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Excellent.......2006-09-16

This covers a really wide range of subjects that pretty much every manager, supervisor or HR Rep would have to deal with at some time or another and it explains complicated issues in easy to understand language. I really like the style of this book: For every question it has a brief answer or summary that gets to the point and then has a "Tell me more" section that breaks things down in more detail (but still easy to understand). Plus it gives samples of any kind of letter, documentation, appraisal you would have to administer. I read this book cover to cover, there wasn't anything I skipped over because pretty much every question & answer was useful.

This might be good for large corporations.......2004-05-23

I'm opening a small business and need information on hiring and managing employees. After reading this book, my knowledge of hiring employees hasn't changed much. This books focuses on the legal issues and paperwork required when dealing with employees. If you are looking for insight on how to hire good workers and how to interview people, find another book.

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Whether you're a human resources professional or an executive or manager in a company without a human resources department, you are confronted by all sorts of difficult personnel questions. Hiring and firing can be highly complicated subjects. Scary. Unless you have someone you can turn to for reliable advice.

Never fear. Paul Falcone is here! The author of "96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire" and "101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems" has authored a book that will relieve the stress in your people-management life. Falcone is Director of Employment and Development Paramount Pictures in Hollywood and teaches for UCLA. Here's a resource who knows what he's talking about.

This book is organized into two main sections: Hiring and Firing. Under the Hiring Section, you'll find chapters on the hiring process, recruitment tools, online recruiting, interviewing, and making the final selection. The Firing Section begins with a chapter answering common questions about the performance management and termination process. Next, the reader will learn about progressive discipline, terminations for cause and summary offenses, and reductions-in-force and layoffs.

Through these chapters, Falcone presents 112 vital questions . . . and answers. Each question is addressed with a basic answer, followed by a section titled "Tell Me More." What a wealth of information!

And, as if this weren't enough, the book also includes an appendix with sample policies, agreements, and letters. The comprehensiveness of this section is amazing. A glossary, resource list, and index provide even more value.

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Paul Falcone's Hiring And Firing Question And Answer Book tells how best to attract, interview and select candidates for critical jobs. HR professionals in particular will find this is packed with issues of management responsibilities which carefully identifies potential problems and their solutions.

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More hopeful than the Greeks: Native American star myths.......2005-07-08

Dorcas Miller's book is a gateway into our North American sky. I have already given my first copy to a scout leader. Her organization is superb: sky-watchers can pick a star or constellation and use the reference guide to access all its stories; ethnographers can follow the chapter organization by region and tribe. I will annotate her lists as I add other sources and tales.

Miller starts with the conventional Greek constellations that still map our sky for professional astronomers, providing myth summaries and seasonal sky maps. Her stick figures of these constellations are a delight and I copy their details onto the daily sky charts from the internet.

Both the Greeks and our First Peoples filled their skies with peoples and animals. Only a few identities, such as bear and dog, straddle both hemispheres. Greek heroes and heroines may be banished forever to the sky by the action of the gods as punishment, or placed by a friendly god to protect them from the angered one. Animals and humans are often antagonists. I can't think of a creation myth. The dead didn't go there.

Our First Peoples connection with the sky seems ongoing and personal- get lost and you may wander into it. Die and you may walk up the Milky Way, past guides and obstacles. Suffer and you may find an opening to the sky or a rescuer who will take you into it; you may be homesick, come and go, but finally choose the sky. If you navigate by the stars, why not? It may be a refuge. The myths feel contemporary, the characters often ordinary, and creation feels recent. The animals may be small and hungry, brave or lazy.

Miller provides the myth texts as she finds them, supplementing with discussion and drawings- maps of their known or probable stars and historic diagrams such as rock art that may be relevant. The bibliography is broad. This book will be a good anchor for collecting other North American books coming into print or reprint. `

a well-rounded presentation of North American star lore.......2005-02-18

Curious about the stories that different Native American peoples told about the stars? Dorcas Miller's "Stars of the First People" will go a long way towards satisfying your curiosity. Focusing on the peoples of North America, she has pulled together a robust collection of tales and star lore and grouped them by region. Plentiful sketches, star maps, and charts accompany the text to provide a visual reinforcement of the material contained in the stories.

In addition to the star lore, Dorcas has also included a decent amount of background information on the individual tribes to help the reader better understand the context of the star stories. In the back of the book you'll find an extensive set of notes and bibliographic references for those interested in further reading on this subject.

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Well-written book with information hard to find elsewhere.......2000-05-14

This is one of the most complete set of Native American star legends that I have seen. The author first reviews the standard Greek and Roman myths that have given us our constellation names. For each region of North America, he devotes an entire chapter to star legends from indigenous people that live in that region. At the end of each chapter he lists standard constellations and groups and the Native American legends behind each, and at the end of the book he provides an overall listing. Some interesting similarities come out - for example, the Big Dipper is a bear in standard Greek and Roman and in many Native American myths, and Sirius is a dog or wolf star in standard and in Native American myths. The stories are well written and can be used anywhere where storytelling is called for - for example, to groups of children. For a good summary of Native American myths, look to this volume. I just wish there was a similar compendium of ALL the world's indigenous star myths.

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A jewel of a book.......2007-09-23

I've read several books by Tariq Ali. I've read this one through several times. Ali is one of my favorite authors because of his perspective. None of the assumptions of US/Western cultural or political supremacy which permeate most histories written by Western intellectuals of either Left or Right are present in his writing. After reading this book I was left with the impression that if the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz junta had had any understanding of the history of Iraq the never would have invaded.

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As is detailed in this book, the resistance to occupation and colonization has a long history in Iraq.

Tariq Ali is a fantastic writer.......2005-04-04

"Bush in Babylon - The Recolonisation of Iraq" is indeed, as the Rome Manifesto called it, "A Precious Jewel of a book"

When searching for this book, I wanted a point of view that was not only critical of US foreign policy but critical from a non-Western point of view. It is truly eye-opening, agree with him or not, to read from an author who is not completely and fundamentally in the belief that the Western powers are just simply "Do gooders" that every once in a while, "Make a mistake."

Tariq Ali gives us a history of Iraq that destorys streotypes and our own (our meaning most Americans, myself included) ignorance on the rich history of this region of the world. It was not, as streotype would have you believe, a land of passive citizens living more or less happily under totalitarian rule. The reality of course, is something quite different. Ali gives us a history of rebellion, martyrs, and revolutionaries that nearly overthrew the corrupt, semi-colonial regime if not for a fatal error in allying with the secular Baaths.

Ali also, in a style both stylish and poetic, as well as powerfully dissident, completely disposes of the "jackals" and their arguments for war in Iraq. This war was about oil, control of natural resources BUT also, about imperial hegemony and asserting US control of a strategically crucial region of the world. And as for this "concern of human rights", the US government cares as much about human rights in Iraq as it did in the 80s and in Saudi Arabia today. (Just curious, but for the neo-cons and reactionaries, what's the excuse now for supporting this brutal dictatorship in Saudi Arabia? In Iraq, the excuse was "It's a Cold War man! Lesser of two Evils! Blah Blah Blah"...OK, so what's the excuse now? No Cold War, No Soviet Union, yet we still back this regime to the tilt. What are the apologists saying this time I wonder.)

Tariq Ali has written a very important, extremely well-written and most valuable book that not only gives us an important history of Iraq and the Middle East that we ought not forget, but also a highly critical (and highly entertaining) critique of US foreign policy. Ali's passion for humanity is moving and his contempt for fundamentalisms; both in the Middle East and in the West, is equally as essential. Well worth your time.

Good Man - Great Thought- Value-for-Money Reading.......2005-02-18

Kudos to Tariq Ali. He is excellent in his thought and gives us a great deal of insight into the sinister plans of the neo-cons who are ruling the White-house. How they have taken on the European leaders into their fold, how they have fooled the Western Junta, the common man.

Highly recommended reading. Good, fresh outlook. Away from the daily drum-beating of US media.

First rate stuff.......2005-02-03

The British imposed "protectorate" on Iraq after World War one, writes Tariq Ali, greatly transformed the country. The British deregulated land ownership and it inevitably fell into the hands of the richest Iraqis.The British brutally suppressed native uprisings, including using poison gas. In order to keep Iraq weak,restricting its access to the Persian Gulf, the British the British created Kuwait, installing its brutal and corrupt clients, the Al Sabah family. The British took all the oil.

British intelligence called its client regime running Iraq "an oligarchy of racketeers." In 1948, the regime made an agreement to continue British economic and military domination of the country. This set off a nationwide uprising, culminating in a Tiananmen Square style massacre on a bridge in Baghdad.

Civil liberties were restricted most of the time. In 1954, the much despised Prime Minister Nuri Al Said held legislative elections most of whose seats were only contested by single pro-government candidates. This new parliament then rubber stamped Nuri's new laws which severely restricted free speech. After a July 1958 coup, the revolutionary regime of Abdul Karen Qassem launched a campaign of social welfare and empowered labor.. He placed the communists in a coalition government in a subordinate position to himself. The Iraqi commies were instructed by the Russians not to seize on their mass base to seize power so as not to upset Nasser. In 1948, writes Ali, Iraq's commies were the only in the Arab world not to follow the Soviets in supporting the creation of Israel.
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he Ba'ath in February 1963 launched a coup. King Hussein--who often made use of CIA protection and such foreign mercenaries as the Pakistanis led by General Zia the future Pakistani dictator and instigator of Wahabbi terror sects who helped the King slaughter Palestinians in 1970, Ali observes-- told Mohammed Heikal in an interview that the Ba'ath's slaughter after the coup was augmented by CIA supplied lists of suspected communists. Ahmed Hassan Al Bakr seemingly admitted later that the CIA backed the coup.. Later in 1963, a weird Ba'ath congress passed a sort of anarchist platform and was disbanded violently on the initiative of Michel Aflaq. The Ba'ath were out of power for a few years. In 1972, the commies joined a coalition government with the Ba'ath, which at this point had close relations with the Soviet Block, but they, the Ba'ath continued to arrest and torture communists.. Ali tells the interesting story of Khalid Ahmed Zaki, who was part of a more libertarian splinter faction of the Iraqi commies.

Our soldiers, writes Ali, have been blowing up homes and other buildings of suspected "terrorists"--. probably often folks merely exercising their legitimate right to engage the military force occupying their country-- holding their families for ransom and placing barbed wire around villages to confine unrest. Of course, death squads seem about to be introduced in Sunni areas. Mr. Negroponte the U.S. pro-consul has plenty of experience with from his days in Honduras.. Ali writes sardonically that the goons of Narender Modi, the director of the anti-Muslim slaughter in the Indian state of Gujarat in 2002,, could perhaps be offered by the BJP for service to commit the worst necessary atrocities.

Ali writes that the U.S. subjugation of the Philippines, 1898-1902, killed 20,000 Filipinos , then another 200,000 died from disease and famine. Expropriated land from the Catholic Church was distributed to a small pro-U.S. element who formed an oligarchy that relentlessly exploits the Filipino masses to this day. Ali writes that Filipinos are a large part of the menial labor being imported to Iraq to work on U.S. bases. In the same spirit a few years after the U.S. colonized the Philippines, Imperial Germany exterminated about 60,000 of 80,000 of the Herero people in SW Africa. The U.S., engaged in widespread chemical warfare in South Vietnam...., supported Suharto, dumped Depleted Uranium all over Iraq, causing cancer outbreaks. It gave Saddam material to make WMD's in the 80's and thought he was a swell fellow until 1990.

The final postscript to the paperback edition is devoted to the born again imperialist C. Hitchens, who wrote back in 1991 that Bush Sr. and his lieutenants should be tried for war crimes. The bombing destroyed "the web of water, electricity and sewage lines" that held Iraq together. Iraq became afflicted by mass epidemics and famine

There has been an election in Iraq. It has taken place in the middle of such U.S. atrocities as the destructive invasion of the Abu Hanifa mosque and war crimes as the emptying of the Fallujah hospitals because they were giving out info of civilian deaths from U.S. crimes. Another problem was that apparently some Iraqis were threatened with cutoff of their food rations if they didn't vote. Another was that in many areas turnout was low, contrary to official proclomoations. Whether it is the former Ba'ath goon Allawi or someone more independent, Ali writes that Iraq is envisioned by the U.S. to be locked into the economic structure of being the most privatized and free flowing place for capital on earth. It is such a formula that has caused such horrific disaster in the third world. And the U.S. military will probably not leave unless forced to. Ali notes that the continuing U.S. propping up of Mubarack and the Saudis and Yemenis, and so on. makes one question if the U.S. is really going to tolerate genuine democracy in Iraq.

I think Ali probably could have eliminated the first few chapters of the book......He calls for the Iraqi resistance to become something like the movements that have sprung up across Latin America. That is quite a long shot at the moment. The best hope for Iraq at the moment seems to rest around the grassroots movement around Sistani which pressued the U.S. to hold the election that it, the U.S. desperately tried to avoid.

Very political poetry and history with dirty jokes.......2004-09-03

This book isn't really about either George Bush, and there is no listing in the index for Babylon, which seems to have a meaning long established for Bible readers who have not become so fundamentalist that they imagine it was simply a city with an empire. This book was written a year ago, but there has been so little change in what Bush stands for in the last year that the message seems to be substantiated by every insurrectionary incident in the interim. The author has a point of view that should be familiar to anyone who has been paying attention to peace movements since World War Two and atomic diplomacy burst upon the scene in the 20th century. History is much older than the people who are now alive, and Tariq Ali seems to be dropping way back to 1823 to quote a letter by Heinrich Heine about `the hard times that are sure to come.' (p. 18). Some great poets have been concerned about their rulers, and the primary case is Osip Mandelstam, whose poem about Stalin before World War Two has still not been forgotten. The third footnote in this book relates how Stalin called the poet Boris Pasternak on the phone to ask about Osip, and suggests that Pasternak only survived because long before "he had praised one of the Georgian poets -- Joseph Djugashvili (Stalin's real name) -- as showing considerable promise. Another example, perhaps, of the premonitory power that exists in great poets." (p. 20, n. 3).

That might seem creepy to some readers, and I might seem unfair in using the word *creepy* mainly in my reviews of some works of Andy Warhol, but this book has a lot more quirks that might by described as such. If you try to look up *Mandelstam* in the index, under Makiya, Kanaan it just has "Osip 20" as if this book already knew which great poet should appear before Marcos, Ferdinand. Trying to read the entry for "Bush, George Sr. 135-7" is not all about the book, A WORLD TRANSFORMED by George Bush and Brent Scowcroft. The book is only in footnote 79 found at the bottom of pages 135 and 137, while page 136 has a picture at the top and 14 lines from Tony Harrison's poem:

I saw the charred Iraqi lean
towards me from bomb-blasted screen,

his windscreen wiper like a pen
ready to write down thoughts for men,

his windscreen wiper like a quill
he's reaching for to make his will.

This poem was printed in the `Guardian' and was posted on the internet when I checked this afternoon, and it is considerably longer than what is posted here or printed in this book. Though footnote 79 is about the first President Bush's book, Tariq Ali suggested reading that as an `account of how old friendships and clan loyalties determine top appointments in the United States, confirming Hanna Batatu's remark that the Syrian Ba'athists would not be out of place in US politics.' Footnote 80 on the same page about Blair `meeting with four senior journalists from the Guardian after the 2003 war' might be considered worse than creepy if you can figure out what it means.

I always find things that I can't say more exciting than whatever you might have expected to hear in church, so looking at the cities on the maps in Iraq inside the front cover, and also in Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan inside the back cover, I noticed that none of them was called a holy city on these maps. I see articles from several newspapers on the internet, and would not want to blame any particular paper, but it seems to me I just read some account of someone "in the holy city of Karbala." On the map in this book, Karbala and Hillah are closer to Babylon than Ramadi, Fallujah, Baghdad, Najah, or Tikrit, but I was at a loss on how any American paper knows a holy city from any other place that far from home. I did not expect to find any mention of holy cities in early accounts of the war, as this is something which I only started to worry about recently, but I did find some evidence that this author might have a clue or two about that. At the beginning of Chapter 3, An Oligarchy of Racketeers, holy cities are first mentioned in an account of the domination of the Arab world by the Ottoman empire.

` . . . the victory of the Turkish artillery and muskets over the badly equipped and poorly led army of the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, following which the holy cities of Mecca and Medina became part of the Empire . . . The preachers were the first to change sides and record their loyalty to the new order. The week after the city fell, the Friday prayers in all of Cairo's mosques began thus:

"O Lord! Uphold the Sultan, son of the sultan, ruler over both lands and the two seas, conqueror of both hosts, monarch of the two Iraqs, minister of the two Holy Cities, the victorious Sultan Selim Shah. . . ." ' (p. 43).

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I definitely agree with what this book says about sanctions, even if it might overstate `a water purification crisis and increase the country's death rate. This was openly discussed within the Clinton administration and approved.' (p. 140). Water in Sadr City is probably worse now than what is described in this book.

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A provocative collective reflection on primatology and its relations to broader cultural, historical, and social issues, Primate Encounters brings together both scientists and those who study them to investigate precisely what kind of science primatology is.

"[A] fascinating study . . . on how and why ideas about primate society have changed. The volume consists of dialogues among scientists from different disciplines, national traditions, scientific culture, generations, standpoints, and genders. . . . A wonderful reflection on the discipline of primatology and on science in general."—Science Books and Films

"Primate Encounters should be required reading for anyone about to embark on a career in the field. But it equally valuable for its miscellany of opinions, recollections and off-the-cuff remarks, as well as for its thoughtful observations, 'outrageous ravings' and humour (from the elders in the field). It gives us a glimpse of how scientists work together to understand their place in the world."—Deborah L. Mazolillo, Times Literary Supplement

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The primary audience for this report is managers involved with the highest levels of the strategic planning process, and consultants who help their clients with this task. The user will not only benefit from the hundreds of hours that went into the methodology and its application, but also from its alternative perspective on strategic planning in Italy.

This report helps executives evaluate strategic investment and entry alternatives in Italy. In order to evaluate Italy, Icon Group International, Inc. draws on a methodology developed by Professor Philip Parker at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. The methodology decomposes a country's strategic potential along two key dimensions: (1) latent demand, and (2) accessibility. A country may have very high latent demand, yet have low accessibility, making it a less attractive market than many smaller potential countries having higher levels of accessibility.

This report provides a strategic profile of Italy along these lines. Throughout the discussion, literally hundreds of statistics on Italy are benchmarked against regional and global averages. The reader can thus quickly understand where Italy fits into the regional and global perspective. The report first investigates the economic fundamentals affecting Italy. These fundamentals are the source for Italy's latent demand. Then, the subsequent chapters detail Italy's accessibility. This evaluation covers a number of entry alternatives, including export strategies, and local direct investment strategies. If a firm decides to have a local presence in Italy, this requires a strategic understanding of local business conditions. The conditions investigated in this report include local marketing (advertising, distribution, pricing issues) and entry strategies (opening an office, joint venturing, etc.), as well as human resources management (labor laws, costs, regulations). Because local presence can increase...

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