What It Will Be Like: A Layman's Guide To The College Graduate's First Years Out

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From guides on successful interviewing, choosing the right career and writing effective resumes, college seniors and recent graduates have a variety of useful resources to choose from when it comes to finding a good job. But what happens next? What aspects of young professionals' futures should excite them and which should be cause for concern? Most career resources don't offer much insight into working life itself.

What It Will Be Like was written to fill this gap in college seniors' career resources. By drawing on real-world anecdotes, sociological research and the author's experience recruiting college seniors, What It Will Be Like is able to offer a career perspective tomorrow's professionals won't find anywhere else. What It Will Be Like is a captivating, plain English account of working life from the best possible authority on the subject: a graduate who has already torn a few sails navigating the daunting waters the reader is about to tread.

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Excellent guide for college graduates.......2000-02-02

This book is a fantastic and humorous guide for anyone who is about to enter the workforce or has been there for a while. I wish it was around when I was graduating from college.

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This book changed my life.

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I Speak for This Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate
Gay Courter
Manufacturer: Backinprint.com
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0595168396

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In I Speak For This Child, best-selling novelist Gay Courter recounts her experiences as a Guardian ad Litem, a volunteer court-appointed advocate for children involved in Florida’s court system. Following her first tentative approach to her local Court Appointed Special Advocates program to her more determined efforts, we get an insider’s glimpse on this hidden world and learn what it takes to ensure that America’s most vulnerable citizens are treated with care and respect. Courter’s story is both heartbreaking and heartwarming, and is an inspiration for anyone who has ever looked up from a newspaper and wondered, “What can I do to help?”

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This book changed my life........2007-06-04

As a freshman in college, I stumbled upon this book in the library, and soon after dedicated myself to improving the child welfare system. Courter's account is incredibly inspiring, emphasizing the responsibility we all have to speak up for kids who have been wronged by our systems. I have now been a court appointed special advocate myself, and it is the most heartbreaking (but rewarding!) volunteer experience of my life.

If you're looking for a book that will be difficult to put down, and stories of kids who are difficult to turn your back on, then this book is for you.

A look into the life.......2002-11-25

I picked up the book by Gay Courter and could not put it down. Inspiring! I can't say enough about it!

Read this book!.......1999-09-22

This chronicle of the author's experiences as a Guardian Ad Litem in Florida will alternately enlighten you, frustrate you, inspire you, and make you angry. Much, I would expect, like being a Guardian. Besides giving others a blueprint on "how to help," and serving as an education on some of society's problems that most people wish they could ignore, this book is great reading, chock full of emotionally-involving, often heart-rending stories. Prepare to be engrossed.

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This book is a timely contribution to the study of the impact of trade unionism on women in the work force and how women have exercised power within trade unions. This collection of essays contains brief yet comprehensive histories of women's trade union movements in many of the principal industrial nations of the world--Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Japan, Argentina, Italy, and the United States. The authors survey the impact of the "cult of true womanhood" on the growth of trade unionism. Each author analyzes the relationship between early women's trade unions and guilds, identifies the important leaders, and explains how ideologies affected the expansion of trade unions. Among other subjects treated are the movement's relationship to the feminist movement, the effects of economic depression and rationalization of industry, women's attitudes toward protective legislation and political action, and the effect of the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Finally, the authors assess the advances made as the result of equal-pay legislation and progress in the areas of training, promotion, safety, child-care, maternity leave, and reentry into the work force.

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"A Christmas Carol" Spoof is a Classic.......2004-12-05

Garner's spoof of "A Christmas Carol" is a satirical classic. If you can, get the audio version of the book--I listen to Garner's reading of his "Carol" spoof every Christmas. It's become a special party of my holiday season.

Doesn't Live up to Bedtime Stories.......2003-09-15

This collection does not live up to the Politically Correct Bedtime Stories book which was pretty good and by the same author. These stories are not funny and are not interesting either. Seems to just be cashing in on the success of Bedtime Stories and Once Upon A More Enlightened Time. Buy Bedtime Stories but give this disaster a miss.

Political correctness for Christmas.......2003-06-18

Garner has taken 5 classic Chrismas fables and turned them on their ear. He uses modern causes mixed with classic characters. My personal favorite was "Rudolph the Nasally Empowered Reindeer". It is Rudolph, but he is organizing the reindeer into a union for better treatment. Everyone of these stories are sarcastic, which makes them even funnier. If you are tired of the same worn Chistmas stories, try these to lighten your mood. Highley recommended.

What a Riot!.......2003-03-02

This book consists of five stories: 'Twas the Night Before Solstice, Frosty the Persun of Snow, The Nutcracker, Rudolph the Nasally Empowered Reindeer, and A Christmas Carol. Garner's stories are packed with spectacular satire, and left me in hysterics. Although I am a true fan of Christmas, and love all of the original versions of these stories I couldn't have been happier about the jest poked in the direction of a society to absorbed in political corectness that it has forgotten the joy of a season. For an off-beat Christmas treat I urge you to pick up this book. It's a quick read and full of laughs.

An Off-beat Christmas treat............2002-12-19

After picking up Garner's Politically Correct Bedtime Stories I rushed out to pick up PC Holiday Stories just in time for Christmas. I have to say that the majority of the book is just as delightful as the first. This volume consists of five stories: 'Twas the Night Before Solstice, Frosty the Persun of Snow, The Nutcracker, Rudolph the Nasally Empowered Reindeer, and A Christmas Carol. In my opinion, `Twas the Night Before Solstice was the best of the stories. Garner gives us an incredibly hilarious rendition of The Night Before Christmas including a dreams of lentils and warm whole grain breads (instead of the traditional sugarplums), trees dressed "like a seasonal strumpet", and, in an act of great Christmas good-doing, the kids liberate Santa's reindeer. The only bad part about the book, and it's hard to even call it bad, is the length of A Christmas Carol. Garner's stories are packed with puns and satire, so anything over 10 or 15 pages is a bit much...and A Christmas Carol is somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 pages. That said, if you're in the mood for an off-beat Christmas treat I urge you to pick up this book. It's a quick read and full of laughs.

POLITICALLY CORRECT HOLIDAY STORIES - FOR AN ENLIGHTENED YULETIDE SEASON

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POLITICALLY CORRECT HOLIDAY STORIES - FOR AN ENLIGHTENED YULETIDE SEASON

Manufacturer: Macmillan & Co Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H11G8C

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More of the same and not enough of it
I enjoyed "Bedtime Stories" much more.

Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For an Enlightened Yuletide Season
James Finn Garner
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster (Trade Division)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette
ASIN: 0671856243

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The #1 bestselling author of Once Upon a More Enlightened Time reads his Politically Correct holiday gift.

Holiday tales have long delighted and entertained us, but until now they've always been burdened with society's skewed values and mores. Stories that reinforce the stifling class system (Dickens' A Christmas Carol), legitimize the stereotype of a merry, overweight patriarchal oppressor (Santa Claus in The Night Before Christmas) and justify the domestication and subjugation of wild animals (Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer) abound in the literature and lore of this season.

Now James Finn Garner has stepped in to revise and improve these familiar tales to free our social consciousness from the ghost of prejudice past. From the newly revised "Twas the Night Before Solstice" to "Rudolph the Nasally Empowered Reindeer," these stories rekindle the true holiday spirit and redefine the idea of "good will to all men" to include womyn, pre-adults and companion animals as well.

Yes, the international bestselling author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories and Once Upon a More Enlightened Time is back again, to offer a holiday gift that will fit all sizes, welcome all persuasions and nonpersuasions, and be treasured for politically correct generations to come.

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More of the same and not enough of it.......2007-09-24

PC Holiday Stories has JF Garner applying his standard palette of ultra-far-left lampooning to the topic of Holiday tales. He tackles (or should I say pokes) such venerable classics as Moore's "The Night Before Christmas," "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer," "Frosty the Snowman" and Dickens' "A Christmas Story," but not enough to do much damage. Garner even seems to break character by criticizing the very position from which he purports to write. Having St. Nick tell the eco-friendly parents in "Twas the Night" to "Get over themselves" was hardly the way a hyper-PC writer would have ended the tale. The stories are flat and almost predictable. The endings are lame and obvious targets of satire skitter by, unpummelled. It's telling that Garner left most of the religious tales alone. WHile one would not expect a satirical look at the doings in Bethlehem (Monty Python covered this quite well) how about "The Little Drummer Boy?" It seems that after his initial success with PC Bedtime stories, Garner is just playing it safe and phoning in his work.

The adaptation of the Scrooge story was especially tiresome and borrowed more that a little language from the original. Characters and situations received wan facelifts. Scrooge's last spirit, for instance was an inarticulate punker (so far so good), that Garner didn't do much with. This comes across less as "homage" than as laziness. Given the plethora of existing Scrooge rip-offs and parodies, Garner's version was rather pale.

Get this for a stocking stuffer if you must, but don't expect it to be the rollicking hit of the season.

I enjoyed "Bedtime Stories" much more........2000-12-13

I looked forward to this book, because I thought "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories" was so funny. This was disappointing. The Rudolph story was okay, and Frosty was okay too, but all in all, the book was a great step down from "Bedtime Stories." Mr. Garner seems to have lost some of his clever wit, and he spends way too much time on Ebenezer Scrooge. That story turns out dry and extremely dull, I muddled through that one, and because Mr. Garner takes such length with it, it turns out to be half of the book. Not funny this time, Mr. Garner. Sorry.

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Politically correct holiday stories: For an enlightened yuletide season
James Finn Garner
Manufacturer: American Printing House for the Blind
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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stay away.......2007-08-03

This book is predictable, boring, and prejudiced. What did I expect from a textbook? More, I guess. I've been listening to a lot of rock and roll from a lot of different time periods in the past two years and have been trying to understand the history of the music, influences on bands, where different trends came from, flashes of originality ... I don't mind an academic perspective, I hoped for some music theory, but this book is just plain stupid. What a waste of money.

Rock and Roll: Its History and Stylistic Development

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Rock and Roll: Its History and Stylistic Development
Joe, Lipscomb, Scott Stuessy
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIKTPY

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Rock and Roll: Its History and Stylistic Development
Stuessy. Joe
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall College Div
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIXNH0

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Designed to provide readers with the skills and practical applications necessary to use VIZ for those who are familiar with AutoCAD. Autodesk VIZ 2006 Fundamentals is in the Instant AutoCAD series and continues with the tradition of delivering technical information in a quick and easy format. With integrated Hands-On sessions to illustrate basic concepts and lots of questions, texts and exercises, it offers a detailed look at VIZ, the 3D modeling and animation program for Autodesk. This book begins with an overview of VIZ and how it relates to AutoCAD thereby ensuring an increased learning speed. It then moves onto viewing, creating, and editing, special modeling including walls, doors, and windows. The book is completed with the creation and application of materials and the generation of animations. For those working in Engineering, Architectural Design and Drafting, Animation, or Computer Graphic Arts.

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About the 2006 edition.......2006-02-28

I like the step by step tutorials.
My one complante would be that they didn't seem to update the book completely to match the 2006 edition of the program.

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Autodesk VIZ 2006 Fundamentals
Kay Ethier
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHU05O

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Cartridge Deringers, organized alphabetically by maker. Detailed text illustrated by 698 photos plus color views of 55 guns. Includes all types of Deringers known to have been offered to the American market.

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Comprehensive Modern History of Lebanon

The real McCoy!

Reprinting of old theories

"Highly recommended."--Choice Magazine

The New Face of Lebanon

The New Face of Lebanon: History's Revenge (Princeton Series on the Middle East)
William W. Harris
Manufacturer: Markus Wiener Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1558763910

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Now, barely into the 21st century, history has taken revenge. The Israelis have withdrawn from the South, and the Syrian troops from all of Lebanon, after the people of Beirut rallied against the occupations and took back their streets. But bombings and contract killings are still the order of the day, and the future of Lebanon remains uncertain. William Harris, a scholar and journalist who is frequently at the right place at the right time, is eminently qualified to analyze events and make projections about the future. When Lebanese Christian General Aoun made his triumphant return from French exile in 2005, he met with Harris. Their last encounter was in his bunker under bombardment. Under similar circumstances, Harris met with Arafat just before he was forced to leave Lebanon. Harris has also shared drinks with Druze leader Walid Jumblat, advised Israeli minister Yossi Beilin about their push for Lebanese withdrawal, and had several talks with various Ba'thist politicians in Damascus.

Publishers Weekly has praised Harris for "managing to find a harmonious balance between wry asides of taxi drivers and local tales on the one hand and interviews with such luminaries as the former deputy director of Israel military intelligence and the chairman of the Palestine National Council on the other . . .", while Al-Hayat has remarked on the lively debates among Lebanese who read his books.

Married to a Lebanese Shi'ite, William Harris is fluent in Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish. Currently at the University of Otago, New Zealand, Harris has taught at Haigazian University College in Lebanon, Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Johns Hopkins University, Exeter University, University of New South Wales, and Princeton University.

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Comprehensive Modern History of Lebanon.......2006-10-28

William Harris's The New Face of Lebanon is a fairly comprehensive history of modern Lebanon (i.e. after 1920). Although he does spend time discussing the history of Lebanon prior to 1920, the main thrust of the book focuses on the period of the French mandate and thereafter. In this aspect, the book is an excellent resource for anyone seeking to understand the modern political situation in Lebanon. The book is long (300+ pages) and covers many areas of Lebanese history, including population demographics, economics, sectarian divisions, as well as geopolitical and geographical alignments. The writing is often very dry - not uncommon in a history text - but the sheer amount of information makes up for this. Especially useful is the new final chapter of the book, which covers Lebanon's history from 1990 to 2005 (to this point, the only book to analyze the assassination of Rafiq Hariri and the subsequent Syrian withdrawl from Lebanon, although The Killing of Mr Lebanon by Blanford will be released soon).

Harris has an excellent grasp on the political intricacies of Lebanon, and there are several asides about his personal experience as a journalist in Lebanon during the war years. Although he is a journalist, this book is not a journalistic account of the war years, it reads much more like an academic history. Also, although he sometimes refers to debates among Lebanese historians over their own history, Harris does not engage these debates frequently (a much better resource for this is Kamal Salibi's A House of Many Mansions). Overall, this is a great book about modern Lebanese history, although be aware of exactly what it is. A more accessible account of the same events is Sandra Mackey's Lebanon, although Harris's book is far greater in both scope and detail, and more suited to someone who already has a working knowledge of modern Middle Eastern and lebanese history.

The real McCoy!.......2006-06-06

This book--as does its predecessor, "The Faces of Lebanon"--warrants attention, because it constitutes an honest attempt at interpreting modern Lebanon's history by examining the ideals, events, wounds, compromises, and realities of Lebanese society. If you are looking for the jaded regurgitation of the same old Arab nationalist cant, this is certainly not the book for you; you're better served with the lackluster historiographies and demagoguery of Lebanophobes of Fisk and AbuKhalil's persuasion. If, however, you are interested in the fresh, honest perspective of a sharp interpreter of Lebanese society, this is the real McCoy.

Reprinting of old theories.......2006-05-27

You read pages of literature on Lebanon in this book and try to find one original thought that Harris might have to offer about the country, but to no avail. Additionally, the cover of the book featuring a picture from the 2005 massive rallies in Beirut that led to the Syrian withdrawal form Lebanon gives the impression that this book was compiled in the aftermath of this event whereas in fact it was not. The book is a reprint of an earlier edition with an updated chapter.
Even though Lebanon's groups and forces have maintained the same presence for the past couple of decades, yet after the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and the consequent withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon after 30 years of occupation have revolutionized our perspective on the Syrian role in Lebanon that had until April 2005 kept low profile by the force of Syrian secret police in Lebanon.
The book also endorses the more traditional view on the issue of Lebanese nationalism which has been a point of contention for the past half century. Harris should have better restricted himself to presenting the points of view of the different groups without offering any further analysis because at time, Harris looks to be unfairly taking sides.
The book's style is dry and does not flow and ideas are not original and merely repeat what has been already printed in earlier books. The work is also voluminous for no obvious reason.

"Highly recommended."--Choice Magazine.......2006-05-25

"Packed with solid information about the complex reality of the Levant...in its historical, geographical, and political aspects during the past two millennia....The survey is remarkably balanced in its depiction of ideologies and rivalries and is replete with useful maps and bibliography...Highly recommended."--Choice Magazine

The New Face of Lebanon.......2006-04-17

Once known as the Switzerland of the Middle East, Lebanon in the late 1980s was considered a failed state: strife prevailed among Maronite Christians, Sunnis, Shiites, Druze, and Palestinians. William Harris has described Lebanon's situation within a wider historical context in his books Faces of Lebanon and The Levant, both of which deliver up-to-date analysis and have received international acclaim.

Now, barely into the 21st century, history has taken revenge. The Israelis have withdrawn from the South, and the Syrian troops from all of Lebanon, after the people of Beirut rallied
against the occupations and took back their streets. But bombings and contract killings are still the order of the day, and the future of Lebanon remains uncertain. William Harris, a scholar and journalist who is frequently at the right place at the right time, is eminently qualified to analyze events and make projections about the future. When Lebanese Christian General Aoun made his triumphant return from French exile in 2005, he met with Harris. Their last encounter was in his bunker under bombardment. Under similar circumstances, Harris met with Arafat just before he was forced to leave Lebanon. Harris has also shared drinks with Druze leader Walid Jumblat, advised Israeli minister Yossi Beilin about their push for Lebanese withdrawal, and had several talks with various Ba'thist politicians in Damascus.

Publishers Weekly has praised Harris for "managing to find a harmonious balance between wry asides of taxi drivers and local tales on the one hand and interviews with such luminaries as the former deputy director of Israel military intelligence and the chairman of the Palestine National Council on the other . . .", while Al-Hayat has remarked on the lively debates among Lebanese who read his books.

Married to a Lebanese Shi'ite, William Harris is fluent in Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish. Currently at the University of Otago, New Zealand, Harris has taught at Haigazian University College in Lebanon, Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Johns Hopkins University, Exeter University, University of New South Wales, and Princeton University.

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Science in Nineteenth Century America-a Documentary History
Nathan, Ed. Reingold
Manufacturer: Macmillan, London
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0000CN6ZS

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Nathan Reingold
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Nathan, Ed. Reingold
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Science in nineteenth-century America: A documentary history
Nathan Reingold
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Science in Nineteenth-Century America: A Documentary History
Nathan (ed) Reingold
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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This digital document is an article from Utopian Studies, published by Society for Utopian Studies on March 22, 1999. The length of the article is 1656 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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Title: Eco-Villages & Sustainable Communities: Models for 21st Century Living.(Review) (book review)
Author: Michael Cummings
Publication: Utopian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1999
Publisher: Society for Utopian Studies
Volume: 10 Issue: 2 Page: 223

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Eco-Villages & Sustainable Communities: Models for 21st Century Living

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Eco-Villages & Sustainable Communities: Models for 21st Century Living

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A series of essays from the activists who are currently working in the field of sustainability, changing the face of human settlementa necessary tool for anyone who is motivated to live more sustainably.

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