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A must for organizations making the transition to team-based

Teaming Up: Making the Transition to a Self-Directed Team-Based Organization (McGraw-Hill Training Series)

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Plenty of books will tell you why self-directed teams are good for businesses and the people in them. But very few also show how to set teamwork into motion, day by day and year by year. If you're seeking that "second-generation" level of guidance - how-to, detailed, based on struggles and successes at organizations just like yours - look no further than Teaming Up. Dr. Darrel Ray has front-line experience in helping teams grow at manufacturing and service companies, government and social service agencies, Fortune 500 giants, and small firms. His approach has been proven to work in union and non-union environments, and the payoffs have been measurable: higher morale, better use of resources, and dramatic positive impact on bottomline profit.

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A must for organizations making the transition to team-based.......1998-09-21

Dr Ray takes you on a step-by-step journey towards a successful transition to Self-Directed teams. Everything from Whats to Whys, Designing a system for success, etc. There are alot of good illustrations of potential issues and tangible benefits of a team-based culture.

I have purchased this book for my staff to be used as a reference text while making this journey.

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Teaming Up: Making the Transition to a Self-Directed Team-Based Organization (McGraw-Hill Training Series)
Howard Bronstein Darrel Ray
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Obtaining Appointment of a Receiver (And Monitoring the Receivership): Winter, 1993, Action Guide (Ceb Action Guide)
Edythe L. Bronston
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Obtaining appointment of a receiver and monitoring the receivership: Here's how and when to do it (CEB action guide)
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Until recently, minor planet name citations were scattered in the astronomical literature, and the origin of many names remained obscure. The IAU Commission 20 in 1988 established a study group to elucidate the meanings of asteroid names. Lateron the author continued in collecting and indexing all new relevant data. In addition to being of practical value for identification purposes, the collection provides a most interesting historical insight into the work of those astronomers who over two centuries vested their affinities in a rich and colourful variety of ingenious names, from heavenly goddesses to more prosaic constructions. This third, revised and enlarged edition comprises about 20% more information than was provided with the first one of 1992.

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A waste of time.......2002-03-03

Asteroids are being numbered at a rate of thousands per month now. It is simply too costly to spend [money] in a book that become out dated the minute it was printed.

The book also contain a more updated CD but it contain so much error. This book is a waste of time.

Nothing else like it, but..........2001-07-14

This edition has some truly serious typos -- it omits entire lines here and there! I have a previous edition (the Second) which includes the omitted lines, and which is, overall, a much nicer book -- but, alas, the new edition was essential since so many new asteroids have been found. This edition (the Fourth) has almost twice the number of asteroids (10,666) as are in the Second (5,655), although many of the newer ones are still unnamed. It may well be the last one-volume edition, as more asteroids are being found all the time; or maybe they will go entirely to CD-ROM. The CD-ROM that is included with this book is just the book on CD-ROM, and its design is somewhat lacking. It has a "lite" version which is fairly easily usable (although if you stop a search in the middle, you may have to close the program and re-open it) and a full version, which requires you to download additional software from an internet website in order to use it. It's helpful that the CD has a search feature, so you can search the text of the whole book, but the search feature does not add anything else to the basic text-searching capability -- that is, it doesn't include categories or any other ways to search. For example, if you wanted to find all the asteroids named after musicians, and put "musician" into the search engine, you would miss Segovia, since the text only has "guitarist", and many other musicians for similar reasons; this limitation holds true for all types of searches. If you want a dictionary of minor planet names, this is probably your only choice, and I am glad it exists, and would buy it again -- it is really a great reference, and fascinating for general browsing as well as for astronomical purposes -- but it could definitely stand some improvements.

Dictionary of Minor Planet Names: Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003 - 2005

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Dictionary of Minor Planet Names: Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003 - 2005
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This Addendum to the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, fifth edition, which is the official reference for the field of the IAU, contains all newly published names from the period 2003-2005 as well as corrections and amendments to earlier editions. In total the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names now covers some 12000 named minor planets. It provides authoritative information about the basis for the rich and colorful variety of ingenious names, from heavenly goddesses to more prosaic constructions.

Dictionary of Minor Planet Names: Fifth Edition and Addendum 2003-2005

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The Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, fifth edition, is the official reference for the field of the IAU, which serves as the internationally recognised authority for assigning designations to celestial bodies and any surface features on them. The accelerating rate of the discovery of minor planets has not only made a new edition of this established compendium necessary but has also significantly altered its scope: this thoroughly revised edition, together with the Addendum for the years 2003 - 2005, concentrates on the approximately 12,000 minor planets that carry a name. It provides authoritative information about the basis for all names of minor planets. In addition to being of practical value for identification purposes, this collection provides a most interesting historical insight into the work of those astronomers who over two centuries vested their affinities in a rich and colorful variety of ingenious names, from heavenly goddesses to more prosaic constructions.

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Social scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians have adapted evolutionary theory for use in a variety of disciplines for several decades, but until now historians have lagged behind. In The Return of Science, several distinguished historians joi

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For the first time this subject, including many systems of interest in Condensed Matter Physics, is treated in an unified way. Complexity emerges as one of the main ingredients dictating the collective behaviour of many systems. Glassy systems constitute one of the most interesting fields of Condensed Matter Physics for which also a considerable amount of experimental data and industial applications have been collected during the last twenty years. Systems exhibiting glassy behaviour are for example: real glasses, spin glasses, vortex flasses in superconductors, protein folding, etc. In this book the reader can see how the present theoretical understanding of these subjects is based on similar techniques and approaches hopefully allowing to develop a unifying structure that underlies the physical mechanism.

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Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll is a gender-blurring, self-described loner whose family expects nothing of her. While her mother lies on the couch in a hypochondriac haze and her sister aspires to be on The Real World, Trisha struggles to find her own place among the neon signs, theme restaurants, and cookie-cutter chain stores of her hometown.

After being hired and abruptly fired from the most popular clothing shop at the local mall, Trisha befriends a chain-smoking misfit named Rose, and her life shifts into manic overdrive. A “postmillennial, class-adjusted My So-Called Life” (Publishers Weekly), Rose of No Man’s Land is brimming with snarky observations and soulful musings on contemporary teenage America.

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A Teenage Lesbian Romance.......2007-05-21

This young adult novel lacks the all-tied-up ending, much like real life. You'll love watching the teenage lesbian relationship evolve.

"After high school comes life. Don't ask me what I'm supposed to do with it.".......2007-04-29

Tea is spot-on at getting inside the head and life of fourteen-year-old Trisha, aimless, frustrated, and rather trashy resident of a decaying Massachusetts mill town. Her hypochondriac mother never leaves the sofa except to dig her welfare checks out of the mail, her relentlessly optimistic older sister is a graduated hairdresser whose goal is being selected by a reality TV show, and her view of the world is filtered through the local mall -- where, with the assistance of her sister's Olympics-level lies, she manages to get a job at the most popular teen clothing store. Until she's fired before lunch the first day. But all this is a character-establishing lead-in to Trisha's discovery of Rose, a scrawny, fearless, adventuresome girl with a lesbian mother and a cigarette voice. The relationship between the two -- established within hours of their introduction and apparently played out before the next morning -- will have evangelical parents screaming to their local library about the "homosexual agenda," but, hey: This is life. The author also has an ear for sardonic description (a vodka/energy drink combo?) and an eye for painting character portraits that come to life. Don't worry about the putative morality these girls don't much subscribe to -- just enjoy the book. It's a messy, questing coming-of-age you won't soon forget.

Rose of No Man's Land.......2007-03-28

This was an excellent novel! Very unique writing style and point of view.

Why, Michelle Tea, why? .......2007-01-08

This book made me want to stab my eyes out. I read Valencia a few weeks ago, and was hoping for more of the fabulously insightful and beautiful descriptions ("Iris went through girls like a slash and burn farmer." How cool can you get?) that made it a good book. The drama of all of the sex and drugs and love was certainly exciting, but left alone, it would have been somewhat pointless. This is precisely why I do not understand why Michelle Tea would abandon her poet's voice to become a fourteen-year-old girl.

As a piece of YA fiction, this book is perhaps somewhat better than the rest because it's different. It's not neat and tidy (because since when is reality?), and it doesn't perpetuate all the gender roles and heterosexist crap that so thickly pervade teen pop culture. It's nice to hear from someone other than a straight, feminine middle-class white girl for once.

PS: I don't even believe the person who wrote the official Booklist review even read the book (or Valencia, for that matter). Some of those statements about the plot are flat-out wrong. But now I'm just being picky.

Nice Read.......2007-01-02

So I wasn't planning to read another Michelle Tea book after Valencia, but it was a Christmas gift and I read this in about three days. I liked it, but it was kind of awkward. The word "wicked" as in "very" is thrown around way too much, which is kind of annoying, and Michelle Tea did this thing that I don't really understand if it was supposed to be some kind of irony or what, but she described all these stores in the story, without using their real names. Hot Topic became Dark Subject or something like that, and Jack in the Box became Clown in a Box. It was just kind of weird. It was a fun read though, right up to the amusing, repeated use of the name of the store where the main character got a job for an afternoon, called Ohmigod! The whole story takes place over a couple days, mostly one, though, where Trisha (main x-ter) meets this weird little freak named Rose and they have a bit of an adventure with crystal meth and booze and all female make out sessions. It's discovery for Trisha and entertainment for the reader, but at the end of the book, I'm kind of like "Ohmigod! What was that? Is there a point to this story? Does there need to be? What's the deal?" Like I said, I had fun reading it, but just like Valencia, I have mixed feelings about it and its worthiness. I just wonder, if Michelle Tea weren't sort of famous in this particular region of the literary world, would this story have even gotten published? I don't want to be the nitpicky bitch about her writing, but I couldn't help but be totally distracted by some of the typos and spelling errors that were just really bad and "wicked" obvious. Who edited this thing? With all due respect, I kind of wished I had borrowed it from the library, since there's only so much room on my bookcase. I do like Michelle as a writer and enjoyed this story, but I think she could have put more thought into this book and the details I mentioned.

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The Roses of No Man's Land
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Mahatma Gandhi: His Own Story

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Gandhi's long-time friend and collaborator edited and annotated Gandhi's autobiography and many of his writings.

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"I was happy not to be a criminal in 1967.".......2004-07-15

Author Paul Bailey's introduction to "Three Queer Lives" focuses on life as a homosexual in Britain before 1967. Prior to 1967, homosexuality was a crime, and Bailey's subjects--Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacobs, and Arthur Marshall led openly homosexual lives during this period. Barnes and Jacobs both died before 1967, so they did not live to see themselves 'de-criminalized'. The last subject--Arthur Marshall died in 1989.

Fred Barnes was the son of a butcher, but he had no interest in joining his father in the family business. Fred's childhood love of dressing up and acting roles for his mother developed into a desire to go onto the stage. Fred Barnes was a music hall and pantomime success. He led a flamboyant lifestyle, and made no attempts to hide his homosexuality. One of his favourite activities was to go and watch the naval, military and aviation exercises that were held annually at the Olympia Stadium in London. Barnes was ruled "a menace to His Majesty's fighting forces" and he wasn't supposed to be near the place. There's a hilarious description of Barnes tenaciously sneaking into the event, and sailors warning him when capture was imminent. Barnes was a very colourful character whose life was ultimately marred by personal tragedy connected to his homosexuality.

The section on Arthur Marshall seems dull in comparison to the flamboyance and extroverted lifestyle of Barnes. But by far the best and the meatiest section of the book concerns Naomi Jacob.

Jacob was a remarkable woman who led a full and fascinating life. The author met her once while he was working in a bookshop, and he mistook her for J.B Priestly--thanks to her masculine attire and deep voice. Jacob began her working life as a teacher, but also went onto the stage, served as a personal secretary and later became a prolific author. Jacob claimed that she served as a seaman--successfully passing as a male in WWI. She also served in the Women's Legion in WWI, until a nasty case of trench foot sent her to the hospital. She was a suffragette, and upon two occasions her domestic arrangements involved a menage a trois with two other women. She won the Eichelberger Prize (1935) for "services to humanity", but when Jacob learned she shared the prize with Adolf Hilter for "Mein Kampf", she refused it. She "barged her way through the Second World War" and volunteered for numerous organisations. She survived 2 bouts of tuberculosis and a struggle with malaria. By the end of Jacob's biography, I was both impressed by the sheer force of her personality, and amused by her idiosyncrasies (she lectured that all Restoration playwrights were "smutty"). What a shame her name seems so little known.

"Three Queer Lives" delivers exactly what its title promises--a glimpse into the lives of three very different people who all chose to live openly as homosexuals when it was illegal to do so. Barnes was flamboyant, and ultimately self-destructive. Marshall was positively tame in comparison. The section on Marshall is the weakest and driest of the three. Naomi Jacob's life story is phenomenal, and I laughed out loud at some of the episodes. "Three Queer Lives" is worth reading for Jacob's story alone--displacedhuman

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Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Naomi Jacob, Fred Barnes, and Arthur Marshall
Paul Bailey
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