Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937

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Studies the most significant American labor conflict of the 20th century

The great Flint sit-down strike against G.M. 1936-37 (Progressive Labor Party pamphlet)

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The great Flint sit-down strike against G.M. 1936-37 (Progressive Labor Party pamphlet)
Walter Linder
Manufacturer: Progressive Labor Party
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The great sit-down strike
William Weinstone
Manufacturer: Workers Library Pub
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Striking Performances-Performing Strikes: Performing Strikes (Performance Studies Series)

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Striking Performances-Performing Strikes: Performing Strikes (Performance Studies Series)
Kirk W. Fuoss
Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi
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Striking Performances/Performing Strikes (Performance Studies Series)

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Striking Performances/Performing Strikes (Performance Studies Series)
Kirk W. Fuoss
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Crossing the bar: A lawyer's odyssey in quest of the Holy Grail of the law, at home and abroad

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Crossing the bar: A lawyer's odyssey in quest of the Holy Grail of the law, at home and abroad
Michael W Evanoff
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The great Flint sit-down strike against G.M., 1936-37: How industrial unionism was won

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The great Flint sit-down strike against G.M., 1936-37: How industrial unionism was won
Walter Linder
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A laborer looks at life, then & now: Poems from the shop floor

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A laborer looks at life, then & now: Poems from the shop floor
Floyd Hoke-Miller
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The sit-down strike against General Motors, 1936-1937

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The sit-down strike against General Motors, 1936-1937
James H Begalke
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The systematics and ecology of poison-ivy and the poison-oaks (Toxicodendron, Anacardiaceae)
William T Gillis
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THE SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY OF POISON-IVY AND THE POISON-OAKS

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Fodor's Short Escapes Near NYC25 Country Getaways for People who Love to Walk
Most within 1 1/2 hours of the City

Discover the Undiscovered
Follow in the footsteps of Ichabod Crane, George Washington, Walt Whitman, and Bob Dylan and find colonial quarries, breathtaking views, remote beaches, and unspoiled riverbanks in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

Escape for a Day -- or a Weekend
Every walk can be completed in a few hours, leaving time for sightseeing. Or you can linger for the weekend in one of the recommended B&Bs.

All the information you need
Walking directions and trail maps, nearby inns and restaurants, picnic spots, public transportation

"How we decide whether a guide claiming to discover special places tourists never see really does is to ask: Has it found our own personal favorite spots? In this case the answer is 'Yes'. Curse those perceptive authors." -- New York Daily News

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Poor Directions.......2006-08-13

Don't assume that directions in the book are correct. Go to mapquest instead. We were supposed to go to an intersection of 2 roads that are in reality about two miles apart...

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Kate Sterling has lost four years of her life to grief and anger. Zeke Dexter has lost four years of his life as well -- in jail for the accident that killed Kate's mother. Just out of prison, Zeke wants to put the past behind him, but a freak blizzard makes him a prisoner once again -- he of Kate, and Kate of him.

Kate fears she will never be able to overcome the anger that has consumed her since her mother's death. But is Zeke the only one Kate needs to forgive?

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My Ethics, My Codes.......2007-03-07

My book was based on the devastating blizzard that hit North Dakota. Many people were killed or injured. Farmers lost a lot of livestock. Many bodies were found miles away from their homes. Autopsies showed that many people suffocated or died of hyperthermia.

My book was about a young girl who lost her mother in a car accident. She was hit by a drunk driver. Kate lived with her father and her brother. Then in March when her father went out to do the doctor's calls, a blizzard hit. He was right in the drive way when the car completely stopped. He didn't want to get out of the car, because he couldn't see anything. Kate was home she was worried. It turns out that the man that killed Kate's mother was walking home and stumbled across the car. So Mr. Sterling took him in. When Kate finally came out and found them, she saw him. She hated him. He ended up staying at their house until after the storm had completely stopped. Jesse grew quite fond of him. Then Zeke got hurt. Kate was watching the dishes when she heard a shrill scream. It was Jesse. She ran out to find Zeke lying on the floor moaning and groaning. Her father ordered her and Jesse to put him on the operating table. Zeke was cutting wood and completely missed the wood and got his leg. Kate debated whether or not to mess up on the procedure she was helping with. But she decided not to. After He left it all came out of her why she was so bitter. She explained to her father that the night her mother left, she told her that she hated her. So Kate held that in all that time.

Some books like that make me cry, but for some reason it didn't make me cry. I loved it though. It was suspenseful enough to keep you reading to find out what happens. So I would recommend that children in junior high should read this.

A Blizzard, A Killer and A Girl - A review by Jessica, Sasha, Amira and Sydney.......2006-03-30

"Groggy with sleep, numbed by cold."Imagine being stuck in a car, in the middle of winter, no heat, noone else, but the sound of the whirring wind. Kate Sterling is forced to face her biggest nightmare, the cause of her mother's death.

Blizzard's Wake by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is a survival story, about a young teenage girl who keeps getting haunted by Zeke Dexter, her mother's killer.

Zeke Dexter was at the wrong place at the wrong time. A drunk driver is never good news. His actions resulted in a terrible disaster, that caused a loved mother's life. Now Kate is pushed against her will and she has to live with the most hated man in Grand Forks.

The weak points of the book was that there were too many flips between characters in the begining. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor uses description, sensory images and leaves you wondering.

"The terrible awful thought that kept coming to her unbidden was that the haunting would go on until Zeke Dexter, too, was dead." This book is recommended for ages ten and above.

Will she ever forgive Zeke?

Blizzards Wake.......2006-03-23

Kate Sterling lives in a home with her father and brother. Her mother was killed in a car accident by a man named Zeke Dexter who Kate hates. When Zeke gets dismissed from jail early it puts him back on the street with no home and nobody even knowing he is out. One day Kate stayed home while her father and brother went out to the skating rink. On the way back they got stuck in a blizzard causing Kate to worry. When Kate goes out to rescue them she finds her father, a home doctor, tending to Zeke Dexter for his frostbite. Even though Kate despises him she still lets him room in their house and gradually bonds with him. Blizzards Wake is an excellent story about forgiving and is a great read for middle and high school students.
I like the resolution in this book. The resolution teaches the lesson of forgiveness to the reader because even though Kate strongly disliked Zeke she still found room in her heart to forgive him. First she was thinking about hurting him back but she didn't. Instead she opened her arms to a homeless man. This took a lot of courage from her and a lot of heart and that is what forgiveness is all about. This resolution was perfect for this novel.
I also like the plot. This story was told by two narrators. Every chapter it switched off to the other. The two narrators were Zeke and Kate. I liked this because it gave you two different perspectives. When Kate and Zeke, were in the same car it told you what Kate thought about it and what Zeke thought about it. The whole book it expressed Kate's feeling toward Zeke and Zeke's feelings about the issue. This made the book easier to understand and more interesting because it provided two different points of view.
Lastly I like the moral in the book. The moral in this book taught people to forgive because even though Kate was very mad at Zeke she still forgave him. Zeke wasn't a bad person he just had an accident which caused Kate to despise him. That is what people have to find a way to do know. Lots of people hold grudges over people or seek revenge when the other person really wants to be forgiven. This book teaches the reader to forgive.
Blizzards Wake is a very good book. All of the elements of a novel are great in this book. Even though they were not mentioned, the characters, setting, and everything else were very interesting. It taught morals as well as making fun for the reader. This book was told in two perspectives making it highly understandable and more fun to read. All together Blizzards Wake is an excellent read for middle school and high school students.

-Byron N.

Kept us on our toes.......2006-02-25

This book was a favorite in my classroom. Wehad to read very carefully though because the setting changes depending on which character is featured from chapter to chapter. There is a lot of suspense. The feeling of emotion, fear, anger, lonliness, and depression come up as discussion topics in our group. I would recommend this book for 6th and 7th grade students based upon content.

Alright.......2005-10-27

Blizzard's Wake wasn't the best book that I have read, but I wouldn't say that it is horrible. I personally wouldn't recommend the book to anyone, but I also wouldn't say it was boring. I do like Phyllis Naylor, but this isn't one of her best books. This book, though, does have many examples of emotions and it also shows what certain emotions can do to a person. This book did make me feel glad that I'm not in this situation, and showed much emotion.

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Blizzards Wake
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , and author of jade green and sang spell
Manufacturer: Scholastic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ARG.......2006-03-28

my name is alina. NEVER read this book. I read this last year(6th grade) the same things happen over and over and over. it's like come on get to the fun part! unfortunately it never comes. DO NOT BUY THIS!

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Are living organisms--as Descartes argued--just machines? Or is the nature of life such that it can never be fully explained by mechanistic models? In this thought-provoking and controversial book, eminent geophysicist Walter M. Elsasser argues that the behavior of living organisms cannot be reduced to physico-chemical causality. Suggesting that molecular biology today is at the same point as Newtonian physics on the eve of the quantum revolution, Elsasser lays the foundation for a theoretical biology that points the way toward a natural philosophy of organic life.

Explicitly repudiating "vitalism" (the notion that the laws of nature need to be modified when applied to living organisms), Elsasser argues instead that the structural complexity of even a single living cell is "transcomputational"--that is, beyond the power of any imaginable system to compute. Beginning from this insight, Elsasser leads the reader through a step-by-step process that ultimately arrives at the conclusion that living and non-living matter are separated by "a no-man's land of irrationality."

Trained in Germany as a physicist, Elsasser first pondered the implications of quantum mechanics for biology as early as 1951. The more closely he studied the inherent complexity of life, the more skeptical he became of the reductionist view of organisms as tiny machines. "An organism," he concluded, "is a source of causal chains which cannot be traced beyond a terminal point because they are lost in the unfathomable complexity of the organism." Like the physicist who works within the bounds of an unfathomable universe, Elsasser argues, the biologist must seek answers within a system that is no less unfathomable.

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It has much potential and can lead further........2002-09-06

A fascinating book by Walter Elsasser a physicist but having to do with biology. The book is somewhat confusing at times though. Elsasser gives the appearance of constructing some sort of theory which might lead to a theoretical biology, based on holism rather than the currently used metaphysic: reductionism, but never quite makes it. You always get the sense its just not complete and not thought out fully. He does take certain solid viewpoints: (1) a theoretical biology must obey the physical laws of quantum mechanics and (2) it must eschew vitalism, which Elsasser says is a theory which requires new and non-redicible laws for macroscopic biological organisms which are unique to organisms. In other words a separate set of laws just for organisms. And yet as one reads through his book one gets the feeling that there is more to it than that. At first he says that normal physical laws must be obeyed and then he expands his views to indicate that maybe there is something very special about organisms and that the mechanical view, which of course led to such laws in the first place, is just akind of short-sighted projection of reality to a mechanistic universe. If mechanism is just that, a small biased view of what happens rather than reality itself then these laws must also be simply an aspect of the full understanding. One then suspects that organisms do have laws unto themselves although they still obey quantum mechanics except the fuller set of principles of which quantum mechanics is just a part.

He attacks reductionism quite successfully and shows how a great deal more is possible in biology. Luckily as you proceed through the book it gets more and more interesting although never at any time do you feel that his principles he sets up in the earlier part of the book mesh with the later material. Perhaps a second reading will clear this up. It has much potential and can lead further especially in the hands of someone like Robert Rosen in his "Life Itself".

Still very relevant and fresh..........2002-07-09

Considering the age of this book it is still very relevant and interesting. That is, Elsasser did not have the benefit of more recent advances in several areas including Algorithmic Information Theory, artificial intelligence, and genetics. In particular, I suspect he would have had a lot to say about the genome-mapping fiasco and the spectacular failure of mechanistic genetic theories to come anywhere close to predicting reality.

Elsasser introduced the term 'holism' in this book in order that biology could return to something more useful than playing with simple chemical reactions. He realized the inherent limitations of the reductionist view, later expounded by Robert Rosen. Elsasser's background in physics and mathematics let him see the inherent limitations of the current fascination with the narrow reductionist view and gave him ample ammunition to expose the fallacies of this mode of exploration.

This book is very readable and contains almost no math - Elsasser references many papers and other works that do contain the theory. This book is required reading for anyone wishing to continue exploration in Robert Rosen's excellent books. It is highly recommended.

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We Always Treat Women Too Well was first published as a purported work of pulp fiction by one Sally Mara, but this novel by Raymond Queneau is a further manifestation of his sly, provocative, wonderfully wayward genius. Set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter rebellion, it tells of a nubile beauty who finds herself trapped in the central post office when it is seized by a group of rebels. But Gertie Girdle is no common pushover, and she quickly devises a coolly lascivious strategy by which, in very short order, she saves the day for king and country. Queneau's wickedly funny send-up of cheap smut—his response to a popular bodice-ripper of the 1940s—exposes the link between sexual fantasy and actual domination while celebrating the imagination's power to transmute crude sensationalism into pleasure pure and simple.

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"Was it in good taste to kill a woman by means of bombs?".......2006-06-08

French author Raymond Queneau's language wizardry is at play once again in the book "We Always Treat Women Too Well", but in other ways the novel is a strange departure from his normal fare. The novel is set in Dublin Ireland in 1916, during the Easter Rebellion and concerns a group of seven Irish Republican Army members who storm a post office at the corner of Sackville Street and Eden Quay. After throwing out the female employees, murdering the doorman, and the head of the post office--Theodore Durand, the IRA members prepare for the British to surrender.

There's only one problem--inside the ladies' toilet is the comely Gertie Girdle. When she's finally discovered, she finds herself the object of some interest. One of the IRA members is quite besotted, and meanwhile, her fiance Commodore Sidney Cartwright is outside laying siege to the building....

The book, originally published under the pseudonym Sally Mara includes an introduction from John Updike in which he stresses that "We Always Treat Women Too Well" is supposed to be a comic spoof of [...] popular novels. The novel contains Queneau's usual highly original and playful approach to language, so that helps with the humour part. The IRA members are mostly named after minor characters in Ulysses, and use the password "Finnegan's Wake." However, given the incidents described, any comic element was often lost on me. For example, in the first chapter, the post office is invaded, and the doorman shouts out "God save the King." Facing the armed IRA members, the doorman says this phrase 3 times--and with each repetition, his voice becomes a little weaker, and yes, that's amusing. But then this incident is followed with a description of his murder:
"Corny Kelleher had wasted no time in injecting a bullet in his noggin. The dead doorman vomited his brains through an eighth orifice in his head, and fell flat on the floor." To this reader, at least, the passage holds no humour whatsoever, and the depiction of violence entwined with comedy is an exercise in macabre bad taste that is ultimately very jarring and disturbing.

There are many other examples of this union of humour and cruel horrific incidents. In another instance the British shoot a woman who worked in the post office when she arrives to retrieve her handbag. She lays sprawled out, legs apart with her skirts blowing in the breeze. Some of the IRA members want to cover up her body, and others feels strangely aroused by her position--which to them--suggests sexual activity.

Gertie's insistence on seeing herself as a romantic heroine is amusing, but unfortunately these passages don't really compensate for everything else. While "We Always Treat Women Too Well" can be labeled 'black humour' the book is ultimately unappealing--displacedhuman

The Irish by the French.......2003-12-25

All of the characters in this work are minor characters in Joyce's Ulysses. Yet, this is another day, another event, and the relation to Joyce is only one of names, or is it?
This is work of frank sex and violence. The heroine? A nymphette. Who wins and are the revolutionaries really bad people? Queneau leaves that question open, prefering to unfurl the problematics of human relations in what can only be described as an unusual circumstance.
Read it.

Irish revolution viewed from a bank..........1998-09-11

Irish revolutionnaries in Dublin. They try to invest the city. We follow a group of them in a bank. And a young woman trapped in the "lavatories" (in english in the text) fiancée of an english captain... A story of innocent people who tempted to enter the history. Written in a fresh and joyful language.

For more information this book is a part of another which title is "the private diary of Sally Mara" which is really worthwhile to read.

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Raymond Queneau. We Always Treat Women Too Well.(Book Review): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Jeff Bursey
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Title: Raymond Queneau. We Always Treat Women Too Well.(Book Review)
Author: Jeff Bursey
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 23 Issue: 3 Page: 124(2)

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