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Building readers' confidence by helping them become better communicators, this practical guide helps users master the communications skills necessary to qualify for a job. It also shows how to perform class assignments to the best of their ability, and achieve higher grades in business courses.Provides an invaluable resource for completing all fundamental business course assignments: includes step-by-step instructions for writing a research paper, a business plan, a marketing plan, a survey report, and a case analysis. Examines the dynamics and challenges of group writing projects, and shows how to go about preparing for the final presentation. Contains a chapter on computer-assisted research with 'nuts-and-bolts' instruction, beginning with the basics of using e-mail and other Internet/Web tools.For business students. ... Read more

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Highly Recommended
Essential for business students, graduate and undergraduates alike. Helps you write professional reports and term papers. Many graduate schools require it. ... Read more

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This is a great way to understand what retirement planning is all about!!
This was one of those books that taught me a lot.I find myself quoting from it everyday.A lot of people fail to understand the importance of financial planning and finding the right financial advisor to lead them to their ultimate goals in life.This book should be the first step you take to financial freedom!

Fasten Your Financial Seatbelt Offers Valuable Tips
When I first received Fasten Your Financial Seatbelt What Surviving an Airline Crash Taught Me About Retirement Planning By Thomas C. Scott I was quite curious about the correlation between a financial crash and a plane crash.I started reading it and did not stop until I finished the entire book.I loved it.Everything about it was interesting to me.Reading about Thomas Scott as a child earning money, saving, investing and revealing what he learned about financial matters by watching his mother, father and others who were in his immediate surroundings. Then of course I was captivated by his heart wrenching reflections on the first Boeing 747 that crashed in Nairobi, Kenya in 1974 that killed 59 passengers leaving 98 survivors.Thomas Scott a survivor and a 23 -year-old crew member on board Lufthansa Flight 540 was hailed a hero for rescuing 12 passengers from the wreckage.The book provides real cases of how people try to manage their finances hopefully avoiding a financial crash.Fasten Your Financial Seatbelt has a wealth of information on investing and how to choose a Financial Planner. According to Fasten Your Financial Seatbelt it is not about the money that we have but what we do with the money we have and that money should not be the master but the servant. This book will prompt you to seriously examine what you truly want to do in this life.You will learn that planning is the key.Many say that money is the root of all evil but Thomas Scott has a different perspective.His view is that if you get money right, money can be the root of all happiness.If you really want to know how all of this relates to surviving a plane crash I say read the book, Fasten Your Financial Seatbelt - What Surviving an Airline Crash Taught Me About Retirement Planning.For more information on Thomas Scott please visit the financial seatbelt website and listen to the onlinewithandrea interview with host Andrea Garrison.

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Quality beats Quantity again...
Tom Scott proves again that quality outweighs quantity.The pages of his book, which is small in size but giant in content, present in a nut shell what it takes to prioritize your financial activities, namely, how to Fasten Your Financial Seatbelt to make sure the money you work hard to make will serve your life goals and desires. Making money is the means to an end, and not the other way around. That said, making money and securing it during these tough times is not an easy task, and Tom spells out some of the fundamental golden rules he has been using successfully as a Financial Advisor for many years.By making sure he understands what your goals are, he follows these rules to create and protect the wealth needed to achieve your goals.We can either learn and do it ourselves, or find a good Financial Advisor that will assist us in this process.

Fasten Your Financial Seatbelt, Thomas C. Scott
Excellent reading.Tom distills his years of observing investors into simple catagories with vivid examples and sage advice.I believe if you put the simple advice contained in this book into practice regarding your own savings, over time you can avoid much headache and stress.This book describes what good looks like, regarding the 'big picture' of savings, retirement and financial security.Tom teaches the approach that leads you to master your money, rather than the other way around.If you are looking for some tips how to make a short term killing trading new types of financial derivatives, this is not the book for you.However, if you want to know the secrets for NOT having to worry about financial security, than you need this book as it is a map in the wilderness.It is chock full of guidance for avoiding the common pitfalls and traps that are bound snare almost every investor.

Good book on investment thought process.
Don't let the small size of the book fool you (approx 2 hr reading), it contains valuable advice on investing, relationship with money and other pearls of wisdom. A Definitive recommendation if you want to become a better investor. ... Read more

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Clarence Thomas is one of the most vilified public figures of our day.To date, however, his legal philosophy has received only cursorytreatment.First Principles provides a portrait of Thomasbased not on the justice's caricatured reputation, but on his judicialopinions and votes, his scholarly writings, and his public speeches.

The paperback edition includes a provocative new Afterword by theauthor bringing the book up to date by assessing Justice Thomas'sperformance, and the reaction to his decisions, during the last fiveyears. ... Read more

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Finally a treatment without the prism of race
Gerber bravely went where angels fear to tread, namely to view Justice Thomas as an Associate Justice and as an American rather than the hyphenated American Associate Justice. Thomas's views demand we consider the Founders thoughts, in much the same way Lincoln requested we do at Coopers Unionthat is to 'never supplant their logic when we know they understood the question better than we do.'

The vilification of Justice Thomas puzzles those who have read his opinions. To decry a Justice observing the contemplations of the Founding generation who created the American formula of, Liberty granting power to replace the previous and arbitrary power allows Liberty, seems oddly miscast. Those pundits who offer the idea of a color blind society, yet mock Thomas seem unaware of the paradox they create.As a society we are all aware of the want of historical background we have, and in no area are we lacking more than in Founding. Thomas's insistence that there exists areas that the National government has no power, reflects the Madisonian stance, as articulated in his Ninth Amendment beliefs; beliefs Thomas obviously comprehends.

Anyone wishing to escape the mandates of partisan politics would serve him, or herself well by reading this book, and then venturing forth and read some of Thomas's opinions, opinions which are well reasoned, and as devout to our American heritage as is possible.

Insightful, but limited in views on civil liberties
I had one primary motivation for reading an arguably dated book: with the addition of Roberts and Alito to the Court, the Court will certainly transform itself from being the most effective institution, besides our military, in protecting the reserved rights of "We the People" to a court that will most certainly expand government power as the Conservatives on the court gain control.J. Thomas, who has written many a provocative dissent, will now become a prolific writer of opinions that will grant the government sweeping powers as our individual rights are stripped away.I wanted to better understand what to expect out of Thomas as his opinions now become binding law.

Gerber's book is considered the most fair, unbiased, and most accurate analysis of Thomas' jurisprudence though limited to the first five years of his tenure, though it also contains a short afterword that catches up on Thomas through 2000.What is most intriguing about Thomas is that Thomas claims to read and interpret our radically liberal constitution within the context of the even more radically, and revolutionary Declaration of Independence, unlike Scalia who claims to read only the Constitution from a textual perspective.Rather than yielding a solid libertarian view a la' Randy Barnett so well-espoused in Barnett's "The Lost Constitution", Thomas seems to constantly rule opposite of the original meaning or even original intent of those two documents if they deny a conservative political objective.So what gives?

Gerber not only does a great job of providing a rhetoric-free analysis of Thomas's view, he also does a fine job of comparing those views to competing views and fairly crucifying Thomas's media critics who hate the rulings without any understanding of Thomas' arguments.As fair as Gerber is in analyzing Thomas' opinions against his judicial adversaries, Gerber also does a fascinating quantitative analysis to empirically expose whether Thomas is honestly deciding cases or is driven by conservative political objectives - the results of this research contained within the Appendices is alone worth owning this book.

Some of Gerber's findings:

Gerber publishes outtakes from a Thomas 1987 speech to the Heritage Foundation where Thomas claims to support the constitutional principle of the"primacy of the individual, and establishes our inherent equality as a God-given right."Thomas ends this subject in his speech arguing that Conservatives should embrace this concept rather than have this principle continue to be conservatism's "Achilles' heel".Fine rhetoric indeed, Gerber then goes on to show how in ruling after ruling, Thomas rejects his own principles to vote firmly for sweeping government power that deprives the individual of their rights with respect to civil liberties as Thomas ignores the fact that we reserved our rights and tries to limit those rights by trying to prove they are all numerated in the Constitution, and narrowly at that.

Again Gerber quotes Thomas defending the original meaning of the 9th amendment that would "explicitly deny to the national government certain powers over various subjects would imply".And throughout the book Gerber then exposes Thomas as he tries to narrowly interpret the other Bill of Rights amendments to show preference to government power rather than use the Constitution to interpret the powers delegated to the government to, as Jefferson said in the D of I, "secure the blessings of liberty", e.g., Thomas voting with a 5-4 majority approving ofgovernment funding of religious activity in Rosenberger v. the U. of VA. (1995); an unprecedented ruling that directly opposses the establishment clause and our equal protection rights.

Not that Thomas is always on theside of non-delegated gov't power.Gerber does a very respectful and insightful analysis of Thomas views on civil rights in regards to affirmative action and Thomas' fierce defense of free speech regarding political speech, like in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission where Thomas did support the original meaning of the Constitution by limiting government power to explicitly stated delegation of powers while broadly interpreting the people's and the press' right to speech.

While the chapter on Thomas' views on Federalism, where Thomas is an active proponent of allowing states non-explicit powers to deny Americans their constitutional rights is interesting, Gerber doesn't go far enough, like Barnett has done, in analyzingwhether any founding framer believed in the principle that the states could deny rights to "we the people", with the "people" being narrowly defined at that time.

Many constitutional law bloggers have easily exposed Scalia as an absolute hypocrite regarding his defense of original meaning when he often, and lately almost constantly, ignores that concept when needed to support a conservative political goal. Thomas's opinions require a much more thorough examination to expose his rationale for his rulings; Gerber for the most part is up to the task.If you are a Thomas fan, you'll get plenty of support for your position, if you are aghast at his findings, you will understand how far Thomas must twist reason to support his conservative ideology, and if you are like me, a person who thinks Thomas has unlimited potential but is also aghast at his rulings, you'll find evidence that maybe with time Thomas will begin to defend our reserved rights as time develops his jurisprudence, unfortunately the two new members will most likely have no positive influence on Thomas, providing support for narrow rulings with twisted logic to claim protection of rights while ruling in a manner that destroys those very rights.

An intriguing examination of Justice Thomas with some flaws
I applaud Gerber for avoiding yet another partisan attack upon (or defense of) Justice Thomas. Too often scholars, or politicians, respond to justices, and Thomas in particular, with partisan attack divorced from any real consideration of the substance of the justice's view. Gerber looks at Thomas's opinions in cases from three areas: civil rights, civil liberties, and federalism.

Gerber's conclusion is that Thomas is just as result oriented as any other justice, he reads his own preferences into the text he is interpreting in the same manner that "liberal activists" do. Unfortunately, Gerber at times glosses over this fact because of his pet theory of "liberal originalism" that sees all constitutional principles as derivative of the Declaration of Independence (a theory dubious on its own terms). The most obvious gloss comes in affirmative action cases. Thomas has insisted upon a colorblind interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause, but he fails to give any originalist defense of this position. Instead, he uses moral arguments with a single citation to the declaration. Gerber spins from this a position that Thomas believes in his theory of interpretation, at least here since he admits that Thomas abandons this idea in other areas such as religion. But, neither Thomas nor Gerber clearly state what importance the declaration could have on the meaning of the 14th Amendment, enacted nearly a century later. In fact, the history of the 14th Amendment demonstrates a pervasive use of benign racial classifications similar to affirmative action programs, leading many to conclude that, as originally understood, affirmative action programs are constitutional. Gerber swipes aside these criticisms, stating that Thomas's affirmative action opinions rely upon moral arguments and not history. But this ignores the fact that Thomas claims to be an originalist who relies upon the intent and practice of the enactors of a provision. We should hold Thomas up to the standards he claims to live by. Another example, of rather recent development which explains why Gerber's book doesn't include it, is takings. In the recent New London decision, Thomas offered a powerful originalist critique of the broad majority opinion of the public use requirement. He uses intent, original understanding, and contemporary state practice. Yet, he joined in, and continues to support, Scalia's opinion in Lucas admitting that history failed to support regulatory takings, and describing the same history used in New London as irrelevant. This is a glaring inconsistency necessitated by the fact that history fails to support Thomas's belief in regulatory takings so he abandons these inconvenient facts. Thus, we see that originalism fails to constrain Thomas's behavior in the way he claims it does.

Another annoying thing is that Gerber seems to find it necessary to vocalize his opposition to Thomas's opinion, almost as if he is afraid of being labeled a Thomas-defender. I think this is unnecessary and he should have simply presented Thomas's thoughts without his subjective opinion as to the correctness of those positions. All told, I think Gerber's book is a fine one, presenting Thomas's opinions and thoughts themselves. In the end, we see that Thomas is just as likely to join in activist policy-making as any other justice. This should hardly be surprising and we should encourage it because it adds another important voice to constitutional issues, particularly in affirmative action cases where he is the only justices to experience it first hand. We should encourage this diversity of opinion while removing the illegitimate claim that it is the requirement of history rather than Thomas's personal policy preference.

An exceptional book
This is an exceptional book. What Gerber has done is to avoid the political panderings of both the left and right wing and given us an objective, unbiased consideration of Justice Thomas'opinions. What a pleasure to read a book based in data not political philosophy. Plus the book is very well written. Kudos to Mr Gerber

a remarkably intelligent-and courageous-study.
While it is true to say that Clarence Thomas is one of the most vilified men to sit on the Supreme Court, it must also besaid that he has also often suffered from having the wrong kind of defenders. With the lonely exceptionof Senator John Danforth, practically none of Thomases defenders has takenthe time to understand his thought or character. Finally, an inteeligentbook has been written about Thomas, by someone who comes neither to glorifyor condemn Clarence Thomas, but to UNDERSTAND him. Scot Gerber is one ofthe fastest rising stars in American constitutional thought.In this finestudy, he analyzes Thomases opinions, and concludes that Thomas is notsimplya tail to Antonin Scalias intellectual kite. Instead, ClarenceThomas ins a thoughtful, highly principled jurist, with a much deeperundrstanding of our Constitution and its foundations than many of hiscolleagues on the Court,(Andthe entire Democratic membership of theSenate Judiciary commitee, for that matter.)While Gerber is critical ofmany of Thomas' opinions,he is never crudely dismissive. Instead, he showsjust how scholarly and intelligent thisvery misunderstood justice is.Whydo I call this book 'courageous'.For one reason, and one reason alone. As Ihave already said, Scott Gerber is a rising star of constitutionaltheory.He is also a Liberal, in the classical, libertarian sense. However,in defending Thomas, he has risked prevokingthe wrath of some veryinfluential people. He has several hair -raising anecdotes in this bookabout how reputable law reviews have refused to print anything favorable toClarence Thomas, and it is indeed doubtful that this fine book will meetwith the respect it deserves.Even now, it has only been reviewed in'conservative' magazines, while such organs of "liberalism" asThe New Republic ,The New York Review of Books,and The New York Times havegreeted it with silence.One can only hope that Americas leading law reviewswill not follow in their footsteps,and instead showthe same maturity andcourage as Scott Gerber.Both he and Justice Thomas deserve respect. ... Read more

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"Bateman and Snell's Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World" is a text with a fully modernized functional approach. This text is maintaining the four traditional functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, while modernizing and re-visioning the concepts as delivering strategic value, building a dynamic organization, mobilizing people, and learning and changing. Bateman/Snell' results-oriented approach is a unique hallmark of this textbook.In this ever more competitive environment, there are five essential types of performance, on which the organization beats, equals, or loses to the competition which are cost, quality, speed, innovation and new to this eighth edition, service. These five performance dimensions, when done well, deliver value to the customer and competitive advantage to you and your organization. Throughout the text, Bateman and Snell remind students of these five dimensions and their impact on the "bottom line" with marginal icons contributing to the leadership and collaboration theme, which is the key to successful management. People working with one another, rather than against, is essential to competitive advantage. ... Read more

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my textbook at a great price
My management textbook is a great reference in wonderful shape at a very good price.I payed less than half of what the other college text stores wanted.

Misleading...
I ordered this book thinking that it was the paperback version of the hardcover "Management: Leading and Collaborating in the Competitive World 8th ed" book (http://www.amazon.com/Management-Leading-Collaborating-Competitive-World/dp/007338142X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263329100&sr=8-2).The title, edition, etc are ALL the same in the product descriptions.Even when clicking on the image "to see inside this book", it shows images of the hardcover edition (but it is the 6th ed!).The small yellow circle in the lower right corner of the original image says "This International Student Edition is for use outside of the U.S."(For those of you who you do not have a microscope)

This would not be a problem, except for the fact that it is an INTERNATIONAL version.Thinking it was the same version and that I was saving money for a class, I was disappointed to discover that the books are different.The chapter headings seem to be very similar, but the pages are different, and upon comparing images of the first couple pages the graphics and text are very different.It even says "This book cannot be re-exported from the country to which it is sold by McGraw-Hill.The International Edition is not available in North America."Wow, how on earth did I get it in New Jersey then????

I am sure the book is excellent, but I am EXTREMELY disappointed that the product description and images were so MISLEADING.

Now I have no idea what to do as the semester starts so soon!!!Anyone need the International version??????

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This is an easy book to follow.I like the real-life synopsis used throughout the book.I think I actually learned more from the book than I did the instructor.

Wonderful service
Text book received in a timely manor, was still is original shrink wrapping.Best deal I could ever find!

Book is great, but no CD!!
I bought this book online because it said that it was in great condition, and there was a CD with it, but when I got it the CD wasn't included!! I want my CD!!! ... Read more

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In The Present...A Young woman explores the mysteries of death through the paintings of an enigmatic artist.A young couple discovers a restless antique doll in a cemetery.The charred bodies of homeless men appear in the snowy alleys of Boston.A strange mural with an appetite for bones haunts a deserted house.In the past...A woman roams the slums of London hoping to be Jack the Ripper's next victim.Night after night a man dreams of his lonely lover and her trip to a strange museum.Following a tragic accident, a widow orders the construction of a secret chamber with walls thick enough to muffle screams.In a strange city, long ago...Women are blinded at birth; this has been the law for 500 years.Now they can see, and they are coming back from the grave to take their revenge.A cryptographer struggles to solve the mystery that may save the living from the dead.26 Stories From The author of Westermead and Cobwebs and Whispers. ... Read more

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Absorbing collection of moody stories
I don't think Scott Thomas gets his due.Westermead was as marvelous a collection of fantasy stories for adults as you can read anywhere, but I never saw it up for any awards.Lately I have been sampling some of the author's other dark fiction, and I continue to be impressed.This current title is an offering from Dark Regions Press.I think there is a limited print run so if you are at all interested you should probably go for it now instead of waiting; with the state of genre fiction these days I don't see this collection getting a second printing.The cover photograph definitely suits the mood of the book.Production qualities are good; I think I only saw a few scattered typographical errors.

Here are the contents, with the publication history:

PART ONE
7 · The House of Murals
13 · The August Ritual
17 · The Virgin
23 · Westermead Manifestation [Westermead]
27 · Bag of Hell - Mindmares Sum '98
29 · The Storm Horses - Flesh & Blood v2 #7, 2001
33 · A Certain Gravity - The Kore Nov '94
41 · Three-legged Stool - Terror Tales (online), 2002
45 · Cabin 13
51 · Thin Walls
55 · Halloween Tea - Literary Jan '98
63 · The Girl in the Attic [as by S. Robert Thomas] - Outer Darkness #22, 2001
75 · Milton Crane's Collection
81 · The Doll
83 · Winter Census
87 · The Sarah
91 · The Crippled Gate - Thirteen Stories Oct, 2002
107 · The September Fair - Flesh & Blood v2 #5 '99
115 · Shadow Painting - Shadowland Apr '98
129 · Over the Darkening Fields
131 · Hindenburg Kiss
135 · The Wickhampton Bleeding
· PART TWO
139 · A Mishap and Its Aftermath
153 · The Nyssa
147 · Julia's Fancy - Red Jack Oct, 2002
· PART THREE
165 · The Cinnamon Mask

As you can see, based on publication history, I doubt anyone has seen more than one or two of these titles elsewhere.One thing I really liked about Westermead was the overall mood the author created, melancholic, wistful, dreamlike, autumnal.There is something of that in this collection but the contents are more variable.Many of the stories are quite brief, no more than a few pages, but still manage to evoke a mood or paint a picture.Some bear special mention.The Storm Horses is one of the few stories anywhere that at least partly takes place in the Sesqua Valley but is not by Wilum Pugmire.While I liked the moodiness of it, I can't say it was so horrific that it should have been set in Innsmouth.Also usually the fate of those who come into the shadow of Mount Selta is much more ambiguous.Anyway, it was a very nice surprise for me.Bag of Hell certainly gave me a creepy sensation.I also liked Julia's Fancy which took me in a different direction than any Jack the Ripper tale I have ever read.I was certainly captivated by all the contents beginning to end, but the title story, Hindenburg Kiss and the novella which closes the book deserve special praise as well.

If you are new to Scott Thomas' prose this is as good a collection as anywhere to start, although Westermead is his masterpiece.
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This series of essays addresses the issue regarding the ministry of women in the church. The essays deal with grammatical, linguistic, exegetical, hermeneutical, and theological points and constitute one of the most comprehensive treatments to date on the subject. ... Read more

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The Rarest Fruits are the Sweetest
Rarely does a book earn the status of the definitive work on any subject as quickly as "Women in the Church." Heralded by scholars and theologians like D.A. Carson, Scott Hafemann, Peter T. O'Brien and John Piper. The design of this book is to walk a reader through all the various hermeneutical and exegetical stages in interpreting any text of Scripture. The reader is expertly guided through stages like historical research, genre analysis, word study, syntactical analysis, etc. . . The real challenged posed by this book is not ideological but exegetical. You may not like the conclusions of the contributors, but their conclusions result from careful, detailed, and sound exegesis. This book is the standard exegetical work on 1 Timothy 2:9-15 and has yet to meet any serious rival. In fact, because of its enduring contribution a revised second edition is slated for publication.

Drop your biases and examine the text
That basically sums it up for the approach taken by Kostenberger, et. al., in this book. Most interesting is the survey across secular literature regarding the NT hapax /authentew/ (pardon the transliteration). The arguments and conclusions are not based on emotional appeal but rather on cold, hard examination of the text of the original. Several chapters by several authors examine different aspects of a complete interpretation of this troubling yet frequently written about text. No matter what you think about the issue of women in the leadership of the church, Kostenberger et. al. demand your attention -- and you'll be glad you gave it. This book helps immensely in seperating the wheat from the chaff when examining this particular issue.

Be Careful If You Choose to Read this Book
"By Their Fruit You Shall Know Them."This book is currently OUT OF PRINT.That should tell you something!Instead of wasting your time trying to find a copy of this outdated and biased book, take a look at the bestselling title called "Why Not Women?: A Fresh Look at Scripture on Women in Missions, Ministry and Leadership"by Loren Cunningham to find the truth about the difficult scriptures regarding women.

Must buy for those seeking truth
The editors of this book did an outstanding job of compiling authors of the highest caliber and those who would take the exegetical task seriously.This book offers the serious reader an opportunity to see the goldavailabe in 1 Timothy 2.If anyone is willing to push aside their emotionsand ready to see what scripture has to say regarding women's role in thechurch, this book will give you an historic, but exciting new look at 1Timothy 2. ... Read more

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Here’s your ticket to a ’round-the-world journey with amost unusual tour guide. Departing from Sarah’s bedroom, her yawnmakes an eastbound tour of the globe through Cuba, France, Chad,Russia, China, the blue Pacific, Peru…and beyond. Will it everstop?!Bouncy rhymes and watercolor collages enliven each episode inthis infectiously funny tale of a silent phenomenon familiar to eventhe most wide-awake sleepyhead in the world. ... Read more

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Cute story
This is a cute story with some fun artwork. It shows how a yawn spreads from person-to-person (and sometimes via animal) all the way around the world.

Some of it is just silly fun. E.g., "A lady with three fancy poodles / dug into her plate of noodles / then plopped into a soggy snooze. / They put it on the morning news."

The book falls short of five stars because, in racing from place-to-place around the world, it lacks a continuing character. Kids like a character they can follow, and identify with, throughout a book.

Must Have for Kid's Book Collection
My daughter is a little over a year old and she loves this book.It has become a requirement for our bedtime routine.She hands it to me when she is tired as a way to tell me it is time to go to bed.It is such a clever story and has great illustrations.The only problem with reading it to a toddler is that she enjoys turning the pages and tears them sometimes.I would definitely recommend this as a gift or an addition to your own child's library.

Love It!
This is probably one of the best books in our collection.What a great imagination the author has!I like how at the end you fold back the flap, and there is little Sara fast asleep after her yawn affected so many people.A must have!!

get ready to yawn AND giggle!
This is a sweet book - what a clever story! My 4yr old and I read this recently and both were giggling because we kept yawning. Nice story for bedtime!!!

A Must Have!
This is the perfect picture book for bed time reading.It is beautifully written and illustrated! ... Read more

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The first of three books of the Darkmatter trilogy: Mindweb, Micah and Darkmatter.This is a science fiction set in modern day Earth. A computer breakthrough results in a self-aware program that is intent onpreserving itself and manipulating the humans around it.

When Matt Krag, a young scruffy recluse, picked up a job programming a non-existent vacuum cleaner, that is all he thought it was, just a future appliance. But as the days passed, the program he was writing touched him deep inside, awakening a desire he had lost years earlier. In his growing program he saw potential that he had always dreamed about – the possibility of taking the program to levels that nobody else had ever matched.

Hiding his evolving creation for fear that the world would take it, it grew until he could wait no longer, he had to give his child a body, opening a door that could never be shut - he was not sure the world was ready for the ultimate appliance.
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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Printed for L.B. Seeley, sold also by Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly in 1822 in 715 pages; Subjects: Clergy; Calvinists; Biography & Autobiography / Religious; Religion / Christianity / Anglican; Religion / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources; Religion / Clergy; Religion / Christianity / Denominations; ... Read more

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The continued spread of democracy into the twenty-first century has seen two-thirds of the almost two hundred independent countries of the world adopting this model. In these newer democracies, one of the biggest challenges has been to establish the proper balance between the civilian and military sectors. A fundamental question of power must be addressed--who guards the guardians and how? In this volume of essays, contributors associated with the Center for Civil-Military Relations in Monterey, California, offer firsthand observations about civil-military relations in a broad range of regions including Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Despite diversity among the consolidating democracies of the world, their civil-military problems and solutions are similar--soldiers and statesmen must achieve a deeper understanding of one another, and be motivated to interact in a mutually beneficial way. The unifying theme of this collection is the creation and development of the institutions whereby democratically elected civilians achieve and exercise power over those who hold a monopoly on the use of force within a society, while ensuring that the state has sufficient and qualified armed forces to defend itself against internal and external aggressors. Although these essays address a wide variety of institutions and situations, they each stress a necessity for balance between democratic civilian control and military effectiveness. ... Read more

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The most important radical analysts of our time present a comprehensive account of the current financial crisis.Most accounts of the current financial crisis tell a story of deregulation, out-of-control markets and irresponsible speculation. But few of those works have done more than regurgitate the newspaper coverage. In contrast, The Great Credit Crash digs deeper, drawing on some of the most prominent radical analysts of the modern market to foreground the key questions that are still waiting to be answered.

This volume presents a more complete and convincing analysis of the recent economic disaster, which is revealed as a product of a social order built during the triumphalist years of neoliberal capitalism. The contributors assess current events and political responses, critically examining official rhetoric and hegemonic narratives to point the way to an understanding of the crisis beyond the subprime headlines. ... Read more

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From the farm and orchard lands of the mid-1880s to the Civil War encampments, from modest wood frame homes to vast residences of Victorian splendor, the area surrounding the closely located Logan, Scott, and Thomas Circles has for many years been at the center of a rich history. Comprising a diverse architectural and social heritage, these neighborhoods have played a part in the great story of the capital city and have been home to the workingman and woman, the wealthy, the middle class, and the politically powerful alike. Following their use as the site of hangman's gallows for Civil War traitors, all three circles evolved into lush parks surrounded by the elegant, Victorian-era homes that housed nearly all of the nation's elite by the 1890s. Prior to the turn of the twentieth century, these neighborhoods were home to Washington's most influential citizens pioneers and politicians, generals and industrialists and, in the 1930s, to well-known leaders of the city's African-American community, such as Mary McLeod Bethune and Bishop Charles M. Sweet Daddy Grace. Logan Circle survives much as it was today, but many readers will not recognize the early homes, now long gone, that once surrounded Scott and Thomas Circles and have since been replaced by office buildings, hotels, and commercial establishments. Fortunately, a compelling visual record of the development of Logan, Scott, and Thomas Circles remains. ... Read more

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Three Circles in Washington D.C.
Within a few blocks of each other in Washington, D.C. lie three circles with equestrian statues commemorating three American heroes. Logan Circle, located at the intersection of 13th street and Rhode Island and Vermont Avenues N.W. and Massachusetts Ave N.W. honors General John Logan, a hero of the Battles of Vicksburg and Atlanta, a founder of Memorial Day, and a U.S. Senator and unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate in 1884. Thomas Circle, located about two blocks west of Logan Circle at 14th and Massachusetts Ave N.W. honors Civil War General George Thomas, one of the Union's greatest generals best-known as the "Rock of Chickamauga".Two blocks further west at 16th and M Street is Scott Circle, named for Winfield Scott, a hero of the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, several Indian wars, and the Civil War, and unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1852.Each of the three circles has a long history and each has witnessed much of the varied life of the city.

In his book "The Neighborhoods of Logan, Scott, and Thomas Circles", (2001), Washington D.C. architectural historian Paul K. Williams offers a photographic history of each of the three circles.This book is part of the "Images of America" series of Arcadia Press which celebrates in photographs much of the local history of the United States. Williams has written several books on Washington D.C. neighborhoods for Arcadia Press, including a volume on Dupont Circle, which lies only a few blocks west of Scott Circle. In his book, Williams presents a brief introduction to Logan, Thomas, and Scott Circles, followed by separate chapters devoted to each neighborhood.

Today's Logan Circle began its history as a Civil War camp which became notorious as a site for hanging deserters and spies.After the Civil War, the Circle became a premier Washington, D.C. residential area, the home of notables such as Ulysses Grant and John Logan himself. At the turn of the Century Logan Circle became home to Washington D.C.'s black elite. The statute to Logan was dedicated in 1901, and Congress changed the name of the circle from "Iowa Circle" to Logan Circle in 1930. Beginning in 1940s, Logan Circle entered into a long, severe period of decline and blight.Together with Thomas Circle, Logan Circle became the center of Washington D.C.'s red-light district, downplayed somewhat by Williams. Rehabilitation of the area began in earnest in the 1970s and continues today. The area was recognized as a Historic District in 1972.Williams offers fascinating views of the many historic homes in the Logan Circle area and of persons who have called Logan Circle home, including early Civil Rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune, and Bishop Charles "Sweet Daddy" Grace, the founder of the D.C. church known as the "United House of Prayer for all People."The most impressive photographs are those of Logan Circle itself, at various times, seasons of the year, and states of repair. The Circle and General Logan bear witness to the changes seen in the area.

Thomas Circle is today the site of one of Washington D.C's busiest intersections, but it too began as a rural area. The statue to General Thomas dates from 1879.Unlike Logan Circle, Thomas Circle became commercialized.The large residences which one occupied the area were replaced by large hotels and businesses, creating today's urban environment. The Luther Place Memorial Church and the Christian National City Church lie on the northeast and northwest sides of Thomas Circle and add great presence. An underpass was constructed under the Circle on Massachusetts Avenue in 1940.Here again, Williams' most impressive photographs are those of General Thomas and his circle, such as the stunning photograph of the statue during a cold winter night of 1918 (p. 69). Williams again downplays the lengthy period ofnotoriety of Thomas Circle.

Scott Circle actually includes three memorials. In thinking about this book, I visited Scott Circle and watched the endless flow of pedestrians and traffic.Scott Circle itself has no place to sit, and I went to the large memorial to the German physician Samuel Hahnemann, dedicated in 1900 (p. 98) just east of the statue of Scott.Scott's statue dates from 1874.Just west of the statue to Scott is a statue to Senator Daniel Webster, dedicated on a winter's day in 1900.( p. 95) During its early years, Scott Circle was home to large mansions owned by the politically powerful and the wealthy.The character of the area changed, and today Scott Circle consists of office and apartment buildings that bear little relationship to the historical character of the area that Williams documents. Williams offers interesting photographs of the interiors and exteriors of the old mansions. He falls victim to confusion in mistaking Winfield Scott for his near namesake, General Winfield Scott Hancock, the Union hero of the Battle of Gettysburg. The purported photograph of Winfield Scott in Williams' book (p. 87) is in fact a photo of Hancock. Scott Circle has an interesting history but little of the racy past of Logan and Thomas Circles.

Williams offers a gentrified but still excellent introduction to three old neighborhoods. It is a delight to walk through these Circles and to think about what these distinguished generals on horseback have seen over the years.

Robin Friedman

Great neighborhood resource
Williams is doing a marvelous job of illuminating the history of Washington DC's neighborhoods (first title was the Dupont Circle neighborhood & forthcoming 'Greater U Street').Discriminating eye for the photographs that illustrate architectural history, social history & the portraits of those who shaped neighborhood development. ... Read more

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