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HardCover not PaperBack!.......2003-01-15

This ISBN is for HardCover (not PaperBack!)
ISBN: 0-7355-3545-0
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Work Careers brings together a stellar panel of experts from the fields of industrial and organizational psychology, counseling and clinical psychology, social psychology, organizational behavior, and human resource management. This volume offers a comprehensive exploration of how an individual's career unfolds from early childhood through retirement. Based on the most recent findings and current research, the volume also focuses on changes in the societal and organizational contexts of career development and reveals how context shapes and constrains individual career decisions.

Family Careers: Rethinking the Developmental Perspective

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Family Careers: Rethinking the Developmental Perspective
Joan Aldous
Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc
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"Joan Aldous does not just give us an update of her influential 1978 version of Family Careers but provides us with a rethinking of the whole approach. As a result we have available to us a new version of the family development approach for students and researchers. Students will particularly delight in Professor Aldous's clear exposition of ideas and research." --James M. White, Ph.D. University of British Columbia "This book lays out an agenda that may appear simple--but in reality is very complex--and then proceeds to do an extraordinarily good job of adhering to it. . . . Joan Aldous's personal examples and interview excerpts drawn from other sources are very good, adding some substance to the discussion that surrounds them. These are bound to be helpful for students." --Duane W. Crawford, Texas Tech University A unique contribution to its field, Family Careers is the first volume to examine the expectable changes in today's families from the time the family is formed until it is dissolved. No other book covers the broad variety of families in contemporary society using a consistent theoretical approach. Joan Aldous presents the developmental approach to studying contemporary families in a clear and understandable fashion. First she presents the concepts that distinguish family development, then she compares those with other theoretical perspectives. Drawing from a diverse array of families, she gives the reader a comprehensive picture of the shifts in patterns of family interaction over time as they are influenced by their social contexts of work and school. Throughout the book there are quotations, comments, and excerpts from letters to illustrate the family lives of individuals as they actually live them. This thought-provoking volume is sure to stimulate discussion, and is highly recommended for graduate and undergraduate students in family development, advanced family theory classes, and advanced family and marriage classes.

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What if I want to be a farmer but don't have much land?

Great Book for the small farmer or business person!!

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Metro Farm: The Guide to Growing for Big Profit on a Small Parcel of Land
Michael Olson
Manufacturer: Ts Books
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Binding: Paperback

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What if I want to be a farmer but don't have much land?.......2006-02-16

Then this book may just have the solution for your problem. Metrofarm is a one stop guide on the business aspects of owning your own micro-acrage farm, it deals in great depth with the very real financial and organizational aspects of running your farm as a business and not just a hobby.

Don't know anything about accounting, this book gives you a good look at the types of accounting best suited to agricultural pursuits as well as sound advice, "hire an accountant". There is so much to this book that I can't possibly cover all of it in a few paragraphs... suffice it to say that I've found it to be a helpful and well researched one-stop guide to answering questions about micro-farming.

Great Book for the small farmer or business person!!.......2005-02-11

I had the good fortune of listening to Michael Olson's radio show about three years ago. After listening to several shows I went to his website and saw this great book for sale. Anyway, to make a long story short, I purchased the book and it changed my way of thinking. This book is full of insights and information!! Not only are the "farming" concepts important, but also the "business insights" are more informative and helpful than must books that specialize in business concepts or rules. Get this book! You will not be disappointed. The book is informative, has some fascinating success stories and is just enjoyable to read.

Would we buy?.......2004-08-12

There is a tremendous amount of useful information in MetroFarm. Would we buy MetroFarm if we were thinking about becoming market gardeners? Yes, we would! Greg and Pat Williams, Hortideas Magazine

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This book is a comprehensive guide to the physics and observations of Radio Recombination Lines from astronomical sources, written for astronomers, physicists, and graduate students. It is suitable for a graduate-level textbook. It includes the history of RRL detections, the astrophysics underlying their intensities and line shapes including topics like departures from LTE and Stark broadening, the maximum possible size of an atom, as well as detailed descriptions of the astronomical topics for which RRLs have proved to be effective tools. The text includes more than 250 equations and 110 illustrations. It also contains hundreds of specific references to the astronomical literature to enable readers to explore additional details. The appendix includes supplementary information such as the detailed physics underlying the Bohr atomic model, tables of RRL frequencies including fine structure components, techniques for calculating hydrogenic oscillator strengths, FORTRAN code for calculating departure coefficients, and a discussion with formulas for converting observational (telescope) intensity units to astrophysical ones.

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Zeolite synthesis is an active field of research. As long as this continues, new phases will be discovered and new techniques for preparing existing phases will appear. This edition of Verified Synthesis of Zeolitic Materials contains all the recipes from the first edition plus 24 new recipes. Five new introductory articles have been included plus those from the first edition, some of which have been substantially revised. The XRD patterns have been recorded using different instrument settings from those in the first edition and are intended to conform to typical X-ray diffraction practice. In most cases, only the XRD pattern for the productas synthesised is printed here. The exceptions are those phases which show marked changes in the XRD pattern upon calcination.

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This monograph gives a thorough exposition of Floer's seminal work during the 1980s from a contemporary viewpoint. The material contained here was developed with specific applications in mind. However, it has now become clear that the techniques used are important for many current areas of research. An important example would be symplectic theory and gluing problems for self-dual metrics and other metrics with special holonomy. The author writes with the big picture constantly in mind. As well as a review of the current state of knowledge, there are sections on the likely direction of future research. Included in this are connections between Floer groups and the celebrated Seiberg-Witten invariants. The results described in this volume form part of the area known as Donaldson theory. The significance of this work is such that the author was awarded the prestigious Fields Medal for his contribution.

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The concept of Floer homology has been one of the most striking developments in differential geometry over the past 20 years. It yields rigorously defined invariants which can be viewed as homology groups of infinite-dimensional cycles. The ideas have led to great advances in the areas of low-dimensional topology and symplectic geometry and are intimately related to developments in Quantum Field Theory. The first half of this book gives a thorough account of Floer's construction in the context of gauge theory over 3 and 4-dimensional manifolds. The second half works out some further technical developments of the theory, and the final chapter outlines some research developments for the future - including a discussion of the appearance of modular forms in the theory. The scope of the material in this book means that it will appeal to graduate students as well as those on the frontiers of the subject.

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Your Loyal and Loving Son.(Your Loyal and Loving Son: The Letters of Tank Gunner Karl Fuchs, 1937-41)(Book Review): An article from: Armor
Paul S. Meyer
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Release Date: 2005-08-04

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This digital document is an article from Armor, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1242 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: Your Loyal and Loving Son.(Your Loyal and Loving Son: The Letters of Tank Gunner Karl Fuchs, 1937-41)(Book Review)
Author: Paul S. Meyer
Publication: Armor (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 114 Issue: 4 Page: 50(1)

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When mathematician Tom Andrews slips and breaks his ankle on an icy Ann Arbor street, it is no ordinary fracture: for Andrews, a hemophiliac, the fall begins a "bleed"-that is, the pooling of blood beneath the skin that can cripple a hemophiliac. During his agonizing hospital-bound convalescence, he is doped up on codeine, a drug that sends him spiraling into reveries about his disease and the way he'd combated it with the seemingly self-destructive pursuits of his adolescence. Yet there was a family illness that overshadowed even his: his brother's terminal kidney disorder. In order to get his parents' attention, Andrews threw himself into breaking world records (for hand-clapping), motorcycle racing, competitive skateboarding, punk rocking, and other foolhardy pursuits that only emphasized for him how, in his parents' eyes, he would always be "the healthy son." Unfailingly strange and intense, unremittingly witty, Andrews's book is a memoir that transcends its subject and becomes the story of man's desire to inhabit the world fully no matter what the cost.

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Beautiful.......2006-01-30

This novel is at times funny, at other times heartbreaking, but entirely wonderful. It is a shame that Tom Andrews passed away so soon after the publication of this, his first novel. He was a great writer and a family friend who will be missed.

Inspiration for us all.......2001-01-06

As I read this I entered a world where only 20,000 others are forced to endure in the USA. That world being that of a Hemophiliac. We can never know what suffering is as Mr. Andrews does, but this book has shown us a shocking glimpse of what it's like. I have been awakened from my shallow existence and can now overcome what measly barriers life has given me. Mr. Andrews, thank you for sharing your life with us. I sir take my hat off to you for your courage and wish you nothing but the best of luck in the future! I must also conclude by saying that you are a damn good poet as well, but then again Charles Wright is your mentor. But please do me a favor from now on, try to live a sedentary life for you have much poetry left to write. It would be a shame to deny us of many more years of your wonderful poetry, by risking it all on some reckless adventure. Your life is your own, but remember that you also have a legion of loyal readers that you are now responsible for.

Andrews' poetic prose is delightful........1998-01-29

Andrews provides a glimpse inside the personal space of a poet who happens to be a hemophiliac. _Codeine Diary_ is a carefully wrought memoir that reveals Andrews' passion for language and life, and it is this love of language which makes this uniquely witty and introspective book more than personal. It is good that it was written.
- C.M.

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Amy Schapiro has written the first biography of Millicent Fenwick, the popular and colorful New Jersey congresswoman. Affectionately remembered as the pipe-smoking grandmother who many believe served as the model for Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury character Lacey Davenport, Fenwick transcended that stereotype to become, in the words of Walter Cronkite, "the conscience of Congress."

Born in 1910 into comfortable circumstances, Fenwick faced tragedy at an early age when her mother was lost in the sinking of the Lusitania. Following an upper-class childhood and a failed marriage, she began a fourteen-year career at Vogue magazine.

In the 1960s, Fenwick became involved in the civil rights movement and took part in local and state politics in New Jersey. Blessed with striking good looks and a sharp wit, she cut a glamorous figure, rising quickly through the ranks of the state Republican party at a time when most of her peers were retiring. When this colorful, outspoken figure—one of only five New Jersey women ever elected to Congress—went to Washington in 1975 at age sixty-four, her victory was portrayed by the media as a "geriatric triumph."

Schapiro's extensive interviews with Fenwick's son, Hugh, who granted her exclusive rights to Fenwick's personal papers, oral histories, letters, and photographs, provide rare insight into the life and career of one of America's most memorable politicians.

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Excellent work on the life of politician.......2007-02-13

Amy Shapiro worked very hard to give the readers a full presentation of the life of Rep. Millicent Hammond Fenwick. To the early childhood trauma of losing her mother on the Lusitania; going forward as the daughter of a US ambassador; her disasterous marriage; a career in magazine writing and reporting; and finally politics.

One suspects, that due to her voting record, Fenwick was not so much a liberal Republican, but a moderate Democrat. Looking at her thoughts and actions, it seemed she was trying to find some common ground with her Republican father who closed himself off to her. Although being a moderate/liberal Republican was and is interchangeable with being a moderate Democrat.

Those who want to learn about how the political process works, such buy this excellent book. You get to watch someone who worked from the ground- up to make it where she was.

One could imagine what she would have to say about the current administration if she was still living, and she'd be saying it, 'her way,'
which was 'dead honest.'

Millicent Fenwick, Her Way.......2003-04-20

After a slow moving start, "Millicent Fenwick, Her Way" took off and quickly became one of the most absorbing biographies I have ever read. Amy Schapiro has written the wonderful story of the life of a truly great human being. While most of the people in the world are "takers," Millicent Fenwick was a "giver" in every sense of the word. Millicent had the same philosophy as Albert Einstein...when asked what was the meaning of life...his response was to serve other people. Ms. Schapiro brings this out in a most interesting way that is based on extensive research into the life and accomplishments of this great person. Each page is filled with many facts that establish the persona of Millicent Fenwick both personally and professionally. Ms. Schapiro obviously gained the cooperation of many people in gathering information, anecdotes and stories about this wonderful person.

I believe that this book will be an inspiration for those who choose to read it. The life of Millicent Fenwick speaks to anyone who has a conscious and a sense for the difficulties of the human condition. Although Mrs. Fenwick is thought of as a "politician from New Jersey," the story of her life can be appreciated as a study of a world class human being. Ms Schapiro brings this to light in an easy to read manuscript.

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don't waste your money

Perpetuating the Legend of a Shyster

Sol Barth of St. Johns: The Story of an Arizona Pioneer
Charles B. Wolf
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
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don't waste your money.......2007-08-28

This book is the most horrendously researched and written book I have ever had the misfortune of muddling through. The errors are so blatant as to be laughable.

For instance (1)Wolf asserts that Barth "literally pushed his way through to Nauvoo, Illinois, where the Mormon caravans were preparing to move westward," where Barth joined a "handcar" company and pushed this "car" all the way to Utah, arriving in 1855. Now, there are a number of things that could account for the fact that if Barth did in fact leave Nauvoo with the Mormons that he arrived in Utah nearly a decade after those same Mormon's did. These things could be:(i)Unlike the carts everyone else pushed, Barth got stuck pushing a "car", which would slow anyone down; (ii)Barth would have been four when the Mormons left Nauvoo (and even if we consider that Wolf misstakingly left off the "t", pushing a cart at that age... (iii) He may have gotten lost--what would have been vast plains of Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming were trecherous, at best, (but when your four and pushing a car!) The truth: the Mormons left Nauvoo in Febuary of 1846--in wagons. Barth arrived in the U.S. in 1855. Handcarts were first used by the Mormons in 1856--the year Barth arrived in California. Although it is possible that Barth did in fact cross a portion of the U.S. with the Mormons, it is highly unlikely that he was in a handcart company.

(2)St. Johns was never called El Vado. It was however called El Vadito after Jose Savaadra (not Sol Barth)built a toll bridge accross the Little Colorado in the late 1860's so Sol Luna (not Jesus Lunas) could safely cross his sheep (yes, sheep--Barth was by no means close to being the first person to bring sheep to Arizona)accross the sporadically running river.

(3)There were families living in the area (obviously) when Barth came in and settled in 1874 (the year which, incidentally, he married--not 1884). Barth did not win the land in a poker game (although it does make for a great story!)Truth: Barth would have had his own squatters rights in the area, which he could have legitimately sold to the Mormons, instead he sold everyone else's squatters rights--right out from underneath them--for 750 (not 770) head of American (not Utah) cattle.

(4)The Udall family has never pronounced the name "Udell" and I can say that with certainty--I am one.

(5)Barth did not in any way build the Lyman Dam. The fact that Wolf would even think that a single man could build it makes me laugh out loud. Truth: it was the Mormon's idea after the Salado dam broke. "Lyman" is from an apostle in the Mormon church who helped with the plans and got the Church's approval for the dam. A company from Denver company brought in new threshing machines and paid their part in cash in return for 3/5th's share of the stock and the Mormon's supplied labor and the remaining two-fifth's. It cost $250,000,000 to build and broke three years later killing eleven people--nine of them children.

(6) It would have been quite a trick for Jacob Barth to have the "Grand House" (we always called it the Barth Hotel) torn down considering he was dead. (Jacob died in 1979, the Hotel was torn down in 1984). Along those lines--Barth couldn't have had the Catholic Church that is there today built--he died in 1928, that particular church was built in the 1940's.

(7) Those poplar trees that Wolf says are still there today--aren't. Some wierd blight or something killed them all off in the 1950's. Those trees, by the way, weren't planted in the "cultivated" Salem. Salem was swamp land, which is why the Mormon's moved. Those trees were planted along the ditches (that Barth did not dig)in St. Johns. Incidentally--you can pick some rather delicious asparagus by those same ditches.

(8)The Barth's did not, by any stretch of imagination own a "city block" in St. Johns. A St. Johns block maybe (but still no).

(9) If there's really a nuclear power plant out there, nobody told us! And to think, all this time we've been sitting here in our homes thinking that a simple power plant is what sits out there...blinking. They even had the gall to call it Salt River Project...and people in Phoenix claim to get their electricity from it.

I could go on and on...and on, but, as ten is always a good number:
(10)Wolf says there are many variations regarding this next episode but it isn't necessary to sort it out...true, if ya actually know the facts: There was never a shoot-out between the Clanton's, the townsfolk and the "Greer Boys" (and there are certainly not any published reports saying so!!) Truth: The Greer's (not from Greer but Hunt) had a shoot-out with some local Hispanic boys after one of the Greer's cut the Greer earmark into one of the local's ears. The local boys holed up in the Barth Hotel and the Greer's in a small house across the street. Two were killed. Years later it's been alleged that the Clanton's robbed the Apache County Treasury--a crime the treasurer went to prison for.

What a waste of paper!!

Perpetuating the Legend of a Shyster.......2002-12-07

There is no doubt Sol Barth had a large impact on the development of St. Johns, Arizona. He used every gamblers trick of the trade to swindle the Hispanics out of their land and cattle, and as soon as he invited the Mormons to settle in the area, he cultivated a strife between the Mormons and the Hispanics to keep them constantly at odds with each other. The effects of this division are still present today. You have to give him credit for successfully playing both groups against each other so well!

In this book, Mr. Wolf mainly accounts from the stories passed down through the Barth family. There are no proper citations, no bibliography, no substantiating facts. Also, Mr. Wolf leaves out quite a bit of the more dirtier deeds of Sol Barth (and his brothers), which are documented in territory newspaper and legal paper archives. He tries to discredit Sol's imprisonment for embezzling from Apache County by saying many more were involved and were never brought to justice. As much as a sly gambler and opportunist Sol Barth was, why would he want to "show his hand" at dipping into the Apache County funds? The only exception of who he may have trusted while doing his dastardly deeds were his brothers, or maybe the person that was murdered while his trial was going on.

Here are a few clarifications for some of the inconsistancies in this book:
1)Even though Mr. Wolf states Sol Barth had "squatter's" rights over land he won gambling, Sol Barth never applied for any homestead patents in Arizona or New Mexico Territory.
2)There were Hispanics already living and sheepherding in the St. Johns (El Vadito Land grant) area long before Sol Barth attemped to settle in the area. For the area to be known as the El Vadito land grant, it had to be issued many years before the 1862 Homestead Act.
3)He didn't "bring" Manuel Antonio Candelaria to Concho as insinuated on page 15. With his newly started family, Don Candelaria was moving back to the area he knew and grew up in as an Apache captive. Other Hispanic families had settled in the Concho area during the period of time when Don Candelaria left the tribe to find a wife.
4) If Solomon Barth and Refugio Landovaso got married in Cubero on June 24, 1884, as Mr. Wolf states in his book, it would have had to be by a judge on that date. They were married January 21, 1885 by Father Badilla at the St. Johns the Baptist Catholic Church, more than a year after Refugio Landavaso gives birth to Cecilia on (baptism) December 8th, 1883. This was not very respectable during the Victorian era. I could only imagine how many ears burned over the town gossip on this breach of honor at the time!
5) Solomon Barth never gave anything to anyone out of the kindness of his heart, there always had to be a benefit in it for him. He had everyone believing he was very generous, and looking at it from another viewpoint, he was. For instance, it was common for him to supply the beer at the card games where he won loads of cattle and land. It is his daughters, Cecilia and Clara Barth, that upheld a decent level of morality and honor in the St. Johns community. It is their generousity and commitment to community that gained respect for the Barth name.

I have to give some credit to the stories told in this book. One star is for enough information given to accurately research them. The second star is for that the stories are somewhat entertaining despite how truthful they really are. In comparison of this book against archive records, it is surely evident that Mr. Wolf has some of the same attributes as his conniving, opportunistic great grandfather did. They both liked to tell a story, to make a gain or a buck, and to make themselves look bright and wonderful no matter how many embedded layers of dirt. This book is an attempted to continue to glorify a pioneering blackleg of Arizona.

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