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Mentoring is one of the fastest growing forms of management development and the strongest growth area in mentoring is at director level. Very little is known about the nature of these relationships and the shutters on director mentoring are opened through a series of structured interviews with directors and their mentors.

'Mentoring Executives and Directors' is a lively, informative read including company and individual cases across a wide spectrum of sector and company size.

It will be of considerable interest to Human Resource professionals and academics, headhunters and management consultants as well as senior managers, executives and directors, and their mentors.

The only book on mentoring for directors and senior executives
Explains how to sustain learning in people at the top
Practical and research based

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Thorough coverage.......2000-06-08

A practical introduction to mentoring from all major perspectives. Overall, the book is essential reading for any would-be mentors or mentees. It illustrates the role of mentoring, particularly where the need is to support, encourage & develop key executives or to pass on corporate culture to new employees.

Turn-of-the-Century Farm Tools and Implements (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
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Many an antiques collector will also find this useful

Turn-of-the-Century Farm Tools and Implements (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
Henderson & Co.
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Published in 1898, this abundantly illustrated trade catalog advertised tools, fertilizers, insecticides, and other essentials for the turn-of-the-century garden, farm, greenhouse, lawn, orchard, poultry yard, stable, and household. Includes butter printers, cast-iron field rollers, broadcast seeders, corn harvesters and huskers, root cutters, cider mills, veterinary remedies, more. Approximately 680 black-and-white illustrations.

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Many an antiques collector will also find this useful.......2003-11-06

In 1898 Henderson and Company created an illustrated trade catalog advertising tools, fertilizers and gardening equipment: this reprints a very rare volume which will intrigue social historians and any with an interest in early American history. Many an antiques collector will also find this useful, including over six hundred black and white illustrations of farm tools.

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This book offers a unique review of how astronomical information is handled, made available and tuned to various audiences, including education and public outreach. The information flow in astronomy is indeed illustrated from sources (cosmic objects) to end (mankind's knowledge).
The experts contributing to this book have done their best to write in a way understandable to readers not necessarily hyperspecialized in astronomy, while providing specific detailed information as well as plenty of pointers and bibliographical elements. Especially enlightening are those `lessons learned' sections where authors make a critical review of the experience gained.
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Information Handling in Astronomy - Historical Vistas (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)

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This book offers a unique review of how astronomical information handling (in the broad sense) evolved in the course of the 20th century, and especially during its second half.

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Over the last twenty years, the growing availability of computing power has had an enormous impact on the classical fields of direct and inverse scattering. The study of inverse scattering, in particular, has developed rapidly with the ability to perform computational simulations of scattering processes and led to remarkable advances in a range of applications, from medical imaging and radar to remote sensing and seismic exploration. Point Sources and Multipoles in Inverse Scattering Theory provides a survey of recent developments in inverse acoustic and electromagnetic scattering theory. Focusing on methods developed over the last six years by Colton, Kirsch, and the author, this treatment uses point sources combined with several far-reaching techniques to obtain qualitative reconstruction methods. The author addresses questions of uniqueness, stability, and reconstructions for both two-and three-dimensional problems. With interest in extracting information about an object through scattered waves at an all-time high, Point Sources and Multipoles in Inverse Scattering Theory provides a valuable source of information from both the mathematical and applications perspectives. It offers insight into the general recovery of information from incomplete data and has direct, practical relevance to work on image reconstruction.

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Dorothy Dore was born in the Philippines to a British father who served there in the Spanish American War, and to a Filipina mestiza mother. This young woman was attending an exclusive private school when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941. The Japanese Imperial Army made a swift invasion of the Philippines, and Dorothy's life became a nightmare. As recounted in this moving memoir, Dorothy studied nursing so that she could support the United States Armed Forces Far East (USAFFE). She spent the war years on the run, working for the USAFFE when she could, but abandoning those duties when her family was in need. Dorothy recalls the sacrifices of her family, the brutal treatment of civilians by the Japanese, and the vainglorious actions of some of the USAFFE guerrilla leaders. It is a compelling story of love, loss, family, courage, and survival during an especially horrifying time.

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Compelling!.......2005-10-06

This is the REAL THING! Authentic, Exciting, Inspiring, Emotional, Suspense and with clarity about a teenage girl surviving against all odds, World War II in the Philippines.
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Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice
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When Bill Clinton nominated University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Lani Guinier to the position of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in 1993, she was immediately beset upon by right-wing critics of the president. Taking her writings on cumulative and proportional voting out of context, they branded her a "quota queen." Guinier, on instructions from administration officials, made almost no effort to defend herself against this public smearing of her work and reputation. Then, to her surprise, Clinton himself withdrew her nomination, stating in a press conference that her views were "undemocratic."

The Tyranny of the Majority reprinted the articles that were the source of this controversy. Now, in Lift Every Voice, Professor Guinier explains the principles underlying those writings in layman's terms and offers her personal perspective on what happened in the spring and summer of 1993, taking us behind the scenes to meetings with Clinton, Attorney General Janet Reno, and other Washington officials. But perhaps more importantly, she writes about how, after she was cut loose by an intimidated White House, she regained her confidence in the civil rights movement. Recalling the activism of ordinary people like her father and the clients she represented as a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Guinier reminds us that a better society cannot be built by governmental edict alone, but requires commitment on the part of the citizenry. A recent book on mathematics, K.C. Cole's The Universe and the Teacup, vindicated Guinier's theories on proportional representation at the statistical level. The debate sparked by Lift Every Voice may, in the long run, end up vindicating her at the political level as well.

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In 1993, shortly after his inauguration, new President Bill Clinton nominated his old friend and classmate Lani Guinier to the prestigious and crucial post of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

That nomination sparked an immediate firestorm of criticism from the right, labeling Professor Guinier the "Quota Queen" and assailing her for the ideas expressed in her publications, most of which her opponents had not read, or had taken out of context and misunderstood.

In the face of this concerted opposition -- what one friend of Guinier's called "a low-tech lynching" -- Clinton backed down, not only withdrawing her nomination, but having refused throughout to give her an opportunity to speak out in her own defense (and his). The result was a civil rights setback of monumental proportions.

Now, in this remarkable and important book, at once a memoir and insider's account of what really happened behind the closed doors of the Oval Office, the Justice Department, and the U.S. Senate, and an insightful look at the past, present, and future of civil rights in America, Lani Guinier at last breaks her silence.

Unsparing of her own mistakes and shrewdly perceptive about the overt and hidden agendas of those who opposed her, Professor Guinier shows how the president promptly abandoned his ambitious agenda for civil rights at the first hint of criticism from the media and Congress -- and how the civil rights movement suffered a major setback as a result.

More important, this book, in Professor Guinier's own words, is about "the battles fought in the belief that our racial history and our commitment to equality and democracy are essential parts of the same story. It has not always been a pretty story, nor one that follows an inevitable path.

"This book is not, however, an effort to settle scores. It's a story of the efforts of men and women who believe fundamentally in the promise of the American creed and who act on that belief in their everyday lives. These are people whose lives are without notoriety or fame, but in whose willingness to take risks we see the honor of real heroism."

Above all, Guinier goes on to describe how her experience at the hands of the press, the White House, and her congressional enemies has given her both a new voice and a renewed faith in the ongoing struggle for civil rights. Her book is an extraordinary account of just how the civil rights movement acquired its strength, drawn from the courage of "ordinary" people standing up against fearful odds for what was right, and from the commitment to make change happen from the bottom up, relying on the wisdom and common sense of those at grassroots level. Using her own nomination as a symbolic point of reference, she shows just how weak and divided the cause of civil rights has become, as its leaders have all too often been silenced by the very people they should be challenging.

Finally, she explains, in her own words, the truth about her political ideas -- which are rooted in democracy and its principles, not in quotas and affirmative action -- and examines the state of current race relations. Renewing her call for a national conversation on the issue of civil rights and social justice, this thought-provoking book is certain to spark a new and much-needed debate.

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wonderful book.......2003-07-07

lani guinier's story marks the beginning of the awful, underhanded politics of smear that have only gotten worse in recent years. she is wise and resilient. it's a reminder that we all have to stay engaged to rescue the American process, no matter what the mudslinging.

dangerous woman abandoned by fair weather friends.......2000-11-27

In an irony that neither would be likely to appreciate much, Lani Guinier's account of being nominated and then unnominated for the position of head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is reminiscent of Robert Bork's Tempting of America (see Orrin's review). Both quickly came to be perceived more as symbols than human beings and, as such, ended up being subjected to really unfair personal attacks and having their philosophies caricatured. But what is really instructive about the two cases is the differences rather than the similarities.

Robert Bork's nomination split the Congress and the punditry on strictly party lines and it just so happened that the Democrats controlled the Senate at that point in time, so he went down to defeat. However, he did get to have nomination hearings where he was questioned about his views however ineptly by the members of the Senate Judiciary committee. [Personally, I learned more of value about constitutional law by watching the hearings than I did in my law school class.] Despite the fact that his nomination was clearly doomed, President Reagan stood by him and insisted on putting the matter to a vote, allowing Bork to lose honorably and granting him a sense of closure, albeit mixed with disgust, at the end of the ugly process. Bork later wrote his book in order to explain and amplify his views on the constitution and the legal system and, to a lesser degree, to give his perspective on the nomination fight. The result is a vital and readable contribution to our understanding of the degree to which our jurisprudence has become politicized and of the dangers it entails, as well as a resigned, but bemused, look at the Senate by someone who ran afoul of the institution.

Lani Guinier's nomination, on the other hand, split the nation along racial lines, with even traditional white allies abandoning black civil rights organizations to oppose her. Ultimately, even Bill Clinton, her longtime friend, repudiated his own nominee and withdrew her name before she got to the hearings stage. This, understandably, left Guinier frustrated and humiliated, feeling that she had been denied the opportunity to defend her views and her own good name. In the most affecting passages in the book, she describes how she was about to appear on Nightline when Ted Koppel told her that the next day's New York Times and Washington Post announced that the White House had decided to pull her name, a fact of which she was unaware at the time. She also describes having old pal Hillary walk right past her at the White House with a wave and a "Hey kiddo", obviously unwilling to stop and discuss the fiasco and she details her meeting with a dewey eyed President Clinton, who moments after telling her that the meeting was one of the most difficult of his life went before the White House press corps and denounced her as "antidemocratic". Guinier has written another book, Tyranny of the Majority, which I honestly haven't read, but in this book she whines on ad nauseum about how the failure of her nomination was a catastrophe for the cause of civil rights in America. In the strangest maneuver of the book, she introduces herself early on as someone who was forced to write controversial articles in order to win tenure, then laments how those views were twisted by the press and hostile politicians, then returns at the end of the book to a defense of them as her true beliefs. The result is an enormously self-indulgent vanity piece, with insufficient consideration of, and a marked lack of honesty about, the controversial theories that ultimately sank her nomination. The book spreads more noise than light on the issues.

The most serious flaw of the book, narrowly outweighing her egomaniacal catalogue of what appears to be every compliment that she was ever paid in her life, is the disingenuous treatment of the implications of her view of democracy. The essential fact is that Ms Guinier does not believe that the United States Constitution, with it's system of representative democracy, adequately defends the rights of minorities. Therefore, she proposes adoption of schemes like cumulative voting, geared towards allowing the losing minority to win actual representation regardless of their election loss. For instance, if a school board district voted 60% Republican and 40% Democrat, they would send three Republicans and two Democrats to the board. Now you could discuss the merits and drawbacks of these types of Rube Goldberg mechanisms until you were blue in the face, but the primary point here is that they represent a radical departure from our current constitutional regime and are a fundamental attack on representative democracy. There is no reason that we should not consider and debate these types of measures, but intellectual honesty requires that their advocates describe them accurately. Guinier's refusal to do so casts a shadow of deception over the book.

In the final analysis, where Judge Bork's book stands out in particular for the intellectual rigor of his arguments and analysis, Guinier's is merely interesting as a portrait of the shallowness and duplicity of her friends the Clintons.

GRADE: D+

Visionary, Hopeful, Stragetic: Mandatory Reading.......1999-07-08

Professor Guinier has seen beyond the veil which seems to have fallen over the civil rights movement for the past thirty years. Guinier uses the story of her dis-appointment (her phrase) by the Clinton Administration to expose the inner workings of the political system and clarify her views. In so doing, she lays out a strategy that is simple, obvious, and doable. While so many "leaders" have been busy listening to one another, Guinier has been able to hear a still, small, powerful voice. This book is a must read for anyone who cares about democracy.

While reading this book, outstanding black women ..........1999-02-16

who come to mind include... Barbaara Jordan, Angela Davis, Represtntative Jackson (Texas)... especially when support for outstanding people like Lani Guinier is needed. "Where were they (those so-called black influential leaders) when their help was needed ... probably doing the Ostrich thing, along with the usual commenusrating that can always be expected in those little private circles. The ones we respected and would be guided by in the 60's are yet to be developed for the 21st Century. Lani's book is a classic that I will pass on.

Excellent look at post-Selma Civil Rights in America........1998-10-20

This book is an fine discourse on what America has - or should have - learned about the search for social justice in the quarter century since the Civil Rights marches of the 1960s. Lani Guinier is best known for her ill-fated candidacy to become the first African American and female Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. She provides a spell-binding blow by blow account of what it was like to be nominated, then cast aside in the political jockeying that followed the 1992 election of Bill Clinton to the presidency. It is a poignant tale of how ordinary people on the fringes of her battle to get a hearing in Congress stepped in to insure that she never lost her sense of professionalism, her commitment to the truth, or her right to be treated with dignity. Her ideas on reforming voting procedures, the very ones that foiled her nomination in Congress, are well worth reading, and clearly worth implementing in an age of voter apathy and political gerymandering. The theme is broader, however, and in this book she demonstrates how thoroughly she has paid her dues over the years laboring for justice in America. As a civil rights lawyer in the 70s and 80s she went back to Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and other southern states to pick up where the civil rights movement of the 60s left off. Her talent for getting people to listen to the messages embodied in unfamiliar language and cultural expression is a gift to us all. Her story is full of important new insights into the nature of cross-cultural communication. She proclaims from her own experiences a critical need for wide-open discussion of social issues. Lawyers, she asserts, cannot win civil rights cases without the active participation of the public, and she calls for a return to grass-roots activism as a means to achieving social justice. Guinier is superbly analytical, a true listener, and a fine writer.

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