GirlWise: How to Be Confident, Capable, Cool, and in Control

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The Ultimate Teen Girl Bible
What do you do when . . . you're at the lunch table and you knock your soda over into someone's lap? Or, you need a job? You hate your clothes? You're broke? Inside, more than 100 experts tell you how to deal with these problems and so much more. GirlWise is one-stop shopping for all the stuff you want to, you need to, you MUST know!
GirlWise includes contributions by:
·Hillary Carlip, author of Girl Power
·Atoosa Rubenstein, editor-in-chief of CosmoGIRL!
·Nancy Gruver, publisher of New Moon
·Laura McEwen, Publisher of YM
·Marci Shimoff, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul
·Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries
·Brandon Holley, editor-in-chief of ELLEgirl
·Isabel González, senior associate editor of Teen People
You'll find great tips from experts in fashion, business, etiquette, sports, and more to help you become the Ultimate Teen Girl—confident, capable, comfortable, cool, conscious, and taking control of your life. No more helpless females here!

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Great book.......2006-07-25

This is an excellent book for girls who don't have an older sibling that could tell them about their experience through puberty. It is also great for teens entering middle school. During elementary school, there arent many cliques around but in middle school, you'll see cliques EVERYWHERE,and I mean everywhere. this book will teache the child how to deal with the attitudes of the people in the clique, and not to be ashamed of who they are.

Cute for those under 15.......2006-04-20

This book is extremely cute-for those under the age of 15. I bought this book when I was 12 and I'm 17 now. Some of the things have stuck with me. Like how to find your power stance and how to plunge a toliet (don't ask). But as I look through it now there's alot of things that seem like they will be good advice but are just obvious. Almost ever section and topic is very blunt and striaght forward. Like the "Be in Charge of Your Financial Life" is quite obvious with the five steps as 1. Earn More 2. Spend Less 3. Save Sufficiently 4. Invest Wisely and 5. Give Generously. And that was as about as indebth as you get. So overall it really didn't grab my attention and bored me.

My Mistake.......2005-03-13

I was hoping, without going to a bookstore and completely looking through it, that this would be a benficial book for my 13 year old. Instead it put her in tears. Instead of accepting themselves as who they are and how they look, they bring kids to the conclusion that they cannot be OK if they break out. My daughter was very upset and all I could do was apologize. If you are looking for a book that wants to compress your daughter into the current fashions and mainstream, maybe this is for you, then again, I strongly believe that my daughter is special and that this has not helped her self-confidence or her understanding of all the changes happening. Personally, I do not want my daughter caught up in all of the latest makeup and dress, I want her to be able to wear what she is comfortable in and feel comfortable in her own skin. Next time I will review any books I get for her much closer.

One of the Best Books I've Read!.......2004-04-15

I'm a freshman in highschool and I wish I would have had this book even before middleschool. It is the best, for anything! It teaches you things from confidence and starting a band, to being a good shopper and unclogging a toilet. It has things I didn't even expect. Even the topics I wasn't interested in I read, and it helped me in the future. Its easy to navigate, and not even boring once. I've read the entire thing, and keep it around for a refresher once and a while.

it ROCKS!.......2002-12-16

I just got this book for early Christmas. I cant put it down.Its really good! Ive been reading it for 2 days. My sisters 17 and she got a copy too and totally loves it too. its all out straight up the truth. My friends and I have been sitting in the lunch room reading the book out loud to know all this new stuff like fashion and like doing laundry and giving a speech in school. Theres nothing out there like it.

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In his pioneering work Finance Capital, originally published in 1910, Rudolf Hilferding developed and examined the concept and economic policy of finance capital, developing Marx's analysis of the processes of concentration and centralization of capital and the roles of competition and credit within these processes. This book provides a critical examination of the theory of finance capital by focusing on the concepts of competition, credit, and economic crises. Jonas Zoninsein concentrates on the theory of monopoly capital, which has its roots in Hilferding's work, presenting a critique of this economic principle that plays an outstanding role in current explanations of how the capitalist mode of production operates in the twentieth century. Although finance capital and monopoly capital are the underlying concepts that explain capitalism today, Hilferding's sources in detailing his theory were basically the characteristics of Germany's late industrialization. His analytical effort was chiefly oriented toward formulating general theoretical principles about the working of capitalism. In this critical study, Zoninsein analyzes Hilferding's central elements--competition, credit, capital accumulation, and crises--and seeks to refine and reinterpret the concepts and procedures in light of the current changes in economic thought and social life. Particular attention is paid to the sharp contrasts that are exhibited between Hilferding's work and the economic theories of Marx. The volume also includes a selected bibliography of relevant works. For courses in political economy, Marxist theory, and monopoly capitalism, this study will be a excellent resource, and both public and academic libraries will find it to be a valuable addition to their collections.

Monopoly Capital Theory: Hilferding and Twentieth-Century Capitalism, Vol. 115

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Monopoly Capital Theory: Hilferding and Twentieth-Century Capitalism, Vol. 115
Jonas Zoninsein
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTP0NE

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The Fireside Treasury of New Humor

Manufacturer: Fireside
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0671673033

Book Description

The ten tunes in this folio represent the best-known and most enduring songs from the Dead's 30-year career. They include: Black Peter * Box of Rain * Casey Jones * Cumberland Blues * Friend of the Devil * New Speedway Boogie * Ripple * Sugar Magnolia * Truckin' * Uncle John's Band.

Customer Reviews:

Avoid.......2004-02-02

As with all the books from these authors from The Ultimate TV Guide onwards, this book exhibits a total lack of engagement with or affection for the subject matter. As such many entries are sloppily researched and even more sloppily written - it's quite entertaining to try and spot the bits where the writers were obviously winding up for the day, or maybe moving on to some other collection of hackery, and wound up the paragraph they were on with a perfunctory flourish, in the manner of a schoolboy running out of time in an exam. And as that seems to be how this exercise was treated by the writers, that's how it feels to the reader ploughing through its dreary text. Presumably this series of books, with their bright and breezy covers, are intended as stocking filler entertainemnts rather than all-encompassing works of scholarly reference, and that's fine. It's just that they're about as much fun to read as a half-arsed essay on Romeo and Juliet by a hyperactive child who's desperate to go out and play in the snow. There are far better books of this type out there, both serious and light-hearted in intent. Look elsewhere.

basically OK.......2002-03-05

This is cult TV from a British perspective. It is a good overview of comedy programmes shown on UK TV including many US imports. It does exclude some US shows like "Three's Company" which weren't shown there but does have "Man About the House" which was the UK series from which it was copied, and hence adds a new perspective to some US shows. Good basic information on screening dates, writers, etc. There's a short description of each show, some photos - but it leaves you wanting more of both. The style is not conducive to cozying down to a nostalgia fest but worth having on the shelf as a reference.

Quite readable, if not completist........2002-02-05

Written from a distinctly British point of view, "Cult TV" describes situation comedies both American and otherwise. I think inclusion in the book was based on British broadcasts, but then again, how can a behemoth USA ratings hit like "Three's Company" not be detailed? Was it not seen in Britain? Man, are they missing out! Anyway, for me, the book has been useful in discovering new and exemplary series like "Black Adder" or "Father Ted" that I'd never heard about. Have you ever seen "Father Ted"? It's insanely good! Interestingly, current series are written about in the past tense, as if they'd already ended.

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Cult TV : The Comedies
Jon E.; Stempel, Penny Lewis
Manufacturer: Pavilion Books, Limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RBUHI2

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Cult TV: The Comedies
Jon E. and Stempel, Penny Lewis
Manufacturer: Pavilion Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NQH23O

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Cult Tv: the Comedies
Jon E. Lewis
Manufacturer: Bay Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JVEL7S

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Analyzing the role of governments in the regulation of the new "Information Society", the ten chapters in this book stem from a seminar hosted by the European Media Regulation Seminar Group (ESRG) at the University of Warwick. Each chapter explores the regulatory responses of the UK goverment and the EU to commercial, technical and market convergence in the broadcasting, telecommunications, print media and computing sectors. The text focuses on the establishment of satellite pay-TV, telecommunications and the launch of digital terrestrial TV as they blend real and cyber-governance.

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Extracting content from text continues to be an important research problem for information processing and management. Approaches to capture the semantics of text-based document collections may be based on Bayesian models, probability theory, vector space models, statistical models, or even graph theory.

As the volume of digitized textual media continues to grow, so does the need for designing robust, scalable indexing and search strategies (software) to meet a variety of user needs. Knowledge extraction or creation from text requires systematic yet reliable processing that can be codified and adapted for changing needs and environments.

This book will draw upon experts in both academia and industry to recommend practical approaches to the purification, indexing, and mining of textual information. It will address document identification, clustering and categorizing documents, cleaning text, and visualizing semantic models of text.

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subjective extraction of clusters.......2006-10-19

The book is relatively brief, given the technical nature of its chapters, each written by different authors. Many clustering methods are described. Most can be seen to have some degree of subjectivity, in defining what ends up in a given cluster. Or whether a cluster even exists or not.

The analysis of Web documents forms a major portion of the book. This data set is vast, continually changing and expanding. Plus, it is noisy. Unlike many clean data sets that might be extracted from a corpus of books, for example. Attention should be paid to methods of automatically extracting information from the Web.

The book does not go much into the higher level problems of defining ontologies. Which are very hard tasks. The closest it seems to get is along the lines of finding similar words in documents. Which is still very useful.

Survey of Text Mining II: Clustering, Classification, and Retrieval

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Survey of Text Mining II: Clustering, Classification, and Retrieval

Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Databases | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1848000456

Book Description

The proliferation of digital computing devices and their use in communication has resulted in an increased demand for systems and algorithms capable of mining textual data. Thus, the development of techniques for mining unstructured, semi-structured, and fully-structured textual data has become increasingly important in both academia and industry.

This second volume continues to survey the evolving field of text mining - the application of techniques of machine learning, in conjunction with natural language processing, information extraction and algebraic/mathematical approaches, to computational information retrieval. Numerous diverse issues are addressed, ranging from the development of new learning approaches to novel document clustering algorithms, collectively spanning several major topic areas in text mining.

Features:

• Acts as an important benchmark in the development of current and future approaches to mining textual information

• Serves as an excellent companion text for courses in text and data mining, information retrieval and computational statistics

• Experts from academia and industry share their experiences in solving large-scale retrieval and classification problems

• Presents an overview of current methods and software for text mining

• Highlights open research questions in document categorization and clustering, and trend detection

• Describes new application problems in areas such as email surveillance and anomaly detection

Survey of Text Mining II offers a broad selection in state-of-the art algorithms and software for text mining from both academic and industrial perspectives, to generate interest and insight into the state of the field. This book will be an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners, and professionals involved in information retrieval, computational statistics, and data mining.

Michael W. Berry is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Malu Castellanos is a senior researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California.

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The previously untold story of the watershed battle that changed the course of Western history.

In AD 9, a Roman traitor led an army of barbarians who trapped and then slaughtered three entire Roman legions: 20,000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not for this battle, the Roman Empire would surely have expanded to the Elbe River, and probably eastward into present-day Russia. But after this defeat, the shocked Romans ended all efforts to expand beyond the Rhine, which became the fixed border between Rome and Germania for the next 400 years, and which remains the cultural border between Latin western Europe and Germanic central and eastern Europe today.

This fascinating narrative introduces us to the key protagonists: the emperor Augustus, the most powerful of the Caesars; his general Varus, who was the wrong man in the wrong place; and the barbarian leader Arminius, later celebrated as the first German hero. In graphic detail, based on recent archaeological finds, the author leads the reader through the mud, blood, and decimation that was the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. 16 pages of illustrations.

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A Rare But Costly Roman Debacle.......2007-04-02

The number of significant Roman military defeats was so low that one can draw the inescapable conclusion that Rome lost so rarely because Rome made sure that defeat simply could not happen with any regularity. The annihilation of Rome's legions at Cannae comes to mind as an exception. And now in THE BATTLE THAT STOPPED ROME. Peter S. Wells details what is perhaps Rome's second most notorious debacle. The details of the destruction of three of Emperor Augustus' legions have been well documented in other texts, but what makes Wells' version worthwhile is the sense that the reader feels that he is right there in the Teutoburg Forest in Germany in 9 AD. The first half of his book details the preliminaries: the background of the geography, the competing rulers, the structure of both armies, and the villain of this piece--the German Arminius, who had once served in Rome's legions and used that knowledge of tactics against them. Wells now adds that there is a new villain--the Roman general Varus, whom Wells describes as "the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Before the battle, Rome seemed destined to expand its hegemony throughout Germany. Augustus tapped Varus as the commander who could deliver Germany as a docile vassal of Rome. The German hordes could be many things but docile was not one of them. Arminius induced Rome's three legions to traverse a narrow pathway in the Teutoburg Forest, where the disciplined battle order of the legions could not be used. What Wells adds to other and earlier accounts is a "you are there" scenario. Much of what one reads he claims is based on the latest archeological finds, but the depth of detail suggests a fertile imagination that fills out the meat from the bare skeleton of these finds. Several reviewers have suggested that they found it difficult to believe that twenty thousand legionnaires could have been slaughtered in under one hour. But a careful consideration of the geography adds credence to the speed with which the Germans could have wreaked incalculable damage with spears tossed directly into the midst of bunched up Romans, all of whom were sitting or rather standing ducks. Indeed, one can visualize the majority being impaled within just the first few minutes. Wells clearly labels this less a battle than a massacre, the result of which was to fix forever the easternmost edge of the Roman empire. For modern students of Roman history who wish to recreate in a few dozen pages how a mighty fighting force could have been eradicated within moments, THE BATTLE THAT STOPPED ROME depicts how so many were killed solely because of the incompetence of a commander who should have known better.

Too much fluff.............2007-03-09

I found Peter S. Wells' book on the destruction of the three Roman legions at Teutoburg Forest to be terribly limited in scrope and very short on description. Since Teutoburg Forest is a very specific military campaign, most people who would read this book will already have a good solid background on Rome and her history. Thus, we do not need 160 pages worth of background material which will not add anything to anyone's knowledge.

To make this really sad, I thought the author's description of the campaign and battle to be truly simplified. What make the author even dream that this entire battle was over within a hour?? It going to take whole lot more then 18,000 barbaric Germans to wipe out three Roman legions in one hour regardless of the situation. It may be that the author tried too hard to be different from the norm and this led to many foolish conjectures that borderline on fantasy.

It should also be stress that as catastrophic as this defeat may be, it only discouraged Roman expansion across into Germany. But it definitely did not stopped the Romans from moving in other territories. Just look at Trajan's rule or even earlier...Claudius' invasion and conquest of Britain. Glory of Rome have only began in 9 AD, it did not end at Teutoberg Forest. The author appears to be grossly overhyped this campaign. (In hindsight, it may have been a disaster for Germany who didn't get the benefits of Roman civilization.)

Considering that there are several other books written on this campaign, it would be easy to pass on this book which really doesn't explained much about the battle or the campaign. I would recommend Major Tony Clunn's In Quest of the Lost Legions which explained the details of this campaign and battle in far clearer and with more authority. The paperback copy of this book I was reading, looked exactly like the first edition copy of Clunn's book. Same black background with Roman mask.

I also find very interesting reading the past reviews of this book that people who wrote negatively about this book appears to be know more about Teutoberg Forest then the people who wrote positively.

Interesting but not too enlightening.......2007-02-24

The author seems to have written this as a very basic coverage of what was likely a much more complicated situation. I didn't know anything about this incident in history, but from his own descriptions, it had far reaching consequences. I was hoping for a little more meat but as an introduction, it was sufficient. This just makes me want to find out more about the Teutoberg battle.

I received great service!.......2007-01-08

Received in a timely manner, and the product was in great shape! Thank you!

Not Good at All.......2006-10-02

Looks lets be realistic. After 2000 years there is precious little that we really know about the Battle in the Teutonburg Forest. Wells does a good job but like a lot books on obscure figures, events, and times we know relatively little, the writer ends up spending a lot of time on speculation of what might or must of happenned or concentrating on events that are more or less tangental. And so wells does so in this book, which may be the best overall review in English about what we know of the battle.

Precisely because we are stuck with various hagiographies such as that of Tacitus and other, more obscure remnants, more snippets of information from other Roman or Greek historians (usually a few hundred years after the event), and even more obscure archeological inferences -- we need to infer and cover topics that are increasingly not related to the battle. And so this book does exactly that: Wells covers the acheological and written record, the main sources, and then launches off into short chapters on Augustus, Varus and Arminius. There is also coverage of such topics of the structure of the Roman Army (but a little too light in my opinion), battle order, weaponry, details on combat technique and how people eventually were slain and died.

There is far too much speculation here and unfortunately, unless one is consigned to writting a book of about 100 pages, this is the way it will be with topics such as this. There has been a lot of what I would call "inferential writing" these days about the classic antiquity era of warfare VD Hansen, being a good example. It is amazing what truths these people propound with the very thinnest of premises and even less hardcore written and physical evidence. Its as if people, at a despair with the lack of sources and evidence, have resorted to inventing their record and truths.

The book is light and breezy and should be read like that as well -- after you have put down your Kant or Hegel of the evening, when you eyes have closed on your Burkehart, then this one should keep you up a few more hours.... and in that sense it is well worth reading.

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In 1434, the new Medici government exiled Matteo Strozzi as an enemy of the regime. Soon afterwards, Matteo and three of his eight children died of the plague. His young widow, Alesandra, struggled to make arrangements for her five remaining children, preparing her sons for merchant careers and finding husbands for her daughters. Her three sons left Florence in the 1440s to enter relatives' merchant banking firms. Their absence, prolonged by a sentence of exile imposed on them in 1458, gave rise to the family correspondence that informs this rich study.

The Strozzi correspondence tells the story of the decline and recovery of one Florentine patrician family. Eventually, the Strozzi brothers earned the greatest fortune of their era, and, after the repeal of their exile, Filippo, the eldest, most successful, and longest lived, spent the last years of his life in Florence as one of its foremost citizens. Set in the context of other documentary evidence and of modern historical and anthropological studies, Crabb's study illuminates the role of women, kinship, solidarity, honor, and profit. These letters provide nuanced insights into values and practices that more impersonal sources cannot rival.

As well as appealing to those interested in the Renaissance, Florence, and Italy, this book will attract those wanting to read about topics in social history that cross time periods: women, family and kinship, business, and honor. It confronts issues of Renaissance Florentine historiography by presenting a more positive view of the role of women than does current orthodoxy, by providing evidence of the impact of extended kinship ties, a controversial issue, and by illuminating further the value placed on honor and profit.

Ann Crabb teaches medieval history at James Madison University.

The Strozzi of Florence: Widowhood and Family Solidarity in the Renaissance. (Reviews). (book review): An article from: Renaissance Quarterly

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The Strozzi of Florence: Widowhood and Family Solidarity in the Renaissance. (Reviews). (book review): An article from: Renaissance Quarterly
Natalie Tomas
Manufacturer: Renaissance Society of America
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Renaissance Society of America on June 22, 2002. The length of the article is 760 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: The Strozzi of Florence: Widowhood and Family Solidarity in the Renaissance. (Reviews). (book review)
Author: Natalie Tomas
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2002
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: 55 Issue: 2 Page: 707(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Interesting history of disease.......2005-10-02

Quite a bit of research went into writing this book. He sites many interesting historical orgins of human disease and the fact that much of it originates from us altering our environment and our behaviors. Many illnesses made the leap from animal to man.

"The measles virus probably evolved from the one that causes distemper in dogs. Eventually the virus adapted to humans, in a variant that could no longer survive in dogs. This new human disease, with no animal reservoit, needed a constant supply of new human susceptibles to keep from burning out - probably 7,000 at any given time. In recent centuries, measles had died out on islands with fewer than 500,000 people unless reintroduced from the outside. The Greek physician Galen, who spent much of his life in Rome and witnessed that first plague... At the height of the second plague, as many as 5,000 people died in Rome day day."

If you enjoy reading about illnesses, their origins, and you like history, you will definitely like this book.

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This book reports the more policy-oriented results of the Biodiversity programme of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Beijer Institute. The programme brought economists and ecologists together to consider where the problem in biodiversity loss really lies, what costs it has for society, and how it might best be addressed. The results are strikingly different from those reported in other works on the subject. Biodiversity loss matters for all ecosystems -- not just the megadiversity tropical forests. And it matters because it compromises the resilience and so the productivity of those systems. Biodiversity conservation requires the development of policies that change the behaviour of resource use everywhere -- not just in parks and reserves.
The book is required reading for researchers and policy makers alike. It canvasses options for the reform of park management, biodiversity conservation projects, property rights, tax, trade and price regimes that are within the reach of governments everywhere.

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