Geography and Energy: Commercial Energy Systems and National Policy

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In Emotional Capital, Thomson illustrates the real-life impact of a fired-up workforce on financial performance and shows how to manage and leverage knowledge and emotion to drive positive change and lasting business success.

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This study is a new breath for the 21th century management........1999-04-27

This brillant study is a new breath for the 21th century management. As stated by Thomson "in the next millennium, emotional capital will be an asset on the balance of sheet of any major business. Business leaders will be working to a blueprint for their organizations that will go well beyond the focus on traditional assets. They will be exploring new territory-how to build upon two critical and interrelated assets, knowledge(intellectual capital) and emotions(emotional capital)".

In this study, Thomson discusses and explains some vital issues :

* the difference between intellectual and emotional capital,

* elements of emotional capital, inside and out,

* how organizations are using personality as a sustainable competitive advantage,

* the past, present and future of emotional capital : a timeline,

* the emotional contract between organizations and employees,

* the different types of models involved in stakeholder relationship,

* the six stages of marketing and communication processes called "the six Is",

* the link between "the six Is" and emotional capital,

* how the culture of a business is created and sustained by process and language,

* the new financial model-from volume to value to vision.

This visionary approach is a must reading for all business leaders (in particularly for all HR managers who don't like to play "policy police" and "regulatory watchdog" role in the next millennium).

A brief critique of this study see "Delivering On the Promise/Brian Friedman".

Highly recommended.

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This book provides an introduction to the mission design of communication satellites. There are many excellent books on orbit mechanics and astrodynamics, but until now there has been no single work that explains the ins and outs of mission design, and explains why things are done the way they are done as well as how they are done. The book will be of interest not only to practising mission analysts, but also to spacecraft systems engineers, spacecraft project managers and to those who wish to employ the unique attributes of geosynchronous spacecraft for useful purposes. At last, an explanation of the ins and outs of mission design is offered in a clear and concise matter. The self-contained reference book utilizes analytical details and illustrations to explain the broad aspects of design and mission operations. This unique approach makes it easier for you to assimilate the necessary information to analyze, plan, and carry out a geosynchronous mission from launch, through orbit transfer and station acquisition, to station-keeping and on-orbit operations. This book will be a useful reference for practising mission analysts, spacecraft systems engineers, project managers and others with a practical interest in the uniqiue attributes of geosynchronous spacecraft.

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During the last years, the role of titanium and zirconium in organic synthesis has dramatically increased and
nowadays, no synthetic chemist can afford to be without a sound knowledge of this fascinating organometal chemistry.
This unique book, edited by Ilan Marek, thus summarizes the numerous applications and
developments of these two group 4 early transition metal complexes.
A plethora of internationally renowned experts and leading scientists in this field cover all the significant aspects of this increasingly important
part of organic chemistry and bring the reader up to date.
A particularly attractive and useful feature is the inclusion of typical experimental procedures, chosen for broad utility and application.
This comprehensive demonstrates the diversity and the applications of these important compounds and is a must-have for all chemists working in organometallic or synthetic organic chemistry.

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The strength of PID control lies in its simplicity, lucid meaning, and clear effect. Although PID control is a widely accepted method for controlling mechanical systems it is hard to find a book on PID control for mechanical systems. This monograph discusses thoroughly the theoretical bases, e.g., optimality of PID control, performance tuning rules, automatic performance tuning method, and output feedback PID control for mechanical control systems - clearly presenting the characteristics and theory of mechanical control systems.

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Panton di Villa was a ten year old British boy, who wanted to write an on-line diary (or blog) like some of his friends. As it happened, that was too much effort, so he looked for a book publisher instead. In Doctor Mooze you can see exactly what it is like to be a ten year old in England these days, where designer labels, drugs, sex and violence are the norm and the PS2 the last word in reality. This book isn't fiction and although written by a young boy is very definitely not one for the kids

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Doctor Mooze
Erik Ryman
Manufacturer: Bluechrome Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1906061041

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An esteemed planter, politician, and military leader influential in the affairs of both South Carolina and Texas, James Hamilton (1786-1857) so declined in reputation during the last twenty years of his life that his home state refused to acknowledge him when he died. Robert Tinkler's superb, first-published biography of Hamilton conveys the enormous drama, dignity, and pathos that marked Hamilton's pursuit of the greatness achieved by his prominent Revolutionary-era forebears and his subsequent profound reversal brought on by debt.

While a member of Congress during the 1820s, Hamilton came to champion states' interests over a strong central national government. As governor of South Carolina, 1830-1832, he reached the pinnacle of his political and social glory when he presided over the Nullification Crisis of 1832. Hamilton's undoing began with a series of ill-advised cotton speculations that left him deeply and very publicly in arrears by 1839. He desperately sought relief—even supporting the Compromise of 1850 in hopes of monetary benefit, while alienating his old allies in the process. To his fellow southerners, Hamilton became a scourge and embarrassment as one who compromised his political beliefs because of fiscal distress.

Perhaps even more than his political apostasy, Hamilton's unforgivable offense may have been to remind planters of their own struggles with chronic debt. Tinkler's extraordinary research into both Hamilton's life and the dynamics of reputation and debt in the antebellum South suggests that many contemporaries simply wished to forget Hamilton's plight so as to avoid facing their own financial reality. Possessing the weight of tragedy, James Hamilton of South Carolina documents a powerful man's achievements and the events and personal flaws that led to his fall.

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James Hamilton of South Carolina.(Book Review) : An article from: Journal of Southern History
Manisha Sinha
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

South Carolina | State & Local | United States | Americas | History | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000CEXK9M
Release Date: 2005-11-23

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2005. The length of the article is 647 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: James Hamilton of South Carolina.(Book Review)
Author: Manisha Sinha
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 71 Issue: 4 Page: 897(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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The introductory address of Governor Hamilton,: At the first meeting of the Charleston State Rights and Free Trade Association of South-Carolina, held at Lege's Long-Room, on August 1, 1831

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The introductory address of Governor Hamilton,: At the first meeting of the Charleston State Rights and Free Trade Association of South-Carolina, held at Lege's Long-Room, on August 1, 1831
James Hamilton
Manufacturer: The Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008ARR1W

JAMES HAMILTON OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Southern Biography Series

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JAMES HAMILTON OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Southern Biography Series
Robert. Tinkler
Manufacturer: Louisiana State Univ. Press,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000TOCQ18

James W. Grimes versus the Southrons: Being some account of the controversy between Mr. James W. Grimes of Iowa and Senator Andrew P. Butler of South Carolina and Mr. Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia

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James W. Grimes versus the Southrons: Being some account of the controversy between Mr. James W. Grimes of Iowa and Senator Andrew P. Butler of South Carolina and Mr. Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia
F. I Herriott
Manufacturer: s.n
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Letter, 1831 Mar. 8, Clarkesville, Habersham County, G[eorgi]a [to James] Hamilton, [Jr.], Gov[ernor of South Carolina]

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Letter, 1831 Mar. 8, Clarkesville, Habersham County, G[eorgi]a [to James] Hamilton, [Jr.], Gov[ernor of South Carolina]
Turner H Trippe
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

The Roberts-Smith book: The Roberts and Smith families of upcountry South Carolina, Bedford County, Tennessee, Coffee County, Tennessee, Hamilton County, Tennessee, and Boone County, Arkansas

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The Roberts-Smith book: The Roberts and Smith families of upcountry South Carolina, Bedford County, Tennessee, Coffee County, Tennessee, Hamilton County, Tennessee, and Boone County, Arkansas
James A Turbett
Manufacturer: J.A. Turbett
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Speech of James Hamilton, Jr. of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives, February 5, 1827, on the abuses of a government press

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Speech of James Hamilton, Jr. of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives, February 5, 1827, on the abuses of a government press
James Hamilton
Manufacturer: s.n
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Speech of Mr. Hamilton, of South Carolina, on the Panama mission,: Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 6, 1826

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Speech of Mr. Hamilton, of South Carolina, on the Panama mission,: Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 6, 1826
James Hamilton
Manufacturer: Printed at the Office of the United States' Telegraph
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Great River runner's companion book

White water fun

heroes of the soul

Answers to an old story....

INSPIRING

The Doing of the Thing: The Brief, Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom
Vince Welch , Cort Conley , and Brad Dimock
Manufacturer: Fretwater Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1892327074

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Biography of America's great river runner, Buzz Holmstrom: the first to run the Green and Colorado Rivers alone in 1937. Born in the coastal logging communities of coastal Oregon, Holmstrom built his own wooden boats and soloed several of the country's great whitewater rivers. He died mysteriously on the Grande Ronde River at age 37.

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Great River runner's companion book.......2007-10-01

The legendary Buzz Holmstrom was a more complex figure than I knew. His journal entries express the feeling of all who really love rivers and the famous entry that includes "the doing of the thing" should be read on every river trip.
This is the second Brad Dimock book I've read (the other on Bert Loper) and I am impressed with not only his skill as a writer, but his careful research. His handling of the tragic end to Buzz Holmstrom's life was that of a journalist with a sense of humanity.
I've already loaned this book to friends.

White water fun.......2007-01-09

If you like white water rafting, this is a wonderful book about the birth of white water fun.

heroes of the soul.......2005-08-19

Even today, with rescue not so far away, few of us would have the nerve to go down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon alone, so imagine the nerve it took when Buzz was totally alone, with no chance of help if he made a mistake. But the most amazing thing about Buzz was that in the midst of an adventure that would leave most people totally preoccupied with survival, Buzz had the soul power to look for and see the poetry in the river and the canyon. Merely knowing how to survive can be much easier than knowing how to live.

Answers to an old story...........2002-09-18

I remember years ago when I was a kid a story my father told me about an amazing river rafter and boat builder. My Dad grew up in Coquille and went to school with Buzz's younger brother. His story always ended with how Buzz had been on a rafting trip in eastern Oregon and went off and committed suicide. I could never understand how someone who had done the amazing things he did could end his life on that note. I thought about that story many times over the years and always wished I knew more. This book is incredibly well researched and documented. Even though many questions were answered, many more were raised. Such was the enigma that was Buzz Holmstrom.

INSPIRING.......2001-01-02

Well-written and researched. But the thing that shines through is Buzz and his strong spirit - the writers were careful to be sure this was HIS book, not theirs, which is how it should be. A true boatman's boatman, Buzz was maybe born too soon - it seems the world wasn't quite ready for his singular love of the rivers and nature. This book won't disappoint you - what will disappoint you after reading it is that Buzz is gone.

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The Dictionary of Canadian Biography calls this work 'probably the greatest Canadian biography yet published in English.' Donald Creighton's two-volume account of Canada's first Prime Minister was originally published in the 1950s as 'John A. Macdonald: The Young Lion' (1952) and 'John A. Macdonald: The Old Chieftain' (1955). Each of the volumes won a Governor General's Literary Award. Creighton's rare combination of rigorous scholarship, magnificent literary style, and romantic and heroic vision gives this work extraordinary power and wide appeal.

Sir John A. Macdonald's flamboyant personality dominated Canadian public life from the years preceding Confederation to the end of the nineteenth century, and the political structures and national policies which developed under his leadership continue to shape public issues today. Creighton's first volume takes Macdonald from his childhood and early years as a young lawyer in Kingston, Ontario, through his swift rise in political life to positions of influence, to the great achievement of uniting the colonies of British North America in Confederation. The second volume traces Macdonald's often tumultuous subsequent career in the context of a growing and often recalcitrant nation. He was Prime Minister from 1867 to 1873 and then again from 1878 until his death in June, 1891. The spectacular and evocative epilogues with which Creighton concludes each volume are widely recognized as having a place among the great passages of literary prose.

P. B. Waite's introduction to this new one-volume republication provides an illuminating account of the impact that Creighton and his biography of Macdonald had on a whole generation of historians and readers.

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Interesting and easily readable, but quite dated now........2000-01-07

I am rather surprised to be the first person to review this book, since Donald Creighton's biography of John A. Macdonald is considered a classic in Canadian history. The book was first published in two parts, in 1952 and 1955, and both parts won the Governor General's award for these two years. At that time its topic was relatively new, since there had been only a few detailed biographies on Macdonald written in the half century before Creighton's (such as the one written by sir Joseph Pope, Macdonald's literary executor, who had at that time control over Macdonald's papers -- which were donated to the Public Archives of Canada in 1917) and even fewer books on the great politician have been written since Creighton's. But with all this new wealth of information now available to historians, Creighton was able to shed new light upon this famous Canadian statesman.

But Creighton's book is more than a conventional biography. It tries to make history come to life. Indeed, Creighton wrote Macdonald's biography in the shape of a novel, which means that the only quotations in the book are either from newspaper articles or from letters written by, to, or about John A. Macdonald. No secondary work is quoted in the entire book, even though it appears that Creighton read extensively on the subject before writing his book. The book includes endnotes, but it does not read like a conventional history book. The novel-like approach used by Creighton makes the book a pleasure to read. Creighton succeeds in making Canadian history interesting.

However, Creighton's book is also representative of its time, and representative of Creighton's personal beliefs. Creighton, who died in 1979, was known as a Canadian nationalist with strong anti-American tendencies. His choice of John A. Macdonald as a subject rather than, for example, William Lyon MacKenzie King (another famous Canadian Prime Minister), might be explained by the fact that Macdonald was himself a nationalist. Macdonald once declared: "A British subject I was born, a British subject I will die," and his famous National Policy, which favoured the development of the Canadian West and which introduced high tariffs on American goods, is still considered as one of the most nationalistic policies ever applied in Canada. Creighton, therefore, chose Macdonald as topic because of the similarities between their political positions. Therefore, Creighton is sympathetic to Macdonald throughout the book. Creighton's position regarding French-Canadian nationalism and Quebec separatism (he saw them as disruptive elements that weakened his beloved Canada against the United States) also had an impact on how the book was written, which is particularly evident when he writes about the two Metis rebellions in a rather unsympathetic way.

Also, the novel-like type of writing does have a disadvantage: it only allows the reader to know a single view on Macdonald. Historical books written in the conventional manner often include different positions on a single event, but in the case of Creighton's book, the narrative strength of the novel simply cannot include more than one version, since the sweeping narrative would otherwise be broken up by different views, and the book could consequently lose all of its appeal.

In summary, because the book has a clear bias in favour of Macdonald, and because it has not aged well (this style of writing is not used anymore by historians, because of the limitations it creates, the sacrifice of impartiality in favour of a continuous narrative form), I believe it does not deserve a full mark. On the other side, Creighton's book is interesting to read as an example of the historical research method of its time. And I must also admire Creighton's skill for making history come to life. We must thank him for his use of a writing style that makes Canadian history accessible to the larger public. And the caricatures by the Canadian cartoonist Bengough, that are present throughout the book, are an extra treat.

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John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician & The Old Chieftain
Donald Creighton
Manufacturer: Macmillan of Canada
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KH7ACY

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This book tells of a young David coming to age with sex, romance, relationships, and most of all keeping his hope. Through his eyes we expericence not only a life, but lessons about living gay and romantic. This is adventure of hope. Will he finally get what he wants?

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