BUSINESS STRESS RELIEF: I Laughed My Way Through 3 Careers With Lots of Ideas You Can Relate To!

Book Description

Howard Reiss has written BUSINESS STRESS RELIEF as a very useful gift for anyone in business. He has combined his real-life management experiences in three different careers with his unusual ability to see them from the humorous side of the desk. He wrote this book after conversations and lectures with many business people about how he used humor to relieve lots of stressful business situations. They often asked if he could organize them into a helpful book they could refer to when their stress levels at work were "way too high". They were not looking for a "joke" book, just funny ideas to relieve tension. They were frustrated because none of them had ever found anything with those qualities in bookstores or on the Internet. Their requests became his inspiration to write this book. His experience is best summarized by what he wrote in the introduction: "Humor must be tailored to each individual; because of the different ways that everyone perceives what is funny. But the principle is the same for all: when you imagine a business situation carried to a funny extreme, the real-life situation you're in always appears much less stressful!"

Book Description

From the Oscar-winning blockbusters Titanic and Good Will Hunting to Sundance oddities like Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, to foreign films such as Life is Beautiful (La Vita E Bella ), the latest volume in this popular series features a chronological collection of facsimiles of every film review and awards article published in the New York Times between January 1997 and December 1998. Includes a full index of personal names, titles, and corporate names. Like its companion volume, the New York Times Theater Reviews 1997-1998, this collection is an invaluable resource for all libraries.

Book Description

Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the perpetual circulation of images of disability in print and visual media. The manuscript's six chapters offer comparative readings of key texts in the history of disability representation, including the tin soldier and lame Oedipus, Montaigne's "infinities of forms" and Nietzsche's "higher men," the performance history of Shakespeare's Richard III, Melville's Captain Ahab, the small town grotesques of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Katherine Dunn's self-induced freaks in Geek Love.

David T. Mitchell is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, Northern Michigan University. Sharon L. Snyder is Assistant Professor of Film and Literature, Northern Michigan University.

Customer Reviews:

status quo at risk.......2007-01-05

Narrative Prosthesis has been terrific in both my personal research as well as a supplemental text for an honors course in Disability Studies. The textual body and physical body are rife with meaning.

Average customer rating:
French Winawer (Everyman Chess)
Neil McDonald
Manufacturer: Everyman Chess
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Chess | Board Games | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

French Classical (Everyman Chess)

Play the French, 3rd (Cadogan Chess Books)

Queen's Gambit Declined

The Scandinavian, 2nd

French Defense 2

ASIN: 1857442768

Book Description

A modern look at the French Minawer, which remains the sharpest variation of the French Defense.

The French Defence Main Line Winawer (Contemporary Chess Openings)

Average customer rating:

The French Defence Main Line Winawer (Contemporary Chess Openings)
John Moles
Manufacturer: Chess Digest Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

General | Sports | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0713429216

Average customer rating:

French Defence Winawer Variation C15-19
David R. Myers
Manufacturer: S 1
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 888612726X

Average customer rating:

French Winawer Alekhine gambit
Tony Dempsey
Manufacturer: Chess Player
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Average customer rating:

French Winawer Poisoned Pawn
Eric Schiller
Manufacturer: Chess Enterprises
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0931462746

French Winawer: Modern and Auxiliary Lines (Contemporary Chess Openings) (Contemporary chess openings)

Average customer rating:

French Winawer: Modern and Auxiliary Lines (Contemporary Chess Openings) (Contemporary chess openings)
John Moles , and Kevin Wicker
Manufacturer: Batsford
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

General | Sports | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0713420375

Average customer rating:

Trends in the French Winawer Volume 2
Vlado Kovacevic
Manufacturer: Trends Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000TDT83S

Average customer rating:

French Defence - Winawer Variation

Manufacturer: S1 Editrice
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HX5FIM

Average customer rating:

French Defence: Winawer Variation
J. Ehlvest
Manufacturer: B.T. Batsford Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 071346755X

Average customer rating:

The French Winawer (A line for black)
Andrew Martin
Manufacturer: TUI Enterprises
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Book Description

The latest, greatest update to the bestseller, providing the quick and easy way to get up to speed with the latest release of Adobe Photoshop. This is the book that hundreds of thousands of Photoshop users have turned to again and again for easy-to-understand, practical advice. In best-selling author and premier Photoshop guru Deke McClelland reveals his own techniques for quick and creative image editing, along with specific tips that Photoshop veterans can use to take advantage of the software's new features. In this book, Photoshop pros can discover tricks they can try out right away, while Photoshop novices can find ready-to-use instructions so that they can become productive quickly.

Customer Reviews:

Photoshop 6 for Dummies.......2003-10-06

Although this book can be quite useful for basics, it is too laden down with useless titbits. Also, a lot of important stuff is hidden between these, so it can be very easy to become frustrated. The book is presented well, slightly too much light humour but it does at least presume that you (like I did) have no experience. Practice will make you a much better photoshop user than reading this book, but combining this with thousands of F1 searches will set you well on your way.

Dry, Dry, and still more Dry.......2003-06-30

I'd rather eat the pages of this book for lunch and swallow them without a glass of water than read any further from this bone-dry book. I found the humor in the book more iritating than helpful, and the expanse of long drawn-out paragraphs with very few visual aids proved this to be the worst Photoshop book I've laid my hands on.

I strongly reccomend the Photoshop WOW! series, as well as Down and Dirty Tricks.... great for beginners who would appreciate tons of full-color visual tutorials and examples. Glass of drinking water optional :)

It should be subtitled (for computer experts only).......2003-05-19

I have been a pen & brush graphics artist all of my life. Now that I have retired, I decided to try computer image manipulation. I bought this book in the hopes of learning to recolor, flip, distort, or whatever via my computer (I just got my first one in 2000)and have found it maddening to use. The authors gloss over information vital to a basic understanding of Photoshop and then blithely show highly advanced image techniques that cannot be duplicated without the underlying knowledge. It pretends to being step-by-step, but ignores crucial steps. For example, a complex collage is created using a number of disparate images: how did they select only that portion of the original? How did they make the surrounding parts of the image transparent so the background shows through? This are the most basic maneuvers, but a couple of months with the book left me unenlightened. I have since found another book that delivers on the premise of this one, Photoshop 6 In An Instant by Toot & Woolridge, and am now happily photoshopping away -- this despite the fact that Photoshop 6 for Dummies was more ... and has many pages of color illustration, in contrast to Photoshop 6 In An Instant's reliance on B&W even to show color manipulation!

Not Appropriately Targeted.......2002-10-26

This book purports to be about "photoshop 6 for dummies," but it really isn't much help for real dummies. If you assume that most photoshop beginners, dummies if you will, are most interested in working with their own photographs, this book is of limited utility. It's terrific in discussing graphics and technical points; none of which has anything to do with working with photographs that may have red eye, have faded, need touching up in a variety of ways or even more basic information, like how a "dummy" should take advantage of Photoshop's organizational features. It's not that this is a bad book--indeed, the reverse is true. It's just not much help for the group its supposedly targeted.

barry anderson

Author Stars In Another Medium; not this one.......2002-07-02

I do not care for this Dummies' approach to Photoshop at all. It is very non-visual and it is laced heavily throughout with attempts at humor, all of which should have been editied out of the book. However, I've discovered that this author's, McClelland's, strength is not here but in the videotape series he does for Adobe, some of which can be seen online at Adobe's main site. I've taken some of his tutorials there and they are excellent and extremely visual. My guess is that he got locked into this Dummies' book format, which may have worked for another topic, but does not work for learning the most visual graphics program in the computer world. Bypass this product and investigate this author in other, visual media he uses for teaching you Photoshop instead.

Book Description

This digital document is an article from Presidential Studies Quarterly, published by Center for the Study of the Presidency on June 22, 1998. The length of the article is 2408 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.

Citation Details
Title: After the Cold War: Essays on the Emerging World Order.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: Daniel Baracskay
Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1998
Publisher: Center for the Study of the Presidency
Volume: 28 Issue: 3 Page: 716(1)

Article Type: Book Review

Distributed by Thomson Gale

Christianity and Democracy: A Theology for a Just World Order. (book reviews): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History

Average customer rating:

Christianity and Democracy: A Theology for a Just World Order. (book reviews): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History
Kenneth Christie
Manufacturer: University of Queensland Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

Australia | Australia & Oceania | History | Subjects | Books

General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Book Description

This digital document is an article from The Australian Journal of Politics and History, published by University of Queensland Press on June 22, 1997. The length of the article is 621 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.

Citation Details
Title: Christianity and Democracy: A Theology for a Just World Order. (book reviews)
Author: Kenneth Christie
Publication: The Australian Journal of Politics and History (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1997
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Volume: v43 Issue: n2 Page: p289(2)

Article Type: Book Review

Distributed by Thomson Gale

From Cold War to New World Order: the Foreign Policy of George H.W. Bush.(Book Review): An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly

Average customer rating:

From Cold War to New World Order: the Foreign Policy of George H.W. Bush.(Book Review): An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Glenn Hastedt
Manufacturer: Center for the Study of the Presidency
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Book Description

This digital document is an article from Presidential Studies Quarterly, published by Center for the Study of the Presidency on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 921 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.

Citation Details
Title: From Cold War to New World Order: the Foreign Policy of George H.W. Bush.(Book Review)
Author: Glenn Hastedt
Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: Center for the Study of the Presidency
Volume: 33 Issue: 4 Page: 937(3)

Article Type: Book Review

Distributed by Thomson Gale

The New World Order in Theory and Practice: The Bush Administration's Worldview in Transition.: An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly

Average customer rating:

The New World Order in Theory and Practice: The Bush Administration's Worldview in Transition.: An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Eric A. Miller , and Steve A. Yetiv
Manufacturer: Center for the Study of the Presidency
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

Iraq | Middle East | History | Subjects | Books

Kuwait | Middle East | History | Subjects | Books

General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Book Description

This digital document is an article from Presidential Studies Quarterly, published by Center for the Study of the Presidency on March 1, 2001. The length of the article is 7313 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 author: The twentieth century saw several major postwar efforts to create conditions conducive to the development o f a new world order. This article focuses on the period of the end of the cold war, particularly the Persian Gulf crisis (1990-1991). The authors analyze how the concept of the new world order evolved during this period and argue that the Bush administration consciously sought to create a framework for a new world order during the Gulf crisis. This framework was based on checking the offensive use of force, promoting collective security, and using great power cooperation.

Citation Details
Title: The New World Order in Theory and Practice: The Bush Administration's Worldview in Transition.
Author: Eric A. Miller
Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2001
Publisher: Center for the Study of the Presidency
Volume: 31 Issue: 1 Page: 56

Distributed by Thomson Gale

The world of the polis (His Order and history)

Average customer rating:

The world of the polis (His Order and history)
Eric Voegelin
Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007EYV1S

The World of the Polis, Volume 2 Order and History

Average customer rating:

The World of the Polis, Volume 2 Order and History
Eric Voeglin
Manufacturer: Louisiana State U.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IOPS2S

Average customer rating:

As a text: less pages to read, yet a good combo of primary and secondary readings

World Civilizations Great Supplementary Text

World Civilization: Sources, Images and Interpretations Volume II
Dennis Sherman , A. Tom Grunfeld , Gerald Markowitz , David Rosner , and Linda Heywood
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Early Civilization | Ancient | History | Subjects | Books
General | World | History | Subjects | Books
jp-unknown1 | Specialty Stores | Books
Similar Items:

Physics: A World View (with InfoTrac)

World History, Volume II: Since 1500

The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)

The Bedford Handbook

The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics)

ASIN: 0072418257

Book Description

The second in a two-volume anthology of primary, secondary and visual sources, this reader provides a broad introduction to the evolution of World Civilizations from ancient history to 1700, and gives students insight into how historians use and interpret evidence in an effort to broaden their understanding of civilizations around the world. A wide selection of documents, images, maps and charts is presented along with chapter-opening timelines, source introductions, points for consideration, and questions designed to clarify the material and stimulate discussion. The reader is organized chronologically, but also provides an alternate topical Table of Contents, which allows instructors and students to compare sources across cultures and time periods. A new feature to this edition, "Using This Book," assists students in fully analyzing sources and context.

Customer Reviews:

As a text: less pages to read, yet a good combo of primary and secondary readings.......2007-03-04

At only 226 pages for volume 1, this is a short collection of readings, which allows the teacher to assign interesting monographs or classics. What the text does it does well, such as to provide handy introductions to the readings, a few questions to consider for each source, provide maps and some pictures, end each chapter with provocative questions, and covers most regions of the world.

Each reading is two pages or less, and that allows students to get their feet wet in a nice variety of historical events, ideas, and personalities. While I wish some of the secondary sources would present a more complete history of their topics, they have been chosen well and many are selections from top scholars such as A.H.M. Jones on Rome and Euan Cameron on the Protestant Reformation.

Is it Eurocentric? Sadly, three of the fifteen chapters concern Europe from the middle ages onward, but Asia is also well represented, and one finds a chapter on the Mongols and nomads of central Asia. Central and South America is slighted, and Islam's chapter is too brief.

It is overpriced at around $53. For a few dollars less one could assign Worlds of History, ed. by Kevin Reilly, and get more sources, a longer text, better introductions, global coverage, and Reilly's expertise. But the Reilly text is the typical B/W, plain, and dense small paperback of 500 pages, whereas this text by Sherman is large size, full of colorful illustrations and maps, and easier for students to look at. Both books are viable options for world history courses.
Prof. Christensen, Biola University

World Civilizations Great Supplementary Text.......2000-11-09

This book is an excellent companion to conventional textbooks in a Global History course. The Introduction and "Consider" feature before each source helps the reader to pinpoint key ideas and important themes in the document as well as provide important background information which aides in the understanding of the source. The wide variety of sources focusing on various aspects of each topic help to provide a well-rounded view of the subject.

Book Description

As our earliest ancestors migrated out of Africa, they encountered entirely new floras. By sampling these, they found plants that appeared to (and sometimes did) heal wounds, cure maladies, and ease troubled minds. This process of discovery continues today, as multinational pharmaceutical companies bioprospect in the globe's remaining wild places for the next tamoxifen or digitalis.

The gardener and botanist David Stuart tells the fascinating story of botanical medicine, revealing more than soothing balms and heroic cures. Most of the truly powerful and effective medicinal plants are double-edged, with a dark side to balance the light. They can heal or kill, calm or enslave, lift depression or summon our gods and monsters. Often the difference between these polar effects is a simple change in dosage.

Stuart chronicles the tale of how the herbal materia medica of healing and killing plants has sparked wars, helped establish intercontinental trade routes, and seeded fortunes. As plant species traveled the globe, their medicinal uses evolved over miles and through centuries. Plants once believed to be cure-alls are now considered too dangerous for use. Others, once so valuable that they sowed the wealth of empires, are merely spices on the kitchen shelf.

David Stuart recounts engrossing human stories too, not only of the scientists, explorers, and doctors who gathered, named, and prescribed these plants but also the shamans, magicians, and quacks who claimed to possess the ultimate herbal aphrodisiac or elixir.

Customer Reviews:

Fascinating and informative read........2005-11-05

I absolutely loved this book! Not only was it interesting and compelling reading but the book was full of incredibly obscure but very enlightening information about the usage history of the plants covered. Mr. Stuart also gave (in the majority of instances) the specific botanical names of the plants and other related species which is rare in non-scientific "History of Plants" books. The selection of illustrations was absolutely superb.

The only negative that I have about this book is that Mr. Stuart frequently listed vague references to scientific "studies" that proved his points about certain plants but there was no information, footnoted or otherwise, to definitively identitify these "studies". He also had a few scattered references to plants mentioned in unspecified publications. Who did these studies and who printed these stories? In a book of this nature, I expect to have facts and sources laid out a bit more thoroughly.

I still gave this book FIVE STARS because it was so much fun to read. I have lots of other books with which to cross reference and confirm some of the more vague references so I wasn't particularly distressed by the oversight although, in my view, if you are going to thoroughly research and document some things, then you should thoroughly research and document everything.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Piqued my interest, now I want to know even more . . . . .......2005-01-09

"Dangerous Garden" is an EXCELLENT book on the history of plants and how humans interact with plants, a topic that I stumbled onto only about a couple of years ago. The book is broken up into eight chapters that cover about 200 pages. There are lots of pictures and color plates, so each chapter is almost a stand-alone section that is just the right length to be read over an afternoon or spread out over a couple of nights at bedtime.

Each chapter covers a category of use or effect that humans have tried to get out of plants. The chapters are:
- The Great Afflictions, covering plants thought to affect diseases such as bubonic plague, malaria and leprosy.
- The Vital Organs, covering plants thought to affect vital organs such as the heart, stomach, etc.
- The Flight from Pain, or the search for pain-relievers, with an extensive section on opium.
- Chasing Venus, which is kind of self-explanatory.
- The Killing Plants, very self-explanatory.
- The Seven Ages of Man, meaning plants that are supposed to prolong life, maintain a youthful appearance, or otherwise slow the passage of time.
- The Mind, or plants that affect the mind and have been both revered and demonized because of it, including marijuana, cocaine, tobacco and qat.
- The Mysteries of the Gods, which covers plants used in religious and shamanic ceremonies, such as peyote.

The book is definitely not a lightweight and people looking for serious information will find a lot of worth. Plants are referred to both by their common name and their scientific names and the index covers both types of terms as well. The Bibliography includes books from 1516 to the 1990s, and the Author's Acknowledgments on the last page list a number of good websites as well.

Stuart discusses the historical uses of various plants and how some plants have gone from being cure-alls in the past to being either banned or sold in the grocery-store spice aisle now. He spends a lot of time on the concept of Janus plants, which are "two-faced" plants, meaning they can both harm and heal, and he also discusses fads in medicine, including a long period of time in the middle ages where if a plant had a visible effect it was thought to be better than one that didn't have a visible effect, so plants that made people sweaty, feverish, nauseous, sleepy, etc. were prescribed in amounts that are horrifying by today's standards.

Some authors talk down to readers, but this author absolutely does not and will jump from discussion of which 19th-century herbal contained which plant to discussion of the exact chemical names of the active alkaloids in a plant, if they are unknown than which other known alkaloids do they resemble, and what current research is being done and current uses and/or speculation.

There are also numerous little facts sprinkled here and there throughout the book which the author clearly can't spend much time on because of space but which are equally fascinating in themselves, such as:
- (pg 188) Morning glory has LSD-like components that have been much studied and have variable effects in mice, rabbits and humans, with some people feeling little effect and other getting a full "trip", although often an unpleasant one.
- (pgs 7-8) Rhubarb was once thought to be an aphrodisiac by the Romans and a cure for a form of malaria by medieval herbalists; until the mid-1500s it was only available to Europe as imported dried roots.
- (pgs 69-70) There was once a great hospital atop Soutra Hill in Scotland, south of Edinburgh, its first charter dated from 1108 (!) and it reached its epogee in 1462 and was finally closed in the 1500s, razed by the late 1800s and its drains, cesspits and middens began to be excavated in the 1980s.

I could go on for pages more, but I will digress. In short, if you like history and if you like plants, you'll probably like this book.

Book Description

Authored by EPA, this reference book provides facility personnel and consultants with a reusable framework for conducting a thorough, combined pollution prevention and energy conservation audit at both large and small industrial and commercial facilities. Industrial Assessments guides auditors through the assessment process and helps them identify a range of energy conservation and pollution prevention options for a specific facility, evaluate the options based on their feasibility analyses, and select the best option by identifying their specific characteristics.

Guide to industrial assessments for pollution prevention and energy efficiency (SuDoc EP 1.104:IN 2/CD)

Average customer rating:

Guide to industrial assessments for pollution prevention and energy efficiency (SuDoc EP 1.104:IN 2/CD)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Manufacturer: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Center for Environmental Research Information
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00011505I

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books