to the Pacific University Museum of, among other artifacts, the old potato masher which the Cornwall family brought across the plains in 1846. The letter continued: By this procedure, such items can then be seen by all Geiger and Cornwall heirs at any time in the future by simply visiting the Museum. I have not myself found occasion to visit the potato masher, but I do have a typescript of certain memories, elicited from one of Nancy Hardin Cornwall's twelve children, Narcissa, of those months on what would later be called Cabin Creek: We were about ten miles from the Umpqua River and the Indians living there would come and spend the greater part of the day. There was one who spoke English, and he told Mother the Rogue River Indians were coming to kill us. Mother told them if they troubled us, in the spring the Bostons (the Indian name for the white people) would come out and kill them all off. Whether this had any effect or not I don't know, but anyway they did not kill us. But we always thought they would come one day for that purpose. One day Father was busy reading and did not notice the house was filling with strange Indians until Mother spoke about it....As soon as Father noticed them he got up and got his pistols and asked the Indians to go out and see him shoot. They followed him out, but kept at a distance. The pistols were a great curiosity to them. I doubt if they had ever seen any before. As soon as they were all out of the cabin Mother barred the door and would not let them in any more. Father entertained them outside until evening, when they got on their ponies and rode away. They never returned to trouble us any more. In another room of this house I had on the Pacific Ocean there hung a quilt from another crossing, a quilt made by my great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Anthony Reese on a wagon journey during which she buried one child, gave birth to another, twice contracted mountain fever, and took turns driving a yoke of oxen, a span of mules, and twenty-two head of loose stock. In this quilt of Elizabeth Reese's were more stitches than I had ever seen in a quilt, a blinding and pointless compaction of stitches, and it occurred to me as I hung it that she must have finished it one day in the middle of the crossing, somewhere in the wilderness of her own grief and illness, and just kept on stitching. From her daughter's account: Tom was sick with fever the first day of the crossing, no chance for a doctor. He was only sick a day or two when he died. He had to be buried right away, as the train of wagons was going right on. He was two years old, and we were glad to get a trunk to bury him in. A friend gave a trunk. My aunt, the following year, when her baby died, carried it for a long time in her arms without letting anyone know for fear they would bury the baby before coming to a station. These women in my family would seem to have been pragmatic and in their deepest instincts clinically radical, given to breaking clean with everyone and everything they knew. They could shoot and they could handle stock and when their children outgrew their shoes they could learn from the Indians how to make moccasins. An old lady in our wagon train taught my sister to make blood pudding, Narcissa Cornwall recalled. After killing a deer or steer you cut its throat and catch the blood. You add suet to this and a little salt, and meal or flour if you have it, and bake it. If you haven't anything else to eat, it's pretty good. They tended to accommodate any means in pursuit of an uncertain end. They tended to avoid dwelling on just what that end might imply. When they could not think what else to do they moved another thousand miles, set out another garden: beans and squash and sweet peas from seeds carried from the last place. The past could be jettisoned, children buried and parents left behind, but seeds got carried. They were women, these women in my family, without much time for second thoughts, without much inclination toward equivocation, and later, when there was time or inclination, there developed a tendency, which I came to see as endemic, toward slight and major derangements, apparently eccentric pronouncements, opaque bewilderment and moves to places not quite on the schedule. Mother viewed character as being the mainspring of life, and, therefore, as regulating our lives here and indicating our destiny in the life to come. She had fixed and settled principles, aims and motives in life. Her general health was excellent and in middle life she appeared almost incapable of fatigue. Winter and summer, at all seasons and every day, except Sunday, her life was one ceaseless round of activity. The care of her family, to provide for hired help, to entertain visitors, and to entertain preachers and others during meetings which were frequent. That was the view of Nancy Hardin Cornwall taken by her son Joseph, who was thirteen years old during the crossing. Nancy Hardin Cornwall's daughter Laura, two years old during the crossing, took a not dissimilar view: Being a Daughter of the American Revolution, she was naturally a brave woman, never seeming afraid of Indians or shrinking from hardships.A photograph:A woman standing on a rock in the Sierra Nevada in perhaps 1905.Actually it is not just a rock but a granite promontory: an igneous outcropping. I use words like igneous and outcropping because my grandfather, one of whose mining camps can be seen in the background of this photograph, taught me to use them. He also taught meto distinguish gold-bearing ores from the glittering but worthless serpentine I preferred as a child, an educationto no point, since by that time gold was no more worth mining than serpentine and the distinction academic, or possibly wishful.The photograph. The promontory. The camp in the background.And the woman: Edna Magee Jerrett. She is Nancy Hardin Cornwall's great-granddaughter, she will in time be my grandmother. She is Black Irish, English, Welsh, possibly (this is uncertain) a fraction Jewish through her grandfather William Geiger, who liked to claim as an ancestor a German rabbi but was himself a Presbyterian missionary in the Sandwich Islands and along the Pacific coast; possibly (this is still more uncertain) a lesser fraction Indian, from some frontier somewhere, or maybe, because her skin darkens in the sun as she was told not to let it, she just likes to say that. She grew up in a house on the Oregon coast filled with the educational curiosities of the place and period: strings of shells and seeds from Tahiti, carved emu eggs, Satsuma vases, spears from the South Pacific, an alabaster m...",20th century;americas;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;history;literary;literature & fiction;state & local;united states,11
002864364X,"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shamanism Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D., is the author of 35 books including The Power of Fantasy, Mind Your Own Business: The Battle for Personal Privacy, Secrets of the Shaman, Shamanism and Personal Mastery, Shamanism for Everyone, and Shaman Warrior. She has appeared on such television programs as Oprah, CNN Talk Back Live, and The OReilly Factor.",arts & photography;books;earth-based religions;music;musical genres;new;new age;new thought;religion & spirituality;shamanism;used & rental textbooks,11
013807884X,"Shakespeare's Middle Tragedies: A Collection of Critical Essays A generation ago Prentice Hall's Twentieth Century Views series set the standard for truly useful collections of literary criticism on widely studied authors. These collections of essays, selected and introduced by distinguished scholars, made the most informative and provocative critical work on each writer easily available to students, scholars, and the general public. Now the New Century Views series, co-edited by Richard Brodhead and Maynard Mack, offers volumes of the same excellence for the contemporary moment. Each volume captures and makes accessible the most stimulating critical writing of our time on crucial literary figures of the past and present. Also included in each is an introduction to the author's life and work, a chronology of important dates, and a selected bibliography.",books;creative writing & composition;drama;education & reference;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,11
0672317818,"Delphi 5 Developer's Guide (Developer's Guide) Weighing in at over 1,500 pages, Delphi 5 Developer's Guide updates a classic text on Delphi programming with a new edition that highlights the latest and greatest in version 5. Whether you are new to Delphi or a seasoned veteran, this book will help you get the most out of this powerful development tool, including database, Internet, and thin-client computing. The sheer size of Delphi 5 Developer's Guide makes it a standout. (This already massive book bundles 11 ""extra"" chapters on the accompanying CD-ROM on such topics as graphics programming and coding standards.) The text presents how-to information on a wealth of topics, along with short code excerpts and complete programs where appropriate.  Two areas deserve special mention. First, essential Windows programming techniques, from calling Win32 APIs to Microsoft COM in all its guises, are examined especially closely. (Besides the basics of building ActiveX controls and OLE Automation in Delphi, there's material on using MTS and ADO.) This book also sheds some insight on programming ""thin clients,"" with solid coverage of Borland's MIDAS middleware solution, as well as Delphi's support for creating browser-based applications (through its WebBroker classes). Later chapters contain in-depth code examples that contrast ""traditional"" two-tiered client/server programming with thin-client versions (using both MIDAS and HTML). This material can help get your existing Delphi skills up to speed with current browser-based Web application requirements. There aren't many books out there on Delphi programming, so this text meets an essential need with its thorough tour of what's available in version 5. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: Delphi 5 basics, history of Delphi, Delphi IDE features, the Object Pascal language, object-oriented programming techniques, exceptions, Win32 programming APIs, the Delphi application frameworks, Windows messages and Delphi events, dynamic link libraries, printing, multithreaded applications, threads and synchronization objects, file basics, directories and drives, memory-mapped files, programming the Windows shell, hooks, system information, using the clipboard, the Visual Component Library (VCL), building custom components, COM basics, building ActiveX controls, ActiveForms, OLE Automation, OLE containers, DCOM and MTS programming, Delphi CORBA support, BDE and databases, ODBC and ADO support, client/server programming techniques, WebBroker, NSAPI and ISAPI Internet applications in Delphi, thin clients, and MIDAS applications.	The Delphi 5 Developer's Guide is a complete reference showing developers what they need to know most about Delphi 5. The text begins with a tour of Delphi 5 basics, including improvements since version 1. After observing object-oriented Pascal programming, including advanced language features, the authors turn to the strengths of using the Visual Component Library (VCL) application frameworks. They include several invaluable sections for corporate developers, including a ""coding standards"" document. Sections on combining VCL with ActiveX controls round out the basic tour. Advanced topics include graphics programming, building dynamic link-libraries (DLLs), printing, and multithreading.	Steve Teixeira is an R engineer at Inprise Corporation, where he works on the Borland Delphi and Borland C++ products. Steve is a regular contributor to several Delphi periodicals, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences. Xavier Pacheco is the presindent and chief consultant of XAPWARE Technologies, Inc. where he specializes in Delphi client/server development and training. Xavier is a widely recongnized Delphi expert, and is a leading member of Borland'sTeam B.",books;borland delphi;computers & technology;education & reference;hardware;languages & tools;object-oriented design;pcs;programming;software design;testing & engineering,11
1859846521,"Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology This anthology of excerpts from the basic writings of Alfred Russel Wallace (l823-l913) introduces the reader to his pioneering explorations in natural science and his critical insights into social issues. He is best remembered for codiscovering, independently of Charles Darwin, the mechanism of natural selection to explain the process of organic evolution. Yet as an extensive traveler, astute observer, and avid collector, Wallace also made valuable contributions to entomology, ornithology, biogeography, and anthropology particularly as a result of his long-term research in the Amazon and Malaysia. He focused on insect camouflage and mimicry (especially in butterflies) and described numerous life forms, from the wild orangutan to the birds of paradise. However, after embracing both evolutionary teleology and theistic spiritualism, Wallace claimed that the human species is unique in this dynamic universe. Although he remains in Darwin's shadow, Wallace was an important naturalist during the Victorian age. Edited by Berry, a research associate at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, this excellent book on Wallace's life and thought is recommended for large academic and public libraries. [Coming in September from Oxford University Press is Michael Shermer's In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace. Ed.] H. James Birx, Canisius Coll., Buffalo, N.- H. James Birx, Canisius Coll., Buffalo, NYCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	... an outstanding overview of Wallaces intellectual world.British Journal for the History of Science... this collection of [Wallaces] writing, each section introduced by relevant remarks on Wallaces thinking at the time, is enthralling.New ScientistBerrys anthology of the most important writings ... should be read to appreciate fully the sophistication of Wallaces biological thought.Times Literary SupplementBerrys editorial commentary is succinct, accurate, and generally right to the point, and he has chosen his selections wisely, giving his readers a splendid, if somewhat teasing glimpse of Wallaces genius.Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2002In Infinite Tropics, Andrew Berry does a wonderful job of excerpting Wallaces many writings ... Berry tells this story, one of the most celebrated in the history of science, beautifullyDaily Telegraph	Andrew Berry is a research associate at Harvard Universitys Museum of Comparative Zoology. He contributes to, among others, the London Review of Books, Nature, Slate and The New York Observer.",biological sciences;biology;books;essays & commentary;evolution;history;military;nature & ecology;nature writing;organic;science & math,11
1567261663,"Metrics for Project Management: Formalized Approaches Parviz F. Rad, PhD, PE, CCE, PMP, is an independent project management consultant with over 35 years of professional experience. He has participated in the development and enhancement of quantitative tools in project management in a multitude of disciplines, including software development, construction, and pharmaceutical research. He has authored and coauthored more than 60 publications in the areas of engineering and project management. Dr. Rad holds an MSc from Ohio State University and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Ginger Levin, DPA, is a senior consultant in project management with more than 30 years of experience. She is also an adjunct professor for the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in its Master of Science in Project Management program and serves as the universitys program specialist in project management. Dr. Levin received her doctorate in public administration and information systems technology from The George Washington University (GWU), an MSA from GWU, and a BBA from Wake Forest University.",books;business & investing;engineering;industrial;leadership;management & leadership;manufacturing & operational systems;physics;professional & technical;project management;science & math,11
0769200397,"Beyond Basics Fingerstyle Guitar (The Ultimate Beginner Series) One of America's premier fingerstyle guitarists introduces the  exciting world of fingerpicking. After a quick review of open-position  chords and proper right-hand position, Mark teaches picking with the  thumb and three fingers. He covers the famous 'Travis' alternating  thumb pattern as well as some great chord moves. Tab booklet included.  (70 min.)",arts & photography;books;composition & performance;education & reference;guitar;humor & entertainment;instruction & study;instruments;music;techniques;theory,11
007060231X,"Schaum's Outlines: Laplace Transforms Murray Speigel, Ph.D., was Former Professor and Chairman of the Mathematics Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hartford Graduate Center.",books;calculus;education & reference;mathematics;new;science & math;science & mathematics;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,11
B000N4WHYK,Gator GBE-DREAD Acoustic Guitar Bag Economy gig bag for dreadnought guitars,accessories & supplies;acoustic & classical guitars;audio & video accessories;audio cables;bags & cases;cables & interconnects;electronics;guitar & bass accessories;instrument accessories;musical instruments;speaker cables,11
0757000037,"Losing Paradise: The Growing Threat to Our Animals, Our Environment, and Ourselves Irwin is president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, and what he attempts to do in this book is laudable. By trying to show that willful devastation of any one part of the ecosystem will ultimately ruin the entire planet, he hopes to persuade readers to take action that will help avert potential disaster. Whether he succeeds in prompting the masses to act remains to be seen. However, Irwin does write persuasively of the need for a return to agriculture that is self-sustaining (e.g., ending ""factory farms""), a recognition that hunting and trapping may not be feasible in the not-too-distant future, and a recognition within mainstream America that ""what goes around comes around"" environmentally. Undoubtedly, this book will spark discussion and, with any luck, broaden awareness of just how interconnected humans are with their environment. Recommended for public and academic libraries.DAlicia Graybill, Lincoln City Libs., NE Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	[Losing Paradise] will spark discussion and broaden awareness of just how interconnected humans are with their environment. Recommended. (Library Journal)	Paul G. Irwin is the president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). He also serves as president of the World Society for the Protection of Animals, EarthVoice, the Center for Respect of Life and the Environment, the International Center for Earth Concerns, and Humane Society International.",animal rights;books;business & investing;conservation;earth sciences;economics;environment;environmental economics;environmental science;nature & ecology;science & math,11
0226262200,"Professionalism Reborn: Theory, Prophecy, and Policy 'This is a useful, indeed an important book.' British Medical Journal	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	'This is a useful, indeed an important book.' British Medical Journal	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	In this book, Eliot Freidson explores several broad questions about professionalism in Western industrial societies today; how to theorize about it, what its future is likely to be, and its value to public policy. In analysing these problems, Freidson develops an original and compelling interpretation of the professions and the role of the professional. Professionalism is understood to be based on the occupational control of work. As such, he shows, it is quite distinct from either bureaucratic or market-based forms of structuring work. Freidson also discusses various predictions about the future of the professions, pointing out that virtually all of them have mistaken practitioners for the profession as a whole and ignored members who generate new knowledge, set and implement policy, and communicate with the public through the media. He predicts a reorganization of the professions in which practitioners lose some of their independence and become accountable to standards established and administered by a professional elite. In contemplating the political, economic, and ideological forces that exert enormous pressure on the professions today, Freidson departs from most writers by defending professionalism as a desirable method of providing complex, discretionary services to the public. He holds that market-based or bureaucratic methods would impoverish the quality of service to consumers and suggests how the virtues of professionalism can be reinforced. This book will appeal to the growing international body of historians, political scientists, sociologists, and policy analysts who are concerned with studying and theorizing about the professions.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Eliot Freidson is Presidential Scholar at the University of California-San Francisco. He is the author of Professional Powers: A Study of the Institutionalization of Formal Knowledge; Doctoring Together: A Study of Professional Social Control; and Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge, all published by the University of Chicago Press.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business ethics;business life;ethics;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,11
0752429957,"Balloons at War: Gasbags, Flying Bombs & Cold War Secrets (Revealing History) The only comprehensive coverage of the subject from the late 18th century to the present. -- CHOICE	I hope these new mechanic meteors will prove only playthings   and not be converted into new engines of destruction to the human race. (Horace Walpole, 1785.)    Walpoles words were propheticwithin only eleven years the balloon had proved its worth at war and Joseph Montgolfier, even before a balloon had left the ground, had seen a potential use for his new invention in attacking the English at Gibraltar. The first air force was founded by Napoleon Bonaparte. The American Civil, Franco Prussian and First World Wars saw extensive use of balloons but it was during the Second World War that the balloon saw more new and imaginative uses. Barrage balloons helped prevent incursions by enemy aircraft and new, ingenious uses were found for balloons, including dropping bombs (as used by the Japanese against the USA), destroying enemy aircraft, espionage and other clandestine operations. For the first time, all of the uses of balloons at war are contained in a single volume.    John Christopher lives in South Gloucestershire and is the acknowledged expert on balloons at war. He works as a freelance graphic designer and journalist.",aerospace;books;conventional;engineering;history;humor & entertainment;military;professional & technical;puzzles & games;strategy;weapons & warfare,11
B0007ZGUIY,"Steven Raichlen Best of Barbecue 30-inch Ultimate Grill Cleaning Brush By popular demand a professional version for home use of the monster grill brush used by Steven Raichlen on TV and at Greenbrier. At an overall length of nearly 30-inches, the Ultimate Grill Brush gives you great leverage and keeps you safely away from the fire. Removable 8-inch wide head has brass and stainless steel bristles that will not rust. Use the steel bristle side of the brush on cast iron and stainless steel grill grates; the brass bristles on more delicate porcelainized enamel. Use the metal scraper on the side of the brush to pry off any burnt on debris.",all companion group;barbecue utensils;eastman outdoors;eastman outdoors lines;grill & smoker accessories;grill brushes;grills & outdoor cooking;lawn & garden;patio;steven raichlen best of barbecue;the companion group,11
158705003X,"Cisco CCNA Exam #640-507 Preparation Library (boxed set) What we have in the Cisco CCNA Exam #640-507 Preparation Library   is a boxed set of three books meant to prepare you for the Cisco Certified   Network Associate (CCNA) examination. The books are of high quality and save you   money if you buy the set instead of the separate volumes, making this package a   good choice if you're serious about studying for the CCNA exam (640-507). The   package includes Interconnecting   Cisco Network Devices, which clues internetworking newcomers in to the   fundamentals of Cisco hardware and the basics of Internetwork Operating System   (IOS) configuration. The book covers local- and wide-area networking   connectivity, protocols, and the fundamentals of routing.    The Cisco CCNA Exam #640-507   Certification Guide provides tutorial material on all the CCNA subjects   (conceptual diagrams and ""worksheet"" sections are excellent), and includes   questions (somewhat harder than those you'll see on the test, supposedly) and   annotated answers in an appendix. There's an exam simulator on CD-ROM, too.   Rounding out the weighty box, the Internetworking Technologies Handbook,   Second Edition (the only paperback in the set), takes a measured   approach to strategies for getting data from here to there, including Ethernet,   frame relay, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), digital subscriber line (DSL),   and tunneling protocols that span the Internet. You'll find here refreshers on   routing protocols and switching, too. Overall, the three books of this set   represent a great value. Studied diligently and backed up with experimentation,   they'll help you make back your investment very quickly. --David Wall    Topics covered: Routing, switching, networking protocols, Cisco-specific   details of hardware and software, and everything else you need to understand in   order to make a good showing on the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)   exam (640-507). Coverage ranges from basic to moderately advanced, so readers of   many levels will like what they find here.	Cisco authorized self-study books for CCNA foundation learning and exam preparation* Prepare for the CCNA #640-607 exam with Cisco authorized training materials* Lay the foundation for designing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting scalable, cost-effective networks* Get in-depth information on the OSI reference model and learn how protocols map to this framework* Interconnect Cisco routers and switches according to a given network design specification* Configure Cisco routers and switches to support a specified list of protocols and technologies* Explore the functionality and operation of Cisco IOS(r) Software* Assess your understanding of CCNA concepts and practice for exam day with review questions, exercises, practice labs, and a practice test exam engine that mimics the real testing environment including new simulation questions.CCNA #640-607 Preparation Library is a comprehensive self-study preparation package for the CCNA exam, the first step in the Cisco Career Certification program. Containing the Cisco Press books CCNA Self-Study: CCNA Basics (CCNAB), Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices, and CCNA Exam #640-607 Certification Guide, the CCNA #640-607 Preparation Library covers all the topics found on the latest CCNA exam and provides you with comprehensive review of foundation concepts and multiple exam-ready challenges.CCNA Self-Study: CCNA Basics (CCNAB) is a comprehensive reference for students and networking professionals seeking an introduction to networking terminology, technologies, and techniques. This book provides a baseline of knowledge that is essential for understanding how to design, configure, and manage small networks. You will learn about computing and networking basics, network types, network media, switching, TCP/IP, routing, WAN technologies, wireless networking, optical networking, and voice, video, and data integration.Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices is a Cisco authorized, self-paced learning tool for CCNA foundation learning. This book teaches you how to perform all the basic configuration procedures to build a multirouter, multigroup internetwork that uses LAN and WAN interfaces for the most commonly used routing and routed protocols. Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices features numerous configuration examples, and each chapter concludes with a self-assessment test.Cisco CCNA Exam #640-607 Certification Guide is a comprehensive self-study tool for preparing for the CCNA #640-607 exam. Coverage of all exam topics ensures that you will discover any areas for which you need further study. The lessons provide technology-based mastery of exam topics-not just memory aids. Scenario-based exercises, loads of review questions, a new chapter of hands-on practice labs, and practice tests on the CD-ROM build confidence as exam day nears.This book and CD-ROM package forms a comprehensive library for CCNA certification self-study. Through the practice questions, examples, exercises, labs, and comprehensive references in this package, you will gain a thorough understanding of the topics covered on the CCNA #640-607 exam.CCNA #640-607 Preparation Library is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco Systems that can include simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit cisco/go/authorizedtraining.Companion CD-ROMThe companion CD-ROM contains a test bank with over 300 practice questions in the new exam format including new simulation questions.  	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Wendell Odom is the Technology Director of Lacidar Unlimited, a networking consulting and training company. Wendell advises on building routed networks, and provides full design and implementation assistance for large projects. Wendell is CCIE #1624 and a Certified Cisco Systems Instructor, and has taught various Cisco certification courses. Wendell is one of the first Cisco instructors certified without a probationary testing period. Stephen McQuerry is a Certified Cisco Systems Instructor (CCSI) who works as a contract instructor and consultant throughout the U.S. teaching networking professionals how to configure and integrate Cisco equipment into their networks. He has worked in the networking industry for 10 years and has experience with multiple protocols in small and large networks including TCP/IP and IPX. Steve currently teaches the Cisco courses ICND, ICRC, ACRC, and CLSC with Global Knowledge Networks.",books;bridges & routers;certification;cisco;computers & technology;education & reference;hardware;networking;networks;protocols & apis;software,11
1556704399,"Where Every Breath Is a Prayer: A Photographic Pilgrimage in the Spiritual Heart of Asia In this breathtaking book, photographer Ortner guides readers on a journey into the heart of Asian religious traditions through photographs and text. Although the traditional Asian religious architectural images that have become the standard fare of such photographic extravaganzas are well represented here, what leavens this loaf is an exceptional collection of portraits of men and women in the midst of ordinary worship. The images of sky-clad sadhus in their privations along the banks of the Ganges, the blood-spattered sacred images of the Dakshinkali shrine in Nepal and the noble portrait of the pemangku, or curator, of Pura Ulunin in Bali reminds us just how great a gulf separates the religious traditions of the West from the astonishing spirituality of Asia. In this marvelous book, Ortner has shown us the path he traveled, a path readers might follow, if only in their longings. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Ortner's astonishing photographs portray his love and devotion for the Asian countries he has traversed over a 20-year period. This grand tour of spiritual lands includes natural and architectural sites in Nepal, India, Cambodia, Java, and Bali. The artist's fascination with majestic mountains and remote temples is beautifully captured throughout the book. In his best work, he portrays bizarre Hindu and Buddhist statuary and the faces of disheveled religious mendicants. The only shortcoming is the text, which is factual, dry, and almost superfluous to the images. On the other hand, Journey to Enlightenment, though not as grand visually, is an excellent photographic and biographical treatment of a single holy man and his life in the realm of the ancient ritual traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. A Buddhist monk and Rinpoche's assistant, Ricard has flawlessly woven his narrative with excerpts from Rinpoche's autobiography to create not only a readable biography but also an intriguing introduction to the religion itself. Both books are recommended for general collections in public libraries and for all spiritual collections.?Terry McMaster, Onondaga Cty. Mental Health Svcs., Syracuse, N.Y.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.",arts & photography;asia;books;comparative religion;general;photo essays;photography;reference;religion & spirituality;religious studies;travel,11
1579213383,"The Weapons of Our Warfare Rev. Tim Sullivan is the Founder and President of Workers Together With Him, an international Christian ministry dedicated to the furtherance of the Gospel message of the Lord Jesus Christ.    Tim was born in 1957 in Worchester, Massachusetts in the United States of America, and is of Japanese and American descent. Following his graduation from high school in the state of Hawaii, Tim briefly attended college and later earned an associate's degree in Theology. He was ordained to the ministry in 1994 at the Christian Training Centre of Texas. After years of Biblical study, personal search and perseverance, Tim developed his course, ""The Weapons of our Warfare,"" a simple yet powerful presentation of the nine spiritual gifts as testified to in the Holy Scriptures. Since its debut in 1999, this course has been presented in seven countries on three continents to a diverse audience of multi-national and denominational backgrounds, bringing hope and deliverance to the people of God.    Rev. Sullivan lives in Brownsville, Texas with his wife Nelly and three children, Jessica, Michael, and Brandon. ""The Weapons of Our Warfare"" is his fourth book.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;inspirational;motivational;reference;religion & spirituality;religious warfare;self-help;spirituality;theology,11
0765700395,"Being and Loving: How to Achieve Intimacy with Another Person and Retain One's Own Identity Praise for the First Edition:  Althea Horner's Being and Loving discusses the most difficult problems of personal development and human existence with marvelous simplicity. What Martin Buber says about 'distancing' and 'relating' in his philosophical anthropology, she has presented in all concreteness. Using the twin poles of 'being' and 'loving' to indicate our simultaneous need for identity and intimacy, she has plotted the stages of the child's development for the first three years of its life. Illustrating with examples culled from her own practice as a psychotherapist, she draws on a wealth of knowledge of object relations and other theories of human development. Being and Loving is a book that has much to say to mental health professionals of every kind and school.. (Maurice Friedman, Ph.D. )Praise for the First Edition:  Being and Loving points the way out of one of the most important dilemmas of human relationships, whether in the family, between lovers, or with friends. How can one establish intimacy while preserving one's unique identity? Dr. Horner's understanding of psychological development enriches her writing and offers valuable insights to the reader, professional and nonprofessional alike. For the professional, the book offers a wealth of sophisticated and extremely useful clinical information, accompanied by a large number of case examples. For the nonprofessional, the book is written so clearly and without jargon that it is readily understandable and very helpful... (Samuel Slipp, M.D. )Praise for the First Edition:  This book is a rare commodity. Valuable for both practicing psychotherapists and for the lay public, it speaks to the issues of love and personal identity, straight from the shoulder and straight to the heart. Written with compassion and professional wisdom, the volume offers a fresh and practical view of the difficult but attainable balance between self-expression and intimacy. Because she stimulates rather than indoctrinates, Althea Horner succeeds where others who have addressed this difficult topic failed... (Philip M. Bromberg, M.D. )Praise for the First Edition:  This book is a rare commodity. Valuable for both practicing psychotherapists and for the lay public, it speaks to the issues of love and personal identity, straight from the shoulder and straight to the heart. Written with compassion and professional wisdom, the volume offers a fresh and practical view of the difficult but attainable balance between self-expression and intimacy. Because she stimulates rather than indoctrinates, Althea Horner succeeds where others who have addressed this difficult topic failed. (Philip M. Bromberg, M.D. )Praise for the First Edition:  Althea Horner's Being and Loving discusses the most difficult problems of personal development and human existence with marvelous simplicity. What Martin Buber says about 'distancing' and 'relating' in his philosophical anthropology, she has presented in all concreteness. Using the twin poles of 'being' and 'loving' to indicate our simultaneous need for identity and intimacy, she has plotted the stages of the child's development for the first three years of its life. Illustrating with examples culled from her own practice as a psychotherapist, she draws on a wealth of knowledge of object relations and other theories of human development. Being and Loving is a book that has much to say to mental health professionals of every kind and school. (Maurice Friedman, Ph.D. )Praise for the First Edition:  Being and Loving points the way out of one of the most important dilemmas of human relationships, whether in the family, between lovers, or with friends. How can one establish intimacy while preserving one's unique identity? Dr. Horner's understanding of psychological development enriches her writing and offers valuable insights to the reader, professional and nonprofessional alike. For the professional, the book offers a wealth of sophisticated and extremely useful clinical information, accompanied by a large number of case examples. For the nonprofessional, the book is written so clearly and without jargon that it is readily understandable and very helpful. (Samuel Slipp, M.D. )	Althea Horner is an honorary member of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and Society and a scientific associate of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. She is listed in Who's Who in America and has been writing articles and books for forty years. While Dr. Horner has retired from clinical practice, she continues to write in Pasadena, California.",books;emotions;fitness & dieting;health;interpersonal relations;mental health;psychology & counseling;psychotherapy;relationships;self-help;ta & nlp,11
B000GL2FRE,"RoomMates RMK1013SCS Flower Power Peel and Stick Wall Decals Decorate in seconds with these self-adhesive appliqus!  Just Peel & Stick.  Goes on walls, furniture, accessories, windows, doors, mirrors, tiles, refrigerators Works on any clean and smooth surface. Removes in seconds without damaging the surface or leaving sticky residue and is repositionable over and over.	RMK1013SCS Features: -Wall sticker.-For girls of all ages.-Great for bedrooms, bathrooms, lockers, mirrors.-Fun, fast, cool and beautiful decor.",baby products;décor & storage;kids' furniture;nursery;nursery décor;painting supplies & wall treatments;tools & home improvement;toys & games;wall décor;wall stickers & murals;wallpaper,11
0345453395,"The Star Wars Trilogy, Episodes IV, V & VI The three novelizations of the original Star Wars trilogy each sold millions of copies. In honor of Star Wars'-or technically Episode IV: A New Hope-silver anniversary, Ballantine has released this handsome three-in-one hardcover edition sporting a cover by conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie, who greatly influenced the look of the films, e.g., Vader's mask was his idea. Though Star Wars might seem like geek fan boy stuff, creator Lucas (all the novels are based on his initial treatments for the scripts) does use proven literary motifs: a coming-of-age story as well as a search for a father figure, with a talisman (daddy Darth's lightsaber) linking the generations, it is most importantly about redemption. Each of the novels also includes an introduction by Lucas. A quarter-century later, millions of fans worldwide remain ravenous for all things from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away; the new films rake in zillions, and print titles in the ""expanded universe"" (characters/plots not covered on-screen) are widely read. This volume should do well. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.",action & adventure;adventure;books;contemporary;genre fiction;literature & fiction;movie tie-ins;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;space opera;united states,11
0262571080,"PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine: A Users' Guide and Tutorial for Network Parallel Computing (Scientific and Engineering Computation) George A. Geist II is Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Adam Beguelin is Research Computer Scientist in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Jack Dongarra is Distinguished Scientist, Weicheng Jiang is Research Associate, and Robert Manchek is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. Vaidyalingam S. Sunderam is Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Emory University.",artificial intelligence;books;certification;computer science;computers & technology;human vision & language systems;mathematics;new;programming;science & math;used & rental textbooks,11
0826418546,"In Praise of Wisdom: Literary and Theological Reflections on Faith and Reason Paffenroths analyses and synthesis of ideas is nothing short of remarkable, and this is a wonderful book for those seeking after wisdom, wisdom of discernment about how to live ones life in an examined and conscious way. Paffenroth is an engaging author, and his creative insights into the material are quite remarkable. Fr. Kurt Massick (Fr. Kurt Massick ) Kim Paffrenroth, the author, is well read in a wide range of literature and he shares these in his chosen texts, revealing wisdom as an expression of the positive interactions of faith and reason as mutually dependent ways of human knowing.  Reviews in Religion and Theology, September 2005. (Reviews In Religion and Theology )	Kim Paffenroth is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;humanities;inspirational;new;religion & spirituality;religious studies;spirituality;theology;used & rental textbooks,11
0582291925,"Infernal Desires of Angela Carter, The : Fiction, Femininity, Feminism Back Cover Studies in Twentieth-Century LiteratureGeneral Editor: Stan SmithProfessor of English, University of Dundee This exciting new series provides students of twentieth-century literature with some of the most advanced scholarly and critical work in the field in a lucid and accessible form. Volumes may focus on an individual author or literary movement or address critical and cultural themes, historical moments and movements. The series assumes no particular critical line or theoretical tendency but aims to present the best writing on twentieth-century literature and culture by new and established critics in a way which reveals the remarkable diversity of modern critical approaches.  Drawing on many aspects of contemporary feminist theory, this lively collection of essays assesses Angela Carter's polemical fictions of desire. Carter, renowned for her irreverent wit, was one of the most gifted, subversive, and stylish British writers to emerge in the 1960s. This study provides a detailed overview of Carter's career, and examines her fascination with female sexuality from her earliest writings to her posthumously published works of the 1990s. It features well-established critics as well as new scholars, and throws fresh light on Carter's unapologetic exploration of erotic fantasy, sexual fetishism, and women's insubordinate desires. The essays illuminate Carter's commitment to a wealth of non-realist literary genres: myth, legend, fairy tale, horror and the Gothic.  The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter will be of interest to undergraduates and postgraduates researching topics in contemporary writing, cultural studies, and women's studies. These essays will also provide a useful reference-point for students wishing to discover more about the most recent approaches to feminist fiction. Joseph Bristow is a Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Trev Lynn Broughton is Director of the Centre for Women's Studies and Lecturer in Women's Studies at the University of York, UK. 	      --This text refers to the 							Textbook Binding	 edition.",20th century;books;british;criticism & theory;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;women writers;women's studies,11
020515414X,"Media in Your Life, The: An Introduction to Mass Communication (Interactive 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	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Key Benefit: Daily, most everybody interacts with the media-newspapers, radio, television, computers, etc. This book, whose authors are all contemporary media researchers, helps readers develop insight and a system-wide view of interacting social, economic and technological forces at work in today's rapidly-evolving mass media. Key Topics:  The interaction of the media with our contemporary life is demonstrated throughout the book. It particularly explores media ""convergences"" that extend beyond one media institution and examines the issues of media access and use in a market-dominated society. Market:  Those seeking to pursue a career in the media.",books;communication & journalism;communication & media studies;education & reference;humanities;media studies;new;performing arts;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
0385513194,"The UN Gang: A Memoir of Incompetence, Corruption, Espionage, Anti-Semitism and Islamic Extremism at the UN Secretariat The United Nations headquarters appears as a byzantine bureaucracy riddled with lazy staff, rampant sexual harassment, hectoring anti-Semitism and flagrant drug dealing in this contemptuous memoir. And worse: Sanjuan alleges that the U.N. library housed the largest KGB intelligence operation in America and hints darklywith no apparent evidencethat the 9/11 attacks may have been plotted by Islamic jihadists at the U.N. Sanjuan served as policy planning director in the U.N. Secretariat, but his real job, he says, was to ""spy"" on the organization's inner workings for the Reagan and Bush administrations. It's hard to see how he accomplished either of these delicate assignments, given his bristling, bull-in-the-china-shop approach to the tasks. He loathes everyone at the U.N., from the ""pusillanimous"" former secretary-general Javier Prez de Cuellar to the security guard he upbraids for not saying ""please,"" and he delights in verbatim accounts of the long dressings-down he metes out to those who step on his toes. ""I used a very strong expletive with reference to the Soviet undersecretary-general's mother"" pretty much sums up his attitude toward diplomatic niceties. The author delivers a lively, preening, sometimes eye-opening insider's account, but his obvious polemical intent and the enormous chip on his shoulder overshadow his critique of the U.N.'s failings. (Sept. 20) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Like city hall, the UN employs only those with clout. Sanjuan's clout was then vice--president George H. W. Bush, who sponsored him in 1984 as an undersecretary-general; Sanjuan's real job was to spy on spies. Lest some object to such tawdry subversion of the UN, let them absorb his amusingly cynical account of his experiences in the Secretariat. Sanjuan found minds not occupied with world peace but rather with Jewish U.S. politicians; with denying Israel its quota of Secretariat slots; and with drug dealing in the diplomatically immune UN garage. ""For me,"" Sanjuan writes, ""it was the beginning of an anti-Semitic journey of ten years' duration."" Besides the prejudice and its fellow traveler, inveighing against the iniquities of the U.S., Sanjuan found a bureaucratic wonderland of assistants and deputies whose first concern seemed to be keeping their jobs rather than brokering cease-fires. Who wants Ouagadougou when you've got Manhattan? However exaggerated its over-the-top effect, Sanjuan's memoir is being published amid enough scandalous news about the UN to lend it credence. Gilbert TaylorCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	The UN Gang is the right book at the right time. With his insider knowledge of how the UN functions, Pedro Sanjuan confirms what we believedall along about the failings of the UN. He exposes its longstanding pervasive anti-Semitism, along with a host of wrongdoings, which cry out for reform. For anyone interested in international affairs and world peace, this book is a must read.Abraham H. Foxman, National Director, Anti-Defamation League and author of Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism This is a true and entertaining account of the UN from the inside of the Secretariat. It will shock some readers and inform many others. I warmly recommend it.Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former US ambassador to the UNIf you love the UN, hate it, or are indifferent, this is a book you must read. Mr. Sanjuan writes elegantly and with humor, yet the end result is enough to make a strong man weep. The author has spent more than a decade observing the United Nations from the inside; the picture he paints is not a pretty one. Corruption, mismanagement, nepotism, open espionage against the U.S.these are but a few of the warts on the body of this august international institution that are described in detail. Sanjuans proposed reforms make sense; whether there are those within the UN with the good sense to adopt them remains to be seen.Lawrence S. Eagleburger, former US Secretary of State	PEDRO SANJUAN has worked in seven different government departments during seven presidential administrations, including two tours on the White House staff. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Quarterly, the Wall Street Journal, and numerous foreign publications.	Chapter oneSo Your Father Was Jew!So, your father was Jew, yes? United Nations Undersecretary-General Viacheslav Ustinov asked me abruptly.He was a Russian who squinted constantly and spoke English with a forced, high-pitched voice and a persistent interrogative inflection. Instead of saying er between words, he said myah. His eyes marbled off the wall next to him, cluttered with several pictures, poster-style, of the United Nations building and a large one of the Palace of Culture in Moscow. His shifting eye movements toward me and the wall seemed to be saying, See? The United Nations may be in New York, but the Palace of Culture is in Moscow!Ustinov was the top Soviet official in the UN Secretariat, but not the top Soviet agent. His special assistant who watched over him held that honor, a fact that was well known around the corridors. Arkady Kashirin spoke and acted unmistakably as a member of the Soviet Committee on Government Security, or KGB. He would let you know with side glances and body language that he, Kashirin, was really in charge.In a sense I outranked Ustinov, for I was understood to be the top American spy, a new commodity with my arrival at the UN. During the Cold War the Soviets had established a considerable covert beachhead at the UN Secretariat, and I had been unofficially appointed by Vice President Bush to monitor their activities. But I probably did not match Kashirin, who held real power over Ustinov as a KGB control. I was one against 274 of them at the time of my arrival, for, unfortunately, I was the only American spy. I knew that all too well, as did Kashirin. Still, I believe that he considered me to be some sort of worthy rival. We owed each other professional courtesy as spies and scoundrels. During the Soviet era, no stigma was attached to being a scoundrel in support of the right cause.I had entered never-never land only a few days before, arriving from Washington in mid-September 1983. It was not that I was unaccustomed to circuslike environments, for I had already spent twenty-seven years in the U.S. government, including time with several executive departments, two White House staffs, and an international development bank--all organizations in which bizarre professional styles and equally bizarre codes of conduct were standard. I had also spent a considerable amount of time informally lobbying and appearing before the U.S. Congress.But the United Nations Secretariat seemed to me at first glance to be a loosely supervised playground for alarmingly disturbed adults. Even the Soviet staff members were allowed to engage in whimsical bureaucratic escapades provided they did not run away or defect. I was still too narrow-minded and unprepared for so much lunacy.Ustinov's question about my father's lineage was one that had never been put to me while serving in the United States government. I asked Ustinov to repeat the question.Your father, your father, he was Jew.My father was a Basque with a non-Basque last name. I don't believe he was a Jew.Yes, yes, Ustinov insisted. Your father was Jew. I know. I have very good sources in this building. You have a big file here at UN now. Also, I have article--recent article--about you in newspaper Washington Times. It say your father was composer. I know!Several thoughts occurred to me during this seemingly demented confrontation. Are all composers Jews? Was the KGB moonlighting for the United Nations in Washington, stealing people's records for their UN personnel files? Why did my Soviet inquisitor give a damn who my father was? And more specifically, why was I--until a few days before an assistant secretary in good standing in the U.S. Department of the Interior--being subjected to this blatant anti-Semitic harassment? And why, indeed, was I being put in a position where I had to deny being Jewish in front of this idiot or anyone else?But what I considered preposterous seemed to be a question of the utmost importance at the UN. Why was the United States sponsoring a Secretariat official who was also a Jew? Did it have any political significance? Was it a tangible and legitimate issue?I quickly realized that haggling and lengthy arguments were the wrong strategy with the likes of Undersecretary-General Ustinov, who delivered an incoherent combination of smiles and intimidating expressions that did not appear to parallel his words.All right, my father was indeed a Jew, and proud of it, too! I lied belligerently. Ustinov smiled very smugly, but gently, in what he thought was his moment of triumph.But then he frowned.Yes, I thought, he said.Soviet bureaucrats had to be right--always. I knew about that from numerous encounters with them in Geneva and other places during my Defense Department days. They would never agree with you. You had to make them think you agreed with them to get any point across.Soon the mystery unraveled, however. The originator of another interrogation was not a Russian. He was a Peruvian.Two days prior to my courtesy call on comrade Ustinov, I had visited the UN secretary-general, Javier Perez de Cuellar, whose policy planning director I had been asked to become by means of an urgent telegram-contract from the secretary-general himself.Don Javier, a Peruvian diplomat, was not much of a conversationalist. His occasional flair for subtle Cheshire cat humor later indicated to me that he was not stupid. Yet during social occasions he used to focus nervously on obvious trivia. At receptions he would say things like The food is still warm at the buffet or So many people here are Polish, at a social gathering at the Polish mission.Your name is Sanjuan, Don Javier said at one point during that first meeting, with a slight interrogatory inflection. I had spent the previous first awkward minutes in a belligerent exchange with him, sitting on a couch across from his desk in his six-window office facing the East River from the thirty-eighth story of the UN--a great view except that much of the river traffic there usually consists of garbage scows. He did not look directly at me but in a glancing way, indicating that he saw me only peripherally.Yes, Sanjuan is indeed my name! I got it from my father, Don Javier. But then you have known that for a while now!Yes, he replied, now gazing out the windows. But how did you get the name of a saint? It is not very common.Well, I replied, probably some ancestor of mine, way back at the end of the fifteenth century in Spain, converting from Judaism to Christianity, changed his name to San Juan as a sign of his sincere conversion, or so my father used to conjecture.The secretary-general--apparently quite disturbed at the possibility that I was of Jewish descent--must have commented about the untoward discovery to a few of his aides. So at least the indiscreet Emilio de Olivares, Javier's assistant, suggested to me, apparently in an effort to ingratiate himself. Nevertheless, Olivares himself probably passed the alarming word around, The Americans have sent us a Jew in disguise. And I was to be the top and only American spy with White House credentials. This was bad news. The news soon reached Ustinov, who confronted me with the hidden facts of my case when I paid him the courtesy call a few days later.These Ionesco-like scenes did not take place in seventeenth-century Warsaw, nor in Minsk in the previous century, nor in the Kiev ghetto during the reign of Nicholas I of Russia. This was taking place in New York City in late September 1983, inside an international enclave apparently totally removed from the reality surrounding it.For me it was the beginning of an anti-Semitic journey of ten years' duration that never ceased to amaze me, particularly after I realized that anti-Semitism was an established part of the UN way of life. It was not just a political attitude involving Israel. Anti-Semitism was a cultural mind-set, colloidally suspended or emulsified, that defined the UN culture.Yet this was not the only paradox that disfigured an otherwise benevolent and humanitarian UN image. Other quaint forms of racism as well as the indulgence of incompetence and sloth, along with a pervasive ecosystem of corruption, all competed for the UN malpractice trophy.* * *I had arrived at the main doors of that famous glass tower on Manhattan's First Avenue without a pass. It was a warm September day. My arrival was awaited in the office of the secretary-general with suspicion and alarm. The American spy was not welcome. The secretary-general himself was a former Peruvian ambassador to Moscow whom I had first met when I was a member of U.S. delegations dealing with the doomed Law of the Sea Treaty and the laws of war.A uniformed guard had met me at the United Nations visitors' entrance. Tourists in shorts and sandals, some in pin curls with noisy children running around eating lollipops, were being allowed free access to the building. But not I, even on my first day of official duty. There was never much meaningful security at the UN, particularly in those preterrorist days. But the reception accorded to me was special. I seemed to be the present danger. Although I was actually already on the staff of the secretary-general, the guard escorted me in much the way they used with prisoners going to maximum security in Alcatraz. Still another guard halted me after I left the elevator at the thirty-eighth floor.Wait! he commanded.Have you forgotten something? I asked him quite audibly.What?The word 'please,' my friend, I said, again just as audibly.I told him I had no intention of proceeding anywhere since I did not know my way ...",biographies & memoirs;books;conservatism & liberalism;ideologies & doctrines;intelligence & espionage;international & world politics;leaders & notable people;political;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics,11
1565124545,"The ""M"" Word: Writers on Same-Sex Marriage Algonquin editor Poriess timely anthology argues, with energy and heart, that all Americans, gay or straight, should have the right to marry. Contributors include marquee names (Francine Prose, George Saunders) and new talent (Alexander Chee, Wendy McClure) working in fiction, memoir and satire (e.g., Saunderss call for a ban on ""Samish-Sex Marriage""). Proses entry, which begins as an imagined wedding announcement for Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, ends with a condemnation of what she sees as marriages ""restrictive and conservative face."" Wendy Brenner offers a sweet tribute to a wedding in which she gave away one of the grooms. Perhaps the finest essay is Kathleen Finnerans candid recollection of an adolescent infatuation. Never having even heard of homosexuality, Finneran stumbles over her longing for a female English teacher, publicizing it with the presentation of a Crock-Pot at school and drive-bys of her teachers house. Years later, amid a ""political fracas"" over Missouris proposed ban on gay marriage, she contemplates the humiliating birthday gift and wishes she could see her two beloved lesbian friends celebrate a big, official wedding. This volume isnt for the unconverted, but its witty, wise reading. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Editor Pories offers a fascinating collection of wide-ranging essays by gay and straight hands on the political hot potato that is gay marriage. George Saunders argues that not only same-sex marriage should be forbidden; sameish sex partnerings, as when a mannish woman weds an effeminate man, should be, too, and he advances a numerical scale of gender characteristics for such prohibition. What, asks Francine Prose, if the notorious Oscar Wilde had wed his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, complete with Salome-themed reception and banal news coverage? Straight woman Wendy Brenner writes movingly of the joy and honor she felt ""giving away"" her dear friend Jamie at his wedding to Bradley, and as she strives to do justice to ""the enormity and legitimacy of the occasion,"" she encapsulates the ever-expanding concepts of community and union. Fascinating and even necessary reading in this time of social transition, these essays ought to be of interest to plenty of mainstream readers, not just gender-studies mavens. Whitney ScottCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	In June 2003, Canada began sanctioning same-sex marriages. In November, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that denying marriage rights to gay couples violated the state constitution. In February 2004, four thousand marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in San Francisco before the state supreme court ordered a halt. The debate is less about homosexuality than it is about the state and sanctity of marriage.What people remember about a moment of social change is what was said by our best writers--writers who can approach a subject with the sort of nuance missing from the editorial pages, who can give us a way of thinking about it from all sides, who write not to convince but to understand an issue. Especially those issues that will take years to resolve.We're pleased to be publishing an anthology that is not only timely but one that will be a lasting artifact of this moment in our history. The ""M"" Word includes essays from ten outstanding writers, gay and straight, serious and humorous: Francine Prose on what would have happened had Oscar Wilde married his lover George Saunders on how we shouldn't outlaw only Same-Sex Marriage, but also Sameish-Sex Marriage Wendy Brenner on being the maid of honor in a gay weddingEssays by Dan Savage, Stacey D'Erasmo, David Leavitt, Alexander Chee, Jim Grimsley, and Michael Parker round out this provocative collection.	Eleven Irreverent and Disarmingly Honest Essays  amuse, inform, provoke, and inspire. Here, writers examine not just what validates a same-sex union but wat constitutes a true marriage. And more important, how unions on one side of the fence might influence and shape these new, contested ones.  An anthology for readers of all persuasions, The M Word brings personal experience, insight, and even humor to one of the most emotion-laden issues of our day.	Kathy Pories earned her B.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She taught in the English Department at UNC and at Elon University before joining Algonquin in 1995. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.",books;gay & lesbian;marriage;marriage & family;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;relationships;self-help;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics,11
0684838400,"The Shadow Negotiation: How Women Can Master the Hidden Agendas That Determine Bargaining Success William Ury Coauthor of Getting to Yes and Author of Getting Past No Whether at work or at home, negotiation has become the preeminent process for making decisions. Every woman can benefit from this wise and practical guide to the hidden dimensions of negotiation -- and every man too! -- Review	Deborah M. Kolb is a professor of management at the Simmons Graduate School of Management and codirector of its Center for Gender and Organizations. She is also a senior fellow and former Executive Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She holds a Ph.D. from MIT. She lives in the Boston area.",books;business & investing;guides;job hunting & careers;leadership;management;management & leadership;negotiating;politics & social sciences;women & business;women's studies,11
0761926496,"Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement (3 Vol Set) Edited by the chief librarian and associate dean at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and professor of criminal justice at City University of New York, Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement provides a thorough overview of law enforcement in the U.S and around the world. According to the introduction, the public's view of policing is significantly influenced by the popular media, which oversimplifies police work; therefore, there is ""an urgent need for providing students and the general interested public balanced information on what law enforcement does, with all of its ramifications."" The encyclopedia's aim ""is to survey the entire field of law enforcement and to be as comprehensive as possible.""The more than 550 alphabetically arranged entries were written by 300 law enforcement scholars and practitioners. Entries are signed and include a list of recommended readings and cross-references. The work is well organized into three volumes. Volume 1 is dedicated to issues related to law enforcement at the state and local levels, and volume 2 focuses on the federal level. Volume 3 examines policing in the international arena, covering approximately 160 countries. As indicated in the topical ""Reader's Guide,"" the text covers an extensive range of broad subject areas, including ""Civilian/Private Involvement,"" ""Federal Agencies/Organizations,"" ""International Law Enforcement,"" ""Personnel Issues,"" and ""Police Procedures."" Examples of specific entries include Affirmative action in policing, AMBER Alert, America's Most Wanted, Federal Bureau of Investigation , and INTERPOL. Controversial issues are not ignored, and there are entries on topics such as Civil rights violations by police; Police misconduct ; and Profiling, racial. In addition to the main text, each volume has its own extensive bibliography of scholarly, news, government, and Internet sources. An appendix in volume 2 contains articles on policing issues for 1989-2003 from the Law Enforcement News . Each volume has a comprehensive ""Master Index."" The Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement is a valuable contribution to the field of criminal justice. It is accessible to students and general readers and should be particularly useful for correcting misconceptions about police work. It is recommended for academic and large public libraries. Michelle HendleyCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""This unique encyclopedia is separated into three volumes: State and Local, which covers aspects of policing applicable to the lives of every-day citizens; Federal and National, which emphasizes laws, organizations, and initiatives on a nation-wide scale; and International, which delves into law enforcement practices around the world. Though Sullivan (government, emeritus, John Jay Coll. of Criminal Justice) is the overall editor of the set, each volume boasts its own distinguished editors as well as a corps of academic writers. Volume 3 is uniquely valuable: there is currently no comparable source, with its articles-maps included-on police function in more than 150 countries...aimed at the general reader, law enforcement practitioners, students, and academics, the encyclopedia aims to create a more nuanced understanding of law enforcement than the one available from news media and television shows and to serve as a resource for ""law enforcement as a serious academic study [now] in its second generation."" Recommended for both specialized and general collections."" (Janice Dunham Library Journal 2005-07-08)""The Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement provides a through overview of law enforcement in the U.S. and around the world. . . . The Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement is a valuable contribution to the field of criminal justice. It is accessible to students and general readers and should be particularly useful for correcting misconceptions about police work. It is recommended for academic and large public libraries."" (Michelle Hendley BOOKLIST 2005-06-01)More than 300 academic and professional experts have contributed 568 essays addressing such topics as civilian involvement in law enforcement, uniform crime reports, response time, drug enforcement, racial profiling, vehicle searches and whistle-blowing. . . . this set is suitable for both academic and public libraries. (John R.M. Lawrence, Reference Librarian 2005-09-01)""The thematic divisions offers a fine focus on different types of policing, with entries on the law enforcement system and process covering laws, areas of enforcement, legal history and more. From entries on international terrorism to drunk driving, over three hundred contributors of scholars, researchers and practitioners in different areas of law enforcement provide a reference packed with material essential for understanding the system: agencies and organizations, investigation techniques, military issues, conduct and ethical questions and much more, from the general to the specialized topic. An outstanding library reference."" (MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW 2006-04-01)""The weight 3-volume ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW ENFORCEMENT isn't for the general lending collectiion but is a special and ongoing recommendation for the college collection with courses strong in criminal justice. Each volume is divided by law area: V. 1 covers State and Local, V. 2 is Federal and V. 3 is international. The thematic divisions offers a fine focus on different types of policing, with entries on the law enforcement system and process covering laws, areas of enforcement, legal history and more. From entries on international terrorism to drunk driving, over three hundred contributors of scholars, researchers and practitioners in different areas of law enforcement provide a reference packed with material essential for understanding the system: agencies and organizations, investigation techniques, military issues, conduct and ethical questions and much more, from the general to the specialized topic. An outstanding library reference."" (James A. Cox The Midwest Book Review 2006-06-08)	Since 1995, Larry Sullivan has been the chief library administrator of the criminal justice library at John Jay, one of the senior colleges of The City University of New York. He directs the operations of the largest criminal justice library in the world; teaches graduate courses (e.g. Advanced Criminology, Punishment and Responsibility) and directs Ph.D. dissertations. He has published 5 books as an author, co-author or editor, including The Prison Reform Movement, (Twayne, 1990). He is on the advisory board for the Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment and is about to sign with us to be the lead editor for a three volume Encyc. of Law Enforcement. Before coming to John Jay, Adina Schwartz was a federal public defender and, before that, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Yale University.  Her article, A Systemic Challenge to the Reliability and Admissibility of Firearms and Toolmark Identification, 6 Columbia Science & Technology Law Review 1 (March 28, 2005), has spearheaded challenges to the reliability and admissibility of firearms and toolmark identification, and has been cited by courts and by the National Academy of Sciences in its reports, Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States (2009) and Ballistic Imaging (2008). She has served as a defense expert, consulted, and made numerous presentations on the issue.  Courts have also cited Professor Schwartzs articles, Commentary on Nichols R.G., Defending the Scientific Foundations of the Firearms and Tool Mark Identification Discipline: Responding to Recent Challenges, J. Forens. Sci. 2007 May; 52(3): 586-94, Journal of Forensic Sciences 52(6):1414-15 (November 2007); ""Homes as Folding Umbrellas: Two Recent Supreme Court Decisions on  'Knock and Announce',"" 25 American Journal of Criminal Law 545 (1998); and ""A 'Dogma of Empiricism' Revisited: Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and the Need to Resurrect the Philosophical Insight of Frye v. United States,"" 10 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology:149 (1997).Maria (Maki) Haberfeld is a Professor of Police Science, in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. She was born in Poland and immigrated to Israel as a teenager. She holds two Bachelor or Art degrees, two Master degrees, and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice. Prior to coming to John Jay she served in the Israel National Police, and left the force at the rank of Lieutenant. She also worked for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Field Office, as a special consultant. She taught at Yeshiva University and New Jersey City University. Her research interests and publications are in the areas of private and public law enforcement, specifically training, police integrity, and comparative policing (her research involves police departments in the U.S., Eastern and Western Europe, and Israel). She has also done some research in the area of white-collar crime, specifically organizational and individual corruption during the Communist era in Eastern Europe. For about 4 years (1997-2001), she has been a member of the research team, sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, studying police integrity in three major police departments in United States. Currently she is a Principal Investigator of the National Institute of Justice sponsored research project in Poland, where she studies the Polish National Police and its transformation to Community Oriented Policing. Her research in Poland focuses on the balancing act between the public perceptions of the new police reform and rampant accusations of corruption and lack of integrity. One of her publications, a book titled ""Critical Issues in Police Training "" (2002), is the first academic text, ever published, that covers all the phases and aspects of training of police officers in the United States. She has presented numerous papers, on training related issues, during professional gatherings and conferences, and written a number of articles and book chapters on police training, specifically police leadership, integrity, and stress. In addition, she has been involved in active training of police officers on issues related to multiculturalism, sensitivity, and leadership, as well as technical assistance to a number of police departments in rewriting procedural manuals. She is a member of a number of professional police associations, like the International Association of Chiefs of Police, International Police Association, American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, and American Society for Industrial Security. Recently she has been involved in coordinating a special training program for the NYPD. She has developed and co-developed a number of courses for this special program and has delivered training to the NYPD supervisors in the area of counter-terrorism policies and leadership. After the WTC disaster she became a member of a special counter-terrorism task force, at John Jay College, working on the establishment of a counter terrorism institute, which will serve as resource data base for local and federal law enforcement agencies. She is also currently involved in the training of the Czech National Police, a project sponsored by the Transparency International Czech Republic.",books;criminology;education & reference;encyclopedias;new;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;used & rental textbooks,11
0753457962,Journey to Jamestown (My Side of the Story) Lois Rubys books include Soon Be Free and Steal Away Home. Her books have been included on IRA and Childrens Choice lists.,books;children's books;diseases;friendship;health;historical fiction;literature & fiction;nature & how it works;science;social situations;united states,11
0712623817,"Ionia: A Quest (The Century travellers) Readers of Starks reissued works...will find a writer who endows everyone in her field of vision with the heightened interest that she felt herself. -- The New Yorker""Freya Stark remains unexcelled as an interpreter of brief encounters in wild regions against the backdrop of history."" -- The Observer""Dame Freyas was a passionate imagination, and her embrace of landscape was fierce... [She] was often called a 'travel writer'. The adjective, however, limits the accomplishment."" -- The New York Times""It is enriching and enjoyable. If discovering the ancient history of the region is your bag rather than beer or baklava, then Freya Stark will be a most erudite companion. -- Londra Gazette""...it is beautiful writing that encapsulates not only the history, but the feel, the smell, the sensation and sheer wonder of what she discovers... enriching and enjoyable.""--London Turkish Gazette""Freya Stark has rightfully earned a place among the greatest travel writers of the 20th century. I.B.Tauris is releasing [A Winter in Arabia] alongside seven other works, as The Freya Stark Collection. A timely reminder of an extraordinary woman and a fine writer.""-- Sunday Telegraph""Its hard to think of a writer in the travel game who most closely demonstrates the merits of Flauberts three rules for good writing: clarity, clarity and finally clarity. Re-reading her now, her restrained powers of description shine as brightly as they ever did, and they will continue to shine until the next Ice Age... Her books are more relevant than ever. Besides sheer enjoyment, one should read her for a fresh perspective on the intractable issues dogging Christian-Muslim relations. She was able to see both sides and what she found was similarity, not difference. The greatest woman traveller of the 20th century? I think so."" --The Times""She was a vivid describer of scenes and landscapes. More, she was a connoisseur of people: she knew how to draw them out and listened closely when they spoke"" -- Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	8 1-hour cassettes	      --This text refers to the 							Audio Cassette	 edition.	Freya Stark (1893-1993), called the poet of travel, was the doyenne of Middle East travel writers Her travels earned her the title of Dame and huge public acclaim and her many, now classic, books include Travels in the Near East, The Southern Gates of Arabia, Alexanders Path, Dust in the Lions Paw, East is West, and Valleys of the Assassins. 	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",asia;books;education & reference;general;history;middle east;research & publishing guides;travel;travel writing;turkey;writing,11
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1565120140,"Father and Son Larry Brown is the master of the raw and the sparse and of bringing Mississippi to the world in a language that is as stripped down and bare as Faulkner's is dense. Brown is at his best when he writes of the tensions between one screwed-up man and another, in this case a father and son. One has just been let out of prison, and he shouldn't have been. The other is drunk and disabled and intends on staying that way. To make things worse, there is a conflict with the sheriff, who is good and righteous but who tried to put the moves on the parolee's woman while he was in prison. To tell more would be to violate Brown's mastery of dialogue and of that which goes unspoken in this sly story of father, son, and misery.	It takes formidable talent to mesmerize readers of a novel that focuses on a deeply flawed, unsympathetic protagonist, but Brown succeeds triumphantly in his most wise, humane and haunting work to date. On the first day that Glen Davis is released from the Mississippi state pen (after serving three years for running over a child while he was drunk), he kills two men; that night, he callously tells the mother of his toddler son that marriage is not part of his plans. On the second day, he rapes a teenaged girl. Glen is a despicable person?mean, icily remote, seemingly without conscience. Sheriff Bobby Blanchard is Glen's opposite; a kind and decent man, he epitomizes integrity and responsibility. Bobby is in love with Jewel, the mother of Glen's son, and their relationship is only one of the heartwrenching dramas played out here. Only halfway through the book do we learn that Bobby is Glen's half brother; both are sons of Virgil Davis, whom Glen demonizes and hates and whom Bobby wistfully wishes would acknowledge him. In fact, all of the characters are involved in a web of secret relationships, and much of the resonance of this suspenseful narrative is due to Brown's adroit pacing, as he releases surprising information gradually and with natural understatement. Despite Glen's coldhearted deeds, we come to understand him, too, as he progresses to a desperate act of rage and revenge. As in his previous novels, Brown (Dirty Work; Joe) uses lean, lyrical prose to evoke the cadenced speech and the atmosphere of the rural south in the 1960s, where everybody chainsmokes and drinks whiskey. Though he depicts a basic conflict of good and evil, however, Brown never reduces the issues to stark polarities. Most impressive here are Brown's compassionate view of human nature and his understanding of the subtleties of human behavior and the fabric of society, which, after tragedy reknits itself anew, to reaffirm the essential kinship of a community of souls. Author tour. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Glen Davis returns to his Mississippi Delta hometown in 1968 having served three years in prison for vehicular homicide. Fueled by guilt over his accidental shooting of his brother when they were children and anger at his drunken, neglectful father, Glen has a burning desire to even the score for every real and imagined slight he has suffered. The person who must stop him is his hated half-brother Bobby, the county sheriff and emblem of his father's infidelity and ill-treatment of his mother. A tale of brothers as much as fathers and sons, this novel is filled with the gritty, working-class realism of one of Bruce Springsteen's darker songs and resonates back to Cain and Abel and Jacob and Esau. Brown has come a long way since Facing the Music (LJ 9/15/88). For most public libraries.?Lawrence Rungren, Merrimack Valley Lib. Consortium, Andover, Mass.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	It's 1968 near Oxford, Mississippi, and Glen Davis has come home from prison. He drinks and plots revenge against all who have wronged him, especially his father, a gentle, shiftless alcoholic whom Glen blames for his mother's death, and Sheriff Bobby Blanchard, who arrested the drunken Glen for manslaughter after he ran down a young boy with his car. Glen's girlfriend, Jewel, has waited faithfully for him, hoping to secure a husband and a father for their son, but Glen just wants sex. In fact, he's a predator, soon picking up a flirtatious teenager and raping her, then plotting rape against Blanchard's mother when Jewel rejects him for Blanchard. Glen may remind the reader of Joe Christmas in Faulkner's Light in August: the two share a brooding anger and a confused parentage, and both become murderers. But Brown has no character such as Gail Hightower, crying out to deaf Heaven, nor is Glen tortured by racial schizophrenia. He's just a drunken psychopath. And Brown leaves a lot of loose ends: What are we to make of Glen's unwitting theft of his dead mother's money, for instance, or of the peaceful interlude when Glen goes fishing with an old friend? Where did this old friend come from? On the other hand, Brown muses on the legacies of fathers to sons quite effectively, avoiding every bromide. Not Faulkner by a long shot, but, as in Brown's gritty Joe (1991), there's great power here and almost unendurable suspense; Brown's two rape scenes visit with pure evil.  John Mort	From a small rural southern world of guns and hounds and whiskey, Mississippi writer Brown (Joe, 1991, etc.) fashions a redneck tragedy of timeless dimensions--a novel in which fate drives the plot to its necessarily bloody denouement. A portrait of true evil is at the heart of this sad tale of betrayal and revenge, with its almost casual allusions to fratricide, parricide, and incest. Evil has a name: Glen Davis, the bad seed of Virgil and Emma, who arrives back in town after serving three years for vehicular homicide in Parchman penitentiary, where he seems to have nursed his grudges and hates, all of which he settles in the few days covered in this novel. High on his list of unfinished business is his old lover, Jewel, the mother of a four- year-old boy he refuses to acknowledge. Faithful through his prison stay, Jewel realizes how hopeless their future is, and when Glen returns, she turns to Bobby Blanchard, the sheriff who loves her and whose own history is closely tied to Glen's. In his first hours back home, Glen robs, rapes, and murders, proving beyond a doubt his bone-level badness. Without forgiving Glen's behavior, Brown sketches in his troubled past: the accidental shooting of his brother Theron, his mother's bizarre sexual behavior, and her relentless fixation on the idea that Blanchard's widowed mother is her husband's true love--which isn't so far from the truth, though they've always behaved honorably. Meanwhile, Bobby's job brings him face to face with evil's many forms: a hillbilly dad who kills his crying son, a grownup man who kills his daddy, and the just plain inexplicable fate that takes an 11-year-old's life by drowning. Providential order asserts itself in Glen's bloody punishment--a punishment he not only deserves but seems, finally, to invite. A riveting tale of an unforgiving and cruel world. (Author tour) -- Copyright 1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Father and Son is about the violence in men's hearts and the accidents of birth that may have hatched it there. For the most part it is an engrossing tale, and nicely detailed: the torpid rhythms of life in the small-town South are wonderfully caught. -- The New York Times Book Review, Anthony QuinnThe five days following a son's return to his Mississippi home are charted in a thriller which focuses on the bad seed's homecoming and his ability to disrupt his roots. A sheriff's involvement in Glen's path of destruction brings him in direct confrontation with the evil he's seeking to pacify and understand.  -- Midwest Book Review	Larry Brown was born in Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he lived all his life. At the age of thirty, a captain in the Oxford Fire Department, he decided to become a writer and worked toward that goal for seven years before publishing his first book, Facing the Music, a collection of stories, in 1988. With the publication of his first novel, Dirty Work, he quit the fire station in order to write fulltime. Between then and his untimely death in 2004, he published seven more books. His three grown children and his widow, Mary Annie Brown, live near Oxford.",books;contemporary;family saga;genre fiction;literature & fiction;mystery;psychological thrillers;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,11
0878915109,"Geometry - Plane, Solid & Analytic Problem Solver (Problem Solvers Solution Guides) REAs Problem Solvers is a series of useful, practical, and informative study guides. Each title in the series is complete step-by-step solution guide. The Geometry Problem Solver enables students to solve difficult problems by showing them step-by-step solutions to Geometry problems.   The Problem Solvers cover material ranging from the elementary to the advanced and make excellent review books and textbook companions.   The Geometry Problem Solver is the perfect resource for any class, any exam, and any problem!	Ernest Woodward, Ed.D., is professor of mathematics at Austin Peay State University, Clarkesville, Tenn. Founded in 1959, Research  Education Association is dedicated to producing the finest and most effective digital and print materials in educational publishing, including some of Americas most popular test preps and study aids. REAs wide-ranging catalog is a leading resource for teachers, students, and professionals.	HOW TO USE THIS BOOKThis book can be an invaluable aid to students in geometry as a supplement to their textbooks. The book is divided into 52 chapters, each dealing with a separate topic. The subject matter is developed beginning with lines and angles and extending through analytic (coordinate) and solid geometry. Sections on constructions, coordinate conversions, polygons, surface areas, and volumes have also been included.Each chapter in the book starts with a section titled Basic Attacks and Strategies for Solving Problems in this Chapter. This section explains the principles that are applicable to the topics in the chapter. By reviewing these principles, students can acquire a good grasp of the underlying techniques and strategies through which problems related to the chapter may be solved.HOW TO LEARN AND UNDERSTANDA TOPIC THOROUGHLY1. Refer to your class text and read the section pertaining to the topic. You should become acquainted with the principles discussed there. These principles, however, may not be clear to you at the time.2. Then locate the topic you are looking for by referring to the Table of Contents in the front of this book. After turning to the beginning of the appropriate chapter, read the section titled Basic Attacks and Strategies for Solving Problems in this Chapter. This section is a review of the important principles related to the chapter, and it will help you to understand further how and why problems in the chapter are solved in the manner shown.3. Turn to the page where the topic begins and review the problems under each topic, in the order given. For each topic, the problems are arranged in order of complexity, from the simplest to the more difficult. Some problems may appear similar to others, but each problem has been selected to illustrate a different point or solution method.To learn and understand a topic thoroughly and retain its contents, it will generally be necessary for students to review the problems several times. Repeated review is essential in order to gain experience in recognizing the principles that should be applied and to select the best solution technique.HOW TO FIND A PARTICULAR PROBLEMTo locate one or more problems related to particular subject matter, refer to the index. In using the index, be certain to note that the numbers given there refer to problem numbers, not to page numbers. This arrangement of the index is intended to facilitate finding a problem more rapidly, since two or more problems may appear on a page.If a particular type of problem cannot be found readily, it is recommended that the student refer to the Table of Contents and then turn to the chapter which is applicable to the problem being sought. By scanning or glancing at the material that is boxed, it will generally be possible to find problems related to the one being sought, without consuming considerable time. After the problems have been located, the solutions can be reviewed and studied in detail.For the purpose of locating problems rapidly, students shouldacquaint themselves with the organization of the book as found in the Table of Contents.In preparing for an exam, it is useful to find the topics to be covered in the exam from the Table of Contents, and then review the problems under those topics several times. This should equip the student with what might be needed for the exam.",books;education & reference;geometry;mathematics;new;science & math;science & mathematics;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,11
0471118141,"Developing Business Strategies This powerful, revised edition of David Aaker's enduring classic helps managers institute long-term business. Presenting a new chapter on strategic positioning, which places a face to the business strategy for customers and for employees, Aaker shows how it can play a powerful role in crystallizing and clarifying strategy, driving strategic initiatives, guiding communication strategy, and supporting the organizational structure.This book provides a framework for looking outside the business to sense changes, trends, threats, and opportunities, and to analyze these conditions to develop strategic options. A set of agendas helps start the process, which is supported by a summary flow diagram and planning forms. Plus, new and updated sections on topics such as knowledge management, downstream business models, brand extensions, illusionary synergy, global leadership, creative thinking, and more round out the book.Crucial to the success of any long-term strategy is the development of sustainable competitive advantages built from organizational assets and competencies. Aaker presents methods and concepts for identifying these advantages and making them the centerpiece of successful methods of branding, advertising, distribution, manufacturing, and finance.This book also helps organizations select investment levels and chart growth directions for existing business areas as well as alternative growth directions, including market penetration, product expansion, market expansion, diversification, and more. Using methods such as strategic uncertainties, portfolio models, and scenario analysis, managers will learn to evaluate numerous investment alternatives.Aaker explains how an organization's structure, systems, people, and culture contribute to the successful implementation of a strategy. He also describes how to implement a dynamic strategy that responds to changing conditions, how to use alliances to gain strategic advantage, and how to implement strategies when markets are hostile or declining or when competition is global in scope.Completely revised with new examples from business-to-business to the Internet-related arena, Developing Business Strategies, Sixth Edition is a virtually inexhaustible resource for managers at all levels, as well as small business owners and managers.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	""Unquestionably the most comprehensive treatment available on the subject. I found this book unique in its capacity to benefit executives, planning staff, and students of strategy alike.""-- Robert L. Joss, Dean of the Graduate School of Business, Stanford UniversityA successful business strategy enables managers to provide organizational vision, monitor and understand a dynamic business environment, generate creative strategic options in response to environmental changes, and base every business effort on sustainable competitive advantages. Developing Business Strategies provides the knowledge and understanding needed to generate and implement such a strategy.This fully revised and updated edition of David Aaker's highly influential strategic manual offers copious new information on important emerging business topics. Numerous new and revised sections cover such critical areas as the big idea, knowledge management, the customer as an active partner, creative thinking, distinguishing fads from trends, forecasting technologies, alliances, design as strategy, downstream business models, and more. Other important new features of this comprehensive guide include:* A new chapter on strategic positioning* Many new illustrative examples from B-to-B, high-tech, and the Internet* Increased focus on global leadership and global brand management* Using the Internet to develop and support business strategiesFor managers who need to develop and implement effective, responsive business strategies that keep the organization competitive through changing business conditions, Developing Business Strategies, Sixth Edition is the way to go.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	DAVID A. AAKER is the E. T. Grether Professor of Marketing Strategy at the Haas School of Business Administration at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of numerous articles and ten books on strategy, including Marketing Research, Fifth Edition (Wiley) and Managing Brand Equity. His books have been translated into eight languages. Professor Aaker is an active consultant and speaker in the United States, Japan, Europe, and South America.",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;exports & imports;international;management;management & leadership;new;systems & planning;used & rental textbooks,11
0060959479,"All About Love: New Visions Readers of bell hooks's fiery and eloquent attacks on racism and sexism might be surprised to see her take on the elusive subject of love, but in her own unique way, hooks beautifully weaves her childhood search for that emotion with society's misuse (and dire need) of it. All About Love takes apart the sentimental and often fleeting aspects of romance, stuck in the muddled urges of sex, and details the problems that arise from the confusion between the two. What hooks does best is reveal that the true force of love lies in its spiritual, redemptive power, which can impact positively on humankind: ""When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise,"" she writes. ""They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny."" --Eugene Holley Jr. 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Taking on yet another popular topic in her role as cultural critic, hooks blends the personal and the psychological with the philosophical in her latest book--a thoughtful but frequently familiar examination of love American style. A distinguished professor of English at City College in New York City, she explains her sense of urgency about confronting a subject that countless writers have analyzed: ""I feel our nation's turning away from love as intensely as I felt love's abandonment in my girlhood. Turning away, we risk moving in a wilderness of spirit so intense we may never find our way home again."" With an engaging narrative style, hooks presents a series of possible ways to reverse what she sees as the emotional and cultural fallout caused by flawed visions of love largely defined by men who have been socialized to distrust its value and power. She proposes a transformative love based on affection, respect, recognition, commitment, trust and care, rather than the customary forms stemming from gender stereotypes, domination, control, ego and aggression. However, many of her insights about self-love, forgiveness, compassion and openness have been explored in greater depth by the legion of writers hooks quotes liberally throughout the book, such as John Bradshaw, Lucia Hodgson, Thich Nhat Hanh, Thomas Merton and M. Scott Peck, among others. Still, every page offers useful nuggets of wisdom to aid the reader in overcoming the fears of total intimacy and of loss. Although the chapter on angels comes across as filler, hooks's view of amour is ultimately a pleasing, upbeat alternative to the slew of books that proclaim the demise of love in our cynical time. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	English professor hooks (Remembered Rapture) has myriad views on the subject of love in this serious work; she touches on honesty in relationships, spirituality in our lives, greed as a destructive force, and the death of loved ones. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	It's obvious in all of hooks' forthright works, from her stunning memoirs to her seminal works on race, gender, art, and education, that for her writing is a moral act. Now, in this clarion treatise, she writes from a spiritual perspective to offer ""new ways of thinking about love."" Motivated both by her own struggles with heartache and by the despair she observes in society at large, hooks defines love as ""an action rather than a feeling"" in a gracefully flowing narrative that begins with family life, ""the original school of love,"" and ultimately yields fresh insights into the nature of romance, the value of community, and the pitfalls of our consumer-oriented culture. Quoting spiritual leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., a ""prophet of love,"" hooks explains that there can be no justice without love, and that our prevailing sense of spiritual emptiness can only be remedied by overcoming our fear and accepting love in its most spiritual aspects as our ""true destiny.""  Donna Seaman	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us."" -- -- Maya Angelou""Like love, this book is worth the commitment."" -- -- Toronto Sun	Bell Hooks is a cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Celebrated as one of our nation's leading public intellectual by The Atlantic Monthly, as well as one of Utne Reader's ""100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life,"" she is a charismatic speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks is the author of more than 17 books, including All About Love: New Visions; RememberedRapture: The Writer at Work; Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life; Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood; Killing Rage: Ending Racism; Art on My Mind: Visual Politics; and Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. She lives in New York City.	THE MEN IN my life have always been the folks who are wary of using the word ""love"" lightly. They are wary because they believe women make too much of love. And they know that what we think love means is not always what they believe it means. Our confusion about what we mean when we use the word ""love"" is the source of our difficulty in loving. If our society had a commonly held understanding of the meaning of love, the act of loving would not be so mystifying. Dictionary definitions of love tend to emphasize romantic love, defining love first and foremost as ""profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person, especially when based on sexual attraction."" Of course, other definitions let the reader know one may have such feelings within a context that is not sexual. However, deep affection does not really adequately describe love's meaning. The vast majority of books on the subject of love work hard to avoid giving clear definitions. In the introduction to Diane Ackerman's A Natural History of Love she declares ""Love is the great intangible."" A few sentences down from this she suggests: ""Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree on what it is."" Coyly, she adds, ""We use the word love in such a sloppy way that it can mean almost nothing or absolutely everything."" No definition ever appears in her book that would help anyone trying to learn the art of loving. Yet she is not alone in writing of love in ways that cloud our understanding. When the very meaning of the word is cloaked in mystery, it should not come as a surprise that most people find it hard to define what they mean when they use the word ""love."" Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition. The word ""love"" is most often defined as a noun, yet all the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb. I spent years searching for a meaningful definition of the word ""love,"" and was deeply relieved when I found one in psychiatrist M. Scott Peck's classic self-help book The Road Less Traveled, first published in 1978. Echoing the work of Erich Fromm, he defines love as ""the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth."" Explaining further, he continues, ""Love is as love does. Love is an act of will-namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love."" Since the choice must be made to nurture growth, this definition counters the more widely accepted assumption that we love instinctually. Everyone who has witnessed the growth process of a newborn child from the moment of birth on sees clearly that before language is known, before the identity of caretakers is recognized, babies respond to affectionate care. Usually they respond with sounds or looks of pleasure. As they grow older they respond to affectionate care by giving affection, cooing at the sight of a welcomed caretaker. Affection is only one ingredient of love. To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients-care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication. Learning faulty definitions of love when we are quite young makes it difficult to be loving as we grow older. We start out committed to the right path but go in the wrong direction. Most of us learn early on to think of love as a feeling. When we feel deeply drawn to someone, we cathect with them, that is, we invest feelings or emotion in them. That process of investment wherein a loved one becomes important to us is called ""cathexis."" In his book Peck rightly emphasizes that most of us ""confuse cathecting with loving."" We all know how often individuals feeling connected to someone through the process of cathecting insist that they love the other person even if they are hurting or neglecting them. Since their feeling is that of cathexis, they insist that what they feel is love. Copyright 2000 by Gloria Watkins	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",african-american studies;books;gender studies;interpersonal relations;love & romance;politics & social sciences;popular culture;relationships;self-help;social sciences;specific demographics,11
B000MTEK46,"Hacking Movable Type (ExtremeTech) Ready to push Movable Type to the max?        Movable Type, that amazingly powerful personal publishing application, is the superhero of the Internet age. But when you push, poke, stretch, and otherwise coax it into producing even more, the possibilities for your Web content are simply superlative. Roll up your sleeves and get moving-here's the first book to tell you how.        Discover how to do all this and more    * Hack the perfect installation    * Hack the database    * Play with Atom, Perl, and XML-RPC APIs    * Write advanced plug-ins    * Master dynamic publishing    * Hack a super-powered blog app    * Ban comment spam    * Build customized templates	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ready to push Movable Type to the max?        Movable Type, that amazingly powerful personal publishing application, is the superhero of the Internet age. But when you push, poke, stretch, and otherwise coax it into producing even more, the possibilities for your Web content are simply superlative. Roll up your sleeves and get moving-here's the first book to tell you how.        Discover how to do all this and more    * Hack the perfect installation    * Hack the database    * Play with Atom, Perl, and XML-RPC APIs    * Write advanced plug-ins    * Master dynamic publishing    * Hack a super-powered blog app    * Ban comment spam    * Build customized templates	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",blogging & blogs;books;business & management;computers & technology;hacking;internet & web culture;network security;networking;privacy;web design;web development & design,11
0071409017,"Work It, Girl! : Productive and Fun Tips for the Hip Working Chick Wendy Burt and Erin Kindberg are freelance writers. Together they authored the wellreceived Oh, Solo Mia!",books;business & finance;business & investing;guides;job hunting & careers;management & leadership;motivational;new;small business & entrepreneurship;used & rental textbooks;women & business,11
0873514475,"Mill City: A Visual History Of The Minneapolis Mill District (Minnesota) ""MILL CITY is marvelous history. As a lifelong resident of Minneapolis, I now know much more about the environs I've prowled around for so long. The stories and photographs make the history of the mill district come alive."" -- Don Fraser, former mayor of Minneapolis	Shannon M. Pennefeather is an editor at the Minnesota Historical Society Press.",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;history;humanities;midwest;new;regional u.s.;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,11
0471109207,"How to Buy a House with No (or Little) Money Down In today's high-priced real estate market, relying on the old methods of financing puts home ownership out of reach for many potential first- time buyers. In this revision, two real estate specialists analyze alternative financing strategies. Three new chapters on the unconventional buyer, checking your credit rating and obtaining a mortgage with poor credit have been added. New requirements for mortgages, including 15- and 20-year terms, as well as lower down payments are described. Explores how to take advantage of sharing and equity kicker mortgages. Shows how to use lease options and seller financing to buy a home.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""... the best of the how-to-buy-a-home books ... filled with solid practical information plus methods of buying without taking much money out of your pocket.""Robert Bruss Tribune Media Services""A comprehensive guide to every aspect of financing....Even if you consider yourself an expert on home shopping, this book will probably teach you a trick or two.""Boston Sunday GlobeDon't let hefty down payments or a poor credit rating stand in the way of your dreams of home ownership. Financing a home can be a lot easier than you ever imagined, and this book tells you how. How to Buy helped tens of thousands of Americans become home owners during one of the worst real estate slumps in history. Now, this completely updated and expanded Second Edition is the ultimate guide to finding and financing a home in the 1990s. In clear, nontechnical language it tells how to: Obtain a mortgage regardless of your credit rating or level of income Make seller financing the ticket to your dream home Take advantage of equity sharing and equity kicker mortgages Use lease options Apply for and obtain FHA, VA, family, and other loans you may qualify for Make the tax laws work to your advantage when buying a house Help your child buy a home while protecting against the child's divorce Inspect a house from top to bottom, inside and out Bargain with a seller and save a bundle Check your own credit ratingStop dreaming about owning a new home. Read How to Buy a House with No (or Little) Money Down and get the financing you need to make your dream a reality!	MARTIN M. SHENKMAN is a practicing New York City attorney specializing in tax laws and investments. He is frequently quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bottom Line. His other bestselling books include How to Sell Your House in a Buyer's Market, with Warren Boroson, and Real Estate After Tax Reform. WARREN BOROSON is a financial columnist with the Bergen Record and a former senior financial editor at Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine. He has written several bestselling books on mutual funds.",books;business & investing;buying & selling homes;crafts;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;home repair;how-to & home improvements;mortgages;real estate;sales,11
0827606087,"A Time to Be Born ""Childbirth has undergone a revolution, and Michele Klein's book gives historical depth the Jewish perspective of this revolution. It deserves a place on parents' bookshelves next to classics like . . . What to Expect When You're Expecting. Besides being extremely informative about the abundance of Jewish folklore surrounding childbirth, Klein's book addresses the emotional and spiritual issues involved in every aspect of birth.""Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem Post )",books;fitness & dieting;folklore;health;jewish life;judaism;literature & fiction;mythology & folk tales;pregnancy & childbirth;religion & spirituality;women's health,11
0788192329,"Buckskin and Buffalo: The Artistry of the Plains Indians In the mid-1800s, the Great Plains were home to the Blackfeet, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Sioux, Crow, Hidasta, Comanche, and Kiowa Indians. Those tribes were nomadic hunters of elk, pronghorn, and buffalo, and it was on the buffalo that their life and culture relied most heavily. In the early 1870s, with the arrival of the railroads, the herds were rapidly decimated by professional buffalo hunters. That brought an end to the Plains Indians' traditional way of life, eventually forcing them onto reservations. Fortunately, not all their material culture was destroyed, for many of their buckskin and buffalo hide objects survive today in collections of both European and U.S. museums. This volume provides a beautiful as well as respectful tribute, as it displays an extraordinary cultural legacy in the artistry of the objects these Indians crafted for both ceremonial and everyday use. A sophisticated text accompanies the 130 full-color photos.  Fred Egloff	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In the mid-1800s, the Great Plains were home to the Blackfeet, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Sioux, Crow, Hidasta, Comanche, and Kiowa Indians. Those tribes were nomadic hunters of elk, pronghorn, and buffalo, and it was on the buffalo that their life and culture relied most heavily. In the early 1870s, with the arrival of the railroads, the herds were rapidly decimated by professional buffalo hunters. That brought an end to the Plains Indians' traditional way of life, eventually forcing them onto reservations. Fortunately, not all their material culture was destroyed, for many of their buckskin and buffalo hide objects survive today in collections of both European and U.S. museums. This volume provides a beautiful as well as respectful tribute, as it displays an extraordinary cultural legacy in the artistry of the objects these Indians crafted for both ceremonial and everyday use. A sophisticated text accompanies the 130 full-color photos. --Fred Egloff from Booklist",arts & photography;books;decorative arts;decorative arts & design;native american studies;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,11
0281053030,"Paul for Everyone: The Prison Letters - Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon (New Testament for Everyone) ""[The For Everyone series] is probably the most exciting thing to have happened in Christian education in Britian for many years."" Expository Times	Tom Wright is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of over fifty books,",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;eastern;education & reference;other eastern religions & sacred texts;philosophy;politics & social sciences;reference;religion & spirituality;taoism,11
0596008996,"Oracle Utilities Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) Sanjay Mishra has more than 12 years of experience working with Oracle systems. His key areas of interest include database architecture, database administration, performance management, scalability, software development and data modelling for mission-critical and decision support applications. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, and a Master of Engineering degree in Systems Science and Automation. He is the co-author of the books Oracle Parallel Processing and Oracle SQL Loader: The Definitive Guide (both published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.). Sanjay has published several technical papers in Oracle Magazine and SELECT Journal, and has presented many technical papers at various regional, national and international conferences.",books;business;computers & technology;database management systems;databases;education & reference;languages & tools;programming;software;sql;utilities,11
0205181821,"Discovery: An Introduction to Writing The first full-color book in the developmental writing  market, this book focuses on helping readers build sentence and paragraph  writing skills. With its encouraging tone, careful explanations, and abundance  of carefully sequenced and incrementally challenging exercise sets, it enables  readers to view writing as a means of discovering more about themselves and  their surroundings.  The book starts with an overview of the  writing process with special attention given to prewriting and the development  of topic and supporting sentences to help readers put grammar correctness in  the context of writing. Parts 2 through 5 provide lucid and well-illustrated  explanations of basic sentence elements, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.  Part 6 is a section of reading selections which includes an introduction on  critical reading and comprehension and contains numerous writing exercises. An  appendix provides practical advice for ESL writers studying English grammar and  writing.  For professionals wishing to improve upon their writing  skills.",books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;literature;new;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,11
0062514318,"The Lesbian Love Companion : How to Survive Everything From Heartthrob to Heartbreak Hall uses anecdotal and personal accounts of breakups, distancing and other lesser breakups, revitalizations, and splits, all to shed some measure of light and hope on the slippery slopes of relationships. Her central theme is that lesbians must reexamine the forever-after notion of romantic love and reinvent the way they tell tales of personal interactions. She claims it is not a specific act or a series of behaviors that ends relationships; it is the compromised storytelling ability of the partners. By renaming in the tale-telling, lesbians arrive at new levels of understanding and accommodation. Although the relabeling and repackaging of old woes that Hall proposes may seem to be rationalization, it may be of value, especially in the psychotherapeutic professions, though it has something of the short-term quick fix about it (an advantage in the era of managed care?). Interestingly enough, the humorous illustrations in a book for lesbians by a lesbian have been drawn by a man.  Whitney Scott	""Hall uses anecdotal and personal accounts of breakups, distancing and other lesser breakups, revitalizations, and splits, all to shed some measure of light and hope on the slippery slopes of relationships. Her central theme is that lesbians must reexamine the forever-after notion of romantic love and reinvent the way they tell tales of personal interactions. She claims it is not a specific act ora series of behaviors that ends relationships; it is the compromised storytelling ability of the partners.  By renaming in the tale-telling, lesbians arrive at new levels of understanding and accommodation.  Although the re-labeling and repackaging of old woes that Hall proposes may seem to be rationalization, it may be of value, especially in the psychotherapeutic professions, though it has something of the short-term quick fix about it (an advantage in the era of managed care?). Interestingly enough, the humorous illustrations in a book for lesbians by a lesbian have been drawn by a man."" -- Booklist	""Out of a history of invisibility and silence, lesbians have devised some of the most unique (and creative) ways of having relationships--ways that defy convention and sometimes appear downright crazy. We are everywhere. And when it comes to loving, we are also everything . . . our love lives are just as diverse as we are.""--from The Lesbian Love Companion In The Lesbian Love Companion, Marny Hall, Ph.D., a psychotherapist with twenty years experience counseling lesbian couples, explores and celebrates lesbian relationships in all their complexity--and humor. Based on the idea that the key to healthy relationships lies in our ability to keep refining the story of our relationships, it presents the perfect blend of advice and inspiration for every lesbian looking for love. Interspersing real-life examples from Hall's practice, sound advice, and laugh-out-loud observations, The Lesbian Love Companion takes a completely fresh and honest approach to the unique relationship issues near and dear to every lesbian's heart. ""[A] lively, smart, funny, and fun-to-read book that challenges our fairy tale notions that we will find one Ms. Right and settle down forever in undisturbed bliss. Hall . . . offers wise advice about how to keep one's sanity through the ins-and-outs of all these discombobulating and destabilizing experiences.""--Lillian Faderman, author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers and Surpassing the Love of Men ""Witty, perceptive, and wise.""--Karla Jay, editor of Dyke Life and Lesbian Erotics ""With dozens of real-life examples, [this] highly creative guide to everyday relationship pitfalls is a veritable Kama Sutra of emotional possibility.""--Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch Out For ""A wonderful book helping lesbians define our relationship on OUR terms--making a successful breakup as worthwhile as our commitments.""--Suzanne Westenhoefer, lesbian comedienne ""A delightfully practical and funny guidebook to exploring life after love. No coy language and no judgmental presumptions help us say yes to the relationships we want. When you go shopping for the next commitment ceremony, The Lesbian Love Companion is the perfect gift.""--Jewelle Gomez, author of The Gilda Stories	Marny Hall, Ph.D., is a San Fransico Bay Area psychotherapist with twenty years' experience specializing in lesbian relationships.",books;gay & lesbian;interpersonal relations;love & romance;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;relationships;self-help;sex;social sciences;specific demographics,11
0521542227,"Marginal to Mainstream: Alternative Medicine in America The search term ""complementary and alternative medicine"" (CAM) retrieves more than 40,000 titles from Amazon.com's prodigious Web site. Even the apparently more specific retrieval algorithm at Barnes & Noble's Web site provides 1532 titles. With this plethora of sources, one wonders whether anything has been left unsaid about CAM, a challenge to health care conventions that has entered the popular lexicon only in the past decade or so. A survey of this vast corpus of writings on CAM, however, shows most of it to be made up of how-to books and the unfettered ruminations of popular health gurus. A minority of books are scholarly discussions and disputations of one or more facets of CAM. Having arrived only recently at the cybersellers' warehouses and at local shopping malls, Mary Ruggie's book, Marginal to Mainstream, manages to provide fresh perspectives from a seasoned sociologist. Currently at Harvard University and formerly the departmental chair at Columbia University, Ruggie is not an entirely detached observer of the CAM scene. She admits in her preface to having been drawn to CAM while a patient herself. However, she avoids aligning herself with or against the dramatis personae of the CAM field or the merits of their claims. Ruggie's goal is more to observe salient currents in the social transformation of American health care with the emergence of CAM than to take sides in the debate surrounding it. A strength of the book is its trenchant analysis of the nature of CAM and the factors that drove it to the margins of organized medicine throughout most of the 20th century. Ruggie notes that CAM and conventional medicine enjoy different epistemological frameworks. Conventional medicine aspires to practices that are informed through formal scientific inquiry. In CAM, traditional wisdom and our own life experiences suffice to explain the phenomena and guide the choices of daily life. For Ruggie, the ""mainstreaming"" of CAM is not evidence that it and conventional medicine are relinquishing their philosophical distinctions. Rather, this trend speaks to the recognition within conventional medicine of its own limitations and that personal choices can be agents for health. It also demonstrates the acknowledgment by CAM that it can benefit from a formal appraisal; the vehicle for that appraisal is science. Ruggie reports on the unwelcome alliance forced by the U.S. Congress on CAM and public agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the early 1990s. Neither the NIH nor the CAM community relished a robust research enterprise that was seen as distracting on one side and sinister on the other. Although too much of Marginal to Mainstream is a catalogue of the research centers and projects that have brought CAM into the hallowed domain of academic health centers, Ruggie is cautiously optimistic that research will not legitimize CAM so much as provide a rational basis for deciding which products and practices are sufficiently safe and effective to be mainstreamed. Readers of this book could peruse Tovey, Easthope, and Adams's equally recent The Mainstreaming of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Studies in Social Context (Routledge, 2004) for a more international perspective on many of the issues addressed by Ruggie. Readers could also review Cohen's Beyond Complementary Medicine: Legal and Ethical Perspectives on Health Care and Health Evolution (University of Michigan Press, 2000) for more insights into the government machinery that is abetting or restraining the movement of CAM from marginal to mainstream. Stephen E. Straus, M.D.Copyright  2004 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved. The New England Journal of Medicine is a registered trademark of the MMS.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	""[An] extremely comprehensive, detailed, and well-referenced look at the explosion of interest in CAM.""   Annals of Internal Medicine""A superb dissection ... the best sociological interpretation of [the] subject currently available.""  American Journal of Sociology	Most users of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) approach it through different lenses than physicians. Ordinary people employ informal knowledge, which is based on their experiences, beliefs, and values. One chapter elaborates why people use CAM, another why physicians are becoming interested in it. Physicians also use informal knowledge, based on their experiences as clinicians, to understand patients and their needs. But physicians use formal knowledge, based on science, to understand medicine. If CAM is going to become a legitimate part of health care, physicians insist that scientific research must prove its safety and efficacy. Another chapter elaborates how scientific research is conducted (randomized, controlled, clinical trials). Another elaborates current scientific research on CAM.",alternative medicine;books;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,11
0670032123,"The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Europe 1944-45 The author of Tornado Down, former RAF Flight Lt. Nichol was a Gulf War POW, while Last Days of Glory author Rennell is the former associate editor of the London Sunday Times. They cleverly weave WWII policy decisions dealing with POWs with firsthand accounts of POWs inside prison camps in Europe and during the forced evacuation marches many endured during the last months of the war. As the Russians advanced in summer 1944, POWs were crammed into boxcars (and, later, ships), attacked by guards in retaliation for Allied bombing of Germany and sent on extensive forced marches, described here in horrifying detail. As the war ended, some Red Cross relief convoys got through, but General Patton failed in an attempt to liberate a POW camp holding his son-in-law behind German lines. The reluctance of Russians to return liberated British and American POWs to the West was balanced by the issue of forced repatriation of former Soviet POWs who didn't want to return to the Stalinist state. Nichol and Rennell offer anecdotal evidence that some POWs were killed by the SS, and retribution by prisoners against brutal guards also occurred. In the postwar lives of a few POWs featured, incarceration took a physical and psychological toll. While offering little in the way of new information, and failing to cover fully the complete spectrum of prison camps and prisoner nationalities, the authors provide a compelling account of the ways, means and effects of mass imprisonment during the last terrible century.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	The authors note that there were an estimated 250,000 to 300,000 British and American prisoners in camps across Germany in 1944 and 1945 who survived World War II. Nichol and Rennell admit that gathering precise information was a problem in their research for this book, and they remind readers that it is not a definitive history of the POW camps. Yet from such sources as interviews, diaries, and more than 60 books on the subject, they describe in vivid detail the horrendous conditions in the camps and the forced marches after the Allied landing in France on June 6, 1944, and the Russian army's advance from the east. Survivors tell of the bitter cold, illness, filth, lack of food, despair, exhaustion, and indignities. They relate their fear of being shot by the guards, their faith in God, and their homesickness. They remember how hidden radios kept them informed of the war's progress and how Red Cross parcels sometimes brought them much-needed food. An exceptional chronicle of bravery and endurance. George CohenCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Splendid... a fascinating tale. -- Joseph E. Persico, author of  Roosevelts  Secret WarSuperb... A lasting tribute to those who endured imprisonment. -- Carlo  DEste,  author of Patton: A Genius for War[An] affecting history... [of] one of the great war crimes of the 20th century. -- The Wall Street Journal	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	John Nichol is a bestselling author and a former RAF flight lieutenant who was shot down over Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the Gulf War, captured, and tortured.   Tony Rennell, formerly the associate editor of the Sunday Times and the Mail on Sunday, is the author of Last Days of Glory: The Death of Queen Victoria and coauthor of When Daddy Came Home.",20th century;americas;books;europe;germany;history;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);prisoners of war;united states;world war ii,11
1841761923,"The Armada Campaign 1588: The Great Enterprise against England Highly visual guides to history's greatest conflicts, detailing the command strategies, tactics, and experiences of the opposing forces throughout each campaign, and concluding with a guide to the battlefields today.	Angus Konstam is an experienced military historian and writer, and has already written three Campaign titles for Osprey, as well as several other titles in the Elite and Men-at-Arms series, including Elite 70: Elizabethan Sea Dogs 1560-1605. Angus previously worked as Curator of Weapons in the Royal Armouries at the Tower of London, and as Chief Curator in the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum, in Key West. Before his museum career he worked as an underwater archaeologist, and wrote his Masters thesis on 16th century naval gunnery and tactics. He currently works as a freelance curator and writer in Key West, Florida.",16th century;books;england;europe;history;ireland;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);naval;portugal;spain,11
157980747X,"The World Factbook 2001 ""Excellent for answering quick reference questions on the nations of the world."" - American Reference Books Annual ""A valuable, easy-to-use worldwide information source."" - World Affairs Council Booknotes ""Excellent...a wealth of unclassified data is provided...An indispensable reference for those involved in global, political, military, diplomatic, or economic affairs."" - Sea Power""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",almanacs;almanacs & yearbooks;bibliographies & indexes;books;education & reference;new;publishing & books;reference;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,11
B000MTEKL4,"Web Standards Programmer's Reference: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and PHP This invaluable resource offers tutorials and real-world examples as well as thorough language references for Web markup languages (HTML/XHTML and CSS), and popular scripting languages (JavaScript, Perl, and PHP)Examines the role of JavaScript, CGI (with examples in Perl and Python), and PHP on the Web and shows how to best use them allIncludes a valuable reference section on each technology that can be used for review and consultation	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	This invaluable resource offers tutorials and real-world examples as well as thorough language references for Web markup languages (HTML/XHTML and CSS), and popular scripting languages (JavaScript, Perl, and PHP)Examines the role of JavaScript, CGI (with examples in Perl and Python), and PHP on the Web and shows how to best use them allIncludes a valuable reference section on each technology that can be used for review and consultation	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;computers & technology;css;education & reference;javascript;languages & tools;perl;php;programming;python;web development & design,11
0595153747,Injecting Incentives Into the Solution of Social and Environmental Problems: Social Policy Bonds Ronnie Horesh was educated in the UK. Hehas worked as an economist for the New Zealand Government for the past 15 yearsa period during which the entire New Zealand economy has experienced the most thoroughgoing liberalisation.,books;business & investing;economic policy;economic policy & development;economics;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;popular economics;public affairs & policy;social policy,11
1570711631,"Software Law: A User-Friendly Legal Guide for Software Developers : With Forms (Self-Help Law Kit With Forms) Attorney Bassinger's book will not replace more substantial offerings such as Stephen Fishman's Software Development: A Legal Guide (Nolo, 1994). No one book, however, does it all. Bassinger's contribution includes a more detailed section on trademarks than Fishman's, current developments in the law, reproducible copyright and trademark forms, and the toll-free number to the Patent and Trademark Office. Bassinger's comfortable style is unburdened by ""legalese."" His overview provides the heaviest coverage for copyright, trademark, and contract options, with shorter chapters on patents and trade secrets. The author tracks a trademark application from filling in the form to registration (complete with time frames) and beyond. Even though more actual examples would have been a plus, this book is well suited to the individual entrepreneur or software developer and a good choice for libraries serving that clientele.?Johanna Johnson, Dallas P.L.,Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.",books;business & management;computers & technology;digital law;education & reference;law;legal self-help;programming;software design;software development;testing & engineering,11
0801979234,"Import Car Repair Manual 1995-1999 For more than 80 years, Chilton products have set the standard for reference sources for Do-It-Yourself automotive enthusiasts and professionals.",automotive;books;engineering;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;new;professional & technical;repair;transportation;trucks & vans;used & rental textbooks,11
185532282X,"Kingtiger Heavy Tank 1942-45 (New Vanguard) The unrivalled illustrated reference on fighting vehicles, transport and artillery through the ages. Each volume is illustrated throughout, making these books uniquely accessible to history enthusiasts of all ages.	Tom Jentz, born in 1946, is one of the World's leading AFV researchers and is best known for the Encyclopedia of German Tanks. Tom lives in Maryland with his German wife and two children. Hilary Louis Doyle, born 1943, has written numerous books on AFV's including the Encyclopedia of German Tanks. Hilary lives in Dublin, Ireland, with his wife and three children.",armored vehicles;books;conventional;engineering;history;military;military science;professional & technical;special topics;weapons & warfare;world war ii,11
0262621657,"CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the ZKM Center  for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, this timely catalog of  the emerging genre of surveillance art is the first to compile  critical essays discussing the history of surveillance, dating  from Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon in 1787 to the present. The  catalog includes many well-known Western artists and offers  exposure to some who are lesser known. Curator and coeditor  Levin has gathered a mixture of important original and  previously published essays by some of the most respected  postmodern theorists in this collection, among them Jean  Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Victor Burgin, and  Slavoj Zizek. The layout mirrors the sensibility of the exhibit  but is distracting, with overlapping type that can actually make  reading the book difficult. This mammoth catalog includes  biographies of the artists and authors, 950 illustrations (350  in color), and an exhibition checklist. Recommended for academic  libraries with contemporary art collections.Krista Ivy,  California State Univ., San Bernardino   Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	CTRL [SPACE] is resonant reading... [a] weaving together of artistic projects and critical texts.  Foster, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe essays are superb, but as you might expect, it's the images that'll blow you away.  Angela Gunn, Time Out New YorkThis timely catalog... is the first to compile critical essays discussing the history of surveillance.  Krista Ivy, Library JournalThe range and scope of this catalogue is extraordinary... an intellectually stimulating and visually engaging publication.  Katie Mondlock, PhD, CAA	Thomas Y. Levin is Associate Professor of German at Princeton University where he teaches media and cultural theory. His most recent book CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother (MIT Press, 2002) is the catalogue of a major exhibition which he curated at the ZKM in Karlsruhe (Germany).Ursula Frohne is Professor of Art and Art History at International University Bremen, Bremen, Germany.Peter Weibel is Director of ZKM | Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, and coeditor of other ZKM books, including Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy (MIT Press).",architecture;arts & photography;books;history;history & criticism;methodology;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;science & math;social sciences;technology,11
0131073850,"Business Forecasting and Student CD Package (8th Edition) This top selling text presents, in a straightforward, application-driven manner, the basic statistical techniques that are useful for preparing individual business forecasts and long-range plans. The emphasis is on the application of techniques by management for decision-making.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	Managerial decision-making in approach, this book explores the basic statistical techniques that are useful for preparing individual business forecasts and long-range plans. Incorporates instructions on using Excel spreadsheets and the statistical package MINITAB to forecast, along with their appropriate output.  Organizing Data and a Review of Statistical Concepts. Exploring Data Patterns and Choosing a Forecasting Technique. Moving Averages and Smoothing Methods. Time Series Analysis. Regression Analysis. Multiple Regression. Regression with Time Series Data. The Box-Jenkins (ARIMA) Methodology. Judgmental Forecasting and Other Forecasting Methods. Managing the Forecasting Process.  For business managers interested in business forecasting techniques.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & finance;business & investing;management;management & leadership;management science;new;planning & forecasting;popular economics;project management;used & rental textbooks,11
1890482838,"Blackfoot Physics: A Journey into the Native American Worldview Born in a suburb of Liverpool, England, just before the Second World War, David Peat remembers frequent trips to the damp and smelly air raid shelter. His interest in science was awakened by the magnesium casings of incendiary bombs--the magnesium could be lit by playing a bunsen burner on it. This interest was strengthened by his physics teacher at school, who encouraged his pupils to work things out from first principles. Peat frequented the Cavern jazz club in Liverpool, but didn't take the new beat groups who began to appear there (including the Beatles) too seriously.    Interest in experimental physics gave way to theoretical and philosophical concerns in such areas as quantum theory. Density matrices brought him to Canada, where he stayed 30 years, teaching and writing and following the work of thinker David Bohm.",books;gay & lesbian;history;modern;nonfiction;philosophy;physics;politics & social sciences;science & math;social sciences;specific demographics,11
0753801140,"A Bend in the Yellow River Justin Hill is the author of one previous work, A Bend in the Yellow River. Born in 1971, he worked with VSO and lived in China for many years.",asia;biographies & memoirs;books;china;education & reference;general;history;memoirs;research & publishing guides;travel;writing,11
1578200261,"Maximizing Call Center Performance Madeline Bodin has been writing about call centers for over 10 years. She is a former editor of Call Center Magazine. Her books have been translated into several languages and are read around the globe. Her most recent book is Maximizing Call Center Performance. Keith Dawson is one of the world's foremost authorities on call centers. He is currently Senior Editor at CommWeb and was founder of Call Center News Service, which is the industry's premier online source for industry information and analysis, an independent online source for industry information. He is also author of 'Call Center Savvy' and 'Call Center Handbook'.",books;business & investing;computers & technology;customer service;engineering;industries & professions;management & leadership;management science;networking;professional & technical;telecommunications,11
B00005MEG6,"ROUNDTABLE FORUM: HEALTHCARE IT & DRUG DISTRIBUTION In one of TWST's hallmark roundtable discussions, a distinguished panel of analysts reviews at great length the performance of the industry, and examines the factors that determine the success of companies within the sector. It discusses changes within the sector, and especially as they relate to competition, globalization, cost and price pressures and mergers and alliances between companies. Based on its analysis of the industry, the panel identifies companies best placed to succeed in the medium term future. Sector: Specialized Health Services.  Published date 5/28/01. Tickers featured: ADVP, CAH, CERN, DCCA, ECLP, ESRX, HLTH, IDXC, IMNY, KOOP, MCK, MDLI, MDRX, RX, SI. Complete text approximately 15-20,000 words.  Document # MAJ450.   TWST ROUNDTABLE PANELS, The Wall Street Transcript, 67 Wall Street, NY 10005. Voice (212) 952 7433. Fax: (212) 668-9842. E-mail: transcript@twst.com. -- Review",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;finance;industries & professions;introduction;investing;investments & securities;new;used & rental textbooks,11
B000FCKA5S,"Boomerang Nation: How to Survive Living with Your Parents...the Second Time Around Rents aren't getting cheaper, high-paying jobs aren't getting easier to find, and the result is that financial independence can be tough for young adults to create. For many, the answer is moving back home with their parents; it's a phenomenon that gets more sitcom jokes than thoughtful discussion. Enter Boomerang Nation, a how-to guide that helps ease family frustrations when the empty nest is suddenly full again.   Author Elina Furman's (The Everything After College Book) mix of sympathy and snarky humor manages to simultaneously give you a hug and a firm kick in the rear. Rather than focusing on her own experience (many years of living with mom after college), Furman covers a full range of possible reasons for moving in with the folks: break ups, job loss, grad school, parents in need of assistance, and saving money for a specific goal are all included. Tidbits from a number of interviews with boomerangers are found in every chapter; though short, the personal stories add a friendly touch.   The advice covers highly specific topics with pleasing bluntness. Her insistence on helping out around the house and chipping in financially will have parents delightedly highlighting sections, while her understanding of modern dating and examination of parenting styles helps the younger generation sort though complex issues. Don't let the lighthearted writing style fool you: Furman's sensible suggestions can help everyone in the family straighten out the wrinkles of redefined relationships.  Jill Lightner	A lifesaving resource for anyone young, broke, and contemplating the unthinkable. With this book, moving back home doesnt have to mean that life as you know it is over. Furman shows us there is such a thing as the light at the end of your parents driveway. -- Jason Anthony, coauthor of Debt-Free by 30	Elina Furman has written and cowritten more than twenty books, including The Everything After College Book, Generation Inc., and The Everything Dating Book. She lives in New York City and can be found on the web at www.boomerangnation.com.	Boomerangers Unite!  After school, my parents didn't blink an eye when I told them I'd be moving back home. They kind of just shrugged their shoulders and handed over the garage-door opener. It's funny, because I remember how different things were for my older sister eight years ago. When she wanted to move home, my parents freaked. They thought she had lost her mind, that she was having some kind of nervous breakdown. They even blamed themselves for being horrible parents. I think it helps that a lot of their friends now have their kids living at home, too. They're much cooler about it now.  -- Amanda, 24, Arlington, VA  Good news! Most people moving home today will find that the stigma of living at home has all but disappeared. Having come out of the basement, boomerangers are proud, loud, and not afraid to show the world that they mean business. With so many young adults opting to return to the nest around the world, it's become clear that we boomerangers are not going away anytime soon.  While there may not have been any overnight breakthroughs, there has been a slow and gradual acceptance of boomeranging. Over the years, the nuclear American family has evolved to the point where we can barely recognize ourselves, steadily morphing into a model European family, where multiple generations live and even thrive together under one roof.  What used to be seen as a social taboo has now become a commonly accepted life passage. Attitudes have significantly changed, bringing with them an entirely new way of looking at adulthood. No longer do we set a rigid timeline for how long it takes to mature, establish a rewarding career, or start a family. And judging by this chart, it's clear that many of us aren't in any rush to get to the finish line. According to the 2000 census:  1970 12.5 million 18- to 34-year-olds live at home.  2000 17.8 million 18- to 34-year-olds live at home.  Going by the sheer size of this demographic, it's clear that boomerangers can't be pigeonholed into one neat stereotype. They come in all shapes and sizes, from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and cultures, and are equally diverse in their views about what brought on the sudden change in their lifestyles.  Sociologists, economists, and psychologists have been scratching their heads, analyzing various statistics to figure out what brought about this unexpected shift. And after much research and painstaking data collection, the following emerged as some of the main contributors to the explosive boomerang phenomenon.   Financial problems, like high credit card and school loan debt A tight job market and lack of opportunities for recent graduates A reluctance to grow up and accept adult responsibilities A delay in the average age for marriage for both men and women The prohibitive cost of housing Illness or death of parent Breakup or divorce Close, best-friend-like relationships between parents and young adults Multiculturalism and its emphasis on intergenerational living   It's the Economy, Stupid!  The American Dream is not what it used to be. According to recent statistics fewer and fewer high-school-age children expect to have it better than their parents. And with good reason. In light of the recent recession, the high unemployment rate, and the exorbitant cost of housing, most of us consider ourselves pretty lucky just to be able to squat at our parents' place after we graduate or find a pink slip where the holiday bonus should have been.  The 1990s saw many of our hopes rise and fall in the span of five years. When the technology sector was booming, companies couldn't seem to create new positions fast enough. The rallying cry was Hire, hire, hire! But with the dot-com bust of 2001, the same companies changed their tune to Fire, fire, fire!  The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 10.9 percent of 20- to 24-year-olds were unemployed in September 2003, versus 6.7 percent in September 2000. The jobless rate for 25- to 34-year-olds rose as well, from 3.7 to 6.3 percent in that same period.  One day I was living the good life, really good, and then everything crashed. I had about half a million in options and then I was down to zero -- overnight! Suddenly, I couldn't afford anything. It was good-bye shopping, good-bye expense account, good-bye weekly manicures and pedicures, good-bye apartment. Months went by and I still couldn't find work. I finally broke down and took a part-time at a clothing store (something I swore I would never do). But there was no way I could afford to live in the city on what I was making. Luckily, my parents lived close by and took pity on me. I honestly don't know what I would have done if it wasn't for them.  -- Lesley, 27, Austin, TX  Simply put, the middle-class lifestyle of our parents that seemed so readily attainable has gradually revealed itself as a mirage in our new economy. All the fruits we expected as our birthright -- cars, houses, health insurance, job stability -- now seem like relics of an idealized and out-of-reach past.  Cash Pad  Anyone who's ever thumbed a nose at the younger generations for being shiftless, aimless, and incapable of supporting themselves clearly never experienced the degradation of answering an ad for a $1,000-per-month apartment only to find a hovel with no windows, heating, or fridge. While bustling cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco beckon to recent graduates with the promise of greater opportunities, culture, and creative fervor, these very same environs are virtually uninhabitable for anyone making under $40,000 or $50,000 a year (and let's face it, most starting salaries are far lower).  Sure, we often hear of young people living like sardines in up-and-coming neighborhoods and eating ramen noodles by candlelight. But when faced with the prospect of shelling out more than half of their monthly salary for a fraction of the amenities, many young adults are opting out of the shabby chic living phase in favor of the plush and comfy confines of their family homes.  Not only are skyrocketing rental prices squeezing us out, but the housing sales market is equally unwelcoming. Chew on this: The National Association of Realtors estimated that the cost of a home rose by 500 percent, from 1973 to 2004, to a median price of $156,200. Not only that, the typical starter household income for that same time period increased only 300 percent, to an average of $42,228. What does it all mean? It means that our salaries just can't keep pace with the rising cost of housing, and many of us feel that there's no way we'll ever be able to experience the dream of home ownership. Unless, of course, we save for a down payment by moving home with Mom and Dad.  Take Stan, for example. After graduating with an MBA from a top school, he moved to San Francisco to start his mid-six-figure-salary job. Stan could have had his pick of any number of deluxe apartments overlooking the city. Instead, he opted to move home with his parents for two years in order to pay off his $75,000 school loan and start saving to buy a place of his own.  I figured if my parents were cool enough to give me a free ride by letting me crash at home, I could pay down my school debt in a couple of years. That's pretty good if you think about it. If I really buckled down and saved, I could even scrape a little bit toward a down payment on a condo. If I had moved straight into my own apartment, it would probably take me more like eight to ten years to get to that same point. I figure it was a compromise worth making.  -- Stan, 28, Santa Rosa, CA  School of Hard Knocks  Stan's story, while surprising to some, is hardly unique. Rising school loans and tuition hikes play a huge role in the evolution of the boomerang culture. According to the Department of Education in 1980, federal Pell grants accounted for about 77 percent of the cost of a four-year institution. Today, that number has slid to a paltry 40 percent, and getting one of these grants is tougher than ever. With the new changes in the eligibility requirements made by the Department of Education, about 84,000 incoming students will be excluded from the program entirely. With Pell grants falling faster than Britney Spears's record sales and universities raising tuition fees due to a lack of state and federal support, many have to work overtime to make ends meet.  In the past, a high-school diploma was enough to land a middle-class income and lifestyle. Your dad or granddad graduated from high school, landed a job at the local steel mill, and was able to provide for a family of three. These days, a high school degree won't get you much. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, college graduates earned 80 percent more than people with only a high school diploma. So in order to match the standard of living enjoyed by our parents, we have no choice but to buckle down and get an advanced four-year degree.  On top of being virtually mandatory, a college degree now takes longer than ever to acquire. While most students used to breeze through the curriculum in a four-year period, that time frame has gotten considerably longer. On average, only one-third of students who enter four-year colleges straight from high school graduate on time. With so many students transferring schools, switching majors, and taking time off to work, many experts have established six years as the new, more realistic graduation timeline.  Tempting as it is for us to dawdle on campus for five years or more, we rarely acknowledge the damage it's doing to our bank account until it is too late. After six years of kicking and screaming, most of us will be saddled with an average school loan of $18,000.  For many students, paying off their school loan on an entry-level salary is a formidable feat. After the monthly installment is paid, the rent handed in, and the bills mailed, there's just not eno...",books;family relationships;fitness & dieting;health;kindle ebooks;kindle store;motivational;parent & adult child;parenting & relationships;self-help;success,11
0823416100,"Up, Up, Up! It's Apple-Picking Time Kindergarten-Grade 3-This book succeeds more at describing an experience than in telling a strong story. It's time to pick apples on Grandma and Grandpa's farm and then sell the fruit at the roadside stand. The family drinks in the apple aroma, ""Apple smell is in the air-/apple perfume everywhere,"" and tastes the fruit, ""The apple is cool and crunchy and sweet."" Apples are described as big as softballs. At the end of the adventure, the family dances to old jazz records. The paper-collage, color illustrations highlight the warm and jovial interactions. The varying perspectives of the art nicely complement this sensory experience. A pleasant addition to harvest units and storytimes.Linda M. Kenton, San Rafael Public Library, CACopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""Just in time for apple picking and apple pies, this ""warm and jovial"" harvest time picture book looks behind the scene at a family-run orchard."" (School Library Journal)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Jody Fickes Shapiro makes regular visits to her family's California apple ranch and loves to pick, sell, and eat apples. She is the owner of Adventures for Kids, a bookstore for children in Ventura, California, where she lives.Kitty Harvill has illustrated picture books for children. Her artwork has also appeared in a line of note cards and prints. She munches apples in Maumelle, Arkansas, in the company of her four cats and parrot.",books;children's books;family life;farm life;multigenerational;nature;nature & how it works;science;social situations;travel & cultures;where we live,11
1889409073,"Write What You Know: A Writer's Adventure Georgia Jones: publisher, author, sculptor;  recognized in Who's Who; keynote speaker at the first annual IFLAC Peace Conference; has for the past five years devoted her time and effort to the establishment of online workshops and internet materials helping aspiring and established poets and writers develop and improve their skills and opportunities.    Her WEB based programs have been presented as tutorials and interactive learning experiences for everyone interested in developing writing skills.  As a sponsor of writing contests she designed and presented a step-by-step format that enabled students and contest entrants to expand their writing skills by using simple techniques for developing strong plot lines.    Ms. Jones has conducted art and writing workshops for the Maryland School for the Deaf, various online forums both on the internet and on CompuServe and Women's Wire, and for Ladybug Press.    Georgia Jones has authored numerous articles, has been a regular columnist;  her plays, ""A Stitch in Time"" and ""The Usual Suspects,"" have been produced and broadcast on National Public Radio affiliates throughout the U.S.",books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;literature;new;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,11
B000HHQFNC,"Filter Pad Replacement This mechanical/biological coarse filter pad is exclusively designed and made in Japan by world-renowned koi experts. Only the best quality material is used to ensure the best filtering results for your pond water. The densely-packed and intricately-woven material is extremely effective at filtering out particulate waste. For best results, always place the coarse pad first against the water flow. The coarse pad is sized to fit the Laguna powerflo filter falls 5000 and skimmer filter 5000. Measures 17-inch length by 14-inch height by 1-3/16-inch width. This product weighs 0.81-pound.",filter accessories;fish & aquatic pets;hagen;laguna;lawn & garden;outdoor décor;patio;pet supplies;pet supplies: international shipping available;pumps & filters;water gardens & ponds,11
0751357995,"Factastic Book of Lists Did you know that about 15 million burgers are consumed every day in  the United States? Or that the wingspan of an adult albatross is greater than the length of a small car? Or that the world's heaviest person (Jon Minnoch, 1941-1983) at one time weighed 1,400 pounds? Or that the finale of M*A*S*H still ranks as the most-viewed television show of all time with over 50 million households watching? The Factastic Book of 1001 Lists may be billed as a children's book, but adults will certainly appreciate these fascinating facts.  The biggest, first, and fastest in categories such as ""Sports Miscellany,""  ""Films,"" ""Amazing People,"" ""Murder and Punishment,"" and ""Natural Disasters"" attract trivia hounds young and old.  Each  double-page spread is neatly designed with colorful charts and generous  illustrations, making this dense collection of information easy to digest and  especially easy to pick up and browse for short stints. Russell Ash, who also compiles the annual Top Ten of Everything, knows just how overwhelming this world of abundant Internet information can be. By dividing life into lists and categories, he manages to simultaneously simplify and glorify the amazing planet we inhabit. (Ages 9 and older) --Gail Hudson	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Grade 5 Up-A delightful smorgasbord of fantastic facts, from the essential to the bizarre, organized into 12 subject areas such as ""Space,"" ""The Earth,"" ""Science,"" ""Countries,"" ""The Arts,"" and ""World Sports."" Demonstrating the publisher's customary flair for neatly compartmentalized information tidbits and striking use of illustration and typography, this title resembles the author's annual The Top Ten of Everything (DK) in style and format. Many of the lists are ideal for quick reference queries: the five kingdoms, measurement conversions, countries and continent facts, body systems, highest mountains, and longest rivers. Other lists are more esoteric, to say the least: ""Giant Frog Recipes"" or ""Grisly Execution Methods."" Pages are headed with colored bands, include ""Did You Know?"" trivia facts, and are punctuated with numerous high-quality color illustrations. Lists are organized in neat columns with succinct headings. The index is not very detailed, but suffices in identifying key subjects. A fun, visually appealing, and informative title.Mary Ann Carcich, Brooklyn Public Library, NY Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	If you have aspirations to be a contestant on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? or Jeopardy or are just a hard core trivia buff then this is the book for you. (Victoria Pennell Resource Links 2000)You can spend hours over the lists here assembled ... We spent a long time looking through the book and reading just one more list to anyone who would listen. (Sally Bender Brandon Sun 2000)	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	Russell Ash is the uncontested king of lists. Not simply a career, listmaking is his legend, facts his friends, statistics his sanctuary, trivia his triumph. He was descended from a family of craftsmen who were London goldsmiths and silversmiths for several generations since the 17th century -- the most notable being Claudius Ash (1792-1854), one of the principal inventors of false teeth. His father was a bookbinder at the British Museum. Born in 1946, educated at Bedford Modern School, Mr. Ash attended Durham University where he earned a Joint Honours BA in Anthropology and Geology. Russell Ash began his career in publishing as a picture researcher in 1967; he moved on in 1973 to establish his own publishing company, Ash & Grant, and was a director of Weidenfeld & Nicholson and Pavilion Books. Mr. Ash has spent most of the past 30 years as a freelance writer and contributor to almost 100 non-fiction titles on such subjects as art (particularly the Impressionists and other late nineteenth-century painters), animals real and fictitious (he is the official ""biographer"" of Paddington Bear), and humor. He has compiled various award-winning popular reference titles, including the perennial bestselling Top Ten of Everything, which has also inspired a weekly network children's television series in the UK (in which he appears). He has also written Incredible Comparisons, which features a variety of fascinating objects side by side with accompanying statistics. The World in One Day is his 1997 bestseller for children, chronicling all the facts about daily life. His latest children's book, Factastic Millennium Facts, is packed with intriguing information and entertaining anecdotes covering the key worldwide political, social , and cultural events of the last 1,000 years. Russell Ash is currently an author, occasional journalist, and packager of books in the UK and US. He lives in a large Victorian house (which he is restoring) in Sussex, England with his wife, daughter, and two sons. He has recently returned to the family tradition by learning the craft of silversmithing.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;education & reference;hobbies & home;humor & entertainment;puzzles & games;quizzes;reference;teens;trivia,11
0815716176,"Competition and Chaos: U.S. Telecommunications Since the 1996 Telecom Act ""Valuable as a resource on the rapidly changing telecommunications industry and as a case study of how partial regulatory reform can fail to create the environment in which the reform's objectives can be met....Highly recommended."" E. Magenheim, Swarthmore College,  CHOICE	Robert W. Crandall  is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution, where his research has focused on telecommunications and cable television regulation, industrial organization and policy, and the changing regional structure of the U.S. economy. His previous books include  Broadband: Should We Regulate Internet Access? (Brookings, 2002),  Telecommunications Liberalization on Two Sides of the Atlantic (Brookings, 2001) and  Who Pays for Universal Service? (Brookings, 2000).",books;business & investing;communication & media studies;communications;economic conditions;economic history;economics;politics & social sciences;popular economics;skills;social sciences,11
0872862100,"Destruction of the Jaguar: From the Books of Chilam Balam Catechism by Anonymous  Creation Of The World by Anonymous  Flight Of The Itzas by Anonymous  Katun 1 Ahau by Anonymous  Katun 10 Ahau by Anonymous  Katun 11 Ahau by Anonymous  Katun 12 Ahau by Anonymous  Katun 13 Ahau by Anonymous  Katun 2 Ahau by Anonymous  Katun 3 Ahau by Anonymous  Katun 4 Ahau by Anonymous  Katun 5 Ahau by Anonymous  Katun 6 Ahau by Anonymous  Katun 7 Ahau by Anonymous  Katun 8 Ahau by Anonymous  Katun 9 Ahau by Anonymous  The Prophecies Delivered To The People by Anonymous  Prophecies For The Turn Of The Year by Anonymous  The Prophecies Received by Anonymous  The Tun Wheel by Anonymous  What The Thunder Says by Anonymous -- Table of Poems from Poem FinderThe books of the Chilam Balain are all that remain of Mayan ancient texts and are thought to be derived from pre-conquest oral poetry, compiled and trartscribed after the establishment of Spanish culture in meso-America. Chilam Balam, literally, ""jaguar priest,"" is taken from the name of a fifteendi-century Mayan priest. The Chilam Balarn consists mainly of prophecies that depict the spiritual and bodily decline of Mayan culture, a decline of monumental proportions and the impending catastrophe of the conquest. Often the poems detail the imminent cruelty of the Spanish intruders, as in ""Xupan Nauat Speaks"": ""Brothers, prepare yourselves / Make ready for the arrival / of the man with visor, / roaring stick, gaping jaws / and bloody teeth."" -- From Independent Publisher	Text: English (translation)",books;education & reference;folklore & mythology;literature & fiction;mythology;mythology & folk tales;native american studies;poetry;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,11
0023397632,"The Little LISPer, Third Edition This is a wonderful extension of an already lovely book. Dan Friedman and Matthias Felleisen are in love with recursive thinking, and with Lisp as a vehicle for explaining it.... The authors carry total novices from childish 'toys' all the way to extremely abstract concepts deep in the heart of logic and computation. And yet from beginning to end, it's done with humor and obvious, infectious joy ... by no means just another guide to programming tricks and tools ... it is a rich, spicy, deep dish. If it were a pizza I would love eating it! - Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gdel, Escher, Bach  Many readers will be delighted and edified by Friedman and Felleisen's novel approach to the recursive programming language Lisp. - Raymond Smullyan, author of To Mock a Mockingbird	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Daniel P. Friedman is Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University and is the author of many books published by the MIT Press, including The Little Schemer (fourth edition, 1995), The Seasoned Schemer (1995), A Little Java, A Few Patterns (1997), each of these coauthored with Matthias Felleisen, and The Reasoned Schemer (2005), coauthored with William E. Byrd and Oleg Kiselyov.Matthias Felleisen is Trustee Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, recipient of the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and co-author (with Daniel Friedman) of The Little Schemer and three other ""Little"" books published by the MIT Press.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;lisp;new;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks,11
0060191473,"Cold Oceans: Adventures in Kayak, Rowboat, and Dogsled From its opening passages, Jon Turk's Cold Oceans chronicles explorations in both exterior and interior landscapes. In honest, accessible prose, Turk retraces more than two decades of his varied and stirring adventures--attempting to round Cape Horn solo in a kayak, rowing the Northwest Passage, dogsledding the east coast of Baffin Island, and kayaking from Ellesmere Island to Greenland. As Turk plunges headlong through icy seas, repeated and assorted blunders, and bouts of personal lows, he transcends mere adventure storytelling to explore a changing notion of himself, deepening relationships, and the nature of failure and true success. These passages contain some of Cold Oceans's greatest riches. With a host of explorers along as inspirational and literary companions, Turk evokes a landscape of life and history intertwined. After a daring 15-hour crossing to Greenland, Turk wrestles with polar explorer Robert Peary's notion of success, defined by fame and fortune, concluding, ""What mattered was that he [Peary] communicated his passion to the world."" And this is the success that Turk has achieved in Cold Oceans. Although the saga of choosing a life of adventure to stave off a more rooted and standard existence may seem a common tale, it is Turk's contemplation of this lifestyle choice that offers some of the book's finest insights. Ultimately, Turk's wanderings reveal how a thirst for adventure can at once drive, fragment, and unify a life. This incongruity is perhaps one of a traveler's greatest ponderings, and Cold Oceans confronts it boldly, piercing the heart of what it means to adventure. --Byron Ricks	Some of the most forbidding areas of the planet, from the Antarctic seas to Canada's Baffin Island, form the backdrop to this lumbering, highly personal memoir of dangerous treks and voyages across inhospitable terrain and water. Despite little experience and, it would seem, not a lot of common sense, Turk, a chemist and adventurer who works on promotion and product development for the outdoor apparel company the North Face, consistently embarks on grand journeys in ""some of the coldest, wettest, most remote regions of the world,"" then bites off more than he can chew. Ill-planned efforts to kayak around Cape Horn and dogsled across Baffin fall short of their goals. There are poignant moments along the way?Turk's account of a sled dog's death and images of snowmobile-riding Inuits who reverentially refer to ""the old days"" are memorable. But Turk's belief that he can tackle any endeavor without training or wisdom extends at times to his writing. His many wilderness descriptions and epiphanies sometimes lead to prose as rough-hewn?and nearly as compelling?as the landscape itself: ""When you climb a mountain, the way back is always downhill."" Though readers will likely find tough sledding even when on familiar territory, most will find it hard to be too put off by an adventurer who lost an opportunity to paddle through the Northwest Passage because, in planning, ""I had ignored distance, ice, and wind."" Five maps. (Sept.) FYI: The North Face is sponsoring Turk's six-city book tour in September.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Turk, an adventurer with a Ph.D. in chemistry, chronicles four separate expeditions over a ten-year period. Twice divorced and unhappy as a professor, he embarks on a stormy solo voyage paddling a 17' folding kayak south from Chile through the straits of Magellan to Tierra del Fuego to where, just 50 miles short of Cape Horn, he shipwrecks and is forced to abandon the journey. Undaunted, he takes his third wife along on a perilous icy northwest passage in a 16' wherry and later dogsleds Baffin Island, relying on the of help the Inuit for survival. A gifted writer and storyteller, Turk deftly folds bits of history and science into his narrative. This very engaging book, with its respectf ul, intimate glimpse of Inuit culture, is sure to be much read in public libraries.?John Kenny, San Francisco P.L.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Like the spate of adventure books spawned by Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, this collection of excursions over the past 20 years or so chronicles various harrowing experiences of the author and his wife, Chris. Initially, Turk tackles a kayaking trip of South America to try to re-create what Magellan experienced. Indeed, on subsequent trips to Greenland from remote Baffin Island, through the Northwest Passage, and on a dogsled across Baffin, Turk evokes the spirit of Admiral Peary, always trying to comprehend the scope of exploring through history. Ironically, despite the majestic beauty he encounters on all these trips, it is his human contact that is most interesting, especially during the dogsledding trip, when he discovers that his traveling companion is not to be trusted. His style of writing is breezy and straightforward, and the reader will enjoy accompanying Turk on these wild adventures.  Joe Collins	A chemist-turned-adventurer retraces the footsteps of polar explorers in some of the harshest conditions the earth has to offer. Observing the tired, sallow faces of his older scientific colleagues, Turk rejected a career in the lab for life on the land. His first adventurekayaking around Cape Horn in homage to Sir Francis Drakeends 50 miles short when he's shipwrecked and nearly killed. Next, he and his girlfriend and eventual wife, Chris, tackle the grueling Northwest Passage inside the Arctic Circle, where winter oceans freeze from North America to Asia and summer thaws produce ice floes the size of Texas. They attempt the trek (first completed by Roald Amundsen in 1906) by rowboat, alternately dragging themselves across ice and rowing through open water. They fail; the relationship suffers. Turk doesn't always or altogether enjoy his rugged travels. Still, he values them as manifestations of the independent lifestyle he craves: ``I am not at peace with this adventure, but I'm afraid of myself if I abandon it.'' In fact, Turk's soul-searching is dual. He examines his motivation for adventure travel (for which he jettisons family life) and his inability to proceed wisely. Obsessively goal-oriented, he's haunted by defeat. Faced with dangerous seas during the Cape voyage, he rashly pushes on instead of waiting out the storm, then repeats his mistakes on subsequent trips. Just when he seems ready to conquer his own foibles, he's saddled with a dangerously selfish traveling partner on a dogsled trip across Canada's Baffin Island. When the man leaves him stranded overnight in the Arctic without food, water, or heat, then quits without explanation, Turk must quit too. Finally, he and Chris successfully retrace the kayak migration of an Inuit band from Canada to Greenland, largely because she convinces him that discretion is the better part of valor. Genuine adventure and poignant self-exploration, too. (Author tour)  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	""COLD OCEANS is a marvel: a fascinating adventure story, clearly and robustly told, seasoned with science and history. The human relationships give Turks story a powerful emotional impact. And Turks modesty is probably unique in the canon of first-person adventure. An excellent book."" -- Gordon Grice, author of THE RED HOURGLASS: Lives of the Predators""Cold Oceans is the rare book that comes to the heart of what makes men wander. Jon Turk is a visionary adventurer who takes incredible risks and dares to fail grandly--but that is not the point. In this honest and elegant story, enriched with leaping porpoises, an animate landscape, and compassionate portraits of Inuit hunters, we have a glimpse into our own souls: how both love and adventure can heal man, and for Jon Turk at least, bring life full circle."" Jonathan Waterman, author of The Quotable Climber and A Most Hostile Mountain  -- Jonathan Waterman, author of The Quotable Climber and A Most Hostile Mountain""Jon Turk clearly reaffirms his own personal integrity and his readers faith in the waning spirit of adventure. His realizations aobut his sea-level adventures touch higher ground than the Mount Everest exploits recounted in Into Thin Air. A really great book."" -- Galen Rowell, photographer and author	Jon Turk, a chemist by training and an adventurer by avocation, has written numerous environmental and earth science textbooks. He has also written for Rock & Ice, Paddler, Sea Kayaker, and other publications.  He lives with his wife and expedition partner, Chris Seashore, in Darby, Montana, and in the Kootenay Mountains of British Columbia.",adventure;arctic;books;narratives;polar regions;sailing;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;travel writing;water sports,11
1844250628,"Yamaha XV (Virago) V-Twins 1981-2003 (Haynes Manuals) Haynes offers the best coverage for cars, trucks, vans, SUVs and motorcycles on the market today. Each manual contains easy to follow step-by-step instructions linked to hundreds of photographs and illustrations. Included in every manual: troubleshooting section to help identify specific problems; tips that give valuable short cuts to make the job easier and eliminate the need for special tools; notes, cautions and warnings for the home mechanic; color spark plug diagnosis and an easy to use index.",automotive;books;engineering;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;motorcycles;new;professional & technical;repair & performance;transportation;used & rental textbooks,11
0790611554,"Basic Communications Electronics Modeled after PROMPT() Publications' bestselling titles Basic Electronics and Basic Digital Electronics, Basic Communications Electronics discusses how analog electronic devices and circuits are used to create communications systems. Concentrating on semiconductor devices, bipolar and field-effect transistors, and integrated circuits, Basic Communications Electronics will teach you how these devices work and how they are used in analog circuits. With the knowledge of basic concepts, device and circuit fundamentals, and circuit applications, you will have a solid foundation that will help you understand the development of communications electronics.	Jack W. Hudson is the Coordinator of the Electronics Technology Program at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois. He has taught a broad range of circuit design and electronics theory courses for more than 30 years. Jerry Luecke is an Electrical Engineer with more than 40 years experience in the design of electronic circuits and components - much of that time spent with Texas Instruments Incorporated. He is also the author of several electronics textbooks.",books;electrical & electronics;electricity;electromagnetism;engineering;new;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,11
0809105225,"The Institutes An excellent translation. -- International Review of Biblical StudiesAs with the Conferences, Ramsey has given us an accurate and contemporaneous translation. His introduction and notes are very helpful. -- Terrence G. Kardong, O.S.B., Assumption Abbey, Richardton, NDPaulist Press deserves high marks for placing both volumes within reach of so many readers. -- George LawlessThe great merit of Ramsey's translation is the immediacy that it has for the American reader of modern English. -- American Benedictine ReviewThis compact volume will become a major resource for the serious study of Cassian in the English-speaking world. --Diakonia	Text: English (translation) Original Language: Latin	Boniface Ramsey, OP, who holds a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Institut Catholique in Paris, taught patristic studies for many years at Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall University. He is currently pastor of St. Vincent Ferrer Church in Manhattan, NY. His other works in translation include The Sermons of St. Maximus of Turin and John Cassian: The Conferences, both in the Ancient Christian Writers series.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;congregations & orders;history;monasticism;religion & spirituality;religious;theology;world,11
B000OI0EUO,"Reign of Iron The Monitor-Merrimack showdown may be one of the Civil Wars most overhyped chestnuts: the two ships were by no means the first ironclads, and their long awaited confrontation proved an anticlimactic draw, their cannon fire clanging harmlessly off each others hulls. Still, the author of this lively history manages to bring out the storys dramatic elements. Nelson, author of the Revolution at Sea series of age-of-sail adventure novels, knows how to narrate a naval crisis. He gives a harrowing account of the Merrimacks initial onslaught, in which it destroyed two wooden Union warships in a bloody and chaotic battle the day before the Monitor arrived, and of the Monitors nightmarish final hours as it foundered in a storm at sea. Equally arresting is his retelling of the feverish race between North and South to beat the other side to the punch with their respective wonder ships. He delves into every aspect of the ships innovative design and construction, and draws vivid portraits of the colorful characters who crafted them, especially the brilliant naval architect John Ericsson, one of that epic breed of engineer-entrepreneurs who defined the 19th century. The resulting blend of skillful storytelling and historical detail will please Civil War and naval engineering buffs alike. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	The fabled battle between these two iron-plated vessels is ironic. The battle had virtually no effect on the outcome of the Civil War, yet it revolutionized naval warfare, instantaneously condemning wooden warships to obsolescence. Nelson's technical knowledge of the art of naval warfare is impressive, and he effectively tells this story in lay terms. He begins with the launching of the Merrimack (more correctly, the Virginia, after its refitting). His description of the attack upon almost helpless Union wooden warships spares nothing in showing the bloody carnage. Nelson then chronicles the genesis of both ships, and his portrayals of the key players in the process, both Union and Confederate, are absorbing and often surprising. He concludes with the confrontation between the ironclads, and his vivid, blow-by-blow account has the aura of two uncertain giants pummeling each other while watching for the effects of their blows. This exciting retelling of a famous and groundbreaking battle is an excellent addition to Civil War collections. Jay FreemanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	James L. Nelson has served as a seaman, rigger, boatswain, and officer on a number of sailing vessels. He is the author of By Force of Arms, The Maddest Idea, The Continental Risque, Lords of the Ocean, and All the Brave Fellows -- the five books of his Revolution at Sea Saga. -- as well as The Guardship: Book One of the Brethren of the Coast. He lives with his wife and children in Harpswell, Maine.",19th century;americas;books;civil war;history;kindle ebooks;kindle store;military;naval;naval operations;united states,11
0309074371,"In Search of the Lost Cord: Solving the Mystery of Spinal Cord Regeneration People with spinal cord injuries caused by car accidents and  other traumatic events have generally been considered hopeless  cases destined to a life of paralysis. But in recent years,  there have been dramatic advances in spinal cord regeneration  research. Medical journalist Vikhanski (An Informed Patient's  Guide to Breast Surgery) presents a history of this research and  provides insight into current developments that may offer the  paralyzed hope for the future. New treatments on the horizon  include an immune therapy procedure that has been tested in  Israel with human subjects and possibilities for mechanical  neural prostheses. Vikhanski's writing is a little dry and  perhaps too scientific for some general readers, but interested  parties will have no problem keeping up. Including a helpful  appendix of scientific terms, this is recommended for consumer  health collections, rehabilitation hospitals, and large academic  and public libraries. Elizabeth Williams, Fresno City Coll.  Lib., CA   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""...a gripping 200-page cliffhanger that is enjoyable and informative for scientists, clinicians, and the public...both educational and captivating."" -- Nature Medicine, December 2001""Readers will be rewarded by a fascinating story..."" -- Science Books & Films, November/December 2002""This little-known saga of scientific achievement has been splendidly chronicled... reads like a scientific detective story or science fiction..."" -- THE JERUSALEM POST, March 3""Vikhanski provides insight into current developments that may offer the paralyzed hope...interested parties will have no problem keeping up."" -- Library Journal	Late on a June afternoon in 2000, Roy Holley rounded the bend of a twisting Rocky Mountain road to discover the crumpled remains of his daughters car.  He was to learn that 18-year old Melissa had suffered a crushing injury to her spinal cord, leaving her completely paralyzed and without sensation below her mid-chest line.  A year later, a team of doctors made a stunning announcement.    An experimental procedure involving the injection of immune-system cells directly into Melissa Holleys crushed spinal cord resulted in the recovery of movement in her toes and legs. Although Melissa isnt walking yet, there is now hope that she may indeed rebound from an injury so devastating that her doctors had ruled conclusively that the destruction of her spinal cord was completea verdict that has historically left its victims paralyzed for life.  In Search of the Lost Cord is award-winning science writer Luba Vikhanskis fascinating chronicle of the quest for such a cure.  The author takes the reader on a journey around the world to laboratories in Spain, Sweden, Israel, Canada, and the United States, where talented researchers have defied the odds and tirelessly pursued the regeneration of the spinal cord.  For decades career-minded scientists have avoided this field entirely because the goals were considered so hopeless.  Yet Vikhanskiin gripping prose that brings life to both the science and the scientists struggleshows how a small number of dedicated individuals learned from each others successes and failures to finally make hope real.  The resulting international effort to restore function to the severely injured spinal cord is on the verge of a breakthrough.    Some day, and perhaps not so long from now, Melissa Holley, and others like her, may walk again. In Search of the Lost Cord is the remarkable and compelling story of science history in the making.    ""I was moved by the heartrending stories of those who have been injured, everyday heroes who somehow find the strength to persevere in spite of overwhelming obstacles, and the Melissa Holleys who volunteer to be test cases for scientists who are racing to find a cure.  Add to that the easy-to-understand explanations of the science behind the research, this book is a winner.""  Karrie Webb LPGAs 2000 Player of the Year and Co-Host of the Karrie Webb Celebrity Pro-Am Tournament to benefit the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation  In Search of the Lost Cord book captures the excitement about the field of spinal cord regeneration. The historical anecdotes make the description of the entire research effort more human and more understandable. They also make clear how the pace of research has accelerated and why there are so many reasons to hope for what seemed impossible only a few years ago. Gerald D. Fischbach Dean, Faculty of Medicine Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons	Luba Vikhanski",biological sciences;biology;books;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;neurology;neuroscience;science & math,11
1579830102,"Faith and the Placebo Effect: An Argument for Self-Healing ""Clear, compelling, and insightful."" -- Larry Dossey, M.D., author, Reinventing Medicine""I am convinced that the mind has capacities only glimpsed by our dominant worldview.I found the manuscript inspirational."" -- Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D., director of research, Inst. of Noetic SciencesHealth Book of the Year Finalist -- Foreword Magazine",alternative medicine;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;fitness & dieting;healing;health;medical books;occult;religion & spirituality;spirituality,11
0876044976,"Psychic Children: A Sign of Our Expanding Awareness Peggy Rose Day is a former teacher and publisher, and the author/illustrator of six children's books. As a volunteer researcher for the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) in Virginia, she has helped compile a handbook of Edgar Cayce's suggestions for parenting and a Circulating File on psychic abilities in children, she has also coordinated two highly successful family research programs that used Cayce suggestions for helping children change difficult behaviors. She lives in Mystic, Connecticut. A student of the Cayce Readings for over thirty years, Susan Gale has been working with children since she was nineteen. For eight years, she owned a sole proprietorship children's center, including a school, which applied the principles of the readings with great success. Currently she manages the programs of A Place of Light, a center dedicated to creating safe havens for intuitive children and their families. She makes her home in Albany, N.Y.",books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;new age;occult;personal transformation;psychology & counseling;reference;religion & spirituality;self-help,11
0071379517,"Working Together: 12 Principles for Achieving Excellence in Managing Projects, Teams, and Organizations Proven Principles for Building Successful Teams in Any Workplace    Working Together reveals for the first time how visionary project manager Alan Mulally was able to mold Boeing's many disparate elements into a well-oiled teamone that delivered the revolutionary Boeing 777 both on time and on budget.  Built upon Mulally's twelve guiding principles of project management, it provides managers with clear, easy-to-understand guidance for spearheading virtually any type of project, in any organization.    Written by bestselling project management author James P. Lewis, Working Together takes into account both the human and technical sides of business as it tells organizational leaders how to develop:    A clear, uncompromising mission, supported by nonconflicting performance goals   Active, ongoing practices for transforming the culture of an organization   Reward systems based on cooperation, not competition       The ability to successfully manage a project is one of today's most valuable and sought-after skills. Working Together outlines how any executive can plan, execute, and sustain remarkable project success, achieving desired results while virtually eliminating destructive intrateam conflict.    The Boeing 777 development program is one of the past half-century's most stirring, successful examples of organizational teamwork, and Alan Mulally one of the most celebrated and accomplished project managers. Based on the principles followed by Boeing and Mulally in the 777 project, Working Together provides hands-on details for successfully managing projects, teams, and organizations, and the techniques and strategies that executives and managers can implement to consistently achieve project excellence.    ""Working together,"" Boeing's guiding philosophy, is more than just a program-of-the-month, or a catchy slogan. It represents an integrated set of twelve principles that a company can use to conduct itself, both internally with its employees as well as externally in relation to its customers, suppliers, and community. Each chapter in Working Together works as both a self-contained lesson in leadership and a crucial piece in the development of organizational success, describing:    Clear Performance GoalsHow to develop goals that go beyond purely financial measures to encompass value drivers including customer and employee satisfaction, innovation, and quality   One PlanMethods to construct a coordinated, integrated master plan that is effectively communicated by managementwith individual functional plans developed to coordinate with it   The Value of DataIn-depth examination of the possibilities trapped inside data, and how solutions in a project are generally arrived at through facts rather than feelings       In today's technologically complex, logistically challenging global environment, lone wolves generally do not survive long. Working Together outlines a unique, proven system for inspiring teamwork among factions and building a unified whole from distinct and self-contained  pieces. For managers of all enterprises from ten employee enterprises to 10,000, the answers it provides are direct, refreshing, and proven effective in some of today's most grueling, competitive project environments.",biography & history;books;business & investing;company profiles;industries & professions;information management;leadership;management;management & leadership;operations research;strategy & competition,11
1841723088,"Simple Pillows (Home Furnishing Workbooks) Katrin Cargill is an internationally renowned stylist, designer, and author.  Her previous books include Fabrications, the Home Furnishing Workbook and Pure Country.",books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;decorating;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;interior design;needlecrafts & textile crafts;sewing;upholstery & fabrics,11
0691026068,"Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 1 - Voyaging The centerpiece of this vivid portrait of Darwin, the first volume of a two-volume biography, is an account of his five-year expedition on the Beagle (1831-36), which transformed a seasick, Cambridge-educated science apprentice into a keen observer of nature and amateur geologist. Drawing on a wealth of new material from family archives, Brown masterfully recreates the personal, cultural and intellectual matrix out of which Darwin's evolutionary theory took shape. We glimpse many facets of Darwin: the failed medical student; the laid-back undergraduate; the impassioned abolitionist; the explorer roping cattle with gauchos on the Argentine pampas; the chronically ill country squire, the patriarchal husband and reluctant atheist whose devout Anglican wife, Emma, disapproved of his theory of human origins. Browne, an English historian of science and associate editor of Darwin's Correspondence, captures the spirit of a quietly revolutionary scientist whose ingrained Victorian prejudices were at odds with his radical ideas. Photos. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	After editing eight volumes of Darwin's correspondence (available from Cambridge University Press), Browne has many new insights into this complex figure. Her new book, the first volume in a planned two-volume biography, describes Darwin's childhood, education, his voyage on the Beagle, family life, and early researches to 1856, as he begins serious work on his ""species book."" As in Adrian Desmond and James Moore's Darwin (LJ 5/15/92), Darwin is seen more as a product of his society than in some previous biographies. Desmond and Moore delve more deeply into Darwin's university days than does Browne, while she provides a more detailed account of his Beagle voyage. While calling any Darwin biography ""definitive"" may be a bit optimistic, this work is certainly an important contribution to the literature on Darwin. Highly recommended for both academic and general collections.Bruce Neville, Univ. of Texas at El Paso Lib.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""This book deserves the adjectives of praise traditionally used by reviewers to describe masterpieces. . . . It is wonderful and marvelous, even magisterial.""--Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books""There is no better chronicle of Darwin as human being, friend, and indefatigable scientist, nor anywhere a richer description of his milieu, his family life, his social circle, and his scientific connections. Browne's extraordinary knowledge of the literature of the period makes her account particularly insightful.... [A] masterpiece.... Browne knows how to spellbind the reader.... The definitive Darwin biography.""--Ernst Mayr, Newsday""A wonderful and well-rounded portrait.... We watch Darwin grow from a careless and happy young boy to a driven and ambitious young man, and Browne is very good at letting us see the moments when Darwin began to sense the scope of his own powers.... This Darwin is remarkably real.""--Jonathan Weiner, The Washington Post""Exciting and richly evocative.""--Kirkus Reviews""No other biography has matched Browne's ability to capture so richly the details of Darwin's time and to convey them with such direct and engaging prose.""--Library Journal (starred review)	In 1858 Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside, respected by fellow biologists and well liked among his wide and distinguished circle of acquaintances. He was not yet a focus of debate; his ""big book on species"" still lay on his study desk in the form of a huge pile of manuscript. For more than twenty years he had been accumulating material for it, puzzling over questions it raised, tryingit seemed endlesslyto bring it to a satisfactory conclusion. Publication appeared to be as far away as ever, delayed by his inherent cautiousness and wish to be certain that his startling theory of evolution was correct.It is at this point that the concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography opens. The much-praised first volume, Voyaging, carried Darwin's story through his youth and scientific apprenticeship, the adventurous Beagle voyage, his marriage and the birth of his children, the genesis and development of his ideas. Now, beginning with the extraordinary events that finally forced the Origin of Species into print, we come to the years of fame and controversy.For Charles Darwin, the intellectual upheaval touched off by his book had deep personal as well as public consequences. Always an intensely private man, he suddenly found himself and his ideas being discussedand often attackedin circles far beyond those of his familiar scientific community. Demonized by some, defended by others (including such brilliant supporters as Thomas Henry Huxley and Joseph Hooker), he soon emerged as one of the leading thinkers of the Victorian era, a man whose theories played a major role in shaping the modern world. Yet, in spite of the enormous new pressures, he clung firmly, sometimes painfully, to the quiet things that had always meant the most to himhis family, his research, his network of correspondents, his peaceful life at Down House. In her account of this second half of Darwin's life, Janet Browne does dramatic justice to all aspects of the Darwinian revolution, from a fascinating examination of the Victorian publishing scene to a survey of the often furious debates between scientists and churchmen over evolutionary theory. At the same time, she presents a wonderfully sympathetic and authoritative picture of Darwin himself right through the heart of the Darwinian revolution, busily sending and receiving letters, pursuing research on subjects that fascinated him (climbing plants, earthworms, pigeonsand, of course, the nature of evolution), writing books, and contending with his mysterious, intractable ill health. Thanks to Browne's unparalleled command of the scientific and scholarly sources, we ultimately see Darwin more clearly than we ever have before, a man confirmed in greatness but endearingly human.Reviewing Voyaging, Geoffrey Moorhouse observed that ""if Browne's second volume is as comprehensively lucid as her first, there will be no need for anyone to write another word on Darwin."" The Power of Place triumphantly justifies that praise.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""I realized that I had never fully understood Fitzroy or Lyell or Dr. Darwin or Emma ... especially Darwin himself. Janet Browne not only makes these historical figures real, three dimensional people, but she shows so elegantly how they affected and interacted with one another. This is not just another biography of Darwin, but a unique and important contribution; it will outlast all others. The scholarship is ... impeccable.""--John Tyler Bonner, Princeton University	Janet Browne is a zoologist and historian of science. She was formerly a Professor in the History of Biology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London. She is currently the Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	CHAPTER 1 - STORMY WATERSIF CHARLES DARWIN had spent the first half of his life in the world of Jane Austen, he now stepped forward into the pages of Anthony Trollope.Victorian Britain seemed to be at peace with itself as political agitation at home and memories of the Crimean War and Indian uprising gave way to relative stability in the late 1850s and early 1860s. Free trade and carboniferous capitalism pushed ahead as the great manufacturing industries of the nation boomed. In the grand houses of London, Viscount Palmerston picked up his silk hat to become prime minister in 1857, followed in short order by Lord Derby in 1858, and then Palmerston again in 1859, while Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone, and Richard Bright stalked the wings impatient to transform the face of party politics. Cathedral cities hummed with religious controversy; books and magazines poured from the presses; the newly affluent took tours and holidays; and a whole army of clerks, civil servants, bureaucrats, bankers, and accountants was called into being to administer the fresh commercial horizons that accompanied the emerging empire, as India, China, Canada, South America, and the Antipodes increasingly fell under British economic domination. Steam technology was the hero of society. At that time Britain possessed two-thirds of the world's capacity for cotton factory production and accounted for half the world's output of coal and iron, an unmatched degree of industrial preeminence. The length of railway track snaking across the countryside doubled from 1850 to 1868. Lawn-mowers, water-closets, gas lights, iron girders, encaustic tiles, and much, much more were available to those who could afford them. Although Queen Victoria and her ministers were soon to encounter complex foreign affairs in Garibaldi's Italy and painful consequences from the Civil War in the United States of America, the ethos of improvement prompted significant developments in domestic housing, health, education, communications, dress, and manners. The genius of England is universally admitted to be of an eminently enterprising and speculative character, declared the magazine Once a Week.1 Confidence soared. Social boundaries shifted.Even so, the contradictions at the heart of Victorian life were more obvious than ever. Fraud, filth, overcrowding, poverty, death, and violence were a fact of life in the urban slums. Rural communities had lost in a decade more than 40 percent of the male workforce to industrial, colonial, and military demands and bleakly faced another round of agricultural depression and distress. The nation's religious faith, although never coherent, was fracturing into fervour or dissent. While many from the ruling ranks of society turned a blind eye to these issues, a remarkable array of novelists, statisticians, medical men, radical divines, and social activists were starting to reveal the squalor alongside prosperity and discovering the interesting in the ordinary. In time, parliamentary leaders would open their minds to a second round of political reform in the nineteenth century, egged on by the high sense of purpose, moral earnestness, doctrines of self-help, and appreciation of decorum that characterised the emerging middle classes. From real-life Westminster to imaginary Barchester and back again, Trollope easily captured in his novels this sense of the personal and parochial. But life was not simple even for those whom Lord Salisbury called persons of substance. These mid-century years were not so much an age of equipoise as framed by social and political contrasts. It was an age of capital, labour, complacency, and faith; at the same time, an age of cities, misery, change, commerce, deference, and doubt.In among the contrasts stood the unobtrusive figure of Charles Darwin. Supported by a family fortune derived from the Industrial Revolution, Darwin was content to become a thoroughly respectable Victorian gentleman. He put away his Beagle shotguns, cast a discerning eye over his investments, and began to participate in the growing sense of national prosperity. He had no need to seek employment. Like many others in his circle he was free to pursue his interests, in his case a magnificent obsession with natural history.In 1858 he was forty-nine years old, a steady and likable individual, one of the kindest and truest men that it was ever my good fortune to know, said Thomas Henry Huxley. His scientific status was already secure, although he had not yet revealed his theories about species to anyone other than a few close friends. His Origin of Species was yet to come. His personal position was equally secure. He was married and comfortably settled with his wife, Emma, and their children in a country house in the village of Downe, in Kent, near enough to the attractions of the metropolis but a world away from its problems. For years now he had been troubled by continued ill health-being ill was normal. Yet his home at Down House was the safe harbour he sought for the end of his personal voyage. Few persons can have lived a more retired life than we have done, he wrote with undisguised pleasure. My life goes on like clock-work and I am fixed on the spot where I shall end it.2In fact Darwin was far more sociable than his words allowed. In London, his friends were clever and influential, a cosmopolitan mix of university professors, authors, manufacturers, government officials, landowners, and politicians; here and there a baronet or a literary lady or two, a few old comrades from his time on the Beagle, and a clutch of intelligent nieces ready to discuss the latest concerts or exhibitions. Whenever he went to town, he sought out the company of his older brother Erasmus, pleasantly fixed in his bachelor ways, and his cousins Fanny and Hensleigh Wedgwood, all living close to each other on the outskirts of Bloomsbury and forming the hub of an extended circle of intermarrying Wedgwoods and Darwins.3 Darwin had married his cousin Emma Wedgwood in 1839. Other cousin marriages among the clan drew the generations together.Erasmus hosted dinner parties for him, gossiped, and kept parcels until his arrival. If Darwin was alone he would stay overnight and meet his old friend the geologist Sir Charles Lyell or some other scientific colleague for breakfast-meetings which he valued for keeping in touch and maintaining his intellectual momentum. Otherwise, he would bring Emma and the youngest children up for the pantomime or trips to the dentist. They would stay with Fanny and Hensleigh and see their other relatives visiting from the shires.His country friends were no less pillars of the community. Darwin welcomed the soothing rhythm of local affairs, always willing to discuss the state of the weather or his poor health with neighbours, organise parish charities, and sympathise with John Innes, the resident vicar, over difficult young curates or problems with the village school. Every so often, a little debate about church doctrine with Innes made his strolls around the country lanes agreeably lively. Innes was just the kind of relaxed clergyman that Darwin himself might once have become if the voyage of the Beagle had not intervened. I do not attack Moses, the naturalist remarked affably to him, and I think Moses can take care of himself.4 At Downe Darwin took on duties as a local magistrate, an occupation at the heart of provincial life in which law-abiding, landowning gentlemen like himself imposed fines on poachers or issued licenses for keeping pigs.This society was reassuringly sedate. Darwin and Emma regularly met Sir John Lubbock, mathematician and fellow of the Royal Society, and his son John, a young naturalist, who lived a few miles away at High Elms. They enjoyed the company of the Bonham Carters, in a neighbouring village, and George Ward Norman, a director of the Bank of England and country gentleman of Downe. Every so often they invited weekend guests from London, sending a horse and carriage to the nearest railway station to pick up visiting groups. Joseph Hooker, the assistant director of Kew Gardens, and Thomas Henry Huxley, the biologist and writer, were particular friends. Somewhat surprisingly for a period in which the prevailing motifs were industrialisation, social movement, urban expansion, and religious dissent, Darwin's parish was utterly secluded, almost a relic of a former age in its social structure and restricted occupational patterns. The long trip to the railway station made it seem further away from modernity than it really was. Downe village was small, no more than five hundred people in the 1861 census, and relatively stable considering its proximity to growing suburban centres like Bromley and Maidstone. The national post office had altered the spelling from Down to Downe early in the 1840s, a change that Darwin resolutely ignored when addressing letters. Twenty years later the population had increased by only fifty. Falling readily into the provincial swing of things, he unashamedly called himself a Farmer in Bagshawe's Directory. A Wedgwood niece tartly observed after one of these weekend parties, We have enough dullness in the family  plenty of virtue-a little vice would make a pleasant variety.5Yet underneath the mild exterior, Darwin's mind teemed with ideas-daring and unusual proposals that he hesitated to put before the world. He had balked at disclosing his theories before they were ready, fretting anxiously over his work, doggedly probing every crevice of the evidence, building up a tightly packed argument that he hoped would protect his scheme from at least some of the intense criticism he knew it would provoke. Ever since returning from the Beagle voyage in 1836, some twenty-two years before, he had believed that living beings were not created by divine fiat. From that time on, he had sought an alternative explanation that would depend on natural processes rather than on God's direct a...	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biographies & memoirs;books;england;europe;history;new;professionals & academics;science & math;scientists;technology;used & rental textbooks,11
1860644813,Israel: Land of Contrasts Rachel Goldmann is a historian and freelance writer who lives in Jerusalem. Nicola Frg is a freelance journalist and author who has written a number of travel books. Tom Krausz is an international photographer whose pictures have appeared worldwide.,arts & photography;books;education & reference;general;israel;middle east;photography;pictorial;research & publishing guides;travel;writing,11
0415307864,"Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy Bose and Jalal have produced a sophisticated and conceptually rigorous work.Chandar Sundaram, Lingnan University, Contemporary South Asia	Sugata Bose is Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University. His books include Nationalism, Democracy and Development (with Ayesha Jalal) and The Indian Ocean Rim: An Inter-Regional Arena in the Age of Global Empire. Ayesha Jalal is a MacArthur Fellow and Professor of History at Tufts University. Her books include Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical Perspective and Self and Sovereignty: the Muslim Individual and the Community of Islam in South Asia since 1850.",20th century;asia;books;europe;history;humanities;india;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;used & rental textbooks;world,11
0306808641,My Rise And Fall Text: English (translation)  Original Language: Italian,biographies & memoirs;books;europe;historical;history;italy;leaders & notable people;military;political;world;world war ii,11
0786882697,"Kink: An Autobiography Davies's tale of drunkenness and cruelty on the road with the Kinks, the British rock band he and his older brother Ray formed in 1963, perfectly mirrors the band's own trajectory. The first several chapters (years) breeze along with stylish energy, but in time the compelling passage (hits) dry up and the book (band) loses its way. Released a year after Ray's own memoir, X-Ray, this autobiography showcases his long-overshadowed brother's own sharp eye for characters, while giving him a forum to claim credit for the band's signature guitar sound (as on ""You Really Got Me""), and for this or that riff or idea. Davies recalls the paradigmatic rock star's life: rampant alcohol use; hanging out with Lennon, Hendrix and groupies; drug-fueled hotel trashings; bisexual encounters (with names named); wanton adultery; and the usual lamentations on greedy management types. Davies's notoriously violent relationship with his brother is fully explored, but recollections of never-famous people significant to the author prove equally engrossing. In dealing with the band's later years, however, Davies proves less interesting. Although the Kinks sporadically charted in the 1970s and '80s, Americans tuned them out after 1982?a reality Davies blames on record executives. His mystical spirituality also proves tough to swallow (""The intelligences poured a brilliant beam of white light through my forehead and out to the crowd""). Ultimately, readers of this Kinks chronicle must employ the same selectivity they've shown in consuming the band's music. Photos; discography. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Davies, lead guitarist of the Kinks and foil to the group's leader, his brother Ray, states up front that his ""battles with Ray are notorious in the rock world."" They also typify a common '60s rock-band dynamic, the lead singer^-lead guitarist rivalry-partnership, which in the Davies' case is complicated by being brothers. Their books' differences in style exemplify their personality differences. Ray's distanced narrative, X-Ray , in which he mentions himself only by name or initials, was reminiscent of that TV dream of alienation, The Prisoner. Dave's memoir, in the usual first person, is more direct, like the five-note hook of ""You Really Got Me"" that snared fame for the Kinks in 1964. The story of the brothers' collaboration on that song is just one of many gems of rock history Dave offers, and the fact that only Ray is credited for it is one example of the conventional wisdom Dave explodes. Davies and Davies produced edgy, often ingenious music, in part, apparently, because of their stormy personal relationship. Rock fans, particularly guitar-hero worshipers, need to read this book.  Mike Tribby	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Hard on the heels of Kinks singer/songwriter/megalomaniac Ray Davies's own memoir, X-Ray (1996), here is the autobiography of the other battling Davies brother, the one who is not widely considered to be a genius. Dave's is a straightforward, clumsily jovial memoir bursting with tales of drunkenness and cruelty. The Davies brothers grew up in working-class London and dedicated themselves to music at a young age; guitarist Dave was only 17 in 1964, when ``You Really Got Me'' suddenly made the Kinks stars. As Dave tells it, while he and the rest of the band popped pills, drank themselves blind, and had sex with everyone (boys as well as girls, Dave cheerfully reveals), Ray brooded and watched his money. Dave says Ray denied him songwriting credit for his contributions to many Kinks songs; more generally, Ray is ``abusive . . . cruel and creatively draining . . . venomous, spiteful, and completely self-involved.'' One is left thinking that only Dave's forbearance has allowed the band to survive for so long. The Kinks have endured many creatively and commercially fallow periods, and the author suffered from depressions so severe that tours were cancelled. In 1982, though, he had a cosmic awakening, consisting of a visitation by five ``intelligences'' who gave him ``irrefutable knowledge of the `Etheric Planes.' '' The author's apparently unedited prose is more serviceable describing hotel-room trashings than when laying out his newfound spiritual system. With artless honesty, he discusses his favorite songs, touring adventures, spiky interactions with band members and management, and a complicated but fulfilling family life (two long-term relationships, both producing several children, which overlapped for a few distressing years). A far less ambitious but ultimately more satisfying account of Kinkdom than the colder, more evasive X- Ray. (16 pages b photos, not seen) -- Copyright 1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Dave Davies still tours with the Kinks all over the world and is involved in various film and music projects outside of the band. In 1990 he and the Kinks were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;entertainers;humor & entertainment;music;musical genres;rock;teens,11
B0001CAB60,"Nikon Laser Caddy Rangefinder 500G Amazon.com Review  If you can think of no more perfect day than one that you've spent on the links, youve met your perfect match in Nikons newest product. The Nikon LaserCaddy golf rangefinder is the ultimate tool that should be found in every golfers bag or shirtpocket. The LaserCaddy delivers high resolution images and incredibly fast, highly precise and consistent distance measurements to the hard-to-range pin. A must-have for second club selection, the LaserCaddys unequaled level of precision is made possible by Nikons advanced digital processor and high grade optics. The LaserCaddy is water resistant so that weather is never an excuse. Ease of operation makes this the best choice for any golfer who is serious about their game. Youve worked hard on your game. Trust Nikon to help you make it the best it can be.  The water-resistant Nikon LaserCaddy 500G Laser Rangefinder is ultra-compact and convenient to carry, measuring only 3.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 inches and weighing 7.0 ounces without its battery. The Nikon LaserCaddy is a highly compact laser rangefinder that will accurately measure distance from 11 yards to over 500 yards with unparalleled precision. It provides 160 yard ranging ability to the pin which is a golf constant, compared to competitive products which measure distance only to the highly variable and atmospherically dependent flag. This previously unachievable level of precision is made possible by Nikon's advanced digital processor and high grade optics. These features allow all golfers to gauge distance more precisely for accurate second shot club selection under informal conditions or during practice. The Nikon LaserCaddy features precisely ground and polished lens glass that is multicoated with anti-reflective compounds to improve light transmission, clarity, and color rendition. The unit utilizes a high contrast LCD display to provide fast, accurate targeting against any background or in any lighting conditions. It utilizes a six power monocular with a 20-millimeter objective lens to provide an exit pupil of 3.3 millimeters. The eyepiece is adjustable, with a range of +/- 2 diopters, and the unit has 10 millimeters of eye relief. In addition, the Nikon LaserCaddy has a real angle of view of 6.3 degrees, translating to a wide, 50 degree apparent angle of view and a field of view of 33 feet at 100 yards. The Nikon LaserCaddy measures ranges in yards or meters, and features an automatic power shutoff after the reading has been displayed for eight seconds. It measures 3.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 inches and weighs 7.0 ounces without battery. It is powered by one CR-2 camera battery that is included with the rangefinder and an internal display shows the user how much battery power is remaining. The Nikon LaserCaddy features an attractive silver external finish and is protected by Nikon's exclusive one-year warranty.	CL) MU) NIKON LASERCADDY/500G(7431)",binoculars;camera & photo;electronics;golf;hunting;hunting & fishing;hunting optics;laser rangefinders;sports & outdoors;spotting scopes;telescopes & optics,11
0967197929,"Gates of Hell Fast paced and incredibly imaginative, Susan Sizemore's ""Gates of Hell"" is a sci-fi novel of the highest order.    -- Lisa Mahon, Romance ForetoldSusan Sizemore writes with sweeping, galactic action, while taking her readers inside the characters' head.    -- Rickey Mallory, Affaire de Coeur	GATES OF HELL is my first science fiction book.  I've had it in my head for over a decade and now it's finally down on paper.  I enjoy writing romance and dark fantasy, I written over fifteen books in those genres, but I also wanted to write science fiction. With a strong dash of romance, of course. GATES OF HELL combines my love of romance novels with my interest in science fiction novels.	""Don't you dare!"" Pyr had no idea how the scrawny womab put herself between him and his target just as he depressed the needler's trigger. He had less idea how he managed to jerk his hand up as the weapon fired. The ceiling disappeared, as did the deck above that. The energy wave spread out in a bright flash, lighting the scene in stark white and crisp black for a half a dozen heartbeats, while the three of them stared at each other in a fading glow. ""Good thing the battery's low on that thing,"" the koltiri commented, with fearless, irritating sarcasm. ""Or we might be breathing space right now.""	Susan Sizemore is the author of over fifteen books, including historical romance, time-travel romance, dark fantasy and media tie-in books. Her hobbies include collecting art glass, traveling and reading really good books. She lives in Minneapolis with a sweet and demanding dog named Neferitti.",action & adventure;books;contemporary;fantasy;genre fiction;horror;literature & fiction;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;space opera;united states,11
0916990095,"The Elusive Obvious or Basic Feldenkrais Moshe Feldenkrais considers himself not a therapist but a teacher. In both his individual, hands-on body work and his group classes he guides clients to discover for themselves what normal or optimum movement feels like. This sensing will the reprogram or rewire the brain accordingly. This is a new kind of learning. There is no one correct way. Each pupil discovers his own correction functioning for hinself. It is a joyful experience, which works on body, mind, and feelings simultaneously. The changes are dramatically visible, not only in better functioning but in a whole new self image.",books;fitness & dieting;health;humanities;new;parenting & relationships;philosophy;politics & social sciences;relationships;self-help;used & rental textbooks,11
0853032092,"The Liberation of Jerusalem Text: English, Hebrew (translation)",books;history;humanities;israel;jewish;middle east;new;palestine;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;world,11
1874744823,The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 'Dan van der Vat is a superb storyteller' - The Northern Mariner  'an excellent book that tells its story with style and passion ...  highly recommended' - New Shetlander	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Dan van der Vat was born in Holland and educated in England. He became a full-time writer after twenty-five years as a journalist. He has published seven books on maritime history.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.,20th century;books;england;europe;germany;history;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);naval;scotland;world war i,11
0806121521,"Centennial Campaign: The Sioux War of 1876 I have no hesitation in labeling this the best single volume ever   published on the Custer Battle and the Sioux War of 1876. ---Robert  M. UtleyIn his soundly documented and absorbing book John Gray manages with   cumulative power what few have attempted: a total view of the U.S. Army   campaign against the Sioux in 1976 - that strange wilderness war whose   centerpiece was the Custer 'massacre.' There's no nonsense here, no   romantic pseudo-history. Gray uses authentic sources with critical   insight, calls his shots clearly and bluntly. ---Publishers  WeeklyA fine book . . .. Gray gives us the whole story in an integrated   package . . .. In the twenty-two chapters that comprise the background   and the campaign narrative, the author is at his best when he moves away   from the Washington scene to detail the field operations. But it is  the  second part of the book - seven chapters labeled facets - that  moves Centennial  Campaign into the realm of the exceptional. Here Dr.  Gray combines  impressive research, careful analysis, and sound  deduction to  reconstruct Indian movements, locations, and  concentrations. --- Western  Historical Quarterly[Gray's] views are occasionally controversial, but are based on a   careful consideration of the primary material. By avoiding the many   garbled secondary accounts, he brings some fresh insights to the issues.   A series of good maps helps the reader follow campaign activity. This   is a thoughtful study of a tragic, unnecessary war. --- Roger L.  Nichols, Journal of American History	John S. Gray was a medical doctor and professor of physiology who became interested in American frontier history as a respite from university administrative duties.",19th century;americas;books;history;military;native american;native american studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states,11
0743550692,"Portuguese (Brazilian), Basic: Learn to Speak and Understand Brazilian Portuguese with Pimsleur Language Programs ""Pimsleur programs provide plenty of positive reinforcement that will keep learners on track, and we found that Pimsleur gave us more proficiency and confidence in speaking the new language than any of the other language programs we reviewed."" -- AudioFile Magazine""EXTREMELY ACCESSIBLE...each section within the lessons is short enough to hold our attention, and there is enough repetition to teach even those who consider themselves slow learners...Pimsleur [programs] are extremely thorough and easy to use -- quite lively!"" -- Boston Herald""Learn French while commuting, German while jogging, Spanish (or Russian, Italian, and Japanese) while cooking all with NO WRITTEN MATERIALS!"" -- New York Daily News""Designed for the ear and not the eye...the lessons provide PERFECT 30-minute bites of work."" -- St Louis Post-Dispatch""Learn to habla espaol or parlez franais before your next trip aboard. The interactive LESSONS CHALLENGE STUDENTS to use new words in conversation instead of memorize them."" -- American Way (American Airlines inflight magazine)""I tried other language programs with little success...This is the best by far!"" -- Pamela A. Mitchell, Pilot, International Society of Women Airline Pilots	Dr. Paul Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and testing and was one of the worlds leading experts in applied linguistics. After years of experience and research, Dr. Pimsleur developed The Pimsleur Method based on two key principles: the Principle of Anticipation and a scientific principle of memory training that he called Graduated Interval Recall. This Method has been applied to the many levels and languages of the Pimsleur Programs.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;foreign languages;humanities;introductory & beginning;new;politics & social sciences;programming;reference;used & rental textbooks,11
0071477217,"Words of a Feather: A Humorous Puzzlement of Etymological Pairs Dazzle your friends and family with your knowledge of word origins!        What's the connection between maneuver and manure? Between glamour and grammar? Anger and angina? At first glance, these words seem to have nothing in common, but in fact they are Words of a Feather, connected by their origins. This cleverly entertaining book explores the shared histories of 150 word pairs (called ""dual etymologies"") to give language lovers of all ages a fun and powerful vocabulary-building education that's sure to impress.        Adversary & Advertisement:    Both share the same root for ""turn."" An adversary is someone you don't want to turn away from, lest he shoot you in the back. An advertisement makes you turn toward it, so it can sell you something.        Affluence & Influence:    It's all about ""flow."" The affluent have a steady flow of cash; the influential have power flow. And if you're Bill Gates, you've got it all.        Flatulence & Inflation:    Both share the Latin flare, which means ""to blow,"" although with inflate, the ""wind"" is incoming, a crucial difference.             Do you long for the linguistic? Does etymology excite you? If you've ever sat and pondered the mysterious connections between words such as mortgage and mortician, dandelion and dentist, or flatulence and inflation, then this is the book you've been waiting for.        In this fascinating collection of 150 linguistic riddles, author Murray Suid turns his love of lexicology to ""doublets,"" pairs of words that can be traced back to a common ancestor. With wit and wonder, he uncovers examples from a variety of fields, including the performing arts (ad-lib and libido), economics (affluence and influence), science (cosmos and cosmetics), sports (champion and champagne), and religion (God and gossip). With each doublet, Murray provides an informative and entertaining mini-essay that traces the etymology of the pair back to its common roots, along the way encountering words from Old English, French, German, Latin, Greek, and the many other world languages that have given English the most vast vocabulary on earth. You'll also find Suid's Word Factory, an easy-to-follow overview of various word-forming processes--for example, metathesis, which means switching around letters (dirt was originally drit; butterfly came from the phrase flutter by).        Before you know it, you'll be making your own etymological discoveries and the next time you're at a party or sitting around the dinner table, you'll be turning heads with questions like, ""Hey, can you guess the relationship between rectitude and rectum?""	Murray Suid, M.F.A., has written more than two dozen books including How to Be President of the U.S.A. and Demonic Mnemonics. A former writing instructor at San Jose State University, he is also a screenwriter and lives in Inverness, California. Visit him on the Web at www.wordsofafeather.net.",books;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;new;reference;slang & word lists;used & rental textbooks;vocabulary;words,11
1565634586,"Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period: 450 B.C.E. to 600 C.E. Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology, Bard College, and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College. He has published more than eight hundred books and innumerable articles, and he is editor of The Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period and the three-volume Encyclopaedia of Judaism. He has also served as President of the American Academy of Religion, and was appointed as Member of the National Council on the Humanities and the National Council on the Arts.William Scott Green is the Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Judaic Studies and Dean of the College, University of Rochester. He is the associate editor of The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion, serves on numerous professional editorial boards, and writes extensively in the area of ancient Judaism.",bibles;books;christian books & bibles;education & reference;history;history of religion;judaism;reference;religion & spirituality;religious;world,11
0029160014,"Refighting the Last War: Command and Crisis in Korea 1950-1953 James ( The Year of MacArthur ), writing with freelancer Sharp, discusses the five principal American commanders of the Korean War (President Truman, Generals MacArthur, Matthew Ridgway and Mark Clark, and Admiral C. Turner Joy) and six crucial command decisions they made during the three-year conflict. According to this Virginia Military Institute history teacher, those decisions were: sending U.S. troops to fight in Korea; initiating the amphibious landing at Inchon; launching the counterattack in North Korea; settling for an armistic rather than total victory; and imposing tactical restrictions on ground, sea and air operations. What sets this book apart from other histories of the Korean War is the original thesis that both sides, without a word of formal agreement, set up an intricate system of limitations specifically designed to avert a general war. James argues that the kind of devastating American conquest that was possible in the post-WW II era would have guaranteed the eruption of another and more terrible global war. This is a fresh look at the ""strange and ugly war"" which, according to James's cogent analysis, was unique in its self-imposed limitations. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	James (military history, Virginia Military Inst., and author of the three-volume Years of MacArthur , LJ 4/1/85) has reinterpreted America's first limited war. He analyzes the roles, leadership abilities, personalities, and prejudices of five American commanders--Truman, MacArthur, Ridgway, Mark Clark, and C. Turnery Joy--and then looks at six crucial decisions confronting them. Among the topics discussed are Truman's decision to go to war without the consent of Congress; MacArthur's preoccupation with Inchon and the Yalu; and Joy's two-year stint negotiating with the Communists. James argues that the Korean War is the key to understanding American decision making in all subsequent conflicts and concludes that each new war is fought using the lessons of the last war. This is hardly a new or startling conclusion. Graduates of the Army War College and specialists in civilian-military relationships in a democracy will find this work of interest, but it is too specialized for the general reader. For large collections of military history.- Stanley Itkin, Hillside P.L., New Hyde Park, N.Y.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.",americas;asia;books;campaigns;china;history;korea;korean war;middle east;military;united states,11
0194231550,"The Last Sherlock Holmes Story: 1000 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms ELT) One of the most shocking accounts of crime ever produced.Chicago Sun-TimesDibdin in one of the best detective novelists around.London Daily MailAn explosive, controversial book . . . . A horrible thread of reality runs through the tale as it does in no other Sherlock Holmes story, for the Whitechapel murders were real.Baltimore Sun	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	In The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, Michael Dibdin pits the sleuth of Baker Street against the Butcher of Whitechapel--the archfiend Jack the Ripper. In doing so, he gives readers a Holmes possessed of greater and more disturbing depths than the one they thought they knew.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Michael Dibdin has written many crime novels including Vendetta.	OneMy notes-which I shall endeavour to follow with the minimum of extraneous comment for the remainder of this narrative-reveal that on the morning of Friday the 28th of September 1888, Sherlock Holmes received a telegram. This was in itself scarcely a remarkable occurrence. At that period telegrams were coming and going with such frequency at 221B Baker Street that I sometimes wonder how many clerks Holmes maintained in permanent employment with the welter of messages he received and dispatched. This state of affairs resulted from a problem which had been developing for several years with regard to Holmes's consulting practice.The problem was simple, inevitable, and apparently quite insurmountable. It sprang from the fact that crime, like any other human activity, follows a limited number of patterns. Ninety-nine out of a hundred crimes are immediately recognisable to an expert as being of this type or of that. There is no mystery to be solved, no puzzle to tax the brain. All that is required to apprehend the guilty party is hard work and a little luck. Such crimes gladden the heart of the police force, whose capacity for hard work has never been in doubt, but to Holmes they were anathema. His first question on being asked to undertake an investigation was always the same: did it contain any features of interest? If so, he would happily fling all his energies into the task, be his client duchess or dustman, his fees a king's ransom or a beggar's alms. But if the requisite features of interest were absent, nothing would induce him to intervene-and if his hand were forced, as in the matter of the Aldershot scandal of '86, those responsible soon discovered to their chagrin that unless his interest was engaged, Holmes was a mere shadow of the man whose mental powers could seem almost supernatural when they were fully deployed.Sherlock Holmes originally set up as a consulting detective in 1877, some four years before I met him. Cases were at first hard to come by, but at that time each presented a fresh challenge and was tackled with enthusiasm. Ten years later the position was very different. Like all superior intellects, Holmes disdained to cover the same ground twice, and thus a point was bound to come when he spent less time solving crimes than he did lying about our front room bemoaning the dullness and lack of enterprise of the British criminal class. At such moments he frequently put me in mind of a jaded emperor from the last days of Rome, berating his underlings for their inability to create a spectacle lavish or rare enough to divert him. It was at about this time that he began to resort to cocaine. At first the drug was nothing more than an occasional expedient to which Holmes had recourse when every other weapon for staving off ennui had failed him. I regarded it as a filthy habit, but still preferable to the alternative-unpredictable and savage outbursts of nervous energy in which he would assault the furniture with a horsewhip, or in some still less desirable way relieve the pent-up frustration of his soul. I vividly recall the occasion when he sat himself down with a revolver and a box of cartridges and began firing at the opposite wall, until he had improved its appearance with a script V.R. and crown executed in bullet-pocks. Holmes was a man very finely balanced between reason and hysteria. He liked to compare himself to a racing-engine, which will tear itself to pieces unless coupled to the work that it was designed to do. In the absence of such work the cocaine seemed to act as a regulator, and as such I was prepared to turn a blind eye to his use of it. It seemed at first an acceptable remedy for Holmes's chronic ailment.But as interesting cases became less and less frequent, the occasional vice became more and more so, until at the period of which I speak Holmes was regularly injecting into his blood a solution of almost standard strength three times a day.* I do not know whether the reader is familiar with the effects of cocaine. By 1972 the drug may have passed for ever from the face of the earth, or, I suppose, be given to squalling children to quiet them. Although without the physically deleterious effect of opium, cocaine is a powerful and dangerous agent when used indiscriminately for personal pleasure, and not-as Nature surely intended-for the relief of pain. The mood of the user is at once exalted to unprecedented heights, only to be subsequently plunged into the most profound lassitude, which of itself demands a renewal of the dosage. Soon the desire for the drug becomes a vicious craving. All one's social and moral standards are undermined, for nothing can offer satisfactions to rival those freely available within the closed circle of one's own mind. In the end, the addict ceases to regard himself as a member of the human race, and by the same token he usually ceases to behave like one. The world and its denizens come to seem a pale and fraudulent imitation of his own fantasies, and he treats them much as a spoiled child treats toys which have ceased to amuse him. Such was the perilous ally to which Sherlock Holmes had turned for relief, and once I realised the extent to which he had come to depend on the drug I strove with all my might to wean him from it. But to no avail. Whatever arguments I advanced, his reply was always the same:'My dear Watson, nothing would give me greater pleasure than to give it up. Only bring me work! Find me some problem to exercise my intellect, and you may play at darts with my needles for all I care.'To this I had no answer. Holmes had been stalemated by his own prodigious genius. He had solved every problem, and thereby created one which appeared truly insoluble.But though the fires burned low, they had not gone out, and since Holmes's fame was now at its zenith his advice was sought on all sides. Hence the telegrams. Every morning after breakfast he so far compromised his indolence as to read through the newspapers, cast an eye over his post, and then fire off cryptic memoranda to various destinations. 'How many rungs had the ladder?' a message might run, or 'If the milk was off, Furneaux is your man.' These oracular pronouncements were dispatched daily all over our islands, and in some cases also to the Continent. They were received generally with gratitude, occasionally with incredulity, but very rarely in vain. Holmes's inferences were almost always proved correct, and where they failed it always subsequently transpired that some fact had been distorted or withheld. Not that his vicarious triumphs appeared to afford Holmes the slightest pleasure. It was a ritual he performed each day, as one might any tedious but necessary duty, and then resumed his brown study.I was therefore both astonished and delighted when my friend-having read the telegram of which I speak-handed a scribbled reply to the boy, gave out a brief laugh, and began to pace the floor as of old.'Is it a case, Holmes?' I enquired hopefully. His last investigation, the Cushing horror, had been concluded more than a month before.*'In a way,' said he, handing me the form in passing.The telegram was from one of Holmes's old contacts at Scotland Yard. I read: 'Have you been following these Whitechapel killings? I might call later if you are free. We have something fresh. G. Lestrade.'I looked up in some surprise at Holmes, who chuckled.'You may not be aware, Watson, that among my other accomplishments I have become something of an expert at interpreting the Scotland Yard dialect. It is an interesting idiom, although its relation to English as we know it is somewhat tenuous. This telegram is a good example. A tiro would never suspect that behind this mask of insouciance there hides a desperate man, a man hounded and harried by the press, by the public, and by his superiors-a man at his wits' end, begging for help! Translated into our common tongue, Lestrade's message reads: Three women brutally murdered this past month in Whitechapel-more killings expected-all suspects released for lack of evidence-utterly baffled-you are our last hope-for God's sake say you'll see me!''And did you?''Oh certainly. One should never miss the spectacle of the police in loco clientis. Besides, this case is of some considerable interest. You have heard of it, of course?'The question was indeed purely rhetorical. There can have been no one in the kingdom that fateful autumn who was unaware of the terrible events unfolding in the East End. People could talk of nothing else.'I really didn't imagine you would consider it worth looking into, Holmes,' I answered. 'It all seems rather sordid and disgusting. Hardly your style, I would have thought.''Sordid enough and disgusting enough, in all conscience, but redeemed by some quite extraordinary features of interest-as I may be able to show you. Would you have the goodness to hand me down the red volume on the topmost shelf? I must confess that Lestrade's cri de coeur has not come as a complete surprise to me. I have been expecting something of the sort for several weeks now, and to that end I have been compiling a few cuttings on the subject. It is never a good idea to let the constabulary feel that they have you at a disadvantage. It inflames their inherent sense of superiority. Now then, if you are agreeable, I will run over the facts as briefly and clearly as I can. This will be of the greatest benefit to me, in refreshing my grasp of the case.''I could wish for nothing better,' said I, and meant it most sincerely. The coolness that had sprung up between us since I announced my engagement had suddenly been dispelled. The cloud I feared had settled for ever on Holmes's spirit had suddenly lifted. The game was afoot once more!Holmes leafed through the commonplace book with one hand, while with the other he lifted down the Persian slipper containing his tobacco.'Let me see! Another Ghastly Murder in Whitechapel. Hm! Horrible Atrocities of a Maniac. Quite so! Reign of Terror in East London. &...	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;language & grammar;new;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words,11
0738501301,"Jewish Chicago: A Pictorial History (Images of America: Illinois) Dr. Irving Cutler, the retired chairman of the Geography Department at Chicago State University, is a founding member of the Chicago Jewish Historical Society. He has given many tours and talks on Jewish Chicago and has been the curator of two major Jewish exhibits in the city. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including the award-winning The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb. Join Dr. Cutler on a fascinating visual journey into the historic Jewish community of Chicago.",americas;books;ethnic studies;history;jewish;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states;world,11
0823055914,"Vastu in 10 Simple Lessons Vastu shastra, which originated in Hindu traditions, aims to provide comfortable homes through a systematic approach to building and design. Whelan breaks down the principles of Vastu in a way that clearly and succinctly explains their use in the home, garden, and workplace. For a more comprehensive treatment of the subject, Kathleen Cox's Vastu Living is recommended, but this book is useful as an introduction to this design system. Recommended for large public libraries. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Bilkis Whelan has been working as a Vastu consultant for over 10 years. She also practices feng shui, so she is ideally suited to compare and contrast the two principles. She is a regular contributor to I magazine and is working to set up the first international Vastu website. She lives in London, England.",books;crafts;decorating;divination;hinduism;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;interior design;new age;religion & spirituality,11
081182621X,"Love and Desire: Photoworks The sister book to The Body, which was also written and edited by William Ewing, Love and Desire collects a diverse range of images that attest to Ewing's belief that ""all photographs are, at some level, about love, and all photographs are triggered, to varying degrees, by desire."" In pursuing this theme, Ewing classifies the photographs into eight different categories--Bonds, Icons, Observation, Propositions, Tokens, Libidos, Reveries, and Obsessions. Each of these chapters begins with an essay in which Ewing draws on his deep knowledge of the history of photography to explain the relevance of the selected images. The photos themselves run a full gamut of historical imagery, from the beginning days of the medium up through contemporary art and recent commercial photography. Julia Margaret Cameron explores a family bond in her depiction of the Madonna and child, dated 1865. In 1955, Frank Horvat, in all likelihood standing on a Paris bridge, observes a couple kissing on the quay below. Helmut Newton explores obsession in the mid-1980s with his portrait of a stockinged ankle and foot in a black stiletto heel. Brassa's 1932 portrait of Janet--in which Janet is depicted from the waist up, lying back on a bed, her eyes closed, with a look of ecstasy on her face--opens the Libidos chapter. There are hundreds of other compelling images here, and together they go far to define the complex nature of human love and desire. --Mary Wren	William A. Ewing is a wellknown writer on the art of photography and an independent curator whose exhibitions have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography in New York, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and many other museums and galleries. He lives in New York City.",arts & photography;books;catalogs & exhibitions;catalogues & exhibitions;collections;love & romance;photo essays;photography;portraits;relationships;self-help,11
1585020176,"The Breaker Anointing The truths found in this book will give you the wisdom and faith you need to obtain the greatest breakthrough... -- Dr. Bill Hamon President/Founder of Christian International Ministries Network	Barbara J. Yoder is the founder and senior pastor of Shekinah Christian Church, a racially and culturally diverse church in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Known for her cutting-edge prophetic ministry, Barbara travels extensively within the U.S. and abroad, ministering in churches, conferences, and seminars. In recent Years she has been instrumental in helping to bring together the ministries of the prophetic movement and the prayer movement in order to see the Church advance through the world.",books;charismatic;christian books & bibles;christian living;pentecostal;protestantism;religion & spirituality;religious warfare;spirituality;theology;worship & devotion,11
0374525706,"Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women: Unique, Eccentric and Amazing Entertainers A magician himself, the author offers a history of magicians and other performers, including animals trained to do arithmetic and limbless people able to play musical instruments. PW stated the dozens of illustrations alone ""are worth the price of the book."" Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	YA A historical compendium of the world's most bizarre and outrageous entertainers by one of the world's great sleight-of-hand artists. Reaching back into history as early as the 16th Century, Jay introduces readers to daredevils, mind readers, talented animals and their trainers, sword swallowers, and other wonders of the past. Some have been geniuses, others charlatans, but all have captured the imagination of their public. Although Jay handles the material unevenly, readers should leave the book with awe of the inventive genius of man, and of the incredible stamina of the human body. This is a delightful book for YAs who have a penchant for the extraordinary. It is full of colorful illustrations, posters, and billboards of yesteryear. Anne Johnson, formerly at St. John's School, HoustonCopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Beginning with a somewhat confusing title, this account by magician Jay of unusual entertainers from the 17th century to the present attempts a monumental task. In these pages are an assortment of spritualists, freaks, talking horses, mind readers, sword swallowers, and people who walk through fire. The author has a keen sense of humor about his subjects and is ambivalent in his attempt to separate fact from fiction. Clearly he finds much to admire in some of the lovable charlatans who have entertained audiences throughout the world. There are numerous original playbills, advertisements, drawings, and photographs interspersed throughout the text of this unique and colorful book. For larger collections. Preferred Choice Book Club alternate. Samuel Simons, Memorial Hall Lib., Andover, Mass.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The most satisfying array of oddities, marvels, and novelties that has been gathered together in a blue moon . . . well-written and exhaustively researched . . . it belongs within reach of anyone who wishes to rejoice over the strange quirks and glorious victories of our species. The folks who fill these pages are real, and they should invoke in us a deep sense of wonder.  -- James Randi, The New York Times Book Review	Ricky Jay is the author of Cards as Weapons and has appeared both on television and in movies. He has worked with Joseph Papp, Francis Ford Coppola, and David Mamet. He is currently writing a book about great wagers through history.",arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;circus;education & reference;humor & entertainment;performing arts;specific groups;theater;trivia & fun facts;women,11
190336423X,"ScreenPlay Both editors are Lecturers in Film and Television Studies at Brunel University and the authors of  Science Fiction Cinema (Wallflower Press, 2000). Geoff King is also the author of  Film Comedy (Wallflower Press, 2002) and  New Hollywood Cinema (Columbia, 2002, see page 12).",books;communication & media studies;computers & technology;games & strategy guides;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;movies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;theory;video games,11
1593540051,"BrainJuice: Science, Fresh Squeezed! Grade 4-7--Following up on American History, Fresh Squeezed (Handprint, 2002), Shields continues her humorous looks at school subjects. This collection of 41 poems is divided into four sections: ""Earth and Space Sciences,"" ""Life Sciences,"" ""Chemistry,"" and ""Physics."" All of the selections are brief; some are quite clever and others are forced. Some children might find the new words to ""The Itsy-Bitsy Spider and the Water Cycle"" easy to remember and therefore a help with learning about this process. The same is true of ""Inside of Old Smokey,"" which describes the ins and outs of volcanoes. Related tidbits and facts highlighted by green borders run across the tops of most pages. For example, a poem about the levels of the atmosphere is supplemented by a mnemonic device to help youngsters remember what they are called: ""Trolls Seldom Take Exams"" (Troposphere, Stratosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere). Small, vigorous pen-and-ink cartoons appear throughout the book. The factual content is accurate, and the witty poetry just might draw science-phobic children into learning about these topics.--Kathryn Kosiorek, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Brooklyn, OH Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Carol Diggory Shields is a poet, a humorist, and a librarian -- the perfect qualifications for reducing immense bodies of knowledge into a very few lines of extremely funny verse. Grateful teachers and students can direct fan letters to her in Salinas, CalRichard Thompson is a political cartoonist whose work appears regularly in the Washington Post and US News & World Report. This is the first book he has illustrated for children. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife, Amy, and their two young boys.",american;books;children's books;education & reference;literature & fiction;nature & how it works;poetry;schools & teaching;science;science & math;technology,11
B0002LCV4K,"3M Desktop Keyboard Drawer, Gel Wrist Rest with Antimicrobial Product Protection (KD85CG) Desktop design has an extra-wide drawer that holds virtually all keyboard styles.  Full-size mousing area on platform for added comfort.  Leatherette gel wrist rest with antimicrobial product protection is easy to keep clean.  Sturdy steel reinforced construction.  No installation required.  5 year warranty.",computer components;computers & accessories;desk accessories & workspace organizers;electronics;furniture accessories;keyboard drawers & platforms;office & school supplies;office furniture & lighting;office products;platforms;stands & shelves,11
0867092939,"Drawing Your Own Conclusions: Graphic Strategies for Reading, Writing, and Thinking Joan Brown, currently teaching English at Alameda High School and working as a member of the California Assessment Program's Integrated English-Language Arts Development team, has been actively involve in education for more than twenty years. She has developed and implemented curricula for a variety of programs, served as a mentor teacher, and worked with her district to revise both its language arts curriculum and its competency testing program. In addition to working with the California State Department of Education to develop an integrated reading-writing assessment program, Joan works with the California Career Educational Program to develop and implement a student certification system for vocational education and Regional Occupational Programs.Fran Claggett taught high school English and humanities for many years. Former department chair and mentor teacher at Alameda High School, Fran was twice named Teacher of the Year in her district and county, where she initiated an achievement and portfolio writing assessment program. Her teaching experience includes college appointments in English, biology, and physical education; she has also been the James Lynch Lecturer in English at the University of California, Berkeley. She has given workshops for teachers across the country, evaluated schools in Guam, and taught in the Bay Area Writing Project Panama and the Virgin Islands summer workshops.",books;education;education & reference;language & grammar;linguistics;new;reading skills;rhetoric;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,11
0875848710,"Results-Based Leadership It's possible to look like a leader, say all the right things to shareholders, make employees feel good about themselves, and still not produce the sorts of results everyone expects and wants from your company. A previous generation might have called this winning the battle but losing the war. Directing employees is harder than it looks, since past performance isn't really an indication of how a leader will do in the future. As the authors say, ""The half-life of knowledge grows ever shorter in most professions, requiring even high performers to unlearn what they know and do."" The authors--a university professor and two heads of consulting firms--divide leadership priorities into four areas: employees, organization, customers, and investors. A company head generally has to focus on one responsibility over the other three, but can't get away with ignoring any of them for very long. They explain each of these four priorities in depth--noting, for example, that keeping employees committed and productive means ""mass customizing"" the workplace to fit individual employees' needs while keeping everyone working toward the same goal. That customization may require adjustments unheard-of a few years ago--allowing an employee to work from home in a different city, for example--but pays off in the retention of valuable human assets that would otherwise take their training, experience, energy, and creativity to other companies, possibly competitors. People who already have leadership positions in their companies can certainly find a lot of important information, but the book may be even more valuable to those who want to move into management roles. It certainly shows what challenges to expect. --Lou Schuler	The authors argue that most business leaders lack insight when responding to the simple question, ""What is your business about?"" Usually, the response focuses on the company's product affiliation, for example ""We're in plastics."" In order to get good business results, the authors say, leaders need to understand fully what makes their organization tick at the ""elemental level."" The authors, a business educator and two company directors, draw on their business experience as well as the work of other business leaders and illustrate with specific strategies and charts how to achieve ""results"" in four specific areas: employees, the organization, its customers, and its investors. Here we also learn about the leadership attributes of successful companies, information that readers can use as a guide to hone their own leadership skills. A notes section offers additional readings. Recommended for specialized business collections, company executives, business managers, and human resource people. (Index not seen.)ABellinda Wise, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, NYCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	The three authors are a University of Michigan business professor and editor of Human Resource Management Journal, a president of a firm specializing in corporate training, and a founding partner of a management consulting firm. They argue that there is a problem with prevailing leadership models and with the spate of recent books devoted to leadership. The three complain that what they see as an exclusive focus on leadership attributes is misguided. Emphasizing that traits are important, they make the case that a model of effective leadership must also consider measurable results. They explain how an organization should define ""desired results,"" and they identify four areas in which to look for results. Effective leaders invest, leverage, and expand their organization's human capital. They improve an organization's capabilities to learn, to act swiftly, to collaborate without boundaries, and to be accountable. Leaders get customer results by creating firm rather than brand equity. And, finally, in the fourth realm, leaders build shareholder value by improving the company's bottom line--literally!  David Rouse	""This gem may be the only book on leadership you need to read.  Ulrich, Zenger, and Smallwood deliver an insightful synthesis of the plethora of work in this field and a compelling argument that effective leadership is the product of both leadership 'attributes' and the achievement of results.""   --Jeffrey L. Bleustein, Chairman and CEO, Harley-Davidson, Inc. ""Results-Based Leadership is a welcome addition to the leadership book bag."" --Frances Hesselbein, Founding President and Chairman of the Board, Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management ""Results-Based Leadership has gotten it right.  Ulrich, Zenger, and Smallwood confirm that leadership is hard work.  Perspiration must replace aspiration-that's the only way forward."" --John Hofmeister, HR Director, Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies ""At a time when so many business theories are being thrown about, it's refreshing to encounter something that is real and practical.  Results-Based Leadership should be required reading for leaders at all levels."" --Carlos M. Gutierrez, President and COO, The Kellogg Company ""Results-Based Leadership is both enlightening and moving-an unusual, powerful combination in the crowded domain of leadership.  The authors place substantial responsibility at the doorsteps of those of us who are expected to lead, but they also provide us with invaluable tools for meeting the leadership challenge."" --Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr., President and CEO, Hallmark Cards, Inc. ""I urge you to read Results-Based Leadership for the clarity of its insight into the nature of what leaders actually do.  Even experienced leaders will find ideas here for bridging the gap between leadership theory and practice."" --Steve Kerr, Vice President, Corporate Leadership Development, General Electric Company	Dave Ulrich is a professor at the School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he co-directs the Human Resource Executive Education Program. He is the author of the bestseller Human Resource Champions (HBS Press).",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;entrepreneurship;leadership;management;management & leadership;new;small business & entrepreneurship;used & rental textbooks,11
0688143016,"Queer Space: Architecture and Same-Sex Desire Discussions of gay culture and gay politics traditionally have concerned civil rights, artistic influence, and sexual freedom. Rarely has the concept of how gay people relate to material space been addressed. Aaron Betsky's Queer Space: Architecture and Same-Sex Desire is an important, ground-breaking book that examines how homosexual people live in physical space and how they are in the forefront of creating new concepts of space, for themselves as well as for the rest of the world. Queer Space is smart, well written, and filled with illustrations. Betsky's thesis--that the purpose of queer space is ultimately sex--is passionately argued and highly convincing. This is a major work of gay and social studies.	In this follow-up to Building Sex (Morrow, 1995), Betsky, curator of art and design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, attempts to reveal a historical interrelationship among a gay sensibility, design, and culture. Offering no real definition of the word queer, which he incessantly uses as noun, verb, and adjective, Betsky fails to differentiate it from his use of homosexual and gay as he focuses predominantly on spaces associated with the sexual activities of white, middle-class gay males. Disappointingly, his fatuous prose and unsubstantiated generalizations undermine his sincere attempts to explore this complex and fascinating topic: ""Cruising through the city or cyberspace, the queer privateers move from their operatic colonies to the dirty delights of sex clubs, opening up the tightly packed, floating communal oval of a ship, a queer ark always looking for a port. I hope it remains always afloat."" Recommended only for architecture collections in academic libraries and larger gay studies collections.?Jim Van Buskirk, San Francisco P.L.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Aaron Betsky is the Curator of Art and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has written several books on architecture, including Building Sex. A frequent contributor to The Los Angeles Times, and a contributing editor for Architectural Record, ID magazine and Metropolitan Home, he lives in San Francisco.	I was still an architecture student learning the correct orders and order of things when I would come down to New York late at night and walk the streets of Midtown, broad and deserted at night, until I came to the small crowd gathered around the door of Studio 54. A doorman, often clad in an oversized parka, stood on a raised stoop, singling out those who were, for some reason of fashion or urban mix, worthy.  Passing through the barricades, you would enter into a long hallway, the music and lights already echoing through the space. Then you would erupt into a domed vastness, its edges unknowable, packed with people. Lasers and light beams rotated through this darkness, sectioning off slices of space into defined layers, spots, and even rooms. Mirrors would come down off the ceiling, so that you could dance with yourself instead of others. After a later renovation, a bank of red and blue neon lights would create a flat ceiling, a gabled roof, walls, or rotating saucers around the dancers. As the crowds grew, the invisible wizards up in the booth would use the lights, music, and props to press them ever closer together, pushing and pulling at the space until the whole room was filled to capacity and the bare brick wall that backed up what used to be the stage emerged, complete with the original stage lighting.  Then suddenly everything would go black, and an ethereal silence would descend.  Bodies would emerge as the crowd melted away. Nearly nude males would wrap themselves up in shadows, adoring themselves in motion. Upstairs, on the balcony, voyeurs would watch, or would engage in their own, more intimate dances, discovering their bodies in others. ""What are we celebrating?"" a friend asked as we watched a particular intense evening of choreographed spaces unfold below us from that vantage point. ""It's the end of the world, that's what,"" answered another.  ""This is the Versailles of the twentieth century,"" said the same friend that evening. I tend to agree. This was the Gesamtkunstwerk that New York produced in the 1980s, when all the money and cultural talent of the world crowded into the small island. It translated wealth into a dense experience, structured by a variety of different technologies. It was a spectacle that brought to life a vision of a liberated, joyous, and sensual existence that was at the same time no more than a reflection of a morally bankrupt, greedy elite. Inside Studio 54, a new world was born, but it would have no issue, it would make no difference, it would save nothing. It was pure act. Like Versailles, it was a lavish place, a place that made you feel powerful and important. It relied on ritual, role- playing, and operatic exaggeration. It made you feel as if you were building a brave new world as the old world and its facts dissolved. It did so in a way that never took itself seriously. This was, after all, just a dance club.",architecture;books;buildings;criticism;gay & lesbian;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;reference;social sciences;specific demographics,11
0879054859,"Night Before Christmas in Texas, The (Night Before Christmas (Gibbs)) Shauna Mooney Kawasaki of Provo, Ut has illustraded children's and adult literature.Catherine Smith is the Vice president of Gibbs Smith, Publisher and co-founder of Gibbs Smith, Publisher.	'Twas the night before Christmas in Texas, you bet,   But no one'd seen Santa; he hadn't come yet.   The chaps were all hung up, the boots neatly shined,   While out on the plains a right tough windstorm whined.   And Santa was in it, with reindeer and sleigh.   He'd blown in from Brownsville, down Mexico way.   He was squinting from dust and his beard had turned brown.   The reindeer were squealing; the sleigh sinking down,    Till it lurched to stop near the hills at Big Bend.    Santa said, ""Here we'll wait for this dust storm to end.   ""The sleigh's overloaded with great Texas toys.   ""It's too hard to steer in the dust and the noise!""",books;children's books;christmas;contemporary;general;holidays & celebrations;humor;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;reference;travel,11
075676386X,"America Reborn: A Twentieth-Century Narrative in Twenty-Six Lives With the detailed expertise of a historian and the insight of a contemporary, Martin Walker presents a narrative of the outgoing American century through individual portraits of 26 of its most influential participants. Beginning with Teddy Roosevelt and concluding with Bill Clinton, Walker's portraits are less biographical than they are temporal; he brings to life particular moments in the 1900s that his subjects helped shape. For example, his narrative of William Boeing traces the history of American aviation from its origins to the present. After World War I, Boeing, Martin, Loughead, Northrop, and Douglas recognized the potential for commercial aviation, and the industry was born. Walker then outlines the shift into aerospace when President Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, and the industry's present contraction into two conglomerates, competing with Europe's Airbus consortium. Former bureau chief of The Guardian and author of several critically acclaimed books, Walker is a seasoned, skilled writer. His portraits read easily. Averaging 15 pages, they can be read individually or as part of the larger narrative. Each of them illustrates the ""primacy of the individual"" and the powerful ""cult of the winner,"" unique characteristics of American society that lead the author to consider the 20th century the ""American century"" and America the cultural, economic, and political world leader. --Bertina Loeffler Sedlack 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	As the title suggests, British journalist Walker (The Cold War: A History, etc.) views history through the prism of biography in his engaging, though sometimes superficial, chronicle of the U.S.'s political, social and economic development over the course of the 20th century. Each chapter takes a well-known individual as a paradigm for a larger development (""Emma Goldman and the American Dissident,"" ""Lucky Luciano and the American Criminal,"" etc.). The early chapters are essentially recapitulations of received wisdom: for instance, Henry Ford invents mass production and realizes he must also create a mass consumer class, hence the five-dollar day for his workers. When the choices are not conventional, they can be arguable: Katharine Hepburn is hardly a typical Hollywood star, and using Winston Churchill (whose mother was American) as a way of examining ""the American diaspora"" (whose meaning is never satisfactorily clarified) simply doesn't work. As the narrative approaches the 1970s, when Walker began reporting in the U.S., it sharpens considerably. Particularly strong is the chapter on Richard Nixon, in which Walker argues that the most important of the ""three strategic disasters that marked his presidency"" was neither Watergate nor the fall of Saigon but Nixon's decision to abandon the gold standard and devalue the dollar, which led to the ghastly inflation of the '70s and the resulting triumph of Reaganomics in the '80s. Throughout his accessible text, the author also does a good job of tracing his main theme, the nation's century-long struggle to deal with Americans' ambivalence about international involvement. There's little new here, but Walker's lively popular history is generally informative and appealing. 26 photos. (May) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Walker, a prize-winning journalist and author of books on recent history (e.g., The President We Deserve: Bill Clinton; His Rise, Falls, and Comebacks, LJ 8/96), uses an almost novelistic approach to the telling of America's story. This is not a simple collection of biographical sketches but a history that employs personal stories--from Teddy Roosevelt to Babe Ruth, Henry Ford to Katharine Hepburn, Duke Ellington to Bill Clinton--as touchstones for a wide-ranging discussion of our culture. Lacking a scholarly approach, the book is meant to be enjoyed as a narrative. The names chosen are judicious and represent for Walker the most remarkable and important. Similar adult books have appeared over the years (e.g., JFK's Profiles in Courage) but none as sweeping or as well written. A top priority for all libraries, especially small public libraries with limited budgets.-Edward Gibson, Lincoln Univ. Lib., PA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Walker's essays on 26 famous Americans play up the force of individualism. Whether writing of Theodore Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Henry Ford, Duke Ellington, or Betty Friedan, Walker extrapolates from any one life a wider trend in twentieth-century history or an attribute of American society that that life exemplified. He then develops, say, the idealism of Woodrow Wilson, as it fared following its exponent's departure from the historical scene. For example, Wilsonian internationalism still informs foreign policy, coexisting uneasily with Theodore Roosevelt's precept that national power be wielded in the national self-interest. Walker exhibits impressive command over a range of topics, from music to economics to religion to politics, and it makes his narrative flow and his insights click. His skill teases out the larger meanings of figures many highbrows hate--Walt Disney, for instance, a progenitor of the global reach of American pop culture--or who national self-esteem may wish weren't stitched into the country's fabric--namely, the gangster Lucky Luciano. An intelligently selected gallery of Americans each representing a particular vision of Americanism. Gilbert TaylorCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Boasts wise, original insights rendered in glowing prose.The Washington Post Book WorldReadable and thoughtful. [Walker has] a shrewd eye for the significance of people we otherwise take for granted.The New York Times Book ReviewOne gets from Walker a lucid vision of American utopianism.The Boston GlobeFrom the Trade Paperback edition.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Here is the story of America in the twentieth century as told through the lives of twenty-six of its most remarkable and historically crucial men and women.The people Martin Walker has chosen to portray are presidents, industrialists, artists, thinkers, entertainers, soldiers, spies, criminals, and evangelists, among others, and he makes the life of each individual serve as a framework for a discussion of the nation as a whole in a century when it was reinventing itself.Through Theodore Roosevelt, Walker examines America's ambition; through Woodrow Wilson, our idealism; through FDR, our triumph on the world stage; through Richard Nixon, our retreat into cynicism; through Bill Clinton, globalization and controversy about the right way to use America's unprecedented power.In Henry Ford he finds the creator of both the mass-market product and the mass-market consumer, and in Walt Disney, the revolutionizer not only of America's entertainment but also of the world's. William Boeing is the innovator who spurs the behemoth of American aviation; Walter Reuther defines labor's struggles; George C. Marshall represents the spread of America's economic genius in a war-ravaged Europe.In the lives of Duke Ellington, Frank Lloyd Wright, Katharine Hepburn, and John Steinbeck, Walker traces America's far-reaching cultural influences. Babe Ruth leads to a consideration of the role of sports in our society; William F. Buckley, Jr., to a discussion of conservatism; Martin Luther King, Jr., to matters of race; Betty Friedan to the shifting role of women; Billy Graham to an examination of religion; Emma Goldman to minority viewpoints and dissent; Black Jack Pershing to the place of the military; Lucky Luciano to crime and corruption; Albert Einstein to immigration; Richard Bissell to spies and the intelligence network; Alan Greenspan to finance and banking; and Winston Churchill to the American diaspora.At once intimate and wide-ranging, America Reborn is an altogether engrossing work of narrative history.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Boasts wise, original insights rendered in glowing prose.The Washington Post Book WorldReadable and thoughtful. [Walker has] a shrewd eye for the significance of people we otherwise take for granted.The New York Times Book ReviewOne gets from Walker a lucid vision of American utopianism.The Boston Globe	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Martin Walker served as bureau chief for Britain's The Guardian in Washington, D.C., and other postings before retiring as the paper's assistant editor. A regular commentator on CNN, Inside Washington, and NPR, he is also a contributing editor of the Los Angeles Times. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, and The New Republic, and was awarded Britain's Reporter of the Year prize. He is a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute in New York and has lectured at many American universities. Walker is the author of six books, including The President We Deserve and The Cold War: A History. He is married, has two daughters, and lives in Europe.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	IntroductionI suspect that this book began unconsciously as a love letter to America from a foreigner who sees it both as a second home and as an inspiration. I first visited the United States in 1964 as a young officer cadet of the Royal Air Force, on a NATO exchange. Within five years, having sailed across the Atlantic on the SS France to land in time for what sounded like a promising rock festival at Woodstock, I was installed as a resident tutor at Harvard's Kirkland House on a Harkness Fellowship. Two months later, I was traveling in a bizarre road convoy that had cars and coaches from half the colleges in New England clogging I-95 and passing jokes and joints back and forth through car windows as we went to demonstrate in Washington against the Vietnam War. The oddity was made the greater by the studied courtesy of my hosts in the city, the parents of a friend whose father was a navy captain based at the Pentagon.Each decade of my life since has been marked and enhanced by the wondrous contradictions of the American experience. In the 1970s, I was part of Senator Edmund Muskie's presidential campaign, and also evading arrest outside the Justice Department as the antiwar demonstrations grew more heated and machine-gun posts were installed on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. In 1972, I was in Miami as a young reporter for the Democratic and Republican conventions, watching Governor George Wallace enter the convention hall in his wheelchair while the Youth for Nixon delegates in their straw hats chanted, Four more years. I sat on the beach with Hunter Thompson the night after Senator George McGovern won his nomination, before I caught the morning plane to visit the new Disney World at Orlando.In the 1980s, I flew in from glasnost Moscow to lecture on the Chernobyl disaster and on the new phenomenon of perestroika and watched the ecstatic Washington crowds greet Mikhail Gorbachev at that extraordinary moment of the Cold War that the Washington Post dubbed Gorbasm. By the end of the decade, I was counting dead birds on the oil-drenched beach of Knight's Island in Alaska's Prince William Sound as the Exxon Valdez spewed out its cargo, and sipping beer on President George Bush's speedboat as we raced to see the seals on the rocks outside Kennebunkport, Maine. In the 1990s, as the U.S. bureau chief for The Guardian, I renewed an old Oxford acquaintanceship with Governor Bill Clinton in Little Rock, was sheltered from an angry mob by a shotgun-wielding Korean family in the Los Angeles riots, went to White House parties, and travelled on Air Force One.There is no land on earth more enthralling, more welcoming, or more generous than America. And as I stood in Oklahoma City looking at the wreckage of a terrorist bomb, and in the smoking wreckage of a black church in Georgia, and as I plucked a bullet from the charred earth of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, no country had seemed so bafflingly alien in its appetite for violence and extremism. America has been, throughout my life, a country that has known the best of times and the worst of times, sometimes almost simultaneously.The paradoxes of the country are surreal. It is not easy to conceive how one country can embrace such extremes of wealth and poverty as the gilded oasis of Palm Springs, California, and the very different desert of the Oglala Sioux reservation at Pine Ridge, North Dakota. A country with over a million law graduates also has well over a million of its fellow citizens behind bars. The nation that provides much of the world with its graduate schools, with nearly 2 million people pursuing master's degrees and doctorates, depends upon a deeply flawed public school system, almost a fifth of whose products are functionally illiterate. Perhaps the American system needs the constant, threatening, and warning presence of the price of failure as a social spur to achievement and success. As Gore Vidal has suggested, It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.The cult of the winner is a powerful one, in a land in which sporting contests are seldom permitted to end in draws, in which schoolchildren vote for their classmate most likely to succeed, and in which college entrance is based on rigid competition. And there is no doubt that America has been the outright winner in the twentieth century's game of nations. It began the century just starting to feel its strength and to assert itself on the world stage, and ended it, as French foreign minister Hubert Vedrine put it, not as the only superpower, but as something altogether new.America had become the hyperpower, Vedrine suggested. It not only dominated by the usual criteria of wealth, military power, and global influence but also boasted the most advanced and innovative technologies. It enjoyed the most far-reaching cultural and commercial influence, all resting upon a democratic system of free speech and free markets that had, with the end of the Cold War, become the most self-confident ideology on the planet. Its military supremacy was unmatched since the days of ancient Rome, and its reach was incomparably wider. For the relatively modest investment of some 3.5 percent of its annual GDP, the defense budget's lowest share of national wealth since 1940, the United States by the late 1990s could maintain with ease an unmatched military power. Even 3.5 percent of the GDP meant that the Pentagon was outspending the next nine military powers combined.The striking paradox is that the wielder of this awesome power was famously reluctant to deploy it, or at least to put the men and women of its professional forces at risk, particularly since cruise missiles and stealth warplanes allowed and even encouraged devastatingly accurate and virtually invulnerable bombardments. The country has always been uneasy about foreign entanglements, ever since George Washington's farewell address warned his countrymen against them. America has always been of the world, explaining in the founding document of its nationhood the need for a decent respect for the opinions of mankind, without being overly eager to join it. The only nation that has rivaled America's hyperpower status, Britain in the nineteenth century, was less fastidious. Lord Palmerston, the British foreign secretary who coined the term Pax Britannica at the height of its sway, had a saying: Trade without rule where possible, trade with rule where necessary. America found rule to be as unnecessary as it was uncongenial; the overwhelming reality of its influence was sufficient to avoid the formal trappings and entanglements of empire.Some presidents sought to correct this national reluctance. Teddy Roosevelt built a canal and a fleet to prod his people into a global assertion, once the manifest destiny of continental expansion had been achieved. He was not even partially successful. It was Woodrow Wilson, that unwilling, almost apologetic interventionist, who finally took the nation into world war, but only with the understanding that he might then outlaw war altogether. The U.S. Senate rejected even this most noble of justifications for remaining a member of Europe's great power system, and it refused to ratify his Treaty of Versailles. Nonetheless, Roosevelt and Wilson between them set the parameters of American engagement with the world in the twentieth century. Roosevelt wanted it to become dominant as the richest and most powerful of nations; Wilson sought a moral dominance that would lead the way to a new kind of world altogether, based on international law rather than on military force. The history of the second half of the century suggests that these two goals were not entirely incompatible. John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, two presidents who secured a particularly cherished place in the nation's heart, acted on the assumption that the country's military and moral dominance were two sides of a single coin. The country was great because it was good, and it was good because it was great. As fortunate in the crises and the opponents they faced as in their rhetorical ability, Kennedy and Reagan were broadly able to reconcile the Rooseveltian and Wilsonian traditions of military and moral leadership. Lyndon Johnson, less astute in choosing his foreign confrontation, was not. Perhaps the most politically gifted of the postwar presidents, Johnson, during his five years in office, brought Americans back to the deeply uncomfortable and divisive thought that a great power was not necessarily a good country, and that a good power might not always be inclined or even able to assert its military greatness.The United States, against its instincts and traditions, was forced into a global role. It was bombed into war by Japan in 1941, and lured into remaining in Europe after 1947 by the blunt British warning that it alone could no longer afford to sustain the old continent against the Soviet threat. Either the United States had to assume the role or watch Stalin's empire spread into Europe's resulting vacuum of power by default. Even then, the deployment of American power in the Cold War was limited. It mounted an airlift to relieve West Berlin, rather than seeking a military confrontation on the ground, despite its brief monopoly of the atomic bomb. It stood by as East Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, and Poles successively rose against their Soviet masters.America's power, when deployed, was repeatedly withdrawn or its punches pulled. The country accepted a bloody draw in Korea, defeat in Vietnam, and a stalemate with Cuba, in part because the conflicts were seen as limited ones, which didn't need to be fought to a finish with every available weapon, and in part because of public opinion. Behind the public doubts over America's minor wars lay a principled conviction that America was differently founded and more honorably directed than the traditional great powers of Europe with their realpolitik and empires of exploitation. This persistent American ethic required that its as...	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",20th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;history;humanities;new;reference & collections;united states;used & rental textbooks,11
0764543024,"Frommer's Washington D.C. with Kids Over the years, millions of kids have been dragged to Washington to see the grand edifices and historic monuments of our country's capital, and most of those millions have returned home without the desire to ever see a statue, senator, or Supreme anything ever again. But it doesn't have to be like that. Beth Rubin not only knows Washington D.C. backwards and forwards, she knows kids, too, and that makes for a very good guidebook. Well organized, with a variety of useful information on family hotels, restaurants, shopping, and entertainment, this is a full-service guide with a family focus. Aside from such necessities as which hotels offer cribs and rollaway beds, Rubin knows where your children can take simulated orbital flights, dine with U.S. representatives, touch a moon rock, crawl through an African termite mound replica, pet a horseshoe crab, or go swimming, biking, or in-line skating. It'll take the family Washington trip to new heights.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Let Frommers show you where your kids can:Take a simulated orbital flightDine with U.S. senatorsDress like Thomas JeffersonOgle the Hope DiamondPet a horseshoe crabTouch a moon rockCrawl through a replica of an African termites moundSee money being madeVisit the theater where Lincoln was shot and the house where he diedGo swimming, biking, or in-line skatingPlus invaluable travel tips on:Age ranges for each sight and activityHotels that offer cribs and rollaway bedsA complete rundown on restaurants with kids menusShopping for everything from baby booties to comic booksA Washington, D.C. parents words of wisdom on safety	Beth Rubin has written extensively on family topics for 20 years and has lived in the Washington, D.C. area since the early 1960s. During that time, she has played tour guide to her own two children and grandchildren as well as the offspring of numerous relatives and friends. Her experience and tell-it-like-it-is style make this well-researched book indispensable to anyone living in or visiting the nations capital with kids in tow.",books;d.c.;family travel;general;reference;south;south atlantic;specialty travel;travel;united states;washington,11
0762402377,"Daughters & Mothers: A Celebration (Running Press Miniatures) Jayne Wexler is an acclaimed portrait photographer whose work has been featured in Esquire, Vibe, and Vanity Fair.",arts & photography;books;education & reference;family relationships;motherhood;parenting & relationships;photo essays;photography;politics & social sciences;social sciences;women's studies,11
B0001QIUGO,"Mr. Bar-B-Q Cast-Iron Wok Much heavier than traditional steel woks, this solid cast-iron wok absorbs and retains heat at the high temperatures needed for superior stir-fry cooking. A flat bottom sits the wok securely on a stovetop, gas grill, or charcoal grill, while two loop handles allow for safe lifting with oven mitts. The wok measures 14 inches in diameter (17 inches with handles), and 4 inches deep--generous enough for a family-size meal.  The wok must be seasoned before first use to create a nonstick patina that also helps prevent rusting. After washing, apply a thin layer of vegetable oil and heat the wok for one hour. While the wok can be seasoned on a grill, an oven works best. Instructions for the seasoning process are included with the wok. After subsequent use, the wok should be washed by hand and dried before storing. Mr. Bar-B-Q covers the wok with a five-year warranty against defects. --Ann Bieri	Cast iron wok, the very best in gourmet cooking. This will be cooking at it's finest",cookware;grill & smoker accessories;grilling cookware;grills & outdoor cooking;home & kitchen;kitchen & dining;lawn & garden;mr. bbq;outdoor woks;patio;woks & stir-fry pans,11
1569752907,"Hidden Colorado: Including Denver, Boulder, Aspen, Vail, Rocky Mountain National Park and Mesa Verde National Park The Hidden guidebook series hot-peppers its pages with little arrows that point to a multitude of off-the-tourist-track sites.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",aspen;books;boulder;colorado;denver;general;mountain;rocky mountain national park;travel;united states;west,11
0451524977,"Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings (Signet Classics) ""Reasonably priced, comprehensive edition with good selection of other writings.""--Virginia Caris, George Washington University""I really like this edition because of the variety of Franklin's writings represented here.  The affordability of this text is greatly appreciated by the students as well.""--Lynn Searfoss, Purdue University	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Benjamin Franklin, statesman, philosopher, and man of letters, was born in Boston in 1706 of Protestant parents. He entered Boston Grammar School when he was eight and later attended George Brown Ells school. When he was twelve his father apprenticed him to his half-brother James as a printer. James was later the publisher of the New England Courant, where Franklins first articles, The Dogood Papers, were published before he was seventeen. He went to Philadelphia in 1723 and pursued his trade of printer. He was befriended by William Keith, Governor of Pennsylvania, who offered to help the young man get started in business. Franklin left for England, where he hoped to arrange for the purchase of printing equipment. Arriving in London in 1724, he was soon deserted by Keith, and again turned to printing for a livelihood. His privately printed Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain (1725) introduced him to leading Deists and other intellectuals in London. A year later, he returned to Philadelphia, and by 1730 he had been appointed public printer for Pennsylvania. In 1731 he established the first circulation library in the United States; in 1743-44, The American Philosophical Society. In 1748 he retired from the trade of printer but continued to advise and back his partner and to draw profit from the business. Poor Richards Almanack was his most spectacular success as a publisher, having gone through numerous editions and been translated in many languages. During the next thirty-five years he devoted himself largely to politics and diplomacy, but still wrote and engaged in scientific ventures. He resigned as Minister to France in 1785, returned to America, and was elected President of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Still concerned with the rights of the individual, he published papers encouraging the abolition of slavery. He died in Philadelphia in 1790.	Part OneTwyford, at the Bishop of St. Asaph's, 1771.Dear son:I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook for that purpose. Imagining it may be equally agreeable to you to know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a week's uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements. Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which with the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations, and therefore fit to be imitated.That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. So I might, besides correcting the faults, change some sinister accidents and events of it for others more favorable. But though this were denied, I should still accept the offer. Since such a repetition is not to be expected, the next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.Hereby, too, I shall indulge the inclination so natural in old men, to be talking of themselves and their own past actions; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to others, who, through respect to age, might conceive themselves obliged to give me a hearing, since this may be read or not as any one pleases. And, lastly (I may as well confess it, since my denial of it will be believed by nobody), perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity. Indeed, I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, Without vanity I may say, etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility to acknowledge that I owe the mentioned happiness of my past life to His kind providence, which led me to the means I used and gave them success. My belief of this induces me to hope, though I must not presume, that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me, in continuing that happiness, or enabling me to bear a fatal reverse, which I may experience as others have done; the complexion of my future fortune being known to Him only in whose power it is to bless to us even our afflictions.The notes of one of my uncles (who had the same kind of curiosity in collecting family anecdotes) once put into my hands furnished me with several particulars relating to our ancestors. From these notes I learned that the family had lived in the same village, Ecton, in Northamptonshire, for three hundred years, and how much longer he knew not (perhaps from the time when the name of Franklin, that before was the name of an order of people, was assumed by them as a surname when others took surnames all over the kingdom),* on a freehold of about thirty acres, aided by the smith's business, which had continued in the family till his time, the eldest son being always bred to that business, a custom which he and my father followed as to their eldest sons. When I searched the registers at Ecton, I found an account of their births, marriages, and burials, from the year 1555 only, there being no registers kept in that parish at any time preceding. By that register, I perceived that I was the youngest son of the youngest son for five generations back. My grandfather Thomas, who was born in 1598, lived at Ecton till he grew too old to follow business longer, when he went to live with his son John, a dyer at Banbury, in Oxfordshire, with whom my father served an apprenticeship. There my grandfather died and lies buried. We saw his gravestone in 1758. His eldest son Thomas lived in the house at Ecton, and left it with the land to his only child, a daughter, who, with her husband, one Richard Fisher, of Wellingborough, sold it to Mr. Isted, now lord of the manor there. My grandfather had four sons that grew up, viz.: Thomas, John, Benjamin, and Josiah. I will give you what account I can of them at this distance from my papers, and if these are not lost in my absence, you will among them find many more particulars.Thomas was bred a smith under his father, but being ingenious, and encouraged in learning (as all my brothers were) by an Esquire Palmer, then the principal gentleman in that parish, he qualified himself for the business of scrivener,* became a considerable man in the county, was a chief mover of all public-spirited undertakings for the county or town of Northampton, and his own village, of which many instances were related of him, and much taken notice of and patronized by the then Lord Halifax. He died in 1702, January 6, old style, just four years to a day before I was born. The account we received of his life and character from some old people at Ecton, I remember, struck you as something extraordinary, from its similarity to what you knew of mine. Had he died on the same day, you said, one might have supposed a transmigration.John was bred a dyer, I believe, of woolens. Benjamin was bred a silk dyer, serving an apprenticeship at London. He was an ingenious man. I remember him well, for, when I was a boy, he came over to my father in Boston, and lived in the house with us some years. He lived to a great age. His grandson, Samuel Franklin, now lives in Boston. He left behind him two quarto volumes. MS., of his own poetry, consisting of little occasional pieces addressed to his friends and relations, of which the following, sent to me, is a specimen.* He had formed a shorthand of his own, which he taught me, but, never practicing it, I have now forgot it. I was named after this uncle, there being a particular affection between him and my father. He was very pious, a great attender of sermons of the best preachers, which he took down in his shorthand, and had with him many volumes of them. He was also much of a politician; too much, perhaps, for his station. There fell lately into my hands in London a collection he had made of all the principal pamphlets relating to public affairs, from 1641 to 1717; many of the volumes are wanting, as appears by the numbering, but there still remain eight volumes in folio, and twenty-four in quarto and in octavo. A dealer in old books met with them, and knowing me by my sometimes buying of him, he brought them to me. It seems my uncle must have left them here when he went to America, which was above fifty years since. There are many of his notes in the margins.This obscure family of ours was early in the Reformation, and continued Protestants through the reign of Queen Mary, when they were sometimes in danger of trouble on account of their zeal against popery. They had got an English Bible, and to conceal and secure it, it was fastened open with tapes under and within the cover of a joint-stool.* When my great-great-grandfather read it to his family, he turned up the joint-stool upon his knees, turning over the leaves then under the tapes. One of the children stood at the door to give notice if he saw the apparitor coming, who was an officer of the spiritual court. In that case the stool was turned down again upon its feet, when the Bible remained concealed under it as before. This anecdote I had from my uncle Benjamin. The family continued all of the Church of England till about the end of Charles the Second's reign, when some of the ministers that had been outed for nonconformity, holding conventicles* in Northamptonshire, Benjamin and Josiah adhered to them, and so continued all their lives: the rest of the family remained with the Episcopal Church.Josiah, my father, married young, and carried his wife with three children into New England, about 1682. The conventicles having been forbidden by law, and frequently disturbed, induced some considerable men of his acquaintance to remove to that country, and he was prevailed with to accompany them thither, where they expected to enjoy their mode of religion with freedom. By the same wife he had four children more; born there, and by a second wife ten more, in all seventeen; of which I remember thirteen sitting at one time at his table, who all grew up to be men and women, and married; I was the youngest son, and the youngest child but two, and was born in Boston, New England. My mother, the second wife, was Abiah Folger, daughter of Peter Folger, one of the first settlers of New England, of whom honorable mention is made by Cotton Mather, in his church history of that country entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as a godly, learned Englishman, if I remember the words rightly. I have heard that he wrote sundry small occasional pieces, but only one of them was printed, which I saw now many years since. It was written in 1675, in the homespun verse of that time and people, and addressed to those then concerned in the government there. It was in favor of liberty of conscience, and in behalf of the Baptists, Quakers, and other sectaries that had been under persecution, ascribing the Indian wars, and other distresses that had befallen the country, to that persecution, as so many judgments of God to punish so heinous an offense, and exhorting a repe...	      --This text refers to the 							Mass Market Paperback	 edition.",( f );a-z;americas;benjamin;biographies & memoirs;books;franklin;history;people;revolution & founding;united states,11
1563920336,"Isuzu Trooper '84'91 & Pickup '81'93 (Haynes Manuals) Haynes offers the best coverage for cars, trucks, vans, SUVs and motorcycles on the market today. Each manual contains easy to follow step-by-step instructions linked to hundreds of photographs and illustrations. Included in every manual: troubleshooting section to help identify specific problems; tips that give valuable short cuts to make the job easier and eliminate the need for special tools; notes, cautions and warnings for the home mechanic; color spark plug diagnosis and an easy to use index.",automotive;books;engineering;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;new;professional & technical;repair;sports & outdoors;transportation;used & rental textbooks,11
0816514860,"Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival (Sun Tracks) Tired of living in the margin at mainstream literary conferences, a group of Native writers began to talk of an ""international gathering of Native writers."" The 1992 ""Returning the Gift Festival"" was the cumulation of this ten-year dream. Almost 400 Native writers and Native students (offered scholarships through the festival) attended the four-day event, coming from throughout the United States and Canada, as well as from Mexico, Panama, Cuba, and Peru. This showcase represents new, original work from the participants of that gathering. Although the stories and poems presented here cover a variety of themes and styles, several of the writers addressed the empowerment derived from surrounding themselves with other writers from Native cultures. They were not, as Kimberly M. Blaeser addressed in a poem, ""Exhibit A No B, no C, just solitary romanticized A."" This collection presents some of the best known Native writers, and a host of new voices to be alert for.Debbie Bogenschutz, Cincinnati Technical Coll.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	It was Akwesasne Mohawk chief Tom Porter who articulated the Native American ethic after which this collection is named: Native American writers take the gift of story from their people and then, in crafting it into fiction and poetry, return that gift. The 1992 gathering from which this collection draws its contents hosted hundreds of participants who represented Native American peoples from Mexico, Central America, and Canada as well as the U.S., including Hawaii. The richness and variety of this writing--especially the new authors' writing--are stunning. Particularly noteworthy are Sherman Alexie's haunting, jazzy prose poem on urban life and interracial love; Raven Hail's call for the return of the goddess to her indigenous people; and Roberta Hill Whiteman's poetic reparations to the spirit of a road-maimed deer. The authoritative voices of the quite well known--for example, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, and Simon Ortiz--blend with but never overshadow the rest. An excellent, readable, exciting anthology.  Pat Monaghan	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	""An excellent, readable, exciting anthology."" Booklist""This collection presents some of the best known Native writers, and a host of new voices to be alert for."" Library Journal""Returning the Gifts is a valuable work clearly in touch with native patterns of perception as the indispensable guide to adaptation within the chnaging environment."" World Literature Today	An unprecedented gathering of more than 300 Native writers was held in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1992.  The Returning the Gift Festival brought more Native writers together in one place than at any other time in history.  ""Returning the Gift,"" observes co-organizer Joseph Bruchac, ""both demonstrated and validated our literature and our devotion to it, not just to the public, but to ourselves.""     In compiling this volume, Bruchac invited every writer who attended the festival to submit new, unpublished work; he then selected the best of the more than 200 submissions to create a collection that includes established writers like Duane Niatum, Simon Ortiz, Lance Henson, Elizabeth Woody, Linda Hogan, and Jeanette Armstrong, and also introduces such lesser-known or new voices as Tracy Bonneau, Jeanetta Calhoun, Kim Blaeser, and Chris Fleet.  The anthology includes works from every corner of the continent, representing a wide range of tribal affiliations, languages, and cultures.     By taking their peoples' literature back to them in the form of stories and songs, these writers see themselves as returning the gift of storytelling, culture, and continuance to the source from which it came.  In addition to contributions by 92 writers are two introductory chapters: Joseph Bruchac comments on the current state of Native literature and the significance of the festival, and Geary Hobson traces the evolution of the event itself.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",american literature;anthologies;books;classics;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;poetry;united states;used & rental textbooks,11
0862411165,"Scotland Bloody Scotland (Canongate) '... a delightful, infuriating, quirky and thoroughly memorable little book... It makes constitutional history interesting and, better still, funny' - The Shetland Times 'A hilarious, informative romp through 2,000 calamitous years' - The Northern Echo 'A wry, witty look at Scottish history' - The Sunday Post	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Born and brought up in Shetland, Frank Renwick, the Baron of Ravenstone, now lives in Galloway.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;comic strips;comics & graphic novels;england;europe;general;great britain;history;humor;humor & entertainment;travel,11
0553571869,"Animal Appetite (Bantam Crime Line Books) YA.  To win a bet with a friend that she can write about something other than dogs, Holly Winter begins in-depth research into the life of Hannah Dunston, a local 17th-century heroine who turns out to have been a murderer. Clues into Hannah's past lead to the murder of Jack Winter Andrews 18 years ago and the mysterious circumstances of finding his golden retriever tied to his desk at the crime scene. Holly diligently searches through libraries and other people's cluttered basements to discover the identity of Jack's killer, the location of his illegitimate son, and Holly's own tie to Hannah Dunston. Conant adeptly weaves Andrews's murder together with the legend of Hannah Dunston, resulting in an intriguing mesh of converging facts. The author keeps readers entertained between major breakthroughs in the story by relating all sorts of pointers about dogs in general, and more specifically Holly's own malamutes, who play a role in solving the crime. Holly comes across as self-assured, independent, and knowledgeable, and all of the other characters are precisely drawn through subtle details and expertly manipulated facts. During the last chapters, the suspense and tension build rapidly, although the twist at the end is somewhat convenient. Readers who enjoy the dogs in Virginia Lanier's series will also enjoy Conant's mysteries.?Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VACopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The 18-year-old murder of a book publisher interested in showing dogs sidetracks Holly Winter from her research into the life of a New England woman abducted by Indians. She finally solves the case but nearly gets killed in the process. For all those dog-loving readers.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Conant, who has delighted dog-lovers in the first nine volumes of this specialty series perhaps to the point of alienating everyone else, displays in entry ten an invigorating diversification of interest. Dog-columnist Holly Winter is dared by a therapist friend to write something about--quelle horreur!- people. Her research takes her all around Harvard Yard as she looks into the history of Massachusetts settler Hannah Duston, a tribal captive who proved handier with a hatchet than Lizzie Borden. Simultaneously, Holly explores the ten-year-old murder of a local publisher--benign Jack Winter Andrews of Damned Yankee Press--and observes her two projects becoming as entangled as malamutes Rowdy and Kimi during a food fight. Stud Rites (1996) was set claustrophobically within a dog show. This time, Conant gives us a cool, merry, and informative look at academic Cambridge and a scene of sexual misunderstanding that goes from low comedy to something like tragedy. Conant still tends to overexplain jokes and her detective is still irritatingly full of pet-grooming advice. But there are human beings here and some very welcome human drama as our author slips her leash. -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Conant might be the dog lovers' answer to Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who series.""--Rocky Mountain News""Swift and engrossing.""--Publishers Weekly""Invigorating...Conant gives us a cool,merry, and informative look at academic Cambridge....""--Kirkus Reviews	Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter, challenged to write about human behavior, sinks her teeth--and those of her beloved Alaskan malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi--into two mysteries.Eighteen years ago publisher Jack Andrews succumbed to poison in his coffee, leaving two suicide notes--and his golden retriever chained to the desk.His backbiting family swear he was murdered--by a crazed business partner.But they're no model of sanity either: a strident widow with well-chewed nails; a bodybuilder daughter with rottweiler tattoos; and a deranged son who forages in garbage cans, ranting about rats and relatives.What can they reveal about Jack's canine-obsessed double life?What did Jack know that was dangerous enough to get him killed?And what on earth could his death have to do with the tale of Hannah Duston, who was captured by Indians in l697, escaped, and lived to tell the tale?But even more to the point, can Holly, Rowdy, and Kimi muzzle a killer before he attacks again?	I first encountered Hannah Duston on a bleak November Sunday afternoon when my car died in the dead center of Haverhill, Massachusetts.A handsome woman of monumental build, Hannah towered above me.She wore a long, flowing dress with sleeves to the wrists.Her hair fell in waves over broad shoulders and down a muscular back.With her right hand, she maintained what looked like a familiar grasp on a hatchet.Her left arm was outstretched to point an index finger of apparent accusation at my two Alaskan malamutes, who were relieving themselves within the precincts of the Grand Army of the Republic Park.The dogs ignored her.Rowdy, my male, continued to anoint a nearby tree, and Kimi, in the manner of dominant females, lifted her leg on a Civil War cannon directly ahead of Hannah, who stood frozen in her rigid, athletic pose. Although Hannah had every right to object--my dogs were, after all, on her turf--she said nothing.Finding her bland expression impossible to read, I studied the massive stone base on which she stood: HANNAH DUSTON WAS CAPTURED BY THE INDIANS IN HAVERHILL THE PLACE OF HER NATIVITY.MAR. 15, 1697A bas-relief showed a house from which two women were being led by a pair of men depicted as just what the words said, Indians, as opposed, for example, to Native Americans.With the dogs now on short leads, I moved to Hannah's left, directly under her pointing finger.Here, eight children clustered behind a man on horseback.He aimed a gun at a half-naked and befeathered figure.I read:HER HUSBAND'S DEFENSE OF THEIR CHILDREN AGAINST THE PURSUING SAVAGES.Continuing my counterclockwise circuit, I found beneath Hannah Duston's back a trio of people in colonial dress, two women and a boy, and on the ground outside a wigwam, ten prostrate forms rendered in a manner that would not have pleased the American Indian Movement.The words cut into the stone were:HER SLAYING OF HER CAPTORS AT CONTOOCOOK ISLAND MAR. 30, 1697 AND ESCAPE.The last bas-relief, the one located under Hannah's hatchet, simply showed two women and a boy in a canoe.The engraved words, too, were simple:HER RETURN.In 1697, Hannah Duston had been captured by Indians.She had slain her captors.She and two companions, a woman and a boy, had come back alive.I felt immediately drawn to Hannah: In her place, I thought, my own Kimi, my dominant female, would have done the same.I felt ashamed to find myself the helpless damsel who waited for Triple A under the shadow of Hannah's bronze figure.My shame increased when my deliverer diagnosed the problem: The fuel gauge had broken.My car had run out of gas.That same evening, when I'd finally reached Cambridge, fed the dogs, and unloaded half the firewood I'd been hauling back from my father's place in Owls Head, Maine, my friend and second-floor tenant, Rita, and I sat at my kitchen table splitting a pizza and drinking her contribution, an Italian red wine far better than anything I could have supplied, meaning, at the moment, anything costlier than tap water.It did seem to me, I told Rita, that I was getting awfully good mileage.I chewed and swallowed. As you'd soon have guessed if you'd listened in, Rita is a clinical psychologist.A Cambridge psychotherapist.I train dogs.I also write about dogs, not just for fun but for a pittance that Dog's Life magazine passes off as money.Perhaps you've read my column?Holly Winter?So Rita and I deal with identical problems--mismatches, lost love, inappropriate conduct, needless suffering, failures of communication, and all the rest--but Rita gets paid more than I do because her job is a lot more complicated than mine.In Rita's profession, everyone is always fouled up.In my work, it's usually clear right away that an emotional block, a lack of moral fiber, or, in most cases, fathomless ignorance is causing the owner unwittingly to reinforce undesirable behavior in a potentially perfect dog, which is to say, almost any dog at all.In other words, even deep in her heart, Rita has to suspend judgment.I, too, can't go around voicing blame.Instead, I mouth the same shrink dictum Rita does: It's not your fault, but it is your responsibility.But I digress.This story is supposed to have almost nothing to do with dogs. So let's magically let you peer at us again and conclude what you will of us. Can you guess that I have a mad crush on my vet?That he, Steve Delaney, is my ardent lover?And that Rita, in her prolonged longing for a human male soul mate, constitutes consummate proof of the unutterable density of men?If you are perceptive, perhaps yes.So, with European delicacy, Rita was carefully transferring morsels of crust from her fork to her mouth and, as usual, listening to my complaints, which moved from my foolishness about the gas gauge to the advanced age of my Ford Bronco to the failure of the proud yet humble profession of dog writing to pay enough to feed one human being, never mind myself and two big dogs.What I expected her to say in reply was the kind of thing she always says: She'd interpret dog writing as a symbolic representation of a withholding maternal imago, demand to know whether I'd been abruptly weaned, or inquire about some other such developmental crisis that it was thirty plus years too late to fix.But she didn't.In fact, Rita astonished me by putting down her knife and fork, looking me directly in the eye, and asking a radically practical question: Holly, has it ever occurred to you to take a break from dogs and, for once, write about people instead?A large lump of mozzarella stuck in my throat.To save my life, I was forced to wash it down with a big slug of wine.Well, yes, of course, Rita, but it's like what Robert Benchley said about exercise--sometimes I feel the impulse, but then I lie down, and the feeling passes.Has it ever occurred to you, Rita demanded, that you are selling yourself short?I was suitably insulted.Of course not!Or that, by your own account, the book you want to write about the sled dogs of the Byrd expeditions will take you ten years to finish and will have a maximum possible readership of maybe two hundred people?I inched my chair back from the table.My eyes drifted to Rowdy and Kimi, whose ancestors went with Byrd to Antarctica.I looked back at Rita.It's still worth doing.Or, she persisted, that, in fact, your only practical alternatives are--A real job, I finished.No!Or, Rita said gently, economic dependence on someone else.I am NOT getting married! You are worse than Steve! And even if I did marry him, I would never, ever even think about marrying him or anyone else for--Money, Rita said.Money, I echoed.Rita, really! I am staggered that you would even suggest--I was not suggesting anything, Holly.I was merely pointing out your options.Well, that one is totally unacceptable.Then, said Rita, swallowing a sip of wine, you'd better get serious about expanding your readership.I am serious now! I countered.And I do not appreciate your condescending hints to the effect that I need to grow up!What you are, Rita informed me, is afraid you can't do it.Can't do what?Write about people.Or, for that matter, anything else that has nothing whatsoever to do with dogs.I dug my incisors into a juicy slice of pizza.When I'd finished ingesting it, I daubed my mouth with a paper napkin, drank more wine, and said defiantly, That is not true!I write about dogs because, in case it isn't overwhelmingly obvious, dogs are what I'm interested in.Furthermore, as you know, I happen to be a person with a mission, namely, animal welfare.Rita sipped her wine, cocked her head, and sighed lightly.Well, isn't this just wonderful!Tell me, all of a sudden, are all of us free to earn our livings by pursuing our interests and following our missions?Do I, for example, get to cancel all tomorrow's patients and spend the day researching whatever takes my fancy?You think--I divided the remaining wine between Rita's glass and mine--that just because I love my work, I don't really work at all.What I think, said Rita, is that you are failing to actualize your potential.My potential, Rita, is strictly canine.You're scared, she whispered.You're afraid you can't do it.I can write about any damned thing I choose. After emptying my glass, I added, Even including, if need be, people!I bet you can't!How much? I demanded.Five hundred dollars.Plus, of course, whatever you get paid for whatever it is you write.If, of course, you do.I stretched my right hand across the table.Rita reached out with hers as if we were going to arm wrestle.If we had, the outcome would have been immedia...",books;crafts;dogs;hobbies & home;literature & fiction;mystery;pets & animal care;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers;women sleuths,11
0133526437,"Fast Ethernet: Dawn of a New Network Fast Ethernet is the 100-million-bit-per-second successor to the world's most popular local area network, Ethernet. It resembles 10BASE-T, the most widely deployed form of Ethernet, only it runs ten times faster. Fast Ethernet is the newest and most powerful addition to the Ethernet family of local area network standards.   WHAT YOU WILL GET FROM THIS BOOK   --> If you buy, install, or maintain Ethernet, this book will equip you with penetrating questions to ask your vendor about Fast Ethernet productsthe kind of questions that prevent installation mistakes and save you money.   --> If you set company strategy or plan network growth, the details about future developments will show you where Fast Ethernet technology is going.   --> If you sell (or sell against) Fast Ethernet, the point-by-point analysis of competing high-speed networks will show you which networks best suit which applications.   ORGANIZATION    The chapters are each self-contained and may be read in any order. Each section ends with a summary of its most important tips and hints.   Chapter 1 Origin of 10 Mb/s Ethernet, why it developed, how Fast Ethernet emerged   Chapter 2 Overview of the Fast Ethernet product family, its architecture and applications   Chapter 3 Interpretive guide to the Fast Ethernet standard, with detailed explanations of its options and features   Chapter 4 Introduction to worldwide building wiring standards, and guidelines for wiring a building so it will work with Fast Ethernet   Chapter 5 Compendium of future trends in local area networking, including switching, full duplex, multimedia, flow control, new link transmission technologies, and WAN issues   Chapter 6 Pros and cons of Fast Ethernet versus other networks   Chapter 7 Technical explanation of collision domain timing and its impact on network configuration   Chapter 8 Collected references, including a list of good books, a glossary, instructions for ordering standards, and a catalog of supplements to the Ethernet standard   THANKS TO ALL THE STANDARDS PEOPLE    No treatment of Ethernet would be complete without paying tribute to the many hardworking individuals who created the Ethernet standards. Without open, publicly accessible standards, the networking business would not be where it is today.   NOTE   We have done our best to provide an accurate and complete guide to the Fast Ethernet standard. Still, the fine folks at the IEEE standards office would like to remind you that this book is not an official definition of Fast Ethernet or any other stan dard. To obtain the complete text of the Fast Ethernet standard, or other local area networking standards, please consult the sources included in Chapter 8.	Howard W. Johnson is President of Olympic Technology Group, Inc. of Redmond, Washington, a digital electronic design and consulting organization. Working on behalf of 3Com, Apple, ROLM, Tektronix, and other leading companies, Dr. Johnson has played a major role in the development of many high-speed digital products. He is also the author of High-Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic, published by Prentice-Hall.",books;certification;computer science;computers & technology;lan;networking;networks;new;protocols & apis;software;used & rental textbooks,11
020172989X,"Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 6.0 and Illustrator(R) 9.0 Advanced Classroom in a Book This book is part of Adobe's official training and certification program and assumes readers have completed Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe Illustrator 9.0 Classroom in a Book, or have an equivalent skill level. Like the other books in the series, it comprises a set of step-by-step intensive and detailed tutorials meant to be carried out on the computer as the reader follows the text (lesson files are on the CD-ROM). The more advanced skills covered include compositing and masking, mastering pen tools, typography and layout, and preparing art for print or the Web. By including both Photoshop and Illustrator projects in one book, readers can learn the pros and cons of using either one for different tasks.    Each project begins with a list of goals, what skill level is preferred, and roughly how long the tutorial should take to complete. Despite the preferred skill prerequisites, one of the advantages of this carefully written Classroom in a Book is that less advanced readers will still be able to follow along with the deliberately paced projects. The rationale behind each step is clearly explained, and sidebars go into even greater detail on related issues (for example, ""Specifying knockout options"" appears alongside the lesson on working with masks).    For readers who prepare art for offset printing, this book explains how the new color management in Photoshop 6 works by going over the production workflow for a hypothetical printed postcard. Choosing a color profile; soft-proofing and color separating an image; and working with an embedded profile--not to mention preparing Illustrator artwork for print--can all be daunting topics to those who just want to create the visuals. But by learning it all correctly, straight from the team at Adobe, readers will acquire the necessary skill sets to prevent those embarrassing errors that sometimes are discovered only after the job has already been printed. --Angelynn Grant	An advanced training workbook for users of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator!Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe Illustrator 9.0 Advanced Classroom in a Book leads intermediate to advanced users directly into Photoshop and Illustrator, Adobes leading graphics and design applications, using the exciting new tools available in both programs. The lessons in this book are created for  users already familiar with Illustrator and Photoshop, and who are ready to move beyond an introductory tutorial into an exploration of the more challenging techniques and tools offered in the applications. The cross-platform CD/ROM contains material that supplements the lessons in the book and provides hands-on experience in mastering Adobe Illustrator 9.0 and Photoshop 6.0 at the professional level.	The Adobe Creative Team is made up of members of Adobe's User Education group. They take their expertise in training users to work with Adobe products, combine it with the creative talents of the Adobe Premiere team, and add the rich content of the CD-ROM to make a unique learning package from Adobe Systems.",adobe creative suite;adobe illustrator;adobe photoshop;books;computers & technology;desktop publishing;digital media management;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;photo editing;programming,11
0764530224,"Javascript Bible, 2nd Edition Known for his books on programming Macintosh computers with HyperCard, Danny Goodman  takes on the task of explaining another free, easy-to-use ""volks-language"" to the computer community.  Goodman explains everything from how to get set up for JavaScript programming to how to create  complicated programs and includes an outstanding outline-based table of contents that uses frames. He also  includes an excellent sample order form that many business sites will be able to use. All of these goodies  are on the companion CD-ROM. A substantial section of JavaScript Bible is dedicated as a reference to the methods and properties  of all the JavaScript 1.1 objects. The reference also details operators, keywords, and other pieces of  JavaScript syntax. This section is followed by an excellent debugging guide, which includes a list of  JavaScript interpreter error messages with explanations of their meanings. You'll also find a better-than- average discussion of cookies and how to make them do your bidding. This book covers a lot of ground  while avoiding any hint of a lofty, flip, or condescending tone.	Create Web Pages That Think! Whether you're a novice Web author wondering what JavaScript can do for you or a seasoned HTML scripter anxious to exploit JavaScript's evolving functionality, this authoritative, all-in-one resource -- by the most experienced computer scripting author in the industry -- lets you create pages so inviting, users will spend more time at your Web site and come back for more! For Cool Web Pages, Master Today's Hottest Scripting Language!  Get up to speed FAST with ""crash courses"" on programming fundamentals and object-oriented basics Key into the lessons you need with clearly labeled beginning, intermediate, and advanced terminology Implement JavaScript into your site with step-by-step how-to's Learn from ready-to-run JavaScript and HTML examples Apply expert script debugging and design tips Get ongoing support at IDG Books Worldwide and Danny Goodman's Web sites",books;computers & technology;education & reference;javascript;languages & tools;mathematics;networking;programming;science & math;software;web development & design,11
B000FO83GY,"Vibrational & Rotational Spectrometry of Diatomic Molecules (Theoretical Chemistry; a Series of Monographs) ""The book comprehensively covers the state of the art of the spectrometry of diatomic molecules . . . . The book is for specialists, rather than for the general reader, and will be valuable for those entering this field.""--SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A, 1999.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This work is a systematic description of the analysis of molecular spectra of diatomic molecules, particularly infrared and Raman spectra, to extract precise information about molecular structure and electric and magnetic properties. A number of subjects are covered in depth, with reviews of miscellaneous topics important in the future progress of experiment and theory in this field. Because of its coverage and scope in relation to physical chemistry and molecular physics, this work serves as a useful reference for all researchers in chemistry, physics, spectroscopy, and related fields.                                        Key Features* Explains the empirical basis of spectra, providing many equations useful to generate spectral parameters* Provides a concise review of general principles and detailed explanation of particular theoretical techniques* Analyzes wavenumber data* Contains methods to evaluate parameters in various radial functions* Presents an analysis of intensity of spectra* Covers the effects of nuclear spin, electronic spin, and orbital angular momentum of diatomic free radicals and molecular ions* Illustrates the operation of diatomic lasers on vibrational-rotational transitions	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",analytic;atomic & nuclear physics;books;chemistry;general & reference;nuclear physics;optics;physical & theoretical;physical chemistry;physics;science & math,11
0231107072,"Wystan and Chester Though Thekla Clark turned down a marriage proposal from W.H. Auden in the early 1950s, she remained close to the poet and his companion Chester Kallman until Auden's death in 1973. In memoir, Clark follows the lives of this unconventional couple, recalling their home on the Italian island of Ischia, their romps through Europe, and the more troubling times Auden spent in New York. While Kallman embraced his homosexuality and was campily outrageous, Auden was uncomfortable in his and became conservative and conventional. Despite their differences, or maybe because of them, their relationship endured--they met in 1939 and Kallman died less than two years after Auden, seemingly of a broken heart.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	In 1951, Thekla Clark, a 24-year-old American from Oklahoma, sailed to Italy. On the island of Ischia in the bay of Naples, a family friend (the young poet Anthony Hecht) introduced her into a small circle of expatriates, at whose center were W.H. Auden and his companion, the librettist Chester Kallman. Clark became close friends with both men, and ""The Visit,"" as she called it, became an annual summer ritual, first on Ischia and, after 1957, at Auden's house in Kirchstetten, Austria. Recounting particular incidents scattered over more than two decades, Clark casts light on the private lives of these two men as distinct individuals and as a couple. She describes Auden as a disciplined writer, passionate conversationalist and devoted friend who believed that ""happiness, like grief, should be private"" and who rejected Yeats's dictum that one must chose either ""perfection of the life or of the work"" with the remark that ""perfection is possible in neither."" While accepting his homosexuality, he nonetheless professed that homosexuality was wrong. Kallman comes across as a more unbuttoned character, an emotional man of much charm and considerable talent who was undone by his private demons. Clark writes frankly about Auden and Kallman's ""extracurricular"" affairs, their reliance on alcohol and Kallman's disintegration, but is never titillating or judgmental. Bringing considerable insight to bear on critical debate over the trajectory of Auden's career while defending Kallman's own creative work, this memoir is rich in personal vignettes. By turns humorous, ironic and poignant, Wystan and Chester is a valuable supplement to Humphrey Carpenter's 1982 Auden biography. Photos. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Auden is almost always included in the pantheon of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century, so almost anything written about him by those close to him is of interest to literary biographers and critics. The focus here is on the relationship between Auden and his friend, lover, and collaborator, Chester Kallman. The earlier Auden in Love by Kallman's stepmother is similar in the story it tells and in its disinterest in the poetry per se. What these books share is a thoughtful commentary on an intriguing romance of over 30 years. Clark's longtime friendship with both of them, which also lasted over 30 years, provides what one would expect?charming anecdotes, good characterizations, and affectionate memories. More than in most memoirs of literary figures, it gives a sense of the personalities and the affection between them. The immediacy of Clark's writing draws the reader into the circle even as it shows what a special group it was. Recommended for all collections concerned with 20th-century literature.?David S. Azzolina, Univ. of Pennsylvania Libs., PhiladelphiaCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	A fond but not uncritical backward glance at one of this century's most important poets and his companion. Clark, who set sail as a young Oklahoman in 1951 for a blithely reckless expatriate existence in Europe, first came to know the English Auden and his once and future sweetheart, American-born Kallman, first on the Italian island of Ischia. They remained fast friends. The satisfaction of Clark's brief but eventful reminiscence is twofold: She captures the unsteady, even giddy rhythms typical of many close friendships; and she offers an unabashedly opinionated double portrait of her two inimitable sidekicks. Some indulgently self-conscious nattering does creep into the writing (``Had they been halcyon days?'' Clark asks at one point). And she may enjoy describing herself too much: ``I was still wearing cotton gloves and was overly ware of the attention I was causing.'' Yet she is generally a vivid writer and a quick study. She follows the sometimes tormented progress of Auden and Kallman's long intimacy. Loyal to both in her ferreting, she seems able to present each man in enough detail to sidestep or thwart the legends and stereotypes that have sprung from them or been imposed on them. Both emerge as magnetic figures, crisscrossed by idiosyncrasy as if by wrinkles. Maybe it is the impromptu charm of the author that most buoys her story, unmarked by literary criticism, and alive with quoted conversation. ``Wystan was fascinated by female anatomy and the whole process of birth,'' she reports. `' `You are so fortunate to have all your reproductive organs inside you' he said, `not these ridiculous things I find attached to me as an afterthought.' He and I had long and detailed gynecological discussions, but we forbore from having them at table after one night Chester screamed, `Mercy!' '' A sweet, smart, witty character sketch. -- Copyright 1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	[Clark's] portraits of both Auden and Kallman are truer, and, in a seemingly offhand manner, as penetrating as any of those by . . . other memoirist friends. . . . She perfectly catches the nuances and intonations of [their] voices, simply . . . by quoting them believably. . . .Contributes richly to Auden folklore.  -- Robert Craft New York Review of Books",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;gay;gay & lesbian;history & criticism;literature & fiction;memoirs;movements & periods;poetry,11
1877853259,"A Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War One page chapters with maps opposite, are models of condensation, yet with no lack of insight. -- Los Angeles TimesThe critical tactical movements and important campaigns are simply and clearly portrayed. -- The Journal of Southern History[This] new atlas of Civil War battles is the most concise and readable collection of conflict maps yet. --Gannett News Service",19th century;americas;books;campaigns & battlefields;civil war;education & reference;history;humanities;new;united states;used & rental textbooks,11
0813521777,"The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics A perfect model of ""free enterprise"" at work is the competitive-cooperative pursuit of knowledge about nature's fundamental particles by our century's physicists. Columbia University science historian Crease and Technology Illustrated editor Mann here trace virtually the entire story of what is today known as particle physics from Einstein's 1905 theory suggesting matter was both particles and waves, while at the same time Rutherford made his first proposals about the nature of the atom, through Bohr, Dirac, Schrodingersp?/have no way to check, so leave it.gs and others who developed quantum theory and quantum mechanics. These authors describe the heated arguments, debates, conferences and world-wide exchanges that took physicists, especially in the 1970s, to the discoveries of quarks, mesons, gluons and other such breakthroughs. Today, decades after Einstein's failure, Unification theories tying together the four fundamental forcesthe fourth, gravity, remains elusive, howeverare formulated almost daily. This is a demanding book, and gripping in an epochal sense. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This is the latest effort at a popular treatment of the ""Grand Unified Theory"" contemporary theoretical physicists are aiming to achieve. It presents a human-interest-style history of quantum electrodynamics and the ensuing elementary particle theory, enlivened by brief sketches of many of the key participants. As a whole, it is an entertaining volume, but some of the judgments and interpretations are questionable. Also, the complex mathematics of modern physics is entirely omitted, and a novice is likely to end his reading with some notion of the historical background but without a coherent understanding of the current ""standard model"" in elementary particle theory. Recommended, with reservations, for academic and public libraries. Jack W. Weigel, Univ. of Michigan Lib., Ann ArborCopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Gives a real feeling of the intense work that goes into major scientific discoveries and of the people...""	""A journalistic narrative of the scientific quest for a unified field theory of physics..."" -- Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR booknews.com""An absolutely marvelous book. No one who cares about science should miss reading it.""  -- Timothy Ferris, author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way and The Mind's Sky""One of the top 15 books of the year.""   -- Publishers Weekly""Without qualification, this is the best account of the phenomenal story of physics in the twentieth century.""  -- Dick Teresi, co-author, The God Particle, and winner of the 1994 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Prize	Now back in print, The Second Creation is the intimate story of the decades-long scientific quest for ""unification,"" a theory that draws together all matter and energy, from the hottest supernovas to the whirring fragments of the atom. Based on scores of in-depth interviews with such brilliant scientists as Max Planck, Erwin Schrodinger, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, and Steven Weinberg, Robert Crease and Charles Mann vividly portray the tense, exciting world of investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. In telling the richly human story of the two generations of scientists who set out to find the ""theory of everything,"" the authors recount a sweeping saga that moves from the early days of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr arguing in a Copenhagen park to the vast, mile-long atom smashers of today. The Second Creation is a definitive group portrait of twentieth-century physics.	Robert P. Crease is an associate professor of philosophy at SUNY-Stony Brook. He is writing a history of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Award-winning science writer Charles C. Mann is a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly and Science magazine. His most recent book is Noah's Choice.",biographies & memoirs;books;history & philosophy;new;physics;professionals & academics;quantum theory;science & math;science & mathematics;scientists;used & rental textbooks,11
1881995011,"Practicing Financial Planning for Professionals, Practitioners' Version (9th Edition) It's an invaluable reference... Now in it's 9th edition (PLEASE NOTE: 10th Edition now available on Amazon)...it has become an institution. No one who holds himself out as a financial planner should be without it. --Harold Evensky, CFP, 2005Starts with the basics and takes the practitioner on a journey that ends with completing a comprehensive financial plan. Nothing is missing . . . This is a must have book for all of us. --Stacy L. Schaus, CFP, MBA principal and founder, Hewitt Financial Services, LLC 2005No one who holds himself out as a financial planner should be without it --John Henry McDonald, CFP, ChFC, CLU Austin Asset Management, 2005	Dr. Sid Mittra is a Partner with the financial consulting firm of Mittra Associates. In this capacity, Dr. Mittra offers his services to individuals, foundations, associations, and corporations. The services include virtually all areas of financial planning, including: risk management, tax, investment, retirement, estate and financial independence planning. Dr. Mittra provides financial planning services on a fee basis, thus servicing individuals and corporations as an independent objective financial advisor. He participated in the creation of a proprietary mathematical model, called Dynamic One, which the firm uses to provide investment management services for its individual and institutional clients. Dr. Mittra uniquely combines conceptual and theoretical knowledge in financial management with communicative skills. He frequently speaks on financial economics, money and financial management. He also advises corporations, partnerships and closely held corporations. In developing comprehensive financial plans, Dr. Mittra is supported by a group of highly trained and experienced planners and financial consultants, including CPAs and attorneys. He also makes generic as well as specific recommendations for achieving stated financial goals in the most efficient manner. Dr. Mittra holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Finance. He was a board member of the International Board of Standards and Practices of Certified Financial Planners. He has been regularly invited to offer seminars at the World Congress of the IAFP, including those in Japan and Australia. Dr. Mittra is in several prestigious listings, including: International Authors Whos Who, American Men of Science, and Whos Who in Finance and Industry. Also, he has published 14 books, including, Practicing Financial Planning: A Complete Guide for Professionals, which enjoys wide acceptance among top universities and trade associations. The City Council of Detroit has awarded Dr. Mittra the Spirit of Detroit Award in recognition of his long and distinguished service to the city. Dr. Mittra is also widely quoted in Money Magazine, Kiplingers Personal Finance Magazine and various newspapers. His professional articles appear in Journal of Accountancy, Financial Planning, Journal of Financial Planning, Personal Financial Planning, and American Economic Review. Academic Degrees Ph.D. in Economics and Finance M.B.A. in Accounting Associate of the Accounting Institute (London) Associate of the Institute of Paris Article Publications Personal Financial Planning Financial Planning Magazine Journal of Financial Planning American Economic Review Kyklos Journal of Accountancy Planning Certification Certified Financial Planner Registry of Financial Planning Practitioners Professional Positions: Past & Present Proprietor, Mittra Kirkman & Associates President, Coordinated Financial Planning Chairman, Dept. Of Economics, Oakland University Professor of Finance, Oakland University Consultant, United Nations Joint Advisor, Planning Commission, Government of Venezuela Board: Past & Present Editorial Review Board, Journal of the ICFP Board of Examiners, CFP Board Licenses and Registrations Registered Investment Advisor Life, Accident and Health Insurance License Variable Annuity License Series 24 and 7, NASD International Planning Seminars Japan, Australia, Spain, India Book Publications Fifteen books, including the following: Practicing Financial Planning: A Complete Guide for Professionals. Personal Finance: Management by Objectives. Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management. Inside Wall Street. Money and Banking Biographical Listings International Authors and Writers Who's Who American Men of Science World Who's Who of Authors",books;business & finance;business & investing;education & reference;finance;investing;investments & securities;new;personal finance;reference;used & rental textbooks,11
047143132X,"Classical Electrodynamics, 2nd Edition This edition refines and improves the first edition. It treats the present experimental limits on the mass of photon and the status of linear superposition, and introduces many other innovations.",books;electrical & electronics;electricity;electromagnetism;engineering;new;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,11
1563921502,"Nissan Sentra '82'94 (Haynes Manuals) Haynes offers the best coverage for cars, trucks, vans, SUVs and motorcycles on the market today. Each manual contains easy to follow step-by-step instructions linked to hundreds of photographs and illustrations. Included in every manual: troubleshooting section to help identify specific problems; tips that give valuable short cuts to make the job easier and eliminate the need for special tools; notes, cautions and warnings for the home mechanic; color spark plug diagnosis and an easy to use index.",automotive;books;engineering;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;new;professional & technical;repair;transportation;trucks & vans;used & rental textbooks,11
0864425325,"Mali Blues: Traveling to an African Beat In Mali Blues, Belgian-born writer Lieve Joris travels to the West African countries of Senegal, Mauritania, and Mali--a region that to many Westerners seems obscure, even destitute and impoverished. Joris captures the strong will of West Africans, their enduring traditions and heritage, their thumping music, and their unmatched ability to carry on despite hardship and political turmoil.  Joris's narrative is immediately captivating and personable; hers is an honest and inquisitive voice. At the journey's beginning in bustling Dakar, Senegal, on the Atlantic coast, Joris wonders, ""How long would it take for New York to stop being a reference point for me?"" As she absorbs the African cultural landscape, Joris exposes the tensions between a modern world and a traditional one, examining the many political battles among and within these countries. Like a skilled spelunker, Joris maneuvers into the caverns of the region, illuminating narrow conduits, previously unseen passages, and great rooms as she goes. She meets well-connected urbanites and those who live in remote rural lands, ultimately revealing a West Africa that balances, often precariously, between two worlds.  But it is when Joris meets the Malinese blues singer Boubacar Traor that her storytelling talents become fully orchestrated and most powerfully applied. Traor's successful yet tragic story serves as a stunning testament to the spirit and struggles of the people of West Africa, a story that Joris conveys so well throughout these pages. --Byron Ricks",africa;books;education & reference;gambia & senegal;general;mauritania & western sahara;research & publishing guides;travel;travel writing;western africa: mali;writing,11
0826457886,"Mary (New Century Theology) .fascinating and beautifully if densely written book.Her book is notable for its combination of the practical and the devotional with a remarkable learning which ranges over the whole tradition, and which is infused with the poetry that naturally belongs to the subject itself.. Theology""Sarah Jane Boss believes that the present 'culture of Godless animosity toward nature' is the result of Christianity's capitulation to modernism, with its exaltation of the individual and alienation of humanity from the rest of the natural world. She suggests that the reason for this situation is that Christianity lost its sense of Mary, and her response is to construct a 'green mariology' focused on Mary as Mother of God and consequently Queen of Heaven.""- Mary Anne Foley, Catholic Books Review, January 2006 (Catholic Books Review )""Sarah Jane Boss believes that the present 'culture of Godless animosity toward nature is the result of Christianitys capitulation to modernism, with its exaltation of the individual and alienation of humanity from the rest of the natural world. She suggests that the reason for this situation is that Christianity lost its sense of Mary, and her response is to construct a 'green mariology focused on Mary as Mother of God and consequently Queen of Heaven.""- Mary Anne Foley, Catholic Books Review, January 2006 (Catholic Books Review )	Sarah Jane Boss is Director of the Centre for Marian Studies, University of Wales, Lampeter, UK.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christianity;humanities;new;religion & spirituality;religious studies;saints;theology;used & rental textbooks,11
0791466868,"Grappling With the Good: Talking About Religion And Morality in Public Schools (S U N Y Series in Philosophy of Education) Weaving together history, philosophy, and curriculum, Grappling with the Good offers a vision of public education in which students learn to engage respectfully with the diversity of beliefs about how to live together in society. Robert Kunzman argues that we can and should help students learn how to talk about religion and morality, and bring together our differing visions of life. He describes how such an approach might work in the K""12 setting, explores central philosophical principles, and shares his ongoing experiences and insights in helping students to grapple with the good.	Robert Kunzman is Assistant Professor of Education at Indiana University at Bloomington and a public high school teacher.",books;curricula;curriculum & instruction;education;education & reference;education theory;educational philosophy;new;philosophy & social aspects;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,11
0835607593,"Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity Jan Phillips developed Marry Your Muse during workshops  sponsored by the International Women's Writing Guild and other  organizations.  Her award winning photographs and feature articles have  appeared in the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Utne Reader  and many other national and regional publications.  She has spoken and  presented multimedia works at dozens of universities.  For the past  three years, she has been a contributing artist and coeditor of the  annual Women Artists Datebook In Praise of the Muse.  She lives in San  Diego.",books;creativity;creativity & genius;fitness & dieting;health;personal transformation;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality;self-help;spiritual;spirituality,11
0595663974,"Others: Third-Party Politics From the Nation's Founding to the Rise and Fall of the Greenback-Labor Party Darcy G. Richardson, a freelance writer, is the author of A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign. Long active in third-party politics, he was the Consumer Party candidate for Pennsylvania Auditor General in 1980 and for the U.S. Senate eight years later. He now resides and works in Jacksonville, Florida.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;education & reference;elections & political process;new;political parties;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
0312131135,"A Literary Companion To Venice: Including Seven Walking Tours Ian Littlewood has taught at universities in France, the United States, and Japan, and is now a lecturer in England.",books;criticism & theory;europe;general;history & criticism;italy;literature & fiction;specialty travel;tourist destinations & museums;travel;venice,11
0395881323,"From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future The years of American economic prosperity after World War II, argues sociologist Stanley Aronowitz, resulted in the diminishment of the political influence the labor movement had acquired. By the 1980s, which included Reagan's decisive undercutting of the air-traffic controllers' strike and increasing concessions to management by unions, it made sense to question whether such a thing as a labor movement remained. Changes in Teamster and AFL-CIO leadership in the 1990s have increased the likelihood of strong labor's recurrence--but what would it take to make that happen? Aronowitz presents a compelling case for the idea that ""unions, if they are to thrive, must overcome the complacency of the last fifty years and expand labor's influence throughout politics and culture. But first labor must overcome its image as the representative of a narrow segment of the working population...."" In intellectually strong but clear-spoken language, Aronowitz urges labor once again to define itself in sharp opposition to the ideology of corporate capitalism. He might attract some controversy with his suggestion that doing so requires a distancing of the unions from the Democratic Party (which, he reminds the reader, has drifted increasingly to the right under Bill Clinton, whose ""reform"" of welfare not only took money from the unemployed but may also keep wages down for the working poor). Might, that is, if labor had a strong enough voice for its dissent to be heard. Aronowitz delivers some rather intriguing proposals; it remains for history to determine whether an audience exists that will absorb and act upon them. --Ron Hogan	In the last few years, histories have squeezed the most minute details out of the rise and fall of the 20th-century labor movement. Aronowitz (The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism) takes the tack that ""the future of American labor is directly tied to America's future"" and, after extensive exposition of union diversity and interaction, he finds future union potential in the millions of white-collar workers and professionals and among production and service workers in the South. Citing the AMA and ABA as powerful lobbying units for professions once ""horrified"" at collective bargaining, he argues that doctors and lawyers have become increasingly salaried employees rather than owners of their practices ""and therefore control neither their incomes nor conditions of work."" Corporate managers are also ripe for unionization because they see, but do not share, the rewards of top executives. Meanwhile, the working poor (whom he defines as those families that earn under $20,000, not the government's $14,200) make up 30% of the workforce and should be another dynamic power. Aronowitz calls for an aggressive effort to organize the working poor?unlike distribution of food stamps and survival checks, Aronowitz sees organizing for collective bargaining as the best way for redistributing social wealth. This is an authoritative plea for broadening union punch beyond the flash of UPS and GM strike successes. Aronowitz's description of the current labor movement offers little new information, however, leaving readers wishing that he spent a little less time on the ashes and more on the new Phoenix. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This is a cogent and timely critique of the political relationships, successes, and stagnation of the U.S. labor movement with suggestions for the movement's survival and its expansion to deal with contemporary issues. Aronowitz examines the potential of expanding labor representation in white-collar and professional arenas. From schoolteachers, to lawyers, to health-care workers threatened by the encroachment of technology and the increasing impersonalization of their work, Aronowitz strikes a nerve. He focuses his analysis on the tendency of union leaders to compromise their broader ideology to protect an elite union membership by allowing two-tier pay scales and outsourcing to take root. The distance between these professional union administrators and the rank and file has created malaise. Aronowitz challenges the labor movement to become more democratic and to develop a public presence on contemporary issues. He also recommends that unions break ties with political parties and articulate a future for America with working people at its center, a real challenge in the new global marketplace.  Vernon Ford	""In a book that looks to the future, Aronowitz argues that labor must  reclaim the good parts of its past, its willingness to crusade for  economic justice and democratic values."" The Village Voice	Stanley Aronowitz is the professor of sociology at the City University of New York and the author of numerous books, including False Promises: The Shaping of American Working-Class Consciousness.  He lives in New York City.	Excerpt from Chapter One 1 * Riding the Wave of Postwar Prosperity     The fall of 1945 was a heady and anxious time for America. Since  most victors and vanquished had been equally devastated by the war,  the United States became the most powerful nation in the world.  Still, many Americans wondered whether the economy would be able to  absorb eleven million members of the armed forces. Economists grimly  predicted the return of the Great Depression. With a sense of  foreboding, the Seventy-ninth Congress had, the year before, passed  the G.I. Bill of Rights, to provide income and housing for veterans  while the government figured out what to do with them. And workers  and their unions braced for layoffs. They didn't come, nor were the  problems of readjustment as grave as expected.    No section of American society seemed in a better position to  gain from the economic, military, and political strength of the post- war United States than the labor movement. By the end of the war  almost a third of paid employees were in unions, though few white- collar workers in the public and private sectors were organized.  Labor's power had been acquired through hard struggle. The New Deal  provided a legal framework for union organizing and collective  bargaining. But from the 1933 apparel workers' and miners' strikes to  the 1937 Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of the  National Labor Relations Act, it took mass strikes, factory  occupations, and demonstrations to convince large and small employers  alike that the majority of industrial workers wanted unions.    Labor had come into its own during the war. Desperate to raise  industrial production to supply the necessary quantities of military  equipment, Roosevelt pledged to assist labor to overcome the  resistance of many employers -- especially Ford and some steel  companies -- to union organization. As it turned out, the wartime no- strike pledge to which, with the notable exception of the  Mineworkers, nearly all of labor had agreed, was soon made permanent.  Unions therefore insisted on a contractually mandated grievance  procedure to address working conditions. To avert strikes, many  contracts introduced the practice of impartial arbitration as the  final step when the parties could not agree.    After Japan surrendered, unions lost little time in putting their  demands on the public agenda as well as on the bargaining table.  Thwarted by the no-strike pledge, which had left their wages and  benefits stagnant for four years, and, at the war's end, by  inflation, which depressed their living standards, many workers were  furious. And employers were reaping near-unrestricted profits. By the  summer of 1946, workers staged strikes against most of the leading  industrial corporations, strikes that represented the largest  outpouring of militant workers in any one year in American history.  They were begun by longshoremen and oil workers, and they took on the  aura of a crusade when the United Auto Workers demanded of GM a 30  percent wage increase. Soon the strike wave spread to the steel,  electrical, and rubber industries.    The settlements fell short of the target: most employers agreed  to 18 percent or eighteen-cents-an-hour increases, and Auto Workers'  Walter Reuther's radical proposal that the increases be safeguarded  by an employer agreement, to avoid price ""pass alongs"" to consumers,  failed for two reasons. Despite some favorable public sentiment for  the plan, General Motors and other leading corporations were  determined to reassert the management ""prerogatives"" they believed  had been eroded by wartime labor shortages and union power. And the  Steelworkers union, next to the Auto Workers the most important force  in the strike movement, permitted the industry to raise prices.  Reuther tried another ploy: if General Motors insisted on price  boosts to pay for the wage increases, he demanded the company ""open  the books"" to union and public scrutiny to prove it needed the extra  income. Again he was rebuffed.    Most union leaders drew different lessons from these struggles.  The strikes demonstrated labor's power to improve the living  standards of millions of members and, by example, the entire  workforce. Some on labor's left read the signs to mean that the time  was ripe for political independence and shop-floor militancy. But  Reuther himself and the Steelworkers president, Philip Murray, who  was also CIO president, were convinced that the well-being of  American labor depended on its forging a new social compact with the  largest corporations: the strike weapon and other confrontational  tactics would be used only sparingly. Even though Reuther soon  learned that, to ensurre industrial peace, the government, even under  a Democratic administration, was likely to be on the corporations'  side, union leaders expected Congress and     the president to enact  universal health care and a massive housing program. What they did  not foresee was that, after thirteen years of the New Deal, the  Republican Party and its business allies were not about to roll over  for a new wave of reform.    Riding the backlash against the unions' economic power, the GOP  in the 1946 midterm elections took both houses of Congress and wasted  little time in putting the brakes on labor's forward march. No sooner  had Congress convened than it passed, with many Democratic votes, the  Taft-Hartley amendments to the National Labor Relations Act. These  restraints forbade sympathy strikes where a contract was in effect;  enabled states to outlaw the union shop, which required workers to  maintain union membership as a condition of employment; emulated the  earlier Railway Labor Act by giving the president the right to ban  strikes for eighty days if the administration thought the walkout  would jeopardize the national interest; gave employers the right to  hire permanent replacements for striking workers; and outlawed the so- called secondary boycott, that is, forbade workers to refuse to cross  a picket line when they themselves were not directly involved in the  dispute. Under that provision unions could be fined for directing  their members to refuse to handle ""hot cargo"" -- goods intended for,  or emanating from, struck plants. Also, Communists were banned from  holding elective union office. With an eye to the upcoming 1948  election President Harry Truman, who had publicly complained about  labor's inordinate power, vetoed Taft-Hartley, but Congress overrode  his veto and the bill became law.    Organized labor vowed repeal, but within a few years it became  apparent that several factors made it unable to mount an all-out  campaign. Perhaps the most important was that many labor leaders  believed that building consensus in labor relations was more  important than maintaining an adversarial stance. By 1948, Reuther  and Murray were declaring a new era of labor peace, in return for  which they expected companies like GM and US Steel to agree to higher  living standards for workers. And, as the Cold War against the Soviet  Union and the Communist bloc gained momentum, the anti-Communists in  the labor movement were in no hurry to give aid and comfort to their  internal adversaries -- the American Communists, who emerged from the  war stronger than ever in some industrial unions. In fact, they  collaborated with the government to purge the Communists from their  ranks. Finally, labor was still convinced that it had a reasonable  chance to win an expanded social wage -- especially universal health  care -- through congressional action and were wary of antagonizing  lawmakers. Reluctantly, labor learned to live with Taft-Hartley.    By 1950 American labor was locked in an uneasy embrace with  corporate America and the liberal state. In that year the postwar  social compact was symbolically sealed when the Auto Workers signed a  five-year agreement with GM and other auto corporations. The deal  codified the wartime no-strike pledge, in return for which workers  received regular annual wage increases and a cost-of-living hike to  correspond to the consumer price index. In a period of substantial  inflation, this ""elevator"" clause protected unionized workers against  inflation-induced erosion of their living standards. Reuther's  imaginative bargaining tactics were soon emulated by other unions,  and the postwar pattern seemed set in stone. Labor agreed to give  management the right to direct the workforce, invest in new labor- saving technologies, open new plants at the expense of older  facilities, and set prices for its products at will. At the political  level, labor was securely tucked in the folds of the Democratic Party  and the bipartisan anti-Communist foreign policy. Perhaps most  eventful was that Reuther and other leaders proclaimed their loyalty  to capitalism as the best of all possible worlds.*The New Deal's achievement went beyond the issue of workers' rights.  Most trade unionists came to believe that the labor movement required  government to secure workers' interests: labor needed a Labor  Relations Act with full enforcement powers; collective bargaining, a  symbol of cooperative relations with employers; and the protection of  the Democratic Party to safeguard these gains. Far from being the  radical break with the establishment that many in and out of the  labor movement believed it to be, the rise of unions introduced a new  level of industrial and political discipline. Labor, which had been  an unwilling outlaw and cherished its independence from the state,  began to enjoy the perquisites of political and industrial  citizenship, which many of its leaders interpreted as bringing new  responsibilities to maintain the status quo.    But even as wages were rising, all was not well on the shop  floor. In many industries, management elevated delay to an art form.  For example, under the ""management prerogatives"" clause -- another  wartime innovation -- management retained the right to transfer  workers from one job to another, install new machines or work  processes, and impose di...",books;business & investing;economics;labor & industrial relations;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;popular economics;sociology;specific topics;united states,11
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0918477506,Preparing Yourself for Mass Text: English (translation)  Original Language: German,books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;inspirational;meditations;other religions;practices & sacred texts;religion & spirituality;ritual;theology;worship & devotion,11
0312314868,"God's Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible---A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal The story of William Tyndale's translation of the Bible is familiar. Caught up in the Reformation's efforts to provide ordinary readers with the Scriptures in the vernacular, Tyndale set out to produce a faithful translation of the Hebrew and Greek manuscripts of the Old and New Testament. As journalist Moynahan points out in this exhaustively detailed biography, Tyndale's desire to complete such a translation brought him into conflict with the king and his court, for the fruits of the Reformation had yet to make their way into England. Thus, Tyndale set out on a life of self-imposed exile in Germany and Amsterdam, where he translated and printed his Bible. As his work made its way into England-thanks in large part to Anne Boleyn's advocacy-Sir Thomas More, one of England's most active heretic hunters, attempted in every possible way to have Tyndale tried as a heretic. Moynahan recounts the oft-told story of Tyndale's subterfuge and his remarkable contribution to the history of Bible translation while recreating the political and religious intrigue of early 16th-century England. Moynahan captures well More's hatred of Tyndale, whom he called ""a hellhound in the kennel of the devil,"" as well as Tyndale's burning desire to contribute to God's work through Bible translation, even if it meant death at the stake. As Moynahan points out, Tyndale's translation still exists in the King James Version, since his words account for 84% of its New Testament and 76% of its Old Testament. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	*Starred Review* The Bible contains few stories more compelling than the one Moynahan tells here: the saga of how William Tyndale defied Church and King--at the eventual cost of his own life--to translate and print Holy Writ in English. In a narrative taut with tension and alive with fiery personalities, Moynahan chronicles the improbable career of the Oxford scholar who risked everything to produce a vernacular version of Scripture. When ecclesiastical opposition frustrated his translation work in England, Tyndale journeyed to the continent, there enduring 11 years of privation and danger as he translated and published the New Testament and much of the Old Testament, soon smuggled to eager English readers. Shrewd detective work enables Moynahan to track the fugitive during these difficult years, when royal and ecclesiastical agents frequently attempted to ensnare him. But in his most astonishing feat of sleuthing, Moynahan discovers that the man who masterminded Tyndale's eventual capture and execution was probably the renowned saint Thomas More, who himself died beneath the executioner's ax for opposing Henry VIII's divorce. Though he acknowledges that Tyndale and More shared ironically similar views of the king's matrimonial maneuvers, Moynahan generally accentuates the sharp contrast between the fearless champion of individual conscience and the ferocious foe of heretics. A gripping historical drama. Bryce ChristensenCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Praise for God's Bestseller""Testifies to his unique influence on what might be called the current English of daily life.""-The Times [U.K.]""A thriller, a history, and a biography all rolled into one""-Irish Times ""A triumph...authoritative, vital, passionate...and superbly able to re-create the mentality of a violent and agonized time."" -Evening Standard [U.K.]""Scrupulously researched, admirably fair-minded, and, above all, extraordinarily readable, Moynahan's biography is a real revelation.""-The Scotsman [U.K.]""With its double agents and whispered conferences in taverns, [God's Bestseller] is almost worthy of LeCarr...artfully paced.""-Mail on Sunday [U.K.]""Testifies to his unique influence on what might be called the current English of daily life."" (The Times)""A thriller, a history, and a biography all rolled into one"" (Irish Times)""A triumph...authoritative, vital, passionate...and superbly able to re-create the mentality of a violent and agonized time."" (Evening Standard [U.K.])""Scrupulously researched, admirably fair-minded, and, above all, extraordinarily readable, Moynahan's biography is a real revelation."" (The Scotsman [U.K.])""With its double agents and whispered conferences in taverns, [God's Bestseller] is almost worthy of LeCarr...artfully paced."" (Mail on Sunday [U.K.)	Brian Moynahan is a former history scholar of Cambridge University.  He was a foreign correspondent, and latterly the European editor, of the London Sunday Times.  As a foreign correspondent, he reported in the United States from Texas, New York City, Los Angeles, Florida, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. He also spent time with U.S. forces in Vietnam 1964--68 and in the Middle East.  He lives in England.",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;england;europe;historical;history;leaders & notable people;religious;western,11
0694014354,"My First Baby Games (Harper Growing Tree) Two new additions to the Harper Growing Tree series help entertain babies, then lull them to sleep. My First Baby Games, illus. by Jane Manning, includes rhymes such as ""This Little Piggy"" and ""Pat-a-Cake"" and demonstrates infants and toddlers joining in the fun. Backyard Bedtime by Susan Hill, illus. by Barry Root, offers reassurance that not only do youngest readers have to go to bed, but so do the ""sweet peas,"" ""blue jays"" and ""tall cedars."" Illustrations of sleeping pumpkins and houses underscore the soothing text. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	public domain  in law, legal availability for public use, free of charge, of materials, processes, devices, skills, and plans that are not protected by copyright or patent, including those on which copyright or patent has lapsed. source: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright  2001-05 Columbia University Press.Jane Manning is the illustrator of many books, including Cindy Ellen by Susan Lowell as well as the New York Times bestselling I Can Read Chapter Book The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches by Alice Low and the I Can Read Books Baa-Choo!, Pip Squeak, and Drip, Drop by Sarah Weeks. She lives in Deep River, Connecticut.",activity books;arts;books;children's books;crafts & music;education & reference;games;literature & fiction;music;poetry;sports & games,11
1893732215,"Nobody's Child Anymore: Grieving, Caring and Comforting When Parents Die ""A wealth of spirit-lifting wisdom that readers will feel compelled to share with friends in need.""",books;christian books & bibles;death & grief;fitness & dieting;grief & bereavement;health;ministry;ministry & church leadership;ministry to the sick & bereaved;psychology & counseling;self-help,11
0874778808,"Beat Spirit As Ash (Shaving the Inside of Your Skull, Putnam, 1997) makes clear, this book is not a history of the Beats but a unique, ""interactive"" self-help book aimed at Generation Xers who find themselves drawn to the philosophical and spiritual principles that inform Beat literature and art. Ash examines works by various authors, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs; analyzes the values promulgated therein; and then assigns the reader exercises based on those values. Exercises range from ""getting naked"" to doing genealogical research to writing a suicide note. Ash's aesthetic analysis is generally on target, and the bibliographies he includes are useful. However, a ""how to become a Beat"" manual seems somewhat paradoxical given the Beat Generation's celebration of originality and spontaneity. The workbook format makes this publication more appropriate for bookstores than libraries.?William Gargan, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., CUNYCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.",20th century;beat generation;books;education & reference;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);movements & periods;politics & social sciences;social sciences,11
1565542657,"Knee-Deep In Mississippi Clay Jones has years of experience as an editorial cartoonist. His insight and observation belie his years and add tremendously to the editorial page of the Daily Leader in Brookhaven, Mississippi. He has won numerous awards, including first place for Best Editorial Cartoon in the Mississippi Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest in both 1994 and 1995, the first two years of the competition. His cartoons have been published in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and several volumes of Pelican's Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year. Knee-Deep in Mississippi is a recent addition to Pelican's much celebrated Editorial Cartoonists Series.",americas;books;comic strips;comics & graphic novels;history;humor;humor & entertainment;midwest;political;state & local;united states,11
0451214404,"The Sen-Toku Raid John Mannock delivers heart-stopping action. -- Joe Buff, author of Tidal Rip",action & adventure;books;contemporary;genre fiction;literature & fiction;mystery;technothrillers;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states;war,11
B000FO7M9S,"Optimization Techniques (Neural Network Systems Techniques and Applications) (Pt. 2) Optimization Techniques is a unique reference source to a diverse array of methods for achieving optimization, and includes both systems structures and computational methods. The text devotes broad coverage toa unified view of optimal learning, orthogonal transformation techniques, sequential constructive techniques, fast back propagation algorithms, techniques for neural networks with nonstationary or dynamic outputs, applications to constraint satisfaction,optimization issues and techniques for unsupervised learning neural networks, optimum Cerebellar Model of Articulation Controller systems, a new statistical theory of optimum neural learning, and the role of the Radial Basis Function in nonlinear dynamical systems.This volume is useful for practitioners, researchers, and students in industrial, manufacturing, mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering.                                        Key Features* Provides in-depth treatment of theoretical contributions to optimal learning for neural network systems* Offers a comprehensive treatment of orthogonal transformation techniques for the optimization of neural network systems* Includes illustrative examples and comprehensive treatment of sequential constructive techniques for optimization of neural network systems* Presents a uniquely comprehensive treatment of the highly effective fast back propagation algorithms for the optimization of neural network systems* Treats, in detail, optimization techniques for neural network systems with nonstationary or dynamic inputs* Covers optimization techniques and applications of neural network systems in constraint satisfaction	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Optimization Techniques is a unique reference source to a diverse array of methods for achieving optimization, and includes both systems structures and computational methods. The text devotes broad coverage toa unified view of optimal learning, orthogonal transformation techniques, sequential constructive techniques, fast back propagation algorithms, techniques for neural networks with nonstationary or dynamic outputs, applications to constraint satisfaction,optimization issues and techniques for unsupervised learning neural networks, optimum Cerebellar Model of Articulation Controller systems, a new statistical theory of optimum neural learning, and the role of the Radial Basis Function in nonlinear dynamical systems.This volume is useful for practitioners, researchers, and students in industrial, manufacturing, mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering.                                        Key Features* Provides in-depth treatment of theoretical contributions to optimal learning for neural network systems* Offers a comprehensive treatment of orthogonal transformation techniques for the optimization of neural network systems* Includes illustrative examples and comprehensive treatment of sequential constructive techniques for optimization of neural network systems* Presents a uniquely comprehensive treatment of the highly effective fast back propagation algorithms for the optimization of neural network systems* Treats, in detail, optimization techniques for neural network systems with nonstationary or dynamic inputs* Covers optimization techniques and applications of neural network systems in constraint satisfaction	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",artificial intelligence;books;computer science;computers & technology;electrical & electronics;engineering;networking;networks;neural networks;professional & technical;protocols & apis,11
032103788X,"Literature for Today's Young Adults (6th Edition) Why is Literature for Todays Young Adults the number one book in Young Adult Literature?      Now in its eighth edition, Literature for Todays Young Adults offers a comprehensive, reader-friendly introduction to young adult literature framed within a literary, historical, and social context. Renowned authors Alleen Nilsen and Kenneth Donelson provide teachers with practical criteria for evaluating books of all genres, from poetry and nonfiction to mysteries and graphic novels. The authors also include timely issues, such as pop culture and mass media, in order to help teachers connect with students lives beyond the classroom.     What is new to this edition?        A brand new Chapter 3, New Technologies, New Attitudes, and New Literacies, examines both the challenges and the excitement todays educators face on a daily basis.     The 20 Young Adult authors honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award over the past two decades each receive a one-page write-up documenting their long-lasting contributions.       Eight outstanding  Young Adult Authors Speak Out on issues close to their hearts; for example, Pat Mora on Linguistic Wealth, Cynthia Leitich Smith on Hosting One-Point-Six Million Visitors in Cyberspace, and Laurie Halse Anderson on Censorship.       Names and naming is discussed as a literary technique that teachers can use to introduce students to literary criticism that goes beyond just liking and disliking a book.     What do professors say about this top-selling book?   The Donelson and Nilsen text is a virtual compendium of essential information for educators, librarians, and those who use literature in their work with young adults.  -Beverly Hearn, University  of Tennessee  at Martin   The censorship chapter is really interesting and well-researched.   -Dr. Joy Wiggins, University  of Texas at Arlington   	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ken Donelson and Alleen Nilsen, professors of English at Arizona State University, became friends and colleagues before they met each other. They both earned their Ph.D. degrees at the University of Iowa from G. Robert Carlsen, a pioneer in the field of young adult literature. Ken was Carlsens first Ph.D. student, with Alleen coming along a decade later. When Alleen and her husband moved to Arizona State in 1973, one of the first people she visited was Ken because Professor Carlsen had talked about him in class and had recruited Alleen as a writer for the Arizona English Bulletin, which Ken was editing.  Nevertheless, Professor Carlsen was surprised when his two former students, who happened to find themselves in the same part of the country, started working together because he thought they were so different. Ken writes like a historian, focusing on whats old, while Alleen writes like a journalist, focusing on whats new. And while Ken was a leader in fighting censorship, Alleen was a leader in fighting sexist language, which some people interpret as a form of censorship. She is the one who suggested they take turns with whose name goes first on each edition. In spite of their differences, what they learned from Professor Carlsen brought them together in support of the academic study of young adult literature. In 1973, they helped found ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE); both have received ALANs Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Young Adult Literature, and both served as presidents of ALAN. In 1974, they were the founding editors of The ALAN Newsletter, the forerunner of what is now The ALAN Review. After proving that they respected each other and could work together, they applied to be coeditors of the English Journal, a job they held from 1980 to 1987 when they wrote the first edition of Literature for Todays Young Adults.  Thanks to Kens knowledge of history and his interest in censorship, the book was more complete than other textbooks of the time which mostly focused on realistic problem novelsbooks sometimes identified as bildungsroman or   apprenticeship novelswhich are still the books most obviously identified as YA. But what Ken and Alleen demonstrated was that every genre, from adventure and biography to mysteries, fantasy, poetry, and the supernatural, were being written for teenagers and deserved a place in schools and libraries. And because Alleens first job at Arizona State University was teaching in the Department of Library Science in the College of Education, it seemed natural for them to bring in the work of librarians and reading teachers as well as of English teachers.  What has kept Literature for Todays Young Adults the leading textbook in the field is the authors continuing love and enthusiasm for their chosen field of study. For each edition they have highlighted new and interesting trends and illustrated them with lively discussions of well-written books. It has helped that they are well-rounded scholars and have remained active in education as a whole.  Ken has published over five hundred articles, mostly on censorship, YA books, and problems in teaching secondary English reflecting his thirteen years of teaching high school English in Iowa. His articles, as well as others related to college teaching, have appeared in such journals as Clearing House, English Journal, High School Journal, and School Library Journal. Ken collected YA books published from 1850 through 1950 and when he retired from ASU he donated some eight hundred historical YA books and a nearly complete run of The Dime Novel Round-Up to ASUs Hayden Library. The collection is strong in books by Kirk Munroe, Ralph Henry Barbour, and John Tunis, and in two Stratemeyer Literary Syndicate heroes, Tom Swift and Nancy Drew. Alleen has worked with her husband, linguistics Professor Don L. F. Nilsen, to promote a new approach to the teaching of vocabulary, as explained in Vocabulary Plus: High School and Up: A Source-Based Approach and  Vocabulary Plus K8: A Source-Based Approach  (Pearson, 2004). Their  Encyclopedia of 20th-Century American Humor (Oryx/Greenwood) was chosen by the American Library Association as one of the twenty best reference books published in 2000. In 2007, they published Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature as part of the Scarecrow Series in Young Adult Literature, edited by Patty Campbell. Alleen is also the author of Joan Bauer, the first book in Greenwood Presss series Teen Reads: Student Companions to Young Adult Literature (2007), edited by James Blasingame.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education;education & reference;humanities;instruction methods;literature;literature & fiction;new;schools & teaching;teens;used & rental textbooks,11
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0943688957,"Power of Aleph Beth (Spanish Edition) The letter energy-intelligence were headed straight for a  desperate encounter with the Dark Lord and the enemy Death Star  fleet. Armed with the Force if the Lord, the Letters got more than  they bargained for when their mission would take them beyond the  Lords battle-station, be- yond the farthest galaxies to distant and  hostile worlds.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;judaism;kabbalah;mysticism;new age;occult;religion & spirituality;sacred writings;spirituality,11
1582612404,"Cleveland Browns A-Z Gordon graduated from Canton's football tradition-rich McKinley High School in 1985. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Media Communications/News from the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio.",americas;books;education & reference;football (american);history;history of sports;miscellaneous;reference;sports & outdoors;state & local;united states,11
0520097815,"The Poetry of Yunus Emre, A Turkish Sufi Poet (UC Publications in Modern Philology) Additional Poems: 37 Additional Poems: 71 Additional Poems: 72 Additional Poems: 74 Additional Poems: 76 Additional Poems: 95 Poem: 1 Poem: 100 Poem: 101 Poem: 102 Poem: 104 Poem: 109 Poem: 11 Poem: 112 Poem: 114 Poem: 116 Poem: 117 Poem: 12 Poem: 127 Poem: 129 Poem: 13 Poem: 131 Poem: 134 Poem: 135 Poem: 14 Poem: 141 Poem: 155 Poem: 159 Poem: 16 Poem: 168 Poem: 173 Poem: 174 Poem: 179 Poem: 18 Poem: 182 Poem: 186 Poem: 188 Poem: 190 Poem: 194 Poem: 199 Poem: 2 Poem: 202 Poem: 203 Poem: 22 Poem: 23 Poem: 24 Poem: 26 Poem: 3 Poem: 31 Poem: 33 Poem: 35 Poem: 36 Poem: 37 Poem: 39 Poem: 4 Poem: 4 Poem: 40 Poem: 41 Poem: 42 Poem: 45 Poem: 48 Poem: 5 Poem: 52 Poem: 55 Poem: 6 Poem: 67 Poem: 68 Poem: 7 Poem: 70 Poem: 72 Poem: 75 Poem: 8 Poem: 8 Poem: 81 Poem: 84 Poem: 85 Poem: 87 Poem: 9 Poem: 90 Poem: 91 Poem: 92 Poem: 94 Poem: 95 Poem: 96 Poem: 99 -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder	Text: English (translation) Original Language: Turkish",ancient;books;classical & medieval;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;middle east;movements & periods;poetry;turkey;world literature,11
1582432805,"The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles Starred Review. Koch's new biographic history surveys the Spanish Civil War, the decline of literary modernism, the train wreck otherwise known as Ernest Hemingway's love life and the waning career of John Dos Passosall while plotting the moral highs and lows of 1930s American and European intellectuals, politicos and revolutionaries. This is heady stuff, made headier still by Koch's revelation that the hand pulling each of these narrative threads belongs to no less a villain than Joseph Stalin. Far from spinning conspiracy theories, Koch coolly examines scholarship, memoirs and archival material that place Stalin's propaganda operatives at the heart of almost every relationship, argument and scene rendered in these masterful chapters. Chief among the affairs is the unraveling friendship between Hemingway and Dos Passos, two literary titans who spent the years of the Spanish Civil War in opposing slides toward (Hemingway) and away from (Dos Passos) the ideologies of well-meaning leftists. There may be no ""elevator pitch"" for Koch's book, no single phrase to utter in the ear of a film producer that would take this story from page to screen, and that's too bad, because Koch (former head of the Writing Division at Columbia) reaps enough death, sex, booze and intrigue from his subject to feed an Oscar contender. But the best part is really Koch himself. Present in the narrative as a historical detective, connecting the dots between his various sources, Koch also excels as a literary critic, one who loves books that are morally nuanced and gets brilliantly angry when the authors he respects ruin their talents by committing themselves to shortsighted ideological points. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""A deeply thoughtful, trenchant examination... A whopping good literary tale...explored here by a master of the literary and the political."" -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review""A riveting tale of soured friendships, casually exterminated lives, and treachery run amok."" -- The Denver Post""The Breaking Point [is] stampede reading...a furious choosing of sides in the bloody past, back when history was breaking hearts."" -- Harper's""Vivid and penetrating... [The Breaking Point] has the pace and drama of a detective novel... One of the very best."" -- The New York Sun""[A] riveting account of a time when personality, ideology, and war all collided."" -- Library Journal	Praise for The Breaking Point  ""The Breaking Point is literary and political history that belongs alongside Homage to Catalonia and the best biographies of Hemingway and Dos Passos. It's important historical analysis of the Spanish Civil War, but made in the context of the profoundly conflicted friendship of two American literary giants."" -Russell Banks, author of The Sweet Hereafter and Darling  ""Stephen Koch's The Breaking Point is simply a masterpiece-a spellbinding page-turner that finally unravels the whole story behind the Hemingway-Dos Passos break. Based on a solid sense of the real history of the Spanish Civil War and the nefarious role played by Stalin, Koch has produced a major contribution to both literature and history."" -Ronald Radosh, Professor Emeritus of History, CUNY, co-author of The Rosenberg File  ""What a gripping literary saga! The two heavyweight American writers of the Great Depression era-Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos-feud over the horrific death of Jos Robles. Written like a mystery novel, laced with political intrigue, and with the Spanish Civil War as the backdrop, The Breaking Point is one knockout punch of a book."" -Douglas Brinkley, Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization, and Distinguished Professor of History, Tulane University  Praise for Stephen Koch's Double Lives:  ""A magnificent tapestry...Double Lives is the best of all possible worlds-carefully made history to be read at night."" -Alan Furst, author of Dark Voyage   ""Stephen Koch has written a thrilling, and what is more, fair book about one of the strangest episodes of an era."" -David Remnick, author of Resurrection	Stephen Koch is the author of several books, including Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War Against the West and Stargazer: The Life, World and Films of Andy Warhol. He lives in New York City.",20th century;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;europe;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);movements & periods,11
0812212762,"History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History ""Kramer ranked among the world's foremost Sumerologists. . . . The book will interest both the scholar and the general educated reader.""Religious Studies Bulletin""[Kramer] possesses the enviable ability to speak authoritatively in a lively and captivating style.""Choice	Samuel Noah Kramer was Clark Research Professor Emeritus of Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was also Curator Emeritus of the Tablet Collections.",ancient;archaeology;books;education & reference;history;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;world,11
0521659612,"Minimus Teacher's Resource Book: Starting out in Latin Join in the fun with Minimus  - a mix of myths, stories, grammar support and historical background! This Teacher's Resource Book provides full support for non-specialist teachers, including worksheets on various aspects of Roman life, suggested practical activities and translations of the Latin passages.",books;children's books;education;education & reference;foreign language learning;foreign languages;humanities;instruction methods;new;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,11
B000N2HD50,"God's Answers to Life's Difficult Questions (Living with Purpose) How can I cope with stress? rebound from failure? defeat depression? have peace of mind? Lifes difficult questions have answers.  Answers from the Bible that can change your outlookand your life.  Rick Warren writes, In each of these studies, you will discover simple ways to apply Gods truth to your personal life, your family, and your job. The way to get the most out of this book is to act on it.  Rick Warren takes you inside the Scriptures to see what they reveal about twelve of the most pressing questions people ask. They are questions you yourself either have asked or most likely will ask. This book provides simple, straightforward answers you can begin to apply right away to move past your worst sticking points and enjoy a life of purpose, peace, and significance.	Rick Warren is often called 'America's most influential spiritual leader.' He and his wife, Kay, founded Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, which is now one of the largest and best-known churches in the world. He also wrote the #1 all-time bestselling hardcover book, The Purpose Driven Life.  Rick Warren es pastor, estratega global, teologo y filantropo. Los medios le llaman 'El lider espiritual mas influyente de America' y 'El pastor de America'. el y su esposa, Kay, fundaron la Iglesia Saddleback en California, una propiedad de 120 acres con mas de 300 ministerios comunitarios de ayuda a prisioneros, adictos y padres solteros, entre otros. Como estratega global, el Dr. Warren asesora  a lideres en sectores publicos, privados y religiosos en temas de pobreza, salud, educacion, la fe en la cultura y desarrollo de liderazgo. Es invitado a dictar conferencias en congresos y agencias estatales como las Naciones Unidas y  es catedratico en diferentes universidades. El Dr. Warren es autor de varios libros, incluyendo el exito de ventas Vida con Proposito.",bible;bible & other sacred texts;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;education & reference;kindle ebooks;kindle store;reference;religion & spirituality,11
0060736615,"The Christmas Scrapbook: A Harmony Story [T]his Mitford-esque seriesnever disappoints with its superb humor and uplifting sense of community. (Publishers Weekly )Even those unfamiliar with this delightful series will find this novella delightful. Think Seventh Heaven meets I Love Lucy. (Library Journal )Perfect for a chilly afternoon in front of the fire. Wont take long to read, but the smile will linger. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette )	PHILIP GULLEY is a Quaker minister, writer, husband, and father. He is the bestselling author of Front Porch Tales and is a frequent speaker at churches, colleges, and retreat centers across the country. Visit the author online at www.philipgulleybooks.com.",books;christian books & bibles;christmas;fiction;holidays;humor;literature & fiction;protestantism;quaker;religion & spirituality;united states,11
B00005Y0IH,"Melnor 360M All Metal Oscillating Sprinkler The Melnor 3,600-square-foot all-metal oscillating sprinkler 360M is the last oscillator you'll ever need. A turbo drive motor and precision drilled brass nozzles deliver consistent watering for up to 3,600 square feet. This sprinkler also has heavy-duty aluminum construction that withstands most weather conditions, and for consumer confidence, it is backed by a lifetime limited manufacturer's warranty.	3600 sq. ft. Premium Metal Turbo Oscillator. 18 Precision brass nozzles ensure even watering. Turbo-drive motor for extra long life. Heavy-duty aluminum construction.",computer components;computers & accessories;electronics;garden center;gardening;lawn & garden;nozzles;patio;power & hand tools;tools & home improvement;watering equipment,11
0688154115,"Nature's Green Umbrella (Mulberry books) Grade 1-4-A colorful, informative look at tropical rain forests. Gibbons has drawn and labeled about 50 animals and numerous plants and trees on double-spread illustrations. Complementary text appears in the margins. Each spread is bordered by vines and flowers reminiscent of medieval manuscripts. The striking watercolors evoke the mood of the forests, while the text contains simple definitions for italicized scientific terms. Readers are drawn into the ecology of rain forests before mention is made of the danger of global warming and the extinction of flora and fauna due to humanity's destructive invasion. Methods for protecting the areas, such as creating selective cutting or extractive reserves, are noted. Lyn Stone's Rain Forests (Rourke, 1989) and Jenny Wood's Rain Forests (Gareth Stevens, 1991), written for slightly older children, have striking full-color photos and more text, but Gibbons's book is more inviting.Kathleen McCabe, East Meadow Public Library, NYCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Gr. 3-5. We're off to the rain forest in Gibbons' newest addition to her nonfiction library. With the simple style and bold format that characterize her books, Gibbons not only explains the complex ecosystem of tropical rain forests and their importance to the global ecology, but also explores related issues concerning the preservation and protection of the forests as natural resources. Bright, colorful watercolor panels with labeled elements are laid out with the text, and each layout is framed by the leafy green vine of a rain forest flower. Gibbons does not designate the specific rain forests in the illustrations (a problem because some of the exotic animals pictured are native only to tropical rain forests on certain continents), but her focus seems generally to be on Latin American regions, such as the Amazon and the Caribbean rain forests where she did her research for this book. Packed with visual information that complements the easy and informative text, this is a good, basic introduction to a complex and popular subject for the youngest researchers.  Annie Ayres	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Informative...inviting."" -- -- School Library Journal	Gail Gibbons, author of more than one hundred books, is the winner of the Washington Post/Childrens Book Guild Award for her overall contribution to childrens nonfiction literature. Called a master of picture book nonfiction by ALA Booklist, Ms. Gibbons has a special talent for making complex subjects understandable and entertaining for young readers.",books;children's books;diseases;education & reference;environment;environment & ecology;forests & trees;health;nature;nature & how it works;science,11
1576106438,"MCSE Windows 2000 Network Exam Prep (Exam: 70-216) Tammy Smith (Whitney Point, NY) MCSE, MCT is currently employed as a Networking Program Administrator and Technical Trainer and at Ridley-Lowell Technical Institute, a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider. She is a member of ACM and a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon a computer science honor society.    Sandra Smeeton (Montrose, PA) graduted from Bloomsburg University in 1995 with a Bachelors Degree in Business Education.  She currently is employed as a technical trainer in the Networking Program at Ridley-Lowell Technical Institute, a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider.  Sandra was previously employed as a trainer by Productivity Point International and has enjoyed 5 years expeirence in the training industry.",books;certification;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;microsoft;networking;networks;protocols & apis;software;windows os,11
0964190540,"Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett, Abridged Edition ""A bit skimpy."" -- Warren Buffett	Kilpatrick is a 1965 graduate of Washington and Lee University. He served in the Peace Corps in India for two years, earned a master's degree in English from the University of Vermont and was a U.S. Navy officer for three years. His 20-year newspaper career in Birmingham included eight years as a business reporter. He now subsists as a stockbroker with Prudential Securities in Birmingham.",( b );a-z;biographies & memoirs;books;buffett;business;new;people;professionals & academics;used & rental textbooks;warren,11
0787903558,"Getting Together: Icebreakers and Group Energizers Create instant commaraderie between team members with these brief, interactive games and activities. Conveniently divided into two categoriesicebreakers that encourage mixing, and group challenges build team cohesioneach is designed to help people overcome the anxiety common among new acquaintances in group situations.	Create instant commaraderie between team members with these brief, interactive games and activities. Conveniently divided into two categoriesicebreakers that encourage mixing, and group challenges build team cohesioneach is designed to help people overcome the anxiety common among new acquaintances in group situations.	LORRAINE L. UKENS is the owner of Team-ing with Success, an organization specializing in team building and leadership development. Her wide range of business experience, spanning more than twenty years, is applied in designing, facilitating, and evaluating programs in a variety of training areas.In 1993, Loraine developed a comprehensive three-phase training program, also called TEAM-ING WITH SUCCESS, which was designed to help build and maintain high-performing teams. Since then, additional games and activities have been developed that use hands-on learning experiences to promote constructive group dynamics.Loraine received her M.S. degree in human resource development from Towson State University in Maryland. A writer and consultant, she is an active member of the American School for Training and Development.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business communication;communications;leadership;management & leadership;new;running meetings & presentations;skills;used & rental textbooks,11
189312102X,"The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History ... A fascinating book ... a remarkable document ... a great enjoyment ... not as ballyhooed as Harry Potter, but it should be... -- --Rick Kogan, WGN Radio, The Sunday Papers,  July 2, 2000 br /br /...presents an outstanding historical survey of the Chicago River from its creation by pre-glacial forces... -- --Midwest Book Review, August, 2000 br /br /...reintroducing me to a body of water I thought I knew, surprising me with new facts, and delighting me... -- --David Jones, Community Planner, Friends of the Chicago River br /br / ... A fascinating book ... a remarkable document ... a great enjoyment ... not as ballyhooed as Harry Potter, but it should be... -- --Rick Kogan, WGN Radio, The Sunday Papers,  July 2, 2000 br /br /...presents an outstanding historical survey of the Chicago River from its creation by pre-glacial forces... -- --Midwest Book Review, August, 2000 br /br /...reintroducing me to a body of water I thought I knew, surprising me with new facts, and delighting me... -- --David Jones, Community Planner, Friends of the Chicago River br /br /Hill tells this complex story in human terms, such as the 'kidnapping' of dredging equipment from Wisconsin and secretly opening the Sanitary and Ship Canal in order to forestall a lawsuit from Joliet. . . . [She] makes the story even more graphic by frequently pointing out specific locations to show the effects of glaciers, floods, droughts, and erosion in shaping an area where more than six million people live. If you are among them, after reading a few chapters, you may begin to feel that the land around you is very special indeed. --Wayne Klatt, Journal of Illinois Historybr /br /Imagine reading a biography of your spouse or best friend, and being surprised and delighted at the biographer's fresh take on somebody you thought you knew pretty well. Libby Hill has done that with this book, reintroducing me to a body of water I thought I knew, surprising me with new facts, and delighting me with new ways of thinking about the facts I thought I had mastered. --David Jones, Friends of the Chicago Riverbr /br /Libby Hill's The Chicago River is the result of years of painstaking research and presents an outstanding historical survey of the Chicago River from its creation by pre-glacial forces, to the days of the French explorers using it to access the Mississippi, to its contemporary presence in one of the most densely populated urban areas in the Midwest. The Chicago River is an in-depth, comprehensive work that reveals the never ending struggle between humans and nature over the centuries, as well as the commercial, recreational, and ecological projects currently underway on and in the river. The Chicago River is highly recommended, rewarding reader for those with an interest in Chicago, natural history, environmental issues, and Midwestern history. --Midwest Book Reviewbr /br /Hill tells this complex story in human terms, such as the 'kidnapping' of dredging equipment from Wisconsin and secretly opening the Sanitary and Ship Canal in order to forestall a lawsuit from Joliet. . . . [She] makes the story even more graphic by frequently pointing out specific locations to show the effects of glaciers, floods, droughts, and erosion in shaping an area where more than six million people live. If you are among them, after reading a few chapters, you may begin to feel that the land around you is very special indeed. --Wayne Klatt, Journal of Illinois Historybr /br /Libby Hill's The Chicago River is the result of years of painst --Midwest Book ReviewLibby Hill's The Chicago River is the result of years of painstaking research and presents an outstanding historical survey of the Chicago River from its creation by pre-glacial forces, to the days of the French explorers using it to access the Mississippi, to its contemporary presence in one of the most densely populated urban areas in the Midwest. The Chicago River is an in-depth, comprehensive work that reveals the never ending struggle between humans and nature over the centuries, as well as the commercial, recreational, and ecological projects currently underway on and in the river. The Chicago River is highly recommended, rewarding reader for those with an interest in Chicago, natural history, environmental issues, and Midwestern history. --Midwest Book ReviewHill tells this complex story in human terms, such as the 'kidnapping' of dredging equipment from Wisconsin and secretly opening the Sanitary and Ship Canal in order to forestall a lawsuit from Joliet. . . . [She] makes the story even more graphic by frequently pointing out specific locations to show the effects of glaciers, floods, droughts, and erosion in shaping an area where more than six million people live. If you are among them, after reading a few chapters, you may begin to feel that the land around you is very special indeed. --Wayne Klatt, Journal of Illinois History	With her history-sociology-librarian-geography-ecology background, Libby Hill is the ideal biographer of her beloved Chicago River. Libby teaches with the Geography and Environmental Studies Department at Northeastern Illinois University and works for the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC).",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;earth sciences;history;midwest;rivers;science & math;state & local;travel;united states,11
0195123506,"A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman The American film directors featured here have created significant bodies of work. Notes Kolker (film studies, Univ. of Maryland),  for all the challenge and adventure, their films speak to a continual impotence in the world, an inability to change and to create change.  A fount of cinematic knowledge, the author provides the context for his subjects, persuasively arguing that Citizen Kane and Psycho hold pride of place as influences. He draws parallels between Leni Riefenstahl!s Triumph of the Will (1935) and Steven Spielberg!s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1978), Alfred Hitchcock!s Marnie (1964) and Stanley Kubrick!s Eyes Wide Shut (1999), and John Wayne!s Ethan Edwards in John Ford!s The Searchers (1956) and Robert DeNiro!s Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese!s Taxi Driver (1976). Evidently, the  cinema of loneliness  is not entirely new. Since the first and second editions, Francis Ford Coppola has been excised and Oliver Stone added. Essential for scholars and well-informed fans, the book is recommended for film and performing arts collections as well as for larger public libraries""Kim Holston, American Inst. for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, Malvern, PA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Praise for the previous edition: ""Brings the films into clearer focus for film-goers. The filmmakers themselves will find Kolker's analysis of their works extremely accurate.""--Martin Scorsese""An excellent work of film criticism, and as such, demands response and debate....Kolker's analyses of each director's work...are stimulating, provocative, insightful and passionate, models of film analysis.""--San Francisco Review of Books	Robert Kolker is at University of Maryland.",arts & photography;books;communication & media studies;direction & production;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;movies;performing arts;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology,11
0595193323,"Be Still And Know . . . I am originally from India, emigrated to Canada more than thirty years ago. Although I was established well with my family, I was experiencing some restlessness with my life which led me to discovering my real-self. Out of the various ways I tried, the direct connection with the self/supreme self has been the most fulfilling experience of my life. This wonderous aspect of knowing the ultimate reality, I am now aspired to share through this book.",alternative medicine;books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;inspirational;meditation;personal transformation;religion & spirituality;self-help;spirituality,11
1883010128,"Poems of Color Many handcraft traditions are lost because no one records the history  and techniques, even though numerous examples and practitioners still exist.  Thankfully, Wendy Keele has prevented this from happening to Bohus-style  knitting. Poems of Color shows this unique Scandinavian knitting style-- philosophy, really--in careful detail, elucidated by a number of the original  knitters and beautifully illustrated with color photographs.	Founded in 1939 to provide a source of extra income for skilled knitters whose families had been hard hit by the Depression, the Swedish knitting cooperative Bohus Stickning produced handknit garments of the finest workmanship and design for 30 years. Bohus knits subsequently became sought-after collector's items. Nine years in the writing, this is the first trade book in English about Bohus. Keele combines a history of the cooperative and its garments, designers, and knitting techniques with a selection of patterns that will interest contemporary knitters who want to make their own Bohus-style garments. The sweater patterns have been adapted to today's more casual oversized styles. Highly recommended.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Fine colors and patterns make the sweaters from the Bohus workshop in Sweden unique: now enjoy an excellent collection of original designs and patterns in a title which tells how to duplicate this shop's works. Color photos of finished products accompany knitting instructions and materials lists.  -- Midwest Book Review",20th century;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;europe;history;hobbies & home;knitting;modern (16th-21st centuries);needlecrafts & textile crafts;sweden,11
071562833X,"Virgil: His Life and Times Born on October 15, 70 B.C., in a small village near Mantua in Northern Italy, Publius Vergilius Maro, or Virgil, grew up to be hailed as the greatest Roman poet. And although his work has influenced Western literature for two millennia, little is know about the man himself. In Virgil: His Life and Times, Professor Peter Levi reconstructs the poet's life by examining archaeological and historical evidence from Augustan Rome, as well as through close readings of the poet's own work. ""Virgil is an intensely personal poet, yet he is anonymous.... My aim is not so ambitious as to try and restore his prestige single-handed. It has simply been to try to understand him in his original context."" Professor Levi does an admirable job off adding flesh to the dusty bones of Virgil, pulling away many of the myths that surround his life and letting the genius of his imagination shine through. Although perhaps not a good book for anyone not already acquainted with Virgil, Levi's new book shines with an unabashed love of his subject and will be a welcome addition to the library of anyone who has ever been swept away by the pathos and power of the Aeneid.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Author of several books on natural history, including The Wolf Almanac, Busch returns with an account of the time he spent photographing grizzly bears in a pristine valley in British Columbia. (He uses pseudonyms for place names in order to protect the area from hunters.) For four years, Busch woke up at five in the morning, drove two hours along old logging roads and hiked three hours through brush to the two blinds he had built near the bend of a salmon-filled river. There he lay in wait with his cameras for the wildlife of the valley?cougars, wolverines, lynx, caribou, marten, blue herons?to appear around him. Busch saw many grizzlies gather salmon from the river, and his book provides ample information on the habits and history of these enormous animals. Unfortunately, his writing lacks the richness and complexity necessary to smoothly blend his memoirs (he spends many sections recalling his own history and attraction to nature) and his research. Even more disappointing are Busch's photographs: the most beautiful among them, and these are gorgeous, are of birds, trees and landscapes, not bears. Nonetheless, Busch's light, conversational tone makes for a pleasant, if not particularly compelling, account. 109 color photos. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Virgil was the Latin poet, writes Levi, formerly a professor of poetry at Oxford and a lecturer in the classics. As such, he fundamentally shapes our literature, our culture, and even our conception of natural identity. Therefore, the challenge to us as modern readers is to understand our inheritance. With this in mind, Levi unfolds the life and world of Virgil through a close reading and extended paraphrasing of the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid, attempting to extract and reconstruct the poet and his life from his lines. The result is an old-fashioned sort of biography that eschews psychological speculation, instead drawing on the author's deeply personal response to the subject informed by years of study and erudition. An able companion to Levi's recent Horace (LJ 3/15/98).?Thomas L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, GACopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	More encomium than biography, Levi's work traces the great Roman poet's inspirations and influences backward and forward through time, via close readings of classical and modern texts. Though not an introduction, this rich analysis offers bountiful insights to anyone already familiar with the Aeneid and the poet's early works. Granted, personal information about Publius Vergilius Maro is difficult to come byonly two ancient biographies exist, both just a few pages long. Thus, Levi, the biographer of Tennyson, Horace, and Edward Lear, weaves together historical analysis, gossip, and close readings of the poet's oeuvre to infer a portrait of the poet. Springing from the Greek Homeric tradition of the Odyssey, Virgil created a new kind of hero in Aeneas: mythic, but also bound by human dilemmas. Levi does an excellent job of teasing out Virgil's struggles with Homeric traditions of mythology and composition, and melding them with contemporary Roman experience under the rule of Augustus, who commissioned the Aeneid (Virgil also had another wealthy patron to thank for a comfortable living). Levi traces the poet's relationships with authors such as Horace, whom he knew personally, and others he had most certainly read, such as Lucretius and Cicero. Though most classical linguists would argue with this biographers preference for the Dryden translation, Levi's poetical analysis is instrumental as he guides us through each episode of the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid, illuminating his favorite passages and dismissing others. Like Virgil, Levi packs some paragraphs so densely that in parts he will lose any but the most attentive readers. Such care is rewarded, however. What shines through is Levi's love of Virgil and a lifetime of rumination and analysis.  The biography label may be ill-fitting, but Levi's textual explications are the next best thing to his course at Oxford.  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	'the lightness of touch Levi adds to his scholarship makes for a genial read""--Financial Times	Peter Levi was a professor of poetry at the University of Oxford, as well as a lecturer in classics at Christ Church College, and a fellow of St. Catherine's College.  A poet and student of Latin and Greek, he has written and edited over forty books, including a History of Greek Literature, celebrated biographies of Lear, Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson, and, recently, Horace: A Life.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",ancient;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;classical & medieval;historical;history;literature & fiction;poetry;rome,11
0471118176,"Marketing Yourself to the Top Business Schools This essential guide offers a clear, concise description of how to develop and implement a unique personal marketing program for getting into the school of your choice. It provides a proven marketing-oriented plan that will set you apart from competitors. Includes numerous examples and writing tips to help you pitch yourself more effectively to specific programs.	Expert advice helps you get into the business school of your choiceEarning an MBA from a leading business school can be an important career boost. But first you have to get accepted. This straight-talking guide is dedicated to helping you conquer the business school admission process. Here, Phil and Carol Carpenter show you, step-by-step, how to confidently develop your own winning marketing campaign, including: Tips on matching your strengths and interests with those of your target schools Candid interviews with admissions directors and alumni Advice on writing focused, persuasive essays Twenty actual applicant essays on frequently asked topics with frank evaluations of why these essays worked Ratings of the top programs from U.S. News & World Report""This easy-to-read guide demystifies the MBA admissions process. It provides a detailed and useful strategy for all MBA applicants by illustrating ways in which applicants can exert control and influence over the process."" ""Candid and comprehensive...the Carpenters write with the voice of experience and share practical knowledge rather than generalized suggestions."" Jon Megibow, Director of Admissions University of Virginia, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration	PHIL and CAROL CARPENTER received their MBAs from Harvard Business School, where they also worked as admissions counselors. They now work in marketing in the San Francisco Bay Area.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business school guides;economics;education & reference;graduate school;new;reference;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,11
0310205042,"The Sword and the Flame (The Dragon King Trilogy, Book 3) 'This is fantasy with thunder and chase, with peril and breathtaking escapes.' Fantasy Newsletter	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Stephen Lawheads bestselling trilogy, The Dragon King Saga, has sold in the millions. Now this spellbinding epic fantasy has been relaunched for a new generation of readers. Combining skillful storytelling with a strong spiritual vision, Stephen Lawhead has established his name among the front ranks of contemporary historical fantasy writers. 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Stephen R. Lawhead is an internationally acclaimed author of fantasy and imaginative fiction. He is the author of many book, including, the Byzantium and the Pendragon Cycle series. He lives in Oxford, England, with his wife and sons	Amidst ancient halls of stone, an age-old evil stirs. With a cunning more potent than sorcery, Nimrood the Necromancer has returned, bent on a monstrous vendetta that would strip Quentin of everything he holds dear. His loved ones, his faith, Zhaligkeer, the sword of his kingship, and ultimately, the kingdom itself, sway in the balance as Quentin, unguarded and alone, races toward a confrontation with his cruelest foe.	Stephen R. Lawhead is an internationally acclaimed author of mythic history and imaginative fiction.  His works include the first two books of the Celtic Crusades, The Iron Lance and The Black Rood; Byzantium; the Pendragon Cycle; the Song of Albion and Dragon King trilogies; and the science fiction novels Empyrion I and II and Dream Thief.	Chapter One The hunched figure toiled up the winding trail leaning heavily upon his long crooked staff, stopping frequently to rest and to look down upon the placid lowlands, gazing toward the west in the direction of Askelon. He was an old man of years beyond counting, dressed in the robes and cowl of a priest. The hood threw a dark shadow across his features, and though the day was hot and the sun bright, he did not uncover his head but went on his way wrapped head to toe. Seen from a distance he might have been a black beetle scrabbling up a hillock bearing the weight of his burdensome shell. When he reached the summit of the plateau he sat down on a rock beneath an ancient wind-worn tree that threw its sparse, gnarled branches over the road. Many a pilgrim had sat there upon that rock to offer up a prayer to the gods for a fortuitous oracle. But this traveler was no pilgrim and offered no prayers. Instead, he sat and with narrowed eyes gazed out over the countryside. The air sang with bird-song and shimmered as the heat rose in waves from the land. In the misty blue distance his sharp eagle's vision could see the dark green line of Pelgrin Forest, lying like a vast green sea away to the west. In the valley below, peasants labored in the fields among their new crops. Their shouts to their lazy oxen drifted up the side of the hill like petitions to an unhearing god. The old man turned his face away from the peaceful landscape shining green and golden beneath clear, untroubled blue skies. He looked toward the temple rising white and silent as a tomb above him. Then he lifted himself heavily to his legs once more, took up his staff, and continued on. When he reached the temple yard he stopped and leaned long on his staff, as if waiting for a sign, or as if, having come this far, he was unable to decide whether to finish what he came to do. After some time he turned his face to the east, toward the mountains whose mighty heads could be seen rising above their heavy shoulders. There, above the far peaks, he saw dark clouds assembling and moving westward on the wind. The old priest nodded to himself and then went across the stone-paved yard to the temple steps. He climbed the stairs, raised the iron ring on the great wooden door, and knocked several times. After a few moments the door opened and a man in a red cloak poked his head out. 'The temple is not open at this hour.' The man looked at the old priest unkindly. 'Come back at the seventh hour if you want prayers or an omen.' 'Do you not see that I am a priest?' asked the old one. 'I have come to see the High Priest of Ariel.' 'He sees no one,' the temple guard said. 'He is in retreat.' 'Is he, indeed? But this is a matter of greatest urgency. He must see me.' The guard glared at the wrinkled old priest, and his features proclaimed that the old man and his crooked staff were a great nuisance. But before he could reply, the old priest spoke again. 'It is not for you to decide. Bring someone in authority. If not the High Priest, then the under-High Priest, or the Day Priest.' The temple guard glared a silent curse on the old man and closed the door. The elderly priest stood for a few moments and waited, head bent down. Just as he was about to raise the ring once again he heard steps on the other side of the door. A gray-cloaked priest, a young man with a pocked face, thrust his head through the opening. Behind him the guard stood frowning. 'Well,' the young priest said, 'what do you want?' 'I wish to speak with the High Priest. That is allowed, surely. It is a matter of some importance.' 'He sees no one unannounced,' snapped the priest. 'Then I wish to be announced at once,' said the old man softly. His faded eyes hardened to stone. 'High Priest Pluell is in retreat; he cannot be disturbed. I am the Day Priest; I am empowered to help you.' The old man smiled slyly. 'That I doubt most heartily. Still, you will do. Announce me to him. I can readily see that you are a man of some resource you will find a way.' The young man's face convulsed in a mighty frown. He drew breath to shout the old man away. But before he could speak, the elderly priest raised his hand and said, 'Do what I say.' This was spoken simply, but with utmost authority. The younger priest felt it like a slap. His mouth snapped shut instantly. 'Wait over there,' the Day Priest muttered. He pointed to a stone bench under a tree away across the temple yard by the wall. 'I will abide,' said the old man. He turned and began slowly descending the temple steps. 'What name shall I give him?' shouted the young priest after him. The old man paused, leaned on his staff, and seemed to ponder the question carefully. 'Well?' called the Day Priest. 'Tell him,' the old man began at length, 'that a friend from the east has come.' One gnarled hand disappeared beneath the folds of his robes. 'And give him this.' He withdrew his hand and held out a darkly glittering object. The young man came out of the temple and took the talisman from the outstretched hand. He held it in his palm and examined it closely. The object was a flat round medal made of black stone, and was inscribed with strange symbols which he did not recognize. It was cold in his hand, and a strange feeling came over him as he held the talisman a feeling of deep foreboding, of doom gathering around him like the high dark clouds overhead. Without another word he turned and went back into the temple. The old man continued down the steps and made his way slowly to the bench under the tree. He settled himself to wait in the shade. The day progressed leisurely. At midday a straggling few pilgrims came to the temple. The Day Priest met them and took their offerings. The pilgrims waited and then were admitted into the temple for their oracle. They came out and went away chattering happily, full of the good fortune which had been assured them by the priests. None noticed the old man sitting quiet as an idol beneath the tree by the wall. Evening came on, and with it a cool breeze out of the east, scented with the sweet musty smell of rain. As a crimson sun set in fiery brilliance away beyond the golden fields of the valley below the temple, a priest came out of the temple with a brand and lit the torch that stood in a stone pylon in the center of the temple yard.",books;christian books & bibles;classics;contemporary;fantasy;fiction;historical;literature & fiction;religion & spirituality;science fiction & fantasy;united states,11
0762702435,"Hitchhiking Vietnam: A Woman's Solo Journey in an Elusive Land For seven months Karin Muller traversed Vietnam--sometimes by  motorbike, often by foot--covering 6,400 miles from the Mekong Delta to  the Chinese border. Along the way she survives 52 motorbike  breakdowns, 14 arrests, and one awful bout with scurvy. She plants  rice with farmers, saves a few leopard cubs from the black market,  learns to drive a passenger train, and gets to know a lot of people on  her Ho Chi Minh Trail trek. Told honestly and humorously, the culture,  pace, land, scents, problems, and beauties of Vietnam are evoked as  Muller and Vietnam interact. Snippets of letters home (like ""I  traded some of my antihistamines for Tampax yesterday. What a  relief"" and ""Am I really blood type A? It's important"")  highlight the details, while the strong narrative holds them  together. Her pictures are excellent, the story riveting, and the  writing a pleasure--good reading for a flight to Asia or a day at the  beach. --Stephanie Gold	Imagine being a twenty-eight-year-old single woman, working your way up the management consultant ladder, with your own expense account, a fancy gym membership, and salary to spare.  Now imagine throwing it all away to hitchhike a country under the iron fist of communism, with a dubious grip on the language, accompanied by a colorful and sometimes frightening menagerie of characters, human and otherwise, and carrying an illegal video camera in your backpack. That's exactly what Karin Muller did.  This title comes from the PBS documentary of the same name.  PBS will be televising this film several times over the next three years and has an extensive site devoted to it at www.pbs.org which has developed a built-in audience. Karin has received thousands of e-mails asking, 'Where is the book?' Here it is at last!",arts & photography;asia;books;general;photography;solo travel;southeast;specialty travel;travel;travel writing;vietnam,11
0761925724,"Diagnosing Organizations: Methods, Models, and Processes (Applied Social Research Methods) Michael I. Harrison is an internationally known scholar of organizations and health systems. He is Senior Research Scientist at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in Rockville Maryland. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Michigan. He has been a faculty member at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and University of Israel, a visiting professor at the School of Management at Boston College, and a visiting scholar at Brandeis University, Georgetown University, Harvard Business School, and the Nordic School of Public Health. He has worked as a consultant and conducted research in businesses, services, government organizations, worker-managed cooperatives, and voluntary groups. His publications include Organizational Diagnosis and Assessment: Bridging Theory and Practice (with A. Shirom; Sage, 1999) and Implementing Change in Health Systems: Market Reforms in the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the Netherlands (Sage, 2004.",books;business & finance;business & investing;new;organizational behavior;politics & social sciences;research;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;workplace,11
1565220730,"Memoirs of an Ex-Hippie: Seven Years in the Counterculture Robert Roskind is a writer and speaker. His ten books include ""Rasta Heart: A Journey into One Love,"" ""In the Spirit of Business,"" and ""In the Spirit of Marriage,"" all traching unconditional love. He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolna with his wife, Julia, and their daughter, Alicia.",biographies & memoirs;books;fitness & dieting;general;health;medical books;memoirs;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;used & rental textbooks,11
0824817966,"Sons for the Return Home (Talanoa) The two loversboth university studentsin this novel face many cultural difficulties. She is a white New Zealander, blonde, outgoing, daughter of a successful businessman; he is the son of xenophobic Somoan immigrants to New Zealand, dark, reticent and bitter about his tenuous position as a ""coconut islander"" in white society. Indeed, this is also the story of two conflicting South Pacific nationsNew Zealand and Samoawhose inhabitants tend to translate racial pride into racist contempt for others. Told in the flat, passionless voice of the nameless boy, this allegory, rich in both history and geographic detail, demonstrates the problems of cultural cohabitation. Though his writing is slightly uneven and too often cliched, Wendt, a native Samoan and professor of literature, offers a fine, compassionate tale. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;british;contemporary;literature & fiction;minority studies;politics & social sciences;race relations;romance;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics,11
0070736618,"Gregg Shorthand, College, Book 1 (Centennial Edition) (Bk. 1) McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & finance;business & investing;education & reference;management;management & leadership;new;reference;secretarial aids & training;skills;used & rental textbooks,11
1570981132,"Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison It is 15 years since Sands, the 27-year-old leader of IRA prisoners in Belfast's Long Kesh Prison who was elected to the British Parliament while behind bars, became the first of 10 prisoners to die of self-imposed hunger, protesting the Thatcher government's treatment of IRA inmates as criminal, not political, prisoners. Fleeting hopes for peace in the mid-'90s and recent books (e.g., Before the Dawn  by Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein, who contributes a foreword here) and films (particularly Some Mother's Son, which portrays the mothers' campaign to save the hunger strikers) increase the appeal of Sands' prison writings. Of this book, the longest section, ""One Day in My Life,"" details the prisoners' treatment; the other, ""Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song,"" includes poetry, essays, and the diary Sands kept for the first 17 days of the fast (he died on day 66). Though Sands won't replace Yeats or Shaw in the Irish canon, his reflections have moments of eloquence that will appeal to readers concerned about Northern Ireland's ""troubles.""  Mary Carroll",biographies & memoirs;books;crime & criminals;criminology;ethnic & national;irish;leaders & notable people;political;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific groups,11
0252067010,"From Mission to Madness: LAST SON OF THE MORMON PROPHET ""Avery writes with grace and power. Drawing on rich primary archival sources, she presents a convincing argument and gives us valuable insights not only into the compelling personality of David Smith but also into the time in which he lived... A first-rate biography."" -- William A. Wilson, Western Historical Quarterly ""A full-bodied biography that thoughtfully illuminates a remarkable life from which much can be learned."" -- Richard L. Jensen, Journal of Mormon History ""Avery's immensely insightful, scholarly biography of David Hyrum Smith greatly enhances our understanding of this tormented son of the founding prophet of the Latter-day Saints."" -- Danny L. Jorgensen, Utah Historical Quarterly ""A very thoroughly researched, well-written, and fascinating biography; a superb book that is more than a biography of one subject, but a moving and poignant social history as well."" -- Evans Biography Award Panel.",biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;historical;jesus;leaders & notable people;mormonism;religious;special needs;specific groups;united states,11
0782128262,"Java 2 Exam Notes (Programmer's Exam) Java 2 Exam Notes is the fastest and most effective way to make sure youre ready to pass the Java 2 Programmer's Exam.The unique, innovative Exam Notes approach helps you gain and retain the knowledge you need, objective by objective:Critical Information sections provide detailed analyses of the key issues for each exam objective.Exam Essentials sections highlight crucial subject areas youll need to know for the exam.Key Terms and Concepts sections define the words and concepts vital to passing the exam.Sample Questions sections preview the types of questions found on the exam and give answers and explanations.Get Ready for the Exam with the Complete Java 2 Certification Study GuideIn-Depth Coverage of the Programmer's and Developers Exams	Philip Heller, is a lead consultant in the Java industry. He is a dynamic speaker and educator who has taught courses in the Java University at Sun Mircrosystems Java events around the US. An authority on Java Certification, he has coauthored the best-selling Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide from Sybex.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;java;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks,11
0791444686,"Revisiting a Progressive Pedagogy (Suny Series, Early Childhood Education) Nancy Nager teaches in the Graduate Faculty and Edna K. Shapiro is Research Psychologist Emerita, Bank Street College of Education. Dr. Shapiro is coauthor (with Patricia Minuchin, Barbara Biber, and Herbert Zimiles) of The Psychological Impact of School Experience: A Comparative Study of Nine-Year-Old Children in Contrasting Schools, and coeditor (with Evelyn Weber) of Cognitive and Affective Growth: Developmental-Interaction.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;early childhood education;education;education & reference;education theory;educational philosophy;new;philosophy & social aspects;reform & policy;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,11
0820325759,"Trumpeting a Fiery Sound: History and Folklore in Margaret Walker's Jubilee ""As Jacqueline Miller Carmichael notes in the introduction to Trumpeting a Fiery Sound, Margaret Walker's neo-slave narrative Jubilee (1966) has not garnered the critical attention one might expect, particularly given the current scholarly interest in black women writers. A book-length study of Walker and her work seems long overdue. . . . Carmichael's approach to Jubilee emphasizes the historical nature of the novel; her respectful approach to Walker and the text is celebratory. Having confirmed the historical and folkloric foundations of the novel, Carmichael leaves the reader poised to explore more complex questions about the ways in which folklore and history function in the novel.""--Southern Quarterly""Carmichael demonstrates that Walker was ahead of her time, practicing radical social history even before more widespread literary and historiographical revisions of the plantation tradition. Her important study can only spur more of the critical attention the novel deserves.""--Georgia Historical Quarterly""Jacqueline Miller Carmichael situates Walker's book in the context of its use of history and folklore, its formal structure, and its composition, publication, and reception.""--American Literature	A comprehensive study of Jubilee and its place in American literature.	Jacqueline Miller Carmichael, who formerly taught English at Georgia State University, lives in Atlanta.",20th century;books;classics;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;united states;women writers;women's studies,11
0764201271,"The Night Angel (Heirs of Acadia #4) T. DAVIS BUNN is a distinguished novelist with an impressive and diverse list of fiction titles, translated into fifteen languages. He has been awarded Christy awards in both the historical and suspense categories, a fact that demonstrates the scope and diversity of his writing talent.  ISABELLA BUNN has been a vital part of her husbands success, and her careful research and attention to detail have left their imprint on nearly every story. Their life abroad has provided much inspiration and information for plots and settings. The Bunns live in Wiltshire, England.",books;christian books & bibles;contemporary;fiction;genre fiction;historical;literature & fiction;religion & spirituality;romance;romantic suspense;united states,11
188819300X,"Personal Robot Navigator The Personal Robot Navigator was written primarily for the ""how things work"" Popular Science reader as well as for the experienced robot hobbyist who is ready to approach robot navigation as a whole discipline and not as merely obstacle avoidance.    A robot needs to ""know"" where it is at all times (continuously recalculating and reorienting).  A robot needs to be able to decide at any time to head to a particular location and then to be able to quickly decide the fastest or best route to that location.  This, combined with path and position tracking, feature detection and obstacle avoidance, is navigation.  The Personal Robot Navigator introduces room and feature mapping and a unique path node technique for assisting robots in successfully and autonomously navigating known spaces.    Those who buy the book expecting technical discussions on wiring the sensors --- and sample program code --- will likely be disappointed.  There are certainly good books available for that level of detail.  On the other hand, I would hope that those same readers may find useful ideas and approaches in the book that they didn't expect --- and go ahead and build the full navigating robot we describe.    Our overall objective for The Personal Robot Navigator (book and simulation software) is to broaden the interest of a larger public in ""robot navigation"" issues --- a ""how things work"" book for one approach to robot navigation.",aerospace;books;civil;computer technology;engineering;mechanical;mechanical engineering;new;professional & technical;transportation;used & rental textbooks,11
1929011261,"Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the ""Color-Blind"" Era This collection of essays by various social scientists focuses on inter- and intrarace color consciousness in this era of purported color blindness. Though the primary emphasis is on African American and Latino subjects, the contributors also explore color consciousness among Southeast Asians and Brazilians. Some of the most interesting essays center on Americans of biracial heritage and the political fallout from their struggle for self-definition. All of the contributors confirm that ""color"" matters, with value weighted in favor of lightness. The biracial struggle to identify as ""other than black"" reflects internal and social forces that favor lighter-colored skin. This quest for status suggests that the African American fight against second-class citizenship in America may be supplanted by a fight against third-class citizenship. This work is a worthy primer on the import of race and color in America, but its greatest value may be as an indicator of America's future direction on the issue. Vernon FordCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Skin Deep is a major contribution. It effectively deals with the complexity of colorism. . . . -- Professor Charles V. Willie, Harvard University, October 2003	Skin tone has historically played a significant role in determining the life chances of African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and other people of color. It has also been important to our understanding of race and the processes of racialization. But what does the relationship between skin tone and stratification outcomes mean? Is skin tone correlated with inequality because people with darker complexions experience more discrimination than those of the same race with lighter complexions? Is skin tone differentiation a process that operates external to communities of color and is then imposed on people of color externally? Or, is skin tone discrimination an internally driven process that is actively aided and abetted by members of communities of color themselves? Does the color stratification process work the same for African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans?  Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the ""Color-Blind"" Era is an accessible, nontechnical volume that provides eye-opening answers to such questions, and brings clarity and insight to the role of race and skin complexion in the so-called color-blind era. In addition, it addresses issues such as the relationship between skin tone and self-esteem, marital patterns, interracial relationships, socioeconomic attainment, and family racial identity and composition. In addition, Skin Deep examines the relationship between appearance and racial identity. It explains the ""color complex"" and how appearances are related to biracial identity. In particular, Skin Deep presents a discussion of research on phenotype and racial identity among biracial individuals.  It also examines intraracial class distinctions and within-race attitudinal differences along the color spectrum. And finally, it examines some of the implications of colorism for our understanding of race in the 21st century.	If you are a member of the educated and informed public who wants more insight into race, ""color-blind"" racism, biracialism, colorism, and other controversial issues, Skin Deep is the right book for you!	Cedric Herring is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and in the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois. Dr. Herring is former President of the Association of Black Sociologists, and he was the Founding Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at UIC. He has published widely on topics such as social policy (e.g., social welfare and affirmative action), political sociology, labor force issues and policy, stratification and inequality, and the sociology of African Americans.  He is the author of  Splitting the Middle: Political Alienation, Acquiescence, and Activism and he is the editor of  African Americans and the Public Agenda: The Paradoxes of Public Policy and co-editor of  Empowerment in Chicago: Grassroots Participation in Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation. Verna  Keith is Chair of the Department of Sociology at Arizona State University. She has two main areas of research interest: (1) the study of how stress affects health and emotional well-being among African Americans and the elderly, and (2) issues related to minority access to health care. She is currently investigating gender differences in the effects of chronic stressors such as marital problems on the mental health of African Americans. She also has a project that focuses on skin-color, gender, and self-concept among African Americans. In addition, she recently completed a project that investigated socioeconomic status and use of health care among African Americans. She is a co-editor of In and Out of Our Right Minds: African American Women's Mental Health. Hayward Derrick Horton is Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Albany. Professor Horton specializes in demography and race and ethnicity. He has published over 20 articles on topics such as: the demography of rural Black families; differences in black-white levels of home ownership; population change and the employment status of college-educated blacks; race, ethnicity and levels of employment; the demography of black entrepreneurship; and the feminization of poverty. Professor Horton developed the first and only sociological model of black community development. He is currently co-authoring a book on the model entitled, Rebuilding Black Communities: Black Community Development in Contemporary America. Professor Horton has held leadership positions in the American Sociological Association, the Southern Sociological Society, the Rural Sociological Society, and the Society for Applied Sociology. He is currently Chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on Race and Ethnic Minorities, and he is currently President of the Association of Black Sociologists.",african-american studies;books;discrimination & racism;minority studies;new;politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,11
B000075BCZ,Nikon Marine Grade Floating Neckstrap Nikon Deluxe Floating Strap - 5450,accessories;binocular accessories;binoculars;camera & photo;electronics;hunting;hunting & fishing;hunting optics;sports & outdoors;spotting scopes;telescopes & optics,11
0816646147,"China's Urban Transition Though China's urban history reaches back over five thousand years, it is only in the last quarter century that urbanization has emerged as a force of widespread social transformation while a massive population shift from country to city has brought about a dramatic revolution in China's culture, politics, and economy.  Employing a historical perspective, John Friedmann presents a succinct, readable account and interpretation of how this transition - one of the most momentous phenomena in contemporary history - has occurred. China's Urban Transition synthesizes a broad array of research to provide the first integrated treatment of the many processes that encompass the multi-layered meaning of urbanization: regional policy, the upsurge of rural industries, migration, expanding spheres of personal autonomy, and the governance of city building.  John Friedmann's detailed analysis suggests that the nation's economic development has been driven more by social forces from within than by global capital.  This leads directly to the epic story of rural migration to major urban regions, the policies used to restrain and direct this ""avalanche"" of humanity on the move, and the return of many migrants to their home communities, where the process of urbanization continues.  Focusing on everyday life in cities, he also shows how this social transformation extends to the most intimate spheres of people's lives.  In conclusion, the author raises the question of a ""sustainable"" urban development and its relation with China's own past, values, and institutions. Friedmann predicts that within ten years China - already the most powerful country in East Asia - will have become a major power in the world.  With historical depth, interpretive insight, and interdisciplinary breadth, this book offers an unparalleled introduction to China's transformation.	John Friedmann is professor emeritus in the School of Public Policy and Social Research at the University of California, Los Angeles, and honorary professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of British Columbia.  He is the author of many distinguished works, most recently The Prospect of Cities (Minnesota, 2002).",asia;asian;books;china;history;international & world politics;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;urban,11
0140191275,"Self-Healing: My Life and Vision (Arkana) The author, founder and director of the Center for Self-Healing in San Francisco, states that with determination, hard work, and deep inner knowledge, anyone can overcome ""incurable"" disease. A Russian-born Israeli, Schneider was blind until age 17, when a companion taught him the unorthodox Bates method of eye exercise, which restored his sight. He became a teacher and massage therapist in Tel Aviv, and emigrated to the United States in 1975. In this personal narrative, Schneider recounts his unusual life and work with victims of chronic degenerative diseases. A good addition to collections on alternative medicine. Recommended for public libraries. Judith Eannarino, George Washington Univ. Lib., Washington, D.C.Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",allied health professions;alternative medicine;books;exercise & fitness;fitness & dieting;health;injuries & rehabilitation;medical books;occult;physical therapy;religion & spirituality,11
0194343677,Intermediate Grammar: From Form to Meaning and Use Teacher's Book Susan Kesner Bland has taught English as a Second Language and English as a Foreign Language in university and adult education programmes in the United States and abroad. She has also taught numerous courses in linguistics and applied linguistics.,books;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;language & grammar;new;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words,11
B000FO4U0M,"A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting Combining theory and application, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting provides a comprehensive analysis of lighting systems along with step-by-step examples and illustrations of the technical tools and methods.  Readers will benefit from experience-based tips, techniques and traps to avoid in preparing and executing a lighting design.  Anecdotes illustrate why some techniques succeed while others fail.Existing textbooks about theatrical lighting analyze artistic vision and visual concepts, which are important for the aspiring designer. These texts do not, however, provide any information about the mechanics required to produce those visions.  This book addresses the realities of working in the theatre using practical methods to squeeze flexibility out of a lighting system and present solutions to common problems.                                       Practical approach to lighting design and implementationIncludes experience-based tips and traps to avoid Thorough examination of the documents used to create the lighting design	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Combining theory and application, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting provides a comprehensive analysis of lighting systems along with step-by-step examples and illustrations of the technical tools and methods.  Readers will benefit from experience-based tips, techniques and traps to avoid in preparing and executing a lighting design.  Anecdotes illustrate why some techniques succeed while others fail.Existing textbooks about theatrical lighting analyze artistic vision and visual concepts, which are important for the aspiring designer. These texts do not, however, provide any information about the mechanics required to produce those visions.  This book addresses the realities of working in the theatre using practical methods to squeeze flexibility out of a lighting system and present solutions to common problems.                                       Practical approach to lighting design and implementationIncludes experience-based tips and traps to avoid Thorough examination of the documents used to create the lighting design	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & photography;books;direction & production;equipment;humor & entertainment;lighting;performing arts;photography;stagecraft;techniques & reference;theater,11
0471247820,"Retire Rich: The Baby Boomer's Guide to a Secure Future While once declaring it would never trust anyone over 30, the baby boom generation is now marching inexorably toward retirement. And, true to form, it is generally underprepared for the financial realities that lie ahead. In Retire Rich, Bambi Holzer comes to the rescue with a solid introduction to the basics for the uninitiated thirty- or fortysomething who recognizes that retirement planning should really be well underway by now. Through illustrations and a series of questions and worksheets, Holzer helps readers determine the amount they must put away to meet their individual future needs. She then introduces the various savings and investment strategies that can be used to realize those goals. ""We know retirement will be completely different for us than it was for our parents. Corporate pensions have changed. Social Security, if we get any at all, won't be enough. And most of us haven't saved as much as we should have,"" Holzer writes. Her book gets the ball rolling by explaining, in simple language, the difference between various retirement plans, the mechanics of stock and bond markets, the mysteries of mutual funds, and the best ways to combine them all into a nest egg for the not-so-distant future. --Howard Rothman	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Financial planning for the generation that is redefining retirement. In Retire Rich: The Baby Boomer's Guide to a Secure Future, retirement planning guru Bambi Holzer offers realistic ways to plan, save, and invest in order to create the best possible future. Because many boomers will spend nearly as many years in retirement as they do in the office, the traditional sources of retirement income-Social Security and company-sponsored pensions-won't be enough to support them. This book presents practical and easy ways to address the retirement issue now.	What does retirement mean to you? Will your retirement be a comfortable and enjoyable new stage of adulthood, or a time of uncertainty, strict economizing, and reduced options? As retirement planning guru Bambi Holzer explains, the choice is yoursbut the time to act is now, while youre still earning a steady income. Written by a baby boomer for baby boomers, Retire Rich addresses the unique concerns of the generation that will not have all the safety nets of the past. This realistic, down-to-earth book spells out the steps you can take right now to secure the retirement you want, rather than one you might get stuck with. Retire Rich gives you the information you need wherever you are in your current investment planning. If youre starting late, you still can make up for lost time by taking advantage of tax-sheltered retirement programs and by careful monitoring of your investment assets. If youre off to an early start, youll find the necessary motivation to keep setting aside money to increase your investment options and achieve true financial security much sooner than you may have thought possible. In clear, nontechnical terms, Retire Rich takes the fear and mystery out of planning, saving, and investing for the future. Step by step, it helps you overcome inertia and guides you through the process of building a secure retirement. You will learn how to:Realistically visualize how you want to live after youve retiredAccurately estimatein dollars and centsyour retirement expenses and income needsDetermine how much you need to save to meet your goalsMake the most of retirement plans and customize a plan that is right for you, using IRAs, 401(k)s, Keoghs, tax-deferred annuities, and company-sponsored plansInvest for retirementmanage asset allocation and master the fundamentals of stocks, bonds, Treasury bills, mutual funds, and moreMonitor your assets to keep your retirement plan on trackEnhanced by helpful charts, tables, and worksheets, Retire Rich offers you a golden opportunity to secure your financial future and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with taking charge of this very important part of your life.	Enjoy the retirement you dream ofthis remarkable new book shows you how to take control of your financial future now!""With Bambi's help and advice, a person truly can plan successfully for a secure retirement. Every baby boomer will benefit from reading this book."" Donald A. Connelly, Senior Vice President, Putnam Investments.""Entrepreneurs lose sleep worrying about managing their money every night. Bambi Holzer's readable book provides clear, in-depth strategies for managing your personal funds, pensions, and investments."" Jane Applegate, author of 201 Great Ideas for Your Small Business.""If you're starting to think about investing for retirement, follow this clear, easy-to-understand road map to financial survival. Whether you're just doing your homework or actively saving for the future, this guide will help you become more $avvy faster. Don't invest without reading Bambi Holzer's book first."" David Horowitz, consumer advocate, Fight Back! Productions.""An accurate and practical resource, easily understandable by nontechnical readersboomer or not."" Dennis Duitch, Senior Partner, Duitch, Franklin & Company, LLP.""I've always been most impressed with the way Bambi understands the nuances of the overall retirement picture. She's able to give valuable input on any related matter. And this book proves it. It's an easy read, and understandable too. Even for a baby boomer CPA like me!"" Martin E. Fox, CPA, Bernstein, Fox, Whitman & Company LLP.Retire Rich gives you all the information and guidance you need to start a disciplined program of planning, saving, and investing for retirement right now. Written specifically for the unique needs of the baby boom generation, this practical, nontechnical guide shows you how to take action that can mean the difference between a comfortable retirement and just getting by.What does retirement mean to you?Will your retirement be a comfortable and enjoyable new stage of adulthood, or a time of uncertainty, strict economizing, and reduced options? As retirement planning guru Bambi Holzer explains, the choice is yoursbut the time to act is now, while you're still earning a steady income.Written by a baby boomer for baby boomers, Retire Rich addresses the unique concerns of the generation that will not have all the safety nets of the past. This realistic, down-to-earth book spells out the steps you can take right now to secure the retirement you want, rather than one you might get stuck with.Retire Rich gives you the information you need wherever you are in your current investment planning. If you're starting late, you still can make up for lost time by taking advantage of tax-sheltered retirement programs and by careful monitoring of your investment assets. If you're off to an early start, you'll find the necessary motivation to keep setting aside money to increase your investment options and achieve true financial security much sooner than you may have thought possible.In clear, nontechnical terms, Retire Rich takes the fear and mystery out of planning, saving, and investing for the future. Step by step, it helps you overcome inertia and guides you through the process of building a secure retirement. You will learn how to: Realistically visualize how you want to live after you've retired Accurately estimatein dollars and centsyour retirement expenses and income needs Determine how much you need to save to meet your goals Make the most of retirement plans and customize a plan that is right for you, using IRAs, 401(k)s, Keoghs, tax-deferred annuities, and company-sponsored plans Invest for retirementmanage asset allocation and master the fundamentals of stocks, bonds, Treasury bills, mutual funds, and more Monitor your assets to keep your retirement plan on track.Enhanced by helpful charts, tables, and worksheets, Retire Rich offers you a golden opportunity to secure your financial future and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with taking charge of this very important part of your life.	BAMBI HOLZER is Senior Vice President--Investments and Retirement Plan Consultant with PaineWebber. Previously she was Director of Retirement Services for Oppenheimer & Co. and for Bear Stearns. During her career she has helped hundreds of corporations and thousands of individuals to develop retirement plans. In 1996 Holzer was named Woman of Achievement in Finance by the Century City Chamber of Commerce. ELAINE FLOYD is a former consultant with a national investment firm and a writer who specializes in personal finance.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business & finance;business & investing;new;personal finance;popular economics;professional & technical;retirement planning;used & rental textbooks,11
0131472275,"Core C# and .NET: The Complete and Comprehensive Developer's Guide to C# 2.0 and .NET 2.0 Written for C# 2.0 and .NET 2.0: contains coverage of generics, Master Pages, the DataGridView, and other new features Covers Web development, Windows development, data management, security, threading, remoting, and much more Presents hundreds of non-trivial code examples that help you solve real-world problems   The Complete and Comprehensive Developers Guide to C# 2.0 and .NET 2.0  Core C# and .NET is the no-nonsense, example-rich guide to achieving exceptional results with C# 2.0 and .NET 2.0. Writing for experienced programmers, Stephen Perry presents todays best practices for leveraging both C# 2.0 language features and Microsofts .NET 2.0 infrastructure. Like all books in the Core Series, Core C# and .NET focuses on solving real-world problems with serious, non-trivial code. Perrys broad, deep coverage ranges from new C# generics to Web services, from reflection to security. He systematically introduces the development of Windows Forms applications and the effective use of GDI+ graphics classes. He offers detailed guidance on data management with XML and ADO.NET, plus advanced coverage of threading, remoting, and code security. Finally, Perry presents an extensive section on Web development, covering ASP.NET, state management, HTTP requests, and much more. With practical insights into everything from scalability to localization, this is the C# book youve been searching for: your definitive guide to building production-quality C# applications.  Core C# and .NET delivers   Best practices for building C#/.NET Windows applications, Web applications, and Web services Expert insight into security, scalability, and other crucial issues Hundreds of professional-quality code examples In-depth coverage of the latest C# 2.0 features, including generics   EVERY CORE SERIES BOOK:   DEMONSTRATES practical techniques used by professional developers  FEATURES robust, thoroughly tested sample code and realistic examples  FOCUSES on the cutting-edge technologies you need to master today  PROVIDES expert advice that will help you build superior software   Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.	Stephen C. Perry has more than twenty-five years of experience in the computer field working as a software developer, director of software development, and consultant. During his career, he has designed and developed software on a spectrum of computing platforms that include IBM mainframes and Unix-based minicomputers. For the past eight years, he has specialized in using Microsoft technologies to provide integrated Web and desktop software solutions for clients in the legal, medical, and textile industries.   Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.	Preface   Preface    The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive      because it not only can be economically and scientifically rewarding, it   can    also be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.   Donald Knuth, preface to Fundamental Algorithms (1968) Thirty-seven years later, programmers still experience the same creative satisfaction   from a well-crafted program. It can be ten lines of recursive code that pops   into ones head at midnight, or it can be an entire production management   system whose design requires a year of midnights. Then, as now, good programs   still convey an impression of logic and naturalnessparticularly to their   users.  But the challenges have evolved. Software is required to be more malleableit   may be run from a LAN, the Internet, or a cellular phone. Security is also a   much bigger issue, since the code may be accessible all over the world. This,   in turn, raises issues of scalability and how to synchronize code for hundreds   of concurrent users. More users bring more cultures, and the concomitant need   to customize programs to meet the language and culture characteristics of a   worldwide client base.  . NETand the languages written for itaddresses these challenges   as well as any unified development environment. This book is written for developers,   software architects, and students who choose to work with the .NET Framework.   All code in the book is written in C#, although only one chapter is specifically   devoted to the syntactical structure of the C# language.  This book is not an introduction to programmingit assumes you are experienced   in a computer language. This book is not an introduction to object oriented   programming (OOP)although it will re-enforce the principles of encapsulation,   polymorphism, and inheritance through numerous examples. Finally, this book   is not an introduction to using Visual Studio .NET to develop C# programs. VS.NET   is mentioned, but the emphasis is on developing and understanding C# and the   .NET classesindependent of any IDE.  This book is intended for the experienced programmer who is moving to .NET   and wants to get an overall feel for its capabilities. You may be a VB6 or C++   programmer seeking exposure to .NET; a VB.NET programmer expanding your repertoire   into C#; orand yes it does happen occasionallya Java programmer   investigating life on the far side. Heres what youll find if you   choose to journey through this book.  18 Chapters. The first four chapters should be read in order. They provide   an introduction to C# and a familiarity with using the .NET Class libraries.   The remaining chapters can be read selectively based on your interests. Chapters   6 and 7 describe how to develop Windows Forms applications. Chapter 8 and 9   deal with GDI+the .NET graphics classes. Chapters 10 through   12 are about working with data. Both XML and ADO.NET are discussed. Chapters   13, 14, and 15 tackle the more advanced topics of threading, remoting, and code   security, respectively. The final chapters form a Web trilogy: Chapter 16 discusses   ASP.NET Web page development; Chapter 17 looks behind the scenes at how to manage   state information and manage HTTP requests; the book closes with a look at Web   Services.         .NET 2.0. The manuscript went to publication after the release of       Beta 2.0. As such, it contains information based on that release. The 2.0       topics are integrated within the chapters, rather than placing them in a       special 2.0 section. However, as a convenience, Appendix A contains a summary       and separate index to the .NET 2.0 topics.          Coding examples. Most of the code examples are short segments that       emphasize a single construct or technique. The objective is to avoid filler       code that does nothing but waste paper. Only when it is essential, does       a code example flow beyond a page in length. (Note that all significant       code examples are available as a download from www.corecsharp.net.)          Questions and answers. Each chapter ends with a section of questions       to test your knowledge. The answers are available in a single section at       the end of the book.          Fact rather opinion. This book is not based on my opinion; it is       based on the features inherent in .NET and C#. Core recommendations and       notes are included with the intent of providing insight rather than opinion.           While some will disagree, if you really want to learn C# and .NET, shut down   your IDE, pull out your favorite text editor, and learn how to use the C# compiler   from the command line. Once you have mastered the fundamentals, you can switch   to VS.NET and any other IDE for production programming.  Finally, a word about .NET and Microsoft. This book was developed using Microsoft   .NET 1.x and Whidbey betas. It includes topics such as ADO.NET and ASP.NET that   are very much a Microsoft proprietary implementations. In fact Microsoft has   applied to patent these methodologies. However all of C# and many of the .NET   basic class libraries are based on a standard that enables them to be ported   to other platforms. Now, and increasingly in the future, many of the techniques   described in this book will be applicable to .NET like implementations (see   Mono) on non-Windows platforms.    Copyright Pearson Education. 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0786136553,"How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization [UNABRIDGED] ""Engaging and engrossing.... A mine of information on the debt we owe to Catholic life and thought."" -- Michael P. Foley, Ph.D., assistant professor of Patristics, Great Texts Program, Baylor University""Puts the Church back where it should be: at the center of values, science, laws, and institutions of Western civilization."" -- Dr. Paul Legutko, Stanford University""Superb and scholarly....  Highly recommended."" -- Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, professor emeritus, the City University of New York	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Ask a college student today what he knows about the Catholic Church and his answer might come down to one word: ""corruption."" But that one word should be ""civilization."" Western civilization has given us the miracles of modern science, the wealth of free-market economics, the security of the rule of law, a unique sense of human rights and freedom, charity as a virtue, splendid art and music, a philosophy grounded in reason, and innumerable other gifts that we take for granted as the wealthiest and most powerful civilization in history. But what is the ultimate source of these gifts? Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. provides the long neglected answer: the Catholic Church. Woodss story goes far beyond the familiar tale of monks copying manuscripts and preserving the wisdom of classical antiquity. In How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, youll learn:  Why modern science was born in the Catholic Church  How Catholic priests developed the idea of free-market economics five hundred years before Adam Smith  How the Catholic Church invented the university  Why what you know about the Galileo affair is wrong  How Western law grew out of Church canon law  How the Church humanized the West by insisting on the sacredness of all human life No institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Churchand in ways that many of us have forgotten or never known. How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization is essential reading for recovering this lost truth.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, as well as The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era and The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy. He holds four Ivy League degrees, including an A.B. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Columbia. He teaches courses in Western civilization, is the associate editor of The Latin Mass magazine, and is a prolific essayist on historical subjects. He lives with his family in Coram, New York.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",ancient;books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;early civilization;history;politics & social sciences;religious;world,11
1854904280,"What is Post-Modernism 'What is Post-Modernism?' Is it a new world view,or an outgrowth of the Post-Industrial Society? Is it a shift in philosophy, the arts and architecture? In this fourth, entirely revised edition, Charles Jencks, one of the founders of the Post-Modern Movement, shows it is all these things plus many other forces that have exploded since the early 1960s. In a unique analysis, using diagrams designed especially for this edition, he reveals the evolutionary, social and economic forces of this new stage of global civilisation. But why has post-modern culture arrived? In an ironic parable, 'the Protestant Crusade'. Jencks uncovers some hitherto hidden origins: the Modernists' abhorrence for all things sensuous and natural, and their zeal for all things orderly and mechanistic. This pseudo-religion led in the 1920s to the famous 'vacuum-cleaning' period, the purgation of values, metaphysics and emotion. In the 1970s it led on to the 'Protestant Inquisition' which inadvertently created the very enemy Modernists feared - Post-Modernism; a Counter-Reformation, the reassertion of worldliness, fecundity, humour and pluralism. However, more than one tradition emerged and Jencks, distinguishing two types of Post-Modernism (deconstructive and reconstructive) demonstrates that the former is often a disguised form of Late-Modernism. This takes the de-creation and nihilism of its parent to extremes. The main engine that drives global culture today - post-modernisation, the electronic economy and instant communications network - is analysed in its close relation to other 'posts': Post-Fordism, Post-Socialism and the post-national world of trading blocs and unstable nations. Jencks argues that this may result in catastrophe and global governance, or a web of transnational institutions and obligations. The most radical idea of this challenging book is the conclusion: the notion that the post-modern world does not mean the end of metanarratives, but something quite different. Belief systems are flourishing as never before and, Jencks argues, 'a new metanarrative, based on the story of the universe and its generative qualities, will soon create a new world view that will affect all areas. It is a story which grows directly out of the post-modern sciences of complexity and is thus both true and mythic.' Other What is...? titles include What is Abstraction?, What is Deconstruction?",architecture;art history;arts & photography;books;history;history & criticism;humanities;new;professional & technical;reference;used & rental textbooks,11
0698116216,"The Great Little Madison (Unforgetable Americans) Fritz ( Shh! We're Writing the Constitution! ) here presents a brisk, highly accessible biography of James Madison. Sickly as a child, Madison was a short, frail man with a wispy, small voice. His successes in incorporating personal freedoms into a reasonably strong centralized government and his enormous appetite for work earned him the sobriquet ""great."" Madison's shyness and difficulty with public speaking were drawbacks during the politician's early days in Virginia government--as was the enmity of a powerful Patrick Henry--but behind-the-scenes speaking effectiveness and voluminous, well-reasoned writings more than compensated. In her characteristic way of bringing history to life, Fritz writes in a highly engaging, entertaining manner, providing vivid descriptions of Madison's close friendship with Thomas Jefferson; his long and apparently happy marriage to Dolly; the infighting during the creation of the Constitution; the patience with which our fourth president dealt with an unreasonable England, leading to the war of 1812--and that war's defeats and victories. Ages 10-up. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""The question I am most often asked,"" Jean Fritz says, ""is how do I find my ideas? The answer is: I don't. Ideas find me. A character in history will suddenly step right out of the past and demand a book. Generally people don't bother to speak to me unless there's a good chance that I'll take them on.""  Throughout almost four decades of writing about history, Jean Fritz has taken on plenty of people, starting with George Washington in The Cabin Faced West (1958). Since then, her refreshingly informal historical biographies for children have been widely acclaimed as ""unconventional,"" ""good-humored,"" ""witty,"" ""irrepressible,"" and ""extraordinary.""    In her role as biographer, Jean Fritz attempts to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character she researches. ""Once my character and I have reached an understanding,"" she explains, ""then I begin the detective work--reading old books, old letters, old newspapers, and visiting the places where my subject lived. Often I turn up surprises and of course I pass these on."" It is her penchant for making distant historical figures seem real that brings the characters to life and makes the biographies entertaining, informative, and filled with natural child appeal.    An original and lively thinker, as well as an inspiration to children and adults, Jean Fritz is undeniably a master of her craft. She was awarded the Regina Medal by the Catholic Library Association, presented with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award by the American Library Association for her ""substantial and lasting contribution to children's literature,"" and honored with the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature, which was presented by the New York State Library Association for her body of work.    copyright ? 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.",1800s;biographies;books;children's books;colonial & revolutionary;historical;historical fiction;history;literature & fiction;political;united states,11
1560448326,"Birding Northern California Northern California has recorded a total of 559 birds. Only two entire states have recorded more - Texas (606) and all of California (601). This book leads you to 81 prime birding areas, with 294 individual sites and 102 maps. Seasonal bar graphs are provided for regularly occurring species. A chapter on 'specialty birds' has range maps for 173 species, that both beginning and experienced birders will find of special interest.John Kemper has spent over forty years hiking, backpacking, and birding in California. He has been an educator most of his life, is active in the Audubon Society, and leads local birding field trips.",animals;biological sciences;birdwatching;books;fauna;nature & ecology;pacific;science & math;travel;united states;west,11
0942299671,"La Jetee: cine-roman (English and French Edition) ""This book version of La Jetee is, to my mind, astonishingly beautiful. It brings a total freshness to the work and a new way to use photos to deal with dramatic events. Not a film's book, but a book in its own right - the real cine-roman announced in the film's credits."" - Chris Marker""	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Text: French, English	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Chris Marker (born in 1921) is one of French cinema's most influential artists.",arts & photography;books;drama;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;genre films;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;individual artists;literature & fiction;movies,11
0812694473,"All the Math You Need to Get Rich: Thinking with Numbers for Financial Success ""I highly recommend Hershey's book because he uses examples...to walk you through...everything from percentages to compound interest."" -- Washington Post,February 10, 2002	Robert Hershey, an engineering consultant, writes articles that explain complex mathematical concepts to the layperson. He has worked with Booz Allen, Science Management Corporation, the Department of Defense, and Bell Labs.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business & investing;mathematics;personal finance;popular economics;professional & technical;science & math;self-help;success,11
0595326455,"Lukumi: Santeria's Beliefs, Principles, and Direction in the Twenty-first Century. Christian Lopez is a Babalawo high priest of Santeria Lukumi/Orisha worship. He travels within the United States and abroad practicing his faith and serving as a confidential religious advisor to businessmen, members of governments, and his Godchildren. Mr. Lopez resides in his home and temple of worship in Miami, Fl. alongside his lovely wife Joana.",books;general;history;other religions;practices & sacred texts;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;spirituality;tribal & ethnic;world,11
0813118506,"Pennsylvania Mining Families: The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields Michrina integrates a scholarly reserve with oral histories (the latter gathered from coal miners in Cambria County, Pennsylvania) to portray the great Pennsylvania coal strike of 1927. Michrina grew up in Cambria County, and throughout he agonizes, in postmodern fashion, over the objectivity he is or is not achieving. Moreover, his overly academic style (""I had felt emotional transferences from my interactions"") often gets in the reader's way. Nonetheless, this study of miners, mining, and one strike in particular, as well as Michrina's almost unwitting portrait of a contemporary community in steady economic decline, is often intriguing.  John Mort",americas;books;civil;engineering;history;humanities;new;professional & technical;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,11
0300095368,The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art	Eleanor Jones Harvey is Curator of American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.,arctic;arts & photography;books;catalogs & exhibitions;collections;criticism;history;history & criticism;individual artists;polar regions;travel,11
0835807762,"The Quickening Heart: A Journal for Expectant Mothers Pregnancy can be a time of transition, growth and new beginnings for expectant mothers as well as for their developing embryos. Buchanan and Klingsporn have compiled a delightful journal to help women capture and reflect upon their experiences during those nine months of waiting. Organized around the ongoing progress of pregnancy, the book provides a treasury of quotes, both funny and wise, along with selected Scripture verses and brief prayers. In addition to comments from the authors, readers will find gems from Renita Weems, Dorothy Day, Henri Nouwen and many others. There is ample space throughout for the expectant mother's own reflections with a few special pages for recording the ""biggies."" The authors hope the journal will become ""a private haven,"" a place for quiet reflection, private thoughts and spiritual deepening. This journal is a charming and provocative addition to the literature available for expectant Christian mothers. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.",books;devotionals;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;pregnancy & childbirth;religion & spirituality;religious studies;spirituality;theology;women's health,11
076792374X,"The Grilled Cheese Madonna and 99 Other of the Weirdest, Wackiest, Most Famous eBay Auctions Ever Chrisptoher Cihlar was born in Northampton, MA. He holds a Ph.D. and a M.S. from Cornell University and a B.A. from Georgetown University. Hewas formerly employed by the not for profit that runs eBay's charity giving function MissionFish. He currently resides in Kensington, Maryland with his wife Kalinka and their one year old son Shay.	LESSON IHow to Sell YourselfThe first thing any career counselor or self-help guru will tell you is that the key to success in life is learning how to sell yourself. Some of the authors of the most noteworthy and notorious eBay auctions took that advice literally. From the man who put his own kidney up for sale to the woman who auctioned off her virginity, one of the most established strategies for attracting significant media attention to an auction is to try to sell something you were born with.The auctions presented in this section highlight some of the more creative ways people have sought to market pieces of themselves. Is there a vital organ you are not using that someone else might find essential? Have you been looking for the opportunity to part with your precious virginity? Are you willing to part with your soul, or would you prefer simply to walk around town with an advertisement plastered to your forehead? Get creative! The auctions described on the following pages are meant to inspire, and you need not be limited by what has already been done.A word of caution, though: eBay often frowns upon these types of sales. The company has established a set of regulations that prohibit selling many of your most valuable assets. You should also check the laws that are applicable to your particular situation, as several of the auctions depicted in this section are not only against eBay policy, but also illegal.Still, even if your auction is against formal eBay policy, take heart. It may generate sufficient publicity so that should eBay take down your listing, you will be able to continue the auction outside of eBay's domain, as a couple of more ambitious sellers discussed in this lesson did. Remember, millions of items are listed for sale on eBay every week. If you hope to have success in this competitive arena, you need to be willing to do what the other guy is not.YOUR AD GOES HERE: PART IAdvertisers are always looking for new and innovative places to market their products. While television, radio, and print ads are the most common, you can find advertisements almost anywhere you look. From the subway to the elevator to the golf course, companies seek out previously untapped venues where they can place an ad that will garner as much attention as possible. In early 2005, eBay helped one entrepreneurial young man open a previously untapped market: the human forehead.Twenty-year-old college student Andrew Fischer from Omaha, Nebraska, offered the highest bidder in eBay auction number 5950507719 the opportunity to have their nonpermanent logo or brand name tattooed to his forehead for thirty days. According to the auction's description, this Average Joe would display the winning bidder's advertisement in all types of venues that the Average Joe frequented in his hometown of 600,000. Fischer's offer turned up in news stories publishedfar from his native Omaha. The auction received more than 300,000 hits and recorded a final sale price of $30,000.In a seemingly unfortunate occurrence, the winning bidder never contacted the seller and Fischer was forced to resubmit the auction with controls put in place to limit who could bid. Attention the second time around was just as intense and, by the time the auction ended, 45 bids had pushed the final sale price to $37,375. The winner was Christian de Rivel, CEO of SnoreStop, an oral spray designed to help alleviate snoring.De Rivel's money seems to have been well spent. The story was picked up by media outlets all over the world, and, according to de Rivel, sales through his Web site went up fivefold in the days after the auction ended. Numerous imitators cropped up, including both a man and a woman who offered to permanently tattoo the winning bidder's brand onto their foreheads. Unfortunately for these would-be advertisers, none enjoyed the same monetary success as Fischer.YOUR AD GOES HERE: PART IIAmber Rainey was in the third trimester of her pregnancy when Andrew Fischer was receiving international news coverage for auctioning off his forehead. After seeing the astronomical price the auction commanded, she looked at her growing belly and realized she had far more advertising space there than Andrew Fischer had on his forehead. Thus auction 3869933040 was conceived.Titled Advertising Space Available ON MY PREGNANT BELLY! Rainey's auction went live on January 25, 2005. According to the description of the auction, the seller's baby was due March 21, and, as she put it, People can't help but look at a pregnant woman's bump. The mother-to-be said she would not advertise anything she deemed to be offensive or put anything on her belly that would harm her or her unborn child. But, other than that, she would allow potential buyers the artistic freedom to create the advertisement of their choosing.The auction, ending on February 5 after a one-week stint on eBay, attracted national news coverage, more than 50,000 visits, 97 bids, and a final sale price of $4,050. The winning bidder was GoldenPalace.com, an online casino notorious for its outlandish eBay buys. The casino immediately saw its advertising dollars pay huge dividends when Rainey scored an appearance on NBC's Today show. She has also been covered on the national CBS Evening News as well as appeared on numerous local television stations and in print in newspapers, magazines, and on Internet sites around the world. Considering that an advertisement on either CBS's Evening News or the Today show would cost many times what GoldenPalace.com paid for space on Amber's belly, the arrangement seems to have paid off nicely.THE HUMAN KIDNEY: WHO NEEDS TWO?Posted by a seller from Sunrise, Florida, the ad read simply:Fully functional kidney for sale. You can choose either kidney. Buyer pays all transplant and medical costs. Of course only one for sale, as I need the other one to live. Serious bids only.What ensued was a flood of attention and debate from around the world.The auction began with an opening bid of $25,000. By the time eBay intervened and pulled the auction, the asking price had reached $5.7 million. Steve Westley, eBay's vice president of marketing at the time, stated, EBay has zero tolerance for illegal items on this site. We have a very clear policy against this.Indeed, selling one's kidney or, for that matter, any body part is against federal law in the United States and punishable by up to five years in prison and/or a $50,000 fine. Since 1984, when the U.S. Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act, organ donation has been set up as a gift program.On September 2, 1999, immediately following the canceling of the proffered item by eBay, a second seller, this one from Bel Air, Maryland, added fuel to the fire by trying to circumvent federal law when he offered his own kidney for sale to benefit a charity, stating, Will donate perfect healthy kidney for a reciprocal donation of 2.5 million dollars to a charity of my choice. This sale was summarily shut down by eBay.While there is no way to know whether these sale or purchase offers were authentic, the idea of putting body parts up for sale generated a significant amount of ethical debate by academics, news organizations, and the general public. In the years since these two kidneys first attracted the media's spotlight, eBay has also stopped the auctions of livers, an entire cadaver, sperm, and human eggs. Selling sperm or eggs is not illegal, but it is against written eBay policy, making it unlikely that children will be born because of an eBay purchase anytime soon.ARE YOU DAMNED ANYWAY?With the advent of eBay, the need to meet face-to-face with the devil in order to sell your soul has become a thing of the past. Over the years, several individuals have made high-profile attempts to sell their--or someone else's--soul on eBay. As early as 1999, news articles began making reference to souls for sale on eBay, but it was not until one attracted a $400 bid in 2001 that the media started paying significant attention to the implications of such arrangements.In the 2001 case, the seller was a twenty-year-old Washington University student and the auction proceeded without coming to the attention of the people at eBay who regularly pull such sales. In the final hour of the auction, a buyer from Iowa stepped forward with the winning bid. Unfortunately, the seller was never able to collect on the debt owed him, and when his sale was finally brought to the company's attention, he was suspended from doing business on eBay.Since at least 2000 the company has had a standard response to such offers: If the soul does not exist, eBay could not allow the auctioning of a soul, because there would be nothing to sell. However, if the soul does exist, then, in accordance with eBay's policy on human parts and remains, we would not allow the auctioning of human souls.As one seller pointed out in 2003, however, this policy seems to discriminate based on religious beliefs. While the debate about what constitutes a human soul and who, if anyone, should be allowed to sell one may continue in theological courses everywhere, eBay at least does not seem likely to change its position. Among the auctions it has pulled were attempted sales of the soul of George W. Bush and that of a goldfish.IF MOM AND DAD DON'T GET IT RIGHT THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONSMost people go by the name they were given at birth. Sometimes last names change as the result of marriage, and occasionally a nickname will attach itself to a person, but, for the most part, like it or not, people stick with the name they were given. Except for one enterprising woman from Knoxville, Tennessee. Item number 5568750040 went up for sale on March 25, 2005, offering the winner the right to legally change thirty-three-year-old Terri Ilagan's name for life.The seller assu...",books;business & investing;computers & internet;computers & technology;e-commerce;ebay;humor;humor & entertainment;industries & professions;internet & web culture;satire,11
076530547X,"They Are Soldiers Coyle (More Than Courage) chills with a sometimes clumsily written but disturbingly plausible story about a Virginia National Guard unit facing the threat of biological weapons in a security zone between Israelis and a new Palestinian state. Coyle narrates from numerous perspectives, including that of Guard memberspostmen, volunteer firefightersfrom tiny Bedlow, Va., and the military officers commanding their unit. In the Middle East, Coyle also enters the minds of Syed Amama, a young Palestinian suicide bomber who miraculously survived a successful mission, and Hammed Kamel, a microbiologist determined to rid the new state of its American and Israeli scourge. Chapters about the American deployment are heartfelt but boilerplate, as husbands leave pregnant wives and Coyle describes in excessive detail the heroic patriotism of the military men and the complexities of the U.S. military situation. But a series of taut chapters in which the Americans come face to face with another suicide bomber raises the tension and the stakes, and the stirring climax describes a dangerous raid on Kamel's weapons lab after Amama manages to infect some of the guardsmen with a deadly biological agent. The revolving-character door may leave readers dizzy by the time they reach the climax, but for those who don't mind a heavy hand and a bit of excess patriotism, this is a solid read. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""Harold Coyle is the best natural storyteller I know."" --Tom Clancy""Harold Coyle is a superbly talented storyteller . . . the Tom Clancy of ground warfare."" --W.E.B. Griffin	Harold Coyle graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and spent fourteen years on active duty with the US Army.  He is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including The Ten Thousand, Team Yankee, God's Children and Dead Hand.  He lives in Leavenworth, Kansas.	CHAPTER 1West BankFor the Israeli soldiers belonging to Isaac Mofaz's squad, the drudgery and monotonous repetition that manning a checkpoint entailed often proved to be nothing short of maddening. It was far worse than normal guard duty. With the exception of casting a leery eye upon the odd character who lingered too long in close proximity to one's post, an armed sentinel standing watch had little to do. Checkpoints were a different matter all together. From the moment one assumed his tour until the next relief showed up, a soldier at a checkpoint had to be on his toes as he dealt with endless lines of impatient and sullen civilians anxious to get on with their daily chores.The company to which Mofaz's squad belonged was responsible for a stretch of road in the West Bank that lay between an ancient Palestinian town and a refugee camp. In an effort to block the flow of arms and explosives between the two a wide antivehicle ditch had been dug right in the middle of the road forcing anyone who desired to go from one site to the other to do so on foot. While militarily sound, the obstacle came to be hated by both sides. To the residents of the refugee camp who relied upon the shops and marketplace in the town and the businessmen in the town who depended upon the cheap labor that came from the camp, the antivehicle ditch was more than an inconvenience. It was an open wound, another painful reminder that they were little more than victims of an age-old conflict that defied all logic and resolution. For the soldiers charged with manning the checkpoint at the footbridge that straddled the ditch, it meant dealing with people who made little effort to conceal their seething contempt and hatred for them.Mofaz and the men in his squad had no sympathy for the Palestinians. To a man each and every one of them knew someone who had suffered the loss of a friend or family member to a terrorist attack. Mofaz himself was an uncle to a girl who had lost both legs before she was even old enough to walk on them. It was the memories of such horrors that spurred him and his squad to carry out their dreary and irksome duties with a greater degree of vigor and thoroughness than circumstances called for.This routine never varied. Over time the faces of the people coming and going assumed a sameness that dulled the senses, made the long hours longer, and engendered an air of indifference within the Israelis when dealing with the Palestinians who had no choice but to endure whatever treatment the soldiers were in the mood to serve up. Civilian foot traffic coming from the refugee camp wishing to cross the bridge queued up along the road behind a white ""call forward"" line painted on the pavement thirty meters away from where the checkpoint was located at midspan. The actual checkpoint itself was a sandbag bunker. Standing a little over three meters high, it had assumed an air of permanence, just like the Israeli soldiers who occupied it. At the base of the bunker a trio of soldiers inspected all ID cards and searched every parcel, package, and bag carried by each and every Palestinian going from the refugee camp to the town.The procedure was the same regardless of age or gender. While one Israeli soldier took the ID card being offered by the Palestinian and compared the photo on it to the face, a second patted the civilian down and riffled through any bags or packages they might be carrying. The third member of this party stood with his back against the sandbag wall of the bunker, cradling his weapon in his arms with the thumb of his right hand resting on the weapon's safety as he watched both his comrades and the Palestinian before them. Within the sandbag bunker two more members of the duty squad provided backup for the soldiers who were in continuous contact with the Palestinians. This was where Sergeant Isaac Mofaz normally stood his watch. When standing on the firing step within the bunker he could look out over the heads of his own men and see what was going on at the checkpoint as well as beyond the call forward line. If something happened, which never had during any of his tours of duty here, there was a radio within the emplacement that he could use to call for assistance that would come in the form of a platoon-sized ready reaction force located in a fortified compound little more than five kilometers away. Until that help arrived Mofaz's squad would be on its own.This by no means meant that they were helpless. On the contrary, Mofaz's squad was armed to the teeth. In addition to their own individual weapons there was a 7.62 mm machine gun mounted on the parapet. From there it had a clear field of fire that swept an area well beyond the call forward line. At the foot of the bridge on the near side of the ditch facing the town was the squad's armored personnel carrier or APC. Like their comrades in the bunker on the bridge the driver and a junior NCO stood ready with their American built M-113 armored personnel carrier throughout the entire tour of duty watching over a second trio of soldiers as they checked IDs and searched packages of the Palestinians approaching the bridge from that direction. To provide covering fire for them the two soldiers manning the APC relied upon the M-2 Heavy Barrels .50-caliber machine gun mounted on their vehicle. In addition to laying down suppressive fire using a weapon capable of spewing out slugs measuring half an inch in width at a rate of up to 450 per minute, the crew of the M-113 also had to be ready to rush forward onto the narrow bridge itself if the situation really got out of hand and it proved necessary to retrieve their comrades.Day in, day out, the Israelis were there, executing their assigned duties while bearing up as best they could under the blistering afternoon sun or bitter cold of night. Like the demeanor of the people passing back and forth over the bridge, their presence assumed an irritating sameness that was almost painful to endure. As noisome as these mindless and routine duties were for the Israeli soldiers who performed them, in the eyes of some they paled in comparison to what the people who had to pass through the checkpoint suffered. They were the ones who experienced the degradation of being hassled and harassed in this manner on a daily basis by soldiers as they tried to go about their business in the town or return to their homes in the refugee camp. Few of the residents of the camp had a refrigerator that could hold more than a day or two's perishables. This meant that someone in every family living there had to cross the bridge that separated them from the marketplace in the town almost on a daily basis. One very vocal resident compared the experience of living like this to trying to breathe with an Israeli boot planted squarely on their throats.Heaped upon inconvenience was humiliation. To the Palestinians the checkpoint was more than another nuisance imposed upon them by a people they saw as an enemy. It was a physical reminder that they were little more than hostages within their own homeland. To them the soldiers were an alien presence in their midst, a harsh reminder that they had no control over their own lives or futures.All of this contributed to the atmosphere that was both tense and volatile. The Israeli soldiers didn't want to be in the West Bank and the Palestinians didn't want them there. As so often happens when a situation such as this exists there were some who were eager to do more than simply bemoan their fate. And just as there always seemed to be men and women ready and willing to take action, there were those ready to provide them with the means of doing so.One such man was Syed Amama. It hadn't taken much to convince the young Palestinian student to act. Like most of his young companions he could recite without hesitation a litany of grievances that had become little more than a fixture of the rhetoric that passed for political discourse between Muslims and Jews. He could lay out in detail the chronology of events that led to the current sad state of affairs and explain why all blame belonged to the Jews.Just as the driving force behind the willingness of Mofaz and his men kept them at their duty, Syed's uncompromising hatred of the Jews sprang from the sort of truth that no one outside the region dared to admit. It was simply the way things were. Syed was a Palestinian. From birth he had been taught to hate the Jews. Throughout his childhood the notion that they were evil incarnate was hammered home to him and his compatriots every time the Israelis launched a foray into the Palestinian areas of the West Bank to bulldoze the homes of suspected terrorists. The lingering stench of death that freely mixed with the pungent odor of diesel fumes thrown off by Israeli tanks created a terrible resolve within Syed and others like him that could only be assuaged by the total eradication of his hereditary foe. Though his education had prepared him for entry into a university in Egypt, the circumstances of his people lured him to follow another path, one that promised to be a more violent, far less enlightened future, and incredibly short. Rather than becoming a teacher, a well-spring of knowledge, Syed had chosen martyrdom.The path to this glorious end was easily found. In Syed's case, it led him to the doorstep of a shadowy organization known as the Palestinian Liberation Army. Like the al-Aqsa Brigade, Hezbollah, and Hamas, the PLA had but one goal: the destruction of Israel. And like its sister organizations, its main weapon was terror. The PLA cell or squad that Syed became a part of was made up entirely of impatient young men such as himself, Palestinians who saw themselves as patriots. To a man they believed they had both a political mandate and a sacred duty to use direct action to liberate their land and redress the wrongs that the Jews had visited upon their people. That this action might entail his own death as well as those of other Palestinians who did not share his ardent convictions did not matter to Syed. After suffering under the daily humiliations that the Israelis inflicted ...",action & adventure;books;contemporary;genre fiction;literature & fiction;mystery;spy stories & tales of intrigue;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states;war,11
0131675036,"Conflict Management: A Communication Skills Approach Conflicts surround us daily; we see it between countries, cities, and even neighbors. Often over-looked, but equally important, is the conflict that arises between and among coworkers. This book has proven successful with professional audiences, offering clear, usable advice on how to manage conflicts that arise on the job and in personal relationships.  The authors have created a five-step model of approaching and analyzing interpersonal conflict, and this model is applied repeatedly to different topics, providing readers with a genuinely effective structure for working through differences with colleagues, friends, and others.  Designed for managers and human resource departments.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & investing;education & reference;new;organizational behavior;parenting;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;violence in society,11
1555702643,"What Else You Can Do With a Library Degree: Career Options for the 90s and Beyond In the decade and a half since the first edition of this resource appeared, the number of librarians working in nonlibrary positions has increased dramatically. The new edition presents the stories of more than 60 librarians who have entered alternative careers. Many of those careers are related to those in traditional library settings, such as positions in bookselling and publishing and in organizations providing services and products to libraries. A large section of the book relates the stories of librarians engaged as independent library contractors and heading their own library-related companies. The final three sections cover some who have moved beyond librarianship to such related areas as association management, imaging technology, and, farther afield, private investigation. Although each chapter presents one person's story, together the chapters include information and guidance for any librarian interested in pursuing an alternative career.  Edward Swanson",books;business & finance;business & investing;guides;humanities;job hunting & careers;library & information science;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
0829724842,"Jonás y el Gran pez My Friends in the Bible are beautifully illustrated stories, with simple phrases that children will understand.  The story of Jonah shows us the importance of being obedient to the word of God. The large typeface has been especially designed for little readers.	Alice Joyce Davidson... is a poet/writer/editor who edited Helen Steiner Rice for Gibson Greetings.  She created the 'Alice in Bible Land' story book series and has written countless children's books with Christian themes for Thomas Nelson, David C Cook, Standard Publishing and contributed her talents to the Baby Blessings Series. Her books have been translated into German, Finnish, Portuguese, Korean, Indonesian. She lives in New England.",bible;books;children's books;christian books & bibles;christianity;education & reference;foreign language learning;reference;religion & spirituality;religions;spanish,11
0878301054,"Impro for Storytellers (Theatre Arts (Routledge Paperback)) Many of these scribblings are gems... [Johnstone's] discussion... is of enormous value not only for improvisors, but for playwrights trying to bring something new to the stage... This is not to be missed... A display of the fitful fireworks of an original mind. -- Stagebill TheatreWith this in mind, I honour the seminal writing of Keith Johnstone in the field of improvisation and the great care that he has taken to share, teach and explore his Theatresports theories with drama and acting students, practitioners, researchers and audiences worldwide. -- Research in Drama EducationImpro for Storytellers provides the necessary theoretical underpinning to conceptualise and put into practice improvised forms in a manner that will enhance student learning, and facilitate sound drama pedagogy. -- Research in Drama EducationJohnstone's work is as important a contributions to the theatre, actors and drama education as Viola Spolin, Uta Hagen, Gavin Bolton, or Dorothy Heathcote. -- Research in Drama EducationImpro for Storytellers...display(s) the brilliance of Johnstone's writing, and his highly accessible style, formatted in a variety of manners ranging from personal narratives, teacher/student dialogues, directorial rants and reflective musings to strategic lesson planning, rationale and uncomplicated illustrations of numerous actor or student activities. -- Research in Drama EducationThe book has the potential to be an invaluable resource for teachers, instructors, or directors who have a desire to expand their own understanding of improvised forms, as well as being a superb primer to help augment the repertoire of the student, actor, or performer. -- Research in Drama Education	Keith Johnstone worked at the Royal Court Theatre in the 1960s where he developed his techniques for improvisational work.  He now teaches at the University of Calgary.",acting & auditioning;arts & photography;books;history & criticism;humanities;humor & entertainment;new;performing arts;stagecraft;theater;used & rental textbooks,11
0975425803,"Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible How to tell the difference between rage and plain, everyday anger? Anger, explains King, a life coach and management consultant, is primarily associated with a current injustice or disappointment. Rage, on the other hand, is accumulated anger from past traumas that is locked in our bodies and minds. Or as they say in 12-step programs: If it's hysterical, it's historical. This is essentially a workbook to unlock that childhood trauma. It includes ways to understand how rage can mask itself (dominance, depression, etc.), questions to locate the rage and exercises to help process it. The book may be a valuable first step in recognizing unprocessed childhood trauma, especially for women. King speaks with insight and empathy about her own rage, rooted in a harsh childhood in South-Central L.A., and the experiences of others. And the exercises, while not new (journaling, imagining an inner rage child), can perhaps help some readers become more aware of the triggers that ignite their rage. Some women might be well advised to seek professional help, too, but King offers a starting place for women whose lives are being distorted by unrecognized rage. (Aug. 2) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A wonderful resource. Engaging, clear and generous.  Therapists will want to pass this compassionate, non-pathologizing book on to clients. -- Sue N. Elkind, Ph.D., author of Resolving Impasses in Therapeutic Relationships, CAINSIGHTFUL! This book is a masterpiece, a fresh take on living, learning and loving. You've broken new ground. -- Monica L. Wells, Ph.D. Student, American University, DCInsightful and life giving. King treats us to a buffet of exercises that strengthen our personal relationship with rage. -- Suzanne Stevens, Founder, Hope Springs Women's Retreat Center, Peebles, OhioKing has articulated the traps of a raging heart and offers the skillful means for liberation.  This is revolutionary work. -- Jack Kornfield, Ph.D., author and co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, CAThis book provides methods for transforming vital energies into positive, creative life-enhancing endeavors for individuals and societies. It's Good News! -- Cecile McHardy, Anthropologist & Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Harvard University	This is a book that can change your life. Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner for The Color Purple  Here is a book of enormous scope that helps us to become more curious about our rage and better equipped to use it wisely.  Ruth Kings compassion and generosity of spirit will leave you feeling like shes right there with you on the journey to a fuller and more courageous life. Harriet Lerner, Ph.D, Author of The Dance of Anger  A classic  filled with the passion, earthiness, and wisdom of a self-described wounded healer.  This is a book that can change your life. Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner for The Color Purple  A wonderful, wise and inspiring book.  I feel the heartbeat on every page. Ruth's compassion and generosity of spirit will inspire us to do our own homework toward a fuller and more courageous life. Sue Bender, author of Everyday Sacred  ""Ruth King has done the unthinkable. She has written a book that empowers women to embrace their pain, confusion and rage in a way that opens a pathway to liberation, healing, leadership and vision.  This is a powerful, wise and timely message - a brilliant piece of work."" Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money  King has articulated the painful history, patterns, and traps of a raging heart and offers the skillful means for liberation in their very midst. This is revolutionary work. Jack Kornfield, author and co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center  The psychology of our age is characterized by aggression. The antidote is an experiential process that utilizes the energy for healing. This book provides methods for transforming vital energies into positive, creative, life-enhancing endeavors for individuals, institutions, and societies. Cecile McHardy, Anthropologist and Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Harvard University	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ruth King pioneers new territory with this groundbreaking book. Healing Rage is structured as a personal study program for women that reveals six disguises of rage and offers a mind/body practice that cultivates rage wisdoms and inner peace. It evolved from Kings 10 years of experience working with women and rage in her Celebration of Rage retreats. Healing Rage features a self-assessment tool that allows women to unveil their disguises of rage and gain insight into how these disguises affect the way women respond to the world. Women progress from becoming aware of rage to understanding the wisdoms of rage. A variety of exercises are provided to help women transform rage from negative to positive energy. These practices are drawn from Kings work with wisdom traditions in indigenous cultures throughout the world. Healing Rage includes a troubleshooting index that helps readers navigate situations that trigger their rage in everyday life. It also provides an overview of the disguises of rage and an extensive bibliography.   This book is a must for all women, and for those who love and support them.	I wrote this book because I needed to read it again and again. My vision for Healing Rage is that every one of us becomes more curious and less frightened of rage, and that our rage and the rage of others is recognized as pain and treated with the greatest compassion possible. That we are able to look at others' rage and recognize ourselves, and fall in love with what we see, and that we discover the wisdom of our rage and know, deep in our bones, that our ancestors, and present and future generations, rely on us to create a world where we can express rage, without harming others or ourselves, and without fear of being unloved. May we all grow wise enough to embrace our rage and the rage of others lovingly, so that no one--person, family, community, or nation--is over burdened by what belongs to us all.	Ruth King's mission is to help women understand the source of their personal rage and the disguise it wears in their lives, and learn how to transform the energy behind it into a powerful tool for healing and achieving peace. In Healing Rage, she gives readers access to her pioneering, breakthrough program, and provides healing exercises including:Discover your rage inheritance and how to transform your legacy.Learn how to look within before acting out.Learn how to break habitual pain patterns in relationships.Learn how to center yourself again and again in difficult situations.Learn how to stay true to yourself when others are raging.Learn how to stop contributing to your own suffering.Written for every woman and the men who love them--ranging from counselors and their patients to those who may not realize that rage is at the root of their unhappiness and have just begun to seek new paths of hope--Healing Rage is a unique invitation to transformation.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A classic...this is a book that can change your life. ~ Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize Winner for The Color PurpleKing has articulated the painful history, pattern, and traps of a raging heart, and offers the skillful means for liberation in their very midst. This is revolutionary work. ~ Jack Kornfield, author and cofounder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Jack Kornfield also wrote the foreword to Healing Rage)Ruth King has written a book that empowers women to embrace their pain, confusion, and rage in a way that opens a pathway to liberation, healing, leadership, and vision. This is a powerful, wise, and timely message--a brilliant piece of work. ~ Lynn Twist, author of The Soul of MoneyA wonderful, wise, and inspiring book. ~ Sue Bender, author of Everyday Sacred	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ruth King, MA, is a respected voice on women and rage. A technician of the sacred, King weaves her background in psychology, leadership development, dance, meditation, and teachings from wisdom traditions to facilitate retreats that cultivate emotional integrity, notably Celebration of Rage. King is president of Bridges, Branches & Braids, an organization working with negative energies in positive ways.",books;emotions;fitness & dieting;health;mental & spiritual healing;mental health;new age;personal transformation;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality;self-help,11
1881616509,"Jim Goldberg, Raised by Wolves A large-format book about runaway and thrown-away kids, Jim Goldberg's Raised by Wolves sets new standards for documentary photography. Developing approaches employed in his landmark 1985 book Rich and Poor, Goldberg spent months on Los Angeles and San Francisco streets photographing and interviewing his adolescent subjects. Interviews with social workers, police and, most of all, with the adolescent subjects themselves lend dimension to this harrowing picture of American street life and the adversarial institutional culture surrounding it. At the book's heart lie two brilliant but doomed adolescents, Tweeky Dave and Echo; their sad romance lends enormous emotional impact to the book. (Scalo/D.A.P., dist.; Oct., $45 ISBN 1-881616-50-9)Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	This unflinching, often shocking photographic portrait of teenage runaways in Los Angeles and San Francisco forgoes both the critical distance of the cautionary tale and the banality of the morality play. Instead, Goldberg forges a more personal, and therefore more horrifying, path. His photographs portray in numbing detail the lives of a loosely knit group of young people, as they shoot heroin, turn tricks, and show off their tattoos. Though photographs dominate the book, a significant portion is devoted to text: interviews, confessionals, and even reproductions of the subjects' writings and drawings. Goldberg is friends with his subjects, and in interviews they refer to him by name. He gets involved with their parents and social workers with varying degrees of success. Goldberg's work, completed between 1987 and 1993, will be exhibited in conjunction with the book's release and will tour the United States until late 1997. One complaint: many of the photographs bleed into the gutter, making them harder to view; a little border would have made a difference. Still, this group portrait is highly recommended for art photography collections.?Adam Mazmanian, ""Library Journal""Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.",arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;catalogs & exhibitions;catalogues & exhibitions;collections;individual artists;photography;politics & social sciences;sociology;true accounts,11
0763623849,"Not Norman: A Goldfish Story Kindergarten-Grade 2A little boy is sorely disappointed when he receives a goldfish for his birthday. ""I wanted a pet who could run and catch. Or one who could climb trees and chase strings. A soft, furry pet to sleep on my bed at night. Not Norman."" However, as Norman performs acrobatics and makes the child laugh, listens attentively during his show-and-tell presentation when the rest of the class does not, sings along during band practice, and comforts him when he is awakened by a scary noise at night, the boy comes to love and appreciate the pet he at first disdained. The story is told in simple, straightforward language, and the clear lines and vibrant colors of the digital graphics are reminiscent of Taro Gomi's work. This is a sweet story that could be used as a springboard to discussion of the pitfalls of making snap judgments about petsor people.Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ	K-Gr. 3. The African American boy who narrates this boy-meets-fish story wants a pet for his birthday, but not a goldfish. Too bad. Though he suspects that Norman is the lamest, tamest pet around, he takes his fish to school to ""talk him up real good during Show-and-Tell"" in hopes that someone else will want him. But after cleaning Norman's bowl, rescuing him from puppies, and noticing that Norman listens to him talk and even quiets his fear of night noises, he realizes that there is no pet he would rather have. Repeated several times during the story, the title phrase ""Not Norman"" takes on a new shade of meaning in the verbally clever turnaround that concludes this amusing picture book. Distilled to essential shapes and flat colors, the lively digital artwork expresses both action and emotion with flair. This eye-catching book makes a satisfying read-aloud choice for pet day or any day. Carolyn PhelanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Kelly Bennett loves fish. Fish are fun and funny, she says. Just watching them makes me laugh. When she's not writing, Kelly creates tile mosaics and digs in her garden. She has two grown children, Max and Lexi, and lives in Texas with her husband, Curtis, and their goldfishwhom she would never trade.Noah Z. Jones loves drawing fish of all shapes and sizes, but especially smallish orange ones named Norman. This is his first children's book. He lives in coastal Maine with his wife, Diane, and their tuna-lovin' cat, Mabel.",african-american;animals;books;children's books;fish;multicultural stories;new;pets;social situations;travel & cultures;used & rental textbooks,11
0595166687,"Backpacking with God Deearne Tobin grew up in Melbourne, Australia. Deearne has had a desire to travel the world from an early age and this first book is an account of her adventures while on the road.",biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;leaders & notable people;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;specific groups;theology;women,11
0292746857,"Song of the Heart: Selected Poems by Ramón López Velarde (Texas Pan American Series) This posthumous, bilingual collection of the works of Velarde (1888-1921), one of Mexico's most cherished poets who remains relatively unrecognized in the U.S., is a celebration of passion, that ""song of the heart,"" in all its beautiful, tortured, contemplative, urgent glory. Peden's faithful translation allows the passionate perfection of Velarde's work, which consistently couples extravagant, consuming emotion with cool, formal precision, to shine through. Although there is much pain and anguish in these poems, sounded most consistently is the joyful music of simply being alive. In the the last lines of the title poem, the last piece of the book, Velarde cries, ""O Psyche, o my soul, sound the start/ of a modern, a jungle, an orgiastic song:/ the song of Mary, the song of the heart!"" Soriano's sensual line drawings, created for this edition, are a deceptively simple visual complement of Velarde's streamlined, powerfully moving verse. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	The 13th And To Think Avid, Ambivalent Lips The Bell Ringer Canonization Circus Memories Dream Of Innocence Dream Of The Black Gloves Ever-changing Seas Forbidden Hometown Hotel Nights Humbly Ill-omened Return In Misty Darkness In My Terror, I Honor You The Last Odalisque May It Be For The Best My Cousin Agueda My Heart Fares Better Newton's Disk The Old Well Our Lives Are Pendulums The Purple Stain Song Of The Heart Suave Patria: Sweet Land The Tear To Sara Wet Earth -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder	Text: English, Spanish	Corecipient of the first Gregory Kolovakos Award in 1992, Margaret Sayers Peden is a distinguished critic and translator of Latin American literature.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;contemporary;europe;history;literature & fiction;poetry;single authors;spain;spanish;united states;world literature,11
0974629219,"How to Survive Dating: By Hundreds of Happy Singles Who Did and Some Things to Avoid from a Few Broken Hearts Who Didn't (Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides) ""For those seeking more than trite suggestions, How to Survive Dating[is] like having a few hundred friends on speed dial."" -- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service""Great, varied advice, in capsule form, from the people who should knowthose whove dated and lived to tell the tale."" -- Cary Tennis, Columnist, Salon.com""Reading this book, I laughed out loud. I also decided to decree snippets a most superior form for dating manuals."" -- Paula Burba, The Courier-Journal""Whether youre single or not, How to Survive Dating will have you rolling with laughterThis isnt your ordinary dating book."" -- True Romance, January 2005Top 10 Dating Books ranking #3 -- About.com,  July 8, 2005",books;dating;family relationships;happiness;interpersonal relations;love & romance;mate seeking;parenting & relationships;personal transformation;relationships;self-help,11
0135321026,"Content Area Literacy: Interactive Teaching for Active Learing This book is intended largely to introduce teachers-to-be to the ""why"" and ""how"" of promoting basic and higher-order literacy. It does so in the context of promoting reading and thinking as a collateral part of specific subject instruction, and in an increasingly interconnected local and global environment.	Promote comprehensionHelp students read to learn, not just learn to read.The Fourth Edition of this well-respected text introduces teachers-to-be and practicing teachers to the reasons for and means of promoting basic and higher-order literacy across the disciplines. The authors discuss content area literacy in the context of promoting reading and thinking as an integrated part of specific subject instruction. Throughout, the text engages teachers in thinking critically, constructively, practically, and professionally about the art and science of teaching and literacy development.Now updated and revised, this Fourth Edition features increased attention to the needs of ESL/ELL students, updated coverage on the role of technology in content area learning, and new material on emergent content area literacy.HighlightsCoverage that spans specific subject instruction to school-wide contentarea literacy programming.Methods for pre-reading, si lent reading, and post-reading skills, helping students into, through, and beyond their reading and learning assignments.Instruction on validated means of improving reading comprehension in accord with the scientifically based reading research called for by No Child Left Behind and the National Institute for Literacy.Intelligent, engaging, and intellectually robust discussions of importanteducational and professional issues.Practical and user-friendly teaching methods.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education;education & reference;language & grammar;lesson planning;new;pedagogy;reading skills;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,11
078686219X,"Living the Simple Life: A Guide to Scaling Down and Enjoying More Former businesswoman Elaine St. James, whose previous books, Simplify Your Life and Inner Simplicity, have over 475,000 copies in print, once again cries ""Simplify!"" in Living the Simple Life: 100 Steps to Scaling Down and Enjoying More. After a brief testimony to the rewards of her own simplified life, St. James discusses 100 areas, from household chores to e-mail, where action may be effectively taken to remove the clutter from everyday life. A pinch of Heloise and a dash of Buddha enliven her recipes. Book club sales to Rodale, BOMC, QPB and One Spirit. Second serial rights to Ladies' Home Journal. (Hyperion, $14.95 320p ISBN 0-7868-6219-X)Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.",books;ethics & morality;fitness & dieting;happiness;health;philosophy;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality;self-help;teens,11
0786407042,"Arthur Godfrey: The Adventures of an American Broadcaster Arthur J. Singer is associate vice president and general manager for television, radio, and film production at Emerson College in Boston and management and marketing consultant. He spent many years in public broadcasting as a station manager, marketer, fund-raiser and producer-director. He was Executive Producer for the 1996 A Biography ""Arthur Godfrey: Broadcasting's Forgotten Giant."" He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.",actors & actresses;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;entertainers;humanities;humor & entertainment;new;performing arts;used & rental textbooks,11
0810851598,"Bohemian Rogue: The Life of Hollywood Artist John Decker ...Decker, a painter noted in his day for comic caricatures in the style of the Old Masters (his portrait of [W.C.] Fields as Queen Victoria famously hung in the entry of Chasen's restaurant until its closing in 1995). His life described in depth for the first time in ""Bohemian Rogue,"" a 2005 biography by Maine attorney Stephen Jordan, Decker emerges as one of the great mysterious figures in Hollywood history - a man-about-town who hid a secret past, including internment during World War I as a German spy, three simultaneous marriages and, recent evidence suggests, a lucrative sideline as an art forger. (La Times )Once in a blue moon, a rare nugget of literature is mined. Such is Bohemian Rogue, a masterpiece by Portland, Me., attorney, Stephen Jordan. It is a book you can't put down and don't want to end. It is a biography of artist John Decker but it is also a history of other Hollywood rogues who traveled in his wake.They were the original Rat Pack - W.C. Fields, Tony Quinn, Ben Hecht, Gene Fowler, John Barrymore and Sadakichi Hartmann. (Ottawa Sun )Born in Germany in 1895, John Decker later immigrated to America, first to New York, and later to Hollywood. A talented artist, he painted portraits of such stars as the Marx Brothers, Greta Garbo, and Mickey Rooney, while befriending the likes of John Barrymore, Errol Flynn, and W.C. Fields. In this biography, Jordan, an attorney, writer, and freelance illustrator, unfolds Decker's story from his work as an orphan in London painting theater scenery, his apprenticeship with a criminal artist who forged the old masters, his time in New York drawing caricatures, and his break into the Hollywood scene. The book includes bw photos and reproductions of Decker's work. An appendix lists the works shown posthumously at the first John Decker Studios exhibition inthe spring of 1948.. (Reference and Research Book News )Born in Germany in 1895, John Decker later immigrated to America, first to New York, and later to Hollywood. A talented artist, he painted portraits of such stars as the Marx Brothers, Greta Garbo, and Mickey Rooney, while befriending the likes of John Barrymore, Errol Flynn, and W.C. Fields. In this biography, Jordan, an attorney, writer, and freelance illustrator, unfolds Decker's story from his work as an orphan in London painting theater scenery, his apprenticeship with a criminal artist who forged the old masters, his time in New York drawing caricatures, and his break into the Hollywood scene. The book includes b photos and reproductions of Decker's work. An appendix lists the works shown posthumously at the first John Decker Studios exhibition in the spring of 1948. (Reference and Research Book News )	Stephen C. Jordan has written articles for several publications including the Portland Press Herald and the Sporting News. He is also a freelance illustrator, whose work has appeared in newspapers as well as commissioned by sports organizations, including the Boston Red Sox. He is the author of Hollywood's Original Rat Pack: The Bards of Bundy Drive (Scarecrow, 2008).",architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;new;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
0393925560,"Western Civilizations, Brief Edition (Volume 1) Judith Coffin(Ph.D. Yale University) is Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, where she won University of Texas President's Associates' Award for Teaching Excellence. Previously, she taught at Harvard University and the University of California, Riverside. Her research interests are the social and cultural history of gender, mass culture, slavery, race relations, and colonialism. She is the author of The Politics of Women's Work: The Paris Garment Trades, 17501915.Robert Stacey (Ph.D. Yale University) is Professor of History, Dean of the Humanities, and a member of the Jewish Studies faculty at the University of Washington, Seattle. A long-time teacher of Western civilizations and medieval European history, he has received Distinguished Teaching Awards from both the University of Washington and Yale University, where he taught from 1984 to 1988. He has authored and coauthored four books, including a textbook, The Making of England to 1399. He holds an M.A. from Oxford University and a Ph.D. from Yale.",ancient;books;civilization & culture;early civilization;europe;history;humanities;new;used & rental textbooks;western;world,11
0201877368,"Intelligent Database Systems ""This book covers a broad subject area yet still has a depth that makes it  a valuable resource for anyone working on intelligent database systems. Good background  coverage of both the field of databases and that of AI are provided in the first  part of the book, and later there are some excellent analytical discussions of  relevant projects. The authors adopt a very readable style which enables a complex  topic to become much more accessible.""  - Jenny Carter, Department of Computer Science, De Montfort University    This book provides a state of the art guide to the new developments in expert    database systems, from the unique perspective of both the database and AI areas.    It gives complete and detailed coverage of the latest research and practice,    including all the need-to-know technical and theoretical approaches in the area. Drawing on their extensive experience, the authors evaluate how AI techniques    can be integrated with present and future database systems and knowledge based    management systems, incorporating AI expertise into system design. The book    also addresses the techniques developed recently which are directly used, or    are the basis, for data retrieval across the world wide web. If you are a designer or developer working in the database community, with    database and AI products or applications, this book will help you to understand    crucial research developments and to apply the results in practice. Includes:     Mechanisms for handling data and knowledge including XML, web indexing,    search engines & data mining    Object Oriented Database Management Systems and object-relational DBMS    Data modeling including techniques such as Entity Relationship, Functional    Data & Semantic Database models, as well as using the notations for modeling    (OMT & UML) Plus! Extended case studies of commercial systems    About the authors:   Elisa Bertino is a well known expert in the integration of AI and database techniques,    areas of O-O, distributed, deductive and multimedia databases and database security.    She has chaired and given tutorials at many international conferences and published    hundreds of journal papers and a book. Elisa is currently a professor of computer    science at the University of Milan.    Barbara Catania is an assistant professor of computer science at the University    of Genova, specializing in deductive and multimedia databases, and indexing    techniques in object-oriented and constraint databases. She has presented at    a number of international conferences and co-authored a book. Gian Piero Zarri is an internationally renowned consultant and researcher in    the areas of knowledge-based systems, natural-language processing, databases    and information retrieval systems. He is on the editorial board of a number    of international scientific journals and on the program committee of many conferences    on Knowledge-Based Systems. Gian Piero currently works as Research Director    for CNRS, the French National Centre for Scientific Research.   0201877368B04062001	Elisa Bertino is a well known expert in the integration of AI and database techniques, areas of O-O, distributed, deductive and multimedia databases and database security. She has chaired and given tutorials at many international conferences and published hundreds of journal papers and a book. Elisa is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Milan. Barbara Catania is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Genova, specializing in deductive and multimedia databases, and indexing techniques in object-oriented and constraint databases. She has presented at a number of international conferences and co-authored a book. Gian Piero Zarri is an internationally renowned consultant and researcher in the areas of knowledge-based systems, natural-language processing, databases and information retrieval systems. He is on the editorial board of a number of international scientific journals and on the program committee of many conferences on Knowledge-Based Systems. Gian Piero currently works as Research Director for CNRS, the French National Centre for Scientific Research.",artificial intelligence;books;computer science;computers & technology;database design;databases;expert systems;information theory;mathematics;modeling & simulation;science & math,11
0613840607,"Garbage King Grade 8 Up-The harsh reality that faces countless children in developing nations is confronted head-on in this powerful and moving novel, as is the gross disparity between the haves and have-nots. Set in Ethiopia, it brings together the stories of two very different boys whose lives converge and are changed forever. After his mother dies, Mamo, 13, is tricked by a slaver and sold to a farmer in the country miles away from the only home he has ever known. After months of brutal treatment, he escapes and makes it back to Addis Ababa where he meets Dani, a chubby boy who has spent his life cloistered in the world of privilege. He is a talented writer, but other areas of his studies elude him, leading his strict father to send him away to be disciplined. Dani runs away to avoid this fate and meets up with Mamo. They meet a gang of street children, led by a boy named Million. Street life with this group is difficult and dangerous, but the boys become a family and both their tragedies and triumphs are painted in vivid, authentic, and often horrific detail. Background for the story's inspiration is included in an introduction and an afterword. Readers are sure to become involved in this compelling story, and teachers will find a wealth of inspiration to lead their students in further research.Genevieve Gallagher, Orange County Public Library, VACopyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Gr. 5-8. Laird has lived and worked in Ethiopia, and this contemporary survival story is rooted in the true-life stories of street children she knows in Addis Ababa. Dani is a rich, fat kid, failing at school, who runs away from his bullying dad. Orphan Mamo, kidnapped and sold as a slave to a cruel farmer, escapes and returns to the city. The runaways meet in the city cemetery, where they hide out until they join a gang of homeless kids. Under the direction of their stern leader, the gang members care for one another and share everything, including what they scavenge from the garbage and beg from passers-by. The cast is huge, but the characters are so strongly individualized that it is easy to keep them straight. The ending is a bit too happy, at least for Mamo and Dani, who go home and handle the powerful adults. It's the elemental friendship story of fear and hope that will draw in readers. Hazel RochmanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Elizabeth Laird was born in New Zealand but has lived in England since early childhood. She has written many children's books and has won several awards. Her critically praised Red Sky in the Morning was ""Highly Commended"" for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Children's Book Award. Her previous novel for Barron's, Jake's Tower,  was published in 2002. She and her husband live in Surrey, England.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",africa;books;children's books;europe;explore the world;family life;historical fiction;literature & fiction;social situations;travel & cultures;united states,11
0595323553,"A Portrait of Phillip J.P. Bowie was born and raised in Aberdeen, Scotland. After a stint on the London stage, he emigrated to the US and currently lives in San Diego, Ca.",books;contemporary;fiction;gay;gay & lesbian;literature & fiction;mystery;romance;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,11
B0009PUTCU,"Coleman 12-Inch Metal Tent Stakes (4-Pack) Tent Stakes, Metal - 12"", 4 pack",& screens;camping & hiking;coleman;lawn & garden;outdoor recreation;patio;shades;sports & outdoors;tent accessories;tent stakes;tents,11
0684835878,"Second Act In this irreverently humorous book, ac-tress Barrie describes her 30-year experience first with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and later with carcinoma of the rectum. Despite significant symptoms, Barrie denied her illness for so long that she developed a large tumor, endured not one but three operations, had radiation and chemotherapy, and now lives with a colostomy bag. Her ability to describe this ordeal with warmth and humor will help those facing the same situation by demystifying the process. By using her visibility as the TV wife of Barney Miller, Barrie has opened the door on what for many is a taboo topic, making a true contribution to the literature. Those wishing more detailed information could consult The Colostomy Care Handbook, edited by Aaron Kwan and John Boey (State Mutual Book and Periodical Service, 1993), or Kay Marshall's The First Step Guidelines on Care & Recovery Following Colostomy Surgery (HERC Inc., 1990). Highly recommended for patient-education and consumer-health collections in all types of libraries.?Janet M. Coggan, Univ. of Florida Lib, Gainesville.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	That even colostomies have their humorous aspect is  demonstrated in this spirited account by a Tony- and Oscar-  nominated actress with a remarkable zest for life.  In April 1994, when Barrie was in her early 60s, she was  diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Her story of what followed is  not a simple one, for unfortunately all did not go well. Having  been told that the surgery would leave her with an opening, or  stoma, on her abdomen that would resemble a rosebud, she found to  her horror and considerable pain that her bowel protruded some  three inches and looked, in her words, exactly like ``a pink  penis coming out of a donut.'' Ten months after her first surgery  at Columbia Presbyterian, another surgeon at New York Hospital  performed a second, successful colostomy. During this period, in  which Barrie also underwent chemotherapy and radiation, she  rehearsed and appeared in a play and on several television shows  (she's Brooke Shields's grandmother on Suddenly Susan), while  continuing to entertain friends, attend the theater, play tennis,  and spend weekends with her husband on Fire Island. Throughout,  she insisted on her privacy, and few people in her business or  personal life knew what she was going through. Then, a  humiliating accident on a Manhattan bus inspired Barrie to go  public with her story. She bares her soul and her body with  considerable panache. Even the details of how to care for a  colostomy and perform the necessary daily irrigation are told  with frankness and good humor. Learning about colostomies from a  woman who has clearly continued to live a full and active life  should comfort those facing similar surgery. The broader lesson  to be learned from Barrie's experience, however, is the danger of  denial. For years she ignored her symptoms, when to have taken  early action might well have made this a very different story.  A gutsy woman's tale of survival. (Author tour) -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",biographies & memoirs;books;cancer;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;health;medical;professionals & academics;self-help;special needs;specific groups,11
1566396751,"Meaning Of A Disability: The Lived Experience of Paralysis Robillard is a sociology professor and ethnomethodologist. Paralyzed as a result of motor-neuron disease, he explores his daily life from an ethnomethodological perspective. The chapter titles are indicative of the topics addressed: ""You Are Lucky Your Wife Stuck with You,"" ""Communicating in Intensive Care,"" ""Anger,"" ""Isolation,"" and ""Can He Think?"" Robillard analyzes typical activities, such as communication, that are usually taken for granted, and discusses in detail the system by which graduate assistants and family members read his lips. In spite of this method, he is often excluded from conversations because the few people who can translate for him may be unavailable or are reluctant to translate. Healthcare professionals also routinely exclude him from input about his own care. Robillard's anger at these exclusions is palpable, as is his indignation at the ""common culture of disability""Athe tendency of society to belittle people with disabilities based on a set of culturally engrained misconceptions. Although written as a personal narrative, this work includes numerous references to the scholarly literature of ethnomethodology, communication, and disability. Recommended primarily for sociology, anthropology, and disability studies collections in academic libraries; health professionals might also benefit from the patient perspective offered in the book.AXimena Chrisagis, Wright State Univ. Libs., Dayton, OH Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""[Robillard] writes with great preciseness and accuracy... This book should be read by those working with people with disabilities, those teaching in the area of Disability Studies, and by people with disabilities."" --Disability Studies Quarterly	A self-study of paralysis and meaningful interaction	""[Robillard] writes with great preciseness and accuracy.... This book should be read by those working with people with disabilities, those teaching in the area of Disability Studies, and by people with disabilities.""  Disability Studies Quarterly	Albert R. Robillard is Professor of Sociology and Pacific Island Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and author of Social Change in the Pacific Islands.",biographies & memoirs;books;disabled;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;neurology;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics,11
2040280111,"Candide (French Edition) 4 1-hour cassettes	      --This text refers to the 							Audio Cassette	 edition.	douard M. Langille is Professor of French Language and Literature at the St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;classics;education & reference;european;foreign language fiction;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks;world literature,11
0786401133,"Sailors in the Sky: Memoir of a Navy Aircrewman in the Korean War ""a rare look into the lives...the enlisted aircrewmen, the non-flying personnel who provide unfailing technical expertise""  -- Wings of Gold""interesting...a thrilling and pleasant read""  -- USA Today	Jack Sauter was an aviation electronics technician during the Korean War and is the president and editor of the USS Lake Champlain Association Inc. Edward Peary Stafford is a retired commander in the U.S. Navy and the author of The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",aviation;biographies & memoirs;books;history;korean war;leaders & notable people;memoirs;military;new;personal narratives;used & rental textbooks,11
0873418069,"Soul Mate Dolls ""A book waiting to get written..."" -- Doll Magazine, July 2001.",antiques & collectibles;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;dolls;hobbies & home;needlecrafts & textile crafts;sewing;toymaking;toys & figurines;toys & models,11
0534596436,"Understanding American Government (with InfoTrac) ""I chose [this book] on the strength of its organizational approach, explanatory powers, and for its emphasis on critiquing the American system  It is the best researched book I have found and whether or not the students realize this, they certainly gain the benefit of that research chapter by chapter  It does not get caught up in unnecessary color, boxes, and pictures, charts, and other distractions.""""The chapter on Money and Politics is a great addition and should not be changed!""""I think the Welch book incorporates new political science research into the text better and explains its relevance better than other texts.""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Susan Welch received her A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Science at The Pennsylvania State University. Her teaching and research areas include legislatures, urban politics, and women and minorities in politics. At the 2002 APSA, she and her co-authors, Lee Sigelman, Timothy Bledsoe, and Michael Combs won the 2001 urban politics Best Book Award, for RACE AND PLACE: RACE RELATIONS IN AN AMERICAN CITY (Cambridge University Press, 2001).John Gruhl, a Professor of Political Science, received his A.B. from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Since joining the University of Nebraska faculty in 1976, he has taught and done research in the areas of judicial process, criminal justice, and civil rights and liberties. He has campus- and university-wide distinguished teaching awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching and became a charter member of the university's Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 1995.John Comer is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska. He received his A.B. in political science from Miami University of Ohio in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1971. His teaching and research focus on interest groups, public opinion, voting behavior, and political parties.Susan M. Rigdon received A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from the University of Illinois in 1966 and 1971. While focusing her teaching in Comparative Politics and IR, she has taught American Government courses at several institutions in the United States and China. Her research interests include culture and politics, security policy, and poverty and development. She is a Research Associate in Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.",books;civics & citizenship;education & reference;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;united states;used & rental textbooks,11
0971594031,"To Asia with Love: A Connoisseurs' Guide to Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. This is what makes To Asia With Love stand out from the crowd: its emphasis on helping readers to better understand a destination - rather than merely get lots of information about it - through the experiences of the contributors. - Review by Greg Lowe. --International Herald Tribune/ThaiDayMost guidebooks are limited to only a couple or writers, and voices, but this one is a real choir...which really represents the polyglot traveller's world of today.Having expats and travelers reveal their favorite getaways, festivals, shops and eating experiences makes this a unique entry in the library of travel lit. - Review by Blake Cheetah. --Farang Untamed Travel Magazine	Seattle native Kim Fay fell in love with Southeast Asia when she traveled to Thailand in 1990. Journeys to Borneo, Singapore and Bali followed, and in 1995 she moved to Ho Chi Minh City, where she worked as an English teacher and travel writer until 1999. She now writes and edits for travel websites in L.A. She recently finished In Yellow Babylon, a novel about the looting of the Khmer temples, set in Indochina in 1925.  Julie Fays most recent trip to Thailand, Laos and Vietnam inspired her to return to school to study photography. Before pursuing this newfound passion, she majored in drama at university, worked for the Four Seasons Newport Beach and spent the last six years establishing a career in the film industry. She now resides in Los Angeles.",asia;books;cambodia;education & reference;general;laos;reference;thailand;travel;travel writing;vietnam,11
1552976122,"Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders With lush color photographs and lavishly detailed illustrations, this encyclopedia presents a striking abundance of information at a glance. Also noteworthy is the scholarly text, a comprehensive overview of these frequently studied phyla.A major article introduces the main classes: insects and arachnids. Articles pertaining to specific species follow. For example, 23 species of the class Insecta--with a separate article for millipedes and centipedes, members of the superclass myriapoda--are featured. Entries vary in length, depending upon the complexity of the species. Information on stoneflies is covered in two pages, while Crickets and grasshoppers requires twelve pages of text. All articles--penned by authorities in the field of biological study--provide current scientific information and research findings relating to physiology and to behavior.Several valuable features are standard in each article. Most significant are the ""Factfiles,"" which provide a quick summary of valuable statistics, including the order, class, physical features, life cycles, population, habitat, color, reproduction habits, and longevity of the species. Conservation status, a key consideration for many researchers, is also noted, using IUCN (World Conservation Union) categories as a descriptor. Boxed ""Special Feature"" (for example, ""Fly-Borne Diseases"") and ""Photo Story"" (such as ""Building Nests of Mud and Paper"" ) articles supplement the erudite text with fascinating sidelights concerning behavior, morphology, and economic and medical importance, among other topics.Although a glossary of biological terms is included, sidebars defining these terms on the pages on which they appear might have been a better placement because most students will not turn to the end of the volume. A bibliography of sources and an index complete the book.One thinks short and concise when perusing an encyclopedia. Such is not the case with this resource, which is strongly recommended for high-school, public, and academic libraries. For students, Marshall Cavendish's multivolume Insects and Spiders [RBB F 1 03]  offer less scholarly but equally attractive coverage. RBBCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	A striking abundance of information at a glance ... strongly recommended for high-school, public and academic libraries. (Booklist 2003-03-15)More than simply a descriptive study of arthropods, The Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders is an inclusive reference covering every living group within this class of animals. The work intends to heighten reader awareness of the vital relationship of arthropods to earth's ecosystems, particularly concerning our survival as a species.... As a reference source for anyone researching arthropods, this volume will provide a wealth of authoritative data and visual material. Highly Recommended. (Gillian Richardson Canadian Materials 2003-01-00)The illustrations and captions are simply excellent and lend much to the text written by noteworthy experts ... highly recommended. (Johnson Thane Library News for Zoos and Aquariums 2003-01-00)Superbly illustrated with spectacular pictures ... the text is clear and well organized. (Bernard J.R. Philogene Science Books and Films 2003-04-15)Every page contains gorgeous color photographs or drawings ... so attractive that even reluctant readers will stretch their skills. (Rachel Forman Science Teacher 2003-05-00)The photographs and drawings are excellent, the text is readable without sacrificing accuracy and content ... Very highly recommended. (Michal Kubick Wildlife Activist 2003-04-00)The organization is very clear and the writing is highly readable and accurate... This is a fine book. (Fred Burchstead American Reference Books Annual, Volume 35 2004-01-00)Fascinating detail on behavior, morphology, ecology, life cycles and economic or medical importance ... Scholarly yet colorful ... there is no rival encyclopedia. Highly recommended for public and academic libraries. (T. McKimmie Choice 2003-01-00)These beautifully illustrated encyclopedias not only detail individual species, but also provide a wealth of information about how these creatures interact with one another and people. (Science News 2002-11-23)Highly recommended without reservations for the reference collections of all academic and public libraries as well as museum and other special library collections. It is a ""must have"" addition for the personal collections of all with an interest in the subject. (Lynn C. Westney E-Streams 2003-06-00)Engaging, excellently laid out, and an absolute joy to read. The photographs ranged from very good to excellent to amazing. (Randy F. Lauff Canadian Field Naturalist 2004-12-00)	Christopher O'Toole works in the Hope Entomological Collections of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History where he runs the Bee Systematics and Biology Unit. His research has taken him to the deserts of the Middle East and North America and the savannahs of South America and Africa. He has collaborated on natural history films about insects, most recently the six-part BBC TV series Alien Empire, for which he wrote the accompanying book, and has written 14 additional books on insect behavior and natural history, including Bees of the World (with Anthony Raw) and Bumblebees.	Preface    Of the million or so animal species that have so far been described, about 85 percent are  insects; there are estimated to be 200 million of them for every living person. To put it another way, there are some 10,000 million insects living in each square kilometer of habitable land on Earth or 26,000 million per square mile. Insects also predominate overwhelmingly among the terrestrial arthropods that are the subject of this book.    What is more, the land-dwelling, jointed-limbed animals without backbones also include the millipedes and centipedes, and the spiders, scorpions, ticks and mites; for example, in rural southern England there may be as many as 5 million spiders per hectare (12.5 million per acre). These figures are for known species only: recent surveys in tropical forests suggest that there may be as many as 25 to 30 million species of arthropod in the world, most of which remain             undescribed!    Until recently, most studies of arthropods were primarily or entirely descriptive -- and rightly so in the face of such bewildering diversity. In the last 50 years, however, the relatively new disciplines of population and behavioral ecology have embraced the arthropods and revealed them in a new light. Population ecology has shown just how important the relationships between arthropods and other living things are. Behavioral ecology shows that many arthropods have behavior normally only associated with birds and mammals.    Arthropods, and especially the insects, are, in fact, a vital part of the survival kit of Planet Earth, having a commanding presence in the dynamic processes that maintain our ecosystems. They dispose of dead vegetation, animal corpses, and dung, and are the major herbivores, processing and returning vast amounts of nutrients to the soil. As pollinators of flowers, they are vital links in the cycle of plant              generations. Yet ticks, fleas, and a variety of flies exert a negative influence on human ecology, through the diseases they transmit to humans and their livestock, while many mites and insects devastate crops and trees.    There is now a growing awareness that our survival as a species may well depend on a greater understanding of the diversity of living things and their conservation. The greatest urgency lies with the wet forests of the tropics, home of half of all plant and animal species. It is a humbling thought that our primate ancestors inherited a range of habitats largely shaped and maintained by the interactions of arthropods with plants and other animals. In a real sense we began our road to humanity by exploiting opportunities provided by courtesy of the arthropods. It is even more humbling to ponder the thought that this planet can survive without man but not, in its present form, without the arthropods.    Underlining the              never-ending work of insect taxonomists is the very recent discovery of a new order of insects, the Mantophasmatodea, too recent, indeed, to be dealt with comprehensively in this volume. Comprising two known genera, Raptophasma from fossil material in Baltic amber and Mantophasma from tropical Africa, members of this order are wingless carnivores, and the modem species live in dense grass tussocks. Their evolutionary relationships are still a matter for conjecture but their anatomy suggests some affinities with either the Grylloblattodea (rock crawlers, ice crawlers) or Phasmatodea (stick insects). DNA studies may reveal molecular evidence which might help resolve the issue.    The Arthropod Success Story    The arthropod body plan comprises an external skeleton made of a remarkable horny substance called chitin, which has a high strength-to-weight ratio and is flexible and              waterproof. The body plan has evolved independently at least four times. Modern systems of classification, therefore, no longer treat arthropods as a single group, ""Arthropoda;"" instead, they tend to divide them into different phyla with distinct origins. There are the terrestrial insects, myriapods, and their relatives (phylum Uniramia); the mainly terrestrial Chelicerata (spiders and relatives, and horseshoe crabs); and the chiefly marine crustaceans (crabs, shrimps, lobsters, and woodlice - phylum Crustacea). Smaller phyla include the terrestrial velvet worms (Onychophora), and the aquatic tongue worms (Pentastomida) and water bears (Tardigrada). Marine arthropods are not covered here.    ""Arthropodization"" has enabled these animals to invade a wide range of habitats. Some of their adaptations are bizarre, ranging, in insects, from flies whose larvae live in hot springs or crude oil to a Malaysian moth that sucks the blood of animals; there are              even fly larvae that live as internal parasites of barnacles. The list is endless, and ultra-specialization is a recurrent theme. On the other hand there are generalists too. Consider the physiological virtuosity of larvae of the little scuttlefly Megaselia scalaris, which, to date, have been reared from shoe polish, emulsion paint, human cadavers pickled in formalin, and the lungs of living people.    If this volume has any linking theme, it is the arthropod success story. Our survey brings together a wealth of new information, hitherto burled in specialist journals and texts. An opening account of what it is to be an arthropod is followed by descriptions of all the major taxonomic groups, starting with the two superclasses of the phylum Uniramia, the myriapods (millipedes and centipedes) and the hexapods (mainly insects). Within the insects, each of the 28 different orders is treated separately, with a summary panel of salient facts,              accompanied by a wider-ranging text outlining the major aspects of the group's natural history. An introduction to that other main group of terrestrial arthropods, the arachnids (class Arachnida of the phylum Chelicerata) is followed by sections on the mites and ticks, the spiders, and the scorpions and remaining subclasses. Throughout the book, boxed features, special feature spreads, and photo stories focus on topics of particular interest in behavior, morphology, ecology, or economic or medical importance.    The illustrations in this encyclopedia do more than record the stunning variety of color, form, and lifestyle in terrestrial arthropods. The photographs, almost all by Premaphotos Wildlife, were taken in the wild, in locations all over the world. Here are revealed, in the subjects' natural habitat, details of arthropod life cycles and behavior, from the egg through larval stages and molting to adulthood, courtship, mating, feeding, and defense, flight,              and death. Captions expand the scope of the text and identify species by family as well as by scientific name (if not given in the accompanying text or summary panel), and any common name.    An important role is played by the artwork. Richard Lewington's color panels show the diversity and typical behavior of representatives of the major groups. The line drawings illustrate aspects of form and behavior covered in the text. The drawings in the Factfile panels are of species chosen to give some idea of the general appearance of many, if not all, members of the group in question.    It is a pleasure to acknowledge the labors of an enthusiastic team of  authors, all experts in their chosen fields. My thanks are also due to the dedicated publishing team at Andromeda Oxford Ltd., led by Dr Graham Bateman, Dr Peter Lewis and Chris Munday. I hope that  together we have produced a volume that does justice to the swarming hordes of arthropods, which              live out their intricate lives largely unseen and often unjustly reviled.    Christopher O'Toole  Hope Entomological Collections  University Museum, Oxford",animals;biological sciences;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;history;insects & spiders;nature & ecology;reference;science & math;veterinary,11
081560775X,"The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscience With The Myth of Mental Illness (1961), Szasz began his crusade against forced commitment to mental institutions, enforced psychotropic medication and the official definition, indeed the very concept, of schizophrenia. He has published more than 20 books since then, expounding his controversial theories. Here, he takes issue with theorists such as John Searle, for whom consciousness is a physical entity and who believes the mind is the brain. For Szasz, the mind is minding: observing one's environment, formulating observations that are then articulated with others and with oneself. Thus self-conversation is normal and hearing voices a universal phenomenon. So-called schizophrenics practice ""disavowed"" self-conversation, attributing to others their internal conversation. According to Szasz, psychiatrists and neuroscientists have conspired to produce an erosion of personal responsibility, making people unaccountable for their thoughts and actions. He himself lays the blame for ""illness"" squarely on the afflicted person. Szasz is an original thinker whose theories, though open to challenge, are daring and profound. His new book should appeal not only to those interested in mental illness but to anyone caught up in the ongoing debate about the origin and nature of mind. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Emeritus professor of psychiatry and a prolific and controversial author (The Myth of Mental Illness, 1974; Our Right to Drugs, Praeger, 1991), Szasz here addresses the concept of mind with his customary fervor. Clear, provocative, and based on broad reading and experience, the book seems to lose some of its initial force as the argument, somewhat fragmented, concludes with the assertion of ""the conceptual primacy of the person as moral agent."" Szasz upholds this primacy against its reduction to the mind by psychiatry, to the soul by religion, or to the body by neuroscience. As ""reality is the universal experience of talking to ourselves,"" language defines the self, and Szasz emphasizes the import of ""self-conversation"" in the process of forming, defining, changing, and governing the self, i.e., ""minding."" Szasz attacks some noted philosophers of mind, including P.M. Churchland, D.C. Dennett, D. Hofstadter, R. Penrose, J.R. Searle, and F.J. Tipler, reserving his praise for M. Bahktin and G.H. Mead. Recommended for academic libraries.?E. James Lieberman, George Washington Univ. Sch. of Medicine, Washington, D.C.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	In The Meaning Of Mind, Thomas Szasz argues that only as a verb does the word mind name something in the real world, namely, attending or heeding. Minding is the ability to pay attention and adapt to one's environment by using language to communicate with others and oneself. Viewing the mind as a potentially infinite variety of self-conversations is the key that unlocks many of the mysteries we associate with this concept. Modern neuroscience is a misdirected effort to explain mind in terms of brain functions. The claims and conclusions of the diverse academics and scientists who engage in this enterprise undermine the concepts of moral agency and personal responsibility. Szasz shows that the cognitive function of speech is to enable us to talk not only to others but to ourselves, and that the view that mind is brain is not an empirical finding but a rhetorical ruse concealing humanity's unceasing struggle to control persons by controlling their vocabulary. The discourse of brain-mind, unlike the discourse of man as moral agent, protects people from the dilemmas intrinsic to holding themselves responsible for their own actions and holding others responsible for theirs.  -- Midwest Book Review	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	In this brilliantly original and highly accessible work, Szasz demonstrates the futility of analyzing the mind as a collection of brain functions. Instead of trying to unravel the riddle of a mythical entity called the mind, Szasz puts forth that our task should be to understand and judge persons as moral agents, not as victims of brain chemistry.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Szasz here addresses the concept of mind with his customary  fervor. Clear, provocative, and based on broad reading and  experience...the argument...concludes with the assertion of 'the  conceptual primacy of the person as moral agent.' Szasz upholds this  primacy against its reduction to the mind by psychiatry, to the soul by  religion, or to the body by neuroscience....Recommended for academic  libraries.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	THOMAS SZASZ, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State  University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York, is  the author of 23 books, among them the classic, The Myth of Mental  Illness (1961), and Our Right To Drugs (Praeger, 1991).	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",behavioral sciences;books;cognitive psychology;consciousness & thought;developmental psychology;fitness & dieting;health;philosophy;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;science & math,11
0131104969,"International Business Environment, The: Text and Cases This MBA level text focuses on five aspects of the cross border environment: exchange rates and international capital markets, trading patterns and regimes, regulatory content, and political content.	This book contains fifteen chapters, each accompanied by a case--some developed by the authors. Focuses on the environmental factors affecting the MNE. It focuses on 5 aspects of cross-border environments: exchange rates and international capital markets, trading patterns and regimes, the regulatory context, political context, and cultural context. Appropriate for schools that are ""internationalizing"" their curricula.",accounting & finance;books;business & finance;business & investing;education & reference;international;international business;management & leadership;new;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,11
0595194575,"Rediscovering Cuba: A Personal Memoir Jorge Reyes was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1971. He graduated from Barry University with a degree in Political Science and History. His previous book is called Your Body, a childrens book on human anatomy. He is currently working on a collection of short stories. Reyes lives in South Florida.",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;caribbean & west indies;historical;history;memoirs;minority studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,11
B00006KZEM,"Texas Highways Interprets scenic, recreational, historical, cultural, and ethnic treasures of the state of Texas. Goal is to educate and to entertain, to encourage recreational travel to and within the state and to tell the Texas story to readers around the world.	Interprets scenic, recreational, historical, cultural, and ethnic treasures of the state of Texas. Goal is to educate and to entertain, to encourage recreational travel to and within the state and to tell the Texas story to readers around the world.",east south central;magazine subscriptions;professional & trade;regions;south;sports & leisure;states;texas;travel;travel & regional;united states,11
1567201903,"Contemplative Leadership for Entrepreneurial Organizations: Paradigms, Metaphors, and Wicked Problems ?In this ambitious work, Nancy Eggert has attemped just that. Incorporating the wisdom of classic and contemporary spiritual writers, Eggert boldly proposes a new paradigm for thinking, perceiving, valuing, inquiring, and acting toward the ""wicked problems"" of the post-modern world.?-Spiritual Life	Offers an alternative leadership paradigm, one that is especially well designed to face the wicked management problems in today's organizations: the contemplative paradigm.	NANCY J. EGGERT has been an attorney and manager for the National Labor Relations Board for 25 years.",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;entrepreneurship;leadership;management;management & leadership;new;small business & entrepreneurship;used & rental textbooks,11
1891640208,"Tibetan Furniture In a concise but very useful summary of the `Land and People',   Buckley stresses the influence of cultural and environmental factors such   as high altitude and nomadic lifestyle, concluding that these did not   provide a suitable `market' for ordinary domestic furniture (pp. 2-11).    The following chapter which discusses `Forms and Uses"" provides a good   summary with examples of the various types of furniture including comments   on regional styles.  Buckley discusses the various items used by wealthy   lay families. And it is interesting to note that the range of tables,   benches, cabinets and the like did not differ much from what was used in   religious establishments.    Two chapters provides a detailed presentation of the themes and decorations   found on most furniture. The painted and carved decoration falls in a   number of categories including the full range of Buddhist symbolism:   floral, geometric and textile pattern; zoomorphic motifs including tigers,   dragons, snow lions and various other legendary animals. The next chapter   which deals with furniture decorated with painting of the various   `wrathful' gods who were protectors against evil, is particularly useful in   understanding decorations that would otherwise be viewed as violent and   macabre by the uninitiated.    The volume rounds off with illustrations of well-known pieces that   represent the various types and designs discussed in the previous   chapters. -- Orientations,  Fall 2006In this new book author Chris Buckley provides a basic   introduction to the subject for those readers even with little or no   acquaintance with Tibetan art, by outlining types, decor, uses and   iconography in a clear manner. One follows Buckley on his own inquiry into   Tibetan art and culture, inspired by the themes of Tibetan furniture.    The chapters are well illustrated with numerous contemporary photos from   various parts of Tibet depicting furniture in situ in monasteries and   private homes. The section on prayer wheels is exemplary and the chapter on   furniture for the wrathful deities stands out. Also, included are wall   paintings, particularly form the prominent central Tibetan monasteries of   Shalu and Gyantse. Their extensive programmes of richly informative art   span the period from the early 14th through the early 15th centuries, a   crucial period in the development of Tibetan art,  providing helpful   depictions of figurative style, iconography, the decor of the times, and   even furniture.    All in all, author Chris Buckley has produced a welcome addition to Tibetan   furniture studies, enabling readers to identify the main types, understand   the cultural and historical contexts, interpret the decor, and gain   confidence to initiate judgments of chronology, aesthetics and   authenticity. -- Arts of Asia,  August 2006	Chris Buckley was educated at Balliol College Oxford and at Wolfson College Oxford. He now lives in Beijing, where he is well-known as a  speaker on antiques and collecting, and especially on the relatively new study of Tibetan furniture.",antiques & collectibles;arts & photography;books;crafts;criticism;furniture;history & criticism;hobbies & home;houseware & dining;new;used & rental textbooks,11
0520222237,"Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition Simon (English and humanities, California Polytechnic State Univ.) here maintains that great literature and popular entertainment evoke ""comparable experiences."" Painstakingly detailing the structures and ideas shared by popular culture and great literature, he compares modern supermarket tabloid and gossip magazine tragedies to the great tragic literature; TV talk shows, sitcoms, and soap operas to the history of the theater; and Star Wars, Star Trek, and Vietnam War movies to The Faerie Queen, Gulliver's Travels, and Homer. Likewise, advertising, shopping malls, and Playboy, he suggests, fulfill historic needs in modern context. A controversial and optimistic view of both literature and popular works, Simon's argument is carefully thought out and surprisingly convincing. Recommended for literature and communication collections.AGene Shaw, NYPL Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""[Simon] invites respect for popular works as artistic expressions in themselves at the same time as he uses these expressions as hooks to better understandand appreciatethe 'great' works of the past.""Robert J. Thompson, author of Television's Second Golden Age""Trash Culture is original, provocative, strongly argued and an enjoyable as well as informative read. . . We not only see trash culture anew by reading it from a classical critical perspective, but, more startlingly, we see classical critical perspectives anew in relation to how exactly they apply to trash culture.""Tony Hilfer, author of The Crime Novel: A Deviant Genre	""[Simon] invites respect for popular works as artistic expressions in  themselves at the same time as he uses these expressions as hooks to better  understandand appreciatethe 'great' works of the past."" (Robert J. Thompson,  author of Television's Second Golden Age)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Richard K. Simon is Professor of English and Chair of Humanities at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is the author of The Labyrinth of the Comic: Theory and Practice from Fielding to Freud (1985).",books;criticism & theory;history & criticism;humanities;literary theory;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
0907259200,"Karel Martens: printed matter/drukwerk, 2nd Edition Robin Kinross is Publisher of Hyphen Press. He lives in London.",architecture;arts & photography;books;criticism;decorative arts & design;graphic design;history;history & criticism;individual artists;professional & technical;techniques,11
089107290X,"For the Children's Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School (Child-Life Book) SUSAN SCHAEFFER MACAULAY grew up in Switzerland at L'Abri Fellowship, which was founded by her parents Francis and Edith Schaeffer. She and her husband Ranald Macaulay established and led the L'Abri branch in England for several years. She is also the author of For the Family's Sake and contributed to Books Children Love and When Children Love to Learn.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Fifteen years ago--in the world of education, a millennium--Macaulay wrote her ideological treatise on schooling, designed to assist parents and teachers in creating education that is both enriching and joyous. She states in her preface that the book embraces the Christian worldview as it applies the ideas and methods of educator Charlotte Mason to home-schooling, public education and family life. Mary Woods's crisp, cheerful reading aims to convince and encourage listeners. However, because of Macaulay's lifelong affiliation with the L'Abri Christian Fellowship in Switzerland and England, the underlying religious message is strong. Despite the acknowledged datedness of many of the books and materials suggested for use, and the underlying political tract, this recording will interest the Christian home-school market.  T.B. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;christian books & bibles;education;education & reference;ministry & church leadership;parent participation;parenting & relationships;reference;religion & spirituality;schools & teaching;youth ministry,11
0822956527,"Mister Rogers Neighborhood: Children Television And Fred Rogers For forty years, Fred Rogers has been telling children and the rest of us that he likes us just the way we are. No one else in our lives gives us that message. Now, in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, fifteen essayists show how deeply, and in how many ways, the message has registered. Starting with satirist Bob Garfield's hilarious conversion from Rogers Rejectionism to Rogers Rebirth, through cellist YoYo Ma's respect for Fred's musical messages, through various Fredwatchers' reactions to the depth and honesty of his work, this collection is a reminder of the many and varied lives Fred Rogers has touched, kept sane, kept steady and centered. The book is testimony to this fact: after two score years on television, Fred Rogers remains the best friend America's families ever had.--National Public RadioDiscusses the amazing depth of public television's longest-running show with a variety of contexts: aesthetic, developmental, theological, philosophical. Much of that is against a backdrop of a society and an industry that neglects when not exploiting children. . . . The range of commentators, from the humorous Bob Garfield to the charming Yo-Yo Ma examines and illuminates the many hertofore hidden facets of this Pittsburgh jewel.--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette",arts & literature;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;entertainers;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;parenting;parenting & relationships;schools & teaching;television,11
0778801179,"The Best Low-carb Cookbook Robert Rose publishes bestselling cookbooks of all types, cooking reference titles, and books on health.	Introduction Insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, glycemic index, low-carbohydrate -- these are terms for our 21st century. What do these terms mean and, more importantly, what do they mean to us individually? Over the last 20 years, nutritionists have guided the public to reduce fat intake according to U.S. government guidelines -- in other words, 30% or less of the calories we take in should come from fat. But the guidelines did not differentiate among the types of fat. In order to reach this percentage, carbohydrates were added to many recipes. Since that time, despite our current obsession with dieting, we have become fatter, and a large percentage of our population is pre-diabetic, including an epidemic among young children. The combination of a sedentary lifestyle and poor eating habits helps to explain the current rise of obese and overweight North Americans. A study from the University of California at Berkeley states that sweets, desserts, soft drinks and alcoholic beverages make up 25% of the total calories consumed by Americans. Salty snacks and fruit-flavored drinks make up another 5%. Insulin resistance affects almost half of all Americans and an even higher percentage of those who are overweight. People with insulin resistance produce higher-than-normal amounts of insulin after eating carbohydrates. This promotes an increase in fat storage. The National Institutes of Health have cited insulin resistance as the ""epidemic of the modern era."" If you have an apple shape or a beer belly, have food cravings or can't lose weight -- even if you don't cheat -- there's a good chance that you are insulin resistant or pre-diabetic. As always, it is best to check with your doctor for a complete diagnosis. The glycemic index was developed in the 1970s to measure how consumption of different types of foods increases blood sugar level. At that time, researchers found that eating a piece of white bread or a baked potato rapidly increased blood sugar levels. Lower glycemic foods cause blood sugar to rise and fall more slowly, and satisfy hunger longer. Foods at the high end of the glycemic index should be avoided. These include sugary sodas; baked goods such as donuts and white-flour bagels; root vegetables (French fries, instant potatoes, pumpkin, parsnips), sweets (candies, jams); and snack foods such as corn chips and pretzels. A rule of thumb is to stay away from white foods and go for those that are green and brown, This means lots of green vegetables and limited amounts of brown rice or 100% whole wheat bread or pasta. A caution: read labels carefully. A loaf of bread may say 100% wheat, but you should look for 100% whole wheat. Other baked goods that may look brown are simply colored with caramel coloring. Ask for the nutrition information at a bakery. If they don't have it or won't give it to you, the likelihood is that the product is not made with whole wheat flour. The theory behind a low-carbohydrate lifestyle is that cutting down on carbohydrates -- not consuming a big plate of pasta as a main course, for example -- prevents us from overstimulating insulin production, preventing peaks and valleys in blood sugar levels. It's important to eat a well-balanced meal three times a day and to have two small snacks during the day to keep a steady, even flow of insulin. What is a well-balanced meal? This is a question many medical people have a hard time answering. Outside of grilling a piece of fish and steaming vegetables, the answer seems to baffle them. But you won't be in the same boat. The recipes in this book will help you plan delicious and healthful meals. No more diet boredom. With the recipes in this book, you can cut your carbs, but not the flavor or fun. This is a chance for those who have been a slave to their diets, following everything exactly as it is written, to expand their repertoire. Simply decide on the amount of carbohydrates that fits your lifestyle (See ""Counting Carbs"") and then select from the 500 recipes in this book. Variety will add spice to your meals. There are recipes from all around the world here. You can have Chinese one night, Italian the next and Cajun another evening. The recipes in this book give you a wide choice of foods to fit every mood and palate. Plan your meals with them, and enjoy a happy and healthy low-carb lifestyle.	Introduction    Insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, glycemic index, low-carbohydrate -- these are terms for our 21st century. What do these terms mean and, more importantly, what do they mean to us individually?    Over the last 20 years, nutritionists have guided the public to reduce fat intake according to U.S. government guidelines -- in other words, 30% or less of the calories we take in should come from fat. But the guidelines did not differentiate among the types of fat. In order to reach this percentage, carbohydrates were added to many recipes. Since that time, despite our current obsession with dieting, we have become fatter, and a large percentage of our population is pre-diabetic, including an epidemic among young children.    The combination of a sedentary lifestyle and poor eating habits helps to explain the current rise of obese and overweight North Americans. A study from the University of             California at Berkeley states that sweets, desserts, soft drinks and alcoholic beverages make up 25% of the total calories consumed by Americans. Salty snacks and fruit-flavored drinks make up another 5%.    Insulin resistance affects almost half of all Americans and an even higher percentage of those who are overweight. People with insulin resistance produce higher-than-normal amounts of insulin after eating carbohydrates. This promotes an increase in fat storage. The National Institutes of Health have cited insulin resistance as the ""epidemic of the modern era."" If you have an apple shape or a beer belly, have food cravings or can't lose weight -- even if you don't cheat -- there's a good chance that you are insulin resistant or pre-diabetic. As always, it is best to check with your doctor for a complete diagnosis.    The glycemic index was developed in the 1970s to              measure how consumption of different types of foods increases blood sugar level. At that time, researchers found that eating a piece of white bread or a baked potato rapidly increased blood sugar levels. Lower glycemic foods cause blood sugar to rise and fall more slowly, and satisfy hunger longer.    Foods at the high end of the glycemic index should be avoided. These include sugary sodas; baked goods such as donuts and white-flour bagels; root vegetables (French fries, instant potatoes, pumpkin, parsnips), sweets (candies, jams); and snack foods such as corn chips and pretzels. A rule of thumb is to stay away from white foods and go for those that are green and brown, This means lots of green vegetables and limited amounts of brown rice or 100% whole wheat bread or pasta. A caution: read labels carefully. A loaf of bread may say 100% wheat, but you should look for 100% whole wheat. Other baked goods that may look brown are simply colored with caramel coloring.              Ask for the nutrition information at a bakery. If they don't have it or won't give it to you, the likelihood is that the product is not made with whole wheat flour.    The theory behind a low-carbohydrate lifestyle is that cutting down on carbohydrates -- not consuming a big plate of pasta as a main course, for example -- prevents us from overstimulating insulin production, preventing peaks and valleys in blood sugar levels. It's important to eat a well-balanced meal three times a day and to have two small snacks during the day to keep a steady, even flow of insulin. What is a well-balanced meal? This is a question many medical people have a hard time answering. Outside of grilling a piece of fish and steaming vegetables, the answer seems to baffle them.    But you won't be in the same boat. The recipes in this book will help you plan delicious and healthful meals. No more diet boredom. With the recipes in this book, you              can cut your carbs, but not the flavor or fun. This is a chance for those who have been a slave to their diets, following everything exactly as it is written, to expand their repertoire. Simply decide on the amount of carbohydrates that fits your lifestyle (See ""Counting Carbs"") and then select from the 500 recipes in this book. Variety will add spice to your meals. There are recipes from all around the world here. You can have Chinese one night, Italian the next and Cajun another evening.    The recipes in this book give you a wide choice of foods to fit every mood and palate. Plan your meals with them, and enjoy a happy and healthy low-carb lifestyle.",books;cookbooks;diets & weight loss;fitness & dieting;food & wine;health;healthy;low carb;low carbohydrate;low fat;special diet,11
0861711270,"Who Is My Self?: A Guide to Buddhist Meditation Ayya Khema is a meditator's meditator, a real expert, as  clear about the nuts and bolts of technique as she is about the  basic sanity and profound peacefulness that is the goal of all  technique. Who Is My Self? is a truly astonishing book. It  discusses, for the first time as far as I know, in definite and  practical language, the well-known eight stages of absorption, based  not on textual sources but on personal experience. If you are  interested in Buddhist meditation in all its color, depth, and  refinement you will want to pay close attention to this book.  -- Zoketsu Norman Fischer, Co-Abbot, San Francisco Zen Center, author of Jerusalem MoonlightAyya Khema's teachings are strongly grounded in a practical  daily life perspective, yet she shows how to experience sublime  states in meditation. In this excellent book she lays out the path  specified by the Buddha himself. -- Sandy Boucher, author of Turning the Wheel and Opening the Lotus--A Woman's Guide to Buddhism	In this beautifully crafted guide to one of the Buddha's  most famous teachings, Ayya Khema leads you, as the Buddha led his  disciple Potthapada, through progressively higher levels of  understanding and realization of the true nature of the ""self.""  Interpreting this famous discourse with insightful examples from her  years of teaching meditation, she guides you along the path of  perhaps the most effective Buddhist meditative practice for personal  transformation. Along the way you will learn about the language,  customs, and culture of the era in which the Buddha gave his  discourses and be surprised at how pertinent this 2500 year-old  teaching is for you and your world.	Born in Berlin in 1923 to Jewish parents, Ayya Khema was educated in Scotland and China and later emigrated to the United States. The author of twenty-five books, she was ordained as a nun in Sri Lanka in 1979 and established several Buddhist centers, including Wat Buddha Dhamma in Australia, Parapuddua Nun's Island in Sri Lanka, and Buddha Haus in Germany. In 1987 she coordinated the first-ever International Conference of Buddhist Nuns. She passed away in 1997.",alternative medicine;books;buddhism;christian books & bibles;fitness & dieting;health;meditation;meditations;religion & spirituality;theology;worship & devotion,11
0345466411,"My American Journey General Powell may have undertaken this book as a form of paid political test marketing, but it turns out to be a success of an altogether different kind. We don't learn from this book if Powell is presidential material, but his recounting of the various steps of his career give us an unrivaled view of the ins and outs of military bureaucracy and shows how the modern American military, with its consistent emphasis on can-do attitudes and actual results, is a much more congenial place for realizing one's talents than our still-alarmingly pigeonholing general society.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	YA?The eminently readable journey of one African American boy from a close-knit neighborhood in the South Bronx through his rise to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to civilian retirement. Powell was neither an athlete nor a scholar; his childhood centered around his home, friends, and church. Later, in college, he found his niche. ROTC offered structure and purpose. A recounting of his army career and the support offered by family and friends are the primary focus of this work. Challenges, lessons learned, and opportunities opened by each posting are shared. Commanding officers, selected business contracts, and four presidents are introduced and evaluated, almost all in a positive light. Powell's involvement with and analysis of national and international affairs, from Vietnam to the Clinton administration, are succinctly and objectively recounted. Scattered throughout the book are personal rules of conduct and occasional incidents of particular kindnesses and of racism. Teens are given an opportunity to spend some time with a thoughtful, positive leader. They can share one participant's view of recent history and gain one perspective on our country's current needs.?Barbara Hawkins, Oakton High School, Fairfax, VACopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This is the ""story so far,"" as General Powell tells it, from the Bronx to Vietnam to the White House, from the common to the regal. His account is one of captivating extremes, tales that span from peeling potatoes with the Soviet General Staff to conversing with the Queen of England. When Powell is not working on world crises-Panama, Iraq, Haiti-he's doing normal things like normal people, courting, quitting smoking, fighting calories. As a White House Fellow, National Security Advisor, and then the ""youngest officer, the first African American, and the first ROTC candidate"" to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Powell dealt with ""every issue from arms control to Bermuda tax treaties."" It's all very personable: Powell's Rules for running a meeting, his political philosophy, working for a chocoholic Defense Secretary, getting caught by Pentagon security with an antique rifle. But will he run for president? No clear answer is given here. For popular biography collections.--John Yurechko, Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	. . .an endearing and well written book . . . -- New York Times, Ronald Steel	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history - but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, he himself tells us how it happened, in a memoir distinguished by a heartfelt love of country and family, warm good humor, and a soldier's directness. He writes of the anxieties and missteps as well as the triumphs that marked his rise to four-star general, National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, mastermind of Desert Storm, and now the man the country would most like to draft as President just as it drafted General Eisenhower before him in 1952. We see Powell growing up, getting into mischief, going to church with his father, working in a bottling plant, joining the ROTC. We follow him as a green young lieutenant on his first foreign posting in Germany, where his ascent is nearly aborted by a blunder on the day he is assigned to guard an atomic cannon. We go on patrol with him into the jungles of Vietnam, where he is wounded, and then, in the first surprise turn of his career, into the every-bit-as-dangerous thickets of Washington bureaucracy as a Pentagon aide in the Carter administration. We see how he handled the humiliations inflicted on him as a black soldier traveling in the Deep South and the unnerving challenges he faced as a battalion commander in Korea, where the army guarding the border with North Korea was plagued by drugs, drinking, a lack of discipline, and racial tension. We are edge-of-the-seat spectators to some of the great international dramas of our time - Desert Storm, the invasion of Panama, the dark dealings of Iran-contra with Ollie North and Bill Casey, the climactic meetings with Gorbachev. And we are present also at the encounters with President Clinton on the controversial questio	""A GREAT AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY . . . AN ENDEARING AND WELL-WRITTEN BOOK.""--The New York Times Book ReviewColin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history--Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm--but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happened, in a memoir distinguished by a heartfelt love of country and family, warm good humor, and a soldier's directness. MY AMERICAN JOURNEY is the powerful story of a life well lived and well told. It is also a view from the mountaintop of the political landscape of America. At a time when Americans feel disenchanted with their leaders, General Powell's passionate views on family, personal responsibility, and, in his own words, ""the greatness of America and the opportunities it offers"" inspire hope and present a blueprint for the future. An utterly absorbing account, it is history with a vision.""The stirring, only-in-America story of one determined man's journey from the South Bronx to directing the mightiest of military forces . . . Fascinating.""--The Washington Post Book World""Eloquent.""--Los Angeles Times Book Review""PROFOUND AND MOVING . . . . Must reading for anyone who wants to reaffirm his faith in the promise of America.""--Jack Kemp The Wall Street Journal""A book that is much like its subject--articulate, confident, impressive, but unpretentious and witty. . . . Whether you are a political junkie, a military buff, or just interested in a good story, MY AMERICAN JOURNEY is a book well worth reading.""--San Diego Union Tribune""Colin Powell's candid, introspective autobiography is a joy for all with an appetite for well-written political and social commentary.""--The Detroit NewsFrom the Paperback edition.	One of the most prominent figures in American public life, General Colin L. Powell served as the twelfth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under both President George Bush and President Bill Clinton. He was a major architect of Desert Storm, the dramatic Allied success in the forty-three-day Gulf War, which began in January 1991. General Powell was born in New York City in 1937 and raised in the South Bronx by his parents, who had immigrated to America from Jamaica. He came up through the New York City public school system and received a commission as an army second lieutenant upon graduation from the City College of New York in 1958. Early in his career, General Powell was stationed in Germany and in a number of posts in the United States, and served two tours in Vietnam, 1962-1963 and 1968-1969. He was also a battalion commander in Korea from 1973 to 1974 and later commanded the 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and V Corps in Germany. General Powell was appointed Deputy National Security Advisor by President Ronald Reagan in January 1987 and in December 1987 became National Security Advisor, a post he held until January 1989. He served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1989 until his retirement on September 30, 1993. General Powell has received numerous U.S. military awards and decorations, as well as civilian awards honoring his public service, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which he was awarded twice. He has also been decorated by the governments of Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela, and received an honorary knighthood (Knight Commanders of Bath) from the Queen of England.From the Hardcover edition.	My American Journey: ExcerptPoint Two - Get mad, then get over it.IRAQBy the third week in February, the air war had been going on uninterrupted for thirty-five days. I wanted to make sure the President understood that war was going to look a lot different once fighting began on the ground. I took advantage of one of our almost daily briefings to paint the contrast. Once the ground war begins, I said, we don't get these antiseptic videos of a missile with a target in the cross hairs. When a battalion runs into a firefight, you don't lose a pilot or two, you can lose fifty to a hundred men in minutes. And a battlefield is not a pretty sight. You'll see a kid's scorched torso hanging out of a tank turret while ammo cooking off inside has torn the rest of the crew apart. We have to brace ourselves for some ugly images. I also made sure that Cheney and the President understood that ground combat cannot be reported as quickly as air strikes. There's going to be confusion. You won't know what is happening for a while. And so in the early hours, please don't press us for situation reports.The cold bath of reality was important. Notwithstanding Panama, Cheney had never seen war on a grand scale. The President had, but only from the air during his own long-ago fighter pilot days.As the bombing continued, one downside of airpower started to come into sharp focus, particularly what happened on February 13. That day, two of our aircraft scored direct hits on the Al Firdos bunker in Baghdad, which we regarded as a command and control site and which the Iraqis claimed was an air-raid shelter. Whatever use the structure served, a large number of civilians died in the strike, which the whole world witnessed on television as victims were hauled from the smoking rubble. Schwarzkopf and I discussed this tragedy. Did we still need to pound downtown Baghdad over a month into the war? How many times could you bomb the Baath Party headquarters, and for what purpose? No one was sitting there waiting for the next Tomahawk to hit. Schwarzkopf and I started reviewing targets more closely before each day's missions.If nothing else, the Al Firdos bunker strike underscored the need to start the combined air/ground offensive and end the war. During a quick visit Cheney and I had made to the war zone between February 8 and 10, Schwarzkopf had told us that he would be ready to go by February 21. As soon as Cheney and I got back to Washington, we reported this date to an impatient George Bush. Three days later, however, Norm called and told me that the 21st was out.The President wants to get on with this, I said. What happened?Walt Boomer needs more time, Schwarzkopf answered. Boomer's 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions were deployed to drive head-on from the center of the line toward Kuwait City. But first they had to breach a savage complex of entrenchments that the Iraqis had spent months erecting. The Marines would have to penetrate belts of antipersonnel and antitank mines, tangled rolls of booby-trapped barbed wire, more minefields, and deep tank traps, and then climb twenty-foot-high berms and cross trenches filled with burning oil. All the while, they would be under fire from Iraqi troops and artillery. Boomer wanted time to shift his point of attack twenty miles to the west, where one Iraqi defensive position had been largely abandoned under air attack and another line farther back was incomplete. He also wanted more airstrikes to weaken the enemy defenses before his troops moved.It'll cost a few days, Norm said. He wanted to put off the ground offensive until February 24.Remember the strategy, I reminded him. The frontal assaults were intended only to tie down the entrenched Iraqis, and that included the Marines' mission. If Boomer hits serious resistance, he's to stop, I said. Having engaged the enemy, his troops would have accomplished their mission by allowing VII Corps and XVIII Airborne Corps to pull off the left hook in the sparsely defended western desert. We don't need to kill a bunch of kids singing `The Marines' Hymn,'  I said.One of my fundamental operating premises is that the commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. The field commander is on the scene, feeling the terrain, directing the troops, facing and judging the enemy. I therefore advised Cheney to accept Norm's recommendation. Cheney reluctantly went to the President and got a postponement to February 24.I backed Norm, though I thought he was being overly cautious. Over the previous weeks, I had watched VII Corps, with its tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks, pour into Saudi Arabia. We had secretly moved our armored and airborne forces to Iraq's exposed western flank, and we had been holding our breath to see if the Iraqis responded. All they did was send another undermanned division to that part of the desert. That's it, I told myself. They had been sucked in by our moves hinting at a major frontal assault and an amphibious landing on Kuwait from the Persian Gulf. They had shown us everything they had, and it was nowhere near enough to stop our left hook. Earlier we had worried that the desert soil on the western flank might not be able to support heavy armored vehicles. The engineers had tested the sands, however, and gave us a Go. We questioned local Bedouins, and they confirmed the solidness of the terrain.The offensive timetable was further clouded as Mikhail Gorbachev tried to play peacemaker. On February 18, the Iraqi foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, went to Moscow to hear a plan under which we would stop hostilities if the Iraqis withdrew from Kuwait. President Bush was in a bind. It was too late for this approach, he believed. After the expenditure of $60 billion and transporting half a million troops eight thousand miles, Bush wanted to deliver a knockout punch to the Iraqi invaders in Kuwait. He did not want to win by a TKO that would allow Saddam to withdraw with his army unpunished and intact and wait for another day. Nevertheless, the President could not be seen as turning his back on a chance for peace.On February 20, Norm called saying he had talked to his commanders and needed still another delay, to the 26th. He had the latest weather report in hand, he said, and bad weather was predicted for the 24th and 25th, maybe clearing on the 26th. Bad weather equaled reduced air support, which equaled higher casualties. I was on the spot. So far, Cheney had accepted my counsel. But now I did not feel that Norm was giving me sufficiently convincing arguments to take back to Cheney and the President, first that Boomer needed to move his Marines, then that the Marines needed more air support, then that the weather was bad, and on still another occasion, that the Saudi army was not ready. What should I expect next, a postponement to the 28th?Look, I told Norm, ten days ago you told me the 21st. Then you wanted the 24th. Now you're asking for the 26th. I've got a President and a Secretary of Defense on my back. They've got a bad Russian peace proposal they're trying to dodge. You've got to give me a better case for postponement. I don't think you understand the pressure I'm under.Schwarzkopf exploded. You're giving me political reasons why you don't want to tell the President not to do something militarily unsound! He was yelling. Don't you understand? My Marine commander says we need to wait. We're talking about Marines' lives. He had to worry about them, he said, even if nobody else cared.That did it. I had backed Norm at every step, fended off his critics with one hand while soothing his anxieties with the other. Don't you pull that on me! I yelled back. Don't you try to lay a patronizing guilt trip on me! Don't tell me I don't care about casualties! What are you doing, putting on some kind of show in front of your commanders?He was alone, Schwarzkopf said, in his private office, and he was taking as much heat as I was. You're pressuring me to put aside my military judgment out of political expediency. I've felt this way for a long time! he said. Suddenly, his tone shifted from anger to despair. Colin, I feel like my head's in a vise. Maybe I'm losing it. Maybe I'm losing my objectivity.I took a deep breath. The last thing I needed was to push the commander in the field over the edge on the eve of battle. You're not losing it, I said. We've just got a problem we have to work out. You have the full confidence of all of us back here. At the end of the day, you know I'm going to carry your message, and we'll do it your way. It was time to break off the conversation before one of us threw another match into the gasoline.Within half an hour, Norm was back on the phone with the latest weather update. The 24th and the 25th did not look too bad after all. We're ready, he said. We had a go for the 24th.From the Hardcover edition.",20th century;african-american & black;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;history;leaders & notable people;military;political;united states,11
0471253774,"Light-Matter Interaction, Fundamentals and Applications (Volume 1) ""The book's use of extensive equations makes it a good tool for studentssimple but useful figures will prove especially helpful for the reader who is less familiar with the mathematical treatment of physical problems."" (Optics  Photonics News, July 2004)	A thorough introduction to atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) science and engineering    Atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) science and engineering stands at the confluence of strong scientific and technological currents in physics, chemistry, and electrical engineering. It seeks ways to expand our ability to use light for many purposes: to observe and manipulate matter at the atomic scale, to use nanostructures to manipulate light at the subwavelength scale, to develop quantum devices, and to control internal molecular motion and modify chemical reactivity with light. The two-volume Light-Matter Interaction draws together the principal ideas that form the basis of AMO science and engineering. Volume 1: Fundamentals and Applications fills many gaps left by standard courses and texts in chemical physics and electrical engineering to supply the basis of what the AMO scientist or engineer needs to build a solid foundation of understanding in the field.    Organized to serve as both textbook and reliable desk reference to a diverse audience ranging from student and novice to advanced practitioner, this book discusses both the fundamentals and common applications, including:        Classical absorption and emission of radiation    Quantum dipole coupling to the two-level system    The optical Bloch equations    Quantized fields and dressed states    Optical forces and cooling from atom-light interaction    The laser in theory and practice    Geometrical and wave optics: theory and applications    The Gaussian beam and optical resonators	JOHN WEINER graduated from Pennsylvania State University with high distinction and received his PhD from the University of Chicago. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of numerous professional organizations, including the Optical Society of America, the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the French Physical Society, and the French Optical Society. He has held many academic and research positions throughout the United States and France, and is currently a professor at Universit Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France. P.-T. HO is a professor of electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he has taught courses in electronics, electromagnetics, quantum electronics, and loudspeaker design. He received all his degrees from M.I.T., and has worked on optical semiconductor devices, ultrashort pulse techniques, and high power switches.",books;general;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;physics;quantum theory;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,11
0256158258,"Managerial Economics and Organizational Architecture (Irwin Advantage Series for Computer Education) Jerry Zimmerman (Rochester, N) is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Accounting at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;management;management & leadership;new;organizational behavior;popular economics;used & rental textbooks;workplace,11
0521237556,"Anglo-American Landscapes: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature In his examination of the aesthetic values inherent in travel books and the national prejudices and preconceptions betrayed by their authors, Christopher Mulvey has written a fascinating and entertaining chapter in nineteenth-century cultural history.",19th century;books;classics;criticism & theory;europe;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);united states;wales,11
0713676426,"Who's Whose? (Large Print) A comprehensive and entertaining A-Z guide'A genuinely useful reference book that deserves a handy place on thedesk of everyone who wants to use the right word for the job.' The Guardian'A jolly little book A useful handbook to the booby traps that liein wait for us all, including such old favourites as imply/infer,uninterested/ disinterested, discreet/ discrete, fazed/phased and soon.' Independent on Sunday'For those muddled about standard English If you ever effect insteadof affect, or think bears are grisly and bones beneath the patio aregrizzly, this masterly and compelling, rather than masterful andcompulsive, volume is for you.' The Times'A guide containing much good senseuncertain users of the Englishlanguage in general would best profit from the whole book.' Times Literary Supplement	      --This text refers to the 							Kindle Edition	 edition.	Philip Gooden is a writer and editor, and the author of several historical novels. He lives in Bath, England.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;christian books & bibles;education & reference;encyclopedias;language & grammar;reference;religion;religion & spirituality;slang & word lists;vocabulary;words,11
0801880238,"Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks (Themes in Global Social Change) Feminist readers will appreciate Moghadam's deep commitment to understanding global feminism from the inside out. (Abigail E. Cameron American Sociological Review 2010)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Valentine M. Moghadam is the director of women's studies and a professor of sociology at Illinois State University. She is also Chief, Gender Equality and Development Section, Human Rights Division, Social and Human Sciences Sector, UNESCO.",books;feminist theory;gender studies;international & world politics;mathematics;politics & government;politics & social sciences;science & math;social sciences;sociology;women's studies,11
1568581610,"Nothing Personal With his debut novel, Cold Caller, Jason Starr emerged on the mystery scene as heir to the bleakly cynical Jim Thompson (The Grifters) and James M. Cain (Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice). His follow-up effort, Nothing Personal, confirms Starr's position at the cutting edge of the revival of classic American noir, tracing in sharp relief lives of extinguished opportunity and of petty troubles that accumulate, somehow, into major crimes.  Thus it is that hapless Joey DePino, saddled with an incurable gambler's optimism--but even worse gambler's luck--finds himself threatened with the deadly wrath of irate and unpaid bookies. What to do? Drift into an inept plan to kidnap Jessica Sussman, that's what. Joey's wife Maureen and Jessica's mother Leslie were childhood friends, and Joey has endured enough anemic evenings at the Sussman's Upper East Side apartment in New York to feel entitled to a little ransom retribution. Too bad for him that David Sussman, Jessica's father, is currently trying to end an affair with a psychopathic coworker. Hell hath no fury, as everybody knows, and the result is a tangled mess of motive, mistaken identity, and murder. The lives of the Sussmans and the DePinos--so different on their (respectively) gilt-edged and tattered surfaces--form parallel strands intertwining and accelerating toward a dark nadir. As a genre, noir is an acquired taste: be warned that Starr tends to forsake character development and verisimilitude for an irony outlined in exceedingly broad strokes. You may find yourself getting heartily sick of both the Sussmans and the DePinos--but take comfort in the fact that Starr himself has an equally low opinion of his characters, and is only too ready to offer them up, in the finale, as grist for a bitingly sharp dinner-party mill. --Kelly Flynn	Noir devotee Starr's jet-black [...] thriller has attitude to spare. Too bad it doesn't have wit and style to match: his all-too-familiar venture into James M. Cain territory is populated by a cast of paper-thin, exceedingly unpleasant characters, all of whom quickly outstay their welcome. [...] In the hands of a master of tongue-in-cheek edge, like Elmore Leonard, or an expert practitioner of the down-and-dirty melodrama, like Donald Westlake's alter ego Richard Stark, [the premise of this book] could provide the foundation for a sharp, caustically funny sendup of marriage, adultery and obsessive behavior. Unfortunately, Starr's approach is much more run-of-the-mill. His dialogue is flat and listless, lacking the necessary staccato, noirish bite; his plotting is mundane and his observations (""Maureen's insecurity was something Leslie could always count on. No matter how bad things got in Leslie's life, Maureen was always a step lower"") are uninspired to the point of banality. Although it moves along smoothly and just manages to retain the reader's interest throughout, Starr's novel proves to be a decidedly low-wattage thriller. Film rights to Spice Factory. (May) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	By ably balancing the intertwining lives of two married couples, Starr (Cold Caller) has written a well-crafted second novel that should help establish his presence as a force in the noir genre. The first couple are the DePinos, who lead a poor, distressed existence, especially compared with the seemingly perfect and complete life of the wealthy Sussmans. When Joey DePino falls heavily into debt to bookmakers, he drags the Sussmans, without their knowledge, into his scheme to get the money he needs. While the DePinos' problems are obvious, Joey's actions quickly expose the Sussmans' numerous, less visible troubles. Starr keeps a firm command of the story throughout, conveying the level of depravity people are capable of while providing a wonderful tale that keeps the reader laughing. This should be popular with fans of Patricia Highsmith or anyone who enjoys dark studies of the human character. A nice addition to public libraries.-Craig L. Shufelt, Gladwin Cty. Lib., MI Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In debt to two bookies and a loan shark, compulsive gambler Joey DePino hatches a desperate plan to kidnap the young daughter of David and Leslie Sussman, a wealthy Upper East Side couple who are friends with Joey's wife. Enlisting a brain-damaged childhood friend as his accomplice, Joey sets his ill-conceived plan into motion. Meanwhile, David Sussman has serious problems of his own. His Asian mistress refuses to accept the fact that their affair is over and begins stalking David's wife. Joey and David, worlds apart in occupation and economic status, begin to commit similar and equally heinous crimes including blackmail and murder. In the gruesomely funny denouement, the DePinos and Sussmans sit down to dinner together. Joey is oblivious to the wreckage of both families: his wife is finally pregnant, by another man, and Leslie's eating disorder is in full bulimic mode. Starr just never lets up as he twists the plot in ever more sinister directions, and his deadpan tone is a perfect match for his material. Joanne WilkinsonCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	The two Manhattanites look like the winner and first runner-up in the World's Biggest Loser contest: Joey (The Jinx) DePino, a compulsive gambler who couldn't place a winning bet on a fight between Mike Tyson and Yo-Yo Ma, owes thousands to bookies and, worse, to Carlos, a loan shark whose goons beat him senseless, then give him till next week to pony up, or else. David Sussman is a reasonably successful ad exec, but between his flapping zipper and his flapping lips, half the agency knows he's been doing Amy Lee, a slightly psycho junior colleague who goes semiballistic at any mention of the end of the affair. Despite their little problems, you cant help but like this hapless duo, if only for the sake of their wives, Joey's Maureen and David's Leslie, best friends since grade school who've grown into interlocking neuroses and complementary eating disorders: Maureen binges while Leslie purges. But the Sussmans' ice-thin veneer of domestic tranquilityalready cracked by Amy's stalking Leslie through the aisles of a supermarketis shattered completely by Joey's brutal plot to tap prosperous David's resources in order to square himself with his creditors once and for all.      Starr (Cold Caller, 1998) paints it blacker than black, putting his compelling characters through the wringer before hanging them out to dry in a finale as creepy as it is inconclusive.-- Copyright  2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",books;contemporary;humor;humor & entertainment;literary;literature & fiction;mystery;self-help & psychology;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,11
080187419X,"Sunquakes: Probing the Interior of the Sun In his rich and enjoyable book, Jack Zirker presents the history of helioseismology, from the work of Leighton and Evans to current detailed investigations of the Sun's internal structure and dynamics... Zirker's excellent book combines the development of helio- and asteroseismology with a lucid and detailed overview of modern solar physics. The text is at a level that is accessible to the interested layperson, with more technical aspects discussed in the substantial set of notes... The book is wholeheartedly recommended. (Jrgen Christensen-Dalsgaard Nature )The whole riveting story of helioseismology is now told by J. B. Zirker in  Sunquakes. Science books often fall between two stools. Scientists know their stuff but are rarely good storytellers whereas good storytellers rarely possess the necessary sweeping command of a scientific discipline. Zirker is that rare animal who can both communicate the most demanding technical detail and make it accessible. For years, solar astronomy has been the poor relation, overshadowed by such headline-grabbers as pulsars, gamma-ray bursters and supermassive black holes. After reading Zirker's breezy page-turner, you will wonder why. (New Scientist ) Sunquakes provides an excellent, comprehensive overview of the history of [helioseismology], from the early discoveries of the 1960s through the establishment of current Earth-based and space-based helioseismology programs. Lucid discussions of the scientific principles and challenges of the quest to understand solar oscillations are interspersed with anecdotes revealing the personalities involved...  Sunquakes is a remarkable book that conveys a true sense of the excitement involved in the development of a new scientific discipline. (Steve Kawaler American Scientist 2004)A very thorough account of helioseismology... Writing in an easy-to-read manner, he conveys the complexity and beauty of the interior structure of the sun and explains how and why solar astronomers came to their conclusions... This good, self-contained book is enjoyable and interesting. (Choice )This book is a rigorous yet approachable treatment of one of the newer branches of astronomy, helioseismology... [and] will be an important addition to a school or classroom astronomy library. (Cary Seidman Science Teacher )The book is written in an accessible and readable style, is well illustrated, and I can thoroughly recommend it.  (C.R. Kitchen Astronomy Now 2004) These pages bring to life the work of helioseismologists during the last century. Zirker makes understanding the many esoteric physical laws and concepts involved in this field intuitive for the lay reader. (Edward Rhodes, University of Southern California )Jack Zirker uses his deep understanding of solar astronomy to explain how scientists have done something long thought impossibleto see deep inside the Sun. Though it is hidden below hundreds of thousands of miles of opaque gas, the solar core has recently revealed its secrets through studies of changing ripples on the Sun's surface and through study of a tiny fraction of mysterious particles generated as part of making the Sun shine. Zirker carefully and clearly explains these exciting topics to the general reader. (Jay M. Pasachoff, Williams College )A great read! Zirker has done a masterful job in conveying the science and telling the exciting story behind the discovery that we can 'see' beneath the opaque surface of the Sun. Having made fundamental contributions to the field himself, he is very well placed to synthesize the science and the essential, human side of the story right up to the present. His very accessible style will lead the reader to understand what a generation ago was unimaginabledaily CT scans of this prototype of all stars and the source of our life and environment. (John Leibacher, National Optical Astronomy Observatory )	Jack B. Zirker, former director of the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, is author of the books  Total Eclipses of the Sun and  Journey from the Center of the Sun.",astronomy;astronomy & astrophysics;astronomy & space science;astrophysics & space science;books;new;physics;science & math;science & mathematics;solar system;used & rental textbooks,11
0292790880,"Covarrubias Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1956), the precociously gifted Mexican caricaturist and artist later turned anthropologist, author and ballet director, remains comparatively unfamiliar in the U.S. But he was a darling of the New York smart set during the 1920s and '30s, when his caricatures were featured in Vanity Fair and the New Yorker and he became a protege of Carl van Vechten and Alfred Knopf, who published his books. Williams's biography is thus important as the first full-scale portrait. In the course of painstakingly tracing Covarrubias's life and his association with such luminaries as Diego Rivera, Nelson Rockefeller and Carlos Chavez, Williams reveals the long-term cultural and social links between Mexican and North American elites, at a time when such links are being renewed. As granddaughter of former Mexican president Plutarco Calles and a friend of Covarrubias's American wife, Rosa Cowen, the author is well qualified to cover this material, though the book suffers from some lack of focus. Moving forward chronologically, with little interpretation, analysis or shaping, Williams depends heavily on the reminiscences of eyewitnesses to events in the lives of the Covarrubiases; and only when such events are interesting is the book interesting-as for instance, in the account of the scandalous dissolution of the couple's marriage. The illustrations would be more effective if they corresponded more closely with the text. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Miguel Covarrubias (1904-57), cari-caturist for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and one of the most multifaceted 20th-century Mexican artists, and wife Rosa Rolanda Covarrubias (d. 1970), an acclaimed New York dancer, are the subjects of this long-overdue biography. The Covarrubiases collaborated on projects that included dance, ethnology, painting, art collecting, and the development of museums to preserve Mexico's pre-Columbian heritage. In the 1930s and 1940s, their home near Mexico City became a well-known address to native and foreign artists of all disciplines. This highly readable and scrupulously researched narrative captures the brilliance of both artists and their cultural milieu. Besides a 1984 exhibition at the Smithsonian, English-language research on the Covarrubiases has been scarce. (Readers may also be interested in the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo Museum of Mexico's comprehensive and beautiful Spanish-language catalog on the Covarrubiases, published in 1987.) Recommended for most collections.Russell T. Clement, Brigham Young Univ. Lib., Provo, Ut.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	During the 1920s, Miguel Covarrubias and his wife-to-be, Rosa, were highly visible players among New York's most celebrated artists and literati. Yet, this engaging biography just may be the introduction for many readers to the multitalented son of a prominent Mexican family and his beautiful partner, who was a gifted dancer when the two first met. Bringing a personal acquaintance with Rosa to bear on years of insightful research, Williams creates a moving portrayal of the notable couple, champions of Mexican culture who entertained the eminent figures of the day in their home outside Mexico City. The book contains a color portfolio that includes vividly colored images of Bali by Miguel Covarrubias.   Alice Joyce	""[Williams'] detailed account of the lives, work and friends of Miguel and Rosa Covarrubias brings alive what some regard as the Golden Age of Mexican art in the 30s and 40s... Covarrubias is a handsomely produced and well presented book that gives a full and enlightening account of the career of the man who Antonio Rodriguez described as '...the encyclopedic artist of Mexico's rebirth...' in his El Nacional eulogy."" - British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal and Spain ""The rich tapestry of Mexican cultural life in the 1940s that [this book] evokes is spellbinding ..."" - Cynthia Steele, associate professor of Spanish, University of Washington	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;biological sciences;biology;books;performing arts;science & math;travel,11
0595093302,"Quo Vadis: New Directions in the Search for Answers TIME exists as a neurobiological system in the brain. It is not a dimension, force   or substance bonded to space.    TIME AND HUMAN DESTINY    ""Throughout history, human beings have restlessly puzzled over time's profound   yet inscrutable nature,"" according to British physicist Peter Coveney. In QUO   VADIS (Latin for ""Where are you going?""), the author invites readers to walk with   him down a trail that leads them to a revolutionary theory of time's origin and   nature. By solving the ancient riddle of time, they open up fresh visions of human   destiny and the supreme role of all life in the cosmic drama.    Then people of this earth will want to turn away from the cynical, materialistic   worldviews shaped in the past century by what Einstein called the   ""dehumanization and mechanization"" of human beings and their societies. They   will be inspired to stand up for the cause of life and give a bold, confident answer   to the question addressed to all people in the new millennium:    ""Quo vadis, Humanity? Where are you going now?""",books;consciousness & thought;existentialism;history & philosophy;metaphysics;movements;philosophy;physics;politics & social sciences;science & math;time,11
0886852749,Social Studies and Citizenship Education: Content Knowledge (Praxis Study Guides) Educational Testing Service (ETS) is the world's premier educational testing organization and the only publisher of GRE and TOEFL test preparation materials containing authentic test questions from start to finish.,books;education;education & reference;graduate & professional;new;schools & teaching;teaching;test prep & study guides;test preparation;testing;used & rental textbooks,11
0910923639,"Organizing Special Events and Conferences: A Practical Guide for Busy Volunteers and Staff Darcy Campion Devney has belonged to many different nonprofit organizations, including the Girl Scouts, the International Thespian Society, the Society for Creative Anachronism, and the National Association of Female Executives. She has a B.S. in Corporate Communications and Management from Boston University. Over the last twenty years, she has worked at Harvard University in various departments, including Harvard Magazine, Cabot House, and the Office for Sponsored Research.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & investing;communications;customs & traditions;industries & professions;nonprofit organizations & charities;philanthropy & charity;politics & social sciences;running meetings & presentations;skills;social sciences,11
0764113747,"Pass Key to the GMAT (back cover)  This shorter version of Barron's full-size GMAT test preparation manual presents  three full-length model tests with all questions answered and analyzed. You will also find subject reviews in all test areas: essay writing, reading comprehension, sentence correction, critical  reasoning, problem solving, and data sufficiency.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",accounting;books;business;business & management;computers & technology;education & reference;gmat;graduate & professional;manager's guides to computing;software;test preparation,11
0735618003,"Programming in the Key of C#: A Primer for Aspiring Programmers (Pro-Developer) Charles Petzold has been writing about Windows programming for 25 years. A Windows Pioneer Award winner, Petzold is author of the classic Programming Windows, the widely acclaimed Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, Programming Windows Phone 7, and more than a dozen other books.",books;c#;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks,11
0471247146,"Working Solo(r) Sourcebook: Essential Resources for Independent Entrepreneurs, 2nd Edition An annotated listing of resources on running one's own business. Every one of the 1,200 items includes complete bibliographic information, an icon indicating its format (book, magazine) or its structure (government, conference), plus a one- or two-sentence description of contents. In addition to the lists, which are alphabetized from advertising to women-owned businesses, are the compiler's asides, which are brief, to-the-point notes and advice about techniques and new avenues to try.  Barbara Jacobs	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	The essential resources you need for solo business successThis handy, one-stop reference is your ticket to more than 1,200 business resources--each designed to help make your solo venture a smashing success. From professional organizations and government agencies to magazines, videos, and more, it gives you the lowdown on where to turn and whom to ask for expert advice, guidance, and support. This thoroughly revised Second Edition includes a wealth of new material highlighted by expanded listings of Internet resources, Web site addresses, small business associations, and publications, as well as top educational opportunities for independent entrepreneurs. This invaluable resource will show you how to: Master new business skills Access free and low-cost services Establish valuable professional contacts Tap into technology resources Locate quality business books and newsletters, tapes, and networks Track down special supplies Market and advertise effectively Keep your business fresh, exciting, and profitable.Companion to the updated edition of the bestselling Working Solo	TERRI LONIER is internationally known for her unique ability to connect major corporationsincluding Bank of America, Hewlett Packard, and Seagram'swith the booming SOHO (small office/home office) market. She features up-to-date information for and about this market on the Working Solo Web site (www.workingsolo.com) and via an e-mail newsletter.",bibliographies & indexes;books;business;business & investing;education & reference;entrepreneurship;home based;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;small business & entrepreneurship;writing,11
0807032670,"What Does it Mean to Be Well Educated? And Other Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies If general readers recognize Kohn's name, it's thanks to his campaign against standardized testing (The Case Against Standardized Testing). Educational professionals will recall Kohn's insights into classroom management (Punished by Rewards) and school reform (The Schools Our Children Deserve). This collection of essays, written from 1999 to 2003, proves the author is one of America's most astute critics of current educational policies. Kohn revisits the standards and testing mania, but also takes on other controversial issues: grade inflation, school violence and how educators can deal with the aftermath of 9/11. ""Turning Learning into a Business"" is an informative and incisive critique of the many ways in which Kohn sees the corporate world exploiting kids and profiting from schools through the marketing of tests, advertising in schools and textbooks, and turning schools into for-profit businesses. Kohn carefully links these issues to larger social concerns: ""one of the most crucial tasks in a democratic society"" is ""the act of limiting the power that corporations have in determining what happens in, and to, our schools."" Kohn is unapologetic and articulate about the advantages of a progressive approach to education that values students' interests, focuses on understanding (rather than the acquisition of isolated facts) and assesses student work authentically (rather than by single, standardized measures). True to his educational philosophy, he asks readers to consider big questions, such as: What's important to know? What are the qualities of a good school? And perhaps most vital, Who gets to decide and who benefits? Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	The most energetic and charismatic figure standing in the way of a major federal effort to make standardized curriculums and tests a fact of life in every U.S. school. --Washington Post""Of the dozens of 'experts' on what's wrong (and right) in U.S. schools, only a handful are truly worth reading; Kohn has long been one of the soundest. His willingness not simply to challenge conventional answers but also examine whether we're asking the right questions gives his work a genuinely eye-opening quality."" --Booklist""Kohn cuts against the grain and takes on adversaries without fear, and yet with a mature and rational sophistication. He draws upon a rich tradition, citing the work of Dewey, Bruner, Piaget, and Holt, among others, but he now takes his proper place within their ranks."" --Jonathan Kozol	Alfie Kohn's previous eight books include Punished by Rewards, No Contest, and The Schools Our Children Deserve. He speaks widely to teachers and parents and lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.",assessment;books;education;education & reference;education theory;history;history & theory;new;reform & policy;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,11
0721602096,"The Certification Step: 2004 Physician Coding Exam Review Guide, 1e (CPC Coding Exam Review: Certification Step) Carol J. Buck, MS,CPC, Program Director (Retired), Medical Secretarial Programs, Northwest Technical College, East Grand Forks, MN",administration & medicine economics;administration & policy;books;medical books;medical history & records;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;practice management & reimbursement;test preparation & review;used & rental textbooks,11
0131429019,"The Art of UNIX Programming (The Addison-Wesley Professional Computng Series) Unix ranks among the great engineering accomplishments of the last half of the twentieth century, and its heir--Linux--seems already imposing and still on its way to achieving its full potential. Eric S. Raymond argues in The Art of UNIX Programming that the excellence of Unix derives as much from the fact that it was (and continues to be) a community effort as from the fact that a lot of smart people have worked to design and build it. Raymond, best known as the author of the open-source manifesto The Cathedral and the Bazaar, says in his preface that this is a ""why-to"" book, rather than a ""how-to"" book. It aims to show new Unix programmers why they should work under the old ""hacker ethic""--embracing the principles of good software design for its own sake and of code-sharing.   That said, a great deal of valuable practical information appears in this book. Very little of it is in the form of code; most of the practical material takes the form of case studies and discussions of aspects of Unix, all aimed at determining why particular design characteristics are good. In many cases, the people who did the work in the first place make guest appearances and explain their thinking--an invaluable resource. This book is for the deep-thinking software developer in Unix (and perhaps Linux in particular). It shows how to fit into the long and noble tradition, and how to make the software work right. --David Wall Topics covered: Why Unix (the term being defined to include Linux) is the way it is, and the people who made it that way. Commentary from Ken Thompson, Steve Johnson, Brian Kernighan, and David Korn enables readers to understand the thought processes of the creators of Unix.	""Reading this book has filled a gap in my education. I feel a sense of completion, understand that UNIX is really a style of community. Now I get it, at least I get it one level deeper than I ever did before. This book came at a perfect moment for me, a moment when I shifted from visualizing programs as things to programs as the shadows cast by communities. From this perspective, Eric makes UNIX make perfect sense.""  --Kent Beck, author of Extreme Programming Explained, Test Driven Development, and Contributing to Eclipse   ""A delightful, fascinating read, and the lessons in problem-solvng are essential to every programmer, on any OS.""  --Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++    Writing better software: 30 years of UNIX development wisdom   In this book, five years in the making, the author encapsulates three decades of unwritten, hard-won software engineering wisdom. Raymond brings together for the first time the philosophy, design patterns, tools, culture, and traditions that make UNIX home to the world's best and most innovative software, and shows how these are carried forward in Linux and today's open-source movement. Using examples from leading open-source projects, he shows UNIX and Linux programmers how to apply this wisdom in building software that's more elegant, more portable, more reusable, and longer-lived.   Raymond incorporates commentary from thirteen UNIX pioneers:     Ken Thompson, the inventor of UNIX.  Ken Arnold, part of the group that created the 4BSD UNIX releases and co-author of The Java Programming Language.  Steven M. Bellovin, co-creator of Usenet and co-author of Firewalls and Internet Security.  Stuart Feldman, a member of the Bell Labs UNIX development group and the author of make and f77.    Jim Gettys and Keith Packard, principal architects of the X windowing system.  Steve Johnson, author of yacc and of the Portable C Compiler.  Brian Kernighan, co-author of The C Programming Language, The UNIX Programming Environment, The Practice of Programming, and of the awk programming language.  David Korn, creator of the korn shell and author of The New Korn Shell Command and Programming Language.  Mike Lesk, a member of the Bell Labs development group and author of the ms macro package, the tbl and refer tools,lex and UUCP.  Doug McIlroy, Director of the Bell Labs research group where UNIX was born and inventor of the UNIX pipe.  Marshall Kirk McKusick, developer of the 4.2BSD fast filesystem and a leader of the 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD teams.  Henry Spencer, a leader among early UNIX developers, who created getopt, the first open-source string library, and a regular-expression engine used in 4.4BSD.	ERIC S. RAYMOND has been a Unix developer since 1982. Known as the resident anthropologist and roving ambassador of the open-source community, he wrote the movement's manifesto in The Cathedral and the Bazaar and is the editor of The New Hacker's Dictionary.	Preface  Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.Neal Stephenson There is a vast difference between knowledge and expertise. Knowledge lets you deduce the right thing to do; expertise makes the right thing a reflex, hardly requiring conscious thought at all. This book has a lot of knowledge in it, but it is mainly about expertise. It is going to try to teach you the things about Unix development that Unix experts know, but aren't aware that they know. It is therefore less about technicalia and more about shared culture than most Unix books  both explicit and implicit culture, both conscious and unconscious traditions. It is not a how-to book, it is a why-to book. The why-to has great practical importance, because far too much software is poorly designed. Much of it suffers from bloat, is exceedingly hard to maintain, and is too difficult to port to new platforms or extend in ways the original programmers didn't anticipate. These problems are symptoms of bad design. We hope that readers of this book will learn something of what Unix has to teach about good design. This book is divided into four parts: Context, Design, Tools, and Community. The first part (Context) is philosophy and history, to help provide foundation and motivation for what follows. The second part (Design) unfolds the principles of the Unix philosophy into more specific advice about design and implementation. The third part (Tools) focuses on the software Unix provides for helping you solve problems. The fourth part (Community) is about the human-to-human transactions and agreements that make the Unix culture so effective at what it does. Because this is a book about shared culture, I never planned to write it alone. You will notice that the text includes guest appearances by prominent Unix developers, the shapers of the Unix tradition. The book went through an extended public review process during which I invited these luminaries to comment on and argue with the text. Rather than submerging the results of that review process in the final version, these guests were encouraged to speak with their own voices, amplifying and developing and even disagreeing with the main line of the text. In this book, when I use the editorial we it is not to pretend omniscience but to reflect the fact that it attempts to articulate the expertise of an entire community. Because this book is aimed at transmitting culture, it includes much more in the way of history and folklore and asides than is normal for a technical book. Enjoy; these things, too, are part of your education as a Unix programmer. No single one of the historical details is vital, but the gestalt of them all is important. We think it makes a more interesting story this way. More importantly, understanding where Unix came from and how it got the way it is will help you develop an intuitive feel for the Unix style. For the same reason, we refuse to write as if history is over. You will find an unusually large number of references to the time of writing in this book. We do not wish to pretend that current practice reflects some sort of timeless and perfectly logical outcome of preordained destiny. References to time of writing are meant as an alert to the reader two or three or five years hence that the associated statements of fact may have become dated and should be double-checked. Other things this book is not is neither a C tutorial, nor a guide to the Unix commands and API. It is not a reference for sed or yacc or Perl or Python. It's not a network programming primer, nor an exhaustive guide to the mysteries of X. It's not a tour of Unix's internals and architecture, either. Other books cover these specifics better, and this book points you at them as appropriate. Beyond all these technical specifics, the Unix culture has an unwritten engineering tradition that has developed over literally millions of man-years1 of skilled effort. This book is written in the belief that understanding that tradition, and adding its design patterns to your toolkit, will help you become a better programmer and designer. Cultures consist of people, and the traditional way to learn Unix culture is from other people and through the folklore, by osmosis. This book is not a substitute for person-to-person acculturation, but it can help accelerate the process by allowing you to tap the experience of others. Who Should Read This Book You should read this book if you are an experienced Unix programmer who is often in the position of either educating novice programmers or debating partisans of other operating systems, and you find it hard to articulate the benefits of the Unix approach. You should read this book if you are a C, C++, or Java programmer with experience on other operating systems and you are about to start a Unix-based project. You should read this book if you are a Unix user with novice-level up to middle-level skills in the operating system, but little development experience, and want to learn how to design software effectively under Unix. You should read this book if you are a non-Unix programmer who has figured out that the Unix tradition might have something to teach you. We believe you're right, and that the Unix philosophy can be exported to other operating systems. So we will pay more attention to non-Unix environments (especially Microsoft operating systems) than is usual in a Unix book; and when tools and case studies are portable, we say so. You should read this book if you are an application architect considering platforms or implementation strategies for a major general-market or vertical application. It will help you understand the strengths of Unix as a development platform, and of the Unix tradition of open source as a development method. You should not read this book if what you are looking for is the details of C coding or how to use the Unix kernel API. There are many good books on these topics; Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment is classic among explorations of the Unix API, and The Practice of Programming is recommended reading for all C programmers (indeed for all programmers in any language). How to Use This Book This book is both practical and philosophical. Some parts are aphoristic and general, others will examine specific case studies in Unix development. We will precede or follow general principles and aphorisms with examples that illustrate them: examples drawn not from toy demonstration programs but rather from real working code that is in use every day. We have deliberately avoided filling the book with lots of code or specification-file examples, even though in many places this might have made it easier to write (and in some places perhaps easier to read!). Most books about programming give too many low-level details and examples, but fail at giving the reader a high-level feel for what is really going on. In this book, we prefer to err in the opposite direction. Therefore, while you will often be invited to read code and specification files, relatively few are actually included in the book. Instead, we point you at examples on the Web. Absorbing these examples will help solidify the principles you learn into semi-instinctive working knowledge. Ideally, you should read this book near the console of a running Unix system, with a Web browser handy. Any Unix will do, but the software case studies are more likely to be preinstalled and immediately available for inspection on a Linux system. The pointers in the book are invitations to browse and experiment. Introduction of these pointers is paced so that wandering off to explore for a while won't break up exposition that has to be continuous. Note: While we have made every effort to cite URLs that should remain stable and usable, there is no way we can guarantee this. If you find that a cited link has gone stale, use common sense and do a phrase search with your favorite Web search engine. Where possible we suggest ways to do this near the URLs we cite. Most abbreviations used in this book are expanded at first use. For convenience, we have also provided a glossary in an appendix. References are usually by author name. Numbered footnotes are for URLs that would intrude on the text or that we suspect might be perishable; also for asides, war stories, and jokes.2  To make this book more accessible to less technical readers, we invited some non-programmers to read it and identify terms that seemed both obscure and necessary to the flow of exposition. We also use footnotes for definitions of elementary terms that an experienced programmer is unlikely to need. Related References Some famous papers and a few books by Unix's early developers have mined this territory before. Kernighan and Pike's The Unix Programming Environment stands out among these and is rightly considered a classic. But today it shows its age a bit; it doesn't cover the Internet, and the World Wide Web or the new wave of interpreted languages like Perl, Tcl, and Python. About halfway into the composition of this book, we learned of Mike Gancarz's The Unix Philosophy. This book is excellent within its range, but did not attempt to cover the full spectrum of topics we felt needed to be addressed. Nevertheless we are grateful to the author for the reminder that the very simplest Unix design patterns have been the most persistent and successful ones.  The Pragmatic Programmer is a witty and wise disquisition on good design practice pitched at a slightly different level of the software-design craft (more about coding, less about higher-level partitioning of problems) than this book. The authors' philosophy is an outgrowth of Unix experience, and it is an excellent complement to this book.  The Practice of Programming cov...",apis & operating environments;books;computer science;computers & technology;linux;new;operating systems;programming;software;unix;used & rental textbooks,11
007297902X,"Ethics Across Cultures with PowerWeb: Ethics Michael C. Brannigan is the Leader of Clinical and Organizational Ethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics, based in Kansas City, Missouri.  He was formerly Executive Director of the Institute for Cross-Cultural Ethics as well as Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at La Roche College.  Along with numerous scholarly articles on ethics, Asian thought, and cross-cultural studies, his books include Cross-Cultural Biotechnology, Healthcare Ethics in a Diverse Society, Ethical Issues in Human Cloning, Striking a Balance: A Primer in Traditional Asian Values, and The Pulse of Wisdom: The Philosophies of India, China, and Japan.  Born in Fukuoka, Japan, and raised in Newport, Rhode Island, he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy and M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Leuven, Belgium.  He has lectured widely on ethics, applied ethics, and intercultural perspectives, and has received various national and international awards.  His other interests include athletics, music, and the martial arts.  He and his wife Brooke, and their affably eccentric dog Seamus, are still discovering the richness of Americas Heartland.",books;ethics;ethics & morality;ethnic studies;humanities;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,11
B000MZHY5M,"The Emotional Intelligence Activity Book: 50 Activities for Promoting Eq at Work You'll find ""The Emotional Intelligence Activity Book"" a useful addition to your facilitator's toolkit.   -- The Facilitator	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""We've all heard of ""IQ""...but what's ""EQ?"" It's ""Emotional Quotient"" (aka Emotional Intelligence), and experts say that EQ is a greater predictor of success at work than IQ. Companies are increasingly looking for ways to motivate and develop their employees' emotional intelligence. This book presents trainers and coaches with 50 innovative exercises to be used for either individuals or groups. The activities found in the book are grouped according to the various core competencies associated with Emotional Intelligence: * Self-Awareness and Control: an awareness of one's values, emotions, skills, and drives, and the ability to control one's emotional responses * Empathy: an understanding of how others perceive situations * Social Expertness: the ability to build relationships based on an assumption of human equality * Mastery of Vision: the development and communication of a personal philosophy The book also includes suggested training combinations and coaching tips.""	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & investing;business life;emotions;fitness & dieting;health;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;mental health;self-help;success,11
0415915015,"Science and Homosexualities These themes are developed and examined in informative and rich analyses of various aspects of the historical and contemporary trends in the biomedical treatment of homosexuality and related phenomenon, such as intersexuality. -- Archives of Sexual Behavior...the corpus of these essays demonstrates the complex, historically shifting interplay between researcher and subject. -- Archives of Sexual BehaviorAll in all, this is an excellent collection of essays on the history and contemporary practice of biomedical science applied to homosexuality .  The reader will gain a sophisticated understanding of the dialectics and contextual embeddedness of the scientific search for an understanding of sexuality and gender. -- Archives of Sexual Behavior...quite well-written, provocative, occasionally witty and wryly amusing, and they should be accessible to newcomers as well as informative to readers who have already delved into these topics. -- Slogan...the essays in this volume make compelling arguments about the need to take seriously the high stakes of science. -- CLGHTaking on our fervent feelings about 'science' and our fervid responses to 'homosexuality,' these essays are doubly hot.. -- Jonathan Ned KatzThis extraordinary collection promises to become a classic. -- Sandra Harding	Vernon A. Rosario II, M.D. teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.",books;gay & lesbian;gay & lesbian studies;new;nonfiction;philosophy;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,11
0870136976,"Still Pitching: A Memoir A insightful and engaging memoir...a wrenching examination of what it meant to be an adolescent male in the 1950's. -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 29, 2003Almost heart breaking at times, a brave little book, one of the two or three best I've read this year. -- Blue Ridge Business Journal, November 3, 2003This elegant little memoir presents a middle-aged man's recollections of his coming of age through baseball, friendship and conflict. -- Library Journal, September 2003This is a stunning debut memoir...a virtuoso performance by a writer of the very first order. -- ForeWord Magazine, September 2003	Still Pitching is not just a book about baseball, or being a die-hard Dodger fan, or even about growing up Jewish in New York in the 50s.  Those are the facts, of course. But the book is about yearning and striving. About wanting and not getting. Everything you want in life is a tradeoff and a struggle.  In order for a goal to be meaningful, you have to earn it. It doesnt matter if its making the high school baseball team or wanting to sing lead soprano at the Met.  Talent is important, of course. But it wont get you anywhere without determination, preparation, and rigor. Still Pitching focuses not on defeats or heroic results, but on doing the hard work.Thats where the real achievement and satisfactions are.	Still Pitching is a coming-of-age story about growing up Jewish in New York in the 1950s. It details how a passion for baseball--a passion fueled by New York's ""golden age of baseball,"" during which one (and sometimes two) of the city's three baseball teams made it to the World Series for ten consecutive years)--transformed the author from an introverted outsider into a popular and successful high school pitcher.  Readers will cringe at school yard slights, anti-Semitic barbs, humiliations inflicted by coaches, and the narrator's romantic and sexual confusions. They'll also root for Steinberg to figure things out, rejoice in his earned triumphs, and above all, remember how jarring and perplexing--and occasionally exhilarating-- life is on the route to adulthood.  Baseball, in particular the author's identification with the hard luck Brooklyn Dodgers, makes everything possible. Steinberg's love of the game leads to his first success as a writer and teaches him about discipline, persistence, and hard work. As if by accident, Steinberg learns exactly the skills he needs to become a confident adult and writer.	Michael Steinberg is New York native, has taught writing and creative writing for over twenty-five years at universities, has directed national writing workshops and conferences, and has been a contest judge for the Annie Dillard Award in Creative Nonfiction. He is the founding editor of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, an award-winning journal of creative nonfiction, as well as the editor of Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs from Michigan.  Steinberg's own essays and memoirs have won several national awards: A FOREWORD MAGAZINE 2003 Gold Medal for his memoir, STILL PITCHING; two pieces have been cited as Notable Essays in Best American Essays (1995 and 1999), and one in Best American Sports Writing (1995). Four others have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Steinberg has written reviews for The New York Times Sunday Book Review, as well as many feature magazine articles for national and regional magazines. From 1974-1976, he wrote a bimonthly column for the Detroit Free Press Magazine.",20th century;americas;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;history;memoirs;modern (16th-21st centuries);sports & outdoors;state & local;united states,11
0745322875,"Vulnerability and Violence: The Impact of Globalization What impressed me was the novelty of the analysis presented and its great usefulness in understanding many of the psychological and social dimensions of globalisazation-related phenomena we observe on the Latin American scene -- David Molineaux, Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful, Santiago, Chile This is an academic and theoretical analysis of the issues concerning the impact of globalisation upon societies around the world. The post Cold War experience of Central and Eastern Europe has seen a huge chasm emerge between the few newly rich and the mass of suddenly poor, under the impact of market forces and dismantling of communist era welfare systems: very many people have now become 'the vulnerable', social tensions and in some cases, violent upheaval, have resulted. Latin America, which has seen the financial collapse in Argentina, is now increasingly opposing US led neo liberal globalisation by electing left style regimes, of which Chavez in Venezuela is the leading example. In Africa, popular resistance to Western exploitation of resources, as in Nigeria, can take violent forms. Two decades of free market globalisation have shown how it destroys communities, increases social tensions and can lead to violence, while producing wealth for a minority. The violence of poverty and conflict are closely related. The author, who lectures on International Relations and Globalisation at Dublin City University, cogently argues that both vulnerability and violence are major features of the new world order created and driven by neoliberal free market globalisaiton. Understanding the dynamics of globalisation is essential for all working for peace in today's world. -- World Disarm",books;globalization;national & international security;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;used & rental textbooks;violence in society,11
0028631080,"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Prayer The Complete Idiot's Guide series that has taught us how to do everything from making beer, playing bridge, and fishing to gambling, and living with a cat now ventures into the arena of prayer. Although this may seem like a crass and commercial undertaking, it is certainly true that many people feel unworthy or inadequate when trying to give voice to a prayer. As a primer on Christian prayer, this could be the boost that helps a beginner or a doubter take the leap of faith and start a dialogue with God. Typical of the Complete Idiot's Guide style, the format uses plenty of cartoon-like illustrations, loads of informative tidbits, and most importantly a warm, reassuring voice that takes a complicated issue and breaks it down into manageable bites. Chapter 1 explores ""What Prayer Isn't (and Is)."" For example, it is not ""Self-Help,"" a ""Cosmic Shrink,"" ""Wishin' and Hopin',"" or ""Hyperspiritualizing."" According to authors Galli and Bell, prayer is a conversation with God. ""Prayer is less like making a speech and more like talking to a friend."" This kind of relaxed yet highly respectful approach toward prayer characterizes much of the book's wisdom. Readers who aren't interested in exploring prayer through a Christian lens probably won't find this guidebook useful. Others, even aficionados, will probably appreciate the down-to-earth discussions on ""Suffering,"" ""Praying the Gospels,"" and ""Dealing with Doubts: No Answers."" --Gail Hudson",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;humanities;new;prayer;religion & spirituality;religious studies;spirituality;used & rental textbooks,11
159493018X,"Hunter's Way With Hunter's Way, Gerri Hill manages to blend suspense and intrigue with her unique style of romance.",books;contemporary;fiction;gay & lesbian;lesbian;literature & fiction;mystery;police procedurals;romance;thriller & suspense;women sleuths,11
0521535573,"Worship as Meaning: A Liturgical Theology for Late Modernity (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine) ""Hughes's book is a welcome call to disciplined reflection about the ways in which we worship and a challenge to the accepted pieties of most church traditions.""    Tim Gorringe, University of Exeter, Theology Today""Worship As Meaning remains an important book that belongs on the essential reading list and will surely further the conversation in liturgical theology and liturgical hermeneutics.""     Anglican Theological Review, James Farwell, The General Theological seminary, New York City""Hughes' work provides a movement toward an enhanced relationship between liturgy and semiotics."" - Theological Studies, Thomas J. Scirghi, S.J., Jesuit School of Theology and Berkeley""Hughes has ably introduced a theological readership to the difficult world of Peircean semiotics and given it a strong glimpse of its extremely fruitful potential for liturgical theology.  Moreover, he has in an exemplary fashion pressed his readers to identify, diagnose and find solutions to their distinctive challenges presently facing Christian worshipping communities in theri meaning-making strategies.  Finally, we are in Hughes' debt for showing us, albeit in a fragmentary and partial fashion, how the practical bearings of a number of 'semiotic habits' of Christian life might re-orient  and re-shape the Christian body twoard God, the world and one another in ways that prove faithful to its best own most possibilities."" - Jim Fodor, Department of Theology	How, in this age of belief, can we make sense of the act of Christian worship? Convinced that people shape their meanings from the meanings available to them, Graham Hughes inquires into liturgical constructions of meaning within the larger context of late twentieth-century meaning theory. Drawing particularly upon the work of Charles Peirce, Hughes employs semiotic theory to analyse the construction, transmission and apprehension of meaning within an actual worship service. This book will appeal to teachers and students of theology, to clergy and to informed lay Christians.	Graham Hughes is Lecturer Emeritus in Liturgical Studies at United Theological College and Academic Associate at the School of Theology, Charles Sturt University, Sydney. He is the author of The Place of Prayer (1998), Beyond our Dreaming (1996), Leading in Prayer (1992) and Hebrews and Hermeneutics (CUP, 1981).",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church institutions & organizations;humanities;ministry & church leadership;new;religion & spirituality;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks,11
0786883596,"Hong Kong Babylon: An Insider's Guide to the Hollywood of the East By including a history of Hong Kong's movie industry; interviews with 31  leading filmmakers, actors, and actresses; plot summaries of some of the better and more  influential Hong Kong films of the post-war period; and recommended  viewing lists from 12 critics, Hong Kong Babylon provides a complete  introduction to one of the world's fastest growing and most inventive filmmaking  industries. It is especially charming and enlightening to read the discussions in which Jackie  Chan, Sammo Hung, John Woo, and Chow Yun Fat reflect on their industry in their  sometimes stilted English, explaining far better than any Western critic could just what it  is to be part of this frenetic business. 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The recent stateside popularity of action star Jackie Chan (Rumble in the Bronx) and director John Woo (Face/Off, Broken Arrow) has focused more attention on Hong Kong cinema. Journalist Dannen and film buff Long have produced a useful book on the genre that is one part history and three parts reference work. Dannen opens with a short but informative report on the current scene that first appeared in The New Yorker; a series of brief interviews with and filmographies for leading creatives follows. Long provides plot synopses of over 300 films (with key credits), and the book wraps with a dozen international critics ranking the major films. As valuable as this work is, accessibility to these films is limited even on video, so libraries may want to use discretion in ordering.?Thomas J. Wiener, ""Satellite DIRECT,"" Vienna, Va.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Journalist Dannen (Hit Men, not reviewed) and Hong Kong film maven and collector Long take a look at one of the world's most vital cinemas, one that's facing an uncertain future under its new Chinese rulers. The Hong Kong cinema is one of the world's most prolific and energetic. Recently, two of its most majestic figures, actor-director Jackie Chan and director John Woo, have successfully made the transition to working in the West. Many others--actor Chow Yun-Fat, directors Ringo Lam and Tsui Hark--are following in their footsteps, filled with hope. Dannen went to Hong Kong for a New Yorker article to see how the industry was facing up to this summer's handover to China of the former British colony. The result was a typical New Yorker piece, which is also the first section of this book: exhaustively reported and handsomely written but somehow superficial, delivering rather less than promised and geared for a readership of tourist-voyeurs. The remainder of the book consists of very brief interviews by Dannen, with numerous directors, producers, and actors, accompanied by filmographies; capsule descriptions by Long of some 300 key Hong Kong films; and recommendations from a dozen critics. Dannen's essay touches briefly on a number of issues worth exploring in greater depth: onerous working conditions, low budgets, and shoddy production values; the huge market for Hong Kong films throughout Asia; the language problem (Mandarin versus Cantonese), which is only going to get worse now that the Mandarin-speaking mainlanders are in charge; the role of underworld figures whose presence permeates the film industry. Neither Dannen nor Long is able to convey the energy and inventiveness that make the best Hong Kong films so entertaining. Producer Peter Chan tells Dannen, ``We don't have a clue why you Americans like [our films] so much.'' This book won't tell you, either. (50 b photos) -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	AMERICAN audiences can't get enough Hong Kong cinema. True, ""The Bride with White Hair"" may not be coming to a theater near you any time soon, and ""Sex and Zen"" can be difficult to find at the local Blockbuster, but the Hong Kong influence is being felt in Hollywood, and indeed the world. Directors such as John Woo (""Broken Arrow,"" ""Face/Off"") and stars such as Jackie Chan (""Rumble in the Bronx,"" ""Supercop"") have taken America by storm, playing major roles in many of the studios' highest grossing films.  And while the Hong Kong influence is most readily identified in thrillers, it is not limited to that genre. Quentin Tarantino chose Wong Kar-Wai's ""Chung King Express,"" a deliberately paced, meditative, Godardian film for American release by his production company. This past month, New York's Film Forum, generally regarded as an ""art house theater,"" held its annual Hong Kong Film Festival under the apt title ""A Cinema in Transition."" Everyone, it seems, is smitten with the Hong Kong style, though few are aware of the country's rich and varied cinematic history.  Hong Kong Babylon should go a long way toward correcting this situation. Fredric Dannen, a staff writer for the New Yorker whose articles have also appeared in Vanity Fair and the New York Times, has written a timely, ambitious and well-researched book. Filled with facts, anecdotes, interviews, synopses and criticism, Hong Kong Babylon serves, for the uninitiated, as a wonderful introduction to the genre. And for die-hard enthusiasts it provides a depth of detail rarely seen in other, similar books that seek simply to explicate and glorify the ""gals, guns, and gangsters"" aesthetic.  The opening section, an expanded version of an article Dannen wrote for the New Yorker in 1995, serves as the meat of the book. Dannen exhibits patience and insight as he details the history of Hong Kong cinema, a history he views through a cross-cultural lens. It seems Hollywood and Hong Kong go way back: The first Hong Kong feature film was financed with American money; its first major star, Bruce Lee, was born in San Francisco; and many of its more prominent films are unabashed ""adaptations"" of American films. The current, in-vogue aesthetic -- dark and violent -- draws many of its elements from American film noir and gangster pictures of the '50s. It becomes plain to the reader that the current Hong Kong invasion is predicated on a rich, past cross-cultural mingling.  Dannen also provides the reader with the requisite context in which to place these films. His detailed examination of the triads (Hong Kong mafiosi) and their influence on the film industry sheds much light on a studio system that is second only to the United States in the number of films it exports annually. Many of the major players in the Hong Kong film community, it seems, are accomplished hoodlums as well as producers. Dannen writes of actresses being coerced into roles under the threat of rape, producers employing hired killers to ""remove"" their competition, and directors being forced to radically alter their films to favorably portray the triads. One imagines Francis Ford Coppola shooting his Godfather films in this system. I suspect he would have had no problem gaining financing for ""The Godfather,"" but the sequel, with its grim depiction of the Mafia, would have been edited into oblivion.  In the third portion of the book, Barry Long, a former manager of Kim's Video, an underground store in Greenwich Village, provides concise, knowing and often deliberately ludicrous synopses of some 300 of the best and often oddest of Hong Kong's celluloid offerings. An example is Long's synopsis of ""Naked Killer"":  ""A young woman named Kitty kills her father's murderer, making a favorable impression on Sister Cindy, a professional hitwoman, who adopts her as a pupil. Kitty finds herself the object of desire of a traumatized cop who throws up at the sight of a gun, and Sister Cindy's ex-pupil, a lesbian assassin with a contract on her former mentor.""  Though Long's notes are enlightening and quite fun to read, another book, Sex and Zen & A Bullet in the Head by Steffan Hammond and Mike Wilkins, which limits its focus to short blurbs of Hong Kong titles, may be of greater use to readers seeking an introductory guide to what is available on video.  The final segment, in which 12 major film theorists and critics -- among them Dave Kehr, Andy Klein and Law Kar -- muse on the relative merits of Hong Kong films, exposes the book's primary weakness. Unfortunately, this portion of the book lacks focus, and most of what the critics have to offer feels rehashed at this point. Dannen, Long and the stars of the cinema itself have previously explained nearly every anecdote, story line and production horror story, and when those pieces of information are recycled and placed in the context of theoretical analysis, they simply fall flat.  The truth is that while Hong Kong Cinema may lend itself to lofty thoughts of postmodern deconstruction and analysis of complex morality in a cinema of violence, the book would have been better off keeping its footing light and leaving the heavy theorizing to Film Comment. It is also unfortunate that Dannen completed this book prior to Hong Kong's reunification with China. He touches briefly on the reunification and, particularly in the interviews, the profound ramifications it is sure to have on the film industry, but the topic receives merely a cursory examination and one is left wanting more. However, these are minor quibbles with an otherwise excellent examination of a unique system that routinely releases many of the world's most exciting and compelling films.  Peter McCarthy is a screenwriter and senior electronic editor at www.nybooks.com.  -- The Washington Post, November 16, 1997Half handbook, half expos, this magnificent survey of the shadow world of Hong  Kong cinema packs a one-two punch that should connect with even the most fanatical fans. -- Entertainment  WeeklyHalf handbook, half expose, this magnificent survey of the  shadow world of Hong Kong cinema packs a one-two punch that should  connect with even the most fanatical fans. In the first half,  investigative journalist Fredric Dannen lays bare the workings of a  mob-run factory system; it turns out to be just as seamy and violent as  the movies it cranks out--a world in which the phrase ""contracts"" takes  on a dark double meaning. In the second part, film critic Barry Long  looks beyond John Woo and Jackie Chan to compile an exhaustive  reference guide to dozens of lean, mean Hong Kong flicks, which cram  enough thrills into 90 minutes to put the average Hollywood blockbuster  to shame.  -- Alex Abramovich, Entertainment Weekly, November 28, 1997 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",asia;books;guides & reviews;history;history & criticism;hong kong;humor & entertainment;movies;politics & social sciences;popular culture;social sciences,11
B000FO5Z6K,"Structure and Architecture, Second Edition 'The author's analysis of high-tech is particularly shrewd.' Glass Age Magazine, September 1994' An extremely readable book, far removed from the rather stodgy textbooks familiar to engineers, and made the more pleasing by the effects of the publisher in achieving a consistent and stylish appearance and attractive typeface, good line drawings, and well reproduced photographs.'The Structural Engineer	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	'Structure and Architecture' is a textbook which explains the basic principles of structure and describes the ranges of structure types in current use. It links these topics directly with the activity of architectural design and criticism.  Angus MacDonald deals with structures in a holistic way and even when detailed topics are discussed these are always related back to the whole structure and the whole building. He aims to answer the questions: What are architectural structures? How does one define the difference between the structure of a building and all of the other components and elements which it consists of? What are the requirements of structures? What is involved in their design? An understanding of the concepts involved in answering these questions and an appreciation of how the structure of a building functions enhances the ability of an individual to appreciate its architectural quality. This book is unique in that it discusses the structural component of architectural design in the context of visual and stylistic issues.  	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",architecture;books;buildings;civil;criticism;drafting & presentation;education & reference;engineering;professional & technical;reference;study & teaching,11
0871541742,"Social Programs That Work There are a lot of publications available about social programs, but the Russell Sage Foundation has gone one step further by publishing this title. Crane, director of the National Center for Research on Social Programs, Chicago, has assembled a collection of ten programs that work. The study grew out of a conference entitled ""Social Programs That Really Work"" held at the University of Chicago in 1995. The book is actually a reaction to the negativity surrounding social programs in the United States. The foundation and conference leaders wanted to show that there are programs out there that do work and, more importantly, why these programs were successful and how to replicate their success. Twenty experts in their field contributed to this book, evaluating programs according to well-defined criteria for success. Each program is thoroughly researched and analyzed. Essential for academic libraries supporting social programs.ASandra Isaacson, U.S. EPA ESD-LV Lib., Las VegasCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;public policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;social work;used & rental textbooks,11
0312223781,"Dance in the Field: Theory, Methods and Issues in Dance Ethnography Theresa J. Buckland is MA Course Director and Senior Lecturer in Dance Studies at the University of Surrey.",anthropology;arts & photography;books;cultural;dance;ethnic studies;humor & entertainment;performing arts;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,11
1566901685,"Inside Pro/engineer Solutions Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) - developer of  Pro/ENGINEER - is one of the CAD/CAM/CAE industry's leading supplier  of software tools used to automate the mechanical development of a  product from conceptual design through production.  Worldwide, more  than 16,000 companies employ PTC's integrated software technologies to  reduce time to market, improve engineering processes, and optimize  product quality.	Gary Graham is a senior mechanical engineer with ENCAD, Inc. in San Diego, CA.",architecture;books;cad;computer technology;computers & technology;drafting & presentation;engineering;graphic design;mechanical;professional & technical;web development & design,11
0613175522,"Three Centuries of American Poetry: 1620-1923 In the exceedingly brief, almost offhand introduction to this chunky anthology, the editors assert that ""there ain't no canon,"" and that their aim is to hold out ""an invitation to the reader of today and to those poets whose names we do not yet know."" Such sloppy vagaries aside, one assumes that their intent is to represent diversity of a sort, but in fact two-thirds of the volume is made up of 19th-century poetry covered far more thoroughly in the Library of America's American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (LJ 9/1/93), and no rationale is given for the rather strange cut-off date of 1923?unless it has something to do with copyright. There are the usual heavy doses of Whitman, Dickinson, and Stevens, a smattering of spirituals, popular song lyrics, and Native American poems, along with an occasional dash of obscure names such as Ellen Sturgis Hooper and Lucretia Davidson. But given its lack of headnotes or other supporting scholarly materials, this is yet one more hastily contrived, redundant anthology no one has been waiting for. Not recommended.?Fred Muratori, Cornell University Lib., Ithaca, NYCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Canon. No word is dirtier among academics these days. So when coeditors Mandelbaum and Richardson deny that their fat, enjoyable anthology is intended to establish one, they ease its way into curricular employment. Regular poetry readers won't care one way or t'other but will care that so much of the book's contents is relatively fresh. That can be ascertained by comparing the nineteenth-century poems here with those in John Hollander's splendid American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (1993). Mandelbaum and Richardson present many different, equally fine, and often lesser-known poems by major and minor figures alike (in the case of Longfellow, they present some late work as good as, maybe better than, what Hollander presents). Like Hollander, they include song texts and English versions of Indian poetry--again, many different ones. Unlike him, they give luscious samplings of Edward Taylor and Anne Bradstreet from colonial days, and of all the modernist heroes from early in this century. Hip, hip, hurrah!  Ray Olson	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American Poetry features the work of some 150 of our nation's finest writers. It includes selections from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Gertrude Stein, as well as significant works of lesser-known American poets.From the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to the Romantic Era and the Gilded and Modern Ages, this unrivaled anthology also presents a memorable array of rare ballads, songs, hymns, spirituals, and carols that echo through our nation's history. Highlights include Native American poems, African American writings, and the works of Quakers, colonists, Huguenots, transcendentalists, scholars, slaves, politicians, journalists, and clergymen.These discerning selections demonstrate that the American canon of poetry is as diverse as the nation itself, and constantly evolving as we pass through time. Most important, this collection strongly reflects the peerless stylings that mark the American poetic experience as unique. Here, in one distinguished volume, are the many voices of the New World.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	INTRODUCTIONSOn the Canon of American PoetryThere ain't no canon. There ain't going to be any canon. There never has been a canon. That's the canon.This formulation (which I make bold to take from Gertrude Stein's famous comment on her philosophy, There ain't any answer, etc.) is literally true. It is now more than two hundred years since the appearance of the first anthology of American verse: Elihu H. Smith's American Poems of 1793. Of the fifteen poets and sixty-five poems in that volume, only two poets (Joel Barlow and Philip Freneau) and only one poem (Freneau's Hurricane) have survived to stand in the present anthology. Of the fifty-five poets represented in the 1840 Gems of American Poetry, only one is represented here, and that one is Clement Moore, the author of A Visit from St. Nicholas.By 1900 there was so much American poetry to choose from that extreme anthological principles were invoked. E. C. Stedman's American Anthology of 1900 included works by 537 poets, while C. H. Page's The Chief American Poets (1905) whittled that number down to nine. If Stedman seems unfocused, Page seems rash. Page included Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Whitman, and Lanier. No Bradstreet, no Taylor, no Dickinson, no Melville, no Robinson. In the cases of Taylor and Dickinson, we are simply lucky that the twentieth century discovered and printed poetry that was unknown in its own day. In the cases of Bradstreet, Melville, and Robinson, one can only say that taste changes. It is difficult to find a single American poet, currently considered important, who has not, at some time, for some reason, been left out. The anthology called Parnassus (1874), edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson and his daughter Edith, inexplicably contains no poetry by Whitman. Oscar Williams's and Edwin Honig's Major American Poets (1962) contains no T. S. Eliot because Eliot's publisher's policy at the time was not to allow Mr. Eliot's poetry to appear in paperback books selling for less than $1.75.More discoveries will be made and taste will change. An anthology of American poetry a hundred years from now will be as different from this one as this one is from either Stedman's or Page's. This volume is not intended to set a seal upon the past. It is meant, rather, as an invitation to the reader of today and to those poets whose names we do not yet know. In our ordinary states of mind, Emerson once observed, we deem not only letters in general but the most famous books part of a pre-established harmony, fatal, unalterable. . . . But Man is critic of all these also and should treat the entire extant product of the human intellect as only one age, revisable, corrigible, reversible by him.The canon is dead. Long live the canon.Robert D. Richardson, Jr. Middletown, Connecticut August 1998OF THOSE WHO LIVE AND SPEAK FOR AYEWallace Stevens urges: Speak it. But speech has many variants: murmur, chant, song, bluster, malediction, hymn, psalm--modes that conjure not a chorus but a fraternity-sorority of soloists. The patient work of many blessd editors has in our present century amplified the speech of earlier centuries, giving Bradstreet, Taylor, Dickinson, Melville, and many others fuller voice, restoring neglected words.Faced with those words, the reader-hearer is often more ecumenical than the poet. T. S. Eliot needs to bracket/browbeat the Romantics and hosanna the Metaphysical soloists; but the reader can listen attentively, sympathetically to both Shelley and Donne. Thus this American anthology is, if anything, ecumenical: two tastes, two long--and often different--experiences with texts combined in shaping it.Taste is perhaps more kin to opinion than it is to thought. But we have tried to think through the vicissitudes of taste and to ingather poetic speech that conjures the speaker in a way that reaches us today. We have sought those words that ask to be read aloud.We have moved as often as possible past the anthological tendency/itch to gather snippets; and where--of necessity--we have cut, we hope that our selections invite to fuller reconnaissance. The Puritan register, its anxious colloquy with an all-powerful Lord, is amply represented--allowing us to see, above all in Edward Taylor, the energy that declares man's puniness and then subverts that declaration with percussive creativity. We have mined the resources of Longfellow's taletelling, his fluent narrative, and given space, too, to his elegiac awareness of the futilities woven into the mind of the narrator. The declarative I of Whitman--as well as his shadowed, self-questioning self--are here; so, too, is the adroit, investigative I of Dickinson--her barbed lyre. In the post-Puritan age of the pensioned god, we have drawn fully on that replete rabbi, Wallace Stevens, one who shuns the I but is obsessed with the third person, not least the penetrating she who says and hears in Sunday Morning.We have grouped our many soloists in historical chapters-cantos-contexts, stages in America's way(s); and we have ordered the endnotes, too, in accord with the birth dates of the poets. In sectioning off those time contexts, we have remembered that speech also includes the quiet domestic solos that invited attention in the parlor and those cadenzas that stirred applause in the music hall. And outdoors, beneath the heavens, we have not neglected the impassioned plaint that rose from the fields of slavery, and from the people whom our hunger for land and our labors dispossessed.In sum, the poet is not a historian, but his voice begins where the historian's begins. He breathes in time. Aloud.Loud enough to enter our significant present as we conjure the vicissitudes of an America still coming to terms with its varied selves--reaching beyond hygienic homiletics, slick Sunday supplements, and small beer.The gamut of registers and content which that reaching involves is indeed wide: this book, then, is a sampling, but one that is, we hope, both broad and detailed.Allen Mandelbaum Wake Forest University  University of Turin August 1998	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",anthologies;books;criticism & theory;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;poetry;teens;used & rental textbooks,11
0375708324,"The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film From the first of the silent movies, Chadwick (The Two American Presidents) asserts, the Civil War has been presented as a national tragedy, redeemed only by the gallantry of the combatants. Its origins have been obscured, with the slavery question in particular being virtually eliminated from the story. Blacks have been marginalized, presented at best as passive recipients of a freedom won for them by white Northerners. The ""old South"" emerges as an epitome of civilized grace, destroyed by a war few Southerners really wanted. For Chadwick, D.W. Griffith's virulent Birth of a Nation did not establish these clichs it only institutionalized them. Even Ted Turner's Gettysburg (1993), produced in an age of ethnic sensitivity and political correctness, is built around a story of Americans with two different visions of the right, fighting to sustain those visions. It is a white man's movie; blacks and women have no direct impact. Chadwick argues (and shows in 42 b stills) that while this restructuring of history may not be fair or honest, it has been necessary to reintegrate societies torn apart by civil war, and that we are only now approaching a time when the truth can be told cinematically. Others will certainly disagree, on both counts. (Sept. 26)Forecast: While Chadwick lectures on history and film at Rutgers University, few scholars are likely to take his pragmatic approach to heart (or syllabus). But with the racial politics of the Civil War still awaiting full cinematic treatment, this book, by dint of Knopf's distribution if nothing else, could serve as a wake-up call.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	As a lecturer on history and film at Rutgers and the author of  three books on the Civil War (including Brother Against  Brother), Chadwick is well suited to his subject. He charts the  resiliency of myths about the Civil War in films dating from the  silent era to the post-Civil Rights 1970s, when ""revisionist""  efforts began to appear. These films embraced several myths that  helped to undergird racism and segregation, including the  portrayal of Southerners as heroic underdogs, Lincoln as saintly  ""Father Abraham,"" and slaves as obliging minor characters.  Chadwick demonstrates that such filmic distortions were based on  earlier historical and cultural interpretations of the era. He  usefully examines permutations of these views in chapters about  Civil War Westerns and discusses recent films that are more  accurate (e.g., Glory, 1989). This volume acquits itself well  when compared with accounts like Roy Kinnard's The Blue and the  Gray on the Silver Screen (Carol, 1996) and Jim Cullen's The  Civil War in Popular Culture (Smithsonian, 1995), which also  discussed the Civil War in the context of film. Of interest to  Civil War buffs and film scholars, this volume belongs in many  libraries, both public and academic. Neal Baker, Earlham Coll.,  Richmond, IN   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Chadwicks dissection of the myths [these movies] helped to foster is superb. . . . [An] enlightening volume.  --The New York Times Book Review[A] fine book. . . . Sure to fascinate lovers of both the Civil War and the big screen.  --The Washington TimesChadwick ...brings to this effort a comfortable knowledge of American history and extensive research on the many hundreds of Civil War films and their creation.Kirkus Reviews	During the late nineteenth century, magazines, newspapers, novelists, and even historians presented a revised version of the Civil War that, intending to reconcile the former foes, downplayed the issues of slavery and racial injustice, and often promoted and reinforced the worst racial stereotypes. The Reel Civil War tells the history of how these misrepresentations of history made their way into movies.More than 800 films have been made about the Civil War. Citing such classics as Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind as well as many other films, Bruce Chadwick shows how most of them have, until recently, projected an image of gallant soldiers, beautiful belles, sprawling plantations, and docile or dangerous slaves. He demonstrates how the movies aided and abetted racism and an inaccurate view of American history, providing a revealing and important account of the power of cinema to shape our understanding of historical truth.	Chadwicks dissection of the myths [these movies] helped to foster is superb. . . . [An] enlightening volume.  --The New York Times Book Review[A] fine book. . . . Sure to fascinate lovers of both the Civil War and the big screen.  --The Washington TimesChadwick ...brings to this effort a comfortable knowledge of American history and extensive research on the many hundreds of Civil War films and their creation.Kirkus Reviews	Bruce Chadwick, Ph.D., lectures on history and film at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He also teaches writing at New Jersey City University. Previously, he had a long career in journalism, writing on arts and entertainment, a column on trends in American cultureincluding literature, film, dance, theatre and operaand features and many columns on sports. Eventually he became an editor at the New York Daily News. He lives in New Jersey with his wife.	Chapter OneI Wish I Was in the Land of Cotton: America Rewrites Its HistoryMany historians, intellectuals and public figures campaigned to eradicate the idea that the war was fought over slavery, and to free the South of any blame for it. They worked hard, too, to underscore the idea that no one actually caused the war and no one actually lost it, permitting Southerners to feel that somehow as Americans they had won a war, not lost one. Most of all, these mythmakers work, whether in textbooks, poems or novels, tried to erase the pure horror of a war in which so many young men were killed. By framing it as a romantic conflict they somehow managed to turn the thousands of bodies lying on top of one another in Bloody Lane, at Antietam, into thousands of gallant young men riding horses or charging across fields in collective memory. Their efforts may have been contrived, but their goal, a reunified country, was not. The people of the United States needed to come together after the Civil War. These scholars and public figures helped to make that reunification possible.The first steps towards reunifying the United States were taken even before the conflict ended. President Lincoln, delicately working to keep his numerous political coalitions in Congress together, engineered a mild reconstruction program in Louisiana after that state was occupied by Union troops in 1862. The president, while barring most former Confederate officeholders from political activity, did permit some state politicians to hold office in the new Louisiana. Lincoln later attempted to get Congress to approve a rather soft general reconstruction plan for all of the Southern states; under the plan only 10 percent of the residents needed to rejoin the United States in order to create a new government and have their state readmitted to the Union. This attempt at creating a smooth transition failed when federal legislators refused to go along, but at the time of his murder Lincoln was actively trying to bring occupied Southern states back into the Union, using the Army instead of Congress through his powers as commander in chief.President Andrew Johnson, who agreed with Lincolns low-key approach to reconstruction, took another step towards conciliation when he refused to execute the former Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, despite virulent public outcries, and instead kept him in jail for two years and offered no protest when the Supreme Court dropped all charges against Davis.Political efforts to bring about reunification between North and South ground to a halt, however, in 1867, when Radical Republicans forced passage of the Reconstruction Act. That legislation, in effect for ten years, divided the territory of the defunct Confederacy into five military districts, gave freedmen the vote and the right to hold public office and opened the door to carpetbaggers, Northerners who arrived at the end of the conflict, and scalawags, Southerners who became sudden Northern sympathizers and whose corrupt business practices offended many Southerners. There remained throughout the Southern states a deep despair over the loss of approximately 300,000 young men, nearly one quarter of the adult white male population, and the devastation of dozens of towns and cities in the war.The Union army had ripped up hundreds of miles of Southern railroad tracks, more than 50 percent of farm machinery in the South had been ruined, more than 40 percent of the Souths livestock killed or stolen. Southern wealth during the war decreased by 60 percent. Between 1860 and 1870, the Souths share of national wealth dropped from 30 percent to just 12 percent. In 1860, Southerners average income was 68 percent of Northerners, but by 1870 it had dropped to 39 percent and stayed there for forty years.Except for assaults on a few small cities in the North such as Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, there had been little destruction in the Union states. Although Reconstruction laws enabled freed slaves to take tremendous steps forward as citizens and laborers, Southern whites saw these same laws as unduly harsh. The bitter feelings made political progress towards reunification difficult until the mid-1870s.Public figures on both sides realized that the end of Reconstruction, despite the tattered condition of the Southern states, was the time to begin the healing process with a view towards bringing about the consolidation of the United States so that the nation, whole again, could move forward.Reconstruction was ended by politicians in order to guarantee the election of Rutherford B. Hayes, who was narrowly defeated by Samuel Tilden in the popular vote in the 1876 presidential election. Nevertheless, a congressional electoral commission decided that Hayes had been elected president. As recompense, Hayes then reputedly agreed to withdraw all U.S. troops from the Southern states, effectively ending Reconstruction. Then, in his first message to Congress, Hayes made a bold statement on behalf of reunion. He told the legislators, and the people, that To complete and make permanent the pacification of the country continues to be . . . the most important of all our national interests.Throughout the 1870s reconciliation between North and South continued. The first official Memorial Day was established in 1868, and by 1891 most states celebrated the holiday, honoring the dead on both sides of the conflict. In 1872, President Grant and Congress offered amnesty to all former Confederate officeholders and military officers. In 1875, Southerners returned the captured regimental flag of the all-black Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers. The Centennial, held in Philadelphia in 1876, was a nonpartisan celebration for all Americans, North and South. Business journals, published in both Northern and Southern cities, promoted reunification. In 1878, dozens of highly regarded Southern orators made tours of Northern cities, preaching reconciliation. Also in 1878, Northern doctors and nurses rushed to the South, bringing with them hundreds of thousands of dollars in relief money, to fight the dreaded yellow fever that crippled Louisiana, taking the lives of thousands, including the son of Jefferson Davis. Southerners publicly and privately acknowledged the magnanimous gesture. Confederate veterans accepted an offer to march in a Boston commemorative parade in 1875, and Massachusetts veterans a similar offer to march in New Orleans in 1881.The 1870s saw the glorification of Lee, who died in 1870 and whose passing was mourned throughout both North and South. Lees dignified surrender at the end of the warand his quick ascension to the presidency of Washington Collegeelevated him from a mere general to a figure of heroic proportions. He was seen in the postwar North and South as a great man who happened to have lost the war, and who forgave the enemy and immediately went to work in higher education to help the South rebuild.In the 1870s and 1880s Lee and other Confederate generals, plus some slain generals such as Stonewall Jackson and J. E. B. Stuart, were the subjects of best-selling lithographs. These were produced in the North by printers who realized they could make huge profits in the new, nostalgic Southern market. Surprisingly, the prints sold well in the North, too, and helped position the Southern generals in the minds of Americans as good men who fought bravely but lost. Many of the lithographs and paintings had religious overtones, such as a lithograph in Tennessee that showed Lee, ready for battle, standing next to a crucified Christ.They also projected the great courage and dignity of the vanquished, an important step towards reconciliation and the idea that no one truly lost the war. Currier  Ives had so much business in Southern prints that by the mid-1880s the firm was selling more Confederate prints than Northern ones. Lithographer John Buttre of New York had so much Southern business that by 1884 he was selling eight different Lee lithographs.Southerners were building their own myths throughout this period, such as the Lost Cause and the image of the gallant boys who fought for four long years. Several groups of Confederate Veterans were formed, along with the United Daughters of the Confederacy, to commemorate the war and the fallen soldiers. Confederate publications, such as Confederate Veteran magazine, were started. Virginians built monuments to Lee and to Stonewall Jackson (an entire street in Richmond would eventually be graced by Confederate monuments).Southern remembrance of the war began to change as veterans and residents began to equate lithographs, anniversaries and nostalgic newspaper and magazine stories of the war with a kind of victory. They slowly came to believe that while they had not won technically, they might have won emotionally, and that at least the Southern boys were just as brave and heroic as the Northern boys. This belief became so popular that by the 1880s Georgias U.S. Senator John Gordon, a former Confederate general, was often introduced at political rallies as the hero of Appomattox to sustained applause, as if the Confederates had won a battle at the town where they surrendered.The 1880s saw steps towards political consolidation through the economy. Large Northern corporations began to invest heavily in new Southern textile mills, and these gave desperately needed jobs to Southern men and women. Northern railroad leaders spent millions building new railroad lines throughout the South, dramatically aiding its commerce. In an internationally publicized event in 1882, the Grand Army of the Republic, the largest group of Union army veterans, marched together with thousands of Confederate veterans in a commemorative parade. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg was similarly celebrated in 1888 with a gathering of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers.The assassination of President James A. Garfield (a Union arm...",19th century;20th century;americas;books;civil war;genre films;history;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;movies;united states,11
0064490386,"50 Ways to Save Our Children: Small, Medium, and Big Ways You Can Change a Child's Life From donating to online charities to volunteering as a child's advocate in court, 50 Ways to Save Our Children: Small, Medium, & Big Ways You Can Change a Child's Life by Cheryl Saban, executive director of the Saban Children's Foundation and founder of www.50ways.org, covers the bases. Parenting tips and inspirational quotes appear throughout chapters with titles like ""Goodwill Industries"" and ""Make-a-Wish Foundation""; a listing of useful Web site addresses is also included. All ages.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Cheryl Saban is an author, television writer, producer, philanthropist, child advocate, and mother of four. Married to Saban Entertainment / Fox Family Worldwide CEO Haim Saban, she and her husband have been active participants in the welfare and improvement of children's lives for many years. She is on the Board of Regents of Children's Hospital, a member of Circle of Care for Children's Hospitals, and a member of the board of United Friends of the Children/Bridges. She is Executive Director of Saban Children's Foundation, which with Fox Family Worldwide, hosts an annual holiday festival for over 2,000 Los Angeles area underprivileged children. She is involved in many other charitable causes, mostly geared to children.",books;catalogs & directories;children's books;education & reference;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;social policy;social services & welfare;social situations;values,11
0516422766,"Monet (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) Grade 2-4-- One of the more successful books in this series. Venezia offers fine reproductions of full-color paintings judiciously arranged. They not only capture attention with splendid water scenes and a few portraits, but also demonstrate the developing techniques of impressionism and show examples of the haystacks and water lilies that occupied Monet's last years. Venezia still seeks a youthful idiom, using the word ""fun"" to explain why artists paint and, again, describing the ""fun"" of painting outdoors. Half a dozen cartoons with slapstick humor are interjected in the book in an effort to show readers that art can be ""fun"" for them too. However, such lighthearted hooks are more subdued than in earlier books and, in Monet , might be dispensed with altogether, for the paintings are grand, and Venezia has developed a sure feeling for pace and tone in moving from picture to picture to carry out his intent of explaining who Monet was, how he lived, and why it is that he is, indeed, one of the world's greatest artists. Christine Bjork's Linnea in Monet's Garden (Farrar, 1987) is still beyond compare as an introduction to Monet's mature work, but Venezia's book is directed to a slightly younger child, who may then appreciate Bjork's description of Giverny even more. --Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJCopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""The excellent-quality reproductions do a great deal to enhance and extend the text.""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Mike Venezia is the author of several nonfiction books for children.",20th century;art;arts;arts & photography;biographies;books;children's books;crafts & music;history;history & criticism;modern (16th-21st centuries),11
0761515054,"Positive Discipline: The First Three Years-Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child Make a Difference During the Most Important Years of Your Child's Life	Make a Difference During the Most Important Years of Your Child's Life	Jane Nelsen, Ed.D., coauthor of the bestselling Positive Discipline series, is a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist. Her books have sold over a million copies. She lives in Salt Lake City. Cheryl Erwin, M.A., is a marriage and family therapist and the coauthor of numerous books in Prima's Positive Discipline series on raising great children. She lives in Reno, Nevada. Roslyn Duffy, also a coauthor of several Positive Discipline books, is a child care director with over seventeen years of experience, a counselor in private practice, parent and education specialist, and public speaker.",books;crafts;education & reference;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;home repair;how-to & home improvements;parent participation;parenting;parenting & relationships;schools & teaching,11
0764175327,Regents Math B Power Pack Used by more than half a million students each year!Actual Regents Examsdevelop your subject knowledge and test-taking skills and show you where you need more study.Answers to All Questionsprovide the guidance you need to learn on your own. . . Explanations to answers provided where appropriate . . . Its like studying with a private tutor at your side.The Most Recent Exams Are Always Included!Barrons give you:MORE exams. . .  MORE practice. . .  MORE helpful answers than any other Regents guide!,books;education & reference;high school;mathematics;new;regents;science & math;science & mathematics;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks,11
0887845738,"Alden Nowlan: Selected Poems Alden Nowlan was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, and published poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. He died in Fredericton in 1983. He was one of Canada's finest and most influential poets.",american;american literature;anthologies;books;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;poetry;used & rental textbooks;world literature,11
1893163040,"Ornette Coleman: His Life and Music It is not easy to explain the music of Ornette Coleman with  both accuracy and clarity, but Peter Niklas Wilson has done so with  Ornette Coleman: His Life and Music.    Peter Niklas Wilson's Ornette Coleman: His Life and Music is an  insightful, well-researched examination of one of the most cryptic  figures in American music. He skillfully draws upon scholarly and  journalistic sources to write a thorough, yet well-paced biographical  narrative. A musicologist who has written detailed studies on Charlie  Parker and Anthony Braxton, and a bassist who has performed with  Braxton, Barry Guy, and others, Wilson also has the technical  background to untangle the nagging enigma that is Harmolodics, which  he does with surprising clarity.    Additionally, he surveys Coleman's recordings as leader and sideman  through 1997, keeping the bar rather high throughout the various  phases of Coleman's career. With an engaging foreword by Pat Metheny  functioning as something of a bonus track, Ornette Coleman: His Life  and Music makes a persuasive case for Coleman's greatness, as Wilson  is able to make Coleman's innovations digestible without diluting  their substance.   -- JazzTimes Jan/Feb 2000",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;humor & entertainment;jazz;music;musical genres;reference;soul,11
1563526212,"The Agnes & Muriel's Cafe Cookbook Glenn Powell, co-owner of Agnes & Muriel's Restaurant, was director  of menu development for the 35-unit, multi-concept Peasant Restaurants, where he  created and standardized thousands of recipes during his tenure. He was  cofounder of The Festive Feast Catering, which was the forerunner of Agnes &  Muriel's. Glenn has acted as menu consultant for many restaurant groups and also  teaches cooking classes. He lives in Atlanta.",americas;books;cookbooks;culinary arts & techniques;food & wine;gastronomy;history;regional & international;state & local;u.s. regional;united states,11
0684819147,"MYTH OF THE WELFARE QUEEN: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist's Portrait of Women on the Line Welfare moms are the most hated women in America, says Cheri Honkala, a  dynamic activist from Philadelphia who is profiled in the engrossing Myth of the Welfare Queen.  As the American mood toward welfare turned mean in the mid-1990s and politicians worked to radically  change who got benefits and for how long, Honkala used her considerable talents in guerrilla theater to  fight bureaucrats on behalf of a rising tide of dispossessed women and children. She keeps the TV news  spotlight on the homeless with a host of inspired acts: a long-term tent city for displaced families, the  takeover of a church, a grungy encampment next to the Liberty Bell. Nonetheless, folks dispute how  helpful such confrontations are. Odessa Williams, a resourceful, resilient woman who supports four  grandchildren and then doubles that number when new troubles strike, is the other sympathetic subject in  this tough, humanizing portrait of women on welfare by Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper editor David  Zucchino.	In North Philadelphia, Odessa Williams, a great-grandmother, picks through trash to furnish her home and clothe her grandchildren. She also goes fishing to provide extra food and charges people for rides to and from the welfare office and supermarket to supplement her meager income. Cheri Honkala and others set up tent cities, take over an abandoned church, and occupy vacant HUD buildings to seek shelter and protest the lack of affordable housing. Against the backdrop of the welfare reform act, which revoked the federal guarantee of welfare to low-income families with dependent children, Zucchino, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with the Philadelphia Inquirer, documents the lives of these women and others over a six-month period. The result, a harrowing description of daily subsistence living with very little chance of change, is a powerful expose of the welfare myth. Highly recommended for all libraries.-?Kate Kelly, Massachusetts General Hosp., BostonCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Looking behind the ""welfare queen"" stereotype, Philadelphia Inquirer foreign editor Zucchino attempts to educate readers about the realities that this calumny masks. ""From Independence Day 1995 to New Year's Day 1996, [Zucchino] followed the lives of several unmarried welfare mothers living in the ghetto of North Philadelphia."" His book ""is the story of survival by single mothers during the dying days of the American welfare state."" Central to its narrative are Odessa Williams, 56, raising grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as neighbor kids left in the lurch by troubled parents; Cheri Honkalas, activist for the homeless at Philly's Tent City; and Ivory Jennings, a determined teenager with as little tolerance for many of her fellow welfare recipients as conservative Republican politicians. Vivid, powerful portraits of the women behind the stereotype.  Mary Carroll	A glimpse into the actual lives of two members of that unfortunate subset of society that Americans love to stereotype and despise: the welfare mother. Zucchino, foreign editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, follows Odessa Williams on her ``trash-picking'' rounds and to the welfare office as she endeavors to support the grandchildren under her permanent care as well as additional family members who move in and out as crises dictate. Crises are not unusual in Odessa's world, so she gets plenty of opportunity to exercise her resourcefulness in responding to fires, problems at school, brushes with the law, drugs and drug pushers, uncertain employment for her grown son, and the challenges of physical survival posed by poverty. Meanwhile, Cheri Honkala relies on welfare and what she can earn at night as a topless dancer to support her son, while devoting her days to fighting homelessness. She helps create a tent city to protest welfare cuts, joins the occupation of an abandoned church and the takeover by protesters of empty houses owned by HUD. She tirelessly seeks publicity for her cause, battles with bureaucrats, and rallies and comforts fellow protesters. Far from lazy, these women are stretched to the limit. Zucchino does not obscure the ugliness- -including welfare recipients who embrace dependence--that surrounds them, but what stands out is the resilience of these women in the face of events that would be insurmountable tragedies for most middle- and upper-class Americans. It is unlikely this book will engender new and widespread respect for welfare mothers, for the ``welfare queen'' myth draws its strength from what people want to believe, not misperceptions of reality. But by setting aside presuppositions and moral judgments to simply describe what he finds, Zucchino offers a substantive image of life on welfare for those who want to see it. -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Mr. Zucchino, the foreign editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who  won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from South Africa, approached his domestic  assignment among the poor of North Philadelphia in the spirit of a correspondent who  recognized that he was basically a stranger to an alienated population within his own  country. -- The New York Times Book Review, Susan Jacoby	David Zucchino is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for his reporting from South Africa, and a project editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer. He lives in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, with his wife and three daughters.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & investing;economics;feminist theory;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;specific demographics;women's studies,11
0194343588,"The New Oxford Picture Dictionary (English/Vietnamese Edition) (English and Vietnamese Edition) Text: English, Vietnamese",books;business & investing;children's books;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;industrial;management & leadership;schools & teaching,11
842065549X,El siglo de las luces / The Century of Lights (El Libro De Bolsillo / the Pocket Book) (Spanish Edition) Text: Spanish	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.,books;contemporary;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;genre fiction;historical;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks,11
B0002THPOS,"Triplett 9650 Breaker Sniff-It Type 2 Digital Circuit Breaker Locator, 250 VAC The Triplett 9650 portable circuit breaker locator for finding and identifying breaker box switches from electrical outlets has an inductive tracer with audio and visual signals, a tone generator that sends electrical signals, and automatic shutoff. The tracer beeps and flashes a red light for clear indication of magnetic fields. The tone generator sends an electrical signal to guide the tracer to breaker box switches. The meter shuts off automatically after 10 minutes of nonuse to help extend battery life. The tracer and tone generator are each cased in acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastic for strength and light weight. The kit has a lifetime warranty. It is often used to identify breaker switches for labeling in home, commercial and industrial environments. The tone generator has two prongs that connect to a standard wall plug. Tone generator dimensions are 6 x 1.75 x .75 inches (H x W x D), and it weighs 2 oz. Tracer dimensions are 6 x 1.75 x 1.5 inches (H x W x D), and it weighs 3.6 oz. (H is height, the vertical distance from lowest to highest point; W is width, the horizontal distance from left to right; D is depth, the horizontal distance from front to back.) The tracer operates on a 9V battery (not included). Wire tracers are used to locate wires in walls or underground locations. They identify circuit breakers and short or open circuits, which break electrical connections and prevent optimal electrical flow. Wire tracers are commonly used by home remodelers, and in the telephone, electrical, and video industries. Triplett manufactures test equipment for electricians, home security installers, and telecommunications technicians. The company, founded in 1904, is headquartered in Manchester, NH.",breakers;circuit breakers;circuit testers;electrical;electrical testing;industrial & scientific;load centers & fuses;measure & inspect;test;testers;tools & home improvement,11
1565924835,"Java Enterprise in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) Java Enterprise in a Nutshell gives advanced Java developers a one-stop resource for programming with the disparate APIs required for today's enterprise development, including JDBC, RMI, servlets, and EJBs. Beginning with JDBC database programming, the book gives a chapter-by-chapter tour of various enterprise development APIs, including program strategies for each API. For JDBC, the book includes new Java 2 JDBC enhancements like batch and recordsets.  Next comes Java's Remote Method Invocation (RMI) classes for calling remote code. Then it's on to using Java IDL and CORBA basics. A chapter on Java servlets will get you started delivering dynamically generated HTML using Java on Web servers, including useful material on cookies and session management. After coverage of the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) comes a solid exploration of EJBs with material on both session and entity beans. Specifics here include home and remote interfaces, EJB containers, stateless vs. stateful session beans, and entity beans for accessing corporate databases.  Overall, this handy and readable guide to the latest in Java APIs can be truly invaluable to the developer bringing Java to the corporate enterprise for the first time. --Richard Dragan	'It really is a useful Java Enterprise referenced and it deserves a place of honour on my desk.' - Steve Cornish, Cvu, May 2000.  'The API reference contains more information than the documentation which comes with the APIs themselves'... Java Enterprise in a Nutshell is a very good reference for the Java Entreprise APIs. The introduction already contains enough information to get started and the reference sections are very complete and useful.' - Hubert Klein Ikkink, Developers Review, February 2000.	Kristopher Magnusson is the Open Source Programs Architect at Novell. He edited the original Java Directory Service Interface proposal for JavaSoft in 1996, worked on the Novell JNDI design team as the lead writer, and wrote JNDI sample code and tutorials. He earned a Bachelor's of Science from the University of Utah in 1991 in economics, has been active in the NeXT and open source communities for years, and loves object-oriented design and computing. He lives with his partner, Kristen, in Salt Lake City, where he enjoys community activism, mountain biking, and oenophilia.David Flanagan is a computer programmer who spends most of his time writing about JavaScript and Java. His books with O'Reilly include Java in a Nutshell, Java Examples in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, and JavaScript Pocket Reference. David has a degree in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives with his wife and son in the U.S. Pacific Northwest bewteen the cities of Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. David has a simple website at http://www.davidflanagan.com.Jim Farley is a software engineer, computer scientist, and IT manager. His recent activities have included heading up the engineering group at the Harvard Business School and bringing good things to life at GE's Research and Development center. He's dealt with computing (distributed and otherwise) in lots of different ways, from automated image inspection to temporal reasoning systems. Jim has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in computer systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.William Crawford has been developing web-based enterprise applications since 1995, including one of the first web-based electronic medical record systems (at Children's Hospital in Boston) and some of the first enterprise-level uses of Java. He has consulted for a variety of institutional clients, including Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical Center, numerous startups and several Fortune 500 companies. Prior to an acquisition he was CTO of Invantage, Incorporated in Cambridge, MA. He received a degree in history and economics from Yale University. He is the co-author of Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Edition, Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, and two forthcoming O'Reilly titles. Will is currently Principal Software Architect at Perceptive Informatics, Inc.Massachusetts, provider of software and services to the pharmaceutical industry. He can be reached at http://www.williamcrawford.info",books;computers & technology;education & reference;java;languages & tools;object-oriented design;programming;reference;software;software design;testing & engineering,11
0936783079,"The Freeman If you fear for the future of the United States of America-and you should-then Jerry and Sharon Ahern's terrifying vision of the next few years will chill your blood. --Jim Morris, author and screenwriterIt's obvious from reading THE FREEMAN by Jerry and Sharon Ahern that this couple knows a lot both about personal firearms and the good uses to which they could be put during a possible future battle for freedon by patriotic Americans within the United States. Although the novel deals with an imaginary occupation of the United States, several of the underlying themes relate to issues of perennial concern to all Americans who wish to preserve freedom in our Nation. --Jim Morris, author and screenwriterIt's obvious from reading THE FREEMAN by Jerry and Sharon Ahern that this couple knows a lot both about personal firearms and the good uses to which they could be put during a possible future battle for freedom by patriotic Americans within the United States. Although the novel deals with an imaginary occupation of the United States, several of the underlying themes relate to issues of perennial concern to all Americans who wish to preserve freedom in our Nation --John M. Snyder, CCRKBA	JERRY and SHARON AHERN are authors of 81 published novels. Nominated for a Horror Writers Award for a short story which has just been optioned as a motion picture property, they are also recipients of the High Adventure Award from Romantic Times and the James Madison Award. Their science fiction series, The SURVIVALIST, has sold millions of copies and has been published in at least five different countries. Ahern books have been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian, Japanese and Serbo-Croatian. Jerry is also the author of over a thousand magazine articles, columns, features, and interviews with celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Louis L Amour and UFO expert Dr. J. Allen Hynek.",books;constitutional law;education & reference;hunting & fishing;law;law practice;reference;shooting;specialties;sports;sports & outdoors,11
0860914542,"Mexican Postcards (Critical Studies in Latin American Culture) Text: English (translation) Original Language: Spanish	Carlos Monsivais is the author of Amor Perdido (Lost Love), Escenas de Pudor y Liviandad (Scenes of Frivolty and Shame), Entrada Libre (Free Entry), and Rituales del Caos (The Rituals of Chaos).	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",20th century;americas;books;history;humanities;latin america;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
1890771015,"No Rooms of Their Own: Women Writers of Early California ''Full of interesting and entertaining work that has been undeservedly ignored over the years.''--Bloomsbury Review ''The journal entries, stories and poems by fifteen mid-19th-century California women offer fresh and immediate perspectives on their lives and times.''--Publishers Weekly ''Reading these women we rediscover California. We also rediscover the strength of women.'' --Dorothy BryantThe journal entries, stories and poems by fifteen mid-19th-century California women offer fresh and immediate perspectives on their lives and times. --Publishers WeeklyReading these women we rediscover California. We also rediscover the strength of women. --Dorothy Bryant	Published in conjunction with Rick Heide.	Raised in Potter Valley, Mendocino County, Ida Rae Egli is a Californian whose great-grandparents immigrated during the gold rush period. She graduated from Sonoma State University and later earned her master's degree in American literature from San Francisco State University. Now retired to coastal California, for many years she taught English at Santa Rosa Junior College.",anthologies & literary collections;books;classics;criticism & theory;general;history & criticism;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;united states;women writers;women's studies,11
0804837333,"Tuttle Concise Indonesian Dictionary: Indonesian-English English-Indonesian Katherine Davidsen is currently working on her Masters in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.",books;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;instruction;new;used & rental textbooks,11
0375407251,"The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living Penzler Pick, April 2000: The world of mystery has long accepted the occasional offbeat tour de force that veers into the realm of uncertain reality. Even if its author might be startled to hear it, The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living fits comfortably, I think, into the splendid list that includes John Dickson Carr's The Burning Court, Russell Greenan's It Happened in Boston, and William Hjortsberg's Falling Angel. At the same time, it is like none of those books. Imagine John Grisham crossed with Alice Hoffman and you might come closer to what's going on in these highly entertaining pages. The story itself offers interlocking strands that come together in the person of Evers Wheeling, a preternaturally young North Carolina judge who's headed to the dogs with his eyes wide open, ""waiting to hit bottom,"" as he puts it. But just before he makes it there, into his life comes a blonde in trouble with an outrageous (and ever-mutating) tale of a brother who needs help avoiding a jail sentence. That this brother turns out not to resemble his sister in the slightest--he's an African-American dwarf, and strong for his size--is just a small surprise in the overall scheme of things. (Here you might start trying to picture The Maltese Falcon as rewritten by Charles Portis.) There's an elusive prize, possibly a cache of rare stamps worth millions, and a decided falling-out between an uncertain alliance of thieves; there's also a brutal murder, one that's close enough to home to put Evers Wheeling on trial for his own life. In addition to all this, there's Evers's brother, Pascal, to reckon with: he's the one with the double-wide trailer parked back in the woods, the IQ that's off the charts, the preference for staying stoned, and the one trying to help his sibling in any way he can, no matter the illegality. The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living is enough to put Good Ole Boys back in style. But until Martin Clark writes his next book, I guess all I can do is go back and reread Michael Malone's equally memorable--and moving--Handling Sin, perhaps the best Southern novel of the past quarter-century. --Otto Penzler	Clark, a circuit court judge in Virginia, has written a sophisticated legal thriller that is closer to the drug-besotted dadaism of Tom McGuane's early novels than to John Grisham. Evers Wheeling is a judge living in the small town of Norton, N.C. His wife, Jo Miller, refuses to visit him there; she lives, instead, on a farm Evers bought her near Durham. Evers and his brother, Pascal, inherited a fortune, but Pascal dissipated his share rapidly because ""you're only young once, but you can be immature forever."" One hungover morning, Evers is confronted by enigmatic Ruth Esther English, a used-car saleswoman with an inexplicable peculiarity: she cries white alabaster tears (""small bright circles... like a row of marble dimes"") when she offers Evers money to intervene in favor of her brother, Artis, who is up on a cocaine possession charge. Artis holds a clue that would allow Ruth Esther to locate $100,000 hidden after a robbery committed by Ruth, Artis and their late foster father. In a separate development, Evers, acting on a tip, discovers Jo Miller in flagrante with a local farmer. Egged on by Pascal's pot-smoking friends, Evers takes up with Ruth Esther and her lawyer, Pauletta Lightwren Qwai. Among Evers's less charming qualities are his bigotry and sexism, but Pauletta, a black activist, is attracted by some buried decency in the judge. As the couple lurch toward romance, Evers is mired in ever more shattering discoveries--the worst of which involves his wife and his brother. When Evers's vicious divorce trial is interrupted by violent death, Clark expertly causes Evers's own story and Ruth Esther's case to converge, delivering an enthralling mix of Southern gothic excess and legal procedure. BOMC and QPB alternate selection. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Judge Evers Wheeling is drifting indifferently through life when he is brought up short by one Ruth Esther English, who asks him to help her oddball brother escape a drug charge. Ruth Esther entices the bored judge with the promise of an adventure. During their wacky journey, Evers, Ruth Esther, and her screw-up brother, Artis, are joined by Ruth Esther's lawyer; Evers's brother, Pascal; and other fake trailer-park trash friends. The group manages to recover stolen money and a mysterious letter only to have them taken by a crooked cop. But this book really isn't about the effort to track down the missing cash; instead, it explores the characters first novelist Clark, a circuit court judge, has created. Evers becomes belligerent after learning of the affairs of his long-distance wife, while Pascal chooses to get drunk and smoke pot with his engaging entourage. By the end, the only character with much mystery is Ruth Esther, whom Evers believes to hold almost angelic properties. Clark brings intelligence and a sense of the sinister to the proceedings and leaves the reader wondering how this cast of characters will move on once these adventures roll past them. Highly enjoyable reading that is fast-moving and full of belly laughs.-Shannon Haddock, BellSouth Telecommunications, Birmingham, AL Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Although his manic first novel has more nutty plot strands than 350 pages can successfully encompass, Clark nearly makes it work. When a strange young used-car salesman, Ruth Esther English, asks small-town North Carolina judge Evers Wheeling to dismiss a drug charge against her slow-witted brother, little does Evers realize that by agreeing he will set off on a journey both physical and spiritual. The journey involves a lost letter, valuable stamps, murders, marital infidelity, a very attractive African American attorney who regards Evers as little better than any white trailer-trash racist, suicide, a good deal of marijuana, and strange white tears that seem to grant wishes. Only at the end of his travels does Evers begin to understand that love and forgiveness can come in many guises. With some serious editing, the novel may have become as funny and existentially meaningful as the author intended. As it is, this exhausting though captivating story keeps readers turning the pages if only to discover what new antics Clark has in store for his characters.  Nancy Pearl	This is a grand, rumbling ride through the world of Evers Wheeling and wild company. If I did not live such a sheltered existence, this is the book Id love to write.Kaye GibbonsFrom the Trade Paperback edition.	""Aside from having the best title I've heard in years, Martin Clark's The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living is a wonderfully unique read, charming and funny and touching and twisted, as fresh and tart as a perfect martini. I was crazy about it."" -- James Crumley""This is a grand, rumbling ride through the world of Evers Wheeling and wild company. Clark's novel is without restraint and perhaps without precedent, unless we consider another man with a mission, Ignatius R. Reilly, juggling a steady job, a perpetual hangover, and a fleet of outstanding weirdos. If I did not live such a sheltered existence, this is the book I'd love to write."" -- Kaye Gibbons	Meet Evers Wheeling of Norton, North Carolina. A semidissolute judge, undistracted by children, hobbies, or a fulfilling marriage, he's moving down the road to nowhere at a furious clip -- until the morning he's confronted by Ruth Esther English, an attractive young woman whose dim-witted brother happens to be up on drug charges.Within days, Evers is the Englishes' reluctant coconspirator, abetted by his pothead brother Pascal (he of the double-wide trailer) and Pascal's faux-white-trash cohorts. And his suddenly outlandish life includes an interstate treasure hunt, a terrible act of marital vengeance, a sleazy antiques dealer, twice-stolen money, a mysteriously valuable letter, a baffling murder trial, and a love-interest attorney who considers him the poster boy for the sexist and racist legal establishment -- not to mention the alabaster tears miraculously cried by Ruth Esther.Combining high comedy and existential, even spiritual compulsion, Martin Clark has converted every risk he's taken into high-test storytelling that's as fresh as the infant century.	This is a grand, rumbling ride through the world of Evers Wheeling and wild company. If I did not live such a sheltered existence, this is the book Id love to write.Kaye Gibbons	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	A circuit court judge, Martin Clark lives in Stuart, Virginia.	Chapter One In 1969, when Evers Wheeling was a boy in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, men in filling-station uniforms still checked your car's oil, pumped high-test gas out of heavy silver nozzles and cleaned your windshield with a spray bottle and a blue, quilted wipe. There was a man named Herman Stovall who worked at the West End Shell, where Evers and his family would stop for fuel and air and little Cokes with peanuts poured into the bottle. Herman was a bent, thin, wispy man, a skeletal bumpkin with a crew cut and big red ears. He could hold an inch-long ash on his cigarette, and he didn't think that astronauts had touched down on the moon and he didn't believe in gorillas, even though they'd been on exhibit in various zoos for over half a century. Herman would give Sundrop caps out of the drink machine and tin Prince Albert cans to Evers and the other kids who visited the station, and he would lean over the greasy cash-register counter to show them cat's-cradle tricks with a loop of grimy brown twine. Evers would take the soda caps home in a paper sack and scratch off the cork on their undersides, trying to win a free pop or a five-dollar bill.Herman also did not believe in viruses, whales, the Loch Ness monster or radar that could predict the weather; he warned Evers and everyone else who came onto his one-bay, nuts-and-bolts corner lot to be cautious of easy ruses, sleight of hand and men who wore vests with their suits. I don't have no time for foolishness, Evers once heard Herman say to a woman with Texas plates while he was fitting a metal spout over a can of motor oil and telling her what he thought about rockets flying through space, traveling from planet to planet. The spout made a wet, slicing sound when it cut through the top of the can, and Herman used the noise to end his sentence.Many years later, when Evers first got on the trail of the smiling white shrine, he had become a lot like Herman Stovall. Evers didn't believe in very much at the time, and he was socked in under a long horizon of bloodless indifference as thick as paste; he had the look and air of a cur mother suckling another gang of mongrel babies, her head and side lying flush on the ground, her fur clumped in a few spots, too weary to do much more than shift her eyes and half-ass growl if someone happened by. On the morning that Evers got his first glimpse of the albino mystery, he'd been walking into the sun, scraping down the sidewalk, burping up squalls of alcohol and two-in-the-morning microwave lasagna. He had just passed by a can of garbage spilled in an alley when he thought he heard someone say his name. Evers was dizzy, the sun was sharp and combative, and he was trying hard to get to his office, so he didn't stop moving right away.Judge Wheeling? Sir?Evers looked around for the voice, put up his hand to shade his eyes. Huh?Good morning.Evers stopped and looked to his left. His balance wasn't all that good when he stood still.Would you come in here, please? The woman speaking to Evers was a stranger -- beautiful, handsome, well dressed and tan -- and he had a muddled thought that perhaps she was talking to someone else, even though she had called him by name and was looking right at him, smiling. She was standing in front of a coffee shop not far from the courthouse where Evers worked.Me? Evers looked over his shoulder, then down at his feet on the sidewalk. The woman was so pretty that he did not want to see her face for very long. He dropped and bobbed his head in choppy, pell-mell pecks, up and down and from side to side, like an old bird eating seed, and he put his hands in his pockets, took them out and put them back in again. A fat man with leather sandals and short pants walked past Evers and bumped him, brushed his back. Are you talking to me? Evers looked up for a moment and blinked and took his hands out of his pockets.Yes.Who in the world are you? he asked.Would you come in here? I need to speak with you. Please?What do you want? I don't think I know you. Is it about court, about a case?No. But you are Judge Wheeling, aren't you? Judge Evers Wheeling? The lady had taken a step and was standing right in front of Evers. I'm Ruth Esther English. I go by Ruth Esther.Yes . . . nice to meet you. Evers turned and watched a tall man with a package walk past. He heard a car horn blow. You really startled me or something -- not startled, I guess, just made me uneasy. Evers kicked the sidewalk with the toe of his shoe.I didn't mean to upset you. Sorry.That's all right. I don't know why I feel so odd. People stop me all the time and want to talk. Evers stepped back and looked at the woman. She had blond hair and her hands were clasped in front of her, her two index fingers pressed up into a point. She didn't move, didn't offer to shake hands, just pulled her hands closer to her chest.I would like to discuss somethin' important with you for a little while. I know that you're busy, but I'd be grateful. It won't take long.Evers shuffled his feet on the sidewalk; he felt his soles catch on the cement. His head hurt. He looked out at the traffic driving by.Judge Wheeling?Evers didn't say anything. He noticed that Ruth Esther's pants were loose around her ankles, and that she wasn't wearing hose or socks.Sir? Ruth Esther touched her lips with the tips of her fingers. Would you let me talk to you? She kept her fingers in front of her mouth and spoke through the spire.It was May in Winston-Salem, already warm, and Evers was wearing a suit coat, tie, long sleeves and a T-shirt. What do you want to talk about? I have to be in court in just a few minutes. Evers began to think he was still drunk from the night before. He saw the corner of a building start to wash out; the hard brick edge turned into a lazy, aimless blur.I would like to speak to you in private about a personal matter.Ruth Esther was younger than he, probably twenty-four or twenty-five, Evers decided. He felt his heart beating in his head, and his back and chest were starting to sweat. When he tried to look at Ruth Esther, he could see only her face and a jumble of swirls and streaks. He squinted and strained, struggled to get things to quit fading. The people behind her were blots and noise, and the sidewalk next to the restaurant was full of currents and eddies and erratic hues, breaking around him like a dappled creek. Evers' hands started to shake, and he rubbed them together. He rolled his head, squeezed his eyes shut, then opened them and focused on the lady in front of him: she looked more like a painting than a person, boxed in by the doorway, full of grace and goodness, like a perfect Renaissance child, all eyes and face and cheeks. I guess I could. For a moment. I need to clear my head. I don't feel right. It's like watercolors or . . .Ruth Esther held out her hand, but Evers didn't move, so she touched his arm and they walked into the restaurant. The White Spot Grill and Coffee Shop was about three minutes away from the Forsyth County Courthouse. Evers rarely ate at the Spot -- it was small and too crowded. He stepped inside the door, just ahead of Ruth Esther, into the smell of bacon and cigarette smoke and Ruth Esther's perfume, a sweet, quiet scent he'd never run across before.I'd like to talk somewhere private, Ruth Esther said.How about right here, ma'am? Evers felt some of his balance returning. It was cooler in the restaurant than on the street, and the colors were darker and didn't seem as skittish.Do you think that it would be possible for us to step into one of the restrooms? I know that sounds strange, but I don't want other people listenin' to our conversation.Are you serious? Here? The toilet? Evers' tongue was so dry that it didn't come off the roof of his mouth when he said the last word.Yes.Did I understand you . . . hear you right?I think so.Are you a hooker or something? Is this some state police scam to test my integrity? You think that I'm going to walk into the toilet with a woman I don't know seven blocks away from the courthouse where I punish people for minuscule moral lapses and running red lights at three in the morning when nobody else is there? Are you -- If you run a red light at three in the morning and no one sees it, does it make a sound?You mean like an alarm or some sort of device. . . . Evers stopped.Ruth Esther unfolded her hands and laughed. It occurred to Evers that she had kept her fingers in front of her, still and steepled, almost the whole time they were talking. And someone would have to see it for it to end up in court.Thank you, Descartes. Evers' mouth was a thin, ill line.I wasn't trying to be smart. You seem pretty uncomfortable, and I was just trying to make you laugh, break the ice, that sort of thing.It's a pretty somber morning for me, ma'am.Well, why don't you go in to the men's room first? I'll follow you in. That way, if things go wrong, it would be easier for you to explain. And I'll leave my purse here on the counter, in case that's somethin' you're worried about . . . you know, that I might shoot you or stab you or try to hurt you.Miss, I appreciate the intrigue and your good looks, I like your sense of drama, I like the way your suit fits and how you try to look me in the eye when we talk even though we're strangers. But I'm going to go to work, get a couple of Cokes from the vending machine, put on my polyester ...",books;humor;humor & entertainment;lawyers & criminals;legal;literary;literature & fiction;mystery;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,11
0677217501,"Foreign Language Teacher's Suggestopedic Manual Text: English, Bulgarian (translation)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education;education & reference;education theory;educational psychology;language & grammar;new;schools & teaching;study & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,11
0316812986,"A Cultivated Life: A Year in a California Vineyard A chronicle of wine-making as well as a plug for Iron Horse Vineyards, her family's winery in Sonoma Valley, Calif., this first-person account of the wine-growing year also traces Sterling on her business rounds. We follow her as the vineyard's marketing director, dressed to the nines, traveling across the country and abroad, talking to consumers, offering tastings and creating or assisting at events designed to promote Iron Horse wines, which have been served at White House dinners. Sterling presents a seductive picture of the pleasures (and hardships) of making and marketing wine, and recalls her family's years in Paris, where they lived before buying the California vineyard in 1976. While much attention is paid here to her family's elegant hospitality, the book is also a layperson's guide to the intricacies of wine-making from planting the rootstock through nurturing the vines, harvesting the grapes and marketing the Fume Blanc, Chardonnay, Cabernet and sparkling wines. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Rambling, sometimes rankling account of a year spent  producing, promoting, and peddling the wines of the noted Iron  Horse Vineyards in California's Sonoma Valley. Sterling--daughter  of the firm's original owners, and marketing and sales director  of Iron Horse since 1985--packs in so much p.r. that this is like  an infomercial between covers.  Sterling describes the winery's yearly round of domestic  activities--family get-togethers, anniversaries, gardening,  entertaining the doyens of the food-and-beverage industries--with  an air of superiority that's captured well in her father's  observation that ``Ralph Lauren is just an imitation of people  like us.'' The author also turns her attention to such wine  arcana as the perils of phylloxera, a fungal disease that has  decimated vineyards worldwide; the differences between cordon and  cane pruning; and the complexities of the malo-lactic  fermentation process. Also included are some snipes at rival  wineries, mainly in nearby Napa Valley; plugs for various  restaurateurs and their establishments (presumably Iron Horse  clients); and name-dropping of a host of political and  entertainment figures with whom the author and her family have  come in contact. One of Sterling's more successful sections deals  with wine experts and their metaphorical jargon--about which she  says, ironically, ``more often than not, winespeak is merely  pretentious and boring.''  Touted by the publisher as a successor to Peter Mayle's A  Year in Provence, Sterling's tale merely proves that charm, like  wine, often doesn't travel well. (Ten watercolors) -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;cookbooks;drinks & beverages;education & reference;food & wine;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;social sciences;spirits;travel;writing,11
089013281X,"Plants for Natural Gardens: Southwestern Native & Adaptive Trees, Shrubs, Wildflowers & Grasses This companion book to Natural by Design concentrates on more  than two hundred plants, individually photographed and profiled. The  key to any successful garden is knowing the plants, the conditions that  nurture them, and the care that must be taken in their propagation,  cultivation, transplanting, and pruning. Knowing the native and  adaptive plants of the region and how best to use them in the landscape  will enable the gardener to create gardens of self-sustaining beauty.",arts & photography;biological sciences;books;by region;crafts;gardening & landscape design;hobbies & home;landscape;plants;science & math;southwest,11
0721682499,"Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Review, 2e Certification review made easy!Prepare for and pass your FNP certification examProvides the tools to prepare for the Family Nurse Practitioner certification exams with over 1,300 multiple-choice questions	JoAnn Zerwekh, EdD, RN, FNP, CS, Professor, University of Phoenix Online, Phoenix, AZ; Executive Director, Nursing Education Consultants, Midlothian, TX",books;education & reference;general;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;nursing;reference;reviews & study guides;test preparation & review;used & rental textbooks,11
0844201405,"The Dive Sites of the Bahamas McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide",adventure;bahamas;books;caribbean;general;scuba;scuba diving;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;water sports,11
0590898000,"Bat 6 Wolff's novel about the sentiments of racism, patriotism and guilt that bubble over in two small Oregon towns after World War II here becomes a compelling, if sometimes hard to follow, audiobook. In 1949, the sixth-grade girls of Barlow Road Grade School and Bear Creek Ridge Grade School are ready to stand off in the 50th annual Bat 6 softball game. Teams from both schools practice all year in preparation, and when the historic game arrives, it is sullied by a violent clash between Shazam (Shirley), a Barlow player whose father died at Pearl Harbor, and Aki, a Japanese-American on the Bear Creek team whose family spent several years in an internment camp. Shazam's attack on Aki, an act that breaks Aki's jaw, forces the communities not only to end the game but to reexamine their feelings about the war. The story unfolds as a series of first-person narrations by all 21 players from both teams, a convention that requires a bit of diligence to keep track of the characters. But the youthful-sounding performers have strong, assured voices that will help keep listeners interested. Those who stick with it are rewarded by a dramatic, thought-provoking tale. Ages 10-up. (Apr.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Grade 4-7-Virginia Euwer Wolff's story (Scholastic, 1998) about a sixth-grade girl's softball team set in the post-war 1940's is even better to listen to than it is to read. Barlow and Bear Creek Ridge have been playing softball against each other for 50 years. This year brings tragedy for both teams when Aki, a Japanese-American on the Ridgers Team, and Shazam, who lost her father at Pearl Harbor and who plays for the Barlow Team, meet each other on the playing field. The ten voices on this full-cast production make listeners feel like they are hearing the girls tell their own story. Aural quality is good, and the different voices can be identified easily. An excellent addition to any collection.Saleena L. Davidson, South Brunswick Public Library, NJ Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Audio Cassette	 edition.	Gr. 5^-9. Three years after the end of World War II, 11-year-old Aki Mikami and her family return to their home and orchard in Bear Creek Ridge. They've been gone for six years--since the day in 1942 when they were forced to join tens of thousands of other Americans of Japanese ancestry in internment camps. Coinciding with their return, the Japanese-hating Shazam, whose father died at Pearl Harbor, comes to live with her grandmother in the nearby town of Barlow. The ultimate, explosive meeting of the two girls on a softball field as members of opposing sixth-grade teams will demonstrate that wars may end, but the passions they foster--if unexamined--can make victims of the survivors. This ambitious novel is told in 21 different first-person voices; each member of the two girls' softball teams has one or more ""turns"" at bat as narrator, recounting bits and pieces of the story. Inevitably, a few of the voices sound distractingly similar, but a gratifyingly large number reveal complex, fully realized characters. Gradually, their individual vignettes merge into an extraordinarily artful portrait of a moment in American history that challenged our comfortable assumptions about who we were and what we believed. None of the 21 girls emerges unchanged from what happens during that fateful encounter nor, one predicts, will most readers of this powerful novel.  Michael Cart	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In Bear Creek Ridge and Barlow, two small Oregon towns, everyone is looking forward to the Bat 6 girls' softball game of 1949. Both towns make plans to cheer the sixth graders on, all in the name of good, clean fun. This simple, small-town portrait of Americana is shattered, however, when a racial incident occurs at the 50th annual game: One player, Shirley, whose father was killed at Pearl Harbor, slams her elbow into the face of Aki, a Japanese-American. It brings the game to a halt, and inspires the townspeople to debate and examine what exactly has gone wrong in the years since WW II ended. Guilt hangs over both towns: Could anyone have prevented the incident? Shirley had not concealed her hatred of ``Japs,'' yet no one had believed that such a troubled girl would act on her feelings. Through the first-person narrations of the 21 girls of the two teams, the story emerges, and while few of the voices are truly distinct, their emotions and perspectives ring true. Wolff (Make Lemonade, 1993, etc.) is especially deft in creating a transforming, bittersweet post-war atmosphere and winning portraits of members of the communities who support, respect, and encourage their young girls, but come to question their own roles in the tragedy. (Fiction. 12-14)  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Approx. 5 hours3 cassettesBat 6 - that's the softball game played every year between the sixth-grade girls of Barlow and Bear Creek Ridge.  All the girls - Beautiful Hair Hallie, Manzanita who gets the spirit, the twins Lola and Lila, Tootie, Shadean - they've been waiting for their turn at Bat 6 since they could first toss a ball.This time there's a newcomer on each team:  Aki, at first base for the Ridgers, who just returned with her family from a place she's too embarrassed to talk about.  And Shazam, center field for Barlow, who's been shunted around by her mother since her father was killed on December 7, 1941.The adults of the two towns would rather not speak about why Aki's family had to ""go away.""  They can't quite admit just how ""different"" Shazam is.  And that is why the two girls are on a collision course that explodes catastrophically on the morning of Bat 6, the day they've been preparing for all their lives.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Virginia Euwer Wolff is the author of books which have been named ALA/YASD Best Books and School Library Journal's Best Books, in addition to other awards.Our daily news is filled with children doing horrifying things, says Ms. Wolff, and I'm fascinated by the question:What is it we notice about these kids but decide not to acknowledge?Ms. Wolff was born and raised in Oregon, Virginia.She currently lives in a house in the woods of Oregon City.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Bat 6 explores values in post-WWII America. The full-cast performance makes this powerful story an exceptional audiobook. Each character tells the same story from her own perspective; each has a distinct voice; each captures the pride, excitement, confusion and pain she feels at different times throughout the story. We hear the anger in Shazam building to an explosion; we sympathize with Aki as she debates honesty versus cultural expectation; and we sense what is coming as each reader records her part in the story. This is a great book to start discussions of prejudice and responsibility with upper-elementary and middle-school students.  W.L.S. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award.  AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",baseball;books;children's books;historical fiction;literature & fiction;prejudice & racism;social situations;social skills;sports;sports & games;united states,11
0721644341,"Sports Injuries: Diagnosis and Management ""Presents an overall review of sports medicine in a very practical and easily applicable way...Should be in the library of every physician who deals with sports medicine and its injuries."" -The Journal of Family Practice  ""A detailed and practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of injuries to bones, joints, muscles, and neural structures...Highly useful."" -Annals of Internal Medicine",books;clinical;education & reference;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;sports & outdoors;sports medicine;training;used & rental textbooks,11
187567120X,"International Directory of Military Aircraft, 1996/97 The following is the International Directory of Military  Aircraft's entry for the Bell AH-1F and AH-1S HueyCobra attack helicopter.  The style is representative of the 280 or so other aircraft entries in the  book.     Country of Origin: United States of America    Type: Attack helicopter    Powerplant: AH-1F - One 1340kW (1800shp) Textron Lycoming T53-L-703  turboshaft driving two bladed main and tail rotors.    Performance: AH-1F - Max level speed 227km/h (123kt). Max initial rate of  climb 1620ft/min. Service ceiling 12,200ft. Hovering ceiling in ground  effect 12,200ft. Range 507km (275nm).     Weights: AH-1F - Operating empty 2993kg (6598lb), normal takeoff 4525kg  (9975lb), max takeoff 4535kg (10,000lb).     Dimensions: AH-1F - Main rotor diameter 13.41m (44ft 0in), length overall  rotors turning 16.18m (53ft 1in), fuselage length 13.59m (44ft 7in),  height to top of rotor head 4.09m (13ft 5in). Main rotor disc area 141.3m2  (1520.2sq ft).     Accommodation: Copilot/gunner (in front cockpit) and pilot in tandem.    Armament: Eight Hughes TOW anti armour missiles on the outboard stations  of two stub wings. Can carry rockets and machine gun pods. General  Electric nose mounted three barrel 20mm gun turret can be slaved to helmet  mounted sights.     Operators: Bahrain, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Pakistan, Romania*, South  Korea, Thailand, Turkey, USA.     History: The world's first operational dedicated two seat helicopter  gunship, the HueyCobra was initially intended to be an interim design  pending the introduction into service of the subsequently cancelled  Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne.     The HueyCobra began life as a private venture when in 1965 Bell took the  powerplant, transmission and rotor system of the UH-1B/C Iroquois and  matched them to a new fuselage featuring seating for two in tandem, stub  wings to carry weapons and a nose gun, to result in the Bell 209. The  prototype flew for the first time on September 7 1965, just six months  after design work had begun. The US Army subsequently ordered the 209 into  production as the AH-1G HueyCobra to fulfil an urgent need for an attack  helicopter primarily to escort troop carrying UH-1 Iroquois in Vietnam,  pending delivery of the troubled AH-56. In all 1078 AH-1Gs were built,  many of which saw service in Vietnam, while the AH-56 was cancelled.     The AH-1G was followed up by the AH-1Q, an interim anti armour version  capable of firing Hughes TOW anti tank missiles. First flown in 1973, 92  AH-1Gs were converted to AH-1Qs. Combat experience found the AH-1Q's hot  and high performance lacking, and resulted in the AH-1S. The AH-1S  designation covers staged improvements to the AH-1's powerplant and  transmission, armament, avionics and cockpit. New build production AH-1Ss  and conversions of the AH-1Qs and AH-1Gs resulted in four separate AH-1S  subvariants, the AH-1S(MC) being the definitive standard incorporating all  the planned improvements.     In 1989 the US Army redesignated the AH-1S to reflect the different  variants. Thus AH-1F covers the AH-1S(MC), while the AH-1S designation now  covers AH-1S(MOD) aircraft (converted AH-1Qs), the AH-1P covers early  build AH-1Ss, and the AH-1E covers AH-1Ss with improved weapon systems. In  1995 Bell and IAR Brasov signed an agreement covering the licence  construction of 96 AH-IFs in Romania. Deliveries will begin in 1999.",aviation;books;engineering;history;military;military science;professional & technical;science & math;special topics;technology;transportation,11
0195165462,"Selected Poems ""If you read and enjoy Conrad Aiken, then you have been in search of authentic poetry, and you have found it.""--from the Foreword by Harold Bloom""This new, shapely edition of the poetry of Conrad Aiken is an invitation for us to listen to him again and perhaps this time to hear beneath the romantic nuances of his music a distinct and emphatically modern voice.""--Billy Collins, Poet Laureate	Conrad Aiken is an American poet, short story writer, critic and novelist. Harold Bloom is the author of several books, including The Anxiety of Influence, A Map of Misreading, and most recently, Genius. He is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at NYU.",american;american literature;books;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;poetry;used & rental textbooks,11
082032146X,"Erec and Enide A new verse translation makes this first Arthurian romance (composed around A.D. 1170), also the first of five extant works by French court poet Chretien de Troyes, a pleasure to read. Erec and Enide, newly married and lost in erotic, conjugal bliss, are brought back to reality when gossip suggests that Erec, son of a king, prefers life at home to the existence of a fearless, heroic knight. Celtic legend, classical motifs, and ecclesiastical elements are masterfully interwoven in this tale, whose colloquial translation brings to life the clashing sounds of battle, de Troyes's multiple poetic tones and colorful expressions, and the rhyme and meter of the original's lively octosyllabios. This is not a literal translation along the lines of Carleton W. Carroll's (Garland, 1987), yet it remains scholarly and mindful of the vocabulary of de Troyes's day. Both scholars and general readers will surely enjoy this story of the quest for honor, glory, and the Arthurian way.- Danielle Mihram, Univ. of Southern California Lib., Los AngelesCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Anglophone students and general readers can trust that Cline's translations, surely a sustained labor of love, are faithful to the poignant characters and suspenseful situations that make Chrtien's earliest romances well worth reading.""--Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies""The English speaking world is indebted to Chrtien for shaping this marvelous legend and to Cline for an accurate translation.""--South Atlantic Review""Her work constitutes the finest poetic translations now available of Chrtien's romances.""--Arthuriana	Text: English (translation)	""Ms. Gilbert's couplets read beautifully, encompassing Chrtien's range of tonefrom wit to elevation of sentimentvery sensitively.""Charles Muscatine, author of Chaucer and the French Tradition""A wonderfully accurate and witty translation of Chrtien's Erec and Enide which brilliantly renders the rhymed octosyllabics of the original text in compelling, colloquial English. . . . A treat not just for students and scholars of Old French literature but, more important, for what we now call general readersthat is, all those who relish a rollicking, well-told tale.""Sandra M. Gilbert, editor of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women""Older translations, generally in stupefying Maloryan prose, convey little of the sense of the poetry so obvious in the original, and admirably reproduced in this translation.""Robert Harrison, translator of Gallic Salt: Eighteen Fabliaux""One of the best English verse renderings of any poem by Chrtien.""William J. Kibler, author of An Introduction to Old French""A union of scholarship and consummate art that affected me like the great stories I read in my formative years; a permanent vicarious experience.""Ruth Stone, poet, author of Second-Hand Coat""This will be a standard English translation of Erec and Enide and a definitive one.""Roger J. Steiner, editor of The New College French and English Dictionary	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Ms. Gilbert's couplets read beautifully, encompassing Chrtien's  range of tone (from wit to elevation of sentiment (very sensitively."" (Charles  Muscatine, author of Chaucer and the French Tradition)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ruth Harwood Cline is a research associate in the department of history at Georgetown University.",ancient & classical literature;arthurian romance;books;french;gothic & romantic;history & criticism;literature & fiction;medieval;movements & periods;poetry;world literature,11
0714529192,"Life Remembered Bohm (1894-1981) was a celebrated conductor of classic German mold who had a solid but only occasionally spectacular career that spanned almost five decades. He was close to, and a splendid interpreter of, Richard Strauss, and the most intriguing pages in this pedestrian account of his life (published in Germany some 20 years ago) are his reminiscences of that master. Mozart, Bruckner and Berg were the author's other specialties, though he has nothing particularly revealing to say about them. Bohm came under shadow at the end of WW II for having continued to conduct in Nazi Germany, and although he seems never to have joined the party, it was disingenuous of him to assume he could instantly resume his life as if nothing had happened. As in the cases of Karajan, Furtwangler and others, the Nazis made much of the great music that continued to be created by men who failed to dissociate themselves from official life under the regime. Bohm has very little of interest to say about musical life in wartime--and indeed his memoir suggests, even more than most such, that musicians are not of great interest outside their specialty. Photos not seen by PW . Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	The Austrian conductor Bohm (1894-1981) was one of this century's outstanding exponents of the Austro-German musical tradition. Particularly admired were his interpretations of operas by Mozart and Wagner, and by his friends Alban Berg and Richard Strauss. The translation of this ""oral biography"" some 24 years after its European publication fills a genuine need: there are virtually no other writings by or about Bohm available in English. It offers an absorbing first-hand account of Central European musical life; in addition to Berg and Strauss, key figures such as Bruno Walter are portrayed. Some readers may find its discursive organization annoying and the absence of substantive musical insight disappointing. But no matter: these memoirs are important, and should be in all serious music collections.- Eugene Gaub, Villa Maria Coll., Buffalo, Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: German",arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;classical;history & criticism;history & philosophy;music;musical genres;politics & social sciences;science & math;sociology,11
0571193072,"Carried Away ""Consumption is at once ecstasy and waste,"" writes cultural critic Bowlby (Shopping with Freud) at the outset of this engrossing history of postindustrial consumerism. She charts the century-old history of the lure of shopping through advertisements, professional literature (e.g., the trade journal Shelf Appeal), the constant re-imagining of the display window and of packaging, and literature (including Sister Carrie, Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Balzac's Lost Illusions and The Stepford Wives). Arguing that the modern concept of shopping (as opposed to buying necessities) is a product of the desire of a rising middle class to indicate social status with luxury items, Bowlby locates shopping at the center of modern life, citing a number of diverse and ubiquitous venues. She traces the history of the supermarket in the 1930s, analyzes the rise of Piggly Wiggly in the American South, charts the use of ""pretty girls"" in advertising and discusses a 1930s social theory holding that women, as purchasers, were responsible for the quality of goods sold. In an easy and engaging style, Bowlby (who teaches English, French and American studies at the University of York, U.K.) moves fluidly from quoting Alexander Pope to explicating the different sales tactics of early French and U.S. self-service markets. This deft mixture of sociology, cultural criticism and literary scholarship is an important contribution to feminist and cultural studies. (On sale: Mar. 15)Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Carried Away is in some ways a rare opportunity to go on an intellectual shopping spree, a guided tour of consumerism with a premier cultural critic. (Times Literary Supplement)[An] intriguing exploration of shoppers and shops from the 19th to the 21st centuries. (Kirkus Reviews)A virtuoso cultural history of 20th-century shopping... Bowlby's sensitivity to shopping's confusing alliance of exhiliration, zombification, larks and boredom prevents her from resorting to easy generalisation. (Independent on Sunday)Full of evocative and entertaining material. (New Statesman)Bowlby has scoured the archives of marketing history to write a lively and thought-provoking study of 20th-century shopping. (Financial Times)[An] engrossing history of postindustrial consumerism... This deft mixture of sociology, cultural criticism and literary scholarship is an important contribution to feminist and cultural studies. (Publishers Weekly)	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Bowlby is a scintillating analyst of the hidden meanings of that activity which so pre-eminently defines our culture -- shopping. Carried Away traces the transformations in the shopper from the days of the glamorous department store to our own functionalist superstores and tells us not a little about the changing roles of women and men along the way. It's a 'must read' for our consuming culture. (Lisa Appignanesi, author of  Dreams of Innocence)	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Rachel Bowlby's books include Still Crazy After All These Years: Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis, which the New Statesman called 'a brilliant and shrewd, but also an intoxicatingly hopeful book', and Shopping with Freud, described by Suzanne Moore as 'a brilliant piece of literary criticism ... a fascinating and seductive book'.  Currently at the University of York, she previously taught at Sussex and Oxford after graduate work at Yale.",20th century;books;business & investing;history;industries & professions;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;popular culture;retailing;social sciences;women's studies,11
0195133072,"The Innovation Journey ""What this book is about is a true mapping of the leap-forward-fall back world of innovating today. It is frank and objective, and the authors seem determined, much to their credit, not to make the process seem simple or sanguine. ... You will find here, more than anywhere else, the secrets of real innovation in the real world. Given the sweep of this book, it's amazing how this expansive research could be compressed into such a short work. Team Van de Ven has helped the world immensely by writing this factual account of the hard task of getting new products and services to market.  They have shown the innovation journey to be hard--but understandable. And that's a mighty step forward!""--Management General - The ""New Ideas"" Website	Andrew H. Van de Ven is at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Douglas E. Polley is at St. Cloud University.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business development;economics;industries & professions;information management;management;management & leadership;new;used & rental textbooks,11
0295980842,Northern Haida: Master Carvers Robin K. Wright is curator of Native American art at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture and associate professor of art history at the University of Washington. She is the author of many articles on Northwest Coast art and edited A Time of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State.,appreciation;arts & photography;books;criticism;history;history & criticism;native american studies;politics & social sciences;sculpture;social sciences;specific demographics,11
0312275412,"The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror : Fourteenth Annual Edition The 14th volume of the critically acclaimed Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series is a 556-page behemoth combining 44 of the best stories and eight of the best poems from 2000. Editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling provide long, thorough, and insightful summaries of their fields, horror and fantasy, respectively. If that isn't enough, the anthology includes Edward Bryant's detailed and evenhanded ""Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2000,"" Seth Johnson's concise and knowledgeable ""Comics: 2000,"" and James Frenkel's ""Obituaries: 2000."" The stories and poems in this volume are as strong as the title claims; a few are very good, and most are excellent. The contributors include literary greats like John Crowley, Harlan Ellison, and Louise Erdrich; genre giants like Ramsey Campbell, Charles de Lint, and Tanith Lee; acclaimed young-adult authors like Francesca Lia Block and Jane Yolen; excellent foreign authors better known in their native countries, like Australia's Terry Dowling and Bolivia's Claudia Adria'zola; and terrific new talents like Susanna Clarke, Andy Duncan, and Kelly Link. With a volume this massive, it is difficult to describe all the stories, or even representative examples of the many different subgenres. Here are summaries of two selections from each editor: In Louise Erdrich's tragicomic tall tale ""Le Mooz,"" a prideful Ojibwa woman wrecks her marriage after a moose hunt goes awry. In Kathe Koja's chilling and startling ""At Eventide,"" a serial killer tracks down the woman artist who escaped him and sent him to prison. ""The Man on the Ceiling,"" a metafiction by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem, is a brilliant, moving, autobiographical exploration of the physical, emotional, and creative lives of two writers. In Susanna Clarke's witty, beautifully written fantasy of manners, ""Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower,"" a poor, handsome young priest learns his new parish overlaps Faerie, discovers a shocking ancestral secret, and makes covert marriage proposals to five beautiful sisters. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror is a great and generous collection, perfect for most, but not all, horror and/or fantasy fans. It includes both supernatural and nonsupernatural horror, but it doesn't have anything for the ""splatterpunk"" fan. Also, while the horror selections are drawn from both genre and nongenre publications, most of the fantasy selections are taken from nongenre magazines, anthologies, and other sources. If you want fantasy drawn largely or exclusively from genre sources, and particularly if you want only heroic/adventure/sword-and-sorcery fantasy, then you should skip the entire Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series. Those subgenres make no appearance in this volume, and have never had much of a presence in this series; it's as if only magic realism, fairy tales, and mythic/folkloric fantasy of a rather sensitive, measured, and grown-up sort need apply (even when it's young adult fiction). Also, extreme, graphic horror may be out of fashion, but its raw, adolescent energy will doubtless reappear in future volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror whenever great graphic-horror stories are published. --Cynthia Ward 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	There are other annual ""best"" collections of fantasy and horror combined, but this long-running series of short fiction and poetry, with exhaustive summations of both fields for the year 2000, tops them all. Editors Datlow and Windling have scoured not only magazines and anthologies devoted to these genres but also general and small-press publications. So a handful of mainstream authors pop up (Louise Erdrich, Stewart O'Nan, etc.), along with a host of American and British writers familiar to genre fans (Ramsey Campbell, Harlan Ellison, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman, etc.). If few of the more than 50 eclectic stories and poems are outstanding, they are all worthy. More sketches than tales are Steve Resnic Tem and Melanie Tem's fantastical ""The Man on the Ceiling"" and Greer Gilman's poetic ""Jack Daw's Pack."" Jack Dann's ""Marilyn"" proves the film star should be given a moratorium. Fine folk tales by Erdrich, Claudia Barbosa Nogueira and Nalo Hopkinson demonstrate the value of brevity. Jack Ketchum is painfully and unusually poignant in a brief story of loss, ""Gone,"" while Campbell satirically points up the inadequacies of specialty publishers in ""No Story in It."" And the late Howard Wandrei's tale of jealousy and revenge, ""George Is All Right,"" is as creepy as they come. This anthology is an essential volume for anyone who values quality in fantasy and horror today. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	The fourteenth in this annual series is, compared with some of its predecessors and its editors' other collaborations, uninspired. Among its 150,000 words of fiction are good Harlan Ellison, Ramsey Campbell, Charles de Lint, and Esther Friesner stories and some respectable efforts by lesser-known writers, but the rest is notably less good. This last may be the result of too many stories focused on a particular situation: the odd person or place amid the mundane urban environment, whose oddness and identity normal folk come to realize too late. De Lint is, if not the inventor, a master of that setup in psychological fantasy, as his story demonstrates. But there aren't enough of his peers to fill a volume this big without turning it into more of a theme anthology than it already is or, given that it is ostensibly an annual overview of fantasy and horror, should be. It is still recommendable, but look out for other anthologies covering other corners of its field. Roland GreenCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""a richly inventive collection...not to be missed"" --Kirkus Reviews	Ellen Datlow is the acclaimed editor of such anthologies as Sirens and other Daemon Lovers (with Terri Windling), Lethal Kisses, Off Limits, and Endangered Species, and has won the World Fantasy Award six times. She lives in New York City and currently edits fiction for SCIFI.COM.Terri Windling won the Mythopoeic Award for her first adult novel, The Wood Wife. She has edited numerous books and anthologies, including The Essential Bordertown and Silver Birch, Blood Moon, the most recent in a series of contemporary fairy tale anthologies, edited with Ellen Datlow. Honored six times with the World Fantasy Award, she divides her time between Devon, England, and Tucson, Arizona.",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;dark fantasy;fantasy;general;genre fiction;horror;literature & fiction;science fiction & fantasy;united states,11
1558216790,"Batfishing in the Rainforest: Strange Tales of Travel and Fishing The '60s new journalism is now producing a second generation of ""gonzo"" travel writers, postmodern reporters and skewed naturalists: White is all three in this collection of 23 short pieces, some of which have appeared in Playboy , Southern Living et al. Reports of adventures in Central America, Asia and Floria are frothy with peculiar insights on politics, flora and fauna and local character. This travel writing freestyle event offers an antidote to prepackaged armchair adventures and New Age ""sacred tours."" Even in the company of the Navy SEALS or the Seward (Alaska) Polar Bear Jump crew, White's viewpoint oscillates between quirky subjectivity and transcendence. No tourist board should let him into its country, but fans of P. J. O'Rourke and David Quaamen will find a kindred spirit. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	White, a Florida fishing guide turned writer, takes us from Singapore to Alaska in 24 essays, some of which have appeared in Playboy , Outside Magazine , and Southern Living . Although a fishing pole is usually within reach, many of White's excursions could be more accurately described as those of a naturalist-observer. An adventurous and somewhat macho sort of a fellow who does not foreswear occasional crudity, White nonetheless has a nice comic sense when the spirit moves him. His book is better described as general outdoor literature than fishing literature, and is not indispensable to either area. However, White should find an audience in Florida libraries, since much of the U.S. action is set there.- David Panciera, Westerly P.L., R.I.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Travel writing at its very best."" --Jon Krakauer	Readers familiar with Randy Wayne White's 'Out There' column in Outside magazine will relish this first collection of his best work: those new to White's delectable blend of adventure, hilarity, and spirit can only be envied for the satisfaction of that first encounter. Whether it's 'This Dog Is Legend,' in which he tells of his cinder-block-retrieving Chesapeake Bay retriever named Gator, or 'Coming to America,' about the stirring - and sometimes terrifying - Mariel boat lift, White never fails to engross us in a life of sun, boats, work, and sport. (6 X 9, 256 pages)	Randy Wayne White, a former fly-fishing guide whose ""Out There"" column ran for many years in Outside magazine, currently writes a monthly column for Men's Health magazine. Among the many books he's written are The Sharks of Lake Nicaragua, Batfishing in the Rainforest, Last Flight Out, and the ""Doc Ford"" mystery series. His novel Sanibel Flats was chosen as one of the 100 Best Mysteries of the 20th Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. White is the winner of the Conch Republic Prize for Literature and the John D. MacDonald Award for Excellence in Florida Fiction. He also served on the Florida Judicial Nominating Commission for four years, and currently serves on the Florida Bar Association Grievance Committee. He lives on Pine Island, on Florida's southwest coast.",adventure;books;education & reference;fishing;hunting & fishing;research & publishing guides;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;travel writing;writing,11
0471525405,"The Janus Report on Sexual Behavior Stuffed with formidable tables but leavened by first-person confessions, this dryly written, informative and often startling survey is an impressive contribution to understanding human sexuality and Americans' wide spectrum of erotic behavior in the age of AIDS. The Januses (he is a psychology professor at New York Medical College; she is a physician) analyzed 2765 questionnaires and follow-up interviews nationwide. This husband-wife team found that young people are commencing intercourse much earlier than in any previous era and that nearly half of the elderly respondents had an active sex life. One-third of those who consider themselves ""very religious"" have had extramarital sex at least once. Political ultraconservatives rated sadomasochism an acceptable practice far more often than did either independents or ultraliberals. The authors' claim that Americans are enjoying a ""Second Sexual Revolution,"" with more freedom than ever to explore their sexual selves, is not substantiated by the evidence. First serial to Redbook and Playboy; author tour. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Purported to be the first national study on sex life since Masters and Johnson, this volume's suspect methodology undermines the authors' claims that their findings are applicable to the entire United States. Based on nearly 3000 responses to anonymous questionnaires and 125 in-depth interviews (excerpted throughout the text) from 1983 to 1992, the wordy narrative serves more to reiterate than to analyze the results presented in the statistical tables. Filled with subjective misinformation, specious reasoning, inconsistencies, and redundancy, this poorly organized title is not a necessary purchase. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/92.- James E. Van Buskirk, San Francisco P.L.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.",behavioral sciences;books;fitness & dieting;health;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;science & math;self-help;sex;sexuality;social sciences,11
0253342392,"Put the Moose on the Table: Lessons in Leadership from a Ceo's Journey Through Business and Life Tobias spent decades climbing the ladder at Ma Bell, served as vice chairman at AT and in 1993 became CEO of the prestigious pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly. One of his book's few interesting anecdotes is his recollection of an exchange he had with Charles Brown (AT's then-CEO), when Tobias was a mere underling at the company in the early 1980s. Tobias was preparing a presentation, which Brown canceled, since he was finalizing the monumental splitup of AT Although Brown was busy planning the company's reorganization, he found time to send Tobias a gracious note, apologizing for any inconvenience he may have caused Tobias. Tobias was moved by Brown's thoughtfulness and, as he progressed in his career, made attempts to be as forthcoming with his own subordinates. It's a valuable lesson about the importance of treating your workers well. Unfortunately, the rest of the book, which ostensibly offers lessons on how to communicate effectively and always deal with the problems at hand (keeping ""the moose on the table,"" as it were), is an uninformative mishmash of autobiography and unimaginative ""Lessons on Leadership"" (e.g., ""Leaders almost always think out of the box""; ""Keep learning""; ""In business as in life, one thing is absolutely inevitable-continuous change""). Tobias has had an esteemed career and has undoubtedly been a good boss (Lilly is justifiably well-known for its benevolent attitude toward employees), but his book fails to engage. Photos. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""Tobias makes it clear that the values and work ethic that led to hissuccess were derived by his upbringing in rural Remington, Ind. It is fitting, therefore, that University of Indiana Press put this moose on the table to challengethe thinking of corporate leaders and aspirants to leadership positions in Americanbusiness, cultural and political life."" -- Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Randall L. Tobias was Chairman, President, and CEO of Eli Lilly and Company until his retirement at the end of 1998, when he was named Chairman Emeritus. Before joining Lilly, he had a distinguished career at AT, where he was Vice Chairman in the years following the government-ordered breakup of the company in 1984 and negotiated the first-ever telecommunications deal with China. Still active in corporate and community life, Tobias serves on the boards of a number of major corporations and foundations.Todd Tobias is President of Table Moose Media, Publisher of Indy Men's Magazine, and Vice President of the Randall L. Tobias Foundation.",biographies & memoirs;books;business;business & investing;leadership;management;management & leadership;motivational;professionals & academics;self-help;success,11
B000H93NYY,"Exo Terra Natural Waterfall with Pump - Medium The Exo Terra Waterfall can be installed anywhere in a terrarium. Water circulation is provided by the Exo Terra Repti-Flo pump (included). The presence of clean and fresh water is important for the proper care and maintenance of captive reptiles and amphibians. Exo Terra offers a complete line of products to ensure that a quality water source is always easy accessible for the terrarium inhabitants and that the water is kept clean and free of debris. The Exo Terra Waterfall consists of several parts to facilitate easy cleaning. With its unique design, the Exo Terra Waterfall adds a touch of natural beauty to any terrarium while performing the vital function of providing a water source. For safety reasons, the walls of the collection tank are rough, in order to allow reptiles and amphibians to climb out easily, thus avoiding any danger of drowning. As an additional safety measure, for smaller chameleons and frogs, small stones or gravel should be added to the collection tank.",exo terra;fish & aquatic pets;habitat décor;hagen;pet supplies;pet supplies: international shipping available;pumps & filters;reptile decor;reptiles & amphibians;water pumps;waterfalls,11
0262660660,"What the Hands Reveal about the Brain (Bradford Books) ""No previous study has so carefully selected subjects, so thoroughly documented the site and extent of their brain lesions, or so extensively examined their language functioning. The authors pose important and fascinating questions and pursue the answers in a manner that indicates a deep knowledge of language."" Paula Menyuk, Science	Ursula Bellugi is Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neurosciences at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. She is the coauthor of What the Hands Reveal about the Brain (MIT Press, 1990).",behavioral sciences;books;cognitive psychology;counseling;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;mental health;psychology & counseling;science & math,11
0892725443,"Remembering Dud Dean ""These stories are shrewd, well-crafted, funny, thoughtful. They reflect  an era when people took the time to enjoy the outdoors."" -- Central Maine Newspapers	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	From Walter Macdougall, who compiled this book: ""Action swirls in these stories. We feel the tension in the straining leader. We fear we may step on a twig and warn the splendid buck. We settle back in the yellow lamplight and sense the warmth of the camp stove. At another time we can feel the cold rain dribble down our back as we fish a mist-shrouded wilderness pond. As my father put it, Dud tramps in ""a less involved and a more elementally real world.""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This is Walter Macdougall's second book. Now retired from his college teaching career, Macdougall enjoys writing, painting, woodworking, fishing, and doing historical research. He lives in Milo, Maine.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education & reference;fishing;hunting;hunting & fishing;maine;miscellaneous;reference;sports & outdoors;travel;united states,11
0399527257,"The Art of Shen Ku: The First Intergalactic Artform of the Entire Universe ""One amazing book...intensely practical. Offering awesome crash courses in everything from joke telling to acupuncture...if you are a traveler in life, this book is for you. If you have anybody who needs an awe-inspiring present, then this book is for you. In short, buy it!"" The Travel and Leisure Magazine	Zeek is the pen name of Steve Dolby, a native of England, who ventured around the world in a handmade sailing cutter. His travels took him to many corners of the globe where he gathered the wisdom which he compiled for this book.",arts & literature;arts & photography;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;general;history;history & criticism;reference;travel,11
0306809176,"A Cast Of Friends Hanna was born in New Mexico in 1910 and as a child moved to Southern California. During the Depression, when he was forced to drop out of college and look for work, the only thing that came his way was a job as a janitor for a studio that made Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. Moving through the ranks quickly, he learned the skills of writing, animating and timing and went on to create his own projects. When the studio folded, he moved to MGM as a director. There he met Barbera and they conceived the famous cat-and-mouse cartoon team of Tom and Jerry. Writing with freelancer Ito, Hanna tells wonderful stories about the industry, about how he hooked up with Gene Kelly to create the acclaimed animated dancing sequence in Anchors Aweigh and then about winning his first Academy Award in 1943 for Yankee Doodle Mouse. In 1957, MGM closed its animated studio, and Hanna and Barbera formed their own business and were soon producing such classical cartoon shows for TV as Ruff and Reddy, Huckleberry Hound and The Flintstones, the last of which Hanna says was inspired by The Honeymooners TV series. He goes on to reminisce about his family, how the industry has changed and his long association with the Boy Scouts. Those who grew up with Yogi Bear and Fred Flintstone will love this book. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Cartoon director Joe Barbera published his autobiography, My Life in 'toons, in 1994. Now his longtime partner weighs in. The two enjoyed huge wide-screen success with their Tom and Jerry cartoons. When TV displaced movies in popularity, they switched to the new medium and developed such hit characters as Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, and the Flintstones. Hanna's anecdotes about the animation pioneers he worked with in the 1930s and 1940s are entertaining, but it seems that for him the motivation behind producing cartoons was wholly economic. Well, he and Barbera are famous for developing the cost-cutting but creatively restrictive ""limited animation"" technique. Still, both cartoonists come off as rather dull guys. Hanna devotes far too many pages to banal philosophizing about life rather than art and to tedious family tales. Few libraries will need both men's memoirs. Since Hanna's are slightly livelier and also more technical, his volume edges out Barbera's more acerbic one.  Gordon Flagg	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Bill Hanna, cochairman and cofounder (with Joe Barbera) of Hanna-Barbera Productions Inc., is on the board of directors for the Cartoon Network. He lives in Los Angeles.",architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;entertainers;historical;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;movies,11
1586670506,"Jigger, Beaker and Glass: Drinking Around the World It's a book to keep by your reading nook or bedside. One of Baker's articles makes the case ""Sip Wine, Don't Drink It."" And that goes for this book, too, since few articles are more than a page long. (Oregon Wine Magazine )",bartending;books;cookbooks;cooking by ingredient;drinks & beverages;food & wine;game;meat;poultry & seafood;spirits;travel,11
0912381027,"All Sickness Is Home Sickness ...eminently insightful and rewarding. --Rollo May...a rich blend of philosophy, poetry and praxis, but above all a valuable contribution toward reframing the central notions of health and healing. --John Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy, Elon CollegeDianne Connelly reminds us of what we know, a reminder of the 'home' that is within us even when we disdain it... --Colin Greer, President, New World Foundation...eminently insightful and rewarding. --Rollo May...a rich blend of philosophy, poetry and praxis, but above all a valuable contribution toward reframing the central notions of health and healing. --John Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy, Elon College...eminently insightful and rewarding. --Rollo May...a rich blend of philosophy, poetry and praxis, but above all a valuable contribution toward reframing the central notions of health and healing. --John Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy, Elon College...eminently insightful and rewarding. --Rollo May...a rich blend of philosophy, poetry and praxis, but above all a valuable contribution toward reframing the central notions of health and healing. --John Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy, Elon College...eminently insightful and rewarding. --Rollo May...a rich blend of philosophy, poetry and praxis, but above all a valuable contribution toward reframing the central notions of health and healing. --John Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy, Elon College	Dr. Connelly is a co-founder of the Institute and has been a practitioner of traditional acupuncture since 1973. She received her Master s qualification from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture (U.K.) in 1979. She obtained a Ph.D. in cross-cultural medicine from Union Graduate School in 1975, an M.A. from New York University of Education in 1968, and her B.A. from LeMoyne College in 1967. Dr. Connelly has served as a Commissioner of the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She conducts workshops nationwide and lectures annually in Germany and Italy. Dr. Connelly is the author of Traditional Acupuncture: The Law of the Five Elements (1975), All Sickness is Homesickness (1986), and with Katharine Hancock Porter, Alive and Awake (2003). She is the mother of Blaize, Jade, and Caeli.",alternative medicine;books;chinese medicine;fitness & dieting;general;health;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;used & rental textbooks,11
0789732793,"Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows XP Home (3rd Edition) The only Windows XP Home book readers need!  Windows 95/98/Me users rejoice! Finally, the stability of Windows NT/2000 in an operating system built for the home and small business user - Windows XP has answered many prayers. Don't be fooled, however.  If you think there was a lot to learn when the world jumped from DOS to Windows 95, then you're really in for it if you make the leap from 9x/Me to XP unprepared. Let this proven bestseller be your guide. This edition covers all of the updates to Windows XP since it was released, including Service Packs 1 and 2, and Reloaded.	Robert Cowart has written more than 30 books that have sold more than 1 million copies worldwide. He made his name writing for Sybex and Osborne, most notably the best selling Mastering Windows series of books.    Brian Knittel is a software developer, consultant and writer. He's authored or co-authored four of Que's best selling Windows books.",books;computer science;computers & technology;home computing & how-to;microsoft;new;operating systems;software;used & rental textbooks;windows os;windows xp,11
074326357X,"A Land of Two Halves Shrewd entertainment. -- Kirkus Reviews	Joe Bennett was born in Brighton and since leaving Cambridge University has taught English in a variety of countries including Canada, Spain and New Zealand.  He lives in Christchurch, New Zealand.",adventure;australia & south pacific;books;education & reference;general;new zealand;research & publishing guides;specialty travel;travel;travel writing;writing,11
1582430977,"A Woman Unknown: Voices from a Spanish Life A hybrid of biography, memoir and travel essay, this is a portrait of life in the dazzling cornucopia of Spain. Graves is the only daughter of poet Robert Graves's first marriage. Born in Devon, England, in 1943, she was raised on the Spanish island of Majorca, and her memoir deals mainly with her experiences growing up in post-civil war Spain under Franco's regime. However dominating that rule was, her enchanting village escaped much of it, enveloping Lucia and her brothers in a safe haven marked by beautiful landscapes, rich folklore and a vibrant linguistic tradition. The book is loosely chronological, spanning her life and ties to Catalonia, the region of northeastern Spain near France and Andorra, whose principal city is Barcelona. Growing up there among the devoutly Catholic and unmistakably Spanish, she absorbed many of their beliefs and customs, although she herself was neither Catholic nor Spanish. She reveres the language of Catalan, attributing its energy and beauty to its speakers. After studies at the International School in Geneva and Oxford, she returned to Spain and started a family in the Barcelona area. Her status as a foreigner in a familiar land gives her a unique perspective on Spain's identityDone that is frequently caught between antiquated Franco-era customs, the repressed society it yielded and the modernization brought about by political change. Written in fluid, conversational prose, this memoir will draw and captivate both readers of memoirs and those who enjoyed Chris Stewart's Driving over Lemons. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""Graves has given us a multifamily portrait as essential to the understanding of the reversals of present-day Spain...""	Graves, daughter of poet Robert Graves, has written a memoir of feeling torn between three cultures. Her family roots are English, but she was raised in her formative years on the Spanish island of Majorca. Later, in Barcelona, she would feel the pull of the Catalan culture and Catalan politics. Is she English, Catalan, or Spanish? She seems to feel unrooted in any one of her cultures, writing that during cold English winters she took comfort in realizing that she ""was not alone in feeling the enormous pull that Spain can have on its inhabitants when they are far from their country, the passion its memory can produce."" The memoir is woven through vignettes. In one she looks at the fascist and often-bloody politics of her adopted country as she examines the banishment of the Jews from Spain, beginning in the thirteenth century and continuing through the dictatorship of Franco. It is hard to separate Spain from its politics even in a memoir, and Graves, rather than concentrating only on the simple yet colorful aspects of Spanish life, blends them with the political infrastructure of a nation itself unsure of its own destiny. Well written with just the right amount of nostalgia and a fresh look at one woman's eclectic background. Marlene ChamberlainCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""A luminous memoir of an unusual life in an unlikely place.""   -- Kirkus Reviews""A work of art.""  -- America""Although many English writers have opened windows on Spain...none has done it so intimately or so personally....A book of high literary distinction and extraordinary humanity."" -- Times Literary Supplement""Her memories . . . reveal a woman who has learned to open from pain, rather than shut down around it."" -- Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review""Lucia Graves [is] a double expatriate in a single body....  Her writing is brainy and at times ravishing.""  -- Richard Eder, New York Times	A writer, lyricist, and professional translator, Lucia Graves has published Spanish-language versions of works by her father, Katherine Mansfield, and Anas Nin. Her latest book is La Casa de la Memoria, a novel about the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. She lives in London.",biographies & memoirs;books;europe;history;humanities;memoirs;new;spain;specific groups;used & rental textbooks;women,11
0205388485,"Introduction to Native North America, An (2nd Edition) AN INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE NORTH AMERICA, Second Edition Mark Q. Sutton, California State University, Bakersfield  The Second Edition of An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the native peoples of North America, including both Eskimos and Indians. Beginning with a discussion of the geography of North America, this excellent text delves into the history of research, basic prehistory, the European invasion, and the impact of Europeans on native cultures. A final chapter covers contemporary Native Americans, including issues of religion, health, and politics.   Highlights of the Second Edition   Presents Sidelights throughout the text that provide short explanations of interesting aspects of native culture.  Highlights important individuals in the  VIP Profile mini-biographies.  Includes examples of Native American views on several important current issues.  Additional photographs and a map of language families add even more visual appeal. New sections at the end of each regional chapter (Chs. 3 -12) guide students to explore more contemporary issues and peoples.",americas;anthropology;books;history;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,11
0553803212,"Remarried with Children: Ten Secrets for Successfully Blending and Extending Your Family If mothers-in-law have a difficult reputation, then step-children could give the devil a run for his money. At least thats the gist of this helpful, but ultimately disturbing look at the modern-day Brady Bunch. More than half of American families now fall into the category of blended/extended, but the clans profiled by LeBey (Family Estrangements) suggest that most are nowhere near as happy-go-lucky as the ones portrayed on TV. Indeed, most of the titular 10 secrets that LeBey recommends revolve around handling the emotions and behavioral problems of children. LeBey counters conventional wisdom by recommending that couples put their new marriage first, ahead of their childrens feelings. Only then, she says, will their union survive the maelstrom of cold shoulders, rebellion and even incestuous relations that erupt in children of newly blended families. LeBey is no stranger to these perils herself, having weathered a remarriage and family blending nearly 30 years ago. She speaks of her experiences infrequently, however, preferring to rely on the advice of psychological studies, clergy, marriage counselors, teachers and other specialists. LeBey does occasionally inject a dose of sharp humor among her tips, and her book is peppered with lists (e.g., ""How Do You Know If Youre Dealing with a Lunatic Ex- Spouse?"" and ""Ten Traps for Prospective Stepmothers""). But most of the books value lies in its many anecdotes of families whove survived their new incarnations; merely reading about the problems overcome by many of them should be reassuring to anyone working on an extended family. And while the couples featured are mostly dealing with the outcome of divorce, the chapter devoted to widows, widowers and grieving children is both compassionate and useful.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	It's the most daunting task many parents will ever face: bringing two growing families together into one brand new marriage.  But even though statistics show that most remarriages are at high risk--especially when there are kids involved--more and more people are learning how to make them work and more and more kids are coming out of them with their psyches and souls intact.  This honest and hopeful book looks at those successes--and at some failures--to show what they have in common: ten essential secrets that are at the heart of a healthy blended family.As a stepparent with six children in a blended family, Barbara LeBey draws on her own family's hard-won success, as well as on extensive interviews and new research to show how to navigate the stresses, sticking points, pitfalls and perils most couples don't even anticipate.  Starting with her first controversial secret--that the new marriage comes first, even before the demands of the children--LeBey debunks prevalent stepfamily myths and anticipates common traps.  (Among them, money issues, warring stepsiblings, and destructive exes.)  A strong advocate for children (including how to guard against fade-out parenting), she also suggests ways that in-laws, schools, and the legal system itself could provide better support for blended families.  REmarried with Children is an expert, compassionate, down-to-earth book to turn to over and over again for advice, support and sanity.Key topics include how to:-Meet your children's and stepchildren's needs--without letting them undermine your new marriage-Understand the new roles, new rules, and the new relationships for children and stepchildren of a blended family-Deal with angry and/or manipulative exes--without adding fuel to the fire-Handle key decisions about finances, religion, traditions, behavior and discipline-Maintain healthy relationships with your children's grandparents--and other relatives--from a previous marriage-Recognize warning signs of trouble ahead--and get the help you need	Barbara LeBey is a lawyer, former judge, and a wife, mother, and grandmother.  Her first book, Family Estrangements, was featured in People magazine, as well as on Good Morning America and The Today Show.  She lives with her husband in Atlanta, Georgia.	oneThe Obstacle CourseSecret One: Put the marriage first.As a more mature person, you can do it right this time. You are en- titled to another chance at happiness, but this time the love that you start your marriage with has to be big enough and wise enough to  embrace a ready-made family. Divided loyalties, guilt, unreasonable expectations, unscrupulous people, and manipulative children, even your own, can be obstacles in your way to a successful remarriage. Anticipating them and understanding them will help you to achieve your goals.While its true that all families have a past, blended families have a more complex onethe ghosts of marriages past. These ghosts of prior marriages and divorces can haunt your house and everyone in it, even ruin your present marriage.After we returned from our honeymoon, my husbands two children from his first marriage came to visit for the weekend, says one distraught second wife. I had no idea what I was getting into. I was so emotionally drained after their visit, I almost packed my bag and left, except that it was my house, and I certainly didnt intend to leave my own house. Had I been living in my husbands home, I probably wouldve left, and that wouldve been the end of a very short marriage.Today, when we talk about the blended family, we mean parents and the children and stepchildren from the various marriages. But the distressing fact is that former in-laws, present in-laws, your ex, and your spouses ex are as much a part of your new family as the cantankerous old uncle or boozy cousin who used to disrupt every family gathering. This may not be the news you want to hear, but its a reality that cannot be ignored. They are and will remain the extended family.The emotions generated from this archive will invariably spill over into your new family. How much should couples allow this history to penetrate their new lives together? As little as possible. But theres the rub, because sometimes the new family is virtually held hostage by ex-spouses and ex-grandparents and the damage they can cause, not only to the adults of the remarriage but to the children. Sadly, the children themselves are often enlisted to play the role of saboteurs. Its true. That kid you love can be out to destroy your new happiness.Wittingly or unwittingly, ex-spouses, natural children, stepchildren, former in-laws, as well as present in-laws, can trigger unlovely emotions in you, too. Jealousy, unreasonable expectations, divided loyalties, and guilt are common even in the most well-adjusted adults. Those are the obstacles we put in our own way. Typically, these emotions lead to defensive or manipulative behavior as one attempts to eliminate these new intruders from ones life or, at the very least, to minimize the damage they can cause.Human relationships work like the law of physicsmatter cannot be created or destroyed. Its the same way with a previous marriage. It cannot become a marriage that never existed; the ex-spouses never disappear, and the kids are never unborn. Maybe your husbands ex-wife is still pining away or showing up at odd hours to peek in your windows or calling at the last minute to change visitation dates.In the stories that follow, heightened emotions of family members are vividly illustrated by the events of the blending process. You will see that when you put the marriage first, you benefit the blended family far more than if you as a newly married couple had focused only on the childrens adjustment to your new relationships. SAcred VowsAncient words of wisdom from the Bible advise newlyweds to place their loyalties to their spouseleave your father and mother and cleave to your [spouse.] (Gen. 2:24) If it were written today, I believe the adage would certainly encompass second marriages, where the stakes are even higher and where many more people have claims on the time, attention, and emotions of the married couple.With first-married couples trying to form an independent family, they must renegotiate relationships with parents and extended family. And since those bonds took years to form, the process of breaking away to create a new unit isnt automatic. Its an ongoing task. But we dont break away from children, so the challenge of forming a solid and loving marriage must include the connections to children from prior marriages as well as to the people who are related to those children.A successful remarriage is a gift to everyone concerned, and particularly to children who have already suffered through the death of a parent or through a failed marriage. They dont need another loss or failure. Experts who advocate that the children must come first are losing sight of the effect another divorce would have on the children. Nevertheless, its not unusual for children of divorce to view the new marriage as a threat to achieving their fantasygetting their natural parents back together, restoring what they have sadly lost, and maintaining the close and loving relationship they had with a parent who is now in the throes of love and passion with a new partner. This means that putting the marriage first is, in every sense, the ultimate challenge of most remarriages with children.The first remarriage Ill discuss began with an adulterous affair. This is not the best way to begin blending a family, but it happens more often than most of us would care to admit. It is a particularly interesting story because so many of the people involved agreed to be interviewedthe remarried couple as well as a child from each of their prior marriages. It is also a microcosm of the multiple problems that can plague a blended family. The Spookaboos of  Previous MarriagesAt the time of our interview, Cynthia, a vivacious fifty-year-old woman, had been married to her second husband, Ted, for over twenty years. Cynthia and Ted have two children each from their first marriages.My dream all through childhood was to have a family of my own, Cynthia told me. I was the third child in my own family, the youngest by eleven years, so I always felt like an only child, with much older parents who had little time or patience for me. What I saw in other families was warmth and a sense of belonging that I never felt.As soon as I graduated from college, I rushed into my first marriage, because that was what my friends were doing, but I really didnt know my first husband very well. I married for all the wrong reasons, not the least of which was to get away from home and because, as I said, it was the thing to do at the time.We turned out to be totally mismatcheddifferent values, interests, and different goals for the futureonly I didnt know that when we got married. After five years and two children, I knew that I wanted a divorce, but I didnt have the financial means to go it alone. Besides, if we divorced, my husbands alimony and child support payments would be very limited. Thats when I decided to become a real estate agent. For the next five years, I worked hard and built a good career. My husband and I tried to get along, but we just couldnt.To understand the problems that developed in Cynthias second marriage, its important to know the circumstances of their lives when she and Ted first met.Ted was married but wasnt living with his wife. We both got our divorces and married about a year later. During the early years of our relationship, his first marriage was always a presence in our home. It was as if his first wife, Valerie, was literally haunting us.What Cynthia wasnt prepared for was the shock and difficulty of dealing with some very troubled people. When she got to know Teds children, she understood what the late Ann Landers had to say on the subject: The biggest cause of the breakup of a second marriage is the children.Teds two children were the same ages as my children, which could have been an advantage, but it wasnt. It only aggravated the problem. Teds twelve-year-old daughter, Rose, was hell-bent on destroying me, destroying our marriage, and getting her father to go back to her mother. With her mothers prompting, Rose told terrible lies  to her grandmotherTeds mother. She made up a story about my  husband and me having sex in front of her and the other children.  She accused me of using foul language and inflicting cruel punishments. At first I laughed at the absurdity of the accusationsuntil I realized how damaging they were, mainly because my husbands mother wanted to believe they were true. In fact she did. That way she could convince herself that her son had married a depraved woman with monstrous kids who were having a destructive influence on her precious grandchildren. By playing into Valeries strategy and collaborating with her, my new mother-in-law could insure that her regular weekend visits with her grandchildren continued, instead of their coming to visit us.Having children of my own, I shouldve realized when divorced people marry each other, theyre getting involved with all the people from both former marriages. But when Valerie managed to drag my ex-husband into this test of wills, I thought I would lose my mind. She persuaded him to participate in her plan to destroy us as a couple.Despite the fact that my ex-husband knew me well enough to know there wasnt any truth to these stories, he was so angry about my leaving him, and about his financial obligations to the children, that he was willing to collaborate with Valerie, even if it hurt our children.So, when my two children were with him for weekends or other visits, he vil...",books;conflict management;divorce;family relationships;fitness & dieting;health;parenting;parenting & relationships;relationships;self-help;stepparenting & blended families,11
1859843581,"Lineages of the Present: Ideology and Politics in Contemporary South Asia At least let it be understood that India bears more ultimate responsibility for the Kashmir troubles than Pakistan, and that the confrontation between India and Pakistan would be a far less dangerous thing had it not been for the BJP's communal thrust at home and its attempt to turn India into a nuclear great power abroad ... Nowhere else in the world, as the left-wing analyst and journalist Aijaz Ahmad says, have nuclear threats been so lightly thrown around. (Guardian )	Aijaz Ahmad is a renowned cultural theorist who has taught in several western and Indian universities. A frequent contributor to Frontline magazine, he currently lives in New Delhi.",books;conservatism & liberalism;history;ideologies & doctrines;international & world politics;military;nuclear;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;weapons & warfare,11
1576739554,"Letting Go of Worry and Anxiety Pam Vredevelt is a Licensed Professional Counselor, popular inspirational speaker, and bestselling author of the Espresso for a Woman's Spirit series, Angel Behind the Rocking Chair, and Empty Arms: Emotional Support for Those Who Have Suffered a Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Tubal Pregnancy. Pam, John, and their three children make their home in Gresham, Oregon.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;education;emotions;fitness & dieting;health;mental health;parenting & relationships;religion & spirituality;self-help,11
0671779702,"A Man Without Words Teacher Schaller's astonishing case history of a deaf, languageless adult student touches on linguistic, philosophic and educational matters. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	YA-- Schaller was neither a teacher of the deaf nor a linguist, but she had learned American Sign Language (ASL) and enjoyed interpreting for the deaf. Still, nothing had prepared her for Ildefonso, a languageless adult, born deaf and lacking instruction in even the simplest communication. With infinite patience and determination, Schaller taught this intense, lonely, but apparently intelligent man to grasp not just signs, but ideas and words. Their breakthrough to language is most spectacular, reminiscent of Keller's experience with ""water."" Schaller's frustrations were similar to Ildefonso's as she struggled to bring language to him; they were equals as they achieved the impossible. YAs will relate to this appealing story, full of care, concern, and curiosity as it taps basic emotions regarding ""words"" that people share, especially while overcoming handicaps. --Mary T. Gerrity, Queen Anne School, Upper Marlboro, MDCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""What would life be like,"" wonders Oliver Sacks in his foreword to this intriguing story, ""for a languageless man,"" a human being ""deprived of what all the rest of us take for granted, deprived of the essentially human birthright of language?"" When she took a temporary job as an interpreter for the deaf for a southern California community college class, Schaller met such a person. ""Ildefonso"" (as she calls him here)--27 years old, bright, deaf, and an illegal alien from Mexico--had never been exposed to proper sign language and was unaware of the myriad possibilities of language. The story of how Schaller patiently and painstakingly worked with him to bring him to the point of grasping, for the first time, the meaning of a sign and of recognizing a single signed word is truly inspiring. Recommended for most library collections.- Marcia G. Fuchs, Guilford Free Lib., Ct.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""A meditation on the wonders of language. . . . Susan Schaller's  book is  a tantalizing glimpse into unexplored territory. . . . Virtually nothing  has  been written about adults without language, but Ms. Schaller makes it  clear that  their numbers are greater than we think.""   -- Lou Ann Walker,  New York  Times Book  Review	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""At the level of sheer pleasure in reading, A Man without Words is as gripping as a novel, eliciting great sympathy for both protagonist and author. . . . The question that drives itwhat is it like to be without language?should be of interest to any reflective person, and it is one of the great scientific questions of all time.""Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""At the level of sheer pleasure in reading, A Man without  Words is as  gripping as a novel, eliciting great sympathy for both protagonist and  author. .  . . The question that drives it (what is it like to be without language?  (should  be of interest to any reflective person, and it is one of the great  scientific  questions of all time."" (Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Susan Schaller is a teacher of American Sign Language affiliated with the World Federation of the Deaf and the founder of In the Name of Deaf Adults (NaDA).	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Her passionate, powerful book is both eloquent and elegant."" 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",anthropology;books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;language & grammar;linguistics;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;schools & teaching;words,11
0252024494,"We Were Innocents: An Infantryman in Korea ""Offers a well-written account of the experiences of GI Joe... It does for the Korean conflict what Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front did for WW I - it reveals the profound effect war has on the lives of the combatants."" - Choice ""Oddly affecting, combining as it does the aimless routine in military service (even in wartime) with the punctual moments of sheer terror that make the modern war memoir simultaneously so gripping and so confusing."" - Virginia Quarterly Review ""Provides a fine soldier's view of war, perceiving its often cruel and stupid process but also seeing times when his fellow soldiers and sometimes even the enemy could escape the dehumanizing callousness of war in redemptive behavior."" - Robert W. Lewis, North Dakota Quarterly ""Dannenmaier has a gift for layering incident upon incident, detail upon detail so that readers gradually build up a richly textured picture of an infantryman's life in Korea... I was a journalist covering veterans affairs for more than six years and in that time I heard a lot of war stories and read many more. This is one of the very best."" - Mark Allen Peterson, Stars and Stripes  Quoted from interview on Military.com ""What would you like readers to come away with from the book?"" ""I'd like this to be an anti-war book. We've got to stop this nonsense. There have got to be better ways to solve problems than to send a bunch of young men off to kill each other.""  ADVANCE PRAISE ""A little classic. Its real strength is that it brings back this 'police action' so vividly.""- David C. Smith, coeditor of American Women in a World at War: Contemporary Accounts from World War II ""Based largely on letters that Dannenmaier wrote to family members during the conflict, this memoir skillfully weaves primary documents with the author's later analysis to make an account that is often captivating in its immediacy and thought-provoking in its reflectiveness. Transparently honest, occasionally touching, and frequently humorous, We Were Innocents is war literature of a high order.""- Malcolm Muir Jr., Austin Peay State University",20th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;historical;history;korean war;leaders & notable people;military;personal narratives;united states,11
0938635972,Romanian Patericon: Saints of the Romanian Orthodox Church Text: English (translation)  Original Language: Romanian,biographies & memoirs;books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;europe;history;leaders & notable people;orthodoxy;religious;romania;saints,11
0802714390,"The Devil's Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America The 1863 draft riots in New York City, the bloodiest in the nation's history, emerge as a microcosm of the convoluted and contradictory politics of the Civil War era in this absorbing study. Historian Schecter (The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution) pens with a gripping account of the five days of rioting. But he also probes beneath the turmoil to examine the ethnic, religious and class conflicts that made the confrontation so explosive. The rioters, largely working-class Irish Catholics, vented their fury at a draft law that exempted those who could pay $300, at the city's WASP Republican business elite and, inflamed by racist demagoguery, at African-Americans with whom they competed for low-wage jobs and status in America's racial hierarchy.Schecter contends that these dynamics played out nationally in the gradual demise of Reconstruction, thus setting the stage for racial and labor conflict in the century to come. Copiously researched and highlighted with a wealth of period commentary, his lucid narrative colorfully recreates a historical watershed and offers a rich exploration of the Civil War's unfinished business. 40 bw photos, maps, not seen by PW. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	When fireman Peter Masterson led a mob's attack on a federal draft office, producing the first murders of New York City's 1863 riot, he ignited social tinder that was not exclusive to New York in mid-nineteenth-century America. Historian Schecter backgrounds his thorough account of the tumult with social disorders that frequently occurred elsewhere. To existing social resentments, particularly of Irish immigrants toward economic competition from blacks, the Civil War added its combustibles, for New York was not stoutly Unionist. Peace Democrats dominated its politics; its business class sympathized with the South; and its Copperhead newspapers denounced the war and the draft. These factors affected the course of events that Schecter masterfully narrates. From Masterson's initial incitement to the frenzy's subsidence several days and hundreds of deaths later, the author moves seamlessly between the conflagration on the street and the frantic attempts of authorities to quell the mayhem, and explains the affair's ramifications on the Reconstruction era. An excellent encapsulation of the war's social context in the North. Gilbert TaylorCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""A fascinating look at the explosive resentment and rage that ignited deadly CivilWar draft riots... thought-provoking and meticulously rendered."" -- Jay Winik, author of April 1865: The Month That Saved America""Schecter provides the most detailed narrative of the riots, and also places them within the national context of the CivilWar."" -- James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom""[Schecter's work] is a masterpiece of historical writing, the first work to place [NYC] draft riots in their full context."" -- Kevin Baker, author of Paradise Alley""[Schecter's] brought the terrible days of death, fire, and looting in Gotham to life with vivid prose and thorough research."" -- Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of New York City	Barnet Schecter is the author of The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution. He lives in New York City.",19th century;african-american studies;americas;books;civil war;history;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states,11
B000EPTFIO,"Bosch BL4146 Fractional Jobber Length Black Oxide Drill Bit, 19/64-Inch, 6-Pack Bosch black oxide bits offer superior durability, speed and selection for most general purpose applications. Best for cutting holes into metal and work equally well in wood and plastic drilling. Use in steel, copper, aluminum, brass, oak, maple, MDF, pine, PVC, polycarbonate, acrylic, ABS, nylon and composite materials.	19/64"" Black Oxide Jobber (Pack of 6)Bosch parts keep your tools working their best for any application you can come up with.Features:19/64"" Diameter x 4-3/8"" Long x 19/64"" Shank DiameterBlack Oxide Construction6 PackBosch has been in the headlines of state of the art development for over 100 years. From the invention of the jigsaw to their ergonomic designed tools, Bosch as cared about the customer since they started business in 1886.",cutting tools;drill bits;drills;industrial & scientific;industrial drill bits;jobber drill bits;power & hand tools;power tool accessories;power tools;tools & home improvement;twist drill bits,11
0687375223,"The Teaching Sermon Ronald J. Allen is Associate Professor Preaching and New Testament at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the author of several books on preaching and is editor of The Teaching Sermon Series from Abingdon Press.",books;christian books & bibles;ministry & church leadership;other religions;practices & sacred texts;preaching;religion & spirituality;rites & ceremonies;ritual;sermons;worship & devotion,11
0471225800,"Sixty Trends In Sixty Minutes ""...from another guru...the usefulness of his book lies...in the details of the commercial opportunities they (trends) can create..."" (Market Leader, Winter 2002)There is much useful advice and information in this book for any business or organisation, whether commercial or not(Managing Information, June 2003)	Famed marketing guru Sam Hill, whom Fortune has called a ""Madison Avenue Bigfoot"" and a ""Top Ten Mind,"" offers an enlightened look into the future and reveals the trends that will have the biggest impact on marketing, brand management, and product development over the next decade. He sifts through the fads to uncover the important and lasting movements, and gives marketing professionals a whirlwind tour of the fundamental changes to come and the consumer trends those changes will lead to.With an eye toward the future, Hill explains not just the trends themselves but also the worldwide forces that lie beneath them-rapid population growth, exponentially better technology, urbanization, globalization, and interconnectedness. Packed with over 2,000 statistics and examples, Sixty Trends in Sixty Minutes looks at the opportunities these trends create and how to realize them. Savvy marketers would be wise to study the powerful global forces that are changing our world today in order to learn who their customers will be tomorrow.Sixty Trends in Sixty Minutes shows marketers how to recognize and profit from nascent trends and also provides practical solutions for marketers in need of a quick fix. It offers proven strategies for exploiting current trends in everyday marketing situations, and presents case studies of brand phenomena like Starbucks and Madonna that explore the creative ways in which forward-thinking individuals have successfully exploited trends that they understood well before anyone else. Hill dissects a rapidly changing world into useful parts with humor, foresight, and purpose, making this book an essential read not only for marketers but for consumers who want to understand the forces at work in the marketplace.	THE FUTURE OF MARKETING BEGINS HERE . . .""This is a terrific book. Useful, stimulating, and fun. Helpful not only in business but in general day-to-day life.""-- Christopher J. D. Ainsley, President and CEOWolters Kluwer, International Health & Science""Tired of asking yourself 'How did they know that trend was worth jumping on so early in the game?' Sixty Trends in Sixty Minutes helps marketers decide if the ripple is just a ripple or the next big wave.""-- Dan Hanrahan, Senior Vice President of MarketingRoyal Caribbean International""Herman Kahn, Alvin Toffler, John Naisbitt are only a few of the trend analysts who've broken through into public consciousness. Sam Hill does them all one better; he shows you how to build businesses from his observations.""-- Randall Rothenberg, Chief Marketing Officer, Booz Allen HamiltonAuthor of Where the Suckers Moon: The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign""The need for understanding the changing consumer has never been greater. Rich in facts, examples, and thought, Sixty Trends in Sixty Minutes makes evident the forces that are shaping consumers all over the world.""-- Bob Schmetterer, Chairman and CEOEuro RSCG Worldwide""In Sixty Trends in Sixty Minutes, Sam Hill brings together the insights of a futurist, the literary flair of a great journalist, and the analytical rigor of a top corporate strategist. This book should be on every senior executive's night table.""-- Reggie Van Lee, Vice President and Managing PartnerBooz Allen Hamilton""Sam Hill's Sixty Trends in Sixty Minutes gets better and better as one reads it-exactly what one wants from a book discerning trends. Invest an hour in this insightful book and you'll not read the daily newspaper the same again.""-- B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore, coauthors of The Experience Economy	SAM HILL is the cofounder of the Helios Consulting Group, which helps top management solve complex strategic problems. He was previously a partner and Chief Marketing Officer at Booz Allen Hamilton and Vice Chairman of DMB, a top-twenty global advertising agency. His writing has appeared in such publications as the Harvard Business Review, Strategy & Business, Fortune, Ad Age, The Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. He is also the coauthor of Radical Marketing and The Infinite Asset: Managing Brands to Build New Value.",accounting;accounting & finance;advertising;books;business & investing;marketing;marketing & sales;popular economics;product management;professional & technical;sales & selling,11
B000FKPB4U,"The Rosetta Bone: The Key to Communication Between Humans and Canines (Howell Dog Book of Distinction) Far too often, we humans expect our dogs to understand what we say to them. Though we may spend a lot of time talking to them, we're really not communicating. And without proper communication, it's impossible to train a dog properly-- let alone make your human/canine relationship a rewarding one.Packed with unique insights and gentle training advice, The Rosetta Bone provides average dog owners with the know-how they need to decipher canine meanings, communicate effectively, increase training success, and share a deeper bond. Focusing on the behavioral basis-- the ""silent"" symbols-- for learning, understanding, and communicating, expert dog trainer and competitor Cheryl S. Smith reveals how you can use your own body language to send a message and even teach a dog what specific words mean. She reveals how a dog's breed can affect his personality and explains how to decode-- and correct-- common behavior problems. With the knowledge and solutions this book provides, you will train more effectively, enjoy your dog more, and ease your own stress. What's more, you'll apply what you've learned immediately, with solid, practical advice on:* Learning the As, Bs, Cs, and Ds of human-canine communication* Teaching English to your dog-- and, in turn, understanding ""Doglish""* Using body language to assist in communication and help your dog learn* Incorporating various kinds of touch to tighten your bond * Making rewards and reprimands real, relevant, and reliable* Understanding the relationship between kids and dogs Supplemented with enlightening, easy-to-do exercises with your dog, as well as quotes from trainers, behaviorists, veterinarians, and humane society workers, The Rosetta Bone is a revealing guide to making life better in your human/canine household.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Far too often, we humans expect our dogs to understand what we say to them. Though we may spend a lot of time talking to them, we're really not communicating. And without proper communication, it's impossible to train a dog properly-- let alone make your human/canine relationship a rewarding one.Packed with unique insights and gentle training advice, The Rosetta Bone provides average dog owners with the know-how they need to decipher canine meanings, communicate effectively, increase training success, and share a deeper bond. Focusing on the behavioral basis-- the ""silent"" symbols-- for learning, understanding, and communicating, expert dog trainer and competitor Cheryl S. Smith reveals how you can use your own body language to send a message and even teach a dog what specific words mean. She reveals how a dog's breed can affect his personality and explains how to decode-- and correct-- common behavior problems. With the knowledge and solutions this book provides, you will train more effectively, enjoy your dog more, and ease your own stress. What's more, you'll apply what you've learned immediately, with solid, practical advice on:* Learning the As, Bs, Cs, and Ds of human-canine communication* Teaching English to your dog-- and, in turn, understanding ""Doglish""* Using body language to assist in communication and help your dog learn* Incorporating various kinds of touch to tighten your bond * Making rewards and reprimands real, relevant, and reliable* Understanding the relationship between kids and dogs Supplemented with enlightening, easy-to-do exercises with your dog, as well as quotes from trainers, behaviorists, veterinarians, and humane society workers, The Rosetta Bone is a revealing guide to making life better in your human/canine household.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",animal behavior & communication;biological sciences;books;breeds;care & health;crafts;dogs;hobbies & home;pets & animal care;science & math;zoology,11
1594770875,"Founding Fathers, Secret Societies: Freemasons, Illuminati, Rosicrucians, and the Decoding of the Great Seal This is a book to enjoy for its research, approach, and open honesty towards a most unusual group of men. Excellent. (Lee Prosser, Ghostvillage.com, Oct 2006)There are images and ideas contained in this book which may well challenge your knowledge of American history, the evolution of society, and the place of America in the world-at-large. Read it with an open mind and you may be surprised at what you find. (Mike Gleason, Witchgrove, March 2007)The ultimate book about the secrets of our Founding Fathers. It is, very simply, the best thing of its kind that has ever been written. Careful research and years of effort show in this beautiful work--as exciting and informative as it is important. (Whitley Strieber, host of Dreamland with Whitley Strieber)Founding Fathers, Secret Societies is that rare thing--a really excellent, thoroughly researched, and beautifully written book. I learned something new on every page. (Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods)I can think of no living man who has done as much as Dr. Hieronimus to investigate the mysteries surrounding the founding of the United States of America. Providing more than a revelation of the spiritual vision behind the founding of a new nation, Hieronimus sets a standard which contributes to the perpetual re-making of that ashlar cornerstone upon which the American experiment has been, is being, and will be built as the Novus Ordo Seclorum unfolds. (David Ovason, author of The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital and The Secret Symbolism of)Robert Hieronimuss historical analysis could not come at a more crucial time. The United States has reached a critical point in its history, one that will not only affect its destiny but that of the rest of the world. Hieronimus has made an in-depth analysis of the founders of the United States, starting with the League of Iroquois and the European esoteric societies, proceeding to the impact of Masonic symbolism and the creation of the Great Seal, especially the images on its reverse side. He delivers an inspiring message of hope for a culture that is badly torn, a culture critically in need of the renewed vision described in this remarkable book. (Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School, Coeditor of Varieities o)A vision that can unite, guide, and inspire us is increasingly possible when we know more of the rich history that helped launch our nation. Too much of this history has been unknown; too many facts have been hard to come by. It is a special delight to learn more of our history with Robert Hieronimus who is so careful to not exaggerate sources or certainty. (David A. Burnet, Grand Councilor Emeritus and former Treasurer of the English Grand Lodge, Rosicruci)Anyone turning the pages of Founding Fathers, Secret Societies opens a secret door to the lost history of our country. By exposing the hidden roots of the United States, Robert Hieronimus has restored a sense of American destiny. (Frank Joseph, author of The Lost Treasure of King Juba). . . makes an intriguing case that combines a number of historical threads to provide a new interpretation of the United States founding. Most importantly, Robert Hieronimus starts at the beginning, with our truly American founding, notably with the Great Law of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. This work should put to rest any remaining notions that the founding was a result of spontaneous intellectual combustion in a Philadelphia meeting room. (Bruce E. Johansen,author of Forgotten Founders: How the Iroquois Helped Shape Democracy)Founding Fathers is a breath of fresh air.. . . [Hieronimus] corrects errors andoffers superb summaries of available evidence. (Living Traditions, May 2006)Great summer reading that will help you put some of your visits to historic sites in a new light. (Mark Stavish, Institute for Hermetic Studies, June 2006)""This is one you'll have to read and evaluate if you're into intricacies of theory and mind-bending history."" (Marilus Hornidge, Book Bag, June 1, 2006)Certainly this is a book for anyone interested in American history or in the various secret societies that may have had an influence on Americas founding. . . . a rich feast of history, esoteric movements, symbology and psycho-sociology. (Karl Schlotterbeck, Henge Happenings, Issue 70, Beltaine 2006)	SECRET SOCIETIES / HISTORY  The ultimate book about the secrets of our Founding Fathers. It is, very simply, the best thing of its kind that has ever been written. Careful research and years of effort show in this beautiful work--as exciting and informative as it is important. -Whitley Strieber, host of Dreamland with Whitley Strieber  Founding Fathers, Secret Societies is that rare thing--a really excellent, thoroughly researched, and beautifully written book. I learned something new on every page. --Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods  I can think of no living man who has done as much as Dr. Hieronimus to investigate the mysteries surrounding the founding of the United States of America. Providing more than a revelation of the spiritual vision behind the founding of a new nation, Hieronimus sets a standard which contributes to the perpetual re-making of that ashlar cornerstone upon which the American experiment has been, is being, and will be built as the Novus Ordo Seclorum unfolds. -David Ovason, author of The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital and The Secret Symbolism of the Dollar Bill  All children growing up in America learn who the Founding Fathers were. Most, however, never learn of the founders connections to the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians, and other esoteric orders. In Founding Fathers, Secret Societies Robert Hieronimus investigates these important connections--as well as the founders' connections to the League of the Iroquois--and how the influence of these groups can be traced throughout our most significant national documents and symbols, especially the Great Seal. He reveals in detail how the reverse of the Great Seal, which appears on the back of the one-dollar bill, is a blueprint that conveys the secret destiny of America. By understanding the kabbalistic meaning of the Great Seals reverse, we discover the unique opportunities the current era presents for achieving the Founding Fathers spiritual vision.  ROBERT HIERONIMUS, Ph.D., is a historian, visual artist, and radio host. His weekly program, 21st Century Radio with Dr. Bob Hieronimus, broadcasts New Paradigm topics across the United States. He lives in Maryland.	Robert Hieronimus, Ph.D., is a historian, visual artist, and radio host. His weekly program, 21st Century Radio with Dr. Bob Hieronimus, broadcasts New Paradigm topics across the United States. He lives in Maryland.	from Chapter 2Secret Societies and the Founding of a NationHistorians have offered many reasons for the fact that a rag-tag American army, led by a general who had to go to the library to brush up on battle tactics, could defeat the strongest military power in the world. Many valid factors have been cited--the barrier of the Atlantic Ocean, the weakness of King George and his problems at home, the guerrilla tactics of the American army, etc.--but what has been overlooked is the influence of secret societies, especially Freemasonry, on America's leaders. Some esoteric historians (Hall, 1951; Case, 1935) cite that of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, at least 50 were Freemasons. Whether this is a fact or not cannot be presently corroborated, but substantial information supports that many of the officers and enlisted men in the American military were Freemasons and many practiced the craft in the military lodges. According to General Lafayette (a Freemason himself), Washington never willingly gave independent command to officers who were not Freemasons. Nearly all the members of his official family, as well as most other officers who shared his inmost confidence, were his brethren of the mystic tie (Morse, 1924, ix).Freemasonry allowed Washington greater control of and influence on his army. Those who breached military and Masonic secrets faced the penalty of death. Manly Hall (1951) and Paul F. Case (1935) report that 12 of Washington's generals were Freemasons, and that this, in part, accounted for their strong allegiance during America's darkest hours.The underlying philosophy of Freemasonry (The brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God) was the foundation of political, religious, social, and educational reform, which was opposed by the monarchies of Europe and ecclesiastical authorities as well. Washington's leadership and involvement with the craft gave him the confidence that America's military secrets were safe. His involvement in Freemasonry, as Master of the Lodge, provided him with more than confidence, because the lodge ritual's function was to elevate the participant's consciousness.A group of Freemasons experiencing the rituals and initiations in an altered state of awareness provided the internal strength and fortitude for them to grasp the importance of the American revolutionary experience, and its meaning for humanity as a whole.Thus the Atlantic Ocean, guerrilla tactics, and King George's conflicts contributed to the defeat of the English army, but so did the Freemasonic experience. It provided Washington the will and capacity to defeat King George when the world expected America's defeat.Thomas JeffersonWas Thomas Jefferson a member of any secret societies? Masonic sources say he was, but no one has turned up documentary evidence of his initiation. The Masonic Bible (1960), however, has unmistakable evidence that he was an active mason. These include records of his name as a visitor in a cornerstone-laying ceremony and references in twenty-nine issues of Masonic journals to his status as a Mason. Jefferson's humanitarian beliefs were harmonious with eighteenth-century Masonry. It has been suggested that Jefferson may have been initiated in France; if so, an American initiation record would not exist.The Rosicrucians claim Washington and Franklin as members, but do not provide irrefutable evidence. In Jefferson's case, however, Dr. H. Spencer Lewis, former Imperator of the Rosicrucian order, introduces a piece of substantial evidence. Lewis found among Jefferson's papers some strange-looking characters that previous researchers had assumed were a code Jefferson had invented. I recognized it as one of the old Rosicrucian codes used for many years before Thomas Jefferson became a Rosicrucian, and still to be found in many of the ancient Rosicrucian secret manuscripts (Heindon, 1961, 126). I have submitted this code to several cryptographers and none have yet been successful in identifying it. Mr. Rex Daniels of Concord, Massachusetts, commented (March 14, 1974), I have taken several tries at the code with no success for the standard ones . . . you have hit upon something nobody else seems to know about.Jefferson's visions of America can be translated as expansionist. His Louisiana Purchase was not only a landmark in the development of the American nation but an expression of an Empire for Liberty that would manifest in the annexing of Canada and Cuba. From this vantage the Monroe Doctrine, which Jefferson strongly urged upon President James Monroe, was not as much a separation of America from Europe as a natural expansion of America's destiny to include the South American continent. In Jefferson's words:America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe . . . while the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be, to make our hemisphere that of freedom. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it secure as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe! (Boorstin, 1963, 232)Jefferson's most prized accomplishment, founding the University of Virginia, was based on the traditions of the schools of Athens and Florence and the Alexandrian Library: he wanted to ensure freedom from all theological restraint. Jennings C. Wise theorized that within Jefferson's architectural design of the university are hidden the teachings of the mystery schools and secret societies. Realizing that curricula could be altered, Wise suggests, Jefferson embedded the philosophy of the mystical tradition in the bricks and mortar of the university, so that its design would convey a philosophy free from dogma and superstition. Jefferson unites the ancient architectural elements of the rotunda and the rectangular academic hall, which symbolize heaven (the rotunda as used in the Chaldean Planet Tower called the House of the Seven Spheres) and earth (the four-cornered rectangle). Their use together in one structure symbolizes the union of heaven and earth.",americas;books;freemasonry;history;occult;other religions;politics & social sciences;practices & sacred texts;religion & spirituality;social sciences;united states,11
0806135611,"Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History Gary Topping is Associate Professor of History at Salt Lake  Community College in Salt Lake City, Utah and Archivist of the Catholic  Diocese of Salt Lake City. Former Curator of Manuscripts at the Utah  State Historical Society, he is the author of Glen Canyon and the San  Juan Country.",19th century;20th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);regional u.s.;state & local;united states;west,11
013033524X,"Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays A generation ago Prentice Hall's Twentieth Century Views series set the standard for truly useful collections of literary criticism on widely studied authors. These collections of essays, selected and introduced by distinguished scholars, made the most informative and provocative critical work on each writer easily available to students, scholars, and the general public. Now the New Century Views series, co-edited by Richard Brodhead and Maynard Mack, offers volumes of the same excellence for the contemporary moment. Each volume captures and makes accessible the most stimulating critical writing of our time on crucial literary figures of the past and present. Also included in each is an introduction to the author's life and work, a chronology of important dates, and a selected bibliography.	A truly useful collection of literary criticism on a widely studied author, this collection of essays, selected and introduced by a distinguished scholar, makes the most informative and provocative critical work easily available to the general public.  Offers volumes of the same excellence for the contemporary moment. Captures and makes accessible the most stimulating critical writing of our time on a crucial literary figure of the past. Also included is an introduction to the author's life and work, a chronology of important dates, and a selected bibliography.",african & middle eastern;books;criticism & theory;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;used & rental textbooks;world literature,11
0262210061,"Turkish Grammar (Turk dili grameri, dil, Turk dili, Turkce grameri) (English and Turkish Edition) Text: English, Turkish",books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;new;used & rental textbooks;words,11
1572481935,"Child Custody, Visitation and Support in New York (Child Custody, Visitation & Support in New York) I designed this book to be a complete guide to custody and support laws in NY. My practice as an attorney focused on these kinds of cases. I found that many client did not have a basic understanding about what the laws are. This book not only explains all of the laws but it also includes all the forms you need, explains how to get free assistance and includes a detailed resource section with phone numbers and contact information. The book not only covers custody and support cases, but explains how to modify, enforce and collect on court orders in these cases. Many other topics are included.	Brette McWhorter Sember is a former New York state attorney and skilled mediator. She was on the Law Guardian panel in four counties and acted as a volunteer mediator for the Better Business Bureau. Sember is an expert at explaining and simplifying legal concepts. She has written more than 30 books, including File for Divorce in New York, Tenant's Rights in New York, Landlord's Rights in New York, The Complete Legal Guide to Senior Care, The Complete Credit Repair Kit, The Infertility Answer Book, The Adoption Answer Book, How to Parent with Your Ex, Gay & Lesbian Legal Rights, How to Form a Corporation in New York, Child Custody, Visitation, and Support in New York, Seniors' Rights and many more. Her web site is www.BretteSember.com.",administrative law;books;divorce;divorce & separation;education & reference;family law;family relationships;law;legal self-help;parental & juvenile;parenting & relationships,11
0312252676,"Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps Noting research that included reading ""just over 225 novels,"" cultural critic Bronski (The Pleasure Principle) delightfully chronicles gay pulp novels from their emergence in the late 1940s through the post-Stonewall era in this expansive, exhaustively researched amalgam of fiction and gay history. In the earliest novels, homosexual characters were often drawn as angst-ridden men living hideaway lives. These mild tales gave way to the more outrageous and sexually intrepid plot lines of the 1950s and early '60s as gay male pulps gained momentum-typical is a locker-room fantasy scene from Jay Little's Maybe-Tomorrow. As the 1960s progressed, fiction grew bolder in form and content. Richard Amory's lush The Song of the Loon was a landmark title, its literary aspirations plain, while other titles of the era-racy fictions like Jack Love's Gay Whore, a melodrama set on Fire Island, and the pseudonymous Memoirs of Jeff X-were willing to settle for being ""extraordinarily profitable."" The gay revolution unleashed by the Stonewall riots is boldly evident in excerpts by Marcus Miller (from Gay Revolution), and a selection from Bruce Benderson's 1975 erotic potboiler, Kyle. Prefacing each section with thoughtful background on the period, Bronski then steps back to let the generous novel excerpts speak for themselves. Bronski has searched thoroughly and thought-provokingly, and this book should pop up on required reading lists for gay studies courses (the extensive appendix is invaluable). This is obviously a labor of love, and an absolute must for gay historians and those interested in stimulating gay fiction from years gone by.  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""I read through this book saying again and again, 'How did I miss this?' 'How did I manage not to know about this?'a sign that Michael Bronski has done a necessary job and done it well. Rarely is a book so educational also such a delight. By leaving the hallowed precincts of the 'literary,' Bronski lends a continuity heretofore lacking in many of our pictures of the development of gay fiction from World War II on.""Samuel R. Delany, author of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue and The Motion of Light in Water ""Out of the shadows, into the sheets! Between the covers of gay pulp fiction, Michael Bronski finds forgotten treasures, presenting juicy excerpts and his own wise insights into this neglected bit of literary history.""Jonathan Ned Katz, author of Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality and Gay American History""A wonderful book, a sexy, funny, looney-tune work of social history that rewrites the recent past. It's a celebration of the poetry of pulp as well as the truth of pulp. I cannot remember the last time I learned so much while having so much fun.""Christopher Bram, author of Father of Frankenstein and The Notorious Dr. August""Noting research that included reading 'just over 225 novels,' cultural critic Bronski (The Pleasure Principle) delightfully chronicles gay pulp novels from their emergence in the late 1940s through the post-Stonewall era in this expansive, exhaustively researched amalgam of fiction and gay history. In the earliest novels, homosexual characters were often drawn as angst-ridden men living hideaway lives. These mild tales gave way to the more outrageous and sexually intrepid plot lines of the 1950s and early '60s as gay male pulps gained momentumtypical is a locker-room fantasy scene from Jay Little's MaybeTomorrow. As the 1960s progressed, fiction grew bolder in form and content. Richard Amory's lush The Song of the Loon was a landmark title, its literary aspirations plain, while other titles of the eraracy fictions like Jack Love's Gay Whore, a melodrama set on Fire Island, and the pseudonymous Memoirs of Jeff Xwere willing to settle for being 'extraordinarily profitable.' The gay revolution unleashed by the Stonewall riots is boldly evident in excerpts by Marcus Miller (from Gay Revolution), and a selection from Bruce Benderson's 1975 erotic potboiler, Kyle. Prefacing each section with thoughtful background on the period, Bronski then steps back to let the generous novel excerpts speak for themselves. Bronski has searched thoroughly and thought-provokingly, and this book should pop up on required reading lists for gay studies courses (the extensive appendix is invaluable). This is obviously a labor of love, and an absolute must for gay historians and those interested in stimulating gay fiction from years gone by.""Publishers Weekly	Michael Bronski is the author of Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility and The Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom. He has edited and contributed to many anthologies, has had essays published throughout the world, and teaches and lectures widely. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.",books;criticism & theory;erotica;gay & lesbian;history & criticism;literature & fiction;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states,11
0879306645,"The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio ""A reminder of how good radio used to be, and a heck of a good read.""  -- Seattle Times, December 6, 1998""Ben Fong-Torres, of Rolling Stone magazine and Gavin Report fame, has managed to capture the essence of the golden age of Top 40 radio, a phenomenon that, as Ben points out, 'has gone through 45 revolutions per minute for 45 years.' It's a fast-paced book, just like the format, rich in historical detail and anecdotes about how the Top 40 format has managed to 'stay forever young.'...You feel like you're in direct contact with the way many of Top 40's philosophical roots were formed (and why they've spilled over into other formats today.)""  -- Programmer's Digest, December 1998""Perfect for those interested in radio, rock 'n' roll, and good times.""  -- The Citizens' Voice, December 12, 1998""Tops the charts as one of the most user-friendly and colorful accounts....Recommended for anyone interested in the history of radio, this is certainly an excellent supplementary volume for courses focusing on broadcast programming and its role in culture.""  -- Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Spring 1999""You'll listen to radio with new ears and new appreciation when you're done with this one.""  -- ""Cosmik Debris"" webzine, February 1999	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ben Fong-Torres, perhaps best-known as a former award-winning reporter and editor at Rolling Stone, was a DJ on the acclaimed rock station KSAN for nine years. He also wrote and narrated a syndicated radio special, ""San Francisco: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been,"" which won a Billboard Award for Broadcast Excellence. Former managing editor of Gavin - the first publication to chart Top 40 hits for radio - Fong-Torres has written for dozens of magazines including Esquire and GQ.",arts & photography;books;education & reference;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;music;musical genres;popular;radio;reference;songbooks,11
0865341842,"Kachina Tales from the Indian Pueblos Kachinas are both the gods of the southwestern Pueblos and the physical embodiments of these gods in the form of ceremonial masks and statues. These stories, collected and originally published by Hodge ( The Kachinas Are Coming ) in the 1930s, testify to the importance of the kachinas, upon whom the survival and order of the physical world depend. In one tale, the kachinas take corn from the people who have forgotten its sacred nature and begun to treat it casually. Many stories anthropomorphically explain characteristics of animals. Ants, for instance, have tiny waists because they were scourged too hard around their middles at their kachina initiation. The relationship of these spirits and ritual objects to the popular dolls is discussed in a brief but interesting introduction. Although not designed for children, these stories will perhaps best be thought of as bedtime reading. This very brief anthology only scratches the surface of the rich body of legends surrounding kachinas. Most serious is the failure to indicate from which Pueblo tradition or tribe a given story springs. This would have given some indication of the variety of expression found among these diverse cultures. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	''Thoroughly sympathetic in her attitude toward the Southwest Indians and their legends, [Hodge] has retold these stories with simplicity and a grave dignity that is very pleasing.'' --The New York Times''These stories  testify to the importance of the kachinas, upon whom the survival and order of the physical world depend.'' --Publishers Weekly",books;earth-based religions;education & reference;folklore & mythology;native american;native american studies;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;schools & teaching;social sciences;specific demographics,11
0967251419,"This Is Asperger Syndrome This much-needed book demystifies the unique and sometimes puzzling behaviors of individuals with Asperger Syndrome by letting the reader experience the world from the perspective of a young child with Asperger Syndrome. The brief, easy-to-understand text is accompanied by whimsical cartoon-like characters. --From the Publisher	Elisa Gagnon, Ms.Ed., is coordinator, Asperger Syndrome Project, University of Kansas Medical Center.    Brenda Smith Myles Ph.D., a consultant with the Ziggurat Group, the National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders, and the Education and Treatment Services Project for Military Dependent Children with Autism, was the recipient of the Autism Society of America s Outstanding Professional Award; the Princeton Fellowship Award; and the Council for Exceptional Children, Division on Developmental Disabilities Burton Blatt Humanitarian Award. She has written over 150 articles and books on autism spectrum disorders, including Asperger Syndrome and Difficult Moments: Practical Solutions for Tantrums, Rage, and Meltdowns (with Southwick) and Asperger Syndrome and Adolescence: Practical Solutions for School Success (with Adreon). The latter was the winner of the Autism Society of America s Outstanding Literary Work. Brenda has made over 500 presentations all over the world, and served as the co-chair of the National ASD Teacher Standards Committee. Myles is also on the executive boards of several organizations, including the Organization for Autism Research and Maap Services Inc. In addition, she was recently acknowledged as the second most productive applied researcher in ASD in the world from 1997 to 2004.",autism & asperger's syndrome;books;children's books;children's health;diseases;fitness & dieting;health;nature & how it works;science;social situations;special needs,11
157344183X,"Best Gay Erotica 2004 (Best Gay Erotica Series) ""Literally orgasmic."" -- HX Magazine, December 26, 2003",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;erotica;gay & lesbian;general;literature & fiction;romance;short stories;single author;united states,11
1568331223,"Death of Medicine in Nazi Germany: Dermatology and Dermatopathology Under the Swastika Has Hippocrates' injunction to physicians to ""do no harm"" ever been so betrayed as in Nazi Germany? The evidence of that betrayal and its tragic social, moral and physical consequences, particularly on Jews and Jewish physicians, is presented with erudition and passion in this history from Weyers, codirector of the Center for Dermatopathology in Freiburg. To examine the ""death of medicine"" under the Nazis, Weyers uses his particular expertise to focus on the fate of dermatologists and dermatopathologists, many of them Jews, in Germany and German-occupied lands. He begins with a sophisticated overview of anti-Semitism from early Christian days through the Weimar Republic and Hitler's ascent to power. He then delves into the decimation by the Nazis of Jews from medical fields, dermatology in particular, and the acquiescence of many German physicians to Nazism and the atrocities it spawned. Weyers's grasp of political-social currents is strong, but what gives his book its particular power is his tracing of history primarily through the fates of individualsAas one example among many, the fate of George Groscurth, lecturer in internal medicine at the Moabit Hospital in Berlin, who formed a resistance group only to be arrested by the Gestapo in 1943; Weyers reprints Groscurth's farewell letter to his wife, written half an hour before his execution. Touches like these, plus a stunning array of 392 b photos and illustrations, many gruesome but all essential, give Weyers's study a deeply human face. Impeccably researched and clearly written, Weyers's book, worthy of a wide readership, will compel all who encounter it to echo the author's question: ""Where would we standAwhere would I standAif exposed to pressure and control like that exerted by the Nazis?"" Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	How could the Holocaust have occurred? How could the seemingly sophisticated German society of the Weimar Republic permit the rise of the National Socialist Party? How could the new Nazi government nearly destroy the country's medical system in the name of racial purity? An increasing number of treatises, symposiums, and books have attempted to address these issues. This book succinctly presents the frightening accounts of the destruction of German Jewry from the point of view of the physician and, more particularly, the dermatologist. Antisemitism, a word introduced in 1873, has always existed; it has been more overt at some times than at others. Because Jews were often denied entrance to many professions and occupations, and because of the Jewish tradition of helping others, Jews became physicians in disproportionate numbers.  Although Jews accounted for only 0.8 percent of the residents in Germany in 1933, at least 16 percent of German physicians were Jewish. Once the Jewish physician graduated from medical school, he, or rarely she, would often experience difficulty in obtaining a hospital appointment at non-Jewish institutions -- hence the development of Jewish hospitals. Many Jewish physicians were barred from selecting the more popular -- and more financially rewarding -- medical and surgical fields. Because dermatology was not held in high regard by the medical establishment, the specialty was available to Jewish physicians. In 1934, a quarter of all dermatologists in Germany were Jewish.  Weyers's documentary account takes the reader through a ""Who's Who"" of medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries. Many luminaries, such as Ernst Kromayer (inventor of the Kromayer lamp) and Eugen Galewsky (who was responsible for introducing anthralin in the treatment of psoriasis), were Jewish, and others, such as Franz Herrmann (known for his research on the physiology of sweat glands) and Hermann Pinkus (an expert in the field of dermatopathology), were Christian but of Jewish ancestry. Some were converts, like Fritz Juliusberg (who was responsible for describing pityriasis lichenoides chronica), who had disavowed Judaism. Theodor Gruneberg, a member of the Nazi party, was appalled to find that one of his own great-grandparents had been Jewish.  Many directors of university and hospital departments were replaced by followers of the party. Some of the Nazi physicians were lacking in academic qualifications, whereas others had some scientific background, such as Heinrich Adolf Gottron (who first identified Gottron's papules). There were also the German professors who stood up to the regime and lost their posts. Leopold Ritter von Zumbusch (who first described pustular psoriasis) was fired as rector of the University of Munich and then as director of dermatology at the university.  Within six years, Jews went from being full German citizens with economic opportunities to outcasts subjected to the lowest degradation. Imagine an educated society devoting energy to defining who was Jewish, but not according to whether people practiced the religion or whether their mothers or fathers considered themselves Jewish.  The Mischlinge (persons of mixed race), as such persons were considered, would also be ostracized, even if they and their parents had always been Christian. (Jeremy Noakes. ""The Development of Nazi Policy towards the German-Jewish `Mischlinge' 1933-1945."" New York, Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 1989, xxxiv:291-354.) There were also rules when only one grandparent was an observant Jew.  Like many other intellectual German dermatologists of the late 20th century, including the late Albin Proppe of Kiel, Karl Holubar of Vienna, and Albrecht Scholtz of Dresden, Weyers is haunted by the past: ""How do I behave and how should I behave? When is it right and essential for me to uphold my personal convictions and inviolate standards, and when is it necessary to compromise for the greater good? At what point do compromises become concessions, and I become a wholly different person?""  This book should be required reading, because it recalls the tragedy of German medicine during a time when prejudices and hatred overcame reason, let alone the Hippocratic oath. These same evil forces are still with us, only now their methods are called ""ethnic cleansing.""  Reviewed by Lawrence Charles Parish, M.D. Copyright  1999 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved. The New England Journal of Medicine is a registered trademark of the MMS.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;dermatology;europe;germany;history;internal medicine;medical books;medical ethics;medicine;military;world war ii,11
0814757057,"Immigration and Crime: Race, Ethnicity, and Violence (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law) This volume shines a much needed light on the complexity of connections between crime, race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States. Drawing on a distinguished group of experts on crime and immigration, Martinez and Valenzuela pull together a stimulating blend of perspectives and methods to address a topic that has been sadly neglected by researchers.-Gary LaFree,author of Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in AmericaImmigration and Crime is a terrific collection that debunks the stereotype of the Latino criminal immigrant. The systematic and thorough quantitative and qualitative data in the book should provide pause and help shape a new policy agenda on immigration and crime.-Eduardo Bonilla-Silva,author of Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United StatesEssential.-Choice,Serves as a much needed wake up call to scholars, policy makers, and the general public.-Tim Wadsworth,University of Colorado, Boulder	Ramiro Martinez, Jr., is associate professor of criminal justice and public health at Florida International University and the author of Latino Homicide: Immigration, Violence and Community.Abel Valenzuela, Jr. is associate professor of urban planning and Chicana/o studies and at the University of California, Los Angeles and is co-editor of Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles.",books;criminology;discrimination & racism;emigration & immigration;new;politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;social work;sociology;used & rental textbooks,11
0194311988,"Practical English Usage Hb Michael Swan is a writer specializing in English language teaching and reference materials. His interests include pedagogic grammar, mother-tongue influence in second language acquisition, and the relationship between applied linguistic theory and classroom language-teaching practice, and he  has published a number of articles on these topics.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;language & grammar;new;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,11
0820312746,"Okefinokee Album (A Brown Thrasher Book) ""A tantalizing sampler that manages to capture the mystique of the swamp and its former inhabitants""--Journal of American Folklore""Marvelous, candid photos out of time itself . . . The photographs are worth the price of admission. Not to mention the 'Swamp Talk' vocabulary that is itemized, the wonderful ballads, stories of the conjure doctor, and plain tales that embellish the serious documentary with the art of life""--Southern Living""Harper did an invaluable service in capturing the Okefinokee's peculiar brand of culture before it began to decline in the 1930s. The expression 'rare treat' is overused but perfectly accurate with regard to this abridgement of Harper's work""--Booklist	Francis Harper first visited the swamp in 1912 as a member of a biological survey team from Cornell University and returned many times over the next four decades. He wrote a wide range of books and articles on natural history and folklore, including a naturalist's edition of The Travels of William Bartram. Harper died in 1972, before he had finished assembling his material on the Okefinokee. Delma E. Presley, a professor of English at Georgia Southern University, prepared Okefinokee Album for publication.",americas;books;education & reference;history;nature & ecology;nature writing;politics & social sciences;science & math;social sciences;state & local;united states,11
007140256X,"Clients Forever: How Your Clients Can Build Your Business for You How to Discover and Unlock the Power of the Extraordinary Client! What if you could increase your income by decreasing your sales calls? It happens whenever you stop wasting your time on marginal clients and focus all your efforts on your top contacts. This unleashes the repeat business and referrals that help you maximize your income, use your time more effectively, and concentrate on what's most important in your life. In Clients Forever, nationally recognized speaker and sales trainer Doug Carter shows you how to build your business through solid, long-term relationships with your favorite kind of clients. Packed with dozens of examples from Carter's own sales experience, plus case studies and personal development activities, this powerful career enhancement guide gives you the know-how and confidence to:  Focus your efforts on the people you most enjoy working with  Generate better results with less effort  Build relationships with clients as valuable people, not just as potential sales  Develop a new approach that accentuates your personal strengths  Trust your buyers to control their own informed decisions  Shift your role from expert consultant to process facilitator	Doug Carter is the founder and CEO of Carter International Training and Development Company. Since 1988, he has conducted his own training and interactive speaking programs while also developing and delivering custom training programs for organizations around the world. Jenni Green is a commercial writer. Her clients range from solo entrepreneurs to national enterprises.",accounting;accounting & finance;advertising;books;business & investing;customer service;industries & professions;management & leadership;marketing & sales;professional & technical;sales & selling,11
1899531041,"Knot Gardens and Parterres Australians Don Leevers and Lindsay Megarrity have managed to do what so many of us would like to do: up sticks and move to a warmer clime, spending our days doing what we love best - gardening. Back in 1988 they discovered Venzano in Tuscany, the last and least interesting-looking on their list of properties to view. They were instantly smitten and once they had sold up in England, embarked on what was to become a challenging project to create a home and garden in what appeared to be an inhospitable and overgrown patch of land. Set amidst the Tuscan countryside, Venzano was, and still in parts is, an ancient Etruscan ruin, its only redeeming feature being its own water supply - something rare in that arid part of North West Italy. From humble beginnings the men have created a garden paradise and in the process educated the local Italians into creating their own gardens by demonstration. The locals help to run the nursery now set up on site and a neighbour rules with a firm rod over the vegetable patch. Don is becoming a leading garden designer in Italy and Lindsay still finds time to do his RHS Gold Medal winning botanical illustrations in this peaceful setting. This account of that regeneration is by garden writer Stephanie Donaldson who has regularly visited Venzano, watching the transformation slowly take place. It is a highly personalized tale of the trials and tribulations faced by the two men as they strove to create some sort of order from the land, which until their arrival, nature had taken back as her own. Accompanied by variable photographs, occasionally mis-labelled, the book also includes a short section on dry garden plants together with cultivation details. Interspersed in the main text are tips on germination and propagation of particularly difficult plants such as Romneya coulteri. However, the real content of this book is the story of Don and Lindsay's determination to achieve the dream to which they aspired. It is an inspiration to all dream-seekers and an eye-opener to the realities such a move entails. From its first creation in Ancient times, the knot has been symbolic of love and strength. Depicted from earliest times in ceramics, mosaics, tapestries and textiles, it was eventually transposed into what we now know as knot gardens in Tudor times. Probably originating in Italy its idea was carried back to Britain via France and implemented in the various palaces and courts of the time. Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey especially were fond of knot gardens, trying to outdo both themselves and the French in their complexity. Wolsey in particular created gardens ""so enknotted it cannot be exprest"". However, their popularity waned in the eighteenth century with the advent of the great landscape gardeners who regarded them as too fussy and they were only resurrected more than a century later in a newer form during the Victorian bedding excesses. Robin Whalley's fascinating history of these formal gardens is informative, well-researched and beautifully illustrated with both old design plans and paintings, the latter often the only reference point to be found in the archives. Anne Jennings follows on from this with the practicalities of designing and implementing your own knot garden or parterre. Regardless of a gardens size, these adaptable garden features can fit into any scale and Anne gives an in-depth look at which plants to use, for both edging and infill, together with aftercare advice. Suitable for formal, informal and contemporary gardens, the appetising photographs will whet the appetite and fire the imagination. This book, published in association with the Museum of Garden History who has a particularly attractive knot garden taken from a seventeenth century plan, is for both the garden historian and those interested in making their own special knot garden.",architecture;books;by technique;crafts;english gardens;garden design;gardening & landscape design;hobbies & home;landscape;professional & technical;topiary,11
0195139313,"The Concerto: A Listener's Guide (Listener's Guide Series) Veteran music critic and program-notes writer Michael Steinberg offers up a sequel to his well-received collection of articles, The Symphony: a Reader's Guide. Over the years, Steinberg has written program notes for the likes of the San Francisco Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra, so this new book might be subtitled, Pieces of Music Orchestras Paid Me to Write About. Even though the selection of pieces is far from all-inclusive, the approach to the reader is friendly and non-snobby, and very little of the book is off-putting for those who have no musical training. Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart are plentifully described and with a certain feeling for how to mix biographical incidents with musical matters to heighten a reader's interest. However, a lot of rarer composers are absent, as are some works by familiar composers, so readers might want to complement this book with another Oxford Press title, A Guide to the Concerto edited by Robert Layton, which, instead of focusing on individual works, contains essay-length overviews by such expert critics as David Brown and Michael Kennedy--whetting the appetite for hearing rarities as well as informing the reader about familiar works. Reading Steinberg, one would never agree with Glenn Gould (among other musicians), who dismissed the concerto form as artistically unsatisfying. Instead, one feels a sense of gratitude for so many good works written in the medium. --Benjamin Ivry	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	A former music critic for the Boston Globe, Steinberg (The Symphony: A Reader's Guide) here gathers some 122 essays, some of which began as notes to programs given by the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra, among others. Now based in Edina, Minn., Steinberg generally focuses on the most-often played concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and other popular composers. Although this is not the book to open if you're looking for data on a rare item by the likes of Nikolai Miaskovsky or Vagn Holmboe, it is nevertheless a worthwhile introduction for readers shy of technical matters. Steinberg intersperses his essays with plenty of commentary about various concertos from musicians, who generally have more pertinent things to say than a good many musicologists. Although there are musical examples, they need not scare off readers who have never studied music. Inevitably, in a collection of articles such as this, there will be some painful omissions: thus, although Witold Lutoslawski's great Cello Concerto merits an article, none is devoted to his equally great Piano Concerto. Modern composers such as Henri Dutilleux, Bohuslav Martinu and Darius Milhaud are not discussed here, nor are there any entries about popular classical works such as Haydn's Cello Concertos. While this book not an all-inclusive or encyclopedic guide, this collection of articles has a relaxed, easy charm that will most likely win over readers unfamiliar with the subject. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Similar to Steinberg's earlier volume The Symphony: A Listener's Guide (LJ 9/1/95), these essays were originally written for the program books of the Boston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and other orchestras. The 117 concertos chosen represent an interesting cross-section of works by the most popular composers (Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart), some less popular ones (Schoenberg, Sessions), and a few surprises (Perle, Nielsen, Zimmerman). A wide range of material?facts about the composers' lives, notable circumstances surrounding the first performances of the work?punctuate his discussion of each composition. The entries are all clearly written, although it is assumed that the reader has a fairly good knowledge of the standard musical repertory, and technical information is included. For the amateur with a musical background, this is a valuable and very interesting collection.?Timothy J. McGee, Univ. of TorontoCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	""A wide range of material--facts about the composers' lives, notable circumstances surrounding the first performances of the work--punctuate [Steinberg's] discussion of each work.... For the amateur with a musical background, this is a valuable and very interesting collection.""--Library Journal""Each concerto is discussed with impeccable scholarliness an detailed historical information, but above all, the style of the writing is unfailingly entertaining.""--Maestro Andre Previn""This collection of articles has a relaxed, easy charm that will most likely win over readers unfamiliar with the subject.""--Publishers Weekly""Nobody can draw a reader into appreciation of a piece of classical music quite like Michael Steinberg.... Steinberg combines magisterial authority of a musicologist with the deeply personal point of view of a novelist.""--St. Petersburg Times""The writing is often relaxed and virutuosic, and it always passes the acid test: after reading Steinberg's freshly considered thoughts on any piece, I immediately want to heari, or hear it again.... A few of the longer essays are almost short stories in themselves.  Reading Michael Steinberg on music will definitley make you a better listener--it might even make some of us better, or at least humber, writers.  More important, he'll remind you of what makes great music great.""--City, Rochester	Michael Steinberg, musicologist, critic, teacher, chamber music coach, and narrator, is the program annotator of the San Francisco Symphony and the New York Philharmonic. He was music critic of The Boston Globe for twelve years. He lives in Edina, Minnesota.",arts & photography;books;classical;history & criticism;humanities;humor & entertainment;music;musical genres;new;performing arts;used & rental textbooks,11
B0002IF032,"Defining a Nation: Our America and the Sources of Its Strength Bestselling author and Pulitzer winner Halberstam brings together a powerhouse list of journalists and scholars to consider why America, ""for all its flaws, for all the things I dissent from, remains so powerful a beacon to so many of the less favored of the world."" Thirty-six writers consider a range of issues in American history and culture, from foreign policy to education, technology, and even cuisine. Anthony Lewis examines our open society and the role of the courts in maintaining our freedoms. Harold Moore (We Were Soldiers Once...and Young) extols the citizen-soldier and the remarkable courage he has seen such soldiers exhibit. Anna Quindlen discusses Margaret Sanger, the woman who put family planning on the national agenda, as a central figure in 20th century feminism. With 300 black-and-white and color illustrations, this beautiful volume makes a wonderful gift for patriots of all stripes-even those, like Halberstam, who often label themselves dissenters.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	David Halberstam won the Pulitzer Prize for his New York Times dispatches from Saigon during the Vietnam War. The author of more than a dozen bestselling books on topics as varied as the automobile industry, baseball, and the 1950's, Halberstam is a member of the Society of American Historians and appears frequently on Charlie Rose and Face the Nation.From the Trade Paperback edition.",americas;anthropology;books;civilization & culture;cultural;essays;historical study & educational resources;history;politics & social sciences;united states;world,11
0062732439,"How to Make it in Hollywood The title has an exploitative ring that perfectly suits the material. The basic premise--that talent is not enough--is sound and the execution is thorough. However, the odds against a successful career in Hollywood films are so unfavorable that only those crazed with ambition are likely to ""make it,"" and they are not likely to need a guide such as this. Sections entitled ""Dropping by Peoples' Offices Uninvited,"" ""How To Get Through to People on the Phone,"" and ""Shmoozing with the Stars"" inadvertently border on satire. The rest of the information found here can be pieced together from newspaper gossip columns. This book should be perused at the bookstore and kept away from the extremely gullible. Not recommended.- Brian Geary, West Seneca, N.Y.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Linda Buzzell has worked as a production company vice president at Columbia and Lorimar, a development executive for Jacques Cousteau, and an associate producer of documentaries for ABC and PBS. As the founder and director of the Entertainment Industry Career Institute, she has helped thousands of people in the entertainment industry with both personal and professional issues. She teaches at the American Film Institute and lives in California.	The Hollywood GameIs It For You?Mom, Call Hollywood!For director Patrick Read Johnson, the road to success in Hollywood started in Wadsworth, Illinois (pop. 750), and ended on Mars.At the age of ten, young Patrick set his train set on fire and filmed the spectacle with his dad's movie camera. By the time Patrick was thirteen, his mom was so sick of driving to Chicago to buy movie magazines for him and hearing him complain that he hadn't yet been discovered by Hollywood that she picked up one of the magazines herself--it turned out to be American Cinematographer--and called a name off the masthead: Herb Lightman, editor.A determined Mom got through to Herb in Los Angeles. Listen, Herb, I've got a kid here who's been making 8-millimeter films since he was ten. He's thirteen now. He wants to be Stanley Kubrick. I don't know anybody. I don't know what I should do with him. Should I send him to film school? If I put him on a plane and get him a place to stay with friends in L.A. for a week, will you introduce him to some of his heroes?Luckily for Mom and Patrick, Herb turned out to be one of the Hollywood good guys. He chuckled. Who knows, maybe Mom reminded him of his own mother's exasperation with a youngster obsessed with films and filmmaking. He agreed to Mom's proposition and a week later Patrick was on a plane to Hollywood, explaining to the astonished guy in the next seat that he was going to visit a special effects wizard named Douglas Trumbull.Not only did Patrick meet Doug Trumbull, but Herb let him tag along as he visited the set of a new movie Doug was working on, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, where an ordinary-looking guy in a trucker's cap who asked him if he wanted a Coke turned out to be the director Steven Spielberg. Patrick's last day in Hollywood was spent watching the rough cut of a film called Star Wars that everyone thought was going to be a nice, small, kids' movie.After that introduction to the business, it's no wonder that young Patrick couldn't wait to get back to Hollywood. He finally went back in 1980 and worked in special effects for a few years. He also co-wrote and directed a low-budget film about a group of wayward alien invaders who land on earth Halloween night. Steven Spielberg looked at it and called his buddy Jeffrey Katzenberg at Disney to suggest that they release the picture--which became Spaced Invaders, a Touchstone release. Patrick is now one of the hot directors in town, romanced by studios, producers, and agents. In 1994 he directed the comedy Baby's Day Out, written by John Hughes and starring Joe Mantegna, for Fox. And he's hard at work on his next film, which will be coming soon to a theater near you.Sometimes Hollywood dreams do come true. Just ask Patrick's mom.The Hollywood GameThe Hollywood game isn't always this easy, of course. And those of us without a lucky mom for an agent need to learn the rules.Entertainment is one of America's most successful export industries. While many other U.S. products can no longer compete in the global economy, American entertainment talent and software (films, TV programming, music, new media, etc.) are eagerly consumed around the globe. In fact, the Hollywood entertainment industry has become so desirable that major international corporations have invested billions of dollars in Tinseltown.Unfortunately this doesn't mean that there are plenty of jobs waiting for you in Hollywood, especially during bumpy economic times. The entertainment industry is now more ruthlessly competitive than ever. The world's best and brightest in every job category--performers, directors, executives, technicians--are flooding into Hollywood in ever-increasing numbers.To succeed in the entertainment industry--even as a hermitlike independent--one must not only have great talent and do outstanding, original work but also understand the Hollywood game and its players. There is an entertainment industry culture that characterizes the show business game as it's played all over our rapidly shrinking planet. With telecommunications and air travel linking the far corners of the globe, the industry is becoming increasingly unified in its rituals, habits, and mores. Industry people in Los Angeles, London, Cannes, and Hong Kong have more in common with each other than with hometown friends in accounting or insurance.Newcomers--and even many industry veterans--have trouble understanding this arcane system and its unspoken rules. And many people are put off or intimidated by the blatant wheeling and dealing, the ruthless tactics, and the dramatic personalities.As an introduction, I'll give you a person from Mars view of this fascinating industry culture, taking a closer look at the colorful natives, strange behavior patterns, rituals, and language idiosyncrasies that characterize show business and make it different from every other manufacturing industry.This is the way it is--not necessarily the way it should be. If, once you're established in the industry, you decide to make some changes to the system--more power to you!In the meantime, my advice to those of you who decide to make show business your life is to learn the game, appreciate the people, and relax and enjoy the craziness. A sense of humor about the whole scene will keep you sane.But as veteran director Melvin Van Pebbles has observed: If you're not in the game, you can't win. You don't have to indulge in the more obnoxious customs and practices yourself, but you will need to know how to deal with people who do.",arts & photography;books;business & investing;guides;humor & entertainment;industries & professions;industry;job hunting & careers;movies;performing arts;sports & entertainment,11
1555912982,"Colorado's Fourteeners CD/Map Combo Gerry Roach started climbing in Colorado in 1955. Among his numerous accomplishments, Gerry is the second person ever to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents. In more than 50 years of mountaineering, he has climbed in dozens of states and countries.",books;colorado;education & reference;excursion guides;general;hiking & camping;mountain climbing;mountaineering;sports & outdoors;travel;united states,11
1591793947,"After the Ecstasy, the Laundry Jack Kornfield, one of America's most beloved teachers of meditation, assures us that enlightenment does occur on the spiritual path but warns that it is not the end of the road. Bringing his thoughts to a personal level,  Kornfield looks up many of the notable spiritual teachers of our times  (Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Sufi, etc.) and presents extended quotations of  their trials and epiphanies. These anecdotes are woven together with fables and  ruminations from Kornfield's own decades-long experience as a practitioner and  teacher, creating an image of the spiritual life as challenging,  multidimensional, rewarding, and, yes, mundane. In the old days in China, Zen  monks were encouraged to travel for instruction under a variety of masters.  Here, Kornfield introduces us to today's masters, but off their podiums, as  equals. Genuine experiences of awakening, despair, fault, serious transgression,  and simple childlike joy all appear as bridges on the way to the divine.  After the Ecstasy, the Laundry is not just another inspirational  bestseller, it is a lasting record of concrete insights forged from the fires of dedicated practice. --Brian Bruya	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	What to do after one has achieved enlightenmentAor a flash of it? How do the problems of everyday life look different? Which, if any, go away? And what is it like to have lived for decades under a spiritual discipline? Kornfield (A Path with Heart, Teachings of the Buddha, etc.) devotes his latest volume of advice and meditation to such questions. Kornfield has been a teacher in the Theravada Buddhist tradition since the mid-1970s; he also holds a degree in clinical psychology. His methods and counsels here reflect Buddhist teachings, but he also tries hard to be ecumenical: Kornfield interviewed lamas, Buddhist elders and Zen teachers, but also Sufi masters, rabbis and Catholic nuns and monks. Anecdotes and quotations draw on Hindu mythology, medieval Christian theologians, Native American visionary traditions and even decidedly secular modern writers (e.g., Albert Camus and Sharon Olds). Bits of interviews alternate with Kornfield's own interpretations and with anecdotes and lessons drawn from sacred Scripture, anthropology and current events. A chapter about circumstantial hardships jumps from postwar Japan to America's overcrowded prisons; a noteworthy chapter on self-esteem and self-abasement vaults from William Blake to The Tassajara Bread Book. Kornfield wants to help readers attain ""a welcoming spirit, to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful and kindly heart."" Some may find Kornfield's words vague, or self-evident: ""Spiritual life  involves a maturing of understanding, a continual unfolding, wherever we are."" Even unsympathetic browsers, though, might enjoy the compressed life stories of the many interviewees. And the audience Kornfield envisions may well want and use his admittedly general counsel that ""no matter how isolated or embattled our lives, we need one another as family, we need each other's hearts and songs to help one another find the way."" That's hardly news, but isn't it the truth? (June) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Kornfield, a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society, is one of the seminal figures in the introduction and development of Theravada Buddhist practice in the West. At first glance, this book may appear indistinguishable from the flood of recent titles offering a Buddhist perspective on the integration of daily life with spiritual practice. What sets it apart, however, is Kornfield's clear and engaging style and his ability to be uncompromising in presenting a perspective on all aspects of the spiritual path. Few books in recent memory, for example, deal practically with the rather unspectacular but necessary nature of day-to-day practice following an experience of spiritual opening. Also, Kornfield, who draws on interviews with nearly 100 practitioners and teachers from a wide variety of Eastern and Western traditions, is unusually successful at presenting a consistent picture of the unity of the spiritual endeavor. This is particularly welcome, as practice in the West can often seem confusing and fragmented. Clearly aimed at readers with some experience of spiritual practice, this makes a nice companion to Kornfield's previous A Path with Heart (LJ 6/93). Recommended for all collections.DMark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll., NY Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A shining gift of wisdom.  New Age JournalLook for other Bantam Books by Jack Kornfield:A Path With HeartBuddhas Little Instruction Book	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	When does enlightenment come? At the end of the spiritual journey? Or the beginning?On After the Ecstasy, the Laundry, Jack Kornfield -- author of the modern classic on American Buddhism, A Path with Heart -- brings into focus the truth about satori, the awakened state of consciousness, and enlightenment practices today. Perfect enlightenment appears in many texts, Kornfield begins. But how is it viewed among Western teachers and practitioners? To find out, Kornfield talked to more than one hundred Zen masters, rabbis, nuns, lamas, monks, and senior meditation students from all walks of life. The result is this extraordinary look at the hard work we all must do -- the laundry -- on matter how often we experience ecstatic states of consciousness through meditation and other disciplines.Sweeping in its scope, and warmly told by one of American Buddhism's most trusted voices, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry is both a work of deep inspiration and daily instruction that cuts through the confusionabout what,enlightenment really is, who it comes to, and how it continues to inform and guide our spiritual lives. An original audio adaptation of Jack Kornfield's newest book, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	?Enlightenment does exist,? internationally renowned author and meditation master Jack Kornfield assures us. ?Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the divine ... these experiences are more common than you know, and not far away.? But even after achieving such realization ? after the ecstasy ? we are faced with the day-to-day task of translating that freedom into our imperfect lives. We are faced with the laundry.Drawing on the experiences and insights of leaders and practitioners within the Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and Sufi traditions, this book offers a uniquely intimate and honest understanding of how the modern spiritual journey unfolds ? and how we can prepare our hearts for awakening.Through moving personal stories and traditional tales, we learn how the enlightened heart navigates the real world of family relationships, emotional pain, earning a living, sickness, loss, and death. Filled with ?the laughter of the wise,? alive with compassion, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry is a gift to anyone who is seeking peace, wholeness, and inner happiness. It is sure to take its place next to A Path with Heart as a spiritual classic for our time.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	A shining gift of wisdom.  New Age JournalLook for other Bantam Books by Jack Kornfield:A Path With HeartBuddhas Little Instruction Book	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Jack Kornfield was trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India and has taught around the world since 1974. He also holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. He is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society and of the Spirit Rock Center. He lives in northern California.	Baba Yaga and Our Sacred Longing  The moment I heard my first story I started looking for you....  Rumi  Midway along our road of life I woke to find myself standing alone in a dark wood.  Dante Alighieri  What is it that draws a person to spiritual life? From as far back as we can remember, we can each sense a mystery in being alive. When we are present with an infant in the first moments after birth, or when the death of a loved one brushes close to us, the mystery becomes tangible. It is there when we witness a radiant sunset or find a moments silent stillness in the flowing seasons of our days. Connecting to the sacred is perhaps our deepest need and longing. Awakening calls to us in a thousand ways. As the poet Rumi sings, Grapes want to turn to wine. There is a pull to wholeness, to being fully alive, even when we have forgotten. The Hindus tell us that the child in the womb sings, Do not let me forget who am, but that the song after birth becomes, Oh, I have forgotten already. Still, as surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home. Throughout the world we find stories of this journey, images of the longing to awaken, the steps along the path that we all follow, the voices that call, the intensity of the initiation we may meet, the courage we need. At the heart of each is the original sincerity of the seeker, who must honestly admit how small is our knowledge of the universe, how great the unknown. The honesty the spiritual quest requires of us is addressed in the Russian initiation tales about Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga is an old woman with a wild, haglike visage who stirs her pot and knows all things. She lives deep in the forest. When we seek her out we are frightened, for she requires us to go into the dark, to ask dangerous questions, to step outside the world of logic and comfort.When the first young seeker comes quaking up to the door of her hut, Baba Yaga demands, Are you on your own errand or are you sent by another? The young man, encouraged in his quest by his family, answers, I am sent by my father. Baba Yaga promptly throws him into the pot and cooks him. The next to attempt this quest, a young woman, sees the smoldering fire and hears the cackle of Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga again demands, Are you on your own errand or are you sent by another? This young woman has been pulled to the woods alone to seek what she can find there. I am on my own errand, she replies. Baba Yaga throws her in the pot and cooks her too. Later a third visitor, again a young woman, deeply confused by the world, comes to Baba Yagas house far into the forest. She sees the smoke and knows it is dangerous. Baba Yaga confronts her, Are you on your own errand, or are you sent by another? This young woman answers truthfully. In large part Im on my own errand, but in large part I also come because of others. And in large part I have come because you are here, and because of the forest, and something I have forgotten, and in large part I know not why I come. Baba Yaga regards her for a moment and says, Youll do, and shows her into the hut.  Into the Woods We dont know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go. Something in us knows that we are not just here to toil at our work. There is a mysterious pull to remember. What takes us out of our homes and into the dark of Baba Yagas forest can be a combination of events. It can be a longing from childhood, or an accidental encounter with a spiritual book or figure. Sometimes something in us awakens when we travel to a foreign culture and the exotic world of new rhythms, fragrances, colors, and activity catapults us out of our usual sense of reality. Sometimes it is as simple as walking in the blue-green mountains or hearing choral music so beautiful it seems inspired by the gods. Sometimes it is that mysterious transformation when we attend at the bedside of the dying and a person vanishes from existence, leaving only a lifeless sack of flesh awaiting burial. A thousand gates open to the spirit. Whether in the brilliance of beauty or the dark woods of confusion and sorrow, a force as sure as gravity brings us back to our heart. It happens to every one of us. The Messengers of Suffering The most frequent entryway to the sacred is our own suffering and dissatisfaction. Countless spiritual journeys have begun in an encounter with the difficulties of life. For Western masters, suffering in early family life is a common start: alcoholic or abusive parents, grave family illness, loss of a loved relative, or cold absentee parents and warring family members all recur in many of their stories. For one wise and respected meditation master it started with isolation and disconnection. When I was a child, our family life had so much unhappiness. Everyone was yelling and I felt I didnt belong there. I felt like an alien. Then, about age nine I became really interested in flying saucers. For years at night I would fantasize that a UFO was going to pick me up, that I would be abducted and taken back to another planet. I really wanted that to escape from my alienation and loneliness. I guess that was the beginning of my four decades of spiritual search. We all know how much the heart longs for spiritual sustenance in times of difficulty. Honor this longing, says Rumi. Those that make you return, for whatever reason, to the spirit, be grateful to them. Worry about the others, who give you delicious comfort that keeps you from prayer. For another spiritual teacher, physician, and healer, thirty years of inner work also began with family sorrows. My parents fought terribly and then divorced quite violently when I was young. I was sent to an awful boarding school. My family life was so painful, it left me lonely, filled with grief, restlessness, and discontent with everything. I didnt know how to live. One day I saw a man in orange robes and shaved head chanting Hare Krishna on the steps of the square. I naively thought he was some wise Indian saint. He told me about karma, reincarnation, meditation, and the possibility of freedom. It rang true in my whole body. I was so excited, I phoned my mother and said, Im leaving school. I want to be a Hare Krishna monk. She became quite hysterical, so we compromised to where I would learn meditation. That opened me to another world. I learned to let go of my past and to have compassion for myself. Meditation saved my life. Crisis is an invitation to the spirit not only in childhood, but whenever our life passes through suffering. For many masters, the gateway to the spiritual opened when loss or desperation, suffering or confusion drove them to look for solace of the heart, for a hidden wholeness. The long journey of one teacher began in adulthood, overseas.  I was in Hong Kong. My marriage was going badly, my youngest daughter had died from sudden infant death syndrome two years earlier, and in every way I was not happy. We returned to America and at Stanford Business School I saw a sign for tai chi and signed up. That began to calm my body, but my heart remained sorrowful and confused. I separated from my wife and tried various forms of meditation to calm myself. Then a girlfriend introduced me to her meditation master, who invited me to a retreat. The room was formal and silent as we all sat hour after hour. On the second morning, suddenly I saw myself standing looking at my daughters grave, with a shovelful of red earth being thrown on it. Tears came and a wail rose from me. The other students nearby hissed and whispered Shut up, but the master came over and told them to be still and held me for a time. And I wept and blubbered, filled with grief all morning. That was how it began. Now, thirty years later, I am the one holding those who weep. The encounter with suffering that leads us to seek an answer is a universal story. In the life story of the Buddha as Prince Siddhartha, the Buddha-to-be was deliberately protected from the problems of the world by his father, sequestered in beautiful palaces during his early years. Finally the young prince insisted on going out to see the world. As he rode through the kingdom with his charioteer Channa, he saw four sights which stunned him deeply. First the Buddha saw a very old person, tottering, bent over, and frail. Next he saw a man grievously ill, cared for by his friends. Then he saw a dead body. Each time he asked his charioteer, To whom do these things happen? Each time Channa replied, To everyone, my lord. These sights are called the Heavenly Messengers, for just as they awakened the Buddha, so they remind us all to seek liberation, to seek a spiritual freedom in this life. Can you remember the first time you saw a dead body or a per-son gravely ill? This first up-close encounter with sickness and death sent a shock through Siddharthas whole being. How can we best live in a life haunted by illness and death? he wondered. The fourth messenger came when he saw a monk standing at the edge of the forest, a hermit who had devoted a life of simplicity to seek an end to the sorrows of the world. At this sight the Buddha realized that he too must follow this path, that he must face directly the sorrows of life and attempt to find a way beyond their grasp. Like a modern Siddhartha, one teacher tells how her journey in the cities and countryside called her to her path. After college I worked in a social service agency in Philadelphia trying to help a series of desperate families. No work, lots of children, squalid housing, drug problems. Some days I would co...	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",alternative medicine;books;buddhism;fitness & dieting;health;meditation;occult;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;self-help,11
1404305009,"Greenmantle 'Readers who fancy another look at John Buchan's originals, with their matchless suspense and gormless opinions, can find new editions ... in Oxford World's Classics.' Boyd Tonkin, New Statesman and Society'An exciting First World War thriller.' Observer	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, was a Scottish novelist and politician who served as Governor General of Canada.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;classics;genre fiction;literary;literature & fiction;mystery;spy stories & tales of intrigue;thriller & suspense;thrillers;war;world literature,11
0814661610,"Handbook for Liturgical Studies: Introduction to the Liturgy - Volume 1 (Handbook for Liturgical Studies) ""It is highly recommended for those who teach liturgy and as a reference book in university level libraries."" --unknown",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;education & reference;ministry;ministry & church leadership;other religions;practices & sacred texts;religion & spirituality;ritual;theology,11
013830159X,"Spectrum: A Communicative Course in English Level 4 Spectrum: A Communicative Course in English, by Diane Warshawksy and Sandra Costinett (Donald R.H. Byrd, Project Director), is a complete six-level, four skills course for adult and young adult learners of English. Spectrum features a unique ""natural"" approach to language learning: Rich language input is provided in authentic conversations accompanied by receptive activities that help students absorb new functions, structures, and vocabulary. Real-life language tasks offer both focused practice and opportunities for natural interaction, promoting both fluency and accuracy. Students progress from the beginning to the advanced level as they follow a comprehensive and carefully graded syllabus.  Spectrum also features:  Thematically based lessons Comprehensive coverage of all four skills Listening activities in both the Student Book and Workbook An audio program with authentic-sounding conversations, telephone messages, public announcements, and broadcasts A complete testing package",books;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;new;used & rental textbooks;words,11
0071351612,"Furious Earth: The Science and Nature of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis 'Furious Earth (McGraw-Hill, $24.95), Ellen Prager looks at some of the more awesome and dangerous natural events in clear language that still manages to include up-to-date research on the how and why of earthly upheavals.' 'loaded with helpful illustrations and interesting photos in a center section.' 'anyone truly curious about the causes of natural disasters will find this book informative and interesting.' (USA Today 1999-12-21)	The Science Behind the Earth's Most Catastrophic Phenomena If our planet is a sleeping giant, it slumbers fitfully and awakens in powerful starts. Our familiar landscape bears the scars of hidden forces at work deep beneath it. Furious Earth contains the latest science on these forces and the cataclysmic phenomena they produce - earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis. Now, hard-won knowledge of these phenomena, gained often in the aftermath of disaster or through dangerous research efforts, is presented here by scientist Ellen Prager with the following experts: Stanley Willaims, Ph.D. Professor of Volcanology, Arizona State University, on volcanoes; Kate Hutton, Ph.D., Seismologist, California State Institute of Technology, on earthquakes; Costas Synolakis, Ph.D. Engineering, University of Southern California, on tsunamis. Furious Earth sheds light on the life-threatening power and magnitude of nature's mighty trio. With the latest reseach findings from top scientists in the field, as well as insider's information from The U.S. Geological Survey, this is a comprehensive and fascinating guide to the world of earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis. Rich in information, packed with expert knowledge, and brimming with illustrations, Furious Earth is a must for anyone interested in truly understanding nature's powerful forces...and what the future may hold.	Ellen J. Prager, Ph.D., formerly with the U.S. Geological Survey, is a respected scientist who is now devoting her time to bringing an understanding of earth and marine science to the general public. In this endeavor she has been interviewed on The Today Show while living underwater, written dispatches for MSNBC, and worked with the National Geographic Society. She lives in Arlington, Virginia.",books;earth sciences;earthquakes & volcanoes;education & reference;geology;new;science & math;science & mathematics;seismology;used & rental textbooks;volcanology,11
8484031551,La enciclopedia de los barcos: 1.500 barcos civiles y de guerra desde el ano 5000 A.C. hasta la acutalidad (Grandes obras series) Tony Gibbons is the author of Jane's Naval History of World War II and the illustrator of Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail. Roger Ford is the author of Germany's Secret Weapons in World War II.,books;education & reference;encyclopedias;history;new;passenger;professional & technical;reference;ships;transportation;used & rental textbooks,11
0881923699,"A Book of Salvias: Sages for Every Garden The genus Salvia includes the common garden herb sage, as well as hundreds of species for the ornamental garden. Clebsch maintains a large collection of salvias in her garden in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, a location well suited to these plants, many of which are native to dry habitats around the world. A few species and hybrids of Salvia are popular bedding plants in the United States, but most of the species described here will be familiar only to collectors. For each species, Clebsch provides a description of the plant and its flowers, native setting, directions for cultivation and propagation, placement in the garden, and desirable companion plants. Appendixes include display gardens and sources for plants and seeds, a flowering guide by season, and other lists of species by various characteristics. There is a wealth of information here for gardeners interested in trying unusual Salvias, but the scholarly tone and the obscurity of the profiled plants may put off casual readers. Recommended for comprehensive gardening collections, especially in California.?Beth Clewis Crim, Prince William P.L., Va.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Salvias constitute the largest genus in the mint family, valued for their medicinal and culinary qualities. More than 900 species of Salvia exist, with more than half occurring in North and South America. Clebsch concentrates on 100 species, providing the scientific name and native habitat of each, including elevation ranges and temperature tolerance, as well as historical background. The author describes the leaves and flowers of each species, its blooming cycle, and its light, watering, fertilizing, and pruning requirements. Clebsch also suggests companion plants and offers data on propagation. The book includes a list of where to see and buy salvias, a flowering guide by seasons, and cold and shade tolerance guides. There are 96 color photographs and 40 line drawings.  George Cohen	After a short introduction, Clebsch describes over 100 salvias that she considers particularly noteworthy. With each description, she presents a little bit of history, a review of growing conditions, and then suggestions on how to pair the plant with other flowers or shrubs in the garden border. -- Patricia A. Taylor ""Trenton Times"" (08/31/1999)	This first significant book on the subject covers more than 100 beautiful, garden-worthy species & dozens of hybrids. Salvias are growing in popularity because of their diversity of fragrance, bloom, habit, & color, & many add drought tolerance & disease resistance to their ornamental qualities.	Betsy Clebsch is a noted amateur botanist and horticulturist in Northern California, having made and tended five gardens in Virginia, Texas, and California. Clebsch has participated in a number of plant explorations and regularly exchanges seed and rare plants, particularly salvias, with many botanical gardens.",alternative medicine;books;crafts;fitness & dieting;flowers;gardening & landscape design;health;herbs;hobbies & home;naturopathy;perennials,11
1556229372,"Digging Up Texas: A Guide to the Archaeology of the State The author does deliver a strong message on stewardship and preservation, and for that he is to be heartedly commended. (Donna Roper Journal Of The West )	Robert Marcom has written books on such topics as astronomy, geology, and space exploration. He retired from the field of contract archeology. Marcom is a member of both the Texas Archeological Society and the Houston Archeological Society.",americas;archaeology;books;earth sciences;geography;history;midwest;politics & social sciences;science & math;state & local;united states,11
006016641X,"The Gospel According to Jesus: A New Translation and Guide to His Essential Teachings for Believers and Unbelievers Following the example of Thomas Jefferson's The Jefferson Bible and modern humanistic scholarship, Mitchell ( Parables and Portraits , HarperCollins, 1990) here examines Jesus as a person. He retains only the passages concerning moral instruction, and therefore considers only Jesus' teachings of unconditional love and forgiveness to be authentic and essential. Mitchell draws parallels from these teachings to modern-day, ancient Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, and Jewish traditions. His guide is recommended as a good source for studying the religious beliefs of our founding fathers.- Ravonne A. Green, Emmanuel Coll. Lib., Franklin Springs, Ga.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Stephen Mitchell's many books include the bestselling Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, and The Second Book of the Tao, as well as The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Job, and Meetings with the Archangel.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;education & reference;history;jesus;reference;religion & spirituality;religious;world,11
081560615X,"Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art) Eloquent and moving...daring and comprehensive...What Mr. Roskies has accomplished in Against the Apocalypse documents a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender (New York Times Book Review )This majestic work has a quality, almost unseen today, of being at the same time erudite and elegantly written. (Hadassah Magazine )Roskies's work, densely argued, richly allusive, exemplary in its far-ranging scholarship, is itself a deeply felt response to the Holocaust and its memories; an affirmation of continuities as well as violent endings. (Times Literary Supplement )In this profound, subtle, and deeply moving book, Roskies lets us listen to the dialogue that the Nazis destroyed. It is hard to imagine a better way of keeping faith with those who died. (Boston Globe )A probing, seasoned, brilliant work. (Los Angeles Times )	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	David G. Roskies is the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;criticism & theory;history;history & criticism;holocaust;jewish;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;world;world literature,11
156025680X,"Gold! The Story of the 1848 Gold Rush and How It Shaped a Nation Rosen, a former arts columnist for the New York Times and true crime writer, is out of his element in this mundane history. He proposes that the American character is dominated by an unrestrained desire to get rich quick, an affliction directly traceable to ""when [President] Polk's lips uttered the magic word  'gold!' "" in his 1848 State of the Union address. According to Rosen ""[the] announcement let loose something primordial that had been lurking in the American character since John Adams had been a boy."" But facts to support such broad premises are sorely lacking. Much of the book is true to Rosen's crime-writing roots, with chapters devoted to the lawlessness that pervaded the mining camps and lurid tales of notorious gold rush criminals. Rosen also speculates that Jesse James's predations were linked to the gold rush because James's father headed for California, leaving Jesse bereft of moral guidance. Rosen describes the toddler Jesse ""in halting though plain language"" begging his father not to go. Such melodrama, along with the lack of source notes and a very brief bibliography, put this in the category of history super-lite. 8 pages of bw photos not seen by PW. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	In this account of the fabled California gold rush, Rosen chooses representative participants to tell the story. He introduces sawmill owner John Sutter and his employee James Marshall, who espied that glinting first nugget and pondered what to do with it. Future Union general William Sherman, who rejected Sutter's claim on the gold-bearing area, is in Rosen's cast, as is President James Polk, who precipitated the stampede to California with an 1848 message confirming the discovery of gold. For an Everyman who left his home and sweetheart behind and went west, Rosen selects Ohioan Samuel MacNeil, who compensated for his failure with the gold pan by writing a memoir that author Rosen regards as the ""best contemporary account."" A condensation of MacNeil's Travels (1850) is therefore this narrative's biggest element, supplying readers with eyewitness details of the dangerous journey west and California's atmosphere of avaricious anarchy. A fast--moving, satisfying production of popular history. Gilbert TaylorCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved",19th century;americas;books;business & investing;economic history;economics;history;revolutionary;state & local;united states;world,11
0787945501,"Beyond Spin: The Power of Strategic Corporate Journalism Due to factors both within and outside their control, companies of all types now face internal and external communication demands that are central to their ultimate success. Markos Kounalakis, Drew Banks, and Kim Daus accordingly argue in Beyond Spin that the most efficacious way to handle them is more complicated than some business leaders may initially imagine--but also more potent than the alternatives they may otherwise engage. Drawing on varied backgrounds in business and journalism, the authors craft a convincing argument for developing a holistic alliance between standard organizational communication and traditional Western journalism that meets these needs. The goal of this refreshingly progressive approach, which they've dubbed strategic corporate journalism, is to create ""awareness and understanding through open, timely and accurate information flow.""  It has been employed in one manner or another by high-profile firms such as SGI, formerly Silicon Graphics, whose experiences under fire are examined in one chapter. Other chapters focus on the evolution and impact of in-house PR and journalism for public consumption; development of effective communication networks in knowledge-based organizations; consequences of adopting or rejecting these principles at companies such as Hewlett-Packard and ARCO; and future requirements these efforts will continually address. --Howard Rothman	""This book shows how to do 'corporate journalism' with sensitivity, realism and humor. It delivers a tone of practical hope, including specific actions you can take right now to make your company a better place and a better space."" --Robert Johansen, president, Institute for the Future""Finally, a precise step-by-step guide for America's flacks that explains how to do business better--and surprise--by telling the truth. This timely book should be on every CEO's desk and in every corporate PR department."" --Peter Laufer, author and producer, Omnipoint Business Minute radio feature, and former German correspondent for Public Radio International's (PRI) Marketplace""Beyond Spin shatters long held and traditional views about how a successful company communicates with its employees. It defines, with real examples, how a company's communication organization can either dramatically undermine or bolster its success."" --Tamar Elkeles, vice president, Learning and Communications, Qualcomm	Engaging a knowledge workforce. Operating globally in Internet time. Protecting confidentiality and intellectual property in a boundaryless, networked world. How do can communications best serve the new business environment? Beyond Spin suggests that today's organizations can learn from the powerful role journalism has played in transforming societies from controlled political structures to democracies.Strategic corporate journalism is open, accurate, timely, and strategically weighted news. Organizational communicators are beginning to understand how damaging ""spun"" information can be to a knowledge workforce. Some have begun to blAnd journalism with corporate communication strategies and have seen organizational effectiveness improve as a result of the increased trust and credibility that combination can engAnder.In a fast-paced, engaging style, authors Markos Kounalakis, Drew Banks, and Kim Daus draw on personal experience with SGI to showcase strategic corporate journalism as the cornerstone of an internal communications model that company has used to keep employees informed throughout a traumatic business and cultural transition. The authors also highlight other companies--such as Microsoft, Arco, J.P. Morgan, and Qualcomm-to demonstrate how they have successfully integrated elements of corporate journalism into their communication practices. Beyond Spin is an indispensable guide that demonstrates how corporate journalism works strategically and tactically to help companies build an impassioned workforce, weather sudden shocks, manage constant change, and thrive in the long term. By retooling the content, distribution, and style of their communications, companies can create a continuous, credible flow of information and knowledge that keeps them aligned, nimble, innovative, and competitive.	Engaging a knowledge workforce. Operating globally in Internet time. Protecting confidentiality and intellectual property in a boundaryless, networked world. How do can communications best serve the new business environment? Beyond Spin suggests that today's organizations can learn from the powerful role journalism has played in transforming societies from controlled political structures to democracies.Strategic corporate journalism is open, accurate, timely, and strategically weighted news. Organizational communicators are beginning to understand how damaging ""spun"" information can be to a knowledge workforce. Some have begun to blend journalism with corporate communication strategies and have seen organizational effectiveness improve as a result of the increased trust and credibility that combination can engender.In a fast-paced, engaging style, authors Markos Kounalakis, Drew Banks, and Kim Daus draw on personal experience with SGI to showcase strategic corporate journalism as the cornerstone of an internal communications model that company has used to keep employees informed throughout a traumatic business and cultural transition. The authors also highlight other companies--such as Microsoft, Arco, J.P. Morgan, and Qualcomm-to demonstrate how they have successfully integrated elements of corporate journalism into their communication practices.Beyond Spin is an indispensable guide that demonstrates how corporate journalism works strategically and tactically to help companies build an impassioned workforce, weather sudden shocks, manage constant change, and thrive in the long term. By retooling the content, distribution, and style of their communications, companies can create a continuous, credible flow of information and knowledge that keeps them aligned, nimble, innovative, and competitive.	MARKOS KOUNALAKIS, a veteran print and network broadcast journalist, has covered wars and revolutions, both civil and technological, and written for Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of Defying Gravity: The Making of Newton (1993) and lives in San Francisco. email: NewsScribe@aol.com DREW BANKS, SGI's director of employee communications and integrated performance support, has blAnded his engineering, arts, and business background to architect technology solutions that enable human potential. Drew speaks regularly at professional forums on various intranet-related topics. He lives in San Francisco. email: dbanks@alum.mit.edu KIM DAUS, a former newspaper and magazine publisher, manages worldwide intranet operations and communications strategies at SGI, including Junction, the company's intranet portal site. She speaks internationally on topics such as communication strategies, intranet development, and knowledge management. She lives in Sausalito, California.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business communication;communications;management & leadership;marketing & sales;new;public relations;skills;used & rental textbooks,11
0892816686,"The Warrior Is Silent: Martial Arts and the Spiritual Path Shaw, the only American ever to be promoted to the rank of Black Belt in the Korean martial art of Hapkido by the Korea Hapkido Foundation, explores the spiritual discipline that is the foundation of martial arts practice. Shaw contends that martial arts is a method of ""understanding and interacting with the unceasing energy of the universe, known as ki."" Through a series of stages of meditation and practice, the martial artist is able to attain oneness with ki as well as to attain the status of an enlightened being who is ""at war with no one."" Shaw traces the historical development of the martial arts through their various incarnations in Japan, China and Korea. His historical scheme is especially valuable for its examination of the intersection of spiritual and martial arts disciplines in ancient China, Japan and Korea. Shaw then recommends practices that will help martial artists develop a mind awakened to the interaction of the physical and non-physical worlds, as well as techniques of meditation that enable the martial artist to understand ki and form a ""conscious link between mind, body, and the spiritual energy of the universe."" Shaw also includes techniques for refining the physical disciplines of the martial arts. Accompanying illustrations depict the various spiritual and physical techniques that Shaw recommends. Shaw's manual is an easy-to-read introduction to recognizing and developing the spiritual depth of the martial arts. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""Shaw's manual is an easy-to-read introduction to recognizing and developing the spiritual depth of the martial arts."" (Publishers Weekly)	MARTIAL ARTS  The attainment of superior fighting technique is not the sole purpose of martial arts training. Just as a Zen Buddhist monk uses movement as a form of meditation, the refined martial artist uses the physical techniques of the practice to harmoniously merge individual energy with that of the universe. The stages of training required to realize this objective are arduous but necessary for an individual to become an enlightened being rather than simply an accomplished fighter.  The Warrior Is Silent explains the spiritual foundation of martial arts practice in the East and its intimate connection with the perfection of the art itself. The author, a highly honored martial artist, takes the reader through a well-illustrated series of self-defense techniques that utilize ki energy to maintain ones center under any circumstance. More than seventy step-by-step photographs demonstrate exercises from breath control to physical deflection of an opponent. Mahayana Buddhism meditation techniques teach psychological control and action within no-action--vital for the spiritual warrior. The Warrior Is Silent will deepen the skills of experienced martial artists and provide a well-grounded introduction to the martial arts for beginners. This is an essential guide for anyone interested in a spiritually rewarding martial arts practice.  SCOTT SHAW is a regular contributor to national martial art magazines and has a Ph.D. in Asian studies. He is the only non-Korean ever to be promoted to the rank of Seventh Degree Black Belt in Hapkido by the Korea Hapkido Federation. He is the author of Hapkido: The Korean Art of Self Defense and The Ki Process: Korean Secrets for Cultivating Dynamic Energy. He lives and teaches in Redondo Beach, California.	Scott Shaw is a regular contributor to national martial art magazines and has a Ph.D. in Asian studies. He is the only non-Korean ever to be promoted to the rank of Seventh Degree Black Belt in Hapkido by the Korea Hapkido Federation. He is the author of Hapkido: The Korean Art of Self Defense and The Ki Process: Korean Secrets for Cultivating Dynamic Energy. He lives and teaches in Redondo Beach, California.",alternative medicine;books;energy healing;fitness & dieting;health;individual sports;martial arts;occult;religion & spirituality;spirituality;sports & outdoors,11
0764506536,"MCSE Windows 2000 Professional for Dummies (with CD-ROM, covers test #70- Like all MCSE Certification For Dummies titles, MCSE WINDOWS 2000 PROFESSIONAL FOR DUMMIES carries the Microsoft Certified Professional Approved Study Guide seal of approval.	Dummies Test Engine, QuickLearn(TM) Game, and more on CD-ROM!CD-ROM includes hundreds of sample test questionsThe fun and easy way(r) to study for the exam - all the rewards in half the time! Here's the MCSE Windows(r) 2000 Professional test-prep guide you've been waiting for - a For Dummies(r) book-and-software package that actually makes studying fun. Prepared by Microsoft(r)-certified experts and packed with proven tips and practice exams, it's all you need to master the topic - and succeed on the exam. all this on the bonus CD-ROM Dummies Test Engine, our exclusive, fully customizable test-prep software featuring hundreds of sample questions QuickLearn(TM), an exclusive sci-fi adventure game that builds test-taking skills Plus an MCSE screensaver and bonus demos from Specialized Solutions and Super Software PC running Windows(r) 95 or later or Windows NT 4 or later; 16MB RAM; CD-ROM drive. Separate requirements for the QuickLearn game. See About the CD Appendix for further requirements and details. Plus demos from Transcender CorporationDiscover how to: Review the material, objective by objective Assess what you know - and don't Spot and avoid test traps Answer questions quickly Hone your skills on top test-prep software Create custom practice examsGet smart! www.dummies.com	Glenn Weadock, MCSE, is president of Independent Software, Inc., which he founded in 1982. He has authored numerous computer books, including MCSE Windows(r) 98 For Dummies(r) and Windows(r) 98 Registry For Dummies(r).",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;microsoft;new;operating systems;software;used & rental textbooks;windows os,11
0966580966,"Churches Ad Hoc: A Divine Comedy Herman Krieger doesn't preach to the choir. He has seen through the pious facades of a lot of churches. -- San Jose Mercury News, Dec., 27, 1998Herman Krieger has a good eye and a knack for taking an offbeat look at churches and their surroundings. -- The Dallas Morning News, Nov. 21, 1998This sometimes irreverent photo essay draws a variety of responses.  Christians see devotion. Atheists see satire. Photographers see artistry. -- New York Times Online Edition, Nov. 16, 1997	""This sometimes irreverent photo essay on churches draws a variety of responses. Christians see devotion. Atheists see satire. Photographers see artistry."" Rebecca Fairly Raney, The New York Times Online Edition ""I delighted in the photo captions.  Composing them must have given you as much pleasure as reading them gave me. I browsed through them with both pleasure and amusement."" James Kilpatrick, Columnist ""Among the best examples of satire on the Internet."" J. Michael Raymond, Editor, Contemporary Satire ""The captions are quite funny. The clergy particularly will have fun with your good work."" Peter J. Gomes, The Memorial Church, Harvard University ""An oasis of creativity. Your good work is the pick of the month on the American Religion web site. I am proud to feature it."" Briane Turley, Director, The American Religious Experience Photography has long held a fascination for Herman Krieger. He worked as a photo lab technician during his teens in Detroit in the 1940's and served as an instructor in the Army Air Corps photo school. Earning a degree in mathematics from the University of California in Berkeley, he spent 30 years as a computer programmer in Europe. Upon retirement, he and his wife moved to Eugene, Oregon, where he promptly enrolled in the University of Oregon earning a bachelor's degree in fine arts.	Foreword Most if not all readers will be amused by what lies inside this volume. Most will be, but for a wider variety of reasons than many books enjoy. And if you are among the latter, ""amuse"" will turn out to be too weak a word. ""beguile"" will be more likely. The first time you read this book, you will know that it is one of those that will return to you again and again in the future. Is it a book of photography? -- of art more generally? -- of puns? -- of religious architecture? -- of questionable, comic, and at times tragic religious architecture? The answer, of course, is ""yes."" Hence its beguiling nature and consequent beckoning to regular revisitation. Herman Krieger describes himself as a non-practicing Jew who has not been to synagogue since he was 12. Would that all religious education ""took"" as well as his! The most obvious and, in many ways, most delightful interaction that he will quicken in you is that between caption and photo. And most of the captions will, in turn, be drawn either directly or indirectly from Jewish and Christian scriptures. Herman thus nicely illustrates the ancient insight, voiced by Ignatius Loyola but universally true, ""give me a child until he is six and he will be a Catholic forever."" Religious truths, often embodied in text but always pointing beyond the text to experience itself, rarely go away for good. At worst, they hibernate. In the gentle humor that is the conversation between caption and photo, this book might well awaken hibernating truths in you as well. Another beguiling level of meaning, therefore: not, ""Will this reawakening happen?"" but rather, ""Did Herman intend it?"" The puns in this book, that is, the multi-layered conversations between image and caption, are witty. I mean this in the widest possible sense, what the Oxford English Dictionary laboriously reminds us is ""that quality of speech or writing which consists in the apt association of thought and expression, calculated to surprise and delight by its unexpectedness; the utterance of brilliant or sparkling things in an amusing way."" Wit is thus the conjunction of the author's insight and foresight that opts to use humor as the conduit to the receiver's mind. How could anything other than 'wit' better account for the effects of ""The High and the Lofty,"" Littergy,"" and the adjacent, ""The Pope's Answer to Luther,"" and the ""Sign of the Crossing?"" These are not simply pictures with headings; indeed, they are sermons whose spiritual precision is the more appropriated (and enjoyed) the more that one patiently awaits it. Priests at Notre Dame have been known to be fired for exceeding 10-12 minutes per sermon. It was not until well after 10 minutes, though, that I finally got the point of the sermon entitled ""Auto da Fe"" (hint: look carefully at the car model and then at the bumper sticker). Jesus could not have been more concise. What this volume ultimately is, then, is a book about what the catholic tradition terms ""sacramentality,"" the insight that God's presence is mediated by any and all parts of creation, and hence that God is permanently as close, or as far away, as the individual wishes God to be. It is not that God is ever far away, though. All that the individual can accomplish is to recognize, or resist, that permanent adjacency. More than this is not given to us to do. Herman's volume shows us how perilously close that divine adjacency is on a daily basis. Easy to overlook, isn't it? Hence, all the more delightful to acquire. A final illustration of this that I hope you will not resent. While embarking from vastly different shores, Herman and I share much of our respective journeys. We are both graduates of the University of California at Berkeley. We are both avid bicyclists, a habit nurtured at that same University. Computers are the primary ""how"" by which we serve our professions and our constituencies. We are both drawn to the subtle, the common, and the humorous as the means by which religion is seen as universally evident. I say this not to elevate myself to his level of insight,attentiveness, or artistry, but instead simply to add one closing picture to this volume. Thank you, Herman, for including me in it. Kern R. Trembath, Assistant Chairman The Department of Theology The University of Notre Dame",arts & photography;books;catalogues & exhibitions;christian books & bibles;church institutions & organizations;collections;humor;humor & entertainment;ministry & church leadership;photo essays;photography,11
1573240680,"Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul: Essentials of Eating for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-Being It's not what you eat, but how you eat, according to nutritionist Deborah Kesten. By exploring the food rituals of numerous cultures, Kesten reveals how food feeds the spirit as well as the flesh. We learn that in order to make soul food, one must learn the art of cooking from feel. Like creating great jazz, African American soul food comes from the depths of wisdom as well as the ability to playfully improvise. The Buddhist monks model the mechanics of mindful eating. And sacred fasting is best illustrated by the Native American vision quest. In the second half of the book, Kesten delves into useful advice on eating disorders, food-mood connections, and specific how-tos of enlightened eating. --Gail Hudson",books;cookbooks;diets & weight loss;fitness & dieting;food & wine;health;nutrition;other diets;religion & spirituality;self-help;spirituality,11
B000OI0E90,"Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakthrough Little happens in Kettle, Wis., but when Sharpe, who has written over  20 romance and erotica novels, sends an acquitted murderess to the town days  after her sensational New York trial concludes, there's trouble in the offing.  Lorelei Taylor, found not guilty of murdering her publishing magnate lover,  heads to Kettle, home of her late grandmother, to lay low after the trial. As  luck would have it, there's a too-good-to-be-true widower/ handyman across the  street, but he refuses to be another sex toy for the gorgeous Lorelei. Neighbor  Sarah Gilchrist is long accustomed to her beautiful home and ugly marriage, but  Lorelei's ballsy New York attitude rubs off on her. Same with dowdy Erin Hall:  abused by her husband, Erin is given hope by the arrival of the flamboyant  woman she sees as a hero. Although the surprise at the end isn't surprising  and the loose ends are tied too neatly, this feel-good story won't disappoint  women readers looking for a light read. (Feb.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Isabel Sharpe is the author of As Good As It Got and Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakthrough. She lives in Wisconsin.",books;contemporary;contemporary fiction;contemporary women;humor;humor & entertainment;kindle ebooks;kindle store;literature & fiction;united states;women's fiction,11
1560448644,"Best Easy Day Hikes San Diego This guide to hiking in San Diego proves that there is more to this Southern California destination than just beautiful beaches. Enjoy trails that wind through stands of the rare Torrey pine, follow routes once used by the Native Americans, and venture onto summits offering views that stretch from the stark deserts in the east to the blue Pacific Oceanall this and wonderful sunbathing as well! Best Easy Day Hikes San Diego describes 24 short, easy hikes in the area with clear, easy-to-read maps and concise written descriptions. The trails in this guide will take you to the best wildlands that San Diego has to offerenjoy!",books;california;excursion guides;general;hiking & camping;pacific;san diego;sports & outdoors;travel;united states;west,11
0253203937,"The European Folktale: Form and Nature (Folklore Studies in Translation) ""Niles' excellent translation should bring Luthi's sensitive and articulate study the recognition it deserves among English readers."" - Library Journal	Text: English, German (translation)",books;fairy tales;folklore;folklore & mythology;literature & fiction;mythology;mythology & folk tales;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
1592282148,"Tap's Tips: Practical Advice for All Outdoorsmen Designed to resemble the ubiquitous Farmers Almanac, this newest guide by Tapply collects outdoor advice culled from his articles in Field & Stream. Tapply imparts friendly and practical wisdom and anecdotes on subjects ranging from fly-fishing for trout (""When fishing in discolored water or at night, cut your leader back to a heavier diameter"") and basic tackle maintenance (""You can prevent loose hoods from scattering all over your tackle box by putting a small magnet in the compartment with them"") to hunting bird (""High-velocity loads dont belong in the upland gunners pocket"") and keeping your boots tight (""Lace the boots halfway through and tie off with a square not""). With hand-drawn illustrations by Walter Dower and an introduction by Tapplys son William, the manual contains hundreds of useful tips, all presented in an appropriately folksy tone.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Tapply is the father of William G., author of the Brady Coyne mysteries. The essays in this charming handbook originally appeared in Field and Stream and were published in book form in 1964. They appear here with an introduction by the author's son, which includes a graceful biographical sketch of his father and insightful commentary on outdoor writing. Nearly two-thirds of the book concerns all types of freshwater fishing and tackle, with advice on hunting and hunting dogs, outdoor cookery, and the vagaries of the weather taking up the remainder. Tapply's writing remains lively and relevant; his fishing tips, in particular, are still useful. His simple and accessible prose combines keen observation and a commonsensical point of view. There is a timelessness to this book that makes its reprinting all the more welcome. An indispensable little volume for outdoor collections. John RowenCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Rereading Tap's Tips, after all these years, is a revelation. Such knowledge. Such wisdom. Such graceful writing and clear thinking. Tap's Tips remains the most useful book ever written for the all-round sportsman.""  -James R. Babb, Editor, Gray's Sporting JournalDesigned to resemble the ubiquitous Farmers' Almanac, this newest guide by Tapply collects outdoor advice culled from his articles in Field  Stream. Tapply imparts friendly and practical wisdom and anecdotes on subjects ranging from fly-fishing for trout (""When fishing in discolored water or at night, cut your leader back to a heavier diameter"") and basic tackle maintenance (""You can prevent loose hoods from scattering all over your tackle box by putting a small magnet in the compartment with them"") to hunting bird (""High-velocity loads don't belong in the upland gunner's pocket"") and keeping your boots tight (""Lace the boots halfway through, and tie off with a square not""). With hand-drawn illustrations by Walter Dower and an introduction by Tapply's son William, the manual contains hundreds of useful tips, all presented in an appropriately folksy tone. (Apr.)-- Publishers Weekly ""Review Annex	A real veteran of the outdoors, H. G. Tapply writes from the direct, down-to-earth viewpoint of one who has ""been there, done that."" He denies being an expert in any sense of the word, but he is nevertheless a walking encyclopedia on virtually every phase of outdoor sport and writes with the true ring of authority on all aspects of fishing, hunting, camping, dog training, fly tying, and woodcraft.With a new introduction written by his son, William G. Tapply, Tap's Tips thoroughly spans the tricks experts use, such as:hooking trout with fliescatching bass, pike, salmon, and panfish with lures and baitselecting the right tacklecleaning and cooking fishgetting more pleasure from a day on the water.hunting upland game birds, ducks, small game, big game, and varmintshandling guns (with a shooting tip practically guaranteed to make you a better wingshot)boatingchoosing the companions that can make or break a trip into the woodsTapply's narrative skill makes reading this book almost as enjoyable as actually hooking a good-sized trout or watching a bird dog stiffen to a solid point on a cornered pheasant.	H. G. Tapply, renowned Field  Stream associate editor and editor-in-chief of three national sporting magazines, was also one of the cofounders of The Salt Water Sportsman. Founding member of the New England Outdoor Writer's Association, he published two previous books, several stories, and national magazine and encyclopedia articles. However, fishing and hunting were ""strictly for the fun of it.""William G. Tapply is an accomplished author of mystery novels and outdoor sports books including Upland Days, Pocket Water, and The Orvis Pocket Guide to Fly Fishing for Bass. He is also a Field  Stream contributing editor and writing professor at Emerson College and Clark University. He lives in Hancock, New Hampshire.",animals;biological sciences;books;fish & sharks;fishing;hiking & camping;hunting;hunting & fishing;instructional;science & math;sports & outdoors,11
0609609289,"House & Garden Book of Style: The Best of Contemporary Decorating Dominique Browning and the editors of House & Garden magazine celebrate the 100th anniversary of their shelter publication with House & Garden Book of Style, featuring contemporary trends. The magazine has documented traditional design and charted the progress of the essential elements of style ""form, color, line, proportion, scale, texture, pattern, and material."" Grouped according to updated classics, new international, country luxe, minimalism, bohemian chic, grand tour, and midcentury modern, the trends explored here are splendidly illustrated by the 250 full-color photos covering the breadth of possibilities. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	In celebration of the 100th anniversary of House & Garden, this fully illustrated book presents important contemporary decorating trends in stunning homes.From one-room makeovers to complete renovations, home-decorating projects are flourishing across the country. House & Garden Book of Style explores seven of today's most popular looks, including the rustic charm of Country Luxe, the urban sophistication of New International, and the cross-cultural eclecticism of Bohemian Chic. Interweaving the stories of homeowners and the insights of professional decorators, each chapter features full-color pictures of four to six residences that typify the style, and the do's and don'ts of getting a style right.The first book from House & Garden in more than 15 years, this is an irresistible combination of inspiration, innovative ideas, and practical know-how.	Dominique Browning is the editor-in-chief of House  Garden, which has been one of the premier shelter magazines for one hundred years. She lives in New York City.",architecture;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;decorating;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;interior design;professional & technical;style,11
B000FQ4K4Q,"Garden Houses and Privies: Authentic Details for Design and Restoration An essential component of homes and commercial buildings before the advent of indoor plumbing, privies--also known as ""garden houses""--have found new uses as storage sheds, pool houses, etc. In this pattern book of 18th- and 19th-century designs, Harrison has painstakingly documented existing historic structures and translated them into beautiful line drawings, including compelling details such as finials, doors, windows, and ventilators.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	An essential component of homes and commercial buildings before the advent of indoor plumbing, privies--also known as ""garden houses""--have found new uses as storage sheds, pool houses, etc. In this pattern book of 18th- and 19th-century designs, Harrison has painstakingly documented existing historic structures and translated them into beautiful line drawings, including compelling details such as finials, doors, windows, and ventilators.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",architecture;books;buildings;crafts;drafting & presentation;historic preservation;history;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;professional & technical,11
0613014804,"Moonstone """"The first and greatest of English detective novels."""" ---T. S. Eliot	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.	The Broadview Literary Texts series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, though lesser-known literature.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""The Moonstone is a page-turner,"" writes Carolyn Heilbrun. ""It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular."" Wilkie Collins?s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre?the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	The Moonstone is one of the most famous suspense novels of all time: a masterpiece of construction and the ultimate page-turner. First serialized in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round, this classic work introduced one of the world's most beloved genres, the detective story. 	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and more than 100 essays. His best-known works are The Woman in White and The Moonstone.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Part Three of the PrologueThe storming of Seringapatam (1799) Extracted from a family paper III  So, as told in our camp, ran the fanciful story of the Moonstone. It made no serious impression on any of us except my cousin--whose love of the marvellous induced him to believe it. On the night before the assault on Seringapatam, he was absurdly angry with me, and with others, for treating the whole thing as a fable. A foolish wrangle followed; and Herncastle's unlucky temper got the better of him. He declared, in his boastful way, that we should see the Diamond on his finger, if the English army took Seringapatam. The sally was saluted by a roar of laughter, and there, as we all thought that night, the thing ended. Let me now take you on to the day of the assault.  My cousin and I were separated at the outset. I never saw him when we forded the river; when we planted the English flag in the first breach; when we crossed the ditch beyond; and, fighting every inch of our way, entered the town. It was only at dusk, when the place was ours, and after General Baird himself had found the dead body of Tippoo under a heap of the slain, that Herncastle and I met.  We were each attached to a party sent out by the general's orders to prevent the plunder and confusion which followed our conquest. The camp-followers committed deplorable excesses; and, worse still, the soldiers found their way, by an unguarded door, into the treasury of the Palace, and loaded themselves with gold and jewels. It was in the court outside the treasury that my cousin and I met, to enforce the laws of discipline on our own soldiers. Herncastle's fiery temper had been, as I could plainly see, exasperated to a kind of frenzy by the terrible slaughter through which we had passed. He was very unfit, in my opinion, to perform the duty that had been entrusted to him.  There was riot and confusion enough in the treasury, but no violence that I saw. The men (if I may use such an expression) disgraced themselves good-humouredly. All sorts of rough jests and catchwords were bandied about among them; and the story of the Diamond turned up again unexpectedly, in the form of a mischievous joke. Who's got the Moonstone?' was the rallying cry which perpetually caused the plundering, as soon as it was stopped in one place, to break out in another. While I was still vainly trying to establish order, I heard a frightful yelling on the other side of the courtyard, and at once ran towards the cries, in dread of finding some new outbreak of the pillage in that direction.  I got to an open door, and saw the bodies of two Indians (by their dress, as I guessed, officers of the palace) lying across the entrance, dead.  A cry inside hurried me into a room, which appeared to serve as an armoury. A third Indian, mortally wounded, was sinking at the feet of a man whose back was towards me. The man turned at the instant when I came in, and I saw John Herncastle, with a torch in one hand, and a dagger dripping with blood in the other. A stone, set like a pommel, in the end of the dagger's handle, flashed in the torchlight, as he turned on me, like a gleam of fire. The dying Indian sank to his knees, pointed to the dagger in Herncastle's hand, and said, in his native language:--The Moonstone will have its vengeance yet on you and yours!' He spoke those words, and fell dead on the floor. Before I could stir in the matter, the men who had followed me across the courtyard crowded in. My cousin rushed to meet them, like a madman. Clear the room!' he shouted to me, and set a guard on the door!' The men fell back as he threw himself on them with his torch and his dagger. I put two sentinels of my own company, on whom I could rely, to keep the door. Through the remainder of the night, I saw no more of my cousin. Early in the morning, the plunder still going on, General Baird announced publicly by beat of drum, that any thief detected in the fact, be he whom he might, should be hung. The provost-marshal was in attendance, to prove that the General was in earnest; and in the throng that followed the proclamation, Herncastle and I met again.He held out his hand, as usual, and said, Good morning.'I waited before I gave him my hand in return.Tell me first,' I said, how the Indian in the armoury met his death, and what those last words meant, when he pointed to the dagger in your hand.' 'The Indian met his death, as I suppose, by a mortal wound,' said Herncastle. What his last words meant I know no more than you do.' I looked at him narrowly. His frenzy of the previous day had all calmed down. I determined to give him another chance.'Is that all you have to tell me?' I asked. He answered, That is all.' I turned my back on him; and we have not spoken since. 	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	This seminal English mystery is presented in an unusual, but appropriate, manner, reflecting the episodic nature of the story. Three actors present the story in parts, taking on separate first-person accounts of events. All the voices are convincing, cultured British intonations describing the events surrounding the apparent theft of the Moonstone diamond from a country mansion. Each voice shades the various characters featured within the particular parts, just as the narrative offers characterizations of the other persons without attempting an outright mimicry. The abridgment is nicely done, too, avoiding any choppiness.  D.W.   (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;classics;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;mystery;new;police procedurals;teens;thriller & suspense;used & rental textbooks,11
0060173106,"Playing the Future: How Kids' Culture Can Teach Us to Thrive in an Age of Chaos Just yesterday I read in the Busines Section of the New York Times that Rushkoff currently gets paid as much as $7,500 per hour to explain to VPs and CEOs of major corporations how to survive in a marketplace increasingly dominated by channel-surfing gen-Xers. Whether you are a marketing mogul or one of the explicands curious about how your core being is being portrayed to media mavens, this is a book you should read -- if you've got the time.  Why the caveat? Much of his argument is that the much-dreaded short attention span is an adaptive response to a media-saturated world, which is probably no big surprise to you as an Internet user. But Rushkoff does have a way of making this and other seemingly basic arguments into a compelling and insightful book. My overall advice?  Turn down any opportunities you might have to pay his $7,500 fees, and read a copy of this book instead.	A cyberculture cicerone, Rushkoff (Media Virus) leads the reader through heady glimpses of the millennium-the 21st century where ""We are all immigrants to a new territory."" And on whom do immigrants usually rely for adjustment and acculturation? Their children, of course. Rushkoff describes today's ""screenager""-the child of the computer/electronic age-as the shaper of a new, evolutionary milieu where change is a constant and chaos can be a good thing. Simplistically, Rushkoff advises parents and educators to relax and appreciate the adaptive skills of their children, and to look to them ""for answers to some of our own problems adapting to postmodernity."" This post-McLuhan view of a world where Barney and mob behavior can be connected is, in its untrammeled enthusiasm for media, demanding, often bewildering reading for anyone not tuned in to Power Rangers or Pulp Fiction. $50,000 ad/promo; foreign rights: David Vigliano. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Kaffee-klatsch musings masquerade as visionary insight in this hopelessly square Baedeker to what we can learn from today's youth, or ``screenager,'' culture. That loud humming you hear is all the '90s buzzwords, from chaos to Gak (a goo product that kids play with) to holism, that Rushkoff totemistically lards throughout the text. Rushkoff, who has made his reputation as a cyber-based interpreter of the media (Media Virus, 1994, etc.), strives to be a futurist, painting a broad, appealing picture of things to come from practices as various as body-piercing and fantasy role-playing in computer games--but the effect he achieves is really dej vu. Change a few names and dates and we're right back in the '60s, with all the sincere, straight-jawed exegeses of ``what we can learn from the younger generation.'' Throw in a few megabytes and the answers aren't that different either. According to Rushkoff, the kids (and in the author's chronology ``kid'' seems to be anyone under 34) can teach us to appreciate multiple viewpoints; they can help us surf chaos by finding meaning in the moment and in community; they can help us get back in touch with nature. Rushkoff partially acknowledges his debt to Marshall McLuhan and Carl Jung, but much of his ``new'' thinking, especially on chaos, is as old as Bergson and Proust. Rushkoff does make a strong case for the relative harmlessness of electronic violence, comparing video games to dreams. He may proclaim metaphor dead, but this is just one example of his rather lively dependence on it: From Power Rangers to video games, he analyzes artifacts of screenager culture, trying to tease out their larger metaphorical significance. Of course, by deriving broad, fixed meaning from fragments of an atomized culture, he's not only contradicting himself, but revealing that he's an old fogy who can't hang ten on chaos. ($50,000 ad/promo; author tour) -- Copyright 1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	...one of the fastest ways to grok the Zeitgeist of our fast-forward cutlure... like channel surfing the planet with a witty genius friend who can explain the pattern that connects it all together. -- Wired	Can a decreased attention span make us smarter consumers? How  can the Power Rangers get us jobs in the high-tech workplace? Could the  ultraviolent world of Doom actually be good for our kids? From an  emergent guru of cyberculture come surprising answers to these  questions and an exuberant, myth-shattering look at our future as seen  through the lifestyles of today's youth. Douglas Rushkoff, who has been  called ""the brilliant heir to McLuhan"" by New Perspectives  Quarterly, draws a welter of remarkably commonsensical conclusions  about how we can learn from our kids to flourish in the next millennium  -- as they will. Global warming, racial tension, Third World rage,  rapacious epidemic and myriad other global woes vie with less dire but  no less unnerving phenomena -- from information overload to media  manipulation -- to convince us that the apocalypse is about to pounce.  Indeed, it will pounce on the unprepared, but theres no need for  us to be caught unawares if we will learn from todays children.  For those who grew up before computers became ubiquitous, the world is  like a foreign country and we are its immigrants. Our kids --  Rushkoff calls them ""screenagers"" -- are like those of any immigrant,  fitting themselves more naturally into this terra incognito than we  can. Rushkoff demystifies the appeal of dozens of kids cultural  totems -- Barney, Power Rangers, Pogs, skateboards, Nintendo, Beavis  and Butt-head, gangsta rap, body piercing and more -- that have  unnerved or baffled parents, pundits and educators. He also goes beyond  mere explanation to prove how the trappings of ""screenagers"" lives  are preparing them for the future, a discontinuous realm where surprise  is the only constant and information pours in from innumerable sources  at warp speed.",books;children's books;children's studies;fitness & dieting;health;politics & social sciences;popular culture;science & math;social sciences;specific demographics;technology,11
0399522387,"Raising Hell: A Concise History of the Black Arts - and Those Who Dared to Practice Them It's always a pleasure to find a book of history so well written that I lose track of time while I'm reading it. Masello has collected the exploits of prominent sorcerers and alchemists, secret societies, rituals and key tools of black magic, without sinking into a subjective analysis of the morality of these occult arts.",arts & photography;books;earth-based religions;education & reference;history;history & criticism;language & grammar;occult;religion & spirituality;witchcraft;words,11
0737300949,"Holiday Origami Jill Smolinski is the author of several origami titles, including 50 Nifty Super Animal Origami Crafts, Scary Origami, and Friendship Origami.",arts;books;children's books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;crafts & music;hobbies & home;holidays & celebrations;origami;papercrafts;stamping & stenciling,11
0943358272,"Crystal Enlightenment: The Transforming Properties of Crystals and Healing Stones (Crystal Trilogy, Vol. 1) Katrina Raphaell is the best selling author of the Crystal Triology: Crystal Enlighenment (1985), Crystal Healing (1987) and The Crystalline Transmission (1989). Known as a pioneer in her field, Katrina founded The Crystal Academy of Advanced Healing Arts in 1986 and has since taught thousands of students around the world the art, theory and practice of Crystal Healing. She has also trained teachers to carry on her work in Crystal Academy satellites world wide. Her new book, Crystalline Illumination, embodies the last thirteen years of crystal research and is already published in three languages.",books;crystals;divination;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;new age;occult;psychology & counseling;reference;religion & spirituality,11
1400032598,"Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa Shaffer's vivid travel memoir captures scenes of Kenya, Mali and, most notably, Ghana, rarely seen by American tourists. Fleeing a marriage proposal from her boyfriend in California, Shaffer, a white 27-year-old upper-middle-class performance artist with progressive politics, decides to travel, choosing to participate in various volunteer efforts in order to spend more time and less money in Africa. Her tales are rich in visual and cultural explication; villages and hamlets too tiny for names come to hot, vibrant, scent-laden, insect-thrumming life as Shaffer depicts the dailiness of African culture and the struggle to subsist. The unrelenting heat, ubiquitous disease and economic chaos make Africans eager to leave. Unfortunately, racism and privilege underlie Shaffer's travelogue, and she does not fully address either. In one of the book's best chapters, Shaffer meets Nadhiri, a black separatist from Berkeley with whom she does a complex sociopolitical dance in which Nadhiri's prejudice is revealed, but Shaffer's own motives are not. Throughout, Shaffer notes the bigotry of Africans toward African-Americans, but never her possible own. Nor does she explore the reality of grinding African poverty in comparison to her own relatively immense privilege. Regrettably, no coda follows Shaffer's compelling memoir. In the end, Shaffer battles malaria, leaving readers caught in her febrile dreams of Africa and her California lover, wishing the author had deepened her reportage. Photos. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Disillusioned with her relationship with her adoring boyfriend, Michael, Shaffer decided to go to West Africa. She signed on to some building projects, and the loose commitment allowed her freedom to explore the communities she lived in and to move between countries. Most of her time was spent in Ghana. There she encountered Hannah, a fragile Dutch aid worker whose spirit was tested by a love affair gone bad and a friendship wrecked by a brutal husband. Shaffer is enchanted by baby Yao, and when he fell ill, she went to great lengths to save him, alienating his mother in the process. An overzealous Ghanaian woman named Christy befriended Shaffer and one of her fellow aid workers and soon became omnipresent in their lives. When Shaffer left Ghana, she decided to go to Timbuktu, but the journey proved to be arduous and dangerous. Shaffer is a natural storyteller and she evokes the villages she visited and the people she met masterfully. Readers interested in life in Africa will be enthralled by her tales. Kristine HuntleyCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Accessible.... Disarming.... Shaffer's focus is on the people she meets, colorful Ghanaians whose stories and actions bring present-day Africa alive."" -- San Francisco Chronicle""Perhaps the best of [recent] adventure books penned by women.... These incredible characters...form a vivid pastiche."" -- Vogue Magazine""There is an exuberant and frank quality about Shaffers writing that will have readers booking flights to West Africa."" -- The Skanner""[Shaffer] has a wonderful light touch.... She is one of those people who makes all conflict seem childish and unnecessary."" -- Los Angeles Times	?It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,? quips Tanya Shaffer.  An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road.  This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent. Eager to transcend the limitations of tourism, Shaffer works as a volunteer, building schools and hospitals in remote villages. At the heart of her tale are the profound, complex, often challenging relationships she forms with those she meets along the way. Whether recounting a perilous boat trip to Timbuktu, a night of impassioned political debate in Ghana, or a fumbled romance in Burkina Faso, Shaffer portrays the collision of African and North American cultures with self-deprecating humor and clear-eyed compassion.  Filled with warmth, candor, and an exuberant sense of adventure, Somebody?s Heart is Burning raises provocative questions about privilege, wealth, and the true meaning of friendship.	Tanya Shaffer has spent time helping human rights groups in Guatemala, picking coffee in Nicaragua, and even digging ditches in the Czech Republic. She lives in San Francisco. Tanya first wrote about her experiences in Africa in the Wanderlust section of Salon.com where her articles were extremely well-received and popular. Many of those pieces have been reprinted in anthologies and some have been incorporated into Somebodys Heart Is Burning. The chapter in the book called Sand Angels served as the basis for a one-woman stage production entitled Let My Enemy Live Long! which she has performed to critical acclaim in over 40 cities during the last three years. The show won the San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award for solo performance and ran in San Francisco for more than six months, before moving on to Seattle and other West Coast venues, including a month-long run in San Diego in February of this year. She is working now to bring the show to New York City.	Looking for AbdelatiHere's what I love about travel: Strangers get a chance to amaze you. Sometimes a single day can bring a blooming surprise, a simple kindness that opens a chink in the brittle shell of your heart and makes you a different person when you go to sleep--more tender, less jaded--than you were when you woke up.When my relationship with Michael got too complicated, I did what I always do under such circumstances: fled the country. I know some people think this isn't the healthiest possible way to deal with personal crises, but I figure it's my life, and if I want to run from it, I can.My wandering habit began in childhood, when I was obliged to trundle myself back and forth between my dad's house in Kansas, where I spent the school year, and my mom's California apartment, where I passed the summer and winter breaks. To everyone's surprise, I loved the journey. Whenever my hand passed from my parents' protective grip into the cool, neutral grasp of a flight attendant, I felt a reckless, giddy thrill. As I grew older, my meanderings led me farther and farther afield. I'd stay put for a year or so, begin to build my career as an actor-slash-writer, and then off I'd go. As I traveled to increasingly poorer places, I began to volunteer. I didn't like feeling like a parasite, and the work connected me to a community and gave me a sense of purpose. It also allowed me to stay a long time without spending much money. I picked coffee in Nicaragua, met with human rights groups in Guatemala, dug ditches in the former Czechoslovakia, and tilled the land in rural Maine.This time, I was headed for Africa. After a year of exhaustive research, I'd located a suitable volunteer project in Ghana, a small country on the west coast of the continent, which was renowned for the friendliness of its inhabitants. The organization I was going to work for was extremely flexible. It operated year-round, offering two- to three-week construction projects in villages across the country. On each project, a team of foreign and Ghanaian volunteers worked in conjunction with the villagers to build something: a school, hospital, women's center, or other public edifice. I had little knowledge of construction, but I'd worked on similar projects in the past, and I knew they'd take anyone. Somebody's got to shovel and carry, and what I lacked in strength, I made up for in endurance. I'd considered projects that might've made more use of my skills--teaching English, for example--but those required a commitment of at least a year, sometimes two or three.I decided to travel to Ghana the long way, taking in as much of the world as I could en route. I flew to Paris and wended my way by train through the sun-soaked fields of France and Italy, then caught a boat to Morocco, where I'd signed up to spend two and a half weeks planting a public park in an ugly industrial city called Kenitra. Seventeen grubby days later, our group of fourteen Moroccans and five foreigners had transformed an uneven plot of dust-dry land into a relatively level one. We'd accomplished this with our shovels and, ultimately, a tractor, which appeared on the last day to finish off the remaining third of the ground. Why it hadn't appeared earlier remains a mystery. The next group, our project leader informed us, would plant the grass and the trees.When the project ended, I hooked up with a young Spaniard named Miguel for a week of exploring before hopping a plane to sub-Saharan Africa and my next volunteer adventure.Miguel was one of the five foreigners on our project, a twenty-one-year-old vision of flowing brown curls and buffed golden physique. The fact that his name was Spanish for Michael felt like one of the universe's cruel little jokes. Although having him as a traveling companion took care of any problems I might have encountered with Moroccan men, he was inordinately devoted to his girlfriend, Eva, a wonderfully brassy, wiry, chain-smoking Older Woman of thirty with a husky Scotch Drinker's voice, whom he couldn't go more than half an hour without mentioning. Unfortunately, Eva had to head back to Barcelona immediately after the three-week work camp ended, and Miguel wanted to explore Morocco. Since I was the only other person on the project who spoke Spanish, and Miguel spoke no French or Arabic, his tight orbit shifted onto me, and we became traveling companions. This involved posing as a married couple at hotels, which made Miguel so uncomfortable that the frequency of his references to Eva went from half-hour to fifteen-minute intervals, then five as we got closer to bedtime. Finally one night, as we were getting set up in our room in Fs, I grabbed him by the shoulders and said, Miguel, it's okay. You're a handsome man, but I'm over twenty-one. I can handle myself, I swear.On my last day in Morocco before heading to West Africa, Miguel and I descended from a cramped, cold bus at 7 a.m. and walked the stinking gray streets of Casablanca with our backpacks, looking for food. Unlike the romantic image its name conjured, Casablanca was a thoroughly modern city, with rectangular high-rises sprouting everywhere and wide boulevards already jammed with cars. Horns blared, and the air was thick with heat and exhaust. My T-shirt, pinned to my skin by my backpack, was soaked with sweat. We were going to visit Abdelati, a sweet, gentle young man we'd worked with in Kenitra. He was expecting our visit, and since he had no telephone, he'd written down his address and told us to just show up--his mother and sisters were always at home. Since my plane was leaving the following morning, we wanted to get an early start so that we could spend the whole day with him.Eventually we scored some croissants and overly sugared panaches (a mix of banana, apple, and orange juice) at a roadside caf, where the friendly owner advised us to take a taxi rather than a bus out to Abdelati's neighborhood. A taxi would only cost fifteen to twenty dirham, he said--less than three dollars--and the buses would take all day.It took us an hour to find a cab. When we did, the poker-faced driver informed us that the address which Abdelati had written down for us was somehow suspect. When we got to the neighborhood, he told us, he would have to ask directions.Here we go, Miguel whispered, rolling his eyes. Eva would hate this.The first person to whom the driver showed our scrap of paper was a policeman, who scratched his head and asked our nationalities, looking at our grimy faces and scraggly attire with bemused tolerance. After some small talk, he pointed vaguely toward a park a few blocks away, where a group of barefoot seven- or eight-year-old boys were kicking a soccer ball. Our driver walked over and asked where Abdelati's house was. One of the boys told him that Abdelati had moved, but he could take us to the new house. This struck me as odd, since Abdelati had just given me the address a week ago, but since a similar thing had happened to us in Fs, I chalked it up as another Moroccan mystery and didn't worry about it too much.The little boy came with us in the cab, full of his own importance, squirming and twisting to wave at other children as we inched along. The roads were narrower now, sometimes barely wide enough for the car to pass through. Finally the little boy pointed to a house, and our driver went to the door and inquired. He came back to the cab saying Abdelati's sister was in this house visiting friends and would come along to show us where Abdelati lived.Soon a lovely, delicate-featured girl of about fifteen emerged from the house. I was surprised to see her dressed in a Western skirt and blouse, since Abdelati's strong religious beliefs and upright demeanor had led me to think he came from a more traditional family. Her skin tone differed from his as well, reflecting Morocco's complex racial mosaic. Whereas Abdelati appeared quite African, his sister was an olive-skinned Arab. She too joined us in the cab and directed us to a white stone house a few winding blocks away.We waited in the yard while the girl went inside the house and returned, accompanied by several cousins and a brother-in-law, all of whom greeted us with cautious warmth. Unlike the girl, the older female cousins wore traditional robes, though their faces were not veiled. There's a wide range of orthodoxy in Moroccan cities, caught as they are between Europe and the Arab world. This family seemed to encompass a generous portion of the spectrum.We paid our taxi driver, and I tipped and thanked him profusely, until he grew embarrassed and drove away.We were ushered into a pristine middle-class Moroccan home with an intricately carved wooden doorway and swirling multicolored tiles lining the walls. The mother told us in broken French that Abdelati was out, but would soon be back. We sat on low cushioned seats in the tiled living room, drinking sweet, pungent mint tea, poured from a foot above out of a tiny silver teapot, and eating sugar cookies. (Tea in Morocco is like Guinness in Ireland--it has to be poured from the proper height in order to be aerated on the way down.) Different family members took turns sitting with us and making shy, polite conversation, which frequently lapsed into uncomfortable silence. Whenever anything was said, Miguel exclaimed, Que pas? with extreme eagerness, and I dutifully translated the mundane fragment into Spanish for him: Nice weather today. Tomorrow perhaps rain. At this he'd sink back into fidgety frustration, undoubtedly wishing Eva were there.An hour passed, and as the guard kept changing, more family members emerged from inner rooms. I was again struck by the fact that they were all light-skinned Arabs. How did Abdelati fit into this picture? Was he adopted? I was eager to find out.After two hours had passed with no sign of Abdelati, the family insisted on serving us a meal of couscous and fish. The food was a delectable blend of sweet and savory, with plump raisins, cayenne pepper,...",africa;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;general;research & publishing guides;specific groups;travel;travel writing;women;writing,11
0811833682,"The Meaning of Wedding Anniversaries Ann Field has work that includes distinctive collages and bright illustrations that have been featured in many books, magazines, and exhibitions around the world. Her artwork also appears in Citrus. Born in England, today she lives in Santa Monica, California.Gretchen Scoble is a designer whose elegant and lively books have received many awards. She lives in Bainbridge Island, Washington.",books;crafts;customs & traditions;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;hobbies & home;planning;politics & social sciences;social sciences;weddings,11
B000FA61NA,"Tis Pity She's A Whore ...well up to the gold standard set by the Arden Shakespeare -- Nicholas Robins Times Literary Supplement 20120309 'In a world dominated by men and religion, [Annabella's] body is something over which men barter, and Giovanni's passion is only sated by absolute possessionof his sister's heart.' Lyn Gardner, Guardian, 28.9.10 Rich in its setting up of a historical context for the plot, its analysis of Ford's source material, and its lucid explication of the play's textual and bibliographic history... It is in its commentary that I think this edition shines brightest... I recommend this edition for any student of the play, and know that Sonia Massai has created a new benchmark for future editors of 'Tis Pity. The Shakespeare Bookshop Newsletter	...well up to the gold standard set by the Arden Shakespeare -- Nicholas Robins Times Literary Supplement 20120309 'In a world dominated by men and religion, [Annabella's] body is something over which men barter, and Giovanni's passion is only sated by absolute possessionof his sister's heart.' Lyn Gardner, Guardian, 28.9.10	John Ford (1586 - ca. 1640)",arts & photography;books;british & irish;drama;history & criticism;kindle ebooks;kindle store;literary criticism & theory;literature & fiction;movements & periods;theater,11
0595088856,"A Crime of Vengeance: An Armenian Struggle for Justice Edward Alexander, a retired Foreign Service officer of Armenian descent, has served in West Berlin, Budapest, Athens, East Berlin, and Washington, where he established the first Voice of America broadcasts in Armenian to the Soviet Union.",20th century;americas;armenia;books;europe;history;middle east;military;russia;turkey;united states,11
0762418141,"The Art of Belly Dancing Melanie Votaw is a prolific writer, teacher, public speaker, and counselor. Her previous titles for Running Press include Hummingbirds: Jewels of Air, The Art of Belly Dancing, and 52 Weeks of Passionate Sex. She lives in New York City.",arts & photography;books;dance;education & reference;exercise & fitness;fitness & dieting;folk;health;humor & entertainment;performing arts;puzzles & games,11
1857825225,Bronson Charlie Bronson has spent 26 of the last 30 years. He is Britain's most feared and dangerous convict. He is also an award winning artist and husband to Saira who he married in 2001. He is a legend of the underworld and author of Insanity and The Good Prison Guide.,biographies & memoirs;books;crime & criminals;criminal law;criminology;law;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific groups;true accounts;true crime,11
1564552454,"Giving Birth, Finding Form: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Art In an outstanding segment of the ""Creative Conversations"" series, three world-renowned women authors discuss their lives, books, and the diverse forces that have spawned their many literary productions. Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel The Color Purple ; Isabel Allende, South American journalist and fiction writer; and Jean Shinoda Bolen, psychiatrist and professor, mesh their remarks beautifully in a moving, fluid, and colorful dialog (these women are funny ). They tell how pain, abandonment, grief, violence, anger, and also joy and love have been catalytic to their creative writings. They also describe other influential factors such as the collective female unconscious, clairvoyance, witnessing, time alone, and being born ""different."" Their priceless words promote the bonding of everywoman and provide for a deeper understanding of the creative process. For general audiences and women's studies, creative studies, and literature collections.- Barbara J. Vaughan, State Univ. Coll. at Buffalo  Lib., N.Y.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Revealing how pain, anger, and sorrow gave birth to their writing, Walker, Allende, and Bolen illustrate how creativity can kindle the feminine spirit. Highly recommended for listeners who are struggling to express their creativity. Recorded live.	Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. Her other bestselling novels include By the Light of My Father's Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, three collections of essays, five volumes of poetry, and several children's books. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eaton, Georgia, Walker now lives in Northern California.Isabel Allende was born in 1942 in Lima, Peru, the daughter of a Chilean diplomat. When her parents separated, young Isabel moved with her mother to Chile, where she spent the rest of her childhood. She married at the age of 19 and had two children, Paula and Nicolas. Her uncle was Salvador Allende, the president of Chile. When he was overthrown in the coup of 1973, she fled Chile, moving to Caracas, Venezuela. While living in Venezuela, Allende began writing her novels, many of them exploring the close family bonds between women. Her first novel, The House of the Spirits, has been translated into 27 languages, and was later made into a film. She then wrote Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, and The Stories of Eva Luna, all set in Latin America. The Infinite Plan was her first novel to take place in the United States. In Paula, Allende wrote her memoirs in connection with her daughter's illness and death. She delved into the erotic connections between food and love in Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses. In addition to writing books, Allende has worked as a TV interviewer, magazine writer, school administrator, and a secretary at a U.N. office in Chile. She received the 1996 Harold Washington Literacy Award. She lives in California.",books;education & reference;history & criticism;literature & fiction;movements & periods;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;study guides;studying & workbooks;women's studies;writing,11
0804740119,"Sun Yat-sen Not too many public figures are respected and upheld as national heroes in both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan), but Sun Yat-sen is. He is a ""pioneer of the revolution"" to the Communists and the founding father to the dominant Nationalist Party of Taiwan. Bergere (Chinese civilization, National Inst. of Oriental Languages and Civilization, Paris) has written a new biography that seems very balanced and promising. Writings about Sun tend to divide sharply into two biased camps: highly politicized accounts by Chinese Communists of the heroic Sun opening the way for Mao vs. Western accounts of the myth-busting and belittling type. Bergere shows Sun in a much more balanced manner, and the scholarship is sound, as evidenced by the well-done notes and bibliography. Even so, for most libraries Harold Schiffrin's standard biography, Sun Yat-sen: Reluctant Revolutionary (LJ 7/80), is probably sufficient. This newer account is recommended only for libraries with a strong scholarly subject interest in China. (Index, maps, and illustrations not seen.)?Charles V. Cowling, Drake Memorial Lib., SUNY at BrockportCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""By setting Sun Yat-sen in his proper historical context, this excellent biography not only resuscitates a major historical figure but constitutes one of the best histories we have of the late Qing and early Republican period.""Frederic Wakeman, University of California, Berkeley""This is a most welcome book, one that everyone interested in modern China has wanted for a long while. It is a readable, balanced, and judicious study . . . the most thorough book about Sun in a Western language, and so minutely researched that it goes far beyond any existing study."" American Historical Review""This study, by a leading historian of early-twentieth-century China, shows Sun's strengths as well as his weaknesses and helps explain his appeal. . . . Bergre provides enough context to make the biography accessible to general readers. Very highly recommended.""Choice	Text: English (translation) Original Language: French	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), the first president of the Republic of China, has left a supremely ambivalent political and intellectual legacyso much so that he is claimed as a Founding Father by both the present rival governments in Taipei and Beijing. In Taiwan, he is the object of a veritable cult; in the Peoples Republic of China, he is paid homage as pioneer of the revolution, making possible the Partys claims of continuity with the national past. Western scholars, on the other hand, have tended to question the myth of Sun Yat-sen by stressing the mans weaknesses, the thinkers incoherences, and the revolutionary leaders many failures.This book argues that the life and work of Sun Yat-sen have been distorted both by the creation of the myth and by the attempts at demythification. Its aim is to provide a fresh overall evaluation of the man and the events that turned an adventurer into the founder of the Chinese Republic and the leader of a great nationalist movement. The Sun Yat-sen who emerges from this rigorously researched account is a muddled politician, an opportunist with generous but confused ideas, a theorist without great originality or intellectual rigor.But the author demonstrates that the importance of Sun Yat-sen lies elsewhere. A Cantonese raised in Hawaii and Hong Kong, he was a product of maritime China, the China of the coastal provinces and overseas communities, open to foreign influences and acutely aware of the modern Western world (he was fund-raising in Denver when the eleventh attempt to bring down the Chinese empire finally succeeded). In facing the problems of change, of imitating the West, of rejecting or adapting tradition, he instinctively grasped the aspirations of his time, understood their force, and crystallized them into practical programs.Sun Yat-sens gifts enabled him to foresee the danger that technology might represent to democracy, stressed the role of infrastructures (transport, energy) in economic modernization, and looked forward to a new style of diplomatic and international economic relations based upon cooperation that bypassed or absorbed old hostilities. These utopias of his, at which his contemporaries heartily jeered, now seem to be so many prophecies.	By setting Sun Yat-sen in his proper historical context, this excellent biography not only resuscitates a major historical figure but constitutes one of the best histories we have of the late Qing and early Republican period.Frederic Wakeman, University of California, BerkeleyThis is a most welcome book, one that everyone interested in modern China has wanted for a long while. It is a readable, balanced, and judicious study . . . the most thorough book about Sun in a Western language, and so minutely researched that it goes far beyond any existing study. American Historical Review",asia;biographies & memoirs;books;china;historical;history;humanities;leaders & notable people;new;presidents & heads of state;used & rental textbooks,11
0803291345,Mari Sandoz: Story Catcher of the Plains Helen Winter Stauffer is a professor of English at Kearney State College.,anthologies;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism & theory;education & reference;history & criticism;literature & fiction;movements & periods;short stories,11
007146431X,"General Surgery ABSITE and Board Review (Pearls of Wisdom) Matthew J. Blecha, MD works in the Department of Surgery at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.   Dr. Andrew Brown is an Emergency Medicine physician at St. Catherine's Hospital in East Chicago, Indiana.",books;clinical;general;general surgery;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;surgery;test preparation & review;used & rental textbooks,11
0743255917,"Throw Me a Bone: 50 Healthy, Canine Taste-Tested Recipes for Snacks, Meals, and Treats Susan Orlean Author of The Orchid Thief  Raconteur, bon vivant, connoisseur, philosopher, and wag, Cooper Gillespie is the canine James Beard. His musings, coupled with Sampson's toothsome recipes, make me wish I were a teacup poodle or an Italian mastiff rather than just Gillespie's typist and muse. -- Review	Cooper Gillespie is a Welsh springer spaniel. He enjoys swimming and eating plastic and chicken. He lives with Susan Orlean, the bestselling author of The Orchid Thief, which was made into the movie Adaptation.",books;care & health;cookbooks;cooking;crafts;dogs;food & wine;hobbies & home;humor;humor & entertainment;pets & animal care,11
0060833378,"Small Spaces: Good Ideas Cristina Paredes has a degree in Fine Arts by the University of Barcelona and a wide experience in the editorial world, collaborating with several magazines specialized in interior design. She has also collaborated with various photographers as an agent. She currently lives and works in Barcelona.",architecture;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;decoration & ornament;design & construction;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;interior design;professional & technical,11
B000MV89YG,"Excel 2000 VBA: Programmers Reference Wrox's growing reputation for putting out well-organized,  detail-rich books for programmers gets a boost from Excel 2000 VBA  Programmer's Reference. This book--a tutorial as well as a  reference--holds a wealth of chewy facts that Excel developers will  find very valuable. The tutorial, accounting for half of the book,  covers the various mechanisms available for referring to particular  files, sheets, cells, and ranges of cells. It also addresses the  graphical representation of data--particularly in charts--and explains  the most important aspects of controls and the events they  generate. Green--unlike many VBA authors--covers internationalization  issues in considerable depth. This is the best VBA book on the market  for those planning to write programs for a multilingual usage of  Excel. There is also a VBA primer that covers critical VBA syntax and  the essentials of object-orientation as it applies to the Excel  environment. The two reference sections--one for Excel's VBA  objects and one for the VBA Extensibility (VBE) environment--make up  the last half of Excel 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference. The  references are comprehensive, but they're organized in a strange  way--they list properties, methods, and events with their names,  return data types, and descriptions in columns. This would be okay,  but when an object's list of members extends over several pages it's  impossible to be immediately sure of which object the list refers  to. The object name ought to appear on each page. --David Wall	What is this book about?Excel 2000 is an important part of the Office 2000 program suite, and will be available in the Premium, Professional, Standard and Small Business editions of Office 2000. Excel has traditionally been the Office suite spreadsheet program par excellence. It still remains that way, but with Office 2000 there is a strong emphasis on between-application automation, ease of use, and the smart new bells and whistles that 2000 brings.Using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), the user can program his or her own programs in what is essentially a subset of the Visual Basic programming languages. This is tremendously powerful, as it allows you to create great User Interfaces (forms etc), as a front end to actual spreadsheet and database storage and manipulation. This continues to be one of the great strengths of programming Excel VBA.What does this book cover?This book presents a full reference to the Excel object model  which is essentially the object-oriented system of organizing the functional capacities that make up the Excel program. There is a short introduction to VBA itself, and the rest of the book documents aspects of programming Excel through that object model.This book is in three broad sections:The first part introduces Excel and VBA.The second offers interesting, thematic discussions of some of the capacities available to Excel VBA.The third and final part offers a full reference to the object model of Excel.Who is this book for?This book is for the Excel developer or user who already has a knowledge of spreadsheets, and the basic objects of an Excel spreadsheet, and now wants a solid and detailed reference to the main object models present in the Excel structure with examples of how to use these models.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;computers & technology;development;education & reference;excel;home computing & how-to;languages & tools;microsoft;programming;vba;visual basic,11
1566636051,"Vanishing Point: The Disappearance of Judge Crater, and the New York He Left Behind Casts intriguing new light on a famous unsolved mystery. (Kirkus Reviews )It's a fascinating tale, even after all these years. (Dallas Morning News )Fans of true crime and New York City politics alike will be attracted to Vanishing Point, an excellent survey. (Midwest Book Review )Tofel has written an entertaining account...For those who recognize the name, but don't know the fascinating story behind it, this is the book to read. (New York Post )With a newspaperman's eye for drama, Tofel covers a great tale about a New York just beyond our living memory. (New York Sun )Offers a portrait of Tammany personalities and their intricate political deals...The first book to piece together his [Crater's] surprising story. (The Wall Street Journal )Excellent...a vivid portrayal...New York lawyers should find fascinating the depiction of a New York legal world...Illuminating. (New York Law Journal )An intriguing mystery built around the author's compelling argument about the truth behind Crater's disappearance. (Smoke )Shrewd, terse, engrossing study... (The New York Times )Using a substantial body of evidence Tofel...offers a tentative, yet intriguing solution (Gracie Gregg Times Record News, Wichita Falls, TX )He makes the case relevant and fascinating for the reader. (Larry Cox Tucson Citizen )This makes for fascinating reading. (Eugene R. Fidell Green Bag )Compelling. (Owen Moritz New York Daily News )A fascinating look at a great citys greatest mystery. (Kevin Baker )Extraordinarily deft and skillfully written...[An] admirably understated book... (Ric Burns, documentary filmmaker )	Richard J. Tofel is president and chief operating officer of the new International Freedom Center, a museum of freedom and a cultural center to be built at the site of the World Trade Center. Formerly assistant publisher of the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Tofel is a graduate of Harvard College, the Harvard Law School, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Before the publication of Vanishing Point, Tofel wrote A Legend in the Making, a book about the 1939 Yankees. He recently published Sounding the Trumpet, a fascinating look into the making of Kennedy's inaugural address, also published by Ivan R. Dee. He lives with his family in Riverdale, New York.",20th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;history;lawyers & judges;professionals & academics;state & local;true accounts;true crime;united states,11
1562294342,"Why? Because You Are Anointed T.D. Jakes is the author of many best-selling books. His daily morning show, The Potter's Touch, and his weekly broadcast, The Potter's House, air on Trinity Broadcasting and Black Entertainment Network in the U.S., Europe, and South America. Bishop Jakes is the founder and pastor of Potter's House, where he ministers to an interracial congregation of more than 30,000 members.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;charismatic;christian books & bibles;christian living;inspirational;pentecostal;protestantism;reference;religion & spirituality;spirituality;worship & devotion,11
0292701969,"No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention ""These powerful photographs in No Place for Children illuminate what may well be the darkest and least explainable corner of our societyothe tragedy of our juvenile justice system. Children who desperately need an education are assigned a prison cell instead, at far greater cost to the federal, state and local treasures. The neglect they endure behind bars only compounds the likelihood they will commit crimes after their release. Steve Liss has performed an extraordinary service for the nation, if we have enough sense to learn from it."" oSenator Edward M. Kennedy	Here are our fellow human beingsyoung Americans who have already, alas, lived hard and mean lives, yet who aspire to know more about themselves and others, and who well deserve the careful, respectful, thoughtful attention shown them by a talented, resourceful photographer and writer. By bringing them up close to us, Steve Liss helps us know our country better and the various destinies it offers for those who will one day be its working, voting, citizens. (Robert Coles, James Agee Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard University)	STEVE LISS is an award-winning photographer for Time magazine, where he has worked since 1976. Forty of his photographs have appeared on the cover of Time, and he has won numerous awards from the World Press Association and the National Press Photographers Association, including First Place: Magazine Picture Story in 1996 and First Place: Magazine Feature in 2003. In 2004, he was the recipient of the Soros Criminal Justice Journalism Fellowship for his work on No Place for Children.",arts & photography;books;children's books;children's studies;criminology;individual artists;photo essays;photography;photojournalism;politics & social sciences;social sciences,11
0134898656,Wavelength Division Multiplexing (Prentice Hall International Series in Optoelectronics) Text: English (translation)  Introduction: French,books;computer technology;engineering;new;optics;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;technology;used & rental textbooks,11
B000GPIB14,"Control of Canine Genetic Diseases (Howell Reference Books) If you breed dogs for any reason, you must own this book. Genetic diseases are among the most serious hazards on the landscape of modern dog breeding and one of the most vexing challenges facing today's dog breeders. Is it appropriate to open the gene pool to unwanted conditions in the pursuit of physical perfection, or must breeding to the Standard take a back seat to producing healthy animals?In Control of Canine Genetic Diseases, renowned authority George A. Padgett, DVM, provides an expert road map to help dog breeders everywhere avoid the pitfalls they are almost destined to encounter. For anyone whose goal is to produce healthy, functional and beautiful dogs, this is the book they need. Dr. Padgett provides clear explanations of modes of inheritance, how to conduct and analyze test matings and how to lower the chances of producing affected animals. Numerous tables, diagrams and graphs further enhance the text to facilitate the breeder's understanding.A Howell Dog Book of Distinction	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	If you breed dogs for any reason, you must own this book. Genetic diseases are among the most serious hazards on the landscape of modern dog breeding and one of the most vexing challenges facing today's dog breeders. Is it appropriate to open the gene pool to unwanted conditions in the pursuit of physical perfection, or must breeding to the Standard take a back seat to producing healthy animals?In Control of Canine Genetic Diseases, renowned authority George A. Padgett, DVM, provides an expert road map to help dog breeders everywhere avoid the pitfalls they are almost destined to encounter. For anyone whose goal is to produce healthy, functional and beautiful dogs, this is the book they need. Dr. Padgett provides clear explanations of modes of inheritance, how to conduct and analyze test matings and how to lower the chances of producing affected animals. Numerous tables, diagrams and graphs further enhance the text to facilitate the breeder's understanding.A Howell Dog Book of Distinction	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;breeds;care & health;crafts;dogs;education & reference;hobbies & home;medical books;pets & animal care;small animal medicine;veterinary medicine,11
1560443774,"Hiking Colorado Hiking Colorado introduces you to hiking opportunities in every region of the state.  Detailed descriptions of 100 routes take you to high-country summits, great fishing spots above the timberline, the eastern plains, and sandstone canyons on the arid western slope of the Rockies.  There are even hikes through Denver and other Front Range cities.  These hikes, many recommended by land management agencies, are among the state's treasures. Also, be sure to check out the Boddie's new book with 75 new adventures in Hiking Colorado, Volume II.",books;colorado;education & reference;excursion guides;general;hiking & camping;mountain;sports & outdoors;travel;united states;west,11
1557282528,"Encyclopedia of the Blues French ""bluesologist"" Herzhaft's updated version of Nouvelle Encyclopedie du Blues (published in Paris in 1984) is primarily a biographical sourcebook, with occasional brief thematic articles (e.g., ""East Coast Blues"") and appended discography. However, the biographies are fewer and less substantial than those in Sheldon Harris's excellent Blues Who's Who ( LJ 7/79), and users will note numerous discrepancies in factual data between these two sources, especially concerning years of birth. Some readers may also be irked by the space accorded some performers: Soul artist Ann Peebles rates a full article, whereas the legendary Alberta Hunter is relegated to a paragraph under ""Female Blues Singers."" Recommended only as a supplement to Harris, not as a sole source.- Anthony J. Adam, Prairie View A Univ. Lib., Tex.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	To enhance entries on topics from blues artist Dave Alexander to Zydeco, this new edition has over 75 black-and-white photographs. In our review of the first edition [RBB Ja 1 93], the Board described this title as a good addition ""for libraries with an active blues audience.""  	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: French",art;arts & photography;blues;books;composition & performance;education & reference;encyclopedias;music;musical genres;pop culture;theory,11
0801090997,"The Tentmaking Pastor: The Joy of Bivocational Ministry Dennis W. Bickers is a bivocational pastor who worked for Cummins Engine Company and currently owns Madison Heating and Air Conditioning in Madison, Indiana. He has served as pastor of Hebron Baptist Church for eighteen years, which has twice received a church of the year award.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;church institutions & organizations;history;ministry;ministry & church leadership;religion & spirituality;religious;world,11
0195211685,"The Young Oxford Book of Astronomy (Young Oxford Books) Grade 6-9?At first glance this book looks to be an up-to-date, visually exciting summary of astronomy. However, in an effort to appeal to both young amateur astronomers and readers interested in learning about the universe, it fails to satisfy either. The authors begin with a description of the instruments used for viewing the universe and then describe it from a star-gazer's perspective?beginning with the planets and moving out through the solar system and galaxies. This arrangement is confusing since scientific concepts are introduced before they are properly explained. Aggravating this problem is the authors' tendency to avoid mathematical concepts. Although much of the math associated with astronomy is beyond the grade level for which this book is intended, some explanation of the basic concepts is necessary. Also, although astronomers are far from agreeing on theories of the age, evolution, size, shape, etc. of the universe, the Mittons build each discussion around one theory presented as fact, and it is only in the last chapter that they mention that other theories exist. The illustrations, mostly photos, are clear and appealing, but are often spread across the double page. On several occasions the tight binding obscures important parts of them. Some captions seem to contradict the text, and both photos and diagrams are often poorly labeled and explained. Star charts at the end are too small to be very helpful to beginning astronomers. Many better books are available on this topic.?Wendy D. Caldiero, New York Public LibraryCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	[SERIES LAST REVIEWED IN BKL Mr 1 96, under Bailey, Jill. Gr. 5^-8.]	""Whets the reader's appetite for the subject... Each chapter is brimming with scientific data. Photographs and charts help the reader visualize the text... Recognized astronomers and astrophysicists Simon and Jacqueline Mitton draw from a plethora of sources to create a most comprehensive selection... Anyone with a certain inquisitiveness about space will find Astronomy fascinating. My hat is off to the Mittons for their excellent effort.""--Miami Herald""Clearly written by people who know astronomy and how to explain it... A pleasure to browse.. Will have broad appeal to teen-age astronomy enthusiasts. Provides solid background material in a readable way. Recommended.""--Planetarian""A book for any child who looks at the night sky and wants to know more.... A great gift for the budding astronomer.""--Reviews from Parent Council""A vivid introduction to the planets and stars, explaining methods of astronomical investigation and exploring basic astronomy theories.""--Children's Bookwatch""Well-written and abundantly illustrated.... Performs equally well as reference...or to read for fun.""--Children's Book Review Service	Simon and Jacqueline Mitton studied physics at Oxford University, and received doctorates in astronomy and astrophysics at Cambridge University. They have worked together and singly to write many books about astronomy. In recognition of their contribution to the public's understanding of the field, Asteroid 4077 was named Mitton in their honor.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",astronomy;astronomy & space;books;children's books;general surgery;literature & fiction;medical books;medicine;nature & how it works;science;surgery,11
1401204570,"Superman in the Forties Grade 4 UpThe first in a series of decade-themed volumes of Superman collections, The Forties provides a selection of vintage material. Along with reproductions of key cover art and essays about Supermans enemies, his contributions to the war effort, etc., readers are given access to a sampling of historical documents as the character, the format, and the popularity evolved with time. The collection begins with the earliest appearances from 1938, and then hops about, occasionally pausing over some entertaining curiosities and rarities: an early prose story has been reprinted here, along with some of the daily newspaper comics from 1942, and a tale featuring the first of a number of varied Supergirls that would appear. The color is often garish, andalong with the line workseems to have lost some of the subtlety evidenced in photographic reproductions of the same material. It is bold and bright, but frequently lacks finesse, and comes across as flat or simplistic. The greatest loss is in the faces, which need to capture readers emotions and imaginations. The stories have a good variety of the fun and the drama of the era, before the character moved into the realm of science-fiction silliness.Benjamin Russell, The Derryfield School, Manchester, NH Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	This affordable selection of stories from the first 10 years of Superman's comic-book career shows the character changing so much during that time that only his unmistakable blue-and-red costume seems constant (actually, it, too, was modified). The 18 stories range from the Man of Steel's first appearance in Action Comics No. 1 to the first full-length recounting of his origin on the doomed planet Krypton (which occupied a mere two panels in his Action debut). Other milestones here include Superman's archfoe Lex Luthor's first bow and an early appearance by Mr. Mxyztplk, the mischievous imp from an extradimensional world. The earliest pieces, by Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, possess a rough vitality, as the then less-powerful hero--he could only leap vast distances, not fly, and his strength was relatively limited--confronted real-world mobsters and arms dealers. By decade's end, Superman's exploits more closely resembled those of today, which may be more sophisticated stories but lack much of the character's original, appealing innocence. These -sometimes-hokey tales remain naively charming. Gordon FlaggCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved",books;comics & graphic novels;dc comics;fantasy;graphic novels;history & criticism;history & price guides;literature & fiction;publishers;science fiction & fantasy;superheroes,11
0268031665,"Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin: The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union "" valuable and extensive .  another historical example of a division within Christian experience that still troubles many."" -- Journal of the American Academy of Religion, December 2003, Vol. 21 No. 4",19th century;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);orthodoxy;religious;russia;world,11
0226662764,"Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication In this erudite history of an idea, Peters, a professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa, writes with good form and style in a welcome break from the jargon-muddled work of many academics who tackle the notion of communication. Following Walter Benjamin, Peters approaches the writing of history not as a linear continuum but as a simultaneity, a wormhole. What Peters is after is communication, with all its ""misfires, mismatches, and skewed effects."" To this end, he is just as likely to reference Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke as he is to turn to Jesus or St. Augustine or Phaedrus or John Locke. The result is a cultural polylogue. Peters is bent on exposing how new media and faster modes of transportationAanything that contributes to the shrinking of the worldAaffect communication, and how their impact gives rise to increasing incommunicability. Not just literature and cultural history but also outtakes from the annals of physics, philosophy and spiritualism are important to his project. Finally, Peters writes to reclaim the notion of authenticity in a media-saturated world. It's this ultimate concern that renders his book a brave, colorful exploration of the hydra-headed problems presented by a rapid-fire popular culture. (Sept.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Guaranteed to alter your thinking about communication. Peters (Communication Studies/Univ. of Iowa) begins this delightful essay by observing that ``Only moderns could be facing each other and be worried about `communicating' as if they were thousands of miles apart.'' For Peters, the concept of communication has evolved in tandem with its technology, leaving us chasing a moving target rather than closing in on a fixed ideal. It appears unavoidable that human beings divide the world into ``me'' and ``not me'' in distinct ways, creating both the joy of a world populated by individual personalities and the frustration of an insuperable barrier to transfers of unmodified meaning from one person to another. Intensifying the quest for ``genuine'' communication, whether introspectively through therapy or socially through increasingly powerful forms of media, expands our expectations along with our capabilities and can produce a crisis of communication in the midst of an information age. Peters is excellent at finding novel ways to illustrate this continuing ``project of reconciling self and other.'' The range of options is presented through contrasting the interactive and selective approach of Socrates (dialogue) with the one-way and all-inclusive approach of Jesus (dissemination). The essential association of communication with existence emerges in consideration of spirits and spiritualism in everything from philosophy to sances. The scope of communicative ambition is underlined by consideration of attempts to interact with animals and aliens. In the end, Peters concludes that the fears of isolation, which have pushed us to pursue communication as the true meeting of minds, have too often overshadowed our appreciation of what is unique. Touch, the ability to come into direct contact with another being, and time, the expression of our mortality, are ``the two nonreproducible things we can share, our only guarantees of sincerity'' through which we can ``face the holiness and wretchedness of our finitude.''  Original, erudite, and beautifully written, this book is a gem.  -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Communication plays a vital and unique role in society-often blamed for problems when it breaks down and at the same time heralded as a panacea for human relations. A sweeping history of communication, Speaking Into the Air illuminates our expectations of communication as both historically specific and a fundamental knot in Western thought.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	John Durham Peters is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;communication;education & reference;history & surveys;language & grammar;linguistics;philosophy;politics & social sciences;social philosophy;social sciences;words,11
1566915783,"Foghorn Outdoors 101 Great Hikes of the San Francisco Bay Area Meticulously researched and smartly written, Foghorn Outdoors offers some of the best recreation guides around.	The author of ten outdoor guidebooks, including Foghorn Outdoors: California Hiking, Foghorn Outdoors: Southern California Cabins & Cottages, and Foghorn Outdoors: Day-Hiking California's National Parks, Ann Marie Brown is a dedicated California outdoorswoman.",books;california;education & reference;excursion guides;hiking & camping;pacific;san francisco;sports & outdoors;travel;united states;west,11
0803272995,"Covered Wagon Women, Volume 10: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1875-1883 ""The diaries and letter throb with excitement, pain and mind-boggling determination"" - Kliatt	Kenneth L. Holmes was a professor of history at Western Oregon State College. He edited and compiled Covered Wagon Women, drawing on archives and private sources.Elliott West is a professor of history at the University of Arkansas. His works include The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, also available in a Bison Books edition.",19th century;americas;books;history;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;state & local;united states;women in history;women's studies;world,11
0806624582,"Parish Nurse The Late Granger E. Westberg held a joint professorship in medicine and religion at the University of Chicago and a professorship in preventive medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Considered a pioneer in the interrelationship of religion and medicine, and in holistic health care.",books;christian books & bibles;church administration;home & community health;medical books;ministry;ministry & church leadership;nursing;religion & spirituality;religious studies;theology,11
0891348344,"Craft Fun! (Art & Activities for Kids) Grade 1-6?Ten previously published books from the ""Art & Activities for Kids"" series (North Light) are reissued as chapters in these two large volumes. Art Fun! includes Paint! Draw! Make Prints! Make Sculptures! and Paint Adventures!. A wide range of materials and techniques are employed in the attractive and inventive crafts. Easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and full-color photos result in a clean, crisp presentation. Hard-to-find basic drawing techniques, including 3-D effects and shading, are particularly well done. Craft Fun! includes Make Crafts! Make Clothes Fun! Make Cards! Gifts! and Make Costumes! Again, the activities and design are of high quality. One regrettable exception is the stereotypical ""Indian"" costume found side-by-side with clowns, monsters, vampires, etc. Both books provide instructive information for parents/adults, but safety icons found in some crafts are often difficult to spot and at times inappropriate. These titles may be useful to libraries looking for supplements to their arts' area, but those who purchased the original titles will find nothing new.?Paula A. Kiely, Milwaukee Public Library, WICopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.",architecture;art;arts;books;children's books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;crafts & music;hobbies & home;professional & technical;reference,11
0385422598,"Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years Washington Post columnist Johnson here presents a stunning indictment of the Reagan administration that details its impact on social, economic and political life in America. He reviews abuses in the S institutions, in HUD, in the National Security Council, on Wall Street, in religious broadcasting and, most impressively, reveals how the administration renounced responsibility for ameliorating social distress. The book makes clear why the rich got richer and the poor poorer in the last decade. Johnson portrays President Reagan as a kind of Dr. Feelgood who fulfilled a public need for reassurance, and ironically evaded judgment during the Iran- contra affair because of his reputation for not being in charge. Summarizing what he sees as Reagan's legacy, the ""ethical wastland of the eighties,"" the author points to growing fractionalization, subversion of the constitutional system, corruption and ineffectiveness of government, and cynicism and inattention of the American people. First serial to Vanity Fair. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A stunning indictment of the Reagan administration that details its impact on social, economic and political life in America.--Publishers Weekly	This national best-seller brilliantly analyzes America in the  1980s from the election of Ronald Reagan through to the end of the  decade.  The author points a vivid portrait not only of Reagan's  presidency, but also of the Iran-Contra affair, the boom times on Wall  Street and the religious revival led by Swaggart, Bakker et al.""A  stunning indictment of the Reagan administration that details its  impact on social, economic and political life in  America.""--Publishers Weekly	This national best-seller brilliantly analyzes America in the 1980s from the election of Ronald Reagan through to the end of the decade.The author points a vivid portrait not only of Reagan's presidency, but also of the Iran-Contra affair, the boom times on Wall Street and the religious revival led by Swaggart, Bakker et al.	""A stunning indictment of the Reagan administration that details its impact on social, economic and political life in America.""--Publishers Weekly	Haynes Johnson is the author of Divided We Fall: Gambling with History in the Nineties. He lives in Washington, DC.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",20th century;americas;books;history;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;united states;world,11
0130943347,"Astronomy Today: High School Binding *The""Process of Science"" is integrated into the text narrative.  In particular the focus on scientific discovery and scientific method, or ""how we know what we know"", is now a much more integral part of the text (e.g. p. 6-8, 121-22, 160-65, 596-97, 611-12).*Part-opening essays emphasize the human endeavor aspect of science. Each part opener introduces a discovery and provides a historical context to the chapters that follow (e.g. p. 1, 140, 402, 600). ""What role does your textbook play in your course?""*Student perspective--For this revision, the text's development editor read the text from a student perspective, helping the authors identify places they could clarify or simplify an explanation, better define a term, and discuss the process used in making a discovery.  The result is a text that is truly accessible and useful resource for all students.   *Expanded Glossary--200+ terms added, including definitions of words students may not know, but are not necessarily ""scientific"" terms (e.g. ""flyby"" now defined within chapter 6 Mariner 10 discussion on p. 152).  ""How can you involve your students in class and make large lectures more interactive?""*Lecture Tutorials -- Developed by Jeffrey Adams, Edward Prather, Timothy Slater and the Conceptual Astronomy and Physics Education Research (CAPER) team, class-tested lecture tutorials challenge students with thought-provoking questions that spark classroom discussion.  Designed for large classes (300+) and scaleable for smaller sections. *Classroom Response Systems enhances the interactivity of a lecture course by asking students questions and providing instant feedback on key concepts from the chapter. ""Do you have an observation component in your course?""*Starry Night Pro 4.0.5 provides everything the amateur astronomer or hobbyist needs to explore the heavens. Content Changes:  *Thoroughly updated Chapter 5-- Reflects recent discoveries and innovations, such as Telescope Design in Section 5.1 *Introduction to solar system formation added to Chapter 6--Sets the stage for the planetary chapters (p. 144-45).  *Reorganized Chapter 22--Expands the historical development of Special and General Relativity. *More contemporary coverage in Chapters 24 and 25--Reorganizes material to emphasize the connection between normal and active galaxies, and expands the discussion of black holes in galactic nuclei. *Updates include new discoveries and data, including: *New material in Chapter 7 on the Ozone Hole and Global Warming. *Expanded coverage in Chapters 6 and 10 of the most recent missions to Mars. *Updates in Chapter 10 on Martian oppositions, gullies, oceans, and ice. *Final update on the Galileo/GEM mission in Chapter 11. *Updated discussion of solar system formation in Chapter 15; expanded coverage of competing theories, planet migration, planetesimal ejection, plutinos, and the angular momentum problem. *Latest results in Chapter 23 on Sgr A* and the Galaxy's central black hole. This chapter also includes a new discussion of the Shapley-Curtis debate giving historical context to the ""Measuring the Milky Way"" section. *Extensive revision of Chapters 26 and 27 to include the most recent observations of cosmic acceleration and discussion of ""dark energy"" *Revised discussions of the cosmological constant and the age of the universe; results from the CBI and WMAP experiments suggesting a flat universe. *Updated coverage of Europa, Mars, interstellar organic molecules, extra solar planets, and SETI in Chapter 28.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The number-one, best-selling astronomy text, Astronomy Today, has been revised based on reviewers' comments and extensive development. Astronomy Today has been shortened (from 30 to 28 chapters), but retains its informal-but-scientific writing style, and exceptional art program. Its unique subscription program COMETS now includes computer-generated animations from NASA illustrator Dana Berry. Astronomy Today, Second Edition employs the familiar planets-sun-stars- galaxies organization. Key concepts are introduced in the familiar context of the Earth and solar system; the concepts are carefully developed as discussion moves outward towards the stars and galaxies. A highly praised approach to spectroscopy and light (topics often difficult for students) and outstanding treatment of active galaxies and cosmology are other highlights.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Key Benefit: The number-one, best-selling astronomy text, Astronomy Today, has been revised based on reviewers' comments and extensive development. Astronomy Today has been shortened (from 30 to 28 chapters), but retains its informal-but-scientific writing style, and exceptional art program. Its unique subscription program COMETS now includes computer-generated animations from NASA illustrator Dana Berry. The theme of full-spectrum coverage is dramatically demonstrated by the use of numerous radio, infared, ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray images throughout the text. Key Topics:  Employs the familiar planets-sun-stars-galaxies organization. Key concepts are introduced in the familiar context of the Earth and solar system; the concepts are carefully developed as discussion moves outward towards the stars and galaxies. A highly praised approach to spectroscopy and light (topics often difficult for readers) and outstanding treatment of active galaxies and cosmology are other highlights.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Eric Chaisson. Eric holds a doctorate in astrophysics from Harvard University, where he spent ten years on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For five years, Eric was a Senior Scientist and Director of Educational Programs at the Space Telescope Science Institute and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Johns Hopkins University. He then joined Tufts University, where he is now Professor of Physics, Professor of Education, and Director of the Wright Center for Innovative Science Education. He has written nine books on astronomy, which have received such literary awards as the Phi Beta Kappa Prize, two American Institute of Physics Awards, Harvard's Smith-Weld Prize for Literary Merit, and the Walter P. Kistler Book Award. He has published more than 100 scientific papers in professional journals, and has also received Harvard's Bok Prize for original contributions to astrophysics.      Steve McMillan. Steve holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University and a doctorate in Astronomy from Harvard University. He held post-doctoral positions at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, where he continued his research in theoretical astrophysics, star clusters, and numerical modeling. Steve is currently Distinguished Professor of Physics at Drexel University and a frequent visiting researcher at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Tokyo. He has published more than 50 scientific papers in professional journals.	Astronomy is a science that thrives on new discoveries. Fueled by new technologies and novel theoretical insights, the study of the cosmos continues to change our understanding of the universe. We are pleased to have the opportunity to present in this book a representative sample of the known facts, evolving ideas, and frontier discoveries in astronomy today.    Astronomy Today has been written for students who have taken no previous college science courses and who will likely not major in physics or astronomy. It is intended for use in a one- or two-semester, non-technical astronomy course. We present a broad view of astronomy, straightforwardly descriptive and without complex mathematics. The absence of sophisticated mathematics, however, in no way prevents discussion of important concepts. Rather, we rely on qualitative reasoning as well as analogies with objects and phenomena familiar to the student to explain the complexities of the subject without oversimplification. We have tried to communicate the excitement we feel about astronomy and to awaken students to the marvelous universe around us.    Many of youteachers and students alikehave given us helpful feedback and constructive criticism on earlier editions. From these, we have learned to communicate better both the fundamentals and the excitement of astronomy. Many improvements inspired by your comments have been incorporated into this new edition.   Focus of the Fifth Edition   From the first edition, we have tried to meet the challenge of writing a book that is both accurate and approachable. To the student, astronomy sometimes seems like a long list of unfamiliar terms to be memorized and repeated. You will indeed be introduced to many new terms and concepts in this course, but we hope you will also learn and remember how science is done, how the universe works, and how things are connected. In the fifth edition, we have taken particular care to try to show how astronomers know what they know, and to highlight both the scientific principles underlying their work and the process used in discovery.   New and Revised Material   Astronomy is a rapidly evolving field, and the three years since the publication of the fourth edition of Astronomy Today have seen many new discoveries covering the entire spectrum of astronomical research. Almost every chapter in the fifth edition has been substantially updated with new information. Several chapters have also seen significant internal reorganization in order to streamline the overall presentation, strengthen our focus on the process of science, and reflect new understanding and emphases in contemporary astronomy. Among the many changes are:    Expanded coverage throughout of the scientific method and how astronomers ""know what they know."" New part-opening essays to establish historical context for each section of the text. Updated material in Chapter 5 on adaptive optics, Keck, Subaru, Gemini, and the VLT; additional material on infrared and optical interferometry; new coverage of the Chandra and Spitzer missions. An introduction to solar-system formation in Chapter 6, to better frame the discussion of planetary properties that follows. New material in Chapter 7 on the Ozone Hole and Global Warming. Expanded coverage in Chapters 6 and 10 of the most recent missions to Mars. Updates in Chapter 10 on Martian oppositions, gullies, oceans, and ice. Final update on the Galileo/GEM mission in Chapter 11. Coverage of Stardust, new Kuiper belt objects, and Pluto's status as a planet in Chapter 14. Updated discussion of solar system formation in Chapter 15; expanded coverage of competing theories, planet migration, planetesimal ejection, plutinos, and the angular momentum problem. New sections in Chapter 15 on extrasolar planets, with updated material on the latest observations and their implications for the condensation theory of solar system formation. Reorganization of presentation in Chapter 16, and an update on neutrino oscillations. New information on star names and revised coverage of key concepts in Chapter 17. Consistent and up-to-date stellar properties in Examples throughout Part 3. Updated information in Chapter 19 on brown dwarfs; new material on competitive accretion and collisions in star formation. New coverage in Chapter 20 of the end-states of stellar and binary evolution; more examples of familiar stars in specific evolutionary stages. Updated coverage of pulsars and gamma-ray bursts in Chapter 22. Reorganized and expanded material in Chapter 22 on Special and General Relativity and their historical development. Latest results in Chapter 23 on Sgr A* and the Galaxy's central black hole. Reorganization of Chapters 24 and 25, updating all coverage, emphasizing the connection between normal and a active galaxies, and expanding the discussion of black holes in galactic nuclei. Updated discussion in Chapter 24 of the measurement of Hubble's constant. Expanded and substantially revised coverage in Chapter 25 of galaxy collisions, hierarchical merging and galaxy evolution; revised discussion of active galaxy evolution. Consistent distances and times in Chapters 24-27, assuming a flat universe with dark matter and dark energy as determined by the WMAP satellite; incorporation of results from recent sky surveys. Extensive revision of Chapters 26 and 27 to include the most recent observations of cosmic acceleration and discussion of ""dark energy."" Revised discussions of the cosmological constant and the age of the universe; results from the CBI and 97AMP experiments suggesting a flat universe. Updated coverage of Europa, Mars, interstellar organic  molecules, extrasolar planets, and SETI in Chapter 28. Expanded Glossary which now includes many additional terms used in the text, but not identified explicitly as keywords. New detailed Seasonal Star Charts, courtesy of Astronomy Magazine.    Compound Art. It is rare that a single image, be it a photograph or an artist's conception, can capture all aspects of a complex subject. Wherever possible, multiple-part figures are used in an attempt to convey the greatest amount of information in the most vivid way:    Visible images are often presented along with their counterparts captured at other wavelengths. Interpretive line drawings are often superimposed on or juxtaposed with real astronomical photographs, helping students to really ""see"" what the photographs reveal. Breakoutsoften multiple onesare used to zoom in from widefield shots to closeups so that detailed images can be understood in their larger context.   The Illustration Program   Visualization plays an important role in both the teaching and the practice of astronomy, and we continue to place strong emphasis on this aspect of our book. We have tried to combine aesthetic beauty with scientific accuracy in the artist's conceptions that adorn the text, and we have sought to present the best and latest imagery of a wide range of cosmic objects. Each illustration has been carefully crafted to enhance student learning; each is pedagogically sound and tied tightly to the nearby discussion of important scientific facts and ideas.    Full Spectrum Coverage and Spectrum Icons. Astronomers exploit the full range of the electromagnetic spectrum to gather information about the cosmos. Throughout this book, images taken at radio, infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray, or gamma-ray wavelengths are used to supplement visible-light images. As it is sometimes difficult (even for a professional) to tell at a glance which images are visible-light photographs and which are false-color images created with other wavelengths, each photo in the text is provided with an icon that identifies the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation used to capture the image and reinforces the connection between wavelength and radiation properties.    Explanatory Captions. Students often review a chapter by ""looking at the pictures."" For this reason, the captions in this book are often a bit longer and more detailed than those in other texts.    H-R Diagrams and Acetate Overlays. All of the book's H-R diagrams are drawn in a uniform format, using real data. In addition, a unique set of transparent acetate overlays dramatically demonstrates to students how the H-R diagram helps us to organize our information about the stars and track their evolutionary histories.   Other Pedagogical Features   As with many other parts of our text, instructors have helped guide us toward what is most helpful for effective student learning. With their assistance, we have revised both our in-chapter and end-of-chapter pedagogical apparatus to increase its utility to students.    Learning Goals. Studies indicate that beginning students have trouble prioritizing textual material. For this reason, a few (typically 5 or 6) well-defined Learning Goals are provided at the start of each chapter. These help students structure their reading of the chapter and then test their mastery of key facts and concepts. The Goals are numbered and cross-referenced to key sections in the body of each chapter. This in-text highlighting of the most important aspects of the chapter also helps students review. The Goals are organized and phrased in such a way as to make them objectively testable, affording students a means of gauging their own progress.    Concept Links. In astronomy, as in many scientific disciplines, almost every topic seems to have some bearing on almost every other. In particular, the connection between the astronomical material and the physical principles set forth early in the text is crucial. Practically everything in Chapters 6-28 of this text rests on the foundation laid in the first fiv...	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",astronomy;astronomy & astrophysics;astronomy & space science;books;education & reference;new;science & math;science & mathematics;science & technology;teens;used & rental textbooks,11
0465082793,"Leading Minds: An Anatomy Of Leadership In a novel analysis of leadership, writing with Project Zero staff member Laskin, Harvard education professor Gardner defines a leader as one who successfully imparts a central message or story to a receptive audience. In their framework, Eleanor Roosevelt exemplified the ""story"" that a woman of ordinary appearance could improve the lot of the disadvantaged and refute the misconception that only men can lead. Martin Luther King Jr. embodied the precept that African Americans must stand up nonviolently for their rights. The authors differentiate visionaries?leaders who create new stories, such as Gandhi and Jean Monnet, architect of a unified Europe?from such innovative leaders as Margaret Thatcher, who identify a theme latent in the population but neglected over the years and give it a new twist. Other leaders on whom they focus are George Marshall, Margaret Mead, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Pope John XXIII, former General Motors president Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and educator Robert Hutchins. This study will repay the close attention of aspiring leaders in many fields. Photos. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	The man who revolutionized our understanding of intelligence and  creativity with such books as Frames of Mind and Creating  Minds now does the same for leadership.	Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.",books;business & investing;elections & political process;entrepreneurship;fitness & dieting;health;leadership;politics & government;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;small business & entrepreneurship,11
0393050149,"Build Me an Ark: A Life With Animals In this unusual and captivating memoir, we find a woman who grew up in  the wilderness as the daughter of a forest service ranger. From an early age  Brenda Peterson built intimate relationships with wild animals, forest floors,  and even old growth elder trees. As a result, she has adventures aplenty, but  she does not follow the swashbuckling, high-risk male model of nature writing.  Whether writing about looking into the eyes of a gray wolf or spying on a clan  of dancing grizzly bears, readers see a new, more feminine model for living with  and protecting animals--one that is built upon the connective tissue of  wonderment and compassion. The upshot is a nature writer who manages to present great spirit within great  stories. She imagines animals having afterlives and speaks to the shape-shifting  myths that link two endangered predators--the orca whale and the gray wolf. When  Peterson finds herself in the most dangerous place possible--between a mother  bear and her cubs--she survives the encounter by standing tall in her power as  well as her reverence. ""Ever so slowly, my heart pounding, I stood up to my  tallest height,"" she writes. ""Our eyes met. 'It's just me,' I said in a soft  voice, not the bold declaration I'd been grilled to do by instinct whenever  faced with a wild bear. 'And you.'"" Like a solidly built ark, it is Peterson's  respect for the animal kingdom that carries this hopeful and globally inspiring  memoir. --Gail Hudson	A lifelong love of animals combined with a jeweler's eye for multifaceted philosophical meanings provide Peterson (Living by Water) with a wealth of fascinating anecdotes and insights in this engaging memoir. Moving easily back and forth in time and spaceAfrom the Florida Keys and Rocky Mountains to the great Northwest and the canyons of New York CityAPeterson defines her self, her joys and losses in part through the domestic and wild animals she meets and loves. The yarns about her own dogs and cats are no less intriguing than those about dolphins, wolves, bears and whales. In this easygoing narrative, Peterson also recounts experiences with other people at the nexus of their mutual interest in animals, including such mysterious moments as her encounter with a Navaho woman who, as if fulfilling a prophecy, presents the author with a power-laden necklace of wolves' teeth. Peterson's description of her mother's very different, more mundane attitude about the place of animals in the scale of things is affectionate, warm and humorous. The book is strongest in its clear portraits, which linger in the reader's mind. Its weakest aspect is the author's tendency to analyze and interpret her experiences in terms of syncretistic New Age truisms. Yet the latter is easily forgiven in this powerful vision about the essential importance of animals in the lives of human beings. (Feb.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In this sentimental autobiography, Peterson (Living by Water) traces her evolution from nature writer to animal activist. She joins the Craigheads, Julia Butterfly Hill, Ed Abbey, and Barry Lopez in attempting to interpret the natural world and reshape public perception of nature and its relationship with human society. Along the way, Peterson touches on the grim results of wolf-control programs and the starvation of the orcas owing to overfishing and pollution, among other things. However, in her effort to demonstrate the interconnection of all living things, she fails to explore a single environmental issue in depth, instead focusing on her relationships with animals and her beliefs about them. Still, Peterson's point that a shift in public policy is critical to ensure the survival of the natural world and, ultimately, ourselves, is timely, and her romanticized portraits of animals help personalize these larger issues. No one can read Smoky the Bear's true story without feeling the national shame that accompanies it. Recommended for large public libraries, as well as natural history and environmental collections.DMary A. Stout, PIMA Community Coll. Downtown Campus Lib., Tucson Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Part memoir and part manifesto, Peterson presents the story of a life and spirit guided by animals. Born in the High Sierras to a Forest Service father and a Southern Baptist mother, Peterson was intimate with the forests and their animal denizens from an early age. Imbued with a spiritual background from her parents, the author finds meaning all around her. Animals seemed to give her direction at various turning points in her life, as the animals around her helped her to make life decisions. After returning home when fired from a job, the author was drifting with no direction, still under the sway of her father, until she saw a newborn foal stand and walk for the first time. This became her sign to stand on her own, impelling her to leave home. Similarly, animals guide her life and her writing as she works for wolf reintroduction in the West, writes of dolphins and whales in Hawaii, and of sea lions visiting her beach in Seattle. Unlike most of the other ""guided by animals"" New Age-genre books it resembles, Build Me an Ark  is based in science and is very well written to boot. Nancy BentCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Brenda Peterson, one of the most eloquent nature writers of our time, shares her numerous experiences with our animal kin.  -- Mark Bekoff, author of Strolling With Our KinPart seer, part scientist, Brenda Peterson slipstreams between worlds. ...[A] magical memoir.  -- Sy Montgomery, author of Walking With the Great ApesPeterson writes of nature with an intimacy that tugs at the reader's deep memory.  -- Orion	Brenda Peterson is the author of three novels and two collections of essays, Living by Water and Nature and Other Mothers. She lives in Seattle, Washington.",animals;biographies & memoirs;biological sciences;books;fauna;nature & ecology;politics & social sciences;science & math;sociology;specific groups;women,11
1555912753,"Children of the Storm: The True Story of the Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy A story of 33 fateful hours, in which 20 children faced nature's toughest tests.	Ariana Harner has worked at the Colorado Historical Society editing the Colorado Society's monthly newsletter, Colorado History NOW, and has contributed to Colorado Heritage, the Society's quarterly magazine. Clark Secrest is a former newspaper reporter, editor, and columnist, and currently writes for Colorado Heritage magazine.",20th century;americas;books;children's books;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,11
0226059839,"Antidiscrimination Law and Minority Employment: Recruitment Practices and Regulatory Constraints Bloch is an economic and statistical consultant, based in Washington, D.C., who uses economic and statistical arguments to make a disturbing point: that employment of minorities, blacks in particular, has not improved in the 30 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964; and he identifies the reasons. Further, he demonstrates that the intent of antidiscrimination legislation and regulation has been circumvented by adverse recruitment practices and notes that this should be of concern to policy makers and personnel professionals alike.  Brad Hooper",books;business & investing;civil procedure;economics;education & reference;labor law;law;new;rules & procedures;specialties;used & rental textbooks,11
0415096855,"Thinking From A To Z ""Nigel Warburton's clear to-the-point style is a winner. Its  brevity commends it. The work is far more readable than  most. Warburton's examples are topical, and he goes to great lengths  and succeeds in communicating his material in a lively and  entertaining fashion.""  -- Alex Orenstein, City University of New York""Written in a clear and unpretentious style, it will be  readily accessible to the ordinary intelligent reader. It presupposes  no special background knowledge. It should be particularly useful for  sixth-formers and undergraduates in the humanities and social  sciences, who need to sharpen up their argumentation in essays. It  also provides a useful antidote to various spurious forms of argument  common in political debate and in the popular news media.""  -- Jonathan Lowe, University of Durham	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Nigel Warburton is the author of the bestseller, Philosophy the Basics, 2nd Edition, also published by Routledge.",behavioral sciences;books;cognitive psychology;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;philosophy;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;reference;science & math,11
0618370757,"Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction Sondra is the author of six books, among them, Landmark Essays on Writing Process; Felt Sense: Writing with the Body; 'Stepping on My Brother's Head' and Other Secrets Your English Professor Never Told You, creative nonfiction essays written by well-known writing teachers across the county and co-edited with Charles Schuster; and On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate, a memoir that tells the story of what happened to Sondra when she found herself teaching Austrian teachers whose parents had been Nazis. This book was a finalist in the 2006 Independent Booksellers Award for memoir and led to the creation of the Holocaust Educators Network, which Sondra now directs at the Memorial Library in New York City. A professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Sondra has received numerous awards and honors including a Guggenheim fellowship and the Professor of the Year Award from the Carnegie Foundation. For more info, go to www.thememoriallibary.org.Mimi is the author of five books, most recently, Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village, a winner of the ForeWord Magazine for Best Memoir in 2008. Other books include Writing for Many Roles; Writer's Craft, Teacher's Art; and Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed, a memoir about life in a long marriage, what you get and give up for it that was a JCC Book Club Pick for nonfiction in 2002. Mimi's short work has appeared in over fifty venues, both academic (College English, English Journal, Chronicles of Higher Ed) and literary (The Missouri Review, Agni, Brevity, Tikkun, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, Arts & Culture, River Teeth, Calyx, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times). Seven essays have been Notables in Best American Essays. Professor Emerita in Writing at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Mimi teaches writing workshops in creative nonfiction nationwide and abroad. For more information, go to www.MimiSchwartz.net.",books;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;literary;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks;words,11
034545376X,"WW III: Payback Superior to the Tom Clancy genre.The Spectator	IAN SLATER, a former defense officer for the Australian Joint Intelligence Bureau, is the author of the WW III and the USA vs. Militia series. He holds a Ph.D. in political science, has taught a wide variety of university courses in the humanities, and is author of the acclaimed biography Orwell: The Road to Airstrip One. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.",books;contemporary;genre fiction;historical;literature & fiction;mystery;technothrillers;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states;war,11
B000FMRE6Q,"Soft Computing for Intelligent Robotic Systems (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing) Research results using some of the most advanced soft computing techniques in intelligent robotic systems are presented. The main purpose of this book is to show how the power of soft computing techniques can be exploited in intelligent robotic systems. The main emphasis is on control system for a mobile robot, behavior arbitration for a mobile robot, reinforcement learning of a robot, manipulation of a robot, collision avoidance and automatic design of robots.This book will be useful for application engineers, scientists and researchers who wish to use some of the most advanced soft computing techniques in robotics.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Research results using some of the most advanced soft computing techniques in intelligent robotic systems are presented. The main purpose of this book is to show how the power of soft computing techniques can be exploited in intelligent robotic systems. The main emphasis is on control system for a mobile robot, behavior arbitration for a mobile robot, reinforcement learning of a robot, manipulation of a robot, collision avoidance and automatic design of robots.This book will be useful for application engineers, scientists and researchers who wish to use some of the most advanced soft computing techniques in robotics.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",artificial intelligence;books;computer science;computer technology;computers & technology;engineering;human vision & language systems;mechanical;medical books;professional & technical;robotics,11
0470844248,"The Art & Science of Interpreting Market Research Evidence This splendid booka valuable guideDefiantly for everyone who wants to make best use of mass information that surrounds us.(Research Magazine, May 2004)	Newcomers to market research should welcome this book. It provides an easy to follow account of the way todays market researchers  working in an holistic way across both qualitative and quantitative evidence - now interpret and apply evidence to the decision-making process. The book will be particularly helpful to those responsible for training agency and client staff in new market research, and for lecturers keen to include practical accounts of how the industry is now operating.	This book provides the following 10-step guide to the art and science of interpreting qualitative and quantitative market research evidence and successfully applies this to business decision-making.1. Analyzing the right problem2. Understanding the big information picture3. Compensating for imperfect data4. Developing an effective analysis strategy5. Establishing the interpretation boundary6. Applying the 'knowledge filters'7. 'Re-framing' the data8. Presenting the research evidence as a narrative9. Facilitating informed decision-making10. Learning from successful practiceThis book is supported by a ten-module training course consisting of a series of PowerPoint presentation charts. This also includes case studies that will be helpful to University lecturers and those responsibl e for training new graduates entering the mark et research industry, on either the client or agency side.""This is modern commercial research, where the mind of the researcher is finally acknowledged as admissible data. Prior knowledge, pragmatism, experience are all robust grist to the 'holistic' research mill. A must-read textbook for anyone getting to grips with 21st century market research.""Virginia Valentine, Semiotic Solutions""This book enables both the research client and practitioner to think more clearly about how different strands of research can work together through a unifying analytical approach. Although designed as a teaching and development resource, the underlying thinking makes refreshing reading for all those supplying or using market research.""Leslie Sopp, Head of Research, Institute of Chartered Accountants, Chairman, Association of Users of Research Agencies""This book is aimed at newcomers to market research; however, Smith and Fletcher's approach to their subject can teach us all some new lessons. I was particularly impressed by the weight of theoretical and practical evidence they assemble to underpin their arguments at every turn and, as two of the most respected researchers in the industry, see it as their responsibility to share that knowledge with others in as highly accessible a form as possible.""Nigel Culkin FMRS, Associate, Dean (Business Partnerships, University of Hertfordshire)	David Smith is Chairman of the Incepta Marketing Intelligence Group, a leading strategic marketing intelligence organization, and a Professor at the University of Hertfordshire Business School. He is a Fellow and former Chairman of the Market Research Society (MRS), and also a Silver Medal holder of the MRS. He has received Best Paper Awards for papers presented at Market Research Society and ESOMAR events. He is a member of the British Psychological Society; the Chartered Institute of Marketing; and the Institute of Management Consultants. His doctorate in Organizational Psychology is from Bareback College, University of London.Jonathan Fletcher is a Director of DVL Smith Ltd, one of the strategic research businesses within the Incepta Marketing Intelligence Group. He holds a research degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge. He has given a number of papers at various industry conferences, and won the Best Methodological Paper Award at the 1999 ESOMAR Congress.",books;business & finance;business & investing;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;marketing;marketing & sales;new;research;used & rental textbooks,11
0451454189,"Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry Alexander was editor of the Humanist when Roddenberry (1921-1991) chose him as his biographer. The result is a panegyric in the sharpest possible contrast to Joel Engel's Gene Roddenberry (Nonfiction Forecasts, Mar. 21). In tracing his subject's career in the Army Air Corps in WW II, as a Pan Am pilot and member of the Los Angeles Police Department, the author shows Roddenberry as a brave and adventurous man who proved to be hardworking and tenacious as well. While the original Star Trek series lasted for three years and lost money every year until 1969, when it was cancelled, by 1972 it was a huge hit in syndication. Then followed a series of movies starting in 1979 and another TV series, Star Trek: The Next Generation , beginning in 1987, followed by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . As for ""warts,"" Alexander treats Roddenberry's compulsive womanizing as a lovable idiosyncrasy; he also presents without details a list of six science fiction writers who worked for Roddenberry on Star Trek but would no longer do so. Exhaustive but exhausting. Filmography. Photos not seen by PW. 100,000 first printing. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	The authorized biography of Star Trek's mastermind is a monumentally documented work, drawing largely from Roddenberry's papers as well as the papers of and interviews with those close to him. It portrays an ambitious and talented man, restless and unsettled in his personal life yet fixed on his career goals. Roddenberry's family, his experiences as a World War II bomber pilot in the South Pacific and an airline pilot after the war, and his relatively short but eventful career in the Los Angeles Police Department all helped shape him. Although sometimes the sheer mass of detail makes the narrative difficult to follow, that same wealth of information provides fascinating insights into not only Roddenberry and his correspondents but also the worlds of sf and its fandom and the making of TV and movies. The many letters between Roddenberry and Isaac Asimov constitute a particularly interesting bonanza, and the appended Roddenberry filmography is useful. All in all, Alexander makes a significant contribution to the understanding of an enigmatic man and his creations. (See also Engel's Gene Roddenberry.)  Dennis Winters	This readable biography sketches the trajectory of a man whose life might have served as the plot for one of his television dramas. The creator of Star Trek flew missions as a B-17 pilot during WW II, wrote speeches for LA's chief of police, and penned scripts for shows like Dragnet during television's Golden Age. Alexander succeeds in recreating Roddenberry's voice: As the official biographer chosen by Roddenberry, he provides correspondence written over the years to family, friends, and fans. But the author only shifts to warp speed when he discusses how Roddenberry launched the original Star Trek. The book lets Trekkers gorge themselves on the trivia of this cultural phenomenon and overhear backstage bickering. Production memos teem with such revelatory details as actors' contracts (Nimoy originally earned a fourth of Shatner's salary), casting decisions, and of course, the secret campaigns to save Star Trek (all of which Roddenberry inaugurated). Although Rodenberry's widow, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, states in the introduction that her husband wanted to be depicted ``warts and all,'' Alexander remains a friend throughout. Interviews with cast members are curiously absent and would have added depth to such incidents as the series'--and television's--first interracial kiss. According to Alexander, this met with only a single memo of protest from NBC; however, others have attested that network suits refused to let the scene be shot as originally written. To be fair, or provocative, Roddenberry's bouts of drinking, use of amphetamines, and frequent infidelities are recounted. The chance to create another Trek TV series, however, stirred him. While his bitter fights with veteran staffers marred the production, Star Trek: The Next Generation ran for seven years and remained true to its creator's optimistic belief in humanity. While this account swings too far between elegy and gossip, it successfully conveys the spirit of Roddenberry, who led us ``where no one has gone before.'' (16 pages b photos, not seen) (First printing of 100,000) -- Copyright 1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",arts & literature;biographies & memoirs;books;entertainers;genre fiction;horror;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;television,11
0684867990,"Dream Big! A Roadmap for Facing Life's Challenges and Creating the Life You Deserve Born to a Puerto Rican family in the South Bronx, the author's childhood wasn't easy; her mother's health was poor, one of her brothers had a serious kidney disease, and the family's means were limited. In high school, challenged and inspired by an ambitious Harvard-bound boyfriend from her world but with ""one foot planted firmly outside of it,"" Shaw (then Rosado) got a scholarship to Wellesley. After graduating, she ended up in business, first working for her father-in-law, then starting her own business, an umbrella-manufacturing company. At some point, despite her material success, Shaw realized that she was still gripped by fears stemming from her childhood: she worried about losing her business, the next step in her career and whether she was a good mother. After years of struggle, she and her husband divorced. She returned from San Francisco to the East Coast so her children could spend time with other family members, and she could be closer to the rest of her industry. There, in the midst of a nearly-crippling depression, she won an Avon Women of Enterprise Award, and began touring the country speaking to groups of women to inspire them to make something of their lives. Her message you can persevere and succeed, is vividly and compassionately conveyed in this book. What makes Shaw so inspiring is her honesty (she's forthcoming about her shortcomings and her insecurities) and her experience her struggles are similar to those of so many women. (Apr.)Forecast: With a national tour, this book should sell briskly if Shaw is as powerful and engaging a speaker as she is a writer.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Raul Yzaguirre President  CEO, National Council of La Raza  A ""not for women only"" book that not only dares us to succeed, but demolishes all those seemingly intractable obstacles that get in our path on our way towards fulfilling our dreams.  A must-read book for anyone that yearns to make dreams come true. -- Review	""Proves that one person can change the unchangeable.""--Lou Pritchett, author of Stop Paddling and Start Rocking the Boat ""Dream Big! can help you imagine the possibilities and make your dreams a reality.""--Donald J. Soderquist, retired senior vice-chairman, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ""Deborah used determination and tenacity to blaze a trail to create a successful life. She is a powerful role model for women yearning to dream big in order to reach their goals.""--Andrea Jung, president and CEO, Avon Products, Inc. ""Listen to this formidable Latina's advice and revelations of the great untold secrets of the influence, wisdom, and guidance of our woman. This book is blueprint for . . . building great career and business success.""--Geraldo Rivera, NBC correspondent and host of Rivera Live ""A 'not for women only' book that not only dares us to succeed, but demolishes all those seemingly intractable obstacles that get in our path on our way toward fulfilling our dreams. A must-read book for anyone who yearns to make dreams come true.""--Raul Yzaguirre, president and CEO, National Council of La Raza	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Deborah Rosado Shaw is the founder and CEO of Umbrellas Plus, with customers that in-clude Wal-Mart, Costco, and Toys ""R"" Us. She has been profiled in Business Week, Forbes, USA Today, and on CNN and NBC. An accomplished public speaker, Shaw serves on several corporate and nonprofit advisory boards, and has been twice appointed Commissioner on the New Jersey Commission on the Status of Women. She lives in Morris County, New Jersey, with her husband and three sons.	Chapter 1: Claim Your Power  ""One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.""  -- HELEN KELLER  This is it.  Your life.  You'll never pass this way again.  And it's a journey that can be fueled by an infinite source of energy and strength, the same power that pushes a blade of grass through a crack in a concrete slab. This force is readily available, free-flowing, and abundant. And we all need to utilize this power if we are to enjoy the extraordinary life we were intended to have.  But you know what? No one can give you power. Only you can claim what's yours.  I HAD ARRIVED! BUT WHERE?  Anyone who saw me standing at the podium during the awards ceremony that day would have called me a success. I had beaten the odds! I was living an impossible future.  Without money or contacts, this girl from the South Bronx had built a successful enterprise and enduring relationships with some of the most powerful businesspeople in the world.  But as I stood at the podium of the Waldorf-Astoria, I felt three feet tall again, an imposter, a girl dressed up in a woman's fancy clothes.  No one sitting in the audience had any idea that I'd been forcing myself to get out of bed for months, that I had spent the previous year struggling with depression and self-doubt.  I had lost touch with little Debbie Rosado, the Puerto Rican girl who played the organ pedals with her shoes off, who wouldn't sit still in the church pews, who challenged her Sunday school teachers with endless questions like ""If God's fair, how come we've got to do without?""  But in those days and weeks before my experience at the Waldorf, I had begun dreaming of that girl again. As though waking from a drugged sleep, I had started to see my surroundings -- the opulent parties, luxurious homes, and elegant people -- through her eyes, eyes that were piercing and completely honest, as only a child's vision can be.  I could hear her asking me: Is this what it's all about? Is this what we struggled for?  Her questions went unanswered. Something was askew. I was no longer listening to that precious, all-important part of myself. Foolishly, I had begun to think that I had ""succeeded"" in leaving her behind.  I'd not only moved away from my old neighborhood, I'd also moved away from myself. I'd become lost in the Never-Never Land of Getting and Spending.  I'd been so focused on escaping poverty that I'd lost sight of the defiant, streetwise girl inside who knew what really mattered to her and to me, and who wasn't interested in anyone else's version of success.  She wanted more than a Jacuzzi and a drawer full of jewelry to show for her efforts, her years of sacrifice.  She was reminding me that I needed to align my values with my daily world. But I wasn't sure how to go about it.  In the midst of this, as I was flipping through a magazine, I spotted an announcement about the Women of Enterprise Award sponsored by Avon and the U.S. Small Business Administration. This award was given to female business owners who had overcome significant odds to build a successful enterprise.  Some instinct (and a bit of prodding from my eldest son, Jason) made me pick up my pen and apply.  The application I received in the mail asked some thought-provoking questions:  What is your personal definition of success?  At what point did you say to yourself, ""I've made it""?  What matters most in your life?  As I contemplated these questions, I thought how ironic it would be if a woman mired in depression and self-doubt won such an award.  Yet I did.  A month later I opened the notice from Avon, read the first word -- ""Congratulations"" -- and whooped out loud. I was going to be honored in front of 1,400 luminaries at the Waldorf-Astoria. I'd been awarded a stay in New York, with theater, dinner, media appearances, a cash gift, and a makeover.  I had reached out to the light, and the universe had conspired to help me. Even through my depression, I managed to float up to the sunlit clouds.  But once I was seated in the Waldorf's grand ballroom the day of the awards luncheon, looking around at the crystal chandeliers and the impeccably dressed crowd, I found myself growing increasingly anxious. The world might have been honoring me, but no one had any idea what I had been going through inside.  Sitting with the audience in the dark, I watched my fragmented self flicker before me in a ""this-is-your-life"" video Avon had prepared. There I stood, working with Bill Blass in his luxurious office, surrounded by mannequins draped in opulent fabrics, his innovative sketches, chalks and pens -- the tools of a true artist.  Another image flashed across the screen: my parents, heartbreakingly young, cradling me, their firstborn, as if I were the most precious thing in the world. Other pictures quickly followed: Deborah Rosado Shaw as a disgruntled teenager, proud business owner, frazzled mother -- standing on a dirty street in Harlem, on Madison Avenue, and on the lush grounds of Wellesley College's lakeside campus.  Some people say you see your life like this, scene by scene, in one endless shining moment, right before you die. I was humbled by the honor of being able to view my journey before passing on. And that experience altered the rest of my life.  When it was my turn to speak, my ears roared and my legs shook as I made my way up to the podium. When I looked out over the glittering crowd, the old voices I had battled all my life came thundering back at me: You don't belong here. Who do you think you are?  In the audience were assembled all the components of my life, a stew of people I had never dared mix together before.  There was my father, a Methodist minister, and my mother, a caseworker with demons of her own. There were my three sons, each born in a different stage of my evolution; my husband, Steve; my younger brother; and my best friend, Doreen.  There was Flora Davidson, a college professor who had taught me one of life's toughest lessons by pushing me to go farther than I had thought possible.  There were my business associates, whom I had always kept in the cubicle of my business life, and the editor of an important trade publication.  Nearly every person who was responsible in any way for my success, some who knew me intimately and others who barely knew me at all, were together in one room for the first time.  Then I was introduced and, bolstered by the applause, stepped into the spotlight and began speaking: ""Today I share with you a very sweet moment. A moment that speaks to the power of the human spirit and what can be accomplished when we dare to dream....""  As I began telling my story, the pieces of my life that had been neatly compartmentalized before began to meld. With every word I recovered another piece of myself. Although I was speaking to the audience, I was speaking even more to myself, relating what I saw so clearly. By integrating the components of my life, by recognizing and embracing all the people I had been and the experiences I had lived, good and bad, I gained access to my own source of power.  That power had always been there, just waiting to be claimed.  CHOOSE OR LOSE  When you were growing up, some fool probably told you that you could grow up to be anything you wanted. And, like most kids, you intended to be a doctor, a rock star, an Oscar-winning actress...and president of the United States. Well, now you're a grown-up, and you have to throw out the assumption that you can do anything and be anybody by simply believing it.  This form of positive thinking is a lot of bull. It's a myth and a destructive one, usually promoted by individuals who are selling instructional audiotapes, videos, motivation seminars, and yes...even books. Although there are many wonderful self-help products on the market, beware of those that tell you that you can have and do it all. It just isn't so. This cruel lie encourages us to waste our energy trying to do things we can never succeed at instead of helping us to make choices about where to put our efforts.  In case you missed the news, Superwoman is dead! She had a nervous breakdown and got committed to the crazy house, where she expired. We live in a world of infinite possibilities, but we have only so many days and hours. We can conjure thousands of desires and wishes, but we have the energy and resources to pursue only the few that are crucial to us.  There's a unique, personal form of success that can be yours alone, one that will generate happiness and fulfillment. But you have to make choices, sometimes tough ones, on your way to defining and creating that success.  I know what it's like, trying to do and be everything.  When I was living in California, I had three babies under four years of age and I spent most of my day doing...too much. When I traveled to the East Coast on business, I regularly took my sons along. I wanted to make sure they continued to have contact with both sets of grandparents. I would drop them off at one set of relatives, rush around New York having meetings and eating lunch, hurry back for dinner, and then take them to the next set. I was in a placating mode, a do-it-all-at-once mode, and I was a wreck.  On one trip, as I was struggling out the door with car seats and luggage, a pair of my underpants fell out of a duffel bag. I picked them up and stuck them into the waistband of my slacks until I got into the car. But once I was inside the car something else grabbed my attention and I forgot about them. I walked around -- knickers exposed -- in the airport, during the plane ride, and all the way through the terminal on the other side. It wasn't until we finally reached our destination that I had a moment to catch a breath and relax. I glanced down, and there they were...my latest Victoria's Secret acquisition, hanging out the side of my slacks. Of course, the kids hadn't told me; they were too little to care about such trivialities as modesty, and they were used to their mother's rushing around like a lunatic. Still, I had to laugh. And then I had to take a hard look at what I was doing to myself.  Sometimes you just have to stop and take a deep breath and say, ""What am I trying to do? Be all things to all people?""  Well, you know what? You can't.  This clunker you're living in has only so much mileage. By trying to accomplish too much, you spread your resources thin and wind up running on empty...with too little attention paid to the most important things. Family and those closest to your heart suffer. You suffer. And eventually your health -- mental, emotional, and physical -- will suffer.  Realizing these things, the next time I visited I rearranged my schedule. I got a hotel room and asked the grandparents to visit us. I got a friend to baby-sit the kids. I streamlined my schedule so I had no more than two meetings a day.  I turned down the heat so the pot wouldn't boil over. No, I didn't get a prize that year for the most devoted daughter-in-law. There was no award for my homemade banana bread or pumpkin pie. My hairdo didn't receive rave comments -- my hair looked like a disheveled mop most of the time. But I took pleasure from my kids and concentrated on my business. Those were my priorities, and I stuck to them. I had learned to invest my resources wisely. I had realized the importance of spending ""me"" on the things closest to my heart.  What's Your Version of the Good Life?  Before you can decide where to ""invest"" your precious assets -- your time, your energy, your money, even your affections -- get to know what matters most to you. Because this is different for everyone, you must ask your quiet, inner self: What do I really care about?  It might take you a while to answer that question; it did me.  Even at the height of my so-called high life in California, I would stand at the supermarket checkout and leaf through the magazines with a heavy heart.  I already had a lot of good things in my life. According to society, I had ""arrived,"" and I should have been happy. But I still wasn't satisfied.  I used to love reading home magazines, but I eventually stopped subscribing to them because they made me feel so inadequate. I have a nice house, but it doesn't belong in Architectural Digest or Metropolitan Home. I live in a house where kids knock holes into the walls with their hockey sticks.  And forget the beauty magazines -- I'd spent half my youth following diagrams for shading my eyelids and highlighting my cheekbones, but I never looked like the girls on the covers of Seventeen or Vogue.  The next time you're reading one of those magazines, glance up and look at the people around you. You quickly realize what ridiculous fantasies the world encourages. I remember a cartoon I saw once. In it, two old women are standing over the casket of a friend. ""Poor Rosie,"" one says to the other. ""She was only twenty pounds from her goal.""  Think of all the fruitful ways you could spend the energy you now waste pursuing someone else's fantasy of perfection. You'll probably never be a size 4 or have flawless skin or drive a Jaguar, so why not focus on something concrete, something that's possible and has meaning for you?  FACE YOUR TRUTH  What really matters to me?  I could have saved myself plenty of tissues and Prozac if I'd paid more attention to this question.  I used to pull out of the driveway each morning with a sinking heart, looking at all the mothers standing at their front doors in bathrobes and jogging outfits. There they were, holding down the fort all day while I was kissing my kids and heading off to the corporate world.  Mind you, I was always there for the big events in my children's lives. I made it my business to show up for anything important. But I still kicked myself around about other things. Was it really all right to travel so much? What about not being home for a week in a row?  My kids seemed healthy and fine to me and to everyone else, but I began constructing dramatic scenarios in my mind. In these scenarios my children were secretly unhappy, pining for a mother who waited for them in an apron at the door.  Delay and dramatize, this song-and-dance routine was my main act. I delayed action and dramatized everything: I can't take on this project. What are the boys gonna think if I tell them I have to go away again? Can I miss two football games in a row? And what about Andrew's concert?  And on and on with no end in sight. My theatrics grew until I decided I couldn't live through one more curtain call.  I marched into the living room, where my three sons were sitting over their homework, and announced that we were going to have a heart-to-heart.  I put my cards on the table. ""There's some stuff I want to get done in the world,"" I told them. ""I love you guys with all my heart, and I also love being in business -- the ups and downs, the challenges, the excitement. Sometimes I wish I could be someone else, but I'm sorry, this is it. I need you guys to accept me for who I am.""  Blah, blah, blah, I went on.  When I finally ran out of steam I looked at them. They sat there looking slightly amused.  ""What?"" I said.  ""Why are you telling us this?"" Jason, my oldest son, said. ""We know already.""  ""Yeah,"" the middle one, Andrew, agreed. ""You're our mom. You've always been this way. We're fine.""  I stood a moment, almost panting. ""But there are things you don't have that other kids do,"" I tried, hoping to kick myself a little more.  ""So what? There are lots of things we have that they don't,"" said Matthew, the youngest.  I had to laugh. They had come to terms with who I was long before. I was the one who had been twisting around to whip myself.  That speech was not a waste of time, however. Far from it. Fessing up gave me a freedom I never had before. I was able to stop concocting imaginary obstacles and fictions.  The good news about living your dream is that you contribute not only to yourself but to everyone around you. And you learn to seek your own counsel instead of casting about for approval from everyone else.  You're the one who has to be clear about what a good life looks like. And you have to be able to hold on to your dream through the dark and painful moments.  That's a lesson Nancy Archuleta discovered for herself.  When Nancy was in high school, a vocational counselor told her that she'd never amount to anything. ""You're just a poor Mexican,"" the counselor said when Nancy expressed her wish to go to college.  But Nancy didn't believe that.  She had another image of herself -- as an educated, successful woman -- and she held on to it through years of discouragement and poverty.  Even when her life was at its lowest, when she was a high school dropout, a battered wife, a mother of three before she was nineteen, Nancy held on to her dream. She told herself that she wasn't just her circumstances and that one day she would find a way to prove it.  Nancy Archuleta kept the flame of her ambition burning inside even when fate and circumstance conspired to blow it out.  After years of struggle, Nancy managed to escape her marriage. She juggled several jobs to support her kids and finish her education. Then she invested every dollar she could scrape together into a systems management company, Mevatec. Eventually she was named president.  When she realized that this was just a token position and that she'd been awarded it so the company could gain minority-woman-owned status, she didn't throw up her hands and surrender. She remained focused and managed to wrestle control of the company from her partner and become its true leader.  Today she is chairman and CEO of Mevatec Corporation, a 62 million integration/software development firm and one of the country's fastest growing Hispanic-owned companies.  Nancy didn't just endure. She didn't just prevail. She triumphed.  This is what you can accomplish when you face your truth.  HIDDEN POWER ZAPPERS  Comparing  It's human nature to peek over the fence and note the lush, green grass on the other side. But comparisons aren't only unsatisfying, they're empty.  Compared to others in California, my life looked the spitting image of happy and affluent. But how it stacked up with others meant nothing...because it was unfulfilling to me.  You can't know what someone else's life is really like. Stop comparing! Use the time to cultivate your own garden instead.  Justifying  As women we're often experts on the fruitless art of justification. Just let me explain! Hear me out a minute! But the only one who needs justifying to is...you! I wasted a lot of time and energy trying to explain why my business was important to me, even to people who weren't central to my life. Then I started being straight with myself and stopped feeling the need. So will you.  Judging  The brother of justifying is judging. They're the dynamic duo of time wasting and energy zapping. When they crop up, get out the weed whacker and cut 'em down.  If you're busy rating others, you're probably denigrating yourself. Knock it off, and get focused on living your dream instead.  Accept others' right to choose and don't engage in their judgment of your choices.  STAKING OUT YOUR CLAIM  Be Still  Self-reflection allows us to gain insights into our dreams and desires. By being quiet, asking ourselves meaningful questions, and remaining open to the answers, we enhance our self-knowledge. Relaxing the mind and finding a place of inner peace helps us tune in to our deepest longings.  Ask Tough Questions  Take a deep breath and relax. Close your eyes and ask yourself:  What are my nonnegotiable values? Am I acting in ways that reflect my beliefs? What are the barriers? Which barriers have I created? What are my strengths and weaknesses? What works in my life? What doesn't? What's missing?  TURNING ON THE JUICE  Access to your own power and freedom is available through the experiences that bring you joy and meaning. What brings meaning to your day? What really turns you on?   Spiritual devotion Creative expression Career success Health Material prosperity Family harmony Helping others Physical fitness Leisure activities Friendship Romantic love   With these in mind, imagine your own version of a perfect future:   What are you doing? Where are you? Who is there with you?   Fast-back in time to the present, right now. What must you do to claim your power, the power you possess to create your life? Many obstacles slow us down or stop us altogether. But the important question is: What's stalling you?  Copyright  2001 by Dream BIG! Enterprises, LLC.",books;business & investing;entrepreneurship;fitness & dieting;guides;health;job hunting & careers;self-help;small business & entrepreneurship;success;women & business,11
0966506979,"Inventing Made Easy: The Entrepreneur's Indispensable Guide to Creating, Patenting and Profiting From Inventions When Thomas Edison made his famous remark about genius being 99 percent perspiration, he didn't even have to take into account the labor and frustration involved in conducting a patent search. The Bellavances' guide, though, will help take some of the sweat out of getting a patent and bringing a new product to market. Inventors themselves, the authors provide clear explanations, thorough details, candid advice, and important caveats for each step of the process. They explain what patents are, why they are necessary, and how to get one, but they also highlight several misconceptions about them. Moreover, they follow through with the entire spectrum of practical marketing tips. Among the considerations they include are licensing, test marketing, invention promotion groups, identifying and selecting manufacturers, trade shows, etc. They also recommend that those conducting a patent search put themselves in the hands of the ""trustworthy and highly trained staff"" at the various patent depository libraries. This comment alone shows that the Bellavances know what they are talking about and guarantees the value of their guidance.  David Rouse	""!!!! Exceptional. Writer Tom Bellavance and inventive entrepreneur Roger Bellavance guide the creative process, locking in rights, marketing and developing business. Advance praise from Guerrilla Marketing series author Jay Conrad Levinson: ""Takes inventors by the hand and leads them safely through the minefields of misinformation.""""   -- Today's Books, Public News Service, 8/3/99""The classic story of success in America is that of the inventor. Today, however, inventors have to know a lot more than just how to come up with a new widget. The authors explain what the inventor needs to know to protect their interests and, for the novice, this book is probably the best investment they will make.""   -- Alan Caruba's Bookviews Newsletter, 7/99""The hard-earned information presented will immediately be appreciated by experienced inventors and entrepreneurs wishing they had had this valuable resource early on. The must-read chapter on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office unveils the reality all inventors must come to terms with. The entrepreneurial information ... outstanding!""   -- Edison Inventors Association Newsletter, 5/99Inventing Made Easy is an easy-to-read and information-laden book that should bring a smile to the face of any inventor, not to mention an increase in that inventor's net worth. The book takes inventors by the hand and leads them safely through the minefields of misinformation and all the way to success in the marketplace. -- Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the Guerrilla Marketing series of booksPraise for this Inventor's Resource ""The Bellavances' guide will help take some of the sweat out of getting a patent and bringing a new product to market. Inventors themselves, the authors provide clear explanations, thorough details, candid advice, and important caveats for each step of the process. They explain what patents are, why they are necessary, and how to get one, but they also highlight several misconceptions about them. Moreover, they follow through with the entire spectrum of practical marketing tips. Among the considerations they include are licensing, test marketing, invention promotion groups, identifying and selecting manufacturers, trade shows, etc. They also recommend that those conducting a patent search put themselves in the hands of the ""trustworthy and highly trained staff"" at the various patent depository libraries. This comment alone shows that the Bellavances know what they are talking about and guarantees the value of their guidance.""  -- David Rouse for ALA's Booklist, 8/99	Inventing Made Easy is a comprehensive guide for unlocking your creativity, patenting your inventions, starting your business, and successfully introducing your products to the marketplace. This book goes into great detail on how to set up a small business to market and sell an invention. It further explores proven ways to help the aspiring entrepreneur obtain sales and commercial success from an invention and make a product something consumers desire and buy. Includes a vast collection of reference material for your convenience. Above all else, Inventing Made Easy strives to save inventors time, money and heartache.	Tom Bellavance co-owns and operates the Quiet Corner Press, publishing and marketing Inventing Made Easy and developing other products. With degrees in biology and electrical engineering, he has worked for 16 years in the medical field. He is a member of the Inventors Association of New England and the Small Publishers Association of North America (SPAN). In his spare time he engages in his passion--writing feature movie scripts. Look for him in director Martin Brest's film Meet Joe Black. He resides in a bucolic corner of God's country--the Quiet Corner of northeastern Connecticut. Roger Bellavance co-owns and operates Quiet Corner Press, contributing his extensive experience from over 20 years of inventing. He is the proud owner of several patents, and is a member of the Inventors Association of New England. A combat veteran, he graduated from the 'University of South Vietnam'. His 'great adventure in Southeast Asia' included a tour of duty as a M48 tank crewman and human target for rocket shrapnel. Look for him in director Steven Speilberg's film Amistad.	""Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."" William Shakespeare Chapter 3 The Patent Process: After Filing After The Patent Is Awarded Aren't you the lucky one! You've beaten the odds. Out of all the people out there with a hot idea for an invention, you are one of the very few who have acted and been granted a U.S. patent. During any point in the long and arduous process, your invention might have been tripped up. Any one of many calamities might have occurred. The patent search might have turned up prior art. Someone else might have beaten you to patenting the idea. Your patent attorney or agent might have made critical errors in the patent application process. The PTO's examination process might have determined the invention to be unpatentable subject matter or that the invention is not novel. You survived this minefield. Congratulations! Upon allowance and issue of the patent you have three months to make payment of the issue fee. You've kept the most intimate details of your invention completely secret for all these many months. On the day your patent is granted, your patent file becomes available to public inspection. The Official Gazette of the Patent and Trademark Office publishes your invention including the invention's main drawing and first claim. Your secret is secret no more. Your technology is out there where those companies who seek economic advantage can attempt to design around your patent. If they can come up with a single additional claim, they will be able to get their own patent and bust yours in the process. Due to the inherent weaknesses in the design of the patent system, you run the risk of losing your rights of monopoly for your invention. Not surprisingly, some people elect not to patent their technology but to keep it a trade secret. By keeping proprietary information secret, your business can maintain a competitive advantage over others. With a trade secret, you avoid the full disclosure of your invention's innermost workings which can rob you of protection for your technology. Treating this information as a trade secret instead of patenting it prevents the release of this sensitive information to the public. Trade secrets can remain secret in perpetuity rather than only a 20-year patent-in-force term. Manufacturing processes, chemical formulas and recipes are typically the sort of intellectual property that can be protected by the trade secret route. Because of their value, businesses will go to great lengths to protect and preserve their trade secrets. Employing trade secrecy to protect intellectual property affords you several advantages. There is no disclosure of the details of your invention to the public. You can protect the trade secret forever versus being limited to a 20-year term with a patent. The trade secret route is fast, easy and inexpensive as opposed to patenting, which can take months or years, is difficult in process with uncertain results and costs significant money. There are disadvantages to trade secrecy that you must recognize. Chief among them is the possibility that someone else can independently invent the same concept and patent it as their own. You have no legal rights to the invention if this occurs. In fact, they can sue you for patent infringement! Trade secrets must be constantly and scrupulously protected. This often can be quite a challenge, particularly if you have disclosed your trade secret to employees. The temptation to share this secret information for a price can be too great to resist. There is legal recourse if someone acquires your trade secret by illegal means. However, if someone discovers your trade secret honestly and ethically, such as by independent discovery, you no longer can protect the proprietary information. The ability to discover your trade secret by reverse engineering of your invention should prevent you from considering utilizing the trade secret route. If through examination by technical means allows your secrets to be divined, your secrets are not safe. Sophisticated analytical tools now in use make reverse engineering easy.   Whether the trade secret route is right for you or not depends upon the nature of your invention, your company and your market. Consider carefully before deciding to patent and therefore advertise to the world your most sensitive trade secrets. Patent Rights: What Rights? What right does the U.S. government grant to the patent holder? The patent grant confers ""the right to exclude others from making, using or selling the invention throughout the United States."" The U.S. government grants a monopoly. It doesn't grant a right to make, use or sell the invention. We are free to do that dependent upon the rights of others and our conformance to whatever general laws of commerce and society that exist. The right of exclusive commercial exploitation allows the patentee the options of manufacture, marketing and sale of the invention or licensing others to do so. Maintenance Fees A fairly recent invention by the Patent and Trademark Office are the Maintenance Fees which are required to maintain the patent in force during its 20-year life. For patents awarded to applications received after December 12, 1980, a fee is due at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from the date the patent was granted. Due at 3.5 years is $1,050. Due at 7.5 years is $2,100. Due at 11.5 years is $3,160. These figures are from the PTO fee schedule as of October 1, 1997. No notice is mailed to the patent owner that payment is due. It is up to the patent owner to make payment on time or within a six-month grace period immediately following the due date or your patent will expire. Maintenance fees will be covered in depth in Chapter 7. Self-Promotion Promoting yourself and your accomplishments should become second nature to you. You must spread the word about your newly patented invention as part of your marketing efforts. Don't be shy. Become a braggart. You've accomplished something unique and rare. You have successfully conceived of and developed a brand new invention. This is truly a rare achievement and you should be proud of yourself. So promote . . . and prosper. After the PTO issues the date and number of your patent, it is time for you to begin promoting. Start with a press release which is more correctly referred to as a news release or media release. Remember, you'll be sending the release to the electronic media as well as the print media. Be certain to concentrate upon your local media as well as trade magazines. Providing wholesalers and distributors with your news release can also be productive. Send them the news release and a copy of your patent. Including camera-ready artwork of your product is a clever idea.   You should target your prime prospects with a press kit. A glossy press kit filled with your news release and other promotional material gets attention. By making this additional information available you increase the odds of getting your story published. Although most editors enjoy receiving a well-produced press kit, a minority actually despise them. They toss these kits into the circular file. These editors are no-nonsense news gatherers who have no inclination to wade through what they consider to be a pile of fluff. Do not be discouraged. Most editors enjoy receiving these packets of information. These extra details only serve to make a better story. Consider including thie following material in your press kit: News release. Publicity photo of the inventor and personal biography. Camera-ready artwork of inventions, products or company logos. Cover letter or personalized note to pitch your story idea. Copy of patent. Product samples. Fact sheets to provide technical background information. Promotional information such as brochures and audio and video tapes. Pre-paid return postcard to request further information or an interview. Copies of previous news articles (blurbs, product reviews, feature stories). Creative packaging. Premium or gift items have been known to be included in press kits. Premiums may include imprinted pens, pencils, notepads, and so forth. It is not unheard of for editors to be offered something more substantial in an attempt to draw attention to the press kita basket of fresh baked muffins? A bottle of scotch?   Issuing a news release allows you to garner publicity and promote your invention. This is essential as you commence marketing the invention. You will learn it is prudent to issue a news release anytime a newsworthy event happens to you, your invention or your company. For illustrative purposes, we have included a sample news release used to publicize the author's Hook Pen. When the PTO awards you a patent on your invention, let the world know! News releases are so valuable in promoting your invention and yourself. The best part isthey cost so little. They are unbelievably productive for something that is almost free. You get enormous bang for the buck! Do you want to know a secret about the news articles you read in newspapers? It is estimated 75% of the stories come from news releases. Companies and organizations provide the majority of the news you read in their effort to publicize and promote themselves and their products and services. The media need these news stories just as much as you need the publicity. Without the contribution news releases provide, there would not be much to report. An entrepreneurial inventor who blindly sends out massive numbers of news releases at one time is bound to face disappointment. The scattershot approach is usually destined for failure. Always target your media selection. Look for publications and media outlets compatible with the subject matter in the release. Address your release to the appropriate editor. Look for editors who cover topics related to yours. Select a dozen media outlets and concentrate your efforts on them. Make most of them local ones. When given a choice, an editor is more likely to run an article on a local business rather than one that is not. Readers want local news. You would be wise to call the media outlet's editorial offices and verify the name of the appropriate editor to receive the release. Get their address so you can properly direct your news release to this person. It is a great idea to personalize a cover letter or enclose a handwritten note to this editor.     Consult a good book on advertising to learn how to write an effective news release. Check the Bibliography/Recommended Reading section in the back of this book for several advertising titles we recommend. Keep in mind the following information when writing your news release: Open with a provocative headline to immediately grab attention. Capitalize and center the headline below the dateline. Keep it shortone page only. Use double- or one-and-one-half-spaced type. Present the most important information in the first few paragraphs. Editors usually cut material from the back end of a story first. Always cover the journalist's who, what, when, where, why, how and how much as soon as possible in the release. Write with the journalistic style of news stories. Be to the point and conversational. Don't get overly technical. Highlight the invention's major benefit. Type ""For Immediate Release"" at the top. Always include ordering information if your product is ready for or on the market. Make sure it is a quality product and ready for the market. Although many editors will not include ordering information in the article, some will allow its inclusion. (It's fantastic when they do!) Remember to code this information so you can track responses. Include artwork such as a sketch or picture of your invention. Don't forget to send along a professionally taken, well-composed photo of you, the inventor. Make it easy for people to reach you. Include your name, address, phone number, fax number and email address if you have it. This information plus the date goes at the top. Saturation coverage works. Don't forget your local mediahit'em hard. Target your releases toward media outlets your research has indicated would be interested in your product. Make your release newsworthyentertain and use drama. It should not read like an advertisement.  Quote yourself in the release. Follow up your news release mailing with a call to the editor asking if he or she needs more information to publish the release. Laser print the news release on high quality company letterhead. It is customary to type ""30"" or ""###"" or ""END"" at the end of the release. Allow adequate lead time to coordinate publication of the story with any time-sensitive event you are planning. Contact the editor's office for lead time estimates. Use the correct format. Always follow up with a telephone call to the editor. Confirm receipt of the news release and offer to provide more information if the editor needs it to run the story. Make the editor's job as easy as possible by sending a newsworthy story that includes all the facts a journalist would have included. Sometimes it is all too easy for the writer of the release to forget to include essential facts. We've all done it. Sometimes we just can't see the forest for the trees. Persistence pays off. If your first news release doesn't get picked up and run, issue another. Keep issuing them on a routine basis whenever you have a newsworthy event to publicize. With persistence, you will eventually see it in print. Send your news release to the following media outlets to have a shot at getting your invention mentioned in their columns: New York Times Patent Columnist 229 West 43rd Street New York, N.Y. 10036 Julia Angwin States News Service Fax (202) 737-1851 Instead of a news release, you can write your own news or feature story to be picked up by newspapers. Do it by first writing your own news story about your invention or business. Remember to follow standard journalistic style and conventions. It should read like any other news or feature story you spot in any newspaper. Your next step is to contact one of several agencies that distribute camera-ready news or feature stories. They will format and distribute your story for a small fee. Expect to pay a little over $1,000. These stories can be distributed to well over 10,000 U.S. newspapers. Typically, several hundred newspapers will pick up the story. Consider the power of this promotional strategy. What would it cost you to run paid advertisements in several hundred newspapers? The answer istoo much! Many people do not read advertisements but they do read news articles. By utilizing a different format you can get your message noticed. If your invention is ready for or already on the market, this promotional outlet will give you awesome exposure. If your marketing strategy includes direct marketing to consumers, placing ordering information in the story can result in significant sales. Besides camera-ready news and feature stories, publicity services also distribute multi-media releases and news releases. Some distribute news releases electronically to newsrooms all across America (print and broadcast). Many provide usage reports and clipping services as well. Clipping services are valuable. Anytime an article is printed about your subject (invention or company), this service provides you with a copy. Copies of these articles are perfect for your further promotional activities. Include them in press kits and sales materials such as direct marketing letters. Check with these publicity services to see what they can offer you: Metro Creative Graphics 31 West 34th Street New York, NY 10001-3099   Telephone: (212) 947-5100 Fax: (212) 714-9139 North American Precis Syndicate 405 Lexington Avenue, 59th Floor New York, NY 10174 Telephone: (212) 867-9000 Fax: (212) 867-9010 PR Newswire 810 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10019 Telephone: (800) 832-5522 Product Marking If you have a product already on the market based upon an invention that is filed for but not yet patented, it is customary to mark it with the legend ""Patent Pending."" This serves as a warning to others that it is about to become a patent-protected product and thus off limits to them should they desire to manufacture, sell or use that or a similar product. You are telling them don't bother to tool up for production or purchase some knockoff and import it because their investment may suddenly go bad when patent protection kicks in. A note of caution: Do not be tempted to mark your product Patent Pending or refer to it as such in any of your literature if you have not filed a patent application. You will be breaking the law and the U.S. government will nail you. Lawbreakers can expect a $500 fine and possible prison time. When your patent is granted, you need to change your markings on your product as well as your marketing and sales literature. Patent law offers patent holders a choice. According to federal statute 35 USC 278, you can choose to mark the legend ""Pat."" or ""Patent"" with the patent number immediately following on your product. Your other choice is to make no mark at all on your product or simply mark it ""Patented"" without referring to your patent number. Your choice in this matter will have serious repercussions should you face the evil specter of infringement. If your product is properly marked with your patent number and infringement occurs, you can sue the infringer for damages from the date you first marked your product. The infringer doesn't even have to see your notice. You can potentially recover from day one of your patent term. Should you decide not to mark your product or only mark ""Patented,"" you must first notify the infringer that infringement is occurring. If you sue for damages, you cannot recover from the beginning of your patent protection but only for the period after you notified them of the infringement or after the date you filed suit against them, whichever is earlier. In many cases, you will not be aware of infringement activity until some time has passed. Even though you have a patent, the infringers can get away with using your intellectual property rights during this prenotification period. Many inventors debate the pros and cons of whether or not to mark their products with their patent number. One school of thought is that if the number is marked, a potential infringer can easily order your patent from the PTO and design a new product and patent it, thus superseding yours. Some inventors and the companies they work for believe they are protecting their products and markets by not making it easy for competitors to gain access to proprietary information. Another school of thought says you might as well mark the product with the patent number. You get the benefit of being able to recover damages from infringers all the way back to day one of the patent. The infringer doesn't have to be notified of their illegal activity. The patent holder doesn't have to worry about noticing the infringement immediately to get the opportunity to recover damages fully. The fact is, if an infringer is interested in a patented but unmarked product, it is a simple process to get the patent. A simple patent search will turn up all prior art, including your patent. They can examine your claims and attempt to design around them to get their own patent. We believe proper marking of your product with your patent number is really in your best interest. It gives you a stronger position from which to fight infringement.   Seeking A Licensing Deal Immediately after filing your patent application is the time to seek a licensing deal with a manufacturer. You neither need nor want to wait a year or two until the PTO issues your patent. The manufacturer that licenses your invention will want the advantage of as long a patent-in-force term as possible to protect their market. This also allows them the option of obtaining foreign patent rights before time runs out to do so. Foreign patents cannot be obtained after your invention is awarded a U.S. patent. Only during the U.S. patent application time or patent pendency time can you obtain a foreign patent. You may decide that a licensing deal is the best way for you to profit from your invention. Let's explore this option. A license confers upon a licensee the right to use a patented invention for a negotiated period of time. The ownership of the patent still remains in the inventor's name. The licensee renders compensation to the inventor in the form of a royalty payment and up-front money to cover costs. You should insist on a minimum guaranteed royalty or lump sum payment to prevent your licensed manufacturer from shelving your invention. This is especially important if you are granting an exclusive license. You get paid even if the company doesn't manufacture or sell the invention. Additionally, you should insist upon a clause in the license agreement stipulating that if nothing is done with the invention for a set period of time (two years is reasonable), the license expires and the invention rights revert back to you. It is shocking how many patents are killed by unethical companies who lock them up in a licensing deal and then shelve them. This is one strategy some companies use to stifle emerging competition. By taking the patent out of circulation, their product line and bottom line are not threatened. If they do not actively market and sell your invention, your royalty payments will be reduced or even nonexistent. Make certain any agreement you sign includes a no-shelving clause for your protection.    Royalty arrangements vary greatly depending upon how well you negotiate (actually your attorney should negotiate for you) and how much you are willing to give away to secure other important concessions in the license agreement. One strategy is to start out asking for 10 percent. Negotiate downwards. If you end up with 1 to 3 percent you've done okay. This is by and large the average range. Of vital concern to you is of what figure you are getting a percentage. Are we talking about a percentage of the gross revenues? Net revenues? Net income? Income before extraordinary items? Many options exist. You must be cautious when negotiating the agreement. Some companies can get very creative with their accounting. If you settle for a percentage of the net, you may end up with little or nothing.   The Hollywood movie business is a wonderful example. Some movie studio accountants manipulate the books to show a zero net or even a loss for a particular movie project. Anyone expecting a percentage is out of luck. In the movie industry, if you agree to a percentage of the net, you are a fool. Selecting the appropriate category upon which your percentage is based will determine the financial success or failure of your licensing program. Choose well, for it can mean the difference between life in mediocrity or life in Maui. Another strategy is to spread out the royalty payments over a number of years. The initial payment might start at 5 percent for the first year. Subsequent payments decrease by a half percent per year for several years until you reach 1 or 2 percent, then continues at that rate for the rest of the term of your agreement.   The initial year or two for sales of the invention will be small, but hopefully growing. Even at a higher royalty percentage, the payment to you will be modest. By the time the product is really getting established in the marketplace, the royalty percentage will have come down. This is a decent arrangement for both you and the manufacturer. A more advantageous royalty agreement would be to have the royalty payments, in percentage terms, match the product's lifecycle. A typical product lifecycle starts slowly, builds over time to a peak and then declines to a steady or slightly declining mature level. In this scenario, your percentage starts low, rises as sales increase, peaks and then declines to a steady rate. Using this royalty payment structure, you realize a net gain over the previous scenario. By taking a lower percentage the first year but a higher percentage as sales peak, you will not be leaving money on the table. Instead, it goes in your pocket. Finding Prospects It's time to do your homework. You need to find prospective manufacturers who will be good prospects for licensing your invention. Look for manufacturers who deal with products similar to your invention. The same resources we are about to mention can be used to research and locate manufacturers if you want them to manufacture your invention for you to distribute and sell. These manufacturers should possess certain characteristics: The company should have a history of honest and ethical business practices. The company should be financially sound. The company should have strong marketing and sales expertise. The company should be local so you can keep in close touch with them and offer your services as a consultant if needed. This is not a hard and fast rule. Often, it is unrealistic to expect to find a qualified manufacturer in your local area who is willing to license your patent. The company should be small or mid-sized. Huge companies generally suffer from NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome. Their research and development department will be heavily biased against you. The company should already manufacture and market a related product line. To find these types of companies you need to go only so far as your local library. Numerous directories exist in which you can find listings of companies, their profile including product lines, sales history, contacts, corporate officers and other valuable company information. Resources you need to check are the following: Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Directory Moody's Manuals Standard & Poor's Value Line Investment Survey Business Periodical Index Directory of Corporate Affiliations Dun & Bradstreet Business Information Reports Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources In addition, the Thomas Register of Manufacturers cannot be beat for company research. This vast compendium of corporate listings is available in nearly every public library. The Thomas Register of Manufacturers lists the industrial goods and services of U.S. companies. There are three sections: The main Thomas Register: This collection of volumes contains company listings by type of product they manufacture. The company name, address, phone numbers, company profile and information on their product line are listed here. Company Profiles: Companies in this register are listed by name rather than organized in a listing by their products. TOMCAT Guide: Many companies listed in the register have their product catalogs in this valuable section. Publications exist in which you can gain exposure for your invention if you are seeking a licensing deal or sale of patent. Independent inventors, corporations, and university research and development centers advertise their ideas here attempting to interest companies and investors (such as venture capitalists) in their invention. Refer to the following information services: American Bulletin of International Technology Patent Licensing Gazette Selected Business Ventures (published by General Electric Company) Technology Mart National Technical Information Service Approaching A Manufacturer When you have selected one or several prospective manufacturers it is time to prepare your presentation for them. Remember, contact a manufacturer to seek a licensing deal after your patent application has been filed in the PTO. Never send an unprotected idea. Be forewarned, however, the PTO must have received your patent application and initiated the examination process before you contact any manufacturer with a licensing offer. Make certain your patent application file number is in your possession. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, ""If the inventor describes the invention in a printed publication or uses the invention publicly, or places it on sale, he must apply for a patent before one year has gone by, otherwise any right to a patent will be lost."" You must heed the one-year rule. Always make sure your invention is patent pending or patented to protect your rights to it. You should prepare a compelling and highly descriptive presentation package showcasing your invention, emphasizing what it does and its benefits to the company and/or the consumer. Be certain to indicate ""Patent Pending"" on your literature. Don't think you can try to bluff a manufacturer by marking ""Patent Pending"" on your invention brochure when you haven't yet filed. You may be tempted to try to get a licensing deal set up before spending money on a patent. You may think, if I can't make the deal, I won't bother to file and instead, promote another invention. Big mistake. Marking ""Patent Pending"" on an invention or even referring to the invention as ""Patent Pending"" is a crime punishable by a $500 fine if you have not filed a patent application with the PTO. By this time, you should have an actual working model of your invention. Have a professional photographer who specializes in commercial work photograph the model. Pictures are worth a thousand words so take advantage of this medium to show your invention and what it does. Have several dozen 5-by-7 or 8-by-10 inch glossy prints made for submissions. Your presentation package will include a letter of introduction, brochure, product outline, patent drawings, laser copies of the picture of your prototype if you have one, and SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope) for a reply if you do not make the presentation in person. Your best strategy is to make a live presentation. In this case, go with a working model. Your brochure will accompany your working model and photographs. The brochure will include your contact information such as name, title, address, telephone and fax numbers, email address and a brief professional history. The most vital information is the invention's description. What is its function? Do not reveal how it works at this point in the negotiations. Why is it superior to other products on the market? List the benefits of the invention to both the manufacturer and consumer. Every invention has its pros and cons. Highlight the positive features. Be ready to explain how to mitigate the negative factors. Anticipate the questions the manufacturer will ask. Provide the answers. Be able to discuss the invention's selling points. Demonstrate why it will have consumer demand. Since you have filed the patent application for the invention, indicate that it is ""Patent Pending."" Cite any other proprietary rights such as trademarks that have been applied for or already granted. Three choices exist for method of presentation. First, you can mail or messenger your invention's brochure, pictures, patent without claims, and signed waiver to the company president or other individual who will evaluate the invention. This is a poor sales technique if you are trying to license or sell the invention. The second choice is to rely on an invention marketing company to present your invention to industry. This is generally a bad idea. No one can make a presentation as well as you can. You, the inventor, have the knowledge, passion and will to succeed. The third and best choice is to make a live presentation of your invention to the company representative who is the decision-maker. A face-to-face presentation is more powerful and compelling. Your effectiveness is enhanced and success is much more likely. Your first step is to write a brief letter to the company president in which you offer to demonstrate your invention to them. Your letter should be succinct, explaining who you are, what you have done, and how the invention can benefit their company. Indicate you will call in a few days to request an appointment for a live demonstration of the invention to the president. Preparation is the key for an effective and compelling live demonstration. Practice beforehand. Make certain you have polished your public speaking skills in order to present a more effective demonstration. Assemble all your materials. In addition to all the others mentioned previously, inclusion of a working model or prototype is advisable in certain circumstances. Most often, bringing out the working model or prototype is done only after several meetings and negotiations have begun. You do not want to reveal too much too soon. An element of a trusting business relationship has to have been begun to reveal the working model. Consider the model or prototype a trade secret at this stage of the negotiations. Never reveal the invention's claims until after signing the licensing deal or sale of the patent. If you reveal the claims prematurely, the company may be able to design around your patented invention. By adding just one additional claim of their own they can obtain a new patent that supersedes yours. Don't make this terrible mistake. You can easily lose your hard-won patent. Use plenty of visual aids during your presentation. Schematics, charts, diagrams, photographs and printed materials all help to persuade the company decision makers. Do not include a model or prototype at this stage if how it works can be deduced from examination of it. The heart of your presentation must explain several key points about your invention. This information is absolutely necessary to the success of your presentation. As you convey this information to your audience, you offer them convincing reasons to buy your pitch. This is what they need to hear: Function. What your invention does.  Advantage. Why it does it better than anything else on the market. Form. What this invention will look like as a marketable product. Appeal. Why the product will appeal to the consumer. Profit. How the company can profit from the sale or use of the invention. Compatibility. How the invention fits in with the company's product line. Emotional involvement. This is vital! The excitement must be infectious. You must appeal to their thirst for prestige and desire to be an industry leader. For the first meeting, it is usually not necessary to be accompanied by your patent attorney. However, if the company invites you back and they make you an offer, you have entered the negotiation stage. At this point, you definitely need your patent attorney by your side to offer advice and guide you through sensitive, often time-consuming and always complex negotiations. The Deadly Waiver When you submit your idea or invention to a corporation, their legal department will usually insist you sign a ""waiver"". Many inventors consider them nothing more than an opportunity for you to relinquish your rights to your invention. Many of these legally binding documents essentially strip you of all of your rights except for those patent law confers upon you. The waiver makes it possible and indeed, easy, for a company to steal your idea. These infamous agreements are toxic to inventors. If you decide to submit your idea or invention to a company and you decide to sign one of these agreements, see a patent attorney before you take any action. To be fair, there are some companies whose waivers are fair and reasonable. After all, they need to protect themselves from lawsuits too. Their concern is an inventor may sue if the company's research and development team independently invents a similar invention. Many of the clauses in the waiver cede the company every advantage and leave you with nothing. Worse, some waivers are worded in such a way that anything you invent in the future will be subject to this agreement. Always make sure the name of your invention is listed on the waiver and the agreement is binding only with this one invention. Additionally, some waivers neglect to mention a time frame for which the waiver will be valid. Limit the period for which the agreement is binding. If you don't, well . . . forever is a long time. You should never send a company full specifications to your invention or the claims listed on your patent application. They get this only after signing the licensing agreement. If they get it before, it may be relatively easy to do you one better. They need only one additional claim to get a new patent of their own. With this new patent they will own the monopoly rights to the invention. You are out of the loop. And you just gave away your invention. Insist the company send back to you all the documents you sent them. You want a paper trail connecting you, the inventor, with the company. A signed waiver is not enough of a paper trail to prove you have revealed your invention to them. Obviously, any sane inventor should not hold waivers in high regard. If possible, avoid signing them. Smaller-sized companies are less likely to require you to sign a waiver. You may want to target your efforts toward them and avoid the giants who are likely to treat you shabbily. Some companies may consent to signing a waiver which you have drafted. It should be very simple and very fair for both parties. Your patent attorney can advise you should you go this route.   Seeking Licensing Through Invention Brokers Independent inventors can contact patent brokers who market patents and negotiate licensing deals or sales to those seeking new commercial products. Warning! These are shark infested waters. There are many, many, many disreputable invention submission companies out there. Remember, if they make their money by charging inventors fees, you don't want to do business with them. Be wary of those who advertise on radio or television. Some invention brokers and developers work on a contingent-fee basis. These are generally considered to be reputable. These firms represent you as they search for a manufacturer or distributor for your invention and the eventual sale or license thereof. Unless the invention broker is successful in selling or licensing your invention for a percentage of your rights, you will not incur any cost. The following is a list of invention brokers and promoters who operate on a contingent-fee basis: Arthur D. Little, Inc. Invention Management Group Acorn Park Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140 (617) 864-5770 Battelle Development Corporation 505 King Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43201 (614) 424-6424 Product Resources International 1414 Avenue of the Americas New York, N.Y. 10168 (212) 687-4741 REFAC Technology Development Corporation 122 E. 42nd Street New York, N.Y. 10017 (212) 687-4741 Be sure to seek out only reputable brokers. Unscrupulous brokers have caused untold havoc and heartache to inventors. Always check with the appropriate consumer protection agencies when considering doing business with any broker. It is critical you obtain several references and interview them. Questionable companies often have a slick response to this important ""reference"" question. Con artist alert! Don't let their representative slough it off. Don't let them intimidate you. If you don't feel comfortable and they cannot satisfy this point, drop them like a hot potato. Move on to another who hopefully is an honest one. Have your patent attorney review and approve any legally binding agreement with these organizations in order to protect your rights. To learn more about invention promotion firms, refer to Chapter 6 where we delve more deeply into this controversial topic. Excerpted from Inventing Made Easy: The Entrepreneur's Indispensable Guide To Creating, Patenting And Profiting From Inventions by Tom Bellavance and Roger Bellavance. Copyright 1999 by Tom Bellavance and Roger Bellavance. Excerpted by permission of Quiet Corner Press, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.",books;business & investing;entrepreneurship;marketing;marketing & sales;new business enterprises;science & math;self-help;small business & entrepreneurship;success;technology,11
B0002FO7M0,"DR Strings RPM12 Rare Phosphor Bronze Medium Acoustic Guitar Strings Phosphor Bronze Acoustic Guitar Strings. Low tension...the sound is loud and warm. The Rare phosphor bronze acoustic strings are departure from the standard, good quality bronze string currently available...not necessarily better, but possessing a new, different, and stronger ""voice"". When DR set out to produce a string with new characteristics, our goal was to redesign contemporary thinking about what phosphor bronze can do for a good acoustic guitar. Hand-carved arch-tops and dreadnaughts and good steel string acoustic guitars of rosewood, maple, and mahogany seem to benefit from a distinct improvement in tone, depth, and sustain with Rare phosphor strings. Players who want a fatter and louder sound, as well as a deeper bottom (who like to hear their guitars ring out) will appreciate the Rare phosphor tone, sound, and feel. According to our heavy-playing bluegrass friend, three time national guitar picking champion Steve Kaufman, Rares last an unusually long time. Steve recommends DR to all his students.",accessories & supplies;acoustic guitar strings;audio & video accessories;audio cables;cables & interconnects;electronics;guitar & bass accessories;instrument accessories;musical instruments;speaker cables;strings,11
0140262318,"When Parents Die: A Guide for Adults A practical guide for coping with the loss of a parent, this book was written by a journalist who has lost both. Edward Myers makes it clear that no matter how old we are, the death of a parent can be devastating, evoking intense and complex feelings that have long-lasting implications. Comprised of advice from therapists, practices for self-help groups and first-person accounts, Myers covers the grieving process and differentiates between the impact of sudden death and slow decline. He also offers advice for funeral planning, dividing personal property and resolving feelings such as guilt, shame and isolation.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""One of the situations you face in grieving for a parent is the likelihood that some people will treat it as a non-event""; well-meaning friends will commonly ""ask `how's your mother taking it?' but nothing about how you feel"" writes Myers, a free-lance journalist who has experienced the death of both parents as an adult. Relying primarily on interviews and questionnaires, the author covers the grieving process, the difference in impact of sudden death versus slow decline, and some of the practical and emotional issues involved in planning the funeral, dividing personal property, and resolving residual feelings. Although not comprehensive, this book is recommended as a resource for further reading and/or for guidance from social service agencies and as a validation of grief upon losing one's parentsat any age. Suzanne Druehl, Little Rock P.L., Ark .Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Although not comprehensive, this book is recommended as a resource for further reading and/or for guidance from social service agencies and as a validation of grief upon losing one's parents--at any age. -- Library Journal	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Edward Myers is a freelance writer who, together with Koman, has written The Parenting Survival Kit and How to Mend a Broken Heart.",books;death;death & grief;family relationships;grief & bereavement;parent & adult child;parenting & relationships;personal transformation;politics & social sciences;self-help;sociology,11
0831132000,"Exercise Workbook for Beginning AutoCAD 2005 (AutoCAD 2005 Exercise Workbooks) Cheryl R. Shrock is a Professor and Chairperson of Computer Aided Design at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California.  She is an Autodesk registered author and has written a dozen workbooks on AutoCAD.  Cheryl began teaching CAD in 1990.  Previous to teaching, she owned and operated a commercial product and machine design business where designs were created and documented using CAD.  This workbook is a combination of her teaching skills and her industry experience.",architecture;books;cad;computer science;computers & technology;drafting & presentation;graphic design;new;professional & technical;software;used & rental textbooks,11
032139237X,"The Non-Designer's Collection (3rd Edition) Robin Williams is the author of dozens of best-selling and award-winning books, including The Little Mac Book, The Mac is not a typewriter, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Peachpit Learning Series, Robin Williams Design Workshop and Web Design Workshop.  Through her writing, teaching, and seminars, Robin has educated and  influenced an entire generation of computer users in the areas of  design, typography, desktop publishing, the Mac, and the web.  John Tollett has co-authored numerous books with Robin, including Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps, The Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, Robin Williams Design Workshop and Web Design Workshop,  and more. John has more than 30 years' experience working as a  professional designer and illustrator for a dozen advertising agencies,  as a freelancer, and as a partner in a web design firm. He has used the  Macintosh professionally since 1988, most recently for digital video  editing, DVD design, and DVD authoring.",books;computer science;computers & technology;desktop publishing;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;new;programming;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design,11
1592444466,Sources and Trajectories: Eight Early Articles by Jacques Ellul That Set the Stage Text: English (translation)  Original Language: French	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.,books;christian books & bibles;church & state;history;politics & state;religion;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;theology;world,11
1578062306,"Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties Where autobiographies are popular and race and gender studies have strong appeal, this demanding but thought-provoking analysis of the autobiographies of Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and Elaine Brown will find readers. English and American Studies professor Perkins approaches her subjects' compositions from several different directions: comparing the three women's backgrounds and personal objectives; outlining their literary antecedents; discussing experiences each writer views as critical in her decision to be an activist; considering each autobiographer's pedagogical and polemical goals in telling her story; and exploring the interplay between the Black Power movement memoirs written by men and women activists, and between the earliest such narratives and those written more recently. Perkins celebrates this interplay, with all its conflicts, suggesting that ""the Truth of the Movement . . . [is] best captured when many people remember together."" Mary CarrollCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	A study of the Black Power narratives of Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown as instruments for radical social change. Recipient of the Mississippi University for Women's Eudora Welty Prize	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",african-american & black;african-american studies;biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;history & criticism;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;women's studies,11
0553081160,"O'Keeffe: The Life of an American Legend How did a gaunt, fearful schoolteacher from the Texas Panhandle become the best-known American woman artist of the century? This engrossing biography of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) sweeps away myths and legends. An icon of self-reliance whose life in the New Mexico desert has inspired feminists, the acerbic and imperious O'Keeffe, in Hogrefe's candid portrait, tended to dominate other women and looked up to certain men as superior beings. Her husband, New York photographer and art impresario Alfred Stieglitz, 23 years her senior, was a parental figure, ""the foundation against which she would rebel."" Hogrefe, a former Washington Post arts columnist, attributes O'Keeffe's frequent rages to suppressed memories of childhood incest. Following a series of nervous breakdowns, O'Keeffe came to accept her bisexuality. ""The victim became the victimizer,"" subjugating a series of women who worshiped her like a goddess, in Hogrefe's account. Drawing on interviews, he sympathetically limns Juan Hamilton, the volatile young artist who cared for the elderly O'Keeffe, and whom many critics portray as a villain preying on an old lady. O'Keeffe's artistic achievements seem all the more remarkable in light of this searchingly critical yet affectionate biography, a remarkable piece of detective work. Photos. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Hogrefe has pared down Georgia O'Keeffe's 98 years to a series of sexual liaisons with members of both genders, culminating with her controversial relationship with the young sculptor Juan Hamilton, decades her junior. Interspersed among the descriptions of O'Keeffe's affairs or attempted seductions are the increasingly famous artist's dealings with Jackie Kennedy, Joni Mitchell, Calvin Klein, and Elizabeth Arden. Hogrefe has minimized the art historical critiques or interpretations of O'Keeffe's work, giving us not O'Keeffe the artist but a voyeuristic--though not unsympathetic--peep into the daily life of one of America's most famous painters. This latest biography falls short of the two others published since O'Keeffe's death in 1986, Roxana Robinson's Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life ( LJ 9/15/89) and Laurie Lisle's Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe , which was revised and enlarged following the artist's death in 1986 (Univ. of New Mexico Pr., 1986). Recommended only for O'Keeffe completists.-- Martin R. Kalfatovic, Natl. Museum of American Art/Natl. Portrait Gallery Lib., Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Following Roxana Robinson's Georgia O'Keeffe (1989) and Benita Eisler's O'Keeffe and Stieglitz (1991) comes another lengthy biography of America's most persistently scrutinized woman artist. What Hogrefe (Wholly Unacceptable, 1986) has to add to the O'Keeffe file is his access to Juan Hamilton, the artist's controversial, decades-younger, opportunistic companion who inherited a fortune after fighting with O'Keeffe's relatives over her estate. While insisting that ``this is not...Hamilton's book,'' Hogrefe starts with Hamilton, who ``arrived in New Mexico's high desert'' with a ``premonition'' that the elderly O'Keeffe, by then ``successful beyond the dreams of most women and men,'' needed him. At this point, the author, who later rips into O'Keeffe's carefully constructed persona, seems to be weaving more myth. (Is this perhaps because Hogrefe met O'Keeffe at a party in New Jersey in the early 80's and was dazzled by her ``obvious and occult'' smile?) Hogrefe's report on O'Keeffe's final years amounts to accumulated detail rather than enlightenment: You won't find out if or how Hamilton influenced the blind artist to change her will. In covering the rest of the now-familiar O'Keeffe story--from Wisconsin (born in 1887) to teaching in Texas to her notorious alliance with Alfred Stieglitz and her move to the Southwest- -Hogrefe hypes certain aspects of the artist's sometimes troubled inner self beyond what the evidence suggests: ``Rumbling beneath the surface are the weightier issues of repressed homosexuality, incest-induced rage, madness, coercion and deceit.'' For a more balanced and convincing O'Keeffe portrait, go to Robinson; for a microscopic look at the artist's relationship with Stieglitz, see Eisler; and for a sense of O'Keeffe's explosive creativity, read her letters to Anita Pollitzer (Lovingly, Georgia, 1990). (Sixteen pages of photographs--not seen.) -- Copyright 1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;historical;individual artists;specific groups;united states;women,11
0801865603,"Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford Borrowing his title from dialogue in John Ford's classic Western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (""When the legend becomes fact, print the legend""), Scott Eyman heeds this advice in his splendid study of Ford, finding a convincing balance between the gruff image Ford cultivated and the sensitive artist that Ford truly was. The result is a to-date definitive biography, occasionally prone to indelicate critical assessment while benefiting greatly from Eyman's full access to the Ford family archives. Arguably the greatest American filmmaker of the 20th century, Ford protected himself with a faade of belligerence yet engendered more loyalty among his crew and stock players (notably John Wayne and Ward Bond) than any other director. Eyman illuminates the Ford legend while focusing on fact--on a complex genius who would berate even the most vulnerable actor and then ""apologize without apologizing,"" a binge drinker who never let alcohol interfere with his closely-guarded artistry, and a stalwart Navy captain whose service in World War II became his primary source of pride. Print the Legend essentially confirms Ford's brief affair with Katharine Hepburn, but Eyman emphasizes Ford's deep, abiding affection for his wife, Mary, who valiantly tolerated his absolute devotion to filmmaking. While hundreds of interviews yield a comprehensive account of Ford's working methods (which the director was loathe to discuss), Eyman expertly navigates around Ford's own penchant for autobiographical embellishment. What emerges is likely to remain the most thorough portrait of a cinematic master who recognized his own greatness without parading it, and whose human flaws were ultimately forgivable by those--and they were many--who loved him. Readers should look elsewhere for more astute studies of Ford's films, but Eyman has captured Ford the man with lasting authority. -- Jeff Shannon	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	One of the great directors in the history of film, John Ford (1894-1973) was ""America's tribal poet,"" writes Eyman, a man whose movies added up to a national epic. The director of such classics as The Grapes of Wrath, The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Ford certainly had a dark side, according to Eyman: he was bad-tempered and pugnacious; a sloppy, self-pitying drunk; a dictatorial, frequently abusive director; and a failed father estranged from his son and daughter. Biographer of Ernst Lubitsch and Mary Pickford, Eyman has written a quietly magnificent biography of an American original who has shaped our perception of movies as serious art. His westerns conjure up a democratic community of equals unified by shared purpose. A Maine saloonkeeper's son, Ford grew up in a large, working-class Irish immigrant family. Using hitherto untapped transcripts, Eyman tells the full story of the famous, tumultuous 1950 Screen Directors Guild meeting, when Ford took a courageous stand against hard-line conservative Cecil B. DeMille, who sought to mandate a McCarthyite loyalty oath for members. Eyman's study serves up a big, gorgeous chunk of Hollywood history, chock-full of priceless anecdotes of Katharine Hepburn, James Cagney, Henry Fonda, Frank Capra, Clark Gable and others. Though many considered Ford pass? by the 1960s, a new generation of critics and cineastes were championing the six-time Academy Award winner for his largeness of spirit, his deeply felt poetry, his evocation of innocence and of America as it was meant to have been. (Nov.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The book's title comes from a line in Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty ValenceA""When the legend becomes fact, print the legend""Awhich is appropriate if not entirely accurate. This is a comprehensive, unvarnished look at a complex man and the films he made. Eyman (The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution) looks at Ford's public lifeAthe ""stock company"" that followed Ford from film to film, his relationships with John Wayne and Henry Fonda, his lifelong love of the U.S. Navy (which resulted in the classic war film They Were Expendable), as well as his private life. Because the author enjoyed access to many Ford friends and co-workers, his portrait may be painful to Ford's admirers; Eyman relates details of a (possibly unconsummated) affair with Katharine Hepburn, Ford's strained relations with his children, and his sad, lonely final years. He also traces Ford's temperament, the periods of hard work that alternated with alcoholic inactivity, and how his generosity toward his actors and crew was mixed with abuse. Filled with juicy anecdotes and a solid grasp of film history and moviemaking, this book is likely to become a standard. Highly recommended for American film collections.AStephen Rees, Levittown Regional Lib., PA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	One of the most highly regarded American film directors, John Ford is also among the most heavily documented, the subject of numerous biographies and critical studies. Eyman strikes a commendable balance between biography and critique. Thanks to some 100 interviews, he adds depth, if not breadth, to the written record of Ford's career, showing how the insecure director developed his curmudgeonly persona to keep from being revealed as the sensitive artist he was. More valuably, Eyman demonstrates how ""to an unusual degree, Ford's work was his life,"" with his experiences and beliefs reflected in his films. For example, Ford's thwarted relationship with Katharine Hepburn manifests itself in the themes of duty and sacrifice that run throughout his films. Using his expertise on silent film, Eyman reveals how Ford's underrated silents informed his better-known later work and that Ford's work developed as an amalgamation of the seemingly conflicting influences of D. W. Griffith's folksiness and F. W. Murnau's aestheticism. The definitive study of Ford may never appear. Meanwhile, cineasts should cheer Eyman's valuable effort.  Gordon Flagg	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Author of an acclaimed biography of Ernst Lubitsch (1991) and a well-regarded history of the coming of the talkies (The Speed of Sound, 1996), Eyman takes on an even bigger piece of film history: the career of John Ford. Ford was not merely a man of contradictionsa voracious reader and a student of literature and American history who disdained intellectuals, a gruff personal reactionary who was a lifelong liberal Democrat, a cinematic poet of family unity who was a terrible parenthe was an out-and-out enigma, even to those closest to him. As Eyman notes early in this lengthy book, ``The point was to never let anybody know who the real John Ford was.'' To that end, Ford left a genial legacy of lies, half-truths, and fantasies he spun for interviewers and would-be biographers. One of the greatest strengths of this excellent book is that Eyman finally unravels the skeins of legend to reveal the truth about Ford's background. Legend: Ford went to the University of Maine on a football scholarship. Fact: Ford never went to college after graduating from Portland High. Legend: Ford stumbled unwittingly into the movie business. Fact: Ford came out to Hollywood to join his older brother Francis, already a silent-film star and director, and was eager to break into the film industry. Legend: Ford did all his cutting in the camera, shooting only the footage he needed to make a scene. Fact: almost true, but Ford did shoot ``coverage'' (alternate camera angles of a scene to be used in the editing process) on occasion. Eyman has drawn on Ford's personal papers, his letters and notebooks, and hundreds of interviews to create the most balanced and complete portrait yet of the director of The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Although at times inelegantly written, this is as definitive a biography as we are likely to get of one of America's greatest filmmakers. (b photos)  -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Scott Eyman, Ford's latest and best biographer, has his work cut out sorting through the blarney Ford left strewn in his wake. But what a wake... Everything about this model biography is a pleasure."" -- Malcolm Jones, Newsweek""Print the Legend makes all previous books on Ford, and most books on any other filmmaker, seem undernourished. Eyman... has given us a 600-plus-page book without an ounce of fat."" -- Allen Barra, Los Angeles Times Book Review""Eyman has emerged as one of the most distinguished and reliable of popular film historians. Print the Legend displays his broad knowledge, his tact, his willingness to credit other writers, his capacity to avoid sensationalism but not to flinch from difficult truths."" -- Robert Sklar, Washington Post Book World""A quietly magnificent biography of an American original who has shaped our perception of movies as serious art... Eyman's study serves up a big, gorgeous chunk of Hollywood history, chock-full of priceless anecdotes."" -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)	Scott Eyman is the books editor for the Palm Beach Post. His other books include The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930 and Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise, both available in paperback from Johns Hopkins.	Chapter One: From Maine to Hollywood  Today, western Ireland is a sparsely populated landscape, but in the early nineteenth century it was filled with people. John Feeney, the father of John Ford, was just one of four million people who abandoned Ireland in the long aftermath of the potato famine of 1846, when three-fourths of the potato crop was blighted and much of the western part of the country was threatened with starvation.  By 1851, Ireland had already lost about 2.4 million people, 1.1 million to death by starvation, 1.3 million to emigration. As the Irish dispersed to other lands, they took their country with them. Ireland has a very specific spiritual temper -- irreverent, socially conservative, with a booziness of almost manic proportions, and an authentic contempt for demagogues and politicians. The guile of the Irish fails to stem their self-destructiveness, the nihilistic alcoholism that often accompanies song, entertaining persiflage, historical reminiscence. The Irish know how to maneuver; they're a nation of factionalists and operators.  As a country that has been occupied for most of its history, the only power the Irish were allowed was over their families, their only self-expression dance, music, literature, and conversation. So Ireland became a land of indirection and duplicity, with a people wary of betrayal. The concept of victory in defeat, and the hero as stylish victim -- Parnell, Wilde -- are as ingrained in the Irish character as eloquence, and would come to their finely polished perfection in the work of John Ford.  John Feeney was born June 16, 1854, in Galway, the son of Patrick Feeney and Mary Curran. Spiddal, the town in which John grew up, was a little farming community. It was a time when, as one Galway man remarked, a local Catholic ""would gladly embrace any pecuniary assistance that would take them anywhere they could make a living."" That assistance came in the form of a visit from an uncle named Mike Connelly (some accounts spell it Connolly) who had gone to America more than a decade before, and done very well for himself.  At eighteen, John Feeney was a large, strong young man, not without intellect, not without ambition. The only opportunity to be had in Spiddal was eking out a living by farming on somebody else's land. He could see there was more opportunity someplace else. Someplace like America.  There was, in the western part of Ireland at that time, a tradition called an ""American wake"" that John Feeney might well have been accorded. It was a farewell party for the departing native -- food and drink and dancing to a vigorous fiddle into the wee hours, and then little or no sleep into the morning, when it would be time to make the rounds and say farewell. It was the kind of social ritual -- outwardly exuberant but with an underlying touch of valedictory sadness -- that John Feeney's son would portray better than anybody.  John Feeney arrived in America on June 8, 1872. The town was Boston, the ship a Cunard vessel he had boarded in Queenstown. The year John Feeney arrived in America, about 72,000 other Irish did as well.  Feeney was typical in every sense, for the immigrants of Feeney's time were predominantly young, predominantly Catholic, predominantly from poor rural or western districts. They were laborers and farmers who had little capital -- a couple of pounds at most. But they didn't need a great deal of capital to make the voyage. Because of the volume of traffic, and the rise of steamships that could carry a thousand or so people in steerage, the fares were surprisingly affordable -- an Irishman could travel to America for as little as $8.75.  The great majority of the Irish sailed to either New York or Boston. The dangers on the long voyage were typhus and cholera from overcrowding; the dangers upon landing were only marginally less -- gangs of ""runners,"" Irish hustlers who stole baggage and cheated countrymen trying to make their way from the port. Confused and broke, many Irish immigrants got no farther than the tenements of their landfall city.  John Feeney was made of sturdier stuff. There was no work in Boston? Very well, he'd go someplace else, someplace where there was family, a cousin or two, and plenty of work to be had -- Maine. John Feeney, like his youngest son, had a knack for finding his way.  If the famine was the defining event of the nineteenth century in Ireland, it turned out to be one of the defining events of America as well. The influx of the Irish in various Northern cities strengthened institutions -- the Democratic Party, Tammany Hall -- but it also traumatized immigrants like Feeney. No matter where they settled, they remained more intimately connected to their native land than many other European immigrants, who were only too glad to come to America. For the Irish, it was a forced march, and their ambivalence would infect their children.  As soon as John Feeney emigrated, he followed in the emotional footsteps of millions of his countrymen. The harshness, the dourness, the malice of his native country was forgotten, and all that was remembered was the beauty, the whimsy. Ireland became a green place where joyous people had an endless party and uttered memorable aphorisms. The inherited Ireland, the Ireland of the imagination, became far more important than the often disillusioning reality.  In time, John Feeney's son would come to know and like Joseph Kennedy and support Jack Kennedy in his political rise, but that family's carefully constructed country club fantasy held no charms for him. John Ford's Irish were and would always remain hard-drinking peasants -- raffish, tough sons of bitches -- as well as generous, funny, curiously honest, and complex people.  Despite the success to be found by so many of the Irish in America, many Irish-Americans never overcame deep-seated feelings of inferiority and insecurity; emotional conflicts were often internalized, and resulted in self-destructive behavior -- overwork, apostasy, alcoholism.  In 1875, three years after John Feeney came to America, he married Barbara Curran, who would be known to family and friends as Abby. Barbara had been born in the town of Kilronan on the island of Inishmore, one of the ferociously hostile Aran Islands, a limestone reef at the mouth of Galway Bay, unreclaimable rock separated by a profusion of crude stone walls. For Abby, life in Maine would have been a year-round Christmas compared to the insular hardships of Kilronan.  The year after they were married, the children began arriving, eleven of them -- Mary Agnes in 1876, Della in 1878, Patrick in 1879, Francis in 1881, Bridget in 1883, Barbara in 1888, Edward in 1889, Josephine in 1891, Joanna in 1892, John in 1894, and Daniel in 1898.  Of these children, five died in infancy, leaving Mary Agnes (known as Maime), Patrick, Francis, Edward, Josephine, and John -- six brothers and sisters. Despite the dreadful infant mortality, which couldn't have been much of an improvement over Spiddal, America seemed to suit the Feeneys; eight years after his arrival in America, on September 11, 1880, John Feeney became an American citizen.  John Ford always claimed to have been born Sean Aloysius O'Fearna -- or some small variant -- on February 1, 1895. For ninety-odd years, he was taken at his word. But the registry of births for Cape Elizabeth, Maine, clearly records the birth of John Martin Feeney on February 1, 1894. That is the date on his birth registration, on his school records at Portland High School, and on his death certificate. When young John -- family and friends always called him Jack -- was born in Cape Elizabeth, an agrarian community a few miles outside of Portland, his father was working as a farmer.  The subtraction of a year from Jack's age stemmed from a childhood bout with diphtheria that caused him to lose a year at school	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;direction & production;entertainers;humor & entertainment;movie directors;movies;performing arts;theater,11
1568983921,Lavoirs: Washhouses of Rural France Mireille Roddier is an architect and teaches at University of Michigan.,architecture;arts & photography;books;caretaking & relocating;cleaning;crafts;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;how-to & home improvements;professional & technical;reference,11
0393037533,"The Norton/Grove Concise Encyclopedia of Music Although this work bears the name of Sir George Grove, it is not a condensed version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ( LJ 12/15/80). Though largely based upon The New Grove , and retaining its relative scope and authority, the work is intended as quick reference for a broad spectrum of readers. Thus unlike The New Grove , it includes names and nicknames of significant works but no bibliographic references and few illustrations. While one might find the New Oxford Companion to Music ( LJ 11/1/83) as useful for illustrative material, the present volume is highly recommended, particularly for information on recent events. William J. Waters, Pensacola Jr. Coll., Fla.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Stanley Sadie (1930-2005), former music critic for The Times of London and editor of The Musical Times, published thirty books and edited the monumental New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.",arts & photography;bibliographies & indexes;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;humor & entertainment;music;publishing & books;reference;research & publishing guides;writing,11
0198146663,Metamorphoses (Oxford Classical Texts) (Latin Edition) R. J. Tarrant is Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University.,ancient;books;classical & medieval;classics;foreign language fiction;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;poetry;used & rental textbooks,11
B0000C8Q35,"Kaplan Word Power The words you use say a lot about who you are and where you're headed. Whether you want to express yourself clearly to impress a prospective employer during a job interview, or just brush up on those pesky words you encounter every so often reading the newspaper, Kaplan Word Power is the essential tool to help you expand your daily vocabulary.Energize your vocabulary with must-know everyday words that are the essentials of a good vocabulary, engaging lessons to help you utilize words in context, hot words often found on standardized tests like the SAT and GRE, tips to help you figure out new words, roots, and more.",books;education & reference;interpersonal relations;language & grammar;relationships;self-help;slang & word lists;study guides;studying & workbooks;vocabulary;words,11
1877761524,"Russian Songs and Arias: Phonetic Readings Word by Word Translations Text: English, Russian (translation)  Original Language: Russian	Jean Piatak is the coauthor of Russian Songs & Arias. Piatak grew up in a Russian-speaking family. Later she made Russian part of her regular studies in her musical education.    She received her master of music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she coached Russian repertoire with Vitya Vronksy Babin.  At the University of Colorado, she completed her Doctor of Musical Arts and taught Russian diction.    Currently Dr. Piatak coaches singers and choirs in Russian diction, appears as a soloist and in recital, teaches voice, and is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Inc. (NATS).",arts & photography;books;composition;composition & performance;education & reference;ethnic & international;instruments;music;musical genres;theory;voice,11
B000OI0EKE,"Auntie Mayhem (Bed-And-Breakfast Mysteries) Kick off your shoes by the fire and get cozy with Mary Daheim.Portland Oregonian	Mary Richardson Daheim is a Seattle native who started telling stories with pictures because she didn't know how to write. After acquiring the rudiments in grade school, Daheim penned her first mystery novel at age eleven. She admits it was terrible, but showed promise. Thus encouraged, she went on to graduate from the University of Washington's School of Communications, having acquired the knowledge and skills to support herself until she wrote a better book. In 1983, Daheim published her first historical romance, Love's Pirate, for Avon Books. She followed this award-winning novel with Destiny's Pawn, Pride's Captive and Passion's Triumph, all for Avon, as well as several historicals for Harlequin. An avid mystery reader, Daheim decided to try her hand at murder and mayhem with the creation of the Bed-and-Breakfast series from Avon, beginning with Just Desserts, and followed by Fowl Prey, Holy Terrors, Dune to Death, Bantam of the Opera, A Fit of Tempera and Major Vices. Daheim is married to David Daheim, an instructor of cinema, literature, and English at Shoreline Community College. The Daheims have three daughters: Barbara, Katherine, and Magdalen. Daheim is member of the Authors Guild, Mystery Writers of America and Romance Writers of America.",books;contemporary fiction;contemporary women;kindle ebooks;kindle store;literature & fiction;mystery;series;thriller & suspense;women sleuths;women's fiction,11
0380977397,"Babe & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure (Baseball Card Adventures) A boy and his father zip back in time to discover whether Babe Ruth actually predicted his home run in Game Three of the 1932 World Series. ""Gutman's account of Joey's strained relationship with his divorced father and his portrait of the intriguing, revered slugger against the backdrop of Depression-era New York are equally skillful,"" noted PW. Ages 8-12.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Grade 4-7-Once again, 13-year-old Joe Stoshack time travels and meets baseball greats of the past. In this book, he takes his father along, as they attempt to discover whether Babe Ruth really ""called his shot"" in the 1932 World Series. The pecuniary possibilities of the adventure are not overlooked. His dad's main interest in going back in time is to make a killing in the sports-memorabilia market. A bag full of baseballs autographed by Babe Ruth would be worth a fortune in today's market, and Joe and his dad try to cash in. Their plans go awry, but they do manage to meet the slugger and experience his outsized personality. True to history, he remains an elusive figure here. At times, he is portrayed as rather lonely and maudlin and at other times he's a caricature-especially in a gross, exaggerated eating scene: ""Babe Ruth hit big, and he missed big, and he lived big. And I can tell this from personal experience, he also puked big."" The book does evoke the importance of a sports hero to an America mired in the depths of the Depression. And, as so frequently happens in baseball novels, the adventure proves to be the catalyst for a new understanding between father and son. This is an entertaining romp through a part of baseball history.Todd Morning, Schaumburg Township Public Library, IL Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""A captivating blend of fact and fantasy.""  -- --The Chicago Tribune""An enjoyable escape into another decade.""  -- --School Library Journal""Gutman spins a delightful tale.""  -- --The Star Ledger""This novel hits at least a triple!""  -- Publishers Weekly	Dan Gutman is the author of the Baseball Card Adventure series, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies, and the My Weird School series, which has sold more than 6.5 million copies!Thanks to his many fans who voted in their classrooms, he has received nineteen state book awards and ninety-two state book award nominations. Dan Gutman lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey, with his wife, Nina, and their two children, Sam and Emma.	It was about eight years ago--when I was five that I discovered baseball cards were sort of . . . oh, magical to me.  It was past my bedtime, I remember. I was sitting at the kitchen table with my dad. This was before my mom and dad split up, before things got weird around the house. Dad was showing me his collection of baseball cards. He had hundreds, a few of them dating back to the 1920s.  My dad never made a lot of money working as a machine operator here in Louisville, Kentucky. I think he spent all his extra money on his two passions in life-fixing up old cars and buying up old baseball cards. Dad loved his cars and cards. They were two of the things Dad and Mom argued about.  Anyway, we were sitting there at the table and Dad handed me an old card.  ""That's a Gil McDougald card. from 1954,"" Dad said. ""He was my hero growing up. What a sweet swing he had.""  I examined the card. As I held it in my right hand, I felt a strange tingling sensation in my fingertips. It didn't hurt. It was pleasant. It felt a little bit like when you brush your fingers lightly against a TV screen when it's on.  I felt vibrations. It was a little frightening. I mean, it was only a piece of cardboard, but it felt so powerful.  ""Joe,"" my dad said, waving his hand in front of my face, ""are you okay?""  I dropped the card on the table. The tingling sensation stopped immediately.   ""Uh, yeah,"" I said uncertainly as I snapped out of it. ""Why?""  I ""You looked like you were in a trance or something,"" Dad explained, ""like you weren't all there.""  ""I felt like I wasn't all there.""  ""He's overtired,"" my mom said, a little irritated. ""Will you stop fooling with those cards and let Joey go to bed?""  But I wasn't overtired. I didn't know it at the time, but a baseball card-for me-could function like a time machine. That tingling, sensation was the signal that my body was about to leave the present and travel back through time to the year on the card. If I had held the card a few seconds longer, I would have gone back to 1954 and landed somewhere near Gil McDougald.  After that night I touched other baseball cards from time to time. Sometimes I felt the tingling sensation. Other times I felt nothing.  Whenever I felt the tingling sensation I dropped the card. I was afraid. I could tell something strange was going to happen if I held  on to the card. I didn't know what would happen, and I wasn't sure I wanted to find out.  Gradually, I discovered that the year of the card determined whether or not it would cause the tingling sensation. Brand-new cards didn't do anything. Cards from the 1960s to the 1990s didn't do much. But I could get a definite buzz from any card from the 1950s. The older the card, I discovered, the more powerful the tingling sensation.  One day, I got hold of a 1909 T-206 Honus Wagner card--the most valuable baseball card in the world. The tingling sensation started the instant I picked up the card. It was more powerful than it had been with any other card. For the first time, I didn't drop the card.  As I held the Wagner card, the tingling sensation moved up my fingers and through my arms, and washed over my entire body. As I thought about the year 1909, the environment around me faded away and was replaced by a different environment. It took about five seconds. In those five seconds, I traveled back through time to the year 1909.   What happened to me in 1909 is a long story, and I almost didn't make it back. After that, I didn't think I would ever travel through time with a baseball card again. But once you discover you've got a special power, it's hard not to use it. For a school project, I borrowed a Jackie Robinson card from a baseball card dealer and sent myself back to the year 1947.  I nearly got killed in 1947, and my mom grounded me. She didn't make me stay in my room or anything like that, but she did make me stay in the present day.  ""No more time traveling!"" she ordered.  But, like I said, when you've got a special power, you want to use it.",baseball;books;children's books;fantasy & magic;historical fiction;literature & fiction;science fiction & fantasy;social situations;sports;sports & games;united states,11
1590950119,"InsideScoop to MCP/MCSE Exam 70-291 Windows Server 2003 Certification: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Server 2003 Network Infrastructure (With CD-ROM Exam) Second Edition Deborah Timmons (MCSE, MCT) came into the Microsoft technical arena after six years in the adaptive technology field, providing technology and training for persons with disabilities. She is the President and co-owner of Integrator Systems, Inc., in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.",.net;books;certification;computers & technology;development;home computing & how-to;microsoft;networking;networks;protocols & apis;windows os,11
B000FQ4M5S,"Calvin: A Biography What is it that makes a good biography so satisfying? An interesting  subject, of course, but also one that is treated with both fairness and  depth, placing that figure in the richness of his or her historical  context. In this way we get all the pleasures of a good story along with  the delight of learning. This is what Bernard Cottret accomplishes in his  biography of John Calvin, now translated into English from the French. More  historian than theologian, Cottret brings a useful objectivity to this  study. In doing so the book reminds us of the fascination of subjects we  might too easily consider merely academic. Immensely influential in his  own time (and in our own, almost 500 years later), this biography  gives us the story of Calvin's life in its historical context and a succinct   analysis of his theology. It appropriately detours in order to  remind the reader of the context in which Calvin was growing up: brief  explorations of the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation, for  example, remind us that these were not simply subjects in school in the  early 1500's. As Cottret notes, Calvin turned 21 in 1530: what would it  mean to be an immensely gifted and driven young man at such a time in  Europe?  It's a great question to ask, and in this book Cottret answers it  with style and depth. --Doug Thorpe	A major new authoritative and comprehensive biography, shedding new light on the life and personality of the great Reformer - and the milieu in which he lived and worked. Cottrets Calvin is not the static theologian of earlier biographies, but a man of enormous vigour, constantly on the move in his thinking as well as in his life.       Professor Cottret introduces the reader to the world into which Calvin was born, and follows him from childhood to humanistic and literary pursuits in Basel, to ministry in Geneva, to the halcyon Strasbourg years and finally back to Geneva. The vital issues of the day are encountered as it were through Calvins eyes, as the author leads the reader through the dramatic upheavals of sixteenth-century Europe.         A classic biography which will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars for years to come.    Praise for Calvin:  'A tour de force. . . Cottret has avoided the trap of painting a character who would have had, from the beginning, all of the traits of his later years, and endeavours to show how Calvin became Calvin. . . Brilliant.'   --Le Monde  'This excellent book regards the French Reformer with new eyes. . . Cottret mixes seriousness and welcome humour. For the public interested in a history of Protestanism, this book is full of reflections of the spirit of the Reformation.'   --Les Livres du Mois     Bernard Cottret is an accomplished and successful writer . . . He has an idiosyncratic style that mixes narrative and professional bon mots of a cold philosophical nature . . . Cottret is also the first of recent biographers [. . .] to make extensive use of Calvins sermons, many of which languished unpublished until recently. Calvin had grave doubts about the publication of such works and thought them fit only for a local and transitory audience; but it is here, in this less guarded medium, that Calvins skill as a teacher and expositor shines forth with greatest clarity.   --English Historical Review>	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;europe;historical;history;leaders & notable people;protestantism;religion & spirituality;religious;switzerland,11
157029044X,"Spanish Piggyback Songs Easy songs with Spanish phrases are sung to childhood favorites: thus 'Pretty Yellow Chicks' in Spanish is sung to the tune of Skip to My Lou, and Oh, What a Beautiful Morning becomes 'Summer Butterflies'. Included are English translations and Spanish pronunciation keys: not included is sheet music, as this is a sing-aloud book for parents and kids.  -- Midwest Book Review",arts;arts & photography;books;children's books;crafts & music;education & reference;foreign language learning;music;popular;songbooks;spanish,11
1931499764,"This Is How I Go When I Go Like This ""Her honesty makes us bond with her even more. Whatever Linda Ligon's purpose or your need, any and every reader will enjoy this handsomely produced text."" The Shuttle Scuttle	Linda Collier Ligon is author of Homespun, Handknit. She is the founder and president of Interweave Press, which publishes six magazines and has more than a 100 books in print. She lives in Loveland, Colorado.",books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;essays;essays & correspondence;hobbies & home;literature & fiction;miscellaneous;needlecrafts & textile crafts;sports & outdoors;weaving,11
0940121603,"She Is With Angels ""...A graphic description of the author's  personal journey... It will give  hope to those on a similar journey.""  -- Reverend Charles T. Rubey-Founder, Loving Outreach to Survivors of Suicide of the Catholic Charities of Chicago""A moving account of a young boy's agonizing journey as he  witnesses his mother's descent into mental illness and...suicide...""  -- Mariette Hartley, Actress and Honorary Director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention	August Swanenberg grew up in The Netherlands during the  1960's.  His childhood was changed forever when his mother became  clinically depressed.  After five years of struggle, his mother ended  her life.  August, his brother Hugo, and his father faced their own  and other people's taboos about mental illness and suicide.  After his  father died, August discovered carefully hidden notes in a bookcase,  which helped him to understand what happened to his mother.    Today, August Swanenberg lives in suburban Chicago with his wife  Julie, and two daughters, Irene and Audrey.  The family loves to  travel, preferably to faraway places.  The author, whose profession is  management consulting, is an active member of his local Rotary club.",biographies & memoirs;books;death & grief;grief & bereavement;marriage;memoirs;new;relationships;self-help;suicide;used & rental textbooks,11
1414200102,The Art of Writing null	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.,books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;humanities;literature;new;reference;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing;writing skills,11
0688134483,"The New Americans: Colonial Times: 1620-1689 (American Story) Grade 2-5?An excellent, evenhanded account of European immigration to North America during Colonial times. In clear language, the Maestros explain this often confusing part of American history. They take readers from the French explorers of the early 1600s, to the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620, to 1689, when the European population here numbered over 200,000. With beautifully rendered full-color illustrations that are well labeled, this book will leave students with a glimpse of how greedy some settlers were, how religious intolerance played an important role in establishing certain settlements, how hostilities were bound to grow between Europeans and natives, and how the struggle for this continent had only just begun. An ""Additional Information"" page includes historical tidbits (such as information on the first woman lawyer in the colonies and the founding of Harvard College) and is followed by a fact sheet on ""Exploration and Explorers: 1634-1685."" This is a fine work that will be well used and create a lot of interest. Other titles to be used in conjunction with it include Sarah Howarth's Colonial People and Colonial Places (both Millbrook, 1994) and Lucille Recht Penner's The Pilgrims at Plymouth (Random, 1996).?Anne Chapman Callaghan, Racine Public Library, WICopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Gr. 3^-5, younger for reading aloud. From the Maestro's American Story series, which began with The Discovery of the Americas (1991), this volume discusses the colonial era up to 1680. As in the first book, large-scale illustrations in watercolor and colored pencil provide panoramic views of places as well as pictures of people and their activities. The easily digestible text describes the development of the colonies, particularly in New England and New France, and the interaction of colonialists with Native Americans. The book devotes several double-page spreads to the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies; other areas receive more cursory treatment. For instance, Jamestown's only significant mention is in conjuction with the arrival of slaves. That lapse aside, this attractive oversize book will still have plenty of appeal for youngsters, especially given the dearth of well-illustrated American history books on school and public library shelves.  Carolyn Phelan	This entry, fourth in The American Story series (third chronologically), covers colonization by the English, Dutch, French, and Spanish, as well as the displacement of the Native Americans, brings in the Pilgrims, Puritans, the beginnings of the Triangle Trade, and comments on the shifting patterns of alliances and warfare between Europeans and native peoples. The author, perhaps inevitably, has to jump around to cover such complex subjects in the limited space of (essentially) a picture-book format, but she is aided by the illustrator's gorgeous maps and illustrations. Also compensating for the lack of narrative flow is the warts-and-all coverage, which puts all cultures on an equal historical footing. As a starting point for research, the quick explanations of many different topics will be useful, and the index and additional back matter will give readers direction in pursuing fuller coverage on a variety of topics. (maps, index) (Nonfiction. 6-10)  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Betsy Maestro is the author of the ""American Story"" series, illustrated by her husband, Giulio. She has also written several other non-fiction picture books, including the Let's-Read-And-Find-Out science books How Do Apples Grow? and Why Do Leaves Change Color? The Maestros live in Old Lyme, Connecticut.Giulio Maestro is the illustrator of over 100 childrens books. He has also written his own books of word play and has co-authored two I Can Read Books with his son, Marco: What Do You Hear When Cows Sing, and Other Silly Riddles and Geese Find the Missing Piece: School Time Riddle Rhymes. The Maestros live in Old Lyme, CT.",17th century;biographies;books;canada;children's books;colonial & revolutionary;education & reference;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);people of color;united states,11
0964849607,"United We Solve: 116 Math Problems for Groups, Grades 5-10 Tim Erickson is a mathematics and science curriculum developer. He is also the author of Get It Together.",books;children's books;education;education & reference;instruction methods;mathematics;new;schools & teaching;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,11
0195021614,"The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City 1880-1915 ""The Golden Door...is an admirable and daring work....Professor Kessner has suceeded in blending the best of all possible worlds; he has merged quantitative data with literary and sociological sources to produce a synthetic work of high quality....a major contribution to both quantitative and comparative ethnic history.  It is a pioneering study, and should serve as [a] guide...for future research.""--Caroline Golab, Journal of European Economic History",americas;books;emigration & immigration;history;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,11
1587247305,"Double Play Set in 1947, Parker's superb new novel imagines what it was like for Jackie Robinson, and more centrally for Robinson's (fictional) bodyguard, to see the color barrier broken in Major League baseball. This isn't Parker's first foray outside the mystery genre, though he remains best known for his Spenser PI series (this year's (Bad Business, etc.); in 2001 he dramatized Wyatt Earp in (Gunman's Rhapsody, and earlier he excelled with Perchance to Dream, Wilderness and Love and Glory. In an unusual gambit, however, this time he mixes his storytelling with  his firsthand reminiscences (in chapters titled ""Bobby"") of growing up as a devoted Dodgers fan, a move that adds resonance and a sense of wonder to the taut narrative. The fiction, told in the third person, focuses on Joseph Burke, a WWII vet grievously wounded physically and emotionally by combat and its aftermath. Burke is a hired gun who allows himself no feelings, but when he signs on with Dodger owner Branch Rickey to protect Robinson from racist violence during the ballplayer's rookie season, he comes to respect, then love, the proud, controversial player. Burke also falls for Lauren, a self-destructive society girl with mob connections whom he worked for before Robinson, and it's from Lauren's troubles and the threat of violence surrounding Robinson that the novel's hard, smart action arises. Burke is a tough guy, and the narrative not set around baseball fields takes place in the white and black underworlds as Burke plays various gangsters against one another to protect both Lauren and Robinson. Parker, always a clean writer, has never written so spare and tight a book; this should be required reading for all aspiring storytellers. Parker fans will recognize with joy many of the author's lifelong themes (primarily, honor and the redemptive power of love), and in the Burke/Robinson dynamic, echoes of Spenser/Hawk (the PI's black colleague). Here they will treasure the very essence of Parker in a masterful recreation of a turbulent era that's not only a great and gripping crime novel but also one of the most evocative baseball novels ever written. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The problem with this new novel from the creator of hard-boiled uber-hero Spenser is simple: this is a Spenser novel with new names. Burke is the Spenser clone. He's back from World War II after sustaining severe wounds. After his bride leaves him, he loses his emotional center. After his boxing career fizzles, he hires himself out as a tough guy. (Sound familiar Spenser fans?) A Mob guy refers Burke to Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who needs someone to protect Jackie Robinson, who is about to become baseball's first black player. Burke and Robinson swap lots of good-natured racial barbs (a la Spenser and Hawk), while Burke confronts the local Mob with the help of a gunsel named Cash (Vince Haller by another name). Interspersed among the mayhem are somewhat disconcerting (why here?) recollections (assumed to be Parker's) of trips to the ballpark in the forties. So is this book bad? No, it's quite good actually, but Parker is at a point in his career (he got there a long time ago) where great athletes sometimes find themselves: 50 more homers for Barry Bonds? Not as many as last year! Despite the similarities to his Spenser series, Parker's characterizations of Burke and Robinson will resonate with readers because, as always, Parker connects with the romantic tough guy residing in so many souls. Wes LukowskyCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Parker is a consummate writer of literary fiction."" -- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore Sun )	Robert B. Parker was the author of more than fifty books.  He died in January 2010.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;contemporary;genre fiction;historical;literature & fiction;mystery;sports;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,11
0700612793,"Stalin's Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazis, 1941-1945 (Modern War Studies) ""An indispensable account of this dimension of the war on the Eastern Front.""   --Parameters""A powerful view of Soviet counterintelligence efforts--the best we are likely to see for some time to come.""  --Journal of Military History""Likely to remain the standard book on the subject for years to come. A rewarding and informative read."" --Journal of Intelligence History""Stephan's thorough and imaginative research sets a standard that other historians working on intelligence should emulate.""  --American Historical Review	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""Stephan's thorough, accurate, and objective study provides unprecedented detail and keen insights on one of history's most illusive subjects. It is destined to become the standard work in this field.""--David M. Glantz, author of The Battle for Leningrad ""Stephan's book demonstrates how the Soviets adroitly manipulated both German intelligence and counter-intelligence in masterfully staged strategic deception operations. It chronicles timely lessons for contemporary intelligence professionals and should grace the libraries of today's intelligence services.""--John J. Dziak, author of Chekisty: A History of the KGB ""Should be read by anyone interested in the history of intelligence or of World War II.""--John Ferris, author of Intelligence in the Second World War	Robert W. Stephan is employed by the CIA and specializes in Russian military and intelligence issues.",books;europe;history;humanities;military;military science;new;russia;strategy;used & rental textbooks;world war ii,11
0521566886,"Permanent Magnet Materials and their Application ""Campbell comprehensively reviews modern permanent magnetic materials, their design, and their industrial applications in automobiles, computers, and various consumer products.  This very well written work is illustrated by the author, who has had a long experience in the field of permanent magnets....The book will be valuable to the scientist or engineer involved in processing, design, and applications of permanent magnets, as well as to graduate students and faculty conducting research in the field of magnetism....An excellent acquisition.""   Choice""The book will be of great value to all those involved in the design and use of magnets.""  High Tech Ceramics News	Beginning with a brief overview of the theory of magnetism, this text explains the behavior of the different classes of permanent magnets and the production processes that lead to diverse material characteristics.  At the study's core are details of the methods used to design permanent magnets.",books;electrical & electronics;electromagnetism;engineering;magnetism;new;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,11
0071348093,"Wack Water Fun with Science ""Kids have a natural desire to learn and experiment,"" said Sobey, a University of Washington instructor and author of several science book, including the newly published ""Wacky Water Fun with Science"" and ""Fantastic Flying Fun with Science."" If parents foster that, then kids will grow up naturally empowered to think like a scientist."" (Seattle Times 2000-04-01)	Set sail for tons of slip-sliding science adventure. (Just add water). When kids from all over told Ed Sobey that they just couldn't wait to dive into another one of his awesome science activity books, he took them at their word...literally. So get ready to dive (and splash, sink, and sail too). You asked for it, after all. Wacky Water Fun with Science features everything (even the kitchen sink) you'll ever need to totally immerse yourself in all things wet, wild, and altogether wonderful. Inspiring curious kids to find their own answers and solutions to all their questions about the wonderful world of water, this lively and educational collection of projects promises hours of slippery fun at home, at school--even at the beach! Ideal for kids 10 and up, these fascinating projects include: building waterwheels and turbines; making a miniature salty ocean; blowing bubbles and studying water's surface tension; experimenting with buoyancy, pressure, and temperature; constructing wind-powered, balloon-powered, and battery-powered boats; building your own water clocks and underwater viewers. With Wacky Water Fun with Science, tomorrow's sailors, oceanographers, and water engineers can literally get their feet (and everything else!) wet as they discover the exhilaration and rewards of independent exploration. Sobey's latest treasury also features invaluable navigational aids that guarantee maximum results, detailed explanations of the physical principles involved, and suggestions for transforming the activities into prize-winning science fair projects. So roll up your sleeves, take a deep breath, and brace yourself for a tidal wave of hydro-powered learning excitement with Wacky Water Fun with Science.	Ed Sobey, Ph.D., is an oceanographer and president of the Northwest Invention Center. He has directed five museums and hosted ABC-TV's popular kids' science program, Idea Factory. Sobey is the author of several children's books, including Fantastic Flying Fun with Science, Just Plane Smart, Car Smarts, and Wrapper Rockets and Trombone Straws.",books;children's books;education & reference;experiments & projects;instruction methods;nature & how it works;schools & teaching;science;sports;sports & games;water sports,11
1850891427,"Travels With Myself and Another (Isis Large Print Nonfiction) ""Gellhorn is incapable of writing a dull sentence.""The Times (London)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Martha Gellhorn published five novels and seven prize-winning collections of her explosive journalism. Her career spanned several decades: She covered the 1937-38 war in Spain, sent dispatches from the front in World War II and followed the trail of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, and reported on the conflicts in Vietnam in 1966 and in Israel in 1967,  Gellhorn died in 1998 at the age of eighty-nine.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;journalists;professionals & academics;research & publishing guides;travel;travel writing;writing,11
0312152914,"Makos: A Stonewall Inn Book (Stonewall Inn Book/Photographer) Christopher Makos, once identified by Andy Warhol as the most modern photographer in America, offers up a tasty collection of pretty boys in his fourth collection of pictures. His models are, as Bruce Hainley writes in the introduction, really into being out of it, and it's not always clear from the expressions on his subjects' faces whether they're way into themselves or oblivious to everything around them while they hone their bodies. It's that attractive vacuity that Makos captures so effectively in his stark compositions.	""The most modern photographer in America."" --Andy Warhol	Christopher Makos' work can be found in more than one hundred museums and private collections as well as in three previous books. His photos have appeared in magazines as varied as Vanity Fair and the Harvard Business Review. He lives and works in New York City.",arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;gay & lesbian;individual artists;nonfiction;photography;politics & social sciences;portraits;social sciences;specific demographics,11
0471359815,"Next-Generation Modems: A Professional Guide to DSL and Cable Modems A comparative guide to the technologies, capabilities, and costs of next-generation desktop connectivity With the advent of cable modems and Digital Subscriber Lines (DSLs), modem technology has entered a new and highly sophisticated realm that is light-years beyond PC modems. Integrating and interoperating at high transmission levels with telephone and cable broadcast infrastructure to allow for faster, clearer transmission of data-intensive Web pages, DSLs and cable modems are competing for attention in this massive emerging market. For network managers, LAN administrators, and corporate planners charged with purchasing, installing, and troubleshooting last-mile technology for their organizations, Gilbert Held details what you'll need to know to make informed choices for the future. Offering simple explanations and in-depth comparisons, this book considers the whole range of strategic, technical, and investment concerns, from cost analysis and bandwidth limitations to suitability for various business and residential applications. Held discusses why a new generation of modems is needed and why those modems require a different infrastructure from those that transmit data over the PSTN. The fundamentals of DSLs are presented along with a look at how cable modems operate. And a comprehensive comparison of DSL and cable modem technology is provided that covers their advantages and disadvantages as well as their potential use for business and residential subscribers.This book contains everything you'll need to know about next- generation modems including:* Information on how infrastructure and content variables map to Web wait time* Transmission fundamentals for current modem operations* Discussions on how different types of DSLs overcome bandwidth limitations* A survey of the DSL family* A tutorial in the cable TV infrastructure* Coverage of the cable modem standard* Comparative analysis of costs, throughput, and suitability for various applications	GILBERT HELD is the author of over 15 professional networking titles and has managed data communications for a 4,000-station government network. He is also a regular contributor to the computer trade press and the winner of several awards for technical excellence in writing.",books;computer science;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;hardware;networking;networks;new;peripherals;protocols & apis;used & rental textbooks,11
0897322487,"Mountain Bike! Virginia ""Veteran cyclist, Randy Porter, takes readers into a world that's also filled with beauty in the new guide Mountain Bike! Virginia."" - Southern Living""This is a great book, with emphasis on tried-and-true routes where bikes are legal and welcome. Mountain Bike! Virginia is concise and delivers copious information with simple, almost elegant maps and descriptions."" - Mid Atlantic Outdoor Enthusiasts	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Follow the example of America's first settlers at Jamestown and discover the adventures and challenges that await you in the Old Dominion. Whether you're cruising alongside the Potomac after a visit to Mount Vernon or racing past a Civil War battlefield in the Highlands, Virginia's diverse geography and rich history are never far away on these rides. Neither is excitement. From converted railroad beds to technical single-track, Mountain Bike! Virginia will lead you on the state's most unforgettable rides. In this updated edition, you'll find detailed information on more than 90 trails in coastal Virginia, the piedmont, northern Virginia, Virginia's western mountains, and the Blue Ridge Highlands. Author Randy Porter gives you the lowdown on trails in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, York River State Park, Belle Isle, and Mount Rogers National Recreation Area, as well as fat-tire friendly places near D.C. and other metropolitan areas. If it's good riding, it's profiled here. Each route profile features: at-a-glance key information, a thorough ride description, a detailed trail map; helpful sources of information, proximity of important services, valuable commentary on elevation changes and possible hazards, and a rescue index.Mountain Bike! Virginia also features interesting and entertaining photographs, vivid descriptions of native flora and fauna, a glossary of mountain biking terms, tips on mountain biking etiquette, important safety information, and a list of ride recommendations for special interests. (6 X 9, 400 pages, bw photos, maps, charts)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Randy Porter, a ""born-again"" Virginian, has lived in the Old Dominion since 1968. After graduating with a M.Ed. in Special Education from Virginia Commonwealth University, he moved to the Shenandoah Valley where he taught students with disabilities. His bicycling ventures have included partial ownership of a bicycle shop and cofounding Virginias first commercial bicycle touring company.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The Forest Service brochure calls tis ""Horse Heaven Loop,"" but the ride I took on a quiet weekday morning in the absence of horses, hikers, and bikers was mountain bike heaven for me. This 8-mile loop utilizes single-track, double-track, and Forest Service roads that are part of the Highlands Horse Trail. Except for rank novices, most mountain bikers can handle the mileage and terrain of this trail. The 2.5-mile climb will be the most difficult part for most. When the going gets tough, don be reluctant to stop and admire the outstanding views of neighboring peaks and ridges. The 3-mile double-track decent will leave you grinning for weeks.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",adventure;books;cycling;individual sports;mountain biking;south;south atlantic;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;united states,11
0787983349,"Get Smart!: Nine Sure Ways to Help Your Child Succeed in School Going beyond mere strategies, Dietel, an assistant director at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing, weighs in with a nine-point ""learning model,"" designed to help students succeed in a test-centric academic environment. Though the model's pillars aren't groundbreaking (encourage your children, work with teachers, support healthy learning and study habits), the strength of Dietel's book lies in his detailed, yet readable, explanations of how, say, reading to children improves their communication and verbal skills. Each chapter is dedicated to a tenet of the ""Get Smart"" model and includes an overview, tips on implementing new habits (communication is key among them) and a mix of micro case-studies and real-world examples. Clear, concise writing, tried-and-true advice and the absence of testing jargon make this a handy go-to guide. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""The Ideas in Get Smart! Should be useful for every parent who reads the book. "" (TC Record, March 2007)	""With his extensive knowledge of what works in education, Ron Dietel presents a compelling series of proven approaches to student success in school. A must-read for teachers and parents as well as school-age children!""Jim Kohlmoos, president, National Education Knowledge Industry Association (NEKIA)""Wow, I wish Ron Dietel's book had been available when we were raising our children. The succinct and credible descriptions of real life experiences in nurturing children to become successful is a must read for all parents. A gem of a book!""Gregory Bowman, superintendent, Burbank Unified School District, California""This is a very positive book. Dietel shares hundreds of constructive ideas, including many from experts in education, of how parents may be involved with children's learning across the grades.""Joyce L. Epstein, director, Center on School, Family, andCommunity Partnerships, Johns Hopkins University""Dietel has combined theory with parental experience to produce an eminently practical, hands-on guide. ?Any parent who wants to help a child learn will find Get Smart! an invaluable tool.""Kathy Seal, coauthor, Motivated Minds: Raising Children to Love Learning""However well your child is doing in school today, he or she can get better by following Ron Dietel's Get Smart strategies.""Donna Elder, former principal, Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School, and president-elect, National Association of Laboratory Schools	What does it take for students to succeed in today's tough academic world of high-stakes testing and increased competition to get into the best colleges? A growing body of research shows that substantial increases in academic achievement are possible when parents, teachers, and students work in partnership. Student ability, while important, is not the forever factor in student success. Parents in particular have a very strong influence over what, how much, and how well their children learn in school. How can parents help their children from preschool through high school keep up and succeed? In Get Smart! Nine Sure Ways to Help Your Child Succeed in School, Ron Dietel of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing at UCLA, has synthesized the latest research on education and combined it with real-world strategies from leading education researchers to come up with the Get Smart Learning Model.  He explains the nine components of the Modelability,  effort, attitudes and beliefs, school quality, teacher quality, school learning habits, home learning habits, evaluation, and communicationsand gives practical advice on how parents can help children of any age and any ability, or disability, improve in each of these categories. Any time is a good time to start your children on the road to academic success.  So don't wait to help your child Get Smart!	Praise for Get Smart!""With his extensive knowledge of what works in education, Ron Dietel presents a compelling series of proven approaches to student success in school. A must-read for teachers and parents as well as school-age children!""Jim Kohlmoos, president, National Education Knowledge Industry Association (NEKIA)""Wow, I wish Ron Dietel's book had been available when we were raising our children. The succinct and credible descriptions of real life experiences in nurturing children to become successful is a must read for all parents. A gem of a book!""Gregory Bowman, superintendent, Burbank Unified School District, California""This is a very positive book. Dietel shares hundreds of constructive ideas, including many from experts in education, of how parents may be involved with children's learning across the grades.""Joyce L. Epstein, director, Center on School, Family, andCommunity Partnerships, Johns Hopkins University""Dietel has combined theory with parental experience to produce an eminently practical, hands-on guide. ?Any parent who wants to help a child learn will find Get Smart! an invaluable tool.""Kathy Seal, coauthor, Motivated Minds: Raising Children to Love Learning""However well your child is doing in school today, he or she can get better by following Ron Dietel's Get Smart strategies.""Donna Elder, former principal, Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School, and president-elect, National Association of Laboratory Schools	Ronald Dietel, Ed.D., is an assistant director of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA. He has written articles and videos on educational topics and has served on the La Caada (CA) Unified School District Governing Board. His two children attend school in California.",books;education;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;new;parent participation;schools & teaching;study skills;studying & workbooks;used & rental textbooks,11
0821228846,"Queen Mary 2: The Greatest Ocean Liner of Our Time If military historian Maxtone-Graham is at times a bit breathless in his praise of the Queen Mary 2, the Cunard lines new $800 million luxury liner, its easy to forgive his enthusiasm after thumbing through the sumptuous photography in this oversized tome. Four city blocks long and taller than the Statue of Liberty, the Queen Mary 2 boasts the customary amenities as well as a planetarium, spa and fanciful childrens playrooms. Maxtone-Graham celebrates this unprecedented hulk with romantic hyperbole: ""Her 147-foot (45-meter) beam at the bridge betrays her as definitivelynay, defiantly!too wide for Panamas canal. For this monster to circumnavigate the globe, its either around Cape Horn or threading her way cautiously through the icy wastes of northern Canadas archipelago."" He also dishes a little history in the chapter on 19th-century transatlantic travel, when crossing the ocean was rarely comfortable and often terrifying by todays standards. The historian explains that in the 1840s, ""a covered chamber pot remained a cherished cabin perquisite because Brittanias lavatories were out on deck, an invariably damp nocturnal excursion."" Another chapter relates the seafaring lives of past ""Queen"" vesselstouching briefly on the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Marys transformation into troop ships during WWII and chronicling their important passengers, including Sir Winston Churchill, Cary Grant and a long list of Atlantic-hopping VIPs. Serious maritime enthusiasts will delight in Maxtone-Grahams adoring account of the major ""Cunarders"" from 1840 to 2004, while Harvey Lloyds vivid, full-bleed photos of the vessels interior will thrill those readers more interested in the creature comforts on board. 200 four-color illustrations. FYI: Like an extended advertisement for the ocean liner, this lush, glossy volume might help readers and would-be cruisers forget the November, 2003 shipyard tragedy, when the ships gangway collapsed, killing 15.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""Destined to astonish"" was how the designers of the new grand lady of ocean liners conceived of their project. As of just a few months ago, the Queen Mary 2, sister ship to the popular and still busy Queen Elizabeth 2, entered transatlantic service and is now the flagship of the venerable Cunard Line. The QM2 is not only the most expensive passenger liner ever built but also the largest, broadest, and tallest. Written by a renowned maritime historian, whose engaging text is augmented by spectacular photographs by Harvey Lloyd, a photographer recognized as a specialist in the cruise industry, this large-format book follows the ""life"" thus far of this spectacular ship, from concept to launch. The author, with the photographer at his side, ushers the reader on an awe-inspiring tour of the Queen from stem to stern; fascinating, too, is the detailed history of the Cunard Line and its most famous liners, including the previous Queen Mary, now permanently docked in Long Beach, California. A feast for technology and travel enthusiasts. Brad HooperCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Maxtone-Graham and Lloyd have done [the QM2] proud with this excellent book that details every part of the Queen's conception."" -- Metrosource, , April/May 2004	In January 2004, Cunard Line's latest flagship, the stupendous Queen Mary 2 sailed on her maiden voyage from England. Four city blocks long and as tall as the Statue of Liberty, at $800 million, she is the most expensive and ambitious passenger vessel of all time. Her public rooms include a planetarium, ballroom, theatre, cinema, Canyon Ranch Spa, and 10 restaurants. Twenty-six hundred passengers are accomodated in a splendid variety of cabins, three quarters of them with balconies overlooking the sea. This book features stunning four-color photographs and paintings, details of design, construction, engines, lavish interiors, sea trials, and christening. It also contains archival images juxtaposing her significance against her historic predecessors. An eight page gatefold shows a detailed cutaway of the remarkable interiors.	John Maxtone-Graham is a world-renowned maritime historian, author of more than a dozen books about passenger vessels.  He is also a consummate shipboard lecturer and consultant to numerous cruise lines.Harvey Lloyd is a seasoned travel and adventure photographer and the foremost photographer of the cruise industry today.  His most recent book is Voyages, The Romance of Cruising (Dorling Kindersley, 1999).",books;education & reference;history;passenger;pictorial;professional & technical;research & publishing guides;ships;transportation;travel;writing,11
1556138725,"Memoir of a French and Indian War Soldier [by] ""Jolicoeur"" Charles Bonin Text: English (translation)  Original Language: French",americas;books;colonial period;education & reference;genealogy;history;humanities;military;new;united states;used & rental textbooks,11
0749525274,"Baedeker's San Francisco Baedeker San FranciscoBaedeker -- the guides to travel with.Now in fully revised editions, Baedeker guides offer today's visitor a tremendous depth and reliability of informationCompletely updated and revisedCompact guide and foldout map in a clear plastic walletHundreds of full-color photos throughoutDetailed maps and floorplansA-to-Z listings of sights or towns with in-depth reviews and detailed descriptions.Baedeker's original star-rating system.Solid background coverage highlighting history, culture, the economy, the people, and moreUseful practical information, facts and figures, hotel and restaurant listings, and language glossaries.",americas;books;california;history;pacific;reference;san francisco;state & local;travel;united states;west,11
0786406771,"Dorothy Donnelly: A Life in the Theatre Lorraine Arnal McLean developed her interest in musical theatre while working as the archivist at the Center of the American Musical in Redwood City, California. Currently, she manages the Fear of Flying Clinic, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping white-knuckle flyers overcome their aversions. She lives in San Mateo, California.",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;entertainers;humanities;humor & entertainment;new;performing arts;theater;used & rental textbooks,11
0613333004,"In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him. This simple, yet potentially double-edged Ashanti proverb begins Javaka Steptoe's picture-book debut, a powerful collection of poems celebrating African American fathers, by new and established African American writers. Breathtaking, evocative mixed-media spreads--bedecked with beads, burlap, and buttons--earned Steptoe's brilliant collection the 1998 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and the 1997 Reading Magic Award.  A full-time artist and art teacher, Steptoe is the son of the late John Steptoe, also an acclaimed children's book artist. Regarding the process of creating the book, Steptoe says, I was able to think about my father and how he affected me, and how I affected him, and give something to him by honoring his memory.  One selection, Black Father Man by Lenard D. Moore, begins, Black Father Man, / the supreme earth dweller. / We are his ripe black crop / at the beginning-of-the-harvest. / We all bleed his blood / summer-hot and thick / summer-hot and thick / as unstrained milk. / Black Father Man, / the word-music messenger. Steptoe's accompanying artwork depicts men planting seeds and children growing, using actual dirt, leaves, seeds, paint, and cut paper to communicate the regenerative we are his ripe black crop spirit of the poem. In Folami Abiade's title poem, readers will soar high with the boy in his father's arms: I am big and strong & proud like him / in daddy's arms / my daddy. Other contributors--including Carole Boston Weatherford, Michael Burgess, Davida Adedjouma (editor of The Palm of My Heart), and more--add humor and power to this extraordinary tribute to fatherhood.  (All ages) 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Grade 3 Up?This innovative, stunningly illustrated picture book celebrates the role of fathers in the African-American experience. The artist illustrates 13 poems with collages made from paper with pastel; applique; and a multitude of found objects, including fabric, coins, seashells, buttons, sand, seeds, and leaves. The artwork vibrates with emotion; even the simplest pieces, showing torn-paper figures on a solid background, capture the powerful bond between parent and child. The poems, written by Angela Johnson, Davida Adedjouma, Carole Boston Weatherford, and others, depict fathers working in the fields and in post offices, playing basketball, fishing, tickling, or hugging. Steptoe's own poem, ""Seeds,"" is a tribute to his father: ""You drew pictures of life/with your words."" Libraries will want this title for Black History Month, National Poetry Month, Father's Day, or anytime a patron asks for a book about fathers. Teachers will find it inspiring in classroom units on poetry, or it can be used in conjunction with David Diaz's work to demonstrate collage techniques in an art class. Whatever its use, this lovely book deserves a place on library shelves.?Dawn Amsberry, Oakland Public Library, CACopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Gr. 3^-5, younger for reading aloud. The son of John Steptoe has a true winner in fact, receiving the 1998 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for his first picture book. Javaka Steptoe creates a splendid series of images in mixed media--from found objects, torn and cut paper, and color--to illustrate a series of short poems about fathers. From the stark simplicity of David Anderson's ""Promises,"" with its cut-paper silhouette figure of a child's hug seen from behind his dad, to the many-layered image of shells, kente cloth, and paper for Sonia Sanchez's ""My Father's Eyes,"" to the shirt made from a scrap of old tin ceiling in the evocative illustration for Carole Boston Weatherford's ""Farmer,"" these arresting illustrations are a rich foil for the singing tenderness of the poetry. Different in spirit and texture but with the same warmth and joy as Shelley Rotner and Sheila M. Kelly's Lots of Dads (1997), this promises read-aloud and read-to-share comfort for many readings and rereadings.  GraceAnne A. DeCandido	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Steptoe (son of the late John Steptoe) creates art for 13 poems that honor fathers, e.g., Sonia Sanchez's ``I have looked into/my father's eyes and seen an/african sunset.'' Among others who have contributed to the volume are Folami Abiade (with the title poem), Lenard D. Moore, Dakari Hru, and Dinah Johnson. At times, elements of the poets' subject matter are depicted--photographed pennies are the background for the portrait of one father. Some poems are better than others; some are more message than art, although all of them are appealing. A particularly memorable sentiment is found in Davida Adedjouma's ``Artist to Artist,'' in which a woman appreciates that her artist father sorted mail ``all night and into the day'' for the family, and passed on to her the ``urge to create/characters with meat on their bones, in flesh-colored tones written in words as vivid'' as her crayon-box colors. Each piece elicits a work of art that translates beautifully to the printed page, from the jacket's gallery of small paintings to the half-title's portrait of a family--with smudged limbs and torsos, and heads made from painted discs or buttons--framed by colorful wooden beads. Brief biographies of the contributors appear in the back of this inventive, evocative book. (Picture book. 5-8) -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",asian american;biographies;books;children's books;family life;literature & fiction;parents;people of color;poetry;social situations;united states,11
1558747591,"The Evolving Woman: Intimate Confessions of Surviving Mr. Wrong One of the publishing community's most prolific and eloquent literary voices, Catherine Lanigan is the author of over twenty books, including the wildly popular Romancing the Stone and the Jewel of the Nile, which preceded the blockbuster films of the same names. In addition to the commercial success of her books, Catherine's work strikes a profound visceral chord with her readers. Many of them write her frequently, sharing deeply personal insights about their own lives and why the female characters in her books inspire them. Unlike the self-sacrificing heroines of most traditional contemporary fiction, Catherine's protagonists are self-empowering women, who, despite stunning obstacles, build an internal arsenal of wisdom, courage and dignity that enables them to finally be true to themselves. They embrace change with aplomb, grit and grace, woven though deep down they may be frightened stiff. For Catherine, these are the characteristics of the ""evolving woman,"" a new breed of heroine she's introduced to contemporary fiction. The ""evolving woman"" is someone who, given a certain set of circumstances, makes choices that enrich who she is inside and, as a result, the world around her. This passionate perspective comes from powerful experience. The trials and triumphs of her characters are engraved with her own initials. Unfulfilling marriages, the tragic birth and loss of a child, single parenthood, financial struggles, career disappointments, personal and professional betrayals, and her self-made rise as an author comprise the fertile soil of her own life from which Catherine creates her stories. I would like to believe that if a woman whose life is in turmoil or chaos picks up one of my books, something in the book will help guide her through the turmoil,"" says Catherine. ""I hope my books are a catalyst, a gentle yet firm push in the right directions."" Catherine Lanigan lives in Houston, Texas. Visit her website at www.clanigan.com.Jodee Blanco is the founding partner of the PR firm Blanco  Peace and a faculty member at the Center for Publishing at New 'York University. She has spearheaded numerous #1 New York Times bestsellers.",abuse;books;criminology;dysfunctional relationships;family relationships;parenting;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;self-esteem;self-help;social sciences,11
0760323011,"Dale Earnhardt Jr.: Making a Legend of His Own Larry Cothren is an editor for Stock Car Racing who has covered auto racing since the mid-1980s, gathered the selections from that magazine and Circle Track to highlight every aspect of Dale Jr.'s career. He also wrote Motorbooks title NASCAR's Next Generation, detailing all the young, up-and-coming Cup drivers. He lives in Concord, North Carolina.",automotive;biographies;books;history;miscellaneous;motor sports;pictorial;professional & technical;racing;sports & outdoors;transportation,11
B000N2HCOC,"Deception Plan Davis is the real thing.  -- W.E.B. Griffin	Patrick A. Davis is the national and New York Times bestselling author of six previous novels: The Commander, A Slow Walk to Hell, A Long Day for Dying, The Colonel, The General, and The Passenger. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and the Army Command and General Staff College, and a former Air Force major who flew during the Gulf War. He helped plan and direct U-2 surveillance operations for Operation Desert Storm and flew eleven combat sorties. He is a former pilot with a major airline.",books;genre fiction;kindle ebooks;kindle store;literature & fiction;mystery;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states;war,11
0313245525,"Dictionary of Medieval Knighthood and Chivalry: Concepts and Terms ?Broughton, who in previous works has served as both editor and translator, brings to this volume an extensive background of research and publication in medieval literature. This dictionary, 15 years in the making, is the first of a two-volume set. Whereas the second volume will focus on persons, places, and events, this one is primarily concerned with concepts and terms.' However, some persons and places are explained when necessary for understanding of the concepts and terms. Definitions are arranged alphabetically, and most entries contain cross-references to other entries. There are two appendixes, the first a listing of feast days and saint's days, the second providing topical access to entries, to help the reader identify the entries that relate to topics such as heraldry, castles, and weapons. An extensive bibliography and a lengthy index complete the work.?-Choice	This work should prove to be a joy and a delight to both novices and experts. Its depth of coverage within its topics places it well beyond more general works. . . . [Its] usefulness in the areas of history, literature, and the arts can justify its purchase by any library with patrons whose interests are set in the medieval period.                                                       RQ	BRADFORD B. BROUGHTON is Professor of Technical Communications at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education & reference;history;humanities;medieval;new;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;world,11
0679450777,"Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge The biologist Edward O. Wilson is a rare scientist: having over a long career made signal contributions to population genetics, evolutionary biology, entomology, and ethology, he has also steeped himself in philosophy, the humanities, and the social sciences. The result of his lifelong, wide-ranging investigations is Consilience (the word means a jumping together, in this case of the many branches of human knowledge), a wonderfully broad study that encourages scholars to bridge the many gaps that yawn between and within the cultures of science and the arts. No such gaps should exist, Wilson maintains, for the sciences, humanities, and arts have a common goal: to give understanding a purpose, to lend to us all a conviction, far deeper than a mere working proposition, that the world is orderly and can be explained by a small number of natural laws. In making his synthetic argument, Wilson examines the ways (rightly and wrongly) in which science is done, puzzles over the postmodernist debates now sweeping academia, and proposes thought-provoking ideas about religion and human nature. He turns to the great evolutionary biologists and the scholars of the Enlightenment for case studies of science properly conducted, considers the life cycles of ants and mountain lions, and presses, again and again, for rigor and vigor to be brought to bear on our search for meaning. The time is right, he suggests, for us to understand more fully that quest for knowledge, for Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. Wilson's wisdom, eloquently expressed in the pages of this grand and lively summing-up, will be of much help in that search.	Historically, all of the sciences were once united under the rubric of ""natural science."" Over time, they became fragmented and specialized. Nevertheless, Wilson argues that there is a genetic and neurological basis for knowledge and that all subjects of human inquiry can be reunited under the umbrella of ""consilience."" Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Edward O. Wilson's first ""big book"" was a slim volume, The Theory of Island Biogeography, written in collaboration with Robert H. MacArthur and published in 1967.  It is one of the canonical texts of theoretical ecology. It helped to push the study of populations, communities and ecosystems from a foundation of largely descriptive studies to today's richer mixture of descriptive natural history, manipulative experiments in the field and laboratory, and mathematical analyses (often of complicated nonlinear systems). Sadly, cancer killed MacArthur a few years later.  In 1973 a group of his friends and colleagues gathered in Princeton, N.J., for a memorial meeting.  At that time, Wilson was about to send the manuscript of Sociobiology to his publisher.  Wilson, Richard Levins and Richard C. Lewontin were staying in the overlarge house that I, recently arrived, was renting from Princeton University, and as we and others walked back to dinner there someone asked Wilson, ""What is this sociobiology all about?""  Dick Lewontin enthusiastically answered something like: ""It is a big book, bringing a lot together, and defining sociobiology as whatever is in Ed's book."" Much has happened since then. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis appeared--26 chapters on empirical and theoretical advances in understanding the evolutionary origins of the social behavior of nonhuman animals and a final speculative chapter suggesting that many aspects of human behavior and social organization might be understandable in broadly similar terms.  Wilson had looked forward to an academic battle with anthropologists, psychologists and others who had little use for Darwinian interpretations of human culture.  But he had (perhaps naively) not foreseen the political battle that erupted, with its epicenter at Harvard University and its apogee the infamous letter from Lewontin and others to the New York Review of Books, comparing Wilson's ideas with those of the Nazis. Wilson's subsequent books have ranged from a magisterial overview of his favorite animals (The Ants, with Bert Hlldobler, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990), through definitive statements about ""biodiversity,"" a word that he made common coin (The Diversity of Life, 1992), to a wonderful autobiography (Naturalist, 1994).  Far from backing off his sociobiological claims that evolutionary biology can illuminate aspects of human behavior and culture, Wilson's agenda has, if anything, enlarged over time. Which brings me to Consilience.  The word is borrowed from William Whewell, who in his 1840 synthesis The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences spoke of consilience as a ""jumping together"" of knowledge by linking facts and theory across disciplines to create a common groundwork of explanation. The book's opening chapter, aptly called ""The Ionian Enchantment,"" sets forth Wilson's conviction that the world is orderly and can be explained by a small set of natural laws.  The next two chapters take us on a quick tour through ""The Great Branches of Learning"" and ""The Enlightenment,"" making clear Wilson's enthusiasm for the attitudes of the Enlightenment: ""The assumptions they made of a lawful material world, the intrinsic unity of knowledge, and the potential of indefinite human progress are the ones we still take most readily into our hearts, suffer without, and find maximally rewarding through intellectual advance.  The greatest enterprise of the mind has always been and always will be the attempted linkage of the sciences and humanities.  The ongoing fragmentation of knowledge and resulting chaos in philosophy are not reflections of the real world but artifacts of scholarship.""  Off to such a start, I approached the rest of the book with considerable trepidation. The middle part of the book, however, is an exceptionally insightful account of the sciences, including (as do the U.K. Research Councils) the social sciences.  Wilson gives a good account of how our still growing understanding of the physical world has given us the power to reshape our environment, deferring to later chapters his observations on the often unintended consequences.  Looking beyond today's spectacular advances in unraveling the structure and function of neural processes or in reading the molecularly coded book of life, Wilson points to a future in which this biological understanding will give us the power to reshape ourselves (again deferring the implications to his final chapters).  He cuts through much polarized nonsense about nature versus nurture or genes versus culture, showing with many examples how both are as relevant to us as to other animals.  These sociobiological ideas about kin selection, parental investment, mating behavior, territorial expansion and defense, status and other strategies are shown to have firm roots in evolutionary biology and clear applications to human institutions. As we move on to ""The Social Sciences,"" ""The Arts and Their Interpretation"" and ""Ethics and Religion,"" things get blurrier.  Wilson continually and properly emphasizes patterns that are more or less universal: incest taboos (everything to do with inbreeding depression, and nothing to do with Freud); snakes and serpents in dreams (everything to do with real risks from snakes, and nothing to do with penises).  Although I am in sympathy with Wilson's basic premise, I think these illustrative universals are more subtly textured: consanguinity rules, in all their variety, are possibly better understood in economic terms, and I am with the Freudians on serpents. The suggestion that the magically beautiful cave art of Chauvet and elsewhere was born literally of magic--prescientific attempts to explain and influence one's world--I find compelling.  I would even agree that ""the dominating influence that spawned the arts was the need to impose order on the confusion caused by intelligence.""  But to suggest this kind of explanation for contemporary art markets may be foolish: I think instead they are to be explained in largely economic terms (which themselves are ultimately, but remotely, grounded on evolution).  The reason the annual turnover on paintings alone by Sotheby's, Christie's and the world's other auction houses is larger than the total annual spending on taxonomic and systematic biological research--and why we have synoptic inventories of the world's art and not of the world's living species--is not simply because we favor human handiwork over nature's.  The reasons are essentially economic: we have created markets in art (and there is a lesson for conservationists here!). In short, I share Wilson's view that the ultimate basis for art, and even for ethics, lies in the chances and necessities of our evolutionary history.  But I think these origins are often deeper and subtler than they are sketched by Wilson.  This being said, I love the clear, calm and often cruel phrases that drive his lance through black knight after black knight. On schools within the social sciences: ""Each of these enterprises has contributed something to understanding the human condition.  The best of the insights, if pieced together, explain the broad sweep of social behavior, at least in the same elementary sense that preliterate creation myths explain the universe, that is, with conviction and a certain internal consistency.  But never--I do not think that too strong a word--have social scientists been able to embed their narratives in the physical realities of human biology and psychology, even though it is surely there and not some astral plane from which culture has arisen."" On religion:  ""For centuries the writ of empiricism has been spreading into the ancient domain of transcendentalist belief, slowly at the start but quickening in the scientific age.  The spirits our ancestors knew intimately first fled the rocks and trees, then the distant mountains.  Now they are in the stars, where their final extinction is possible."" Wilson, however, completes this quotation with ""but we cannot live without them.""  Greatly to oversimplify, Wilson offers us a clear-eyed view of the wonders of our evolutionary past, shared with other living creatures, as a satisfying creed to live by.  As his final chapter makes plain, acceptance of this view of life carries a call to action.  This last chapter summarizes our current plight: teeming population growth; climate change; extinction rates running 100 to 1,000 times above average rates in the evolutionary record and set to accelerate.  Wilson, encouraged by his vision of the emerging unity of knowledge, which he hopes will help us rise above outdated irrationalities and short-term selfishness, offers a message of hope. I would like to share his optimism, but I cannot.  Insofar as much of Wilson's Consilience is grounded on evolutionary biology, it emphasizes the short term and the individual.  The classic problems surrounding the ""evolution of altruism"" or cooperative behavior--of behavior that puts the good of the group above the interest of the individual--are, as yet, ill understood (excepting for groups of sufficiently close relatives).  These questions do not loom large in Consilience, yet they are utterly crucial to humanity's future.  Whether the problem is population growth, or climate change, or diminishing biological diversity, the essential difficulty is in asking individuals today to make sacrifices that benefit communities tomorrow. In essentials, I agree with Wilson's hope that we are moving toward a unification of all knowledge, based ultimately on understanding evolutionary processes.  But I do not share his optimism that this unity may be our salvation.  I fear that the inflexibility of social institutions, rooted in the past evolutionary history of our species, will ineluctably continue to put their emphasis on the interests of individuals and of the short term.	Edward O. Wilson has already had three careers and has made major contributions to knowledge in all of them. First, as an entomologist, he elucidated the intricacies of behavior and organization in ant societies. Second, as a sociobiologist, he studied the biologic basis of behavior and organization in human societies. Third, as an environmental activist, he crusaded for the preservation of the natural ecologies that human societies are rapidly destroying. With this book he has launched his fourth career, as a philosopher, attempting to assemble the many issues of concern to the human species into a unified intellectual framework. To his framework he gives the name ""consilience,"" a word invented by the 19th-century philosopher William Whewell, which is derived from a Latin word meaning ""jumping together."" Consilience is ""a `jumping together' of knowledge by the linking of facts and fact-based theory across disciplines to create a common groundwork of explanation."" The book is a major contribution to philosophy, whether you agree with it or not. It brings together a rich diversity of ideas and stories, some of them arising from Wilson's professional activities in his three previous careers, others from his omnivorous reading. The 20 pages of end notes provide an annotated guide to a vast literature covering science, history, art, and philosophy. The 12 chapters of the book survey all these areas and many more. Wilson's purpose is to tie them all together into a package, with science serving as the string.  His central theme is the assertion that science can provide a firm foundation and a unified basis for ethics, religion, art, and the regulation of human society. Once we reach a scientific understanding of the biologic origins of religious and cultural quarrels, we shall be able to reconcile our differences and solidify our agreements. All men are brothers, and all women sisters, as seen through the impartial eye of science. The extension of scientific understanding to include the whole of human culture will bring with it an erosion of barriers, a unification of the human species, and a deepened respect for our natural environment.  This is a great and noble vision, portrayed with eloquence and passion. The vistas that Wilson sees lying ahead of us, if we share his faith in the all-embracing wisdom of science, are entrancing. The book, as a statement of the faith of an outstanding scientist and an outstanding human being, is exciting to read. It is full of insights gleaned from Wilson's encyclopedic knowledge of ants and humans. Everyone should read it. And yet, I have to confess that I came to the end of the book unconvinced. Although I admire the vision, I cannot share it. To me, the vision is too tidy. It has too much of the flavor of Plato's republic or More's Utopia, societies ruled by benevolent intellectuals with little tolerance for rebellious spirits.  Wilson's view of human nature is narrow, and his view of science is hierarchical. He has little to say about medicine and law, the two professions that lie on the border between scientific rigor and practical wisdom. He writes with undisguised contempt for the many practitioners of the social sciences -- psychology, anthropology, sociology, and economics -- who try to understand human behavior without reducing it to biology. He wishes to squeeze the whole of human knowledge into a reductionist mold, reducing ethics and religion to biology, biology to chemistry, chemistry to physics. Being a physicist myself, I know how poorly physics is suited to be the root of the tree of knowledge.  It may well be that Wilson is right and I am wrong. The questions that the book raises are important, whether Wilson's answers turn out to be right or not. I hope his answers are wrong, because I value the diversity of culture more highly than the unity of science, the rebelliousness of people more highly than the consilience of ideas. To me, science is only one of many ways of exploring the human landscape, without any overriding authority over the others. In the end, the future will decide who is right. Meanwhile, you should read this book and make up your own minds.  Reviewed by Freeman Dyson Copyright  1998 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved. The New England Journal of Medicine is a registered trademark of the MMS.	Thanks to the rampant success of Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time (1988), a great many are familiar with the project to formulate a grand unified theory linking together all the basic physical forces. In a book that is truly a magnum opus, Wilson is concerned with an even bigger project, the unification of all knowledge by the means of science, so that the explanations of differing kinds of phenomena are seen to be connected and consistent with one another--that is, to be consilient. Consilience is the summum bonum of science as a way of knowledge, a philosophy; discovering it across all fields of knowledge--the arts and humanities, not excluding religion, as well as the physical and social sciences--would complete the work of the Enlightenment to demonstrate that creation is intrinsically orderly and even predictable. Wilson sympathetically reinterprets the Enlightenment, especially the work and attitude of Condorcet, sadly allowing that its termination in the French revolutionary reign of terror justifiably accounts for some of its subsequent bad press, then proceeds to show that the consilience of the natural sciences has been conclusively established and to argue that discoveries in brain science and genetics, in particular, should be applied to the problems of social science, aesthetics, ethics, and religion in order to bring them into the single web of cause and effect that encompasses everything. Wilson is confident that such applications will eventually be made, but he also feels it is urgent that they be made. As human population burgeons and its environment deteriorates, continued human success depends on making the wise choices that sound knowledge makes possible. Wilson dazzlingly reaffirms the cogency and the power of scientific materialism.  Ray Olson	A tour de force from a scholar for whom such tours are par for the course. Wilson, who sowed the seeds of sociobiology decades ago, expands his agenda to the whole of human learning and behavior. All, in both the realms of art and science, can be reduced to a common set of unifying principles, or consilience. All can be subsumed under the basic laws of physics and their offspring in chemistry and biology. For instance, the reductionist new genetics and molecular biology have revolutionized our understanding of biology in terms of evolution, human development, and the brain as the vehicle of human behavior. Further, Wilson restates his notion of the co-evolution of genes and culture, but it is here that his argument is weakest, based on the premise that we are genetically programmed toward certain archetypal forms and themes which he finds in primitive and ancient art but which are dubiously applicable in the modern world. Wilsons arguments on achieving consilience in the h umanities will no doubt rile many of the faithful in these fields. For example, he rails against economists for their arid mathematical models that pay no heed to the irrational ways humans behave and he pretty well damns anyone who espouses cultural relativism; and he has very little good to say about philosophers in general. On the other hand, he writes knowledgeably about mind, making it clear that emotion is inextricably tied to reason, and his distinction between religion and ethics is well argued. In the end, Wilson invites scholars to explore the gaps in knowledge, as well as move toward synthesis: We are drowning in information, he says, while starving for wisdom. :He also pulls out all the stops on the future of the biosphere, noting the potential for changing our genet ic make- up. No doubt many scholars will accuse Wilson of simplistic arguments, errors, and distortions. But how many have the guts to venture beyond the boundaries of their specialty to make a case for unity? For that reason alone, Wilsons proposal merits the attention and debate of the broad community of scholars. (First printing of 125,000)  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	An original work of synthesis...a program of unrivalled ambition: to unify all the major branches of knowledge--sociology, economics, the arts and religion--under the banner of science. --The New York TimesAs elegant in its prose as it is rich in its ideas...a book of immense importance. --Atlanta Journal  Constitution Edward O. Wilson is a hero. . . he has made landmark scientific discoveries and has a writing style to die for. . . . A complex and nuanced argument. --Boston Globe One of the clearest and most dedicated popularizers of science since T. H. Huxley ...Mr. Wilson can do the science and the prose. --TimeAn excellent book. Wilson provides superb overviews of Western intellectual history and the current state of understanding in many academic disciplines. SlateThe Renaissance scholar still lives.... A sensitive, wide-ranging mind discoursing beautifully.... Wilson's buoyant intellectual courage is bracing. --Seattle WeeklyFrom the Trade Paperback edition.	An enormous intellectual adventure. In this groundbreaking new book, the American biologist Edward O. Wilson, considered to be one of the world's greatest living scientists, argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for consilience--the proof that everything in our world is organized in terms of a small number of fundamental natural laws that comprise the principles underlying every branch of learning. Professor Wilson, the pioneer of sociobiology and biodiversity, now once again breaks out of the conventions of current thinking. He shows how and why our explosive rise in intellectual mastery of the truths of our universe has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos and the human species--a vision that found its apogee in the Age of Enlightenment, then gradually was lost in the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge in the last two centuries. Drawing on the physical sciences and biology, anthropology, psychology, religion, philosophy, and the arts, Professor Wilson shows why the goals of the original Enlightenment are surging back to life, why they are reappearing on the very frontiers of science and humanistic scholarship, and how they are beginning to sketch themselves as the blueprint of our world as it most profoundly, elegantly, and excitingly is.	""This masterfully written book is nothing less than a daring challenge to the prevailing world view. It proposes in its place a grand, coherent conception encompassing the sciences, the arts, ethics, and religion. The reader feels lifted up to a high peak from which today's fragmented intellectual landscape below can be seen, and understood, in an entirely new way.""--Gerald Holton, author of Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought""E. O. Wilson gives us his informed, sensitive, and flat-out brilliantly balanced reflections on the prospects for human inquiry. Consilience may be just another impressive achievement for Wilson, but for the rest of us it is a bright light on a darkened path.""--Loyal D. Rue, author of By the Grace of Guile	Edward O. Wilson was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1929. He received his B.S. and M.S. in biology from the University of Alabama and, in 1955, his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard, where he has since taught, and where he has received both of its college-wide teaching awards. He is currently Research Professor and Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. He is the author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books, OOn Human Nature (1978) and The Ants(1990, with Bert Hlldobler), as well as the recipient of many fellowships, honors, and awards, including the 1977 National Medal of Science, the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1990), the International Prize for Biology from Japan (1993), and, for his conservation efforts, the Gold Medal of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (1990) and the Audubon Medal of the National Audubon Society (1995). He is on the Board of Directors of The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, and the American Museum of Natural History, and gives many lectures throughout the world. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with his wife, Irene.	chapter 1The Ionian EnchantmentI remember very well the time I was captured by the dream of unified learning. It was in the early fall of 1947, when at eighteen I came up from Mobile to Tuscaloosa to enter my sophomore year at the University of Alabama. A beginning biologist, fired by adolescent enthusiasm but short on theory and vision, I had schooled myself in natural history with field guides carried in a satchel during solitary excursions into the woodlands and along the freshwater streams of my native state. I saw science, by which I meant (and in my heart I still mean) the study of ants, frogs, and snakes, as a wonderful way to stay outdoors.My intellectual world was framed by Linnaeus, the eighteenth-century Swedish naturalist who invented modern biological classification. The Linnaean system is deceptively easy. You start by separating specimens of plants and animals into species. Then you sort species resembling one another into groups, the genera. Examples of such groups are all the crows and all the oaks. Next you label each species with a two-part Latinized name, such as Corvus ossifragus for the fish crow, where Corvus stands for the genus--all the species of crows--and ossifragus for the fish crow in particular. Then on to higher classification, where similar genera are grouped into families, families into orders, and so on up to phyla and finally, at the very summit, the six kingdoms--plants, animals, fungi, protists, monerans, and archaea. It is like the army: men (plus women, nowadays) into squads, squads into platoons, platoons into companies, and in the final aggregate, the armed services headed by the joint chiefs of staff. It is, in other words, a conceptual world made for the mind of an eighteen-year-old.I had reached the level of the Carolus Linnaeus of 1735 or, more accurately (since at that time I knew little of the Swedish master), the Roger Tory Peterson of 1934, when the great naturalist published the first edition of A Field Guide to the Birds. My Linnaean period was nonetheless a good start for a scientific career. The first step to wisdom, as the Chinese say, is getting things by their right names.Then I discovered evolution. Suddenly--that is not too strong a word--I saw the world in a wholly new way. This epiphany I owed to my mentor Ralph Chermock, an intense, chain-smoking young assistant professor newly arrived in the provinces with a Ph.D. in entomology from Cornell University. After listening to me natter for a while about my lofty goal of classifying all the ants of Alabama, he handed me a copy of Ernst Mayr's 1942 Systematics and the Origin of Species. Read it, he said, if you want to become a real biologist.The thin volume in the plain blue cover was one of the New Synthesis works, uniting the nineteenth-century Darwinian theory of evolution and modern genetics. By giving a theoretical structure to natural history, it vastly expanded the Linnaean enterprise. A tumbler fell somewhere in my mind, and a door opened to a new world. I was enthralled, couldn't stop thinking about the implications evolution has for classification and for the rest of biology. And for philosophy. And for just about everything. Static pattern slid into fluid process. My thoughts, embryonically those of a modern biologist, traveled along a chain of causal events, from mutations that alter genes to evolution that multiplies species, to species that assemble into faunas and floras. Scale expanded, and turned continuous. By inwardly manipulating time and space, I found I could climb the steps in biological organization from microscopic particles in cells to the forests that clothe mountain slopes. A new enthusiasm surged through me. The animals and plants I loved so dearly reentered the stage as lead players in a grand drama. Natural history was validated as a real science.I had experienced the Ionian Enchantment. That recently coined expression I borrow from the physicist and historian Gerald Holton. It means a belief in the unity of the sciences--a conviction, far deeper than a mere working proposition, that the world is orderly and can be explained by a small number of natural laws. Its roots go back to Thales of Miletus, in Ionia, in the sixth century b.c. The legendary philosopher was considered by Aristotle two centuries later to be the founder of the physical sciences. He is of course remembered more concretely for his belief that all matter consists ultimately of water. Although the notion is often cited as an example of how far astray early Greek speculation could wander, its real significance is the metaphysics it expressed about the material basis of the world and the unity of nature.The Enchantment, growing steadily more sophisticated, has dominated scientific thought ever since. In modern physics its focus has been the unification of all the forces of nature--electroweak, strong, and gravitation--the hoped-for consolidation of theory so tight as to turn the science into a perfect system of thought, which by sheer weight of evidence and logic is made resistant to revision. But the spell of the Enchantment extends to other fields of science as well, and in the minds of a few it reaches beyond into the social sciences, and still further, as I will explain later, to touch the humanities. The idea of the unity of science is not idle. It has been tested in acid baths of experiment and logic and enjoyed repeated vindication. It has suffered no decisive defeats. At least not yet, even though at its center, by the very nature of the scientific method, it must be thought always vulnerable. On this weakness I will also expand in due course.Einstein, the architect of grand unification in physics, was Ionian to the core. That vision was perhaps his greatest strength. In an early letter to his friend Marcel Grossmann he said, It is a wonderful feeling to recognize the unity of a complex of phenomena that to direct observation appear to be quite separate things. He was referring to his successful alignment of the microscopic physics of capillaries with the macroscopic, universe-wide physics of gravity. In later life he aimed to weld everything else into a single parsimonious system, space with time and motion, gravity with electromagnetism and cosmology. He approached but never captured that grail. All scientists, Einstein not excepted, are children of Tantalus, frustrated by the failure to grasp that which seems within reach. They are typified by those thermodynamicists who for decades have drawn ever closer to the temperature of absolute zero, when atoms cease all motion. In 1995, pushing down to within a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero, they created a Bose-Einstein condensate, a fundamental form of matter beyond the familiar gases, liquids, and solids, in which many atoms act as a single atom in one quantum state. As temperature drops and pressure is increased, a gas condenses into a liquid, then a solid; then appears the Bose-Einstein condensate. But absolute, entirely absolute zero, a temperature that exists in imagination, has still not been attained.On a far more modest scale, I found it a wonderful feeling not just to taste the unification metaphysics but also to be released from the confinement of fundamentalist religion. I had been raised a Southern Baptist, laid backward under the water on the sturdy arm of a pastor, been born again. I knew the healing power of redemption. Faith, hope, and charity were in my bones, and with millions of others I knew that my savior Jesus Christ would grant me eternal life. More pious than the average teenager, I read the Bible cover to cover, twice. But now at college, steroid-driven into moods of adolescent rebellion, I chose to doubt. I found it hard to accept that our deepest beliefs were set in stone by agricultural societies of the eastern Mediterranean more than two thousand years ago. I suffered cognitive dissonance between the cheerfully reported genocidal wars of these people and Christian civilization in 1940s Alabama. It seemed to me that the Book of Revelation might be black magic hallucinated by an ancient primitive. And I thought, surely a loving personal God, if He is paying attention, will not abandon those who reject the literal interpretation of the biblical cosmology. It is only fair to award points for intellectual courage. Better damned with Plato and Bacon, Shelley said, than go to heaven with Paley and Malthus. But most of all, Baptist theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God? Might the pastors of my childhood, good and loving men though they were, be mistaken? It was all too much, and freedom was ever so sweet. I drifted away from the church, not definitively agnostic or atheistic, just Baptist no more.Still, I had no desire to purge religious feelings. They were bred in me; they suffused the wellsprings of my creative life. I also retained a small measure of common sense. To wit, people must belong to a tribe; they yearn to have a purpose larger than themselves. We are obliged by the deepest drives of the human spirit to make ourselves more than animated dust, and we must have a story to tell about where we came from, and why we are here. Could Holy Writ be just the first literate attempt to explain the universe and make ourselves significant within it? Perhaps science is a continuation on new and better-tested ground to attain the same end. If so, then in that sense science is religion liberated and writ large.Such, I believe, is the source of the Ionian Enchantment: Preferring a search for objective reality over revelation is another way of satisfying religious hunger. It is an endeavor almost as old as civilization and intertwined with traditional religion, but it follows a very different course--a stoic's creed, an acquired taste, a guidebook to adventure plotted across rough terrain. It aims to save the spirit, not by surrender but by liberation of the human mind. I...",books;education & reference;epistemology;humanities;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,11
0687002915,"A Healing Homiletic: Preaching and Disability (2001) Kathy Black is Professor of Homiletics  Liturgics, the School of Theology at Claremont, and an ordained United Methodist minister. She has extensive experience in various fields of disability: she worked as chaplain at Gallaudet University (an outstanding college for the hearing impaired); she pastored two churches for deaf persons; and she taught Deaf Ministry classes and Ministry With Persons With Disabilities at Wesley Theological Seminary, Pacific School of Religion, and the School of Theology at Claremont.",books;christian books & bibles;church administration;jesus;ministry & church leadership;other religions;practices & sacred texts;preaching;religion & spirituality;ritual;sermons,11
0700601252,"Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's Roman Elegies and Venetian Epigrams - A Bilingual Text Text: English, German",books;criticism & theory;european;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;used & rental textbooks;world literature,11
B000EGEYZ2,"Seamanship : A Voyage Along the Wild Coasts of the British Isles There's much to like in the story of how Nicolson (God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible) finds a sailing partner and a suitable boat and takes to the seas surrounding Ireland and Scotland. And his descriptions of the remote communities he encounters on the voyage are often engaging. Yet Nicolson's narrative of this voyagewhich was the basis for an eight-part National Geographic TV seriesis saddled with an overabundance of superlatives: it's one thing for a near fatal accident to be caused by ""the biggest wave I have ever seen,"" but Nicolson also encounters ""the darkest night,"" ""the loneliest and most entrancing place"" and so on. One wishes at times that Nicolson would turn his focus further inward; although he hints at personal tensions between himself and his sailing partner, as well as the strain placed on his marriage by his wanderlust, his slim volume doesn't fully explore these conflicts, instead falling back on slightly more abstract reflections about humans' relationship to the sea. Nicolson's voluntary pilgrimage is a good story, made frustrating by falling just short of being a great story. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Nicolson and a friend, George Fairhurst, sailed up the west coasts of Ireland and Scotland in 2003. The journey, in the 42-foot ketch Auk, took them to the Hebrides, Orkneys, and Faeroes. They were joined by a photographer, an archaeologist, and a film crew. Nicolson, the author of God's Secretaries (2003) and Perch Hill (2000), observes that ""the Atlantic-besieged cliffs of the St. Kildan islands, smashed and storm-swept up to 200 feet above the surface of the sea, provide as enormous and powerful a meeting of rock and ocean as you ever find in Britain."" Along the way, they saw puffins, gannets, shearwaters, seals, crabs, and a spectacular underwater cave. The book is filled with descriptive passages of the sea, cliffs, and the shoreline. There are passages revealing the anxiety and tedium that sometimes occurred, but Nicolson's love for the sea and his fervor for travel and adventure is evident from the first page to the last. George CohenCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	An odyssey of island hopping and psychic exploration. (Kirkus Reviews )A superb book, as wise as it is beautiful. (Bernard Cornwell )A dazzling triumpha profound and magical account of a voyage along the wild edges of the British coast. (Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea, winner of the National Book Award )A genuinely intriguing, thoughtful work. (--Mail on Sunday )	Adam Nicols on is the author of Seamanship, God's Secretaries, and Seize the Fire. He has won both the Somerset Maugham and William Heinemann awards, and he lives with his family at Sissinghurst Castle in England. 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;europe;general;great britain;sailing;sports & outdoors;travel;travel writing;water sports,11
0300109946,"Light, Freedom and Song: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing ""It's a brave critic who dares to take on the complex darkness, riddled with savage and subtle contradictions, of Irish life and history. David Pierce goes more deeply than Sean O'Casey into the dark scene, exploring centuries of struggle and loss in a style that is sharp and thoughtful, curt and comprehensive. . . . The brilliant achievement of this book lies in Pierce's ability to focus an almost epigrammatic style on an epic scene, to move with concentrated, energetic assurance from century to century, from writer to writer, from one historical period to another in a revealing, memorable way. I would go so far as to say that David Pierce is a gifted storyteller who deals in the facts of history and the liberating, challenging wonders of literature. He confronts a massive historical drama and from it he extracts a story, drawn from a patient meditation on writers and writing, which he proceeds to tell with elegance, insight, precision and a kind of narrative charm that carries the reader buoyantly through horror and pain, struggle and loss, stagnation and renewal, silence and singing, right up to present day Ireland which remains a complex little country, still riddled with contradictions, still fascinating, still vibrant with writers, artists, communicators, mockers, sneerers and endlessly interesting jokers. One thing is sure: David Pierce has written a book that will get the whole lot of them talking their heads off.""Brendan Kennelly (Brendan Kennelly)""A lavishly illustrated and interesting book. Pierce writes brilliantly on Friel's Translations as one which captures the life of a people verging unknowingly on utter catastrophe. . . . By far the most original idea here is Pierce's isolation of the idea of `the dark' as the zone in which first the Gaelic bards, then Yeats and Beckett, and later John McGahern and Seamus Deane, find their deepest element. ""Declan Kiberd, The Irish Times (Declan Kiberd The Irish Times 2006-02-04)""[Light, Freedom and Song] is thoughtful throughout, and serves as a provocative account of two centuries of Irish cultural historywhich is no mean feat. Pierce usefully illuminates the links between Irish writing and other models of artistic expression, as well as to popular culture, and does a great service in referencing not only more familiar figures such as Yeats, Joyce, and Heaney, but also artists who are undeservedly neglected, such as the 1920s-1940s novelist Kathleen Coyle.""Andrew Haggerty, James Joyce Literary Supplement (Andrew Haggerty James Joyce Literary Supplement 2007-02-23)"". . . thoughtful throughout, and serves as a provocative account of two centuries of Irish cultural historywhich is no mean feat. Pierce usefully illuminates the links between Irish writing and other models of artistic expression, as well as to popular culture . . .""Andrew Haggerty, James Joyce Literary Supplement (Andrew Haggerty James Joyce Literary Supplement)""A lavishly illustrated and interesting book. Pierce writes brilliantly. . . . ""Declan Kiberd, The Irish Times (Declan Kiberd The Irish Times)"". . . entertaining and stimulating and will attract many readers beyond the scholarly community of Irish studies, but . . . is also a substantial contribution to scholarship in modern Irish literary studies. . . . a finely detailed, perceptive, and careful reading . . ."" John Brannigan, Modern Philology, November 2008 (John Brannigan Modern Philology)""If the appearance of Pierces book suggests an undemanding read, its content belies that expectation. Spanning more than two hundred years of modern Irish history, Light, Freedom, and Song is grounded in compendious fact, omnivorous reading, and the complexities of postcolonial literary theory.""--Ben Howard, Sewanee Review (Ben Howard Sewanee Review)	This is what Brendan Kennelly wrote in his Reader's report on this book: 'It's a brave critic who dares to take on the complex darkness, riddled with savage and subtle contradictions, of Irish life and history. David Pierce goes more deeply [than Sean O'Casey] into the dark scene, exploring centuries of struggle and loss in a style that is sharp and thoughtful, curt and comprehensive.... The brilliant achievement of this book lies in Pierce's ability to focus an almost epigrammatic style on an epic scene, to move with concentrated, energetic assurance from century to century, from writer to writer, from one historical period to another in a revealing, memorable way. I would go so far as to say that David Pierce is a gifted storyteller who deals in the facts of history and the liberating, challenging wonders of literature. He confronts a massive historical drama and from it he extracts a story, drawn from a patient meditation on writers and writing, which he proceeds to tell with elegance, insight, precision and a kind of narrative charm that carries the reader buoyantly through horror and pain, struggle and loss, stagnation and renewal, silence and singing, right up to present day Ireland which remains a complex little country, still riddled with contradictions, still fascinating, still vibrant with writers, artists, communicators, mockers, sneerers and endlessly interesting jokers. One thing is sure: David Pierce has written a book that will get the whole lot of them talking their heads off.'	Light, Freedom and Song: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing is my third book with Yale University Press, and within weeks of publication it was selected by Lindsay and Core (and then by Academia in the US) as one of 300 core titles for library collections for 2005. It provides a sequel to my other Yale books on Joyce and Yeats and focuses on the cultural history of twentieth-century Irish writing from the viewpoint of the harp and the crown, the colonial encounter that is between Ireland and Britain. It took me a long time to write and get into a manageable shape. Part of the problem was to get right the structure of the book and find a way of combining the general line of argument with the particular moment in history or with the chosen writer under discussion. I am delighted with seeing the book in print. Yale's production values are arguably the best in the world and, with its striking mixture of text and visual images, Light, Freedom and Song still shocks me. I have always believed an illustrated book can be both academic, attractively produced and a pleasure to hold and take time to savour. It's a book about the Irish dark, and in the years to come I will return to with renewed interest and pleasure.	In this analysis of modern Irish writing, an acknowledged expert considers the hybrid character of Irish literature to show how language, culture and history have been affected by the colonial encounter between Ireland and Britain. Examining the great themes of loss and struggle, Pierce traces the impact on Irish writing of the Great Famine and cultural nationalism, and considers the way the work of Ireland's two leading writers, W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, complicates and elucidates our view of 'the harp and the crown'.	'Pierce writes with the kind of magnetism one finds in the words and gestures of a great storyteller.' Brendan Kennelly	David Pierce has taught, read, and written about modern literature and Irish writing for more than thirty years. He is the author of ten books and currentlyreviews editor for estudiosirlandeses.org, an internet journal for Irish Studies. His books includeW.B.Yeats A Guide through the Critical Maze (Bristol Press, 1989); James Joyce's Ireland (Yale University Press); Yeats's Worlds: Ireland, England and the Poetic Imagination (Yale University Press); Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader (Cork University Press); W.B.Yeats Critical Assessments 4 vols (Helm Information); Joyce and Company (Continuum), and Reading Joyce (Longman). Now retired, David lives in York, UK.",20th century;books;british;criticism & theory;england;europe;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);world literature,11
0312232047,"The Riddle of the Modern World: Of Liberty, Wealth and Equality 'No one who wishes to understand the great modern transformation of the industrialized world - the immense rise in human wealth even with an increase in population - can do so without studying the remarkable scholarship of the great British historian and anthropologist Alan Macfarlane. In The Riddle of the Modern World Alan Macfarlane looks at three thinkers - Montesquieu, Adam Smith and Alexis de Tocqueville - who were alive when the great change took place to see if they, from direct observation, could explain what happened. - James Q. Wilson, Wall Street Journal	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Alan Macfarlane is Professor of Anthropological Science at the University of Cambridge.",20th century;books;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;world,11
1576239551,"Ragtime The Musical: Vocal Selections Piano/Vocal/Chords Titles are: Back to Before * Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc. *  Gliding * Goodbye, My Love * Make Them Hear You * New Music * Our  Children * Ragtime * Sarah Brown Eyes * Till We Reach That Day * Wheels  of a Dream * Your Daddy's Son.",arts & photography;books;education & reference;humor & entertainment;instruments;jazz;music;musical genres;musicals;songbooks;voice,11
0613180895,"Book of Love Poetry ""Stallworthy's book of love poetry, ranging across more than twenty centuries of writing about love 'till the stars have run away,' establishes beyond the eye-shadow of a doubt that love is, has been and always will be blind.""--Christian Science Monitor""A very thorough job...eccentric and entertaining.""--Times Literary Supplement (London)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Jon Stallworthy, Professor of English Literature, Cornell University.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",anthologies;books;british;english literature;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;poetry;teens;used & rental textbooks,11
0821225618,"Gifts of the Magi: Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City needs no introduction.  It is the preeminent art museum in the Americas and rivaled by few European museums. In fact, for sheer quality and breadth of collection, it has no equal.",arts & photography;books;christian books & bibles;christmas;history;history & criticism;holidays;inspirational;religion & spirituality;spirituality;theology,11
B0001AGNLE,"Makita HM1211B 20-Pound Demolition Hammer The Makita 20-pound demolition hammer features a powerful 10 Amp motor that provides fast and efficient operation. For user comfort and convenience, the rubber grip side handles absorb vibration and can be secured in four positions. This tool has been factory grease packed for reduced maintenance and it has an automatic brush cut-out when periodic servicing is due. It accepts commonly used 3/4-inch steel and measures 19-5/16-by-5-11/16-by-9-13/16 inches (length by width by height) and is backed by a one-year warranty.  What's in the Box Demolition hammer, hex wrench, and plastic tool case.	10 Amp motor pounds out 2000 blows per minute to efficiently break concrete, cut asphalt, dig out packed gravel and more. Accepts commonly used 3/4in. steel and sports a one-touch bit retainer for quick bit changes. Impact Energy (ft. lbs.): 10.5, Impact Energy (J): 14.2, Accepts Bits (in.): 3/4 hex steel, Amps: 10, Blows Per Minute (BPM): 2,000",cutting tools;drill bits;drills;hammer drills;industrial & scientific;industrial drill bits;power & hand tools;power tool accessories;power tools;spade drill bits;tools & home improvement,11
0735619042,"Microsoft® Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services Bernhard Tritsch, Ph.D. is a terminal server and distributed system specialist. He has more than ten years experience in research, application development for Windows-based systems, and worldwide terminal server deployments. He is the chief system architect at visionapp, a systems integrator in Germany and the United Kingdom.",books;business & management;client-server systems;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;home computing & how-to;microsoft;networking;software;windows os;windows server,11
082651457X,"Becoming a Visible Man Gender goes beyond chromosomes, a point broadly knowledgeable transgender activist Green makes early in the compelling, immensely readable story of his FTM (female-to-male: Jamie to Jamison) transsexual experience, from which he emerged fortysomething chronologically yet younger than 20 psychosexually as a consequence of biochemical and surgical sex reassignment. In discussing adjustment to a man's body, Green remarks that those whose bodies originally ""match their gender identity take their bodies for granted in the process of identity formation""--a luxury ""transgendered and transsexual people don't have."" Perhaps nontranssexuals may more easily grasp Green's journey from Jamie to Jamison via the concept of realizing personal integrity, and thereby gain immeasurably from his testimony. Meanwhile, they will be educated by Green's detailed descriptions of available transsexual surgeries--he underwent metoidioplasty, the transformation of female genitalia into a male-appearing organ that, sometimes called a micropenis, is significantly smaller than average for penises, though functionally normal--and by his summary of his expenses since 1989 and his comparison of them to the costs of similar procedures today. Whitney ScottCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Jamison Green tells, with integrity, and in a moving and thoughtful way, his story. --Dallas Denny, Editor, Transgender Tapestry JournalAn intelligent and engaging book. Jamison Green, an extraordinary activist and advocate for FTM transsexuals, demonstrates that he is also an extraordinary writer. Green artfully blends the personal, the informative, and the political, and grounds it all in a generous vision of inclusive communities. He makes a thoughtful and persuasive case for making gender visible.--Joanne Meyerowitz, author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United StatesWhen the premier trans-activist of a generation decides to write a memoir, we should be grateful. When Jamison Green weaves his personal and political experiences into a magnificent story it is all the more reason to celebrate. Becoming a Visible Man shows why he is a leading voice to a generation of transmen and transwomen and why this issue should be on the top of the agenda for all of us in the 21st century.--Henry Rubin, author of Self-Made MenJamison Green has given a great gift--based on experience born of a great personal journey, he demystifies gender in a way that transfixes the reader. The biological journey from zygote to adulthood unfolds to challenge the neat little boxes into which our culture drives gender each day. This is an essential contribution to the growing body of literature on gender identity and expression.--Elizabeth Birch, Executive Director, Human Rights Campaign	Jamison Green is currently board chair of Gender Education and Advocacy, a non-profit educational corporation, and a board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute and the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association. He has also been featured in eight documentary films and numerous articles and books. He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Oregon.",biographies & memoirs;books;gay & lesbian;gender studies;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;self-help;sex;social sciences;specific demographics;transgender,11
0618528490,"Study Guide for Zumdahl/Zumdahl's Chemistry, 7th Steven S. Zumdahl earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Wheaton College (IL) and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has been a faculty member at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Parkland College (IL), and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where he is Professor Emeritus. He has received numerous awards including the National Catalyst Award for Excellence in Chemical Education, the University of Illinois Teaching Award, the UIUC Liberal Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching, UIUC Liberal Arts and Sciences Advising Award, and the School of Chemical Sciences Teaching award (five times). He is the author of several chemistry textbooks. In his leisure time he enjoys traveling and collecting classic cars.Susan L. Zumdahl earned a B.S. and M.A. in Chemistry at California State University-Fullerton. She has taught science and mathematics at all levels including middle school, high school, community college, and university. At the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she developed a program for increasing the retention of minorities and women in science and engineering. This program focused on using active learning and peer teaching to encourage students to excel in the sciences. She has coordinated and led workshops and programs for science teachers from elementary through college levels. These programs encourage and support active learning and creative techniques for teaching science. For several years she was director of an Institute for Chemical Education (ICE) field center in Southern California, and she has authored several chemistry textbooks. Susan spearheaded the development of a sophisticated Web-based electronic homework system for teaching chemistry. Susan enjoys traveling, classic cars, and gardening in her spare time when she is not playing with her grandchildren.",books;chemistry;education & reference;general & reference;new;science & math;science & mathematics;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,11
B0000545UP,"The Art of War ""To win without fighting is best,"" Sun Tzu said. For the Chinese philosopher/general war was coeval with life. Tzu viewed the world as a network of combat zones where the stakes are high and struggle is the primary mode of being, where no one is to be trusted, and survival depends on nothing less than unconditional victory. Actors Ron Silver and B.D. Wong narrate this 2,500-year-old work of wisdom that continues to guide and inspire people of all cultures, teaching the principles of strategy required in everything from sports to business to affairs of the heart. Augmented by commentaries and anecdotes, this audio edition maintains the spare, near-poetic tone of the original.",ancient;books;business & investing;eastern;history;leadership;management & leadership;military;military science;philosophy;politics & social sciences,11
0253344409,"Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (Studies in Continental Thought) Bruce V. Foltz is Professor of Philosophy at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. He has published numerous articles on environmental philosophy and the philosophy of technology.Robert Frodeman is Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. He is also Director of the New Directions Initiative and the Global Climate Change and Society program. His works include Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground between Philosophy and Earth Sciences and other essays in environmental thought.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & investing;conservation;environment;environmentalism;movements;nature & ecology;philosophy;politics & social sciences;popular economics;science & math,11
0415010926,"The African Inheritance ...shifts attention to postindepenence Africa, with chapters focusing respectively on boundary problems, landlocked states, secessionist movements, irrendentism, indigenous imperialism, attempts at political and economic union, and infratructure development.  Griffiths suggests internal remedial initiatives: debt-relief, infrastructural development, intra-African trade, and Africa-based solutions.Choice	Ieuan Ll. Griffiths is a Doctor and Reader in Geography at the University of Sussex.",africa;books;earth sciences;geography;history;humanities;new;regional;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,11
1880849194,"Machiavelli's The Republican ""No introduction to American Government course can afford to  pass it up! De-mystification of a high order! Grab it!"" -- Dr. Bertell Ollman, Dept. of Politics, New York University	Nelson A. Blue holds degrees in psychology from the  University of New Mexico and the University of Pennsylvania and a  Ph.D. in philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis.  He has  taught logic, ethics, philosophy of science, and computer science at  Washington University, Western Illinois University, the University of  Missouri at Rolla, and North Carolina State University.",books;elections & political process;general;history & theory;humor;humor & entertainment;political parties;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;satire,11
0791041069,"Tess of Th D'Urbervilles (Pbk)(Oop) (Bloom's Notes) Anna Bentinck ratchets up the melodrama for this full-blooded reading of Hardy's classica staple of high-school English classes everywhere. Students desperate to penetrate Hardy's notoriously slow masterpiece should turn to Bentinck, who gives it an intense emotional coloring. She makes Hardy sound like a brother to the Bront sisters: passionate and brooding. Bentinck alternates between a crisp, precise narrative voice that sounds like Helen Mirren, and Tess's own voice, quavering, shallow and meek. Bentinck retains her composure throughout, and her assured performance may be a welcome rescue for struggling 11th graders across the country. (June) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.	This edition of the Hardy classic includes a complete authoritative text plus biographical and historical contexts, critical history, essays by five scholars, and a glossary. A fine scholarly edition for the academic crowd.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	""We immediately fell in love with these awesome vintage-style redesigns of classic novels."" Flavorwire	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction.  Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy is edited by Rex Gibson, Director, Shakespeare and Schools Project.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The Broadview Literary Texts series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, though lesser-known literature.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Introduction by Patricia Ingham	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	""Hardy is possessed of the conviction that a novel is not a toy, nor an argument; it is a means of giving truthful if harsh and violent impressions of the lives of men and women. . . . In every book three or four figures predominate, and stand up like lightning conductors to attract the force of the elements. . . . In short, nobody can deny Hardy's power--the true novelist's power--to make us believe that his characters are fellow-beings driven by their own passions and idiosyncrasies, while they have--and this is the poet's gift--something symbolical about them which is common to us all.""--Virginia WoolfAlso available in the A Literary Collection:EmmaIvanhoeJane EyrePride and PrejudiceTom Jones	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one of the few writers to succeed as both a major novelist and a poet. He is the author of The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure. Several of his novels have been made into films, notably Far from the Madding Crowd (Schlesinger, 1967) and Tess (Polanski, 1979).	      --This text refers to the 							Audio Cassette	 edition.	Phase the FirstThe MaidenIOn an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston1 to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. He occasionally gave a smart nod, as if in confirmation of some opinion, though he was not thinking of anything in particular. An empty egg-basket was slung upon his arm, the nap of his hat was ruffled, a patch being quite worn away at its brim where his thumb came in taking it off. Presently he was met by an elderly parson astride on a gray mare, who, as he rode, hummed a wandering tune.Good night t'ee, said the man with the basket.Good night, Sir John, said the parson.The pedestrian, after another pace or two, halted, and turned round.Now, sir, begging your pardon; we met last market-day on this road about this time, and I zaid2 'Good night,' and you made reply 'Good night, Sir John,' as now.I did, said the parson.And once before thatnear a month ago.I may have.Then what might your meaning be in calling me 'Sir John' these different times, when I be plain Jack Durbeyfield, the haggler?3The parson rode a step or two nearer.It was only my whim, he said; and, after a moment's hesitation: It was on account of a discovery I made some little time ago, whilst I was hunting up pedigrees for the new county history. I am Parson Tringham, the antiquary, of Stagfoot Lane. Don't you really know, Durbeyfield, that you are the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the d'Urbervilles, who derive their descent from Sir Pagan d'Urberville, that renowned knight who came from Normandy with William the Conqueror, as appears by Battle Abbey Roll?4Never heard it before, sir!Well, it's true. Throw up your chin a moment, so that I may catch the profile of your face better. Yes, that's the d'Urberville nose and china little debased. Your ancestor was one of the twelve knights who assisted the Lord of Estremavilla in Normandy in his conquest of Glamorganshire. Branches of your family held manors over all this part of England; their names appear in the Pipe Rolls5 in the time of King Stephen. In the reign of King John one of them was rich enough to give a manor to the Knights Hospitallers; and in Edward the Second's time your forefather Brian was summoned to Westminster to attend the great Council there. You declined a little in Oliver Cromwell's time, but to no serious extent, and in Charles the Second's reign you were made Knights of the Royal Oak6 for your loyalty. Aye, there have been generations of Sir Johns among you, and if knighthood were hereditary, like a baronetcy, as it practically was in old times, when men were knighted from father to son, you would be Sir John now.Ye don't say so!In short, concluded the parson, decisively smacking his leg with his switch, there's hardly such another family in England.Daze7 my eyes, and isn't there? said Durbeyfield. And here have I been knocking about, year after year, from pillar to post, as if I was no more than the commonest feller in the parish. . . . And how long hev this news about me been knowed, Pa'son Tringham?The clergyman explained that, as far as he was aware, it had quite died out of knowledge, and could hardly be said to be known at all. His own investigations had begun on a day in the preceding spring when, having been engaged in tracing the vicissitudes of the d'Urberville family, he had observed Durbeyfield's name on his waggon, and had thereupon been led to make inquiries about his father and grandfather till he had no doubt on the subject.At first I resolved not to disturb you with such a useless piece of information, said he. However, our impulses are too strong for our judgment sometimes. I thought you might perhaps know something of it all the while.Well, I have heard once or twice, 'tis true, that my family had seen better days afore they came to Blackmoor. But I took no notice o't, thinking it to mean that we had once kept two horses where we now keep only one. I've got a wold8 silver spoon, and a wold graven seal at home, too; but, Lord, what's a spoon and seal? . . . And to think that I and these noble d'Urbervilles were one flesh all the time. 'Twas said that my gr't-grandfer had secrets, and didn't care to talk of where he came from. . . . And where do we raise our smoke, now, parson, if I may make so bold; I mean, where do we d'Urbervilles live?You don't live anywhere. You are extinctas a county family.That's bad.Yeswhat the mendacious family chronicles call extinct in the male linethat is, gone downgone under.Then where do we lie?At Kingsbere-sub-Greenhill: rows and rows of you in your vaults, with your effigies under Purbeck-marble9 canopies.And where be our family mansions and estates?You haven't any.Oh? No lands neither?None; though you once had 'em in abundance, as I said, for your family consisted of numerous branches. In this county there was a seat of yours at Kingsbere, and another at Sherton, and another at Millpond, and another at Lullstead, and another at Wellbridge.And shall we ever come into our own again?Ahthat I can't tell!And what had I better do about it, sir? asked Durbeyfield, after a pause.Ohnothing, nothing; except chasten yourself with the thought of 'how are the mighty fallen.'10 It is a fact of some interest to the local historian and genealogist, nothing more. There are several families among the cottagers of this county of almost equal lustre. Good night.But you'll turn back and have a quart of beer wi' me on the strength o't, Pa'son Tringham? There's a very pretty brew in tap at The Pure Dropthough, to be sure, not so good as at Rolliver's.No, thank younot this evening, Durbeyfield. You've had enough already. Concluding thus the parson rode on his way, with doubts as to his discretion in retailing this curious bit of lore.When he was gone Durbeyfield walked a few steps in a profound reverie, and then sat down upon the grassy bank by the roadside, depositing his basket before him. In a few minutes a youth appeared in the distance, walking in the same direction as that which had been pursued by Durbeyfield. The latter, on seeing him, held up his hand, and the lad quickened his pace and came near.Boy, take up that basket! I want 'ee to go on an errand for me.The lath-like stripling frowned. Who be you, then, John Durbeyfield, to order me about and call me 'boy'? You know my name as well as I know yours!Do you, do you? That's the secretthat's the secret! Now obey my orders, and take the message I'm going to charge 'ee wi'. . . . Well, Fred, I don't mind telling you that the secret is that I'm one of a noble raceit has been just found out by me this present afternoon, p.m. And as he made the announcement, Durbeyfield, declining from his sitting position, luxuriously stretched himself out upon the bank among the daisies.The lad stood before Durbeyfield, and contemplated his length from crown to toe.Sir John d'Urbervillethat's who I am, continued the prostrate man. That is if knights were baronetswhich they be. 'Tis recorded in history all about me. Dost know of such a place, lad, as Kingsbere-sub-Greenhill?Ees. I've been there to Greenhill Fair.Well, under the church of that city there lie 'Tisn't a city, the place I mean; leastwise 'twaddn' when I was there'twas a little one-eyed, blinking sort o' place.Never you mind the place, boy, that's not the question before us. Under the church of that there parish lie my ancestorshundreds of 'emin coats of mail and jewels, in gr't lead coffins weighing tons and tons. There's not a man in the county o' South-Wessex that's got grander and nobler skillentons11 in his family than I.Oh?Now take up that basket, and goo on to Marlott, and when you've come to The Pure Drop Inn, tell 'em to send a horse and carriage to me immed'ately, to carry me hwome. And in the bottom o' the carriage they be to put a noggin o' rum in a small bottle, and chalk it up to my account. And when you've done that goo on to my house with the basket, and tell my wife to put away that washing, because she needn't finish it, and wait till I come hwome, as I've news to tell her.As the lad stood in a dubious attitude, Durbeyfield put his hand in his pocket, and produced a shilling, one of the chronically few that he possessed.Here's for your labour, lad.This made a difference in the young man's estimate of the position.Yes, Sir John. Thank 'ee. Anything else I can do for 'ee, Sir John?Tell 'em at hwome that I should like for supper,well, lamb's fry if they can get it; and if they can't, black-pot; and if they can't get that, well, chitterlings12 will do.Yes, Sir John.The boy took up the basket, and as he set out the notes of a brass band were heard from the direction of the village.What's that? said Durbeyfield. Not on account o' I? 'Tis the women's club-walking, Sir John. Why, your da'ter is one o' the members....	      --This text refers to the 							Mass Market Paperback	 edition.	Those who are intimidated by the thought of reading an expansive, elaborate, great English novel, take heart. Now you can delight in hearing this classic story told to you. Peter Firth artistically interprets this fateful tale of a young country woman's entrapment by one of literature's great cads, Alec D'Urberville, and her subsequent abandonment by her husband, Angel Clare. Firth's tone is one of gentle solemnity, quiet and sad, not overly dramatic, but still foreboding. His dialects sound natural and unforced. His pacing is unrushed, respectful of the book's structure and punctuation. His pronunciation is flawless, with words like ""interlocutor"" and ""theolatry"" little sound poems in themselves. His light voice for Tess captures both the vulnerability and quiet strength of this misused maiden. His homage to Hardy's world view is evident in his thoughtful rendering of every homily, philosophical assertion and poetic description. Production values are also top rate: no swallows, gulps, or page turnings. The volume level is consistent, and the entire performance is of the best fidelity. It's hard to think that TESS could be interpreted better. P.W.   (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio Cassette	 edition.",books;criticism & theory;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,11
0823077446,"The King of Western Swing: Bob Wills Remembered Rosetta Wills, a freelance writer whose articles on country  music artists have appeared in The Austin American-Statesman, lives in  Austin, Texas.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;composition & performance;country;humor & entertainment;music;musical genres;theory,11
4770024002,"Battleship Musashi: The Making and Sinking of the Worlds Biggest Battleship Japan's leading non-fiction writer on military and naval subjects, AKIRA YOSHIMURA was born in Tokyo in 1927. His published works in Japanese include a best-selling account of the construction and wartime role of the Zero fighter. The ship shown on the jacket is the battleship Yamato, which was identical in size and design to the Musashi. Such was the secrecy of the Musashi project that no clear photograph of the ship survived the war. (Courtesy of Shizuo Fukui)",asia;books;history;humanities;japan;military;naval;new;philippines;used & rental textbooks;world war ii,11
B000FZE9V6,"100 Most Popular Scientists for Young Adults: Biographical Sketches and Professional Paths (Profiles and Pathways Series) Grade 6 Up-This resource was designed in part ""to help readers prepare for, plan, and more accurately envision their own careers."" Each biographical sketch is divided into six sections: ""Career Highlights,"" ""Important Contributions,"" ""Career Path,"" ""Key Dates,"" ""Advice,"" and ""References."" Most of the alphabetically arranged entries begin with a black-and-white photo and an intriguing subtitle such as ""Studying the Drowned Museum"" or ""The Unconventional Genius."" Along with successes, the articles mention the setbacks, sidetracks, and failures these 20th-century scientists encountered. Well-known individuals such as Jacques Cousteau, Sally Ride, and Carl Sagan are assembled here along with unheralded newcomers to the field. One third of the entries are about women and many ethnic groups are represented. The paragraph of advice from each scientist was actually written by the authors and contains quotes and suggestions. Most are in the nature of ""Take all the science courses available."" A bibliography concludes each entry. Valuable appendixes include an extensive list of Web sites and lists of scientists by their field of specialization. The clear type and attractive layout combined with lively writing, good organization, and curriculum-related content will make the book a useful reference source.Priscilla Bennett, State University of West Georgia Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Revealing the career histories of successful 20th century scientists, this exciting resource offers students fascinating reads, a wonderful research tool, and tips to launching a science career. They'll learn about Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who discovered the Titanic; Annie Wauneka, who eradicated TB among the Navajo; and Chien-Shiung Wu, a physicist who worked on the Manhattan project. They will also find information about many Nobel Prize winners and such familiar personalities as Sally Ride, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Cousteau, Dian Fossey, and Margaret Mead. Physical, earth, and life sciences are represented, with a focus on contemporary North Americans. Descriptions of each scientist's most important contributions and biographical sketches are accompanied by words of advice to today's students who wish to establish a science career. Photos of some of the scientists illustrate the text, and lists for further reading are included.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",20th century;biographies;books;careers;children's books;education & reference;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);nature & how it works;science;science & technology,11
1595550429,"The Political Zoo Michael Savage continues to soar as the No. 1 New York Times author of the The Savage Nation, The Enemy Within, and Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder. His program, The Michael Savage Show, airs on four hundred radio stations coast to coast (including WOR in New York and KNEW in San Francisco) and enjoys ten million weekly listeners, the nation's third largest talk radio audience. A man of the people, Savage has labored as a factory worker, teacher, social worker, medicinal plant explorer, and biologist, earning master's degrees in both medical botany and medical anthropology and a Ph.D. in epidemiology and nutrition science from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the founder and director of the Paul Revere Society, which supports our nation's right to defend and protect its borders, language, and culture.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Michael Savage truly lives up to his name in this vicious, relentless tirade against the movers and shakers of our world. ""The world of politics is filled with uncivilized, snarling, rapacious beasts that, like untrained mutts, raise their legs and urinate on everything we hold dear."" Reader Tim Lundeen tries to deliver wit and comic wisdom in Savage's parade of politicos and media superstars and occasionally achieves a balance between the ""beasts"" and the zookeeper, but he can't keep Savage's cynicism, sarcasm, and unbridled cruelty from his voice. The production is jarred by blaring musical interludes that add a further unnerving element to a distinctly unpleasant listening experience.  M.T.B.   AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;conservatism & liberalism;humor;humor & entertainment;ideologies & doctrines;political;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;satire;united states,11
1552090159,"A Book Lover's Diary This permanent record for readers provides pages for recording significant book records; from records of books read by subject and title to want lists, quotes from important passages, and books shared as gifts. This will make an excellent record-keeper and gift for any involved in the book world.  -- Midwest Book Review	Shelagh Wallace is the author of The TV Book.",antiques & collectibles;biographies & memoirs;books;books & reading;crafts;education & reference;general;history & criticism;hobbies & home;literature & fiction;movements & periods,11
0300092431,"Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust Zapruder, who works in the education department at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, has done a great service to history and the future. Her book deserves to become a standard in Holocaust studies classes, particularly those aimed at youth or focusing on individuals. The 14 diaries in this anthology most appearing in English for the first time detail the lives of teens and their families, some on the run, some in camps, some in hiding and some during the chilling last days in the ghettoes in Nazi-occupied Europe. Each is prefaced with a biography of its author, information on family background and, when known, his or her fate. Zapruder also provides other facts that would have been known to the diarists and their peers, providing readers with a more complete context. Their experiences and reactions vary widely. Peter Feigl's parents baptize him as a Catholic and send him to church, but eventually are forced to send him from Austria to France. He blames the Jewish-identified teens around him for the circumstances that have ripped him from his parents. In contrast, Belgian Moshe Flinker becomes more attached to traditional Judaism, but increasingly depressed. His last entry, in the fall of 1943, reads, ""I am sitting facing the sun. Soon it will set; it is nearing the horizon. It is as red as blood, as if it were a bleeding wound. From where does it get so much blood? For days there has been a red sun, but this is not hard to understand. Is it not sufficient to weep, in these days of anguish?"" These writings will certainly impress themselves on the memories of all readers. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	For the millions who read The Diary of Anne Frank (1952), this collection of 14 Holocaust diaries by young people from all over Europe will extend the history beyond Anne's attic walls. Scholars will want this volume--editor Zapruder's research is meticulous, drawing on archives and museums across the world--but the intensely personal voices of these young people who record the unimaginable will also draw a general audience. In her clear overview and introductions to each diary, Zapruder gives historical context and biography and decries any message of consolation or redemption, pointing out that these stark narratives banish forever the stereotypes of sweet victim, beneficent rescuer, and unfeeling bystander; instead, they suggest the immense complexity of ordinary people. Some writers are dull; some write with heartbreaking power. One diarist focuses on hunger: he's absolutely obsessed with food. Another's anguish is the loneliness, the separation; she cannot forget having to leave her grandmother in the street. The places range from the Czech forests and the Lodz ghetto to Auschwitz and the horrific scenes at liberation. A landmark collection. Hazel RochmanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	. . . . [W]ell worth the effort. . . . [T]his book authenticates the Holocaust. . . . By reviewing the testimony of. . . . victims,. . . . the reader can judge.  -- (Jean Sered, Jewish Bulletin of Northern California)[D]eserves to become a standard in Holocaust studies . . . These writings will certainly impress themselves on the memories of all readers.   -- Publishers Weekly	Text: English (translation)	""When fear crawls out in the evenings from all four corners, when the winter storm  raging outside tells you it is winter, and that it is difficult to live in the winter, when my soul trembles at the  sight of distant fantasies, I shiver and say one word with every heartbeat, every pulse, every piece of my  soulliberation.""from the diary of Elsa Binder, Stanislaww ghetto, 1942; the diary breaks off  midsentence; she surely perished, but the exact circumstances of her death are unknown ""It dawned on me that today is my birthday. Today I became 15 years old. Must I day in day out see the  walled-up ghetto gate, must I in my best years see only the one little street, the few stuffy courtyards? I  wish to shout to time to linger, not to run. I wish to recapture my past year and keep it for later, for the new  life.""from the diary of Yitskhok Rudashevski, Vilna ghetto, Lithuania, December 10, 1942;  he was  killed in 1943	Alexandra Zapruder was the exhibition researcher and educator for the permanent and travelling versions of Remember the Children, Daniel's Story at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is currently an independent writer and scholar.",biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;europe;historical;history;holocaust;jewish;memoirs;military;world,11
0893572063,"Twelve Stories (Selected and Annotated for English Speaking Students) Text: Russian, English",anthologies & literary collections;books;contemporary;education & reference;foreign languages;general;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks,11
1932183728,"The Goodnight Book For Moms and little Ones This magical book will guarantee a love of bedtime and sweet, sweet, dreams.	ALICE WONG is a project director at Welcome Books. She has produced or edited numerous titles, including The Little Big Book for Moms and The Little Big Book for Grandmothers, The Little Big Book of Disney and Disneys Winnie the Pooh: A Celebration of the Silly Old Bear. She has also edited Moms Almanac and Home Almanac. She has three children and lives in New York City. LENA TABORI is the publisher of Welcome Books. She lives in California and New York.",anthropology;books;children's books;family activities;family relationships;motherhood;parenting;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;sleep;social situations,11
0439791456,"Gregor And The Marks Of Secret (Underland Chronicles, Book Four) Grade 5-8No good deed goes unpunished in the fourth installment in the popular series. Gregor and his sister Boots are regular visitors to Underland, where their mother is slowly recovering from injuries incurred in the previous episode. Gregor is supposed to be studying echolocation with his rat friend, Ripred the Gnawer, but hes doing very badly. Ripred has his own problems, largest of which is Bane, the once-sweet little baby Gnawer whom the protagonist refused to kill in Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (Scholastic, 2004). Bane, now a half-grown monster of a rat, is surprisingly charismatic yet emotionally stunted and easily controlled by the forces of evil. When Queen Luxa gets a message that the mice that saved her life in the jungle are in trouble, she and Gregor head out to investigate, accompanied by her cousin Howard, several bats, Gregors sisters, and a brave cockroach named Temp. The breathless pace, intense drama, and extraordinary challenges will leave fans clamoring for the conclusion of this fine series.Mara Alpert, Los Angeles Public Library Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Kirkus StarredIn this penultimate volume in ""The Underland Chronicles,"" Collins begins to gather herself for the grand finale. Gregor has been taking echolocation lessons with Ripred, the charismatic and violent outlaw rat, and after one session he introduces Gregor to Bane, the white-rat pup Gregor spared in defiance of prophecy (Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, 2004). Bane is now some eight feet tall and still growing, and thoroughly, dangerously mad. Shortly after this introduction, both Ripred and Bane go missing, and Queen Luxa discovers that mice who succored her in the jungle (Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, 2005) have also disappeared, leaving only one enigmatic Mark and Hazard, Gregor's little sister Boots and the faithful cockroach Tornp. A customarily eventful trip through Hades Hall to the Firelands leads the band to both the mice and Bane, who has his own Final Solution in mind for the entire mouse race. The cliffhanger ending will leave readers gasping as Gregor goes chasing another prophecy, the direst yet.Horn BookSuzanne Collins  Gregor and the Marks of Secret: Book Four in the Underland Chronicles341 pp. Scholastic 5/06 ISBN 0-439-79145-6 $16.99 g(Intermediate)""So this is how a war starts.... Not with two armies facing off, waiting for the signal to charge.... It begins much more quietly. In a room, on a field, in a remote tunnel when someone who has power decides the time has come."" In this fourth installment, twelve-year-old Gregor returns to the bizarre subterranean land of archaic violet-eyed humans and giant rodents, bats, insects, and other creatures. He and his fellow Underland battle veterans set out to answer a call for help from the mice, and their quest leads to some grim discoveries -- including an abandoned mouse colony, symbols of death etched in stone and blood, and, most gruesome of all, a mass grave. Collins keeps the tension and the stakes high;vivid description, expert pacing, and subtle character development all enhance this gripping fantasy adventure. At the conclusion, we leave Gregor heading into what promises to be an interspecies conflict of epic proportions. ""Who would he be...if he survived?"" Readers will have to wait for the fifth (and final?) book to find out. K.F.	Suzanne Collins' debut novel, Gregor the Overlander, the first book in The Underland Chronicles, received wide praise both in the United States and abroad. The series has been a New York Times bestseller and received numerous accolades. Also a writer for children's television, Suzanne lives with her family in Connecticut.",action & adventure;animals;books;children's books;family life;fantasy & magic;royalty;science fiction & fantasy;siblings;social situations;travel & cultures,11
1571202390,"Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Bowls: 5 Reversible Shapes to Use & Display Linda Johansen lives in Corvallis, OR.",antiques & collectibles;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;hobbies & home;houseware & dining;kitchenware;needlecrafts & textile crafts;needlework;quilts & quilting;sewing,11
0896331822,"Resonant Lives These 50 short profiles of political, literary and historical figures are a mixed bag. Nationally syndicated columnist Greenberg offers a wonderful debunking of Ayn Rand, punctures Nixon's pretensions as elder statesman and files perceptives sketches of Fred Astaire, Cary Grant, I. F. Stone, Jimmy Swaggart and Rudolph Hess. Though most of the pieces are no more than three or four pages in length, Greenberg musters literary insights into Flannery O'Connor's work and soundly takes to task senator Sam Ervin for his civil rights record. However, many of the pieces have the slapped-together quality of a newspaper column. Greenberg heaps scorn on Jesse Jackson and Andrei Gromyko, calls George Kennan an ""apostle of appeasement"" and condemns New York Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg for being ""monstrously, repeatedly wrong about what would happen in Cambodia after a Communist victory."" Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Greenberg captures the essence of 50 contributors to politics, literature, and history in these short sketches, some of them obituaries, collected for the first time. Such diverse figures as George Washington, Orville Faubus, Samuel Beckett, and H.L. Mencken appear, treated with a clarity and brevity characteristic of journalism at its best. In one sketch Greenberg defends writer John O'Hara by pointing out how much more dynamic his prose is than that of Henry James, who always puts him to sleep. The conservative political tone, though irksome at times, never descends into bigotry; on the contrary, a strong support of civil rights is evident in several of the sketches. Despite Greenberg's journalistic talents, however, this volume has a limited appeal. The pieces, while enlightening, are too brief to provide any but the most cursory of information.- Nancy R. Ives, SUNY at GeneseoCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	In an age when society and not the individual matters, how refreshing it is to come across a writer who examines the lives, styles and ideas of extraordinary individuals, good and bad, as insights to current history, as keys to unlock the mysteries of our own lives and reveal the codes of our times. (The Washington Times)...offers a wonderful debunking of Ayne Rand...and files perceptive sketches of Fred Astaire, Cary Grant, I.F. Stone, Jimmy Swaggart and Rudolph Hess. (Publishers Weekly)...Greenberg captures the essence of 50 contributors to politics, literature, and history in these short sketches, some of them obituaries, collected for the first time. Such diverse figures...appear, treated with a clarity and brevity characteristic of journalism at its best.... (Library Journal)Startling in their insight, eloquent, and amazingly rich in detail, these 50 previously published essays truly do resonate the meaning. (Booklist)...irresistable stories.... (Shreveport Journal)	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",20th century;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;reference & collections;used & rental textbooks;world,11
078214442X,"Mastering Maya 7 The Ultimate Maya 7 ResourceGet complete, expert, and in-depth coverage of Maya 7, the world's premier 3D software tool for modeling, animation, and rendering. This authoritative Maya Press reference and tutorial quickly transitions from Maya basics to advanced topics and techniques to help users of all abilities sharpen their skills and techniques.Beginning with a ""Quick Start"" overview of Maya's interface, workflow, and node structure, Mastering Maya 7 gets you right into the nitty-gritty of using Maya. You'll find detailed instruction on the Maya interface and all modeling, texturing, animation, and special effects tools. This complete reference features hands-on tutorials created by a diverse team of experts to reinforce your understanding of the lessons and techniques. Focusing on all of Maya's latest features, this definitive book even includes chapters on Maya Unlimited topics such as hair, cloth, fur, and fluid dynamics. Coverage includes:Modeling: NURBS, polygons, subdivision surfaces, and such advanced modeling techniques as using blend shapes with deformersRigging and Animation: IK and FK, skeletons, joint and lattice deformers, weighting characters, keyframe and nonlinear animation techniquesTexturing and Rendering: light types, effects, and techniques; the Hypershade; shading and texturing attributes; software rendering; detailed mental ray coverage including HDRI, Final Gather, and Global Illumination techniquesAdvanced Maya: Maya Embedded Language (MEL); Paint Effects; particles; fluid effects; rigid body dynamics; Maya hair, fur, cloth, and Toon shaderThe enclosed CD features tutorial files, images, and scene files that let you complete the hands-on exercises and compare your work to the pros. It also includes the latest Maya Personal Learning Edition software.Visit our Web sites for more information: www.alias.com and www.sybex.com	John Kundert-Gibbs wrote Chapters 8, 15, 17, and 19. He is director of the Digital Production Arts program and Associate Professor in Computer Science at Clemson University. He has written extensively on Maya and 3D-related topics, including the Mastering Maya series and the two Maya: Secrets of the Pros books. Hes also written on the intersection of media design and theatrical production. Dr. Kundert-Gibbs is proud of the graduates of the DPA program, many of whom now work in the best effects houses in the industry.Eric Kunzendorf wrote Chapters 3 through 7, 9, and 12. He serves as co-chairman of Electronic Arts in the areas of Computer Animation, Digital Multimedia, and Digital Art at the Atlanta College of Art and has been teaching computer graphics and animation at the college level for the last 12 years. He previously taught computer art at the School of Visual Arts Savannah campus. He holds a Bachelors of Arts in art history from Columbia University and a Masters of Fine Arts in drawing and painting from the University of Georgia.Eric co-authored Maya 5 Savvy as well as contributed to Maya: Secrets of the Pros. His animations, Final Project Assignment and Mime in a Box, have appeared at the Siggraph Computer Animation Festival in 1999 and 2000 respectively. The latter animation also appears on the commercial DVD Computer Animation Journeys. Most recently, his 2004 animation The Secret Life of Netsuke won first place in SEDAFthe Southeastern Digital Arts Festival. He has also exhibited computer-generated prints on the regional and national level.Dariush Derakhshaniwrote Chapters 1 and 21. He is an award-winning digital effects supervisor and author of several bestselling Maya books, including Introducing Maya 7: 3D for Beginners and Maya Secrets of the Pros. For almost a decade, he has worked on feature films (Fantastic Four, The Visitation, The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl), national TV commercials (BMW and Lexus), TV series (South Park), and music videos (Cake and Linkin Park). Dariush shares the 2003 London Advertising Award for commercial effects, won the Bronze Plaque from the Columbus Film Festival, and received a fellowship from Paramount Pictures. Dariush has an MFA from USC Film School and has been teaching Maya and animation classes for the past seven years.Mick Larkins wrote Chapters 2, 11, and 20. He holds an MFA in Digital Production Arts from Clemson University and a BS in Computer Science from Furman University. His expertise includes hair, cloth, and game development. His animated contributions have been exhibited in the Eurographics Animation Theatre, South Eastern Digital Animation Festival, and the Cineme International Film Festival. Currently, Mick is the Technical Art Lead at Hi-Rez Studios in Atlanta, GA. Mick wants to dedicate his contributions in this book to his wonderful wife, Megan. Visit his website at www.micklarkins.com.Eric Keller wrote Chapters 13, 18, and the appendix. He has been a professional animator since 1998. For seven years he created scientific animations for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, working with some of the worlds top researchers. In 2005 he dragged his wife, Zoe, and their two dogs out to Hollywood, California, where he currently works as a freelancer creating animations for film, television, and commercials. In school he studied classical guitar and didnt think much of computer animation until he accidentally rendered a chrome sphere in 1997. Since then, he has spent most of his time studying and practicing the art of computer graphics along with drawing and sculpture. He has had numerous tutorials and articles published in Highend3d and HDRI3d magazines. His goals for the future are to continue to study in Hollywood and eventually use what hes learned to help expand the role of 3D graphics and animation in art and culture.Boaz Livny wrote Chapters 14 and 16. He has been working for more than 10 years with 3D for film, TV, and multimedia content. He is a technically savvy artist who special izes in lighting and rendering but is experienced working in the entire pipeline. His New York studio Vision Animations Inc. (www.visionanimations.com) provides regular services to clients and freelance support for studios. He is a professor of masters level courses at NYUs Center for Advanced Digital Applications (CADA). Boaz regularly writes articles demonstrating advanced techniques with Maya and mental ray in HDRI 3D magazine. His new book mental ray with Maya, XSI and 3D studio max: A 3D Artists Guide to Rendering (Wiley) will be published in 2006. Boaz is currently developing an Advanced Training Center for computer arts and science in NYC. Information is available at www.3DArts.org.Mark E. A. de Sousa wrote Chapter 22. He is a Computer Graphics Supervisor: Cloth and Hair at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Currently he is the Cloth Lead on Sony Pictures Animations first feature project called Open Season. Marks screen credits also include being the Cloth Lead on Spider-Man II. In the past nine years, he has worked on more than 13 feature films including Spider-Man II, Polar Express, Stuart Little II, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, The Hollowman, and Star Trek: Insurrection. Mark is also a part-time instructor at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood, California. He is a graduate of Centennial Colleges Digital Animation Program in Toronto, Canada.",books;computer science;computers & technology;digital media management;graphics & multimedia;graphics & visualization;new;programming;used & rental textbooks;video production;web development & design,11
0399521275,"Timelines of African-American History YA?Achievements of African Americans from 1492-1993 are arranged in chronological order and then categorized within each year. Sports, the military, literature and journalism, politics and civil rights, and performing and visual arts are the areas covered, with entries ranging in length from one to four lines. No biographical data is given. Famous events and little-known facts are included as well as people, e.g., in 1885 ""there are 74 recorded lynchings."" The index is thorough and is a must for finding specific entries. This is a great trivia book and a wonderful resource to glean names and facts for research ideas. A visually pleasing and easy-to-read volume.?Pat Royal, Crossland High School, Camp Springs, MDCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Timelines adds to the growing list of chronologies for groups often viewed as being outside the mainstream of American history. Its purpose is to indicate major events in African American history by year and broad subject category, e.g., politics and civil rights, religion and education, sports, etc., and to trace these themes over time and within a given year. In doing so, itlimits its 1500 entries to only a sentence or two, with rare mention of specific dates. Timelines draws heavily from Peter M. Bergman's Chronological History of the Negro in America (LJ 1/15/70), updating it with politically correct terms, but it lacks that chronology's detail and quotations from original documents. Coverage of the last few decades overlaps with and provides more reported events than Alton Hornsby's Chronology of African-American History (LJ 10/1/91) but again with less detail. The overall format is well organized, and events are easily located, but readers should turn elsewhere to understand their context and significance.Stanley P. Hodge, Ball State Univ. Lib., Muncie, Ind.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In an era when interest in African American history and culture is at its zenith, here is a detailed chronology of this experience. Starting with the year 1492, it notes the appearance of Africans in the so-called New World as explorers. The first bondsmen were indentured servants who arrived in America in 1619 at Jamestown, Virginia. The time line ends in 1993, noting that ""Clara 'Mother' Hale, founder of the Hale House for HIV-infected babies in Harlem, dies December 18 in New York."" The events of each year are divided into subject categories, such as politics and civil rights, sports, literature and journalism, the military, and the visual arts. Many telling details are included in this work; for example, ""1939: Of the 774 libraries in the 13 southern states, 99 admit African Americans."" A brief list of contemporary events in the wider American community is given for each year. An index of proper names (but not subjects) aids access.Think of this book as an introduction: behind every fact listed is a story of a useful life, a creative act, a blow for freedom, or an event that made a historical difference. This popularly priced work will be of use in public libraries, secondary media centers, and undergraduate and community college libraries, especially those that didn't purchase the two-volume African American Chronology [RBB F 15 94].",africa;african-american studies;americas;books;education & reference;history;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states;world,11
0967017629,"Sunday Islands : New Zealand, Tahiti, Australia Thanks to the narrative that flows like poetry, and Truman's descriptions of the peoples and places, we are more than readers of his travel journal; we are his friends accompanying him on the journey.	The preface to Sunday Islands is a quote from Samuel L. Johnson. It was the preface to his dictionary in 1755, in which he had included a number of jokes about Scotsmen in the definitions. ""A few wild blunders and risible absurdities, from which no work of such multiplicity was ever free, may for a time furnish folly with laughter and harden ignorance in contempt.""	The real Hairy Ranger was a spy in Berlin in the 1960s.",australia;australia & oceania;australia & south pacific;books;general;history;new zealand;pacific;travel;united states;west,11
0968948804,"Restored Harmony: An Evidence Based Approach for Integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine into Complementary Cancer Care ""...an eloquent combination of modern science, ancient wisdom, and practical guidance, literate and accessible, as well as scientifically sound."" -- James S. Gordon M.D., Director, The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, Washington DC, and Clinical Professor, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and author of ""Comprehensive Cancer Care"", August  2001.""...compelling reading for all those who look after cancer patients,...whether they are healthcare professionals or family members."" -- Edzard Ernst MD, PhD, FRCP, Professor of Complementary Medicine, University of Exeter, UK., September, 2001.""Sagar creates a symphony from the cacophony that cancer creates...we are blessed with an enlightened view of cancer treatment"". -- Mehmet Oz MD, Irving Assistant Professor of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, and author of ""Healing from the Heart"", September, 2001	Foreword By James Gordon MD Over the last twenty years Ive been exploring the integration of Chinese medicine into individualized programs of comprehensive care for cancer patients. Each year, at the Comprehensive Cancer Care Conferences of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, we hear about the latest research on these therapies, in the West as well as in China.  It is now clear to me and to many others in the field, that Chinese medicine can and should be available to everyone who is being treated for cancer.   This new book, by Dr. Stephen Sagar, makes this case in a way that is at once evidence-based, thoughtful and poetic.  Dr. Sagar is a radiation oncologist who deals every day with the challenges of cancer treatment, and with the accompanying side effects of treatment.  He is a fine clinical observer and an imaginative, indeed, visionary thinker. What he has done in this book is to describe precisely and well the worldview of the 4000-year-old Chinese medicine, and how its traditional approach to cancer treatment may dovetail with our most modern western scientific understanding and technological approaches.   Dr. Sagar understands the power of Chinese therapies  acupuncture, herbal therapies, the exercises of Qi Gong, hands on healing, and above all, intention.  He shows us how these therapies are already being used to enhance immunity, improve overall physiological functioning, frustrate tumor growth, improve mood, and provide relief  for such debilitating treatment side effects as nausea, vomiting, pain, fatigue, diarrhea, and mouth ulcers. He shares with us the modern scientific papers on which his conclusions are based, and lets us know when evidence is lacking.  Equally importantly, he gives us a sense of Chinese medicine, and of how it may well contribute in significant ways to the more harmonious functioning of our minds and our spirit, as well as our bodies.  In summary, this book is a fine and eloquent combination of modern science, ancient wisdom, and practical guidance, literate and accessible, as well as scientifically sound.  I recommend it to all those who are concerned with creating more effective, humane, and comprehensive programs of cancer care.   James S. Gordon, M.D. Director, The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, Washington DC; Clinical Professor, Georgetown University School of Medicine; Chair of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy; Co-author, Comprehensive Cancer Care: Integrating Complementary, Alternative, and Conventional Therapies	Dr. Sagar received his graduate training in pharmacology and medicine at the University of London, UK. His postgraduate training was in internal medicine and clinical oncology. His special interests include mind-body medicine, spirituality and consciousness, the psycho-biology of healing, and Oriental Medicine. He is an educator and researcher for the developing healthcare model of integrative and humanistic medicine, and is an international speaker on these topics. He has appeared on television and in news print to discuss mind-body medicine and the role of spirituality in healthcare. Dr. Sagar is an associate professor at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. He is a cancer specialist who practices radiation oncology in Canada. He is a founding director of the Complementary Medicine Section of the Ontario Medical Association. He is also proud to serve the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, Washington DC and contribute to many of its educational programs. He is on the international editorial board of the evidence-based journal, Focus on Alternative and Complementary Medicine.	Introduction My interest in Traditional Chinese Medicine was fueled by a fascination of the intricate and sophisticated relationships between the mind, body and the environment, concepts which are surely lacking in current, conventional medicine. I excelled in biology at high school, and my graduate background was in pharmacology. As an adolescent, I was both a mystic and a scientist-in-training. I was intrigued by the dynamic symphony of molecular interactions that were associated with life. As a mystic, how could I integrate the concept of vitalism with science. Is it possible to combine magic and science?  During my arduous training as a physician, many of these mystical concepts were drummed out of me by our boot camp system of medical training. Yet when I practiced  medicine, I was not dealing with a reductionist collection of molecules, but a whole person consisting of  a unique soul driven by spirit, and subject to all the infirmities of the physical world. The person was much more than the anatomical structure we were taught at medical school. The person is a unique system of memories, emotions, relationships, and individual responses. Many people live their lives through metaphorical representations of their environment. We are not necessarily logical creatures. We are a complex tapestry of our ancestors genes and our own unique experiences. Moreover, we are changing and adapting, undergoing transitions, evolving and growing. These aspects of the human being seemed much more important to me than the dogmatic reductionist proposals that were often espoused by conventional ! medicine.  Yet, our current scientific and technological medical system provides some miraculous therapies when we are sick. I marvel at cancers dissolving after treatment with radiotherapy, the restoration to health of a sick child with leukemia through powerful chemotherapy drugs, and the surgical excision and cure of a malignant bowel tumor. So what is missing? The answer is found in alchemy. The ultimate system of medicine and healthcare is to be found by being open minded and building bridges between the different disciplines. We need to understand how our thought processes and emotions can influence the physical changes in our body. It is important to recognize that there is a potential healing connection between people. Prayer can help us get better. Our states of mind can be as powerful in the restoration of our health as certain drugs. We need to restore faith in the power of ourselves as human beings to heal, and to be healed. We need to recognize that we are all unique individ! uals, not simply an average extrapolation of the general population. In aiming for the alchemical philosophers stone of healthcare, we need to recognize that we are spiritual beings in a human body. For some people, being a spiritual being may be just a metaphor, but it is a powerful one, all the same, and conjures up the mystical complexity that makes us human beings. Traditional Chinese Medicine is a model that metaphorically and philosophically formulates many of the complexities of being a human being, that I thought were lacking from our conventional healthcare system in North America and Europe. My challenge is to articulate the underlying science that I believe justifies utilizing this philosophy as part of our technology-based  healthcare system. My task is made a little easier by the recognition of modern scientific systems theories, the age of computers and information technology, quantum physics, and modern concepts of energy transfer. In addition, public opinion has driven the methodologists to develop ways of evaluating complementary therapies, including the so-called gold standard, the proverbial double blind randomized controlled trial. In addition, governments are now more likely to sponsor research into complementary and alternative medicine.  I am confident that this is just the beginning in the evolution of a planetary hea! lthcare system which will recognize the uniqueness of us, human beings. This book is aimed at all healthcare practitioners,  especially those with an interest in cancer treatment. It is also of interest to people who have or who have had cancer, as well as members of their family. You could use this book as a platform for discussion with your physician or other health care practitioner, especially since it provides scientific references. Some of the material may appear  naive to some healthcare experts and some of the science may be sophisticated for the layman outside of medicine. However, the aim is to build bridges and to open up your minds to new possibilities, which may be appropriate to your patients health, your own health, and the health of our whole society.",alternative medicine;books;cancer;cardiology;chinese medicine;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine,11
0671740369,"Grounded: Frank Lorenzo and the destruction of Eastern Airlines In this tense, event-by-event account of the crash of Eastern Airlines in the late 1980s, as suspenseful as an air-disaster movie, Business Week reporter Bernstein presents Lorenzo as an obsessed anti-unionist. The Texas-based aviation empire he founded was crowned by the takeover of ailing Eastern Airlines, and his treatment of employees led to bitter, prolonged strikes and lawsuits that threatened to cripple national transportation. Union efforts on the employees' behalf to secure a purchaser for the near-bankrupt airline were thwarted by Lorenzo, who, in accordance with a 1990 court order, was removed from management in favor of a trustee, an order that the author considers a watershed in the labor policy of the Republican era. Author tour. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This story of the acquisition of Eastern Airlines by the Texas Air Corporation is a fascinating expose of management ineptitude, likely to become a classic case study. Bernstein gathered his material while reporting on labor matters for Business Week , and he focuses on the personalities in the deal. As he tells it, many important decisions that resulted in Texas Air gaining control of 15 percent of the air traffic in the United States were either misjudgments or were done in the heat of emotion. While Bernstein is critical of both labor and management, it is clear that he believes management caused a great deal of unnecessary misfortune for itself. This is a good companion to The Battle for Eastern Airlines , a video from PBS's excellent Frontline series. For more information, contact PBS's video service, 703-739-5380.-Ed. -- Joseph Barth, U.S. Military Acad. Lib., West Point, N.Y.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The inside account of how Frank Lorenzo took over a sputtering Eastern Airlines and flew it into the ground. Author Aaron Bernstein, with access to major players including Lorenzo and his inner circle, former Eastern Airlines President Frank Borman, Peter Ueberroth, and union boss Charlie Bryan, explains how Lorenzo brought a corporate raider's mentality to running a business, which ultimately caused its failure. 	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",aviation;books;business & finance;business & investing;contemporary;literature & fiction;new;popular economics;professional & technical;transportation;used & rental textbooks,11
0070380236,"3,000 Solved Problems in Linear Algebra McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide",algebra & trigonometry;books;education & reference;mathematics;new;science & math;science & mathematics;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,11
0385007361,"Italian Made Simple For almost four decades, Made Simple books have set the   standard for continuing education and home study.	For almost four decades, Made Simple books have set the standard for continuing education and home study.",antiques & collectibles;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;italian;new;used & rental textbooks,11
0471323667,"Brief Child Therapy Homework Planner (Practice Planners) The Bestselling treatment planning system for mental health professionalsFeatures new and updated assignments and exercises to meet the changing needs of mental health professionalsThe Child Psychotherapy Homework Planner, Second Edition provides you with an array of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to fit virtually every therapeutic mode. This easy-to-use sourcebook features: 82 ready-to-copy exercises covering the most common issues encountered by children, such as academic underachieving, low self-esteem, depression, and separation anxiety A quick-reference formatthe interactive assignments are grouped by behavioral problems from blended family problems and divorce reaction to ADHD, attachment disorder, disruptive/attention seeking, and speech and language disorders Expert guidance on how and when to make the most efficient use of the exercises Assignments that are cross-referenced to The Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Fourth Editionso you can quickly identify the right exercise for a given situation or problem A CD-ROM that contains all the exercises in a word-processing formatallowing you to customize them to suit you and your clients' unique styles and needsAdditional resources in the PracticePlanners series:Treatment Plannerscover all the necessary elements for developing formal treatment plans, including detailed problem definitions, long-term goals, short-term objectives, therapeutic interventions, and DSM diagnoses.Progress Notes Plannerscontain complete, prewritten progress notes for each presenting problem in the companion Treatment Planners.For more information on our PracticePlanners products, including our full line of Treatment Planners, visit us on the Web at: www.wiley.com/practiceplanners	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	ARTHUR E. JONGSMA, Jr., PhD, is Series Editor for the bestselling PracticePlanners. Since 1971, he has provided professional mental health services to both inpatient and outpatient clients. He managed a group private practice for twenty-five years and now is the Executive Director of Life Guidance Services in Grand Rapids, Michigan.L. MARK PETERSON, ACSW, is Program Manager for Bethany Christian Services' Residential Treatment and Family Counseling programs in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is coauthor of several of the bestselling PracticePlanners.WILLIAM P. MCINNIS, PsyD, is in private practice with Aspen Psychological Services in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is also coauthor of the bestselling The Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Fourth Edition and The Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Fourth Edition.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",adolescent psychology;books;child psychology;compulsive behavior;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;mental health;psychology & counseling;psychotherapy;ta & nlp,11
B000HWYNS6,"Bad Advice Martha is the author's pseudonym.She is not wanted in various parts of the world, including her family home. As a writer, professional liar, and cheating minx, M. Vialli has no conscience to speak of. She has claimed to be J. D. Salinger's bastard child, the real inspiration for most of Madonna's various personae, and the face behind Ronald McDonald's makeup. She also claims that it was her idea that Martha Stewart sell her shares. She lives in an undisclosed location in London.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biographies & memoirs;books;british;humor;humor & entertainment;humor & satire;literature & fiction;memoirs;satire;specific groups;women,11
0823031365,"Mood Indigo: Decorating with Rich, Dark Colors According to author Vinny Lee, ""dark colors don't have to be  overpowering or somber."" If you've ever considered painting a room  scarlet, or allowing a deep blue chair into an otherwise light and  unthreatening white room, Mood Indigo will inspire you further in  the direction of such bold statements. Lush photographs and commonsense  advice are intended to spur on the amateur designer with a penchant for  darkness. Chapters and photo galleries are divided by color: blues and  greens, reds and purples, browns, and grays and blacks. The introduction explains and explores the irrefutable logic of the color wheel. Whether you're envisioning a ""tone on tone"" room in varying shades of the same color, or a room where red and gold run up against each other, this book makes a good guide. Highlights include a green room that looks like part of an underwater palace, and a persuasive argument about the beauty of black walls. --Emily White	These two books demonstrate the effective use of bold, dark, and  vibrant color in interiors. Lee, interiors editor of the Times  magazine of London, successfully shows that ""dark colors don't  have to be overpowering or somber they can be inviting and  comforting."" Although she begins with an overview of how light,  texture, and tone can affect dark colors, most of her book is a  gallery of photographs grouped by different colors and showing  the use of each in a variety of interior design styles. The  subtitle of Ferer and Palazzo's book is misleading. Rather than  providing practical advice for modern decorating, the authors  present bold, colorful, and eclectic examples of contemporary  interior design by visiting the homes of celebrities and  designers such as Bette Midler, Donna Karan, and Bill Blass.  Purchase Mood Indigo for large interior design collections.   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.",architecture;arts & photography;books;crafts;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;interior design;painting;painting & wallpapering;professional & technical,11
1887901140,"The Civil War Bawdy Houses of Washington, D.C. with Other The foldout map is an important documentation of a side of Washington that is ignored. CIVIL WAR NEWS.The map [of Washington DC whorehouses] would have been of considerable interest and value to a healthy male in 1865. CIVIL WAR COURIERThe Civil War Bawdy Houses of Washington, D. C. has to be one of the most unique, unusual, and yet historically accurate books ever written on the American Civil War experience. Thomas Lowry has done painstaking research on a most unusual subject. Yet this was a time when prostitution and ""houses of ill repute"" were to be found in virtually every substantial city in the east, and every cow-town in the west. The public and governmental attitudes of a century ago toward ""working girls"" and their patrons were dramatically different than what we see today. This novel historical treatise is enhanced with a map showing the location of more than sixty bordellos and an official U. S. Government ratings as to their quality! No American cultural history or Civil War studies collection can be considered complete without the inclusion of Thomas Lowry's serious study on The Civil War Bawdy Houses of Washington, D. C.  -- Midwest Book Review",19th century;americas;books;civil war;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;state & local;united states;women;women's studies,11
0534574637,"Criminal Justice in Action: The Core (Non-InfoTrac Version) ""The 'perfect textbook' will never be written'but [Gaines] the Core comes close.""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Larry K. Gaines received his Ph.D. from Sam Houston State University. He is currently Professor and Criminal Justice Department Chair at California State University, San Bernardino. Dr. Gaines has co-authored several books on policing. His research interests include Police Administration and Operations, Community Policing, and Drugs and the Criminal Justice System.Roger LeRoy Miller received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is currently Director of the Institute for University Studies in Arlington, Texas. Dr. Miller is a legal specialist and author of numerous books on law and the legal environment, including criminal procedure. In addition, Dr. Miller has authored books on the war on drugs, the economics of crime and criminal behavior, and on related topics.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;civil procedure;criminal law;criminology;education & reference;law;new;politics & social sciences;rules & procedures;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
1555838391,"Claire of the Moon: A Novel In addition to writing the novel, Nicole Conn also wrote and directed the film version of Claire of the Moon. She is also the author of Passion's Shadows, Angel's Wings, The Wedding Dress, and She Walks in Beauty. She lives in Los Angeles with her partner and their daughter.",books;contemporary;fiction;gay & lesbian;lesbian;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;romance;social sciences;specific demographics;united states,11
0521465370,"The Collapse of a Single-Party System: The Disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies) ' ... Gill's analysis of the party's fate as an institution is rich in detail and insight, and merits the attention of anyone interested in the end of the Soviet System.' International Affairs	Following the debates in the Communist Party over the implications of Gorbachev's reforms, this in-depth analysis of its disintegration (1985-1991) reveals the institutional dynamics and pressures that ultimately led to the collapse of the most powerful single-party state in history.",books;elections & political process;european;history;international & world politics;political parties;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;russia;russian & former soviet union,11
0802073689,"Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry: An Anthology (Toronto Italian Studies) 'For students who possess a basic understanding of Italian, there is no other anthology that combines the breadth of selection, and depth of knowledge that does Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry.' (Nicholas Bianchi The Eyetalian)'The editors are to be praised for choosing to produce a selection of poems with balances the first half of the century with the second half of 1900s...the usefulness of this anthology lies in its balanced panoramic view of twentieth century Italian poetry.' (Piera Carroli, AUMLA)	Text: Italian, English	John Picchione is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University.Lawrence R. Smith is a member of the Department of English, Eastern Michigan University",anthologies;books;education & reference;european;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;poetry;used & rental textbooks;world literature,11
1403919100,Supermarket Wars: The Future of Global Food Retailing Andrew Seth is Chairman of Added Value and non-executive Director of several companies. Geoffrey Randall is an independent consultant to several leading companies and marketing and retailing specialist.,books;business & finance;business & investing;commerce;economics;industries & professions;management & leadership;new;retailing;strategy & competition;used & rental textbooks,11
186470005X,"Architecture for the Gods If this is architecture for the gods, the gods must be groaning. Not to  say that this big, handsome paperback look at more than 40 recent faith-centered  architectural projects around the U.S.--complete with full-color photographs,  plans, and excellent annotations--doesn't make it amply and diversely clear that  there has been a boom in America in recent years in the building of churches,  synagogues, mosques, and nondenominational chapels. And certainly not to say  that architects aren't finding all sorts of clever ways to update religious  iconography for modern times, or combine traditional and contemporary  architectural styles under one roof--be it deeply pitched, in the style of the  classic country church (like the new St. James Episcopal Church in Fairhope, AL,  whose heart-redwood boards, painted bone-white, evoke the region's charming Gulf  Coast carpenter-Gothic style), or domed (like Skidmore Owings  Merrill's  high-profile Islamic Cultural Center, the first mosque for New York City's  sizable Muslim population, skewed on its site to face Mecca, as required by  Muslim law, and complete with its own dramatic, postmodern minaret of square,  terra-cotta-colored panels). It's just that many of these sacred edifices aim so hard for contemporaneity or  flexibility of use that they look like anything but houses of worship. Here, we  have a low-slung, multivolume light brick Presbyterian church in Baltimore that  looks like an Eisenhower-era public high school; there, the Metropolitan  Community Church in Washington, D.C., whose enormous rainbow flag is the only  thing that tips you off that this is the first American church (and not a huge  gymnasium or sports arena) to have been built by a gay congregation. Certainly,  no one could be serious about worship in the Gethsemane Episcopal Cathedral, in  Fargo, ND, which resembles a hideous hybrid of a whitewashed grain silo and one  of those garish ""luxury homes""--complete with a multitude of LEGO-like gables  and picture windows--that you see cropping up on (sadly) tree-shorn lots in  suburban subdivisions across America. Strip the interiors of most of these  projects of the telltale cross, Magen David, or what have you, and the  overwhelming effect seems to be that of a spanking new auditorium--all outfitted  in blond wood and gray slate--appropriate for a multitude of uses, but special  to none. With their skyward-reaching spires and far-flying buttresses, onion-shaped domes  and slender towers--even (in the case of early Protestant America) their  handsome, strong-limbed austerity--houses of worship once were stunning  expressions of human artistry and effort in the name of the divine. It's no  wonder, then, that amidst the (at best) ""tasteful"" palette of present-day  ordinariness that's showcased here the most spiritual of entries seem to be the  quirkiest or most outrageous. To wit, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of  Latter Day Saints Temple in Independence, MO, with its psychedelic, illuminated  spire that spirals up into the heavens like a Dairy Queen soft-serve cone; a  tiny grotto-like chapel that overlooks the Pacific Ocean in Sea Ranch, CA, its  rustic, weirdly curved stone flanks and shingled-wood roof rising from the land  like Corbu's cathedral at Ronchamps, France (had it been scaled and styled for a  Hobbit); and the San Juan Bautista Mission, which was built on a shoestring  budget by a group of parishioners, professionals, and residents of the mostly  poor Latin American neighborhood in Miami in which it sits like a little jewel  from old Havana. Inside, the cherubim that are depicted on a lovely ceiling  fresco easily could be all of the many-hued children of 21st-century Miami, so  matter-of-factly does the image assume, and attain, contemporaneity. It's one of  the few instances in this nonetheless substantive, stylish, and engaging book in  which the creativity, expressiveness, and sense of wonderment that the gods gave  us in the first place haven't been sacrificed to the blandly mortal demands of  modernity. --Timothy Murphy	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Advocates of aesthetic restraint in the service of God will find much to attack in this compendium of 43 highly adorned 20th-century North American houses of worship. Crosbie (architecture, Roger Williams Univ.) exercises able aesthetic and ecumenical judgment in his sensitive presentation of recent neo-baroque religious structures, which range from well-known national edifices to small abbeys. Each project and congregation is briefly introduced, followed by pages of photographs (exterior, interior, and ornamental details), site and floor plans, and elevations. Texts are descriptive and strive to capture how the architecture imparts and reinforces spiritual values and aspirations. Construction and renovation dates are often lacking, and some photos suffer from too much contrast. Nevertheless, this is an effective overview of affluent and awe-inspiring contemporary religious architecture. Most suitable for architecture collections but also for large public libraries.DRussell T. Clement, Northwestern Univ. Lib., Evanston, IL Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A practising architect, architecture professor, editor, award-winning journalist and internationally recognised architecture critic, Michael J. Crosbie has written or contributed to more than twenty books for The Images Publishing Group.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",architecture;books;buildings;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;history;professional & technical;reference;religious;world,11
0471383384,"Sold Short : Uncovering Deception in the Markets Sold Short is the story of Manuel Asensio, a successful but controversial securities broker whose claim to fame is aggressive short selling--a widely disparaged (and sometimes wildly profitable) investment technique that realizes success only if stocks decline in value. Since the larger financial community is overwhelmingly comprised of long sellers who profit when prices rise, the shorts' contrarian position is always at odds and usually portrayed as an unscrupulous, backdoor attack on all things good and holy. Asensio sees it quite differently, of course, and with the help of Jack Barth, he reveals how a young boy who barely escaped Cuba before the revolution could come to be viewed as the devil incarnate by corporate honchos and Wall Street analysts whose professional paths he has crossed. After explaining how his firm uncovered some of their ""grossly overvalued"" companies, and what happened when he bet against them in the market, Asensio details the process so interested readers can theoretically profit from similar moves. Some of the material here is much too technical to interest casual investors, and Asensio's philosophy will still be scorned by those who don't abide it. Fellow shorts and those interested in all the machinations of the market, though, should find it an absorbing and informative read. --Howard Rothman	Asensio is the most famous practitioner of an investment technique called short selling, in which one profits from a stock's decline. Although this practice has a bad reputation, Asensio argues that it is legal and even ethical. He often chooses to publish his research, issuing reports explaining precisely why his stocks should go down; this, along with his unmatched six-year record for spotting overhyped and fraudulent stocks, makes him very unpopular on Wall Street. His book offers amusing accounts of companies whose stock prices were irrationally buoyed by management's optimistic press releases (amusing, that is, to readers who didn't buy the stocks). Some companies had no products, others did not have the rights to the products they touted, and still others hawked failed drugs or previously discredited inventions. Readers' amusement will turn to concern, however, as the book documents the complicity of large institutions in these frauds. Asensio shows that the best-known investment banks praised these overvalued stocks, the best-known mutual funds bought them, skeptical business journalists wrote puff pieces, the stock exchanges allowed transparent manipulation and, in two cases, even the government helped perpetuate the frauds. Since he has already been (unsuccessfully) sued by many of the companies he discusses, Asensio can speak more frankly than publishers' lawyers usually allow; his no-nonsense writing style sets his book apart from the usual staid and pompous investment coverage. (May)Forecast: Asensio is a cult figure among some investors, and his book is fun to read; its skeptical approach to Wall Street hype should find a ready audience among the millions of investors who have recently lost money in the stock market and stock mutual funds.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Selling short is a method stock traders use to make money when a  stock price declines. It's a risky proposal, calling for  considerable research, substantial ego, and not a little luck.  Asensio, a former investment banker, analyst, and arguably the  best-known short seller currently plying this trade, shows all  three in spades. This volume details some of his most successful  ""shorts,"" including General Nutrition Centers, Sol-Ex, and  Network Solutions, whose stocks were ""grossly overvalued,"" and  many illegally manipulated, until, as he says, Asensio and Co.  issued reports that brought the market to its senses. There are  many stories of lawsuits to go with the successes, as short  sellers are often blamed for causing declines by rumor,  innuendo, or worse. Too much bragging and insider Wall Street  jargon limit the book's use, and short selling is out of favor  with major investors right now. To be fair, however, a check of  Lexis-Nexis supported Asensio's contentions. Still, Kathryn  Staley's The Art of Short Selling (Wiley, 1996) is more  informative without the incessant chest thumping. Not  recommended. Patrick J. Brunet, Western Wisconsin Technical  Coll. Lib., La Crosse   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	He's in the Index, TooLook for Wall Street and business-media types to scan index pages in the just-published Sold Short: Uncovering Deception in the Markets by famous short-seller Manuel P. Asensio. He delights in naming dozens of analysts, journalists and brokerages he says helped pump up dubious stocks that later tanked after he issued withering research reports. On the next-to-last page Asensio finally mentions the $75,000 fine he paid regulators last year to settle charges that, among other things, he and his Asensio & Co. overstated their own investment record.--Forbes May 28, 2001Short-sellers have a natural appeal to journalists. Members ofboth occupations require deep scepticism about the motives ofthe rich and powerful, and both engender a black humour thatcan be off-putting to the innocent and uninitiated.Short-selling is the sale of borrowed or never-owned securitieswith the intention of profiting from a decline in their price. Theprofit is made when the shares price has declined, and theshort-seller is able to repay the loan of the securities or makesgood the promise to deliver with securities bought at a lowerprice.The profit is limited to the price of the security at the time theshort sale is made; the loss can be as high as a security's pricecan rise.There are quiet, behind-the-scenes short-sellers - and thenthere is Manuel Asensio. His brokerage house, AsensioCompany, specialises in executing short sales for clients, someof which are almost certainly investment funds in which he hasan interest.He searches for frauds and simple overvaluations in thesecurities market, sells them short on behalf of his clients, andthen trumpets their shortcomings to the world.Along with other journalists, I have made use of Asensio'smaterial, though not without checking it first. When I did, itturned out to be quite reliable.Not everyone has the same feeling about Asensio. He isregularly sued by promoters and others connected with theobjects of his research and mockery. He has, however, onlypaid one fine to the National Association of Securities Dealers,and believes he has been vindicated after he agreed to thatsettlement.Now he has written a book, Sold Short, to tell the world how hedoes it.To use the type of military metaphor popular on Wall Street,Asensio is the sort you would choose to lead an infantry chargeagainst a fortified position. However, as another short-sellersays: ""I think I'd prefer to wait for the armoured division.""Even though the book has a professional co-author, Jack Barth,the tone is pure Asensio: attack, attack, attack. Promoters arescum. Establishment companies are corrupted by greed. Atypical sentence reads: ""The bad guys were on the other side ofthe river, laughing, with their saddlebags full of loot."" Asensiowas wise to choose short-selling over a career in the diplomaticservice.Sold Short is most useful for the detail it provides on the stockpromoter's bag of tricks. You can get more stringent, academicdetail on securities valuation from such classics as Graham andDodd's Securities Analysis, but the standard works are not asrevealing on the social, as well as the financial, patterns thatfraud takes.Another short-seller said Asensio's analysis was good, but thatthe market values of the companies he goes after were toosmall to have the liquidity a large fund needed.Asensio's response was an unrelenting lecture on the marketcaps of his targets along with cutting inferences about thecourage and work habits of the unnamed commentator.Sold Short is a helpful book, though not a literary masterpiece.The reader and the market participant should be fully aware thatAsensio is talking up (or down) his position. But he's verystraightforward about that.--Financial Times May 5, 2001	""Asensio is the sort you would choose to lead an infantry change against a fortified position...the tone [of Sold Short] is pure Asensio: attack, attack, attack...Sold Short is most useful for the detail it provides on the stock promoter's bag of tricks...the standard work are not as revealing on the social, as well as the financial, patterns that fraud takes...Sold Short is a helpful book...""--Financial Times, May 5, 2001	""Asensio is the sort you would choose to lead an infantry change against a fortified position...the tone [of Sold Short] is pure Asensio: attack, attack, attack...Sold Short is most useful for the detail it provides on the stock promoter's bag of tricks...the standard work are not as revealing on the social, as well as the financial, patterns that fraud takes...Sold Short is a helpful book...""--Financial Times, May 5, 2001	Most companies play by the rules, releasing accurate information and making a genuine effort to generate profits for their shareholders. But occasionally a company and a group of stock promoters will deliberately withhold crucial information, disseminate false information, or simply be an outright sham. When this deception is publicly disclosed, all sorts of accusations and denials will fly, but experience has shown that sooner rather than later the company's stock is likely to decline sharply. And anyone selling short the stock of such a company will profit when it crashes. Manuel Asensio is probably the world's most visible practitioner of this brand of aggressive short selling. And this is his story.For over five years, in the midst of the greatest bull run the stock markets have ever seen, Mr. Asensio has been taking on public corporations large and small with the twin goals of exposing deception and making money. And for over five years Asensio has been harassed by his targets and private regulators with conflicts of interest, dragged through the courts in attempts to silence him, and disparaged in the press. Yet in those five-plus years not one of his many statements and reports has ever been proved even partially false much less inaccurate or incomplete. And in that time, his meticulous research and bold declarations have indeed enriched any investor savvy and prudent enough to pay attention and act accordingly.Mr. Asensio has published ""short sell"" recommendations on over two dozen companies, and in this book he relates the highlights, including:* Exposing the fast-rising young English banker who caused Morgan Grenfell to lose half a billion dollars yet avoided prosecution by appearing in court in a dress* Determining that one of the very first red-hot $120 Internet stocks was promoting a dated and virtually unsellable technology* Uncovering the accounting trickery and press-release sleight of hand that was bogging down the largest public-works project in the history of New Jersey and causing Turnpike commuters to blow their stacks* Digging into the purchases of a highly regarded Dreyfus mutual-fund manager and finding a mother lode of junk stocks in which the manager held a compromising interest. The manager was fined $50,000 and sanctioned by the SECIn this lively and often funny book, Manuel Asensio not only recounts his ""greatest hits,"" but also shows you how to identify these shaky stocks yourself. These stories reveal that anyone- Arthur Andersen, senior exchange officials, and state public officials-can get caught up in a complex web of deception. Who knows? Your portfolio might have one or two of these stocks in it right now. Better find out before someone else does...	A revealing expos? by one of today's most controversial and successful short sellersAccording to a 1998 New York Times article, ""Satanism has a better reputation in financial circles than does short-selling . . . The controversy over Mr. Asensio is reigniting the debate over short-selling and the role it plays in the stock market, a debate that stretches back to Jesse Livermore."" Manuel Asensio has taken this debate to a whole new level, not only short-selling deceptive companies but also researching and publicly exposing them. Each time Asensio practices his type of aggressive short selling he is branded ""the Devil's own Trader,"" but time and again his unpopular assessments have proved dead on the money.""Sold Short reads like an action-packed and gripping detective story, exposing shocking and criminal tales that make the Hollywood scandal sheets look like a high school pantomime. Asensio is a brave and heroic bullfighter who dares to go up against the global stampede of the wildest bull market. He courageously nails down, one by one, grossly overvalued and corrupt companies.""-Tony Shafrazi, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York""Sold Short is a rip-roaring ride through the netherworld of short selling. Part comedy, part tragedy, part horror flick, Asensio uncovers a world that would be ripe for sitcom portrayal where big-name fund managers dress in drag, buy silly stocks, but (and here's the tragedy) lose millions. If short selling is up your alley, you shouldn't miss this book. And if you'd sooner die than go short, you should read this book to make sure one of your longs isn't made of fool's gold.""-Parker Quillen, Quilcap Corp.	Manuel P. Asensio is founder and Chairman of Asensio & Co., Inc. He has over twenty years of corporate finance and research experience. He has been featured in Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, Worth, the New York Times, New York magazine, and the New Republic, among other leading publications. Mr. Asensio received his BS in economics and finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MBA in investment management from Harvard University Graduate School of Business.JACK BARTH is a freelance writer and journalist. Mr. Barth's articles have been published in Worth, Spy, Outside, Premiere, and Rolling Stone. In addition, he has written for television, including episodes for The Simpsons and for the Comedy Channel. He is the author of four books: Roadside Elvis, Roadside Hollywood, American Quest, and Roadside America.",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;finance;investing;new;options;popular economics;stocks;used & rental textbooks,11
0965250938,"Egyptian Cosmology: The Animated Universe - Second Edition Moustafa Gadalla	Chapter 5 - The Dualistic Nature, Item #5    The Egyptian Pharaoh was always referred to as the Lord of the Two Lands. Western academia cavalierly stated that the Two Lands are Upper and Lower Egypt. There is not a single Ancient Egyptian reference to confirm their notion, or even to define such a frontier between Upper and Lower Egypt.     Throughout Ancient Egyptian temples, you will find numerous symbolic representations relating to the ceremony of Uniting the Two Lands, where two neteru are shown tying the papyrus and lotus plants. Neither plant is native to any specific area in Egypt. The most common representation shows the twin neteru, Hapi (a mirror-image of each other), each as unisex with one breast.     The term, Two Lands, is very familiar to the Baladi Egyptians, who refer to it in their daily life. It is their strong belief that there are Two Lands - the one we live on, and another one where our identical twins (of the opposite sex) live. The two are subject to the same experiences from date of birth to date of death. [More about this concept throughout this book, and particularly chapter 21.]     You and your ""Siamese"" twin, who ""apparently"" separate at birth, will re-unite again at the moment of death. The Baladi Egyptian Enumerators describe, in their lamentations after the death of a person, how the deceased is being prepared to join his/her counterpart (of the opposite sex), AS IF it is a marriage ceremony. This is reminiscent of the many symbolic illustrations in Ancient Egypt of the tying the knot of the Two Lands. To be married is to tie the knot.     As far back as the Unas (so-called ""Pyramid"") Texts, one finds that the Pharaoh Unas (2356-2323 BCE) unites/joins with Auset (Isis) immediately after departing the earthly realm. This is based on the premise that since every man is Ausar in his ""dead"" form, each joins his/her counterpart (Auset in the case of a man), at the moment of the earthly departure.",astronomy & space science;books;comparative religion;cosmology;education & reference;mysticism;new age;occult;religion & spirituality;religious studies;science & math,11
B000GH3I1A,"Murder among Friends: Violation of Philia in Greek Tragedy ""Belfiore's examination of individual plays is careful and frequently enlightening....Notes, a full bibliography, and valuable appendixes that look at the other tragedies and at tragic fragments complete the volume.""--Choice""The appendices add considerable breadth to the study and provide statistical support for the overall thesis, and will serve as a useful handlist for the narratives of tragedy no longer extant. There is much of use here.""--Bryn Mawr Classical Review	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Modern scholars have followed Aristotle in noting the importance of philia (kinship or friendship) in Greek tragedy, especially the large number of plots in which kin harm or murder one another. More than half of the thirty-two extant tragedies focus on an act in which harm occurs or is about to occur among philoi who are blood kin. In contrast, Homeric epic tends to avoid the portrayal of harm to kin. It appears, then, that kin killing does not merely occur in what Aristotle calls the ""best"" Greek tragedies; rather, it is a characteristic of the genre as a whole.In Murder Among Friends, Elizabeth Belfiore supports this thesis with an in-depth examination of the crucial role of philia in Greek tragedy. Drawing on a wealth of evidence, she compares tragedy and epic, discusses the role of philia relationships within Greek literature and society, and analyzes in detail the pattern of violation of philia in five plays: Aeschylus' Suppliants, Sophocles' Philoctetes and Ajax, and Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris and Andromache. Appendixes further document instances of violation of philia in all the extant tragedies as well as in the lost plays of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",ancient & classical literature;books;drama;greek;greek & roman;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;medieval;movements & periods;tragedy,11
1888308176,"Anatomy: Review for USMLE, Step 1, Third Edition Johnson, Slaby & Bohn",anatomy;basic sciences;books;education & reference;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;reference;test preparation & review;used & rental textbooks,11
0767902572,"Nerve: Literate Smut Not surprisingly, the Net has turned out to be quite hospitable to  smut. Whether pornophiles log on in the privacy of their own homes or the spine-tingling confines of the workplace, a virtual peepshow offers unparalleled (if highly disembodied) privacy. Still, the creators of Nerve.com clearly had more in mind than old-fashioned filth when they launched their Web site. This was to be a classier venue for erotica, with a mandate to be ""direct with both word and image, whether the result is flushed faces, genitals, or perhaps just reflective thought."" Have they succeeded? The Nerve anthology, assembled by founders Genevieve Field and Rufus Griscom, finds the debauched editors batting about .500 in their thought-provoking, blush-invoking mission.  There are contributions by the usual, sex-friendly suspects, from Sallie Tisdale to Dr. Joycelyn Elders, and dancing queen Lisa Carver draws some intriguing distinctions between sexualists (id-driven fornicators) and sensualists (romantic moths drawn to the scented-candle flame). But there are some surprises, too. John Perry Barlow, better known as a Grateful Dead lyricist and Internet pundit, communes convincingly with his inner lesbian in ""A Ladies' Man."" A saucy snippet from John Hawkes's The Passion Artist turns up, along with an amusing meditation on the Better Sex video series by Ruth Shalit (who seems awfully familiar with the contemporary pantheon of porn). On the other hand, Rick Moody's paean to polysexuality goes a little too heavy on the solemnity, as does Deborah Boxer's account of her life as a 28-year-old virgin. And what about the photos? Spicy stuff, with an all-too-penetrable patina of artsiness to them. --Bob Brandeis	Despite the misleading subtitle of this impressive if uneven anthology, smut is not Nerve's specialty. The 35 pieces reprinted here from the year-old, sex-obsessed webzine range from an article by Meredith F. Small on the habits of the Congolese bonobo ape to Debra Boxer's memoir of a 28-year-old virgin and Jocelyn Elders's arguments in favor of masturbation. This said, if Nerve can establish a lasting specialty, it will probably not be reportage, opinion or the neatly packaged thought pieces (the reflections of a male prostitute, of a nude stripper) that make up the bulk of this selection and could have appeared in any number of more or less mainstream magazines. Where Nerve distinguishes itself is in more eccentric forms of essay (like Lisa Carver's ""Some of My Best Friends Are Sensualists"" and Poppy Z. Brite's ""Would You?"") and in sophisticated storytelling. The best so far: Catherine Texier's artfully immediate, confessional diary ""A War Journal""; Courtney Eldridge's jeu d'esprit ""Anonymous""; and an excerpt from John Hawkes's 1978 novel The Passion Artist, titled ""But She Was Not Mirabelle."" Only the last qualifies as erotica (or smut, if all good erotica is smut). It shows not only the editors' discernment but also their good sense in reprinting hard-to-find works, whether from Penthouse, Playboy or that ivory tower of 1980s high theory, Semiotext(e). 35 b photos. Editor, Lauren Marino; agent, Owen Laster; $25,000 ad/promo; author tour. (Sept.) FYI: You can read Nerve at www.nerve.com.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Praise for Nerve:""Nerve's bold experiment comes with the imprimatur of some of today's best writers.""--Newsweek""The editors of Nerve feel no need to be tasteful, God bless 'em. What you find here are actual writers holding forth on subjects near and dear to their hearts, and other organs; writing that generally seems to know the difference between the precious and the precise. And they do it without sacrificing lust and the promise of sexual possibility.""--Slate""Serving up soft-core sex and literati, a couple's stylish new webzine puts Internet smut to shame.""--Time""The first Internet sex magazine for men AND women. Nerve is proving there's an audience for what the pair term 'literate smut.'""--Elle	New York magazine called Nerve ""the Web's most intelligent forum for erotica."" Now, from the creators of Nerve.com comes an original collection of sexual fiction and nonfiction from some of today's best writers.Since its online debut in 1997, Nerve has been publishing brazen, titillating,and intelligent prose and photography. Nerve: Literate Smut highlights some of the webzine's most acclaimed stories and essays by writers such as Norman Mailer, Sallie Tisdale, Rick Moody, Thom Jones, and Dr. Joycelyn Elders, as well as striking photographs by Andres Serrano, Richard Kern, Sylvia Plachy, and others. Nerve's founders frame the texts and photos with original and revealing essays on the many sides of sex--from shame and habits to taboos, debauchery, and, of course, love.This volume demonstrates why Nerve is more than the latest web phenomenon--it's a bold new sexual sensibility and a precocious force in American culture.	""The editors of Nerve feel no need to be tasteful, God bless 'em. What you find here are actual writers holding forth on subjects near and dear to their hearts, and other organs; writing that generally seems to know the difference between the precious and the precise. And they do it without sacrificing lust and the promise of sexual possibility.""  -Slate ""Nerve's bold experiment comes with the imprimatur of some of today's best writers.""  -Newsweek	Genevieve Field created and edited books for MTV in her pre-Nerve life. She writes short stories and is at work on her first novel, which is being published in installments on Nerve. Rufus Griscom left his job as an editor and director of new media in book publishing to cofound Nerve.com. His writing has appeared in Publishers Weekly, the Wall Street Journal, the Baltimore Sun, and other publications.	IntroductionRufus and Genevieve, April 14, 1998About a year ago, we set out to publish a magazine about sex. Not a magazine of porn or erotica--genres primarily dedicated to producing arousal--nor another glossy proffering tips on sex and romance, but rather a forthright magazine about sex. We were less interested in sexual technique or fantasy and more interested in the subtleties of real sexual experience. As clear as these distinctions were to us, they were lost on some of the journalists who wrote about Nerve, for whom sexual content necessarily fell in the preexisting porn-erotica-self-help continuum.It's no accident that most writing on the subject falls in these categories; it's far more difficult to write outside of them. Describing the experience of sex--not just the positions--presents a challenge similar to that of describing color: Language does not yet have much purchase on these perceptual realms. Describing the mechanics of sex presents the opposite problem: The process has been described too many times with the same constellation of words. Too many lovers have warmed to the touch, then purred like kittens, and eventually switched into high gear, and finally thought they were going to explode; too many of these were religious experiences followed by obligatory cigarettes. Only the best writers are capable of discarding the Lego sets of sexual cliche in favor of describing sex and sexuality from scratch.Even for those writers, there is a second challenge: Sex is a subject tripwired with insecurities and conflicts--a subject that people lie about as a matter of course. Excavating one's desires requires bravery and an appetite for honesty that can overwhelm the gag-reflex of psychological discomfort.Even when authors achieve this honesty, it may be confusing to readers who are used to focusing on how to improve their sex lives. We are a nation of improvers, forever looking for ways to increase efficiency and productivity, forever trying to fix things. Aging bothers us, so we try to fix it with plastic surgery and the latest miracle moisturizer; sex challenges us, so we deploy armies of sex therapists, erect bulwarks of self-help books. Popular magazines pitch in by recycling the same ten ways to improve our sex lives year in and year out. The assumption seems to be that once we are all operating at peak efficiency, having orgasms on command, undistracted by embarrassment and guilt, the sex problem will be solved, and there will be nothing more to talk about.Nerve stands in stark contrast to this mentality: We don't want to fix sex, we want to examine it. We don't want to achieve perfect sex, we want to savor imperfect sex. The obsession with fixing things, in our opinion, can be a way of avoiding them. The best writers and artists have long suggested this alternative to the self-help ethos: Relish life's complications. Don't do away with them, record them. Do this first because the result is often beautiful and second because the process helps us better understand each other, helps us bridge the gulfs between our insular skulls.When we first concluded that we had no choice but to create this magazine, we immediately assembled a list of our favorite sixty writers in the world. We then spent several months writing heartfelt letters to the ones we could track down, which we sent along with a copy of our mission statement (What Are We Thinking? which you'll find on page xii). We knew at the time that this was the whole game: lacking significant money or name recognition, we needed to compel a critical mass of talented writers and photographers with our idea and the strength of our conviction.The response to Nerve from writers, and subsequently from the media and public, wildly exceeded our expectations. On June 27, 1997, the morning after we launched the magazine quietly from our cramped New York apartment, the phone rang. An hour later we were live on CNN; a week later, we were in Newsweek. Since then, millions of readers have been through the Web site, and our lives have been a frenzied blur of ink-smattered manuscripts, half-eaten Chinese food, and strobing computer screens.Many of the writers and photographers whose work appears in the pages that follow responded to that first series of letters; most of them are people whose work we've admired from a distance for years, though a few were unpublished writers we discovered through word of mouth. The book is divided into seven chapters that reflect some of the different sensitivities and themes that we looked for in submissions. Each chapter begins with an introduction by one or both of us: We figured that after many months of encouraging writers to bare themselves on the page, it was only appropriate that we do the same.What Are We Thinking? We are a couple of garden-variety sex enthusiasts, much like the rest of you mammals. On a good night we call out to the heavens and thrash about like hooked bass, clamoring after those precious few seconds of blindness. As the bed comes to a quiet stop and the last picture falls off the wall, the recent commotion can be hard to explain--it all made sense a few moments ago and now we are just sticky and naked and looking for our clothes.We've created Nerve (nerve.com) because we think that sex is beautiful and absurd, remarkably fun and reliably trauma-inducing. In short, it is a subject in need of a fearless, intelligent forum for both genders. We believe that women (men too, but especially women) have waited long enough for a smart, honest magazine on sex, with cuntsure (and cocksure) prose and fiction as well as striking photographs of naked people that capture more than their flesh.Nerve has set out to be more graphic, forthright, and topical than erotica, but less blockheadedly masculine than pornography. It's about sexual literature, art, and politics as well as about getting off--and we realize that these interests sometimes conflict. Erotica does not always understand this--that once our desire reaches a certain clip, attempts at artistry become annoying obstacles in the path of the nouns and verbs (or precious pixels) that deliver the goods. We find ourselves hunting for the naked details in erotica like rushed shoppers in a crowded store. Nerve intends to be direct with both word and image, whether the result is flushed faces, genitals, or perhaps just reflective thought.This is why we decided the subject of sex deserved a magazine of its own: less to celebrate the gymnastics of sex than to appreciate the way it humbles us, renders us blushing teenagers. Our bodies are fickle, oblivious to convention, and not always beautiful. But we think shame (in small doses) is to be cherished--it makes us honest and human and trims our paunchy egos. It is also lush terrain for good writers; after all, rarely is honesty as difficult and memorable as it is in bed. We both still have a smelly fingered fascination with our shame and desire and have spent the last year encouraging others to unveil theirs in the stories and personal essays gathered here.Just as we individuals are not sure whether to be embarrassed or thrilled by our libidinous flights, our society as a whole suffers a similar schizophrenia, at once sex-obsessed and puritanical. Nerve is dedicated to shedding light on some of these cultural ironies. Sex, after all, is more than a popular sport and marketing tool: It is a truth-telling vehicle. Sex calls our bluff--it makes us want to lie, sermonize on the weather, spill our beer. We think this is good reason to look a little closer, examine our discomfort, maybe finish the drink.Finally, we would like to make plain that although we believe in sexual freedom and obvious political rights, we are not on some fix-eyed mission to rally the forces of sexual revolution. Though some would dispose of taboos entirely, we prefer to gnaw on them like squeaky dog toys. Of course it's not lost on us that a world without taboos would be a little less in need of Nerve.",books;classics;contemporary;criticism & theory;erotica;history & criticism;humor;literary;literature & fiction;movements & periods;united states,11
B0002DGL8K,"Hunter MFG Miami Dolphins Dog Collar, Medium Officially Licensed Dog Collar. Adjustable nylon dog collar. Hard plastic clasp for easy access to open and close. Fits medium dogs.",basic collars;collars;dogs;fan shop;harnesses & leashes;pet collars;pet collars & harnesses;pet gear;pet supplies;pet supplies: international shipping available;sports & outdoors,11
B000EPTFJ8,"Bosch BL4149 Fractional Jobber Length Black Oxide Drill Bit, 11/32-Inch, 6-Pack Bosch black oxide bits offer superior durability, speed and selection for most general purpose applications. Best for cutting holes into metal and work equally well in wood and plastic drilling. Use in steel, copper, aluminum, brass, oak, maple, MDF, pine, PVC, polycarbonate, acrylic, ABS, nylon and composite materials.	11/32"" Black Oxide Jobber (Pack of 6)Bosch parts keep your tools working their best for any application you can come up with.Features:11/32"" Diameter x 4-3/4"" Long x 11/32"" Shank DiameterBlack Oxide Construction6 PackBosch has been in the headlines of state of the art development for over 100 years. From the invention of the jigsaw to their ergonomic designed tools, Bosch as cared about the customer since they started business in 1886.",cutting tools;drill bits;drills;industrial & scientific;industrial drill bits;jobber drill bits;power & hand tools;power tool accessories;power tools;tools & home improvement;twist drill bits,11
0394742001,"Challenge of The Heart: Love, Sex, and Intimacy in Changing Times Focuses on the challenges of love between men and women, addressing the real questions and difficulties arising for people in relationships today.",books;fitness & dieting;health;interpersonal relations;love & romance;occult;psychology & counseling;relationships;religion & spirituality;self-help;sex,11
0452011841,"The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution ''Ayn Rand is destined to rank in history as the outstanding novelist and most profound philosopher of the twentieth century.'' --New York Daily Mirror''Ayn Rand is a writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly.'' --New York Times Book Review	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.	AYN RAND (1905-1982) was born in Russia, graduated from the University of Leningrad, and came to the United States in 1926. She published her first novel in 1936. With the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943, she achieved a spectacular and enduring success and her unique philosophy, objectivism, gained a worldwide following.	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.",books;history & theory;modern;movements;philosophy;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;science & math;social sciences;technology,11
0691004889,"Thieves, Deceivers, and Killers: Tales of Chemistry in Nature After sucking in the reader with a thrilling anthropomorphic account of an ant slave raid, Thieves, Deceivers and Killers relates tales of beetles, flowers, mussels, bacteria, and other organisms that eavesdrop on the chemical messages other species use to communicate. Not only do they eavesdrop on each other, they subvert the intercepted messages for their own ends, often killing the sender. In contrast to Dr. Agosta's previous books on chemical messengers, wherein the material was organized by complexity or function, here he presents anecdotes demonstrating a particular biological interaction. There is the story of hawk moths, the only pollinators of western-prairie fringed orchids because their eyes are spaced just so; the one about ant-decapitating flies, who lay their eggs between an ant's head and abdomen (the decapitating occurs when the egg hatches into a maggot, which eats the ant's brain); and the case of parasitic wasps that can detect, from above ground, caterpillars hiding in ants' nests--although the ants themselves cannot detect the disguised caterpillars. These episodes are followed by a glossary, so they are accessible to everyone. And though the anecdotes may seem to be very obscure or to involve overly exotic (and gross) creatures, Dr. Agosta amply demonstrates their relevance to human endeavors. Most notable are advances in the realms of pharmaceuticals (the discovery of new antibiotics in ants) and agriculture (the use of a fungus to control wild oats). Thieves, Deceivers and Killers ends with areas of active research and some unanswered questions, leaving us waiting eagerly for the sequel this title deserves. --Diana Gitig	Although humans communicate almost exclusively through language, a number of species rely heavily upon their chemical senses of smell and taste to detect or deflect danger in the environment, to petition a mate and to locate sources of food. In a detailed yet highly readable examination, more akin to a collection of short stories than a dry, scholarly inquiry, Agosta (Bombardier Beetles and Fever Trees, etc.) illuminates the role of chemicals in nature. The narrative opens with the dramatic tale of slave-making ants that steal the brood of a neighboring ant species. The battle is fought and won without many casualties or much effort, however, since slave-making ants possess a chemical weapon that causes their adversaries to flee in confusion, abandoning their young to a life of slavery. Other uses of chemicals include ""eavesdropping"" by prey on their predators' secretions to avoid imminent danger, and mimicry, or counterfeiting another creature's signals for one's own purposes. To protect themselves from herbivores, turnips take the offensive and produce a sulfur compound that repels most enemies, and which we identify as this vegetable's distinctive flavor. It is impossible to write about chemicals in the natural world without addressing the contributions of humans, the most adept manipulators of natural and derived chemicals, and Agosta covers the breadth of human involvementDfrom the practice of crushing sea snails to yield a royal purple dye in A.D. 60, to modern applications of an anti-cancer agent found in sea hares. Agosta's illuminating, well-written tale should appeal to a broad audience; though it lacks the particular grace of Lewis Thomas, many of that author's fans will find good, enlightening reading on biology here. (Nov. 20) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Adult/High School-Agosta is one of those gifted educators-a  scientific authority who can make his specialty interesting and  appealing to lay readers. He opens with an interesting account  of a military campaign mounted by the Protos against the Lepts.  The Protos produce a chemical weapon that causes the Lepts to  become confused and attack one another. At the end of the story,  readers learn that the Protos and the Lepts are ants, and that  their tale is true. After this auspicious beginning, the book  continues to maintain interest. The topic is important today as  science struggles to find ""natural"" pesticides produced by  plants that can benefit agriculture without destroying the  environment and antibiotics to which microbes are not yet  immune. These topics and others are covered by fascinating  glimpses into chemical evolution among living organisms. For  those who have no interest in a 200-plus-page excursion into  chemical ecology, the book still offers great reference  value.Carol DeAngelo, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	To find the world's most amazing chemical processes, look not at the human research in pharmaceutical laboratories but, rather, at the natural transformations in the entrails of insects, microbes, and mollusks. From the venom that spiders use to kill their prey to the alarm pheromones that earthworms release to warn other worms of danger, Agosta explores nature's surprisingly complex and potent pharmacopoeia. We learn, for instance, how wasps steal scents from ants to confuse enemies and how limpets synthesize imitation scents to accomplish the same purpose. Perhaps most fascinating, however, is the discussion of how humans can turn natural alchemy to their benefit. A fungus-based herbicide, for instance, can help farmers keep weeds out of their wheat, just as extremophile enzymes from antarctic bacteria give promise of more effective cold-water detergents. But lest we take too much pride in modern ingenuity in using such biochemicals, Agosta reminds us that ancient tribes were way ahead of us. Bryce ChristensenCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""In a detailed yet highly readable examination, more akin to a collection of short stories than a dry, scholarly inquiry, Agosta. . . illuminates the role of chemicals in nature. . . . [This is] good, enlightening reading on biology. . . . [S]hould appeal to a broad audience. . .""--Publisher's Weekly""From the venom that spiders use to kill their prey to the alarm pheromes that earthworms release to warn other worms of danger, Agosta explores nature's surprisingly complex and potent pharmacopoeia.""--Booklist""Without becoming highly technical, Agosta offers an in-depth look at the natural world of plants and animals in a clear, interesting style that makes a complicated subject very easy to understand. Highly recommended for anyone who wishes to better understand the natural world and the part played by the various organisms humans encounter in all corners of Earth.""--Choice""Beautifully written, Thieves, Deceivers, and Killers has a cast full of plant and animal stars. . . . Stunning.""--Jonathan Beard, New Scientist""A collection of fascinating stories. . . . Readers familiar with the author's work will find the same engaging style of writing that the nonscientist can easily understand.""--Library Journal""The book is a delight to read. Each of the stories is told well and many are full of surprises.""--Elizabeth A. Bernays, The Quarterly Review of Biology""This is a delightful book. . . . [It] will fascinate the high school and college biology student and teacher.""--Susan J. Karcher, American Biology Teacher	""Thieves, Deceivers, and Killers is elegantly written and a joy to read. I strongly recommend it.""--James Gould, Princeton University""This book is a significant contribution to the rapidly developing field of chemical ecology. Although written primarily for the nonscientist, it will be useful to scientists, particularly those who are not active workers in the field of chemical ecology. And even chemical ecologists may find new and fascinating information previously unknown to them because the field is so broadly based on all living organisms.""--James Nation, editor, Journal of Chemical Ecology	""Thieves, Deceivers, and Killers is elegantly written and a joy to read. I strongly recommend it.""--James Gould, Princeton University""This book is a significant contribution to the rapidly developing field of chemical ecology. Although written primarily for the nonscientist, it will be useful to scientists, particularly those who are not active workers in the field of chemical ecology. And even chemical ecologists may find new and fascinating information previously unknown to them because the field is so broadly based on all living organisms.""--James Nation, editor, Journal of Chemical Ecology	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	William Agosta is Professor Emeritus at Rockefeller University and a Visiting Investigator at the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratory. He is the author of Chemical Communication and Bombardier Beetles and Fever Trees.",biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;chemistry;ecology;general & reference;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,11
1885266057,"Prophets & Professors: Essays on the Lives and Works of Modern Poets Throughout these 23 review-essays, Bawer shows his love for poetry by attacking those who have allowed it, he says, ""to be turned into something that only poets read."" Why poetry has become a literary stepchild is the subject of Bawer's thoughtful assessment of American poets from Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens to newer ones such as Dave Smith. Running through these critical commentaries is the theme that too many younger poets are caught up in romantic excess, that the influence of Allen Ginsberg and the Beats and the confessional self-destruction of Sylvia Plath have excused so much of the sloppy, informal and poured-out emotion of today's poets. Bawer is clearly puzzled by the attention given to many leading contemporary poets, but he also attacks poetry workshops, PBS's Voices and Visions series, literary interviews and critic Helen Vendler. There are times when one wonders just who or what Bawer does like. But he clearly cares about poetry, citing numerous examples to back up his opinions. He is on the side of the formalists and those for whom poetry is not a game of literary gossip. This book is an intelligent study by someone who has read and judged a great deal of poetry and criticism. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In these essays, which range from the Modernist and Imagist movements to the Beats and the confessional poets, Bawer (Coast to Coast, Story Line Pr., 1993) makes no bones about his position on literary figures or topics. He states in his preface, ""When a society takes art seriously, it argues about it."" He is ready to argue his theses and prepared to defend them. For example, William Carlos Williams has been hailed as one of the most influential poets of the 20th century, but Bawer reveals through scholarly explication why Williams's theories actually have been damaging to the state of contemporary verse. After reading ""The Fictive Muse of Wallace Stevens,"" the reader walks away possessing a true understanding of his body of work. Many readers may disagree with Bawer, but the arguments are firm and serious. He also includes an essay criticizing the literary interview and its often banal and trivial dialog. These illuminating essays are highly recommended for literary collections.?Tim Gavin, Episcopal Acad., Merion, Pa.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.",20th century;books;criticism & theory;essays;essays & correspondence;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);movements & periods;poetry,11
0618348867,"Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers Tom Bassarear is a professor at Keene State College in New Hampshire. He received his BA from Claremont-McKenna College, his MA from Claremont Graduate School, and was awarded an Ed.D degree from the University of Massachusetts.  Tom's complementary degrees in mathematics and educational psychology have strongly influenced his convictions about education--specifically, mathematics education. Before teaching at the college level, he taught both middle school and high school mathematics. Since arriving at Keene State College, Tom has spent many hours in elementary classrooms observing teachers and working with them in school and workshop settings, plus, he has taught 4th grade math every day for a semester at a local elementary school.",books;education;education & reference;elementary education;instruction methods;mathematics;new;schools & teaching;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,11
0939149184,"Funny Business: An Outsider's Year in Japan ""Gary-san, if you want to get to understand us, you have to remember that we Japanese are all the same,"" a co-worker advised the author soon after the newly graduated American MBA-holder arrived in Tokyo on a grant to spend 12 months working for Sony. Katzenstein learned that in a culture where solitary travelers are considered strange (""normal people . . . travel in groups"") and conformity is prized above all else, a foreigner will always be gaijin , an outsider. He lamented midway through his sojourn: ""I was a craggy black rock in their smoothly raked white pebble garden."" Though enterprising, ambitious, loaded with chutzpah and eager to view legendary Japanese management strategies in action, the rugged individualist failed to fit in, was fired from Sony after several difficult months, but remained in Japan for the rest of his allotted year pondering his experiences. While a dry prose style at times mars his account, readers will appreciate the author's candor and insights into a significant foreign power. Reader's Digest Condensed Books selection. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Like Michael Shapiro's Japan: In the Land of the Broken-hearted ( LJ 6/1/89), this depicts the frustrations of foreigners living in Japan. Katzenstein went to Japan as a Luce Foundation Scholar to study Japanese management at Sony a few years ago. Related with considerable humor, but also with growing criticism (Katzenstein eventually loses his position at Sony because he attempts to meet with the company's top executive and founder to discuss the meaningless nature of the work he has been assigned), this serves as an excellent introduction to the problems Japan can present for the outsider. A series of concluding remarks offer a challenge to many of the commonly held assumptions regarding Japanese management techniques and the nature of the ""economic miracle."" Overall, an entertaining if sometimes embittered discussion. Reader's Digest condensed book selection.- Scott Wright, Coll. of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.",asia;biographies & memoirs;books;business & investing;education & reference;general;japan;organizational behavior;research & publishing guides;travel;writing,11
0837123208,"Consider the Lilies of the Field: a Novel Text: English, Portugese (translation)",books;criticism & theory;european;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;used & rental textbooks;world literature,11
0131001515,"After September 11: New York and the World In After September 11, Reuters correspondents, photographers and graphic artists chronicle the rapid-fire pace of events after the attacks on the United States-the impact on New York City, on the rest of the nation and the repercussions around the world. Starting at Ground Zero, the book tells moving new stories and shows fresh images from the site of the World Trade Center. The first section offers vivid insights into the lives of those most deeply affected-from those who toiled as rescuers to those who escaped from the twin towers and are now determined to rebuild their city. Next, the book offers a unique snapshot of the United States, seeking to understand why the attacks took place and asking whether the nation has fundamentally changed or not. It charts how America is coping with a new sense of vulnerability and dissects the ways in which September 11 has permeated every day life. In the final section, seasoned Reuters correspondents examine the shifting international alliances since September 11 and how conflicts from the Middle East to the confrontation between India and Pakistan came to be seen through the prism of America's response to the attacks. Front cover photo: Two columns of light blaze into the sky over Manhattan as a memorial to those killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center in this view across the HudsonRiver from Jersey City, New Jersey, March 11, 2002. The ""Tribute in Light,"" marking six months since the planes hit the towers, was created by two groups of 44 searchlights. Photo by Ray Stubblebine.	Reuters is one of the world's leading providers of text, video, graphics and news pictures. With some 2,300 journalists, photographers and TV professionals in 230 bureaus around the globe, Reuters covers the news as it breaks. Relying on a 150-year-old reputation for accuracy, speed and freedom from bias, Reuters transmits more than eight million words daily in 25 languages.",21st century;americas;arts & photography;books;disaster relief;history;photography;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;united states,11
1883914264,"Spa (Menus and Music) (Sharon O'Connor's Menus and Music) Sharon OConnor was the first person ever to pair a cookbook with music. What seems like a simple ideafood and music are a natural combinationis actually the culmination of years of life experience. As OConnor puts it, Menus and Music has packaged up my life. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley with degrees in music and sociology, O'Connor trained at the renowned Amsterdam Conservatory of Music. She began her career as a performer with the San Francisco Ballet and Opera and has worked with famed performers such as Frank Sinatra, Van Morrison, Tony Bennett and Linda Ronstadt. She has also recorded with the American Conservatory Theater, Aretha Franklin, John Williams, and for numerous Hollywood film scores. She continued her musical career as the founder and cellist of the San Francisco String Quartet. A lifelong amateur chef, OConnor began looking for a way to combine her loves for music, food, travel, and writing. Twelve years ago, while driving across the San Francisco Bay Bridge after a performance with her string quartet, she came up with the idea for Menus and Music. Now, fourteen volumes later, O'Connor OConnor travels the world to research each cookbook and is an expert in adapting recipes from professional chefs for the home cook. Equal time is devoted to meeting with other musicians, mixing, arranging, editing, and performing the musical selections on the compact discs. Sharon OConnor makes her home in the San Francisco Bay Area with her two daughters and husband. Her family enthusiastically helps in the research, travel, and tasting for her series.",arts & photography;books;classical;cookbooks;food & wine;healthy;music;musical genres;special diet;special occasions;tablesetting,11
0453007864,"Dracula (Classics on Cassette) Grade 7 Up?A naive young Englishman travels to Transylvania to do business with a client, Count Dracula. After showing his true and terrifying colors, Dracula boards a ship for England in search of new, fresh blood. Unexplained disasters begin to occur in the streets of London before the mystery and the evil doer are finally put to rest. Told in a series of news reports from eyewitness observers to writers of personal diaries, this has a ring of believability that counterbalances nicely with Dracula's too-macabre-to-be-true exploits. An array of voices from talented actors makes for interesting variety. The generous use of sound effects, from train whistles to creaking doors, adds further atmosphere. Lovers of mysteries and horror will find rousing entertainment in this version of a classic tale.?Carol Katz, Harrison Public Library, NYCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The Dover volume collects 14 of Stoker's lesser-known horror stories such as ""The Crystal Cup,"" ""The Burial of the Rats,"" and ""A Gipsey Prophecy."" Though most of his other fiction has been overshadowed by Dracula, these offer some real chills and warrant reading. While editions of Dracula, which celebrated its centennial in 1997, are legion, Broadview's offers several extras, including a chronology of Stoker's life and appendixes on Transylvania, London, Mental Physiology, Reviews and Interviews, and more. That along with the full text make this one of the best editions available, especially at this remarkable price.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Those who cannot find their own reflection in Bram Stoker's still-living creation are surely the undead . New York Times Review of BooksAn exercise in masculine anxiety and nationalist paranoia, Stoker's novel is filled with scenes that are staggeringly lurid and perverse.... The one in Highgate cemetery, where Arthur and Van Helsing drive a stake through the writhing body of the vampirised Lucy Westenra, is my favourite. Sarah Waters, author of The Little StrangerIt is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror. Bram Stoker's Mother --Bram Stoker's Mother	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	10 1.5-hour cassettes	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""I've always loved Dracula, and I've tried to extract the brilliant core story from this complex book and glue readers to their seats.""  - Jan Needle	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker's Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author's mother, who wrote her son: 'It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror.'A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker's hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new, endures as the quintessential story of suspense and horror. The unbridled lusts and desires, the diabolical cravings that Stoker dramatized with such mythical force, render Dracula resonant and unsettling a century later. 	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	To borrow a phrase used by one of the characters in the novel, Dracula is ""nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance."" In her introduction to this edition Glennis Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not of universal fears and desires, but of specifically late nineteenth-century concerns. And she discusses too the ways in which to the modern reader it is not Transylvania but London that is the location of the monstrosity in Dracula.The many appendices include contemporary reviews; source materials drawn on by Stoker; documents expressing contemporary views on trances, sleepwalking and hypnotism; and other relevant writing by Stoker, including ""the censorship of Fiction,"" in which he expresses his belief in the need to defend the social and moral purity of the nation.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Bram Stoker (18471912)wrote several other horror novels, including The Jewel of Seven Stars and The Lair of the White Worm.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Chapter IJonathan Harkers Journal(Kept in shorthand)3 May. Bistritz.  Left Munich at 8:35 p.m., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6.46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible. The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. (Mem., get recipe for Mina.) I asked the waiter, and he said it was called paprika hendl, and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians. I found my smattering of German very useful here; indeed, I dont know how I should be able to get on without it.Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the library regarding Transylvania: it had struck me that some foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance in dealing with a nobleman of that country. I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe. I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they found the Huns settled in it. I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (Mem., I must ask the Count all about them.)I did not sleep well, though my bed was comfortable enough, for I had all sorts of queer dreams. There was a dog howling all night under my window, which may have had something to do with it; or it may have been the paprika, for I had to drink up all the water in my carafe, and was still thirsty. Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door, so I guess I must have been sleeping soundly then. I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was mamaliga, and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call impletata. (Mem., get recipe for this also.) I had to hurry breakfast, for the train started a little before eight, or rather it ought to have done so, for after rushing to the station at 7:30 I had to sit in the carriage for more than an hour before we began to move. It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China?All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject to great floods. It takes a lot of water, and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear. At every station there were groups of people, sometimes crowds, and in all sorts of attire. Some of them were just like the peasants at home or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets and round hats and home-made trousers; but others were very picturesque. The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were very clumsy about the waist. They had all full white sleeves of some kind or other, and the most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of something fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of course there were petticoats under them. The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brass nails. They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustaches. They are very picturesque, but do not look prepossessing. On the stage they would be set down at once as some old Oriental band of brigands. They are, however, I am told, very harmless and rather wanting in natural self-assertion.It was on the dark side of twilight when we got to Bistritz, which is a very interesting old place. Being practically on the frontierfor the Borgo Pass leads from it into Bukovinait has had a very stormy existence, and it certainly shows marks of it. Fifty years ago a series of great fires took place, which made terrible havoc on five separate occasions. At the very beginning of the seventeenth century it underwent a siege of three weeks and lost 13,000 people, the casualties of war proper being assisted by famine and disease.Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country. I was evidently expected, for when I got near the door I faced a cheery-looking elderly woman in the usual peasant dresswhite undergarment with long double apron, front, and back, of coloured stuff fitting almost too tight for modesty. When I came close she bowed and said, The Herr Englishman? Yes, I said, Jonathan Harker. She smiled, and gave some message to an elderly man in white shirtsleeves, who had followed her to the door. He went, but immediately returned with a letter:My Friend, Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. Sleep well to-night. At three tomorrow the diligence9 will start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you. At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me. I trust that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land.  Your friend,'Dracula.'4 May.  I found that my landlord had got a letter from the Count, directing him to secure the best place on the coach for me; but on making inquiries as to details he seemed somewhat reticent, and pretended that he could not understand my German. This could not be true, because upto then he had understood it perfectly; at least, he answered my questions exactly as if he did. He and his wife, the old lady who had received me, looked at each other in a frightened sort of way. He mumbled out that the money had been sent in a letter, and that was all he knew. When I asked him if he knew Count Dracula, and could tell me anything of his castle, both he and his wife crossed themselves, and, saying that they knew nothing at all, simply refused to speak further. It was so near the time of starting that I had no time to ask anyone else, for it was all very mysterious and not by any means comforting.Just before I was leaving, the old lady came up to my room and said in a very hysterical way:Must you go? Oh! young Herr, must you go? She was in such an excited state that she seemed to have lost her grip of what German she knew, and mixed it all up with some other language which I did not know at all. I was just able to follow her by asking many questions. When I told her that I must go at once, and that I was engaged on important business, she asked again:Do you know what day it is? I answered that it was the fourth of May. She shook her head as she said again:Oh, yes! I know that, I know that! but do you know what day it is? On my saying that I did not understand, she went on:It is the eve of St Georges Day. Do you not know that to-night,when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway? Do you know where you are going, and what you are going to? She was in such evident distress that I tried to comfort her, but without effect. Finally she went down on her knees and implored me not to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting. It was all very ridiculous, but I did not feel comfortable. However, there was business to be done, and I could allow nothing to interfere with it. I therefore tried to raise her up, and said, as gravely as I could, that I thanked her, but my duty was imperative, and that I must go. She then rose and dried her eyes, and taking a crucix from her neck offered it to me. I did not know what to do, for, as an English Churchman, I have been taught to regard such things as in some measure idolatrous, and yet it seemed so ungracious to refuse an old lady meaning so well and in such a state of mind. She saw, I suppose, the doubt in my face, for she put the rosary round my neck, and said, For your mothers sake, and went out of the room. I am writing up this part of the diary...	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	DRACULA is one of the most well-known stories in the world, yet Britisher Richard E. Grant manages to wring new life from the Bram Stoker classic. Whether he's voicing the naive Jonathan Harker or any of the frightened townsfolk, Grant is a master storyteller. He effortlessly takes on more than a dozen characters, including the deliciously evil Count Dracula himself, with ease and skill. It comes as no surprise that Grant has appeared in numerous films, including DRACULA. Even in this abridged form, the familiar story of the blood-sucking Transylvanian monster is a chilling testament to the ability of the author who wrote the story more than a century ago.  M.S.  AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;classics;contemporary;genre fiction;horror;literary;literature & fiction;mystery;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,11
089272448X,"Down East Maine The photographs are splendidpowerful and evocative, and the flavor of Maine is intense.	[Comes across] both the images and the words, as the perfect guest, wonderfully observant and politely curious.  -- Joseph Lelyveld, Executive Editor, The New York Times	For twenty years, Frank Van Riper was a member of the Washington bureau of the New York Daily News, serving as White House correspondent and Washington bureau news editor. He was a 1979 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, holds the 1980 Merriman Smith Award for deadline presidential news coverage, and is author of the biography: Glenn: The Astronaut Who Would Be President. He is currently the nationally syndicated photography columnist of the Washington Post.",americas;arts & photography;books;history;individual artists;photo essays;photography;photojournalism;sports & outdoors;state & local;united states,11
0764503464,"Networking for Dummies, Third Edition Networking for Dummies upholds the series' proletarian tradition by entertainingly explaining local area networks (LAN) to the rest of us. Written with three different--but equally clueless in technical matters;quot;--audiences in mind, Lowe's book appeals to novice network users, novice network builder/administrators, and the managers who must finance the activities of the other two groups. A large part of this book is devoted to user issues such as Accessing a network drive from WordPerfect and What is a print job? Other chapters explain the differences among the various network architectures and network operating systems. In addition, the book pays a lot of attention to troubleshooting, particularly for common problems. For these reasons, Networking for Dummies makes a fine resource for people who are new to a networked environment. If you are a network administrator, you might want to get a copy (or three) of this book for the corporate library and refer it to all askers of brain-dead questions. The book's primary shortcoming is its ignorance of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Novell IntranetWare. (Coverage of NT stops at version 3.51 and coverage of NetWare stops at version 4.1.) Still, lots of organizations still run these network operating systems, and if yours is one of them, this book may fit your needs admirably.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""...a good basics book...if you want to Ethernet more than a couple of machines."" -- Portable Computing, May 2000	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Covers Windows 98 and NT/2000 plus Novell NetWare    Includes tips and tools for networks of any size    Your guide to building and managing a secure, stable network Whether youre connecting two computers at home or a full-service network for a mid-sized business,this fun and easy do-it-yourself guide will have you hooked up and humming along in no time. From peer-to-peer and client/server basics to the Internet, intranets, security, and troubleshooting, it delivers just what you need to get up to speed.    Discover how to: Build a Windows 98, NT/2000, or NetWare network Cope with cards, cables, and other hardware Share printers and other resources Build a fast, secure Internet connection Manage your network for optimal performance    The Dummies Way Explanations in plain English Get in, get out information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A dash of humor and fun    Get smart! www.dummies.com Register to win cool prizes Browse exclusive articles and excerpts Get a free Dummies Daily e-mail newsletter Chat with authors and preview other books Talk to us, ask questions, get answers	      --This text refers to the 							Unknown Binding	 edition.	Doug Lowes 20-plus For Dummies guides have given folks the lowdown on everything from memory management and creating Web pages to Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer.	      --This text refers to the 							Unknown Binding	 edition.",books;certification;computer science;computers & technology;lan;networking;networks;new;protocols & apis;software;used & rental textbooks,11
0567030857,"T. F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography 'In all his studies, T. F. Torrance has focused on the true subject of theology, the self-revelation of the Triune God, and this marks him out as one of the outstanding theologians of the twentieth century.'Professor Bryan D. Spinks, Yale University'Thomas Torrance is one of the most remarkable theological minds of the twentieth century. He has both plumbed the depths of the tradition and been a daring pioneer in making new connections between fields of knowledge and between churches. The questions he raises deserve to be at the heart of much theological work in the next millenium.'Professor David F. Ford, University of Cambridge'The influence of Torrance's penetrating and seminal thought on a host of issues ranging from atonement theory and its trinitarian basis to the relation of theology and science justifies the appellation: the most significant theologian of the late-twentieth century.'Professor Bruce L. McCormack, Princeton Theological Seminary""We await the second, fully updated edition of Torrance: An Intellectual Biography with eagerness."" - Reformed Theological Review	Alister McGrath is Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University, UK, and the first Director of the newly-established Oxford Centre for Evangelism and Apologetics. He holds the Oxford degrees of Doctor of Divinity for his work on historical and systematic theology, and Doctor of Philosophy for his work on molecular biophysics.",biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;humanities;leaders & notable people;new;religious;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks,11
0312180543,"Blue Windows: A Christian Science Childhood Frequently caricatured as the religion that rejects medical treatment, Christian Science gets a balanced, nuanced appraisal in this memoir by a writer who grew up within the faith. Barbara Wilson appreciates Christian Science's unusual openness to women, who gained self-respect and status as its practitioners and healers, but she bares its inadequacies in a wrenching account of her mother's battle with cancer, suicide attempt, and eventual death. Her precise, unsentimental prose delineates a decades-long journey toward self-knowledge and peace with her past: it's a very American saga, sensitively told.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Christian Science, a belief system with over one million adherents, pivots on the premise that the material world, and therefore physical illness, is an illusion. Recently, its consequent doctrinal rejection of conventional medicine has led to government prosecution of several church members whose children have died because of the refusal of such treatment. Wilson (Trouble in Transylvania, LJ 10/1/93) here recalls her childhood as the daughter and granddaughter of Christian Scientists, focusing on her crisis of faith as a 12-year-old, triggered by the mental breakdown and premature death of her mother. (Wilson told this story previously in her work of fiction, If You Had a Family, LJ 10/1/96). Despite the potentially provocative subject matter, bathos here conspires with a paralytic writing style (""The picture is by Norman Rockwell, or would be, if he'd painted it"") to undermine the work. A better Christian Science memoir is Thomas Simmons's The Unseen Shore (LJ 5/1/91). Wilson's work is a marginal purchase.?Bill Piekarski, Southwestern Coll. Lib., Chula Vista, Cal.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Wilson's novel, If You Had a Family , heavily mined her Christian Science background: reared in the faith's ultraorthodoxy by her own superdevout, inflexible mother, the protagonist's mother relies too long on her faith, postpones seeing a doctor, and dies of cancer. In Blue Windows, Wilson removes fiction's facade and tells the gritty truth about her cancer-stricken mother, who attempted suicide, a guilty reaction to her self-perceived failure of faith: she drank Drano and thereby gave her doctors the task of skin-grafting her face back together to repair acid burns on her mouth, lips, tongue, and chin. After her death, Wilson's father married Bettye, who redecorated rooms and tried to redecorate lives; she forced Wilson into a puke-pink room and shut the girl's bookcase away in a closet. With time, Wilson made painful peace with her childhood and her mother's death. Her searing memoir deserves to find a mainstream audience well beyond the loyal following for her lesbian mysteries.  Whitney Scott	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This sensitive, eloquent coming-of-age story articulates the often painful intersections of religion, power, illness, and death. Mystery writer Wilson (Trouble in Transylvania, 1993, etc.) departs from fiction here to unveil her Christian Science upbringing in uncompromising, often disturbing detail. The crux of the book is how family and faith fall apart when the author's mother, a devout Christian Scientist, dies of breast cancer at a relatively young age (and after a failed suicide attempt). Given Christian Science's teaching that illness and death are merely errors of the mind that must be corrected, the family was forbidden to mourn this loss. Such denial meant that grief and anger were channeled into other, often horrifying, modes of expression: her father's remarriage to a sadistic woman and the author's own floundering, which made her receptive to her new stepbrother's sexual advances. In this sense, the book is an unforgettable testimony to the destructive powers of some religious beliefs. But paradoxically, it is also a nuanced acknowledgment of the ways in which sectarian religion orders the chaos of the world, providing new opportunities for its followers. Wilson concedes, for instance, that Christian Science healing continues to provide an important outlet for women, who comprise almost 90 percent of healers. She can also see that Christian Science helped her to define her own strength as a woman--her identity forged not just through surviving her mother's death but through more mundane statements of faith, such as her refusal to accept a school polio vaccine in the 1950s. Historically informed and refreshingly candid--though a bit too long--this offers not just an individual memoir of an increasingly obscure religious movement, but also a more general exploration of the crises of faith and health in the 20th century. (Of particular interest is Wilson's parallel of contemporary guru Deepak Chopra with Mary Baker Eddy.) -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Wonderfully lucid . . . scrupulously fair-minded . . . The best sort of childhood memoir: It reaches beyond the troubled family . . . to illuminate a whole society . . . Like a pebble tossed into a pond, Blue Windows resonates in ever-widening circles."" --Francine Prose, New York Newsday""A memoir of exceptional sensitivity and intelligence."" --The New Yorker""Graceful, superbly written . . . In an age when the memoir has become transcendent, Blue Windows is among the best"" --Donn Fry, The Seattle Times ""Painfully searching, honest, and, ultimately, inspiring . . . [this] courageous and moving memoir evokes a world of childhood faith and healing."" --Cynthia Schrager, The Women's Review of Books""A brave memoir . . . Wilson movingly explores [her childhood]."" --Ruth Coughlin, The Cleveland Plain Dealer	Barbara Wilson is the co-founder of two publishers, Seal Press and Women in Translation.  She is the author of several novels, translations, and one short story collection.  She lives in Seattle, Washington.",biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;leaders & notable people;memoirs;protestantism;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;spirituality;theology,11
0766839486,"Human Diseases Blackboard Standalone: (passcode For Website) Marianne Neighbors, Ed.D., R.N. is a professor at the University of Arkansas for the School of Nursing, Fayetteville, AR.Ruth Tannehill-Jones, MSc, RN, Vice President, Patient Care Services, Mercy Health System NWA, St. Marys Hospital.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",allied health professions;allied health services;basic sciences;books;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;pathology;used & rental textbooks,11
1589792459,"You Watch Too Much TV: But Did You Know? Ken Kessler is currently a producer for Doug Stephan's Good Day, a morning radio program heard in over 400 markets across the U.S., as well as on the Cable Radio Network and Sirius Satellite Radio.",arts & photography;books;education & reference;guides & reviews;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;performing arts;puzzles & games;shows;television;trivia,11
0631165134,"The Writing Systems of the World (Language Library) Coulmas argues that contrary to the views of some linguists, writing has an important place in the study of language. Though specialists will be most comfortable with the intricacies of this dispute, nonspecialists can still enjoy this book for the fascinating picture it paints of the world's major writing systems: Egyptian hieroglyphics, cuneiform, and Chinese characters; Semitic and Indian writing systems; and our own alphabet. Many illustrations are provided to clarify this material. Other subjects discussed include spelling reform and creating new writing systems. A full panoply of notes and an extensive bibliography are supplied. Recommended for all libraries.- Catherine V. von Schon, SUNY at Stony BrookCopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from earliest times to the present. Its aim is to explore the complex ways in which writing systems relate to the language they depict. Writing, Coulmas contends, is not only the guide or garment of spoken language, but has a deep and lasting effect on the development of language itself. His study takes in Egyptian hieroglyphics and the cuneiform system of the ancient Near East; he describes Chinese writing, discussing why an apparently cumbersome system has been used continuously for more than 3,000 years; he ranges across the writing systems of western Asia and the Middle East, the Indian families and the various alphabetic traditions which had its origins in the multifarious world of Semitic writing and came to full bloom in pre-Classical Greece.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Florian Coulmas is Professor of Linguistics at Chuo University, Tokyo. He has written and edited several books in Linguistics and Sociolinguistics and is associate editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",alphabet;books;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;historical study & educational resources;history;language & grammar;new;reference;used & rental textbooks;words,11
0271023589,"The Art of Enigma: The De Chirico Brothers & the Politics of Modernism (New Modernisms Series) In this fine book, Keala Jewell studies the works of Giorgio de Chirico and his younger brother Alberto Savinio who together produced an oeuvre shrouded in 'the motif of secrecy.' The Art of Enigma, an authentically interdisciplinary book, is the first study that considers the brothers together and addresses the important task of defining and characterizing the Metaphysical art that the brothers developed, especially as it differs from Surrealism, and establishes itself as an Italian, rather than a French, art. --Karen Pinkus, University of California, Los AngelesBy turning her focus away from the familiar Metaphysical canvases of de Chirico's work of the 1910s, Keala Jewell finds new and exciting relationships between the art and politics of the 1920s and 1930s. As such, this book makes a significant contribution to the field. The Art of Enigma has all the markings of a landmark study in the field. --Michael R. Taylor, The Philadelphia Museum of ArtIt must be said that Jewell, a prominent scholar in the field of Italian literature, measures up unflinchingly and with penetrating subtlety, so that, although her attention concentrates on the literary output of the two brothers, this in no way diminishes the value of its contribution to a fuller understanding of their painting. --Robert Radford, The Art BookBy turning her focus away from the familiar Metaphysical canvases of de Chirico's work of the 1910s, Keala Jewell finds new and exciting relationships between the art and politics of the 1920s and 1930s. As such, this book makes a significant contribution to the field. The Art of Enigma has all the markings of a landmark study in the field. --Michael R. Taylor, The Philadelphia Museum of ArtIt must be said that Jewell, a prominent scholar in the field of Italian literature, measures up unflinchingly and with penetrating subtlety, so that, although her attention concentrates on the literary output of the two brothers, this in no way diminishes the value of its contribution to a fuller understanding of their painting. --Robert Radford, The Art Book	Keala Jewell is Paganucci Chair of Italian Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Poesis of History: Experimentation with Genre in Postwar Italy (1992), editor of Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination (2001) and co-editor of The Defiant Muse (1985).",architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism;history & criticism;individual artists;politics & social sciences;social sciences,11
0374327505,"Goose's Story PreSchool-Grade 3-When a girl and her dog, Henry, greet the Canada geese  as they return in the spring, she notices that one has been  injured and is missing a foot. The others in the flock shun the  goose, but the child worries about it. Her parents warn her not  to interfere-the animal must grow strong on its own to survive.  Saddened by its plight, the youngster can't help herself; she  and her dog observe, talk to, and sometimes feed the bird. Over  the summer, the creature begins to hobble on one leg and  eventually swim, but the family still wonders how it will get up  enough speed to fly. Then one day, all the geese are gone. After  worrying all winter, the child and Henry hear honking from above  in early spring, and welcome back ""their"" goose-and her mate.  Based on an experience with a real goose that landed in the  author's yard, Best's story will appeal to young nature lovers  and to anyone with a soft spot for an underdog. Meade's  paper-collage illustrations capture the action as well as the  glory of the passing seasons. This is a heartwarming story with  a tender message about accepting others in spite of their  differences and helping those who are less able.Jeanne Clancy  Watkins, Chester County Library, Exton, PA   Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	(*Starred Review*) Ages 4-8. A young girl is thrilled when geese land at the nearby pond in spring. After her dog barks and the birds jump for the sky, the child realizes that one goose has been left behind. This goose has a dangling foot (some kind of accident?), and the next day its foot is gone. Other birds ignore Goose (""I never thought geese could be so mean""), and the child's parents warn her not to help (""A wild goose has to learn to live with her weakness. Or she won't live at all""). Goose does learn to swim, but the child wonders how the bird will push off and fly when it's time to migrate. Best's simple prose is rhythmic and beautiful, more poetic than much of the so-called free verse in many children's books; and Meade's clear, cut-paper collages show the drama through the child's eyes--the clamor of the flock against the New England landscape through the seasons; the honking and jumping for the sky; and one goose left behind, wild and beautiful, hurt, and strong. The story is based on Best's experience with a wounded goose that landed in her backyard, and every child who has nursed an injured creature will recognize the bond, the distance, and the hope. Hazel RochmanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Best's story will appeal to young nature lovers and to anyone with a soft spot for an underdog . . . Mead's paper-collage illustrations capture the action as well as the glory of the passing seasons."" --Starred, School Library Journal	Cari Bests previous books include Shrinking Violet, which a starred School Library Journal review called a first-class choice. She lives in Weston, Connecticut. Holly Meades award-winning picture books include the Caldecott Honor Book Hush! She lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts.",animals;birds;books;children's books;friendship;literature & fiction;nature;nature & how it works;science;social situations;special needs,11
0130213993,"Writer's FAQs, The: A Pocket Handbook (College Version) For writers who want a clear, concise, user-friendly pocket guide beside them while they write, this book has it all. Its easy-to-navigate coverage offers a wide variety of traditional topics as well as the most current information on conducting online research, and using MLA, APA, Chicago Manual, and CBE citation formats.  Anyone who spends time writingwhether for professional or personal usewill find valuable assistance with the writing process; argument reading and writing; all major areas of grammar and mechanics; conducting research in libraries and online; using the World Wide Web as a resource; and documenting and evaluating both print and electronic sources.  For anyone writing either professional or personal documents.	Muriel Harris is Professor of English and Writing Lab Director at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. She is founder and current editor of the Writing Lab Newsletter, member of NCTE, and director of Purdue's award-winning Online Writing Lab (OWL). She has authored several books, including The Prentice Hall Reference Guide to Grammar and Usage, now in its Fourth Edition.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	BRIEF CONTENTS How to Use This Book xxx Question and  Correct xxx I. WRITING and SPEAKING xxx 1. Checklist for Effective Papers/Presentations xxx II. SENTENCE CHOICES 2. Clarity xxx 3. Conciseness xxx 4. Variety xxx 5. Voice (Formal and Informal) xxx 6. Mixed Constructions xxx 7. Active and Passive Verbs xxx 8. Parallelism xxx 9. Transitions xxx 10. Nonsexist Language xxx III. SENTENCE GRAMMAR 11. Fragments xxx 12. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences xxx 13. Subjects and Verbs xxx 14. Pronouns xxx 15. Adjectives and Adverbs xxx 16. Modifiers xxx 17. Shifts xxx IV. PUNCTUATION 18. Sentence Punctuation Patterns   (for Commas, Semicolons, and Colons) xxx 19. Commas xxx 20. Apostrophes xxx 21. Semicolons xxx 22. Quotation Marks xxx 23. Other Punctuation xxx V. MECHANICS 24. Capitalization xxx 25. Italics xxx 26. Numbers xxx 27. Abbreviations xxx 28. Spelling xxx VI.  MULTI-LINGUAL SPEAKERS (ESL)  29.  American Style in Writing/ESL Resources xxx  30.  Verbs xxx  31.  Nouns   (Count and Non-count) xxx  32. Articles xxx  33.  Prepositions xxx  34.  Omitted/Repeated Words xxx  35.  Idioms xxx VII. RESEARCH PAPERS  36.  Doing Print and Online Research xxx  37.  Evaluating Print and Internet Sources    xxx  38.  Integrating Sources xxx  39. Document Design xxx VIII .DOCUMENTATION  40. MLA Style xxx  41. APA Style xxx 42. Chicago Manual of Style xxx 43. CSE (Council of Science Editors) xxx  44. Style Manuals and Resources for Various Fields xxx  GLOSSARY OF USAGE xxx GLOSSARY OF TERMS xxx INDEX xxx CORRECTION SYMBOLS Inside back cover   HOW TO USE THIS BOOK  This book has many ways to help you easily find the information you need:   Brief Contents: This is the table of contents for the book, listing only the  sections and  chapter titles. Each section of the book begins with a  more complete list of its contents. xx  Question and Correct: This is a list typical questions writers ask. When you find a question  similar to the one you have, you'll see the section number and page to turn to. You won't need to know any terminology. xx  Sections of the Book: Here you'll find summaries of the contents of each part of the book  to help you find the type of information you need. xx  HINT boxes: Throughout the book you'll find HINT boxes that offer  advice, help you  remember rules, and keep you from making mistakes that often arise.  xx  Questions at the Beginning of Each Part of the Book:  To help you find what you  need in a section of the book, you'll find a list of more questions writers  typically ask. xx  Glossary of Usage: This is an alphabetical list of words that can be confusing, such   as when to write ""may"" and when to write ""can""  (or ""your"" or ""you're"") or  whether or not terms such as  ""could of""  or ""use to"" are correct. xx  Glossary of Grammatical Terms: This is an alphabetical list of grammatical terms  and their definitions. xx   Index: This is an alphabetical list of the topics covered in this book with the pages  to turn to, to find explanations. xx  Correction Symbols: This is a list of correction symbols many instructors use when  reading student papers. Inside back cover   Sections of the Book I. Writing and Speaking Here you'll find checklists for planning, writing, and revising papers and has information about developing a thesis statement, linking sentences and paragraphs, writing introductions and conclusions, and using computers effectively when you write. There is also information and advice on developing oral and multimedia presentations. II. Sentence Choices Included here is information about composing sentence including how to write clear, effective sentences that don't overuse the passive and are varied, concise, and nonsexist in word choices. You'll also find help with using transitions that connect sentences and paragraphs smoothly. III. Sentence Grammar This section explains the rules of grammar and includes many HINT boxes to help you avoid such errors as fragments, comma splices and fused sentences, subject/verb agreement errors, pronoun and adjective errors, dangling modifiers, and shifts in voice and number. IV. Punctuation This section begins with an overview of sentence punctuation patterns, and then you'll find information on using commas, apostrophes, semicolons, quotation marks, and other punctuation. V. Mechanics Here you'll find information when you need to check on which words to capitalize, when to use italics, how to write out numbers and when to use figures instead, which words can be abbreviated and how to do that, and what rules you can use for spelling correctly. VI. Multilingual Speakers (ESL) For students whose first language is not English this section includes a discussion of American style of writing and a list of resources for learning English. There are also explanations of English verbs, count and noncount nouns, articles, prepositions, words that should not be repeated or omitted, and idioms. VII. Research Here you'll find extensive help with moving through process of planning, researching, writing, and revising research papers. There is also advice and information about using libraries; going online to find, evaluate, and document information; using search engines, avoiding plagiarism; and designing effective documents (by preparing papers appropriately and by using visuals).  The ""Research"" section offers advice on choosing a topic, finding information, using the library, evaluating and integrating sources into your paper, and avoiding plagiarism. This section will also help you use search engines efficiently, locate useful resources, find Web addresses to lead you to useful starting places, and follow guidelines for document design. VIII. Documentation This section includes information on how to document sources in MLA, APA, Chicago Manual of Style, and Council of Science Editors style. There is also an extensive list of style manuals in various fields and sources for writing in various fields.   I hope that you find this book easy to use and that it becomes a writing friend that you keep nearby as you write. Then you'll be more confident that you are writing correctly and effectively and are conveying  your ideas in ways that others will appreciate and respect. Muriel Harris       Question and Correct When you don't know the term you need to look up or don't know where to locate the information you're looking for, find a question here that is similar to yours.  The question then indicates where to turn in the book for your answers. Each major section of the book also has more questions to guide you to the right chapter or pages. WRITING  What are some reminders and writing tips to keep in mind as I write? 1 a  How do I write a good argument? 1a  What should I look for when I revise? 1a  What do I look for when I proofread? 1b  How useful is a spell checker? 1c   How do I plan a speech or a presentation with visuals? 1d More questions about writing and revising papers and oral presentations:  pp.xx-xx.  SENTENCE CHOICES  How do I make my sentences clearer and easier to read? 2  What's wrong with ""The utilization of. . . . "" or ""Her activation of the engine   is . . . ."" 2d  Are phrases like ""It is a fact that..."" OK to use? 3    How can I make my writing less choppy? 4, 9  What is passive voice? 7  How do I fix sentences such as  ""He knows how to speak Spanish and   fixing computers""? 8    Can I start sentences with ""And"" or ""But""?  9  Can I write ""Everyone . . . his""? 10 More questions about choices when writing sentences:  pp.xx-xx.  SENTENCE GRAMMAR  What's wrong with the following?   ""I'm a vegetarian. Because I don't want   to eat animals.""  Why is it a fragment? 11  How should verb endings and subjects match? 13  Which is correct? -Between you and (I/me) . . . . 14a  When do I use ""who"" or ""whom"" and ""we"" or ""us""? 14a  Are these phrases correct? -""real bad,"" ""talk loud"" 15  What's wrong with writing ""She is so happy""? 15  Where in the sentence should I put words like ""almost"" and ""only""? 16b More questions about sentence grammar  pp.xx-xx. PUNCTUATION  What are most of the ways sentences are punctuated? 18  When do I use commas around a group of words? 19d  Where do the commas go in a list like ""red, white and blue""? 19d  How do I punctuate dates and addresses? 19g  How do I punctuate quotations? 19h, 22a, 22d  When am I using too many commas? 19i  Which is correct: ""Well-known speaker"" or ""well known speaker""? 23a  What's the difference between ""its"" and ""it's""? 20b  Are these apostrophes correct?  ""his' car"" and ""the melon's are ripe""?      14a, 20d  How do I show left-out words in a quotation? 23h More questions about punctuation:  pp. xx-xx. MECHANICS   Which is correct?   -spring semester  (or)  Spring semester 24a -April 1 (or) April first 26 -6 million (or) 6,000,000 26,27c -The data is... (or) The data are... 28a  Do I write ""your"" or ""you're""?  28b More questions about mechanics: pp. xx MULTILINGUAL (ESL)  How is academic writing in American English different  from academic writing in my country? 29  What is the difference between ""he ran"" and ""he has run""? 30  Which is correct? -She enjoys (to drink/drinking) coffee. 30d -two furnitures (or) some furniture 31  When do I use ""the"", ""a"" and ""an""? 32  Do I write ""in Tuesday"" or ""on Tuesday""? 33 More questions for multilingual speakers: pp. xx RESEARCH  How do I start a library search for information? 36b  How do...	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;humanities;literature;new;reference;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing;writing skills,11
193118206X,"Java for RPG Programmers, 2nd Edition George N. Farr is the technical development manager for RPG IV as well as VisualAge for RPG products. He has held the position of developer, team leader, and development manager, and has been an AS/400 planner and architect since 1985. He is a frequent speaker at AS/400 conferences and user groups worldwide and has written many industry magazine articles and books including ILE: A First Look and RPG IV by Example. He currently resides in Toronto, Canada. Phil Coulthard is the lead architect for AS/400 application development projects at the IBM Toronto Laboratory. He has worked as a developer, team leader, manager, and general advocate of AS/400 application developments since 1986. An author of many industry magazine articles and a frequent speaker at AS/400 conferences, Phil currently resides in Aurora, Ontario.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;java;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;rpg;used & rental textbooks,11
0807046604,"Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture Drawing on research, interviews, observations of ROTC training programs and seven years of experience teaching at the Naval Academy, Burke vividly describes how basic training breaks down new recruits former identities and instills military discipline. Shaving recruits heads, issuing new clothing, forbidding them any of the freedoms of civilian life and depriving them of sleep are just parts of the process. Any weakness on the part of trainees is dealt with, Burke says, by comparing them negatively to homosexuals and women. Burke, a folklorist and English professor who now teaches at the Univ. of California, Irvine, has previously analyzed the lives of rural women and those of inmates (Vision Narratives of Women in Prison). With regard to the militarys use of gender, she relates numerous informal and brutal initiation rites that are marked by unacknowledged homoeroticism, coupled with humiliation. According to the author, military hazing rituals have led to, at best, the marginalization of female recruits and, at worst, to incidents of sexual aggression towards women (a la the Tailhook scandal)-and now, some will argue, toward prisoners. Burke reads what she says is the institutionalized hatred of Vietnam anti-war activist Jane Fonda as a militarized myth of ""the seductive woman who turns out to be a snake."" She argues that the macho culture of the military is not only unjust, but will be irrelevant in a future where brute force will not be the primary military need. While Burke focuses on what she sees as weaknesses of military culture, she delivers her findings in an even tone, and with accessible examples, including a debunking of the mythic elements of Jessica Lynchs captivity narrative.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Carol Burke is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine. The author of five books, her work as a folklorist ranges from explorations of the folk life of rural Midwestern families to the penal system to the modern military. She lives in Irvine, California.From the Trade Paperback edition.",anthropology;books;cultural;history;military;military science;politics & social sciences;social sciences;women in history;women's studies;world,11
1587680084,"Boston and New England: A Guide to Sacred Sites and Peaceful Places (Spiritual Traveler) Part history and part travel guide, this book provides a fascinating look at both past and present as it describes churches, synagogues and other religious sites throughout New England. Beginning with an overview of the various religions and their sanctuaries, Riess, PW's religion book review editor, describes various houses of worship and their unique features. For example, the shape of a church is related to the congregation's beliefs; a round church was a place where Christians of various denominations would be welcome. In addition to the churches for which New England is best known, Riess also includes synagogues such as Newport's Touro Synagogue, as well as Buddhist, Russian Orthodox and other temples. In addition to standard travel guide fare such as hours, location and nearby attractions, there are ""focus boxes"" that offer interesting definitions or information. Riess's writing is always direct and particularly vibrant when she's offering a historical perspective-perhaps not surprising since she holds a doctorate in American religious history. She explains the origins of Thanksgiving: ""...it's not quite the case that Thanksgiving immediately sprang into fame as a new American holiday.... In the late eighteenth century, George Washington tried to institute Thanksgiving as a late-November holiday, but Thomas Jefferson thought this smacked of `kingly' arrogance and abolished the official practice when he became president."" Anyone with spiritual interests who lives in or plans to visit New England will benefit from this smart and useful book.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	A more thorough guide to sacred places is hard to imagine....indispensable... -- The Cape Cod TimesAnyone with spiritual interests who plans to visit New England will benefit from this smart and useful book. -- Publishers WeeklyTravelers looking for getaways that soothe the soul have a new guide that seems perfect for troubled times. -- Philadelphia Inquirer	Jana Riess is the religion book review editor for Publishers Weekly. She holds a Ph.D. in American religious history from Columbia University and a M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. She did her undergraduate work at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and has lived in various places throughout New England.",books;boston;massachusetts;new england;northeast;religion & spirituality;specialty travel;spirituality;tourist destinations & museums;travel;united states,11
052133814X,"The Ecology of Fire (Cambridge Studies in Ecology) ""The book provides a thorough analysis of the ecology of fire, illustrating principles from a wide range of fire-affected habitats...""   Peter D. Moore, Nature""...I would give this book a rating of excellent...The book succeeds in reviewing a complex topic and conveying that complexity in a readable way.""   Ecoscience""It is well written and authoritative, with good illustrations...The book will appeal to a broad spectruem of students, professional natural resource managers, plant and animal ecologists, and researchers. Strongly recommended.""   M.J. Zwolinski, Choice""This is a highly readable book that provides an excellent introduction to ecology of plants and animals in relation to fire, and will, hopefully, stimulate interest in interdisciplinary experimental fire research.""   Forest Science""This book aims to summarize and critique the state of research in fire ecology, world-wide.  It succeeds surprisingly well for so small a book and so large a goal...well organized and written clearly...it surveys current thought in the field, presenting not only what is already known but also what seems possible to learn. The book's saturation with data makes it an excellent text for courses in fire ecology.""   Jane Kapler Smith, Ecology""An exciting aspect of Whelan's book is that one can read about the responses of plants and animals to grassland, shrubland, and forest fires from different regions worldwide in the same chapter...A variety of readers will find this book highly relevant and valuable.  In particular, those embarking on research in fire ecology will find much useful advice...many will appreciate the comparison of fire in different systems.""    Kathleen Doyle, Natural Areas Journal""RThe Ecology of Fire goes a long way toward establishing a firm scientific base for the development of future fire ecology.""    William J. Platt, American Scientist	Drawing on examples from several continents, this text studies the ecological impact of fires on individual organisms, populations and communities.  It summarizes the major aspects of ecology that are of particular importance to fire control--protection against wildfires as well as fire as a management tool.",biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;earth sciences;ecology;natural disasters;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,11
0399529136,"The Family Manager Takes Charge: Getting on the Fast Track to a Happy, Organized Home ""Every woman who runs a home should call themselves a Family Manager."" -Oprah Winfrey	Kathy Peel is the bestselling author of fifteen books. In addition to being the founder and president of Family Manager, Kathy is a contributing editor to Family Circle magazine and also writes regularly for many other publications. She has appeared numerous times on national television programs, including Oprah, Good Morning America, The Today Show, and CNN's, Daybreak.",books;business & investing;crafts;education & reference;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;how-to & home improvements;parenting & relationships;reference;skills;time management,11
0972682767,"Turbo Mnemonics for the Boards 2005-2006! Over 400 Memory AIDS to the Most Commonly Asked Material on the USMLE Clinical Steps and Internal Medicine Boards Just one of the hidden treasures in Frontrunners' arsenal of board review products, this exam review, covering over 400 memory aids and shortcuts, is a one-of-a-kind review that will win you plenty of points on the medicine components of the USMLE Step 2 & 3 as well as for the INTERNAL MEDICINE BOARDS. Equally important, Turbo Mnemonics for the Boards 2008 will also help you lock-in everything you thought you learned. And hey, it's just plain fun and will make you look like a star every day on rounds, whether you're a med student, resident, or attending.  Frontrunners' When all you wanna know is what you GOTTA know! reflects their realistic philosophy toward medicine in cert and recert exams & USMLE each year. So if you're at all serious about excelling on your boards, you'll definitely want to checkout the Q COMPONENT of Frontrunners Internal Medicine Board Review curriculum.  OTHER KEY COMPONENTS TO ENSURE YOU PASS YOUR MEDICINE BOARDS INCLUDE: 1) FRONTRUNNERS INTERNAL MEDICINE BOARD REVIEW SYLLABUS !, a must if you're serious about passing your I.M. boards 2) FRONTRUNNERS 2008 INTERNAL MEDICINE Q REVIEW: Syllabus Companion for Board Review, AND featuring over 1300 of the most realistic Q prep anywhere! 3) SLIDE SHOWS on CD FOR THE MEDICINE BOARDS, featuring all the key images you'll have to know before going into your exam, in full-color, fully legended, and beautifully presented; straight out of the Weekend Marathon Review! 4) FRONTRUNNERS AUDIO CD SYLLABUS (17 digitally-mastered audio CDs covering 18 hours of review, precisely as presented in our Internal Medicine Board Review); and finally 5) WEEKEND MARATHON REVIEW Course, offered each early August. 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As always, materials ship out within 24 hours to arrive anywhere in the country within 2-3 business days. --	FROM THE PUBLISHER:Just one of the hidden treasures in Frontrunners' arsenal of board review products, this exam review, covering over 400 memory aids and shortcuts, is a one-of-a-kind review that will win you plenty of points on the medicine components of the USMLE Step 2 & 3 as well as for the INTERNAL MEDICINE BOARDS. Equally important, Turbo Mnemonics for the Boards will also help you lock-in everything you thought you learned. And hey, it's just plain fun and will make you look like a star every day on rounds, whether you're a med student, resident, or attending.   Frontrunners'  When all you wanna know is what you GOTTA know! reflects their realistic philosophy toward medicine in cert and recert exams & USMLE each year. So if you're at all serious about excelling on your boards, you'll definitely want to checkout the Q COMPONENT of Frontrunners Internal Medicine Board Review curriculum.    OTHER KEY COMPONENTS TO ENSURE YOU PASS YOUR MEDICINE BOARDS INCLUDE:1) FRONTRUNNERS INTERNAL MEDICINE BOARD REVIEW SYLLABUS !, a must if you're serious about passing your I.M. boards2) FRONTRUNNERS  INTERNAL MEDICINE Q REVIEW: Syllabus Companion for Board Review, AND featuring over 1300 of the most realistic Q prep anywhere!3) SLIDE SHOWS  on CD FOR THE MEDICINE BOARDS, featuring all the key images you'll have to know before going into your exam, in full-color, fully-legended, and beautifully-presented; straight out of the Weekend Marathon Review!4) FRONTRUNNERS AUDIO CD SYLLABUS (17 digitally-mastered audio CDs covering 18 hours of review, precisely as presented in our Internal Medicine Board Review); and finally...5) WEEKEND MARATHON REVIEW Course, offered each early August. 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He loves the challenge of keeping you on top of the game. Dr Mittman's genuine enthusiasm and joy in teaching, combined with his ability to share both his knowledge and unique perspective on education with others, brought him to found Frontrunners Board Review, which focuses exclusively on preparing residents and practicing internists for the key national board exams. In his roles as academic director and chief instructor , Dr. Mittman s energetic and no-nonsense approach toward teaching fellow physicians how to win the game, or pass the exam, through the use of a solid core of knowledge, mnemonics, concept links, and other innovative techniques have won him critical acclaim as a unique and savvy physician educator and have brought his books and CDs into the national limelight.",books;clinical;education & training;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;reference;test preparation & review;used & rental textbooks,11
1585443247,"Lone Star Chapters: The Story of Texas Literary Clubs (Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities) An exceptionally well-researched study of the role of literary clubs in the development of Texas literature in the first half of the twentieth century.--Tom Pilkington, Tarleton State University (Tom Pilkington, Tarleton State University )	Betty Holland Wiesepape teaches creative writing along with Southern and Southwestern literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. More than a dozen of her short stories and creative nonfiction compositions have been published, several included in anthologies.",americas;books;classics;criticism & theory;historical study & educational resources;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;social history;state & local;united states,11
0133075052,Fast Fourier Transform and Its Applications This book addresses the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) from the definition of this powerful analytic tool for signal processing through to applications.,books;electrical & electronic engineering;electrical & electronics;engineering;mathematics;new;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;telecommunications;used & rental textbooks,11
0719050642,The Theory of Inspiration: Composition As a Crisis of Subjectivity in Romantic and Post-Romantic Writing Timothy Clark is Reader in English at the University of Durham.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.,books;criticism & theory;gothic & romantic;history & criticism;humanities;literary theory;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;used & rental textbooks,11
0130352802,"Contemporary Logistics, Eighth Edition Richly supplemented with real-world case studies, this easy-to-read text describes the entire supply channel system, from inbound movement of freight through materials management to physical distribution to customers. Extensively revised and updated, it highlights topics that affect logistics channels management, including customer service, packaging, inventory management, traffic management and creating ""value-added"" linkages in the supply chain.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	Using real-world case studies throughout, this exploration of contemporary logistics describes the entire supply channel system  from inbound movement of freight through materials management to physical distribution to customers. State-of-the-art in perspective, it highlights topics that affect logistics channels management  including customer service, packaging, inventory management, traffic management and creating value-added linkages in the supply chain.  The authors provide an overview of logistics, elements of logistics systems including order management and customer service, protective packaging and materials handling, domestic  and industrial transportation management, inventory, warehousing and supply management, analyzing, designing, and implementing a logistics system.  For individuals interested in contemporary logistics.	This eighth edition of Contemporary Logistics reflects a global landscape vastly different from when the previous edition appeared in 1999. Today's organizations operate in an environment that is influenced by the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001, threats of war and possible nuclear war, a worldwide economic slowdown, and the ethical meltdowns of multinational companies such as Ahold, Enron and WorldCom. While these and other events have resulted in increased challenges for logistics managers, the logistics discipline still remains fun, exciting, and dynamic, and these characteristics are reflected in our revision.    The reader will find additions, deletions, and modifications of content that reflect reviewer comments, student comments, and the authors' workplace, consulting, and research experiences. One of the most prominent changes in the eighth edition involves a greater discussion of supply chains and supply-chain management. These modifications reflect the growing importance of supply chains in recent years, as well as recognition that logistics is a major component of the supply-chain process. To this end, Chapter 1 has a new title, ""Logistics and the Supply Chain,"" and Chapter 2, ""The Supply-Chain Concept,"" has been substantially revised. Moreover, a new chapter, ""Supply Management"" (Chapter 11), has been added to reflect upstream supply-chain considerations.    The new edition is also characterized by expanded discussions of information technology. For example, Chapter 3, ""Logistics and Information Technology,"" is new to this edition and reflects information's critical role in contemporary logistics management. Moreover, this edilion contains numerous examples of the Internet's growing influence on logistics and supplychain management, including order management, transportation, and customer service.    We have changed about 20 percent of the end-of-chapter cases in this edition, with a particular focus on increasing their international flavor, as can be seen in Case 8-1, ""Aero Marine Logistics."" Some figures and tables are also new to this edition. One feature that we continue to provide is cartoons, which highlight the humorous aspects of logistics.    The current edition of Contemporary Logistics has been prepared by two coauthors, Paul Murphy and Don Wood. We gratefully acknowledge the substantial contributions that both James C. Johnson and Daniel L. Wardlow made to earlier editions.    It is with profound sadness that the work and passion of Don Wood are acknowledged. Don passed away unexpectedly and late in the production process fox the eighth edition. He loved both the logistics discipline and the teaching profession, and each edition of Contemporary Logistics has represented his contributionsand his legacyto both constituencies. Don was a husband, a father, and a grandfather; he was an educator, a scholar, and a friend. He was a kind and thoughtful person who possessed a terrific sense of humor. Don, we'll miss you.",books;business & finance;business & investing;distribution & warehouse management;management;management & leadership;marketing;marketing & sales;new;popular economics;used & rental textbooks,11
0679643095,"Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet (Modern Library Food) Gourmet magazine has been delivering tasty reports on France's restaurants and cuisine to Americans ever since the end of World War II. This anthology collects the magazine's best essays, which document Paris's transformation over the years, and includes descriptions of such momentous events as the demise of the market at Les Halles and the development of nouvelle cuisine. The selection is heavy on Joseph Wechsberg, a frequent contributor during the '70s, and on Naomi Barry, the magazine's first resident correspondent, but it also includes the work of Michael Lewis and Diane Johnson. The book covers everything from chocolate shops to legendary restaurants to instructions on how to make a perfect cassoulet. And it's not just food writing-there are also pieces on haute couture, flower markets and Paris icon Alice B. Toklas, making this is a charming, nostalgic collection for francophiles of all stripes.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Praise for Remembrance of Things Paris:With selections from the last six decades, this book gives the reader snapshots of Paris that are crisp, clear, and often poignant, proof that things really have changed in the temple of food. The cameos of the sleeves-rolled-up individuals behind the big namesincluding Berthillon and Lentreread like fiction and remind us of a fundamental truth: creating magic in the kitchen is hard work, and the French have been at it far longer than others. An entrancing book.Thad Carhart, New York Times-bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank	A glorious, edible tour of Paris through six decades of writing from Gourmet magazine, edited and introduced by Ruth ReichlFor sixty years the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to Gourmet. Collected here for the first time, their essays create a unique and timeless portrait of the world capital of love and food. When the book begins, just after the war, we are in a hungry city whose chefs struggle to find the eggs and cream they need to re-create the cuisine from before the German occupation. We watch as Paris comes alive again with zinc-topped tables crowded with people drinking caf au lait and reveling in crisp baguettes, and the triumphant rebirth of three-star cuisine. In time, nouvelle cuisine is born and sweeps through a newly chic and modern city. It is all here: the old-time bourgeois dinners, the tastemakers of the fashion world, the hero-chefs, and, of course, Paris in all its snobbery and refinement, its inimitable pursuit of the art of fine living. Beautifully written, these dispatches from the past are intimate and immediate, allowing us to watch the month-by-month changes in the world?s most wonderful city. Remembrance of Things Paris is a book for anyone who wants to return to a Paris where a buttery madeleine is waiting around every corner.Contributors include Louis Diat, Naomi Barry, Joseph Wechsberg, Judith and Evan Jones, Don Dresden, Lillian Langseth-Christensen, Diane Johnson, Michael Lewis, and Jonathan Gold.	RUTH REICHL is the editor in chief of Gourmet magazine and the editor of the Modern Library Food series. She is the author of the bestselling memoirs Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples. She has been the chief restaurant critic of the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. She lives in New York City.	Paris in the Twenties Irene Corbally KuhnThe year was 1921. The month was May. The city was Paris. And I  had just bought a new hat that I remember to this day: an exquisite, wide-brimmed straw hat trimmed with an enormous silk violet. I was about to start work as fashion editor, general reporter, and the only woman on the ten-member staff of the four-year-old Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune.The world had passed through the long darkness of the war to end all wars and was more than ready for the frenzied gaiety and brief brilliance of the roaring twenties. Paris was packed with Americansand, for the most part, the French were happy to have us. Artists, writers, composers, dilettantes, bankers, businessmen, army officers, diplomats, and journalists, we had little in common beyond a passion for Paris and tended to travel in separate circles that only occasionally intersected. The journalists were a most clannish group. We did not mix with the literati, which is to say the Americans who came to Paris to write novels. We were, however, most gregarious and mixed with everyone else, because a story could come from anywhere. And frequently it did.The Paris Chicago Tribune was one of the two principal English- language daily newspapers published there through the 1920s. The other was the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune. Although their names were similar they had little else in common. The Paris Chicago Tribune, known as the Trib, was a grubby gamin compared with that sober, prosperous burgher, the Paris Herald Tribune, known  as the Herald, and whereas the competition between the two was friendly, it was often fierce. The Herald had been around a long time; the Trib was a brash newcomer, founded to keep the troops of the American Expeditionary Forces stationed in France during World War I in touch with news from home.The Herald had editorial offices; the Trib was put out from a single, dingy room on the upper floor of a building on the rue Lamartinean unremarkable street running off the rue Lafayette on the Right Bank. There were no desks, merely scarred, battered plank tables to support the decrepit typewriters, of which there were never enough to go around. Rickety chairs, a Telex machine, a few telephones, and a half dozen or so naked lightbulbs dangling from a painted-tin ceiling completed the dcor. A few of the bulbs were covered with makeshift shades fashioned from newsprint, alarmingly charred. This inelegant space was rented from Le Petit Journal as were the presses and the services of its boisterous Montmartre compositors, who spoke a baffling patois that took months to master. More significant than any of these details, however, was the fact that the building housing the Tribs editorial room backed onto the same courtyard as a cheerful, rowdy bistro. Arrangements had long since been made for buckets of cool, foaming beer to be conveyed by means of a rope from the courtyard to the editorial room to speed the flow of copy on a hot summers night.One unique and irreplaceable advantage that the Trib enjoyed over the Herald, though, was the editorial and reportorial talents of Floyd Gibbons, who was the European manager for the Chicago Tribune Company. Gibbons was even then legendary, the quintessential foreign correspondent, a handsome man with a huge sense of adventure, unlimited daring, and great personal courage. He had become a legend for his colorful reporting from the Mexican border war of 1916 and later embellished the legend when he sailed to England in February 1917 aboard the Cunard passenger liner Laconia. The ship was torpedoed off the Irish coast and sank almost immediately. After a night spent in a lifeboat Gibbons and the other survivors were rescued, and half an hour after landing in Liverpool Gibbons was in a telegraph office cabling the dramatic story to his editor in Chicago. It is no wonder he was as much a hero to his fellow correspondents as he was to the public. Later he was to lose an eye while covering the battle of Belleau Wood in World War I, and the white eyepatch he wore from then on became his trademark.Although Gibbons was off on assignment in Russia the day I showed up with a letter of introduction from my former editor in New York, we subsequently became lifelong friends. I was hired anyway by his deputy, who took me on to replace the Tribs fashion editor, Rosemary Carr. She was leaving to return home to marry a promising young poet, Stephen Vincent Bent. My salary was fifteen hundred francs a month, or about ninety dollars at the then prevailing rate of exchange. It was scarcely a fortune, but Paris in those days was accommodating to the impecunious young.Even though I had always loved clothes and followed fashion, haute couture was something I had to learn about in a hurry. But, as with many professions, I shortly found that familiarity bred assurance. Most of the great couture houses, eager for publicity among Americans, gave me ready access to their workrooms and showrooms, where, almost by osmosis, I learned the workings of the trade and its terminology. Some even lent me finery to wear on special assignments as when, turned out by Patou, I reported on the activities of the first week of the season in Deauville. Others, like Worth and Chanel, habitually gave generous discounts to fashion writers, a practice that worked no hardship on them as there were so few of us then.My wardrobe was a matter of some moment in my general reporting as well, because one of my principal tasks was to keep track of arrivals at hotels like the Ritz, the Crillon, the George V, and the Meurice. Never mind that I lived in a garret room in a tiny Left Bank hotel myself; dressed in my designer best, I could command any of those opulent lobbies.For sheer elegance and stylishness its hard to imagine what could ever equal that small segment of Paris that became my regular beat and daily delight. It included the honey-colored stone colonnades  of the marvelously proportioned seventeenth-century Palais-Royal, where Id sometimes steal a few minutes to wander through the tranquil inner gardens. Next came the imposing classical faade of the Church of the Madeleine, where I one day discovered, in a niche on an outer wall, a beheaded statue of Saint Luc, a victim of the Ger- man bombardment a few years earlier. Then there was the gorgeous nineteenth-century exuberance of the Opra; and finally the peaceful, unpretentious pleasures of the Garden of the Tuileries.My surveillance of the grand hotels was, more often than not, an unmomentous routine devised principally to fill a column headed Americans in Paris. But not infrequently the routine could become exciting, as when I was dispatched to interview Charlie Chaplin. Because the weather was glorious and his morning was free, we strolled the length of the Champs-lyses together, and I caught glimpses of the shy, gentle spirit of the man who was known as the greatest comedian of his day.It was another story when Peggy Hopkins Joyce took up residence at the Ritz while she selected her next seasons wardrobe. A striking, natural blonde, Peggy was famous for being famous. She had shot to celebrity as a show girl and shortly thereafter began to enjoy a long and successful career as a courtesan. Not only diamonds but sapphires, emeralds, and rubies were all her best friends. And furs. And clothes. And a shrewdly chosen investment portfolio. It was the mark of a successful man to be seen in her company, and her salon was  the world of the wealthy. Had she lived in Louis XVs day, she undoubtedly would have given Madame de Pompadour real competition as the royal favorite. Like Pompadour, she was intelligent, capable, discreet, and a wonderfully entertaining companion. Warm, generous, and naturally gracious, she was secure in her chosen calling and counted almost as many women as men among her friends. The French found her enchanting, as I discovered when she invited me to dine with her and her latest conquesta French industrialist who was a regular patron of the Tour dArgent. There, at a window table, we drank Champagne and watched the long blue twilight gently mantle the magnificent south front of Notre-Dame just opposite, a sight so achingly lovely I scarcely tasted the food.And that was a pity because the likes of the Tour dArgent, the Grand Vfour, and Lasserre, for example, were seldom accessible to newsmen and newswomen living from one undernourished salary check to the next. We were more likely to seek out the bistros frequented by taxi drivers (an estimably knowledgeable group about food as about much else) or the small, family-run restaurants where provincial food of every variety flourished and where one could often find a delicious locally produced wine available nowhere else. In memory, the food was sublimely and universally good, the coffee unvaryingly poisonous.Then, of course, there were the cafs, some of which not only still exist but continue as centers for the same clientele. For Paris is a place where habit dominates perhaps more than in any other major metropolis. Montparnasse has been the haunt of artists forever. Now, as in my day, Le Slect, La Coupole, and Le Dme, all arrayed near one another along the boulevard du Montparnasse as it cuts through the short streets and hidden squares of the Left Bank, attract the young and struggling equally with the established and prosperous among artists.The literary set favored Saint-Germain-des-Prs, and their cafs, then as now, were Le Flore and Les Deux Magots, with the brasserie Lipp a distant third. Here, if one cared to, one could find from time to time not only Hemingway and the Fitzgeralds but a range of young American literary talent one is less likely to associate with Paris in the twenties: the poets Archibald MacLeish, Hart Crane, and e. e. cummings; the novelists John Dos Passos ...",books;cookbooks;essays;european;food & wine;french;gastronomy;general;reference;regional & international;travel,11
0892814438,"The Perfumed Garden An explicit, but also consummately witty and graceful celebration of erotica. (Libido )The Park Street Press edition is the first illustrated reproduction of Burton's original translation. Buy it. Read it. Enjoy it. The Victorians did, even if they claimed they didn't. You won't be disappointed. (Ben Trumble, Whole Earth Review )	Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) was one of the greatest traveler-explorers of history, whose life has recently been chronicled both in biography (Captain Sir Richard Burton) and film (Mountains of the Moon).",books;erotica;fairy tales;folklore;literature & fiction;mysticism;mythology & folk tales;new age;religion & spirituality;self-help;sex,11
0198218834,"Knights and Esquires: The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century (Oxford Historical Monographs) ""A very valuable contribution to our understanding of late medieval English society in general.""--History""A major, in ways pioneering, contribution to the history of the lesser nobility.""--American Historical Review	Nigel Saul, Royal Holloway, University of London.",books;england;europe;history;humanities;medieval;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,11
0201703297,"Java Card¿ Technology for Smart Cards: Architecture and Programmer's Guide Audience for This Book  Java Card technology combines a subset of the Java programming language with a runtime environment optimized for smart cards and other memory-constrained devices. This book is intended for a wide technical audience with different needs of understanding Java Card technology.    First and foremost, it is written for Java Card applet developers. You will find a smart card tutorial, in-depth discussions on various Java Card features, helpful programming tips for applet development, and the reference to the Java Card APIs.    Second, this book is supplementary reading for Java Card platform implementors. It provides further discussion of many topics in the Java Card specifications and includes code examples to clarify those topics.   Third, this book is useful for technical managers or anyone who wants to gain an overall understanding of Java Card technology. In particular, the first three chapters are introductions to orient you within the technology from both a technical and marketing point of view.    Throughout this book, I assume that readers are familiar with the fundamentals of the Java language. For those who want to learn more about the Java language, the book by Arnold and Gosling is a good resource.  Organization of This Book  This book is written in a bottom-up fashion. Each chapter was a step to the next one, so it is best if you read the chapters in order.   Part 1: IntroductionChapter 1 introduces smart cards and Java Card technologyhistory, benefits, and applications.   Chapter 2 discusses smart card basics as a foundation for exploring the rest of the book.  Part 2: Java Card TechnologyChapter 3 gives an overview of Java Card technologythe system architecture and its components.   Chapter 4 discusses the properties and the behavior of persistent and transient objects in the Java Card platform and how to create and use those objects.   Chapter 5 explains what atomicity means in the Java Card platform and how to develop an applet using transactions to protect data integrity.   Chapter 6 discusses exceptions in the Java Card platform and how applets throw and handle exceptions.   Chapter 7 explains how applets run within the JCRE and demonstrates the techniques of applet writing.Chapter 8 describes the techniques of handling APDUs in an applet.Chapter 9 explains the behavior of objects, exceptions, and applets under the control of the applet firewall and discusses how applets can safely share data using object sharing mechanisms.   Chapter 10 first introduces many important cryptographic concepts and algorithms. It then outlines the cryptographic APIs in the Java Card platform and demonstrates how to use these APIs through code examples.   Chapter 11 describes the security features in the Java Card platform and discusses how these security features are enforced through a variety of mechanisms. Along with the discussion, this chapter summarizes the topics covered in Part 2.   Part 3: Programming Guide and TipsChapter 12 walks you through a step-by-step process of creating a simple electronic wallet applet.Chapter 13 provides a number of recommendations for optimizing applets. In many cases, a discussion is provided with the recommendation to help you understand various design trade-offs.   Chapter 14 discusses issues related to using the int data type when writing Java Card applets.  Part 4: AppendicesAppendix A describes the subset of the Java programming language that is supported in the Java Card platform.   Appendix B provides a comprehensive reference to the Java Card 2.1 APIs.  The Version Covered in This Book  This book is based on Java Card version 2.1, the latest release when the book was written. At the meantime, the next version 2.1.1 is underway. Version 2.1.1 will include minor enhancement updates to version 2.1. The contents and techniques covered in the book will continue to be relevant to future Java Card releases, and new things will be incorporated in future editions of this book.0201703297P04062001	Java Card technology provides a secure, vendor-independent, ubiquitous Java platform for smart cards and other memory constrained devices. It opens the smart card marketplace to third-party application development and enables programmers to develop smart card applications for a wide variety of vendors' products.    This book is the comprehensive guide to developing applications with Java Card technology. It introduces you to the Java Card platform and features detailed discussions of programming concepts. It also provides a step-by-step Java Card applet development guide to get you up and running.    Specific topics covered include:   Smart card basics  Java Card virtual machine  Persistent and transient objects  Atomicity and transactions  Handling APDUs  Applet firewall and object sharing  Java Card platform security  A step-by-step applet development guide  Applet optimization guidelines  A comprehensive reference to Java Card APIs    With Java Card technology, smart card programming will finally enter the mainstream of application development.  This book provides the authoritative and practical information you need to enter this rapidly growing arena.     0201703297B04062001	Zhiqun Chen is on the engineering team that designed and implemented Java Card APIs and is currently working on Sun's Java Card virtual machine reference implementation.  She has extensive experience writing financial applets with Java Card technology and was involved in developing Open Platform card applications, Mondex terminal, and server applications for Java Electronic Commerce Framework.             0201703297AB04062001	Preface Audience for This Book Java Card(tm) technology combines a subset of the Java programming language with a runtime environment optimized for smart cards and other memory-constrained devices. This book is intended for a wide technical audience with different needs of understanding Java Card technology.  First and foremost, it is written for Java Card applet developers. You will find a smart card tutorial, in-depth discussions on various Java Card features, helpful programming tips for applet development, and the reference to the Java Card APIs.  Second, this book is supplementary reading for Java Card platform implementors. It provides further discussion of many topics in the Java Card specifications and includes code examples to clarify those topics.  Third, this book is useful for technical managers or anyone who wants to gain an overall understanding of Java Card technology. In particular, the first three chapters are introductions to orient you within the technology from both a technical and marketing point of view.  Throughout this book, I assume that readers are familiar with the fundamentals of the Java language. For those who want to learn more about the Java language, the book by Arnold and Gosling is a good resource.  Organization of This Book This book is written in a bottom-up fashion. Each chapter was a step to the next one, so it is best if you read the chapters in order.  Part 1: Introduction Chapter 1 introduces smart cards and Java Card technology-history, benefits, and applications.  Chapter 2 discusses smart card basics as a foundation for exploring the rest of the book.  Part 2: Java Card Technology Chapter 3 gives an overview of Java Card technology-the system architecture and its components.  Chapter 4 discusses the properties and the behavior of persistent and transient objects in the Java Card platform and how to create and use those objects.  Chapter 5 explains what atomicity means in the Java Card platform and how to develop an applet using transactions to protect data integrity.  Chapter 6 discusses exceptions in the Java Card platform and how applets throw and handle exceptions.  Chapter 7 explains how applets run within the JCRE and demonstrates the techniques of applet writing.  Chapter 8 describes the techniques of handling APDUs in an applet.  Chapter 9 explains the behavior of objects, exceptions, and applets under the control of the applet firewall and discusses how applets can safely share data using object sharing mechanisms.  Chapter 10 first introduces many important cryptographic concepts and algorithms. It then outlines the cryptographic APIs in the Java Card platform and demonstrates how to use these APIs through code examples.  Chapter 11 describes the security features in the Java Card platform and discusses how these security features are enforced through a variety of mechanisms. Along with the discussion, this chapter summarizes the topics covered in Part 2.  Part 3: Programming Guide and Tips Chapter 12 walks you through a step-by-step process of creating a simple electronic wallet applet.  Chapter 13 provides a number of recommendations for optimizing applets. In many cases, a discussion is provided with the recommendation to help you understand various design trade-offs.  Chapter 14 discusses issues related to using the int data type when writing Java Card applets.  Part 4: Appendices Appendix A describes the subset of the Java programming language that is supported in the Java Card platform.  Appendix B provides a comprehensive reference to the Java Card 2.1 APIs.  The Version Covered in This Book This book is based on Java Card version 2.1, the latest release when the book was written. At the meantime, the next version 2.1.1 is underway. Version 2.1.1 will include minor enhancement updates to version 2.1. The contents and techniques covered in the book will continue to be relevant to future Java Card releases, and new things will be incorporated in future editions of this book.  Retrieving Additional Information On-line You can get the latest on Java Card technology or the latest Java Card development kit from the Java Card web site at http://java.sun.com/products/javacard. For updated information about this book, visit http://java.sun.com/books/series/javacard.	Audience for This Book  Java Card technology combines a subset of the Java programming language with a runtime environment optimized for smart cards and other memory-constrained devices. This book is intended for a wide technical audience with different needs of understanding Java Card technology.    First and foremost, it is written for Java Card applet developers. You will find a smart card tutorial, in-depth discussions on various Java Card features, helpful programming tips for applet development, and the reference to the Java Card APIs.    Second, this book is supplementary reading for Java Card platform implementors. It provides further discussion of many topics in the Java Card specifications and includes code examples to clarify those topics.   Third, this book is useful for technical managers or anyone who wants to gain an overall understanding of Java Card technology. In particular, the first three chapters are introductions to orient you within the technology from both a technical and marketing point of view.    Throughout this book, I assume that readers are familiar with the fundamentals of the Java language. For those who want to learn more about the Java language, the book by Arnold and Gosling is a good resource.  Organization of This Book  This book is written in a bottom-up fashion. Each chapter was a step to the next one, so it is best if you read the chapters in order.    Part 1: Introduction    Chapter 1 introduces smart cards and Java Card technologyhistory, benefits, and applications.   Chapter 2 discusses smart card basics as a foundation for exploring the rest of the book.   Part 2: Java Card Technology    Chapter 3 gives an overview of Java Card technologythe system architecture and its components.   Chapter 4 discusses the properties and the behavior of persistent and transient objects in the Java Card platform and how to create and use those objects.   Chapter 5 explains what atomicity means in the Java Card platform and how to develop an applet using transactions to protect data integrity.   Chapter 6 discusses exceptions in the Java Card platform and how applets throw and handle exceptions.   Chapter 7 explains how applets run within the JCRE and demonstrates the techniques of applet writing.    Chapter 8 describes the techniques of handling APDUs in an applet.    Chapter 9 explains the behavior of objects, exceptions, and applets under the control of the applet firewall and discusses how applets can safely share data using object sharing mechanisms.   Chapter 10 first introduces many important cryptographic concepts and algorithms. It then outlines the cryptographic APIs in the Java Card platform and demonstrates how to use these APIs through code examples.   Chapter 11 describes the security features in the Java Card platform and discusses how these security features are enforced through a variety of mechanisms. Along with the discussion, this chapter summarizes the topics covered in Part 2.    Part 3: Programming Guide and Tips    Chapter 12 walks you through a step-by-step process of creating a simple electronic wallet applet.    Chapter 13 provides a number of recommendations for optimizing applets. In many cases, a discussion is provided with the recommendation to help you understand various design trade-offs.   Chapter 14 discusses issues related to using the int data type when writing Java Card applets.   Part 4: Appendices    Appendix A describes the subset of the Java programming language that is supported in the Java Card platform.   Appendix B provides a comprehensive reference to the Java Card 2.1 APIs.  The Version Covered in This Book  This book is based on Java Card version 2.1, the latest release when the book was written. At the meantime, the next version 2.1.1 is underway. Version 2.1.1 will include minor enhancement updates to version 2.1. The contents and techniques covered in the book will continue to be relevant to future Java Card releases, and new things will be incorporated in future editions of this book.  Retrieving Additional Information On-line  You can get the latest on Java Card technology or the latest Java Card development kit from the Java Card web site at http://java.sun.com/products/javacard. For updated information about this book, visit http://java.sun.com/books/series/javacard.    0201703297P04062001",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;java;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks,11
1561580805,"Setting Tile (Fine Homebuilding) Michael Byrne's Setting Tile is packed with more than enough information for those thinking of taking on a tile job in their home. It is so detailed and thorough that it serves as a Tile 101 introduction for those interested in entering the trade full-time or simply improving their skills and knowledge. Byrne opens this revised and updated version of his previous effort with a brief description of how tile was made 6,000 years ago. Granted, the history lesson may not help someone who's planning to tile a kitchen counter, but Byrne's passion and interest for the subject pay off for the reader in other ways. He advises his readers, for example, that even after they've found the right tile for the bathroom floor or kitchen counter--the one that is just the right color and that the manufacturer recommends--to take those tiles and put them through a few of their own tests. Rub it with your favorite frying pan to see how easily it's marked up and, in turn, cleaned off. Scuff it with junior's hiking boots to see how it endures a day in the life. ""I tell my customers in the end that, no matter what grade of tile they select, they can be the best judge of a tile's suitability."" Byrne devotes chapters to materials, tools and safety, troubleshooting and repairs, and surface preparation. And in his chapter stressing the importance of doing a proper layout long before setting that first tile, Byrne also gives the reader a few clever ways to check levels, straightedges, and carpenter's squares for accuracy. This is a highly detailed book loaded with technical information that relies equally on photos and illustrations. It's also more about materials and tile samples than completed jobs. Don't buy this book if you're looking for glossy color photos of pristine tile jobs; buy it if you want to learn how to correctly install such jobs. --John Russell",architecture;books;buildings;crafts;design & construction;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;how-to & home improvements;masonry;professional & technical,11
0582437946,"The Horror Film The Horror Film is an in-depth exploration of one of the most consistently popular, but also most disreputable, of all the mainstream film genres. Since the early 1930s there has never been a time when horror films were not being produced in substantial numbers somewhere in the world and never a time when they were not being criticised, censored or banned. The Horror Film engages with the key issues raised by this most contentious of genres. It considers the reasons for horror's disreputability and seeks to explain why despite this horror has been so successful. Where precisely does the appeal of horror lie?  An extended introductory chapter identifies what it is about horror that makes the genre so difficult to define. The chapter then maps out the historical development of the horror genre, paying particular attention to the international breadth and variety of horror production, with reference to films made in the United States, Britain, Italy, Spain and elsewhere. Subsequent chapters explore:  The role of monsters, focusing on the vampire and the serial killer.  The usefulness (and limitations) of psychological approaches to horror.  The horror audience: what kind of people like horror (and what do other people think of them)?  Gender, race and class in horror: how do horror films such as Bride of Frankenstein, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Blade relate to the social and political realities within which they are produced?  Sound and horror: in what ways has sound contributed to the development of horror?  Performance in horror: how have performers conveyed fear and terror throughout horror's history?  1970s horror: was this the golden age of horror production?  Slashers and post-slashers: from Halloween to Scream and beyond.   The Horror Film throws new light on some well-known horror films but also introduces the reader to examples of noteworthy but more obscure horror work. A final section provides a guide to further reading and an extensive bibliography. Accessibly written, The Horror Film is a lively and informative account of the genre that will appeal to students of cinema, film teachers and researchers, and horror lovers everywhere.  Peter Hutchings is a senior lecturer in Film Studies at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne.	Peter Hutchings is a senior lecturer in Film Studies at Northumbria University.",arts & photography;books;film & television;genre films;humanities;humor & entertainment;movies;new;performing arts;theory;used & rental textbooks,11
1567187048,"Predicting Events with Astrology Graduating from the West Coast College of Astrology in the mid 80s, Celeste Teal (Arizona) actually began her journey into the field of astrology as a complete skeptic. The first time she opened a book on the subject, in 1975, it was to discredit astrology and to prove to an acquaintance that astrology couldnt be believed. However, the first book she opened happened to show a little more than the usual sun sign descriptions and she found enough truth within those pages to convince her that there was indeed something to it. The surprising revelation that the planetary positions at our birth and their movements following birth are somehow synchronized with human events greatly excited her and it wasnt long before she realized shed found her calling as she delved passionately into the art of astrology as a means by which to learn more about the meaning of life.   Her goal is to promote astrology and teach astrologers the most valuable and reliable techniques for interpreting the horoscope.   Celeste Teal has continually written for the popular astrology magazines since 1986. These include American Astrology Magazine, Dell Horoscope, Astrology, Your Daily Horoscope, and True Astrology Forecast. She has written for Sydney Omarrs Astrological Guide and has contributed to Todays Astrologer, a publication by the American Federation of Astrologers and to the Arizona Society of Astrologers newsletter.   Celeste Teal is the author of three well-received books, Predicting Events with Astrology, 1999; Identifying Planetary Triggers, 2000; and Eclipses: Predicting World Events  Personal Transformation, 2006; all published by Llewellyn Worldwide. Her most recent book, Eclipses, was reviewed in Library Journal.  Celeste is hostess of her popular website, called Moon Valley Astrologer (at www.moonvalleyastrologer.com). Celeste provides fee-based personal tutoring services on line, in addition to providing consultations for an established professional clientele.",astrology;books;business & investing;divination;management & leadership;new age;occult;planning & forecasting;religion & spirituality;self-help;success,11
B0006ODWHS,"AirAid 300-924-1 Modular Intake Tube AirAid Modular Intake Tubes provide a smooth, unrestricted path which increases airflow up to 400 CFM. They are made from cross linked, high density polyethylene and are backed by a no hassle"" lifetime warranty. These modular intake tubes come with the necessary mounting hardware and can be easily installed.",air cleaner intake;automotive;belts;emission system;exhaust & emissions;filters;hoses;hoses & pulleys;performance parts & accessories;replacement parts;vacuum tee connectors,11
0252071026,"The Equality of Human Races: POSITIVIST ANTHROPOLOGY Although a reclamation of Antnor Firmin's erudite scholarship is long overdue, this translation of his late nineteenth-century book could not have been made available at a more opportune time-at the start of a new millennium when the problem of racism persists worldwide in both old and new guises. This foundational text in critical anthropology points to the importance of expanding the scope of the discipline's history to engage neglected works that activist, anti-racist, and racially-subordinated intellectuals contributed.--Faye V. Harrison, professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville	Text: English (translation) Original Language: French	This is the first paperback edition of the only English-language translation of the Haitian scholar Antnor Firmin's The Equality of the Human Races, a foundational text in critical anthropology first published in 1885 when anthropology was just emerging as a specialized field of study. Marginalized for its radical position that the human races were equal, Firmin's lucid and persuasive treatise was decades ahead of its time. Arguing that the equality of the races could be demonstrated through a positivist scientific approach, Firmin challenged racist writings and the dominant views of the day. Translated by Asselin Charles and framed by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban's substantial introduction, this rediscovered text is an important contribution to contemporary scholarship in anthropology, pan-African studies, and colonial and postcolonial studies.	Antnor Firmin (1850-1911) was born and educated in Haiti. He studied law and held several political offices before being posted as a diplomat to Paris, where he was admitted to the Societ d'Anthropologie de Paris and wrote De L'galit des Races Humaines. He later returned to Haiti and served as minister of finance, commerce, and foreign relations. Asselin Charles teaches literature and journalism at Wenzao College of Languages in Taiwan. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban is a professor of anthropology and the director of general education at Rhode Island College.",anthropology;books;cultural;discrimination & racism;new;politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,11
0262130114,"LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual John McCarthy is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science, Stanford University.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;lisp;new;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks,11
B000FO6LS6,"Of Mice, Men, and Microbes: Hantavirus In the northern part of South Korea lies the Hantaan River, and during the Korean conflict in the 1950s, 3000 United Nations troops near the river became affected with fever and myalgias associated with renal disease and ecchymoses. The disorder was initially called Korean hemorrhagic fever and was later termed hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. Local residents with outdoor exposure, especially those who farmed, were found to be at increased risk. Fortunately, with funding from the Department of Defense, the cause was shown in the 1960s to be a filterable agent, later called Hantaan virus -- the first hantavirus.  A similar but milder syndrome was later identified in Scandinavia and traced to exposure to a rodent, the bank vole. The causative agent was the Puumala virus, named for an area in southeastern Finland. Subsequently, in the 1980s, a very curious Carleton Gadjusek, using the newly developed polymerase-chain-reaction technique for gene amplification, examined meadow voles near his home in Maryland and found a similar virus, which he named Prospect Hill virus and which is not known to cause any disease in people. Both Puumala virus and Prospect Hill virus were found to be members of the hantavirus family.    What caught the attention of the world was an explosive outbreak of adult respiratory distress syndrome in 1993 that primarily affected Native Americans in a corner of New Mexico near an area called Muerto Canyon. Those affected had fever, tachycardia, tachypnea, and elevated white-cell counts, and 70 percent of persons with the disease died very rapidly. Outdoor exposure and exposure to deer mice were strong risk factors. Serum samples that were screened contained evidence of hantavirus infection, and genetic-fingerprint analysis, surprisingly, showed similarities between the infectious agent and Prospect Hill virus. Originally called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, the disorder was caused by a newly recognized hantavirus, now called Sin Nombre (meaning ""without a name""). This was the first demonstration of a hantavirus that caused pulmonary and not renal signs.    In their clearly written book, Of Mice, Men, and Microbes: Hantavirus, Harper and Meyer examine the history of the identification of hantaviruses and describe the pathogenesis of the illnesses they cause and their worldwide influence. It is perhaps the ecologic relations of the viruses -- in particular, between El Nino and the unusual growth of pinon nuts, food of rodents, leading to a rodent ""bloom"" -- that are most interesting and provocative. Readers will finish the book realizing that no infections are new; it is only our recognition of the causes that is new. Readers will also realize that disease and epidemics follow chance encounters among men, mice, and associated microbes. Despite their focus on hantaviruses, the authors take readers on a journey to understand the origin and biology of viruses, the coevolution of viruses and their hosts, and humans' fear of new outbreaks and their eventual conquest with new knowledge.    The shortcoming of this book, which is an ""easy read,"" is that its target audience is a general one. Internists, and certainly specialists in infectious diseases, will find it slow moving. For example, petechiae are defined as ""skin hem orrhages... the markers of hemorrhagic fever""; platelets are defined as ""the specialized cell fragments that control blood clotting,"" the numbers of which decrease during infection ""as they react to the damage, trying to stem the leaks that will develop unless they can contain it."" In general, the language is at a level appropriate to college students, and at times readers may wish for a fast-forward button. There are more basic details and more words used to explain them than most physicians need. In addition, although the book is accurate, it has no references and will thus not appeal to scholars.    The language and tone of the book also vary. At times the tone is lyrical: the Four Corners region of the United States ""is a place where change is marked in natural rhythms rather than on any human calendar, and sometimes only the broadest cycles -- the eons, the epochs -- are visible to the casual observer""; at times it is enigmatic: ""if a million monkeys with a million typewriters can write Hamlet, then a billion viruses with a billion of the random changes called mutations can write influenza, Ebola, or nothing at all""; and sometimes the language is turgid, as noted above.    Despite its shortcomings, anyone interested in hantaviruses will find that this book tells a very complete story. The host, agent, vector, geography, climate, psychology, and cultural responses of the people who are infected are all described. There is much to learn.    Reviewed by Richard Wenzel, M.D.  Copyright  2000 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights  reserved. The New England Journal of Medicine is a registered  trademark of the MMS.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	In May 1993, a cluster of cases of a lethal disease among healthy young people brought the attention of the world to the southwestern deserts. A previously unknown disease was killing up to 80% of the people it infected.The reaction in the area and across the nation mixed fear, lack of information, and the struggles of doctors to save the victims of an unknown killer with hard science and the age old rhythmns of the desert. What came out was the story of a virus that had been killing since man arrived in the American continents, Hantavirus, with deadly relatives across the Americas and across the world. This book explains why and how the virus kills, and why it is still killing today. Why all of the science aimed at a virus identified back in 1993 has not brought a vaccine or a cure is part of the story, as is how that killer virus fits into the story of ""new"" diseases across the world.The story of hantavirus disease, what has happened since that first outbreak, and what the real risks are is laid out by an experienced scientist and an award winning journalist living and working in the area of the 1993 outbreak.                                        Key Features* Covers the full story of the recent hantavirus outbreak* Includes interviews with survivors, and local reaction* Presents the science in lay terms* Places the event in the broader context of emerging diseases worldwide* The only account which takes the reader beyond the initial outbreak in 1993-1994, bringing them up to late 1998* Discusses hantavirus disease in the U.S., Argentina, and Canada	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",biological sciences;biology;books;communicable diseases;epidemiology;infectious disease;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;microbiology;science & math,11
0375759476,"We Made a Garden (Modern Library Gardening) Just in time for the 40th anniversary of its original publication, Margery Fish's classic gardening memoir has been published in the United States for the first time. Fish and her husband Walter, a former editor of the Daily Mail, bought a dilapidated house and two acres of limey clay in Somerset in 1937, fearing the onset of war. For the next two decades, they cultivated, pruned, and watered, with Walter providing the direction and the sense of order and Margery the flowers, the unstructured flora, and the wry observations. As in all of the best gardening books, Fish's memoir leavens technical information on gardening with memory and reflection. The book is above all the story of a marriage within the story of a landscape. Walter's lectures on the importance of structure, the distant war, the hardships of postwar England, come through slightly muted, like the outlines of buildings seen through dense foliage.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Crammed with good advice. . . . I defy any amateur gardener not to find pleasure, encouragement, and profit from We Made a Garden. Vita Sackville-WestGardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoons weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows. Margery Fish	A charming account of how Margery Fish & her husband created a cottage garden from an overgrown farmyard. Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Michael Pollan said: ""Much more than a period piece, We Made a Garden is a gentle reminder that plants are only a small part of what a garden is. The good ones are autobiographies written in green.""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	First published in Britain in 1956 and never before available in America, We Made a Garden is the classic story of a unique and enduring English country garden. One of Britain's most esteemed gardening writers recounts how she and her husband set about creating an exemplary cottage garden from unpromising beginnings on the site of the former farmyard and rubbish heap that surround their newly purchased home in the countryside of Somerset, England. Each imbued with a strong set of horticultural opinions and passions, Mr. and Mrs. Fish negotiate the terrain of their garden, by turns separately and together, often with humorous collisions. From the secret to cultivating the smoothest lawn to the art of lifting and replanting tulip bulbs to the landscaping possibilities of evergreens, the diverse elements of successful gardeningand delightful writingare bound together by Mr. and Mrs. Fish's aspiration to cultivate that most precious and slow-growing qualitythe fundamental character of a good garden.	Crammed with good advice. . . . I defy any amateur gardener not to find pleasure, encouragement, and profit from We Made a Garden. Vita Sackville-WestGardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoons weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows. Margery Fish	Margery Fish was one of Britains leading gardeners. Named a classic gardening writer by the Royal Horticultural Society, she published six other gardening books and was a regular contributor to the British periodicals Amateur Gardening and The Field. Many thousands of visitors come each year to East Lambrook Manor, her Somerset garden.Michael Pollan is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Botany of Desire and Second Nature, named one of the best gardening books of the twentieth century by the American Horticultural Society. He is a contributing editor to Harpers magazine and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. Pollan chose the books for the Modern Library Gardening series because, as he writes, these writers are some of the great talkers in the rich, provocative, and frequently uproarious conversation that, metaphorically at least, has been taking place over the back fence of our gardens at least since the time of Pliny.	Chapter 1The HouseThe house was long and low, in the shape of an L, built of honey-coloured Somerset stone. At one time it must have been thatched but, unfortunately, that had been discarded long ago and old red tiles used instead. It stood right in the middle of a little Somerset village, and made the corner where a very minor road turned off from the main street. There was only a narrow strip of garden in front, and not very much behind, but we bought an orchard and outbuildings beyond so that we had about two acres in all. A high stone wall screened us from the village street, and there was a cottage and another orchard on the other side.You can't make a garden in a hurry, particularly one belonging to an old house. House and garden must look as if they had grown up together and the only way to do this is to live in the house, get the feel of it, and then by degrees the idea of the garden will grow.We didn't start work outside for nearly a year, and by that time we felt we belonged to the place and it belonged to us and we had some ideas of what we wanted to do with it.It was on a warm September day when we first saw the house but it was such a wreck that Walter refused to go further than the hall, in spite of the great jutting chimney that buttressed the front. Then the long roof was patched with corrugated iron, the little front garden was a jungle of rusty old laurels and inside an overpowering smell of creosote, newly applied, fought with the dank, grave-like smell of an unlived-in house. Full of dry rot, said Walter, not at any price, and turned on his heel.For three months we tried to find what we wanted. We looked at cottages and villas, gaunt Victorian houses perched uneasily on hilltops, and snug little homes wedged in forgotten valleys. Some were too big and most too small, some hadn't enough garden and others too much. Some were too isolated, others so mixed up with other houses that privacy would have been impossible. We lost our way and had bitter arguments, but we did discover what we didn't want. I couldn't see Walter in a four-roomed cottage with a kitchen tacked on to one end and a bathroom at the other, and I had no intention of landing myself with a barn of a place that would require several servants to keep it clean.We were still hunting in November when our way took us very near the old house so summarily dismissed in September, so we turned down the lane which said East Lambrook one mile, just to see what had been happening during those three months.Quite a lot had happened. The front garden had been cleared of its laurels and the house looked much better. Old tiles had replaced the corrugated iron on the roof, and inside the walls had been washed with cream and the woodwork with glossy paint.It is one of those typical Somerset houses with a central passage and a door at each end, so very attractive to look at and so very draughty for living. That day we thought only the artistic angle. It was late afternoon and the sun was nearly setting. Both doors were open and through them we caught a glimpse of a tree and a green background against the sunlight.That day I got Walter further than the flagged passage, and we explored the old bakehouse, with its enormous inglenook and open fireplace, low beamed ceiling and stone floor, and a gay little parlour beyond. On the other side was another large room with stone floor and an even bigger fireplace, and at the far end a lovely room with wonderful panelling. We both knew that our search had ended, we had come home.I cannot remember just what happened after that but I shall never forget the day when the surveyor came to make his report. It was one of those awful days in early winter of cold, penetrating rain. The house was dark and very cold, and the grave-like dankness was back, in spite of all the new paint and distemper. The surveyor, poor man, had just lost his wife, and was as depressed-naturally-as the weather. Nor shall I forget Walter's indignation with the report when it did come in. The house, while sound in wind and limb, was described as being of no character. We didn't think then that it had anything but character, rather sinister perhaps, but definitely character. Since then I have discovered that the house has a kindly disposition; I never come home without feeling I am welcome.Having got our house we then had to give it up again so that it could be made habitable. For many months it was in the hands of the builders and all we could do was to pay hurried visits to see how things were going, and turn our eyes from the derelict waste that was to be the garden. Sometimes I escaped from the consultations for brief moments and frenziedly pulled up groundsel for as long as I was allowed. Walter never wanted to stay a moment longer than business required and it worried me to go off and leave tracts of outsize groundsel going to seed with prodigal abandon. My few snatched efforts made very little impression on the wilderness, but they made me feel better.",architecture;arts & photography;books;by technique;crafts;essays;gardening & landscape design;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;professional & technical;small homes & cottages,11
0826454208,"Hope the Archbishop: A Portrait The book is chatty, chummy, admiring, even adulatory.Yorkshire Post'Inspirational... do read this book; you will finish it with a smile, and within, know you have read of someone that it would be a pleasure and privilege to meet.' Church of Ireland""...a lively journalistic account, written from personal experience..."" ""...none can read this account without being attracted to he new vicar of Ilkley."" (Andrew Atherstone, Eynsham )""...a lively journalistic account, written from personal experience..."" ""...none can read this account without being attracted to he new vicar of Ilkley."" (, )	Rob Marshall, an Anglican priest, has been David Hope's Press Secretary for nearly 20 years. A regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's 'Thought for the Day', he is author of The Transfiguration of Jesus (DLT, 1994).",biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;evangelism;humanities;leaders & notable people;missions & missionary work;new;religious;religious studies;used & rental textbooks,11
1566070627,"Web Commerce: Developing and Implementing Effective Business Solutions Computer Technology Research Corp. (CTR) is an internationally-recognized research and publishing company. Since 1979, CTR's reports have provided information on major technologies, trends, products, companies, and markets concerning the computer industry. Our reports assist executives, users, and vendors with making strategic decisions regarding information technology products and services.     Each CTR report includes management summaries, competitive analyses, technical product evaluations, vendor marketing strategies and case studies. CTR's reports are independently researched and present unbiased, objective views, strengths and limitations of products, and insight into technology directions. The reports provide managers with the vital quality information that is needed to successfully plan large- and small-scale information technology projects.	Jerry Cashin    Jerry Cashin is a technology writer based out of Berlin,  Massachusetts. Currently, he is employed by the U.S. Air Force  Computer Acquisition Center (AFCAC), an organization that evaluates  and acquires computing and communications systems for the world's  largest user of technology - the U.S. Air Force.    Mr. Cashin is a contributing editor to Software Magazine, a  publication focused toward professionals in the software arena, and he  frequently performs training seminars and presentations at conferences  and forums on various subjects, including data communications and  programming. He also belongs to numerous technical organizations,  including the IEEE 802.8 tehnical committee developing standards for  fiberoptic local area networks, the Government Open Systems  Interconnection Profile (GOSIP) workgroup overseeing implementation of  Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) standard protocol networks  throughout the U.S. Government, and was a member of the ANSI X3T5  committee that first introduced layered network architectures.    Mr. Cashin's special areas of interest have centered on networking,  operating systems, and data security. He has also written features for  Computerworld, Network World, Government Computer News, and a host of  other periodicals.",books;business & investing;business & management;computers & technology;internet & web culture;management;management & leadership;manager's guides to computing;networking;web development & design;web services,11
0632040513,"Veterinary Parasitology Some reviews of the first edition:""...probably the best available veterinary parasitology text for the practitioner..."" (Clinical Insight)""It will be invaluable to veterinary students and practitioners alike."" (British Veterinary Journal)	This book is intended for veterinary students studying parasitology, practising veterinary surgeons, and those in animal science who require information on all aspects of parasitic disease in domestic animals.The text is comprehensive, covering both temperate and tropical zones, and deals with all three aspects of parasitology - helminthology, entomology and protozoology - as well as some blood-borne rickettsial infections traditionally taught in the subject. There are also chapters dedicated to reviews of epidemiology, immunity, anthelmintics, ectoparasiticides and laboratory diagnosis.Because the text is intended for those directly involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and control of parasitic infections of domestic animals, diseases which are common or important are treated in some detail, the less important being discussed more briefly. For the same reason, details of classification and taxonomy have been kept to the minimum necessary to indicate the relationships between the various species and to facilitate their identification.The second edition includes:updated advice on drug treatments;coverage of new conditions, such as Lyme disease and neosporosis, that may be relevant to veterinarians;host/parasite lists and further advice on additional reading material.The authors have all been associated with the teaching of veterinary parasitology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Glasgow and are internationally recognised authorities in their various specialist fileds of research.	G M Urquhart, J Armour, J L Duncan, A M Dunn and F W Jennings",agricultural sciences;animal husbandry;books;general;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;parasitology;science & math;used & rental textbooks;veterinary medicine,11
1840241888,"Empire of the Soul (Summersdale Travel) One of the finest travel writers has taken on the most impenetrable country, describing his spiritual pilgrimages of the '70s and return visits of the '90s. Paul William Roberts says [India] is the only country that feels like home to me, the only country whose airport tarmac I have ever kissed upon landing. But no sentimentality dulls Roberts's keen eye as he visits ashrams, junkie dens, and Mother Teresa's order, explaining the complex history of castes and colonialization as he goes. He ferrets out beauty and hypocrisy with an insightful take on the masses of humanity that travel and live there.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Reminiscent of the work of Bruce Chatwin, this soul-searching literary travelogue turns a keen and uncompromising eye toward India. A Westerner in love with this most un-Western of countries, Roberts (In Search of the Birth of Jesus) evokes in lush prose?and almost too vividly?the profound spiritual heights and sordid depths of humanity he encountered during his years in India in the 1970s and his several return trips in the '90s. The spiritually inclined will be fascinated by Roberts's truth-seeking missions with the famous guru Sai Baba and various traditional Hindu yogis, but they will meet less lofty characters here as well?at one point, Roberts accompanies a sadistic drug-lord to his hashish-oil operation. Roberts describes in excruciating detail unsanitary washroom facilities, fetid food and extremes of poverty?slums, crippled beggars, child prostitutes. His views of the Western seekers he meets along the way are just as unvarnished, especially of the sex-obsessed followers of Bhagwan Rajneesh. Yet the haunting splendor of this ancient, religion-drenched land shines through. At the end of his travels, in Siva's city of Benares, Roberts ponders the cremation-ash laden Ganges River and comes to know his own truth. Going deep within the paradoxes that form the fabric of India, this book offers far more than a postcard depiction Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Roberts' travel narratives, including In Search of the Birth of Jesus , reflect the intensity of his journeys and his acute attention to place, abiding interest in history, and profound fascination with the spiritual, perspectives crucial to interpreting the paradoxes of India. British by birth and Canadian by choice, Roberts confesses that India is the only country that actually ""feels like home"" to him. To explain why, he recounts his experiences living in India during the 1970s, then reports on his return visits in the 1990s. Like many a hippie, Roberts traveled to India in pursuit of enlightenment and got more than he bargained for, and his most compelling tales revolve around holy men and life in an ashram. Vigorous, imaginative, and witty, Roberts re-creates his younger, more callow self in these frequently surreal reminiscences, then, in the book's final chapters, offers knowing insights into present-day India. On a more personal note, he shares an epiphany: finally, 25 years later, he understands what his maharishi had been trying to teach him.  Donna Seaman	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Paul William Roberts graduated from and taught literature at Oxford University.  After stints in India and Hollywood, he settled in Toronto.  Recipient of numerous writing awards, he is also the author of In Search of the Birth of Jesus.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",asia;books;computers & technology;education & reference;general;india;languages & tools;programming;research & publishing guides;travel;writing,11
B000EMSZ8S,"Beautiful Jim Key : The Lost History of a Horse and a Man Who Changed the World An inspirational tale that was nearly buried beneath the detritus of time (namely floods and fires), Beautiful Jim Key recalls the remarkable life of a remarkable horse at the turn of the previous century. Revered not for his speed on the track, Beautiful Jim Key was instead a cerebral celebrity who electrified fairgoers from St. Louis to Boston with apparent feats of mathematics, reading, and writing, even making change for a dollar. But as might be expected, author Mim Eichler Rivas's story is about much more than a horse from Tennessee imbued with a staggering intellect. It's also about Jim Key's equally remarkable trainer, Dr. William Key, a black man and onetime slave who narrowly survived the American Civil War, prospered against all odds, and emerged as a wealthy inventor, self-trained veterinarian, and community pillar. Dr. Key's use of kindness and patience to train Jim, rather than the de rigueur tactics of beatings and intimidation, gave way to fresh thinking about animal husbandry at a time when animals were considered virtually inanimate. And then some: ""The horse and the man from Tennessee had not only helped pioneer the humane movement but had, over the past seven years, in direct and indirect ways, changed the face of popular entertainment. [Suddenly], the big-budgeted theatrical productions began adding nonhuman cast members to their shows."" The author provides ample scene-setting color, especially when describing the various exhibitions Jim Key headlined, and does a reasonably good job of footnoting her various claims about Jim's mental prowess, though occasionally the reader wonders how, exactly, she decoded the horse's thought process. Her writing style is also somewhat tepid, but still, there is no doubt that Jim Key was an exceptional horse in an exceptional era guided by an exceptional man. Thanks to Rivas, Seabiscuit must now share a posthumous marquee along with Beautiful Jim Key. --Kim Hughes	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Starred Review. In the days before television, movies and even radio, World's Fairs and other annual expositions were among America's most popular forms of mass entertainment. From 1897 to 1912, one of their largest drawsattracting tens of thousands of wildly enthusiastic fans dailywas a horse. Beautiful Jim Key, whose owner, Dr. William Key, ""taught [him] by kindness,"" could, according to awed contemporary accounts unearthed by longtime ghostwriter/collaborator Rivas (Finding Fish), add, subtract, spell, cite Bible passages and pluck silver dollars from the bottom of a barrel without drinking the water. Impressive as those feats were, though, they're just one part of this captivating, if occasionally fussy, literary excavation of lost Americana. There is the remarkable life of Dr. Key: born a slave, he was a Union sympathizer in the Civil War even as he saved the lives of his owner's Confederate sons. He was a self-taught veterinarian of great renown, a polished peddler of patent medicine and the man who transformed a bay stallion crippled at birth into ""the smartest horse who ever lived."" Rivas shows how the intimate bond between horse and man prompted hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren to pledge ""always to be kind to animals"" and propelled the growth of animal-rights and anti-cruelty groups. The world was smaller at the turn of the 20th century; this book's compelling claim that one horse and one man changed it is not, in context, overly brazen. 16 pages of bw photos not seen by PW.   Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Engaging . . . filled with eyebrow-raising details. (Entertainment Weekly)Jim Key, in his own beautiful way, whispered to Americans hearts and awakened their soul. (Los Angeles Times)Compelling...provides a vivid slice of Americana. (Parade)A wonderful true story of an extraordinary horse and an equally extraordinary man. Beautiful Jim Key, is astonishing. (Berry Gordy)Like Laura Hillenbrands SEABISCUIT, this brilliantly recreated history of BEAUTIFUL JIM KEY is destined to become a classic. (David Geffen)Beautiful Jim Key represents a rediscovered treasure that has lain hidden for almost a century. . . . Remarkable (Bob Womack, author of The Echo of Hoof Beats: History of the Tennessee Walking Horse)Rivas performs an important service by bringing this story to light and reminding us how it was almost lost. (Knoxville News-Sentinel)If Beautiful Jim Key were alive today, hed have a movie deal. (People)A wonderful slice of American life at the turn of the last century . . . [Rivas] deserves praise. (Contra Costa Times)Seabiscuit had nothing on Beautiful Jim Key. (Sacramento Bee)Beautiful Jim Key may be the biggest celebrity youve never heard of--until now . . . fascinting and touching (Winston-Salem Journal)A charming story about an equine superstar. . . . a winsome tale. (Chicago Tribune (Editor's Choice))	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biographies & memoirs;books;crafts;history;hobbies & home;horses;pets & animal care;showing & training;specific groups;sports & outdoors;world,11
0791016927,"Placido Domingo (Paperback)(Oop) (Hispanics of Achievement) Grade 5-9-- One of opera's living legends is featured in this biography. Domingo ranks among those who strive to exceed their own very best, to reach for and grasp the purest art form. The timeliness of this book is significant, as the Spanish-born tenor celebrates 30 years of ongoing professional musical activity and spiraling success that span the globe and musical genres. His insatiable appetite for performance left little time for family life. Readers sense an urgency in the artist's infatuation with ""doing it all."" Small and often dark, black-and-white photos are spaced throughout the book. ""Further Reading"" features many performance reviews and magazines articles, two adult biographies, and several general opera sources. A useful and informative account of this man's extraordinary accomplishments and achievements. --Cynthia Cordes, Onondaga County Public Library, Syracuse, NYCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;children's books;ethnic & national;hispanic & latino;humor & entertainment;music;musical,11
0395860423,"The Gentleman From New York: Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- A Biography History will probably remember Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York, as one of the great American senators and rank his name alongside Stephen Douglas and Daniel Webster. He isn't known as a topnotch legislator--his name is attached to no ground-shaking bill--but he is respected by colleagues in both parties and by the media as one of the brightest men to work in Washington in recent years. He's also had a fascinating political journey, which took him from liberalism in the 1950s to flirtations with neoconservatism in the '60s and '70s to old-style Democratic loyalties in the '80s and '90s. ""In contact with both liberalism and conservatism, he belongs to neither,"" writes Moynihan biographer Godfrey Hodgson, an English journalist who previously penned a history of American conservatism, The World Turned Right Side Up. ""Supported by both, he seems to link them, and to transcend them.""  Hodgson covers Moynihan's whole life--from growing up (it wasn't in Hell's Kitchen, by the way) to his time in the navy, his controversial role in the Johnson administration (where he wrote the so-called Moynihan Report on the black family), his Nixon-Ford days as ambassador to India and the United Nations, and finally his career as an elected pol. He moved about constantly, writes Hodgson: ""It is a record that suggests impatience, dissatisfaction, persistent difficulty in getting on with superiors, and the troubled emotions that afflict a man of immense ability and energy who cannot quite find the right task and is afraid that his time will run out before he does."" Following four full terms in the Senate, he has finally found ""increasing serenity."" (Moynihan announced he would not seek reelection in 2000, which opened the door for Hillary Clinton's candidacy.) Hodgson himself has known Moynihan for several decades; the senator even attended the author's wedding in 1970. This relationship allows the biographer to include firsthand reflections at appropriate moments (""When Pat announced that he was going to work for Nixon in the White House, I almost fell off my chair"").  An interesting, favorable, and admiring book, The Gentleman from New York serves as a fitting tribute to the man. Of Moynihan's legacy, Hodgson writes: ""After the dazzling speeches and elegant essays, the wit and the prophetic utterances are largely forgotten, he will be remembered as the man who ... had the lucidity and courage to restate the enduring propositions of the American political creed ... [and] above all a faith in the redemptive power of republican government."" --John J. Miller	Though it may not rank as the definitive Moynihan biography, this informative study brings clarity to the Democratic senator's 24-year career as a legislator and his even longer career as a political thinker. Moynihan has called his career a series of ""chance encounters, random walks""; Hodgson (The World Turned Right Side Up), an Oxford-based historian and a friend of Moynihan's since 1962, manages to lend that random walk a narrative coherence. Giving a colorful if not always balanced account of the senator's extraordinary journey from the sidewalks of New York to the chairmanship of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, Hodgson, who had access to the senator's political papers and personal letters, peppers his account liberally with charming anecdotes and vivid biographical details. He portrays, for example, a young Pat, back in New York City after three formative years at the London School of Economics, devouring cheese and onion sandwiches between beers at McSorley's Ale House. He also gives a nicely detailed account of Moynihan's momentous 1975 speech as delegate to the U.N., where he denounced anti-Semitism amid a furious debate over a resolution declaring Zionism a form of racism. And he follows the legislator as he went on to become, in the words of the New York Times, an ""aggressive debater, outrageous flatterer, shrewd adviserAindeed manipulatorAof Presidents, accomplished diplomat and heartfelt friend of the poor."" Hodgson's summary of the senator's legislative record is uncritical, and his prose gets cumbersome in places. But as an eyewitness account of Moynihan's colorful career, this biography is a welcome achievement. (Aug.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	While the New York Senate race preoccupies the media, journalist Hodgson directs attention to the man both candidates hope to succeed. Hodgson described the late twentieth-century rise of conservatism in The World Turned Rightside Up (1996); he judges Moynihan one of the few people who ""have lived and felt the liberal impulse, and at the same time understood the emotions behind the new conservatism."" A friend of the senator and his wife for nearly 40 years, Hodgson observes a notable consistency in a career in which Moynihan was often viewed as a traitor by liberals or conservatives or both. As an appointee of New York governor Averell Harriman and in the administrations of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford, in academia and in the Senate, Moynihan mixed skepticism about the value of social science in defining public policy with a solid ""faith in the capacity, and the duty, of government to make society better."" A cold war liberal, more of a regular Democrat than a reformer, Moynihan will no doubt be remembered as one of the smarter, more thoughtful elected officials of the late twentieth century. Others will probably produce more critical biographies, but, for now, Hodgson has supplied a fairly balanced overview. Mary CarrollCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	[a]lucid, engaging study of the life and career of Daniel Patrick  Moynihan, the senate's philospher-king. -- Review	[a]lucid, engaging study of the life and career of Daniel Patrick  Moynihan, the senate's philospher-king. (The New York Times Review of Books )	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Godfrey Hodgson has written several books on American politics and history, including AMERICA IN OUR TIME and, most recently, THE WORLD TURNED RIGHT SIDE UP: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CONSERVATISM. He is currently the director of the Reuters Foundation Programme at Oxford University. The author resides in England.	1The Prophetan introductionGod save thee, ancient Mariner!From the fiends that plague thee thus!'Why lookst thou so?'With my cross-bowI shot the Albatross.-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge,The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part IOver the past quarter century, Ginny Van Horn has often walked upMcDougall Road to Pindars Corners. It is an idyllic walk through a bowl ofwooded hills, with a stream bubbling under tall shade trees alongside. Butwhen Mrs. Van Horn strolled up the gentle slope on the morning of July 8,1999, she turned the corner by her neighbor's house, and was suddenlyconfronted by some three hundred reporters, cameramen and photographers. 'There sureis a lot of commotion,' she said. In twenty-five years, she'd never seenanything like it. No wonder; for what she had walked into was thatlate-twentieth-century political phenomenon, a full-blooded media feedingfrenzy.The commotion was understandable. It is not every day that the First Ladyof the United States, or FLOTUS, as she is known to the Secret Service,decides to run, or to think seriously about running, for senator from NewYork. And even when she did make that momentous decision, not everycandidate would think of launching her campaign from a hayfield at PindarsCorners in Delaware County.The hayfield belongs to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whose farm liesjust at the bend of McDougall Road. The hay bales had been tidied away,and when Elizabeth Moynihan, the senator's wife, looked out her window shethought the farm had been visited by space invaders. There were, shecalculated, thirty satellite trucks on the hill. The barn was full ofportable restrooms, and children prepared iced lemonade for the perspiringreporters in the stable.A long chain of events had conspired to make that innocent upstatehayfield for a few brief hours the vortex of media attention and politicalcalculation. Hillary Rodham Clinton was contemplating a campaign tosucceed Moynihan as one of New York's senators. Liz Moynihan had counseledher that if she was to have any chance of success she must make a strongshowing upstate. Mrs. Clinton was pleased to take that advice and hadtraveled to the rustic southern tier of New York State in search of thephoto opportunity that might establish her in the voters' minds as aserious candidate for the whole state, and not just New York City.At 10:30 the First Lady arrived with her team at the Binghamton airport.They drove to the white schoolhouse just up the hill from the Moynihanfarm. It is a simple wooden building, warmed in winter by a Victoriancast-iron stove, where the senator has written eighteen books. After halfan hour's chat there, the First Lady, in a navy pants suit, and thesenator, in white chino pants and a button-down blue shirt, waving a whitebaseball cap to emphasize the points of his discourse, emerged from theschoolhouse and sauntered down the lane to face the media, by nowinstalled on a large wooden stand.The senator introduced his guest. As a tease, he pretended to forget whatthe reporters had come to hear. 'My God,' he said, beam-ing serenely, 'I almost forgot. I'm here to say that I hope she willgo all the way. I mean to go all the way with her. I think she's going towin.'The not-yet-declared candidate began by paying tribute to her host. Shesaid she was embarking on a 'listening tour' of New York, and how betterto begin it than by 'listening to probably the wisest New Yorker.' Thequestions on everyone's mind, she acknowledged, were 'why the Senate, andwhy New York and why me.' Without dealing specifically with the questionwhy she was not running in Illinois, her native state, or in Arkansas,where she had lived for years, she explained that she cared deeply aboutthe issues that mattered to New York. She promised that if she did run andif she were elected, she would be 'strong and effective for the people ofNew York.'In a jovial mood, the veteran senator fielded questions for his guest fromthe New York press. Almost the very first came from an old friend, GabePressman, of WNBC. What did Mrs. Clinton say, Pressman asked, to those whosay that 'it takes a lot of chutzpah to come to a state you're not fromand run for the Senate?''Gabe,' said the senator. 'We're in Delaware County. Now what was thatword?'When the laughter had subsided, Mrs. Clinton said that she, too, thoughtit was a strange idea when people first suggested that she might run forthe Senate from New York, but that chutzpah was not always a bad thing.After a few more such bantering exchanges, she left, in a simple eight-carmotorcade, to continue her listening in a barbecue restaurant, a juniorhigh school, the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown and other locationscarefully selected by some of the sharpest minds in politics for theircultural distance from the twin summits of the political and mediaziggurats in Washington and Manhattan.Behind this benign, if bizarre, encounter, there were rich layers of ironyand meaning. Hillary Clinton, for one thing, had not always been on thebest of terms with either Pat or Liz Moynihan. Publicly, the senator hadspoken slightingly of her cherished plans for health care reform.Privately, the senator's wife had not hidden her impression that HillaryClinton 'didn't get it,' meaning that she didn't understand how either theSenate or the senator worked. When Clinton began to consider running forthe Senate from New York, she met several times with both Moynihans. Theywere impressed by her intelligence and candor. Yet, as late as the eve ofthe great Pindars Corners love-in, Liz Moynihan had her doubts about thewisdom of allowing Clinton to use her home as the launch pad for a Senatecampaign. She drew the line at some of the suggestions made by the FirstLady's overly enthusiastic handlers. They wanted a rope line to keep themedia at a distance. 'No rope line,' Liz said with finality, anddisappeared into the house, ostensibly to telephone her husband. Sheemerged, quoting him as saying, 'You'll have to find another farm!' Lizwent on, 'I've never made a circus for Pat, and I'm not going to make acircus for her.' Besides, she added shrewdly, you don't want to dilute theimage. 'It's worth a million votes upstate.'Pat Moynihan has the reputation of standing far above the manipulativecalculations of media politics. The hayfield photo op showed that he andhis political manager, who is also his wife, know a thing or two about howto stage-manage a media event.The sun shone. The reporters were like pussycats, and the Moynihans andthe First Lady had a happy dinner together in the best restaurant formiles around. And it was indeed a great picture, the veteran senator athis most avuncular, the young contender at her most earnest and aspiring.This strange political epithalamium, this laying on of political hands,was an end and a beginning. It was, so far as anyone could see at thetime, the beginning of what promised to be an extraordinary politicalcareer for Mrs. Clinton, one that could take her from the humiliationsinflicted by her husband's indiscretions, to the United States Senate, andperhaps, as some hoped and others dreaded, to the White House. But thatwas all speculation, and for the future. It was also, barring theunlikely, the effective end of one of the most interesting politicalcareers in twentieth-century America, a record of controversy andachievement that stretched back almost five decades. The senator wouldserve out his term, and there would be battles to fight in which he wouldplay his allotted part. But at seventy-two, recovering from major backsurgery in the baking summer of 1999, Pat Moynihan had essentiallycompleted a voyage that had brought him from the most unpromisingbeginnings, in spite of near shipwreck on more than one occasion, to asafe haven as one of the most admired politicians of his time andcertainly the most creative and original thinker among them.Early on Friday morning, November 6, 1998, Liz Moynihan dialed TonyBullock, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's chief of staff, at home.1 Aphone call had alerted her to the fact that the AP wirewas carrying a story that Carl McCall, comptroller of New York State, was'not ruling out' a run for the Senate against her husband.2McCall had just been reelected with a 64 percent margin. Bullock'sassignment from Mrs. Moynihan was simple: 'Get McCall to say he would notrun.'Bullock, a cheerful extrovert with considerable political experience and alast-ditch Moynihan loyalist, was convinced that McCall would be 'squishedlike a bug' if he did run against Moynihan.3 Furthermore, he thoughtMcCall, whom he liked, would do himself real damage in New York politicsif he went on making noises about a run for the Senate. Within the hour hehad completed his assignment, extracting a statement from McCall, forpublic release, that he would not run against Moynihan. 'I will notchallenge Pat,' McCall's statement said. '[He is] a true conscience forDemocrats in New York and across this great country'if he decides to seeka fifth term. I will, however, in the coming weeks and months sit downwith family, friends and advisers and think about my future.'4At about 10:30 a.m., Liz Moynihan called again. This time the news wasshattering, both in substance and manner. 'You should know that Pat isgoing to tell Gabe Pressman that he will not run again.' Gabe Pressman hadbeen covering Moynihan and New York politics for decades as the chiefpolitical reporter for the NBC television affiliate in New York City; infact Moynihan had known him since Averell Harriman's campaign for governorin 1954. Pressman's show would be taped on Friday and aired on Sunday. Thesenator would hold a press conference to explain in his office inWashington, but not until Monday morning. Liz was emphatic. No one mustknow until Pressman's show aired, and Bullock mustn't try to talk them outof this because their minds were made up.Tony Bullock made a brief effort to do just that. If the senator wasdetermined not to run again in the year 2000, then he should at all costshold off until later in 1999. It was far too early to be turned into alame duck, and, besides, major political earthquakes of this kind had tobe planned and handled. Liz Moynihan shuns the limelight. But she has runfour successful statewide elections as her husband's campaign manager, twoof them victories by record margins. She knows her own mind. 'We're doingit,' she said, 'and that's that.' At which she and Pat raced off to thetaping. Would they at least commit to a press conference or a statementlater in the day? Again, the answer was no.Moynihan taped the interview. Yes, he was going. No, it was not hishealth. (There had been various rumors, stimulated by the fact that at alocal campaign event a few days earlier he felt dizzy, apparently fromflu.) After twenty-four years, it was time to move on. This was a goodmoment, after the Democratic successes in the midterm elections.After the taping, Liz set off for an archeological event at the New YorkBotanical Gardens in the Bronx. (She is an expert on Mughal India ingeneral, and ancient Indian gardens in particular.) The senator was on theway down in the elevator at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, home of the NBC studios.As he entered the elevator, a man said, 'I heard you're not running.' Asthey hit the ground floor, some kid came up, and said, 'So, senator, youreally made some news on Gabe's show today!'News, and rumor, travel fast in this age. Before he left the building,Tony Bullock in Washington had calls from the Associated Press in Albany,from a TV station in Buffalo, from Fox News and from Moynihan's formerpress secretary Tim Russert, now with NBC, all on the line at the samemoment. And they were just the first of several dozen calls. The reporterstried out one hypothesis after another, each more fantastic than the onebefore. Some asked whether Moynihan hated Chuck Schumer (Charles E.Schumer, newly elected to the other New York Senate seat) and was quittingin protest. Or was he scared that Alfonse D'Amato might run for his seat?Had he, perhaps, fainted on the Pressman show?In the new age of American media, Bullock reflected, the age of CNN,MSNBC, Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, the Internet, NY 1, Geraldo and the restof them, the pace was getting crazy. If they couldn't get a quote, inBullock's rueful experience, they would be happy to make things up, orfill the endless hours of airtime with speculation from pundits, includingenemies who would not hesitate to use the opportunity to do as much damageas they could to the senator's reputation. He wondered whether the senatorand the senator's wife, both bred to politics before this circusatmosphere had taken hold, fully understood how nasty and angry the mediawere getting now that they were feeling bounced by a major story withoutwarning.Gabe Pressman got his scoop, but only just. At 6:04 p.m., an hour afterMoynihan's news broke, it was announced that Newt Ging-rich, Speaker of the House, was resigning. That bumped Moynihan'sretirement from the lead in the New York Times, and the editorialcommenting on it into second place. Nationally, Moynihan's depar-ture had been largely upstaged by that of Gingrich. 'No matter,' Moynihancommented. 'Everyone has been wonderfully kind, and it's over.'The faithful Bullock was left alone with his cell phone, trying to keepthe stories going in the right direction. Somehow at the end of a day ofchaos and panic it seemed that Liz had been right all along, that this wasa much better way to do it. 'No managed event, thank you kindly. They didit on impulse and gut feeling. In all their political decisions they seemto know instinctively what will work and what will not.' In retrospect hefelt what they did was masterly. They had caught the press asleep at theswitch and slipped a pivotal decision through in the aftermath of thesurprise Democratic victories in the midterm elections.Actually, the Moynihans had decided after the 1994 election that it wouldbe time to go in 2000. A whole web of subtle calculations and feelingswent into that decision. One was Liz's wish to see more ofa husband who had been bound on the wheel of politics and pub-lic service since they married more than forty years before. There wereindeed health problems, though they were not in themselves enough toprecipitate a decision to quit. The crucial question was not whetherMoynihan would run for a fifth term in 2000. That they had decided hewould not do. The all-important decision was about timing. The Democraticvictories in the midterms, and especially the fact there would still be aDemocratic senior senator from New York in the shape of Charles Schumer,were satisfying and invigorating for a New York Democratic party that hadbeen divided and demoralized for years. But it is impossible to avoid thesuspicion that even the possibility of having to run in a primary againstCarl McCall, an African American, was a deciding factor.For a McCall-versus-Moynihan clash in the New York Democratic primarywould have unleashed the demons of race, those demons Moynihan feared morethan anything for his beloved city. They were demons that had also pursuedhim personally through the two most traumatic political experiences of hislife. One was the reception of the so-called 'Moynihan Report' on thecrisis of the African American family, the other was the rage that hadgreeted the leaking of a memorandum he had written to President Nixon,saying that what the issue of race in America needed was a period of'benign neglect.' As Moynihan saw it, he had been pursued by the Furiesafter those episodes in 1965 and 1970. He bitterly resented the way he hadbeen accused of racism. A primary campaign against an African American,even a distinguished man whom he personally liked and respected, was boundto summon up the never wholly dormant issues of racial hostility in NewYork. Moynihan himself commented merely that a McCall run in the primary'would have been the beginning of Lord knows how many months of peoplesaying, 'Will he run?' 'Shouldhe run?' which would gradually turn into, 'Hasn't he been theretoo long?''5The timing of his extrication from New York politics having been thusmanaged with inspired opportunism, the tributes duly flowed richly in frommedia and politicos alike. 'A Giant Still Walks Among Us,' the Daily Newshad headlined a column a few months earlier about whether Moynihan mightretire.6 'For all the talk about his cerebral skills,' said the New YorkPost now, 'nobody did more to bring home the bacon for New York.'7 'A truestatesman,' said Republican Governor George Pataki,8 and Republican NewYork Mayor Rudolph Giuliani echoed him: 'New Yorkers will lose a greatpublic servant and a loyal friend.'9 Few people in our history, saveThomas Jefferson, said Moynihan's close friend in the Senate, Bob Kerreyof Nebraska, have had as much impact on our nation and on our governmentas Daniel Patrick Moynihan.10 One of the half dozen most brilliant menever to sit in the United States Senate, said someone. Vice President AlGore responded promptly, calling Moynihan 'both an extraordinary publicservant as well as a visionary thinker . . . More than anyone, SenatorMoynihan has been consistently ahead of the curve.'11 From Highfill,Arkansas, the president of the United States, whom Moynihan had attackedalmost contemptuously on health care in 1993 and 1994 and angrily savagedon welfare in 1996, felt moved to issue a statement saying that Moynihan'slife story could have been written by Horatio Alger. 'His rise from a poorchildhood in New York City's Hell's Kitchen to his place as the mostpopular elected statewide official in New York during four Senate terms isan inspirational life story.'12Leaving aside the detail that Moynihan did not spend his childhood inHell's Kitchen, the substance of Clinton's tribute is true. The odds weresurely stacked high against a boy with his start in life making it to theUnited States Senate as 'the gentleman from New York.' Disaster befell hismother and her three children when Moynihan's father, a talentedjournalist and publicist, but also a gambler and drinker, abandoned them.When young Moynihan was at Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem,or even when he was sitting in Governor Averell Harriman's outer office inAlbany, entertaining supplicants with his rich repertoire of jokes andanecdotes, no one would have given a cent for his chances of climbing tothe top. He himself sees his career as a series of serendipitous 'chanceencounters and random walks.' One such chance encounter led him to studyat City College of New York, and a random walk took him into a navyrecruiting office that opened the highway of advancement.A better metaphor, perhaps, might be to say that a political career is notlike the steady, powered impetus of a locomotive. It is more like asailboat. To keep afloat on the mighty, unpredictable waters of publicopinion, the political navigator must know how to avoid the most dangerousstorms, tack against adverse winds, and when the wind drops to a calm,catch the lightest breeze that will keep him on course.A superficial reading of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's half century inpolitics would see him tacking broadly from left to right and then to theleft again. He started out as something pretty close to the ideal type ofNew Deal Democrat of the two decades after the death of Franklin DelanoRoosevelt. The word liberal has fallen into some disrepute. But the youngman who returned from London, where he had instinctively felt at home inthe social democratic Labour party of the postwar years, to work forAverell Harriman in New York started with political beliefs pretty typicalof the Cold War liberals of his generation. He never had any sympathy withcommunism, perhaps in part because he was brought up in a world of fierceCatholic anticommunism, in part because, unlike some of his friends andintellectually gifted contemporaries, he never felt the slightesttemptation to embrace Marxist ideas. And perhaps because of the Irishinfluences of his childhood, he instinctively felt more at home with the'regulars' in Democratic politics, as opposed to the 'reformers,' who whenhe was growing up in New York were more apt to be Jews or Wasps. He feltperfectly comfortable working for Governor Averell Harriman, a patricianwith a penchant for reform. From Albany, or rather from Syracuse, where herisked being becalmed by a contract to write the history of Harriman'sadministration, it was inevitable that Moynihan would trim every sail tocatch the breeze that would waft him to work for John F. Kennedy.Moynihan made good use of his time in the Kennedy administration. Droppedalmost by chance into a job at the Labor Department which put him incharge of research, Moynihan exploited not expertise as a socialscientist, for at that stage his knowledge was limited and notparticularly specialized, but an instinct for understanding the way socialscience could illuminate the issues in politics. A few years later,steered by chance into the Education Department at Harvard (he latersucceeded in moving to the Government Department), he duly transferred hisattention to education. Before long he had contrived to turn a seminar oneducation into a powerful tool for criticizing many of the liberalassumptions of social science generally.The liberalism of the 1950s and 1960s'and it spread broadly in those daysacross the Republican as well as the Democratic party'saw political actionas almost the executive arm of social science. Capitalism works, theliberals (as opposed to the Left) accepted. By increasing productivity, itgenerated economic growth. This in turn made it possible to meet people'sneeds, and a surprising numberof their dreams, out of incremental resources; thus the class conflictspredicted by Marx were unnecessary. So social problems, like industrialproblems, could be solved. The problems must be identified'poverty,ignorance, disease, inequality, teenage delinquency, racial injustice, itmade no difference. Programs could be, must be, designed to solve them, bygovernment leaders informed and enlightened by social science. Money andother skilled resources, such as trained social scientists, would beapplied to the problems as 'inputs.' The 'outputs' would be predictable.The problems would be solved.Later, indeed not much later, Moynihan and his friends, especially thoseassociated with the journal The Public Interest, developed a powerfulcritique of the way politicians in the Age of Liberalism had exaggeratedwhat social science could do for them. They came to believe that socialscience had no business proposing policy; its proper role was limited tomonitoring government action, not designing it. But for a time, in theKennedy and Johnson administrations, Moynihan did share the generalassumptions of optimistic, 'can-do' liberalism. That was the style, aswell as the philosophy, of those two Democratic administrations.Moynihan played a significant part in three rather typical politicalenterprises of that period. He produced, and wrapped in a typicallyRooseveltian phrase, 'One Third of a Nation,' a report on why so manyyoung men failed the physical and mental tests for selectiveservice. He threw himself into the Johnson administration's War onPoverty, setting himself, with some courage, against those who werecarried away by the contemporary social science craze for 'communityaction.' With the practicality of someone who had actually experiencedpoverty, he argued instead that what the poor needed was simply money. Hewrote what came to be known as the 'Moynihan Report,' but whose real titlewas 'The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.' Nothing could bemore representative of the liberal way of thinking. Social science datashowed that African American families were in crisis because, even whenthe economy picked up and black men no longer lost their jobs, they stillleft their children and the children's mothers. Very well: the dataconstituted a case for national action.Yet the report was to be tied around Moynihan's neck like the ancientmariner's albatross. 'The man hath penance done . . .' In the complicatedway in which events are always shaped by chance, Moynihan, havingsucceeded in inserting into the Johnson administration's thinking hisideas about what was happening to the demographics of the black family,left the country, not as it happens for a pointless junket or awell-deserved rest, but an official trip to what was then Yugoslavia. Whathe learned there powerfully influenced one of the strongest strands of histhinking, his belief in the supremacy of ethnicity over class indetermining political loyalties. 'Blood,' he came to believe, 'is strongerthan class.'13 While he was out of the country, he became drawn into thebitter rivalries of the New York Democratic party. His name was floatedfor mayor; then that possibility evaporated. Instead, he found himself onthe losing side in a primary race for president of the New York CityCouncil.To run for office, he had to quit his job in the Johnson administrationand somehow the manner of his quitting aroused the powerful, if oftenirrational, resentment of President Johnson. So Moynihan found himselfwithout a job, either in Washington or New York. Worse was to come.Savage, racially motivated rioting broke out in Watts, in South CentralLos Angeles. It was not the first of the racial riots of the 1960s, but itwas the first on a scale that alerted the national government and thewhole country to how badly, even as things were improving for Southernblacks, they were going wrong in the big cities outside the South.Journalists cottoned to the idea that a 'secret' document called the'Moynihan Report' contained the administration's assessment of what hadgone wrong. (It was not in fact secret, though it had not been given widecirculation.) They either read and misunderstood the Report, or'moreoften'read the inaccurate interpretations of others. Moynihan became acelebrity, but in a way that threatened to be disastrous for his politicalcareer. The albatross had been firmly tied around the mariner's neck.Most of the press coverage was in fact respectful. Moynihan found himselfregarded by both academia and by NBC as an expert on 'the cities,' aphrase that had become the new euphemism for racial conflict. But therewere two segments of society who did not like theimplication they read in the Report, that the unemployment, pov-erty and family breakdown that afflicted individual black men and women inurban ghettos were somehow 'caused' by a generic phenomenon, specific toAfrican Americans and caused by their history, called 'the crisis of theNegro family.' That is not what Moynihan had written. Indeed it came closeto being the opposite of what he said. But many black people, or at leastin the first instance many black intellectuals, felt that he had displayedinsensitivity, bordering on racism. And at least some white intellectualson the liberal Left agreed. They accused Moynihan of 'blaming the victim.'And some openly charged him with racism.The effect on Moynihan was profound. The bright hopes of 1963 had beenripped away. The president with whom he identified to some degree, and inwhom he had reposed his political hopes, both for the country and forhimself, was dead. He had tried, and in the end failed, to win the trustof his successor. Suddenly he found himself without a job in the executivebranch, his political career in New York apparently over before it hadbegun and now unjustly reviled for a serious attempt to understand aprofound social problem. It was a bitter time, and he was bitter. He wentthrough a crisis of depression, a dark night of the soul.It is also true that, seen from the outside, nothing terribly disastroushappened. The very day that Moynihan learned he had lost in the New Yorkprimary, he had a very pleasant offer of a year at the Center for AdvancedStudies at Wesleyan University, a delightful place, where, to everyexternal eye, he and Liz were as happy as could be. And before theacademic year was over, he had received what many academics would killfor, an invitation to join the faculty at Harvard. He moved to Cambridge.He became the director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies, run byHarvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before long he leda faculty seminar, on education and equality, that attracted moreattention than anything of its kind in Cambridge since Henry Kissinger'sdisarmament seminars in the 1950s.Yet within himself, Moynihan did go through a crisis in the late 1960s,and so did the country. His generation, that of those just old enough tohave been actively involved in World War II, were filled with a burstingoptimism'all the more so if, like Pat Moynihan, they had not actually beenexposed to the blood and the dirt, the fear and the emotional trauma ofcombat. The country seemed to be on a roll. The war ended the Depression,and tens of millions found themselves better off than their parents hadever dreamed they could be. For those who had been in the service, the GIBill and other forms of educational opportunity made a college educationsomething they could all expect. Not that the 1950s were a serene decade.They were years of conformity, of repressive attitudes to sex and family,political intolerance. But they were also, especially for a bright youngman like Pat Moynihan, from a middle-class family that had fallen on hardtimes, a time of hope and unprecedented opportunity.The only cloud, it seemed at first, lay overseas, in the menacing shape ofthe Soviet Union and its communist and fellow-traveling allies. Inretrospect it is remarkable that in his eloquent inaugural address,President John Kennedy did not so much as mention any domestic problems inAmerican society; he called on Americans to gird themselves for an epicstruggle against the dark forces of communism. It was a speech RonaldReagan might have given. Within three years the national self-perceptionhad changed diametrically. President Kennedy himself had beenassassinated. If, more than a third of a century later, no plausiblealternative explanation has appeared, and it looks as if his murder wasreally the random act of a deranged individual, few were content with thatinterpretation at the time. The assassination, and more specificallyKennedy's replacement by Lyndon Johnson, came'illogically butunmistakably'to symbolize a crisis of authority.The Cold War intensified. If Kennedy successfully negotiated asatisfactory resolution of the threat posed by the Cuban missile crisis,he plunged the country deeper and deeper into disastrous courses in hishandling of Southeast Asia. By 1963 the country was heading towarda great quarrel over the ethics and expediency of intervention inVietnam.Perhaps more damaging still, by the middle of the decade the successfulcrusade for civil rights for black Americans in the South had given way torioting and bitter racial conflict in the North. All thenation's largest and most important cities, New York, Chicago, LosAngeles, Washington and Detroit, among others, were loud with riot andanger.The consensus politics of the 1950s were replaced by a new poli-tics of confrontation. The war not only divided Americans over the ethicsof their foreign policy; for many it seemed that the country had abandonedits deepest anticolonial traditions, or exposed itself to humiliation. Theracial crisis in the North was shocking, even frightening, for those whohad assumed that race prejudice and inequality were residual problems,essentially for the South. All three crises'of authority, over the war andabout race'were especially acute for those, like Moynihan from 1966, 1967and onward, who were involved in teaching college students, and inresearching into the sociology and politics of race.There were many among his contemporaries and peers who allowed their faithin the decency and efficacy of American political institutions to beshaken by this triple barrage. Not Moynihan. His anger was directed, notagainst 'the System,' but against those who gave up on traditionalAmerican beliefs. He was bitterly scornful of what he saw as cowardly oropportunistic liberals. So much so that he never has ceased to denouncewhat he felt was the hypocritical stance of those who railed against asystem that had guaranteed them a comfortable upper-middle-classlifestyle. For a time he even identified publicly with those,conservatives and neoconservatives, who shared his dislike for what theysaw as liberal hypocrisy. But, and this point is absolutely crucial tounraveling the apparently strange meandering of his political course,while he criticized the inconsistencies and failures of liberalism, henever wholeheartedly went over and joined its enemies. Many see him ashaving sailed on a great circle from classic liberalism, by way ofneoconservatism, back to a contemporary version of a traditionalDemocratic liberal position. Moynihan himself insists that it has not beenhe who has moved.True, he did startle his friends and even shocked his wife in 1968 bydeciding to work for Richard Nixon. This was not entirely an opportunisticcareer move; nor was it motivated solely by what he saw as the unfairtreatment he had received at the hands of his former liberal allies. Hehoped that Nixon would give him the scope to do what the Johnsonadministration had not allowed him to do, namely to eliminate poverty inAmerica and in so doing to save the American family. More than that, heactually admired Richard Nixon, even thoughhe instinctively distrusted him and many of his lieutenants. When Nixon'sloyalists were heading for the penitentiary or out the door, Moynihan, ina quixotic gesture, risked his whole career by volunteering to go back towork for a man by then almost past saving.14Although Moynihan could not quite bring himself to admit it, Nixon hadalready let him down. Although the president was persuaded to sendMoynihan's visionary bid to end poverty, the Family Assistance Plan, toCongress, in the end he was not willing to fight for it. Although heenjoyed Moynihan's company and appreciated the gloss of literary cultureand the intellectual weight he lent, Nixon did not seriously attempt tosave Moynihan from his opponents within the White House. Even before thefirst anniversary of his going to work for Nixon in November 1968,Moynihan had been outmaneuvered by the dour stalwarts of Nixon's palaceguard.By the time those same loyalists were being exposed on national televisionby Senator Sam Ervin's hearings in 1973, Moynihan was out of Washington asthe U.S. ambassador to India. Marooned in the heat and dust of New Delhi'spolitical aviary, he had time to reflect on the crumbling of Nixon's andhis hopes, and in the end to rescue his fortunes with a knight's move. Hewas shaken by the disintegration of the American position in the world asa result of Watergate and of the energy crisis, of the imminent loss ofthe Vietnam War and the cool aggression with which the Soviet Union, underLeonid Brezhnev, was taking every advantage that showed itself on theworld chess board. He determined to hazard his career for a new fortune bydoing what he could to stiffen America's stance in a hostile world.Moynihan's move was to write a long article portraying the United Statesas being 'in opposition,' meaning almost 'in eclipse.'15 He shocked thosewho saw the United States as the popular hero ofthe developing world by suggesting that the dominant ideology in thecountries emerging from colonialism was neither Soviet communism nor theAmerican version of democracy, but a kind of statist social democracyderived more from the London School of Economics than from either Moscowor Washington. The thesis was in some respects simplistic. It owedsomething to memories of arguments with Indian students in London twentyyears before, something to the irritations of an ambassador isolated inIndira Gandhi's leftish Delhi, but more to the demands of the author's owntricky political situation. It met those demands brilliantly. On thestrength of it, and of the way it caught the wind of a new, irritableAmerican attitude toward the outside world, Moynihan found himself on hisway, not back to Harvard to teach Government 251 ('Ethnicity in AmericanPolitics'), but to confront the massed diplomatic champions of the ThirdWorld and their bid, egged on by the Soviet Union, to destroy thelegitimacy and ultimately the security of Israel by declaring that Zionismmust be equated with racism.Moynihan's time at the United Nations as U.S. ambassador during the Fordadministration was stormy and frenetic. His deep instincts were aroused bythe Zionism resolution. He had lived among Jews all his life, of course,and some of the people closest to him, including Nathan Glazer, IrvingKristol, Suzanne Weaver (later Garment) and many others, were Jewish. Hislifelong antipathy to communism was at bay too. He felt there wassomething indecent, in human terms, about the attempt to equate Zionism,the survival instinct of a noble people that had come close to beingpersecuted out of existence, with racism, the vulgar prejudice that hadbeen, precisely, the cause of the Jewish people's catastrophe.He also saw more clearly than most people in Washington that there wassomething threatening in political terms about the campaign behind theresolution. It was a peculiarly crass example ofwhat had been the Soviet strategy since the leadership in Moscowrealized, in Khrushchev's time, that frontal assault on the West wasfutile. The Kremlin's best hope of spreading the influence of communismwould be to convert or subvert the Third World. So Moynihan waded into thebattle in a strange mood: the berserker warrior, swinging his battle-axround his head, but at the same time constantly looking suspiciously overhis shoulder for fear that someone, probably Henry Kissinger, was out toget him.Kissinger did get him, in the sense that he was eventually forced out ofthe United Nations job; but not before he had snatched a kind of victoryfrom defeat on the resolution itself. He had also recouped his politicalcareer. In 1976, after a desperately close and bitter primary race againstCongresswoman Bella Abzug, he was elected to the Senate. Eleven and a halfyears after his decision to leave the Johnson administration, and aftereight years working for Republican presidents, he was back in Washington,as a Democratic senator from New York.It is worth noticing just how fast he moved. He was less than a year atWesleyan. He was at Harvard for two periods of two years, with an addedorphan semester. Three years in the White House, with the period of hissignificant influence on policy over in less than a year. Roughly twoyears in India. Under one year at the United Nations. It is a record thatsuggests impatience, dissatisfaction, persistent difficulty in getting onwith superiors and the troubled emotions that afflict a man of immenseability and energy who cannot quite find the right task and is afraid thathis time will run out before he does; and something of all this was trueof his mood from 1965 to 1975. Contrast that tumultuous decade with fourterms in the Senate as a figure of growing influence, and'in spite of manyfrustrations'increasing serenity.The explanation, it is plain, lies in the way his personal crisis, whichwas intellectual as well as emotional, tracked and meshed with a crisis inthe life of the country and, if it is legitimate to personify a greatnation, of its successive moods.A child of the Depression and the war, rescued from poverty and affordedboundless opportunity by the postwar revolution in educationalopportunity, Moynihan grew up sharing the national confidence of the1950s. Then the national crisis of confidence of the 1960s hit him morepainfully than most.He was identified to some on college campuses as an enemy of the New Left,and so in general he was, though he could show great understanding andinsight into what made gifted young people rebel.16 He was targeted as adissenter from the ideas of the New Left andas 'blaming the victim.' He was a teacher, and university academ-ics were more likely than most to experience student rebellion as a threatto cherished institutions. He was the target of a more or lessserious threat to destroy his house in 1969.17 He was an expert on 'urbanaffairs,' and as such had seen for himself how ill-conceived andineffective were the fashionable nostrums proposed by liberal socialscientists. Once again, therefore, he put his head above the parapet to beshot at by all those who wanted either to defend traditional liberalassumptions or find scapegoats for their failure. After he went to workfor Richard Nixon, he inherited, and fully reciprocated, the fierceliberal hatred of Nixon.In all these respects he experienced in exaggerated form what the countryas a whole was experiencing. Moynihan and his friends felt an activecommitment to the proposition that American society, contrary to what theradicals were proclaiming, was for all its faults fundamentally healthy.It was for him, therefore, a duty to try to correct error, denounce whathe saw as lying and persuade doubters of the underlying strength anddecency of America.When he first arrived in the Senate, there was a danger that he wouldbecome the captive of a small group of neoconservative intellectuals, onhis staff and off. To some extent he had been taken up by this group afterthe collapse of Senator Henry 'Scoop' Jackson's unsuccessful campaign forthe presidency in 1976. Some of these people dreamed of replacing Jacksonwith Moynihan as the Democratic presidential nominee, seeing him as acentrist who could rescue the party from liberal heresies in domesticpolitics and soft-boiled attitudes in foreign policy alike. As anysuccessful first-term senator does, Moynihan flirted briefly with the ideaof a presidential campaign, but only in his own mind and in guardedconversation with a few friends. Certainly there was no 'overt act,' nopolitical initiative, to launch a presidential bid.By 1981, therefore, all unawares, Ronald Reagan had done Moynihan two bigfavors. He had cured him of any lingering temptation to run for president;after the shooting attempt on Reagan's life in March 1981 it was plainthat any attempt to unseat him would be futility itself. And he hadreconfirmed the senator in his lifelong loyalty to the Democratic party.(He was, he once said, 'baptized a Catholic and born a Democrat.') Thesimilarities between Moynihan and Reagan, though superficial, areintriguing. Both had family backgrounds in the Middle West (Reagan inIllinois, Moynihan in Indiana), though Moynihan was taken to New York as achild and soon ceased even to spend family vacations in Indiana. Both hadfathers who were Irish Democrats and alcoholics. Both started out asactive New Deal liberals; indeed both were on the board of Americans forDemocratic Action, the liberal high command. Both were shocked by thepolitical revival of the Left in the 1960s, and by the cultural upheavalthat accompanied and ultimately buried it. Both were especially angry withstudent radicalism.But there the similarities end. Beginning when he was presidentof the Screen Actors Guild, but at an accelerating pace after he went towork for General Electric, Reagan soon became an icon of thenew conservatism that had emerged from the debacle of BarryGoldwater's 1964 campaign for the White House. Moynihan worked for RichardNixon in the White House. But he never missed an opportunity to make itplain that he was not one of the president'smen, that he remained a Democrat, and an opponent of the Vietnam War.18 Asa lifelong anticommunist, Moynihan had no difficulty in representing firstNixon, then Gerald Ford, as ambassador, first in New Delhi, then at theUnited Nations.He campaigned for the Democratic nomination in New York with the welcomehelp of conservative Democrats, and as an avowed opponent of the brand ofNew York liberalism embodied by Bella Abzug. But that was as far to theRight as he would go. Once arrived on Capitol Hill, he understood that hisfirst duty was to New York State. His political interest lay in gettingthe utmost for his constituents from the only source capable of deliveringresources on the requisite scale: the federal government. He quickly sawthrough the Reagan administration's strategic plans for destroying theAmerican welfare state by running up a deficit so huge that only deep cutsin social expenditure could prevent federal bankruptcy. At the same timehe also saw that the Reagan administration's serious foreign policy, whichinvolved challenging and at the same time negotiating with the SovietUnion, was being put at risk by ignorant wild men who were out of control.Moynihan took the behavior of the CIA in Central America and the way inwhich its agents tried to conceal what they were doing from the SenateIntelligence Committee, of which he was vice chairman, as a personalinsult. And he came to see the attempt to circumvent the will of Congressin the Iran-contra affair as little short of a coup d'tat againstconstitutional government.Long before Reagan left the White House in 1988, in short, Moynihan hadreturned to the political allegiance of his youth, if he had ever left it.In the process he had become one of the most reliable, as well as one ofthe most eloquent, opponents of the Reagan administration and theconservative Republicans in Congress. As an increasinglyinfluential member, and briefly as chairman, of the Senate FinanceCommittee, he concerned himself with many aspects of public finance. Hisspecial interests were'as his past experience would have predicted'intaxation, social security, welfare and education. He tried, and failed, toput together a health reform package that could attract broad bipartisansupport, then managed to extricate from the ruins of the Clinton healthcare project massive resources for health care research, which is afterall one of New York's major industries. As a ranking member, and for atime chairman, of the Environment and Public Works Committee, he leftbehind an impressive record. He helped to craft, and to steer throughCongress, a massively ambitious transportation bill that reversed morethan a generation of discrimination in favor of highways and against masstransit.For all the high praise lavished on Moynihan when he announced that hewould leave the Senate, however, the Washington insiders' view of hisperformance there was less flattering. It was conceded that he was anornament, 'the kind of person,' one friend-turned-opponent says,19 'theFounding Fathers would have wanted in theSenate: urbane, witty, scholarly, wise, eloquent. But what will he leavebehind?'Two knowledgeable and influential groups of people, in particular, take apoor view of Moynihan's performance as a legislator: the neoconservativeintellectuals, and some of his fellow senators and, especially, theirstaffs. Irving Kristol, his old comrade-in-arms at The Public Interest andeven before that his editor on The Reporter, speaks for theneoconservatives generally. To Kristol, Moynihan is 'a highly intelligentman' and a 'significant' but not an 'important' man. (He didn't elaborateon the distinction.)20It is revealing, Kristol went on, that there is no 'Moynihan bill' that hewill be known by. There could have been. Fellowship or scholarship funds,something like the Fulbright scholarships. The reason, according toKristol, is that Moynihan is not interested in legislation. He likes touse the Senate as a place to influence debate. He is a 'pussycat,' saysKristol. He has always avoided hard issues because he doesn't want peopleto dislike him.Kristol is right that there are many, both senators and espe-cially their staff, who do not hold an extravagantly high view ofMoynihan's qualities. Some talk about the difficulty he has had in gettingand especially in keeping good staff. 'Treats them like shit,' one man whohas dealt with Moynihan in the Clinton White House said bluntly. 'In thegeneral scheme of things,' a veteran journalist observer of Congress toldme, 'I think he is a great man. But he can be vindictive. He is a pedant,and that annoys many of his colleagues. He enunciates the exact word withevery sign of great inner satisfaction. That antagonizes his colleagues.He is not hail-fellow-well-met. There is an emotional moat around him. Hecan be obsequious, but he is not approachable.'21Others are even more critical, even contemptuous. Politics is a roughgame, and some of them have gone against Moynihan and lost. One man whoheld 'the Moynihan portfolio' in the Clinton White House professes toadmire Moynihan's intelligence and the range of ideas he can address. Buthe calls him 'a gadfly.' He has led a charmed life with the press, thisman told me. 'The reporters go light on his ineffectiveness as alegislator.' In fact, he said, Moynihan has 'an inability to act as alegislator at all. It is not in his character to make the friendships, towrite the chits.' This judgment, of course, proceeds from a certainpreconception of what it is that a legisla-tor does.A former Moynihan staffer, however, who has gone on to a career ofconsiderable influence in Washington, acknowledges some of thesecriticisms. 'He thinks anecdotally,' he said. 'He thinks in narrative. Hecares a lot about what intellectuals think of him. He is an intellectualhimself, but he is not an academic. He doesn't think with the precision ofa first-rate academic.' This same witness flatly denies criticisms of theway Moynihan treats his staff, saying that on the contrary he may push hisstaff hard, but he backs them up, even when they make mistakes.'I'm not one of those who thinks he was an ineffective legislator,' saysformer Republican Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Bob Packwood ofOregon. 'And boy! Was he looking out for the interests of New York!'22 Andformer Majority Leader Bob Dole says, 'Pat was always perceived as theintellectual of the Senate, but he was obviously effective in a differentway. At the committee levelhe was very protective of the interests of New York. He was known for hiscandor and fairness. But Pat can count. He always under-stood where the votes were.' But he wasn't a conventional legislativecraftsman? I asked. 'No, but he was a big-picture craftsman.'23'He is the most successful intellectual in electoral politics,' said RobShapiro, who worked for Moynihan from 1981 to 1986.24 'He is oftenlampooned as a figure out of the Victorian Raj. But he has a greatintuitive grasp of popular politics. He always manages to position himselfas a critic of the conventional wisdom. He sees what other people don'tsee. But his great political art is to point it out. The liberals saw himas a deserter in a period of liberal politics, then the conservatives sawhim as a deserter in a period of conservative politics.' He is notinterested in power, Shapiro judges, he is more interested in reputation.'That's why the appeal of the Senate has been so great. He likes the senseof personal dignity, the way it allows him to be a gentleman.'Daniel Patrick Moynihan is a prophet, in the Greek or Old Testamentmeaning of the word. Not just in the sense that he can foretell thefuture, though on a rather impressive range of issues, from the welfarecrisis in the inner cities, to the impending collapse of the Soviet Union,to the danger of ethnic conflict in the Balkans, he has shown an almostuncanny flair for seeing the importance of questions that had not yet comeup on other people's screens.The Greek word prophetes, from which we derive our word prophet, means onewho speaks out. Moynihan speaks out. He dares to think for himself, and tosay what he thinks, even if it hurts himself or others. He has done it upand down the East Coast, from New York to Washington and Cambridge andback to New York and Washington again, these nearly fifty years. He is inreality the modern equivalent of a prophet, which is to say that he is atheart a journalist.If he had not been a professor or a politician, I like to think that hewould have been the greatest columnist of his day. His greatest gift is tohandicap the intellectual horses. He picks up tips about their form,decides which ones will run and run and sticks his intellectual and politi-cal wad on the ones he thinks will be winners. There have been some slowcoaches and some fallers. But the record of his form book is trulyimposing.At the same time there has been a core of principle and consistency.Moynihan, one of his staff told me, has his 'permanent agenda.' At theheart of it is a double credo. Charles de Gaulle began his great warmemoirs by saying that, from the start, he had a certain idea of France,and that France would not be France unless it was great.25 Pat Moynihanhas always set before himself an image of the United States that woulddeserve its own greatness through magnanimity to its own citizens and tothe world. Second, he has always understood that, however importantprivate enterprise and voluntary associations might be'churches,universities, political parties'greatness could not be achieved by theuncoordinated actions of individual citizens alone, still less as aby-product of maximizing the shareholder value of corporations.Moynihan is not primarily a liberal, still less a conservative. His friendJohn Kenneth Galbraith says, 'You will never understand Pat in terms ofcommitment to Left or Right. He has a mind wholly free from ideologicalcommitments. His long-term commitment is to cities, to the poor andespecially to poor children.'  Some would say he is a Progressive. Butthese adjectives are only labels. What even his fiercest critics wouldagree with is that Moynihan has been as prolific of political ideas as anypracticing politician of his generation.This book will be a parade of those ideas and their evolution. But firstwe will have to turn over the soil of experience in which they grew, in aclouded childhood, a youth of gradually opening opportunity in and out ofthe city of New York, and formative years in London.Copyright (c) 2000 by Godfrey Hodgson. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.",biographies & memoirs;books;leaders & notable people;legislative branch;mid atlantic;political;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;regional u.s.;united states,11
1571457917,"Uncover a Race Car: An Uncover It Book Paul Beck has been writing about science for kids and adults most recently for Popular Science magazine and interactive science exhibits. He is especially interested in high tech applications for music and linguistics. His Music and Psychology Bachelor of Arts are from the University of Colorado, his Linguistics Master is from the University of Washington. He resides in Seattle, Washington. Stephan Kuhn obtained his basic drawing education in the College of Arts and Crafts, Zurich. Hes an independent illustrator, drawing for advertisement, direct customers, and publishing houses. He prefers a combination of manual and digital drawing and painting techniques, but presents finished works digitally. His style tends toward the photo-realistic and highly detailed. Occasionally he does comics and caricature. The scale of his work ranges from small pins to world format posters and often has a colorful mood. Dave Dunford is an award winning graphic designer, illustrator and writer. He currently works as a freelance designer, illustrator and creative marketing consultant as well as off-campus Creative Director for two ad agencies out of his home studio.",automotive;books;cars & trucks;children's books;how things work;literature & fiction;nature & how it works;professional & technical;racing;science;transportation,11
1572551976,"Lionel and Amelia Ages 4^-6. Lionel Mouse lives in one mouse hole; Amelia lives nearby. Lionel loves keeping his mouse hole spick-and-span, while Amelia prefers her area to have a more lived-in look. When the two mice meet and visit each other's homes, each is shocked at the way the other lives--and intrigued. Lionel is soon throwing his clothes around, and Amelia tries to get her whole family to neaten up. After a while, both young mice decide they are happier doing what comes naturally, but both also take on just a bit of the opposite characteristic just for the fun of it. The message is the story, but the artwork is quite charming. Executed in pastels with pen-and-ink accents, the drawings feature two perky little mice who come across as their own characters. For larger collections.  Ilene Cooper",animals;books;children's books;education & reference;friendship;guinea pigs & squirrels;hamsters;literature & fiction;mice;self-esteem & self-respect;social situations,11
B000FJAPVA,"Einstein from 'B' to 'Z' (Einstein Studies) ""This book is really a collection of essays on Einstein's life and, as the title suggests, does not try to offer a complete picture of the great man. The essays are independent so you can read them in any order and, indeed, I found it easier to read them by looking at the essay titles and choosing the one that caught my eye. ...It is clear that this is a very well researched book by a man who has written about Einstein and his work for over forty years and is the current Director of the Boston University Centre for Einstein Studies. The book does manage to paint a human picture of Einstein rather than try to build on the popular legend and there is no doubt that it will beused by historians as well as mathematicians and natural scientists as one ofthe most reliable studies of the man. It is the sort of book that one would expect to find in the library of all schools and universities.""  --The Mathematical Gazette  ""This welcome addition to the Einstein Studies book series presents a collection of selected articles and talks on Albert Einstein prepared over the past 25 years by John Stachel, the founding editor of the Collected Works of Albert Einstein. ...The articles selected survey the subject from different angles without going into too much technical detail, which makes them accessible to a wide audience of readers. ...The present volume can be recommended as a brief introduction into the life and work of Einstein. Thanks to sensibly provided annotations and references, it may also serve well as a departure point for deeper studies.""  --Zentralblatt Math	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	John Stachel, the author of this collection of 37 published and unpublished articles on Albert Einstein, has written about Einstein and his work for over 40 years. Trained as a theoretical physicist specializing in the theory of relativity, he was chosen as the founding editor of The Collected papers of Albert Einstein 25 years ago, and is currently Director of the Boston University Center for Einstein Studies.  Based on a detailed study of documentary evidence, much of which was newly discovered in the course of his work, Stachel debunks many of the old (and some new) myths about Einstein and offers novel insight into his life and work. Throughout the volume, a new, more human picture of Einstein is offered to replace the plaster saint of popular legend. In particular, a youthful Einstein emerges from the obscurity that previously shrouded his early years, and much new light is shed on the origins of the special and general theories of relativity. Also discussed in some detail are Einstein's troubled relationship with his first wife, his friendships with other physicists such as Eddington, Bose, and Pauli, and his Jewish identity.  The essays are grouped thematically into the following areas:  * The Human Side  * Editing the Einstein Papers  * Surveys of Einstein's Work  * Special Relativity  * General Relativity  * Quantum Theory  * Einstein and Other Scientists  * Book Reviews  Because the essays are independent of one another, readers will be able to dip into this collection to satisfy varying interests. It will be of particular interest to historians of 20th century science, working physicists, and students, as well as to the many members of the general reading public who continue to be fascinated by aspects of Einstein's life and work.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",( e );a-z;albert;biographies & memoirs;books;einstein;history & philosophy;people;physics;relativity;science & math,11
0310226503,"Blinded by Might: Can the Religious Right Save America? Two ""insiders"" from the religious right explore why the Moral Majority has failed to accomplish its goals despite two decades of aggressive political maneuvering. Although the authors reveal secrets and lies, such as the fact that most of the Moral Majority's so-called ""state chapters"" are ""little more than a separate telephone line in a pastor's office,"" this is not a tawdry kiss and tell book. In fact, Dobson and Thomas strongly support most of the Christian values behind the organization's political machinery. But they have come to believe that politics is too corrupt and distorted an arena for Christians to use to enact social change.  Ed Dobson, who helped draft the Moral Majority platform and served as personal assistant to Jerry Falwell, offers a particularly compelling chapter in which he compares the U.S. to Northern Ireland, where Dobson grew up as a Protestant. ""We have politicized the gospel with our agendas,"" he writes. ""To be part of the Christian right is to be part of the Republican party. For some, this means to be a real Christian, you must be a Republican. That is heresy and is only a short distance from the extremism of my Irish counterparts.""  Ultimately, devout Christians and the people they are trying to influence are the most hurt by the corruption of church through politics, according to coauthor Cal Thomas, a former spokesperson for the Moral Majority. For example, by making the Pro-Life movement a political issue, he claims the Christian right has lost sight of more supportive antiabortion tactics, such as focusing on offering homes and finding jobs for destitute single mothers. Ultimately, the duo calls for a change in strategy--hoping to create followers of the Christian agenda through positive example, consistent living, and devout faith rather than brute political force. --Gail Hudson	According to syndicated columnist Thomas and minister Dobson, the Religious Right has done more harm than good. Once on the frontlines of the culture wars as adjutants in Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, the authors now call for ""unilateral disarmament"" by the Religious Right. If conservative religious leaders are to be effective, the authors say, they must use radically different strategies than they have until now. Thomas and Dobson contend that if the Religious Right's goal is to reclaim America for Christ, it must ask itself if both God and the government are the sources of hope. They claim that the government does not have the power to force virtue on people who do not want to be virtuous. The Religious Right, they note, has become ineffective because it has been acting like a political party or special interest group competing for a share of political power. Rather, say Thomas and Dobson, the movement should be modeling the message of Jesus as they seek cultural change. Although the authors emphasize their continuing commitment to the Religious Right, they note that ""we are calling for a longer-lasting endeavor than the one too many of us have devoted too much time to for too long."" The book offers a glimpse into the workings of the Religious Right as well as strong comments on the relationship between religion and politics in America. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Syndicated columnist Thomas and Grand Rapids pastor Dobson were Moral Majority board members and supporters of founder Jerry Falwell, but both became disillusioned and resigned from the organization. Both still support the Religious Right's objectives but believe that its leaders and many members take a self-destructive and flawed path to achieve them. Dobson had breakfast with President Clinton and provoked bitter criticism when he wrote favorably about the experience. Christians should not demonize opponents, he and Thomas argue, but should instead follow the example of Jesus in loving their enemies and forgiving sinners. They should not depend on government to legislate their agenda, since politicians place political survival above all else. The authors conclude that the Religious Right can be successful only if its adherents practice Christianity on a person-to-person level instead of relying on political action. Recommended for general collections.ARichard S. Watts, San Bernardino Cty. Lib., CACopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	According to [the authors], the Religious Right has done more harm than good...  -- Publishers Weekly, February 22, 1999When Ronald Reagan won the 1980 presidential election by a landslide, conservative Christians discovered what could happen when they flexed their electoral muscles. Suddenly, faith and politics seemed a promising matchand before the eyes of the astonished media, a new movement called the Moral Majority and its leader, Jerry Falwell, rocketed from obscurity to national prominence. The Religious Right was born. Today, with luminaries including Pat Robertson, James Dobson, James Kennedy, and Ralph Reed, the Right remains a powerful political force. Yet, despite nearly twenty years of vigorous and sophisticated activism, it has failed in its mission to end abortion, eliminate pornography, restore the shattered American family, and usher in a better world built on traditional values. Why? Few know the answers better than Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson. Former insiders with the Moral Majority, they share never-reported information on a movement they helped shape in order to show why it cannotand should notsucceed. And they tell what it will really take to stem the ungodliness that is sweeping our nation. Whenever the church cozies up to political power, it loses sight of its all-important mission to change the world from the inside out, writes Thomas. In blurring the lines between politics and Christianity, the Religious Right has traded the only power that can truly change Americathe Gospels power to transform heartsfor the methods of a kingdom that is of this world.  What, then, is the alternative? Given such critical issues as abortion and gay activism, are Christians to simply disengage from the political process? Hardly. Uninvolvement is not the answer, say the authors, but a shift in perspective. As Christians, they insist we must realize that Gods agenda does not rise or fall with political causes; and we must rediscover that our most potent influence is not the ballot booth, but lives that extend Gods grace in the home, in the workplace, and in all spheres of our culture. Blinded by Might calls us to realign ourselves with a kingdom infinitely more powerful and certain than politics, that advances initially through changed hearts that inevitably must change and impact government -- Publisher	It was 1980. They had just helped to elect their president, Ronald Reagan. They had millions of dollars, the attention of the national media, and a supposed army of mobilized followers. This was their moment to reverse decades of creeping secularism, intrusive socialism, threatening communism, and raging humanism. They called themselves the Moral Majority. But they failed. They failed in their first stated objectives to end abortion, eliminate pornography, restore the shattered American family, and usher in a better world in which traditional values were not only accepted but embraced. What happened? Why is America no better--and probably worse--after nearly twenty years of vigorous, sophisticated, and relentless political action by the church? Blinded by Might is the story of two men who were at the center of the Moral Majority. Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson, behind-the-scenes lieutenants to the architects of the religious right, argue that the reason the Moral Majority or any other religious-political movement cannot succeed is because they have been using the wrong tools in the wrong way for the wrong reasons. The authors retrace their own steps, showing why the efforts of people like Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed, and James Dobson were doomed from the start. They disclose never-reported inside information on a movement that they helped create in order to show why it failed. And they use their mistakes and the mistakes of others to point people of faith in a more positive direction. The authors call for unilateral disarmament by the religious right and a re-armament using different weapons and different strategies. This stirring book offers a new vision for America from the architects of the Moral Majority. And it shows how conservative Christianity offers hope for lasting transformation through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.	Cal Thomas is a syndicated columnist appearing in more than 450 newspapers. He took a five year sabbatical from journalism to be the Moral Majority's spokesman behind Jerry Falwell. Ed Dobson helped draft the Moral Majority's platform and served as a personal assistant to Jerry Falwell. He now pastors Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan	Authors Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson once believed the best way to fight the ""liberal agenda"" was to beat them at their own game. Mobilize voters. Organize boycotts. Get invited to the White House. And raise a ton of money to keep the war chest full. Not anymore. Blinded by Might takes you inside the early and heady days of the Moral Majority, tracing its well-intentioned but fatally flawed battle plan aimed at reversing America's slide into a moral wasteland. It shows how groups like the Christian Coalition, which stepped in when the Moral Majority ran out of steam, have not changed, cannot change, and will not change the trajectory of American culture. Written by two conservative Christians who worked closely with Jerry Falwell in the 1980's, Blinded by Might explains what you can do for your country that twenty years of heavily financed political activism has failed to do.	Cal Thomas is a syndicated columnist appearing in more than 475 newspapers. He took a five-year sabatical from journalism to be the Moral Majority's spokesman behind Jerry Falwell. He is the author of The Things That Matter Most.;Edward G. Dobson, pastor of Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, MI., was named ""Pastor of the Year"" by Moody Bible Institute in 1993. He is the author of Starting a Seeker-Sensitive Service and a contributing editor to Leadership magazine. He has served on the board of the Moral Majority and as a personal assistant to Jerry Falwell.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;church & state;history;politics & state;religion;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;world,11
0813390990,"Bettelheim: A Life And A Legacy Bruno Bettelheim was a legendary psychotherapist; a revered author of influential clinical studies on the lives of autistic children as well as popular Freudian interpretations of myth and fairy tale; and founder of the Orthogenic School of psychoanalysis in Chicago. Nina Sutton, an admirer of his work, found herself stunned by the Bettelheim Affair--the scandal that erupted after he killed himself in 1990, at the age of 86, when his reputation as a benevolent sage was besmirched by former patients who claimed that he had sadistically beaten them. Beginning her biography with an account of that scandal, Sutton proceeds to analyze the legacy of the man's work, relating it to his difficult life, and goes some way toward reclaiming Bettelheim's damaged reputation.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""When something bad happens to you,"" psychological innovator Bruno Bettelheim said, ""turn it around and use it."" He did. When the Nazis absorbed his Austrian homeland in 1938, Bettelheim was arrested for being a Jew and endured Buchenwald concentration camp for nearly a year. He arrived in the U.S. nearly penniless, armed with a doctorate in aesthetics. Never confessing he had no degree in psychology, he exploited his experience of psychoanalysis into an acclaimed and innovative career. Paris-based journalist Sutton, in what is almost a detective story, follows his rise to fame as he employed, in the words of one Bettelheim reviewer, ""insights gained in the laboratory of the author's own life."" His compulsion to master extreme situations impelled him to treat autistics (less effectively than he would claim) and to seek big grants that increased the pressure to claim research breakthroughs. However, psychiatric magic was often illusory, and bullying and condescension masked decades of anxieties compounded by survivor's guilt. Depressed and ill at 86, Bettelheim took his own life in 1990. Eulogies of the complex and stubborn Holocaust survivor as the ""soul doctor"" of mentally ill children were succeeded by indictments of him as arrogant and brutal. For this book, the first major biography of Bettelheim, Sutton, with sympathy, opens a closet of personal skeletons that will intrigue more than just professional psychologists. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In his lifetime (1903-90), Bruno Bettelheim was regarded as an authority on childrearing and a pioneer of psychoanalysis. His prolific writings ranged from his experiences as a survivor of Nazi concentration camps to the Freudian interpretation of fairy tales. During his 29 years as director of the University of Chicago's Orthogenic School, Bettelheim developed a unique form of milieu therapy, claiming a high rate of success with emotionally disturbed and autistic children. After his suicide, former students denounced him as brutal, and critics accused him of plagiarism, questioning his training and qualifications. In this first biography, certain to renew interest in Bettelheim's work, Sutton, a journalist and French correspondent for National Public Radio, assesses the life and work of this contradictory genius. In particular, she is able to explain Bettelheim's flaws in light of his early life in Vienna prior to his arrival in the United States. Recommended for academic and large public libraries.?Lucille M. Boone, San Jose P.L., Cal.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	After committing suicide in 1990, Bruno Bettelheim, the eminent child psychologist, had his reputation overhauled by a wave of posthumous accusations. His work with autistic children at the Orthogenic School of the University of Chicago, once viewed as miraculously successful, was portrayed as sadistic and irrelevant. Psychologists today remain divided over Bettelheim's work. Journalist Nina Sutton has written a remarkable psychological biography of this elusive Freudian disciple. The work is sympathetic to Bettelheim but thoroughly researched and persuasively written. Cleverly, Sutton uses Bettelheim's own psychological theories to explain the influence of his unhappy childhood and adolescence on his personality. A good reporter, Sutton weighs evidence and separates the facts of Bettelheim's past from fictions he invented. Most remarkable about this biography is the volume of evidence Sutton has retrieved. Most records of European Jewry were destroyed during World War II, but Sutton has amassed Bettelheim family documents from prewar Vienna and letters written by Bettelheim in the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps and cites publications from throughout his career. The end result is not so much a vindication of Bettelheim as a more accurate portrait of the man for the reader to judge.  Ted Leventhal	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A deeply sympathetic psychobiography of Bruno Bettelheim, the much honored yet controversial therapist who for nearly three decades directed the University of Chicago's Orthogenic School, a Freudian-based residential treatment center for disturbed children. When Sutton, Paris correspondent for National Public Radio and the London Daily News, began work on this biography in mid- 1990, Bettelheim had, she says, ``all the trappings of a saint.'' However, within weeks of his suicide that year, former patients began accusing him of brutality and sadism, creating a scandal that left even his close associates confused. To understand this complex man, Sutton begins by looking at his family--a syphilitic father, a mother who regarded him as ugly--and finds in his childhood the seeds of lifelong anger, shame, and self-contempt. In 1938 Bettelheim, a prosperous Viennese merchant becoming deeply involved in psychoanalysis, was arrested by the Nazis and spent ten months in concentration camps. At Buchenwald, says Sutton, Bettelheim, a chronic depressive, discovered the strength of his will to survive, a discovery that prompted him to devote his life to working with troubled children. His observations of human behavior at Buchenwald led to writings that established his reputation in the US, where he fled after his release in 1939. By the 1940s Bettelheim had become a new man, with a new profession, a new family, and even a new, self-invented past. Sutton concentrates on his years at the Orthogenic School, where ``his talent as a clinician sprang from his personality, his history, and his wounds.'' According to Sutton, his inner child took over at times, making him ``grandiose, demanding, provocative.'' That he exaggerated his success in treating autism and that he invented his professional background Sutton acknowledges. Whether he ever brutalized children in his care is less clear. A revealing study that nevertheless leaves Bettelheim as controversial as ever. -- Copyright 1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ms. Sutton shows a great sympathy for the complex man whose story she chose to tell. -- New York Times Book Review, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: French	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;medical;professionals & academics;psychology & counseling;reference;scientists;social scientists & psychologists,11
1572411015,"Escaping Expectations: Stories by Austrian Women Writers (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture and Thought. Translation Series) Barbara Neuwirth has become a recognized figure in contemporary Austrian literature. Since 1990 she has published ten literary works and edited ten anthologies, primarily collections of texts by Austrian women authors.",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;contemporary;general;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;short stories;used & rental textbooks,11
187804463X,"A Family Possessed (2nd Ed.) L. W. Stevenson, a prolific, and appreciated writer of articles and fiction, most set in the midwestern farmland and small towns.",books;genre fiction;ghosts;horror;literature & fiction;mystery;occult;religion & spirituality;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,11
076270893X,"New York Neighborhoods, 2nd: A Food Lover's Walking, Eating, and Shopping Guide to Ethnic Enclaves in New York's Boroughs If ordering chicken chow mein from the corner Chinese takeout is not your idea of an adventurous ethnic dining experience, why not go the source? Hop on the subway or catch a cab to any of New York's twenty incredible ethnic neighborhoods and then let Eleanor Berman lead the way. An award-winning travel writer and longtime New Yorker, Berman takes you on safe and fun walking tours through the world of food and culture that awaits in New York City's boroughs. You'll sample authentic Korean and Senegalese dishes plus 15 other ethnic cuisines; navigate like a native through Asian markets and Mediterranean groceries; learn the language of dim sum; shop in exotic emporiums; and visit intriguing historical sites. From Little Italy to Little Odessa, find these and other hidden treasures: Astoria, the world's largest Greek enclave outside Greece, where you can stock up on delicious cheeses, sample charcoal-grilled seafood, and eat baklava to die for; and a corner of the East Village, where there's a tiny shop filled with crafts from the Ukraine and a delightful little Ukrainian museum; Arthur Avenue, where you'll find heavenly handmade pasta and the world famous Bronx Zoo; Greenpoint in Brooklyn, where you'll find borscht, pirogies, and other Polish pleasures.  Berman's helpful descriptions of the various cuisine, tips on what to order, specific directions and fantastic maps are other handy features of this unique guide. (5 1/2 X 8 1/2, 304 pages, maps, illustrations)",books;dining;food;general;lodging & transportation;mid atlantic;new york;new york city;northeast;travel;united states,11
B00005NN92,"Oregon Scientific RM313PA/C ExactSet Fixed Projection Alarm Clock - Clear Easy to operate, uniquely shaped, and clad in clear plastic for  that 21st-century look, this alarm clock automatically sets and updates  the time, day, and date and will project a large, glowing red image of  the time onto a wall or ceiling. It operates either on two AA batteries  (which are included) or with an AC adapter (also included) for  continuous time projection. The backlit LCD display has a line for the  time and another line for calendar information, which you can set for  abbreviations in English, French, or Spanish. The crescendo alarm comes  with an eight-minute snooze function and will awaken the soundest  sleeper.  A radio receiver in the clock is tuned to the U.S. Atomic Clock,  enabling the clock to maintain split-second accuracy by automatically  adjusting, if necessary, to the Atomic Clock's signals six times every  24 hours. From those signals, the clock also displays the time zone for  which the user has set the clock (an adjustment for daylight saving  time and leap year is automatic.) If the clock is in battery mode,  pressing the snooze bar beams the time for five seconds. If the clock  is plugged into a wall socket, the projection is available either for  five seconds with the snooze bar or continuously if the continuous-beam  control is set. --Fred Brack	Exactset projection clock with fixed projection. Higlo electro-luminescence screen backlight. 12-hour clock and month/day calendar. 8 minute snooze and crescendo alarm. Sets itself automatically to the u. S.  Atomic clock. Automatic signal reception activation 6 times every 24 hours. U. S.  Map display with designated time zones. Ac adapter included. Also available in: blue (Rm313pab), silver (Rm313pas) This item will take 2-3 weeks to ship. Shipments cannot be expedited on this item.",alarm & projection clocks;alarm clocks;all oregon scientific;clocks;home & kitchen;home décor;lawn & garden;oregon scientific;patio;projection clocks;specialty clocks,11
0875849067,"Mission Critical: Realizing the Promise of Enterprise Systems As information-dependent companies of all types continually expand, acquire, merge, and globalize, the need to share critical data--between far-flung sites, independent divisions, and even neighboring departments--increases exponentially. Thomas Davenport, director of the Institute for Strategic Change at Andersen Consulting and a professor of information management at Boston University, advocates integrated enterprise systems (or ESs) to expedite the process. In Mission Critical, he explains how these inherently complicated, unfailingly expensive, and yet potentially vital programs can best be coordinated with existing operations. He explores specific benefits as well as possible drawbacks. And he shows why some of the biggest players in the business world have succeeded in their ES efforts, while others with equal resources and similar goals have not. While a properly designed ES will facilitate rapid dissemination of electronic data to pertinent employees, partners, and customers through Internet or intranet access, Davenport repeatedly claims, the key is handling this ""as a business project, not a technical one."" This means clearly defining objectives from the outset, utilizing executives with power to execute the required organizational changes, and incorporating explicit across-the-board incentives and penalties that are tied to the project's ultimate conclusion. Top managers and information specialists will find helpful guidance here on all relevant aspects of the process, including pre-implementation procedures, software selection, organization-wide strategies, and tips on using an ES to its full advantage. --Howard Rothman	""Mission Critical is a clear and comprehensive account of the enduring value of enterprise systems. Davenport's experience consulting for the world's leading companies gives his research an undeniable veracity. Anyone interested in how the real world of business works will gain a great deal of insight from this book.""--Henning Kagermann, Co-Chairman of the Executive Board and Co-CEO of SAP AG""Finally, here is a book that provides a comprehensive and practical understanding of enterprise systems-their promise, their peril, and their future. Any manager not familiar with Davenport's book and its emphasis on information management will be lacking in the business literacy so necessary for success.""--Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, and Co-author of Organizing Genius and Co-Leaders""Transformation in any corporation requires excellence in strategy, organization, and systems. Davenport illustrates the success that results when all three components are effectively addressed and the risks in implementing systems when they are not.""--William Stavropoulos, President and CEO, The Dow Chemical Company	Thomas H. Davenport is the Presidents Distinguished Chair at Babson College and a research fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business.",books;business & investing;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;industries & professions;information management;information systems;manager's guides to computing;software engineering;technical support,11
0966800532,"Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective Georgette Heyer (1902-1974) wrote 56 best-selling novels over the course of a career that spanned over 50 years, yet she remains one of the most overlooked authors of the 20th century.  Mary Fahnestock-Thomas seeks to rectify the error with this unique compilation.  At once a scholarly work and a labor of love, this remarkable collection includes:  *  3 short stories and 3 essays written by Georgette Heyer which have never been published in the U.S.  *  Over 200 book reviews dating from 1921 to 1989  *  35 articles and excerpts addressing various aspects of Heyer's work  *  12 movie and theater reviews of productions based on Heyer's novels  *  And much more!	Mary Fahnestock-Thomas holds degrees in German and  Comparative Literature.  She lives in Ohio with her husband, two  children, and lots of books.",20th century;books;british;criticism & theory;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;women writers;women's studies,11
0878916679,"Accounting I Essentials (Essentials Study Guides) (v. 1) REAs Essentials is an insightful series of practical and informative study guides covering nearly 100 subjects.  Our study guide for Accounting I is packed with student-friendly topic reviews that explain everything about Accounting. Its a handy resource when preparing for Accounting exams or doing homework, and makes a great textbook companion.  The Essentials of Accounting I is also an invaluable resource for Accounting teachers outlining a course curriculum, writing exams, and developing classroom assignments.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business & finance;education & reference;new;professional & technical;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,11
0913580767,"Signs of the Times Edgar H. Shroyer is former Professor and Director of the Education of Deaf Children Program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC.Susan P. Shroyer is a former teacher and administrator at the North Carolina School for the Deaf, Greensboro, and a certified interpreter.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",allied health professions;audiology & speech pathology;books;communicative disorders;education;education & reference;medical books;new;schools & teaching;special education;used & rental textbooks,11
096582862X,"Crime Lab: A Guide for Nonscientists DNA, drugs, firearms, O.J.--Take an illustrated tour through  the inner workings of a crime lab following crucial evidence gathered  at a brutal homicide. Each step of the forensic analysis is explained  in easily understood terms by an experienced forensic scientist.	John Houde, B.S., D.A.B.C., is a board certified, twenty-year  veteran criminalist and the author of over twenty articles on the  subject of forensic science. His articles have appeared in such  publications as The California Narcotic Officer and the Journal of  Forensic Sciences. He is in his seventh year as publisher of the  CACNews, the official journal of the California Association of  Criminalists, which represents over 500 criminalists worldwide. John  has spent much of his career educating juries, investigators and  attorneys in various topics of forensic science. His specialty areas  include the analysis of narcotics, trace and fire debris evidence.",biographies & memoirs;books;criminal law;forensic science;law;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;social services & welfare;true accounts;true crime,11
0889463565,"The Trumpet of the Last Judgement Against Hegel the Atheist and Antichrist: An Ultimatum (Studies in German Thought and History) Text: English, German (translation)",19th century;books;history;history & surveys;humanities;modern;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks,11
0800660919,"Beyond the Passion: Rethinking the Death and Life of Jesus Stephen J. Patterson is Professor of New Testament at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis. His previous books include The Gospel of Thomas and Jesus (1993), The God of Jesus (1998), and The Fifth Gospel (1998).	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;christian books & bibles;general;history;jesus;reference;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;theology;world,11
0787950742,"Rewarding Excellence : Pay Strategies for the New Economy ""Ed Lawler again expands our knowledge regarding a critical management challenge: how to align reward systems with the evolving organizational forms emerging in the new economy. In this new book, he provides CEOs and HR leaders with an easy-to-follow map for building organizational effectiveness through strategic reward system design."" --Daryl D. David, vice president of human resources and strategic growth, Amazon.com, Inc.""Once again, Ed Lawler has written a book human resource professionals can use. Rewarding Excellence provides an excellent blueprint on how to design compensation systems that will attract and retain workers in today's knowledge economy."" --Michael R. Losey, president and CEO, Society for Human Resource Management""Leadership capital is a vital corporate resource-perhaps the most critical of all in building for the future. As the 'war for talent' escalates, Ed Lawler's new book provides companies of all sizes with innovative ways to attract, retain, and motivate executives-and to maintain competitive advantage."" --Richard M. Ferry, chairman, Korn/Ferry International""Worried about your business in the new millennium business economy? Ed Lawler provides cutting-edge concepts for building high-performance organizations!"" --Steven L. Miller, chairman, president and CEO, Shell Oil Company	In the new economy, human capital, perhaps more than any other asset, is an organization's chief source of competitive advantage. And if your company wants to attract, retain, and motivate the kind of people it needs to hold that advantage, it needs to develop a reward system that recognizes their market value and rewards them for developing their knowledge and skills. It needs a system that encourages high performance as it rewards excellence.In this book, acclaimed management expert Edward E. Lawler III identifies a variety of reward system practices that support the high-performance organization model. He shows how the development of core competencies and organizational capabilities is enhanced once a company learns how to pay people instead of jobs. He also details new methods for measuring and rewarding performance and for determining how much of an individual's pay should be based on performance.You'll get useful advice on how you should conduct performance appraisals and how you can structure a pay system that suits your organization and serves its strategic goals. You'll benefit from Lawler's practical discussions and guidelines regarding the appropriateness of such practices as team-based pay, 360-degree performance appraisals, stock options, incentive pay, and skill-based pay. Moreover, you'll learn how to design a reward system that attracts excellent employees, inspires excellent performance, and makes for a stronger, more profitable enterprise.More than just a book about paying individuals, Rewarding Excellence is a blueprint for designing and managing pay systems that create excellent organizations. It's about gaining competitive advantage by maximizing the potential of human capital. And so, ultimately, it's about the future effectiveness of your enterprise.	In the new economy, human capital, perhaps more than any other asset, is an organization's chief source of competitive advantage. And if your company wants to attract, retain, and motivate the kind of people it needs to hold that advantage, it needs to develop a reward system that recognizes their market value and rewards them for developing their knowledge and skills. It needs a system that encourages high performance as it rewards excellence.In this book, acclaimed management expert Edward E. Lawler III identifies a variety of reward system practices that support the high-performance organization model. He shows how the development of core competencies and organizational capabilities is enhanced once a company learns how to pay people instead of jobs. He also details new methods for measuring and rewarding performance and for determining how much of an individual's pay should be based on performance.You'll get useful advice on how you should conduct performance appraisals and how you can structure a pay system that suits your organization and serves its strategic goals. You'll benefit from Lawler's practical discussions and guidelines regarding the appropriateness of such practices as team-based pay, 360-degree performance appraisals, stock options, incentive pay, and skill-based pay. Moreover, you'll learn how to design a reward system that attracts excellent employees, inspires excellent performance, and makes for a stronger, more profitable enterprise.More than just a book about paying individuals, Rewarding Excellence is a blueprint for designing and managing pay systems that create excellent organizations. It's about gaining competitive advantage by maximizing the potential of human capital. And so, ultimately, it's about the future effectiveness of your enterprise.	EDWARD E. LAWLER is director of the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California and professor of management and organization in the USC Marshall School of Business. An internationally acclaimed scholar and author, Lawler has written or co-written thirty books, including From the Ground Up (1996) and Strategies for Creating High Performance Organizations-The CEO Report (1998), both from Jossey-Bass. Business Week has recognized him as one of the leading management experts in America.",books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;entrepreneurship;human resources;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;new;small business & entrepreneurship;used & rental textbooks,11
0801492009,"The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology ""Banning writes in clear, readable fashion. His chapters are compact and lucid, his arguments crisply made. He knows the Jeffersonian literature of the 1790s and the country tradition upon which the Jeffersonians drew. Most importantly, he provides the kind of perspective that makes Jeffersonian argumentation understandable in its own terms. And in the process he tells some important things about the ways in which revolutionary ideology informed political behavior in the early republic.""-Journal of American History""Banning supports his thesis with persuasive arguments, evidence, and a careful definition of the word 'ideology.' . . . In sum, this balanced and judicious book will be welcomed by all scholars of American history as a valuable contribution to our understanding of the nation's formative years.""-The Historian""No library holdings of political party development or the early political history of the nation will be complete without The Jeffersonian Persuasion.""-Choice""Banning records the first stirrings of Jeffersonian Republicanism, an alignment against an alleged threat by proponents of sovereignty and a moneyed aristocracy. His impressive study emphasizes that the final shape of America's stripling government was never a foregone conclusion but was hammered out link by link as Old World political models confronted New World ideologies.""-Booklist",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;history;leaders & notable people;military;presidents & heads of state;revolution & founding;united states,11
0471165115,"Why Didn't I Think of That? Bizarre Origins of Ingenious Inventions We Couldn't Live Without What would we do without Velcro, Bic pens, White Out and Band-aids? How about such notables as Tupperware, The Club, and Rollerblades? Learn the inspiring success stories behind the products we most take for granted in this well-researched, engaging volume of 50 products ranging from kitchen items to toiletries to office supplies and more. This book takes you through every step of the development of each product with a detailed look at how multi-million dollar businesses were built from the simplest of ideas.	Ben & Jerry originally wanted to start a bagel business, but they couldn't afford the bagel-making machine?* The Slinky(r) toy was born aboard a World War II battleship?* Band-Aids(r) were invented by a husband to help his accident-prone wife dress her own cuts and bruises at home?* The idea for Velcro(r) came from cockleburs that got stuck on an engineer's wool trousers and in his dog's fur?Ever wonder how anyone came up with the idea for a product you couldn't imagine living without? Familiar products like Velcro(r) ,disposable diapers, Post-It Notes(r) ,and coffee filters. Read this book and you'll discover - once more - that truth is indeed often stranger than fiction. You'll also see that coming up with a million-dollar idea isn't as difficult as you think. This collection of entrepreneurs ranges from housewives to PhDs.Filled with wacky and fascinating facts, awe-inspiring success statistics, and rags-to-riches stories, Why Didn't I Think of That? chronicles the odd origins behind 50 famous inventions and reveals the business side of each product's actual production, marketing, and distribution. You'll discover how inventors from all walks of life struck it rich with unlikely contraptions that range from the practical (like Tampax(r) and Tupperware(r) ) to the curiously inane (like the Barbie(r) doll and Silly Putty(r) ).Inspirational, detailed, and always quirky, this delightful book captures all of the drama and colorful history of products like Heinz(r) ketchup, The Club(r) , Jell-O(r) ,Hallmark(r) cards, Trojan(r) condoms, Vaseline(r) , Rollerblades(r) , Kitty Litter(r) , the Swiss Army(r) Knife, Bic(r) pens, Dirt Devil(r) , Pampers(r) , S.O.S(r) pads, and many more.	ALLYN FREEMAN is a writer and business consultant whose television credits include M*A*S*H and Hart to Hart. He has also written numerous articles for leading business journals. He holds an MBA from Columbia University Business School. BOB GOLDEN is a writer and composer whose musical credits include Sesame Street, TV Nation, and Comedy Central. He is the coauthor of the Jerky Boys Book, and, with Freeman, has written material for America Online.",books;business & finance;business & investing;education & reference;engineering;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;new;professional & technical;reference;used & rental textbooks,11
0805074651,"Nothing Here But Stones: A Jewish Pioneer Story Grade 4-8This novel is about the establishment of a Russian-Jewish community in Cotopaxi, CO, in 1882. Emma's family and neighbors flee the terror and persecution of Tsarist Russia for a better life in America, but instead they encounter harsh realities that threaten their survival: unfinished houses, rocky soil, severe winter weather, marauding bears, starving Indians, and cultural isolation. Emma and her siblings cling to their widowed papa, who takes mining and railroad-construction jobs to make ends meet. Older sister Adar rules their home with a sharp, critical eye while younger sister Ruth enjoys Emma's affectionate attention. But the family is devastated when baby Leb dies. Lonely and restless, Emma pins her hopes for happiness on Mazel, a horse whose life she saves. In the end, the future looks brighter as help arrives from a Jewish aid society in Denver. Emma's reflective narrative reveals her passionate, spontaneous personality and the perseverance and mutual support among the pioneers. Jewish customs and traditions are woven smoothly into their daily lives. With compassion and curiosity, the girl reaches out to her new world. Emma's role as middle child, outsider, dreamer, and risk taker is realistic. This well-paced, vivid account should capture readers' attention.Gerry Larson, Durham School of the Arts, NC Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Gr. 5-8. Driven from home in Kishinev, Russia, in 1882, a group of Russian Jewish immigrants struggles to set up an agricultural colony near Cotopaxi in the mountains of Colorado. The true history is fictionalized through the poignant first-person narrative of Emma, 11, who recalls the racist oppression the group left behind even as she describes the harsh conditions in the new land. The immigrants, who speak no English, don't find what they were promised: their crops fail, and Papa must labor in the coal mines and for the railroads. Their faith sustains them, and when they set the sacred Torah in a new synagogue, ""it seemed we floated . . . on God's palm."" The many characters are hard to keep straight, but Emma's family story, the core of the drama, is told with spare realism, especially when it deals with Emma's angry relationship with her bossy older sister as they both cope with their anguish and loss and find their place. Hazel RochmanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Emma's first-person story is nicely realized; sensory language and strong dialogue carry the tale. . . .A strong addition to the growing body of immigrant stories."" --Kirkus Reviews	Nancy Oswald lives with her family on a ranch at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Colorado. The remains of the Cotopaxi Jewish Colony are located on the ranch, and these inspired her to write this book.	CHAPTER ONEThe loose thread on Papa's suit is getting longer. I've been trying hard to ignore it, but when I look at Papa's back, it waves at me like a tiny black worm. I want to reach out and pull it, but I'm afraid his coat will unravel like the threads of our lives, and there will be nothing left. If Mama were here, she would use a needle to weave that thread back into the fabric of Papa's suit, and it would look just like new.When Papa sleeps, the thread disappears. It slides below the top of the seat when he scoots down to get more comfortable... usually at night when the only sound is the groaning of the cars and the clattering of the wheels on the track.And the snoring. From all over the train, but especially from Etta Stokes. She sounds like Mrs. Washer's cow when it got loose and ran through the streets of Kishinev right into the middle of the Tsar's soldiers. It happened so fast, all I remember is the sound of the shot, a loud bellow, and blood on the cobbled street. Mrs. Washer screamed and started to argue, but one of the soldiers pulled out his whip and struck her.""Stinking Jews,"" he said. Papa's face turned to ashes when I told him. He looked slowly around our house, gazing first at Mama's sewing basket and ending with a long, quiet stare at the bookcase near the table where he taught his Hebrew students. Soon after that we began to pack.Except for the snoring, I like night time on the train the best. Ruth curls up like a cat with her head on my lap, and after she goes to sleep I press my face to the window and look up at the glittery stars, imagining that one of them is Mama looking down from heaven to make sure we're all well. Papa says it's not good to dwell on the dead. I try not to, but when Mama died, it left a hole bigger than the black night sky. Little Leb is awake. Adar is looking back at me. Soon she will say, ""Emma, it's your turn to hold your brother."" i0I don't want to. I really don't want to. My arms hurt, and my legs are tired. I have been bouncing Leb all the way from New York... for almost five days. But I can't say no to Adar. She will complain to Papa that I am not helping, and he will look at me over the rims of his glasses and raise up his eyebrows in a way that says, ""What child of mine could be so willful?"" It's not that I am unwilling, but Adar gives me the baby every time he is awake. Those are the times he is squirming to be let down, and I have to bounce and play with him to keep him from crying. If he gets noisy, Etta frowns at me from across the aisle, and everyone else pretends they cannot hear. I can tell by watching Papa when it is bothering him. The back of his suit stretches tightly across his shoulders, and the little black thread stands up straight.Papa says I shouldn't feel sorry for myself. ""Look around you at all the other people. They have traveled just as far. You don't hear them complaining."" When I look around the crowded car, I know why they do not complain. They are too tired of traveling. Like me, they are ready to be off the train.Mochel Kahn has just changed his seat. I think Adar is trying to impress him by cooing and smiling at little Leb. Adar cried when we left home. ""Who will be my matchmaker in America?"" she sobbed. She is sixteen, and I think she has time, but the worst thing she can imagine is dying an old maid. ""Wait until you are my age,"" Adar said to me one day on our long journey across the Atlantic Ocean. ""You will worry too."" It is hard to imagine what things will be like in five more years. I can't even imagine ten minutes from now. From moment to moment, out the window of the train, things are changing. At first I thought everything in America would look like New York City, with shops and crowded streets, but I have discovered, the farther west we travel, that there are long stretches of nothing. Absolutely nothing. Places as flat as matzo.I only hope the place we are going to is not so empty. Papa says it is land for farming. We will grow crops and own land. He says we are lucky because it is something we could not do in Russia. The Tsar would not allow it. I think we will need more than luck. Before we left New York, I overheard Papa tell Benjamin Stokes that most of our money was spent to pay for the trip across the Atlantic and our n0 expenses in New York City. The rest of the money has been sent ahead to Mr. Reis, who will have houses and equipment ready for us when we arrive in Cotopaxi. Co-toe-pax-ie. The word hurts my ears. I can't get used to the English language-it sounds so sharp and stiff. I wish people here spoke Yiddish; it's much more like music. Papa says we will have to learn to speak like Americans, but when I listen to Mr. Stokes translate for us, I think, he does not like it either. His words sound like an ax chopping wood into kindling.""Where... is... the... train... to... Co-toe-pax-ie?""This is what he said to the ticket salesman at the station in Pueblo. The man leaned forward and squinted between the bars of his cage. His eyes grew as round as Kiddush cups when he saw all of us standing there. ""Cotopaxi?"" the man said, bending one ear sideways as if he could not believe what he heard.Benjamin nodded, holding up our tickets. The man walked slowly out of his cage to the door of the station. He pointed to a set of tracks that faded away like little stitches on a quilt. ""Good luck,"" the man said, shaking his head as he returned to his work.""Mazel tov,"" Mr. Stokes answered. He started towards the train, and everyone followed in a line. We were last: Papa, Ruth, Adar with little Leb, and me, like a caboose, at the end.Mazel Tov. Mazel Tov. Mazel tov mazel tovmazeltov mazeltovmazeltov mazeltov. The sound of wheels on the tracks made my eyelids heavy, and I do not remember anything until Ruth pulled on my sleeve. ""Emma, the rocks are taller than the buildings in New York City!"" I opened my eyes to see a crystal blue river shadowed by red rock walls that blocked the sun as the train crawled along the track.I wanted to see the full height of the cliffs, so I opened the window and stretched out, twisting so I could look up. I felt a tug on the back of my dress.  ""You're going to fall out."" Adar yanked at me with her right hand, still holding little Leb with her left. A hot cinder flicked my cheek and I ducked back inside, hating the way Adar treats me...always like a child... always bossy.cf0""The rocks are like a giant's mouth. It's going to swallow us up!"" Ruth said.The taller the rocks, the slower we crept, inch by inch, cachug, cachug.Adar buried her face in little Leb's neck, and I heard her say a quiet prayer. For a few moments, the train stopped. We hung over the rapids with only the rails and a few timbers separating us from the water that rushed between the red rock walls.Ruth squeezed my hand, and all through the car people began to talk nervously and point.Benjamin Stokes wobbled unsteadily to the front of the car and stuttered his English words to the conductor. The conductor smiled and patted Mr. Stokes, who turned and spoke in Yiddish to Hannah and Sophie Shorr as they clung to each other near the center aisle, their faces white as the foam on the rapids.Papa sat stiffly next to Adar, his shoulders squared and flat. The little thread on the back of his suit held its breath.At long last I heard a hiss of steam coming from the engine of the train. First it came in long, slow gasps, then in short little breaths that finally heaved into a steady rhythm as the train picked up speed. Adar stopped praying and opened her eyes; Hannah and Sophie scooted back to the window; the little thread on the back of Papa's suit began to jiggle up and down again. I did not realize that I had been holding my breath, too, and like the train, I exhaled and started to move again. I looked backwards over my shoulder to see the hanging track where we had just been. The rocks closed in behind us like a large door shutting. Then I looked forward to the place we were going-the place that would be our new home. There was no turning back.Adar handed Leb to me, and the angel of sleep must have been hovering over him. He leaned against my shoulder and his eyelids drooped. Ruth, too, managed to curl herself into a ball and squeeze her head onto my lap. The car was quiet now, and I wondered if everyone was looking out the window, like me, and thinking, ""How will we eat all these rocks?"" I wonder if, like me, they were wanting to go home. ""When we are in America,"" Papa had told me, ""we will be safe from the Tsar's soldiers. In America we can own land. In America they cannot tell you where you must live, and they f0cannot put you in the army for twenty five years because you are Jewish."" The grass near the tracks leaned over, gray and thin, making me think of Grandma Rose when she said goodbye to us. ""Why won't you come with us?"" I asked her.""I am too old to change,"" she said. ""My people are here. My things are here. My heart is here.""My heart is there, too.The train whistle would not let me think anymore. The wheels squealed, and the train slowed to a stop.""Give me the baby,"" Adar said. She stood up, straightened her dress, and reached over the seat for him. Papa stood too, taking two bags from the rack above his head and one from below his seat.I looked at Ruth, not wanting to wake her. Her lips curved into a smile, and she looked like she was dreaming of the sweet cake from the vendor in Denver where we changed trains. He did not even ask us to pay.""Ruth."" I shake her gently. She sits up and rubs the sleep from her eyes, then looks out the window and exclaims. ""Why are we stopping? There is nothing here!""I try to tell her that I have seen a few houses and scattered buildings, but now, from the window of our train, all we can see is a single building with a wide front porch. From...",books;children's books;explore the world;family life;historical fiction;jewish;literature & fiction;religious fiction;social situations;travel & cultures;united states,11
081479887X,"Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination (Critical America Series) Greasers and Gringos is a typically insightful work by one of the most creative critical writers of our time.-Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol,University of FloridaBender's got a noble goal: to show that the stereotypes Americans heap on Latino immigrants don't just make for rude conversation, they directly shape policy decisions. The book compellingly articulates just how deeply ingrained the images of lazy, thieving, drunkard Latinos and sexually voracious, fertile Latinas are in American culture. -City Limits,Is any society able to exist free of stereotypes? Steven Bender tackles the question head on as he dissects the cornucopia of Latino types, prototypes, and archetypes that populate our mendacious imagination. His answer takes us into the realms of politics, jurisprudence, and cartoons. It involves an attack on poverty, a strive for an equal, more honest educational system, and the 'reinvention' of the future tense in American English. Let Bender challenge your ignorance!-Ilan Stavans,author of The Hispanic Condition and On Borrowed WordsGreasers and Gringos is a typically insightful work by one of the most creative critical writers of our time.-Berta Esperanza Hernndez-Truyol,University of Florida College of LawA hopeful and empowering challenge to those who work to transform American life.-Gerald Torres,University of Texas School of Law	Steven W. Bender is Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. He is the author of Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination (NYU Press, 2003), and One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Csar Chvez, and the Dream of Dignity.",books;discrimination & racism;hispanic american studies;law;legal history;minority studies;politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics,11
1880157608,Jazz Arranging Norman David is Assistant Professor of Music at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at Franklin & Marshall College.,arts & photography;books;composition & performance;education & reference;humor & entertainment;instruction & study;instruments;jazz;music;musical genres;theory,11
0312167938,"The Kebra Nagast: The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith from Ethiopia and Jamaica What did Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley and Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia have in common? A love for the Kebra Negast, holy book of Ethiopian Christians and Jamaican Rastafarians. Contemporary scholars date the Kebra Negast to the 14th century, but it retells the stories of much earlier Biblical times, one very important story in particular. According to the Kebra Negast, the Israelites' Ark of the Covenant was spirited away to the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia by wise King Solomon's own son, offspring of the union between Solomon and the exotic Queen Makeda of Ethiopia (a.k.a. the Queen of Sheba). Gerald Hausman, a consummate storyteller of native traditions, presents the core narrative of the Kebra Negast, from Adam to the rise of the Ethiopian Solomonid dynasty. On top of this, he injects his own encounters with Rastafarians during his travels in Jamaica--dreadlocked Rastas as modern-day Samsons, their unwavering faith in Jah, and a rare outsider's glimpse at the Nyabinghi ceremony. The combination of ancient tale and modern belief give Hausman's Kebra Negast the rich flavor of enduring truth. --Brian Bruya	Folklorist and author Hausman has combined ten years of informal study in Jamaica, the 1922 version of ""The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek"" (translated by E.A. Wallis Budge), the Koran, the King James Bible, and the words of reggae great Bob Marley into a new version of the Kebra Negast (""the glory of the Kings""). This ""lost bible,"" the core of Rastafarian wisdom and faith, has survived through oral tradition in many Caribbean nations, even though it has been banned because of its African glory themes. Hausman effectively puts the Kebra Negast into the words of the Rastafarian community, presenting the core?that ""we must learn to live by the laws of compassion rather than judgment""?through anecdotes from the author's travels in the Rasta community. A recommended introduction to the Kebra Negast.?L. Kriz, West Des Moines Lib., IowaCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Text: English (translation)	Gerald Hausman calls himself a ""native of the world"" after living in so many places in the United States and the West Indies. He spent more than twenty years in New Mexico where many of his American Indian folktales were collected and published. Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1945, Hausman has been a storyteller almost since birth. His more than 70 books attest to his love of folklore, a passion instilled by his mother who painted the portraits of Native American chiefs. During his thirty-five years as a storyteller, Gerald has entertained children of all ages at such places as The Kennedy Center, Harvard University, St John's College and in schools from one end of the country to the other. Five audio books have come out in recent years and two of Gerald's books have been made into animated and folkloric films. His books have also been translated into a dozen foreign languages.	The Kebra NagastTHE KEBRA NAGAST.Copyright  1997 by Gerald Hausman. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.",books;comparative religion;literature & fiction;mythology;mythology & folk tales;other religions;practices & sacred texts;rastafari movement;religion & spirituality;religious studies;tribal & ethnic,11
0787950343,"Channel Champions: How leading companies build new strategies to serve customers ""This book covers some of the most critical and important issues that will define future winners in many industries."" --Karl-Erling Trogen, president and CEO, Volvo Truck Corp.""This book clearly shows that companies must change the paradigm of what business they are in to reflect the growing importance of distribution channels."" --Stephen B. Hughes, president and CEO, Celestial Seasonings, Inc.	If product is no longer king, what is? Companies like Dell Computers, Lexus, Wal-Mart and Amazon.com have found phenomenal success by coming up with the answer-channels. The channels by which goods are marketed and distributed have become the new drivers of economic success. From these channels flow customer satisfaction, market share, revenue gains and profitability. It's not so much what you sell today, but how you sell it. And there is no going back.In The Channel Advantage, Booz?Allen & Hamilton consultants Steven Wheeler an Evan Hirsh write about dozens of companies that have excelled in this channel-driven economy. In one telling example, Wheeler and Hirsch analyze the great success of Dell Computer. While Dell makes top-quality personal computers, it's the company's direct-to-customer sales channel that sets it apart. By building computers to order, Dell keeps inventory low, lets consumers buy exactly what they want, and pushes prices down by cutting out the middleman.The Channel Advantage examines today's ""Channel Champions,"" the companies that have mastered this new environment. Wheeler and Hirsh tell us how Lexus broke into the luxury car business by focusing so intensely on customer service that dealers personally called up customers to report a product recall. The authors also explain how the rise of Amazon.com represents the exploration of an entirely new channel: e-commerce via the Internet.Wheeler and Hirsh, both partners at Booz?Allen & Hamilton, the leading management consulting firm, base their exploration and analysis on real-world experience working with clients. They've not only identified this change, they've lived-making The Channel Advantage a must-read for anyone who wants to understand what it takes to thrive in today's channel-based economy.	Dell Computer, Lexus, Wal-Mart and Amazon.com have made it big in today's economy by understanding that it's not so mush what you sell-but how you sell it. The channels through which goods are marketed and distributed are the new drivers of commercial success. The Channel Advantage, written by two partners at the leading management consulting firm of Booz?Allen & Hamilton, examines the companies that have thrived in this channel-based world and the secretes of their success. It's a fascinating tale that all who care about business should read and absorb.	EVAN HIRSH are vice presidents and partners at the leading management consulting firm of BoozoAllen & Hamilton. Both Wheeler and Hirsh specialize in marketing strategy and implementation; specifically, they focus on the channels through which companies sell and distribute their goods. Wheeler is based in Munich, Germany; Hirsh in Chicago, Illinois. Their groundbreaking approach has helped transform some of the world's largest and most well-known companies into true Channel Champions.",accounting;accounting & finance;advertising;books;business & investing;management;management & leadership;marketing;marketing & sales;professional & technical;sales & selling,11
0300082894,"John Dewey and the Lessons of Art ""Philip Jackson's searching meditations on Dewey and art are of abiding interest for all of us who care about our lives and how we nurture and nourish our children."" Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Education ""Jackson presents a useful and...insightful review of John Dewey's systematic consideration of the arts...Jackson examines Dewey's theories on how the arts might help people live their lives differently. He also asks teachers of all kinds to consider how they might use the 'lessons' of art in their role as educators...This book makes a sound addition to commentary on the writings of John Dewey and to the fields of curriculum studies, educational philosophy, and arts education."" Choice	Philip W. Jackson is the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Education and Psychology at the University of Chicago. The immediate past president of the John Dewey Society, he is the winner of the American Educational Studies Association 1998 Critics' Choice Award for outstanding contributions to an area related to educational studies.",aesthetics;arts & photography;books;education & reference;history;history & criticism;instruction methods;pedagogy;philosophy;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching,11
1590770935,"Come As You Aren't!: Feeling at Home with Multicultural Celebrations Norine Dresser is a professional consultant, speaker, folklorist, and educator. From 1993 to 2001, she wrote the award-winning ""Multicultural Manners"" column for the Los Angeles Times. Norine has been interviewed on the Voice of America and numerous other radio and TV shows. She lives in Los Angeles.",books;crafts;education & reference;etiquette;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;home repair;how-to & home improvements;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences,11
0133402584,"GrammarWork 2: English Exercises in Context, Second Edition GrammarWork, English Exercises in Context, Second Edition, is a four-level series of exercise books that feature structures tied to meaningful contexts.  Self-contained, contextualized exercises are designed for written practice. ""Make It Work"" sections enable students to apply what they have learned to realistic situations. Can be used for individual or classroom practice. Perforated answer keys are included.   GrammarWork 2 is for high-beginning students.",books;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;grammar;humanities;language & grammar;new;used & rental textbooks;words,11
0802409482,"Storm Clouds On The Horizon: Bible Prophecy and the Current Middle East Crisis CHARLES DYER (B.A., Washington Bible College; Th.M. and Ph.D., Dallas  Theological Seminary) served for ten years as provost of Moody Bible Institute before  becoming professor-at-large of Bible and host of The Land and the Book radio  program. He is the author of numerous books, including A Voice in the Wilderness,  What's Next?, The Rise of Babylon, and The New Christian Traveler's  Guide to the Holy Land. His most recent book is Character Counts: The Power  of Personal Integrity.	When I think of the nation Israel, I am tempted to think of Humpty Dumpty.  This once proud nation that humbled the Egyptian Empire in a slave revolt that led  to a supernaturally blessed exodus; that caused the greatest armies of the known  world to quake; that became the repository of divine law in the midst of a pagan  lawless world...today finds itself broken by international isolation and a seemingly  insoluble conflict with its Palestinian neighbors. And all the king's horses and  all the king's men of this world's peace-brokering intermediaries can't seem to  put it all back together again. This would be of little consequence if you didn't  believe that God has a future for Israel. If the hand of God removed itself forever  from His people when the Jews rejected Christ as Messiah, then Israel would be just  another nation among many, stuck at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, surrounded  and outnumbered by enemy states.#9;But if you are among the many who believe that  God's promises to Israel were unconditional-and that He ultimately will redeem them  to Himself and restore His glory among them-then Israel becomes the strategic player  in the future history of this world.  Especially when that belief encompasses the  promise that Christ's return to this planet will be to the Mount of Olives just  outside of Jerusalem and that He will establish His reign on the throne of David  as the fulfillment of the covenant that God make with David that his throne would  last forever. Given this promise, Israel becomes the focal point of the attention  of all of us who love His appearing. And it raises the suspicion that, behind the  headlines, the hand of our sovereign God is working to put the pieces back together  again.   Throughout our long history, the Moody Bible Institute has been among those  who see God's Word guaranteeing Israel's future. This belief has characterized and  permeated our teaching...and has kept fresh our desire to see the salvation of His  people. We are humbledto think that God in His extensive grace has grafted Gentiles  in to the redemptive gifts of His Son and counted us among His very own. And this  perspective has also kept our eyes focused heavenward as we wait expectantly for  the rapture of His church...for we know that our summons home also signals the time  when God will begin the consummation of His plan for His Chosen People Israel. It  is my prayer that this work, written by leading members of our faculty, will reignite  your desire for His return, encourage your confidence in His eternal plan in the  midst of confusing and despairing headlines, and stimulate a new love for the people  that He loves.  Read it prayerfully and hopefully, looking for God to stir your  heart again to love His appearing.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;history;israel;middle east;reference;religion & spirituality;religious;theology;world,11
0136123848,"Internetworking Over ATM: An Introduction For the foreseeable future a significant percentage of devices using an ATM network will do so indirectly, and will continue to be directly attached to legacy  media (such as Ethernet and token ring). In addition these devices will continue to utilize legacy  internetwork layer protocols (for example, IP, IPX, APPN, etc).  This means that in order to effectively use ATM, there must be efficient methods available for operating multiple internetwork layer protocols over heterogeneous networks built from switches, routers, and other switched devices.   This challenge is commonly referred to as the operation of multiprotocol over ATM.  This book reviews the various options for the transport and support of multiple protocols over ATM.  This book was written for networking consultants, systems specialists, system planners, network designers and network administrators who need to learn about SVN and associated protocols in order to design and deploy networks that utilize components from this framework.  It provides readers with the ability to differentiate between the different offerings.  A working knowledge of ATM is assumed.  It is intended to be used with High-Speed Networking Technology: An Introductory Survey, which describes methods for data transmission in high speed networks, and Asynchronous Transport Mode (ATM) Technical Overview, which describes ATM, a link-level protocol using the methods described in High-Speed Networking Technology: An Introductory Survey to transmit various types of data together over the same physical links.   This book describes the networking protocols that use ATM as the underlying link level protocol.	Todays networking environment is characterized by a diverse mix of topologies, geographic spans, carrier services, equipment, interfaces, physical media, and transmission speeds. Because of the inherent complexity resulting from mixed technologies, it becomes extremely difficult to satisfy all these requirements with existing networking tools. For example, in order for an Ethernet-attached client in a branch office to access an FDDI-attached server in a different location, at least three different networking protocols must be made to communicate. Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) provides the foundation for technology that will not only provide the desired simplification, but will also support those emerging applications that will demand end-to-end quality of service and bandwidth reservation capability.   Internetworking Over ATM provides an over view of protocols and technologies that enable legacy  networking protocols (such as IP and APPN) to use ATM networks. The book explains the challenges involved in using ATM networks and the limitations of legacy protocols in ATM networks, and compares several solutions.   Features of Internetworking Over ATM:   Overview of emerging technologies.   How to combine the virtues of LAN switching, bridging, routing, and ATM switching.   IBMs strategy for effective use of ATM technology.   Internetworking Over ATM was written as a redbook  at IBMs International Technical Support Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.   The IBM International Technical Support Organization (ITSO) was set up to provide a link between IBM development and IBM engineers working in the field, enabling them to work with new products and systems under development. This is one of the main ways within IBM for keeping technically skilled people up to date with new technologies. It also means new products are given a workout by field practitioners before they are released to customers, thus improving product quality.   Redbooks are IBM publications produced by the ITSO. Most of these are very practical guides to current solutions, but some have a much wider focus and are intended to educate people about the current technologies. Because they are written largely by people with extensive practical experience, they offer a much more direct and problem-solving approach than many books on similar topics.	For the foreseeable future a significant percentage of devices using an ATM network will do so indirectly, and will continue to be directly attached to legacy  media (such as Ethernet and token ring). In addition these devices will continue to utilize legacy  internetwork layer protocols (for example, IP, IPX, APPN, etc).  This means that in order to effectively use ATM, there must be efficient methods available for operating multiple internetwork layer protocols over heterogeneous networks built from switches, routers, and other switched devices.   This challenge is commonly referred to as the operation of multiprotocol over ATM.  This book reviews the various options for the transport and support of multiple protocols over ATM.  This book was written for networking consultants, systems specialists, system planners, network designers and network administrators who need to learn about SVN and associated protocols in order to design and deploy networks that utilize components from this framework.  It provides readers with the ability to differentiate between the different offerings.  A working knowledge of ATM is assumed.  It is intended to be used with High-Speed Networking Technology: An Introductory Survey, which describes methods for data transmission in high speed networks, and Asynchronous Transport Mode (ATM) Technical Overview, which describes ATM, a link-level protocol using the methods described in High-Speed Networking Technology: An Introductory Survey to transmit various types of data together over the same physical links.   This book describes the networking protocols that use ATM as the underlying link level protocol.",books;computers & technology;engineering;isdn;lan;networking;networks;professional & technical;protocols & apis;software;telecommunications,11
1901447219,"A-Z of '80s Rock (Rockdetector) Garry Sharpe-Young is an author, artist, and heavy metal journalist. The founder of Rockdetector, his titles include A to Z of Black Metal, A to Z of Death Metal, A to Z of Thrash Metal,Black Sabbath: Never Say Die!, Metal: The Definitive Guide, and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;education & reference;heavy metal;history & criticism;music;musical genres;rock,11
1903238056,"The Stockbridge Baby-Farmer and Other Scottish Murder Stories Molly Whittington-Egan is a leading true-crime writer whose credits include The Murder Almanac, The Bedside Book of Murder, The Story of Mr George Edalji, Khaki Mischief: The Agra Murder Case; Murder on the Bluff: The Carew Poisoning Case, Scottish Murder Stories, Classic Scottish Murder Stories and Murder on File.",biographies & memoirs;books;criminology;engineering;murder & mayhem;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;social sciences;telecommunications;true accounts;true crime,11
B000FC0P3U,"The Star Trek: The Next Generation: Genesis Wave Book Three: 3 John Vomholt is the author of several Star Trek novels including two of the bestselling four-volume Next Generation/Deep Space Nine Dominion War sequence.	Chapter One  She was the only one left of her species, and now they were trying to kill her. They wanted what she carried, and she knew she could save herself if she left it behind. Like her, it was the only one of its kind left.  The disruptor beam streaked past her crouching body, charring the corrugated tin wall and burning a hole in the vacant building. For an instant, the dusty alley was illuminated by blazing beams and molten metal. She clutched the bulky chrome box to her torso, knowing she could not disguise it from them. Her pursuers knew her true identity, and they were wearing environmental suits to protect themselves from her spores. No doubt, they were only firing to keep her pinned down. She counted three of them, and she assumed them to be Romulans, judging by their weapons and their knowledge.  A red fog drifted across the two slivered moons of Torga IV, giving the dingy alley a patina of exotic mystery. They could have rushed her, but they feared her. Feared what she could do with the box.  It was so strange being known, being exposed, when she had   operated for years undercover. She and the other Seedlings had infiltrated every nook of the Federation, but it was never to cause disruption. It was always to gather information -- to find out how the meat creatures could help them escape their dying world. Their roots had found nourishment in the garden of Starfleet. With the Genesis technology, they had discovered a way to prepare new homes and propagate their species at the same time.  All of that had ended three days ago, when their world was invaded and their base destroyed. After living among the meat creatures -- impersonating them -- the Seedling could appreciate the irony. The repository of all data on Genesis had once been a lone human being, and now it was the awkward silver box in her appendages.  If the Romulans had tracked her down, it meant they had ransacked the home base, deciphering the records. There was no other way for them to know about her -- that she had been entrusted with a portable device for a new experiment. No matter what, she had to resist giving the emitter to the Romulans, who were ruthless and unscrupulous. She either had to destroy it or give it to someone who would do no harm. Genesis could no longer benefit her species, but perhaps it could benefit someone.  The Seedling gazed up into the sky of Torga IV, where the blood-red night clouds had parted to reveal a sliver of stars. Somewhere up there were worlds full of her kind, but she was sworn never to go to them. They were new worlds, unsullied by past corruptions. If the meat creatures would allow, her species could have a fresh start -- without the temptation of humanoid hosts.  However, a rebirth was not to be for the Seedling, who knew too much and would corrupt them with her knowledge. She was doomed to perish no matter what else should happen.  A figure in a black environmental suit darted from an abandoned hovercraft to a dumpster, coming a few meters closer to her position in the alley. They were careful with their disruptor fire, because they didn't want to hit the box; but they wouldn't hesitate to kill her if they had a clear shot. That's why they were getting into position.  If she could draw their fire, decided the fugitive, she had to make them hit her precious box. If she couldn't save it from them, she had to destroy it. The alley was open behind her, but it was a long run to the walkway. The Seedling did not move swiftly, especially carrying the bulky device, which was nearly a meter tall and half a meter wide on each side.  At that moment, her salvation arrived in the form of a loud and rowdy crew of Bajoran miners and their consorts. They came weaving down the dusty walkway, toasting, drinking, and singing. The Seedling instantly called out in her most helpless voice. When they didn't stop, she screamed again and again until the unruly party halted on the sidewalk and peered into the dark alley.  There was a chance the miners were all about to be slaughtered, but the Romulans were like her species, she reasoned. They preferred stealth and guile to brute force and messy scenes.  The Bajorans came stumbling down the alley, and it took them a while to locate her and focus their eyes upon the pleasing Bajoran shape she had become -- at least to those within range of her spores. This subterfuge was second nature to the Seedling by now, and she instantly roused their concern and helpfulness.  What's wrong with you? asked one brawny male. His nose ridges rippled, and she sensed that he was attracted to her.  Are you injured? said another, kneeling beside her. I remind him of an instructor he had in the orphanage. Such a broken, pathetic life he has endured.  The miner took her arm and gingerly helped her sit up. The Seedling feigned dizziness for a moment as she absorbed more of their thoughts.  Where did she come from? sniffed one of the females to her   female friend. Their antagonism was a side effect she could do nothing about, so she ignored them and concentrated on the males.  They tried to rob me, she rasped.  Who? snapped several Bajorans at once.  She pointed behind her at the narrow alley, where dim light faded into mist, shadow, and abandoned machines. The brawny one instantly ran down the thoroughfare, stomping and making his presence known. Her pursuers had been lurking there, but they were certainly gone now.  Don't see them! he called.  It's okay, said the gentle one. Let us get you some brestanti ale -- that will fix you up.  Thank you, she replied with a smile. Don't let me forget my luggage. She touched the shiny metal box, and he gallantly picked it up.  As they strode from the alley, the Seedling glanced over her shoulder at the dark passage between the corrugated buildings. She hadn't brought herself more than a few minutes of respite, and her pursuers were probably already on the roofs, planning their next move.  What's the matter? asked the gentle one. You afraid they're still out there?  Yes. With a pleasant smile, she enhanced her similarity to the teacher he had loved at the age of ten.  My name is Wislow. And yours?  Arden, she answered, choosing the identity she had used the most here.  Pretty name, said the Bajoran male with a simpering smile.  When they reached the sidewalk, Arden gripped his arm and another male's, trying to keep herself surrounded by their flesh. She looked around and saw cheap industrial buildings lit by garish neon and halogen -- an instant city built on a dead planet. At least Torga IV had been dead until the discovery of cormaline deposits and the importation of thousands of impoverished Bajoran workers.  A string of small two-seater hovercraft swerved down the street, and pedestrians had to scatter. The majority of residents were Bajoran, but other races loitered on the dusty sidewalks. Down one alley, a contingent of Klingon miners were fighting targs, in contradiction to the law. From a low-slung balcony, females were soliciting males to enter a casino. Torga IV was a brutal, corrupt place, inhabited by the dregs of the quadrant. It had been a perfect place for Arden's canceled experiment, and now it would be a fitting place for her death.  We're here! said the gruff miner, grabbing her by the shoulders and trying to push her into a dimly lit tavern. She willed him to remember a lecture his grandmother had given him about the treatment of females, and he instantly released her.  No. Please, not here. She appealed to Wislow. What I want is someplace spiritual -- like a temple or a chapel.  We've got them, answered the miner, but you don't want to go there. They've been slammed with refugees from the Genesis Wave. Every morning they come to the commissary, looking for food we're throwing out.  Even the bars are crowded, said one of the females with a wave of her hand, and it's the middle of the night.  We've got to celebrate surviving the wave! said the brawny one, trying to hustle them through the door.  Arden remained steadfast as she concentrated on the sensitive Bajoran. Wislow, I could use some help getting to the nearest temple.  All of you go inside, he ordered confidently. I'll escort the lady to the...which one?  The Shrine of the Prophets on Aurora Avenue is the closest, answered one of the females. I've got friends working there, and I better hear from them that you showed up!  The others laughed. An odd reaction, thought the Seedling, considering that billions of their fellow meat creatures had perished in the last few days, and billions more were homeless. But Torga IV had been spared, and the sleepy backwater had turned into a bustling city hosting an impromptu festival. Such were the recuperative powers of the meat creatures, who were to be envied. If she could find the right one to trust, she would give up her secret. But not to the Romulans, whom she had grown to detest.  Arden thought she saw someone in a black hood and suit moving among the convivial crowd. She tugged on Wislow's shoulder and said persuasively, Let's go now.  The bawling and mewling of the children never stopped, and most of them weren't even Bajorans. Prylar Yorka recoiled from the noise and the stench and sunk back into the vestibule atop the staircase. His elegant, richly appointed temple had been turned into a glaring warehouse for humanoid suffering. They were hungry, disoriented, grief-stricken, and sick...some very sick. He had called in the auxiliary volunteers, and Starfleet had contributed food and medical supplies; but they were still overwhelmed.  Plus the wretched smell had returned. They were taxing the sewage system, which was never designed to support this many residents; nor was it built to last this long. Who knew that the haphazard mining colony would last a decade and have its population doubled in a matter of hours?  Yorka stroked the wispy gray hair atop his head and considered bolting back to his private chambers, but he couldn't hide. This was what he was trained to do -- step in where needed and help the poor and afflicted. He pulled his maroon robes around his stout figure and tried to look officious and unruffled, when he felt out of his depth. He was nothing more than a prylar, a monk, but this sect respected him as a former vedek in the assembly. Yorka was their leader in all but name and rank.  He disdained titles now, feeling that ambition had caused the ills of mainstream Bajoran religion; and the Vedek Assembly disdained him, not recognizing his sect. For food, they had to depend upon local resources, but all of the replicators in town were churning out ale and appetizers for revelers and well-funded refugees. When he really needed help from the powers above him, none was forthcoming.  The aging Bajoran tried to put the worries out of his mind; he had to lead his acolytes and volunteers through this tragedy. The old lion had to muster the confidence needed to inspire them, even though he felt nothing but dread. Starfleet will return to relieve us, he told himself, just as they promised. Even so, they were disturbingly vague on when that might be.  I could pray to the Prophets, but they -- and the leaders of my faith -- have abandoned me here. I have tried to shine the light of the Orbs, but no one has shown me any grace.  Prylar! he heard someone yell.  Yorka broke out of his troubled reverie and glanced down the metal staircase, where Acolyte Bowmyk came charging toward him, his yellow robes dirty and blood-splattered. Sir, you've got to come, said the young Bajoran, twisting his thin hands nervously. We've had another one of those mysterious deaths -- we can't figure out why.  Call the coroner, said Yorka, stomping down the stairs and brushing past him.  We have, but they can't be here until dawn. That won't be for hours. The acolyte chased after his master, a worried look on his pinched face.  What does the doctor think? grumbled Yorka.  The doctor has left for the day.  What? The burly monk stopped in his tracks, surrounded by refugees, overflowing the pews, sitting in the threshold of the sanctuary. His young assistant stared at him, and he knew he had to be forceful yet calm. This madness could not go on for long.  What did the doctor say before he left? asked Yorka evenly.  He couldn't figure out what had killed him, but he said it wasn't anything contagious. There were some unusual tricorder readings, but no clear cause of death.  Yorka nodded sagely and managed a smile. You see, there's no reason for concern, if it's not contagious. Take the bodies to the storage room.  Where the food is? asked Bowmyk, aghast.  There's precious little of that, muttered Yorka. He pointed to a blood spot on the acolyte's satin tunic. And change your clothes. Put on something more practical, if you're going to assist the sick.  Yes, Master. The acolyte bowed and hurried off.  Yorka was immediately besieged by Ferengi, and he gritted his teeth. No one was more difficult to mollify than a suddenly impoverished Ferengi. A middle-aged businessman with three wives, who were wearing blankets at Yorka's insistence, shook his fist with such anger that his ear lobes wiggled.  You've got to get us back to Ferenginar! he demanded. You don't know who I am -- you don't understand! I've got to file reports -- insurance forms --   The words were just a babble in Yorka's ears, because he already knew his reply. I have no transportation to furnish, and you're free to leave or to stay in our house of worship. If you want to remain in our care, you must behave yourselves and abide by our rules. We'll do our best to feed and shelter you.  That's not what they promised us! That's not what they promised us on the ship! insisted the Ferengi.  This isn't the ship, answered Yorka calmly. Normally we're not a refugee station -- we're a temple offering outreach to the Bajoran community here. May I suggest that you pray to the Prophets? We're having services in half an hour.  This is outrageous! sputtered the Ferengi, stomping on the floor and wiping away real tears with his knuckles. I lost my whole fortune -- my factories, my latinum...I lost everything.  Yorka raised an eyebrow. You still have your life. And your wives. Behind him, three females looked at one another as if that wasn't a certainty.  All I need is a few strips of latinum to help us get home, begged the Ferengi. Perhaps you --   Look around you, Sir, snapped Yorka. Do we look like we are hoarding extra latinum? I recall two Rules of Acquisition, which I believe a Ferengi in your situation ought to consider deeply.  The distraught merchant blinked at him with surprise, and even his wives drew closer to hear the words of the Bajoran religious figure.  Rule number two-hundred-thirty-six: You can't buy fate, began Yorka. And rule number twenty-two: A wise man can hear profit in the wind. You call yourself a businessperson? Look out in the streets, and you will see merchants profiting from this disaster, while you sit here and whine. You're a disgrace to your people.  That stung the Ferengi, and he lowered his head in shame. Yorka went on, So a strong wind has hit and destroyed your holdings. Do you ignore the opportunity? I can soothe your soul by quoting you prophecies -- or Rules of Acquisition -- but you must find a way to triumph over adversity. What are the services which you need and cannot find? Others must be seeking them, too, and would be willing to pay once they collect their insurance.  The stout Ferengi lifted his head, and his droopy face brightened into a smile. These are times of confusion -- a good time to make money! he agreed.  In the human fashion, he took the Bajoran's hand and pumped it. They told me to come to this temple, saying that you are a wise man. And they're right. My name is Chellac, and if you ever need anything, you just let me know. Whatever it is, you'll get it wholesale!  That will be welcome, muttered Yorka, pulling away from the beaming Ferengi. Other refugees bombarded him with questions, and the prylar was forced to raise his arms and plow through the crowd at an accelerated pace. His destination was the southwest corner of the temple, where they kept the sick.  I'm sorry! We can't provide you with transportation, private rooms, things we don't have, he announced, more for the benefit of his workers than the refugees. But we have more to offer than food and shelter. Our teachings are free to all who will listen. In the words of our enlightened Kai Opaka, we cannot control the forces around us -- we can only control our reaction to them. Although grief and confusion are understandable, the Prophets tell us to search for true meaning within our lives.  He paused, hoping he had their attention, except for the bawling babies. Remember Shabren's Fifth Prophecy -- the Golden Age will not come until we defeat the Evil One. I believe that has happened! The terror which brought you here is over, and now we can rebuild. All of you are frightened, but you're still breathing. Yes, your lives have been changed forever, but you must ask yourselves why?  Change is normal, and we believe these cycles have a purpose. This purging process has happened often in Bajoran history, and we are experts at interpreting the will of the Prophets. We have a service in about thirty minutes, and I will deliver a talk I gave on this subject at the Vedek Assembly. Find out what this disaster means for your --   The front door slammed open, and someone screamed as a shrouded figure staggered into the temple. The withered, wraithlike visitor was carrying a shiny box that seemed half her size, and people shrunk away from her. Yorka peered over the top of heads, unsure what he was seeing -- the figure was like a moving blur that became more distinct as she came closer to him.  Yorka! croaked the visitor, lurching toward the staircase. The former vedek felt compelled to follow, although he didn't know why. The crowd parted for him as he approached the insubstantial figure on the vestibule stairs. Everyone in the temple seemed to know this was a momentous occasion, but it was hard to tell why.  Privacy, she insisted. He wasn't sure if she had spoken or merely thought it, but he understood.  He pointed up the stairs. The vestibule.  Take my luggage, she added, and hurry. I'm dying.  He took her box as commanded and escorted her up the metal stairs to the richly appointed vestibule, where he met with worshipers privately or in small groups. Her arm felt brittle and bony, but there was something familiar and comforting about her presence. He felt as though he knew her, although he could not yet see her face because of her hood.  Passing through brocaded curtains, they reached the vestibule, and he motioned to an upholstered bench. A closed door at the end of the chamber led to his private office and sparse living quarters. If his visitor was ill, he wouldn't hesitate to let her lie down in his own bed. Yorka felt that much concern over her comfort.  She turned around and dropped the hood, and he gasped! It was Kai Opaka, alive and smiling beatifically at him. The kai was a short woman, but she seemed to expand in her garments, becoming more regal with each passing second. Despite her calm expression, she was clearly injured, because she clutched a scorch mark on her side which was seeping dark fluid.  Let me fetch a doctor! cried Yorka. It is a profound honor, but we must treat you and --   No, murmured Kai Opaka. My time is short, and you must listen to me.  When she said her time was short, Yorka suddenly remembered that Kai Opaka was dead -- had been for over ten years. Yet here she stood before him, ebbing in and out of his consciousness. He thought that this was either the sign from the Prophets he had been waiting for, or proof positive that he was too insane to help anyone.  There came shouting and commotion from the front door of the temple, and Yorka was momentarily distracted. What is that?  My pursuers. I have less time than I thought. The Kai affixed him with baleful dark eyes, and her ear jewelry seemed to vibrate with the force of her presence. Listen to me, Vedek Yorka, for I bring your salvation. It's inside this box that you carried. But you must guard it from the Romulans -- they cannot be trusted with such power. Guard it from all -- I am entrusting you with the greatest force in the universe. May the Prophets guide you in its use.  With eagerness and fear in equal measure, the monk touched the gleaming box. Before he could even find the latch, more noise and shouts sounded from below, and he heard Acolyte Bowmyk's voice over the others. Prylar Yorka! You must come! Please!  He stuck his head out of the curtains of the vestibule and saw Bowmyk struggling up the stairs. What is it? I'm very busy.  Sir, strangers are looting the temple. They're in the sanctuary! The acolyte pointed urgently to multiple disturbances among the refugees.  Yorka gazed grimly at the bedlam in what had once been his solemn and austere temple. Two figures in black environmental suits were overturning beds and pews as they ransacked the place, and a third was interrogating witnesses at the point of a weapon. Still the refugees pressed forward, venting their anger and frustration at these masked strangers, who dared to make their lives even more miserable. It was clear from their body language that the intruders feared for their safety in this volatile crowd, which was turning into a mob.  The monk fought the impulse to yell at the intruders, but he needed distractions at the moment. Come inside, he whispered to the acolyte. I want you to meet someone.  But the refugees...they're in danger from --   Leave them. Yorka pulled the youth into the vestibule and motioned toward his special guest. But the kai was gone. Instead there was nothing but a pile of moss and dead leaves littering the floor. Clothing was piled atop the dried brush, but it was common street wear, not the elegant raiment the kai had been wearing.  What is the meaning of this, sir? asked the acolyte. The skittish look in his eyes told Yorka that he was about to bolt and never come back to the temple. With determination, the elder got a grip on his fear and turned to look at the metal box, which was intact and unchanged.  She is gone...perhaps in hiding. Maybe it was a changeling. At this moment, Yorka needed help, and he couldn't appear as befuddled as he felt. Although he couldn't explain what he had seen, he knew the mysterious box was real.  I have a valuable object here, he began. It was given to me by a servant of the Prophets. We must protect it with our lives.  Yorka stuck out his chin confidently and scanned the room, looking for anything which might help them. His eyes lit upon the circuit box which controlled the flow of power to the industrial building. Until the remodeling, the vestibule and monk's quarters had been the control room for an automated warehouse, and the regulating equipment was still located close at hand.  I want you to make a dash out the front door and distract them, said the Prylar. Don't worry -- before you even get halfway there, I'm going to shut off all the lights in the building. Then I'll go out the back door. It should be mass confusion, and they'll be stuck in darkness for a while.  Yes, sir, answered the young acolyte with a nervous gulp. He didn't look convinced.  Be brave, said Yorka, gripping the youth's scrawny shoulder. I know you think this is odd, but when you've been around as long as I have, you'll see that the Prophets act in strange ways. We can't stop to debate their choices or the cycles of life -- we have to seize what is presented to us.  He gazed at the rectangular box, which was almost a meter long. You'll never do anything more important in your life than this, Bowmyk. If you could have seen her --   Seen her? asked the acolyte puzzledly. He glanced at the pile of moss and old clothes.  Don't view this through the lens of the everyday, cautioned the stout monk. This is the beginning of something grand...something which will change our dreary lives and this dreary place. You must do exactly as I tell you -- for the will of the Prophets. Repeat it with me!  He grabbed the lad's hands and said, For the will of the Prophets, I will do this. The acolyte dutifully repeated it with him.  Moving like a man possessed, the former vedek grabbed a red velvet curtain from the wall and wrapped it around the chrome box. For a decoy, he grabbed a brazier from the altar and wrapped it in an identical curtain. You take that, and act like it's priceless. Run now out the front door. Go!  The youth hesitated. How will...how will I find you, sir?  I'll find you and the others as surely as this wonder has found me. Go on!  Inspired by the energized monk, the acolyte rushed from the vestibule and pounded down the stairs. Yorka grabbed the unknown object and ran to the circuit box on the wall. He waited until he heard the unfortunate screams, then he pressed the membrane keypad, where it read, All Circuits Off.  At once, every cubic centimeter of the building was plunged into darkness, and frightened wails and screeches reverberated in the metal building. Yorka moved swiftly to the stairs, which he trod a hundred times a day. Even in darkness, he could navigate them without much trouble, letting his legs remember the spacing and distances. The dark wasn't constant, because there were disruptor blasts that illuminated enraged, panicked refugees swarming in every direction.  Yorka was remarkably calm as he ignored all of this. Clearly the kai's pursuers were in the service of evil -- she had mentioned Romulans. His feet hit the carpet, and he was jostled by figures moving in every direction; it was all he could do to maintain his grip on the box. But Yorka envisioned his path in his mind, using the walls as touchstones. Familiar ramparts ran all the way from the stairs to the back door, and all he had to do was navigate them. For ten years, he had lived in this manufactured city, and he knew where to hide. He even knew where to get transportation.  As screams, shouts, and disruptor beams enlivened the darkness inside the temple, Prylar Yorka muscled his way past the mob choking the back door. He spilled into the street along with several others and staggered to his feet, still gripping his prize. A crowd was forming, attracted by the chaos inside, and Yorka heard sirens.   Police hovercraft were headed down the narrow side street, and terrified refugees rushed out to meet them. This wasn't any time to be questioned, not until he understood what he possessed.  Pulling a hood over his head, the Bajoran monk slipped into the wall of onlookers and made his escape. Thank you for remembering me, he said silently to the Prophets. I won't disappoint you.   Copyright  2002 by Paramount Pictures	Russ played a Vulcan on the TV series Star Trek: Voyager; he needs all his knowledge and acting skill to bring this confusing story into focus. One thing that helps is that he has the voice of Captain Jean-Luc Picard down to a science; one thinks Patrick Stewart is there. Another, he has behind him the subtle special effects and rousing music that bring the listener squarely into the Star Trek universe. The Genesis Wave is a mutagenic wave of great size and searingly destructive effect that creates disaster on a planetary scale. A wall to another dimension is weakened and . . . well, that sort of thing. The ENTERPRISE saves the day.  D.R.W.  AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine",action & adventure;books;genre fiction;kindle ebooks;kindle store;literature & fiction;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;series;space opera;star trek,11
0750936916,"Later Chapters of My Life: The Lost Memoir of Queen Marie of Romania This final volume, Later Chapters of My Life, a previously unpublished manuscript, was for a long time believed to have been destroyed by King Carol II after his mothers death. Maries last private secretary, Christine Galitzi, knew of the new book the Queen was writing as a sequel to The Story of My Life. She believed that after the Queens death Carol ordered the manuscript to be destroyed. The writing of these last memoirs was undertaken on the basis of notes from queens diary. Short time after the publication of the first volume from The Story of My Life the Queen was asked to continue the writing of her captivating recollections. The first mentions about starting of the fourth volume appeared during August 1934 in the correspondence between the Queen and Ray Harris Baker, the founder of Queen Maries Collection. The completion of this volume of memoirs by the Queen continued with many difficulties stemming from pressures from her son Carol II He was envying the queen because of her widely recognized prestige. The result was that she decided to hide her private papers. Also from 1931, as a measure of precaution against Carols intrusions, she arranged to have a part of her correspondence received through King Alexander of Yugoslavia, her son-in-law, in Belgrade and in Bucharest at the Yugoslav Legation.  Documents confirm Maries fears during 1930s and her wish to place the diaries and other personal papers in a safe place at the British Legation in Bucharest. This was a political sensitive action and was possible only for a short time. The intention to keep her papers, material for her memoirs, in a safe place was paralleled by similar situation which occurred between Empress Frederick and her son Kaiser Wilhelm II. The same kind of restrictions and pressure resulted that her memoirs and Kaiser Frederick III s personal papers to be smuggled out of Germany by the British Embassy in Berlin and stored in England.	QUEEN MARIE OF ROMANIA was one of the most brilliant monarchs of the twentieth century. Described by one biographer as 'the most voluptuous queen in Europe' she distinguished herself during the First World War when she publicly opposed the peace agreement between Romania and Germany. She was also a gifted writer, and in the mid-1930s, publication of three volumes of her memoirs, The Story of My Life, brought her worldwide renown. Yet, until now, her story has remained incomplete. This recently discovered last memoir of Queen Marie reveals through her own eyes those later chapters of her life. The granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Tsar Alexander II of Russia, Marie was brought up at Eastwell Park in Kent. Glamorous and beautiful, she had men falling at her feet, yet at the age of seventeen she married the shy Crown Prince of Romania. It was a step that was to propel her on to the stage of international politics, and see her venture upon unofficial diplomatic missions, earning her the title of an 'irresistible ambassador'. Her last memoir, written from the period following the First World War until the end of 1922, includes both the fascinating trivia and intimate details of her daily life, and also brings us alongside her as she witnesses world-changing events. From the 1919 Peace Conferenceat which Queen Marie met Clemenceau, Poincare, Woodrow Wilson and Hooverto her last meeting with her mother, the Duchess of SaxeCoburg; and from her informal visits to Paris, London and Transylvania to the first parliament of Greater Romania, the memoir gives great insight into the life of this extraordinary queen. 'After two years' occupation, Romania had been mercilessly plundered; the enemy had laid hands upon absolutely everything. Food was becoming scarcer and scarcer; we were once more facing famine . . . . ' 'Mr Hoover . . . had no desire to charm! Spare of words, dry, reserved, a little frowning, his attitude was not particularly congenial, but ... we met and talked earnestly as I had heard of his great competence, and I had just cause for which to plead.' 'Mr Lloyd George loved talking, company stimulated him; he was full of fun and wit; thoroughly enjoying his own jokes. I let myself be carried away by his undeniable charm, all the time wondering how much he really understood about Europe.' ' . . . a year-old letter from Ducky [the queen's sister Victoria Melita who married the Tsar's cousin] reached me from Finland where they were still quasi-prisoners and unable to get away. They had lost absolutely everything, nothing today remains to them, not even hope.'	Diana Mandache is a Romanian historian who specialises in the history of the Romanian royal family and Eastern European history. She is the editor of Americans, and Queen Marie of Romania, and author of Romnia, Mitteleuropa i Balcanii [Romania, Central Europe and the Balkans]. She lives in London.",biographies & memoirs;books;eastern;europe;history;leaders & notable people;romania;royalty;russia;specific groups;women,11
0895292467,"The Sprouting Book: How to Grow and Use Sprouts to Maximize Your Health and Vitality (Avery Health Guides) Author and publisher state at the outset that they are not responsible for adverse effects resulting from the reader's adoption of Wigmore's Living Food Diet, a nutritional regimen that uses germinated and sprouting seeds. With that prominent caveat, the book goes on to discuss the history of this type of food, a staple in the Orient since ancient days. Wigmore, founder of the Hippocrates Health Institute of Boston, includes lists of seeds for sprouting, directions for maintaining a sprout garden (indoors and out) by various methods, and recipes for food and drinks from the harvest. Clear drawings complement the text. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Ann Wigmore for Avery",books;cookbooks;crafts;education & reference;food & wine;gardening & landscape design;hobbies & home;natural foods;reference;vegetables;vegetables & vegetarian,11
084993740X,"Bible Humor: Top Seven Lists Dave Veerman is an experienced writer who lost his father a few years ago, so he writes from personal experience. Dave worked for twenty-six years with Youth for Christ before forming The Livingstone Corporation in 1988 with Bruce Barton. He served as a senior editor of the Life Application Bible and has written nearly forty books, including Understanding Your Teenager, Dave's Complete Guide to Junior High Ministry, Tough Parents for Tough Times, Parenting Passages, and Dads That Make a Difference.",books;christian books & bibles;education & reference;humor;humor & entertainment;inspirational;jokes & riddles;literature & fiction;reference;religion & spirituality;spirituality,11
1568361963,"Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters The letters in this treasure-trove date from September  1630--when John Winthrop, newly ensconced as governor of  Massachusetts, wrote to his wife in England--to August 1996, when a  young adopted woman named Michelle Song addressed a moving letter to  her yet-undiscovered birth mother. In between are more than 200 other  epistles--written by the celebrated and the obscure, the powerful and  the powerless--that in aggregate paint a revealing portrait of the  United States. The collection's range is enormous--from Groucho Marx's  hilarious 1947 tirade to Warner Brothers, which was trying to block  him from using A Night in Casablanca as a movie title, to a  June 1744 letter from ""The Indians of the Six Nations"" to  William & Mary College, politely declining an offer to educate some of  their young (and noting that some previous white-educated Indians  ""were bad Runners, ignorant of every means of living in the  Woods, unable to bear either Cold or Hunger, knew neither how to build  a Cabin, take a Deer, or kill an Enemy, spoke our language  imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for Hunters, Warriors, or  Counsellors."")    Whenever possible, editor Andrew Carroll presents the letters in their original   form, complete with capitalization and spelling quirks (including misspellings),   which adds to their vividness. His brief introductions tell just enough about   each letter without overshadowing their subjects. This splendidly presented   piece of research offers a revealing, eminently readable window onto America's   past.	For readers who enjoy reading a wide variety of letters, this book will prove satisfying; those looking for a balanced selection of epistles on specific eras, events, or emotions in the American past will more likely be disappointed. Carroll, executive director of the American Poetry and Literacy Project, has selected and provided superior brief introductions for more than 200 historical and personal letters, arranged in ten categories. The variety is extraordinary. For example, we read Bill Clinton's 1969 draft letter and Elvis Presley's admiring 1970 note to Richard Nixon; the famous, ""Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"" letter and Martin Luther King Jr.'s ""Letter from a Birmingham Jail."" While some of the letters are previously unknown gems, many choices seem to reflect a desire to include the expected and famous. A clearer explanation of the intended reader and the selection process would have been helpful. Not an essential purchase.?Charles K. Piehl, Mankato State Univ., Minn.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.",americas;books;classics;education & reference;encyclopedias;essays;essays & correspondence;history;literature;literature & fiction;united states,11
0826447449,"Ride, Red, Ride: The Life of Henry 'Red' Allen (Bayou) ""The book is enlivened by the author's piquant and most readable style.This is definitely a jazz volume that belongs in your personal library.""The Mississippi Rag, February 2001""[An] absorbing studyChilton is not only a fine biographerbur also a fine trumpet player, and provides helpful commentary on Red's many recordings.this is a first-rate jazz biography, scrupulously researched and gracefully written.""-Jersey Jazz""this excellent book...includes nearly 20 fine photos, a selected discography by Brian Peerless and an index."" - International Association of Jazz Record Collectors Journal (Russ Chase )""this excellent book...includes nearly 20 fine photos, a selected discography by Brian Peerless and an index."" - International Association of Jazz Record Collectors Journal (, )	John Chilton divides his time between being a professional jazz trumpeter and writing books on jazz. In 2000 he won the British Jazz Award for Writer of the Year. His books include Billie's Blues (on Billie Holiday), The Wizard of Jazz (on Sidney Bechet), and Let the Good Times Roll (on Louis Jordan). Both his Who's Who of Jazz (Storyville to Swing Street) and his Who's Who of British Jazz have been hailed as the best reference works of their kind. Down Beat magazine calls Chilton ""a master of the craft of research.""",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;ethnic & national;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;jazz;music;musical genres,11
0809244934,"Take It Off and Keep It Off McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide",books;cookbooks;diets & weight loss;education & reference;fitness & dieting;food & wine;health;other diets;psychology & counseling;reference;weight loss,11
0743213823,"Shanda: The Making and Breaking of a Self-Loathing Jew ""[A] stirring journey with a surprising and deeply moving conclusion.""  -- Forward""What makes this personal account of self-dividedness so riveting is the ferocious honesty with which the author exposes his wound and the clarity and humor which seem testimony enough to its healing.""  -- Philip Lopate""Shanda should be sold in a plain brown wrapper -- Neal Karlen's self-examination of his internal identity conflicts is that honest and disturbing.""  --Sara Nelson, New York Post""Shanda reads much like Tuesdays with Morrie but has a wry irreverence and a seething edge. Karlen's memoir is an alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching spiritual adventure.""  -- The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles""Poignant and original...Karlen's personal saga shows that while there is no one set way to reconnect with your Jewish heart, the journey is always rich and fulfilling.""  -- Stephen Fried, author of The New Rabbi""If you like scary beginnings, Neal Karlen's memoir is the book for you...The amazing thing here is not how dramatically Karlen turns himself around but how astutely he chronicles the turnaround. Shanda is hilarious, heartbreaking, seething, wary, and joyful -- in a word, a marvel.""  -- Stephen J. Dubner, author of Turbulent Souls and coauthor, Freakonomics	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Neal Karlen writes regularly for The New York Times and is a member of the adjunct faculty of the University of Minnesota journalism school. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Elle, The Forward, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and Olam, among other publications. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Chapter 1: UNCLE TOM JEWAin't no one to place the blameIt's too smart to have a name. -- Southern slave spiritualIn the seconds between shoving my third and fourth White Castle-sized pork sandwich down my throat, I yelled across the lavishly appointed basement toward my host. He and his wife had invited fifty Twin Cities WASPs, and me, to watch Mike Tyson's pay-per-view, main-event boxing match in Las Vegas against heavyweight Frans Botha on their wide-screen television.I was more interested in the undercard fight for the junior cruiserweight championship belt between the Brooklyn-born Ethiopian Jew Zab Judah and Wilfredo Negron.""Hey, Jim, call me when the Hebe's fight comes on,"" I said from the kitchen. I then turned toward the Minnesota crowd waiting with empty buns on paper plates for their own turns at the buffet.""Zab Judah is the only Yid champ left!"" I said loudly to no one in particular but to everybody specifically. ""Naturally, they'll never make the Hebe the headline bout, the Nazi bastards!""Someone shoved a Budweiser into my hand, my fourth of the night. ""Well, I usually don't do this,"" I said, laughing, as I popped the top. ""I'm not from a drinking people, you know. It's right there in the Old Testament, Genesis, Chapter Four in the book of Shmeckel: 'And God gave Moses the bong, and it was good. And He said if thou shalt spill the bong water on the carpet, it shalt reek for seven generations...'""The kitchen exploded. ""I missed that one in Sunday school,"" a blond woman said, laughing the hardest.As usual, I was enticed by her Crest smile, the way she laughed at my jokes like they, or I, were deeper than I was letting on. The delicate little gold cross on a chain hung over her turtleneck, indicating she was as forbidden to me as I was to her.This was my kind of woman. When asked why I went out only with non-Jewish women, I had a stock reply that further outraged or cracked up most any audience I was able to gather.""Jewish women hate me,"" I said that night, as I often did. ""I think I remind them of their annoying Uncle Morty, the schmuck at the Seder table with the stupid hundred-year-old Borscht Belt jokes. They want lawyers from Plymouth, not writers living in the middle of the city. As Abbie Hoffman said, 'You go for the gelt or you go for broke.' They don't want to go for broke.""In my more self-righteous moments I likened myself to an Abbie Hoffman-troublemaking Jew. I hadn't gone what I considered the easy route of suburban-bred Twin Cities Jew. I wasn't a lawyer or orthodontist trained at the University of Minnesota. I hadn't been a member of Sigma Alpha Mu, the Jewish fraternity known as the Sammies. My generation of Minneapolis Jews had almost all gone for the gelt, eventually ending up in a house with 2.3 kids in Twin Cities' suburban gilded ghetto.I viewed them from afar as judgmental ignorants. Of course, I was the one judging, projecting my own despair and need to belong back at them. I saw how they took care of each other when someone died: the shiva, the food, the communal tears. I wondered narcissistically who would mourn me, thinking of an old Yiddish joke about a Jew so bad no one could find a eulogist. Finally, a rabbi volunteered, offering up the words: ""His uncle was worse."" Though I pretended not to care, I did.Outwardly, at least, I wanted to emulate my heroic Jewish outlaws; I wanted to join the spirit of what people like the ones mystery writer Kinky Friedman and founder of a country and western band called the Texas Jewboys enumerated.From Moses, Friedman said in the Forward, ""a long line of Jewish troublemakers followed -- Baruch Spinoza, Karl Marx, Groucho Marx, Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman -- who were spiritual beacons in a [gentile] world. ""These among other lantzman,"" Friedman continued, also served as lighthouses for frightened Jews who for millennia ""shun trouble, avoid at all cost confrontations...we who look in our mirrors [and] are mildly surprised that we're still here.""Now, that was me. I felt like an obsolete pinball machine whose spare parts hadn't been made. I was also a self-deluded fool. Standing here, outraging my audience, I was no Jewish outlaw like Abbie, throwing bills to the floor of the Stock Exchange. At best I was a Vegas lounge act.Unconsciously, I threw in a joke to the crowd in the kitchen, a Henny Youngman one-liner:""Why do Jewish husbands always die before Jewish wives?"" I asked.""Because they want to.""The room erupted and I reached for another beer.I was shticking like Milton Berle on crystal meth, using a speed rap I'd developed at college parties to get a group of gentile women to encircle me. If they were laughing at my rap here, I figured, they couldn't ogle the sensitive guitar player singing Grateful Dead tunes in the living room. Shagetz (non-Jewish) musicians always had it easier than Jewish men in getting the girls. I'd joke in the kitchen, where everybody had to pass by me on the way to beer and food. In Minneapolis -- at concerts, ball games, dinner parties, the theater during intermission, walking along the street, or standing in a virtual stranger's kitchen eating trayf (nonkosher food) -- I delighted in outraging the gentiles. I was engaged in shtetl shpritzing, Jewish jazz.Did my non-Jewish friends perchance want to see my horns, I'd ask, or the yellow stripe running down my back? And gee, I'd throw in, sorry about killing your Lord and all that, it was a party, things got out of hand, he didn't chip in for the Last Supper's tip. Before launching into my full-blown anti-Jewish joke parade, I half insulted them by slightly altering some of Henny Youngman's Polish jokes.""Did you hear about the guy who was half Swedish and half Jewish?""He's the janitor of a building, but he owns it.""""Shpritzing?"" the blonde at the party asked.""Surrounded by other Jewish wise guys, usually at a diner or deli, you just shoot out jokes as fast as you can and everybody tries to top you,"" I said, staring at her. ""When they were young, Lenny Bruce (n Leonard Schneider), Rodney Dangerfield (n Jacob Cohen), Jerry Lewis (n Joseph Levitch), and whatever Jewish comic was in town shoehorned themselves into a booth in a Brooklyn diner and shpritzed faster than Chuck Yeager flew. Shpritzing was the Jewish right stuff. Henny Youngman claimed that Jerry Lewis even shtupped a woman in the candy store's phone booth without missing the beat of his jokes. Now Lenny, there was a Jew considered a shanda fur di goyim.""Nobody asked what shtupping was, but the blond woman said, ""I heard of Lenny Bruce, he was in that R.E.M. song about the end of the world. What is a...shalen goy...?""""Let's see,"" I said, thinking of an example. ""Woody Allen getting arrested for molesting or at least marrying his child is a shanda fur di goyim.""""I don't understand,"" she of the golden, dangling crucifix said.""Let's put it this way,"" I said. ""When Abbie Hoffman was screaming at the inept Judge Julius Hoffman at his infamous Chicago Seven conspiracy trial...""""I studied that in college,"" she said. ""A lot of people think that was the most important trial of the century.""I liked this shiksa. She knew Lenny Bruce and Abbie Hoffman, albeit through Michael Stipe songs and college history texts. ""Yeah,"" I said, ""well, Abbie screamed in court to the judge, 'You're a disgrace to the Jews in front of America! You're a shanda fur di goyim!' A shanda fur di goyim is the worst thing one Jew can say to a Jew -- it means you're such a rat bastard that you make all Jews look bad in front of the goyim."" They all laughed. Christ, the gentiles loved being called goyim to their faces by a crazy Jew.How could I make such a spectacle of myself and talk such trash, be such an unmitigated ass, after all that had happened, I wondered briefly, a suddenly conscious current of self-loathing making me want to crawl out of my skin. But I quickly repressed the noxious feeling that mocked who I had become during the last two decades -- a buffoon who despised who he was and where he'd come from.Even when I was still a kosher-keeping and religious youth, studying Hebrew and ancient Aramaic harder than anyone I knew, I'd tried to get away from my ancestry and be just an American kid, as in the sit-com fantasies of gentile life, ironically almost always written by first-generation Jews, peopled by kids who couldn't fall asleep on Christmas night.As split inside as Cain and Abel, I'd had plans to be a rabbi, yet I'd always wanted to fit in, to assimilate. I didn't want to be just a ""normal"" kid but rather a brave outlaw. So I was the bookie for my tenth-grade class, taking bets in the lunchroom on Friday for that Sunday's game before heading home to prepare for Shabbos.I'd totaled four cars, been arrested for big-ticket shoplifting at fourteen, had my license suspended at seventeen by altering it to make it look, I thought, as if I were old enough to drink. The judge gave me only the mandatory one-month suspension when I told him I needed to get to the synagogue every Saturday to teach religion, which was actually true. During those four weeks, I simply hitchhiked down Minneapolis's busiest thoroughfare in my suit, John Dillinger with a tallis bag instead of a tommy gun in hand.At school I wrestled and played freshman hockey, punching and flipping gentiles on their backs to middlin' success, but at least proving I was no weakling Jew. At forty, I hadn't known or cared for decades where my Phi Beta Kappa key was, but my framed certificate for being the 104-pound wrestling champion of my seventh-grade class followed me everywhere I lived.Only later did I realize that my need to ""prove"" myself was about asserting my masculinity. I felt that as a Jew my manhood was always in question. Just as most Jewish women are revolted by the stereotype of the JAP, I was repulsed by perceptions of the weak, pale yeshiva boys Isaac Babel wrote of, ...	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;jewish;judaism;leaders & notable people;movements;orthodox;religion & spirituality;religious;sacred writings,11
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