Memoirs of a Steelworker

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An inside story.......2001-09-07

I grew up in the Lehigh Valley. I learned to drive a car through "shift-change" traffic, and I watched my freinds in high school divide into two camps: those who would work for "the steel" and those who wouldn't. I remember what it was like when someone died in the mills, and I remember what it was like when the Vietnam protestors seemed to insult the very heart of the city. And what I liked about this book were the stories, of one guy, with one career, in the mills, which seemed to speak for many of the people I knew--even though they might have said it differently and even though their stories were a wee bit changed. I found this a treat to read.

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There's something about the Babe. He continues to mesmerize long after the retiring of #3, and it's his enduring familiarity that makes this spruced-up family album assembled by his daughter such alluring fun. The Bambino was certainly one of the most willingly photographed individuals of his time, but A Daughter's Portrait goes beyond the staged and hyped--though the staged and the hyped are displayed in full glory--to offer some lovely images of a man of minimal privacy just being himself: fishing and hunting with the guys, missing a putt, reading the paper, at ease with his family. Some of the photo captions suffer from saccharine overdose, and others are factually incomplete or inaccurate, but that only conspires to make this whole seductive enterprise more personal, endearing, and folksy. --Jeff Silverman

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A stunning collection of private and rarely published photographs of Babe Ruth complied by George Beim with Julia Ruth Stevens, the Babe's daughter.

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a woman's questions.......2003-01-30

i am not understanding how julia babe's adopted daughter wrote a book about him and his adopted daughter dorothy had nothing to do with it is dorothy dead or she just doesn't wanna talk about it. I'd really like to know about it because it just left me hangin and i did like the book it was very good and there are lucky to have a father like babe ruth i think there the luckiest kid's in the world to have been adopted by george herman ruth jr. it most take alot to open up about your father who lost his battle with throat cancer.i am so sorry for your father's death i lost my mom at the age of twelve of nasalpharonyx cancer it was hard but i am making it today with 1 beautiful son andrew his my gift from god thanks for letting me explain ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~anonymous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pictures that speak to you!.......2000-07-07

This book is fantastic for all baseball lovers. It puts you in touch with the real person that Babe Ruth was and how caring he was. I found out stuff that I never really knew about him, such as his rough childhood and how interested he was in several different sports. This book is great for people who like to look at pictures, but if you want to read more than see, then this book is not for you. It provides great picturely information about his life but it could use more pictures of him with his baseball team.

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From "white shamanism" to Cherokee basketry

Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures

Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0816521484

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Eight original contributions consider the selling of American Indian culture and how it affects the Native community. These articles show that the commercialization and appropriation of American Indian cultures have been persistent practices of American society over the last century, constituting a form of cultural imperialism that could contribute to the destruction of American Indian culture and identity.

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From "white shamanism" to Cherokee basketry.......2002-03-27

Collaboratively edited by Carter Jones Meyer (Associate Professor of History and Convener of the American Studies Program, Ramapo College, New Jersey) and Diana Royer (Associate Professor of English, Miami University), Selling The Indian: Commercializing & Appropriating American Indian Cultures is a scholarly, serious anthology of contributors surveying over a hundred years of attempts and practices using Native American culture for commercial profit, in eight original essays that range in topic from "white shamanism" to Cherokee basketry and tourist economies. A unique, informative, insightful, and very welcome contribution to Native American Studies, Selling The Indian showcases and documents commercialization as a form of cultural imperialism and a danger to American Indian culture to identity is discussed and analyzed in this careful and thought-provoking treatise.

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Microsoft Office is the number-one selling software for the Mac; the Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Entourage applications are more dominant in the Mac world than they are among PC users. And Microsoft has greatly improved and enhanced Office 2004 to take advantage of the latest Mac OX features. In short, Microsoft Office for the Mac is wildly popular and better than ever. But as incredible and powerful it is, the Office 2004 suite comes without a single page of printed instructions. That means you're left to forge your own path through its countless innovative and useful new features and tools--until now. Office 2004 for Mac: The Missing Manual is the manual that should have been in the box. It's the map that clearly and easily guides both beginners and veterans through this new suite. Mark H. Walker, Franklin Tessler, and Paul Berkowitz deliver all the practical information you need to master the basics and make the most of all four Office 2004 programs--Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Entourage. It's four books in one! According to Microsoft's own research, the average Office user taps into less than fifteen percent of the suite's features. With first-rate writing, a handcrafted index, and the trademark humor and clarity of every Missing Manual, Office 2004 for Mac: The Missing Manual will change that. Because this isn't an authorized book, Walker, Tessler, and Berkowitz candidly point out which features are gems in the rough worthy of your focused attention--and which are junkware that you best continue to overlook. Whether you're an Office beginner eager to master one or all of the applications in the suite or a longtime Office user looking for detailed coverage of what's new (and what's removed) in Office 2004 and hoping to implement power-user techniques for better and more efficient work, this funny and friendly, comprehensive guide will prove indispensable.

Customer Reviews:

Office 2004 manual.......2007-09-01

A big, heavy book that I wish I could read in bed but it weighs too much on my stomach. It has a lot of stuff and I will use it as a reference when I have a problem converting my old Word 2000 text to the newer 2004. I'm new to the Mac computers.

make it work.......2007-03-12

Frustrated by the continuing changes-for-the-sake-of-change by the software moguls?
Here's some help.
Highly readiable and still helpful book for the windows challenged who would just like to make it work.

Excellent book.......2007-02-19

I have never been disappointed by Missing Manuals and this one is no different. Many, many tips are revealed and locating these is very easy. Great book!

A Must have for OS X users.......2007-01-05

Great book for OS X users. You can easily troubleshoot with this book. Saves time and money. Should never have to call for manufacters help again.

Disappointing.......2005-12-26

This book was a disappointment. I had expected a reference of the caliber of David Pogue's Mac OS X Tiger manual. Among problem areas: a hard-to-navigate and incomplete index, fuzzy photo insets, and incorrect cross-references. The manual has the feel of something put together in a hurry without proper proof-reading, and borrowing heavily from canned sources. I learned some things but had to work harder to glean the information than I should have. I would not recommend this manual, unless it's the only game in town. I don't think it is.

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A book full of abstracts.

Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0300047762

Customer Reviews:

A book full of abstracts........2000-02-26

I am currently using this book as a textbook for my history class. This is a book not intended for one to learn more about history or historians, but it is more aimed to give you a feel on what kind of material historians wrote. Kelley tends to shy away from giving detail about historians and focuses on their writings instead. He provides very little information about historians (about a paragraph), but he shares very intersting samples of that historian. It is a excellent book for studying historians' writings and it helps one find a historian that you might want to choose for further research. Instead of looking at 100 different books trying to look at different patterns in historical writings, one can just read this book. Kelley did a great job in researching and writing this book and reacing his intentions. The only fall back, and it is a huge one, is that he does not give enough information on each historian. Unless you have studied these historians in the past, you will not gather a lot of background on them from this book, but you will find a great example of thier works.

VERSIONS OF HISTORY FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT.

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VERSIONS OF HISTORY FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT.
Donald R. (ed.): Kelley
Manufacturer: Pan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000W31ZEU

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Conventional wisdom has it that there were no blacks in the Wild West, but In Search of the Racial Frontier powerfully demonstrates otherwise. Beginning with Esteban, a black slave who accompanied a party of Spanish explorers in Texas and the Southwest in the 1500s, historian Quintard Taylor traces the history of blacks in the West. He documents the experiences of black explorers, black mountain men, black cowboys, buffalo soldiers, and black women who joined clubs and "progressive associations" and helped found all-black towns. Wide-ranging in scope and thoroughly researched, In Search of the Racial Frontier is an invaluable addition to any American history bookshelf.

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A groundbreaking history of African Americans' role in the development of the American West. The American West is mistakenly known as a region with few African Americans and virtually no black history. In Search of the Racial Frontier challenges that view in a rich, complex chronicle of western African Americans that begins in 1528 with the Spanish explorer Esteban's arrival in Texas, followed by hundreds of Spanish-speaking blacks. In 1848 English-speaking blacks arrived--as slaves--creating the nucleus of post-Civil War communities. Thousands of African Americans thereafter migrated to the high plains while others drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail or served on remote army outposts. Mormon slave Bridget "Biddy" Mason reached Utah in 1847, gained freedom in California, and in 1872 founded Los Angeles's first black church. The West's black civil rights movement began in San Francisco during the Civil War when women challenged the city's streetcar segregation. This richly peopled story carries forward to the twentieth century when World War II migration increased black populations in western cities tenfold and intensified the region's civil rights movement during the 1960s, paving the way for black success in Western politics and a surging interest in multiculturalism.

Customer Reviews:

A major contribution. . ........2005-10-17

What is initially strking about this masterful endeavor is its scope--from its chronological detail to its rich geographic attention to the broader West. An engaging scholarly work that certainly qualifies within the the realm of required reading for any curriculum in U.S. History or African American studies. It is refreshing to find a more recently compiled history of the black experience, one that focuses on the broad range of African American social evolution throughout the American West. I was particularly interested in his narrative on the cultural assimilation of blacks into Native American society. Highly impressive in its bibliographic scope, this work rates as a definitive contribution to more current historiographic material.

Brilliant Work.......1999-10-15

Taylor's book represents a monumental achievement. This is a tremendous book that covers the history of Blacks in the West more completely and with greater detail than any previous work. It easily supplants William Katz's "The Black West" and W. Sherman Savage's "Blacks in the West" as the definitive work in the field. This book should be required reading for every student in American history.

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"I am so proud to be Elise's student. Read this book and I suspect you will be too." -- from the foreword by Robert Kanigel, author of The Man Who Knew Infinity

"In Ideas into Words, Elise Hancock has managed to write a guide to science writing that is not only comprehensive -- she answers every question I could have imagined asking and then some -- but also wise, vivid, and an awful lot of fun. I wish I'd had something like this to help me when I was starting out." -- Michael D. Lemonick, author of Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe, winner of the American Institute of Physics Writing Award

"Elise Hancock's excitement is infectious. One puts her book down and feels drawn to a keyboard." -- Joel Havemann, editor, Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times

From the latest breakthroughs in medical research and information technologies to new discoveries about the diversity of life on earth, science is becoming both more specialized and more relevant. Consequently, the need for writers who can clarify these breakthroughs and discoveries for the general public has become acute.

In Ideas into Words, Elise Hancock, a professional writer and editor with thirty years of experience, provides both novice and seasoned science writers with the practical advice and canny insights they need to take their craft to the next level. Rich with real-life examples and anecdotes, this book covers the essentials of science writing: finding story ideas, learning the science, opening and shaping a piece, polishing drafts, overcoming blocks, and conducting interviews with scientists and other experts who may not be accustomed to making their ideas understandable to lay readers.

Hancock's wisdom will prove useful to anyone pursuing nonfiction writing as a career. She devotes an entire chapter to habits and attitudes that writers should cultivate, another to structure, and a third to the art of revision. Some of her advice is surprising (she cautions against slavish use of transitions, for example); all of it is hard-earned, astute, and wittily conveyed. This concise guide is essential reading for every writer attempting to explain the world of science to the rest of us.

Customer Reviews:

Joy of Writing.......2005-09-03

Elise Hancock's lucid style will seduce scientists to write with candor and renewed passion. Solid professional advice in this 151-page self-help guide. Encourage a copy to your bored lab colleague and inspire them to trade their pipette for pen!

important for science writers; easy and fun to read.......2004-02-15

The author provides many examples of great scientific writing. Such writing involves translating difficult-to-understand abstractions into concepts easy to understand and related to our current knowledge.

Her writing was a delight to read.

"As the article proceeds, it is as if the selected facts are coated in honey, so that they slide down easy, one pill at a time. No reader will go away thinking, Boy was that turgid, I had to learn a new word just about every paragraph - even though she did."

The book is organized into the following chapters:

1 A Matter of Attitude
2 Finding Stories
3 Finding Out: Research and the Interview
4 Writing: Getting Started adn theSTructure
5 Writing: The Nitty Gritty
6 Refining Your Draft
7 When You're Feeling Stuck

What I particularly liked:

+ her ability to use extended similes, metaphors
+ things that make scientific writing different
+ watch out for scientific mavericks
+ how to find scientific story ideas (excellent)
+ don't confuse a topic with a story idea
+ all of her material on interviewing (excellent, particularly the questions to ask)
+ focusing on the most likely reader, but also the other ones
+ her method of writing was unique (lack of exploratory free-writing, don't spill the beans on your story before you write)
+ her recommended use of organic shapes for your writing (excellent)
+ "build the picture before you supply the name" (how to define technical terms)
+ some great tips on putting on a fresh set of eyes before you start to revise and then edit.
+ re-organizing the paragraphs using their "gists"
+ "... in a term paper you tell. In a professional writing, you show."

I highly recommend this book for anyone who writes, but particularly for anyone who wants to write for the scientific or technical markets.

John Dunbar

Useful for aspiring science writers and scientists alike.......2003-11-24

I read "Ideas into Words" primarily for an insight into how science writers go about their business and secondarily to see if aspects of good popular science writing can be useful in communicating science between disciplines - and in writing grant applications.

Hancock does indeed provide a nice glimpse into scientific journalism. The second and third chapters focused on reporting science and interacting with scientists from a journalist's perspective. A lot of the suggestions also apply to what makes for a good science student. The final four chapters dealt with writing and some of the suggestions do cross over from journalism to other forms of writing. The first chapter was the most enjoyable; the discussions of what science is and how scientists think were gems. My favorites sections were on the mentoring process in science and the difference between scientific and legal forms of rational inquiry - truth vs. verdict.

I recommend this book mainly to people interested in becoming science writers. I believe the suggestions would help anyone reporting on my own work, for example. The suggestions and discussions in the book are also of value to scientists who wish to communicate their work.

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This digital document is an article from Association Management, published by American Society of Association Executives on December 1, 1997. The length of the article is 997 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: Chief staff executive of Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) David Burwell aims to revive a lost national vision of community by directing the conversion of abandoned railway corridors into an interconnected, coast-to-coast trail system. RTC proudly identifies itself as a trade association which supports the grassroots movement, fighting for alternative transportation, open space and trails. Continuous motivation of association volunteers is vital to the accomplishment of the dreamed-about trail system.

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Title: Building America's new front porch. (Rails-to-Trails Conservancy chief staff executive David Burwell heads the building of a nationwide trail system)
Author: LaRonda R. Miller
Publication: Association Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 1997
Publisher: American Society of Association Executives
Volume: v49 Issue: n13 Page: p49(3)

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