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101 Best .Com Resumes & Cover Letters
Jay A. Block , and Michael Betrus Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Trade ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0071370447 |
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From the authors of the runaway bestsellers 101 Best Resumes and 101 Best Cover Letters, comes a powerful new collection of resumes and cover letters tailor-made to help job seekers land the jobs of their dreams in today's hottest job sector. From Webmaster to Java programmer, object-oriented system designer to computer graphics designer, 101 Best .Com Resumes & Cover Letters provides examples of outstanding resumes and cover letters for every type of high-tech job. It also includes examples for non-technical jobs in e-commerce, such as marketing, sales, finance, recruiting, technical communications, and more. Each resume and letter is prepared by experts from the Professional Association of Resume Writers (PARW). This indispensable job-hunter's tool gives you: - Resumes for dozens of high-tech and non-tech jobs - Tips on how dotcom requirements differ from traditional companies - Expert guidance on online networking, using online job searches, and moreCustomer Reviews:
A few words from one of the contributors to this book.......2002-03-02
When I was asked to contribute, I was already predicting that there would be sweeping changes within the high-tech industry and choose my contributions accordingly, focusing on ERP, cross-platform databases and Internet security samples as areas that would continue to be relevant beyond the dot-com boom.
The advice given by Jay and Michael as well as all of my colleagues' samples in this book are highly polished and continue to be relevant models for any individual pursuing a career in high-tech, in my opinion.
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The Healing Power of Doing Good: The Health and Spiritual Benefits of Helping Others
Allan Luks , and Peggy Payne Manufacturer: iUniverse.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Accessories:
ASIN: 0595175910 |
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Conventional wisdom has always held that when we help others, some of the good we do flows back to us. That satisfaction has always been thought to be largely emotional, feeling good when you do good. Now important, widely discussed research shows that helping others regularly produces significant health benefits as well. In fact, it has effects similar to those many of us experience when we exercise.It is almost impossible to read this book without wanting to do good. Both for those who are already volunteering and for those who are considering it, this valuable personal guide tells you how to choose an activity that's right for you, how to maximize the health benefits, and how to overcome the main obstacle to getting started: lack of time.
The Healing Power of Doing Good reaffirms and explains that when we care for others we care for ourselves. It is an important book for those suffering from chronic health problems as well as the health conscious, anyone interested in how our mind affects our body, and people in the helping professions. And it reminds us that never has there been such a need for caring as there is today.
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Something That You Always Kind of Knew.......2006-11-01
This book will change your life.......2006-06-16
Improve health and live longer through volunteering.......1998-02-17
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The Healing Power of Doing Good The Health and Spiritual Benefits of Helping Others
Allan and Payne, Peggy Luks Manufacturer: Fawcett Columbine ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000R0C88K |
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Causes and conflicts;: The centennial history of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1870-1970
George Whitney Martin Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B0006CPF0W |
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More than a century ago over 200 leading lawyers met in a schoolroom on Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Sixth Street to organize the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. They were hot with reform and with the sting of professional shame. Boss Tweed and his cronies were not only robbing the city's treasury, but, worse, were also corrupting the courts and judges. Boss Tweed and his gang were routed but not without a long struggle and the help of many others in the city. Since that historical victory, the Association has taken up other causes and conflicts, sometimes with wide success, sometimes failing, but continuing a wide variety of activities with unabated zeal. George Martin tells of these struggles in this volume. It is the story of the Association through times of turbulence and times of trouble, including the famous March on Washington, the toppling of Mayor Jimmie Walker under the Judge Seabury investigation, and the Joseph McCarthy Era. George Martin has brought these great events and a number of no less interesting footnotes to history alive in Causes and Conflicts through these many vignettes about the Associations' leaders.
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Farewell Moonshadow
J. Dematteis Manufacturer: D C Comics (a division of Warner Brothers - A Time Warner Entertainment Co.) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1563892383 |
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Farewell Moonshadow
J. M. DEMATTEIS Manufacturer: DC Comics Vertigo ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OPGFVY |
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Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music : Classic to Modern (6-CD set)
Donald J. Grout Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: 0393103676 |
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Great CD collection.......2007-05-10
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What's the Matter with the Internet?
Mark Poster Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0816638357 |
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Is cyberculture really a culture? Critical theorist Mark Poster asks what we mean by these words in What's the Matter with the Internet? Drawing on the work of Heidegger, Foucault, Baudrillard, and many more heavy hitters, he explores how we think about culture in an age when the word has been appropriated by practically everyone to the point of meaninglessness. Are ethnicity and sexuality important any more, if they even exist? Is the Net a radical tool for marginalized people or another arm of oppression? Poster, like his peers, is more interested in how and why we ask these questions than in answering them, leaving conclusions to the reader.His metaconclusions, though, merit serious attention. As our technologies break down many, if not all, of our socially constructed barriers, how can we continue to study an increasingly incoherent subject? He calls for a more technologically literate criticism and leads the way with aplomb. His writing ranges from clear and thoughtful to dense and jargon-heavy, though most readers will be able to keep up. Poster seeks for a smarter, timelier critique in What's the Matter with the Internet? and, perhaps, finds the right path. --Rob Lightner
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Media Studies/Social TheoryA provocative investigation into the social and cultural implications of the Internet by a leading cultural critic.
As the Internet has become more and more a part of our daily lives, responses to its impact on culture and society have tended toward the extremes, hopeful or pessimistic. Fears that the Internet undermines community, inhibits social interaction, exacerbates economic and racial divisions, and facilitates greater state or corporate intrusion into our lives are balanced by excitement about the transformative qualities of the new medium and its potential to stimulate individual creativity, inspire new social forms, and further democratization.
In What's the Matter with the Internet?, leading cultural theorist Mark Poster offers a sophisticated and astute assessment of the potential the new medium has to redefine culture and politics. Avoiding the mindless hype and meaningless jargon that has characterized much of the debate about the future of the Web, he details what truly distinguishes the Internet from other media and the implications these novel properties have for such vital issues as authorship, national identity and global citizenship, the fate of ethnicity and race, and democracy.
Arguing that the Internet demands a social and cultural theory appropriate to the specific qualities of cyberspace, Poster reformulates the ideas of thinkers associated with our understanding of postmodern culture and the media (including Foucault, Deleuze, Heidegger, Baudrillard, and Derrida) to account for and illuminate the virtual world, paying particular attention to its political dimensions and the nature of identity. In this innovative analysis, Poster acknowledges that although the colonization of the Internet by corporations and governments does threaten to retard its capacity to bring about genuine change, the new medium is still capable of transforming both contemporary social practices and the way we see the world and ourselves.
Mark Poster is professor of history and director of the film studies program at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Cultural History and Postmodernity (1997), The Second Media Age (1995), and The Mode of Information (1990).
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What's the Matter with the Internet? (Book Reviews).: An article from: Technical Communication
Karla Saari Kitalong Manufacturer: Society for Technical Communication ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008DJ75S Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Technical Communication, published by Society for Technical Communication on May 1, 2003. The length of the article is 797 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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Secrets of Chess Intuition
Alexander Beliavsky , and Adrian Mikhalchishin Manufacturer: Gambit Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1901983528 |
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I would give this no stars.......2006-10-24
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7 Easy Steps to CNC Programming. . .A Beginner's Guide
David Hayden Manufacturer: Haydenpub.Com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Plastic Comb Similar Items:
ASIN: 0970530900 |
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7 Easy Steps to CNC Programming. . .A Beginner's GuideCustomer Reviews:
7 Easy Steps To CNC Programming.......2002-04-19
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The Vanishing Legion: A History of Mascot Pictures 1927-1935 (McFarland Classics)
Jon Tuska Manufacturer: McFarland & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0786407492 |
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This beautifully written book is a definitive record of the players and productions of a film company that specialized in chapter plays and "B" movies and that became highly influential in winning an ever-widening public for the kind of films it innovated such as the musical Western. Cinema history at its best-written with careful attention to detail, and based on thorough research and exhaustive personal interviews-The Vanishing Legion offers critical treatment of every serial and feature produced by Mascot during its nine years of operation. Tom Mix, Gene Autry, John Wayne, Rin-Tin-Tin and other Western heroes ride and bark again through the pages of this fascinating book. Appendices list cast and technical credits (plus chapter titles) for all Mascot serials and features. Comprehensive index. Several dozen seldom- or never-seen ads and stills are reproduced.
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THE VANISHING LEGION - A HISTORY OF MASCOT PICTURES 1927-1935
Jon Tuska Manufacturer: Mc Farland & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000QRV5EW |
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The Vanishing Legion: A History of Mascot Pictures 1927-1935
Jon Tuska Manufacturer: McFarland & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000J4W60O |
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Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's Conquest of Indigenous Peoples
Mark Cocker Manufacturer: Grove Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0802138012 |
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This account of the brutalities of European colonialism concentrates on four episodes--the destruction of the Aztecs, the exterminations of the Tasmanians and the Herero, and the cowing of the Apache. Starting with the general statement that the expansion of European Christian civilization has been at the expense of tribal peoples throughout the world, who were seen as either objects for exploitation or study or as simply surplus, Mark Cocker argues that the pattern was set by the encounter with the Aztecs--Spaniards hot from the reconquista were not in the mood to be tolerant of blood-sacrificing cannibals, no matter how urbane and sophisticated. Poorer peoples such as the Tasmanians and the Herero he sees as simply victims; only the Apache made the whole process so costly that they became heroes to their conquerors. Some of this is special pleading; Cocker neglects the role of disease and sometimes talks as if Europeans were uniquely bad--compared to, say, Genghis Khan?--and his concentration on selected case studies ignores the issues raised by more complex cases such as India or the Maori. Nonetheless, it is a terrifying indictment of atrocities all the worse for the sanctimonious efficiency with which they were carried out. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.ukBook Description
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PC BS.......2006-10-16
Read GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL and get the facts right!.......2005-08-11
An Epic Tragedy. One of the Best Books I Have Ever Read........2001-05-20
simplistic.......2000-06-12
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Galileo's Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter
Roger G. Newton Manufacturer: Harvard University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0674018486 |
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Bored during Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead--and remarked, to his great surprise, that the lamp took as many beats to complete an arc when hardly moving as when it was swinging widely. Galileo's Pendulum tells the story of what this observation meant, and of its profound consequences for science and technology.
The principle of the pendulum's swing--a property called isochronism--marks a simple yet fundamental system in nature, one that ties the rhythm of time to the very existence of matter in the universe. Roger Newton sets the stage for Galileo's discovery with a look at biorhythms in living organisms and at early calendars and clocks--contrivances of nature and culture that, however adequate in their time, did not meet the precise requirements of seventeenth-century science and navigation. Galileo's Pendulum recounts the history of the newly evolving time pieces--from marine chronometers to atomic clocks--based on the pendulum as well as other mechanisms employing the same physical principles, and explains the Newtonian science underlying their function. The book ranges nimbly from the sciences of sound and light to the astonishing intersection of the pendulum's oscillations and quantum theory, resulting in new insight into the make-up of the material universe. Covering topics from the invention of time zones to Isaac Newton's equations of motion, from Pythagoras' theory of musical harmony to Michael Faraday's field theory and the development of quantum electrodynamics, Galileo's Pendulum is an authoritative and engaging tour through time of the most basic all-pervading system in the world.
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Galileo's Pendulum.......2006-04-25
Simple Harmonic Oscillators Through the Centuries.......2004-07-28
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Book review: Galileo's pendulum: from the rhythm of time to the making of matter [A book review from: World Patent Information]
M. Blackman Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR1MM6 |
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This digital document is a journal article from World Patent Information, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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People and Nature in Historical Perspective
Manufacturer: Central European University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9639241865 |
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Two principal ways of relating people to nature, namely both environmental determinism and "man's role in changing the face of the earth," have deep roots in the practice of history, geography, anthropology, archaeology, economics, engineering, technology, and agronomy on both sides of the Atlantic. And yet, medieval and environmental scholars have heard little from one another.This volume aims to present the wide variety of methods and approaches now available to researchers studying the relationship between people and nature throughout history. The book first presents broader frameworks of understanding in this field. The second section contains works representing individual examples of methods and analytical case studies. The emphasis is on the Middle Ages, however, case studies range from the Neolithic to the present day. A speciality of the book is that it also focuses on Central and Eastern Europe, a hitherto neglected region in environmental history.
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