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0842026827,"Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers (Latin American Silhouettes) The best of times, the worst of times. Dickens? No! The Clinton administration? No! This describes the current state of Mexican cinema, a vibrant, creative industry with an uncertain future. On the one hand, Mexico supports fine direction, photography, acting, production, music, and postproduction facilitiesAthere's remarkable talent and potential in the country. But there's also economic strife, political instability, class conflict, and an inconsistent social fabric. In 12 essays, specialists and researchers from both sides of the border examine various aspects of the history and the current state of Mexican cinema. Especially well written and intriguing are essays on the decline of the golden age of film and a fascinating look at Mexican border cinema. This work complements two earlier studies, Carl J. Mora's Mexican Cinema (Univ. of California, 1990. rev. ed.) and Mexican Cinema (British Film Inst., 1996). Highly recommended for libraries collecting in film studies or research libraries with collections in Hispanic intellectual and cultural studies.ABoyd Childress, Auburn Univ. Lib., AL Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In 12 essays, specialists and researchers from both sides of the border examine various aspects of the history and the current state of Mexican cinema. Especially well written and intriguing are essays on the decline of the golden age of film and a fascinating look at Mexican border cinema. Highly recommended. (Library Journal)Hershfield and Maciel have performed a valuable service to English-language scholarship on Mexican cinema. The essays brought together in this volume cast a new light on the historical dynamics of an important cinematic tradition-its films and stars, its representations of national identity, its crises, and its problematic relations with Hollywood, the market and the state. A welcome addition to the growing bibliography on Latin American cinema. (Randal Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles)A valuable contribution to knowledge of the film industry in a country with a long and rich film history. (CHOICE)Hershfield and Maciel have brought together a collection that illuminates Mexico's cinema over the last century. (American Historical Review)	Joanne Hershfield teaches media studies and production at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. David R. Maciel is professor of history and chairperson of the Department of Chicano/Chicana Studies at California State University.",books;ethnic studies;film & television;history & criticism;humanities;humor & entertainment;movies;new;performing arts;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;theory;used & rental textbooks,14
0520217713,"A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California (California History Sesquicentennial Series) James J. Rawls is an instructor of history at Diablo Valley College and author of numerous books on California history. Richard J. Orsi is Professor of History at California State University, Hayward, and editor of the journal California History, the journal of the California Historical Society.",19th century;americas;books;business & investing;development & growth;economic conditions;economic history;economics;environment;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);science & math;state & local;united states,14
0231096860,"Romantic Passion ""What these often wonderfully evocative field reports demonstrate is that, while the capacity for some kind of passionate attraction to another may very well be a human universal, that capacity is shaped and molded into a myriad of forms by different cultures. A very valuable and timely contribution. Highly recommended."" --  Choice	William Jankowiak is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.",anthropology;books;emotions;fitness & dieting;health;mental health;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;sexuality;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,14
0380794659,"The Eighth Continent:: Life, Death, and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar Lying some 250 miles off the east coast of Africa, Madagascar is the world's fourth-largest island. It is quite unlike the neighboring continent, and, for that matter, quite unlike any other landmass on the planet. Its plant life is almost wholly endemic: eight out of 10 plants there grow naturally only on Madagascar, and it has an entire ecosystem, the spiny desert, that is found nowhere else on earth. Many of its animal species, too, seem to have emerged from some evolutionary track that runs parallel to the rest of the world's; here can be found lemurs that will fit into a human palm, dwarf hippos, giant chameleons, and other rarities. These plants and animals constitute an extraordinary diversity, writes science journalist Peter Tyson in this engaging book, and the island's richness of life has long intrigued scientists, who have proposed several theories to explain it. Those scientists, some of whom Tyson profiles at work in the field, are racing against time to catalog island life before it disappears, for Madagascar's human population is rapidly growing, and with that growth, the island's forests and other habitats are falling. The urgency may abate, Tyson writes, with guarded optimism, now that the island's current president has proposed that all of Madagascar be considered as a United Nations World Heritage Site, which would help provide funds to prevent further loss of habitat and diversity. Though this proposal is controversial, Tyson makes a good case for why it should be taken up--and he shows just how high the stakes are. Throughout his narrative, Tyson mixes scientific reportage with a nicely rendered travelogue that guides readers across the island while outlining key concepts of island biogeography and conservation biology. His book is a worthy companion to David Quammen's Song of the Dodo, and valuable reading for anyone concerned with the world environment. --Gregory McNamee 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Combining travelogue, political discourse, ethnographic analysis and ecological exploration, this unusual book surveys an unusual subject: Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island. Situated only 250 miles off the coast of Africa, Madagascar is biologically unique. Not only does it have a rich animal and plant life, it also houses a huge number of endemic species found nowhere else on earth. Impressed with ""the island's singular people. The striking beauty of the landscape. And the wonder of the wildlife,"" TysonAonline producer of NOVA and a veteran science writerAset out, four years ago, to make sense of the island's natural history. He visited four different scientists thereAa herpetologist, a paleoecologist, an archeologist and a primatologist. In this impressive volume, he writes about what he learned on these visits, successfully conveying both the flavor of field research and the biological mysteries of the island nation. Tyson reflects on questions of science (where did all these rare species come from?) as well as on more practical matters (how can a country that's so financially poor save its rich environmental resources?). He also presents engaging historical information and offers an exuberant discussion of the Malagasy language. Because Tyson tends to focus on his personal experiences, and he emphasizes wildlife over human life, the Malagasy people themselves regrettably remain in the background. Otherwise admirable, the book suffers for this absence. Agent, Theresa Park. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Madagascar, actually the Earth's fourth-largest island, has the distinction of hosting one of the greatest collections of endemic species, that is, plants and animals that exist nowhere else. It is under extreme ecological peril owing to deforestation and population growth, and scientists and conservationists are anxious to study and preserve as much of Madagascar's unique ecology as possible before it's too late. The island also presents historical mysteries, since there are curious gaps in the archaeological record of the original settlers. To learn more about these issues, science writer Tyson tagged along on the expeditions of specialists in herpetology, paleoecology, archaeology, and primatology. He reports in great (and occasionally repetitive) detail on their research projects, adventures in the field, and scientific and historical background. He finds more questions than answers on his travels and freely admits to being baffled by Malagasy customs and way of life. This ambitious book perhaps tries to cover too much ground, but few other books available introduce readers to this fascinating, unique nation. Recommended for both academic and most public libraries.DBeth Clewis Crim, Prince William P.L., VA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Madagascar is the world's fourth-largest island (after Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo) and the largest oceanic one. Isolated in the Indian Ocean, 250 miles off the coast of Africa, it is of singular interest because of the many animals and plants that are found only there. Science writer Tyson went there four times between 1993 and 1997. On each trip he traveled about with a scientist--a herpetologist, a paleoecologist, an archaeologist and a primatologist. His book describes the island largely through their research. It is a technique that produces a sharp picture of an intriguing place. Tyson also presents a brief history of the island, beginning with the odd fact that the first human inhabitants apparently arrived no more than 2,000 years ago, and ponders what can be done about the ecological devastation being wrought by the impoverished population there today. EDITORS OF SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	By turns thoughtful and vivacious, science writer and Nova producer Tyson draws an anecdotally rich portrait of the biological wonderland known as Madagascar.It is difficult to grasp the plant and animal wealth of the island of Madagascar. Scientists refer to such natural abundance as megadiversity, and they see its current imperiled situation as a biodiversity crisis of the first order. Tyson traveled to the island four times over the course of the last decade, each time to explore some aspect of the Malagasy bioscape. He moves in the company of fascinating, and acutely drawn, characters. He meets a herpetologist who seeks answers to the island's evolutionary bounty and its role in speciation (i.e., how one species grows out of another) and endemism (a high percentage of the living matter on Madagascar is known only there). He spends time with a paleoecologist who is trying to reconstruct ancient landscapes in order to gain insights into the extinction of the megafauna. He lives among the Malagasy in an attempt to gather some impression (which he readily admits is fleeting and less than partial) of their culture. And he witnesses the efforts of conservationists to redress the intense environmental degradation that ensues as the island's shattered economy sends residents into the countryside to cut firewood and farm the fragile earth. Tyson's science writing shines; it is a testament to his fluency that he can impart an understanding of vicariance and dispersal, and even the isostasy responsible for continental drift, without missing a beat. Or introduce a bestiary (whose names would spark memories of Dr. Seuss in most readers: tenrecs and fossa, golden-crowned sifakas and fat-ailed dwarf lemurs). One conservationist puts it bluntly: The country will be either lost or saved during the working life of the current generation.A fine portrait of Madagascar's singular culture and biodiversity, its great beauty and dire straits. -- Copyright  2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Madagascar always seems somehow separate'so oddly beautiful, so completely strange. But Peter Tyson, in this remarkable book, bridges that distance. He eloquently makes real and familiar both the island and the island-dwellers, and he makes us realize how much we would all lose if they were not part of our far-flung extended family."" -- Deborah Blum, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Monkey Wars and Sex on the Brain""Madagascar always seems somehow separate'so oddly beautiful, so completely strange. But Peter Tyson, in this remarkable book, bridges that distance. He eloquently makes real and familiar both the island and the island-dwellers, and he makes us realize how much we would all lose if they were not part of our far-flung extended family."" -- r""Peter Tyson has delivered a travelogue of the first rank. It is about the true Lost World of this planet. Walk and ride with him through Madagascar, and you will be riveted on every page by a rich mix of natural and human history enlivened by personal anecdote. Madagascar matters!"" -- Edward O. Wilson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Ants and Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge""This is indeed a lovely book. It is simultaneously authoritative and quirky. It teases the reader with surprises to discover and ideas to savor'whether the leaf-tailed gecko plastered to a tree trunk or the oratory of Malagasy poetry. In a country counted among the world's poorest, Tyson unveils riches."" -- Alison Jolly, author of Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution""This travel book has an old-fashioned appeal."" -- --Outside""Tyson gives us a feel for the breadth and complexity of the world's fourth-largest island."" -- --Bookshelf""Whether meeting a leaf-tailed gecko eye to eye, searching for the extinct giant lemur, discussing the biogeography of animals, or describing conservation issues and local customs, Peter Tyson's narrative is a delight, the most informative, fascinating, and enjoyable book on the natural and cultural history of Madagascar I have read."" -- George B. Schaller, Director for Science, Wildlife Conservation Society	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Peter Tyson is on-line producer of NOVA, the PBS science series.A science writer for seventeen years, he has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, and other magazines and newspapers.He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, with his wife and three children.",africa;animals;biological sciences;books;ecology;education & reference;fauna;general;madagascar & comoros;nature & ecology;research & publishing guides;science & math;travel;writing,14
1564961834,"Ten Houses: Peter Forbes and Associates Oscar Riera Ojeda is an editor and designer who practices in the United States, South America, and Europe from his office in Boston. he is vice-director of the Spanish-Argentinian magazine Casa Internacional and is the creator of several series of architecture publications for Rockport Publishers, including Contemporary World Architects, Ten Houses, Single Building, and Art and Architecture. Other architectural publications include the new American series for the Whitney Library of Design, as well as several monographs on the work of renowned architects.",architecture;books;buildings;business & investing;crafts;history;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;individual architects & firms;popular economics;professional & technical;reference;regional,14
0299171744,"Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine A highly original contribution to studies of the relationship between gender, medicine, and science, offering fresh insights regarding the entrance of women into the medical profession. Wells's nuanced story will appeal to literary scholars, medical historians, and all readers interested in revisiting this complex and rewarding terrain.Regina Morantz-Sanchez, author of Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn	""A highly original contribution to studies of the relationship  between gender, medicine, and science, offering fresh insights regarding the  entrance of women into the medical profession. Wells's nuanced story will appeal  to literary scholars, medical historians, and all readers interested in  revisiting this complex and rewarding terrain.""--Regina Morantz-Sanchez, author  of Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century  Brooklyn	Susan Wells is professor of English at Temple University. She is the author of Sweet Reason: Rhetoric and the Discourses of Modernity and The Dialectics of Representation.",19th century;books;gender studies;history;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;special topics;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,14
3822864129,"Case Study Houses (Jumbo) The first thing you notice about Case Study Houses: The Complete CSH Program, 1945-1966 is its size: it's big. Contained within its 16-inch frame is the history of Arts & Architecture magazine's famed program created to inspire the building of low-cost modern homes in America. The brainchild of magazine editor John Entenza, the program drew well-known architects including Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, and Richard Neutra. Throughout the book are spectacular photographs of modernist glass- and patio-filled homes. Most of the homes were built in the Los Angeles area and make wonderful use of the surrounding scenery. A 17-foot-tall front door opens up onto a canal; streamlined Herman Miller furniture fills out a living room that overlooks a breathtaking panorama. While not all the projects were built, each received a detailed spread in the magazine, including drawings and models. Some of the architectural drawings are lovely, drawn with the movement and fluidity of a master. Included are short biographies of each architect, a provocative epilogue by photographer Julius Shulman, and the reprinted original magazine pages that announce the birth of the Case Study idea. This book is a true gem, and considering its size it's the Hope diamond. --J.P. Cohen	Perhaps what's most fun here is the flavor of the period captured by the photographs. -- Newsweek.com, 3/9/02	Peter Gossel runs a practice for the design of museums and exhibitions. He is the editor of TASCHEN's monographs on Julius Shulman, R. M. Schindler, John Lautner and Richard Neutra, as well as the editor of the Basic Architecture series. Elizabeth A. T. Smith is Chief Curator and Deputy Director for programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Formerly she was curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles where she organized the exhibition ""Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses."" Smith has taught at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. She has curated numerous exhibitions and published and lectured widely on a variety of topics in contemporary art and architecture.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",americas;architecture;arts & photography;books;buildings;europe;france;historic preservation;history;history & criticism;professional & technical;reference;state & local;united states,14
B0000547F0,"Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire On the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded by the district's Bureau of Land Management office as taking place in South Canyon, thereby mislabeling forever one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of firefighting. That seemingly small human error foreshadowed the numerous other minor errors that, three days later, would be compounded into the deaths of 14 firefighters, four of them women. In this dramatic reconstruction of the disaster and its aftermath, John N. MacLean tells the heroic and cautionary story of people who were experts in their field but became the victims of nature at its most unforgiving.",americas;biological sciences;books;earth sciences;history;natural disasters;plants;politics & government;politics & social sciences;science & math;social sciences;state & local;trees;united states,14
041534915X,"Creativity: Theory, History, Practice 'This varied and provocative book takes a multi-lensed instrument to the many historical and theoretical facets of creativity. Pope's scope is immense, his method discursive.' Writing in Education 'For an author to achieve the rigour and practical applicability of a text-book as well as the academic and depth-informed qualities of a monograph, while creating at the same time ample room for discursive and associative play, is no mean feat - but this is Pope's ongoing signature and para phase' Writing in Education 'This is a valuable book that ought to be read by anyone in the humanities working on notions of the creative ... The book will provide valuable service to numerous readers as an intellectual workout on the diversity of its field.' British Association for Romantic Studies	Rob Pope is Professor of English Studies at Oxford Brookes University.  His previous books include Textual Intervention: Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies (Routledge 1995) and The English Studies Book (Routledge 1998).	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",behavioral sciences;books;cognitive psychology;creativity & genius;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;history & criticism;literature & fiction;movements & periods;psychology & counseling;research & publishing guides;science & math;writing,14
1575053268,"Traveling in Grandma's Day Gr 3-4-First-person narratives take readers back to the 1930s and 1940s through the eyes of two grandmothers. Black-and-white photographs of the authors' families are interspersed with full-color illustrations of period-specific items. Examples include wartime posters, covers of textbooks, and ration-coupon books. These titles are good for a nostalgic look at this time period, but there is not enough information for reports.-Krista Grosick, Cuyahoga County Public Library, OH Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information, Inc.",1900s;20th century;books;children's books;explore the world;family life;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);multigenerational;social situations;transportation;travel;travel & cultures;united states,14
0226525902,"Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption Though independent booksellers may believe they already understand all that there is to know about maintaining the delicate balance between economic success and cultural integrity, those who dip into Miller's impressive examination will find their curiosity well rewarded. Miller's historical analysis reveals, for example, how independent booksellers' opposition to mass market competitors has shifted dramatically. Nearly a century ago, when department stores and five-and-dimes began selling books, the owners of established bookstores insisted that large commercial enterprises couldn't guide customers to suitably uplifting reading material. As the cultural elitism behind this argument became unpalatable, the indies changed their tune, claiming that superstores were laying down homogenized inventories that stifled intellectual diversity. Miller also discusses the internal pressures that led the American Booksellers Association to adopt a more activist stance toward the chains in recent years. One of the book's few disappointments is a closing chapter on consumption as political choice, which never quite explains how such choices operate. But that's a rare ambiguity in this otherwise carefully articulated investigation. (Apr.)Look for PW's upcoming qa with Laura J. Miller. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	From beginning to end, this book is a pleasure to read. Reluctant Capitalists is the first good history of American bookselling to appear in a very long time. Here, Laura Miller provides a fascinating analysis of conflicts within the book industry between the understanding of bookselling as a capitalist venture, and an almost diametrically opposed view of the same venture as something higher and worthier by virtue of books content and place within our culture.--Elizabeth Long, author of Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life (Elizabeth Long 2005-12-19)Laura Millers Reluctant Capitalists is a compelling account of the complex world of bookselling, focusing on the persistent dynamic between the book as a commodity and as a form of expression antithetical to market principles. Miller discovers that todays conflicts between independents, chains and Big Box stores have historical precedents, and how despite repeated episodes of consolidation and price-cutting,readers and sellers remain passionate about the books extra-commercial status. In addition to producing a top-ratestudy of bookselling, Miller has provided a fascinating framework for thinking aboutconsumer culture more generally, by highlighting the ever-present tensions between commodification and singularity, sentiment and consumer rationality, emotion and economics.--Juliet B. Schor, author of Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (Juliet Schor 2005-12-19)This detailed account of the bookselling industry makes clear how difficult it is to maintain a moral boundary between local commerce and the rampant commercialism of retail websites and chains.Laura Miller shows that with books, as with every other commodity, the culture of consumption is shaped more by marketing strategies than by Americans desire to read.--Sharon Zukin, author of Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture (Sharon Zukin 2005-12-19)""Books are different. Commodities, to be sure. Bought and sold, no doubt. Yet in the world of commerce, books retain a certain mystique.That regard has held true, traditionally, for booksellers as well, notes Laura J. Miller, a Brandeis University sociologist. In Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption, she uses the bookstore wars between independents and big chains to explore the ambivalence toward business values in the world of books and wider concerns about consumption and highly 'rationalized' systems of retailing.Traditional booksellers felt stressed long before the first of the 'superstores.' From the end of the 19th century to the 1960s, Ms. Miller writes, department stores took a heavy chunk of bookstore sales. Five-and-dimes and similar outlets also joined in, putting pressure on bookshops and making one commentator in 1954 fume that booksellers 'must now compete with everything from delicatessens to whore houses.'A major jolt would come with the expansion of chain stores in the 1970s and 80s. Early on, writes Ms. Miller, chain bookstores tended to be small sites in mall locations with a focus on popular titles. Their discounts, previously rare in bookshops, threatened independents, but they had little in the way of selection. With superstores, things changed. The first superstores, opened by Crown Books in 1990, seem modest by later standards: 6,000 to 8,000 square feet, with 30,000 to 40,000 titles. By 2002 Borders stores carried 62,000 to 209,000 titles. Tracing the chains' growth, Ms. Miller shows how they centralized and standardized selection, ordering, and other procedures while attracting a new public previously intimidated by bookstores.Among her topics are the standardized design of superstores, with their mix of gentility and flash and their tactics of display. Just as in supermarkets, prime positions are for sale. Publishers with big marketing budgets, she says, can purchase good real estate for their titles, such as on the end of a row of shelves facing the aisle. While some books are promoted, others, especially those more esoteric or from smaller presses, may end up as 'wallpaper,' there to create ambience but not pushed to sell.Ms. Miller describes how independent booksellers, still feeling a mission along with the pinch, have fought back by transforming the American Booksellers Association into a champion for independents, pursuing lawsuits against trade practices they claim favor the big chains, and seeking support from an often fickle reading public."" (Nina C. Ayoub Chronicle of Higher Education 2006-05-12)""Though independent booksellers may believe they already understand all that there is to know about maintaining the delicate balance between economic success and cultural integrity, those who dip into Miller's impressive examination will find their curiosity well rewarded. Miller's historical analysis reveals, for example, how independent booksellers' opposition to mass market competitors has shifted dramatically. Nearly a century ago, when department stores and five-and-dimes began selling books, the owners of established bookstores insisted that large commercial enterprises couldn't guide customers to suitably uplifting reading material. As the cultural elitism behind this argument became unpalatable, the indies changed their tune, claiming that superstores were laying down homogenized inventories that stifled intellectual diversity. Miller also discusses the internal pressures that led the American Booksellers Association to adopt a more activist stance toward the chains in recent years. This . . . [is a] carefully articulated investigation."" (Publishers Weekly 2006-02-20)""Chain superstores, notes Laura J. Miller's fascinating new study Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption, are the latest manifestation of a centuries-old struggle between bookselling Davids and Goliathsa battle over where Americans actually shop versus stores with, Miller tartly notes, 'a style of retailing that Americans at least profess to miss.'"" (Paul Collins Voice Literary Supplement 2006-05-23)[Miller] wishes to make the bookstore into a political arena. By patronizing the indies, consumers can protest excess commercialization and the proliferation of chains. It is one small way of striking back. (Tyler Cowen Slate.com)Laura Miller sees what has happened since the 1960s as a long 'book war,' with implications that extend far beyond the book trade. Books are a particularly illustrative commodity. . . . They cut through to the central issues of modern capitalism. How 'reluctant' should retailers be in their surrender to the profit motive? What kind of retailing should consumers, by their purchasing practices, encourage? (London Review of Books)""A diligent and fascinating account of important new developments in the distribution and retailing of trade books in the United States. Anyone with an interest in the study of books, business and book historians both, will find much of interest in here."" (Michael Winship Business History Review)""What emerges from Miller's nuanced and exceptionally well-documentd survey of the book wars is an exemplary piece of scholarship and a model for how to undertake a sociology of the contemporary book world. . . . A fascinating and complex meditation on the broader politics of cultural consumption and the collective ethical implications of individual acts of consumer choice."" (Simone Murray Media International)	Over the past half-century, bookselling, like many retail industries, has evolved from an arena dominated by small independent shops to one in which chain stores have significant market share. And as other retail fields, this transformation has often been a less-than-smooth process. But this has been especially pronounced in bookselling, argues Laura J. Miller, because more than most other consumer goods, books are the focus of passionate debate about commercialism. What drives that debate? And why do so many people believe that bookselling should be immune to questions of profit?In Reluctant Capitalists, Miller looks at a century of book retailing, demonstrating that the independent-chain dynamic is not entirely new. It began a hundred years ago when department stores began selling books, continued through the 1960s with the emergence of national chain stores, and exploded with the formation of superstores in the 1990s. The advent of the Internet has further spurred tremendous changes in how booksellers approach their business. All of these changes have met resistance from book professionals and readers who believe that the book business should not be captive to market forces, but should also embrace more noble priorities.Miller uses historical data and interviews with bookstore customers and members of the book industry to explain why books evoke such distinct and heated reactions. She reveals why customers seek out certain bookstores and why book professionals identify so strongly with different types of books. In the process, she also teases out the meanings of retailing and consumption in American culture at large, underscoring her point that consumer behavior is inevitably political, with consequences for communities as well as commercial institutions.	Laura J. Miller is assistant professor of sociology at Brandeis University.",books;books & reading;booksellers & bookselling;business & finance;business & investing;commerce;economics;history & criticism;literature & fiction;new;politics & social sciences;popular culture;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
0786414340,"Monte Hellman: His Life and Films Brad Stevens has contributed to many film magazines, and is the author of Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision. He lives in England.",arts & literature;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;direction & production;entertainers;fantasy;genre fiction;history & criticism;horror;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;movies;science fiction & fantasy,14
027102500X,"The Art of Translating Prose Burton Raffel is arguably the greatest living translator of works of verbal art into English, and his authority in the field derives not only from the volume to which this book is intended to serve as companion (The Art of Translating Poetry) but also from his epoch-making series of actual translations, from medieval English, Indonesian, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Greek, and other tongues. This is an extraordinarily important contribution to the field. --John Miles Foley, University of Missouri	Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southwestern Louisiana and author of many books, including Artists All (Penn State, 1991) and The Art of Translating Poetry (Penn State, 1988). He is the translator of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel (Norton, 1990), winner of the 1991 French-American Foundation Translation Prize; Balzac's Pere Goriot (Norton, 1994), and a forthcoming new version of Cervantes's Don Quijote..",books;criticism & theory;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;translating;used & rental textbooks;words,14
0893816965,"Lost Futures: Our Forgotten Children Kindergartners with AIDS in Romania. Homeless children living in the tombs of Cairo and the sewers of Mexico City. Teenage prostitutes in Bangkok. Kids enslaved in Indian factories. Kids with guns on the mean streets of Northern Ireland. No question about it, the stark black and white images in Stan Grossfeld's book are gut wrenching--perhaps none more so than the child of the Gaza Strip holding her glass eye, its empty socket staring back at you. Yet this powerful and provocative book about the plight of millions of young people is as difficult to put down as it is to look at. At that, it could well set new standards in photojournalism.	This collection of 120 black-and-white photographs by award-winning Boston Globe journalist and photographer Grossfeld documents appalling poverty, neglect, and exploitation suffered by children worldwide?including the United States. A chilling text accompanies the stark photographs, explaining their context, detailing the everyday lives of the subjects, and providing statistics and commentary. Thus, we go from poverty, abuse, and exploitation in the United States, to famine victims in Africa, to the war-racked Middle East and Northern Ireland, to child workers in India and Asia, to street kids in Central and South America, and beyond. With a foreword by Muhammad Ali and a message from Mother Teresa, this book is essentially a call to action. The final chapter, ""Hope for the Future,"" provides contact information for various organizations and urges us all to get involved. Highly recommended for public libraries and political/social science collections.?Kate Kelly, Treadwell Lib., Massachusetts General Hosp., BostonCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In this large-format book, Pulitzer Prize^-winning photojournalist Grossfeld presents exploited, injured, and troubled poor children, photographed during at least 16 years' worth of assignments throughout the world. Here are infants abused by their parents in Boston, adolescents living on their own in the sewers of Mexico City, teenage prostitutes in Thailand, elementary-school-age boys working as slave labor in brass and glass factories in India, and youngsters learning to aim rifles in Cuba. The pictures are often formally beautiful, but their content is nearly always morally ugly. The accompanying text, although it relates horror story after horror story, is mercifully devoid of political advocacy or policy mongering. Instead, Grossfeld appends a short (perhaps too short) directory of sizable organizations that work directly with the problems the rest of the book powerfully presents.  Ray Olson	""This is a devastating book. Don't buy one . . . buy several. Give copies to policy makers, to the hard-hearted and those numbed by headlines and statistics, to every adult who has felt love for a child and can be reminded, encouraged, pleaded with, or shocked into taking a stand for children. Insist that the children in these photographs and millions of children like them be cared about and cared for. Thomas Jefferson once wrote, 'I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.' Today, I tremble for a world that allows such child suffering.""--Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund""Lost Futures is a spellbindingly powerful and beautiful work, never sentimental, simply stunning and heartbreaking. Grossfeld reminds us by his work that art and ethics are not incompatible, that truth can be incendiary and aesthetics morally explosive.""--Jonathan Kozol""No one can read Lost Futures without being moved to the core. These are stark images--a profound and deeply disturbing examination of the horrors that innocent children are subjected to around the world. Out of the deep well of their suffering comes a plea for the restoration of their human rights and their dignity.""--Hugh Downs, Chair, U.S. Committee for UNICEF	Stan Grossfeld is an Associate Editor at the Boston Globe. He received consecutive Pulitzer prizes in 1984 and 1985 for his work in Ethiopia, at the United States/Mexican border, and in Lebanon. He has published four books, The Whisper of the Stars; Nantucket:  The Other Season; Two on the River (with Wil Haygood); and Eyes of the Globe. Honored by the Overseas Press Club, the Robert Kennedy Foundation, and the National Press Photographers' Association, Stan Grossfeld is also the recipient of the ""Local Hero Award"" from UNICEF, a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University, and three World Hunger Year awards. The photographer is donating his royalties from the sales of Lost Futures to the U.S. Committee for UNICEF.",arts & photography;books;child advocacy;equipment;family law;law;photography;photojournalism;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;techniques & reference,14
0596000731,"Solaris 8 Administrator's Guide Paul A. Watters, MAPS, M.Phil.(Cambridge),B.A.(Hons.)(Tasmania),B.A. (Newcastle) recently submitted his PhD thesis in computer science at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in the topic of natural language processing, and neural networks. The software he developed as part of his doctoral thesis runs on high-end Solaris servers through the Internet using CGI. In addition, he has eight years systems management and application development experience in commercial and RD organizations. He specializes in building e-commerce and Internet information systems, based on Java, Solaris and open standards like CORBA. He is a columnist and author for the trade journal Inside Solaris, author of Solaris 8 Administrator's Guide, lead author of the upcoming Solaris 8: The Complete Reference, published by Osborne McGraw-Hill, and Solaris E-Commerce Bible, published by IDG.",books;computers & technology;linux;mathematics;network administration;networking;networks;operating systems;programming;protocols & apis;science & math;software;solaris;unix,14
0198599560,"Guidebook to the Cytoskeletal and Motor Proteins ""The book is essentially a concise encyclopedia of these proteins. The chapters have a tight and similar organization; all are short and informative. Each related group of proteins is introduced by a brief and well thought out chapter. This is an excellent book that would be of use to a researcher or anyone who wished to find definitions, or learn about cellular localizations, possible functions, systems studied in, etc., regarding the very large number of cytoskeletal and motor proteins in dozens of species, systems, and cell types. To pack all this information into a single volume is an admirable achievement. The book is reasonably priced and is worth having on the bookshelf of any cell or molecular biologist."" -- Doody's	Kreis died September 1998.",basic sciences;biochemistry;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;cell biology;medicine;medicine & health sciences;molecular biology;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,14
0742526739,"Stepdads: Stories of Love, Hope, and Repair The author has crafted an exemplary, thoughtful, and riveting journey into the worlds of stepfathers. (American Journal of Sociology )A 'must-read' book for stepfathers, their wives, and partners. And especially those who are 'thinking about it.' Beautifully written . . . an important book for our times. (Jeannette Lofas, president and founder, Stepfamily Foundation, Inc., www.stepfamily.org )Stepdads is the best examination yet of the inner worlds of stepfathers. It provides a good sense of the great diversity among stepfamilies and of the challenges that many stepfathers successfully surmount in creating a place for themselves in their new families. (Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University )Stepdads is a major contribution to the literature on stepfamilies. Despite the fact that stepfathers are increasing in number every year, we still know relatively little about their experiences, feelings, and views. Based on interviews with stepfathers, William Marsiglio provides an informative and sensitive account of what it is like to be a stepfather in America today. This book should be of interest, not only to stepfathers and their families, but also to family educators, counselors, and scholars. Stepdads is the best book currently available on this topic. (Paul Amato, Pennsylvania State University )Stepdads offers an intimate look at a rarely explored situation: living in a stepfather family. Marsiglio is an accomplished interviewer who describes in captivating detail the hopes, fears, struggles, and triumphs of his stepfather informants. Not only does Stepdads illuminate a wide range of personal experiences, but it also helps the reader understand the sociological significance of this increasingly common family arrangement. The book is must reading for anyone who wants to understand what it means to be a stepfather. (Scott Coltrane, University of California, Riverside; author of Family Man )Answers provocative and timely questions. (Family Times )Marsiglio presents real-life interviews with stepdads, designed to help men with self-image and partial identity issues. The real-life interviews are fascinating; the issues and feelings are universal. (San Diego Family Magazine )Gives families coping with marital change and family integration a great stepping stone toward healthy adjustment. (Kathleen E. Conroy )In this useful and timely book, University of Florida sociology professor William Marsiglio tackles the little-explored territory of stepfathers' parenting experiences and inner lives. Written in accessible language, this book covers many of the challenges stepfathers face in trying to build harmonious homes and close relationships with their stepchildren. Although this book holds particular interest for stepfathers, single mothers, and remarried couples, it also has a broader appeal because of how it addresses parenting issues. (Chicago Parent )Written in accessible language, this book covers many of the challenges stepfathers face in trying to build harmonious homes and close relationships with their stepchildren. Although this book holds particular interest for stepfathers, single mothers and remarried couples, it also has a broader appeal because of how it addresses parenting issues. (Jeff Kelly Lowenstein Chicago Parent )These true stories draw attention to the interrelated paths of personal, familial, and cultural layers of stepfathering, making this book a significant contribution to the growing literature on blended families. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. (D.A. Chekki, emeritus, University of Winnipeg CHOICE )This book is a great learning tool for blended families. It will help you adjust to the changes and understand roles each person can take on. By confronting questions that many stepdads often ask, the book will give an outline to family dynamics and ways to bond, negotiate and discipline. (Atlanta Parent )Stepdads is unique and timely in its in-depth research on pathways into stepfathering and the variety of stepfather families...This is a top-notch book, well conceived and written. (Sandra Hofferth, University of Maryland Contemporary Sociology )Stepdads will be a useful resource to marriage and family conselors, family researchers and their students, and to a general audience of people trying to improve their stepparenting relationships. It can serve as a field guide to stepfathers as they develop new family relationships. It can serve as a field guide to stepfathers as they develop new family relationships, to students and reseachers who desire to gain insights into the expereince of men as they negotitate stepfathering relationships, and to policy makers and practioners who want to support families in diverse and complex relationship contexts. (Men and Masculinities )	William Marsiglio, professor of sociology at the University of Florida, has written extensively on the social psychology of men's sexuality, fertility, and fatherhood.",books;family relationships;fatherhood;fitness & dieting;health;interpersonal relations;marriage & family;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;relationships;self-help;social sciences;sociology,14
B000054506,"Seven Years in Tibet In 1943, Heinrich Harrer, a youthful Austrian adventurer, mountaineer, and skier, escaped from a British internment camp in India and traveled through the rugged Himalayas seeking refuge from the war. He ended up in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet, with no money or permission to be in the country. However, his curious appearance and the traditional hospitality of Tibetan society soon worked in Harrer's favor, allowing him unprecedented acceptance among the upper class. His intelligence and his European ways also intrigued the curious young Dalai Lama, and Harrer became his tutor and trusted confidant. When the Chinese invaded Tibet in 1950, Harrer and the Dalai Lama fled the country together.",asia;biographies & memoirs;books;buddhism;china;general;historical;history;india;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;travel;world,14
0415937140,"History of Modern Physical Science: Four Volume Set Peter Galison is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University and a premier authority in the field. In 1997, he was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow; in 1999, he was a winner of the Max Planck Prize given by the Max Planck Gesellschaft and Humboldt Stiftung. His is author of numerous works, including, most recently, Picturing Science, Producing Art (Routledge, 1998) and The Architecture of Science  (MIT, 1999). Michael Gordin and David Kaiser are both at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.",20th century;books;education & reference;history;history & philosophy;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;physics;reference;science & math;science & mathematics;science for kids;technology;used & rental textbooks,14
087358709X,"Writing Down the River: Into the Heart of the Grand Canyon Photographer Kathleen Jo Ryan first witnessed the  awe-inspiring spectacle of the Grand Canyon in 1987. A year later she  rafted the Colorado River into the canyon, emerging from this  transforming experience with the idea for a book: ""Going down the  river into the heart of the canyon is adventuring into a place of  spirit. I hold a warm, overwhelming feeling of gratitude, respect, and  humility for having been allowed to float and play through this  majestic canyon."" In Writing Down the River Ryan shares  her gratitude by inviting women writers to venture down the Colorado  and contribute their ""personal journeys."" Gretel Ehrlich  provides context--historical, geographic, and biographical--in the  foreword, and 15 other writers join the celebration with their  individual voices.    Sharman Apt Russell, author of When the Land  Was Young: Reflections on American Archaeology, describes her  initial peek: ""My heart starts beating fast when I first see the  Grand Canyon, looking down from the South Rim, the vertigo of too much  space. My bones feel hollow, like a bird's bones."" Annick Smith,  editor of The Last Best  Place: A Montana Anthology, writes about the roar of the  rapids: ""Then comes the fifth wave. We climb up and up, stroking  hard, but we do not cut through. The wave grows. It's a demon curling  above us. Its foaming dragon breath is distinct as a Japanese  painting, alive. Now I am stroking air."" Judith Freeman, author  of A  Desert of Pure Feeling, writes of the lingering aftereffects:  ""For many nights after I left the river I awoke in darkness with  the feeling I was still in the canyon. I sat up suddenly in strange  beds, in desert motels and distant cities, certain that I was still  sleeping on a rock ledge or a spit of sand.""    Ryan's photographs of rock, water, and sky round out this evocative  portrait of a place unlike any in the world. Taken as a whole,  Writing Down the River is a collection of personal reflections  as well as a tribute to the unifying power of landscape.",arizona;arts & photography;books;general;grand canyon;mexico;nature & wildlife;photography;rafting;sports & outdoors;travel;travel writing;united states;water sports,14
1932549099,"The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Field Hockey (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 11) I'm a two year starter for my college field hockey team. Your book has opened up the opportunity for me to play on international teams in Montral. The muscular endurance I've built with the help of your book has enabled me to be in on corners and defensive corners, and I never have to come out of a game. I am from a tiny town where it is very rare for anyone to go on and play college sports. I started working out with your book my sophomore year of high school and the improvements I saw were awesome in all the sports I played. I ended up my senior year getting many awards for my athletics and also working out helped me focus on school. I graduated valedictorian. The book also helped me push myself in running and sprinting and incorporated my lifting with that. I played in college as a starter all through my freshman and sophomore years. Now I will be a junior and I can see how much my lifting and training has done for me. Anyways, the book is awesome and it really helps me to find new routines to keep me in good shape. Thanks. --MikeI received a copy of the Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Field Hockey for Christmas. I have been training in the off season and I am much stronger from the programs I got from the book. My shot has become stronger and I have become quicker. Thank you for having such a great and useful service. --Abby M, High School State Tournament Quarter Finals, Semi-FinalsI received a copy of the Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Field Hockey for Christmas. I have been training in the off season and I am much stronger from the programs I got from the book. My shot has become stronger and I have become quicker. Thank you for having such a great and useful service. --Abby M, High School State Tournament Quarter Finals, Semi-Finals	Rob Price is a first class certified personal trainer and a former fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is a national weight lifting champion and state bench press record holder who has been featured in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the USA Today, for his sports-training expertise. Rob is a contributing author to Golf Fitness Magazine, Swimmer's World Magazine, US Bowler Magazine, and OnFitness magazine and is the founder and head trainer of SportsWorkout.com's e-Training service. In addition to being an internationally recognized fitness expert, Rob also holds a Juris Doctorate from The Ohio State University where he was honored as one of ten Moritz Scholars.",baseball;books;bowling;coaching;cycling;exercise & fitness;fitness & dieting;health;hockey;individual sports;softball;sports & outdoors;training;weight training,14
0324288522,"Global Strategy (with World Map and InfoTrac) ""There is nothing else like this text.  The other books available either need lots of international supplementation or (in the case of the global/international business texts) they are really international management books and not strategy books. This book is definitely needed for Global Strategy classes.""""I would not hesitate to adopt this text for MBA candidates, as it is replete with relevant, illustrative and current examples and case studies.""""I really like the idea of concentrating on different regions, such as China/Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa, rather than the Triad. I am also impressed with the objective of presenting a globally-centered perspective rather than the US-centered point of view of many texts on the market.""""This text challenges students to critically reflect about the basic institutions and ethics that capitalism - and thus business behavior - is built upon. Too many texts take basic principles as a given and reduce business classes to teaching students how to make the most money. However, if universities wish to teach business, they have to provide more then recipes. Peng helps them with accomplish this. Chapter 12, Strategizing with Corporate Social Responsibility is a major innovation!  I believe that confronting students already at early stages of their education with ethical issues affecting business will sensitize them to reflect over ethics throughout their education, and - hopefully - make them.""""I like the proposed length; too many texts are so long I can't imagine most students really absorbing (as opposed to merely memorizing details) all the material. I also like the writing.  The author has apparently taken great pains to make the writing interesting, clear, and easy to follow. I also like  the supporting resources and citations. Mike Peng provides excellent coverage of the relevant literature, both in terms of scope and variety. Finally, I like the focus which represents an innovative and refreshing take on the field.""	Mike Peng is the Jindal Chair of Global Business Strategy at the Jindal School of Business, University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). At UTD, he founded the Center for Global Business, where he serves as the executive director. Professor Peng was also recently named a fellow with the Academy of International Business. He holds a bachelor's degree from Winona State University, Minnesota, and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Prior to joining UTD, Professor Peng was on the faculty at the Ohio State University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and University of Hawaii, where he taught students at all levels and often served as a faculty trainer and consultant. In addition, he has held visiting or courtesy professorial appointments in Australia, Britain, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and the United States. This award-winning professor is widely regarded as one of the most prolific and influential scholars in global business and has garnered many research grants for his work. The United Nations and the World Bank have cited his work in major publications. Truly global in scope, his research focuses on firms' strategies in regions such as Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and North America. He has published about 50 articles in leading academic journals and authored three books. Active in other leadership positions in his field, Professor Peng has served on the editorial boards of the ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW, JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES, JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS, and STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL. He is the editor-in-chief of the ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT.",books;business & finance;business & investing;globalization;management;management & leadership;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;systems & planning;used & rental textbooks,14
0275950425,"Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State Independent researcher Miller continues the argument he began in The Case for Legalizing Drugs (LJ 4/15/91). Drawing on his latest book, Nazi Justiz (Praeger, 1995), he makes an extended analogy between Germany repressing the Jews and America repressing drug users. In chapters on identification, ostracism, confiscation, concentration, and annihilation, he shows that democracy, privacy, and family life can be lost in our society just as they were when these policies were applied to the Jews. Because of ""bureaucratic thrust,"" the criminalization aimed at one group consumes the entire society. In contrast, Miller thinks drug use is normal and should be regarded as such; he marshals convincing evidence that it can be mature and responsible. If drugs are abused, he does not think criminalization or medical force are solutions, any more than they would be solutions to unemployment. Although many will find Miller's case overstated, it is thoughtful and thought-provoking. Recommended for most libraries.?Janice Dunham, John Jay Coll. Lib., New YorkCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	The war on drugs is a war against ordinary people: starting from this premise Miller analyzes America's drug war in all its social implications, from examples of enforcement strategies which don't work to court systems which threaten victims. The idea is that civil liberties are being eroded in the process of conducting a war against drugs: many examples demonstrate this loss.  -- Midwest Book Review	The war on drugs is a war against ordinary people.	RICHARD LAWRENCE MILLER is an independent scholar.",books;civil rights;civil rights & liberties;criminal law;education & reference;law;law enforcement;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,14
0684193183,"The Steinway Saga: An American Dynasty In 1850, an obscure cabinetmaker named Heinrich Steinweg moved with his wife and children from Germany to Manhattan's Lower East Side and founded a soon-to-be-renowned piano company that remained in the family until 1972. Fostle (Speedboat), drawing on Steinway family documents and material from New York City libraries and archives, here tells the story of the world-famous piano and the four generations of Steinways who manufactured it. In a virtuoso performance, he combines portraits of family members and their internecine struggles?particularly those resulting from the financial practices of Heinrich's son William, who nearly bankrupted the company with his investments in utopian real estate and transportation projects?with accounts of the technological advances that revolutionized piano building. Also covered are the intense rivalries among piano-making firms, the Steinways' astute use of advertising and the recurring labor strikes and financial depressions that plagued the piano trade. The result is an engrossing narrative of a remarkable family whose history has been entwined with that of New York City for a century and a half. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This new book about the Steinway family falls short of its ambitions. Journalist/scriptwriter Fostle has done an extraordinary amount of research into the family and its contribution to the development of the modern piano. He is informative about the evolution of the piano and the many technological innovations that allowed the Steinway name to dominate the industry for more than 100 years. He even succeeds in presenting a vivid picture of a fiercely competitive business and of the thriving musical life of New York City in the latter half of the 19th century. Unfortunately, the wealth of detail that is the book's strength is also its biggest problem. Fostle packs the pages with quotes from contemporary news reports, statistics about immigration, and lengthy passages about social ills that are not always directly relevant to the story and are often a distraction. Also, Fostle's writing can tend toward the lurid, without ever actually bringing the charcters to life. For the wealth of information to be found by the patient reader, this book is recommended for academic libraries and large music collections; a better choice for public libraries is Ronald Ratcliffe's Steinway (Chronicle, 1989).Kate McCaffrey, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.",americas;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;business;history;instruments;mid atlantic;music;piano;professionals & academics;regional u.s.;state & local;united states,14
0471347779,"Nutrition for Foodservice and Culinary Professionals, 4th Edition Definitive, up-to-date coverage of nutritionNutrition for Foodservice and Culinary Professionals is the essential resource for the most complete, up-to-date information on nutrition and diet. New and expanded material in this Fifth Edition addresses such topics as biotechnology, vitamins, minerals, and organic foods. Many new tables and figures present a broader range of facts on the nutritional value of foods, as well as such timely material as Food Practices of World Religions and a Reduced Calorie Menu for Asian-American Cuisine.This new edition of Nutrition for Foodservice and Culinary Professionals features:New Dietary Reference Intakes for calories, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and selected vitamins and mineralsMore Chefs Tips highlighting ways to incorporate nutritional knowledge into cooking and menusThe Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) Diet using the National Cholesterol Education Program 2001 clinical guidelinesThe 2002 American Cancer Society nutrition guidelinesUp-to-date statistics on overweight and obesity in the United States and the latest information on weight loss, including drugs and surgeryUpdated Hot Topics, which discuss often controversial subjects related to nutrition, and expanded Nutrition Web Explorer activitiesNutrition for Foodservice and Culinary Professionals is used in certificate courses by the American Culinary Federation and the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, and this Fifth Edition continues to be a bedrock resource for students and professionals in the foodservice industry	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	KAREN EICH DRUMMOND is author and coauthor of numerous books, including Supervision in the Hospitality Industry, Fourth Edition and The Restaurant Training Manual, both from Wiley.LISA M. BREFERE is a certified executive chef with more than twenty-two years of experience. A graduate of The Culinary Institute of America, she is a member of the American Culinary Federation and the American Academy of Chefs.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",agricultural sciences;allied health professions;allied health services;books;diets & weight loss;fitness & dieting;food science;health;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;nutrition;science & math;used & rental textbooks,14
0792266382,"Travels in West Africa (National Geographic Adventure Classics) Founded in 1906 by J.M. Dent, the Everyman Library has  always tried to make the best books ever written available to the  greatest number of people at the lowest possible price. Unique editorial  features that help Everyman Paperback Classics stand out from the crowd  include: a leading scholar or literary critic's introduction to the text,  a biography of the author, a chronology of her or his life and times, a  historical selection of criticism, and a concise plot summary.  All books  published since 1993 have also been completely restyled: all type has  been reset, to offer a clarity and ease of reading unique among editions  of the classics; a vibrant, full-color cover design now complements these  great texts with beautiful contemporary works of art. But the best  feature must be Everyman's uniquely low price. Each Everyman title offers  these extensive materials at a price that competes with the most  inexpensive editions on the market-but Everyman Paperbacks have durable  binding, quality paper, and the highest editorial and scholarly  standards.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900) Born in Islington, London, Kingley led a sheltered and quiet life where she was schooled at home by her father, George Henry Kingsley. George Kingsley was a doctor who was very interested in traveling and a published author of travel notes and memoirs. Mary's life changed drastically when her parents both died in 1892. Mary was left searching for a purpose to her life, and decided to pursue her interests in exploration and traveling. She said she wanted to find something to do that her father had cared for. She planned a trip to West Africa to continue her father's studies on African religion, culture and law.From 1893 to 1894 Mary explored places like Kabinda, Old Calabar, and the Lower Congo, and subsequently wrote a book about her journey: Travels in West Africa. Lynnette Turner is Senior Lecturer in English at Oxford Brookes University, England. Her work on gender and ethnography, Mary Kingsley and on nineteenth and twentieth-century anthropological discourse has appeared in a number of collections, including Tim Youngs, ed., Crosscurrents: Writing and Race (Harlow: Longman, 1997), Alison Donnell and Pauline Polkey, eds., Representing Lives: Women and Auto/biography (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000) and Roger Luckhurst and Josephine McDonagh, eds., Encounters: Transactions in Science and Culture in Victorian Britain (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002).	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",19th century;adventure;africa;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;general;history;memoirs;modern (16th-21st centuries);research & publishing guides;specialty travel;travel;writing,14
1405103159,"Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) ""Superb  [Fortson's] short general discussions of the histories and ecologies of the individual languages are the best I have ever read."" (Recensiones - Salesianum, 2008)If you ever thought about teaching an undergraduate introduction to Indo-European linguistics and had gotten so far in your planning as to examine the available course-books, you would have been in for a nasty surprise. Prior to 2004 there was no suitable book available  Finally, there is a reliable, engaging and accessible presentation of the communis opinio. And there are even exercises!  Fortson has produced an excellent book that fulfills its goals admirably. I hope it will inspire a renaissance of Indo-European linguistics in English speaking countries. (Journal of the American Oriental Society)	The perfect book for an introductory Indo-European course, lively and engaging throughout, yet detailed, accurate, and authoritative. The hands-on exercises at the end of each chapter are a unique and valuable feature.Jay Jasanoff, Harvard University""This is an excellent introduction to Proto-Indo-European and its study. Both the chapters on various aspects of PIE grammar and those describing the various Indo-European branches are masterly prcis of their subjects. As a Tocharianist Im pleased to see that all branches of Indo-European are given the same thoughtful, substantial treatment. Both novices and the experienced Indo-Europeanists will read this book with profit; more than one of the latter group will wish he had written himself.""Douglas Q. Adams, University of Idaho""I would like to conclude by stressing that this is an excellent textbook. I have taught from it, and the students in my class not only learned a great deal from it, they also seemed to enjoy the book almost as much as I did.""Bryn Mawr	Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, including both linguistic and cultural information.This book is engagingly written and includes illustrative text samples in each language along with translations and etymological commentary. It also introduces the comparative method of linguistic reconstruction and gives a comprehensive overview of the phonology, morphology and syntax of reconstructed Proto-Indo-European. Each chapter contains exercises and suggestions for further reading, and the volume closes with a glossary of technical terms.	Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, covering both linguistic and cultural material.  The book opens by introducing the comparative method of linguistic reconstruction and discussing the culture and homeland of the Indo-Europeans. There follow thorough overviews of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of reconstructed Proto-Indo-European. Each branchs development from ancient to modern times is outlined, and illustrative text samples given along with translations and etymological commentary. All chapters contain exercises and suggestions for further reading, and the volume closes with a glossary, bibliography, and comprehensive word and subject indexes.	Benjamin W. Fortson IV is Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin Language, Literature, and Historical Linguistics in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. His research interests include the history of Greek and Latin, comparative Indo-European linguistics, metrics and poetics, and Roman comedy.",books;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;history & criticism;humanities;instruction;language & grammar;linguistics;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;semantics;used & rental textbooks;words,14
0415938813,"Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood Early in this absorbing treatise on the changing nature of manhood in Western culture, English professor Taylor remarks, ""This is a specter that has haunted men for centuries: the fear that manhood will become, or has already become, obsolete, superfluous, ridiculous, at best quaint, at worst disgusting."" Nowhere, he contends, is this specter more obvious than in the cringing reaction most men have to the word ""castration."" In this book, Taylor uses an imaginative analysis of the history and purposes of castration to examine the cultural construct of masculinityDspecifically in relation to reproduction. Equally comfortable discussing the implications of pop singer Tori Amos's lyrics as he is reinterpreting the antisexual writings of church fathers Justin Martyr, Clement and Tertullian or Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Taylor gracefully guides the reader through carefully constructed arguments that go so far as to declare that, in some times and cultures, being a eunuch is a social advantage. In a feat of bravura literary criticism, he uses a detailed explication of Thomas Middleton's obscure but important 1624 play A Game of Chess (a metaphysical commentary on the Reformation) as the centerpiece of his many-pronged cultural investigationDa move that is both audacious and illuminating. But while Taylor's expertise as a Renaissance scholar shines here, he shrewdly and subtly links the play's concerns to such varied historical events as the history of psychoanalysis and sexual racism toward blacks and Jews. Though of primary interest to literary scholars and historians of sexuality, this work will also reward sophisticated general readers with its wit (including a cover depicting the upper torso and wincing head of a Greek male statue) and insight. (Nov. 30) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	...the good news is that Taylor is riveting on Middleton. ...Taylor knows his stuff... -- Rowan Pelling, New StatesmanThe journey is entertaining and informativie... -- Rowan Pelling, New Statesman...Taylor seems as cheerily loony as his title.  His prose style springs from the groovy prof school of writing, so Abelard and Foucault are quoted alongside Christina Aguilera and Tori Amos... -- Rowan Pelling, New StatesmanNot for purists; great fun for anyone else. -- Choice, M.J. Emery, Cottey CollegeAn absorbing treatise on the changing nature of manhood in Western culture. that uses a wide range of literature to explore male fears. It will reward sophisticated general readers with its wit and insight. -- Publishers Weekly[An] absorbing treatise on the changing nature of manhood in Western culture. In this book, Taylor uses an imaginative analysis of the history and purposes of castration to examine the cultural construct of masculinity -specifically in relation to reproduction. Equally comfortable discussing the implications of pop singer Tori Amos's lyrics as he is reinterpreting the anti-sexual writings of church fathers Justin Martyr, Clement and Tertullian or Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Taylor gracefully guides the reader through carefully constructed arguments that go so far as to declare that, in some times and cultures, being a eunich is a social advantage. -- Publishers Weekly(continued)  In a feat of bravura literary criticism, he uses a detailed explication of Thomas Middleton's obscure but important 1624 play A Game of Chess. as the centerpiece of his many-pronged cultural investigation - a move that is both audacious and illuminating. But while Taylor's expertise as a Renaissance scholar shines here, he shrewdly and subtly links the play's concerns to such varied historical events as the history of psychoanalysis and sexual racism toward blacks and Jews. Though of primary interest to literary scholars and historians of sexuality, this work will also reward sophisticated general readers with its wit. and insight. -- Publishers WeeklyThis dense, scholarly yet thoroughly entertaining book examines the uses of castration... along with thousands of years' worth of popular attitudes about the male genitals. Taylor posits that understanding what it means to be biologically unmanned is an excellent way to understand what it means to be a man. You don't need to be enthusiastic about this thesis -- or even to be male -- to find Castration terrific reading. -- SalonA passionate, provocative history of ideas about male sexuality--and the best account of castration you're ever likely to read. -- Maggie Paley, author of The Book of the PenisGary Taylor's Castration is learned, provocative, and surprisingly persuasive. It is entirely characteristic of its author, at once polemical and reasonable, historically detailedand wildly imaginative. I found it endlessly informative and compulsively readable. -- Stephen OrgelTaylor's writing is academic in the best sense -- well-researched and unapologetically informed (and opinionated) about both high and popular culture. This isn't USA Today-style speculation about trends and people. Taylor's ideas are so well-reasoned that the reader is gladly seduced into following each argument as far as it goes.  Taylor's  uxtaposition of history, culture, and psychology, along with his comfort about sexuality, breaks new ground here. The reader's relationship to genitalia -- his/her own and others' -- is forever changed after reading this excellent book. By examining sexuality in its historical context, crucial for understanding other civilizations, he makes the arbitrariness of our own erotic beliefs startlingly visible. - Marty Klein, Ph.D Libido: the Journal of Sex and Sensibility.Taylor has written a thoroughly engaging and witty account of the history and misconceptions of castration... Castration provides a useful, original, lively, and long overdue look at one of mankind;s most essential physical and cultural components. -Virginia Quarterly Review.	Gary Taylor is Professor of English and Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama.  His books include Cultural Selection: Why Some Achievements Stand the Test of Time and Others Don't and Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present. He is the general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare.",books;communication & journalism;communication & media studies;fitness & dieting;gender studies;health;media studies;men;new;politics & social sciences;popular culture;psychology & counseling;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
1581127545,"Uncivil Liberties: Italian Americans Under Siege During World War II ""Outstanding Book"" - Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States (1991)	      --This text refers to the 							Kindle Edition	 edition.	Published originally as The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans during World War II ""Outstanding Book"" - Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States (1991)  American Book Award - ""Outstanding Literary Achievement"" - Before Columbus Foundation (1992) While the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II is a well-known blemish on American history, few people are aware that from February through June of 1942 the federal government enacted a relocation program that forced thousands of West Coast Italian and German aliens and their families to leave their homes for so-called safe zones. Law-abiding people who had lived in the United States for decades, including some who had sons in the armed forces, were subjected to surveillance and harassment simply because they had never obtained U.S. citizenship. The government eventually abandoned this program, but only because the process of relocating so many proved economically and politically unfeasible. Other Italians, including American citizens, whose loyalty was deemed doubtful, were interned or excluded without trial.   In UnCivil Liberties: Italian Americans Under Siege during World War II Stephen Fox combines interviews with Italian Americans, government files, and newspaper accounts to reveal this previously untold chapter in American history. The testimonies of those who were the objects of the government's unfounded suspicions and accusations provide a vivid portrait of the times and illuminate a neglected episode. Fox connects his discussion of the Italian American experience with that of other suspected ""enemy"" aliens during World War II, illustrating how a national security crisis led to the use of group labels and challenged the government's commitment to its libertarian ideals. The voices in UnCivil Liberties will speak to students, scholars, and all readers interested in this period of American history.",20th century;americas;books;history;humanities;military;minority studies;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states;used & rental textbooks;world war ii,14
156205886X,"Windows 2000 User Management (New Rider's Professional Series) The purpose of Windows 2000 User Management is to provide a comprehensive, practical guide to managing users and their desktop environments with Windows 2000.  The book is divided into three sections.  The first is an overview of the new capabilities Windows 2000 offers for user and resource management, plus an overview of the Active Directory, domain models, and security mechanism available.  The next section covers all aspects of user management-creation of users, bulk tools, migrations, from other directory structures, groups, and planning for efficient use of groups.  The final section deals with managing the user's environment through the use of profiles, group policy objects, and the functions Microsoft has grouped and marketed as Intellimirror-client-side caching, single instance storage, remote boot and MSI.	Lori Sanders has recently given up the road warrior's life and has joined the   staff of HRchitect as a project manager for one of their Fortune 500 clients in   Memphis, Tennessee. Previously, Lori owned iSolve Consulting Group, a company   specializing in NT networking, I-net based system design, and technology   consulting. Lori is also a technical editor and instructor for Learning Tree   International, focusing on the Windows 2000, NT4, and client/server arenas. Lori   has been working with Windows 2000 since the first beta release and has   implemented the OS in several lab sites for her clients. Her 17-year background   in the Information Technology field includes project management, information   systems engineering, network administration, and technical support. She also has   been a programmer, but you have to promise not to tell anyone about that. Lori   is based in Tennessee where she lives most happily with her wonderful husband,   Wade, their daughters, beautiful grandchildren, six cats, and two dogs. You can   contact Lori at lsanders@isolveconsulting.com.",algorithms;books;computers & technology;graphic design;home computing & how-to;microsoft;networking;networks;operating systems;pattern recognition;programming;protocols & apis;software;windows os,14
0195112415,"Medieval Architecture in Western Europe: From A.D. 300 to 1500 Includes CD ""This survey of 1200 years of Western medieval architecture will become a standard introductory text. Calkin's concise descriptions of individual monuments will expand students' understanding and appreciation of the subject. The book offers a remarkable overview of the diversity of building in  the period. The photographs and ground plans provide superb visual documentation.""--Deborah Kahn, Boston University""Fills a gap that has existed for quite some time. The monuments are judiciously selected, and the material is up to date for a survey. The CD is great for our electronic classroom.""--Harry Titus, Wake Forest University""Clear, compact exposition, well chosen illustrations, clearly reproduced, splendid bibliography. I like the support given by the footnotes, which will encourage further reading.""--John M. Schnurrenberg, University of Alabama at Birmingham	Robert G. Calkins is a History of Art Professor at Cornell University. He has considerable experience with medieval architecture, having written two other books on this subject, Monuments of Medieval Art and Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages.",architecture;art history;arts & photography;books;criticism;europe;history;history & criticism;humanities;new;professional & technical;reference;used & rental textbooks;western,14
0873515048,"Strange Days Dangerous Nights: Photos From the Speed Graphic Era The photographs in this collection are taken from the files of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the St. Paul Dispatch, and span a period from the nineteen-forties to the mid-sixties. Among the many records of long-forgotten civic functions are shocking crime-scene photographs, a reminder of an era when the country's newspaper photographersan army of Weegees, equipped with oversized Speed Graphic flash cameras and radios tuned to the police scannersregularly provided readers with lurid coverage of violent crimes and spectacular accidents. There is a harsh intimacy to these photographs, which bring us as close as possible to car-crash victims, suicides, and mass murderers confessing their crimes. But the welter of detail in the picturesthe seamed stockings of a murder victim, the huddle of bystanders after a bar shootingprovides a nuanced portrait of a Midwestern city and of American culture at midcentury.  Copyright  2005 The New Yorker	""A collection of vivid and sometimes spectacular photographs that throw new light on the not-so-distant past, a place that is a bit like home, a bit like a movie, and a bit like another planet. It is heartening to find such stuff so well preserved and so expertly annotated.? -- Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts	A woman stabs and kills her husband and then cradles his body-- Members of the National Guard patrol city streets during a labor strike--A house lies in ruins following a natural gas explosion-- A decapitated corpse sprawls on the ground in front of a factory-- Terrified residents make their way down a fire escape as their hotel burns--A young woman stares into a mirror attached to her iron lung--  With an eye for the picture that tells a story, Larry Millett has collected 220 of the best of these ""noir"" images. These newspaper photos that capture the nitty-gritty era of the Speed Graphic camera are like a slice of Minnesota life. Here are nighttime murders, car-crash victims, the St. Paul Winter Carnival, hotel fires, celebrities, drowning victims, union picketers, tornadoes, floods, the strange twists in everyday life, and the pre-urban renewal vibrant downtown St. Paul. Millett has also scouted out many strange and amusing photos from the supposedly ""happy days"" of the 1950s. ""Fat men's"" races, fall-out shelters, and fake ""ndian""bands were among the strange rituals of the era.  In the two decades after World War II, and especially during the 1950s, photographers from the St. Paul Pioneer Press and St. Paul Dispatch cruised the city in search of dramatic visual images. Equipped with the legendary Speed Graphic, a large-format camera capable of producing richly detailed prints, the newspapers' dozen or so staff photographers took thousands of black-and-white pictures, many of them startlingly graphic. The photographers often worked closely with the police and had a remarkable degree of access to crime scenes and criminals. This allowed them to produce images--of blood-soaked murder victims, drowned children, bodies strewn around accident scenes, houses blown to pieces--unlike anything seen in newspapers today in a visual style that could be blunt and powerful.  Strange Days, Dangerous Nights includes detailed captions that tell the story behind each picture. This book is unique; there is nothing else like it for the region.  Visit the book at  http://www.mnhs.org/exhibits/strangedays/index.htm	Larry Millett worked for three decades as a reporter, editor, and architectural critic for the St. Paul Pioneer Press before retiring in 2002. His books include Lost Twin Cities (awarded an AIA International Architecture Book Award), Twin Cities Then and Now and five mysteries including The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes He is currently at work on a comprehensive guide to the architecture of Minneapolis and St. Paul, to be published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.   John Sandford is the pen name of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, New York Times bestselling novelist, and amateur photographer John Camp. His books include The Hanged Man's Song, Hidden Prey, and Naked Prey.",americas;arts & photography;books;education & reference;history;journalism & nonfiction;midwest;photo essays;photography;photojournalism;research & publishing guides;state & local;united states;writing,14
0132532611,"Elementary Statistics, Revised (5th Edition) Checked and rechecked for accuracy and stressing application to concrete data rather than mathematic theory, this highly successful book covers statistical techniques used in psychological and behavioral sciences, and provides a comprehensive study of the basic principles that underlie them. Requiring no extensive mathematical background, the text progresses from basic descriptive statistics to inferential paramedic statistics including two-way classification analysis of variance and nonparametric techniques.	This application-oriented guide hands you simple-to-use mathematical techniques for determining various statistics in psychology and the behavioral sciences. Progressing from basic descriptive statistics to inferential paramedic statistics, the handbook includes graphic presentations including stem and leaf displays ... step-by-step procedures for performing computations ... advice for selecting the appropriate statistical test for specific studies ... coverage of various statistical computer programs ... and more. Intended for professionals with little or no knowledge of statistics.",books;fitness & dieting;general;health;mathematics;medical books;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;science & mathematics;social sciences;statistics;used & rental textbooks,14
0632052384,"Invertebrate Palaeontology & Evolution ""Clarkson is unbeatable...if you are a genuine palaeontology student then you can currently do no better than this."" Geological Magazine - December 1999 !--end--	Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution is well established as the foremost palaeontology text at undergraduate level. This fully revised fourth edition includes a complete update of the sections on evolution and the fossil record, and the evolution of the early metazoans. New work on the classification of the major phyla (in particular brachiopods and molluscs) has been incorporated, and the section on trace fossils is extensively rewritten. The author has taken care to involve specialists in the major groups, to ensure the taxonomy is as up-to-date and accurate as possible.",animals;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;earth sciences;evolution;fossils;geology;new;paleontology;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,14
020185449X,"Programming in Mathematica (3rd Edition) Mathematica was officially announced in June of 1988. Since then it has found many uses in very diverse fields. While it is useful to do a few calculations interactively, its real strength lies in the programming language it offers. Writing programs, one extends Mathematica with specialized new functions in one's own field of interest.Mathematica's programming language is unlike any you have encountered before. The language's manual explains all its features and gives some very basic examples of their use. For writing good programs, however, this is not enough: there is clearly a need for a book explaining all the many features in context and giving more extensive examples of their use. The first edition of this book filled this gap for version 1.2 of Mathematica. Like the second edition, this third edition was prompted by a major new version of Mathematica, Version 3.0. I have been in contact with many early users of Mathematica and I have also given students at the University of Illinois and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology an opportunity to learn about it. I have seen many programs written in Mathematica, good ones and bad ones. The bad ones invariably solve a particular problem in an unnecessarily complicated way, perhaps because the programmers were unaware of the elegant constructs available in Mathematica. Let me point out these constructs and show you how they can be used to write concise, elegant, and efficient programs. The best way to teach these Mathematica-specific programming methods is to look at examples of complete programs that solve some nontrivial problem. Even if the example chosen does not lie in the particular field of application that you are interested in, you will be able to use similar ideas for your own programs. Many of the examples presented here deal with graphics. Graphics applications are especially suited for learning programming, because it is easy to see whether your code is correct simply by looking at the picture it produces. Advanced graphics applications are also sufficiently challenging to require advanced programming methods. Other examples come from symbolic computation, geometry, dynamics, and numerical mathematics. Along the way, we also develop many short pieces of code that can be used as parts of larger programs or that help to customize Mathematica to your particular needs. Many of these found their way into the standard Mathematica distribution and are now available to all users. Because there exists an excellent manual, this book does not explain everything from scratch, but assumes some familiarity with Mathematica. I assume also that you have access to a computer on which to try out the examples. In this book I want to tell you how you can use Mathematica for more than just typing in single commands. If you are using Mathematica for your work, teaching, or solving homework assignments, sooner or later you will encounter more advanced problems requiring many commands to solve, or you will be faced with doing the same calculation steps over and over again with different input. This is the point at which you want to start writing programs. Mathematica includes a rich and powerful programming language. Unlike the usual languages such as BASIC and C, it is not restricted to a small number of data types, but allows you to perform all its symbolic computations. The Mathematica manual can only hint at the possibilities. It explains all the features but does not show you which ones to use for a particular problem or how to fit things together into larger programs. Through design and tradition, each programming language has developed a certain preferred style of good programming. It is possible to solve the same problem in many different ways, but there is usually some idea about what is a good or a bad program. In this book, I want to present examples of what the designers ofMathematica   think is good programming style and show you why this is so. Even if you write your programs strictly for personal use, you will benefit from following a good style. For developing programs for others to use, adhering to this style is indispensable.The programming examples in this book serve two purposes. First, they help explain concepts and show how things fit together to make up complete programs. Second, they are designed to be more than mere toy programs and should prove useful in their own right. In developing an example we always use the same method. We start out with a few commands or definitions that could be entered directly into Mathematica. We then extract the parts of the computation that are the same regardless of the input and define some functions or procedures that automate these steps. Then we apply standard techniques to these functions to make them into a package, adding documentation and certain programming constructs that make such a package easier to use. The goal is to write a program that would be useful not only to its author, who knows how it works, but also to other people. Finally, we might add a few more functions to the package or look at alternatives to what we did so far. In Chapter 1 these steps are described in full detail. Later on, when we concentrate on other aspects, we assume that you are familiar with these basic concepts and we shall not mention all the steps in detail. All the programs developed in this book are either part of the standard Mathematica distribution from Wolfram Research, or they are available free in electronic form. Version 3.0 brings major new features. The programming language itself has not changed all that much, but many problems that required elaborate workarounds and many inconsistencies have been remedied. As a consequence, it is now possible to present the material on packages in a more logical fashion. The support for developing larger applications has been improved, and this edition discusses the software engineering issues of writing and using larger programs in Mathematica. The treatment of exact numeric quantities is another area of improvement, and the way numerical code should be written has changed. All programs have been revised to take advantage of the many new built-in functions. I added more material about functional and structural programming. These techniques are fundamental to writing good Mathematica code, but they are not available in most other programming languages and therefore need an expanded treatment. The most important addition to Version 3.0 is, of course, the new frontend and the typesetting capabilities. The fact that notebooks and typeset formulae are represented as ordinary Mathematica expressions means that they can be manipulated easily with programs. This capability leads to some fascinating applications, and the new material on the frontend and typesetting teaches you how to develop such applications.A complete, larger application (iterated function systems), more exercises, and an updated bibliography complete this expanded and revised edition.  This book is no replacement for the Mathematica manual The Mathematica Book. I do not expect that you have read everything in the manual, but you should have some basic experience with Mathematica before reading this book. Single commands are usually used without detailed explanation. You can use the index in The Mathematica Book to look up a description of a command that you did not know about. We also give references to places in The Mathematica Book where you can find explanations of concepts that are particularly relevant to a topic in this book. You should always turn to The Mathematica Book for explanations of features that are assumed known here, but that you have not used yet. The place to look for an explanation of all variants, defaults, or options for a particular command is the Reference Guide in the back of the book. All this information is also available in electronic form and can be accessed through the Help Browser of Mathematica. All explanations about how Mathematica works are based on Version 3.0. The first edition of this book was about Version 1.2. Many things have changed in the new version. I added a few sections called ""Changes from Earlier Editions""for the benefit of readers familiar with earlier versions of Mathematica or the first and second edition of this book. I am grateful to many people who have contributed to this book. My thanks go first to the other developers of Mathematica. The language was shaped through countless discussions and many heated arguments. Trying to explain to each other why we think a certain feature should be done in a certain way has deepened our understanding of the matters involved and has given the language its overall consistency, despite the fact that it contains hundreds of commands and unifies many diverse programming paradigms. Helpful ideas for this book came from Jim Feagin, Theodore Gray, Dan Grayson, Jerry Keiper, Silvio Levy, Troels Petersen, Will Self, Bruce Smith, Ilan Vardi, Ferrell Wheeler, and Stephen Wolfram. Some of the examples I used were inspired by Henry Cejtin, John Gray, Lee Rubel, William Thurston, Ilan Vardi, Jnrg Waldvogel, and Dave With	This revised and expanded edition of the standard reference on programming in Mathematica addresses all the new features in the latest Version 3 of the software. The support for developing larger applications has been improved, and the book now discusses the software engineering issues related to writing and using larger programs in Mathematica. As before, Roman Maeder, one of the original authors of the Mathematica system, explains how to take advantage of its powerful built-in programming language.New topics in this edition include:  The programmable front-end;The language for typesetting mathematical expressions and the treatment of exact numerical quantities;A completely developed larger application, iterated function systems.  This code allows readers to explore the fascinating world of chaos and fractals with Mathematica. Current users of Mathematica, Version 2, and new users of Version 3 will benefit alike from this up-to-date reference to Mathematica programming.   020185449XB04062001	Roman Maeder was the third person to join the Mathematica development project, and was responsible for such parts of the system as polynomial factorization and language design. Maeder received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.  Formerly a Professor of Computer Science at ETH, he is now an independent computing consultant.         020185449XAB04062001	Mathematica was officially announced in June of 1988. Since then it has found many uses in very diverse fields. While it is useful to do a few calculations interactively, its real strength lies in the programming language it offers. Writing programs, one extends Mathematica with specialized new functions in one's own field of interest.Mathematica's programming language is unlike any you have encountered before. The language's manual explains all its features and gives some very basic examples of their use. For writing good programs, however, this is not enough: there is clearly a need for a book explaining all the many features in context and giving more extensive examples of their use. The first edition of this book filled this gap for version 1.2 of Mathematica. Like the second edition, this third edition was prompted by a major new version of Mathematica, Version 3.0. I have been in contact with many early users of Mathematica and I have also given students at the University of Illinois and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology an opportunity to learn about it. I have seen many programs written in Mathematica, good ones and bad ones. The bad ones invariably solve a particular problem in an unnecessarily complicated way, perhaps because the programmers were unaware of the elegant constructs available in Mathematica. Let me point out these constructs and show you how they can be used to write concise, elegant, and efficient programs. The best way to teach these Mathematica-specific programming methods is to look at examples of complete programs that solve some nontrivial problem. Even if the example chosen does not lie in the particular field of application that you are interested in, you will be able to use similar ideas for your own programs. Many of the examples presented here deal with graphics. Graphics applications are especially suited for learning programming, because it is easy to see whether your code is correct simply by looking at the picture it produces. Advanced graphics applications are also sufficiently challenging to require advanced programming methods. Other examples come from symbolic computation, geometry, dynamics, and numerical mathematics. Along the way, we also develop many short pieces of code that can be used as parts of larger programs or that help to customize Mathematica to your particular needs. Many of these found their way into the standard Mathematica distribution and are now available to all users. Because there exists an excellent manual, this book does not explain everything from scratch, but assumes some familiarity with Mathematica. I assume also that you have access to a computer on which to try out the examples. In this book I want to tell you how you can use Mathematica for more than just typing in single commands. If you are using Mathematica for your work, teaching, or solving homework assignments, sooner or later you will encounter more advanced problems requiring many commands to solve, or you will be faced with doing the same calculation steps over and over again with different input. This is the point at which you want to start writing programs. Mathematica includes a rich and powerful programming language. Unlike the usual languages such as BASIC and C, it is not restricted to a small number of data types, but allows you to perform all its symbolic computations. The Mathematica manual can only hint at the possibilities. It explains all the features but does not show you which ones to use for a particular problem or how to fit things together into larger programs. Through design and tradition, each programming language has developed a certain preferred style of good programming. It is possible to solve the same problem in many different ways, but there is usually some idea about what is a good or a bad program. In this book, I want to present examples of what the designers of    Mathematica   think is good programming style and show you why this is so. Even if you write your programs strictly for personal use, you will benefit from following a good style. For developing programs for others to use, adhering to this style is indispensable.The programming examples in this book serve two purposes. First, they help explain concepts and show how things fit together to make up complete programs. Second, they are designed to be more than mere toy programs and should prove useful in their own right. In developing an example we always use the same method. We start out with a few commands or definitions that could be entered directly into Mathematica. We then extract the parts of the computation that are the same regardless of the input and define some functions or procedures that automate these steps. Then we apply standard techniques to these functions to make them into a package, adding documentation and certain programming constructs that make such a package easier to use. The goal is to write a program that would be useful not only to its author, who knows how it works, but also to other people. Finally, we might add a few more functions to the package or look at alternatives to what we did so far. In Chapter 1 these steps are described in full detail. Later on, when we concentrate on other aspects, we assume that you are familiar with these basic concepts and we shall not mention all the steps in detail. All the programs developed in this book are either part of the standard Mathematica distribution from Wolfram Research, or they are available free in electronic form. Version 3.0 brings major new features. The programming language itself has not changed all that much, but many problems that required elaborate workarounds and many inconsistencies have been remedied. As a consequence, it is now possible to present the material on packages in a more logical fashion. The support for developing larger applications has been improved, and this edition discusses the software engineering issues of writing and using larger programs in Mathematica. The treatment of exact numeric quantities is another area of improvement, and the way numerical code should be written has changed. All programs have been revised to take advantage of the many new built-in functions. I added more material about functional and structural programming. These techniques are fundamental to writing good Mathematica code, but they are not available in most other programming languages and therefore need an expanded treatment. The most important addition to Version 3.0 is, of course, the new frontend and the typesetting capabilities. The fact that notebooks and typeset formulae are represented as ordinary Mathematica expressions means that they can be manipulated easily with programs. This capability leads to some fascinating applications, and the new material on the frontend and typesetting teaches you how to develop such applications.A complete, larger application (iterated function systems), more exercises, and an updated bibliography complete this expanded and revised edition.  This book is no replacement for the Mathematica manual The Mathematica Book. I do not expect that you have read everything in the manual, but you should have some basic experience with Mathematica before reading this book. Single commands are usually used without detailed explanation. You can use the index in The Mathematica Book to look up a description of a command that you did not know about. We also give references to places in The Mathematica Book where you can find explanations of concepts that are particularly relevant to a topic in this book. You should always turn to The Mathematica Book for explanations of features that are assumed known here, but that you have not used yet. The place to look for an explanation of all variants, defaults, or options for a particular command is the Reference Guide in the back of the book. All this information is also available in electronic form and can be accessed through the Help Browser of Mathematica. All explanations about how Mathematica works are based on Version 3.0. The first edition of this book was about Version 1.2. Many things have changed in the new version. I added a few sections called ""Changes from Earlier Editions""for the benefit of readers familiar with earlier versions of Mathematica or the first and second edition of this book. I am grateful to many people who have contributed to this book. My thanks go first to the other developers of Mathematica. The language was shaped through countless discussions and many heated arguments. Trying to explain to each other why we think a certain feature should be done in a certain way has deepened our understanding of the matters involved and has given the language its overall consistency, despite the fact that it contains hundreds of commands and unifies many diverse programming paradigms. Helpful ideas for this book came from Jim Feagin, Theodore Gray, Dan Grayson, Jerry Keiper, Silvio Levy, Troels Petersen, Will Self, Bruce Smith, Ilan Vardi, Ferrell Wheeler, and Stephen Wolfram. Some of the examples I used were inspired by Henry Cejtin, John Gray, Lee Rubel, William Thurston, Ilan Vardi, Jnrg Waldvogel, and Dave Withoff.Help with the typographical side of producing this book came from Peter Altenberg, John Bonadies, Joe Kaiping, Daniel Lee, Cameron Smith, and Gregg Snyder, as well as from many other people at Wolfram Research, Inc. and the staff of Addison-Wesley. My past and present publishers, Allan Wylde and Peter Gordon, encouraged me to get started on this book and this new edition.Roman Maeder   Programming In Mathematica Herrliberg, SwitzerlandAugust 1996   020185449XP04062001",artificial intelligence;books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;graphics & multimedia;languages & tools;mathematics;new;programming;programming languages;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,14
1561634689,"The Case of Madeleine Smith (A Treasury of Victorian Murder) (v. 8) This latest in Geary's lovingly researched and illustrated Treasury of Victorian Murder series relates the case of Madeleine Smith, a well-to-do architect's daughter who is willingly courted by Emile L'Anglier, a man of lesser means. Perhaps influenced by the flowery depictions of love found in overwrought romantic novels and certainly longing to escape the strangling mores of the day, Madeleine's fantasies come true during her affair with L'Anglier, thrills that burgeon when spurred by her family's disapproval of the situation. Things take a sinister turn when Madeleine finds a more appropriate suitor and tires of L'Anglier's attentions. She continues the fantasy-driven relationship with the added spice of slowly poisoning her lover via arsenic in his tea, a crime that she would most likely get away within the stringently class oriented society of Victorian Glasgow. Saying more would spoil the true-life outcome for those unfamiliar with the case, but as always Geary provides a quaintly drawn time warp that is both entertaining and educational, including maps and diagrams that bring the case to life. Every bit as much fun as its predecessors, this volume is a welcome and intelligent change of pace from the usual comics fare. (July)  Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Grade 7 UpGearys story, set in 19th-century Scotland, tells of the scandalous affair between an upper-class woman and a lower-class man that ended with his gruesome death. Smith was an architects daughter and the graduate of a London finishing school. Emile LAnglier was a seed merchants son, a clerk with a history of bad relationships. Their attraction to one another was instantaneous, and they began to correspond. The book is filled with excerpts from their letters; as much as Madeleine pushed Emile away, she clearly needed him, since nearly 200 of her letters were later found in his possessions. But their love was doomed because of the tension involved in keeping their relationship private. After years of turmoil, Madeleine became engaged to another man and Emile threatened to send her letters to her father. The poisoning began in cups of hot chocolate that she gave to Emile. The pen-and-ink images artfully convey this gripping story, notably in the scene in which the lovers eyes first meet and later when a veiled Madeleine walks up a staircase through a door in the courtroom floor. This book maintains the level of excellence set by the other volumes in this series, and would be an asset to any collection.Andrea Lipinski, New York Public Library Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Geary's nonfiction series A Treasury of Victorian Murder marches on with the story of a mid-nineteenth-century crime that rocked Europe and North America, primarily because the accused seemed the quintessential faux-innocent femme fatale. In 1855 Madeleine Smith, a prosperous Scottish architect's daughter, apparently poisoned her poor, clandestine lover to clear the way for marriage to a wealthy merchant. Despite extremely telling circumstantial evidence, the case against her received the verdict, unique to Scotland, of ""Not Proven,"" which implied that the all-male jury didn't disbelieve that she was guilty. She moved to London with her elder brother, married an associate of the Pre-Raphaelites, bore two children who became nonconformist adults, divorced, moved to New York, married again, survived her second husband, and was listed as 64 when she died at 93. Popular novels, plays, and movies, notably David Lean's film Madeleine, have been based on the case, but it's hard to imagine any of them presenting it more amusingly, thoroughly, and succinctly than does Geary's trademark droll counterpointing of narration and image. Ray OlsonCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	An award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, Rick Geary has worked for Marvel Entertainment Group, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and Heavy Metal, and has contributed to National Lampoon and The New York Times Book Review.",19th century;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;comics & graphic novels;graphic design;graphic novels;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);murder & mayhem;mystery;serial killers;thriller & suspense;true accounts,14
0767405226,"Introducing Communication Theory: Analysis and Application Richard West  is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Illinois State University, and his Ph.D. from Ohio University.    Lynn H. Turner  is a professor in Communication Studies at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois--Chicago, her M.A. from the University of Iowa, and her Ph.D. from Northwestern University.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",artificial intelligence;books;communication;communication & journalism;communications;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;language & grammar;new;speech;theory of computing;used & rental textbooks;words,14
0971416400,"Helping Your Overweight Child: A Family Guide ""Dr. Cederquist's advice provides practical solutions to everyday challenges of raising healthy children."" Lynette Perkins, R.D. -- Book Review, Dec. 2001""I recommend this book for any family wanting to learn about leading a healthy lifestyle."" -- Gregory Holmes, M.D. -- Book Review, Dec. 2001""This book makes simple suggestions and recommendations that even a busy family can implement with success."" -- Mary Piegallini, M.D. -- Book Review, Dec. 5, 2001	Caroline J. Cedequist, M.D., is board certified by the American Board Family Practice and the American Board of Bariatric Physicians. She is a graduate of the University of Miami, the University of Miami School of Medicine, and the Medical College of Virginia Family Practice Residency, where she was chief resident. She is a contributing medical editor for the NBC ""Today"" show in Fort Myers, Florida, and the host of ""Diet Doctor,"" a program about long-term weight management. She is a national speaker on weight management and is quoted as an expert in a number of magazines, including Parent. She has a private practice, specializing in weight management in Naples, Florida.",addiction & recovery;books;children's books;children's health;diets & weight loss;diseases & physical ailments;drug dependency;eating disorders;fitness & dieting;health;other diets;parenting & relationships;self-help;weight loss,14
0684839709,"The Law and Your Legal Rights/A Ley y Sus Derechos Legales: A Bilingual Guide to Everyday Legal Issues/Un Manual Bilingue Para Asuntos Legales Cotidianos American legalese can be hard enough to decipher if English is  your primary tongue, but try wading through the statutes and  stipulations when you grew up speaking Spanish. The Law and Your  Legal Rights is an excellent guide on a wide range of legal  issues, presenting complex legalities in easily understandable English  in one half of the book, and in lucid Spanish in the other  half. Araujo explores the U.S. court system and small claims court,  contracts and consumer law, government benefit programs and employee  rights, plus bankruptcy, and tenant law. He delves into criminal law  and personal injury, immigration laws, motor vehicles, and the complex  field of family law. Within this one reference volume you can find  information on divorce, plea bargaining, retaliatory eviction, and  sexual harassment, living trusts, jury duty, lemon laws, and the right  to die. Even when the laws differ by state and Araujo's text is just  the start of a long research process, his definitions and explanations  provide a clear and reassuring introduction, in Spanish and English,  to whatever legal aggravation is interfering with your tranquillity.  --Stephanie Gold	Text: English, Spanish",administrative law;books;civil law;criminal law;education & reference;law;law enforcement;law practice;legal self-help;legal theory & systems;politics & government;politics & social sciences;reference;specific topics,14
1578061857,"Conversations with Salman Rushdie (Literary Conversations) Indian novelist Rushdie gained international attention beyond the literary world when, in 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, an edict calling for Rushdie's death because of perceived anti-Muslim sentiment expressed in his explosive novel The Satanic Verses. Regardless of the notoriety that the sentence placed on him engendered, Rushdie's status as a major writer and his influence on other contemporary writers of fiction in English have long been established. The latest volume in this publisher's series of informative collections of interviews with significant authors gathers published conversations with Rushdie from the early 1980s to the present. Rushdie is a forthright interviewee; what he doesn't want to discuss, he won't (and that happens only infrequently), but in the majority of instances he answers questions with thought and detail. Topics covered include deeply literary ones, such as the importance of digressions in the structure of a novel, as well as more mundane ones: for example, love as the central issue in most people's lives. Brad HooperCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",20th century;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;censorship;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);movements & periods;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics,14
0205282156,"Journalist's Guide to the Internet, A: The Net as a Reporting Tool Just about everyone knows how to ""surf"" the information superhighway these days.  But very few people who rely on the Internet for the most current news know how to maximize their ""surfing"" time in the most efficient and informative way.   This practical, hands-on book offers readers the tools to think about the Internet from a journalistic perspective and provides tactics that may help both the budding and the experienced journalist meet the tightest of deadlines.  Readers will find an up-close look at the different elements of the Internet and how they can be used as tools.  Electronic mail, mailing lists, newsgroups, and the World Wide Web issues are thoroughly covered.  This book describes not only how to find information on the Internet but also how to evaluate the credibility and newsworthiness of the information retrieved.   Broadcasters, journalists of print and television media, investigative reporters, public affairs reporters, and anyone interested in utilizing the Internet for news.",books;communication & journalism;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;internet & education;internet & web culture;journalism;journalism & nonfiction;new;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;web development & design;writing,14
3527311157,"Nanofabrication Towards Biomedical Applications ""Overall, the editors and authors have done a good job, resulting in a book that can be read with interest by the broad scientific community. This book deserves a respected place on the desk of the student, the professor, and the engineer, who will all benefit equally from reading it."" Angewandte Chemie I.E.""The book will definitely be of interest not only to readers with biological and medical backgrounds but also to material scientists, engineers, chemists, and physicists. The last two chapters are highly recommended for the general public and even politicians who are interested in looking at global changes arising from the implementation of nano- and biotechnology."" Small""...this is an excellent and useful reference book about biomedical nanotechnology."" Advanced Materials""... covers some of the most salient aspects of this technology as it relates to biological applications ... well suited for those who are just entering the field, or those who want a broad exposure to biological applications of nanotechnology.""Annals of Biomedical Engineering	That man-made nanomaterials are on a comparable size scale with natural biological materials such as antibodies and proteins greatly facilitates their actual use, and the understanding of biology and medicine with the help of nanotechnology will enable the production of nanoscale biomimetic materials. Manifold new uses derive from up to now inaccessible physical characteristics and novel properties that come with nano size, and their exploitation for applications ranges from drug delivery to biosensors, and opens an immense new field of nanoscale life sciences.This book not only covers scientific aspects of nanofabrication for biomedical research, but also the implications for the industry, society and education. It provides a comprehensive perspective of ongoing research, and readers from materials science, engineering, chemistry, biology and medical backgrounds will find detailed accounts of the design and synthesis of nanomaterials as well as the tools and techniques involved in their characterization and production for applications in biology and medicine.	Challa Kumar is currently the Group Leader of Nanofabrication at the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD), Baton Rouge, USA. His research interests are in developing novel synthetic methods for functional nanomaterials and innovative therapeutic, diagnostic and sensor tools based on nanotechnology. He has eight years of industrial R experience working for ICI plc and UB Ltd prior to joining CAMD in 2001. He has worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, as a post doctoral fellow and at the Max Planck Institute for Kohlenforschung, Mlheim, Germany, as an invited scientist. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in synthetic organic chemistry from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prashanti Nilayam, India.Josef Hormes is currently the Director of the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD) and Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University. Prior to joining CAMD in 1999, he was Director of the Synchrotron Radiation Facility at Bonn University, Germany, for over 15 years. He was also a visiting professor at the Imperial College, London, UK, and the Institute of Physics in Stockholm, Sweden. He has been actively involved in 'nano' research especially in the application of X-ray absorption spectroscopic tools for characterization of nanomaterials. He has more than 180 peer-reviewed publications, and obtained his doctoral degree and habilitation in Physics from Bonn University, Germany.Carola Leuschner is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Reproductive Biotechnology at Pennington Biomedical Research Center (PBRC), Baton Rouge, USA. Her research interests are in the field of drug development for cancer with emphasis on breast, prostate and ovarian cancer, eradication of metastases and multi-drug resistant cancers in vitro and in vivo. Prior to joining PBRC, she was an Instructor in the Department of Diet and Heart Disease, Louisiana State University. Dr. Leuschner had her postdoctoral training in the Department of Technical Microbiology of Hamburg University, and prior to that, obtained her Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Hannover, both Germany.",biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;biotechnology;books;engineering;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;new;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;technology;used & rental textbooks,14
1890289078,"Development Technical Training: A Structured Approach for Developing Classroom and Computer-based Instructional Materials , 2nd Edition ""Ruth has a special gift to be able to interpret these complex ideas in a simple, straightforward way.""  David Merrill -- International Society for Performance Improvement www.ispi.orgAcademics often have difficulty communicating their theories, research findings, and methods. Ruth Clark has a special gift to be able to interpret these complex ideas in a simple, straightforward way that is easily grasped and applied by practicing instructional designers. Those who apply the guidelines in Developing Technical Training wil lfind that their instruction is far more effective.  -- M. David Merrill, Professor, Utah State University	This text is an exceptional resource for instructional systems designers to use in developing effective technical training. Filled with detailed descriptions of instructional methods, practical applications, great examples, and up-to-date graphics, this book is easy to read. Yet, Dr. Clark has thoroughly grounded her practical advice in sophisticated methods and cognitive learning research. This is a ""must read"" for anyone involved in developing training.	Ruth Clark, president of Clark Training and Consulting, is an instructional design expert that consults with major corporations and other organizations to help them design and develop effective training programs. She is the author of Developing Technical Training (ISPI, 1999) as well as numerous articles and text book chapters.",books;business & finance;business & investing;education;education & reference;instruction methods;management & leadership;motivational;new;schools & teaching;science & math;technology;training;used & rental textbooks,14
156145060X,"Growing Up Cuban in Decatur, Georgia ""The stories are fresh and funny, full of the warmth of loving family relationships. All have a wonderful Cuban flavor. Deedy has a velvety smooth voice.... her tone is warm and bubbly.... Without a doubt, this is a case where listening to stories is better than reading them.""  -AudioFile	CARMEN AGRA DEEDY was born in Havana, Cuba, and emigrated to the United States with her family in 1963 during the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution. She grew up in Decatur, Georgia. The combination of her Latin American and Southern heritage has had a rich influence upon her work.	In her collection of 12 short stories, originally heard on National Public Radio, storyteller and author Carmen Agra Deedy shares memories of growing up after her family emigrated from Havana. The stories are fresh and funny, full of the warmth of loving family relationships. All have a wonderful Cuban flavor. Deedy has a velvety smooth voice and easy to understand accent; her tone is warm and bubbly. The mood is set with music: a guitar ensemble performance of ""Afro-Cuban Lullaby"" at the beginning and end and brief drum  accompaniment between stories. Without a doubt, this is a case where listening to stories is better than reading them.  C.R.A. An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner.  (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine",biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;children's books;ethnic & national;family life;hispanic & latino;multigenerational;nature & how it works;people of color;politics & social sciences;science;social science;social situations,14
0131467166,"Slamming Spam: A Guide for System Administrators Real Anti-Spam Help for System AdministratorsIn Slamming Spam, two spam fighters show you how to fight backand win. Unlike most spam books, this one is written specifically for in-the-trenches system administrators: professionals who need hands-on solutions for detecting, managing, and deterring spam in Unix/Linux and/or Microsoft Windows environments. The authors offer deep, administrator-focused coverage of the most valuable open-source tools for reducing spams impact in the enterpriseespecially SpamAssassin. Drawing on their extensive experience in developing and implementing anti-spam tools, the authors present expert insights into every leading approach to fighting spam, including Bayesian filtering, distributed checksum filtering, and email client filtering. Coverage includes Step-by-step junk mail filtering with Procmail Protecting Sendmail, Postfix, qmail, Microsoft Exchange, and Lotus Domino servers from spam Making the most of native MTA anti-spam features, including whitelists/blacklists, DNS black hole services, and header checking Distributed checksum filtering solutions, including Vipuls Razor and Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse McAfee SpamKiller for Lotus Domino McAfee SpamKiller for Microsoft Exchange Implementing and managing SpamAssassin Implementing SMTP AUTH, providing effective outbound SMTP authentication and relaying with any mail client; and STARTTLS, encrypting outbound mail content, user names, and passwords Sender verification techniques, including challenge/response, special use addresses, and sender compute Anti-spam solutions for Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Messenger, and Unix mail clientsWhatever your IT environment and mail platform, Slamming Spams defense in-depth strategies can help you dramatically reduce spam and all its attendant costsIT staff time, network/computing resources, and user productivity. Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.	Robert Haskins works for Renesys Corporation, a leader in real-time  Internet connectivity monitoring and reporting. Robert has fought spam in many  environments, including enterprises, cable modem ISP, network equipment manufacturer,  wholesale dialup ISP, competitive local exchange carrier, and traditional ISP.  He has presented on the topic of fighting spam at NANOG, FBI Boston Infragard,  and LISA. Robert writes the ISPadmin column for USENIXs ;login:. He  is a member of USENIX, SAGE, and IEEE.Dale Nielsen is a partner in Avacoda, LLC, a consulting company specializing in systems administration and software development. He has more than twenty years of experience administering Unix- and Linux-based mail servers, firewalls, and workstations. He has worked in a variety of engineering and software development environments and has taught courses in systems administration at Sun Microsystems. Recently, hes done consulting work for clients such as Nortel Networks and Ziplink. He has written about Linux-based firewalls for the Linux Journal.Robert and Dale developed a patent-pending anti-spam software solution for Ziplink, Inc. Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.	Slamming Spam: A Guide for System AdministratorsPrefaceThis book is meant to be a reference for the email system administrator who has been asked to implement an anti-spam solution for their organization. This is an administrators how to stop spam book. It is very hands on, with none of the why people spam or other topics which are usually only peripherally interesting or useful to a mail administrator. Fighting spam is a complex problem, with many potential technical, legislative, and social solutions. No book could ever hope to cover them all in a reasonable amount of space. In fact, when considering only the possible technical spam-fighting solutions, it isnt possible to give them all the coverage they require. Our focus in this book is on the widely used open source anti-spam solutions available for major mail transfer agents (email servers).Be sure to check out the web site for this book at http://www.slammingspam.com. It has all the latest information on the book, including updated URLs, errata, and other useful information in the fight against spam.Who This Book Is ForThe reader is assumed to have a limited knowledge of Linux/Unix. In most cases, step-by-step instructions are provided for the covered package or approach. These cookbook examples are meant to work for most installations, with minimal changes and/or customizations. While some knowledge is assumed of the mail-transfer agent software used (such as Sendmail), the administrator doesnt need to be a mail server expert or Linux guru to implement the solutions outlined here. You will learn about the best current anti-spam methods and software available. Most of the methods are open source and freely available (as in free beer). These open source solutions offer the best of breed anti-spam solutions available today. Implementing open source solutions requires more work than commercial solutions, but often the administrator ends up with a more flexible, better solution than is otherwise available. We initially thought we would discuss anti-spam services such as Postini and Symantecs Brightmail in the book. However, we found that most of the commercial anti-spam solutions (such as anti-spam firewalls) and services were documented quite well and didnt require additional coverage. As a result, most commercial solutions are only mentioned in the Introduction. The only non-open source anti-spam solution covered here (McAfee SpamKiller) is directly related to the commercial mail servers coveredIBM/Lotus Notes/Domino and Microsoft Exchange.The IBM Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange administrator has a choice. An anti-spam solution can be implemented directly as part of the mail server, since both IBM Lotus and Microsoft Exchange support plug-ins. To supplement or as an alternative to a tightly integrated solution (like McAfee SpamKiller), additional open source email servers can be deployed specifically to perform spam filtering or virus checking. These anti-spam/virus servers would process the message before sending it on to the Domino/Exchange server for delivery to the recipient. While adding to the box count an administrator needs to manage, this approach does enable an open source best-of-breed solution to these otherwise closed commercial email servers. A hybrid approach can reduce the out-of-pocket cost while giving the administrator much flexibility in tweaking the anti-spam solution.What You Will NeedThe solutions in this book focus on Linux, on the server side. There is some coverage of the client side, but primarily the client coverage is meant to complement the server implementations we examine. Although the solutions presented here have been tested on Debian and/or Fedora Core Linux, they should work on almost every version of Linux available without too many modifications.The covered mail transfer agents (MTAs) are Sendmail, Postfix, qmail, IBM Lotus Domino, and Microsoft Exchange. We assume the reader has a previously installed and working MTA, as the task of installing and configuring a single MTA can be a book unto itself. SMTP authentication support for Postfix, Sendmail, and qmail may require the recompilation of the MTAs in order to implement. Having a previously installed compiled and working MTA makes SMTP AUTH much easier.We assume the reader has root access to the machine(s) they want to implement the anti-spam solutions covered here. Although many of the solutions do not require root access and can be installed and run as a regular user (though sometimes this requires configuration changes), we assume root access in our examples. You will see the use of root only when absolutely necessary. You wont see us compiling or installing anything as the root user, unless there is no other way to do it.Often, we use the sudo command in order to run privileged commands which otherwise would require the root password. sudo is potentially a better way of giving out root access, without disclosing the root password. The commands prefixed by sudo could just as easily be run as root, assuming the root users path is identical to the unprivileged users path. For many examples, we assume the user performing the installation tasks has write access to /usr/local.A few notes regarding other Linux/Unix command assumptions. We presume the reader has access to and knowledge of the following Linux utilities: tar for tar formatted archives gzip for GNU zip formatted archives zip for the Info-zip formatted archives bzip2 for bzip2 formatted archiveswget, lynx and/or ftp for retrieving source archivesWe presume you have a recent version of gcc on the system to build the anti-spam utilities outlined here. Some of the packages covered here specifically require GNU make. Most Linux distributions come with GNU make. If you are building these solutions on a BSD derivative such as FreeBSD, or another platform such Sun Solaris or HP-UX, you may need to install GNU make for the spam-fighting utilities that require it.In this book, we often mention maildir and mbox (or mailbox) formatted files. You should be aware which type of mailbox your email server software uses. The configuration for many anti-spam utilities covered in this book will vary depending upon which mailbox format is used. (Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange use their own internal format, so the mailbox format doesnt apply to those email servers.)The mbox format stores the messages for a particular user in one file per folder. Because mbox was the original (and at one time only) mailbox format, it has wide support. Sendmail and Postfix use mbox formatted mailboxes by default. Mailboxes in the mbox format work fine in many installations, but can pose problems for some administrators in some cases. For example, mbox formatted mailboxes on NFS-mounted filesystems have locking issues that can result in mailbox corruption.Maildir stores each message as individual files, with unique names in a directory structure with a directory for each folder. In many cases, a / after a filename parameter will indicate maildir formatted message directory, and the lack of a / will indicate that a mailbox is in mbox format. qmail uses maildir formatted mailboxes by default. Postfix can be configured easily to use maildir formatted mailboxes. If Procmail is used as the mail delivery agent, Procmail can easily be configured to use maildir format by specifying the folder name with a trailing /.How This Book Is OrganizedThis book can be read cover to cover in order to give the reader a hands-on view of the many methods to fight spam. However, the individual chapters are self-contained, so if there are specific anti-spam solutions you want to implement, you can just skip to those particular chapters.Chapter 1, Introduction, is an overview of some of the currently available major anti-spam technologies. It is useful for putting the solutions provided in the rest of the book in context. The focus is designing an anti-spam infrastructure for an organizations network, walking through policy, information gathering, design questions, and goals. If you are interested in designing an anti-spam architecture from scratch, Chapter 1 is an excellent starting point.Chapter 2, Procmail,  is a tool often used as a mail-delivery agent by anti-spam software to complete the job of fighting spam. For example, many statistical analysis tools depend upon procmail to perform the filtering of messages into the spam or non-spam folders. If the anti-spam tools of interest require the use of procmail, this chapter should be read if the reader is not familiar with the procmail utility.Chapter 3, SpamAssassin, covers the widely known and used spam classifier program. This chapter contains a treatment of the popular anti-spam scoring program, from installing the required packages to configuring SpamAssassin, and ruleset (scoring) creation. If the reader is planning to utilize a general purpose anti-spam filter, SpamAssassin is an excellent choice. Chapter 4, Native MTA Anti-Spam Features, covers the native anti-spam capabilities included with the covered open source MTAs. Topics covered here include whitelisting/blacklisting, blackhole listing services, tweaking the MTA to help block spam, and other functions native to the modern MTA. If you wonder what the access database is, or how to tweak Postfixs configuration to block the PIPELINE command, then this is a good chapter for you.Chapter 5, SMTP AUTH and STARTTLS, shows how to s...",books;business & finance;business & investing;computer science;computers & technology;marketing;marketing & sales;network administration;networking;networks;new;protocols & apis;telemarketing;used & rental textbooks,14
0007179316,"Complete UK Hit Singles 1952-2004 This is the ultimate guide for every music lover who has ever wondered who has the best selling single ever, or who has been Nos 1 more times than anyone else, or where Tears for Fears (or even 10cc) got there name, or who is left from T. Rex. Covering every single that has ever charted in the UK, with details on when released, top position, weeks in chart, awards, silver, gold or platimnum, track title, label and catalogue number, this book also uniquely has short histories of EVERY band that has ever appeared in the charts, plus facts on where, when, why or by whom the track was written, or recorded or whatever is interesting about it. Organised A-Z by artist, with a full index of song titles, plus a FREE CD containing an electronic version of the book, this is a must for everyone who has ever watched Top of the Pops",arts & photography;bibliographies & indexes;books;education & reference;humanities;music;musical genres;new;performing arts;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;rock;used & rental textbooks;writing,14
0201398591,"Enterprise Transaction Processing Systems: Putting the CORBA OTS, Encina++ and Orbix OTM to Work Preface  The recent merging of distributed object technology and transaction processingmonitors has created a new class of technology known as Object Transaction Monitors(OTMs). OTMs typically contain a comprehensive set of features that make itpossible to build enterprise-scale, high performance transaction processingsystems.  As more systems based on OTMs are built, there's a need for software professionalsnew to the area to acquire an understanding of the concepts and features ofthe available OTM technologies. They also need to appreciate the important issuesthat drive a project's architecture, detailed design and programming. This bookattempts to fill this niche, to educate people in the complexities of OTM technologies.The approach taken is necessarily a practical one. It attempts to distill severalyears of the author's consulting experience gained working with OTM technologies,and present the information in a way that is broadly useful and easily digestiblefor people who build OTM-based applications.  The aims of this book are to:   1. Explain the key underlying concepts and techniques of enterprise transactionprocessing technology (Chapters 1 and 2).    2. Discuss alternative architectural approaches for building object- orientedtransaction processing systems (Chapter 3).    3. Describe the major features of the CORBA Object Transaction Service (OTS)and two products, OrbixOTM and Encina++, that support this service (Chapters4 and 5).    4. Illustrate how to implement an example transaction processing system in C++using OrbixOTM and Encina++ (Chapters 6, 7 and 8).    5. Discuss the performance characteristics of the examples, and introduce sometechniques for improving performance.   Just as importantly, this book is not:   1. An introduction to CORBA/DCE and how to program these technologies. Thereare already many good books on these topics, several of which are referencedin the appropriate chapters.   2. A detailed description and evaluation of the techniques and algorithms employedin the internals of distributed transaction processing systems. Read Jim Gray'sor Phil Bernstein's books for excellent coverage of these areas.  The intended audience for this book includes:   1. Project managers and system architects who need to understand the conceptsof distributed transaction processing systems and the features supported bystate-of-the-art products.   2. Professional software engineers who need to understand, evaluate and writeprograms using object-oriented transaction processing software.   3. Graduate-level and advanced undergraduate level students who study transactionprocessing systems and software.  The material in the book is roughly 50 per cent generic and 50 per cent reasonablyspecific to OrbixOTM and Encina++. This approach is deliberate, attempting toprovide a balance between explaining general concepts and approaches and illustratingthese in a concrete fashion with real products and code. For this reason, evenif your projects don't specifically use the Iona or Transarc products (yes -there are many good alternatives!), there is still considerable value in atleast the first six chapters, as well as Chapter 9.  What do you need to know to get the most out of this book? Certainly an understandingof the basic components in a distributed object system that uses CORBA or somesimilar technology should be considered a prerequisite. The code examples arewritten in C++, so a working knowledge of C++ will be useful. Also, when readingthrough the examples in Chapters 7 and 8, some understanding of basic RPC and/orCORBA technology is assumed. The examples do provide some explanation of thesalient features that arise in the application code, but those new to this areashould have a relevant reference book at hand.   The example code in Chapters 7 and 8 can be downloaded from the WWW site (awl/cseng).The code is based upon OrbixOTM 1.0c, and the Encina++ version in TxSeries 4.2.These products are therefore needed to build and run the applications, alongwith SQL Server 6.5. The code is built using Microsoft's Visual Studio version5.0.   Of course, all faults and errors are indisputably my own.     0201398591P04062001	Preface  The recent merging of distributed object technology and transaction processing monitors has created a new class of technology known as Object Transaction Monitors (OTMs). OTMs typically contain a comprehensive set of features that make it possible to build enterprise-scale, high performance transaction processing systems.    As more systems based on OTMs are built, there's a need for software professionals new to the area to acquire an understanding of the concepts and features of the available OTM technologies. They also need to appreciate the important issues that drive a project's architecture, detailed design and programming. This book attempts to fill this niche, to educate people in the complexities of OTM technologies. The approach taken is necessarily a practical one. It attempts to distill several years of the author's consulting experience gained working with OTM technologies, and present the information in a way that is broadly useful and easily digestible for people who build OTM-based applications.     The aims of this book are to:  1. Explain the key underlying concepts and techniques of enterprise transaction processing technology (Chapters 1 and 2).   2. Discuss alternative architectural approaches for building object-  oriented transaction processing systems (Chapter 3).   3. Describe the major features of the CORBA Object Transaction Service (OTS) and two products, OrbixOTM and Encina++, that support this service (Chapters 4 and 5).   4. Illustrate how to implement an example transaction processing system in C++ using OrbixOTM and Encina++ (Chapters 6, 7 and 8).   5. Discuss the performance characteristics of the examples, and introduce some techniques for improving performance.     Just as importantly, this book is not:  1. An introduction to CORBA/DCE and how to program these technologies. There are already many good books on these topics, several of which are referenced in the appropriate chapters.  2. A detailed description and evaluation of the techniques and algorithms employed in the internals of distributed transaction processing systems. Read Jim Gray's or Phil Bernstein's books for excellent coverage of these areas.    The intended audience for this book includes:  1. Project managers and system architects who need to understand the concepts of distributed transaction processing systems and the features supported by state-of-the-art products.  2. Professional software engineers who need to understand, evaluate and write programs using object-oriented transaction processing software.  3. Graduate-level and advanced undergraduate level students who study transaction processing systems and software.    The material in the book is roughly 50 per cent generic and 50 per cent reasonably specific to OrbixOTM and Encina++. This approach is deliberate, attempting to provide a balance between explaining general concepts and approaches and illustrating these in a concrete fashion with real products and code. For this reason, even if your projects don't specifically use the Iona or Transarc products (yes - there are many good alternatives!), there is still considerable value in at least the first six chapters, as well as Chapter 9.    What do you need to know to get the most out of this book? Certainly an understanding of the basic components in a distributed object system that uses CORBA or some similar technology should be considered a prerequisite. The code examples are written in C++, so a working knowledge of C++ will be useful. Also, when reading through the examples in Chapters 7 and 8, some understanding of basic RPC and/or CORBA technology is assumed. The examples do provide some explanation of the salient features that arise in the application code, but those new to this area should have a relevant reference book at hand.     The code is based upon OrbixOTM 1.0c, and the Encina++ version in TxSeries 4.2. These products are therefore needed to build and run the applications, along with SQL Server 6.5. The code is built using Microsoft's Visual Studio version 5.0.     Of course, all faults and errors are indisputably my own.",books;computer science;computers & technology;corba;networking;networks;new;object-oriented design;object-oriented software design;programming;protocols & apis;software design;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,14
0764559567,"CD and DVD Recording for Dummies, Second Edition Choose and use the perfect CD or DVD recorderSafeguard data and photos, put that classic music on CD, or record your favorite moviesCDs and DVDs do more than entertain; theyre also the perfect data storage system! This fully updated guide helps you record favorite tunes as well as preserve family photos with the greatest of ease. Get the scoop on the latest devices, tips on mixed media recording, advice on turning your videotapes into DVDs, and much more.The Dummies WayExplanations in plain EnglishGet in, get out informationIcons and other navigational aidsTear-out cheat sheetTop ten listsA dash of humor and funDiscover how to:Choose the equipment you needUse Easy CD  DVD CreatorArchive data files on CDsOrganize and convert filesCare for CDs and DVDsRecord a bootable CD-ROM	Mark L. Chambers has been a computer consultant, programmer, hardware technician, tech editor, and author for over 20 years. He has written more than 15 computer books.",acoustics & sound;books;computers & technology;education & reference;electrical & electronics;engineering;hardware;pcs;peripherals;physics;professional & technical;science & math;software;telecommunications,14
1556435169,"Yin-Yang in Tai-Chi Chuan and Daily Life ""Now the general public can enjoy the spirit of Simu Kuos teaching, namely her vision of our moral responsibility for each other.""-Jonas Hamilton, from the Preface""These studies provide an opportunity for extensive self-reflection and self-realization through coming closer to what is natural for the body and the mind.""-Shannon Cook, contributor	Simmone Kuo has taught Chinese internal martial arts in San Francisco for the last two decades. She is familiar to Bay Area citizens and children from her many television and school appearances. She continues to lead classes at the academy, which bears her family name and is a member of the Physical Education Department at San Francisco State University.",books;eastern;education & reference;education theory;exercise & fitness;fitness & dieting;health;individual sports;martial arts;philosophy;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;sports & outdoors;tai chi & qi gong,14
0764109391,"Gerbils (Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals) Text: English (translation) Original Language: German	(back cover)    Information and advice to help you  take good care of your Gerbils     Typical Gerbils:  origins, life cycle, physical traits, behavior, and more   Expert advice:  feeding, health care, housing, training, and more   Understanding your Gerbils:  body language and its meanings      Step-by-step directions for everyday care    Informative and attractive sidebars   Filled with handsome full-color photos    (picture caption)  These furry little creatures are sociable animals that make fascinating pets for adults and responsible children.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",asia;biological sciences;books;crafts;education & reference;hamsters & guinea pigs;history;hobbies & home;mice;mongolia;pets & animal care;rabbits;science & math;zoology,14
1571312552,"The Prairie in Her Eyes: The Breaking and Making of a Dakota Rancher Through a series of engaging vignettes, poetic descriptions and insightful character studies, Daum's memoir evokes the harsh beauty of life in the modern American West. Raised on her father's 13,000-acre cattle ranch in central South Dakota's White River Valley, Daum now breeds sport horses on the scant remains of her family's land. She fondly recalls her girlhood days spent riding across the vast property, marveling at the creatures who inhabited it. Daum never romanticizes her youth, however, delving into stories of sexual abuse, violence and casual cruelty, particularly toward wild animals. She remembers, as a small child, covertly freeing her father's pet coyote. A description of her summer job at a chicken research facility, where she discovered the limits of her capacity for violence, is particularly disturbing. Daum is deeply troubled by rampant, careless killing of coyotes, badgers, foxes and rattlesnakes. ""My father's ranch is now a testament to the fact that cattlemen and coyotes can live in peace,"" she notes proudly. She deftly summarizes the differences between cattlemen and farmers, capturing the difficulties of a life ruled by the vagaries of soil and weather. Fascinated with unspoken subtexts, Daum relies on both actual accounts and symbolic references to explore what underlies experience. ""I grew up looking down,"" she writes, collecting ""glass bottles, left unbroken from the homestead days... until my talent for finding them became funny or meant something, or both."" In this eloquent, occasionally disjointed first book, she reveals the character of the West and the changes it is undergoing. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	This collection of essays examines the life of a female rancher  in the windy White River valley near Oakton, SD. Daum, who has  taken over management of the remaining family land, subtly  parallels her trials as a rancher with her father's fight to  recover from complications from heart surgery. She chronicles  the unfortunate national trend toward the demise of traditional  ranching owing to financial strain, along with the struggles of  her father, who now does not always recognize her. Readers come  to know Daum as the daughter who left the ranch to attend  college but then returned to her family home to stay. She  explains her life on the ranch through her childhood experiences  and present-day responsibilities, always with a hopeful eye to  the April skies to watch for the return of the sandhill cranes.  Both Daum and her father are grounded in the beauty of the  natural world despite their personal struggles. For regional  public libraries. Joyce Sparrow, Juvenile Welfare Board Lib.,  Pinellas Park, FL   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Rancher and writer Daum offers a collection of essays that reflect the paradoxical uniformity and diversity of the physical, social, and psychological prairie landscape. In a series of intimate reflections and reminiscences that reach back into her childhood and move forward to the present day, she paints a richly textured portrait of life in South Dakota's starkly beautiful White River Valley. Each individual vignette captures a unique time, place, and circumstance; collectively, these memories and experiences represent the distinctive rhythms of rural life. This hauntingly beautiful memoir evokes contemporary life on the western plains. Margaret FlanaganCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""This book is a wonderful reference, beautifully illustrated."" -- Minneapolis Star Tribune",animals;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;biological sciences;books;fauna;memoirs;midwest;nature & ecology;regional u.s.;science & math;specific groups;women,14
0582494826,"The Great Elector: Frederick William of Brandenburg - Prussia (Profiles in Power Series) ""lucid and succinct...a measured and judicious evaluation of the Great Elector and his place in German and European history"" English Historical Review	In 1640 Frederick William, the 'Great Elector' of Brandenburg, inherited a minor territory devastated by the Thirty Years War. He would restore its fortunes, win its independence and build a powerful, extended state, centred on Berlin, which by the 1670s was strong enough to be chief mover in the league of protestant and imperial forces against Louis XIV. At his death (1688), Brandenburg and his other possessions - shortly to be reinvented as the kingdom of Prussia - was virtually an absolute monarchy, second only to Austria in the German lands. This long-awaited biography, the first in English for fifty years, avoids the limitation of seeing Frederick William primarily as precursor of the 'enlightened' Frederick the Great. Instead, it roots him firmly in his own time - a dynastic, protestant ruler like many another in Germany, but gifted with the toughness and opportunism to overcome the hostility of his local nobilities and of the surrounding great powers. A new biography of one of the greatest figures of European history.Derek McKay was formerly Senior Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics.	Derek McKay is formerly of the London School of Economics.",17th century;biographies & memoirs;books;central;europe;germany;historical;history;humanities;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;used & rental textbooks;world,14
0443072191,"Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Practitioner's Guide to Treatment, 2e Leon Chaitow ND DO is an internationally known and respected osteopathic and naturopathic practitioner and teacher of soft tissue manipulation methods of treatment. He is author of over 60 books, including a series on Advanced Soft Tissue Manipulation (Muscle Energy Techniques, Positional Release Techniques, Modern Neuromuscular Techniques) and also Palpation Skills; Cranial Manipulation: Theory and Practice; Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Practitioner's Guide to Treatment, and many more. He is editor of the peer reviewed Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, that offers a multidisciplinary perspective on physical methods of patient care. Leon Chaitow was for many years senior lecturer on the Therapeutic Bodywork degree courses which he helped to design at the School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster, London, where is he now an Honorary Fellow. He continues to teach and practice part-time in London, when not in Corfu, Greece where he focuses on his writing.",allied health professions;alternative medicine;books;chronic fatigue syndrome & fibromyalgia;diseases;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;occupational therapy;pathology;rheumatology,14
0761804188,"To Rebel is Justified ...contains many insights into the Cultural Revolution's remarkable political culture.>>>> (Ringo Ma The China Quarterly )Dr. Shaorong Huang's expertise in rhetorical criticism and first-hand experience in the Cultural Revolution have made this book very insightful and meaningful.>>>> (Ringo Ma )Dr. Shaorong Huang's expertise in rhetorical criticism and first-hand experience in the Cultural Revolution have made this book very insightful and meaningful. (Ringo Ma )...contains many insights into the Cultural Revolution's remarkable political culture. (Ringo Ma The China Quarterly )	Shaorong Huang is Instructor and Program Chair of the English/Communication, General Education Division at Ivy State College in Muncie, Indiana.",asia;books;china;communication & journalism;communication & media studies;history;humanities;media studies;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
1574324616,"Antler Bone & Shell Artifacts This is a great book it! I pick up bone while I am out looking for Arrowheads & wasn't sure if some of the things I find are artifacts but this helped. Some of the bones I have found that I thought are broken are really made to be used as a tool. -Spacecat	Lar Hothem was a well-known expert in the field of Indian arrowheads and artifacts. His popular series, Indian Artifacts of the Midwest series has now added its 5th volume. His other titles include Indian Axes & Related Stone Artifacts, Indian Pipes, Arrowheads & Projectile Points, and Indian Trade Relics. Lar passed away in 2006.",americas;antiques & collectibles;antiques care & reference;books;crafts;education & reference;history;hobbies & home;native american;native american studies;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences;specific demographics,14
0073133760,"A Topical Approach to Life-Span Development John W. Santrock received his Ph.D. from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota.  He taught at the University of Charleston and the University of Georgia before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas.  He has worked as a school psychologist and currently teaches developmental psychology and educational psychology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and introductory psychology at the undergraduate level.  Dr. Santrock's research on father custody is widely cited and used in expert witness testimony to promote flexibility and alternative considerations in custody disputes.  His research has included publication in the Journal of Educational Psychology that focus on the contextual aspects of affectively-toned cognition and children's self-regulatory behavior as well as teachers' perceptions of children from divorced families.  He recently was a member of the editorial board of Developmental Psychology and his publications include these exceptional McGraw-Hill texts: CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Eighth Edition; LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT, Seventh Edition; CHILDREN, Sixth Edition; PSYCHOLOGY, Sixth Edition; and EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY.",aging;books;child psychology;developmental psychology;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;new;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,14
0415019257,"Atlas of the World's Languages (Routledge Reference) "". . . provides an unprecedented account of the linguistic composition of the world . . ."" -- Nature - March 24, 1994""...a unique visual representation of the languages of the world...[contains] authoritative explanatory text incorporating up-to-date statistical information."" -- Paul Holder, University Library of Manchester""An invaluable reference work for libraries and also for scholars of language and languages.""  -- Arnold M. Zwicky, Ohio State University and Former President, Linguistic Society of America""I am impressed by the calibre of the contributors, the detail and quality of the maps and the amount of supporting information...a valuable and original initiative."" -- Nigel Vincent, University of Manchester	Chris Moseley is Language Monitor, BBC World Service, U. K. R. E. Asher is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh.",books;earth sciences;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;geography;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;new;reference;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks;words,14
088344996X,"Mary: Shadow of Grace Well known for her workshops and retreats, Megan McKenna received her doctorate from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. She has taught in Chicago, San Francisco, Dublin, and Albuquerque.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;history;meditations;religion & spirituality;religious;saints;spirituality;theology;world;worship & devotion,14
0312224230,"A Route To Modernism: Hardy, Lawrence, Woolf ...provides many insightful close readings which indeed lure us back to the original works themselves... ELT	Rosemary Sumner is now retired. She was Senior Lecturer in English at Goldsmith College, London University.",20th century;books;criticism & theory;english literature;history;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);modernism;movements & periods;new;used & rental textbooks,14
0631230513,"Mesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice (Wiley-Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology) ""This is not the same old culture history but a respectable compilation of recent fieldwork and analysis within a framework of innovative problem-oriented research. Joyce's introductory chapter is a synthetic tour de force."" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute""With specially commissioned essays by leading scholars, this is an excellent up-to-date introduction to Mesoamerican archaeology."" Oxbow Books""In this volume archaeologists have, at last, a textbook on Mesoamerica that combines recent data with current social thought. The chapters are beautifully written and provocative, giving deeper insight into Mesoamerican cultural diversity without simplifying 5000 years into a single story. Hendon and Joyce have chosen contributors who are not just specialists, but who are some of the most exciting thinkers of our generation."" K. Anne Pyburn, Indiana University !--end--""Mesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice is an outstanding book. It is exactly what weve needed in the field for a very long time and should be used by everyone teaching a course in Mesoamerican archaeology. Hendon and Joyce have done an outstanding job of integrating fresh essays by leading scholars into a text that is both theoretically informed and empirically up to date. The combination of theory and data make it an indispensable work."" Michael Love, California State University, Northridge	Mesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice provides a nuanced introduction to the archaeology of Mesoamerica. Offering an alternative to traditional textbooks, this volume places the reader in the middle of contemporary debates among top archaeologists actively exploring the major prehispanic societies of Mexico and Central America. Rather than attempt a single synthesis of current archaeology from the region, the text focuses on key time periods, sites, and the issues these times and places require us to confront. Mesoamerican Archaeology examines key moments in the Mesoamerican historical tradition, from the earliest villages where Olmec art flourished, to the Aztec and Maya City-states that Spanish invaders described in the sixteenth century. Taken together, these writings engage the chronological benchmarks of Pre-Columbian social development in Mesoamerica, such as the transition to village life, emergence of political stratification, and formation of Mesoamerican urban centers. The book is further enriched by an extensive editorial introduction, which situates contemporary Mesoamerican archaeology in the broader terms of the social politics of archaeology. For further resources to use with this book - including study questions, maps and photographs - visit the website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/BSGA/mesoam	Mesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice provides a nuanced introduction to the archaeology of Mesoamerica. Offering an alternative to traditional textbooks, this volume places the reader in the middle of contemporary debates among top archaeologists actively exploring the major prehispanic societies of Mexico and Central America. Rather than attempt a single synthesis of current archaeology from the region, the text focuses on key time periods, sites, and the issues these times and places require us to confront. Mesoamerican Archaeology examines key moments in the Mesoamerican historical tradition, from the earliest villages where Olmec art flourished, to the Aztec and Maya City-states that Spanish invaders described in the sixteenth century. Taken together, these writings engage the chronological benchmarks of Pre-Columbian social development in Mesoamerica, such as the transition to village life, emergence of political stratification, and formation of Mesoamerican urban centers. The book is further enriched by an extensive editorial introduction, which situates contemporary Mesoamerican archaeology in the broader terms of the social politics of archaeology. For further resources to use with this book - including study questions, maps and photographs - visit the website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/BSGA/mesoam	Julia A. Hendon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Gettysburg College. She is a Maya archaeologist with field experience since 1980 in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras, and is the former editor of Anthropological Literature: An Index to Periodical Articles and Essays (19881996).Rosemary A. Joyce is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been engaged in archaeological fieldwork in Honduras since 1977. Her most recent publications include: Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica (2001), The Languages of Archaeology (2002), and Embodied Lives: Egypt and the Ancient Maya (editor, with Lynn Meskell, 2003).",americas;ancient;anthropology;archaeology;books;central america;history;humanities;latin america;mayan;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
030904832X,"Veterans at Risk: The Health Effects of Mustard Gas and Lewisite Recently, World War II veterans have come forward to claim compensation for health effects they say were caused by their participation in chemical warfare experiments.In response, the Veterans Administration asked the Institute of Medicine to study the issue. Based on a literature review and personal testimony from more than 250 affected veterans, this new volume discusses in detail the development and chemistry of mustard agents and Lewisite followed by interesting and informative discussions about these substances and their possible connection to a range of health problems, from cancer to reproductive disorders.The volume also offers an often chilling historical examination of the use of volunteers in chemical warfare experiments by the U.S. military--what the then-young soldiers were told prior to the experiments, how they were ""encouraged"" to remain in the program, and how they were treated afterward.This comprehensive and controversial book will be of importance to policymakers and legislators, military and civilian planners, officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs, military historians, and researchers.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Constance M. Pechura and David P. Rall, Editors; Committee on the Survey ofthe Health Effects of Mustard Gas and Lewisite, Institute of Medicine	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",administration & medicine economics;administration & policy;basic sciences;books;general;health risk assessment;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;pharmacology;public health;toxicology;used & rental textbooks,14
0782142419,"MCSA/MCSE Windows XP Professional Study Guide, Second Edition (70-270) Heres the book you need to prepare for Exam 70-270, Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional. This Study Guide provides:In-depth coverage of every exam objectivePractical information on installing, configuring, and administering Windows XP ProfessionalHundreds of challenging review questions, in the book and on the CDLeading-edge exam preparation software, including a testing engine, electronic flashcards, and simulation softwareAuthoritative coverage of all exam objectives, including: Installing Windows XP ProfessionalImplementing and conducting administration of resourcesImplementing, managing, and troubleshooting hardware devices and driversMonitoring and optimizing system performance and reliabilityConfiguring and troubleshooting the desktop environmentImplementing, managing, and troubleshooting network protocols and servicesImplementing, monitoring, and troubleshooting security	James Chellis, MCT, MCSE, is CEO of Cereba, a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider specializing in training and courseware development.Lisa Donald, MCT, MCSE, has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies, including DEC and Apple.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;microsoft;new;operating systems;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks;windows os;windows xp,14
0764596462,"CliffsTestPrep Foreign Service Officer Exam: Preparation for the Written Exam and the Oral Assessment Your guide to passing the Foreign Service Officer Exam Why CliffsTestPrep Guides?Go with the name you know and trustGet the information you needfast!Written by test prep specialistsIntroduction Review of how the exam is organized, along with answers to frequently asked questionsPart I: Written Exam: The Job Knowledge Test Descriptions of the five general career track knowledge areasmanagement, consular, economic, political, and public diplomacy Question-and-answer subject review chapters for the eight job topic areas, along with mini-tests after each subject review  A sample Job Knowledge test with complete answers and explanationsPart II: Written Exam: The English Expression Test Grammar and usage review Two sample English Expression tests with complete answers and explanationsPart III: Written Exam: The Biographic Information Questionnaire General information on this section of the exam, plus helpful sample questionsPart IV: Written Exam: Written Essay Overview of the Written Essay portion of the exam, plus sample essay topics for practice Direction on how to effectively prewrite, outline, organize, edit, and revise your essay Part V: Oral Assessment Overview of the Oral Assessment portion of the exam and the categories in which you'll be assessedTest Prep Essentials from the Experts at CliffsNotesAn American BookWorks Corporation ProjectContributors: Deborah Barrett, PhD; Elaine Bender, MA; Phillip Gay, PhD; Freddy Lee, PhD; Val Limburg, PhD; Tandy McConnell, PhD; Edward Miller, PhD; Deborah Grayson Riegel, MA; Sharon Saronson, MFA, MA; Brice Sloan, BA; Jonathan Weber, BA; Mark Weinfeld, MA	Since 1976, American BookWorks Corporation has been producing and publishing a wide variety of educational books for many of the major publishing houses. The company specializes in Test Preparation books, as well as K-12 Review Books and Study Guides. In its role as a book producer, it functions as a co-publisher, providing publishers with strong editorial, marketing, and technological expertise, based on more than 30 years of experience.    Since 1976 AMERICAN BOOKWORKS CORPORATION has been producing and publishing a wide variety of educational books in conjunction with many of the major publishing houses. The company specializes in test preparation books, as well as K-12 review books and study guides. In its role as a book producer, it functions as a ""co-publisher,"" providing publishers with strong editorial, marketing, and technological expertise, based on almost 40 years of experience.",books;careers;civil service;education & reference;graduate & professional;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;professional;schools & teaching;test prep & study guides;test preparation;used & rental textbooks,14
0789304937,"Blue Note The Jazz Photography of Francis Wolff Michael Cuscuna was an FM disc jockey and music journalist before turning his attention to producing new recordings and reissues. He has produced Dexter Gordon, Woody Shaw, Bonnie Raitt, and McCoy Tyner, among others. He is also a consultant, producer, and reissue director for Blue Note Records, which was reactivated in 1984. He has served as consultant on the film Round Midnight, Ken Burns' JAZZ, and Columbia's Miles Davis reissue series.Charlie Lourie was a professional woodwind player and saxophonist in the greater Boston area before moving into the music industry. He was a marketing executive at Columbia Records, a director of marketing for Blue Note Records and a director of jazz and progressive music at Warner Bros. Records. In 1982 Lourie and Michael Cuscuna founded Mosaic Records, a direct-mail label dedicated to reissuing classic jazz recordings in definitive, limited-edition boxed sets.Oscar Schnider is a founding partner of the multidisciplinary design firm Schnider & Yoshina, Ltd., located in New York City. While his firm specializes in global marketing programs, he remains passionately involved in creative projects promoting jazz, including designing the Mosaic Records brochures and promoting the annual Panasonic Village Jazz Festival in New York City.",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;composition & performance;history;individual artists;jazz;music;musical genres;photography;portraits;theory,14
8120805305,"Life and Teaching of Sri Anandamayi Ma Dr. Alexander Lipski introduces the reader to the life and teaching of Sri Anandamayi Ma in a very brief and emphatic manner. He is Professor of History and Religious Studies, California State University Long Beach and director of religious studies for the same University.",biographies & memoirs;books;gender & sexuality;hinduism;leaders & notable people;memoirs;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;specific groups;theology;women;women's studies,14
0198691564,"A Dictionary of English Place Names Authoritative and up-to-date dictionary with wide coverage of place-names. Includes counties, region, and rivers, tracing their development from early times to the present day. Updated 2003 version with corrections	      --This text refers to the 							Kindle Edition	 edition.	About the Author: A.D. Mills, retired Reader in English Language and Literature at Queen Mary College, London, is an acknowledged expert on place and personal names.",atlases & maps;books;dictionaries & thesauruses;earth sciences;education & reference;england;english;europe;general;geography;great britain;history;science & math;travel,14
0138300682,"Spectrum Level 3: A Communicative Course in English 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;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;language & grammar;new;reference;used & rental textbooks;words,14
B000PLXC5O,"Revealing the Corporation: Perspectives on Identity, Image, Reputation, Corporate Branding, and Corporate-level Marketing 'I commend this book as essential reading for all companies seeking to develop a more effective strategic identity in the marketplace.' - Philip Kotler, S.C. Johnson  Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA",books;business & investing;business life;entrepreneurship;industries & professions;information management;kindle ebooks;kindle store;marketing & sales;mis;organizational behavior;public relations;small business & entrepreneurship;workplace,14
0765353954,"The Woman in White Starred Review. Josephine Bailey and Simon Prebble turn in stellar performances of Collins's classic, commonly regarded as the world's first mystery novel. Late one night, on the way to his new post, art teacher Walter Hartright encounters a ghostly woman dressed all in white, tending to a grave. The next day, he meets his new pupils, Laura Fairlie and her half-sister, Marian, and discovers that the sisters have mysterious ties to the woman in white. For a story told by a sequence of first-person narrators, Bailey and Prebble provide well-paced, alternating readings: Prebble's Hartright is steady, even-keeled, and sensitive; his Marian is bright and clear and blunt. Bailey's Laura is equally well rendered: kind and young, sad and sweet. The voices both narrators provide the host of other charactersincluding the hot-tempered Sir Percival Glyde and the devious Count Foscoare attended with equal imagination and skill. A must-listen for mystery lovers. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC.  All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.	Collins was a master craftsman.--Dorothy L.Sayers	""There in the middle of the broad, bright high-road-there, as if  it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the  heaven-stood the figure of a solitary woman, dressed from head to foot  in white garments.""  Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the  mysterious woman in white in what soon became one of the most popular  novels of the nineteenth century.  Secrets, mistaken identities,  surprise revelations, amnesia, locked rooms and locked asylums, and an  unorthodox villain made this mystery thriller an instant success when  it first appeared in 1860, and it has continued to enthrall readers  ever since.  From the hero's foreboding before his arrival at  Limmeridge House to the nefarious plot concerning the beautiful Laura,  the breathtaking tension of Collin's narrative created a new literary  genre of suspense fiction, which profoundly shaped the course of  English popular writing. Collins other great mystery, The  Moonstone, has been called the finest detective story ever written,  but it was this work that so gripped the imagination of the world that  Wilkie Collins had his own tombstone inscribed:  ""Author of The  Woman In White. . . ""	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Mass Market Paperback	 edition.	Introduction by Nicholas Rance	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	As the inscription on his tombstone reveals, Wilkie Collins wanted to be remembered as the ""author of The Woman in White,"" for it was this novel that secured his reputation during his lifetime. The novel begins with a drawing teacher's eerie late-night encounter with a mysterious woman in white, and then follows his love for Laura Fairlie, a young woman who is falsely incarcerated in an asylum by her husband, Sir Percival Glyde, and his sinister accomplice, Count Fosco.  This edition returns to the original text that galvanized England when it was published in serial form in All the Year Round magazine in 1860. Three different prefaces Collins wrote for the novel, as well as two of his essays on the book's composition, are reprinted, along with nine illustrations. The appendices include contemporary reviews, along with essays on lunacy, asylums, mesmerism, and the rights of women.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Wilkie Collins was born in 1824.  A close friend and contemporary of Charles Dickens, Collins became one of the best known of Victorian fiction writers.  He wrote 25 novels, 50 short stories, 15 plays, and over 100 non-fiction pieces.  His work showed the beginnings of detective fiction and horror writing.  He died on September 23, 1889.	The Woman in WhiteTHE FIRST EPOCHThe Story begun by WALTER HARTRIGHT, of Clement's Inn, Teacher of DrawingITHIS IS THE story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate assistance only from the lubricating influences of oil of gold, the events which fill these pages might have claimed their share of the public attention in a Court of Justice.But the Law is still, in certain inevitable cases, the pre-engaged servant of the long purse; and the story is left to be told, for the first time, in this place. As the Judge might once have heard it, so the Reader shall hear it now. No circumstance of importance, from the beginning to the end of the disclosure, shall be related on hearsay evidence. When the writer of these introductory lines (Walter Hartright by name) happens to be more closely connected than others with the incidents to be recorded, he will describe them in his own person. When his experience fails he will retire from the position of narrator; and his task will be continued, from the point at which he has left it off, by other persons who can speak to the circumstances under notice from their own knowledge, just as clearly and positively as he has spoken before them.Thus, the story here presented will be told by more than one pen, as the story of an offence against the laws is told in Court by more than one witness--with the same object in both cases, to present the truth always in its most directand most intelligible aspect; and to trace the course of one complete series of events, by making the persons who have been most closely connected with them, at each successive stage, relate their own experience, word for word.Let Walter Hartright, teacher of drawing, aged twenty-eight years, be heard first.IIIT WAS THE last day of July. The long hot summer was drawing to aclose; and we, the weary pilgrims of the London pavement, were beginning to think of the cloud-shadows on the corn-fields and the autumn breezes on the sea-shore.For my own poor part, the fading summer left me out of health, out of spirits, and, if the truth must be told, out of money as well. During the past year I had not managed my professional resources as carefully as usual; and my extravagance now limited me to the prospect of spending the autumn economically between my mother's cottage at Hampstead and my own chambers in town.The evening, I remember, was still and cloudy; the London air was at its heaviest; the distant hum of the street-traffic was at its faintest; the small pulse of the life within me and the great heart of the city around me seemed to be sinking in unison, languidly and more languidly, with the sinking sun. I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs. It was one of the two evenings in every week which I was accustomed to spend with my mother and my sister. So I turned my steps northward, in the direction of Hampstead.Events which I have yet to relate make it necessary to mention in this place that my father had been dead some years at the period of which I am now writing; and that my sister Sarah and I were the sole survivors of a family offive children. My father was a drawing-master before me. His exertions had made him highly successful in his profession; and his affectionate anxiety to provide for the future of those who were dependent on his labours had impelled him, from the time of his marriage, to devote to the insuring of his life a much larger portion of his income than most men consider it necessary to set aside for that purpose. Thanks to his admirable prudence and self-denial, my mother and sister were left, after his death, as independent of the world as they had been during his lifetime. I succeeded to his connection, and had every reason to feel grateful for the prospect that awaited me at my starting in life.The quiet twilight was still trembling on the topmost ridges of the Heath; and the view of London below me had sunk into a black gulf in the shadow of the cloudy night when I stood before the gate of my mother's cottage. I had hardly rung the bell, before the house-door was opened violently; my worthy Italian friend, Professor Pesca, appeared in the servant's place, and darted out joyously to receive me, with a shrill foreign parody on an English cheer.On his own account, and, I must be allowed to add, on mine also, the Professor merits the honour of a formal introduction. Accident has made him the starting-point of the strange family story which it is the purpose of these pages to unfold.I had first become acquainted with my Italian friend by meeting him at certain great houses, where he taught his own language and I taught drawing. All I then knew of the history of his life was, that he had once held a situation in the University of Padua; that he had left Italy for political reasons (the nature of which he uniformly declined to mention to any one); and that he had been for many years respectably established in London as a teacher of languages.Without being actually a dwarf--for he was perfectly well-proportioned from head to foot--Pesca was, I think, the smallest human being I ever saw, out of a show-room.Remarkable anywhere by his personal appearance, he was still further distinguished among the rank and file of mankind by the harmless eccentricity of his character. The ruling idea of his life appeared to be, that he was bound to show his gratitude to the country which had afforded him an asylum and a means of subsistence by doing his utmost to turn himself into an Englishman. Not content with paying the nation in general the compliment of invariably carrying an umbrella, and invariably wearing gaiters and a white hat, the Professor further aspired to become an Englishman in his habits and amusements, as well as in his personal appearance. Finding us distinguished, as a nation, by our love of athletic exercises, the little man, in the innocence of his heart, devoted himself impromptu to all our English sports and pastimes whenever he had the opportunity of joining them; firmly persuaded that he could adopt our national amusements of the field by an effort of will, precisely as he had adopted our national gaiters and our national white hat.I had seen him risk his limbs blindly at a fox-hunt and in a cricket-field; and, soon afterwards, I saw him risk his life, just as blindly, in the sea at Brighton.We had met there accidentally, and were bathing together. If we had been engaged in any exercise peculiar to my own nation, I should, of course, have looked after Pesca carefully; but, as foreigners are generally quite as well able to take care of themselves in the water as Englishmen, it never occurred to me that the art of swimming might merely add one more to the list of manly exercises which the Professor believed that he could learn impromptu. Soon after we had both struck out from shore, I stopped, finding my friend did not gain on me, and turned round to look for him. To my horror and amazement, I saw nothing between me and the beach but two little white arms which struggled for an instant above the surface of the water, and then disappeared from view. When I dived for him, the poor little man was lying quietly coiled up at the bottom, in a hollow of shingle, looking by many degrees smaller than I had ever seen him look before. Duringthe few minutes that elapsed while I was taking him in, the air revived him, and he ascended the steps of the machine with my assistance. With the partial recovery of his animation came the return of his wonderful delusion on the subject of swimming. As soon as his chattering teeth would let him speak, he smiled vacantly, and said he thought it must have been the Cramp.When he had thoroughly recovered himself and had joined me on the beach, his warm Southern nature broke through all artificial English restraints in a moment. He overwhelmed me with the wildest expressions of affection--exclaimed passionately, in his exaggerated Italian way, that he would hold his life, henceforth, at my disposal, and declared that he should never be happy again, until he had found an opportunity of proving his gratitude by rendering me some service which I might remember, on my side, to the end of my days.I did my best to stop the torrent of his tears and protestations by persisting in treating the whole adventure as a good subject for a joke; and succeeded at last, as I imagined, in lessening Pesca's overwhelming sense of obligation to me. Little did I think then--little did I think afterwards, when our pleasant holiday had drawn to an end--that the opportunity of serving me for which my grateful companion so ardently longed was soon to come; that he was eagerly to seize it on the instant; and that, by so doing, he was to turn the whole current of my existence into a new channel, and to alter me to myself almost past recognition.Yet, so it was. If I had not dived for Professor Pesca, when he lay under water on his shingle bed, I should, in all human probability, never have been connected with the story which these pages will relate--I should never, perhaps, have heard even the name of the woman who has lived in all my thoughts, who has possessed herself of all my energies, who has become the one guiding influence that now directs the purpose of my life.IIIPESCA'S FACE AND manner, on the evening when we confronted each other at my mother's gate, were more than sufficient to inform me that something extraordinary had happened. It was quite useless, however, to ask him for an immediate explanation. I could only conjecture, while he was dragging me in by both hands, that (knowing my habits) he had come to the cottage to ma...	Wilkie Collins's gothic tale of redemptive love and treachery could not be better suited for a full-cast audio, with different characters picking up the story chronologically. Walter Hartright is employed to give drawing lessons to sisters Laura and Marian. He falls in love with Laura, but she's engaged to another. When Laura's new husband steals her fortune and identity, Walter and Marian mobilize to protect her. Glen McCready (Walter) and Rachel Bavidge (Marian) are standouts as the moral center of the story. Walter's steadfastness and loyalty are fully realized; Marian's sense of outrage at her sister's mistreatment and frustration with her inability to change it are clear. Their characterizations of Laura's arrogant husband, the smooth but untrustworthy Italian Count Fosco, and the nervous Mr. Fairlie are both amusing and exactly right.  A.B. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award  AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.",books;british;classics;genre fiction;gothic;historical;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;mystery;new;romance;thriller & suspense;used & rental textbooks,14
0521468345,"Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (Studies in Environment and History) ""...Worster skillfully integrates environmental and intellectual history in a way that gives powerful testimony to the way a historical understanding of the ecology of place can contribute to the history of ideas.""   Isis""Excellently written and highly absorbing...The in-depth treatment Worster has given to many who contributed to the evolution and revolution of the discipline reflects scholarship of high order. To write in a highly readable and absorbing style makes it even more praiseworthy. Graduates in ecology at baccalaureate to doctoral levels, and the many practitioners of the discipline, basic and applied, would do well to take stock of where they came from. Worster is a very worthwhile guide.""   Edward J. Kormondy, Ecology	Including portraits of Linnaeus, Gilbert White, Darwin and Thoreau as well as key twentieth-century ecologists, this wide-ranging investigation of the field of ecology's past shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of our place in nature.",americas;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;ecology;history;humanities;nature & ecology;new;science & math;science & mathematics;united states;used & rental textbooks,14
0415924111,"Women and Self Harm: Understanding, Coping and Healing from Self-Mutilation Giving voice to a silent anguish, this book should be read by all those incarcerated in the loneliness of self-harm. This book will appeal to those who self-harm, their friends and families, and their care providers. To each it speaks a unique message, but to each it also speaks of hope, providing a thorough understanding of what seems like a senseless behavior. The authors provide a framework for change, and practical recommendations to address this most difficult and confusing experience. For some, it will initiate the building blocks of empathy. For many, it will help them feel supported and not alone. But I hope for most it will serve as a guide, paving the return path for integration into our communities of those who feel the most isolated.Joseph A. Shrand, M.D., Director, Child and Adolescent Outpatient Clinic and Attending Psychiatrist, Acute Adolescent Residential Treatment Center	Gerrilyn Smith is a consultant and clinician in the field of child protection. Dee Cox is a former self-mutilator. Jacqui Saradjian is a clinical psychologist who regularly works with women who self-mutilate.",books;clinical;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;medicine;medicine & health sciences;mental health;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;self-help;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
0971757593,"9/12: New York After It stands to reason that Eliot Weinberger, an old Borges hand, should be so adept at teasing out the nightmarish, nearly phantasmagoric dimensions of our countrys post-9-11 situation--rich with ironies we might begin to enjoy, if we werent busy biting our nails to the quick.. . . . For Weinberger, the current administration is the country-s true sleeper cell, with Bush and bin Laden twinned not just by well-oiled family wealth but as men cut off from the world, one in a cave and one on a ranch in the middle of nowhere; one who reads no books and the other who presumably reads one book.. . . His acid Baedeker illustrates what Geoffrey OBrien noted . . . that close reading is mandatory in the fallen world."" (Ed Park Village Voice Literary Supplement )Weinberger focuses on how the White House Team has both presented and used the events of 11 September to re-shape American policy and foist it on the American people. The President is not solely to blame; as he sees it, George Bush has exactly the same relationship to the policies of his government as Britney Spears does to the operation of the Pepsi Corporation, and Weinberger usefully reminds readers of the backgrounds and histories of various actually dominant figures in the generally shadowy background. . . . 9/12 is a polemic, and there will be those who disagree with how Weinberger sees things; the U.S as Banana Republic isnt an idea a large part of the population will likely even want to consider (though Weinberger makes a nice case for it). (The Complete Review )",21st century;americas;books;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,14
0811821463,"Art. Rage. Us.: Art and Writing by Women with Breast Cancer This stunning and stirring volume is the outgrowth of an exhibit at the San Francisco Main Library Gallery sponsored by the Breast Cancer Fund, the American Cancer Society (San Francisco Bay Area), and the San Francisco chapter of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. The artwork and writings were culled from breast cancer survivors, ""women who, inspired to create in the face of pain and adversity, present the art and outrage of breast cancer."" The volume includes abstract works, collages, photographs, sculpture, and mixed media pieces along with poetry, journal entries, and essays that illustrate the strength, fear, passion, anger, and renewal that comes with the breast cancer experience. These women have faced death and now embrace life. ""What are your breasts filled with now, Mommy?"" asked Heather Ann Gilchrist's eight-year-old daughter. ""Saline, like salt water."" ""Oh, you mean like tears."" ""Yes, darling, my breasts are filled with tears."" Such exceptional creativity cannot restore a lost breast; it will tug at your heart. Highly recommended for all fine arts and health collections.?Bette-Lee Fox, ""Library Journal""Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This stunning and stirring volume is the outgrowth of an exhibit at the San Francisco Main Library Gallery sponsored by the Breast Cancer Fund, the American Cancer Society (San Francisco Bay Area), and the San Francisco chapter of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. The artwork and writings were culled from breast cancer survivors, ""women who, inspired to create in the face of pain and adversity, present the art and outrage of breast cancer."" The volume includes abstract works, collages, photographs, sculpture, and mixed-media pieces along with poetry, journal entries, and essays that illustrate the strength, fear, passion, anger, and renewal that comes with the breast cancer experience. These women have faced death and now embrace life. ""What are your breasts filled with now, Mommy?"" asked Heather Ann Gilchrists' eight-year-old daughter. ""Saline, like salt water."" ""Oh, you mean like tears."" ""Yes, darling, my breasts are filled with tears."" Such exceptional creativity cannot restore a lost breast; it will tug at your heart. Highly recommended for all fine-art and health collections.The voices contained within Art.Rage.Us. are brave and powerful and beautiful. Most importantly these creative renderings through story and imagery set a collective healing in motion that transcends personal pain. Terry Tempest Williams	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Terry Tempest Williams has written such acclaimed books as Refuge, which discusses her family's confrontation with the disease. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.Jill Eikenberry is a Golden Globe Award-winning actress who successfully battled breast cancer in 1986. She coproduced and hosted Destined to Live, an NBC-TV documentary on breast cancer.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & photography;books;breast cancer;cancer;catalogs & exhibitions;collections;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;general;health;photography;politics & social sciences;women's health;women's studies,14
0072985356,"Mass Media Law, 2005/2006 Edition with PowerWeb and Free Student CD-ROM Don R. Pember has a doctorate in mass communication law from the University of Wisconsin and is a Professor of Communications at the University of Washington.  He is the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Society of Professional Journalists Public Service Award.",books;communication & journalism;communication & media studies;education & reference;journalism;journalism & nonfiction;law;media & the law;new;politics & social sciences;research & publishing guides;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;writing,14
0820314390,"AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta ""As any traveler knows, a good guidebook is a passport to discovery. Even if you've lived here for years, the new AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta will probably turn a stroll into a historical, cultural, and aesthetic expedition. . . . The book's pocket size makes it handy for those who plan to take the walking tours laid out within, but the quantity and size of the photos render it a perfect complement to armchair tours as well.""--Atlanta Journal-Constitution	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Isabelle Gournay was educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Ecole du Louvre in Paris and at Yale University, from which she received a Ph.D. in art history. She lectures at several Atlanta-area colleges and has written extensively for architectural publications in the United States and Europe. Paul Beswick is a registered architect who heads a photography company, Beswick International, based in Atlanta. Dana White, the director of the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University, has published widely on the history of Atlanta and its built environment. Gerald Sams, a practicing architect in Atlanta, has held various leadership positions with the AIA components in Atlanta and Savannah.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",americas;architecture;atlanta;books;buildings;education & reference;georgia;history;professional & technical;reference;regional;state & local;travel;united states,14
0786403454,"Jump Cut!: Memoirs of a Pioneer Television Editor ""a good read...fascinating""  -- Motion Pictures Editors Guild Newsletter""readers get a broader insight into how television's finished product came into being""  -- Emmy""wonderful...a fascinating journey...the kind of book you would like to read in one sitting""  -- Cinemeditor",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;entertainers;film & television;history & criticism;humanities;humor & entertainment;new;performing arts;shows;television;used & rental textbooks,14
0774806257,"The Lillooet Language: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax (First Nations Languages) The first complete descriptive grammar of an endangered indigenous Canadian language, The Lillooet Language could be used both as a textbook for studies in the structure of Salish languages in British Columbia.	Jan van Eijk is a professor in the Department of Indian Languages, Literature, and Linguisticsat the First Nations University of Canada.",arts & photography;books;criticism;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;grammar;history & criticism;humanities;language & grammar;new;used & rental textbooks;words,14
0760313059,"The Tractor Trilogy Read Roger Welsch essays in Successful Farming magazine     See Roger Welsch guest appearances on CBSs Sunday Morning     Great value     Best-Selling tractor humor books now available  in one heavy-duty hardcover volume     More than 120,000 Roger Welsch books sold	One time when my wife Linda was helping me sell books, a woman picked up a copy of Love, Sex, and Tractors and asked meaningfully, ""Sex? Tractor  repair?"" and Linda, without hesitation, explained: ""The way Rog does them, theyre pretty much the same thing."" That was a real compliment. I think.  Author and Humorist Roger Welsch",acoustics & sound;automotive;books;classic cars;engineering;essays;humor;humor & entertainment;physics;professional & technical;rural life;science & math;special topics;transportation,14
B00005VELQ,"Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank's diaries have always been among the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust.  This new edition restores diary entries omitted from the original edition, revealing a new depth to Anne's dreams, irritations, hardships, and passions.  Anne emerges as more real, more human, and more vital than ever.  If you've never read this remarkable autobiography, do so.  If you have read it, you owe it to yourself to read it again.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	This startling new edition of Dutch Jewish teenager Anne Frank's classic diary?written in an Amsterdam warehouse, where for two years she hid from the Nazis with her family and friends?contains approximately 30% more material than the original 1947 edition. It completely revises our understanding of one of the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. The Anne we meet here is much more sarcastic, rebellious and vulnerable than the sensitive diarist beloved by millions. She rages at her mother, Edith, smolders with jealous resentment toward her sister, Margot, and unleashes acid comments at her roommates. Expanded entries provide a fuller picture of the tensions and quarrels among the eight people in hiding. Anne, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, three months before her 16th birthday, candidly discusses her awakening sexuality in entries that were omitted from the 1947 edition by her father, Otto, the only one of the eight to survive the death camps. He died in 1980. This crisp, stunning translation provides an unvarnished picture of life in the ""secret annex."" In the end, Anne's teen angst pales beside her profound insights, her self-discovery and her unbroken faith in good triumphing over evil. Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	This new translation of Frank's famous diary includes material about her emerging sexuality and her relationship with her mother that was originally excised by Frank's father, the only family member to survive the Holocaust.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	The new edition reveals a new depth to Anne'sdreams, irritations, hardship, and passions . . .There may be no better way to commemorate the fiftiethanniversary of the end of World War II than toreread The Diary of a Young Girl,a testament to an indestructivle nobility ofspirit in the face of pureevil.--Chicago Tribune	      --This text refers to the 							Mass Market Paperback	 edition.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: Dutch	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	For almost fifty years, Anne Frank's diary has  moved millions with its testament to the human  spirit's indestructibility, but readers have never  seen the full text of this beloved book--until now.  This new translation, performed by Winona Ryder,  restores nearly one third of Anne's entries  excised by her father in previous editions, revealing  her burgeoning sexuality, her stormy relationship  with her mother, and more. 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, Anne Frank's story has become familiar to millions all over the world, and remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit.Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young GirlThe Definitive EditionIncluded in this Definitive Edition are diary entries previously omitted from the original, passages which reinforce the fact that Anne was first and foremost a teenage girl, not a remote and flawless symbol. She fretted over her emerging sexuality; often found herself in disagreement with the adults around her; and veered between the carefree nature of a child and the full-fledged sorrow of an adult living under extraordinary conditions and unbearable strain. Anne emerges more triumphantly and heart-breakingly human, more vulnerable, and more vital than ever.Anne Frank and her family hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse for two years in an effort to escape the horrors of Nazi occupation. Only thirteen when her family went into the Secret Annex, she reveals her daily life as the world around them succumbed to the worst horror the modern world had seen, facing hunger, the threat of discovery and death, estrangement from the outside world, and above all, the boredom, the petty misunderstandings, and the frustrations of living in such confined quarters.A timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer, and acclaimed actress Winona Ryder brings this unforgettable young woman to life in a stunning performance for listeners of all ages to cherish.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""The new edition reveals a new depth to Anne's  dreams, irritations, hardship, and passions . . .  There may be no better way to commemorate the fiftieth  anniversary of the end of World War II than to  reread The Diary of a Young Girl,  a testament to an indestructivle nobility of  spirit in the face of pure  evil.""--Chicago Tribune	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Anne Frank was born in 1929 in Germany. Her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933, and she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.Francine Prose is the author of the novels A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the guide Reading Like a Writer, and Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife.	      --This text refers to the 							Mass Market Paperback	 edition.	From the Introduction by Francine ProseEvery masterpiece is unique, but some are more anomalous than others. If we consider all the volumes that have appeared so far in the Everyman series, the cornerstones and classics of our cultural tradition, The Diary of Anne Frank is, we may notice, the only one to have been written by a girl between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. If it seems improbable that a person of that tender age should have produced a work not just of maturity but of genius, that improbability only increases the awe we feel, or ought to feel, in the presence of a book that possesses all the qualities we expect of great memoirs and spiritual autobiographies, and, to some extent, of great novels.Varied and memorable characters are revealed in all their complexity and depth, summoned to life on the page complete with all their most admirable virtues and most maddening flaws, their engagingly and appallingly human quirks and contradictions. We find ourselves in the presence of a singular consciousness, a highly particular and utterly persuasive narrative voice, elastic and capacious enough to encompass the most day-to-day details of domestic life (how to peel potatoes!), incisive portrayals of the ways in which people behave under enormous stress, flights of speculative metaphysics, and passages of sophisticated inquiry into the mystery of human nature. Comparing Anne Frank's diary to the Confessions of Saint Augustine, the poet John Berryman point out that the diary allows its readers to watch the growth of a soul, the simultaneously quotidian and miraculous transformation that accompanies what Berryman termed ""the conversion of a child into a person,"" a process that, in his view, had never been so brilliantly or even adequately described before Anne Frank tracked it in herself, and recorded it in her diary. ""It took, I believe,"" wrote Berryman, ""a special pressure forcing the child-adult conversion, and exceptional self-awareness and exceptional candour and exceptional powers of expression, to bring that strange or normal change into view.""The diary reminds us of what it is like to go through a stage of life  adolescence  that all readers past childhood have endured and still remember, or have tried to forget. It speaks to us about the universal experiences of first love, family entanglements, hope and despair, society and solitude, terror and even boredom, and at the same time it reports on an utterly specific and exceptionally ugly period in our history, an era that is receding from living memory with every second that passes. Like all great art, it reveals something about the individual hand that created it, and something about what it means to be a human being  in this case, what is require to maintain human decency and compassion in the most inhuman and dehumanizing circumstances. *The Diary of Anne Frank is among the most widely read and taught and (for a variety of reasons, most often its delicate but clear-eyed portrayal of adolescent sexuality) most frequently censored texts in the world; translated from the original Dutch into dozens of languages, it appears on the curriculum of schools everywhere. Viewing Laurent Cantet's 2008 French film, The Class (Entre les murs), set in a high school in the suburbs of Paris, we watch a group of teenagers, nearly all of the first-generation immigrants to France, studying and discussing the diary. In 2004, a segment of the CBS series 60 Minutes reported that North Korean schoolchildren were being instructed to see themselves as Anne Frank, and George W. Bush as the modern equivalent of Hitler.What most students learn is that Anne Frank began writing in the little book, with its checked cloth cover, soon after she received it as a gift from her parents on the occasion of her thirteenth birthday, in June 1942. Roughly a month after Anne commenced her giddy narrative of friends and boyfriends, childish allegiances and humorous experiences at school, her family went into hiding in a cramped attic (as it is often termed, though this common feature of Amsterdam canal-house construction more resembles what might be called a rear addition) above and behind the spice and pectin business her father Otto ran until the Nazi racial laws made it illegal for Otto, a Jew, to conduct any business at all.For the next twenty-five months, until August 1944, when the Frank family was arrested and deported, first to the Westerbork transit camp and afterwards to Auschwitz, the Franks  Otto, his wife Edith, their daughters Margot and Anne  shared the ""secret annex"" with the Van Pels family (Hermann, Auguste, and their son Peter) and a dentist named Fritz Pfeffer. As those months wore on, Anne's vivid account of their lives in hiding developed into a very different kind of book from anything that she, newly turned thirteen, could have imagined that she would be confiding in her journal.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Is there anyone who doesn't know the story of Anne Frank, writing in her diary, ""Kitty,"" while hiding in an attic during the Nazi Occupation of Holland? Winona Ryder is the perfect narrator for this work. Her voice sounds very young, matching the 14-year-old's enthusiasm and frustrations. The diary is filled with narrative, so there is little dialogue from the other people in the annex. Nevertheless, there are strained emotions and hurt feelings, which Ryder brings to life in an excellent performance.  M.B.K.  (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",( f );a-z;anne;biographies & memoirs;books;frank;historical;history;holocaust;jewish;people;specific groups;women;world,14
0393060985,"Love My Rifle More than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army Williams's account of her Iraq service tries very hard to be a fresh and  wised-up postfeminist take: Private Benjamin by way of G.I. Jane. Showy  rough language peppers every paragraph, and Williams's obsessive  self-concern, expressed in a lot of one-sentence paragraphs beginning with  ""I,"" verges on the narcissistic. The surprise is the degree to which the  account succeeds and even echoes military memoirists from Julius Caesar to  Ernie Pyle. The fear, bad weather, intermittent supplies, inedible meals  (especially for the vegetarian author) and crushing boredom of life in the  field are all here. Williams's particular strength is in putting an  observant, distaff spin on the bantering and brutality of barracks life,  where kids from the Survivor generation must come to terms with a grim and  confusing reality over which they have little control. The differences are  less in the sexual dynamics (which mostly are an extension of office  politics) than the contradictions of the conflict in which the troops are  engaged, which Williams embodies more than illuminates. She learns Arabic;  there's a Palestinian boyfriend and a short, failed marriage during her  state-side training. While an ex-punk, Chomsky-reading liberal, Williams  questions the day-to-day conduct of the war without ever really engaging  with its underlying rationale. Such nuance, though, might be too much to  ask.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Williamss war memoir is just one in a string that originated from recent U.S.-led forays into the Middle East, and its uniqueness comes from its female perspective. Critics agree that Love My Rifle is no deep piece of literature. Instead, its a shocking, on-the-ground view of one military womans experience in Iraq. Williams spares no details about the stress of combat, the questionable treatment of Iraqi prisoners, and her scathing opinion of the U.S. administration, though she never explains why she enlisted in the first place. As one of only 15 percent of women employed by the Army, Williams possibly overplays the sexual harassment she sufferedor so claim a few of the more suspect male reviewers. But the storys not over: Williams can be called back to duty any time.Copyright  2004 Phillips  Nelson Media, Inc.	Whip smart, sassy, with a mouth as foul as a sailor's, 28-year-old Sergeant Kayla Williams, who has served as an Arabic interpreter in the U.S. Army since late spring 2000, tells what it's like to be a female soldier in Iraq. The best description might be ""contradictory."" Williams shares the humiliation she feels before her male army brethren, while admitting she enjoys the perks of being female in the military. She's ferociously loyal to her country and her unit but blisteringly critical of military ineptitude by those above and around her. She conveys stretches of mind-numbing boredom punctuated by the horrific realities of war. And she's only too aware of the complicated requirements of occupation: ""We're here to help you!"" she writes. ""Oh, and shoot you--if we feel it's necessary."" There are gaps in the story--for example, Williams doesn't entirely explain why she enlisted--but that's only one reason why this highly readable account will leave readers wanting more. Stay tuned, as Williams is on call--Inactive Ready Reserve (IRR)--until 2008. Alan MooresCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	You won't find another voice like Ms. Williams on your bookshelf, so unblinkingly candid, so aggressively raw and real. -- Bob Shacochis, National Book Award winner, author of The Immaculate Invasion	Kayla Williams was formerly a sergeant in a military intelligence company of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). She lives near Washington, DC.",biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;history;iraq war;leaders & notable people;literature & fiction;memoirs;military;specific groups;united states;veterans;women,14
0299179702,"The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir ""A powerful, searing recollection of the past, telling George Salton's story with a fierce integrity that is both descriptive and introspective.""Michael Berenbaum, author of The World Must Know and former consultant to Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation Project	Outstanding University Press Book Citation, American Association of School Libraries	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""A powerful, searing recollection of the past, telling George Salton's story with a fierce integrity that is both descriptive and introspective. Unlike the psalmist, Salton walked through the valley in the presence-not the shadow-of death, and he feared evil. Rightfully so, for God was absent and there was no comfort. Yet, he lived to tell the tale and for this we must be forever grateful.""-Michael Berenbaum, author of The World Must Know and former consultant to Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation Project	George Lucius Salton emigrated to the United States after liberation. He earned degrees in physics and engineering and had a successful career in the U.S. Department of Defense and private industry. He lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.",biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;europe;historical;history;holocaust;jewish;leaders & notable people;military;poland;political;world;world war ii,14
0687017289,"What to Expect in Seminary: Theological Education as Spiritual Formation Virginia Samuel Cetuk is Associate Dean for Contextual Learning and Director of Supervised Ministry, The Theological School of Drew University and an Ordained Elder in The United Methodist Church, Northern New Jersey Conference.",books;christian books & bibles;college & university;congregations & orders;education;education & reference;instruction methods;ministry;ministry & church leadership;monasticism;religion & spirituality;religious studies;schools & teaching;theology,14
2080135457,"Living in Norway On first glance this appears to be a coffee-table book consisting of 250 lovely photographs of Norwegian interiors emphasizing folk motifs. The rugged physical environment of the country is downplayed, and hardly a Norwegian is to be seen. But the accompanying text is substantial and revealing. It explains how these interiors reflect the history and the unique character of the Norwegian people. The arrangement is seasonal, and there is a concise ""Visitor's Guide"" in the appendix. This thoughtful and well-made book is a good value despite its price. Certainly all art libraries should consider its purchase, as should larger academic and public libraries. Norway will be of increasing interest because it hosts the Winter Olympics in 1994.- Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., AshlandCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Slvi Dos Santos conceived this book and is also responsible for its splendid photography. Born in Oslo, she lived in most of Norway's different regions before moving to Paris. A photographer specializing in interior design, she has contributed to such prestigious magazines as Vogue Decoration, House & Garden, Architectural Digest, and Schoner Wohnen.In her remarkable photographs, taken especially for this book during different seasons over a two-year period, the country's extraordinary lights and colours, its transparent air and limpid waters, burst from the page. These photographs also highlight the decors and furnishings of daily life.Elisabeth Holte has been the diplomatic correspondant for the important Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten since 1970. She was the permanent correspondant for this newspaper for several years in New York and Paris, and has covered many stories in eastern and western Europe, Africa, the United States, and South America. She is currently a permanent correspondant for the Aftenposten in Stockholm, covering Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic countries. She has also contributed to prestigious interior design magazines such as Vogue Decoration and Architectural Digest.",architecture;arts & photography;books;buildings;europe;general;history;norway;photography;pictorial;professional & technical;reference;regional;travel,14
0192802518,"Evolution: A Very Short Introduction Brian Charlesworth is Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, and President of the Society for the Study Evolution.  His research is mainly in evolutionary genetics, applying classical and molecular genetics to the study of evolution and natural variation.  He is author of Evolution in Age-Structured Populations (CUP, 2nd edn. 1994) Deborah Charlesworth is Professor in the ICABP at Edinburgh.  Her research focuses on the evolution of plant breeding systems, including how they avoid inbreeding, and work on sex chromosomes and self-incompatibility.",biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;europe;evolution;france;history;humanities;new;organic;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,14
1870775635,Cubase VST - Tips & Tricks Ian Waugh is one of the UK's leading high tech computer and music writers with over 1000 articles and several books and albums to his name.,arts & photography;books;composition & performance;computers & technology;education & reference;etc.;midi;mixers;music;recording & sound;techniques;theory;web design;web development & design,14
0853459460,"Whose Millennium?: Theirs or Ours? To many people, the end of the Soviet Union marked the death of socialism and the victory of capitalism. Not to Singer, European correspondent for the Nation. Instead, he presents a revised version of socialism as an alternative to present conditions. Part 1 recounts the disasters of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, along with the problems these areas encountered on the road to liberal capitalism. Next, Singer uses the 1996 Russian presidential elections and the sad shift of Poland's Solidarity movement from liberation to reaction as examples of corrupt idealism. However, Singer sees light in the darkness. The 1995 worker strikes in France stand as a spark of resistance to unchecked capitalism. This leads to Part 3, which presents an embryonic vision of a worldwide Socialist and democratic society as a ""realistic utopia."" However, the questionable Socialist examples of China, North Korea, and Cuba are not discussed in this otherwise engaging work. Interesting reading for individuals seeking alternatives as the world enters the 21st century.AStephen L. Hupp, Swedenborg Memorial Lib., Urbana Univ., OH Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""An erudite yet accessible, elegent yet straightforward, inspirational yet practical, sophisticated yet uncynical credo for the next century.  Aux arms citoyens!""  -- Victor Navasky""Are we doomed to accept history, instead of creating it? Clone days, routines of pain, injustice as Destiny? This book helps us to believe that tomorrow is not another name for today.""  -- Eduardo Galeano""Daniel Singer is the left's most brilliant arsonist.  He sets ablaze whole forests of dessicated cliches about the  end of history' and the  triumph of the market' in order to light the way forward for the next generation of radical thinkers and activists.""  -- Mike Davis""Daniel Singer is the premier progressive interpreter of European affairs. His courageous vision and sophisticated analysis gives us hope even in this ice age of fashionable neoliberalism and conservatism.""  -- Cornel West""For many years Daniel Singer has been one of the best, and certainly the sanest, interpreters of things European for American readers.  Now in Whose Millennium? he has expanded his and our horizon to give a view of what may be the next stage in humanity's zig-zag course toward, if not the stars, a new social balance.  Thanks to his Balzacian eye for human detail,  his prose is a delight to read as ever.""   -- Gore Vidal""For years, Daniel Singer's reports have been a unique source of information and insight on developments in Europe and the general social scene. His new book engages the crucial problem of the day: to overcome the sense of hopelessness that has been induced worldwide by terror and massive propaganda, exploiting--as all propaganda does--elements of reality. Singer disentangles these elements, places them in their context, and explores the rich options available for collective action to reverse historical forces that are not mystical and overwhelming as claimed, but readily subject to human will. It is an important and timely achievement.""   -- Noam Chomsky""I can think of no journalist more versed, more hip to what is happening in Europe today than Daniel Singer.  His humor and smarts make Whose Millennium? a must read for those who want to know where world politics is heading.""   -- Studs Terkel""Magisterial in its historical sweep, fiercely democratic in its vision, Whose Millennium? is the thinking person's  bridge to the 21st Century.'  There is an alternative to rampant inequality and the corruptions of power, and ever so modestly and persuasively Daniel Singer points the way.""   -- Barbara Ehrenreich""This book is a gem. It combines Singer's command of political developments in both the East and the West with his firm moral commitment as a man of the Left. And it places in context his distinctive empathy and belief in popular social struggles. A book that glows with hope and intellect.""  -- Frances Fox Piven	Daniel Singer is the European correspondent for The Nation.",books;business & investing;communism & socialism;economics;europe;free enterprise;history;ideologies & doctrines;poland;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;russia;social sciences,14
0716791595,"The Developing Person Through the Life Span (paper) KATHLEEN STASSEN BERGER teaches at Bronx Community College, City University of New York, recently as the elected chair of the Social Science Department. She is also the author of The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence and The Developing Person Through Childhood.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",aging;biology & life sciences;books;developmental psychology;evolution;fitness & dieting;health;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;science & mathematics;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
068483720X,"Your Mental Health: A Layman's Guide to the Psychiatrist's Bible The American Psychological Association's DSM-IV, or fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, became a surprise bestseller, with more than a million copies in print. For those who'd rather avoid the $60 price tag--and possible wrist trauma--associated with that book, Your Mental Health is a better bet. Written by Dr. Allen Frances, whom author Daniel Goleman calls ""the most powerful psychiatrist in America,"" and Dr. Michael First, who edited the DSM-IV, Your Mental Health is a user-friendly, resource-packed reference that covers dozens of mental disorders. Cognitive difficulties; developmental delays; hyperactivity and other childhood problems; posttraumatic disorders; eating, sleep, and sex-related difficulties; depressions; anxiety; and substance abuse problems are all covered. Anyone with a personal or family history of mental-health disorders will find clear-cut guidance, including information on how a psychiatric disorder is diagnosed and the various treatment options available. Dozens of support-group contacts, Web sites, and suggestions for further reading are also included. --Erica Jorgensen	Two authors of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Stastical Manual (DSM-IV), the essential tool of mental health professionals, have drawn on that material to write this guide for lay readers.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	The American Psychological Association's DSM-IV, or fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, became a surprise bestseller, with more than a million copies in print. For those who'd rather avoid the $60 price tag--and possible wrist trauma--associated with that book, Your Mental Health is a better bet. Written by Dr. Allen Frances, whom author Daniel Goleman calls the most powerful psychiatrist in America, and Dr. Michael First, who edited the DSM-IV, Your Mental Health is a user-friendly, resource-packed reference that covers dozens of mental disorders. Cognitive difficulties; developmental delays; hyperactivity and other childhood problems; posttraumatic disorders; eating, sleep, and sex-related difficulties; depressions; anxiety; and substance abuse problems are all covered. Anyone with a personal or family history of mental-health disorders will find clear-cut guidance, including information on how a psychiatric disorder is diagnosed and the various treatment options available. Dozens of support-group contacts, Web sites, and suggestions for further reading are also included. ---- Amazon.Com ReviewTwo authors of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV), the essential tool of mental health professionals, have drawn on that material to write this guide for lay readers. ---- Library Journal	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;parenting & relationships;pathologies;psychiatry;psychoanalysis;psychology;psychology & counseling;reference,14
0596005121,"SQL Pocket Guide Jonathan Gennick is an O'Reilly  Associates editor specializing in database and programming titles. Prior to joining O'Reilly, Jonathan amassed some 17 years of programming and database management experience. During the latter part of his career he specialized in relational database programming, and more recently in database management. Jonathan got his start with relational database systems in 1990, first working with Ingres, and later with Digital's Rdb software. During that period he developed a fondness for SQL, and for the challenge of applying SQL creatively in ways that leveraged it's set-oriented capabilities. In 1994 Jonathan made the leap to Oracle, and is now often found writing about it. Recent projects include Oracle SQLLoader (O'Reilly  Associates, 2001); Oracle SQLPlus Pocket Reference (O'Reilly  Associates, 2000); Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly  Associates, 1999); More recently, Jonathan has made forays into other database products, coauthoring Transact-SQL Cookbook (O'Reilly  Associates, 2002) and editing Practical PostgreSQL (O'Reilly  Associates, 2002). Jonathan is certified as an Oracle DBA and is a member of MENSA and the Oracle Technology Network. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Information and Computer Science, with a Business Administration minor, from Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. Jonathan currently resides in Munising, Michigan with his wife Donna and their two children: Jenny and Jeff. Jonathan may be contacted by email at jonathan@gennick.com, and you can learn more about him personally by visiting his website at http://gennick.com.",books;computer science;computers & technology;database management systems;database storage & design;databases;education & reference;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;software;sql;used & rental textbooks,14
0716749475,"Immunology, Fifth Edition RICHARD GOLDSBY, Amherst College - THOMAS J. KINDT, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease - BARBARA A. OSBORNE, University of Massachusetts, Amherst - JANIS KUBY, late of San Francisco State University",basic sciences;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;education & reference;immunology;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,14
075380851X,"Cosmic Serpent Anthropologist Narby's very personal account of his encounters with Amazonian shamanism and his passionately researched syntheses of anthropological, biochemical, neurological and mythological scholarship fascinate but do not convince. His defense of the rights of indigenous peoples against usurpation by capitalist, technological countries is admirable; his methodology is not. Throughout, Narby appears to mistake enthusiasm for evidence and he takes similarities of form (e.g., any helical pattern, hexagon or snakelike figure) to be proof of identity or of casual connection: that the serpent of shamanic lore is DNA. Of his assertion that the Amazonians' specific knowledge of pharmacology derives from hallucinogenic trance (and not from some other more diffuse source), he undertakes no experimental test, offering the typical complaints that the ""presuppositions"" of science are too narrow to permit the test. Narby does well to question the assumptions of scientists who dismiss all teleology in favor of mechanistic interpretations that are often deeply inadequate, and he does well to inquire into the meaning of the vast commonality of forms between science and world mythologies, but his answers too often come off as groundless invention. He provides an intriguing detective story, wondrous visions and a wealth of fascinating information on genetic science, shamanism, etc., and he also offers some valuable thoughts on the parochial smallness of official science, but, overall, his book's greatest value, perhaps, is as a case study in the excesses of scholarship gone astray. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --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.	Jeremy Narby, Ph.D. is the author of The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. He lives in Switzerland. 	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",behavioral sciences;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;cognitive psychology;evolution;genetics;new;psychology;science & math;science & mathematics;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
0415375479,"Understanding Children's Literature The specialized material, introductory approach, and plenitful bibliography would make this an excellent text for a graduate course in children's literature. Approachable but noy jargon-laden, this volume could give students of nearly any critical preference a jump-start into their own research.Bonnie Gaarden, edinboro university of Pennsylvannia, American Literature, March 2002The bibliographical utility and survey of the strengths and weaknesses of various critical approaches are sure to make this an influential text in the teaching of children's literature..Canadian Literature, Summer 2002	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Peter Hunt was the first specialist in Childrens Literature to be appointed professor in a UK English Department; he has written or edited 16 books on the subject. In 2003 he won the International Brothers Grimm Award from the International Childrens Literature Institute, Osaka, for outstanding services to world childrens books studies.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;children's books;children's literature guides;criticism & theory;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,14
1557505276,"A History of the Confederate Navy A History of the Confederate Navy is probably the only important book on the U.S. Civil War that was first written in Italian and then translated into English. Nonetheless, historian Raimondo Luraghi offers the fullest account to date of the South's naval activity. He challenges the popular notion that the Confederate navy was a failure because it did not break the North's blockade. Busting the blockade was not its main goal, Luraghi argues. Instead, the Confederate navy primarily wanted to prevent an amphibious invasion of the South--a mission in which it mostly succeeded. This particular interpretation is disputable, but the facts and figures of Luraghi's history are not. He shows how an agrarian people built a navy that managed to continue fighting several months after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and on the whole made a good showing on the seas against an industrial superpower.	One of the most prominent European scholars of the Civil War weighs in with a provocative revisionist study of the Confederacy's naval policies. For 27 years, University of Genoa history professor Luraghi (The Rise and Fall of the Plantation South) explored archival and monographic sources on both sides of the Atlantic to develop a convincing argument that the deadliest maritime threat to the South was not, as commonly thought, the Union's blockade but the North's amphibious and riverine operations. Confederate Navy Secretary Stephen Mallory, the author shows, thus focused on protecting the Confederacy's inland waterways and controlling the harbors vital for military imports. As a result, from Vicksburg to Savannah to Richmond, major Confederate ports ultimately were captured from the land and not from the sea, despite the North's overwhelming naval strength. Luraghi highlights the South's ingenuity in inventing and employing new technologies: the ironclad, the submarine, the torpedo. He establishes, however, that these innovations were the brainchildren of only a few men, whose work, although brilliant, couldn't match the resources and might of a major industrial power like the Union. Nor did the Confederate Navy, weakened through Mallory's administrative inefficiency, compensate with an effective command system. Enhanced by a translation that retains the verve of the original, Luraghi's study is a notable addition to Civil War maritime history. Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	What may be the most valuable book yet written on the Confederate States Navy at last sees U.S. publication. Luraghi does not stint on the chronology, personal profiles, or anecdotes of the CSN's deeds, heroic and otherwise, yet his real strength lies in discussing the various influences on the Confederate decision to organize a navy at all, the efforts to overcome the South's weak industrial base, and the administration of the Conferacy's valiant if exiguous sea fighters. Luraghi also places the whole naval aspect of the Civil War in the larger context of High Victorian economics, technology, and naval strategic and tactical concepts--something very seldom done in a manner accessible to nonacademic readers. Such readers will still need a strong interest in and some background knowledge of the subject; this is not a book for tyros. It is, however, one for just about any significant Civil War or American naval collection.  Roland Green",19th century;americas;books;civil war;confederacy;history;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);naval;naval operations;professional & technical;ships;transportation;united states,14
047198678X,"Cellular Microbiology: Bacteria-Host Interactions in Health and Disease ""...a timely and extremely welcome textbook...."", , , Trends in Microbiology, Volume 8, Number 2#	Cellular microbiology is an exciting new area of microbiology research which bridges the gap between microbiology and cell biology. Drawing on their own teaching and research experience, the authors have provided a timely and comprehensive introduction to the molecular and cellular biology of bacterial interactions with host cells, and their relevance to human diseases. Cellular Microbiology introduces the key concepts of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell biology, cell signalling mechanisms and current molecular biological techniques used in cellular microbiology before describing how bacteria interact with host eukaryotic cells during infections and health, and explaining the interactions with the immune system which enable an individual to recover from infections. This book will be invaluable to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying microbiology, virology, pathology, pharmacology and cell biology. It will also be useful for those researchers interested in bacterial infection.",basic sciences;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;cell biology;education & reference;medicine;medicine & health sciences;microbiology;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,14
1877864706,"Figuring Foreigners Out: A Practical Guide Craig Storti is founder and co-director of Communicating Across Cultures, a Washington, D.C.-based intercultural communication training and consulting firm specializing in seminars on cross-cultural adjustment and repatriation. With work appearing in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune, he is the author of six books, including Speaking of India: Bridging the Communication Gap When Working with Indians and the bestselling Cross-Cultural Dialogues, The Art of Crossing Cultures, and The Art of Coming Home. Having lived nearly a quarter of his life abroad, he lives now in Maryland. For more information, please visit his website: www.craigstorti.com",books;business & investing;communication;communication & journalism;communications;education & reference;language & grammar;new;politics & social sciences;skills;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks;words,14
0415164613,"Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century 'An imaginitive mix of reference and textbook, enriched by brilliantly clear and enticing presentation ... the Cramptons' work is a joy to open.' - Journal of Area Studies'Well written and contains a wide body of useful factual material.' - Journal of Progress in Human Geography'A perceptive text that clearly reveals the changing nature of Eastern Europe.  An invaluable guide.' - Professor David Wellm, University of Kent'It is an excellent up-to-date textbook packed with essential information on the countries of Eastern Europe. Just what students need.' - Professor Jim Riordan, Surrey University	Richard Crampton is Professor of Eastern European History at Oxford University and is the author of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 1997). Ben Crampton has worked in Eastern Europe as a journalist.",20th century;atlases;atlases & maps;books;eastern;education & reference;europe;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;reference;used & rental textbooks;world,14
0787955949,"Freedom and Accountability at Work: Applying Philosophic Insight to the Real World Koestenbaum is a philosophy professor and veteran writer, and coauthor Block is a business consultant and a longtime friend of Koestenbaum's. This book, a product of their professional affiliation, is a ""restatement"" of two important books of Koestenbaum's, The Vitality of Death (1971) and The New Image of the Person (1978). Both books were academically oriented, and Block has taken their messages and retooled them for a more popular audience. The fundamental point of the new book is that the basic tenets of philosophy can be applied to life, particularly to the workplace, to such an extent that our lives can be changed. The primary focus is on the concept of individual freedom and how managers can best utilize that concept to create a more productive, but at the same time more humane, work environment. This provocative, challenging book is not easy reading. It must be taken in small doses, for each idea requires time to digest. Brad HooperCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Both Koestenbaum and Block are such passionate men who bring together what we all seek in our work life-meaning, insight, and humanness. Bless them for this book."" (Joyce DeShano, board chair, Ascension Health)""Peter Koestenbaum's message of courage and accountability in the face of anxiety has struck a powerful chord. He and Peter Block have helped us see the very core of our contribution-compassionately confront people with their own freedom."" (Kenneth F. Murphy, senior vice president, human resources, Philip Morris USA)""Prepare to have your world rocked. Koestenbaum and Block take on the profound task of understanding existence and its place in organizations. You will never be the same."" (Christopher G. Worley, director, MSOD Program, Pepperdine University)""This book deepens the ongoing economic and social dialogue about balancing wealth creation with core human values. The authors' words offer encouragement to people in organizations who choose to elevate their work by using it as a vehicle to discover and strengthen the links between identity and industry, passion and prosperity, meaning and marketability, service and success."" (Joseph A. Braidish, director, Kelley Executive Partners, Indiana University Kelley School of Business)""Peter Koestenbaum brings the full force of his intellectual prowess to bear on the major questions of human existence. His insights are priceless even as they challenge some of our most deeply held assumptions about organizational life."" (Camden C. Danielson, executive director, Kelley Executive Partners, Indiana University)""This work is one of those rare business book breaks from the 'how to?to the what if?'. Block and Koestenbaum provide the foundation for a philosophy of hope for the work place for life; adding meaning to both."" (Howard Schultz, cofounder, The Learning Consortium)""This book is for the curious and the courageous. The curious will learn from a master philosopher and be intellectually challenged. The courageous will be asked to choose freedom and accountability. Be forewarned!"" (Charlotte Roberts, author, Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The Dance of Change)""Tired of being held? and holding others?accountable? Disappointed that your time management system didn't reduce your stress? Think freedom in the workplace is an oxymoron? Then get ready to go deep, and emerse yourself in the wisdom of Koestenbaum according to Block."" (Paul Anderson, dean, Northern California School for Managing and Leading Change)""I've taught Peter Koestenbaum's leadership philosophy all over the world...and it works! Its broad and all encompassing...and brings a powerful message of hope to us in the workplace."" (George I. Fitzpatrick, The Authentic Leader, teacher and practitioner)""This is an important book by two important management thinkers. Peter Koestenbaum and Peter Block offer an alternative, if not an antidote, to the shallowness of 'speed, simplicity and (unwarranted) self-confidence' by challenging managers to think about freedom and accountability."" (Robert M. Fulmer, coauthor, The Leadership Investment, Distinguished Visiting Professor Graziadio School of Business, Pepperdine University)""Noted philosopher Peter Koestenbaum and author Peter Block present some new perspectives for seekers of meaning, insight and humanity in the work place."" (Training, 12/01)""It's perceptions are strikingly original, challenging the reader on every page to speculate and transform."" (Napra Review, 1/02)""Koestenbaum and Block present more in-depth information on philosophical tenets and do an outstanding job of helping readers see how to apply the ideas."" (Choice, 2/02)""...it provides deep an valuable insight..."" (Professional Manager, March 2002)""It belongs on your retail shelves and also in your backroom to be read and shared with employees."" (New Age Retailer, May/June 2002)	We live in organizations that are more interested in controlling and predicting behavior than understanding it. We view freedom as a problem to be managed rather than the essence of all motivation and creativity. If we can deepen our understanding of what it means to be a human being, we can become leaders who discover and create meaning no matter where we work or what we do for a living. Freedom and Accountability at Work is a provocative book on leadership and the workplace that celebrates leadership as a challenge in philosophical reflection as opposed to a set of behaviors and skills to be honed for success. Written in collaboration by noted philosophy professor Peter Koestenbaum and renowned business consultant Peter Block, Freedom and Accountability at Work is a leading-edge and practical book that draws on the co-authors' combined wisdom and expertise. Koestenbaum and Block offer you a new way of thinking about effective leadership. They present a deeper understanding of how to handle the most difficult of human emotions including uncertainty, anxiety, guilt, and anger. These subjective realities of each of our lives can become our allies and sources of strength if we view them from a philosophical viewpoint. Throughout the book, the authors make constructive suggestions for overcoming the feelings of helplessness and isolation that are a product of our technology-dominant culture. Freedom and Accountability at Work reveals how you can make the transition from a science- and psychology-based view of the world to an understanding based on philosophy and the search for meaning and ethics. The authors emphasize the power and value of deepening your appreciation, even changing your mind, about what it means to be human in a world that is driven by speed, technology, and quick-fix solutions.  Integrating the wisdom and insights in Freedom and Accountability at Work into your everyday life can help bring meaning, purpose, and hope to your ever- changing and often chaotic world.THE AUTHORSPeter Koestenbaum was a professor of philosophy at San Jose State University for thirty-four years. He has applied his knowledge of philosophy to business, leadership, management, marketing, and strategic thinking. He is the author of Leadership; The Inner Side of Greatness, Is There an Answer to Death?, Managing Anxiety, Choosing to Love, The Heart of Business, The New Image of the Person, and The Vitality of Death.  Koestenbaum and Block are the co-creators of the videotape The Language of the Leadership Diamonda.  Peter lives in Westlake Village, California.Peter Block, author, consultant, and speaker, has worked for more than thirty years with governments, businesses, and communities worldwide to bring service and accountability to a wide range of organizations and groups. Peter is the founder of two renowned training firms, Designed Learning and Block Petrella Weisbord. He is the author of The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion, Flawless Consulting, Stewardship, The Empowered Manager and The Answer to How Is Yes (2001). Block's office is in Mystic, Connecticut.	In this profound book Peter Koestenbaum and Peter Block offer you a new perspective for viewing the workplace through the lens of philosophy so that you may have a better understanding of how to reclaim your freedom and accountability and encourage them same in others. They provide a radical new approach to your work-a-day life that will bring true meaning and power to your work. Freedom and Accountability at Work offers you the information you need to Gain strength and meaning by transforming your thinking on how you view anxiety, doubt, death, and guilt Find new ways to bring spiritual and ethical values into your workplace Engage in profound change that will help you overcome cynicism that comes from superficial change Replace your loss of organizational loyalty and safety with a sense of freedom and accountability  ""Both Koestenbaum and Block are such passionate men who bring together what we all seek in our work life-meaning, insight, and humanness. Bless them for this book."" Joyce DeShano, board chair, Ascension Health  ""Peter Koestenbaum's message of courage and accountability in the face of anxiety has struck a powerful chord. He and Peter Block have helped us see the very core of our contribution-compassionately confront people with their own freedom."" Kenneth F. Murphy, senior vice president, human resources, Philip Morris USA  ""Prepare to have your world rocked. Koestenbaum and Block take on the profound task of understanding existence and its place in organizations. You will never be the same."" Christopher G. Worley, director, MSOD Program, Pepperdine University	PETER KOESTENBAUM was a professor of philosophy at San Jose State University for thirty-four years. He has applied his knowledge of philosophy to business, leadership, management, marketing, and strategic thinking. He is the author of Leadership; The Inner Side of Greatness, Is There an Answer to Death?, Managing Anxiety, Choosing to Love, The Heart of Business, The New Image of the Person, and The Vitality of Death. Koestenbaum and Block are the co-creators of the videotape The Language of the Leadership Diamonda. Peter lives in Westlake Village, California.PETER BLOCK author, consultant, and speaker, has worked for more than thirty years with governments, businesses, and communities worldwide to bring service and accountability to a wide range of organizations and groups. Peter is the founder of two renowned training firms, Designed Learning and Block Petrella Weisbord. He is the author of The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion, Flawless Consulting, Stewardship, The Empowered Manager and The Answer to How Is Yes (2001). Block's office is in Mystic, Connecticut.",books;business & finance;business & investing;consulting;humanism;humanities;industries & professions;management;management & leadership;movements;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
0814727301,"Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America (Nation of Newcomers) Ferraro maintains a breezy, journalistic style that has produced an easy and entertaining read. His work may give hope to people of other ethnicities who presently suffer from isolation and alienation on the part of the general American public.-Multicultural Review,Ferraro traces the 'evolution and persistence' of an identifiable Italian American identity, from the time of widespread Italian immigration in the late 1800s through popular mediated portrayals of Italian Americans such as those found in The Sopranos television series. The book is an important contribution not only to Italian American studies, but to the understanding of ethnicity in the 21st-century US.-Choice,Feeling Italian is a smart book, one that makes the reader think beyond the usual ways of looking at whats Italian about the US.-American Book Review,This inspired, sophisticated, provoking book should command the attention of anybody interested in American Italianness in particular or the cultural consequences of ethnicity in general. Joseph Stella and Frank Sinatra, Maria Barbella and Giancarlo Esposito, Madonna and the good people who brought you the Corleones and Sopranos;they and others appear here, often seen in startlingly fresh ways, as creators and exemplars of the aesthetic Tom Ferraro calls feeling Italian. Wise, funny, contagiously enthusiastic, Ferraro takes us far beyond the narrow pieties of the identity police or anti-defamation types as he traces the development of a widely accessible American cultural style that still bears the marks of distinctively Italian ways of making do and making sense.-Carlo Rotella,author of Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust BeltOriginal and deeply right. There is no other book that digs so deeply into the matter at hand, and does so with such eloquence and ferocity of intellect.-Jay Parini,author of Passage to Liberty: The Story of Italian Immigration and the Rebirth of America	Thomas J. Ferraro is associate professor of English at Duke University. He is the author of Ethnic Passages and editor of Catholic Lives, Contemporary America.",20th century;americas;anthropology;books;cultural;emigration & immigration;ethnic studies;history;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states,14
1564555658,"Animal Medicine: A Guide to Claiming Your Spirit Allies A million copies of Jamie Sams' Medicine Cards ""TM"" are in print worldwide. On Animal Medicine, Sams offers a new, expanded field guide to over 200 of nature's teachers: the fruit of eight years of advanced study with indigenous shamans on six continents. Any animal can be a power ally, teaches Sams -- and each one can open a uniquely personalized gateway to health, mental clarity, and spiritual well-being. Animal Medicine reveals the ""instinctual"" and ""contrary"" medicines of each of these powerful totems, and how to call on them when they are most needed. Includes a comprehensive booklet.",books;earth-based religions;ethnic studies;mental & spiritual healing;native american;new age;occult;personal transformation;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;self-help;social sciences;specific demographics;spirituality,14
0375706135,"One for the Road: Revised Edition After a year working an office job in Sydney, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman Tony Horwitz finds himself longing for the open road. Spurred on by a colleague's ""Aren't you a little too old for this game?"" he sets off on a 7,000-mile adventure around Australia, hitchhiking to Alice Springs and beyond: through desolate mining towns, sheep stations, countless bush pubs (do not attempt to match his beer intake), and the forbidding, Martianesque emptinesses of Australian deserts. On the way he encounters hostile, friendly, and downright strange natives; jumps a train; survives a harrowing accident; and uses his relentless sense of humor to face down a cyclone: I prop my pack against the fence as a windbreak. Huddled behind it, I pull on two pairs of pants, three shirts, four pairs of socks--my entire wardrobe in fact, except for the dung-covered shirt and five pairs of elastic-waisted underwear. No room for dignity here, at the center of a cyclone. I put the jockey shorts over my head, one pair at a time, fitting the fly over my nose to let a little oxygen in. A wily melange of tenderness, eye-popping lunacy, and occasional white-knuckled fear, One for the Road will leave you yearning to have the never-ending-blue Oz sky above, the flavor of that red, red dust in your mouth, and a tinnie to wash it all down with. --Jhana Bach	""A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen."" --Chicago Tribune""A fascinating insight into what we're all about on the highways and byways along the outback track."" --The Telegraph (Sydney)Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he hitchhikes off into the awesome emptiness of Australia's outback.What follows is a hilarious, hair-raising ride into the hot red center of a continent so desolate that civilization dwindles to a gas pump and a pub. While the outback's terrain is inhospitable, its scattered inhabitants are anything but. Horwitz entrusts himself to Aborigines, opal diggers, jackeroos, card sharks, and sunstruck wanderers who measure distance in the number of beers consumed en route. Along the way, Horwitz discovers that the outback is as treacherous as it is colorful. Bug-bitten, sunblasted, dust-choked, and bloodied by a near-fatal accident, Horwitz endures seven thousand miles of the world's most forbidding real estate, and some very bizarre personal encounters, as he winds his way to Queensland, Alice Springs, Perth, Darwin--and a hundred bush pubs in between.Horwitz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of two national bestsellers, Confederates in the Attic and Baghdad Without a Map, is the ideal tour guide for anyone who has ever dreamed of a genuine Australian adventure.""Lively, fast-paced and amusing . . . a consistently interesting and entertaining account."" --Kirkus Reviews""Ironical, perceptive and subtle . . . will have readers getting out their maps and itching to follow Horwitz's tracks. . . . The internal journey is his finest achievement; he allows the reader into his heart, to go travelling with him there, sharing his adventures of the spirit."" --Sunday Times (London)	Tony Horwitz lives in Waterford, Virginia.",adventure;australia;australia & south pacific;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;general;research & publishing guides;specialty travel;travel;travel writing;true accounts;true crime;writing,14
0679417702,"Dinosaur Society Dinosaur Encyclopedia Written for children ages 10 and up, as well as for adults, this book is a popular guide to the more than 600 known dinosaurs. It was authored by two well-known science writers; Lessem is founder of the Dinosaur Society, an international organization devoted to furthering paleontological education and research; Glut is a lecturer and author of numerous books on dinosaurs. More than 400 drawings by scientific illustrators complement the text.The authors state that a new dinosaur species is discovered somewhere in the world every seven weeks. They want to dispel myths about dinosaurs, such as that they all were sluggish, large, and biological failures. Features of this volume include a simplified time line of geological eras on the inside covers. This introduces the teal color used throughout in striking ways to offset dinosaur names or serve as a backdrop for line drawings. A discussion of the classification of dinosaurs at the order and family level is followed by a list of some genera no longer considered to be dinosaurs. Here the reader is treated to a behind-the-scenes view of the key problems of biological classification or taxonomy. A glossary defines terms such as geological periods and characteristics such as finback or frills. While younger readers might find the discussion of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature difficult, the glossary presents a simplified picture of dinosaur characteristics, including classification.Each entry is arranged alphabetically by genus and gives pronunciation, species, order, suborder, family, name origin (such as the Latinized name of the discoverer), size, period, place, and diet. Most entries contain further explanatory paragraphs that note the type and number of skeleton fragments that have been identified. Question marks and words such as doubtful or invalid indicate questions or misnamings. A drawing is provided if enough of the dinosaur has been found to warrant one. Not all entries give the year of discovery of the dinosaur, and this omission is not explained. Access to the text is made easier by indexes of the dinosaurs by geological period and place.This is an important contribution to dinosauria literature. Its honesty in detailing the continuing mysteries surrounding dinosaurs is helpful in a time when museums, movies, and books such as The Ultimate Dinosaur (1993) by David Lambert, a renowned dinosaur scholar/writer, seem to be striving for a polished, complete look and when younger children have been subjected to the ""Barneyization"" of dinosaurs. The Dinosaur Society's Dinosaur Encyclopedia has come along just in time to contradict misleading information and point out the ongoing research needed to find and fit together dinosaur fragments. This source is highly recommended for public and school libraries.	The president and founder of The Dinosaur Society teams up with the author of The Complete Dinosaur Dictionary to offer the ultimate guide for students, kids, parents, and dinosaur enthusiasts of every stripe. More than 600 species are described, along with information about appearance and behavior. 400 drawings.",animals;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;dinosaurs;education & reference;microbiology;new;paleontology;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks;vertebrate,14
0299168042,"American Byron: Homosexuality & The Fall Of Fitz-Greene Halleck Hallock performs a dual service: he resurrects a significant though largely forgotten poet and he paints a fascinating portrait of homosexual life in 19th-century America. Although praised in his lifetime by such luminaries as Charles Dickens, James Fenimore Cooper and Edgar Allan Poe, Halleck is little known outside of literary circles today. Hallock (a distant relative) argues that one reason for the poet's fall from grace was his homosexuality and the homoerotic themes, however veiled, in his work. Weaving literary biography with cultural history, the author uses Halleck's life and work to give greater depth to well-known aspects of the poet's era (cultural anxieties over intimate male-male relations, urban sexual and bohemian demimondes, repression and coded public communication between homosexuals). Although he sometimes deploys theory as fact (taking as a given, for example, the late John Boswell's assertion that ""same-sex unions"" were accepted and blessed by the Church in the Middle Ages), overall, his account of American attitudes toward sexuality is quite convincing. As for biography, Hallock centers on Halleck's love for a prominent New York doctor, a love that was fictionalized in the first American homosexual novel, Bayard Taylor's Joseph and His Friend. When Hallock quotes the poet's work, he assesses his subject's words less for the purposes of literary analysis than for the bits of cultural and personal information they contain--making this book not merely a personal biography but a biography of place, time and prevailing attitudes. B illus. (Apr.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	More a social than a poetic genius, Halleck, a favorite of such establishment figures as Charles Dickens, William C. Bryant, and Washington Irving, published satirical verses (often co-written with the married man he loved, Joseph Rodman Drake), though he is best known for editing a first complete edition of Byron's works. Though author Hallock (a Temple University Ph.D. and distant relative of the poet) argues somewhat tendentiously for Halleck's place in the American literary pantheon, he thoroughly delineates the difficulties faced by the gay male in a less understanding age. Certainly, Halleck was not the martyr the title implies--he never really occupied a literary pedestal high enough to fall from--and, in fact, he comes across less as a contemporary of Byron than a forerunner of Whitman. Though Halleck predated Whitman by publishing a free-verse poem, ""The Field of Grounded Arms"" (criticized by Poe for its ""disagreeable versification""), Whitman not only possessed the formidable talent that Halleck lacked but also successfully finessed the troublesome question of sexuality. Recommended only for academic libraries.-David Kirby, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In his new study of a 19th-century American poet, Hallock uncovers convincing evidence that homophobic critics forced him into self-censorship, isolation, and, ultimately, silence. Are we talking about Walt Whitman, that Great Gay Poet of Mannahatta? No, of course not. Whitman was attacked but never gave in. It was Fitz-Greene Halleck (17901867), the dashing New Yorker who strutted and fretted his hour upon the stage and then was heard no more. He was madly in love with J.R. Drake, with whom he wrote the Croaker Papers (a series of poems satirizing New York society). The Croakers were the talk of the town, and so were Halleck and Drake, although they published the poems under pseudonyms. But Drake married a woman, and this left Halleck in a snit for the rest of his life. When Drake died at the age of 25, Halleck was mortified with grief and produced the widely anthologized elegy ``On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake.'' He wrote satiresFanny,'' for examplethat earned comparison with Byron, but this is a bit of a stretch. Halleck lived a quiet life disconnected from the history unfolding around him. He hated democracy. He called himself a monarchist. He refused to write about the Civil War because he cared for neither side. His last words were ``Marie, hand me my pantaloons, if you please.'' Byron died at war. Whitman at least got to the battleground, and he was one who never let the critics stop him from writing, even if he did censor his own lines from time to time. Hallock, a distant relative of Halleck, unfortunately never inherited his ancestor's felicity with words. He seems to have a perverse aversion to narrative, and his writing is marred by the tittering wit of the academicas when he writes of Halleck's phallic imagery in an early poem: ``Stiff memory is penetrated by a metaphoric dart, akin to Cupid's arrow.'' Hallock's great accomplishment here is a documentation of literary homophobia. It will take another writer to give us a compelling biography of this once-famous poet.  -- Copyright 2000, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",19th century;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism & theory;gay;gay & lesbian;historical;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);united states,14
1586852493,"The Art of the Party Contents  Introduction  8 Lighting  18 Color  60 Texture  116 Progression  142 Scale  180	N/A	No Information Available	Parties celebrate the most important moments of life--a birthday, an anniversary, a wedding. The best parties reflect your own unique style and taste and reveal your generosity of spirit as a host. I also feel that parties should have a sense of largesse and drama--glamour, if you will. A truly glamorous party expands your sense of what is beautiful and enlarges your vision of what endless possibilities there are to the simple notion of fun.",books;cookbooks;crafts;crafts & hobbies;decorating;food & wine;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;humor & entertainment;interior design;puzzles & games;special occasions;tablesetting,14
B000GG4P3Q,"Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy ""This path-breaking book is among the most ambitious, innovative, sweeping, and rigorous scholarly efforts in comparative political economy and political development. It offers a broad, substantial new account of the creation and consolidation of democracy. Why is the franchise extended? How do elites make reform believable and avoid expropriation? Why do revolutions nevertheless occur? Why do new democracies sometimes collapse into coups and repression? When is repression abandoned? Backed by a unified analytic model, historical insight, and extensive statistical analysis, the authors' case is compelling."" - James E. Alt, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Harvard University""This tour de force combines brilliant theoretical imagination and historical breadth to shine new light on issues that have long been central in social science. The book cannot be ignored by anybody wanting to link political and economic development. Its range is truly impressive.  The same logical framework offers plausible predictions about revolution, repression, democratization, and coups.  The book refreshingly includes as much Latin American experience as European experience, and as much Asian as North American. The authors offer new intellectual life to economics, political science, sociology, and history.  Game theory gains a wider audience by being repeatedly applied to major historical issues for which commitment is indeed a key mechanism.  Economists and political scientists gain more common ground on their political economy frontier."" - Peter Lindert, University of California, Davis""Sociologists are given a new template about class interactions in the political sphere, one that suggests both new tests and new ideas.  And comparative historians, while fleeing from active involvement in game theory, have a new set of conjectures to support or be provoked by.""""Acemoglu and Robinson have developed a coherent and flexible analytical framework that brings together many aspects of the comparative political economy of democratization and democratic consolidation. Beyond being an excellent work of synthesis, this framework also leads to insights that will pave the way for further theoretical and empirical investigation. The combination of theory and historical application make this a first-rate book for teaching, as well as a major research contribution."" - Thomas Romer, Princeton University""This book is an immense achievement. Acemoglu and Robinson at once extend the frontiers of both economics and political science; they provide a new way of understanding why some countries are rich and some are poor; and they reinterpret the last 500 years of history."" - Barry Weingast, Stanford University""A vast body of research in social science on the development of democracy offers detailed accounts of specific country events but few general lessons. Acemoglu and Robinson breathe new life into this field. Relying on a sequence of formal  but parsimonious game-theoretic models and on penetrating historical analysis, they provide a common understanding of the diverse country histories observed during the last two centuries"" - Torsten Persson, Director Institute for International Economics Studies, Stockholm University""...brilliant in its parsimony of means and power of explanation. The thesis is compellingly inventive. In practice, this is a model that may prove helpful in explaining long-term patterns of emerging democracies. Students of economics will study this text as much for its methodical exposition as for its conclusions. They will find the effort well worthwhile."" - Tim Harford, Financial Times""Acemoglu and Robinson have dared to set themselves up as targets. It is unlikely that the naysayers and nitpickers will be able to desist. Nor should they. And if the authors' effort survives the poundingas well it mightit will be a triumph not just for Acemoglu and Robinson but for economics and its methods."" - Arvind Subramanian, International Monetary Fund Journal""I would recommend this book to anyone with a serious interest in democratic transitions and economic development. Its historical scope, and the power of the   models it develops, set a new standard in political economy."" - Michael Munger, EH.NET""In this superb volume, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson seek to answer age-old questions in political economy: What factors, particularly economic factors, explain why some countries pass from dictatorship to democracy? What determines whether such transitions will be consolidated or whether a country will revert to rule by a small elite? Their answers, and the manner in which these were obtained, are refreshingly new."" - Romain Warciarg, Science""...there is much [here] to admire. True to their title, Messrs Acemoglu and Robinson offer a unified theory of both democracy and its opposite. According to two scholars cited in this book, even to look for a general theory of democratic reform requires great temerity. Happily, Messrs Acemoglu and Robinson have temerity in spades."" - The Economist""The book will be widely used in undergraduate and graduate courses in political economy. [It] will be appreciated by economists who are not satisfied with an argument until it reaches its apotheosis as a set of mathematical equations. But the less quantitative have much to glean from this rich book as well, for it clarifies what assumptions are required for its arguments to hold, and shows in high relief the contrasts with other standard works on democratization."" - Frances Rosenbluth, Japanese Journal of Political Science	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	What forces lead to democracy's creation?  Why does it sometimes consolidate only to collapse at other times? Written by two of the foremost authorities on this subject in the world, this volume develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. It revolutionizes scholarship on the factors underlying government and popular movements toward democracy or dictatorship.  Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson argue that different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Their book, the subject of a four-day seminar at Harvard's Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, was also the basis for the Walras-Bowley lecture at the joint meetings of the European Economic Association and Econometric Society in 2003 and is the winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.    Daron Acemoglu is Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal awarded by the American Economic Association as the best economist working in the United States under age 40. He is the author of the forthcoming text Introduction to Modern Economic Growth.    James A. Robinson is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is a Harvard Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's Program on Institutions, Organizations, and Growth. He is coeditor with Jared Diamond of the forthcoming book Natural Experiments in History.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & investing;comparative politics;economic policy;economic policy & development;economics;law;legal theory & systems;non-us legal systems;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;popular economics;public affairs & policy,14
0805075941,"Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life It's hard to believe that one Charleston, S.C., woman, from the seat of her wheelchair, has faced off President Reagan's Secret Service detail, disrupted a National Democratic convention, joined disability advocates in Cuba andfor 13 years straightprotested the Jerry Lewis muscular dystrophy telethon. Indeed, folks with a sentimental attachment to ""Jerry's kids"" should start at chapter one, where Johnson explains how it felt as a youngster to watch a televised ""childhood death sentence"" every year. Johnson, who was born with a congenital neuromuscular disease, wants kids with disabilities to grow up ""prepared to survive,"" not merely waiting to die. Equally problematic for the spirited lawyer are media heroes like the late Christopher Reeve, who revived ""telethon melodrama"" by displaying himself as ""a disability object, presumably tragic but brave, someone to gawk at."" Johnson, whose law practice specializes in disability advocacy, has a personal assistant, a motorized wheelchair and a supportive circle of family and friends that make her active, satisfying life possible. Readers inclined to feel sorry for people with disabilities, to offer them prayers or a pat on the headJohnson has endured bothshould spare them the very real burden of providing ""disability awareness training to everyone who happens by,"" and read Johnson's feisty book instead.  Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""Too Late To Die Young is a wonderful mix: a keen mind, exuberance, activist politics, along with a special brand of Southern women's wit.""-Adrienne Rich	Harriet McBryde Johnson has been a lawyer in Charleston, South Carolina, since 1985. Her solo practice emphasizes benefits and civil rights claims for poor and working people with disabilities. For more than twenty-five years, she has been active in the struggle for social justice, especially disability rights. She holds the world endurance record (thirteen years without interruption) for protesting the Jerry Lewis telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. She served the City of Charleston Democratic Party for eleven years, first as secretary, then as chair. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine and to the disability press and lives in Charleston, South Carolina.	A person who experiences a terrible personal tragedy and chooses to write about it  faces a daunting challenge.  Though every detail of the sad and difficult journey is searingly meaningful to the afflicted writer, will anyone else care? Or will the distant reader think the misfortune is merely repellent and shrink away, relieved that so awful a fate did not afflict him?In Too Late to Die Young, Harriet McBryde Johnson has overcome this problem with her essential wit, humanity and pluck. This is a transporting tale about a determined and attractive woman with congenital neuromuscular disease, who has never walked, who expected to die young and yet who has gone on to a distinguished career in the law, an often fun-filled life as a brassy activist for the handicapped and a rich existence with friends and colleagues in the mossy insouciance of Charleston, S.C.This is a book full of surprises. Johnson puts us on notice at the outset that she has a wry eye for the ""natural"" world. She rejects the ""formulaic narratives"" that we have constructed featuring handicapped people as ""stock figures"" to be pitied and at the same time praised for their courage and inspiration to others. Though her spine may be horribly twisted, though a simple tumble from a wheelchair may turn into a life crisis, she argues for her humanity in the fullest and most equal sense. She is prickly and feisty. She is not to be trifled with.And yet there is great value in knowing what the life of a fragile figure, imprisoned in a wheelchair and unable to swallow solid food, is like in modern America, especially the America that has been considerably improved by the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. The logistics are formidable: the need for caregivers, the navigation of streets and buildings, the simple acts of getting into bed or going to the bathroom, the desperate risks that may lurk around any corner. Life for the handicapped is pretty elemental.Johnson  escorts us into what she calls ""cripworld"" or ""cripdom"" with bubbly good cheer, almost daring us to feel sorry for her. No authority, no impediment seems to stymie her. As an undergraduate at the University of South Carolina, she took on the Secret Service and Ronald Reagan when the police invaded her private space and tried to shut down her protest of the president's visit to her campus. Eight years later when she was assistant city attorney in Charleston, she became a leading figure in a protest against Jerry Lewis and his pity-inspiring commercial telethons.  ""We don't want pity,"" she quotes a fellow protester against the Lewis bathos as saying, ""Pity gets in our way when we are looking for jobs and a place in the community."" She fought for her dignity and her space as a delegate to the 1996 Democratic National Convention when she was alternately trampled and then shut in by a cordon of buttocks. ""Keep your butt out of my face,"" she demanded. She deplored the way that Christopher Reeve was used at the convention. ""There he is, Charlie McCarthy,"" she writes. And in 2002 at Princeton, in a quite fascinating debate, she confronted animal-rights philosopher Peter Singer and his genocidal argument that society would be better off if disabled people like her did not exist. The essence of the interchange was the question of whether the life of a disabled person is inherently less happy and valuable. She won.Her tales are generally told in a chatty style. This works for the most part, though I wish the Southern lady, in turning the tables on all those Yankee writers who have tried to reproduce Southern dialect, had not tried to reproduce the speech of the New York cabdriver. ""I take you to Foity-foive Foity-sixth, and if that dun't woik, we can troy something else.""Her foray into elective politics in the form of a run for the Charleston seat on the County Council is hilarious and unforgettable. She ran a contest for a campaign slogan and eventually came up with: ""Vote Harriet. What the hell, why not?"" Who could resist voting for such a candidate? ""Our politics can be ceremonial and stately,"" she writes about courtly Charleston, ""but no one would call them pretty  --  even when the azaleas are in bloom."" Try putting into that mix a wheelchair atheist with dangly earrings and  a platform of gun control, abortion rights and the right to burn the flag. She lost.When she turns to her role in a court case involving the Americans With Disabilities Act, and later to her debate with Singer, the serious person beneath the chat is fully on display, along with the seriousness of the issues and the discrimination that handicapped people in America face. To make the abstract issues of the courtroom real and immediate, she follows with a chapter on a wheelchair accident that she once suffered at a conference in Tucson. This is a terrifying story. Every movement by emergency personnel had to be just right, with dire consequences for the wrong move, and the medication at the hospital had to be exact for a unique patient. In a curious twist, it was Johnson herself who directed every move, despite being crumpled in a ball on the ground and in terrible pain. She was the one in charge.There is a small but discrete growing literature by writers who have experienced personal or family tragedy: William Styron on his depression, Reynolds Price on his paraplegia, Kenzaburo Oe on his brain-damaged son, Morton Kondracke on the Parkinson's disease of his wife, Milly. Though the specific nature of the difficulty varies in these books, they all touch on common themes: fear, pity, anger, depression, shame, risk, relation to the outside world. To read these stories can deepen everyone's humanity. But they are also especially useful to the millions who quietly endure the same or worse situations and are desperate for some small insight into how to cope. Toward the end of Johnson's fine book, she is upset that someone has complained about her being a difficult person.""Oh, no,"" her father replies. ""You're easy to deal with. As long as you get exactly what you want."" Brava.Too Late to Die Young can proudly take its place among these other important books.  Reviewed by James Reston Jr. Copyright 2005, The Washington Post Co. All Rights Reserved.	From Too Late to Die Young:Susan gets me on gospel radio because she likes the guys at the station. They're jokey and jivey and very Christian. I like their studio. It's all eight-track, 1970s technology. No fancy electronics here; the engineer turns dials and flicks mechanical switches. On one of their cartridges that's been reused and relabeled countless times, I lay down my spot: I'm Harriet McBryde Johnson. I'm running for Charleston County Council.You might know me as the wheelchair lawyer who pickets the telethon. People ask me why I do that. The answer is, human dignity is not for sale. Why am I running for County Council? Because government, too, should treat every citizen with dignity and respect.When the base closes, what kind of community will we be? If you want a voice in what happens, vote for me, Harriet McBryde Johnson, and the Democratic ticket. I'll do my best for you.""'I'll do my best for you,'"" one of the radio men repeats. ""Is that your slogan?""It sounds pretty weak I think. ""I don't think so. I don't think we have a slogan yet. Maybe we'll run a contest. Got any ideas?""  On departing, I give them the latest edition of the Temporary Campaign Brochure. I don't ask for a copy of my tape. I'd have no way to play it, and eight-tracks are in short supply. Every cartridge is needed in the Lord's service.",biographies & memoirs;books;disabled;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;health;memoirs;musculoskeletal diseases;politics & social sciences;social sciences;special needs;specific demographics;specific groups;women,14
1571691189,"Perl 5 How-To: The Definitive Perl 5 Problem-Solver Perl 5 How-To saves Perl programmers hours of programming time  by providing solutions to over 200 Perl problems in easy-to-access,  award-winning Q format.  - Multi-platform (UNIX, DOS) documentation  and solutions - Over 200 practical solutions to Perl programming  problems - CD-ROM includes Perl source code, binaries, scripts, and  utilities-all of which can be plugged into the readers own Perl  programs",books;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;mathematics;object-oriented design;operating systems;perl;programming;science & math;software;software design;testing & engineering;unix,14
B000FMI096,"Principles of Cognition, Language and Action - Essays on the Foundations of a Science of Psychology This book exposes serious flaws in the reductionist assumptions  about Mind and Matter of Naturalism and  Constructivism, which underlie research and theorizing on  cognition, language and action within current academic psychology. The  author argues for alternative, radically different assumptions about  the relationship between the mental and material reality, which are  not only tenable, but as a matter of principle must be taken for  granted, and be the point of departure for all investigations into  both reality and our cognition and description of it.     The consequences of the arguments in this book are far-reaching. The  assumptions and principles derived from them offer a consistent  foundation for a science of psychology. They also open up new and  straightforward ways of dealing with the key issues of truth and  intentionality, subjectivity and objectivity, of relevance  to philosophy, the humanities and social sciences.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	This book exposes serious flaws in the reductionist assumptions  about Mind and Matter of Naturalism and  Constructivism, which underlie research and theorizing on  cognition, language and action within current academic psychology. The  author argues for alternative, radically different assumptions about  the relationship between the mental and material reality, which are  not only tenable, but as a matter of principle must be taken for  granted, and be the point of departure for all investigations into  both reality and our cognition and description of it.     The consequences of the arguments in this book are far-reaching. The  assumptions and principles derived from them offer a consistent  foundation for a science of psychology. They also open up new and  straightforward ways of dealing with the key issues of truth and  intentionality, subjectivity and objectivity, of relevance  to philosophy, the humanities and social sciences.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",behavioral sciences;books;cognitive;cognitive psychology;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;language & grammar;linguistics;medical books;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;words,14
0231115466,"Dance for a City This companion volume to the New York Historical Society's exhibition of the history of the New York City Ballet captures the beauty and reverie of the world of dance that ballet itself evokes. Garafola and Foner have compiled a lovely and interesting look at this amazing company and its lush history. Master of choreography George Balanchine founded the company in the 1930s, and it rose from a fledgling dance troupe to become world class. The company maintained a virtuosity that rivaled the major companies of Europe, with performances ranging from the classical to the avant-garde, and Balanchine himself was the principal choreographer. Such notables as Maria Tallchief and Mikhail Baryshnikov have been among its ranks, and the company has planted the seeds for the founding of numerous ballet companies throughout the country. The book features writing from dance scholars, urban historians, and musicologists. Lavishly illustrated with photographs throughout, some published for the first time, this lovely volume pleases the eye and the mind--much like the NYCB itself.  Michael Spinella	First-rate.... You may want to buy two copies of  Dance for a City, one for reading and the other for clipping and framing. (Terry Teachout New York Times Book Review)Lynn Garafola, a dance historian who was curator of the show with her husband, Eric Foner, professor of history at Columbia University, has done an admirable job of assembling material, some of it unfamiliar, from a vast variety of sources. (Anna Kisselgoff New York Times)Illuminated from many angles, clear sighted, lavish, and enjoyably appreciative of its subject. (Doug Elder Boston Book Review)Captures the beauty and reverie of the world of dance that ballet itself evokes. Garafola and Foner have compiled a lovely and interesting look at this amazing company and its lush history.... This lovely volume pleases the eye and the mind. (Michael Spinella Booklist)A visually eloquent collection. (Glen Giffin Dance Magazine)	Lynn Garafola is a feature writer and critic for  Dance Magazine, the author of  Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and the former editor of the book series  Studies in Dance History.Eric Foner is professor of history at Columbia University and the author of many books, most recently  The Story of American Freedom.",americas;arts & photography;books;classical;dance;history;humanities;music;new;performing arts;state & local;theater;united states;used & rental textbooks,14
0201741253,"Essential C++ for Engineers and Scientists (2nd Edition) Essential C++ for Engineers and Scientists  focuses readers on the key elements of good programming and C++ using a multitude of engineering and scientific examples that are relevant to future engineers. The book covers the features of C++ needed for writing engineering programs, including many features of object-oriented programming. Early on, it makes some simplifying assumptions that allow the use of C++ topics without lengthy explanation, and then later discusses the intricacies of the features. Readers will come away with the confidence needed to solve problems with C++.   THIS SECOND EDITION FEATURES:   Over 50% more programming projects than in the first edition. Two new case studies with complete algorithm development. Over 80 engineering and scientific examples and programming projects drawn from interesting areas such as solar heating, environmentally sound power production, water conservation, automated manufacturing, pipeline and power grid modeling, and others. Updated and enhanced coverage of many topics including member operators and member functions, files, and structs. Reference appendices on using the C programming language and about both the Borland and Visual C++ integrated development environments. Fundamentals of numerical methods that represent commonly used techniques for solving engineering and scientific problems.	Jeri R. Hanly is a member of the computer science faculty at the University of Wyoming. She has developed software for target recognition in collaboration with naval researchers in China Lake, California and has taught software engineering seminars for professional developers of computing systems in the U.S. and Canada.    020188495XAB04062001	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Essential C++ for Engineers and Scientists, Second edition, teaches the essentials of problem solving and programming using a subset of C++ as the implementation language. It includes many practical examples from a wide range of scientific and engineering disciplines. The text can be used for a first course in programming: It assumes no prior knowledge of computers or programming.    Although somewhat abbreviated, the C++ coverage in this book includes the features useful in typical engineering and scientific programs, and it demonstrates these features as they are actually used, not in isolation. Language topics are presented in an order common in teaching other languages: first the basic control structures (sequence, selection, and repetition), input/output operations, expression evaluation, and library functions, and then defining and calling the user's own functions. Next, the fundamental construct of an object-oriented C++ program, the class, is presented. After the chapter on classes, the text builds on the notion of object orientation while continuing the standard subject matter of an introductory programming course for engineers and scientists: arrays and strings, multidimensional arrays, a review of file manipulation, and an introduction to selected numerical methods.    When C++ offers multiple ways of accomplishing the same goal, the text usually selects just one and uses it consistently. For example, it teaches the use of references for output parameters and limits coverage of pointers to array parameters and to dynamically allocated arrays.   Changes in the New Edition   Throughout the text, all programming examples have been updated to conform to standard C++ use of namespaces. We have improved the book in many other ways as well:    Integrated introduction to input/output file use with loop coverage Added presentation of structs Added smaller scale first example of classes Added member operators while retaining friend operators Expanded coverage of dynamically allocated arrays, both one- and two-dimensional Integrated standard string class into data type coverage beginning in Chapter 2 (retained Cstring basics in array chapter) Expanded numerical methods coverage by adding a case study on the use of augmented matrices to solve systems of linear equations Added case studies using decision structures for finch classification and file use for database representation Included more examples of reference parameters Expanded input error recovery coverage Added 50% more programming projects Created new appendices in response to reviewer requests:  Introduction to C programming language Laboratory-style introductions to two C++ integrated development environmentsMicrosoft Visual C++ and Borland C++ Builder    Flexible Ordering of Topics   Professors who prefer to present topics in an order different from the one in the textbook should check the dependencies shown in Table P.1 (in preface). Several sections of the text are completely optional, with no subsequent dependencies: Recursive Functions (5.6), Class Reuse (6.7), and Heap-Dynamic Array Allocation (7.6, 8.4). Figure P.1 (in preface) lists several different possible orderings of topics.   What About NO Objects?   A careful study of Fig. P.1 (in preface) shows that if you prefer not to cover objects at all, you can still present all other language topics except multidimensional arrays and dynamic array allocation. We have chosen to show function parameters that are multidimensional arrays only in the context of an object representation. This choice stems from our conviction that such a representation is simpler, since students can pass matrices as input and output parameters in exactly the same way as they pass simpler objects.   Software Engineering Concepts   This text presents many aspects of software engineering. Early chapters on control structures take a process-oriented approach to analysis and design and demonstrate algorithm development through stepwise refinement of pseudo-code. These chapters also include sections on tracing and debugging code. Chapter 5 introduces procedural abstraction through user-defined functions, and Chapter 6's introduction of classes is interwoven with examples of the object-oriented design process first described in Chapter 1.    The book emphasizes early on the need for a consistent, readable coding style, and its examples demonstrate such a style throughout. The inside back cover of the text shows examples of most C++ constructs. In addition to serving as a quick reference to where these constructs are discussed in the book, this table can be used as a standard for style of indentation, bracket use, and naming conventions.   Pedagogical Features   This textbook uses a rich array of pedagogical features with which to engage the student.    Definitions of Important Terms. Important terms are defined in the margins of the text.    End-of-Section Review Questions. Most sections are followed by a set of questions that check the student's understanding of the material covered. Some questions call for the analysis and tracing of program fragments; others ask the student to write or to modify some code. Answers to the odd-numbered questions are in the Answers section; answers to the even-numbered questions are included in the on-line Instructor's Manual.    Programming Projects. Each chapter concludes with a set of programming projects. Answers to selected projects appear in the on-line Instructor's Manual, so instructors also have the option of distributing all or part of a solution and asking the students to complete, extend, or improve the solution.    Examples and Case Studies. The book contains a wide variety of examples and case studies specially selected to give the student glimpses of important science and engineering applications of computing. They are usually complete programs, functions, or class definitions rather than incomplete fragments.    Code and Input Highlighting. Many programming examples use shading to draw the student's eye to sections of the code that demonstrate the current topic of interest. Additionally, all examples of program runs shade user-entered input to distinguish it from computer-generated output.    Pitfalls and Chapter Reviews. Each chapter concludes with a discussion of common programming errors, followed by a summary of important points in the chapter, and a table of new C++ constructs.    Comprehensive Index. Every textbook has an index, but this book's index is truly a pedagogical feature. Constructed by hand, the index includes terms, concepts, and examples from all chapters and appendixes.   Appendixes and Supplements   Reference tables of C++ operator precedence and C++ constructs appear on the inside covers of the book. Appendix A compares C++ to its parent language, C; Appendix B gives selected run-time functions available in standard libraries; and Appendix C summarizes selected I/O facilities. Appendix D is a reference for the standard string class; Appendix E is a reference of C++ operators; and Appendix F is a list of ANSI C++ keywords. Appendixes G and H introduce popular C++ integrated development environments and Appendix I lists the ASCII and EBCDIC character sets.    The Instructor's Manual includes suggestions for teaching each chapter, two quizzes for each chapter, a bank of exam questions, solutions to even-numbered review questions, and solutions to selected programming projects. It is accessible by qualified instructors only. Please contact your sales representative through the World Wide Web.    The example program code is available online at  http://www.aw.com/cssupport  (follow the links from there). Within the text, the programs that can be downloaded from this website are marked with a ""www"" icon.   Acknowledgments   Many people assisted in the development of this book. I am very grateful for the numerous examples and programming exercises contributed by Joan C. Horvath of Takeoff Technologies. I especially thank my University of Wyoming colleagues who have so graciously answered my questions. From Computer Science, they include Allyson J. Anderson (who prepared much of the answer key and the Instructor's Manual), John F. Ellis (who suggested the finch classification case study), Michael J. Magee, and John H. Rowland; from Geography, Lawrence M. Ostresh; from Mathematics, G. Eric Moorhouse; and from Mechanical Engineering, Dennis N. Coon and Donald A. Smith.    The reviewers of this manuscript were enormously helpful in suggesting improvements and in finding errors. They include:    Hyder A. Ali, California State University at Northridge Christopher T. Alvin, University of Wisconsin at Madison Todd Arbogast, University of Texas at Austin Tom Bullock, University of Florida Stephen B. Dobrow, Farleigh Dickinson University Martin Granier, Western Washington University Tom Hill, University at Buffalo Jacob Y. Kazakia, Lehigh University Andrew Kinley, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. JoAnn B. Koskol, Widener University Donna L. Occhifinto, County College of Morris S. D. Rajan, Arizona State University Robert A. Rouse, Washington University St. Louis Chi N. Thai, University of Georgia Anthony Trippe, Rochester Institute of Technology Tom Walker, Virginia Tech Dr. David T. Young, Louisiana State University    I am grateful for the ongoing support of the Addison-Wesley team in this endeavor: Computer Science Executive Editor Susan Hartman Sullivan was responsible for initiating the new edition, Galia Shokry was the editorial assistant, Patty Mahtani supervised the design and production of the book, and Michael Hirsch developed the marketing campaign. Trillium P...",books;c;c & c++ windows programming;computer science;computers & technology;development;education & reference;languages & tools;microsoft;new;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks,14
0521808529,"Gender and Rhetoric in Plato's Political Thought ""[Kochin's] book is must-reading for anyone interested in Plato's political thought and themes of gender in political thought.""   Review of Politics""Particularly noteworthy is the manner in which Kochin powerfully raises the question of the relation between justice and happiness.""   The Standard Reader""Elegant parsimony of style, rigorous argument, and commendable mastery of the relevant primary and secondary sources characterize this excellent invesigation of Plato's political teaching. Highly recommended.""   Choice	Gender and Rhetoric in Plato's Political Thought explores the relation between Plato's Republic and Laws on the set of issues that the Laws itself marks out as fundamental to the comparison: the unity of the virtues, the role of women, and the place of the family.  Plato aims to persuade men to abandon the views of the good life that Greek cities and their laws inculcate as the only life worth living for those who would be real men and not effeminate weaklings.",books;commentary & opinion;history & theory;humanities;ideologies & doctrines;new;philosophy;political history;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,14
0471558958,"StarList 2000: A Quick Reference Star Catalog for Astronomers Presents a wealth of information on over 2000 stars, including space velocity, diameter, celestial motion and azimuths of rising and setting stars. Using a constellation-by-constellation format, it's divided into three parts--the StarList, binary stars, and variable stars--that focus on updated data such as orbital paths of numerous rapid-motion binaries, completely redrawn for the year 2000 and beyond as well as the most favorable future dates to be on the lookout for maximum brightness.	Which is larger, Sirius or Vega? What is the luminosity of Rigel? When will Mira come up to full brightness? Heres one simple-to-use reference which quickly answers these questions and many more. This handy star catalog gives the characteristics of over 2,000 stars to a brightness of 5.25 visual magnitude (plus many dimmer exceptions) updated with Epoch 2000 data. The book brings together information not available in any other single source. Employing a unique, easy-to-use constellation-by-constellation format, StarList 2000 gives you all these properties for each star: location, visual and absolute magnitude, spectra, distance in light years, proper motion, spatial and radial velocity, parallax, size, and luminosity. Notes compare discrepancies in data from well-known sources and point out additional interesting facts and figures about selected stars and deep sky objects, such as nearby nebulae. There are special sections on binaries and variables. Rapid-motion binaries are covered in detail, giving exact locations at January 1, 2000. There is also a collection of drawn orbits and a listing of orbital elements of selected binaries. Data on variable stars include type of variability, maximum and minimum visual magnitude, epoch, and period of variability. The author also offers a unique feature""Most Favorable Viewing Date""that tells readers when variables are expected to be at their brightest. StarList 2000 includes an appendix of computer programs for calculating such information as the Julian Date, the date of midnight transit for any star, and the azimuth and altitude of any star viewed from your own backyard. Indexes list stars by right ascension, popular name, and constellation.",astronomy;astronomy & astrophysics;astronomy & space;astronomy & space science;books;children's books;education & reference;math;nature & how it works;new;science;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,14
0933087659,"Rhapsody with Dark Matter: Poems This is a strong collection by a fine poet of the Midwest. Gundy treats love, sexuality, family, and our spiritual quest for meaning in the 21st century.	Jeff Gundy was raised in central Illinois and studied at Goshen College and Indiana University. Since 1984 he has taught at Bluffton College in Ohio. He and his wife Marlyce and their three sons live in Bluffton, Ohio. He has won two Ohio Arts Council Poetry Fellowships. He is also a vocalist and guitarist. His previous books are INQUIRIES (Bottom Dog Press) and FLATLANDS (Cleveland State Unviersity).",american;american literature;books;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;love & romance;love poems;new;poetry;relationships;self-help;sex;used & rental textbooks,14
0879307315,"Beatles Gear, Revised Edition Babiuk takes a unique approach to the Beatles' story by  documenting the history of their music equipment. The Beatles  are forever associated with particular instruments, and thoughts  of them immediately conjure images of John's Rickenbacker,  George's large, hollow-bodied Gretch, Paul's signature custom  Hofner violin bass (the first left-handed bass the company ever  produced), and Ringo on a Ludwig drum kit. Babiuk begins with  Lennon's first guitar in 1956 and follows through to the band's  final 1969 sessions at the Abbey Road studios. As he shows,  their choice of instruments were outlets for their personalities  and creativity, and they selected a particular make and model  for its individual sound, used that sound to its fullest, and  then progressed to the next. Though dubbed ""the quiet one,""  Harrison proved the maverick, continually experimenting with  guitars and instruments from other nationalities, leading to the  important Eastern influence on the Beatles' music. Babiuk  provides marvelous technical detail on all of the Fab Four's  gear, with numerous photos of either their own instruments or  identical models. A fresh perspective on the group's  well-documented history will appeal to hardcore fans and  interested lay readers alike. Michael Rogers, ""Library Journal""   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A big, slick, exhaustively researched exploration of what made The Beatles sound like The Beatles. -- Rochester Democrat and Choniclebr /br /A fresh, highly readable perspective on the group's well-documented history...will appeal to hardcore fans and interested laymen. Recommended. -- Library Journalbr /br /A lavish celebration of every known piece of musical equipment [The Beatles] used...large and colorful...well-researched... -- Tower Records' Pulse! magazinebr /br /A sure bet to be a 'must-have' under the Christmas tree for any rabid Beatles fan. -- Mondo Gordobr /br /An authoritative guide to The Beatles' equipment...Babiuk shows himself to be a persistent researcher and a writer of clarity. -- Mark Lewisohn, renowned Beatles expert, author of The Beatles Recording Sessions and of the Beatles Gear forewordbr /br /May be the ultimate specialized study of The Beatles...the sheer mass of information is impressive...the pictures...are fab. -- Chicago Tribunebr /br /The 'gift book'...a luxury item...to be held and admired.... Beatles Gear provides a history of their sound. -- Boston Globebr /br /The folks at Backbeat Books have a well-earned reputation...this year, they've got more 'must-have' additions, [including] Beatles Gear. -- The Ithaca Journalbr /br /The ultimate Beatles fanatic book. -- San Jose Mercury Newsbr /br /To make sure [your gift books] end up on coffeetables...here's our guide to the best, [including] Beatles Gear... --Playboy	Get the first book ever to tell the stories behind the guitars, basses, drums, keyboards, amplifiers, effectseverything The Beatles used to become the greatest rock and roll band of all time. Beatles Gear gives you new insights into the instruments, drawn from the authors 400-plus interviews with musicians and others who worked with The Beatles. Along with inside stories from instrument manufacturers and sellers, roadies, engineers, managers, and moreplus unpublished photosBeatles Gear is The Word on the sound that changed the world.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Andy Babiuk (Rochester, NY) is a musician, writer and co-owner of the boutique music shop Tone Bender Music. He has been a professional in the music industry for more than 25 years and is a consultant to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame and to major auction houses in London and New York. He is the author of The Story Of Paul Bigsby: Father Of The Modern Electric Solidbody Guitar. He plays in the recording and touring band, the Chesterfield Kings and lives in Rochester, New York, with his wife, six children and a very large collection of guitars and music memorabilia.",arts & photography;beatles;books;education & reference;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;instruments;music;musical genres;pop culture;popular;recording & sound;reference;rock,14
0851154794,"The Anglo-Saxons from the Migration Period to the Eighth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective (Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology) A stimulating contribution to the field of Anglo-Saxon studies. MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY     A mind-stretching read. NOTES AND QUERIES	Dr John Hines is Reader in the School of History and Archaeology at the University of Wales, Cardiff.",anthropology;archaeology;books;cultural;emigration & immigration;england;europe;history;humanities;medieval;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
1580401716,"Mix 'n Match Meals in Minutes for People with Diabetes Diabetics may also turn to Linda Gassenheimer's Mix 'n Match Meals in Minutes for People with Diabetes. Gassenheimer seeks to make following a limited regimen easier by restricting kitchen preparation time. She also gives advice on shopping efficiently to save even more time and energy. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner all figure into Gassenheimer's dietary recommendations. Breakfasts focus on low-carbohydrate eggs prepared as omelets with assorted savory stuffings. Dinners range widely among goulashes and Chinese, Korean, and Italian offerings. All recipes are designed to serve two, and many dishes can be frozen for future consumption. Mark KnoblauchCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Linda Gassenheimer has written three award-winning cookbooks, and her ""Dinner in Minutes"" newspaper column is distributed to 400 newspapers nationwide. She appears regularly on television, including ""Good Morning America"" and the Food Network. She has an advanced Cordon Bleu degree and 10 years' experience as executive director of a chain of gourmet restaurants in Miami.",american diabetes association;books;cookbooks;diabetes;diabetic & sugar-free;diets & weight loss;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;food & wine;general;health;other diets;special diet;weight loss,14
0735617872,"Applied Microsoft® .NET Framework Programming in Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET Jeffrey Richter is a cofounder of Wintellect (www.wintellect.com)-a training, debugging, and consulting firm dedicated to helping companies build better software faster. He is the author of the previous editions of this book, Windows via C/C++, and several other Windows-related programming books. Jeffrey has been consulting with the Microsoft .NET Framework team since October 1999.Francesco Balena is a well-known and highly regarded developer and author. He has written numerous Microsoft Press books, including the widely acclaimed Programming Microsoft Visual Basic titles, and edits a popular Web site on .NET programming. Francesco is a cofounder of Code Architects srl, an Italian software company that specializes in using Microsoft technologies to create enterprise-level solutions and programming tools. In addition, he is a regional director for MSDN Italy, and a frequent speaker at developer conferences.",.net;books;computers & technology;development;education & reference;home computing & how-to;languages & tools;microsoft;networking;programming;software design;software development;testing & engineering;visual basic,14
0226042901,"Juan Munoz One of the leading artists of his generation, the Spanish sculptor Juan Muoz (1953-2001) was known for his diverse and highly original body of work centering on the narrative possibilities of figures in environments. Juan Muoz illustrates in full color approximately sixty worksincluding sculptures, drawings, and several major installationswhich will be included in a major exhibition presented by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Art Institute of Chicago in October 2001.Muoz's early work focused on architectural objects that implied a transitory human presence. Then, defying the trend among progressive artists, he began to introduce figures into his work. Casting his figures in papier-mch, resin, and eventually bronze, Muoz limited their size and descriptive details to heighten their psychological impact. In the 1990s, Muoz created his signature ""conversation pieces,"" large ensembles of figures installed in indoor or outdoor settings. Calling upon a wide range of sources in literature, music, film, as well as painting and sculpture, Muoz's work explores the nature of psychological interaction and engages the viewer on a variety of perceptual levels.Juan Muoz includes essays by Neal Benezra, art critic Michael Brenson, and Olga Viso, as well as an interview with the artist by Paul Shimmel. Also featuring highlights from a 2001 installation commissioned by London's Tate Modern, Juan Muoz is the most comprehensive overview of this challenging and exciting artist's work.	Neal Benezra is the deputy director and curator of modern and comtemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago.",appreciation;arts & photography;books;education & reference;graphic design;history;history & criticism;humanities;individual artists;new;sculpture;study & teaching;used & rental textbooks;visual arts,14
0963910027,"Writing My Yoga: Poems for Presence The astonishing passion of Fran Shaw's collection leaves an indelible trace of a world behind the mundane, a world empty of all claims except to taste it deeply. --David Appelbaum, Former Editor of ParabolaFew writers can capture the essence of a moment as spot-on as Shaw. In Writing My Yoga, her spiritual journey leads to a realization that the best way to live and write is to be reborn not once a lifetime but once a second. --Allia Zobel-Nolan, Former Senior Editor, Reader's Digest BooksWith these poems, Fran Shaw opens a new era of poetry, an era of genuine hope. Blessed by a sojourn in high places of the earth and of the spirit, she is here able, again and again, to fulfill William Blake's prophecy, If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. I have kept various watchwords before me in poetry writing groups, but Shaw has brought me, shiningly realized, what I was groping toward. I am profoundly grateful for these poems. For a little while after I finished reading them, I saw with those eyes. When I looked up, outside my window the lilac bush stirring in the wind was the teaching. --Martha Heyneman, author of The Breathing Cathedral	Fran Shaw, Ph.D., is the author of Notes on The Next Attention, recollected talks of a spiritual guide. She also wrote the popular handbook 50 Ways to Help You Write. A Danforth Fellow and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, winner of the Amy Loveman Poetry Prize and two national awards for poetry, she is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. She has been guiding writing workshops around the world for over twenty years.",american;american literature;books;exercise & fitness;fitness & dieting;health;humanities;inspirational & religious;literature;literature & fiction;new;poetry;used & rental textbooks;yoga,14
1933112182,"Hello Gorgeous!: Beauty Products in America '40s-'60s ""...reclaims the beauty boom as a girls' club, paying homage to beauty moguls Estee Lauder, Helena Rubenstein,Elizabeth Arden."" -- Bust Magazine""I just loved Hello Gorgeous! The information was so interesting and the retro photos of ads were glorious"" -- Susan Silver, writer of Maude, Mary Tyler Moore, and  The Search For Mr. Adequate on newyorksocialdiary.com""Rachel C. Weingarten looks at the products that set the standards for innovations in the industry."" -- Publishers Weekly (A Spring 2006 Featured Pick)""Rachel Weingarten tears the fancy frock off the beauty industry in a gorgeously illustrated and hilarious book."" -- Buck Wolf, Entertainment Producer, ABC News""Scrapbook of pretty pictures and hilarious anecdotes about both men and womens takes on new (and sometimes crazy) beauty trends."" -- The Daily (NYC Fashion Week Magazine)	Women have been painting, powdering and primping for thousands of years. Those kohl lined Egyptian eyes and pale-to-perfection complexions have been signatures of beauty across cultures and throughout the ages. Embracing the mid-twentieth century beauty boom the American way, women across the country responded to advertisr's claims of increased happiness and attractiveness via lotions, curlers and lipstick.  The dizzyng array of cosmetics, toiletries and other feminine sundries flew off the shelves as women emulated starlets and models.	Beauty was bottled, loveliness was tubed, and freshness was found in spring-scented soap.  Women's worries could be solved with a quick trip to the drug store to pick up the latest makeup, wrinkle creme, and shampoo. Buying beauty, and therefore happiness, has been the beauty industry for years.	The highly energetic Rachel Weingarten enjoys multiple careers as a writer, a marketing guru and president of NYC based GTK Marketing group, an award winning NYC agency specializing in the beauty, fashion and entertainment industries, and as a cosmetic industry insider. In ""Hello Gorgeous! Beauty Products in America '40s-'60s,""(Collectors Press 4/06) she combines her passions for all things pretty, along with her insider knowledge of advertising and marketing to present a fun, informative look at how beauty products, advertising and women's spending power have evolved from the mid-last century into our own. Rachel began her career as a celebrity makeup artist and has worked with many notable faces. She is frequently quoted in national and international publications for her predictions and opinions on marketing and fashion trends.  The Washington Post has declared her ""A Hotshot NYC Beauty Consultant""; the Chicago Tribune deems her ""Quoteworthy"". She has been quoted in publications ranging from The New York Times, MSNBC and Investors Business Daily to Glamour Magazine & Marie Claire.  Her work as a journalist has appeared in Fortune, Fortune Small Business,The NY Sun, USA Weekend, Gotheregirl.com, Men's Health, Airkisses.com,The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and others.",& style;20th century;beauty;books;cosmetics;fitness & dieting;grooming;health;historical study & educational resources;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;social history;social sciences,14
0735622310,"Microsoft® Windows® Scripting with WMI: Self-Paced Learning Guide The definitive self-paced tutorial for WMI scripting, featuring 140 script samples, timesaving scripting tools, and 500+ bonus scripts on the CD. Key Book Benefits: Delivers hundreds of WMI scripts that administrators can put to work right away. Covers WMI in depth, so you can learn how to manage all aspects of your Windows environment. Features hands-on labs and quizzes to help you assess your progress as you learn. Includes a bonus eBookMicrosoft Windows Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guidein PDF format.	Ed Wilson is a well-known scripting expert who delivers popular scripting workshops to Microsoft customers and employees worldwide. He's written several books on Windows scripting, including Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices, Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step By Step,  and Microsoft VBScript Step by Step. Ed is a senior consultant at Microsoft Corporation and writes Hey, Scripting Guy!, one of the most popular TechNet blogs.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;languages & tools;microsoft;new;operating systems;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks;windows os,14
0130277029,"Solaris System Administrator's Guide (3rd Edition) PrefaceThis book is for beginning system administrators, system administrators new to the Solaris Operating Environment, or any user who wants a task-oriented quick-reference guide to basic administrative commands. A Quick Tour of the ContentsChapter 1, ""Introducing Solaris System Administration,"" describes basic administration tasks and superuser status. It tells how to communicate with users, start up and shut down systems, and monitor processes. It also introduces some frequently used commands and the new Administration Tools in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment.Chapter 2, ""Using Basic OS Commands,"" describes basic commands for finding user and environment information, creating and editing files, combining commands and redirecting output, displaying manual pages, and determining disk data.Chapter 3, ""Understanding Shells,""describes some commands common to all shells and provides basic information about the Bourne, C, Korn, Bourne-Again, TC, and Z shells.Chapter 4, ""Administering User Accounts and Groups,"" describes how to add and remove user accounts and how to set up new group accounts.Chapter 5, ""Administering Roles,"" introduces the Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) security feature, new in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment, that enables you to assign a subset of superuser privileges to one or more users.Chapter 6, ""Administering File Systems,"" describes the types of file systems provided in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment, the default file system, the virtual file system table, and the file system administrative commands. It shows you how to make file systems available and how to back up and restore file systems.Chapter 7, ""Administering Devices,"" describes how to use tapes and diskettes to store and retrieve files and how to administer disks. It also introduces the Service Access Facility and provides instructions for setting up port monitors for printers and modems.Chapter 8, ""Administering Systems,"" describes commands to display system-specific information, configure additional swap space without reformatting a disk, and create a local mail alias.Chapter 9, ""Administering Network Services,"" describes commands to check on remote system status, log in to remote systems, and transfer files between systems. It describes how to use the Solaris AdminSuite 3.0 tools to make changes to NIS+ databases once NIS+ is up and running. This chapter also introduces the IPv6 internet protocol and describes how to display network statistics and configuration information.Chapter 10, ""Administering Printing,"" introduces the LP print service, describes how to set up printing services, and explains how to use the printing commands.Chapter 11, ""Recognizing File Access Problems,"" provides information on how to recognize problems with search paths and with permissions and ownership.The Glossary contains basic system administration terms and definitions.Important: Read This Before You BeginBecause we assume that the root path includes the /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/bin, and /etc directories, the steps show the commands in these directories without absolute path names. Steps that use commands in other, less common directories show the absolute path in the example.The examples in this book are for a basic Solaris software installation without the Binary Compatibility Package installed and without /usr/ucb in the path.CAUTION. If /usr/ucb is included in a search path, it should always be at the end. Commands like ps or df are duplicated in /usr/ucb with different formats and options from those of Solaris ommands.This book does not contain all the information you need to administer systems. Refer to the complete system administration documentation for comprehensive information.Because the Solaris Operating Environment provides the Bourne (default), Korn, and C shells, examples in this book show prompts for each of the shells. The default C shell prompt is  system-name%. The default Bourne and Korn shell prompt is $. The default root prompt for all shells is a pound sign (#). In examples that affect more than one system, the C shell prompt (which shows the system name) is used to make it clear when you change from one system to another.SPARC and IA InformationThis book provides system administration information for both SPARC and IA systems. Unless otherwise noted, information throughout this book applies to both types of systems. Table A summarizes the differences between the SPARC and IA system administration tasks. Table A.SPARC and IA System Administration DifferencesCategory SPARC Platform IA PlatformSystem operation before kernel is loaded A programmable read-only memory (PROM) chip with a monitor program runs diagnostics and displays device information. The PROM is also used to program default boot parameters and to test the devices connected to the system. The basic input/output system (BIOS) runs diagnostics and displays device information. A Solaris Device Configuration Assistant boot diskette with the Multiple Device Boot (MDB) program is used to boot from nondefault boot partitions, the network, or the CD-ROM.Booting the system Commands and options at the PROM level are used to boot the system. Commands and options at the MBD, primary, and secondary boot subsystems level are used to boot the system.Boot programs bootblk, the primary boot program, loads ufsboot. ufsboot, the secondary boot program, loads the kernel. mboot, the master boot record, loads pboot. pboot, the Solaris partition boot program, loads bootblk. bootblk, the primary boot program, loads ufsboot. ufsboot, the secondary boot program, loads the kernel.System shutdown The shutdown and init commands can be used without additional operator intervention. The shutdown and init commands are used but require operator intervention to type any key to continue the prompt.Disk controllers SCSI SCSI and IDEDisk slices and partitions A disk may have a maximum of eight slices, numbered 0-7. A disk may have a maximum of four fdisk partitions. The Solaris fdisk partition may contain up to 10 slices, numbered 0-9, but only 0-7 can store user data.Diskette drives Desktop systems usually contain one 3.5-inch diskette drive. Systems may contain two diskette drives: a 3.5-inch and a 5.25-inch drive.Solaris System Software EvolutionTo help you understand how Solaris is evolving, Table B provides a list of the major system administration feature differences for each release. Table B.Solaris System Software EvolutionRelease New FeaturesSolaris 1.0 Berkeley (BSD) UNIX contains Solaris 4.x functionality.Solaris 2.0 (SunOS 5.0) A merger of ATT System V Release 4 (SVR4) and BSD UNIX. To facilitate customer transition, Solaris uses SVR4 as the default environment, with BSD commands and modes as an option. Administration Tool provides a graphical user interface Database Manager and Host Manager.Solaris 2.1 (SunOS 5.1) Administration Tool adds a graphical user interface Printer Manager and User Account Manager.Solaris 2.2 (SunOS 5.2) Volume management integrates access to CD-ROM and diskette files with the File Manager and provides a command-line interface. Users no longer need superuser privileges to mount CD-ROMs and diskettes. Solaris 2.0 and 2.1 procedures do not work with volume management because volume management controls and owns the devices. Solaris 2.3 (SunOS 5.3) Volume management changes Solaris 2.2 mount point naming conventions. Administration Tool adds a graphical user interface Serial Port Manager with templates that provide default settings, which makes adding character terminals and modems much easier. The automounter is split into two programs: an automounted daemon and a separate automount program. Both are run when the system is booted. The /tmp_mnt mount point is not displayed as part of the path name, and the local path is displayed as /home/username. Additional predefined automount map variables are provided. (Refer to the Solaris Advanced System Administrator's Guide.) Online: Backup 2.1 is included with the release. (Not documented in this book.) Pluggable Authentication Model (PAM) is included with the release. PAM provides a consistent framework to enable access control applications, such as login, to be able to choose any authentication scheme available on a system, without concern for implementation details. (Not documented in this book.) C2 Security is included in this release. (Not documented in this book.) The format(1) command changes for SCSI disks. (Not documented in this book.) PPP network protocol product that provides IP network connectivity over a variety of point-to-point connections is included in this release. (Not documented in this book.) Cache File System (CacheFS) for NFS is included in this release. CacheFS is a generic, nonvolatile caching mechanism to improve performance of certain file systems by using a small, fast, local disk. New NIS+ setup scripts are included in this release. The nisserver(1M), nispopulate(1M), and nisclient(1M) scripts enable you to set up an NIS+ domain much more quickly and easily than if you used the individual NIS+ commands to do so. With these scripts, you can avoid a lengthy manual setup process.Solaris 2.4 (SunOS 5.4) New Motif GUI for Solaris software installation is added. (Not documented in this book.)Solaris 2.5 (SunOS 5.5) New pax(1M) portable archive interchange command for copying files and file systems to portable media is added. Admintool is used to administer only local systems. Solstice AdminSuite product is available for managing systems in a network for SPARC and IA systems. New process tools are available in /usr/proc/bin that display highly detailed information about the active processes stored in the process file system in the /proc directory. Telnet client is upgraded to the 4.4 BSD version. rlogin and telnetd remote login capacity are improved. (Not documented in this book.)Solaris 2.5.1 (SunOS 5.5.1) The limit on user ID and group ID values is raised to 2147483647, or the maximum value of a signed integer. The nobody user and group (60001) and the no access user and group (60002) retain the same UID and GID as in previous Solaris releases.Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6) Changes to the Solaris 2.6 printing software provide a better solution than the LP print software in previous Solaris releases. You can easily set up and manage print clients by using the NIS or NIS+ nameservices to enable centralization of print administration for a network of systems and printers. New features include redesign of print packages, print protocol adapter, bundled SunSoft Print Client software, and network printer support. New nisbackup and nisrestore commands provide a quick and efficient method of backing up and restoring NIS+ namespaces. New patch tools, including patchadd and patchrm commands, add and remove patches. These commands replace the installpatch and backoutpatch commands that were previously shipped with each individual patch. (Refer to the Solaris Advanced System Administrator's Guide.) New filesync command ensures that data is moved automatically between a portable computer and a server. (Not documented in this book.) The previous flat /proc file system is restructured into a directory hierarchy that contains additional subdirectories for state information and control functions. This release also provides a watchpoint facility to monitor access to and modifications of data in the process address space. The adb(1) command uses this facility to provide watchpoints. Large files are supported on UFS, NFS, and CacheFS file systems. Applications can create and access files up to one Tbyte on UFS-mounted file systems and up to the limit of the NFS server for NFS- and CacheFS-mounted file systems. A new -mount option disables the large-file support on UFS file systems. Using the -mount option enables system administrators to ensure that older applications that are not able to safely handle large files do not accidentally operate on large files. NFS Kerberos authentication now uses DES encryption to improve security over the network. The kernel implementations of NFS and RPC network services now support a new RPC authentication flavor that is based on the Generalized Security Services API (GSS-API). This support contains the hooks for future stronger security of the NFS environment. (Refer to the Solaris Advanced System Administrator's Guide.) The PAM authentication modules framework enables you to ""plug in"" new authentication technologies. (Refer to the Solaris Advanced System Administrator's Guide.) Font Admin enables easy installation and use of fonts for the X Window System. It supports TrueType, Type0, Type1, and CID fonts for multibyte languages and provides comparative font preview capability. It is fully integrated into the CDE desktop. (Not documented in this book.) TrueType fonts are supported through X and Display PostScript. Font Admin enables easy installation and integration of third-party fonts into the Solaris environment. (Not documented in this book.) The Solaris 2.6 operating environment is year 2000 ready. It uses unambiguous dates and follows the X/Open guidelines where appropriate. (Not documented in this book.) WebNFS software enables file systems to be accessed through the Web with the NFS protocol. This protocol is very reliable and provides greater throughput under a heavy load. (Not documented in this book.) The Java Virtual Machine 1.1 integrates the Java platform for the Solaris Operating Environment. It includes the Java runtime environment and the basic tools needed to develop Java applets and applications. (Not documented in this book.) For IA systems, the Configuration Assistant interface is part of the new booting system for the Solaris (Intel Platform Edition) software. It determines which hardware devices are in the system, accounts for the resources each device uses, and enables users to choose which device to boot from. For IA systems, the kdmconfig program configures the mouse, graphics adapter, and monitor. If an owconfig file already exists, kdmconfig extracts any usable information from it. In addition, kdmconfig retrieves information left in the devinfo tree by the defconf program and uses that information to automatically identify devices. (Not documented in this book.) Release is fully compliant with X/Open UNIX 95, POSIX standards. (Not documented in this book.)Solaris 7(SunOS 5.7) Solaris 64-bit operating environment is added (SPARC Platform Edition only). (Not documented in this book.) UFS logging improves file system support. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) protocol improves managing name databases. (Not documented in this book.) Java Development Kit for Solaris significantly improves scalability and performance for Java applications. (Not documented in this book.) Dynamic reconfiguration significantly decreases system downtime. AnswerBook2 server runs on a Web server. (Not documented in this book.) Unicode locales enhanced with multiscript capabilities and six new Unicode locales are added. RPC security is enhanced with integrity and confidentiality. (Not documented in this book.) The Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE) contains new tools to make it easy to find, manipulate, and manage address cards, applications, e-mail addresses, files, folders, hosts, processes, and Web addresses. (Not documented in this book.)Solaris 8(SunOS 5.8) IPv6 adds increased address space and improves Internet functionality by using a simplified header format, support for authentication and privacy, autoconfiguration of address assignments, and new quality-of-service capabilities. The Solaris Operating Environment provides the Naming Service switch back-end support for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) based directory service. (Not documented in this book.) The Java2 Software Development Kit for Solaris significantly improves scalability and performance of Java applications. (Not documented in this book.) The Solaris 8 Installation CD provides a graphical, wizard-based, Java-powered application to install the Solaris Operating Environment and other software. (Not documented in this book.) The Solaris 8 Operating Environment supports the Universal Disk Format (UDF) file system, enabling users to exchange data stored on CD-ROMs, disks, diskettes, DVDs, and other optical media. The Solaris Smart Card feature enables security administrators to protect a computer desktop or individual application by requiring users to authenticate themselves by means of a smart card. (Not documented in this book.) The PDA Synchronization (PDA Sync) application synchronizes the data from applications such as Desktop Calendar, Desktop Mail, Memo, and Address, with data in similar applications on a user's Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). (Not documented in this book.) The Solaris 8 Software CDs and Languages CD include support for more than 90 locales, covering 37 languages. (Not documented in this book.) The Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE) contains new and enhanced features that incorporate easy-to-use desktop productivity tools, PC interoperability, and desktop management tools. (Not documented in this book.) The X Server is upgraded to the X11R6.4 industry standard that includes features to increase user productivity and mobility, including remote execution of X applications through a Web browser on any Web-based desktop, Sinerama, Color Utilization Policy, EnergyStar support, and new APIs and documentation for the developer tool kits. (Not documented in this book.) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) enables system administrators to create specific roles by which they can assign superuser privileges for specific tasks to one or more individual users.FreewareThe following freeware tools and libraries are included in the Solaris 8 release.bash-shcompatible command language interpreter.bzip2Block-sorting file compressor.gpatchApplies patch files to originals.gzipGNU zip compression command.lessA pager similar to more.libzAlso known as zlib. A library that performs compression, specifically, RFCs 1950-1952.misofsBuilds a CD image, using an iso9660 file system.rmp2cpioTransforms a package in RMP format (Red Hat Package Manager) to a cpio archive.tcshC shell with file-name completion and command-line editing.zipCompression and file packaging command.zshCommand interpreter (shell) usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor.	The best-selling tutorial and reference for  Solaris system administrators.      The essential guide to Solaris 8 system administration!  Covers the latest features and management tools  Administering users, devices, systems, networks, printing, and more  Maximizing efficiency, productivity, and system availability   Solaris System Administrator's Guide, Third Edition is the perfect quick-start tutorial for system administrators new to the Solaris Operating Environmentand the perfect fast-access reference for veteran Solaris administrators. Thoroughly updated to reflect Solaris 8's latest management tools, it covers all aspects of day-to-day administration, showing exactly how to maximize efficiency, reliability, and availability in any Solaris environment. Coverage includes:     Basic administration: superuser status, startup/shutdown, monitoring processes, and communicating with users  Solaris commands: user and environment information, working with files and disks, redirecting output, reading manual pages, and more  Solaris shells: Bourne, C, Korn, Bourne-Again, TC, and Z   Administering user accounts, file systems, and roles-including Solaris 8's new Role Based Access Control (RBAC)  Administering devices and systems: Service Access Facility, configuring additional swap space, creating local e-mail aliases, and more  Administering network services: remote administration, Solaris AdminSuiteTM 3.0 tools, NIS+, IPv6, and more     From troubleshooting file access to tracking network performance, streamlining printing to backing up file systems, this book delivers authoritative, accessible information you'll use todayand every day.	JANICE WINSOR, a permanent resident of Australia, is the author of the award-winning Advanced Solaris System Administrator's Guide and a recognized expert in Solaris system administration.  Her most recent books include Solaris 7 Reference and Solaris 8 System Administrator's Reference.  She is also the co-author of Jumping JavaScript, and More Jumping JavaScript and a noted artist whose work has been exhibited in the US and Australia.	Preface This book is for beginning system administrators, system administrators new to the Solaris Operating Environment, or any user who wants a task-oriented quick-reference guide to basic administrative commands.  A Quick Tour of the Contents Chapter 1, ""Introducing Solaris System Administration,"" describes basic administration tasks and superuser status. It tells how to communicate with users, start up and shut down systems, and monitor processes. It also introduces some frequently used commands and the new Administration Tools in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment. Chapter 2, ""Using Basic OS Commands,"" describes basic commands for finding user and environment information, creating and editing files, combining commands and redirecting output, displaying manual pages, and determining disk data. Chapter 3, ""Understanding Shells,""describes some commands common to all shells and provides basic information about the Bourne, C, Korn, Bourne-Again, TC, and Z shells. Chapter 4, ""Administering User Accounts and Groups,"" describes how to add and remove user accounts and how to set up new group accounts. Chapter 5, ""Administering Roles,"" introduces the Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) security feature, new in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment, that enables you to assign a subset of superuser privileges to one or more users. Chapter 6, ""Administering File Systems,"" describes the types of file systems provided in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment, the default file system, the virtual file system table, and the file system administrative commands. It shows you how to make file systems available and how to back up and restore file systems. Chapter 7, ""Administering Devices,"" describes how to use tapes and diskettes to store and retrieve files and how to administer disks. It also introduces the Service Access Facility and provides instructions for setting up port monitors for printers and modems. Chapter 8, ""Administering Systems,"" describes commands to display system-specific information, configure additional swap space without reformatting a disk, and create a local mail alias. Chapter 9, ""Administering Network Services,"" describes commands to check on remote system status, log in to remote systems, and transfer files between systems. It describes how to use the Solaris AdminSuite 3.0 tools to make changes to NIS+ databases once NIS+ is up and running. This chapter also introduces the IPv6 internet protocol and describes how to display network statistics and configuration information. Chapter 10, ""Administering Printing,"" introduces the LP print service, describes how to set up printing services, and explains how to use the printing commands. Chapter 11, ""Recognizing File Access Problems,"" provides information on how to recognize problems with search paths and with permissions and ownership. The Glossary contains basic system administration terms and definitions.",books;computer science;computers & technology;home computing & how-to;mathematics;microsoft;new;operating systems;science & math;software;solaris;unix;used & rental textbooks;windows os,14
1566398061,"Larry Kanes Philadelphia ""It's just what you'd expect from Larry Kane--an engaging and indispensable primer for anyone who wants to practice politics in Philadelphia."" --Tom Ridge, Director of Homeland Security (and former Governor of Pennsylvania) ""Passion, candor and inside stories make Larry Kane's Philadelphia a terrific read. A top-flight journalist has crafted a top-flight memoir, making clear his love for his city and his understanding of its colorful political landscape."" --Marciarose, Philadelphia broadcast pioneer  ""...a terrific book that stands with the best firsthand accounts of the city's recent history."" --Main Line Today  ""Larry Kane's life story is ultimately a lot like him. Driven, vulnerable, sincere, and infuriatingly likable."" --The Philadelphia Inquirer  ""[Kane] not only reveals the news behind the news but also his insider's assessment of our electronic journalism media. By his own description this book is not a history but a journal of important events in this community, witnessed by him from his perspective as a reporter...Whether your ancestors came to Philadelphia with William Penn or on the bus from Wilkes-Barre, Larry Kane's Philadelphia is a good read for lovers of this city."" --Philadelphia Public Record  ""This is [Larry's] story. In these pages are the ups and downs of a life well spent in broadcast journalism, gritty tales of city politics, of meetings with popes and presidents, of painful lessons and close calls. It's a story told with candor and suffused with affection for the city he calls home. Here Larry Kane shows you his world and his Philadelphia, and I can't think of a better guide."" --Dan Rather, from the Foreword	A first-hand look at Philadelphia's important events and people	Larry Kane is news anchor for Eyewitness News at 11 on KYW TV in Philadelphia.",20th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;communication & media studies;history;memoirs;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;state;state & local;united states,14
0374527156,"White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness Maybe this is what President Clinton had in mind when he tried to kickstart a national discussion on race. Berger's book is subjective, fragmented and, most appealingly, devoid of piety. The son of a dark-skinned but racist Sephardic Jewish mother and a pale-skinned father who admired but didn't know blacks, Berger was raised in a mostly black New York City housing project, where he found himself navigating the shoals of identity and allegiance. In this book, he juxtaposes his memories and observations with a collage of interviews, anecdotes and quotes from other writers?many of them black?about the way we mythologize race. In some ways, this is a particularly good subject for such an approach, since attitudes about race are so much a matter of individual perspective and experience. And his broadening of focus allows Berger to encompass some potent voices, from the dreadlocked black person mistaken for Whoopi Goldberg to the white-seeming black artist Adrian Piper, whose Calling Card 1, a work of art and functional calling card, alerts people to racist remarks. But the format also has its limitations. Berger's treatment of affirmative action doesn't give enough credit to strong criticisms, and the story of his university education, in which black intellectuals were slighted, isn't followed by acknowledgment of today's multiculturalism. (He now teaches at the New School for Social Research in New York.) But Berger deserves credit?and readers?for coming up with an idiosyncratic way to think publicly about the vexing problems of race and racism. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	White ""lite"" characterizes the type of racism on which Berger focuses in this interesting treatment on race relations. But that doesn't negate the substantial value of this book to the new genre that deals with whiteness as an appropriate focus of America's troubled race relations. Berger does a good job of highlighting the subtleties of modern racism as unconsciously practiced by white Americans. He notes that when such practices are pointed out, whites usually deny the implication, and embarrassment results. Berger also focuses on his own experience and background as a white orthodox Jew, growing up in New York. He was raised by a mother whose expressions of racism against blacks were mirrored by a preference, if not favoritism, his father felt toward blacks. Yet neither parent had substantive relations with blacks who were their neighbors. The book is rounded out with numerous race-significant experiences of some whites and a few blacks that further mirror the myths and lies under which we reflect, if not relate, in an interracial world.  Vernon Ford	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A book that is both immensely interesting and ultimately frustrating: part autobiographical vignettes, part a collection of anecdotes and quotes by whites and blacks on how each group perceives the other. Berger, a senior fellow at the New School's Vera List Center for Art and Politics, has a fascinating background: he is the son of lower-middle-class Jews, his mother a dark-skinned Sephardi with strong racist attitudes; his father highly sympathetic to the civil rights movement. As a gay man, Berger also is sensitive to being an oppressed, often ``hidden'' minority. His many short topical chapters, on such matters as ``Rage,'' ``Fear,'' ``Envy'' and ``Beauty,'' focus in an immediate, personal way on ``the game of racial avoidance and evasion.'' Berger performs a real service in discussing the most uncomfortable aspects of his subject, such as the competitive racial resentment he felt against a black man who was awarded a prestigious fellowship when Berger appeared better qualified. He also demonstrates through the evidence of numerous informants that ``white people, while vigilantly aware of the presence of blackness, are most often oblivious to the psychological and political weight of their own color.'' Yet Berger's almost exclusive reliance on autobiographical and anecdotal material precludes him from exploring with sufficient depth or nuance most of the topics he touches upon. He also errs more profoundly in positing the existence of ``whiteness'' as something more than a racial category, without paying more than glancing attention to the fact that ``white'' is as much a social construct as ``black.''  Many whites may relate to blacks in terms of crude stereotypes (e.g., that of disproportionate black drug use; Berger shows that whites are about as likely to use drugs as blacks). But to speak of ``whiteness'' itselfand at the end of his book, Berger extols the emerging field of ``whiteness studies''may undermine rather than advance a thoughtful, self-reflective dialogue between two major American races by propagating still another racial/ethnic myth.  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""The quoted passages . . . reveal exquisite taste and gather classic accounts of what whiteness means . . . Berger's frank autobiographical sections provide soaring insights.""--The Village Voice	Maurice Berger grew up in the Bernard Baruch Houses, a public housing project in New York City. He is Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.Berger's essay series,Race Stories, ""a continuing exploration of the relationship of race to photographic portrayals of race,"" appears monthly on theLens Blogof theNew York Times.	White LiesMOTHERMore than anything, my mother's life was shaped by her otherness: the darkness of her skin, eyes, and hair; her Sephardic heritage; her Hispanic-sounding maiden name. More than once she had been called a spic. More than once she had been called a kike, a hebe, a Jew bastard. More than once she had lost a job because a producer or casting director thought she was ""too dark"" or ""too Jewish."" My mother was the embodiment of the mutability of race, the evidence that terms like ""black"" and ""white"" are imprecise at best, living proof that miscegenation has blurred the racial boundaries of almost every one of us, confirmation that race itself is socially and culturally constructed.In nineteenth-century America the law in many states would have qualified people lighter-skinned than my mother as black because of the traces of African blood that coursed throughtheir veins. But by the 1920s my dark, small grandfather could slip past rigid quotas and through U. S. immigration as white on the basis of his word and the implied promise that he would strive to meet the immigrant ideal of an all-American whiteness.My mother's earliest memories were shaped in an environment of prejudice and fear. She was born in Germany in 1920. Her father, Norbert Secunda, a research assistant in the mathematics department of the University of Hamburg, had confronted the usual bigotry known to Jews in Germany in the years before the rise of National Socialism. His projects at the university were often ignored or stripped of funding. The ranking members of his department, who, in polite conversation, would frequently refer to the fact that he was Jewish, encouraged him to find work elsewhere. Fearing that he would not survive this situation, he immigrated with his family to the United States in 1927, leaving behind a steady income and most of his worldly possessions. His fears were prescient. By the end of World War II, nearly every member of both his and his wife's families--scores of men, women, and children--had been killed by the Nazis.Living in New York with her mother (her parents divorced soon after they immigrated), my mother decided to pursue a career as a singer. The prejudice she encountered played a significant role in undermining her professional life and destroying her morale. While she gave recitals at the Metropolitan Opera House, the old Brooklyn Paramount, and other venues in the late 1930s and early 1940s, her revered voice teacher, a retired soprano assigned through one of the programs of the WorksProgress Administration, was a destructive bigot and Jew hater. She continually warned my mother that if she did not convert to Roman Catholicism and capitalize on the ""Spanish good looks"" that would easily allow her to pass for Gentile, she would never make it in the professional opera world. My mother, an Orthodox Jew, would not even consider the idea. The teacher, initially one of my mother's greatest supporters, retaliated by relentlessly assigning Christian hymns (which my mother refused to sing), cutting back on her participation in student recitals, and refusing to write letters of reference or recommend her to agents and producers.My mother's dark, ethnic looks frequently prevented her from getting roles, even bit parts, in the small theater companies she turned to after her opera career stalled in the 1940s. She changed her name to the all-American, professional-sounding Karen Grant after a number of agents and producers warned her that her given name, Ruth Secunda, sounded too exotic, too Spanish, too Jewish. (The name Secunda had achieved national prominence in the late 1930s after the Yiddish song ""Bei Mir Bist du Schn,"" written by a relative of my mother, Sholom Secunda, became a hit for the Andrews Sisters.) After a brief stint in Miami in the late 1940s--where daily trips to the beach rendered her an even deeper shade of brown, leading producers to typecast her for roles in Latin nightclub revues--she returned to New York and took up work as a lingerie salesgirl. The only parts she could get were in the small Yiddish theater companies that still dotted Manhattan's Lower East Side.My mother's career ended when she met and married my father in 1954. Broke and living on the Lower East Side withher obsessive, overbearing stage mother, she saw my father as a way out of her failed life. Listening to her scratchy old 78 rpm demonstration records years later, I realized that her voice--an amalgam of coloratura grace, overwrought emotion, and quivery vibrato--probably would not have made her a star. But I have never doubted that racism and anti-Semitism helped to undermine her self-image and her will. She would never forgive the bigots who she believed thwarted her professional life and forced her to trade a future on the stage for a life of poverty and hardship. Even on her deathbed, she found a way of blaming her terminal illness on prejudice. Medical researchers had long suspected that cancer was caused by repressed rage, she told me, and an early death was the price she was paying for years of buried anger against the Jew haters who had destroyed her life.Copyright  1999 by Maurice Berger",anthropology;books;cultural;discrimination & racism;ethnic studies;humor & entertainment;minority studies;new;politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,14
0721628907,"Diagnostic Imaging: Head and Neck, 1e ""This is a textbook for the Information Age...The book's 'unique bulleted format' accomplishes everything a highlighter does, and more."" -Jane L. Weissman, MD, FACR; Professor of Radiology, Otolaryngology, and Ophthalmology; Oregon Health and Science University ""[A] comprehensive and wonderfully illustrated text.  The strength of this text lies in the extensive information and easy to navigate format.  I highly recommend this book to the practicing neuroradiologist or the advanced trainee preparing for the neuroradiology CAQ exam."" -AuntMinnie.com, Jan. 2005 ""Although written primarily for radiologists,...the quality of the illustrations and the comprehensive, well-organized review of the included material should make this book particularly attractive to neurotologists and head and neck oncology surgeons, as well as to otolaryngology academic department libraries."" -Annals of Otology, Rhinology, & Laryngology, 2005 ""Diagnostic Imaging: Brain, Diagnostic Imaging: Spine, and Diagnostic Imaging: Head & Neck...present the reader with a remarkable set of beautifully illustrated and highly educational textbooks.""[T]he color illustrations alone are worth the price of admission, not only because they convey the essentials of the diagnosis, but also because they spectacularly correlate with the CT and MR images...Buy this set of three books, recommend them to all those in neurosciences, make sure your departmental library has every one of the volumes, and refer to them often.""- AJNR Aug. 2005""Diagnostic Imaging: Head and Neck is the third volume of the Diagnostic Imaging series by Amirsys, Inc.""""There are four general sections: I) Temporal Bone and Skull Base; II) Orbit, Nose, and Sinuses; III) Suprahyoid and Infrahyoid Neck; and IV) Pediatric and Transspatial Lesions. In each section, the disease processes are described with special attention paid to terminology and imaging findings, both computerized tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, with references to required sequences. The book may be of assistance to the clinician interested in having a more informed dialogue with his consultant radiologists.""""It will hopefully be available in many libraries| Skull base surgeons or those involved in the training of residents may want to have one handy in their deparment."" Journal of Neurosurgery, January 2006	Today's best single source of guidance on head and neck diagnostic imaging!",books;clinical;diagnostic imaging;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;otolaryngology;otorhinolaryngology;radiology;radiology & nuclear medicine;surgery;used & rental textbooks,14
0791455602,"Chaim Perelman (Suny Series, Rhetoric in the Modern Era) This accessible book examines the philosophical foundations of Chaim Perelman's rhetorical theory. In addition to offering a brief biography, it explores Perelman's deep philosophical commitments and his concern for the ways in which the details of actual texts realize those commitments. The authors show that Perelman still reigns supreme when it comes to the elucidation of actual texts. His is a micro-analysis of arguments, one that is endlessly suggestive of ways of analyzing texts at the level of the word and phrase, the arrangement of parts, and the structure of arguments.	Alan G. Gross is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He is the author and editor of several books, including the SUNY Press publication Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science (coedited with William M. Keith). Ray D. Dearin is Professor of English and Political Science at Iowa State University. He is the author of The New Rhetoric of Chaim Perelman: Statement and Response.",books;education & reference;history & surveys;humanities;language & grammar;logic;logic & language;modern;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;rhetoric;used & rental textbooks;words,14
0735619409,Migrating from Microsoft® Windows NT® Server 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 Developed by senior editors and content managers at Microsoft Corporation.,books;client-server systems;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;home computing & how-to;internet & web culture;microsoft;network administration;networking;networks;operating systems;programming;protocols & apis;windows os,14
0465076165,Seductions Of Crime: Moral And Sensual Attractions In Doing Evil Jack Katz is professor of sociology at UCLA.,behavioral sciences;books;criminology;fitness & dieting;good & evil;health;medical books;pathologies;philosophy;politics & social sciences;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;social sciences,14
0826477240,"Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis (Continuum Discourse) 'Corpus methodologies have a huge potential for use in discourse studies, and Paul Baker has written a superb introduction that combines common sense and academic expertise. As a practical 'how-to' advisor he provides an accessible explanation of the key technical and interpretative issues. As an advocate of innovation, he is sensitive to the priorities and the research paradigms of both the discourse analyst and the corpus linguist. This is a splendid book that will inspire a new generation of research.'Professor Susan Hunston, Department of English, University of Birmingham.'We are given examples of research which demonstrate the various techniques and these can be intriguing...Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis should indeed build bridges, for those who are not already using them, but it will also be useful to anyone interested in language as it is used in texts...the generative nature of the techniques should be stimulating for all those who monitor language use...' (Alison Duguid Times Literary Supplement )Baker (Lancaster University, UK) looks at how corpora (computerized collections of naturally occurring language samples) can be used for discourse analysis. The book has four particular strengths. First, the author explains corpus methodologies thoroughly, including frequency and dispersion, concordances, collocates, and keyness. Second, the grounds his explanations in concrete analyses of discourse used in tourism brochures, fox-hunting debates, and news articles on refugees (among other texts), thereby offering exemplars of the methodology; included are several tabular examples of analysis. And fourth, he explores the strengths and limitations of corpus analysis, explaining the need for self-reflection with respect to methodological decision-making. An excellent guide to the scope and method of corpus linguistics as applied to discourse analysis, this book on research methods will be valuable to those in linguistics, rhetoric and communication, literary theory and other humanities fields. (CHOICE )Is a necessity for any researcher, practitioner or student interested in the interplay of content, discourse and corpus linguistics. It is a practical, hands-on guide that articulately explores the complex workings of corpora building and analysis. It is a valuable contribution for both the novice exploring the field and the more experienced scholar aiming to refresh their understanding of this ever-growing, ever-evolving discipline. (Discourse Studies )Is a necessity for any researcher, practitioner or student interested in the interplay of content, discourse and corpus linguistics. It is a practical, hands-on guide that articulately explores the complex workings of corpora building and analysis. It is a valuable contribution for both the novice exploring the field and the more experienced scholar aiming to refresh their understanding of this ever-growing, ever-evolving discipline. (, )	Paul Baker is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Modern English language at Lancaster University, UK.",books;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;history & criticism;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;postmodernism;semantics;used & rental textbooks;words,14
B00002252U,"Tie Down Engineering LH-200H TranzSporter 26-1/2 Foot 200 Pound 4 Horsepower Hoist with Honda Engine The TranzSporter hoist has raised the standard for roofing equipment. From the stamped steel frame, double brake system to the oven baked powder coat finish, the LH200 platform hoist is designed with safety and long term durability in mind. The TranzSporter will make your next construction job easier and more efficient. The gas powered platform hoist is ideal for moving roofing shingles, roofing felt, insulation, lumber and other roofing material at remote building sites and hard to reach locations.   The LH200 comes complete with (1) 2.5 ft. steel base unit, (1) carriage deck assembly, (3) 8 ft track sections, (1) power base.  Features include:   Unitized design, fewer parts, stronger, less maintenance. Non-slip carriage deck. Heavy duty steel frame. Spring loaded safety latch, to hold carriage when transporting. Oven baked, black powder coat finish. Multi-purpose bracket to hoist plywood or rolled goods included Wide Foot Plate, better control. Permanent safety information. Large steel foot pads, last longer. Strong, lightweight aluminum track sections. Versatile brake handle attaches to either side. Dual brake system, smoother stops. Steel belt guard for safety. Lift up to 44 feet with additional track sections and support braces purchased separately.  Specifications:  Lift load limit: 200 pounds Base height: 3 feet (steel) Aluminum track sections: 3 - 8 feet Brake system: Dual Packaged height: 27 feet Engine: 4 HP Honda  Note: This item cannot be returned to Amazon.com. If for any reason you need to return this item, please contact our customer service department at home-returns@amazon.com.",building supplies;electric hoists;hand chain hoists;hoists;hoists & accessories;hoists & pulleys;industrial & scientific;manual hoists;material handling;material handling products;power hoists;pulling & lifting;tools & home improvement;winches,14
0099752212,"Daisy Bates in the Desert Blackburn ( The Emperor's Last Island ) here presents a biography of the extraordinarily determined and independent Daisy Bates who, in 1913, at age 54, removed herself from England to Australia's red desert outback as a self-appointed champion of the Aborigines. She remained there until her death in 1956. She not only shared the Aborigines way of life but so gained their confidence that she was made privy to the men's secret rites. The author traces Bates's steps and draws on her voluminous notebooks and letters, which reveal her as an acute observer of nature and a gifted writer whose works were imbued with dreams and hallucinations. Blackburn superbly fills in gaps with her own research and sympathetic imagination, while preserving the enchantment that Bates herself wove. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Irish-born Bates dedicated the greatest portion of her life to living with and studying the Aborigines of Australia. In this book, Blackburn explores the life and work of this extraordinary woman. The first part presents information gained through the author's scholarly research, interviews, and travels; the second is a lengthy account of Bates's day-to-day life written from the perspective of Bates herself. The latter section is no doubt the most rewarding portion of the book, as it is well written and draws the reader into the absorbing re-creation of a long-term desert experience. In addition to Bates's personal life, the book addresses many topics relating to life in the early 1900s in Australia. Recommended as an informative, entertaining, and descriptive addition to general travel and anthropology collections.Jo-Anne Mary Benson, Osgoode, OntarioCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	An intriguing hybrid: part biography, part creative interrogation/reimagination of the life of an elusive Irishwoman who lived among the Aborigines in the Australian outback during the first half of the 20th century. How do you write a biography of a figure who relentlessly changed the facts of her life along the way, yet whose copious diary entries were full of intimate details about her sojourn among the Aborigines? Blackburn (The Emperor's Last Stand, not reviewed) attempts various literary and research stratagems--chief among them being her admitting that it is impossible to know much with certainty: ``Daisy Bates was a liar, of that I am sure, but the extent and the exact details of her lies remain a difficult territory for which no good maps have survived.'' As Blackburn's account of her attempt to uncover the facts about Bates gets interlaced with suppositions, false hints, and inconsistencies, the author more and more consciously identifies with her subject. We know Bates was given a government grant to study the Aborigines' customs, that she learned the language of the various totem clans, argued staunchly in the face of skeptics that they were cannibalistic, championed their rights to a large area undisturbed by whites, and lived with them in relative isolation for over 30 years. But even when the narrative goes from the first person of Blackburn as self-conscious biographer to the long central section in the reconstructed voice of Bates herself, we never learn too much about the relation of the Aborigines to Kabbarli (meaning grandmother), as Bates was called by them. Among the most fully pieced-together experiences are the ceremony in which she was made the ``Keeper of the Totems'' and the building of the transcontinental railroad through the Great Victoria Desert, which hastened the destruction of the land and the indigenous culture. A cryptic exploration into the avowedly subjective, murky terrain called biography, with occasional lyrical insights. -- Copyright 1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""She has extended the boundaries of biography with an exhilarating exercise in imaginative power and a brilliant piece of writing"" -- Anne Chisholm Observer ""The book is full of vivid, astonishing images"" -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett The Times ""Brilliant... enchanting"" -- Jan Morris Independent	In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this ""eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman"" (New York Times Book Review) tells a fascinating, true story in the tradition of Isak Dinesen and Barry Lopez.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Julia Blackburn has written five books of non-fiction - Charles Waterton, The Emperor's Last Island, Daisy Bates in the Desert, Old Man Goya and With Billie - a family memoir, The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J. R. Ackerley Award, and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize.  She is the author of seventeen short stories specially commisioned by BBC Radio, a selection of which were published in My Animals and Other Family, and four radio plays, including The Spellbound Horses.	OneThere was once a woman who lived in the desert. There had been no rain for a long time and her eyes were tired from the dazzling brightness of the sky above her, the red monotony of the sandhills that surrounded her like a vast ocean. She wanted something green to look at so she took the stalk of a cabbage and leant it against the smooth trunk of the acacia tree that stood near her tent. Then she sat and stared at it, her thoughts drifting in the heat of the day.I wonder how long that cabbage stalk managed to keep its colour and did the woman ever laugh when she realised it was still there, a sentinel standing guard over her after everyone else had gone home. Or did she not feel there was anything to laugh at, sitting in the doorway of her tent and gazing out, mesmerised by a fragment of green?She looks down on the softly breathing skin of the lizard that sometimes sits on her lap in the afternoon, basking and catching flies. She imagines the sound the rain will make when it does finally come, like the pattering of flies' feet on the canvas of her tent. The rain will break through the layer of metallic scum that covers the surface of the water in the tank that is almost empty. The rain will bring back the birds with their shining feathers; it will bring life back into the desert and then she will watch as groups of naked people again make their way towards her camp. She looks down at the cloth of her long skirt which used to have a dense blackness but has now been turned into a strange patchwork of dull dark greens. She sees herself as a child in Ireland running through fields of deep grass; herself as a young woman watching a coastline receding into the far distance; herself as an old woman, here in the desert.TWOThere was once a woman who lived in the desert and her name was Daisy Bates. I have set out a series of photographs of her on the table in front of me, like playing cards in the opening sequence of a game of patience. I look at the movement from youth to an extreme old age and in spite of the camouflage of time it is not difficult to recognise the same defiant face and the same stiff-backed body.The young woman has an ear-ring hanging from the small lobe of her right ear and she is staring out into a sideways distance with pale eyes. How old is she, twenty perhaps? In that case she has seventy-one more years of her life ahead of her, all that battling and hammering at the gates of people and circumstance still to come. I try to decide from the expression on her face if she is as wealthy as she later said she was, or as poor as it seems she might have been. Daisy Bates was a liar, of that I am sure, but the extent and the exact details of her lies remain a difficult territory for which no good maps have survived.I make a jump through time and here I have my subject in early middle age, at the mid-point in her life, just as I am now, with the past and the future in a state of delicate balance. She has white-gloved hands folded on a black-skirted lap, a high-collared white shirt, a black tie, a black turban of a hat that looks as if it could also be used as a tea-cosy, and terrible dark glasses with round owlish frames that make her appear sinister, frightening, fierce, dangerous, difficult in every way that a woman like her could be difficult. I think I can just see her eyes through the dimmed glass and it seems again as if she is staring away from the lens of the camera, but now there is something disdainful in her expression, as if she does not want to waste her time looking ahead when there are so many more important things to be seen in another direction.I imagine that the next picture I have chosen was taken somewhere on the Nullarbor Plain, the no-tree plain of southern Australia; you can see it stretching out around her and behind her, a parking lot of featureless land disappearing into infinity without even the distraction of a little bush or the rise of a hill. Daisy Bates is sitting on a chair in the middle of this expanse, her back as stiff as ever, and I can't see any sign of her tent. A wooden tea-chest is on the ground quite close to her and a large but unidentifiable object with a sheet draped over it is a bit further away on her left; she might be in the process of moving her campsite and then these things would be some of her worldly goods, packed up and ready to go. She is wearing an elegant, unbuttoned, black and white striped jacket, with a soft hat of indistinct shape pulled down on her head, and she is looking sad and serious but rather beautiful. There is a white cloth spread out on her lap and on it is perched a human skull without the lower jaw. Perhaps this photograph was taken to illustrate her belief that the Aborigines were a doomed race who would soon all be dead and gone with no one but herself to care about them and witness their passing, but again there is no way of being sure; it could also be the skull of a white man or woman.Finally here is Daisy Bates when she was nearing the end of her life, a woman in her late eighties with the skin of her neck slack and reptilian and the lines on her face cut so deep that her chin seems to be attached by a hinge like a ventriloquist's dummy, while the creases down her cheeks and across her forehead could surely be felt by hands lightly searching for them in the darkness. The photograph was taken by the English society photographer Douglas Glass. He was in Adelaide for a few days in 1948, waiting for the boat that would take him back to England, and he began to make inquiries about Mrs Bates. He had read her book, The Passing of the Aborigines, and he must have heard quite a lot about her because by then she had become something of a legend, particularly in that part of southern Australia. Everyone he asked said she was dead; died some years ago in hospital, died just recently at Streaky Bay, no, at Yuria Waters further along the coast. They said she was very sad, demented, misguided, good, brave, bad; natives all gone and left her-beggars and derelicts, drunks and syphilitics-natives still there, with her to the end, dreadful sorrow. Eventually he tracked her down and found her living in a little suburban bungalow just outside Adelaide and being looked after by a lady friend she didn't seem to like very much. She was apparently delighted to meet Mr Glass. She dressed herself up in her best suit, the one that had been made for her in Perth in 1905; she clasped her umbrella in one hand and her handbag in the other and she posed on the verandah, an aged empress on her throne. There were daisies growing in the garden and she picked a few of them and held them between finger and thumb, gazing thoughtfully at her own namesakes. She went inside her little room and sat down to pretend to be reading some of her papers with a magnifying glass, the light from the window shining through the white strands of her hair. She led Mr Glass outside into the scrap of garden and showed him how she could touch her toes, swing her arms like the blades of a windmill and how well she could skip, up, up, up. 'Look, Mr Glass! Look at me!' Mrs Bates at the age of eighty-nine skipping in a field of daisies, or at least next to a flower bed in which a clump of daisies are growing. She laughs and says, 'So, Mr Glass, you must send the photographs to the newspapers. That will show them that I am not dead yet and don't intend to be either, there is still so much to be done.'I would imagine that Mrs Bates told Mr Glass all about her life, especially her life once she had found her direction and was living in the desert. Her voice was deep, soft and clear even when she was very old, and even when she was very old she presumed that any man who pleased her would love to hold her in his arms if only she would agree to being held. I imagine her talking and talking for hours without a pause; the monologue of an isolated person who allows the threads of private thoughts to surface in letters and conversations, even in conversations with strangers. But perhaps by now she is much too old to talk like that and instead she sits there on the verandah, drinking tea and smiling, providing only tiny and truncated snippets of information that drift in the air like smoke.If I could dictate the words, turn my idea of her thoughts into my idea of her speech, then she would begin by saying, 'I was once very beautiful, Mr Glass, but now as you can see I am very old instead,' pausing to let him stare and smile at her with the tolerant intimacy of someone who will not be staying long, inviting him to undress her of the burden of her age. She does not tell him that every morning she still stands naked in front of a mirror and because the sandy blight has made her eyes so dim she again sees before her, shimmering in the glass, the pink and delicate apparition of a youthful body. She does not tell him, but she looks into his eyes and there for a fleeting moment she can see herself as she once was.An old lady is talking to a young man, wanting to charm him, to impress him with the complex uniqueness of her story so that he can carry some of it away with him when he goes, help her to outlive herself. Here she is, speaking, and if she says more than maybe she ever did or could say in a real conversation, that is because I am allowing her to speak with her thoughts just as much as with her voice.'I lived in the desert for almost thirty years,' she says. 'That explains why the lines on my face are cut so deep. Look, you can see how the sun has burnt dark patches on the skin of my hands, my face, my neck, in spite of the protection of gloves and hats with long veils. My eyes are so tired, Mr Glass, and sometimes in the early morning when I wake up I seem to open them into a storm of heat and dust.'I was five years at Eucla, on the south coast by the high steep cliffs. That was not my first camp, but it was the place where I first felt that I had cut the few remaining ties that held me to my own world. In the spring I could listen to the whales singing to each other in their wonderful solemn voices. The sound carries...	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",australia;australia & south pacific;australian;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;ethnic & national;general;research & publishing guides;specific groups;travel;travel writing;women;writing,14
0750907568,"Cheshire - Cheshire Railways Pb (Britain in Old Photographs) Mike Hitches is a railway historian whose books include Derbyshire Railways, Lancashire Railways,and Steam Around Wolverhampton.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",arts & photography;books;business & investing;education & reference;food;historical study & educational resources;history;industries & professions;lodging & transportation;photography;railroad travel;social history;transportation;travel,14
B000FA60ZE,"Revelation (New Testament Readings) 'Brilliant and original ... [Garrow] resolves the disputed question of the content of the sealed scroll' |I John Sweet, Journal of Theological Studies	A. J. P. Garrow is Curate of Waltham Abbey Church in Essex, England.",bible;bible & other sacred texts;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;education & reference;kindle ebooks;kindle store;meditations;new testament study;reference;religion & spirituality;theology;worship & devotion,14
0471120278,"Adobe Illustrator Paths and Curves This book teaches readers how to construct aesthetically pleasing and technically sound curves and other paths in Adobe Illustrator, the premiere package of its kind for desktop designers and artists. Curves and paths are critical elements in today's sophisticated illustrations, and yet they also are among the most demanding components to create. Beginning with a general discussion of curves in art and nature, the book shows how high-quality curves in desktop publishing software are based on the Bezier system, which uses tangents to define the slope and direction of the path. The book details hands-on techniques for creating and managing curves and paths in Illustrator. Other topics covered include connecting curves to straight lines, connecting one curve to another, and limiting the number of points in a curve to ensure smoothness and to avoid the chances of crashing the output devices.	Unleash the full power of the world's number one illustration software.    Creating paths and curves is one of the most difficult tasks in Adobe Illustrator. Yet there are only a scant ten pages on it in the documentation!    Help is here. Adobe Illustrator Paths and Curves shows you just how easy it can be to construct beautiful, technically sound paths and curves, every time! That means no more choppy, irregular lines and no more fatal technical errors.    Written by an illustrator for illustrators, this book approaches the subject from an artist'snot a programmer'spoint of view. Working from the ""inside out,"" Ken Batelman first introduces you to the basic science of curves as they occur in art and nature. Next, in down-to-earth, jargon-free language, he tells you what makes Illustrator tickhow the program interprets the data and transforms it into the images you see. Then, step-by-step, he shows you how to apply that knowledge to solve design and illustration problems as they occur and to get the most out of Illustrator's rendering features. Even if you've never used Illustrator before, by following Ken's carefully paced approach, in no time you'll: Create beautiful, smooth curves using the least number of points Connect curves to straight lines Connect one curve to another Combine paths to create images Avoid print errors and crashing your output devices Master all of Illustrator's amazing drawing capabilities!    And since a picture's worth at least a thousand words, Adobe Illustrator Paths and Curves includes hundreds of professional-quality figures and illustrations that help bring the concepts and techniques discussed into sharp focus.	KENNETH BATELMAN is a professional illustrator with more than eight years' experience with Adobe Illustrator. He also teaches courses in Adobe Illustrator at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.",adobe creative suite;adobe illustrator;books;computer science;computers & technology;desktop publishing;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;graphics & visualization;new;programming;software;used & rental textbooks;web development & design,14
0789726815,"Visual Basic.NET Database Programming Visual Basic.NET Database Programming walks the readers stepbystep through the topics they need to know to use databases effectively. This book teaches with realworld scenarios how to load, display, manipulate, modify and save data in databases. It shows the reader how to build multitier applications that implement enterprisewide business solutions, build Web Servers, manage large amounts of data, find specific records, sort data, perform complex queries, and use XMLan integral part of data handling in Visual Basic.NET.	Rod Stephens began life as a mathematician but, in the 1980s at MIT, discovered   the joys of computer algorithms and has been programming professionally ever   since. During his tenure at GTE Laboratories, he used relational databases to   build several large award-winning applications that are still in use today. More   recently he has worked on projects ranging from tax software for the state of   Minnesota to a training system for professional football teams.    Rod has written 12 programming books that have been translated into several   languages, and more than 150 magazine articles covering Visual Basic, Visual   Basic for Applications, Delphi, and Java. His popular VB Helper Web site   (www.vb-helper.com) receives more than a million hits per month. VB Helper   includes information on Rods books, essays, tutorials, and more than a thousand   example programs for Visual Basic programmers.",books;computer science;computers & technology;database storage & design;databases;education & reference;hardware;languages & tools;new;pcs;programming;programming languages;used & rental textbooks;visual basic,14
0195083040,"Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations Smith, the coauthor of a widely read text on Latin American history, provides a well-written, provocative exploration of the relationship between Latin America and the United States since independence. Synthesizing other works, the author uses an international relations approach to illuminate the posture of each toward the other and to speculate about the consequences of their interaction. Although Smith explores many variables in explaining the relationship, he considers extrahemispheric actors fundamental, seeing the relationship as having traveled through three stages: imperial, Cold War, and uncertainty. He concludes that over time this relationship responded to prevailing international rules but that these rules are as yet undefined for the immediate future. An excellent overview; highly recommended for academic collections.?Roderic A. Camp, Latin American Ctr., Tulane Univ., New OrleansCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""A well-written, provocative exploration of the relationship between Latin America and the United States since independence....An excellent overview.""--Library Journal""Peter H. Smith...has written a timely and valuable book that aptly recalls how Roosevelt's decade of the 1930s still stands out as 'a golden era of U.S. relations with Latin America.' He then expertly traces the decline of the region's importance since the Roosevelt era until it has become a mere appendage to the East-West conflict.""--The Washington Post Book World	Peter H. Smith is Professor of Political Science, Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studies, and Director of Latin American Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is a prominent author, commentator, and advisor on Latin American politics and on U.S.-Latin American relations. His most recent books include pathbreaking studies on drug trafficking and regional integration. He is the co-author of Modern Latin America (Fourth Edition, 1996).",19th century;20th century;books;caribbean & latin american;history;international & world politics;international relations;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
0300062877,"The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France, 1750-1820 Ribeiro, head of the History of Dress Department at the University of London, explores 18th century fashion by examining how period artists portrayed individuals. English and French portraits from 1750-1820 are utilized to show how social and cultural changes were reflected in fashions and art depictions of the times.  -- Midwest Book Review",arts & photography;books;commercial;criticism;customs & traditions;decorative arts & design;fashion;fashion design;graphic design;history;history & criticism;politics & social sciences;social sciences;textile & costume,14
1580050441,"Coming Out of Cancer: Writings from the Lesbian Cancer Epidemic While the term ""epidemic"" is slightly misleading, according to Dr. Susan Love (interviewed in this collection), lesbians may indeed be at a greater risk for breast cancer because they are less likely to get pregnant, and early pregnancy helps prevent the disease. In addition, editor Brownworth writes, ""Our experiences with sexism, homophobia and racism make it less likely for us to seek out medical care."" Brownworth, a medical reporter and author (Too Queer: Essays from a Radical Life, etc.), has collected stories, memoirs, poetry, graphic art and articles written by and about lesbians with cancer. The volume opens with a selection by the late poet Audre Lorde, whose Cancer Journals were among the first writings to bring breast cancer out of the closet. An excerpt from Ellen Leopold's collection of Rachel Carson's letters to her physician documents the environmentalist's struggle to understand her disease (the author of Silent Spring saw a connection between pesticides and cancer). Exceptionally moving is ""Who Killed the Shark?"" in which Brownworth pays tribute to an early lover who endured a long, painful death from colon cancer because she was too poor to have access to competent medical attention. Paula Berg, a health law professor, provides clear information on how to obtain adequate health insurance for cancer treatments. Joan Nestle, co-founder of New York City's Herstory Archives, describes her battle with colon cancer, and there is a moving and erotic excerpt from the novel Murder at the Nightwood Bar by Katherine V. Forrest. Covering a broad range of experiences, this is a rich and useful collection that will have no trouble reaching its target market among lesbian readers. (Oct.) FYI: All proceeds from this volume will be donated to the Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Journalist and lesbian activist Brownworth has edited a highly subjective and personal collection of fiction and nonfiction by 30 lesbian writers who have been (or whose characters have been) diagnosed with cancer. Among these well-respected writers is the late Audre Lorde, represented by an excerpt from A Burst of Light (1988), which describes her search for an alternative therapy for breast cancer in the mid-1980s and the obstacles presented by the medical establishment. Excerpts from letters by Rachel Carson to her physician, in which she deals with her breast cancer in a scientific and detached style, make for riveting reading. In a 1999 interview, oncologist Susan Love discusses whether lesbians actually are at increased risk for breast cancer. The trend toward consumer empowerment, as well as caregivers' heightened awareness of the need for cultural competence and sensitivity to lesbian and trangendered patients, highlights the progress that has been made in just a few short years. It should be noted that this book was compiled as a benefit for the nonprofit Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer in Washington, DC. Because it includes poetry, fiction, and a history of lesbian cancer activism, this book is recommended not just for large consumer health libraries but also for collections in women's and lesbian studies.DMartha E. Stone, Massachusetts General Hosp. Lib., Boston Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.",alternative medicine;books;cancer;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;gay & lesbian;healing;health;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;specific demographics,14
0130813559,"Children's Literature: Engaging Teachers and Children in Good Books Children's Literature: Engaging Teachers and Children in good Books is based on a two-part philosophy...   a passion for children's books is contagious. To get students passionate about reading, teachers need to be passionate about children's literature. text sets are the cornerstone for literature-based reading. Each chapter opens with a suggested text set and an authentic student response; alternative text sets appear within each chapter.   Children's Literature: Engaging Teachers and Children in good Books has several key, unique features...   Original interviews with 21 children's book authors/illustrators Integrated technology features including Internet teaching strategies, an accompanying free CD database, and guidance for using the Companion Website Teaching Tips that share practical K-8 teaching strategies and	Special Thanks   To Caldecott winner David Wisniewski, for the inspirational cover art he created specifically for this text. We have always loved his work and are so thrilled with his contribution! With crisp, clean lines, David has captured both the beauty and excitement we feel every time we open a good book.    We are also grateful to acclaimed children's book writer and illustrator Steven Kellogg for providing original art to accompany many of the text's features. Steven's paintings have graced over 100 books, and we are privileged to have all of his little critters and characters accent our text.   What Makes This Book Different?   We believe a big key to successful reading instruction is bringing children and books so closely together that children respond in much the same way we adults do when we are lost in a great novel. All sense of space, place, and time dissolves and we become one with the book. We call this ratified state ""engaged reading"" and firmly believe that if we, as parents and teachers, help create the proper ""fit"" between reader and text, we will see real, purposeful reading like this take place.   Engaging Readers   In this book we describe that state of engaged reading in detail, discuss ways you can nurture it in your classroom, then offer you thousands of books across nine major genres ready to present to your students. Finally, we spend a great deal of time discussing how to teach most effectively using children's literature. Visual Literacy   Visual Literacy   We believe the art involved in children's trade books is fascinating, often breathtaking, and well worth study. That's why the art contributed by David Wisniewski and Steven Kellogg means so much to us. That's also why we have included numerous full-color book covers and inside art throughout the text, including a special, in-depth look at picture book art in Chapter 2.   Highlighting Exceptional Literature   Because our purpose in writing this text is to engage our readers in the world of children's literature and to pass on our passion for this literature, we feature many trade book covers throughout the chapters. Booksellers and librarians tell us that the sure way to ""sell"" a book is to have it displayed on the shelf face out. So, we did the same on the pages of this book. We believe that by seeing books presented this way in this text, our readers will develop a real interest in seeking out the books we discuss. We also think we will make it easier for our readers to recognize these books in libraries, in bookstores, or on line.    In keeping with this philosophy, all the children's literature titles we discuss are highlighted in bold and italic for easy access. We think that it makes it easier on your eye as it moves down the page. At a glance you will be able to pick up titles you want to reference as you return to the text on subsequent readings. We have also painstakingly included as many up-to-date titles as possible without forsaking the classics.    Coverage of the best titles from multicultural and international literature is included, not just in its own chapter, but throughout the book. This reflects our belief that multicultural and international literature should not be segregated to its own study, but should be a constant part of a balanced literature program.   Organization of This Book   Unit 1, Engaging Readers in Good Books, begins with a proactive approach to reading. We investigate first what books hold for us and what it means to become an engaged reader. We then look at criteria for judging a book, noting both the text and the pictures as major considerations.    Unit 2, The Good Books Themselves, deals with the specific genres in children's literature. Within each chapter we provide genre-specific criteria for evaluating books. We begin, as a new parent might, by discussing Picture Books and follow it with a chapter on Poetry. Next we look at Traditional Fantasy and its natural companion, Modern Fantasy. We then address the more ""real"" genres of Contemporary Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, and Multicultural and International Books. Finally we detail the important and kid-popular genres of Informational Books and Biography.    Unit 3, Using Good Books in the Classroom, turns our attention to the classroom. We focus first on how to motivate children to read. Then we address how to go about teaching reading using the wide variety of children's literature available to us today. Next we look at ways to assess and evaluate our teaching and the progress of our students. Finally, we concentrate on how we can teach across the curriculum using children's literature.   Special Features  Text Sets   A text set, a group of interrelated titles perfect for read aloud and independent reading, begins each chapter. From this list of books, a student has chosen to read and respond to one title. That response, as well as an excerpt from the highlighted title, accompany the text set in the opening pages of each chapter. Alternate Text Sets, interspersed throughout the chapters, could also be used in either the college classroom setting or the elementary classroom with children.   Bookmark: Integrating Technology   This feature in every chapter encourages and guides Internet use to find author information, classroom activities, and resources for further research.   A Conversation With . . .   Appearing throughout the text are original interviews, which not only introduce readers to some of the most interesting personalities in children's literature, but also provide insight into the process, challenges, and goals of creating meaningful literature for young readers.    Featured authors and illustrators include: Lloyd Alexander, Joseph Bruchac, Karen Cushman, Cynthia DeFelice, Russell Freedman, James Cross Giblin, Susan Guevara, Lee Bennett Hopkins, James Howe, Steven Kellogg, Eric Kimmel, Lois Lowry, Bill Martin, Jr., Gary Paulsen, Allen Say, Alice Schertle, David M. Schwartz, Jerry and Eileen Spinelli, David Wiesner, and Paul O. Zelinski.   Teaching Ideas   These teaching examples and recommendations for covering chapter topics in K-8 classrooms help readers put children's literature into action.   Did You Know?   We include interesting facts about children's literature, the inside scoop on what is new and interesting in the field, and even a little gossip from time to time.   Margin Notes   Integrate the use of the text's CD-ROM database of children's literature. This database includes over 14,000 children's titles and is searchable across eleven fields. Integrate our Companion Website, www.prenhall.com/darigan, referring readers to a wealth of additional resources, including meaningful links to the World Wide Web, self-assessment opportunities, and activities.   Book Lists   At the end of each chapter we include lists of books not mentioned within the body of the chapter, but which we believe are must-reads.    Fifteen More We Like annotates notable books we feel are important to the genre. Others We Like lists, other books we think everyone will want to read.   Supplements  CD-ROM   Free with every copy of the text, this database of children's literature titles contains more than 14,000 titles searchable across eleven fields, including an exhaustive list of award winners.   Companion Website   This resource for students and professors, at www.prenhall.com/darigan, contains classroom cases, author interviews, activities, self-assessments, meaningful links, as well as a message board and chat facilities.   Instructor's Manual   This free supplement provides professors with chapter overviews, objectives, and a test bank.    Within the pages of any book is a promise: the promise of a good story-an evocative tale that may touch your heart or make you laugh. It may provide you with a fact or piece of data that you didn't know before. We hope this book is no exception. We'd love to think that you will enjoy reading this book now and return to it often. We also hope that this book will prompt you to delve deeper into the rich literature that is available to children. We hope you will see children's literature with new eyes and a fresh outlook as a consequence of reading these pages. We want you to become ""engaged readers"" so you can turn children across the nation and the world on to books.",books;children's books;children's literature guides;criticism & theory;education;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;lesson planning;literature;literature & fiction;new;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,14
0715631713,"Roman Aqueducts and Water Supply (Duckworth Archaeology) ""the book is thorough, utterly practical and highly readable and it will be a long time before it is superseded."" -- M.J.T. Lewis, Nature brings together vast quantities of information in a lively and highly readable form, with notes,illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography. -- Harry B. Evans, American Journal of Archaeology	A. Trevor Hodge is Distinguished Research Professor of Classics at Carleton University, Ottawa.",africa;ancient;books;civil;early civilization;engineering;europe;history;middle east;professional & technical;rome;science & math;technology;world,14
0872441229,"Glenn Elliott: A Ranger's Ranger Attention to detail from case files provide the reader with  ... insight into the workings of a lengendary law enforcement agency.  -- Oklahoma State Trooper Magazine Best of the new breed [Ranger books] is A Ranger's  Ranger. -- Kent Biffle - The Dallas Morning News The book would no doubt appeal to the hundreds of law  enforcement officials... -- The Marshall (Tx) News Messenger	Glenn Elliott was born in Texas on August 1, 1926, on a  small farm in Fannin County. Glenn began his life as a law officer  during World War II. He entered the Army in 1944, where he served in  the Philippine Islands as an MP. After the war, Glenn began a  distinguished thirty-eight-year career with the Texas Department of  Public Safety. Glenn served as a Highway Patrolman stationed in  Longview until October 8, 1961, when he became a Texas Ranger  stationed in the Longview-Marshall area.    During his illustrious career, Glenn has shaken the hand of every  president from Harry Truman through George Bush. Governors, senators,  representatives, nationally known celebrities, fellow law officers,  and citizens are proud to call Glenn their friend.    On August 31, 1987, Glenn retired. On a ranch east of Marshall, Texas,  his retirement party attended by over four hundred. He now spends his  time tending his farm at the home place in Windom, promoting his  autobiography, A Rangers Ranger, giving speeches, and meeting with  friends.    Robert Nieman was born in McLeansboro, Illinois. He graduated from  high school in Martin, Tennessee, and attended the University of  Tennessee at Martin. Robert and his wife Donna have lived in Longview  since 1978.    Roberts hobby is oral history and as such was given the high honor  of being named the oral historian for the retired Texas Rangers.    Robert is an honorary member of the Former Texas Rangers Association  and proudly serves on the board of directors of the Texas Ranger  Association Foundation and the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame Museum and  Research Center.    Robert is also the editor of the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame & Museum  on-line Texas Ranger History history magazine, THE DISPATCH.    He has also recorded many hours with survivors of the terrible New  London School Explosion of 1937 in which over 300 peoplemostly  childrenwere killed. He proudly serves on the board of directors  of the New London Museum.",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;criminal law;history;law;law enforcement;leaders & notable people;political;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics;state & local;united states,14
9622017762,"Development Appraisal of Land Hong Kong Ling-hin Li is an associate professor in the Department of Real Estate and Construction and Programme Director of China Network MSc Programmes, The University of Hong Kong. He is also a registered professional general practice surveyor in Hong Kong. Li specializes in appraisal methodology and urban land development in the transitional economies. He has written extensively on the urban land reforms in China in major international real estate journals. His other books include Appraisal and Analysis of Real Estate and Privatization of Urban Land in Shanghai.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",accounting & finance;asia;books;business & investing;china;ethnic studies;history;international;politics & social sciences;popular economics;professional & technical;real estate;social sciences;specific demographics,14
027365408X,"Bond Market Securities (Prentice Hall Professional Finance) Investors need to be fully conversant with the differences in the way that bonds are structured, valued and traded. Bond Market Securities contains a wide range of methodologies that will help the reader to gain a good understanding of fixed income securities and some of their associated derivatives.   Bond Market Securities investigates the fundamentals of fixed income analysis, reviewing the latest research and presenting it in an accessible way that is suitable for practitioners and graduate students alike. The research is summarized in a way that allows readers to apply results to their individual requirements. Important subjects are covered in a straightforward style, using only essential mathematics, while further references are listed in full so that the reader may undertake further research.   Topics covered include:    Bond mathematics   Spot and forward rates   Yield curve fitting techniques   Term structure models   Credit derivatives in the fixed income markets   Stochastic models and option pricing   Hybrid securities   Forwards and futures   Market trading considerations and techniques   Mortgage-backed securities.   Written by a debt markets professional with many years experience trading bonds in the markets, the book focuses on the international nature of these instruments, allowing you to apply the techniques and applications covered in the book in every debt capital market, irrespective of geographical location.  Bond Market Securities provides a concise and accessible description of the main elements of the markets, the instruments used and their applications, and will be of valuable use to both the experienced practitioner and the bond market novice.  ""Bond Market Securities is accessible to both scholars and practitioners, but sacrifices little in quantitative rigour or institutional detail. It will be added to my graduate reading lists"" Professor Steve Satchell, Faculty of Economics and Politics, Cambridge University""In bond markets it is easy to overcomplicate things with too much jargon, too many technical terms and too many long mathematical formulae. Moorad's book brings refreshing clarity to the subject, helping show how (and why) these markets really work."" Peter Matthews, Senior Credit Trader and Head of FRN Trading, ABN Amro Bank NV""Moorad is a rare combination  technically and intellectually brilliant and blessed with the personality and ability to communicate effectively with the rest of us. He has the ability to demystify the seemingly most complex concepts and an enthusiasm for his subject that shines through his writing and captures the reader's interest."" Martin Barber, Partner, KPMG Consulting	Moorad Choudhry is a vice-president with JPMorgan Chase in London. He started his City career in 1989 at the London Stock Exchange before joining the sterling Eurobond desk at Hoare Govett Fixed Interest. He was later employed as a gilt-edged market maker and treasury trader at ABN Amro Hoare Govett Sterling Bonds, where he ran the short-dated gilt book, the gilt repo book and the sterling money markets book, and was also responsible for stocks borrowing and lending and interbank funding. From there he moved on to Hambros Bank, where he set up and ran the Treasury division's sterling proprietary trading desk. He has also worked as a strategy and risk management consultant to some of the world's leading investment banks, before joining JPMorgan Chase capital markets in 2000.Moorad has an MA in Econometrics from Reading University and an MBA from Henley Management College. He has taught courses on bond and money markets subjects for organizations both in the City of London and abroad, and has lectured at City University Business School. He is a member of the Securities Institute and the Global Association of Risk Professionals, and sits on the examination panel of the Securities Institute Bond and Fixed Income Markets Diploma paper.",accounting;accounting & finance;bonds;books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;finance;investing;investments & securities;new;popular economics;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,14
0847691950,"Schooling as a Ritual Performance Those who have been waiting for a successor to Jonathon Kozol may find in this book an alternative source of anthropological criticism of schooling. (Richard Fenn Journal Of Ritual Studies )As a writer, (McLaren) combines the rare gifts of the astute theoretician with that of the storyteller in the manner celebrated by Walter Benjamin. . . . An impressive and original contribution to critical educational theory and practice. . . a startling insight. (Giroux, Henry )McLaren's study. . . stands at the pinnacle of ethnographic works. (Aronowitz, Stanley )Where (Paul) Willis draws his interpretation from culturalist Marxist work, McLaren  incorporates some of these interpretations within a framework of analysis taken from the anthropological work of Victor Turner and others who stress the importance of symbol and ritual in the organization of institutions and culture. . . . McLaren is the first to apply these insights in such a thorough and detailed manner to the ordinary working of the school.  The results are always illuminating. (Michael Apple ). . . He helps us to see more clearly the nature of our lostness and the barely visible sparks of liberation. (David E. Purpel Educational Theory )Groundbreaking. . . brilliant. . .a tour de force. (Stephen Ball London Times Higher Education Supplement )McLarens pioneering discussions of the physicality of oppression moves beyond his predecessors. (Deborah Britzman Journal Of Curriculum Theorizing )A serious and important contribution to classroom ethnography. (Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo Harvard Educational Review )Schooling as Ritual Performance is an important book, not because it shows us once again how schools work to reproduce the present social arrangements, but because it illustrates the subtle way in which universes of symbolic meaning are realigned and then imposed on the consciousness of students through the medium of ritual. (Thomas Shearer Orbit )Since 1983, Peter McLaren has released a torrent of books, articles, and rejoinders that have altered the landscape of educational discourse. . .his writing contains dizzying examples of raids made into fields previously untried and untested in educational analyses. . . .The Coda is vintage McLareniana. (Phillip Roth Educational Studies )There is simply nothing in the educational literature that invites sustained comparison to Schooling as a Ritual Performance. (Lankshear, Colin From The Foreword )	Peter McLaren is one of the foremost social theorists in North America and a leading international figure on the educational left. He is known throughout the world for his political criticism and his passionate commitment to social justice. McLaren teaches in the Division of Urban Schooling at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. His most recent book is Revolutionary Multiculturalism: Pedagogies of Dissent for the New Millennium (Westview Press, 1997). His work has been published in eleven languages.",books;education;education & reference;education theory;educational philosophy;ethnic studies;new;philosophy & social aspects;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,14
0863696503,"A Bike Ride: 12,000 Miles Around the World ""Evocative reading"" Observer ""Her wry sense of humour is one of the great charms of Lone Traveller"" Daily Telegraph	Anne Mustoe read Classics at Cambridge and was the headmistress of a girls' school in Suffolk until 1987, when she left her job and embarked on her first solo journey around the world by bicycle. She is an established travel writer with a substantial following who lectures regularly on her adventures.",biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;cycling;education & reference;individual sports;memoirs;research & publishing guides;specific groups;sports & outdoors;travel;travel writing;women;writing,14
0786422009,"Carole Landis: A Tragic Life In Hollywood E.J. Fleming is also the author of The Fixers (2004), The Movieland Directory (2004) and Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites (2000). He lives in Barrington, Illinois.",acting & auditioning;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;entertainers;humanities;humor & entertainment;movies;new;performing arts;theater;used & rental textbooks,14
0932727476,"The Wisdom of the Poor One of Assisi Text: English (translation) Original Language: French	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Fr. Eloi Leclerc, a Franciscan and a renowned church historian, has left us this inspiring story which most Franciscans prefer to forget, but which is an important tale for all those touched by God's call.",biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;contemporary;education & reference;humanities;leaders & notable people;literature;literature & fiction;new;religious;religious studies;used & rental textbooks,14
1555832687,"B-Boy Blues (A B-Boy Blues Novel #1) Mitchell Crawford's fantasy has always been to have a B-boy. For him, B-boys stand on street corners daring anyone to invade their territory, dress to thrill, move to a rhythm all their own, and, loud and boisterous, ""speak to be heard, not so much to be understood."" Now, you don't think of any tough black street boy as being gay, don't often read about very different segments of the black community in contact with one another, and, if you're white, don't often encounter black narrators who honestly tell how they feel about whites. You do here. Mitchell is young, black, educated, and gay. He works on a magazine, lives in a nice Manhattan apartment, and runs around with a group of men like himself. He has flings with two other B-boys, then meets Raheim, the man of his dreams in this first-rate love story. Supporting characters--Raheim's son and Mitchell's family and work friends--add to the plot and the realism as Hardy reveals much about what happens when two cultures meet and more about diversity than you get from most diversity workshops. Highly recommended for both gay- and black-literature collections.  Charles Harmon	A professional man's involvement with rough trade (a socially inferior, potentially dangerous sex partner) underscores the precarious position of gay black men in a hostile world in this, a lusty, freewheeling first novel from a young African-American journalist. Mitchell Crawford meets Raheim Rivers in a gay bar in Greenwich Village in the summer of 1993. Mitchell is a 27-year-old journalist; Raheim is a 21-year-old bicycle messenger and B-boy (banjee boy). The B-boy hangs out on street corners, cool and menacing. ``I find them irresistible,'' confesses Mitchell. Raheim is the third B-boy in his life, and the charm. Their smoking-hot sex (described with the verve of a master pornographer) develops into strong mutual need as Mitchell discovers that underneath his tough exterior, Raheim is smart, talented (he can draw to professional standards), and a loving parent to his five-year-old son. The snag is Raheim's violent streak. When Mitchell nudges him to accept his homosexuality, Raheim almost knocks him out before fleeing. Violence is an inescapable part of their world. Raheim's best friend is gunned down in the street, Mitchell's best friend becomes a victim of gay-bashing. While Mitchell is angered by the homophobia among blacks that encourages such attacks, he reserves his harshest words for white people, gay as well as straight, who continue to exploit black Americans and deny them a level playing field (he quits his magazine when a less qualified white co-worker gets a coveted promotion). Meanwhile Hardy, hell-bent on a happy ending, has Raheim and Mitchell make up and declare their love. We miss the cold artist's eye that had earlier seen the impossibility of such a union. Elsewhere Hardy's eye does not fail him. Though his characters need work (Raheim is the generic B-boy, Mitchell simply the sum of his opinions), his anger is impressive; Hardy has the makings of a formidable talent. -- Copyright 1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",action & adventure;african-american studies;books;fiction;gay;gay & lesbian;genre fiction;literary;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;romance;social sciences;specific demographics;united states,14
0789300494,"American House Now: Contemporary Architectural Directions Susan Doubilet, an architect, was a senior editor at Progressive Architecture magazine for many years. She continues to publish articles and books on the subject of architecture. Daralice Boles is also a former senior editor at Progressive Architecture. She writes extensively about architecture and other cultural subjects.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",architecture;arts & photography;books;buildings;calligraphy;crafts;history;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;other media;professional & technical;reference;regional,14
1584884215,"Introduction to Coding Theory (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications) Although designed as an undergraduate text with myriad exercises, lists of key topics, and chapter summaries, this excellent book explores enough advanced topics to hold equal value as a graduate text and professional reference. Mastering the contents of this book brings a complete understanding of the theory of cyclic codes, including their various applications and the Euclidean algorithm decoding of BCH-codes, and carries readers to the level of the most recent research. - CryptologiaBierbrauer makes two contributions to   [the] literature with this book: he presents a method for teaching the basics of theory to undergraduates that includes a discussion of Reed-Solomon codes, and he manages to weave presentations of both the theory and applications of designs  . The writing is  readable and in fact enjoyable.  Those who seek an appropriate undergraduate text in the subject, as well as those who desire a book that incorporates a healthy does of design theory in addition to the basics of coding, may well find this a rewarding text to use in their classrooms. - Mathematical Reviews, 2005fThis nice textbook offers a self-contained introduction to mathematical coding theory and its major areas of application.-Zentralblatt MATH",books;communication & media studies;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;humanities;library & information science;mathematics;new;politics & social sciences;science & math;science & mathematics;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
0071422757,"What the Best MBAs Know: How to Apply the Greatest Ideas Taught in the Best Business Schools Get the knowledge and skills taught in today's top MBA programs--without ever setting foot inside a classroom    What the Best MBAs Know presents the key concepts, tools, and wisdom being taught in leading MBA programs from Northwestern's Kellogg School and the Wharton School to Stanford and USC. Featuring contributions from the most accomplished business school professors, each chapter takes you inside their classrooms for a detailed look at topics from marketing, finance, and managerial economics to leadership, corporate strategy, and more.  Theoretically solid and applications-based, What the Best MBAs Know is both a valuable resource and a ready reference to the core knowledge obtained with an MBA.            Includes contributions by:        Charles P. Bonini, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University     Leslie K. Breitner, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington     Jeffrey F. Jaffe, The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania     Richard J. Lutz, Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida     Steven L. McShane, Graduate School of Management, University of Western Australia     Steven Nahmias, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University     Peter Navarro, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine     Stephen A. Ross, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology     Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University     Mary Ann Von Glinow, Florida International University     Barton Weitz, Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida     Randolph W. Westerfield, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California                     What the Best MBAs Know covers the breakthrough strategies, techniques, and ideas that are being taught in the classrooms of today's top MBA programs. University of California business professor Peter Navarro joins more than a dozen of his colleagues--including Stephen A. Ross of MIT's Sloan School, Daniel Spulber of Northwestern's Kellogg School, and Charles P. Bonini of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business--to provide you with the key concepts, tools, and knowledge that, until now, could only be obtained through an MBA degree. This comprehensive book--as engaging as it is informative--covers virtually every subject taught in an intensive MBA program, including:        The Big Picture: An Overview of the MBA Curriculum     Management Strategy: Five Steps to Successful Strategic Analysis     Macroeconomics & the Well-Timed Business Strategy     Strategic Marketing: Delivering Customer Value     Operations and Supply Chain Management: Getting the Stuff Out the Door     Financial Accounting: ""Doing the Numbers"" for Investors, Regulators and Other External Users     Managerial Accounting: ""Doing the Numbers"" for Decision Making and Control     Corporate Finance: Big Questions and Key Concepts     Organizational Behavior: The Power of People and Leadership     Statistics, Decision Analysis, and Modeling: How the Numbers Help Us Manage     Managerial Economics: Microeconomics for Managers             In each chapter, What the Best MBAs Know first identifies the key concepts of a subject like strategy or finance. One of the world's top business professors then illustrates how these concepts are applied on a daily basis in the rough-and-ready world of international business. The insights of these top professors throw open the doors of the best business schools as they highlight the latest strategies and tactics driving today's intensely competitive landscape.    Whether you are currently pursuing an MBA, already have an MBA but need to refresh and update your information, or simply want to arm yourself with MBA-level knowledge without the time and financial commitments involved in obtaining the degree, this all-in-one resource will help to place you on the same strategic playing field as your competitors.	Peter Navarro is a business professor at the Graduate School of Management, UC-Irvine. He is the author of the bestselling investors guide, If Its Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks, marketed worldwide in several languages. His articles have appeared in publications ranging from BusinessWeek, Forbes, the Harvard Business Review, and the Sloan Management Review, to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. His media appearances include Bloomberg TV, CNN, CNBC, Marketplace, NPR, and all of the major news networks. His multimedia CD-ROM package The Power of Economics is distributed widely on college campuses. For more information, visit the author's website at www.peternavarro.com.",books;business & finance;business & investing;college & university;economics;education;education & reference;leadership;management;management & leadership;new;reference;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,14
1888531363,"Uneven Lies: The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf Golfers talk a lot about ""love of the game,"" but the phrase acquires a whole new level of meaning when it's used in the context of the first African Americans who tried to make careers for themselves on the links. No mere coffee-table book, this attractively illustrated and designed volume by veteran golf writer McDaniel (one of the first blacks to achieve prominence as a golf journalist) tells the fascinating and inspirational story of the first black golf pros in riveting detail and with quiet eloquence. The stories of Charlie Sifford and Lee Elder, the first black pros to crack professional golf's color line, are here, but it is the less-familiar sagas of such equally talented pros as Bill Spiller and Teddy Rhodes, who were denied a chance to succeed on the tour, that are the most revealing. Equally fascinating are the accounts of African Americans John Shippen, who played in the U. S. Open in 1896, and Dr. George Grant, who invented the golf tee. An essential addition to golf literature and to the history of race relations. Bill OttCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""...celebrates scores of blacks who have played prominent roles in golf's history...attention-getting forward by Tiger Woods...leaves few stones unturned..."" -- The New York Times Book Review, January 31, 2001""...impressive research...captivates readers...full of delightful anecdotes...told in rich detail...breathes life into those wonderful, engaging golfers..."" -- The Miami Herald, Opinion Section, February 4, 2001	The Open TrophyConducted by the United Golfers Association, an organization of African-American golfers, the recently discovered trophy for the Negro National Open was donated in 1935 by Albert Harris, a wealthy black Washington lawyer.	McDaniel is an award-winning senior writer at Golf World magazine.Woods is the most recognized sports figure in the workd, golf's greatest living player.",african americans;african-american studies;americas;books;ethnic studies;golf;history;history of sports;miscellaneous;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;sports & outdoors;united states,14
1576107868,"GoLive 5 f/x and Design Adobe's GoLive version 5 offers a rich feature set for the contemporary   Web site designer, but only if he or she knows how to make the most of it.   GoLive 5 f/x & Design explores those features--with examples, tips,   and a generous amount of screen shots--and provides a solid foundation for   learning this robust development tool.    Spanning four sections and 15 chapters, the book explores every aspect of   GoLive--starting with a discussion of the application itself and how it works.   Next are examples on using advanced features like forms, cascading style sheets,   and animated graphics and DHTML. The book concludes with the construction of a   site, from start to finish, using most of the advanced features that GoLive   supports. At each point, the author offers explanations and background   information, not only on the feature or function at hand, but also on how to   approach some design issues, and how to plan ahead for the task at hand.    A highlight of the book is ""The Creative Group Environment"" section. Large,   contemporary sites rarely are built by one person, but instead by a team of   talented individuals. GoLive includes a number of features to facilitate this   kind of team approach, and this section offers a clear explanation, as well as a   tutorial on the approach of GoLive 5 to team Web development.    Although this book is oriented towards the new GoLive 5 user, there is   information here that even intermediate to advanced users will make use of. The   accompanying CD also includes handy bonus applications, as well as all of the   project files and elements that are used throughout the book. Mac users will   appreciate the copy of TextureMagic from Artisoft, for creating seamless tiled   backgrounds, and Peak LE from Bias, a sound-editing tool.    Clean writing, clear explanations, and concise examples make this book a   valuable addition to the GoLive 5 user's library. --Mike Caputo	Richard Schrand. has written numerous books including Canoma(R) Visual Insight, GoLive(R)  5 f/x and Design, Photoshop(R) 6 Visual Jumpstart, LiveMotio(R) n Visual Jumpstart, 3D Creature Workshop-2nd Edition, and The Macromedia(R) Web Design Handbook.  Richard spent 28 years in the broadcast industry as Writer, Producer, Reporter, New Anchor, News Director, General Manager and Publicist receiving three Emmy awards, and numerous BPME (Broadcast Promotion & Marketing Executives) awards for writing and producing. Recently, he has created GRFX byDesign, a company specializing in 3D design and animation.",3d graphics;books;computers & technology;database design;databases;education & reference;electronic documents;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;hardware;macs;programming;web design;web development & design,14
0810966980,"O'Keeffe On Paper (National Gallery of Art Publications) The world knows Georgia O'Keeffe for her monumental paintings of flowers, shells, and sun-drenched New Mexico landscapes. She also worked on a smaller scale in watercolor, pastels, and charcoal, experimenting with themes and ideas. Fifty-five of her drawings are illustrated in O'Keeffe on Paper, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. The images work on several levels: viewing what at first seem brightly colored, jewel-like abstractions, with titles such as Pond in the Woods and Portrait of Paul Strand, we suddenly become aware of more complex, realistic forms. Witty and accessible, O'Keeffe's drawings remind us to recognize significance and beauty in our daily surroundings. The book's supporting essays are well written and useful. The first, which places O'Keeffe in the context of her teachers and colleagues, is an excellent survey of the early-20th-century American avant-garde; the second explores the evolution of O'Keeffe's ideas, developing her youthful question, ""If one can only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?"" The final essay is a detailed analysis of the materials she used. An extra dimension is given by photographs of O'Keeffe at work and some illuminating pictures by artists who influenced her. Reflecting a statement by the critic John Canaday quoted early in the book--""In a drawing artists give us at full strength, but with minimum elaboration, the essence of whatever they have to say""--the images in O'Keeffe on Paper are deceptively simple but very satisfying. --John Stevenson",architecture;arts & photography;books;catalogs & exhibitions;collections;criticism;drawing;history & criticism;individual architects & firms;individual artists;painting;pastel;professional & technical;watercolor,14
0964930102,"Mercury Free: The Wisdom Behind the Global Consumer Movement to Ban Silver Dental Fillings Sweden and Germany have already banned or heavily restricted the use of mercury-silver amalgam fillings for teeth, and Austria, Denmark, and Finland are planning to do so by 2000. Hardy has not used such an amalgam in 15 years. He points out that mercury has long been recognized as dangerous in many body areas and questions why, then, it has been accepted for 160 years as safe for dental work. Fillings made from composite resins, although somewhat more expensive and time-consuming to use, should, he says, be placed in all new cavities and in many cases should be substituted for present amalgam fillings. The American Dental Association and many dentists remain pro-amalgam, Hardy asserts, because of unwillingness to change, higher profits, and fear of litigation. A cogent argument, thoroughly documented.  William Beatty	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & finance;business & investing;consumer behavior;dentistry;fitness & dieting;general;health;marketing & sales;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;prosthodontics;used & rental textbooks,14
071260104X,"Visits to Monasteries in the Levant (The Century Travellers Series) --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Making the Grand Tour of Europe and the Near East was a must for the Victorian aristocracy, but few who embarked upon the journey returned to tell such wonderful tales as the 14th Baron Zouche of Harringworth. British writer and diplomat ROBERT CURZON (1810-1873), the baron himself, visited Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Greece in 1833 and 1834--just prior to Victoria's ascension of the throne, actually--in search of ancient manuscripts to augment his impressive book collection. But he did not put down his expeditions in written form till more than a decade later: he was one of the first gentlemen travelers to the East to do so, in fact, and may have helped fuel the public thirst for such tales--and for undertaking such excursions themselves--in subsequent decades.  This beautiful replica edition includes all of the original illustrations, many of which are by the author, though Curzon's cheerful, down-to-earth prose alone would highly recommend this classic of adventure writing. It is clear why this volume remains beloved by armchair travelers to this day.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;christian books & bibles;church institutions & organizations;education & reference;humanities;ministry & church leadership;new;religion & spirituality;religious studies;research & publishing guides;travel;travel writing;used & rental textbooks;writing,14
0806116196,"Fire and the Spirits: Cherokee Law from Clan to Court (Civilization of the American Indian Series) A legal historian of Osage and Cherokee heritage, Rennard Strickland is considered a pioneer in introducing Indian law into university curriculum. He has written and edited more than 35 books and is frequently cited by courts and scholars for his work as revision editor in chief of the Handbook of Federal Indian Law. Strickland has been involved in the resolution of a number of significant Indian cases. He was the founding director of the Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy at the University of Oklahoma. He is the first person to have served both as president of the Association of American Law Schools and as chair of the Law School Admissions Council. He is also the only person to have received both the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) Award and the American Bar Association's Spirit of Excellence Award. Strickland was the dean of the law school from 1997 to 2002.",americas;books;history;humanities;law;legal theory & systems;native american;native american studies;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks;world,14
1931498008,"A Cafecito Story ""...highly recommended as being and intriguing blend of sparse writing, specific images, and involving discussions."" -- Library Bookwatch, April 2003""Eichner and Alvarez tell a complex story without being preachy or heavy-handed.  They intend to inspire, and they do."" -- HippoPress, Manchester	Text: English, Spanish (translation) Original Language: English	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Julia Alvarez has bridged the Americas many times. Born in New York and raised in the Dominican Republic, she is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist, author of world-renowned books in each of the genres, including How the Garca Girls Lost their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and Something to Declare. She lives on a farmstead outside Middlebury, Vermont, with her husband Bill Eichner. Visit Julia's Web site www.alvarezjulia.com to find out more about her writing.Julia and Bill own an organic coffee farm called Alta Gracia in her native country of the Dominican Republic. Their specialty coffee is grown high in the mountains on what was once depleted pastureland. Not only do they grow coffee at Alta Gracia, but they also work to bring social, environmental, spiritual, and political change for the families who work on their farm. They use the traditional methods of shad-grown coffee farming in order to protect the environment, they pay their farmers a fair and living wage, and they have a school on their farm where children and adults learn to read and write. For more information about Alta Gracia, visit www.cafealtagracia.com.Belkis Ramrez, who created the woodcuts for A Cafecito Story, is one of the most celebrated artrists in the Dominican Republic. Visit Belkis' web site.	A Better Coffee:Developing Economic FairnessJulia Alvarezs moving Cafecito Story is happily not just a story; it is now the living reality of half a million family coffee farmers around the world. These farmers and their partners in the marketplace--people that include Carmen, Miguel, Joe, and you, yourself--have turned decades of hard work and dreams into a powerful international movement called fair trade. Fair trade is about transforming the growing and drinking of coffee.Fair trade is efficient and profitable trade organized with a built-in commitment to equity, dignity, respect, and mutual aid. Fair trade guarantees farmers like Carmen and Migueldirect sales for their cooperatives,a fair price, regardless of international market prices,improved access to credit,,br />a long-term marketing relationship, anda commitment from buyers to support environmental sustainability.We all want to end the human misery we hear about daily, but many of us find it hard to figure out what we can do personally. Fair trade helps us make a difference. It is a concrete step toward positive change. Buying fair-trade coffee gives you a delicious cafecito and the deeper satisfaction of knowing that you have helped farmers invest in health care, education, environmental stewardship, and economic independence.And fair trade ensures that farmers earn a living wage so they can have the stability to provide a better future for themselves and their children. Helping farmers cultivate the courage to pursue their dreams helps us nurture the courage to pursue our own. Now isnt that a fair trade?	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;classics;contemporary;cookbooks;food & wine;humanities;latin american;literature;literature & fiction;new;organic cooking;united states;used & rental textbooks;world literature,14
076450214X,"HTML for Dummies The entire ""For Dummies"" series is no insult -- these are consistently some of the best introductions to their topics available. For beginners, even using an HTML editor is daunting. In clear language and with a dose of humor at every turn, the authors lead you through creating a web page, making it shine and taming some of the trickier aspects of web pages like CGI programming. The cartoons sprinkled throughout the book are marvelous. Don't miss the ""Top Ten HTML Dos and Don'ts"" or ""Ten Design Desiderata.""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This book is always next to my computer as my #1 reference!  Mark Reeves, Havertown, PA, on HTML For Dummies, 2nd Edition This book made the idea of writing a Web page believable!  Cornelia Cree, Office Manager, Asheville, NC, on HTML For Dummies, 2nd EditionFree HTML Cheat Sheet Inside!This friendly reference unravels the Web authoring process and makes it possible for neophytes to build and publish attractive, interesting Web pages with ease. With the newly revised HTML For Dummies, 3rd Edition, anyone can explore the ins and outs of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and gain the know-how to design compelling Web pages in a flash! Valuable Bonus CD Includes:HTML Transit converts existing word-processing documents into HTML documentsHTMLed Pro 2.0 is an HTML editor with advanced features such as spell checking and image mappingBBEdit Lite for Macintosh and HomeSite for Windows 95 Shareware programs, to help create dazzling Web pagesPlus, HTML page templates from the authors, ready to be filled out and usedShareware programs are fully functional, free trial versions of copyrighted programs. If you like a particular program, register with its author for a nominal fee and receive licenses, enhanced versions, and technical support. System Requirements: PC, UNIX, or Macintosh; and a CD-ROM drive; and a Web browserInside, find helpful advice on how to:Discover the latest HTML tags, syntax, and extensions to build dynamic Web pagesUse HTML text, images, animations, and multimedia to give your Web pages impact and flairUnderstand the Web publishing process from design through maintenanceUncover reviews of Web authoring tools, including software for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIXApply helpful HTML style and layouts tips to build better-looking Web pagesFind out where the best HTML resources reside and how to use them online and offlinePlus, Ed and Steves Top Ten Lists:Ten HTML dos and dontsTen ways to kill Web bugs deadTen tips to help you decide whether to buy or build your own Web service	About the Authors Ed Tittel is the author of numerous magazine articles and more than 30 computer books. His other titles include CGI Bible, Intranet Bible, More HTML For Dummies, 2nd Edition, and Networking with NetWare For Dummies, 3rd Edition. Steve James is a full-time freelance writer and computer consultant and the coauthor of several computer books, including More HTML For Dummies, 2nd Edition.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;mathematics;new;programming;programming languages;science & math;software;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design,14
0292711948,"The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town A vivid, complex, and concise portrait of cultural continuity, social cohesion, and conflict in a town of Tzutujil Maya-speaking people of Guatemala.... Carlsen launches into an exploration of the capacity of these people to persist through centuries of oppression and of the culture to survive and regenerate even under circumstances of extreme violent repression.... a novel and eminently readable approach to local-level social and cultural history. (Choice)	Carlsen's descriptions of rituals and beliefs are extremely valuable and detailed... and will be particularly useful to students of the ancient and modern Maya. (Linda Schele)	ROBERT S. CARLSEN recently retired from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, where he taught for twenty years, and is now an independent researcher. He conducted twenty-five years of field research in Atitln, where he learned Tzutujil, was accepted in a local cofrada (Mayan/Catholic religious society), and was a firsthand witness to la violencia.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",americas;ancient;anthropology;books;central america;cultural;history;humanities;latin america;mayan;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
0939883023,"A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm 6 x 9  trim. LC 98-73453	EDWIN WAY TEALE won both the Pulitzer prize and the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished nature writing. His work ranks with the best, that of Thoreau, Muir, Burroughs and Olson.",americas;biographies & memoirs;biological sciences;books;ecology;history;natural resources;nature & ecology;nature writing;new england;regional u.s.;science & math;state & local;united states,14
1575664232,"All-Male: Quirky Quotes, Intimate Interviews, and Tantalizing Trivia from the Most Desired Men on Earth ""A gossipy, easily digestible book... Wonderfully candid and honest... much humor as well. Highly enjoyable with some biting anecdotes.""   -- Max Southern, Recommended Reading, ManNet""Fans of gay adult videos will enjoy ALL-MALE, and might even learn a thing or two about the business."" -- Jesse Monteagudo's Book Nook, GayToday",arts & literature;biographies & memoirs;books;entertainers;gay & lesbian;humor & entertainment;nonfiction;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;pornography;self-help;sex;social sciences;specific demographics,14
0446613460,"Letters To Penthouse XXV: She's Mine, She's Yours, She's Wild! Penthouse magazine is the leading forum for contemporary sexual issues and the Forum section of the magazine features the letters from readers who've had the memorable experiences depicted in the book.",books;contemporary;erotica;essays & correspondence;fitness & dieting;health;letters & correspondence;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;self-help;sex;sexuality;social sciences,14
1931859248,"The Meek and the Militant: Religion and Power Across the World Paul Siegel (1916-2004) was a writer and activist who published numerous books on literature and politics, including Revolution in the 20th Century Novel.",books;church & state;comparative religion;education & reference;history;international & world politics;politics & government;politics & social sciences;politics & state;religion;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;world,14
0810934159,"Hearst Castle: The Biography of a Country House Hearst Castle in San Simeon, now a California state park, offers a glimpse of the high life lead by William Randolph Hearst. Though originally planned as a small bungalow at the family's favorite campsite, Hearst's building project grew and grew. Julia Morgan, the renowned San Francisco architect, gracefully coped with the continuous revisions to the project. Hearst had a love of art and style and the money to follow his fancy. Kastner, a member of the Hearst Castle staff and a student of its art, combines the history of the castle with details about its inhabitants and its builders in this splendid book. The pages are peppered with historic photos, architectural drawings, correspondences, and details of the castle's features and its art. You can practically smell the opulence of the place. Strongly recommended for regional collections and large public libraries across the country. (Final photos and index not seen.)DKaren Ellis, Nicholson Memorial Lib. Syst., Garland, TX Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Hearst Castle, as the California home of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst was unofficially called, is one of the top tourist draws in the country, a fact that is easy for readers to appreciate as they luxuriate in the pages of this exceptionally vibrant text-and-photo history of the house. The Hearst estate, formally called La Cuesta Encantada (""the enchanted hill""), overlooks the gorgeous California coast, halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. In this unforgettable setting, Hearst, with architect Julia Morgan at his side, built and added onto and reconfigured his estate over a period of nearly three decades, from 1919 to 1947, and in the process collected artwork here in the U.S. and in Europe not only for display purposes but also as integral parts of the design structure. Kastner allows Hearst more credit as a sensitive collector than most critics have usually given him. Two major points are made here; that the relationship between Hearst and Morgan, his architect, was an especially productive and mutually satisfying one, and that Hearst Castle is not a ""freak"" of a dwelling but very much a ""representative example of the American country-house tradition."" Kastner proffers a delicious taste of the social life that guests enjoyed under the roof at Hearst Castle in Hearst's heyday, particularly after the advent of Hearst's beloved mistress, actress Marian Davies, who was a loving and lovable hostess. This book's brilliant match of words and illustrations results in a marvelous tour of the premises and an engrossing history. Brad HooperCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved",architectural;architecture;arts & photography;books;buildings;catalogs & exhibitions;collections;crafts;history;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;photography;professional & technical,14
0809322501,"Fiscal Aspects of Aviation Management (Southern Illinois University Press Series in Aviation Manage) Fiscal Aspects of Aviation Management is an outstanding contribution to the field. There is a total vacuum in the area of fiscal management; this book goes a long way to filling that vacuum.Henry R. Lehrer, University of Nebraska Aviation Institute at Omaha	Robert W. Kaps is an associate professor in the Department of Aviation Management and Flight at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of Air Transport Labor Relations (also available from Southern Illinois University Press.)",accounting;accounting & finance;airport;aviation;books;business & finance;business & investing;commercial;economics;finance;new;professional & technical;transportation;used & rental textbooks,14
3822813265,"Helmut Newton Work (Taschen Jumbo Series) The photographer:Helmut Newton (1920-2004)  was one of the most influential photographers of all time. Born in  Berlin, he arrived in Australia in 1940 and married June Brunell (a.k.a.  Alice Springs) eight years later. He first achieved international fame  in the 1970's while working principally for French Vogue,  and his celebrity and influence grew over the decades. Newton preferred  to shoot in streets or interiors, rather than studios. Controversial  scenarios, bold lighting, and striking compositions came to form his  signature look. In 1990 he was awarded the Grand Prix national de la photographie; in 1992 the German government awarded him Das Grosse Verdienstkreuz for services to German culture, and he was appointed Officier des Arts, Lettres et Sciences by S.A.S. Princess Caroline of Monaco. In 1996, he was appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres  by Philippe Douste-Blazy, the French Minister of Culture at the time.  Working and living in close companionship with his wife until his death  at 83, his images remain as distinctive, seductive and orginal as ever.The author:Franoise Marquet  established a photographic department at the Muse d'Art Moderne de la  Ville de Paris in 1981, acquiring the works and organising  retrospectives of Duane Michals, Herbert List, Jean-Philippe  Charbonnier, Helmut Newton (1985), Jeanloup Sieff, Jan Saudek, and  Manuel Alvarez Bravo. In 1997 she was appointed to the Petit Palais,  Muse des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.The editor:Manfred Heiting is  an internationally acknowledged expert on and collector of photographs  and books, who divides his time between Amsterdam and Malibu. He is a  founder-member of the J. Paul Getty Museum Council and a member of the  supervisory board of the Herb Ritts Foundation, both located in Los  Angeles. He is editor of Deutschland im Fotobuch (2011) and co-editor of Autopsie, deutschsprachige Fotobcher 1918-1945 (2012).",arts & photography;books;catalogs & exhibitions;collections;equipment;erotic photography;europe;fashion;france;history;individual artists;photography;portraits;techniques & reference,14
0262112094,"Theory and Evidence: The Development of Scientific Reasoning The Koslowski book will become a classic on scientific reasoning, problmem solving, and causal understanding. It challenges the model that dominates psychological work on these topics, the human analysis of the psychology of causal thinking. It weaves a beautifully clear treatment of alternative relevant modern philosphical considerations about causal thinking into the presentation of a clever set of experiments. The case is convincing: children and adults do reason in sensible scientific ways in their use of evidence and search for causes. A must for experts in cognitive science, congnitive development, conceptual change and science education. Rochel Gelman, Professor of Psychology, UCLA	Barbara Koslowski is Associate Professor of Human Development at Cornell University.",behavioral psychology;behavioral sciences;books;cognitive psychology;fitness & dieting;health;history & philosophy;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;science & math;science & mathematics;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
0764152246,"The Book of Magical Herbs: Herbal History, Mystery, & Folklore Pretty enough for the coffee table, Margaret Picton's little hardback explores herbal myths and folklore in poems, traditional sayings, quotes, recipes, and ancient herbal manuscripts. Chock-full of brightly colored photos, drawings, and fancy typography, The Book of Magical Herbs delights the senses. The author has written nine other books on cookery and homemaking and here expounds the virtues of 25 different herbs in as many chapters. Did you know that you could ""keep a small sachet of dried lavender against your skin to attract a lover"" or that fennel seeds in keyholes will keep malignant forces away? A charming gift for gardeners, cooks, or fans of ancient lore and magic. --P. Randall Cohan	""All the light, color, and beauty of a well-kept garden are  captured in The Book of Magical Herbs.""  -- New Age Retailer, September 2000This delightful little book is a celebration of the timeless  fascination humanity has for the herbs of the earth. -- New Age Retailer , September 2000",books;cookbooks;cooking by ingredient;crafts;food & wine;gardening & landscape design;herbs;hobbies & home;nature & ecology;occult;reference;religion & spirituality;science & math;spices & condiments,14
0131008498,"Herpetology (3rd Edition) Amphibians and reptiles are successful organisms, and their ectothermal approach to terrestrial vertebrate life is quite different from the endothermal lifestyle of birds and mammals. The internal processes of ectotherms differ in many respects from the corresponding processes in endotherms, and amphibians and reptiles function differently from birds and mammals in communities and ecosystems. Understanding how and why amphibians and reptiles differ from birds and mammals enriches a biological education, and the study of herpetology is a great deal more than just the study of amphibians and reptiles.    In our view, understanding amphibians and reptiles as organisms requires a perspective that integrates their morphology, physiology, behavior, and ecology and places that information in a phylogenetic context. This book does thatit presents the biology of amphibians and reptiles as the product of phylogenetic history and environmental influences acting in both ecological and evolutionary time. We emphasize how amphibians and reptiles function in the broadest sense. For example, ectothermal temperature regulation is reflected in nearly every aspect of the biology of amphibians and reptiles, from their body shapes (extremely small body size and elongate body shape are feasible only for ectotherms) to their role in ecosystems (low-energy flow and high-conversion efficiency are the result of ectothermy).    We have emphasized the integration of information from different biological specialties to produce a picture of amphibians and reptiles as animals that do remarkable things and play important roles in modern ecosystems. Evolution provides the context in which the distinctive characteristics of amphibians and reptiles must be evaluated, and both ancestral and derived features are central to understanding their biology. Throughout the book we have emphasized the use of phylogenetic information to understand the evolution of ecological, behavioral, and physiological characters. This edition of Herpetology reflects both the rate of new developments in the discipline and the continuing contributions of colleagues who have suggested ways to expand and strengthen our treatment of the biology of amphibians and reptiles. The increasing use of cladistic techniques and the incorporation of more kinds of data in phylogenetic analyses have substantially changed our understanding of the history and content of some groups. Those changes are conspicuous in the chapters covering systematics and in the integration of phylogenetic information with studies of natural history. The addition of color photographs of many species provides a far better impression of the appearance of the animals and enhances the presentation of phenomena such as aposematic coloration and mimicry that lose much of their impact in blackand-white photographs.    In response to suggestions from colleagues and students, we have added a chapter on biogeography to illustrate the important contributions that studies of amphibians and reptiles have made to this area and the insights about the ecology and evolution of extant species that only a biogeographic perspective can provide. Splitting the treatment of reproduction and life history into separate chaptersdevoted to amphibians and to reptileshas allowed us to respond to requests that we increase the amount of information about these important topics, and emphasize the major differences between the groups. And the expanded treatment of conservation in this edition reflects the importance this topic is assuming in many herpetology courses as habitat destruction, pollution, and disease exact an ever-increasing toll on the diversity of amphibians and reptiles. Collaboration by the six authorswhose research specializations include autecology, synecology, systematics, evolution, morphology, physiology, and behaviorhas produced a treatment that interweaves these areas. We find the interrelationships among different levels of biological organization fascinating and have tried to build students' understanding of these relationships from chapter to chapter. In the case of lizards, for example, one or more aspects of the intricate correlations among phylogeny, foraging mode, diet, morphology, exercise physiology, predator avoidance, social system, and reproductive mode is discussed in nearly every chapter. We have used this technique of building topics in the hope that students will find the complex relationships that emerge intellectually stimulating. Above all, this book is the product of the lifelong fascination each of us has felt for the animals we study. We hope we will succeed in conveying this sense of excitement to our readers.",animals;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;education & reference;medical books;new;reptiles & amphibians;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks;veterinary medicine;zoology,14
1932133054,Sign Language of the Soul: A Handbook for Healing Dr. Schusterman has been practicing in Virginia since graduating from Logan College of Chiropractic in 1977.  He is a graduate of the University of Michigan (1973) and he is a diplomate in Applied Kinesiology.  Dr. Schusterman also facilitates Family Constellation workshops and seminars in Sign Language of the Soul.  He lives in Virginia with his family.,addiction & recovery;alternative medicine;books;energy healing;fitness & dieting;healing;health;medicine & health sciences;mental & spiritual healing;new;new age;religion & spirituality;self-help;used & rental textbooks,14
0198264666,"Religion and Revelation: A Theology of Revelation in the World's Religions ""A first-rate series of approaches to the concept of revelation as it relates, in a cross-cultural manner, to a number of world religions.  His ideas are very accessible, with connections made which are natural and not forced....A volume which should find wide use in a variety of courses.""--Gerald Michael Schnabel, Bemidji State University""An insightful and provocative treatment.""--Thomas W. Platt, West Chester University""[An] excellent blend of the major faiths traced through a central theme with conscientious attention to major theologians and scholars.""--Dan O'Bryan, Sierra Nevada College""[A] thoughtful and engaging work....Highly recommended for seminaries and universities.""--Religious Studies Review""Ward offers fascinating observations on all sorts of topics displaying his considerable expertise in philosophy and logic as well as in theology....This book is thoroughly recommended as the fertile thoughts of one of Britain's most prodigious and profound theological and philosophical Christian minds writing today.""--Churchman	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Keith Ward is Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;christian books & bibles;comparative religion;hinduism;humanities;islam;judaism;new;political science;religion & spirituality;religious studies;social sciences;theology;used & rental textbooks,14
1931564299,"No-Nonsense Medicine: A Physician's Path to Sensible Healing (Dr. Stemmler's Common Sense Medicine Series, 1) DR. STEMMLER is a Board Certified Family Physician, trained in both Chinese and Western medicine. German-born, South American-raised, world-traveled, and fluent in German, Spanish, English and French, now a student of Mandarin Chinese, Dr. Stemmler understands the nature of cross-cultural systems, as well as the complexities of each human being under her care. She is Duke University-trained, and has served as a physician-educator on the faculty at Duke University and at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, as well as being the Past President of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture (AAMA). In her 25 years of clinical practice, Dr. Stemmler has exhibited a unique ability to simplify the complex while educating all levels of students with a contagious enthusiasm and a healthy sense of humor.",alternative medicine;books;fitness & dieting;health;logic & language;medical books;medicine;mental & spiritual healing;new age;philosophy;politics & social sciences;reference;religion & spirituality;science & math,14
0805808914,"Total Propaganda: From Mass Culture To Popular Culture (Lea's Communication) Total Propaganda offers the reader a nearly total look at U.S. popular culture in the 1990s. Total Propaganda merits the attention of those involved in public relations education.Public Relations Review...the book makes fascinating reading mainly because of the author's imaginative and thoughtful references to entertainment, media and some critical social issues, and actors....will offer a pleasant challenge to those who are willing to stretch their definitional horizons and share Edelstein's view that propaganda in our time and place is as ubiquitous as culture.Journalism & Mass Communication QuarterlyUSE FIRST THREE TESTIMONIALS ONLY FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... A most engaging commentator on public affairs television, Professor Edelstein brings that same quality of mind to the analysis of Total Propaganda.Barry MitzmanDirector of Public Affairs, KCTS (9),  Seattle...offers internationalists who are caught up in the old propagandas of war and conflict fresh approaches to new propagandas in modern states.Robert L. StevensonUniversity of North CarolinaThe always inventive author provides a cornucopia of ideas and insights about politics and communication as he deconstructs the old propaganda paradigm and illuminates the new.David PaletzDuke UniversityPolitical scientists and Asia specialists will appreciate the creative approach to the analysis of propaganda with respect to trade and politics.Alan P.L. LiuCalifornia, Santa BarbaraTotal Propaganda is for students and about them. My students are excited about the concept of the new propaganda.Diana S. TillinghastSan Jose State UniversityThe author's distinction between the old and the new propagandas redirects usto old and new forms of media criticism and old and new media effects.Steve ChaffeeStanford UniversityThe conceptual distinction between the old and the new propaganda gives us much to think about and is worthy of empirical exploration.Lee B. BeckerThe Ohio State UniversityA fresh, creative, and original look at politics, popular culture, and propaganda. Important reading for the end of this century and the beginning of the next.Chuck WhitneyUniversity of Texas...pushes out the boundaries of the study of propaganda in the popular culture in understandable, creative, and contemporary ways.Garth JowettHouston UniversityTotal Propaganda offers us a fresh and intriguing mix of the new propaganda, politics, and the media.W. Lance BennettUniversity of Washington",books;communication;communication & journalism;communication & media studies;communications;education & reference;language & grammar;media studies;new;political science;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words,14
031222849X,"Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel 'A carefully researched study...a provocative interpretation of how pedestrianism stimulated Romantic Poetry.' - Literature & History  'The section on Clare is the strongest in this study, offering the most nuanced reading of an oeuvre by a person who walked both for work and leisure...The discussion of Hazlitt's On Going a Journey helpfully fleshes out the political implications of walking in the wake of the French Revolution.' - Toby R. Benis, The Wordsworth Circle  'Robin Jarvis significantly refines our understanding of the material histories of walking and these histories' conjunctions with literature in Britain during the crucial period from the 1780s to the 1820s...a thoughtful, provocative study which also contributes to Romantic studies at large.' - Anne D. Wallace, Romantic Circles  'This is a deeply engaging book.  Like the pedestrian mode which it takes as its subject it is unhurried, ambulatory, association; and yet at the same time it is also fully animated by a thoroughgoing sense of definite purpose and direction...[A]ppropriately enough, this is all undertaken in a style that is relaxed as well as reflective, so that the book itself comes to read like a peculiarly pleasurable kind of walk, with its well-prepared 'bridges' and smoothly-conducted transitions, its anecdotal byways and its more formal resting-places...[t]he richness and suggestivity of Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel, and its very material relevance to any consideration of Romantic thought, that in the course of reading it one should be so often inspired to follow up some of its many 'hints and guesses', and to pursue for oneself one or two of its 'paths not taken.'  - Gregory Dart, BARS Bulletin and Review  'Robin Jarvis's documentation of the needs and notions of walkers in the Romantic era provides essential grounds for further discussions'. - Michael Baron, John Clare Society Journal  'This is a committed book, researched in depth...highly accurate'. - Peter Larkin, The Coleridge Bulletin  'Robin Jarvis, in his stimulating book Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel, is one of the new Romanticists writing today to link, in a serious and convincing way, cultural and historical decisions to choices poets make about...their poems.' - Jeffrey Robinson, Romanticism	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Robin Jarvis is Head of Literary Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol.",books;british;criticism & theory;english literature;gothic & romantic;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;professional & technical;transportation;used & rental textbooks,14
0781810728,"Turkmen Dictionary & Phrasebook: Turkmen-English/English-Turkmen (Hippocrene Dictionary & Phrasebooks) Nicholas Awde is a linguist and Central Asia regional specialist based in London, U.K. He is the author of numerous publications for Hippocrene Books.    William Dirks is an expert on Turkic languages and an alumnus of the Turkmen Project at Indiana University. He previously co-authored, with Nicholas Awde, Hippocrene Books' Uzbek Dictionary & Phrasebook.    Amandurdy Amandurdyev is a native Turkmen speaker and language consultant.",asia;books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;instruction;new;phrasebooks;reference;travel;turkmenistan;used & rental textbooks,14
B000MTEKQE,"Programming for Embedded Systems: Cracking the Code * Presents a variety of complete embedded applications with design specifications, flow diagrams and source code with line-by-line explanation.    * Includes discussion of the challenges of embedded development such as timing, processor clocks and virtual environment development.    * The target platforms for embedded software are covered: microcontrollers (16 bit and 32 bit) as well as Digital Signal processors. After discussing the basic architecture of these processors, the specifics of archtecture are covered with special reference to 8051, ADSP 2181 and ARM processors.    * An overview of the Operating systems (embedded, real time and moble Operating Systems)will be given with discussion on APIs for development of embedded software. The function calls in C/++ and Java will be illustrated with examples.    * Line by line detailed analysis of the source code behind cutting-edge embedded applications including GPS, security systems, networked information appliances, cellular phones, embedded databases and wireless network devices.    * Applications built on a variety of popular embedded operating systems including NT, LINUX and Java (J2ME).    ABOUT THE CD-ROM    CD ROM includes fully functioning IM systems built in the book, along with complete source code and additional 3rd party development tools.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	* Presents a variety of complete embedded applications with design specifications, flow diagrams and source code with line-by-line explanation.    * Includes discussion of the challenges of embedded development such as timing, processor clocks and virtual environment development.    * The target platforms for embedded software are covered: microcontrollers (16 bit and 32 bit) as well as Digital Signal processors. After discussing the basic architecture of these processors, the specifics of archtecture are covered with special reference to 8051, ADSP 2181 and ARM processors.    * An overview of the Operating systems (embedded, real time and moble Operating Systems)will be given with discussion on APIs for development of embedded software. The function calls in C/++ and Java will be illustrated with examples.    * Line by line detailed analysis of the source code behind cutting-edge embedded applications including GPS, security systems, networked information appliances, cellular phones, embedded databases and wireless network devices.    * Applications built on a variety of popular embedded operating systems including NT, LINUX and Java (J2ME).    ABOUT THE CD-ROM    CD ROM includes fully functioning IM systems built in the book, along with complete source code and additional 3rd party development tools.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;embedded systems;hardware;information systems;languages & tools;microprocessors & system design;programming;software design;software development;software engineering;testing & engineering,14
0883446170,"Spirituality of Liberation: Toward Political Holiness Composed of articles published by the author between 1980 and 1984, this dense scholarly work stresses that ""spirit and practice must join hands"" and that liberation theology (which is usually associated with the practice of faith) also has a spiritual side. Sobrino draws from Gutierrez to offer ""reflective description"" of what has happened in Latin America during the 1970s. While this will be useful to academicians, lay people wishing to explore the issues raised would do better with Robert McAfee Brown's recent work by the same title.( LJ 3/1/88). ECCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Text: English, Spanish (translation)",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christian living;church & state;devotionals;history;politics & state;religion;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;spirituality;world,14
0273649205,"Generation Entrepreneur Forget raising hellraise capital instead.Generation X was a demographic convenience, a neat label. Generation entrepreneur is reality; a movement of minds and bodies to the new rhythm of commerce. The new generation think differently about business. They are making connections that no one has thought of before. The change is evident even to the naked eye. In business, grey hair and conservative suits used to be compulsory. Button-down constraint was the order of the corporate day. Now fresh-faced entrepreneurs in combat pants stare out from countless business magazines. They don't conform. They have no need to belong. And, they ar wildly successful.The men and women who are the new wealth-creators and shapers of business are generation entrepreneur. This new breed of entrepreneurs think differently about life in generaland business in particular. They are the new generation of e-literate, entrepreneurial managers and knowledge workers and they are unlike anything that came before.Most people have heard of gen e's big hitters: thirty-somethings like Michael Dell, founder of Dell Corporation, and Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon; and twenty-somethings like the co-founder of Netscape, Marc Andreessen. This is just the tip of the icebergand it's an iceberg that is sinking old-style corporations.Generation Entrepreneur takes the opportunity to define the moment and envisage the future. It examines generation e from every angle: Who are generation entrepreneur? What are their values? Is loyalty really dead? How do generation entrepreneurs balance their work and life? What are the implications for corporations? Where are the hotbeds of activity? What drives these people and what are their characteristics?Corporate man died out in the downsizing age. The Yuppies look neanderthal by comparison. Generation entrepreneur is running the show nowand making up the new rules of business as it goes along.Meet the new wealth creators. Read the handbook for the new business generation.	Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove are the founder of Suntop Media, the media concepts, content and consulting company. Their work appears in newspapers and magazines throughout the world. They are authors of Gravy Training, the inside story of the world's top business schools, The Ultimate Book of Brands, Generation Entrepreneur, and MBA Planet.  Stuart Crainer is author of Key Management Ideas; The Management Century; The Ultimate Business Library; and a number of other books. His work appears in the Financial Times, The Times and leading business magazines including Business Life, Across the Board, and Strategy & Business.",accounting & finance;books;business & investing;business & management;computers & technology;e-commerce;entrepreneurship;exports & imports;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;international;manager's guides to computing;professional & technical;small business & entrepreneurship,14
0785272267,"Take the Reins: A Father Teaches His Son About Life, Commitment and Spirituality Take the Reins collects a father's lessons to his son about   ""life, commitment, and spirituality."" Author John L. Moore (best known for his   fiction, including The Breaking   of Ezra Riley) is a rancher   who lives north of Miles City, Montana. Take the Reins consists of short   meditations on experiences that he and his son Jess have shared on the ranch,   where bad luck, drought, disease, and other dangers constantly shatter any   illusions that this world is a safe place to live. The book's basic lesson is   that only God offers security. Admirably, Moore manages to convey this lesson   without denigrating the physical world. The book has more than its share of   excitement and suspense--runaway horses, hunting trips, long hours lost on the   plains--and it is equally adept at poignant understatement. (Describing his care   for a sick calf, Moore writes that ""We carried the calf to the bathroom and   lowered the cold body into the warm water. The smell of afterbirth came alive in   the heat."") Take the Reins is a fine book whose lessons regarding   paternal love have a quiet, universal appeal.",americas;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;customs & traditions;history;politics & social sciences;protestantism;religious;social sciences;state & local;united states;world,14
0071354514,"Networking Handbook The definitive guide to networking How do you cope with all the technologies and products that must coexist on the same system? How do you internetwork powerful new ones? You'll find all the answers in Networking Handbook, Ed Taylor's A-Z guide that breaks networking down, topic by topic, into easily understood sections. You'll explore the benefits of different network types, network components, and network device operation and integration. Up-to-date coverage keeps you on top of:   ATM Serial Line Data Link Protocols Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet ISDN Frame Relay High Speed Token Ring XDSL Protocol and Technology FDDI Synchronous Data Link Windows Networking TCP/IP SNA Netware Voice over IP  Internetworking troubleshooting tools and case studies give you the edge you need to identify and solve problems on the job.	Ed Taylor (Dallas, TX) is the Chief Information Architect for Information World, a consulting and network engineering firm. Mr. Taylor has advised companies and has served as a network consultant for several Fortune 500 companies and is a former Network Architect for IBM.",books;certification;computers & technology;databases;education & reference;engineering;hardware;internet & networking;isdn;networking;networks;professional & technical;protocols & apis;telecommunications,14
0471205958,"Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond ""This book has much wisdom, and much that could be learned by investors or companies plannning to back new technologies."" (Financial Times, 25 March 2002)""...Nairn provides models that chart a way forward for investors, based on close study of previous bubbles and breakthroughs.... Engines that Move Markets succeeds in placing internet hysteria in context and giving guidelines to investors as their pick their way through the wreckage."" (The Irish Times, 22 March 2002)	Many innovative technologies have changed the way we live as well as the way we invest-whether it was the railroads that connected America from coast to coast or the Internet that connects people around the world. The birth and commercialization of a breakthrough technology swiftly transforms that market with an investment pattern that creates both economic booms and busts before a more stable environment occurs.Engines That Move Markets captures the impact that some of the greatest technological inventions of the past two hundred years have had on financial markets and investors' fortunes. This engaging overview of industrial development and its effect on investors shows you how the pattern of investment response to such technological advances as-* Electric light and its commercial exploitation* The railroad boom in Britain and the United States* The development of the automobile industry* The discovery and early development of crude oil* The rise of the PC* The Internet and dot-com bubble-can be used to help you avoid costly investment mistakes today and recognize the emerging technologies of the future.Through his exhaustive research and fluid writing style, Alasdair Nairn pieces together ten of these historical episodes. Each chapter chronicles a different technological innovation-past and present-that has dramatically shaped the market of that time. Nairn provides a virtual road map on how to appraise the ""new technology"" companies of the future by detailing how investors and the media have reacted to past innovations; charting the performance of share price, earnings growth, and return on capital of the company that owned the innovation; and pinpointing which companies emerged as winners-and, equally important, which companies suffered as losers.Engines That Move Markets is more than just a history of money, stocks, and trading. This engaging book reveals the prevailing social attitudes that surrounded each new stock market boom and examines the ingenuity of the entrepreneurs who struggled to develop their unique products and markets.In examining the recurring patterns that are associated with each new technological innovation, Engines That Move Markets provides timeless lessons for investors looking for the next company and innovation that will shape the market of the future. This study of past financial history is a rich source of inspirational guidance for any investor-whether you're just getting started or have lived and invested through some of the booms and busts of past markets.	""An intriguing study of the psychology and market dynamics underlying technology-based stock market manias.""-Barry Riley, Financial Times""Engines That Move Markets is an insightful study into the history of technology and the lessons it has taught us. This book reveals in detail how technology has changed our economy, our markets, our society and the world we live in. Sandy Nairn has combined his talents as a scholar, analyst and investor to guide us through the past and help us understand where the future has yet to lead us.""-Thomas L. Hansberger, CFA, President & CEOHansberger Global Investors, Inc.FIND THE MOST LUCRATIVE MARKETS OF THE FUTURE BY LOOKING TO THE PASTSome of the biggest technological innovations in the world have followed similar market and social patterns-skepticism is replaced by enthusiasm; venture capital is supplied; many companies are started and their stocks rise. But as the technology is developed and financial reality sets in, many companies disappear, stocks collapse, and na?ve investors lose money.Through exhaustive research, Alasdair Nairn captures this pattern and examines the impact that some of the greatest technological inventions of the past two hundred years have had on financial markets and investors' fortunes. Each chapter explores a different technological innovation, and provides valuable insights on how to apply these lessons to appraise the ""new technology"" companies of the future. Some of the key historical episodes examined include:* Electric light and its commercial exploitation* The railroad boom in Britain and the United States* The development of the automobile industry* The discovery and early development of crude oil* The rise of the PC* The wirelessworld* The Internet and dot-com bubbleDon't be left behind when the next technological innovation revolutionizes the market. With Engines That Move Markets you'll learn how to recognize the familiar patterns unfolding in today's economy so you can profit from these market-shaping events.	ALASDAIR (Sandy) NAIRN is Chief Investment Officer of the Scottish Widows Investment Partnership in Edinburgh, responsible for the management of over $130 billion in assets. Prior to this, he spent over ten years with the Templeton organization, most recently based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where he was director of global equity research. Nairn holds a bachelor's degree in economics and engineering, and a PhD in economics.",20th century;books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;education & reference;finance;history;investing;investments & securities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;popular economics;used & rental textbooks,14
0787957119,"Guiding Change Journeys: A Synergistic Approach to Organization Transformation ""With all due respect, the author has truly impressive credentials..."" (Training, 2/02)	""Guiding Change Journeys brings together the poetic with the practical. It is an immensely helpful book, beautifully written."" --Nancy J. Adler, professor of international management, McGill University, Montreal, Canada and author of From Boston to Beijing: Managing With A Worldview  ""Guiding Change Journeys is a masterful fusion of Eastern and Western wisdom, science, and mythology presented with great insight, clarity, and warmth."" --Robert J. Marshak, organization consultant and author of Lewin Meets Confucius: A Re-View of the OD Model of Change  ""Rebecca Chan Allen has created an exciting road map for a journey of change. Her landscape is complete with dragons, deep pits, and pathfinders to stimulate both the guide and the process of organization change."" --T. Don Stacy, corporate director, Noble Affiliates, Hydril Co, AEC Ltd, and Agrium, former chair, Amoco Canada and Amoco Eurasia  ""...thoughtfully written.... I recommend this book to everyone involved in the journey of change."" --Robert I. Tobin, professor, faculty of business and commerce, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan  ""This book is a rare gift from a successful international organization development consultant in which Dr. Chan Allen shares personal, organizational, and cultural epiphanies."" --Dr. Barbara P. Mink, faculty, The Fielding Institute, Santa Barbara, California  ""Guiding Change Journeys has elegance and pacing that by itself is a guide to the often frantic change efforts of western consultants. It is a book to sit with, absorb, and reflect upon."" --Dr. Will McWhinney, president, Enthusion, Inc. and author, Paths of Change	""Guiding Change Journeys brings together the poetic with the practical. It is an immensely helpful book, beautifully written."" (Nancy J. Adler, professor of international management, McGill University, Montreal, Canada and author of From Boston to Beijing: Managing With A Worldview)  ""Guiding Change Journeys is a masterful fusion of Eastern and Western wisdom, science, and mythology presented with great insight, clarity, and warmth."" (Robert J. Marshak, organization consultant and author of Lewin Meets Confucius: A Re-View of the OD Model of Change)  ""Rebecca Chan Allen has created an exciting road map for a journey of change. Her landscape is complete with dragons, deep pits, and pathfinders to stimulate both the guide and the process of organization change."" (T. Don Stacy, corporate director, Noble Affiliates, Hydril Co, AEC Ltd, and Agrium, former chair, Amoco Canada and Amoco Eurasia) ""...thoughtfully written.... I recommend this book to everyone involved in the journey of change."" (Robert I. Tobin, professor, faculty of business and commerce, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)  ""This book is a rare gift from a successful international organization development consultant in which Dr. Chan Allen shares personal, organizational, and cultural epiphanies."" (Dr. Barbara P. Mink, faculty, The Fielding Institute, Santa Barbara, California)  ""Guiding Change Journeys has elegance and pacing that by itself is a guide to the often frantic change efforts of western consultants. It is a book to sit with, absorb, and reflect upon."" (Dr. Will McWhinney, president, Enthusion, Inc. and author, Paths of Change)	Guiding Change Journeys, a title in Practicing Organization Development Series, takes you on a cross-cultural odyssey of personal and organization transformation. Inspired by science, mythology and real-life lessons, this hands-on resource offers eight compelling transformation cycles that will help you connect with the universal creative spirit within and around us. Each of the change cycles focuses on a specific practice in global organization development (OD) and gives you the insights and methods to guide transformation through uncharted territory. By applying the book's eight practices--awakening, pathfinding, adventuring, dancing with dragons, compassion, epiphany, synergy and community--you can effect powerful change. Author Rebecca Chan Allen tells stories of change leaders and facilitators, confronted by business volatility and organization diversity, who use timeless techniques to transform impasse into innovation, and conflicts into creativity. Guiding Change Journeys invites you to embrace the unknown and venture into new territory with clarity and confidence.	Rebecca Chan Allen, president of Delta Learning Organization, is a facilitator in cultural synergy and creative transformation. Her clients include HRD Canada, Imperial Oil, ScotiaBank, Amoco, Exxon, Shell, CP Rail, AEC International, Nortel, PanCanadian, YWCA, and others. Editorial Board includes David Bradford, W. Warner Burke, Edith W. Seashore, Robert Tannenbaum, Christopher A. Worley, and Shaolin Zhang",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business & finance;business & investing;management;management & leadership;motivational;new;organizational behavior;organizational change;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks;workplace,14
1558747281,"Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul: Heartwarming Stories for People 60 and over (Chicken Soup for the Soul) JACK CANFIELD and MARK VICTOR HANSEN, #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling coauthors, are professional speakers who have dedicated their lives to enhancing the personal and professional development of others. Canfield and Hansen are based out of Santa Barbara, California and Newport Beach, California, respectively.PAUL J. MEYER, a celebrated leader of the multibillion-dollar self-improvement industry that he founded nearly forty years ago, has devoted his career to helping others develop and use their potential for achievement. Today, his worldwide enterprises include Success Motivation Institute, Inc., Success Motivation International, Inc., Leadership Management, Inc., and Leadership Management International, Inc. Over the past three decades, he has created more than twenty full-length programs on topics ranging from goal setting to leadership to time management, and much more. He is the author of Bridging the Leadership Gap and I Inherited a Fortune! and the subject of two biographies, The Story of Paul J. Meyer and Paul J. Meyer and the Art of Giving.BARBARA RUSSELL CHESSER, PH.D., is president of Success Motivation, Inc., a Waco, Texas-based research and development company that is part of a global enterprise of more than forty companies. A contributor to the Journal of Religion and Reader's Digest, she is also the author of 21 Myths That Can Wreck Your Marriage and Because You Care: Practical Ideas for Helping Those Who Care and the coauthor of Fatal Moments. Such publications as the Dictionary of International Biography, Who's Who in Community Leaders and the World Who's Who of Women have recognized her contributions.AMY SEEGER vice president of Success Motivation, Inc., is an integral part of the worldwide Meyer Family Enterprises organizations, which are leaders in the field of personal and professional development. She combines strong business skills with a personal dedication to helping others, and has always been inspired by people who embrace and enjoy the gifts of their golden years.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Kathleen's Piano Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. Robert Collyer  One cold December morning some years back, my husband, Mark, and I were driving to the airport, headed to the West Coast to speak at a medical convention. As we voiced our anticipation of warm weather and the excitement of the big city, Mark dashed into a convenience mart to purchase some last-minute items. He returned with a small brown package in his hand and a shivering elderly lady at his side. What a contrast they were  Mark in a gray wool pinstriped suit and the stranger clothed in a green polyester coat with two missing buttons and a stain on the front. Her half-frozen toes peeked out from time worn sandals. As the determined lady struggled into the back seat of the car, she flashed a tender smile my way. ""My name's Kathleen,"" she announced boldly. I understand you folks are headed down Kentucky way. Her husband, it turned out, was a patient at a nearby nursing home, and was not expected to survive through the Christmas holidays. The two had married late in life, never had any children, and when their small monthly allotment dwindled, Kathleen often hitched a ride to the nursing home. Like so many Appalachian women of her generation, Kathleen was fiercely independent	The stories collected for this series get better and better -- they're marvelously crafted pieces of writing with heartwarming themes and many entertaining twists and turns in the way they unfold. In this volume, the stories are about preserving dignity during the travails of reaching one's later years, and especially about finding meaning and purpose in being generous with others. As always, the readings are auditory pleasures that are perfectly paced and nuanced. The generous and sincere readings by the author/readers are a heartfelt gift to aging people of all stages.  T.W.  AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine",aging;anthologies;books;fitness & dieting;health;inspirational;literature & fiction;motivational;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;self-help;short stories;spirituality,14
0521378419,"Our Greek and Latin Roots (Awareness of Language) Latin and Greek are often called 'dead' languages. Our Greek and Latin Roots takes readers on a journey of exploration through their own language, helping them to uncover just how central a part Greek and Latin play in giving English the shape it has today. Full of fascinating information and stimulating exercises, this book is entirely accessible to teachers and students with little or no knowledge of classical languages.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;children's books;education;education & reference;foreign language learning;foreign languages;humanities;instruction methods;language & grammar;linguistics;new;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,14
0130841293,"Consumer Behavior (7th Edition) The Fifth Edition of this unique text uses a marketing segmentation approach to convey the essence of consumer behavior and to connect psychological, sociocultural, and decision-making aspects of consumer behavior. The authors explain in an integrated fashion what consumer behavior variables are, types and importance of consumer research, and problems in performing research. A vivid writing style motivates student interest.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",accounting;accounting & finance;advertising;books;business & finance;business & investing;consumer behavior;education & reference;marketing;marketing & sales;new;professional & technical;research;used & rental textbooks,14
0385487517,"Rat Pack Confidential If you're not inclined to read individual biographies of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr., Shawn Levy's Rat Pack Confidential is a perfect one-stop resource. Less a group biography than a series of impressionistic snapshots, the book is loaded with can't-miss material--the dirt on the making of Ocean's Eleven, information about Sinatra's wild stint as a casino owner, deep background on Peter Lawford's habit of introducing Jack Kennedy to glamorous starlets, wiretap transcripts of mobsters Sam Giancana and Johnny Formosa discussiong Dean Martin's lack of respect. Levy, whose previous book, King of Comedy, is a serious consideration of Jerry Lewis's life and career, offers similarly well considered insights into the members of the Rat Pack. He covers Davis's lifelong struggle against racism and the complicated intertwinings of the Kennedy political machine and the Clan, as the performers preferred to be called (they often denied anything like the Rat Pack even existed and resisted collective references).  The book's debts to its predecessors are often apparent; much of the material on Sinatra's friendship with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, for example, appears to have been gleaned from recent Bogart biographies. The writing style, which tries to capture the ring-a-ding-ding feel of the era, also owes serious debts to Nick Tosches by way of James Ellroy, while only intermittently reaching their level of mastery. But these are minor quibbles. As a synthesis of thirty years worth of journalism and celebrity biography, Rat Pack Confidential succeeds in portraying the supernova blowout of old-school showbiz in all its dazzling glory.	It used to be Frank Sinatra's world: Women were broads, the whole world was a smoking section, and booze flowed freely. And at no time was it more Frank's world than when the Rat Pack was in session. Sinatra was the center of the group, with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. completing the nucleus. Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, and Shirley MacLaine, the only female admitted, comprised the periphery. Since Sinatra's 80th birthday in 1995 was commemorated by at least a half-dozen books, one might think that all that could possibly be written about Sinatra already has. Indeed, most of the material in these books has been seen before in the biographies and autobiographies of the various Rat Pack players, but each book finds its own angle. Quirk (author of a string of movie-star biographies) and Schoell (a novelist and author of books on film) concentrate a bit more on the various Rat Pack films. Levy (author of a Jerry Lewis biography and former editor at American Film) digs somewhat deeper into Sinatra's connections with politics and organized crime. In light of Sinatra's recent death, there will likely be demand for more material on him, and these boks will be welcome additions to circulating popular culture collections.AMichael Colby, Univ. of California at Davis Lib.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Levy shifts the focus from one of show business's great egotists, Jerry Lewis (King of Comedy, 1996), to entertainment's most hedonistic gathering of narcissists, the Rat Pack. Most of its members were larger than lifeFrank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Peter Lawford. Joey Bishop wasn't, of course, but that was his charm. They gathered in Las Vegas in 1960 for the shooting of the less-than-immortal film Ocean's Eleven, an event that turned into one huge party, a lengthy day-and-night celebration of booze, broads, and bucks. With this lunatic extravaganza as its pivot point, the book traces the rise and fall of this quintet of famous men, trying somewhat vainly to explain their hipper-than-thou attitudes as some part of the Zeitgeist that produced the wretched excesses of the Kennedy White House. As Levy himself notes in the acknowledgments to the book, the lives and peccadilloes of these men are amply documented in dozens of books. We are treated to a snappily written retelling of Sinatra's rise from working-class Hoboken, NJ, fueled by his mother's high-octane shoving, to his success as teen idol and band singer, his catastrophic fall from grace in the early '50s and no less meteoric return with the film From Here to Eternity and a series of classic recordings for Capitol Records. Levy embroiders on the story of Martin's even more improbable success, which he touched on in the Lewis bio. Indeed, except for the material on Joey Bishop, which is (surprisingly enough) downright delightful, there isn't much that is unfamiliarthe Rat Pack's dalliances with the Kennedys, ties to the Mob, decline and fall. And although Levy's take on all this is suitably critical, there is something creepily voyeuristic about the relish with which he peddles these tales. (16 pages b photos, not seen) (Author tour)  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Acclaim for Shawn Levy's King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis:Superb....Levy's ambitious (and entirely successful) biography is a model of what a celebrity bio ought to be--smart, knowing, insightful, often funny, full of fascinating insiders' stories, always respectful but never worshipful.--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewAmong the finest, most show business-savvy screen biographies ever written.--Boston PhoenixOne of the great, clear-eyed showbiz biographies of our time--a book worthy of comparison to the genre masterpiece, John Lahr's Notes on a Cowardly Lion.--Boxoffice	Acclaim for Shawn Levy's King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis:""Superb....Levy's ambitious (and entirely successful) biography is a model of what a celebrity bio ought to be--smart, knowing, insightful, often funny, full of fascinating insiders' stories, always respectful but never worshipful.""--Los Angeles Times Book Review""Among the finest, most show business-savvy screen biographies ever written.""--Boston Phoenix""One of the great, clear-eyed showbiz biographies of our time--a book worthy of comparison to the genre masterpiece, John Lahr's Notes on a Cowardly Lion.""--Boxoffice	For the first time, the full story of what happened when Frank Sinatra brought his best pals to party in a land called Vegas.January 1960.  Las Vegas is at its smooth, cool peak.  The Strip is a jet-age theme park, and the greatest singer in the history of American popular music summons a group of friends there to make a movie.One is an insouciant singer of Italian songs, ex-partner to the most popular film comedian of the day.  One is a short, black, Jewish, one-eyed, singing, dancing wonder.  One is an upper-crust British pretty boy turned degenerate B-movie actor, brother-in-law to an ascendant politician.  And one is a stiff-shouldered comic with the quintessential Borscht Belt emcee's knack for needling one-liners.The architectonically sleek marquee of the Sands Hotel announces their presence simply by listing their names: FRANK SINATRA.DEAN MARTIN.SAMMY DAVIS, JR.PETER LAWFORD.JOEY BISHOP.Around them an entire cast gathers: actors, comics, singers, songwriters, gangsters, politicians, and women, as well as thousands of starstruck everyday folks who fork over pocketfuls of money for the privilege of basking in their presence.  They call themselves The Clan.  But to an awed world, they are known as The Rat Pack.They had it all.  Fame.  Gorgeous women.  A fabulous playground of a city and all the money in the world.  The backing of fearsome crime lords and the blessing of the President of the United States.  But the dark side--over the thin line between pleasure and debauchery, between swinging self-confidence and brutal arrogance--took its toll.  In four years, their great ride was over, and showbiz was never the same.Acclaimed Jerry Lewis biographer Shawn Levy has written a dazzling portrait of a time when neon brightness cast sordid shadows.  It was Frank's World, and we just lived in it.	Shawn Levy is the author of King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis.His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, Movieline, Film Comment, and Pulse! A former senior editor of American Film, he is a film critic for the Oregonian.He lives in Portland, Oregon.	This was Frank's baby.Onstage, Dean, singing almost straight, then pissing away anything like real feeling with jokes.In the wings, Sammy, Peter, Joey.Out front, a mob scene: Marilyn, Little Caesar, Kirk, Shirl, Mr. Benny, that Swedish kid that Sammy was so crazy for, that senator and his tubby kid brother, a few broads without addresses, a few guys without real names . . .Famous faces at ringside for the cameras, infamous ones in the shadows in the back, plus a hundred or so civilians as bait for the rest of the world--suckers with money to blow and dames to blow it with them until it ran out.In the casino, every schmuck that couldn't pay or beg or muscle his way in was betting his rent money just to feel as big as the ones who could.The joint was packed; the rest of town might as well have been dark.And for what? A movie, a party, a floating crap game, a day's work, a hustle, a joke: They'd make millions and all they had to do was show up, have a good time, pretend to give a damn, and, almost as an afterthought, sing.Sometimes it seemed like Dean had the right idea: You wanna hear the whole song, buy the record . . . But there was something in the music, wasn't there? With the right band and the right number, it was like flying--and like you could drag everybody up there with you.So let Dean do jokes, and Sammy--Sammy would start numbers and they'd stomp all over them and he'd like it.But when Frank sang, it would be straight. It could be New Year's Eve, the very stroke of midnight, the middle of Times Square, and he would stop time, stop their hearts beating, and remind them where the power was.It was in his voice.It was his.When they finally had enough and dropped the curtain, they would wander out into the casino.Some act'd be up there on the little stage in the lounge, and maybe they'd go over and screw around; Sammy liked that the best--more eyes on him, always more eyes.What Dean and Frank liked was dealing. They had points in the joint, and who was gonna stop them from horsing around at a table: It was their money, right? Dean actually knew what he was doing. He'd push aside a blackjack dealer and do a little fancy shuffling and start dealing around the layout: his rules.You got five?You hold. That's a winner.Nineteen?Hit. Twenty-six?Another winner. He'd shovel out chips and make sure that everyone took care of the real dealer, who'd stand there looking nervous over at big Carl Cohen, the casino manager, who normally didn't go for clowning.But Carl would be quiet. He'd lose a couple hundred during this monkey show, sure, but he'd get it all back and more: There were crowds five or ten deep just waiting to get at the tables. Besides, Dean was like family; he'd worked sneak joints back in Ohio before the war with Carl's kid brother. The big guy could afford to be a little bit indulgent.Which wasn't the case with Lewis Milestone, the poor director saddled with making a movie in the middle of it. Every morning he came to work in an amusement park that his boss owned and woke his boss up and tried to get him to jump through hoops for a few hours, and you had to look deep into his dark old eyes to see what he really thought about it.This movie wasn't some work of art, this wasn't All Quiet on the Western Front with poetic butterflies and mud and a moral. This was a sure thing, a money machine, a way to bring the party to the people who could only read about it in the papers. Hell, the only reason they hired him in the first place was that Jack Warner insisted on a pro and Peter guaranteed that the old guy--who was making Lassie shows, for chrissakes--would do whatever they told him.But, still, they didn't want to make a career out of it. So come the morning, they let Millie run them around in circles for a little bit, even if they hadn't gone to sleep yet on account of last night was, as they liked to say, a gasser.Or at least everyone but Frank let him do it. Frank was the boss, after all, and picture or no picture, he was going to work when he felt like it. He used to say that he only had one take in him, like he was an artist about it. The truth was he only had one take he gave a shit about, and if they wanted that one in the movie, then they'd have to wait until he was ready to give it.So Sammy, a Salty Dog or two down the hatch, would show up on the set at 9:00 or 10:00 in the morning, and Dean and Peter would show up at 9:00 or 10:00 in the morning, and Joey--who was lucky to be here at all, let's face it--would be there at 7:00 or whenever they said so, showered and alert.But Frank: 4:30 in the afternoon, maybe 5:00; and twice, twice, before lunch; and most days not at all.They worked on the picture twenty-five days in Vegas; Frank showed up nine.Oh, it was his show, all right.In the early evenings, between a few hours of the movie and going back out onstage, the steam room. Frank had it built--the first one on the Strip--and when he was in town it was off limits to anyone else. They'd drink in there and make phone calls and give each other the needle: the only time they could all be together and alone.Some other people were allowed in: the ultimate VIP room. This Rickles would take these incredible liberties with Frank and Frank would kill himself.Sammy would take one humiliation after another--You can't wear a white towel. Here's a brown towel for you!--and act like he was killing himself. Actors from the movie. Business guys. Other guys who didn't say who they were. This was an inner inner circle. Men capable of all sorts of acts of power would sit like convent girls just for the pleasure of having been allowed inside. Compared to this, the show and the movie were, well, for anyone.But not just anyone was welcome. This was a group that Frank handpicked, gliding through the world, sizing people up, then giving them the golden tap on the shoulder and bringing them in.Talent, money, power: None of these was quite enough. You had to have something Frank had, or something that he wanted to have more of. You were a cool, leonine Italian, or a dazzling black ball of fire, or a British sophisticate with powerful relatives, or a Jewish wiseguy who could brush off the world with a shrug. You were an Irish millionaire senator or a psychotic Mafia lord. You were the acme, the original, one of a kind, and Frank wanted you up close to study. He gathered everyone around him and sat in the middle and saw little parts of himself, little things he could fix or steal--Dr. Frankenstein building a hip new kind of superman.Frankenstein, though, or Nosferatu?Because, though everyone got rich, got famous, got laid, Frank got more. They made movies; Frank was the producer. They cut records; Frank owned the company. They played Vegas and Tahoe; it was Frank's hotel. Everyone did good work; Frank was Michelangelo.They called him the Leader; they asked him to be their best man; they named their kids after him, their daughters, even. And when it all spun out of control, when the precious, delicate balance came undone, when the merry-go-round stopped with a jerk, everyone got thrown on their ass--or worse--except Frank, who stood there in the middle, unfazed.Divorce, drugs, bankruptcy, death, irrelevancy: Every single one of them took a major hit.Frank didn't get so much as a scratch.But that would all be later. That would be after the golden time, when, for a while, no matter what they did, it would sell. No matter how many broads, no matter how much booze, no matter who they got mad at or cozied up to, it had reached a point where Frank could simply do no wrong.The press knew the story. They didn't write it, but they knew it. They didn't rat him out because they needed him more than he needed them, and except for a few he'd chosen as whipping boys, they lined up to do whatever he wanted them to do.He was drinking with this one or that one or fucking this one or that one--who was gonna talk? And anyone he wanted around him, the same thing: You hiding from the G?You don't need to hide around Frank. You got a wife back home who reads the gossip page?Frank'll see that you're not in it. You running for president?Frank'll throw a little juice your way and make sure everything looks on the up-and-up.Up close, the whole thing was not to be believed. You wanna talk about rebellion?Those rock 'n' roll punks had no idea what a real rebel did in private. They couldn't begin to understand the power and the appetites and how little you had to care. La Dolce Vita nothing: This bunch made Nero look like a Cub Scout.But outside, from far away, it didn't look like ego or license or indulgence. It looked like a big, beautiful party in the desert, with laughs and music and cars and clothes and incredible women, and no one ever ran out of money, and no one ever got tired, and no one had to answer to anyone, and no one ever grew old, and you would just die unless you could be there--even if the closest you ever got was a movie theater or a record player.Wherever they went, they drew a crowd. And not just yokels, but Friars and sex symbols and made men and the president himself. They made Vegas Vegas, Miami Miami, and Palm Springs Palm Springs. And they made and broke people like they were pieces of toast.For a while, everything took a backseat. For a while, the whole world was like a gyroscope, spinning so fast that it looked like it was standing still, with Frank and his cronies smack-dab in the middle of it, smiling at you, making you think you could do anything.The world wasn't big enough for them to bother with so they made it bigger and took it over.And ins...",( s );a-z;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;entertainers;frank;humor & entertainment;people;performing arts;reference;sinatra,14
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0631177833,"Mrs Dalloway (Shakespeare Head Press Edition of Virginia Woolf) As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a  sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness. As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a  series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton. Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, ""It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?""  While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""Textually, these editions of  Mrs Dalloway  and  The Voyage Out  are the most immaculate available.""  David Bradshaw, Worcester College	""Textually, these editions of  Mrs Dalloway  and  The Voyage Out  are the most immaculate available.""  David Bradshaw, Worcester College	This edition of Mrs. Dalloway includes substantial explanatory notes compiling past scholarship while identifying new allusions, and a list of textual variants among all editions in Woolf's lifetime. It also features a composition history, documenting how Woolf's reading, friendships, and culture contributed to the book, and Woolf's seldom-reprinted 1928 introduction.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	6 1-hour cassettes	      --This text refers to the 							Audio Cassette	 edition.	This edition of Virginia Woolf's popular fourth novel draws together all the textual variants to provide a text that represents as closely as possible Woolf's final intentions. The events of the novel occupy a single June day in Central London as wealthy and fashionable society hostess Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party she is to give that evening. Virginia Woolf breaks away from the traditional form of the English novel and shows her genius as a writer who is both accessible and popular.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, Mrs Dalloway, was first published in 1925. A work for which she felt she had 'almost too many ideas', it was easily her most ambitious experiment to date, both in terms of form and of psychological representation. After 'a year's groping', she discovered what she called her `tunnelling process', but which, as she put it, she told the past by instalments: 'I dig out beautiful caves behind my characters... The idea is that the caves shall connect, and each comes to daylight at the present moment...'.  The resulting account of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway (and of the tragic suicide of her 'double', Septimus Warren Smith), remains, with To the Lighthouse (1927), one of Virginia Woolf's two most widely read novels.  In addition to Morris Beja's introduction and notes, this edition provides a map of 'The London of Mrs Dalloway' and a frontispiece, reproducing a page from the corrected proofs. Virginia Woolf's 'Introduction' to the 1928 Modern Library Edition of the novel appears as an appendix. The text here is that of the marked, corrected proofs for the first American edition. A list of variants compares: the copy text and the two first editions; a further set of corrected proofs which Virginia Woolf sent on Jacques Raverat; and a set of unmarked proofs.	Morris Beja is Professor of English Literature at Ohio State University. He is the author of Epiphany in the Modern Novel (1971), and has edited casebooks on Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse (1970) and James Joyce: Dubliners & A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1973).	MRS. DALLOWAY SAID she would buy the flowers herself.  For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer's men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning-fresh as if issued to children on a beach.  What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave; chill and sharp and yet (for a girl of eighteen as she then was) solemn, feeling as she did, standing there at the open window, that something awful was about to happen; looking at the flowers, at the trees with the smoke winding off them and the rooks rising, falling; standing and looking until Peter Walsh said, ""Musing among the vegetables?""-was that it?-""I prefer men to cauliflowers""-was that it? He must have said it at breakfast one morning when she had gone out on to the terrace-Peter Walsh. He would be back from India one of these days, June or July, she forgot which, for his letters were awfully dull; it was his sayings one remembered; his eyes, his pocket-knife, his smile, his grumpiness and, when millions of things had utterly vanished-how strange it was!-a few sayings like this about cabbages.  She stiffened a little on the kerb, waiting for Durtnall's van to pass. A charming woman, Scrope Purvis thought her (knowing her as one does know people who live next door to one in Westminster); a touch of the bird about her, of the jay, blue-green, light, vivacious, though she was over fifty, and grown very white since her illness. There she perched, never seeing him, waiting to cross, very upright.  For having lived in Westminster-how many years now? over twenty,-one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza) before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. Such fools we are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment afresh; but the veriest frumps, the most dejected of miseries sitting on doorsteps (drink their downfall) do the same; can't be dealt with, she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that very reason: they love life. In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.  For it was the middle of June. The War was over, except for some one like Mrs. Foxcroft at the Embassy last night eating her heart out because that nice boy was killed and now the old Manor House must go to a cousin; or Lady Bexborough who opened a bazaar, they said, with the telegram in her hand, John, her favourite, killed; but it was over; thank Heaven-over. It was June. The King and Queen were at the Palace. And everywhere, though it was still so early, there was a beating, a stirring of galloping ponies, tapping of cricket bats; Lords, Ascot, Ranelagh and all the rest of it; wrapped in the soft mesh of the grey-blue morning air, which, as the day wore on, would unwind them, and set down on their lawns and pitches the bouncing ponies whose forefeet just struck the ground and up they sprung, the whirling young men, and laughing girls in their transparent muslins who, even now, after dancing all night, were taking their absurd woolly dogs for a run; and even now, at this hour, discreet old dowagers were shooting out in their motor cars on errands of mystery; and the shopkeepers were fidgeting in their windows with their paste and diamonds, their lovely old sea-green brooches in eighteenth-century settings to tempt Americans (but one must economise, not buy things rashly for Elizabeth), and she, too, loving it as she did with an absurd and faithful passion, being part of it, since her people were courtiers once in the time of the Georges, she, too, was going that very night to kindle and illuminate; to give her party. But how strange, on entering the Park, the silence; the mist; the hum; the slow-swimming happy ducks; the pouched birds waddling; and who should be coming along with his back against the Government buildings, most appropriately, carrying a despatch box stamped with the Royal Arms, who but Hugh Whitbread; her old friend Hugh-the admirable Hugh!  ""Good-morning to you, Clarissa!"" said Hugh, rather extravagantly, for they had known each other as children. ""Where are you off to?""  ""I love walking in London,"" said Mrs. Dalloway. ""Really it's better than walking in the country.""  They had just come up-unfortunately-to see doctors. Other people came to see pictures; go to the opera; take their daughters out; the Whitbreads came ""to see doctors."" Times without number Clarissa had visited Evelyn Whitbread in a nursing home. Was Evelyn ill again? Evelyn was a good deal out of sorts, said Hugh, intimating by a kind of pout or swell of his very well-covered, manly, extremely handsome, perfectly upholstered body (he was almost too well dressed always, but presumably had to be, with his little job at Court) that his wife had some internal ailment, nothing serious, which, as an old friend, Clarissa Dalloway would quite understand without requiring him to specify. Ah yes, she did of course; what a nuisance; and felt very sisterly and oddly conscious at the same time of her hat. Not the right hat for the early morning, was that it? For Hugh always made her feel, as he bustled on, raising his hat rather extravagantly and assuring her that she might be a girl of eighteen, and of course he was coming to her party to-night, Evelyn absolutely insisted, only a little late he might be after the party at the Palace to which he had to take one of Jim's boys,-she always felt a little skimpy beside Hugh; schoolgirlish; but attached to him, partly from having known him always, but she did think him a good sort in his own way, though Richard was nearly driven mad by him, and as for Peter Walsh, he had never to this day forgiven her for liking him.  She could remember scene after scene at Bourton-Peter furious; Hugh not, of course, his match in any way, but still not a positive imbecile as Peter made out; not a mere barber's block. When his old mother wanted him to give up shooting or to take her to Bath he did it, without a word; he was really unselfish, and as for saying, as Peter did, that he had no heart, no brain, nothing but the manners and breeding of an English gentleman, that was only her dear Peter at his worst; and he could be intolerable; he could be impossible; but adorable to walk with on a morning like this.  (June had drawn out every leaf on the trees. The mothers of Pimlico gave suck to their young. Messages were passing from the Fleet to the Admiralty. Arlington Street and Piccadilly seemed to chafe the very air in the Park and lift its leaves hotly, brilliantly, on waves of that divine vitality which Clarissa loved. To dance, to ride, she had adored all that.)  For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say?-some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning-indeed they did. But Peter-however beautiful the day might be, and the trees and the grass, and the little girl in pink-Peter never saw a thing of all that. He would put on his spectacles, if she told him to; he would look. It was the state of the world that interested him; Wagner, Pope's poetry, people's characters eternally, and the defects of her own soul. How he scolded her! How they argued! She would marry a Prime Minister and stand at the top of a staircase; the perfect hostess he called her (she had cried over it in her bedroom), she had the makings of the perfect hostess, he said.  So she would still find herself arguing in St. James's Park, still making out that she had been right-and she had too-not to marry him. For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and she him. (Where was he this morning for instance? Some committee, she never asked what.) But with Peter everything had to be shared; everything gone into. And it was intolerable, and when it came to that scene in the little garden by the fountain, she had to break with him or they would have been destroyed, both of them ruined, she was convinced; though she had borne about with her for years like an arrow sticking in her heart the grief, the anguish; and then the horror of the moment when some one told her at a concert that he had married a woman met on the boat going to India! Never should she forget all that! Cold, heartless, a prude, he called her. Never could she understand how he cared. But those Indian women did presumably-silly, pretty, flimsy nincompoops. And she wasted her pity. For he was quite happy, he assured her-perfectly happy, though he had never done a thing that they talked of; his whole life had been a failure. It made her angry still.Copyright 1925 by Harcourt, Inc.Copyright renewed 1953 by Leonard WoolfAnnotated Edition copyright  2005 by Harcourt, Inc.Introduction copyright  2005 by Bonnie Kime ScottAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmittedin any form or by any means...	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Phyllida Law's beautiful reading may be the perfect way to experience Woolf's modernist masterpiece. As Clarissa Dalloway goes through a day in June in London just after WWI, a day on which she is giving a party, the narrative takes her to her youth in memory, to her first loves, then forward and back again in time to the people she has admired, to the woman she has become, the marriage she has made, and her anxieties for her daughter, so different from herself. Woolf weaves in threads of people whose lives intersect Clarissa's, from the servants to the royal family, until we see a perfect portrait of a moment in place and time. Throughout, Law's ability to render distinctions of class, of age, of sex and of temperment is glorious, and makes for a gem of a literary experience.  B.G.  Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award.  AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine",books;british;classics;europe;history;history & criticism;literary;literature & fiction;movements & periods;mystery;psychological thrillers;thriller & suspense;thrillers;wales,14
0595189946,"Poverty, Chastity, and Change: Lives of Contemporary American Nuns Rogers, a freelance writer and editor, interviewed 94 Catholic religious women in 14 states from 1991 to 1995, asking why they remain committed in times of profound change within the church. Of these, 54 professionally transcribed interviews are included here, with a focus on the impact of Vatican II from the 1960s to the 1990s. Interviews vary in length from a paragraph to several pages; most have a brief introduction identifying religious community, age, and current activity. Three women chose anonymity, and several are former sisters. Forty religious communities are represented. The interviewees are positive and realistic about their life choices; chastity was not a major issue for most. Sister-advocates for the poor, attorneys, doctors, teachers, artists?all reflect upon their experience of church today and hopes for the future. Their stories of love and generosity serve as impressive evidence that new forms of mission and commitment are already emerging for the new millennium. This unique collection is recommended for religious and women's studies collections.?Anna M. Donnelly, St. John's Univ. Lib., Jamaica, N.Y.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""The only adequate response to the stories of these religious women is gratitude and admiration.""  -- Lawrence Cunningham, University of Notre Dame	Carole Garibaldi Rogers is a writer, editor, and oral historian. She has published three books and written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times and America. The Lilly Endowment and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities supported her research for this book. She currently directs a new oral history project at the College of Saint Elizabeth in New Jersey.",20th century;americas;books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;history;inspirational;religion & spirituality;religious;spirituality;united states;world,14
0875884474,"Collector Steiff Values, 2nd The American Steiff editions 1980-1995 lead the collectors' parade of Teddy Bears and their animal friends. This book contains landmark research with up to the minute collector values that gives every collector and merchant an appraiser's guide. The parade of limited edition Steiff Specials, Disney, Collector Club, Store Exclusives replicas, and museum edition Teddy Bears as well as the non-limited edition bears, denoted by yellow ear tags, are all included. Featured in full color are nearly 100 teddy bears which, combined with the numerical listing chart, will prompt collectors to ask, ""How did I collect without this choice information?"" The book contains charts of information organized by both animal type and a complete numerical listing. In addition to a numerical teddy bear category, there is also an alphabetical teddy bear category organized by bear name, making it easier for the collector to locate a particular bear without knowledge of its number. Featured in addition to teddy bears are rabbits, cats, dogs, farmyard animals, woodland animals, and animals of the wild. All of the Steiff animal kingdom are combined into one numerical listing from smallest to largest Steiff number. Collectors will find this book critical not only for insurance purposes but more importantly as a book to mark which Steiff animals they have in their collection.	Peter Consalvi",antiques & collectibles;antiques care & reference;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;dolls;education & reference;engineering;hobbies & home;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;professional & technical;reference;toys & figurines,14
0875425933,"A Practical Guide to the Runes: Their Uses in Divination and Magic (Llewellyn's New Age) Lisa Peschel is an artist, writer, and Wiccan.",books;divination;earth-based religions;europe;history;new age;occult;personal transformation;religion & spirituality;runes;scandinavia;self-help;wicca;witchcraft,14
0471344028,"Applied XML: A Toolkit for Programmers Looking past much of the hype surrounding XML, Applied XML provides a real-world guide to the XML used in the latest browsers and server-side solutions. Approachable yet filled with useful specifics about XML standards, this book fills a valuable niche for any IS professional, including Java developers. The notable feature here is the clarity of the authors' presentation and their real-world examples using current tools. They start off with the ""big picture"" about XML and its potential for allowing today's corporations to structure and deliver data over the Internet. The book then covers all the basics with a full tour of the relevant XML standards like DTDs, XML DOM, and XSL (for displaying XML data).  Because XML is still a fairly new technology, many books drift into theory. Not so with Applied XML, which centers on today's tools (like Internet Explorer 5 and a variety of XML parsers for Java). The book anchors his discussion of XML standards with real-world examples using an online shopping site powered by ASPs and Java. There is also good coverage of the XML document model, including many clear diagrams explaining the hierarchical organization of XML data. If you've been baffled by more abstract explanations of XML, this guide is as good as any for getting you started with this powerful standard. For the Java programmer, examples of using Java to parse and display XML data will also be useful. Now that XML has moved into the mainstream, it stands ready to do real work on the Internet. Any IS professional who is considering XML for delivering corporate data can benefit from this capable and efficient tour of the advantages of XML for today's businesses. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: XML overview, Document Type Declarations (DTDs), XSL, XML and information exchange, three-tiered architectures, browser support, XML tags, attributes, comments, namespaces, DOM reference, tree navigation, trees and notes, Internet Explorer 5 and data islands, JavaScript and VBScript, Java XML parsers, server-side XML: Active Server Pages (ASPs) and servlets, XML data types, XML and Visual Basic, and XML queries.	""...a thoroughgoing instructional text"" (Database & Network Journal, Vol 30/5 2000)	IT professionals know that XML is well on its way to becoming the lingua franca for information exchange on the World Wide Web. This book provides you with the hands-on details you need to create the next generation of Web applications. With this book/CD-package, two former Microsoft XML Technologies team members supply you with the know-how and tools you need to harness the power of XML. Alex Ceponkus and Faraz Hoodbhoy walk you through numerous real-world examples illustrating effective techniques for using XML to enhance the data accessing and presentation capabilities of your programs.  You get an in-depth look at how to use the XML Document Object Model, the DOM, and techniques for leveraging the XML Stylesheet Language, XSL. Learn how to: * Build sophisticated e-commerce applications with XML * Use XSL with XML to facilitate data presentation * Radically enhance the data exchange capabilities of Intranet and Web applications * Create customized markup languages * Create intelligent, searchable document structures * Access existing data in relational databases * Exploit XML in various real-world business scenarios	The tools and techniques you need to build applications and systems with XML.IT professionals know that XML is well on its way to becoming the industry standard for information exchange on the World Wide Web. This book provides you with the hands-on details you need to create the next generation of Web applications. With this book/CD-ROM, two former Microsoft XML technologies team members supply you with the know-how and tools you need to harness the power of XML. Alex Ceponkus and Faraz Hoodbhoy walk you through numerous real-world examples illustrating effective techniques for using XML to enhance the data accessing and presentation capabilities of your programs.You get an in-depth look at how to use the XML Document Object Model, the DOM, and techniques for leveraging the XML Stylesheet Language, XSL.Learn how to:* Build sophisticated e-commerce applications with XML.* Use XSL with XML to facilitate data presentation.* Radically enhance the data exchange capabilities of intranet and Web applications.* Create customized markup languages.* Create intelligent, searchable document structures.* Access existing data in relational databases.* Exploit XML in various real-world business scenarios.On the CD-ROM you'll find:* Source code from the book.* Demo applications.* Active Server scripting examples for server-side interaction.* Updates on XML from the W3C.* The tools and applications you need to begin writing and testing your XML applications.Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/	ALEX CEPONKUS has been working with XML since its inception and has built numerous XML applications. Alex is a student at the University of Toronto in the Division of Engineering Science, specializing in computer engineering.FARAZ HOODBHOY has spent more than three years working on large-scale information systems and consulting projects across the globe. Faraz is currently a student in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems.Both Alex and Faraz have worked as program manager interns for Microsoft's XML technologies team.",books;computer science;computers & technology;database design;databases;education & reference;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design;xml,14
0805425527,"The Assassins Oliver North is a New York Times bestselling author, the host of War Stories on the FOX News Channel, and a war correspondent for the FOX News Network. His novels are stories of international intrigue, political espionage, and military adventure drawn from his own experiences as a combat-decorated Marine and the Counter-Terrorism Coordinator for the United States from 1983-1986.",action & adventure;books;christian books & bibles;contemporary;fiction;genre fiction;literature & fiction;mystery;religion & spirituality;spy stories & tales of intrigue;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states;war,14
0534554237,"Research Methods and Statistics: A Critical Thinking Approach Sherri L. Jackson is Professor of Psychology at Jacksonville University, where she has taught since 1988. At JU, she has won Excellence in Scholarship and University Service Awards and also the university-wide Professor of the Year Award in 2004. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in cognitive/experimental psychology from the University of Florida. Her research interests include human reasoning and the teaching of psychology. She has published numerous articles in both areas. In 1997, she received a research grant from the Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (APA Division 2) to develop A Compendium of Introductory Psychology Textbooks 1997-2000. She is also the author of STATISTICS: PLAIN AND SIMPLE, Wadsworth (2005).",books;fitness & dieting;general;health;mathematics;medical books;new;psychology;psychology & counseling;research;science & math;sexuality;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
0743451376,"Gunshots in My Cook-Up: Bits and Bites from a Hip-Hop Caribbean Life As a former editor-in-chief of hip-hop magazine the Source and a fan since he was a nine-year-old living in Guyana, Hinds knows hip-hop as well as any journalist around. This account is part memoir, part behind the music: we get days in the life of Puffy, Lauryn Hill at the Grammys and guerrilla touring with the Wu-Tangs. We get Hinds's writerly woodshedding at Princeton and the Village Voice, the rise of the Source, sweaty clubs in Brooklyn and the escalation of the East Coast-West Coast feud until two of rap's superstars, Tupac and Biggie Smalls, are lost. An excellent storyteller, Hinds can write with equal intensity about his little brother's aspiration to be an MC, hiring an intern to go through ""the Wack Box"" or hurtling down the highway with Raekwon and Ghostface. Even though he knows it's business, Hinds's book works because he still believes in the power of this new, brash and still-not-fully charted art: this is a fan's memoir first, and a journalist's chronicle second.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A former editor of the Source magazine, Hinds has written a terrific work. As a ten-year-old in his native Guyana, Hinds first heard hip-hop via the Sugarhill Gang, who scored the first massive hip-hop hit in 1979 with ""Rapper's Delight."" He felt an instant attraction that grew into a great love when at 15 Hinds moved to New York City. Weaving details of his own relationships and travails with portraits of numerous hip-hop luminaries, Hinds shows how intricately his life and music are intertwined. Often, his relationships with industry movers and shakers (e.g., Russell Simmons) proved more personal than professional, and his two younger brothers have both tried their hand at hip-hop. When Hinds writes of the troubles that have surrounded the culture, readers will feel his pain and anger; and when he sings the praises of artists like Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean, they will be uplifted. For anyone interested in the culture of hip-hop-and the numbers keep growing-Hinds's effort should prove educational and enlightening. A fine complement to Nelson George's social and cultural history, Hip Hop America; recommended for all public libraries.Craig Shufelt, Lane P.L., Fairfield, OHCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	As former editor-in-chief of the respected hip-hop journal The Source and former top aide to rap mogul Russell Simmons, Hinds is well placed to provide a definitive look at the state of hip-hop, and he does in an autobiography full of reportage and stock-taking on where the music is today and where he and his cohort have ended up. ""As a member of the hip-hop generation,"" he says, ""ambivalence is my birthright,"" which he exercises frequently and profitably in chapters indicatively titled ""Young Black Teenagers,"" ""My Uzi Weighs a Ton"" (about Chuck D's massive influence), ""The Source of It All"" (about the hip-hop side of the rock press), and so forth. In the last chapter (before a protracted sheaf of acknowledgments), which is addressed to his daughter in utero, Hinds gets downright sentimental by contemporary standards; for instance, he rues ""that Daddy and Mommy [i.e., Hinds and consort] belong to an oft-maligned generation"" that is seen as a bunch of ""slackers . . . gorged on entitlement and dot.com excess."" Mike TribbyCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Russell Simmons [Hinds does] for hip-hop what Langston Hughes did for jazz.Publishers Weekly Hinds knows hip-hop as well as any journalist around. This account is part memoir, part behind the music [and it] works because he still believes in the power of this new, brash, and still-not-fully charted art.Kirkus Reviews Refreshing and insightful....An alert take on hip-hop's trajectory.	Selwyn Seyfu Hinds has written for Vanity Fair, Spin, The Village Voice, Vibe, and other publications. A graduate of Princeton University, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.	Chapter Five: Young Black Teenagers  From a perch in the second-floor balcony, the main floor of New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom seems sheathed in shadow. Every so often the house lights wink on and off and the shadow moves. Heaves like something alive. Then the lights flare brightly enough to break the undulating shadow into its discrete parts: hundreds of youth gathered below, awaiting the arrival of hip-hop gods, the Wu-Tang Clan.  It is winter. Those below are outfitted appropriately. They wear baggy, heavy jeans and boots. Voluminous jackets. Hats pulled low. Some huddle together, smaller packs within packs. Others lope slowly around the outskirts with that rhythmic bop so particular of hip-hop youth.  They are antsy. The night has already grown long in the tooth; and, quite in character, Wu-Tang Clan has not yet put in an appearance. Today, November 21, 2000, marked the release of the group's third album, The W, and the faithful are hungry with anticipation for this show. Restless, they make do with the selections offered by the DJ on stage. They are a critical bunch, roaring with approval to songs by the hardcore likes of Wu-Tang and M.O.P., grumbling with reluctant appreciation to Jay-Z's ghetto capitalist tales, hissing angrily when the DJ puts on the drawled, southern strains of Master P.  Finally, suddenly, Wu-Tang arrives. They glide out onstage, these men from Staten Island who revamped hip-hop seven long years ago in 1993. They have all come: the RZA, the GZA, [yes] Ol' Dirty Bastard, Inspectah Deck, Raekwon the Chef, U-God, Ghostface Killa, Masta Killa, and Method Man. They stalk the stage like the hungry wolves they remain; each man dressed in head-to-toe leather. RZA, the leader, slides to the front. A roar greets him. He puts his hands up.  ""All my niggas! All my Wu-Tang niggas! Put your Ws up in the air!""  The entire crowd makes the sign: arms straight up, palms facing forward, thumbs touching. With splendid timing the house lights crash on full bore to reveal a spellbinding sight: hundreds of white arms making the Wu-Tang W; hundreds of white faces gazing adoringly at RZA; hundreds of white mouths screaming in approval as RZA exhorts his ""Wu niggas"" to show their love.   I met my first hip-hop white boy a long time ago -- 1985 to be exact. My family had just moved to Freeport, Long Island, from Flatbush, Brooklyn. I didn't know what to expect from Long Island aside from three facts. One, we would now have a house, a far cry from the cramped, two-bedroom Flatbush apartment in which we'd been living. Two, trees and grass would replace concrete and asphalt. Three, expect white folk.  I hadn't had too much experience with white folk. In Guyana, as in most of the Caribbean, there are people of European descent. But their numbers are relatively small, and Caribbean culture is such an all-encompassing identity that the huge fault lines that separate white and black in the American racial experience are comparatively tiny, despite the Caribbean's colonial history. The fractures rest elsewhere: between black and Indian in Guyana and Trinidad, between warring political parties and their supporters in Jamaica, between rich and poor in Haiti.  The white folk I'd encountered in Brooklyn were discrete, remote figures. Policemen, transit workers, the teachers at my junior high school, and a couple of older guys who lived on my aunt's block, Forty-second Street. But there were no white children my own age in the regions I roamed around Church Avenue. Even at my junior high school, located in the more mixed neighborhood of Midwood, the nonblack faces seemed few and far between; and we didn't mingle socially in any event.  Freeport was different. The signs that marked the town's border did not announce ""suburban experiment in progress."" But from the moment we took Exit 21 off New York's Southern State Parkway my family dove into the swirling beaker that was Freeport, Long Island. It was a town where diversity was as apt to collide as blend, a body of contrasts beneath a quilt of suburban similitude. In Freeport only five minutes of car time separated palatial dwellings along Seaman Avenue, with their middle-class inhabitants, from a grim stretch of road just steps from the town's Long Island Rail Road station where serious young men plied their trade in crack cocaine. Afternoons at Freeport High saw yellow buses fetch young cargo to respective corners of the town. There was the South bus, which would wend its way down tree-lined Brookside Avenue to deposit kids in bucolic settings before ending up at grittier Buffalo Avenue, home to Freeport's best rendition of a New York City housing project, a place where the acrid scent of poverty clung with stubborn insistence. And then the various North buses, some traveling up Brookside to the spacious homes on Seaman, some venturing more east than north, closer to the enterprising young toughs standing vigil on cold corners.  We all came together in the hallways of Freeport High: middle-class and working-class kids; the children of families like my own, recently transplanted from New York City boroughs, and those with established Long Island credentials; long-haired, dark-clad white kids hanging in packs outside the school's front door, puffing away on cigarettes; clean-cut white kids intent on the football or lacrosse teams; nerdy, seemingly unsophisticated black kids with generically branded clothing, the social kiss of death in high school; cool, hip-hop-edged black kids rocking Spotbilt sneakers, bomber jackets, and large sheepskin coats; and Spanish kids, mostly Puerto Rican, a smaller minority in the hallways and cafeteria but growing every day. We were a rainbow mix. West Indian, African-American, Latino, Irish, Italian, Jewish.  Sometimes we butted heads, like the lunch period in tenth grade when one of my boys calmly mentioned that he was heading over to Dodd Junior High School because we were gonna ""scrap with the Puerto Ricans"" in that school's parking lot. Contused faces ambled about Freeport High the next day, including that of my soccer teammate Boris, a lanky, burly Spanish kid whose face looked liked he'd been stomped with cleated shoes. Then there were the legendary fights in the park on Freeport's south side. These took place before my family moved from Brooklyn. According to the story, older black guys -- like big Darren Wise, who'd long graduated from Freeport High -- slugged it out on occasion with their white peers, who were quite put out by these black kids strutting like they owned the south side. Still, for the most part the kids from different groups ignored each other outside of academics and sports. But not all.  Within a week of my midterm arrival at Freeport High my math class had to take a big test. The lot of us sat hunched over wooden desks with pens poised under the watchful, scowling eye of our bespectacled teacher.  ""Psssst!"" There came an insistent sound from my left. At first I ignored it.  ""Psssssst!"" It came again. With greater volume.  I looked over cautiously. Just to my left sat a small, compact white kid. He wore a baseball cap over his eyes. His feet rode blue-and-white Spotbilts. I'd met him during my first couple days in the class. His name was Ronnie Wingey. He was a crack-up. Full of jokes and off-color observations. Upon meeting me Ron had been intrigued to hear I was from Brooklyn. Though once he realized I wasn't some bad boy type I think some of the NYC luster wore off.  ""Yo, what's the answer to number two?"" he whispered.  I looked at him with bemusement. Then I whispered the answer at him.  ""Thanks,"" he muttered, scribbling away at his paper, wicked grin on his face.  There were only a few kids like Ron in Freeport High. John Henry, a tall quiet kid who played on the basketball team and slouched through the hall with his black teammates; Big Stan, who proudly wore his Rastafarian emblems around his neck and probably knew more about reggae than anyone else in the school; and Mike Ippoliti, a cocky, crazy Italian kid whose couldn't-care-less attitude and ready laugh endeared him to his black schoolmates. But there weren't a whole lot in 1985. Not too many white kids wearing the trappings of hip-hop like aficionados born.  Ron was the truth though. Even if one were tempted to snicker at the rolling bop in his walk, the hip-hop cadence in his talk, and his baggy, brand-conscious clothing style, you couldn't front on his cultural attributes. Ron was just about the best DJ in Freeport High. And we had some good DJs. But Ron could make a pair of Technics 1200 turntables, the techno tools at the center of hip-hop, work delicious, sonic magic. I have many memories of late-night parties during those years, Ron bent deep over the turntables, often the only white face in the room. He would cut, mix, and scratch record after record, like EPMD's ""You're a Customer"" or De La Soul's ""Plug Tunin."" The room would erupt in shouts and cheers as the excited partygoers danced with increased energy, screaming their approval of Ron's guidance.  Toward the end of our high school years Ron began working with local hip-hop heroes Public Enemy, the firebrand group on Russell Simmons's Def Jam label who'd ignited political consciousness in the hip-hop generation. Public Enemy hailed from Roosevelt, a town that adjoined Freeport. Kids in Freeport and Roosevelt were little different from their city peers when it came to the objects of their hip-hop affection. Acts like LL Cool J, Big Daddy Kane, and Run-DMC were huge faves; but we regarded Public Enemy with fierce pride, for these were homegrown icons. They might be seen cruising down Main Street, the road that connected Freeport with Roosevelt, subject to shouted sidewalk greetings and firsthand viewings. We imagined that Chuck D and Flavor Flav -- PE's front men -- were just a few degrees of separation from any of us. Little wonder that Ron's hush-hush work with Public Enemy gave him major props.  Shortly after high school that work stood revealed: Ron and four other young, white guys -- among them DJ Skribble o...	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",americas;arts & photography;books;criticism & theory;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;movements & periods;music;musical genres;rap;state & local;united states;world literature,14
0393031640,"Shared Lives: A Remembrance (American) Drawing on letters, diaries and her own memory, Gordon ( Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life ) offers a candid and touching memoir of her friendship with three women, all now dead, who grew up with the author in the middle-class liberal Jewish society of Cape Town, South Africa, during the 1950s. Their lives were both clarified and crippled by the horrors of apartheid and by the pressure of their own nearly inevitable destinies as wives and mothers. Focusing on the struggles of her close friend Flora Givent, who rebelled against the bourgeois expectations surrounding her, Gordon's account is reminiscent of de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter : she describes Flora's fight to chart her own course. Whatever success Gordon's trio found in determining their lives she attributes, in great part, to the strength of their love for one another. Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Gordon (English, Oxford Univ.), who has written books on T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, here stretches the bounds of traditional biography to encompass the private, unrecorded lives of her three close childhood friends in order to illuminate South African culture and demonstrate how she and other women struggled to define themselves within a repressive society. The author follows Romy, Ellie, and Rose from their coming of age in a white, Jewish, bourgeois Cape Town neighborhood of the 1950s through young adulthood, trying finally to make sense of their premature deaths. Her prose is clear and fluid, her characterizations often vivid. Yet, perhaps inevitably, a book that casts its net wide enough to span four lives and several continents sacrifices depth; none of the other women seem as fully fleshed-out as the dissatisfied, ebullient Romy, and the narrative's abrupt segues--from personal to political, country to country, life to life--are distracting. For general readers and collections in women's studies and South African culture.- Ellen Finnie Duranceau, MIT Lib.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Gordon, a biographer of remarkable gifts (Eliot's New Life, 1988, etc.), turns her glass inward and examines the youth and maturity that she and her friends knew in Cape Town, Israel, New York, and Europe: a wide-ranging picaresque story bound together by childhood attachments never set aside. As a Jew growing up in South Africa in the 1950's, Gordon found herself doubly isolated, for the gentile community that surrounded her--and through which she could move only with the most practiced circumspection--was itself implacably sealed off from the black population that comprised the country's invisible majority. The effect was claustrophobic in the extreme and brought Gordon into alliance with schoolmates who suffered the contradictions as keenly as she did. Her narrative quickly focuses on three of these: Romy, Ellie, and Rose--all of whom died young, all of whom struggled against the social and imaginative constraints of their society. This is preeminently a story of exile--the actual exile of those (like Gordon) who left a world they could no longer endure, and the internal exile of those who tried to manage in a place that gave no scope to their desires--and it moves along that boundary between nostalgia and anger that is the exile's true domain. Good use is made of the diaries and letters of those concerned, and Gordon's voice is both intimate and precise throughout--especially as she describes her own difficulties in establishing an academic career. The tribute that she pays her friends is not entirely testimonial, however, for it sets forth the process by which Gordon grew into her own role--as an observer and interpreter of the lives of others. Elegant and strong: a subtle eye trained across years of memory. (Photos--not seen.) -- Copyright 1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	[Lyndall Gordon] has rendered so faithfully, so lyrically really, the way things were. Added to the delightful candor with which Lyndall writes both of herself and of her characters, the wry humor of her writing. It is a marvellous book. Lynn Freed	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Lyndall Gordon is the prizewinning author of biographies including CHARLOTTE BRONTE, VIRGINIA WOOLF, SHARED LIVES and MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. Born and raised in South Africa, Lyndall is a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",africa;biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;history;jewish;literature & fiction;memoirs;parenting & relationships;relationships;self-help;south africa;specific groups;women,14
0814712916,"Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children Reading, writing, and arithmetic may be a part of growing up for most people, but the methods for such training are far from universal. While in Japan as visiting scholars in 1989, Gail Benjamin and her husband enrolled their two children in a public elementary school, though neither of the kids spoke Japanese. The experience resulted in an education for both parents and children, and Japanese Lessons is a look at the differences between two cultures' educational systems. What gives the book much of its life is Benjamin's approach to the subject; an anthropologist, she is as interested in the reasons behind the differences as in the differences themselves. The methods and priorities exhibited in the classrooms reflect the cultures behind the educational systems, and her children helped her make some interesting and telling observations. For instance, collectivism is encouraged by breaking the typically large classes into smaller subgroups for discussion and problem-solving, effectively rewarding combined effort and teamwork. In this way, the Japanese learn as young children to value consensus and to emphasize the good of the whole over the good of the one, a direct contrast to the emphatic individualism so treasured in the United States. Benjamin recognizes that many of the Japanese teaching practices would not work well in the U.S., but by presenting alternatives to America's current system of public education, she has offered points to consider while granting a peek into Japanese culture.	Gail R. Benjamin reaches beyond predictable images of authoritarian Japanese  educators and automaton schoolchildren to show the advantages and disadvantages of a  system remarkably different from the American one...  -- The New York Times Book Review, Andrea Cooper	Gail R. Benjamin is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and has taught at Saitama University and Tsukuba University in Japan.[Author Bio]",anthropology;books;cultural;education;education & reference;education theory;elementary education;instruction methods;new;pedagogy;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
1876451211,Fathering from the Fast Lane: Practical Ideas for Busy Dads Bruce Robinson is a professor of medicine at the University of Western Australia Medical School who speaks on the topic of work and family life to students and professional and community groups.,books;crafts;family relationships;fatherhood;fitness & dieting;health;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;home repair;how-to & home improvements;marriage;parenting & relationships;relationships;self-help,14
0393971708,Anthology of Renaissance Music: Western Europe 1400-1600 (The Norton Introduction to Music History) Allan W. Atlas is Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and Chair of the Graduate Music Department at The City University of New York.,arts & photography;books;composition & performance;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;literature & fiction;movements & periods;music;new;performing arts;renaissance;theory;used & rental textbooks,14
0815126069,"Alzheimer's Disease: A Handbook for Caregivers Ronald C. Hamdy, MD, FACP, FRCP James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Johnson City, TN East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN; Joellyn Edwards, PhD, RN East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN; James M. Turnbull, MD, FRCP (C) Central Appalachia Services, Inc., Kingsport, TN East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN; and Mary Lancaster, RNC, MSN James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Johnson City, TN East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN",books;clinical;geriatrics;gerontology;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;neurology;new;nursing;psychiatric;psychiatry & mental health;used & rental textbooks,14
0965879844,"Light at Ground Zero: St. Paul's Chapel After 9/11 As one left the harsh lights and barricades of Broadway with its cacophony of earth movers, jackhammers and dump trucks, and entered St. Paul's Chapel, one was enveloped in a subdued light, a murmur of hushed voices, a sacred spirit, undeniable, almost tactile. The interior of the chapel with its pastel pinks and blues and its delicate Waterford crystal chandeliers could offer no greater contrast to the monochromatic moonlike landscape of Ground Zero with its associations of dread, horror and agony.  St. Paul's was a welcoming fireplace where all who entered could warm themselves from the elements and from the cold spectacle outside. For seven months my camera and I were witnesses, and I hope also instruments, of God's radical grace, mercy and love at St. Paul's. During this time I created over 2,500 images. My ministry was to witness and to record the work of the Holy Spirit in action. I loved the brilliant morning light pouring through the east window over the altar, and the warm late afternoon light from the south windows bathing the chapel in gold. The 18-century symmetry of the chapel formed an ideal backdrop for the rainbow colors of children's cards and letters and the large and small banners from all over the world. Here God's love was poured out through thousands of hearts stretched to the breaking point, through sore hands and aching feet. Workers and volunteers shared their lives, their stories, a cup of soup or coffee. We prayed and cried, sometimes alone, sometimes together. We hugged, and we refrained from hugging... ?from the Preface	Krystyna Sanderson, a fine art and commercial photographer, has been widely exhibited and her work is in public and private collections in the U.S. and Europe. Her photographic series ""Masks"" was published in book form by Texas Tech Press. She is a contributing author of a chapter on ""Light"" in the book It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God, published by Square Halo Books in 2000. For close to eight months Krystyna photographed the relief project at St. Paul's Chapel, one block from Ground Zero, and produced over 2,500 images.Krystyna holds an M.F.A. in painting and photography from Texas Tech University. She taught photography at The New School and at St. John's University and was a staff photographer for the New York City Police Department. She is a member of the board of directors of ECVA (The Episcopal Church and Visual Arts). Krystyna and her husband Colin worship at Grace Episcopal Church in New York.	Foreword  On September 12, after having escaped the maelstrom of 9/11, I returned to Lower Manhattan to survey the damage to Saint Paul's Chapel--just yards away from where Building 5 of the World Trade Center stood--and to find ways to be helpful in the rescue effort. At that point we assumed there would be many survivors. My heart was pounding as I walked down Broadway from my apartment in Greenwich Village, not knowing what I might find. I assumed the chapel had been demolished. When I saw the spire still standing, I was overwhelmed. It took my breath away. Opening the door to enter St. Paul's was an extraordinary experience. Except for a layer of ash and soot, the building survived unscathed. Many proclaimed that ""St. Paul's had been spared."" It seemed clear to me that if this was true, it was not because we were holier than anyone who died across the street; it was because we now had a big job to do. Taking this challenge to heart, we set up a cold drink concession and hot food service four days later for the rescue workers, and men from our shelter, among others, proudly flipped burgers at what came to be called affectionately ""the Barbecue on Broadway."" The relief ministry at St. Paul's was supported by the labor of three local institutions?the Seamen's Church Institute, General Theological Seminary, and St. Paul's in the parish of Trinity Church?and by volunteers from all over the country. More than 5,000 people used their special gifts to transform Saint Paul's Chapel into a place of rest and refuge. Musicians, clergy, podiatrists, lawyers, soccer moms, and folks of every imaginable type poured coffee, swept floors, took out the trash, and served more than half a million meals. Emerging at St. Paul's was a dynamic I think of as a ""reciprocity of gratitude""--a circle of thanksgiving--in which volunteers and rescue and recovery workers tried to outdo each other with acts of kindness and love, leaving both giver and receiver changed. This circle of gratitude was infectious, and I hope it continues to spread.  T. S. Eliot's poem ""Little Gidding"" opens with the words, ""Midwinter spring is its own season"" The period from the terrorist attacks to the end of the recovery efforts at Ground Zero was its own season, lasting 260 days. Although the calendar tells us that it lasted for three seasons--fall, winter, and spring--many of us have little recollection of any climate changes. We just got up, day after day, dressed accordingly, and went about the monumental task of trying to make sense out of insanity, bring order out of chaos, and reclaim humanity from the violence that sought to make human life less human. This was also a season of remembrance as we mourned the loss of loved ones. It was a season of improvisation as we tried, often at our wit's end, to respond to the needs emerging from these never before experienced acts of terrorism. It was a season of renewal as we sought to look toward a day when our commonalities will overcome our divisions, when compassion will overcome violence, and kindness will swallow up hatred. Ultimately, what began in hatred evolved into, in the words from that great song from the musical Rent, a ""season of love."" It was a season in which people of love and goodwill, compassion and generosity, sought to practice the art of radical hospitality. Capturing this remarkable experience in photographs, Krystyna Sanderson worked tirelessly day in and day out. She offered her own labor of love. I am grateful to Krystyna for her dedication and hard work. Future generations will also be grateful for this glimpse into a unique chapter in the history of our city and our country. The chapel that once housed massage therapists, tired workers, compassionate volunteers and thousands of love notes carefully colored by schoolchildren and displayed upon its walls has now been restored to its pre-9/11 grandeur. The relief ministry at St. Paul's came to its necessary end. But the images in this album enable us to revisit Saint Paul's Chapel during that pivotal time, and in some small way, keep alive the spirit of love and goodwill that bathed all who entered its doors during the ministry of hospitality offered to the heroes and heroines who gave so much of themselves working at Ground Zero. The Rev. Lyndon Harris, Associate for Ministries at St. Paul's Chapel",americas;arms control;arts & photography;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;history;international & world politics;photo essays;photography;politics & government;politics & social sciences;state & local;united states,14
0807827231,"Country Music Sources: A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music Gus's magnum opus will be a prime resource for folksong and tune researchers for years to come. We are deeply in his debt for compiling this comprehensive work. (Joseph C. Hickerson, from the Foreword)	Guthrie T. Meade Jr. was a computer programmer and systems analyst with a lifelong interest in folk music, especially traditional country music and Kentucky fiddlers. Country Music Sources was completed and prepared for publication by Dick Spottswood and Doug Meade following the author's death in 1991.",arts & photography;bibliographies & indexes;books;country;education & reference;folk & traditional;history & criticism;music;musical genres;publishing & books;recording & sound;reference;research & publishing guides;writing,14
3528057572,"History of Computer Devices in Russia Soviet Information Technology behind Space Run and Cold War	This book is the first compendium on the development of the computer in Russia to appear in the West. After briefly illuminating the history of Russian mechanical calculation devices, the book largely focuses on the first generations of (military and civilian) electronic computers, most of which were developed in the Soviet Union during the ""Space-Race"" and the Cold War, simultaneously with similarly fundamental developments in computing in the U.S.A. The reader is introduced to computers and cybernetics from mathematical, technical, social and cultural perspectives through archive material and through texts by some of the preeminent veterans of Russian computing (historians, engineers, military historians). This alternative history and pre-history of information processing and of the computer ends with the adopting of the IBM standard and of Western technologies around 1970. Under the title Arifmometr (the name of the first Russian calculation device), a critical part of Eastern European technological culture is (re)-discovered for the reader; at the same time, the reader is reminded of the alternatives to the Western hemisphere's concept of the computer, which are of decisive historical interest.	Georg Trogemann, professor for information sciences in the section for art and media-studies at the Media Art School, Cologne Wolfgang Ernst, guest professor for the history, theory and aesthetics of media at the Institute for Film and Television Studies at the Ruhr-University, Bochum Alexander Nitussov, engineer and translator in Moscow and Cologne",books;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;history;new;programming;russia;science & math;software design;software development;technology;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,14
0521802024,"The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c.500-700 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) ""The book is notable for the emphasis on the study of the material culture as evidence of cultural process...the novel and thorough approach of the book has a great deal to offer the scholar interested in many aspects of the history and historiography of early Medieval eastern and southeastern Europe and the study of past ethnicities.""   Slavic Review""...the author offers quite a coherent and convincing approach...not only intriguing, but quite inspiring...this new study of early Slavic history is a particularly successful attempt to open new perspectives for dealing with the important challenges of history.""   Comitatus""...brilliant...this book is a significant contribution to medieval history and an outstanding achievement in Slavic studies.""   Journal of Interdisciplinary History""The hypothesis that Curta advances is extremely neat...""   International History Review	This book offers a new approach to the problem of Slavic ethnicity in southeastern Europe between c. 500 and c. 700. The author shows how Byzantine authors ""invented"" the Slavs, in order to make sense of political and military developments taking place in the Balkans. Making extensive use of archaeology to show that such developments resulted in the rise of powerful leaders, responsible for creating group identities and mobilizing warriors for successful raids across the frontier. The author rejects the idea of Slavic migration, and shows that ""the Slavs"" were the product of the frontier.",ancient;archaeology;books;eastern;europe;germany;history;humanities;ireland;medieval;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
0786408154,"The Fantasy Role-Playing Game: A New Performing Art Daniel Mackay holds an M.A. in performance studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.",anthropology;books;gaming;humor & entertainment;miscellaneous;new;politics & social sciences;popular culture;puzzles & games;science fiction & fantasy;social sciences;sports & outdoors;sports psychology;used & rental textbooks,14
0802004504,More Alike Than Different: Treating Severely Dissociative Trauma Survivors Margo Rivera is an assistant professor of Psychiatry at Queen's University and co-director of the Personality Disorders Service at Kingston Psychiatric Hospital.,books;dissociative disorders;dysfunctional relationships;family relationships;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;mental health;mental illness;neuropsychology;parenting & relationships;pathologies;psychology;psychology & counseling,14
0801486173,"Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California (Ilr Press Books) ""Organizing Immigrants is a much-needed book, an outstanding collection of first-rate scholarship on an important issue.""-Dan Clawson, Chair, Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice""Organizing Immigrants contains fascinating accounts of recent efforts to organize unions by immigrants in California. No other existing publication tells all of these stories. The book is an extremely valuable contribution to the literature on union organizing and immigrant rights, attractive to a broad audience of union activists, immigrant rights activists, and academics.""-Elissa McBride, Organizing Department, AFL-CIO""Organizing Immigrants is a gift to those of us trying to understand the evolution of contemporary American society. The volume presents a series of case studies prepared by a particularly sensitive and perceptive group of social scientists, and offers glimpses of the interaction between two social forces that will have a determining impact on the country's social and economic life in the coming decade.""-Michael Piore, MIT, author of The Second Industrial Divide""Few issues are more important to the future of the labor movement than helping immigrant workers organize. This book provides the best account available of the problems and prospects involved in this task. It includes detailed analyses of some of the most widely discussed labor actions of the 1990s-the near legendary cases of Justice for Janitors, the southern California drywall strike, and the L.A. Manufacturing Action Project. It should be read by everyone who cares about the future of organized labor.""-John J. Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO""Organizing Immigrants provides a timely and coherent analysis of the key issue facing North American unions, and of some of the strategies that will allow us to meet this challenge.""-Jonathan Eaton. Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations, 2000, Vol. 55, No. 4""This book about the challenges of organizing immigrant workers into unions could not have come at a better time . . . This important volume breaks new ground in its analysis of how unions organize immigrants.""-Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 2001, Vol. 54, No. 3""Organizing Immigrants provides a well-rounded overview of the state of California labor at the turn of the century. These articles, taken together, present a very complicated story with no clear predictions for the future of labor organization. . . . Whatever the future holds, if California labor activists are to achieve future successes, Organizing Immigrants is a must read.""-Wendell Pritchett, CUNY. Labor History, May 2001, Vol. 42, No. 2""There is strikingly little contemporary empirical research on union organizing. This makes Milkman's Organizing Immigrants an extremely welcome addition to the literature. Despite its subtitle, this is not a volume for scholars and activists interested in California alone. . . It should be required reading for anyone examining organizing today.""-Tom Juravich, University of Massachusetts. Social Forces, Vol 79, No. 4, June 2001""Organizing Immigrants . . . is set apart from conventional work in California labor history. . . . Each chapter presents a superb and original analysis of the process as it has evolved within an international and a national context and within California. Each chapter is well argued, concluding with a summary of the issues it has raised and the debates it has tracked. . . .It is a welcome contribution to the debates about organizing immigrant labor in California, and it deserves to be widely read.""-Zaragosa Vargas, University of California, Santa Barbara. Business History Review, Winter 2001""Los Angeles is now the largest manufacturing center in the United States. It is also one of the most exploitative. . . . What then, are we to make of the fact that organizing drives among immigrant workers in the Los Angeles region during the early 1990s scored American labor's most notable recent victories' This important book studies what these and subsequent campaigns tell us about the organizability of the 'new immigrants' and union adaptability. . . . Researchers interested in immigrant workers or unions should read the book.""-Michael Indergaard, St. John's University. Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 2",20th century;americas;books;business & investing;economics;emigration & immigration;history;labor & industrial relations;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;state & local;united states,14
0295984511,"Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II ""The materials contained in this book are extraordinarily valuable. The author, using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, has uncovered a heretofore hidden dimension of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. His theory of the 'bureaucracy of incarceration' guides the reader through the maze of agencies and personnel who established and maintained thousands of Japanese from 1941 to 1945 and beyond... As a contribution to Asian American studies, ethnic studies, and the sociology of organization, this study is likely to be hailed as a landmark.""--Stanford M. Lyman, Morrow Eminent Scholar and Professor of Social Science, Florida Atlantic University ""Tetsuden Kashima has fashioned a work that is accessible, absorbing, measured, and suffused with significance. The culmination of years of painstaking and conscientious research and writing, this estimable book is seminal within an already crowded field of study, not merely for what it covers in the way of new data but rather because it situates the subject of the Japanese American Evacuation [JAE] into an analytical framework that is both larger and more meaningful than that extant. It ushers in a new paradigm for the scholarly study and public understanding of the JAE.""--Arthur A. Hansen, California State University, Fullerton, and Japanese American National Museum	Tetsuden Kashima is professor of American ethnic studies at the University of Washington.",20th century;americas;books;ethnic studies;history;humanities;military;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states;used & rental textbooks;world war ii,14
0719553938,"Tales from the Victorian Underworld Hb ""A vivid tableau of debauchery and sadism"" is the way Thomas describes the newspaper and magazine coverage of Victorian prostitution, but he may as well be describing his own book. The author of biographies of Lewis Carroll and the Marquis de Sade, true crime books and mysteries surveys the seedier lives and misdeeds of 19th century England's down and out, middle class and upper crust. Though much of what Thomas covers is factually interesting?for instance, the popularity and fame of hangmen or the deviousness of a blackmailer?he gives little momentum to the reading and little sense of depth or coherence to the big picture. Early on he describes the poor's hostility toward police and law courts, and in so doing, has the tact not to overemphasize obvious parallels to today's cities. A hero of the far-casting book is aristocratic ""Walter,"" the otherwise anonymous author of My Secret Life, which chronicles his almost countless sexual liaisons. ""In scrupulous detail, Walter documents the girl's life. As self-consciously as any missionary or social investigator, though still in bed with her, he asks Kitty about being 'gay,' which was the common Victorian term for being a prostitute."" Thomas convincingly shows that ""given the strength of her characterization and dialogue, she might otherwise have stepped from the pages of Bleak House or Our Mutual Friend."" The best chapters, including the one on ""The Great Bullion Robbery,"" deserve or have received books of their own; Thomas's treatment of his topic is too little, too wide. 60 illustrations. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This detailed ""panorama of the Victorian underworld"" is a litany of crime in all its darkest forms. The 11 illustrated chapters serve up a rogue's gallery of saucy thieves, forgers, poisoners, prostitutes, con men, extortionists, pornographers, maniacs, and perpetrators of murder most foul who belie the genteel trappings of the period and reveal Victorian London to be perhaps the most wretched hive of scum and villainy the world has known. The book is at once a history of criminal activity and a social dissection of the ""underclass, which nourished an underworld"" and the upper class that accepted the victimization as long as public scandal was avoided. Victorian crime was more scientific than its detection, and many of these intricately planned thefts and sensational murders would rival any concoction offered by Hollywood or a best-selling mystery. Thomas (Lewis Carroll, Trafalgar Square, 1998) has written a highly readable, page-turning history. Recommended.?Michael Rogers, ""Library Journal""Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Victorian society was acutely schizophrenic. A bare ankle was considered immodest in polite circles, yet it was customary for young men from those circles to receive their ""education"" among the countless brothels, opium dens, and shady ""entertainment palaces"" that constituted the nightlife of the lower classes. Thomas, who has specialized in writing about Victorian society and culture, paints a vivid portrait of a seamy and brutal but frequently fascinating underside of society. It is a diverse world of pimps, con men, petty thieves, and even relatively sophisticated crooks, all united in a hatred for legitimate authority and in a Darwinian struggle for survival. Thomas does not shun sound research techniques, but he also appreciates and effectively utilizes considerable anecdotal information to illustrate his points. Although he may occasionally sympathize with the plight of those who make up this ""other England,"" he resists the trap of sentimentalizing or romanticizing them. The result is a solid piece of social history that should dispel many illusions about the Victorian era.  Jay Freeman	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Highlights of Victorian low-life, from costermongers' barrows, East End brothels, and ``penny gaffs'' to Scotland Yard, the court system, and the prison hulks. Any reader looking for the real-life context for Bill Sikes, Prof. Moriarty, and Raffles the Gentleman Thief will find a vivid, occasionally lurid one in this true-crime history by novelist-biographer Donald Thomas (The Rippers Apprentice, 1989; Henry Fielding, 1991; etc.). Concentrating on London, this history leans heavily on such notable sources as Henry Mayhew's London Labour and London Poor, the priapic memoirs (by a diarist known only as ``Walter'') entitled My Secret Life, and Dickens's Sketches by Boz. Through these and other sources, Thomas covers the environs of working-class criminals (sometimes known as ``the poor who fought back''), from the slums of Whitechapel and the tenements of ``The Devil's Acre'' in Westminster, colloquially called ``rookeries'' and ``rabbit-warrens.'' These firsthand accounts of thieves and prostitutes, dodgers and doxies, come alive through Mayhew's investigations and Walter's confessions. Thomas, on his own merits, proves best on more intricate crimes: the Great Bullion Robbery, in which several hundredweight of gold was stolen from railway safes designed by the redoubtable locksmith John Chubb; the career of the forger ``Jem the Penman,'' actually the successful barrister James Saward; and a notorious case in which an arch con man corrupted three detectives to cover his tracks. After this comprehensive chronicle of crime, Thomas concludes with the punishments, newly designed prisons, and miscarriages of justice. Strangely absent is the most notorious Victorian criminal, Jack the Ripper, whose killings were unlike any in England before and struck at the era's heart. Otherwise, the only thing missing is Thomas's own insights into Victorian morality and criminality, for which the richness of the material cries out. A colorful survey of what one reformer called ``Darkest England,'' though Thomas is content to watch from the shadows. (60 b illustrations)  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	'The author has a practised eye for the best anecdotes and presents amazing characters, some of whom come equipped with names that sound positively Dickensian ... a wonderful profile of Victorian London' -- The Spectator  'A fluent account of a subject which still has the power to elicit shivers of delighted disgust' -- Daily Telegraph  'Thomas writes with a historian's ironically neutral eye about brothels, pornography, forgery and serial killers, and includes a gripping account of the London-to-Paris mail train robbery, in which a gang got away with a quarter of a ton of gold bullion' -- The Guardian  'A wonderful profile of Victorian London' -- The Spectator	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Donald Thomas is the author of The Raising of Lizzie Meek and Victorian Underworld (NYU Press, 1998), which was short-listed for the Golden Dagger Award. He is also the author of seven biographies, including Cardigan of Balaclava and Cochrane: Britannia's Sea-Wolf. He holds a personal chair at Cardiff University in Wales.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",19th century;biographies & memoirs;books;criminology;europe;historical study & educational resources;history;ireland;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;social history;social sciences;true accounts;true crime,14
0521410592,"John Oman and his Doctrine of God This book systematizes the thoughts on God which are scattered throughout Oman's writings, and places Oman in his historical and cultural context of the late nineteenth and early and twentieth centuries.",20th century;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;history;humanities;middle east;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;oman;religion & spirituality;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks,14
0938317350,"Dirty Dealing: Drug Smuggling on the Mexican Border and the Assassination of a Federal Judge--An American Parable Four pages into this rollicking good story, the central figure, Lee Chagra, comes alive: [Lee] washed his morning cocaine down with strong coffee and remembered the time he had met Sinatra, how genuine he appeared. Everything you'll need to know and remember about Chagra--the son of Syrian immigrants to Mexico and an attorney who spun the world of dope-running, border-crossing, high-living outlaws along the El Paso-Juarez border around his finger like the gaudy rings he favored--can be neatly summarized in that one sentence. Forget the byzantine complications of the plot to follow: Lee Chagra dies two pages later, yet he haunts the rest of this cautionary tale like a high-rolling specter. Cartwright tells the story of the Chagra brothers, Lee and Joe, as they get mixed up with the drug-running community along the border and in short order find themselves hopelessly entangled in a net cast by the DEA. Even readers unfamiliar with the well-publicized events of the book or of the dark, lawless aspect that often rules El Paso will find themselves pulled along by the plot: brigands and intrigue leap from almost every page, and the story just gets wilder the further into it you venture. Cartwright's undisguised distaste for certain law officials and agencies is sure to irk some readers; however, his ultimate ability to tell a good story should make Dirty Dealing palatable to even the most stalwart law-and-order types. --Tjames Madison	A hell of a story about drugs, corruption and violence, told by a virtuoso  -- Playboy, 1984A roller coaster ride of a big-time lawyering, scamming, gambling, smuggling and general misadventuring... Fast-paced, sure-footed nonfiction that packs all the intensity and dramatic qualities of a good novel.  This true crime story offers a revealing look at drug smuggling in El Paso...and vividly illustrates the dangers of some federal drug laws and agent provocateurs. Journalist Gary Cartwright's diligent research has produced a rich evocation of the lives of the Chagra family... A sharp and often startling disclosure of personal folly and government corruption -- Booklist, July 1984Dirty Dealing, by Gary Cartwright (Atheneum): Dope smuggling, brotherly love, and the assassination of a federal judge, all leading to the biggest investigation in FBI history. Best of all, the Texas Monthly writer makes this true story read like a novel  -- GQ Recommends, 1984Not, as I said, an uplifting story. But it does show that when a government has $11.4 million to spend on a case, and isn't finicky about its methods, or about releasing criminals to jail the innocent, it can put people behind bars. Cartwright has carefully researched his story and tells it well  -- Newsweek, August 6, 1984Part true-crime drama, part family tragedy, and almost, in Cartwright's own summation, like a fable: ""There were three brothers from El Paso. The oldest one got greedy and got killed. The second got greedier and was accused of killing a federal judge. The third went to prison for it."" The judge was John H. Wood (known in Texas legal circles as ""Maximum John"" for his strongly pro-government sentencing practices), whose 1979 assassination was termed ""the crime of the century"" by the FBI. The brothers were the Chagras, a close-knit family of Lebanese ancestry. Lee, the oldest, built a successful practice as a criminal lawyer, but always ""lived on the edge of respectability,"" with a darker side that featured compulsive gambling, womanizing and heavy cocaine use. Middle brother Jimmy was a ne'er-do-well until he found a calling in the drug smuggling business, though he gambled away much of the profit in Vegas. Joe, also a lawyer, chose a more traditional lifestyle-until, in rather quick succession, Lee was murdered, Jimmy was facing life without parole on major drug charges in Maximum John's court, and Judge Wood himself was shot to death. Soon thereafter, Joe had a new client: Charles Harrelson, a cold-blooded professional killer (to whom a human head was ""just a watermelon with hair on it"") who confessed to Joe that he'd murdered Wood. A trail of payoff money led back to Jimmy (by now serving 30 years in the slammer on his drug conviction), and the feds (unconvinced that Joe's relationship with Harrelson was simply attorney-client) pressured Joe by indicting him for conspiracy to murder Wood and obstruction of justice. The outcome was straight from Oz. Facing a life sentence (would you want to be tried in a courthouse named for the murder victim, before the judge who delivered his eulogy?), Joe pled guilty to the conspiracy charge, a crime of which he was probably innocent, on the condition that he not have to testify against Jimmy (his testimony helped convict Harrelson, however). Subsequently, a jury found Jimmy not guilty on the murder charge. So Joe is now doing ten years in federal prison for conspiring with Jimmy to commit a crime that a jury has said Jimmy did not commit. ""I still love him and I know he loves me,"" says Joe. ""That's all I need."" Texas Monthly staffer Cartwright knows his territory, and this story of ""greed and fear"" and life on the border (in all senses) will hook a wide audience  -- Kirkus Reviews, 1984	We live and work here on the U.S./Mexico border and have witnessed first hand the tragic and brutal effects of the War on Drugs, which has only escalated on both sides since the head-on collision between the Chagras and the U.S. government depicted in Dirty Dealing. This book was originally published by Atheneum in 1984 but it had gone out of print. Not only did we feel that it's an important book-especially for an independent press based in El Paso-to keep in print, we also realized it was a wonderfully popular book: all the copies of Dirty Dealing in the El Paso Public Library had been ""lost."" Rare-book collectors had a hard time finding it in the first edition hardback. It seemed like a natural for Cinco Puntos to do it, and we felt honored that Gary Cartwright felt the same.	I don't claim much of a literary background. The town where I grew up (Arlington, Texas) had a tiny library above the fire station. The first writer who truly impressed me and caused me to wonder if there was something out there for me was Hemingway. For a long time I tried to emulate his clean, crisp style and feeling for life and death.  I was going pretty well with Hemingway when I got sidetracked by Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, at which time I lapsed into my Purple Period. Nelson Algren's Walk on the Wildside-I think I read some Conrad about the same time-got me out of the stench of lyrical, overripe nonsense and back in the dust where I belonged. Somewhere in there I read Robert Stone's A Hall of Mirrors, and later Dog Soldiers, and began to understand that a writer's true function was storytelling.  Like a lot of writers my age, my head was turned by reading J.D. Salinger, though I didn't understand him. I came to prefer William Goldman, who wrote more to my level and with a skill I could appreciate and borrow from. I know it's popular in literary circles to dismiss Goldman as a hack-gone-Hollywood, but I wish I had his gift as a storyteller.  In recent years I have fallen in love with such mystery writers as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and John LeCarre. There is something cynical and laconic in the way these writers weave a story, as though to say life really has no resolution, it's just one damn thing after another but worthwhile if it's done right.  Two books that influenced my own works were David Storey's This Sporting Life, which I read shortly before beginning The Hundred-Year War; and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, which was the inspiration for my two latest books, Blood Will Tell and Dirty Dealing. I am fascinated by this genre and have come to recognize that life imitating art is every bit as literate as art imitating life.  In a way I can't quite explain, Dirty Dealing was influenced, too, by John Reed's Insurgent Mexico. Reed got across a feeling for how the isolation of desert wastelands gives both a meaning and a meaninglessness to life, and how codes within cultures are more permanent than laws within nations.	Gary Cartwright received his B.A. in journalism from Texas Christian University in Forth Worth. He has had a distinguished career as a newspaper reporter and as a freeleance writer, contributing stories to such national publications as Harper's, Life and Esquire. Cartwright was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 1986 in the category of reporting excellence. He has been the recipient of a Dobie-Paisano fellowship and has won the Texas Institute of Letters Stanley Walker Award for Journalism, and the Carr Collins Award for nonfiction. He also won the 1989 Press Club of Dallas Katie Award for Best Magazine News Story. Cartwright has written several books, including Blood Will Tell, published in 1978; Confessions of a Washed-up Sportswriter, published in 1982; Dirty Dealing, first published in 1984; and Galveston: A History of the Island, published in 1991. He has co-written three movie scripts, J.W. Coop (Columbia, 1972); A Pair of Aces (CBS-TV, 1990), which he also co-produced; and Pancho, Billy and Esmerelda, which he co-produced for his own production company in 1994. In addition, he co-produced Another Pair of Aces for CBS. Blood Will Tell was filmed by CBS-TV as a four-hour miniseries in 1994. Cartwright has been with Texas Monthly since 1982.	On the way to Las Vegas, Lee had them roll the chartered Learjet just to prove the orange juice wouldn't spill. God, he loved it! They all did. Forty thousand feet above the desert, smooth as the surface of a crap table. By the late 1960s the casino was picking up Lee's expenses-hotel room, meals, drinks, even the Learjet was complimentary for selected high rollers like Lee Chagra. They could already see the blur of lights on the horizon.  ""Tell me one more time,"" Ray Ramos asked. ""If we're all so broke, why are we going to Vegas?""  ""Because we are all so broke,"" Lee said, and Ramos laughed so hard he spilled his drink.  If it was a crime to love the fast lane, Lee Chagra was guilty. He had an affinity for cards and dice, for dope dealers and shady politicians and nightclub singers, for dabblers in the black market and exponents of the fast buck. They were all scammers, everyone he knew or cared about.  His customary traveling companions on these junkets to Vegas were his oldest friends-Ray Ramos, an ex-cop turned lawyer, Jimmy Salome, a boyhood friend who had prospered in insurance and real estate and owned a fancy house next door to Lee and Jo Annie on Frontera Road, and Clark Hughes, son of a diplomat, a lawyer who eventually tired of the rat race and got himself appointed county judge at law. They were all pretty good gamblers with reputations and lines of credit in most of the big casinos in Vegas, but Lee was more than merely a player: he was what they called a ""striker,"" a gambler literally capable of winning the casino. Money was something else to Lee, a coin of another realm.  They hadn't traveled by chartered jet seventeen years ago-they had made it across the desert in an old junker that wouldn't have sold for four bus tickets. They each had $500, and Lee arranged credit for another $500. When that was gone, Leefound a check-cashing service that charged only 20 percent interest. ""Hell, man,"" Salome had said, ""that ain't money management. We give them four hundred dollars to get three-twenty?"" Someone else suggested that they pile back in the junker and head for El Paso. ""You're all full of shit!"" Lee roared indignantly. ""We can't go home now."" Lee put $300 on the front line at the crap table and rolled a seven. In a few minutes he had run it to $8,000. At that point they decided to split it up. ""I pissed mine away,"" Salome recalled. ""Lee ended up winning forty thousand dollars.""  They were all struggling in those days, but anytime they got a few bucks they went to Vegas. In some ways they were still struggling-when you had the addiction the way Lee did, they was never enough action. More than once Lee had to borrow money to pay the salaries of his office staff. Sometimes he had to borrow money just to buy lunch. One Thursday, after borrowing $5,000 from another lawyer and writing a bad check for $20,000, which his brother-in-law Rick de la Torre could cover at the bank where he worked until Monday, Lee chartered a plane to Vegas and ran it to $200,000. He won so much the Aladdin couldn't cover it and had to borrow from Caesar's. Lee hadn't just beat the Aladdin, he had humiliated it. But the money was nothing. It was the action Lee loved. He gave Salome ten white chips ($5,000) just to roll the dice for him. When Clark Hughes got a little loaded and dropped $4,500, Lee took it on himself to go to the cage and pay off his friend's marker. He didn't even mention it to Clark.  Lee was always looking for an angle to make money, and his friends were constantly being sucked into his latest brainstorm. They had invested in a racehorse that ended up as dog meat, a pro golfer who never made the cut, a combination lock that served to secure nothing more that an long, bitter lawsuit, and a caper to corner the Colombia coffee market in a year when torrential rains drowned the crop..  ""Lee was funny about investing money,"" Jimmy Salome recalled. ""Unless he could foresee a lot of money somewhere down the line, he wasn't interested. He was a terrible businessman, but he had a certain genius for analyzing stock. The trouble was, things never moved at the right time."" Salome recalled the time Lee was hot to buy controlling interest in Caesar's World, Inc. Stock was selling at the time for $3 a share. Lee figured that if he could raise $1.5 million, he could take control. He approached Salome, Clark Hughes, and others, but no one was willing to take such a large risk. ""It seemed so farfetched at the time,"" Salome said. ""If we had done it, of course, we'd all be multimillionaires by now."" Lee confessed once to Clark Hughes that his dream was to stash away $20 million, all taxes paid. Then he would lose it all and start again.  Another old friend, Clarence Moyers, marveled at Lee's frenetic pace, and the tangle of contradictions that snarled everything and everyone in his life. Lee was a fanatic about his family-he could be incredibly extravagant, lavishing gifts on his wife, his children, his mother, his sister-yet he could risk the family's last penny on a role of the dice. He was a confirmed pacifist, and yet he seemed comfortable around violence. He could be shamelessly sentimental and gentle as a whisper, and yet there was a fury inside that could make him turn on those closest to him. He referred to all his male friends as ""brother,"" and yet there was a time when he couldn't keep his hands off his real brothers' wives and girlfriends. Gambling and women were a sickness with him, and recklessness was a painkilling drug.",20th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;criminology;history;murder & mayhem;organized crime;politics & social sciences;social sciences;state & local;true accounts;true crime;united states,14
1886411425,"Steal This Computer Book 2 : What They Won't Tell You About the Internet Here's a capsule review of Steal This Computer Book 2: Don't  bother. It's a directory of sites, combined with background information (mostly  at USA Today depth) about Internet security and online privacy issues.  Its practical advice reflects little more than common sense (""The best way to  prevent and cure a computer virus is to buy an antivirus program"") and its  anecdotal material also tends toward the obvious (""...The better virus writers  tend to be highly skilled programmers""). Even sections that sound promising  (""Writing Your Own Online Harassment Program"") contain very few details, and  prove to be pretty much useless. In addition, it's printed in an annoying  typeface, and several times it quotes obscenity-riddled hacker graffiti  (because, you see, the book is so radical and edgy and all). The particularly shameful thing about Steal This Computer Book 2 is that  its title rips off Abbie Hoffman's  Steal This Book, a 1970  how-to guide for anarchists and happy freeloaders. Where Hoffman strives in his  book to subvert a society that he finds repellent, Wallace Wang merely describes  some technologies and a few vaguely interesting stories about them. Some better  choices: read Hacking Exposed,  Second Edition for its excellent coverage of hackers' techniques and  software tools, and Network  Intrusion Detection for its accounts of attacks on secured networks.  And, for an account of government surveillance of Internet users--perhaps an  indication that the system needs subversion now more than ever--read  The Puzzle Palace.  --David Wall Topics covered: Naughty things to do with computers and on the Internet.  The author explores research sites with which you can dig up information on  people, and explains something about gaining access to private computing  resources. Historical exploits of black-hat hackers get considerable attention,  and viruses get lots of attention.	STEAL THIS COMPUTER BOOK will open your eyes to the hacker undergound. That's why it's a bestseller around the world, in multiple languages. The CD-ROM in this book alone is worth the cover price, with about 250 software packages, including freeware, shareware, and demos. You'll hit the ground running with the software you need to protect yourself--or to delve further into hackerdom. Don't go online without it.	Wallace Wang is the author of several best-selling computer books, including My New Mac, My New iPhone, and Steal This Computer Book (all No Starch Press). He is also a successful standup comic who has appeared on AE's ""Evening at the Improv"" and appears regularly at the Riviera Comedy Club in Las Vegas.",& telecommunications;books;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;groupware;hacking;internet;internet & web culture;network security;networking;new;privacy;used & rental textbooks,14
0231132115,"The Columbia Guide to Online Style: Second Edition You're preparing the bibliography of your research project, and some of your information came from documents you found on the Internet. How do you cite the Web sites? Scholarly citations of hard-copy texts such as books, magazines, and journals follow long-established rules, but electronic sources don't often fit neatly into standard patterns. Clearly, new guidelines need to be set to keep up with the evolution of the Internet. The Columbia Guide steps into the breach with admirable attention to detail as well as discussions of purpose and intent to clarify and support its online style solutions. After revisiting the principles of access, intellectual property, economy, standardization, and clarity that underlie the rules of citing sources, Walker and Taylor delve into the nitty-gritty of URLs and login names, signature files and publication information, providing both humanities-style and sciences-style examples for each. With a similarly careful, logical, and scholarly progression, they cover bibliographic formats for the World Wide Web, e-mail, discussion lists, and newsgroups, plus document style (and its logic) when formatting for print publications, diskettes, and computer networks. When you work in this virual world, which changes so frequently and dynamically, where anything seems possible and conventions be damned, it's especially important to standardize and adhere to some rules, a goal greatly advanced by The Columbia Guide to Online Style. --Stephanie Gold	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In the last five years new editions of the standard manuals of style and citation have appeared (e.g., The Chicago Manual of Style, Univ. of Chicago, 1993; Modern Language Association Handbook for Writers, MLA, 1994), which writers, publishers, librarians, and academics hoped would give authoritative answers to the troublesome questions posed by electronic media. But none of these guides adequately addressed the crucial changes brought on by the World Wide Web. In 1994, Walker (English, Univ. of South Florida) developed a simple and effective style sheet for citing online resources and posted it on the web. The style was quickly endorsed by the Alliance for Computers and Writing, and her guidelines have been adopted by numerous online journals. Now Walker and Taylor (English, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) have produced a comprehensive manual that not only covers citation of online documents but provides guidelines for producing them. Part 1 presents an adaptable ""citation template"" with numerous helpful examples in both a humanities style, based on Modern Language Association form, and a scientific style much like that of the American Psychological Association. Part 2 gives a theoretical rationale for document style and describes standards for producing online documents. While the guidelines in this book are not likely to change dramatically, any changes will be made available free of charge at the publisher's web site,	In the last five years new editions of the standard manuals of style and citation have appeared, which writers, publishers, librarians and academics hoped would give authoritative answers to the troublesome questions posed by electronic media. But none of these guides adequately addressed the crucial changes brought on by the World Wide Web.... With its index and annotated glossary, this guide is an excellent supplement to the standard style manuals. (Library Journal) The Columbia Guide to Online Style is the go-to resource... [And] Has become the standard reference for online citations and remains a vital companion. (Interactions) The Columbia Guide to Online Style is essential for all academic, special, public, and school libraries. (American Reference Books Annual 1900-01-00)	Nothing I have seen approaches  The Columbia Guide to Online Style in meeting the needs of those who want to cite as well as produce documents for electronic publication. This book fills the many gaps that APA, MLA, and Chicago fail to cover. (Susanna Pathak, Virginia Commonwealth University)	Janice R. Walker is an associate professor in the Writing and Linguistics Department at Georgia Southern University and an associate editor of  Readerly/Writerly Texts.Todd Taylor is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the coeditor of  Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet.",books;computers & technology;editing;education & reference;internet & web culture;literature & fiction;new;online searching;reference;research;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing;writing skills,14
015189342X,"There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America Civil rights activist Vincent Harding was a friend and colleague of King and worked with Coretta Scott King to establish the King Center in Atlanta, serving as its first director. A distinguished theologian and historian, he is the award-winning author of several books and lives in Denver, Colorado.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",african-american studies;americas;asian;books;civil rights & liberties;history;international & world politics;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;specific topics;teens;united states,14
0061053333,"Love in Vein II: Eighteen More Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica Poppy Z. Brite is the author of seven novels, three collections of short stories, and much miscellanea. Known for her horror fiction, at present she is working on a series of novels and short stories set in the New Orleans restaurant world. Her novel Liquor was recently published to general critical acclaim, and her followup novel, Prime, will be released in 2005. She lives in New Orleans with her husband Chris, a chef.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;criticism & theory;fantasy;genre fiction;history & criticism;horror;literature & fiction;movements & periods;science fiction & fantasy;self-help;sex;short stories;single author;united states,14
0897895029,"Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy ""Appel's volume joins the move toward understanding education through embodiment, experience, and intimate relationality, filling in the gaps left by earlier so-called critical and post-structuralist efforts in the field. This work simultaneously rehumanizes teaching and education as a practice and contributes to the creation of new foundations for educational theory.""-Philip Wexler Author, Holy Sparks: Social Theory, Education and Religion Michael Scandling Professor, Warner School, University of Rochester	A collection of essays which illuminates the relationship between educational practice and psychoanalysis.	STEPHEN APPEL is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Auckland and author of Positioning Subjects: Psychoanalysis and Critical Educational Studies (Bergin & Garvey 1996).",books;education;education & reference;education theory;educational philosophy;educational psychology;medical books;new;philosophy & social aspects;psychoanalysis;psychology;schools & teaching;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
0452282608,"The Sex Lives of Teenagers: Revealing the Secret World of Adolescent Boys and Girls Author and adolescent psychiatrist, Lynn Ponton, M.D., unveils plenty of  daunting scenarios in The Sex Lives of Teenagers. On these pages, we meet  Naomi, a pregnant teen who wants to have her baby; Lara, who is infected with  HIV; Tom, who is hooked on pornographic videos; and Angie, who was sexually  assaulted after getting drunk at a party. Ponton also tells stories of teens  struggling with sexual identity, curious about normal sexual function, and  dealing with pressure to have sex before they feel ready. In addition, sprinkled  throughout are the voices of parents who struggle to cope with their teens'  problems and, for the most part, seek to offer guidance and support, though not  always successfully. At times, Ponton seems to dwell on the dark and disturbing side of teens and  sex: the boy who is sexually assaulted by a priest; the mother who calls her  HIV-infected daughter a slut; the teen who discovers that his father sexually  harasses female employees. Some of these situations may discourage parents, who  have educated themselves about more common situations and who simply can't  believe these types of things could happen to their children. The best course of action might be for parents to read this book together with  their teens, and to use some of the stories as jumping-off points for  discussion. As Ponton makes clear in the opening chapter, all teens have sex  lives--whether or not they are sexually active. And despite the sexually charged  culture teens are exposed to daily, sex remains a difficult topic for parents  and teens to discuss openly. The Sex Lives of Teenagers may be just the  tool to help parents open the door to that discussion.--Virginia Smyth	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Respected adolescent psychiatrist Ponton (The Romance of Risk) effectively addresses parents' and teens' questions about sexual development in this down-to-earth primer. She finds that teenagers face the same issues and experiences as adults, but often struggle through them with less information and expertise. Making the case that all teenagers have a sexual identity and sexual life, even though it may not be readily apparent, Ponton shows that, if they are not coerced, expressions of teenage sexuality can provide important explorations of the self and relationships with others. She offers valuable suggestions to alleviate a shared sense of discomfort when parents try to talk with their children about sexuality, emphasizing the importance of using simple language, admitting to embarrassment when it arises. Drawing on her work with youths from all backgrounds in the San Francisco area, Ponton tackles a variety of tough topicsAfrom those that are often perceived as embarrassing, like masturbation and fantasies, to stigmatized ones, like bi- and homosexuality. The final chapters focus on the potentially devastating consequences of risky or forced sex (including HIV infection and abortion), and show how parents and teens can work on realistic parameters for sexual consent. She also includes fascinating descriptions of the therapeutic process, in which Ponton admits moments when she, like a parent, feels herself losing her connection with certain patients. Ponton remains warm, unsensationalistic and empathetic, always focused on the task at handAhelping teenagers and their parents develop the necessary skills to achieve healthier emotional and sexual lives. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This superb book offers an eye-opening view of adolescent sexuality through the lens of teen-therapist dialogs interwoven with keen cultural commentary. Ponton, a psychiatrist with 20 years' experience working with adolescents and their parents and author of The Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do the Things They Do, is observant, articulate, and compassionate in her conversations with her clients and their parents and in her descriptions of their dilemmas. Areas of concern include sexual name-calling like ""slut,"" fantasies and masturbation, rock concerts, sex on the net, pressures and misconceptions about becoming sexually active, homosexuality, pregnancy, STDs, violence, and parental sexuality. She excels at inducing family members to be honest and rational with themselves and to talk with one another, setting an example for readers pondering their own situations. Her audience includes both parents and professionals working with young people; many teens themselves would benefit from reading this. An appendix provides tips for parents and teens for thinking and talking about sex. Highly recommended for all public and academic libraries.DMartha Cornog, Philadelphia Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A fascinating foray into the often tumultuous sex lives of American teens.Based on her extensive psychiatric work with adolescents and their parents, Ponton (Psychiatry/Univ. of California) reveals and analyzes the intimate thoughts and actions of dozens of adolescents. Today's teenagers, the author contends, are confronted with conflicting messages about sex. While the media inundate them with explicit images of sexuality, suggesting that all healthy people are sexually active, it does not sensitize them to the consequences of sex. And parents or teachers often fail to fill that void. Too many feel pressured to have sex before they are ready. In addition, the old double standard still prevails-resurgent, argues Ponton, in the 1990s. While girls fear being labeled sluts by their peers, guys relish being marked as studs. Moreover, today's adolescents confront the threat of AIDS and have access to cyber come-ons in Internet chatrooms. They are also pressured to conform to ""strongly defined"" gender roles that inhibit them from developing traits and abilities perceived as masculine (for girls) or feminine (for boys). Using two distinct case studies, Ponton portrays the difficulties faced by many gay youths who struggle to understand ""their own complex feelings that have already existed for a long time."" The book reveals that many who are deeply depressed have been victims of homosexual or heterosexual abuse. Perhaps Ponton's most pained young client had been raped by a trusted priest. The sexually abused, she reports, are more likely to engage in a variety of self-destructive behaviors, ranging from drunk driving and having unprotected sex to actual suicide attempts. While the sexual abuse of boys has serious consequences, Ponton maintains that is seriously underreported. With an appendix of accessible tips for children and their parents, this book makes important reading for teachers and counselors, as well. -- Copyright  2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Dr. Lynn Ponton performs a great service by replacing the rhetoric of hysteria with a model of open, candid dialogue.  -- ArtsSF.com, August 18, 2001If you really want to know what teenagers think about sex, this is the book to read.  -- Michael Thompson, Ph.D., author of Speaking of Boys and co-author of Raising CainSuperb ... offers an eye-opening view of adolescent sexuality.   -- Library JournalThis is a must read for [teenagers] and anyone who [is] in close proximity to one.  -- Kliatt, January 2002	Lynn Ponton is a leading figure in adolescent psychiatry with over 20 years of experience working with teenagers and their parents. Her work has been featured in Newsweek, The LA Times, and The New York Times. She has also appeared on 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, Dateline and the Today show. She lives in San Francisco.",adolescent psychology;books;fitness & dieting;health;mind & body;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;self-esteem;self-help;sex;sexuality;social issues;social sciences;teens,14
0783818041,"The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother Order this book ... and please don't be put off by its pallid subtitle, A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, which doesn't begin to do justice to the utterly unique and moving story contained within. The Color of Water tells the remarkable story of Ruth McBride Jordan, the two good men she married, and the 12 good children she raised. Jordan, born Rachel Shilsky, a Polish Jew, immigrated to America soon after birth; as an adult she moved to New York City, leaving her family and faith behind in Virginia. Jordan met and married a black man, making her isolation even more profound. The book is a success story, a testament to one woman's true heart, solid values, and indomitable will. Ruth Jordan battled not only racism but also poverty to raise her children and, despite being sorely tested, never wavered. In telling her story--along with her son's--The Color of Water addresses racial identity with compassion, insight, and realism. It is, in a word, inspiring, and you will finish it with unalloyed admiration for a flawed but remarkable individual. And, perhaps, a little more faith in us all.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The need to clarify his racial identity prompted the author to penetrate his veiled and troubled family history. Ruth McBride Jordan concealed her former life as Rachel Deborah Shilsky, the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, from her children. Her grim upbringing in an abusive environment is left behind when she moves to Harlem, marries a black man, converts to Christianity, and cofounds a Baptist congregation with her husband. The courage and tenacity shown by this twice-widowed mother who manages to raise 12 children, all of whom go on to successful careers, are remarkable. The intertwined accounts, told alternately by mother and son, are enhanced by the gifted voices of readers Andre Braugher and Lainie Kazan. Highly recommended for public libraries.Linda Bredengerd, Univ. of Pittsburgh Lib., Bradford, Pa.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Praise for The Color of Water ""[A] triumph.""The New York Times Book Review ""As lively as a novel, a well-written, thoughtful contribution to the literature on race.""The Washington Post Book World ""Inspiring.""Glamour ""Vibrant.""The Boston Globe ""James McBride evokes his childhood trek across the great racial divide with the kind of power and grace that touches and uplifts all hearts.""Bebe Moore Campbell	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	James McBride is an author, musician and screenwriter. His landmark memoir, The Color of Water, is considered an American classic. His debut novel Miracle at St. Anna was translated into a film directed by icon Spike Lee. He has also written for the Boston Globe, People, Washington Post, Essence, Rolling Stone, National Geographic, and the New York Times. James plays saxophone and tours with his six-piece jazz/r band. He received the Stephen Sondheim Award and the Richard Rodgers Foundation Horizon Award for his musical ""Bo-Bos"" co-written with playwright Ed Shockley. A native New Yorker, he studied composition at The Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio and received his Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in New York at age 22. He holds several honorary doctorates and is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is married with three children.	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.	Lively. 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In this touching homage to his mother, James McBride paints a portrait of growing up in a black neighborhood as the child of an interracial marriage. Although raised an Orthodox Jew in the South, McBride's mother abandoned her heritage, moved to Harlem and married a black man. A wonderful sense of realism is offered by the dual-voiced narration. Andr Braugher's earnest presentation is matched perfectly with Lainie Kazan's character-rich representation of the headstrong matriarch. The result is not only a duet of victory over racial intolerance, but also a very personal celebration of familial bonds.  R.A.P.  (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",africa;african-american & black;african-american studies;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;history;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states;world,14
0520211693,"Mind Games: American Culture and the Birth of Psychotherapy (Medicine and Society) ""Historians have long understood that 'mind cure' was the seedbed of therapeutic culture. Caplan's innovation lies in showing how psychiatrists (including psychoanalysts) co-opted mind cure rather than opposing it. . . . [An] important and original work.""--Eli Zaretsky, ""Journal of American History""	An award-winning teacher and former William Rainey Harper Fellow, Eric Caplan has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, and Wesleyan University. He is currently on staff at the Pfizer Research University.",19th century;books;fitness & dieting;health;history;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;modern (16th-21st centuries);psychiatry;psychoanalysis;psychology & counseling;psychotherapy;ta & nlp,14
0876592132,"The Comprehensive Infant Curriculum: A Complete, Interactive Curriculum for Infants from Birth to 18 Months (Innovations) Kay Albrecht, Ph.D. is a senior partner in a consulting firm that specializes in working with businesses interested in family-friendly policies and in supporting early education. Dr. Albrecht is a nationally know speaker, the author of several books, and a contributing editor to Child Care Information Exchange. Linda Miller has been committed to the field of education for more than 25 years--as a classroom teacher, supervisor, federal projects director, trainer, corporate child care director, and curriculum developer. She is a nationally know speaker and a highly sought-after consultant to early childhood programs throughout the country.",books;curricula;curriculum & instruction;early childhood education;education;education & reference;education theory;educational psychology;elementary education;new;parenting;parenting & relationships;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,14
0749438983,"The CRM Project Management Handbook: Building Realistic Expectations and Managing Risk ""Required reading for all operational managers."" -- Dr Alain Michael, Head of Worldwide Clinical Safety and Pharmacovigilance, Serono International, Geneva	Michael Gentle is an international CRM consultant based in Paris, and has worked at major companies such as Apple Computer, GlaxoSmithKline, Cegetel, Worldcom International and the Bank of Tokyo.",books;business & finance;business & investing;customer service;economics;entrepreneurship;industries & professions;management;management & leadership;marketing;marketing & sales;new;small business & entrepreneurship;used & rental textbooks,14
0393969452,"C Programming: A Modern Approach ... this book will be well received because of its unique approach to the presentation of the material; it is full of examples and insights. King does not stop--as many others do--in merely explaining how the C programming language works. His well-written and well-organized book is full of advice and explanations of best practices in how to use the language most effectively. One of the most welcome aspects is that King identifies C programming 'idioms,' explains when the idioms are applicable, and shows why they are useful. The book is aimed at people with no prior programming experience, yet it is quite comprehensive in its treatment of the majority of C programming concepts. It is up-to-date in that it also covers the information needed by a C programmer in using the standard C library...  -- Choice, September, 1996A few years ago, I decided to switch from Fortran (which I had used for over 20 years) to C. I purchased about a dozen different books purporting to explain how to use the C language. Most were densely unreadable, few had a usable index, and some were riddled with errors. Now comes the book I really wanted... It is apparent that this book was written by someone who has spent time teaching the subject. The writing style is entertaining and clear. There are many good examples... Best of all, the index  takes you right to the part of the book you need--it is not too sparse, and it is not cluttered with irrelevant references. The first time I picked up this book I quickly found the solution to a file-reading bug which had perplexed me for months. I am placing this book at the top of my heap of programming texts, and I am recommending it to all of my programming colleagues.  -- Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, September/October, 1996The exceptional value of the book lies in the fact that the material is well structured and is made accessible to anyone with minimal programming experience, to those unfamiliar with C, and even to those who do not know any programming language... The book accomplishes the author's stated goal of making it the ideal classroom textbook with examples... Reading this book was extremely useful, both because I have discovered new things in it and, first and foremost, because it has helped me to restructure my knowledge of C.  -- Computing Reviews, February, 1997	K. N. King (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of  Computer Science at Georgia State University. He is the author of Modula-2: A Complete  Guide and Java Programming: From the  Beginning.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;c & c++ windows programming;computer science;computers & technology;development;education & reference;languages & tools;mathematics;microsoft;new;programming;programming languages;science & math;used & rental textbooks,14
0066620554,"The Chasm Companion: Implementing Effective Marketing Strategies for High-Technology Companies Fans of Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado will certainly be attracted to The Chasm Companion, a step-by-step manual by longtime Moore associate Paul Wiefels that lays out specific ways to apply his popular tech-oriented business principles in our fast-changing world. But even those who never warmed to the earlier works--which proposed a pragmatic path for successfully navigating the ever-moving environment of ""disruptive technologies that force changes in both strategy and behavior""--could find this book appealing. Designing The Chasm Companion as a hands-on field guide, Wiefels opens by explaining six ""inflection points"" in high-tech market development (the Early Market, the Chasm, the Bowling Alley, the Tornado, Main Street, Total Assimilation) that he and Moore insist everyone must carefully watch and properly react to as internal and external conditions evolve. He then outlines models and tools developed in the consulting practice he co-founded with Moore that enable individual corporations to carefully craft relevant strategies that they can align correctly with the appropriate market phases defined earlier. Finally, he presents initiatives (strategy validation, whole product management, marketing communications planning, and field engagement strategy) to help these firms actually implement their plans. Graphics and sidebars help Wiefels drive his points home clearly. --Howard Rothman	Wiefels and partner Geoffrey Moore are cofounders of the Chasm Group, a Silicon Valley high-tech consulting firm. This is a guide to understanding and implementing the market-development strategies described in Moore's best-sellers Inside the Tornado (1995) and Crossing the Chasm (1999). The partners have developed a model called the technology adoption life cycle (TALC), which describes how communities of people adopt innovations and integrate them into mainstream life. The chasm phase is a product-development black hole, a period of time in which products that show promise are ignored by the public at large. Other stages described on the path to total assimilation by the culture are the bowling alley, the tornado, and Main Street. The book offers real-life management formulas for guiding high-tech innovations through these treacherous phases of development. Wiefels' experience in the field gives readers an edge in anticipating the pitfalls unique to each phase. His introduction to the TALC is clear and informative; the descriptions of market-development strategies are exhaustive and detailed. David SiegfriedCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	A practical guide to the marketing strategies that revolutionized Silicon ValleyThe Chasm Group is one of the world's leading high-tech consulting practices, headed by best selling author, Geoffrey Moore, whose books, Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado are required reading for anyone venturing into the high-tech industry.Now Moore's partner, Paul Wiefels, analyses and clarifies the ideas covered in these bestsellers with a step-by-step field guide organized around three major concepts:* How high-tech market develop* How to specify a winning market development strategy* How to plan go-to-market programmes at different points in the life cycle.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	""Using The Chasm Group's models, BEA had become the fastest software company in history to reach $1 billion in revenue. The Chasm Companion provides the insights that will help someone else beat our record."" William T. Coleman III, Founder, Chairman, & Chief Strategy Officer, BEA Systems, Inc.""Paul Wiefels offers up a comprehensive marketing toolkit. His knowledge of what's worked and what hasn't is a must read for every marketing manager embarking into uncharted territory."" Gary Elliottt, Vice President, Global Brand and Marketing Communications, Hewlett-Packard""This is the must-have high-tech business survival guide for our new century."" Steve Hayden, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy Worldwide""The Chasm Companion is an outstanding guide for anyone facing the challenge of how to execute a successful marketing campaign for a high-tech product or service."" Tom Kosnik, Ph.D., Consulting Professor, Stanford Technology Ventures Program	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Paul Wiefels is a founding partner and managing director of The Chasm Group LLC, a strategy consulting firm serving technology-based companies and organizations around the world. He has worked in the high-tech industry for 20 years and speaks frequently to high-tech industry organizations. He lives in Half Moon Bay, California.",biography & history;books;business & investing;company profiles;management & leadership;marketing;marketing & sales;multilevel;popular economics;public relations;research;science & math;systems & planning;technology,14
0761812628,"Regulation, The Constitution, and the Economy Argues that regulation is anti-democratic as a form of law and that its combination of legislative, executive, and judicial functions in the same agencies is in violation of the constitution separation of powers.>>>> (Journal Of Economic Literature )Argues that regulation is anti-democratic as a form of law and that its combination of legislative, executive, and judicial functions in the same agencies is in violation of the constitution separation of powers. (Journal Of Economic Literature )",books;business & investing;constitutions;economic conditions;economic policy;economic policy & development;economics;law;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;popular economics;public affairs & policy;tax law,14
096756140X,"Borderline and Beyond: A Program of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook and Personal Journal Individuals with the Borderline Personality Disorder need many things for a happy and successful life.  Medication and counseling alone will not work.  Reality perception regularly gets impaired, ruining relationships and many other areas of a borderline's life.  Awareness of symptoms, clarifying perceptions, and taking responsibility for one's life are all crucial.  Laura Paxton's book Borderline and Beyond is enormously helpful - no matter what kind of therapy is being used.  It will be helpful for those not in treatment as well.  It is a wonderful workbook teaching specific techniques and educating borderlines about many aspects of their diagnosis.  I highly encourage everyone with the BPD to use this book as a guide.  Leland M. Heller, M.D.  Author Life at the Border - Understanding and Recovering from the Borderline Personality Disorder and Biological Unhappiness -- Leland M. Heller, M.D.Laura Paxton has written a new book entitled ""Borderline and Beyond: A Program of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder."" I have had the pleasure of reading the ""downloadable"" version of her book and was totally delighted! It is an excellent book that I recommend to all that suffer from this disorder. Laura seems to have great insight into the thoughts, feelings and behavior of this disorder and has set up an excellent plan for recovery."" -- Patty Johnson, MSW The Borderline Sanctuary	Laura Hall Paxton is a native of Rome, Georgia, where she currently resides with her husband, John, who is a native of Scotland.  She has a Master's degree in Psychology and a Specialist in Education degree in Guidance and Counseling from the State University of West Georgia.  Mrs. Paxton's life is dedicated to researching best practices in order to improve the quality of life for the mentally ill.  She enjoys presenting workshops based on her findings.",autism & asperger's syndrome;books;children's health;fitness & dieting;health;mental health;mental illness;new;personality disorders;psychology;psychology & counseling;psychopathology;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
0805419705,"Murder at Gettysburg (Mysteries in Time Series) In the summer of 1863, as the Confederate Army invades Pennsylvania, Jonas Wolff is murdered, apparently by a Confederate general. Wolff's daughter, April, a teacher in her mid-20s, rides off to the Confederate command post and demands an investigation. With the help of Major Will Chevalier and Sergeant Jacob Perlman, April finds her father's murderer but only after sorting through a formidable number of suspects and negotiating a harrowing passage through the Battle of Gettysburg. Walker deftly weaves together a difficult-to-solve crime, chunks of nicely integrated Civil War history, and a cast of well-developed characters who capture the complexities and contradictions of soldiers and civilians on both sides of the War between the States. Anyone who reads Civil War fiction--whether mysteries such as Ann McMillan's Dead March  or mainstream classics like Shaara's Killer Angelswill find much to enjoy here.  John Rowen",americas;books;campaigns & battlefields;civil war;fiction;genre fiction;gettysburg;historical;history;literature & fiction;mystery;religion & spirituality;thriller & suspense;united states,14
1586853325,"Classic Cottages: Simple, Romantic Homes Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Gingerbread Gems Bungalettes Gnome Sweet Home Rolling Bungalows Enclaves Contemporary Cottages	Chico, California-based photographer Douglas Keister has photographed twenty-two award-winning, critically acclaimed books. His seventeen books on architecture include four books on Victorian homes (Daughter's of Painted Ladies, Painted Ladies Revisited, America's Painted Ladies and Victorian Glory); three books on bungalow homes (The Bungalow, Inside the Bungalow and Outside the Bungalow), a book on 1920s whimsical homes (Storybook Style) a book about cemetery art and architecture (Going Out in Style), a book on Spanish architecture, (Red Tile Style), six books on bungalow details and Classic Cottages, that will be published by Gibbs Smith Publisher in the Spring of 2004. Keister photographed and wrote an award winning children's book (Fernando's Gift), has two monographs of his personal work (Black Rock and Driftwood Whimsy), a book on classic travel trailers, (Ready to Roll) and a book on cemetery symbolism, Stories in Stone: The Complete Illustrated Guide to Cemetery Symbolism, that will be published by Gibbs Smith Publisher in the Spring of 2004. His wealth of books on architecture has earned him the title, ""America's most noted photographer of historic architecture.""Brian D. Coleman, M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist in Seattle, Washington, and the author of several books including Scalamandre: Luxurious Home Interiors, Classic Cottages, and Vintage Victorian Textiles. His articles on historic home design have been published in a variety of magazines including Old House Journal and Period Living (U.K.), and he is the West Coast editor for Old House Interiors. He divides his time between New York and Seattle	Introduction  Simple picturesque bungalows, quaint thatched stone and stucco huts, or elaborate marble and plaster palaces-all types of homes have been called a cottage. Loosely defined as any small romantic dwelling, cottages range from nineteenth-century gingerbread gems to quaint storybook chateaux to rolling bungalows of the 1930s. While their popularity for the last 150 years has never waned, cottages are now being rediscovered in record numbers as people look for affordable housing that is still appealing and attractive. And as modern life becomes more stressful, the value of the peaceful home becomes even greater. What could be more relaxing than coming back to a rose-covered, romantic bungalow after a long day of e-mails and faxes, and gridlock on the drive home? For many, a picturesque cottage is exactly that-an escape to a simpler time, when life was slower, less complicated, and less worrisome. The simple and honest appeal of a cottage has also become more attractive as many empty nesters downsize their homes, and look for smaller but attractive alternatives to the large family house. Classic and timeless, cottages have never been in greater demand.",architecture;books;buildings;crafts;decorating;education & reference;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;home repair;how-to & home improvements;interior design;professional & technical;small homes & cottages,14
0785773924,"Dragon (Dirk Pitt Adventures) In this Japan-bashing adventure, Cussler's ninth book to feature Dirk Pitt, Japanese nationalists plant nuclear devices in international cities as they plot to create a new empire through blackmail. ""A page-turning romp that achieves a level of fast-paced action and derring-do that Robert Ludlum and other practitioners of modern pulp fiction might well envy . . . perfect beach reading,"" said PW . Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Japanese businessmen have created a diabolical plot to control world economy, and all is going well until a radiation leak occurs on board the auto carrier Divine Star . Dirk Pitt is almost killed in the tremors from the explosion aboard the carrier, and the plot weaves suspensefully as he begins to solve the puzzles around him. Nuclear holocaust, secret underwater stations, Japanese art discovered in an old Nazi underground vault, and the kidnapping of two U. S. Congressmen carry readers through an exciting story of power and insatiable greed. Humor pervades the story; Cussler places himself in one scene, suggests in another that the yen become the currency of the United States, and dresses Pitt's Uncle Percy in a lavender sport coat and lizard-skin boots. An attention-holding novel set in 1993. --Linda Vretos, West Springfield High School, VACopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Sunday Oklahoman      ""Action-packed... Cussler grabs the reader in the opening chapter, starting a rollercoaster ride of heart-stopping adventures, disasters, and coincidences.... Dragon is every bit as thrilling as his earlier Raise the Titanic!  -- Review	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Japan, 1945: Two U.S. bombers take off with atomic bombs. Only one gets through.  The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States is instantly, thunderously vaporized, taking with it a Norwegian vessel. Japanese fanatics have developed a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From the ocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot, DIRK PITT is untangling a savage conspiracy and igniting a daring counterattack. While Washington bureaucrats scramble, a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from a secret island control center. And DIRK PITT, the dauntless hero of Sahara and Inca Gold, is taking on death-dealing robots and a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors. Pitt alone controls the West's secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave of destruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Clive Cussler is acclaimed worldwide as the Grandmaster of Adventure. He got his start in advertising, first as an award-winning copy writer, and then as creative director for two of the nation's largest agencies. His initial foray into fiction was in 1973, when he wrote his first Dirk Pitt novel.Since then he has continued to write Dirk Pitt adventures while living a life that nearly parallels that of his action hero. Like Pitt, Cussler enjoys discovering and collecting things of historical significance. With NUMA (National Underwater & Marine Agency, a non profit group begun by Cussler) he has had an amazing record of finding over 60 shipwrecks, one of which was the long-lost Confederate submarine Hunley. Cussler also has a renowned and extensive classic car collection, which features over 80 examples of custom coachwork.Along with being Chairman of NUMA, he is also a fellow of the Explorers Club (which honored him with the Lowell Thomas Award for outstanding underwater exploration), the Royal Geographical Society and the American Society of Oceanographers. Married to Barbara Knight for 40 years, with three children and two grandchildren, he divides his time between the mountains of Colorado and the deserts of Arizona.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",action & adventure;books;contemporary;genre fiction;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;mystery;new;spy stories & tales of intrigue;teens;thriller & suspense;thrillers;used & rental textbooks,14
0749422211,Speaking Globally: How to Make Effective Presentations Across International and Cultural Boundaries Urech is a Speech and Communication specialist.,books;business & finance;business & investing;business communication;communications;education & reference;language & grammar;literature & fiction;new;public speaking;running meetings & presentations;skills;used & rental textbooks;words,14
0195158172,"Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (on previous editions) ""Essential reading for the serious film student.""--Jerry Allen White, University of Oklahoma""An excellent introductory survey text, offering key essays in film theory and criticism for the beginning student. . . . A superb text in every respect; well annotated and authoritative.""--Wheeler Winston Dixon, University of Nebraska	Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen are both at the University of Southern California.",books;education & reference;film & television;history & criticism;humanities;humor & entertainment;language & grammar;linguistics;movies;new;performing arts;theory;used & rental textbooks;words,14
0415910137,"The Struggle for the American Curriculum: 1893-1958 ""...destined to become a contemporary curriculum classic...It behooves curriculum leaders and scholars to know the precedent that they can build upon by reading this book."" -- Educational Leadership - 1/87""Kleibard's The Struggle for the American Curriculum provides a vaulable guide for understanding the educational controversies of the period.""  -- History of Education Quarterly - spring 87""Our understanding of the curriculum and its makers is increased immensely by this work."" -- Educational Studies""The theme is thought provoking and the historical perspective would be useful to students beginning their studies of curriculum..."" -- Journal of Educational Administration and History - 1/87	Herbert M. Kliebard is Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies and Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of Schooled to Work: Vocationalism and the American Curriculum, 1876-1946.",19th century;20th century;books;curricula;curriculum & instruction;education;education & reference;education theory;history;history & theory;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,14
0152013415,"Down to Earth Grade 4-6?This is one of those books in which authors and illustrators donate their works and somebody pulls it together into a package that, when sold, raises money for a cause. In this case, it's Rosen featuring ""Share Our Strength,"" an American organization that contributes to school-breakfast programs, soup kitchens, etc. The body of the book is devoted to 38 reminiscences and musings, each about a different plant. The subjects range from milkweed and moss to roses and zucchini; the quality and tone vary too, as is the case in this kind of collection. The illustrations are more even in quality than the writings: colorful artwork in many different styles combines to make a garden of enjoyment. The second part of the book contains 33 projects or recipes related to the plants discussed: making a fruit tree bell to keep the birds away, drying flowers, making dandelion salad, making sun prints, etc. For whom is this book intended? The musings might be lost on children, but they could be read as stories heard from adults about their childhoods.?Carolyn Jenks, First Parish Unitarian Church, Portland, MECopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Gr. 5^-8. Rosen has gathered the work of 41 children's authors and illustrators in this collection of stories, recipes, projects, and other tidbits, all pertaining to gardening. Judy Sierra lists six reasons why she loves mustard greens, Daniel Kirk reminisces about mushrooms, and Nicholasa Mohr writes about her discovery of the flaming red trees of Puerto Rico. The variety of ideas, stories, styles, and illustrations makes the book a wonderful resource for gardening projects, class lessons, and story hours, as well as just plain reading enjoyment, and each page is uniquely illustrated by a contributor or with Rosen's own artwork. The final part of the book is devoted to recipes and activities--Denise Fleming's instructions for making cheesy zucchini, Diana Pomeroy's explanation of potato printing, and more. Like many of Rosen's other anthologies, this stunning book will touch readers of a variety of ages, including grown-ups. A list of garden resources is appended.  Helen Rosenberg	www.fidosopher.com",activity books;art;arts;books;children's books;children's cookbooks;cooking;crafts & music;drawing;gardening;nature;nature & how it works;science;sports & games,14
0809326787,"Black Flag Over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War In the not too distant past, almost all Civil War publications seem to have consisted of rehashes of selected major battles and leaders. Sadly, some scholars would like to see this genre return to those ""good old days"" and avoid such topics as slavery, women, internal political, dissention, (real) intelligence gathering, etc. However, the story of these ""other Civil Wars"" will not be denied.This particular work looks at the subject of military racial atrocities during the Civil War; it is a collection of essays ranging from Albert Castel's 1958 article on the Fort Pillow massacre to works prepared specifically for this volume. The title refers to the traditional symbol for no quarter being offered. In a war about racism and slavery, the use of black soldiers, many of them former slaves, raised numerous issues in the opposing armies but especially about the treatment of black prisoners of war and their white officers. Some of the eleven chapters, such as Bryce Suderow's piece on the killing of black soldiers in the Battle of the Crater, seem exceptionally concise, but all of these contributions represent in depth research and balanced conclusions.This book also has remarkable scope for such a compact work. Howard Westwood discusses the aftermath of the battle at Charleston made famous in the movie Glory and David Frisby joins Castel in looking at the Fort Pillow massacre. However, Anne J. Bailey, David J. Coles, Gregory J. W. Urwin, and Chad L. Williams look at far less-well-known incidents, such as the battles of Plymouth and Olustee, in Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, and other theaters that have lacked adequate study. James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.'s contribution discusses the executions of white officers of black troops, and Mark Grimsley draws conclusions on the broad topic.Black Flag Over Dixie does have limits that hopefully future volumes will address, as hinted at by some of the above essays. For example, Georgia's Colquitt's brigade had the distinction of fighting black soldiers in battle in Florida, South Carolina, and Virginia. How this unique experience affected the men of this unit from often anti-war North Georgia would make an interesting topic. The treatment of the largely Georgian black Forty-fourth United States Colored Infantry following the fall of Dalton, Georgia, in October 1864 deserves a place on any roster of Civil War racial atrocities. However, that list should also include the actions by black soldiers under the fanatical abolitionist Gen. Edward Wild in Wilkes County, Georgia, and elsewhere.This reviewer looks forward to the volumes that will expand on the excellent work begun here, although they will have a tough act to follow. (Robert Scott Davis Georgia Historical Quarterly 2008-10-02)It has become almost trite to note how popular scholarship and interest in the American Civil War remains, yet despite the cascade of works on facets of the war both obscure and renowned, Gregory Urwin has brought together a group of essays that explores a still nearly untouched aspect of this conflict. Black Flag Over Dixie is a compilation of twelve essays on the topic of Civil War racial atrocities, and provides a ready source for future explorations of this subject. The book supplements its text with twenty photographs and illustrations.Urwin, a professor at Temple University and an award-winning author or editor of seven books on military history, has pulled together a fascinating examination of what he refers to as ""the war's central cause and most convulsive issue."" Urwin contends that the Civil War community's collective amnesia is an outgrowth of an intentional effort on the part of Southerners to ensure that their loss on the Civil War's battlefields could be redeemed in the aftermath. He notes that organizations such as the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) and United Daughters of the Confederacy lobbied to ensure that a pro-Confederate history of the war was taught in Southern schools. In my years teaching military history at the United States Military Academy at West Point, I often was amazed at how successful that effort had been, as cadets from southern states almost uniformly identified simple ""states' rights"" as the seminal cause for the war, denying that slavery had any role.With Black Flag Over Dixie, Urwin seeks to open the path to not only a fuller understanding of the war, but also of our nation. His effort makes a good start, but also highlights the limited scholarship to date. Of the twelve essays (including the introductory and concluding essays), only four represent new scholarship. The oldest essay is the 1958 Albert Castel piece, ""The Fort Pillow Massacre,"" which is still among the best examinations of the evidence of that massacre, even given its age.The Confederate treatment of the blacks in Union blue and their white officers is as varied as the different units and individuals who came into contact with the black soldiers. It is clear that there were those on both sides of the conflict who simply could not countenance the idea of blacks as soldiers. It is equally evident that the Lincoln Administration, albeit hesitantly and with fits and starts, came to recognize the benefits of the black presence in the ranks. Even if the United States Colored Troops (USCT) units never fought a single engagement, the fact that nearly two-thirds of their ranks comprised escaped slaves meant an equal loss to slaveholders in the rebel states. It is, therefore, hardly surprising that the South, which had gone to war to ensure the right to keep its black population subjugated, would find the thought of those same blacks under arms criminal.The official Confederate position on the status of the black soldiers was constantly evolving. In December 1862, Jefferson Davis had ordered that any blacks captured under arms (and their officers) were subject to state laws regarding servile insurrection. However, as a practical measure, determining which state each USCT soldier came from proved impossible, especially as many in the ranks were free blacks from northern states. Subsequently, Davis and the Confederate Congress amended the declaration to make the government of the state where the black troops were when captured responsible.This meant, to some extent, that the Confederate officers were not certain of what to do with their captured blacks. For some, apparently, the simplest answer was to kill them rather than have to answer the question. After the Fort Pillow massacre and its subsequent inquiry by the Committee on the Conduct of the War, ""Remember Fort Pillow"" and ""No Quarter"" became rallying cries for many USCT units and the thought that the black troops would be enslaved if captured lent a different tone to their battles.Whether it was predisposition, reaction to armed blacks, official sanction, or some other reason, Urwin and his colleague demonstrate that the battles between black troops and Confederates had a significantly different level of lethality and, in many cases, a demonstrable pattern of irregularity in accounting for the disposition of the USCT soldiers in the battles' aftermath.Each of the essays included brings something to the table, and those interested in the full story of the Civil War will benefit from this collection. Some of the material will be familiar to even those with a passing interest, such as the essays on Fort Pillow and on the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg. Some of the others examine less heralded conflicts such as Plymouth, North Carolina's massacre in April 1864 and the Christmas Insurrection Scare of 1865. Together, they form a troubling, and for some, perhaps a troublesome view of Confederate behavior in the war and its immediate aftermath. In his introduction, Urwin notes that after he had written an editorial in 1988 advocating the erection of monuments to Southern blacks who fought for the Union, he received a letter from the SCV ""commander-in-chief"" Ralph Green. Green charged that Urwin had ""betrayed his profession as historian.""It is precisely this line of thought that makes Black Flag Over Dixie an essential addition to Civil War historiography. The idea of intentionally overlooking uncomfortable or disturbing elements of our history belies the value that history provides. If legend is all that we seek from the past, then there probably is no place for Urwin's work. However, if we truly seek to understand why the nation was compelled to force of arms to settle its sectional dispute, then examinations such as this are critical to that understanding. Mark Grimsley ends his essay with this thought, that ""until the shadow is accepted and understood, its power to harm everyone - the nation included - is vast."" If we would continue as a great nation, we must be willing to undertake a critical self-examination. Black Flag Over Dixie is an excellent lens through which to conduct a part of that examination. (Versalle F. Washington Civil War Book Review 2008-10-02)Black Flag Over Dixie is a polemic analysis of the overarching role that race played during the Civil War. Temple University professor of history Gregory J.W. Urwin assembles atidisparate collection of essays that achieve a synergistic effect in refuting the reconciliationist vision of the Civil War as an honorable contest between chivalrous opponents. Urwin's slate of twelve prominent and heretofore unheralded historians examine purported Confederate and Union Army racial atrocities in each operational theater, including battles at Milliken's Bend, Poison Springs, Jenkin's Ferry, Fort Pillow, and Petersburg. The authors contend that the psychology of ""whiteness"" framed southern and northern conduct of the war and frequently manifested itself in racial atrocities. Although Confederate atrocities were more frequent and larger, black soldiers retaliated when presented with an opportunity. Myriad cascading effects emanated from racial atrocities; however, two effects were most prominent. First, Radical Republicans incorporated reports of racial atrocities into their ""bloody shirt"" propaganda to advocate a ""hard war"" strategy against the South. Secondly, Union and Confederate governments failed to establish and enforce coherent policies to address racial atrocities. The lack of policies emboldened southern insurgents during Reconstruction and also facilitated the North's abandonment of African Americans in exchange for reconciliation after the war.Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the introduction of black regiments threatened psychological, deep-rooted, white supremacist underpinnings and exacerbated southern fears of slave insurrection. The presence of black soldiers also provided southern confirmation that the war was a cultural and social revolution designed to reshape the South. Consequently, engagements between Confederate and black regiments quickly escalated into ""Black Flag"" conflicts of no quarter given. Although the ""Fort Pillow Massacre"" was not the first or largest racial atrocity, reports of the massacre became tantamount to a rallying cry of ""No Quarter"" for black soldiers and a Radical Republican demand for an escalation of the war. Following the ""Fort Pillow"" and ""Poison Springs Massacres,"" black soldiers of the 2""d Kansas Colored Voluntary Infantry Regiment retaliated by killing wounded Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Jenkin's Ferry on the Saline River. Simultaneously, Radical Republican Senator Benjamin R. Wade of Ohio framed a propaganda campaign around the ""Fort Pillow Massacre"" designed to marshal public will towards pursuing a hard war against the South.Despite the ""Fort Pillow Massacre"" Congressional investigation and an eventual Union strategy of ""Total War,"" the Lincoln administration failed to adopt a coordinated and coherent policy towards Confederate racial atrocities. Similarly, the Confederate administration failed to articulate a coordinated policy on the legal status of black soldiers. The failure of both governments to develop and disseminate coherent racial policies to their field forces signaled tacit approval of racial atrocities. Chad L. Williams' essay, ""Symbols of Defeat: African American Soldiers, White southerners, and the Christmas Insurrection Scare of 1865,"" argues that white Southerners' unrelenting disdain for black soldiers coupled with their acceptance of racial atrocities provided significant impetus for a southern insurgency during Reconstruction.In his essay, ""The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Towards Southern Civilians, 1861-1865,"" Mark Grimsley provides a more comprehensive approach towards the role of racism in America. Grimsley asserts that racism is an American inheritance that has cast a very ""Long Shadow"" over America since its inception. Racial atrocities are not unique to the Civil War but are also evident in virtually every American conflict. Sheer utilitarian necessity rather than moral superiority forced the Union to field black regiments. Consequently, this ingrained American racism enabled the North to quickly forget both the contributions of black soldiers and southern racial atrocities in order to advance reconciliation.Urwin has crafted an extraordinary book using essays of varying quality to effectively shatter the myth of the ""Lost Cause"" and portray the Civil War as a hotly contested social revolution. Several of the essays contained in Black Flag Over Dixie appear deliberately vague in an attempt to stimulate discussion and further research. Mark Grimsley's concluding analysis on racism and reconciliation fuses the disparate essays together and invokes comparison to David Blight's seminal discussion of race, memory, and reconciliation in Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Inevitably, Black Flag Over Dixie will invite comparisons and discourse on ongoing American military operations in the current ""Global War on Terrorism."" Specifically, how does the American perspective on race inform its perception and conduct of the war? (Patrick Hampton Southern Historian 2008-09-30)	Gregory J. W. Urwin is a professor of history and associate director of the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy at Temple University.	""Two decades after the poet Walt Whitman nursed sick and wounded soldiers at a Union hospital in Washington, D.C., he wrote: Future years will never know the seething hell. . .of the Secession War; and it is best they should notthe real war will never get in the books. Despite all the ink that has been spilled over the Civil War, Whitman is still right. This judgment is not intended as an indictment of Civil War scholarship. Unfortunately, much of the best work in the field goes unread by the greater portion of the Civil War community. This applies most of all to publications focusing on racethe wars central cause and the most convulsive issue to confront Americans as they patched together a sectional peace during Reconstruction."" from the Introduction	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",19th century;african-american studies;americas;books;civil war;discrimination & racism;history;minority studies;politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;united states,14
1568982038,"Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater (Building Block Series) Ezra Stoller is the Annie Leibovitz of modern architecture. House & Garden  This is one of a series of small photo books (5 1/2 x 7 1/2 ) presenting the masterworks of modern architecture through the lens of Ezra Stoller. For 60 years, Stoller has been revered by architects, editors, collectors, and photographers for his ability to translate an architect's vision into two dimensions. This is architectural photography at its finest. For anyone interested in photographing buildings, there is a wealth of information in Stoller's images, particularly his interiors. Each volume has an introduction by a prominent architectural writer, drawings and plans, a key to the photos, and a note form Stoller about how he came to photograph the building, as well as some of the difficulties he encountered. Popular Photography	Ezra Stoller is one of the preeminent architectural photographers in the world and the founder of the renowned Esto architectural photography studio.",architecture;arts & photography;books;buildings;crafts;design & construction;history;history & criticism;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;individual architects & firms;professional & technical;reference,14
013571365X,"The Complete Court Reporter's Handbook (3rd Edition) Using easy-to-understand language, this guide offers a host of court and legal procedures helping students effectively learn both the basic and the advanced concepts of every phase of court reporting. It's packed with general forms, sample written knowledge tests, and review questions, designed to give students on-the-job knowledge in an academic setting.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This practical guide presents all aspects of court reporting across a wide range of court and legal procedures. Packed with forms, sample written knowledge tests, and review questions, this book provides an excellent source of information about how court reporters function in the real world. Serving as a hands-on How to reference on different aspects of Court Reporting, this important resource covers various types of reporting assignments; how to administer oaths; how to report interrogatories, statements, and depositions; how to handle parentheticals, objections, exhibits, and interpreted proceedings; how to take and transcribe court cases, computer-aided transcription, word-processing, daily copy, testing, and video grand jury work. It also covers topics such as ethics and notary public duties. Finally, it provides practical advice to typical problems encountered in the field. With a reorganized presentation, the third edition of Legal Assisting/Court Reporting has been revised to incorporate changes in technology and demonstrate how these changes affect the role of the court reporter. Among these new technologies are: realtime writing, computer-aided transcription, instantaneous viewing of the transcript, immediate recall of all litigation documents, closed-captioning for the hearing-impaired, Braille copy for the visually-impaired, and instant multi-language translation. The book also discusses the use of court reporting skills in a variety of other professions including rapid data entry specialists, medial transcriptionists, classroom captioners, business meeting reporters, and others.  An essential reference for every law professional and court reporter.",books;court records;education;education & reference;law;law office education;law practice;legal reference;new;politics & social sciences;reference;rules & procedures;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,14
0781717183,"Clinical Management of Infections in Immunocompromised Infants and Children In 1992, Patrick edited a comprehensive textbook (Infections in Immunocompromised Infants and Children, Philadelphia, Churchill Livingstone). It contained a wealth of information in 56 chapters, spread over 850 pages. Clinical Management of Infections in Immunocompromised Infants and Children is similar to the earlier book but is more focused on clinical issues. It deals with the management of immunodeficiency states associated with prematurity, congenital immune deficiencies, and chemotherapy-associated immunosuppression in patients undergoing treatment for leukemia and lymphoma or organ transplantation. Other chapters take up the secondary disorders of host defense often seen in sickle cell disease, chronic renal failure, cystic fibrosis, malnutrition, asplenia, and burns. The book also includes a section on the sinopulmonary, enteric, central nervous system, and dermatologic manifestations of infections in immunocompromised patients. It also includes interesting chapters on childhood immunization and the use of antibiotics and immunomodulators in immunodeficient patients.    This excellent book is well written and clearly focused on clinical management. Several chapters include simplified management guidelines and algorithms for developing logical treatment plans. The reader will find them helpful as quick references during bedside care. The chapters on immunomodulators and antibiotic therapy provide relevant and up-to-date information on some of the new treatments for severe infections in immunocompromised patients. Overall, this is an excellent book and should be valuable to pediatricians, immunologists, hematologists, and oncologists involved in the care of immunocompromised patients with infections.    Pearay L. Ogra, M.D.    Copyright  2001 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved. The New England Journal of Medicine is a registered trademark of the MMS.",basic sciences;books;clinical;communicable diseases;immunology;infectious disease;infectious diseases;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;pediatrics;used & rental textbooks,14
1893517012,"Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq ""Instant classic. ...If Americans read a single book about current affairs this year, (this) should be it."" -- Dog Skin ReportIf you ever ask yourself, ""How did America get here?""  then you simply must read this book. ...clear, concise. -- Buzzflash.comOne of the best books ... on American politics and parapolitics. ... Serious investigative journalist's care with sources. ... Simple, transparent style. -- Lobster magazine, Summer 2005	Robert Parry is a 27-year veteran of Washington journalism who broke many of the stories now known as the Iran-Contra Affair for the Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. Among his awards is the 1984 George Polk Award for National Reporting. Parry was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1985. His other books including Fooling America, a look at the decline of the Washington press corps, and Lost History, an examination of the hidden history of the Cold War conflicts in Central America.",( b );a-z;biographies & memoirs;books;bush;george;history;history & theory;iraq;middle east;people;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences,14
0881322784,"Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two Koreas "" . . . (This) encyclopedic coverage of the two Korean economies . . . will be widely read and cited.""   -- Il SaKong, Chairman and CEO of the Institute for Global Economics and former Minister of Finance of the Republic of South Korea ""Avoiding the Apocalypse is unique in its breadth and rigor...essential reading for anyone interested in the future of Korea.""  -- Joe Stiglitz, Former Senior Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank""Noland has digested everything that can be relied upon to understand North Korea and made it widely accessible."" -- Journal of Asian Studies; Lawrence B. Krause, UC San Diego""Noland's account offers especially timely insights and guidance.""  -- Robert B. Zoellick, Former U.S. Undersecretary of State, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff ""Noland's exhaustive study. . . offers a 'tour d'horizon,'. . . as well as extensive analysis of unification's likely effects."" -- The Japan TimesThe best way to [be prepared for the worst]is to read Avoiding the Apocalypse. -- The Japan Times	Winner of the prestigious Ohira Masayoshi Award for 2000-2001.	Marcus Noland, Senior Fellow, has been the Senior Economist for International Economics at the Council of Economic Advisers, as well as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Southern California, Tokyo University, Saitama University, the University of Ghana, and a visiting scholar at the Korea Development Institute. He has written many articles on international economics and is the author of Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two Koreas (2000) and Pacific Basin Developing Countries: Prospects for the Future (1990). He is coauthor of Global Economic Effects of the Asian Currency Devaluations (1998), Reconcilable Differences? United States-Japan Economic Conflict with C. Fred Bergsten (1993), Japan in the World Economy with Bela Balassa (1988), the editor of Economic Integration of the Korean Peninsula (1998), and coeditor of Pacific Dynamism and the International Economic System (1993).",books;business & investing;development & growth;economic conditions;economic policy;economic policy & development;economics;national & international security;political economy;politics & government;politics & social sciences;popular economics;public affairs & policy;specific topics,14
1932511334,"The Hanging in the Foaling Barn: Stories (Woodford Reserve Series in Kentucky Literature) The sharpest stories in Richards's fresh but uneven debut collection of nine stories (mostly set in Kentucky) ride on the daily rhythms of farmwork and the natural cycle of birth and death. In ""Grass Fires,"" a middle-aged mother is ""struggling for her great big child,"" a 32-year-old mentally handicapped man, who might be setting fire to the dry fields of their farming community. Human foibles show up in sharp relief against the innocence of horses, which consistently figure as benign forces of nature, as in the redemptive title story. Luther, a gruff but good-hearted horse breeder, talks his employee Maurice out of a suicide attempt, and the story turns on a new beginning (the delivery of a foal) instead of a hanging. Succinct, amusing characterizations distinguish ""Clarence Cummins and the Semi-Permanent Loan,"" a gentle comedy about a farm manager's frustrated attempts to reason with a simpleminded farmhand who provokes a messy misunderstanding over a pony cart. But Richards's prose turns purple in ""Gawain and the Horsewoman,"" a mythical allegory about a high-stakes horse race. Richards raised racehorses for 20 years, and her most compassionate, articulate stories are grounded in everyday detail. (Apr.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	The nine stories in Richards' collection reflect not only her uncanny intuitive connection to horses, culled from years of raising them herself all over the Bluegrass State, but also her obvious empathy for those who share their lives with equine companions. Some characters--like the down-on-his-luck ex-jockey and his once-a-year suicide attempts, or the horse breeder struggling with a picky and very stubborn mare who has deigned to grant him only two foals in 20 years--are the focus of two down-home Kentucky tales, worthy of being passed on for generations. Richards imbues other stories with her own brand of magic. In ""Ape in the Face,"" the deceased owner of a haunted house eerily lives on in one of his descendants. In ""Man Walking,"" a ghost manages to seduce the new owner of an old log cabin. A dose of Kentuckiana, lots of humor and horse lore, and inventive plot twists make up a unique and varied collection by a knowledgeable and engaging storyteller. Deborah DonovanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Susan Starr Richards has spent most of her life raising racehorces in central Kentucky, and writing. She has been a NEA Fellow in Fiction, and has received a Kentucky Arts Council Fellowshp. Her stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and in Thoroughbred Times, as winner of their first National Fiction Prize.",animals;biological sciences;books;contemporary women;horses;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;rural;science & math;short stories;single author;sociology;united states;women's fiction,14
1413006701,"Frames of Mind ""Another innovative feature is the authors' genuine effort to integrate reading with writing. Too often, anthologies--whether rhetorical readers or lit-for-comp texts--do little more than pay lip service to the reading-writing connection. In FM, the connection is made explicit by the ""Occasions,"" which walk students step-by-step through a process of discovery, showing them how to use the ""mode"" in question as a means of moving from invention through analysis toward formulating a thesis and developing a full paper. Very few textbooks provide this kind of detailed, explicit--and imaginative--writing pedagogy.""""The innovative ways in which Hoy and DiYanni have resurrected ""conventional"" patterns of development and arrangement is important to composition studies-and to students of writing. In the preface to FRAMES OF MIND the editors make clear that they make use of these familiar patterns to add ""richness and complexity"" to student writing, not to impose rigid, old ways of thinking and writing. And they do this remarkably.""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Robert DiYanni, who has taught English and Humanities at Harvard, Pace, and the City University of New York, is Director of International Services at the College Board. He received his B.A. from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. from the City University of New York. A professor of English and Humanities at New York University, Dr. DiYanni has lectured and conducted workshops in the United States and abroad, especially in Europe and Asia. He has written and edited numerous textbooks, including OCCASIONS FOR WRITING (with Pat C. Hoy, II), THE MCGRAW-HILL BOOK OF POETRY, THE MCGRAW-HILL BOOK OF FICTION, THE SCRIBNER HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS (with Pat C. Hoy, II), WRITING ABOUT THE HUMANITIES, LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION, MODERN AMERICAN PROSE, and, among others MODERN AMERICAN POETS: THEIR VOICES AND VISIONS (a text to accompany the PBS television series). He updated the fourth edition of Strunk and White's classic ELEMENTS OF STYLE, and he has co-authored ARTS AND CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HUMANITIES (Prentice Hall), the basis for their lecture series on art and literature given at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.Pat C. Hoy, II, director of the Expository Writing Program and professor of English at New York University, has held appointments at the U.S. Military Academy and Harvard. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hoy regularly teaches freshman composition and is the author of numerous textbooks and articles, including THE SCRIBNER HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS, Fourth Edition (with Robert DiYanni). His essays have appeared in SEWANEE REVIEW, VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW, AGNI, TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE, SOUTH ATLANTIC REVIEW, and THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Eight of his essays have been selected as ""Notables"" in Best American Essays. INSTINCT FOR SURVIVAL: ESSAYS BY PAT C. HOY II was selected as a ""Notable"" collection in Best American Essays of the Century. He was awarded the 2003 Cecil Woods, Jr., Prize for Nonfiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;college & university;creative writing & composition;education;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;literature;new;research & publishing guides;rhetoric;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,14
0300108702,"Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy One of the mysteries of contemporary American politics is how, in the wake of triangulating Democrats, a small base of conservative Republicans has steered the country so far to the right. In this book, two political science professors from Yale and Berkeley examine ascendant far-right Republicans and offer a sobering analysis of their strategies, many of which, the authors argue, have weakened the ordinary voter's power to ""ensure that American politics remains on center."" Closely-argued and very readable, the book never sinks under the weight of its details; the authors use an ironic list of rules like ""Don't Just Do Something, Stand There"" to give chapter and verse on how the ultra-right ""hide their radicalism in a thicket of policy detail"" and use poll-driven language to sex-up initiatives lacking popular support. There are excellent passages on the ""fiscal chicanery"" of recent tax cuts and several damning vignettes of the maneuvers behind corporate energy subsidies, Medicare privatization and the Bush administration's complicity in relaxing environmental and work safety regulations. The authors compare ""The New Power Brokers"" who guide this revolution (Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Grover Norquist and Tom DeLay) to the Medici, but they emerge from these pages like little Machiavellis: ignoring dissent, threatening to fund the conservative rivals of moderate Republicans and quietly undermining alternative power bases. The authors believe this deep-pocketed elite will control the Republican party for some time to come. If that is true, this book should become required reading for anyone interested in the triumph of the neocons or worried about where they are leading America.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Hacker and Pierson shrewdly assess the new structures of political power in our country and the success of conservative Republicans in mobilizing resources and framing political choices. This book is innovative, its important, and it will open many eyes. It is the book Karl Rove would wish he had writtenif he were on the other side.E. J. Dionne, Jr., author of Stand Up, Fight Back and Why Americans Hate Politics (E. J. Dionne, Jr.)""Hacker and Pierson have produced the most penetrating study of contemporary Americanpolitics since Thomas and Mary Edsall's Chain Reaction. (And that wasover fourteen years ago....)Every political journalist in America needs to read and heed this brilliant book.""Eric Alterman, author ofWhen Presidents Lie and What Liberal Media? (Eric Alterman)""Off-Center proves two points beyond reasonable dispute. The first is that the current paralysis and polarization of the American political system is not some split-the-difference, everyone's-to-blame phenomenon. Instead, its worst aspects are direct results of Republican extremist tactics over the last decade. The second is that the consequences are bad for nearly everyone in the country, except for the very richest people and corporations. The book makes an important case convincingly.""James Fallows, author of Breaking the News (James Fallows)""Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson announce something that everyone willand shouldpay attention to. They have done something in this book that political scientists rarely do: they dissect the broad meaning of current political dynamics. By applying political science concepts to current events in very accessible ways, they help lay readers to get the big picture of contemporary American politics.""Richard Valelly, Swarthmore College (Richard Valelly)""Outdated political science clichs go flying like bad guys in a Kung Fu movie in this revelatory new book. American politics is supposed to be prone to stalemate. Extremists are supposed to be relegated to the dustbin of history. So how come policies so radically at odds with what the American people say they want have been locked in for the next generation? Hacker and Pierson brilliantly nail the case: the Republicans have rigged the system. Off Center provides the missing piece from What's the Matter with Kansas?: how they committed the crime, and where they hid the bodies. Pundits: read it and heed it.""Rick Perlstein, author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (Rick Perlstein)""Off Center offers a penetrating and provocative commentary on the current state of party politics in the United States. Hacker and Pierson lend their considerable analytical gifts to one of the most important developments of our timethe emergence of a militantly conservative Republican Party that shapes the political agenda, controls the major governing institutions, and is poised to recast the welfare state in its own image. Not everyone will agree with the arguments of this book, yet no serious student of American politics will dare ignore the profound questions it raises about vitality of American democracy.""Sidney M. Milkis, White Burkett Miller Professor of Politics, University of Virginia (Sidney M. Milkis)""Off Center is an important and provocative new book. It will capture imaginations and inspire argument both in academic circles and among the educated public. This book will be widely readand vociferously debatedin colleges and universities and in the media. I think this is a home run.Theda Skocpol, Harvard University (Theda Skocpol)The young authors are progressives. . . .public intellectuals with expert research skills. . . .their pithy, well-written book is certainly worth reading. (John J. Dilulio Jr., Chronicle of Higher Education)""[This] book offers one of the more original and thought-provoking takes on American politics in recent years."" (Eyal Press Nation)""An important new book.""Paul Krugman, New York Times (Paul Krugman New York Times)""Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson argue convincingly. . . . The book's detail, specificity, and comprehensiveness make it a vital contribution.""Christopher Hayes, Washington Monthly (Christopher Hayes Washington Monthly)	""Off-Center proves two points beyond reasonable dispute. The first is that the current paralysis and polarization of the American political system is not some split-the-difference, everyone's-to-blame phenomenon. Instead, its worst aspects are direct results of Republican extremist tactics over the last decade. The second is that the consequences are bad for nearly everyone in the country, except for the very richest people and corporations. The book makes an important case convincingly."" - James Fallows, author of Breaking the News	Q: You argue that American politics has veered off center. What do you mean?A: We mean that the policies our elected leaders are pursuing are dramatically to the right of the moderate center of American opinion, yet the normal checks and balances of U.S. government are not pulling elites back to the center as they should. On issue after issue, what Republicans are doing is starkly at odds with what the majority of Americans want them to do. The puzzle that animates our book is, why? Why this dramatic right turn at the highest levels of government in the absence of rising public conservatism?Q: Is the real problem the Bush administration?A: No, Bush has abetted the trends that we describe in this book, but he did not create them. Nor is he the only elected politician who has seized on the opportunities for offcenter policymaking. The story that we tell is not of one powerful leader riding roughshod over public sentiment and democratic procedures. In many ways, it is more troubling: it is the story of a systemic weakening of the institutional bonds that connect ordinary voters with elected politicians to ensure that American politics remains on center.Q: Can American politics be brought back to the center?A: Yes, our political system can be pulled backespecially if Americans are made to understand these disturbing trends. We call for reforms to increase the political resources of the middle, which have atrophied greatly in the past three decades. And we propose measures to make elections more competitive and politicians more accountable. With some important reforms, we believe that the center can hold.	Jacob S. Hacker is Peter Strauss Family Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University. PAUL PIERSON is professor of political science (Avice Saint Chair in Public Policy), University of California, Berkeley.",books;comparative politics;conservatism & liberalism;democracy;elections & political process;ideologies & doctrines;law;legal theory & systems;non-us legal systems;political parties;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;united states,14
0521524229,"The French and Spanish Popular Fronts: Comparative Perspectives This collection of essays focuses specifically on France and Spain as the only two countries where Popular Front coalitions came to power in the 1930s. The French and Spanish Popular Fronts emerge here as more than elite political partnerships - they were movements of the masses in search of social, cultural and educational change.",20th century;books;europe;france;history;humanities;ireland;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;spain;used & rental textbooks,14
1566396883,"American Conversations (Puerto Rican Studies) ""Using lively dialogue and memorable anecdotes in school and community settings, Ellen Bigler...convincingly describes the tensions that result when a group of people is excluded from the conversation. It asks readers - educators and citizens of all backgrounds - to consider what it means to be an American as we begin the twenty-first century."" - Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts, Amherst ""American Conversations is an analysis of conflicts over multicultural education in a small upstate New York city and the potential of critical pedagogy to make these battles unnecessary in the future."" - Inequalities ""American Conversations is based in the upstate New York city of Arnhem, and explores the various perceptions of multicultural education held by different actorsin the city's education system. The city is into its third decade of economic decline with an aging Euro-American population determined to prevent increases in property taxes and viewing spending initiatives as the granting of special favors to the undeserving. The growing Puerto Rican population in the city's schools were caught in this restrictive and hostile environment and education became the public site of contentious discourse about what characterizes American identity. Anthropologist Ellen Bigler examines the conflict through conversations with students, teachers, parents, and community leaders, particularly describing the feelings of alienation among many in Arnhem's Puerto Rican community and the failure of educators to appreciate this problem."" - SAGE Race Relations Abastracts	An inside look at one revealing battle over multicultural education	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Growing numbers of working-class Puerto Ricans are migrating from larger mainland metropolitan areas into smaller, ""safer"" communities in search of a better quality of life for themselves and their families.  What they may also encounter in moving to such communities is a discourse of exclusion that associates their differences and their lower socioeconomic class with a lack of effort and an unwillingness to assimilate into mainstream culture.  In this ethnographic study of a community in conflict, educator and anthropologist Ellen Bigler examines such discourses as she explores one city's heated dispute that arose over bringing multiculturalism and bilingual education into their lives and their schools' curricula. The impassioned debate that erupted between long-time white ethnic residents and more recently arrived Puerto Rican citizens in the de-industrialized city the author calls ""Arnhem"" was initially sparked by one school board member's disparaging comments about Latinos.  The conflict led to an investigation by the New York State Education Department and to attempts to implement multicultural reforms in the city's schools.  American Conversations follows the ensuing conflict, looks at the history of racial formation in the United States, and considers the specific economic and labor histories of the groups comprising the community in opposition.  Including interviews with students, teachers, parents, and community leaders, as well as her own observations of exchanges among them inside and outside the classroom, Bigler's book explores the social positions, diverging constructions of history, and polarized understandings of contemporary racial/ethnic dynamics in Arnhem.  Through her retelling of one community's crisis, Bigler illuminates the nature of racial politics in the United States and how both sides in the debate over multicultural education struggle to find a common language. American Conversations will appeal to anyone invested in education and multiculturalism in the United States as well as those interested in anthropology, sociology, racial and ethnic studies, educational institutions, migration and settlement, the effects of industrial restructuring, and broad issues of community formation and conflict.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Ellen Bigler is an Assistant Professor at Rhode Island College where she holds a joint appointment in Educational Studies and Anthropology.  An educator in New York State schools for fourteen years, she also served as a consultant to the New York State Department of Education on its K-12 Latino curriculum project, Latinos in the Making of the USA: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	""Racialized groups are frequently evaluated from their fitness as members in the national community from the perspective of the 'immigrant analogy' or 'ethnic myth.'  This assumption rests on the premise that 'there are no essential long-term differencesin relation to the larger society",anthropology;books;cultural;education;education & reference;education theory;hispanic american studies;minority studies;new;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,14
0865659613,"The House & Garden Book of Bedrooms and Bathrooms Dozens of bedrooms previously shown in the old House & Garden magazine are presented here. Styles from Gothic to Modern are lavishly photographed and feature four-poster beds, large sitting-room bedrooms, and cozy corners that just fit a bed. The bathrooms shown here are those ""en-suite,"" just off the bedroom, and present a continuity of design that enhances both rooms. Those interested in bedroom decoration will find convenient access to ideas without having to sift through numerous books and magazines.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This sequel to other 'House and Garden' titles focuses on the bedroom's interior design, profiling selected and varied bedrooms published throughout the years in various editions of 'House and Garden'. Numerous eye-catching shots cover fine details in a presentation interior designers will find important.  -- Midwest Book Review",architecture;arts & photography;bathrooms;books;buildings;by room;crafts;decorating;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;interior design;professional & technical;style,14
1586480847,"True Vine: A Young Black Man's Journey of Faith, Hope, and Clarity After growing up poor in Chicago, Fountain found himself, at 22, a college dropout, married with three children and living on welfare. He is now a college graduate and a national correspondent for the New York Times. This is Fountain's story of life in the ghetto, his eventual escape from poverty and the discovery of an ardent faith that has fueled him through his most troubling times. Yet it's the tales of his large extended family that are the most touching, as well as the resilience and pride shown by his mother, about whom Fountain writes with tenderness and the clarity of hindsight: ""I once heard it said that life is what happens when you make other plans. Life happened to Mama: marriage, motherhood, and divorce, all within the span of a few years."" Less compelling are the passages that deal with Fountain's growing faith. As a child, he attended church, a raucous place where he enjoyed the loud sounds and colorful behavior, yet as an adult, the draw became deeper, yet also more banal. Fountain shows readers the effects of his faith, but other than a few scenes detailing his growing belief, this aspect of the book is murky and ill-defined. However, the book's opening pages, detailing his scrappy childhood, more than make up for this fault. The memoir succeeds when it becomes the story of most people's lives: trying to fit in, reconciling family life with personal life, understanding what it feels like to leave home and what it also feels like to return after a number of years. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Fountain, a national correspondent for the New York Times, explores and exposes his rough upbringing on the west side of Chicago. His southern forebears had come to Chicago expecting to find a promised land but had found a hopeless trap instead, in a neighborhood overrun with drugs and crime. Despite a mother who struggled with obstacles but had unlimited faith in her son's potential, and a grandmother who was a prayer warrior providing faith where his was lacking, Fountain succumbed early to the destructive lures of urban life. He became a father at 17 and a college dropout at 19. But his family's religious roots and his grandparent's church provided a foundation for his eventual turnaround. In this powerful and inspiring memoir, Fountain evokes the gritty urban existence that destroys so many black youth and the abiding faith that helped him change his own life. Fountain brings journalistic insight into the problems of urban ghettos and searing personal experience to this unabashed look at how faith can provide the strength and determination to overcome obstacles. Vernon FordCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Fountain's journalistic skills are evident as he takes the reader on an inspiring journey... many would benefit from Fountain's lesson. "" -- Library Journal, June 2003.""Fountain's vivid writing brings to life the neighborhoods and people of his childhood... His book is candid, sad, and humorous."" -- Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 8, 2003.""With genius, Fountain intertwines social commentary with his faith journey.  The fire still burns."" -- Black Issues Book Review, October 2003.""[Fountain's] book is a vivid, insightful history of a place and time, a moving recounting of one man's journey."" -- Chicago Tribune, June 1, 2003""describes [Fountain's] upbringing in loving detail... What remains clear is his unstinting determination, and...belief that '...there is always hope.'"" -- New York Times, June 29, 2003.""powerful and inspiring... [an] unabashed look at how faith can provide the strength and determination to overcome obstacles."" -- Booklist, June 1, 2003.	John W. Fountain grew up on some of the meanest streets in Chicago, where drugs, crime, decay, and broken homes consigned so many black children to a life of despair and self-destruction. A father at seventeen, a college dropout at nineteen, a welfare case soon after, Fountain was on the verge of giving up all hope. One thing saved him-his faith, his own true vine.  True Vine is John Fountain's remarkable story-of his childhood in a neighborhood heading south; of his strong-willed grandparents, who founded a church (called True Vine) that sought to bring the word of God to their neighbors; of his mother, herself a teenage parent, whose truncated dreams help nurture bigger dreams in him; of his friends and cousins, whose youthful exuberance was extinguished by the burdens they faced; and of his religious awakening that gave him the determination to rebuild his life.  Today John Fountain is an award-winning reporter for The New York Times, based in his hometown. His return to Chicago marks how his story has come full circle, this time in triumph. True Vine is an inspiring, moving, gripping story of one man's American dream-a dream that all of us can share.   John W. Fountain has been a national correspondent for The New York Times, based in Chicago for the last three years. He was previously a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and The Washington Post. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and he has been a Michigan Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. He lives in the south suburbs of Chicago.	""True Vine is a book about a certain black experience in the USA-John Fountain's life. But it's more. It's a handbook and a guide to what is possible in this country. It says, 'You can do it.' It says there are doors you can open but you have to put your own shoulder to them. This is the kind of book you'd like to place on every desk in every classroom in America. It is a hymn of a book, showing us the necessity of finding ourselves and being true to ourselves. Of all the books written in the last decade about struggle and triumph this is just about the best.""-Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis   ""True Vine is ripe with astounding irony, full of hope, pain, promise and small miracles. John Fountain is a writer of depth and purpose, who writes as if God were at his desk each morning lifting the pen. The book is more than a story of a young father's climb from the welfare rolls to the top of the journalism heap; it is about a young man who learned to face the rugged streets of life armed only with God's peace and wisdom, formidable weapons indeed. A superb debut.""-James McBride, author of The Color of Water and Miracle at St. Anna   ""True Vine is an ode to those black men for whom few songs are sung, those who survive poverty, violence and hopelessness while remaining good fathers, good husbands and good sons. John Fountain was saved by his own determination and the balm of his grandmother's healing words, 'You can't stop dreaming or you start to die.' He made it out, 'not without scars and only by faith.' But we are all blessed that he made it and that he has written us this gift, to remind us of what is possible-and of the others we must go back to get.""-Patrice Gaines, author of Laughing in the Dark and Moments of Grace  ""Sometimes incredible insights on the challenges and harshness of inner-city poverty can be gained from reading about the experiences of remarkable individuals who defy overwhelming odds and escaped to a better life. No account more powerfully demonstrates the soundness of this view than John W. Fountain's moving memoir, True Vine.""-William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University  ""John Fountain's memoir is a tender, moving tribute to the power of family and faith. With an admirable straightforwardness and candor, he brings us into a part of America which, sadly, still remains all-too-distant from the rest of us.""-Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here and The Other Side of the River  ""In True Vine, John Fountain has given us his personal testimony about growing up as one of America's African American urban poor, and of how the foundations of family and faith intervened to pull him up to extraordinary achievement. Fountain is almost lost in the ubiquitous poverty swirl of adolescent childbearing, welfare dependence, marginal employment and a meager subsistence on society's edge. At a desperate point in Fountain's life, lacking even a vision for himself and his family, an unexpected defining moment kindles within him a gritty resolve, a strength so formidable it eventually brings him to the apex of American journalism. If only Fountain's determination could be bottled and distributed. Read this book!""-Leon Dash, author of Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America	John W. Fountain is a national correspondent for The New York Times, based in Chicago. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, he was previously a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and The Washington Post before joining the Times in 2000. He lives in Olympia Fields, Illinois.",african-american & black;african-american studies;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;history;leaders & notable people;politics & social sciences;religious;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states,14
0874138957,"Friedrich Schiller: Crime, Aesthetics, And The Poetics Of Punishment Gail K. Hart is professor of German at the University of California, Irvine.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;criticism & theory;european;german;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;philosophy;poetry;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks;world literature,14
1558217401,"House of Invention: The Extraordinary Evolution of Everyday Objects For the most part, the color in Lindsay's small book far outweighs its deficits, making it a delightful, instructive collection.   -- The New York Times Book Review, Sara Ivry	In House of Invention, David Lindsay shares the most fascinating stories in the obsessive history of invention, all within the typical American home. He stops in each room to examine the most taken-for-granted objects, and finds eccentric inventors lurking within every delightfully bizarre story of invention.The bathroom, for example, is a hotbed of innovation. We meet Gillette of disposable razor fame, who had grandiose utopian plans; the inventor of Vaseline - he actually ate a spoonful of the stuff each day; and the first woman millionaire.A visit to the kitchen takes us to the frigid North, where Clarence Birdseye was inspired, and into the odd psyches of the Kellogg brothers. In the foyer, we find the magical history of the intercom, the piratical origins of paper money, and the Houdini-like ascension of the king of locks. The office yields the origins of pencils; the roots of Muzak technology; and the debt we owe to Nikola Tesia. The garage shows us the genius of the standard screw thread, the patent-stealing of intermittent windshield wipers, and the rags-to-riches-to-rags story of the woman who invented the flat-bottomed paper bag. In the family room, we learn of the race for television's patent, about the violent inventor of the Nautilus machine, and of the pacifism that inspired solitaire. The bedroom boasts more personal inventions as we unravel the histories of the brassiere and even the condom.There is intrigue, suspense, fraud, rebellion, and more. No house should be without House of Invention, and no one interested in stories of genius and ingenuity and the extraordinary creation of ordinary objects should miss it. (51/4 X 71/2, 196 pages, illustrations)	David Lindsay is the author of Madness in the Making: The Triumphant Rise and Untimely Fall of America's Show Inventors and The Patent Files: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Invention. He has contributed to publications such as The Wall Street Journal, American Heritage, The Village Voice, Biography, and New York Press.",books;crafts;education & reference;engineering;fitness & dieting;health;history & philosophy;hobbies & home;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;professional & technical;reference;science & math;technology,14
1558219242,"Alpine Circus: A Skier's Exotic Adventures at the Snowy Edge of the World YA-""Skiing ruined my life."" This simple, forthright statement will hook readers. This book is a collection of 17 of Finkel's skiing adventures, many of which were previously published in Skiing magazine. The author skied on the slopes of Iran where women ski on separate slopes and only if they wear a black skirt over their ski pants and not a wisp of hair is visible. He skied with Mongolian herdsmen who taught themselves the sport when the government sent them used equipment. He jumped out of helicopters to snowboard on Alaska's Chugach Mountain. He even skied ""The Toothbrush,"" a plastic surface of white PVC bristles, when he entered the British Dry Ski Slopes Championship. He finds adventure, humor, and insight at every turn. Give this book to any ski buff or armchair traveler. They'll get a great lesson in geography, world cultures, and human nature.Jane S. Drabkin, Potomac Community Library, Woodbridge, VA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Finkel has been a contributing editor to Skiing magazine (as well as other sports and general publications) for the last ten years and an avid skier since the age of five. For this book, he has compiled stories about his adventures. Ranging from humorous to exciting to death-defying, these stories span five continents and 12 winters. Finkel takes the reader places not normally associated with skiing, like Iran (where even women ski), Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Mount Kilimanjaro, Greenland, New York City, and even an interstate truck ramp. His stories are filled with the varied, fascinating people he meets along the way; and he shows insight into the different cultures, histories, geologies, and geographies of the places he visits. Lots of fun for the armchair traveler and world adventurer alike.AMelinda Stivers Leach, Precision Editorial Svcs., Wondervu, CO Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""Michael Finkel is hilarious, insightful and honest...a first-rate travel writer.""--Randy Wayne White	Michael Finkel has spent more than a decade journeying across six continents in a quest to unearth the wonders and eccentricities of the world's snowy regions. These are his remarkable discoveries. In this collection of seventeen mesmerizing, often uproarious tales, Finkel ventures from the underside of an avalanche to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro - capturing the joys, the mishaps, and the magic of each trip with rare skill. From partnering with a gang of Kazak herdsmen in China to flying off an Olympic ski jump in Lake Placid, he tackles the dangerous and the bizarre with equal enthusiasm. And whether he is leaping out of a helicopter to make a first ever descent on a remote Alaskan peak or challenging the wretched conditions on the world's highest ski run at 17,130 feet in Brazil, Finkel captures the power and excitement of testing the limits of exploration. But Alpine Circus is more than a simple retelling of extreme exploits. Finkel also vividly describes what it is like to be alone beneath the Northern Lights and how it feels to be an Olympic torch-carrier; throughout he searches for more than thrills, revealing the parade of strange and dynamic people and places that he encounters along the journey.  Part seat-of-the-pants adventure, part cultural investigation, and peppered throughout with humor and insight, Alpine Circus is a stirring and brilliant trip from one of the brightest new voices exploring the far reaches of the planet. (6 X 9 1/4, 228 pages)	Michael Finkel is a contributing editor to Skiing, Bicycling, Snowboard Life, and P.O.V. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Sports Illustrated, Outside, Audubon, and Men's Journal.",adventure;americas;books;downhill;general;history;reference;skiing;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;united states;winter sports;world,14
0934977143,"Visions of Heaven & Hell Before Dante ""An excellent anthology of translations of many of the key vision texts from the second to the early thirteenth century."" -- Medium Aevum, vol. 61, no. 1""An important map of the medieval imagination.""  -- A Common Reader, Spring 1990	Text: English (translation)	A must for medieval literature, art history, history  and religion collections.	Eileen Gardiner is an editor and publisher and lifetime resident (so far) of New York City. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature and Medieval Studies from Fordham University and has published previously on the Vision of Tundale and other medieval topics.	He said that when his soul left his body, and he knew he was dead, knowing he was guilty he grew terrified, and he did not know what he might do.  He feared something, but he did not know what he feared.  He wished to return to his body, but he was unable to enter it.  He even wished to proceed on, but he was frightened on every side.  And so, this most miserable soul, knowing he was guilty, had no confidence except in the mercy of God.  So finally he went on weeping and crying and trembling, since he did not know what he ought to do. Finally he saw a great multitude of unworldly spirits coming toward him, so that they filled not only the whole house and courtyard in which the dead man had died, but actually there was no place that was apparent in all the streets and ways of the city that was not full of them.  Moreover, they surrounded that miserable soul, although they did not try to console him but to sadden him a good deal saying, ""We sing this song of death fitting for this miserable soul, since he is the child of death and food for the inextinguishable fire, the friend of shadows, the enemy of light."" Turning to him they all gnashed him with their teeth, and because of their great anger they tore their cheeks to pieces with their own claws. (Tundale's Vision)",ancient & classical literature;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;fiction;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;medieval;movements & periods;religion & spirituality;religious;world,14
0201709287,"Foundation for Future Database Systems: The Third Manifesto (2nd Edition) The Third Manifesto is a detailed proposal for the future direction of data and database management systems (DBMSs). Like Codd's original papers on the relational model, it can be seen as an abstract blueprint for the design of a DBMS and the language interface to such a DBMS. Among (many) other things, it lays the foundation for what we believe is the logically correct approach to integrating relational and object technologies--a topic of considerable interest at the present time, given the recent appearance in the marketplace of several ""object/relational"" DBMS products (sometimes called universal servers). Perhaps we should add immediately that we do not regard the idea of integrating relational and object technologies as ""just another fad,"" soon to be replaced by some other briefly fashionable idea. On the contrary, we think that object/relational systems are in everyone's future--a fact that makes it even more important to get the logical foundation right, of course, while we still have time to do so.The first version of the Manifesto was published informally in early 1994 (though we had been thinking about the idea of such a document for several years prior to that time), and the first ""official"" version appeared in 1995. Since then we have presented the material in a variety of forms and forums and discussed it with numerous people--indeed, we continue to do so to this day--and we have refined and expanded the original document many, many times. We would immediately like to stress, however, that those refinements and expansions have always been exactly that; nobody has ever shown us that we were completely on the wrong track, and development of the Manifesto has always proceeded in an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, manner. Now we feel it is time to make the material available in some more permanent form; hence the present book.One reason we feel the time is ripe for wider dissemination of our ideas is as follows. As already indicated, we see a parallel between the Manifesto and Codd's original papers on the relational model; like those papers of Codd's, the Manifesto offers a foundation for what (we believe) the database systems of the future ought to look like. Also like those papers of Codd's, however, the Manifesto itself is, deliberately, fairly terse and not all that easy to read or understand.* Would it not have been nice to have had a book that documented and explained and justified Codd's ideas, back at the beginning of the relational era? Well, here we are at the beginning of ""the object/relational era,"" and--modesty aside--we believe this book can play a role analogous to that of that hypothetical relational book. To that end, we have been careful to include not only the formal specifications of the Manifesto itself (of course), but also a great deal of supporting and explanatory material and numerous detailed examples.By the way, we should make it clear that our ideas do rest very firmly in the relational tradition. Indeed, we would like our Manifesto to be seen, in large part, as a definitive statement of just what the relational model itself consists of at the time of writing** (for it too has undergone a certain amount of evolution over the years). Despite our remarks in the previous paragraph concerning ""the object/relational era,"" therefore, the ideas expressed in the Manifesto must not be thought of as superseding those of the relational model, nor do they do so; rather, they use those ideas as a foundation and build on them. We believe strongly that the relational model is still highly relevant to database theory and practice and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Thus, we regard our Manifesto as being very much in the spirit of Codd's original work and continuing along the path he originally laid down. To repeat, we are talking evolution, not revolution.There is another point to be made here, too. Given the current interest in object/relational systems, we can expect to see a flurry of books on such systems over the next few years. However, it is unlikely, if history is anything to go by, that those books will concern themselves very much with general principles or underlying theory; it is much more probable that they will be product-oriented, if not actually product-specific. The present book, by contrast, definitely is concerned with theoretical foundations rather than products; in other words, it allows you to gain a solid understanding of the underlying technology per se, thereby enabling you among other things to approach the task of evaluating commercial products from a position of conceptual strength.While we are on the subject of commercial products, incidentally, we should make it clear that we ourselves have no particular commercial ax to grind. We regard ourselves as independent so far as the marketplace is concerned, and we are not trying to sell any particular product.*** The ax we do have to grind is that of logical correctness!--we want to do our best to ensure that the industry goes down the right path, not the wrong one.  *As Bertrand Russell has it: ""Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time"" (quoted by John Sowa in his book Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine, Addison-Wesley, 1984). **Indeed, we even toyed at one time with the idea of calling the book A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks. ***It is true that one of us, Hugh Darwen, works for a company that does have a product to sell, but the product in question is not mentioned by name anywhere in this book.  And in that connection, we would like to mention another reason we feel the book is timely: namely, the fact that the SQL standards bodies, both national and international, are currently at work on a proposal called SQL3 that addresses some of the same issues as our Manifesto does. An appendix to the present book gives a detailed set of comparisons between our ideas and those of the current SQL3 proposal.*  *SQL3 was ratified in late 1999. Its official name is now SQL:1999--and we use this latter name in preference to ""SQL3"" throughout this new edition (though we usually abbreviate both names to just plain ""SQL,"" unqualified). The version of the standard that was current prior to the ratification of SQL:1999 was known formally asSQL:1992.   What is more, another body, the Object Data Management Group (ODMG), has also published a set of proposals that, again, address some of the same issues. Another appendix to this book therefore takes a look at the ODMG ideas as well. Two more special features of the book are the following:   We define a new and simplified relational algebra, called A, which emphasizes rather more than previous algebras have done its firm foundation in predicate logic.  We also define a database programming language called Tutorial D, which realizes the ideas of the Manifesto in concrete form and is used as the basis for examples and illustrations throughout the book.We would also like to mention one further feature that we believe to be highly significant, and that is our proposal for a model of subtyping and inheritance. Many authorities have rightly observed that there is currently no consensus on any such model, and we offer our proposal for consideration in the light of this observation. Indeed, we believe we have some original--and, we also believe, logically sound and correct--thoughts to offer on this important subject. Part IV of the book (five chapters) is devoted to this topic.   Structure of the Book  The body of the book is divided into four major parts:I. Preliminaries   II. Formal Specifications   III. Informal Discussions and Explanations   IV. Subtyping and InheritancePart I sets the scene by explaining in general terms what the Manifesto is all about and why we wrote it. It also contains an informal overview of two approaches to building an object/relational system, one of which is (we claim) right and the other wrong. We recommend that you read both of these chapters fairly carefully before moving on to later parts of the book.Part II is the most formal part. It consists of three chapters:Chapter 3 is the Manifesto itself--a ""no frills"" version, with virtually nil by way of illustration or further explanation. (For the benefit of anyone who might have seen earlier drafts of the Manifesto, we should explain that this ""no frills"" version consists essentially of just the formal text from those earlier drafts, with all commentary and suchlike material deleted.)  Chapter 4 contains the definition, mentioned above, of our new relational algebra (""A"").  Chapter 5 defines the language Tutorial D. This language, which is (of course) based on the principles laid down in the Manifesto and on our new algebra A, serves as the basis for examples throughout the remainder of the book. It also serves to suggest what a DBMS supporting the ideas of the Manifesto might look like in actual practice.Note: Most of the material of these three chapters is provided primarily for purposes of reference; it is not necessary, and probably not even a good idea, to study it exhaustively, at least not on a first reading.Part III is the real heart of the book. It consists of six chapters, one for each of the six sections of the Manifesto as defined in Part II. (Again, for the benefit of anyone who might have seen earlier drafts of the Manifesto, this part of the book consists essentially of a hugely expanded version of the informal commentary from those earlier drafts.) Each chapter discusses the relevant section of the Manifesto in considerable detail, with examples, and thereby explains the motivations and rationale behind the formal proposals of Part II (especially those in Chapter 3). Note, therefore, that the Manifesto itself serves as the organizing principle for this, the major part of the book.Finally, Part IV does for subtyping and inheritance what Parts I, II, and III do for the Manifesto proper. It consists of five chapters. Chapter 12 gives an overall introduction to the topic; Chapter 13 gives formal definitions; and Chapters 14, 15, and 16 give informal explanations and discussions of the ideas underlying those formal definitions. To be more specific, Chapter 14 covers single inheritance and scalar types (only); Chapter 15 then extends the material of Chapter 14 to address multiple inheritance; finally, Chapter 16 then extends those ideas still further to take tuple and relation types into account as well.In addition to the foregoing, there are also several appendixes: one defining an alternative version of Tutorial D that is based on relational calculus instead of relational algebra, another discussing ""subtables and supertables,"" another containing the text of an interview the present authors gave on the subject of the Manifesto in 1994, and so on. In particular, the SQL and ODMG comparisons can be found in this part of the book, as already mentioned. The final appendix (Appendix K) gives an annotated and consolidated list of references for the entire book.Note: While we are on the subject of references to publications, we should explain that throughout the book such references take the form of numbers in square brackets. For example, the reference ""3"" refers to the third item in the list of references in Appendix K, viz., a paper by Malcolm P. Atkinson and O. Peter Buneman entitled ""Types and Persistence in Database Programming Languages,"" published in ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 19, No. 2, in June 1987.Last, we should say a word about our use of terminology. It is our experience that many of the terms in widespread use in the database field, and other related fields, are subject to a variety of different interpretations, and that communication suffers badly as a result. Examples seem superfluous (you can surely provide plenty of your own). We have therefore found it necessary to introduce our own terminology in certain places in the book (though we have tried to keep such cases to a minimum, of course, and we have not intentionally used familiar terms in unfamiliar ways). We apologize if this fact should cause you any unnecessary difficulties.   Intended Readership  Who should read this book? Well, in at least one sense the book is definitely not self-contained--it does assume you are professionally interested in database technology and are therefore reasonably well acquainted with classical database theory and practice. However, we have tried to define and explain, as carefully as we could, any concepts that might be thought novel; in fact, we have done the same for several concepts that really should not be novel at all but do not seem to be as widely understood as they ought to be (""candidate key"" is a case in point). Thus, we have tried to make the book suitable for both reference and tutorial purposes, and we have indicated clearly those portions of the book that are more formal in style and are provided primarily for reference.Our intended audience is, therefore, just about anyone with a serious interest in database technology, including but not limited to the following:Database language designers and standardizers;  DBMS product implementers and other vendor personnel;  Data and database administrators;  ""Information modelers"" and database designers;  Database application designers and implementers;  Computer science professors specializing in database issues;  Database students, both graduate and undergraduate;  People responsible for DBMS product evaluation and acquisition;  People interested in any aspect of the ""objects vs. relations"" controversy, including especially anyone who might be involved in object/relational systems;  People interested in type theory and the topic of type inheritance.For academic readers in particular (students as well as teachers), we should add that what we have tried to do is present the foundations of the database field in a way that is clear, precise, correct, and uncluttered by the baggage--not to mention mistakes--that usually (and regrettably) seem to accompany commercial products. Thus, we believe the book provides an opportunity to acquire a firm understanding of that crucial foundation material, without being distracted by irrelevancies. Perhaps we should say too that we believe there are several interesting (and, we hope, self-evident) teaching and research projects lurking just below the surface of certain portions of the material.   Acknowledgments  First of all, we are delighted to be able to acknowledge all of the numerous friends and colleagues who, over the past several years, have given encouragement, participated in discussions, and offered comments (both written and oral) on various drafts of The Third Manifesto or portions thereof: John Andrews, Tanj Bennett, Charley Bontempo, Declan Brady, Bob Brown, Rick Cattell, Linda DeMichiel, Vincent Dupuis, Bryon Ehlmann, Mark Evans, Ron Fagin, Oris Friesen, Ric Gagliardi, Ray Gates, Mikhail Gilula, Zaid Holmin, Michael Jackson, Achim Jung, John Kneiling, Adrian Larner, Bruce Lindsay, David Livingstone, Albert Maier, Carl Mattocks, Nelson Mattos, David McGoveran, Roland Merrick, Serge Miranda, Jim Panttaja, Mary Panttaja, Fabian Pascal, Ron Ross, Arthur Ryman, Alan Sexton, Mike Sykes, Stephen Todd, Rick van der Lans, Anton Versteeg, and Fred Wright (and we apologize if we have inadvertently omitted anyone from this list). We would also like to acknowledge the many conference and seminar attendees, too numerous to mention individually, who have expressed support for the ideas contained herein.Second, we would like to thank our reviewers Charley Bontempo, Declan Brady, Rick Cattell, David Livingstone, and David McGoveran for their careful and constructive comments on the manuscript.Third, we are--of course!--deeply indebted to our wives, Lindy Date and Lindsay Darwen, for their unfailing support throughout this project and so many others over the years.Finally, we are, as always, grateful to our editor, Elydia Davis, and to the staff at Addison-Wesley for their assistance and their continually high standards of professionalism. It has been, as always, a pleasure to work with them.Hugh Darwen adds: My gratitude to my colleague and friend, Chris Date, goes without saying. However, I would like to comment on something, significant to us, that you possibly haven't noticed. It concerns the book's attribution. In our previous joint productions our names have been linked by the preposition with, intended to distinguish the primary author from the contributing assistant. This time around we have thought it more appropriate to use the conjunction and, of whose commutativity we Relationlanders are especially conscious! We came to this conclusion despite the fact that, as usual, Chris has done the lion's share of the actual writing. That the writing so faithfully and agreeably records our joint thinking (often painfully wrought out) is therefore a source of great pleasure to me, especially in those cases where I can still identify the thinking in question as having arisen from ideas first placed into discussion by myself.My own thinking has been molded, of course, with the aid of many mentors over the years, including Chris himself. Here I would like to single out just two other people for special mention: Adrian Larner for my relational thinking, and Nelson Mattos for my object-oriented thinking.Chris Date adds: If Hugh feels he has learned from me over the years, I can assure you (and him) that I have most certainly learned a great deal from him!--a state of affairs for which I will always be grateful. As for the matter of the book's attribution, it is of course true that The Third Manifesto is a joint effort, but Hugh should really take the credit for being the original and prime mover on this project: It was he who came up with the idea of the Manifesto in the first place, and it was he who wrote the very first draft, early in 1994. Though I should immediately add that our thinking on the matters with which the Manifesto deals goes back very much further than that; in some respects, in fact, I think we could claim that it goes all the way back to the beginning of our respective careers in the database field.   C. J. Date, Healdsburg, California Hugh Darwen, Shrewley, England 1998 (revised 2000)   0201709287P04062001	A detailed study of the impact of objects and type theory on the relational model of data, including a comprehensive model of type inheritance!      ""This book should be recommended reading for software engineers, database designers, graduate students, undergraduate students, data modelers--for just about anybody with a serious interest in database technology."" --Declan Brady, MBCS, Lead Systems Architect, ICL    ""As a database application designer/architect, I'm interested in ideals as well as in currently available tools . . . This book is a rich source of worthy ideals. In particular, it provides good coverage of areas where SQL, and much commercial Object Orientation training material, are found lacking."" --Tom Pledger, Peace International Software     Foundation for Future Database Systems: The Third Manifesto is a proposal for the future direction of data and database management systems (DBMSs). It consists of a precise, formal definition of an abstract model of data, to be considered as a blueprint for the design of a DBMS and a database language. Among other things, it provides a rock-solid foundation for integrating relational and object technologies.    The proposed foundation represents an evolutionary step, not a revolutionary one; it builds on Codd's relational model of data and on the research that sprang from that work. It also incorporates a precise and comprehensive specification for a method of defining data types, including a comprehensive model of type inheritance, to address a lack that has been observed by many authorities; thus, it also builds on research in the field of object orientation. With a sound footing in both camps of the object/relational divide, therefore, the Manifesto is offered as a firm foundation for the DBMSs of the future.    Significant features of this new edition include:   * Major extensions to the inheritance model  * Significantly improved language proposals  * Improved discussions of read-only vs. update operators, selectors, THE_ operators, tuple types vs. possible representations, grouping and ungrouping, first normal form, assignment, constraints, predicates, and many other topics  * All SQL discussions upgraded to the level of the new SQL:1999 standard  * Several new appendixes    0201709287B04062001	C. J. Date is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant specializing in relational database systems, a field he helped pioneer. Among other projects, he was involved in technical planning for the IBM products SQL/DS and DB2. He is best known for his books, in particular, An Introduction to Database Systems (7th edition, Addison-Wesley, 2000), the standard text in the field, which has sold well over half a million copies worldwide. Mr. Date is widely acknowledged for his ability to explain complex technical material in a clear and understandable fashion.   Hugh Darwen has been involved in software development since 1967 as an employee of IBM United Kingdom, Ltd. He has been active in the relational database arena since 1978. He was one of the chief architects and developers of an IBM relational product called Business System 12, a product that faithfully embraced the principles of the relational model. He has been an active participant in the development of SQL international standards since 1988.    0201709287AB04062001",books;computer science;computers & technology;database storage & design;databases;new;object-oriented design;object-oriented software design;programming;relational databases;software;software design;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,14
0595309178,"PARADISE FOR RVers: The Greater Yellowstone-Grand Teton Region Bill and Marie Lassey, both retired college professors, have traveled widely, and written extensively, about health care and aging in many countries, completing seven previous books over the years. They spend winters in Tucson, AZ, and are otherwise ?on-the-road? by RV?particularly enjoying, and writing about, the national parks.",books;education & reference;food;general;lodging & transportation;mountain;pacific;parks & campgrounds;reference;travel;united states;west;wyoming;yellowstone,14
0859916200,"The Theology of John Donne (Studies in Renaissance Literature) A very good book. SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL     This...reading of Donne's theology through a close examination of a range of his sermons...is indispensable reading for the scholar interested in understanding the nuances of theological belief in the period. SIXTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS	JEFFREY JOHNSON is Associate Professor of English at College Misericordia in Dallas, Pennsylvania.",16th century;17th century;books;christian books & bibles;general;history;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);poetry;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;theology;world,14
0465026990,"The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design Anne Whiston Spirn is professor and chairman, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",architecture;arts & photography;books;earth sciences;education & reference;environmental science;environmental studies;humanities;landscape;new;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,14
0195099702,"""Why Ask My Name?"": Anonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative ""This is a fascinating study and an easy book to read.""--The Bible Today	Adele Reinhartz is at McMaster University.",books;christian books & bibles;criticism & theory;education & reference;hebrew bible (old testament);history;history & criticism;jewish;judaism;literature & fiction;reference;religion & spirituality;sacred writings;world,14
0674003136,"Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe What strands link the last century's bloody spasms of ethnic cleansing--from the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust to Bosnia and Kosovo? Stanford University historian Naimark argues ethnic cleansing is a profoundly twentieth-century phenomenon, not a product of ""ancient hatreds."" Its essential elements are a pseudoscientific racialist nationalism, the intrusive, homogenizing power of the modern state, and political and other elites that manipulate nationalist ideas and state machinery for their own purposes. Naimark supplies a comparative history of European ethnic cleansing: the 1915 Armenian genocide and the expulsion of the Greeks from Anatolia in the '20s; the early Nazi campaign against the Jews (1939-41); Stalin's forced deportation of the Chechens-Ingush and Crimean Tatars; the expulsion of Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia in the mid-'40s; and Bosnia and Kosovo. The ugliness of ethnic cleansing--its violence and brutality, its misogyny and totality, its effort to eradicate every trace of ""the other""--poses unique challenges to an international community reluctant to intervene in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation state. Mary CarrollCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	A needed measure of clarity...[Naimark] imbeds ethnic cleansing in the history of 20th-century Europe...[and] undercuts the standard wisdom that holds ancient enmities responsible for atrocities perpetrated in the modern era...Students of history and international relations are indebted to professor Naimark for [his] sobering insights. (James R. Holmes Library Journal 2000-11-15)What strands link the last century's bloody spasms of ethnic cleansing--from the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust to Bosnia and Kosovo? Stanford University historian Naimark argues ethnic cleansing is a profoundly twentieth-century phenomenon, not a product of 'ancient hatreds'...The ugliness of ethnic cleansing--its violence and brutality, its misogyny and totality, its effort to eradicate every trace of 'the other'--poses unique challenges to an international community reluctant to intervene in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation state. (Mary Carroll Booklist 2001-01-01)As Norman M. Naimark observes...with broad enough standards the 'ethnic cleansing' label can be affixed to events as disparate as the destruction of Carthage, the crusade against the Albigensians, the expulsion of Jews from Spain, the Spanish conquest of the Incas and Aztecs, and the expulsion of Indians from tribal lands in the United States...He objects that such a catchall approach fails to explain current events in useful terms...Naimark provides...disturbing details--and much other cause for sad reflection. (Anatole Shub New Leader 2001-01-01)	As a contribution to the study of mass violence in this century, this book is very reliable, eminently readable, and highly educational.  Naimark emphasizes that ethnic cleansing is a 'profoundly modern experience' and the international community, which has sometimes encouraged and more usually ignored large-scale atrocities, is responsible. (Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard University)	Norman M. Naimark is Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of History, Stanford University.",20th century;anthropology;books;cultural;discrimination & racism;europe;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;world,14
0002572249,"Wilfred Thesiger a Life in Pictures Praise for Desert, Marsh and Mountain: 'His sensual delight in the harsh world of the nomad is apparent in his exquisite photography' Daily Telegraph Praise for My Kenya Days: 'Magnificent photographs! displaying a reverence for their subject matter, both human and inanimate' Sunday Telegraph	Wilfred Thesiger was born in 1910 in Ethiopia. From 1930 he travelled through remote areas of Africa, the Middle East and Asia. His journeys and his books have won him numerous prestigious awards over the years. In 1968 he was made CBE; he was honoured with a KBE in 1995.",arts & photography;books;catalogues & exhibitions;collections;education & reference;exercise & fitness;fitness & dieting;health;individual artists;photography;research & publishing guides;travel;travel writing;writing,14
1931836493,"Hack Proofing Windows 2000 Server ""Essential reading for your IT security organization."" -Deena Joyce, Director of Information Technology and Network Security, Casino Magic	1. Migrate from NT 3.51 or NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 Server Security Use the Windows 2000 Setup Wizard to migrate components and delegate administrative authority. 2. Master Kerberos Server Authentication Learn how to implement tickets containing client credentials encrypted withshared keys. 3. Understand the Default File System and Registry Permissions See why default permissions for Power Users and Users vary greatly from the permissions given to Administrators. 4.Understand Windows 2000 Security Configuration Tool Set A central, easy-to-use program that will allow configuration of domains, organizational units, and local security. 5.Encrypting the File System for Windows 2000 Keep your data from being viewed and/or modified by any unauthorized user. 6.Implement IP Security for Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Protect the integrity and confidentiality of information as it moves through the network and the Internet. 7.Configure Microsoft Windows 2000 Public Key Infrastructure PKI includes new security features that will prevent man-in-the-middle attacks on corporate secrets. 8.Securing Internet Information Services Learn how to secure a Windows 2000 server running Internet Information Service (IIS) 5.0. 9. Register for Your 1 Year Upgrade The Syngress Solutions upgrade plan protects you from content obsolescence and provides monthly mailings, whitepapers, and more!	Chad Todd (MCSE, MCT, CNE, CAN, A+, Network+, I-Net+) is a Systems Trainer for Ikon Education Services, a global provider of technology training. He currently teaches Windows 2000 and Windows XP courses. In addition to training for Ikon, Chad also provides private consulting for small- to medium-sized companies. Chad first earned his MCSE on Windows NT 4.0 and has been working with Windows 2000 and Windows XP since their first beta releases. He was awarded Microsoft Charter Member 2000 for being one of the first 2000 engineers to attain Windows 2000 MCSE certification.",books;computer science;computers & technology;hacking;home computing & how-to;internet & web culture;microsoft;network security;networking;new;operating systems;software;used & rental textbooks;windows os,14
0792392701,"The Boundary-Scan Handbook ""This is a well-written book that will take some of the  mystery out of boundary scan. Those getting involved with  boundary scan will find it both useful and interesting.""  D. Romanchik in Test & Measurement World, November 1992    'I greatly enjoyed reading this book. In it, Ken Parker presents  a highly practical view of IEEE std. 1149.1 and the ways in which  boundary scan can be used to achieve real business benefits. The book  provides an excellent introduction  to boundary scan technology for  the novice, to whom I strongly recommend it. It also provides an  entertaining and refreshing view of boundary-scan for those with more  experience.' IEEE Design & test of Computers 10:1  1993  '... this book will become essential reading over the next few  years by anybody who needs to understand the basics of boundary scan  and its practical implementation in industry.'  Microprocessors and Microsystems 17:5 1993",architecture;books;cad;computer science;computers & technology;drafting & presentation;electrical & electronic engineering;electrical & electronics;engineering;graphic design;new;power systems;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,14
0801065003,"Faith, God and Rock & Roll: How People of Faith Are Transforming American Popular Music A Finger on the Pulse of Modern Rock Music A small but growing number of Christian musicians are fighting to be heard within mainstream culture-and turning the music world upside down in the process. They confound categorization, marrying spiritually informed lyrics with musical styles that have traditionally been hostile to the Christian message. Rather than being doomed to obscurity in the Christian music subculture, they achieve full impact through full integration.  Get a sneak peek into the stories of their unique journeys of faith-and at how they are changing music and changing lives. ""Can Christian musicians effectively approach the thriving places of rock and roll with godly passion and cultural relevance? In the face of continued debate, Mark Joseph provides us necessary fuel to perpetuate this important dialogue.""-Dan Haseltine, lead singer, Jars of Clay ""There is an undercurrent of profound spiritual content in popular music. Faith, God, and Rock & Roll is a riveting guide through the many spiritual influences of my favorite artists. This is a must read for anyone who is spiritually and culturally aware.""-Chris Seay, author of The Gospel According to Tony Soprano ""Years from now we'll read about a music superstar who read this book as an unknown and found the courage to bypass the safety of Christian music for the challenge of the world's stage. That's how essential a book like this is.""-Charlie Peacock, musician, author of At the Crossroads: An Insider's Look at the Past, Present, and Future of Contemporary Christian Music ""It's easy to assume that rockers who feel equally at home in the secular and spiritual arenas are still a rare and isolated breed. But Mark Joseph shows just how commonplace this phenomenon has become.""-Chris Willman, senior writer, Entertainment Weekly Mark Joseph is president of MJM Entertainment Group and has had a varied career in the entertainment business as a multimedia journalist, an entertainment executive, and the author of The Rock and Roll Rebellion. He lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife and children.	Mark Joseph is president of MJM Entertainment Group and has had a varied career in the entertainment business as a multi-media journalist and entertainment executive. He is the author of The Rock & Roll Rebellion: Why People of Faith Abandoned Rock Music and Why They're Coming Back. He lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife and children.",arts & photography;books;contemporary christian;education & reference;ethics;history & criticism;music;musical genres;popular;religion & spirituality;religious & sacred music;religious studies;rock;theology,14
1576107078,"MCSE Windows 2000 Security Design Exam Prep (Exam: 70-220) Richard Alan McMahon, Project Manager - Senior Project Planner and Scheduler, MCSE, MCP, MCP+I, MCT, CNA, CNE, and CNI.  MBA - Systems Analysis and Marketing; Master of Science Degree - Operations Management; Bachelor of Science Degree (Double Major) - Management Information Systems and Operations Management.  Adjunct Professor experience teaching Networking Software (Novell 4.11 CNA Preparation) and Networking Essentials (MCSE Preparation), and Introduction to Computers (MS Office 97 and Windows NT)",books;certification;comptia;computers & technology;education & reference;encryption;home computing & how-to;microsoft;network security;networking;operating systems;security & encryption;software;windows os,14
0739110780,"The Production of the Muslim Woman: Negotiating Text, History, and Ideology (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France) This book is fascinating and important. It cartwheels Muslim feminist analysis to the next level. . . . Zayzafoon's critique deconstructs the sign of 'the Muslim woman' and the 'hijab' in female-authored Western Orientalism as well as in the contentious contemporary discourses of Islamists and modernist Muslims and, most intriguingly, even in texts now considered the classics of Muslim feminism. Post-Saidian in the best sense, Zayzafoon's book is the next generation of cultural critique and semiotics on this topic. (Mohja Kahf )Zayzafoon's study of the figure of 'the Muslim woman' takes seriously the challenge of interdisciplinary research, engaging psychoanalytic, feminist, and postcolonial theories in what might be called a post-orientalist project. This book engages the problematics of race and gender through detailed textual analysis of a wide range of works from the writings of Jacques Lacan to the novels of Assia Djebar. She shows that conventions of patriarchal, nationalist, and colonialist discourses condition almost all attempts to represent 'the Muslim woman.' (Salah D. Hassan )The Production of the Muslim Woman represents absolutely first-rate, brilliant scholarship. It deals with the 'invention' of the 'Muslim woman,' and focuses especially on Maghrebian authors. The argument ranges widely over feminist and cultural issues, but takes its inspiration from Said's work, and develops new, crucial ground by bringing into play questions of feminism and comparative cultural analysis. Said's great difficulty in incorporating issues dealing with feminism and women's roles in histreatise on Orientalism receives careful scrutiny, providing us with the tools to refine our thinking about the first major step taken in postcolonial narrative theory. The interplay between Tunisian intellectuals and political figures, the sensitive readings of Bourghiba and Tahar al Haddad, the inclusion of Eberhardt, Mernissi, Al Ma'arri, Djebar, Rushdie, and other postcolonial writers, provide depth and originality to an argument that elucidates the political discourses of the past and of the presentconcerning the Muslim woman. I believe that this work represents an important and original contribution to postcolonial and feminist scholarship. Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon is quickly staking a claim to be one of the more perceptive new critics in the fi (Kenneth W. Harrow )Zayzafoon's strength lies in showing how strong the impact of colonial power and discourse is on both formerly colonized subjects and the colonial memory in contemporary France. The Production of the Muslim Women provides a rich account of the different players and interests at stake in the power games around constructions of Muslim female subjects. From this inquiry, a much more multifaceted representation of voices and of perspectives on 'the Muslim woman' emerges than has been seen in earlier studies. (Schirin Amir-Moazami Journal Of Middle East Women's Studies )This study of The Production of the Muslim Woman, with its mastery of texts in the original Arabic, French, and English, locate and analyzes the multiple political interests at work imposing, inventing, and transforming 'the Muslim woman' from the orientalist symbol of nineteenth-century colonial North Africa to the contemporary post-9/11 'rescue narrative' essentializing and dehistoricizing Afghanistani and Iraqi women. Rich in its close reading of culturally diverse sources, this book investigates the transnational production of culture as inflected by gender and class, as well as race, in the discourses of Western female Orientalism, Western psychoanalytic feminism, Arab nationalism, and Islamic feminism. (Laura Rice )The Production of the Muslim Woman represents absolutely first-rate, brilliant scholarship. It deals with the 'invention' of the 'Muslim woman,' and focuses especially on Maghrebian authors. The argument ranges widely over feminist and cultural issues, but takes its inspiration from Said's work, and develops new, crucial ground by bringing into play questions of feminism and comparative cultural analysis. Said's great difficulty in incorporating issues dealing with feminism and women's roles in his treatise on Orientalism receives careful scrutiny, providing us with the tools to refine our thinking about the first major step taken in postcolonial narrative theory. The interplay between Tunisian intellectuals and political figures, the sensitive readings of Bourghiba and Tahar al Haddad, the inclusion of Eberhardt, Mernissi, Al Ma'arri, Djebar, Rushdie, and other postcolonial writers, provide depth and originality to an argument that elucidates the political discourses of the past and of the present concerning the Muslim woman. I believe that this work represents an important and original contribution to postcolonial and feminist scholarship. Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon is quickly staking a claim to be one of the more perceptive new critics in the field of Maghrebian and postcolonial studies. (Kenneth W. Harrow )	Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon taught English literature at the Higher Institute of Languages in Tunis and at the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at Sousse, Tunisia. Her areas of interest include postcolonialism, African literature, and feminist and Islamic studies.",books;education & reference;gender studies;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;politics & social sciences;reference;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,14
0314249060,"A Handbook of Family Law Terms (Black's Law Dictionary Series) Acknowledged by linguists and lawyers alike as THE authority in legal language and usage, his influence is both far-reaching and profound. Mr. Garner has has a hand in editing the most important legal references produced in the last decade, as well as in training lawyers and judges on sharpening and clarifying their own legal writing. In short, no one better bridges the worlds of law and language--nor is better suited to take on the classic work and make it better.",administrative law;antiques & collectibles;books;dictionaries & terminology;domestic relations;education & reference;encyclopedias;family law;law;law practice;legal reference;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,14
0521566819,"Classroom-Based Evaluation in Second Language Education (Cambridge Language Education) 'The book is extremely informative and will broaden the usual considerations a teacher takes when assessing.'  NATESOL Newsletter	The paperback edition guides foreign and second language educators in the use of classroom-based assessment as a tool for improving both teaching and learning. While firmly grounded in current research, the presentation is nontechnical and does not require a specialized degree in psychometrics, statistics, or research. The suggested assessment procedures are useful for a broad range of proficiency levels, teaching situations, and instructional approaches. Preview and follow-up activities assist the reader in applying the material from each chapter.",books;education;education & reference;education theory;english as a second language;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;instruction;language & grammar;new;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,14
0792272358,"National Geographic Student Atlas Of The World ""An excellent reference tool for any student....The index will make searching for specific information simple while the design invites browsing.""",atlases;atlases & maps;books;children's books;education & reference;food;lodging & transportation;nature & how it works;parks & campgrounds;school & education;science;social science;travel;world,14
0271022620,"Comandante Che: Guerrilla Soldier, Commander, and Strategist, 1956-1967 This outstanding work is the first comprehensive, objective, and truly professional study of the contribution of Che Guevara to the theory and practice of revolutionary guerrilla warfare in the twentieth century. It is based on a thorough and careful reading of the relevant primary sources - principally, Che's voluminous campaign diaries, along with recently declassified CIA documents on his operations in the Congo and Bolivia. --Neill Macaulay, University of FloridaThis is a solid, realistic study of a man, not an icon. As the title suggests, Paul Dosal portrays the complete Che Guevara, but, above all, he is unsurpassed in revealing Che the guerrilla soldier--the grunt, the guy in the mud, facing death and killing ruthlessly. --Charles AmeringerBefore Osama bin Laden, there was Che Guevara. If one thinks this is hyperbole, meet the real Che in this outstanding book and contemplate what might have been had America's cold war foes adopted Che's 'tricontinental strategy.' --Charles Ameringer, Penn State UniversityThis is a solid, realistic study of a man, not an icon. As the title suggests, Paul Dosal portrays the complete Che Guevara, but, above all, he is unsurpassed in revealing Che the guerrilla soldier--the grunt, the guy in the mud, facing death and killing ruthlessly. --Charles AmeringerBefore Osama bin Laden, there was Che Guevara. If one thinks this is hyperbole, meet the real Che in this outstanding book and contemplate what might have been had America's cold war foes adopted Che's 'tricontinental strategy.' --Charles Ameringer, Penn State University	""This outstanding work is the first comprehensive, objective, and truly professional study of the contribution of Che Guevara to the theory and practice of revolutionary guerrilla warfare in the twentieth century. It is based on a thorough and careful reading of the relevant primary sources-principally, Che's voluminous campaign diaries, along with recently declassified CIA documents on his operations in the Congo and Bolivia.""-Neill Macaulay, University of Florida The victory of Fidel Castro's rebel army in Cuba was due in no small part to the training, strategy, and leadership provided by Ernesto Che Guevara. Despite the deluge of biographies, memoirs, and documentaries that appeared in 1997 on the thirtieth anniversary of Guevara's death, his military career remains shrouded in mystery. Comandante Che is the first book designed specifically to provide an objective evaluation of Guevara's record as a guerrilla soldier, commander, and strategist from his first skirmish in Cuba to his defeat in Bolivia eleven years later. Using new evidence from Guevara's previously unpublished campaign diaries and declassified CIA documents, Paul Dosal reassesses Guevara's impact as a guerrilla warrior and theorist, comparing his accomplishments with those of other guerrilla leaders with whom he has been ranked, including Colonel T. E. Lawrence, Mao Tse-Tung, and General Vo Nguyen Giap.  This reassessment reveals that Guevara was often underrated as a conventional military strategist, overrated as a guerrilla commander, and misrepresented as a guerrilla theorist. Guevara achieved his greatest military victory by applying a conventional military strategy in the final stages of the Cuban Revolution, orchestrating the defensive campaign that held off the Cuban army in the summer of 1958. As a guerrilla commander, he scored impressive victories in ambush after ambush in Bolivia, but in winning the battles he lost the war. He violated most of his own precepts during the Bolivian campaign, compelling analysts to question the validity of both his strategies and his command skills. Though he is credited with developing foco theory, Guevara never attempted to advance a new theory of guerrilla warfare. He was a fighter, not a theorist. He wanted to defeat American imperialism by launching guerrilla campaigns simultaneously in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, but his tricontinental strategy resulted in failures first in the Congo and then in Bolivia. Comandante Che presents the full record of Guevara's successes and failures, separating myth from reality about one of the twentieth century's most controversial revolutionary figures.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Paul J. Dosal is Professor of History at the University of South Florida.	""We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it: to his home, to his centers of entertainment; a total war. It is necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him wherever he may be, make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he may move."" Che Guevara, ""Message to the Tricontinental,"" 1967 Preface In October 1992, the twenty-fifth anniversary of Che Guevaras death, I started to research the life of Ernesto Che Guevara. Although there were dozens of books and articles about Che, I realized that I knew little about the life and career of this important figure. The definitive biography of the legendary guerrilla had not yet been written. I initially set out to write the life history of Che Guevara, hoping that I would have the honor of writing the first scholarly biography of Che. That honor fell on others more capable than myself. Four comprehensive biographies of Che Guevara appeared in 1997, the thirtieth anniversary of his death. They covered Che better than I could have done, and the many citations to their work in this book show how much I owe to their impressive work. About two years after commemorative activities ceased, I reopened my Che files and began to think about what I might do with all the data I had accumulated about Che. I had already read every speech, article, book, letter, and diary written by him. I had read just about everything ever written about him as well. I wanted to make a contribution to the growing literature about Che Guevara, but I was not sure what I could add. Finally, after liberating my repressed interest in military history, I decided to change the project from a comprehensive biography to a study of Ches career as a soldier, commander, and strategist. I was originally trained as a political-economic historian at Tulane University under Dr. Ralph Lee Woodward Jr., focusing on Central American history. In writing about Ches military career, I have broadened the boundaries of my geographical and topical interests. I taught myself basic military history by reading extensively on the U.S. Civil War and World War II. I have come to admire the technical expertise and narrative skills of writers and historians such as Shelby Foote and Stephen Ambrose, both of whom demonstrated that military history is a viable, exciting, and important field of inquiry. Yet this book is more than a military history. Fighting and winning a guerrilla campaign is not simply a question of devising the proper strategy, applying the right tactics, or selecting the appropriate weapon. The object of the guerrilla is not so much to win a military engagement as to avoid losing it. Guerrilla warfare, as Che fought and taught it, is a political and social struggle as well as a military conflict. If political factors do not favor the guerrillas, they will lose, as Che discovered in Bolivia. Ambushes, battles, and skirmishes figure prominently in the following account, but the analysis does not start and end with them. To assess Guevaras career as a guerrilla soldier, commander, and strategist, one must analyze it in its proper political context, examining Ches ideological development; his personal relations with Fidel Castro; and even Soviet, Chinese, and American policies toward the Cuban Revolution and Latin America. The life of a guerrilla is filled with long moments of inactivity, broken occasionally by the forced night march or the surprise attack. During the many pauses in his guerrilla campaigns, Che read and wrote extensively. His complete works, constituting more than nine volumes, form the primary source of information for this study. He kept campaign diaries wherever he fought, and most of these have been published and translated. Parts of his diaries have been censored, and more documents are locked away in Cuban archives, but the available literature, including a rich vein of memoirs written by people who fought for and against Che, forms a solid foundation for the study of Che Guevaras military career. Che Guevara remains a well-known figure, whether adored or  reviled, to millions around the world. The thirtieth anniversary of his death, highlighted by the discovery of his unmarked Bolivian grave and the transfer of his remains to Cuba, demonstrated the remarkable durability of his image and his message. I have tried not to get caught up in the Che mania that swept the world five years ago. Students, colleagues, and friends who knew of my research on Che gave me Che posters, shirts, socks, and underwear, thinking that I would appreciate such gifts. I usually gave those items away, preferring to keep just a few images of Che in my office to remind myself that he was a real man who influenced the lives of millions, for better or worse. He killed for a cause; he ordered people to kill for that cause; he advocated war to the death against imperialism; and he died for his principles. His life and death is in many ways a modern tragedy, not a cause for celebration. We must study who he was, why he fought, why he died, and why so many followed him into battle. I have tried to analyze his career as objectively as possible, sorting myth from reality in an effort to assess Guevaras actual impact on twentieth-century military history.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",20th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;caribbean & west indies;central america;cuba;history;leaders & notable people;life & institutions;military;military science;modern (16th-21st centuries);strategy,14
083595305X,Basic Arrhythmias (5th Edition) This best-selling book is designed to help you understand electrocardiography and to prepare for your exams.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.,allied health professions;allied health services;books;cardiology;clinical;critical & intensive care;emergency medical services;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;nursing;used & rental textbooks,14
0325006199,"Unspeakable Acts Unnatural Practices: Flaws and Fallacies in ""Scientific"" Reading Instruction Frank Smith has always been fascinated by language. He worked as a journalist in many countries before beginning formal academic studies in Australia. This led to a Ph.D. at Harvard University and further world travel researching, lecturing, and writing on thinking and learning. He has been a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education; the University of Toronto; the University of Victoria, British Columbia; and the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He has published many articles and books.",books;education;education & reference;education theory;educational philosophy;elementary education;instruction methods;new;pedagogy;philosophy & social aspects;professional development;reform & policy;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,14
0801488052,"Taiwan: A Political History ""Every few years a new attempt is made to write the story of Taiwan's political and diplomatic history. . . . Denny Roy's new work, Taiwan: A Political History, goes well beyond any single volume that has yet come out, presenting the most complete historical analysis to date of the island. . . . Articulate and accessible.""Macabre Krier, Far Eastern Economic Review, February 27, 2003""This is a history that provides excellent background information for understanding the complexities of the current 'Taiwan problem.'""- Foreign Affairs 82:2, 2003Roy's study focuses on Taiwan's 18th-century history, with emphases on the Japanese occupation (1895-1945), return of Chinese rule under the Kuomintang (including martial law administration), Taiwan's status in the Cold War, and democratization in the 1980s. . . . This is a readable and well-argued interpretation of Taiwan's recent history. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels.Choice, February 2004""Denny Roy's sympathetic yet discerning approach begins by relating the often underrepresented description of pre-Dutch colonialism's impact on Taiwan. . . . Roy concludes with a current profile of Taiwan's political climate and disposition toward independence from mainland China, including many of the implications that this debate involves.""A. Maria Utley, University of Louisville, Perspectives on Political Science 33:1, Winter 2004""Anyone wishing to read a compelling and thorough history of Taiwan will do no better than turn in the first instance to Denny Roy's new volume. Its aspiration is simple: to trace the political development of Taiwan from Chinese outpost and contested European colony to twenty-first-century democracy. Applying a broad-brush approach, Taiwan is a careful synthesis of the published research with few surprises for the specialist, but the book will appeal most to the non-specialist and the student market. . . . There are no superior introductions to Taiwan's extraordinary political development, and this is a useful teaching text.""Gary D. Rawnsley, The China Quarterly 2003""This comprehensive, accurate, and very readable account of Taiwan's road to democratization puts contemporary developments in historical context. Specialists, students, policy-makers, and general readers alike will enjoy Denny Roy's lucid and engaging telling of this extraordinary story.""Shelley Rigger, Davidson College""Denny Roy's useful and sensible approach not only underscores many of the dilemmas evident in Taiwan's development experience, but also helps bridge this case study with themes in mainstream political science.""Vincent Wei-cheng Wang, University of Richmond	""This comprehensive, accurate, and very readable account of Taiwan's road to democratization puts contemporary developments in historical context. Specialists, students, policy-makers, and general readers alike will enjoy Denny Roy's lucid and engaging telling of this extraordinary story.""Shelley Rigger, Davidson College ""Denny Roy's useful and sensible approach not only underscores many of the dilemmas evident in Taiwan's development experience, but also helps bridge this case study with themes in mainstream political science.""--Vincent Wei-cheng Wang, University of Richmond	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Denny Roy is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. His previous books include Chinas Foreign Relations.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",asia;asian;books;china;comparative politics;history;international & world politics;law;legal theory & systems;non-us legal systems;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;taiwan,14
0151009422,"Scotland and Its Whiskies: The Great Whiskies and Their Landscapes Rugged Scotland's climate is too chilly to grow wine grapes, but it does support fields of barley and rushing streams of crystal waters. These combine to make Scotch whisky, whose well-aged, single-malt varieties connoisseurs prize above all other distilled spirits save France's cognacs and Armagnacs.  Michael Jackson combines his broad knowledge of these whiskies with superb color photographs of Highland vistas in Scotland and its Whiskies. If it's true, as the French contend, that the land itself dictates the kind of wine its vines produce, it follows that Scotland's whiskies will vary from one distillery to another depending on the qualities of grain and water composing the final outcome. Growing taste for artisanal Scotch whisky makes this an especially useful purchase, and its exquisite Highland panoramas make it a worthwhile travel guide as well.  Mark KnoblauchCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	PRAISE FOR COMPLETE GUIDE TO SINGLE MALT SCOTCHThe best book of its kind yet produced. A work of authority and understanding . . . He is particularly good on his description of each whisky.""-The ScotsmanMichael Jackson pours his love of whisky into this wonderfully researched book.""-Evening Times (Glasgow)	Michael Jackson (right) is a past winner of the Glenfiddich Trophy and no fewer than five Glenfiddich Awards for his books, as well as for his journalism. He has also won the Andr Simon Award and was a James Beard Award nominee for his writing in Wine and Spirits. His Complete Guide to Single Malt Scotch has sold more than half a million copies worldwide since it was first published in 1989. He lives in London.Harry Cory Wright is a leading landscape photographer. He lives in Norfolk, England.",books;cookbooks;drinks & beverages;english;europe;european;food & wine;general;great britain;regional & international;scotland;scottish & welsh;spirits;travel,14
0822320193,"Living with the Coast of Alaska (Living with the Shore) ""Dr. Owen Mason and his co-authors provide a surprisingly comprehensive tour and overview of the coastal regions of Alaska along with a menu of the natural hazards which affect them. . . . [A] valuable reference book that belongs in the library of any geologist, archeologist, coastal geomorphologist, or other scientist who works at sites along Alaska's shore, as well as any person who is interested in the coastal environments of America's largest state. This book could be used to teach a directed, topical class or as part of a seminar on the coastal environments and natural hazards of Alaska. This book is an important contribution toward introducing the diverse coastal environments of Alaska to anyone who lives, works in, or cares about the spectacular coastal areas of Alaska."" --""Journal of Geoscience Education""	Owen Mason is a Research Associate at the Quaternary Center in Fairbanks, Alaska.William J. Neal is Professor of Geology at Grand Valley State University.Orrin H. Pilkey Jr. is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences at Duke University.Jane Bullock is Chief of Staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.Ted Fathauer is Meterorologist in Charge at the National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Deborah Pilkey is a graduate research assistant at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.",americas;books;business & investing;civil;earth sciences;engineering;environmental science;geography;history;popular economics;professional & technical;science & math;state & local;united states,14
059600415X,"Regular Expression Pocket Reference Tony Stubblebine, writes Perl and regular expressions for O'Reilly. Previously he held the titles of Web Peasant and Rogue Developer while hacking Perl for MasterCard International. He is also the Social Director and Senior Nightlife Correspondent for the O'Reilly Network.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;software design;software design & engineering;software development;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks;web development & design,14
0253210194,"Fetishism and Curiosity (Perspectives) Laura Mulvey, Director of MA in Cinema and Television Studies, British Film Institute/Birkbeck College, London, is the author of Visual and Other Pleasures and the BFI Film Classic Citizen Kane.",art;arts & photography;books;criticism;feminist theory;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;movies;politics & social sciences;pop culture;social sciences;themes;women in art;women's studies,14
0973164859,"Black Magick Woman: The Sinister Side of the Song of Solomon ""...an intriguing metaphysical study... a compelling read and a welcome contribution..."" -- Midwest Book Review""...exposes the dark sexuality & sheer sinister underbelly of the Song... impeccable research leaves the reader breathless..."" -- Rev. Marie D. Jones, RebeccasReads.Com""...rips the lid off biblical interpretations and explores an unconventional interpretation of the Song."" -- Randall Liboiron, Nexus (Camosun)""Presented with precise, scholarly historical and biblical information... should be added to the canon of Biblical Studies."" -- Viviane Crystal, Crystal Reviews	Janet Tyson holds a Master of Arts Degree in Biblical Studies, and is a Fellow of the University of British Columbia. She is the author of ""Our Man in Judea: Jesus,"" ""Rochester Cathedral: The Influence of Minds"" and ""And God Said: Moses and the Gods of Egypt"" (Forthcoming).",books;christian books & bibles;earth-based religions;education & reference;hebrew bible (old testament);history;history of religion;judaism;reference;religion & spirituality;religious;sacred writings;witchcraft;world,14
0471258415,"Patterns in Java, Volume 2 Mark Grand's Patterns in Java, Volume 2 offers a grab bag of 50 reusable patterns for Java developers. Together, these patterns can improve your graphical user interface (GUI) design, testing, and the overall robustness of your next Java project. After a short introduction to patterns and UML (unified modeling language) basics, the author looks at the software engineering life cycle, then moves on to describe the first group of object-oriented design patterns, including Creator, Polymorphism, and Law of Demeter. Less theoretical, the next group of GUI patterns can let you create more responsive and intuitive interfaces. (Experienced programmers will already know several of these, such as the Form pattern for dialog boxes and the Disabled Irrelevant Things pattern, which grays out unused items.) The following sections on organizational coding and coding optimization patterns are the most practical as they offer ways to write better Java code, including conditional compilation, exception handling, and socket programming. Next, the author includes a group of code robustness patterns, including assertions. The book closes with more theoretical material on testing. (Patterns such as White/Black Box or Regression Testing will be familiar turf to anyone who knows a little software engineering.) A good many of the patterns cataloged here probably call attention to the obvious. (For instance, is using a Java switch statement really a true ""pattern,"" as the authors argue?) But with a total of 50 patterns, this guide provides a helpful group of reusable strategies. Many of these patterns will be absolutely essential to any working Java developer. --Richard Dragan	Read the full review for this book. While several of the Wiley Java series appear aimed both at intermediate programmers exploring programming through Java and at experienced software engineers looking for quick Java immersion, Patterns in Java, Volume 2 seems most suitable for programmers becoming seriously involved in Java early in their career. This assessment is occasioned by the book's attempt to shoehorn all of computer science into the Patterns metaphor. --Jack Woehr, Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books   -- Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books	""This is the best book on patterns since the Gang of Four's Design Patterns. The book manages to be a resource for three of the most important trends in professional programming: Patterns, Java, and UML."" -Larry O'Brien, Founding Editor, Software Development, on Patterns in Java, Volume 1Picking up where he left off in his bestselling Patterns in Java, Volume 1, Mark Grand arms you with 50 new and reusable Java patterns-some available for the first time-that help you create more elegant and reusable designs. As with Volume 1, each pattern is documented in UML and, where appropriate, a code example or an example in the core Java API is provided. Volume 2 gives you:* 7 GRASP patterns that show you how to assign responsibilities to classes* 12 GUI Design patterns* 13 Organizational Coding patterns that help you to structure your code for readability and easier maintenance* 5 Coding Optimization patterns help to improve your program's performance in ways that a compiler's automatic optimizations cannot* 5 Code Robustness patterns* 8 Testing patterns that describe different methods for software testing, including Black Box, Clean Room, and System Testing* Real-world case studies that illustrate when and how to use the patterns* A tutorial for writing your own designs in UML* Pointers on using UML and patterns in development analysis, implementation, and testing* Tons of sample codeThe CD-ROM contains:* All the code examples found in the book* Evaluation versions of Together/J Whiteboard Edition from Object International (www.togetherj.com), OptimizeIt from Intuitive Systems, AssertMate version 1.0 from Reliable Software Technologies, and jtest! and CodeWizard for Java(TM) from ParaSoft	MARK GRAND is a consultant specializing in Java and object-oriented development. He has been an instructor for Sun's Java training programs. He is also the author of Patterns in Java, Volume 1 (Wiley), Java Language Reference, and Java Fundamental Classes.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;java;languages & tools;new;object-oriented design;programming;programming languages;software;software design;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,14
0309053862,"Radiation in Medicine: A Need for Regulatory Reform Does radiation medicine need more regulation or simply better-coordinated regulation? This book addresses this and other questions of critical importance to public health and safety. The issues involved are high on the nation's agenda: the impact of radiation on public safety, the balance between federal and state authority, and the cost-benefit ratio of regulation. Although incidents of misadministration are rare, a case in Pennsylvania resulting in the death of a patient and the inadvertent exposure of others to a high dose of radiation drew attention to issues concerning the regulation of ionizing radiation in medicine and the need to examine current regulatory practices. Written at the request from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Radiation in Medicine reviews the regulation of ionizing radiation in medicine, focusing on the NRC's Medical Use Program, which governs the use of reactor-generated byproduct materials. The committee recommends immediate action on enforcement and provides longer term proposals for reform of the regulatory system. The volume covers Sources of radiation and their use in medicine. Levels of risk to patients, workers, and the public. Current roles of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, other federal agencies, and states. Criticisms from the regulated community. The committee explores alternative regulatory structures for radiation medicine and explains the rationale for the option it recommends in this volume. Based on extensive research, input from the regulated community, and the collaborative efforts of experts from a range of disciplines, Radiation in Medicine will be an important resource for federal and state policymakers and regulators, health professionals involved in radiation treatment, developers and producers of radiation equipment, insurance providers, and concerned laypersons.	Kate-Louise D. Gottfried and Gary Penn, Editors; Committee for Review and Evaluation of the Medical Use Program of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Institute of Medicine",administration & medicine economics;administration & policy;books;clinical;health policy;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;nuclear medicine;public health;radiology;used & rental textbooks,14
0787961663,"All That's Holy: A Young Guy, an Old Car, and the Search for God in America Wry, poignant, insightful and balanced, this travelogue is a keen first effort by Harvard Divinity School graduate Levinson, who embarked on a self-imposed pilgrimage of three months and 9,000 miles in a 1994 Nissan ""traveling laboratory."" Daunted by the scope of his own ambition, Levinson's business cards stated his mission and bolstered himself as the ""Project Director"" of ""God Is: An Oral History of Faith in America."" Armed with a cell phone, tape recorder and list of potential contacts, he traversed the landscape, initiating profound conversations in often unlikely places with likely and unlikely subjects such as southwestern U.S. Sikhs, converted Hasidic Jews, Wiccans in the Army, Texas evangelicals and Yorubans in a South Carolina roadside attraction, among nearly 100 others. Levinson's fluid style connects these rapid-fire interludes, beguiling the reader to peer with him into a cultural kaleidoscope of a gloriously pluralized religious landscape. A superb storyteller, Levinson's book lures like the very routes that beckoned him, where way leads on to way, path leads on to path. His insights about truth, tradition, choice and empathy arise in part from the road trip's powerful juxtapositions. For example, because he is a Jew, from the story of Moses he understood the Navajo tribal need to rely on a core of elders for community leadership. Coming to a just conclusion that ""there is no going it alone,"" Levinson's thoughtful adventure proffers much hope and understanding for anyone interested in contemporary American culture. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Usually road trips and pilgrimages don't mix, but in Levinson's entertaining cross-country tale, they do. He set out to talk to people of as many faiths as possible, throughout America. He meant to speak less than to listen, and to learn thereby more about himself. The fourth-generation Jewish New Yorker also says his journey was partly a process of transformation, partly a means of escape. Purposeful, if lacking an itinerary, he met Trappist monks near Dubuque, Iowa; Hare Krishnas on Boston's tony Beacon Hill; Muslims in Toledo; an alumnus of a Christian fundamentalist university in Virginia; a member of the ill-fated Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas; denizens of a wiccan community center in Dallas. He had brushes with other Catholics, Mormons, Pentecostalists, Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Scientists, Quakers, and more; and he had personal insights and sudden revelations. Although rather long-winded, his book is still an enjoyable romp across the patchwork quilt of faiths in contemporary America. June SawyersCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Wry, poignant, insightful and balanced, this travelogue is a keen first effort by Harvard Divinity School graduate Levinson, who embarked on a self-imposed pilgrimage of three months and 9,000 miles in a 1994 Nissan ""traveling laboratory."" Daunted by the scope of his own ambition, Levinson's business cards stated his mission and bolstered himself as the ""Project Director"" of ""God Is: An Oral History of Faith in America."" Armed with a cell phone, tape recorder and list of potential contacts, he traversed the landscape, initiating profound conversations in often unlikely places with likely and unlikely subjects such as southwestern U.S. Sikhs, converted Hasidic Jews, Wiccans in the Army, Texas evangelicals and Yorubans in a South Carolina roadside attraction, among nearly 100 others. Levinson's fluid style connects these rapid-fire interludes, beguiling the reader to peer with him into a cultural kaleidoscope of a gloriously pluralized religious landscape. A superb storyteller, Levinson's book lures like the very routes that beckoned him, where way leads on to way, path leads on to path. His insights about truth, tradition, choice and empathy arise in part from the road trip's powerful juxtapositions. For example, because he is a Jew, from the story of Moses he understood the Navajo tribal need to rely on a core of elders for community leadership. Coming to a just conclusion that ""there is no going it alone,"" Levinson's thoughtful adventure proffers much hope and understanding for anyone interested in contemporary American culture. (Sept.) ( Publishers Weekly, July 14, 2003)Levinson, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, recounts his pilgrimage across America in an old Nissan with earthiness, honesty, and optimism. His mission: to talk to people about religion and hear about their faiths. While his own family viewed Judaism-and religion in general-as a hobby that some families choose or a relic that others stash and dust off for special occasions, here he endeavors to show that religion can also be a vessel that funnels history from generation to generation. As his pilgrimage evolves and he gathers lessons along the way (e.g., ""Pay attention to the places and people you think you have nothing to learn from. They're trying to tell you something""), the chapters take on a cohesiveness that strangely results from the platitudes and parables that he collects. His engaging style will help readers clarify religious meaning and might even encourage a few to embark on their own pilgrimages, newly assured that inner searching is worthwhile. Recommended for self-help, travel, or contemporary spirituality collections in public libraries and particularly in collections seeking to include religious diversity and books on the place of religion in America. Leroy Hommerding, Fort Myers Beach PI. Dist., FL (Library Journal, October 1, 2003)	""Tom Levinson has given us a spiritual Odyssey, an extended adventure in the new meaning of faith and hope. Eloquent, heartfelt, and true, this is a book America needs.""   James Carroll, author, Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews and American Requiem, winner of the National Book Award  ""Tom Levinson has written an engaging and lucid personal essay on a timely and timeless subject.""   Joyce Carol Oats, author, A Garden of Earthly Delights, Big Mouth Ugly Girl, and I'll Take You There  ""I told everybody I know about this book. I love it!""   Ruth Malina, the author's grandma	Tom Levinson is a fourth-generation Jewish New Yorker who grew up a Christmas-tree-decorating, Judaism-heckling doubting Thomas. As he got older he noticed that other people had different views, and he hungered to understand why. All Thats Holy is a new twist on an age-old searcha spiritual road trip that chronicles both a personal pursuit of religious identity and meaning, and an outward-looking exploration of the varieties of American religious experience. From big cities to small towns, in prisons, monasteries, synagogues, and street corners, Tom both seeks out and stumbles upon people whose faith is more than it seems on the surface. Buddhists and Baptists, Muslims and Mormons, Pagans and PentecostalsToms conversations about faith and doubt weave together a poignant, memorable tapestry of American spirituality.  With the country as his classroom, Tom sketches a lively, funny, and evocative portrait of how people livewhether they see themselves as spiritual or religious, why theyve left (or remained in) the religious communities of their upbringing, and how they negotiate the tensions of living in an American culture at once highly secular and deeply religious. By the end of the road trip, Tom learns theres no place like home: a journey conceived to learn about the spiritual lives of others leads him to a newfound understanding of his own.	Tom Levinson has written an engaging and lucid personal essay on a timely and timeless subject Joyce Carol OatesA Road Trip Through the Highways and Backroads of American SpiritualityTheres nothing more American than a road tripand a spiritual road trip at that. From mosque to synagogue to chapel to coffee shop, Tom Levinsons entertaining and erudite stories of conversations with the faithful and the seeking get to the heart of religion in America today. All Thats Holy is a fascinating conversational collage set against the backdrop of the authors deepening appreciationboth intellectually and spirituallyof his own religious roots.Tom Levinson has given us a spiritual Odyssey, an extended adventure in the new meaning of faith and hope. Eloquent, heartfelt, and true, this is a book America needs.James Carroll, author, Constantines Sword: The Church and the Jews and American Requiem, winner of the National Book AwardI told everybody I know about this book. I love it! Ruth Malina, the author's grandmaThis is the best introduction to what is really going on in the multicolored religious lives of our dappled population you can lay hands on today.From the Foreword by Harvey Cox, author, Common Prayers: Faith, Family, and a Christians Journey Through the Jewish Year	Tom Levinson has written columns for Beliefnet, the popular Internet religion magazine, and is currently attending law school at the University of Chicago. He is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and former development director for the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice in Chicago. Levinson lives with his wife in Chicago. He recently sold his 1994 Nissan to a friend.",biographies & memoirs;books;comparative religion;education & reference;humanities;leaders & notable people;new;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;self-help;spiritual;spirituality;used & rental textbooks,14
0262112256,"Vagueness: A Reader (Bradford Books) ""This balanced and comprehensive collection will be a standard reference for many years to come."" Alice Kyburg , Computational Linguistics	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Rosanna Keefe is a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge University. Peter Smith is a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.",books;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;logic;logic & language;metaphysics;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks;words,14
0060392967,"What is a Man? What is a man? Good question. According to Waller Newell, a professor of philosophy and political science and a contributor to The Weekly Standard, the last few generations have been ""a bad dream"" during which the answer to that question has been obscured. Modern representations of manhood as diverse as Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men are cited as proving his point. Organizing excerpts from a variety of Western literary sources into eight broad sections--the Chivalrous Man, the Gentleman, the Wise Man, the Family Man, the Statesman, the Noble Man, the American Man, and the Invisible Man--Newell traces what he sees as ""an unbroken pedigree in the Western conception of what it means to be a man."" What Is a Man? promises to ""inspire men and boys to reach for the seemingly lost ideals of honor, heroism and integrity,"" by providing ""a source to which concerned readers could turn for guidance and inspiration, a path back to the wisdom of our shared traditions of manly virtue."" This approach will work particularly well if your opinions are closely aligned with Newell's; the inclusions reflect his affection for the traditional conception of the masculine demonstrated by the likes of Sir Thomas Malory and Thomas Bulfinch. But even if your masculine ideal differs, the book still makes for a fascinating compendium. And the omissions are as interesting as the inclusions (definitely no Oscar Wilde, but no Norman Mailer and so little Ernest Hemingway?).  Newell sees the lost hero in all of today's apparently baffled and frustrated men (he even refers to a squeegee guy with a Mohawk as a ""road warrior Achilles""). His response to this collective confusion is this book of virtues--a kind of literary companion to Susan Faludi's Stiffed--which he hopes will be not only interesting but instructive as well. --J.R.	Some time ago Shakespeare wrote, ""What is a man?"" The question remains, still somewhat of a mystery. Newell (political science and philosophy, Carleton Univ., Ottawa) offers countless responses in this highly diversified anthology featuring the opinions of the famousDHomer, Plato, Sir Thomas Mallory, Chaucer, Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Aesop, Cicero, Tolstoy, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Hemingway, John F. Kennedy, Shakespeare, of course, and also Anonymous, to name a few. All possibilities of manliness are explored: bravery, chivalry, eroticism, sexuality, aggression, hostility, violence, morality, love, and being a boy, husband, and father. Newell's pithy commentary adds the necessary touch of irony and, yes, insight into the unending search for manliness. What it means to be a man (in any age), with all of its attendant virtues and vices, is a complex subject, not readily agreed upon, understood, or accepted. Newell, with his new collection, suggests persuasively that the quest should continue. Recommended for all public libraries.DRobert L. Kelly, Fort Wayne Community Schs., IN Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Waller R. Newell is professor of political science and philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.  He was educated at the University of Toronto and Yale University.  The author of numerous books and articles on Classical, Renaissance, and Modern European political philosophy and literature, he is a contributor to the Weekly Standard and other publications.  He has been a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and the National Humanities Center in Research Triangel Park, North Carolina, and a John Adams Fellow at the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London.",books;criticism & theory;gender studies;history & criticism;inspirational;literature & fiction;men;movements & periods;parenting;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;social sciences;spirituality,14
0312126697,"Brave New Schools: Challenging Cultural Illiteracy Through Global Learning Networks Declaring that McLuhan's ""global village"" is upon us, the authors of this discerning report describe a revolutionary pedagogy that is already having widespread impact in the classroom of the Internet. They advocate ""long-distance teaching partnerships across cultures"" that will take advantage of the latest technology to promote academic achievement. Their prescription for educational reform, they claim, encourages student sensitivity to a variety of cultural perspectives. The eight models viewed here focus on two active networks and portray students in pursuit of knowledge as ""border crossers"" in a multicultural environment. Educators are challenged by these findings to harness technology to address school reform. Part two, about half the book, is a guide to the Internet for parents and teachers. It includes a 100-page list of Internet resources. Cummins is professor of modern languages at the Ontario Institute in Toronto; Sayers directs the bilingual education program at New York University. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Dennis Sayers is the senior research scholar at The University of California Educational Research Center.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;certification;computers & technology;education;education & reference;education theory;future of computing;instruction methods;internet & web culture;new;pedagogy;reform & policy;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,14
0801878144,"From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt Donald Redford is one of the few scholars in Egyptology blessed with the ability to convey complex ideas in a lively manner that engages the attention of lay readers. At the same time, his historical insights and depth of knowledge are widely respected in the field, and in his new work, he shows why. (Ogden Goelet, New York University )This engrossing narrative takes us away from the modern racial politics into a world strikingly different from our own, where war and conquest were a present reality, and Egyptians and Nubians regarded each other as foreigners. Donald Redford shows us why historical writing, if it is to be truly informative, must always be based directly on ancient documents and accurate understanding of the archaeological evidence. (Mary Lefkowitz, author of  Not Out of Africa and co-editor of  Black Athena Revisited )The first full-scale study in English of relations between Egypt and Nubia in antiquity... Trenchant and illuminating observations abound. (Choice 2005)A welcome addition... Professor Redford has demonstrated that more obscure material can be presented in a way that is fresh, exciting and accessible. (Chris Naunton Egyptian Archaeology 2005)A detailed but spirited account of a theme that has often been marred by tendentiousness and partial thinking. (John Ray American Historical Review 2005) From Slave to Pharaoh presents a lively account of this period of Nubian rule during Egypt's 25th Dynasty. (Mariam Ayad Odyssey 2005)A timely contribution to the rapidly growing literature on Nubian and Sudanese studies. (Richard A. Lobban, Jr. International Journal of African Historical Studies 2005)A well-argued synthesis for this period, its politics, administration, and building activity. (Arthur Verhoogt Bulletin of the American Society of Papryologists 2005)An easily readable volume that offers considerable insight into a convoluted period of Egyptian history. (Jacke Phillips Journal of African History 2006)A welcome addition... There is much that should stimulate interest in this fascinating area. (David Edwards Chronique d'gypte 2006)The first example in history in history of reverse colonization! (Peter J. Brand Patterns of Prejudice )	Donald B. Redford  is a professor of classics and ancient Mediterranean studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Among his many books are (as editor)  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt and  The Oxford Essential Guide to Egyptian Mythology, and (as author)  Akhenaten, the Heretic King and  Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times.",africa;ancient;books;education & reference;egypt;ethnic studies;historical study & educational resources;history;north africa;politics & social sciences;social history;social sciences;specific demographics;sudan,14
019510983X,"Models of Computation and Formal Languages ""A comprehensive, advanced introductory textbook on the theory of computation that can be used on an undergraduate level as well as graduate. The solutions manual and software are welcome additions.""--Philip Demp, Rutgers UniversityAdvance praise: ""Taylor's work joins a small group of comprehensive yet rigorous, sweeping yet approachable, computer science textbooks. That by itself is a feast, but the dessert is Savoiu's intuitive software that supports almost every chapter by providing working examples, a homework bench, and a model-programming environment."" --Benjamin Wells, University of San Francisco	R. Gregory Taylor holds degrees from the University of Michigan, New York University, and Columbia University. He is currently chair of the Department of Computer Science at Jersey City State College.",artificial intelligence;books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;mathematics;new;programming;programming languages;science & math;software;theory of computing;used & rental textbooks,14
1584504005,"C++ Standard Library Practical Tips (Charles River Media Programming) Greg Reese (Dayton, OH) has performed scientific programming and algorithm development in industry and research laboratories for 20 years and has written in C++ for the last 10 years. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and extensive experience in digital image processing, human vision, and pattern recognition. He has worked on software for several NASA projects, written three general-purpose image processing suites, created a commercial molecular-biology program for the PC, and is also the co-author of an industry-wide, medical, electronic-data standard.",books;c;c & c++ windows programming;computer science;computers & technology;development;education & reference;language;languages & tools;microsoft;new;programming;programming languages;used & rental textbooks,14
0849304865,"CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 86th Edition While I keep the massive recent editions in my study, I keep my original one, the 23rd edition, on my bedside table, for it is easy to handle (especially when one is reading in bed), and was my most cherished gift as a boy. Indeed, one way and another, whether reading in bed or in my study, I have always had a Handbook near me. While the CRC Handbook is monumental in its scope, a huge, always-to-be-relied-upon mine of information, it is also a friendly book, a companion which has given me joy for the greater part of my life.	"" While I keep the massive recent editions in my study, I keep my original one, the 23rd edition, on my bedside table, for it is easy to handle (especially when one is reading in bed), and was my most cherished gift as a boy. Indeed, one way and another, whether reading in bed or in my study, I have always had a Handbook near me. While the CRC Handbook is monumental in its scope, a huge, always-to-be-relied-upon mine of information, it is also a friendly book, a companion which has given me joy for the greater part of my life."" -From the Foreword to the 85th Edition by Oliver Sacks	Lide; David R.  National Institute of Standards & Technology (retired), USA,	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",analytic;books;chemistry;clinical chemistry;general & reference;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;new;pathology;physics;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,14
B000FO7ZJK,"Readings in Agents ""As well as featuring an extremely large and diverse collection of papers on the latest in Agent based technologies, this book has a wonderful introduction by the Editors. If you are considering, or indulging in, researching agent software then you need this book.""--gary.smith@dial.pipex.com from Glasgow, Scotland	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	The world of agents comprises a broad range of intelligent programs that perform specific tasks on behalf of their users.  Agents are distinguished from other types of software by their status as independent entities capable of completing complex assignments without intervention, rather than as tools that must be  manipulated by a user.  Largely the province of speculation before the early 1990s, agent research has flourished since the advent of the Internet, which has created an ideal operating environment.This important collection unifies the extensive recent literature on agent technology, presenting a wealth of the finest published papers on both theory and applications.  Huhns and Singh have drawn on research communities in AI, databases, distributed computing, and programming languages to assemble the most comprehensive overview of the agent world available.  The editors add a summary of the field and its terminology, history, and major issues, together with introductions to each of the thematic chapters and discussions of the significance and context of the individual papers.  Focuses on:+ applications of agents+ classical techniques for agent construction+ theory for modeling and understanding agents+ intellectual frontiers in agent science.Researchers, practitioners, and students will gain the essential background and perspective needed to understand and appreciate current and future agent research.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",artificial intelligence;books;computer design;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;hardware;human vision & language systems;languages & tools;microprocessors & system design;programming;software design;software development;testing & engineering,14
0321154916,"The C# Programming Language (Microsoft .Net Development Series) C# is a simple, modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language that combines the high productivity of rapid application development languages with the raw power of C and C++. Written by the language's architect and design team members, The C# Programming Language is the definitive technical reference for C#. Moving beyond the online documentation, the book provides the complete specification of the language along with descriptions, reference materials, and code samples from the C# design team. The first part of the book opens with an introduction to the language to bring readers quickly up to speed on the concepts of C#. Next follows a detailed and complete technical specification of the C# 1.0 language, as delivered in Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003. Topics covered include Lexical Structure, Types, Variables, Conversions, Expressions, Statements, Namespaces, Exceptions, Attributes, and Unsafe Code.The second part of the book provides an introduction to and technical specification of the four major new features of C# 2.0: Generics, Anonymous Methods, Iterators, and Partial Types.Reference tabs and an exhaustive print index allow readers to easily navigate the text and quickly find the topics that interest them most. An enhanced online index allows readers to quickly and easily search the entire text for specific topics.With the recent acceptance of C# as a standard by both the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and ECMA, understanding the C# specification has become critical. The C# Programming Language is the definitive reference for programmers who want to acquire an in-depth knowledge of C#.  0321154916B10142003	Anders Hejlsberg is a programming legend. He is the architect of the C# language and a Microsoft Technical Fellow. He joined Microsoft Corporation in 1996, following a thirteen-year career at Borland, where he was the chief architect of Delphi and Turbo Pascal.    Scott Wiltamuth is General Manager for the Visual Studio Language and Data Tools team at Microsoft Corporation. In his thirteen years at Microsoft, he has worked on a wide range of development tools, including OLE Automation, Visual Basic for Applications, VBScript, JScript, Visual J++, and Visual C#.    Before leaving Microsoft Corporation, Peter Golde served as the lead developer of Microsoft's C# compiler. As the primary Microsoft representative on the ECMA committee that standardized C#, he led the implementation of the compiler and worked on the language design.	The C# project started almost five years ago, in December 1998, with the goal to create a simple, modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language for the new and yet to be named .NET platform. Since then, C# has come a long way. The language is now in use by hundreds of thousands of programmers, it has been standardized by both ECMA and ISO/IEC, and the development of a second version of the language with several major new features is close to completion.This book is a complete technical specification of the C# programming language. The book is divided into three parts. Part I, ""C# 1.0,"" includes Chapters 1-18 and describes the C# 1.0 language, as delivered in Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003. Part II, ""C# 2.0,"" includes Chapters 19-23 and describes the four major new features of C# 2.0: generics, anonymous methods, iterators, and partial types. Part III, ""Appendixes,"" describes documentation comments and summarizes the lexical and syntactic grammars found in Part I of the book. As of this writing, C# 2.0 is close to entering beta testing. Because C# 2.0 is still a work in progress, some of the new features described in the second part of the book might change in the final release. We do, however, expect any such changes to be minor.Many people have been involved in the creation of the C# language. The language design team for C# 1.0 consisted of Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wiltamuth, Peter Golde, Peter Sollich, and Eric Gunnerson. For C# 2.0, the language design team consisted of Anders Hejlsberg, Peter Golde, Peter Hallam, Shon Katzenberger, Todd Proebsting, and Anson Horton. Furthermore, the design and implementation of generics in C# and the .NET Common Language Runtime is based on the ""Gyro"" prototype built by Don Syme and Andrew Kennedy of Microsoft Research.It is impossible to acknowledge all the people who have influenced the design of C#, but we are nonetheless grateful to all of them. Nothing good gets designed in a vacuum, and the constant feedback we receive from our large and enthusiastic user base is invaluable.C# has been and continues to be one of the most challenging and exciting projects on which we've worked. We hope you enjoy using C# as much as we enjoyed creating it.Anders HejlsbergScott WiltamuthPeter GoldeSeattle, August 2003  0321154916P11242003",.net;books;c#;computer science;computers & technology;development;education & reference;languages & tools;microsoft;new;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks,14
0801487560,"Border Games: Policing the U.S.- Mexico Divide (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) In recent years, the United States and Mexico significantly liberalized trade regulations via the NAFTA treaty while also increasing the policing of the border area to stop the smuggling of people, drugs, and illegal goods. Andreas (Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial) argues that this contradiction serves less to prevent smuggling than to provide a stage for both America and Mexico to reaffirm national identities by demonstrating the ability to protect borders. Individuals in both countries use smuggling and illegal immigration for political gain, while neither nation does much to diminish the demand for drugs or the low-cost labor of illegal aliens. The author provides an excellent overview of the topic of smuggling and makes interesting comparisons between U.S.-Mexico border control and policing in Eastern and Southern Europe. This well-written work adds to the social and cultural focus provided in David Spener and Kathleen Staudt's The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending Divisions, Contesting Identities (Lynne Rienne Pub.,1998). Recommended for larger public and academic libraries.DStephen L. Hupp, Urbana Univ., OH Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	At a time when economic globalization is seen opening borders throughout the world, the boundary enforcement has intensified along the longest border between a rich and poor country, the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Andreas, a political science professor, maintains that the U.S.-Mexico border is no more threatened now than in the past but that more attention has been focused on border enforcement because of changes in economic and social forces in the U.S. Fear of job loss to immigrants and increased demand on social services for illegal immigrants, from health care to education, as well as concerns about illegal drug trafficking are behind the rising border tensions. But the changing U.S. political climate, with more emphasis on law and order, is a major factor. Andreas offers a broad overview of smuggling immigrants and drugs into the U.S. from Mexico and intensified enforcement efforts. He also examines how border enforcement impacts trade relations with Mexico. On a broader scale, Andreas looks at international trends in smuggling and border enforcement in Europe. Vanessa BushCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""At a time when economic globalization is seen opening borders throughout the world, the boundary enforcement has intensified along the longest border between a rich and poor country, the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Andreas offers a broad overview of smuggling immigrants and drugs into the U.S. from Mexico and intensified enforcement efforts. On a broader scale, Andreas looks at international trends in smuggling and border enforcement in Europe.""Booklist (reviewing the first edition)""An engaging and readable book. . . . This slim volume is recommended for all levels.""Choice (reviewing the first edition)""Border Games provides an in-depth and comparative analysis of the border policies. . . Required reading for anyone with an interest in U.S.-Mexico relations and the American West.""Jeff Biggers, The Bloomsbury Review (reviewing the first edition)""This outstanding book is a much-needed addition to the literature on the policing of international boundaries. Because it is so well written and concise, it fits beautifully into political geography curricula at the undergraduate as well as at the graduate level. Hopefully the book will inspire geographers to take up questions similar to those that Peter Andreas has so capably interrogated.""Joseph Nevins, The Professional Geographer (reviewing the first edition)""The difficulty in policing a complex border like that between the United States and Mexico, specifically stemming the flow of illegal drugs and immigration, demonstrates, according to Peter Andreas's insightful and pathbreaking analysis, the challenge associated with globalization, diminished sovereignty, and economic integration between developed and developing countries. . . . Andreas's insightful and rigorous study is an important contribution to the literature on globalization and transnational illicit trade.""Frank O. Mora, American Political Science Review (reviewing the first edition)""Border Games is a penetrating analysis that not only exposes the hypocrisy of U.S. border policy in devastating detail, but explains why border enforcement has become a political necessity in the core nations of a rapidly globalizing economy. It is required reading for any serious student of the politics of immigration.""Douglas S. Massey, Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor, University of Pennsylvania (reviewing the first edition)""With analytical skill, political savvy, empirical rigor, comparative insight and a keen sense of paradox, Peter Andreas explores a fascinating aspect of U.S. relations with Mexico today: that while state control of legal trade has been greatly relaxed and the border opened, there has been a simultaneous effort to make the border seem more closed to illegal flows of narcotics and people.""Abraham F. Lowenthal, University of Southern California (reviewing the first edition)""This fascinating and thoughtful book should be read by every citizen, policymaker, scholar, and student seeking to understand how the United States has so artfully managed to import the illegal drugs and undocumented workers its consumers and employers demand, while its government gets credit for eye-catching but ineffective campaigns to control the U.S. border with Mexico. Peter Andreas has caught the underside of the NAFTA paradox perfectly.""John H. Coatsworth, Harvard University (reviewing the first edition)	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	""Border Games is first-rate comparative policy analysis. It makes sense out of the apparent paradox that national borders are becoming both harder and more permeable at the same time. It employs the busiest border in the world to contribute to the debate about the role of the nation-state in a globalized setting.""--John Bailey, Georgetown University ""Border Games is a penetrating analysis that not only exposes the hypocrisy of U.S. border policy in devastating detail, but explains why border enforcement has become a political necessity in the core nations of a rapidly globalizing economy. It is required reading for any serious student of the politics of immigration.""--Douglas S. Massey, Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor, University of Pennsylvania With analytical skill, political savvy, empirical rigor, comparative insight and a keen sense of paradox, Peter Andreas explores a fascinating aspect of U.S. relations with Mexico today: that while state control of legal trade has been greatly relaxed and the border opened, there has been a simultaneous effort to make the border seem more closed to illegal flows of narcotics and people.--Abraham F. Lowenthal, University of Southern California This fascinating and thoughtful book should be read by every citizen, policymaker, scholar, and student seeking to understand how the United States has so artfully managed to import the illegal drugs and undocumented workers its consumers and employers demand, while its government gets credit for eye-catching but ineffective campaigns to control the U.S. border with Mexico. Peter Andreas has caught the underside of the NAFTA paradox perfectly.--John H. Coatsworth, Harvard University ""Peter Andreas has given us the first academically rigorous account of the U.S. government's costly, failed attempt since the early 1990s to 'regain control' over illegal immigration from Mexico through military-style, concentrated border enforcement operations. This skillful and balanced policy evaluation is indispensable reading for all students of immigration policy, anti-drug policy, and U.S.-Mexico relations.""-Wayne A. Cornelius, Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California-San Diego ""Peter Andreas' thoughtful and pathbreaking book shows how stronger border inspection regimes can coexist with the requirements of an open economy.""-- Demetrios Papademetriou, International Migration Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ""Thoughtful and shrewd, Border Games sheds much new light on U.S.-Mexican relations and on cross-border relations in general.  With this case study Peter Andreas skillfully demonstrates that the assertion of national sovereignty is an integral component of contemporary processes of regional integration and globalization.""--Peter H. Smith, University of California, San Diego	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Border Games is first-rate comparative policy analysis. It makes sense out of the apparent paradox that national borders are becoming both harder and more permeable at the same time. It employs the busiest border in the world to contribute to the debate about the role of the nation-state in a globalized setting.--John Bailey, Georgetown University  Border Games is a penetrating analysis that not only exposes the hypocrisy of U.S. border policy in devastating detail, but explains why border enforcement has become a political necessity in the core nations of a rapidly globalizing economy. It is required reading for any serious student of the politics of immigration.--Douglas S. Massey, Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor, University of Pennsylvania  ""With analytical skill, political savvy, empirical rigor, comparative insight and a keen sense of paradox, Peter Andreas explores a fascinating aspect of U.S. relations with Mexico today: that while state control of legal trade has been greatly relaxed and the border opened, there has been a simultaneous effort to make the border seem more closed to illegal flows of narcotics and people.""--Abraham F. Lowenthal, University of Southern California  ""This fascinating and thoughtful book should be read by every citizen, policymaker, scholar, and student seeking to understand how the United States has so artfully managed to import the illegal drugs and undocumented workers its consumers and employers demand, while its government gets credit for eye-catching but ineffective campaigns to control the U.S. border with Mexico. Peter Andreas has caught the underside of the NAFTA paradox perfectly.""--John H. Coatsworth, Harvard University  Peter Andreas has given us the first academically rigorous account of the U.S. government's costly, failed attempt since the early 1990s to 'regain control' over illegal immigration from Mexico through military-style, concentrated border enforcement operations. This skillful and balanced policy evaluation is indispensable reading for all students of immigration policy, anti-drug policy, and U.S.-Mexico relations.-Wayne A. Cornelius, Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California-San Diego  Peter Andreas' thoughtful and pathbreaking book shows how stronger border inspection regimes can coexist with the requirements of an open economy.-- Demetrios Papademetriou, International Migration Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace  Thoughtful and shrewd, Border Games sheds much new light on U.S.-Mexican relations and on cross-border relations in general.  With this case study Peter Andreas skillfully demonstrates that the assertion of national sovereignty is an integral component of contemporary processes of regional integration and globalization.--Peter H. Smith, University of California, San Diego	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Peter Andreas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Blue Helmets and Black Markets, also from Cornell, coauthor of Drug War Politics and Policing the Globe, and the coeditor of The Rebordering of North America and The Wall Around the West.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;business & investing;criminal law;economic conditions;economics;international & world politics;law;law enforcement;political economy;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics;treaties,14
0521001897,"Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa Theologiae, 1a 75-89 ""...a welcome and rewarding book.""   Journal of Religion""I found the book at once helpful, stimulating and provocative. ...a book like this is among the best homages a philosopher can receive, and the best aids a student can hope for.""   Carlo Leget, University Medical Centre Nijmegen""The treatise on human nature in the Summa theologiae is one of the best known philosophical texts of St. Thomas Aquinas.""   Theology Digest""Exceptionally effective.""   The Philosophical Review	This is a major new study of Thomas Aquinas, the most influential philosopher of the Middle Ages.  The book offers a clear and accessible guide to the central project of Aquinas's philosophy: the understanding of human nature.  Robert Pasnau sets the philosophy in the context of ancient and modern thought, and argues for some groundbreaking proposals for understanding some of the most difficult areas of Aquinas's thought: the relationship of soul to body, the workings of sense and intellect, the will and the passions, and personal identity.",books;criticism;history & criticism;history & surveys;humanities;literature & fiction;medieval thought;movements & periods;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religious;renaissance;used & rental textbooks,14
0804731896,"The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan ""This book offers persuasive and in many ways unprecedented history of the policy debates that gave California one of the most comprehensive and influential public university systems in the world. . . . Douglass's important work offers a basis for considering both the remarkable strengths of Progressive university building and the antidemocratic elements that, contrary to conventional wisdom, may be the source of its increasing weakness today.""American Literature""Douglass has made a long-needed contribution. Those who study and work in higher education will profit from readitng this carefully constructed history.""Journal of the West""California exceptionalism is a very real thing, but its essence has always been elusive. Not so in the case of John Douglass' treatment of California higher education. He has captured brilliantly the economic, political, and social roots of that remarkable system.  His work will help us all.""Neil Smelser, Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California""For those interested in the University of California, in higher education throughout the state, andabove allfor anyone concerned about life in this country's higher education systems, John Douglass' book is a must read. He brings history, thoughtful perspective, and marvelous creative intelligence to a very tricky set of issues, and we will be leaning upon his insights for many years.""Barry Munitz, President, The J. Paul Getty Trust, and former Chancellor of the California State University system""John Douglass has succeeded in one of the most difficult of scholarly challengespresenting a large and complex topic with remarkable clarity, insight, and narrative skill. lt;The California Idea and American Higher Educationgt; is fascinating history and a significant contribution to our understanding of the people and the forces that created California's renowned system of higher education.""Richard C. Atkinson, President of the University of California	Throughout the twentieth century, public universities were established across the United States at a dizzying pace, transforming the scope and purpose of American higher education.  Leading the way was California, with its internationally renowned  network of public colleges and universities.  This book is the first comprehensive history of Californias pioneering efforts to create an expansive and high-quality system of public higher education. The author traces the social, political, and economic forces that established and funded an innovative, uniquely tiered, and geographically dispersed network of public campuses in California.  This influential model for higher education, The California Idea, created an organizational structure that combined the promise of broad access to public higher education with a desire to develop institutions of high academic quality.  Following the story from early statehood through to the politics and economic forces that eventually resulted in the 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education, The California Idea and American Higher Education offers a carefully crafted history of public higher education.	""California exceptionalism is a very real thing, but its essence has always been elusive. Not so in the case of John Douglass' treatment of California higher education. He has captured brilliantly the economic, political, and social roots of that remarkable system.  His work will help us all.Neil Smelser, Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California""For those interested in the University of California, in higher education throughout the state, andabove allfor anyone concerned about life in this country's higher education systems, John Douglass' book is a must read. He brings history, thoughtful perspective, and marvelous creative intelligence to a very tricky set of issues, and we will be leaning upon his insights for many years.""Barry Munitz, President, The J. Paul Getty Trust, and former Chancellor of the California State University system	John Aubrey Douglass is Senior Research Fellow for Public Policy and Higher Education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley.",19th century;20th century;americas;books;college & university;education & reference;education theory;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;sociology;state & local;united states,14
0130652083,"WebDAV: Next-Generation Collaborative Web Authoring: Next-Generation Collaborative Web Authoring Praise for WebDAV: Next-Generation Web Authoring: ""WebDAV combines the ease of use of a file system with the global reach of the Web-and this is the book that will tell you how to use it.""Clay Shirky, Internet technology consultant ""Lisa Dusseault has unparalleled WebDAV expertise and deep protocol implementation experience. This book is a critical resource for those seeking to understand and leverage WebDAV's potential, providing the most in-depth coverage of WebDAV available anywhere.""Jim Whitehead, co-designer of WebDAV ""WebDAV extends the underlying communication framework of the Web, HTTP, to support the essential components of sharing. With an organized, clear style, this book explains not only what WebDAV is and how it works, but also its role in a wide variety of Internet applications. A tour de force.""Larry Masinter, chair, HTTP Working Group, and principal scientist, Adobe Systems ""Until now, anyone who wanted to understand WebDAV had to wade through dozens of Web pages, several complicated standards, and messages from many mailing lists. This book gathers all the relevant information into one complete and easy-to-read reference.""Greg Stein, author of mod_dav, Apache Foundation chairman The definitive guide to WebDAV authoring, management, and publishing. Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is the IETF standard protocol for Web site authoring and wide area collaboration. WebDAV's document sharing and management services make it the ideal platform for Internet file and data management applications. This comprehensive book covers the WebDAV protocol from the bits on the wire all the way to custom application design and implementation. Experienced WebDAV implementer Lisa Dusseault not only provides a complete description of WebDAV but also illustrates that behavior with numerous examples and protocol traces from real clients and servers. The author covers each protocol feature, first explaining how it works and then illustrating its use in a live implementation. In each case, the author describes not only how the protocol was supposed to work, but how it actually does, with attention to the steps required to make a working implementation. This book delivers crucial details needed by application designers, software engineers, and information managers:  Complete coverage of the protocol and popular implementations Practical design rules for quickly designing and deploying any WebDAV-based application Real-world application case studies, including online calendaring and photo albums Two chapters on building custom WebDAV applications, including ready-to-run examples compatible with Internet Explorer Coverage of the new Versioning and Access Control standards	LISA DUSSEAULT is co-chair of the WebDAV working group and a major contributor to the WebDAV standard. She is Director of Server Development at Xythos Software, Inc., where she is responsible for development of Xythos's WebDAV server.	Preface WebDAV is a protocol that allows Web authoring tools and many other document-oriented applications to save documents directly to a Web server and manage the content on the server. Many Internet clients and servers as well as office productivity applications already implement WebDAV. This book explains what WebDAV is, how it works, and how to use it both in Web authoring tools and in custom document-based applications. Readers This book assumes only a minimum level of familiarity or comfort with the way the Internet and the World Wide Web work. Readers might want to start with a good Internet book (Stevens98) or a good HTTP book (Krishnamurthy01 or Gourley02) to familiarize themselves with the architecture of the World Wide Web and the protocols and practices that make it work. This book can be used in many ways: IT planners can use this book to understand whether WebDAV might serve as a suitable document management standard, before making important software purchasing decisions. Software implementors who are interested in implementing WebDAV or in adding WebDAV functionality can use this book to learn practical details about WebDAV that aren't in the standard specifications and to learn about resources for the task. Custom application designers can use this book to understand how to design an application to use the WebDAV document model. This allows the custom application to work seamlessly with WebDAV-capable content applications such as Office 2000. Webmasters can use this book to understand how they can simplify and streamline their publication and authoring processes using WebDAV-enabled server software and existing HTML-authoring products. Like custom application designers, they will find out how document management can be customized to allow a custom publishing process or workflow process. Organization of the Book This book is divided into five main sections.  Introductory Material  Chapter 1, Introduction, introduces WebDAV, and why and how it was developed. Chapter 2, History of Web and Collaborative Authoring, gives more depth on the technologies that existed prior to WebDAV (FTP, HTTP), and the drawbacks that the WebDAV designers knew they needed to overcome. Chapter 3, HTTP Mechanics, provides a review of HTTP that is only necessary if you're not already familiar with HTTP.  How WebDAV Works  Chapter 4, Data Model, provides an overview of WebDAV functionality by explaining the data model, which is crucial to understanding how WebDAV works. Chapter 5, WebDAV Modifications to HTTP, explains how WebDAV extends HTTP methods. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 describe the practical aspects of how the core WebDAV protocol works. These chapters will be useful to developers of WebDAV-enabled software and custom applications. Chapter 9, Putting the Pieces Together, pulls this material together into extended examples.  WebDAV Extensions  Chapter 11, Versioning, and Chapter 12, Multifile Versioning, introduce the WebDAV versioning standard DeltaV in sufficient depth to enable the reader to read the DeltaV specifications and be able to put details into context. Chapter 13, Access Control, introduces the Access Control specification, which is soon to be a standard.  Software and Custom Applications  Chapter 10, WebDAV Products and Tools, introduces a number of client and server software packages that support WebDAV. Chapter 14, Custom WebDAV Applications, and Chapter 15, Designing WebDAV Applications, discuss what custom applications can do with WebDAV, and how to design such custom applications.  Reference Appendixes  Microsoft and Windows Tips and HTTP Status Codes.",books;certification;client-server systems;comptia;computer science;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;internet & web culture;networking;new;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design;web services,14
0761964665,"Young People and New Media: Childhood and the Changing Media Environment Sonia Livingstone is Professor of Social Psychology and Head of the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research examines children, young people and the internet; social and family contexts and uses of ICT; media and digital literacies; the mediated public sphere; audience reception for diverse television genres; internet use and policy; public understanding of communications regulation; and research methods in media and communications. She is author or editor of fourteen books and many academic articles and chapters. Recent books include Young People and New Media (Sage, 2002), Audiences and Publics (edited, Intellect, 2005), The Handbook of New Media (edited, with Leah Lievrouw, Sage, 2006), Harm and Offence in Media Content (with Andrea Millwood Hargrave, Intellect, 2006), Media Consumption and Public Engagement (with Nick Couldry and Tim Markham, Palgrave, 2007), The International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture (edited, with Kirsten Drotner, Sage, 2008), Kids Online (edited, with Leslie Haddon, Policy, 2009), and Children and the Internet (2009, Polity). Sonia Livingstone directs a 25-country network, EU Kids Online, for the EC's Safer Internet Programme. She serves on the Executive Board of the UK's Council for Child Internet Safety, and has, at various times, served on the Department of Education's Ministerial Taskforce for Home Access to Technology for Children, Ofcom's Media Literacy Research Forum, the Voice of the Listener and Viewer, and the Internet Watch Foundation. She was President of the International Communication Association (2007-8).",books;communication;communication & journalism;communication & media studies;communications;education & reference;language & grammar;media studies;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks;words,14
0807817937,"The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 The Education of Blacks in the South stands as a notable scholarly achievement.Georgia Historical Quarterly	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",19th century;20th century;african-american studies;americas;books;education & reference;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states,14
0738702080,"Tarot Bag Llewellyn Publications has grown and expanded into new areas of personal growth and transformation since it began as the Portland School of Astrology in 1901. Along with the strong line of astrology books the company was founded upon, Llewellyn publishes books on everything from alternative health and healing, Wicca and Paganism, to metaphysics and the paranormal-and since 1994 has published a growing list of Spanish-language titles.      Llewellyn has long been know as one of America's leading publishers of New Age books, producing a wide variety of valuable tools for transformation of the mind, body and spirit. Reach for the Moon-and discover that self-help and spiritual growth is what Llewellyn is all about.",books;divination;education & reference;fitness & dieting;happiness;health;new age;occult;personal transformation;psychology & counseling;reference;religion & spirituality;self-help;tarot,14
0822004348,"Austen's Emma (Cliffs Notes) Cliffs Test Preparation Guides help students prepare for and improve their performance on standardized tests ACT Preparation Guide CBEST Preparation Guide CLAST Preparation Guide ELM Review GMAT Preparation Guide GRE Preparation Guide LSAT Preparation Guide MAT Preparation Guide MATH Review for Standardized Tests MSAT Preparation Guide Memory Power for Exams Police Officer Examination Preparation Guide Police Sergeant Examination Preparation Guide Police Management Examinations Preparation Guide Postal Examinations Preparation Guide Praxis I: PPST Preparation Guide Praxis II: NTE Core Battery Preparation Guide SAT Preparation Guide SAT II Writing Preparation Guide TASP Preparation Guide TOEFL Preparation Guide with 2 cassettes Advanced Practice for the TOEFL with 2 cassettes Verbal Review for Standardized Tests Writing Proficiency Examinations You Can Pass the GED Cliffs Quick Reviews help students in introductory college courses or Advanced Placement classes Algebra I Algebra II Anatomy  Physiology Basic Math and Pre-Algebra Biology Calculus Chemistry Differential Equations Economics Geometry Linear Algebra Microbiology Physics Statistics Trigonometry Cliffs Advanced Placement Preparation Guides help high school students taking Advanced Placement courses to earn college credit AP Biology AP Calculus AB AP Chemistry AP English Language  Composition AP English Literature  Composition AP United States History Cliffs Complete Study Editions are comprehensive study guides with complete text, running commentary and glossary Chaucers Prologue Chaucers Wife of Bath Hamlet Julius Caesar King Henry IV, Part I King Lear Macbeth The Merchant of Venice Othello Romeo and Juliet The Tempest Twelfth Night See inside back cover for listing of Cliffs Notes titles Registered trademarks include: GRE, MSAT, the Praxis Series, and TOEFL (Educational Testing Service); AP, Advanced Placement Program, and SAT (College Entrance Examination Board); GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Council); and LSAT (Law School Admission Council.) Emma	No Bio",books;british;education & reference;english literature;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,14
0877289360,"The Qabalah: Secret Tradition of the West Text: English, French (translation)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",atheism;bibliographies & indexes;books;education & reference;history;judaism;occult;publishing & books;religion;religion & spirituality;research & publishing guides;sacred writings;spirituality;writing,14
0567084930,"Forgiveness in Context: Theology and Psychology in Creative Dialogue '...a significant book....thoughtful...The editors should be congratulated for putting this wealth of well-represented and significant material into such easily accessible form.' (Christopher MacKenna Theology )'The book offers a genuine...conversation that fully justifies its sub-title. For those of us seeking to preach an incarnational faith it would seem foolish to ignore the insights of human science.' ~ John Armes, Vol 117, No. 4 (John Armes Expository Times )""This collection provides much needed practical material for the reflective practitioner and I recommend it to all who wish to ensure that they speak more contextually about the contextual practice of forgiveness and avoid being misunderstood""ANVIL, vol.24 no.2 2007 (Peter Robinson )'...a significant book....thoughtful...The editors should be congratulated for putting this wealth of well-represented and significant material into such easily accessible form.' (, Theology )'The book offers a genuine...conversation that fully justifies its sub-title. For those of us seeking to preach an incarnational faith it would seem foolish to ignore the insights of human science.' ~ John Armes, Vol 117, No. 4 (, Expository Times )""This collection provides much needed practical material for the reflective practitioner and I recommend it to all who wish to ensure that they speak more contextually about the contextual practice of forgiveness and avoid being misunderstood""ANVIL, vol.24 no.2 2007 (, )	Fraser Watts is Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Natural Sciences, and Director of the Psychology and Religion Research Programme, University of Cambridge.Liz Gulliford is Research Assistant, Psychology and Religion Research Programme, University of Cambridge.",applied psychology;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;ethics;humanities;medical books;new;psychology;religion & spirituality;religious studies;social sciences;theology;used & rental textbooks,14
047128761X,"Faces on the Edge: Type in the Digital Age Steven Heller and Anne Fink Designed by Michael Ian Kaye Faces on the Edge Type in the Digital Age More than any other graphic medium, todays fontography mirrors the traditions, eccentricities, and trends of modern society. Faces on the Edge, by prominent art director and author Steven Heller, is a spellbinding survey of the revolutionary effects of digital type design on 20th-century typography. More than 200 typefaces, from the classically inspired to the exuberantly (near) illegible, are featured in this compilation, illustrating how new technologies have dramatically increased the possibilities of type design. Included are typefaces from many of the worlds most innovative type foundries, such as Emigre Fonts, FontShop International, Garage Fonts, Thirst Fonts, Exploding Fonts, and T-26, and represents some of the finest type designers such as Zuzana Licko, Rudy VanderLans, Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Ed Fella, and Barry Deck. The Typefaces are Organized into Six Kinds of Fontography: Rebirths and Revivals  Greeking Roman  Digital Carvings Off the Wall  Optical Delusions  Lots O Laffs Typefaces are identified by date, designer, and foundry; a brief description text places each in the larger context of digital type history. With useful information on how to obtain and apply each typeface, Faces on the Edge is an indispensable resource for graphic designers, desktop designers, and students alike. Over 200 illustrations in color and black and white document the real-life application of these inventive typefaces in popular magazines, advertising, posters, and multimedia. Faces on the Edge is a vivid, timely account of what is undeniably a significant era of type design.	About the Authors STEVEN HELLER is one of the most well-known spokespeople and commentators in the field of graphic design today. He has served as art director for many publications, and is currently Senior Art Director at the New York Times and editor of the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design. A prolific author, he has written over fifty books, including Designing with Illustration, Source-book of Visual Ideas, Design Career, Borrowed Design, and Innovators of American Illustration, published by Van Nostrand Reinhold. ANNE FINK is a designer and researcher. She is the co-author with Steven Heller of Borrowed Design, Covers and Jackets, and FoodWrap. She t## New York City.",arts & photography;books;computers & technology;design;education & reference;graphic design;humanities;new;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;software;typography;used & rental textbooks;writing,14
0757303927,"The Way Out: The Gay Man's Guide to Freedom No Matter if You're in Denial, Closeted, Half In, Half Out, Just Out or Been Around the Block Revolutionary. --The Long Beach Blade (The Long Beach Blade)Christopher Lee Nutter's new book gives every indication that it's more than a conventional gay self-help tome. --Publishers Weekly (Publisher's Weekly)You may not immediately want to, but youll surely recognize yourself in these pages. --Genre magazine (Genre magazine)Nutter is on to something, and the timing of The Way Out has been ideal. --Time Out New York (Time Out New York)A gay Dr. Phil with a heavy dose of Dalai Lama. --Gaywired.com (Gaywired.com)Christopher Lee Nutters mix of ancient wisdom and contemporary idioms is bound to resonate with young gay male readers. --Echo magazine (Echo magazine)In The Way Out, Nutter uses his lifes humorous anecdotes as a guide for gay men who are coming out, as well as those who are aggressively gay, come to the realization that the typical gay life doesnt have to be one of pain and confusion. --Bay Windows (Bay Windows)Nutter attempts to help gay men work through their baggage, overcome insecurities, deal with a busted heart, and essentially empower themselves to live the most honest, healthy, authentic life they can. --Frontiers magazine (Frontiers magazine)The Way Out expresses the newness and adventure of a man who is finding his soul, and who has the courage to say publicly what hes learning. --San Francisco Bay Times (San Francisco Bay Times)When we speak of role models, many times we think of athletes, movie stars or historic figures. Christopher Lee Nutter is the real thing. --Ambiente Magazine (Ambiente Magazine)Leading the way out, Nutter offers advice on escaping the gay herd mentality. --Express Gay News (Express Gay News)The Way Out should be required reading for gay readers of all ages, from questioning teens to experienced adults. --Miami New Times (Miami New Times)The Way Out is a means to step outside of habitual thoughts that cast the self as an unwitting and powerless victim of circumstance. --Edge Miami (Edge Miami)Writing this deeply confessional book required an astonishing amount of self realization for the author himself. --HX Magazine (HX Magazine)The Way Out is going to be revolutionary. --AOL Coaches (AOL Coaches)The Way Out is a book about eliminating the confusion of social identity and finding your true self. --OutOnTheNet.Com (OutOnTheNet.Com)The Way Out is a guidebook written specifically to assist gay men in breaking out of the self-imposed prisons of straight and gay into an authentically powerful life of compassion and wisdom, but the insights it contains are essential to breaking out of all self imposed prisons. --Gary Zukav, author The Seat of the Soul and The Dancing Wu Li Masters (Gary Zukav)Christopher Nutter shares his personal story with candor and honesty, providing insights and observations that are sure to help other gay men no matter where they happen to be on their own journey. --Neil G. Giuliano, President, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (Neil G. Giuliano)Christopher Nutters own self-exploration identifies real challenges for gay men, and gives insights and tools to help us be our best selves. --Alan Van Capelle, Executive Director, Empire State Pride Agenda (Alan Van Capelle)The Way Out may prove to be an enduring post-gay survival gay for the twenty first century gay man. --Jack Drescher, MD, Chair, Gay and Lesbian Committee, American Psychiatric Association. (Jack Drescher, MD)Christopher Lee Nutter is a new player in the great American debate about values.   --The San Francisco Chronicle (The San Francisco Chronicle)One of the Best LGBT Books of 2006.  --IN Los Angeles Magazine (IN Los Angeles Magazine)The Way Out chronicles what it means to be a gay man in America. --OutInAmerica.com (OutInAmerica.com)Nutter brings us a how-to for the gay everyman, both a handy guide for newbies and a thoughtful refresher for those of us who think weve already been there, done that. --Out magazine (Out magazine) The author of a compelling new book for gay men, The Way Out relates his own journey from the closet to the party scene to despair to enlightenment  and invites you to join him on his path to affirming the true self. --The Advocate (The Advocate)	Christopher Lee Nutter has been shedding new light on the gay experience for over a decade through ground breaking journalism in The Village Voice, Details, The Advocate, The New York Times, Vibe, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, and many others. He has also written for Cargo, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, HX, The New York Post, Lambda Book Review and appeared on VH-1 and the Metro Channel's Naked New York.	Introduction: Finding My Way Out I have spent my entire life looking for the way out of pain.   However, no matter what form it tookfear, depression, bitterness, anxiety, jealousy, loneliness, addiction, anger, judgment, self-criticism, you name itand no matter how much it hurt, for most of my life I didn't think of it as pain. Rather I qualified these feelings as symptoms of my imperfection. In other words, I thought the pain was me. As an adolescent growing up in the suburbs of Birmingham,   Alabama, in the '70s and '80s, I was in a lot of pain. But by the   time I was sixteen, I was sick enough of being listless and   depressed to do something about it. I decided that I wanted to   be happy. And I was certain that the way to do this was to correct   my imperfections. The most serious of these imperfections was my homosexuality   it was my fatal flaw, my original sin that I had not chosen   to commit. Though by my midteens I had accepted that this   condition was never going to change, I could not really accept   that I was gay. To me that would have meant accepting that I   was a lonely, pitiful and defective human being, that I was not   loved by God, that I was less than straight men, that the only   others like me were shadowy discards from society. Doing that   would have meant accepting that I was never going to be   happy, so that was out of the question. My sexual attraction to men, however, was by no means the   only imperfection I needed to cloak. Compared to the fabulous   Pretty in Pink teens I grew up with, I was absolutely riddled   with imperfectionsI wasn't beautiful; I wasn't rich; I wasn't   masculine; I wasn't confident; I wasn't athletic. As I became   hyperaware of these inadequacies, too, I slowly became both   ashamed and embarrassed to be me.      To remedy this I became devoted to getting gorgeous and   becoming popularin other words, to getting perfect. And college   became the set where I was able to successfully act the role   of a privileged pretty boy. Playing this role felt like the very first   shot of morphine after a lifetime of debilitating pain, and I often   felt high. But whenever the morphine wore off, I would find   myself hurtling back into the void, and it was as if I had never left.   Meanwhile, my sexuality was literally in the closetthat's   where I kept my gay porn, on a high shelf in a small closet   blocked off by a large chair. I even did such a number on myself   that, whenever I saw a guy I thought was gay, I would find   myself thinking, Ugh, how horrible that would be. Then I   would momentarily move into a kind of twilight zone of awareness   of the fact that I was this person I pitied. I was in a state of   shock over my own being. Then in 1993 I made a monumental shift in how I experienced   my life when I rebelled against the depression that still   tormented me and looked inside myself for the first time for its   source in the form of my own thoughts. Not only did learning   how to fight my thoughts mark the beginning of the end of   depression for me, it awoke a nascent awareness of my power   to change the reality of my life by looking inward rather than   outward. As a result, the way I lived my life began to change. First I ditched my plans to go to law school and decided   instead to follow my lifelong dream to become a writer. Even   more significant, for the first time in my life I began to question   my belief that I couldn't come out of the closet and be happy.   There were few images of gay people in the media then, so it   was still a very lonely time to be gay. And I couldn't even say the   word gay out loud, so I was at a total loss as to how to go   about coming out.      Then opportunity struck. One night I read in Details magazine   that they were starting a new section that readers could   submit stories for. And I had a revelation: I would write an essay   about life inside the closet and thereby come out in the process.   As much as going through with it scared me, and as much as it   seemed an impossible long shot that it would be selected, I   became aware of a silent, certain knowledge about what to do   next: write that essay. And so I did.",behavioral sciences;books;fitness & dieting;gay & lesbian;health;motivational;nonfiction;personal transformation;politics & social sciences;science & math;self-help;sex;social sciences;specific demographics,14
0761945083,"Using Data to Close the Achievement Gap: How to Measure Equity in Our Schools Dr. Johnsons work provides both the philosophical and practical blueprint for transforming public schools into the learning communities we want and need. Leaders will find the book to be the most useful document to guide and inform their efforts to close the gap and maximize learning for all students. (Joseph Burke, Superintendent of Schools )""If the goal of all students reaching high standards is to be met, Using Data to Close the Achievement Gap should be required reading for all teachers and administrators. It should also be an integral part of the course of study for those preparing to teach in the United States."" (Vinetta C. Jones, Dean, School of Education )""With this visionary and user-friendly resource in hand, all educatorsteachers, counselors, and administratorscan and must make data part of a lifelong practice to ensure high achievement for all students."" (Laurie Olsen, Chief Program Officer )""From her penetrating analysis of current research, policies, and practices, and her wealth of experiences working with school districts around the nation, Johnson clearly makes the connection between using data and achieving equitable outcomes as districts and schools struggle to close the achievement gap."" (Aukram Burton, Diversity/Multicultural Specialist ) ""This book represents a significant contribution to the national debate around school reform. Ruth Johnson presents a thoughtful, well-documented treatise on how educators, policy makers, and parents can use data to set achievement goals and measure school progress toward these goals."" (Walter Allen, Professor of Sociology )	Ruth S. Johnson is a professor emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles. She has served in a variety of educational settings in New Jersey and California. Ruth received her Ed.D. in 1985 from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her dissertation was titled An Exploratory Study of Academic Labeling, Student Achievement and Student Ethnographic Characteristics. At the K12 level, she served as a classroom teacher, an instructional consultant, a director of elementary education, an analyst, an assistant superintendent of schools in the areas of curriculum and business, and as a superintendent of schools. She initiated efforts that resulted in raising academic standards and student achievement in low performing school districts. She served as an education consultant for the New Jersey Department of Education and as a director for two non-profit organizations in California which focused on raising student achievement in underserved student populations. Her major scholarly interests and publications focus on processes related to changing the academic culture of urban schools, with an emphasis on access and equity. In addition to her four published books, she has written numerous book chapters, articles, editorials, research reports, and manuscript reviews. As a recognized speaker, she has presented nationally to scholarly and professional audiences and serves as a consultant to schools and districts.",administration;assessment;books;business & finance;business & investing;economics;education;education & reference;education theory;new;reference;reform & policy;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,14
0521334810,"Steeples and Stacks: Religion and Steel Crisis in Youngstown, Ohio (Cambridge Studies in Religion and American Public Life) ""Fuechtmann's book is a well-researched and very useful case study of an unusual response to what has become, more and more, a common problem in the industrial United States.""   Paul F. Clark, The Journal of American History	Steeples and Stacks is a study of the religion-based community group that formed in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1977 in response to the proposed shutdown of a portion of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube's steelworks. The closing was one of the most dramatic of the plant closings that have come to symbolise American deindustrialisation.",books;business & finance;business & investing;christian books & bibles;christian living;education & reference;humanities;industries & professions;new;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious studies;sociology;used & rental textbooks,14
087923377X,"Alpha to Omega: The Life and Times of the Greek Alphabet Fresh and interesting. A painless, good-humored refresher in history, mythology, economics, warfare, literature, and language. --Philadelphia Inquirer	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",ancient;ancient & classical literature;books;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;greece;greek;history;humanities;instruction;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks,14
1580461700,"A Profane Wit Johnson (Emer., University of Rochester) wrote this generous biography -- a veritable progress of a rake's rake -- with enthusiasm and engaged fascination with Rochester (1647-1680) . . . Johnson's forte, in addition to the extensiveness of his information, is his strong narrative sweep: this is an exciting biography. Highly Recommended. CHOICE   Within the last five years there have been two other new biographies of the poet and courtier, both oriented towards a more general reader than is implied here. However, any reader would be advised to choose Johnson's as the most authoritative account to date. . . . An additional strength of this biography is the way in which it uncovers so much more than an individual life. Interwoven with Rochester's fortunes are those of King and country, court and parliament and a huge array of other personalities. ENGLISH: THE JOURNAL OF THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION  A life of Rochester could not be better done. It is a biography not only for the scholar, replete with footnotes, references and bibliography, but also for the reader, being written in an easy style with learning lightly worn. . . A fine biography unlikely to be bettered in the foreseeable future. THE PRESS (New Zealand)	If you loved Johnny Depp in the deliciously dark film, The Libertine, you'll want to pick up a copy of this book to read the writings for yourself.	An Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Rochester, James William Johnson is the author or editor of nine books and many articles treating British and American Literature.",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;british;criticism & theory;england;europe;historical;history;history & criticism;leaders & notable people;literature & fiction;royalty,14
0825627192,"Cubase SX/SL: The Reference with CDROM (Windows Version) (Pro Start) Mark Wherry is a Reviews Editor at Sound On Sound magazine in the UK and regularly contributes articles, including the monthly Cubase Notes column. Specialising in software studios, hes worked with Steinberg on tutorial material for Cubasis VST and is the author of The Offical Guide To Cubase SX/SL, published by Wizoo and Music Sales. Mark is also a classically trained pianist and when not busy writing, can often be found in the studio arranging strings and other, more bizarre, noises.",arts & photography;books;composition & performance;computers & technology;education & reference;etc.;midi;mixers;music;recording & sound;software;theory;web design;web development & design,14
0764548972,"Enterprise JMS Programming (M&T Books) Enterprise JMS Programming can put enterprise-level development with the Java Message Service into the hands of any capable Java developer. This book successfully mixes a tutorial to the JMS API itself and a discussion of the ""big picture"" concepts you need to know to architect large systems that use messaging effectively.What distinguishes this title is the clear-as-crystal perspective on what messaging is and how to implement various messaging architectures. This book is far from just a listing of JMS APIs. The author outlines basic messaging concepts, including synchronous and asynchronous processing, plus the publish/subscribe and point-to-point models of message distribution. Early working code examples show off basic message operations (like sending and receiving messages). Then it's on to a nicely packaged demo of using a message-driven bean from Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0. A notable section looks at the various available JMS message types (and when and how to use them).The book then covers larger concepts like transactions and security in JMS and the issues that you'll need to consider when designing secure and reliable enterprise messaging systems. The author looks at ways to make sure your messaging code is as fast and reliable as it can be. (He walks the reader through scenarios in which message queues can fill up, and in one good example, shows how orders for an online store build up in the queue in one business day.) A discussion of administration tasks is followed by real advice and screen shots using BEA WebLogic Application Server 6.1, a popular choice for J2EE/JMS deployment.Final chapters really excel at guiding the user in designing JMS applications by providing hypothetical case studies for no less than four separate scenarios. Using intranet, extranet, and high-volume Internet systems, these examples and the designs outlined here will ensure that you can correctly apply JMS to a wide variety of enterprise-class problems. A final listing of all JMS APIs rounds out this book.Overall, Enterprise JMS Programming sets a high standard for any programming text with its stellar presentation style and clear code examples, which provide the best of theory backed up with practical advice. It's sure to be an extremely worthwhile resource for any developer facing a JMS project. --Richard Dragan  Topics covered: Overview and history of the Java Message Service (JMS); guidelines for choosing JMS; types of messages (including text, byte, object, and map messages); message properties explained; constructing and sending messages (illustrated with a variety of message types); receiving messages synchronously and asynchronously; publish/subscribe and point-to-point messaging basics; tutorial for message-driven beans in Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0; understanding and using JMS transactions; security concepts in JMS; tips for maximizing JMS performance (including factors that affect performance, optimized code, and benchmarking); JMS administration (illustrated with BEA WebLogic Application Server 6.1); sample case studies illustrating JMS architectures: a sample real-time financial trading system, a workflow system, a high-volume extranet application for branch offices (for loan applications), and high-volume order-taking systems (for three online  e-commerce sites); and a reference listing all JMS classes and APIs.	Enterprise JMS(TM) Programming Your Enterprise JMS Road Map The J2EE Java Message Service provides a common API for a variety of publish/subscribe and point-to-point messaging products commonly used in high-performance enterprise environments. Message types supported include XML, Java objects, and a variety of other basic formats. Written by one of Sun's Senior Java Architects, this clear and concise guide shows you how to put JMS to work in mission-critical enterprise applications - and helps you stay at the forefront of enterprise computing trends, including peer-to-peer and loosely coupled application development. Robust examples and detailed coverage of advanced topics like JMS security and enterprise integration make this the most complete JMS reference available. Put JMS to Work* Use JMS to integrate application server, Internet, and legacy environments* Enable loosely coupled applications to communicate with each other* Learn how to evaluate JMS-based messaging products* Build message-driven Enterprise JavaBeans* Maximize JMS performance for mission-critical applications* Learn system architectures for data distribution, workflow, Internet order-taking, and moreCompanion Web Site Updates and sample code at http://www.hungryminds.com/extras www.mandtbooks.com	Shaun Terry is a Senior Java Architect with the Sun Java Center, where he has helped a wide variety of small companies and large corporations such as Charles Schwab, Ford, NASDAQ, and Dow Jones design enterprise-class systems based on the latest Java and Internet technologies. His experience includes 15 years of system development, design, and architecture at Sun Microsystems and on Wall Street.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;engineering;java;languages & tools;new;professional & technical;programming;programming languages;software;telecommunications;used & rental textbooks,14
0813526558,"The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooners, Heterosexuality, and the Tourist Industry at Niagara Falls ""From grand wedding tours to heart-shaped beds, Dubinsky insightfully traces the role of the honeymoon in the history of heterosexuality. In the process she reveals how 'natural' attractions-whether waterfalls or love-are indeed produced in social, cultural, and historical contexts. An informative and entertaining tour.""  -- Kathy Peiss, University of Massachusetts, author of Hope in a Jar: the Making of America's Beauty Culture""Karen Dubinsky traces the history of Niagara Falls as a rendezvous for the most 'heterosocial' vacations of all-the honeymoon...""  -- The Women's Review of Books""The Falls at Niagara presents a timeless picture: water meets gravity. Karen Dubinsky has made a fascinating study of the constantly changing frame that surrounds this immutable scene. Dubinsky illuminates the rhetoric of the Falls as a classic boast of the white man's superiority over nature, non-Anglo Saxons, and the little missus. Believe it or not, I read the whole book!(Call Ripley's!)"" - -- Sheila Gostick, stand-up comedian""Thoughtful, illuminating, and witty... By showing how the honeymoon, like tourism, became an item of mass consumption, this fascinating book offers striking new perspectives on the history of marriage, heterosexuality, and consumption in the twentieth century."" -- George Chauncey, University of Chicago, author of Gay New York	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	In this provocative history, Karen Dubinsky addresses a deceptively simple question: of all the ways to promote a waterfall as a tourist destination, why honeymoons? For two centuries Niagara Falls has attracted tourists from around the World. After a visit in 1882 Oscar Wilde sardonically declared that the Falls must be the second greatest disappointment in American married life. Wilde was responding to the peculiar relationship, already well established in his day, between heterosexuality, the honeymoon, and the Falls. Dubinsky explores what it was like not just to visit the Falls but to live and work behind the mists of such celebrity. From Victorian marriage manuals to Marilyn Monroe(and the movie Niagara) she treats the Falls not only as a metaphor and icon, but also as a real place, populated by real people who helped to shape its cultural meaning.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Karen Dubinsky teaches history at Queen's University.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",20th century;americas;anthropology;books;business & investing;canada;cultural;history;industries & professions;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;sports & entertainment;united states;women's studies,14
0826319718,"Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers Through frank and revealing interviews, takes a historical and literary approach to ten important contemporary Latina writers.	Bridget Kevane teaches literature at Montana State University. Juanita Heredia teaches literature at Western Oregon State University.	Excerpted from the Introduction  Perennial Travelers: The Forging of Latina Literature:  Historical Overview:  An important phenomenon is occurring in American cultural and literary studies. Latina voices are attaining a prominence in American letters that shows the growing diversity of the discourse on culture and the arts in the United States. It is now clear that U.S. literature has substantial and significant roots that reach beyond U.S.borders. The American story is one that is increasingly being told by women from a hemispheric rather than a single national perspective. This book illustrates the growth of a contemporary Latina literary tradition that now spans thirty years.  This collection of interviews with ten prominent Latina writers is the first of its kind. We have selected this form to explore the authors' cultural backgrounds and relevant personal histories that may not always be found in ""strictly"" academic criticism. There is a need for an alternative form of criticism that is both personal and pedagogical, analytic and reflective. Therefore, we asked questions that allowed the authors to reflect on culture, history, gender, and the arts. By speaking one on one, we uncovered issues that preoccupied them as women, as ""translators"" of culture and history. As the first generation to cross directly between two cultures, they can describe firsthand the experience of being at the interstices of two worlds. These Latina writers can serve as models to younger generations because they have succeeded in being recognized as artists and as women despite all the odds against them in U.S. society.  We must also understand the process and history behind their achievements, another factor that is overlooked in contemporary criticism. In these interviews the authors share revealing qualities of their humanity that often elude capture by critical discourse, qualities that are only alluded to in their literary works. As each author speaks of her experiences, she lays out a personal cartography for others to follow in the solitary voyage of writing in modern times. This collection photographs these moments in their lives by transforming an oral narrative into a written, permanent history, a new way of making criticism.  Julia Alvarez, Denise Chvez, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferr, Cristina Garca, Nicholasa Mohr, Cherre Moraga, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Esmeralda Santiago, and Helena Mara Viramontes represent a broad spectrum of Latina literature. Composed of Chicana, Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican, and other writers who descend from a combined U.S.Latin American heritage, Latina literature is finally receiving national attention in the 1990s. In her groundbreaking essay, ""On Finding a Latino Voice,"" Julia Alvarez has described this movement as a literary made-in-the-USA boom, a recognition based on critical and commercial success. Although this movement is composed of writers who may be described generically as ""Latina,"" they are not a homogeneous group but instead reflect a diversity of origins. What is certain is that each writer has roots in more than one culture, that each is a hybrid. Migrations of Latinos in the United States have affected the formation of each artist included in this book. For example, each Chicana writer associates differently with Mexican culture. One is from Chicago, another is from Las Cruces, New Mexico, and others are from Los Angeles. Even though these writers were born and educated in the United States, they have a connection with Mexico through childhood and adult travels, family stories, or the invention of an imaginary homeland. Their conversations demonstrate how Mexico embodies an integral component of culture and triggers memories of ancestors and their untold stories. The Latina Caribbean patterns of movement play a role in their history as well. As part of a diaspora, the Puerto Rican writers we interviewed have lived in Brooklyn, New Jersey, Spanish Harlem, and Ponce. They have undergone the ""p'aqu and pall"" phenomenon of traveling back and forth between the mainland and the island at various stages of their lives. Each writer identifies with Puerto Rico differently. The Cuban and Dominican writers, all of them daughters of exiled communities, could not return to their homelands until they were adults. Without the possibility of return, they learned about their cultures through family stories, memory, and imagination, the latter especially if they did not grow up in a Latino environment in the United States. Although this group of bicultural and bilingual women writers may appear to constitute a recent voice in American literature, this community has emerged from a complex and varied history.  The writers in this collection reflect dramatic shifts in recent political history. The Cuban Revolution of 1959 and the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic produced a generation of exiles who migrated from their homeland to the United States. People of Mexican and Caribbean descent, both immigrants and citizens, became a visible part of American social and political life in the 1960s. Through the Chicano, civil rights, Puerto Rican, and women's movements, Latinas made inroads into American society. Because of the social activism and institutional reforms that were an outgrowth of these movements, Latinas gained access to an educational system that enabled them to develop careers as writers and academics. These social movements in the Northern Hemisphere transformed the demographics of Latino communities in the United States, particularly in the East, Midwest, and Southwest. If it were not for the social movements of the 1960s, it is doubtful whether this U.S. Latina literature would exist today. . . .--Juanita Heredia",20th century;books;classics;criticism & theory;education & reference;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;united states;women writers;women's studies;world literature,14
0826413854,"Popes and Politics: Reform, Resentment, and the Holocaust (Handbooks of Catholic Theology) In this brilliantly argued book, which requires several readings to grasp its balanced content, Lawler seeks to provide ""genuine insight and understanding"" regarding the modern papacy and its relationship to world events, especially the Holocaust. Recent years have witnessed numerous books on papal topics, which Lawler here critiques with scholarship and passion. He attempts to expose flawed historical presuppositions and addresses the bias of strident personal convictions characterizing many of these recent publications. The book is divided into three main sections: a critical analysis of contemporary works of ""papaphobia,"" a review of principles for authentic papal reform, and proposals for its future renewal, both personal and ecclesiastical. The text is artistically written, which may delight the academician and frustrate the general reader. The bibliographies and detailed footnotes, which are required reading, are employed to assist in focused reading. Lawler has written numerous books on arts and religion, including the recent Hopkins Reconstructed, and was the editor of Continuum: A Journal of History, Hermeneutics and Social Concern. His latest is recommended for all academic collections. John-Leonard Berg, Univ. of Wisconsin, PlattevilleCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	""This is vintage Lawler....certain to be recognized as both controversial and worthy of the widest dissemination.""Charles E. Curran, author of Faithful Dissent""What is not debatable is that this book will be of importance to everyone concerned with the future of institutional religion.""Margaret A. Farley, author of Personal Commitments""A must read for those who want to get beyond much widespread misinformation and into the heart of the issues.""Francis Schssler Fiorenza, author of Foundational Theology""A book that informs, fascinates, and enriches. Lawler is a scholar who is so erudite and so balanced in all his research that he stands above and apart from any attempt at labeling him either a 'conservative' or a 'liberal.'""John F. Morley, author of Vatican Diplomacy and the Jews during the Holocaust""A brilliantly argued book, which requires several readings to grasp its balanced content. Recent years have witnessed numerous books on papal topics, which Lawler here critiques with scholarship and passion. The text is artistically written. Recommended for all academic collections.""John-Leonard Berg, Choice, March 2002""Lawler has written a very good book attacking today's most famous Catholic lefties for vitriolic bias and shoddy scholarship. One need not share all, or indeed any, of Lawler's reform agenda to admire the intellectual vigor, unflinching honesty, and puckish wit of his assaults on Wills and his cohorts.""Michael Potemra, National Review, May 6, 2002""Popes and Politics by educator and papal expert Justus George Lawler is a meticulous, scholarly accounting that responds to many previously published works about the Vatican and the papacy. A brilliant, intense, and persuasively argued study, Popes and Politics covers a range of critical topics. Highly recommended as an inherently engaging and informative study, and a seminal contribution to Papal Studies and Holocaust Studies supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections.""Midwest Book Review, June 2002""Profound and original meditation on the interplay of theological conviction and political reality""Jerusalem Post, August 30, 2002""Lawler's own scholarship and mastery of the history of the past two hundred years of the Catholic church are certainly impressive...What is undeniable is that this volume marks a real contribution to the ongoing conversation in and beyond Catholicism about the future of the church...Graduate students of theology/religious studies with a good grounding in church history will benefit from the book, which should certainly be on the shelves of every college library.""Donald G. Clifford, American Catholic Studies Vol. 114, 2003Lawler has written an original book that stretches the mind and, in its final chapters, the imagination. It is a major work on vital issues. AmericaA brilliantly argued book, which requires several readings to grasp its balanced content. Recent years have witnessed numerous books on papal topics, which Lawler here critiques with scholarship and passion. The text is artistically written. Choice (CHOICE)This volume marks a real contribution to the ongoing conversation in and beyond Catholicism about the future of the church. American Catholic Studies (American Catholic Studies)A very good book attacking todays most famous Catholic lefties for vitriolic bias and shoddy scholarship. One need not share all, or indeed any, of Lawlers reform agenda to admire the intellectual vigor, unflinching honesty, and puckish wit of his assaults on Wills and his cohorts. National Review""A must read for those who want to get beyond much widespread misinformation and into the heart of the issues.""Francis Schssler Fiorenza, author of Foundational Theology	Justus George Lawler has been the editor of five publishing imprints and of four journals; he has taught at St. John's University and St. Mary's University in Minnesota, and Loyola University and Xavier University in Chicago. He is author/ editor of more than a score of books on religious-cultural issues.",20th century;books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;roman catholicism;theology;world,14
0321125312,"Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 7 One Click Wow! Adobe Photoshop 7 One-Click Wow! is a unique CD-ROM/book package from Adobe Press that features hundreds of instant, one-click makeovers you can apply to your creations, making it an indispensable extension to Photoshop 7. You can think of this inspiring collection of Layer Styles and other ""one-click"" solutions on the CD-ROM as the equivalent of getting hundreds of beautiful and practical filter effects. However, these makeovers are much more powerful than filter effects because you can apply them instantly to graphics, type, and photos, yet still change the graphics or the type after they've been applied. And these Layer Styles don't permanently alter the images to which they're applied like filter effects do. Veteran authors Jack Davis and Linnea Dayton have added many new Layer Styles to the Photoshop 7 One-Click Wow! CD-ROM, in addition to those featured in their best-selling Photoshop 6 Wow! Book. Also included on the CD-ROM are dynamic brushes and tool presets for Photoshop 7, as well as gradients and patterns you can use for Fill layers and textures. The book part of the package explains everything you need to know to work with Photoshop's powerful Layer Styles function in just 96 short pages, including a 5-page step-by-step tutorial, as well as a catalog of outstanding full-cover examples of how the Wow! Layer Styles and other effects look when they're applied. Whether you're a photographer, graphic designer, or illustrator, Adobe Photoshop 7 One-Click Wow! will help you transform your photos, type, or graphics instantly!.	Jack Davis is co-author (with Linnea Dayton) of the award-winning and best-selling guide to Photoshop, The Photoshop Wow! Book. He is also an award winning designer/illustrator/photographer and contributing editor to numerous other books on digital imagery, design, and on-line communication. His latest book is Adobe Photoshop Elements One-Click Wow!, from Peachpit Press. Jack and Linnea also have a column in Photoshop User magazine called ""The WOW! Factor."" Jack has degrees in traditional Commercial Art and Graphic Design and an MA and MFA in Digital Imagery, Art and Design.  When he's not in front of his Cinema Display in San Diego he's usually on the beach somewhere in Polynesia with digital camera and analog paints soaking up the local color.Linnea Dayton is co-author (with Jack Davis) of the best-selling guide to Photoshop, The Photoshop Wow! Book and Adobe Photoshop Elements One-Click Wow!, a hybrid book/CD-ROM product.  She and Jack also have a column in Photoshop User magazine called The WOW! Factor. Linnea is  the founding editor for Peachpit's Wow! series of books and is an award-winning author and editor, having contributed to more than 30 books and numerous magazine articles for graphic designers, photographers, and illustrators who use the computer. She has a Master of Science degree in Comparative Endocrinology and a strong and continuing interest in visual communication. Outside computer graphics circles, she is proud to be known to many as Paul's wife, Gage and Anaika's mother, and Savanna's grandmother.",adobe photoshop;books;computer science;computers & technology;desktop publishing;digital media management;electronic documents;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;graphics & visualization;new;photo editing;programming;used & rental textbooks,14
0827608047,"Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary ""It is wonderful to have a humash that reflects the vitality of a passionate, full-bodied Judaism. This is a humash for the heart, mind, and soul.""	New this season! Travel-size edition of Etz Hayim: A Torah Commentary",atheism;books;christian books & bibles;education & reference;hebrew bible (old testament);judaism;reference;religion & spirituality;research & publishing guides;sacred writings;spirituality;torah;travel;writing,14
067154134X,"Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends Text: English, French (translation)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty books, including his unforgettable international bestsellers Night and A Beggar in Jerusalem, winner of the Prix Mdicis. He has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States Congressional Gold Medal, and the French Legion of Honor with the rank of Grand Cross. In 1986, he received the Nobel Peace Prize. He is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University.",books;christianity;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;hebrew bible (old testament);history;jewish;judaism;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;sacred writings;theology;world,14
0452283833,"Stop Getting Dumped! All You Need to Know to Make Men Fall Madly in Love with You and Marry ""The One"" in 3 Years or Less ""...offering logical, witty advice that will have you feeling smarter, stronger, and in control of your own destiny."" -- About, the Human Internet Dating Guide, Nov. 2001""...this intelligent and very humorous book will clue you in before you make mistakes you might regret. "" -- About, the Human Internet Dating Guide, Nov. 2001""different...uplifting,...and offers a money-back guarantee if you don't marry the man of your choosing in three years..."" -- New York Daily News, January 17, 2002""logical, witty advice that will have you feeling smarter, stronger, and in control of your own destiny."" -- Brenda Ross, About.com Dating Guide, November 2001	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Every day, we get letters from people who say  ""I love this book!"" Stop Getting Dumped! is hilarious!  It's a practical, step-by-step guide to meeting and keeping the kind of man we all dream about. Lisa Daily tells it like it is, and gives advice that is easy to follow and amazingly effective.  You'll be laughing all the way to the altar!	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	All of us have hit that ""dating slump"" at one time or another, when it seems like all your friends are coupled off, and you're sitting around on Friday night, eating frozen cookie dough right out of the package and wondering if you used up your ""nice-guy"" quota in college when you were still torturing men for sport.  Hey, I've been through it myself!  The good news is, there's at least one good, sweet, amazing guy out there just for you.  Follow the methods in the book, and I'll teach you how to meet him and make him yours.  You'll learn the same simple secrets my closest friends and I used to meet our darling husbands, and have some fun, too!  Try the Stop Getting Dumped! method.  It works like catnip for men.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	The Get-Married Guarantee  Watch out, this ones going to blow your socks off.    Were so sure the methods in this book will work for you, were offering this fantastic guarantee:   If you follow the methods in this book, we guarantee youll marry the man of your choice in 3 years or less, or well give you your money back.  This book will teach you all you need to know to make men fall madly in love with you. If you have not married the man of your choosing after three years, simply return the book to the address below, along with your dated purchase receipt.  Well happily refund your purchase price, with our apologies.  (And surprise.)  Sorry, this offer does not including shipping and handling charges.To take advantage of this offer, return your book and original dated purchase receipt to:  Stop Getting Dumped! Get-Married Guarantee P.O. Box 19442 Minneapolis, MN 55419	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Lisa Daily is a TV relationships expert and the author of Stop Getting Dumped!: All You Need To Know to Make Men Fall Madly in Love with You and Marry ""The One"" in 3 Years or Less.  Shes a syndicated relationships columnist whos been everywhere from iVillage Live to MTV to Entertainment Tonight, and quoted everywhere from Cosmopolitan and US Weekly to The New York Times.  Women from sixteen to sixty flock to Lisas Dreamgirl Academy classes across the country.  Lisa lives with her husband and two children in Florida.	Excerpt from Chapter 2 You'll never meet Prince Charming (or Prince William) unless you're ready to go to the ball. ""...Make sure your clothes are flattering.  Dont get caught up in trends unless they look utterly fabulous on you.  Dont worry, if the hot trend isnt right for you, there will be another one coming along any minute.  (Hey, kind of like men.) Always dress as though you might meet the guy no matter where youre going.  No, Im not saying you should be sleeping, eating and pumping gas in a miniskirt and strappy sandals.  Just be sure that no matter where you go, or what youre doing, you always look your best.  Figure out the most flattering colors and styles for your coloring and body type, and wear them every day.  If youre not sure, ask a couple of close girlfriends to be brutal with your duds, and pick their three favorite and most-hated of your outfits.  If you keep hearing the same thing over and over (Sure those pants are nice, if youre going for a truck-stop mechanic look) you can assume its probably true.  Look for patterns in their likes and dislikes.  Does everybody love you in green?  Wear more green!  Keep hearing gray makes your complexion look like canned meat?  Cut it out of your wardrobe, or at least dont wear it close to your face.  Pay attention to what youre wearing on the days you receive the most compliments.  Figure out whats causing the big stir, and whatever it is, color or style or both, wear more of it.   Refresh your lipstick throughout the day.  Run a brush through your hair before you hit the street.  Check your shoes for toilet paper before you leave a public restroom.  (This is good advice for life, not just when youre looking to meet the man of your dreams.) Be prepared.  That way, if you do end up meeting Mr. Right while youre out walking the dog, you wont have to strategically veil your face with your hand because youve got that little fu-man-chu thing growing on your chin. Heres where it gets really good.  The dream girls know it is terribly important to indulge in some little treat for yourself at least once a week.  Get a body scrub, or a massage.  Have your nails done or get the muck steamed out of your pores.  Try the entire menu of girlie delights until you find what makes you feel the most beautiful and relaxed, and then do it over and over again like some kind of supermodel opiate.  Aside from making your outside more beautiful, your soul will reap the benefits as well.  There is nothing more important and soothing than caring for yourself as a standard of your life. Now, Im sure youre thinking- who does this book person think I am?  Ivana Trump? I dont have the money to blow $85 on a facial every week! I promise, Im not insane.  Not many of us have the money to do that.  The fact is, you can indulge yourself with a myriad of girlie-girl treats for nothing more than hamburger money.  Hey, I wouldnt insist you needed a facial every week without telling you how to get it, would I?  Of course not!   WELCOME TO THE BARGAIN SPA...""	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;dating;humor;humor & entertainment;interpersonal relations;love;love & romance;mate seeking;motivational;relationships;self-esteem;self-help;self-help & psychology;sex & marriage,14
0195161459,"America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson Born into a fiercely abolitionist Philadelphia Quaker family in 1842, feisty Anna Dickinson discovered her love of the limelight at 17 when her spontaneous invective drove a male speaker from a women's rights meeting. Soon, the gifted orator was delivering dozens of public lectures critiquing the progress of the Civil War and Lincoln's refusal to renounce slavery. Taken under the wing of leading abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison, Dickinson was both a celebrity and an oddity, with a lecture attended by Lincoln and Congress and a rash of newspaper coverage, including one story that dubbed her ""a Joan of Arc that God sent into the field"" to help a nation in crisis. After the war, the iconoclastic orator had a complicated relationship with the suffrage movement and with Susan B. Anthony, and added novelist, playwright and actress to her already bulging rsum. Middle age brought poverty, illness, alcoholism and a lawsuit against the Republican Party for withheld lecture fees. Her lowest point came in 1891 with a brief but humiliating commitment to an insane asylum by the sister Dickinson had supported financially for years. Illuminating the life and times of an extraordinary 19th-century woman, historian Gallman's (Mastering Wartime) well-researched volume will mainly interest scholars of American and women's history. Photos. (Apr.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Gallman rescues from obscurity a fascinating orator and reformer who rose to fame during the Civil War and remained prominent for the next three decades. At 17, Dickinson began challenging the institution of slavery and by her twenties was making fiery stump speeches, attracting crowds drawn by the novelty of an attractive, passionate, and expressive young woman. She went on to promote other progressive ideas about the roles of blacks and women, while engaging in freewheeling relationships--with men and women. Dickinson parted company with prominent suffragists when she chose to focus on securing the franchise for black men before women. She enjoyed lifelong relationships, often tempestuous, with leading suffragist Susan B. Anthony and journalist Whitelaw Reid. When the heyday of oratory ebbed, Dickinson moved on to writing novels and plays and acting on the stage, scrambling for a living. She was briefly committed to an insane asylum by her sister as her life faltered. Gallman draws on news accounts and letters to portray the life of a passionate defender of equality in nineteenth-century America. Vanessa BushCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""A welcome addition to the literature on nineteenth-century women who successfully challenged gender conventions to carve out unconventional but highly regarded places for themselves in American public life.""--Sylvia D. Hoffert The Journal of American History""Gallman has made an outstanding contribution to our picture of nineteenth-century gender politics and culture and the pivotal place of Anna Dickinson in that world.""--Nina Silber, Civil War History""America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson does full justice to one of the most remarkable figures in American history, Anna Dickinson, an orator who, as a very young woman, spoke in behalf of the Republican Part during the Civil War and dazzled her contemporaries.""--Glenna Matthews, The Journal of Southern History""Gallman's elegantly written and deeply researched biography reveals the complicated life of an important historical figure...Dickinson's story, varied, tragic, and compellingly narrated, contains much that will be fascinating to historians of the mid-nineteenth century."" --American Historical Review	J. Matthew Gallman is Professor of History at the University of Florida. An authority on the American Civil War, he is the author of Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855; The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front; and Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War.",19th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;historical;history;politics & social sciences;specific groups;state & local;united states;women;women in history;women's studies;world,14
1564581772,"DK Handbooks: Horses YA-The strength of these books is their stunning full-color photographs, all of which are distinct and well labeled. Both guides begin with general overviews of the title animals and then present the histories and characteristics of various breeds in alphabetical order, within logical groupings. Simon & Schuster's Guide to Dogs (1980) and Simon & Schuster's Guide to Horses and Ponies of the World (1988, both S.) have more substantial texts, but their photographs lack the clarity found in these handbooks. Useful additions. Linda Diane Townsend, West Potomac High School, Fairfax County, VACopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",animals;biological sciences;books;children's books;crafts;education & reference;encyclopedias;hobbies & home;horses;nature & ecology;pets & animal care;reference;science & math;veterinary,14
1583226974,"Notes From the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti A compelling mix of reportage, memoir, social criticism...Deibert has a sharp eye for the complicating ironies of history. -- The San Antonio Express-News, February 19, 2006A compelling mix of reportage, memoir, social criticism...Deibert masterfully recounts...wild swings in the republic's political compass. -- The San Antonio Express-News, February 19, 2006A powerfully documented expos. -- The Miami Herald, November 25, 2005",20th century;americas;books;caribbean & west indies;democracy;haiti;history;ideologies & doctrines;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & government;politics & social sciences;revolutionary;united states;world,14
0972019294,"My Pal, Victor/Mi amigo, Victor (Bilingual) Kindergarten-Grade 2Pedestrian prose and amateurish illustrations mar this treatment of friendship despite disabilities. Dominic's friend, Victor, may not walk, but he's far from disabled. He is not only a source of support, but a limit-pushing, life-expanding influence. Always ready with an imaginative story, a sidesplitting joke, or one more terrifying ride at the amusement park, Victor cheers Dominic on at softball games and admires his swimming ability. The closing twist reads: ""But, the most important thing about my pal, Victor, is that he likes me just the way I am."" This is paired with a picture showing one boy in a wheelchair. Libraries will be better served by Fred Rogers's Extraordinary Friends (Putnam, 2000) orLaura Dwight's We Can Do It! (Star Bright, 1998). Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	"" . . . a tale of the value of a good friendship, in any language, in any culture, and with any physical ability."" -- ForeWord Magazine""It reminds the reader that it is what's inside that matters . . .The vivid illustrations capture the children's innocence . . ."" -- Hispanic Link Weekly Report""Tender and quite wonderful! . . .head and shoulders above the crowd. Perfect for beginning readers of English or Spanish."" -- Betsie's Literary Page""opens great opportunities to talk about friendship, (the pitfalls of) judging others, and disabilities."" -- The Reading Tub""such a gentle treatment of the disabilityan admirable book that deserves a place in any childs library."" -- San Antonio Woman MagazineThe award honors an author and illustrator for artistic expression of the disability experience for child / adolescent audiences. -- WinnerALA Schneider Family Book Award2005This book celebrates close friends and accepting each others differences totally. -- Heartland Review April 2004	My Pal, Victor / Mi amigo, Victor is the winner of the ALA's (American Library Association) 2004 Schneider Family Award. The award honors an author and illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences. My Pal, Victor / Mi amigo,Victor was also selected for inclusion on the 2004 New York Suggested Reading List	Why do we choose the friends we do? Dominic knows. He explains just how special his pal Victor really is. After all, Victor tells heart-booming ghost stories, claps the loudest at Dominics baseball games, and performs a fabulous floating frog stroke. Two young boys experience a spirited, carefree friendship that transcends one boys disability.  Sweetlands traditional illustrative style and full-spectrum use of his colored pencil palette on soft tissue paper creates an interesting effect that evokes the everyday charm and warmth that the story portrays. ""Its such a gentle treatment of the disability, that its quite incidental to the story that will appeal to kids ages four to eight Its an admirable book that deserves a place in any childs library."" San Antonio Woman Magazine	Diane Gonzales Bertrand has won numerous awards for her writing, including best bilingual book awards from the National Latino Literay Hall of Fame. She is Writer-in-Residence at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX.	My pal, Victor, makes up great stories. He points to a cloud and a dragon appears, or a rocket ship, or the pyramids in Mexico. Mi amigo Vctor inventa historias fabulosas. Seala una nube  y aparece un dragn,  o un cohete espacial, o las pirmides de Mxico.",books;children's books;children's health;education & reference;fitness & dieting;foreign language learning;foreign language study & reference;friendship;health;literature & fiction;social situations;spanish;special needs;special needs children,14
0201325691,"Hands-On Linux: Featuring Caldera Openlinux Lite, Netscape Navigator Gold, and Netscape Fasttrack Server on Two Cds The Linux operating system has grown out of a free Unix-compatible kernel written by Linus Torvalds. Free means the user is free to run, copy, distribute, study, change, sell, and improve the software as long as the source code is always included in the next release, which means that those who follow are able to do the same. Since Linux is multitasking and processing, it supports multiple users doing multiple actions. And because Linux is designed for running on cheap, slightly out-of-date hardware, Linux has proven valuable to libraries of all sizes who can not afford constant, costly upgrade fees for new software. If you are interested in exploring Linux, these three books serve as a great combined-use package. The Sobell book is voluminous?it includes his original book from last year, A Practical Guide to Linux (LJ 9/1/97), along with a copy of Caldera OpenLinux Lite and much more on the CD-ROMs. The IDG books will be invaluable late-night resources in those magical moments when things go wrong. For a really nice introduction to Linux in libraries, check out On the Cheap: Linux at",books;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;linux;mathematics;microsoft;operating systems;programming;science & math;servers;software;unix;windows os,14
0130668303,"Electronic Test Instruments: Analog and Digital Measurements (2nd Edition) Electronic instruments: theory, applications, and real-world practice.  The practical guide to electronic test and measurement: instruments and techniques, digital and analog Measurement techniques for maximizing accuracy Meters, signal sources, oscilloscopes, frequency counters, power supplies, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, logic analyzers, and more Includes many circuit models and conceptual block diagrams   Electronic Test Instruments: Analog and Digital Measurements, Second Edition offers a thorough, unified, up-to-date survey of the entire field of electronic instrumentation: instruments and techniques, digital and analog.  Robert A. Witte first introduces basic measurement theory, then covers each type of commonly used electronic test equipment. Using detailed examples, Witte shows how these systems are applied in real-world applications, introducing core functionality and showing how to choose the right instrument for each task. This new second edition has been updated throughout, reflecting the latest technologies and presenting extensive new coverage of digital oscilloscopes and power supplies.   Introduces essential measurement theory and explains its relationship to practical measurements Covers all mainstream test instruments, including meters, signal sources, oscilloscopes, frequency counters, power supplies, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, logic probes, and logic analyzers Presents circuit models and conceptual block diagrams that clarify the behavior of complex circuits and instruments Explains key commonalities and differences between digital and analog instrumentation from the user's standpoint Introduces advanced circuit concepts and techniques that help users achieve higher quality measurements Illuminates important concepts such as loading effect, grounding, and bandwidth	ROBERT A. WITTE is an Engineering Manager with Agilent Technologies (formerly Hewlett-Packard), where he is responsible for the design and development of electronic test and measurement equipment. He has taught electrical engineering courses as an adjunct professor at two universities and has written two books and numerous magazine articles about test and measurement instrumentation.	PrefaceThis book is for the electrical engineer, technician, or student who understands basic electronics and wants to learn more about electronic measurements and test instruments. To use electronic instruments effectively, it is necessary to understand basic measurement theory and how it relates to practical measurements. Basic measurement theory includes such things as how a voltage waveform relates to its frequency and how an instrument can affect the voltage that it is measuring. In an ideal world, we would not have to know anything about the internal operation of an instrument to use it effectively. Although this ideal situation can be approached, it cannot be obtained completely. (One does not have to know how a gasoline engine works to drive an automobile. However, a driver does need to understand the function of the accelerator and brake pedals.) To minimize dealing with the internal workings of an instrument, circuit models and conceptual block diagrams are used extensively. Circuit models take a ""black box"" approach to describing a circuit. In other words, the behavior of a complex circuit or instrument can be described adequately by conceptually replacing it with a much simpler circuit. This circuit model approach reduces the amount of detail that must be remembered and understood. Conceptual block diagrams show just enough of the inner workings of an instrument so that the reader can understand what the instrument is doing, without worrying about the details of how this is accomplished. In all instrument categories, the traditional analog technologies have been overtaken by digital technology. More precisely, the old analog approach has been replaced by precision analog circuitry that is enhanced by the power of analog-to-digital converters, digital logic, digital signal processing, and measurement algorithms implemented via software. However, a voltage measurement is still a voltage measurement, whether an analog meter or a digital meter is used. Since the measurement is fundamentally the same, this book treats both technologies in a unified manner, emphasizing digital instruments and highlighting the differences between the analog and digital approaches when appropriate.This book does not attempt to be (nor can it be) a substitute for a well-written instrument operating manual. The reader is not well served by a book that says ""push this button, turn this knob"" because the definition of the buttons and knobs will undoubtedly change with time. Instead, this book is a reference, which provides the reader with a background in electronic instruments. Variations and improvements in instrument design cause each meter, oscilloscope, or function generator to be somewhat unique. However, they all have in common the fundamental measurement principles covered in this book. This second edition of the book includes updates to all of the chapters, incorporating recent developments in technology while still remaining focused on the concepts and principles that last over time. The oscilloscope chapters were expanded, with an increased emphasis on digital oscilloscopes. The section on power supplies was expanded into its own chapter. Chapter 1 covers the basic measurement theory and fundamentals. Chapters 2 through 7 cover the mainstream instruments and applications that the typical user will encounter (meters, signal sources, oscilloscopes, frequency counters, and power supplies). Chapter 8 introduces spectrum analyzer, network analyzers, and RF power meters while Chapter 9 covers logic probes and logic analyzers. Chapter 10 rounds out the book with some important circuit concepts and techniques that enable quality measurements. My original motivation to write this book was my experience in teaching electrical engineering circuit theory courses. Even students with a good background in electrical theory seem to have trouble relating the textbook concepts to what is observed in the laboratory. The concepts of the loading effect, grounding, and bandwidth are particularly troublesome, so they are emphasized throughout the book.	Preface This book is for the electrical engineer, technician, or student who understands basic electronics and wants to learn more about electronic measurements and test instruments. To use electronic instruments effectively, it is necessary to understand basic measurement theory and how it relates to practical measurements. Basic measurement theory includes such things as how a voltage waveform relates to its frequency and how an instrument can affect the voltage that it is measuring. In an ideal world, we would not have to know anything about the internal operation of an instrument to use it effectively. Although this ideal situation can be approached, it cannot be obtained completely. (One does not have to know how a gasoline engine works to drive an automobile. However, a driver does need to understand the function of the accelerator and brake pedals.)  To minimize dealing with the internal workings of an instrument, circuit models and conceptual block diagrams are used extensively. Circuit models take a ""black box"" approach to describing a circuit. In other words, the behavior of a complex circuit or instrument can be described adequately by conceptually replacing it with a much simpler circuit. This circuit model approach reduces the amount of detail that must be remembered and understood. Conceptual block diagrams show just enough of the inner workings of an instrument so that the reader can understand what the instrument is doing, without worrying about the details of how this is accomplished.  In all instrument categories, the traditional analog technologies have been overtaken by digital technology. More precisely, the old analog approach has been replaced by precision analog circuitry that is enhanced by the power of analog-to-digital converters, digital logic, digital signal processing, and measurement algorithms implemented via software. However, a voltage measurement is still a voltage measurement, whether an analog meter or a digital meter is used. Since the measurement is fundamentally the same, this book treats both technologies in a unified manner, emphasizing digital instruments and highlighting the differences between the analog and digital approaches when appropriate. This book does not attempt to be (nor can it be) a substitute for a well-written instrument operating manual. The reader is not well served by a book that says ""push this button, turn this knob"" because the definition of the buttons and knobs will undoubtedly change with time. Instead, this book is a reference, which provides the reader with a background in electronic instruments. Variations and improvements in instrument design cause each meter, oscilloscope, or function generator to be somewhat unique. However, they all have in common the fundamental measurement principles covered in this book.  This second edition of the book includes updates to all of the chapters, incorporating recent developments in technology while still remaining focused on the concepts and principles that last over time. The oscilloscope chapters were expanded, with an increased emphasis on digital oscilloscopes. The section on power supplies was expanded into its own chapter.  Chapter 1 covers the basic measurement theory and fundamentals. Chapters 2 through 7 cover the mainstream instruments and applications that the typical user will encounter (meters, signal sources, oscilloscopes, frequency counters, and power supplies). Chapter 8 introduces spectrum analyzer, network analyzers, and RF power meters while Chapter 9 covers logic probes and logic analyzers. Chapter 10 rounds out the book with some important circuit concepts and techniques that enable quality measurements.  My original motivation to write this book was my experience in teaching electrical engineering circuit theory courses. Even students with a good background in electrical theory seem to have trouble relating the textbook concepts to what is observed in the laboratory. The concepts of the loading effect, grounding, and bandwidth are particularly troublesome, so they are emphasized throughout the book.",books;business & investing;counseling;education;education & reference;electrical & electronic engineering;electrical & electronics;engineering;job hunting & careers;new;professional & technical;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;vocational guidance,14
1582461503,"Why Explore? Kindergarten-Grade 3Throughout history, humans have explored everything from land to sea to space to pond scum, and this picture book asks readers to think about why anyone would leave the safety and comfort of home to experience the danger of the unknown. Rendered in oils, the illustrations show somber scenes of people embarking on various kinds of explorations while others question why. The questions and responses are offered in rhyming couplets: Why explore old stuff dug from the ground?/Everything good has already been found.The archaeologist looked up from her pile./'Even trash grows intriguing after a while....' An author's note adds depth to the different fields featured in the paintings, including Polynesian navigators, early astronomy, ocean voyagers, sharecroppers and homesteaders, microscopic research, archaeology, particle physics, and space. The emotions and questions of explorers pre-journey can generate terrific discussions; however, the singsong rhymes detract from the thought-provoking topic and serious art. A supplemental purchase.Julie Roach, Cambridge Public Library, MA Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Written in luminous prose, Why Explore? takes a clever approach to discovery through the eyes of young scientists, navigators, astronomers and early settlers.--L.A. ParentIf you want to tell your child a bedtime story with a subtle scientific message, Why Explore? would be a great choice.--msnbc.comThrough graceful poetry and evocative illustrations, this elegant book inspires readers to contemplate why humans explore. --Books to Borrow, Books to Buy, syndicated columnThe rhyming, almost lyrical style of text and links to historical and current types of explorers (one could also insert the word inquirer here) makes this book a fabulous read-aloud for teachers and parents. --The Learning CurveA good choice if a broad focus is the goal. -- Kirkus Reviews	"" Why Explore? takes us on a journey through history, showing how that very urge to explore the unknown has helped shape human destiny. Perhaps this book will help inspire our next generation of explorers."" BUZZ ALDRIN, APOLLO 11 ASTRONAUT "" If you dont go looking, youll never find anything. Why Explore? is a book for kids about what to do once you start wondering ....""  BILL NYE, THE SCIENCE GUY Includes three-foot gatefold of Americas western frontier.  Back matter spread provides background information on historical eras highlighted in text.	For more information about Why Explore? and my other books, visit my Author Page at facebook.com/susanlendroth.	As one of the first men to walk on the moon, I am sometimes asked what compels us to explore space, to risk our lives as astronauts. Why Explore? takes us on a journey through history, showing how that very urge to explore the unknown has helped shape human destiny.Perhaps this book will help inspire our next generation of explorers. -- Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Astronaut  If you don't go looking, you'll never find anything. It's how we've come to know the world and our place among the stars. Susan Lendroth's book is a celebration of the human spirit that takes us over the next hill, beneath the distant waves, and beyond what we grasp with our unaided senses. Why Explore? is a book about what to do once you start wondering. --Bill Nye the Science Guy	In her work for the nonprofit organization The Planetary Society, SUSAN LENDROTH is often asked why we travel into space. The question inspired her to write Why Explore? She lives in California with her daughter. ENRIQUE S.MOREIRO studied Fine Art at the University of Madrid. He has painted postage stamps for the nations of Micronesia, Tanzania, Dominica, and St. Vincent, among others. Enrique lives in Spain with his wife and son.",books;children's books;education & reference;exploration & discoveries;family life;historical fiction;literature & fiction;nature & how it works;new experiences;science;science & math;social situations;social skills;technology,14
1565921984,"Managing Usenet Usenet and newsgroups may seem simple to the casual observer,  but system administrators who have to manage Usenet on their system or  run a newsgroup know otherwise. Spencer and Lawrence share information  that previously had to be learned online, providing system  administrators with a detailed guide to Usenet management. They tell  you how to choose between C News and INN, the two major contenders for  Usenet software. Then they show you how set your software up and make  your daily operations as trouble-free as possible. The book not  only presents administration tasks, but also helps you plan for the  future, which is critical since the volume of Usenet communication  doubles yearly. Besides the technical aspects, Spencer and Lawrence  discuss the social and political sides of being a Usenet manager. They  provide tips on how to interact with the rest of Usenet, how to handle  irresponsible or illegal posts, and the fine points of moderating a  newsgroup. Hint: reading the ""What's in the Book"" section will help  you determine which chapters and sections you'll want to read right  away and which are of less immediate interest. --Elizabeth  Lewis	David Lawrence, in addition to being a talented novelist, is also an acclaimed poet and highly successful scriptwriter. Cold Kill is his third novel in the Detective Stella Mooney series--his previous titles, The Dead Sit Round in a Ring and Nothing Like the Night, have received widespread rave reviews. The author lives in southwest London and is hard at work on the next book in the series, which Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur will publish next year.",books;business & management;computer science;computers & technology;internet & web culture;networking;networks;new;operating systems;protocols & apis;software;used & rental textbooks;web development & design;web services,14
156592746X,"JavaServer Pages This comprehensive guide to JavaServer Pages (JSPs), a fast-growing technology for Web developers, teaches you how to embed server-side Java into Web pages, while also offering full access to other features such as JavaBeans, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), and JDBC database access. The reference JSP implementation is the freely available Apache Tomcat server, so it won't cost a thing to get started. All the example code in the book has been tested on Tomcat, in fact. The first part of JavaServer Pages covers the essentials of HTTP and Java Servlets, on which JSPs are based. There is also a guide to installing Tomcat on your Windows or Unix system. The next part, aimed at Web page designers as well as programmers, covers JSP application development. There is material on scripting elements, error handling, managing user sessions, database access, security, and using XML and XSL with JSP. Part 3, for programmers, broadens the scope to include EJB and other Java components, developing custom tags, and achieving highly scalable applications using database connection pools. A comprehensive reference section finishes things off. The author has been an active participant in the official servlet and JSP working groups, and this book is both well informed and well organized. It provides experts with invaluable tips and insights, while newcomers will find all they need to assess and implement their first JSP applications. --Tim Anderson, Amazon.co.uk	Hans Bergsten is the founder of Gefion Software, a company focused on Java services and products based on the J2EE technlogies. Hans has been an active participant in the working groups for both the servlet and JSP specifications from the time they were formed. He also contributes to other related JCP specifications, such as JSP Standard Tag Libraries (JSTL), and helped get the development of the Apache Tomcat reference implementation for servlet and JSP started as one of the initial members of the Apache Jakarta Project Management Committee.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;java;java server pages;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design,14
B000OYEZGM,"Searching for Security in a New Europe: The Diplomatic Career of Sir George Russell Clerk (British Politics and Society) The study provides an exhaustive account of this complicated political history, describing the careers, educations, personalities, influence, and performance of the many political figures involved. --Reference  Research Book News	Gerald J. Protheroe is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Sciences at New York University and the Head of the History Department at The Browning School in New York.",biographies & memoirs;books;european;history & theory;international & world politics;kindle ebooks;kindle store;leaders & notable people;medical;political;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;professionals & academics,14
0072192607,"Dreamweaver(R) 4 Fireworks(R) 4 Studio: A Beginner's Guide Essential Skills for First-Time Designers Prepare yourself for unlimited growth in the world of Web design by building a rock-solid foundation in two of the most significant applications in the industry--Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Learn Internet fundamentals, get a primer on HTML, and plan your first Web site, then use the powerful tools in this studio to design and build more robustly functioning, professional-looking Web sites. Written by a Macromedia expert with vast experience as a trainer and curriculum developer, this complete learning guide will help everyone--from beginners to the most experienced Web authors--combine Dreamweaver and Fireworks to produce beautiful results. This Beginner's Guide Is Designed for Easy Learning:  Modules--Each concept is divided into logical modules (chapters), ideal for individualized learning  Goals--Each module opens with the specific skills you'll have by the end of the module  Ask the Experts--Q;A sections throughout are filled with extra information and interesting commentary  1-Minute Drills--Quick self-assessment sections to check your progress  Annotated Syntax--Example code annotated with commentary that points to the particular technique illustrated  Projects--Exercises contained in each module show how to apply what you are learning  Mastery Checks--End-of-module reviews that test your knowledge using short-answer, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and simple coding questions	Kim Cavanaugh (West Palm Beach, FL) is the Technology Coordinator and Web Design Instructor at Congress Middle School of Math/Science/Technology. In 1999, Cavanaugh developed a groundbreaking course in Web design by teaching the three primary Web authoring titles from Macromedia (Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks) to middle school students. The lessons presented in this book are a result of his vast experience as trainer, teacher, and curriculum developer.",books;computer science;computers & technology;desktop publishing;dreamweaver;electronic documents;fireworks;graphic design;new;programming;programming languages;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design,14
1403963606,"Heaven: A Guide to the Undiscovered Country The author of The Devil: A Biography and Catholics and Sex explores the idea of the afterworld, considering in this thoroughly researched book how the search for life after death is connected with the desire to fully live. Drawing upon a plethora of literary and historical sources, Stanford engagingly explores how a variety of religions-including Judaism, Christianity and Buddhism-have imagined and described heaven. And he considers the viewpoints of a bevy of artists, writers, psychologists and philosophers as well-among them Signorelli, Dante, Poe, Freud, Jung, Plato and Kant. He takes readers through the gates of heaven at the Orvieto Cathedral in Tuscany to view the Renaissance's ""radical new take on heaven"" as revealed in Signorelli's masterful fresco in the Cappella di San Brizio. He also describes visiting Chartres, where he reminds readers that the gorgeous stained glass windows depicting Christ's life had a purpose beyond beauty-they educated a largely illiterate population. These historical tours open up the subject of heaven with delightful detail and imagery, making an otherworldly topic (Pope John Paul II called heaven ""a blessed community"" that was ""neither abstraction nor physical space"") tangible and accessible. Standford's inclusion of five short ""Traveler's Tales,"" which recount the near-death experiences of living and historical figures, may be another method for making the ethereal more concrete. Rich in history and testimony, this thoughtful tome is a worthy study for anyone who has a curiosity in life beyond death. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	*Starred Review* Heaven cannot wait for one British broadcaster and Catholic gadfly. Rather, the afterlife looms as an immediate challenge for Stanford, who warns that a modern society that cannot think seriously about immortality in the next world is fast losing its ability to think soberly about death in this one. To renew a metaphysical inquiry that he fears is disappearing even in the churches, Stanford weaves intensely personal reflections on the great human riddle into wide-ranging scholarly research into the otherworldly visions of prophets, poets, and philosophers. The Buddhist doctrines of reincarnation receive attention, as do Muslim teachings about djanna, but Stanford focuses chiefly on Christian conceptions of the afterlife and their Jewish antecedents. Surprisingly fluid, these conceptions have shifted over the centuries: Christians who have listened to mystics rhapsodizing over the soul's unspeakably celestial union with God have often listened just as attentively to visionaries promising the eternal preservation of this world's delights and social ties. Probing the theological tensions separating these conceptions and the psychological impulses of their evangelists, Stanford delves deep into the writings of intrepid travelers--including St. Paul, Dante, and William Blake--reporting ecstatic journeys to the very boundaries of the divine realm. At a time when clerics have lapsed into silence on a topic still charged with intense interest, this book will attract a large and appreciative readership. Bryce ChristensenCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""In this valuable study, Peter Stanford explores the idea of heaven, which, like the notion of God itself, tells us something crucial about the human condition. From the very dawn of history, men and women have been convinced that there is something that transcends our mundane existence, which supports it and gives it ultimate value. Stanford's history of the ways in which people have conceived this 'other' world shows that, however we struggle to express this sense of the sacred dimension, it has been a fact of human life. But Stanford does something more. His account is witty, engaging and inclusive, but in the most charming way possible, it compels us to face up to our own mortality. Unless we do that, we will fail to make the most of our present life, never mind whatever may await us in the future.""--Karen Armstrong, author of  The Battle for God""[Heaven] may be as close to Paradise as we get."" -- Sunday Telegraph""[A]n engaging narrative...it is worth reading [Stanford's] book for its elegant catalogue of the various future opportunities which may -- or may not -- be on offer."" -- Antonia Fraser, New Statesman	Heaven: From Elysian fields to black eyed virgins and pearly gates, people have different images of what waits for us in the great beyond. We fear death but long for the just rewards. We create popular images of Heaven and imagine the possibilities. From Monty Python's The Meaning of Life to Bergman's The Seventh Seal, from the Aeneid to C.S. Lewis, religion provides succor - but not all religions have the same concept of Heaven. Down the ages it has been mapped out as the ultimate travel destination and has been sold as a paradise garden, a rural Arcadia and a city of incomparable grandeur.Prompted by his own experience of bereavement, Peter Stanford sets out on a personal journey towards the place people call Heaven. In the company of scientists, philosophers, bishops, artists, writers and atheists, Stanford explores the promise of a reality of which we all have an image.	Peter Stanford is a writer and broadcaster. His books include The Devil: A Biography, The She-Pope and Catholics and Sex. He lives in London.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;education & reference;general;history;humanities;new;religion & spirituality;religious;religious history;religious studies;used & rental textbooks;world,14
4770027613,"Japanese Country Style: Putting New Life into Old Houses ""[Takishita's] work is not only interesting and stimulating -- it is inspiring."" -- Donald Richie, The Japan Times""showcases the artful blending of traditional Japanese elements for modern living."" -- Associated Press	FOREWORD Over the last three decades or so, casual visitors to Kamakura (and longtime residents as well) have wondered about a large, steeply sloped roof that seems to ""grow"" out of the top of Genjiyama, one of Kamakura's highest hills. Walking through the ancient town's leafy residential lanes or hiking along one of the many trails leading up into the hills, one's eyes are drawn, as if by a magnet, toward the powerful sculptural form of that roof that seems to crown the hilltop and the town itself. When I lived in Kamakura during the early 1970s, I was amused by the rumors circulating down in the town about the structure on the peak of Genjiyama and the identity of its inhabitants: some claimed it was the mountain villa of a former prime minister; no, said others, it was the sanctuary of a religious sect or a cult that worshipped the gods of the sea stretching out far below it. Once, with unimpeachable authority, I was informed by the proprietor of a little restaurant near Kamakura ! Station that the hilltop was actually the temporary asylum of a foreign ruler, living in exile in Japan but planning a revolution that would restore him to power in his homeland. This theory gained in credibility as local residents observed occasional motorcades of black limousines accompanied by motorcycle police traveling up the steep hill toward the mysterious building at its peak.  I listened to these rumors with keen interest, but said nothing, of course, because I knew that the magnificent roof, which was all that was visible from the valley below, actually sheltered the home of my friends Yoshihiro and Reiko Takishita and Yoshi's adoptive American father, the journalist John Roderick. To me, there was no mystery about the place because I had visited it often and had frequently enjoyed the wonderful hospitality of the Takishitas. Still, I enjoyed participating in the mystery surrounding one of Kamakura's best-kept secrets because the real story of the mountaintop house, though lacking in sinister intrigue, is far more interesting and compelling than anything the rumor-mongers could cook.  I am delighted that Yoshi Takishita has finally told the story of his own house as well as the history and traditions that produced it. In this book he also tells the stories of a number of similar homes that he has created for friends and clients in Japan and abroad. With or without mysterious overtones, his own house atop Genjiyama is, quite simply, one of the most magnificent abodes I have ever visited. Its power stems in part, of course, from its lofty location and the extraordinary vista of hills and ocean that it commands. But even more impressive is the building itself, the all-embracing unity of its architectural components, and the obvious affection that has been lavished on it by its present owners. The house that now commands the most exalted hilltop in Kamakura traveled there from much humbler origins far away, and this book recounts that journey -- a story that offers compelling messages about preservation and craft, about man's place in his natural surroundings! , and about an aesthetic that transforms shelter into art.  Yoshihiro Takishita is a visionary who saw, with an eye untutored at first by architectural sciences, that the proud but crumbling old farmhouses of his childhood in the remote mountains of Gifu could be transformed into great homes that satisfied the needs for comfort and convenience of twentieth- and twenty-first-century dwellers. Where others saw only hazard, discomfort, and inconvenience in ancient structures built of heavy wooden beams and straw thatch, Takishita saw enduring beauty and strength. When others were ready to destroy the old farmhouses, trashing their proud traditions and exchanging them for the illusory convenience of prefabricated steel and plastic, Takishita stepped forward to rescue them, to preserve their majestic authority, and, by dismantling and reconstructing them, to transform them (in countless unseen ways) into warm, comfortable, and astonishingly beautiful homes.  Takishita's mission is fully in accord with the principles of the modern mingei, or ""folk-craft,"" movement that has reintroduced to contemporary Japan the simple beauties of its agrarian past. His farmhouse-homes were originally crafted by hand, by carpenters and farmers whose hard work was motivated not by ego or enrichment but rather by function and necessity. Takishita's dwellings were restored by the same hands, guided by a similar spirit of dedication, and he has furnished them with a superb array of antique objects -- ceramics, paintings, lacquerware, and metal crafts -- all made with comparable craftsmanship and zeal. That spirit was perhaps best expressed by the ideals of Yanagi Soetsu, the philosopher and aesthetician who attributed the enduring beauty of ancient crafts to ""the hand of the Buddha"": ""If there is beauty here, it does not stem from the power of a single individual but must be seen as the work of a power surpassing the people involved, operating behind the scenes to endow the object with beauty. To put the matter simply, the other power, the hand of the Buddha, is at work in the beauty of the anonymous object.""  This book recounts Yoshihiro Takishita's discovery of the ageless beauty of craft in Japan's rural traditions and his remarkable dedication to giving modern meaning to ancient architectural truths. The ""story"" of the book is the process of rebuilding and restoring his own home and fifteen other old Japanese farmhouses. But there is much more here than an account of foundation-posts and roof-beams and joinery. Takishita's personal story is a journey of self-discovery with deep significance for modern Japan's confrontation with its own past. His vision, craftsmanship, and dedication have brought these farmhouses back to life, giving them a new identity and new meaning. There can be no question that guiding his handiwork and inspiring his efforts has been something more -- perhaps, indeed, ""the hand of the Buddha.""  Peter M. Grilli President, Japan Society of Boston	YOSHIHIRO TAKISHITA was born in Gifu Prefecture in 1945 and graduated with a law degree from Tokyo's Waseda University in 1967. While still a student, he learned of a 250-year-old farmhouse (minka) near his home town that was about to be submerged in the construction of a local reservoir. Impressed by the dignity of the structure, he arranged to have the house moved to a site in Kamakura, where it was rebuilt as a home for his American foster father. He then took eighteen months off and hitchhiked around the world, visiting thirty-six countries. On his return in 1971, he established The House of Antiques, where he sells furniture, ceramics, and other antiques. After enthusiastic clients praised the reconstructed farmhouse in Kamakura and urged him to build more, he began rebuilding and renovating other traditional farmhouses. To date, he has carried out thirty renovations, four of them overseas.",architecture;books;buildings;crafts;crafts & hobbies;decorating;education & reference;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;interior design;professional & technical;professional reference;reference,14
0810850710,"The Heart Has Its Reasons: Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2004 (Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature) This terrific and long-overdue resource chronicles the development of GLBTQ-themed young adult literature over time and intersperses critical commentary with annotated bibliographies of related fiction. Cart and Jenkins use a three-part framework to describe the historical changes in content and the depiction of gays and lesbians in terms of what they call ""homosexual visibility,"" ""gay assimilation,"" and ""queer consciousness/community."" The authors take a historical approach and examine GLBTQ-themed young adult literature decade by decade, discussing pivotal works in detail, and conclude each chapter with an annotated bibliography and a list of notes or works cited. Well organized and easy to read, Heart is a valuable, semi-scholarly reference for both collection development and research.Amy S. Pattee, Simmons College, Boston Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Both a comprehensive overview and a lively, detailed discussion of individual landmark books, this highly readable title in the Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature series discusses 35 years of YA books with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (GLBTQ) content. Booklist columnist Cart, a groundbreaking YALSA leader, and Jenkins, a well-known academic, have long played crucial roles in raising standards and gaining recognition for YA literature, and they speak with authority and personal experience about the history of the field, candid about the stereotypes and enthusiastic about what is ""accurate, thoughtful, and artful."" They note the long invisibility of GLBTQ themes in YA fiction and then chart the great breakthrough titles as well as the range from simplistic ""problem"" scenarios to gays as complex protagonists and part of the gay community--though the cliches are still with us, including the gay as sad-eyed loner. With fully annotated bibliographies, including a chronological list, this is a valuable YA and adult resource, sure to be in great demand for personal reference and group discussion. For more on this book, see Books by Booklist Authors on p.128. Hazel RochmanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	...[an] overview of gay/lesbian themes and characters in young adult literature. (The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 2006-10-01)Both a comprehensive overview and a lively, detailed discussion of individual landmark books, this highly readable title...discusses 35 years of YA books with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (GLBTQ) content....this is a valuable YA and adult resource, sure to be in great demand for personal reference and group discussion. (Booklist 2006-09-01)This Scarecrow series continues to impress...Essential. (CHOICE)Cart (young adult literature, UCLA, and Assembly on Adolescent Literature of the National Council of Teachers of English) and Jenkins (library and information science, U. of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign) trace the development of young adult literature with gay, lesbian, and queer content, beginning in 1969 with the first novel incorporating that theme, by John Donovan. They evaluate character portrayal and themes-also illustrated in a chart at the end-using three categories: homosexual visibility, gay assimilation, and queer consciousness/community. In addition to the chronological bibliography, the chapters, organized by decade, included annotated references to books published during those periods, up to 2004. (Reference and Research Book News 2006-08-01)...a definitive work on the subject....Thoughtful and insightful analysis is a real strength of the book....This book will be important for those wishing to make their library holdings more inclusive or who want to understand the changes that have occurred in this YA genre from the 1970s through the year 2004. (Silive.com)...charts the growth in young adult novels with gay content...Michael Cart and Christine Jenkins...comment on the meager amount of critical analysis of YA literature on their theme. Their book redresses this dearth considerably. (Feminist Collections: A Quarterly Of Women's Studies Resources 2007-12-01)The authors do a fine job of applauding what is 'accurate, thoughtful and artful,' while chastising what is 'stereotypic, wrongheaded, and outdated,'... (The Horn Book Magazine 2007-02-01)Cart and Jenkins's incredibly detailed and researched historical survey provides a starting point for any critical, contextual, and theoretical examination of young adult GLBTQ literature. And...there is great potential in such examinations. (Children's Literature Association Quarterly 2006-12-01)...terrific and long-overdue...Well organized and easy to read, Heart is a valuable, semi-scholarly reference for both collection development and research. (School Library Journal 2007-01-01)	Michael Cart is a past president of the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association and the current President of the Assembly on Adolescent Literature of the National Council of Teachers of English. He teaches young adult literature at UCLA, he is the former head of the Beverly Hills Public Library, and the author of several books on children's and young adult literature, as well as a young adult novel, My Father's Scar, a gay coming-of-age story selected as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults.Christine A. Jenkins is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.",books;criticism & theory;education & reference;fiction;gay & lesbian;history;history & criticism;library & information science;literary criticism;literature & fiction;movements & periods;politics & social sciences;social sciences;teens,14
B000FJGN7K,"Practical Software Testing: A Process-Oriented Approach (Springer Professional Computing) From the reviews:        ""The subject matter presented in Practical Software Testing follows a well-designed instructional plan, from theory, to practice, to model. Ilene Burnsteins writing style keeps the readers interest.  She provides a nice balance of text and graphics  . Excellent detail is given to the critical aspect of software quality and prevention of defects  . This is the best book I have read on the subject of software testing to date.  In summary, I would recommend Practical Software Testing  ."" (Harry Acosta, www.StickyMinds.com, 2005)    ""This book gives a broad  introduction to software testing and related fields of software quality.  The text is well-organized and easy to read. All basics of testing that you will expect from a textbook on that topic are covered.  There are exercises at the end of each chapter."" (Martin Glinz, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1040 (9), 2004)    ""This book has been written with the aim of providing an educational background for software testing professionals.  I would say that the book fulfils its aim. It provides a good overview of the subject for aspiring testers; it contains useful resources such as a sample test-plan and a vast additional reference list at the end. It is certainly also useful as a reference book for more experienced professionals and managers  . The book is easy to read, and I would definitely recommend it."" (Silke Kuball, Software Testing Verification and Reliability, Vol. 14 (2), 2004)	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Based on the needs of the educational community, and the software professional, this book takes a unique approach to teaching software testing. It introduces testing concepts that are managerial, technical, and process oriented, using the Testing Maturity Model (TMM) as a guiding framework. The TMM levels and goals support a structured presentation of fundamental and advanced test-related concepts to the reader. In this context, the interrelationships between theoretical, technical, and managerial concepts become more apparent. In addition, relationships between the testing process, maturity goals, and such key players as managers, testers and client groups are introduced. Topics and features:  - Process/engineering-oriented text  - Promotes the growth and value of software testing as a profession  - Introduces both technical and managerial aspects of testing in a clear and precise style  - Uses the TMM framework to introduce testing concepts in a systemmatic, evolutionary way to faciliate understanding  - Describes the role of testing tools and measurements, and how to integrate them into the testing process Graduate students and industry professionals will benefit from the book, which is designed for a graduate course in software testing, software quality assurance, or software validation and verification    Moreover, the number of universities with graduate courses that cover this material will grow, given the evoluation in software development as an engineering discipline and the creation of degree programs in software engineering.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;computer science;computers & technology;database design;databases;education & reference;languages & tools;programming;software design;software development;software engineering;systems analysis & design;testing;testing & engineering,14
0861711459,"Polishing the Diamond, Enlightening the Mind: Reflections of a Korean Buddhist Master ""[Polishing the Diamond is] by far the best translation ...  I have ever seen of a contemporary Korean Buddhist book.... A  remarkable achievement.""  -- Professor Robert Buswell, UCLA.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: Korean	: Master Jae Woong Kim is the foremost disciple of the  late Master Wook Baek, the most prominent Korean Buddhist leader of  the 20th Century. He is the head of the Diamond Monastery in Korea  and travels frequently to the U.S. to give teachings.	Joy at seeing your karmic hindrances  Once, a certain bosallim, or female Buddhist practitioner, went to  the New Year's Day prayer gathering at the Temple of the Seven  Buddhas. Despite the cold weather, many practitioners were  prostrating or reciting Buddha's name all night in front of a stone  Buddha that stood in the middle of the temple grounds. Since the bosallim was wearing many layers of clothing, she felt  uncomfortable in her wool coat. She took off her coat and hung it in  a room, then bowed and prayed in front of the stone Buddha until  dawn. By that time it had gotten colder, so she went back to the  room to get her coat so that she might continue praying. The room had been heated all night by a large fire, and it was so  hot that some of the floor mats were slightly burnt. A couple of  bosallims were sleeping on the floor instead of praying all night.  The scene did not please her. She looked everywhere for her coat and  finally found someone sleeping on top of it so as to lessen the heat  from the floor. Filled with rage, she examined the coat and found  that it was all wrinkled, with some spots even slightly burnt. She was about to wake the woman who was sleeping on top of the coat  and yell at her, but she restrained herself, thinking, ""Since the  coat is already in this condition, yelling at her will not iron out  the wrinkles or repair the burns."" She also rationalized that, on  her way up to the temple, she could have ripped the coat by getting  it stuck on a branch, or lost it entirely, so she convinced herself  it was a good thing that only this much damage had occurred. After her trip, the bosallim came to me and asked me if showing such  restraint is how the practice of surrendering is done. Surrendering,  however, does not mean restraining or rationalizing one's emotion  like that. The moment she thought it was not proper for those women  to sleep on the floor, the scolding mind of anger had already  surfaced in her mind. The person who practices surrendering well  without losing mindfulness would have started to surrender his or  her criticism at that very moment. If she had surrendered well at  that moment, she probably would not have been so angry when she  first found someone sleeping on her coat. If she were not able to do  that, she could have at least surrendered her anger the moment she  was overwhelmed with rage, even though it was a little late.  Instead, she let her anger escape. Surrendering does not mean going  through a process of restraining or rationalizing one's emotion, but  rather surrendering that emotion directly by reciting Buddha  Maitreya's name, Miruk Chon Yorae Pul. The instant anger arises in you, you should cleanse it from your  mind and be free of it immediately. You should surrender your anger  until there is no remnant of it left in you. Also, you should  practice surrendering in such a way that the time it takes to  cleanse the discriminative notion from your mind gradually  diminishes. Hardened karmic hindrances accumulated in your mind can be  surrendered only if they are first revealed through external shocks,  just as we remove the dirt in the bottom of a well by stirring its  water with a long stick and collecting the surfacing sediments.  There is a saying that goes, ""Liberation is being happy to see your  karmic hindrances arise."" This shows us the attitude of a spiritual  seeker: always ready.",books;buddhism;christian books & bibles;eastern;inspirational;meditations;other eastern religions & sacred texts;personal transformation;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;self-help;spirituality;worship & devotion,14
187272731X,"Pressland's Great Book of Tin Toys This magnificent and authoritative volume has nearly 700 color illustrations of the toys that dominated the industry for a century.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.",antiques & collectibles;books;crafts;dolls;education & reference;engineering;hobbies & home;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;new;professional & technical;toys;toys & figurines;used & rental textbooks,14
0805003118,"Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti Anansi the Spider is a wise, funny, mischievous, and loveable folk hero who pops up in traditional Ashanti tales from Ghana, in West Africa. This story, retold and illustrated by Gerald McDermott, relates the tale of father Anansi and his six spider sons. When Anansi sets out on a dangerous journey and gets into all sorts of trouble, each son does one thing to help, and all their efforts together save their father. He finds a mysterious, beautiful globe of light in the forest, and decides to make it a gift of thanks. But which son should receive the prize? Even with the help of Nyame, the God of All Things, he can't decide, so Nyame takes the great globe up into the sky, and that's where it has stayed ever since--the moon, for all to see. This profound story reaches children of many ages; younger ones see it as an exciting rescue story, but older children are intrigued by the larger themes of cooperation and the whole being more than its parts.  Anansi the Spider, McDermott's first book, received immediate acclaim and was named a Caldecott Honor Book. McDermott has retold and illustrated many other folktales and myths during his long career, including Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale, which received the Caldecott Medal, Musicians of the Sun, and a series of trickster folktales from around the world. He has a rare combination of skills, being both a gifted writer and a talented artist.  His distinctive graphic style using bold shapes and brilliant colors is always striking, but is especially well suited to the story of Anansi, with traditional African motifs skillfully integrated throughout the art.  This is a story that can be read over and over again! (Ages 4 to 9) --Marcie Bovetz	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	A clever folk hero proves himself resourceful in this bold and poetic tale. Ages 5-8. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""The brief poetic text, complemented by geometric, African folk-style illustrations in pure, bold colors, provides a good introduction to this clever hero.""--School Library Journal, starred review	Caldecott Medalist Gerald McDermott's illustrated books and animated films have brought him international recognition. He is highly regarded for his culturally diverse works inspired by traditional African and Japanese folktales, hero tales of the Pueblos, and the archetypal mythology of Egypt, Greece, and Rome. It was his fascination with the imagery of African folklore that led him to the story of Anansi the Spider. McDermott was born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Cass Technical High School, where he was awarded a National Scholastic Scholarship to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Once in New York, he began to produce and direct a series of animated films on mythology in consultation with renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell. These films became the basis for McDermott's first picture books. Among his many honors and awards are the Caldecott Medal for Arrow to the Sun, a Pueblo myth, and Caldecott honors for Anansi the Spider: A Tale from Ashanti and Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest. In addition, McDermott is Primary Education Program Director for the Joseph Campbell Foundation.",africa;animals;books;bugs & spiders;children's books;education & reference;explore the world;fairy tales;family life;folk tales & myths;language arts;multicultural;social situations;travel & cultures,14
0911287248,"Secret Waters (Women's Poetry) Linda C Brown was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia to a family whose greatest gift was laughter. She studied at The Woman's College of the University of North Carolina and graduated from Ohio State University.    Linda Brown, a teacher for many years in the Yakima School District, lives in Yakima,Washington and still carries a passion for writing and listening to stories.",aging;aging parents;books;codependency;family relationships;fitness & dieting;health;medicine & health sciences;new;parent & adult child;parenting & relationships;relationships;self-help;used & rental textbooks,14
0195038282,"Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy In this well-crafted narrative Jones has fleshed out what was heretofore a footnote in the history of the American antislavery movement. The cause of the small band of black slaves who had mutinied during transport off Cuba and eventually washed up on Long Island (1839) temporarily united disparate factions of the fledgling abolitionist movement. Besides raising fundamental legal questions about the relevance of slavery and race to the American conception of liberty, the Amistad affair adversely affected relations between the United States and Spain and forced President Van Buren into improper interference with the judicial process. A key volume for scholars of 19th-century America and for specialists in the abolitionist movement. Thomas E. Schott, Office of History, Engineering Installation Division, Tinker Air Force Base, OklahomaCopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""An analysis of an important moment in American history that casts a light upon politics and society during the preceding half-century, back to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and similarly illumines the approaching Civil War.""--National Review. ""A rousing and satisfying tale, and it is well worth hearing it again in this careful and thoughtful telling.""--American Heritage	Howard Jones is Professor of History at the University of Alabama and author of The Course of American Diplomacy and To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",19th century;africa;african-american studies;americas;books;history;humanities;new;political science;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states;used & rental textbooks,14
0811726576,"Army Dictionary and Desk Reference, Second Edition This is a shorter, less elaborate alternative to The United States Army: A Dictionary , edited by Peter Tsouras and others ( LJ 1/91). Zurick catalogs ""the working language of the Army"" from A-10 (a ground-support aircraft) to Zulu time (Greenwich mean time). The definitions, as a rule brief and accurate, are accompanied by references to their most familiar context: civil affairs, tactics, unconventional warfare, and so on. The work also includes a set of reference tables on subjects like military occupational specialties and physical fitness standards. While the work is primarily intended for military agencies, its comprehensive coverage should attract scholars and journalists who deal more or less regularly with the army's alphabet soup.- D.E. Showalter, U.S. Air Force Acad., Colorado SpringsCopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Tim Zurick is a writer and a retired military intelligence servicemember. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;engineering;history;military science;military sciences;new;professional & technical;reference;social sciences;special topics;used & rental textbooks,14
0375500723,"The Heart of a Woman (Oprah's Book Club) Millions have read Maya Angelou's national bestseller The Heart of a Woman, and now you can hear her fascinating story in the author's own voice. Angelou exposes a turbulent period of her life as she struggles to raise a child, fulfill her goals as a writer, and fight for civil rights in an age of social injustice; Angelou's rich and resonating voice draws the listener into the unexpected details of her life. Working as a nightclub singer in Los Angeles, Angelou decides to move to New York with her son Guy in hopes of building stronger ties with the black art community. In an attempt to find stability for Guy and make a name for herself, her love life takes wild turns. Should she marry the bail bondsman who's as dry as stale bread or run away with the African freedom fighter? Her heart takes her to Africa, where her writing career blossoms but her marriage sours. The Heart of a Woman is filled with beautiful prose and songs; Angelou displays her music talent in several vignettes, most memorably in a scene with Billie Holiday: Angelou is performing at a nightclub when Holiday shrieks, Stop her, stop her... she sounds like my mama!	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than the people one saw every day, have I found myself SO moved.-- James BaldwinFull of laughter and tears, love and hate, failures and triumphs, and above all, understanding.-- John O. KillensGather Together in My NameGather Together in My Name is part of a select body of literature that includes The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised land, and Ernest J. Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Maya Angelou regards the world and herself with intelligence and wit; she records the events of her life with style and grace.-- William McPherson, The Washington Post Book WorldHere the 'caged bird' soars, and sings in a voice as rich and funny, passionate and mellow as any writer I know.-- Shana Alexander	This engaging book chronicles the changes in Maya Angelou's life as she enters the hub of activity that is New York. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, she rededicates herself to writing, and finds love at an unexpected moment. Reflecting on her many roles--from northern coordinator of Martin Luther King's history-making quest to mother of a rebellious teenage son--Angelou eloquently speaks to an awareness of the heart within us all.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers. Not since her childhood has she lived in an almost black environment, and she is surprised at the obsession her new friends have with the white world around them. She stays for a while with John and Grace Killens and begins to read her writing at the Harlem Writers Guild. She continues to sing, most notably at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, but more and more she begins to take part in the struggle of black Americans for their rightful place in the world. She helps organize a benefit cabaret for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and then is appointed Martin Luther Kings Northern Coordinator.Shortly after that, through her friend Abbey Lincoln, she takes one of the lead parts in Genet's The Blacks (it was a remarkable cast, including Godfrey Cambridge, Roscoe Lee Brown, James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Raymond St. Jacques, and Lou Gossett), and even writes music for the production.In the meantime her personal life has taken a tempestuous turn. She has left the New York bail bondsman she was intending to marry and has fallen in love with a South African freedom fighter named Vusumzi Make, who sweeps her off her feet and eventually takes her to London and then to Cairo, where, as her marriage begins to break up, she becomes the first female editor of the English-language magazine.The Heart of a Woman is filled with unforgettable vignettes of famous people, from Billie Holiday to Malcolm X, but perhaps most important is the story of Maya Angelou's relationship with her son. Because this book chronicles, finally, the joys and the burdens of a black mother in America and how the son she had cherished so intensely and worked for so devotedly finally grows to be a man.	""I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than the people one saw every day, have I found myself SO moved.""-- James Baldwin""Full of laughter and tears, love and hate, failures and triumphs, and above all, understanding.""-- John O. Killens""Gather Together in My Name""Gather Together in My Name is part of a select body of literature that includes The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised land, and Ernest J. Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Maya Angelou regards the world and herself with intelligence and wit; she records the events of her life with style and grace.""-- William McPherson, The Washington Post Book World""Here the 'caged bird' soars, and sings in a voice as rich and funny, passionate and mellow as any writer I know.""-- Shana Alexander	Poet, writer, performer, teacher and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then went to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she has also written five poetry collections, including I Shall Not Be Moved and Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?, as well as the celebrated poem On the Pulse of Morning, which she read at the inauguration of President William Jefferson Clinton.From the Trade Paperback edition.	The Harlem Writer's Guild was meeting at John's house, and my palms were sweating and my tongue was thick.The loosely formed organization, withoutdues or membership cards, had one strict rule: any invited guest could sit infor three meetings, but thereafter, the visitor had to read from his or herwork in progress.My time had come. Sara Wright and Sylvester Leeksstood in a corner talking softly.John Clarke was staring at titles in thebookcase.Mary Delaney and Millie Jordan were giving their coats to Graceand exchanging greetings.The other writers were already seated around theliving room in a semicircle. John Killens walked past me, touching myshoulder, took his seat and called the meeting to order. O.K.,everybody.Let's start. Chairs scraped the floor and the soundsreverberated in my armpits.As you know, our newest member, our Californiasinger, is going to read from her new play.What's the title,Maya? One Love, One Life.My usually deep voice leaked outhigh-pitched and weak. A writer asked how many acts the play had.Ianswered again in the piping voice, So far only one. Everyonelaughed; they thought I was making a joke. If everyone is ready, wecan begin. John picked up his note pad.There was a loud rustling as thewriters prepared to take notes. I read the character and setdescription despite the sudden perversity of my body.The blood pounded inmy ears but not enough to drown the skinny sound of my voice.My hands shookso that I had to lay the pages in my lap, but that was not a good solutiondue to the tricks my knees were playing.They lifted voluntarily, pulling myheels off the floor and then trembled like disturbed Jello.Before Ilaunched into the play's action, I looked around at the writers expecting buthoping not to see their amusement at my predicament.Their faces werestudiously blank.Within a year, I was to learn that each had a horror storyabout a first reading at the Harlem Writers Guild. Time wrapped itselfaround every word, slowing me.I couldn't force myself to read faster. Thepages seemed to be multiplying even as I was trying to reduce them.The playwas dull, the characters, unreal, and the dialogue was taken entirely off theback of a Campbell's soup can.I knew this was my first and last time at theGuild.Even if I hadn't the grace to withdraw voluntarily, I was certain themembers had a method of separating the wheat from the chaff. The End.At last. The members laid their notes down beside their chairsand a few got up to use the toilets.No one spoke.Even as I read I knewthe drama was bad, but maybe someone would have lied a little. Theroom filled.Only the whispering of papers shifting told me that the jurywas ready. John Henrik Clarke, a taut little man from the South,cleared his throat.If he was to be the first critic, I knew I would receivethe worst sentence.John Clarke was famous in the group for his keenintelligence and bitter wit.He had supposedly once told the FBI that theywere wrong to think that he would sell out his home state of Georgia; he added that he would give it away, and if he found no takers he would even paysomeone to take it.  One Life.One Love?His voice was araspof disbelief.I found no life and very little love in the play from theopening of the act to its unfortunate end. Using superhuman power, Ikept my mouth closed and my eyes on my yellow pad. He continued, hisvoice lifting.In 1879, on a March evening, Alexander Graham Bellsuccessfully completed his attempts to send the human voice through a littlewire.The following morningsome frustrated playwright, unwilling to buildthe necessary construction plot, began his play with a phone call. Ageneral deprecating murmur floated in the air. Aw, John and Don'tbe so mean and Ooo Johnnn, you ought to be ashamed.Their moans were facetious, mere accompaniment to their relish. Grace invited everyoneto drinks, and the crowd rose and started milling around, while I stayed inmy chair. Grace called to me.Come on, Maya.Have a drink. Youneed it.I grinned and knew movement was out of the question. Killens came over.Good thing you stayed.You got some very important criticism. He, too, could slide to hell straddling knotted greasy rope. Don't just sit there.If they think you're too sensitive, you won't getsuch valuable criticism the next time you read. The next time? Hewasn't as bright as he looked.I would never see those snotty bastards aslong as I stayed black and their asses pointed toward the ground.I put anasty-sweet smile on my face and nodded. That's right, Maya Angelou,show them you can take anything they can dish out.Let me tell yousomething. He started to sit down beside me, but mercifully another writercalled him away. I measured the steps from my chair to the door. Icould make it in ten strides. Maya, you've got a story totell. I looked up into John Clarke's solemn face. I think Ican speak for the Harlem Writer's Guild.We're glad to have you.JohnKillens came back from California talking about your talent.Well, in thisgroup we remind each other that talent is not enough.You've got to work. Write each sentence over and over again, until it seems you've used everycombination possible, then write it again.Publishers don't care much forwhite writers. He coughed or laughed.You can imagine what they think about black ones.Come on.Let's get a drink. I got up and followed him without a first thought.From the Trade Paperback edition.	What a woman! What a heart! African-American poet/activist Maya Angelou continues to lead a significant, eventful life -- some early episodes of which she reveals in this fascinating memoir. It focuses on her relationships with men, especially with her fatherless son, during the tumultuous '60's. Writing with a lyric simplicity, she's often frank, but rarely candid. As performer, she narrates with the same distinctive, measured dignity that has become familiar from her many televised poetry readings. The abridgment is a bit too brief for those wanting to hear more about Godfrey Cambridge, James Baldwin and her other pals.  But it does serve to highlight, namely the development of her touching relationship with her son as he entered manhood and independence.  Y.R.   (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",african american;african-american & black;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;entertainers;ethnic & national;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;memoirs;politics & social sciences;united states;women's studies,14
1405105720,"People and Nature: An Introduction to Human Ecological Relations We need more books like this! Moran provides a wonderfully accessible and compelling introduction to the greatest issue of our times. This book is required reading to understand the all-too-human dimension of the environmental crisis and why there is real hope for recovery. Tom Lovejoy, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment !--end-- Vintage Emilio Moran! A highly readable, well grounded and insightful stock- taking of human environmental relationsa perspective that will be highly valued by both students and others concerned with an enlightened view of how our species manages or mismanages its habitat.Daniel G. Bates, Hunter College, CUNY, and Editor, Human EcologyIn this original and thoughtful book, Moran leads readers from the past history of human interactions with natural ecosystems through the present crisis of environmental sustainability and into the future, noting serious challenges, and positive trends as well. Ben Orlove, University of California Davis, and Editor, Current Anthropology""Moran...provides a primer of the field for beginning students, covering current environmental problems from an anthropological perspective and looking to hunter-gatherers, early farmers, and other ancient and traditional peoples for comparison. Students can learn what they can do to make the world simpler and better. Recommended for libraries serving high school and undergraduate students, and anyone interested in living more wisely."" Choice""Those among us who would like to better understand the intricate interaction between knowledge on environmental issues and societal reactions will most definitely profit from this little book, which can be whole heartedly recommended."" Environmental Geology""The major themes of People and Nature provide a menu rich enough to satisfy any beginning student of ecological anthropology."" BioScience""People and Nature is the first volume published within the series titled Primers in Anthropology. The aim of the series is to offer a lively overview on a traditional area of anthropological study, an aim which Moran's book no doubt accomplishes."" Journal of Social Anthropology	We need more books like this! Moran provides a wonderfully accessible and compelling introduction to the greatest issue of our times. This book is required reading to understand the all-too-human dimension of the environmental crisis and why there is real hope for recovery.Tom Lovejoy, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment Vintage Emilio Moran! A highly readable, well grounded and insightful stock- taking of human environmental relationsa perspective that will be highly valued by both students and others concerned with an enlightened view of how our species manages or mismanages its habitat.Daniel G. Bates, Hunter College, CUNY, and Editor, Human EcologyIn this original and thoughtful book, Moran leads readers from the past history of human interactions with natural ecosystems through the present crisis of environmental sustainability and into the future, noting serious challenges, and positive trends as well.Ben Orlove, University of California Davis, and Editor, Current Anthropology	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Evidence of climate change, loss of biological diversity, tropical deforestation, and an impending crisis in potable water prompt the question: how have we created a situation where our planetour very futureis at risk? In People and Nature: An Introduction to Human Ecological Relations, noted environmental scientist Emilio Moran provides a lively introduction to ecological anthropology, environmental geography, and human ecology. He examines the evolving relations between human communities and nature, and, by thoughtful analysis, offers a vision of what we must do to have a future worth living.	Emilio F. Moran is Rudy Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University and also Professor of Environmental Sciences, Adjunct Professor of Geography, and Director of the Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change.",anthropology;biological sciences;books;cultural;earth sciences;ecology;environmental science;geography;human geography;new;politics & social sciences;science & math;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
B000NVL5RI,"Human Factors for Technical Communicators (Wiley Technical Communication Library) A crash course in human factors theory and practice for technical communicatorsIf you're a technical writer, technical editor, documentation manager, user-interface designer, usability tester, or any other type of technical communication professional, you've probably found yourself becoming more and more involved in the development, design, and testing of technical communication products. In order to handle your expanded responsibilities effectively you need a solid grounding in human factors, the art and science of designing for people. And now this book gives it to you--fast.First, expert Marlana Coe takes you on a fascinating tour of the burgeoning science of human factors. In terms that you can understand, she explains all about the psychology and physiology of how users access, learn, and remember information; the impact of colors, shapes, and patterns; learning styles; approaches and obstacles to problem solving; action structures; and more. And, with the help of real-life examples of various technical communication products, she vividly demonstrates what works, what doesn't, and why.Then, she shows you how to apply what you've learned to create the best technical communication products possible. You'll find out how to: * Analyze users' needs and learning styles * Get and interpret user feedback and create partnerships with users * Select the most effective layouts, colors, fonts, and graphics * Build better navigational infrastructures * Develop content that gives users everything they need to quickly identify and resolve problems * Test and improve your product's usability	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	A crash course in human factors theory and practice for technical communicatorsIf you're a technical writer, technical editor, documentation manager, user-interface designer, usability tester, or any other type of technical communication professional, you've probably found yourself becoming more and more involved in the development, design, and testing of technical communication products. In order to handle your expanded responsibilities effectively you need a solid grounding in human factors, the art and science of designing for people. And now this book gives it to you--fast.First, expert Marlana Coe takes you on a fascinating tour of the burgeoning science of human factors. In terms that you can understand, she explains all about the psychology and physiology of how users access, learn, and remember information; the impact of colors, shapes, and patterns; learning styles; approaches and obstacles to problem solving; action structures; and more. And, with the help of real-life examples of various technical communication products, she vividly demonstrates what works, what doesn't, and why.Then, she shows you how to apply what you've learned to create the best technical communication products possible. You'll find out how to: * Analyze users' needs and learning styles * Get and interpret user feedback and create partnerships with users * Select the most effective layouts, colors, fonts, and graphics * Build better navigational infrastructures * Develop content that gives users everything they need to quickly identify and resolve problems * Test and improve your product's usability	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",academic & commercial;books;computer science;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;education & reference;languages & tools;networking;programming;research & publishing guides;science & math;software engineering;technology;writing,14
0875527981,"Treasures in Darkness: A Grieving Mother Shares Her Heart In twenty years of women's ministry, I have never read such a compelling, painfully real, transparent perspective on grief. Sharon Betters brings hope to a broken heart in the midst of profound loss. Do you know of someone struggling with grief and loss? This treasure needs to be the first gift you place in their hands. Tammy Maltby, co-host of Aspiring Women and author of LifegivingNo hope is real if it fails to recognize the reality of the pain and the necessity of pressing through darkness with nothing but faith to find our way. Sharon squarely faces personal pain and tenderly offers the realities of faith to provide a journey to hope even through our darkest nights. Bryan Chapell, Covenant Theological SeminaryBetters's world turned upside down when her son died in an automobile accident. She tells her story with candor, honesty, and hope. This book is helpful to anyone who has lost a loved one. . . . an extremely helpful guide to grieving parents. Rose Marie Miller, author of From Fear to FreedomTreasures in Darkness will guide you from your deepest sorrow into a positive and productive walk with God. Sharon will help you learn to believe, trust, and live again. Marilyn Heavilin, author of Roses in December and Grief Is a Family Affair Recognizing that our lives here on this side of heaven will be fraught with darkness and sorrow, Betters's experience with grief will encourage and comfort you. With biblical wisdom and gentle insight, she'll draw your broken heart up to where hers is resting: safely in the loving arms of the Savior. I heartily recommend this book. --Elyse Fitzpatrick, author of Idols of the Heart and The Afternoon of Life	Sharon Betters is mother of four and grandmother of nine. She is a nationally known conference and retreat speaker, and has spoken to women's groups in Africa and Japan. Author of two books, she has also contributed articles to Today's Christian Woman, Virtue, and Christian Parenting Today. She is the executive director of MARK, Inc. Ministries (Making Abundant Riches Known in the Name of Christ), which has a growing national multimedia ministry. She serves at Glasgow Reformed Presbyterian Church PCA in Bear, Delaware, where her husband is senior pastor.",biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;death & grief;family relationships;grief & bereavement;leaders & notable people;memoirs;motherhood;parenting & relationships;religion & spirituality;religious;self-help,14
0844741140,"Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America Diana Furchtgott-Roth is a resident Fellow and assistant to the president at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Christine Stolba is a historian in Washington, D.C., and a Ph.D. candidate in American History at Emory University.",20th century;books;business & investing;constitutional law;discrimination;history;law;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;popular economics;social sciences;sociology;women & business;women's studies,14
0632046449,"Visual Mnemonics in Pathology ""I wish that something like this with such excellent visuals were available to me when I was studying for Boards. The pictures explain the topics in detail, allowing me to see the connections between the various parts of the whole and the words and mnemonics allow me to remember the material and make it readily accessible when I need to recall it.""Corinne LeVon Quinn, Third Year Medical Student, MCP Hannemann",basic sciences;books;education & reference;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;pathology;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;test preparation & review;used & rental textbooks,14
0810958864,"Mrs. Ballard's Parrots It's difficult to determine what makes these snapshots of elaborately costumed parrots so weird. Is it that Long Island housewife Alba Ballard (1928-1994) felt compelled to spend years dressing up her feathered friends, or that the images are so curiously captivating? With the help of her husband, Marvin, Ballard designed costumes of celebrities and historical figures to place on her docile parrots, posing them at miniature tables and against painted backdrops. Some might find this disturbing, while others-like David Letterman, who had her on his show multiple times, and Woody Allen, who gave her a bit part in Broadway Danny Rose-will be heartily amused. When Ballard died, all that remained of her unusual hobby was a box full of photos discovered amid old fan mail addressed to Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Through Taylor's daughter, Liza, the photos eventually found their way to New York photographer Svenson, a collector of ""unique and odd"" images. Readers who share Svenson's thirst for the bizarre will find these eccentric tableaus amusing. The photos, which are accompanied by headers hand-written by Ballard, feature parrots posing as wounded soldiers, impersonating Batman and Robin, and filling the famed shoes of Dean Martin (appropriately, a bevy of gorgeous Barbie dolls loiter in the background). Dressed and posed mannequin-like, the parrots seem to take their roles as models seriously, and their passive, expressionless countenances are the key to the absurdity of these pictures. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.",arts & photography;birds;books;catalogues & exhibitions;cats;collections;crafts;dogs & animals;hobbies & home;humor;humor & entertainment;nature & wildlife;pets & animal care;photography,14
032121627X,"The Penguin Handbook (MLA Update) (Paperbound) ""It's not too often that one finds a book that offers students practical suggestions about ways that they can enhance both the form and the context of their essays... Please pass my best wishes on to the author for a job well done. This is exactly the kind of book that composition teaching needs.""-Chris Fosen, California State University, Chico State ""What I like most about the book is its emphasis on genre and visual form and its attention to emerging technologies... It feels like the text is modeling visual design in addition to addressing it within the content.""-Marshall Kitchens, Oakland University  ""I think students will respond marvelously to the icons. They are a great idea for a visually literate generation... Students will find this handbook more 'familiar' to them simply because they'll recognize the 'look' of it as belonging to their world of visual information.""-Thomas Amorose, Seattle Pacific University  ""What is most impressive is the emphasis on visual literacy here. It's what makes the book distinct and cutting edge... The use of icons, the color waves, and the graphics in these pages are stunning.""-Lisa Langstraat, University of Southern Mississippi	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	When Lester Faigley started college, he thought he was going to become an architect. Instead, he wound up majoring in English and teaching middle school English and history. Three years after he received a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1976, he joined the faculty of the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin, where he now holds the Robert Adger Law and Thos. H. Law Professorship in Humanities. He has also been a visiting professor at several universities in the United States and abroad, and he is past chair of College Composition and Communication. Faigley served as the founding Director of both the Division of Rhetoric and Composition and the concentration in Technology, Literacy, and Culture at the University of Texas. He teaches undergraduate writing courses on writing and technology and graduate courses on rhetorical theory, discourse analysis, and issues of literacy and technology. He and his wife Linda have been married for more than three decades, and they have two grown sons. His sports passion is kayaking  both in rivers and on the ocean.",books;classics;creative writing & composition;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;literature;literature & fiction;new;research & publishing guides;rhetoric;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,14
B000FO6RSU,"Discovering Stage Lighting, Second Edition A second edition of the collection of projects which explore the use of light in theatre, and emphasize the interaction of conflicting visual aims. Developments in technology are considered, and the text is aimed at students on academic and professional courses.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A second edition of the collection of projects which explore the use of light in theatre, and emphasize the interaction of conflicting visual aims. Developments in technology are considered, and the text is aimed at students on academic and professional courses.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & photography;books;direction & production;equipment;humor & entertainment;light;lighting;performing arts;photography;physics;science & math;stagecraft;techniques & reference;theater,14
0753511622,"Diana: The Last Days ""'Essential reading for all those who wish to know the truth about Diana' Daily Mail 'The definitive account... serves the cause of truth well and should be read by anyone who wants to strip away the lies and get to the facts of the case' Sunday Telegraph 'Brilliant and thorough reporting... the most thorough book on the subject' Thomas Sancton, author of Death of a Princess""	Martyn Gregory is an award-winning TV producer, reporter and author. Between 1996 and 1998 he achieved the unique distinction of having his investigative documentaries nominated and shortlisted for both the Royal Television Society and Amnesty International annual awards for three consecutive years. In 1996 his groundbreaking film, The Torture Trail won both awards for the ""best current affairs documentary"" for exposing Britain's exports of torture weapons. After this program he became the first person ever to successfully sue the British Government for libel, when the DTI President Michael Heseltine accused him of fabricating the story. Tony Blair presented him with the Freedom of Information Campaign's Media Award in 1996 for the ""brilliant achievement"" of The Torture Trail.His films for Channel 4's Dispatches have included Trooping the Colour ---Racism in the British Army; On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Arming the Admirals revealed how MI6 had helped Rolls Royce break the British arms embargo against Argentina.In 1997 he made two undercover films for World in Action with the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jose Ramos-Horta, exposing how Britain surreptitiously supplies arms for Indonesia and its occupation of East Timor.Martyn Gregory's film about Princess Diana's death, The Accident, was broadcast in June 1998. It was the highest rated Dispatches program in Channel 4's history, and was highly praised. The author has also investigated the tragedy for CBS's 60 Minutes, and extensively for the Sunday Telegraph.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Bestselling author Martyn Gregory is also an award-winning investigating producer and reporter. His two Dispatches films for Channel 4 have been highly praised. In 1997, his program The Accident was the highest-rated in the series history. He has been interviewed worldwide about the subject of Dianas last days and death.",biographies & memoirs;books;british;europe;historical;history;leaders & notable people;princess diana;royalty;specific groups;true accounts;true crime;wales;women,14
0415092892,"Rethinking University Teaching: A Conversational Framework for the Effective Use of Learning Technologies ""...an extremely readable work as well as an authoritative and  scholarly one. I wish it were a compulsory text for all university  teachers."" -- Journal of Educational Media",books;business & management;college & university;computers & technology;curricula;curriculum & instruction;education;education & reference;education theory;history;history & theory;new;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,14
1858281431,"Italian Phrasebook: A Rough Guide Phrasebook, First Edition (Phrase Book, Rough Guide) (Italian Edition) Text: English, Italian",books;conversation;education & reference;etiquette;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;general;humanities;instruction;italian;new;reference;travel;used & rental textbooks,14
0596102283,"MCSE Core Required Exams in a Nutshell: The required 70: 290, 291, 293 and 294 Exams (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) William R. Stanek has over 20 years of hands-on experience with advanced programming and development. He has written 61 books including: ""Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator's Pocket Consultant"", ""Windows Server 2003 Inside Out"", ""Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Administrator's Pocket Consultant"", and ""Microsoft IIS 6.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant"". These are currently the best sellers in their respective markets. Mr. Stanek has an MS degree in Information Systems with distinction, and a BS degree in Computer Science magna cum laude. He served in the Persian Gulf War as a combat crewmember on an electronic warfare aircraft. He flew on numerous combat missions into Iraq and was awarded nine medals for his wartime service, including one of the United States of America's highest honors, the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross. Currently, he resides in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and children.",books;certification;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;microsoft;new;operating systems;test prep & study guides;test preparation;testing;used & rental textbooks;windows os,14
0761803475,"The Art of the Footnote This wonderful little book is not just a style manual on the mechanics of footnotes; it is an exposition of what might be called the philosophy of footnotes. It gives the reasons for having them to begin with, and surveys the intellectual content they ought to contain...Any student who reads this will have a sense of why such things are required for intellectual honesty.>>> (Thomas Mann )This wonderful little book is not just a style manual on the mechanics of footnotes; it is an exposition of what might be called the ""philosophy"" of footnotes. It gives the reasons for having them to begin with, and surveys the intellectual content they ought to contain...Any student who reads this will have a sense of why such things are required for intellectual honesty. (Thomas Mann )	Francis A. Burkle-Young has taught at various universities, most recently as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Freshman Composition at The George Washington University.  Saundra Rose Maley is Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at the same university.",art & photography;bibliographies & indexes;books;editing;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;literature & fiction;new;publishing & books;reference;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,14
0813365678,"Fair Play: The Ethics Of Sport This third edition of Fair Play is like those that preceded itaccessible, intelligent, persuasive, and well written.But Professor Simon has improved the book by including new information, most notably on the issues of genetic enhancement and intercollegiate athletic reform.Now, more than ever before, Fair Play stands out as the premier text in the area. Scott   Kretchmar, Pennsylvania State University                        Robert  Simons new edition of Fair Play is, simply put, the  best book of its kind in the literature. The new section on genetic  enhancement and the expanded section on the moral quandaries of  intercollegiate sports are welcome, not to mention timely, additions.  Whats more, the book is a compelling read, free of jargon, persuasively  argued, and teeming with incisive commentary. William  Morgan,  University   of Southern CaliforniaSince,  as Professor Simon says, sports play a major role in the lives of  Americans, reflection on sports raises issues that not only have  intrinsic interest but also go beyond the bounds of sport itself. The  role of philosophy is to critically examine the complex issues in sports  and our beliefs about them. Simon is a master at this. This third  edition builds and expands these evaluations, especially in a time when  sports in the U.S.  are undergoing intense moral scrutiny. Readers will find this edition  replete with contemporary examples, expanded discussions of performance  enhancement drug use and of issues in intercollegiate sports, and a new  section on genetic enhancement. This edition provides deeper insight  into major issues in the philosophy of sport, and its accessibility  makes it a must read for anyone who is interested in sports or  interested in the role sports play in America. Jan Boxill, The University of North  Carolina at Chapel Hill	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Addressing both collegiate and professional sports, the updated edition of Fair Play explores the ethical presuppositions of competitive athletics and their connection both to ethical theory and to concrete moral dilemmas that arise in actual athletic competition. A major new section in chapter four examines the ethics of genetically enhancing athletic abilities. Other new material covers the analysis of sports and games according to influential philosopher Bernard Suits; the morality of cheating and the ethics of strategic fouling; and the impact of performance-enhancing drugs on the legitimacy of records. In addition, Simon provides enhanced considerations of the morality of competition in sports, the ethical aspects of violence in sports, and the arguments in defense of intercollegiate sports.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Robert L. Simon is professor of philosophy at Hamilton College.",books;ethics;ethics & morality;ethnic studies;humanities;miscellaneous;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;sports & outdoors;sports psychology;used & rental textbooks,14
0764546015,"Teach Yourself Microsoft Active Server Pages 3 (Teach Yourself (IDG)) Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) has become more than just a  server-side scripting technology. It's transcended its basic definition to  represent a development platform that continues to gain in popularity. Teach  Yourself Microsoft Active Server Pages 3 combines tutorials in ASP 3 with  lessons about related markup technologies, such as XML. The book doesn't rush into discussing ASP pages. In fact, you won't encounter  ASP coding until part III in chapter 14. The chapters leading up to ASP cover  how to configure Web servers to use ASP pages and, more importantly, markup  using both HTML and XML. Experienced HTML coders can skip these early sections,  but the mix of XML and HTML techniques demonstrates nicely how both standards  are closely related as markup languages. This is a welcome change from most  books that present XML as a separate, advanced topic. Topics are presented with a minimum of space and explanation. The coverage is  sufficient, however, and the format makes for a quick read. There are no long  code examples; instead, small code fragments are annotated to illustrate key  concepts.  This book touches on an amazing number of subjects that are key to ASP  development. The tradeoff is a lack of depth. However, each concept, efficiently  introduced, provides many references to sites on the Web for more information on  particular subjects. This title is a good way to step up to ASP programming  overnight. --Stephen W. Plain Topics covered:ASP  architecture IIS configuration Personal Web server setup Chili!Soft  ASP XML DTDs Lists Tables Frames Forms  XSL style sheets VBScript JavaScript Using  PerlScript Built-in ASP objects ASP components Database integration  and ADO Using XML with ASP pages Client/server Web  applications	Covers major aspects of ASP development such as marketing up web pages, adding scripts to documents, using objects, accessing and manipulation database, and using ASP with Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) Describes preparing for ASP -- setting up Windows NT/2000 and IIS 4 and 5, Windows 95/98 and the Personal Web Server, and Chili!ASP for Apache on Sun Solaris Provides a primer for HTML and XML for building a Web front-end for databases Explains how to use scripts to connect to objects and databases including using built-in IIS Objects, using Cookies and the Session Object, supporting Web transactions, creating client/server web applications, and integrating databases and web pages Unique features of the book include using cross-platform ASP with Chili!Soft, and XML	Teach Yourself Microsoft Active Server Pages 3 When you need on-the-spot answers  Teach Yourself! Learn fast with short, clear examples Find the answers you need easily Explore the Web for related topicsConfigure your system for Active Server Pages in a snapTake a Web development refresher, from HTML basics to XSLGet up to speed fast on VBScript and other ASP scripting toolsUse ActiveX Data Objects to connect Web pages to databasesHarness ASP to manage cookies, user sessions, and transactions	About the Author Sandra E. Eddy specializes in writing both how-to and reference books about the Internet, Windows, and Windows applications. Until she became a full-time freelance writer in 1993, Ms. Eddy was a documentation manager and technical writer for a major software company. From 1984 to 1993, she wrote and edited user and technical manuals for both PC- and mainframe-based computer programs. Ms. Eddy is the author of the following books from IDG Books Worldwide: HTML in Plain English, XML in Plain English, The GIF Animators Guide, and Teach Yourself XML. Simon St. Laurent is a Web developer, network administrator, computer book author, and XML troublemaker living in Ithaca, New York. His books include XML: A Primer, XML Elements of Style, Building XML Applications, Cookies, and Sharing Bandwidth. He is a contributing editor to xml-hack and an occasional contributor to XML.com. Scott Kallmeyer is a Web developer, Internet instructor, yoga student, and ASP author living in Ellicott City, Maryland. He is also a contributing author to the ASPAlliance for the Wise ASP column, writing articles for those desperately seeking JScript advice.",books;computer science;computers & technology;desktop publishing;education & reference;graphic design;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design;web services,14
1859842224,"The Origins of Postmodernity Perry Anderson is editor of New Left Review. He is the author of many books, including Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Considerations on Western Marxism, Arguments Within English Marxism, In the Tracks of Historical Materialism, English Questions and A Zone of Engagement, all from Verso. His works have been translated into twenty languages.",20th century;books;criticism & theory;history;history & criticism;humanities;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks;world,14
0226548236,"Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II (Chicago Series in Law and Society) In the many books written about the Japanese American internment  during World War II, one aspect that has not been treated in  much detail is what happened when the U.S. military decided to  draft the same young men the government had locked away in  internment camps. Muller (Univ. of North Carolina Sch. of Law)  takes a detailed look at the resisters at the Minidoka, Heart  Mountain, and Tule Lake camps. Using interviews with 11 of the  resisters, as well as government records, court cases,  internment camp newspapers, and more, Muller investigates why  the government reinstated the draft for Japanese Americans in  1943, considers why some of the Nisei resisted, and examines the  trials, prison sentences, and lasting aftereffects on their  lives. He also looks at the legal reasoning, or lack thereof,  behind the verdicts; the Minidoka and Heart Mountain resisters  were convicted, while the Tule Lake resisters were acquitted.  Although all were pardoned in 1947, they still face criticism  from family and from veterans, and most have remained silent  until now. An important, well-balanced telling; for public and  academic libraries. Katharine L. Kan, Allen Cty. P.L., Fort  Wayne, IN   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	One of the Washington Post's Top Nonfiction Titles of 2001In 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment camps on suspicion of disloyalty. Two years later, it demanded even more, drafting them into the same military that had been guarding them as subversives. Most of these Americans complied, but Free to Die for Their Country is the first book to tell the powerful story of those who refused.	Eric L. Muller is a professor of law at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.",americas;asia;books;history;humanities;japan;military;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states;used & rental textbooks;world war ii,14
1572242523,"The Self-Esteem Workbook The Self-Esteem Workbook is both excellent and practical because it is built on a sound scientific base, offers clear recommendations, and comes from and speaks to the heart. --Steven E. Hobfoll, Ph.D., Professor & Director, Applied Psychology Center, Kent State UniversityChock-full of effective and practical strategies for raising self-esteemhelpful for anyone who wishes to end negative thinking and learn to see their true value. --Matthew McKay, Ph.D., co-author of best-selling Self-EsteemIt is impossible to read this book without feeling better about oneself and others. It should be required reading for every living soul. --Robert L. Bunnell, M.S., PA-C, marketing coordinator, University of Utah Physician Assistant Program; Executive Director, Utah Academy of Physician AssistantsThe book is excellent. We are already using it in our self-esteem presentations! Well done and many thanksIts one of the first and finest self-esteem resource guide books that offers in-depth information in a grounded, useful way. --Jacqueline Miller, Maryland Governors Task Force on Self-EsteemLeads participants on a purposeful journey [to] a future of better mental health and well-being.  --Sharlene M. Weiss, Ph.D., Founder & Former Director of Psychosocial Oncology, University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center; Associate Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Psychology, University of Miami School of Medicine	As a graduate student in the early eighties, I studied underthe foremost researcher on self-esteem, sociologist Dr. Morris Rosenberg. In surveying thousands of adolescents, Dr. Rosenberg had identified the antecedents of self-esteem and shown that the lack of self-esteem results in a wide range of difficulties in life. One day after class, I asked him how an adult who lacked self-esteem could enhance it. He shrugged his shoulders and said, I don't know. I reasoned that there must be a way to do so, and determined that I would develop an approach to self-esteem enhancement that everyday people could apply. Applying the principle of distinguished psychologist Abraham Maslow that building self-esteem requires many and major impacts, I scoured the literature and pooled the best techniques that affect self-esteem at all levels--thoughts, images, feelings, bodily sensations, and behavior. I then tested the approach with adults ranging in age from eighteen to sixty-eight years of age. It was gratifying to find that self-esteem can indeed be improved through a conscientious application of relatively simple and clear principles and skills. And it is heartwarming to hear from people who have been able to develop the secure anchor of self-esteem, even later in life.	Glenn R. Schiraldi, Ph.D., has served on the stress management faculties at the Pentagon, the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, and the University of Maryland. He is author of The Self-Esteem Workbook, Ten Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem, The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook, and The Complete Guide to Resilience: Why It Matters, How to Build and Maintain It.",books;business & finance;business & investing;fitness & dieting;guides;health;job hunting & careers;new;parenting & relationships;personal transformation;psychology & counseling;self-esteem;self-help;used & rental textbooks,14
0393046125,"St. Barth: French West Indies (A concepts book) Text: English, French	Charles and Christine Didcott lived full time on St. Barth for several years and were able to capture the seasons, topography, people, and daily life, as well as the carnivals and holidays.",americas;arts & photography;books;caribbean;caribbean & west indies;education & reference;europe;france;general;history;photography;research & publishing guides;travel;writing,14
0521622115,"Justification Defenses and Just Convictions (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law) ""One doesn't need familiarity with jurisprudence generally to find Schopp's analysis and recommendations clear, accessible, important, and controversial. Highly recommended for anyone interested in moral philosophy or philosophy of law.""    Hans Oberdiek, Philosophy in Review	This major study advances an interpretation of criminal justification defenses that views them as an integral component of the structure of the criminal law. The book extends the traditional scope of the legal and philosophical discussion of justification defenses.",books;criminal law;education & reference;humanities;law;law enforcement;new;philosophy;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,14
1905334044,"Autocourse 2005-2006: The World's Leading Grand Prix Annual (Autocourse: The World's Leading Grand Prix Annual) This authoritative annual on Grand Prix racing is in its 47th year of publication. The 1997-98   volume includes a foreword by the 1997 title winner Jacques Villeneuve, the first driver to win the   championship after just two full seasons of Grand Prix racing. As usual, this large, attractive volume is   packed with color photos, statistics, bios, commentary from the experts, and analyses of the year's races.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	Alan Henry is the motorsport correspondent for The Guardian newspaper and has been the editor of Autocourse for the past 19 years.  He has written many biographies of the sport's finest practitioners, including Ayrton Senna, Niki Lauda and Jochen Rindt.",21st century;almanacs & yearbooks;automotive;books;education & reference;history;miscellaneous;modern (16th-21st centuries);motor sports;pictorial;professional & technical;racing;sports & outdoors;transportation,14
1571458654,"Civil War Battlefields Then and Now (Then & Now Thunder Bay) James Campi, Jr. is a fourteen-year political communications veteran with a life-long interest in the American Civil War. He is currently responsible for government and public relations at the Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving Civil War battlefields. He has also written several articles related to the Civil War. Prior to joining CWPT, he wrote political commentary for a national nonprofit government watchdog group, served as press secretary for a Pennsylvania congressman, and handled media relations for the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.",19th century;americas;architectural;architecture;arts & photography;books;campaigns & battlefields;civil war;history;landscape;photo essays;photography;professional & technical;united states,14
0801442001,"The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More Than Canadians Do, But Join Much Less ...well-written, well-documented chapters that use excellent statistical evidence to consider the political philosophies that have informed unions in the United States and Canada from their beginnings to the present. Recommended for academic, special, and large public libraries. --Library JournalThis book is destined to be a classic in industrial relations. It addresses the puzzle of why unions declined so precipitously in the United States but were sustained in Canada in spite of the similarities between the two countries. Morley Gunderson, CIBC Chair of Youth Employment, University of Toronto, Centre for Industrial Relations ... this book's authors illuminate the differences in labor and society between Canada and the United States. The Paradox of American Unionism contains wonderful analysis by two giants in the social sciences, Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz Charles F. Doran, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Johns Hopkins University""The authors suggest that at the heart of the discrepancies noted in the subtitle 'is the U.S. emphasis on individual freedom, combined with the peculiarities of Congressional government which makes changes to labor law very difficult.' They support this contention in well-written, well-documented chapters that use excellent statistical evidence to consider the political philosophies that have informed unions in the United States and Canada from their beginnings to the present. Recommended for academic, special, and large public libraries.""-Library Journal, July 2004""Lipset and Meltz . . . conclude that lower union density in the US relative to Canada is based on America's individualistic, laissez-faire tradition and Canada's social democratic tradition. Their conclusions stem from a large telephone survey investigating comparative public attitudes in Canada and the US.""-Choice, January 2005""Bold in their hypotheses, prudent in marshalling empirical evidence, this book's authors illuminate the differences in labor and society between Canada and the United States. The Paradox of American Unionism contains wonderful analysis by two giants in the social sciences, Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz.""-Charles F. Doran, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University""This book is destined to be a classic in industrial relations. It addresses the puzzle of why unions declined so precipitously in the United States but were sustained in Canada in spite of the similarities between the two countries. Canada and the United States provide a natural laboratory for examining the divergent paths of such important outcomes.""-Morley Gunderson, CIBC Chair of Youth Employment, University of Toronto, Centre for Industrial Relations""The greatest strength of The Paradox of American Unionism is the sophisticated survey, based on large samples in both countries, that it brings to bear on the question, Why has U.S. union density fallen so dramatically, relative to that in Canada? The results of this survey challenge much conventional wisdom, including arguments hitherto advanced by Seymour Martin Lipset himself. These results provoke a restatement of his national political culture argument that must be addressed by those who develop this work over the next years. As well, the authors have pulled together an enormous amount of relevant historical and comparative data that will help readers to develop their own positions.""-Ian Robinson, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	The late Seymour Martin Lipset was Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and Hazel Professor of Public Policy and Sociology Emeritus at George Mason University. His numerous books include American Exceptionalism and Continental Divide.The late Noah M. Meltz was Principal of Woodsworth College and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.Rafael Gomez is Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Research Fellow at the University of Toronto's Centre for Industrial Relations.Ivan Katchanovski is Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress.Thomas A. Kochan is the George M. Bunker Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He is coeditor of Negotiations and Change and After Lean Production and coauthor with Saul A. Rubinstein of Learning from Saturn, all from Cornell.",books;business & investing;canadian;economics;international & world politics;labor & industrial relations;management;management & leadership;politics & government;politics & social sciences;popular economics;reference;sociology;specific topics,14
0898799848,"Novelists Essential Guide to Creating Plot (Novelists Essentials) J. Madison Davis is the author of several mysteries and books of nonfiction. His mystery, The Murder of Frau Schutz, was awarded an Edgar by the Mystery Writers of America. He is currently the senior professor in the Professional Writing Program of the University of Oklahoma's H. H. Herbert School of Journalism.",arts & photography;books;creative writing & composition;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;reference;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing;writing skills,14
0226644243,"Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922 ""A well-organized, thoughtful work which amply demonstrates the author's command of the literature on labor, social, and class history. . . . Pacyga illustrates better than any previous author the relationship of Polish behavior in America to the traditional values and practices of Polish peasant society in Europe."" (James S. Pula Journal of American Ethnic History)Its outstanding quality is the description of the life of its subjects. . . . [Pacyga] offers a graphic and vivid picture of what it was like for an unskilled, blue-collar foreign worker to labor in the arduous and dangerous environments of the slaughterhouse and the steel mill at the turn of the century (Victor Greene The Journal of American History)A classic social history of one immigrant community. Yet it also links the experiences of Poles on the South Side of Chicago to broader elements of social, class, and labor history. [Pacygas] work offers important insights into American history during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. (The History Teacher August 2005 2005-08-01)Scholars who have followed the recent scholarship of Lizabeth Cohens Making a New Deal (1990) and of Robert A. Slaytons Back of the Yards (1986) will wish to study Pacygas valuable monograph in more detail. (Joseph J. Parot American Historical Review 1993-02-01)	How did working-class immigrants from Poland create new communities in Chicago during the industrial age? This book explores the lives of immigrants in two iconic Polish neighborhoodsthe Back of the Yards and South Chicagoand the stockyards and steel mills in which they made their living.Pacyga shows how Poles forged communities on the South Side in an attempt to preserve the customs of their homelandhow through the development of churches, the building of schools, the founding of street gangs, and the opening of saloons they tried to recreate the feel of an Eastern European village. Through such institutions, Poles also were able to preserve their folk beliefs and family customs. But in time, the economic hardships of industrialization forced Poles to reach out to their non-Polish neighbors. And this led, in large part, to the organization of labor unions in Chicago's steel and meatpacking industries.Brimming with insights into the Polish American experience, this book is must reading for anyone interested in the histories of Chicago, the working class, and immigration.	Dominic A. Pacyga is a faculty member in the Liberal Education Department at Columbia College. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books on the history of Chicago, including The Chicago Bungalow, Chicago: City of Neighborhoods, and Chicago's Southeast Side.",19th century;americas;books;ethnic studies;history;humanities;midwest;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;state & local;united states;used & rental textbooks,14
0140442618,"Timaeus and Critias (Penguin Classics) Text: English, Greek (translation)	Robin Waterfield has translated numerous classics texts for OWC, including Plato's Republic, Synposium, Gorgias, and Phaedrus, The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and the Sophists,, Aristotle's Physics, Herodotus' Histories, Plutarch and Euripides. In addition to Plato's Philosophy of Science, Andrew Gregory is the author of Harvey's Heart (Icon, 2000) and Eureka! the Birth of Science (Icon, 2001). His book Ancient Greek Cosmogony is published by Duckworth in December 2007.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",astronomy & space science;books;cosmology;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;greek & roman;history & surveys;humanities;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,14
0312316615,"Let's Go Pocket City Guide London, 1st Ed. (Let's Go: Budget London) ""Informative, easy-to-read street, subway and bus maps, along with great descriptions of attractions, hotels, and scores of restaurants and nightspots."" --Travel Weekly	Let's Go Publications is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.",atlases & maps;books;budget travel;education & reference;england;europe;fitness & dieting;general;great britain;health;london;specialty travel;travel;world,14
0271020539,"I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.: The Unhappy Life and Times of Matt Cvetic Daniel J. Leab is Professor of History at Seton Hall University and managing editor of Labor History and a member of the editorial board of The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and TV. He is the author of numerous books and is currently working on a book titled Hollywood and the Cold War (Routledge).",20th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;communism & socialism;history;ideologies & doctrines;leaders & notable people;modern (16th-21st centuries);political;politics & government;politics & social sciences;state & local;united states,14
0195121724,"Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology) ""...a thoroughly researched and often elegantly written survey...Images and Relics now clearly ranks as our best general introduction to Reformation art.""--Historian""The need for a comprehensive study of the relationship between historical theology and the visual culture of Europe motivated this study...The issues presented and the theological background of the author should stimulate an engaging debate on the relationship between theological perceptions and visual images in sixteenth-century Europe."" Sixteen Century Journal""Dillenberger is to be commended for his effort to link theology and images.""--American Historical Review	John Dillenberger is at Graduate Theological Union.",aesthetics;arts & photography;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;criticism;history;history & criticism;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religious;theology;world,14
025333635X,"The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present ""...[an] innovative and daring work of self-examination.... Neville tutors us in the art of finding meaning in the midst of everyday life."" -- Spirituality & Health""This is the perfect book for those interested in recognizing the diversity of black American women."" -- ""... an eloquent rebuttal to the stereotypes and distorted media images that have plagued Black women throughout history."" -- Emerge""Here is a comprehensive visual source of black American women. More than 300 photographs and engravings cover hundreds of years. They show dignity through the degradation of slavery, authenticate cultural traditions and validate the inner strength of the subjects."" -- USA Today""These photos of mostly ordinary black women make an extraordinary book. Each picture does speak volumes."" -- Julian Bond""These historic photographs make it possible for us to see face-to-face the vivid images of black women, known and unknown, from the Civil War to today. They not only illumine the past, they explain the present, and inspire the future."" -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.	Hilary Mac Austin was a contributing writer to The Encyclopedia of Black Women in America. She was also the photo researcher for A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America. Other books where she has served as the primary photo researcher include Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, and the forthcoming Irish American Desk Reference.Kathleen Thompson has been writing about women for twenty-five years. Recently, she co-authored, with Darlene Clark Hine, A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America. She was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Black Women and was a major contributor to Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. She is also the author of the feminist classic Against Rape. She lives in Chicago.",african americans;african-american studies;americas;arts & photography;books;gay & lesbian;history;photo essays;photography;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states;women's studies,14
0195078861,"Soils and Geomorphology ""Greatly revised, better than ever! Much new material. Chapter on Weather and Soil Development with Time was especially helpful. Perhaps the most valuable book on my bookshelf.""--Hugh Mills, Tennessee Tech University""This third edition greatly expands and updates the second (1984) edition.  It is written for soil scientists, geomorphologists, geologists, geographers, and archeologists but would be an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in pedology, soil science, Quaternary geology, and sedimentary geology.  This book retains, but also expands and updates, the first five chapters from the previous edition that cover soil morphology, classification, weathering, weathering products and soil-forming processes. Chapter six, factors of soil formation, sets the theme for the remaining four chapters, which addresses the relationship among soils and their formation with parent material, time, topography and climate.  Emphasis is on the study of soils in their natural environment; two new appendixes on how to describe soil profiles, and calculate the profile development index are included."" --California Geology, May 2000	Peter Birkeland is at University of Colorado, Boulder.",agricultural sciences;books;civil;earth sciences;engineering;environmental engineering;geology;geophysics;new;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,14
0836191900,"Tobias of the Amish: A True Story of Tangled Strands in Faith, Family & Community Using diaries, legal records, and published sources, as well as  anecdotes contributed by other family members, Stutzman tells  the life story of a remarkable man his father. The author, who  is a preacher, teacher, and writer (Being God's People), readily  admits that this is ""a story book, not a history book,"" but this  fictionalized re-creation provides an authentic picture of the  Amish community of the period and its effects on the lives of  ordinary individuals. The author creates believable dialog and  vividly depicts the normal activities of Amish life. Stutzman,  whose father died when he was only three years old, clearly  feels he has gotten to know the father he never knew by writing  this book. The reader too will enjoy getting to know the  ambitious, sometimes difficult Tobias. Recommended for public  libraries. C. Robert Nixon, M.L.S. Lafayette, IN   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Ervin R. Stutzman is Executive Director for Mennonite Church USA. Before taking on this role in January 2010, he served for nearly 12 years as Dean and Professor of Church Ministries at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg, Va. He has also served the Mennonite Church in the roles of pastor, district overseer, missions administrator, conference moderator and, from 2001 to 2003, as moderator for Mennonite Church USA.Ervin was born a twin into an Amish home in Kalona, Iowa. After his father's death a few years later, his mother moved the family to her home community near Hutchinson, Kansas. Ervin was baptized in the Center Amish Mennonite Church near Partridge. Later, he joined the Yoder Mennonite Church.Ervin is a preacher, teacher and writer. His other Herald Press publications include Being God's People, a study for new believers, Creating Communities of the Kingdom (co-authored with David Shenk), Welcome!, a book encouraging the church to welcome new members, Tobias of the Amish, a story of his father's life and community, and Emma, A Widow Among the Amish, the story of his mother.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",biographies & memoirs;books;christian books & bibles;christianity;family relationships;humanities;leaders & notable people;memoirs;new;parenting & relationships;protestantism;religious;religious studies;used & rental textbooks,14
0195031032,"James Joyce, New and Revised Edition Although several biographers have thrown themselves into the  breach since this magisterial book first appeared in 1959, none have  come close to matching the late Richard Ellmann's achievement. To be  fair, Ellmann does have some distinct advantages. For starters, there's  his deep mastery of the Irish milieu--demonstrated not only in this  volume but in his books on Yeats and Wilde. He's also an admirable  stylist himself--graceful, witty, and happily unintimidated by his  brilliant subjects. But in addition, Ellmann seems to have an uncanny  grasp on Joyce's personality: his reverence for the Irishman's literary  accomplishment is always balanced by a kind of bemused affection for  his faults. Whether Joyce is putting the finishing touches on Ulysses, falling down  drunk in the streets of Trieste, or talking dirty to his future wife  via the postal service, Ellmann's account always shows us a genius  and a human being--a daunting enough task for a fiction writer,  let alone the poor, fact-fettered biographer.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""Indispensable, both as a text in classes on Joyce and as a model of literary scholarship.""--Richard Stack, State University of New York, Purchase""The genius of Ellmann's James Joyce is its abundance of detail--its wealth of anecdotes and letters, recovered conversations, and poems.  It's a pleasure to salute this masterly book as it marches past again.""--Newsweek""An exceptional achievement....An indispensable book for Joyce scholars and Joyce-lovers....Fascinating.""--The Nation""Ellmann produced a work whose brilliance and sheer readability set a new standard for literary biography. Updating the volume, he has taken advantage of two decades of research and discovery, incorporating new material gleaned largely from private as well as university and national collections, so that virtually every page...contains new information....In reading over these pages, one cannot help but feel renewed admiration for Ellmann and his magnificent achievement.""--Booklist""Revised, expanded and wonderful.""--The New York TimesPraise for the first edition:""The best literary biography of our time.""--Robert Martin Adams, Hudson Review	Richard Ellmann is Goldsmith's Professor of English Literature, Oxford University.",( j );a-z;anthologies;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;british;james;joyce;literature & fiction;people;poetry;world literature,14
0195117948,"Neither Wolf Nor Dog: American Indians, Environment, and Agrarian Change ""An important addition to the growing body of literature about the origins of Native American economic dependency....Recommended for readers at all levels.""--Choice""The solid prose in Neither Wolf Nor Dog reflects thorough research and scholarship....By making American Indians historical actors and by listening to their voices, Lewis makes this a model study.""--Nebraska History""An excellent book....This study will be useful for anyone interested in the agricultural and environmental history of the West. Moreover, much of his study concerns the twentieth century, and it can be used to generalize about the agricultural and environmental experiences of Native Americans throughout the region as they attempted to accommodate a white-controlled world.""--Environmental History Review""David Rich Lewis has written an extraordinarily perceptive analysis of attempts of the United States to force agriculture upon three nineteenth-century Native American tribes....Lewis's book is well-researched, documented, and nicely-written. It will be useful to students and scholars in a variety of disciplines surrounding western American history and Native American studies. I highly recommend the book.""--New Mexico Historical Review""[A] highly sophisticated study.""--Utah Historical Quarterly""David Richard Lewis's Neither Wolf Nor Dog provides a richly detailed history...""--Wisconsin Magazine of History""David Rich Lewis has produced a rich, interdisciplinary comparative study....This is an important book....His work strongly suggests even broader inquiry.""--Montana	David Rich Lewis is Associate Professor of History at Utah State University and Associate Editor of the Western Historical Quarterly.",19th century;americas;books;history;humanities;native american;native american studies;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states;used & rental textbooks;world,14
0965809811,"Monkeys Are Made of Chocolate: Exotic and Unseen Costa Rica Ewings 30-year adventure in Costa Rica has produced a book full of infectious love and amazing lore. -- Daniel Quinn, award winning author of ISHMAELJacks essays offer great insight into tropical natural history, rural Costa Rican culture and environmental issues. -- Richard Andrus, Professor - Binghamton Univ., NYThis book is perfect reading for every inquisitive traveler to Costa Rica. -- Rob Rachowiecki, author of Lonely Planet Costa Rica guidebook	Jack Ewings love affair with the rainforest began in 1970 when, in search of new opportunities for plying his Bachelor of Science degree and his skills as a cattle rancher, he left his native Colorado and moved his wife, Diane, and their young family to the jungles of Costa Rica. His ever-growing fascination with the rainforest, however, soon prompted his transformation into environmentalist and naturalist. A natural-born storyteller, Jacks articles about life in the rainforest appear regularly in Costa Rican publications, and he often speaks to environmental, student and ecological traveler groups from around the world. He is currently president of two environmental organizations, ASANA and FUNDANTA. His expertise on biological corridor projects is much sought after. Jack and Diane live on internationally acclaimed Hacienda Bar National Wildlife Refuge, a well-know ecotourism destination, where he currently serves as the director.",americas;biological sciences;books;central america;conservation;costa rica;ecology;general;history;nature & ecology;rain forests;religion & spirituality;science & math;travel,14
0879739428,"The Mass of the Early Christians All Christians from liturgical traditions can read this book with profit and find comfort in the firm historical basis of their own worship. Those who have shunned liturgical worship might after reading this book reconsider their position and wonder what they have been missing. --Christian Book Review""The Mass we know on Sunday -- the Mass you encounter in this book --- is where Tradition lives, where the Church's memory reigns 'in the Spirit."" Read this book, then, and remember."" --Scott Hahn, Professor of Scripture and Theology, Franciscan University of Steubenville	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Vice-president of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, Mike Aquilinahas authored or edited more than a dozen books on Catholic history, doctrine, and devotion,including the best-selling What Catholics Believe.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;church institutions & organizations;history;ministry & church leadership;other religions;practices & sacred texts;religion & spirituality;religious;ritual;world,14
0811700844,"Beyond Baghdad: Postmodern War and Peace "". . . simply one of the most creative and stimulating writers on national security we have produced in the post-WWII era . . . brilliant analysis . . . explosively direct . . . powerful and clear . . .""   --Barry R. McCaffrey, General, USA (Ret.) The boldest, most visionary work yet by Ralph Peters, this hard-hitting book explains what really happened on the battlefields of Iraq--and what the implications are for our security. Peters peers deep into the future to describe unparalleled global opportunities for the United States. Fiercely independent, the author rejects all party-line thinking to help us understand the complexity, danger, and promise of our troubled world. Whether dissecting the War on Terror or investigating the worlds dangerous backwaters, he brings to bear an unparalleled combination of first-hand experience of our military and foreign trouble spots with a unique ability to explain difficult issues in straightforward language--and with a devastating sense of humor. Written for a broad audience, the essays and commentaries in Beyond Baghdad take on subjects as diverse as the hidden divisions within the Islamic world and the global impact of womens liberation, the challenges of expeditionary warfare in the Age of Terror and the frustrated strategic vision of Fidel Castro. Unashamedly patriotic, tough-minded, and merciless toward false pieties, Ralph Peters has established an unparalleled track record as Americas most accurate forecaster of tomorrows strategic dangers and opportunities. Beyond Baghdad is essential reading for all Americans concerned about our nations future.	Fox News Strategic Analyst Ralph Peters is the author of 27 books, including bestselling and prize-winning novels.  He has experience in over 70 countries and, as a journalist, has covered multiple conflicts.  His work has appeared in a wide range of publications and he serves on the advisory board of Armchair General Magazine.",americas;books;history;international & world politics;iraq;iraq war;middle east;military;military science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics;terrorism;united states,14
0781810361,"Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson Alexander ( Korea: The First War We Lost ) debuts as a Civil War historian by asserting that Stonewall Jackson, rather than Robert E. Lee, possessed the strategic insight that might have won Confederate independence. Jackson initially advocated striking at the Union's will by invading the North; when neither Lee nor Jefferson Davis accepted this concept, Jackson concentrated on plans to destroy the Union army. Here too he was repeatedly frustrated, according to Alexander, by Lee's limited strategic insight and tendency to accept pitched battles whose losses the Confederacy could not afford. Only at Chancellorsville in 1863 did Lee accede to Jackson's bold plan, which might have annihilated the Army of the Potomac had Jackson not been mortally wounded. Alexander's critique of Lee, and his belief that decisive battles were possible under Civil War conditions, are debatable. Nevertheless this revisionist analysis merits the attention of Civil War students. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A detailed analysis of the battles and correspondence of Stonewall Jackson leads Alexander to conclude that Jackson's strategic overview was superior to that of Robert E. Lee and would have led to fewer Southern casualties and to the possibility (on at least three occasions) of the total destruction of the Northern Army of the Potomac. He views Lee as a conservative, timid, and nearsighted military leader. This is not a comprehensive biography (for such see Byron Farwell's Stonewall: A Biography, LJ 9/1/92) but a ""what if"" book analyzing the strategic opinions and views of Stonewall Jackson--a smoothly written, well-researched text offering a new perspective on the Civil War's leading tactical genius. Recommended for military collections.- Richard Nowicki, Emerson Vocational H.S., Buffalo, N.Y.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Well-researched and thought-provoking. --.	David Rees is an expert on Korea and has published a number of books on the Korean War and continuing conflicts in the area. He resides in England.",19th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;campaigns & battlefields;civil war;confederacy;historical;history;leaders & notable people;military;state & local;united states;united states civil war,14
072169053X,"Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Pathology, 1e Confidently sign out your toughest diagnoses	      --This text refers to the 							Kindle Edition	 edition.	Meryl Haber, MD, Rush Med Ctr, Chicago, IL; P. Guttuso, MD, Rush Med Ctr, Chicago, IL; O. David, MD, Tulane U. Med School, New Orleans, LA; D. Spitz, MD, Miami-Dade County Examiner Dep., Miami, FL; T. Betlej, MD, Riverside Med Ctr, Kankakee, IL",basic sciences;books;clinical;diagnosis;general;general surgery;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;pathology;surgery;used & rental textbooks,14
1576106306,"CCNA Routing and Switching Value Pack (Exam: 640-507) Certification Insider Press (CIP) is a leading provider of self-study exam preparation products. With over 4 million guides in print, CIP offers a complete line of learning systems that cover the primary academic college entrance exams and all of the major technical certification programs. CIP authors have the experience, credentials, and insight to deliver the most effective and in-demand learning systems for self-study or instructor-led testing candidates.",books;bridges & routers;certification;cisco;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;hardware;networking;networks;new;protocols & apis;software;used & rental textbooks,14
0486253996,"Spanish Stories / Cuentos Españoles (A Dual-Language Book) (English and Spanish Edition) Text: English, Spanish",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;education & reference;foreign language fiction;foreign languages;general;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;short stories;spanish;used & rental textbooks,14
0761808841,"Feminists Negotiate the State: The Politics of Domestic Violence This volume makes three contributions that make it a valuable read for movement scholars. First, it successfully sues the case of the feminist (anti-) domestic violence movement to highlight the problems of the tradeoffs that inevitably face activistsnegotiating the state. Second, it turns our attention to movement strategy, which has been insufficiently addressed in the social movement literature. Finally, it explicitly addresses the effects of a social movement on policy formation, an area of inquiry badly neglected by scholars of both movements and policy making.>> (Mobilization )This book is a model of policy analysis: it is clearly written, well documented throughout, free of political rhetoric...>>>> (Evan Stark )This book is a model of policy analysis: it is clearly written, well documented throughout, free of political rhetoric... (Evan Stark )This volume makes three contributions that make it a valuable read for movement scholars. First, it successfully sues the case of the feminist (anti-) domestic violence movement to highlight the problems of the tradeoffs that inevitably face activists negotiating the state. Second, it turns our attention to movement strategy, which has been insufficiently addressed in the social movement literature. Finally, it explicitly addresses the effects of a social movement on policy formation, an area of inquiry badly neglected by scholars of both movements and policy making. (Mobilization )	Cynthia R. Daniels is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.",books;criminology;domestic relations;dysfunctional relationships;family law;family relationships;feminist theory;law;new;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,14
0613916301,"Ebay the Smart Way: Selling, Buying, and Profiting on the Web's #1 Auction Site ""well-organized for fast reference..the optimal combination of warnings and marketing strategies."" -- San Luis Obispo Tribune December 2003The go-to resource for first-timers and veterans alike. -- BookPage	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The only thing easier than buying and selling on eBay is getting lumped in with more than 203 million other eBayers. With sales of over 150,000 copies, the eBay the Smart Way series has helped countless eBayers find the best deals and maximize profits on everything from collectibles to cars to real estate. Now in its fifth blockbuster edition, this priceless tool has changed with the times to cover the latest trends, including new site offerings such as eBay Express and Best Offer, and features expanded coverage of PayPal, Googles new e-commerce features, and more.     eBay the Smart Way is the go-to resource for first-time sellers, with step-by-step instructions for listing products, creating attention-grabbing photos and descriptions, offering top-notch customer service, and maintaining high credibility. eBay buyers will also benefit from powerful strategies for finding the best products, bidding smarter, negotiating great deals, and more. For the most up-to-date and accessible information on how to make the most out of online auctions, nothing explains it better than eBay the Smart Way. --  The Internet Marketing Bookshelf   	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""My working relationship with Sinclair has given me the knowledge to increase my business tenfold. His knowledge of eBay and e-commerce has clearly been as asset to my success. If you want to sell more on eBay, read what he has to say."" --Don Spillane, Owner, CCC Distributing	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Joseph T. Sinclair (Vallejo, CA) is the author of several books on computers, programming, and Web design, and has been a successful online entrepreneur.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biography & history;books;business & investing;business & management;company profiles;computers & technology;e-commerce;ebay;industries & professions;internet & web culture;management & leadership;purchasing & buying;strategy & competition;web marketing,14
1571431160,"Taking Risks: A Jewish Youth in the Soviet Partisans and His Unlikely Life in California This memoir is not only a story out of the Holocaust... It is, in fact, much more sweeping, taking us from the Polish countryside to postwar Germany and America..., we gain invaluable insight into some of the secrets of modern Jewish suffering and survival. --David Baile, Professor of Jewish History, Univ.of California, Davis, and editor of Cultures of the JewsA powerful story about a powerful man, Joe Pell, gives new meaning to the word survivor. --DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, Emory University; author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Copublished with the Western Jewish History Center of the Judah L. Magnes Museum, Taking RIsks, related in a a taut and vivid style, is a story of loss and torment but also daring, ingenuity and uncommon resilience.  A remarkable account of the largely unhearalded Partisan Movement that was critical to the Soviet war effort to stop the Nazis, Taking Risks is the fascinating story of a modest man who became a remarkable hero.  This book will appeal to students of European History, Judaica and World War II.  It is a valuable document that will be welcomed in the classroom, the library and on any history bookshelf.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Michael Krasny , host of KQED Forum in San Francisco  hails Taking Risks by Joe Pell and Fred Rosenbaum:   ""Though there are many holocaust memoirs, the stories of those brave men and women who fought back with the partisans is often overshadowed by stories of those who fled or survived the concentration camps. Joseph Pell's story is an especially compelling one not only because of his heroic actions in the face of the Nazi juggurnaut and the rampant and often lethal Ukranian and Polish anti-semitism, but it is an American immigrant success story as well.""	Joseph Pell grew up in Poland and fought in a partisan unit in Nax\zi-occupied Ukraine.  After immigrating to San Francisco he co-founded two ice cream stores and founded Pell Development, a major real estate company. Fred Rosenbaum is the founding director of Lehrhaus Judaica, the largest school for adult Jewish education in Northern Claifornia.  He has taught at several Bay Area universities and is the author of three books on modern Jewish history.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;europe;history;jewish;memoirs;military;regional u.s.;state & local;united states;west;world war ii,14
0764302531,"Corgi Toys Edward Force is a foremost collector who wrote the first book on this subject. In this book he includes more extensive information and presents practical tips for collecting, identifying, and enjoying Corgi toys.",antiques & collectibles;books;crafts;dolls;general;hobbies & home;professional & technical;reference;science & math;technology;toys;toys & figurines;transportation;travel,14
0865162794,"Voyage to Maryland (1633): Relatio Itineris in Marilandiam Dr. Boomgaarden has given us an updated edition of the text with guidelines for reading and profiting from this pioneering work one of the first Jesuits in North America. -- Meyer ReinholdDr. Boomgaarden has given us an updated edition of the text with guidelines for reading and profiting from this pioneering work one of the first Jesuits in North America. -- Meyer ReinholdEverything but a dry and factual report, the Relatio is often reminiscent of Vergil's Aeneid and the Trojans' wanderings in search for a new home. One of the many parallels is a portrayal of storm at sea, while descriptions of weird and wonderful phenomena abound: there are descriptions of flying fish, tropical birds, giant cabbages, sulphur mountains and even cannibals... The whole work is pervaded by a sense of White's purpose, his missionary zeal and his trust in God: in this way it becomes a spiritual document as well. Little touches of humor delight the reader... Written in lucid, sophisticated and elegant prose, the work exhibits some lyrical passages, such as the description of a pineapple ... A tightly knit unit, Lawatsch-Boomgarden's book contains an extensive introduction with historical as well as biographical information, a selected bibliography, a text accompanied by copious notes and vocabulary, an English translation, and, as piece de resistance, a photographic reproduction of a handwritten manuscript by a contemporary copyist. The clarity of its style, the theme of the work and the human interest of the subject make the work eminently suitable for use not only in American schools and colleges, but it can also be most highly recommended as a prescribed work in any country of the world. -- Alta Schoeman, University of Stellenbosch, Scholia ReviewsIt's a gem of a book. -- Leo KaiserLawatsch-Boomgaarden writes that 'White not only enjoyed the advantages of Jesuit training, but also had additional access to the great humanist traditions of Europe. His Relatio itineris in Marilandiam stands as a significant document in the classical tradition of the English colonies of North America.' Through her lucid translation, it is now accessible to a wider audience. -- American BooksellerThe Relatio... records the fascinating start for what was to become the structured Catholic Church in the United States. Lawatsch-Boomgaarden has presented the story in a most appealing form. --James Hennesey, America, March 28, 1998Everything but a dry and factual report, the Relatio is often reminiscent of Vergil's Aeneid and the Trojans' wanderings in search for a new home. One of the many parallels is a portrayal of storm at sea, while descriptions of weird and wonderful phenomena abound: there are descriptions of flying fish, tropical birds, giant cabbages, sulphur mountains and even cannibals... The whole work is pervaded by a sense of White's purpose, his missionary zeal and his trust in God: in this way it becomes a spiritual document as well. Little touches of humor delight the reader... Written in lucid, sophisticated and elegant prose, the work exhibits some lyrical passages, such as the description of a pineapple ... A tightly knit unit, Lawatsch-Boomgarden's book contains an extensive introduction with historical as well as biographical information, a selected bibliography, a text accompanied by copious notes and vocabulary, an English translation, and, as piece de resistance, a photographic reproduction of a handwritten manuscript by a contemporary copyist. The clarity of its style, the theme of the work and the human interest of the subject make the work eminently suitable for use not only in American schools and colleges, but it can also be most highly recommended as a prescribed work in any country of the world. --James Hennesey, America, March 28, 1998	Text: English, Latin (translation) Original Language: Latin	The merits of White's fascinating journal lie in its historical  and its engaging literary delivery. Now made accessible to a wide range  of readers through Boomgaarden's critical edition, Voyage to  Maryland includes: - an English translation of the 17th century  Latin text - illustrations from the Maryland Archives and Maryland  Historical Society - edited Latin text with extensive notes and  vocabulary - a photographic reproduction of the 17th century manuscript  from the Archives of the Society of Jesus in Rome	""When the Ark and Dove weighed anchor in the fall of  1633, most members of the Maryland expedition were doubtlessly  motivated by a desire to better their economic and social situation in  the New World, as were many other British adventurers and colonists. A  good part of the prospective Maryland settlers sought to escape  religious persecution, a goal shared with the early colonists of New  England. Yet, the expedition did have characteristics which made it  different from all others that regularly departed from the British  Isles throughout the seventeenth century. Not the least of these was  the ultimate purpose of the endeavor, to found the first colony  designed as a safe haven for English Catholics in English speaking  North America."" From the Author's Introduction.  ""Father White's  account of his ""Journey to Maryland,"" sent to Jesuit headquarters in  Rome is one of the earliest Neo-Latin works composed in North America.  Its literary style, while conventional, exhibits Father White's skill  in classical rhetorical usages adapted to contemporary events and  issues."" - From Meyer Reinhold's Foreward	On the 22nd of November, 1633, St. Cecilia's Day, with a  southeast wind softly blowing, we sailed from Cowes, which is a port on  the Isle of Wight."" So begins Andrew White's narrative on the  expedition that resulted in the founding of the Maryland Colony - an  eye-witness account of American history as it unfolded.	Barbara Lawatsch-Boomgaarden earned her doctorate in history and Latin with a secondary concentration in classical Greek. She has taught Latin, Byzantine History, German Literature and Classic, Biblical and Modern Literature and earned a diploma in American Studies as a Fulbright scholar. A native of Salzburg, Austria, Boomgaarden currently serves as an assistant to the Director of Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota. Other publications include a translated edition of Ioannes Stomius' Prima ad Musicen Instructio (with Donald R. Boomgaarden and Gerhard Walterskirchen) and a variety of articles and papers on classical themes. Josef IJsewijn, author of Companion to Neo-Latin Studies, Part I: History and Diffusion of Latin Literature, is a prominent Neo-Latin scholar at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven who has been a consultant on numerous Neo-Latin texts.	In the Relatio much attention is given to the customs,  dress and housing of the Yaocomico Indians on the St. Mary's River in  Maryland: ""The natives are of tall and fine stature, with naturally  dark skin, which they generally make more shocking by painting it with  a specially prepared red oil in order to keep away the gnats; thus they  are more intent on comfort than appearance. They also disfigure their  faces with other colors, blue from the nose upwards, red downwards, or  the reverse, in various and really horrible ways.""",17th century;americas;books;general;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;reference;state & local;travel;united states;used & rental textbooks;world,14
0521598370,"The Search for Life on Other Planets Scholarly but accessible, University of Colorado geology professor Jakosky's study of the possibility of extraterrestrial life has an organization that reflects its origin as an undergraduate course called ""Extraterrestrial Life."" Each chapter reads like a self-contained lecture that builds carefully on the preceding ones. Most chapters end with a section of ""concluding comments"" reminiscent of a skilled instructor's lecture summary, tying threads of evidence together yet leaving open questions for the next class period. After opening with a look at the development of and requirements for terrestrial life, Jakosky conducts a tour of the universe, steadily progressing toward more speculative venues. The first stop is Mars and the controversial evidence of bacterial life there in ancient epochs. Then it's onward to Venus, the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn, and then to possible terrestrial planets in orbit around other stars. We now know that such planets are likely to exist, but are habitable environments common? Is biology rare, or is life an opportunistic and tenacious phenomenon, almost certain to spring up where conditions are right? If life appears, is intelligence a natural consequence? The excitement of those questions, says Jakosky, is not that the answers are at hand, but that the quest has moved from theory to observation and experiment. He leaves his readers eagerly awaiting the next discoveries. 64 halftones; 73 line drawings. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Jakosky has done an excellent job conveying the excitement and depth of astrobiology...[the book] is a cleverly written account that is easily digested. Jakosky is to be congratulated on what will become a classic work.""   Science Spectra""...offers readers an entry point to the latest ideas and issues in astrobiology....Jakosky's considerable experience as a geologist and teacher thinking about this material is evident in the book's superb organization and progression of ideas.""   Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada""...the treatment is clear, authoritative, well illustrated, and thorough.""  Choice""...a well-illustrated guide to the biological universe.""   Physics Today	Does life exist on other planets? This topical book presents the scientific basis for thinking there may be life elsewhere in the Universe. It is the first to cover the entire breadth of recent exciting discoveries, including the discovery of planets around other stars and the possibility of fossil life in meteorites from Mars.Suitable for the general reader, this authoritative book avoids technical jargon and is well illustrated throughout. It covers all the major topics, including the origin of life on Earth, the possibility of life elsewhere in our Solar System, the occurrence of planets around other stars and their habitability, and the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life.",astronomy;astronomy & astrophysics;astronomy & space science;astrophysics & space science;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;evolution;new;physics;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,14
0789727129,"BEA WebLogic Platform 7 Distributed software development, in which the user interfaces are distinct from the business logic, and the business logic is separate from the persistent data store, takes some getting used to. Not only do you have to grasp the concepts, but also the peculiarities of the development and run-time environments in which you're working--usually BEA WebLogic or IBM WebSphere. BEA WebLogic Platform 7 focuses on the WebLogic server itself, leaving other parts of the development environment for coverage in other venues. That said, WebLogic coverage is excellent, providing readers with an excellent resource that explains how various objects behave. There are lots of code samples, too, so readers can see exactly what they need to do to get their J2EE applications running right. Chapters tend to be comprehensive, beginning with theory (explaining, for example, what entity beans are for and the life cycle of a typical one) and moving on through recommended ways of writing bean- and container-managed persistence classes. Chapters typically conclude with details of deployment on a WebLogic server. This coverage is handy in that it's not particularly standards-oriented: It's WebLogic-specific, and that's the only standard you care about if you're writing code for that environment. Combined with BEA's own documentation, this is an enormously useful book. --David Wall Topics covered: How to write applications for BEA WebLogic Platform 7, and deploy them, correctly. Specific coverage goes to presentation logic, business logic, and persistence, as well as to Web Services in the BEA environment and server administration.	BEA. WebLogic Platform 7 is a fast-paced introduction to the new WebLogic Platform. The focus of this book is to provide you with an in-depth knowledge of the WebLogic Platform 7.0 product and how you can leverage its capabilities and new features to create, configure, manage, and monitor an optimal operational environment for your J2EE applications. Hence, the primary technical topics discussed in this book fall under the realm of WebLogic Server Administration.  This book covers in J2EE concepts and how to develop J2EE applications targeted for the WebLogic Platform. * Become versed on the capabilities, new features and technical architecture of the WebLogic Server 7.0.* Master how to install and efficiently configure a WebLogic Server.* Configure the WebLogic Server to use BEA's performance-based JRockit JVM.*  Leverage the WebLogic Server's administration and deployment tools. * Extend a WebLogic Server domain through the introduction of remote managed servers.* Configure network resources for your WebLogic Servers.*  Implement an administration and monitoring framework using Node Manager in conjunction with the WebLogic Server's new Self-Health Monitoring System.* Activate and configure your WebLogic Server's logging capabilities.* Architect and implement highly available and scalable application deployment solutions using the WebLogic Server cluster. * Optimally package J2EE Web and Enterprise applications and deploy them to your WebLogic Server. * Performance tune the WebLogic Server's internal subsystems.* Optimize the WebLogic Server's default HotSpot JVM.	Author Bio: BEA WebLogic Platform 7BEA WebLogic Platform 7  Author Bio  Jatinder Prem is the founder and the chief technology officer of ObjectMind Inc.   (http://www.ObjectMind.com), a startup company focused on providing creative   socio-technical solutions to organizations that need assistance in building J2EE   enterprise solutions on the BEA WebLogic Platform. Educated at one of London's   leading technology-focused universities, The City of London University, and   maintaining professional certifications in Java Programming, Oracle, and Sybase   Database Administration, Prem has more than 10 years of end-to-end software   development experience, using a variety of methodologies and technologies with   organizations such as Morgan Stanley, KPMG, Motability Finance, SMART   Technologies, the Workers Compensation Board, and DuPont.  Prem's other authoring successes include co-authoring the Oracle8 Bible and the   custom Dev2Dev WebLogic Platform book provided to attendees at BEA eWorld 2003.   Prem can be reached via email through Prem@ObjectMind.com.",books;client-server systems;computer science;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;education & reference;hardware;internet & networking;internet & web culture;networking;new;used & rental textbooks;web development & design;web services,14
0750919892,"The Flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie The era of the Jacobite wars remains one of the more confusing and fascinating aspects of British history. The wars reached an ignominious conclusion with the flight and escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1746 after the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Colloden. The manhunt for this last Stuart pretender created a legend that still endures in the Scottish Highlands. Douglas is a biographer and social historian, and Stead is a photographer. Together they have provided a thrilling chronicle of a massive pursuit and daring escape, set against the backdrop of a wild, beautiful, but treacherous landscape. Douglas and Stead effectively utilize firsthand accounts and their own analyses of the principal players in this engrossing drama. The text is enhanced with numerous color photographs that emphasize the beauty of the Highlands. Jay FreemanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Hugh Douglas has written many books including Flora MacDonald: The Most Loyal Rebel (Sutton, 1999), The Private Passions of Bonnie Prince Charlie (Sutton) and Robert Burns: The Tinder Heart (Suttton).    Michael J. Stead is a professional photographer, specializing in landscape work.  His last book was In The Footsteps of Robert Bruce  (Sutton).",18th century;biographies & memoirs;books;england;ethnic & national;europe;history;ireland;irish;leaders & notable people;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);royalty;scotland,14
1579547745,"And Thou Shalt Honor: The Caregiver's Companion It's no news that as American life expectancy increases, the fate of our elderly is in our hands. In her latest volume, editor McLeod, who was nominated for a Pulitzer for her Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss and Renewal, makes a strong case that caregiving also resides in our souls. The encyclopedic companion to the PBS special And Thou Shalt Honor reinforces Mcleod's positive theme: ""Caregiving truly is a spiritual practice, a nonlinear path with heart""; ""Caregiving has heart and meaning because it changes us for the better""; and ""caring for a loved one ennobles every life it touches."" Throughout this comprehensive and compassionate but unsentimental resource book, actual caregivers tell their stories, acknowledging their vast range of experiences and emotional reactions alongside a gamut of action plans, checklists, as well as medical and support networking information. More than 54 million Americans are caring for loved ones; they need look no further than McCleod's manual for openhearted encouragement and a plethora of practical information. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	One of my colleagues once said: There are only four kinds of people in the world--those who have been caregivers, those who currently are caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers. --Rosalynn Carter	My mom has become so forgetful that I'm afraid for her safety. How do I intervene?"" ""I want to care for my husband at home, but I can't quit my job. Where can I go for help?"" ""I've heard of people having to 'spend down' their life savings to qualify for Medicaid. What can my parents do to protect their assets?"" Questions like these are part and parcel of the caregiving experience. Finding answers hasn't been easy. That is, until now. And Thou Shalt Honor: The Caregiver's Companion examines all the issues that matter most to caregivers. Whether you're organizing a loved one's financial affairs, or shopping around for home care services, or contemplating a person's long-term care for the first time, you can find the guidance and support you need right here. Of course, some issues can be complicated or sensitive, like advising a parent to obtain a living will or persuading a relative to assist with a loved one's care. And Thou Shalt Honor: The Caregiver's Companion helps tackle these, too, by providing specific strategies to steer through the most challenging of caregiving situations. In fact, every chapter offers a wealth of information and advice to ease and enrich the caregiving role. You'll even find tips on caring for the caregiver--because, after all, if you don't look after yourself, how can you look after someone else? Beyond all the practical solutions to real-world caregiving concerns, this book provides a welcome sense of community with others who are caregivers, whether by choice or by necessity. You'll hear from people just like you, in situations just like yours. You'll appreciate the candor of their stories and draw strength from their words. Caregiving, after all, may be the most universal of life experiences. It crosses all world cultures and touches all ethnic groups and economic classes. As a caregiver, you're carrying on a centuries-old tradition--one rooted in love, respect, and above all, honor. With And Thou Shalt Honor: The Caregiver's Companion, you'll have the tools and resources that empower you to truly embrace the caregiving role.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	One of my colleagues once said: There are only four kinds of people in the world--those who have been caregivers, those who currently are caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers. --Rosalynn CarterIn the groundbreaking PBS special And Thou Shalt Honor, producers Harry Wiland and Dale Bell bring to light the challenges facing today's caregivers. This companion volume picks up where the show leaves off, providing the kind of information and practical support essential for anyone in a caregiving situation.More than 54 million American families are involved in the care of loved ones who are elderly or ill. And millions more will be affected in the years to come. If you're a caregiver, or you expect to become one, And Thou Shalt Honor: The Caregiver's Companion offers help and hope.Page after page of useful advice draws on the expertise of the nation's top caregiving researchers and advocates, as well as the real-world wisdom of caregivers just like you. You'll find insights and answers on all aspects of providing care, including:- Reaching out to a loved one in need of help- Managing day-to-day caregiving tasks- Accessing public and private caregiving resources- Navigating the legal and financial maze- Assembling a caregiving support network- Understanding the changing family dynamic- Surviving and thriving in the caregiver roleComplete with action plans and checklists for key caregiving issues, plus a comprehensive directory of essential caregiving resources, And Thou Shalt Honor: The Caregiver's Companion reaches out to all caregivers--and to those they love. Make it your companion for the caregiving journey.	Beth Witrogen McLeod is a consultant, lecturer, journalist, and author whose book Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She also wrote and produced an award-winning series called The Caregivers for the San Francisco Examiner. Her articles on eldercare and on spirituality and health have appeared in a variety of publications, including Good Housekeeping, Self, Family Circle, and Health, as well as on Web sites such as ThirdAge.com and WebMD.com. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the University of California, Berkeley, she currently resides in the San Francisco Bay area.",aging parents;allied health services;books;caregiving;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;nursing;parenting & relationships;reference;used & rental textbooks,14
058208069X,"The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe 'Brian Levack's aims are to provide a coherent introduction to the subject and contribute to an ongoing scholarly debate. In both these aims he has succeeded magnificently. xxx; It will serve as a standard introduction to the topic for many years to come.'English Historical Review	""Brian Levack's aims are to provide a coherent introduction to the subject and contribute to an ongoing scholarly debate. In both these aims - but particularly in the former - he has succeeded magnificently. ...it will serve as a standard introduction to the topic for many years to come.""So wrote Brian Easlea in the English Historical Review of this famous book when it first appeared in 1987. It focuses on the great age of witch-hunting in Europe (and also in colonial America), between 1450 and 1750. In these years more than 100,000 people - most of them women - were prosecuted by secular and ecclesiastical courts across Europe for allegedly practising harmful magic and worshipping the Devil. The book sets out to answer the major questions that this strange and terrible phenomenon evokes today:* Why did the trials take place? * Why did they suddenly proliferate in Europe at this time? How many trials were there, and where, and what were their outcomes? * Why were more witches prosecuted in some countries than others? * Who were the accused and who were their accusers? * Why, after more than 200 years of vigorous activity, did the trials eventually dwindle away? * What do they tell us about the social, economic and political history of early modern Europe - and, in particular, the position of women within it?In this timely Second Edition, Brian Levack now incorporates the latest scholarship on the subject. The general lines of his argument remain as before, but numerous new regional and local studies (many on the periphery of Europe) have made possible a fuller treatment of the witch-hunt, and a more detailed analysis of its chronological and geographical distribution. He also includes new material on the development of witch-beliefs in the Middle Ages; on the social dimension of witchcraft; and on the connection between witch-hunting and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. The notes and bibliography have been greatly expanded, and the book has been entirely reset.""(He) has produced a valuable synthesis of the materials currently available, and his text will prove a lifeline to many students.""Martin Ingram, European History Quarterly""Now, at last, with Brian Levack's careful, scholarly and critical survey, a thoroughly reliable introduction to the whole literature is available. Levack appears to have read every significant work, both new and old and in most relevant languages, and has judiciously sifted out the information, pondered on it, and come up with balanced and sensible verdicts.""Henry Kamen, History Today""Levack's logical sorting of a prodigious amount of material has resulted in one of the most informative and comprehensive works of its genre.""Hans Sebald, American Historical ReviewBRIAN P. LEVACK is Professor of History in the University of Texas at Austin.	Brian Levack grew up in a family of teachers in the New York metropolitan area. From his father, a professor of French history, he acquired a love for studying the past, and he knew from an early age that he too would become a historian. He received his B.A. from Fordham University in 1965 and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1970. In graduate school he became fascinated by the history of the law and the interaction between law and politics, interests that he has maintained throughout his career. In 1969 he joined the History Department of the University of Texas at Austin, where he is now the John Green Regents Professor in History. The winner of several teaching awards, Levack teaches a wide variety of courses on British and European history, legal history, and the history of witchcraft. For eight years he served as the chair of his department, a rewarding but challenging assignment that made it difficult for him to devote as much time as he wished to his teaching and scholarship. His books include The Civil Lawyers in England, 1603-1641: A Political Study (1973), The Formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the Union, 1603-1707 (1987), and The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (1987 and 1995), which has been translated into eight languages.     His study of the development of beliefs about witchcraft in Europe over the course of many centuries gave him the idea of writing a textbook on Western civilization that would illustrate a broader set of encounters between different cultures, societies, and ideologies. While writing the book, Levack and his two sons built a house on property that he and his wife, Nancy, own in the Texas hill country. He found that the two projects presented similar challenges: it was easy to draw up the design, but far more difficult to execute it. When not teaching, writing, or doing carpentry work, Levack runs along the jogging trails of Austin, and he has recently discovered the pleasures of scuba diving.",16th century;17th century;18th century;books;education & reference;europe;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;occult;religion & spirituality;used & rental textbooks;world,14
0071420401,"Schaum's Outline of Programming with Java Master programming with Java with Schaumsthe high-performance study guide. It will help you cut study time, hone problem-solving skills, and achieve your personal best on exams! Students love Schaum's Outlines because they produce results. Each year, hundreds of thousands of students improve their test scores and final grades with these indispensable study guides. Get the edge on your classmates. Use Schaum's! If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, this book helps you: brush up before tests; find answers fast; study quickly and more effectively; get the big picture without spending hours poring over lengthy textbooks. Schaum's Outlines give you the information your teachers expect you to know in a handy and succinct format--without overwhelming you with unnecessary details. You get a complete overview of the subject. Plus, you get plenty of practice exercises to test your skill. Compatible with any classroom text, Schaum's let you study at your pace and remind you of all the important facts you need to rememberfast! And Schaum's are so complete, they're perfect for preparing for graduate or professional exams. Inside, you will find: over 200 problems, including step-by-step solutions; hundreds of additional practice problems, with answers; clear explanations of Java programming concepts and practices; easy-to-follow coverage of construction of animation applets, interactive applications, and other important Internet technology. If you want top grades and a thorough understanding of programming with Java, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have!	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	John R. Hubbard, Ph.D. (Richmond, VA) is professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Richmond. He is the author of Schaum's Outlines Programming with C++ and Programming with Java.",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;java;languages & tools;new;programming;programming languages;software;study guides;studying & workbooks;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,14
1572921226,"Beyond the Pale of Pity The historical and sociological research of Dr. Rose, so evident in his writing, has never ceased to arouse my highest admiration.>>>> (John W.F. Dulles )The historical and sociological research of Dr. Rose, so evident in his writing, has never ceased to arouse my highest admiration. (John W.F. Dulles )",americas;books;brazil;conservatism & liberalism;criminology;history;ideologies & doctrines;military;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;south america;violence in society;world war ii,14
0131482025,"Core Java(TM) 2, Volume I--Fundamentals (7th Edition) (Core Series) (Core Series) From the Back Cover The best-selling guide for serious programmers of Java technology fully updated for the Java 1.4 SDK! The experienced developer's guide to the Java program environment-now fully updated for the Java(tm) 1.4 SDK. New coverage: regular expressions, New I/O, assertions, Preferences, Swing enhancements, logging, and more Even more of the robust code examples professional programmers need Ask any experienced Java technology programmer: Core Java delivers the real-world guidance you need to accomplish even the most challenging tasks. That's why it's been an international best seller for seven straight years. Core Java II, Volume 1 covers the fundamentals of Java 2, Standard Edition, Version 1.4, including major enhancements ranging from regular expressions to high-performance I/O. You'll find state-of-the-art discussions of object-oriented Java platform development, updated coverage of Swing user interface development, and much more. Best of all, this new Sixth Edition delivers even more of the robust, real-world programs previous editions are famous for updated to reflect the latest SDK features and improvements! --Smith Colin (Site Resources)br /br /I had a chance to review the book Core Java 2 - Volume 1 - Fundamentals (7th Edition) by Cay S. Horstmann and Gary Cornell (Prentice Hall). This is a very good choice for experienced programmers who want to learn Java and have a good reference book to continue to use over time... Chapter List: An Introduction to Java; The Java Programming Environment; Fundamental Programming Structures in Java; Objects and Classes; Inheritance; Interfaces and Inner Classes; Graphics Programming; Event Handling; User Interface Components with Swing; Deploying Applets and Applications; Exceptions and Debugging; Streams and Files; Generic Programming; Java Keywords; Retrofitting JDK 5.0 Code; Index When a book survives into its seventh edition, you know it must be good. Core Java 2 is that. It's a solid, serious treatment of the Java language with plenty of examples and in-depth explanations as to how things work. And while no single book can cover the complete Java API, this book does a good job of documenting each area they cover so that you can refer back to the work as you start to use Java on a regular basis. There are not a lot of good Java learning books that also adequately serve as a reference book. The authors should be commended for this. Because the authors target serious developers, there's less emphasis on Hello World type applications and more focus on the types of routines you might find yourself writing in a business environment. There's also coverage of the newest features in Java 1.5, so you can buy this particular edition with fear of having it be obsolete in a month. This is a volume that I'll happily keep on my shelf and refer to as I get into some of the newer features of Java... --99br /br /Swing GUI development including input validation and other enhancements Building reliable code including chained exceptions, stack frames, assertions, and logging The high-performance New I/O API: memory-mapped files, file locking, and character set encoders/decoders Regular expressions using the powerful new java.util.regex package Java 1.4 platform Preference Class: the new cross-platform repository for configuration information Dynamic proxy classes, inner classes, the Java platform event model, streams, file management, and more. --By John Atkingson (Site Resourcs)Swing GUI development including input validation and other enhancements  Building reliable code including chained exceptions, stack frames, assertions, and logging  The high-performance New I/O API: memory-mapped files, file locking, and character set encoders/decoders  Regular expressions using the powerful new java.util.regex package  Java 1.4 platform Preference Class: the new cross-platform repository for configuration information  Dynamic proxy classes, inner classes, the Java platform event model, streams, file management, and more. --By John Atkingson (Site Resourcs)I had a chance to review the book Core Java 2 - Volume 1 - Fundamentals (7th Edition) by Cay S. Horstmann and Gary Cornell (Prentice Hall). This is a very good choice for experienced programmers who want to learn Java and have a good reference book to continue to use over time...  Chapter List: An Introduction to Java; The Java Programming Environment; Fundamental Programming Structures in Java; Objects and Classes; Inheritance; Interfaces and Inner Classes; Graphics Programming; Event Handling; User Interface Components with Swing; Deploying Applets and Applications; Exceptions and Debugging; Streams and Files; Generic Programming; Java Keywords; Retrofitting JDK 5.0 Code; Index  When a book survives into its seventh edition, you know it must be good. Core Java 2 is that. It's a solid, serious treatment of the Java language with plenty of examples and in-depth explanations as to how things work. And while no single book can cover the complete Java API, this book does a good job of documenting each area they cover so that you can refer back to the work as you start to use Java on a regular basis. There are not a lot of good Java learning books that also adequately serve as a reference book. The authors should be commended for this.  Because the authors target serious developers, there's less emphasis on Hello World type applications and more focus on the types of routines you might find yourself writing in a business environment. There's also coverage of the newest features in Java 1.5, so you can buy this particular edition with fear of having it be obsolete in a month.  This is a volume that I'll happily keep on my shelf and refer to as I get into some of the newer features of Java... --99	The best-selling guide for serious programmers of Java technologyfully updated for the Java 1.4 SDK!  The experienced developer's guide to the Java program environment-now fully updated for the Java(tm) 1.4 SDK. New coverage: regular expressions, New I/O, assertions, Preferences, Swing enhancements, logging, and more Even more of the robust code examples professional programmers need Ask any experienced Java technology programmer: Core Java delivers the real-world guidance you need to accomplish even the most challenging tasks. That's why it's been an international best seller for seven straight years. Core Java II, Volume 1 covers the fundamentals of Java 2, Standard Edition, Version 1.4, including major enhancements ranging from regular expressions to high-performance I/O. You'll find state-of-the-art discussions of object-oriented Java platform development, updated coverage of Swing user interface development, and much more. Best of all, this new Sixth Edition delivers even more of the robust, real-world programs previous editions are famous forupdated to reflect the latest SDK features and improvements!State-of-the-art information for Java platform developers, including:  Swing GUI developmentincluding input validation and other enhancements Building reliable codeincluding chained exceptions, stack frames, assertions, and logging The high-performance New I/O API: memory-mapped files, file locking, and character set encoders/decoders Regular expressions using the powerful new java.util.regex package Java 1.4 platform Preference Class: the new cross-platform repository for configuration information Dynamic proxy classes, inner classes, the Java platform event model, streams, file management, and more	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This is the seventh edition of this book and in some ways it hasn't changed much since the first edition. The first edition was aimed at C++ programmers who were looking to transition to the new language. The seventh edition is still fast-paced and detailed and aimed for the experienced programmer. This is not an easy-to-follow tutorial for the beginner programmer. The authors assume that you already know the basics of programming even if it isn't with an object oriented language. The book might make a fairly good college textbook but not as a first language. The book covers the main areas that you would expect in an introductory Java book with a few surprises. The book gives a little bit of the history of Java and shows how to install and run Java from the console and Eclipse (but not NetBeans). There is an early introduction to reflection but exception handling isn't covered until well into the book. Swing is covered in a fair level of depth. J2SE 5.0 changes are covered throughout the book with the many examples written to show off the new additions to the language. Threading and Collections are not covered but rather are saved for volume two. Overall this is a well written book but the target audience is getting small. How many C++ programmers can be left that don't already know Java? If you are looking for an introductory tutorial then this book may be a bit too advanced. Through seven editions, Core Java has changed little other than to reflect language changes. Perhaps it's time to rethink the franchise.	To the ReaderIn late 1995, the Java programming language burst onto the Internet scene and gained instant celebrity status. The promise of Java technology was that it would become the universal glue that connects users with information, whether that information comes from web servers, databases, information providers, or any other imaginable source. Indeed, Java is in a unique position to fulfill this promise. It is an extremely solidly engineered language that has gained acceptance by all major vendors, except for Microsoft. Its built-in security and safety features are reassuring both to programmers and to the users of Java programs. Java even has built-in support that makes advanced programming tasks, such as network programming, database connectivity, and multithreading, straightforward. Since 1995, Sun Microsystems has released six major revisions of the Java Development Kit. Over the course of the last nine years, the Application Programming Interface (API) has grown from about 200 to over 3,000 classes. The API now spans such diverse areas as user interface construction, database management, internationalization, security, and XML processing. JDK 5.0, released in 2004, is the most impressive update of the Java language since the original Java release. The book you have in your hand is the first volume of the seventh edition of the Core Java 2 book. With the publishing of each edition, the book followed the release of the Java Development Kit as quickly as possible, and each time, we rewrote the book to take advantage of the newest Java features. In this edition, we are enthusiastic users of generic collections, the enhanced for loop, and other exciting features of JDK 5.0. As with the previous editions of this book, we still target serious programmers who want to put Java to work on real projects. We still guarantee no nervous text or dancing tooth-shaped characters. We think of you, our reader, as a programmer with a solid background in a programming language. But you do not need to know C++ or object-oriented programming. Based on the responses we have received to the earlier editions of this book, we remain confident that experienced Visual Basic, C, or COBOL programmers will have no trouble with this book. (You dont even need any experience in building graphical user interfaces for Windows, UNIX, or the Macintosh.) What we do is assume you want to: Write real code to solve real problemsand Dont like books filled with toy examples (such as toasters, fruits, or zoo animals)In this book you will find lots of sample code that demonstrates almost every language and library feature that we discuss. We kept the sample programs purposefully simple to focus on the major points, but, for the most part, they arent fake and they dont cut corners. They should make good starting points for your own code.We assume you are willing, even eager, to learn about all the advanced features that Java puts at your disposal. For example, we give you a detailed treatment of: Object-oriented programming Reflection and proxies Interfaces and inner classes The event listener model Graphical user interface design with the Swing UI toolkit Exception handling Stream input/output and object serialization Generic programmingWith the explosive growth of the Java class library, a one-volume treatment of all the features of Java that serious programmers need to know is no longer possible. Hence, we decided to break the book up into two volumes. The first volume, which you hold in your hands, concentrates on the fundamental concepts of the Java language, along with the basics of user-interface programming. The second volume goes further into the enterprise features and advanced user-interface programming. It includes detailed discussions of: Multithreading Distributed objects Databases Advanced GUI components Native methods XML processing Network programming Collection classes Advanced graphics Internationalization JavaBeansWhen writing a book, errors and inaccuracies are inevitable. Wed very much like to know about them. But, of course, wed prefer to learn about each of them only once. We have put up a list of frequently asked questions, bug fixes, and workarounds in a web page at http://www.horstmann.com/corejava.html. Strategically placed at the end of the errata page (to encourage you to read through it first) is a form you can use to report bugs and suggest improvements. Please dont be disappointed if we dont answer every query or if we dont get back to you immediately. We do read all e-mail and appreciate your input to make future editions of this book clearer and more informative.We hope that you find this book enjoyable and helpful in your Java programming. About This BookChapter 1 gives an overview of the capabilities of Java that set it apart from other programming languages. We explain what the designers of the language set out to do and to what extent they succeeded. Then, we give a short history of how Java came into being and how it has evolved.In Chapter 2, we tell you how to download and install the JDK and the program examples for this book. Then we guide you through compiling and running three typical Java programs, a console application, a graphical application, and an applet, using the plain JDK, a Java-enabled text editor, and a Java IDE.Chapter 3 starts the discussion of the Java language. In this chapter, we cover the basics: variables, loops, and simple functions. If you are a C or C++ programmer, this is smooth sailing because the syntax for these language features is essentially the same as in C. If you come from a non-C background such as Visual Basic, you will want to read this chapter carefully.Object-oriented programming (OOP) is now in the mainstream of programming practice, and Java is completely object-oriented. Chapter 4 introduces encapsulation, the first of two fundamental building blocks of object orientation, and the Java language mechanism to implement it, that is, classes and methods. In addition to the rules of the Java language, we also give advice on sound OOP design. Finally, we cover the marvelous javadoc tool that formats your code comments as a set of hyperlinked web pages. If you are familiar with C++, then you can browse through this chapter quickly. Programmers coming from a non-object-oriented background should expect to spend some time mastering OOP concepts before going further with Java. Classes and encapsulation are only one part of the OOP story, and Chapter 5 introduces the other, namely, inheritance. Inheritance lets you take an existing class and modify it according to your needs. This is a fundamental technique for programming in Java. The inheritance mechanism in Java is quite similar to that in C++. Once again, C++ programmers can focus on the differences between the languages. Chapter 6 shows you how to use Javas notion of an interface. Interfaces let you go beyond the simple inheritance model of Chapter 5. Mastering interfaces allows you to have full access to the power of Javas completely object-oriented approach to programming. We also cover a useful technical feature of Java called inner classes. Inner classes help make your code cleaner and more concise.In Chapter 7, we begin application programming in earnest. We show how you can make windows, how to paint on them, how to draw with geometric shapes, how to format text in multiple fonts, and how to display images. Chapter 8 is a detailed discussion of the event model of the AWT, the abstract window toolkit. Youll see how to write the code that responds to events like mouse clicks or key presses. Along the way youll see how to handle basic GUI elements like buttons and panels. Chapter 9 discusses the Swing GUI toolkit in great detail. The Swing toolkit allows you to build a cross-platform graphical user interface. Youll learn all about the various kinds of buttons, text components, borders, sliders, list boxes, menus, and dialog boxes. However, some of the more advanced components are discussed in Volume 2. After you finish Chapter 9, you finally have all mechanisms in place to write applets, those mini-programs that can live inside a web page, and so applets are the topic of Chapter 10. We show you a number of useful and fun applets, but more importantly, we look at applets as a method of program deployment. We then describe how to package applications in JAR files, and how to deliver applications over the Internet with the Java Web Start mechanism. Finally, we explain how Java programs can store and retrieve configuration information once they have been deployed. Chapter 11 discusses exception handling, Javas robust mechanism to deal with the fact that bad things can happen to good programs. For example, a network connection can become unavailable in the middle of a file download, a disk can fill up, and so on. Exceptions give you an efficient way of separating the normal processing code from the error handling. Of course, even after hardening your program by handling all exceptional conditions, it still might fail to work as expected. In the second half of this chapter, we give you a large number of useful debugging tips. Finally, we guide you through sample sessions with various tools: the JDB debugger, the debugger of an integrated development environment, a profiler, a code coverage testing tool, and the AWT robot. The topic of Chapter 12 is input and output handling. In Java, all I/O is handled through so-called streams. Streams let you deal in a uniform manner with communicatin...",books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;java;languages & tools;new;object-oriented design;programming;programming languages;software;software design;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks,14
1560446331,"Scenic Driving Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park Instead of passing through the entrance station and driving straight to Old Faithful, take along Scenic Driving Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks to experience the many areas of these two magnificent parks that many visitors miss. This FalconGuide lets you set the pace for your weekend adventure or two-week vacation. Most drives can be completed in an hour or two, allowing you plenty of time to fish a stream, hike a trail, or just sit back and enjoy the spectacular scenery. Wherever you are in the Yellowstone and Grand Teton area, there will be a variety of drives to choose from.",books;food;general;jackson hole;lodging & transportation;mountain;parks & campgrounds;reference;road travel;travel;united states;west;wyoming;yellowstone,14
0691089590,"On Beauty and Being Just. Best known for her 1985 study of torture and physical pain, The Body in Pain, and for her much-publicized contention, first expressed in the New York Review of Books, that electromagnetic interference caused the crash of TWA Flight 800, Harvard English professor Scarry turns her critical lights on the question of how we transform literature into compelling mental imagery. Given that imagination is, by definition, less vivid than actual perception, she asks, why should a poem by Wordsworth, say, or a novel by Charlotte Bront?, bring the material world to life so palpably? Although Scarry bases her argument largely on close literary readings, her approach often recalls that of such Enlightenment philosophers as Descartes and Hume as she attempts to solve the riddle of how the mind works. Scarry is an original, interdisciplinary thinker. She writes like someone enraptured by both the natural worldAespecially flowersAand by language. Unfortunately, Scarry takes for granted that her reader is as obsessive a gardener as she. Is it really universally the case that ""people seem to have long languorous conversations describing to each other the flower they most love that morning?"" And is this observation a useful basis for a universal theory of the mind? In the long sections of the book devoted to the habits of a certain sparrow in Scarry's garden, or to charting every reference to vegetation in the works of Homer, Flaubert and Wordsworth, Scarry appears lost in her own lush imaginative world. (Oct.). FYI: In September, Princeton Univ. will publish Scarry's On Beauty and Being Just ($15.95 134p ISBN 0-691-04875-4), a pair of lectures intended to rescue the idea of beauty from academic neglect. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Scarry (English, Harvard Univ.), the author of the powerful and important The Body in Pain, has long been interested in ideas about creativity, imagination, and justice. In her groundbreaking earlier work, those themes were tied to the human experiences of pain and embodiment in strikingly original ways. In these two new works, she continues her explorations, using her formidable analytic talents to understand the function of the imagination in reading literature and to investigate the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, especially in contemporary academic discourse. In Dreaming by the Book, Scarry wonders how the best writing enables us to produce images and scenes in our minds that carry something of the force of reality. She deftly unfolds an answer by identifying and explicating several general principles and five formal practices by which authors invisibly command us to manipulate the objects of our imagination. While not everyone will be convinced by all of her conclusions, her analyses are always original and illuminating. The book is valuable not only for its insights but also for the pleasure of simply following Scarry through her explorations. Part 1 of the shorter On Beauty and Being Just is similarly engaging. Here, Scarry examines the experience of apprehending or misapprehending beauty in art, literature, or the world around us. But in the second half of the book, which builds to a claim about the relationship between beauty and justice, she casts her argument against an ill-defined set of ""opponents of beauty"" who are so generalized and obscure as to be straw men. Also, because of the reflective nature of her text (some of which was apparently presented in public lectures), she offers no citations or specific references to the individuals or philosophies she means to critique. The result is tiresome, misleading, and unfortunate, since the ideas she is exploring are important and provocative ones.AJulia Burch, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	An essay that aims to recover beauty as a serious topic for academic discourse and, more ambitiously, to reconnect beauty with truth and justice. Scarry (English/Harvard) delivered these thoughts on beauty as the Tanner Lectures of 1998 at Yale and then retired to a research institute to work them up for publication. Though her book is brief, the studied awkwardness of Scarry's style makes it seem long and serves perhaps as a signal that these ruminations are for the happy fewwhich is too bad, because what she has to say is both interesting and original. Scarry has noted that for a couple of decades now, professors have been avoiding any talk of beauty. Beauty all too often masks power, say some, and beauty unfairly objectifies the body (usually female), say others. Scarry strongly objects and argues that the reverse is true: ``the beautiful person or thing incites in us a longing for truth because it provides by its clear discernibility an introduction (perhaps even our first introduction) to the state of certainty yet does not itself satiate our desire for certainty since beauty, sooner or later brings us into contact with our own capacity for making errors.'' This sample of her prose is typically heavy-handed, but it contains a scintillating thoughtthat beauty can awaken in us a ``longing for truth.'' And beauty's characteristic qualitiesbalance, symmetry, equality of proportionare deeply linked, she argues plausibly and controversially, to being fair, a word that means both ``lovely'' and ``just.'' The radical nature of Scarry's views is not be underestimated, but because it challenges the status quo from an unexpected quarter, it will likely be greeted with widespread silence. A heated polemic disguised as a cool philosophical essay; exciting for those willing to work through its laborious prose.  -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Ms. Scarry's writing is evocative and lively. . . . Her book is a bracing antidote to the glum puritanism of many opponents of beauty, and it makes some insightful observations about how beauty figures in our perceptual, emotional and moral lives.""--Colin McGinn, The Wall Street Journal""She begins her defense of aesthetic pleasure with musings on the nature of beauty. Beauty begets, she argues. It constantly provokes copies of itself. That replication is not only in art, for example, but also in perception, as in the desire to continue beholding as long as possible. Beauty's link with truth requires no belief in an immortal realm. 'The beautiful, almost without any effort of our own, acquaints us with the mental event of conviction,' she says. That mental state is so pleasurable 'that ever afterwards one is willing to labor, struggle, wrestle with the world to locate enduring sources of conviction-to locate what is true.' The heightened perception that comes with beauty's life-affirming capacity to awaken us to our world is part of what alerts us to injustice, she writes.""--Nina Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher EducationScarry persuades that there is an analogy between the recognition of beautyand the recognition of just or fair social arrangements . . . . [She]. . .does not preach and . . . her short book [is] light and allusive and gentle and unpolemical [in] style. . . . ""--Stuart Hampshire, The New York Review of Books""This short book could change your life. . . . Beauty makes us better, more honest, more judicious, more humble, nicer people. And dare I say, this little book, taken to heart, will do the same.""--Tom D'Evelyn, The Providence Sunday Journal""Scarry makes a fascinating case that seeing beauty reminds us of our own marginality, and therefore our equalness to other people. And she very skillfully defies traditional political criticisms of beauty.""--Meredith Petrin, Boston Review""Full of striking observations about beauty in and beyond the arts.""--Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle""In the tradition of 19th-century aesthetics, On Beauty and Being Just describes, evokes and manifests the loving attention that beautiful objects provoke. . . . [It] is fresh, eccentric and uncompromising.""--Alexander Nehamas, London Review of Books""Any sophisticated reader not mummified beneath protective layers of irony will find this book not only pleasant to hold in the hand, but valuable to hold in the mind.""--Paul J. Johnson, Religious Studies Review	""With exemplary clarity, Elaine Scarry argues that admiring the beautiful is nothing to be ashamed of; that on the contrary beauty fosters the spirit of justice. A brave and timely book.""--J.M.Coetzee""Here is a writer almost magically summoning up the world through words and ideas, in a new way, and so guiding the reader, lovingly, to receive the treasures and accept the pleasures of this book as naturally as breathing. Here is a book so measured in words and yet so exciting in ideas, a book that explains the world, even as it is explaining itself. This writer, Elaine Scarry, always leading us to consider justice, has given us a book  that is beautiful and inspiring to such a degree that after truly reading it, the reader cannot help but be changed.""--Jamaica Kincaid""Among a restorer's solvents, imagine one so marvelous that what it repaired, what it returned to sparkling freshness, was not some beautiful object, but our damaged perception of Beauty itself. Elaine Scarry's imagination works just this wonder: potent enough to dissolve our every grimy resentment, yet so delicate that in Beauty's renewed radiance we discern, long invisible, the subtle outline of an ethics.""--D. A. Miller, Columbia University	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""With exemplary clarity, Elaine Scarry argues that admiring the beautiful is nothing to be ashamed of; that on the contrary beauty fosters the spirit of justice. A brave and timely book.""--J.M.Coetzee""Here is a writer almost magically summoning up the world through words and ideas, in a new way, and so guiding the reader, lovingly, to receive the treasures and accept the pleasures of this book as naturally as breathing. Here is a book so measured in words and yet so exciting in ideas, a book that explains the world, even as it is explaining itself. This writer, Elaine Scarry, always leading us to consider justice, has given us a book that is beautiful and inspiring to such a degree that after truly reading it, the reader cannot help but be changed.""--Jamaica Kincaid""Among a restorer's solvents, imagine one so marvelous that what it repaired, what it returned to sparkling freshness, was not some beautiful object, but our damaged perception of Beauty itself. Elaine Scarry's imagination works just this wonder: potent enough to dissolve our every grimy resentment, yet so delicate that in Beauty's renewed radiance we discern, long invisible, the subtle outline of an ethics.""--D. A. Miller, Columbia University	Elaine Scarry teaches in the English department at Harvard University, where she is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value. She is the author of The Body in Pain, Resisting Representation, Dreaming by the Book, and many articles on war and social contract. 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",aesthetics;books;criticism & theory;essays;essays & correspondence;history & criticism;humanities;literary theory;literature;literature & fiction;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
0711220131,"Mazal Tov! Rabbi Dr Michael Shire, editor of The Illuminated Haggadah and L'Chaim and author of The Jewish Prophet (all Frances Lincoln), is Vice-Principal of the Leo Baeck College and Centre for Jewish Education in London. He studied Hebrew Literature and Jewish History at University College in London, and has received a doctorate in Jewish Education from Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles. He lectures at the University of London and Leo Baeck College, and is the author of many scholarly publications. He lives in North London",books;customs & traditions;devotionals;history;jewish;jewish life;judaism;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious studies;social sciences;sociology;spirituality;world,14
3791320807,Maria Sibylla Merian: The New Book of Flowers (Prestel Art) Text: English (translation)  Original Language: German,arts & photography;biological sciences;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;education & reference;flowers;graphic design;hobbies & home;individual artists;painting;plants;printmaking;science & math,14
1592330223,"Yoga Beats the Blues: Boost Your Mood, Memory, and Concentration with Easy 5, 10, and 20-Minute Yoga Routines Donna's clear, simple, and ecumenical instruction makes yoga available to everyone. -- Yoga Journal	Donna Raskin is a fitness writer and yoga instructor who lives in Gloucester, MA.",books;depression;exercise & fitness;fitness & dieting;general;health;injuries & rehabilitation;memory improvement;mental health;mood disorders;self-help;stress management;women's health;yoga,14
0881631167,"Heinz Kohut: The Chicago Institute Lectures ""Kohut at his best! Kohut was particularly lively and clear when challenged by questions and when lecturing. The Tolpins have done us a great service in bringing together Kohut's thinking at a time when he was in the midst of some of his most important work. The Chicago Institute Lectures clarify important aspects of Kohut's thinking and allow the reader important new understandings regarding both development of the self and techniques for working with disorders of the self. This is a critical volume in the study of clinical and theoretical aspects of psychoanalysis.""  - Bertram J. Cohler, Ph.D., University of Chicago  ""Distinguished analysts in their own right, Marian and Paul Tolpin have brought together a series of lectures by Heinz Kohut given to analytic candidates in their last years of formal training. Superbly edited, these lectures provide the reader with a sense of intimate participation in the evolution and development of Kohut's theory, including detailed examples of typical cases and dilemmas in the treatment process. Not for analysts alone but for a wide audience of mental health professionals, Kohut's Chicago Institute Lectures is an invaluable text.""  - Miriam Elson, A.M., Emeritus Lecturer, University of Chicago	Paul Tolpin, M.D., and Marian Tolpin, M.D., are Training and Supervising Analysts at the Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago. Dr. Marian Tolpin is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Chicago Medical School.",books;clinical psychology;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;history;medical books;mental health;new;psychoanalysis;psychology;psychology & counseling;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
0231075146,"The Papacy For far too long most English-speaking students have been directed to one of several lop-sided introductions to the medieval papacy. . . . The virtue of Schimmelpfennig's book [is] that it presents the papacy 'as the papacy,' as a religiopolitical entity in its topographical, liturgical, and economic setting. This is no surprise inasmuch as the author is one of those rare historians sensitive to those issues. -- Review	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""For far too long most English-speaking students have been directed to one of several lop-sided introductions to the medieval papacy.... The virtue of Schimmelpfennig's book [is] that it presents the papacy 'as the papacy,' as a religiopolitical entity in its topographical, liturgical, and economic setting. This is no surprise inasmuch as the author is one of those rare historians sensitive to those issues."" -- Roger E. Reynolds, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto	Text: English (translation) Original Language: German	Bernhard Schimmelpfennig is Professor of Religious History at the University of Augsburg, Germany.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;christianity;history;humanities;medieval;new;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks;world,14
0877229651,"The Early Colombian Labor Movement: Artisans and Politics in Bogota, 1832-1919 This important study is...a major contribution to Latin American labor historiography, which has focused not on 19th-century artisans but on industrial workers in the 20th century.  Charles Bergquist, University of Washington-Seattle	A unique history of political activity by nineteenth-century Colombian artisans	""This important study is...a major contribution to Latin American labor historiography, which has focused not on 19th-century artisans but on industrial workers in the 20th century.""  Charles Bergquist, University of Washington-Seattle	David Sowell is Assistant Professor of History at Juniata College.",19th century;americas;books;business & investing;caribbean & latin american;colombia;history;international & world politics;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & government;politics & social sciences;popular economics;social sciences;south america,14
B000P2A0NK,"Independent Component Analysis (Adaptive and Learning Systems for Signal Processing, Communications and Control Series) ""...researchers...introduce independent component analysis as a statistical and computational technique for revealing hidden factors that underlie sets of random variables, measurements, or signals."" (SciTech Book News, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 2001)	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	A comprehensive introduction to ICA for students and practitionersIndependent Component Analysis (ICA) is one of the most exciting new topics in fields such as neural networks, advanced statistics, and signal processing. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive introduction to this new technique complete with the fundamental mathematical background needed to understand and utilize it. It offers a general overview of the basics of ICA, important solutions and algorithms, and in-depth coverage of new applications in image processing, telecommunications, audio signal processing, and more.Independent Component Analysis is divided into four sections that cover:* General mathematical concepts utilized in the book* The basic ICA model and its solution* Various extensions of the basic ICA model* Real-world applications for ICA modelsAuthors Hyvarinen, Karhunen, and Oja are well known for their contributions to the development of ICA and here cover all the relevant theory, new algorithms, and applications in various fields. Researchers, students, and practitioners from a variety of disciplines will find this accessible volume both helpful and informative.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",artificial intelligence;books;computer science;computers & technology;control systems;engineering;hardware;human vision & language systems;mathematics;mechanical;microprocessors & system design;neural networks;professional & technical;science & math,14
0262720345,"A Landscape of Events (Writing Architecture) Text: English (translation) Original Language: French	Paul Virilio was born in 1932 and has published a wide range of books, essays, and interviews grappling with the question of speed and technology, including Speed and Politics,  The Aesthetics of Disappearance, and The Accident of Art, all published by Semiotext(e).",architecture;books;criticism;essays;essays & correspondence;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;reference;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,14
B000P29HZM,"Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation ABC News political commentator and NPR news analyst Roberts didn't intend this as a general history of women's lives in early America-she just wanted to collect some great ""stories of the women who influenced the Founding Fathers."" For while we know the names of at least some of these women (Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Eliza Pinckney), we know little about their roles in the Revolutionary War, the writing of the Constitution, or the politics of our early republic. In rough chronological order, Roberts introduces a variety of women, mostly wives, sisters or mothers of key men, exploring how they used their wit, wealth or connections to influence the men who made policy. As high-profile players married into each other's families, as wives died in childbirth and husbands remarried, it seems as if early America-or at least its upper crust-was indeed a very small world. Roberts's style is delightfully intimate and confiding: on the debate over Mrs. Benedict Arnold's infamy, she proclaims, ""Peggy was in it from the beginning."" Roberts also has an ear for juicy quotes; she recounts Aaron Burr's mother, Esther, bemoaning that when talking to a man with ""mean thoughts of women,"" her tongue ""hangs pretty loose,"" so she ""talked him quite silent."" In addition to telling wonderful stories, Roberts also presents a very readable, serviceable account of politics-male and female-in early America. If only our standard history textbooks were written with such flair! 7 illus. not seen by PW. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Adult/High SchoolFocusing mainly on the wives, daughters, sisters, and mothers of the Founding Fathers, this lively and engaging title chronicles the adventures and contributions of numerous women of the era between 1740 and 1797. Roberts includes a surprising amount of original writings, but uses modern language and spellings to enable readers to enjoy fully the wit and wisdom of these remarkable individuals. While their men were away serving as soldiers, statesmen, or ambassadors, the women's lives were fraught with difficulty and danger. They managed property, and raised their children and often those of deceased relatives, while trying to make their own contributions to the cause of liberty. They acted as spies, coordinated boycotts, and raised funds for the army. Through it all, they corresponded with their husbands, friends, and even like-minded women in England. Readers will enjoy seeing how many of these individuals showed their mettle when they were still in their teens. Black-and-white photographs of portraits, a small selection of recipes, and a cast of characters are included.Kathy Tewell, Chantilly Regional Library, VA Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Political correspondent Roberts has deep roots in American political families--her mother was a U.S. congresswoman from Louisiana, and an ancestor, William Claiborne, was a U.S. congressman from Tennessee in the 1790s. Here she offers a look at the women--mostly wives and mothers--who supported the men credited with creating the U.S. Lamenting the dearth of history about these women, Roberts primarily draws on letters and diaries to document their significant contributions. Among her subjects is Deborah Read Franklin, who was virtually abandoned for 16 of the last 17 years of her marriage to Benjamin, who held a post in England and left her to manage the home and businesses. She was forced to protect their home from a mob angry at her husband's position on the Stamp Act. Also among those profiled are Martha Washington, who used her considerable wealth to help finance the revolution; Abigail Adams, whose famous remark to her husband, John, to ""remember the ladies"" was thought to be a reference to women's rights; and Phyllis Wheatley, a former slave who earned the admiration of George Washington with her poetry. Roberts offers a much-needed look at the unheralded sacrifices and heroism of colonial women. Vanessa BushCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Roberts has uncovered hundreds of personal anecdotes and woven them together in a single, suspenseful narrative with great skill. (Washington Post Book World )	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Cokie Roberts is co-anchor of the ABC news program This Week, and an ABC special correspondent covering politics, Congress, and public policy; she also serves as a news analyst for National Public Radio. In addition, she and her husband write a weekly column syndicated in major newspapers across the country. Roberts has won many awards, including an Emmy and the coveted Edward R. Murrow award. She lives in Washington, D.C.As a journalist for thirty years, Steven Roberts's distinguished career includes having served as the New York Times bureau chief in both Los Angeles and Athens, as well as being a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report. Currently a writer for the New York Daily News, he writes a weekly column syndicated in major newspapers around the country and appears regularly on CNN and PBS. 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Celebratory history is making a big comeback. Cokie Roberts joins a steady stream of authors stoking the fires of patriotism. To the ""Let us now praise famous men"" refrain, she has countered with praise for their wives, sisters and daughters.   Most professional historians during the past four decades have turned from lauding the great events and men in the American past to reconstructing the neglected lives of ordinary people. There's a story behind this shift that helps explain the current outpouring of tributes to the country's Revolutionary leaders.After World War II, American universities opened wide their doors to veterans whose education was funded by the G.I. Bill. African Americans and descendants of the immigrants from Italy, Greece, Poland, the Balkans and Germany who flooded into the United States at the turn of the 20th century entered college, usually the first in their families to do so. Many went on to get advanced degrees in history, as did lots of women.  These newcomers to higher education brought fresh questions to their calling. They wanted to know about ordinary people and sought to locate their own forbears in the American past, rather than study the WASP gentlemen and Midwestern radicals whose exploits filled the history books. Their rallying cry became ""History from the bottom up."" Historical inquiries ""from the bottom up"" couldn't be answered in the traditional way. Ordinary people by definition didn't sit in Congress or the Oval Office, didn't lead armies or head diplomatic missions. So these newly minted historians turned to long-term data in local records offices and used computers and social scientific hypotheses to analyze their findings.Those who wrote dissertations in the 1960s and '70s churned out questions about undistinguished Americans with great gusto, investigating such topics as their average age at marriage; the mortality and fertility rates that determined the growth and decline of population; the workday routines of the immigrant, the slave, the laboring man and woman; and patterns of inheritance and mobility. Not the stuff of celebratory history, but vastly important to understanding how past generations have dealt with the challenges and limitations they found in the United States. In 1960 there were only a handful of books on African Americans or women; today the volumes number in the tens of thousands. Since these studies were often quite dry, with tables and graphs gracing pages that earlier would have contained evocative photos and pictures of paintings, the public knew little about this work. Not until parents discovered Harriet Tubman in their children's textbooks did they tumble to the fact that fife-and-drum history had been replaced by tales of hard times, disappointments, even failures experienced by those at the bottom. Rather than respond positively, many people labeled the new history ""revisionism,"" a pejorative term that suggested the manipulation of sources rather than the acquisition of new knowledge.Recent grumblings about the neglect of ""dead white men"" have prompted some non-academic historians and professional writers to go back to the heroes of the revolutionary era. One of the most popular books -- David McCullough's John Adams -- has sold almost 2 million copies, an unheard-of record for a work of history. Now every season brings still more publications on the founding era.With Founding Mothers, Roberts fills a gap in our coverage of the era without straying far from the familiar story of colonial resistance, the struggle for independence and the climactic writing of the U.S. Constitution. We don't lose sight of the white male titans who built the nation; we just see them from the vantage point of the women they wooed and the families they worried about -- usually at a distance -- during America's longest war.Husbands were separated from wives, sisters and brothers from each other, parents from their children. Almost all the relatives in this select, upper-class group bridged their separations by writing long letters filled with pithy descriptions of troop movements, laments about deaths and pleadings for reunions. Roberts has uncovered hundreds of personal anecdotes and woven them together in a single, suspenseful narrative with great skill. While she's out to demonstrate that the wives of America's heroes were a mighty force for independence, her storyteller's instincts generally win out over patriotic endorsements. Founding Mothers has something of the tone of a book for young adults with its chatty commentary and references to the present. Many of Roberts's heroines are familiar to us. We find Eliza Pinckney, Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Mercy Warren and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton in these pages, but Roberts's exhaustive canvassing of the correspondence of these notable wives introduces us to dozens of new people. These doyennes of American society kept running into each other during the war and its aftermath. Many of them were related, and others became so as the war expanded their social circle. Roberts artfully stitches together their separate and overlapping experiences, reminding us that in war as in peace, men and women go on courting, conceiving children, consoling the sick and mourning the dead. These domestic details quicken our sympathy for a cohort of women who faced a relentless succession of pregnancies -- each one a risk -- as well as virulent diseases that threatened their lives and those of their husbands and children. Describing the trauma of a war fought close to home, Roberts details how Gen. Nathaniel Greene kept his wife informed of atrocities committed by the British Army. ""Even the spirited Kitty was understandably terrified when the British landed in Newport, Rhode Island, and took the town without a struggle,"" Roberts reports. ""She was pregnant again and afraid she had nowhere to hide."" The reading public obviously craves stories of bravery, sacrifice and wisdom and rightly turns to the nation-building decades for models of conduct. But celebration has its pitfalls. In earlier times, the discounted story of Jessica Lynch raining bullets on her Iraqi attackers might have lived on -- as did the tale of Davy Crockett fighting to his last breath at the Alamo, when in fact he was overpowered and captured and then summarily executed by Santa Anna's men. Roberts, like those earlier historians, chooses to take the inspiring tales she tells at face value.  Celebratory histories give debunkers their work just as scholarly tomes create an appetite for suspenseful narratives. Rather than try to reconcile these differing stances towards the past, it's probably better to accept that our past is a rich reservoir for reconstructing structures, processes and patterns as well as mythic sagas. Where a professional historian would have analyzed the accounts Roberts gleaned from her research, she has invited us to suspend disbelief and simply enjoy her skill as a chronicler.   Reviewed by Joyce ApplebyCopyright 2004, The Washington Post Co. All Rights Reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Finally, an account of the essential roles American Colonial women played as 13 British colonies became the United States of America. The author's unique political background and her political reporting expertise--her mother and father were members of Congress, and her sister was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey--serve her well. Combining new and invaluable historical information with wry asides (no one conveys more with a one-word commentary), Roberts makes historical figures become real people, sometimes flawed but immensely heroic. Abigail Adams stars, and Martha Washington shines as an admirable woman whose financial and emotional support of her husband just may have made all the difference. While the Colonial music at each CD's beginning becomes annoying, this audiobook delights as it increases our historical knowledge of this crucially important era.  L.C.  AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",18th century;19th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;historical;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;revolution & founding;specific groups;united states;women;women's studies,14
0805211101,"Terra Infirma: A Memoir of My Mother's Life in Mine In the months following his mother's death from cancer at age 54, Rodger Kamenetz (a poet, and the author of  The Jew in the Lotus) had three dreams in which she appeared to him, offering clues to the secrets of her life.  After the third dream, Kamenetz began writing Terra Infirma: A Memoir of My Mother's Life in Mine, a tragic story about the way his mother's tyrannical passion for her family shaped Kamenetz's life and prevented him from becoming a man until she was gone. The book is a collection of essays modeled after those of Montaigne, and their form is best described as purposeful wandering. The first chapters begin with Kamenetz's dreams, move on to his meditations on her piano (the household object that seemed most ""to radiate my mother's spirit""), and then question why his mother hid from him all the details of her childhood, including the identity of her own mother. Throughout, the book contains vivid profiles of his family members and friends, poignant descriptions of his bewildered participation in Jewish mourning rituals, and painful descriptions of the technology that kept his mother alive until she gave herself up as ""just a body in danger."" Kamenetz's final chapter, a reckoning with his mother's last words--""I love you""--is especially affecting; like the book as a whole, it offers little solace to those who hope that life will make sense in the end, and great encouragement to those who realize that what sense life has is the sense we make of it. --Michael Joseph Gross	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Poet and author Kamenetz (The Jew in the Lotus, 1994) turns his gaze more powerfully inward than ever before in this slender, emotionally searing recollection of his mother's life and death. His mother died of cancer at 54, ravaged by a typically long and painful battle with the disease. Her son was with her when she died, along with her husband and one of her two twin daughters, and Kamenetz recounts the exact moment of her death in carefully observed detail and strikingly modulated tones. The rest of his essay maintains the mode of careful observationthe book is most powerful whenever the author draws upon the resonance of objects to convey the pain of emotionsbut the tone veers, quite intentionally, between the detached coolness of the early pages, occasional dashes of humor, and a more openly agonizing self-assessment. Kamenetz's relationship with his mother was rocky, as she yo-yoed between a smothering affection and a fierce anger. As a result, mother and son seemed to spend much time circling each other warily, like two planets held in a painful orbit by mutually powerful gravitational fields. Using essayist Montaigne as a model, Kamenetz tells his own story in a discursive, digressive style, ranging from mordant and funny ruminations on marriage and the nuclear family to harrowing descriptions of illness. He writes like the poet he is, wonderfully drunk on language and constantly serving up fresh metaphors for familiar emotions and experiences. His love for his motherdifficult, savage, sometimes lapsing into a paradoxically deep distasteemerges clearly. At times a frightening read, but an honest and thoughtful one. (Author tour)  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Remembering his search for the separateness that would allow him to become an adult,Rodger Kamenetz writes fiercely and movingly. A classic story, beautifully told.""--Rosellen Brown, author of Civil Wars"" I love this book. It is a powerful testament to the forces of life, will, and love. Calm, yet vivid in essential description , poetic where necessary to stir profound emotion, ruthlessly analytical in its quest for lived truth, this memoir will move the soul of anyone born of mother. It is highly rewarding and illuminating to read. ""---Robert A. Thurman""Entirely under the spell of deep feeling, yet never relinquishing the irony of complex intelligence, this is one of the most beautiful books ever written about a mother and a son.""---Philip Lopate""Turning his rapt meditative gaze to the baffling enigmas of family life, Rodger Kamenetz, author of the celebrated report The Jew in the Lotus, delves into that most charged and intriguing of subjects, a boy's attachment to his mother, in this reflective and compassionate memoir."" ---Alix Kates Shulman""He writes like the poet he is, wonderfullly drunk on language and constantly serving up fresh metaphors for familiar emotions and experiences.""--Kirkus Reviews"" One cannot be freed from a mother's possessive love merely by her death, without confronting one's own story. Kamenetz was willing to go through this process of liberation, and thanks to his honesty, courage, and skill as a writer, we have this absorbing and vivid account of his rescue from the silence that obscured his mother's past."" -- Alice Miller""I would be hard pressed to name anyone who has written as beautifully and profoundly about death and family as Rodger Kamenetz in this remarkable memoir. Terra Infirma is a sweet miracle of a book. ---Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of author of A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain""The terrors of intimacy are beautifully described in this tale of a despotic, mesmerizing parent and the son who struggles to free himself of her entrapping love.-- Maggie Scarf""Out of the absences in his mother's life, and out of her absence and presence in his own life, Rodger Kamenetz has created a beautiful grief-filled prose poem of love and loss. From terra infirma, that shaky ground, he leads his reader to higher ground."" --New Orleans Times Picayune	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ter'ra in'fir'ma, n. 1. Shaky ground. 2. The uneasy shared territory of love and painful separation that defines mother and son. 3. The border between life and death. 4. The precariously emotional place in which we are left after the death of a parent. 5. The mythic terrain a boy passes through on the way to becoming a man. 6. The material from which a writer must craft his story. ""Inside a mother, each of us begins a dream,"" writes Rodger Kamenetz. Actually, two: a mother's dream for her child, and the dream that will become a person. For Kamenetz, crossing the terra infirma--the place where the two collide--was not easy: his mother was a difficult woman who had loved her family with a tyrannical passion. Only as she was losing her battle with cancer at age fifty-four could her son begin to take the essential first step toward becoming a man, thereby fulfilling both of their dreams.Rich with humor and insight, Terra Infirma is a deeply moving account of one man's spiritual passage to the firmer ground of maturity and self-understanding.	Rodger Kamenetz is the author of The Jew in the Lotus and Stalking Elijah, and of three collections of poetry. He teaches literature at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and lives in New Orleans.	A BeginningMy mother died in the Church Home Hospice in Baltimore, at the age of 54. Her last words were I love you. The radio was playing Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head. The immediate cause was respiratory infection, a complication of prolonged medication for pain. My mother suffered cancer for seven years. At the end, a nurse stripped the neck brace, pressed her fingers against the carotid artery, and felt for the faintest sign of a pulse. The velcro made a sound like stitches ripping. I remember the moment of her death, and in the moments that followed, a kind of wonder at myself, in my own blind efficiency. My father sat stunned as though this weren't something we had anticipated all along. I called my two sisters, and my two brothers, and told them to come downtown and see our mother's body. I called the funeral home, Sol Levinson Brothers. I remember looking them up in the yellow pages, which seemed odd. Shouldn't there be a card, or something, in a hospice? I had all these thoughts. All these practical, cold, abstracted thoughts. Because my mother was dead, and someone had to do something, and I was there to do it. I felt very responsible for everything that happened. I felt responsible and guilty. I had needed to be there at the moment she died. I was calling the funeral home, and saying My mother is dead and saying Her name is Miriam Kamenetz, and giving a date, an address and a time. All along my mother's body was lying on the bed in the dim lamplight. Her face was crumpled and had lost all its quality. It looked like a rubber mask tossed off on the pillow.For the next week, I simply rode along on my feeling of mission. The funeral, and the seven days of mourning, coming together with my family, comforting one another, and through all of it, I saw that my eyes were open, and I was observing very carefully, like a son of a bitch, like a writer. I was not cold. I was feeling everything. But back there, way back, I was pivoting around, and seeing, and noting, and remembering.I knew I had witnessed something extraordinary at the instant of her death. Her last gesture had moved right into me. It was staying with me all through the mourning, there in the place from which I am writing this down.But I could not put it on paper then. It seemed a violation. I could see her whole life gathering around her last moment. I felt that I could hold its pattern in my hand. But then the fabric would dissolve and I had the gesture of lifting a wave out of water.I thought I had to let her story go. But three dreams came in the months after she died. They came to disturb, but also to comfort. In the third, very elaborate vision, my mother appeared in a garden to give me a key to her story. I had to write about her then. Just as soon as I began, the dreams stopped.All the same, I was afraid it would be too sentimental. For what story is more sentimental than the death of a boy's mother--even though Edgar Poe, for one, called it the most poetical of subjects? Poe also promised immortality to the author who wrote a simple volume, My Heart Laid Bare. As though a naive writer could triumph over all the artifices of a master, if only he were sufficiently earnest. But Poe added puckishly, The title must be true to its subject.Here is such a volume. But I can be true to the subject only by straying from it. I have read a few books that have been more dutiful. They were all published by the vanity press. Like mine, they were haunted by the loss of a loved one. But their authors make no distinction between history and poetry, as Aristotle does. They tell every detail, in chronological order, as though the reader already acknowledged their significance. They do not see that, at best, history aggregates, only poetry unifies.I wish to lay my heart bare. But my model is complex, the essay in its radical sense, as practiced by Michel de Montaigne. I admire him because he is so artful there is nothing he cannot say.Here I must digress, to speak of Montaigne's digression. Only someone constantly aware of his subject could digress so freely. The revelation is always present, not as in the ordinary magic of suspense--but as a barely visible tracing, a pattern of avoidance.Aggressive writing pursues its subject--a hunting metaphor. Digressive writing flees a painful absence--a haunting metaphor. For Montaigne the hollow induced skepticism, of which digression carved out a warning. For me, the haunting is literal: the dream that comes after death.Montaigne's project is not always what it seems. If he titles a piece On Coaches, his subject is not coaches. The title is more like a sign hung outside his construction--WRITING AT WORK. An aggressive reader chasing after the subject, coaches, is quickly outpaced. The coaches disappear at the first or second turn of phrase, and the more determinedly the reader pursues the supposed subject, the more exhausted he becomes, and the more empty the page feels. He has been abandoned by coaches and does not yet feel the writing as its own vehicle of transportation. If he lets himself be moved by the prose instead of pursuing the coaches, then he begins to feel a profound absence of connections and is deeply in Montaigne's skepticism.I cannot promise that my material is uplifting either. The subject here is death and grief. I am sorry for that, more sorry perhaps than any reader. If I had seen where it would lead me, I might have resisted more strongly. For I have discovered something, apart from the ordinary cynicism that no one wants to read about death. The subject repulses thought.Each time I approached the core of feeling around my mother's death, I found my thinking diverted. At first I accused myself of a lack of discipline, or a simple avoidance. I am now convinced, though, that this was at least a complex avoidance. My digression is language turning in grief. Turning away from its subject, to approach it again. This makes for a labyrinthine or spiraling pattern.This book is part memoir, part biography of my mother, part autobiography. But neither my mother nor I are celebrities. We never committed great crimes. She was entirely a private person, and I am a poet in America, which is the opposite of fame. Yet the pattern of every life is instructive, and an ordinary death may be as tragic as Oedipus.Every day others will reach the point my mother reached. They will be given terrible medical choices, cures that seem worse than the disease. Many will make courageous decisions as my mother did. I wish this story could be an inspiring one for them, about how defiance won the day, how the doctors were proven wrong, how a fighting spirit confounded science. Some popular books about death have this theme. My mother's story offers no hope. Her defiance did not win in the end.Yet, if she had read the book of her life, she might have lived. If she had been able to digress, to step away from her own story, she might have seen herself as more than just a body in danger, when she had to decide whether to live or die. Her story, I have come to believe, is tragic. But I did not see this pattern immediately. At the beginning I had only the pain at her death, and three vivid dreams.From the Hardcover edition.",biographies & memoirs;books;death & grief;family relationships;gender studies;grief & bereavement;memoirs;men;parent & adult child;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;self-help;social sciences,14
0127850805,"Pre-Feeding Skills, Second Edition: A Comprehensive Resource for Mealtime Development Suzanne Evans Morris, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, a speech-language pathologist in private practice near Charlottesville, Virginia, is recognized for her work in identifying and treating pre-speech and feeding disorders in young children. She is the director of New Visions, an organization that sponsors workshops for teaching feeding-related skills and provides family-oriented clinical services.Marcia Dunn Klein, M.Ed., OTR, is a registered occupational therapist and a partner in Pueblo Pediatric Therapy, a cross-disciplinary pediatric therapy practice in Tucson, Arizona. Her practice includes direct pediatric treatment, continuing education workshops, consultation, and materials development.",allied health professions;allied health services;audiology & speech pathology;books;clinical;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;occupational therapy;pediatrics;physical therapy;used & rental textbooks,14
0892817372,"Homeopathic First Aid for Animals: Tales and Techniques from a Country Practitioner ""The cases in this book show homeopathy in action on a level everyone can relate to, and the demonstration of how what is observed is turned into the means of remedy selection is particularly useful. This is a book that will certainly find a place in the market."" (John Saxton, Homeopathy Today)	PETS  The gentle and effective qualities that have made homeopathy such a popular remedy for humans make it the perfect treatment method for animals as well. This reader-friendly guide is an A-to-Z reference for treating almost any emergency that may befall our animal companions.  Unlike most manuals available, Homeopathic First Aid for Animals applies to many different animal species. Chapters focus on pets, horses, barnyard animals, even birds and reptiles. Special sections discuss caring for orphaned young animals and understanding how homeopathic medicines work. Practical clinical instruction in homeopathy and first aid is included for each condition, from broken bones and diarrhea to poisoning and trauma. With real-life anecdotes from the authors many years of veterinary experience treating household pets and farm animals, Homeopathic First Aid for Animals is as entertaining as it is useful. It makes the perfect guide for those who want to give animals the nonthreatening, natural care they need.  KAETHERYN WALKER teaches workshops in homeopathy and animal care and provides homeopathic consultations for pets and wild animals throughout the United States and Canada. She lives on the Maine coast.	Kaetheryn Walker teaches workshops in homeopathy and animal care and provides homeopathic consultations for pets and wild animals throughout the United States and Canada. She lives on the Maine coast.",agricultural sciences;alternative medicine;animal husbandry;books;crafts;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;hobbies & home;homeopathy;medical books;pets & animal care;science & math;veterinary medicine,14
158212003X,"Essential Spanish for Pharmacists Glenn R. Kisch, PharmD is owner of The Medicine Shoppe.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",allied health services;books;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;instruction;language & grammar;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;pharmacology;pharmacy;translating;used & rental textbooks;words,14
B000FJAOXE,"The TEACCH Approach to Autism Spectrum Disorders (Issues in Clinical Child Psychology) From the reviews:    ""Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication Handicapped Children (TEACCH) is a state wide system for assisting and supporting people with autism spectrum disorders and their families  . The TEACCH Approach to Autism Spectrum Disorders is an interesting book in that it provides a comprehensive overview of the approach. Educators and parents can acquire useful information  that will assist their effort to teach and deal with students with autism. The book provides specific intervention strategies for the parents of autistic children."" (Fawzy Ebrahim, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 51 (8), 2006)	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	- Professionals can be trained in the program and its methods- Translates scientific knowledge so that practitioners and parents can easily understand the current state of knowledge- Offers strategies that can be tailored to an individual's unique developmental and functional level- Advises parents on how to become involved in all phases of intervention as collaborators, co-therapists, and advocates.- Details how the program can be introduced and adapted for individuals of all ages, from preschooler to adult	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",autism & asperger's syndrome;books;child;child psychology;children's health;clinical psychology;fitness & dieting;health;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;psychiatry;psychology;psychology & counseling,14
0140245499,"Preserving Memory: The Making of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Passages in this discussion of the selection of artifacts?children's shoes, leg braces, bundles of women's hair?to be exhibited in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington are harrowing to read. At the same time, the bureaucratic infighting and political tugging on the President's Commission on the Holocaust and its successor, the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, tend to trivialize the raison d'etre of the museum: about what sort of building to erect that would be a ""good neighbor"" to others on the Mall, about whether to include articles that once belonged to Gypsies and homosexuals who were also victims, about commemorating other genocides like the slaughter of the Armenians in 1915. Ultimately, Linenthal's (Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields) carefully researched account seeks to answer the vexing question of the ""place"" of Holocaust memory in American culture. Illustrations not seen by PW. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Linenthal (religion and American culture, Univ. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh) describes the 15-year effort to create a national museum commemorating the Holocaust. He begins with the creation in May 1978 of the President's Commission on the Holocaust during the Carter administration. He then covers issues related to the location, design, and construction of the museum building. Linenthal's most significant contribution is the chapter on defining and representing the horror of the Holocaust. He skillfully describes the dilemmas facing the organizers of the exhibits, such as how to depict the story of mass murder and yet personalize it, how to represent the Nazis and other perpetrators of the Holocaust in the exhibit, and whether non-Jewish victims should be included. Linenthal tells the story of defining and representing America's memory of the Holocaust with sensitivity and thoroughness. For all collections.?Mark Weber, Kent State Univ. Lib., OhioCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	President Carter created the President's Commission on the Holocaust in 1978. It then took 15 years of bitter and emotional debate to design and build the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Linenthal, author of Sacred Grounds: Americans and Their Battlefields (1991), chronicles all that went on during those painful and acrimonious years as Holocaust survivors, politicians, museum professionals, historians, and architects struggled to define ""the boundaries of Holocaust memory."" Linenthal deftly summarizes all the complex issues that had to be resolved. Jews believed that they should be the focus, but members of other groups victimized by the Holocaust demanded equal representation. Some felt the memorial should be in New York; others fretted over whether Washington, D.C., was an appropriate location. And what an agonizing task it was to create a memorial that both eulogized and educated without simplifying, sensationalizing, or offending. Linenthal portrays major players, including Elie Wiesel, Yaffa Eliach, and architect James Ingo Freed, who was finally able to visualize a building ""expressive of the event"" after traveling to Auschwitz. A sobering, yet fascinating, testament to the value of preserving memories with respect and creativity.  Donna Seaman	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A brilliant book, incisive and clear . . . reveals the tensions, plunges, and surges that led to this bold museum.  -- Raul Hilberg, author of The Destruction of the European JewsA masterpiece. It mesmerizes the reader.  -- Deborah Lipstadt, author of Denying the HolocaustLinenthal has written an intriguing, highly informative, insider account of one of Americas most important new cultural institutions. . . . Bravo.  -- Stephen T. Katz, professor of Jewish history and thought, Cornell University	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A superb book which tells in an exciting manner how the preservation of memory for the public must navigate between sentimentality and special interests in order to recapture the past. (George L. Mosse, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem )	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Edward T. Linenthal is professor of religious studies at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He is the author of  The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory and  Sacred Ground: Americans and their Battlefields.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",americas;books;europe;european;history;holocaust;international & world politics;jewish;memory improvement;politics & government;politics & social sciences;self-help;united states;world,14
0805824480,Cognitive Perspectives on Peer Learning (Rutgers Invitational Symposium on Education Series) ...this book does contain contributions to understanding the mechanisms through which peer assisted learning has its undoubtedly profound effects. The core content chapters contributed by the editors themselves are particularly valuable.The British Journal of Educational Psychology,behavioral sciences;books;education;education & reference;education theory;educational psychology;fitness & dieting;health;mental health;new;psychology & counseling;schools & teaching;science & math;used & rental textbooks,14
007219460X,"mCommerce Security: A Beginner's Guide ""The mobile Internet is the most radical development since Marconi invented wireless telegraphic radio communication in 1894, in our opinion. A confluence of technical leaps in devices, networks, and applications is setting the stage for wireless to become the ultimate media. The opportunity size of the mobile Internet is enough to make an investor tremble.""--Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, The Mobile Internet Report, October 2000""	Learn to implement a solid mCommerce security plan--from start to finishMany businesses today recognize mobile commerce--mCommerce--as a way to increase revenue and offer customers a new level of convenience. Mobile phones and PDAs can now be used for online banking, purchasing tickets, messaging, and much more. For any transaction, security is a top priority--and this becomes increasingly complex when wireless and mobile applications are involved. This practical introductory guide clearly explains different mCommerce applications and their associated security risks. Through case studies, you'll learn best practices for implementing specific security methods in key industries--including banking, retail, entertainment, military, travel, and healthcare. The book also contains 8 pages of blueprints that depict secure end-to-end mCommerce architecture as well as identify key vulnerability points.*Explore the latest security topics for both business and consumer mCommerce applications *Improve services offered to customers through secure mCommerce applications *Get details on various types of mobile applications and understand their security risks--including commerce, payments, information, communications, gaming, and military *Discover the differences between mobile versus wired security *Address mobile security issues in key industries such as banking and finance, travel, manufacturing, entertainment, public services, and defense *Recognize the time- and cost-saving benefits of secured mCommerce applications through comprehensive case studies *Preview the security of future mobile applications--such as 3G/4G networks and wearable computers	Kapil Raina (Milpitas, CA), CISSP, has years of experience in Internet technologies with a focus on security issues. Currently, he is a Strategic Alliance Manager for VeriSign, Inc., one of strongest brands in Internet security offerings. Over the years, Raina has done consulting for various multinationals in areas of security such as PKI, VPNs, security policy development, and mobile security. Firms such as British Telecom, KPN Telecom, and EDS have all relied on his guidance in security architecture strategies. Anurag Harsh (San Mateo), is currently the Director of Projects (US and Canada) for Plaut-Americas, the North American wing of the Multinational Consulting House Plaut-AG. Harsh has received six certificates of excellence from Microsoft Corporation and possesses years of world-class experience in e-business and mobile information strategy planning and implementation. Harsh launched Asia's largest fully wireless ecommerce portal as well as the largest ethnic portal in America http://www.eindia.com on which IBM did a technical case study applauding his efforts in it. In addition, Mr. Harsh also launched http://www.shoppinggate.com, Europe's largest ecommerce service provider. He founded and operated two consulting firms NetVision and Vicus Technologies. Other experience includes positions such as Co-Founder and Director of Ecommerce for Eindia.com, and International Broadcaster for the BBC in London specializing in IT affairs.",books;business & management;certification;comptia;computers & technology;encryption;hardware;microprocessors & system design;network security;networking;networks;privacy;protocols & apis;security & encryption,14
0306447665,"Licensing Parents Jack C. Westman, M.D., brings 30 years of work with abused and neglected children to bear on contemoprary social problems. He has published over 100 professional articles and is the author of Individual Differences in Children, Child Advocacy, Handbook of Learning Disabilities, and Who Speaks for the Children? He is the Editor of Child Psychiatry and Human Development and has been President of the American Association of Psychiatric Services for Children and the Multidisciplinary Academy of Clinical Education. Dr. Westman is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Universty of Wisconsin-Madison.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",abuse;books;children's books;fitness & dieting;health;mental health;parenting;parenting & relationships;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;self-help;social services & welfare;sociology,14
4770024932,"The Enlightened Kitchen: Fresh Vegetable Dishes from the Temples of Japan Vegetarians, vegans and even lovers of steak teriyaki will find much to savor in this introduction to the quiet wonders of Buddhist temple cuisine, or shojin ryori. Fujii draws upon 20 years of experience as an author and teacher in her native Japanas well as kitchen secrets learned from her husband, a Buddhist monkto explore a tradition that depends solely on seasonal vegetables, prepared in a spiritual way. She introduces the temple repertoire, from simple salads to vegetable soups and stews. Tae Hamamura's color photographs are mouth-watering, whether depicting Kenchin Style Vegetable Soup or a simple bowl of Ginger Rice. However, although Fujii is eloquent when she explains each dish's philosophy, she falls short on introducing Westerners to the cooking principles that underlie the tradition. Preparation techniques for basics like rice and stock are relegated, along with a crucial glossary of ingredients, to the back of the book, where they are dealt with perfunctorily. If Fujii had taken more trouble to introduce Americans to the foundations of temple cuisinemethods, tastes, ingredientsshe would have better empowered them to make it their own and feed the stomach as well as the soul. (Jan.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""The book is beautifully illustrated and the recipes are mostly simple, quick and easy to follow. Longtime vegetarians, especially those with a macrobiotic background (which in America has seriously deep Japanese roots), will be familiar with many of these ingredients. . . Fujii provides a helpful, illustrated glossary, as well as some basic how-to material for preparing staples."" -Associated Press""Vegetarians, vegans and even lovers of steak teriyaki will find much to savor in this introduction to the quiet wonders of Buddhist temple cuisine, or shojin ryori. ...Tae Hamamura's color photographs are mouth-watering, whether depicting Kenchin Style Vegetable Soup or a simple bowl of Ginger Rice."" -Publishers Weekly""Clean and crisp, this nourishing guide brings a healthy, natural culinary tradition from Japanese temples to the American table. . . . a true antidote to the overindulgent American diet, this is more than a recipe collection--it's a refreshing approach to food that is sure to make you look and feel renewed."" -Kirkus Reviews""Emphasizing natural and healthy ingredients such as fresh seasonal vegetables, and the staples of grains, and tofu, these creations are simple and elegant delights, delicious without undue extravagance. . . . Highly recommended."" -Midwest Book Review""Touting the benefits of vegetarian and vegan diets, The Enlightened Kitchen presents dishes that anyone would love, while the fantastic photographs will tempt even the most die-hard carnivore to at least try the recipes. Knowing that a healthy life-style and long life takes work, this new cookbook espouses good, sensible meals which can encourage weight loss and improve insulin sensitivity. The bonus? The food tastes good.... I'm hooked. I try to eat sensibly and plan to live to be 110! I expect The Enlightened Kitchen to help me meet my objective."" -BookLoons.com	Brimming over with delicious recipes based on the centuries-old vegetarian cuisine of Japan's Buddhist temples, this book is a must for vegetarians, vegans, and anyone with an interest in healthy eating. In addition to mouthwatering recipes for soups, salads, tofu, beans, vegetables, rice, and desserts, the author teaches us the physical and spiritual benefits of using seasonal ingredients and following the flow of nature. In an age when processed, additive-laden foods are everywhere, readers will be surprised to find just how delicious the natural flavors of fresh vegetables can be. Lavish full-color photographs, easy-to-follow instructions, and a wealth of information about the ingredients make it easy to bring the magic of Japan's temple cuisine into your own kitchen.	MARI FUJII learned the secrets of shojin cooking over twenty years ago from her husband, who is a Buddhist monk. With the publication of a number of shojin cookbooks and regular appearances on television, she has helped to make shojin cuisine popular in her home country of Japan. She is also an expert in Chinese-style shojin cooking and in yakuzen, a style of Chinese cooking which uses ingredients with medicinal properties.",asian;books;cookbooks;education & reference;food & wine;healthy;japanese;language & grammar;linguistics;regional & international;special diet;vegetables;vegetables & vegetarian;words,14
0201709279,"Absolute C++ Absolute C++ is the definitive textbook on C++ from best-selling author Walt Savich. This brand new book provides complete, thorough, absolute coverage of the C++ programming language.    Absolute C++ provides all of the tools necessary for experienced and novice programmers alike to master C++, emphasizing the qualities and complexities of the language aver elementary programming technique. Thus, it presents:    Complete and fully executable programs throughout to demonstrate language features Extensive coverage of the Standard Template Library (STL)this is a necessary element in understanding C++ as it examines the full functionality and versatility of the language A logical ordering of topics that allows readers to better understand the language (for example, covering arrays before classes-this institutes a more progressive method of learning how the language works before moving on to advanced features Material on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Patterns to take advantage of the latest trends in software engineering Sections highlighting programming tips and common pitfalls to enhance understanding   Absolute C++ also offers a full supplements package for instructors, including instructor's manual, solutions manual, PowerPoint slides, and Testfen, a computerized test generator. A companion web site (www.aw.com/savitch) is available for all readers to help enhance and test their understanding of the material.	This book is designed to be a textbook and reference for programming in the C++ language. Although it does include programming techniques, it is organized around the features of the C++ language rather than any particular curriculum of programming techniques. The main audience I had in mind when writing this book was undergraduate students who have not had extensive programming experience with the C++ language. As such, it would be a suitable C++ text or reference for a second or later computer science course that uses C++; it could even be used for a first programming course. This book is designed to accommodate a wide range of users. The beginning chapters are written at a level that is accessible to beginners, while the boxed sections of those chapters serve to quickly introduce more experienced programmers to basic C++ syntax. Later chapters are still designed to be accessible, but are written at a level suitable for students who have progressed to these more advanced topics. (For those who want a beginning textbook with more pedagogical material and more on very basic programming technique, I suggest another book I wrote that is more along these lines.)    This book also includes an introduction to patterns and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Since many computer science curricula postpone recursions to a second computer science course, the book includes a full chapter on recursion.    The C++ coverage in this book is very complete, going well beyond what a beginner needs to know. In particular, there is extensive coverage of inheritance, polymorphism, and exception handling in C++. There is also extensive material on the Standard Template Library (STL), as well as an introduction to patterns and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Since many computer science curricula postpone recursion to a second computer science course, the book includes a full chapter on recursion.   SPECIAL FEATURES  ANSI/ISO C++ STANDARD   This book was written to conform to the new ANSI/ISO C++ standard.   STANDARD TEMPLATE LIBRARY   The Standard Template Library is an extensive library collection of preprogrammed data structure classes and important algorithms. The STL is perhaps as big a topic as the core C++ language. This book contains a very substantial introduction to the STL. There is a full chapter on the general topic of templates and a full chapter on the particulars of the STL, as well as other material on or related to the STL at other points in the text.   OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING   This book is organized around the structure of the C++ language. As such, the earlier chapters, which cover aspects of C++ that are common to almost all high-level programming languages, are not particularly oriented toward object-oriented programming (OOP). This makes sense for a reference book and a book for learning a second language. However, I do consider C++ to be an OOP language. If you are really programming in C++ and not C, then you must avail yourself of the OOP features of C++. This book gives extensive coverage of encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism as realized in the C++ language. The final chapter on patterns and UML gives additional coverage of OOP-related material.   FLEXIBILITY IN TOPIC ORDERING   This book allows instructors wide latitude in reordering the material. This is important if a book is to serve as a reference. It is also in keeping with my philosophy of writing books that accommodate themselves to an instructor's style, rather than being the instructor to an author's personal preference of topic ordering. With this in mind, each chapter introduction explains what material must be covered before doing each section of the chapter.   ACCESSIBLE TO STUDENTS   It is not enough for a book to present the right topics in the right order. It is not even enough for it be clear and correct when read by an instructor or other expert. The material needs to be presented in a way that is accessible to the person who does not yet know the material. Like my other textbooks that have proved to be very popular with students, this book was written to be friendly and accessible to the student.    Summary Boxes Each major point is summarized in a boxed section. These boxed sections are spread throughout each chapter. They serve as summaries of the material, as a quick reference source, and a way to quickly learn the C++ syntax for features the reader knows about in general but for which he or she needs to know the C++ particulars.    Self-Test Exercises Each chapter contains numerous Self-Test Exercises at strategic points in the chapter. Complete answers for all the Self-Test Exercises are given at the end of each chapter.    Other Features Pitfall sections, programming technique sections, and examples of complete programs with sample I/O are given throughout each chapter. Each chapter ends with a summary section and a collection of programming projects suitable to assign to students.   SUPPORT MATERIAL   Each book comes with a free copy of the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Introductory Edition. In addition, the following supplements are available on the book's companion website at http://www.aw.com/savitch/:    Source code from the book PowerPoint slides    The following resources are available to qualified instructors only. Please contact your local sales representative or send e-mail to aw.cse@awl.com for access information:    Instructor's manual Computerized testbank   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS   Numerous individuals have contributed invaluable help and support in making this book happen. Frank Ruggirello and my editor Susan Hartman at Addison-Wesley are the ones who first conceived of the idea for this book. Susan Hartman, Galia Shokry, Lisa Kalner, and the other fine people at Addison-Wesley were a continuing source of support and encouragement in getting the book reviewed, revised, and out the door.    Cindy Kogut did an incredibly thorough job of copyediting. Sally Boylan and others at Argosy Publishing did great work under rushed conditions in converting the manuscript to typeset pages.    David Teague deserves special acknowledgment. I very much appreciate his hard work, good insights, and careful researching for this book.    I thank my good friend Mario Lopez for the many helpful conversations we had about C++.    The following reviewers provided corrections and suggestions that contributed greatly to the final product. I thank them all. In random order they are Kenrick Mock, University of Alaska, Anchorage; Richard Albright, University of Delaware; H. E. Dunsmore, Purdue University; Christopher E. Cramer; Drue Coles, Boston University; Evan Golub, University of Maryland; Stephen Corbesero, Moravian College; Fredrick H. Colclough, Colorado Technical University; Joel Weinstein, Northeastern University; Stephen P Leach, Florida State University; Alvin S. Lim, Auburn University; and Martin Dulberg, North Carolina State University.    I again thank David Teague-this time for his excellent work in preparing the instructor's guide.    Finally, I thank Christina for putting up with my working late on the book and even offering encouragement instead of complaining.    Walter Savich http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/savitch/ wsavitch@ucsd.edu",books;c;c & c++ windows programming;computer science;computers & technology;development;education & reference;languages & tools;microsoft;new;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks,14
031221524X,"Georgia: In the Mountains of Poetry An enthusiast for his subject, Nasmyth discovers Georgia precisely at the moment of the tiny democratic republic's post-Soviet reawakening. Notable for its hospitality, its wines, its intellectual tradition and a remarkable ability to preserve its national identity under successive occupations, Georgia appeals wildly to the senses even while its people face immense political and economic challenges. Nasmyth shows how this early Christian kingdom, once nestled between the Russian, Turkish and Persian empires, casts a spell over all those who visit. As he portrays Georgia's regions with descriptions of landscape and customs, Nasmyth also refers to a rich tradition of epic and religious writing and storytelling. While the interviews with people he encounters capture a portrait of Georgia in transition, there is a disappointing reliance on obvious metaphors to reflect the death of the Soviet order: rust, rickety buses, decrepit buildings and prostitution. Likewise, Nasmyth's digressions into the meaning of Soviet history and his occasional personal revelations are superficial and distract from an otherwise strong exercise in observation. Certain reminiscences are rewarding, however: wandering the twisting streets of Tbilisi, or imbibing a cold drink from a sacred pool in ancient cave dwellings. The author's occasional failure to provide profound commentary makes Georgia no less attractive as a destination. 170 b photos and illustrations. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	""All voyages are searches in disguise,"" says Nasmyth as he opens this disquisition on his travels through the former Soviet republic of GeorgiaAand at first readers may find this too annoyingly true. Nasmyth concedes that he's partly searching for himself here, and we hear rather too much about him as he weaves together impressions from his travels with the history of the country. But at least he's honest enough to admit it, and readers will learn a lot about Georgia from reading his book, though it's not really a comprehensive cultural and historical introduction, as it's billed. Rather, it is one slightly pushy but still pretty keen-eyed reporter's account of how the country opened up to him, with a somewhat stronger (and certainly welcome) focus on the arts than one typically finds in books of this sort. Nasmyth has been reporting on the Caucasus for 11 years (he currently runs a charity for children in the area), and though more of this material dates from early in his travels than one might like, he does vividly show us a society in flux. Recommended where Soviet/Russian studies, cultural studies, and unusual travelogs are popular.ABarbara Hoffert, ""Library Journal""Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Indispensable to all serious travellers to the Caucasus - Lesley Chamberlain, Times Literary Supplement. 'Nasmyth is an ideal chronicler. It would be difficult to read his quirky, entertaining, informative, sometimes surreal book without having an impulse to ring a travel agent and ask for flights to Tbilisi' - D.M. Thomas, Literary Review. Peter Nasmyth has written the elegiac, quirky, readable, deeply knowledgeable Georgia: In the Mountains of Poetry, the best cultural-historical introduction to that tempestuous land  Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Daily Telegraph.  the revised edition of his [Peter Nasmyths] Georgia: In the Mountains of Poetry reasserts his position as author of the best book on post-Soviet Georgia - Michael Church, The Independent.  The result is a lively, perceptive, topical book  Fitzroy Maclean, Times Literary Supplement.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	Peter Nasmyth is a journalist and photographer.",americas;asia;books;europe;european;georgia;history;international & world politics;politics & government;politics & social sciences;russia;state & local;travel;united states,14
1552125343,"100% Internet Credit Card Fraud Protected Introduction What is Internet credit card fraud? Why should I be afraid of it? What are the losses from credit card fraud? Are you sure that I will receive fraudulent orders? What is the percentage of fraudulent orders Internet merchants receive? What is the charge-back and how much does it cost? 'Carders': Soldiers of information warfare What is information warfare? Why soldiers? Why shouldn't I treat them like ordinary thieves? Who are they? How and where do carders steal credit card numbers? 'Trashing' 'Business theft' 'Hacking' Excite and conquer (an extract from ""Carding in XXI Century"" by Hawk) Checking credit card numbers (an extract from ""Carding in XXI Century"" by Hawk) 'Merchant account' 'Internet'",biographies & memoirs;books;business & finance;business & investing;computers & technology;criminology;hacking;internet & web culture;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;true accounts;true crime;used & rental textbooks,14
0766812979,Medical Terminology for Health Professions (Medical Terminology for Health Professions)4th edition Goddard College,allied health professions;books;dictionaries & terminology;education & reference;fitness & dieting;general;health;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;nursing;reference;used & rental textbooks,14
0415298091,"The Buddhist Unconscious: The Alaya-vijñana in the context of Indian Buddhist Thought (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) 'This work weaves together into one fabric yards spanning some one thousand years of Indian Buddhist thought, and will prove to be an invaluable source of information for scholars of Buddhist literature.' - East and West Series	William S. Waldron received his PhD in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin after studying extensively in India, Nepal and Japan. He currently teaches South Asian religions and Buddhist philosophy at Middlebury College, Vermont. His research areas include the Yogacara school of Indian Buddhism, and comparative psychologies and philosophies of mind.",asia;books;buddhism;history;humanities;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies;sociology;used & rental textbooks;world,14
1928994342,"Hack Proofing Linux : A Guide to Open Source Security ""... I like this book. It would be a good textbook to use with a one-week Linux security workshop"" -- Information Security Bulletin	James Stanger (Ph.D., MCSE, MCT) directs the Linux, Security, and Server Administrator certification tracks for ProsoftTraining.com. Since receiving his Ph.D. in 1997, he has focused on auditing Internet servers and writing courseware, books, and articles about administering and securing Internet servers.He specializes in troubleshooting firewall, intrusion detection, DNS, e-mail and Web server implementations. Patrick T. Lane (MCSE, MCP+I, MCT, Network+, i-Net+, CIW) is a Content Architect for ProsoftTraining.com, a leading Internet skills training and curriculum development  company.  He is the author of more than 20 technical courses and is the director of the CIW Foundations and CIW Internetworking Professional series. While at ProsoftTraining.com, he has helped create the Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) program and the i-Accelerate program for Intel, Novell, and Microsoft professionals.  Edgar Danielyan (CCNA) is currently self-employed. Edgar has a diploma in company law from the British Institute of Legal Executives, and is a certified paralegal from the University of Southern Colorado. He has been working as a network administrator and manager of a top-level domain of Armenia. He has also worked for the United Nations, the Ministry of Defense, a national telco, a bank, and has been a partner in a law firm.",books;certification;comptia;computer science;computers & technology;encryption;hacking;internet & web culture;linux;new;operating systems;programming;security & encryption;used & rental textbooks,14
1566397197,"Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project (Labor and Social Change) As detailed in this book, many women worked on the Manhattan Project, from physicists and mathematicians at Los Alamos to public health specialists at Oak Ridge and Hanford to chemists at the Metallurgical Lab of the University of Chicago. Working from archival files at the various labs and universities and then pursuing leads developed through personal and telephone-based interviews, the authors, both physicists, have identified several hundred women affiliated in some way with the project. Valuable because so little has been written on this subject, this book is nevertheless frustrating because of its anecdotal nature. In many cases, the text jumps from person to person, simply presenting a sentence or two about each one as though that were all the files and investigation could produce. Still, the book is quite interesting in what it reveals, both particularly about the chauvinism of the project's male management and the na?vet? of professional and support staff regarding the harmful effects of nuclear materials. Recommended for academic history of science collections.AHilary Burton, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""Of the many women who contributed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I remember with pleasure most of the physicists who I knew quite well. It is nice to read about Los Alamos as a success story.""  -- Dr. Edward Teller, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution	The hidden story of the contribution of women in the effort to develop the atomic bomb	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""Of the many women who contributed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I remember with pleasure most of the physicists who I knew quite well. It is nice to read about Los Alamos as a success story."" Dr. Edward Teller, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution ""I am thrilled to learn of so many of the remarkable women who contributed to innumerable aspects of [this] great enterprise. This book enables us to meet each other, to swap stories. The authors have done a superb job of detective work, tracking down an impressive number of them, more than 300. It is important to record and credit women's contributions to the social and technological history of the making of the bomb."" Ellen C. Weaver, Ph.D., Past President, Association for Women in Science ""Quite interesting in what it reveals, both particularly about the chauvinism of the projects male management and the naivete of professional and support staff regarding the harmful effects of nuclear materials. Recommended for academic history of science collections."" Library Journal ""Authors Howes and Herzenberg have done a remarkable job in synthesizing archived information on the women of the Manhattan Project and in bringing these women to life on the pages of their book."" AWIS Magazine ""Painstakingly researched...this [book] provides a valuable beginning to the study of a previously neglected topic and contributes to our knowledge of the history of women in science."" Science Books and Films	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Ruth H. Howes is George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Ball State University. She is Vice President of the American Association of Physics Teachers and President-Elect of the Indiana Academy of Science. She is also co-editor of The Energy Sourcebook and Women and the Use of Military Force. Caroline L. Herzenberg, a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, is past president of the Association for Women in Science. She is author of Women Scientists from Antiquity to the Present.	""I am thrilled to learn of so many of the remarkable women who contributed to innumerable aspects of [this] great enterprise. This book enables us to meet each other, to swap stories. The authors have done a superb job of detective work, tracking down an impressive number of them, more than 300. It is important to record and credit women's contributions to the social and technological history of the making of the bomb."" From the Foreword by Ellen C. Weaver, Ph.D., Past President, Association for Women in Science",atomic & nuclear physics;biographies & memoirs;books;history;military science;nuclear physics;physics;politics & social sciences;professionals & academics;science & math;scientists;specific groups;women;women's studies,14
1590590848,"Web Services Patterns: Java Edition Paul B. Monday is a software architect working for Sun Microsystem's Network Storage Division. During graduate school at Washington State University, he created the System V File system implementation for the early Linux operating system (prior to the 1.0 kernel). At IBM, Paul worked on projects to find mechanisms and approaches for reusing software efficiently. After IBM, Paul worked for Imation Corporation as an architect and project leader for a series of projects involving device management and network appliances. While there, Paul led an effort to build a network appliance based entirely on open-source software. Since Imation, Paul has worked on a variety of architecture projects relating to enterprise software. Paul is the coauthor of two books, The San Francisco Component Framework: An Introduction, and The Jiro Technology Programmer's Guide and Federated Management Architecture.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;electronic documents;graphic design;java;languages & tools;programming;software design;software development;testing & engineering;web design;web development & design;web services,14
0824601297,"Encyclopedia of Black Folklore and Humor A monumental task of research, the greatest single work on the black American. ---- J. Mason BrewerThe most substantial collection of black folklore and humor yet published. ---- Saturday Review Syndicate	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	A native of New York City, Henry D. Spalding began his career in journalism as a reporter for the New York Mirror and the Journal. While a member of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., he was an accredited White House correspondent. In the 1950s Spalding moved to Los Angeles, where he was active as editor and publisher of Deejay, Disc, and Top Ten--all music magazines--as well as Talent News, a show-business trade journal. Mr. Spalding is also the author of Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor, Joys of Irish Humor, and Joys of Italian Humor & Folklore.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",african-american studies;antiques & collectibles;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;folklore & mythology;humor;literature & fiction;mythology;mythology & folk tales;mythology & folklore;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,14
1588340708,"We Have Capture In his career as an astronaut, Thomas Stafford saw it all: Gene Cernans fogged up pressure helmet, the mountains of the moon oh-so-close, a Soviet handshake in orbit. Stafford was truly one of those few who stood on the shoulders of giants and made history.Tom HanksAs American flight commander of the first ever rendezvous-in-space with the Soviets, Tom Stafford started raising the Iron Curtain. A great talent, a great careerand still involved!Senator John GlennAn intimate portrayal of space policy, especially its sometimes cantankerous, sometimes tranquil, but always interesting interactions between USA and USSR.Roger D. Launius, NASA Chief HistorianFrom the Trade Paperback edition.	Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford (Ret.) has been awarded many honors, including two Distinguished Service Medals and two Exceptional Service Medals from NASA, and the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. He lives in Florida.Michael Cassutt has written many books, including DEKE! US Manned Space: From Mercury to the Shuttle (with Donald K. Deke Slayton). He lives in Studio City, California.From the Trade Paperback edition.",20th century;americas;aviation;biographies & memoirs;books;engineering;history;memoirs;military;professional & technical;professionals & academics;scientists;united states;world,14
0201485354,"FireWire System Architecture: IEEE 1394A (2nd Edition) It's difficult to categorize FireWire System Architecture: IEEE 1394. It's not quite technical enough to serve as a replacement for the official IEEE 1394 specification, yet it's definitely not written for laymen. My impression is that FireWire System Architecture: IEEE 1394 was intended to replace the IEEE 1394 specification, but it doesn't ever quite get there. The purpose of a book such as this one should be, in my opinion, to supplement the official specification: To explain the parts of the specification that are ambiguous and to supply real-world technical examples of each major IEEE 1394 feature. This book doesn't do either of these things.  That said, however, the book on its own terms is well written and technically accurate. The IEEE 1394 technical details are covered well, and the diagrams are quite nicely rendered. The chapter entitled ""Example 1394 Chip Solutions"" (written by Texas Instruments, arguably the IEEE 1394 technology leaders) was a nice touch, and showed IEEE 1394 hardware examples, although I didn't think it was anywhere near long enough.  As an engineer who works daily with IEEE 1394 technology, I didn't really find anything in this book that I didn't find in the official specification, and I can't imagine that anyone interested enough in IEEE 1394 to buy this book wouldn't have the official IEEE 1394 specification at hand. For example, one of the most misunderstood areas of 1394 node management is the Configuration ROM and I expected to find some examples of properly formatted Configuration ROM data; however, it wasn't included. Another thing that was lacking was a detailed bibliography or detailed reference listing, which is essential in such books.  I also didn't think the title was appropriate. FireWireTM is a registered trademark of Apple Computer and virtually all companies developing IEEE 1394 products (such as Sony, Texas Instruments, Symbios Logic, Adaptec, Fujitsu, etc.) avoid the name FireWire like the plague. Sony, for example, has coined its own term -- I Link. The title should have been IEEE 1394 System Architecture instead, but I'm sure the publisher thought that FireWire was more catchy.  My criticisms notwithstanding, the book reads well, and is a good value at $34.95. Depending on the depth of your interest in IEEE 1394 technology, the book can certainly be worth having in your library. -- Thomas ""Rick"" Tewell, Dr. Dobb's Journal  -- Dr. Dobb's Journal	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	About This Book The MindShare Architecture Series  The MindShare Architecture book series includes: ISA System Architecture, EISA System Architecture, 80486 System Architecture, PCI System Architecture, Pentium System Architecture, PCMCIA System Architecture, PowerPC System Architecture, Plug-and-Play System Architecture, CardBus System Architecture, Protected Mode Software Architecture, Pentium Pro and Pentium II System Architecture, USB System Architecture, FireWire System Architecture and AGP System Architecture. The book series is published by Addison-Wesley. Rather than duplicating common information in each book, the series uses the building-block approach. ISA System Architecture is the core book upon which the others build.  Cautionary Note  The reader should keep in mind that MindShare's book series often deals with rapidly-evolving technologies. With IEEE 1394, this is particularly true. This book is based in part on several incomplete specifications. This being the case, it should be recognized that the book is a ""snapshot"" of the state of 1394 technology at the time that the book was completed. We attempt to update each book on a timely basis to reflect changes in the targeted technology, but, due to various factors (waiting for the next version of the specification to be ""frozen,"" the time necessary to make the changes, and the time to produce the books and get them out through the distribution channels), there will always be a delay.   Please check our web site for additions and errata on this and other MindShare books. As specifications and technologies change MindShare maintains errata, clarifications, and additions to the books to ensure that the reader has a way of keeping updated on recent developments (mindshare).  Organization of This Book  The book is divided into six parts and an appendix. Each part contains the chapters listed below and a brief description of the contents of each chapter.  Part One: Introduction to FireWire (IEEE 1394) Chapter 1: Why FireWire?  This chapter describes background information regarding the development of the FireWire specification (1394-1995 and the 1394a Supplement) and discusses FireWire applications.  Chapter 2: Overview of the FireWire Architecture  This chapter describes the primary features of the FireWire serial bus implementation. The chapter also reviews the IEEE 1394 standards (IEEE 1394-1995 & IEEE 1394a) and IEEE ISO/IEC 13213 (ANSI/IEEE 1212) standard that the FireWire serial bus is based upon.  Part Two: Serial Bus Communications Chapter 3: Communication Model  This chapter provides an overview of the serial bus communications model. It defines the basic transfer types and introduces the communication layers defined by the specification.  Chapter 4: Communications Services  This chapter describes the services defined by the specification that are used to pass parameters between layers during the execution of each transaction. The protocol layers and services for asynchronous and isochronous transactions are discussed. Asynchronous transactions exist in three forms: reads, writes, and locks, while isochronous transactions are performed only as writes.  Chapter 5: Cables & Connectors  This chapter discusses the cable characteristics and connectors used by the IEEE 1394 cable environment. It also mentions the Device Bay implementation being specified in PC environments.  Chapter 6: The Electrical Interface  This chapter details the serial bus signaling environment. This includes recognition of device attachment and removal, arbitration signaling, speed signaling, and data/strobe signaling.  Chapter 7: Arbitration  This chapter details the arbitration process. It defines the various types of arbitration including isochronous and asynchronous arbitration, as well as the newer arbitration types defined by the 1394a supplement.  Chapter 8: Asynchronous Packets  Asynchronous transactions exist in three basic forms: reads, writes, and locks. This chapter details the packets that are transmitted over the bus.  Chapter 9: Isochronous Packets  Isochronous transactions are scheduled so that they occur at 125us intervals. This chapter discusses the format of the packet used during isochronous transactions.  Chapter 10: PHY Packet Format  This chapter discusses the various types of PHY packet. The role of each PHY packet is discussed, packet format is specified, and the fields within each packet are detailed.  Chapter 11: Link to PHY Interface  This chapter details the signaling interface between the link and PHY layer controller chips. The 1394a supplement makes this interface mandatory for implementations of separate PHY and link layer chips.  Chapter 12: Transaction Retry  This chapter discusses transaction retries that occur when the recipient of a packet is busy (e.g. has a buffer full condition). Two retry mechanisms are defined by the 1394 specification: single and dual phase. Each type of mechanism is discussed. Software may also initiate retries for transactions that fail.  Part Three: Serial Bus Configuration Chapter 13: Configuration Process  This chapter overviews the configuration process comprising the initialization, tree ID, and self-ID phases. Once self-ID completes, additional configuration may optionally take place in the form of bus management activities that are also reviewed in this chapter.  Chapter 14: Bus Reset (Initialization)  This chapter details the bus reset phase of the cable configuration process. Initialization begins with the assertion of a bus reset by a given node on the bus. This chapter discusses the reset enhancements introduced by the 1394a supplement; debouncing the bias change detection, arbitration (short) bus reset, and new timing parameters.  Chapter 15: Tree Identification  Following bus initialization, the tree ID process begins to determine which node will become the root. This chapter details the protocol used in determining the topology of the serial bus.  Chapter 16: Self Identification  This chapter focuses on the self-ID process. During self-ID all nodes are assigned addresses and specify their capabilities by broadcasting self-ID packets.  Part Four: Serial Bus Management Chapter 17: Cycle Master  This chapter describes the role of the cycle master node, and defines how the cycle master is identified and enabled.  Chapter 18: Isochronous Resource Manager  This chapter describes the role of the isochronous resource manager: how it is identified and enabled, and how other nodes interact with it.  Chapter 19: Bus Manager  In this chapter, the bus manager function is described including topology map and speed map generation and access, as well as power management.  Chapter 20: Bus Management Services  This chapter discusses the bus management services used by the bus manager and isochronous resource manager to perform their bus management roles.  Part Five: Registers and Configuration ROM Chapter 21: CSR Architecture  This chapter discusses the CSR registers defined by the ISO 13213 specification with particular focus on the registers that are required by the 1394 specification.  Chapter 22: PHY Registers  This chapter introduces the PHY register map and port registers. Both the 1394-1995 and the 1394a PHY registers are detailed.  Chapter 23: Configuration ROM  This chapter details the contents of configuration ROM required by the ISO/IEC 13213 specification. The serial bus also defines ROM entries that are required by some nodes, depending on the capabilities.  Part Six: Power Management Chapter 24: Introduction to Power Management  This chapter provides a brief introduction to the power management environment introduced by the 1394a specification. The chapter introduces the three documents that further define the power management specification: Cable Power Distribution, Suspend/Resume Mechanisms, and Power State Management.  Chapter 25: Cable Power Distribution  This chapter discusses power distribution in the cable environment. It discusses the four power types designations for nodes: power providers, alternate power providers, power consumers, and self-powered devices. Details regarding the power implementation of nodes in also included.  Chapter 26: Suspend & Resume  This chapter introduces the suspend and resume mechanisms. This capability allows the PHY layer within a node to enter a low power state under software control (either local node software or from another node). The mechanisms implemented for suspend and resume are detailed including: command and confirmation packets, suspend initiator actions, suspend target actions, and related suspend and resume signaling. The impact on PHY and port register definition is also discussed.  Chapter 27: Power State Management  This chapter describes the CSR registers and ROM entries that define power management capabilities and provide the mechanisms for controlling the power states of a node and of local units within a node.  Appendix Example 1394 Chip Solutions  This chapter is provided by Texas Instruments and discusses a variety of 1394 component implementations.  Target Audience  This book is intended for use by hardware and software design and support personnel. Due to the clear, concise explanatory methods used to describe each subject, personnel outside of the design field may also find the text useful. This book is perhaps best used prior to reading the IEEE 1394-1995 specification and 1394a Supplement. It provides the important context, concepts, and relationships that are essential for understanding the specifications.  Prerequisite Knowledge  The reader should be familiar with computer architectures.  Documentation Conventions  This document contains conventions that are used in other MindShare books and in the IEEE 1394 documentation. Since this book is a companion to the specification, many of the standard documentation conventions are used here to ease the transition between the two documents.   Labels for Multi-byte Blocks  The CSR Architecture and the IEEE 1394 standards attempt to eliminate confusion of terminology relating to the terms: word as it applies to the size of an aligned block of bytes in address space. Depending on the manufacturer, a ""word"" may refer to 2 bytes or to 4 bytes. The IEEE standards chooses to define multibytes as follows: nibble (4-bits) byte (8-bits) doublet (two bytes) quadlet (four bytes) octlet (eight bytes)  Hexadecimal Notation  This section defines the typographical convention used throughout this book. Hex Notation All hex numbers are followed by an ""h."" Examples:  9A4Eh  0100h Binary Notation  All binary numbers are followed by a ""b."" Examples:  0001 0101b  01b  Decimal Notation  Numbers without any suffix are decimal. When required for clarity, decimal numbers are followed by a ""d."" The following examples each represent a decimal number:  16  255  256d  128d  Bits versus Byte Notation  This book employs the standard notation for differentiating bits versus bytes. All abbreviations for ""bits"" use lower case. For example: 1.5Mb/s 2Mb   All references to ""bytes"" are specified in upper case. For example: 10MB/s 1KB  Identification of Bit Fields (logical groups of bits or signals)  All bit fields are designated in little-endian bit ordering:  X::Y, where ""X"" is the most-significant bit and ""Y"" is the least-significant bit of the field.   Visit Our Web Site  Our web site contains a listing of all of our courses and books. In addition, it contains errata for a number of the books, a hot link to our publisher's web site, and course outlines: mindshare. We Want Your Feedback  MindShare values your comments and suggestions. You can contact us via mail, phone, fax, or internet e-mail. Phone:  (972) 231-2216, and, in the U.S., (800) 633-1440 Fax:  (972) 783-4715 E-mail:  mindshar@interserv E-mail:  don@mindshare For information on MindShare seminars, please check our website.  Mailing Address: MindShare, Inc. 2202 Buttercup Drive Richardson, Texas 75082   0201485354P04062001	Praise for the first edition:      ""Finally, a book on IEEE 1394 thats easy to understand!!! MindShares FireWire System Architecture: IEEE 1394 provides a consolidated learning tool for 1394 hardware and software, and confirms the statement, 1394s for the fun stuff...."" -Phil Roden, 1394 Digital Design Manager, Texas Instruments     The FireWire (IEEE 1394a) standard for high-speed serial bus communications has come to the fore as an important technology supporting todays emerging data-intensive applications.    FireWire System Architecture provides an in-depth description of the IEEE 1394a cable environment, based on the 2.0 version of the 1394a standard. Comprehensive, concise, and well-organized, this book details the specification itself and presents the architecture, features, and operations of systems developed with the FireWire bus. Completely up-to-date, this new edition covers all of the changes incorporated into the 2.0 standard, such as arbitration enhancements, improvements in bus reset timing, new PHY register definition, and port interface enhancements to support suspend/resume and port disable. In addition, it provides in-depth information on suspend/resume operation, power distribution, and power management.    FireWire System Architecture describes the various hardware and software layers that make up the FireWire serial bus and provides transaction examples to explain and illustrate the relationship between each layer.  It explores such essential topics as:     The communications model   Asynchronous and isochronous transactions   Cables and connectors   The electrical interface   Asynchronous and isochronous arbitration, including such enhancements as fly-by arbitration, acceleration control, and priority arbitration service   Packets, including the PHY packet format   Serial bus configuration and management   Control and status registers (CSRs)   Configuration ROM   Power management       Numerous sample implementations throughout the book demonstrates how theory is put to use in real-world applications. This combination of comprehensive reference, readable explanation, and examples make this guide indispensable for anyone who works with the IEEE 1394a technology.    The PC System Architecture Series is a crisply written and comprehensive set of guides to the most important PC hardware standards. Each title is designed to illustrate the relationship between the software and hardware, and thoroughly explains the architecture, features, and operation of systems built using one particular type of chip or hardware specification.	MindShare, Inc.  is one of the leading technical training companies in the hardware industry, providing innovative courses for dozens of companies, including Intel, IBM, and Compaq.     Don Anderson is the author of many MindShare books. He passes on his wealth of experience in digital electronics and computer design by training engineers, programmers, and technicians for MindShare.         0201485354AB07142003	About This Book The MindShare Architecture Series  The MindShare Architecture book series includes: ISA System Architecture, EISA System Architecture, 80486 System Architecture, PCI System Architecture, Pentium System Architecture, PCMCIA System Architecture, PowerPC System Architecture, Plug-and-Play System Architecture, CardBus System Architecture, Protected Mode Software Architecture, Pentium Pro and Pentium II System Architecture, USB System Architecture, FireWire System Architecture and AGP System Architecture. The book series is published by Addison-Wesley. Rather than duplicating common information in each book, the series uses the building-block approach. ISA System Architecture is the core book upon which the others build.  Cautionary Note  The reader should keep in mind that MindShare's book series often deals with rapidly-evolving technologies. With IEEE 1394, this is particularly true. This book is based in part on several incomplete specifications. This being the case, it should be recognized that the book is a ""snapshot"" of the state of 1394 technology at the time that the book was completed. We attempt to update each book on a timely basis to reflect changes in the targeted technology, but, due to various factors (waiting for the next version of the specification to be ""frozen,"" the time necessary to make the changes, and the time to produce the books and get them out through the distribution channels), there will always be a delay.   Please check our web site for additions and errata on this and other MindShare books. As specifications and technologies change MindShare maintains errata, clarifications, and additions to the books to ensure that the reader has a way of keeping updated on recent developments (www.mindshare.com).  Organization of This Book  The book is divided into six parts and an appendix. Each part contains the chapters listed below and a brief description of the contents of each chapter.  Part One: Introduction to FireWire (IEEE 1394) Chapter 1: Why FireWire?  This chapter describes background information regarding the development of the FireWire specification (1394-1995 and the 1394a Supplement) and discusses FireWire applications.  Chapter 2: Overview of the FireWire Architecture  This chapter describes the primary features of the FireWire serial bus implementation. The chapter also reviews the IEEE 1394 standards (IEEE 1394-1995  IEEE 1394a) and IEEE ISO/IEC 13213 (ANSI/IEEE 1212) standard that the FireWire serial bus is based upon.  Part Two: Serial Bus Communications Chapter 3: Communication Model  This chapter provides an overview of the serial bus communications model. It defines the basic transfer types and introduces the communication layers defined by the specification.  Chapter 4: Communications Services  This chapter describes the services defined by the specification that are used to pass parameters between layers during the execution of each transaction. The protocol layers and services for asynchronous and isochronous transactions are discussed. Asynchronous transactions exist in three forms: reads, writes, and locks, while isochronous transactions are performed only as writes.  Chapter 5: Cables  Connectors  This chapter discusses the cable characteristics and connectors used by the IEEE 1394 cable environment. It also mentions the Device Bay implementation being specified in PC environments.  Chapter 6: The Electrical Interface  This chapter details the serial bus signaling environment. This includes recognition of device attachment and removal, arbitration signaling, speed signaling, and data/strobe signaling.  Chapter 7: Arbitration  This chapter details the arbitration process. It defines the various types of arbitration including isochronous and asynchronous arbitration, as well as the newer arbitration types defined by the 1394a supplement.  Chapter 8: Asynchronous Packets  Asynchronous transactions exist in three basic forms: reads, writes, and locks. This chapter details the packets that are transmitted over the bus.  Chapter 9: Isochronous Packets  Isochronous transactions are scheduled so that they occur at 125us intervals. This chapter discusses the format of the packet used during isochronous transactions.  Chapter 10: PHY Packet Format  This chapter discusses the various types of PHY packet. The role of each PHY packet is discussed, packet format is specified, and the fields within each packet are detailed.  Chapter 11: Link to PHY Interface  This chapter details the signaling interface between the link and PHY layer controller chips. The 1394a supplement makes this interface mandatory for implementations of separate PHY and link layer chips.  Chapter 12: Transaction Retry  This chapter discusses transaction retries that occur when the recipient of a packet is busy (e.g. has a buffer full condition). Two retry mechanisms are defined by the 1394 specification: single and dual phase. Each type of mechanism is discussed. Software may also initiate retries for transactions that fail.  Part Three: Serial Bus Configuration Chapter 13: Configuration Process  This chapter overviews the configuration process comprising the initialization, tree ID, and self-ID phases. Once self-ID completes, additional configuration may optionally take place in the form of bus management activities that are also reviewed in this chapter.  Chapter 14: Bus Reset (Initialization)  This chapter details the bus reset phase of the cable configuration process. Initialization begins with the assertion of a bus reset by a given node on the bus. This chapter discusses the reset enhancements introduced by the 1394a supplement; debouncing the bias change detection, arbitration (short) bus reset, and new timing parameters.  Chapter 15: Tree Identification  Following bus initialization, the tree ID process begins to determine which node will become the root. This chapter details the protocol used in determining the topology of the serial bus.  Chapter 16: Self Identification  This chapter focuses on the self-ID process. During self-ID all nodes are assigned addresses and specify their capabilities by broadcasting self-ID packets.  Part Four: Serial Bus Management Chapter 17: Cycle Master  This chapter describes the role of the cycle master node, and defines how the cycle master is identified and enabled.  Chapter 18: Isochronous Resource Manager  This chapter describes the role of the isochronous resource manager: how it is identified and enabled, and how other nodes interact with it.  Chapter 19: Bus Manager  In this chapter, the bus manager function is described including topology map and speed map generation and access, as well as power management.  Chapter 20: Bus Management Services  This chapter discusses the bus management services used by the bus manager and isochronous resource manager to perform their bus management roles.  Part Five: Registers and Configuration ROM Chapter 21: CSR Architecture  This chapter discusses the CSR registers defined by the ISO 13213 specification with particular focus on the registers that are required by the 1394 specification.  Chapter 22: PHY Registers  This chapter introduces the PHY register map and port registers. Both the 1394-1995 and the 1394a PHY registers are detailed.  Chapter 23: Configuration ROM  This chapter details the contents of configuration ROM required by the ISO/IEC 13213 specification. The serial bus also defines ROM entries that are required by some nodes, depending on the capabilities.  Part Six: Power Management Chapter 24: Introduction to Power Management  This chapter provides a brief introduction to the power management environment introduced by the 1394a specification. The chapter introduces the three documents that further define the power management specification: Cable Power Distribution, Suspend/Resume Mechanisms, and Power State Management.  Chapter 25: Cable Power Distribution  This chapter discusses power distribution in the cable environment. It discusses the four power types designations for nodes: power providers, alternate power providers, power consumers, and self-powered devices. Details regarding the power implementation of nodes in also included.  Chapter 26: Suspend  Resume  This chapter introduces the suspend and resume mechanisms. This capability allows the PHY layer within a node to enter a low power state under software control (either local node software or from another node). The mechanisms implemented for suspend and resume are detailed including: command and confirmation packets, suspend initiator actions, suspend target actions, and related suspend and resume signaling. The impact on PHY and port register definition is also discussed.  Chapter 27: Power State Management  This chapter describes the CSR registers and ROM entries that define power management capabilities and provide the mechanisms for controlling the power states of a node and of local units within a node.  Appendix Example 1394 Chip Solutions  This chapter is provided by Texas Instruments and discusses a variety of 1394 component implementations.  Target Audience  This book is intended for use by hardware and software design and support personnel. Due to the clear, concise explanatory methods used to describe each subject, personnel outside of the design field may also find the text useful. This book is perhaps best used prior to reading the IEEE 1394-1995 specification and 1394a Supplement. It provides the important context, concepts, and relationships that are essential for understanding the specifications.",books;computer design;computer science;computers & technology;design & architecture;education & reference;hardware;internet & networking;microprocessors & system design;networking;networks;new;protocols & apis;used & rental textbooks,14
0787909386,"Fabled Service: Ordinary Acts, Extraordinary Outcomes Betsy Sanders, a former vice president and general manager with the extraordinarily consumer-oriented Nordstrom department-store chain, believes that true success on the sales floor stems from dedicated leadership in the management ranks and a steadfast commitment to related ideals from those at the top on down. In Fabled Service: Ordinary Acts, Extraordinary Outcomes, Sanders outlines the fundamentals for others who would like to achieve the legendary customer-friendly status that is widely accorded her former employer. The outcome, she stresses, is service that is so effective that it actually influences the decisions of shoppers.	In this riveting best-seller, former Nordstrom vice president and general manager Betsy Sanders shares her secrets for making the customer feel like gold, and for achieving the kind of service that made Nordstrom a retail legAnd. It can help you set the same standards for your organization.Drawing upon her nineteen-year career with retail giant Nordstrom Inc., renowned for best-in-the-business customer service, Betsy Sanders brings her unique insights to this practical, easy-to-read guide. Using real-life anecdotes and examples from a variety of sources, Sanders outlines the many ways excellent service is created and shows how how you can go about setting the standard for your particular industry. Complete with checklists and action plans, Fabled Service reveals an expert's secrets for for making customers feel like gold--which inevitably translates to increased profits.	In this riveting best-seller, former Nordstrom vice president and general manager Betsy Sanders shares her secrets for making the customer feel like gold, and for achieving the kind of service that made Nordstrom a retail legend. It can help you set the same standards for your organization.Drawing upon her nineteen-year career with retail giant Nordstrom Inc., renowned for best-in-the-business customer service, Betsy Sanders brings her unique insights to this practical, easy-to-read guide. Using real-life anecdotes and examples from a variety of sources, Sanders outlines the many ways excellent service is created and shows how how you can go about setting the standard for your particular industry. Complete with checklists and action plans, Fabled Service reveals an expert's secrets for for making customers feel like gold--which inevitably translates to increased profits.	BETSY SANDERS worked with Nordstrom, Inc. for 19 years. During that time, she served as VP and general manager. In that capacity, she was responsible for the inception and development of the Southern California region--the company's largest and most profitable division, generating $1 billion in annual revenues.At present, Sanders is a consultant specializing in developing and implementing comprehensive business and marketing strategies, customer service objectives, quality performance standards, and leadership potential. She replaced First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on the WalMart Board of Directors and also serves on the boards of Carl Karcher Enterprises, H.F. Ahmanson Company, and Vons Companies, Inc., among others. She is founder and director of The National Bank of Southern California, director and second vice-chairman of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and director and chairman of the United Way of Orange County.",books;business & finance;business & investing;customer service;economics;entrepreneurship;industries & professions;marketing;marketing & sales;new;sales;sales & selling;small business & entrepreneurship;used & rental textbooks,14
076454442X,"RV Vacations for Dummies informative and useful' (MotorHomePlanet.co.uk, January 2011).	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Your insiders guide to the best places and pricesEverything you need to hit the road with confidence!An RV gives you the freedom to explore America in style and at your own pace  but where to head first? Relax! With 14 best-drive trips throughout the United States, plus practical advice on RV travel, this easy guide will get you  and your vacation  on the road to fun.Discover:Down-to-earth trip-planning adviceWhat you shouldnt miss  and what you can skipUp-to-date listings for each attraction and campgroundLots of detailed maps	Shirley Slater and Harry Basch are a husband-and-wife travel-writing team whose books, articles, and photographs have been published internationally over the past 25 years. Former stage, film, and television actors, they have written their syndicated column Cruise Views for the Los Angeles Times and other major newspapers for more than 20 years, produced six annual editions of the North American Ski Guide for Prodigy Computer Services, and written Shirley and Harrys RV Adventures (a monthly newsletter) plus four books on worldwide cruising.In 1990, at the 60th World Travel Congress in Hamburg, Germany, the authors were only the third writers (and the first freelancers) to receive the prestigious Melva C. Pederson Award from the American Society of Travel Agents for extraordinary journalistic achievement in the field of travel.On assignment for publications as diverse as Bon Apptit and Travel Weekly, they have covered 188 countries by barge, elephant back, hot-air balloon, luxury cruise ship, cross-country skis, paddle-wheel steamer, and supersonic aircraft, but their favorite method of transportation is by RV. In their former 27-foot Winnebago Brave motorhome and their new 36-foot Itasca Sunflyer, they have logged more than 100,000 miles traveling across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Aboard other RVs  from mini-motorhomes to 36-foot widebodies with slideouts  they have traveled an additional 60,000 miles exploring the back roads and campgrounds of America. These journeys are all based on the authors personal experiences.Theyre the authors of three editions of Frommers Exploring America by RV and appear on informational RV videos featured at www.rvtvdirect.com.",books;electrical & electronics;engineering;family travel;food;general;lodging & transportation;parks & campgrounds;professional & technical;reference;road travel;specialty travel;travel;united states,14
1579470823,"A Piece of My Mind: A New Collection of Essays from JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association reflections and insights on health, disease, and healingNow in paperback for the first time, A Piece of My Mind brings together revealing personal essays that first appeared in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). These engrossing, moving vignetteswritten by physicians, patients, family members, medical students, and othersoffer a unique glimpse into the everyday experiences and relationships in the medical world.Baring their souls and opening their hearts, the authors share their most personal moments, stories, and observations. You'll hear from the intern who could not hide her emotions, earning reprimand from her supervisors but appreciation from her patients . . . meet an alcoholic whose indomitable spirit helped her defy all the odds . . . experience the heartbreaking comedy of a Monday morning HIV clinic . . . be inspired by the oncology social worker who found a new love of life during her own struggle with breast cancer . . . and learn from the physician who realized that by witnessing her patients' courage she became a better physician.Compelling, touching, and at times humorous, A Piece of My Mind offers a deeper understanding of physicians, patients, medicine, and the simple human act of helping another person.""These stories, based in science, are transmitted to readers .  .  . after filtering through a human heart .  .  . consistently succeeds in bridging science and the humanities.""William H. Foege, MD, Emory University	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) is one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world. The American Medical Association is the leading group of physicians in the United States and one of the most respected health-related organizations around the globe. ROXANNE K. YOUNG has been an editor with JAMA since 1977.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",administration & medicine economics;administration & policy;books;essays;general;health care delivery;medical books;medical history & records;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;reference;special topics;used & rental textbooks,14
0830644636,"They Called It Pilot Error: True Stories Behind General Aviation Accidents Cohn's examination of 26 aviation accidents includes commentary from as many points of view as possible, including those of pilots, passengers, witnesses, FAA investigators, airport representatives, and others in official and unofficial capacities. Cohn's intent is to improve product and personal safety through education. By careful scrutiny of how accidents happen and how they are reported, he hopes to improve training, construction, and regulations. Essential reading for the private pilot; interesting for anyone who has ever flown or plans to.  Denise Perry Donavin",aviation;books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;piloting & flight instruction;politics & government;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;public affairs & policy;safety & first aid;social sciences;social services & welfare;transportation,14
0811700151,"Lincoln's Spymaster: Thomas Haines Dudley and the Liverpool Network David Hepburn Milton is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon, and author of The Politics of U.S. Labor: From the Great Depression to the New Deal. He and his wife, Nancy Dall Milton, co-authored The Wind Will Not Subside: Years in Revolutionary China 1964-1969, cited in the New York Times best books of the year list, 1976. He also co-edited the Random House China Reader: People's China.",19th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;canada;civil war;historical;history;intelligence & espionage;leaders & notable people;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);united states;united states civil war,14
1558215700,"Handmade Books & Albums (Design Books) Text: English (translation) Original Language: French	If you write or take notes, draw, sketch, paint, collect material in albums or portfolios, and want to do so in one-of-a-kind bindings, or wish to create unique books for any purpose, this beautifully illustrated guide explains the main techniques of simple bookbinding and offers step-by-step instruction for an array of projects you'll want to make - to own, sell, or give as special gifts. It includes a brief history of handmade books, offers a vocabulary of bookbinding terms, describes the tools and materials you need, and explains how to make glued, tied, folded, accordion, sewn, and hinged books. (7 1/2 X 10 1/4, 80 pages, color photos, color  bw diagrams)",book making & binding;books;computers & technology;crafts;crafts & hobbies;desktop publishing;engineering;graphic design;hobbies & home;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;papercrafts;professional & technical;stamping & stenciling,14
0791411486,"The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation) Text: English (translation)  Original Language: German	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;politics & social sciences;specific groups;used & rental textbooks;women;women writers;women's studies,14
0072261943,"Expert Oracle PL/SQL (Oracle Press) Create and debug next-generation, feature-rich PL/SQL applications    Push your PL/SQL programming skills to the next level with the extensive information contained in this volume.  Youll learn how to write dynamic PL/SQL programs, interface with Oracle databases, execute complex calculations, and handle error conditions using advanced techniques. Plus, youll get the latest on the PL/SQL Toolkit, Java integration, code threading, and performance optimizing. Oracle professionals Ron Hardman and Michael McLaughlin cover all the bases, providing real-world examples, undocumented tricks, syntax samples, and unique solutions for every topic.          Compile high performance PL/SQL scripts using procedures, functions, packages and triggers    Trap, trace, identify, and eliminate compile-time and runtime errors     Manage error propagation, stacks, regular expressions, and metacharacters     Exploit definers-rights and invokers-rights architectures    Extend PL/SQL functionality using server-side and internal Java class libraries    Build and run parallel PL/SQL program units using DBMS_JOB and DBMS_PIPE    Exploit definers-rights and invokers-rights architectures    Tune performance using statistics gathering, the PL/SQL optimizer, SQL Trace, DBMS_STATS, and TKPROF    Use Oracle Text with PL/SQL Server Pages to perform theme/gist extraction, highlighting, stemming, fuzzy, and wildcard searching     Administer server-side PL/SQL Toolkit web pages and PL/SQL Server Pages    Secure, encrypt, and transmit data using DBMS_CRYPTO, UTL_COMPRESS, DBMS_DATAPUMP, and DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER	Ron Hardman, OCP, is a Consulting Technical Specialist with Oracle Worldwide Technical Support. Prior to joining Oracle Corporation, he was an Oracle database developer and consultant. He is a frequent presenter on the topics of Oracle Text and Ultrasearch at Oracle User Group conferences, and teaches classes on SQL and PL/SQL. He is the coauthor of Oracle Database 10g PL/SQL Programming and has published articles with Oracle Magazine and other online magazines on subjects related to information retrieval.        Michael McLaughlin, D. CS., is the Senior Application Upgrade Manager for Oracle Applications Release Engineering. He is currently working on the upgrade architecture for the next release of Oracle Applications. He has worked with PL/SQL since its first version in Oracle 6, and has authored customer support notes on customizing Oracle Applications with Pro*C and PL/SQL. He has taught computer science and information technology at Regis University and Colorado Technical University, including courses in database development, SQL, PL/SQL, and Java. He is the coauthor of Oracle Database 10g PL/SQL Programming.",books;certification;computer science;computers & technology;database management systems;databases;education & reference;languages & tools;new;oracle;programming;programming languages;software;used & rental textbooks,14
0131239260,"LabVIEW 7 Express Student Edition National Instruments LabVIEW is the leading graphical development environment for science and engineering with built-in functionality for simulation, data acquisition, instrument control, measurement analysis, and data presentation. The LabVIEW 7 Express Student Edition delivers all the capabilities of the professional version of LabVIEW, widely considered the industry standard for test, measurement, automation, and control. LabVIEW is an ideal tool for science and engineering education that is also fun to use!      Features of the LabVIEW Student Edition Software:      NEW Express VIs that bring interactive, configuration-based application design for acquiring, analyzing, and presenting data  NEW interactive measurement assistants and a redesigned NI-DAQ driver that make creating data acquisition and instrument control applications faster and easier than ever (see additional driver CD)  Full LabVIEW advanced analysis capability, including 13 new analysis Express Vls and over 400 native analysis and signal processing functions  Full compatibility with all National Instruments data acquisition and instrument control hardware        The LabVIEW 7 Express Student Edition is available to students, faculty, and staff for personal education use only. To obtain a copy of LabVIEW for use in a research or instructional laboratory, please contact National Instruments.      Learning with LabVIEW 7 Express by Robert H. Bishop is also sold separately.",artificial intelligence;books;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;electrical & electronics;engineering;experiments;information theory;instruments & measurement;modeling & simulation;professional & technical;science & math;scientific instruments,14
083890761X,"Libraries, Access, and Intellectual Freedom: Developing Policies for Public and Academic Libraries If any librarians out there think our jobs are easy, they haven't had to come to grips with Internet access in their libraries. This book will help. It will also help everyone else who is grappling with intellectual freedom policies already in place. Jones, who has extensive American Library Association (ALA) experience with intellectual freedom issues as well as a Ph.D. focusing on U.S. legal history, has written a concise, practical manual covering areas of vital importance to librarians in a clear and readable style. She succinctly delineates core information on which library policy must be anchored: the legal backbone on which intellectual freedom principles in this country rest and the professional principles established by librarians via ALA. Among the issues Jones discusses are the right to privacy, sexually explicit materials, the Internet, and the effects of state and federal laws on library policymaking. Coupled with ALA's Intellectual Freedom Manual, 5th ed. (Professional Media, LJ 6/1/96), this is a must buy for academic and public librarians who are developing and implementing policy.-Dolores Maminski, Frederick Cty. P.L., MD Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	A former chair of the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee focuses on developing intellectual freedom policies. She discusses how libraries fit in the legal concept of the public forum, especially the limited public forum, then reviews intellectual freedom in the public forum. About half the book covers developing, preparing, and implementing intellectual freedom policies; and relevant policy statements from the ALA and other organizations are included. Edward SwansonCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved",books;censorship;constitutional law;education & reference;humanities;law;library & information science;library management;new;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific topics;used & rental textbooks,14
0824709381,"Dekker Agropedia Collection (Print Version): Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering The concept of a reference on this field of engineering is an important step in recognizing the importance of not only engineers but all scientists in the food and agricultural industries.John J. Classen, Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, U.S.A.a valuable resource [for] any library in our field.Mark R. McLellan, Professor and Director, Institute of Food Science and Engineering, Texas A University, College Station, Texas, U.S.A.covers a wide ranging set of technical topics and contemporary perspectives.Bernard Y. Tao, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A.one of the best encyclopedias I have seen in the area of agricultural, food and biological engineering.  Dr. Heldman is to be commended.Daryl Lund, Professor of Food Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.am exhaustive, in-depth and professionally thorough resource. MBR: Internet BookwatchThis is the first publication to bring together authoritative information in this discipline.highly recommended.Choicearticles are carefully written and peer-reviewed.                                                        this title fills an existing need. I would recommend it to public, academic, special libraries with programs in agriculture, engineering, and food science.E-Streams	DENNIS R. HELDMAN is currently Principal, Heldman Associates in San Marcos, California. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor at the University of California-Davis and Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri. Previously, Heldman has been Director of the Cooperative Research and Development Program at the Center for Advanced Food Technology and Professor of Food Process Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.  The author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of numerous professional publications, including the Handbook of Food Engineering (Marcel Dekker, Inc.), he is a member of the Institute of Food Technologists, the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, the Institute of Biological Engineering, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the American Association of Cereal Chemists, among other organizations. Professor Heldman currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Council for the World Food Logistics Organization.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",agricultural sciences;agriculture;books;education & reference;engineering;food science;industrial;industrial engineering;manufacturing & operational systems;new;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,14
0801844304,"The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account Bartolom de Las Casas's critical account of the impact that the Spaniards had on the new continent has long been recognized as one of the major sources for the study on the interaction between whites and American Indians during the sixteenth century. The present translation of  The Devastation of the Indies is based on the 1965 edition and appeared for the first time in 1974. The reprint is now accompanied by a penetrating introduction by Bill M. Donovan... All this makes the introduction to a provocative and stimulating essay, preparing the reader for the actual text by Las Casas. (Albrecht Classen Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association )[Does] justice to the heartfelt message of Bartolom de las Casas. (British Bulletin of Publications )The book's sensational effect provides an early example of the power of the press... The topicality of the book is monstrous, has a penetratingly contemporary smell to it. [But] Las Casas is not our contemporary. His report treats of colonialism in its earliest stage; that is, of robbery pure and simple, of unconcealed plundering. (Hans Magnus Enzensberger )	Text: English (translation)  Original Language: Spanish",americas;books;caribbean & west indies;central america;history;humanities;latin america;native american studies;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,14
1559718382,"Looking for the Summer Adult/High School-This magnificent, multifaceted volume will impress readers on many levels. The second in a planned series of four titles, it captures the magnificence of the Northern Minnesota Wilderness during summer. Beginning with the solstice, Brandenburg set out daily with his digital camera to document life in the North Woods. At the end of the day, the best photograph was selected for inclusion in this book. The result is one breathtaking picture after another. Each page turn offers the opportunity to study the techniques of the masters. Whether it's the soft focus of Arnold Genthe, the shapes and energy of Alfred Stieglitz, or the abstract form and flow of a Georgia O'Keeffe image, Brandenburg has the versatility to draw on styles and techniques at will. The book is divided into two parts; following the portfolio of photographs is an essay taken from the photographer's field notes. The result is a wonderful discussion about the environment. A must-read for anyone interested in photography or conservation.-John Kiefman, Fairfax County Public Library, VA Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Jim Brandenburg's photographs have won many national and international awards, and his work was included in ""Life Magazine Collector's edition: The World's Best Photographs 1980-1990."" Brandenburg was twice named ""Magazine Photographer of the Year"" by the National Press Photographer's Association (NPPA). In 1991, he was the recipient of the World Achievement Award from the United Nations Environmental Programme in Stockholm, Sweden.",americas;arts & photography;biological sciences;books;history;nature & ecology;nature & wildlife;nature writing;photo essays;photography;science & math;state & local;united states;zoology,14
B000N4LV6A,"3M Company 2'X60yd Blk Gaffer Tape 6910 Duct Tape A matte finish coated cloth tape with good adhesion, high tensile strength, conformability, adhesive transfer resistance and easy tear. Used in entertainment industry where light reflection is a concern.",adhesive tapes;adhesives & sealants;envelopes;industrial & scientific;mailers & shipping supplies;office & school supplies;office products;packing materials;packing tape;painting supplies & wall treatments;prep materials;tape;tapes;tools & home improvement,14
0374367361,"September Roses Kindergarten-Grade 3Based on a factual anecdote, this book recounts the story of two sisters from South Africa who are stranded in New York in the aftermath of September 11. The women, who are flying with 2400 roses for a flower show, land right after the Twin Towers are hit. A stranger offers them a place to stay. Wanting to repay this kindness, they take their flowers to Union Square and arrange them in the shape of the fallen towers amid the many other memorials. The pen-and-ink illustrations begin in color but dramatically turn to black and white when the events of 9/11 take over. Color gently returns through the appearance of the rose and candle memorials. The spare and poetic text, small-sized format, and simple drawings give these painful days a direct and personal resonance. Because of the script font and the format, this book works best one-on-one rather than for beginning readers or group sharing. While this story will not explain what happened on 9/11 to children too young to remember it, Winter's offering captures the intensity of emotion that was felt that day and the healing human connections that soon followed.Rachel G. Payne, Brooklyn Public Library, NY Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	*Starred Review* K-Gr. 3. This very small book that even a child can hold in one hand is full of ineffable sorrow and sweetness. Two sisters fly to New York from South Africa with thousands of roses mearnt for a flower show. The day they fly is September 11, 2001, and after the attack they are stranded at the airport with their flowers. They are offered shelter and offer their roses in return: at Union Square, they design two fallen towers made of roses. Winter (My Baby and My Name Is Georgia) makes beautiful patterns with her figures and her roses using her signature thick black outlines. At the center of the book, when the towers are hit and the women stranded, she switches to grisaille so the exquisitely drawn images are gray. When the roses are made into the fallen towers, the colors return. In notes at the beginning and end, Winter describes where she was when the Towers were hit. The Man Who Walked between the Towers (2003) and Fireboat (2002) are more powerful, but this is understated and full of tenderness. GraceAnne DeCandidoCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	"" In time for the third anniversary of the September 11th tragedy, Winter presents as a memorial the story of a memorial created at the time.  Winter's controlled line-and-water color illustrations gain additional order from careful uses of patterning in unexpected places, giving the visuals a dignified restraint.  It's a modest and tender account of a short-lived memorial that will last long in memory.""-- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books""Among the many memorials to 9/11, this small, spare narrative, spun from a true encounter, stands out for the power of its simple words and images.  Winter doesn't shy away from depicting the destruction, but it's the sense of shock and loss in the aftermath, of shared grief and compassion, that comes through most strongly and makes the tale so inexpressibly moving.""-- Starred, Kirkus Reviews""Winter's effective use of color underscores the sense that simple acts of kindness can bring a ray of light to even the darkest day.  Her sensitive portrayal, tinged with hope, makes this one of the most effective books...with which to approach youngsters concerning this complex event.""  -- Starred, Publishers Weekly	Jeanette Winter is the author and illustrator of many notable books for children, including Beatrix and Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World, a New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year. She lives in New York City.",africa;books;children's books;emotions & feelings;explore the world;family life;historical fiction;literature & fiction;politics & government;politics & social sciences;siblings;social situations;travel & cultures;united states,14
0618083618,"J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator YA?A fascinating glimpse into the life of the writer and artist. Over 200 reproductions of Tolkien's paintings, drawings, and sketches fill this engaging title. Basically arranged chronologically into six sections, the book explores the man's early work; visions, myths, and legends; art for children; The Hobbit; ""The Lord of the Rings""; and patterns and devices. In a readable style, Hammond and Scull weave their subject's writing career with his love of art. Tolkien's use of inks, washes, watercolors, and pencil is examined. Many previously unpublished illustrations are included and preliminary sketches show how they developed. Excerpted text shows the art within the context of its completed work.?John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VACopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Along with maps, Tolkien self-illustrated many of his works, and  a large portion of his artwork is included in this volume with  comment by the authors.   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Much has been written about Tolkien's work; Carpenter's splendid biography, Tolkien (1977), reveals fascinating insights into the man's life and books. Interestingly however, until now his art has been mostly ignored; Hammond and Scull reverse this oversight in an informative exploration that includes more than 200 reproductions of the drawings, sketches, and paintings Tolkien made from his early childhood through his final years. In a loosely chronological, well-documented text, the authors discuss Tolkien's early work, the ""Father Christmas"" letters to his children (recently released with facsimile letters), the images made in connection with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings cycle (which, unlike his stories, received mixed reviews), and his later fascination with decorative patterns and designs. The open and inviting format and the reproductions of his art make this a Tolkien lover's dream, and the insightful text will quickly capture attention as well.  Barbara Elleman	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A Tolkien lovers dream.Booklist, ALA	'Tolkien at his relaxed and ingenious best' - The Times	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	J.R.R. TOLKIEN(1892-1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. His books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.",arts & literature;arts & photography;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;british;commercial;fantasy;graphic design;history & criticism;illustration;individual artists;literature & fiction;science fiction & fantasy,14
1841762679,North American P-51 Mustang (Osprey Modelling Manuals 19) A perfect combination of easy-to-follow text combined with comprehensive step-by-step photography make Osprey Modelling Manuals indispensable reference guides for modellers of all standards and abilities.,aerospace;aviation;books;conventional;crafts;crafts & hobbies;engineering;history;hobbies & home;military;models;professional & technical;toys & models;weapons & warfare,14
0968233236,"Au Naturel A magnificent contribution to the study of naturism. -- Nude & Natural, Vol. 22, Issue 4 (Summer 2003)Reads like a novel. --The Bulletin (of the American Association for Nude Recreation), Vol. 52, No. 4 (April 2003)	This is one of the few national books about nudism, and the only one in English to focus on its history in one country.	James Woycke, PhD, is a professor of history at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.	Unorganized nudity continued on the beach after the Second World War. Then came the 1960s and the counterculture movement, with its sympathy for a freer and more natural way of life. More and more people gravitated to Wreck Beach, prompted by the ""Nude-In"" promoted in the Georgia Straight underground paper. Eventually the inevitable complaints were filed, the police moved in, and arrests were made. In August 1970, thirteen people were arrested on Wreck Beach and charged with ""committing an indecent act."" One of those arrested, Sheila Beaupr, was fined $50, but the BC Supreme Court overturned her conviction in 1971 on the grounds that she had been indicted under the wrong section of the Criminal Code. The Crown then dropped charges against the others arrested the same day. From that point on, there has been no arrest for ""being nude in a public place"" on Wreck Beach itself, but one woman Mountie [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] candidate was dropped from the force for revealing her secret identity while sunbathing nude on the beach. -- from Chapter 9: A Mari usque ad Mare",20th century;americas;books;canada;fitness & dieting;health;historical study & educational resources;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;popular culture;social history;social sciences;world,14
0525944087,"Rational Exuberance: The Influence of Generation X on the New American Economy A lot of the arguments passionately advanced by Meredith Bagby in Rational Exuberance: The Influence of Generation X on the New American Economy, will infuriate (or at least baffle) those not born between the years 1965 and 1976. But that's beside the point. Bagby herself is a proud member of this maturing generation, and as an economist--as well as a regular on CNN's Financial News Network--she's developed strong opinions on the fiscal future of a population that reportedly believes more strongly in the current existence of UFOs than the long-term existence of Social Security. With the help of cutting-edge compatriots like pollster Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, presidential-speech writer Jeff Shesol, Wall Street Journal reporter Steve Frank, Cybergrrl marketing maven Aliza Sherman, and a host of other successful twentysomethings, Bagby looks into the political, social, educational, and occupational leanings of her peers with an eye toward the economic impacts that they're likely to have in coming years. Her insights into Gen-X thinking on employment and entrepreneurship, ads and the media that carry them, and consumer staples such as homes, cars, clothes, food, and drink, should prove intriguing whether you're on the inside or the outside of this up-and-coming generation. --Howard Rothman	Where does Bagby, a law student and regular reporter on Gen-X issues for CNN's Financial News Network, fit in the deluge of printed matter about Americans born between 1964 and 1976? Unlike many of her cohorts who focus on ""cultural"" aspects of the crowd, Bagby defines the Gen-X era as ""The Age of Economics."" Despite higher levels of education and employment, she reports, Gen-Xers are making relatively less than their parents did, contending with a shrinking social safety net and accruing more debt?all of which makes monetary matters their main preoccupation (rather than, say, the idealism of the boomers in their heyday). Having thus defined members of Generation X as fiscal creatures, Bagby next tries to defend them with profiles of successful, rationally exuberant members of their ilk: fitness executives, publishers, pollsters and bankers. She cites savings rates, successful start-ups and business school retreads as examples of how most Gen-Xers are not the lazy, aimless underachievers older generations make them out to be. But Bagby's central thesis that Generation X is defined by economics remains murky when viewed through a more historical lens. Haven't all generations been more or less defined by the economics of their time? Bagby (The Annual Report of the United States of America) is strongest when she sticks to real-life stories of Gen-Xers, and often makes a compelling advocate for their interests. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Bagby, a law student and economist who appears regularly on CNNs Financial News Network, vigorously defends her generation. In her view, putdowns such as the ``slacker'' label commonly aimed at Generation X are media stereotypes created to characterize a phenomenon older generations don't understand. The world has changed and today's youth and young adults are responding to different imperatives and therefore have a different outlook than their parents. Unfortunately, in addition to an overview of the utterly predictable ways in which Generation X will increasingly come to dominate American societytime will march onher book reinforces these stereotypes as much as it dispels them. Consider: Bagby sees her cohort group as diverse, complex, and not easy to pigeonhole, yet in embracing the language of ``us'' and ``we,'' she paints her generation in more monolithic terms than any critic. Continually harping on the problems they face ends up looking preposterous, as if, for example, not having an event like the Vietnam War to shape group identity is a disadvantage. Believing they have gone beyond ideology to look for what ``works'' without noticing that the ``end of ideology'' was declared by some scholars as as far back as the '60s suggests a group identification based as much on failing to learn from the past as on new realities. Contrasting individual success stories with evidence of her cohort group's amazing political apathy in the face of policies diametrically opposed to their short- and long-term interests inspires Bagby to draw positive conclusions about her generation, displaying a contorted logic in which anecdotal evidence is given more weight than general behavior.  Gen-Xers will mo doubt like this book and shake their heads at the ignorance of critics who find it simply self-indulgent.  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Meredith Bagby appears regularly on CNN's Financial News Network and is the author of The Annual Report of the United States of America, a groundbreaking report on the ""business"" of the American economy. She is currently studying law in New York City.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & investing;comparative;economic conditions;economics;political economy;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;specific topics;united states,14
080761355X,"For Rushdie: Essays by Arab and Muslim Writers in Defense of Free Speech The 91 Arab and Muslim writers in this collection have labelled Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses absurdly brilliant, ponderously dull and extremely offensive, sometimes all in the same essay. Many of these commentators have never even read the book, living as they do in countries where it has been banned. Yet all have taken up the cause of the writer, who for five years has lived under the late Ayatollah Khomeini's infamous fatwa , or sentence of capital punishment. Many particularly resent Khomeini's subversion of Islamic law to terrorist ends, especially when directed at a British author who is no longer a practicing Muslim. Others use their pieces to inform Western audiences about the numerous unsung martyrs to creative expression in the Middle East, from the Egyptian intellectual Farag Foda to the Saudi Arabian poet Sadiq Melallah. A few contributors criticize the Western media for seizing upon the Rushdie affair as a symbol of the intolerance Islam preaches, when Khomeini's followers by no means constitute a majority of believers. All of the 91 authors, however, recognize the importance of free and open discourse and bemoan the wave of Islamic fundamentalists who have turned their backs on human rights altogether. As the Libyan writer Amin Maalouf writes, ""No doctrine dies from being criticized, or even attacked; but it can die from being made impermeable to criticism."" Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	In this important collection of letters, poems, and essays, 91 Arab and Muslim writers call for the right to free expression in totalitarian political regimes and urge solidarity with the still-exiled Salman Rushdie. Several themes recur: the political and religious illegitimacy of Khomeini's fatwa; exile as the human condition; and the conflict between fiction and fundamentalism. The book presents, for the first time, the reactions of Muslim writers to The Satanic Verses, as well as to Khomeini's subsequent reaction to the book. While many of the writers disagree with Rushdie's ideas, all defend his right to express them. In addition, by recalling the deaths of Egyptian writer Farag Foda and Algerian writer Tahar Djaout, the book forcefully reminds us that in the worlds of these writers acts of writing are acts of courage. More powerful than the recent Rushdie Letters (LJ 4/1/ 93), the book should be read by all those engaged in the struggle to maintain the right to free expression.Henry L. Carrigan Jr., Westerville P.L., OhioCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	A couple of years ago, invitations were issued to about 100 well-known Arab and Muslim writers, intellectuals, filmmakers (and even one ayatollah) to contribute something on behalf of Salman Rushdie that would be collected in a book called Pour Rushdie and published in France. The purpose of these essays, poems, and even one piece of music was first to show solidarity with the author condemned by fatwa to live in hiding, and second, to offer a gesture of rebellion against the tyranny of those who want to drive from the world all uncomfortable questions, contradictions of thought, and personal freedoms.The book is quite remarkable. It not only draws attention to Rushdie, but also to many others in a similar position, some of whom did not manage to escape the knife of religious barbarism--Farag Fouda (Egypt), Tahar Djaout (Algeria), Sadiq Mellalah (Saudi Arabia) among them. More important for us, perhaps, is that the book makes ridiculous the simple-minded ""but we have to understand their culture"" response of certain Western intellectuals to the Rushdie affair and casts a harsh light on the revolting mix of racism, cowardice, superiority, and double standards that has characterized the ""maybe he's getting what he deserved"" responses from the British establishment. We learn here that Khomeini was illiterate in his own language, that Islamic law requires an apostate (even if Rushdie can be called that) to be brought before a tribunal, that fatwas are not, by nature, irrevocable, that forgiveness is an essential element of the Islamic teaching, that the fatwa, as it's written, is an incitement to mass murder. Not everyone in the book likes Rushdie. Some think he is brilliant, some think he is liberating, some have no interest in ever reading The Satanic Verses. But everyone is united in agreeing that Khomeini and his clan have brought disgrace to his part of the world. A brave and fascinating work.  Stuart Whitwell	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: French	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",asia;books;censorship;england;essays;essays & correspondence;europe;history;india;literature & fiction;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics;world,14
1570340072,"Boundary Waters Canoe Camping: Canoe Camping with Style The Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) is a legendary wilderness destination for canoeists from around the world. Located in northeastern Minnesota just south of the Ontario border, the Boundary Waters offers paddlers a thousand pristine lakes and streams and more than a million acres of solitude and wild beauty. Boundary Waters Canoe Camping is your seasoned guide to a BWCA experience, whether you're canoeing and camping here for the first time or returning for an extended voyage through this paddler's paradise. Canoeing authority Cliff Jacobson explains the best and safest ways of planning and enjoying a BWCA journey. Learn about obtaining permits, packing the right supplies, and practicing low-impact camping techniques to polishing your paddling skills, traveling with children, and knowing how to deal with hazards (on land or water) when you are deep in the wilderness. (5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 192 pages, bw illustrations, maps)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Cliff Jacobson is one of North America's most respected outdoor writers and wilderness canoe guides. He is a professional outfitter for the Science Museum of Minnesota, a canoeing consultant, and the author of more than a dozen top-selling books on camping and canoeing. He teaches environmental science.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",adventure;books;camping;canoeing;excursion guides;food;hiking & camping;kayaking;lodging & transportation;parks & campgrounds;specialty travel;sports & outdoors;travel;water sports,14
0812217519,"Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History (Middle Ages Series) ""Revisions have made this anthology stronger and even more essential.""ChoicePraise for the first edition:""Comprehensive, original, scholarly, philosophically searching and meticulously prepared. . . .The volume, copiously illustrated, reveals the shocking impact of the belief in witches on Europe's Middle Ages, and examines the struggles of thinkers . . . to confront the phenomenon on rational terms. This is a major work in the genre.""Publishers Weekly""Anyone prepared to come to grips with man's most bloody assault on his domestic enemy should read with care this learned, handsomeand sickening book.""John F. Benton""An indispensable source book.""Choice	Alan Charles Kors is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Atheism in France, 1650-1729 and (with Harvey A. Silvergate) The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses. Edward Peters is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are The First Crusade, both also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.",17th century;books;earth-based religions;europe;history;humanities;ireland;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;occult;religion & spirituality;used & rental textbooks;wicca;witchcraft,14
0894642685,Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure: Spectra of Diatomic Molecules Text: English (translation) Original Language: German,atomic & nuclear physics;biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;chemistry;general & reference;molecular biology;new;nuclear physics;physics;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,14
0813917778,"Living and Dying at Murray Manor (Age Studies) Jaber F. Gubrium is Professor of Sociology at the University of Florida and the author of several books, including The Active Interview and the forthcoming The New Language of Qualitative Method.",administration & medicine economics;aging;aging parents;books;fitness & dieting;gerontology;health;health care delivery;medical books;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;social sciences;social work;sociology,14
0198513801,"Principles of Dielectrics (Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials) ""The strength of the presentation is its completeness and logical development....recommended as a necessity for any library supporting teaching and research in electrical phenomena."" --Book Reviews	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	B. K. P. Scaife is at Trinity College, Dublin.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",biological sciences;biology & life sciences;books;botany;electrical & electronic engineering;electrical & electronics;electromagnetism;engineering;new;physics;professional & technical;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,14
0809138433,"The Psalms: Prayers of Many Moods A spiritual masterpiece. -- Alexander Roman, Ph.D.This imaginative approach to the Psalms can enrich anyone's spiritual life. -- Francis J. Buckley, S.J.This is a creative way of praying the psalms. -- The Bible Today	Ronald Quillo is professor of spirituality and systematic theology at Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas, where he and his family live. He is also a spiritual director to lay people, religious, and clergy.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;devotionals;hebrew bible (old testament);inspirational;judaism;meditations;prayer;reference;religion & spirituality;sacred writings;spirituality;worship & devotion,14
0896084779,"The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s (Race and Resistance Series) This collection of 18 essays by activists and academics should provoke recognition that discussions of race in the U.S. must go beyond the binary black-white model. Glenn Omatsu contributes a valuable overview of Asian-American activism, dating it to the 1968 student strike at San Francisco State University. In a stimulating essay exploring the Los Angeles riots, Bong Hwan Kim notes that simply trying to foster dialogue between blacks and Koreans to solve racial tension is useless without an agenda for social transformation. Sonia Shah observes that Asian women's groups have yet to develop a specifically Asian feminism, though Asian women are victimized by highly particular stereotypes of dress, beauty and accent. Jessica Hagedorn and David Mura argue that their hybrid identities can be a source of richness. Addressing mainstream politics, Milyoung Cho traces political battles in New York City's Chinatown, warning that race-based voting can be self-defeating. Other essays address protests against the musical, Miss Saigon , domestic violence and the future of Asian-American studies. Aguilar-San Juan is a former editor at South End Press. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	This second book in the ""Race and Resistance"" series is the first collection exclusively devoted to contemporary Asian American activism. It touches upon a range of pressing issues, including the rise in anti-Asian violence, the social construction of race and ethnicity, the politics of Asian American studies, and the 1992 Los Angeles uprising. The contributors reflect the diverse, often radical voices of labor organizers, artists, film critics, lawyers, writers, and historians. The themes covered here explore not only conventional topics of race and identity but also the empowerment of Asian Americans in the 1990s. The book further advocates an end to all forms of discrimination, from class and gender to geography and generation, within Asian American communities. For libraries with Asian American studies collections.- Mark Meng, St. John's Univ. Lib., New YorkCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",anthropology;asia;books;cultural;demography;ethnic studies;history;humanities;minority studies;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,14
0205355420,"Early Childhood Language Arts (3rd Edition) Early Childhood Language Arts, Fifth Edition, offers a more comprehensive look at early childhood literacy education than any other text, integrating the language arts  listening, speaking, reading, and writing.       In response to the call for evidence-based reading instruction, the Fifth Edition includes research-based teaching strategies and information on brain research, bilingual education, technology, and the medias influences on young children. The text provides instructors with a synthesis of the information on language arts gleaned from research on emergent literacy, early childhood education, and special education. It also underscores what is being emphasized in early childhood teacher accreditation programs; namely, responding to the increasingly diverse needs of young language learners in inclusive settings, working with parents and families, and collaborating with professionals in other fields. In addition, it now has more in-depth coverage of childrens literature, diverse language learners, and pedagogy in the language arts through the three chapter features, Links with Literature, English Language Learners (ELLs), and How do I?       New to this Edition:      NEW! Expanded coverage of childrens literature through the Links with Literature feature, enabling instructors to use just one book for a course that combines early literacy with childrens literature.    NEW! Marginal notes have been completely revised and updated to address four different aspects of language arts instruction: Standards in Education (the standards of leading professional associations that govern instruction in the language arts); Brain and Language (informs students of the implications of neuroscience research for early childhood educators); Infants and Toddlers (provides perspective on language development by reporting research findings on the youngest learners); and Research and Report (suggests individual investigation outside the classroom that culminates in a small group, in-class activity focused on a timely topic related each chapters content).    NEW! English Language Learners provides the very latest research-based recommendations for working with students who are acquiring English, such as the relationship between oral language proficiency in the childs native language and in English.    NEW! How do I? offers a step-by-step explanation of how to teach a particular skill, such as introducing new vocabulary words.    NEW! MyEducationLab offers the instructor access to short videos that support effective instruction and student engagement.  	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Mary Renck Jalongo is a professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she earned the university-wide outstanding professor award and coordinates the Doctoral Program in Curriculum and Instruction. She has published more than 25 books including: Creative Thinking and Arts-Based Learning (4th ed., Merrill/Prentice Hall), Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education (3rd ed., Merrill/Prentice Hall), Major Trends and Issues in Early Childhood Education (2nd ed., Teachers College Press), and two NAEYC publications (Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn and Young Children and Picture Books). Dr. Jalongo has earned seven national awards for writing, including two Position Papers for the Association for Childhood Education International. She has been the editor of Early Childhood Education Journal since 1995 and has made presentations on various aspects of early childhood education throughout the world.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;early childhood education;education;education & reference;language & grammar;lesson planning;new;pedagogy;research & publishing guides;schools & teaching;study & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words;writing,14
0198565364,"How Steam Locomotives Really Work ""To enable train enthusiasts to understand the workings of the various types of engines in use, this book describes the anatomy and physiology of the steam train. It covers the design of the engine, the process of converting fuel into mechanical tractive effort to haul passenger and freight trains, the function and design of the various components of the engine, and the safe and efficient operation and maintenance of steam locomotives. Although the steam locomotive originated in the United Kingdom, there were parallel lines of development in North America and Europe, and the individual features of these are also covered."" -- Mechanical Engineering, Nov 2000""The book deals comprehensively with the dynamics, thermodynamics, component description, metallurgy, design criteria and performance of steam locomotives; as well as their operational maintenance issues. . .For those of us with a particular interest in steam technology, but without the fullest understanding of the many complex inter-reactions, this volume provides a most useful reference. . .A most worthy book at an attractive price for anyone interested in steam locomotive technology.""--The Newcomen Society	Peter Semmens was formerly Deputy Head of the highly popular National Railway Museum in York from 1974, and has been active for many years in the popularization of science and technology. He has written 33 books on trains and railways, and in 1990 he was appointed Chief Correspondent of The Railway Magazine, having written the monthly ""Railway Practice and Performance"" for many years.  Alan Goldfinch was Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, British Rail Eastern Region, until he retired in 1989.",aerospace;books;civil;energy;engineering;mechanical;mechanical engineering;new;professional & technical;railroads;science & math;technology;transportation;used & rental textbooks,14
0070442460,"The McGraw-Hill Introduction To Literature Gilbert H. Muller, who received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford University, is currently professor of English and Special Assistant to the President at the LaGuardia campus of the City University of New York.  He has also taught at Stanford University, Vassar College, and several universities overseas.  Dr. Muller is the author of the award-winning Nightmares and Visions: Flannery OConnor and the Catholic Grotesque, Chester Himes , and other critical studies.  His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere.  He is also a noted author and editor of textbooks in English and composition, including The Short Prose Reader with Harvey Wiener, and with John A Williams, The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Literature, Bridges: Literature across Cultures, and Ways In: Reading and Writing about Literature.  Among Dr. Mullers awards are National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship.",books;criticism & theory;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;language & grammar;literary;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;rhetoric;used & rental textbooks;words,14
0826413498,"Copious Hosting: A Theology of Access for People with Disabilities Block, a theologically trained caregiver, offers a ""theology of liberation"" for the disabled, arguing passionately for more inclusiveness in ministry and liturgy. Her intention is to make ministers more aware of the hurt that results from inconsiderate language and noninclusive spaces and liturgies. After treating the history and philosophy of the disability movement, Block offers a critique of the Christian tradition from the perspective of the disabled, examining, for example, the images used in Christian hymns. Finally, she presents a theology of access, with suggestions for making the disabled feel more welcome in the church. While one may not agree entirely with Block's arguments, she does a good job of raising the consciousness of the nondisabled. Recommended, especially for libraries serving ministers and those preparing for ministry. Augustine J. Curley, Newark Abbey, NJCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	""Copious Hosting smartly explores disability and theology in wonderfully contemporary terms. Jennie Weiss Block confesses not to speak for people with disabilities, acknowledging that she herself is not disabled; yet this thoroughly researched study masterfully examines the breadth and depth of the diverse disability community, relates this body of knowledge to sometimes conservative theological tenets, and provides an agenda for change and a rationale to support it.""John D. Kemp, attorney and nationally acclaimed keynote speaker on disability issues""Copious Hosting invites us to view the lives of disabled persons through the lens of dignity. We realize, through Jennie Blocks sensitive and informative treatment, that the church sustains a tremendous void when it loses sight of the immeasurable contributions that are lost whenever disabled persons are denied full inclusion in the church. Jennie Block has provided the nondisabled population with a unique opportunity to listen and learn from those who best know the gifts and challenges of living with disabilities.""Rev. Sharon Austin, Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church ""Jennie Weiss Block offers not only a primer on the pastoral care of people with disabilities but a systematic theology of access and advocacy that draws on both David Tracys method of critical correlation and Gustavo Gutirrezs theology of liberation. Moving from a critique of basic Christian textsScripture, liturgy, the sacraments she explores the vibrant Trinitarian roots of a new ecclesiology that sees the church as an inclusive model for accessible community.""Nathan D. Mitchell, associate director for research, Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy""Recommended, especially for libraries serving ministers, and those preparing for ministry.""Augustine J. Curley, Library Journal, March 2002""Ms. Block is well equipped to write this book....I like the book. The writing is easy to understand and it offers both the context and a theology of disability. I rate this books as a 8.5 out of 10.""Thomas St. James O'Connor, ThD, Journal of Relilgion""Religious groups need remedial help on being inclusive of people with disabilities. This book is a good primer."" - WATERwheel (Weavings)""Jennie Weiss Block offers not only a primer on the pastoral care of people with disabilities but a systematic theology of access and advocacy that draws on both David Tracys method of critical correlation and Gustavo Gutirrezs theology of liberation. Moving from a critique of basic Christian textsScripture, liturgy, the sacraments she explores the vibrant Trinitarian roots of a new ecclesiology that sees the church as an inclusive model for accessible community.""Nathan D. Mitchell, associate director for research, Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy	Jennie Weiss Block has been involved in the disability field as an advocate and a professional for over 25 years. She has Master's Degree in Business Administration and is currently completing a PhD in theology. She is the author of Project Neighborhood, dealing with community living for persons with disabilities.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;disabled;education & reference;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious studies;social sciences;specific demographics;theology;used & rental textbooks,14
B000OI0E6I,"Survival of the Sickest (P.S.) Dan Ariely on Survival of the Sickest MIT professor Dan Ariely has become one of the leaders in the growing field of behavioral economics, and his bestselling book debut, Predictably Irrational, has brought his ideas--and his ingenious experiments and charming sense of humor--to a much wider audience. With the simplest of tests (often an auction or a quiz given under a few conditions) he shows again and again not only that we are wired to make irrational decisions in many situations, but that we do so in remarkably predictable ways.   I have always been puzzled by the way in which genetic diseases have managed to survive throughout the ages. How could it be that these diseases were able to withstand the evolutionary process, where only the most fit survive, and continue to be transferred from one generation to the next? Survival of the Sickest provides a thought provoking yet entertaining explanation to this puzzle.   In this insightful book Dr. Sharon Moalem demonstrates how conditions that are considered unhealthy (such as hemochromatosis, diabetes, and high cholesterol), or even deadly in extreme cases, might actually put their carriers at an advantage in combating other life-threatening illnesses. For example, he explains that hemochromatosis, a disease that, if left untreated, will kill you, may have actually been a defense against the deadliest pandemic in history--the bubonic plague during the 14th century. It turns out that this genetic mutation, which continues to be passed down through generations, actually helped spare many lives at one point.   Throughout the book, Dr. Moalem draws many connections between seemingly disparate subjects, such as the accidental invention of ice wine and cold diuresis, in order to illustrate the basic mechanisms of genetics and medicine in charming and intuitive ways. He skillfully interweaves his knowledge of history, genetics, and medicine not only as they relate to specific medical conditions but also in a way that addresses important challenges of modern society and our future evolution.   In the most general terms, Dr. Moalem's description of the human body and its complexity left me in awe of how far we have come in our understanding of biology and medicine, while also being reminded that the road to understanding ourselves is still wide open with much more to learn in the decades, and even centuries, to come. It is a fantastic journey on which he leads us and Dr. Moalem is a kind, knowledgeable, humorous, and helpful guide.	Moalem, a medical student with a Ph.D. in neurogenetics, asks a number of provocative questions, such as why debilitating hereditary diseases persist in humans and why we suffer from the consequences of aging. His approach to these questions is solidly rooted in evolutionary theory, and he capably demonstrates that each disease confers a selective advantage to individuals who carry either one or two alleles for inherited diseases. But very little is new; the principles, if not every particular, that Moalem addresses have been covered in Randolph Nesse and George Williams's Why We Get Sick, among others. Whether he is discussing hemochromatosis (a disorder that causes massive amounts of iron to accumulate in individuals), diabetes or sickle cell anemia, his conclusion is always the same: each condition offers enough positive evolutionary advantages to offset the negative consequences, and this message is repeated over and over. Additionally, Moalem's endless puns and simple jokes wear thin, but his light style makes for easy reading for readers new to this subject. (Feb.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Moalem must have been the kind of child who liked to pick things up and look at them every which way, inside and out. Why else ask whether there is a reason for such afflictions as diabetes, sickle-cell anemia, and antibiotic-resistant infection? Everyone knows such ailments are a curse, a punishment, or, at minimum, bad luck--right? On the other hand, as Moalem notes, if every living thing dances to the same two-step imperative, survive and reproduce, then even the diseases our increasingly homogeneous society struggles to conquer once must have served a purpose. So, why high cholesterol? Perhaps this tendency and myriad other diseases endured so that their hosts might survive to reproduce, evolutionarily speaking. Maybe asking these kinds of questions will help scientists learn how to predict who is at risk and will lead to individualized intervention to prevent or minimize the impacts of genetic illnesses. Fortunately for readers, for neurogeneticist Moalem and writing collaborator Prince, fun with words, genes, and ideas is part of the deal. Donna ChavezCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	MED History does not always receive a great deal of attention...this book shows exactly why it shouldnt be ignored.	Sharon Moalem has a Ph.D. in human physiology and in the emerging fields of  neurogenetics and evolutionary medicine. His research discovered a new  genetic association for familial Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Moalem has also  published papers in a wide variety of fields, from honeybee immunology to  the evolutionary advantages of disease. He continues to work as a  researcher while finishing his medical training at New York's Mount Sinai  School of Medicine. Dr. Moalem lives in New York City.   Jonathan Prince was a senior adviser and speechwriter in the Clinton White  House and oversaw communications strategy at NATO during the war in Kosovo.  He was named one of America's Best and Brightest by Esquire in 2005 for his  work to improve political advertising. With former U.S. senator John  Edwards and Edwards's daughter Cate, Prince edited Home: The Blueprints of  Our Lives.	Learn how wearing sun block could raise your cholesterol and diabetes could protect you from extreme cold. Mutation, genetic transmission, and survival of the fittest form the foundation of evolutionary law, and Sharon Moalem explains how certain genetic disease states might promote continued existence. Narrator Eric Conger's brisk pace keeps the facts coming and the interest level high, but he never sounds hurried or mumbles a word. He doesn't break his rhythm with annoying pauses for quoted material or struggle with the plethora of scientific terms. The combination of an excellent reader and well-informed writers provides information that brings the inquisitive mind up to date on genetics that apply to our everyday lives.  J.A.H.  AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine",basic science;books;diseases;evolution;genetics;internal medicine;kindle ebooks;kindle store;medical books;medical ebooks;medicine;pathology;professional & technical;science & math,14
1585742767,"Practical Projects for the Handy Man (Popular Mechanics) Practical Projects for the Handy Man is the perfect book for any model maven, do-it-yourselfer, or just plain grown-up kid. Originally published in 1913 by the editors of Popular Mechanics Press, this great big collection of activities and improvements for home, garden, transportation, recreation, and more can keep a man's hands busy for a lifetime. Written at a time when precision and craftsmanship was as important as the final product, the book gives clear, step-by-step instructions and offers detailed illustrations for nearly every job. Practical Projects for the Handy Man is as satisfying and reliable a guide for the modern builder as it was at the turn of the century.Some of the hundreds of fun and fascinating projects from which to choose include: porch swing chair, Mission library table, electric clock, wooden paddleboat, grape arbor, ornamental ironwork, telescope, toboggan sled, homemade still, aquarium, treehouses, leatherwork, birdhouse and much more. (7 x 10, 480 pages, diagrams, b photos)",books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;do-it-yourself;education & reference;engineering;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;home repair;how-to & home improvements;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;professional & technical;reference,14
1896522718,Genesis: Inside & Out (1967-2000) Robin Platts,arts & photography;bibliographies & indexes;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;music;musical genres;publishing & books;reference;research & publishing guides;rock;writing,14
0814735568,"Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History ""In editing this collection, Martha Hodes has performed an invaluable service to those of us in the profession who endeavor to teach what has been the focus of our own scholarship: race and sex."" -The Journal of Southern History,""Important. . . . The breadth of human experience and historical subfields traversed by the authors is astonishing."" -Journal of Social History,""Hodes has compiled a thoughtful collection of essays which explore the implications of interracial sexual activity from the colonial period to the late 20th century.""-Virginia Quarterly Review,	Martha Hodes is Assistant Professor of History at New York University and author of White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century American South.",americas;books;fitness & dieting;gay & lesbian;gender studies;health;history;minority studies;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;sexuality;social sciences;specific demographics;united states,14
1590594096,"Dreamweaver MX 2004 Design Projects Allan Kentlives, works, and plays in Cape Town, South Africa. In the lastfour years, he's been implicated in at least 10 books dealing with PHP and web-related topics. When not being harassed by persistent editors about deadlines, he works doing new media design at Lodestone, which he co-owns. When not writing or programming, he enjoys relaxing at home with Wendy and their cats.Rachel Andrew is a director of edgeofmyseat.com, a U.K.-based web solutions company, and is an experienced web developer. Rachel is a member of the Web Standards Project on the Dreamweaver Task Force, and hopes to encourage best practices in the support and use of W3C Standards in Dreamweaver. In addition to co-authoring several books, Rachel writes for various magazines and resource sites, both online and off. When not writing code or writing about writing code, Rachel spends time with her daughter, tries to encourage people to use Debian GNU/Linux, studies with the Open University, and enjoys a nice pint of beer.A bio is not available for this author.Christopher Schmitt is the principal of Heatvision.com, Inc., a new media publishing and design firm, based in Tallahassee, Florida. An award-winning web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993, Christopher interned for both David Siegel and Lynda Weinman in the mid-1990s while an undergraduate at Florida State University for a fine arts degree with emphasis on graphic design. He shows his true colors and most recent activities at his personal website, Christopher.org. Speaking at conferences like The Other Dreamweaver Conference and SXSW, Christopher has given talks demonstrating the use and benefits of practical CSS-enabled designs. In his continuing efforts to help spread the word about web design, he is the list mom for Babble, a mailing list community devoted to advanced web design and development topics.",books;computer science;computers & technology;dreamweaver;internet & web culture;new;programming;software design;software design & engineering;software development;testing & engineering;used & rental textbooks;web design;web development & design,14
0811725995,"Best of Zane Grey, Outdoorsman, The: Hunting and Fishing Tales (Classics of American Sport) George Reiger is a Stackpole Books author.",books;contemporary;genre fiction;hiking & camping;hunting;hunting & fishing;instructional;literature & fiction;outdoor recreation;short stories;single author;sports & outdoors;united states;westerns,14
1570621004,"Feng-Shui Real feng-shui, refreshingly expressed by a true practitioner of the art with her feet firmly grounded in the Chinese Taoist tradition. Definitely one of the top 10 books on feng-shui in English. Feng Shui for Modern Living   ""Even the most casual or ambivalent reader will come away from the book with a greater sensitivity to the environmentlandforms, rocks, trees, rivers, etc.and greater appreciation of the relationship between traditional feng-shui guidelines and many of the principles of contemporary Western ecology."" Asian Thought and Society	Eva Wong is an independent scholar and a practitioner of the Taoist arts of the Pre-Celestial Way and Complete Reality lineages. She has written and translated many books on Taoism and related topics, including A Master Course in Feng-Shui; Tales of the Taoist Immortals; and Taoism: An Essential Guide.",architecture;books;crafts;divination;drafting & presentation;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;interior design;new age;occult;professional & technical;reference;religion & spirituality,14
0415042941,"Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics (New Accents) 'An instructive account of the ways in which readers can, should and do read narrative fictions.' Modern Fiction Studies	      --This text refers to the 							Kindle Edition	 edition.	Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;creative writing & composition;criticism & theory;education & reference;history & criticism;humanities;literary theory;literature;literature & fiction;movements & periods;new;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,14
0007136102,"Sharks (Collins Field Guides) Praise for 'Collins Field Guide Sharks':  'Collins Field Guide to Sharks of the World is a must-have' (New Scientist)  'Landmark book!compulsory reading for any elasmophile' (Shark Trust)  'A user-friendly package!destined to become a much-thumbed book on the shelf of any avid diver or marine enthusiast' (Sport Diver)  'Everything you need to know about sharks' (Scuba World)  'A landmark new book!an accessible and expert piece of work' (BBC Wildlife)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Sarah Fowler works in marine ecology, biodiversity, conservation and management, with a particular focus on sharks. Appointed to the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Shark Specialist Group on its establishment in 1991 and now co-chair, Sarah also co-founded the UK Shark Trust and the European Elasmobranch Association and is an American Elasmobranch Society's Conservation Committee member.",almanacs;almanacs & yearbooks;antiques & collectibles;biological sciences;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;ichthyology;marine life;nature & ecology;oceans & seas;science & math;yearbooks & annuals;zoology,14
0071402845,"Case Files: Obstetrics & Gynecology The closest you can get to seeing patients  without being on the wards!    Students need exposure to cases to pass the USMLE Step 2 and the obstetrics and gynecology shelf exam.  This book presents 60 clinical cases illustrating essential concepts in obstetrics and gynecology.  Perfect for the clerkship and the USMLE Step 2, each case includes an extended discussion, definitions of key terms, clinical pearls, and USMLE-style review questions.  This interactive learning system helps you to learn instead of memorize.    *60 ob/gyn cases with complete discussions  *Clinical pearls highlight key points  *USMLE-style comprehension questions with each case  *Primer on how to approach the patient  *Proven learning system improves shelf exam scores    Superior to other case file books.   --Chang-Kun Choi, Medical Student, Midwestern University School of Medicine    Using clinical scenarios not only makes the reading fun and interesting, but it is far more engaging than sitting down with a bulleted text and reviewing detail after detail. This is a much better way to learn clinical information. I have not read a book like this before, and I certainly have enjoyed it.   -Eric Hossler, Medical Student, James H. Quillen College of Medicine    I LOVED this book!  I would recommend this book to all third-year students The book uses a clinical approach and does not lose sight of the pathophysiology behind the disease -- GREAT preparation for being on the wards!  The subject matter is also deceptively detailed, with much more information than one normally finds in a text of case files.  The reader can use this book as either a rigorous self-test or a read-through introduction to the subject.  Once again - a GREAT text!   -Elizabeth Johnston, Medical Student, Emory University",allied health professions;allied health services;books;clinical;education & reference;internal medicine;medical assistants;medical books;medicine;medicine & health sciences;new;obstetrics & gynecology;test preparation & review;used & rental textbooks,14
019505377X,"The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History David Hackett Fischer is a master storyteller, capable of writing challenging histories in highly enjoyable prose. His earlier works, Albion's Seed and Paul Revere's Ride, have both been hailed for their extraordinary success as both scholarly achievements and readable histories. In The Great Wave, Professor Fischer directs his erudite attention to the ebbs and flows of prices, demonstrating that the historical costs of goods shed much light on patterns of human events, and the interpretation of those prices in turn discloses a great deal about the methods and biases of historians.  The result is an intriguing study of both human history and a critical appraisal of the historian's craft. The greatest talent Fischer demonstrates is the ability to master a diverse amount of quantitative data and organize it into a remarkably clear story.  Certain to interest lay readers, investors, and serious students alike, The Great Wave changes the way you look at those common signposts known as prices.	Fischer (Paul Revere's Ride, LJ 4/1/94) turns to economic concerns in this informative and readable history of price revolutions. The first revolution of which we have adequate record occurred in the 13th century: it coincided with the onslaught of the Black Death and put an end to the forward movement and optimism of the High Middle Ages. Later price crises coincided with devastating religious wars and social unrest in the 17th century, revolutions at the end of the 18th century, and the Great Depression and the horrors of totalitarianism of our own century. Today, we face another devastating wave of inflation: ""after 1975...ratios of wealth inequality reached their highest levels in four centuries of American history....The principal victims [are]...the young people who ha[ve] no hope for the future and no memory of better times in the past. The result [is] a rapid growth of alienation, anomie, confusion, and despair."" Fischer combines a lively narrative with cogent analysis and sound advice. Essential for scholarly collections, this fine book will also be appreciated by lay readers.?David Keymer, California State Univ., Stanislaus, Calif.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Fischer, a Brandeis history professor, is already author of two acclaimed ""history books."" Both Albion's Seed (1989) and Paul Revere's Ride (1994) have been praised for their originality, analytical clarity, and vivid style. Although this latest book is somewhat more academic, Fischer now follows suit with a look at the relation between prices and massive social change. It is easy to correlate a change in the price of a commodity with a specific event (e. g., the Persian Gulf War and oil prices), and some economic theorists have long suggested that economic events are cyclic. But in Fischer's discerning analysis there have been four great price revolutions in Western history, and each one began in a period of equilibrium (the high Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Victorian age) and was followed by inflation, growing disparity between the rich and the poor, and social and political instability. His absorbing narrative analysis is accompanied by dozens of clearly presented charts and graphs; his notes and a bibliographic essay add nearly 200 pages to the text.  David Rouse	""Very persuasive....A major work that deserves the attention of all historians.""--Nancy Gordon, Bloomberg Quarterly""This year's best book for investors.""--The New York Times Annual Survey of Books in Business and Economics""A powerful piece of historical analysis and ought to become part of everyone's framework of understanding.""--New Statesman and Society	David Hackett Fischer is Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. He has won numerous awards for scholarship and teaching. His many books include the highly acclaimed Paul Revere's Ride.",books;business & finance;business & investing;economic history;economics;history;humanities;microeconomics;new;organizational behavior;popular economics;used & rental textbooks;workplace;world,14
157344040X,"A Fragile Union: New and Selected Writings A rich new collection by poet, historian, and lesbian activist Joan Nestle, ranging from meditations on her femme identity to arguments for a diversified college curriculum. Cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, which were housed for 20 years in her New York apartment, Nestle has made no clear division between her erotic and her political writings, a stance that has irritated many feminists. The archive itself is a ceaseless, passionate response to the first time that Nestle ever tried to ""find out about"" herself by writing a high school paper on homosexuality. She began her research at the New York Public Library, and in the card catalog ""found the word Homosexual, followed by a dash and the words, see Deviancy, and next to this, see Pathology, with suggested subcategories of prisons and mental institutions."" Her inclusive sensibilities have informed the acquisition policies of the archive, which has collected everything from pulp novels of the 1940s and 1950s to the diary of a lesbian prostitute to the pasties of a lesbian stripper. ""If we ask decorous questions of history,"" Nestle argues, ""we will get a genteel history."" Essential reading in the social history of postwar America and the particular struggles of lesbians to be included in that history. --Regina Marler	A leading light of lesbian and gay history (she founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn), Nestle presents a collection of her writings over the last 10 years. An effort to chronicle the lives of working-class lesbians lies at the heart of Nestle's work, and her essay ""The Life of Mabel Hampton as Told by a White Woman"" shows why the pursuit is so important: Hampton was a black lesbian from the South who worked most of her life as a domestic but also participated fully in her community and culture. She did not have to ""come out"" because, Nestle tells us, she was never ""in,"" and so provides us with ""the vision of an integrated life."" In ""On Rereading Esther's Story,"" Nestle shares her new ""understanding of butch and fem, of the drama of gender"" with regard to a Puerto Rican taxi driver named Esther, whom Nestle had years ago thought of as ""merely butch."" Some of Nestle's stories of lesbian erotica are included, and Nestle recalls that, during the 1960s, many lesbians were as shocked as heterosexual women by her boldness. Some of the best writing in the volume appears in Nestle's moving accounts of what it is like to live with colon cancer, as she not only tells of the extended and painful treatment but also includes poetic (and erotic) tales of sexual desire and its frightening ebb, and of sexual fun in the midst of devastating illness. Nestle is by turns earnest, pedantic, funny, bold and courageous; her collection is, clearly, the work of an irrepressible, principled woman. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Poignant and vigorousand some sexually explicitessays on both personal history and the ``herstory'' of the lesbian community in America. In her introduction, Nestle (co-editor, Sister and Brother, 1994) describes herself as a ``fifty-eight-year-old white Jewish fem lesbian woman with cancer living in New York City in the United States of America at the end of the twentieth century.'' This collection comprises reflections on those particulars, ranging from commentary on her working-class mother's eloquent journals through the history of lesbianism as it began to accumulate in the Lesbian Herstory Archives (now housed in a Brooklyn townhouse), which Nestle founded. Included are chapters on Nestle's plunge into 1960s political activismmarching and demonstrating against nuclear arms and communist-baiters while keeping her sexual preferences secret from her socialist comrades. Beginning in that decade, however, lesbianism began to come out of the closet and the basement bars (Nestle recalls the latter somewhat fondly). In ``The Politics of Thinking,'' however, the author reveals her concern that in the 1990s, not only has ``religious moral fervor'' dampened free discussion of sexuality, but so have certain kinds of political correctness within the gay community, where anti-pornography factions had developed strength. Many of the stories that Nestle wrote then were descriptive tales of lesbian love affairs, and she found herself wondering whether those stories had ``hurt lesbian women,'' as the anti-pornographers suggested. The author also raises questions about the meaning of gender and about the devaluation of the feminine. In the section titled ``A Gift of Touch'' are some detailed reminiscences of erotic encounters with loversas well as reflections on coming to terms with cancer.  Not for the erotically faint of heart, but work that demonstrates the author's tenderness, courage, and concern for her chosen lesbian community and for ``those who have lived in a ghetto of any kind.''   -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	""Joan Nestle represents, for each of us, courage, intelligence, beauty, a sense of conviction and humility...She has revolutionized history, both the craft and in the facts of life.""  -- Blanche Wiesen Cook, author, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, 1844-1933	We were tremendously honored to be asked by Joan Nestle to publish A FRAGILE UNION, which is her most exquisite writing to date. Working with Joan has been a gift.	Joan Nestle was born in New York City in 1940, a working class Jew raised by her mother who worked as a bookkeeper in the garment industry. She came out as lesbian in Greenwich Village in the 1950s, marched in Selma in 1965, joined the ranks of the feminist movement in 1971, and helped establish the Gay Academic Union in 1972. In 1973, Nestle and a group of lesbians she met in the Gay Academic Union founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives, which now fills a three-story building in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Joan Nestle is the author of A RESTRICTED COUNTRY and editor of THE PERSISTENT DESIRE: A FEMME-BUTCH READER. She has won numerous awards, including the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in Lesbian and Gay Literature, America Library Association Gay/Lesbian Book Award (A Restricted Country) and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Nonfiction.	Introduction to A FRAGILE UNION: NEW AND SELECTED WRITINGS by Joan Nestle With this book, I offer you the fragile unions that are my life-the life of a fifty-eight-year-old white Jewish fem lesbian woman with cancer living in New York City in the United States of America at the end of the twentieth century. I give you these details not as markers of identity the way we often did in the lesbian-feminist movement of the 1970s and '80s, thinking that if we laid out our particulars, we had cleared away all ambiguity about our lives, but precisely for the opposite reason. Each of the listed elements represents huge worlds of shifting meaning, unending searches for what can keep my love and what has to be let go. Nothing feels certain to me now, other than the precariousness of my understandings and my continued need to touch. But contrary to what some have said about this legacy of doubt, I find this to be a time of great passion in my life, a time of increased commitments to the forging of fragile solidarities that, if of the body, may last only a night, and if of a more sweeping kind, carry me more humbly than ever into historical processes. My writing grows out of desperate quandaries-both personal and national. How to love when I keep failing, how to be brave when I am so fearful, how to protest injustices when I am so tired, how to embrace difference when I do not even trust myself? I am still haunted by the Reagan years, when I was so aware of the fragility of the social world around me, when I saw a country so marked by arrogance, so assaulted by national malice that I turned to my other America, one in which to be poor was not a crime and one that recognized that economic ambition without a compassionate social vision was a form of national cruelty. I found this other country in the lives of my open-enrollment students in the Queens College SEEK Program, in my lesbian-queer community, and in my own immediate world of sex and desire. In all these places I saw how fragile hope was and yet how tenaciously it survived in the lives of those who lived below the gaze of national power. In Reagan's America and still in this one, we run the risk of drowning in one another's histories. When opportunities are callously diminished and the distance between those who have more than they need and those who have less grows into a class divide so wide that whole generations, in despair, plunge into it, how can we find a way back to honor one another's stories? In my twenty-five-year history with the Lesbian Herstory Archives, I set myself the goal of commemorating the differences among lives in the hope of finding shared grounds of tenacity and tenderness. It was my search for documents of connection that inspired several essays in this collection. I do not in any way think that my friendship with Mabel Hampton, an eighty-three-year-old African American lesbian woman, mitigated the racial and economic injustices this country doled out to her, but in presenting the words of her life, I hope I have preserved for others the gift of her self-awareness and her recognition of the life-giving power of multiple communities of sustenance. The essay ""My Fem Quest"" grows out of an intergenerational conversation with Barbara Cruikshank, an astute young woman who experiences her desire with a different set of questions than my 1950s-created fem self ever thought to ask. I have been gifted in my later life with the friendship of several younger women whose minds glow with the challenge of deconstructing ideas into which their lives no longer fit. These friendships are fragile unions of a very special kind. I carry my past rather heavy-handedly, but these young women understand where my need for certainty comes from, while I try to ground their longings in possibilities of meaning that I have come to trust. Finally, in my writing about John Preston, my co-editor of Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together and comrade in the writing of what some call pornography, I offer the portrait of a friendship based on a mutual respect for the difficult task of erotic writing. John died of AIDS before our collaborative work was finished, but he educated me about the generosity of friends who are writers, even when they are under the deadliest of sieges. John, in his last months, in 1994, would call me late at night to make sure I understood what final touches our book still needed and to tell me of his struggle to preserve the John Preston he had worked so hard to create; the strong, direct master of other men's erotic fantasies. What John and I did not know at that time was that I, too, was harboring a cellular battle for life that would change my days. In 1995, I was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer. Fragility now defines my body in a more profound way than ever before. The cellular surge of cancer and the late-twentieth century medical answer of poisoning all to kill some is a permanent discourse within my skin. In some way I must work out a collaboration with the energy of this disease. Cancer cells want to be immortal-they are lovers of their own life-but for me to live, they must die. This is the crack at the center now, the primary fissure that I must find a way to allow to exist within me. Like John, I use writing about the body and my need for touch as a way to negotiate my terror and to honor life. In the ten years encompassed by the writings in this book, I have participated in my queer communities' struggle for political, legal, and social respect. This has taken me from protests in the street over the exclusion of gay people from New York's St. Patrick's Day parade to speaking about the history of lesbian sexuality at the SUNY, New Paltz, conference on women's sexuality. In so doing, I have been reminded of the strange position gay people and lesbians now find themselves in. National messages concerning our right to a public life are contradictory: Ellen can be a TV lesbian for six months, but like a pornographic novel, she comes with a warning; gay women and men can serve in the armed forces as long as they are silent about their love while they are being trained to kill; women talking about specific sexual practices on a college campus are called ""unnatural"" by a Wall Street Journal columnist because they dare to separate sexuality from reproduction. At a time like this, cultural exchanges become a marketplace for cultural betrayals. We live in a society that still debates almost every aspect of our lives in the daily newspapers. There, we learn which religion has decided not to allow gay marriages, which right-wing candidate has most forcefully announced that no gay person will ever serve in his administration, which state has voted to repeal its law prohibiting discrimination against gay people. These are only the most obvious examples of the problem we pose for this society. Violence against transgendered and transsexual people remains the invisible crime it always has been in this country. Many current national cultural discussions are coded angers at our presence-the rage at ""postmodern"" changes in the college curriculum has homophobia as one of its unspoken driving forces. Look what has happened since we let queer theory into the gates of academia-that is the subtext of repeated articles bemoaning the decadent state of late twentieth-century literary and cultural discussions. Now, leading academic historians who once knew better are urging us to bring history back into the professional fold, away from the people who suffer its consequences. In the 1980s it was grassroots lesbian and gay scholars who showed the potential for new sources of historical knowledge and more egalitarian ways of sharing the resulting insights. In the battle over funding for the arts, we have seen a nation willing to dismantle its program of support rather than signal its acceptance of the gay imagination. I have been lucky enough in my own life to have participated in the beginning moments of a people's movement from private history to public discourse. I remember the early meetings in Boston, Manhattan, Maine, San Francisco, and Toronto, where a handful of men and women gathered to share their discoveries and to agonize over how to find the money to continue their work, how best to share these discoveries with the communities they were documenting, and how to balance the need for anonymity-a survival tactic of our people for so long-against the delight of revelation. I remember the flickering slide shows, capturing the lost faces and communal streets of other gay times, and the stunned recognition of audiences who were meeting for the first time with their own public story. In those days, we were not always sure that this fledgling idea of lesbian and gay history would find a home in the world, and after it did, after a few years of students learning about how large communities of lesbian women lived a different American history or how American culture was influenced by a gay sensibility or how world literature is marked by the experience of same-sex love, many academicians and politicians are now decrying this ""trivializing"" of learning. The gay community has always been at the mercy of other people's ideas about us, whether they were medical, legal, or religious. But we will not go back into an intellectual closet. Ideas belong to no one kind of people, and while they have the power to both enslave and liberate, they are also fragile expressions of hope, hope that the most maligned can articulate their own pasts and envision their own futures.  Because I entered the culturally policed queer community in the 1950s, my sense of the history of this struggle for liberation is long and deep; my writing is in the service of a political and cultural struggle-I am proud of that-but the other part of this admission is the responsibility I feel to create no new prisons while I try to dismantle old ones. Some of the writing in this book is a rereading of my own texts, in which I share with my readers what I now feel I got wrong the first time around; in some cases, I am not sure what the problem in my thinking is, but I know there is one. Because I am lucky enough to have been an active participant in forty years of both national and communal struggles for change, I know the richness of multiple visions. I call my writings offerings because that is what they are: pieces of understanding or of questions, moments of intense pleasure or body-breaking pain-moments that you honor with your hearing. These offerings are as fragile as the body that lived them, my body, like yours. Finally this is a book marked by leave-takings. The end of a ten-year relationship, a mundane pain in the world, but one that bent my words. The farewell to friends whose love and energy of purpose made my life glow. To my intimate daily contact with the Lesbian Herstory Archives, which after twenty years moved into its new home in a different borough, a home it desperately needed but whose absence I feel every day when I reach for the photograph or article or book that no longer greets me every morning and feel the emptiness of an apartment that no longer brims with the wonder of thousands of visitors bringing their projects and dreams to my dining-room table. To my students, fragile in their youth but strong in their determination to forge new histories, who for twenty-nine years brought their words to me and who for a little while shared their cultural journeys with me in all their richness and complexity, in all their yearnings for safety and all their undertakings of risk. But the wonder of life is change. My new publishers, Felice Newman and Frdrique Delacoste of Cleis Press, have given me the chance to write my own words again. Dianne Otto, a new friend and lover from Melbourne, Australia, has brought me a fuller understanding of love between women and an entry way into the world beyond my own country. I thank her for her attentive reading of my words and her willingness to take time from her own work to better inform mine. And to Lee Hudson, with whom I shared so much of the past, I look to the time when our strengths will reunite us. I have experienced three sublimely beautiful things in my life, and each has been judged unacceptable by large parts of this society: the taste and touch of women lovers, the wondrous feeling of being part of a people working to free themselves, and for almost thirty years, the trust and attention of students many others did not want to teach. In my bed, the streets of political protest, and the classroom, I felt the possibilities of life most keenly, I saw the wonder of human hope and creativity most clearly. My students' heads bowed in concentration as they struggled to write for themselves and for me, my lover's head thrown back as she awaited the pressure of my tongue, my comrades' cold breath in the air as they stood their ground-these gifts, either so judged or dismissed, so problematical for some when put in the same sentence, cannot be isolated from one another. Made of fragile human dreams, but also of fierce desire, they have bound my life with joy. New York",biographies & memoirs;books;classics;criticism & theory;essays;essays & correspondence;gay & lesbian;history & criticism;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states;women's studies,14
0813533910,"Happy Days and Wonder Years: The Fifties and the Sixties in Contemporary Cultural Politics The author weaves together popular cultural influences and politics in a masterly way -- Lary May, author of The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American WayThis is a smart, illuminating study of the political uses of nostalgia -- Paul S. Boyer, editor-in-chief, The Oxford Companion to United States History	DANIEL MARCUS is an assistant professor in the department of communication at Wayne State University. As a member of the Paper Tiger Television collective, he edited ROAR! The Paper Tiger Guide to Media Activism.",20th century;americas;books;communication & media studies;historical study & educational resources;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;popular culture;social history;social sciences;united states,14
0198572204,"Folk Physics for Apes: The Chimpanzee's Theory of How the World Works (Psychology) ""Daniel Povinelli and his colleagues in Folk Physics describe 27 meticulously conducted and previously unpublished experiments designed to assess what chimpanzees really understand about the way their physical world works. This book presents a rigorous documented set of internally consistent results that offer a stalwart challenge for anyone harbouring ambitions to chart the true mentality of chimpanzees."" -- Andrew Whiten, Nature, Vol 409, Jan 11, 2001""Folk Physics for Apes, written by anthropologist Daniel Povinelli; represents a recent contribution to hthis contentious history. . .Povinelli's bottom line is that chimpanzees think about the physical world in a way radically different from our own.""--Science	Professor Daniel Povinelli is world famous for his controversial, but revolutionary experiments in the field of animal behavior. This book will attract considerable publicity, not least due to the controversial stance he takes in the long running debate over animal intelligence.",animals;apes & monkeys;behavioral sciences;biological sciences;books;cognitive psychology;evolution;fitness & dieting;health;physics;primatology;psychology & counseling;science & math;zoology,14
031217327X,"Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs: Social Theory and the History of Punishment in Nineteenth-Century America In its attempt to delineate the ways that prisons have been shaped by broad social factors, the book has a truly worthy and appropriate purpose. The Journal of American History. . . a readable, concise history of punishment and penal institutions in the 19th-century United States. American Historical Review	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Mark Colvin is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",19th century;americas;books;criminology;history;humanities;modern (16th-21st centuries);new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;social theory;sociology;united states;used & rental textbooks,14
0060288221,"Don't Know Much About Martin Luther King Jr. Kenneth C. Davis is the New York Times best-selling author of Don't Know Much About History, Don't Know Much About Geography, Don't Know Much About The Civil War, and Don't Know Much About The Bible.   People magazine has said that ""Reading [Davis] is like returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had.""   A frequent visitor to classrooms and teacher groups, Davis has appeared often on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, National Public Radio, and many other television and radio shows. He is a contributing editor to USA Weekend, which features his Don't Know Much About quizzes on a variety of subjects.   Born and educated in Mt. Vernon, New York, he now lives in New York City and Vermont with his wife, Joann, and their two children, Jenny and Colin.",( k );a-z;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;children's books;king;martin luther;people;people of color;prejudice & racism;religious;social activists;social situations,14
0802081762,The British Library Guide to Bookbinding: History and Techniques (British Library Guides) Philippa Marks is the Curator of Early Collections at The British Library.,book making & binding;books;computers & technology;crafts;crafts & hobbies;desktop publishing;education & reference;graphic design;hobbies & home;papercrafts;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;stamping & stenciling;writing,14
0595125743,"How to Get SSI & Social Security Disability: An Insider's Step by Step Guide WHY THIS BOOK WILL NEVER BE OUT OF DATE OR OBSOLETE  This book does not focus on regulations, legislation, or whether or not a final decision is rendered with or without a medical doctor or psychologist, because IT DOES NOT MATTER TO YOU, the disability claimant. These things may change, but one thing that does not change is the requirements for full and complete evidence. It is not necessary that YOU, the claimant, know the body systems or listings of impairments or any other number of extraneous and complicated bits of law and medicine. What you do want and need is a short, step-by-step set of instructions that you can actually check off. These are provided for you in a  few easy to understand pages that will give you ALL you need TO DO and TO KNOW to have the best chance of receiving a favorable decision. These requirements for evidence, from your doctor and others that are clearly and concisely indicated, do not change. There will be no need to revise and issue subsequent editions as long as the SSI and Social Security Disab!ility programs continue. Your best chance of being allowed benefits is to follow the directions provided. Your time is best spent getting what the Disability Examiner and Medical Consultant are looking for when making a decision, not studying body systems, law, or medical terminology. The title says it all, this is a short HOW TO book from an author who has made thousands of disability decisions. Every effort has been made to resist the temptation to include material that is professionally interesting to those in the disability field, but is of little value to the disability applicant and ends up driving up the length and cost of the book, and confuses rather than clarifies. Regulations, practices, political influences and legislation change, but the basic requirements for evidence do not. IF WHAT YOU WANT IS SIMPLE, SHORT DIRECTIONS, THAT GIVE YOU THE INSIDE TRACK ON HOW TO HAVE THE BEST CHANCE OF GETTING DISABILITY THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU.	Mike Davis lives in Northern California and works for the State of California's Department of Rehabilitation. He is a contributing editor to Pacific Fisherman Magazine. Prior to his work in disability he was a minister for 14 years.",books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;new;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;public policy;reference;social sciences;social security;used & rental textbooks,14
B000NVL6FE,"Designing Effective Speech Interfaces ""...substantial and useful, [...] this book is informative and educational"" (Computing Reviews, June 2000)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Master the critical knowledge you need to design speech-enabled applicationsIt's not just a far-fetched gizmo straight out of a sci-fi movie anymore. Speech interface technology, which allows a user to communicate with computers via voice instead of a keyboard or a mouse, is quickly becoming a main feature in new software. This straightforward guide provides traditional graphical user-interface designers, developers, usability engineers, and product managers with all the information they need to make a rapid transition in order to stay abreast of this monumental shift in technology.Weinschenk and Barker, two experts in state-of-the-art online communication, discuss the basics of speech interfaces and speech technology, hardware, and software. They clearly explain the interface design principles that are applied to S/GUI and AUI interfaces and describe the latest practices of leading experts.In addition to its in-depth look at speech technologies and the different types of user interfaces, this book:* Provides an overview of the field of human factors and defines the basic concepts of human computer interaction* Discusses the current state of speech technology applications* Explains the laws of human factors that apply to speech interfaces* Contains guidelines and examples for user control, human limitation, model integrity, accommodation, clear dialogue, and aesthetic integrity* Details the best practices in interface design and usability engineering* Explores the special issues involved in interface design for disabled personsVisit the companion web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/weinschenk/ for a categorized resource list of speech, speech interface, and human-computer interaction books, articles, and links.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business;computers & technology;education & reference;games & strategy guides;natural language processing;networking;networks;protocols & apis;software;speech processing;user experience & usability;voice recognition;web development & design,14
0812238311,"Covenant House: Journey of a Faith-Based Charity ""A fascinating in-depth case study of one faith-based nonprofit organization from the early 1970s to today. . . . Read this book as a means to understand the personal, social, and administrative complexity of organizational life.""Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly	Peter J. Wosh is Director of the Program in Archival Management, and a member of the Department of History, at New York University.",20th century;americas;books;children's books;children's studies;history;philanthropy & charity;politics & government;politics & social sciences;poverty;public affairs & policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;united states,14
0807853461,"Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel Goff (history, Appalachian State Univ.) spreads the word of  white gospel music in this well-researched social history.  Starting with the music's 19th-century evangelical roots, he  charts the emergence of shape-note musical notation, which  gained popularity through singing schools and songbooks. He then  unearths gospel pioneers and religious entrepreneurs such as  James David Vaughan, Virgil Stamps, and Jesse Baxter, who  furthered the music through singing schools, monthly  publications, songbook companies, radio stations, record labels,  and such quartets as the Speer Family and the Lefevres. The  author continues with the post-World War II commercialization of  Southern gospel with television, gospel songwriters such as Lee  Roy Abernathy, concerts, and professional groups such as the  Blackwood Brothers, the Chuck Wagon Gang, and the Statesmen.  Lastly, he charts the rise in the 1970s of the more secularized,  popularized contemporary gospel of the Imperials and the  subsequent reemergence of the conservative evangelical quartets.  Basing his history on more than 60 interviews and dozens of  other sources, Goff delivers a well-written account that engages  despite its somewhat specialized focus. Recommended for gospel  fans, social historians, and music libraries in the South. Dave  Szatmary, Univ. of Washington, Seattle   Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	I am so happy that someone has written a book on the history of southern gospel music. I am especially glad that it was James R. Goff Jr. This is a wonderful book, and it really covers everything. (Dolly Parton)It's good to finally have a good resource book of the music and people that we all dearly love. (Bill Gaither)	James R. Goff Jr. is professor of history at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. He also serves as the chief historical consultant for the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and is a regular columnist for Singing News magazine.",americas;anthropology;arts & photography;books;cultural;gospel;history;history & criticism;music;musical genres;politics & social sciences;religious & sacred music;state & local;united states,14
1556708246,"Ghost Dancing: Sacred Medicine and the Art of JD Challenger Written under the pen name ""Edwin Daniels"", this is the second volume of cultural and natural history featuring fine art that author E. Dan Klepper has created.",anthropology;arts & photography;books;cultural;earth-based religions;individual artists;native american;native american studies;occult;performing arts;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;social sciences;specific demographics,14
B000MV89IM,"Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers (VERITAS Series) Highly available storage... is there another kind worth having? Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers describes proper design, implementation, and management of high-performance hard disk systems based on Microsoft Windows 2000 and Veritas Volume Manager. It's one of the few published documents on the Veritas system around, but that's not the only reason to consider Paul Massiglia's work. He does a great job of explaining what it means for a system's data store to be highly available, and pinpoints potential trouble areas (from the physical platters on up) that can keep systems from that ideal.He also deserves commendation for explaining some of the supporting technologies--server clustering and RAID systems--that make high availability of disk data possible. With an increasing number of shops implementing more coherent storage-management policies, a growing number of administrators need to add storage systems to their bag of tricks. This book clarifies many essentials for such people.Massiglia doesn't appear to be a bulletproofing zealot. Rather than place data safety above all else, he seems to do a reasonable job of balancing requirements (performance, safety, and money) against one another. He and his editors have also done a good job of illustrating their potentially dull subject. Nearly every page has at least one illustration (most illustrations are screen shots), and the explanatory prose is crisp and illuminating. --David Wall    Topics covered: How to build and operate storage subsystems for reliable servers, using RAID, the clustering variants of Microsoft Windows 2000, and Veritas Volume Manager. This is mostly Veritas documentation, but there's good coverage of disk concepts and of server cluster provisioning rules, as well.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The first how-to guide for online storage management with Windows 2000    In this book, expert Paul Massiglia first provides a clear tutorial on the principles of managed online storage and then walks you through the basics of how to manage your disks and RAID arrays in the Windows 2000 server environment. He provides all the information system administrators need to take advantage of Windows 2000's powerful new capabilities for handling large numbers of disks and RAID subsystems. Using both the embedded capabilities of the Windows 2000 operating system, VERITAS Volume Manager--the de-facto standard for application storage--and other working examples, Massiglia clearly illustrates how to organize disks so that all application data can be given the right balance of availability, I/O performance, and online storage cost. Readers will learn about online storage architectures, failure and non-failure tolerant volumes, RAID, online disks, and creating and managing volumes.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & management;client-server systems;computers & technology;data in the enterprise;design & architecture;hardware;home computing & how-to;microsoft;network administration;networking;operating systems;windows os;windows server,14
0072258055,"How to Do Everything with Photoshop(R) Elements 3.0 Get the most out of the powerful image-editing features of Photoshop Elements 3.0 with help from this full-color guide. First, learn to navigate and customize the program to suit your preferences. Then, get started retouching, repairing, and enhancing digital images in no time. Step-by-step examples show you how to crop images, fix color, focus, and exposure problems, eliminate defects, manipulate images, add special effects, and much more. Youll also get tips for getting great prints and posting your photos on the Web.  Import images into Photoshop or create new images from scratch Crop, rotate, and change the size of images Correct color, contrast, lighting, exposure, and focus Touch up photos and hide defects Use layers, masks, gradients, and filters to create special effects Include text and shapes in your images Create panoramics, cards, calendars, and photo books Prepare images for print or the Web Organize your images and modify batches of images  About the author: David Plotkin designs computer systems and databases, and maintains Web sites for various nonprofit and charitable organizations. He is an experienced film and digital photographer and has written several books, including How to Do Everything with Photoshop Elements 2 and How to Do Everything with Digital Image Pro 9.	David Plotkin (Walnut Creek, CA) maintains professional web sites for nonprofit organizations using FrontPage. He has authored mnay books including: Special Edition, Using Lotus Approach (Que) and The Filemaker Pro Bible (IDG).",adobe photoshop;books;computer science;computers & technology;desktop publishing;digital media management;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;graphics & visualization;new;photo editing;programming;software;used & rental textbooks,14
1578861306,"Essential Websites for Educational Leaders in the 21st Century One of Essential Websites' greatest strengths is the material about the closing of ERIC Clearinghouses along with an updated list of relocated ERIC materials. (CHOICE )An easy-to-read guide....lists over 300 of the best Web sites of interest to educational leaders. (Education Week )MyParenTime.com highly recommends this book  what a wonderful collection of websites, not only for those involved in the field of education, but also for those just interested in learning, and in ways, making their lives easier with the knowledge found at these websites. The information in this book is very useful, well-organized, and easily accessible. We are proud to say that one of our websites, PrintableChecklists.com, has been selected for inclusion in this book. Thank you James, for providing a book that will make life easier for educators, parents and others involved in the area of education. (Myparentime.Com )This list is astonishingly helpful....you're unlikely to come across many of the sites on a random search. A big bonus...is that you get the book on CD-ROM, too... (Times Educational Supplement )A few years ago, there was a spate of printed collections of annotated lists of websites of potential interest to school teachers. They are now quite rare, so this one is of more than usual interest. (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency )Educators wishing to avoid the struggle of finding the perfect website will want to reserve a copy of Essential Websites for Educational Leaders in the 21st Century. Author James Lerman, an experienced administrator and designer of educational environments, points us to relevant websites that are stable in a world of changing web locations. Lerman's sites encompass many of the topics that school leaders wrestle with regularly. This book should be considered a resource for educators in various roles. It should serve to cut down on our frustration while spending hours searching for that one website that can meet the need of the moment. (School Administrator )	James Lerman designs educational environments and experiences for learners of all ages, from pre-school through graduate school and beyond; particular passions of his include design, technology, politics, and the arts. He has been a classroom teacher, union leader, parent activist, principal, staff development director, director of technology, assistant superintendent of schools, college professor, profit and non-profit executive, national conference presenter, consultant, founder of four new public schools, and journalist.",administration;books;business & investing;computers & technology;counseling;education;education & reference;education theory;job hunting & careers;new;research;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks;vocational guidance,14
0620254408,"The Many Houses of Exile Richard Jurgens was born in Johannesburg in 1960.  He attended various schools in South Africa and England and later studied philosophy at the University of Witwatersrand.  After a short spell in publishing he lived in exile in various countries in Africa and Europe before returning to South Africa in 1994.  He has worked as an editor, teacher, activist, researcher, translator and journalist.  Presently, he divides his time between Johannesburg and Amsterdam.  He is a full-time writer.",africa;biographies & memoirs;books;historical;history;leaders & notable people;memoirs;political;politics & social sciences;race relations;social sciences;sociology;south africa;specific demographics,14
0750937289,"Warm & Snug: The History of the Bed (Sutton History Classics) Lawrence Wright was a well-known architectural painter and he exhibited paintings, etchings and perspectives of contemporary buildings for many years at the Royal Academy and at the Guildhall Art Gallery. He was also a designer of historical exhibitions and from these developed his books, Warm and Snug, Clean and Decent (a history of the bathroom and water closet) and Home Fires Burning, a history.",africa;ancient;antiques & collectibles;books;crafts;egypt;furniture;historical study & educational resources;history;hobbies & home;houseware & dining;politics & social sciences;social history;world,14
156205919X,"MCSE Training Guide: Networking Essentials (2nd Edition) This guide covers the Networking Essentials (70-058)  examination--one of the required four examinations in the Windows NT  certification track. This key test measures your knowledge in four key  areas of networking: standards and terminology, planning,  implementation, and troubleshooting. This training guide, written by  Microsoft Certified Software Engineer (MCSE) Glenn Berg, follows the  same organization. MCSE Training Guide: Networking  Essentials presents the terminology and networking concepts in a  straightforward manner. It lays out the differences between  centralized and distributed computing, client/server and peer to peer,  LANs and WANs, and all of the usual network services. The book spells  out the critical Open System Interconnection (OSI) layered model and  all of the crucial IEEE 802 networking standards. It also includes a  brief discussion of Network Device Interface Specification (NDIS) and  Open Data-link Interface (ODI). In the ""Planning"" section, Berg  takes you through the various cablings and topologies, detailing  network interface cards, routers, bridges, hubs, transport protocols,  and recovery techniques. This part is chock full of vital information  for anyone looking for a stronger understanding of these topics. Berg  also discusses how to implement Microsoft networks by managing  resources, users, and security, and wraps up with a discussion of  basic troubleshooting techniques and performance tuning. Each  chapter in this textbook contains several useful learning tools,  including chapter summaries, realistic case studies, reviews, and exam  questions. Although this title is meant for specific study toward the  70-058 test, it is an excellent learning tool for anyone interested in  practical networking. --Steven Plain	Completely revised, MCSE Training Guide: Networking Essentials, Second Edition, offers several new elements to help you learn better, including a second color and additional review questions, helping you maximize your study time. Organized around the exam objectives, this Training Guide make it easy for you to focus on areas where you need to improve. It also helps you identify what the key topics on the exam will be. This book offers concise, clearly delineated coverage of the key concepts necessary to pass the MCSE Networking Essentials exam. The exclusive Top Score test engine and unique software simulator provide you with a testing situation similar to what you will find on the actual exam.",books;business;certification;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;mathematics;microsoft;networking;networks;protocols & apis;science & math;software;windows os,14
0130278459,"Windows Programming Programmer's Notebook PrefaceWindows programming is complex and has many rules that must be obeyed. Learning those rules can be time-consuming, especially for readers who already know how to program in other programming languages. Those readers want to jump into the language and begin writing simple code immediately.Many programmers who learn Windows programming as their second language have their own philosophy about learning a programming language. Show me sample code and Ill figure out the rest, is a statement that summarizes their approach. Thats what we do in this book.The picture book concept places the focus of the book on a picture of the code. Around this picture are callouts that describe each keyword and statement. The rules are presented in lists that are positioned near the picture. Furthermore, there is a picture for variations of each topic that is discussed in the chapter.A reader who wants to jump into Windows programming can study the picture, then copy the code into a compiler and make the executable program without having to sift through pages of text. The rules can be referenced later, when the reader needs to expand the use of the routine.This approach is not intended to circumvent a thorough presentation of Windows programming. In fact, this book presents Windows programming in its entirety. The picture book approach presents material in a way that makes programmers want to learn a new programming language.	Covers basic and advanced controls, Internet and database development  Features reusable custom C++ classes to handle real-world tasks  Up-to-date coverage of Windows 2000 and Windows CE capabilities  Show-and-tell presentation for quick learning     See the code and put it to workfast, easy, and hands on. This quick, visual tutorial uses annotated ""snapshots"" of real code on every other page to teach you programming theory while providing specific solutions you can use in your own projects. Development solutions cover every current Windows platform, including Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, or CE.    Practical, comprehensive coverage includes:     Event-driven programming with the AppWizard and MFC application framework  Menus, dialog boxes, and Windows  Printing and GDI functions  Database programs using MFC classes  Internet programs with CGI, sockets, SMTP, ISAPI filters, and ActiveX  Reusable custom C++ classes for common programming tasks     No matter what flavor of Windows you use, Windows Programming Programmer's Notebook will put you ""in the picture"" and get you up and programming right away.	Mario Giannini is chair of the Programming track at Columbia University's Computer Technology and Applications Certification Program and a developer of Windows applications for major corporations. Jim Keogh is chair of the Electronic Commerce track at Columbia University's Computer Technology and Applications Certification Program and author of numerous other titles in Prentice Hall PTR's Programmer's Notebook series, including C++ Programmer's Notebook and COBOL Programmer's Notebook.	PrefaceWindows programming is complex and has many rules that must be obeyed. Learning those rules can be time-consuming, especially for readers who already know how to program in other programming languages. Those readers want to jump into the language and begin writing simple code immediately.Many programmers who learn Windows programming as their second language have their own philosophy about learning a programming language. Show me sample code and Ill figure out the rest, is a statement that summarizes their approach. Thats what we do in this book.The picture book concept places the focus of the book on a picture of the code. Around this picture are callouts that describe each keyword and statement. The rules are presented in lists that are positioned near the picture. Furthermore, there is a picture for variations of each topic that is discussed in the chapter.A reader who wants to jump into Windows programming can study the picture, then copy the code into a compiler and make the executable program without having to sift through pages of text. The rules can be referenced later, when the reader needs to expand the use of the routine.This approach is not intended to circumvent a thorough presentation of Windows programming. In fact, this book presents Windows programming in its entirety. The picture book approach presents material in a way that makes programmers want to learn a new programming language.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;microsoft;programming;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;software;software design;software development;testing & engineering;windows os;writing,14