Eitel Time : Turnaround Secrets

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Eitel Time : Turnaround Secrets
Charlie Eitel
Manufacturer: International Thomson Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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"Eitel Time" is a summary of my personal philosophy that has guided me through 25 years of business as the president of five different companies. In "Eitel Time," I tried to explore the question of why we do what we do with our lives. It was sort of an attempt to get people to look in the mirror and ask themselves if they are living a life of true happiness.

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As Seen on Tv/an Inside Look at the Television Industry, How It Works and Who Does What from Eng to Mtv
D. C. Denison
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster (Paper)
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0671726196

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Cooking, Cuisine and Class: A Study in Comparative Sociology (Themes in the Social Sciences)
Jack Goody
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0521244552

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The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists - from Sir James Frazer onwards - from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. It is in the context of this previous anthropological work that Jack Goody sets his own observations on cooking in West Africa. He criticises those approaches which overlook the comparative historical dimension of culinary, and other, cultural differences that emerge in class societies, both of which elements he particularly emphasises in this book. The central question that Professor Goody addresses here is why a differentiated ‘haute cuisine’ has not emerged in Africa, as it has in other parts of the world. His account of cooking in West Africa is followed by a survey of the culinary practices of the major Eurasian societies throughout history - ranging from Ancient Egypt, Imperial Rome and medieval China to early modern Europe - in which he relates the differences in food preparation and consumption emerging in these societies to differences in their socio-economic structures, specifically in modes of production and communication. He concludes with an examination of the world-wide rise of ‘industrial food’ and its impact on Third World societies, showing that the ability of the latter to resist cultural domination in food, as in other things, is related to the nature of their pre-existing socio-economic structures. The arguments presented here will interest all social scientists and historians concerned with cultural history and social theory.

Cooking, Cuisine and Class a Study in Comparative Sociology

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Cooking, Cuisine and Class a Study in Comparative Sociology
Jack Goody
Manufacturer: Cambridge UP
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RKZWEM

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In Depth Coverage.......2006-12-09

Buy it just to see what others are doing.
Fun read too! Not a boring book by any stretch of the imagination.

Good coverage.

Add zest to your preemptive tactics.......2003-05-02

This book 'tells it like it is' on preemptive tactics in the modern game. It will add zest to your preemption while improving your defense against enemy preempts.

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If you like to tweak, disassemble, re-create, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE our new quarterly publication for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer. Every issue is packed with projects to help you make the most of all the technology in your life. Everything from home entertainment systems, to laptops, to a host of PDAs is fair game. If there's a way to hack it, tweak it, bend it, or remix it, you will find out about it in MAKE. This isn't another gadget magazine. MAKE focuses on cool things you can do to make technology work the way you want it to. The publication is inspired by our bestselling Hacks series books but with a twist. MAKE is a mook (rhymes with book). We've combined the excitement, unexpectedness, and visual appeal of a magazine with the permanence and in-depth instructiveness of a how-to book. Whether you're a geek or hacker who delights in creating new uses for technology, or a Saturday afternoon tinkerer who loves to get his hands dirty, you'll keep every issue of MAKE on your bookshelf for years to come. This second issue, available in June 2005, includes 224 pages packed with tips and tricks, including:

How to build an HDTV recorder and beat the Broadcast Flag
Podcasting 101
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The Atari2600 PC Project
How to build a light-seeking robot from an old mouse
A Maker Profile on Natalie Jeremijenko and lots more!

Every quarter, MAKE will contain a unique set of innovative ideas and creations for a variety of new technologies, including mobile devices, in-car computers, web services, digital media, wireless and home networking, and computer hardware. Visit MAKE's web site: make.oreilly.com.

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The best mag for your brain and hands........2007-02-27

If you like making stuff , or wondered how people go about inventing things, this is your magazine.
I've been inspired to make all sorts of things, and have found that my kids enjoy playing with hand made things as much, or more than any toy we can buy at the store.
There are also all kinds of great ideas for re-using technology.
It covers everything from marshmallow guns to robots. Very entertaining and inspirational and a great supplement to a good science education.

Relive tinkering with your Dad.......2005-12-23

If you spent any time building technical projects as a kid with your parents, this is a wonderful gift for them: it brings back the memories of some of their proudest moments.

I grew up reading "The Amateur Scientist" in "Scientific American" magazine, and built many of the projects (as well as the requisite radios and go-carts) with my Dad. Forty years later, I subscribed to Make: and realized that this is the modern successor to "The Amateur Scientist".

I bought a subscription for myself and my Dad: now, although we're seperated by miles, we can discuss the projects and relive the times we spent together building and breaking things.

Is this ads zine?.......2005-10-24

70% of contents are sponsored, and ads appear everywhere making the whole thing hard to read. Most importantly, instructions are not understandable.

A deserving follow-up.......2005-08-26

If the Make crew can keep the quality this tight, it will herald in a golden era of makers everywhere. This is a fitting follow-up to the amazing premeire issue. The great projects and how-tos quickly made my to-do list a mile longer.

Another excellent edition.......2005-06-21

The cover on this one is a bit deceptive since the large robot stuff is just a short article. But the rest of the magazine rocks! Great projects from simple marshmallow shooters, to a PC modded into the case of an Atari 2600, to robotic dogs and mice. There is ten solid pages on podcasting, both receiving podcasts and creating your own. If you thought the first one was great you will love this one.

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This book chronicles the decision making process, and immediate recovery both physically and emotionally that occurs with gastric bypass surgery. It provides a way to challenge old thinking habits and helps make suggestions to ensure success.

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A Brief History of the Human Race

Easy read with interesting observations

Interesting, but deceiving in its conclusions

The beginning is interesting, but then it tapers off a bit

Fascinating but faulty early chapters

A Brief History of the Human Race
Michael Cook
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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A global account of how and why human history unfolded as it did from the rise of agriculture to the fall of the Twin Towers.

Why has human history been crowded into the last few thousand years? Why has it happened at all? Could it have happened in a radically different way? What should we make of the disproportionate role of the West in shaping the world we currently live in?

This witty, intelligent hopscotch through human history addresses these questions and more. Michael Cook sifts the human career on earth for the most telling nuggets and then uses them to elucidate the whole. From the calendars of Mesoamerica and the temple courtesans of medieval India to the intricacies of marriage among an aboriginal Australian tribe, Cook explains the sometimes eccentric variety in human cultural expression. He guides us from the prehistoric origins of human history across the globe through the increasing unification of the world, first by Muslims and then by European Christians in the modern period, illuminating the contingencies that have governed broad historical change. 15 maps, 30 illustrations.

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A Brief History of the Human Race.......2006-02-21

Should be mandatory in schools. Builds well on Jared Diamond`s (Guns, Germs, and Steel" -- I think that`s the correct title).

Easy read with interesting observations.......2006-01-31

As a small book, "A Brief History of the Human Race" leaves out more than it puts in about human history, but it's an interesting survey. The author's most profound point in my opinion was his obvious, but not often made, point that the principal characteristics of civilization in the unconnected new world and the old were the same: farming, cities, etc. That's profound when you think about it. Faced with two different environments, cultural, and geographic realities human beings responded in pretty much the same way.

The author leavens this macro approach with a lot of micro points. Especially fascinating was his explanation of the marriage customs of Australian aborigines and his questions as to why they were so complex. He also takes a look at the similarities of snuff use around the world, calendars, Shang-dynasty bronzes, and the rise of Islam. All this combines to make for a potpourri of reading in which the similarities of humankind in broad ways are contrasted with his differences in mostly small, but sometimes large ways. Why, for example, did not sub-Saharan Africans take to the sea? The environmental determinism that this book promotes here and there owes a debt to Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel."

This is a book that even if you're an ignoramus you can read and understand. If you're not an ignoramus, it's still interesting to dip into. There's nothing here that will cause you to jump and shout "Eureka" but it's an informative read with a take on human history that is sometimes provocative or unfamiliar.

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Interesting, but deceiving in its conclusions.......2006-01-08

I found this book interesting as it goes quite in breadth in terms of the places and cultures it deals with. I feel that putting into perspective what each civilization has provided as a heritage to human kind is very important for understanding who we are and why. Some interpretations are very questionable, that's true, but the author did not pretend to know everything about the topic. As already mentioned by other reviewers, the end of the book lacks in depth, the conclusions are without interest, hence my rating of 4 stars only.

The beginning is interesting, but then it tapers off a bit.......2005-05-21

I agree with some of the comments, which found the initial chapters very interesting, but the later ones more what seems to be a randomly collected set of facts.
This is a pity, as the fist half of the book reall IS very interesting.

Fascinating but faulty early chapters.......2004-12-24

The writer (Cook) gets it right, early in the book, when he says that the first farming ever was in the middle east and that modern day europeans are to a limited degree directly descended from these middle eastern farmers. I give the book three stars just for this. But he loses my supprt when he starts talking about neanderthals and their culture just a little too confidently. Hey Mr. Cook, a lot of what we say about neanderthals and how they lived is just guess work.We've done nothing more than positively prove they existed.

A Brief History of the Human Race.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian

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A Brief History of the Human Race.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian
Dorothea A.L. Martin
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000B9DV4M
Release Date: 2005-09-03

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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2005. The length of the article is 644 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: A Brief History of the Human Race.(Book Review)
Author: Dorothea A.L. Martin
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 67 Issue: 2 Page: 379(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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In July 1993, a scientific event made front-page news: the discovery that genetics plays a significant role in determining homosexuality. In The Science of Desire, Dean Hamer -- the scientist behind the groundbreaking study -- tells the inside story of how the discovery was made and what it means, not only for our understanding of sexuality, but for human behavior in general.

In this accessible and remarkably clear book, Dean Hamer expands on the account of his history-making research to explore the scientific, social, and ethical issues raised by his findings. Dr. Hamer addresses such tough questions as whether it would be possible or ethical to test in utero for the gay gene; whether genetic manipulation could or should be used to alter a person's sexuality; and how a gay gene could have survived evolution.

A compelling behind-the-scenes look at cutting-edge scientific inquiry, as well as a brilliant examination of the ramifications of genetic research, The Science of Desire is a lasting resource in the increasingly significant debate over the role that genetics plays in our lives.

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Getting your money's worth.......2003-08-10

Dean Hamer, the scientist, and Peter Copeland, the writer have produced an informative entre to the complex world of the genome for the general reader. They've done the job in a very interesting but measured manner. While the book is dated, it is not outdated.

Bloody brilliant book.......1998-09-23

A really good piece of scientific writing that is not only good, well researched science, but is also well written. Dean Hamer has proved something that I'd already known since I was knee high to a grasshopper, but its good to see proof for those who dont already know this from personal experience.

Excellent lay description of one search for a gay gene.......1997-07-07

I very much enjoyed reading this book and learned a lot from it both about the way in which these particular researchers are going about their work and about genetics in general.

Hamer is the Chief of the Section on Gene Structure and Regulation in the Department of Biochemistry at the National Cancer Institute. This book describes in lay terms the work that led to the publication of the scientific paper entitled "A Linkage Between DNA Markers on the X Chromosome and Male Sexual Orientation". The goal of the study was to determine whether male sexual orientation was "genetically influenced" and what they found was "a statistically significant correlation between the inheritance of genetic markers on chromosomal region Xq28 and sexual orientation in a selected group of homosexual males." The statistical significance was strong: the odds of the correlation happening by chance was only 1 out of 100,000.

Before they started looking at genes, Hamer and his group considered the family histories of the pairs of gay brothers who he used in his study. The researchers found more gay men on the maternal side and eventually realized that this was due to recessive X-linked inheritance. "X-linked traits always are passed to men through the mother's side of the family, which is the pattern we were seeing for homosexuality."

The book carefully explains how the research was done and what conclusions could and could not be drawn from it. They did not find a gay gene; they only showed that one exists. It does not "determine" homosexuality; it is only one factor in the makeup of those gay men who inherited it. There may be other genes that play a role and there are surely many environmental factors that influence the expression of homosexuality. Some of the evidence from Hamer's study "suggests that Xq28 plays some role in about 5 to 30 percent of gay men."

The book closes with a chapter on the social implications of this research. There is also an interesting chapter addressing the question "How could a gay gene survive consistent with the facts of evolution?"

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The Science of Desire. The search For The Gay Gene and The Biology of Behavior.
Dean and Copeland, Peter Hamer
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NUJPWQ

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The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior
Dean; Copeland, Peter Hamer
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KPG8RY

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The Science of Desire; the Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior

Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I2TSRG

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Managing Environments for Leisure and Recreation urges managers to balance the need for a systematic approach, with the need for a systemic development of an environmental management ethic. It is highly illustrated with over 50 line drawings and includes many case studies from around the world.

Aquatic facilities: managing risk in the physical environment.: An article from: Parks & Recreation

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Aquatic facilities: managing risk in the physical environment.: An article from: Parks & Recreation
Dave Schwartz
Manufacturer: National Recreation and Park Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Parks & Recreation, published by National Recreation and Park Association on February 1, 1998. The length of the article is 2084 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.

From the supplier: Public swimming and water sports facilities are growing in popularity, though this increasing use creates an added challenge for the recreational staff in charge of managing them. Ways in which these facilities can deal with safety and risk management issues are described.

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Title: Aquatic facilities: managing risk in the physical environment.
Author: Dave Schwartz
Publication: Parks & Recreation (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 1998
Publisher: National Recreation and Park Association
Volume: v33 Issue: n2 Page: p68(6)

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