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This book is a positive and practical guide that can help breathe new life and purpose into the employee evaluation process. The easy-to-follow instructions and abundant, real life examples will help teach the secrets of performance appraisals and how to effectively motivate employees to greater levels of performance.

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too basic.......2001-05-21

I feel that if you have never performed a face to face interview with subordinates that this may be helpful. It would be good for the fast food industry for someone who just went from head cashier to day supervisor. Karen had many good ideas but including what to say, what the subordinate might say was a little too simplistic. I would like to have her use her expertise in a more professional book.

A Good Read!.......2001-04-24

If you were designing the curriculum for a class called Introduction to Performance Evaluation, this book would be your text. If, on the other hand, you're in the market for some original ideas and groundbreaking employee-evaluation strategies, this may not be the book for you. Karen McKirchy uses simple language in her guided tour of performance-appraisal basics. If you're an experienced supervisor, you may find the whole thing just a tad too simplistic. But for less seasoned managers, this book is a treasure trove of tips that will make evaluating the performance of your direct reports much more productive, easier and less painfull. We [...] recommend this book to supervisors wishing to improve their ability to motivate and evaluate employees through performance appraisals, particularly supervisors with less than five years experience.

Powerful Performance Appraisals.......2000-06-19

Excellent samples of how to use phrases correctly when laying out work expectations and performance improvement. Some very helpful checklist have been included for the reader as well as simple action plan formats. Most important is the book is written in a user friendly manner and does not get bogged down in excess verbage.

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This expanded version expanded version of Maris Multimedia's best-selling astronomy software, "RedShift 3", offers students a premiere multimedia planetarium experience! "RedShift College Edition" provides a stunning combination of text, graphics, movies, narration, music, illustrations, applets, animations, and more. With a host of features such as "Nightly News", an astronomical event predictor, and "Sky Diary", "RedShift College Edition" is the most comprehensive astronomy CD-ROM available for students. The two CD-ROM package contains the "RedShift 3" planetarium software as well as a College Edition overlay. This overlay consists of seven chapters containing numerous observational exercises, mathematical tutorials, guided tours, and animations, as well as a historical narrative. The combination of interactive exercises and animations, as well as the full power of the RedShift 3 planetarium engine, makes this an easy-to-use, interactive astronomy tutorial and planetarium in one. Help your students get the most out of "RedShift 3" with the "RedShift College Edition Astronomy Workbook", the ideal exploration companion. Written by Bill O. Walker, this is a comprehensive workbook, lab manual, and field guide. Complete in 34 sections and five appendices, this workbook is designed for students, amateur astronomers, and stargazers of all kinds. Exercises lead students step-by-step through real astronomical observations using RedShift's simulations--the same observations the great astronomers made through the centuries to carve out our present understanding of the universe. Answers to the workbook exercises are available on a password-protected site for instructors only.

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RedShift College Edition Astronomy Workbook (with CD-ROM)
Bill O. Walker
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Now you can get college credit for gazing at the stars! REDSHIFT COLLEGE EDITION ASTRONOMY WORKBOOK combines a workbook, a lab manual, and a field guide together to give you the most interactive astronomy experience ever. By leading you step-by-step through the process of studying the heavens, REDSHIFT COLLEGE EDITION ASTRONOMY WORKBOOK makes it easy to master the concepts as you go along. And with the study tools built right in, this is the one that helps you get the grade you need in class as well.

REDSHIFT Astronomy Workbook (College Edition)

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REDSHIFT Astronomy Workbook (College Edition)
Bill O. Walker
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A concise monograph, heavy on synthesis methods.......1999-05-18

The book "Metal-Containing Polymeric Systems" (1985) gives the reader a broad sampling of the field. In my opinion the editors have chosen their material well. I will probably inspect other works by these authors.

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METAL-CONTAINING POLYMERIC SYSTEMS
Charles E. (editor) ; Sheats, John (editor) ; Pittman, Charles U. (editor) Carraher
Manufacturer: Springer
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How do biological, psychological, sociological, and cultural factors combine to change societies over the long run? Boyd and Richerson explore how genetic and cultural factors interact, under the influence of evolutionary forces, to produce the diversity we see in human cultures. Using methods developed by population biologists, they propose a theory of cultural evolution that is an original and fair-minded alternative to the sociobiology debate.

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Culture and the Evolutionary Process
Robert; Richerson, Peter J. Boyd
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Culture and the Evolutionary Process.
Robert & Peter J. RICHERSON BOYD
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Mad dogs and Englishman go out in the midday sun. Black south Londoners like Calvin Hiliaire neither go out in the sun nor venture too far a field So what the hell is he doing in freezing cold Scotland?

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Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun. Black south Londoners like Calvin Hillaire neither go out in the sun nor venture too far afield. So what the hell is he doing in freezing cold Scotland?

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Fresh stylish concept for a thriller excuted with flair.......1999-04-27

This modern crime thriller had real pace from the first to last page. By combining very different locations (Jamaca, South London and Scotland in grip of winter) and colourful local characters Robertson managed to create a number of very memorable images in a tightly written story.

The novel raises some thought provoking social issues about our multi-racial society. It does so very much in the context of the plot so that this is not a distraction but a logical sub-text.

The novel left me keen to know more about how the main characters develop in future.

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In Nazi eyes, the Soviet Union was the "wild east," a savage region ripe for exploitation, its subhuman inhabitants destined for extermination or helotry. An especially brutal dimension of the German army's eastern war was its anti-partisan campaign. This conflict brought death and destruction to thousands of Soviet civilians, and has been held as a prime example of ordinary German soldiers participating in the Nazi regime's annihilation policies.

Ben Shepherd enters the heated debate over the wartime behavior of the Wehrmacht in a detailed study of the motivation and conduct of its anti-partisan campaign in the Soviet Union. He investigates how anti-partisan warfare was conducted, not by the generals, but by the far more numerous, average Germans serving as officers in the field. What shaped their behavior was more complex than Nazi ideology alone. The influence of German society, as well as of party and army, together with officers' grueling yet diverse experience of their environment and enemy, made them perceive the anti-partisan war in varied ways. Reactions ranged from extreme brutality to relative restraint; some sought less to terrorize the native population than to try to win it over. The emerging picture does not dilute the suffering the Wehrmacht's eastern war inflicted. It shows, however, that properly judging ordinary Germans' role in that war is more complicated than is indicated by either wholesale condemnation or wholesale exoneration.

This valuable study offers a nuanced discussion of the diversity of behaviors within the German army, as well as providing a compelling exploration of the war and counterinsurgency operations on the eastern front.

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Solidly researched, this is an important contribution.......2006-10-23

I agree with Prof. Hill that this is a superb monograph. It is very well-written, and the research integrates exiting historiography with some very impressive research in German archives. The theme is the escalation of German reprisals against Soviet partisans, so yes: there is a lot about violence in this book. The main question is: what was the driving force in the escalation of German violence targeting civilians in occupied zones? Continuing the work begun by Omer Bartov ("barbarization of warfare" in the East) and Truman Anderson (reprisals policy and ethnicity), Shepherd traces the microhistory of a single unit: the German 221st Security Division's antipartisan campaign. His findings are an important contribution to our knowledge of how the Hitler-Stalin confrontation escalated into total war.
My only objection is that Dr. Shepherd did not draw from published or unpublished Soviet sources. This would have been a much better book if the author had followed the lead of Dieter Pohl and Truman Anderson, who have studied the German occupation as international history: drawing from interviews with locals, and blending these with documents from Soviet and German archives.

An important contribution to the literature.......2006-04-20

Dr Shepherd has reviewed my monograph, which has kept me from reviewing his book. I will not write a full review, but wish to point out the following in the light of the review by chitadel. Dr Shepherd's book is concerned with the nature of German activity against the partisans, and Dr Shepherd notes a range of factors contributing to the nature of German partisan warfare in the case study area, which might not facilitate the clear cut conclusions perhaps desired by one or two readers.

disappointing.......2005-10-13

You would figure that a book published by Harvard must be very good, right? Wrong. This book shows its origins as a doctoral dissertation, it is basically a compilation of atrocity reports from a couple of German security units. There is no analysis, not really much argument at all. Simply repeating that the Nazis were ruthless, sometimes using that word six times on one page, is not an argument. Nor is it news. The one insight that I came away with is that shifting expectations of which side would win shaped the reactions of the Russian population. No use of Russian sources: a book on partisan warfare without the partisan point of view!

a excellent perspective of the counterinsurgency in the East.......2004-10-18

Sherpherd has written an excellent perspective of German military operations against insurgents on the Eastern Front. The case study of the 221st Sercurity Division in Shepherd's book were forced to rely on tactics that depended less on violent actions and more on propaganda and working with the local population due to the lack of manpower in the division. However the neighboring 203rd Security Division comitted more atrocities because it was closer to the front and had to compete with the SS in order to curry favor in the high command. The only weakness of Shepherd's book is that he leaves out perspectives by Soviet partisans and whether or not they support his view of the 221st Security Division. I would highly reccomend this book for anyone who wants a new view of conterinsurgency operations on the Eastern Front.

War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans.(Book review): An article from: The Historian

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War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
Kenneth Slepyan
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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 574 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: War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans.(Book review)
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Date: September 22, 2006
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This comprehensive reference book is divided into eleven chronological chapters, all of which include short biographies of key figures. It is also supplemented with several shorter sections: regional histories, which documents the peoples of Mexico & the U.S. Southwest, the Hispanic Caribbean & the Eastern U.S., Central America, & South America; a historical timeline; excerpts from or entire important historical legal documents; & a glossary of commonly used terms. Includes a category index. An extensive general index provides quick access to numerous people, places, & events. Black & white photos & illustrations.

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The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterized by a split between two cultures--the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other--has a long history. The reissue of The Two Cultures and its successor piece, A Second Look (in which Snow responded to the controversy four years later) has a new introduction by Stefan Collini, charting the history and context of the debate, its implications and its afterlife.

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The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other - has a long history. But it was C.P.Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began a public debate that is still raging in the media today. This reissue of The Two Cultures and its successor piece, A Second Look (in which Snow responded to the controversy four years later) has a new introduction by Stefan Collini, charting the history and context of the debate, its implications and its afterlife. The importance of science and technology in policy run largely by non-scientists, the future for education and research, and the problem of fragmentation threatening hopes for a common culture are just some of the subjects discussed.

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The Two Cultures.......2006-07-13

I read the original as a convocation assignment when i went off to college in 1963. The history update in this volume is very useful and interseting to me. The original concept is also still interesting which probably means it is a good book as well as an influential one for education.

Arguments about taking social responsibility.......2004-12-29

In this book, Sir Charles P. Snow examines what he sees as a splitting of the intelligentsia into two subcultures, the literary and the scientific. He cites anecdotal evidence of how ignorant literary figures are concerning fundamental scientific principles and how few works of literature have been read by the typical scientist. Snow is certainly qualified to see both sides of this issue. During World War II, he was in charge of the British program of scientific recruitment and is a first-class novelist. He also notes conservative/liberal tendencies among various groups within the scientific community.
He is of course correct, but the splitting is an inevitable consequence of the advance of science. As the amount of knowledge about a field of science grows, it takes more time and effort to succeed in the field. With the increase in commitment, there is less time for the individual to pursue other interests. However, that is not a wholly satisfactory excuse. Scientists are also part of the human condition and are almost always members of the advantaged class. Snow argues that they should be cognizant of the plight of the poor around the world and understand their moral obligation to try to alleviate poverty.
Scientists are often and justifiably considered to possess an intellectually narrow focus. Snow is very articulate in pointing out that society is damaged when some of the best and brightest remove themselves from the search for solutions to the current problems. Even though great advances have taken place in science in the forty years since Snow put forward these observations, they are just as valid as they were then. There is a lot of common ground between the literary and scientific communities, and Snow explains why it is critical that both sides occupy as much of it as possible. All people who are concerned with the problems of modern society should read this book.

historic document, with intro essay.......2004-10-25

The Two Cultures is probably more famous as an idea which ignited discussion than as the lecture it is. This edition of C.P. Snow's classic includes a brilliant introduction by Stefan Collini. I'm surprised that none of the other reviewers mention this portion of the edition, a substantial 64 pages, because for me it was the most interesting read. That is, only after having read The Two Cultures and a follow-up essay by Snow and pondered what may still apply today in his argument I went back and read the Collini. His introduction put Snow's work in its proper historical contexts (those of post-war Britain as well as Snow's own life) and updates us with some of the major points of the historical discourse that followed. I recommend that Collini's essay is read after Snow's, and together they make a very fine read.

Always a Tradeoff - Integration Should Be The Goal.......2004-09-24

C.P. Snow argues about two cultures he was personally part of: the literary intellectuals and the science intellectuals. And in these two cultures there is a serious lack of communication and inter subjective knowledge. While this may be true, I find it's a very limited argument and fails to take in the many different subcultures that may or may not be the strength of industrialization but nevertheless influences the social and cultural whole of the both the countries and world we know of. Also disregarded is Western civilization's pragmatism that has permeated since the enlightenment, the ideas of separation of religion and state are also applied to all teachings apart from the universals of liberty, individual rights and the pursuit of happiness. So the scientists will lack in the social and literary fields, while the literary and cultural intellectuals will lack in the technological fields. Specialization has most certainly increased from the medieval period to the Renaissance to the Industrial revolution and scientific achievements, to the current information age, although this book was written well before in 1959 and 1963.

Integration is necessary to reach planetary unity and peace, however degrees of compartmentalization are required to technologize the world. So there has to be some balance here. Snow does make a well-known point in the comparisons of industrialized nations verses the undeveloped and there is a clear different in the level of living conditions. Capital, manpower and educative resources are required in all countries for integration to occur.

I agree that man is much better off in the industrialized nations as opposed to those that are not, however, much of the agricultural societies that existed prior to the Renaissance and Enlightenment were from a self-employed collective society that lacked the existential despair and Anst from lack of security that we have so prevalent today. Thus they existed in far more psychological security and there's much to be said on that for the human psyche. To be a self-employed artisan over a low paid factory employee, this is the result and it was not always favorable. There is a trade-off and the demystification and desacredization are serious and profound negative consequences in our modern technological society. Feudal agricultural and superstition have left but the radical wonder and appreciative amazement of childlike marvel with fascination and curiosity have long gone as well.

However Snow makes a good argument on the stupidity of any groups that have power and influence over society. Such groups should not lack in either literary and technological knowledge - as the majority of the leaders of our government do today, and the public for that matter, thus endorsing many (not all) inadequate governmental decisions based on surface and shallow reasonings. And thus we have overpopulation, destruction of the environment, nuclear weapons, and religious absolutism, the loss of pragmatism, cultural warfare and so forth.

Also, I didn't particularly care for the writing style of this book and had trouble digesting it. If it was written less arbitrarily, with fewer words I think it would be even much smaller than it already is, but more tolerable as well.

Far better than I thought.......2004-03-12

Every representation I've seen of this work was wrong, or so incomplete as to be gravely misleading. As usual, the glib sound-biters omit not only the interesting parts of the points they quote, they omit the real point of the essay.

If anyone reads the second half of this essay, they see that it writes about the widening gap between rich countries and poor - the technologically trained and untrained. Yes, Snow writes about the schism and even mutual suspicion between the communities of liberal arts and hard sciences. That's just a fact, at least as true now as it was 45 years ago. That is not what's interesting.

The consequence is what matters. Overpopulation, mass starvation, and destruction by war or disease are political problems. The solutions must involve tools provided by technology. The tragedy of "the two cultures" is the breakdown between the politicians who must wield the tools and the technologists who must create them. This is not about technology controlling the world, it is about creating a generation of thinkers who can reason about both social and technical problems. It is about education that allows people to examine the physical facts of the physical world that underly so many curable causes of human misery. It is about understanding the technology of possible solutions well enough to weigh the costs and rewards in a rational way.

As I write this, the 2000-era Bush administration is busy firing science advisors who don't give the "right" answer, is cancelling the space research programs that have given the largest volume of new knowledge, and creating new scorched-earth policies for environmental management. It's a problem not just in the US, but worldwide. This is exactly the failure that Snow hoped so fervently that educated men and women would have the wisdom to prevent.

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The Two Cultures and a Second Look, an Expanded Version of the Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution

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For the past thirty years, adherents of a millenarian cult in Papua New Guinea, known as the Pomio Kivung, have been awaiting the establishment of a period of supernatural bliss, heralded by the return of their ancestors bearing `cargo'. The author, Harvey Whitehouse, was taken for a reincarnated ancestor, and was thus able to observe the dynamics of the cult from within. From the stable mainstream of the cult, localized splinter groups periodically emerge, hoping to expedite the millennium; the core of this volume concerns the close study of one such group in two Baining villages. The two aspects of the cult studied here - on the one hand a large, uniform, and stable mainstream organization with a well-defined hierarchy demanding orthodoxy of views, and on the other hand a small-scale and temporary movement, emotional and innovative in its views - stand in sharp contrast one to the other, but are here seen as divergent manifestations of the same religious ideology, implemented in differing ways. This original theory of `modes of religiosity' which Whitehouse here develops draws on recent findings in cognitive psychology to link styles of codification and cultural transmission to the political scale, structure, and ethos of religious communities.

Inside the Cult: Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea

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Inside the Cult: Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea
Harvey Whitehouse
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