Skill Balancing: How to Enjoy Work!

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"Skill Balancing: How to Enjoy Work!" will guide you through the process of understanding skills and adjusting them so that you can maximize fun at work. Humorous and delightfully illustrated by Irina Palamarchuk, this book introduces a revolutionary yet practical approach to making work fun. It also sheds light upon Flow theory, Parkinson's Law, the Peter Principle, the Catt Concept, Machiavellian tactics and more. Skill Balancing will change how you think about work!

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Currency and interest rate swaps have become an integral part of domestic and international finance with an average daily turnover in excess of $80 billion. This book is designed as a comprehensive introduction into the market and its development. It will take you through the terminology, pricing and hedging of swaps. An authoritative and pratical handbook, it teaches the reader through worked examples and case studies.

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In its 1908 decision for "Winters v United States," the Supreme Court affirmed a lower-court ruling guaranteeing the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Indian tribes reserved water rights in the Milk River. Based on the same 1888 treaty that had created the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana, the Winters decision has with some controversy influenced American Indian water rights and western water development as a whole ever since.

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Neotyphodium grass interactions.......2000-07-30

This volume represents an excellent up-to-date compilation of the current knowledge base regarding the endophytic fungi of the genus Neotyphodium (formerly Acremonium) and their effects on their grass hosts, invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores, and the plant communities in which they interact. Current timely research findings in many areas regarding the tall fescue endophyte and its impacts on animal husbandry and production are clearly and precisely explained. Global perspectives on the tall fescue endophyte concerns are also examined. Given the complex and constantly-changing dynamics of this research arena, this volume provides up-to-date important information regarding how the endophyte and its alkaloids manifest their influence on a variety of laboratory animals and livestock. It is an excellent reference for those currently involved in tall fescue endophyte research and also for those looking for a comprehensive first "look".

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Neotyphodium/Grass Interactions
International Symposium on Acremonium; Grass Interactions 1997 Athens
Manufacturer: Springer
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This thoroughly revised and expanded new edition incorporates the most recent research findings on the subject, such as the discovery of dramatic undersea hydrothermal vents. It describes the key process in the generation of ore deposits and emphasizes solid theoretical understanding.

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excelent.......2000-09-03

this is very essential for economic geologists

The publisher, John Wiley & Sons

Teacher's Manual, Test Bank, Computerized Test Bank for IBM and Mac, Answer Manual, Transparencies, Study Guide, Solutions Manual available.

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very useful book.......2007-09-30

I used this book in high school when I was in India (pretty much everybody uses them). Some of the problems are actually interesting and not mundane. I did feel sometimes that more information was needed to attack the problems.
PS. I also used the book with Walker and Serway's book as well.

A very good start........2006-04-01

Halliday & Resnick & Krane is the best introductory general physics book (or set of books) out there in addition to Serway's textbook. I used both volumes in undergraduate school. The concepts are laid out clearly, logically and effectively. It starts with mechanics, continues with thermodynamics, then electromagnetism and modern physics.

The worked-out problems are quite instructive. There are plenty of end-of-chapter problems. The only negative side of these problems is that most of the numbers make you use a calculator. If the authors had used more rounded numbers, the problems could have been solved by a paper and pencil. In doing so, students could have improved their math skills.

The "modern physics" part of the book can be learned well, if you have a good instructor. Because, to someone with no knowledge of modern physics, this part could be rather challenging.

Overall, this is a very high-quality book written by excellent physicists.

The only book necessary for high school physics.......2004-06-24

I studied this book in high school for entrance into the prestigious institutes of technology in India, the IITs. This is an excellent book for people who know how to use their heads and I am surprised to see undergrads complaining about the book being terse. The reason why a good book is terse is so that you internalise all the concepts by arriving at them yourself. It is definitely not a book for people who are stupid or who don't really love the beauty of physics and can't think for themselves.

A classic!.......2001-06-17

Although there are a few topics that I would leave for more advanced courses and a few others I would present in more detail (even for beginner courses), it is a generally well-balanced book with great explanations on the concepts of Physics. The notation is very good and the graphics and drawings are perfectly sketched and provide great help for understanding the text. Each chapter presents a brief description of what will be studied in it and the book features some historical notes in a few topics. There is a wide list of exercises at the end of each chapter from straightforward exercises to more mindful ones. It also presents some exercises using English units in addition to the ones with International System units.

Don't fix it if it ain't broke.......2000-08-22

Although this text is very, classically, text-ish (minimal illustrations, black and blue ink only, dry writing), it still stands out as a high quality introductory physics text. I used it in my intro level classes, at a university that emphasizes physics education theory. I figure with all the research they have done on undergraduate physics education, their choice to use HRK could not have been one made randomly. I continue to refer to it over the newer, flashier additions, because it still gets the job done, without skipping details in exchanges for full color photos.

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If you have been searching for reading materials that are both interesting and accessible to beginning adult and teen readers, look no further. Rosow builds this annotated bibliography of high-interest, low-reading-level fiction and nonfiction materials around themes that appeal to adults. She covers a variety of resources, from books and chapters of books to magazine articles and letters, organizing them from easier to more difficult reading levels to help readers progress with their reading. Dozens of dialogue and writing activities are suggested for each subject area. Most can be used with any size group, from one-on-one tutoring situations to large multiethnic classes of students with a range of reading and writing abilities. Perfect for adult and family literacy programs, ESL students, teen remedial reading classes, and readers' advisory, this book is a great tool for motivating and empowering students to read.

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The Encyclopedia of Mexico presents a processual view of Mexican history, society and culture from ancient civilizations to the present day. The primary emphasis is on broad historiographic issues, although the encyclopedia includes many supplementary entries on people and specific events. The encyclopedia provides students, academics, librarians and the general reader with convenient access to basic bibliographic and factual data on specific events and broad processes in Mexican history. It promotes scholarly dialogue across disciplinary and national borders and provides a useful component for multi-disciplinary courses on Mexico. This two-volume encyclopedia contains some 600 entries and represents a collaborative effort that has involved more than 350 leading scholars from around the world.

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Imagine a traditional Jewish community on the eve of the 19th century, and you will most likely picture the Eastern European shtetl. This prevailing European-oriented view obscures the fact that Jewry is a coat of many colors, with many diverse yet traditional manifestations, including the numerous Jewish communities of North Africa and Southwest Asia. While we know that in recent centuries such countries as Iraq, Tunisia, and Morocco contained a large proportion of the Jewish people, and that communities such as Fez, Aleppo, Tunis, and Baghdad were major centers of Jewish culture, our detailed knowledge of these Jewries remains limited.

Jews Among Muslims gathers together some of the most insightful work describing the life and culture of Jews in the traditional Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Spanning the vast belt from Morocco to Afghanistan, which has been dominated by Islam since the seventh and eighth centuries, Jewish communities have long coexisted alongside their Muslim neighbors. Revealing Jewish life in such countries as Yemen, Morocco, Iraq, Iran, Tunisia, Syria, and Kurdistan, Jews Among Muslims tells us much about Jewish religious life and leadership, economic status, connections to the state, social relations with surrouding ethnic groups, internal community organization, and family and gender roles.

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Fuzzy writing reflects fuzzy thought.

Looking forward to this 2nd edition

Improvement over the original

Responsible, speculative synthesis

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The Conscious Universe: Part and Whole in Modern Physical Theory
Menas Kafatos , and Robert Nadeau
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The authors show that a generalized principle of complementarity is pervasive not only in physical theories such as cosmological models of the universe, but also in the construction of all human realities. They suggest that consciousness can no longer be divorced from the problem of the way science opeates. The book concludes by making the case that this entails a new way of understanding the universe that could obviate much of the current conflict between science and religion while providing at the same time a basis for valuation that is better suited for coordinating all human experience.

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Fuzzy writing reflects fuzzy thought........2005-11-08

The 1990 edition of this book constitutes possibly the worst writing in English by non-illiterates ever to see the light of day.

When the sheer nonsense is stripped away, we are left with what would have made a fairly interesting magazine article, though one built mainly on sweeping generalizations, presumed implications, and a host of other high-school debating-team tactics.

All that is a shame, because there may be some grain of value in the authors' position, though it is almost impossible to extract from what they actually say. Bell's Theorem, like Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, is an important milestone in scientific thought. But its consequences need a narrower, more focussed, and more impartial interpretation thhan this warmed-over Creationism.

Looking forward to this 2nd edition.......2003-02-05

From the editorial review (and another customer's review), it sounds like the authors have made several improvements over the first edition. (For example, the first edition was in dire need of an editor who could tame the author's copiously worded and convoluted sentences.)

Anyway, I really enjoyed the first edition nonetheless. Not being a scientist (in physics or otherwise), I appreciated the ambitious attempt to condense the vast scope of quantum theory into a manageable package. The examples of non-locality and complementarity lead convincingly to the conclusion that the universe is an indivisible whole and effectively explain how the whole of reality is unknowable to us because our conciousness is part of that reality (i.e., the universe is "conscious").

We can take it as axiomatic that science can never reveal reality (no more or less than religion can, for example), yet the authors do torture their analysis of complementarity by trying to apply it as a kind of fundamental principle of human consciousness, e.g., asserting that a person's inability to both rationalize and "feel" an experience simultaneously is complementarity akin to the behavior of quanta under observation. To me, this conclusion seems based on a bias many scientists express quite openly, i.e., that human beings in general are profoundly complex in the manifestation of their consciousness and rather than accept the simplest explanation of consciousness, adopt one that is more exalted and ripe with metaphor. The problem is that the bias is unquestioned -- at least in the first edition. It's equally plausible that through the eons humans evolved separate, simple, and highly tactical systems that evince complexity in their combination, but under scrutiny are discrete and self-reinforcing through the evolutionary process.

Also, I don't think there's any evidence that the specific and "peculiar" behavior of infinitesimal quanta bear a relationship to a human's application of his or her consciousness to any macro effect. The brain, like the universe, may operate on quantum principles, but the brain's function was molded by macro forces, i.e., some adaptations/mutations survive, others do not.

That leads me to my last comment that the authors seemed to hurtle into the comparison of scientific ways of knowing vs. religious or spiritual ways of knowing. The conclusion that science cannot ultimately reveal reality is a good one. Yet again, the authors fall prey to a bias by drawing parallels between quantum physics and mystical traditions that intuitively posited the oneness of the universe. The bias revealed is similar to that of thinkers who equate aesthetic beauty with scientific truth (it's observational bias). The intuition of mystics, no matter how beautifully resonant of quantum mechanical principles, is still no more prescient or "true" than the belief that aliens seeded the earth because these beliefs cannot be correlated to any specific set of universal principles. They are grounded in beliefs that can be rationalized only by faith and by generational feedback and reinforcement. The faiths that "work" for people in turn resonate with truth. (So, rather than a reductionist camp, I'd have to say that I fall into the generative camp, i.e., complexity comes from the recursion of simplicity, the truth is what appears obvious, the beautiful is what we are evolved to regard as beautiful). The point is that although we may live in a quantum mechanical universe, it seems like the authors assume that our consciousness plays an exalted role in it and consequently leap into illogic.

Quantum physics is a good example of complementarity, but I don't think that the authors make their case that it's the same kind of complementary found in our macro experience.

Overall, I found the book thought-provoking and fun to read.

(Keep in mind that on the scale of scientific prowess, I was a Lit. major.)

Improvement over the original.......2001-11-15

In this book, Kafatos and Nadeau update their 1990 book "The Conscious Universe: Part and Whole in Modern Physical Theory." The thesis/purpose of the new book is identical, the content is about 70% the same, but the book is completely reorganized and in mostly rewritten. The new book is greatly improved over the old. The authors made it shorter and more succinct, driving home their thesis with greater power. The florid prose of the old book is mostly absent. The only area I liked better from the old book is its earlier and extended elaboration on ontological dualism, a crucial concept for their thesis that is presented too late and too briefly in the new book. But all in all this is the book for new readers. The authors take Bohr's principle of complementarity and explore its application, espousing it as a new paradigm for human perception at every level, mundane to cosmic. The ramifications of their excellently thought-out argument make rich food for thought. The authors also shed clear light on ramifications of our universe's NON-LOCALITY as suggested by experiments testing Bell's Theorem. One irritating thing is the authors' dislike of hidden variable theories due to their untestability, while at the same time they reach equally untestable conclusions.

Responsible, speculative synthesis.......2000-04-28

As a non-scientist who loves to see scientific principals applied to philosophical questions, I found this book rich with food for thought. The focus is definitely on ontology. However, I suggest a good layman's intro to quantum mechanics first; this book rests squarely on quantum theory but provides a sloppy, sporadic synopsis of the field. Not surprising, since it uses quantum theory only as a springboard. I agree with other reviewers that the writing is florid, verbose and wildly inconsistent in its level of explanatory detail. Its lovely vision of science and religion as complimentary tools of knowledge is self-consistent but marred by a naive description of religion which ignores dogmatic thinking and practice.

SCIENTIFIC METAPHOR.......1999-12-01

The title of this book should have been COMPLEMENTARY UNIVERSE. The authors herein reached far past their knowledge horizon. They ontologized greatly, resorting to non provable, untestable speculations, and at the same time warning the reader to avoid the same. The authors sought out dualisms to enshrine within their temple of complementarity. It is as though they made a cookie cutter out of quantum dualism, spread out the dough of the universe from viruses to human consciousness to starlight to black holes, and made a big batch of complementarities. When one can't resolve two disparate theories -- make a cookie out of both and chew and swallow. This is a brand of secular creationism wearing the garb of quantum evolutionism. They say: since consciousness evolved from cosmic star dust doesn't this imply that the universe must also be conscious? And isn't man's consciousness a reflection of the universal consciousness? Where they can't `prove' they `infer' and `imply'. They state their intentions clearly: `to answer the very basic human need to feel .... a profound spiritual awareness of unity with the whole.'(P. 178) Kafatos & Nadeau's intentions were very admirable -- to relieve the reader of any angst and alienation from the holistic sandbox he/she must live in. And the authors deserve an A for the effort to give the undescribable universe a face and features the reader can believe in and relate to. Their effort just didn't quite do it for me.

Conscious Universe: Part and Whole in Modern Physical Theory.

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Conscious Universe: Part and Whole in Modern Physical Theory.
Menas Kafatos
Manufacturer: Kafatos, Menas and Robert Nadeau. The Conscious Universe: Part and Whole in Modern Physical Theory. NY: Springer-Verlag, 1990. Quality paperback. 214pp. VG condition.
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Conscious Universe: Part and Whole in Modern Physical Theory.
Menas Kafatos
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This Plan summarises the status of wild populations, identifies the primary threats, and recommends specific actions. A list of national agencies, research institutions, and consevation organizations in the countries of origin of taxa covered in the Plan is included.

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