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Use this powerful collection of experiential learning activities to confront—and eliminate—difficult organizational problems. All the designs are devoted to changing hidden attitudes, assumptions, and values that people seldom even acknowledge, but that often sabotage even successful companies. Stimulating and challenging to facilitate, the interventions make it possible to win employees’ trust and confidence while changing negative attitudes, healing old mistrust, repairing team conflicts, fostering empathy towards minority groups, restoring lost confidence in a leader, and more.

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Excellent Resource, with depth........2000-02-02

Napier & Gershenfeld have created a real gift to the seasoned facilitator/trainer with this work. It's not just a quick cookbook of games, but instead a guide to the design process of interventions with sample templates (activities) in major areas such as leadership, communication, conflict resolution, etc. Each activity has a standard version and a Turbo version if time is short. Granted some of the activities are "on the edge", but I happen to like that, and after all the title says it's ADVANCED. Expensive, but comes in the form of a loose-leaf binder with reproducibles. For me worth every penny!

Very tricky ideas,watch yourself!.......1999-05-07

. Only for the most advanced facillitator. Many of these activities put people at risk, you better know how to handle this! Many of the ideas are old "hat" with a new twist, really nothing new. Something of a disappointment.

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Soils can rarely be described as ideally elastic or perfectly plastic and yet simple elastic and plastic models form the basis for the most traditional geotechnical engineering calculations. With the advent of cheap powerful computers the possibility of performing analyses based on more realistic models has become widely available. One of the aims of this book is to describe the basic ingredients of a family of simple elastic-plastic models of soil behavior and to demonstrate how such models can be used in numerical analyses. Such numerical analyses are often regarded as mysterious black boxes but a proper appreciation of their worth requires an understanding of the numerical models on which they are based. Though the models on which this book concentrates are simple, understanding of these will indicate the ways in which more sophisticated models will perform.

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Best Book for Critical State Soil Mechanics.......2003-01-28

Let me recommend this book to you, if you are interested in soil mechanics, numerical modelling, and if you try to understand soils well.
Critical states soil mechanics is a popular framework for the recent developement of many soil constitutive models. This book is a step by step exploration of this framework, especially Modified Cam Clay model, both conceptually and numerically. The stress-strain-strength behaviors of cohesive and cohesionless soils under drained or undrained condition can be quantitively determined using this simple model. More sophisticated models in the current research front, for example, MIT S2 model, bounding surface models, are all shadowed within critical state concepts.
Overall, it is a book about a very useful elasto-plastic soil mechanics model. It uses some fundamentals of elasticity and plasticity. You may meet a little bit mathematics there, but that is almost trivial compared with that used in solid mechanics and theory of plasticity.

Helpful for your work.......2000-06-09

I don't know how to explain about that but this book's really the best.

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Small Missions for Energetic Astrophysics discusses space missions for the second half of the next decade and describes current astrophysical problems as well as creative small mission solutions. Topics include: active galactic nuclei, compact object binaries, extragalactic diffuse background and the intergalactic medium, gamma-ray bursts, interstellar medium, supernovae and supernovae remnants, stellar astrophysics, white dwarfs and isolated neutron stars, and emerging technologies for small satellite missions.

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The long-awaited Third Edition of the classic in polymer synthesis Thirty years ago, the Second Edition of Preparative Methods of Polymer Chemistry further established its reputation as the laboratory bible for polymer synthesis. The last three decades have witnessed a deeper understanding of the principles involved in preparing and processing polymers, leading to tremendous advances in polymer synthesis. Guiding practicing scientists through the methods of synthesizing polymers, the Third Edition retains theory and vital protocols, while revising and updating the sections on synthesis, fabrication techniques, and characterization methods. Delving into the physical and chemical aspects of polymer processing, each chapter includes a discussion of the relevant background and principles, enabling the scientist to apply synthetic techniques intelligently. The Third Edition also contains sections on current topics such as:

Extended-chain polymer technology
High-temperature and high-performance polymers
Carbon fibers
Electrically conductive polymers
Group-transfer polymerization
Composites Preparative Methods of Polymer Chemistry, Third Edition provides essential information for both students and practicing polymer scientists.

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The underlying principles of design and remodeling of interiors are explained clearly and concisely in Form and Structure: The Organisation of Interior Space, the first book in the new Basics Interior Architecture series. From establishing a relationship between the existing building and the new components that inhabit it, to the careful positioning and design of significant elements within the space, every aspect of interior architectural planning is covered. Authors Graeme Brooker and Sally Stone present a straightforward, easy-to-follow method for analyzing, understanding, and using existing buildings to create new interiors that are architecturally appropriate, functional, and beautiful.

Organisation, Space and Architecture: Building a Social Materiality

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Organisation, Space and Architecture: Building a Social Materiality
Karen Dale , and Gibson Burrell
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0333962680
Release Date: 2007-10-02

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This is a book about both the spaces of organization and the organization of space, bringing together the social and the material in their analysis to enrich both organization theory and social theory.

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Memoir??

Making fig-fig

Better on Tape

Great Read

Old Man in a Baseball Cap : A Memoir of World War II

Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ENBQ9C

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I went to the University of Arizona and I majored in civil engineering because that's what my two brothers had done.

I thought it was the right thing to do.

When I got there, I found that I couldn't pass anything. I couldn't pass a damn thing. I was flunking out and that would be a big scandal in my family. I was getting desperate.

I didn't know what to do.

That December, the Japanese government saw fit to bomb Pearl harbor.

So, next month, January, two weeks before finals, I got very patriotic and I went down and enlisted in the Army Air Corps.

Old Man in a Baseball Cap is a wonderful, hilarious, and haunting memoir. Written when Rochlin was seventy, after he took a storytelling workshop with Spalding Gray, it was originally performed as a monologue and was described by the New York Times as being "about an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances, [it] has elements of an epic: love and death, honor and betrayal, vengefulness and martyrdom, and ultimately, the fortuitousness of survival."

Old Man in a Baseball Cap is an astonishingly fresh, candid look at "the last good war." At once naive and wise, Fred Rochlin's voice is unforgettable.

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Glad I only spent a dollar.......2006-02-23

I found this book for sale in a dollar store and it seemed at first to be an interesting book. Now I understand why it ended up in the dollar store. I have read thousands of books in my life and I pride myself on that fact that no matter how bad, I will finish a book. This book will be my first exception. Not only didn't I finish it, I threw it out. I have 2 sons who look up to WW 2 vets as their heroes and this book will not be in my library. Mr. Rochlin has managed to compile a short collection of "his memories" peppered with vulgar language and over graphic scenes. Many of the vulgarities were misspelled and I wondered if the publisher even proof read it. Maybe he couldn't finish it either. General George S. Patton swore on a regular basis to get his men to understand him better, but reading his words you don't notice the crudeness. You feel that you are reading the man's passion for his work and his soldiers. I did not feel the use of the vulgarity in this book served any purpose other then as shock value. Again, this is America and our soldiers have shed their blood to preserve our freedom of speech. I am just glad that those fine men and women aren't around to read this crap. Go Read Stephen Ambrose's The Wild Blue to cleanse your palette.

Memoir?? .......2005-08-22

An on-line editorial review recommended that this book be placed in public libraries. The only way this could be supported if the recommendation was accompanied with a proviso that it be positioned deep in the Fiction section.
The book is like a one-man HBO stand-up show that's peppered with foul language, and salted with what may be an occasional truth. In fact, one of the opening points and closing remarks is that the author's mind will make up new historical truths. This book is marketed as a "memoir." But one can't tell where the "show" stops, and the actual facts, if any, from WW II experiences begin.
I was hoping to add to my insight of what some of our older veterans experienced. Instead, I read a compendium of a stand-up comic's foul-mouthed, crude, and outright vulgar act. While soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are known - and accepted - for their collective use of hard-core language, the unseemly language in this book appears to be thrown in - shock-jock style - just for effect. Maybe it makes the stage show a little more entertaining. A Junior High School kid with a flashlight under the sheets would love it this book.

Making fig-fig.......2004-11-30

OLD MAN IN A BASEBALL CAP is a quick and easy read due, no doubt, to the late Fred Rochlin's monologue style which he developed after attending a workshop with the incomparable Spalding Grey. After performing a number of his wartime monologues live, they were collected and published in this rather short book.

Rochlin was a B-24 navigator during WWII and his tale of his war experiences is raw, rather course, not pretty at times, and yet darkly humorous. Rochlin is remarkably frank about his experiences, more than one of which may shock the sensitive reader. This is unlike any other narrative I have ever read about the Second World War: more personal and in many ways far more human.

Whether the events of this monologue are true or not does not really matter; I am sure that Rochlin (like David Sedaris) would say that they are "true enough." They form a story in Rochlin's mind, a narrative that he feels compelled to tell. I for one am more than willing to listen.

Jeremy W. Forstadt

Better on Tape.......2003-10-20

The audio version is the only way to go. Do not listen if you are easily offended by frank talk of the things young men do when they have resigned themselves to unpleasant circumstances. Rochlin is NOT an exemplar of Brokaw's "Greatest Generation." He and his comrades at arms were decidedly human.
Rochlin acknowledges that men of his generation were discouraged from talking about traumatic experiences. He also acknowledges that his memories are factually suspect. While current opinion seems to hold listening in higher esteem than talking, Rochlin maintains that sharing one's stories is a gift to others. It's too bad they didn't give WWII combat veterans a "transition debrief" before they sent them home. Many of them suffered from post traumatic stress for decades and their loved ones never knew exactly what had happened to them. A chance to talk to someone about their experiences might have helped many combat veterans and there might be a better understanding of what that war was really like.

Great Read.......2003-04-22

Well written in an easy to read, intelligent style. Reminds me of the clarity of Hemmingway's the Old Man and the Sea. Whether embellished or not, the stories transfer to the reader the feelings these young men must have had to go into the meatgrinder week after week. There is a gentle humor surrounding the constant tragedy that was WWII for them. Was a nice follow-up read to Ambrose's book on the 15th Air Corps.

Old Man in a Baseball Cap : A Memoir of World War II

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Old Man in a Baseball Cap : A Memoir of World War II
Fred Rochlin
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Canada, Limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000TDKA4O

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Old Man in a Baseball Cap a Memoir of World War II
Fred Rochlin
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0LE92

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Old Man in a Baseball Cap: A Memoir of World War II
Fred Rochlin
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JPTV0G

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Old Man in a Baseball Cap - A Memoir of World War II
Fred Rochlin
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OF9CZK

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Probing look at the First Lady and her handling of the scandal-ridden Clinton Presidency.

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Hillary's true colors are exposed!.......1999-11-18

I am often skeptical about "unauthorized" biographies, they're usually no better than tabloid trash. However every rule has an exception and She Took a Village is just that book.

Gottlieb certainly knows his stuff, his display of the First Lady shows exactly where she stands or in most cases where she stands until confronted. Gottlieb exposes things in this book you will not find anywhere else.

From the early days of college to Whitewater to every other scandal of this administration, a woman who is power hungry and will stop at nothing to get what she sees as hers confronts the reader.

After reading this book I had to stop and think - just who is the president of the United States. After reading this book the jury is still out. With a great price tag, this book is certainly one for the collection.

Good easy read and very timely.......1999-07-09

This book contains extensive footnotes for all the disclosures about Ms. Clinton so the reader can check out the facts for themselves. I found it fair but not good for the Clinton campaign for the New York Senate.

Drivel, poorly written, yellow journalism at its zenith........1999-04-28

We reviewed this book for our library's book club but unanimously threw up our hands and declared "no way!" The author appears to hate smart women and the First Lady in particular. Made us wonder just how insecure he is and why. There is no documentation, a lot of "hmmmmm"s to try to insinuate something, but the reader can't be sure. We told our library not to purchase any of this title. We asked them to spend the resources wisely, i.e., forget this one!!

A must read about the first lady.......1998-12-21

This book shows the best and worst about Hillary Clinton. Contains information not found elsewhere.

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A Pure Delight.......2002-10-13

I received the book as a gift. "Oh great! Another cute story about the cowboy culture", I thought. But I felt I'd better read it lest I hurt the feelings of the giver.

What a pleasant surprise. It turned out to be one of the most enjoyable reads I've had in a long time.

Ralph Reynolds can tell a wonderful tale. The only issue I'd take is with the title. It might have been more appropriately titled, "Growing Up Human". His stories were so human and touching that the "cowboy" could have been anywhere anytime. It just happened he was "the Luna Kid".

Pure pleasure. (I would have given it five stars, but I'm reserving that score for Hemingway.)

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