Memoirs in a Country Churchyard: A Tobaccoman's Plea : Clean Up Tobacco Row!

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This is the story of the life, love, and heartaches of a tobaccoman. It also chronicles the changes in the cigarette manufacturing process from the mid-thirties to the mid-seventies. An expert in blending and flavoring tobacco, Mr. Nuttall reveals some of the actual causes behind the controversy now surrounding the issue of tobacco-the South's greatest industry. The author does not intend this to be a cold-blooded indictment of any particular manufacturer of cigarettes, nor does he expect his words to substantially injure the tobacco industry. Actually, he takes a gentle approach in offering suggestions and advice. His desire is to promote a safer cigarette and one which is not as offensive to non-smokers. Mr. Nuttall advocates an immediate reversal of the practice in cigarette manufacturing of adding reconstituted tobacco to the blends as a substitute for high-grade leaf. The author believes this to be imperative, and possible.

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Johnny Allen didn't particularly want to, but as a young man he resumed attending Sunday school. This made him eligible to play outfield in a church baseball league. It was the right thing to do. In a few years, he was pitching in the major leagues.

The book Fiery Fast-Baller traces how this superb, self-trained athlete made his own way from an upbringing in a North Carolina orphanage to tbe pinnacle of big-time baseball.. He was the game's top rookie after joining the New York Yankees in 1932, and set pitching records while with the Cleveland Indians in 1937 and 1938. His career paralleled that of Babe Ruth, a good friend of his.

The book could not help wondering why Allen never has been admitted to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Maybe it's because, as someone driven to win, time and again he fought and argued with managers, umpires, club owners and other players. He made himself memorable as "Jawin' Jawn," one of baseball's most colorful characters.

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This comprehensive reference book surveys every feature film theatrically released in the period 1912-1995 - including such classics as Sleeping Dogs, Vigil, Heavenly Creatures, and Once Were Warriors. The films are arranged chronologically and each entry includes full credits and cast details, as well as a critical overview. All the films are accompanied by at least one photo still, and they include: - fiction features specific to New Zealand ( silent and sound) - co-productions - documentary features - overseas features made partly in New Zealand Four appendices cover: - feature-length telemovies - feature-length documentaries - films under production at the time of publication - film-related bodies

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A useful if limited reference.......2002-10-28

The authors have intended this to be a reference book to New Zealand feature films over the period indicated and their selection demonstrates that they have a very liberal view of what constitutes a "New Zealand" film and a "feature". Even so there are a number of surprising omissions. Apart from full details (some of which are wrong) and credits they give a story outline and their own opinions about each film. Generally the latter are well reasoned but in some cases they are also highly debatable. The book gives little detail about what what was going on in the cinema industry and the country that was manifested by these features and doesn't present much of an overview of the whole scene. Perhaps the greatest disappointment however for what is a visual medium is the poor choice of and reproduction of the stills. For those wanting a complementary and generally better book on this subject, I recommend "Celluloid Dreams: A century of film in New Zealand" which was published about the same time.

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The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its complicated and complicit performance history. In this sophisticated and historically grounded analysis, anthropologist Jennifer Robertson draws from over a decade of fieldwork and archival research to explore how the Revue illuminates discourses of sexual politics, nationalism, imperialism, and popular culture in twentieth-century Japan.
The Revue was founded in 1913 as a novel counterpart to the all-male Kabuki theater. Tracing the contradictory meanings of Takarazuka productions over time, with special attention to the World War II period, Robertson illuminates the intricate web of relationships among managers, directors, actors, fans, and social critics, whose clashes and compromises textured the theater and the wider society in colorful and complex ways.
Using Takarazuka as a key to understanding the "logic" of everyday life in Japan and placing the Revue squarely in its own social, historical, and cultural context, she challenges both the stereotypes of "the Japanese" and the Eurocentric notions of gender performance and sexuality.

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An Academic Look at Girls Playing at Being Boys.......2007-06-02

The Takarazuka Kagekidan (usually referred to in English as the Takarazuka Revue) has almost as many official publications as the Chinese Communist Party. Most of the information available about the famous all-female theatre troupe has been thoroughly blue-pencilled by the revue administration before being disseminated to its leagues of fans. Kobayashi Ichiyo, founder of the Hankyu Railway and the man behind Takarazuka, promoted the revue as wholesome family entertainment. He would do back-flips in his grave if he were to discover that his beloved Takarasiennes were the subject of a book on gender and sexuality. The Hankyu-Toho fortress is hard to penetrate. A recent publication on Godzilla was subtitled "The book that Toho doesn't want you to read." One Takarazuka fan warned Jennifer Robertson during her research, "[The Takarazuka administration] is mean. They have their ways. They could twist your arm the way developers do when they want you to sell land." Undeterred, Prof. Robertson has succeeded not only in demystifying the revue but also in framing it against the background of Japan's turbulent sexual politics.

Interest in the revue in the West has been limited until recently and even then it was Takarazuka's curious sexuality was the focus of attention. When Takarazuka performed in London in 1994, members of the city's gay community filled the houses. A documentary film on the revue from the same year, Dream Girls, directed by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, is a homosexual interpretation of the revue that has been shown widely at lesbian and gay film festivals. Robertson's interpretation is not so simplistic, nor is there any of the underlying sarcasm of Dream Girls. Indeed it is obvious that she is a fan. "I was hooked," she writes, "not by the retrograde, if steamy, sexual politics of the story, but by the mostly female audience whose intense absorption in the wrenching action made the auditorium sizzle with eroticized energy."

The key chapters of the book, "Staging Androgyny" and "Performing Empire" are re-workings of Robertson's articles previously published in American Ethnologist. In "Staging Androgyny," Robertson examines the imprecise nature of gender in Japanese theatre and a history of cross-dressing. She also looks at how this is reflected in Japanese society as a whole. More importantly, she draws the distinction between sex (i.e. the sexual act) and gender, somewhat strengthening the argument of Takarazuka as wholesome entertainment. (Guardian critic Michael Billington, for example, dubbed their London performance "curiously sexless").

"Performing Empire" offers a fascinating insight into wartime Japan when Takarasiennes dressed in khaki and theatregoers could enjoy such spectacles as Made in Nippon and The Children of East Asia. That a bastion of chintz and glitter could work as a propaganda machine would seem unrealistic until you discover that the revue's founder served as a member of the cabinet in the 1940s.

Roberston's book is the first major work in English on the Takarazuka Revue, but as she herself states, it is not a history of the revue, but a discussion of sexuality and popular culture in Japan that leaves the reader asking what is "normal." Never has the blurring of gender been more engaging than in this study of transvestism, sexual ambiguity and subversion that stretches far beyond Takarazuka Grand Theatre.

Robertson's Revue of Japanese Sex Politics Deserves a Standing Ovation.......2007-05-07

Jennifer Robertson attempts to use the all-female Takarazuka theater revue as a model for the sexual politics and gender relations present in modern Japanese society. Robertson does this by looking at overlapping discussions of sexuality, gender roles, popular culture, Japanese fan culture, and Japanese national identity as these aspects are portrayed by the Takarazuka Revue. Robertson discusses taboo subjects like cross-dressing and lesbianism, and forms of public gender performance in theater and popular culture in order to dismantle cultural stereotypes of Japanese women and men. The important idea that I believe Robertson is trying to express in this ethnography is that gender and sexuality are not monolithic nor are male and female distinct categories. In fact, sexuality and gender are constantly being redefined through history and are therefore more fluid in nature. If you are at all interested in gender relations, alternative gender roles, Japanese culture, or female theater this book will surely entertain and enlighten you.

Gender Deconstruction Theory.......2005-09-24

I actually have very little patience with gender deconstruction theory, which is what this book is. I read it anyway because there is very little information about the Takarazuka Revue in English.

Robertson's objectivity is skewed by her feminist agenda. For example, she tries to prove that the idea that there are differences between the sexes is nonsense by pointing out that the Takarasiennes who play male roles, for which they are chosen because of their more masculine body type (tall, small-bosomed, broad-shouldered), are as female as the curvy petite Takarasiennes who play female roles. This is a specious argument; no one would mistake an otokoyaku for a man. She also strongly implies that all Takarazuka actresses hope to be otokoyaku (those who play male roles), but numerous magazine interviews with these actresses prove that this is not the case. It's simply outside of Robertson's worldview that some women might actually not want to be men.

I wish there had been less abstract speculation about the psychosocial ramifications or whatever the heck it was and more hard facts about the Takarazuka, but at least it had some, and for a Takarazuka fan who doesn't speak Japanese, it's better than nothing.

An interesting... something........2005-05-31

Someone should really recommend a dictionary in addition to this book.

Words like 'dearth', 'didactically', 'enantiomorph', 'cancan', 'croon', 'corporeal koan', 'cachet', and 'largess', just to name a few, are completely unnecessary. Rewrite this book in ENGLISH and I may just take another look at it.

From the small bit I was able to understand through this screen of nonsense, there is only a minimal amount of real content to be gained. Takarazuka is a fascinating aspect of Japanese culture, and I was greatly disappointed by this book.

The author's first mistake seems to have been to take on too big of a task. The chapters do not connect with each other. And there is a general failure to trace various aspects of the theatre either from or two underlying Japanese cultural ideas.

A simple way to start such an investigation would be to write about which roles the (female) audience identifies with, is it the otokoyaku (men played by women) who caresses the happy blonde haired female? Or do they imagine themselves as the women who are seduced on stage by the otokoyaku? Does it matter which they identify with? Answers to questions even as simple as this one are never addressed in the text.

The whole time I read this book I felt as though the author was just trying to disguise the fact that she really doesn't have anything at all important to say, even after a decade of research.

If you're linguistically inclined, you may want to give it a try. But it doesn't seem likely that there's much of importance here.

amazing.......2001-06-11

The mere fact that the author puts so much effort into examining sexuality and androgeny in Japan is commendable. The book gives a lot of insight to Sexuality in Japan (mostly 2oth C.) through her analysis of the all-female Takarazuka Revue founded in 1919.

Chapters include (1) Ambivalence and Popular Culture; (2) Staging Androgeny; (3) Performing Empire; (4) Fan Pathology; (5) Writing Fans.

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Title: TAKARAZUKA: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan.(Review)
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Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2000
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Waterdeep and the North (AD&D Fantasy Roleplaying, Forgotten Realms, FR1)
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Partial but evocative glimpse of the most famous Realmscity

Waterdeep and the North (AD&D Fantasy Roleplaying, Forgotten Realms, FR1)
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Partial but evocative glimpse of the most famous Realmscity.......2000-05-02

Here it is, the classic sourcebook that started it all! Ed Greenwood explores the most intriguing city of adventure for AD&D - Waterdeep, the colossal tradeport on the verge of the Savage Frontier! Details include the dungeons below, famous personages, endless lines of shops, huge reams of intrigue and plot ideas and adventure hooks, and yes, the colossal map of the city itself... a wonderful sourcebook for all DMs, because it shows how to make the cities even more interesting than the dungeons!

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The spreadsheet is the software tool that turns everyone into a hacker by making it possible to play with numbers easily. Excel Hacks, therefore, makes a lot of sense. This small, fact-dense book explains how to get maximum utility from Microsoft's popular calculation application. It shows how to use all the stuff you know is in there but have never bothered to figure out (dynamic cell ranges, PivotTables, macros), and how to carry out particularly hasslesome calculations (notably those involving dates). The coverage is all the more succinct because the authors didn't feel obligated (thankfully) to include the ponderous basics of Excel--the details of formatting and simple calculation that fill up pages and pages of more typical Excel guides.

The Hawleys' treatment of PivotTables is typical of their approach to Excel. The authors explain this powerful statistical analysis feature with a series of four recipes (called "hacks") that go from straight documentation of the feature (how to create an unadorned PivotTable) to more complicated tricks involving Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) as it applies to PivotTables. They provide some background information along the way, but the main focus of the hacks is procedural: Follow along with the text and you'll see your spreadsheets do new tricks. You'll also understand what's going on, so you'll be better able to modify the procedures to suit your own requirements. --David Wall

Topics covered: How to use the most powerful and least-understood features of Microsoft Excel (versions 2000 and later) for Windows and Mac OS. Sections address data lookups, statistical calculations, charting, macros, and general tricks for enhanced efficiency.

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If you think that getting creative with Excel means the underhanded tweaking of numbers, think again. Excel Hacks shows even the most experienced users how to do things with Excel they might never have thought of doing--and lets them have a little fun while they're at it. Microsoft Excel is not just the dominant spreadsheet in the world; it's also one of the most popular applications ever created. Its success lies not only in its power and flexibility, but also in its streamlined, familiar interface that casually conceals its considerable capabilities. You don't need to know everything that Excel can do in order to use it effectively, but if you're like the millions of Excel power users looking to improve productivity, then Excel Hacks will show you a wide variety of Excel tasks you can put to use, most of which are off the beaten path. With this book, Excel power users can bring a hacker's creative approach to both common and uncommon Excel topics--"hackers" in this sense being those who like to tinker with technology to improve it. The "100 Industrial Strength Tips and Tools" in Excel Hacks include little known "backdoor" adjustments for everything from reducing workbook and worksheet frustration to hacking built-in features such as pivot tables, charts, formulas and functions, and even the macro language. This resourceful roll-up-your-sleeves guide is for intermediate to advanced Excel users eager to explore new ways to make Excel do things--from data analysis to worksheet management to import/export--that you never thought possible. Excel Hacks will help you increase productivity with Excel and give you hours of "hacking" enjoyment along the way.

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great supplement.......2007-07-20

Although there is some overlap between hacks, overall this is a great addition to an excel reference library

Ultimate satisfaction.......2007-03-11

This actual book is better than advertised! Surpassed my expectations. Used several tips in the first day and left my co-workers speechless! THANKS!!!!

you can put this to good use right away.......2007-03-09

While this book is not really written to be something you read cover to cover, I did just to fill up my mental tookbox. (If you don't know that you have a hammer in your tool box, you might use a rock instead) This book prompted me to buy other books by the publisher because I was able to use things out of it right away. The hacks are easy to understand and use and before reading this book, I didn't know how many spreadsheet problems I had that were screaming for a solution.

May have to buy another copy.......2006-11-19

I bought this book thinking I might learn a few VB tricks. I have used this for many sheets I am building. I may haave to buy another copy as I am wearing my first copy out. I found at least 20 items in this book that I used or modified to make Excel do what I needed it to do.

Thanks for this book.

Because of this book I have bought 4 other Hacks books.

Excel lent.......2006-05-20

A bit pricy, but otherwise a nice selection of Excel Tips and tools. In my mind the most useful are those which get around Excels seeming arbitrary limitations like #23,24,25,92 etc. but #42 is worth the price of the book if you haven't figured out a workaround. (it was interesting to contrast how the authors approached this, with my own solution). Not a beginners book or an "intro for Dummies" this is aimed at the user burgeoning on Expert.
I learnt some new approaches and will definitely be using them

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A very uneven book.......2005-08-13

This book could be very useful, but often more as a guide to other sources, rather than as a authority in its own right. The appendices, listing numerous references sources as well as a very useful list of relevant museums should be valuable to anyone starting out to do research. Particularly relevant sources are also collected at the end each chapter.

If this is intended to be a reference source for writers, then they need detailed information laid out in an efficient format. Hughes does this sometimes, and other times seems to wander off into writing an anecdotal social history. I wonder whether it was a good idea to pack 90 years that saw enormous social changes into one book. I think that Hughes has often wasted space including extensive quotes that would have been better paraphrased and condensed, as well as including information of marginal use, such as numerous recipes and a list of the number of servants advertising for jobs in the Times on January 10, 1870.

One might also wonder why 1801-1810 is not covered, especially since there is a writer's guide covering the 18th century. The period isn't completely ignored, but it must be frustrating for anyone wanting information about the turn of the 18th-19th century. Granted, the Regency, strictly speaking, was 1811-1820, but that wasn't the start of the Victorian era either. Many people consider the Regency period to go back to 1800 or even 1780.

The chapters themselves are uneven in quality. The first section, on lighting, is precisely the sort of thing a writer would need: the different types of lighting are carefully described in detail with dates given so that the reader knows precisely what was in use when. Rather than simply saying that gaslights began to be installed in London in 1807, Hughes carefully explains that only certain small areas were lit at first. There are also very useful lists like the terminuses for the stage coaches, papers in circulation, naval insignia, prohibitions to marriage, etc.

On the other hand, Hughes tells us that flush toilets were invented by 1777 and then leaps to the 1860s to talk about Victorian bathrooms. What about the near century in between? Were people installing flush toilets, or were they simply experimental? On a number of occasions, Hughes throws in an interesting quote on some subject, such as the excerpts from The Habits of Good Society, published in 1864 without any indication of whether the information is valid for the entire era or only for the immediate period.

In the chapter on clothing, Hughes wisely tells us that she is not going to attempt to give a history of fashion in one chapter and provides an extensive bibliography. She then takes up the chapter with long quotes from various sources, but this hit or miss information isn't very helpful, and could have been summarized in a few sentences. I think that Hughes would have done better to warn the reader about tricky subjects that may not be covered in a basic history of fashion and need to be researched. Court dress, for example, was codifed, and a writer should not necessarily send a character to court in a fashionable outfit, however fine. I'm not an expert, but I believe that the rules for court dress also changed during this period: an author would need to look this up so that the outfits are appropriate to the specific time. I believe that this is also the period when the special-purpose wedding dress came into fashion. Early in the century, brides were married in their best day dress, cut according to ordinary fashion, not a special design. If she could afford a trousseau, it might be new for the wedding, but it would not be any special color. Veils and the one-use fantasy dress came later.

Hughes does give us some information relating specifically to the middle class and the poor, which is good, but she often describes customs, particularly mourning customs, which can only have applied to the wealthiest, without much indication of the shift in customs as one moves down the social scale. She does include a useful list of mourning fabrics, though oddly enough, it does not include paramatta, which is mentioned several times in the text.

I'd love to see a second, greatly revised edition. Meanwhile, I think that writers interested in the Regency Era would be better served by Jennifer Kloester's Georgette Heyer's Regency World, as well as various companions to Jane Austen's writings.

Good general writer resource, but not very specific.......2003-06-21

This is an enjoyable, easy-to-read book to read alongside your historicals. It brings some light to various things like currency, fashion, and food; but knitpickers beware: everything is in broad terms. There isn't a lot of specific detail and the pictures are only somewhat helpful, serving mainly to decorate the book and not necessarily educate.

For writers, this would definitely help flesh out the book, but if you want specifics, you have to dig a little deeper and do more research.

I gave this book 4 stars because it is great as a starting point. I found it helpful as a starting point for researching, but going deeper into the book, I found I needed more detail. It does save time because you do learn to focus, and general information is right at your fingertips.

Interesting facts and beginning source for info..........2002-09-12

This book is especially slanted towards the Victorian era but does contain some Regency info that is helpful when wanting general information without indepth research. I would recommend backing up any facts with another source though. Some facts weren't dated so it was difficult to ascertain if they pertained to the Regency or Victorian era. All in all an enjoyable dive into history and helpful as simple research for history buffs or writers of light fiction.

A Good Introduction.......2002-05-31

Although this book relys heavily an just a few sources it is still a good jumping off point if you have little or no knowledge on the lifestyles of people during this time period.

The text covers everything from lighting to mourning and everything in between. I would not rely totally on this book as reference material in research but it is good as a tool with other books to back up information that is not covered in depth here.

I 'VE READ BETTER.......2002-01-27

Very poorly organized and researched. Subject matter was presented disjointed and incomplete. Too many passages were simply exerpted from other sources and pasted in wherever the author felt like it, and jumped about with no logical flow. I feel Daniel Poole's book What Jane Austin ate and Charles Dickens Knew was a much superior work. In fact I bought this book hoping to supplement what I had read in Daniel Pool's book, but it gave me no new insights.

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During the last five decades, U.S. cultural diplomacy programs have withered because of politics and accidents of history that have subordinated cultural diplomacy to public relations campaigning, now called â€œpublic diplomacy.â€ With anti-Americanism on the rise worldwide, cultural diplomacy should become an immediate priority, but politicians continue to ignore this relatively inexpensive, age-old tool for promoting understanding among nations. Richard Arndt probes the history of American cultural diplomacy to demonstrate its valuable past contributions and to make a plea for reviving it for the future.

Cultural relations occur naturally between people in different nations as a result of trade, tourism, student exchanges, entertainment, communications, migration, intermarriageâ€”millions of cross-cultural encounters. But cultural diplomacy only happens when a government decides to channel and to support cultural exchange through planned programs to promote broad national interests. The First Resort of Kings examines the first eight decades of formal U.S. cultural diplomacy, from its tentative beginnings in World War I through the 1990s. Arndt also compares Americaâ€™s efforts with those of other nations and enriches his narrative by detailing the professional experiences of the men and women who have represented American democracy, education, intellect, art, and literature to the rest of the world. His work shows that this dialogue of American culture and education with the rest of the world is neither a frill nor a domestic political concern but is the deepest cornerstone of a positive, forward-looking U.S. foreign policy. Arndt argues that, particularly in the wake of the Iraq War, America must revive its cultural diplomacy programs as a long-term investment in international goodwill and understanding.

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The First Resort of Kings.......2005-06-15

Very very remarkable and timely significant tool to understand the importance of diplomacy in conflict resolution and the role it should play to create stability in a more than ever complex world.

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Written and painstakingly edited by leading experts, this volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of and solid foundation in up-to-date survey questionnaire issues, concerns, and responses. Like several other books in the Wiley Series in Survey Methodology, this work has been prepared in conjunction with an international conference on the topic (in November 2002) by the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association, the American Association for Public Opinion Research, the International Association of Survey Statisticians, the Council of American Survey Research Organizations, and the Council of Marketing and Opinion Research.

The book covers cognitive interviewing, interaction analysis, response latency, respondent debriefings, vignette analysis, split-sample comparisons, statistical modeling, mode of administration, and special populations. It also considers these topics in light of emerging techniques and technologies. The book's authors include more than two-dozen eminent professionals in a variety of fields related to survey methodology and questionnaire development, including names such as Gordon Willis of the National Cancer Insitute; Paul Beatty of the National Center for Health Statistics; Paul Biemerof the Research Triangle Institute; Don Dillman of the University of Washington; and Natacha Borgers, Edith de Leuuw, and Astrid Smits of Statistics Netherlands. Copious tables, figures, and references, as well as an extensive glossary, supplement the high quality discussion throughout the text.

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The current definitive reference on evaluation of questionnaires.......2006-04-04

I don't do many of these reviews, because I am busy and I don't get paid to do this, but since there is only one other review for this book, I felt that I should add my two cents.

This text is authored by individuals recognized as the top experts in the U.S. on this subject, and contains the most up-to-date techniques for questionnaire evaluation. There is an entire section on cognitive interviews, sections on field experiments and statistical modeling, more on usability, age-dependent issues, establishment surveys, and even a chapter on multiple methods to evaluate stated choice questionnaires for nonmarket valuation.

While theoretical issues are addressed where appropriate, the text is written as a guide to the practitioner, with practical, useful and readily applicable procedures laid out in clear and understandable prose.

If you have to design and/or administer surveys as part of your job, this book will pay for itself in the trouble that it saves you.

Useful Book.......2005-10-25

In the three months I've had this book, I've referenced chapters on cognitive interviewing, interviewing children, and testing self-administered questionnaires. This book is a very helpful compilation of articles.

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The fragmenting of habitats is endangering animal populations and degrading or destroying many plant populations throughout the world. To address this problem, conservationists have increasingly turned to biological corridors, areas of land set aside to facilitate the movement of species and ecological processes. However, while hundreds of corridor initiatives are under way worldwide, there is little practical information to guide their design, location, and management.

Applying Nature's Design offers a comprehensive overview of current knowledge on corridors, their design, and their implementation. Anthony B. Anderson and Clinton N. Jenkins examine a variety of conceptual and practical issues associated with corridors and provide detailed case studies from around the world. Their work considers how to manage and govern corridors, how to build support among various interest groups for corridors, and the obstacles to implementation. In addition to assessing various environmental and ecological challenges, the authors are the first to consider the importance of socioeconomic and political issues in creating and maintaining corridors.

Applying Nature's Design: Corridors As A Strategy For Biodiversity Conservation

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Applying Nature's Design: Corridors As A Strategy For Biodiversity Conservation
Anthony B.; Jenkins, Clinton N.; Andersen, Anthony Anderson
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