Artists in the Work Force: Employment and Earnings, 1970 to 1990 (Research Division Report (National Endowment for the Arts. Research Division), 37)

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Where do artists live and work? What do they earn? do they support their art or does it support them? This report answers these questions and many other intriguing questions about the United States artists over the last two decades.

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Wealth Shift: Profit Strategies for Investors as the Baby Boomers Approach Retirement
Christopher D. Brooke
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Wealth Shift describes the enormous financial impact on all investors as they approach retirement, and their accumulated investments "shift" from wealth accumulation to wealth preservation.

No matter what a person's age or current financial profile, they need to know what to do about: preserving and growing wealth, pre-retirement and retirement investment strategies, real estate opportunities and challenges, hot investment sectors- healthcare, leisure, and entertainment, construction and infrastructue-and the future for bonds, dividends, and stocks.

With real-life examples and sensible advice, Wealth Shift identifies challenges and opportunities, and defines the important courses of action that both anticipate and capitalize on the enormous shifts ahead. Whether a person is already retired, an early or late-stage boomer, a Gen Xer or younger, the good news is that they can:

- Develop strategies for preserving and growing wealth in the looming wealth shift
- Learn how to be part of the wave that will lead the American economy
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"With the early-stage baby boomers nearing retirement, a momentous financial shift is about to take place. The boomers' consumer spending and their growth-driven investing mindset will begin to soften, then fall quickly, as the leading edge of the boomer retirees begin to drive the trend-just like they always have. A powerful new impulse to reduce risk and generate income will spread to tens of millions of boomers as they approach retirement. Trillions of dollars in accumulated wealth will shift---first slowly, then explosively--toward safer, fixed-return investments, diminishing values in equity markets and putting severe downward pressure on bond yields. You see it approaching. Now what are you going to do about it? Read on in this prophetic new book, Wealth Shift, and get the knowledge you'll need to protect and grow your portfolio's value."

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Wealth Shift: Profit Strategies for Investors As the Baby Boomers Approach Retirement
Christopher D. Brooke
Manufacturer: Perigee Books
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Wealth Shift:Profit Strategies for Investors as the Baby Boomers Approach Retirement
Christopher D. Brooke
Manufacturer: Wealth Shift Publishing
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The textbook introduces the concept of experiential learning and establishes the recurrent themes for the chapters that follow. The text also raises ethical issues common to externship placements and provides a framework for students to work through the issues. Provides guidance for students who use journals to record and reflect on their externship experience. Focuses on how students can learn from observation of lawyering behavior during the externship. Also introduces issues of bias in the legal profession for reflection and discussion as part of an externship experience. Discusses use of externship to improve traditional lawyering skills.

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Written for the Mentally Challenged Law Student.......2007-01-10

This text blows. It is so dumbed down that I find it more excruciating to read 10 pages in this than 100 pages of Con Law. It gets an extra star because it is paperback.

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"It was a thing blameworthy, shameful and barbarous, worthy of severe punishment before God and Man, to wish to bring to perfection an art damageable to one's neighbor and destructive to the human race."
This anguished statement from the fifteenth-century Italian mathematician known as Tartaglia, who created the science of ballistics, might have come from any one of thousands of brilliant scientists who, throughout history, have applied their genius to the art of war. Every advance in weaponry from the bronze sword to the stealth bomber has been the product of science, and it is likely that without the pressure of war, science as we know it would not exist.
Science Goes to War examines the moral dilemmas, knotty technological problems, and pragmatic necessities that have punctuated the inseparable histories of science and warfare. This remarkably comprehensive volume recounts the 4,000-year quest for the ultimate weapon and reveals how this eternal arms race has both exploited and contributed to "pure" science. Highlights among the many compelling stories in Science Goes to War include:
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Science Goes to War.......2007-04-03

This was a very interesting book. full of factual information. It studys the whole world in leangthy process not just the US. Says a lot about the A bomb as far back as Da Vinci.

Science Goes To War .......2005-12-08

This book makes a number of absurd mistakes - sometimes even getting things exactly backwards - which someone actually familiar with the particular topic (such as radar) would find laughable.

Good book but full of inaccuracies.......2003-02-01

The topic is quite interesting and relevant considering our current situation. The early part of the book is the most gripping, but I have to say that the chapters dealing with the 20th Century were a big let down. Volkman is correct in saying only a couple of people left the Manhatten project, but he does not mention that many scientists refused to work on the project. The data is skewed to represent the thesis of author, but it would have been nice to read about some of the counter arguments, such as the early peace movement among scientists in the 16th Century. It would have been notable if more effort could have been made towards some of the scientist peace movement successes (such as the ban on some areas of biological research during the 1970s). There are however, lots of little nuggets of information that keep the readers' interest until the end. Inside this book, there is a great one waiting to come out. Perhaps in a later edition.....

Good overview!.......2002-10-19

Volkman seemed to go in circles when making his point. It seemed very repetitive, at times, like a 5th grader writing his first report and trying to fill up space.

For those looking for an indepth analysis of the history of science and warfare, you will be very disappointed. However, if you are just curious of how science has influenced our world, you will find this an easy book to read and understand.

I know my review kind of swings both ways. But to me, the book's writing swings back and forth between good and bad. I'm pleased with the content but not so pleased with the author's writing ability.

This was however, the most informative and easy to read book on the subject I've seen yet.

Astounding and frightning must read.......2002-09-10

Absolutely one of the best, most accurate, well-documented, and organized books on the subject of science being "the bringer of evil; the bringer of life." It isn't lite reading, but the knowledge gained from its pages will affect the way you think about the risks and benefits of technology forever. Be strong, be brave, be afraid.

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Sad litany of broken promises

Heartbreaking, but excellent reading

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The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey
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From his nursing home in South Dakota, 96-year-old Guy Dull Knife Sr., the oldest surviving member of the Dull Knife family to be profiled in this fascinating Sioux (also known as Lakota) history, says, "I was born in 1899 in a log house, but my father was born in a tipi.... The tipi was in the shape of a circle and in the middle of the tipi there was always a campfire. This, too, was in the shape of a circle. In the summers, when the Sioux from all over the Dakotas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana would gather for the Sun Dance, the tipis in the villages would always be arranged in a circle. The circle was our symbol. It was a holy symbol that helped to remind us that we were connected to everything else." In the tradition of Native American storytelling, many of the tales in this five-generation odyssey have been passed down from father to son through word of mouth. Joe Starita, an award-winning investigative journalist, fills in the gaps with more than a century's worth of family documents and archival historical material.

In the latter part of the 19th century, Chief Dull Knife led his followers through some of the most brutal and ruthless battles between the white man and the Indians. His son George Dull Knife settled into reservation life and went on to join Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. From his nursing home, George's son, Guy Dull Knife Sr., the sole living Sioux World War I veteran, retells the tales of his youth and family history in his native Lakota tongue. His son Guy Dull Knife Jr., a Vietnam vet and self-taught sculptor, is trying to keep the ways of his native people alive for his children and future generations. Although Sioux women are said to have played important roles in the survival of tribal traditions and culture, this volume primarily focuses on the male members of not only the Dull Knife family, but the tribe to which they are inextricably tied.

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Sad litany of broken promises.......2006-10-11

While most readers who have read any books about the plight of the American Indians will find little that is surprising in this extended family history the book is still important as a reminder of the history of broken promises, terrible policies and callous, often brutal treatment that our government has subjected the Indians to over literally centuries. This personal history evokes the pain suffered by families forcably seperated, by children starved and cultural traditions trampled and in some cases even outlawed!

Heartbreaking, but excellent reading.......2005-01-12

I found this book among a box of old books that were left behind in a basement. Because of my Cherokee heritage, I was compelled to read The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge. And now, I'm glad I did. It is heartbreaking to read how the white man treated the Indian and everything that was done to them. This book tells of events that took place and aren't at all very pretty, especially in the Viet Nam era. If The Trail of Tears was found to be an enjoyable read, then you must read this story about the Lakota Indians. I enjoyed every page.

American Indian History.......2003-08-06

From the perspective of two generations of Dull Knifes (Guy Sr. and Jr.) the reader is given a 5-generation perspective on just about every important challenge faced by the Lakota/Oglala Sioux and Northern Cheyenne. There is more impact in reading this story than from reading a history book because these are real people telling their real stories which keeps within the Indian tradition of oral history. Most important, is the theme of resistance/persistence which runs throughout this history into the present day, emphasized by the obvious - 5 generations of Dull Knifes and still going. Highly recommended.

Being a Lakota.......2002-07-19

I would never have read this book had I not been assigned a project dealing with Chief Dull Knife's death march from Indian Territory. I picked it up and got plenty of information about that historical event. Reading on, I discovered a great deal more.
In addition to tracing four generations of Dull Knifes, this book is one of the most comprehensive and attractive histories of the Lakota people ever. It covers almost everything -from the battle of the Little Big Horn to the upsurge of Indian pride following the siege of Wounded Knee. Though I had read bits and pieces about them before, I was able to form a more integrated picture of the Sioux after reading this book. Often suppressed and today among the poorest groups in America, the Lakotas have held onto and passed down the beauty and resilience of their culture- like the Dull Knife who wore a medicine bundle into Vietnam and Sioux women favoring herbs and blossoms over shampoo. This spirit even shows in the narrative's fresh, confident feel.
The book also offers a glimpse at the personality of Dewey Beard, the last survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, who died in 1959 and was a friend of the Dull Knife family.

A Saga of Five Generations of a Proud and Beautiful People.......2002-01-15

An engaging story of one family of the Lakota (Sioux) from the time the treaty was signed creating Indian reservations to the present. In each generation one or more of the family members are presented in reasonable detail. See the hopes, challenges, and triumphs of each generation and get to know and love them as they attempt to hold onto important aspects of their native culture while they step into modern life with mixed successes. You'll gain an appreciation of the dedicated military service many Indians have given the U.S., and perhaps you'll twitch uncomfortably or maybe grin at the soldier who collected ears from his battlefield conquests. In total I gained a new respect of the Lakota.

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The Dull Knifes Of Pine Ridge. A Lakota Odyssey
JOE STARITA
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Dull knifes of Pine Ridge: a Lakota odyssey.: An article from: Wind Speaker

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Dull knifes of Pine Ridge: a Lakota odyssey.: An article from: Wind Speaker

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This digital document is an article from Wind Speaker, published by Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) on April 1, 1996. The length of the article is 752 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dull knifes of Pine Ridge: a Lakota odyssey.
Publication: Wind Speaker (Newsletter)
Date: April 1, 1996
Publisher: Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA)
Volume: 13 Issue: 12 Page: 13

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Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems
Jerome Ravetz
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