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In this companion to her classic,
Fundraising for Social Change, Kim Klein distills her 25 years of experience and wisdom to provide the practical guidance for sustaining a long-term commitment to social change for organizations that are understaffed and under-resourced.
Part of the new Kim Klein's Chardon Press Series from Jossey-Bass which focuses on providing fundraising and organizational development tools for community-based and social change organizations.
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an essential guide for all fundraisers, from the very best!.......2002-09-15
A real gem. Kim Klein shares not only her widely reknowned wisdom and guidance, but she really helps you stay focused on and enthusiastic about the social change your nonprofit is committed to. Especially during these times of tightening budgets and limited resources, this book is a fantastic resource.
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John Seely Brown, director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, is the editor of this collection of Harvard Business Reviews articles on how innovation occurs differently in today's organizational structures, with new technological tools and new global perspectives. This collection has a broad reach, from relatively technical articles to wide-ranging pieces on strategy, which provides a unique, eclectic, and integrated perspective on innovation. A Harvard Business Review Book.
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A well-chosen and valuable collection.......2005-02-24
The value of a book of reprints mined from HBR's rich archive depends on the quality of selection by the miner. This is the best such anthology I have seen, with an excellent introduction which deserves very careful reading. To quote an early paragraph:
"To do things differently, we must learn to see things differently. Seeing differently means learning to question the conceptual lenses through which we view and frame the world, our businesses, our core competencies, our competitive advantage, and our business models... If there is anything actually coming into focus today, it is the realization that we need to question much of what we think we know about how to conduct commerce, including marketing, distribution, service and the notion of competition itself. Hardest of all, we need to be able to think about changing the architecture of our revenue streams, that is, the way we make money."
Also in the introduction, the author/editor introduces a powerful framework for thinking about innovation opportunities, which he calls QTL4, or Quality through Linking to the world; Listening through those linkages; Learning and reflecting through those listenings; and then Leading. He has applied this framework to selection of the articles for the book.
The opening article is W. Brian Arthur's Increasing Returns and the New World of Business. It challenges one of the most fundamental tenets of classical economics, 'the assumption of diminishing returns: products or companies that get ahead in a market eventually run into limitations, so that a predictable equilibrium of prices and market shares is reached'. He argues that while this still applies in large measure to the bulk-processing economy, increasing returns, 'the tendency for that which is ahead to get further ahead, for that which loses advantage to lose further advantage' tends to reign in the newer part of the economy, the knowledge-based industries.
This has enormous implications for business practice and for national policy. The two worlds of bulk processing and knowledge have different economics, operating side by side. The article works through the implications of operating in the different economies and for those organisations that have to operate simultaneously in both. It is hugely important that not only business people but also politicians and national policy makers understand its implications.
Guilty of errors its authors accuses businesses of makingn.......1999-10-25
The collection of articles from 1991 to 1996 primarily focuses on differently seeing in manufacturing. They have missed a major discontinuity, and used the fatal strategy in a time of change - listening to the HRB customer's needs, the Hardware industries, with no prescience of E-commerce or Web as vehicles for innovation. Harvard B School, like Sears, had missed the change
Great anthology of important ideas in strategy.......1999-08-31
John Seely Brown has done us a big favor: he weeded through the business literature, picked a few authors that really help us "see differently," found works that describe their ideas in tight little packages, and put it all in one book. JSB's own framing comments are also valuable.
Selected highlights: Brian Arthur on increasing returns, Gary Hamel's Strategy as Revolution, Morris and Ferguson on the power of platforms, Brandenburger and Nalebuff on Game Theory for strategy, sections on competitive advantage and managing innovation.
I'm having my interaction design students read this, to add to their palette of points of view.
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For the past decade, John Seely Brown's distinctive vision of how technology affects learning and work has challenged us to think differently about how we generate ideas and embed innovation in our organizations. Seeing Differently is the author's personal guide to the ideas that will shape the way we innovate into the twenty-first century. A provocative selection of articles from the Harvard Business Review, the book explores the explosive changes in the business environment, especially in the high-technology and information industries: customer needs have shifted, business strategy has been redefined, and established alliances within traditional industry boundaries have replaced clear-cut competitors. In this new context, the articles make the powerful case that business leaders must change their perspective on innovation to honor the rich interplay of art and discipline that innovation requires. They also offer new types of tools-including game theory and options analysis-for understanding how to launch new businesses and create new markets.
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Biodiverity and the Ecosystem Approach in Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
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This document contains the proceedings of a meeting of the Food and Agricultural Organization's Inter-Departmental Working Group on Biological Diversity for Food and Agriculture, held in October 2002, in Rome. The meeting aimed to improve awareness of the importance of biological diversity and to support the ecosystem approach to all types of production systems. Presentations and discussions covered grasslands in South Africa, mahogany forests in Mexico, rice ecology in Asia and organic agriculture systems around the world.
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Now in its Fifth Edition, Psychology of Learning and Behavior is one of the most highly regarded texts in its field. Barry Schwartz, Steven Robbins, and new co-author Edward Wasserman offer students an engaging introduction to the basic principles of Pavlovian conditioning, operant conditioning, and comparative cognition. The text's critical approach exposes students to the unresolved problems and controversies surrounding behavior theory and encourages them to interpret the material and make connections between theories and real-life situations. With several hundred new references, a new emphasis on comparative cognition, and expanded treatment of neuroscience and the neural basis of learning, the Fifth Edition sets the standard in its coverage of contemporary theory and research.
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Year in the Life of Richmond Park
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Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them -- these days it's the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there's never been anything like a comprehensive source for such information. That's what preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer realized over lunch more than a dozen years ago. Since then, they've been compiling the centerpiece of this book, the "Pitcher Census," which lists specific information for nearly two thousand pitchers, ranging throughout the history of professional baseball. The Guide also offers:
- A "dictionary" describing virtually every known pitch
- The origins and development of baseball's most important pitches
- Top ten lists: best fastballs, best spitballs, and everything in between
- Biographies of some of the great pitchers who have been overlooked
- More knuckleballers and submariners than you ever thought existed
- An open debate concerning pitcher abuse and durability
- A formula for predicting the Cy Young Award winner
- Something fresh and new: Bill James' "Pitcher Codes"
The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers is about understanding pitchers, and baseball's action always starts with the pitchers. It's also about entertaining debates and having a great deal of fun with the history of a game that obsesses so many.
Customer Reviews:
Maybe I Expected Too Much.......2007-06-27
In reading this book, you can see the differences between the two writers - in fact, gimme a sentence or two and I can probably tell you which one wrote what - but I think I expected a little too much from this book. Obviously, info on what pitches a pitcher used during his career is subject to availability and maybe I expected Neyer, and especially James, to come up with more info than they did - it is mainly newspaper quotes and maybe just a handful of direct quotes from the pitchers themselves, via e-mail. I thought the chapters on each type of pitch was interesting in how they ranked pitchers and how those pitches differed but I can't help but think they were just filler, done only to probably fill out the book - I was hoping there would be more pitchers listed than there were in the book but I guess only so much info was was available to them.
Neyer great, James Disappoints.......2006-11-29
Disappointed in James, not so much Neyer, but just James. Neyer writes with passion, and emotion, while James tells corny jokes throughout that detracted from the reading.
The last few chapters I couldn't even complete, and seemed written out of desperation, and page fillers. The refutation of Baseball Prospectus PAP is comparing apples to oranges, and bad oranges at that. [The theory isn't sound and James' compilation of comparison pitchers is a fluke.]
Biographies most of which are written by Neyer are excellent, as well as the consortium of definitions about pitches. In regards to the two previous subjects the book is a must, otherwise it is poor. Buy but buy cheap!
Disappointing even as a Reference Book.......2005-02-15
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" has this to say about the Earth: Harmless
But don't worry, the next edition will include much more information. Earth will be listed as "Mostly Harmless".
In "The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers", you will learn about Jack Morris that he threw a fastball and a slider, added a change in 1982 and dropped the change for a forkball "after 1982". And that in 1982 someone said his fastball was clocked at 94 mph. And that's it. The words "split-finger" don't appear, despite a reference on p.50 to Roger Craig teaching the pitch to "most everybody on the Tigers' staff." One guy he taught it to won 254 games and pitched until 1994, but you'd have to make the connection yourself. Mostly harmless, indeed.
A lot of the modern stuff is merely rehashes of information in annually produced "Scouting Notebooks", with idiosyncratic quotes like the only quote about Denny McLain, which comes from Ted Williams who never faced him and managed him when he was a wreck of his former self.
These guys are great writers. I've been reading James for 22 years and Neyer as long as he's been writing. Nearly every one of their other books lies dog-eared and broken-backed in my bathroom from countless re-readings. But the data in this book would have been better left to a website where it could be updated and corrected as time went by, and there could have been more articles on near-great pitchers and more description of how pitches were thrown and developed, as well as the authors' thoughts about the pitchers, rather than just "Fastball Slider Curve".
But really, if Neyer feels good about writing a book "describing" Kaz Sasaki's pitches without mentioning that he called his splitter "the fang", well, that's his choice.
Can a reference book really be this entertaining?.......2005-01-10
I make no bones about being a loyal Bill James-ite, so when I found out he and his old running buddy Rob Neyer (now of ESPN) were working on a book about pitchers and pitches, I knew it would go immediately to the top of my "must buy" list.
Now, a word of warning: "The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers" IS A REFERENCE BOOK! If you're looking for a book with nothing but the interesting, thought-provoking, often caustic, always entertaining essays that are R.N.'s and B.J.'s bread and butter, there are a few (and they're very good). But at its heart, the book is a reference volume, listing the pitches and pitching styles of pretty much every significant pitcher in Major League and Negro League history (and many of the less significant ones too).
But be that as it may, the reference material is probably more entertaining than most prose by other writers. It's the sort of book that, if you like baseball history, you can open at random and find something you a) didn't know, and b) will find funny, intriguing or just plain enlightening. One example: if you've ever read "Ball Four", you know that one of the running jokes is about Seattle pitcher Steve Barber and his arm ("it's not sore, it's just a little stiff" -- notwithstanding that he probably spent more time with the diathermy machine than he did with his teammates). Wonder why he was so racked up? Turn to page 126 in Neyer/James -- Barber was a fastball/slider pitcher who threw ACROSS his body, absolutely the worst combination of pitch selection and pitching motion if you want to keep your arm healthy. I could cite 20 more examples easily.
So thank you, Rob and Bill, for filling a gap in the baseball research library, and making it fun to boot. I know when I'm drafting pitchers in my all-time fantasy league at Legends of Baseball, I'll be glad to have this book by my side.
An underrated and terrific book.......2004-09-12
I judge a book not by what it doesn't have, but what it DOES have. And this book has all the things you'd expect in another great book from Bill James or Rob Neyer.
It has information you can't find anywhere else and probably never thought you could. Where else could you find accounts of exactly HOW all these pitchers pitched, all in one volume? It's the result of a decade of research by the two authors and their assistants.
In additional to the basic information, there are the usual essays, plus the usual Bill James digressions and asides. It's all very well organized. There's no trouble knowing where to find what you want.
And, as usual, it makes you THINK, and it makes you realize things that are relevant not just to baseball but to everything. One of the opening chapters focuses on how much the subject depends on linguistics and vocabulary, and how we might think a source tells us something but it doesn't really, because we don't understand the meanings of the words and phrases that are being used. Usually this is because the language has evolved over time, but sometimes it's because the language is used arbitrarily or sloppily. This is true about "knuckleballs" and "sliders" and "curves." But we readily realize that it can apply to anything.
The introductory chapter includes some duelling between the authors about things, some of which would seem to be "facts" but which are hard to pin down. It's interesting to see how much remains debatable about such a seemingly straightforward subject, even after years of research, and how much it will forever be arguable.
Especially interesting is the material about how the mechanics and strategy of pitching have evolved over the years, and WHY. In most instances there were specific reasons and fairly clear dividing lines for the major changes.
My one criticism would be that the content is indeed a bit erratic. One of the book's purposes is to catalog any noteworthy idiosyncrasies of a pitcher's style. But I notice that on some of the guys with the very most famous idiosyncrasies, you find nothing or almost nothing. For example, there's nothing about what Al Hrabosky was famous for, and almost nothing about Luis Tiant's hilarious mannerisms.
Still.....highly recommended for Bill James/Rob Neyer fans, and for anybody who enjoys interesting baseball material that's unlike what you've ever seen.
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If Gilda Radner, one of the original cast of
Saturday Night Live, had known of her family's medical pedigree and her ethnic heritage, she possibly could have prevented her death from ovarian cancer, the silent killer that tragically took her life at the age of 42. Cancer, mental illness, diabetes, and heart disease all have a hereditary component.
Unlocking Your Genetic History explains how to integrate a family health history into your genealogy, how to get the appropriate medical information and analyze it, and how to design a medical pedigree in order to detect the genetic influence on your family's health. Early awareness, identification, and treatment can mean the difference between life and death.
The second part of the book discusses the exciting new field of using genetic testing to link you to your ancestors and verify your genealogy. Genetic testing was used to show that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings and has direct male descendents living today. It has shown that Jews retained their genetic identity despite the Jewish Diasporsa. DNA testing can help identify Native American ancestry, determine who settled Polynesia, and track the march of Genghis Khan as he swept out of Mongolia. Today DNA testing is being used in court and to identify human remains.
Unlocking Your Genetic History will help readers understand their family's medical and genetic history and help them understand the genetic revolution.
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Easily the best book (so far) on a difficult subject.......2005-06-20
This is the fifth in a new series of instructional volumes sponsored by the National Genealogical Society, and when I read and reviewed the first four in September 2004, I was very impressed. The authors all were well known and trustworthy and their treatment of old subjects (such as basic research principles) and not so old (setting up a genealogy web site) was generally quite well done. But this one is somewhat different. The subject of "genetic genealogy" is still very much unknown territory to almost all genealogists, even the professionals. It's not even a "social science," so one has to acquire a certain amount of new background knowledge even before delving into it. This author is also less likely to be known to most genealogists outside his own specialty: He's a medical doctor, a Section Chief at the National Institutes of Health -- although he has also been president of the Prince George's County Genealogical Society and chairs the NGS committee on Family Health and Heredity, so he certainly can't be called a beginner. Personally, I've been "doing genealogy" for more than three decades, but my background is in history, library science, and archival management, with no training and very little experience in the life sciences. Over the past few years, I've read dozens of articles in all sorts of journals on the subject of applying recent breakthroughs in DNA mapping to family lineages, but even though I've been intrigued by the possibilities, the result has generally been to confuse myself even further. I'm pleased to say that Shawker has supplied an antidote to my ignorance.
The first section lays out the reasons you need to know about your family's health history, because "ignorance is not bliss." This is especially true among Acadian families, as in other geographically or culturally isolated populations (Ashkenazic Jews, Amish, Afrikaners, Pacific Islanders) which suffer from a predisposition to assorted diseases and conditions. He follows this with a primer on the nature and process of genetics that is very well written and easy to understand (even for me), with a full explanation of dominant and recessive traits. He includes plenty of case studies, too, from King George III and the Romanovs to Gilda Radner. Then comes a section on compiling a health history, drawing up a medical pedigree, interpreting the results, and being aware of the warning signs for various important and common genetic diseases.
The part of the book I read most closely is that which explains in great detail, with many examples and illustrations, how the Y-chromosome is passed on, unchanged, from father to son to grandson, and so on, through the male line, and how the mitochondrial DNA is likewise passed without change from mother to daughter to granddaughter. The famous Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemmings case provides a good example of how all this works, and how one can use deduction to track lineages that are a mix of males and females. Numerous charts and diagrams also increase one's understanding. Shawker also lays out a strategy for developing a family association DNA project to determine the relationships between groups with identical surnames, and he repeatedly makes the point that no testing program can prove anything: It can only serve as another research tool in conjunction with more traditional genealogical methods.
Finally, the author addresses the ethical and legal issues inherent in genetic testing, whether for family research or to identify an inherited tendency to contract a disease, and includes a lengthy guide to other resources on the Internet - especially important in a fast-developing area like this. There's an excellent bibliography, too. Shawker is that rare scientist who can write coherently for the layman and I can recommend this excellent work to any individual or library with an interest in genealogical methodology.
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Popstrology: The Art and Science of Reading the Popstars
Ian Van Tuyl
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At the dawn of civilization, people looked to the stars for answers to life's critical questions, and the science of astrology was born. Ten thousand years later, rock and roll was born, and with it a brand new galaxy of stars rich with meaning for our modern lives. Who was the dominant pop star in the year that you were born? Which star and which song ruled the pop universe at the moment of your birth? Until recently, the answers to these questions might have seemed mere trivia, but a powerful new science now teaches us to read the pop stars carefully for critical insights into the inner workings of our hearts and minds.
Introducing popstrology, a radical new approach to illuminating your spirit and your soul by examining the influence of your ruling pop stars. Could your inability to form long-lasting relationships stem from your birth under the influence of Diana Ross? Could your chronic restlessness result from being an ABBA born in the Year of Debby Boone? Could your crippling sexual inhibition be a common consequence of being a Pat Boone born in the Year of Elvis Presley? There are those who would question the power of the pop stars to guide us on our path through life, but which force do you think was more likely to have penetrated your essence and shaped your destiny if you were born in the final week of January 1964: the quiet orbital shufflings of Mars and Jupiter, or the explosive rise of the stars called the Beatles?
The addictive, intuitive, and nonjudgmental science of popstrology is sure to assist you in your quest for self-knowledge and personal fulfillment, whether you're a compliant child of Huey Lewis and the News or an oppositional child of Barry Manilow. Fresh, funny, and remarkably persuasive, this groundbreaking book reveals the powers hidden in a galaxy of stars we can all name.
Customer Reviews:
fluffy.......2006-02-21
a lot of fluff, but it's exactly what's to be expected.
you can only get about 1-2 pages of info on any one birthday.. which is more than enough to "break the ice" when someone comes over and sees it
fun, but slightly disappointing
Smart and Sly.......2004-12-03
I picked up this book at the store and flipped through and got totally hooked and had to buy it--it's a smart satire on the astrology scene, but what impressed me most was how relentlessly funny the book is and how much knowledge it packs in about pop music. It's a great education about the music that really has shaped our lives...perhaps more than we know.
Popstrology is Poppin'.......2004-12-02
My friend brought in Ian Van Tuyl's Popstrology to the office today and we started getting people to gather around the book. It's a whole lot of fun. If you love music and enjoy reading your horoscope, this is definitely a great read, not to mention my popstrology was uncannily right on. Way to go for Ian Van Tuyl in combining two fun random things and make it a very enjoyable read on your own and with a group of people.
Share this with friends! I did........2004-11-26
I have never had so much fun in my life, reading this book aloud, laughing with old friends at a reunion party. Can't wait to do the same when the extended family gets together at Christmas. Better than Pictionary or Trivial Pursuit. My boyfriend is getting ready to Ipod the Popstrology repetoire for easy reference. I'm a Carly Simon in the Year of Roberta Flack. I'll be pondering that for a long time to come.
Great reading! .......2004-11-24
This book is alot of fun and a great read, especially for music fans or anyone who wants to take a trip down memory lane! It is a great gift - my wife gave it to me for my B-Day - and we have enjoyed reading it together.
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