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A practical guide to violence prevention and intervention in the workplace.

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Exploring the history and importance of corn worldwide, Arturo Warman traces its development from a New World food of poor and despised peoples into a commodity that plays a major role in the modern global economy.

The book, first published in Mexico in 1988, combines approaches from anthropology, social history, and political economy to tell the story of corn, a "botanical bastard" of unclear origins that cannot reseed itself and is instead dependent on agriculture for propagation. Beginning in the Americas, Warman depicts corn as colonizer. Disparaged by the conquistadors, this Native American staple was embraced by the destitute of the Old World. In time, corn spread across the globe as a prodigious food source for both humans and livestock. Warman also reveals corn's role in nourishing the African slave trade.

Through the history of one plant with enormous economic importance, Warman investigates large-scale social and economic processes, looking at the role of foodstuffs in the competition between nations and the perpetuation of inequalities between rich and poor states in the world market. Praising corn's almost unlimited potential for future use as an intensified source of starch, sugar, and alcohol, Warman also comments on some of the problems he foresees for large-scale, technology-dependent monocrop agriculture.

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Up at Altititude captures the spirit of the high country.......1998-02-14

This is a fine collection of essays detailing life in the Colorado Rockies. Fayhee has an eye for detail and an easy way of getting to the heart of things. The essay about champion road-tripper Curtis Robinson is great.

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Great walks for those who like their comforts.

disappointing

Commercial rip-off

Walking the World's Most Exceptional Trails

Stunning photographs, well-written text

Walking the World's Most Exceptional Trails
Eloise Napier
Manufacturer: Abbeville Press
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Classic Hikes of the World: 23 Breathtaking Treks

1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List

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From the Atlas Mountains in Morocco to the West Highland Way in Scotland and Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and Montana, there are diverse walks presented here for hikers of all ages and abilities. Included in this collection of healthy and fun holidays is the Patagonia walk across the Argentina-Chile border, which traverses mountain paths and passes through pampas grass and nearby glaciers. Another singular trail on the Paths of Pindos in Greece is situated in one of Europe's finest wilderness areas, where bear and eagles dwell on the hillsides, and meadows,—alive with wildflowers and butterflies,—are edged by rustic villages.

Each trip featured here lasts between 7 and 14 days and is organized by a well-known travel specialist. It's your decision whether to travel alone at your own pace following detailed notes and maps, or with a guide, or in a group. Most walks offer a choice of mileage options. At the end of each day's excursion you will reach a cozy inn or hotel where you'll spend the night. And the next morning you are given a packed lunch while your luggage is transported to the next stopover.

To help you decide about a trip that appeals to you, the author fully describes each tour and provides a map of the region illustrating the route and the accommodations that are available. Whatever adventure you have in mind—walking cross-country, on gently sloping hills, or on a more challenging trail,—this book will help you find an unforgettable vacation.

Other Details: 240 full-color illustrations.

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Great walks for those who like their comforts........2007-01-27

The book describes some great walks in some fantastic country. The sort of things you might like to do with your partner when a hot meal and a comfortable bed at night is high on the list of priorities. Definitely not for those who like to get off the beaten track.

disappointing.......2006-03-24

not nearly as good as Classic Hikes. more of an infomercial for a trekking company. not even great photos. Don't bother.

Commercial rip-off.......2006-02-03

The described walks are sponsored by commercial enterprises. The book amounts to a series of advertisements. The only 'maps' offered are less than two inch rectangles showing the towns or cities that might be named in the hike. Since the commercial tour leaders themselves provide free, more detailed, and dramatically photographed books, this one amounts to a rip-off. It is farily useless for the independent traveler

Walking the World's Most Exceptional Trails.......2005-07-20

I purchased this book for my husband who loved it. He is trying to plan our next 5 vacations. The pictures and locations are truly exceptional.

Stunning photographs, well-written text.......2004-02-29

Wow! This is a coffee table book that not only has sumptuous photographs, the accompanying text is equally enchanting. This is a book from which you can derive hours of satisfaction, either admiring the photos, or reading the various chapters. Napier describes some of the world's greatest walks/hikes and if you're a vicarious armchair traveler, this might entice you to actually get on a plane, lace up your boots and get going!

Rarely have I enjoyed a coffee table book this much, it's very well done, well written and a joy throughout. Highly recommended!

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The time-tested, user-friendly 10 minutes a day® Series has sold millions of copies and has been successfully used by travelers, students, and people just curious about other cultures and languages. Now enjoy the advantages of hearing the language spoken while you read and write along in the book. ITALIAN in 10 minutes a day® AUDIO CD includes:

A copy of the book ITALIAN in 10 minutes a day®, Six AUDIO CDs in a handy, durable wallet for easy carrying, 15 voices of all ages, male and female, from a variety of countries to help develop an ear for accents, High quality audio production with music and sound effects, making it an enjoyable listening experience, and Listen and repeat exercises to provide practice for interactions while traveling.

ITALIAN in 10 minutes a day® AUDIO CD is a fun, dynamic and engaging way to begin your love affair with Italian. Join the millions who have used and enjoyed the 10 minutes a day® Series to widen their horizons.

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Italian on 10 minutes a day.......2007-09-23

Italian on 10 Minutes A Day is simply outstanding. Easy to understand (and use) it gave me/us the basics needed to interact with our hosts throughout Italy. When one can purchase food, drink, lodging and a variety of retail 'treasures' without the fear inherant in foreign travel (at least related to language) one can enjoy more of what the culture has to offer.

Phonetic Learning.......2007-08-22

I love Kristine K. Kershul language products. Not only are the words written out they also provide how to pronounce them, as well as listening to learn. Lot of little activities to integrate what you have learned.

For the beginner, it makes it fun and easy........2007-08-09

We use this book for some beginners in Italian. It gets a person started, then he or she can move on to something more challenging.

Easy Italian for any age............2007-04-04

Highly Recommend this book and audio for beginners and intermediate Italian. My family is taking an Italian Class and the Professor uses this book!
Easy to follow and even if you are not taking Italian classes I recommend purchasing this book.

Cute........2006-09-02

Cute describes these books in the 10-mintues-a-day series. Pleasant, a little fun, a little insipid. But, really, not so bad just to get a taste of the language before you decide to move on to deeper study.

Actually--in contrast to more than one other reviewer--I found the word-substitution presentation to be quite helpful in anchoring the meaning of the word into my memory. This is not an untried method, being also used in the EasyLearn Language audio programs, and other texts.

Those word stickers don't stay on too long, though. Be prepared to lose a lot of them.

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Italian in 10 Minutes a Day
Kristine Kershul
Manufacturer: GAZELLE BOOK SERVICE
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GJGQ44

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Italian in 10 Minutes a Day
Kristine Kershul
Manufacturer: bilingual Books Inc.
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ASIN: B000WI3QH4

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The Saving of Trees.......1999-10-16

This story also happens in other parts of the world. It's all about Veronica's father (Hiram Lodge) a famous business tycoon. He will tear down all the tress in EVERGREEN FOREST now Veronica called the gang to help her stop her father in cutting the trees. Soon there were rallies, Signs, Posters around Riverdale. Then Mr.Lodge Decided to take only a small part of the forest for building for other to have a jobs and a bigger part for the forest. And it turns out everything turned out well!!

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What is more important--race or class--in determining the socioeconomic success of the blacks and whites born since the civil rights triumphs of the 1960s? When compared to whites, African Americans complete less formal schooling, work fewer hours at a lower rate of pay and are more likely to give birth to a child out of wedlock and to rely on welfare. Are these differences attributable to race per se, or are they the result of differences in socioeconomic background between the two groups?
Being Black, Living in the Red demonstrates that many differences between blacks and whites stem not from race but from economic inequalities that have accumulated over the course of American history. Property ownership--as measured by net worth--reflects this legacy of economic oppression. The racial discrepancy in wealth holdings leads to advantages for whites in the form of better schools, more desirable residences, higher wages, and more opportunities to save, invest, and thereby further their economic advantages.
Dalton Conley shows how factoring parental wealth into a reconceptualization of class can lead to a different future for race policy in the United States. As it currently stands, affirmative action programs primarily address racial diversity in schooling and work--areas that Conley contends generate paradoxical results with respect to racial equity. Instead he suggests an affirmative action policy that fosters minority property accumulation, thereby encouraging long-term wealth equity, or one that--while continuing to address schooling and work--is based on social class as defined by family wealth levels rather than on race.

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Great text on social policy.......2006-11-30

I originally purchased this book when it came out about 7 years ago and just reread it again. It provides great insight into the inequality between races in this country. Highly recommended.

One of the most thought-provoking books I've ever read.......2001-09-20

This book is both meticulous and very clearly written. Every time I had, while reading Conley's analysis, a nagging question in the back of my head, he went on to address it in far more detail than had even occurred to me.

Perhaps because of this thoroughness, _Being Black, Living in the Red_ fundamentally altered the way I think about certain social policies, and about race and wealth in general. It also interested me in sociology of inequality, a field about which I had known nothing. The book is incredibly informative about a matter of great public importance, but I appreciated that Conley seemed wary of overstating his case. I truly felt I was getting an honest, and extremely skillful, evaluation of the evidence.

Under the circumstances, I'd be hard pressed to do anything but advise you to read this book at the first chance you get.

A Wealth of Ideas.......2001-06-04

This book expands the research base that identifies wealth as a key component of mobility, and an important factor that explains why blacks and whites have divergent outcomes. However, Conley may be overemphasizing the role of wealth, and forgeting that race is still a critical issues. In fact, his models show that wealth is only a small part of the story. A great deal of the unexplained variance in Conley's models may be attributed to discrimination in society. Although Conley mentions this briefly, more attention needs to focus on this aspect the issue. Nevertheless, the discussions of wealth are rich and well developed, making this an important addition to the literature.

problems abound.......2001-02-12

The analysis is sound. This is to say, the examination of the relevant history and current structures, coupled with an examination of effects, is accurate and valid. However, the argument for implications is unsound - dangerously so. It seems that those driven to understand precisely why some people are faced with more challenges than others are usually willing to go the next step - to argue for engineered adjustments, blind to the fact that such programs engineer even more odious, systematic inequities.

It Takes A Village (and more).......2000-02-27

This is truly a groundbreaking book. Dalton Conley finally reveals the key element on pg. 118 in two unassuming little words: reserve stock. This is, ladies and gentlemen of the judging class, what separates the races and classes, NOT skin color or intelligence level. In the absence of such, no one can truly believe (except in fairy tales) that most people can overcome grinding poverty and helplessness to become productive members of society. Aside from mere technical support, that cherished "reserve stock" allows one entrance into arenas not usually penetrable via associations with those generous enough to usher one in. Trying to overcome the obstacles of poverty is like trying to drag a car without snow tires up a steep hill. I commend the youthful yet astute Dalton Conley for his valuable work.

Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America.(Brief Article)(Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association

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Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America.(Brief Article)(Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
David S. Sawicki
Manufacturer: American Planning Association
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Title: Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America.(Brief Article)(Review) (book review)
Author: David S. Sawicki
Publication: Journal of the American Planning Association (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: 66 Issue: 1 Page: 88

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The most important book on Economics since General Theory

America's Policy Trap

Not scholarly enuf; too alarmist; conspiracy minded?

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Japan's Policy Trap: Dollars, Deflation, and the Crisis of Japanese Finance
Akio Mikuni , and R. Taggart Murphy
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Until quite recently, the Japanese inspired a kind of puzzled awe. They had pulled themselves together from the ruin of war, built at breakneck speed a formidable array of export champions, and emerged as the world's number-two economy and largest net creditor nation. And they did it by flouting every rule of economic orthodoxy.

But today only the puzzlement remains—at Japan's inability to arrest its economic decline, at its festering banking crisis, and at the dithering of its policymakers. Why can't the Japanese government find the political will to fix the country's problems? Japan's Policy Trap offers a provocative new analysis of the country's protracted economic stagnation.

Japanese insider Akio Mikuni and long-term Japan resident R. Taggart Murphy contend that the country has landed in a policy trap that defies easy solution. The authors, who have together spent decades at the heart of Japanese finance, expose the deep-rooted political arrangements that have distorted Japan's monetary policy in a deflationary direction.

They link Japan's economic difficulties to the Achilles' heel of the U.S. economy: the U.S. trade and current accounts deficits. For the last twenty years, Japan's dollar-denominated trade surplus has outstripped official reserves and currency in circulation. These huge accumulated surpluses have long exercised a growing and perverse influence on monetary policy, forcing Japan's authorities to support a build-up of deflationary dollars.

Mikuni and Murphy trace the origins of Japan's policy trap far back into history, in the measures taken by Japan's officials to preserve their economic independence in what they saw as a hostile world. Mobilizing every resource to accumulate precious dollars, the authorities eventually found themselves coping with a hoard they could neither use nor exchange. To counteract the deflationary impact, Japanese authorities resorted to the creation of yen liabilities unrelated to production via the largest financial bubble in history. The bursting of that bubble was followed by massive public works spending that has resulted in an explosion in public sector debt.

Japan's Policy Trap points to the likelihood that Japan will run out of ways to support its vast pile of dollar claims. Should the day come when those claims can no longer be supported, the world could see a horrific deflationary spiral in Japan, a crash in the global value of the dollar, or both. The effects would reach far beyond Japan's borders. Mikuni and Murphy suggest that a reduction in Japan's surplus must be accompanied by a reduction in deficits somewhere else—most obviously through far-reaching shifts in the American economy.

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The most important book on Economics since General Theory.......2004-05-10

This is a brilliant book on economics. Its contribution to economics is no less significant than Keynsian General Theory.
Keynes demonstrated how investment and savings could balance at suboptimal level of economic activity.
Keynes paid little attention to balance of payments constraint(although he did analyze it thouroughly in Consequences of Peace). Balance of payments situation was not explored in his Generel Theory, since it would have brough the whole theory off track.
Contemporary economic theory is best expressed by IMF officials in that current account surplus is not a grave concern for any given country. Structural account surplus is usually thought of as an additional powerful stimulus for a country to grow quicker than its defecit prone neighbours.
Modern economic thinking takes as given that authorities have fiscal and monetary tools to bring the country to full employment. The only problem is to coincide full employment with balance of payment constraints ie long term current account balance coincing with full employment income.
Akio Mikuni and Taggart Murphy demonstrate how a current account surplus can coincide with suboptimal economic growth. They also demonstrate how a country under certain conditions, may lack fiscal and monetary means to bring about full employement under conditions where current account is positive at full employment.
Before reading this book, I never thought such situation might be possible. I recomend this book to anyone seriously interested in economics.
PS I would be very interested in learning more about economic situaiton of European Union. Suboptimal economic performance of EU is just as contradictory to all that modern economic thinking has to offer.

America's Policy Trap.......2003-06-27

Japan has $400 billion in a New York bank. Whose problem is that? People like me wrote checks for Toyotas etc which never got to Japan. If your checkbook shows $400 oustanding is that good or bad? Brookings - a Washington think-tank hired two banker types to solve the puzzle; their book is a bomb. "The Yen is both too strong and too weak."

Banking is not history. The $400 billion is a diplomatic problem - Japan and America have a joint history that explains the $400 billion, where it came from and what inevitably must be done. America is the one in the trap.

To keep Japan from Indonesian oil we sank their fleet. We incinerated innocent city people to get unconditional surrender. We imposed juvenile law, government and banking systems. We put their businessmen in prison and their politicians on the CIA payroll.

As people, we get along very well. We we all eat raw fish now.

Japan's immediate big problem is China. China and Japan have tons of history; the bottom line is that they are emerging with comfortable global joint hegemony. That leaves America trapped out in the cold. If I were Mr. Bookings that's what I would hire brains to write about. (A chart shows Japanese land is wrorth 2,455 TRILLION Yen! How do you pronounce that? Within memory the US dollar has bought between 14.5 Yen and 360 Yen.)

So what's a few New York bucks?

Not scholarly enuf; too alarmist; conspiracy minded?.......2003-01-08

This book is not up to Brookings Institute standards, perhaps that explains the forward written by the Brookings chief, where he says the books 'conspiracy' theme is interesting, to deflect criticism that the book relies too much on secondary sources.

Basically the premise is old news: Japan runs a current account surplus because it refuses to import and only exports, which creates a weaker than normal yen. The dollar surplus then has to be either invested overseas (hence the Japanese overpay for US investments), or plowed into assets by JP banks to avoid the yen from being strengthened. But that this is part of a 'conspiracy' is not really fleshed out. The book relies too much on secondary sources. And it is not clear to me that the currency imbalance is the root of Japan's ills (this is the central premise of the book). Note that Japan import/exports are only 10% of the GNP, (not unlike the 15% in the US), and thus the lack of demand in JP from the remaining 90% of the GNP is perhaps the real cause of the 10 year recession there. Also other Asian countries do the same thing as JP (namely, keep their currency weaker than it should; ration credit; restrict labor mobility and labor wage rates); how do their economies escape the JP trap of recession? Can it be that other reasons are at fault for JP's demise, such as JP is getting older? These issues are not discussed.

Basically the book is a 20 page white paper made into a several hundred page book, and the tone is too 'alarmist'. The most interesting points are made when discussing politics, and how the Ministry of Trade decides who is going to live or die vis-a-vis the 'walking zombie' companies. Of course the same things happened in the US (credit rationing until the 1970s; bank failures in the late 1980s, where the government decided which banks were to be taken over; and a merchantilist philosophy of keeping the dollar strong, which keeps inflation low in the US but results in the mirror opposite but also dangerous problem as in Japan--current account deficits, or living beyond your means).

Manufactured Problems.......2002-12-05

Akio Mikuni & R. Taggart Murphy have produced an excellent critical piece on the multiple troubles that Japan now finds itself, as well as realistically outlining how the elites are still very much unaware of the full consequences of their actions, and indeed inaction. This book also raises a number of interesting indepth parallels in Japanese history, illustrating that Japan has been in similar waters before and like the past, cannot adapt and change policy before disaster causes havoc. It is furthermore explained that, like all previous merchantile and/or socialist regimes, Japan's production capacity approach to trade is of little use unless profits and risk management are approached seriously. There is some hope for Japan, but the authors wisely find that Japan's war production approach (which is indeed ancient), coupled with its ministerial fiefdoms (whom act like warlords of old.....and control things like banks and until recently the Japanese equity markets), weak liberal democratic structures, non-guilded unions, and lambish populous, coupled with a mountain sized foreign (US$) currency reserve, {which as they argue convincingly, cannot ever really be swapped for Yen....it would destroy Japan (and cause much angst elsewhere)}, all need fundamental revision. Fundamentally, this book highlights the enigma of Japanese power. It should be read along with books like Cartels of the Mind (Ivan Hall); Japan's Big Bang (Declan Hayes); Dogs and Demons (Alex Kerr);The Enigma of Japanese Power (Karel van Wolferan); and Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Herbert P. Bix). Having lived in Japan for four years, I would highly recommend this book.

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