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Simple method of creating 4, 6, and 8 segmented designs using tracing and carbon paper.

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Endless Creative Possibilities!.......2001-06-02

This is an inexpensive two-in-one deal, and the creative possibilities are virtually limitless!

First, it's a book with 37 different kaleidoscope designs to be colored. The unique and fun designs include animals, plants, people, activities, icons, and many more. Each design has a title that gives a clue as to what it is (i.e., "Play Ball" for a design made up of baseball players and equipment), which comes in handy when trying to figure out what you're looking at. Although there are a couple of pretty basic designs, for the most part they are rather intricate. Younger kids might do better creating their own designs rather than trying to color the ones provided.

The book also gives instructions on how to create kaleidoscope designs. Little ones will need help (use of an X-Acto knife is involved), but the designs will be all theirs. The instructions are a little involved, but not too bad. Three "window" wedge templates are included to cut out and use as guides, but other materials are also needed. Some of these might not be everyday household items (i.e., carbon paper, protractor), but they are inexpensive and relatively easy to find.

The designs are printed back-to-back, but the paper is relatively heavy, so pens and markers can generally be used without bleeding through and ruining the design on the next page.

If you're highly creative or just want a good way to pass the time, I recommend this book.

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CD-ROM and workbook study aids.

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A MUST for Economics majors!.......2000-04-25

For anyone who wants to learn, and really understand, the principles of Microeconomics, this electronic companion software is an absolute must.

As an Economics major several years ago in college, I picked up the software on the recommendation of a past professor. My intention was to bone up on the basic concepts to better prepare for my pursuit of an MBA. What I found was an outstanding product that not only refreshed my memory of Economics, but taught me things I never knew before.

The difference is the product's use of mulitimedia to convey the information. Whereas I would toil over a textbook for hours during my college days, trying to comprehend a particular concept; this software illustrates the concepts using graphics, voice-overs, video, etc. that bring everything to life. Otherwise totally abstract ideas actually make sense. And it is done in such a way that the software is enjoyable to use.

I wish I would have had a tool like this while I was in college. For those studying Microeconomics, this is a tool you simply can't do without.

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The author addresses the boom-bust pattern of office construction of the past decade or so, and how to avoid such cycles in the future. He reviews recent research developments in the main line real estate economics literature and uses techniques from geography, and more qualitative institutional evidence on how markets function, to illuminate behavioral differences "among" office users. The first in a new series of monographs sponsored by the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA). The AREUEA monograph series is designed to provide teachers, students, and practitioners with a comprehensive and timely presentation of recent research materials translated into summary form, which is more quickly and easily comprehended than journal articles and specialized studies. These studies review old views, new techniques, and recent data. They should be particularly useful as supplements to classroom instruction or continuing professional education of practitioners.

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Dynamics of Property Location
Russel Schiller
Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis
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This book examines the reasons behind property location and how they are changing. Different theories relating to property location are examined and the book also covers retail industry, offices, industrial and residential property.

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Middle school essay

This should have been a blog

Hands down winner ... with a content straight from the heart and guts. Read ON

lots of editing needed

Interesting subject, below average implementation

Dude, Did I Steal Your Job? Debugging Indian Computer Programmers
N. Sivakumar
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Outsourcing America: What's Behind Our National Crisis And How We Can Reclaim American Jobs

ASIN: 0975514008

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The backlash against outsourcing American jobs to countries like India had transformed into an anti-immigrant and anti-Indian atmosphere lately. While looking at outsourcing and high-tech visa programs from a completely different angle --and giving an enjoyable account of Indian programmers -- this book answers, in an extremely balanced way, the following complicated questions that have been raised by many American programmers, talkshow hosts, news anchors and politicians:

. If outsourcing is inevitable, what's next for Americans?

· Did America really benefit from immigrant programmers?

· Was there never a need to bring immigrant programmers to the U.S.?

· Are Indian immigrant programmers nothing but corporate lapdogs?

· Are Indian programmers dumb as rocks and incapable of thinking outside of the box?

· Did Indian immigrant programmers support the September 11th attacks?

· Did Americans invent everything that belongs to the computer industry?

· Is the Indian education system far below world standards?

· Is there an organized Indian mafia in American universities that hires only Indian cronies?

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Middle school essay.......2007-10-19

The book would make a good middle school essay, the language is very primitive. I am an immigrant myself, and if I ever wrote a book, this is how it would look like.
The author can not neither develop his thought nor follow it to come to any logical conclusions, his arguments are far-fetched and conclusions are rather strange.
In general, he pictures Indian immigrant community as rather shallow people, just look at a few observations he makes:
- "everything we do is to satisfy Mr.Stomach"
- "the guy is in the survival mode"
- "I take safety over freedom any time".

We have our share of cross-cultural misunderstanding between Indian and other immigrants, but the picture he draws is too dark and does not sit well with my experience.

This should have been a blog.......2007-03-02

In this thin book Sivakumar brings out several interesting and thought provoking points. I am sure the author is a sharp guy, but he should have "refactored" the contents into a tight 50 pages cutting out all the crap and repetitions. I would have given it 4.5 stars if the author was not so repetitive and apologetic. The editing is done poorly. IMO, this would have been good Blog material and would have gained more readership. I wanted to give the book 3.5 stars but there is no option for giving half stars. Worth a read.

Hands down winner ... with a content straight from the heart and guts. Read ON.......2006-04-17

I'm an Indian software prof working in US for a short while, when I saw this book lying on the desk of my american architect, for the first time I thought - "Why would he buy such a book?". I smiled at him to find out only that he bought it for some humour :).

Without much expectations when I started reading this book, I was taken back in awe and full praise for the honesty, clarity and the extremely balanced way of putting thoughts across in both perspectives. This is a winner hands down!(sans the technical jittery and flaws). Although it poorly structures itself grammatically with repeated thoughts, lacks proper editing, uses poor use of english literature and writing style, one has to rem that this is not a book to review how good the writing style is. It was not meant to be in the first place. What do you expect from a Software professional who intends to write an honest piece of observation? Every Software product has bugs, let's accept it :)

My fav read was the comparisons between American and Indian - "average" Programmers, taking no strides at making a conclusion on "all" programmers but just the average. Other shocking facts are the average money spent on America by the H1B professionals into the American economy (very true again), their contributions to innovation and entrepreneurial end goals, how they created much more jobs than before with the startups and the mirror effect that they bring in their home country to make American products inturn a great market. In fact this alone could have had a dedicated chapter. A mention of the the big names that we have in the industry today and reminding us they were indeed immigrants from the past from various countries from Canada to Denmark reminds us of the truth.

On the downside, the facts that Sivakumar states here are not backed by solid references, however those who are in the same shoes as his will agree with him that they come up accurate probability.

A reader who reads the facts produced in this book and makes an attempt to think out of the box with rationale and not just his/her job and blind patriotism will see a different shade. One will sensibly start accepting that American dream is in fact, about equal oppurtunities, free economy, embracing immigrants and at the end the country benefits from compteting with it.

There is no YOU and ME.

This is a land of oppurtunities! No other country in the world has the same passion and thats what makes this country truly great, its sad that there are a few who still do not understand or appreciate this ...

I enjoyed reading this book as much as he might have written it with passion. The way he puts "I love America ... I love India .. Sri Lanka too" towards the end creates a perfect harmony, which we very much need in this world today. Dont we have enough hatred building today for lack of proper information, relegious intolerence, cultural indifferences and socia-economic imbalance?

I personally had a great time with my fellow american colleagues so far and they inspire me in many ways (although I did hear some of my other friends facing acute backlashes), I can only hope this american dream for many like me and others from all around the world to pursue their passion in this great country would continue on a positive note and hope that books like these can bring in the missing food for thought that the industry needs at this moment.

4/5

lots of editing needed.......2005-03-18

The author presents several interesting points about the discussion revolving imigrant programmers and in particular Indian programmers holding work visas here in the US. He is addressing the issue in a light-hearted manner, though I am sure he has a strong emotional attachment to it and/or knows quite a few people with very strong feelings about it.

It is a controversial topic - not necessarily something to make light of and discuss on a lazy Sunday morning.

This certainly could have been a very useful and relevant text, but in its current form the implementation is quite unfortunate. It is quite poorly edited, having an unnecessary number of spelling and grammar errors. This is not just in those sections where the grammatical shortcomings of other people are indicated. I found some bad, bad wording, where I assume the author attempted to use humor to lighten up the mood or tried to make his monologue flow swifter. This painfully backfires in those instances though when he indicates that he can't help you out any further, if you "didn't get" his reasoning and that maybe you should try some medication. Sorry - that's no way to gain credibility.

The more severe blunder that I found however is the complete lack of resources. The author uses quite a few apparently direct quotes, mentions statistics and also casually mentions that "someone said something" - without ever providing a proper source where the reader could actually find out more about the context. The work loses quite a lot of credibility this way.

No, I don't doubt that many of the quotes and other "supporting evidence" bear truth, but the absence of the references to actual source leaves me guessing. Trying to take a serious issue serious, I would like to see the provided reasoning (no matter for which side) duely backed up and not possibly taken out of context and used where it seemed fitting.

Interesting subject, below average implementation.......2005-02-21

If you want to buy this book to learn about the culture of the immigrant software community, don't. The book's "useful" part is only 30 DOUBLESPACED pages (out of 189 total). Author gives only very cursory overview from which you learn a few interesting details (for example, that average Indian programmer spends $400 for phone calls to India a month - which at current rates of $0.33/min comes to 40 minutes of talk time per day), but there's only so much one can fit in an equivalent of 15 "real" pages.
The rest of the book is one extended answer to the various anti-immigrant people with whom the author have communicated online. There are multiple problems with that. First, the quality of the writeup is very similar to what you'd read on these kinds of blogs - it's not that well researched, massively repetitive, sometimes downright silly (the author for example says that w/o the immigrant labor there wouldn't be Microsoft, Cisco, etc - of course, most of these companies already existed and enjoyed considerable market power before bringing in immigrant developers had become popular). The book is poorly reviewed - within one page author says that there were 2 million visas issued, then makes the number 3 million, in another place he manages to spell Linus' name as "Travolds".

Resume: the topic is interesting, I do share author's basic premises, but the argument does not do justice to the topic. We need real journalist to develop it. Get Sy Hersh on the subject, then the book might be worth reading :-).

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Being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease can be distressing, and adjusting to the effects of the disease is often difficult. This indispensable resource for patients, family, friends, and caregivers helps patients rise above PD’s challenges by working smarter, maintaining a positive outlook, and conserving time and energy. Organized by subject, the book covers a wide range of topics, including making the home more accessible; dressing aids and simple clothing adaptations; using technology to improve communication; eating and drinking tips for people with difficulty swallowing; mobility and exercise; managing home health care; cars and driving; leisure and recreational activities; travel; and much more. A resource section at the end of each chapter contains contact information for the agencies, organizations, and products mentioned. Completely revised and updated to include over 65 new tips and 40 additional resources, the book enables readers to become more independent and lead remarkably unlimited lives.

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Parkinson's Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier.......2007-04-10

I purchased 2 copies of this book after researching available books on the topic. Gave 1 to my step-dad and 1 to my mother-in-law. They both have found this book VERY helpful. My mother-in-law refers to almost daily. At her request I purchased a 3 copy for her nephew who also has this horrible disease. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who has the disease.

300 Tips for Making Life with Parkinson's Disease Easier

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Excellent tips for people with PD

300 Tips for Making Life with Parkinson's Disease Easier
Shelley Peterman Schwarz
Manufacturer: Demos Medical Publishing
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ASIN: 188879965X

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This book contains tips, techniques, and shortcuts learned from personal experience and arranged in categories of daily activities for easy reference. Each chapter begins with insights and observaitons of people living with Parkinson's. Readers then learn basic time and energy conservaiton driven by three principles: alternate activity with rest, plan ahead, and use labor-saving devices and new technology There are many varied strategies readers can use to become more independent, including realistic organizational skills, working smarter, if not faster, streamlining daily activities, staying involved and in touch, and discovering local state and national resources. The book also contains tips for caregivers.

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Helpful.......2004-09-21

This book gave me great ideas on how to take care of, prepare for the future and deal with my husbands PD. Very informative!

Excellent tips for people with PD.......2003-01-16

This book is a great resource for people with PD. It has a chapter about the special challenges of eating/swallowing with PD, which was very detailed and informative. I'd recommend the book.

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A remarkable account of what has been called 'the most decisive naval battle since Trafalgar.'--Los Angeles Times

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One of my favorite books.......2004-08-24

This book is a great example of how compelling history can be in the hands of a great writer, one who puts a human face on the history without sacrifing accuracy.

Granted, the battle of Midway was an inherently dramatic event, but other accounts of the battle don't rise to the level of Lord's writing.

This is another book I'd give a 6 if I could.

Very well written.......2003-06-01

Incredible Victory is a great telling of the events on the Battle of Midway. As events are occurring, you will 1st get the Japanese side and next you'll get the American side or vise versa. The book is written well. It is hard to put down; very interesting. Walter Lord has a good writing style. I was enjoying his book so much that before I was half way through it, I ordered his "Day of Infamy". I would buy this book again.

Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, Tom Clancy, take a back seat.......2002-08-27

Wow! Although the outcome of this battle is a given, I cannot remember a more thrilling, edge-of-the-seat read than this one. Truth is indeed more exciting than fiction, or at least it can be when the right author relates the tale. Mr Lord has shown us just how contingent and unpredictable history can be -- although nearly everything we threw at the japanese was shrugged off by the emperor's men, when we finally succeeded, it was a magnificent triumph that no one would believe if it had happened in a story. Lord's book is well-documented and he tells us a few new things about this battle -- for instance, although we had supposedly cracked the japanese code, it was more like a few bits of information rather than the entire plan.
I'd recommend it highly, but only if you have a good heart and a tolerance for intensity.

Like the History Channel?.......2001-11-07

When I was in high school, one of my assignments as a junior was to write a term paper, no less than fifteen pages, for my english class. I chose to write about the battle of Midway, because I'd heard a little about the signal intelligence that helped the Navy to know where to concentrate the Pacific Fleet, and found this book as a spectacular example of a few days broken down into manageable pieces. Lord's stories describe the demise of the four Japanese carriers sent to destroy the US presence on the Midway atoll, as well as the courage of the American pilots, who lost 42 of 52 torpedo planes against the Japanese fleet before American dive bombers caught the Japanese off guard. Though long, despite all the damage I've done to my brain since high school, I still remember certain parts of this book, about the retirement of a portrait of the Emperor, or a group of airmen in the water, or the tension surrounding the doomed Lexington. Enjoy, history buffs.

Great storytelling.......2000-07-16

Walter Lord presents the Battle of Midway as an epic adventure story in "Incredible Victory." His writes like a journalist rater than a history professor and this helps make the compelling story of the battle all the more readable. Lord shows the battle from the perspective of each of the participants and he emphasizes how the overwhelming American victory was the result of gritty determination combined with sheer luck. This is an excellent tribute to the brave men who fought perhaps America's most desperate major battle.

Midway: The Incredible Victory (Wordsworth Military Library)

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A Masterpiece of Midway
Enthralling and Breathtaking

Midway: The Incredible Victory (Wordsworth Military Library)
Walter Lord
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A Masterpiece of Midway.......2003-08-27

Walter Lord's Incredible Victory (first published in 1967) is a sequel, in a way, of his Pearl Harbor epic Day of Infamy. Just as Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon followed up At Dawn We Slept with Miracle at Midway, Lord takes readers to those early June days in 1942 when the U.S. Pacific Fleet won its "incredible victory" against a vastly superior Japanese fleet.

Although Lord and Prange's team cover the same battle and Miracle at Midway attempts to put the Midway battle in a context for contemporary readers to grasp (the anger and resolution of the American public and media are characterized as taking place in a "period [which] was unique in the American experience. A brief echo of it sounded in the 1980 hostage crisis with Iran. But in volume and intensity, that incident cannot truly compare with those few months following Pearl Harbor...." The 1982 book is impressively well researched and equally well written, but in some ways, Lord's narrative style is somehow more appealing.

Lord takes the reader back in time and into both the American and Japanese participants' many vantage points. In a natural, easy-to-digest narrative, Lord (whose best known work is A Night to Remember, about the sinking of RMS Titanic) describes the complex sequence of events of the Battle of Midway.

Because Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's plan was complicated -- full of diversionary raids, multiple approaches by various fleets, and all based on the assumption of American "complicity," Lord wisely avoids bogging down the reader with military jargon or technical analysis. Instead, he uses an almost novelistic style, telling the story from the perspective of the participants.

"Petty Officer Heijiro Omi didn't have a word to say in excuse," Lord writes at the beginning of Chapter One. "As the Admiral's chief steward, he was responsible for the food at this party -- and that included the tai, a carefully selected sea bream cooked whole. It had been a happy inspiration, for tai broiled in salt meant good luck in Japan. But this time the chef had broiled it in bean paste -- miso, to be exact -- and as every superstitious Japanese knew, that extra touch meant crowning good luck with bad."

A seemingly trivial start, one might say, but up to June of 1942 the Japanese had had nothing but good luck. In six months Japan had overrun Allied territories from Hong Kong, Malaya, Burma, Singapore, the Netherlands East Indies, the Philippines, New Guinea, and on to the Solomon Islands. Even the April Doolitle Raid on Japan and the strategic loss of the Battle of the Coral Sea seemed to the Japanese to be a few minor setbacks. Yamamoto's grand scheme, to capture the tiny atoll of Midway and lure the remnants of the United States Pacific Fleet to a final battle, was, in the minds of the Japanese, a sure recipe for victory.

The Americans, Lord writes in the foreword, "were hopelessly outclassed." Outnumbered in almost every category of warship and depending on obsolete equipment, the defenders of Midway were seemingly doomed. Yet, with the help of naval code breakers, the quiet yet determined leadership of Admirals Chester W. Nimitz and Raymond A. Spruance (who had replaced the war weary and temporarily sidelined William F. Halsey as a task force commander), and the raw courage of Midway's motley crew of sea- and land-based defenders, the Americans won the Battle of Midway and stopped Japan's advances in the Pacific.

Lord points out that the biggest reason Midway was such a disaster was the Japanese overconfident mindset. The plan, impressive on maps (with all the arrows depicting Japanese fleets converging on one spot from various directions), was far too complex for its own good. Too many ships were scattered on different missions, violating the military principle of concentration of force. Worse, everything depended on the Americans reacting exactly the way the Japanese expected them to. The plan did not allow for any unplanned contingencies, and even though the Japanese gave the U.S. Navy a bloody nose with the sinking of USS Yorktown and a destroyer (in addition to shooting down many American aircraft), Nimitz and Spruance won an incredible victory over a formidable foe.

Enthralling and Breathtaking.......2001-09-01

Superb re-enactment of The Battle of Midway when understrength American carrier task forces came up against a formidable and full strength Japanese naval carriers and battlewagons. It is the epitomy of American courage against the Japanese busido juggernaut. After Pearl Harbour, the Japanese sought to lure the remnants of the American fleet and its precious carriers to a showdown at Midway, an island between the Hawaiian Islands and Japanese held territory of Wake Island and the Marshalls. The ensuing battle proved to be a turning point of the Pacific War as the Japanese lost the cream of their superb naval aviators and four of her heavy aircraft carriers which participated in the infamous Pearl Harbour attack. Read about the tenacity of green American pilots coming up against the Imperial Navy's best pilots and emerging victorious at a horrendous cost. But the valour, bravado and sacrifice was not in vain as they smashed the Japanese behemoth to a pulp. A truly David versus Goliath insipiration war narrative. After Midway, America will be the Goliath, dominating the Pacific with massive fleets churned out by her efficient and colossal heavy industries. Get this book and boy will you be proud to be American.

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Incredible Victory the Battle of Midway

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Incredible Victory: Midway
Walter Lord
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Midway! Incredible Victory
Walter Lord
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A comprehensive bibliographic survey of the West Indian presence in the United States, this book covers over 500 articles, books, and other studies on the West Indian immigrant experience. The primary goal is to cite titles examining both the impact of the immigration experience on West Indians and the way West Indians have changed the nature of many communities in the United States. The work outlines the long history in the United States economic life, education, ethnicity and race relations, family relationships, health care, patterns of immigration and settlement, and political expression. Drawing on books, scholarly journal articles, dissertations, research reports, and significant articles from general interest magazines and newspapers, the book's goal is to lead interested students to material that examines how the United States does and does not meet the hopes and dreams of Caribbean immigrants of African descent. Providing bibliographic leads for exploring new avenues of research on West Indian Americans, the book will be especially valuable for those seeking to expand their knowledge base on this major component of our country's urban landscape.

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Fascinating Loons: Amazing Images & Behaviors
Stan Tekiela
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