Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur

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Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur
Gifford Pinchot
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Large corporate structures dominate in business, and the ability to compete in a global marketplace is crucial to success. Intrapreneuring shows business leaders how large organizations can develop innovative talent from within their tanks with the speed and productivity that the coming years will demand.

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INTRAPRENEURING-WHY YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE THE CORPORATION TO BECOME AN ENTREPRENEUR
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Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity and race and justice within American law and literature in this study. He recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law in accord with the moral consensus that slavery and racial oppression are evil. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, and a range of novelists, poets, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and judges, this original book will revise the relationship between race and nationalism in American literature.

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In this broad ranging and powerful study, Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity, race and justice in American law and literature. Crane recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law into line with the moral consensus that slavery and racial oppression were evil. By documenting an actual historical interaction central both to American literature and American constitutional law, Crane reveals the influence of literature on the constitutional discourse of citizenship. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass, and a whole range of novelists, poets, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and judges, this is a remarkably original book, that will revise the relationship between race and nationalism in American literature.

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In the past few years rapid progress has been made regarding our understanding of one of the dominant phytoplankton groups of the world's oceans: the coccolithophores. Among other initiatives, the EU-funded TMR network CODENET (Coccolithophores Evolutionary Biodiversity and Ecology Network) has provided new results and insights. These and many other findings are reviewed and synthesized in a number of individual chapters which focus on coccolithophore biology (molecular to cellular), ecology (experimental and in the ocean), evolutionary phylogeny and its impact on current and past global changes. Coccolithophores are emerging as a prime model for interdisciplinary global change research due to their great abundance, wide distribution and exemplary geological record. The results presented in this book address the fundamental question of the interaction between the biota and the environment at various temporal and spatial scales.

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Progress in Nonequilibrium Green's Functions

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Excellent overview on Kadanoff-Baym equations

Progress in Nonequilibrium Green's Functions

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Proceedings of the conference 'Kadanoff-Baym Equations: Progress and Perspectives for Many-Body Physics,' Rostock, Germany, September 20-24, 1999. Contains articles written by leading experts which are devoted to fundamental questions of the theory and to modern applications in a variety of fields including condensed matter, plasmas, and nuclear matter.

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Excellent overview on Kadanoff-Baym equations.......2000-07-15

This book provides a very interesting overview on nonequilibrium Green's functions. It will be of use for physicists new to the field but for experts as well. Of particular interest are the historical reviews of Paul Martin and Gordon Baym. Scientists active in the field will appreciate the details on numerical solutions of the Kadanoff-Baym equations for plasmas, semiconductors and nuclear matter.

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Violet Strange is no ordinary well to do young New York City debutante. Unbeknownst to family and society friends, she leads a secret life as a professional sleuth for a private detective agency. On a mission to raise money for an undisclosed project, the determined and gutsy young debutante diligently snoops around sleepwalking widows, violent and sinister characters, whispering clocks and concealed tombs, connecting clues to solve tales of murder, mystery and intrigue.
The quirky tales of detection include: I) THE GOLDEN SLIPPER, II) THE SECOND BULLET, III) THE INTANGIBLE CLEW, IV) THE GROTTO SPECTRE, V) THE DREAMING LADY, VI) THE HOUSE OF CLOCKS, VII) THE DOCTOR, HIS WIFE, AND THE CLOCK, VIII) MISSING: PAGE THIRTEEN, and IX) VIOLET'S OWN

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Nine tales of gumption, ingenuity, and perseverance.......2003-12-13

Anna Katharine Green's Mystery Stories Of Violet Strange is an unabridged and highly recommended audiobook mystery anthology following the adventures of New York City debutante Violet Strange and her secret adventures as a professional sleuth for a private detective agency. Nine tales of gumption, ingenuity, and perseverance even in the face of danger fill this engaging listening presentation so ably and dramatically narrated by Shelley Frasier. Strong, independent, and resourceful, Violet Strange is a heroine that leaves the listener yearning for more. (8 CDs, Playing Time: 9 hours, 36 minutes)

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This Audiofy audiobook chip packs Shelly Frasier's full 9.5 hour reading of "Mystery Stories Of Violet Strange" on a tiny memory card. A single Audiofy audiobook chip, hardly larger than a stamp, holds a complete digital audiobook, and saves the last listening position automatically, unlike CDs. With an SD memory card slot or low-cost adapter - like those for digital cameras - this Audiofy audiobook chip can be played on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh desktop computers or laptops (Microsoft Windows XP/2000/Me/98, or Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above) or transferred to Apple iPod media players. Audiobook chips also move seamlessly to most Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld PDAs with SD expansion slots, as well as Treo and Windows Mobile "smartphones" (Palm OS 5.2 or Windows Mobile 2002 and above)... Violet Strange is no ordinary well to do young New York City debutante. Unbeknownst to family and society friends, she leads a secret life as a professional sleuth for a private detective agency. On a mission to raise money for an undisclosed project, the determined and gutsy young debutante diligently snoops around sleepwalking widows, violent and sinister characters, whispering clocks and concealed tombs, connecting clues to solve tales of murder, mystery and intrigue.

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Osterhammel's book represents a new approach to the subject. The concise but sweeping study encompasses the processes of colonization and decolonization from the early modern period to the twentieth century.

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Interesting, but..........2003-10-05

Osterhammel's book may well have been intended to provide "a theoretical and historical overview of colonialism with a minimum of value judgments" which, according to the JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY, is "[a] concise conceptual framework of the fundamental phenomenon of colonialism", but I am far from certain he succeeded.

There are, of course, a number of good things about this book:
(1) it provides a clear definition (and distinction) of the terms colony, colonization and colonialism as those words are generally understood by that branch of academia most concerned with such concepts; (2) it provides a simple, easy-to-understand outline for each of these concepts; and (3) it is comprehensive (as regards colonialism and its related concepts).

Unfortunately, the system seems to suffer from some problems:
(1) by attempting to create a simple, comprehensive system which takes into account the 3 basic concepts of "colony", colonization" ["a process of territorial acquisition"] and "colonialism" as generally used by political sociologists, Osterhammel is forced to link them together by stipulating that all three involve "the notion of expansion of a society beyond its original habitat." Unfortunately, of these only colonization is, strictly speaking, a process by the definitions he provides; yet he then gives us various FORMS OF (the processes of) EXPANSIONS. The first two ["total migration" and "individual mass migration"] do not even involve "expansion", except as provided within certain specific limits, whereas the category of "Empire-building wars of conquest" is generally "colonial rule" without "colonization" [the only "process" with which he provides us].
(2) Osterhammel's distinction between "border colonization" and "overseas settlement colonization" leaves no room for the possibility of subservient overland settlement colonization which is not merely a frontier extension of the border.
(3) In his distinction between the 3 sub-types of settlement colonies / colonization he provides the "NEW ENGLAND" type as "displacement and even annihilation of the economically dispensable indigenious population" and, of course associates this with colonial New England. Unfortunately, had the author read James Drake's KING PHILIP'S WAR, Jill Lepore's THE NAME OF WAR or Yasuhide Kawashima's IGNITING KING PHILIP'S WAR, Osterhammel might have been aware of the involvement of "Christian Indians", such as Sassamon, in the early colonies as well as of the use of Native Americans as servants and slaves. Indeed, it was only after King Philip's War that the colonists became convinced that they had to move natives out of the areas surrounding the colonial towns.
(4)The rather superfluous mention of "informal empires" (which in no way deals with colonialism - the title of the book, colonies or colonization). Indeed, the only apparent reason for the inclusion of this term is to pay homage to the idea of the United States as an "empire."
(5) the work is highly Eurocentric. Periodically, we see the word "white" used for colonial masters regardless of the use of specific examples. Similarly, only rarely (and almost never in considering "modern" examples) do non-European actions come under examination. Therefore such actions as the Vietnamese expansions into Champa- and Khymer-controlled territories [indeed, "foreign" - i.e., European - "encroachment on continental Southeast Asia", as our author tells us, began after about 1820], total migrations of sub-branches of the Dene peoples (in this case, the apaches and the apaches de Navajo), Mandan migrations eastward, the Dahomey conquest of Whydah (as well as other African conquests) never get mentioned. Of course, by the careful (but often imprecise and subjective) usage of definitions (e.g., "a minority of foreign invaders", "in a distant metropolis" or "alien rulers" each of which put limitations on the possible characteristics of the "invaders"), the author may have decided he could safely ignore such non-European examples.

All in all, then, if one wants a clear and precise introduction to modern thought on colonialism, this is an ideal text; however, if one wants "a theoretical and historical overview of colonialism with a minimum of value judgments" then this book is not the best choice.

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Historically, it is the land of the bison. But the land across which these powerful herds once thundered has been transformed. We know it today by such names as Montana, Wyoming, Dakota, western Iowa, and Nebraska-but it is really buffalo country, the land of the big sky rivers.

This book is a tale of two rivers, a history of the majestic Missouri and how it was once wedded to the Yellowstone. Though quite different today-one dammed into reservoirs, the other unregulated with a semblance of wildness-they were once linked ecologically, geographically, and historically. Then in the twentieth century, Euro-Americans dismantled many of these connections and attempted to uncouple the streams.

Viewing the rivers and their surrounding lands as a living system, Robert Kelley Schneiders focuses on four components within the Upper Missouri bioregion-the Missouri River valley, the Yellowstone River valley, Homo sapiens, and bison-to show the significance of their interaction over the past two hundred years.

To frame his story, Schneiders goes back to the nineteenth-century journals of fur traders and settlers, and in the record of flora, fauna, floods, and human activity he finds evidence of rapid and disruptive change. Bison once had the greatest influence on the land, and Schneiders depicts an original bison and Indian trail network on which were overlaid the first forts and towns and then the railroads, highways, and reservoirs that reconfigured the region forever.

Schneiders explains how these geographical constructs interacted with larger demographic and economic trends in the twentieth-century West, as dams and their resultant reservoirs enhanced the federal presence in the Dakotas and eastern Montana. He describes human encroachment on the rivers and tells why the Corps of Engineers dammed the Missouri but spared the Yellowstone. The engineers and their backers have so completely engineered the Missouri that few people today think of it as anything other than water. But we can reestablish our bonds to the river if we decide to let it flow once again, argues Schneiders. Removing the dams on the Missouri is the first step toward reasserting localism and grassroots democracy.

In what was once buffalo country, a dormant ecology awaits rebirth. A major work of environmental history, Big Sky Rivers offers a challenging vision for the future of the Upper Missouri bioregion.

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anti Euro-Americanism.......2007-09-24

The book contains a few interesting points about the Missouri and the Yellowstone rivers. Almost all of these are collected by the author from other works. Buffalo migration patterns for instance were news to me.

The rest of the book is a waste of time and paper, full of zany slams at what the author characterizes as "euro-americans". These are amusing for a short time, then tiresome.

Buy it used or nor at all.

Big Sky Rivers.......2006-10-01

The subtitle cites the Yellowstone and Upper Missouri as this book's subject matter. Upper Missouri is defined as the Missouri above its confluence with the Platte River. The book's basic precept is that the rivers set the rhythm for the region, although the author acknowledges the river's dependence on climate and weather. Before Europeans interfered on the natural systems, the bison moved in accordance to the rivers, and the humans (Native Americans) responded to the rivers and the bison.

The author appears to believe that almost everything the Europeans did constituted negative interference. Perhaps the biggest crime was damming the Missouri. However, nearly exterminating both the bison and the Native Americans was arguably worse. Plowing the land and building fences was not far behind. Include a good deal of governmental politics in the list of crimes. The book presents a great deal of research to support all these points. It is set into a holistic, ecological context. A quote from the final chapter captures the tenor of the book: "... maladjustment is most conspicuous in the present geography, which is out of sync with the Upper Missouri's ecological and hydrologic rhythms."

While I acknowledge the validity of the charges Mr. Schneiders levels against Euro-Americans, the conclusions reached are suspect. The ecological and political context is artificially constrained, almost as if the conclusions came first and drove the model that derived them. There were many factors; regrettable perhaps, but nevertheless uncontrollable; that drove Euro-American intrusion into the bison-culture of the Yellowstone and Missouri country. Factors just as powerful will keep humans from voluntarily reversing the changes they have wrought.

The author believes in removing dams and reintroducing free-roaming bison. This is in line with those who advocate the "Buffalo Commons." Admittedly, some arid land in the west is changing from farming to grazing, and in some cases bison are doing the grazing. However, to achieve Mr. Schneiders' recommended state, the cities and irrigated farmland along the rivers must virtually vanish. Human history in the United States, Europe, and around the world indicates that this is not going to happen.

This book is well-written. It contains a lot of factual history. However, unless pre-disposed to accept this book's conclusions, the reader will finish reading the book with the feeling that the time and effort spent could have been used better in other ways. The arguments presented are too weak to change many minds.

Big Sky Rivers: The Yellowstone and Upper Missouri

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Big Sky Rivers: The Yellowstone and Upper Missouri
Robert Kelley Schneiders
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