The Art of Working in Your Green Zone (Life-Long Happiness and Relationships Series)

The Art of Working in Your Green Zone (Life-Long Happiness and Relationships Series)
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The Art of Working in Your Green Zone (Life-Long Happiness and Relationships Series)
Khalid Sohail , and Bette Davis
Manufacturer: White Knight Publications
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Context and Application Value-Based Management Edited by Glen Arnold and Matt Davies Over the past ten years hundreds of leading companies worldwide have adopted the principles of value-based management (VBM), an approach to corporate strategy and business organisation in which the primary objective is always shareholder wealth maximisation. As VBM has become more widespread the idea of shareholder value has become integral to business. Consultancies have prospered by selling prescriptions for developing a value-oriented firm and managers thought to be excellent in generating shareholder value are held in high esteem and command huge salaries. This book draws on empirical evidence to demonstrate the success of VBM ideas as well as highlighting many of the hidden questions, doubts and difficulties. It examines the validity of some of the underlying assumptions of VBM and tackles many of the key technical issues. This book provides a timely assessment of the theory and practice of VBM as it grows to maturity.

Value-based Management: Context and Application

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Value-based Management: Context and Application
Glen Arnold
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Value-based Management; Context and Application.
Glen Arnold And Matt Davies
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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ASIN: B000N67B30

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Criminal psychology, and its relationship to the practice of law, has become a topic of major significance over the last three decades. Psychologists play a key role in modern criminal investigation and are central to crime reduction measures such as offender profiling, delinquency prevention and tackling fear of crime. Contributors from North America, Europe and Australia examine this link, both adding to and drawing upon the pool of recent theory construction and empirical work in the following areas:
* causes and prevention of offending
* studies of crime and offenders
* the victim's perspective
* witnesses and testimony
* studies of legal processes.
These issues are studied from a 'local' perspective that recognises not only the need for cross-national comparative research, but also the generation of a corpus of scientific knowledge more representative of the complexity of criminal and legal investigation today.

Psychology and Law in a Changing World: New Worldwide Trends in Theory, Practice & Research

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Psychology and Law in a Changing World: New Worldwide Trends in Theory, Practice & Research

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The organic resources of Scotland;: Their nature and evaluation,
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The organic resources of Scotland;: Their nature and evaluation,
Joy Tivy
Manufacturer: Oliver & Boyd
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ASIN: 0050024388

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The Key to Earth History introduces students to the basic tools used by geologists to reconstruct the Earth's history, and shows how these tools can be used to chart the pattern of global environmental change since the formation of the Earth some 4600 million years ago. It tells a story of mountain building, climate change and of the evolution of life, and uses the North Atlantic region (Europe and North America) as a study area to illustrate this story.
Divided into two parts, the book shows how stratigraphy is the key to understanding the history of the Earth. The first part examines the basic stratigraphical methods used to establish, date and interpret the rock record as the product of a series of events whithin Earth history. The second part presents the results obtained by geologists, who have used these stratigraphical tools to reconstruct the pattern of global environmental change through geological time and focuses on the geological evolution of the North Atlantic region. The Key to Earth History is essential reading for geologists, geographers and environmental scientists, as well as to all those interested in the story of the planet.
'The authors provide no one with an alibi for bad stratigraphic teaching!'
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'The aims of this introductory textbook are to explain the process and pattern of Earth history, to generate interest and enthusiasm, to make stratigraphy fun and exciting! These aims are admirably achieved.'
The Holocene
'This is a great little book! I found that, not only was everything covered, but that it was covered in a refreshing, readable, no-nonsense fashion.'
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'The Key to Earth History really should be compulsory reading for all ... geology students.'
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Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems: Rigorous Results (Progress in Physics Vol 10)
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Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems: Rigorous Results (Progress in Physics Vol 10)
J. Fritz , A. Jaffe , and D. Szasz
Manufacturer: Birkhauser
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Statistical Mechanics: Rigorous Results (Advanced Book Classics)
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Statistical Mechanics: Rigorous Results (Advanced Book Classics)
David Ruelle
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
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Mathematical Foundations of Statistical Mechanics

Physical Kinetics (Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Social Studies) (Course of Theoretical Physics)

ASIN: 0201094169

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This classic book marks the beginning of an era of vigorous mathematical progress in equilibrium statistical mechanics. Its treatment of the infinite system limit has not been superseded, and the discussion of thermodynamic functions and states remains basic for more recent work. The conceptual foundation provided by the Rigorous Results remains invaluable for the study of the spectacular developments of statistical mechanics in the second half of the 20th century.

Rigorous results in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (JILA report)

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Rigorous results in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (JILA report)
Gérard G Emch
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Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading
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Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading

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The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books

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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

The Double Bind: A Novel

The God Delusion

ASIN: 0393325407

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In personal essays that read like short stories, writers describe their life-altering encounters with books.

Can books be dangerous, elegant, or sad? Can books be tempting, or smokin', or double-d-daring? Can they compel you to hitchhike to the middle of Mexico, fall in love with snakes, or question your sanity? Of course they can. Writers including Jonathan Lethem, Haven Kimmel, Charles Frazier, and Bebe Moore Campbell tell us why in this eye-opening anthology. Tapping classic works such as The Catcher in the Rye and The Cat in the Hat as well as obscure novels such as Karel Capek's The War of the Newts, they reveal how literature tempts, enchants, and changes us. Each of these essays, which first appeared in the Raleigh News & Observer, reminds us that reading is not a passive pastime but an action sport that seizes and shapes, renews and remakes us. Insightful and heartfelt, humorous and accessible, Remarkable Reads will delight anyone who has ever loved a book.

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A must-read for any lover of books.......2006-01-02

Warning--if you are an avid book reader, your "to read" list is going to grow as you read this delightful collection of essays about writers and the most remarkable reads they've come across. Zane's anthology of essays about books covers the well-known classics as well as obscure novels. Read about the hippest, most tempting, most exotic, most unpleasant, most disappointing, most daunting, and most eloquent books, among many others. This is a must-read for any book lover or writer.

the power of books.......2004-09-20

Curious about what writers read & how books have influenced them, J. Peder Zane, a book review editor, invited 34 writers to contribute essays launched by the request that they fill in the blank: "the most ______ book I ever read."

Rebeccasreads recommends REMARKABLE READS as a blog in which writers tell of what they were doing at the time they read their selected books; how their lives changed; their ideas about writing; their epiphanies & peeves. Yes, writers do read & write about what they read, quite well too!

Fantastic idea.......2004-07-12

There is so much to read in life, and if your job involves reading, like mine does, you get even less of it accomplished on your own time. This book takes you right to the heart of amazing experiences with the printed page. Good for summer reaidng lists, college classes on reading, etc. In an era when reading is said to be declining, books like this are essential.

Remarkably Boring.......2004-06-24

I really wanted to like this book. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a big disapointment. Not only had I not heard of most of the people who reviewed the books, but I wouldn't want to read their novels after reading their reviews. Their reviews couldn't have been any more dry. I was highly disapointed and stopped about halfway through it because I couldn't stand a minute more of it.

Remarkable!.......2004-05-11

I just spent a great afternoon reading Remarkable Books, and the book is, well, remarkable. It's great fun to read other people's sharing their
passions, even if, like Doris Betts, the passion is negative. Or reading Peder Zane remembering how, as a college student, he fell in love with Freud because Freud was hip. Or Lee K. Abbott falling in love with the language of Absalom, Absalom! though the he was daunted by the book and didn't finish it till forty years after he started it. Remarkable!

The book is just a great read.

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In Buried Indians, Laurie Hovell McMillin presents the struggle of her hometown, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, to determine whether platform mounds atop Trempealeau Mountain constitute authentic Indian mounds. This dispute, as McMillin subtly demonstrates, reveals much about the attitude and interaction-past and present-between the white and Indian inhabitants of this Midwestern town.
McMillin's account, rich in detail and sensitive to current political issues of American Indian interactions with the dominant European American culture, locates two opposing views: one that denies a Native American presence outright and one that asserts its long history and ruthless destruction. The highly reflective oral histories McMillin includes turn Buried Indians into an accessible, readable portrait of a uniquely American culture clash and a dramatic narrative grounded in people's genuine perceptions of what the platform mounds mean.

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A sensitive & balanced accounting that examines opposing views between Euro-American culture & Native American culture.......2006-04-08

Part memoir, part local history, Buried Indians: Digging Up the Past in a Midwestern Town tells about a struggle in the Trempealeau, Wisconsin hometown of author Laurie McMillin (associate professor of rhetoric, composition and religion) to determine whether the platform mounds atop Trempealeau Mountain constituted authentic Indian mounds. A sensitive and balanced accounting that examines opposing views between the dominant Euro-American culture and Native American culture, Buried Indians makes every effort to accurately portray not only the conflict of political agendas but also offer clear insight into what the platform mounds truly represented to different individuals. A highly recommended insight into cultural relations, regional history, and the lessons that can be drawn for future American government-Native American relations.

A sensitive & balanced accounting that examines opposing views between Euro-American culture & Native American culture.......2006-04-08

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The electric revolution, which eclipsed the Industrial Revolution by the end of the 19th century and continues to this day, changed our world forever. FLEET FIRE tells us how it all began. In an engaging and entertaining narrative, L. J. Davis fields a cast of both prominent and forgotten characters, from dedicated scientists and mischievous rogues to enlightened amateurs who lit the sparks of discovery. Franklin+s kite, Davenport+s electromagnet, Morse+s telegraph, Cyrus Field+s transatlantic cable, and Edison+s phonograph are but a few of the achievements Davis discusses. Explaining the science in lucid prose, FLEET FIRE conveys the arc of discovery during one of the most creative epochs in the history of mankind.

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fleet fire firey informative entertainment.......2005-04-29

LJ Davis makes this subject fun. You don't put this book down even if my favorite inventor Nicola Tesla doesn't make the top of his inventor's list.

His witticism lends support to the facts and he adroitly ties separate events together to allow the reader to see the progression. Well done!

As for the laying of the trans-Atlantic cable, who would suspect that each of the five (!) separate efforts would remain fresh and interesting, but they do in this telling.

For the layperson who doesn't know much about electricity, here I raise my hand, this book begins at the beginning and makes each step clear. What a wealth of information is enclosed in this book--from the blacksmith's electric motor 40 years too early to the wonder of a dynamo accidently wired for running backwards, the history of electricity unfolds easily. I enjoyed the read immensely.

He Made It Up as He Went Along.......2004-09-24

Although L. J. Davis is an entertaining writer, this is a terrible book. Practically every page has a howler of a misstatement, beginning with page one in which he lists the four basic forces of the universe as (1.) magnetism, (2.) gravity, (3.) the weak force, and (4.) electricity. (Why did he include the weak force but not the strong force?)

It's shocking (NPI) that in a book about the history of electrical technology, Davis seems to lack an elementary understanding of his subject. In several places, voltage is defined as the speed at which electricity travels through a conductor -- higher voltage, the faster it goes. As an earlier reviewer noted, he even gets the Edison effect wrong. (It's not the dark spot on the inside of a light bulb, but that about one volt can be measured there.)

Davis states that the first use of arc lighting "came in 1846, when the new Paris Opera used it to light the skating scene in Meyerbeer's The Prophet." Unfortunately, that opera wasn't written until 1849.

The errors and omissions pile up toward the end (Lee de Forest and Edwin Howard Armstrong are not even mentioned) until by the time he describes the computer revolution, his history of the Apple computer is so utterly wrong (actually, Steve Wozniak had nothing to do with the development of the Macintosh, and Doug Engelbart invented the mouse) that you'd likely get more accurate information by stopping someone on the street.

This book makes me suspicious of other writing by L. J. Davis about economics and politics.

Even the book's index is inadequate.

Good and Bad News........2004-06-03

I agree that this book is comprehensive and entertaining -- when discussing the people involved. However, it is often laughably garbled and sometimes dead wrong in explaining the phenomena those people discovered and worked on. Enjoy the people; take the science and technical explanations with a large grain of salt. Two examples out of many: 1)The author says that parallel current-carrying wires repell each other. That's true if the
currents run in opposite directions, but the wires attract each other if the currents run in the same direction. 2)The author says that the dark surface that forms in a light bulb is caused by electrons, but it is a coating of metal that has boiled off of the filament.

With little-known facts, anecdotes, and insights.......2004-01-09

L.J. Davis' Fleet Fire tells of the interactions between various scientists and inventors who contributed to the discovery of electricity and the revolutionary changes instigated by its use. Little-known facts, anecdotes, and insights accompany these capsule features of inventors ranging from Ben Franklin to Thomas Davenport and Cyrus Field.

A Crooked Road to Electrical Power.......2003-08-16

The recent outage of electrical power in New York and other states has highlighted the importance of electricity. Without it, we cannot work, travel, or communicate, or at least we cannot do these things with the efficiency we have come to expect when we have easily available current. With electricity so demonstrably vital, it is a good time to learn just how we got it. _Fleet Fire: Thomas Edison and the Pioneers of the Electric Revolution_ (Arcade) by L. J. Davis is not just Edison's story, but the story of electricity going back to the Greeks. It is a story filled with odd characters; given the peculiarities of so many of them, it might be thought improbable that delivered electricity could have ever become so universal.

America was involved in electrical experimentation from the beginning of scientific evaluation of such things. Ben Franklin, of course, is forever associated with the start of electrical investigations, and to him we owe such terms as battery, discharge, and condenser. Investigating electricity, however, proved to be a great disappointment for the practical Franklin; he may have invented the lightning rod, but he could not make electricity do anything practical. The great step toward practicality was made in 1796 when Alessandro Volta stacked zinc and lead and made a powerful and useful battery; experimenters no longer had to rely on iffy static charges in a Leyden jar. For almost eighty years, most of the world's electrical power came from batteries. This was despite the invention of the dynamo generator by Faraday in the 1830s. It was not until 1873 in an exhibit in Vienna that dynamos were wrongly connected and someone noticed that one dynamo could turn another dynamo into an electric motor. A few years later, Thomas Edison sensed the opportunity of sending electricity into homes to do motor work. He also worked hard on the light bulb, but Davis makes the case that "The light bulb destroyed Menlo Park and it wrecked Edison as a major inventor." The problem was direct current, and much of the book involves the vituperative competition between Edison for direct current, and Westinghouse and the extremely weird Tesla for alternating current.

Davis gives many examples of inventors who because of petty jealousies or greed did not get credit for their work; if you have never heard of Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, you have heard his radio, the one that sends voices rather than the mere impulses Marconi managed. There were so many wrong turns taken by brilliant men on the way to find good ways to make and use electricity that Davis's tale is an exciting (I will not say shocking) account of human foibles. It is good to be reminded, once again, that scientific knowledge cannot be gained in an orderly or planned fashion, but is accumulated catch-as-catch-can, the way humans perform even the most serious endeavors.

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