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What—a single man working with young children, changing diapers, cooking meals, and providing educational activities with children from 14 months-4 years old? Can a man do this with 6 children all by himself?
After many years working in a classroom with young children and studying early childhood education, I decided to venture out on my own and open my own family child care. By
journaling my thoughts about children and the early childhood profession, you will get a true sense of it all. Come see, feel, smell,
my experiences of humor and understanding of children. All teachers should be able to see him/her in my writing because this is what they do. Parents will get a view of what children do all day. My book is unique because men donÂ't write about
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Living a Dream With Coach Gate
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This book is more than about wins and losses. It is the story of Tom Applegate, a Quaker pastor who decided he could best serve humanity by teaching in the city. Growing up in Spiceland, a small town in east central Indiana, he developed a Hoosier passion for basketball. Having very little success as a player in high school did not dampen his enthusiasm for basketball. The prelude contains a short biography of Tom
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Fallen Stars: Tragic Lives and Lost Careers
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Fallen Stars probes the underside of fame to reveal a host of glittering careers stunted by ill-health, alcoholism, drug addiction and egomania. Twenty-one tales of stardom turned sour, these are the tragic final years of some of the world's best-loved actors and comedians, a latter-day Hollywood Babylon that includes Benny Hill, Diana Dors, Peter Sellers, Carry On legends and many others.
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In Citizen Spy, Michael Kackman investigates how media depictions of the slick, smart, and resolute spy have been embedded in the American imagination. Looking at secret agents on television and the relationships among networks, producers, government bureaus, and the viewing public in the 1950s and 1960s, Kackman explores how Americans see themselves in times of political and cultural crisis.
During the first decade of the Cold War, Hollywood developed such shows as I Led 3 Lives and Behind Closed Doors with the approval of federal intelligence agencies, even basing episodes on actual case files. These “documentary melodramas” were, Kackman argues, vehicles for the fledgling television industry to proclaim its loyalty to the government, and they came stocked with appeals to patriotism and anti-Communist vigilance.
As the rigid cultural logic of the Red Scare began to collapse, spy shows became more playful, self-referential, and even critical of the ideals professed in their own scripts. From parodies such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Get Smart to the more complicated global and political situations of I Spy and Mission: Impossible, Kackman situates espionage television within the tumultuous culture of the civil rights and women’s movements and the war in Vietnam. Yet, even as spy shows introduced African-American and female characters, they continued to reinforce racial and sexual stereotypes.
Bringing these concerns to the political and cultural landscape of the twenty-first century, Kackman asserts that the roles of race and gender in national identity have become acutely contentious. Increasingly exclusive definitions of legitimate citizenship, heroism, and dissent have been evident through popular accounts of the Iraq war. Moving beyond a snapshot of television history, Citizen Spy provides a contemporary lens to analyze the nature—and implications—of American nationalism in practice.
Michael Kackman is assistant professor in Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas, Austin.
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The first comprehensive survey of prime-time secret agents during the Cold War.......2006-04-28
Michael Kackman's CITIZEN SPY: TELEVISION, ESPIONAGE AND COLD WAR CULTURE provides the first comprehensive survey of prime-time secret agents during the Cold War, considering how media depictions of such agents fired the American imagination and helped public approval of intelligence actions. These documentaries also reinforced the media's approval of government policies - until the Red Scare weakened and spy shows turned to criticizing their own ideals.
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First Steps to Winning Chess
Anthony Miles
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Get the most out of Kontakt 2 with this definitive guidebook! This book/DVD pack offers musicians an unparalleled close-up view of one of the most powerful software samplers on the market. A thorough encyclopedic treatment of every button, knob, and function of Kontakt 2 is balanced with practical tutorials (from beginner to advanced) demonstrating how to create instruments from scratch using samples on the accompanying DVD. There is also a section with hands-on examples on how the sampler can be used in both a studio and a live environment. Includes numerous pointers to companies and web sites producing Kontakt 2-related procucts, a special appendix devoted to people who want to use Kontakt 2 live onstage, and a companion DVD filled with tutorial files and 3 GB of samples from various sample library companies.
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Only option you have - DVD Tutorial is much better.......2006-03-21
The Kontakt software has limited information available. While this book is very comprehensive, the best option to learn Kontakt is from the newly released tutorial DVD. It is awesome.
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Although countless books have been written about the U-boat war in the Atlantic, precious few facts have come to light about the men who served in the submarines that wrought such havoc on Allied ships. Eager to get beyond the stereotypes perpetuated in movies and novels and find out who these elusive sailors really were, archivist Timothy Mulligan started searching official records. Eventually he went straight to the source, conducting a survey of more than a thousand U-boat officers and enlisted men and interviewing a number of them personally. The result is this character study of the German submarine force that challenges traditional and revisionist views of the service.
Mulligan found striking similarities in the men's geographic and social origins, education, and previous occupations, particularly within the specialized engineering and radio branches of the submarine force. The information he gathered establishes quantifiable patterns in age, length of service, and experience, as well as the organization's overall recruitment policies and training standards. The numbers and losses of U-boat personnel are also fully examined.
Beyond these objective characteristics, this study lists such subjective factors as morale, treatment of enemy ship survivors, and the relationship of the submariners to the Nazi regime, and it confirms a serious crisis in morale in late 1943. The roles played by the head of the U-boat arm, Grand Admiral Karl Donitz, and its organizational chief, Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, are thoroughly addressed. Mulligan concludes that the U-boat arm quickly evolved from a handpicked elite to a more representative sample of the German navy at large but continued to be treated as an elite force. The only comprehensive investigation yet published, this book also draws on POW interrogations of U-boat survivors and documentation of Kriegsmarine personnel policy obtained from German archives.
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Can the Question Posed Be Answered?.......2003-03-20
First of all, anyone interested in submarine warfare will find this a well-documented and constructed account of the development and use of submarines within the Kriegsmarine (KM) by the Germans during World War II. Like most books from the Naval Institute Press, among them the highly-sought first edition of Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October", one would be hard put to find flaws in the presentation.
The author does opine from the gathered data, much of it in the National Archives, that helps the reader track from year to year the rise and fall of the effectiveness of U-Boot (U-Boat) warfare, the reasons (especially increasingly effective Allied detection and bombing) for the end of the Battle of the Atlantic, and the failure of the unleashing of "total war" by Admiral Donitz. The book is rich with German terminology, which will facilitate reader understanding of other books, and films such as "Das Boot". For example, the term L.I. (pronounced el-ee in German) occurs frequently in that film, referring to the Chief Engineer (Lieutenant Engineer, on the Engineer track within the KM).
I find somewhat astounding one conclusion of the author, that most U-Boot sailors were German patriots and relatively unaware of the genocide occurring within the Reich. Although there is dictum that der Fuehrer compained of having a "Christian Navy", frequent trips back to the Fatherland when on leave, trips to Berlin for decorations, and so forth would seem to make it incredulous that these men did not know what was happening within the Reich. The author does not identify how many sailors in the U-Boot Waffe were NSDAP (Nazi Party) members, which would be a telling statistic. He states that Germans at home were more concerned with obtaining food during the Allied bombing campaign, which has come under some revisionist criticism ("German's Revisit War's Agony, Ending a Taboo", Richard Bernstein, New York Times, Vol. CLII, No. 52423, March 15, 2003, p. A3). However, this reviewer has studied the period 1918-1950 fairly extensively, and viewed in German newsreels shown in German theatres as early as 1940 which demonstrated the persecution of Jews and other "undesireables" and the unfolding of the plans stated in the book "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle), available in English in 1939.
Films such as "Das Boot" and "Stalingrad" do go a long way toward viewing the common soldier or sailor as somewhat of a victim of birth and citizenship. Standards both mental and physical for U-Boat personnel were astoundingly stringent (even volunteers with dental caries were rejected). These men fought in unimaginably deplorable conditions (no heat, one commode for a crew averaging 50, frequent exposure to the exhaust of diesel engines). However, this book doesn't convey that kind of feeling, compared to, say, Werner's "Iron Coffins" (the recollections of a U-Boat commander). Nonetheless, its statistical analysis is important--suggesting that upwards of 50,000 rather than the commonly accepted 40,000 sailors may have served on U-Boats. The casualty rate (75% or so killed) belies grand fealty to a doomed and errant cause, but as with our own Confederates, we can nonetheless appreciate the valor and sacrifice with which they served "their" country.
Very good behind-the-scenes look.......2000-09-28
A very informative, in-depth look behind the scenes at the men who made up Germany's U-Boat arm. Mulligan has done his homework in researching educational backgrounds, regions where these men came from, training time, ages when they became captains, and a whole array of facts and figures put together in a way that is not boring, but rather enlightening.
Party affiliations are also discussed in great detail. Some commanders were fanatical Nazis, others started out that way only to change when they saw what it was doing to their homeland, and others were just there doing their job.
Admiral Donitz is also thoroughly discussed in this book, looking at his ideaologies at conducting the war, his strategies and his loyalties to his men and to Hitler. It makes me want to buy his book, "Memoirs" and read further.
A well-done, in-depth book. A lot of facts and figures put together in a nice package.
The Men Behind the Machines.......2000-04-04
This thoroughly engrossing book by Timothy Mulligan is the first work to portray the officers and men of Germany's U-Boat arm in an attempt to understand not only why they fought, but what motivated them to continue to take their vessels to sea after 1943, when the loss rate in combat grew to an incredible level and each new mission grew increasingly suicidal. Mulligan's book goes far beyond a statistical tabulation of data, and the many nuggets of information he gleaned from his in-depth research refute most of the myths and legends of the U-Boat men popularized in the immediate post-war years in books and movies. The book overturns the common images of Germany's U-Boat men as being either fanatical killers or baby-faced sacrifices to Hitlerian ambitions. This is not a chronological history of the war at sea in WW2, although the author does describe in detail the major trends of the Battle of the Atlantic, the struggle for technological superiority, and the effects these had on recruiting, morale, combat performance, and motivation of the German submarine crews. All in all, this is an excellent book that puts a human face on a much-feared enemy, cuts through the stereotypes and propaganda images, and shows that the UBootfahrer were truly "neither sharks nor wolves"...nor sheep.
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Acclaim for The Great Fire of London
"Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written. . . . The author marshals his story and his mass of contemporary quotations with great skill."
-Times Literary Supplement
"The brilliance of its narrative chapters . . . a marvelous eye for evocative detail. Hanson's prose is animated by the ferocious energy of the fire and seems to be guided by its inexorable movement. He creates the literary equivalent of the special effects in a disaster movie. . . . A rich mixture of imagination and research."
-The Daily Telegraph (London)
"He writes with knowledge and verve. As if making a television documentary on a natural disaster, he includes a gripping technical chapter on the mechanism and chemistry of combustion. This works brilliantly. . . . The book gains immeasurably from the author's eye for detail and from his understanding of the beliefs and prejudices of the day. . . . Informative and lively account."
-The Sunday Times (London)
"The best depiction of the Great Fire seen to date. . . . He manages to describe not only the atmosphere of the event itself, but also the experience of living in seventeenth-century Britain."
-Soho Independent
"A riveting book for those who like their history with a bit of mystery."
-The Brisbane News
"A rollicking good yarn."
-The Age (Melbourne)
"Blends high-class original research with a narrative style that mimics fiction. . . . Horrific subjects have served this man well and he has a knack for plugging into the dark themes that run like molten rivers beneath our social veneer."
-New Zealand Herald
"Neil Hanson's descriptions of the inferno are like CNN reports from Kosovo."
-Camden New Journal
"It's not the technical data which makes the book so riveting though. It's the flair with which Hanson invests his account with qualities usually reserved for novels-narrative drive, persuasive character sketches, vivid scene stealing."
-Sunday Star Times (New Zealand)
Customer Reviews:
Too much fiction.......2006-01-17
Too much novelesque fictional fluff obscuring the facts. A whole paragraph devoted to how someone tosses a loaf of bread is too much. I fell asleep after page 4 and couldn't go on. I want to learn about the fire not read a bedtime story about 17th century England. You can tell the author did a lot of research, it's a shame that he fluffed it up so much with his own fictional image of 17th century London life.
A Dramatic Read.......2005-04-16
There's a touch of the novel about this book, but in a good way. The author 'fills in' what certain characters were thinking. This is a good thing; it adds reality to the facts of what happened. The book covers the time from the start of the fire to the ending of it, how the people reacted, and he gives a very nice chapter about fires in general, how a fire of this size behaves. Overall, the book seems very historically accurate and brings to life how miserable an event the Great Fire of London must've been.
I always thought that the Great Fire was the reason there was no longer any Plague in London, but the author gives good reason why this is probably not the case.
I enjoy books about Restoration England and this was not a disappointment.
Maps.......2005-03-16
To answer the query of a reviewer below, there are maps on pages 61, 77 and 109 showing the progress of the fire. The book also has many contemporary illustrations.
This is an exciting book, revealing just how fair and how foul the human character can reveal itself in times of disaster.
Where's the map?.......2004-04-01
The Great Fire of London by Neil Hanson traces the progress of the conflagration street by street, building by building on all its fronts. Unfortunately the publishers did not include any useful maps so the reader could follow the progress. This oversight detracts fatally from Hanson's exciting and dramatic narrative.
Hanson does not give a proper examination of the long term effects of the fire. His examination of short terms effects is cursory. The book ends with a discussion of pyromania.
The Great Fire of London is enjoyable (what a complement to give a disaster), but not completely satisfying.
A Nice Popular History.......2003-03-02
This is a history for the nonhistorian. That is not meant as a criticism. It is meant as a selling point. There are not thousands of footnotes, but do you really read those things?
This book should interest historians, people who travel frequently to London and the general reading public who are just curious. It takes us back into the world where death from plague was a daily threat and parents lost child after child. Death was a daily companion. Age 35 was an old man. People married young because they had to. By 40 they would probably be dead--especially women who dropped like flies in childbirth.
Then, one night in a baker's house in Pudding Lane the house caught fire. At first it did not look like much but eventually it consumed virtually the entire old city of London.
Efforts to fight the fire, led by Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York, were unsuccessful. With the primitive water mains broken, the only way was to dynamite houses.
When it was all over, the medieval city was gone to be replaced by ruins. The plague disappeared helped along no doubt by the immolation of the rats. Rebuilding began immediately. We all know (or should) about Sir Christopher Wren building all those churches.
And punishment for the fire? One deranged man, who had nothing to do with it was executed.
I read right through this book and so will you. Enjoy!
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Did you know—
• It took more than an iceberg to sink the Titanic.
• The Challenger disaster was predicted.
• Unbreakable glass dinnerware had its origin in railroad lanterns.
• A football team cannot lose momentum.
• Mercury thermometers are prohibited on airplanes for a crucial reason.
• Kryptonite bicycle locks are easily broken.
“Things fall apart” is more than a poetic insight—it is a fundamental property of the physical world. Why Things Break explores the fascinating question of what holds things together (for a while), what breaks them apart, and why the answers have a direct bearing on our everyday lives.
When Mark Eberhart was growing up in the 1960s, he learned that splitting an atom leads to a terrible explosion—which prompted him to worry that when he cut into a stick of butter, he would inadvertently unleash a nuclear cataclysm. Years later, as a chemistry professor, he remembered this childhood fear when he began to ponder the fact that we know more about how to split an atom than we do about how a pane of glass breaks.
In Why Things Break, Eberhart leads us on a remarkable and entertaining exploration of all the cracks, clefts, fissures, and faults examined in the field of materials science and the many astonishing discoveries that have been made about everything from the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger to the crashing of your hard drive. Understanding why things break is crucial to modern life on every level, from personal safety to macroeconomics, but as Eberhart reveals here, it is also an area of cutting-edge science that is as provocative as it is illuminating.
“An engaging personal account not just of the physics and chemistry of materials but of the ethics, economics, and politics of innovation, with delightful bonuses on topics from the origins of ‘ghostly’ noises in old houses to the amazing coevolution of armor and armor-piercing projectiles. If it ain’t broke, Mark Eberhart can tell you why—and explain equally well why a shatterproof world remains beyond our reach.”
—Edward Tenner, author of Our Own Devices and Why Things Bite Back
“I don’t remember a book that has taught me so much, nor previously encountering a teacher like the marvelous Mark Eberhart, who in Why Things Break provides enlightening and thoroughly captivating scientific explanations of subjects ranging from the structural failures leading to the sinking of the Titanic to everyday, no-less-fascinating topics such as the reason why, even at the same temperature, winter days always seem so much colder in Boston than in Denver.”—Richard Restak, M.D., author of Mozart’s Brain and The Fighter Pilot
“Eberhart brings his insights to the reader by weaving personal anecdotes—from his childhood fear that cutting a stick of butter would release the energy of the atoms within to his arrival in Boston for an interview with MIT without a suitable winter coat—into a fascinating discussion of the forces that hold atoms and molecules together. A lively, unvarnished look at chemistry on the cutting edge.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Customer Reviews:
Good but not great.......2007-01-31
Having just read the book, I agree with other recent reviewers. There is interesting information in here (for instance, that lexan becomes extremely brittle when exposed to nail polish remover). But that content is diluted with personal rants (such as the author's grad school interview process) and silly analogies (like "If even a tiny scratch were to expose niobium to air at 2,500*F, it would soak up oxygen faster than Bounty--the 'quicker picker-upper'--soaks up water.")
And the photo on the cover IS completely misleading--the book is about fractures on a micro scale. You won't find anything about why the bridge in the photo broke.
50% moderately useful info, 50% personal rant.......2006-11-29
I enjoyed about 50% of this book. The author gives some good practical explanations of why materials, such as the hull of the Titanic, fail. As a layperson, I found this very interesting. However, I found his personal rants about the politics of scientific research and his personal tales of life in graduate school and beyond really, really tiresome. In addition, the title and book cover (a picture of a bridge failure) are a come on which have almost nothing to do with the contents. The science in the books moves from the macro to the micro, which makes a certain amount of sense but I found the topics to be really poorly organized. I would not recommend this book unless you have lots of free time.
Disappointed ..........2006-10-24
As a non-scientist, I enjoy reading intelligent books about science that do a good job of explaining scientific concepts to an educated but non-technical audience. I recently became more interested in materials science after reading Stephen Sass' "The Substance of Civilization" (which I recommend heartily) and had hoped that this book would make a good next step.
Unfortunately, the promise of the book's title remains substantially unfulfilled. This is a more a book about why EBERHART is interested in why things break and why he thinks it's a disgrace that most people don't understand more about science (and specifically about materials science). Now, both of those (and particularly the latter) are potentially interesting topics but they aren't the reason I picked up the book.
This is not to say that there is no direct information about materials science in the book. But the information that there is tends to be woven into other stories (which themselves are filled with other stories and regressions -- it's a book that could also use a little more editing) about the importance of materials science, rather than the science itself.
Some answers;but a lot of questions remain........2006-09-18
I really enjoyed this book. Although I am an Engineer in my senior years; one does not really need more technical knowledge than that received in High School to enjoy this book. The author has done a fine job of communicating with lay people who may only have a passing interest in why things break. Most people ,who have little science background ,will find it a pleasure to intercourse with an extremely knowledgeable Scientist whose world includes highly complicated areas such as Quantum Mechanics.
Although the author touches on some difficult areas,he always puts what he is dealinng with in language and examples that are easily grasped.
You are going to learn that the sinking of the Titanic was a lot more involved than simply hitting an iceberg. And how about the fact that the Titanic had no binoculars for lookouts,insufficient lifeboats.You'll also find why so many Liberty Ships sank in the Atlanticduring WW11, without having been hit by shells,bombs ,mines or other armanents. You'll also see that the reason for their sinking was not even incorporated into the design;or for that fact,even known.Amazingly ,a fix was quickly found.
Even something as simple as "unbreakable" dishes like Pyrex and Corningwareis explained. The book also discusses some simple things ;such as why snow doesn't have to be shovelled in Colorado--or did you even know that? He discusses a lot about metals,how the properties of various metals was found by trial and error;but the reason why things happened was basically unknown.He also discusses a lot about glass,particularly armored or safety glass. I once had an experience with large panels,5 X 10 feet; that were used as interior walls in buildings. Several broke for no apparent reason. The panels consisted of two sheets with a plastic film sandwiched between them. When they broke.it looked like a bullet had hit them. All the breakage radiated from one point,similar to a giant spider web. It was determined that it was caused by an impurity.Supposedly,theimpurity was a Manganese crystal that kept growing until it created enough stress to fracture the whole panel,with not a piece left bigger than a piece of popcorn. Something like you see with a rear car window in a hot parking lot or when struck a severe blow in an accident.The intent being that the pieces would be small fragments,rather than shrads that were large and would like daggers. Our panels,with the plastic layer still remained in place. I used a magnifying loop and lo,and behold,right in the center of the "Web" you could see the tiny black crystal,no more than a couple of millimeters long.I would be curious to hear from anyone else who has heard of this type of failure as it is not discussed in the book.
I also had a lot of experience with "Lexan" and was very surprised to hear some of the things the author had to say about it.
Some good points..........2006-06-24
The book is a good treatise on material analysis, with the attendant dryness you might expect. Dr. Eberhart injects some humor, but at the level you might expect from a research scientist. As for the analyses of the three failures mentioned in another review, there is scant information provided. In his summary of the failures, he makes references to some facts that are not explained, and leaves the reader curious, unsatisfied. (Example - the decompression flap in the Aloha flight. Why was it opening? What triggers it to operate?).
Probably a bit esoteric for the average reader without any background in materials.
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Science Responds to Environmental Threats: Synthesis Report/LA Reponse Des Scientifiques Aux Atteintes a L'Environnement (Oecd Documents : Ocde)
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Environmental threats have been increasingly taken into account in scientific and technological policy formulation. However, research and development efforts in that area have been somewhat uneven among countries and there have been different institutional developments. One central issue concerns the place environmental research should have. This report results from an exploratory exercise undertaken in selected OECD countries. The country studies are published separately under the title "Science Responds to Environmental Threats: Country Studies."
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