Organizing for Success (Quick Skills)

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This skill-focused book is designed for quick professional skill development in the area of organization and productivity. Covering topics such as obstacles to organization, project management and managing multiple priorities, Organizing for Success is the perfect brush up for the experienced professional, those re-entering the workforce and those learning about or beginning their careers.

The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Investing in Stocks (Pocket Idiot's Guide)
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Excellent starter book

such straight-forward honesty is rare

The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Investing in Stocks (Pocket Idiot's Guide)
Randy Burgess , Carl Baldassarre , and CFA, Theresa Hamacher
Manufacturer: Alpha
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1592574734

Book Description

The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Investing in Stocks covers everything readers need to know to take advantage of the long- and short-term opportunities in the equities market, including how stocks stack up against other forms of investing, a tour of the major U.S. exchanges, choosing an investment style, and much more. In addition, the book covers the investment strategies and philosophies of some of Wall Street's most successful investors. An appendix contains the contact information for all the major full-service and discount brokers.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent starter book.......2007-05-20

This book is extremely helpful for those who want to get into the stock business. It lays out stock trading clearly and also gives pointers to other avenues of information.

such straight-forward honesty is rare.......2006-03-21

Most investment books are a lot of hype and repaetition of some tired theme. Not this little gem! Hamacher and Baldassarre have put together a little book that says a lot that will be useful to the investor who wants to know how to do it right.

God Save this Honorable Court: How the Choice of Justices Shapes Our History
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Plagiarism?

God Save this Honorable Court: How the Choice of Justices Shapes Our History
Lawrence H. Tribe
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Battle Supreme: The Confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts and the Future of the Supreme Court

Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court

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ASIN: 0394548426
Release Date: 1985-08-12

Customer Reviews:

Plagiarism?.......2004-09-28

Laurence H. Tribe has admitted that he plagiared several passages from Henry J. Abraham's 1974 book on Supreme Court appointments, Justices and Presidents. Research before you buy..

Book Description

A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in “So Help Me God.” Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the line her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows entirely too much about her? In “Madison at Guignol” an unhappy fashionista discovers a secret door inside her favorite clothing store and insists the staff let her enter. But even her fevered imagination cannot anticipate the horror they have been hiding from her. In these and other gripping and disturbing tales, women are confronted by the evil around them and surprised by the evil they find within themselves.

With wicked insight, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates why the females of the species—be they six-year-old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or aging mothers—are by nature more deadly than the males.

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When Enough Is Enough.......2007-08-11

The world portrayed in Joyce Carol Oates fiction is one filled with sudden violence, violence that more times than not comes at the expense of one of her female characters. The Female of the Species, a collection of nine stories, is indeed filled with violence but this time it is not the women who need to worry. Each of the nine stories shows what can happen when a woman decides that she has had enough of a man's abuse, infidelity, desertion and the like or when she gives in to her own sexual demons.

The book is subtitled "Tales of Mystery and Suspense" and that is not a false claim. Each of the stories is cloaked in mystery but the best of the nine shine because of the way that Oates gradually brings them to such a level of suspense that the reader can hardly wait to get to the last page to find all the answers. In "Hunger," the longest of the nine stories, and my favorite, a young wife and mother who seems to have it all, including a rich, older husband who spends more time working than with his family, meets a man on the beach and crazily becomes obsessed with him. Will she come to her senses before she makes a fatal mistake? Is her oblivious husband, a good man who truly loves his wife and daughter, in danger? As the suspense built and built, I completely lost myself in what is one of the best short stories that I've ever read.

The other eight stories are a bit uneven; some of them I will remember a long time for the tragic worlds in which they placed me for a few minutes and one or two others because they just did not work for me. The best of the stories somehow made me sympathetic to the women driven to violence despite the horror of what they were doing. Those included stories about women who respond to fears for their personal safety with violence of their own and stories of children driven to desperation by their mothers. But I found "Madison at Guignol" to be a surrealistic misfire that left me both repulsed by its descriptions of torture and confused by its message. And I was disappointed that "Angel of Mercy" did not offer any new insights into what causes a nurse to kill her patients rather than to watch them suffer slow and painful deaths.

That is the danger, I suppose, in a book that contains only nine stories. The ones that don't work out for the reader remain as memorable as the ones that do.

horrible and empty.......2007-03-13

I have been an Oates fan for 20 years or more--since I was a teenager and found my mother's copy of "Where are you Going, Where have you been?" I have always felt that the gruesome, macabre, and disturbing elements of Oates' work were unfailingly balanced by her subtle and precise renderings of complex human motives and desires. In this book, the shell of Oates is still there, but the deeper layers that had kept her stories from tumbling into sick, voyeuristic, violence-porn are glaringly absent. This book fails to explore anything deep or worthwhile and conveys only ugliness and evil. Many of the stories seem to come from some well of hatred toward women that is truly disturbing. In the past, reading Oates' stories was always worth the trip. No longer. Something has changed and not for the better. I would not advise anyone to read these stories.

Chilling and insightful.......2006-05-18

Scripture says that the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons. The meaning of this verse is commonly taken to imply the consequences of sinful parenting. For Oates, the sins of the parents are visited on the daughters. Here is an outstanding collection of women and girls of varying ages and circumstances who have in common both a horrible past or current hurt/injury by the one who they should trust the most and the horrible psychological and often sociopathic, violent and self-destructive effects of these hurts. Nabokov explores these themes. What makes Oates' contribution worthwhile is the brevity of the genre and glimpse into each life leaving you wanting to know more. In a sense, we often come across people with such backgrounds and who are severely disturbed as they briefly cross our paths. It is all too common and real. A book worth reading and thinking about.

Splendid Femme Fatale Tales from Oates.......2006-04-15

I certainly beg to differ with some of the disappointing customer reviews I have read here for Joyce Carol Oates's latest short story collection, "The Female of the Species". While Oates is not my favorite writer, I have yet to be disappointed with any of her work; whether these are short stories, novellas or novels demonstrate her considerable range and artistic abilities as a writer of superb fictional prose. In her latest collection, Oates certainly doesn't disappoint with her richly textured, stylish prose offering tales of women and children who are forced to commit acts most foul. My own favorite stories are "So Help Me God", "Madison at Guignol", and "Hunger", but the others are well worth reading too. "So Help Me God" chronicles the loneliness of a young wife who takes matters into her own hands when she finally deals with her older, violent husband, after being taunted by an unknown obsessive caller who knows intimate details about her life. "Madison at Guignol" is Oates at her stylishly wicked best, as a young fashionista gets her just desserts at the hands of some salesgirls in an opulent Madison Avenue store. "Hunger" describes a married woman's obsession with a young, handsome French-speaking visitor, who wins not only her heart, but also her young daughter's. Without question, Oates is still at the height of her creative powers with these elegant tales of diabolical mischief and mayhem; these are tales worth reading, but in small doses - as an editorial reviewer noted - to enjoy not only her elegant prose but also her splendid plotting.

Crushingly Disappointing.......2006-03-24

Would the woman writing under Joyce Carol Oates' name these days please return America's greatest living author to us?

Seriously, this was the most unenjoyable, in fact most distressingly bad, book by Oates I've read, among the maybe thirty I have had the utmost pleasure to read.

I don't know what vein Oates is tapping to construct these writings but the prose does not sound like her at all, the stories themselves are unimpressive, unwelcoming, unpleasantly centered on people who do not merit consideration. And worse still, I find this is a trend with Oates these days. I can't think of a single book she's published since Middle Age that has been (yes, strictly in my opinion) any good. The short story in Female of the Species that was called "Madison at Guignol" was perhaps the worst Oates story ever published. (And yes I do understand the connotation of the word "Guignol" in the title.)

Some might accuse me of approaching Oates with preconceived notions and then recoiling when she fails to deliver what I, myself, wanted, but that's not the case. One thing I have always applauded in this author is her chameleon-like ability to cross genre boundaries and create tales so divergent in theme and tone that they could have been the opus of a half-dozen different people. I have avidly read along thru Gothic stories, mysteries, romances, non-genre pieces, novellas, poems, short fiction, novels, literary criticism and plays by Oates, and so I believe I can fairly say I do not stereotype Joyce Carol Oates or expect any one thing from her, but in this case, as much as reporting it pains me, this was a bad book and I can only hope Oates bucks the trend and reaches back into the well of talent the world knows she has, and that her next book(s) will be much better.

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The Harder They Fall
Haunting and Evocative
One of the best relationship books I have ever read.
Beautifully painful. Shriver is a wonderful author.

The Female of the Species
Lionel Shriver
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0374154422

Customer Reviews:

The Harder They Fall.......2004-06-29

This novel centers around the larger-than-life Gray Kaiser, a queenly anthropologist who is famous for stumbling upon a previously unknown aboriginal culture in the heart of the jungle. What makes her famous is that another white person stumbled upon them first, Charles Corgie, a handsome charlatan who had the tribe believing he was a god. Instead of blowing Corgie's cover, Gray stayed on in the village as his co-goddess and observed the interplay until the bitter end. (This episode is deserving of a book in its own right, and I was disappointed that it was only a few chapters.)

In late middle age, the eternally youthful Gray is firmly established in the university system, queen of all she surveys, worshipped as a goddess by her assistant, Erroll. Then Raphael Sarasota enters the picture. Through this young man who looks so much like Corgie, Gray is able to unleash her sexual fantasies and finally finds that she actually needs another human being. A large part of the narrative is made up of Erroll's clever fantasies about Gray and Raphael. Raphael uses and discards Gray, who is painfully oblivious despite everyone's warnings. Ms. Shriver again masterfully describes the inner workings of a difficult, perhaps even unlikable, character. For another fabulously written character study, read WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN.

Haunting and Evocative.......1999-07-13

I read this book when it first came out and I loved it. I lent my copy to a friend, and for years it remained absent from my bookshelf. I came across it again in a second-hand shop and bought it to reread. It is as good the second time around. The characters are so real, and you can easily imagine how each one came to the exact point in their lives where paths cross in the story. I can't believe this book hasn't gotten more attention over the years. A classic in my library. Don't miss it!

One of the best relationship books I have ever read........1998-06-03

A woman discovers love and the subsequent loss for the first time in her life, a heart-wrenching journey. I can't wait to read more of Ms. Shriver's work.

Beautifully painful. Shriver is a wonderful author........1997-08-07

Lionel Shriver's first published book (that I know of and I've been looking) that is not as tightly written as her later "The Bleeding Heart", about an older woman with power falling in love with a younger man and the reaction of her longtime assistant, friend, admirer, Errol. Explores the subtle power play in personal relationships. As with all her books the characters are well developed, the prose tight and flowing. Definitely worth reading

Thurber Country : A Collection of Pieces About Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species

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LET US NOT LOOSE THIS MAN'S WORK!

Thurber Country : A Collection of Pieces About Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species
James Thurber
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0743233409

Book Description

First published in 1949, Thurber Country remains a benchmark of satirical writing. Now, in this Simon & Schuster Classic Edition, is the original book, with a new introduction by Lillian Ross.

The fact that James Thurber
wrote this collection
of pieces
is,
of course,
a publisher's blurb
in itself.
It therefore is necessary
simply to give
the reader
some factual idea
of
what sort of pieces
they are.
There are
26 of them.
Most
(including "File and Forget,"
a correspondence
with his publishers
which is not
recommended to people
who have
a tendency
to get bad hiccoughs
from
too much laughing)
have
already appeared
in The New Yorker.
Seven pieces
have appeared
in The Bermudian
and have therefore
never
been published
in this country.
You will find
Thurber Country
a place
not difficult to enter,
but
hard to leave.

Customer Reviews:

LET US NOT LOOSE THIS MAN'S WORK!.......2007-03-19

Alas, James Thurber grows dimmer and dimmer in reader's and public's eyes as time goes buy. This is truly a shame as Thurber is probably one of the funniest of our or social commentators of this past century. I recently took an informal survey of high school seniors (about two hundred as a matter of fact) and not one of them knew or had ever heard of James Thurber. What a pity. Be-that-as-it-may, this particular book is a collection of his writings, short story type stuff, which are really small essays on the condition of the human species. Thurber's wit is at its height here and each small piece is a gem within itself. Of course the entire book is sprinkled with his wonderfully simple drawings which just adds ice cream to the cake. This author and his work are slowly being lost and that is a true shame. Our younger readers are missing much! Recommend this one highly.

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Female of the Species
M. Kay Martin , and Barbara Voorhies
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Bulldog Drummond and the Female of the Species

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Bulldog Drummond and the Female of the Species
H C McNeile , and Sapper
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Binding: Hardcover
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THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
SAPPER
Manufacturer: HODDER AND STOUGHTON
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Binding: Hardcover
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THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
SAPPER
Manufacturer: HODDER & STOUGHTON
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000S81MBU

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THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
SAPPER
Manufacturer: HODDER
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Binding: Hardcover
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The Female of the Species
Ellery Queen
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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Female of the Species
Joyce Carol Oates
Manufacturer: HARCOURT INC
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Binding: Paperback
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This volume is a valuable introduction to mineralogy and to related specialties such as petrology (the study of rocks), crystallography (the study of crystals), and soil science. Discoveries in these fields are described in a historical context, while the authors explain what minerals and rocks are, how they are distributed around the world, how we depend on them, and where to see the most beautiful specimens of both minerals and rocks.

Customer Reviews:

DON'T BUY IT USED.......2003-10-26

This is a warning to anyone considering buying a used copy of this book. Twice now I have tried to purchase a used copy of it, and twice have gotten swindled. What happened is that the people selling it somehow got their hands on an Instructor's Trial Version of it, which only works for a limited time and then EXPIRES. So they sold the expired version to me, and I tried to run the programs on the CD and got an error message "EXPIRED." Twice in a row now this has happened! I can't even tell you if Activphysics is helpful or not, because I can't use the versions I've gotten!! So if you are thinking of buying one of the used copies of this, BEWARE!

Learning to think like Einstein and Bohr ..........2000-05-20

I use Activphysics 2 in the community college physics classes I teach. Activphysics 1 & 2 show students how to solve problems by using physics concepts, pictorial and graphical representations, and only then by translating the problem into mathematics. Emphasis is placed on conceptual understanding throughout the process. Students will need to have a basic understanding of Algebra and Trigonometry, and a good introductory physics textbook, such as those by Randall Knight.

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Yes! It was the one instance Marius, always eagerly on the look-out for such, had yet seen of a perfectly tolerable, perfectly beautiful, old age-an old age in which there seemed, to one who perhaps habitually over-valued the expression of youth, nothing to be regretted, nothing really lost, in what years had taken away. -from Marius the Epicurean With his thoughtful sensibility and appreciation of the artistic experience, Walter Pater exerted a dramatic influence over the Aesthetics of the mid to late 19th century: a movement of creative intellectuals, from writer Oscar Wilde to painter James McNeill Whistler, who held that art should be sensual and beauty the highest ideal. Pater's "cult of beauty" also profoundly affected 20th-century arts, literary, and cultural criticism. Here, in his only novel, a forerunner to the works of James Joyce first published in 1885, Pater takes us on one young man's personal journey from paganism to Christianity in ancient Rome, a didactic work in which Pater explores the role of religion in culture and in art and celebrates the aestheticism he championed in his criticism. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Pater's The Renaissance. British essayist and critic WALTER HORATIO PATER (1839-1894) was educated at Oxford University. He also wrote Imaginary Portraits (1887), Appreciations (1889), and the posthumously published Greek Studies (1895).

Marius the Epicurean (His Sensations and Ideas)

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Marius the Epicurean (His Sensations and Ideas)
Walter Pater
Manufacturer: Doubleday, Doran & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000QAV76U

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MARIUS THE EPICUREAN His Sensations and Ideas
WALTER PAPER
Manufacturer: The Book League of America
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J5009M

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Marius The Epicurean His Sensations And Ideas
Walter Pater
Manufacturer: Travellers Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RC0NHQ

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MARIUS THE EPICUREAN HIS SENSATIONS AND IDEAS
Walter Pater
Manufacturer: Johnathan Cape
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000INU1O4

Marius The Epicurean His Sensations And Ideas In Two Volumes

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Marius The Epicurean His Sensations And Ideas In Two Volumes
Walter Pater
Manufacturer: MacMillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UKH8ZK

MARIUS THE EPICUREAN HIS SENSATIONS AND IDEAS VOLUME I AND VOLUME II.

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MARIUS THE EPICUREAN HIS SENSATIONS AND IDEAS VOLUME I AND VOLUME II.

Manufacturer: Macmillan
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HJ7PTI

Marius the Epicurean ~ His Sensations and Ideas (The Home Library)

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Marius the Epicurean ~ His Sensations and Ideas (The Home Library)

Manufacturer: A.L.Burt Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000EKCJ46

Product Description

Burt's Home Library produced quality literature for the masses, comprising choice sellections from the treasures of the world's knowledge, issued in a substantial and attractive cloth binding, with gilt tops, at a popular price. They didn't come with dust jackets. I'm guessing it's copyright date of 1950 since it isn't dated. If anyone knows the print please add it to the listing(wiki) or tell a seller to add the info.

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Marius the epicurean, his sensations and ideas
Walter Pater
Manufacturer: MacMillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Marius the Epicurean, His Sensations and Ideas, Volume 2

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Marius the Epicurean, His Sensations and Ideas, Volume 2
Walter Pater
Manufacturer: Macmillian and Co
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GLQDC2

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