Operative Optimism

Operative Optimism
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Operative Optimism
Federico Soriano
Manufacturer: Actar
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 8495951606
Release Date: 2005-09-01

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A compilation of the most recent exploits of European architecture, Operative Optimism is a sort of optimist's manifesto on the possibilities and challenges of present-day architecture. Influenced by a new digital context, these architects reconsider their work in different ways but always with a firm belief in the material results of their profession. Six chapters explore the subject: "Synthetic Logic" offers concise and direct ways to provide solutions to a given project. "Direct Logic" offers unbiased and uninhibited attitudes. "Productive Logic" explores new forms of materializing the potentials of manufacturing. "Interactive Logic" looks at the new possible relations between edifice, matter, and nature. "Processing Logic" explores projects that consider information as a means of providing shape. "Genetic Logic" examines design in accordance with dynamic and evolutionary systems. With contributions by FOA, MVRDV, UN Studio, Actar Arquitectura, V. Guallart, D. Lewis, F. Roche, F. Soriano, NOMAD, Neutelings & Riedijk, Njiric + Njiric, Lacaton & Vassal, W. Mller, NOX, Abalos & Herreros, NL Architects, Pariphariques, and IaN+.

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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 846 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Good news on local news: There are bright spots out there, particularly on cable. (Broadcast Views).
Author: Deborah Potter
Publication: American Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: University of Maryland
Volume: 24 Issue: 8 Page: 84(1)

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Instructor's manual, The broadcast news process, third edition

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Instructor's manual, The broadcast news process, third edition
Frederick Shook
Manufacturer: Morton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0895821702

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As part of the Special Section of Britain's Ministry of Intelligence, Tara Chace is one of a handful of operatives codenamed Minders-the people they call when politics gets particularly dirty. In a world of questionable morals, is it better to assassinate a general in the Russian mafia, to take his life, rather than allow him to peddle more guns and drugs in underprivileged countries? Tara's bosses seem to think so, and she is dispatched to Kosovo to take him out. Unfortunately for her, the action forces the Russian mafia to ask their own question-once someone has taken the life of one of their officers, can they continue to let that person live? The action sequences are fast-paced and exciting, but the truly engaging part of the book is how sharply Rucka and Rolston are able to define even minor characters. --Publisher's Weekly

$Sobre el fracaso del marxismo: hablar es muy fácil.(TT: About the failure of Marxism: talking is easy): An article from: Siempre!$
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Sobre el fracaso del marxismo: hablar es muy fácil.(TT: About the failure of Marxism: talking is easy): An article from: Siempre!
Cuauhtémoc Amezcua Dromundo
Manufacturer: Edicional Siempre
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0009888J8
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on May 7, 1998. The length of the article is 1033 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sobre el fracaso del marxismo: hablar es muy fácil.(TT: About the failure of Marxism: talking is easy)
Author: Cuauhtémoc Amezcua Dromundo
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: May 7, 1998
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: v44 Issue: n2342 Page: p39(1)

Article Type: Biography

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Fracaso del Socialismo, El
R. L. Guillen
Manufacturer: Letra Buena
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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This outstanding collection of Michael Brennan's writing spans almost thirty years and reflects the rapid development and growing importance of the field of finance over this period.

The papers cover corporate finance, option pricing and derivative markets, international finance and role of information in financial markets. The chapters on corporate finance include Brennan's seminal 1970 paper on the effects of personal taxation on financial market equilibrium, an analysis of consistency in utility rate regulation, and the classic piece on the application of options analysis to natural resource investments. The chapters on option pricing range from the earliest analysis of the American put option, to a synthesis of methods of valuing derivatives, to portfolio insurance, and the effect of derivatives on trading volume and welfare. His more recent papers include empirical asset pricing studies and an innovative proposal to strip the dividends from the S&P500 portfolio.

Michael Brennan has been at the forefront of recent developments in financial economics and financial management and this collection of his work will be warmly welcomed by those working in finance, monetary economics, banking and financial sector research.

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A quick, witty, and comprehensive reference guide to grammar and style for the business writer.

Written to help the business person gain a grammatical advantage on his or her competition, Working with Words in Business and Legal Writing is a quick and complete guide to writing clear and concise e-mails, letters, and reports. By using real-world before-and-after examples from her workshop, Dr. Lynne Agress examines and explains the most common grammatical pitfalls in business writing and helps the reader focus on avoiding confusing and incorrect language. Some of the topics Dr. Agress focuses on are:

* transitional phrases / use of voice
* awkward sentence structures
* proper punctuation
* tone
* jargon and pretentious prose With special sections on selecting a writing workshop / consultant, communicating over the Internet and editing others' work, Working with Words in Business and Legal Writing provides the quickest way to clear communication for business in the twenty-first century.

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Light, and not even fluffy.......2006-02-25

This book was a bit of a disappointment. The content itself is light -- if you don't already understand one of the points, there often isn't enough there to help you "get it". The book also flits back and forth between being targeted at business writing and at legal writing, but it never does the transition well, and doesn't really do either one justice.

The author also keeps denigrating "jargon", but doesn't distinguish between pretentious language and technical jargon.

Finally, the appendices made NO sense to me at all when I got to them. It sounded like the author has some pet peeves or theory that she wanted to put into the book, but couldn't make them fit anywhere else. Now that I've read the Amazon entry for the book, it makes sense -- the author sells traveling writing workshops, and the appendices would seem to be trying to market those, albeit indirectly.

General and "light.".......2002-06-24

First, I can't recommend this book for lawyers--even though the title suggests that it is aimed partly at legal writing. There is simply not enough concrete legal-writing advice to make the book worthwhile for a lawyer.

Second, the book will probably be of limited use to other writers as well. The advice is good, but "light." In other words, the book offers very general principles and not much concrete guidance on specific writing problems. The chapters are short and easy to read, but they don't cover anything in much depth.

How to effectively use words in business and legal writing.......2002-06-04

In Working With Words In Business And Legal Writing, examples on how to effectively use words in business and legal writing provides basic keys gained from the author's writing and editing workshops, tackling a host of business writing problems ranging from jargon and wordiness to passive voice and transitional phrases. A special section on email etiquette and usage completes this invaluable guide.

Raising CuddleBugs and BraveHearts Vol. II: Adult Temperament and Parenting Styles
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central place of temperament in parenting

Raising CuddleBugs and BraveHearts Vol. II: Adult Temperament and Parenting Styles
Nancy J. Harkey , and Teri L. Jourgensen
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Parenting | Parenting & Families | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 1418416967

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Since Dr. Spock published Baby and Child Care in 1941 there has been a seemingly endless stream of books with advice on parenting. In spite of that great effort-much of it wise and useful-parenting has not become easier, and outcomes for our children do not seem to be improving. According to many authorities, they are worsening. Authors Harkey and Jourgensen strongly suggest that a major flaw in most parenting advice is the assumption that one child is much like another, and one parent is much like another. Instead, the unique and highly individual temperament of the child makes a world of difference in how that child learns and socializes, how he or she responds to discipline, learns self-control, reasons, and makes decisions about life. Parent temperament, in turn, has a profound influence on actual parenting style, no matter what theoretical model the parent follows. In the first volume of a two volume set-Raising CuddleBugs, BraveHearts, WorkerBees and ButterFlies: Measuring and Understanding Temperament in Children-the authors give parents a well researched questionnaire for measuring temperament in children, and a thorough description of temperament differences in children's behaviors. In Volume II, subtitled Adult Temperament and Parenting Styles, parents are shown how to explore and understand their own temperament, and how to look at the effects of parent temperament on their expectations for their children and on their own parenting style. The most accepted research model for good parenting is described, and parents are challenged to "stretch" toward this model while staying within their own temperament comfort zone.

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central place of temperament in parenting.......2005-02-25

The two volumes cover the two primary elements in the child-parent relationship--namely, the temperament of the child and the temperament of the parent. As anyone who has had this relationship knows, these temperaments do not always mesh ideally or effectively. With their professional and working experiences in the field of child care, Harkey and Jourgensen take a good look at the crucial place of the respective temperaments in child-rearing. With this, they provide tests for identifying different types of temperaments and discuss how the interaction of the different--sometimes similar, sometimes complementary, sometimes opposing--child and parent temperaments work in the relationship. Harvey has been a professor of psychology at California State University-Pomona. Her daughter Jourgensen is a certified trainer for the Myers-Brigg Temperament Indicator who gives workshops on temperament measurement and parenting.
The importance of temperament in the child-parent relationship cannot be overestimated. As the experienced authors point out, the two different temperaments making for the nexus of the child-parent relationship are usually the main factor in the degree of success or failure of child-rearing. No one would deny this is the basis for the quality of the relationship between a parent and child.
In focusing on temperament, the co-authors recognize the conditions for the effectiveness of any school of parenting. The usually overlooked or taken-for-granted subject of temperament they bring in does not aim to replace any school, theory, style, etc., but to form the basis for how guidance, rules, discipline, etc., are brought into and inculcated in child-rearing. They offer no quick fix to any problems of parenting or a child-parent relationship. But their subject and the counsel they relate in applying it is invaluable for parents, teachers, counselors, etc., regarding the challenges, dilemmas, and uncertainties of relationships with young persons.

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In The Psychologizing of Modernity, Mark Jarzombek examines the impact of psychology on twentieth-century aesthetics. Analyzing the interface among psychology, art history and avant-gardist practices, he also reflects on the longevity of the myth of aesthetic individuality as it infiltrated not only avant-garde art, but also history writing. The principle focus of this study is pre-World War II Germany, where theories of empathy and Entartung emerged; and postwar America, where artists, critics and historians gradually shifted from their reliance on psychology to philosophy, and most recently, to theory.

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Questioning Psychology.......2005-01-01

This book is a penetratign assessment of how psychology has been imposed on our educational system. It looks in particular at the art and architectural scene (looking at Dewey, Arnheim and Danto, for example) but raises important questions of a more general nature about the ideology of selfhood in the modern world. This book is by the same author who wrote on the Renaissance humanist Leon Battista Alberti.

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